Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06
Items OF INDUSTRY.

Raleigh, N. c., is to have a cotton
mill.
Newberry, s. will soon have a
machine shop.
Nashville, Tennessee, has ten large
Touring mills.
The culture of carp is receiving more
attention in Iowa than in any state In
the union.
During the recent cyclone in Iowa
lambs became as badly "mixed up" as
the babies did in the famous opera of
"Pinafore."
A school for training shepherds has
been established in Algeria. The pupils
are instructed in all that effects the
breeding and rearing of sheep.
Cranberry bogs in many of the great
cranberry growing districts of Massa-
thusetts are reported TO have been seri-
ously injured by the late frosts.
The culture of dwarf orange trees Is
receiving considerable attention in
Florida. The trees are highly orna-
mental and produce very fine fruit.
Newbern, n. G. has cannery with
a capacity of 5000 cans per day. 1t is
now canning berries and will soon can
peaches; also, vegetables and oysters
in season.
Washington county, Pennsylvania, is
said to be the largest wool growing
county in the union, and to produce
annually 100000 to 5000 900 pounds
of wool, worth in cash, $l,0O0,0O0.
At fair held in Oxford, Pa, lately,
a team whose united ages reached
ffty.fve years trotted full mile close
to 800. One of them had lived a
quarter of century, and the other was
i've years his senior.
The managers of fairs in Great
Britain derive revenue from several
sources not recognized in this country.
They charge exhibitors of implements
for space, sell catalogues, receive pay
Off advertising in them, and impose
fines on all persons who fail to make
exhibits after they have given notice
Of THEN intentions to do so.
Tie dairymen in the southern part Of
Wyoming county, New York, are
agitated over new weed called Long
John, believed to be brought in west
ern grass seed, 1t grows three feet
high and has the appearance OF a
species Of mustard. The cattle are ex-
tremely fond of it, but the milk from
cows feeding upon it is worthless.
A place where bogus butter is manu.
factured has been discovered in Albany.
1t is said the very hest dairymen can
not tell the difference between it and
he genuine article. One suspicious
circumstance connected with its manu-
facture is that each tub Is marked with
the name of person at Canton, N.
Y" where a superior article Of butter
is made.
In 1881 there was 1874 firms engaged
silk manufacture in the canton of
Zurich; the number in 1872 was ll6.
The work people and officials aggregate
498l6, and the wages paid them
amounted to 19,Sl545S francs, an
average of about SIG a year. Many
of the weavers. however, are unem-
ployed in winter. and in the total of
1886 some of the work people have
been reckoned twice over, as they are
engaged in two different branches Of
the trade. The value of the fabrics
produced in the year is estimated at
a3,06S,0O0.
During the progress of some excava'
tions on Lord Normanton's estate,
near Crowland, England, the yorkmen
have exposed about three acres OF a
subterranean forest ten feet below the
surface. Some of the trees are in an
admirable state of preservation. and
one gigantic oak measures eighteen
yards in length. The trees are in such
a condition that oak can be distin'
Ruished from elm, while kind Of fir
tree seems to be most abundant, the
wood of which is so hard that the
trees can be drawn out of the clay in
their entirety. The surrounding clay
contains large quantities of the remains
of lower animal life.