The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-09

bage which is this year sought after at %
and 30 cents head, was a drug in the mar
ket in the fall of 1850.
There are manufactured in this city S9G,-
6G6,0O0 cigars and 229, 500 600 cigarettes in
year. The internal revenue tax is SO per
thousand on cigars and $l.I5 on cigarettes.
At least 5000 people are employed in their
manufacture. One firm owns five double
tenem mt houses, in which are % cigar-mak-
ing fimilies. One factory employs LIS
persons, OF whom third are Americans
ani the rest principally Germans, with Il
sprinkling of Spaniards and BohemianS
The weekly pay roll is between $l7 600 and
$4,000, The Sanitary Inspector atlrms
that those who work in tobacco at home
labor under as healthful conditions rcncr-
ally as those in factories.
The orange and lemon crop Of Sicily has
been failure, owing to the long-continued
hot winds from Africa; no rain has fallen
SINCE last April
The Goliad Guard says Nr. b. l.. Turner,
of Sarco, brought there last Wednesday u
wagon load of sugar cane, which he sold at
ten cents for three stalks
Judge Fleming has contracted to sup
ply the Texas e Pacific Railroad with one
hundred tons Of Eastland county coal at
50 per ton.
The tobacco sales of 1880 to date amount
to A ,O65 hogsheads, agains ~, 7i4 hogshcads
of the 1879 crop sold in the corresponding
date last year.
The sixty-flve manufacturing firms of
Dubuque are rated in Dunn'S commercial
report at over 100000.
There is an effort of New York coffee
brokers and jobbers to orran,ze coIlceex-
change in that city, and the design is to in
troduce the system of call sales of futures
as in the instance of grain and cotton, and
establish uniform rates Of brokerage This
move for an exchange and call OF futures is
said to have been prompted by the very de-
moralized condition ofthe jobbing trade r
years past from the competition at interior
points, the system ofauction sales and di-
rect shipments by Brazilian merchants.
An Iowa man the other day shipped 800
dozen eggs To Denver. They cost him
Sl,SOO,and he expects to sell them for $1,000,
The meeting of the Boot and Shoe Mann
facturers' Association of the United States,
held in New York last week. gave Il very
decided expression on the question of adj
Yancing prices of boots and shoes for the
coming season. All admitted the necessity
and ACCESSIBILITY of such an advance, but
lhey RETAINED from adopting any resolu-
ton pledging the individual members to
adhere to specific figure in making such
'.'NN'', hS ~ was cApitsStu III Jnc us
cusslon, the prices must always be deter
mined by the individual manufacturer and
no cast iron rule could be followed.
There are 800 boats running on The
Schuylkill canal.
Colman's Rural World, published at st.
Louis, says; 1--WE have chronicled the i'm
portation of cabbage and potatoes from
Europe already this season, and supposed
that would close the list of vegetable i'm.
portations; but yesterday, on visiting our
vegetable grocer, we were shown onions
from Spain, and they were for sale like
other vegetables. They are considerably
larger than our American onions, and are
oval in shape, like lemon, only two or
three times the size. The onion flavor is not
so strong in them, and they are preferable
on that account, and especially if eaten
raw"