Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1885 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL BANK Designated Usited States Depository, Comer Room Odd-ftilow*’ Hall. Theo. P. Haughey. Prae’t. H. Latham CasH’r FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MONEY AND STOCKS. A. Slight Reaction In New York, Followed by Higher Quotations. New York, Feb. 25.—Money easy at I®2 per sent; offered at the close at lk per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4 £5 per cent Sterling exchange quiet; sixty days, $4.83i; tight, $4.86i. Governments strong on limited business. State bonds in good demand and higher. There was a slight reaction in the stock market to day, bat prices were again bid up in the afternoon, so that the less was recovered, and final prices this evening, in most cases, were fractionally higher than at ike dose yesterday. An impression was prevalent on the street this morning that the little boom in American securities on the London market on Monday and Tuesday forenoon, wasj gotten up for the occasion, to insure an advance hero after the holiday, and that the boom was managed from this side. The opening quotations here to-day were generally ito § higher than the closing •prices yesterday, and during the first hour the market was dull and drooping. Although a little more life was infused into the dealings after 11 o’clock, the course of prices still tended downward, accompanied by a slight reaction until after Ip.m. During this time the lowest prices of the day were made, but, with one or two exceptions, the lowest prices to-day were less than A below yesterday's final figures. The heaviest declines among the active stocks were in Lake Shore and St. Paul, each of which lost 1, the former at GG|, and the latter at 73£ New York Central fell $, to and Northwestern an equal amount, to 94f. Missouri was weak, and, on larger transactions than usual in that stock, declined from to 92, while Northern Pacifies aad Louisville & Nashville were exceptionally strong, showing no loss from the closing priees yesterday. It is believe 1 a pool has been formed in the stock last mentioned, and there is a good deal of talk about considerably higher figures for it in the near future. The course of the general market, however, tended to confirm the pi*evalent opinion this morning that a reaction must follow the recent advances, until shortly before 2 o’clock, when the whole list became strong and more active, and before 3 o’clock the losses of the earlier part of the day were all recovered, with very few exceptions. and prices were higher in most cases by small fractious, than at the opening. Transactions, 334,000 shares, to-wit: 53,000 Lackawanna, 38,000 Lake Shore, 24.000 Louisville & Nashville, 13,000 Missouri Pacific, 44,000 Northwestern, 21,000 New York Central, 48,000 St. Paul, 10,000 Western Union.

STOCK QUOTATIONS.

Tb rer per cent.bonds.lol I United Stales L%s .....112% United States new is,l2#4 Ptcific 6s of 9a IS® I Central Pacific firsts. 119% Krie Seconds...._ .07hi Lehigh 4 W’k’b’e of <1 99 Louisiana Console M Mileouri 6s 102 Kt. Joe 117%' Bt. P. &S. C. firsts....lisle Tennessee 6e, old 46m Tsnnepeeo 6s, new.,... 16‘4 Texas Pac. I'd grants. 37% T. P. Rio Grande 58 Union Pacific fists....lll TT. P. land grants 106% 17. P. Sinking fund... 118% Virginia 6s 39 ; Vo.con ox-mat.coup,. 41%' Virginia deferred 6% Adams Express 13. T j Allegheny Central 3%[ Altou A Terre Haute. 23% Al. &T. H. pref’d 82 | American Express.... 9ft % I B. R.4N,,.., 62 Canada Pacific 39%! Canada Southern 33%i Central Pacific 36% < lmsapoako A Ohio ft%! C. AO. prefd firsts.... 12%; ('. A O. seconds 6%. Chicago A Alton 131 |

C. A A. prefd 150 C. B. A Q...~ 121%: Chi., St. L. A X. 0.... 83 C.. St.L. AP 7%; C. t St. L. A P. prefd. 17%; C.,8. AC £4 1 Clevel’d A Columbus.. 36 j Delaware* Hudson.. 81 %! Pel., Lack. A West.... 104% lien. A Rio Grande B%‘ Erie 14 Erie prefd 29% East Tennessee 3% East Ten. prefd 6%: Fort Wayne 123 j Uauuibal ASt J0e.... 38 I If. A St. J. prefd 88,% Harlem. „...195 ji Houston A Texas 16 !( Illinois Central 125%|( I ,B A W 14‘4 Kansas A Texas 17?i3 Lake Erie A West 16&I

Foreign Money and Stock Market. LOUDON, Feb. 25—5 p. m.—Government bonds— Consol# for monoy, 98 9-16. Railroad bonds—OanafiiUn Pacific, 141; Erie, H4to; Erie Seconds, 69 to: Illinois Central. 1283*; Milwaukee & St. Paul, 763 e; New York Central, 98to; Pennsylvania Central, 154 to: Reading, 109. Paws, Feb. 25.—Rentes. RV 55c. TRADE AND COMiRERCE. The Situation Brl ;?*** n Somewhat-Col-lections Easier and tajr* k * 3ttts Ho P ef,, l* Indianapolis. Feb. 20. With the milder weather and the freer movement of railway traffic orders are increasing in several of the ny>ro important departments. Grocers are the most favorably affected. There Is a larger distribution of coffees, sugars, teas and all the more important articles handled by grocers. Tho tea market is now attracting more attention. Prices of tea have become strong and are growing stronger, owing to the war between Prance and China, which makes it probable that the exports of teas will be seriously interfered with. Tho total importations of teas this season, ending about June 30, are estimated At about 68.000,000 pounds, against 59,600,000 pounds last season. The French now have possession of a considerable portion of the Island of Formosa. It is that there are pow locked up in the island about l.tnrinrvw pounds of last year’s crop. Picking on the new crop will be begun about May, aud it win <j6 readv to be shipped by .T ul y. The quautitv shipped to this country last year was 11,500,000 pounds. If the shipments from Formosa be jpreVcnrccr, £-* <5e of gntne et .—1 I*® ixpected to advance to forty cents. The other points of shipment are Shanghai, from which about 18.0v00.000 pounds of green teas are expected, and Amoy and Foo-Chow. from which about 7,500,000 pounds of black teas, consisting of CongoHS, Amoys and Foo-Chows, are to come. These ports are not yet closed by the French, and il is a question if the great powers would ullow th4m Vo be closed. Prices of all the staple articles are firm. The dry goods trado is affected unfavorably bv the “backbone of winter” *o near to the spring of the calendar. Retail dealers delay therr spviDg purchases until there are some signs that they are to need them, but jobbers report a fair demand from localities where the spring comes earlier. The produea markets are fairly active. Poultry, apples, potatoes, and other vegetables are firm at quotations. Eggs are weak at prices quoted. The am to true of butter, unless it be a really choice article.

