Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1885 — Page 6

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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MONEY AND STOCKS. Unexpected Strength and Higher Price* in the New I’orlc Market. New Yojuk, March 7,—Moncy I®l| per tent.; offered at the close at 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4 a 5 per cent. Sterling exchange dull; sixty days, S4.S3J; Bight, $4.86. Government*; dull apd unchanged. Railroads quiet and steady. State securities are dull. The weakness of the stock market, late yes ierday, has had no apparent effect upon to day's prices. Both “bulls” and “bears” express surprise at the strength developed in early transactions, the advance over last evening's Anal quotations in the first prices this morning amounting to J to 4 per cent., from which there were further gains in the first hour. This was followed by fractional declines, then another slight advance, and then a dull and steady market until after 2 o’clock, when larero buying orders appeared for Lackawanna and New York Central. The principal feature was the manipulation of Laekana Transactions, 221,000 shares, to-wit: 48,000 "Lackawanna, 18,000 Lake Shore, 23,000 NorthWestern, 55,000 New York Central. 16,000 Pacific Mail, 22,000 St. Paul, 10,000 Western Union. STOCK QUOTATIONS. Three per cent.boude. 101 %{Louisville k Naehv’le. Silt United Statee 4>4e 1M M Louisville A N. Alb’y.. 23 United Ktatee new 4s. 12214 Mar. & Cin. tiretapref. 10 PaciicOn of'*Js l?a Mar. tc Uin. seconds.... 5 Central Pacific first*.lll’dlMfin. k Charleston.... 421| Erie eetouilM Michigan Central r. 6 Lehigh A W’k’beofd iW IMIa. *H. Louis ir* Louisiana t'oneole Missouri tie UtiUi Missouri Pacific.......... *ls) fit. J0e............ llWj Mobile A Ohio S St. P. A fc. O. firsts....l2o j Morris A Essex 0(Td...121 Tennessee 6, old 4? ’Nashville A Chat OHI Tennessee (m. new,.,.... New JerseyCentrsl.... 3tk‘s Texas Pae. I’d grants. 3616.N0rf01k A W. pref'd.... 24 T. P, itio Grande fS ;Northern Pacific Union Pacific firsts....lH S 4 Northern Pac. pref'd.. 43 U. P. i&ad grants. ...108 iCbic. A Northwestern. 94 l). P. sinking fund...ll7J* C. A N. pref'd 128 'Vu'tfhnfh sis - 39 New York IVntral Va.ecu.ax-mat.<qup.. 42 Ohio Centra1............... 1 "Virginia deferred C I A Ohio A Mlet,iseippi 1634 Adams Express 132 Ohio A Miss, pref’d 75 Allegheny Central .'{it,Ontario A Western 10>4 Alton A Terre Haute. 21 jOregoii Navigation 66 Al. AT. 11. pref’d 80 Oregon A Transcou’l... USXi American Exprees 91)4 Oregon Improvement. 29‘4 B. C. K. A N 60 Pacific sfail f>2! Canada Pacific 39/4 Panama 98_ Canada Southern..... Si Peoria, D. & E 13% Oeatrai Pacific 35 4 Pittehurg 138 Chesapeake & Ohio Mi, Pullman Palace Car,... 112% U. AO. pref'd firsts.... II U> tding 18% C. AO. seconds 6 Keck island 113*4 Chicago A Alton 132 St. L. A San Fran 13?6 C. AA. pref'il 145 St. L. AS. F. pref’d... 36 C., B. AQ. 121 'St. L.AS. F. firsts pref 81H Chi., St. K. AN.O 83, ,C., M. A St. P~- 73% 41, St. L. A P % <’.. Al. A St. P. pref’d...l(*rt C., St. L. A P. pref’d... 17* St. Paul, M. A M 89% €.. S. AC 22% St Paul A Omaha 2434 OtevelM-A Columbus.. 34% St. Paul A O. pref’d.... 85% Delaware k Hudson... 78 hi Texas Pacific 12% Dai„, Lack. A West....W7*a| Union Pacific 47% i>e. A KioCraudc 8 I! ui ted States Express. 50 Erie. 13% Wab., St. L. A P 4% ' Eric j\rot*d 25 {Wtk.lk.lt.AP. pref. 11% East a'euiiet.dne . 4 | Wells A Fargo Exp 108 Eaotff'egu. prat’d 7*r| W. I’. Telegraph 69% Fort Wayne „..124‘* 'Colorado CoaJ —. 12% Hannibal & 81. J0e.... 33 Deadwood 4 H. A St- J.prefM %j Hotnestake 10 Harlem 96 Hi Iron Si 1 ver H one ton A Texas. ... 16 fOutario 17 IRLaois Central ....121% Quicksilver 3 I. B. A W 12% Quicksilver pref'd 27 Kuim A Texas 16% Southern Pacific Lake Erin A West 11% Snf.ro 13 Lake Shore., 63%’ Foreign Money and Stock Market LOKXKfN,*,March 7—5 P. M. Government bonds — Consols for money, 07account, OS 1-16; United States fours, 125%; fouv-and-a-hslfs, 114%. Railroad bonds—Erie, lid I .*; Erie seoonds. 57%; New York Central, 90 7 g; Illinois Central, 129*4; Pennsylvania Central, 164%; Reeding,’ 10ft 7 e; Canadian Facile, 140%; Milwaukee & St, Paul, 100. PABIE, March 7.—Rentes, 82f 22*gc. TRADE AND COMMERCE. A More Satisfactory Volume of Business In Progress, but Still Room for Improvement, x Indianapolis, March 7. The volume of trade in the week closing today has been more satisfactory than in any previous week of the present year. Still, there is large room for improvement in many departments. The dry goods men, the leather dealers \ud the hardware men all report trade backward, yet the winter like weather is thought"'to be largely responsible such sluggishness. The grocers are having a good trade. Sugars continue fairly active, and prices are weak but unchanged. Our reports from New York continue bearish in regard to coffee. The produce men, as well, are doing a fair business. Eggs are strong at the recent advance. Receipts are quite liberal, but not sufficient to supply the demand. Fine table butter is in fair request and steady at prices quoted, but poor stock is very dull. Potatoes and cabbage coming forward mere freely, and the latter is much weaker. Dressed poultry has been dull for some days. One favorable feature in trade at the present time, country merchants are paying ior what they buy with commendable promptness. There is an abundance <*f money and the dullness of the money markets Js really now the most unfavorable feature of the business situation. Its dullness is indicated not only by the light demand for money, but by the fact that there is still so much idle money looking for employment. Idle money, like idle labor, is a sure sign of business depression, for when satisfactory profits can be made from its employment it is always in active request. Probably there never was a time iu the history of Indianapolis wheu money could be more readily commanded upon good security. OB A IN. The wheat market is again under a cloud. The Board of Trade Price Current says of wheat: A general weakness is noticed in local circles with lower priees and less active demand We quote: > No. 2 Mediterranean, e. t 91 No. 3 Mediterranean, o. t 80 No. 2 red, o. t 80*a No. 3 rod, o. t 75 Coni—Remains in a firm position, and buyers are paying full quotations for all offerings. We quote: No. 2 white, o. t 42*2 No. 3 white, o. t 41 Yellow, o. t 41*2 High mixed, o. t 41 *2 Mixed, o. t 40 Rejected No. 2 white o. t 4142 Rejected yellow, o. t 41 Rejected No. 3 white, o. t 40 Rejected high mixed, o. t 4t)Lj Rejected mixed, o. t 39*<j Unmerchantable, o. t 38 *a hecadear, o. t 40 Oats—Firm,(active and scarce, with prices>ell maintained. We quote: NO. 2 white, o. t 32*2 bight-mixed, o. t 31 Mixed, o. t, .. 