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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22
GRAIN AND BRFADsTuFps.

Although the recent receipts of grain in
TINS city are reported to be light, it may
not generally be understood that thew
would be considered heavy in nearly every
other city IN north Texas. The retail trade
OF Dallas handles immense amounts OF corn,
on Is, hay and other feedstuils and when
receipts reach above local consumption. il
may be safely said thai numerous wagons
loaded with these articles are seen upon the
streets. Many. OF these products come to
TINS city rom long distances, because IL is
well known that Dallas deb lers eve better
ngufes Tor grain and sell nj less margins
than do dealers in any other market in
north Texas. To-day there were good M
. rivals, but the larger amounts went into the
hands OF retail merchants, and only a
imolety was purchased by shippers
Ihere were some heavy sales OF flour effect
oil to-day, and trade in this line was gen.
orally active. Prices were firm.
ro-DAYs QUOTATIONS..
.WhKAT--Choice, LOO, medium 9Sc.; low grade,
700; Nicaragua 20 TO SOC.
WITHIN AT 60 To zoe.
DARLEY--Gp to CSC.
alLLEr sRED-65; German mlliet, s1.2b.
oArs-oo to h2c for spring; b5 To COO for fall;
oa9,ce req rust proof Goose in sacks, 3 cents
0onE--ln shuck, Soc to Ooc shclled and sacked,
60o TO $50.
100 '"'N''
slous- We quote City Mills as follows; xxx
xaG AX 81 RGS; extra e2,76; Magnolia, o.
rancy, w ao@3 40; choice 81. 20@3, ~ xxx,
Ss0@8,o5; xxx, s260Go266; XXX, o.. .QC02 %.
O0rn meal, per bushel IS.
frkD--Choppod corn, per 100 lbs, 50 %; crush.
Ga corn and cob, per l0Qlbs,, 81 IS; crushed corn
Nna barley per 100 lbs,ea 90; corn bran, per 100
HiY-Darh, zoos brigh. $40 From stores
prairie balod, dark, e6Gf7; bright. 81, bright.
roo on board, car. $40 to ~ dark, 81 toS.
COTTON sKED-Firm at lShc. per bushel
Inc combined capacity of the Chicago
grain elevators is 23,625, 900 bushels.
Observations through northern Ohio
southern Michigan and portion of Indiana
excite anxiety for tho winter wheat crop
vorable.
The Northwestern Miller of Minneapolis,
minnesota, reviews the Hour trade of thai
CITY IN the following manner More of the
mills are running this week, and there is
an increase in Hour production of about
.,W0V barrels per day. Nearly half OF the
legitimate capacity-not the maximum
capacity Of $500, because the mills never
run TO the maximum In the same day-.i,
In operation, but a decreased output next
week is not improbable. Trading IN tlou,
Is rather at n stand.still, owing to the droy
OF about &c. in wheat. Former flour quo
tations are largely sustained, and buyers
not gettng concessions which they demand
hoid oil with their purchases. The whea,
IN store In the city has been increased owe,
last week, when there were $40, 900 bush
OILS, by over 200, 900 bushels. IL Ia notioea
BILE that this increase has been mainly con
fined to the elevators.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22
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govlctA 40 bbL
HsonSwars, Csi l,ooe gallons. $1,000
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22


Promptly at HAS the gavel was sounded
and cash wheat called. The following were
the ruling prices: Wheat, cash, $iO2 to
$l.O6; March, $l.02; April, $l03 to $l.0S;
May, $l,05 Corn in shuck, cash, 57I 10
VI; March, SO to 90; April, "a; May, 81;
average Texas corn.in bulk, cash, 81; March,
30, eight cars being sold at that figure;
April, So to 5s; May, 52I. Oats, smoked,
cash, 6Oi March, 5s; April, SO to 81; May,
40. Millet seed, 60 TO %; German,
$l.25. Hay, $3.50 to $780, In
an irregular way, corn in shuck on tho
Texas 4 Pacific road was offered at 57t and
% bid. and for the month of March il was
offered at 55. Oats were offered on the In
ternational road but 10 bidders. A car OF
corn-meal, sacked, was offered at $40.
A strict fancy article of flour was presented
at S3 40. A car of short clear dry salt meat
was offered at 1l30 and ll.05 bid $1,000
pounds of same for July delivery were
offered ut liz, but no takers.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
COMMERCIAL.