GRAIN. The wheat market is a little off all round —price* for spot stuff lower, and little said about futures, while corn atrd oatsaro more active and prices stronger. The Board of Trade Price Current saya of wheat: “Somewhat duller than yesterday, with rather slow inquiry for all grades. Future* not wanted. Receipts fair.” ’Ve quote: o. 2 Mediterranean, o. t •-. ........ .... —. 85 No. 3 Mediterranean o. **•* o. 2rd,o. H'j iiejwted o. t (>5 Unmerchantable, o. t 68 Corn —We note a decidedly active local market, all grades wanted at full quotations, and

I Lake Shore 67% :Louisville AXashv’le. 31% Louisville A N. Alb’y.. 24% (Mar. A Cin. firsts prof. 10 ■Min. A Cin. seconds... 5 3feiu. A Charleston 35 Mich'gau Central 63 Min. A St. Louis 13 Min. A St. L. prefd.... 29% Missouri Pacific 92% Mobile A Ohio 9% ! Morris A Essex ofFd.. .129% KashvUloA Chat 41% ; -New Jersey Contral.... 39% Norfolk A W. prefd.... 25% Northern Pacific 18% Northern Pac. prefd.. 49 Chic A Northwestern.. 96% IC. A N. prefd 133 'New York Central 95% Ohio Central 1% iOtiio A Mississippi 18% Ohio A Mis*. pref’d 72 Ontario A Western 112 Oregon Navigation 67% Oregon & Transcon’l... 14% Oregon Improvement. 29 Pacific Mail 55% Panama 98 Peoria, 1). A E 14% Pittsburg 137% Pullman Palaco Car... 114 Heading 18 Bock Island 113%

St. L. A San Fran 20% Bt. L. A S. V. prefd ... 27a ;St. L. A S.F. firsts pref 83 !c., M. A St. P 74 % ;c., M. A St. P. pref and... 107 St. Panl M. A M 59% JSt. Paul A Omaha 28% xSt. Paul A O. prefd... 91 Texas Pacific I3^s Uniou Pacific 48% , United States Express. Ui Wab., St. L. A P 4% Wab., St. L. A P. pref. 11% Wells A Fargo Kxp K)7 W. U. Telegraph 59% Homes take 9% Iron Silver Ontario 17 Quicksilver 4 Quicksilver pref’d 28 Southern Pacific Sutro 12

buyers have advanced bids 4c- for some choice grades. Sellers few and offerings light. Futures dull and not wanted. We quote: No. 2 white, o. t 42 No. 3 white, o. t. 41 Yellow, o. t 41*2 High mixed, o. t 41*9 Mixed, o. t 40 Rejected mixed, o. t. 39 Rejected h. m., o. t 40*2 Rejected No. 2 white o. t 41 Rejected 3’ellow, o. t 41 Sound ear. o. t 40 . Oats—Slightly firmer than yesterday, especially for mixed. Offerings very meager, supply not equal to demand. We quote: No. 2 white, o. t 32 Ught mixed, o. t 31 Mixed, o. t. 30*2 Rejected, o. t 28 Rye—No. 2, nominal Bran—Firm; sl3 bid; no sellers. Hay—Prime Timothy, quiet; wanted at $10.50; no sellers. RECEIPTS BT RAIL FAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Wheat, bushels 7,800 Uorn, bushels Oats, bushels 1)00 GRAIN IN STORE. Feb. 24, 1885. Wheat. Com. Oats. • Rye. Elevator A 30,000 38.200 53,600 900 Elevator B 13.800 2,100 3,700 Capital Elevator 35.000 Elevator D 18,000 Total 84,800 40,300 75,300 900 Corresoon'g day last year 120,000 4G.000 53,000 19,000 MARKETS. CANNED GOODS. Tomatoes • 'Mvo-pound cans, 80®85e; 3-pound, sl® 1.40. Peaches—Standard 3-pound. 581.75® 2.00. 3-pound seconds, $1.509.1.60; 2-pound standard, $1.40® 1.50. Corn—Polk’s 2-pound cans. 95c; Yarmouth, $1.30; Revere, $1.25; McMurray, $1.25 ®1.30. Blackberries—Two-pound, 95c®$ 1.10; raspberries. 2-pound sl.lo® 1.20; pineapple, standard, 2-pound, $1.75®2.50; second do. $1.25® 1.35; cove oysters. 1-pound, full weight. $1.0591.10; light, 55 ®6se; 2-pound, full, sl.Bo® 1.95; light, $1.05® 1.20; string bear s, 85990 c; Lima beans, 90c®51.30. peas, marrowfat, 85c®51.75; small, $1.85® 1.90; lobsters, $1.85® 1.90; red cherries, 95c®51.10; gooseberries, sl®l.lo.

COAL AND COKE. Anthracite coal, small, $7 ton; large, $6.75; Pittsburg coal, $4 ton; Blossburg coal" $5.25 I* ton; Raymond City coal. $4 ton; block, coal, $3 ton; block nut, $2.00 ton; Jackson coal, $3.75 & tone, Jackson nut, $3.25 ■Jp' tou; charcoal, 15c W bash; Connelisville coke. 15c f) bush; crushed coke, 12e jp bush; gas coke, 10c <#>' bush. DRUGS. . Alcohol, $2.20 <52.30; asafetida, 30®35e; alum, 4®s*; camphor, 25®30<i; cochineal, 50® 5 sc, chloroform, $1®1.10; copperas, brls., $3®3.50; cream tartar, pui-e. 38®40c, indigo, 80c®$1; licorice. Calab, genuine, 35 ®4oc; magnesia, carb., 2-oz., 30 35c, morphine, P. & W. '§* ounce, $3.50®3.75; madder, 12® 14c; oil, castor. gal.. $1.65®1.70; oil, bergamot, I&. $2.75®3; opium, $4.50®4.75; quinine, P. & W. ft" ounce: si.os'®l.lo; balsam copaiba. 60®75c; soap, castile v Fr., 12®16c; soda, oicarb, 4*2®t>c; salts, epsom; 4®sc; sulphur flour, 4®6e; saltpeter. B®2Qc; turpentine. 35@40c; glycerine, 20® 22c; iodide potass, $2.75 @3.00; bromide potass, 40®45c; chlorate potash, 20®22c; borax, 13®15c; ciuchonidia, 40®45c. Oils —Linseed oil, raw, 51 ®s2c gallon; boiled, 54 ct) ssc; coal oil. legal test, 8 3 4® 13% :bank, 60® 65c: best straits, 65c; Labrak>r. 60c; West Virginia lubricating, 20®30c; miners’. 65c. Lard Oils—No. 1, 58 ®6sc; do. extra, 68®72*ac. White Lead—Pure. 5%: lower grades, 4® sc. DRY GOODS. Prints —Albions. solid color, 5%; American fancy, 5*2C; Allen's fancy, 5%; Allen's dark, 5*20 Allen's pink, 6c; Arnold's, Oc; Berlin, solid colors s*gc; Cocbeco, 6c; Conestoga, o*2C; Duunell’s s*ac; Eddystone. 6c; Gloucester, sc; Hartel, 5%; Harmony, sc; Hamilton, 6c; Greenwich. s*ac; Knickerbocker, s*ac; Mallory, pink. 6c; Richmond, 6c. Brown Sheeting —Atlantic A, 7*4c; Boott C, 6c ; Agawam. F. sc; Bedford R. 4 *£o; August*, s**c; Boott, AL. 6*gc; Continental C, 6*gc; Dwight Star, 7Ljc; Echo Lake, 6o; Gr anile ville EE, 6c; liawrence LL, 5*43; Pepperell E. 7c; Pepnered R, 6%; Peppered 9-4, 18c; Peppered 10-4, 26c; U tica4, 25c; Utica 10-4, 27 iflc; Utica C, 4 %c. Bleached Sheeting —Blackstone AA, 7c; Ballou & Son, 6c; Chestnut Hill. 5 *ac; Cabot 4-4, 6%; Chapman X, 6c; Dwight Star S. 8c; Fruit of the Loom, B*4c: Lonsdale. 7%; Lin wood. 7%; Masonvilie, 8c; New York Mills, 10*c; Our Own. 5%c, Peppered, 9-4, 20c: Peppered 10-4, 22c; Hill's, Hope, 6 3tc; Knight's Cambric, 7%jc; Lonsdale cambric, 10*gc; Whitinsville, 33-in cues, 6c; Wamsutta. 10%jc. Tickings —Amoskeag ACA Id 1"?, Conestoga BF 14c, Conestoga extra 13 *9O, Conestoga Gold Medal UDqc, Conestoga CCA 11*2C, Conestoga A A 9c, Conestoga X Bc, Pearl River 12*2c, Lewiston 36inch 14*fic. Lewiston 32-inch 12*3c, Lewiston 30-inca ll*gc, Falls 080 32-inch 15c, Methuen A A 12*20, Oakland A 6*30, Swift River 6c, York 32-inch 12Ljc, York 30-inch ll*jje.