31 Rye—No. 2, nominal. Bran—-Firmer; $13.50 bid. RECEIPTS BY BAIL PAST TWENTY-FOUR HOUR*. Wheat, bushels 6,600 Ltorn, baskets - 24.600 Oats, bdshels 3,600 GRAIN IN STORE. March 6, 1885. Wheat. - Corn. Oats. Rys. Bp.ifA 36.000 38,200 53,600, 900 Ektfatorß 16.400 1,160 4.6001 Capital Elevator 30,000 5 000 2,000 Elevator D 2,000 18,000 Total 82,400 4C.300 78,200 900 Oocrespon’g day , ia*yearX2o,oool 33,0001 30,000 19,000 INDIANATOLIS KARKETfI CANNED GOODS. Tomatoes - Two-pound cans, 80985 c; 3-pound, 85c®51.40. P-stW atiuwlsrd 3-pouad. $L75@ 3jjn& seconds, $1.S)@1.0O; 2-pcmnd standard, $ 1.40®tv50. Corn—Polk’s 2-veund caas. 95c; m&BBp light, $1.05® U’aaWw, 60e®51.30; .rfiwieawfat. ‘Zse#*LA&®Ld4fe oa all, s2®

• 2.25: lobsters. $1.85® 1.90; red cherries, 95c®51.10; gooseberries, $1.05®1.20. COAL AND COKE. Anthracite coal, small, $7 ton; large. $6.75; Pitts'onrg coal. $4 ton; Bloesburg coal $5.25 con; Raymond City coal. $4 & ton: block, coaL $3 -P ton; block nut, $2.00 ten; Jackson coal, $3.75 ton: Jackson nut, $3.25 I* ton; charcoal, 15c HP’ bush; Oonnellsville coke, 15c bush; crushed coke, 12c f> bush; gas coke, 10c 4* bush. DRUGS. Alcohol, $2.20®2.30: aeafetida. 30®35c; alum, 4®sc; camphor, 25®30c; cochineal, 50®55c, chloroform, $1®1.10; copperas, brls-, $3®3.50; cream tartar, pure, 38®40c, indigo, 80ea$l;licorice. Calab, genuine, 35940 c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz., 30 ®3sc, morphine, P. Sc W. 4* ounce, $3.50 ®3.75; malder, 12®14c; oil. castor, gal.. $1.65a1.70; oil, bergamot, & tb. $2.75®3; opium, $-4,50d/4.75; quinine, P. &W. ounce: $1.05® 1.10; balram copaiba, 00®75c; soap, castile, Pr., 12®lCc; soda, oieai-b, m’6c; salts, epsom; 4®sc; sulphur Hour, 4® 6c; saltpeter. 8® 20c; turpentine, 35® 40c; glycerine, 20® 22c; iodide potass, $2.75®3.00; bromide potass, 40®45c; chlorate potash, 20® 22c; borax. 13 ® 15c; cinchorfidia, 40®45c. OiL?t—Linseed oil, raw, 50 ®s2c gallon; boiled, 53®55c; coal oil, legal test, bank, 60® 65c; best straits, 65c; Labrador ,_ 60c; West Virginia lubricating, 20®30c; miners’. 65c. L%r<l Oils—No, 1, 58®65c; do. extra. 68®72Jgc, Wuite Lead—Pure. 5L,c ; lower grades, 4 ®sc. DRY GOODS. Points—Albions. solid color, American fancy, Allen’s fancy, 5Lj C ; Allen's dark, sbjc Allen’s pink, 6c; Arnold’s, 6c; Berlin, solid colors SW; Cocheco, 6c; Conestoga, Dunuell’s Eddystono, 6c; Gloucester, sc; Haitel, Harmony, sc; Hamilton, 6c; Greenwich, sLjc; Knickerbocker, Mallory, pink. Gc; Richmond, 6c. Brown Sheeting —Atlantic A, 7Uc; Boott C, 6c; Agawam, P, sc; Bedford R. 413-:; Augusta, otgc; Boott, AL. Continental C, 6L|C; Dwight Star, 7bjc; Echo Lake, 6c; Graniteville EE. 6c; Lawrence LL, 5*4C; Pepperell E, 7c; Pepoerell R, Pepperell 9-4, 18c; Pepperell 10-4, i*oc; U tica4, 25c; Utica 10-4, 27**c; Utiea C. 4h}c. Bleached Sheeting—Blackstone AA, 7c; Ballou & Son, 6c; Chestnut Hill, sqjc; Cabot 4-4, 6%c; Chapman X, 6c; Dwight -Star S. 8c; Fruit of the Loom, 6 *4c; Lonsdale, Linwood. 7Ljc; Masonville, 8c; New York Mills, lO 1 #*;; Our Own, 5%c Pepperell, 9-4, 20c; Pepperell 10-4, 22c; Hill’s, I\\ Hope, Knight’s Cambric, 7bjc; Lonsdale cambric. 10*ac; Whitinsville, 33-inc.ies, Go; Wamsutta. lO^c. TlCKlNGS—Amoekcag ACA Conestoga BF 14c, Conestoga extra 13 bic. Conestoga Gold Medal 13Djc, Conestoga CCA Conestoga AA 9c, Conestoga X Bc, Pearl River Lewiston 36inch 14b}C, Lewiston 32-incli ISiflc, Lewiston 30-iocn 11V, Falls 080 32-iuch 15c, Methuen AA 12%c, Oakland A 6L>c, Swift River Gc, York 32-inch 12 1 ac, York 30-inch ll'fic. Ginghams— Bates Gloucester 7c, Glasgow 7c, Lancaster 7 1 ac, Rajidelman 7 1 oc, Renfrew Madras 9c, Cumberland 7 1 ac, White 7 1 ac, Bookfold 1013 c. Paper Cambrics —Manville sh}c, S. S. Sc Son 6c, Mason ville s*4c, Garner o^c. Grain Bags—.\mericau sl9, Atlanta S2O, Franklinville s2l, Lewiston S2O, Ontario $lB, .Stark A $23.50. FItUITS AND VEGETABLES. Apples— Choice, $3 ®3.soiP’ brl; common, $2®2.25 ■P’brl. Cranberries— Cape Cod, SIG&I7 brl, ss® 5.50 IP crate; Jersey, sl4® 15 brl, $4®4.50 4 y crate. Celery—3o®4o doz. Cabbage—s2® 2.25 brl. Onions— s3.7s a-4 brl; Spanish, $1.75®2 bush crate. Potatoes— SOoGOc bu. Sweet Potatoes— Kentucky sweets, $3 @3.50 brl; PMladelphia Jersey sweets, $5.50 ■jj*’ brl. - Turnips $1.25® 1.50 brl. FOREIGN FRUITS. Raisins—London layer, [email protected] box: loose muscatels, 2-crowu, $2.([email protected] <s’box Valencia, lO ollc lb: Citron, 28d30c ¥ 111. Currants, GLjc lb. Bananas—Aspinwall, $2®3.50; Jamaica, t 1.50 @2.50. Lemons —Malaga, $3®3.50; Messina, 4®5. Dates—Fard, in boxes. 