The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-23
TRADE ITEMS.

THE New York Herald says: From the long
fruitful vineyards of Ohio comes the complaint
heard sooner or later in al grape-growin coun-
tries, that peculiar bl light is affecting the vines
lessening the yield aud compelling tho uproot'
ing Of many vines. This Is bad news hut as re-.
CARDS the wine, the growers will be the principal
sufferers, for apples grow nearly everywhere In
the northern states and from their Juice can be
made, aud Is made Ia great quantities, an al
legged wine that millions OF selfstyed eN-
Ieris c nnot distinguish from the genuine arii.
The dependence OF Great Britain on this coun.
try for iood supplies Is thus acknowledged by
the loudon Times: "The country of which,
within recent memory, we were chdishy and
vin6scively jealous, now proves to be the coun.
try by which, TO great extent We 1.-Two 1t sends
us co; n by the hundreds of ship. loads. Its beef
completes with ours, or rather becomes ours, and
IL sold at our native prices under the hands OF
our enterprising English butchers, While To the
Roman poet the thought OF getting fish from tho
Caspian was the thought of odious luxury with
us II is the classes thai cannot afford the Tay or
the, Tweed that send to the Columbia river for
their salmon"
A Boston paper says; Thsro arc a fow brigh,
spots In the business situation this week, and
the outlook is moro encouraging than at any
time since the opening of the year Notwith.
standing the disturbances caused by the agita.
ton OF the tariff and tho severe storms In the
west we notice increased activity In several
lines of manufactures and raw materials, aud a
sliilening up In prices Buyers are siili working
on a conservative basis, and take only such
quantities AZ are wanted for immediate use, but
stocks throughout the interior have become sc
low that nothing but some unexpected disaster
cln prevent u steady increase In the volume oil
trade for the remainder Of the month,
Milan correspondent states that great effort
arc being made throughout upper Italy to Oiinf
about a develorment OF the sugar industr,
there Tho Lombnrdy Sugar Refining com
pany has commenced operations. In It's new
works at R,vsrdo. which are fitted up with al
the latest improvements In machinery, etc TIL,
refining works at Samplerdarona declared div
idcnd Of l9pcr cent for ISL. aud still large
profits are expected to be distributed as the ~
suit Of the working In 1882. The Ancona cham
her Of commerce has under Its consideration
several proposals Cor the establishment Of susa
refining works In Its district
We are informed reliably. says the Gazette
that tonnage cannot be furnished TO supply tn
demand In Pensacola. One merchant that "
know of,would to-day, fan opportunity offered
charter twep,y-hve,or thirty ships IL wouI
seem that tho merchant service Il last becomin
extinct and Indeed statistics stfong,y point this
way Within the last two years, 500 or NOR
sailing vessels have been lost and never n
placed. OF NIL the old Pensacola traders, b,
seven or eight are IN ihis port now. when
now have trading, but very few were stranger,
Voracious as the appetites OF gourinands ma
be- tho supply OF oysters VIII be found MOI
than equal TO the demand for many years
come. Extensive beds exist az numerous poin
along tho eastern coast and Puget sound col
taius innumcrable bivalvcs Californians ~
Importing eastern oysters and planting them
pan Francisco bay. Prospecting olong the Goa
OF lower California has resulted In the discover
oi immense quantities of oysters said To be f
better than those obtained 10 the water OF Pug
sound The European demsnd has draw
heavily ON our eastern beds, hut they arr {
nom being exhausted and new treasures n
hcina found along the Pacific coast, No matt
how rapidly consumption increases, tho supp
will be found to materially exceed tho deman
Tho Chicago Grocer says II tho consumpu,