Ginghams—Amoskeag 7to<*> Bates 7 toe, Gloucester 7c, Glasgow 7c, Lancaster 7to<*.. Randelraan 7 toe, Renfrew Madras 9c, Cumberland 7 toe, White 7 toe, Bookfold 10 VPapeb Cambrics—Manville 5 toe, S. S. & Son 6c, Masonville 5 toe, Garner 5 toe. Grain Bags—American sl9, Atlanta S2O, Franklinville s2l, Lewiston S2O. Ontario $lB, Stark A $23.50. FOREIGN FRUITS. Raisins —London layer, $3.4333.50 F box: loose muscatels, 2-crown, $2.7532.85 F box Vaienoia, 10311 c IP 1 lb: Citron, 28330 c F tfi. Currants. 5t03 6toe F lb. Bananas—Aspinwall, $233.50; Jamaica, $1,503)2.50. Lemons —Malaga, $33*3.50; Messina, $435. Dates—Fard, in boxes, 8310 c; trailed, 6c. Figs—New. 'uO*lße. Malaga Grapes—4olbs, $8.50; 55 tbs, $lO, Cocoanuts —$536 F hundred. Oranges —Stem-cut Jamaica, in brls. $7 38.50; Valencia. $7; Florida, $4.50 a> s F box Prunes—Turkish, sto3G*o for old; 6t0370 tor new; French, 8t0316cFRUITS AND VEGETABLES. APPLES—Choice, $333.50Fbr1; common, $23*2.25 Fbrl. Cranberries—Cape Cod, $16317 F brl, ss® 5.50 F crate; Jersey, $14315 F brl, $434.50 F epate. Celery—3o34o Fdoz. Cabbage—sl.7s3 2 ybrL 0N10N5— 53.2533.50 F brl; Spanish, $1.7532 F bush crate. , Potatoes—so a-COc Sweet Potatoes —Kentuu* v $2. /033 F orb Philadelphia Jersey sweets, $o r Dr *- TCRNIP3 $1.2531.50 F brl. OROCifiRIES. CorFEES —Ordinary grades. 931 Oc; fair, 103l0toe; good. 11311 toe: prime, 12312 toe; strictly prime, 12to® 13c; choie-. 13t0314c; fancy green and yellow'. 14 3l4to<*: old government Java, 23326 c; imitation Java, 18319t0c. Roasteo—Gates's A 1,16 c; Gates’s prime, 14toc; Arbuckle's, 14toe; Levering’s 14too: Delworth’s, 14toc; McCune’s, 14 toe. Cheese —Common, 738 c; good skim, 9310 c; cream. 10to3llc; full cream, 12to®13c; New York, 14315 c.

Dried Beep—l3 l q3l4c. Rice —Carolina and Louisiana. sto 3 Bc. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 40345 c; choice, 53358 c. Syrups, low grade, 25 327 c; prune, 30335 c; choice to fancy, 35 ®4oc. Salt Fish—Mackerel, extra mess, $2d320 F brl; halves, $11.50312.50; No. 1 mackerel, sl9 320; halves, $8310; No. “mackerel, $9313; halves, $4.50 J)0; No. 3 mackerel, $5.5036.50; halves, $33 3.59 Sugars—Hards, Gto37toe; confectioners’ A, 6*4 363*0; standard A, 6t036t0c; off A. 5 7 8 2>bc; white extra C, 5% 35 V, fine yellows, sto%">toc; good yelows. sto3&toc; common yellows, 535t0c. STARCH —Refined pearl, 333 He F .16; Eureka, 5 7,**' Champion gloss lump, 637 c; improved corn, Wv, -- Lake, 950, car lots; 10315 c more In quantities less thto a car-load. SpiClS—Pepper, 19 321 c; allspice, 10312 c; cloves, 20 330 c; cassia. 13 315 c; nutmegs, 65385 c F 18. 5h0t—51.5531.60 F bag for drop. Flour SACkS— No. 1 drab, to brl, $33 F 1,000, to brl, sl7; lighter weight, $1 £ 1,000 tea? Twin* —Hetnp, lb; wool. 8®10o: 20330 c; paper. 18e; jute, 12315 c; cotton, 163200. Woodenware—No. 1 tubs, SB.OO 38.25; No. 2 tabs, $7.0037.25-. No. 3 tubs, 6.0036.25; two-hoop pails, $1.6531.70; three-hoop pails. $1.9032; doable washboards. $2.6032.75; common washboards, $1.4031.85; clothespins, 50351 per box. Wooden Dishes—Per hundred, 1 18, 20c; 2 lb, 25c; 3 lb, 30c; 5 . 40c. Lead—s to 36 toe for pressed bar. Wrapping Paper— Crown straw, 18c per bundle; medium straw, 27c: double crown straw. 360. heavy weight straw, 2t02t0 F tB; crown rag, 30c F bundie; medium rag, 45c; double crown rac?, 60c; heavy weight rag, 2% 33c F lb: Manilla, No. 1, 7t039c; No. 2,536 c; print paper, No. 1. 637 c; book paper, No. 1, S. & C.. 10311 c; No. 2, S. &Q., 839<j; No. 3. S. & 0., 7H3Bc.

LEATHER. HIDE 9 AdfD TALLOW. Lfathir—Oak sole, 33340 c; hemlock sole, 26® 32c; harness, 30®35c: skirting, 37®40c; black bridle, P doz., SGO®6S; fair bridle, $6078 P doz.; city kip, 60®80c; French kip, 85c ©$ 1.20; city calf• skins, 85c®$1.10; French calfskins, $1.15® 1.80. Hides —Green, G%c; heavy steer, 7*3©: green salt, B®BLc: green salted calf, lie; dry tent, 12e; dry saked, 10c. lHuaaged ono-third off the above prices. Sbespskins—3o® 60a TalW)W —Prime, 5%e. G HAASE —Brown, 4c; white, 5®5%e. IROM AMD STEEL. B*r iron (rates), 2c; horse-shoe bur, $3.13®3.40; Norway nail rod. 7<v, German steel plow-slab, 4c; American drill steel. 12c; Sanderson's toel Steel, 15c; tire steel, 4*; spring steel, 6c; horee shoes, f keg,

TECS INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL*, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1885.