8@10c; frailed, Gc. Figs—New, 16® 18c. Malaga Grapes—4o!bs, $8.50; 55 !fc., $lO. Oocoanuts —$5®6 hundred. Oranges —Stem-cut Jamaica, in brls, $7 @8.50; Valencia, $7; Florida, $-4.50 @5 box. Prunes—Turkish,s Pieuch, GROCERIES. Oowcee—Ordinary grades, fair, 10c; good, 10*2@llc; prime, ll I s@l2c; strictly prime, 12*2@13c; clmica, 13*a@14e: fauev green and yellow, 14 a 16c; old government. Jav-a, 23 @2Gc; imi tation Java, 18@19qie. Roasteo—Gatos’* A I, 16c; Gates’s prime, 14*40; Arbuckle’s. 14 '4c; Levering’s 14 1 4C; Delworth’s, 14-*4C; McOune’s, 14 1 4<j, CHEESE—Common, 7®Sc; good skim, 9@loc; eveam. full cream, 12bj@13e; New York, 14® 100. Dried Bef.f— 13L)@ 14c. Rice—Carolina and Louisiana, 5 1 fl®8c. Molasses and Btbups —New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 40®-45c; choice, 53@58c. Syrups, low grade, 25@27c; prime, 30®33c; choice to fancy, 35 ®4oc. Salt Fish —Mackerel, extra mess, $25@26 brl; halves, $ 11.50® 12.50; No. 1 mackerel, $19®20; halves, $8 @10; No. 2mackerel, s9® 13: halves, $4.50 @6.50; No. 3 mackerel, [email protected]; halves, s3@ 3.50 Sugars— Hards, confectioners’ A, 6^ ®G 1 4C: standard A, off A. 57§@6c: whit extra C, 5%@5 7 n; fine yellows, s*B good yelows. common yellows, 5 @SUStarch —Refined pearl, ®6c: Champion gloss lump, 6® 7c; improved corn, 6 Hi® 7c. Salt —Lake, 92c, car lots; 10 @ 15c more in quantities less than a car-load. Spices —Pepper, 18@20c-, allspice, 8® 12c: cloves, 20@30o; cassia. 13® 15c; nutmegs, Go®Bso lb. Shot—sl.ss® I.GO Ip bag for drop. Flour SACks—No. 1 drab, H bri, $33 f 1,000, brl. sl7; lighter weight,, $1 & 1,000 leeTwine—Hemp, 11 @lßc lt>, wool, 8@10c: flax, 20®30c; paper, 18c; jute, 12®15e; cotton, lG®2sc. Woopenware —No. 1 tubs, [email protected]; No. 2 tubs, [email protected]; No. 3 tubs, G.00®6.25; two-hoop Sails. sl.so® 1.70; three-hoop pails. $1.90®2; ouble washboards. [email protected]; common washboards, $1.40® 1.85; clothespins, 50@$l per box. Wooden Dishes— Per hundred, 1 tb, 20c; 2 lb, 25c; o lb. 30c: 5 lb. 40c. Lead—s 13c for pressed bar. Wrapping Paper —Crown straw, 18c per bundle; medium straw, 27c; double crown straw. 3Go. heavy weight straw, 2 1 4@2 1 a P* tb; crown rag, 30c P bundle; medium rag, 45c; double crown rag, 60c; heavy weight rag, 2% @3e 4* lb: ilanilla, No. 1, 7b* @9e; No. 2. s@Gc; print paper, No. 1, 6®7c: book paper, No. 1. S. & 0., 10® 11c; No. 2, S. @O., B®9c; No. 3. 8. &C.. 7 j 4®Bc. LKATUEit, HIDES AND TALLOW. Leather —Oak sole. 33 @4oc; hemlock sole, 26® 32c: harness, 30®35c: skirting, 37@40c: black bridle, P doz.. SGO@GS; fair bridle, $60@78 p doz.; city kip, 00® 80c; French kip, 85c @$ 1.20; city calfskins, 85c@$L.10; French calfskins, $1.15®1.80. Hides—Green, heavy steer, green salt, 8 @Bi*c ; green salted calf, ilc; dry flint, 12c; dry s dted, 10c. Damaged one-third off the above prices. Sheepskins—3o® 80c. Tallow — Prime, 5 Grease —Brown, 4c; white, 5@5 IRON AND STEELBar iron (rates). 2c; horse-shoe bar, $3.15®3.40; Norway nail rod, 7c; German steel plow-slab, 4c; American drill steel, 12c; (Sanderson's tool steel, 15c; tire steel. 4c: spring steel, Gc: horse shoes, keg, $4.00; mule shoes, # keg, $5.00; horse nails, <jp* lb, Bd, $5; cut nails, lOd and larger, $2.25 keg; other sizes at the usual advance. Tinners’ Supplies—Best brand charcoal tin—lo, 10x14, 14x20. 12x12, $0.50: IX, 10x14, 14x20, and IX 12x12, $8.50: 10, 14x20, roofing tin, $6.25; IC, 20928, $12.50® 13; block tin, in pigs, 26c; in bars, 27c. Iron—27 B iron, 3 J 4c; 27 C iron, 6c; galvanized. cent, discount. Sheet zinc. CopSer bottoms. 23c. Planished copper, 30c. Solder, 5® 16c. Wire. 50 cent, off list. 01 L CAKE. Oil cake and oil meal, 1,000 IBs, sls; 2,000 lbs, S3O. Bags and drayage extra. PRODUCE. BUTTER—Creamery fancy, 28c; dairy, selected. 18 @2oc; choice country, 13@Ioc; poor to fair. B@loe. Eggs—Shippers are paying 20c; selling from store at 22c. Feathers—Prime geese, 45c p tb; mixedduck, 20® 25 tb. Honey—2o@22c in 1 and 2-lb cans. Venison—l 4 ® ioc tb. Poultry—Hens, B®Bt*c® roosters, 4c,- young chickens, 8® BLge lb ; dutAs, $3.50 @ dot; geese, $6 P doz; hen turkeys, 9 1 *®10o@’ lb; toms, 8® 9c V lb. Cider —Duffy’s, Rochester. $6 4*-brL Wool —Tub washed, 28@32c; uuwashed, medium, 20c; unwashed, common. 18c; Ootswold, 17c; burry and unmerchantable according to their value. PROVISIONS. Wholesale Prices —Prime lard, 7c; short ribs, partly cured. 6.20 c; sweet pickled hams, 8 %c; shouldera, 514 c; bulk shoulders, 4> i *c. Jobbino Prices—Smoked Meats—Sugar-cured hams. 10 tc 121* tba average, ll4*q; 15 fils average, lie; I7 l *lbs average 10%c; 20 IBs, 10%:; heavy averages, 24 to 25 tbs, cottage hams. 8c; Califoreni hams, 6c; English breakfast bacon, dear, English shoulders, 7c for light. 6%c for heavy; family shoulders, pieces averaging 6 to 10 lbs, 6>4C; dried beef, 15c; bacon (clear sides), light or medium weight, bellies, do, backs, do. 8c; French flitch, 7-Ib pieces, 7c. Pry Salted and Pickled Meats—English cured elaaraides or backs (unsmaked), 7\c ; bean ooririclear), p br1.200 tbs. sl6; clear pork ip brl 200 tbs, $14.50; family perk (clear) ip brl 200 fts, $12.50; family beef p brl 200 tbs, $18; also in ** brls, containing 100 tbs, at half the price of the barrels. with 50c added, to cover additional cost of package. Lard—Pure kettkvnmdered. in tierces, ajao, in t* hrls and 50-tb tubs, ®Bc advance on -price of fleeces; 4S-1L tin tubs, and 20 tb pails, %c advance; l(bit> advance. Saasagc—Bologna, in doth, 6*sc; In n, 7c. BBIDB. TiMOfW—sl.so9l.7s ip bu; elover, $5®5.25 ip bu; bloegr***, extra dean Kentucky, $191.25 l^rMp^75 erckuwd grass, $1.50®

