The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-08-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GERMANY has 2O5 iron establishments.
SCANADIAN cast iron pipe works are very
busy.
THE big Paris strike has been settled by
arbitration.
THE Scandinavians of Minneapolis Mimi,
have workingmen's society.
THERE are only three factories in this
country where cornets are made.
The Pittsburg glass factories have resumed
work, giving 1000 operatives employment.
THE Knights of Labor have established a
cooperative farm at Glenwood Springs,
Col.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
expend $2S5, 900 in building shops at Altoona,
Penn.
THE American Minister at Pekin says tina,
wages in China at the highest are two cent?
day.
THE Brooklyn trainers have decided to fine
all of its members days pay who work on
Labor day.
THE New York Legislature has passed q
law to establish school for instruction I'D
ship building.
TIE average earnings Of all the manufao
turing and mining operatives IN thfs country
is 81 W per day.
WORK has been resumed at Higgins's carpet
factory New York, about 9oo or the loou
employees gong to work.
EDWARD C. ELLIS, of Middlebury, VT.
has lust taken to Buenos Ayres, South
America, 100 road wa CONS
BEBEE GERoULD, farmer near Waverly,
| N. ". has sold 1850 tons OF pottery clay TO o
| Newark N. J.,) manufacturer.
TgERE has been received for the educa
tional fund of the knights Of Labor up to
The present time nearly sli,50o.
THE mills OF Lowell, Mass, use nearly
| 800. 100000 worth of cotton annually, and
send out more tnan Sl0J,O0oOU0 worth OF
cotton goods.
THE manufacturing of shoes, in Lynn.
Mass, is decreasing because OF the cheaper
production in country towns where less
wages is paid.
ONE THOUSAND MILLION steel pens are used
every wear in this country. Most OF these
/ are nome made, and they are better than the
imported pens.
NEW YORK stands at the head of the mo
rocco trade in the United states. During
the busy season, 1850 goat skins are daily
turned into morocco.
THERE are 1889 industrial establishments
in the city of New York, which give employ
ment to 227, ,352 persons, and the value OF the
output is S427, 926,4
/ THE Reading Railroad Company has notf
fed its employees that they will be subject to
| disms sal if they fail to meet pecunlary obll-
cations which they incur.
MONTREAL, Canada, has thirty boot and
shoe manufactures Four thousand persons,
all over fourteen years Of age, are employed.
Wages average S12 per week for men and "
for women.
AN Industrial Home for Girls, at Chilli.
cothe. Mo-, will be opened in the fail. 1t will
be conaucted on the family or cottage plan,
and will receive girls from seven to twenty
years OF age.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Company is having
heavy engine constructed, which will run
from Washington to Baltimore, a distance
of forty miles, in forty minutes, making
three stops on the way.
On the Calendona Railway, of Scotland,
the yardnen use a shepherds hook in switch
ing cars for lifting the chain coupling and
save their fingers and hands from being
ground into mince meat
THE money that Andrew Carnegie pays
out every month in wages to the employees OF
his vast iron ami steel mills, at Pittsburg,
would, il converted into silver dollars,
amount to 10000 pounds, or eight tons.
SIX hundred women employed in the gov
ernment cigar factory at Lille, France, have
! gone on strike. They claim that the quality
of the tobacco supplied them prevents their
making cigars which will pass the overseers
THE card room hands in the mills at Black
burn England, have notified the masters
that unless they are granted an advance OF
ten per cent in wages they will strike. This
would involve the stoppage of 1884, looms
and 10000 spindles and the Unemployment
of 10000 operatives.
TIE machinery of the great silk mill of the
Phoenix Manufacturing Company, in Potts
vile, Penn, has started. The mill has been
one year in construction, is the most exten.
sive and completely juipped establishment
of the kind in the country. 1t cost S26O, ,OJ0,
and will employ 100 operators.