The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27
TRADE ITEMS.

| THE cotton mills of the south give employ
| m mt to about 400 co loprrat v"s.
There are DO les. than Z cntr-tw) SIMS III
por1 awaiting charters and cago AZ PJrtland,
In 1850 there were seventy-fye female and
| g. 0 ma e lawyers In the Uni ed States
| Kansas is y or M btion ate, nut ueverlheless
| there are 1870 saloons in the city of Leayen-
The CIV ,rnment OF Australia Offers Ga rer
d,z'n TOR T. g'ish sparrows heads' ana - ou
EInur made from peanutSis used in some por.
LtiOns of Virginia. 1t Is said to be very p'la-
TABLE n,
one e tate there are 1851 900 trees, on another
it's es mated that the pawn.brokeTy Of New
York city collectively, have fully t-o OOJO 700 OF
| pledges in their possession.
Two tyle-writers have been received In the
shops at Hon, New York. for repair, from
| Spain and the Sandwich Islands.
Wells are being bored in Nevada, for hot
water and steam. and parties engaged therein
| report success in their undertaking.
Nearly $4,000 tons of barbed wire, OF iepgtn
| of 500 600 mills were manufactured IN the
| United States In 1852.
Most of the tobacco stems from North Carolina
| tobaccO factories are shipped TO Germany TO be
manufactured into snuh ior the herman peas
ants. co,,,
owns thirty miles OF narrow gauge railway. cont
meeting five OF its aw-mills. 1t is the lar es'
| lumber business in the state.
| A grape vine, so years old, which is growing
| In Judge Dozien's vineyard at La Grange. Flor-
i'd, has yielded one thousand pounds OF grapes
The Trustees OF the Brooklyn bridge report
| that during The past month their receipts were
s55.S,1. 4e, and their expenditures S22,2sb u
The receipts aud exports Of cheese al New
York since May l compare as follows
Reefs, pkgs. Exports, lbs.
We k ending Sept.1S..... 46 S6I 2'lS5 ol3
Since Since May I, iss3......,..l ,5lS856 67,29l as
save time last year. 81, 4Oi,4 0l 59,46S22O
Kru D. the great heavy ordnance manu'ac-
Europe and in this branch of his business EN-
ploys 4, 90 men, The whole number of men in
his service is over Is. OCO
Canada has cheese ting In the person OF MT
ID. N. Mcpherson, of Lancaster. Ontario, who
controls no less than sixty-four cheese factories
capable of turning out from 1900 to $50 Wboxes
The va ne of finished goods manufactured in
the Tinted States is est mated at S. 369. 600 COO
and the wages paid for the same are estimated
at 94S 600 900, or about Is per cent OF the whole
One Of the m ,st important Of the mercantile
insti utinns of Berlin is an egg exchange. AS
the city consumes mora than II on: 600 dozen OF
e g annually. 1t is business Of very great
importance. On the forenoon of two days in
the week the produce exchange Is wholly given
n to the egg dealers both mae and female
Uniform rates for eggs are thus establsneu,
which are observed by all dealers.
A great many herrings are imported into the
United States, and this is one of the leading
European fisheries. 1t il stated on good authori'
ty that the herring fisheries Of Scotland employ
nearly $40 600 people. One.seventh OF the popu,
iation The boats represent money value OF
So OO0 the annual yield OF cured herrings
In Scotland has risen from $1,000 barrels ear y
10 the century, to 1200,0OO aud hiss trebled in
fifty years, viii g in the same period the value
O the ne IS has increased rs per cent,
Agriculture is mighty factor Ia the nations
progress During the past five years the exports
of agricultural products have averaged over
{, ur.fftns of the total exports OF the country,
ranging from SO per CEN. in 1889 to upwards OF
rs per CEN last year The total amount during
that period has been $3.50 OOl0O0 and their
average annual am0ust upwards Of t620 OCo.0IO
A Correspondent OF the Home and Farm
writes from Or, stall Springs. Mississippi, as fol-
lows: The citizens of this vicinity have just
finished shipping another hounteous and re-
munei alive fIult aud vegetable p. to the TN.
cago market principally The gross saes q
shipments of fruits and vegetables { ON here
thi, season will not be far from 100 600. The
producer gets about two-thirds of his. VIII lie
some of the older yege'a able growers make ON
1900 to 500 per acre, the average will probably
be about s2'O per acre. Peaches strawberries.
tomatoes, melons beans. peas and Irish potatoes
are the most extensively grown. aud grow
almost 10 perfection"