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Tip SOUTHERN WORLD, JULY 15,1882,
INDUSTRIAL NOTCH.
Americtm, Georgia, has an ink manufac
tory.
The new cotton factory at Concord, N. C.,
was dedicated a few Sundays ago.
Dallas, Texus is about to establish a $600,-
000 cotton and woollen factory.
Messrs. Howe & Crosby have just started a
new marble yard at Roanoke. Va.
The Chattanooga (Tcnn.) Stove Company,
with a capital of $30,000, has just been or
ganized.
Four car-loads of boilers urrived the other
day for the new Sloss furnace at Birming
ham, Ala.
A number of substantial capitalists have
recently organized and established a mam
moth Barrel Factory in Augusta, Ga.
$30,000 has been subscribed for a cotton
seed oil mill at Chester, 8. C. A forty ton
apparatus is to be put in, and the mills are
to be completed by the 1st of October.
A Company of Kastcrn capitalists have
perfected arrangements to establish a car
spring factory at Knovville, Tenn. The
buildings for the purpose are to be put up
by the Knoxville Iron Company.
Huntington, W. Va., is building up, hav
ing now largo car shops for both the iron
and wood work, and will soon have locomo
tive works and passenger-car works.
Initiatory steps are being taken by the
Marshall Car and Foundry Company of Illi
nois, looking to the establishment of car
works and u smelting and blast furnace at
Marshall, Texus.
The work of constructing the Monongahela
river bridge, 5,400 feet in length, has been
commenced. It will be the longest iron
bridge in the United States.
A. McConatthy has bought and shipped
from Lexington, Ky., this season 180,000
pounds of wool, ami about the same quan
tity from other points.
A company has been organized in Colum
bus, Georgia, under the name of the Musco
gee Oil Mill Company with a capital stock
of $100,000.
The sea moss, a kind of weed found in
large quantities on the beaches of the coast
and hay near Tampa, Florida, has been an
alyzed by the chemists of the Department of
Agriculture in Washington to determine
its fertilizing qualities with the following
result:
FRKSII MOSS AS RECEIVED,
Water 70.55 percent
Dry Matter..... 20.45 “ “
100.00
OHY MOSS.
Organic Matter ; 50.13 per cent
Asti 53.87 “ “
100.00
The organic matter contains 1.17 percent,
of Nitrogen, equal to 1.40 percent, of Am
monia, (N. H. 3), and the ash contains 2.35
jier cent of Soda, the remaining 38.20 per
cent, of the ash not being of any recognised
-value commercially. . Pkter Collins,
Chemist.
Columbus, Georgia,has now in operation
seven cotton mills, containing two thousand
looms ami sixty thousand spindles, employ
ing three thousand hunds, consuming
twenty thousand bales of cotton, with a
capital of $1,083,000, annually producing
$2,181,850.
Books have been open in Newton, Ala,,
for subscription to a cotton factory at that
place, and Northern capitalists have pledged
$100,000 as soon as Newton raises $50,000.
This amount Nowton will raise, so it is said.
The Huntsville, (Ala.) cotton seed oil
mills are shipping hundreds of tons of cot
ton meal to Germany. It is probable that
the millswill be kept going until late in the
month of August.
The Central Virginia Iron Company will
build funaces at an an early date beginning
operation on an extensive scale at the Hi ver-
ville mines, Amberst county, a few miles be
low Lynchburg. The company is composed
of a number of Pennsylvania, New York
and Virginia capitalists, and an immense
amount of money has already been expend
ed in developing the property.
An agent is now in' Europe to organize a
company to erect a mammoth furnace on
the Roaring Run property Virginia, located
about 12 miles Southeast of Covington.
The Railway Age announces that the "es
tablishment of extensive locomotive works
at Louisville, Ky., has taken definite shape,
and a company with $1,000,000 capital is to
be organized.”
It is stated that a water wheel has been
Invented by Mr. H. S. Holder, of Macon,
Ga., which will revolutionize water wheels.
It can be placed in a river and will run as
well twenty feet under water as one-half
way out, and can also be run in any size
stream.
