The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-25
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A nrc pea croo Is one of the boasts OF Aikan'
Siursis, Illinois, ships $500 bushels of toma-
'o There are only 262COo Indians Ia the United
'' Dried figs from California retail in Virginia,
Nevada ct % cent pound.
a good qualify of bi umiSous coal has been.
found in Arizona.
The pinenp, le of Florida Is becoming second
in Importance to the orange anu lemon
A ,ooth-p:ct f4ctory in Haibor sprin 81 us S
% OpO cord, of woo d per aDnum.
one stalk Of the Mexican bean t 80 variety,
growing in Unadilla recently !.ielded 2O3
beans.
on grand buffalo hunt. o. I'd on the seventh
dav. near Fort Yates, thew tOrralled a herd OF
LOO head and killed ii hut two The affair
wound up with big east an war dance.
The crop OF orsns' q in Florida this year VIII
A farmer of Re .dleten oregon, hes supplied
the produce IN Arket with seven tons of tomatoes
this season.
The Virp .aia peanut crop, which is the larg-
est and oct of the kind, Is complete iaii-
1t ! sdnatei that the Mississippi food of 1882
car sed $50 100000 damages in twenty Eight par
Js1snese persiinmons are produced 10 Flor
/ ida to measure nine inches in circumference
and weigh eight ounces. ,,
A iadV OF Crystal Springs, Mississippi hes
/ made SIX hunureu pOuHus VI Su6oi AVN AAASS-
/ fourths of au acre Of cane this season. go,
| Mr. Jonas Caskey has pumkin on eXhiol,
ito, his grocery store In kirksVllle' winch
tips the beam a. 80 pounds -o,
feet long, but nevertheless the Ananias OF that
state says the vine has produced 4oo pounds OF
melons this season.
ball of raw silk weighing ten pounds and
eight ounces, AID containing 10000 yards OF
| thread in each of sixty til ee skeiu or TOTAL
Of 5000 Yards, is on exhibition in the New
Odeans Cotton Exchange ~ >.
| The Hoopeston Illinois canning factory Is
working night and day with two seis OF hands,
and puts up from 5000 to 10000 cans of fruits
| and Vegetables in tweniy-four hours.
g Sn DESTROYS yeTn&S The yo Ssae
| Try penetrate suddenly into the channels ana
| die when the current is quickly shut on;
, An English syndicate mas bought C0o acr,s
of land north of Omaha, which they propose 10
| Law ont as a city, to be called New Edinburgh.
| 1t will have great stock yards ana canning ca
Establishments.
The New York mercantile exchange Tuesday
denounced the sale OF "butteIine' for bntt.r,
| ana appointed a committee to confer with the
| legal authorities for its preventioM
The farmers in the vicinity of Hartford, Con-
necticut are charged by a local paper with the
oifense of buying oleomargarine in Hartford:
taking 1t to their FARMS moldlpg ~ over Gnu
| supplying their city customers with 1t as the
productof their own dairies.
organized by the election of ex-Postmaster-
! G ener al James as president, and J. c. Hueston
as secretary Ths project is 10 lay q new and
| improved cable frVm point on the nearest
| coast of England to a point near New f0rk,
| probably on the inner shore OF Long lslanu:
IL is said that the money has been so far secured
az to make the enterprise certain Of success.
The Bee-kse ers convention OF the Dorth,
west ir &c ssiun in Chicago, received stafsucai
report moving that the total number Of colonies
rep' esented BY members in the association last
sp'ing was 4 80, and the present number was
1904 The number of pounds OF honey extract,
ed this season was $4,000 and the number oil
pounds of comb honey was 10000.
The revenues of the treasury from custom
duties and taxes on whiskey, beer, and tofacco
continue very large. During the last week
they am 1unted to S. 4s6 600 from du'ies 81 49,.
900 FRI IN taxes, Monday $4,000 from duties and
1873 00s from taxes, making total for seven
days ST. IS ZOO. Tho set cash balances IN the
treasury Monday morHing were SIS, CAS-, 40.
The exports of domestic produce from the
port of New York during the past week were be-
low the usual average the total being 70. t9,55O.
against SC los 9SS for the same week last year
Tho movement of breadstuffs generally is light,
though The shipments # orr, are falr. Flour
is moving out slowly, and there is but little
what being shipped. The exports Of proyi
ious and cotton are rather light, bat theie IL a
fair movement OF petroleum. Since January !,
the axpor = aggregate 2sl, Oil 81, compared with
sOcs Og 1QS for tho CORES pOndng period OF il 2.