The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-27
TRADE ITEMS.

! STRAWBERRIES are selling in Florida for
| 81 80 quart.
| Eight hundred barrels of oysters were
shipped from Apalachicola, Florida, last
week
1t is thought that indianapolis will soon
be mainly lighted by electricity.
| A glucose mandatory is going to be
started in Philadelphia, with capital of
81, 600, 600.
At Davenport the river is still navigable
Tor steamboats,, and the ferry hasn't missed
q day yet this winter.
Fifteen new paper mills were put into
operation during 1881 in the Western States.
and few were also built in the South.
Between tho early part of April and the
latter part of last December twenty steam
ships, some of them of nearly 1000 tons,
sailed from 81. John, New Brunswick, with
| lumber cargoes.
1t is stated that tanners are complaining
OF the scarcity of thick hides, which are
| yearly becoming harder to get, rs the i'm
provement Of Texas stock goes on.
Green peas are selling for Twenty-Five
cents quart at Gainesville Florida.
There are IN Alabama 2,250,000 acres of
government land subject to entry under the
homestead and presumption laws, and the
entering ofland was never brisker than at
present.
Tho weight of hens eggs ranges from Is
TO 81 ounces per dozen. A weight OF 22l
ounces may be taken as fair average for
good-si2ed eggs, although d weight of nearly
1 ounces is not unknown for single specimens
OF eggs.
Irish turnips and potatoes are selling in
New York for less than the home product.
Large invoices Of carrots, onions and celery
are on the way across the Atlantic.
There are employed in Detroit in the tel
cphonc service thirty-lour operatives, nine
construction men, five inspectors and re-
pairers, and five men in the general office.
Last year the Grand Rapids ~ Indiana
Railroad Company took 1856 carloads of
furniture out of Grand Rapids.
n record Of the English liic-boat services
performed in 1881 shows that t66 lives and
50 vessels were saved by the lic.boa,s
during the year. Besides these services
the National Liie-boat institution granted
rewards for saving l5j shipwrccked persons
by fishing boats and other means.
If n small piece of sulphur Is occasionally
thrown upon the fire in The smoke.house il
will eilectually prevent shippers and bugs
from making inroads upon the meat; nor
will 1t produce any effect upon its flavor,
save on the mere surface of the skin.
During the year lSI0-S0 there were cx.
ported from New Orleans 6OOO, GOO gallons
OF pure olive OIL extracted from cotton
seed, ofwhich 81 per cent was sent 10
Mediterranean ports. Half of this amount
went to Italy, the home of the genuine
olive.
A thick vein of u peculiar substance,
which, according to local chemists, con.
tains 80 per cent, of pure paralllnc, has been
| discovered ut Hawkes. Bay, New England.
Ii is said to be worth 500 per ton, aud to
exist IN enormous quantities,
Business men in Baltimore propose to or.
ganizc manufacturers aid association
with capital of 81 100000 the prime oh.
ject OF which shall be to erect and equip
buildings with motive power, for the nur.
pose OF renting the same TO manufacturers
who cannot afford to own their own works.
II is believed that such an association will
attract important manufacturing intercst
! to the city.
II is stated that 10000 acres Of ne W vine.
yards were planted in California last year.
The vines planted are generally of the finer
foreign varieties The wine product last
year fell oif2,ooo,0o0 gallons In consequence
otinlu ries to the grape crop by frost. The
| character of the California wines has com.
| plctcly changed In the last four years. ow.
ing to improved knowledge Of fermcn,.
ing processes and the discovery OF the adap.
tation OF varieties Of grapes 20 soil and 10.
cality.
The manufacture Of butter and cheese Is
becoming one oi the most important and
profitable industries IN Kansas. The State
Is specially adapted to the business. The
climate and grasses are uncxcelled In the
world, and those who have experimental
during the last few years say the industry
Is q safe and remuneratiye one, and. under
the cooperative plan, requires but little In.
diyidual capital The number Of pound.
otbuttcr and cheese made In factories and
families for 1881 shows the extent of the or.
erations In this line ut the present time.
Made In factories, cheese, 1,s,3 pounds.
butter, ill.3iS pounds. In families. cheese,
lSi va pounds: butter, a.2i5. 2ss pounds.
A Napa valley grapc-growcr has made
the statement that many carloads of
grapes sent In ISL from that region to Chi.
cage paid $500 per carload Of ten tons gross, g
Twenty per cent of the gross weight must
be deducted for boses, packages, ETC., leay.
ing eight tons Of grapes per carload Tia,
gives 500 per ton for the grapes net: equiv.
alent 70 i've ccntsrer pound. This Is the