The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-28

Virginia, last week to foreign ports
A carload of potatoes was received here
to-day which were raised in Scotland.
They were consigned here by Boston
firm, and were sold at Sl.l5 per bushel
Chicago has now cable street railroad
The cars run without horses or steam at
tached, 60 quick and stop readily when
wanted
This seasons Kennebec (Me.) river ice
crop is estimated at 800 600 tons.
The steamer Mexico, the largest ever
built at San Francisco, and which is TO run
in the California 4 Mexican steamship line,
was launched a few days since.
The annual report Of the president Of the
San Francisco Board Of Trade recon-
mended the establishment of direct steam
communication by sea with New York as a
measure of absolute defense against over
land railroad eNactions and pool treights by
the Pacific Mail compauy's vessels via Pan
anna.
The American hog is avenged. A decree
of the Italian government prohibits the inn
portat:Ou OF oranges and lemons from
France, where parasite called the Morhsus
worm has been working havoc in these
fruits.
The importation Of European potatoes at
New York continues on an increasing scale.
The Furnessia, from Glasgow, brings ,l27
| tons, and further heavy consignments from
the same port are expected in the course of
the month. These potatoes sell at S2ls
per bushel. The native product commands
| 81 0S.
Mineral 'has been discovered in every
mountain range in southern Arizona.
The Savannah News says: A merchant
| in Jacksonville, Florida, adyertises for ten
thousand young alligators. These little
creatures are made the pets of northern
iashionables, and may yet supersede pug
dog puppies. Fashion has brought this
awkward and uncouth creature into notice,
and if the style holds out few years it will
result in its almost complete extinction.
During the year just passed 322, 934 tons
Of coal were mined in the state of Alabama
A few years ago the output could have been
expressed i'll Ciphers. This industry has
progressed more rapidly than any other
within the borders of the state.
The oyster fishing and packing industrie:
of Maryland and Virginia give employment
to iO.69l hands who receive wages to the
amount of SO 056,4li yearly, The amount
invested in the business is 81 606,976.
i 4 petition is in circulation in New \ ork
for the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty
with the Hawaiian islands. 1t is claimed
that the agitation of the matter has forced
the railroads to cease discriminating il
favor of sugar shipped east from the Pacific
coast.
The entire French coast is about to b,
lighted by electricity, which, as far back n
1873, was employed in the lighthouses nea
Havre. 1t is now thought that the devel
opment of the new system warrants it,
general use on the French coast. Forty
two lighthouses are to be provided with
electric lights and with steam trumpet
for fog-signals, at u first cost of about 81,
| M N IN al Ill I'm of al,
$4,000 for maintenance.
Several of the citizens contemplate stock
. ing the lake below FL Paso with choice fist
and have entered into communication will
the fish commission OF the state for tn
supply.
In view of the high price of good butter
the fact is stated that in New York alon
there are factories and material enough t
produce 100000 pounds electromagnetic
, annually, while the en1e butter produc
of the state is only lll,000,0OO pound:
q Oleomargarinc can be produced ut DC pc
= pound, and consequently when sold in i'm
2 tation of butter drives the genuine butte
! out of the market.
+ The salmon disease is becoming very ser
!, GUS in England and Scotland. The Londo
Il News fortnight ago said: According (
n border newspaper, hundreds of salmon
+. every size, from seven pounds to thirty, ar
= dying in the Ettrck, making the water an
= air even more poisonous than they could /
made by all the refuse dyes in the mani
70 featuring towns. Even the river trout al
- said to become infected"
It The growth of American manufa,
lures has been wonderful. In Is;
II the amount invested in cotton maj
l. utactures was little more than $40
/. W0,oO0 The number of spipdles WI
10000; of males employed, 1889 of {
10 males, 3S,951. The amount of cotton usC
10 was l0i, 800 bales. Fifty years have pasSC
p away, and the number of spindeS has i
creased to l0,769,li7. The amount of CO
a. ton used in 1850 was 100000 bales. II
w number of persons employed is Isl ,i2S, al
- the amount of capital invested in mills al
W subsidiary work is more than S225 900, OC
From 1870 to lSS0 the product of our wool,
manufactures has increased nearly $4,000
a 600. The silk production of the Unit,
q States rose from ST., 2l0,662 in 1870 to So
10 il0,46S in 1880. The growth of the iron al
steel industry has been remarkable.
is 1910 we produced $1,000 tons of iron:
Is 1850 the iron and steel works of the Unit
States produced I ,265, 100 tons In TWEEN
years the capital invested in the manuft