Mr. L. L. Cann has established a new in
dustry—a turpentine and pine-wood oil
manufactory—near Augusta, Ga., of which
the Chronicle and ConetitutionalUt says:
“The turpentine and oil are distilled from
pine wood obtained from worn-out turpen
tine farms or 'lightwood,' which is found on
pine lands. From one cord of pitch-pine
wood the following products are obtained:
Fifteen gallons spirits turpentine, eighty
gallons pine-wood oil, fifty bushels charcoal,
one hundred and fifty gallons pyro-liqueous
acid or wood vinegar, forty to fifty pounds
vegetable aspbalturn, and a large quantity
of. intlammable gas. The oil contains a
large quantity of creosote, and is one of the
best preservatives of wood known. Mr.
Cann proposes to manufacture this oil and
turpentine in large quantities. We saw a
sample of the turpentine yesterday, and it
is a first-class article.”
The Cathrine Furnace, of Spotsylvania
county, Va., which has been idle so long,
has been leased for a terra of three years,
by Mr. Henry R. Haines, of New York, who
contemplates erecting a new furnace as
speedily as possible. He expects to work a
hundred or more hands.
It is proposed to form a stock corporation
at Asheville, N. C., under the name of the
“Asheville Wood Pulp and Paper Company,"
to engage in the manufacture of wood pulp
aud paper, and will build a mill for that
purpose. Wood suitable for pulping
abounds in the vicinity of Asheville, and
can be obtained delivered at the mills, for
less than $4 per cord.
The Induitrial World says that Mr. R.
Stratton, a farmer of the Duffryn, Newport,
Monmouthshire, England, has experimented
upon the growth of flax straw for paper man
ufacture, and, after two years trial, with a
most satisfactory result. The trial of the
flax straw for paper manufacture was made
at Mr. Reed’s Ely Paper Works, Cardiff, and
it is found to be thoroughly successful. Mr.
Reed is offering to purchase 1000 tons at £4
10s per ton next year, and Mr. Stratton is
makfng preparations to grow seventy acres
of flax next year.
One cord—128 cubic feet—of seasoned
wood weighs: Hickory or sugar-maple,
4500 pounds; white-oak, 3850; beech, red-
oak, or black-oak, 3250; poplar, chestnut, or
elm, 2350; pine, (white or Norway,) 2000;
hemlock bark, dry, 2200.
Two young women of Kentucky and
Ohio respectively, recently obtained a patent
for a pan to be sunk in an ironing board,
for the reception of the flat-iron when not
in use. It is a very simple device but nev
ertheless useful to prevent casualties caused
by hot flat-irons. The young women have
been offered $5,000 for. their right.
It is claimed that New York State is rap
idly becoming the chief petroleum produc
ing region of the country. The daily pro
duction of the oil fields in Western New
York is 20,000 barrels. Of this production
Alleghany county supplies 16,000 barrels,
Cattaraugus county 4,000 barrels. The New
York petroleum district produces one-third
of the total oil product of America. About
one year ago it produced somewhere near
one-sixteenth. With the decline of the
Pennsylvania fields In favor of New York,
the latter State will be furnishing the world
with half of its illuminating power before
another year rolls around.
There Is an industry in our mountains
counties found in but few sections of the
country, viz: The collection of ivy roots.
The roots are shipped to Philadelphia and
Boston, where they are used for making
door knobs and pipe bowls. They are found
principally along the line of the Cranberry
Branch railroad, and in the vicinity of Roan
mountain, where they grow in great abun
dance and attain an enormous size. Recent
ly a root weighing 800 pounds was dug and
shipped to market. It is supposed to be the
the largest ivy root ever found; but roots
weighing 75 to 150 pounds are frequently
found.
As for medical roots, ginseng and the like,
the annual amount shipped is enormous.
One firm sells about one million pounds
yearly; and there are other firms which sell
large quantities. We have seen in Ruther-
fordton, ten years ago, a large building filled
with these roots and herbs comprising more
than one hundred varieties, averaging from
five to seventy-five cents per pound,—N. C.,
Farmer and Mechanic.
