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6 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.