Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1887 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JO LTRNAI. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1887.

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kesij-nated United States Depository. Corner Room Odd-fellows Hall Turn, r. HArOHET. Pres't. K. LAttiam. Cash. CONDITION OF THE MARKETS The Chicago Board Opens with a Show of Activity, Which Soon Disappears, And Extreme Dullness Follows Wheat a Tri fle IIiher Corn Suffers a Small Declina Oats Higher Proiisious Lower. money, nouns and stocks. A Feverish and Wcift Market, with Lower Prices for Everything. KEW YOHK, Oct 12. Money on call was easy at 3i5 per cent., tbe last loan being made at 4J per cent, and closing offered at 3 per cent. Prim mercantile paper, 68 per cent. Sterling exchange was quiet bnt firm at 61802 for sixty-day bills, and $184$ forde in and. The total sales of stocks to-day were 484.127 shares, including tbe following: Canada Southern. 3,600: Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, 22J00; Erie, 18,450; Lake Shore, 20, C55; Loaiav.V.e & Nashville, 19,100; Missouri Pacific, 9,780; North wes-rn, 19,175; New Jersey Central, 7,000; New York Central, 4,125; Northern Pacific, 3,065; Northern Pacific preferred, 0,120; Oregon Transcontinental, 15,705; Reading. 145.900; St Paul, 39.8.J0; Texas Pacific, 3.970; Union Pacific, 37,250; Western Union, 35,C50. The stock market to-day was feverish and very weak on Belling for both sides of the account, induced by the passing of the Baltimore & Ohio dividend and the determined attacks of the "bears." Business was quiet in the forenoon, with Jersey Central as tbe feature, on rumors of a speedy termination of the receivership. At noon, however, the news of the passing of the Baltimore & Ohio dividend was received, which became the signal for a heavy selling movement, aided by the circulation of many die quieting rumors, all of wnich had their effect. The story that Mr. Villard bad resigned irom tbe Northern Pacifio directory was used against that and its kindred stocks, and the pressure upon Union Pacifio became particularly heavy, sales for Boston account being specially numerous, and its price was carried down five points. The depression was aided by tbe room traders, who joined in helping the market down, and the business of the afternoon was very largo and important. Heading, as usual, was at tbe bsad in the amount of business done, and, while tbe buying in the stock was good, it was forced down with tbe remainder of the list. Money was easy throughout,, but sterling exchange was strong on a temporary scarcity oi cotton bills, but the rise was attributed to sales of stocks for foreign account. The opening was firm to strong at advances of from 2 per cent, but the improvement was not maintained in the early dealings, the entire list moving off under the lead, of the Union Pacific. A material . recovery took place, in which Jersey Central became most conspicuous, after which the margef became dull, with a general downward tendency, which became more pronounced. After 12 o'clock the list suddenly sprang into activity, and nnder the lead of Union Pacific, the Oregons and Northern Pacific, rapidly declined during the afternoon, subject to one or two insignificant cheeks only. There was a slieht rally in the last hour, but the close was weak and active at or near the lowest prices of the day. Of course everything is lower, and Oregon Navigation is down 5; Union Pacific, 4J; Louisville & Nashville. 21; Northern Pacific preferred and Missouri Pacific, 2 J eaoh: Oregon & Trans continental, 22; New England, 2i; Reading, 21; Western Union, 2. Railroad bonds were irregular and final changes are generally for fractions only; sales $084,000. Chesapeake & Ohio, series B, coupon off, lost 2, at Go; Mackinao &Marquette land grants. 3, at 30; Illinois Central three-aud-a halfs, 2, at 91; Iron Mountain fives, 2. at 91; Ohio Southern incomes, 2j, at 332. Jersey Central consols rose 2, to 115 J. Government bonds waro dull but firm to strong. State bonds were dull and steady. Closing Quotations were: Four per cent, bonds. 125-4'Mar. 8b Cin. lit, pref .... Four and ahalfpercc 108 tMar. & Gin. seeonds .... Pacific 6s of i)o 121 Mm. & Charleston.. 47 Louisiana consols.... B Michigan Central.... 8'3q Missouri 69. ...... 101 Ten ii. settlement 6s., 10U Tenn. settlement 5s. .104 Tenn. settlement 3s.. 70 Central Fac.no lata.. 114 Den. & Kio O. lsts..ll Den. Sb K. G. VV. lets 70 Minn. 3fc st Joui8.... ID Minn. & St. L. pref.. 223 Missouri Pacifio. ..... 00 Mobile Ohio 10 Morris & Essex 1384 Nashville & Chatta. . . 9 New Jersey Central . . 7 1 3t Norfolk &W. pref... 37a Northern Pacifio..... 20 Northern Pao. pref... 433 Chi. As North western. 1117" a & North w'n pref..l3e New York Central l(J3-n Ohio Central Ohio & Mississippi... 2".-3 Ohio & Miss. pref.. .. 85 Ontario & Western.. 158 Oregon Navigation. .. 80 Ore. & Transcontint'l 161a Oregon Improvement 37 I'aciiio Mail. ......... 35-4 Panama...... .... Peoria. D. & E 20 Pittsburg 152 Eri seconds.... .. 80 M-. K. & T. gen. (3s.. 88-j Xs ort horn Pacifio 1 sta. 1 14 Northern Pacifio 2d- 7 Northwestern eonsoialltt1 Northwest, debent 5s 107 3 St L. S. F. gen. m.l 13 St. Par. 1 consols . .VM St.P., hi. & Pao. 1st. 117 Texas Pac. I'd grants. 46 T. P., K. . ex. coup. 62 V nion "Paci fic firsts ... 1 1 5 West Shore S7j Adams jxrres 140 Allegheny Central.... .., Alton & Terre Haute. 3i) Alton &T. It pref... 70 American Express.... 108 B.. C. K. & N 85 Canada Paeifie. ...... 51 Pullman Palace-ear.. 148 Reading. 69 $i Rock Island. 113 Canada Southern. . . . . Central Pacific. ...... Chesapeake &Ohio... C. As O. pref. firsts... C. & O- seconds 614 Sit. U & !San Fran 333g 27 -y St L. & S. fc. pref... 70 St.L.&S.F.lstspref 108 C M. & St. P. 723g O., M. & St. P. pref ..113 St Paul. M. & M... 06 St. Paul & Omaha... 393 4 9 5 Chicago & Alton. ...140 C. & A. preforred....l50 C. Ii. & J Chi.. &N.O. C St I-. & P C, St li. & P. pref C. 8. &C 128-3 St. Paul & O. pref. ..103 -Texas Pacific 21T8 332 Union Pacific 443 38 IV. H. Express 67 CCUIWab.. St. L. & P 15 Clevel'd & Col am bu 4WW., St. Ij. & P. prof. 287a Delaware & Hudson. 07 Wells & Fargo Exp. .125 Del., lck. & West..l24laW. U. Telegraph.... 75-4, I K & liio Grande 21-2 Colorado Coal 31-fl F.rie 253s Homestake 13 Frie preferred Sl-a Iron Silver. 275 Fast Tennessee 10 iOntario. 26J 5 23 31 5a East Tennessee pre t. 559 Quicksilver....... Fort Wayne 14U1? Quicksilver pref... Hannibal & St Joe.. ....jNouth Pacific..... Ii. & St Joe pref.... ....jSutro. ....... Harlem 200 Houston Sc Texas.... 20 Illinois Contra!.... 115 Y.. C. & St. L. N. Y.j C. & St. U pref 27 M., L., S. & W 81 M., Li., S. & W. pref. 102 M.Tenn. Coal & Iron 23 I , B.