The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-25
TRADE ITEMS.

The sales OF wool in Boston last week
amounted to 2,300,Oj4 pounds.
the MerrimaC has been stocked with sal
mon, but has lost nearly all its shad.
such IS the stagnation in ocean freights
at New York that not charter was made
last week.
There is 4 movement afoot to start an
other sugar factory in Leavenworth
The exports OF butter from New York
last week included l,090 packages for Great
Britain, and 53j packages for the Cont
nent.
Large quantities of Irish potatoes are be.
ing exported to America.
The exports of cheese from New York last
week We're 90 ,505 packages.
two-inch carp put in a pond near At
lanta, two years ago, was caught few DAYS
since, and weighed seven pounds
Among the arrivals at New York recently
were twenty-eight parts of cargoes of pota.
toes ifum foreign countries. One firm adj
vertses 100 bags from Germany, and 300
tons from Scotland.
The entries of United States lands at
Grand Forks and Crookston, in the Red
River land districts, aggregated in 1881
about l,750,0O0 acres.
Boston parties have bought the hemlock
timber and bark on about 5000 acres of
wild lands in the Adirondack region for
$4,000 cash.
The present winter is very favorable to
orchards and small fruits, and 1t is pre-.
dicted that the harvest of apples, peaches.
etc. VIII be very large the coming season.
IL Is lhe lrult raiser OF California, and not
the Gamer, who makes the large profits.
The United states in 1881 consumed three
times us much canned salmon as they did
in 1850.
An enterprising Pennsylvania proposes
to lay thirty miles of eight-inch pipe from
some natural gas wells in Butler county TO
Pittsburgh and Allegheny.
a Pennsylvania firm is manufacturing
paper ut Savannah from what is called the
saw. palmetto material heretofore re-
garded rs nearly useless. The paper is said
TO be of superior quality, and especially
useful rs transfer paper, which has hereto
fore been imported.
An English mechanic has invented a
horse shoe composed of three thicknesses of
cowhide,. compressed into steel mould and
subjected to II chemical preparation. Ii
will last longer than the common shoe,
weighs only one-tourh rs much, does not
spit The hoois, requires no caulks, and is
very elastic,
Texas is going to be the great wool State
OF the Union and ten years from now will,
ut the present increase, produce us much as
Is produced IN the entire United States to.
day.
1t il. estimated that 1000 persons nightly
attend the various theatres and places of
amusement in SAN Francisco. fthis mum.
Der I'D per cent. are Tree tickets, ~ or say
200 each night or about 10000 for the
MONTH
\ bill Is pending in the Kentucky Lpgisla-
ture which makes 1t felony for any merchant
or other person to make false statements to
amy other merchant or manufacturer in or.
der TO obtain credit, goods, wares or mer.
chnndisc on credit.
1t is said u number of capitalists have
purchased the steamship Naderland, with
the idea of making an experiment in the
transportation of petroleum in bulk.
The rivers in East Texas are reported 10
be. very high, especially the Neches. which
IS higher than for years past, The mills at
beaumont are now receiving cypress logs
from swamps not inundated before for sey.
cral years.
The New York Commercial Bulletin saws.
large sale ofprime oleomargnrine stcarinc
was made yesterday, the parties to the trade
positively forbidding the brokers to diyulgc
the particulars, but the quantity leaked
out last evening, and the price to-day, viz /.
times up to next July.
| The committee unanimously condemn
William Il. Eobinson's proposition 10 re.
duce the pos'age of single letters to cent,
taking the ground that 1t Is impracticabo
and unreasonable. There Is feeling in the
committee IN favor OF accent rate of post
age, and 1t may he that by the next Congress
such measure will be adopted.
The Mississippi press, alarmed ut the
recent heavy sales of land to spectators IN
that State, Is. urging that the State lands
should be withdrawn from the market until
they are explored, classified and appraised
ana then they should be sold in such way
as TO swell the school revenues of the State.
The modern refrigerator has been put to
sible to procure freshly killed game IN tho
New York market. Supplies arriving arr
promptly frozen and held till the market Is
favorable. Then the oldest on hand are