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LIVE STOCK. Indianapolis Market. Indianapolis, March OATTL*—Receipts, GOO; shipments, 470. The local supply very light, but little doing; market strong and higher on butchers, while shippers were steady. Choice shipping steers of 1,300 to 1,400 tbs $5.00®5.50 Medium to good shipping steers, 1,150 to 1.250 tbs ave— [email protected] Common to fair shipping steers, 800 to 1.050 lbs ave 4.10®4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.50®4.00 Choice cows and heifers [email protected] Medium to good cows and heifers 3.6594.00 Common to fair cows and heifers [email protected] Veals, common to good [email protected] Bulls, common to good [email protected] Milkers, common to good 25.00 @50.00 Hogs —Receipts, 500; shipments, 700. Quality fair, market active and higher, closing firm. Heavy shipping : $4.75 @4.85 Light shipping 4.60®4.70 Pigs 4.0094.30 Heavy roughs [email protected] Sheep—Receipts, 500; shipments, 350. But few here, quality’ some better than has been for the last few days; the shipping demand is light, mostly taken by butchers. Good to choiee, 110 to 114 Isis $3.75 ®4.00 Fair to medium, 80 to 100 lbs [email protected] Common grades [email protected] Bucks, per head [email protected] Elsewhere. CHICAGO. March 7.—The Drover*’ Journal reports: Hogs—Receipt*. 8,000; shipments, 3,000. The market was stronger; rough packing. $4.30 @ 4.60; packing and shipping, $4.60 light. $4.3094.80; skips, $3.50*4.20. • Cattle—Receipts. 1,100; shipment*, 500. The market was strong and brisk: shipping cattle of from 1.050 to 1,200 lbs’average, $4.2594.75; from 1,200 to 1,600 !bs average, ss®6; Texans, [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 800; shipments, 400. The market was steady; inferior, $2 @2.50; medium to good, $2.60@4; extra, lambs, $4.50@ 4.75. ST. LOUIS. March 7.—Cattle—Receipts, 300; shipments, 200. The market was quiet; scarcely more than a local trade done; good to choice shipping steers, $5.25 @5.75; common to medium shipping steers, $4.50@5; native butchers’ steers, $494.60; cows and heifers, $3 @4; corn-fed Texas steers, $4 @ 4.50. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 200; shipments, 400. The market was quiet; common to medium sheep, [email protected]; choice sheep, $3.50@4; extra, $4.25 @4.50. Hogs—Receipts, 800; shipments, 1,100. The market was firmer; Yorkers. $4.4094.65; packing hogs, [email protected]; heavy, $4.6594.90. BUFFALO, March 7.—Cattle Receipts to-day, 305; receipts consigned through, 217 car-loads, The market was quiet and unchanged; feeling steady; 5 car-loads unsold. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts to-day, 4,800; receipts consigned through, 17 car-loads. The market firmer but not quolably higher. Hogs—Receipts to-day, 700; receipts consigned through. 237 car-loads. Sales -were made of good to choice at [email protected], butchers’ grades, $0.05® 5.15. The market closed weak. KANSAS CITY, March 7.—The Live Stock Indicator reports: Cattle—Receipts, 480. The market was s@loc higher; export steers. [email protected]; good to choice shippmg steers, $4.90'@0.30: common to medium, $4.60 @4.85; cow 6, $2.8094.60; stockers and feeders, $4 @4.65. Hogs—Reooipts, 2,200. The market was active and higher; sales were made at $4.25 @4.05. Sheep—Receipts, 2,000. The market was a shade higher, fair to choice muttons, $2.50 @3.75; common to medium, [email protected]. EAST LIBERTY, March 7. Cattle—The market dull and nothing doing. Receipts, 1,200; shipments, none. Hogs The market was active. Receipts. 1,500; shipments, 1.600; Philadelphias, $595.10; best Yorkers, $4.50®4.05. Sheep —Nothing doing. Receipts, 400; shipments, 1,500. CINCINNATI. March 7.—Hogs firm; common and lighL [email protected]: racking and butchers’, $4.45® D.IO. Receipts, 835; shipments, 150. MILWAUKEE, March 7.—Hogs higher; sales at $4.2594.80. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. Produce Markets. NEW YORK, [March 7.—Flour dull; receipts, 20,000 brls; exports, 3,100 brls; Minnesota patent, $4.75®5.60. Wheat—Spot lots *e@lc lower; options opened fisc lower, afterward advanced @ le, and closed weak at a reaction of 1 8@ : %c; receipts, 22,000 bu; exports, 109.000 bu; No. 2 spring, 89c; ungraded red, 84986340; No. 3 red, 85c; No. 2 red, 90; No. 1 white, 89c; No. 2 red, March, sales of 136,000 bu at 87*4@87%c, closing at 875@c; April, sales of 288,000 bu at 884p@89c, closing at May, sales of 1,264,000 bu at 89®90%c, closing atOOSgc; June, sales of 400,000 bu at 90 7 8@91®8C, closing at 91 July, sales of 24,000 buat9l%c. Corn opened heavy and a shade lower, closing 14® %c higher: receipts, 150.000 bu; exports, 97.000 bu; ungraded, 51@Dl%c; No. 3, 504* @slc; steamer, 50 I s®d2c; No. 2 Western, sl@s2Ljc; steamer yellow, 51®523iCia steamer whit#. 51 1 g@5U 1 gc; No. 2, March, bgc, closing at 51 ;j ßc; April. 50*8 ®sl, closiuc at 50 7 ac; May. 49*8 ©so ; he, closing at 503gc; June, 49 5 8@50 3 8C, closing at 5014 c; steamer, March,s0 J 4C. Oats lower; receipts, 87,000 bu; exports, 27,000 bu; mixed Western, 37@39c; white Western, 39'@41c. Hay steady. Hops dull and unchanged. Sugar dull and nominal; molasses 4380; refined quiet but steady; white extraC, 538 c; pff A, 5 7-16@0*30; standard A, 5*895 11-16 c; granulated, Ghae. Molasses quiet and unchanged. Rice in fair demand anil market firm. Petroleum firm; United certificates, 77*8C. Tallow quiet and steady. Rosin steady. Eggs in fair demand and market firm. Leather in fair demand and market, firm. Wool quiet and firm for choice. Lard higher; Western steam, spot lots, 7.2t>c; April, 7.23 c: May, [email protected]; June, 7.37®7.39c; July. [email protected]; August, 7.52 ©7.54c. Butter dull and heavy. Cheese quiet and unchanged. Lead firm. CHICAGO. March 7.—Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat unsettled and feverish; closed over yesterday. Sales ranged: March, 74 1 4@75i8c, closed at 7434 C: April, 74 3 4@75 5 8' , i closed at 75 1 4@75 3 8C: May, closed at SOigc; June, SIH® closed at 81 7 gc; No. 2 Chicago spring, 74% ®75 1 c; No. 3 Chieago spring, 66c; No. 2 red. 77® 78c; No. 3 red, 71c. Corn opened weak and lower; closed firm at outside prices. Sales ranged: Cash, 38 1 s@40c; March, 37 ?5 8@38 1 4C, closed at 38*40; April, 37%@38*30, closed at SSSsSSSLje; May, 41 i 4@42c, closed at 41Jgc. Oats quiet but steady; Sales ranged: Cash, 27%®30c; April, 27*2 ®27*gc; May, closed at 31@31 J ic. Rye firm at 63c. Barley dull and, nominal at 63c. Flaxseed firm at $1.46. Pork in fair demand and 15® 20c higher. Sales ranged: Cash ar and March, $12.50 @12.55; April, $12.47*2® 12.57*2, closed at [email protected]: May, [email protected]*2, closed at sl2.67ia® 12.70. Lard steady and unchanged. Sales ranged: Cash and March, 6.87*2c; April. 