The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-11
TRADE ITEMS.

| TnERa arc ISL factoric. and ~ jobblng houses
| In Dubuque.
Nearly $4,000 feet of lumber has been cut
TIL, season at the Peshtigo c0mpany's two mills
fineapples weighing six pounds each are com.
mon in Corley Island, Florida
Tho Marshsltown canning works have on
hand aud ready for the coming season, eO8 30
cans, costing 52l 900.
Georgia papers say that n fortune Is waiting
for the person who succeeds In making sugar
from WalcmrlOns
Peach aud apple brandies will DO distilled in
large quantities this season In Arkansas
Sufficient stock has been pledged aud the plans
prepared for acutlOn-mill of large capacity ut
Appleton, Wisconsin
Thepolice report 1901 telegraph and telephone
poles in the ely Of indianapolis subject to taxa.
ton under the ordinance.
An eggplant Weighing two and three. quarter
pounds Is exhibited NJ Live Oak Florida.
The ton brought by the Arabic ON her late
voyage was the largest shipment that has ever
arrived nj san Francisco vi any time on any ono
ve.sel.
Thore 10 a scheme for supplying New Orleans
with water from II small stream In st. Tammany
parish. called Boguo Falaya through an aquo-
dsct under bake Pontchartrain.
The Lchigh valley IL oyerrun by lIungarians,
Poandors, Russians and Italians, aud now the
Turks arc putting In an appearance. Tho
foreign cheap labor element Is rapidly incrcas-
inE and crowdlng out American workingmen.,
The British ship WalaCctown has lust finish.
cd lohding at Astoria for Liverpool. She takes
II cargo OF -four and salmon valued nj s5OOu0
the most valuable ever shipped from the Colun.
ba river,
The whole country in Albany county, Now
York, within distance of fully mile cnCh Sdo
Of the West Shore railroad, IL stripped of all
kinda OF weeds, some OF which the lower order of
animals vii not eat which the Italian laborcr,
gather aud boil ior greens"
The Aberdeen (MRssSippO COcOonery has
large orders for mulberry trees aud .lk worm
eggs receiving on IN average fifty letters day
from all parts of tho south, and showing tho
practical intcres tho southern people arc taking
IN he silk industry
During the nrst six months of this y0ar thcTo
have been sent by rail eastward from san Fran
cisco OF canned goods, including salmon, $50
OoJ pounds OF coffee l.3i1, $50 pounds ton r. 1856.
800 pounds, wheat S0GSD $50 pounds, barley
3oOO.OOO pounds, beans , oOO. 90 pounds.
well being bored for salt nt Muskegon,
struck oil AZ depth of 30 feet and al the In.
such quantity OF oil In that vicinity rs To war.
rant fuller Developments.
The pooplo OF Naulnchc, CofaX parish,
Louisiana have gone largely into tho cultiva.
iion OF suniloMors. The stems they use whom
dried Tor kindllng wood, the sdedS they give 10
the poultry and to sick horses-they claim that
tho flowers adOrn their premises and ward OF
malaria.
"A German professor announces All invention
FOR Indicating automatically, Coming weather
changes. II combines the indications afforded
10y the barometer, WIND vanu, and hygrumolor
aud for popular use yields, 1t is said II high per.
contAgc OF accurate weather warnings
For the first time In the history Of the com.
monwealth the state prisons of New York were
olf.snstnining III 1851, and there was II surplus
To their credit ~ t5Gi 81 The report for July
LIST past shows surplus OF earnings of ~ s9S 10,
making the surplus earnings Tor ihu four months
of the administration OF superintendent Baker
$40 ~ t3J.
Dennis DinCCn. q farmer on the lower LtChlno
road, Montreal, II about 10 sue the Society lo-
We Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals for having
imported sparrOwa lie declares they have nj.
rady eaten up thirty nCrcS OF barley destroyed
ms potatoes, and made havoc with carly vcguta
hltS lie estimates the number OF sparrow, gu
his and NJ five thousand.
How great are the British interest intho sucx
canal may bu seen from the tact that Of the 3,
UO6 steamers that passed through the canal last
year, 2 81 were British bCiuE - pur cent ut
The total The London standard says Tho
total capital invested IN the shipping uSiu: the
canal during the past year WAS somewhat over
$4,000 t0. or more than One-fourlR the capital
Invested In British shipping. Eighty two per
cent Of tho whole was british, or about $3.50 v.
oOe therefore, between Onc.tilth and ono.i0urth
" Tho whole capital Invested IN British ship
ping Is already In the SucS trade once more
II, as estimated, the freight carried averages an.
nuRly about 30 per cent, OF the capital, the total
freight earned by this shipplng last year must
have amounted to 0yer s7O,0uO,lON OF which ~
rcr cent. or about sN6, 500 100 was tho share uf
the British owners
This amount of tonnage bound for Baltimore
NJ this time has not been oluAllcd IN the rccO-
lection of the oldest merchant The are now on
the Atnnltc the remarkably large lctt OF
eighty one steamships, ninc ships, aud sixty
hargcs, or u total Of 100 crafts of every dGscrip
ton The number oi steamships is particularly
large, and there Is much qualification expressed
ut this ilatIcring evidences of the prosperity of
the commerce of the port Their Coniln. Is IN
consequence OF the considerable rJyivm of the
grain trade of BALTIMORE which was not unfOrc-
seen month ago, when preparations for afford
my proper transportation facilities were made,
with the result above indicated \ busy time
may accordingly he anticipated IN commercial
circles for month 10 come, aud there is every
reason IL hope that the effects OF the revival
viii be experienced throughout the winter.
The law giving the state of Nebraska 100000
acres ot land In lieu OF the sixteenth aud thirty
seventh sections, went into ciilCt June 10Th, lSSl
Two years ago, since that time the state hM
sold l.O1ll acres, or over 1000 acres per month.
Much of the land thus sold il located In Roop.
Elko aud Lincoln counties, aud has been pur,
chased by StOckmen, Considerable land has
been taken NJ In Paradise Valley Sales Of pub
lie land have fallen of somewh hat lately. hut still
th- average will hc prViiy .ood There is great
deal more roOd land Tor eSlO IN various parts ct
the state Since the state has received the 1000.
. acre grant many locator. who had applied
for land under the desert land act have for.
ieitcd their first payments and land oiliie fees.
abandoned their claims and relocated their land
under thc state law, Undlnp itchunpCr and moro
satisfactory The revenue nom tho sale OF these
l0uds amounts to upward OF isOeOOO