Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-11-03
Labor Notes.

Massa chusetts has more distilleries than
| kentucky.
On one farm near Flint. Mich, there
are 1,120 200 cabbages.
At Guilford, Me-, the Piscataquis Wool
en- Co.'s mill is beng run overtime.
At COhOes, n. Y, Mcdowell Co. .
Cascade knitting mills are running nights
People who sell newspapers in the
streets of Moscow are compelled to ap-
| pear in uniform.
All Denver saloons that fall to abolish
their wine rooms will he closed up by the
! Police Commissioners.
The Jackson Company at Nashua. N
H., laid the cornerstone of new mill
last recently to replace one of its old
ones.
The Riverside Wooden Company. Leb-
anon, N H., is running its mills day AMI
| night on beavers, chinchillas and chev-
lots.
| The Oldtown, Me-, wooden mill is run
ming part of the card and spinning rooms
until II Z. NJ, resuming work again at
B A. NJ. w.
Prepa arationS are nearly completed for
beginning the manufacture of linen
goods from American flax by~a company
recently formed at Woodyille, RI
The gold bricks made in Seattle from
KIondike gold are nine inches long, thro e
inches wide and there eights of an inch
thick, and are worth S17O0 each.
4 mill employing fifty men Is now en-
gagged in making paper froto the bagasse
or sugar cane refuse, which was once tn
greatest nuisance to the suGar-grower.
Some people in the South are predictirr
that the current trend in cotton manufa''
ture will food the North with negr"
operatives and the South with Yankee
white girls.
According to leading mercantile
agency, the number of men now at wcrl >
not counting the recent coal strikers, -
some 3iO, 900 in excess of the number en-
pluyed at this time in 1896.
A number of skilled men are arriving
at Bessemer, Col, from Illinois and Penn
sylvania to assist in taking down the old
machinery at the steel works prepara-
tory to replacing it with new.
There are four cities in Massachusetts
which, under recent Law, are entltle'l
to an appropriation Of $4,000 each for the
establishment of textile schools on con
dition of like sum to be raised by those
, , interested.
J. =. Spencer, w. f. Holt and c. W
johnson, of Charlotte, n. c., have pur-
chased the Virgin Cotton Mill, tHunterS-
vile, n. Ii. The new owners intend T."
remodel the mill and change ii into spin
ming plant.
The Elmwood Manufacturing Company >
Columbia, $. &. proposes to erect lo,oo"
spindle cotton mill to employ only col
ored operatives, and to run day and night
IT is understood that cOntrac's Tor ma
chinery have been placed
1t is estimated that the United States
| furnishes 81 per cent. of Mexico's imports
| against As per cent. in 1895 England
furnishes IL per cent. and Germany -
per cent, while Spain and other countries
contribute $ per cent
The tea from DIR. Shepard's farm, at
Summerville, s. c., sells for 81 per
pound, is of high quality, and it is be
lieved that his success establishes the
fact that tea can be grown in this country
So as to be commercially successful
Hang Chow, apout 300 miles south OF
1 Shanghai. is a great silk emporium, not
| less than 1000 hand looms being engaged
in the manufacture of silk of the finest
quality, all that is required for the In
perial household being made there.
/ More than 80 per cent. of Frances for
| eign commecre is transacted with Great
Britain, a country which constitutes the
| arket for more than third of the entire
| production Of Frances industry. No less
than 32 per cent of Russia's foreign trade
is with Great Britain.
| The British factory acts specify that H.
| woman shall not return to her employ -
| ment in any works To which the acts aI-
| ply within four weeks after she may
have been confined. A Yorkshire frnl
was fined So for permitting a woman to'
work eight days after having given birts
| to child.