&W 132 Kansas & Texas 21 2 Fake Erie & Western 144 Fake Shore DO C. H. V. & T.. 22 Toledo & Ohio G, pref 50 Louisville Sc N'shville 554 Ft Worth & Denver. 475q L.. & N. A 31 I Ara.cotton seed cert'f 24 LONDON, Oct 12. Bar ounce. silver, 441 per NEW YORK. Oct 12. Bar silver, 9Gc NEW YOKK AND CHICAGO. Yesterday's Quotations on Produce at the Two (irpht Commercial Centers. NEW YORK, Oct 12. Flour Receipts. 30.420 packages; exports, 1.G05 barrels and 10,447 sacks; moderately active; sales, 18,500 brls. Wheat Receipts. 39.900 bu; exports, 11,540 bu; sales, 2.1C8.000 bu futures and 329,000 bu spot Options advanced ii ic, subsequently settled back to the close of yesterday, leaving off weak. Snot lots firm as a general rule and fairly active, partly for export; No. 2 spring, 62c; ungraded rd and spring, 79&34ic; No. 2 rtd, 81 a 82c elevator. 82J 383 J c delivered, 81Jc f. o. b.; No. 1 red, nominal, 87 J:; No. 1 white, nominal, 87Jc; No. 2 red, October, Sl81Je, closing at 81c; November, 8181sc, closing at 81Je; December, 822 83 3 1Cc. closing at 822c; January, 812 S4 5 ldc, closing at 84c; February. 85 2 S5ic, doting at 85c; April, 87287ic, closing at 87c; Mav, 8Sa88c, closing at 88c; Jnne. 8&i'3 8?ic closing at bbjc; December, 9'3W fljjc, closing at 93c. Corn Hereipts, 2,750 bu; exports, 33,204 bu; sales. 72,000 ou futures and 230,000 bu spot; i a is lower ou both cash and options, closing stead v alter a moderate business; ungraded, 52 3 522c; No. 2,51Jo store, 521 52ic delivered; distilling, private trade. No. 2, October, 51 a Clic, clocing tit Sljc; November. 513a51jc, closing at 51Jc; December, 51252c, closing at 512e: January, 51 916 S51Jc, closing at 512c; May, 52i53c, closing at 52ic. Oats Receipts, 50.000 bu: exports, none; sales, 235.000 bu futures and 127.000 bu spot; iHo better; mixed Western, 22 a 34c; white Western, 35 40c Hay. steady, and demand fair; shipping, 60c. Hops quiet, steady; California. 6 a 14c. .Coffee Spot fair Rio firm atl'Jjc; options 15 2 20 points higher and moderately active; sales 00,750 bags: October, 17. f5r; November, 17.75 -a 17.90c; December, 17.90 H 13 05c; Januarv, 17.9018 )3c; Fbruarr. 17 85 18. 00c; March. 17.80al8 COc; April. 17.73 17.90c; May, 17.70a 17 90c; June, 17.70 17.80c; September, 17.30 17.35c, November, (1888) 17.00 17,10-, Decem

ber, 1G.83 17.03c Sugar firm, fair refining quoted at 4 15-16c; refined firm; mold A. 64; 6 310c; standard A, 5 J3-I6e; confectioners' A, Gl-lGaCJc; towdered. 6i6Jc; granulated, 6c; cubes. 6i6 3-16e. Molasses steady and quiet Rice firm. Tallow quiet and firmly held. Rosin steady. Eegs steady and demand fair; receipts, 2,694 packages: Western, 15 20c Pork steady; trading light; sales, 100 barrels mess. Cut meats steady. Lard 3 25 points lower; doll and heavy; Western steam, spot, 6.77J 6. 80c; November, G.57a6.61c; December. 6 5C6.58c: January, 6.626.65c; February cloted 6.68c; March, 6.74c, and May, 6.88c; city steam, 6.70c. Butter quiet and barely steady; Western, 13 26c; Western creamery, 16 26c Cheese unchanged and dolL CIIICAGO, Oct 12. When the session opened on 'Change there was a show of activity, but it was delusive, for extreme dullness followed in all crowds except the scalpers of wheat, and the business in that nit was light and altogether local. The first indications were for better prices, but tbey, too. proved delusive in both wheat and corn before 11 a. m., when wheat was off ic and corn ilc The corn crowd deserted the pit very largely. "Bear" tactics operated against tbe favorable cables, but the wheat operators stuck to business; before noon December rallied to 72Jc, after touching 72i72Jc The business in the wheat pit was of the scalping order, but un

derneath this there was considerable quiet investing by holders. This, with the fact that there was not much offered except when scalpers attempted to realize, gave tbe market a general upward tendency. The most depressing time of the day followed the opening, when November sold down to 702c, December to 72i72ic, and May to 77c At noon November was at 71ie, ie better than Tuesday's close. December at 72c, Jo better than the close, and May at 78c. The lass half hour was marked by weakness, caused by local sellers, and dosing quotations were, compared with Tuesday, a shade better for near futures and one point off for May; November, 70c; December. 72$c; May, 77772. Cables were decidedly in favor of better prices for corn, and so were the light receipts, but the spirit of selling was the ruling one of the day, and the local "bears" easily pulled corn down $0 without even getting up moderate activity in the pit Charters were liberal, 478,009 bu, but this was not known in time to affect the market. Receipts were 346 cars, with 375 cars predicted for Thursday. November opened at 42Ja42ic and closed at 41c December sold down from 41o to 41Jc, and May from 45o to 44 J c, the lowest and closing price. In oats, the only change of note was that there was an increased demand for October delivery, the result of which was to cause about ic advance. In other deliveries only a small, at least not more than a moderate, volume of business was done, and the quotations for the day exhibited no essential change from yesterday's prices. Provisions were weaker and prices averaged lower, but at the decline a fair business was transacted. Receipts of hogs were larger and prices lower. This had a depressing effect on holders of prod nee. and stock came out freely, the principal break being. 20c October short ribs, which were left alone by the packers, and closed at 7.20c: January dropped .05c. and closed at 6, 17 J 3 6.20c. October lard opened at 6.37JC, declined to 6.27Je and closed easy, the shipping demand having fallen off. Other futures dropped .05c, and closed weak at the bottom. Pork broke , 5c and January closed at $12 22 J. The leading futures ranged as follows: Opmxng. Highest, lwfc Clotxno. Wheat October COI3 C98 69 13 09 Nov 71 71 4 70 70 Deo 723r 7238 724 7238 May 77 ' 78 77 77 CoraOctober. 428 42 14 41 41 Nor. 421$ 428 l2 41 Dec 41 41 41 13 413 May 451a 458 44 45 Oats October.. 26 .... Nov 20 26 25 7q 25?8 Mav 29 29 293a 29 Mess PorkJan.$12.27i $12.273 $12.20 $12.223 Lard October . 6.379 6.37a 6.27a 6.273 Nov 6.25 6.25 6.25 6.25 Dec 6.25 6.27,9 6.25 6.25 January.. 6.35 6 35 6.323 6.323 Sh'rt Ribs-Oct 7.15 7.15 6.973 7.073 January.. 6.20 6.20 6.173 6.173 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour, unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 6969c; No. 3 spring, 60c; No. 2 red. 72c No. 2 corn, 42ie bid. No. 2 oats, 26c; No. 2 rye, 49c; No. 2 barley. 68c: No. 1 flaxseed, $1,062; prime timothy-seed, $223: mess pork, per bbl, $13.50 a 14; lard, per pound, 6.374c; short-rib sides, (loose), 7.00c; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), 5. GO 5. 