The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-03
TRADE ITEMS.

TRADE ITEMS.
The attempt to light the streets Of Liver
pool by electricity is to be discontinued.
1t IS understood that the project of ship
canal across Cape Cod has been abandoned
recent surveys showing that the cost would
be 81 100000 more than was expected.
The cost of feeding the prisoners in San
Francisco is low. Last year, in that city,
meals were furnished prisoners to the Huln-
Der OF Al $50, at an average cost of Al cents
per meal
The woods of Maine are TO be stocked
with quail from California.
An unusually large number of bullaloes
are being slaughtered in Montana, between
Poplar creek and the Yellowstone river.
Troy, New York, with $4,000 inhabitants
has an average of twelve advertised letters
weekly, and Rochester, with 100, 900 inhabi-
tants, has advertised only eighteen letters
since January LIST.
ihere are in the state of Kansas 2,2i0, 1856
rods of board fence, 1858, 700 of rail, ,l0O.-
lD of stone, l4,70O,6l OF hedge, and 5GO7,-
6S9 of wre-an aggregate of S. 1855 miles of
| fence. The total value of these fences is
estimated at SO, 1880.
During the past year there were built in
Milwaukee total of S,3G3i lineal feet of
new sewerage, or length Of q little more
entire sewer system of Milwaukee now CON
Slsts of about 100 miles, and cost 81 ,li5,-
| 1921,
Three deer-skinncrs took little hunt
! last month in the Galice Creek mountains.
| Oregon, and in two,wceks brought in eighty
deer skins. The last night they camped
out before they came into the, settlements
| they were without meat.
There are twenty-five ports Of entry in
the United States where no dutiable mer-
| chandise is entered; and it follows that
there are twenty-five. collectors of customs
with no customs TO collect
big, white bclied shad have become a
| very common fish now in Alabama, caught
| by nets out of the Alabama river.
About next season we will have the earn
| too.
New cabbage and cucumbers have made
their appearance in Chicago, n few small
consignments being received last week from
New Orleans, The former are sold ut S5d6
per crate, and the latter at SO per dozen.
Bermuda tomatoes in Squart boxes were
quoted ut S200G2 % per box.
Statistics show that the total cubic feet of
sandstone qunrried in Indiana in 1881 was
9i6O47; cubic feet of limestone auarricd.
2,i43 ,iD; bushels OF lime burned, |, lbs, $50:
bushels OF cement manufactured IA, 500;
tons OF coal mined, 2,l2S, 977; tons of fire.
clay, 202S3S.
twenty-five years ago the city of Albany,
with q population of $1,000, consumed $50
pounds OF opium and 375 ounces of morphia
annually Now, with population f9l,0O0,
there are $500 pounds of opium and $500
ounces of morphia sold every year
No state in which the lumber business
mas been extensively carried on has suffered
so little from forest fires MS Maine. The
reason Is very apparent, and is due to a
species OF forest preservation which is
practiced nowhere else in America. The
large trees are cut, leaving the smaller ones
TO shade the earth, and thereby so much
nuthlulty Is retained as to make the run
ming ola fire next to impossible.
a hen at Pawtucket, II. l., was arrested
the other day charged with stealing a young
mans 500 diamond pin. There was no
evidence discriminating the hen beyond the
naturally reckless passion of her sex for
trumpery, yet after three days of durancc
vile she was behcadod and the missing
stones were found snugly hid away in her
Maryland and West Virginia have an un.
settled dispute OF long standing involving
,he right to half million acres of fertile
lana. Charles III. made grant in 1869 OF n
large tract, bounded ON the north by the
Potomac" There are two branches of the
river, and the northern one was taken MS
the line, which became the boundary of the
states but Maryland has never given mn
her claim, and new attempt is now bein,
made to get the territory.
All persons entering the public houses
hotels, restaurants and liquor saloons-of
brlstol England, between the hours of :
and II on the evening OF Saturday, January
I, were counted, with the following result.
Ola population OF SS0OO, los, 600, or more
than ono'halt entered the public houses
IN four hours. OF this number 5.OTl
were men, 3B,SO3 women and 1915 chill.
drcn.
Maryland maintains little navy to on.
force her laws relating TO the aystrr nshe.
rleS, and Chesapeake bay l. mapped with
Imaginary boundary lines. the wrongful
crossing OF which 1t Il the duty Of the oyster
police to prevent, That these officials nre
active is indicated by the ct that several
drcdgers are killed or wounded every Son.
son, and the county iails along the shore
are frequently crowded with captured of.
Tenders. "
The growth Of the iron and steel industry
NJ the United states has been very remark. |
able. In lSl0 we produced only 5000 TONS
OF iron' and our largest furnace could !
yield only LOO tons annually. hut In 1870 !
Ine product was 10000 tons, In 1850, /, 600. |
w tons IN 1850 the iron and steel works of |
the United States produced : ,al5, 100 IONS
The aggregate snnual product of our manu-. |
featuring aud mechanical industries Is now |
more than SBOD1,0D,ON1. of This vas,
product less than 500 700 coo are exported |
And OF the SOO0,0O.OO produced by nsri. |
culture less than 10 per cent Is exported. |
According TO the British statistics tho |
enormous number of 2UD shipwrccks took |
place throughout the world In 1881, or, ON /
an average, six q day. The value of the |
property lost is estimated at 81, 400, OJOO0j. /
This was an increase of $50 vessels over
lSSo,, and of about S50o,Oo0Ooo IN pronertv.
The loss OF life also was very great, the liif.
ures being i,lA persons. which includes
umLi.ets, seainen and passengers. Great
Britain was. OF course, the seyercst snfisrsr
more than 900 of her vessels having been