The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-24
TRADE ITEMS.

Mn, ". F. HURTS, OF Tampa is canning
guavas for market
The Bonneville, Pennsylvania, coke region
covers an area OF about forty miles wide.
Murfreesboro Tennessee, ships cedar sawdust
to Chicago TO make crackle grass with
Peaches are being shipped from Clay county,
Florida, to Chicago.
Ripe peaches are to DO seen ,on the trees In
Orange county Florida
Craig county, Virginia has good slate
quarry, and Is developing a promising Load
mine
There are sixty boats and over 20 mon on
sponging grounds from Key West alone, says the
Democrat,
The people of faston Pennsylvania, have
nearly enough money subscribed to build and
III up silk mill
There have been 1920 barrels and crates of
vegetables shipped this season from Tallahassee
Mrs. w Funk, of Lake City, Michigan, who
Is cngaged In silk culture, has lately added
10000 eggs 10 her stock.
A special election In Xenia, Ohio, the other
day. resulted In favor of electric light by II ma.
jorlty OF 1876
The board Of excise Of Rochester, N. Y, has
so far granted go licenses for s5,gl21S II has
refused but five applicants, and has 100 yet to
consider.
light-56,COo candle pow er-localcd on eight tow.
crs at prominent points In the city.
Red Bluf ALL Cause We know of II woman
In this county who last year sold over sl,OOi
WOrtn OF cHks uUu poultry,
bunch OF bananas over three feet long,
showing $50 specimens OF that delicious fruit
has been raised IN Key West
Icon county, Florida, tomatoes are nearly as
large as cocoanuts some of the thom mcasur.
Ing fourteen Inches In circumference.
silk farms are being cultivated at Aberdeen
ana Vornth, Mississippi, and there is talk Of
starting one at Meridian.
the Anaheim Gazette tells OF Strawberries
raised there IL Va, Inches In circumference
nearly inches III diameter
MT Eugene on has shipped from one
small patch at liNoak, over $50 crates OF beans
this season " 'N""'
sixty acres Is tho size Of a watermelon patch
NJ. Girardeau. lilo will soon Commence shin.
ping. ''
The imports OF foreign merchandise into Nav,
YORK during the past week were again eousidera.
able In volume, their total value being siN,7b /.
OsS, OF which sS0i2sS5 represented general me,.
chandise, and the remainder dry goods suvpr
and metals are the leading Items, the imports a,
the ilrst-named article alone being s2gO6' 81
Since January LIST the imports aggregate ais;
6s2sd2 against sl59 al. 49, for tho correspondent,
period OF last year.
The importation Of specie and bullion at Ne,
York during the week ending May u were sii,
yer, as ssains, total Of ssS7so for The !" wee
ending May IL last year The iinportations 4
New York since the lst OF January an
since the LIST OF August compare q
ponding periods last year
Since January Since Augustl.
1871 lsl lSsi.s2 issn Al
Gold sisaipi sasoiSSio s2Soisi77 sM ;Si
silver, 0soe0i i,e2i,N7 2fa07e a6g, "a
Tot N5,2oas s2e.Si.so7 s27.iOi,b5e sps @s, \.
Mayor Am.s % Minneapolis, has signed IN
clec,ric;lisht ordinance, and refilgent illumin,
tion will som follow
A gentleman writes from Manitoba that h
sailed over s2s 600 farm In large steamboat
few. days. ago The. said farm produced fort
bushels OF wheat y, the acre last year,
The manufacture Of old-watrf eases Ia an In
portsnt and growing Industry al ProyIdenc,
Rhode Island. and the journal says thai Il
Thousand cases may be made therc this YEA
and that the demand 10 really ahead Of the nuI
fhe Yield Of the potato crop Ia the neirhbo
hood Of haricston, south Carolina, Il prcbabl
the largest ever known. Thousands Oh barrc