70c; short-clear sides (boxed), 7.407.45c: whisky, distillers finished goods, per gaL, $1.10. Sugars, cut-loaf, 6 62c; granulated, Gc; standard A. 5Jr. On the Produce Exchange, to-day, tbe butter market was steady; creamery, 19 26c; dairy, 1621c Eggs a little easier: fresh. 17 18a. Receipts Flour, 42.000 brls: wheat, 116,000 bu: corn, 581,000 bu; oats, 437.000 bn; rye, 4.000 ba; barley, 112,000 bu. Shipments Flour. 24,000 brls; wheat 101,000 bu; corn. 262,000 bu; oa:s, 138,000 bu; rye. 1,000; barley, 62,000 bu. TRADE IN GENEKAU Quotations at St Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Other Points. ST. LOUIS. Oct. 12. Flour firm, with good de mand, ran trie tr from S2.104. Wheat opened firm and 4C better, and continued so until near the close, when it weakened, but closed steady. No. 2 red, cash. 71a724c; October, 714712c closine at71sc; November, 71 c; December, 7273e, closing at 72e; May, 79387U58C, closing at yJHC. tJorn lower: cash, o4Uc: October, o)4C; November, 383ec; January. 3S 384C, closing at 3S4c; May, 41414C. closing at ll8c. Oats un changed; cash, 2438 24.sc: October, 24sc; Novem ber, 2419c: May, 2Sc Kye dull at 50j. Uarlev No sales. Kay unchanged; prime timothy, $13 16.50: prairie. S!. 50 11. 50. Bran strong at 66c Eggs steady at 133 14c. Butter firm; creamery, 2 l26o: dairy, 1621c. Corn-meal unchanged at $2.052.1U. Whisky steady at $1.05. Provisions weak. Pork Irregular new, $14.23. Lard, 6.25 6.30c. Dry-salt meats Boxed shoulders, 5.75c: long clears, 7.357.50c; clear ribs. 7.457.50c; short clears. 7.t71sS7.5e. Bacon Boxed shoulders, 6.122C; long clears, 8.25c: clear ribs, 8.50c; short clears, 8.75c. Hams steady at 12 14o. Afternoon board Wheat easy; No. 2 red, ca-h, 71ac; October, 712C; November, 71ac bid; December, 2c. Corn lower. No sales, except May, 41c. Oats quiet; May, 284C. Receipts Flour, 1.000 brls; wheat 10,000 bu; corn, 15.000 bn: oats, 18.000 bu; rre. 2.0OO bu: biriey. ll.OoO bu. Shipments Flour. 14,000 brls; wheat, 15.000 bu; corn. 80,000 bu; oats, 4.3.000 bu; rye, 1,000 bu; barley none. PHILADELPHIA. . Oct 12 Flour qniet and steady. Wh-at quiet but prices a shade firmer: No. 2 red. October. 81 813o; November. 8282iflc: De cember, 83 9838C, January. 84 84ac. Corn Spot steady but quiet; tutures dull; new No. .i yellow, on track, 50c; old No. 2 yellow, on track, 53ae: No. 2 mixed, October, 5051c; November. iiO51c; De-. comber. 48 o 49 4C; January, 48350. OatsSpot dull and barely steady; No. 3 white, 35c; No. 2 white, ob; futures in fair demand and farm; jSo. 2 bite, October. o.jSJ.iMc; November. jdJoc; December, 3530c; January. 36436c. Receipts Flour, 4.40O brl; -wheat, 9,100 bn; corn, 1.700 bu; oats, 14.500 bu. Shipments Wheat, 3,30O bu; corn, 4,900 bu; oats. 5.400 bu. BALTIMORE. Oct. 12. Wheat-Western firmer and dull. No. 2 winter red, spot. 78?879c; Octo ber, 78 794c: November. 804 80c; December, 8282se: January, 838334c. Corn Western dull; mixed. October, oOs Ol 4C; November, DOS 51c; year, 4.7c bid. Oats strong and quiet: Western white, 3436c; Western mixed, 3334c. Provisions steady and fairly active. Mess pork. $16.2516.50o. Lard, refined, 8a. Eges steadv 17 18c. Coffee steady: Rio cargoes, ordinary to fair, 19199C Receipts. Flour. 10.216 brls: wheat. ll.OOO bu; corn. 4.000 bu; oats. 4.000 bu. Shipments Flour, 25,246 brls; corn, 1,000 bu. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Oct. 12. Wheat market cuietfcnd steady; No. 1 hard, October, 70c; November, 70c; December, 71ac; May, 77sc; No. 1 Northern. October, 67c; November. 67c; December. 683c: May, 75c. No. 2 Northern. October. 63c: November, 63c: December. 64e; May, 70c. On track No. 1 bard, 71ac: No. 1 Northern. 630; No. 2 Northern. 6365o. Flour firm; patents. $4.14.3U; bakers', $3.25".50. Receipts Wi eat, 254,800 bu; flour. ISO brls. Shipments Wheat, 66.640 bu; flour, 18,290 brls. CINCINNATI. Oct. 12. Flour quiet Wheat dull: No. 2 red, 76c. Receipts, 4,600 bu; shipments. l.OUO. Corn dull; No. i mixed, 44MjIoo. Oats easier; No. 2 mixed, 2831. Rye quiet; No. 2. 56c. Pork dull. $14.00. Lard lower at 6.323C Bulk meats easier; short rib. 4.0O0. Bacon easier; short rib, 8.0213c: short clear. U.OUo. hisky steady: sales. l,169brls finished goods on the basis of $1.05. Butter quiet. Sugar strong. Eggs easy at lbaib'so. Cheese hrm. TOLEDO. Oct 12. Wheat dull and easier; cash, 5oc; Doceniber. 773ec; Mav. 83:c. Corn dull and weak: cash. 4 4 3c; May, 46ec. Oats nominal. Clorer-seed steady; cash and October, $4.10; No- 4 vember, $4.15; February, $4.30. Receipts Wheat, 63.UUO bn; corn. t.UUU bu; oats. 2.UUU bu: cloverseed, 347 bags. Shipments Wheat 46,000 bu; corn. 1,000 bu; oats, 12.00O bu. DETROIT, Oct 12. Wheat No. 1 white, cash. 75c; No. 2 red, cash and October, 7o2e; iNOvember, 764C bid; December, 77sg;; Mav, 835bc . Corn. No. 2. 453ro asked. Oats. No. 2. 294cs No. 2 white. 303. Receiots Wheat, 40,600bu; corn, 3,300 bn; oats, J,OW bu. Cotton. NEW YORK. Oct 12. C. L. Green & Co. sav: Not anite so much animation could be found on cotton options, but there was a generally stronger undertone and a gradual gain in value from the outset. About five points advance took place and was well sustained to the close. NEW ORLEANS. Oct 12. Cotton firm: mid dling, 878c; low middling. 8 9-16c; good ordinary, 77flC; net receipts, 10.045 bales: gross receipts, 10,668 bales; exports coastwise, 5,200 bales; sales, 7,000 bales; stock, 123,777 bales. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 12. Cotton quiet and un changed; sales, 10.O0O bales, including 2.0OO bales for speculation and export, and v.lOObales American. . Oil. NEW YORK. Oct. 12. There was a very active market in petroleum to-day. The op suing was firm.

and an advance started after the first sales that carried the rrice up to 72a. Realizing caused a turn in the market, ard a deciine set in that carried tht price down to 694C There was a sharp rally in the fast few minutes and the close was strong. Opening 7lc: highest. 72qo: lowest 694C; closed 70c Sales. 2,878,000 brls. OIL CITY. Pa.. Oct 12. National Transir certificates opened at 7l 4c: highest. 722C; lowest, 694c; closed at 69c Sales. 2,089.000 brls; clearances, 3.126.0:.'0 brls: charters, 56.468 brls; shipments, 82,324 brls; runs. 60,384 bils. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Oct. 12. Petroleum active and irregular; National Transit certificates opened at714c; closed at 6978e; highest, 726C; lowest, 694C. CLEVELAND. Oct 12. Petroleum steady; Standard white, 1 10, 7c. SAVANNAH, Ga.. Oct 12. Turpentine firm at 31c. WILMINGTON. Oct. 12. Turpentine firm at 31c. ' - ' Dry Goods. NEW YORK, Oct 12. There was an unimportant demand for all classes of season ab la fabrics which in in the aggregate gave a fair business, considerably enlarged through- deliveries on tho many engage-, ments in process of execution.