■lag and Its Uses.
In a recent issue of the Mechanical World,
of Manchester, an article on the utilization
of blast furnace slag, was published, it says:
The attention of foreign scientific men has
lately been directed to the utilization of
slog, a subject which was dealt with by Mr.
Chas. Wood, in a paper read before the So
ciety of Arts in May, 1880. According to
M. A. Gounod, a blast furnace produces an
average of rather more than 25,000 cubic
yards of slpg yearly, which piled up to the
height of a metre, or rather more than a
yard, coversa space of about sixacres, which
is completely lost for any useful purpose. If
the slag be piled up to a greuter height, an
additional expense of nearly 50 cents per
ton is incurred; therefore many methods
have been proposed for turning it to some
profitable use. The composition of the sco
ria: is such that it is impossible to use it
without admixture with other substances.
The following has been proposed and tried,
but each has its objections:
1. The metalling (macadamizing) of roads;
but slag, having no great cohesion, soon be
come reduced to a state of powder, and is
blown away by the wind.
2. Use in blocks for the construction of
dykes and sea walls, the slag being allowed
to run into iron molds; but it is feared that
the sea water would eventually bring about
a partial decomposition capable of causing a
falling ill.
3. Manufacture of paving stones, for which
purpose the slag is run into suitably shaped
molds, and the blocks afterward worked into
a cubical form. This, however, involves
considerable expense.
4. Manufacture of mineral felt. Subject
to the action of a strong current of air, slog
forms woolly filaments, which are used for
covering steam boilers and pipes for pre
venting the radiation of heat. It has, how
ever, been found that only slag of a certain
composition is suitable for this purpose, as
otherwise the felt crumbles to dual.
5. It has also been proposed to make
rough bottle glass by melting the slag in a
Siemens furnace with suitable proportions of
sand or an alkali, but the results obtained
have not been satisfactory.
The most practical and successful methods
hitherto employed for turning slag to useful
account, besides preventing its becoming a
nuisance and an eye-sore, is to make it into
bricks and mortar for building purposes.
By granulating it and allowing it to fall into
a stream of cold water, a sand is formed,
which, with the addition of lime or gypsum
may be made into either bricks or mortar.
The strength of bricks thus produced is
greater than that of the best brick of Bur
gundy, and their price is about $7.40 per
thousand.
For the production of steel and steel
rails there arc in Russia eighteen works, in
seven of which Bessemer apparatus exists.
In three of them thechfef production is by
the crucible system, and in the other by
the Siemens-Martin. For these works where
coke is used it is imported, and almost all
the ferro manganese, speigelisyn, etc., is
also imported, and even carried to the Ural.
The eighteen works produced per annum
about 82,500 tons of ingot steel, mostly for
gun making and government use, tires, etc.,
also 50,000 tons of steel rails, value about
20,000,000 roubles ($10,000,000.)
How often do we hear women who do
their own cooking, say that by the time they
have prepared a meal und it is ready for the
table, they are too tired to eat. One way to
mitigate this evil Is to take about half an
hour before eating, a raw egg, beat it until
light, put In a little sugar and milk, flavor it
and “drink it down.” It will remove the faint,
tired-out, feeling, and will not spoil your
appetite for dinuer. Plenty of fresh air in
the kitchen, does a great deal to remove this
trouble, and you do not then take your din
ner in “at the pores,” os Dickens’ old Joey
declared he took in the wine.
Make your borne beautiful—bring to It llowen;
Plant them around you to bud and to bloom;
Let them give llgnt to your loneliest hours—
Let them bring light to enliven your gloom;
It yon can do so, O make It an Eden
Of beauty and gladness almost divine;
Twill teach you to long for tbat home you are need
ing,
The earth robed In beauty beyond tilts dark clime.
Getting in debt is as easy as sliding down
hill; getting out is like drawing up again;
the bigger the debt the bigger the kill, the
harder the task. You have seen boys strug
gle half way up a hill and then give up and
slide down.
