The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-30
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

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"A laborer who has been seeking
work in Los Angeles County, Cal,
writes warning others to stay away
from there, as the ranchmen employ
Chinese in preference to ghite mes.
Christian PETER, of Pitts burgh, Pa,
has brought suit against his employer
for S14S for extra work that he did on
SUNDAYS. The defendant resists the
payment on the ground that no recov-
cry can be had for labor performed on
the Sabbath unless it is a work of
necessity, which is denied. --PjttSburgh
Chronicle.
There is not room enough in Louis
vile, KY, to hold last years crop of
tobacco. and the tobacco men do not
know what they will do when this
years crop comes in, as it is unusually
large. Farmers are not expected to
get enough for their tobacco to pay for
the raising of it when this years crop
comes in.-LouisUiILe Courier Journal.
The attempt to produce sugar in
the lower part of New Jersey has been
abandoned. The soil was supposed to
be well adapted to the cultivation of
sorghum, but after five years of careful
experimenting, aided by encourage
ment from the State in the shape of a
bounty of one dollar for every ton of
cane raised and one cent for every
pound of merchantable sugar made
therefrom, it was concluded that the
business is not profitable one.-N. Y.
Sun.
| There has been no great boom in
i h.. ~ al. A
past four years, although the advance
ment has been substantial. In 1884
hardly any wheat was shipped out of
| the country-at best, not over 1,000,-
| 900 bushels. The past year there were
100000 bushels, over one-half of it
| damaged by frost. This year there
will. it is estimated, be upward of
100000 bushels for export. -Montreal
| Witness.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
is the banner county of the United
States in the value of its agricultural
| products, which are set down at over
s., SGG,0 Monroe County, New York,
in which is situated the city of Roches-
| ter, is the second in rank. There are
| thirty-three counties whose annual
products exceed $4,000 900, of which
fourteen are IN New York, seven in
Pennsylvania, six in Illinois, two in
| California, two in Massachusetts and
one each in Michigan and Connecticut.
Philadelphia Press.
The builders trade in Germany is
one of the most dangerous to life and
limb, and accidents to those engaged
in it reach an enormous figure. The
Bavarian BGwgeUerkS = GenoSsenschat
reports that from the 1st of October,
1885, to the end of June, 1885, there
occurred within its jurisdiction 1,095
| accidents, of which $50 resulted in a
cure within thirteen weeks, 96 in
capacitated the persons concerned for
a longer time. and Al termin ated
fatally.
Preparations are under way for
the beginning of the work of building
the great bridge across the Hudson
river at Poughkeepse, N. Y. The
| structure will be $3.50 feet long be-
tween the shore piers, and the viaducts
on each shore will make the bridge
about one mile long. There will be
five spans, each $50 feet long, and the
structure will be 1876 feet above the
water. The bottom of the rail viii be
about 200 feet from the water. The
roadway between the side ratings is
to be about 30 feet wide, which will
permit the laying of two railroad
tracks, with at least five feet of path
way between the outer rails and the
balustrade. The company is also fig
uring on carriage-way. 1t will be the
largest double-track bridge in the
world.-Albany Journal.