The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-12-14
GEO L HEATING.

wear old patent. In the United States II costs
| but s35 for sevpntcen-year patent ..
| A party of English capitalists have bought 4UC
acres of land in Forsyth county, Georgia COIL
tanning gold mine, for 81, OOhOp' s'erhhg,
| The driving Of piles for tho government danl
on the Chippewa river. Wisconsin, In process OF
constructioli'at Deak lake, is completed, There
were go piles driven.
An Onto paper says, aud probably correctly;
The south win make 100000 gallons of cotton
| seed oil this year and You win buy some of II
nicely put up and labelled finest Italian owe
| oil warranted PURE
| The net receipts Of the State Agriculture
society of Wisconsin Tor the year ending Decein'
Der 8, 1882, aggregated sll,3i2,yl, and the ais
bursements lob la loss OF SlO0 II; but as
| there was balance year ago OF s31G2l, the
| society has still SIG In the treasury +.
Experiments have recently been maze ~
| Sweden of crushing blast furnace slak into
sand, 10 be utilized for road and railway making
etc aud u machine has Just been constructed
! by the Ringshytlen iron-works which IL stated
| 10 be- very effective in the preparation OF The
material. " tas---.,. - -S-
manufacture Of iron in tho firmi gham, Ala
| bama, district.
| No other country in the world offers such IA,
cilities for tipping rs the populOus ard polished
| Kingdom of Belgium whose 5000 600 inhabitants
annually consume about co 600 900 quarts Of al
coholic liquors. There Is an average OF one
public house for every twelve adult male Bel.
| gans, and in some parts Of The country the sup
| ply is nearly twice as great
| The SueZ canal Is s. miles long, go feet wide
at the top, and ~ at the bottom, with depth OF
| ~ feet. Its cost was tji0J0,U0O, The toll
| charges are 10 francs, or about " per ton iuG
merchandise, and per Cnpita charge OF 10 fancs
Is exacted from passengers he total receipts
for 1881 were 81, U00, COO francs, or tl0 2OOC0O,
The iron outlook at youngstown, Ohio is any
| thug but favorable. Some OF the mills are now
running single turn, on account OF the scarcity
| OF orders, aud the lew orders coming IN are of.
iored at surh ruinouSly low rates thHt the mill
| owners declare 1t would be inOr5 profitable tC
shat down than TO accept them. hope is eX.
pressed that there will be an improvement sfteI
| the LIST Of January.
The completion Of the great bridge couneCtiul
! Brooklyn with New York will, doubtless, alice
| seriously the revenues of the Union Ferry oVm
| pauy now connecting those cites. The assets
| of the Union Ferry company are S2,0l1S26, i'll
liabilities 81, li27ll and It's surplus 5000
| During the fiscal year ending June !, 1852, the
| United states Imported i,S7S,0!9 gallons of wine
bottles OF wine, valued at yi39s5S6 The entire
| value OF these imported wines was 81 5j925S
| During that period We exported VINE to the
amount OF %, no gallons, valued at t67 40.
| Kentucky grows over onc-third 90 per cent
OF the entire tobacco crop of the country, aud
| fifteen states supply 90 pounds out of every l6(
! pounds gown; twenty-five other states aud ter
| rltoIles report smnll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS only
| per ctul, Inc VIC u Vutlt all lnb way from al
pounds per acre in North Carolina to l,62I
| pounds per acre In Connecticut in which sIatC
| fertilizers are largely used,
| Albert llnlenden, of ChOllas valley two miles
enSt of town, placed ON our table yesterday a
box of most superb strawberries, They are
| white, very large and of most delicious flavor.
| Three or four OF them will quite fill All ordinary
| irnlt saucer aud one Of them makes, literally, Il
moulh'hlling mors1l. - SAN Diego Union, De-
Ccmber3.
The imports of foreign merchandise at New
| loIl; for the past week were Of some what lin
iled proportions, the total being but sSS6A0I2, OF
! which sIli6 1856 represented general mochan-
disc and the remainder dry goods. The re-
ceipts OF general merchandise are about equal
IN the usual average, but the imports of dry
goods were light lndia-rubber figures very
prominently in the list of imports, the receipts
| Tor the week amounting to 1910 packages, val
ued at 81, 3li6SE aud despite the unsatisfactory
condition of the coffee market that article Ii be-
ing received In considerable quantities. the value
OF the imports for the past week being g. lS0 500
Iho receipts Of other articles are quite moderate
Since January |, the imports at New York
amount TO fi6l 500 757 against Si0G G95 for IL
corresponding period OF 1881,