Do not spread more sail than you have
wind to fill; as the flapping of it may tear
down your rigging.
cfflutctllmuotts.
Written specially for the Southern World.
Your Mother.
Have you ever seen her walk slowly across
the floor and sinking into a chair with a
heavy drawn sigh, hang her head in a sad,
meditative manner, gazing long and intently
upon the floor? Of what do you suppose
she is thinking at such times? Have you
ever wondered ? Ah I no doubt she is recall
ing to her mind many of the scenes through
which she has past during the long years
that have elapsed since she flrst crossed the
soft rippling stream separating the flowery
land of childhood from the great responsi
bilities of womanhood. Perbapsshe is view
ing the wonderful contrast between then
and now. She is thinking, too, of the many
tedious hours she has spent in bringing you
up in health and refinement; and, no doubt,
of how selfish and ungrateful you are prov
ing yoHrself in return for her anxious care.
You may feel that you are fully performing
your duty toward her, but do not forget the
fact, that it would be utterly impossible for
you to go beyond this—there is no love, no
care, no forgiveness on earth to equal hers,
and do you think that it is in your power
ever to do enough for such a friend? Look
at her—another sigh! Will you not lay
aside business and society for her sake, only
a few moments? Go to her; make her to
feel that she has not toiled bravely through
life, only to grow old and be neglected by
those whose sacred duty it is to bless her
lost days; but that she is greatly blessed in
tne possession of tender, loving children—
ever ready and willing to perform the
greatest or smallest act of gratitude and
kindness to her—their noblest trainer.
When you pass near her and she looks up at
you and smiles, do not—os the writer’s heart
lias often times been pained to see others
do—pause just for a moment, form a hasty
excuse and hurry on; but seat yourself at
her side, take the dear old wrinkled hands
within your own, and strew flowers of bles
sedness all around her in her lonely hours.
Draw her niind away from the sad subject
upon which it has so long been centered.
Count the wrinkles in her dear old face, and
for every one count a dozen sighs, sorrows,
cares and anxieties all for your weak sake.
Think, oh! think of the long-wearisome road
over which she lias traveled, and try to make
her happy, now that heaven has bestowed
upon you that privilege. Thatdcarold mother
cannpt be with you always, and when she is
gone—yes! when those feeble hands lie cold
and still upon a lifeless breast, when those
loving lips have been sealed in the awful
solemnity of denth, when you stand and
gnze upon the silent form beneath the coffin
lid,'tis then that the past will swell up in
your aching heart, and you will remember
many an act by which you might have added
to her comfort and pleasure. 'Tis “then
that forgotten tones of love will recur to
you nnd kind glances shine out of the past—
0, so bright and clear! or so longed after
because they are out of reach
more prized because unattainable, more
bright because of the contrast of present
darkness and solitude, whence there is no
escape."
Don’t wait 'till the grave has closed above
her to realize the fact of how dear she is to
you; for the clods that will rattle above her
frosty head, will tell you sadder tales of
the dark aud lonely future than everasound
did before. When the fading star of earthly
life has sunk forever out of sight, when the
gauzy veil of death has fallen around her
drooping, head, and the misty shadows have
faded into darkness, costly monuments and
drapingsof crape will be of no benefit to her,
for now is the time to love, appreciate and
care for the truest friend that earth ever
possessed for you.
" Don’t wait 'till the feeble hands are at rest,
Ere you Mil them full of flowers,"
Don't save them for the cold and lifeless breast,
But Improve the last sad hours.
Athalia Jaiqh.
No man has ever built up a great charac
ter by the making and keeping of special
resolutions. There must be a broader con
sideration than tbat it is bad to swear and
use tobacco, or drink whisky, to raise a
young man to a higher plane of living.
Don't trust a man because he talks nice
and looks you straight in the eyes. Some of
the wont dead beats we ever knew, would
stare an honest man out of countenance.
It Is true enough that old age brings expe
rience, but it does not always bring wisdom;
six months’ experience will do more for
some men than six yean will do for others.