The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-22
I,nrsrR1A1 ANp TRApE ITEMs.

of -four. of which 4, 900, 600 are exported to
foreign countries.
An English manufacturer has been lately
prospecting along the line of the Hudson
river for the site of a linen mill, which 1t Is
proposed TO remove from England, and
which will employ 1000 hands.
OVER 500 600 gallons of petroleum or
earth oil are brought to the surface every
day in the oil regions of Pennsylvania alone.
It is sent to the surface much faster than IL
can be taken care of, or stored ana at the
present time 900 gallons, at the lowest
estimate, run to waste every day.
More than 5000, 900 cans of corn are now
hacked in Maine annually, and sold In every
/ part of the world, yielding business to
+ that state Of about 81 100000, and giving
profitable employment to from 5000 to TO-
900 people during the packing season.
/ AMERICA raises wheat two thousand
miles from her ports, conveys II by rail- to
the points of shipment, aud transports
sell it at a shilling a bushel less than 1t
costs the English to grow it.
OUR exports of agricultural implements
in 1878 were of a total value of 3, 552, 200,
against 81 ISL ,022 in 1871 The amount
sent abroad this year will be still greater,
a. the demand from Russia and South
America is rapidly increasing.
THE competition between the pin manu-
factories this country has been sharp and
persistent until very recently, when a com
bination was formed among all the manu-
featuring companies of any Importance IN
the United States for the purpose of raising
the prices which have heretofore been very
low The prices have been advanced from
20 to 80 per cent. on some numbers, and 50
to 100 per cent on others, and contracts
have been signed to that effect by RESPONSE
bic representatives of the different compa-
MES. They have also withdrawn all their
agencies and formed a central association
called the Pin Manufacturing Company,
which is to sell the goods for the different
companies in the combination.
AMERICAN trade with Austria has in
creased enormously since the Vienna exhi-
bition, when the people got their eyes
opened to the superiority of American IN
ventions, farm implements, tools, etc.
Hundreds of thousands of sewing machines
having been sold in that country, and farm
ers who have the means are rapidly supply
ing themselves with labor-saving nipple
ments of American manufacture.
A PrrTsBURG firm has just turned out on
an order from Chester, Pa, an iron plate
the first of thirty-30 inches wide, 8 inches
thick and 10 feet long, weighing 5000
pOuuuS 1nCJ ttAC W NC hoSN IL DNAANAA'S
United States ship hulls.
A HoG-sCRAPING 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 few odd hairs on his head
and legs.
The canned goods trade is experiencing
a noticeable revival. Last year the busl-
IN,
of the general depression then prevailing,
but the situation now is greatly improved.
AMERICA has realized an average of $780,
900 900 per year from breadstutfs alone
since 1865, the amount last year being
$l81 III, 841; $133, 232, $50 was realized last
year from our animal products, cattle, hogs,
etc.
GREAT BRITAIN, it is estimated, now
holds $3.50, 900 600 of United States bonds,
and Germany, France and the rest of Eu-
rope about S700O0,0OO.
THE receipts from customs duties at the
port of New York during the month of.
September reach the unprecedented sum of
over eleven million dollars.
THE citizens of Selma, Ala, have protec-
ted home trade by putting local tax of
5000 on commercial travellers.
THE estimated average yield of wheat for
the entire province Of Manitoba exceeds 80
bushels per acre.
1t is stated that the production of cotton
is assuming large dimensions in the Central
Asiatic provinces of Russia.
GEN. ]. w. SPRAGUE, general superin-
-endent of the Northern Pacific, says that
the road will be completed four years from
this fall.
NEW ALBANY, Qnd) rail mills have
started up, after three years idleness.
AMERICAN orders for 10000 tons of
English iron ore have been sent over.
SCOTLAND is buying Russia" sheet-iron
made in Pittsburg.
THE Glasgow Herald of Sept 80 says :
During the past fortnight one of the lar
gest firms of agents in Lancashire has taken /
more orders for American cotton cloth for /
India than they have in the same period /
received in connection with all the English |
firms which they commercially represent. |
This illustrates foreign competition in a |
more serious light than many persons have |
hitherto viewed it"
WORTH, the Paris man milliner, has
forewoman called Miss Mary, who is almost |
as widely known, locally, as himself She |
Is All IHSllSl DIuICIJG, WIFI Il IlS1I anu |
very graceful figure, and takes orders with |
the air of queen. She is always arrayed |
in one of Worth's latest inspirations, and
an admirer says that if she were clad in
tow bag, with hempen cord roand her
waist, she would impart 10 the garb an air
of subtle elegance which would render it
attractive
BRAZIL consumes large quantities of
North American timber because she has
very few saw mills. The streams wash
away many trees, which mill owners at their
mouths would have simply to capture and
land. A Portuguese who built mill a
few years ago at the mouth of the Madeira
river, has recently retired with large
fortune, although he had employed only
the rudest machinery, and unskilled work
men. The cedar logs floating down supplied
him in five months in every year with
sufficient timber for the entire years work |