The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-15

Boston furniture dealers are 10 open an
agency in London.
A steam laundry company has issued
its prospectus in London.
Danville, KY, will have an elevator in
time to handle the next wheat crop.
Mosler, Bahman & Co., safe manufac-
turcrs, have increased their employees
wages.
The Tampa Guardian boasts that such
thing as case of starving to death has
never been known in Florida.
The little cotton factory at Girard,
Ga, has proved so successful that twelve
more looms have been ordered.
James Reed & s ,ns, of Warren, Ohio,
will resume work in their foundry this
week, employing fifteen or twenty hands.
Messrs. E. & T. Fairbanks, Of St..
Johnsbury, Vermont, shipped S99 car
loads, Of 10 tons each, Of scales during
1878.
The employees of the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad Shops, 1T MeaIville,
commenced working ten hours per day on
Monday.
About $4,000 bales of cotton have been
shipped from MilIedgeville, Ga, during
the present season. 1t is thought the
shipments will reach 1900.
The Springdalc Foundry & Machine
Shops, at Est G itasiu4ua, Penn, which
have been clos d for number OF years.
are soon to be reopened.
The company organized at Jefferson
vile, Ind, for the IN Inufac ure and sale
of thr IT Ilman Grist and Plantltiun
Mills" is meeting with encouraging sue
cess.
The workmen in the mills of the
American Manila Paper Company at
Brookvil,e, Ind, are taking legal steps to
secure their wages, now considerably
over due and unpaid.
Notices have been posted in the Balti-
more u Ohio shops at Cumberland warn
ing empl,yes that upon being found
drunk or frtqucnting saloons they will at
once be discharged.
The Strawboard Company, of Akron,
| Ohio, by their new Bleaching process at
their first trial Oh Thursday, turned off
continuous piece of cardboard 81 miles
long, So inches wide, and weighing up
ward OF % tons.
The business Of the three locomotive
establishments of Paterson, N. j., i'm
proved rapidly during the last year, 112
| locomotives being built. This year the
shops are still more active, and have
already sent out % engines since Janu-
ary 1st. Upward of 1000 hands are
now employed.
The Dresden Academy for the Teach
ing of Tailoring and Dressmaking was
attended last year by two hundred and
sixty-four pupils, male and female. OF
these one hundred and eighty-seven fol.
lowed the class for the cutting of mems
linen, and ninety five that for arithmetic
and bookkeeping.
To the general reader it will hardly
seem creditable that the value of the
annual product of butter and cheese in
the United States is $50,000,000 greater
than that of the wheat cron, vet such is
the fact, the former being $3.50 900 900
and the latter abou $500, 100000. The
COW is an immense factor in our produc'
tive wealth.
There were one million two hundred
and eighteen thousand barrels OF
oil produced on the Pennsylvania
oil fields in February, and seven
hundred and sixteen thousand three
hundred and eighty barrels shipped
away. The railroad freight or
this oil, exclusive of pipe charges, viii
foot up about 81 900, 900.
| According to the New York Herald
the unemployed workmen in that city
in 1873 footed up 25,4OO, and for 1877!
1895. These figures include 10000
laborers of all kinds in 1873 and 8, 00(
in 1879, the remainder being tradesmen
The average wages per day paid to labor
ers in 1878 was 81, and in 1879 81 10
and the average wages paid for ,ski'lro
tradesmen in 1873 was SO Is and in 187!
50 IL.