The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29

fnonII1 anil nr1 pushing tIrrwcfk N OIL al.
F < wv Y. tapjaity. We ~ pa tggy
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se1woih Ihe 5oe4 VIII divert new trede
e. w 1se s't nc . t', 4 and
tefsnt H|3 dandy make Ne completion cf
the Ne5roW-C Gauge desirable ut an early
day. 0urmerchauts cnnnottoo soon send
their representative 4 out into North 1
Gust Texas, invite the merchants there TO
visit US, and court theeoming of the com
mercial interests that are soon to follow.
/. Tnr Abilene Reporter SAYS last Friday
WAS busy day with the government trans-
portation contractors. Mr.. William y. Ell.
liz received from the railroad and shipped
per freight wagons to. Forts Concho and Nc
Kayett over 50, 900 pounds OF merchandise, \
and more than 30, 900 pounds ON Saturday.
And itshould be said further, that all these
Ifreights came from Dallas. Siss
!. Foreign beer and Interpretations int the
ever z, 900 600 gallons, but in the centennial
year they declined to 400 .l5O, and have
since averaged only 100000 gallons annu-
ally. At the same time the exports of
American beer in bottles increased from
n ! 4S dozen In the centennial year, when the
trade may be said to- have commenced, TO-
81 ,S76 In 1877, to 7e, 475 in 1878. and TO LIS
1888 dozen in 1879. American' ldger has
found its way into every civilized country,
and is universally preferred X Tho heavy
English beers withwhich 4 Int COM
petition .a ~ 4.i Il
A1775 there were but three postoffices
blished in Maine, enc Of which was at
K6nhebunk, kept by Nathaniel Kim BILE,
| another In Portland, by Samuel Fireman.
and the third IN Georgetown. of which John
Wood. was postmaster. At the present
Maine & 9l0, and the whole number in the
United States is A, 797. S4-s q
The assessment rolls OF 1881, footed up in
the Comptroller's 0 office, show that the aggre-
gate valuation Of the property in the State
has Increased about 10000, 600 since the
ofths State win be about sSSs. ooS, GO.
The Banner says it may fairly be estlma-i
ted that about $60.000 will be paid out in
Brenham for cotton seed this season, where
as had the Oil Mills not been erected there,
$40, 900 would have been moro than all the
L. uts
Low prices would not have justified farmers.
in hauling it more than six or seven miles,
at the farthest; this season it has been
hauled eighteen or twenty miles, and We
will have, about $50, 900 more clean, bright,
new buzzsrd dollars in circulation than
We otherwise would
Virginia in the last year produced in her
twenty-ore IRON ere establishments 1Sz,S26
tons, worth $4S9, 1924, giving emplo ymsnt e
~ . WY gal -
-. =. 49,
fhe number OF vessels at the present
time PLYING between the United states and
Europe is 5,a0i Of which 1855 are sailing
vessels, and 900 steamships: The sailing
vessels are distributed among the various
nations as follows; ], 276 arc British, ! ,02S
Norwegian and Swedish, SS4 American,
ava German, .l65 Austrian, 80 Spanish, "a
Russian, 598 Italian, 81 French, ~ Dutch,
30 Danish. 20 Portuguese, and Belgian,
Ofthe steamers, ~ are British, SSdscrmans
French, Dutch 5 Italian, and s Danish.
The State Of Iowa gives. annually 500 to
eachand every Agricult trRl society in good
and regular standing This rear 68, 900
will be so distributed: This shows the ex-
istence of ninety societies. or one for every
county in the state except zine.
citizsns are now SEEING SNAKES with heart
shaped heads. and fiftv feet long.
& -
!. An sl5c ~, phnoiiosrspl!c psIcsss nas ueen
inyenteu py Wnic.. pSriecs p1tVntosrapn can
Det aken III tne lAse-Vnoussi'uIn par ~
se eTsa d. 9 oshh;o .or,, eo,,,,,,
it's new capital at cost Of 81 800 200;
, me wires OF tne mock isiahu Eiecl.ic
Light Company are ABOUT illn position.
III. tne o.ate Auuitor y. IetuIns SLOW Ho'-