The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-04
NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.
Alabama cultivated 2,l79 acres of tobacco


The total valuation of sheep in Texas is
| estimated at Sl3, 800. 0CO.
"a farmer near Memphis cleared $500 on
three acres of water melons.
The oil mill at Arkansas City has a capac-
ity for turning out :, 500 gallons of oil per
day.
1t is said that another glove factory is
about to commence operations at Littleton
n. II.
In 1881 there were Z, III, ,544 acres of corn
in Kansas, which produced so, 7GO, 542 BUSH
els of corn.
The yield Of hops throughout the country
is fully twenty five per cent below the aver
age.
Vermont expects to .eeten the country
with 100, 900 pounds OF maple sugar this
season.
a national glucose and grape sugar associa-
ton was formed at Chicago on the lth inst.
The sum of S. 6t3 was realized from a crop
Cape May City.
John FL. Starin of New York, who now
has an income of $lo0, 600 a year, began life
selling horse liniment.
fifth of the population Of Patterson. N.
J. or say 10000, consists of the girls who
work in the factories thet5.
Tier are in Pittsburg fifty glass making
a5lishments of all kinds, with an aggregate
capital 3, 49l ,000
Chicagn,s BUSINESS in 1881 reached the
enormous total of 81, l0S, 900, coo During
1880 it amounted to $301, 0o0.0 900.
There were shipped to Europe last year
72,27G, 3i2 bushels of grain, not one bushel
of which went in an American ship
The Cape Col fisheries earned in 1881
Sl,4l2 GOO. Provincetown got $4,000 out
Of whales and 1852, 900 from Goldfish
Kansas is cultivatins cotton with much
success 1t is the virtue of cotton that,
like many politicians, it is sure to find a
market.
The report OF the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington indicates that the
cotton crop Of the past year will be the
shortest in yield since 1866:
The Boston and Albany Railroad has
bought two hundred fire extin 5uishers, one
for each Of its passenger cars.
The mouth Of the Chicago River is blocked
,,-:L L. IL, ,+
causing fears of flood.
Of the S,2l0 miles OF railroad track laid
in this country last year, 400 miles were
Of three-foot gauge.
There is in the South hardly town of
5000 inhabitants which has not machine
for making ice.
ly fresh, were put up in Boston last year,
gain of three hundred per cent over the
previous year.
Distilleries in the little stown of Peoria,
ILL.,, used over 100000 bushels of grain
last year, and paid sl2,453, S72 revenue
taxes on whisky alone.
In Atlanta there is a great factory for
making plows, which four years ago was
little shanty; now it employs three hundred
to four hundred hands,
New Bedford. Mass, is TO have a new
factory, to be bnil5 by the Pierpont Mar
ufacturing Company, for turning out silver
plated forks and spoons.
The glove production of Fulton county
n. Y, the last year, exceeded anything in
the history of the trade Gloves and nit
tens to the value Of IS, Ooo 600 have been
made.
A black walnut grove that was planted
by Wisconsin farmer about twenty years
ago on some waste land recently sold for
s27, 900. The trees are now from sixte en-
to twenty inches in diameter.
During the last FIVE years Kentucky
and Ohio tobacco has outranked that of vir-
einia. The crop of the latter state is now,
however, restored to its former Importance
in point of superior quality.
The statistics of the American wooden trade
show that between 1860 and 1889 the proper
tion of women employed in the mills compar-
| ed with men has risen from l6, SIG to Co.
26l the number of women having increased
| much more rapidly than that of men.
In the New York Senate resolution was
adopted providing for the appointment of
| Joint committee to consider the subject of
| ceding the Erie, the Champlain and Oswego
Canals to the National Government, upon
stipalations that they shall be enlarged
| It is said that the Rogues' Gallery of Paris
contains about 81, 900 photographs collected
during the six years since the system was
adopted.
The. experiment of hearing a theatrical
performance at the distance of mile away
by means of the telephone, has been sue
cessfully tried in London.
The Jones Car Manufacturing Company
/ of Schenectady is running every night to full
fill contracts for cars. It is proposed to
build new locomotive works, and COM
! pany has been organize! with $500, 600 cap
ital A new building, 300 feet long and 100
feet wide, has been erected. It is hoped
hereafter that four locomotives can be made
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