The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-28
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company at st. Louis turns out 100
dozen shoyels day.
bed of mari has been discovered at
Cuthbert, Georgia.
Apples are very abundant and cheap in
| Leavenworth
500 each. y
The Ar kansas legislature has passed n
stringent law for the protection of timber.
The state OF Arkansas has granted 7,Gl6
acres OF splendid pine lands to the Lindsay
Land u Mining company,
Camomile for medicinal purposes, bit
ters' ETC., IS now cultivated extensively in
Augusta county, Virginia.
! The produce dealers in Indlanapolis havo
shipped 800 eggs to New York, TO be
used on Easter.
| Inc legislature OF Alabama has defined n
pushel of cotton.seed to be tsirty.two
pounds nvoirdupois.
Il. Mokinstry, Of Hudson, New York,
owns the largest apple orchard in the
world-30,0cO trees on 800 acres.
keporls from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, say
mat me most few nights since has cut
down the fruit crop
Beyond the Mississippi river there are
l,2ov,oo0 square miles not settled by white
men, "''
The Mare Island navy yard emploves
Will commence working ten hours a div ON
ana alter Thursday.
IN birmingham, Alabama, chickens are
almost Us much luxury as they were dur
ing tho late war.
JOINT stock company has been projected
10 start brewery ut Aldorshot, where ON
an average, the soldiers are said TO spend
aso,OO0 year in beer.
Anniston, Alabama, the present terminus
OF the Georgia Pacific railroad, has two
iron ii furnaces, a cotton factory, q big flour
shops.
a man who now lives near Fran kiln. XIV
has SOW that has kept his family I'm meat
thirteen years. He has moved five times,
out mas never needed pen to accustom her
to q new home.
Oaptain Phelps, near Stockton, has vine
twenty-five years old and thirteen inches in
circumference. IL covers over 4, 900 square
feet of ground NH"'''
Inc Union City Manufacturing COMPANY.
OF tennessee, has received an order from
texas Tor S3O,OOO worth of spokes, hubs
Ielioes and wagon gearing.
y new factory law goes into force Mayl,
IN Russia, which provides that no child nm
der IL shall be employed in factories and
those between u and 10, who work, shall
a'lehu school at least three hours a day,
Inc peet-sugar factory to be put in oner-
ation at YORK, Pennsylvania, cxpects IN
W9rk up dUVVO tons of beetsper season. from
when Will be manufactured iGoO O00
pounds oisugar and l,9SO,0oO pounds of
moasses. f"""S VI
>, There were 6IS passengers by sea at San
nranyiSS9 IN FEBRUARY, and $3.50 by the
peserla n, railroads. The departures EN-.
p r oio by sea and LIS by land routes
lnp net Knln in N rtvala 4
February was 2,l67. :"
Inc Mohawkville ilax.mili near Schen,c.
.auy, New York, which, after long disuse.
was reopened last October, is nourishinr
ugain, the orders exceeding the supply.
from the works. '"'PP'"
A portable electric light hss been intro.
uuceu IN Boston, which consists of n baI.
.ery which supplies electricity to heat n
piahtinum Wire to incandescence, Tho
lamp, battery and all, weigh about five
pIpunds' ana can readily be carried about or
plnoed IN any desirable position.
Tue Union Medicole states that tina
attempt AT acclimatiZation of the lea nlnnt
III the Lore lnierieurc is successful. t,rntts
on tne camelias have borne well. At
Messina, sicily, the three.year.old planis
| OF leaves. wa "'""""uoe
In recent lecture in London, Mr.. ploun.
uer, who lived fourteen years In Japan, do.
nounced large portion of JAPANESE mr.,
manufactured for foreign markets as "mer.
euicious rubbish He further said tha,
the decoration of native houses ALWAYS
ho"eu Instructive character according To
tho taste OF the owner. W.
hsports rom the south indicate that farm
work IL progressing satisfactorily; corn Inns
peen plnhted, and in tho mora southerIv
areas cotton seed has been mt In M,
ground. The flood In the Mississippi river
yaley is sabsiding, and the land will doubt.
iess oe dry enough for planting IN annie
season Tor the production OF full crops, and
tnis Is all which can be said at this early
date In the new season. vary
=, Inc great obstacle to wheat. rrowiny a,
braSil, according TO the testimony of Mr.
cam Beaver, OF Campinas, is that. owing m
,ne rank vegetable growth of that climate
anu extremely fertile soil, the wheat has In
ps welded carefully two or three times
IRIS entails 80 much labor as to make lis
CULTIVATION Improbable.
man AZ Manatee, Florida, has growing
s =" nass inuiamangosteene, sent him by tho
vohiinissioner OF agriculture three wears
ago. ~ Is twelve feet hirh and wilt bsar
the coming summer, 1t is Supposed. Tha
mangosteene Is termed the iincst fruit In
ne Woriu, aud Its production is limi, cd 10
INA session ~ che east. Attempts TO pro.
unvc " IN the West Indies hays failed.
Inc chattanooga Times, of Weunes,,av
REPORTS that Notwithstanding the verv c"iJ
weather Tuesday, as far as Ii couli nscar.
uln, tne fruit crop IL uniniured. The
pSevn blossoms were full blown. but ths
nlkn wind which preceded tho freeze Thor
rc:s sr vs'eJ ,ns petals. Clouds prevented