The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-22

calculation that to supply themselves with !
the ivory needed for their business they |
needed $50 elephants every year, and that |
even with this number, the tusks were each |
estimated to weigh twenty-three and three
fourth pounds.
Secretary Hotchkiss, Of the Lumberman's /,
Exchange, reports stock on hand, Novem- !
Der /, as follows: Lumber, 500, 525, iS3 feet !
shingles, sA9 $50 400; SASH "A, 1856 792; pickets
2,S09, go; posts, III ,297.
At the session of the National Labor Con-
gress in Pittsburg, resolutions were passed
protesting against convict labor, the
truck" system, and in favor of reduction
of working hours.
The National Board of Health has ex-
pended since its organization April |, 1879,
to June 30, 1881, q total of $40, S9S.
The average yield Of spirits for the past
months reported by the Internal Revenue
officials to have been 3.6j gallons to the
bushel.
The total school fund of Kansas is
Sll ,Sl5,5l9,20.
COTTON.
The weather has been so unproptious
that planters have not attempted to bring
their cotton to market and consequently
the receipts were light Prices here are
steady, although in New Orleans they
have declined a sixteenth. In other markets
there are no changes in quotations. We
quote the Dallas market as follows:
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Mido.ing fair. IL
In New York spots opened dull and quiet
and closed steady at one-siXteenth of de-
I Go1a
New Orleans opened and closed quiet,
without change; middlings H. Sales $500.
Galveston closed steady; middl,ngs lls.
sales ,5Gl, receipts 4,l75.
There were no reports from st. Louis, but
1t is fair to presume that no change has
taken place prices
In Liverpool the cotton market was firm
for spots, without change in values. Mid
dlings, 6l; Orleans, 81, Sales, 1900, of
which 1920 were American. Receipts, 49,
100 bales.
The cotton movement of this country
shows the net receipts to be o.
POI against GS,95f the same time last
year, an excess of 22,3i0 bales; the exports
to Great Britain were 1851: France S,S2l;
continent 1850; channel ports none. The
stock on hand at all the ports was S6S, 0S1,
against S73 $50 the same time last year
The receipts at all the ports so far show
that the diminution of the crop is not as
great the popular estimates would indicate.
The Manchester Guardian of November
IL says the market is quiet, and there is no
sign of increased business. There was fair
inquiry in some departments at prices cur
rent ten DAYS ago, but producers IN these
cases are very extensively and firmly hold
ing for a slight advance.
The Chinese nation is the most extensive
consumer of cotton in the world, and ninety
per cent. of the cotton goods worn there
are handmade, which, even at the excess
sively low rate Of wages paid in that coun-
try, is more expensive than the production
of cotton goods in this country, when the
staple is moderate in price. The question
of the effect of cotton manufactures in the
South upon the industry in New England
has been dropped from the discussion, as
| there is room enough for the product of all
the mills likely to built for century.
The Terrell Star says the unprecedented
mildness of the present season, which has
only been partially offset by the heavy
rains of the past few weeks, has caused a
considerable portion of the top crop to open
and more cotton has consequently been
made than agriculturists EXPECTED n few
weeks ago
The st. Louis Republican SAYS the cotton
crop of the year continues to be subject
of great interest to those who are engaged
in the trade, and opinions naturally are in
strong opposition, and will be for time
yet but with the short.crop advocates
most demonstrative. Yesterday the follow
ing bet was chalked on one Of the cotton