- Metals. ST. LOUIS, Oct 12. Lead dull at 4.15c NEW YORK. Oct 12. Copper quiet; 103o. Lead steady and quiet; domestic 43C. firm. LIVE STOCK. lake, Tin, Best Cattle Steady, but Poor Grades Sill Hogs Active, All Selling Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 12. Cattle Receipts, 300; shipments, 50. Fair snpply and mostly of butcher'grades, and generally of common stuff. The market very dull, with slow sales at lower prices, while the best grades of shippers remain about the same. A nnmber of the common class left over unsold. Fancy shippers $4. 25 4.75 Good to choice shippers...... ...... 3.754.15 Common to medium shippers 3.003.50 Stockers and feeders 2.003.ti0 Good to choice heifers .............. 2.753.25 Common to medium heifers........ Good to choice cows Common to medium cows.......... Veals, common to good ........ Bulls, common to good........... Milkers, per head 2. OO 2.50 2.403.00 .. 1.00 2.00 ,. 3.0094.50 . 1.502.40 16.0035.00 Hogs Receipts, 4.850: shipments, 1,825. Qual ity fair. Market opened active, aud continued so until all were sold. Heavy packing and shipping... ....... ...$4.604.75 Light and mixed packing. ....... ........ 4.254.50 Pigs 3.754.25 Sheep Receipts, 475: shipments, 600. Fair supply. Quality only fair. Market slow and barely steady at about the same prices. About all sold. Good to choice.. ...... ............ Common to medium. ......... ..... Spring lambs, common to good.... Bucks, per head ..$3.504.00 .. 2.503.25 .. 3.00S4.50 .. 2.003.OO Elsewhere. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Beeves Receipts, 93 car-loads for the market, and 23 car-loads for a beef exporter. Market firmer and higher for fair to prime steers; weaker and lower for inferior natives and all offerings of Texas and range cattle; native steers ranged from $3.40 to $5.30, with one car-ioad down to $3.15. and about two car-loads at $5.40'3.3.55. Texas and Colorado steers sold at $3.103. 75; a car-ioad of Texas heifers at $2.60, and irrass bulls at $2.252.50. Exports. 2,400 quarters of beef. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 9,100. Market active and stronger for good and prime offerings: barely steady for common; sheep, $3. 405 per 10O lbs; lambs, $56.G0, with a few choice lambs up to $ti.90. Hogs Receipts. 6.100. No important change in quotations, but a little stronger tone. CHICAGO. Oct 12. The Drovers' Journal reports: Cattle Receipts, 10.500; shipments. 3.80O. Good steady; others 10c lower; fancy shipping, ir5. 10 5.40; shipping steers. $2.75 35; stockers and feeders, $1.S02.50; Indims. $2. 60 3. 1 5; . Western rangers steady; natives and half-breeds, $2.353,9; cows. $2.102.40; winter Texans, $2.35 3. " Hogs Receipts. 22.000; shipments, 8.OOO. Market steadv; mixed. '$4.oO4.65; heavy, $1.404.75; light."$4.354.70; skips. $3.104.25. - Sheep Receipts, 7.000; shipments, 1,500. Market steady; natives. $2.50 4. 20; Western, $3.103.65; Texans, $2.40a)3.50; lambs, 4.2585.25. The Drovers' Journal special cablegram from London quotes the rattle market unchanged. Good American steers, 11 llc per lb, estimated dead weight. ST. LOUIS. Oct 12. Cattle Receipts. 1,600; shipments, IOO. Market steady. Fair to choice heavy native steers, $3.904.70; butchers' steers, medium to choice, $o.303.9.:: feeders, fair to good, $2. 60 3. 20; rangers, common to good cornted. $2.153.70. Hogs Receipts, 5,300; shipments, 1.100. Market active and steady. Choice heavy and butchers' selections, $4.604.75; packing and Yorkers, medium to giod, $4.30 4.60; pigs, common to good, $3.85 a4.25. Sheen Receipts. 1.500: shipments. 3CO. Markpfc strong; fair to fancy, $33.90; lambs, $3.90' 4.bU. KANSAS CITY, Oct 12. Cattle Receipts, 3. 074; shipments, 2,799. Choice steady; common and canners weak and lower. Good to choice corn-fed, $4.20 4. 75; common to medium. $3.25 z4.10; 6tockers. $2.002.60; feeding steers, $2.653.25; cows. $1.252.50: grass-range steers, $1.852.75. Hogs Receipts, 6,019: shipments, none. Market opened 5o lower, and closing lOo lower. Good to choice, $4.404.55; common to medium, $4.10 4.35; skips and pigs, $2.754.00. Sheep Receipts. I.OIU; shipments, 2.141. Market strong and 10 15c higher. Good to choice, $3.00 3.75; common to medium, $2,O02.80. EAST LIBERTY. Pa.. Oct 12. Cattle Receipts, 152; shipments, 266. Market fair; prime, $4.40 4. 80; fair to good, $4.004.25; common. $3.50 3.S0; feeders, $3.253.85. Hoirs Receipts. 2.400: shipments. 200. Market flim; Philadelpbias. . $5.2()5.35: Yorkers, $O.OU&.2D; common to tair light, $4.7o4.80, Sheep Receipts, 1,200; shipments, l.OOO. Mar ket firm; prime, $4.00 4. 40: fair to good. $3.50 3.80; common, $1.502.50. CINCINNATI. Oct. 12. Hogs active and firm; common and light, $0.00 4.bO; packing and butchers. $4.35 1.75. Receipts, 3,300; shipments. 870. INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS. Trade Active Under the Favorable Conditions. Indianapolis, Oct 12. Good fall weather, an easy money market and a confident feeling regarding the fnture of business are the conditions which are bringing about an active, healthy volume of trade. In all departments activity is noticeable, and in most lines a strong tone to prices. The leather market, for instance, is firmer, while the bide market continues Hat There is more activity East, out prices do no improve with the activity. The provision market is steady and firm in tone again, and a strong market is looked for from this on. The impression prevails that the hog crop is to be light, and this means a firm provision market. Dry goods men are experiencing a big trade, and prices on all lines of goods are steady and firm. The produce markets, as naturally they would, are weakening with increasing receipts. It could hardly be expected that the exorbitant prices for many articles would rule after the crops in all sections of the country began to mature, when railroad facilities and rates are so favorable to shipping from well supplied points to markets iwhicn suffered from the drought There are still some peaches on the market, but they are not what could be called choice fruit by any means. The same is true of pears, while some very fine apples are offered, and at reasonable prices. Potatoes, both Irish and sweet, are arriving in considerable quantities, and for the time being prices are weak; but potatoes are good property, and will bring more money, doubtless, two months later than at the present time. Tbe firm tone to the egg market is rather a surprise, and so light are the stocks carried in the storage-bouses that much higher prices are assured before the holidays. The poultry market is rather flat; the Eastern demand is light, and home consumption is tardly up to the usual volume. The druggists are having a good trade, and all articles tbey haudle, quinine excepted, are firm in price. Quinine, at the reduced price of last week, is weak in tone. The market East it is stated, was never before so well supplied with this article. Tbe seed market is rather tame, and prices rule weak on most descriptions. GRAIN. Wheat is in good demand for milling purposes. Oats are wanted at quotations, while corn is heavy; buyers are well filled up, and are cautious in taking hold. The demand for shipment is light Track bids to-day ruled as follows: Wheat No. 2 Mediterranean . 7314 No. 3 Mediterranean...... ............ 724 No. 2 red . .... ....... . 72 No. 3 red 71 Rejected CO Unmerchantable GO October 70 September. ........................... 724 Corn No. 2 white.......................... 4419 No, 2 mixed ......... .42 Sound ear white 42 Sound ear mixed 40 Oats No. 2 white 914 No. 3 wiiite 274 Mixed 264 Rejected 25 - Unmerchantable 22 Rye No. 2 48 Bran $12.50 Hay Choice timothy...-. 13. SO No. 1 timothy 13.00 The Jobbing Trade. CANNED GOODJ. , . Peaches Standard, 3-pound, $2.65 3.00; 3-pound

