The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-22
TRADE ITEMS.

, i"lhloLS are again DelnS shipped away
from Utah.
The exports of butter from New York
last week were 927 packages.
The exports of cheese from New York
last week were "a, S37 boxes.
Pulaski Tennessee, has contracted to
have its streets lighted with gas.
The loss to England by the last three
years bad harvest is estimated at from
Sl00,00O0 900 to $3.50 900, 900 year.
The sales Of wool in Boston last week
reached |, S07 ,20G pounds.
Ice cream is now served in molds to re-
senblc asparagus.
A bridge now nearly completed at Acton.
Pa, 3Ol feet from the bottom of the rayine
1t crosses, is the highest in the world. 1t is
2,05l feet long.
Grasshoppers in midwinter is the latest
novelty IN Westchester county, New York.
1t is said that Chicago and New York
parties are, looking after ice supplies in
ontario, and making contracts mt what are
called fabulous prices.
Nashville is retailing Irish potatoes at
three for five cents.
Indiana last year raised Cos ,0i0 pounds
oftobacco, valued at $5,05S06i. The cult
Walton is confined to the southern counties.
The coal product of the United States in
1850 is reported by the census office at
2S,6i6,991 tons of anthracite and 4, 400, 5Sl
tons of bituminous, u total of II ,O67 $40
tons, against 80, S63. 800 in 1870.
Not one in one hundred of the pioneers of
Nevada, says the Carson Appeal, has $500
to call his own.
The printed census reports will fill 20 600
pages.
The Fargo (Dakota) Republican says:
indications are prominent that southern
Minnesota will abound in creamerics the
coming season They are proving paying
Institutions
Four quarts of Strawberries from Florida
arrived in Chicago and found purchasers AT
81 per quart.
The lllion, New York, Citizen remarks;
Some wealthy Boston tanners have pur.
chased the hcmlock bark on 5000 acres OF
timber land in the Adirondack region, and
propose soon to strip the trees
There is u growing scarcity OF fine wool.
in the Boston market, and for fine fleece,
materially higher prices are predicted. Tn,
medium and low grades are in ample sup
ply and moderate demand with easy prices
The honey product the United States l.
this year estimated ut ~, 900, 600 pounds.
The commissioner of customs of Canada
by order of the council, has Just placed sal
cake on the free list when used by manufac
W NAN VI kAdSN ullN SUPP
The government have decided not /,
reopen the st. Lawrence river betwce,
Prescott and Montreal so as TO admit YES
sells drawing fourteen feet, the capacity o
the new Welland canal. The improvement.
will, however, be made in lSSi,
The mildness of the winter In Swcdci
has prevented the transportation of pro
duce, and there is great distress among tn,
| farmers.
Owing, 1t is supposed, to the remarkabl,
mildneSS of the weather, cxtraordinar,
catches of fish have been made on the coas
of Scotland. At the port Of Stonchavcr
alone, In one week, no fewer than 1000
haddocks were landed, and In five days ~
tons OF fish were dispatched from liver
ness.
The entire production of iron ore in IN
United States In lSSO, according to the cen
sus, was 100000 tons.
Compressed paper pulp Is successful,
used in the manufacture of doors, wall pan
clings, and for other similar purposes, witt
the result that all risk If warning nm,
cracking is obyiatcd, while increased light
ness is attained aud the fear of dry.rot
forever banished.
The domestic receipts and exports an
foreign imports of hops at New York con,
pare as follows
| Nortc. StnrC sam
Fast spending sent, tim
week week ~ ISL last rn,
Domestic tectS,..lald $50 Gl&l DIS
kNpu to EnrOpc,.L2A Lon ggas nj 7u
| m'pts ium.kurupc - .. lNN I5s
The postmaster eneral has issued an oi
der declaring that Hour need not be put M
In sealed envelopes before being inclnsed 1,
metal boxes for mailing II Is no longer |,
be included In the list OF articles which,
not properly secured. might damage othc
contents OF the mail.
The receipts and exports Of butter nj Ne,
York since May 1.-The beginning Of the trad
year, compare as follows:
Receipts Exports,
, For week ending Feb H.. glipi as
same week In ISL ,u.... g7.piO lsiis
since May J. ISL taeslt
same time last year. ....i.iSk2sl sAssi' p
, The receipts and exports of cheese a
!, New York since May compare a. follows
Rcccipts, Exports,
For week ending Feb 4, isoas iiiars
Samc week In is,l.u.... iptp f.2~l =
slnr May ! lSsiAA.4.. sTNlsia i,iisas
sam. Time last year. s...,i23lssi iiaslsai
Wabash Is considering the question /,