The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-16

| N'.NAlN't AsAl'AA7
| - pkgs pounds
FOR week ending Sept 5,... Si,0}S $3.50
| since May /, lSS2 .,..........6 S ~ 25il37t
| same time last year. ..,,.,,.,. sos b1b 9UoL2bl
| Thus far 1882 has been M extraordinary year
| for fires The estimated losses in the United
States for the eight months foot up more than
s6lVO0W0, or 100000 more than the average
| for four years
| The circular ola London frelghtlng house says
Evcry nationality Is flOcking to our building
yards, and. though the American flag Is not
| granted except 10 American built ships, and
| trade between American ports can only ho car
, ned on with American vessels, our cousins arc
beginning to find II Is to their advantage 10 come
| to us whenever their trade Is such that ii can be-
| carried ON under foreign flag aud II few orders
| on their account have been placed lately A
| few steamers were chartered lalrly from the
| United Kingdom to san Francisco and back, At
| about At per ton on their dead weight capacity
| The result is nuNiOusly locked for and II favor.
able, VIII probably Induce moro than one c IN,
| pnuy To open this trade with regular steamer
lines at once aud not wait FOR the opening of the
| Panama route,
The amount ofmackcrcl auded at the port OF
| Wodleet Massachusetts, for the month OF
| August, as compared with the corresponding
| month of last ear, Is MS follows The humber
| ofyoSscls engaged last year was thirty, and tho
number OF barrels landed V2j2 Tho number
engaged this year Is twenty nine, which landed
| S 30 barrels, while the amour, landed the past
month ia over 1000 barrels less than last year
The total amount landed thus lGr this season is
last year.
| Tho drought ut the east Is severe to a degree
| that can hardly be appreciated by people ~ the
west who have had, II anything, more rain than
| thcy wanted New Hampshire and Maine have
| suffered more than Vermont aud Canada and
In the first named state The corn crop will not
| exceed sixth OF The average, Beans arc
| nearly US great n failure Potatoes are about
half crop, while apples have fallen from tho
| trees before maturing Tho pastures are vir.
| lnany dried up.
spanish exports for the six months Of tho year
| ending with June are valued ut El2, b22 679-9n
| Increase of r32j, s3S over 1881. The wine sx.
| ports for June were upward of 100000 itcrs
more than IN June, 1881, but the excess does not
make up for the falling or IN the early part of
| ihc year. The total quantity for that month
was $50 aSl hectolitors, and of that 20 lN hectic.
| iters went IA britain. The greatest falling OIL
| IN any one article during the mouth WAS In oils,
| the exports OF which appear daily to grow less,
owing, II Is said, to the Increasing production OF
seed oils In the foreign markets formerly sup
| pllOdby Spain.
Tho report OF the commissioners OF the Scot
| tsh Fishery board for the year lsSl, issued
| August y, says the herring fishery OF iSSl was,
| with the one exception OF 1850, the largest upon
| record Taking the whole of the fishing upon
the coasts Of scotland the results may be stated
a' follows; Barrels cured, In ,laS barrels OK.
ported, - ~ barrels branded, 1912; brand
with 1850 upon the total number of barrels cured
was In ali 362 ii5, and this was divided between
the east and west coasts ~ follows West coast
decrease, 65,6Jah, east coast decrease, 200 75lA
| Tho quality Of tho behring's OF lSSl was, how,
ever, superior 10 that TOT 1850. The total Dumbci
OF hshluB boats employed In the herring fishing
OF leSl was 500, being IN Increase Of IS oyol
tho previous year Tho number NJ fishermen
engaged was iSlll or 900 more than m 1850
| There WAS also marked increase IL
the capital employed. Tho value of the boat.
was t6I2 .M In lSal, rs against fa5d,gi6 II
1850, while the nets roso 80 f66S b72 from f6lQ
or, tho limos alone showing Il tritng decrease
| The total value OF the material was flOyy4 In
excess Of that used In 1850. In the cod and Inns
fishery ll5,5ljs huudrcdwclphs were cured
dried, ana SOihh barrels cured In pickle, Aut
the quantity exported was I'll, il6 hundred
weight cured dried, being decrease from the
preceding year " 10 III hundredwoighu In the
, , quantity cured dried. and $40 barrels In ih,
quantity cured In pickle, and of ~ 30 hundred
weights cured driod In the quantity exported
Tho Boston Commercial bulletin states tina
mn excellent opportunity Is offered this year To-
tho expectation Of American apples to kuglan,
Z aud continental Europe The apple crop II
, both Great Britain and tho continent IL almost
failure, aud TINS tho continental countries IN
| stead OF being important shippers tn tho Eng
. fish markets whore their iruit come. in compc
. lltlou with our apples, Will this year have 4
!, look TO this country fOrsuppllCS. Last soaso
was an unsatisfactory one ~ American an
Canadian shippers, rs the English and cont
$ mental crops were large and good, whilo on
| frult was scarce aud NJ poor Keeping quality
!. and generally arrived in poor condition. lloN
I over tho fancy descriptions and especially IN
NytOn pippins, which sro very popular
England, sold NJ high prices aui which prov,
what the English now admit that there
!. 10 ttuit grown which Is equal IN or can oou
N rele with the best qualities of American Al
pies