The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-08

Ion that Waco cnii ret over 21,WO llnlel lhls
year. This will bo less than lnlf VI lngt
years product but The better prices which
have prevailed the amount Of money 70.
colved from the sale Of cotton seed and whnt
money has been earned by residents OF tho
county on railroad work, and tho amount
spent by transient railroad hands VIII put
In circulation here quite rs much money as
our ~ 900 balos Of cotton did last year.
REPORTS from Arkansas state that careful
estimates place the yield In the state NJ
about 10 per cent. per acre above the per-
centage announced Mt the beginning OF the
season. The crop has not been so early
and so thoroughly gathered in many years
rs during the present season. Last year a
large portion ofthe crop remained in the
field until March and April, and was con-
siderably damaged by the weather
DALLAS, December This first day of
the winter months is one OF the brightest
seen for long time, with o cool, bracing
air which presages continuance OF good
In looking over our exchanges from the
other Southern States, it is gratifying 10
see the many notices of persons coming
here to cast their lives and fortunes with
us. A dispatch from Nashville, Tennessee,
says: Almost every train arriving here from
| ",
St. Louis Railroad, is crowded with emf
grants for the West. The bulk of the mi
grating throng have Texas as their objective
point. They hail from portions of Middl e
| and East Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
The Prattville Alabama, Signal says a
number of persons did intend to .emigrate
from there to Texas, but the continued re,
hard times have induced many to remain
where they are, or until more favorable
news is received from the land of the Long
Horns Now the HERALD has always con-
| tended that the incessant croakipg OF short
crops and fearful drouths, often exaggerated
to reprehensible degree, in the end would
prove detrimental to the best interests of
our State, and particularly to this section
oft. 1t is about time these foreboders OF
evil should cease their unwarrantable
Trades about agricultural disasters and
| financial difficulties and mercantile trou-
bes, and turn their attention to the
glowing future of our State, her
prosperity now, and what awaits her in a
| few years to come, of the abundance OF
money above any former year, and then we
| may look for tide of immigration larger
than was ever before experienced here,
and which will extend to every county in
this the most favored part of the State, and
we might say of the United States, in all
those requisites that make people great,
prosperous and happy. No man can be in
terested in the welfare of Texas who is con-
tinually decrying her best and most vital in
terests If anything can be said to the
prejudice of our State, let it be said by
those who are inimical to her
best interests and who will be
certain to parade it before the public.
THE Montgomery Advertiser says: Irish
| Of no hirI nlnU
for sale at the stall of Mrs. Chappell at the
market Saturday evening. They had all
the freshness and "mealy" appearance OF
potatoes of the first crop, and just as pleas
ant and palatable The prolonged warm
weather has been favorable to the produc-
ton of a third crop, but in our climate at
least two crops can be made on an average
every year without trouble or the least diff
ficulty. Also that on the 22d instant Judge
Hamlin handed us q bunch of young APP
pies, which he pulled from June apple
| tree in his yard. He says the tree was very
full last spring, and that it is as full now as
it was then.
The engine that drives the Tuscaloosa
! Rope Factory is 65-horse power, with q
75-horse boiler; the factory turns out 5000
pounds of rope per day.
OUR local stock market is active, with
liberal supplies of cattle. Mutton sheep is
plentiful, while hogs are coming in
more freely than usual. Prices remain
firm, and as the season advances
there may be slight rise in this market.
| There are 10000 head of cattle and $4,000
head of sheep in Mitchell county, Texas.
! The grazing territory of this State is
| huge, but the choice spots are beinStaken
up very rapidly both in the South and
Northwest
THE average production of Spanish vine
| yards is set down at 10000 900 gallons, OF
which the province of Catalonia produces
one-ffth-the sub-provinces OF Barcelona
and Tarragona alone yielding more than
1000 900 gallons.
The tenth census of the United States is
now completed, and it turns out that we
have population of 90, 100, 1888
Thirty-five tons of Michigan dressed poul
try were shipped from Hudson in four days
ending November 10, mostly to the Boston
market.
Sixty days ago 100000 bbls. of oil were
held by Pittsburg parties. The amount now
held is about 100000.
The Government snagboat Freight, which
has been doing duty on the Missouri river
since April last, arrived in st. Louis Wed
In New York spots opened quiet, but
were frm during the day and closed a six
teenth higher. The following are revised
quotations: Ordinary, 90; good ordi'
nary, 109; low middling, liz; Mid
ding, II lis; good middling
II 7-16, middlings fair 10 BIG, fair, ID 5-ld
Sales $780,
New Orleans opened firm and closed active
and llrm, miudilngs III l-2, sales lo,JOO.
Galveston closed quiet, middlings ii l-2
receipts 2,79l.
st. Louis closed firm, middlings IL So
Sales 2,6il, shipments 1910, stock on hand
65, 796 bales.
The cotton market in Liverpool is quoted
active and firm, middling 6 1l-l6, Orleans
G 1916, low middlng G GIG, good ordinary
@ ZIG, ordinary 81, which is a sixteenth ad.
vance over last reports. Receipts $3.50 Of
which 5000 were American. Sales 5000
of which Il 600 were American. and 5000
for expectation.
The cotton movement shows the net re-
ceipts at all the ports 10 be l60,64l, against
1853, IA the same day last year, which shows
an excess this year of l9I bales over
last year Exports 20 Great Britain, q ,652
France, 949j; continent, "a ,593; channel
ports, none. Stock on hand.9i6, GA, against
lO3. 900 last year IL would seem from the
reports so far that the shortage on the cot
4 ton crop in this country will not be as large
as many have predicted il would be.
And now comes the New Orleans Demo
cfats WHICH ma bcch ItFaiueu a. Jun
organ, with estimates of the cotton crop o.
1872 It puts il as follows, little above
the least Of all the estimates:
The movement of the crop OF 1881 II
somewhat like those Of 1876 and 1873. In
I 1876 one-half Of the port receipts had ar
rived al the ports ON December :, and in
1879, on December 10. As the facilities fOl
moving the crop in the SOuthwesI have
been greatly increased IN the past two
I vaaru and a. thu weather thus far has IA
vored a rapid movement, il seems reasons
bic 20 conclude that 0ne-half Of the port
receipts Of the crop Of 1881 will arrive
at the ports earlier than In either o
those years. and earlier than in any
previous year, but II only equal 10 1876 tlil
. crop of 1881 viii be about 5.7O0.O00 bales
Port receipts thus far this season are 2,1l0,