The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
HERE AND THERE.

The Baltimore journal OF Con
: merce finds that $41, 241, 450 are il
vested in the manufacture of cot
, ton goods in the south, the mills c
: that section numbering 252 an
running 1,237 400 spindles. Ter
nessee has 90 mills, with an aggre
gate capital of $2,165, 900, and take
fifth rank in amount of capital an,
fourth in number of mills. Nortl
Carolina has the largest number O
mills, &c, and Georgia the larges
capital, SO, 7S5, 900. In the figure
cited only capital actually paid u
is counted. A number of strons
companies now being organized arr
not included. OF the capital EN-
ployed, $18,OOO,OOO has been in
vested within the last ten years
The New England mills have aver
aged Z per cent. annual dividend
for the past five years, while the
southern mills pay at least double
that amount, many of them realiz-
ing from 80 to so per cent, the lat
ter, the largest profit recorded, hav-
ing been made by the factory at Pu-
laski last year. No southern mill
pays less than 10 per cent.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, the dis
tInguished economist, in a recent
address showed that this country
prosperous, as it is, beyond any 9th
er, is really within one year of star
walton and two years of nudity. 1t
may readily be seen, then, how fa-
tai would be the consequences of
any natural phenomenon that
would suspend labor for a year.
Mr.. Atkinson finds that the aver
age daily earnings of each Amer
lean is but so cents, out of which
he saves but 10 per cent. The
problem of the future is how to in
crease the purchasing power of the
90 cents, and is to be solved, as Mr..
Atkinson apply says, by improve
ments in the engines of labor and
greater economy in hand ling pro-
ducts.
Jay Gould controls $4,000,
worth of property in Missouri alone.
Mondays election in Maine re-
suited in favor of the republicans,
who elected their nominee for COVER
nor, Robe, all four of the congress
men and two thirds of the Iegisla-
ture. There were five tickets for
state offices in the field.
1t is estimated that the south will
pay to the west this year for bread
stuffs at least $1O0,000,0O0 less than
she paid last year.
The expenses of the star route
prosecutions will, it is estimated,
aggregate 100000.
A republican estimate makes the |
political complexion of the next |
national house Of representatives,
republicans, 139, democrats, 179, |
Independents, Z.
The Chinese are evad1ng the i'm
migration act by coming into San
Francisco as play actors, Folger
having decided that play actors are
lot laborers, within the meaning of
he act. A whole ship-load of al
eyed factors" has been shipped
rom Hong Kong. The ruse will be
tipped by the San Francisco
The republican state ticket was
lected in Vermont Wednesday, the
tn, by a majority of about 1000. |
he democrats however make
lrge gains in the legislature.
The star route trial was concluded !
Ionday, the arguments having !
cen finished and the case given to /
he jury several days before. The c
lief interest, for the general public, O
to Col Bob IngersolTs 7
beech for the defense, which, like
ost of his performances, was rather
'atorical that logical. The argu-
ent of the encouragement was Z |,
'onounced very strong. The jury d
turned a verdict of guilty as to II
70 of the defendants, Minor and
erdell, and of acquital as to Turner
i'd Peck and failed to agree as to .,
e others. Charges of attempts to m
ibe the jury in the interest of the a.
PENDANTS have been made and will p
Investigated.
Benz. H. Hill, jr, will be APP M
tinted to fill his fathers unex- m
red term in the United States SEN II
:. He is 33 years old and is at
esent solicitor general of the At We
tia circuit. A
The. totals as to last years crop
cotton have come to hand, and St
" are very significant. The total co
mber Of bales produced was Al
30, $40. OF this the United States TT
lsumed 1886, 2O6 bales, the north sir
mills 1861, 206, or 25, 59S bales DIR.
) than the year before, and the thi
Ithern mills 23S,0O0, or $4,000 Ina
re than the year before. In 1880 to
Atkinson, the statistician of
'ton, figured out the consump-
l per spindle north 65.S3, and
tn 146.77. This year the new
improved spindles have prob Tue
y increased the capacity per ma Ia
idle in both the north and south ON
ay sixty-seven pounds north and
hundred and fifty-three poun dis nea