The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-25
TRADE ITEMS


AN oconomowoe man has an army of
boys catching snapping-turtles at cents n
pound which he ships TO New York and
sells for IL cents.
Nearly al the farmers in the lower foot
hills OF Placer county, California, are SET
ting out grapevines this season,
Laplanders sometimes posses from 500 to
900 reindeer.
Manlstee mills manufactured go Gas. 600
shingles in the year 1881.
The shoe trade in Chicago made up n
purse oil S2,OO for the relief of sufferers by
the fire at Haverhll.
II has cost twice as much to take care Of
the criminals rs to educate the children of
Nevada, the figures since 1865 being for
state prison, 1857 900; for schools, SlGS 800,
Honey made entirely by machinery is ON
sale in the New York markets,
since the late decision et the Tennessee
supreme court iavoring the regulation
party in the state, certain water.works con.
tractors have refused to build the Knoxville
water-works upon her bonds.
The statistics OF manufacture in st. Paul,
coIlected Tor the local chamber of commerce
cover I9f establishments, employing s,937,
was Sl6,O7l ,53i
correspondent of the London Statist
shows that pound of tea, sold in China for
less Than four cents, costs the consumer In
London 80 cents, 80
Inc United States consumed during the
year 1881, iif, 5OOO 900 gallons of malt li1uor
ported. ''
THERE'S q large field of grain near the
town OF Williams, Cal, which is kept fed
OIL completely to the ground by ducks and
moo no one ever saw q duck upon it,. They
come on dark nights. Great numbers Of
lhem come about IL o'clock and 20 away
about 4 o'clock in the morning feeding
some four or five hours
The new American ship, General Knox,
has been loaded at Norfolk with the largest
cargo OF cotton ever put on shipboard ut
mat port. Her cargo consists of 500 bales.
She was built at Thomaston, Maine.
inc smallest county in the United States
has the largest population, the county of
New York, in the state of New York. Ii
sovers onty twenty square miles.
paper published in the Pennsylvania
regions says: The trade in anthracite coal
is very much dcmoralized. The demand i !,
small, owing to the mildness ofthe weather
aud holding off ofbuyers. Some sizes are
accumulating, and stove and broken more
especially have been getting weaker, Under
selling Is so common that IL is folly TO talk
| OF circular prices.
Cleveland takes to itself much conprn,u.
lation that the largest iron steamer nfloat
on the lakes has Just been launched from
one OF the ship.yards of that city, The si,e
on the vessel lisa length of 1924 feet over nil,
beam, ~ feet; depth of hold, q feet anI
uraft, when loaded, of ltl feet. Its cannc.
NY Is 5,VoV gross tons, or 100000 bushels ot
corn nLd its cost $4,000. The vessel is
Intended to ply in the grain trade of the
The steel rail manufacturers who adm,,
an annual dividend of over one hundred
per cent. ON S2,VO,0O0 capital Invested In
Their business, certainly need a little more
protection. One hundred per cent, il
the mercst triilc. ="
In 1851 The importations of wine In cases
~ New York amounted to S3,525, s7i,
against ", i$0,sW In lSso-an increase OF
SuV,osi The increase OF importations of
wine IN casks for the same period Is said 10
be sSS1,I5l. The importations OF cham.
payne IN 1870 amounted to 12s,7O8 baskets,
IN lSsS to l6l ,2l4, and In 1881 TO 22i. gsj
baskets. The importations Of other wine
amounted In 1870 10 1T3,1i4 packages, In
p IsH ~ 70 iM ,v9 packages, and in ISL to
Lc Lcuisianais states that Mr.. ], Lspor,e
IL preparing one acre Of land for the purposs
OF planting jute. IL recommends yonnv
men to follow the example OF this enter.