6.90©6.95c, closed at 0.92 1 2'@6.95c; May, 6.97*2 97.02*20. closed at [email protected]*ac. Bulk meats in fair demand; shoulders, 4.90@5c; short ribs, 6.25 @6.30c; short clear, [email protected]. Whisky at $1.15. Butter weak; creamery, 30@32c. Eggs firm at 23%c. Receipts—Flour, 11,000 brls; wheat, (55.000 bu; corn, HG.OOObu; oats, 77,000 bu; rye. 5,000 bu; barley, 47,000 bu. Shioments—Flour, 22,000 brls; wheat, 22 000 bu; corn, 173,000 bu, oats, 128,000 bu; rye, 3,000 bu; barley, 36,000 bu. ST. LOUIS, March 7.—Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat opened very unsettled, but closed a shade better; No, 2 red. 81*tc cash. 833jc April, 85*8@85%c, closing at 86*20 May, 87*e@87 3 8c June. Corn a fraction higher but slow; No. 2 mixed, 37%@37 7 8C cash, 37%0 March, 37°8@37%c April, 38*4@38*2C May. Oats stronger; 30*40 cash, 31*gc May and June. Rye quiet at G3c. Barley steady; prime to fancy Northern, 60@8(Jc. Lead firm at 3.50 c. Butter unchanged. Eggs higher at 19*2 ® 20c. Flax-seed steady at $1.40. Hay unchanged. Bran quiet; 64® 65c at mill. Corn-meal firm at $2.25 @2.30. Whisky steady at $1.14. Provisions dull and unchanged; only a small order trade done. Lard, however, is exceptionally firm, with a good demand and sales at 6.85 c. Receipts—Flour, 2,300 brls; wheat, 20,000 bu; oorn, 113,000 bu; oats. 25,000 bu; rye, 2,700 bu; barley, 3,000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 9,000 brls; wheat, 14,000 bu: corn. 52,000 bu; oats, 1,000 bu; rye, 1.000 bu; barley, none. PHILADELPHIA. March 7.—Flour moved slowly, favoring buyers. Wheat declined *2 @%c, but closed a shade above the lowest prices; car lots unsettled and lowr; rejected red, 79c; No. 3 red, 79'@80c for fresh receipts; No. 2 red, 85*2<?; No. 2 red. March, 85*4® 85%c; April, 86%@87*4c; May, 88*2®89c; June, 89*h@90c. Oorn—Options nominal; car lots weak; No. 3 mixed, 48c; steamer No. 2 mixed, in elevator, 47c; steamer No. 2 mixed, on track, 48c; No. 2 yellow. 49c: No. 2 mixed, March, April, May and June, 48*8@48*2C. Oats —Car lots firmly held; rejected white. 35c; No. 3 white, 36*2c; No. 2 white. 37*2® 38c. Butter dull and drooping; creamery extras, 29 ®3lc. Eggs steady but quiet; Western extras, 26*2 ®’27*4C. Reoeipt*—Flour, 6,000 brls; wheat, 18,000 bu; corn, 70,000 bu; oats, 12,000 bu. JShiDmeuts —Wheat, 3.600 ou; eorn, 7,000 bu; oats, 12,000 bu. MILWAUKEE March 7.—Flour quiet. Wheat steady; No. 2 Milwaukee, 74 *c cash; March, 73*ac; April, 74*2c; May, 79c; June..B()%c. Corn-dull; No. 3, 38%c. Oats dull; No. 2. 30@31c; No. 2 white, 31@31*2C. Rye neglected; NA. 1. 63*2@63%c. Barley dull; No. 2 spring, 55e; No. 3 spring, 52c. Provisions steady; mess pork, $12.50 for cAsh and March. $12.65 May. Laid—Prime steam, 6.B7c.cash and March, 7c May. Receipts—Flotxr, 1,500 brls; wheat, 30,000 bu; earn, 3&.000 bu. Shipments —Flour, 2,000 brls; wheat, 2,3004 m; corn, i6,000 bu. BAI/TIMORE, March 7.—Flour steady, with a moderate demand. Wheat—Western lower and dull; Na. 2 winter red, spat, 84.®34*4c; Agril, 85%a a6*4c; Mav, 85% @Bs**o, Oorn-Wedtssn steady

but dull: Western mixed, spot, 48*4®48*2C: March, 48*4@48%c; Aprd, 48@48*flc; May, 48%@48*2c. Oats firmer; Western white, 38 @39c; mixed, 36® 37c. Rye steady and quiet at 72 @7sc. Provisions quiet and nominally steady. Cooper—Refined steady at 10%®llc. Whisky steady at $1.2091.21. Other articles unchanged. Freights to Liverpool per steamer quiet; cotton, 8-16d; flour, Is (id; grain nominally 4u. Receipts—Flour, 3,400 brls; wheat. 21.000 bu; corn, 109,000 bu; oata, 8,000 bu. Shipments—Corn, 77,000 bn. TOLEDO, March 7.—Wheat steady: No. 2 red, cash and March, 78c; April, 78*2e; May, 79*4c; No. 2 soft, 85 *sc. Corn dull: No. 2 mixed, cash, 43c; March, 42*ac; May, 43c bid, 43*qc asked. Oats dull and nominal; no quotations. Clover-seed active but easier; mammoth, $4,95; prime medium.cash, $4.90. Receipts—Wheat, 12 000 du; corn. 11.000 bu; oats, 2.000 bu. Shipments—Wheat, 9,000 bu; corn, 14,000 bu; oats, 4,000 bu. CINCINNATI, March 7.—Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat weaker; No. 2 winter red, cash, 85@86c. Corn easier; No. 2 mixed. 43*2C. Oats steady; No. 2 mixed, 33*4®34c. Rye quiet, but steady; No. 2, 68c. Barley irregular and active; extra No. 3 spring, 60 @67c. Provisions—Mess pork dull, but firm at $12.75@13. Lard firm; prime steam, 6.95 @7c. Bulk meats nominally unchanged. Bacon steady and unchanged. Whisky, $1.13. LOUISVUjLE, March 7. —Wheat firm; No. 2 red, 95c. Corn —No. 2 mixed, 44c: No. 2 white, 46c. Oats —No. 2 mixed Western, Provisions—Mess pork steady at sl3. Bulk meats —Shoulders, 4%c; clear-rib sides, 6*90; clear sides, 6%c. Bacon— Shoulders, 5%c; clear-rib sides, 7c; clear sides, 7 ;, *e. Hams—Sugar-cured, 10*4® 11c. Lard—Prime leaf, B*2C. NEW ORLEANS, March 7.-Corn in good demand but lower; in sacks, yellow, mixed and white, 65® 66c. Oats in fair demand; Western, 42 @43c. Coffee dull and unchanged. Sugar steady, and in good -demand; yellow clarified easier at 5 5 ih@5%c. Rice quiet and unchanged, llran lower at 95c. Other articles -unchanged. LIVERPOOL. March 7.—Cotton dull and generally in buyers' favor. Sales, 5.000 bales; speculation and export, 500 bale*; American, 4,000 bales. Breadstuff—Wheat in poor demand. Corn dull and iu poor demand; new Western mixed. 4s 4d. Bacon —Long clear, 31s 9d; short dear, 35s 9d. KANSAS CITY, March 7.—The Commercial Incator reports; Wheat quiet; No. 2 red, cash, 60*2C; March, 60%c; April, (32c; May, 63*5@63%c. Corn lower; cash, 30*gc: May, 31%c; June, 31*ac. Oats dull and nominal; no bids. oils. BRADFORD, March 7.—Crude oil —The market was weak and generally lower. National Transit and Tidewater mns not reported. Total shipments. 