Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1890 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 7,- 1890.

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BUSINESSOFTIIEPASTWEEK State of Trade Throughout the Country as Shown bvK. G.Dun& Co.'s Kcview. Money MarVet Relieved by Ileavy Disbursements in Diridends and Interest Uopeful " Accounts from the Interior Cities. The leading money and produee exchange hating adjourned from Thursday erentna until Monday, the Journal is without its usual market reports. DUN & CO.'S WEEKLY REVIEW. Large Disbursement of Monej Good Prospects for a Brisk Fall Trade. NEW YORK. July 5. Following is R. G. Dan & Co.'s weekly review of trade: With the beginning of a new fiscal year we have heavy disbursements antf easier money, Letter crop prospects, and a continuance of larger trade for the season than has been seen in any previous year. At this time it is to be admitted that there seems to be, within the past week or two, a little more than ordinary hesitation or slacking of trade at the arrival of mid-summer, and confidence in the future, as affected by legislation, is rather less strong than it was a fortnight ago. Monetary apprehensions, excited by exports of gold, have been allayed by the heavy disbursements in dividends and interest, said to be the largest ever made at this season, and exclusive of government payments, estimated at $74,000,000. against $61,000,000 last year. Foreign advices and rates of exchange do not at present indicate danger of any serious drain from abroad, and the interior money markets are all tirinly supplied at usual rates. Failures have been fewer on the whole, and liabilities of tirms tailing slightly smaller than in the tirst half of last year, but in some important branches of trade the situation is plainly rather less healthy than it seemed six months or a year ago. Kailroad earnings thus far reported for June show a gain of aboutlOper cent, over last year.but these also show less gain for the latter than for the tirst half of the month. This may be due in part to further cutting of rates, attempts to adjust east-bound freight wars having thus far failed, and the strife between Canadian lines and those nearest the border having grown more bitter. Nothing has occurred to make the prospects regarding .legislation more definite. The demand for raw wool is scanty, prices tending downward in spite of the smallness of stocks on hand. The iron trade is moro steady, but rather dulL The mileage of railroad built this year is estimated at 1,000, against 1,480 for the first half of last year, and a total of 6,000 miles for the year is expected, but this does not go far toward providing use for the greatly increased supply of pigiron.Leather is firm at all leading markets, and activity in building renders lumber and other materials it active demand. Anthracite coal is a shado stronger. Wheat was 12C higher, the visible supply having rapidly diminished, but those who claim that much less than 70,000,000 bushels of surplus has been brought over to tho new crop are compelled to dispute the correctness of the official and only information of last year's yield. Corn has been a shade stronger, but oats unchanged. Fork products are steady, and raw sugar a shade lower, reported stocks in all countries being 1,020.000 tons, against 667,000 a year ago. Later reports from the South are very favorable as to growing cotton, and in Texas the estimated yield is the largest on record. Coflee has grown steadier after large liquidations, but the demand for consumption is disappointing. In general the speculative . markets have been rather inactive, and the level of prices for all commodities on July 1, though a abide lower than a week ago or Jan. 1, is fully 2 per cent, higher than at the same date last year. The future of speculation and of the money market now depends largely upon the measure of activity developed in movement of crops, and in the branches of trade which full crops stimulate. The accounts from the interior cities are most- hopeful, though present quiet is noted at Philadelphia, BostOD, and, on account of great beat, at St. Louis, Milwaukee and many other Western cities. Chicago reports dry goods and clothing larger than last year, with good fall orders and satisfactory payments. Minneapolis notes better prices for lumber and a better demand for llour. Iron is dull at Cleveland but groceries and hardware active. In all the reports received there is nowhere com plaint of collections, and confidence in large trade next fall is almost universal. though it is recognized that an increasing volume of business has not of late brought a corresponding increase in profits. The business failures occurring during the past seven days, as reported, number 109, as compared with 203 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 202. Business of the Clearing-TJonses. BOSTON, July a The following table, compiled from dispatches from the clear ing-houses in the cities named, gives the gross exchanges for last week, with rates per cent, of increase or decrease, as against the similar amounts for tho corresponding week in 1889: New York $073,527,857 Decrease.. 4.2 Boston. 10G,04,3tiO Decrease.. 7.8 Chicago Hl.207.0O0 Increase ..34.1 Philadelphia.... 78.133,072 Decrease.. 4.1) St. Louis 19,11)1,60:1 Decrease.. 3.6 ban Francisco.. 16,S40,50D Increase.. 17.6 Pittsburg 15,435.502 Increase. .31.5 Baltimore 19,(i5(5,85( Decrease.. 5.7 Cincinnati ll,i)li,3UO Increase.. 8.7 Kansas City.... 8.041,435 Decrease.. 6.8 New Orleans.... 6.570.184 Decrease.. 8.5 LouiYillo 7.325,648 increase.. 6.1 Minneapolis..... 6,824,257 Increase.. 32.0 Buffalo 7,740,973 Increase. -11.8 Milwaukee 4.S25.0OO Increase... 1.6 Denver 3.972.S16 Increase.. 4.4 Omaha 5.29S.964 Increase ..15.7 Detroit .. 4.700,000 increase ... 0.3 Providence . . 4,927,500 Decrease.. 16.0 8L Paul 4,510.693 Increase ..15.9 Cleveland. 5,041,325 Iucrease.,34.8 Columbus 3,125,800 Increase.. 27.3 Dallas 2.044,146 Increase... 30.0 Richmond 2.369,427 Decrease.. O.l Washington 1,79,425 Increase ..55.2 Memphis 1,457,761 Decrease.. 2(5.4 Hartford 3.521,000 Increase.... 2.4 Dnluth 2,020,329 Increase ...77.6 Indianapolis.... 1.798.313 Decrease.. 7.4 Fort Worth 1,925,855 Increase. ..50.0 XL Joseph 1,378.425 Increase.. 8.5 Kewllaven 1,328.904 Decrease.. 30.6 2'eoria l.dJ.vou increase ..it.d Ppnngtleld 1,423,050 Decrease.. 1.9 Portland. Me.... 1,312,145 Increase.. 6.5 Worcester 1,085,118 Decrease.. 2.8 Galveston 676.379 Decrease. .21.5 Syracuse 855,672 Increase... 2.9 W ichita 792.267 Increase .. 9.3 fciouxClty 984,612 Increase ..61.4 Tacoina 757,737 Increase... 86.3 Urand Rapids... 787,826 Increase.. 11.2 orlo!x 533.000 Decrease. 1.4 Cnattauooga 498.600 Increase... 34.8 liirmfiighaiu 619,411 Decrease.. 4.5 Lowell 641,442 Increase ..15.6 Des Moines 590,540 Increase.. 8.2 Los Angeles 513,204 Decrease.. 27.0 Lexington. Ky.. 471,340 Increase.. .44.7 Toika 343.565 ' Increase.. 7.1 New Hertford.... 323,407 Decrease.. 22.9 Montreal. One.. 7,682.031 Increase ..10.2 'Portland, Ore.. 1,548.908 8nlt Lake City.. 1,106,108 Toledo 1,205,444 Seattle 1,011.461 Total $1,13,717,085 Decrease.. 1.4 Outside New York 465,180,228 Increase.. 2.9 Not included in totals. No clearing-house at lids time last year. The Associated Hanks. From the reports of the Associated Banks for the week ending yesterday the follow ing is taken: Loan $6,131.150.1 6 Deposits 10,063,448.50 casn reserve 6,316,172.52 Loans. Increase 134,746.65 Denostits. decrease 116,703.75 Reserve, decrease 211,743.13 The banks bold S2.90l.6S9.69 in excess of the 33 13 per cent, rule required by the clearing-house. Weekly Statement of New York Banks. NEW YOKK, July 5. The weekly bank statement shows tho following changes: Reserve, decrease $2,796,600 Loams, increase 7,553,300

