The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-05
TRADE ITEMS.

NEARLY l00ON pounds of cheese were shipped
from Gllroy, Illinois, last month
rTho recorded transactions In real estate aI
Des Moines, from January to the end OF July,
represent this year s2,2H,2l7, against s1052. OSi
last year
There Is being mado Mt Kalamazoo tho
largest pudding machine In the world for
Me manufacture At Chicago Of steel and iron
by the now process, directly from pig iron,
The Lansing, Michigan, refrigerator has
now on hand 100000 pounds or 30 tons OF
extra quality butter. This is believed to bo the
largest pile fbulur ever seen III Michigan nj
one time.
County asscssors' returns for March |, 1852,
SHOW tue population III the largest towns IN
Kansas 10 BE- as follows Topeka u, 5dl, Lcay-
onworth, Is 100 Atchison. lG6lS; Lawrence, 10,
sQS; Myandotc, S GU
gentleman OF Crawford county, indiana, no.
ticed blackberry bush SO heavily laden with
fruit that his curiosity induced him to count the
berries on II single bush on cane, and found no
less than SCI berries.
The Butte Register urges the people Of Orc.
VILE to make an effort for the establishment OF
manufacturing Industries there, 1t suggests
tannctce, boot mud shoe factory aud n wooden
mill and says the calproduGt OF material 10
ample to sustain such industries.
The imports ofioreigu merchandise at New
York continue on very liberal scale. The total
for THE past week was ilW1 us, Of which "a.
| SyaM represented general merchandise aud tho
remainder dry goods, Since January the I'm.
| Isl ~ for the same time IN 1851
The receipts for custom duties vt milwaukee,
| for the fiscal year ending June So lSSl were
a@l, 5l9 10 against sl9i,3Sh,i' for the year pre-.
viouS The goods on which the most duties
were paid were tn.platc, oarthenwarc, fancy
! goods, wines aud liquors. During the last quar-.
! ter seven hundred tons OF pig.itOn weru in.
cludcd In the imports,
| Tho New Northwest says Anglers predict
that In very few years tho trout viii all disap.
| pear from the valley streams uf Montana owing
| W the immense numbers carried ont into irriga
| ting bitches and into the fields, Screens u, III,
| head of bitches would prevent this,
A young lady of Carthage. Missouri, says tha
| her sllkworms have closed their season of work
| and the result isa large collection OF cocoons
most oi which she holds for the purpose of pro
ducing eggs for another seasons operations
| The experiment has proven entirely satisfactory
AMI Miss Acs'h has dlcoundoucc In the uudor
taking ny one that will bo successful and ronlu
narrative.
W, W, scay, VI Rome, Georgia, one OF thu be-.
chemists in iho state, Ia experimenting with wa
| tcrmclons for the purpose of Extracting sugar
| His experiments ~ far, IN small way, Undue,
him to believe that y falt lot OF melons conlai,
IN average OF per cent of Saccharlnc matter, o
pure sugar lie estimates that on one Nrp o
good land, suited TO their growth, $1,000 pound
OF melons would grow and these would produce
att per cent, Of saccha Inc matter, ANA pounds
Of sugar, aud worth, NJ ten cents. sau.N,
buckingham county, NiIgini., has sOmewha
curious industry. Within AN area Of ,vu or Il
teen miles there are some forty dsuileries en-
gagged In tho manufacture OF oil from eassafra
root, Each mill gives cmployrent to thre
hsnds. They nae About .,OtO pounds OF root
day for each mill. aud produce from one 10 ON
aud half gallons of oil, weighing ton pounds &
tho gallon, Thus tho forty disullorics consum,
daily ~ eDc pounds OF sasssfras rook make abou
my gallons OF oil. worth II 70 gallon, Vii,
thus earn tslS per day.
The import OF American petroleum Into Brl,
ish India has OF late years swelled ~ large pro
portions, being now estimated NJ not less tina,
iat0.oco gallons per annnni, Up W July, 1881
The trade was subject 10 regulations which pro
hiblled tho importation OF any OF the oil tina
would burn, on the application OF y ligh,
lower temperature than ITO dcgrov
Fahrenheit but since that timc tho testing rat
haa been 10 degrees, A Professor Abcl havn
Invented an instrument ON which q record Of I
! degrees was assumed W bo the equivalent OF tn
ofncial stsndard-lc0 degroos--the Indian gpy
srnfnent adopted tho insifumeut for general Nv
by It's custom houses, and all petroleum ha
been subjected W this under the act In force no,
more than year, Unfortunately, tho supposl
! lion that Professor Abel's instrument would a.
80 uniformly Asto give like results syerywher
vac not hased upon fact and hAs caused consli
cradle trouble aud anuoy sncc 10 merchants Il
the trade. About the middle Of last month n
RIVER than four large cArgocs OF oil wore IN ia
rntion ~ ludiAn ports, because when tried b.
tho standard Instruments they would not nssI
q The proper degree fahtenhcit Il 10 SlAimc,
that the custom. house cflclalA wilhonb mAkluI
any sllovancefO s the sasisuons 70 ~ IA . deli