$4.00; mule shoes, F 1 keg. $5.00: horse nails, F lb, Bd, $5; cut nails, lOd and larger, $2.25 f keg; other sizes at the usual advance. Tinkers’ Supplies—Best brand charcoal tin—TO, 10x14, 14x20. 12x12, $6.50: IX, 10x14, 14x20, and LX 12x12, $8.50: IC, 14x20. roofing tin, $8.25; IC, 20928, $12.50 913; block tin. in pigs, 20c; in bars. 27c. Iron—27 B iron. 3*40; 27 C iron. 6c; galvanized. 50 P cent, discount. Sheet zinc, 6**o. Copper bottoms, 23c. Planished copper, 36c. Solder, 15®16c. Wire, 50 cent, off list. OIL CAKE. Oil cake and oil meal, 1,000 IBs, sls; 2,000 IBs, S3O. Bags and drayago extra. PROVISIONS. Wholesale Prices—Prime lard, 7c; short ribs, partly cured. 6.50 c; sweet pickled haras, 8 *4O; shoulders. 5*9C; bulk shoulders, 4*9cJobbing Prices—Smoked Meats—Sugar-cured hams, to 12*9 tbsaverage. 11*90; 15 IBs average, lie; 1 1 *s IBs average 10?tc; 20 IBs, 10*gc; heavy averages, 24 to 25 IBs, 10*4C; cottage hams. 8c; California haras, 8c; English breakfast bacon, clear. 11*20: English shoulders. 7c for light, 63*c for heavy; family shoulders, pieces averaging 6 to 10 IBs. 6*4C; dried beef, 15c: bacon (clear sides), light or medium weight, B*4C; bellies, do, B*4©; backs, do, 8c: French flitch, 7-IB pieces, 7c. Dry Salted and Pickled Moats—English cured clear sides or backs (uusmoked), bean pork(clear), ■F’ brl 200 IBs, sl6; clear pork IP’ brl 200 IBs, $14.50; family pork (clear) (P 1 brl 200 tbs, $12.50; family beef brl 200 IBs, $18: also in *9 brls, containing 100 IBs, at half the price of the barrels. with 50* added, to cover additional cost of package. L&rd—Pure kettle-rendered, in tierces, B*9C; also, in *2 brls and 50-IB tubs, advance on price of tierces; 48-lb tin tubs, and 20 lb pails, \c advance; 10- IB pails, 1 *4c advance, Sausage—Bologna, in doth, C*9c; in skin, 7c. PRODUCE. Butter—Creamery fancy, 28c; dairy, selected, 18 ®2oc: choice country, 13® loc; poor to fair. 8 910 c. Eggs—Shippers are paving 22c; selling from store at 25c. Feathers—Prime geese, 45 c tb; mixedduck, 209 25 (p 1 18. Honey—2o@22e in 1 and 2-IB cans. Venison—l4® 15c is. Game—Rabbits, 40®60*. <loz. Poultry—Hens, 8 98*20 -P lb; roosters, 4c; young chickens, B®Bkjc lb; ducks. s3.sos’ doz; geese, $b p* doz; heu turkeys, 9*2® 10c lb; toms, 8 ® 9c 18. ClDEß—Duffy’s, Rochester. $6 brl. Wool—Tub washed, 28® 32c; unwashed, medium, 20c; unwashed, common, LBe; Ootswold, 17c; burry and unmerchantable according to their value. SEEDS. Timothy—sl.so9l.7s bn; clover, $5®5.25 buj bluegrass, extra clean Kentucky, $1®1.25 red top, 75c®$l ip bu; orchard grass, $1.50® 1.75 ■ip’ bu, owing to quality.

LIVE STOCK. Indianapolis Market. Indianapolis. Feb. 25. Cattle—Receipts, 200: shipments, 100. Quality not good as usual, especially in batcher grades. Market steady. All sold at the close, of that class. Quality of shippers only fair, and seiliag slowly at quotations. A few were shipped through iu first hands. Choice shipping steers $5.50®6.00 Medium to good shipping steers 4.75®5.25 Common to fair shipping steers 4.20®4.60 Stockers 3.50 ® 4.00 Choice cows and heifers 4.50®5.00 Medium to good cows and heifers 3.65®4.25 Common to fair cows and heifers 2.50 ®3.35 Veals, common to good 4.50®7.50 Bulls, good to^choice 3.5034.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.75®3.25 Milkers, good to choice 40.00® 55.00 Milkers, common to medium 20.00®35.00 Hogs —Receipts, 4,100; shipments, 2,800. Quality fair. Market weak and sharply lower. Packers not buying. Closing quiet, with some unsold. Select heavy $1,853)1.90 Select light-' 4.50®4.55 Common to fair light 4.35® 1.45 Heavy roughs 4.20®4.35 Sheep—Receipts, 200; shipments, none. Quality fair. Market unchanged. About all sold. Good to choice, 110 to 140 tbs $3.85®4.25 Fair to medium, 80 to 100 lbs 3.25®3.G5 Common grades 2.503>3.00 Bucks, pm* head 2.50®3.50

Elsewhere. CHICAGO. Feb. 25. —The Throrers’ Journal reports; Hogs—Receipts. 35.000; shipments, 9,000. The market was active but 10c lower; rough packing, $4,[email protected]; packing and shipping, $4.60®5.10; light, $4®4.55; skips, $3.30®4.40. Cattle—Receipts. 9,000; shipments, 3.000. The market was active but 10c lower; export steers, s6® 6.40; shipping steers of fr.m 1,050 to 1,200 lbs average, $4®4.65; from 1.200 to 1,300 tbs average, $4.90 3 5.50; from 1.350 to 1,500 lbs average, SS.3O®G; Texans. $3.75©4.75. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 6.000: shipments, 1,700. The market was weak and 10®20c lower; inferior to medium, s2®3; choice, $3.25 ®4.20; lambs, $4.25® 4.50. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 25.—Cattle—Receipts, 2 200; shipments, 600. The market wag lower and the quality generally poor: export cattle, $5.15®6: good to choice shipping steers, $5.20®5.65: common to medium shipping steer*. $1.40 ®5; native butchers’ steers, $ 1®4.50; Stockers and feeders, $3.50 ®4.50; corn-fed Texas steers, s4® 4.60. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 3.200; shipments, 900. The market was slow and lower; common to medium sheep, $2.50®3.25; choice sheep, $3.50®4. Hogs—Receipts, 5,900; shipments, 1,800. The market was lower and slow; Yorkers, $4.40®4.50; packing hogs, $4.40®4.60; heavy. $1.60®5.15. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Beeves—Receipts, 5,030, including 105 car-loads for exportation; early sales at full Monday’s prices, but declined $1 per head before the finish: 2 car-loads of bulls, little steers and heifers sold at $3.60®4.90 cwt.; extremes. $3.25®7 30 o.vt. for steers; general sales at $4.50®6.50 cwt. Shoep and Lambs—Receipts, 5,100. The market opened dull, but closed firm; extremes, $4.25®5.75 cwt. for common to good sheep; ordinary to good lambs, $5.50©7. Hogs—Receipts, 10,400. The market was dull and UQroinal,

KANSAS CITY. Feb. 25.—The Live Stock Indicator renorts: Cattle—Receipts, 1.600. The market was weak and 10c lower; export steers. $5.3535.60; good to choice shipping steers, $4.95j55.25; common to medium, $4.5034.80; stockers and feeders. $3.43 34.40; cows, $2.7533.40. Hogs— Receipts, 4,200. The market was weaker and 10c lower: sales were made at $4.2034.50. Sheep—Reoeipts, 1,100. The market was auiet; fair to good muttons, $2.5033.15. EAST LIBERTY. Feb. 25.-Cattle-The market was slow; prime. $636.25; fair to good, $4,753 5.50; common, $434.50. Receipts, 152; shipments none. Hogs—The market was dull. _Receipts. 900; shipments, none; Phil<cdeiphias 1 $5.2035.30; Yorkers, $4.7034.80; common, $4.50. Sheep—Extra prime, $4.5035; fair to g00d,53.753 4.25; common $1.5033. Receipts, 2,400; shipments, 5,000. CINCINNATI. Feb. 25.—Hogs quiet; common and light, $3.8035.15: packing and butchers’, $4,703 5.35. Receipts, 3,300; shipments. 1,400. MILWAUKEE, Feb. 25-—Hogs lower; sales at $4.2034.50. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

Produce Markets, CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Flour easier but not lower; exporters holding off for lower prices. Wheat opened active but weak and lower, and closed on regular board lc lower than yesterday. Sales ranged- February. 75 3^376%c, closed at 76370t0c; March, 75V376 7 8C, closed at TGtoc; May, 8138382Lcloseil at 81 toe; No. 2 Chicago spring. 7** _V r r u £”’ No. 3 Chicago spring, 66c; No'. 2 ~<Yaanl in sjmpathy wi ..neat: prices showed little changl. Sales ranter: C** v a, 37t0338c; February, 37to® 37tov c at 37 toe; March, 37t0®37*80, closed at 3?5*0; May, 40'V3>41toc, closed at 41341 l ac. Oats in good demand; prices easy. Sales ranged;

