The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07


worth $50 per ton. These hoofs are
now made into horn buttons.
AN extensive cotton factory is about
to be organized at Charlotte, N. c., the
city authorities having promised the
company exemption from local taxation
for 10 years.
The potato crop of the country is
estimated at 1871. 1868. 900 bushels. Com
pared with 1873 there was an increase
Of three per cent. in acreage, and. the
yield Is estimated by the Department of
Agriculture 1t SO bushels per acre,
against So bushels last year and "a in
1874. ' Fai'f
The University of Gottingen has
become the possessor of magnificent
herbarium, containing over 10000
specimens of plants from all parts of the
world. There is no doubt that it is by
far the largest collection of plants ever
brought together by any single individ-
ual.
The number Of packages of toma-
toes put up in the United States last
year reached the total of 1865, 900,
Maryland leading off with 6,S40, 900;
New Jersey, $500, 600; Delaware. l.
SS4. 900; New York, 1,680,0O Massa-
chusetts, 900, 900; Pennsylvania, 49,, 900;
Pacific coast, 100000; Western and
other States, 100000.
The total product of oats for the
country the past season is estimated by
the Department Of Agriculture at 1884,
$50, 900 bushels, against 4l3, 578, 600 last
year. The price, as returned on the LIST
Of December, averaged 50 2 cents per
bushel, against 24.6 cents last year at
the same time, making total valuation
this year Of S120, 1855, 900, against $l0l,-
945, 900 in 1873.
Statistics gathered for the forthcom-
ing annual report of the New Jersey La
Dor Bureau include reports from 81 silk
mills, mostly in Paterson. The Paterson
mills alone employ 10000 hands, be-
sides from 1000 to 5000 employed in
heir own homes. The annual produc-
Jon of these mills reaches the total of
e14, 000, 600. ~,
fa" School and Church.
According to the latest school GEN.
nus Of st. Louis that city contained on
April LIST last 10l, 1926 children of the
scholastic age from 6 TO 81 years, of
whom 400 were colored.
1t is stated that no less than 1854
in the Methodist Episcopal
Church are pursuing the regular courses
# conference study. The number of /
PREACHERS in classes for admission on
rial to Conference is 5fS.
The woman students in residence at
he University of Cambridge make a
god showing of force this term, they
100 or 10. More than fifty
re registered at Girton College, and six
( them are students of the first year
rho purpose studying natural science.
"A trust deed. executed by the late
.eonard Case Of Cleveland, o., conveyed
D his attorney, to be held in trust,
roperty estimated to be worth 81, $780,
90, the income from which is to be APP
lied to the establishment of school,
, be called the Case School of APP
lied Science"
The Regents of the University of
'alifornia have taken q stand against
II secret societies, and viii require stu
ents, on entering the Institution, to
eep out Of them while they remain UNI
err college rule. The decree has occa-
oned considerable feeling, and will
EAR hard on one of the Greek letter So
cites, which has considerable prop |
'ty.
Formerly the high schools were re- |
lrded in Massachusetts with more
vor than the private and endowed
and were thought to furnish I
better education. Now, according to
esident Eliot of Harvard University,
0 contrary opinion prevails, and the b
ademies are multiplying, while the
yh school has relatively declined. A
| has been prepared to be presented b
the next Legislature providing that
: town in the Commonwealth which n
required by law to maintain high b
lool may, instead thereof, send It's =