DALLAS, March 2i.-There are great fears
expressed by many in the city that brick
and other building material cannoS be pro-
cured during the coming season to supply
the demand that is sure TO be made upon
manufacturers and others for these articles.
A prominent lumber dealer informed a
HERALD reporter that he bad already con-
tracted the lumber TO erect seven large
buildings in this city. and that work would
be commenced on them at once II stone and
brick could be secured. The weather has
been imp -opitious for the manufacture OF
BRICK, and il may be eyeral weeks before
any kilns are burned; In the meantime
building is delayed and obstiucted, and 1t
will be late In the spring before active I'M
proyements in this Inc are begun. Ia TACT,
II has been almost impossible during the
entire winter TO purchase brick sufficient TO
construct the chimneys and lay pavements
around the dwelling houses erected
of wood In the city, and
1t is TO be hoped that new brick yards will
be established here at once, and those al
ready In operation be enlarged, so that the
growth and expansion OF the city may not
be hindered or impeded for the want of this
necessary material. All indications now
point TO more and better improvements
this summer than were ever witnessed IN
this city at any one time in her history, and
rs the manufacturing of brick is II proiita
BILE business, there is no reason why there
should not be an abundance of them on the
market. In this city building continues
the year round, and there should be suili
cheney provided during the favorable
months for moulding and burning to meet
the wants of all during those periods when
rains and mud render II impossible ia
manufacture good article at profit, The
city requires more brick and plenty ofthem
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22


The hour for meeting on the Exchange
has now been permanently established at
1l:30 u. M, and the first call will be made
Immediately after. The members who ore
engaged IN the cotton trade, will arrange
rules, and rs soon rs this can be done cotton
will be called on the board Immediately
after grain. "Things is working" by re
quest of the officers of the Exchange, notice
is again given that no one not u member is
expected to visit the rooms of tire Elk
change at any hour during the entire day,
unless by invitation, and then it 10 expected
that each visitor will subscribe his name on
the register kept for that purpose. No
privileged class Is recognized.
There was fair attendance on the Ex-
change to-day. and some bust
ness was transacted The continued
light receipts of grain, and the uncertainty
of the amounts yet in the hands of farmers
to be marketed, interfere materially with
operations Some good sales of corn for
March delivery were effected. which will,
no doubt, stimulate sellers to secure sutli-
Client at least to ill the contracts to be met
In the next ten or twelve days. Prices were
hrM and the bidding active
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22
LETTER LIST

The Flowing is list Of letters remaIp,n, 4,
, ne rs e once at Dallas Dallas county Texas az
called H. In fnass March ID lsS9 which. if not
.gtss, ihee Parties calling for these e,s S can
NJ, 10y advertised, giving the date Of he
L srHes living in the city viii please n hs s,,s
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
Americans Like the Romans.

In an interesting lecture Professor
j. 7. MahafTy stated that so far back
as the early days of imperial Rome
travelling was carried on to an extent
almost equal to the touring fashion of
the present day, and that the travelling
facilities of the time of Augustus far
exceeded those which obtained at the
commencement of the present century.
The Roman roads and thoroughfares
were better, brigandage and piracy
were stamped out; there was a unity
of coinage; there was universal peace
and the Greek language was carried
everywhere. The Romans felt, like
the modern Americans, very powerful,
very rich, to some extent newly civil,
lied, full of national pride, quite con-
tent with their own greatness, but as
regarded culture aware that they had
not all they wanted, and they therefore
Travelled everywhere to obtain cultiva-
tlon, without which they considered
their education incomplete. The lee
turer referred to and detailed the out
lines of some prominent land and see
routes leading from Rome, and said
that in these days conveniences in the
shape of mus were common enough
their tariffs very cheap, and their &C.
commodation VIGOROUSLY bad.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
Making Shot,