seconds. $2.00 2. 25. Miscellaneous Blackberries. 2-pound. $1.20al.25; raspberries, 2-pound, $1.50 1.60; pineapple, standard, 2-pound, $1.501. 75: seconds, 2-pound. $1.2031.30; cove oysters, 1-ponnd. full weight. 95c$l: light 0570e; 2-pound, full, $1.70 S 1.80: light, 96V$1: string-beans. 85 390c; Lima beans.' $1.55 1.65; peas, marrowfat. Sl.lO 1.40; small. $l.50a1.75; lobsters. $1.852; rei cherries, $l.fiO1.75; strawberries, $1.501.60; salmon (lbs), $2.102. 75. COAt, AND TOKK. Block. $3.25 & ton: Minshall'. $3.25 ton; Jackeon. $3.75 & ton; Pittsburg, $4 ton; Raymond Citv. $4 ton; Winifrede. $4 & ton: Campbell Creek. $4 p ton; Hockine. $3.75 V ton; Island City, $3 ton; Highland,. $2.75 F ton: Piedmont and Blossburg. $5 ton; Duggar (Peacook) lump, $3 F ton; nut. $2.f.O f ton; chestnut No. 4 and stove anthracite, $7.00 ton; egg andgrate anthracite. $6.75 4 ton: gas coke, 13c per bu: crashed coke. 14e & bu. Ail soft coal, nut size, 50c ton less than the above prices on the same quality of lurffp coal. FOREIGN FRUITS, Rasiss London layer. 2.20 32.40 $ box; loose muscatelle, 2 crown, $1.852.UO $ box: Valencia, new. 1010sc $ IB: citron, 24 215c & lb; currants, 78o IB. Bananas Jamaicas, $1.502.50; Aspinwails. $2.503.50. Oranees Jania.cas. $1.75 5.2o box: 8.008.50 bu. Lemons Messia fancy, $4.004.5O f box; extra choice. $5.00 box. Figs 1416c Prunes Turkish, old. 56c FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Apples $1.50 1.75 per brh fancy. $2.253.00. Peaches Choice free-stonesi $3.0O3.50 buj choice clings, 75c$1.00 1-3 bu-box. Potatoes 7590c bu from car; rough, street, 65c Onions $2.503.OO brL Pears $1.502 & bu. according to quality. Gbapes Concord, 2 3c 3? 15; Delawares aud Catanbies. 4 5.530. Sweet Potatoes Baltimores, $2.25 2. 75 3rbrli Jersevs, $2.25 3.25 brL Cabbage $1.001. 25 brk Quinces $1.752.00 bu. DRUGS. Alcohol, $2.052.10; asafcetida. 1520c: alum, 45c; camphor, 28 30c; cochineal. 5055c; chloroform. 45 50c; copperas, brls, $3 3.50; cream tartar, pure, 404-c; indigo, 80c$i; licorice. Calab., genuine, 3040c; magnesia, carb, 2-oz. 25d35c; morphine, P. '& W., -P" oz. $3.503.65; madder. 12

14c; oil. castor, gal.. $1.50 1.60; oil, bergamot, V lb, $33.25; opium, $55.25; quinine. P. & W., W oz. 505fc; balsam copaiba, 5560c: soap, Castile, Fr.. 12 16c: soda, bicarb. 4g6e; salts, Epsom, 45c; sulphur, flour, 46c: saltpetre, 8 20c; turpentine. 3840c; glycerine. 2832o; iodide potass, $33.20; bromide potass, 4248c; chlorate potash, 25c; borax. 1012c; cinchonidia, lS22c; carbolic acid. 4550c Oils Linseed oil. raw, 44c ga, ; boiled. 42,15c; coal oil, legal test. 8 133c; bank, 40c, best straits, 45c: Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricatina. 20 30c; miners', 65c Lard Oils No. 1, 50 55c; do extra, 55 60c. White Lead Pure, 64 630; lower grades, 53 6c DRY GOODS. Tickings Amoskeag ACA, 143C; Conesfcoga. BP 15c; Conestoga extra, 132C: Conestoga Gold Medal, 14c; Conestoga CCA. 12c; Conestoga AA. 10c; Conestoea X. 9c; Pearl River. 123C. Falls OBO, 32-inch, 13sc; Metheun AA, 12sc; Oakland A. 7ac: Swift River, 6ac; York 32 inch, 12 sc; York 30-iuch, 1120. 1 Bleached Sheetings Blackstone AA. 7sc; Ballon & Sou, 6ac; Chestnut Hill, 6c: Cabot 4-4, 7se; Chapman X, 6c; D wight Star. S, 8 3jc; Fruit of the Loom, Sae; Lonsdale, 830; Linwood, 8c; Masonville, 83c; New York Mills, llo; Our Own. 53ic; Pepperell 9-4. 18c; Peppereil 10-4. 20o: Hill's. 8c; Hope, 7bc; Knight's Cambric. 7 uc; Lonsdale Cambric, ll3c; Whitinsville, 33-inch, 6sc; Wamsutta, 119C. GiNGHAMS-Amoskeag, 73c; Bates. 7c: Gloucester, 7sc; Glasgow, 630; Lancaster, 73j: Ranelmans, 7ac: Renfew Madras, 9c; Cumberland, 630; White, 7c; Bookfold, 103c. Grain Bags American. $15.50: Atlanta. $18; Franklinville. $17.50; Lewiston, $18; Ontario, $16 50; Stark A, $21. Paper Cambrics Manville. 5sc; S. S. & Son, 53C; Masonville, 53C; Garner. 5eo. Prints Albion, solid color. 5sc; American fancy, 5se; Allen's fancy, 53C; Allen's dark, 54C; Allen's pink. 6c: Arnold's, 6c; Berlin, solid colors, 5ac; Cocheco. 60: Conestoea, 5ac; Dunnell's, 5so: Kddystone, 6c; Hartel, 52c: Harmony, 43C; Hamilton, 6c; Greenwich. 58C; Knickerbocker, 5flc; Mallory, pink, 6c; Richmond, 6c. Brown Sheetings Atlantic A, 7c; Boott O. 6c; Agawam F, 5sc; Bedford li, 43C; Augusta. 54C; Boott AL, 6c; Continental C. 69; Dwight Star; 7e; Echo Lake, 6c; Graniteville EE, 6c; Lawrence LL, 534c: Pepperell E. Oc; Pepperell R, 62C; Pepperell 9-4, lc: Pepperell 10-4. 20c; Utica, 9-4, 22ac; Utica 10-4, 25c; Utica C. 4c GROCERIES. Coffees Ordinary grades, 183 19 SO: fair, 20 202c; good, 2122c; prime, 22223o; strictly prime to choice, 22fl2313c; fancy green and yellow, 233243c: old government Java, 3132e;"ordinary Java; 2628c; imitation Java; 2425c Roasted Gates's Champion, 25 3C; Arbuckle's, 25!o Dilworth's 255ic; McCune's. 253to Schnull & Kra?. standard. 2534c; Syfers, McB. & Co.'s Oriole and Star. 253ic v Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 3845c; choice. 4855c Syrups, low grades, 3032c; prime, 3335c; choice to fancy, 3;-'45c Flour Sacks No. 1 drab, H brl. $33 1,000; hi brl. $17; lighter weight, $1 1,000 less. Lead 7 8c for pressed bars. Dried Beef 1213c. Spiced Pepper. 19s-Oc; allspice, 1012c; cloves, 29 3 2c; cassia, 10 12c; nutmeg3, 65S5e starch Kenned pearl, zfl-itC'f id; n-uresa, o , -&0c: Champion gloss lump, 64 c; improved corn, 69 7c. RICE Louisiana, 57c. Shot $1.35 1.40 bag for drop. Sugars Hards, 6374c; confectioners' A, 64 63ric; Standard A. 6664C; off (JU;64c; white extraC, 6864C; fine yellows, 668C; goodyellows. 53457i3C; fair yellows, 54 5 Sgc, common yellows, 43i54c tALT In car lots, $1,00 & barrel; less than car lots, 5 lOc more. Twine Hemp, 1218c f IB: wool, 810c; flax, 2030c; paper, 18c; jute. 12 15c; cotton. 1625c. Wooden ware No. 1 tubs. $6 6. 50; No. 2 tubs, $5.255.50; No. 3 tubs, $44.50; two-hoop pails. $1.301.35; three-hoop pails, $1.50 1.60; double washboards. $2 2.75: common Washboards, $1.20 1.85: clothespins, 5085c per box. Wooden Dishes Per 100, lib, 20o 2lbs, 25c; 3 lbs. 30c: offis, 40c Wrapping-paper Crown straw, ISo ip" bundlemedium straw. 27c; double-crown straw, 3tic; heavyweight straw,. 14 2c & ft; crown rag. 20c V bundle: medium rag. 30c: double-crown rag. 40c: heavy weight rar. 243c lb; Manilla, No. 1, 89c; No. 2 53 6 ac: print paper. No. 1, 67c; book paper, No. 3. S. & C, 10llc; No. 2. S. & C, 89c; No. 1, S.& C, 748c OIL CAKE. Oil cake and oil meal, 1,000 lbs, $13; 2,000 tts. $25. Bags and drayage extra. LEATHER.' HIDES AND TALLOW. . Leather Oak sole, 33 37c; hemlock sole, 26 32c: harness. 30 35c: skirting, 37 3Sc: black bridle, doz.. $60 65; fair bridle, $078 doz.; city kip. $6080; French kip. 85c$1.20; city calfskins. 85c$1.10; French calf-skins, $1.15 1.80. Hides No. 1 cured. 737c; No. 1. green, 6c; No. 1 calf, green, 7c: No. 1 calf, enred, 8c: dry salt 10c; flint 12c. Damaged, one-third off the above prices. Sheep Skins 25c50; sheared. 20o; lamb skins, 25c. Tallow Prime, 33ae. GEASE Brown. 22c; yellow, 2C; white, 334c IRON AND STEEL. Bar iron (rates). 2.25c; horse shoe bar. -3.25c; Norway nail road, 7c; German steel plow-slabs, 4c; American drill steel, 12c; Sanderson tool steel, 15c; tire steel, 4c; spring steel, 6c; horse shoes ip' keir. $4.254.50; mules shoes, V keg, $5.255.50, horse nails, box, 8d, $5; cut nails, lOd and larger; $2.25 keg; other sizes at the usual advance, steel nails, $2.25. Tinners' Supplies Best brand charcoal tin IO, 10x14. 