Cash, 27 J 4©28 1 3C; February, 27!4c; March, 27 %® 27 1 ac. closed at 27%c; May, 30%®31c, closed at 30% ®30 7 ac. Bye firm at 64c. Barley dull at 63® 65c. Fiaxseed quiet at $1.46. Porit in active dethaftd. Sales ranged: Hash. $12.60® 12.65; February, $12.00®12.70, dosed at $12.67%® 12.70; March, $1,2.47%® 12.70, dosed at $12.67%®12.70. May. $12.70® 12. closed at $12.90® 12.92%. Lard in good demand and a shade easier. Sales ranged: Cash and February, 6.87%®6.90c : March, 6.87%®6.90c. closed at 6.90 c: May, 7.02%®7.07 1 3C, closed at 7.05®7.07%c. Bulk meats in fair demand; shoulders, 4.70©4.80c; short ribs, 6:25® 6.30 c; short ciear, 6.65©6.700. Whisky, $1.15. Butter slow; creamery, 32® 34c. Eggs weak at243gc. Receipts—Flour, 53.000 brls; wheat, 117.000 bu; eorn, 417.000 bu; oats. 176,000 bu; rye. 6.000 bu; barley, 79.000 bu. {Shipments—Flour, 40,000 brls; Wheat, 40,000 bu; corn, 280,000 bu; oats. 47,000 bu; rye, 2,000 bn; oarlev, 58,000 bu. On the after noon board: Wheat heavy and lower; closed with February and March at 75 %e; May, 81c. Corn quiet but steady; May declined %e. Oats steady and advanced Pork lower; declined 7 %c. Lard easier; March declined .02 %c.

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—Flour quiet and unchanged; receipts, 13,000 brls: exports, 2,300 brls. WheatSpot lots declined I®l%C: options declined I%® 2c, and closed heavy at the lowest points; receipts, 6,000 bn; exports, 100,000 bu; No. 2 spring, 90c; No. 2 Milwaukee. 92c; ungraded red, 82 1 3®92%c; Ne. 2 red, 89®91%<£; No. 1 white, 90e;No. 2 red, Februarv, nominal at 84%c; March, sales erf 872,000 bu ah 88*489%a elosfam at 88*4; April, sales of 1,104,000 bu *t 80%®91c, closing at 89%*, May. sals* cf 5,624,000 bn at 91%'®92'V>: closing at 91%©; June, sales of 520,000 bu at 92%®93%c, closing at 92%c; Juhr. sale* c€ 83,000 bu at 92 1 4®93%c, closing at 92%©. Com—Spot lots %®%c lower; options lower; receipts, 78,000 bu: ex-

ports, 89,000 bu; ungraded, 51®52e: No. 3, 51 ®sl*4Cj steamer, 51 *9® 53c: No. 2 Western. 52 ®53*4C: steamer yellow, 52 *4O; steamer white, 55®56*2C: No. 2 Feboary, 52®52 3 40, closing at 52c; March, 49 7 g®, r >oc, closing at 49‘*gc; A4>ril. ®49*fic, closing at 4938 C; May. 49 *e®49*9o, closing at 49*4c; June, 49*e 349*40, dosing at 49*ec-, steamer March, 49@49*8€. Oats firm; receipts, 34,000 bu; exports, 7,000 bi* mixed, 38 ®390; white, 30® 41c. Hay quiet. Hops auiet and unchanged. Sugar quiet; centrifugal, 5 7-11> ®5 *9>refined steady. Molasses quiet and unchanged. Rico steady. Petroleum excited and higher; united eertificates, 81'*8C; refined. Bc. ' Tallow steady. Rosin dull. Turpentine dull at 32c. Eggs firm. Leather steady. Wool quiet. Pork dull; new mess, $13.75®14. Cut meats steady; long-clear and middles. 7c. Lard higher; contract grades, snot lots, 7.25 c; March. ?.21®7.22c; April. 7.28®7.30c; May. 7.32®7.36c; June, 7.39 ®7.43c; July, 7.50 c. Butter quiet. Cheese dull and weak. Lead steady. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—Flour steady for desirable spring grades, but dull for winter. Wheat unsettled and lower: No. 2 red. February, 86*2®86 s kc; March, 863t®87*4c; April, May, 90*® 90*2C. Corn—February options declined 3c, influenced by increased receipts; later months dull and *S ®*4c lower; car lots dull and irregular; No. 4 yellow, 50c; steamer No. 2 mixed and yellow, 52c; No. 2 yellow, 52c; No. 2 mixed, 49*9C, No. 2 mixed. February, 48*9®49c; March, 48®48*4C; April, 47 7 e® 48*ec; May, 47 7 5948*@e. Oats steady; rejected white. 34c; No. 3 white, 360; No. 2 white, 37*90; futures quiet; No. 2 white. February and March, 37® 37*4c; April, 37*9®87%c; May, 373t®38c. Provisions dulL_ Beef—City family, $13.50®14; city packets. $12.50; No. 1 city mess, $11.50; India mess beef, $21.50. Pork—New mess, sl4® 14.50; prime new mess, $12912.50; new rneßS, family, $14®15. smoked, 10*9®11 *ac. Lard quiet; city refined, 7.75®8c; prime steam, 7.25 c. Bulk meats, loose, 7c. Butter quiet; creamery extras, 34c; selections, 35c. Eggs quiet but stronger on light receipts; Western extras, 28®28*9c. Cheese quiet; Ohio flats, B*9® 11340. Receipts—Flour, 2,000 brls; wheat, 27,000 bu: corn, 40,000 bu; oaU, 4,000 bu. Shipments—Wheat, 10,000 bo; corn, 48,000 bu; oats, 14,000 bu.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.—Flour weak and unchanged. Wheat opened lower, very unsettled and weak, and closed below yesterday; No 2 red, 85%® 80*90 cash, closing at 85c February; 85*4 ®86 3 4c. closing at 85*ec March; 88 7 8®90*2c. closing at 89*4®8938c May; 90®91®8C, closing at 90c June. Corn firm but inactive; No. 2 mixed, 36*f®36%c cash, 36 3 4c February, 37®37*8c April, 3'7%®38e May. Oats firwhuf "*lnw; 30*2C cash, 32c asked May. Rye steady at 64c. Barley quiet; prime to fancy Northern, 609800. Lead quiet at 8.3593.45 c, Butter unchanged. Egg? unchanged. Flaxseed steady at $1.40. unchanged, Bran unchanged. Cornmeal steady at $2.25. Whisky steady at $1.14. Provisions dull and lower-. Pork jobbing at sl3. Bulk meats—Long dear riba 6.20 e; short ribs, 6.30 c; short clear, 6.55 c. Bacon—Long clear, 7c; short-rib sides, 7.10 c: short clear, 7.25 c. Lard, 6,75®6.80c. Receipts—Flonr, 2.000 bek; wheat, 23.000 bu; corn, 91,000 bu; oats, 15,000 bn; rye, 1.000 bu; barley, 9,000 bu. Shipments Flour, 9,000 brls; wheat, 3,000 bu; com, 35,000 bu; oats, nenq; rye, 5,000 bu; barley, none. Afternoon Board—Wheat easier; No. 2 red, 85*2C March, 89c May, June. Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, 36%®30%c March, 37®37*8c April, 37®37 7 5c May. Oat* dull and nothing done. BALTIMORE, Feb. 25. —Flonr steady and quiet; Howard street standard and Western superfine, $2.75 @3; extra, $3.1093.65; family, $3.85®4.75. Wheat —Western lower, closing dull; No. 2 winter red, spot, 85 3&c asked; March, 86*8®#633©; April, 88*4® bid. U^rn —Western hover and dnK: Western mixed, spot, 47%®48c; February, 473j/®4B*ec; March, 47*2® 47%c: May, 47%'94K*4c. Oats firm; Western white, 38@39c; mixed, 36®37e; Pennsylvania, 36®39c. Rye firm and quiet at 73-® 75c. Hay steady and firm; prime to choice Pennsylvania, sl3® 15. Provisions higher for mess pork; other articles dull. Mess pork, old, sl4; new, $14.25. Bulk meats —Shoulders and clear-lib sides, packed. 6c and 7-h©. Bacon—Shoulders. 6%e; cleajr-wb sides, B*2C. Hams. 12%®13cLard—Refined, B*#c. Butter firm; Western packed, 11®22c, creamery, 23a34c. Eggs higher at 27® 28c. Petroleum higher; refined, Coffee dull and nominal; Rio cargoes, ordinary to fair. B*4® 938 c. Sugar steady but dull; A soft, 6*6**. Copper —Refined steady and quiet at quiet and steady at $1.20® 1.21. Freignts to Idverpool per steamer quiet; cotton, 7-32d; flour, Is 6d; erain, 4-d. Reeaints—Flour, 9/6H3 brls; wheat, 36.000 bu; corn, 122,000 bu; oats. 2.000 bu. Shipments—Wheat, 414,000 bu; 00m, 183,000 bu;

