The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-10

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All branches ~ trade, large and small that
flty her cont, would not cover tile increase,
I'm conversation with several OF The older
merchants here without nm exception ihey
stated that their business had increased
ills wear above that Oi any previous ono,
and some OF them put their trade down
ma fifty per cent greater than last year.
Now, when we consider that our wholesale
business Is double what II was last season,
the increase In the retail trade and the
number of new houses started, an idoa can
be formed of the rapid progress Dallas Is
making in commercial sense. Then
the new and elegant business
houses which have. been, completed
and are under construction, and oil OF which
are occupied or engaged when hnished
will afford another proof Of her advance
ment. All our city now wants Is energy
and enterprise on the part OF her business
men to advance her to the front rank OF
the great commercial cities of the south.
business to-day has been fair in all depart
ments, in both wholesale and retail way.
Prices have not undergone. any great
change. Meats have again declined,
as have some grades of SUI:
gar. Flour continues weak, and
sales are moderate. Country produce
is scarce and in demand. Esculents are
plentif ] and of a good quality. Apples are
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not unusually high in the eastern markets,
and they are now being shipped from west
ern New York to California.
The department of agriculture in its
October report gave the condition of the
potato crop October LIST as GO, against 10
September list. The crop in 1880 was 1851
385,9OO bushels in the whole country, pro-
ing a slight increase in the acreage
this year a full average crop would be
about 1S9,000000 bushels, 66 per cent. of
which would be nearly .125, 000, 600 bushels,
43, 100000 bushels less than last year, and
64,0O0,0OO bushels LESS than an average
crop. There is said to be plentiful supply
of potatoes in Dakota at 40 cents per bushel.
Potatoes raised in central New York are
now shipped to no less than nine different
states.
The cranberry crop on the line of the Chi
cago Milwaukee & St. Paul railway in Wis
cousin is now ripe and being rapidly gath
cred. The crop is a good average one,
though not as large as it has been some
seasons. The estimated crop OF Wood,
Juneau and Monroe counties is $1,000 bar
rels-about the same as last season.. Owing
to the scarcity of other fruit throughout the
entire country cranberry growers are antici-
pating good prices, and holding the pro-
duct of their marshes at $7@$7.5O per
barrel.
The report of the Danylle (Virginia) To-
bacco Association for October shows that
7O2, 1S1 pounds of tobacco were sold Tor
$119, 1880, being an average $17.Ol per lou
pounds.
The United States and Canada have
shipped So, 975 barrels of apples to England
this fall. The total receipts of apples at
Liverpool from September to October Il
were A,5O9 barrels, against 114,319 barrels
for the corresponding time last year.
| Nr,cifr ont Mt
cabbage from Germany. There is general
failure of the cabbage crop in the eastern
states.
The North Carolina industrial fair, oon-
Quoted by..colored people, is in progress In
Raleigh, and was opened by speeches by
state officials. The attendance is large.
| A splendid and extraordinarily. abundant
sugar crop is predicted everywhere. &C. &C
counts from Cienfuegos give assurance that
the crop will exceed more than 80 per cent.
the crop of years of good product, and that
| it will exceed more than so per cent. last
years crop.
The National Manufacturing company
has been organized at Nashville, for the
purpose of manufacturing cotton goods
The capital stock is 100000.
Potatoes from the north of Ireland are Of
fered in the New York market. They are
the champion and Skerries varieties. Judg-
| ing from appearances, this grade of potatoes
| is much inferior in size and quality. to our
native product. 1t is understood that the
yield i'm that section OF Ireland
is abundant, and that the, present
view to placing whatever surplus there
may be on the American market. A New
York firm is also handling potatoes grown
in the vicinity of Liverpool, England, which
are said to compare favorably with those
produced here. These potatoes sell from s.
to $3.50 per barrel Of 1S9 lbs. The best
guilty Of native-grown sell at So barrel
| wholesale, so that it will be seen that Tor,
eign potatoes can be sold in New York at
fair margin of profit. AS general thing,
potatoes, granting that the soil be good and
| the season favorable, are about as profitable
a crop as can be raised.
Cheese. it seems, is plentiful in the north,
and prices should rule lower than at pres
ent. Some of the markets are said.t be
overloaded with it, and New York e has has
about 100000 boxes, and Liverpool l50,OOU
to 200 900 boxes
Cincinnati, Covington and Newport show
a total production of ale and beer for the
wear of 736, 3il barrels, the largest on record.
The receipts from tobacco last year aggre-
gated $3S, so, 40; from spirits and ferment-
ed liquors, S74,075,S 12; yet not dollar was
paid by persons not given to the use OF In
| toxicants or tobacco.
The Railway Gazette shows for last
month total of IN accidents, in which
| ffty-six persons were killed and ~
wounded. OF these accidents twenty-nine
caused the death of one or more persons
and twenty-seven caused injury but not
death, leaving eighty-eight, or 81 ] per
| cent. of the whole number, in which no
serious injury to persons is recorded.
1t costs the people of Tennessee 81 ,0oo, ooO
annually TO sneeze and use snuff. ms Is
a Nashville merchants estimate of the an
nual consumption of the article.
| Our silk imports last year amounted 10
| S33 300 900. Our own silk manufactures
aggregated about $3i, 100000. The item OF
ribbon amounted to over 100000
The territory Of Arizona has fifty-five
stamp-mills, aggregating 0so stamps.
According TO the annual report of Gen.
Bewet, chief of ordnance for the United
States army, il cost the government last
wear the enormous sum of $163, 750, 379 for
munitions Of war II would be better to
do away with some Of the useless military
style and ornamentation, and use the
money thus spent in retiring the bonded
debt OF the country.
habitants, has a daily consumption of 30,
900, 600, or about 100 gallons per head per
diem.
The New Orleans Times affirms that
probably one-half of the northern refined
sugars sold in the market are more or less
composed OF or adulterated with glucose,
and that the cheap grades Of fine grained
white sugars are scarcely any Thing less than
COTTON.
The receipts ofcotton to-day were about
| five hundred bales. Should the market
remain favorable, and the roads continue TO
improve, planters viii no doubt bring
forward a large amount Of the staple this
week. The Withholding Of the cotton from
market is having depressing effect upon
trade generally, and our merchants are the
great sufferers BY IL. The prices Of cotton
have not varied much for some time past,
and II Is doubtful II there viii be an i'm
provement for weeks 20 come. Still there
| Il an uncertainty about the crop Of the world
and shonld Il fall short Of the estimates