14x20, 12x12. $6; IX. 10x14. 14x20 and 12x12. $7.75: IC, 14x20, roofing tin, $5.25: IO. 20 x28, $10.50ll; block tin, in pigs. 26c; in bars, 27c Iron 27 B iron, 3 4c; 27 O iron, 5c; gal vanized, 50 and 10 per cent, discount Sheet zinc, 640. Copper bottoms, 23c. Planished copper, 30c. Solder, 159 17c PROVISIONS. Jobbing Prices Smoked Meats Sugar-cured hams, IO to 12 lbs average, 1 2 34c; 15 lbs average, 124c; 173 lbs average, 12c; 20 lbs averaze, 113ic; 25 lbs average and over. 11c; Englishcured breakfast bacon, light. 13c; English-cured breakfast bacon, medium, 1234c; sugar-cured .honlders. 10 to 12 lbs average, 8ss; dried beef hams. Primrose brand, 14c; dried beef hams, small pieces, 11c Bacon, clear sides, about 25 lbs averasre, lOac; about 35 tfis average, 104c; elear backs, medium average 104C: clear bellies, medium weight lie. Dry-salt and Pickled Meats Clear sides (nnsmoked). 93io; clear backs, (unsmoked), 9""4C; clear bellies (nnsmoked), 10c; clear bean pork brl 200 ffis, $18.00,. Bologna Skin, large or small. 72c: cloth, large or small. 7c. Lard Pure winter leaf, kettle-rendered, iu tierces, 8 34C: in g Drls, 9t; m 50-16 cans in lOu-lb cases, 8?ta; 20-I5 cans in &015 cases, 84c Refined Lard In tierces, 745; in 50-lb cans in 100-lb cases. 72c i'KODUCS. Beans-$2.252.75. Butter Fair creamery. 1618c; choice, 2022c; fancy country buttor, in small packages. ll12c: country butter, 8 10c; common, 67c Beeswax Dark, 18c; yellow, 20c Eggs Shippers paying 16c; selling from Store atl718c. Poultry Hens, 69e: chickens, 6c; roosters. 3c; voung turkeys, 56c; hen turkeys. 6c; toms, 6c & ft; geese. $4.20 4.80 & doz: ducks. 5c & ft. Feathers Prime geese, 3540o & ft; mixed duck, 182(c tts. Wool Tub-washed and picked, 3335c; unwashed, medium and common grade, if in good order, 2425c. unwashed fine, 1820c; floece-washed, if light, well washed and in good order, 23 30c; burry and unmerchantable, according to their value. SEED. Clover Common red or June, prime (recleaned) $44.40 bu: English or mammoth, prime (reclemed), $4.204.35: Alsike, prime. $7.50 S; Alfalfa, prime. $7.257.50; white, $7.50 8; pr'me timothy, $2. 60 2. 75 & bu; ext ra clean blue crass, $1.151.25 bu: red top, 75c $ I bu; orchard grass. $1.50 1.65 3 bu; Southern grown millet. TOc bn: common millet, 75c W bu: flaxseed, selected, $1.10 1.40 bu: seed rye, 55e bu; old pop-orn, 23,j & ft; new pop-corn. 60 70s 3p bu; hemp, 3-3C; canary, 5c: rape, 9c & ft. Acme lawn trrass seed, 20o ft: $2.25 f bn. Spinach Bloomsdale savoy-leaf (sealed bans). 30c F ft. Kale, 75o ft. FALL BULBS At 78 and 80 East Market s treet Descriptive cata logue mailed free. Huntington & IIoss. Seedsmen. A Democratic Admission. Brooklyn Citizen. Mr. Powderly talks sense even when talks temDerance. he

BILL NYE SUPPLIES A WANT. A Patent Oratorical Steam Organnette for Railway Stumping. , To the Editor of the New York World. I am now preparing for general use and desire to call the attention of your numerous readers to what i have nominated the Campaigner's Companion, for use during or preceding a hot political campaign. Eureka is a very tame expression for this unique little contrivance, as it is good for any speaker and on behalf of any party, I care not of what political belief the orator may be. It is intended for immediate use, like a box of dry plates on An amateur photographic tour, only that it is more on the principle of the organette, with from 500 to 5.000 tunes with it ready for use. It is intended to be worked easily on the rear platform of a special car. and .absolutely prevents repetition or the wrong application of local gags. Every political speaker of any importance has suffered more or less from what may be called the misplaced gag. such as localizing the grave of a well-known member of Congress' in the wrong county, or swelling up with pardonable pride over large soap-works in a rival town, fifty miles away from tbe one where

tbey really are. All these things weaken the political possibilities of great men, and bring contumely upon the party tbey represent My idea is to arrange a sort of organette on the rear platform of the car. to be operated by steam conducted from the engine by means of pipes, tbe contrivance to be entirely out of sight under a neat little spread made of the American flag. Behind this an eminent man may stand with his hand socked into the breast of bis frock coat nearly up to the elbow, and while his bosom swells with pardonable pride the engineer turns on steam. Previously the private secretary has inserted a speech printed on punched paper, furnished by me, and bearing on that special town and showing a degree of familiarity with that neighborhood which would win the entire adult population. ;f Behind this machine the eminent speaker weaves to and fro, simply making the gestures and shutting off tbe steam with his foot when there is a manifest desire on the part of the audience to applaud. 1 am having over five hundred good one-night towns prepared in this way, and, if it would not take up too much of your space, I would like to give here one speech, illustrating my idea and showing the plan iu brief, though with each machine I furnish a little book called ''Every Man His Own Demosthenes." This book tells exactly how to work the Campaigner's Companion, and make it almost a pleasure to aspire to office. I have chosen as an illustration a speech that I have had prepared for Ashevilie, N. O, bnt all tbe others are equally applicable and apropos. (See that all bearings are well oiled before you start, especially the political bearings. See that the crank is just tight enough, without being too tight, and also that tbe journals do not ge hot. ) " Fellow-Cltrzns of Ashevilie and Buncombe County and ilrother Tarheels from Away Back: "If I were a faithful Mohammedan and believed that I could never enter heaven but once. 1 would look upon Buncombe county and despair ever aftewards. (Four minutes for applause to die away.) Ashevilie is 2.3S3 feet above tidewater. She is tbe hot-bed of the invalid and the home of the physical wreck who cannot live elsewhere, but who comes here and lives till he gets plum sick of it Yonr mountain breezes and your fried chicken bear strength and healing in their wings. (Hold valve open two minutes and a half tc give laughter full scope.) Yonr altitude and your butter are both high, and the man who cannot get all the fresh air he wants on your mountains will do well to rent one of your cottages and al low tne wind to meander through ma whiskers. Ashevilie is a beautiful spot, where a peri conld put in a cighiy enjoyable summer, picnicking along the Swananoa through the day and conversing with Pium Levy at his blood-eurdline barber shop in the gloaming. Nothing can possibly be tbrillinger than to hear Plum tell of the hair-breadth escapes his customers have had in his cosy little shop. "lhe annual rain-fall here is 40.2 inches, while smoking tobacco and horned cattle both do well. Ten miles away stretches Alexander's. Yqu are only thirty-five miles from Buck Forest. Pisgah mountain is only twenty miles from here, and Tahkeeastee farm is only a mile away, with its name extending on beyond as far as the eye can reach. The French Broad river bathes your feet on the right and the sun-kissed Swananoa. with its beautiful borders of rhododendrons, sloshes up against you on the other side. Mount Mitchell, with an altitude of 6,711 feet and an annual rain-fall of 53. 