A shot tower is an immense brick
structure, $50 feet high, resembling IL
lighthouse more than anything else.
Visitors are conducted up a spiral
staircase, inside, to the top, where a
fine view is obtained for miles about
but the view down the inside is not so
pleasant. The opening where the shot
descends becomes narrower and mar
rover, until nothing is seen at the bot
tom but darkness. AT the top of the
tower are the furnaces for smelling.
From these lead. is poured into pans,
set in the tower, with perforated sheet
iron bottoms. The melted lead comes
through these holes and enlarges on
the other side, formed into globules
before it falls down to the well beneath
holding several feet of water. The
large shot drop the whole hight of the
tower to the bottom, but the smaller
sizes only about half as far. One pc
culiar thing is, that small shot gener-
ally expand in falling, and the largest
sizes contract. Very great care is
necessary in mixing the metal, as it
would run through the holes and drop
in strings if not of the proper proper
lions, and no shot could be made
at all.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
Lizards and Music.

Some lizards, certainly betray sense
OF musical vibrations. Little geckos
and other house lizards, if they do not
exactly "come out to listen," as they
are reputed to do will stop instantly
in their flight over walls and floors
when note is struck, and remain
motionless for some seconds, as though
actually listening for its repetition, and
L have seen taragliras in garden
"mesmerised' by guitar in the same
way. But it is to be observed that in
neither instance is the mesmerism
complete enough to prevent their elud-
ing capture, and that if the music be
continued they soon become habituated
to it and resume their wonted move
ments. lam inclined to attribute the
effect to the reception of the air waves
by the general sensibility of the cutane-
Gus surface, the feeling of what is
most likely a disagreeable thrill, rather
than to any impression on the special
sense of hearing. Sitting at an open
grand piano one day, looking at some
manuscript, but not touching the keys,
"legatita," making his way down the
wall against which the instrument
stood, by series of running crooked
jerks, caught my eye, his little sprawl
ing hands and iridescent body sharply
defined against the white background.
On the further end of the piano lay a
paper of "dulces > this had attracted
swarm of flies, and the flies in their
turn attracted the legatitia. Down he
came, with abrupt suspicious darts and
turns to this side and that, until he
stood on the level ground of the piano
top, paused, fitted half across it, and
paused again. Just as he began to
run once more, having cautiously
brought my hands and feet into posi-
ton, l struck a tremendous double
chord with the hard pedal down. Poor
little chap l thought l had killed
him. He was absolutely knocked off
his legs, and turned over on his back,
where he lay feebly kicking. Before l
could reach him, however, he had re-
covered, regained his feet, flashed up
the wall, and disappeared into a crevice.
l expect that that lizard, at any rate,
had very low opinion OF music after
ward-AU the Year Round.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
RuShes.

Rushes are found in almost every
place in the British Islands and, in
both cold and temperate quarters, at
home and abroad, they are plentiful.
Before the introduction Of tallow can
dies in this country, rushes were used
by those both in high and low stations.
flashlights are still sold by our chand-
Ter, and are used by the very poor, or
for night-lights in sick-rooms. Among
the peasantry in the country districts,
we have often met with flashlights in
numbers. The poor dip the rushes in
any kind of grease or melted fat they
can procure Formerly, in farmers
or gentleman-farmers' houses they
twisted great numbers of rushes to-
gether in Ireland sometimes to the
bulk of a mans arm, for lighthouses
or torches. The common hard rush is
used still in country places for tying
up bundles of flowers, being previously
bleached o little. The bulrush and
the lesser bulrush are used for mats,
Ustools, seats for chairs, for baskets
and for horse-collars, in Ireland; and
in some of the midland districts of
England, they make rope of the peel.
The pith of bulrushes is used for can
dies. We have seen ropes and plated
whips, boys whips and horse-whips
made from bulrushes, some being in
genius plating and mating for orna-
mental purposes. We have known it
to be used (the soft rush. for that ching
cottages or cornstacks, and some of the
very poor have used it for stufiing
beds. Rushes of all species are very
use III order of plants, and may be
utilized in variety Of ways, many
still unthought of. 1t is quite possible
that a very useful paper might be
made from PUSHES as well as from
Esparto grass or wood. We hope the
humble and despised rush or bulrush,
which has a history as old as Moses,
will soon receive more attention than
it has hitherto obtained. This very
useful plant has passed into a proverb,
and is used in derision to express con-
tempt, as, 81 don't care a rush about
YOU"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Every day the papers tell of some
man while out deer-hunting being mis-
taken for deer and shot. The re-
semblance between man and deer is
not great, but it seems as though any
hunter could tell the difference unless
he has the "buck fever;" but us they
cannot distinguish a man from a deer
it will be well for hunters to carry a
banner or a transparency on which
shall be printed the words: "Do not
shoot me. | am not a deer"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