MILWAUKEE. Feb. 25.—Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat weak: No. 2 Milwaukee, 74c cash.; Febuary, 74%;; March, 74%; April 75%; May, 80%. Corn quiet and steady; No. 2, 38 *3O. Oats stronger; No. 2, 28%, No 2 white, 30®31c. Rye steady; No. 1. 65*3'®66c. Barley stronger; No. 2 spring, 54%; No. 3 spring, 51c. Provisions weak; mess pork, $12.60 for cash and March, $12.80 May. Lard—Prime steam, 6.87 c cash and March, 7.05 c May. Receipts—Flour, 4,700 brls; wheat, 92,000 bu; corn, 35.000 bu. Siriements —Flour, 5,000 brls; wheat, 7,000 big corn, 16,000 bu. CINCINNATI, Feb. 25.—Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat dull and lower; No. 2 winter red, cash, 84®85c. Corn easier; No. 2 mixed, 43%. Oats firm; No. 2 raixeu, 34c. Rye easier; No. 2, 71 ®72c. Barley steady, firm and unchanged. Provisions—Mess pork quiet at $13.25. Ijard quiet; prime steam, 7®7.G5c. Bulk meats dull and unchanged. Bacon easier, not lower, Whisky, $1.13. Butter heavy; receipts, depressed the market; Northwestern creamery extra, 3o®S7c. TOLEDO. Feb. 25.—Wheat steady, with a fair demand; No. 2 red, cash, February and Alarch, 78c; April, 79 *2C; May, 81 c; No. 2 soft, 82® 84c. Corn quiet; No. 2 mixed, cash and February, 42%; May, 43c. Oats dull; No. 2, cash, 32i; May, 33*4c. Cloverseed easy; prime medium, cash. $4.85. Receipts— Wheat, 21,000 Du; corn. 15,000 bu; oats, 3,000 bu. Shipmenu—Wheat, 27,000 bu; com, 14,000 bu; oats, none. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 25.—Cotton m good demand; middling uplands, 6*gd; middling Orleans, 6 3-16d. Sales, 10,000 bides: speculation and export, 1.000 bale*: American, 7,300 bales. Bread stuffs—Wheat dull; holders offering freely. Corn qtfiet and in poor demand,- new Western mixed, 4s s*gd. Bacon—Long clear. 32s 6d. American lard, 365. Spirits turpentine, 235. Refined petroleum, 7*sd. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 25. —Grain quiet. Wheat—long berry 88%: No. 2 red. 86c. Corn—No. 2 mixed. 44c: No. 2 white, 46c. Oats —No. 2 mixed Western, 34c. Provisions quiet and unchanged. Bulk meats—Shoulder*, sc; clear ribs sides, 6%s clear sides, 7c. Moss pork, $13.25. Bacon—Shoulders. 5%; clear jw sides, 7%; clear sides, 7 *2. Hams— Sugar-cured 11c. Lard—Leaf lard, 8 *ac.

KANSAS CITY. Feb. 25.—The Commercial Tncatorreports; Wheat lower; No. 2 red, cash, 61 to 361t0c; Alardli 6.13gc: May, 64c. Corn lower; cash, 3058330%c : March. 80H33058C; May, 3133138 c. Oats dull and nominal; 27c cash. Oils. BRADFORT\ Feb. 25.—The crude oil market was excited and higher, with a continued upward tendency. National Transit and Tidwwater runs yesterday, 54,789 brls. Total rfrinmcAts. 58.192 brls. Charters, 37,904 brls. Clearance*, brts. National Transit Company r certificates opened at 79c, and closed at 81 toe: highest price during the day, 81 toe; lowest price, 79c. OIL CITYj Feb. 25.—National Transit Company certificates opened at 78 toe; highest price, 84 toe; lowest priee, 78 %c; closing at 81to. Sales aggregated 3.309,000 brls. Clearances, not reported. Runs. 121.493 brls. Shipments, 58,191 brls. Charters, 35,239 brls. Oil City Oil Exchange stock, no bids: none offered.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 25.—The petroleum market was strong; C. I. F. certificates opened at 79 toe. advanced to 80toc; declined to 79toe, rallied, and closed at 81 toe. _ Cotton. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Cotton-Middling dull; futures were firm; February, 11.49 c; March, 11.51 c: April, 11.57 c; May, 11.67 c; June, 11.78 c; JuK 11.83 c; August, 11.88 c, September, 11.42a; October. 10.89 e; November, 10.75 c; December, 10.75 c. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 25.—Cotton firm; middling 10 toeCINCINNATI, Feb. 25.—Cotton firm and unchanged. Dry Goods. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The general demand has been quiet, with a fair business reached, chiefly through purchases by city jobbers, wht se business daily increases. Owing to the snow-storm last night buyers make forwardings with much caution. Coffee. NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—Coffee—8po*t lots fair Rio dull; options active; sales were made of 30,000 bags; March, 7.5037.55 c; April, 7.65 c; May, 7.80 g; June, 7.95 c: July, 8-0538.10©; August, 8.1538.20; September,

To Prevent Hog Cholera. Correspondence Chicago Tribune. In the case of bog cholera we have this to guide us: Single hogs, or even small lots of half 4 dozen, kept by a single man, are seldom affected. At any rate the disease was never known to originate with such. I have tried all sorts of medicines, patent and otherwise, and consulted all sorts of physicians, whether sailing under the name of regular prarctitioeers, veterinary surgeons or furriers. When 1 bear of the approach of cholera I think it is a good time tasend my aged hogs to the Stockyards, and rs 1 keep nothing but the Suffolks I consider myself always ready for the market If your Svfialks are not as fat as they could be a few days extra feeding can make them so. But if the cholera is fast approaching you should not wart for the advantages of the extra feeding. One year the cholera -seized upon the young pigs upon which f reHecMor my next year's stock of hogs. I had tried aii the remedies in vain. At last I loaded all I had-in earta and landed them, one in a

