The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-25

Roach's shipyard at Chester Pennsylvania, will
when completed be the largest side-wheel
steamship afloat II is being built for the Old
Colony line OF steamships at Il contract price of
81, 0o0. 900.
Three thousand eastern trout hove been re-
Gently placed in the Adobe creek about three
miles east of Pealuma, by the sportsmans Club
OF that place,
Life is made unhappy Ia the mayor and other
city officers of st. Paul. Just now, by reason of
having TO afllx their signatures 2i,6l6 times to
the bonds for the purchase of tho water-works,
construction of the Lafayette avenue bridge
and sewer purposes, amounting in all to SAG, 600
Liyermore station shipped during the first
twenty-iiy days of April three hundred and
thirty boxes, or $50 dozen OF eggs, worth, ut
market prices, 81, 100.
The strawberry crop Of the Maryland penin-
sula has been twice cut off by the frost this
season, and It Is thought the crop will not be
abundant, yet the late seasonable weather may
increase the blossoms and render the crop better
than has been expected by strawberry growers
Berries will be late coming to market
On the 18th instant the Columbus Citizen was
shown n small cotton boil. New roasting-ears
have also made their appearance in the Column
bus market.
The German carp Is domestcated fish, hold.
Ink the same relation TO other fishes that our
domeHlicatcd fowls do to the Wild birds of the
field and forest. 1t Is altogether different
from the soft-meated, ilayorlcss native fish so
well known TO lis AS the carp or sucker
a New York journal, devoted to the fec inter
ests, estimates that COO 600 men are employed in
that business n the United States during the
season: that $40 600 are expended In year.
and that 40 900 900 are invested In that business
The Ice storage capacity of the states is placed
by the same authority ut 81, 0d0,0 90 tons.
Considerable excitement has been caused by
the discovery of n seam in the rocks near Full
tonvllic, Montgomery county, N. T., said 10 con
feet wide and on either side OF 1t IL solid lime
rock The mineral has every appearance OF
containing lead, silver and gold.
II requires about 5000 young Ash to stock n
pond of one acre In extent OF fish weighing
from one to two pounds LOCO to the acre is Il lib
eral estimate, and these will require artificial
feeding unless the pond is very itch with food
producing vegetation.
An exchange says: at Is well known that
New York, the largest hop. raising state in the
country, produces about flyo'sxths of the entire
crop, but II may surprise some of our readers 10
learn that the four counties of Otsego Oneida,
Madison and Schoharle produce one half of the
entire crop and about two.thirds Of all raised in
New York"
An oak tree was recently cut down on ranch
near MELVILLE in Colusa county, that measured
| seven feet and four inches through ut the stump.
There was cut and split 400 posts, seven and II
half feet long, and scvcnty-hve cords, two tier
10 the cord, of twenty inch wood out Of II. One
man worked forty.two days continuously and
two men ten days The posts are worth twenty
cents apiece, and the wood 81 per cord. 1t there
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Quantities Of potatoes continue to arrive from
Great Britain and Germany az well as from
Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards island and New
Brunswick, The receipts from the British
provinces have not been NO large as In former
years, but the Importation from the transatlan.
tic countries has been wholly unprecedented,
and i,s possibility would have been laughed at
by most American farmers and dealers year
ago. The causes OF the large importation have
been the unusually large crop raised last year I'm
Great Britain and Germany, and the small yield
OF potatoes In CHS county, Besides the advan.
tagc of II .~-orable season for the crop in Great
Britain, 10 has been estimated that CO. 900
acres more were planted last year than ever be.
fore. There had been imported up To Decem.
Der II, 1881, $4,000 sacks of potatoes. Enough
have been imported since then to make over
$4,000 sacks during the season. The sacks,
though varying IN size. ordinarily contain three
bushels. The foreign potatoes have usually
sold at about wo'thirds OF the price of the
best American stock