The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-29
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TuE last wolf was killed In Great Britain
two hundred years ago.
Parties are now at work inspecting tn,
gold MINES IN Madison county, Georgia.
Strawberry farms in the vicinity OF Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, pay an average prof
OF $l5i per acre.
Colorados coal output Is estimated at
81 AGO, 900 for 1850, counting the coal worth
I ~ per ton at the mines.
A bout $50 miles of thread are made each
day In American mills. Thirty years ago
1t was all imported.
A Detroit man is looking over Council
Bluffs with view Of establishing glucose
works there.
The Longiellow copper mines at Clifton,
Arizona, employ over one thousand Next
cans and Cinnamon.
A Canadian has invented method oil
putting glass In sash without the emp o
ment OF putty.
Texas has this year furnished to the
world, outside her own limits, $lDW0,00
OF products.
| Umbrellas are made In France to the
aggregate value of b6,0'0O,00 Turkey is
her best foreign customer.
The product OF the Dominion fish cries
Tor The past year 10 valued at $40 ,0SS, 672,
being an increase In value compared with
last year Of $27l $40.
The Italian government charges admis-
sion to AL the art galleries, always free in
the past, and makes 100000 year out of
II.
IL Is estimated that the commerce which
iloats down the Hudson river annually is
worth 75,0OO,000.
Tho new bridge across the Tay river will
cost $4,000 900, and, il liz thought, will take
six years to build. Its center and longest
span will DO H5 feet In length.
| The government has spent 81, $4,000 in
improving the rivers.and harbors In the
state of New York.
During the past year ending March l..
sixty-eight new paper mills have gone into
operation In this county. and thirty-seven
NILS are now IN course OF construction.
| The aggregate value of the property of
colored people throughout Tennessee is set
down at $O,i7S,95l, being mn increase of
Wil ,lI9 over the preceding year.
| Upward OF 22,WO cars OF lumber and
merchandise ne shipped annually from
Muskegon, besides the enormous lake
traffic.
During March 65,62i barrels of salt were
inspected In Saginaw county, 80 i6S IN Bay
county, and 0,iOl in Huron county; total,
l25, i03.
a gold vein has been struck in Gains.
vlie, fIorida, by men digging All artesian
well. IL is believed II will assay from 1900
TO 600 per ton OF ore.
The orange fever in Florida this spring Ia
higher than ever Land that could have
been bonght year ago for $40 an acre il
now held at $50.
France, in 1882, expended 81 1000 GOO for
tobacco. Hall million was for Hayana
cigars, VI 100000 was for snuff, IS, 900 900
Tor smoking tobacco, and $iS00,0O0 Tor
chewing tobacco.
The Key West sponge fleet, numbering
seventy ve' sells AMI about 600 men, is out
on cruise A large catch of sponge brings
about $500 600 into that city.
The Norfolk Virginian estimates that
there 10 coal enough IN the mines recently
opened in Pocahontas county, West Viz.
glnia, to supply the demands of the north
ior two hundred years to come.
| ~ Is estimated that In the two Ca, olinaF.
Georgia ana Louisiana a total population,
OF ABOUT NO,OOO people, white and colored.
dependent upon the cultivation of rice.
Some prospeCtors in the Wood river
county, Idaho, have discovered a platinum
mine oil marvellous richness. They Skinned
l0O lbs. OF orc to Omaha, and the returns
were w satisfactory that 400 los more
nave been got ready to ship, which, il ms
rich rs the first lot, will yield $50 900.
me total land area OF the United States,
not including Alaska, is | 300, SOO. 900 acres
and the total amount of farms. accordinr
TO the last census, $50, 0Sl, S}5 acres. Thr
number OF acres owned bv the goyernmnnt
273, ,l3S. '""'" was >
New York city has 1000 ar.pickers
whose annual collections are vnIued NJ
SIaO,OOo, while the hand-carts engaged in
tne same business gather $4,000, 900 worth
paper stock. The entire rag trade of the
country amounts to $50 00O, 0IO annually,
flatinum has at last been found in Cali
lorna AFTER long search and n great deal
expense III the interest of electric com.
pannes, VINO value the metal because il
lasts longest under the intense heat that !. il
evolved In separating the fight for ilmmina,
ton, with the least heat.
me Official returns give the value of the
tobacco consumed IN France In 1889 nj 969
9VVVV francs. Cigars show total of 60
ovV'VVV francs; cigarettes, 10000 900. and
chewing tobacco, 100000. The heaviest
amount, 21SO0,CO0 francs, was for ordinary
smoking tobacco. " >'''
A large amount OF capital Is being invest.
cd IN enterprises, in the southern states.
win the result otnot only bringing a profit
10 investors, but OF adding very materially
70 the wealth and prosperity of that sec.
uon OF TINS county. The south to-day,
win It's cotton mills and iron mines and
mills' stands as a promising rival to the
east anu north, and northern capital is
bringing about this result.
The imports OF foreign merchandise ut
New York during the past week were of
very good proportions, the total being 80.
w. aoo' Inc movement Of dry goods as IL
usu, ABOUT this season, is on the wane. tho
total Tor the week being but 81, $40 p7S, Tho
imports OF general merchandise, however.
I are quite heavy, amounting to the unusual
total, for this year at least, of 81, 76l .bO7.
sugar continues to arrive In unusually
large quantities, the receipts tor last week
being valued at 81 067 ,07i. The imports oi
coffee, hemp, jute.butts, undressed hides,
and wool are also quite heavy. Since Jan
nary !. the imports at New York aggregate
Sl3S,On,3l6, against $ii0 3l0,272 for the
corresponding period OF 1882, and $l2l, ISL
$50 for 1881,
During the month Of March 30 vessels
LETT the port oil New Orleans. CARRYING /. =.
$40 bushels Of corn and 5i3 S6t bushels
OF wheat, u total OF 1900 S3 bushels o]
grain, against S03, 42l for March OF last Yea,
-an increase OF about 500 per cent. Since
I Sentember Il the grain exports have beer
S,lN, IN bushels OF corn, against 606, SOS ias
b92, 027 In 1882. The Times. Democrat II
giving these figures, says: "There canno
be doubt that this years export Of prair
from New Orleans, like Its export of cotton
will be the largest ever known, and tina
our entire commerce will exceed that of M
best year during the flush times before tn
war;"
boots AND SHOES.