The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-24

feet is being demanded for first and second
clear black walnut grades.
Hardware shows an advance in several
| lines, and 1t is long since the situation was
so satisfactory. The paper trade is dull
| and little activity is expected before the
| first of March,
A colony Of 900 colored people is to be at
/ once established on the Helena e Iron
Mountain Railway south of Forest City,
Arkansas.
stock company is organizing at Chatta-
! nooga for the manufacture of stoves, with Il
capital of $4,000 already subscribed.
Clear Lake California; Indians, in the
last week, have caught several loads OF
white trout from twelve to eighteen inches
| i'll length. 1t seems reasonable ConcIu-
| sion that they are the fish put in the lake
in 1872 by Livingston Stone.
Maine farmers report the past year the
most prosperous within their recollection.
Every crop yielded beautifully, and prices
of all products averaged higher than the
present generation has known before.
The sales of wagons in Abilene by the
principal dealers for about nine months are
fifteen car loads about 800 wagons.
The Philadelphia Farmer has already
predicted that there will not he even n fair
crop of peaches next year, should the com
ing winter and spring be favorable. TIE
freezing last winter and the hot, dry fall
told severely. Blossom puds usually prom
incnt before lrostS, are shriveled an show
but little strength.
Farmers in the vicinity of Abilene arc
making active preparations for planting
when the time comes. A large area will lie
planted in corn and cotton this year south
of there, and wheat. ooks fine.
Ten cart loads of fresh salmon from San
rnlrlrprutnr
through this week destined for Southern
Texas. Also, five Cur loads of cotton from
California.
Cabbages and potatoes have been noted
among the unusual importations into this
country rom Europe, and now 4 st. Louis
grocer has received onions from Spain
which he offers for sale. They are
considerably larger than our Amer
lean onions, and are oval in shape,
| like lemon, only two or three times the
! size. The onion flavor is not SO strong in
them, and they are preferable on that nc
count, and especially if eaten raw.
The merchants of Marshall, Texas, are de-
Ginning to furnish supplies on credit to farm
ers, to be paid for out of the proceeds of the
| coming cotton crop, as has been customary
| heretofore. This policy will weigh heavily
on poor farm hands, mostly negroes whose
last years earrings have nearly all been
swallowed up by the merchants and EN-.
! ploycrs for debt, and who will thus be left
ont of means and employment in mid
winter.
So. mcroscopically perfect is the watch
making machinery now in use that screws
| are cut with nearly 800 threads to the inch
though The finest used in the watch has $50
These threads are invisible to the naked
eve, and it takes lii,00O of the screws to
weigh pound, their value being six
pounds of pure gold.
! That wcllknown citizen and thorough
chemist, DIR. Charles Mchr informs us
that he has carefully examined refined cot
ton seed oil, and that he finds it much
| superior to imported olive oil, in chcapness,
purity aud flavor. 1t is superior, also, he
says, TO lard for cooking purposes, and
also cheaper. This may prove u most
important production for the South. Ths
production of olive oil along the coats of
the Mediterranean has been n source of
| great profit TO the countries engaged in H.
aud the South should also reap great adj
vantage from the discovery of the proper
| ties OF cotton seed OIL
James Lynch, in his annual circular, gives
the following estimates of the total wool
! product ofthe Uhitei States in pounds:
1891. 1850 1872
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