The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
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CHICAGO makes SIS, goo, 900 worth of
cloth year.
NEARLY SOC, 900 persons are employed
on British and Irish railroads.
THE defenses of Paris have been i'm.
proved until that city is believed to be
impregnable. 5
SOME enterprising Bohemian has dis
covered that Mrs. President Hayes
weighs IVA pounds.
The fifteen car manufacturing es-
tablishments in this country turned out
81, $50 cars in eleven months.
THE townof Waltham, VT, is eighty
three years old and has never bad a
church or post office within its limits.
The Israelites- of Austin, Texas,
are building synagogue which will be
one of the handsomest buildings in the
city. -''o fsA
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road is building a new bridge over the
Minnesota River that will be 1000 feet
long.
CH1cAao's lumber receipts the past
year have been greater by 25 per;ceut
and its shipments by. 154 per cent. than
in any previous year. sf..aa
A LEAD mine has been found in
Denton County, Texas, and this was
not found in the body of horse-thief,
either.
MRS. OuRAY cannot play the piano,
but she can chew tobacco" which
shows there is always some compensat-
ing blessing in this world. fl
| NORTH CAROLINA has six newspapers
edited by negroes, Louisiana three,
Tennessee and Texas two each, and
Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi each
one.
MANUFACTURING clothing in Chicago
gives employment, t03O, coo people, and
the value of the goods made is $15, ,00O,-
600. This industry has doubled in four
years. * -eilt 81 r5Atfi i9fa7s@
The Alabama planters are wild on
cotton planting. Food crops are neg
lected, and exclusive attention given 70
cotton. Same in Northern Mississippi-;
very little wheat is sown. a1Es
/ COUNTERFEIT gold coin is abundant
in California, and must gradually find
its way eastward. 1t is in the form of
five dollar pieces, exact imitation, but
light in weight. e,a}s
The total value of the imports for the
year 1879 was $513, ,745,748, and during
Lists was $43I ,812, ,483. The value Of
domestic exports in 1879 was $754, ,656.-
Ii755 and the value of exports in 1873
was $729, ,023, ,2SS. ss'
DIR. ENos LOWE, the founder of
Omaha and the gentleman who directed
the survey of the first town site, has
just died in that city. Only one of his
companions in that pioneer excursion
now lives. s--s,-s- ----
| LAST year 646 people were divorced
at San Francisco, 104 of the DEGREES be-
ing granted on the ground of cruelty and
desertion. In the same city 2O7 persons
came to their death by violence, eighty
eight of whom committed suicide. a,ese
Mr.. CHARLES FREEMAN, of Illinois,
is going to build a creamery this spring
near the city of Boone, Boone County,
of collecting only the cream from
LESS than fifty years ago one man
could; not make over IA pins minute;
now he can make more than 400.
Then one girl could stick on papers
about 10000 pins day; now a fair
days work is from 100000 to ! ,000,- :
900. ss.g q as4 se a es sa 6H
OSHKOSH, Wis, has the largest match
factory in the world. 1t cut up 2,000,.I
900 feet of logs into matches, and used
$500, 900 worth of revenue stamps dur
ing 1879. Besides, it manufactured
one-fourth of all the merchant work
sash, blinds and doors made in the
| United States. l
The new ferryboat for the Central
Pacific Railroad Company now being
built in San Francisco will be the larg-
est in the world, and will have greater
breadth of beam than any vessel afloat.
It's length will be 424 feet, width 116
feet, and the wheels will be thirty feet
| in diameter. M
MADEMoIsELLE ALICE DE GILBERToN
DE BREUILLEs, a young lady of distin-
guished family, mas just fallen a victim
| to her love for mountain climbing. She
resolved, without guide, to ascend the
Pic du Larmont, in the Pyrenees. She
had mounted some distance when her
foot slipped and she fell into the abyss
below. - s., --..ss.