The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-26

look for business men, but all presages
increased transactions and prosperity in
trade and commercial pursuits.
Business to-day has not fallen below
the usual activity which always character
ICES Dallas at this season of the year. Our
wholesale dealers are shipping increased
amounts of goods owing To the delay oc-
casioned by yesterday bsing holiday,
while the retailers have all been unusually
busy.
The MERCANTILE agencies report fewer fail-
ures in the United States during the last
quarter than for any similar period in the
past seven years, which may fairly be CON
strued to show u really prosperous condi-
ton OF the trade and commerce of the coun-
try.
The largest transactions in Sisal hemp
that have ever taken place at New York
were made last Friday, the total sales
amounting to 10000 bales which were sold
mt higher prices.
The orange crop ofFlorida this years. now
estimated at S5,0O0,0O0, all of which but
about 100000 will be shipped out of the
State.
Dehanshaw Ward, who is largely inter
osted in the Onderdonk contract on the
Canadian Pacific Railway, says he is going
TO China to procure 900 or more Cinnamon
to work on the railroad.
The amount of wool purchased at Abilene
in the past year was $1,000 pounds.
Most ofthe young cattle in Dewitt county
have been engaged for the spring drive at
$40 for yoarlings and $3.50 for two-year-
olds.
There are 100000 men employed in the
railroad business in this country. Is It any
wonder the girl of the period haunts the
railway stationsl
1t is estimated that 81 OOO,OD worth of
logs and lumber will be tlouted down the
Cumberland river to Nashville, Tenn. this
winter.
Boston advlces state that a great ri,1v
OF glue prevails, owing to the weP nct
having been adapted to its mapentic tnre
and prices, are nearly topper COZ IT. Sirber
than in 1879 Az i'is''''
Englands bIind.Postmastcr cororol who
wins golden opinions ever from Tories has has
i has scored another,yyf iHseess. You can now
W Y, iIs telegram. ordinary note paper,
# ond u, ~" " !sSy,age stamp sufficient to pay
viii he.5 - 1t in street poSt-box, and It
ps = sent as soon as the box is Gmptied.
/, siGwtucket, Rhode Island, makes about
100000 pounds of yarn per month. 1t
has to be wound up to keep it inside Of the
State.
A Pullman Palace Car Company is about
to establish branch company in England,
to run palace sleeping cars between London
and Liverpool.
An agent for the St. Paul & Manitoba
railroad has this season planted 100000
trees along forty-seysn miles Of that road,
and $4,000 trees on land claims of st. Paul
parties.
Our local wool market is active and prices
are steady. The receipts are better than
they were short time ago, and it seems
that there are yet in the country goodly
supplies to be disposed of, Walter Brown
Il Co. circular of November 18th says wool
sold in Boston atto-day's quotations cannot
be replaced from the country except ut II
loss They quote Texas choice Northern
clips at 2dDc. average ditto at 25ig2lc.;
choice Western clips at 25lG2Ic. average
ditto at 23GD25c. sales, IA ,l0Olbs. The sales
for the week as reportedarc: Domestic fleece
etc, 2,233, 800 lbs. pulled, 30S, 800 lbs for
cign wool, 263, 800 lbs Total sales, ,, 500
lbs.
The sheep and wool interests in Texas
since 1855, has increased 1900 per cent,
Tho hide trade of the city is large, and
prices for heavy hides are very firm, The
improvement in the grade of cattle and the
growing scarcity of the long-horned Texas
steers is said to be source of anxiety to
tanners, because of the relative reduction in
the supply of heavy hides which this Texas
stock formerly afforded. The finer grades
of cattle, which are the most esteemed for
meat, do not furnish the heavy hides.
COTTON.
The receipts of cotton continue large, and
to day, by wagon and rail- they reached
about FIVE bundled bales. Prices are iirmer
| than they have been and we again advance
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