I
I Mapkid, Oct. 16. Reinforcements
of Spanish troops for Caba.. are being
I hurried lorwara Dy tne military ao
thoritie8. About 5.000 additional
soldiers will leave Spain for that is-
and before the end of tbe present
- imontn.
LABOR STATISTICS.
rr.ni Tbe Advsjaee Sheets of fttt lbr
C,B1mu.!on,r-Iu. Hu,,,,,,- r.ets
Obtained.
Prom advance theeta of the report
of btate-Labor-Commiioner J. V.
Uamriek forthe current yea some in
teresting facts are obtained. He saj s
this State ia,one of the leading cotton
manufacturing States of the Union,
and no other State in the South can
show within 300,000 the number of
spindles (save Georgia and South
Carolina). The mills, one-third of
which rnn day and night, can spin
more than the State's product. The
aggregate horse-power is 3,500,000,
capable of running 140,000,000 spin
dles. Wages of cotton mill opera
tives are mnch lower than those paid
North, and there are no laws regu
lating the hours of mill labor, which
rests on the same basis as the labor
er on the farm, in the forest, and in
the mine. The cotton mills are in
forty-eight counties, and have 24,
021 looms and 1,010,147 spindles; be
sides twenty-five hosiery mills, with
1,410 knitting machines, and two
dyeing and finishing mills. In these
mills there are employed 26,287 per
sons, of whom 8.448 ere men, 12,070
women, and 5.363 children, and there
is in nse about 43,000 horse power.