82,353 brls. Charters, 41,032 brls. Clearances, 4,308,000 brls. National Transit Company ceriStioates opened at 78*gc. and closed at 77%-; liighest price during the day, 78*2c; lowest price, 76*sc. OIL CITY, March 7. —National Transit Company certificates opened at 78*2c: highest price, 78*ec; lowest price, 76*qc; closing at 7 / %c. Sales aggregated 3,000,000 brls. Clearances. 5,886,000 brls. Runs, 61.481 bris. Shipments, 73.611 brls. Charters, 41,037. Oil City Oil Exchange stock, no bids and none offered. PITTSBURG, March 7. —The petroleum market was heavy: C. I. F. certificates opened at 78c, advanced to 78%c, declined, and closed at 75c. Cotton. NEW YORK, March 7.—Cotton—Middling dull; futures were steady; March, 11.36 c; April, 11.37 c; May, 11.51 c; June, 11.61 c; July. 11.68 c; August, 11.76 c, September, 11.33 c; October, 10.83 c; November, 10.67 c; December, 1.0.67 c. CINCINNATI, March 7. —Cotton quiet and unchanged. LOLLS VILLE, March 7.—Cotton dull; middling, 10%c. Coffee. NEW YORK. March 7.—Coffee—Spot lots fair Rio dull and nominal; options 5 points lower and dull; sales were made of 9,250 bags; March, 7.10 c; April, 7.10®7.20c: May, 7.30 c; June, 7.40 c: July, 7.55 c; August, 7.6097.65 c; September, 7.70 c; October, 7.75 c. Dry Goods. NEW YORK, March 7.—lt was a quiet day except in dress goods, which have been in fair request. Manchester reversible and printed beiges were asked for at 11 *2C and 12*ac. Prints are in very fair ordr request, especially Windsor fancies. Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the Recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty-four hoars ending at 5 o'clock P. M.. March 7, 1885, as furnished by Elliott Sc Butler, abstracters of tiUes, room No. 3.2 Etna Building: Sarah Gregg et at. to Arthur Carter, part of the north half of the east half of the northwest quarter of section 16, in township 17 north, of range 2 east $2,000.00 Alonzo I). Bvumfiel and wife to Gustav A. Neermann, lot 22 in square 3 in S. A. Fletcher’s addition to Indianapolis 900.00 Charles E. Coffin, trustee, to Christian F. Walter, lot 49 in C. E. Coffin’s East Vermont-street addition to Indianapolis 350.00 Lucinda E. Leonard and husband to John A. Kinney, et al., part of the east half of the southwest quarter of section 23, in township 17 north, of range 2 east, containing 10 acres 900.00 Joel Mills, administrator, to Sarah Mills, part of the east half of the southwest, quarter of section 12, in township 14 north, of range 2 east 3,000.00 Wm. Beatty and wife to Elizabeth J. Beatty, lot 21 in Fresl Richter’s addition to Indianapolis 2,000.00 Jacob Meyers, s\, and wife to Anna Whisenand et al, part of the east half of the southwest quai ter of section 12, in township 16 north, of range 2 east, containing 80 acres, more or less 6,000.00 ' Benjamin S. Green and wife to Ewali Over, lot 17 in John B. and John Stumph’s subdivision of part of outlot 16 in Indianapolis 2,000.00 Conveyances, 8; consideration $17,150.00 Fire Escapes of Rope.' Philadelphia Press. ‘’The simplest is the best/’ said a rope manufacturer. speaking of fire escapes. “We make all kinds, but I always tell people who ask me that a plain rope, well knotted, is about the best thing they can get in the way of rope fire escapes. A rope ladder is of no service unless it can be properly adjusted, and the time which would be lost in securing its adjustment would often prove fatal. Another danger from the rope ladder is its liability to become tangled when it is thrown from the window. There is nothing to prevent it from falling into a confused mass before it reaches the ground. We have sold nearly 500 fire-ropes this week. There are both house ropes and traveling ropes. There is a large class of people who will not travel without ropes in their valises. This is anew wrinkle, you know. The rope which we sell for this purpose is a small one, three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. It will sustain a weight of 400 pounds. Some men buy a hundred feet, and some not more than fifty feet of rope to carry in their gripsacks. The cost of one of these small ropes is about sl, and they weigh less than four pounds.” “Hopes for use in residences are madej from five-eighths to seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, of Italian hemp or linen twine. Such a rope, five-eighths of an iuch in diameter, will bear a weight of 8,000 pounds. A linen rope threeeighths of an inch in diameter is composed of 390 strands of twine, each one of which will hold a weight of twelve pounds. All of the ropes for fire-escapes are, or should be, made by hand, and each one should be tested. One end should be tied in a hangman’s noose, and bard, double knots should be made at discances of twenty inches. These knots break the descent, and the slip-knot is to bo used for passing under the arras of people who are to be lowered from windows. Knots are better than wooden or metallic stops on the rope. Patent grippers are not thought to be trustworthy. The price of a good house fire rope is about $3. A length of fifty feet is sufficient for an ordinary bouse, three stories in height, though many persons have ordered ropes 100 feet long. Rope ladders cost $1 a foot. The prominence of the family concerned in the Pinestreet fire did much to stimulate the demand for fire-escapes among people residing on fashionable streets. r English Ferrets Catching Kansas Prairie Dogs Barber County Index. An old Englishman is now travelling through this county with two pairs of ferrets, with which he is making money by killing prairie dogs. He has his pete in a wire cage, and, going to a ranch where prairie dogs, he offers 1 0-o Lean oOCZb&dog town for one cent per dog. The priee appears* so very small that the ranehman does not hesitate to accept the offer. One ferret uN&clean out from twenty to fifty dogs before he tires out, or rather before he get sms© full of -bmod of his victims tbat„ be can't work well. Whan one is tired cwtaj fresh one irpnt into 9C*v*fc<v and so on ns til ' town ia rid of dogs.

