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Asphalt,
A solid bituminous substance.
probably derived from decayed vegetable matter; used as building material in ancient Babylon.
The artificial asphalt from gas-works began to be used as pavement about 1838.
Various kinds of asphalt pavement have been since laid in New York, and the leading cities of the United States and Europe.
The most celebrated deposit of natural bitumen is on the island of Trinidad, whence the United States obtains its chief supply.
although in the calendar year 1809 the United States had an aggregate production of asphalt and bituminous rock of 75.085 short tons, valued at $553,904, the mining being in California. Kentucky, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas. Colorado, and Utah, the principal amount being mined in California.
Boycotting,
A practice which derives its name from Capt. C. C. Boycott, of Lough Mask House, in Mayo, Ireland, who in 1880, as land agent of Lord Erne, an Irish nobleman, evicted a large number of tenants.
These with their friends refused to either work for him or trade with him, and would not permit others to do so. Finally sixty Orangemen from the north of Ireland, armed with revolvers and supported by a strong escort of cavalry, organized themselves into a Boycott relief expedition, and after gathering his crops carried him to a place of safety.
In the United States and England the boycott is sometimes used by trade unions in times of strikes.
More or less stringent laws against boycotting have been enacted in Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Connecticut. Maine. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Alabama. Florida, Georgia. Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carson , Christopher 1809 -1868 (search)