Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The pnrest kaolin in America has jost found in treat qaantaty in Elbert county, Georgia. England has 500,000 velocipediste, among whom moßt be reckoned the prince of Wales and his daughters. A mountain of nearly pare iron has just been discovered near Lewisbmg,jn in Greenbrier county, West Virginia. By breathing hot air at about 212 degrees for two honrs daily it is said that consumption can be radically cured. It is said that a Japanese line of steamers will will soon be ran on the Pacific ocean, ih opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship company. Pnlu, the “vegetable silk” used by upholsterers for fine cushions and so on, looks like brown thistle down and grows upon the leaves and stalks of a tropical fern.

Owners of the pine-straw patent intend to e>‘ ablish five mills, each guaranteed to torn out 2,000,000 yards of bagging, in lime to wrap the bales of this year’s cotton crop, I„ The 4,000 men in the Altoona machine shops of the Pennsylvania railroad company are notified that the day’s work Will be nine hours, with a Saturday half holiday. The men have been desirous for the adoption of this rule. ~^ =r New Hampshire farming property Is not very valuable nowadays. A farm of fifty acres in Springfield, with a decent house and barn in good repair, with meadow land that cuts enough hay for two cows and a horse, and with a good wood lot, was lately sold for $250. Harmon, Rice & Co., of Troy, have purchased 24,000 acres of spruce limber in St. Lawrence county, New York, which is supposed to contain over 60,000,000 feet; consideration, $125,000. This is the largest purchase of lumber ever made in St. Lawrence countv.

On account of the annual spring migration to this country of European stone cutters, who return to their own sod when the busy season is over, the Stone Cutters’ union of New York has requested the mayor to notify the conthat American citizens only must be employed upon it. The big raft that is to float from Paget Sound down to San Francisco will be made of longer logs than were ever put into a raft on Atlantic waters. It will have but 5,000 logs, as against the 25,000 in the big Joggins raft of last year, but none will be less than 100 feet long, and the great size of the sticks will, it is thought, bring the amount of lumber up to the amount of the eastern raft.

The wages of cigar makers in New York have been going down for two years and the agitation for a reef oration of the former rates is now very active among them. All the branches of the International union, which has a membership of nearly 10,070 in New York, Brooklyn, and Hoboken, have taken action in the matter.

We hear of the growth of the Dairymen’s Protective union, which was organized for the protection of the cowowneis of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, whoeupply this city with milk. A convention of delegates from the local branches of the union is soon to be held, and there is a prospect that the - organization will obtain full control of our milk market.—New York Sun.

Even the stenographers are apprehonsivethat mechanism may yet knock them out of work. The Metropolitan Stenographers’ association of New York recently held debate upon this question: “Will Mechanical Invention Supersede the Stenographer?” They spoke of many of the dangers by which they are threatened, including the phonograph, the graphophone, and the type-writer. If all the railroads that are talked of in North Carolina were actually built there would be very little room for crops. All the same, North Carolina is on the eve of a great industrial epoch. In natural resources and salubrity of climate it is surpassed by few States in the union. And if its advantages were better known it would soon fill up with a very desirable class of citizens. —New Yprk Tribune; =====

“It is remarkable that mors young women who have to earn their living do not learn to be dressmakers,” say dozens of families who want their services. At this time of the year capable dressmakers are in Buch demand for work in private families that it is almost impossible to find one disengaged. The more skillful ones have engagements as far ahead as theatrical managers, and the poorest ones have not the slightest trouble in getting constant work and fighting with their lady employers about the fit and the work.—Troy Times. One ol tba largest locomotive build-

era in the country, whose works are at Paterson, says there is scarcely any demand for locomotives just now. The locomotive establishments of the conn* try can build about 3,000 locomotives annually, but at present the railroads are buying only about I,ooo* A locomotive can be bought now for SB,OOO, or less than the cost of building, but it pays the shops to run at a moderate loss instead of standing idle. The manufacturer says the railroads are five years ahead of the country—that is that it will take five years for the country td grow sufficiently to give all the railroads now built enough business to make them pay. Just as soon as the population of the country catches up with the railroads the business of loco* motive building will revive.