The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-04

tinuas large. Five vessels arrived here yae-
ierday with full supplies. among which we
note 642l boxes OF oranges, 224s boxes OF
lemons. $3.50 packages Of fruit besides auan-
titles Of bananas, coeoanuts, plantains, etc.
Tho st. Louis cotton mills are running
eleven hours per day. Their manufacture Ia
confined to the coarser fabrics, brown muslin
chiefly. At this factory aye over 200 girls
and about fifty men. The product nearly ali
goes South. -
Tho village Of WaIlacoburg. Ark, has voted
bonus of $1,000 Ia o hoop manufacturer To
enable him 10 enlarge his factory, and $500 10
aid furniture manufacturer In getting his
work under Roadway. That town has 4 cor
rect appreciation of the value of local manu-
featuring industries.
There Is n bill pending before the North Car
olina Legislature to exempt from taxation for
fifteen years oil establishments for the man.
uiacturing OF cotton and wooden fabrics. agri-
cultural Instruments. tools and machinery.
which shall be erected In that State after tho
passage Of the bill.
There was q large business done Yesterday
IN State Consols the sales ut the Stock Ex-
change footing up S335,e00. and on the street
100000. Consols opened b11s, went up TO 5sll
and closed firm 1T 81 .@52, against 5Oss 05oys
Premium Bonds closed easy ut 25025ts, with
sales Of $25, 100 Mt the Exchange.
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According to the report of the commits
sloner Of internal revenue there are 157. 345
retail liquor dealers in the United States or
these New York State has 24s3a; Pennsyl-
vania has 15,t4S: Ohio, 13,1i5 Illinois. 10. s59;
California. 1925, Massachusetts G9oi: Maine
4i2 The tobacoonists number 335. 26I New
York State leads also In This with 46.b72;
Pennsylvania has H,773: Ohio, 2s,sS9; Mas
sachusctts. 1889 The Wholesale liquor deal
ers number 1902; the brewers, $3.50.
The annual report OF the Chicago Board Of
Trade, just published, shows for 1873 o larger
amount of business done IN that city than
during 1877, but the amount OF values ex-
changed less, owing to the decrease Of values.
Receipts of grain t3t.0OO,0o0 bushels, or
100000 bushels more than the preceding
year, and 6,ii2.000 hogs were received. The
value OF farm products shipped was $207, 00O,-
600; value of cattle hogs, etc. received at the
stock yards, $ioo,0OOo00.
1t Is estimated that the entire coal supply
OF Great Britain Ia equal to ono hundred and
forty-five billion tons. We can see John Bull
on the coal question and go him good deal
better. The supply of Ohio, Indiana. West
Virginia and Illinois Ia estimated Mt one tril-
lion one hundred and eighteen billion tons It
Is also estimated that thirteen square miles
OF coal deposit, with veins of an average
depth Of thirty feet, exist In Pennsylvania
alone. We may have to ship scme OF our
dusky diamonds TO England yet, provided we
can keep them free from pleuro-pneumonia.
Shippers OF grain will be interested to learn
that Messrs. Thomas @. Scott and Arthur Ii.
Savoy, authorities upon the subject In Eng
land, have recently made careful inquiries
into the condition Of the wheat raising Indus
try, and are compelled to admit that at
present figures England must abandon, to a
great extent, this branch OF agriculture and
give place to America. 1t Is shown that in |
order TO reimburse the English farmer for his |
outlay In Seed labor, manure, carriage, etc, |
the wheat must be sold at e. SO per quarter |
eight bushes) at least. The average price |
In the past four months has been but G2 per |
America raises wheat two thousand miles
from her ports OF export. conveys 1t by rail
or river to the points of shipment,
transports 1t over three thousand miles
Of ocean to Great Britain, and sells 1t at a
shilling bushel less than 1t costs tho Eng
lish to raise 1t. An exchange says 1t seems
almost incredible that this should be
30, but 1t Is nevertheless proven, not alone
by the figures of the English economists, but
by the features OF our trade last year. In
his CONJUNCTION the enormous progress made
by the United States In this branch of agri-
culture Ia an interesting and important study
In 1868 the country planted Is, AGO, 1872 acres In
Eheat and produced 224, O36, 600 bushels. In
the acreage was 26,277,54s and the pro-
iuction S64,194. LAG bushels. The increase In
ne value OF our exports OF wheat and flour =
u 1878 over those in 1877 amounted to the /
sum of $5S,164,000, and the exports /
II breadstuifs last year aggregated $751;, 777.- I
vi. These figures are now astounding. but
he probabilities are that they will seem as ,
1othing to those that will be presented ten {
years hence The United States will eventu-
dly BE- the food-producing country of the
world Y
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PERIsHABLE PRobUCE BY RETAIL IN NEW !
are reasonably low for the
season, fresh New Jersey selling in Washing !
on Market at q cents per dozen, and good I
Western and Southern, in many of the gro
oeries, at the rate of Is for IS cents. Good
butter is not difficult to find, and may be
bought at Is to 80 cents per pound, very choice
qualities selling In tirst-class stores at 35 to
y cents. Prices for cheese are unchanged.
Vegetables from Bermuda are becoming more
ifrrl GtIaff
The Southern States will begin to arrive. We !
IRE now receiving tomatoes from Florida.
The newest thing in the market are Bermuda
oeets which sell at 10 cents per bunch. Ber- |
nuda potatoes sell at so to so cents per half j
peck, and tomatoes from Bermuda, Florida 4
md Nassau, New Providence at 80 cents per S
quart. Dandelion is worth 25 cents per quart;
ettuee i cents per head; dollhouse cucum- !
'ers 40 cents each; celery 10 cents per bunch; l
'quash (which are scarce) 20 to 50 cents each,
According to size; rhubarb 10 cents per Z
SNalnnch and spinach 25 cents per half peck. :
1tner vegetables are selling at the same rate. I
ranges are abundant and have hardly ever