The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-01
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A Selma, Alabama, cotton factory has de-
clurcd II dividend, semi annual, Of per cent.
A goose d years old Is on exhibition at the
Austin fair.
The Nebraska City canning factory has put up
l,OOtVO cans this season.,
OF late the receipts of coal at Minneapolis
have averaged more than 100 car loads per day.
II is said that hop buyers are making contracts
for next years crops of this product In Wisconsin
NJ 81 cents per pound,
Last year Great Britain made nearly 300, 900
tons of puddle iron and imported 30 900 tons bo-
sides,
Tho price OF beef has gone down 81 per cent
In New York since dressed meats have been
sent TO that market IN refrigerator CWS from
Chicago.
Jefferson Is the banner cotton producing
county in Arkansas, II leads the van with 81,
GOO bales, aud Phillips county comes neNtwith
~ 0OJ bales
II is said that Australia has moro mcat.pro.
duCing animals In proportion 10 its population
than any olscr country on the globe.
some Baltimore capitalists have established Il
tea plantation In Florida, where 10000 plants arr
being set out
one California orchard ships about twenty
tons Of peach stones every year,
II tx said that there are $40 naphtha wells on
| the ApShcrou peninsula ot the Caspian Sea, aud
| TINT they yield annually p,t0N,uCO Cwt
| The san Jose vineyard, IN Santa Barbara
county, is tho oldest one In the state 1t wa,
first cultivated In 1888 aud produces SOO gallons
| Of wine II year
1t is estimated that over one million orange
| trees viii come into bearing IN Orange county
, Florida this year
| The Union Springs oil mill consumes twenty
| lvc tons ofcotton seed per day, producing there
from 1hl gallons OF oil, or eirly gallons yer ton
| IL Is estimated that Virginia will this ycal
| make 2,Oo0OOl bushels Ot peanuts, Tennessee
$1,000 bushels and North Carolina l2S OO(
bushels.
A company organized ut Atlanta VIII impor
aud slaughter cattle, run stock yards, and max,
| olcomnrgarinc and hntterinc, Tho COMPANY
| has cash capital of sSOO,0ll
| SAN Francisco Is To have one Of It's street rail
ways operated by electricity, They claim thai
IL is economical 10 the amount OF 5000 u month
| as compared TO horse. flesh
The Davenport Gazette says there are now COO
| telephones connected with the Davenport cen,
| tral onCe, exclusive of the forty tlyc or nny
| surrounding towns, each OF which has its own
exchange,
The fruit crop In western Ontario. and gcncr
ally throughout the province, has been com.
| plcto failure this year. APPLES are especially
scarce the few that promised 10 fipcn hayin,,
been blown down by the heavy wind-storm OF
some three weeks since.
| II was In the iron and cotton aud ,ransporta
on interests that the labor troubles of last sum
mcr, which were thought to be tho most uncom.
| Portable feature OF the commercial outlook, wyr,
chiefly conspicuous Nearly all those nouhlcs
arc now over.
There are nj present no fewer than ten eslab.
lishments In france devoted 10 the propagation
of bait for the use OF anglers, and one of these
| breeders sells from 30OOp,00o 10 iO,OOl(ON oi
worms per anuum, deriving handsome income
| from tho business.
We clip the following from the Utica Now
York; Herald ola late date; ut Is said that dur.
| ing the past three weeks about 1900 boxes OF
cheese have been put into cold storage In New
York. that @ooc9 are banked up in Liverpool,
aud almost ~ much moro In London
1 A tfpp called the travellers tf,p nf Ma1avas