The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

A.GAs company in Albany, N. Y, has
failed
A PATENT in Great Britain costs 1915;
in this country $35.
In Bombay cotton factory women
receive 81 per month and men IS.
THE cotton factory at Clark's Mill,
Oneida county, N. Y. is in fulloperation.
A GERMAN firm has established
pianoforte mandatory at Dunedin,
New Zealand.
A PERRY COUNTY, Pa, farmer has
turned his attention to coffee raising,
and has three bushes loaded with berries.
THERE is large increase in the ex-
portation of live cattle to Great Britain.
Since the 18th of July $500 head have
been shipped from New York ports.
The Cunarder Gallia, worth 81, 000,-
Co., was seized and attached in New
York on her arrival Thursday, to satisfy
a claim of IS for towing her to the wharf.
A LARGE corset manufacturing firm
of New Haven, Conn, have voluntarily
increased the pay OF their help from 10
to 80 per cent.
A COTTON mill was started at Atlanta,
Ga, a couple of weeks ago, capable of
producing %, 100000 yards of manufac-
tured goods year, which will require
| $4,000 bales of cotton.
THE celebrated iron mine, out of which
Mr.. Letter, the Chicago dry goods mer.
| chant, realized so handsomely, has No
engine, and the ore is still hoisted with q
horse and drum.
SAN FRANCISCO shipped by last steam.
er to the Flowery Land 800 pounds OF
| butter and an assortment of various deli
cacies. The Chinese now buy freely Of
our canned fruits.
OWING to the length of time required
to make the telescope glass for the Lick
years at least before work on the observa
tory will be begun.
SAN FRANCISCO is happy over the un
expected discovery ola big oyster bed il
the mud fats on the Oakland side of the
bay. They remember now that an east
ern man sowed the flats with bushel O.
little Baltimore bivalves.
A CHICAGO coal dealer has ordered {
lump of anthracite to show the western
people the purity of this quality of coal
A block weighing over ton was taker
out at the Locust Gap colliery anc
shipped to the point named.
THE Cincinnati Commercial insists
that the price of postal order should
be reduced from II cents to l cent, anC
that such orders should be issued by
every postoffice, making the postoffice
the clearinghouse of the people,.
THE people of California are estab
fishing profitable trade with the Sand
witch Islands. Nearly million dollar
worth of goods were exported during
the last six months, and the imports O
sugar and rice show large increase ovel
former years.
IF the sugar beet crop proves as grear
a success in Maryland as those trying i
are confident it will, it is probable thai
many thousands of acres will be planted
with this root in that state next spring
and that within a year sugar makins
will be in progress there on large scale
The Norfolk Virginian has been col
Letting some statistics of the business o.
that city. 1t shows that $1,751, 645 81
worth of truck was shipped from tha
port during 1878; that the oyster trade
reaches the value of $350,000, and give
employment to $500 people: that as s
peanut port ii ranks first, and as point
for cotton shipment third among tn,
cities of the Union.
NEVER in the history of Canada ha
there been a period of commercial dis
aster so severe and prolonged as tina
through which we are passing. All sign
point to tempestuous days for banks anC
bankers. The storm is gathering, ano
it will be well for even our stronger in
situations to make all "snug" allow ant
aloft and prepare to ride out the gale
Montreal Journal of Commerce.
THE payroll of the Holly Waite
Works company, in Lockport, show
that 81 400 week are paid to the EN-
ployes of that large mandatory. /
the employees now employed by this com
pany received the wages paid in prosper
Gus times, it would aggregate $4,000
The work done by this company for tn,
Steam Heating company last month
alone amounted to $4,000.
The latest thing in the furnitur,
combination line is a combined parlor
organ, secretary-bedstead and dressing
table, which Pennsylvania piano man
ufacturing firm is soon to put in tn,
market for the benefit of people whc
live in small apartments in cities where
economy of space is another name fol
economy of expense. Each differen
form of the combination is said to b,
elegant and complete in itself, and {
perfect disguise of the other uses tt
which it can be put.