The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-29

INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
Memphis has cleaning up her streets
Is men and 26 carts.
A Lehigh County Pa, iron firm has a
large contract from China.
New buildings are going up in Mil
waukee, Wis, at rapid rate.
Minnesota's pine lumber supply, it is
estimated, will last fifty years.
The manufacture of ship-knees is an
important industry in Worcester County,
Nd
The Reading Forge is making overtime
turning out large castings for cotton
presses.
1t is stated that the Thompson Iron
Works, in Jersey City, will be moved to
Johnstown, Pa.
1t is considered good days work in
Lakes district, Dorchester, Md, to gig
300 muskrats day.
The furnace of the Steubenville 20
Furnace and Iron Company is advertised
to be sold April Sth.
The Keystone Saw Works, Henry Diss-
ton & Sons, Philadel phia, are being driven
to their utmost capacity.
Over $4,000 tons of guano have been
regularly inspected and sold in Georgia
during the present season.
A family of three persons in Dorches-
ter County, Nd, are said to live comfort
ably on twenty cents a day.
The Billmeyer & Small Company, of
York Pa, has entered into contracts for
the construction of / ,250 new cars.
The Pittsburg Forge and Iron Compa-
ny's pudding department is on double
turn; also the bar and guide mills.
James Reed & Sons, of Warren, Ohio,
resumed work in their foundry last week,
employing fifteen or twenty hands.
Mrs. Daniel Elzler, of Liberty, Frede-
rick County, Md, has made quilt of
5000 pieces, with the same needle.
From 10 to 25 car loads of freight ar
rive daily at the car works at Jefferson
vile, Ind, from the North, East and
South.
The cotton and woolen factory de-
stroyed by fire in Memphis will be re-
built Immediately, and on more extern
| sive scale.
A general revival of business is re-
ported in the Ohio iron regions, and man
ufacturers are overwhelmed with orders
, at advanced prices.
The Salem Mass Post says, in refer
, ence to the shoe trade: The spring trade
, has everywhere the fullest indications of
being better than it has been for years.
The Wilmington, Del, machine and
! car shops are buster now than at any time
! since the Jay Cooke failure, and other in.
. dustries are proportionately prosperous
The Passaic Rolling Mill, Paterson
n. j., has been full of work for the New
t York Elevated Railroads. 1t gives en-
: ployment 10 about 200 hands.
= The Newark On. J.) Journal says: The
q new Canadian tariff operates against the
!. trunk manufacturers in this city; as tc
t that country they have been accustomed
d to look for an important market.
The consumption Of rubber by oul
. manufacturers continues as large as ever
r the imports amounting to $1,000 pounds
:, per annum, chiefly obtained from Soutl
h America. The price ranges from 20 tt
J. so cents per pound.
IS Putnam County, Tenn, has the cham
IT pion moonshiner. He is boy ten year
10 old. He used tar kegs for beer tubs, az
y old coffee pot for still, and an eide
n stalk for worm. A good average foi
this miniature moonshine establishment
was four gallons per week.
,e A Lewiston (Me) paper says: "Busi
st ness at the Lewiston Machine Company
o works is now livelier than it has been il
Ie years A large quantity Of cotton ma
= chinerv is being turned out for the Cabo
, Company, Brunswick; for the Hallowel
mill, for the Pontiac, for the York, o
~ Saco; for two mills in Lawrence and fo
a a mill in Atlanta, Ga.
Il At Brown, Bonnell & Co.'s, Young
II town, Ohio, the boilers are on doubl
a. a. turn. Hoop, guide and bar mills on ful
=, time. Sheet mill on single, but tn
. probability now is that it will be on fuI
IL time this week. Nail factory maxim
se short time. Cartwright, NcCurdy' q CO
g have their whole concern on full time
10 with plenty of orders ahead. Th
p. Youngstown mill is all on double tur
n with the exception of the 7-inch, tina
IS being on single last week. This compan
q is crowded with orders for hoop-iron an
As cotton ties.
ID A Good Housewife.
Of The good housewife, when she is givin
y her house its spring renovatng, should ben
rs in mind that the dear inmates of her hous