HOW RED ROMEOS WOO. A Princess of the Plates Tells of Love-Mak-ing Carried on in the Wigwam. San Francisco Call. A reporter yestorday asked Sarah Winnemucca how Piute courtships were carried on. She became interested at once and thus chatted: ‘‘When a girl reaches womanhood and her family desire to indicate to the tribe that their daughter has reached the marriageable period, she makes her debut, as you say in English, but the Piute girl comes out in an entirely different way than that adopted by her white sister. Just before she reaches womanhood her grandmother has especial charge of her. To that old lady, whose years are supposed to have brought wisdom. the girl is given. She schools her in domestic duties and explains to her the nature and importance of the wifely relation. The girl then goes with two older female relatives in a tepee, which is a small wigwam, where she remains with them twenty five days. During this tirao she performs work which is supposed to be strengthening. It consists chiefly of piling wood. Three times a day, at morning, noon and night, she stacks five piles of wood, making fifteen each day. Every five days her relations take her to the river to bathe, and at the end of the time she gives her clothing to her attendants and returns to the family lodge. Very frequently the wardrobe which she presents to her female attendants is quite extenstensive, and is regarded by them as a valuable present. When the young girl has spent twenty- . five days in the tepee she has made her debut into the society of her tribe, and that is considered as a public announcement that she is ready to marry. “Os course a pretty, shapely girl is in great demand, just as a belle is in your society. A girl with a handsome face and fine black eyes, and flowing hair as black and glossy as a raven’s wing, and a willowy, graceful form, is the object of a great deal of attention from the young men of the tribe, and often ot the older men, too. A lovely Indian girl is as much sought after in her circle as a great beauty is in a London drawing-room But, oh, how different the two kinds of courtship are. We have no parties in the wigwams to which young folks go and get acquainted and court. The young men and girls have no theater to attend, and no long walks home after the play is over. They never go riding together nor strolling through the woods along the river bank. They never idle together in the canoe on the water, plucking lilies and flowers. Although they seem to enjoy much greater liberty to roam and wander whithersoever their fancy may lead them, yet they are kept as close as prisoners. Piute courtship lacks freedom, and yet it is not devoid of that intense excitement tliat attends love-making the world over. “You may suppose that tho girls and young men would steal out of their lodges of moonlight nights and have clandestine meetings and woo in that way,.but they never dare to do it. Indeed, they never speak together. A word never passes between them. But still a girl very soon' knows when a young man is interested in her. He tries to catch her attention by his horsemanship, or his skill tho bow, or his athletic accomplishments. He rides by her at a furious speed and returns again and again. In this way he attracts her attention and informs her, although he does not speak a word, that he loves her and would like to marry her. But this does not comprise all of At night, when the Indians have retired to their wigwams and are sleeping, the young man rises from his bed of leaves and skins and goes to the lodge occupied by the girl he loves. He enters silently and sits down beside her couch. A lodge is circular in shape, a'nd at night when the inmates go to bed they heap brushwood and logs on the fire in the center of tho tent and then lie down with their feet inward the fire and their heads toward the outside or circumference of the wigwam. The Indians sleep on leaves nd robes, and are covered when sleeping with skins. As the young man enters the lodge he can see by tho firelight where the young girl is sleeping, and he goes directly to her side, often stepping over other sleepers, and sits down by her bed. It is customary for the young girl to sleep near her grandmother, who is expected to rest lightly after the girl has made her debut As soon as she sees the young man enter she wakens the girl, who rises and goes to where her mother is sleeping and lies down beside her. As soon as she does this the young man rises and goes out as silently as he came in. “Not a word is spoken. He does not touch the girl while he is sitting by her as she sleeps. Her grandmother does not speak a word of encouragement to him, neither does her mother indicate that he is a welcome suitor. The next night he comes again and takes up his position beside the girl, and keeps this up for a long time. During all the time he is courting in this way he is treated as an absolute stranger by the girl’s relations. They may have entertained him before he began his attention to tho girk her brothers may have hunted with him and shared the game with him, but when ho once begins to woo the girl, all familiarity and friendship ceases. He is never invited to eat of food prepared by the family of the girl, and her brothers never offer him anything on the hunt. His presence is wholly ignored. If the girl does not like him, she tells her grandmother, and when the young man comes again at night, that good old lady rises from her bed, takes a handful of hot ashes from the fire and throws them in his face. That’s the mitten. “If the girl likes him and is willing to marry him, then she tells her grandmother, who informs the girl’s father. If the family think it is a suitable match the father invites the young man to the tent, and asks him. in the presence of the girl, if he loves her and will take good care of her. Then the father asks the girl if she loves tho young man and tells her the duties of a wife. If both say they love each other, the two become engaged, but even after that they do not talk together, neither do they go about together. A day is fixed for the wedding. A great feast is prepared. The relatives of the girl and the young man sit around a great camp fire together, the young man and girl sitting side by side. The food is in baskets. The girl has carefully cooked a basket of food for her intended husband, and as she hands it to him he seizes her wrist with his right hand and takes tho basket with his left. That is the marriage ceremony. The girl’s father then pronounces them man and wife, and they go to a lodge, where they live together.” Is There a Mahdi or Not? Lecturing in England a fortnight ago, on the Nile campaign, Mr. J. M. Cook—of the famous firm of Cook & Son—related that having “personally conducted” Lord Wolseley’g army to Wady Haifa, he and his son made an excursion on their own account to Dongola. There, in virtue of his semi-official position under tho Khedive, he was favored with an interview with the mudir of that district. The mudir was a man of singularly powerful mind. Ho was dressed as a dervish, and was, in fact, a dervish of the most fanatical description. In his personal appearance and habit ho bore a strong resemblance to the Mahdi. Ho said the pretended Mahdi was not the Mahdi at all; that there was no Mahdi; and that if there was a Mahdi, he (the mudir) should be the one, but he was not, The mudir offered to send Mr. Cook, after a fortnight’s rest, to Khartoum, safely with the Mudir’s own escort, because the tribes would then have come in, and the roads would be dear. It was a notable fact that a fortnight from that time a messenger was able to go and make the journey, and bring back news of General Gordon. To the question, why General Gordon could not leave Khartoum, the mudir replied: “Who, then, would govern Khartoum?” Mr. Cook asked him whether he did not think that he (the mudir) himself was the proper man to govern Khartoum, adding that the Khedive considered he was, and was desirous of seeing him in that position. The mudir made answer that he had not lived with the desire to govern anywhere, but that he had lived with the great desire to end his days at Mecca or Medina. She Cost Her Weight in Gold* Tuscoo Star. Mrs. Jesus Castro, an agod Mexican lady, now residing at American Flag, in the Santa Catilina Mountains, is perhaps the only woman who, literally speaking, ever cost her husband her weight in gold. It is said that in the early golddigging days of California she was a rosi dent of Sonora, in which State she was born and grew to womanhood. When about the age of seventeen a paternal uncle, but a few years her senior, returned with his companions, gold-ladeß, from the El Dorado of the West, and became desperately enamored of her. He sought her hand in marriage, and ,was accepted, but the church refused, because of the near relationship gristing between ‘them, <o solemnize <he mar-, riage. Persuasion being in vain, he Died iter power 1 of gold to wiu the church his wajyand succeeded

