The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-23
TRADE ITEMS.

PoTAToEs are again being shipped away
| from Utah.
The exports of butter from New York
last week were 927 packages.
The exports of cheese from New York
last week were a, S37 boxes.
Pulaski, Tennessee, has contracted to
have its streets lighted with gas.
The lossse England by the last three
years ba, harvest is estimated at from
| 500 000, 90 to $50, 000, 900 year.
The sales Of wool in Boston last week
reached ,S07 ,206 pounds.
ice cream is now served in molds to re-
semble asparagus.
A bridge now nearly completed at Acton,
| Pa, 301 feet from the bottom of the ravine
it crosses, is the highest in the world. 1t is
| 2,O5l feet long.
Grasshoppers in midwinter is the latest
novelty in Westchester county, New York.
1t is said that Chicago and New York
parties are looking after ice supplies in
Ontario, and making contracts at what are
called fabulous prices.
Nashville is retailing Irish potatoes at
three for five cents.
Indiana last year raised 6,9S7,0 pounds
of tobacco, valued at S5,95S,96i The culti-
walton is confined to the southern counties.
The coal product of the United States in
1880 is reported by the census office at
Is, GAG, 995 tons Of anthracite and 42,420,5Sl
tons of bituminous a total of 7l,067 $40
tons, against 80, 1868, 600 in 1870.
Not one in one hundred of the pioneers of
Nevada, says the Carson Appeal, has $500
to call his own.
The printed census reports will fill 10000
pages.
The Fargo (Dakota) Republican says
indications are prominent that southern
Minnesota will abound in creameries the
coming season. They are proving paying
Four quarts of strawberries from Florida
arrived in Chicago and found purchasers at
81 per quart.
The Illion. New York, Citizen remarks:
"Some wealthy Boston tanners have pur-
chased the hemlock bark on 2S 900 acres of
timber land in the Adirondack region, and
propose soon to strip the trees.
There is a growing scarcity of fine wools
in the Boston market, and for fine ilceccs
materially higher prices are predicted. The
medium and low grades are in ample sup
ply ana moderate demand with easy prices.
The honey product ofthe United States is
this year estimated at $4,000 900 pounds.
The commissioner Of customs of Canada,
by order of the council, has Just placed salt
cake on the free list when used by manufac-
tn ers of glass and soap.
The government have decided not TO
reopen the st. Lawrence river between
Prescott and Montreal so as 10 admit YES
sells drawing fourteen feet, the capacity Of
the new Welland canal. The Improvements
will. however, be made in 1883.
The mildness of the winter in Sweden
has prevented the transportation Of pro
duce, and there is great distress among the
farmers.
Owing, it is supposed, TO the remarkable
Of the weather, extraordinary
catches Of fish have been made on the coast
of Scotland. At the port Of Stonehayen
alone, in one week no fewer than 10000
haddocks were landed, and in five days 100
tons Of fish were dispatched from lnver-
ness.
The entire production Of iron ore in the
United States in 1850, according 20 the cen
sus, was 8 1910 600 tons.
Compressed paper pulp is successfully
used in the manufacture OF doors, wall pan
elings. and for other similar purposes, with
the result that all risk Of warping and
cracking is obviated, while increased light
ness IL attained and the fear Of dry-rOt is
forever banished.
The domestic receipts and exports and
foreign imports Of hops at New York CON-
pare as follows:
T ssi ~e ist i issi last y 'i1s
Domestic I Is isl 81. f is9 49, e.
I'm pts from. Eurupe - -. Isl LIZ
Ter declaring that flour need not be puf up
n sealed envelopes before being inclOsed in
-ittal boxes for mailing. IL i no longer CD
be included in the list Of articles which, II
DOT properly secured. might damage other
'0ntents Of the mail.
The receipts and exports of butter at View /
York since Nav 1.-the beginning Ofthe trade .
rear) compare as foll Ows