The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-29
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4 bed q mari has been discovered .
Culhbert, Georgia.
Apples arc very abundant and cheap II
LeayenwOrth.
Chattanooga wants 70 tax the drummer
800 each.
The Arkansas legislature has passed q
stringent law for the protection Of timber.
The state Of Arkansas has granted 7,6l0
acres of splendid pine lands 70 tie Lindsay
Land & Mining company,
Camomile for medicinal purposes, BIT
ters, etc., is now cultivated extensively in
Augusta county, Virginia.
The produce dealers in indianapolis have
shipped 1874 800 eggs 70 New York, 70 be
used on Easter.
The legislature Of Alabama has defined
bushel OF cotton-seed TO be tkir.y-two
pounds ayoirdupois.
r. McKinstry, of Hudson, New York,
owns the largest apple orchard in the
world-30, 900 trees on 800 acres.
| Reports from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, say
| that the frost few nights since has cut
down the fruit crop.
Beyond the Mississippi river there are
100000 square miles not settled by white
men.
The Mare Island navy yard employees
will commence working ten hours day on
and after Thursday.
! In Birmingham, Alabama, chickens are
almost as much luxury az they we're DUR
| ing the late war.
A Joint stock company has been projected
| to start brewery az Aldershot, where on
an average, the soldiers are SAID to spend
| $4,000 year in beer.
Admission, Alabama, the present terminus
of the Georgia Pacific railroad, has two
! iron furnaces, q cotton factory, big Hour
mill and car-wheel foundry and machine
shops.
A man who now lives near Franklin, KY.
has a SOW that has kept his family in meat
thirteen years. He has moved five times,
but has never needed pento accustom her
to new home.
Captain Phelps, near Stockton, has vine
twenty-five years old and thirteen inches in
circumference. II covers over 1000 square
feet OF ground.
The Union City Manufacturing company,
of Tennessee, has received an order from
Texas tor $4,000 worth Of spokes, hnbs,
felloes and wagon gearing.
| A new factory law goes into force May l,
| in Russia, which proyidesthat no child I'M
der u shall be employed in factories, and
those between u and 10, who work, shall
attend school at least three hours day.
| The beet-sugar factory TO be put in oper-
alton at York, Pennsylvania, expects TO
work up 80, 900 tons of beetsper season, from
which will be manufactured 1920, 900
pounds ofsugsr and l,9SO,OOO pounds of
moasses.
There were G73 passengers by sea at San
Francisco in February, and 3,So2 by the
overland railroads. The departures en-
braced 6l0 by sea and IT'S by land routes.
The net gain in arrivals over departures in
February was 2,lG7.
The Mohawkville fax-mill near Schenec-
tady, New York, which, after long disuse,
was reopened last October, is tiourishing
again, the orders exceeding the supply.
Six tons OF twine were recently shipped
| from the works.
A portable electric light has been intro
duced in Boston, which consists of a bat
terry which supplies electricity TO heat,
plantinum wire to incandescence. The
lamp, battery and all, weigh about five
pounds, and can readily be carried about or
placed in any desirable position.
The Union Medicale states that the
attempt at acclimatiZation of the tea plant
in the Loire Interieure is successful. Crafts
on the camelias have borne well. AT
Messina, Sicily, the three-year-old plants
are very vigorous, and have an abundance
OF leaves.
In a recent lecture in London, Mr.. Pfoun-
der, who lived fourteen years in Japan, de-
nounced a large portion OF Japanese art
manufactured for foreign markets as "mer-
etricious rubbish He further said that
the decoration of native houses always
showed distinctive character according TO
the taste of the owner.
Reports from the south indicate that farm
work is progressing satisfactorily corn has
been planted, and in the more southerly
areas cotton seed has been put in the
ground The flood in the Mississippi river
valley is subsiding, and the land will doubt
less be dry enough for planting IN ample
season for the production OF full crops, and
this j. all which can be said at this early
date 1.-THE new season.
The great obstacle 70 wheat growing in
Brazil according TO the testimony Of Mr..
Sam Beaver, OF Campinas, is that, owing to
the rank vegetable growth of that climate
and extremely fertile soil, the wheat has to
be weeded carefully two or three times,
This entails so much labor as 10 make its
cultivation Improbable.
A man at Manstee, Florida has growing
an East India mangosteene, sent him by the
commissioner OF agriculture three years
ago. 1t is twelve feet high and will bear
the coming summer, il is supposed. The
mangosteene is termed the finest truit in
the world, and its production is limi ed TO
small section in the east. Attempts 70 pro-
duce il in the West Indies have failed.
The Chattanooga Times, of wednesday,
reports that Notwithstanding the ,ery cold
weather Tuesday, as far as i could ascer-
tain, the fruit crop is uniniured. The
peach blossoms were full blown, but the
high wind which preceded the freeze thor
oughly dried the petals. Clouds prevented
frost, and although be made determined
effort 20 dispose Of the fruit crop, King
Winter for once IN his life, WIS disap-
pointed.
There were 100 patents granted IA Ger
many between May and October, for III
spntions connected with electricity. Tele-
phones are being adopted on a scale oil
increasing importance TO that country,
there being now--accordiug 10 the state
ments made at q recent meeting Of the
Berlin Electrnicchnical society-ieiephonic
arrangements in eighteen German cities,
comprising 3,7SS different stations. The
total length Of the telegraphic lines used in
the above telephone service is $40 miieti
these lines comprising single wires 4,0l7
miles in length.
A Texas Continental refrigerator car has
been loaded at Morgan City with oysters
! from Berwick's Bay, which are Of very line
/ quality, and sent 70 San Francisco via the
| Southern Pacific. The oyster car Is at
tached TO 8 passenger train, and the time
from Morgan City 70 San Francisco Will be
about six days. II this experiment tHl ship
nent proves a success, as no doubt 10 viii,
\ the quantities. will be increased ana Il large
! trade IN bvAlves established. The oysters
4 on the Pacific coast are Of Inferior quality
/ compared TO those from Louisiana, and Il is
expected that the latter will be ls,gely IN
demand II the problem o. sale and cheap
| trausporfation j. satisfactorily solved.
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