The imperial city of Berlin, since it
became the capital of the German en-
pirei has undergone a marvellous change
in much the same way that the city of
Paris was transformed by the late En-
peror Napoleon. But what is of most
interest to American cities is the fact
that millions of dollars have been spent
by the German government upon
sewage improvements, and especially
upon the establishment of sewage
farms in the outlying environs, pro-
vided with outlet basins and machinery
for solidifying and utilizing the refuse
matter of the sewage. This is prob
lem that has thus far been entirely
evaded in all the large commercial
cities of the United States, where the
English plan has been adopted Of per-
uniting the sewage to be emptied into
the rivers, bays, lakes, and other
natural watercourses. In the marvel
Gus city Of London. where prodigious
sums of money have been spent upon
drainage improvements. the sewage is
still carried cut to sea carefully, and
there deposited off the mouth of the
river Thames. New York and Boston
have followed in the wake of London,
while in Philadelphia they are still en-
gagged in discussing the plans for solv-
ing this great problem. The opinion
is that Philadelphia ought to adopt the
German plan, and establish sewage
farms and outlet basins.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

fUre Blood.
MANY families rpride themselyes nm N

Many families Epride themselves on their noble
ancestry; but here, in this democratic country we do
not much about pedigree as our health
When the blood is out of order, disease manifests
itself in the skin and flesh. To be restored health
take Scovls Sarsaparilla or Blood and Liver Syrup
Physicians speak of it in the highest terms Dr. Ev-
srett, Cooper Plains. Stenben county, New York,
mentions two of Scrofula and Erysipelas in
which Scovs Sarsaparilla or Blood and Liver Syrup
effected cure and says; 81 think it one of the best
purifiers of the day 1t has met with perfect
every case where have used it,"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

1t has been popularity believed that
a person becomes unconscious when
falling from a great height but an
Englishman who has been making some
experiments in falling-whether with
himself or other people is not stated
has come to the conclusion that unless
one dies from fear or the nervous
shock, he reaches the gaound alive, and
is not killed by the passage through the
air. This, however. would depend
upon the height from which he falls.
The greatest distance one is liable to
fall, even from the highest buildings,
is not much more than 100 feet. He
will be less than three seconds reaching
the ground, and during the last second
will be falling at the rate of say sixty
feet in second, which is equivalent to
a velocity Of forty miles an hour. Ms
people are riding at this rate every day
in the year, it is clear that a fall from
that height will not make them un
conscious. The next second they would
fall at the rate of eighty miles an hour,
the next at 100, the next at 800, and
the next at $40. Such velocity as
that undoubtedly would affect the ply
steal condition but in order to attain
such a velocity person would have to
fall a distance of 1000 feet.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
POVERTY AND DISTRESS.

That poverty which produces the greatest
distress is not of the purse but of the blood
Deprived of its richness it becomes scant and
watery, condition termed dnemid in medi-
cal writings. Given this condition, and
scrofulous swellings and sores, general and
nervous debility, loss of flesh and appetite,
weak lungs, throat disease, splitting of blood
and consumption, are among the common
results If you are sufferer from thin, poor
blood employ DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" which enriches the blood and
cures these grave affections. Is more nu-
tritive than cod liver oil, and is harmless in
any condition of the system, yet powerful to
cure. BY druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
New Haven Conn Union.]
How n Lawyer Treated the Case.

