The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-10
TRADE ITEMS.

English hop-growers report fine weather
Cor the growing plant
From replies To 5000 circulars OF inquiry.
tn. National Millcrs association learn that
the present outlook for wheat Is very prohlls-
ing The indications are that tine yield for
1884 will approximate thn' Tor iS>Z siiouiu i'o
unforeseen misfortune occur.
Some merchants complain of n poor trade.
hut this is the season when trade Is expected
10 fall Off, and the distribution Of goods Is
lair for the early part Of July. In numerous
articles there Is weaker feeling, and reilned
horaX. glyccrinc, gum opium ana OH pepper
mint are lower than they were week ago.
The daily cost of salaries In Congress Is
estimated at $4,000.
II will not pay this season for diirymcn 10
mold either butter or cheese for expected
higher prices. The prospects are that all
kinds OF merchandise. including food pro-
duets, will rule low the current season.
English dairymen will increase their make
~ cheese for 1881.
Reports from all parts of the United states
give the apple crop as promising an unusually
barge yield.
The cattle interest OF the United States, ac-
iii oxen, I2,ii3l2O cows and p, iSs, so other
cattle, a total of 3j,925,5ll, worth 81 JV,WO,OOO
Rowel, the pedestrian, has made SlOO,oOo
in his walking matches.
Woods are sent from Australia to Liverpool
as low as $3.50 per 100 pounds, whilet to Bos-
TON and New York the charge Is - for 100
pounds. All Australian woods are put up In
square bales, compressed to reduce their size
and weighing about 400 pounds.
At Ingersoll last week nineteen factories
offered 1898 boxes cheese first half May make:
il5 box es sold ut II cents 100 OF which were
white; about 800 boxes sold during the past
few days at II to llla cents. On the London
Ont market sales were made of 273 boxes at
II cents. and $40 ut III cents.
New York dealers In boxing gloves say
that there was never SUCH demand Tor
their goods as now. Everybody, from dudes
10 bootbacks, buy them, and considerable
number of women are learning the noble art.
They cost from SO 30 to $3.50 n pair.
4 Bridgeport (Ct)frm Is shipping large
quantities OF seed oysters 70 the talilorhii,
coast for rcplanting. They thrive We'll ana
are said to make the pest oysters Oh inat
coast. 4.
cites OF cheese are made In Europe.
Forty whales. averaging eight OF in
length, have been captured on the Orkney
Islands. IsE
Among the minor coins. the cent piece Is
most in demand. The coinage during thesix
months ending the lst inst, was 10, 1922
pieces. OF the five-cenl piece the coinage
was 5.1li,872 pieces; and the three,cent piece
only 2,g72 pieces. With two-cent letter post
age, the demand for these pieces ought not
10 be large. r.. q,
The ever-increasing. travel has made little
switzerland 81 country Of hotels. There are
I.0Ol of them there, with 5S.lJ beds. The
buildings are worth $ls,OOO,0OO, the furniture
si4,TO0,OJ0. and there Is about Sl,2W,OW work.
ing capital, making ~ total OF S63.W0,oOo IN
vested in the business. The gross revenue oil
the place is put down at $l0,i6O,OOO
New York business men representing $50,
uO00O0 worth of capital have organized 70
fight unjust determinations of railroad pools
and ultimately telegraph express discrimlna-
,ion. In many eases o merchant IN rev
York can receive merchandise at much less
cost than he can ship II, and the pool oil
srunk lines is arbitrary in its manner of ham :
ling freight. $500.