Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-16

tanning fee alone will be a salary that
Supreme Court Judge might envy, be
sides all the regular fees for ridings an,
E winnings that he will earn throug h th
year.
TRADE INTERESTS.
4 MINERS are in demand in the coal field
near Fort Scott, Kansas.
9 SINCE May 4,OOO,O 900 clans have bee,
e canned at one establishment at Islip
T. L. I.
I A FIRM of linen manufacturers from
e Ireland has purchased the linen mills a.
g Greenwich, N. Y.
JUDGING from reports from sill part
|. of the country, the fall trade will be tn,
largest known for the past ten years.
J. LLOYD HA1aH, Brooklyn, who il
= making 300 miles of wire cable for the
Erie Canal, has already made fifty-fvt
miles OF it in one continuous piece.
ALL kinds of manufacturing is cor
the boom" in the west. The agricultur
al ablishments at Moline, Rock Falls
Rockford, etc., are as busy as bees.
> GENERAL J. w. SPRAGUE, General
Superintendent of the Northern Pacific
says that the road will be completed
four years from this fall.
In the opinion of the Altu California
the general expenses of business are
nearly as high now in San Francisco a.
they were in 1864.
The largest cargo of resin ever export.
ed from this country has just been ship.
ped from Savannah to Liverpool. It
was valued at $4,000 and comprised
$3.50 barrels.
It is announced that capitalists in St.
Louis are preparing to build railroad
from San Antonio, Tex, to Lerado, on
the border of Mexico, thence to the city
of Mexico.
! AT Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands
and running their machinery to it's full
capacity, and are still unable to meet all
their orders.
For eight years the large rolling mill
at Spuyten Duyvil has been closed. It
now has an order for $4OO, 900 worth of
steel rails. And work will be resumed
at once.
AT Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands
and running their machinery to its full
capacity, and are still unable to meet all
their orders.
The business of the Boston Office of
the American Express company for the
month of September showed an increase
in the tonnage of 100 per cent. over the
same month in 1873.
ADvJoEs from Ottawa, Canada, state
that at no recent period has there been
such great activity in the lumber mar
ket, and its influence is already being
felt in business circles.
WILMINGTON, Delaware, offers to give
away land to all manufacturers who are
willing to locate in or near the city. If
100 men will be given employment, one
acre of land will be donated; $500 men,
Is acres, and so on.
A PLEADING dealer in sugar" says in
a Chicago Times interview that one of
the New York refneries has sold in one
month 10000 barrels of "refned sugar.
from 40 to so per cent. of which was
terra alba.
advertise on fence. If you wish to get
rich, advertise in a respectable news
paper that has good circulation among
people who buy your goods.-Philadet-
2,hsa Press.
In the opinion of the Roil,Uoy World
much of the extraordinary and rap
id developments of business is due to the
efforts of dealers snd consumers tOsupply
themselves in excess of present wants,
in order to provide against an advance
in prices.
THE cotton crop of the present season
is estimated at an increase of 100000
bales over the crop of any previous year
in the history Of the country. The
wheat crop shows twenty to thirty mil
lion bushels increase and the tobacco
crop twelve million pounds increase.
SOMETHING of a speculation in leath-
er is going on in Boston, and prices have
advanced about ten per cent. In New
York there is no special movement in the
article, except that there is the same
advance in price that there is in Boston,
and manufacturers are laying in stock
rather beyond their immediate necessi-
ties
A HOG sCRAP1NG machine which has
just been tested in Chicago worked very
satisfactorily. A hog was killed, placed
in the machine, and almost in an instant
came out with only q few odd hairs on
its head and legs. Seven hogs passed
through the machine in fifty Sec
onds, and each came out as hairless as
could be desired. With few improve
ments the machine is expected to finish
of 5000 hogs in ten hours.
The United States is the greatest rails
in consuming country in the world, and
uses annually more ralslns then the
whole of Europe. This market is main
ly supplied from Spain, the raisins known
az " Malagas" being considered the best
They come from a comparatively narrow
strip of country in the south Of Spain,
which has hitherto been regarded as sur.
passing all other regions for raisins of
that character. The annual yield of
Malaga grapes averages 2.450, 600 boxes
of twenty pounds each. 1t sometimes
reaches 900, 600 boxes, and last season
about 100000 boxes were marketed.
OF this enormous yield the United States
takes fully one half, on which it pays q
duty-as on all other raisins-of two
and a half cents per pound. The Amer
lean raisins Are made from white grape,
the "Muscat of Alexandria" to the
raising of which the soil and climate Of Of
a large portion of California are we'll
adapted.
Killed by . Dead Snake.
will tell you a very curious and
melancholy incident that happened on
one occasion in q church where 1 was
conducting the service. The windows
and doors were, of course, all wide open,
and through one of those open doors >
cobra darted into church. I did not
notice it myself, but several of the con-
gregation did, and were not unreasonably
much alarmed. The beadle, native,
was fortunately on the alert, and he
managed to procure q tulwar, with
vh;ck ha cut off the creatura's head he