The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-09
TRADE ITEMS.

CHATrANoo q, is shipping offtons of straw
berries. TIL, Times there says they are
selling in the town at five cents box. The
shipment on Thursday last was $500
pounds. Peaches are So bushel.
English steamers carrying the trausat
lantic mails get about 1925 600 from the
United States and about twice as much
from the British government. From 1913
to 1882 the United States paid, in all, $751;
2H ,267 " for ocean mail service; $2i0ll,-
638. AZ Of this amount was paid to steam ers
sailing under the American flag.
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in the
cultivation Of the oyster. Not less than
10000 acres are said to be devoted to the
raising Of that delicious crustacean. The
business is also large. Thirty steamers and
many sailing vessels arc engaged in the
traffic.
Never before in the history of the Con-
nel!sville (Pa.) region has the price of coke
been 80 low az 1t is to-day. There was Pc
riod OF depression when coke sold az low as
30 cents. While this is the ruling rate,
sales have been made as low as 81 cents per
ton. This is simply giving coal away and
IN many instances 1t is even more ruinous.
There are already ,2l9 idle ovens out of the
Connellsville region proper. This does not
include the ovens built and not yet fired,
nor does 1t include several works on the
northern border of the region, whose prod
uct cannot be fairly classed as pure Con-
nellsville coke. Upon the whole, therefore,
the situation is worse and the outlook more
gloomy than 1t was three weeks ago.
The Bosom Shipping List says A num-
Der OF vessels from the fleet have arrived
here and at outports with small fares of salt
mackerel. All report mackerel plenty, but
wild and working east. The weather has
been uniavorable, and the catch so far is
very small. Sales OF $50 lbs. mackercl were
made on Monday, at 81 % to $3.50 per Dbl
from pickle without barrel. At Gloucester
sales at IS with barrel. Dealers are getting
rs 90 to 50 per Dbl. for small lots, regularly
packed, with liberal orders coming in from
the west. Nothing OF consequence is doing
In goldfish. Most of the receipts come direct
TO dealers, and prices are almost entirely
nominal for large lots. We quote large
ptckle-cured new bank at 81 80 to 81. 62i per
gtl., and new dry bank at SO 50. Picked
herring, are selling only in jobbing lots
smoked herring are nominally 2Sc. per box
Tor medium scaled.
Inc great staple of Japan is rice. en-
ploying more than half the titled area in
summer. The alluvial and lowland spots
average forty bushels per acre, and some.
Times go up as high as sixty and seventy.
Wheat, OF the variety known here as win
yer, Is grown everywhere, yielding twenty
bushels per acre. 1t Is grown in burrows,
cultivated by the mattock, cut by a hand
knife, thrashed by the fail, winnowed by
hand and packed" In sacks; ground in the
most ancient OF hand.mills. 1t is eaten in
the form OF uniermented cakes. An un-
successful attempt was once made to ex.
port IT. Barley Is more important than
wheat, and is grown and used in much the
same way.
The foreign commerce statistics of the
port OF New York for the week ending Sat.
urday last showed small decrease In mer-
chandise exports and an increase in inn.
ports, as compared with the figures of the
preceding week. The exports, however.
still keep ahead Of last year, while the i'm
ports are considerably less. The exports
o. domestic produce, exclusive OF specie,
Lor the week were $5,S96,05l,
against 81, 259, i6s last year; imports Of gen.
eral n merchandise, $780,, $50, against So.
.aSySy last y year; exports of specie, $l5l,
specie, $ Cos against lis lee last vepp The
total exports since January l, were $liI..
1oo, 100, against $l2S, 659,903 last year. i'm.
ports OF general merchandise, $l93 $50 or.
against $2l0, 1883 S7i last year; exports of
specie, $6,T5,Sl0, against $2S Sil. $40 last
year, and imports Of specie, 81, s66, 33i,
against 81 1852 ,35I last year.
Alligator fishing or rather catching IN
qulte an industry on the Sabine river In the
vicinity OF 0sange, where number of boats
are engaged In the business, and thousands
OF skins are shipped annually. Alligator
boots and shoes are quite fashionable and
many persons who suppose the, q . caring
suhgator leather are sadly mistaken,
a machine has been invented to convert
ordinary COW skin into alligator leather by
cutSng creases In II, aud the consequ nee
neoout three..quarters ofthe alligator boots
ana shoes are bogus, but as the wearers do
not Know II, they are Just as we'll con, ntsd
tney wearing the genuine article,
EiIty years ago the capital invested In
oottoa factories was $4,000 600, and the
smouns o. cotton used was n, $50 Sit,
pounm. To-day the capital 10 S225 900 600.
~ toe material used 7pS, 2lO, $40 pounds.
SVv5% Xsars ago. the wooden factories used
oySo.oM pounds Of wool, turning out
psc6ucts worth On, 600. In 1850.
~ 0!3 900 pounds Of wool were manufsc.
spfGe Into articles worth S2Si, 5s7 07i. In
~ la9 70 years our silk products have /,
eesSesso nom value Of 81, &c. 002 10 tS4..
swx f!ny ysars ago there were but
Nv sennertee and no shoe ihckorlea. In