The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-12

THE principal articles exported from
Mexico are specie, hides, fruit, dye-woods,
silver ore, orchil, hennequen, sugar, coffee,
lead, cattle, mahogany, cedar, bullion
pearl shell, maize, beans, cheese, coqulto
oil, istlc, Brazil wood, copper, cocoa, cord
age, straw hats, hammocks, satt, RUBBER
vanilla, sursapurilu, honey, chtle, tobacco,
indigo. cigars, grdma marble, jalapa root,
medicine pal,ts, cochineal, aniseed, barley,
wax figures, etc Total exports to June,
1878, SOS, m, 5US.O7, of which S2i,15J 3-j was
silver coin and bullion, and $GulS, IeJo'
general merchandise.
Sugar-cane culture is peculiar to Lou
isiana and Southern Texas; various forms
of sorghum, however, are raised ID many
States of the Northwest or the upper MISSES
sippi valley. The Department OF Agrcul-
tire estimates the production of cane sugar
in Louisiana in the year lo59-SO at IiO,0OO
tons. But the production in the year be-
fore was only IL, 900 tons, ana 1t had Deeh
considerably less than that Tor many years.
The rice crop is produced in the Two Car
olinas and Georgia, and the last three crops
have been a. follows: 1879, lOl,326 tleIces;
1880, 80, S79 tieyccs; 1881 (estiuated), oi'ooO
tiercCs.
The largest steam boiler in the world was
recently finished ut Weiscnthal, Baden,
The proprietor of the works gave his work
men a lunch inside the boiler, which was
brilliantly lighted up, and i'll which there
was a staging with u table set for thirty
people. :,
Thirty-six shipwrecks were. reported III
England during the week ending December
10, making total of l,S6S for the present
year, or an increase OF 3lS as compared MN M,
the corresponding period of last year. The
approximate value of the property lost wa was
IS 500 600, including British, 3,0OO,OOO The
number of persons lost and missing were
siXty-tive.
A Pittsburg glass manufacturer proposes
to erect buildings of glass, manufacturing
the materials the size of a common Drick.
| He saws that the cost will not exceed that
of a cut granite building, and, with inc
material colored, fine effects can DC eoltel'
There are 500 miles of streets III san
Francisco, % miles of whH.r:9 paved with
cobble, 20 stone blocks alt, 81 broken
stone, q wood plank, al. With wooden
blocks. The cost of eaCu, relatively, pei
square foot, is: Cobbles, 20 cents; basalt
| blocks, % cents composite, y cents; ma
cadanl, y cents; wood block, 70 cents; plank
! ing, 10 cents.
According to the census returns, the an
nual g,luct of salt in the United states Il
nearly -, $4,000 bushels.
! The Baltimore Sun reviews the commerce
of that city for the past year, and does ho'
| find it satisfactory. The decrease IN eX
ports, as compared with last year, was SIP,
694 ,S47, and in imports $23S7 $50; The
greatest falling off was in the lard, lumber
Buffalo meat sells at Glendiye, NJ. T., al
three and half cents per pound, and veni'
son at from eight to ten cents.
George w. Dillon, Yellowstone, NJ, 4,
buffalo hunter claims to have killed 3,ooC
buifaloes this year.
The pineapple crop of Monroe county
Florida, is an unusually large one. The
farmer will cut 100000 the present season.
The Green Bay furnace is now making
an average of about $50 tons of pig-iron PEI
week, and is stocked with ore for the win
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