The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-09
TRADE ITEMS.

MONTREAL papers still predict that the ice
| crop III Canada will be very short this
year.
There are 100 applications for member
ship in the new Cincinnati produce ex-
| change
The blue grouse OF Oregon is the hand
soonest of all the grease tribe.
Indiana has 400 drummers, who sell
| S7O,OOO,OO0 worth of goods year
The grain-binders manufactured in Eng
land are preferred in Australia to those
made in the United States.
The whole number of trotters who have
won records in 2:40 or better is not far from
| 5000,
The bill proposing the enlargement of the
| powers of the agricultural department will
be considered by the house on March 25th
1t is proposed to introduce the culture of
| lax into southern Australia. 1t is thought
that the seed and lint can be exported
cheaper than any of the crops generally
| raised.
Already Lake Superior is reported free of
| ice. For that matter, however, it must be
added, Mt no time during the winter has
! there been any to interfere with the move
ment Of vessels.
A contract has been closed at Denver for
the erection by August LIST of a building for
@ national mining and industrial exposi-
ton.
The Illinois and Michigan canal will be
opened on the 18th inst for navigation from
Bridgeport to La Sale. Boats will not be
allowed to draw over four feet eight inches
of water.
The glass trade in Pittsburgis improving;
there is a fair inquiry for window glass,
with the prospect ofa large and brisk bus
mess for the next few months; prices an
stillenihg up, but no change has yet been
made.
Lighting of railroad trains generally in
Germany by means of electricity is consid-
cred to be merely question of time.
A carload of Scotch potatoes.received via
Boston sold in iobbing lots yesterday Mt
$ll5 per buskel, delivered Florida straw
berries were quoted at 70G90 per quart for
the best selections
One hundred and sixty acres of land will
be given to the person securing the largest
number of articles for exhibition at the
Florida state fair.
Delaware county, Iowa. has Is cream
cries, which produced last year 4,O0O,-
goo pounds of butter; Linn county
has 35; Fayette, 90, and in pro
cess of erection; Marshall, 10: Scott.
q Van Buren,, l. Mahaska, q Mills,
., and Cass, /.
The lumber mills in Pensacola and points
adjacent employ about 1000 men, whose
weekly wages are about $4,000. There is
! vast army of stevedores and their assist.
ants, who receive fully $4,000 per week fol
work done in the bay in loading ships
Brazil presents the curious spectacle of q
great agricultural country, which supplies
the rest of the world with coffee hides and
) u few other commodities, but is obliged at
the same time, to import large proportion
of the food products which are consumed
$ by its own people.
: A resolution has been offered in the Ohio
I house directing the governor to appoint
= three well-known chemists to investigate
food adultcration, and report on what law,
= are necessary to protect the butter ant
), cheese manufactures, and the people o
I Ohio using the same.
The export movement of domestic pro
! duoe from New York during the past weel
J, was rather sluggish the total being but IS,
y W5, l5i, against IS 52S, 255 for the same weel
last year. The shipments oil breadstutls ar,
ialr but the movement of provisions i
j. somewhat lighter than the previous week
y while the exports of petroleum and cotton
f each show a slight increase. Since Januar,
:, the total exports amount to $5l ,o5S 30
W compared with S5S,472295 for the cor
responding period of 1881.
" The streets of Austin will soon BIO with
e out gas light. The city owes the gas com
d pany 5000 and the company is dismantlin
70 the lamps.
& A correspondent at Oregon, Illinois, send
70 the following directions tor killing cab
70 bagc-worms: Sprinkle the cabbages liber
10 ally with wheat bran, repeating the opera
ton two or three times II the insects an
IS pear ut different periods. The worms NJ
y themselves, the bran expands, and the
I. burst. They are destroyed In a short time
al and tho damage done to the cabbage head
NJ Is slight