The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-13

men, while a single factory in Newark, n.
| j., keeps so busy upon genuine gold work
in ordinary times, and there are several 9TH
err American houses which employ from one
| hundred to three hundred men each upon
! high-class goods The enormous extent of
the manufacture here is made more clearly
apparent when it is known that these great
firms are chiefly engaged in the production
ofa few Specialties. The largest factory
mentioned is operated principally for
breast-pins, earrings, bracelets, chains, and
lace-pins. Another establishment is espe-
cially devoted to the making of bracelets
and gold and cameo rings, and so on through
the different branches of manufacture.
The very finest jewelry to be obtained in
any modern market is made at certain
workshop in New York, whose productions,
impressed with peculiar originality and
beauty in the most minute details, are
eagerly taken by the most noted dealers
with but little regard to price.
The Bureau of States has lust ISSUED a
statement showing the exports of petroleum
and petroleum products during the month
OF November 1881 and for the eleven
months of the calendar year ended Novem-
per, which show very large
increase over the corresponding
periods OF the previous year
AhN iVbpNihS arc lllt bliltlul IHureS' The
total exports for November, 1881, were 46.
5s7 ,63l gals. valued at 81 500 0SS. against
", 7S4, 359 gals, valued at $2,63i, O62, in No
vember, 1850, showing an increase of q, 500, =
212 gals, and Of $l,765,925 in value. The
The total exports for the eleven months
ended November, 1881, were i69, 2G0 ,s47 gals.
valued at $A,4l5,673, against ais,
$685. gals, valued u, $3l ,46l ,OO7, for the
eleven months ended November, 1880,
showing an increase in 1881 of l5O9ql, 600
gals, valued at $l2,95l 500. The exports
for the. full year 1881 will probably be
greater in value than those of any previous
year except 1871, when the value of such
exports reached the enormous sum of SOL
7S9, 43S. 'N'
The London Truth says: America is
sending us prime beef and mutton. Amer
ican wool is ousting English from the mar
ket. American apples are more numerous
IN the English market than home grown.
America is now sending us English
plum-puddings ready for boiling. Amer
lean horses have this year won the principal
races in England and France. And now
that America is bestirring herself about her
navy, what Will be left for poor old England
to plume herself upon?
An item in the New York Sun states that
there are leo silk mills in Paterson. n. i
giving employment to between l6.OO9 and
l7W0 operatives. The population of Pater.
sonis gwen as about 81 900 so that IL would
seem one-third of all the inhabitants live by
the manufacture of imitation seal-skln
sacques and other silk products.
The Truckee Republican saws. The ice
harvest at Prosser Creek was completed
Christmas night. The company put up
lS,OCC tons of line, clear ice, ii inches thick.
over co tons OF which have been shipped
TO different points on the Southern Pacific.
vessels OF eleven nationaliiies divided
among themselves about SS.CJJCJO in grain
freight from New York last year. but not
one cent of the amount went 10 an Ameri-
can ship.
BELFAST, January 9.-The largest steel
Alllng snip ahoat, registered 200 tons, has
just been launched for lsmay, Imrie a. Co.
managers of the White Star Line. II il
named the Garfield" and will be em
ployed in the Australian and Californian
trades. ''''
The manufacturing establishments of
New York city consume, annually, raw
materials costing S267 ,CcDCC0, and produce
goods valued at Si35C00,C1O.
The total amount of tobacco manufac.
tured ia Petersburg during the past year
amounts TO l52,0G1 pounds. The exports
81 manufactured tobacco for the same mo.
Rod aggregate 3,iD5,sl5 pounds The
number OF pounds of tax-paid tobacco
amounts to 57I7 ,l52.
The following table shows the stocks of
the world: VI