The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-23
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NE Irst WATCHES were maze NJ NuremDurB IN
4 The legislature of New Mexico has repealed
the law taxing drumIaers $50 per annum.
A citizen OF Marion county Georgia. has be.
tween s., 600 and $4,000 trees boxed IN his turpen
tine orchard.
Theirst steam engine on this continent was
brought from England In 1853,
The Marshall Canning company of Iowa will
put up during the coming season l5e acres Of
tomatoes and 30 acres of corn.
Watermelons are up and doing well " Geor-
county ~
Glass was early discovered. Glass beads
We're found on mummies over 5000 years old.
Local navigation on Lake Superior has prac-
Ideally been open all winter and there have
pcen very few days when . steamer could not
have entered or left the harbor of Duluth
A Accompany of Englishmen have bought sixty
thousand acres Of land near jamestown, Dakota,
ana propose to break up Ave thousand acres
this year
A linsecd-oil company with capital stockf'
$l0 600, has been organized ut Boone, loft
Half OF the stock Is to DO paid up and usH yov
the erection OF the works. bo'
y y reported that a syndicate is to boz
lied In Minneapolis for the purpose of Il Az
tenement houses with view to Il, :. hing
them 10 tenants ut u low rental f'''
The value 4 the timber shipped from Mobile
to foreign ports during the years 1879 80 was $780,
2S, 00j for the years 1885, s235,us7 ~, the re-.
mainder OF the Lumber finding a market In the
United States
Millinery and notion merchants ut Dubuque
rompialn on Mems coming from Chicago with
IhlYo Wunks hileu WIN tne nboVe'nalned goods
and selling them at retail, without paying the 8
per cent tax imposed by the city ordinance.
The tobacco raisors In most Of the states wish
70 nave the revenue law no changed that they
can sell 10 whom they please At present a
raiser cannot sell a few pounds Of tobacco 10 a
farmer to be used for killing ticks on sheep or
lice on cattle.
~. NEVADA county sCalliornial paper says that
III.
mining suits make II pretty certain that the
coming summer VIII DO an exceedingly dull one
al, through the mountains,
,ed any hs,us o. srnin IN me suscol hills, Calf
norma, nave been devastated by wild geese and
uucks, INC FARMERS nave tried TO keep the
birds away by Illuminating their fields Al night
win large lamps, and having men ride around
on horseback every few hours, but with little
success.
MAJOR bucli, OF Rockville, Ontario, on behalf
0Ia western syndicate, made arrangements with
one pohiIi3h govefhmentior o., 700 acres OF land
on mo VuI Appellee. which, with $1,000 they
have secured from the syndicate, they intend
von.ctunb mug " whcht inrm, This farm will
peeignwen miles long by six wide
Dhl u pcnding IN the New York legislature
70 compel dealers selling on the lnstallncnt plan
70 return 70 buyers 90 per cent of money paid IL
he article purchased Is finally returned for lack
81 Iull payment The bill has created much
at oma ~ ~ ~ / albany Itsa,y ,.oo. t.
.vne Vi the nhrucst WOODS In existence Is that
the dry wastes along tho limo OF the Southern
Pacific railroad, lisspeclac gravity is nearly
black heart so hard, when well seasoned, that il
WIN turn the edge Of an axe and can scarcely he
cut by awell'tempercd saw, In burning II gives
o@ ma an Intense heat
ground telegraph company with capital I sioek
OF S2000,000 has been tilcd at Albany. N Y II
proposes 70 establsha general telegraph sys.
tenn IRON New York the wires being laid under.
being stretched on poles. ''V'' '"'''"a Oh
Lne Water IN isS' WAS tho highest ever known
IN me ONO The difference varied at different
i!oodof 1854 by the Matcr.worss marx. was DO %
ieetllh inches, and the flood of 1917 was 90 foe
~ Inches by the samemark.
company proposes to supply the city OF At.
Oh y mss Ms o@ Ky % aysp Sna
cheee The cost OF the undertaking viii be
sa,5o9ooo, and the revenue will come from tho
use Of the water by the, city and tho rent OF
TALL of 2ss'fect within seven miles of Atlanta ="
The planting Of whieish spawn In the waters
o. the great lakes Is going ON under the direction
nS v svpcriMn ns,S Of ihe United states FISH
0o0 Ash have been deposited in Lake MichivSn
~ Hheboygan aud the same number nj Norih
Kncine and Muskegon. The hatchery yet con.
oa 4, Ss%SSS ,S or snS,s 10000 viii depos
and the others at different points in LsISs i Iiy
ron and Michigan
There are no less than thirty separate bills
with tho SG saSsos 81 PV sss ri 'GE SSns deal
these, thirteen are promoted by town Councils
Ten by gas companies, and seven BY corpora,ons
S cIssupIa lI III tho Srposo o. supplying
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