only by the payment of her weight in gold, Eh® at the time, weighed* 117 pounds, and against bet in the scales tho glittering dust was shoveled. Her affianced husband stilihod sufficient of thi® world’s goods to provide a comfortable home and they were married. They lived happily together and she bore to her husband eleven "children. Ia the course of years he died and she married again. Mr. Castro being her second husband. The above is a fact and not fiction, as living witneses can prove. TALKING BY MACHINERY. A.a Invention that Will Open Up a Frightful Prospect When it Is Perfected* New York Snn. In one of the front parlors of the Belveder® House has been set up a bewildering jumble o 4 levers, springs, rods and pipes around a bellow® capable of holding about a half bushel of wind, and all on a daintily carved and completely gilded table. The affair it? called a talking piano, and has just been brought to this country by th® Societe Anon de Vienna. Next to the bellows pipe is a wooden box about as big as a brick, representing the human larynx. In front of this are lips and tongue of rubber, dyed red. The lower jaw and the tongu® are movable, and the oil used to prevent friction gives to the lips a look as if the machine chewed tobacco. Below tho laryngeal apparatus is another chamber about the size and shape of a cheap lemon. Prom this a pipe, curved upward, allows the air to escape, thus supplying tho place ,of the nose in the pronunciation of tho letters m and n. Within another small box ad-* jacentto all the others, is a thin strip of alleged hippopotamus's bono with rubber on one side, which produces the tone. The inventor has supplied the place of the teeth by an arrange* ment in the larynx, and gets a polite French roll on the letter r by means of a small windmill, which is shifted into the current by a lever. Thero are fourteen keys which regulate tho sounds, and with these and three side keys, which move the lower lip, tho tongue, and tho windmill, all combinations are produced. All these arrangements require for their operation the numberless rods, springs and levers. It is said that the piano is the product of the continu* ous labor and study from 1823 to 1805 of two members ot the sarae_ family, whose name i® withheld by the owners. In 1865 it was exhibitted to the King of Bavaria. This history and the description of the machine* were supplied yesterday by a curly-haireA Frenchman, who said it made him sweat to talk: English. Then a very slim little woman, with her hair combed straight back and with an ab-stracted-looking face and a brown dress, came in and sat down behind the piano, with her foot on the bellows pedal. Her arm accidentally struck one of the keys. There was % shuffle and a rattle among the springe and th® rods, a quiver of the big rubber lips, and th® spectators were 6tartled-by a voice very similar to that made when a hen tries to squawk immediately after the head has been partially cut off. The Frenchman smiled, and said “he va* a misteck.” The operator frowned and tightened one of the screws. “Now,” said the Frenchman, “say papa.” The little woman began to shake like a birch, tree in an lowa cyclone, her hands flow up and down on the jaw keys, the tongue keys, and some of the other keys, and the piano cried “papa!” as a six-hundred pound infant might. “Now say Maria,” said the master French* man. This time the machine got in good work with the windmill on the r roll. “Philadelphia,” said the Frenchman, triumphantly. This time the little woman fairly pounced upon the levers. The lips, the jaw, the tongue, and all had to be worked. It was a great test. On® screw fell out, and one spring flew out and hit ® spectator on the head. Then the spectators were asked to suggest a word. Some on® said “Blaine.” The little woman approached the keys timidly, for it was anew word. Sh® didn’t get wind enough in the bellows, and id sounded like a whisper from the dim futnr® The piano closed the exhibition by rattling off ® long word, and the spectators were asked if they understood it. No one did. Then they wer® told that the piano had said: “Adieu. Thank you.” The Bath. With rosy palms against her bosom pressed To stay the shudder that she dreads of oif, Lysidice glides down till silver cold The water girdles half her glowing breast; A yellow butterfly in flowery quest Rifles the roses that har tresses hold; A breeze comes wandering through the fold o£j) fold Os draperies curtaining her shrine of rest, Soft beanty, like her kindred petals strewed Along the crystal coolness, there she lies, What vision gratifies those gentle eyes? She dreams she stands where yesterday she stood Where, while the whole arena shrieks for blood. Hot in the sand a gladiator dies. —JSdumnd W. Goes® Mies Cleveland* New York Evangelist. The Evangelist gave at the time a brief ab stract of an address which Miss Cleveland mad® before the alumnee of Elmira Female College afc the commencement in 1882. The topic wa® “Alfruistic Faith.” Os all the addresses give® during the quarter of a century of the eollege by many of our ablest men, such as Prof. Upson,D® Wolcott Calkins, Dr. Lyman Abbott, and tho editor of the Evangelist, this was pronounced second to none of them, and for practical adaptation to the young ladies the best. She illustrated her subject by Chadija, the wife of Mahomet, who believed in him when all men despised him, and whose faith in him made him what he became. Every one must hare his Chadija. Thero is need of faith in God, faith in self and faith in humanity. She wonl® bo hopeful, and not pessimistic." Marriage wag npt necessary for a woman; she need not be simply a buttonhole bouquet to some man. If good ii in one, it will come out. Go on, and you will succeed. The boosters, she said, are more important than the boosted. In looks Miss Cleveland reminds one of Anna Dicainson; perhaps because she wears her hair in the same styl®. Yet there is nothing mannish about hor. and i® private she is rather too modest than otherwise. Her voice is clear, and her articulation distinct, making her a fine speaker. Since that time ah® has given frequent lectures at the college, which have been very popular with tho young ladies. Her name is found in the last catalogue in th® faculty as lecturer on medieval history. Th® country may congratulate itself upon having a® intelligent and public spirited a Christian woman in the White House. Conaut and the Affected Author. New York Star. Conany the last editor of Harper’s, had an iyf dent dislike of sham, and night, the?® entered the Authors’ Club rooms a man of world* wide reputation, who wearily remarked, on open* ing a letter asking for his 'autograph, that h® was bored to death by sufch requests, the provocation to expose the humbug was not resisted. “Hew many letters begging your autograph dd you get every week, on the averager Conanfc inquired. “Not less than fifty,” was the ostentatious reply, “and they make life miserable.” “How long does it take to write your name eft* a Sheet of paper, fold it, seal an envelop and a® dress it?” “Well, I really don’t know.” “Let us see,” and Conant laid his watch on tfc£ table, while slowly going through with the process. “That took just fifteen seconds. Answering the entire fifty polite, complimentary requests for your autograph—if you ate so forti* nate as to receive that number of tokens of pop* ularity weekly—would occupy no more than ® quarter of au hour.” The lesson was a sound one.. There is no sillier affectation than that of being bored by th® autograph fiends. Minnie Palmer's Stockings. Denver Tribune- Republican. If there’s one thing in the world that a won&ft® likes better than another, it’s silk stocking® Minnie Palmer has ’em. She has 24U pairs, and they are so cleverly contrived as to look littl® tho bottom and big at the top. That is, the fW% are all in dark colors, which gradually develop breadth from tba instep up, and spread away into designs of lacings and embroideries. One of the loveliest pairs she wore was oft cream and garnat, so exquisitely combined tha* they might well be termed ® symphony ii* stockings. Quoon Elizabeth, in whoso time silk stockings were invented, would give poor littl® Minnie an awful shaking up should she suddenly he resunqgpted into court life again. The standard of fine ladyism nowadays is silk stockings, and the little song and dance actreff} •has struck fashion at high tide.