Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-06
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TRADE INTERESTS.

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Workmen.
TRADE INTERESTS.
LAST year Texas produced over $4,000
barrels of molassee.
PITTsBURG manufactures receive
about ninety car loads of metal per day.
GREAT activity prevails in the real
estate market in new York. A rise of
rs per cent is reported since March.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill company
turned out in one day 1875 rails, each
weighing 500 pounds.
GEORGE PYLE, Wilmington (Del.)
machinist claims to have intented q ma
chine which will turn out two horse shoes
in second.
The Michigan Car company, of De-
troit, has taken q contract for the erec
tion of 25O new box cars for the North
western Grand Trunk railroad.
EMIGRATION to America from the
neighborhood of Genoa ia going on. On
October Sd, about 1000 persons embark
ed at that port, and on October 9th,
200.
SOME of the Cheyenne merchants are
thinking of employing girls for collectors,
giving q reason therefor that when the
girls present their little bills no man can
refuse.
CANNING crabs, q new industry at
Oxford, Nd, gives employment to 40
persons, who put up from 12,O6O to
$4,000 crabs daily, or over 100000 3.
month.
KANsAs PACIFIC RAILROAD stock has
advanced 800 per cent. since last Febru-
ary. This is attributed to the extraor.
dinary development now taking place i'm
the southwest.
ANOTHER and u novel international
exhibition is talked of for this country.
The project is that of the miller's asso-
citation, and they propose to hold show
of mill products and mill machinery in
Chicago next June.
A WEALTHY citizen of Hartford, Ct.,
whose daughter is very accomplished,
has sent her, with her full consent, to
learn trade. They both feel that a
trade is no discredit, and may in this
world of uncertainties some day be of
value to her.
A REGULAR tide of English emigrants
is setting in toward Texas, and it is the
result of railroad agents who are travel
ing throughout Great Britain, where the
hard times pinch worst, distributing
illustrated circulars describing the
wonderful resources of the Lone Star
State.
THERE is a better feeling in the Bos-
ton real estate market. Houses to let
and to rent are in active demand, and at
one weeks private sales recently 20
houses were disposed of by one firm,
which is more than they had sold in any
one of the years of business depression.
Dwellings have been sold during the past
year foronehalf of what they bring
to-day. Most of the purchasers are per-
sons seeking homes.
COMMON qualities of pig iron appear
to have advanced in Great Britain with
undue rapidity, and are adversely affect
ed by the relapse in Glasgow. The
6rmness there is gradually extended to
the high class of iron. The leading
Stafford and East .t:s9 il &Ssft4 SsRfth
day decided to state that trade did not
Justify an advance in wages. 1t is prob
able that an arbitration will be appointed.
A GENTLEMAN who has Just returned
to Washington after q tour through the
iron district of Pennsylvania gives q
rosy account of what he saw there.
Towns which were filed with unem.
ployed workmen II months ago are
humming with business; no one who is
willing to work need remain idle; mills
established 40 years ago are doing more
work than ever before, and some of them
are running day and night Wash'"gto"
Dispatch.
GAS for America" says Belgian let
ter to an English newspaper, "her
scythes, sewing machines and locks have
all achieved a steady demand. l was
shown a Belgian door handle, with its
two knobs, which cost If. &c., and
beside it the whole apparatus of an
American lock, door handle and all
which only cost If. Soc. How struggle
against such competition as that?' said
the ironmonger; and in fact the lock
was pattern of neatness and s0lidity q
we'll as cheapness.
The iron trade il booming. In order
to help the boom q firm in Pittsburg are
finishing q sixteen-ton steel hammer
which will delicately pat on the head an
anvil weighing one hundred and fifty
tons. The BANNER and anvil will b<
cast in Pittsburg and special furnace'
will have to be erected for their con
struction. The anvil will be one of ths
largest in the world. The largest ham
me1 now in America weighs ten tons, ant
is in Nashua, New Hampshire. Th'
cost of these will be 0,000.
The paper makers are again in tn
market for rags, and while buying viii
some freedom are positively refusing t.
pay any advance. Sales of 600 bales q
seconds have been made at $500, AM
about 115 bales whites, very superio
selections, at Al cents, and about %
bales manila papers at q range OF 1t +
II cents. The manufacturers are still
fortunately, restricts the" "oi; output al
gives consumers an opportunity to clea
: up the glut of paper that has so Ion
existed. Colored rags range from II t
2 cents, with very few sales.-Bo'to
, Advertiser.
echWeitzer Kase.
: An hours climbing brought US to
solitary hut, inhabited by men onl!
, They were barefooted, ragged and fea
fully dirty, and their miserable shant
, was fully in keeping with their persons
! appearance. Evidently no woman
hand, however slovenly, had apple
3 itself to the arrangement or keeping
that d0micile. But what could the
8 hearded. unkempt hermits be doing