The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-21

and at low prices. Onions have declined
slightly and the market is well supplied.
California pears and grapes are abundant,
and are selling at reduced prices. There is
no change in staple groceries. Flour is
firm at our quotations, and meats and lard
are steady. Chickens, eggs and turkeys
are in 'demand. Game ard fish are coming
in freely, and are as freely taken at low
prices.
AN extraordinary amount of capital is be-
ing invested in sheep and cattle raising in
Cuba. Including the horses and mules
owned by the planters, it is calculated that
the value of the cattle of all sorts in the
Trinidad valley amounts to S200000O.
Great care is being bestowed upon the
breeding, and the importation of sheep,
cows and bulls is increasing largely, no less
than thousand head having been delivered
from England and the United States at
Cienfuegos alone in single week.
Taken all in all, says Colorado paper,
the prospects were never better at this sea-
son for favorable winter in Colorado for
stock OH the range. With stocl; fat and feed
plentiful, cattle and sheep growers must
certainly feel quite comfortable. Another
encouragement is found in the fact that
prices are very good. All the wool pro-
good figures, and beef now commands a
good price
The shovel-makers in the United States
manufacture about 10000 every week.
About one-half of them are used at home
and the other half are shipped abroad
mostly to Panama and South America
The Board of Trade of New York has
adopted resolutions favoring an appropria-
ton by Congress for the llenncpin Canal.
This project is commanding considerable
attention. 1t is contemplated that canal
can be made from Hennepin, on the Illinois
river, to the Mississippi river, near Rock
Island distance Of about Is miles, at II
cost of 81, 900, which will enabl, traffic
to be prosecuted from Chicago and otherinte
rior points to tide-water by way of the Mis-
sissippi.
All bright, light-bodied leaf and Burley
stock-tobacco is actively sought after for
American manufacture, and recently we
learn that 800 hossheads suitable for filters
were bought in England and shipped back
to this country at an expense OF 10y cents to
| IS cents per pound, when the same tobacco
was offered ON the New York market before
being shipped at 81 cents There is no
other artic of American production that IS
subjected 10 such tyranny of manipulation.
The tobacco crop of the United States
brings about $3O000,00O only to its pro.
dacers, while the several governments of
Europe and our own derive about $l6O,OOO,-
900 ofrevenue from 1t annually.
An Iowa gentleman who has recently ex-
| amined at Washington the returns of the
| new census as to domestic animals, finds
| the result very complimentary to Iowa
The returns show that Iowa is ahead of all
| the States in the Union by nearly a million
head on swine. It. is second to Illinois in
| cows. 1t is first, next to Texas, i'll horses
and first, next to Texis, in cattle. This is
a grand showing for young State.
Two carloads, containing twenty-four
| live elk, from the farm of Judge Cation, Of
tawa, ILL.,, passed through Chicago Friday,
EN- route to Europe, via New York.
During tho fiscal year ending June 50,
1885,, there were l 200 head of cattle fed at
Des Moines distilleries resulting in an aver
pounds, the aggregate being 2l0 020 pounds.
No hogs were fed.
Iowa goes ahead OH the butter question,
as the following from the Fort Dodge Times
| shows: "Ths Storm Lake Creamery has
been sending butter directly to England
| from the creamery. The proprietor last
week published testimonials from Liver
pool experts, showing the butter to be far
| above the average, and equal to tho finest
butter made in the north of Ireland"
The Alton Enterprise says that the cheese
factory OF VIM. Groesbeck, near that place,
makes from 1900 to 10, 000pounds of cheese
annually which is all used in Union
county.
The total area of bog in Ireland is est.
mated at 1880 900 acres, nearly one-seventh
OF the entire surface of the island.
Professor L. Scheffer has preserved about
10000 hog stomachs since the killing season
set in, for conversion into pepsin.
A Humboldt county, California, hunter
between September /, 1879, and October -
1881, killed ISL bears, y panthers. l5l wild
cats, 1i3 foxes, 36l coons, 9 cayotes and Ii
bald eagles.