The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-20
TRADE ITEMS,

Fresno county, California, is making a
canal 100 feet wide from Kings river to
irrigate 80 100000 acres of dry and worth
less desert.
The total yearly imports Of Canada, Cen
tral America, South America and the West
Indies are OF value nearly $500 600, OC0.
The United States furnishes of this value
less than 100000 COO.
rev lock Tor mail-pouches will 60 into
use simultaneously with The ne y two-cent
letter postage'stanip on October 1st. Fifty
thousand keys have been sent out to post
masters and other persons autnoTz ID to
nave them. They we're sent in separate
registered envelopes, and every one OF them
reached its destination. Two hundred
thousand of the new locks have been dis
trlbuted. They are of CORFU gated STEEL and
are lighter and are said to be stronger than
those now In use.
The Womans Silk association OF PniIa-
delphia, has inaugurated good work, A
New York paper states that the silk indus
try in this country now seems entering ur-
gu q phase not contemplated by the ass0.
citation formed within the past four years
to encourage its culture. Instead of being
carried on by women aud children, c0mpa-
MES OF men. learning the advantages, are
being organized on large scale, with liber-
al capital, and large tracts of land are being
purchased for mulberry plantations Sew.
eral have already been located in different
parts OF the south. and another has been
formed to begin operations at Tamoa
Florida. Even rs far north as Utica, New
York, trees have been set out the past
spring. a DeG variety of mulberry, which it
is expected will stand the climate well. We
are told that there are at this time in the
United States 70, eco persons engaged in
silk culture.
The Savannah Morning News published
recently an annual review of the trade OF
the port for the year past, which is quite as
favorable as that Of its sister port, Charles
ton. Cotton, as usual, continues to be the
chief source of its commercial activity but
there is marked growth in its naval sCores
Savannah, in TACT, now occupies the first
n ace in the world in this trade, which is
Usually at its height when the cotton sea-
son is over. Rice and lumber come next,
but these are not all. Daring the year the
Wholesale grocery houses sold upward OF
$40 600 600 OF goods. Savannah is power
nlally quiet city, but record like this
shows that i, is by no means asleep.
The New York Daily Advertiser thus
presents the lat side Of matter of popular
interest "The cost of n fair glass OF beer is
| rom three t. five cents. Yet it is said
that five or ten cents expended in beer
makes may man drunk, in places where
| it is sold at one or two cents a glass. The
stuff they drink is the collection Of stale
beer ffom nearly empty Casks, set out upon
| the sidewalk and exposed TO the heat and
| double fermentation. II is nhaffonier beer
| and no more fit to drink tlan the most
1lihv thing imaginable"
| Jacksonville, Florida, is TO have a pal
metto factory. The machinery will all be
new, for The most part recent inventions.
aud will consist of eight fibre machines, SIX
machines for preparing the leaf for mat
| tres sss. etc., an I'M mense palmetto crusher,
| steam Overs and other machinery for manu-
| featuring palmetto pulp and tor convert
| ing pine straw into fibre for the use oil up
holslere.s s, for mattresses, etc. Three hun.
bred cabb ige palmetto tops, several tons OF
| saw palmetto aud about one ton OF pine
straw will be worked up daily.
| A Comstock. California, engineer has it,
vented method of swiftly travelling from
place 10 place 10 cities. which he
thinks will NJ n great Improvement over
any other mode of travelling HIS Cars
| travel by the attraction OF gravitatiou. In
| the center of each block he erects tall masts,
and from these su.pends a car, much like
mat Of an ordinary swing. The passenger
steps in the car, aud when all are aboard O
heavy coiled spiral spring is releasd oy
touching a lever; the car flies thrc ugn
space 10 the other end of the block, and is
there caught and held BY a Gluten. Those
who are at the end of their journey now
get out, while the Others, passing over a
short rallied platform. step into second
car. which on being released as the hrst,
the passengers again swing forward and IN
A moment are at the third station. 80
they 20 on all over the city.