The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-07
JOBBERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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grasshoppetS are matching out wherever the
snow has m slted IA the Truckge and Sierra Ne
vuda veileys
Al Grass yelley California, vein of decom-
posed quartz he's been found whict pays the
finders from 50 ~ 81 per PAN ind Is growing bet
ter as work progresses,
Al this season the glllls doT1sit rcat numbers
Of eggs on thoislands OF Mono LaFe. Last week
some men went upon the islands and gathered
over afty dc,en eggs in a hart time,
The city OF Newark, n } contains t,?9S fac
tories, with 20, l32 wOrkmen TIE capital invest
ed is S2 9lq rs and the Oales foot up s66 93 525
As a manufacturing city Newark ranks tenth in
1t iactorIS, working people, and sales, and
eleventh II. capital.
Livery men in New England towns say that
the extending use OF the telephone rs doing
much harm 10 their business. as many persons
who wero accustomed 90 hiie teams 10 transact
business in adjoining places now stay at home
and taN through the wire.
The Bristol New Times says Topaz, gar.
nets ard moss agatesSre picked up hcrcabOuts.
Several specimens were sent to Chicago lapi-
DIARIES and were pronounced genuine. Bristol
may yet boom us II poduper of precious stones
The receipts and exp 0rts of cheese Mt New
York since May | the beginning of the trade
year compare as foNows@
Receipts. Exports
For week ending Nay 30 -..... 52sls ii6i sci
SM 10 week 1881 '............ $500 2013,9b0
Since May !, 1882. .l2ssS5 i5SSi $50
SANE time last year. 49, 66 ZIG, 6gi
gentleman waiting from CohOes, New Yjrl
&c friend In this city, says: 'harmony ills,
employing over 1000 hands, are idle on account
Of the strike Of The operatives against a pro
posed reduction OF IL per cent These mills,
representing an nVt slment of nearly $1,000, 00l
are likely to remain closed until September
The receipts an exports of butter ct New
YORK since May l tshe begin ing of the trade
year. cOmparoTs follows
Receipts, Exports
For week ending Hay 30, 90, SG72s Sor
Same week lHsl ..,...,..,. GI,ls7 26S0S2
Since May /, 1882 .......... Ill $40 I52 Al
Same time last y 'Ar......... 6,79l 92L sos
The Abiln'e Exporter snyS Shipments this
week Cattle, cars wcol, 100 800 pounf s:
horses cars; mutton sheep, 10 ears bones /
ear lumber, l car mcrhundise, ,s9l pounds
Among thu rec eipts were6 cars of Zine sheep,
and one OF cattle Cash receipts for Heights end
tickets, Sl5t00.
o., of Ripley. Mississippi, asks Now many
| oranges single tree has produced IN II single
season. Please. tell him there is n tree In Ala
huny county, loridG- known as the Fort Harry
tree, supposed to b,s selenty-two years. old
which, itil ella med, has BONE as high as IS zoo
another IN st. Johns comfy yields 900: sioth-
| or In Bradford oDunty over 10000 and a lemon
tree thiry-two years old at Fort Reid has
borne over y, 90 The above arcBaid 10 de all
| from actual count. An orange grove at Fort
Reid offVe a!rcs has netted $500 in nine years
or slOOp per rcre each year ThiO information
| ! lcarnca from good authority while touring In
Florida last WINTER % investigate the country and
| Its orange iltereSt.
Abilene Reporter. Another wagon load OF
buffalo and Eat .iisa from the Clear FOX was
| sold OH the streets yesterday, varying in size
| from two to ten pounds At 10 cents PEI pound
| this is'a very agneableohange from beef, and
cheaper.
The following is taken FROM the New York
Tribune:
Quantities of potatoes continue to srriye A,
this port from Great britain and Germany, M
well as fro m Nova Scotia, Prince Edwrrd's Is.
land and New Brunswick. The receipts from
the British provinces have not / cen 81 large a,
| in former years. but the importation from trans
atlantic countries has beon wholly uuprecedcnt
ed, AID II possibility would have been laughed
| NJ. b. most American Farmers u yoapCgo. The
causes of the large importation have been Tho
| uRusuall large crop raised last year In Gresl
| Brltan and Germany, and the small yield al
potatoes In this country Besides the "dvantage
| OF n favorable season for the crop in Great Rr,.
ain, d has been estimated that GO, 600 sores moy
| were plalted year than ever before Their,
had been imported ny to Dccembe. 81, 1891
!N0D sacks OF potatoes. Enough have been
| impo ted since then 10 make over 800 OO(
sacks during the season Ike saci !
though varying in size, ordinarily con.
tain three bushels The foreign potatoes have
usually sold AT about tvo.thirds of the price n
the best American stock The best imported
potatoes would sell nearly as well as The latte-
| were II not that they usually show yellowish
color when cooked. There is also u little prpin
dice among consumers against the foreign artiola
aud In favor Of that raised ut home. The fact
thet previous TO this year the few potatoes
brorght across the Atlantic have been of poor
quality ace UNITS for this prejudice Consumers
may take comfort In the fact that were II not for
the foreign potatoes the home crop would proba.
bly, have cost them s. or more per barrel Some
dealers think they would have sold ut So to e. q
barrel hut these men probably forget that when
Que article of food rises IN price out of proportion
to other articles, people stop buying It. The
business OF importing potatoes from across the
Atlantic has been profitable ore until recently,
when the stock having become badly sproutcd
and liable to decay from that cause Aggravated
by Il Q heat In the steamers holds. the potatoes
have become somewhat of drug In the market,
Recently several thousand sacks of rotten no.
ta,oes ON one of the North river piers had 70 be
put back on y steamer and dumped into the
ocean outside the harbor