The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-26
TRADE ITE Ms.

Florida green corn Is IN tassel.
Arizona has about twenty newspapers.
The lands in Texas capable OF producing
sugar are placed at 100000 acres.
Delaware Gamers are contracting for tc-
matoes at 81 a ton.
Numbers of turtles are being shipped
from Cedar Keys to St. Louis, oo
Sugar-cane in Florida yields 500 per
acre in sugar, not counting the sirnR.
A few days ago the ice in Lake WlnhiPl-
sogee New Hampshire was thlr'y''"o
inches thick.
A very large number of hides are being
received at Lampasas-the result OF iast
winters freeze.
At Fort Calgary, NJ. T., coal oil is worth
SIS per gallon and flour SIS per l00 POUNDS
1t is reckoned that the daily sale OF nat
ural flowers in Paris realizes about SZo''
900.
About 10000 crates of tomatoes have
been shipped from Key West since the 1st
The Hudson river, every year, carries
down to New York 100000 tons OF pro
duce and merchandise, worth Sl5,OO0,oVU.
Over eighteen thousand head OF Dunalo
have been killed east OF the Yellowstone
river, in Montana territory, this season;
There were $3.50 900, 900 worth OF beer
drank in this country last year, being 3D.
Five hundred acres of land at the head of
Esauimalt harbor, near Victoria, d. o.,
have been sold for $25, 900.
earn & Co., of Ellenton, Fla, have eaii z.
ed $500 from one acre OF land planted III
beans on January 3.
The Oldest oyster stand in this country
is in Fulton market, New York. IL was
established sixty-one years ago.
The news OF rich mineral discoveries IN
Alaska has started an exodus OF miners 10
the place from Nevada, Colorado, MONTANA
and California. .
Two experienced French gentleman are
arranging to establish an OSTRICH iaIh III
Medina county, Texas. ,ooo r
A Florida alligator culturist has l,ZOu OF
the animals ready for shipment 10 various
sections OF the country from which ne re-
ceived orders for them.
The fishing season on the Potomac, which
was very backward this year, Is now improv.
ing, and shad and herring are caught IN
large numbers. - A..
between $1,000 and $4,000 worth OF oranges
were sold from $50 trees on the DE DAIRY
farm. :.
The number of Edison lamps in use in
America at the end of last year was more
than %, 900 and IN Europe at the end Oh
February there were nearly 2OOOo.
The damage to apple trees in Iowa IS salu
10 he greater than was at first reported.
The trees in the northern portion OF the
state were damaged less than those IN the
central party, because they were OF haroy
varieties. r., a.
Bees are kept in Mexico chiefly for the
wax they produce. Beinga Catholic coun-
try. large numbers of candles are wanted
for burning ia the churches, and the au-
thorities allow no material TO be USED IN
making them but pure beesyax: s,,,,--..
During the last thirty years the CallIor =
mia quicksilver MINIS have produced lOO,-
d., 267 lbs. OF which % ,3JI $40 lbs. were ex,
ported. California produces one-hali OF an
The quicksilver in use less throughout the
World.
Twenty-one cities and towns in New Jer-
sey have been provided with water-works
at a total cost OF Sl2,cO0lOO0. The share oil
Jersey Civ ia a 9lS 493 of Newark ~ JOO, :
600. and OF Patterson 81, 4l5OOI.
Mr.. Walsh, a MississIDpian, has invent
ed and patented an ingenious quitting
frame BIZ which the work can readlly De
done by any sewing-machine.
Every mineral except crysolite Is round
In Mexico Mexico has produced hye-ninths
OF ali the known gold and silver, ana this,
too by mining in the most primitive iash-
ion without machinery, and At this Time
"a producing IS per cent OF the precious
metal Of the world. -,
10 be shipping cabbage and realizing rom
I've 10 seven cents a pound. They make
from s75 10 500 per acre on them. Inc
seed were sown last summer and the plants
set out In the fall. a.
psrbaps the deepest coal-mine on this
continent is at POttsville, Pa. The shat
IL $50 feet deep-nearly third oil mlle.
Every day during the busy seasoh tso
hundred cars. containing four tons ehch,
are sent from below 10 the upper world,
the time Of each trip being little over a
rufuute
D1rIns the month Of March, - vessels Of
various natioualifies were reported missing.
or these II were wrecked, Z abandoned,
missing. 2 foundered, capsized, and snnk
BY collision. This list com prise steail-
e5 3 ships, 10 barks. 4 brig aud ii sc1Ooners-
A coop Olive Tr.irie hens from the Uni
ted States was forwarded a lev deys since
from Liverpool 20 the queen ~ windsor
A similar CONSIGNMENT has been sent 10 The
p-ipce Of Wales a. Sasdrinrham. The birds
are 10 be turned into the royal preserves 20
order 20 Try and acciimstize them.
West Point. Miss with Two tnons ID
habitauts. has recently raised t50VO for .
national bang. $50 90 for . c0ttOn-seed OF
mill. increased IL. I'd valorem TAI list SlOo,-
coo In one year, established cotton eH
change, voted 5000 10 . railroad and u
taking Of q SO 90 cntfOn isctory.
WOODEN mills established IN Neg zealand
have proved highly suc1sssful, and already
consume over 5.yo bs.es yea. % -
important are within ten miles q Duneoin.
the capital of Otago Province. kuch Of The
machfnery employed is American.
Some cannun were rscentir made 81 Blle
Of rnnct less than 0rdinary weight, but TIE
hreech after being cast, US carefully
wound round with silk threads, which
ue-e aft-rrard covered vith = protection
Of rubber. u thought thst TIE tenacliy
Of the sin vi Be even greafsf than thst Of
80 81 III runurf r-rrfar elasticity.
10 rfb~r r1unfry IN the World ofers sucn
facilities f-r tirrling 81 The ropulous aDo
uo1isted kinr1on 81 Beiriun. whr-e g.
000 600 irhabItarts anruaIly 1rsurne to-t
81 90 90 GUSTS q alc1tulic 11oo-s- Ibe-e
= e. are-nfs RI ne public boue - ererT
fueIrs NAE Beigisns. nrt IN snrle far1s
~ TIE country The srprlg i n-arlg tHic9
~ rreal
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