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

Of seed from 10 cents 10 i2l cents In TN
sense competition Is virtually at an end
and prices will be governed solely by de
mand aud supply. II Is better Tor the com
panics, aud, as new institutions, we WIS.,
them well.
Forty.iour years ago the telegraph wa
exhibited In New York for the first time
Now upwards of $780, 900 miles of wire arr
operated In the United States, and thu
Western Union Telegraph Company alone
sends over 80 1000, 600 messages annually.
American manufacturers announce III
advance of twenty cents AIN ounce In qui
nine and fifteen cents an ounce IN cincho
india. The poor souls want protection.
The butter receipts in Chicago ior is so
pounds, against 65, 253, S62 receipts and 90,
les, POT pounds of shipments last year.
The organizers of the Florida Land Com
pany to drain the Everglades have sold two
million acres of their four million purchase
to an English company.
1t is evident from careful examination
of the subject, that the copper interest II
this country is as yet comparatively IN lts
infancy, and has by no means reached the
limit OF its means or capacity In addition
to the recognized great mines of Michigan
important discoveries are being made in
widely separated fields from Maine to New
Mexico, which will, sooner or later, be
called upon to contribute to the demands
of the future.
DALLAS. December 23.-The completion
of the Chicago, Texas Il Mexican Central
road to Alvarado to-day opens up, another
this road connects with the Missouri Pacific.
which is now completed to Waco, and all
that section of country lying south, as far
as we have named, can be made tributary
to this city, if our merchants and business
men so will it. We understand the road
from here will not be open fer passenger
business until it is completed to Cleburne,
which will be in few, very few, days from
this time, but they will carry freights for
dealers as an accommodation on their con-
struction trains. 1t is to be hoped our
merchants will not delay sending cut their
representatives, for the first blow is ever
half of the hattie, and if the tide Of trade
is once turned in this direction
it will forever after come here. In this con-
nection, it might be pertinent to say that
gentlemen just in from 81 Paso, and who
stepped off at every town along the line OF
the Texas & Pacific road, states that in
travelling statesmen, from So. Louis, Gal
weston. and even New Orleans and Chicago,
but only occasionally did he find one from
Dallas. He says in the face Of this fact,
by far the larger portion of the trade comes
to this CITY, and he expressed the opinion
that with the desire the people out West
manifest to transact all the business here
as far as is in their power to do SO, that our
wholesale merchants are behind in their
benefits eagerly proffered them.
There has bean an activity to-day in re-
tail circles never before witnessed in Dallas
and dealers in fancy goods suitable for hsll-
day gifts have been engaged from early
m srnfng until long after. nightfall. There
has also been corresponding activity in
the Wholesale trade, and shipments to tho
country haye been larger than usual. plln-
cipally upon orders by mail. In few
wsrds-business has been buoyant in all
lines, and never before at this season Of the
year has there besn as many costly fancy
goods purchased or Q heavier trade in
wholesale way than has pesn experienced
to-day in this city.
The question of the sugar supply IN this
country is one attracting much capital and
chemical experiment, and there are we'll
founded reports that sufficient test has been
made of the production of different kinds
of sugar to warrant the building OF enor-
nous refineries and manufactures in differ
ent parts of the country either to make sugar
direct or to mix the syrups with cane sugar.
New York is investing $4,000, 600 in an
enormous factory, Philadelphia is, also
erecting similar one, while there are two
similar ones in process of erection at Chi
cago. 49,.
sportsmen in Massachusetts, to increase the
feathered game in the western part OF the
State. Large quantities of wild rice have
been planted; wild celery has been placed
in the rivers and ponds for ducks to feed
upon, and 500 young quail have been let
loose on fields previously prepared Tor
them.
1t is said by parties engaged in. the trade
that the glut of dressed meat, poultry, game
etc, in the New Y ork market is unprecedent-
eddy heavy even for this period OF the sea-
son, when it is always expected the market
will be full of such articles. Cheap beef and
mutton, offal from the western packing
houses, all kinds of new game from the
great stretches of new country that have
Just been tapped by the newly-constructed
railroads, with great abundance OF small
game, all combined, seem to have given
New York an overdose this time.
Sausages are usually regarded as mys-
tery, and from certain inquiries made by
the Poplar Board Of Works it would appear
that body shows that the compound digni-
fed by the name of German" sausages
consists largely Of horse flesh As in Lon
don horses are not commonly slaughtered
until weakened by age or disease, IL is
stated that the flesh, though perhaps sound
as repards freshness, Us not III for human
food. r
Twenty thousand pounds Of beef have
been shipped from San Antonio IN rsfrige-
rator cars Of the American Refrigerator
Company for New York, thence 10 Paris,
France. IL is the first shipment Of the
Experiments in Mississippi are held to
prove that cotton-se4d oil. for frying purpo-
ses, is superior to lard, there being no ran
idness, burning. or blackeping. 80
Affer career" of more than fifty years,
the New York stages are rapidly disappear
ing before surface and elevated railway cars.
The frst stage seen in the city was that
which began on June o. 1880, to make hourly
trips between Wall and Blocker streets.
. An anvil weighing 5000 pounds has Just
been set up in the Erie forge works.
The silk mill in Allentown at present
turss out about 1000 pounds Of yarn per
week.
A small lot Of live western quail was
shipped from Boston Saturday 70 Liverpool
for acclimatizafion in Yorkshire. England.
The 40 600 salmon presented 10 the Aus
tralian geological Society by the United
States Fish Commission arrived at Sidney
in good condition, and were placed 10 bstch-
ing boxes at Boweniels.
A boat destined 10 be propelled solely by
electricity has just been completed IN
France. The owner, n. Teller, intends TO
launch Il at Boulogne. and 10 cross IN Il TO
Folkestone, in company With a friend. The
boat IS about Is feet long by about A feet
wide.
There sailed from Palermo and Aessina
on the 10th. a steamer laden with The larg-
esf shipment OF frat ever sent 10 New Or
leans. In one consignment there were
1900 boxes Of lemons and oranges.
Assistant POstlnesfer-'sensral Hafton
finds thai there are 80 post-0ficcs vacant
aud he SAYS that there are from five 10 zen
Applicants for each 0fice. alid ihcy are Al
III Wellington. -.
the liyt SPRINGS scar Toe.
Three th0fsspl i4r4sls ~ peirftic-iil are
received in IiiuaLite ar niouin froni
Cleveland.
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