Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — The Industrial Outlook. [ARTICLE]

The Industrial Outlook.

[Sprincrfleld (Maes.) ilispatoh.i Mills starting np all around. A large dealer in wool and cotton who has been around among manufacturers in this and adjoining States says that he finds the stocks of goods well cleaned up, and a very hopeful feeling prevailing. Manufacturers regard prioes for raw material as at the bottom, and see no reason why a good year for business should not be enjoyed. Many aro laying in large stocks of cotton and wool at present prioes. New England seems to bo exceptionally well situated. The proportion of idle laborers is less in this section than in some others, according to the returns mode to Bradalreets Weekly. There will be a considerable resumption of labor fin the next month in (his section wherever it has been suspended.

Mrs. Georgr Bancroft is said to wield the needle as ably as her husband does the pen, and her house is profusely adorned with embroidery of all sorts, the work of her hands. The memory of Martin Behaim, the navigator, will be honored in Nuremberg by the erection of a fine marble monument, modeled by Professor Roessner. Mrs. Chief Justice Waite frankly tells, callers that they must not expect her to return their visits. American railroads use more than 10,000,000 iron oar wheels.