The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-18
TRADE ITEMS.

VIRGINIA CITY man recently sold ms nome n
tend un me CumsJJck, for Whluh nc phiu e--'o
sfor 5000. .,o.a,,, Gan por
The bee keepers in Los Angeles and san per
nar,i,nu counties say thee has never nreh pel
Ter prospect for large yield oil money 'll"h no"
since November 10Th last, the commencement,
of The shipping season. there have been shipped
from the Santa Ana depot, Ca,llolhil' ,h3ta
boxes of oranges, 7S9 boxes Oh hlicS al" a''
IL is sn,,i lint a farmer living near Santa Ana
intends TO make an experiment III wy uuia, i,S
Of rice He has had experience III INC vu'u,a
ton of rice in the plantations OF me soutn anu
rs satisfied that II Will grow IN Los Angeles
county. IIo will procure the seed from Louis
lana. ,r ,o,oooo
A dispatch from 81. Louis says leaf tobacco
has improved during the week, and although
mIyers ana sellers are still apart they are not 80
far away from each other as they were , l.,
In his experiments with the strength Oh III
sects, Plateau, the French naturalist mas user.
tanned that, IN proportion 10 us Size June o"S
In as powerful as Il locomotive ,,,.
The strike of the log boom men NJ Muskcgo'l'
Michigan, is proving serious injury W '.o 1n,,
cago lumber market ana u loss W 'no Vessels
engaged In carrying lumber.
According to the London Times inc com
mined In the United Kingdom In 1871 exceeds
tho products of 1850 by l,Wo, 90 tons, when wa.
largely in oIscss of any preceding year. amount
ing TO i6SlS,622 tons. ,,, ,...
The Winnemucca (Nevada) silver state says
potatoes are now being shipped from here 70
points on the southern Pacific i':i',oau az ~ a,
fornia. Az the freight is from slOl RsV per
Car.load, there is not much profit IN the Dusi'
ness for the shipper
The good work of restocking the upper waters
of the Hudson with salmon Sill cohuhues.
loi Of |, 600 was placed in the Balm oil uieao,
tributary of the Hudson; ias' WeeE h, Shn o
Roslyn, Long Island, this week, to be piah'eu III
Salmon river, u stream of Oswego county ms
was formerly II fine salmon stream, putlts Wa'eis
have been depleted for many years.
The Lancet calls attention 10 the ihcrcusiIB
adultcralion OF beer with salt espec ally tho
seat Of Tendon, where one analyst tepor'eu snnt
twenty. four samples examined ny MN uuiinE
tho last quarter contained salt Inc quhnuH
nj salt. although not stated, Is presumed to nave
been sufficient to constitute case ot auuilera-
ton. The Lancet says: The purpose o, ,le
salt Is of course TO make me Oeer-urlhkoi
thirsty and 10 induce him 10 drlhN more thhl nc
first intended" and II adds that the ouonse Is
acrime which ought to BY punished with eN'
Oseding severity a., .,,,s. q
Chincotcague letter IN the Baltimore sun, Is nov
very active and has reached an Interest interest
lion OF The modus operandi will perhaps
DO new aud entertaining TO many Oh .ho
oyster.loving readers ot the sun There ae
nj least thirty vessels engaged In the business
Tho oyster 'plants grow III me mouth OF Tue
James river, some eighty miles from ,ii' PuVvI
and II takes u trip OF about hve days iot goou
schooner with favorable WINS, to make tho trip
vol n load and return. Every morning iieet
leaves this harbor for Hampton roads the
schooners having capacity oil from 5oo 10 Low
bushels each the average being NV pusheis,
THE beds of plants, whsch are known III inc
trade as "culiintines," are rich IN the natural
growth In the roads, and hand can WIN ms
longs take up one hundred bushels u DAY oi the
young oysters. They are about the s,4e ni nan
az mn English walnut, and he gets cents per
hushel making wages at from " Ia ~ per day,
A favorable lrip of IRON twelve 10 hiteen hours
nuts The vessel In Chincotcaguc bay, when they
are mostly planted N the Maylana waters from
ff,cen TO twenty miles above THE point
Thc plai,til 4 consists In scattering them IN The
6ny SO that they will be thcely NJ the bottom
ri The water and not more than touching eaeh
other The whole COS. OF P.as i"S Tc SSS 81
cents A bushel lie has his ground, or his water
rather stakcd oil, and In Two years MS oyslers
are large enough 10 be taken up ana sent To mar
Lct They command 90 cents buShel nero, VI
Al 10 In baltimore Philadelphia, aud New York,
and the finest IS per barrel otthrec bushels:
Thc shipping trade is still quite lively here
and boal.ioads for Philadelphia are every day
BENG made IN, ihe trade Will not close uhu
,,nens, ramphle, describes the origin o
ihc nniu,n trn(ie IN conducted under the auspl'e
OF the Nitish government inrhl,hinS, ~ !,
does, to Mat power, large TART OF US lnalan
rey,uuc A recent parliamentary blue ,nool
states The net opium revenue for lMlf
az AVS SsS OOS' Eishty.eight thousand sevei
hundtsd eighty mine chests were sold
About half oil this quantity was produced II
bengal aud sold In Calcutta al 500 per chesL
net poht OF SIS The remainder OF The opium
came nom Central lndia, aud was eSpoTle,
from bombay. ON this expectation " TAX oi ~
per chest was paid the English government |
Is estimated thnt there are In China one millio
smokers OF Indian opium, They cNpend -,
100 OVO per annum. Altogether the smokers =
opium In China number al least two mnl3n'
siehu0ov OO each year The opium statistics 70
The United States are relatively formidable, Tn
DEVELOPMENT In the impottations IL alarmin
enouph to warrant ncareiul study OF the sui
icct Tho importatioAs In is6g into this count
tsyerc Oh w pounds of opium OF u gold value
SSsn sol Five yeats later the imports amountc
10 no FOG POUNDS an increase of almost ZOO y,
cent, the money value OF which was sgib, 81
In the following three years tho inrrca
was marked, so that In 1877 the quantity T
ported was 80, 10 pounds, IN ls,e crude opiu
was brough, to this country 10 tnc amount
g,S7is lbs, while In 1850 the quantity hal
creased ltl per cent Mhrphia an alkaloid
opium, was imported In 1879 to the extent OF INC
than 400 ounces, and four yeas later IN NJ
York alone there were received Ssov ounce
The estimates concerning the extent otdrug O.
sumption are necessarily imperfect but 80 lM
anumber as 4 OUOO II given Us the estimate
opium.ca,crs In the United states These u.s.
oi the drug require nearly b,OVNOO grains TO =
isiy them each year The allowance obe mu
for smuggling viii increase the sad totals TO
recorded, Throughout the country The hahi
developing. Local statistics. said 10 be entit
and Kentucky, report three 10 Xix opium'eat
h, avprv In inhahitauta