The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-11

/ business men Of the two cities. The aver
age Is about fifteen messages n day,
Ten million dpllas arr invested In the
dairy interests of the United States, The
products from this capital TelCh the mag
nicont sum OF S2bUcO 900,
During February II, iG5 tons of coal were
shipped from Seattle, Wyoming Territory,
and the lumber shipments from the sound
aggregated 100000 feet.
A section Of land two miles west OF
Fresno has been purchased with the design
Of putting 200 acres in tobacco aud the bal
ancc In vineyard.
A company OF New York capitalists has
purchased large hill at Flushing, est
mated to contain 100000 worth of SAM
which they will ship to all parts of the
state.
An agent has gone TO South Africa to Sc
cure ostriches to stock farm to be estab'
lished at Ban Bornardino, California.
Fifty thousand pairs OF shoes daily are
made IN the prisons OF New York, The out.
side manufacturers claim TO be unable to
compete with the contractors,
IL is stated that shipment of goods was
brought from Liverpool, England, to Kan.
sas city for 2lc. per 100 lbs, and Kansas
road charged Coo. per 100 lbs. for delivering
II to its destination In the interior OF the
state II distance o, 100 miles.
Nearly 100000 bushels of potatoes were
imported into this country lat year. About
l,0O0,00O bushels came from the Bermudas,
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The 70.
mainder came from Europe.
so late ~ last year DR.. Proust, in pap or
! to the Academy Of Medicine, made the
statement that there were then no fewer
than 2l9.270 houses in France without u
window.
French silk merchants are thinking about
acclmating II species of solder which has
been discovered on the African coast. Tho
spider makes thread very like yellow silk
aud almost as strong.
The vintage OF France last season
amounted to 53000,0O0 gallons less than
that Of Italy. This an astonishing laning
oil Five years ago France produced nearly
three times as much wine as last year.
An old Vineyard Haven pilot, Captain
Leander Daggett, iity-three years ago
brought to that place the first rubber over
shoes ever seen there. He was In raris,
aud was presented with about dozen pairs
by tho American consul. The shoes were
OF the pure gum, formed on clay molds.
The government of New South Wales has
given out an order Tor over 1900 tons of
steel rails, which are to be do ivercd during
the next four and half years, The con
tract has been secured by u Sheffield con
Germ.
A lease of the Park theatre, In New York,
has been secured by n clothing firm for u
term OF twenty.one years, with the privilege
of renewal. The rent agreed upon is So
GOO per year, the lessccs also assuming the
usual taxes on the property.
In 1881 there Were examined in the mu.
nicipal laboratory, Paris, 1901 sam pies OF
wine, OF which 81 were found to be good,
0l passnble, and 1881 bad In the first
five months of 1882, 500 samples were ANA.
lyaed, of which 372 were good 8S3 passable
and sli bad-li5 of the latter being very In
furious.
According to the reports, which have
been carefully prepared by the police, the
number of business houses inundated IN
Cincinnati during the flood was /, hlS, mum,
her OF residences, 2,5iS; number OF families
occupying these houses, 3,G0l number of
persons in these families, 1888, There
were II railroad dcpots inundated and IS
COal-yards,