8 inches, is but twenty miles distant, while Lower Hominy ia near, and Hell's Half Acre, Sandy Mush and Blue Ruin are within your grasp, "Tbe sun never lit up a cuter little town than Ashevilie. Nature just seemed to wear herself out on Buncombe county and 'then she took what she had left over to make the rest of the country. Your air is full of vigor. Your farms get up and hump themselves in the middle or on one side, so that you have to wear a pair of telegraph-pole climbers when you dig your potatoes. Here you will see the japonica, the jonquil and tbe jaundice growing side by side in the spring, and at the cheese foundry you can hear the skipper calling to his mate. "Here is the home of Gen. Tom Clingman, who first originated the idea of using tobacco externally for burns, scalds, ringworm, spavin .pneumonia, Bright's disease, poll evil, pip, garget, heartburn, ear-ache and financial stringency. Here Randolph & Hunt can do your job printing for you, and the Citizen and Advance will give you the news. ''You are on a good line of railroad and I like your air very much, aside from the air just played by your home band. Certainly you have here the in akin 8 of a great city. You have pure air enough for a city four times your present size, and although I have seen most all the Switzerlands of America, I think that this is in every way preferable. People who are in search of a Switzerland of America that can be relied upon will do well to try your town. "And now, having touched upon everything of national importance that I can think of, I will close by telling you a little anecdote which will, perhaps, illustrate rar position better than I could do it in any other way." (Here I insert a numerous anecdote which has no special bearing on the political situation and during the ensuing laughter tbe train pulls out) Bill Nye. Secondary Value of Crops. Country Gentleman. When farmers plant or sow a crop, it is usually with tbe expectation that it will directly return a certain amount of profit, either by sale or by home consumption. The side advantages to be derived from it, or its effect upon the land, are not always taken sufficiently into the account. Take the crop of corn fodder as an example, sown exclusively for the winter feed which it affords, equal to five or six tons of welldried fodder if to be fed in this state, 'or from twelve to twenty tons of green stalks, if to be cut fine for the silo. The other benefits to be obtained by its cultivation are too much overlooked. This crop may be used as a powerful extirpator of perennial running or annual weeds. Take, for instance, a field infested with Canada thistles. They have taken possession of the ground, and about the first of June are making a rank growth. Just before plowing, turn them completely under with the aid of a weed-book or chain. Make the fresh service mellow with the Acme harrow or other suitable implement, and sow corn in furrows or drills at the rate of one or two bushels an acre, and far enough apart to admit the passage cf a narrow cultivator. To keep down annual weeds, kill them by the thorough use of the smoothing harrow, before the weeds can come up, and again by its use when the corn is only a few inches high. It will clean out all small weeds in the rows of corn or among the stalks. Then let the common cultivator run every few days between the rows, until the leaves of the crop are tall enough to brush the horse's back as he passes, when they will soon shade everything below. By the time the fodder is cut in September, the Canada thistles will present a very feeble appearance, and quack grass, if it has obtained possession, will be nearly extirpated by the dense shade of the compact corn crop, and this result has cost nothing but the positive need of the corn itself in good culture. A repetition another year, if it does not entirely destroy such weeds, will make tbe labor small for their subseauent destruction. If the work has been properly done, the owner cannot fail to be gratified, when he cuts the corn, at the perfectly clean surface which tbe well-cultivated ground will present, about as smooth and clear of weeds as the centre of a well traveled highway. The red clover is another crop which has more than one valuable quality. Every farmer knows its use for grazing and for the manufacture of nutritive bay nutritive, if cured without becoming wet. Its value as a loosener of tbe soil may be very distinctly understood by seeding down with clover one portion of a field having a strong and heavy soil, and the other portion with timothy alone. When in the course of two years this field is plowed for corn, the clover sod will turn np a crumbled or pulverized surface; the timothy sod will turn over as solid as an unburned brick. Still another valuable side use of clover is its aid in repressing the growth of weeds through the ageney of its dense foliage in smothering them. It has thus proved efficient, particularly in eradicating ox-eye daisy. In a region of country where tbe fields were almost as white as snow with it an energetic farmer had nearly cleared his farm of this pestilent weed by the luxuriant and compact crops of clover which he was successful in raising. The clover crop has still another excellent merit which adds further to its value. This ithe richness of its manural quality, in which it approaches good barnyard manure. These instances are furnished merely as ex

amples by way of illustration. The observing manager will see many opportunities where ha can improve the arrangement and selection of his crops, sd as to increase his profits without adding materially to the labor and expense, and often reducing cost Grapes for Family Use. New England Farmer. In selecting a place to plant a grape vine rej member that the plant needs a great amount of sunshine sun heat It can not get it on tha north side of a building, or wood lot or high hill. Do" not set a grape vine close by the sink drain where it will be surfeited with moisture all tha season, nor in a cold, dry loam in regions whera the season, is a little too short, but pnt it whera its roots will be warm all summer. A dry knoll may be better than a mud bole, though eood land is best for the grape aswell as for other fruits, provided it is not too cold or too wet Varieties that need forcing may be trained upon the south or warm side of the house or other building, but it is better to have the trellis a foot or two away to give abundant circulation of air about leaves and fruit The sun may be too severe upon fruit that lies directly upon shinsleS or clapboards. Most persons who set grapa vines under reasonably favorable conditions

