The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-16
TRADE ITEMS.

THE cultivation of rice Is growing industry
of Green county, Alabama.
The manufacturing OF naval stores Is getting
TO be quite an enterprise in south Georgia.
one thousand dozen eggs Were brought into
Ashland, Kentucky last week,
Not even the thinnest crust Of ice has been
seen In Shreveport this winter.
Fifteen hunkred coon skins have been pur-
chased by one firm in Henderson, Kentucky,
this season.
W. s. Tucker near Brunswick, Georgia, on a
half-acre lot, raised $500 cabbages from which
he realized, clear of expenses s32J.
A citizen eff Gainesville, Florida, has shipped
north this season seven hundred quarts of straw
berries, and received as returns therefor about
$751;
1t is said that soldier at Fort Cnur d. Alene,
Idaho caught 626 trout with IA hook and line
during the year 1881. The largest one weighed
Il The Liverpool United Gaslight company fur
nishes gas at the rate of IS. about rs cents per
1000 feet and pays 10 per cent annual diyi-
dends.
Fresno county, one of the lesser grape-grow-
ing counties of California, is now going largely
into viticulture. Fresno has about $40 acres in
vines, and ground has been prepared this season
for 800 more, making 4,420 acres in all,
The destruction of timber on the west side OF
the Sierra, says the Reno Gazette, and the inn
mense growth of underbrush and second growth
is proving favorable 10 wild animal life. Bear,
deer, rabbits grouse, etc, are much more plen-
tiful than they were ten years ago.
The Providence, Rhode Island, board of trade
recently considered the subject of establishing
direct trade between that city and Europe, and
it was voted to appoint Il committee, who may
engage either sailing vessel or steamer for an
experimental shipment.
Tendon cabs have increased 2,:25 in number
during the past ten years. and the proportion of
hansoms to four wheelers is constantly growing
larger. There is great Improvement, moreover,
in the quality of cabs, many of which now eX-
coed in comfort and elegance anything dreamt
of twenty years ago.
The statistics of coal mines in Indiana show
an invested capital of 81, ii2,2l0 and product
last year of 1,77l536 tons According to the re,
poit 900 men and boys were employed in and
about the mines during 1881, and only ten fatal,
accidents occurred, mainly attributable to the
carelessness of the sufferers themselves.
The ground has been purchased, plans made,
and materials bought for. y print and manila
paper mill ut Monroe. Michigan. The old IRE
vor mill property will be the location:
About |, 50O,O whiteish from the Worthwhile,
Michigan, hatchery were deposited in the river
near Detroit the other day
During February the daily average of water
pumped by the Detroit water-works was 1922,
III gallons.
Reports from the great peach-growing districts
represent the prospect of the coming peach
crop as universally favorable. The growers of
Newcastle county, Delaware, in the Wilmington
Every Evening are quoted as saying that the
buds are all right" and ''two-thiTds of the |
risk are safely passed." while the same paper
publishes similar advces from the Delaware |
peninsula and the eastern shore of Maryland. |
the present prospects indicate |
more than an average crop over the entire |
Atlantic seaboprd chiefly draws its fruit sup
plies
Not long ago some economical Yankee calcu-
lated the thousands of dollars that were annu-
Ally wasted by placing buttons upon mems coat
ails where there is nothing TO butt H. The
statistics of the treasury department show that
asst year 1900 corsets, valued at $3.50, 600, and
962 100 pairs of silk stockings. valued at 81 000
30, were imported into the United States from
Europe.
Fruit trees about Buffalo Gap and in the
I.,lf
Dortion) were in full bloom when the sleet came,
ind of course it is all killed. There may have
been few trees of the earlier fruit not in bloom,
which will not be injured by the freeze.
A London journal makes the startling state
nent that during 1851 no less than 2.O39 vessels
we're lost at sea- and that in them was sunk prop
,rty estimated at the value of $3.50 ooO, 900. OF
his sum slSOoe,0 CO., was owned by British peo..
pie, at home or in the colonies. Off the coast of
he British isles $50 ships were lost three fourths
If which belonged to native owners.
II isreported that Professor J. Lawrence
smith, of Louisville, Kentucky, lately discovered
II native iron which was found in 1875 in the
province s,, of St. ,,,s Gatsrina' Brazil,
hat in its natural condition it is very feebly at
racted by the magnet but If a fragment is
heated TO redness and then cooled, there is man
tested a magnetic property with the usual in
ensi y of iron.
The secretary OF agriculture is required to es-
ablish in every state an experimental station
or the purpose of thoroughly testing the adap-
ural implements 10 the several states, and espe-
tally with reference to the character Of soils nd
'ariety OF climate.
The New York Commercial Bulletin says of
he trade In dairy products at that point: The
high price has greatly curtailed the demand for
f-nayored goods or diverted much Of 1t TO
resh oleomargarine, and at the same time at
racted receipts from all sections Of the country
nd Canada, with holders not securing satisfac-
Dry attention TO their goods, the result of which
5 that reaction from the boom" appears i'm
ninent. Cheese shows about the previous
eatures the demand proving slow and cautious
rom all quarters and the tone weak. Shippers
annot pay extreme figures. previously asked .
1itho ut loss, and home buyers, taking adyan-
cssions on the best stock, while the less attrac
we goods are openly offered at a concession as
n attraction 20 work them off, though holders
ave not reached point Of decided or serious
ressurc.
The Boston Advertiser of Friday. March 3,
avs OF wool: The market, without any ex
Itement or even without any display of ac-
witty, shows a business OF about 2,5000O
Ounds. a gentleman NON ONO ia lOwn thls
eek remarked: There Is less wool by 1900, CO.,
8, 90 pounds In Ohio than ever before |
folders there are asking 43 TO a cents for Ohio
I, and getting Il from the western mills Some J
these wooden mills are running highland day
nd, as a rule, they are making better gooas
IAN ever. They are I'm good financial condi-
on having made money last year Michigan {
nd Wisconsin are clear Of wool and Ohio
manufacturers can, Of course, afford 10 pay !
ore in Ohio for their wool than In Boston, as Il
nearer their base cf operations. The western
OF wool Il increasing rapidly
e note the presence Of some California com I
ission men, who are here soliciting orders to
ny the new clip"