place, all over my farm, and left them there to die or to come home in their own time. My loss from these was merely nominal. I found in getting upon their track afterwards that they all sought fresh earth. They gave plowed land the preference, and chewed a great deal of the dirt. Ever since I have resorted to this plan, and I have come to the conclusion that the best preventive for the cholera is new pasture and fresh earth. Some of my neighbors that have not so much land as I have carried their hogs some distance away and dropped them in the public roads, leaving them to work their passage home after getting a fresh supply of the the roads. Ido not say that this will prove a sure preventive with all breeds of hogs. I only speak for the Suffolks, which I have raised for the last twenty-five years. This prevention is a cheap and harmless one. In our Western country, where the farms are so large, there ought to be more room given to hogs if people wish to make money out of them. Some Facts About Silk Culture. New England Farmer. Silk companies and silk associations have been organized in Philadelphia, Pa., Corinth, Miss., and in California, that are advertising through their newspaper organs all the goods needed for starting in the silk business, and. judging from the advertisements and reports, the chief profit from the business at the present time is derived from the sale of eggs and trees to those who, from reading the glowing accounts of dealers, are induced to invest in the business. In this regard the business is not entirely unlike the fish-culture craze, that lasted so long as there was a demand for eggs and young fry for stocking ponds and lakes. Silk has beeh produced successfully in Connecticut, and in most of the States along the coast to the Gulf of Mexico, but our people are rarely satisfied with a business that is fairly profitable when some other business can be followed in its place that is more profitable. The more enterprising silk growers of Connecticut, who, fifty years ago made a little money every year picking mulberry leaves and feeding silk worms in their season, soon learned

that the purchase of raw silk from abroad, and the manufacturing of it into finished goods, offei*ed a much more promising field for their enterprise, and as our government has encouraged the manufacturers more than the producers, by admitting raw silk free of duty, the manufacturing has grown to large proportions, while production has dwindled to almost nothing. Those who now grow silk here labor under the disadvantage of competition with the cheap labor of Asia and Europe, and the skill that has been acquired by long acquaintance with the business. Yet, as we have already indicated, if the thousands of idle persons in this country of both sexes can be induced to take hold of the enterprise, they may be sure of getting something out of the business. We do not believe, however, that the business will, or can be, made very profitable north of the fortieth parallel of latitude. The eggs should not hatch till the season is far enough advanced so that good leaves for feeding will be abundant as soon as required by the growing worms, and to retard the eggs ice may be as much needed as in a dairy room. Another difficulty many young ladies will find, will be to overcome their prejudice against handling worms, for silk worms are as “horrid” as other worms. Then they must be fed every day with leaves that are fresh and not much wet by rain or dew. and with a week of stormy weather, just as the worms are eating the heartiest and growing the fastest, a good many farmers’ daughters might come to the conclusion that even housework is not so bad as it might be, when compared to picking mulberry leaves from an acre of large, thorny trees in stormy weather.

Then there jure accidents and disasters to guard against Mice Kke the eggs, and a pair will destroy a milliou of them in a short time, but diseases caused by neglect in keeping the worms’ quarters sweet and clean during growth and moulting will kill them faster than mice. But looking on the brighter side, those who have had more or less experience, claim that an acre of land will produco twentyfive tons of leaves after the trees are three or tour years old from setting; that these will feed a million worms; that 2,500 cocoons are required for a pound of raw silk, and that it is possible for experienced growers to produce 400 pounds of silk from an acre, worth $7.50 a pound. It is claimed that the women of France earn $40 ; 000,000 a year from silk culture, and the poor people of Lombardy as much more. But they understand their business, while we have it all to learn, and while learning, as a matter of course, make many expensive mistakes. The worms will do weH fed upon the leaves of the mulberry or of the osage orange, and there are two or more varieties of the mulberry that are grown for the purpose. The Russian mulberry (Morus Moretti), a hardy variety recently introduced from Russia, is claimed to be specially adapted to our northern climate. The Morus Alba, or white mulberry, and the osage orange are recommended as the most desirable trees for feeding the worms, though in the case of the latter much care must be used in selecting the mature leaves, the half grown, tender ones producing diseases among the worms feeding upon them. Indeed, tu the beginner, trouble and disappointment will seem to come from every quarter. But if one is sufficiently persevering something can be made at the business, even as far north as New England. Still, we believe that under present conditions there are other industries whieh, if fashionable, would offer greater inducements to farmers’ daughters of Massachusetts than silk culture. Poultry will give empioyent the whole year, while silk worms live but a few weeks. To Clean Black Cloth. Detroit Household. Take your garment, well brush it, then wash all the greasy spots, the collar and cuffs also, with soap and warm water, and a few drops of liquid ammonia. Then prepare, as follows, one ounce of ground logwood and a piece of soda the size of a eaall marble, and boil together in one quart of water ten minutes; strain the liquor, lay the garment on the table, and, with a clean brush dipped into the boiling stuff, well brush it-until it is saturated; then get some clean hot water, mi the surface of which drop a little olive oil, not too much, bat when wasted add a few more drops of oil, axtd brush in the direction of the grain; then hang them up, if a clear day, out of doors; if not, in the dry-room, and they will turn out a beautiful black. I have made the boy’s suits look equal to new in this way, and to last as long as two without it, and the girl’s jackets too; in fact, any black cloth garment, boys’ caps in particular, can be renovated by this process. ■ Dr. Dio Lewis says that some years ago he laid a thousand feet of paper pipe, two inches in diameter, to convey water from a spring to his house and barn in the country. It has never leaked, and has never imparted any perceptible taste to the 'sv&ter. This pipe is made of strong paper wound into a pipe form and thoroughly soaked in tar. It becomes so hard and strong that it will bear a pressure almost equal to iron.. Poisoned Cheese Cleans out all rats, mice, roaches, water-bugs, bed-bugs, ante, vermin. 15c. Druggists. Brown, ing & Sloan, agents.

|E.c,Aimsira,Hwm MAMFACTUREM OP If £”* Wll FINEST Atfß MOST OTTHAITLE MAD’*. GRAND HOTEL, INDUNAPOUa, END. Passenger 'elevator and all modern eonventoneee. Leading Hotel of. the city, and strictly first-class. Rates, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 per day. The latter prise including bath. GKO. F. PFINGST* Proprietor RAILWAY TIME-TABLE. Fort Wayne, Cincinnati A Louisville Railroad. (Leave Indianapolis via Bee Line.) SOUTHWARD. Leave Fort Wayne 11:00 am 5:50 pm Ijeare Bhiffton 12:03 am 0:50 pm Leave Hartford 12:58 pm 7:4lpm Leave Mancie 3:57 pm 0:23 pm Arrive Indianapolis 6:00 pm 11:15 pm NORTHWARD. Leave Indianapolis... 4:00 am 10:10 am Leave Mancie - 6:00 am 1:15 pm Leave Hartf0rd.................. 6:37 am 2:00 pm Leave Bluffton 7:30 am 2:58 pm Arrive Fort Wayne 8:30 am 4:00 pm

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE. [TRAIN3 Rtf* BV OKNTKAti STANDARD TlM*.] Trains marked thus, r. c., reclining chair cr; sch. a.,sleeper; thus, p.. parlorcar: trnis, h.. hotel car. Bee-Line, C., C., C. & Indianapolis. Depart—New York and Boston Express, daily, s 4:00 am Dayton, Springfield and New York Express,*©, c 10:10am Anderson and Michigan Express ..11:15 am Wabash and Mancie Express..... 5:55 pm New York and Boston, daily s., o. o. 7:15 pm BRIGUTWOOD DIVIJSION. Daily 4:00 am...... 2:20 pm Daily 6:15 am...... 3:30 pm Daily 10:10 am 5:25 pm Daily.. 11:15am 7.15 pm Arrive—Louisville. New Orleans and St. Louis Express, daily, s 6:40 am Wabash, Ft. Wayne and M uncle Express 10:45 am Benton Harbor and Anderson Express . 2:20 pm Boston, Indianapolis and Southern _ Express 6:00 pm New York and St. Louis Express, daily, s 11:15 pm Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg, Depart—New York, Phuxdelphia, Washington, Baltimore aud Pittsburg Express, daily, s 4 ; 25 am Dayton and Oolumbns Express, except Sunday 10:45 am Richmond Accommodation 4:00 pm New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily, a., h 4:55 pm Dayton Express, except Sunday... 4:55 pm Arrive—Richmond Accommodation, except Sunday 9:40 vm New, York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily 11:37 am Columbus and Dayton Express, except Sunday 4:35 pm New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore aua Pittsburg Express, daily 10:20 pm Dayton Express, daily, except Sunday 10:20 pm CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KOKOMO, P., C. A ST. h k B. Depart—Louisville aud Chicago Express, _ P ®- : 11:15 am Louisville and Chicago Fast Ex- . , press, daily,, a— 11:00pm Arrive—Chicago and Louisville Fast Express, daily, s 4:00 am Chicago and Louisville Express, P* c 3:35pm

Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago. CINCINNATI DIVISION. Depart—Cincinnati and Florida Fast Lina, daily, 8. and c. c . 4-00 am Cincinnati, Rushville and Columbus Accommodation— 11:05 am Cincinnati and Louisville Mail, p. o. 3.-45 pm Cincinnati Accommodation, daily.. 6:55 pm Arrive—lndianapolis Accommodation, daily 11:05 am Chicago and, St. Louis Mail, p. ■©. ..11:50 am Indianapolis Accommodation. 6:20 pm Chicago, and St. Louis Fast Line, daily, s. and o. o 10:45pm CHICAGO DIVISION. Depart—Chicago and Rock Island Express.. 7:10 am Indianapolis and South Bend Ex*. 7*lo am Chicago Fast Mail, p. <j. 12:10 pm Western Express 4:55 pm Indianapolis' and South Bend Ex- 4:55 pm Chicago, Peoria and Burlington Fast Line, daily, s., r. c 11:20 pm Arrive—Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Line, daily, o. c. and e ......... 3:35 am Lafavette Accommodation. ..10.55 am Soutn Bend and Indianapolis Ex.. 10:55am Cincinnatiand-Lcuisvilie Mall, p. o. 3:30 pm Cincinnati Accommodation- 6:42 pm South Bend and Indianapolis Ex... 6:42 pm Vandalia Line. Depart—lndianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 7:10 am Mail Train. ....... 7:15 am Day Express, dally, p., h 11:55 am Terre Haute Accommodation 4:00 pm Indianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 4:55 pm Pacifio Express, daily, s 10:45 pm Arrive —New York Express, daily 3:50 am Indianapolis Mail and Accora 10:00 am South Bend and Indianapolis Ex.. 10:55am Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Line 3:30 pm New York Express, daily, h 4:40 pm South Bend and Indianapolis Ex... 6:42 pm Wabash, St. Louis A Pacific. Depart—Deti oit end Chicago Mail. 7:15 a m Toledo, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids and Michigan Express..... 2:15 pm Detroit Express, daily, s. .s*. 7:15 pm Detroit through coach on C., Sty L. A P. Express Arrive—Detroit Express, daily, s ■.... Pacific Express n po\ißo am Detroit ana Chicago Mail 8:55 pm Detroit through coach on C., St L. & P. Expftss. 4:00 an*

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis. Depart—Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo 4:Csia Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York . 10:45 am Oonnersville Accommodation 4:25 pm Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York Express 6:35 pm Arrive —Oonnersville Accommodation. H:3oam Cincinnati. Peoria and St. Louis... 11:50 am Cincinnati Accommodation.. 5:00 pm Cincinnati, Peoria and St. Louis. ..10:40 pm Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis. Depart—Southern Express, daily, s.— 4:10 am Louisville and Madison Express,p.o 8:15 am Louisville and Madison Moil, p. 0.. 3:30 pm Louisville Express, daily 6:45 pm Arrive—lndianapolis and Madison Mai 1..... 9e45 am Indianapolis, St. Lota® and Chicago Express, daily, p .10.45 am New York and Northern Fast Express, r. c 7joo pm St- Louis, Chicago and Detroit Fast Line, daily, s HMS pm Indiana, Bloomington & Western. pkOria division. Depart—Pacific Express and Mai 1........... 7:25am Kansas and Texas Fast Line, r. c.. s:o7pm Burlington and Bock Island Express, daily, r. c. and a., 11:10pm Arrive—Eastern and Southern Express, daily, r. c. and s— 3:50 am Cincinnati Special*,*, c— 11:05 am Atlantic Express and Mail 6:30 pm ST. LOUIS DIVISION. Depart—Moore field Accommodation 6:30 pm Mail and Day Express.... . 5:02 pm. Arrive—Mail and Day Express.. 11:00am Moorefield Accommodation........ 6:lopm EASTERN DIVISION. Depart—Eastern Express Mail, daily, s., *. a, am Day Express 11:46 am * Atlantic Express, daily, s. and c.c.. 7:lt>pm Arrive—Pacific Express, daily, s. and c. 0.., 6:554m Western Express 4:45pm Burlington and Bock Island Express, daily, s. and r. e.......... 10:35pm, i ■ ■ ■ ' ■■■'— ■■■ '•■t' Indianapolis & St. Louis. Depart—Day Express, daily, c. c............ 7:loam Paris Express... 3:sopm Boston and St. Louis Express, p... 6:25 pm New York and St. Louis Express, daily, s. and c. c 11:30 pm Arrive—New York and Boston Express, daily, c, c Local Passenger, p 9:soam Indianapolis Express 3:oopm Day Express, c. e., daily 6.25 pm Indianapolis & Vincennes. Depart—Mail and Cairo Express 8:15 am Vincennes Accommodation 4:00 pm Arrive—Vincennes Accommodation. 10:40 am Mail and Cairo Express 6:30 pm Louisville, New Albany A Chicago. (Chicago Short Line.) Depart—Chicago and Michigan City Mail. ...12:45 pm Frankfort Accommodation 5:00 pm Chicago Night Ex., daily, s 11'-20 pm Arrive—lndianapolis Night Ex., daily, s.-. 3:3a am Indianapolis Accommodation 10:00 am Indianapolis Mail 3:15 pm

Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railway. (Over the Bee line.) Depart—lndianapolis and Grand Rapids Ex. 4:00 am Michigan Express 11:15 am Louisville and Wabash Express... 5:55 pm Arrive—Wabash and Indianapolis Express.. 10:45 am Cincinnati and Louisville Express. 2:20 pm Indianapolis and St. Louis Express. 11:15 pm Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. (Via Vandalia Line J.. Leave Indianapolis.t7:ls am, 11:53am p, 10,45 pm s Leave Terre Haute.tlo:4o am, 3:20 pm p, 4:00 * m • A*, at Evansville.. .t4:O0 pm. 7:05 pm p, 7:~> am • Leave Evansville.. -t6:05 am 19;% 41X1 p ’s ’ At. at Terre Haute llOtuO am, 2:17 pm f , 11 35 p.n * Ar. at Indianapolis. t3;30 pm, 4=40 pm P ,3 50as (Daily except Sunday. All other trains daily, 1 parlor car; s, sleeper. (Via L & St. L. By.) Laave Indianapolis 17:10 am, 10:53 pm ♦ Terim ILmte ilO: lO am. 3:00 pm p. 4:00 am s Ar. at Evansville - -t4;00 pm. 7:03 pm p, 7:loame Leave Evansville. .16 05 aiu. 10 30 am p 8:15 pm • ATat Terre Haute tlO OO am. 2: 17 pm p, 11:59 pm • Ar! at Indianapolis. t3:15 pm, 0:25 pui p. 8:43 am tDaily except Sunday. AU other trains daily. P parlor car; s, sleeper.