Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — THE BUSINESS WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE BUSINESS WORLD.

Big peach crops are reported from Delaware an’d New Jersey. The Baldwin Locomotive Works are busily filling home and foreign orders. An Italian firm has ordered a supply of 100,000 tons of coal from the United States. The Toronto Globe admits the unpleasant truth that there is no life in trade there. The sinall-grain crops throughout Georgia are reported as being in a very promising condition. The cotton mills at Wilkinsonville, Mass., have been compelled to stop some of their looms for lack of help. The new proprietors of the Atlantic Mills, in Providence, R. 1., intend to begin operations in a short time. The Canadian Government has offered SIO,OOO for ten years, on certain conditions, to the first sugar factory. In Indianapolis, Ind., the building outlook is exceedingly bright. A large number of new houses are going up. The Southern railroads, which at the close of the war were nearly all in bankniptcy, are now in pretty good condition. The Central City (Col.) RegisterCall is almost entirely devoted to mining news, giving over thirty pages of information on this topic. One of the South Carolina emigrants to Liberia has returned. He says nearly one-half of those who went out are dead, and the rest are anxious to get back. Many of the Massachusetts woolen manufacturers have contracted for a large amount of goods months ahead. The Middlesex, Washington and Manchester mills are working up to their full capicity. Brazil sells about three-fourths of her coffee crop, or, in 1877, 1,800,000 bags, to the United States, for which we pay chiefly in gold, the gold balance paid in 1877 for . Brazilian products amounting to $45,000,000. The Philadelphia North American says: The quantity of cheese made in the United States and Canada the past year was the largest ever known, and our export demand has increased correspondingly. Prices, however, have ruled low the entire season, which, with several sharp declines, kept business in this line quite unsatisfactory, both to the producers and middlemen. This branch of industry is no longer confined to the States of New York and Ohio, as in former years, but has been extended over the entire Western grazing country, and is now considered the second branch of industry of the United States. Authentic cases of living burial are put on record by the eminent French physician, Dr. Josat, at 162. The period of unconsciousness before burial, in these cases, lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of apparent death were these: Syncope, hysteria, apoplexy, narcotism, concussion of the brain, anaesthesia, lightning, gpd drunkenness.