have little trouble in getting one crop of fruit. It is getting good crops continually that requires skill and a knowledge of the requisites to success. Few would let a hen lay all winter and then set her upon all the eggs she had laid, yet this would be scarcely more unwise than to let a grape vine carry all the fruit it might happen, to sec Successful grape-growing requires a good deal of pruning and thinning of the fruit What we should aim for in grape culture is an annual crop of large, or fair-sized, ripe bunches. Large bunches can only grow upon large wood. If we let two canes or two sections of vine grow 4where there is only room for one, the two canes or sections will both be dwarfed in size, tha leaves will be small, the bunches of grapes small, and if this double production is general over the entire trellis, the fruit will be slow in ripening, and unless the season be long ar X favorable may not rioen before frost kilis both, fruit and foliage. Then again, if we let any tree or vine over-bear one year it is weakened for the next year's work. So if we would have the best quality of fruit every year we must prevent over-bearing. In setting a single vine to run over the sunny side of one's bouse, and where there is ampla root space, it may not be best to always keep ic pruned so close or restrict the amount of fruit! to a half dozen pounds, but if we would be sura of a crop each year we must keep the vine dowa to its capacity for well ripened fruit Varieties that require the whole season for ripening should be set in the warmest situations, whero both root and leaf will get abundant sun heat Set vines in fall or spring according to convenience, only be sure to set them early enough in either case. If set in the fall there should bo time for the earth to settle solid about the roots before freezing weather sets in; if in the spring set before tbe buds start The first year let the vine grow all it will. Ia the fall cut back to one or two buds. The second year's growth will be larger, and the cutting back should be continued annually till the vina has made strong, large canes capable of bearing large clusters of fruit. The trellis may be wbateverfone fancies, the object being mereiy to suppurii mo iuh auu vtuon 1, i.v tur duu o ibio mil above danger of dirty fruit Have two ideas constantly in mind, a limited production of fruit the present year and large, strong, new wood for the next years crop. This is about tha whole secret of successful grape- culture. The vines mar be ' tied to stakes or trained on wires or slats as best suits one's convenience. Cut back old wood after tba crop is gathered and before the buds start ia spring. Shorten the new wood to the Tine's capacity for perfect fruit Check over-growth of new wood in summer by nipping or cutting off the ends of the shoots two or three times. This will encourage the growth of a few larga leaves near the clusters of fruit, and it is these that furnish the sugar. Mildew, rot and other diseases are encouraged by dense shade and an over-growth of leaves, while good circulation of air and an abundant sunlight promotes vigor and good health. By observing the rules and principles we hava here discussed, any one in fairly favorable localities can ha ve plenty of this most excellent fruit and have it in perfection. ' 1 Ways of Milk Wasting. New York Tribune. It is common to dry op cows three or ton months before ' calving. In many cases they dry up without any effort on the part of tha owner. This is tbe habit of natives more than of thoroughbreds. Tbe Jerseys hold onto their milk longer than any other breed, and this propensity comes from their being milked as Ions as they will eive any. No doabt this character- , istic can be fixed by just this sort of practice continued from year to year and generation toj generation. TLioy will keep on giving milk unto the time of calving, even though the food ba poor. There are several Jerseys on Kirby homestead which have never been dry since tba first calf, before they were two years old. Tba old-fashioned notion to milk only in the morning after cows drop off in the yield in winter i a mistake. If worth milking at all a cow is worth milking twice a day. She will not only give more, but the . milk will be of a' great deal better quality. It does not do milk any good to remain in tbe ndder so many hours ' after it is secreted, and it does not do the cow any good. Just why tha last milk drawn is best is unexplained. We know it is the richest, and if the reason is because it is tbe last secreted, then the twenty-four-hour rule of milking is a poor one in more than one score poor in quantity and quality. The law of stimulation holds good in milking, and, if well followed, will help to make good milkers, and, if casual and disregarded, it will run down the best and run out those which do not have the characteristic of production so strongly developed. Irregularity in milking does more damage to cows than most persons are aware of, and the same is true in regard to feeding. There should be as little ex citement as possible, and an effort made to milk, feed, water and clean the cows at fixed and reg ular times. There is a great deal of sympathy between the cow's mind and the machinery operated to fill her udder. Good care counts as much almost as gooa 100a. '' 11 1 A Tearful Empress. Cosmopolitan. The real Marie Louise had a perfect comm&ncE of that ready resource of shallow natures tears. She wept abundantly on the slightest provoca- . tion. She cried on again meeting her father, and on reading tbe letters written by the Emperor Joseph the day before his death. She wept freely in 1810,- when they tried to prevent her taking from the Tuileries a pet dog that she loved, and she wept still ' more copiously when . ba was restored to her arms. She was especially lachrymose on the days when tbe Emperor took: it into his head to write to Josephine. She never was known to wesp so bitterly as when it was at first proposed that Napoleon should be sent to Elba, and she was quite decided to reside thera with him, but her resolution was short-lived, and she was persuaded that the island would not agree with her health. During those trying days of 1814, during the first hours of separation, her eves fountains of tears, and the pearly drops fell frequently at the thought of parting from her son; although subsequently, of her own free will, she made the separation lasting by electing to rule in Parma rather than live obscurely in Vienna. But if ber tears were thus ready to flow,they were as readily checked. The sun would appear before the shower had entirely ceased. If Maria Louise was easily thrown into tbe debths of despair, she was restored to equanimity with equal " facility. ; m Nowhere. Philadelphia Inquirer. In tbe great telegraph deal, where do the people come in? Keal Kstate Transfers. Instruments filed for record iu the recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 P. M., Oct 12, 1887. as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles. Room 23, .Etna Building: Luther N. Thomas to Mary E. Thomas, lot 19, in Lockwood & McLain's south east addition to Indianapolis $300.00 Addison Lu Roach e and wife to Ida E. Smith, to lot 12. in block 20, in North Indianaaolis. 1C0.0O Harry J. Milligan, trustee, to Sarah .Anderson, lot 371. in Fletcher et al.'s subdivision of outlots 96. 97. 98, and south half of 91, in Indianapolis.. 500.00) Fanny M. F.bert to Henry Thomas, lot "M," in Kay's trustee's subdivision of part of outiot 350, in Indianapolis 725.09 Milton Clark to Josephine E. Ilurritt, 27 lots in Julian et al.'s southeast addition to Indianapolis ' 5,000.00 John Bittle to Joseph O. Stillson. lot 59 ' and part of 58, in the town of Irvington 3,275.00 Dorothea Haiseld to John F. Davenport lots 9 and 10, in Ma.-ter's subdivision of T. C. Harrison & Co.'s addition to Indianepolis 220.00s Henry C. Brunson to Albert W. Hall, lot 15, in square 1, in the North Park addition to Indianapolis. . ...... 1,000.00 Oscar Ij. Neisler to John W. Dean, part southeast quarter, section 21. township 14 north, of range 2 east, containing 95 acres 10,000.00 Mary A. Gratznowsky to Sarah E. Yaryen. Jot 4.0, in block 3, in North Indian -apolis 100.0O Conveyances. 10; consideration .,..$21,220.00 Sick headache. Thousands who have suffered intensely with sick headache say that Hood's Sarsaparilla has completely cured them. 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