|, David Strouse, of New Haven,
Connecticut, was attacked with Il severe
rheumatism in my right arm, hand and
foot, so that l walked with difficulty
and could hardly use my hand to eat
with. used one bottle of st. Jacobs
Oil, rubbing well three times day, and
obtained instant relief and perfect
cure.
DAVID STRoUsE, Attorney-at-Law.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

She didn't like him q bit, but still he
would call. "What shall | write
about?' he asked of her one evening,
as he picked up her autograph album.
"Shall write about the early spring.
Tell me, what shall l write about ?"
fright about face Forward, March =
she answered, and he did it.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

At the show rooms of Rogers & Sons,
cutters, of Sheffield, Eng, is exhibited
an African elephants tusk five feet
long, twenty-one inches in girth and
weighing 100 pounds.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Murder will out, so will the fact that Carbo-
line, deodorized extract of petroleum, the
natural hair remover and restorer, is the best
preparationande xcels all other hair dressings,
as thousands of genuine certificates prove.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Irrigation has been tried in Western
Kansas with marvellous results. For
merly it was thought that the dry
plains stretching toward the Arkansas
river were useless for agricultural pur-
poses. The light and tickle rainfall
the dry air, the hot winds and the long
summers were supposed to constitute
a combination of unfavorable elements
that it would be impossible to over
come. But broad bitches were dug
that distributed the waters of the Ar
kansas over these tracts, and now they
bloom like a garden. The crops yielded
the Past year were astonishing Onions
were raised at the rate of 500 bush els
to the acre, oats 100 bushels, and other
products in similar proportion.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Minnesota farmer advertised that if the
man who had run off with his wife, two
children, and $500 would return the young
ones, he might keep the money and the
wife
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

DR.. Pierce's pheasant Purgative Pellets"
are sugar-coated and inclosed in glass bottles,
their virtues being thereby preserved unim-
paired for any length of time, in any climate,
80 that they are always fresh and reliable.
No cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes. By
druggists,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

that there are twenty-seven cotton
mills now in operrtion or nearing COM
pletion, which have an aggregate capt.
tai of $4,547,000, give employment to
1902 hands, to whom they pay S72S, 900
in wages annually, and consume 90
946,269 pounds of cotton a year. The
number and capacity of the mills al
most doubled between 1880 and 1882.
and nine more mills were chartered at
the recent session of the Legislature,
which is not surprising in view of the
fact that the net profits of those in
operation last year ranged from ten to
twenty per cent, averaging about
twelve per cent. The Legislature has
wisely exempted all manufacturing
companies from taxation for period
of ten years, and Northern capital finds
few better fields for investment than
the one now offered by the State in
which, only few years ago, secession
first famed into open revolt"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Josh Billidgs says None of the humor-
lists of the present day will last" We don't
see why Some of their jokes have lasted
for five hundred years already.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

DIR. lchabod Stoddard, of Perry, Me-,
has adopted in all thirteen children.
HE'S children's aid society in him.
self.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
The Frazer Axle Grease.

Girs are more courageous than men. They
are ready to make match with a fellow
twice their size
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Pain, Irritation, Retention, Incontinence,
Deposits, Gravel, etc., cured by "Buchu-
paiba." 81. Send for pamphlet to E. S.
WELLS, Jersey City, N. j.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

AS a tonic and nervine for deblitated
woman nothing surpasses DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" By druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

The feature in new polka-dotted cot
ton dress goods is the large size and
close proximity of the dots.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

The Excuses of Youth are drafts upon Old Age.
payable with interest," sufferers should Immediately
lens Brain Food 81 IS for $5-At druggists and at
ALIENS Pharmacy, 3l5 First Ave.. N. Y.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

Is the best in the market. 1t is the most
economical and cheapest, one box lasting as
long as two of any other. One greasing will
last two weeks. 1t received first premium at
the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also
medals at various State Fairs. Buy no other.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

ONE pair of boots saved every year by using
Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17

1t is remarked by Frank Leslie's IL
Lustrated Newspaper that the growth
of manufacturing in South Carolina is
remarkable. A recent report shows