The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-18
TRADE ITEMS.

Tho straits of Mdekinac are open TO naviga.
Uou.
Eighly.hyo thousand tons Of fertilizers were
sold In North Carolina for the year 1871
The supreme court OF Mississippi has decided
that county buildings are not sublcc, to mcchan
les lien.
the convention of 1856 tobacco men was held
in Washington on Wednesday, the 18th inst.
Az Berlin IL, 0OO persons attended at six mass
meetings TO protect against the tobacco monopoly
bill.
The country ovcriowcd In southern Ken
lucky and Tennessee supports 500 people.
Blk thousand pounds of iron IL being used to
barricade the doors and windows OF the Mari
eta Jail.
AtDcxter, Tennessee, last week the ground
frosc, with the peach trees ull In bloom aud the
nrass growing.
Seven southern states do more shaking and
use more quininc than all the rest of the Onion
put together.
Tho Imports of potatoes from Europe into New
York amounted to 1921 bags for the week end.
ing March 10. Since January the imports have
been s3a, 30 bags, equal to 099 600 bushels.
A Florida paper says that vast quantities of
blind mosquitoes are caught In the swnmps OF
that state for fertllzlng purposes.
A car.lond of oranges was received from Los
Angeles, California, In Chicago, They were In
good order aud Of good appearance and were
hcad At $500 to si,oOpcr box,
Albnnys electric Hight company hns just put
IN two more engines of 100 horsepower, The
company has now four engines with capacity
Of blOiIghts There are now ~ lights burning
every night In that city, aud iiIiy-six more soon
will DO
Half grown peaches from trees that bloomcd
In December are shown In irazoriu.
The imports of potatoes from Europe Into New
York amounted 10 1921 bags for tho week end
lpg March 10 Since January the imports have
been 49,, 80 bags equal TO ogg geo bushels
Some corn and cottn is already up In
Colorado county, but the acreage planted yet Is
small
Kansas City stands next 10 Chicago IN the
number OF hogs packed the same season. There
Is reason for some Of tho jealousy of ST. Louis
toward Its young rival
Refuse cedar Is likely 10 become of markcta-
bic value Puget Sound loggcrs have been
instructed to forward all the refuse cedar that
can be obtained, In consequence Of u sudden
demand for that kind of lumber In South
America
Two samples Of nour made from Hungarian
wheat shipped from budapest Hungary, were
exhibited on Change to-day. Tho quality iscx-
cecdingg fine Tho samples were forwarded
merely rs novelty.
-Four or five years ago California salmon wore
planted IN the Colorado river and the other day
4 one weighing two pounds was caught
LONDON, March IA, Ten thousand ninc hun.
bred bales OF wool were sold to day. comprising
Fort rhillip, Queensland aud sydney imports
There was good demand, and rates were main,
tained.
Qswego and suspension bridge parties nro cx.
pcrmt9ttng with view TO using the telephone
over the regular telegraph wires The result
thus fur, over n distance of 1872 miles, has not
boon highly satisfactory,
Everywhere free, white skilled labor aud i'm.
proved farm implements aud machinery have
lheodvaniage over colorcd, unskillcd lNoor and
iarm implements that are behiud the times
twas originally intended tn make the dome
oEthe new ralas dc Justice In brussels. at cop.
per, but Il has now been decided to use papicr.
machc MS the material OF It's construction. When
completed II VIII not weigh moro than slN,ccu
tons
Tho following table exhibits hc exports from
New York for the week ending ON the dates
mined
MarehS March Fob. % March o
Flour bris iSIa 1850 SSH ISL SsN
Wheat hu .6i7,7il 7l9SOd 5SlQSS i,lai6la
Corn, bu ,lOa,e0S ilOS3 Ni6i5 90 nj
A large ilcct of vessels cleared At the New or
leans custom house the 9th inst, with carguos
halcs of cotton, GL0O0 bushels OF wheat 1857
bushels corn, dl6S sacks oil cake. and large
quantities Of slaves and snndry merchandise
These exports, says the picayunc, have seldom
fever been cquallcd al that port Yesterdays
report OF grain eNpor, from New Orleans was OF
$50 bushels Of wheat
Congressman Jacobs estimates the amount of
olcomargarinc manufactured last year In New
Work city and tue state of New York ut 10 TOO 900
pounds. aud no also estimates that ilG,ON 900
pounds can I've manufactured IN n single year
while the entire butter product of the state, for
the year ISIS, was ili,olSilS pounds lie also
calls attention 10 the fact that tho money value
nt the dairy product II between 500 IOOUO and
sOonsolou, and that from 400, 100 to 5000 OOj of
the Amcrlcnn people are Interested IN this IN
aunfy AMI we CAPITAL Invested In Il aggregates
phc table below shows the cNpors or slndry
farm products from New York for the weeks
ending on the dates named