Epecle, Increase.........; 1,037,000 Legal tenders, decrease 1,639,200

Deposits. increase 8,77, 600 Circulation, increase 33.000 Tho banks now hold $3,846,950 in excess of the 25 per cent, rule. SEW YORK, July 5.-Bar silver, $1.04 14. LONDON, July 5.-Bar diver, 47 13-16d per ounce. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Dull and Slow Hogs Opened Active Sheep Quiet but Unchanged. INDIANAPOLIS, July 5. Cattle. Receipts, 750; shipments. 950. There was a light supply and the market very dull and slow sales, at hardly as good prices as Wednesday. Export grades $4.2524.60 Ciood to choice shippers 3.7524.10 Common to medium shippeis 3.0033.50 Etockers and feeders 2.25 a 3.50 Good to choice heifers 3.20S3.50 Common to medium heifers 2.25 & 2.90 Good to choice cows 2.753.00 Fair to medium cows 2.2532.60 Common old cows 1.0032.00 Veals, common to choice 3.00 t 4.00 Runs, common tor medium I.o032.20 Bulls, good to choice 2.5033.03 Milkers 12.00330.00 Hogs. Receipts, 6,200; shipments. 2,655 Quality generally good. Market opened active. Packers and shippers buying. Light ?3.7533.85 Mixed 3.7033.75 Heavy and medium.... 3.70S3.80 Heavy roughs 3.0033.25 Siikkp AND Lambs. Receipts, 25; ship ments, But few on sale. Market quiet at no material change in prices. Good to choice $3.7534.50 Fair to medium 3.2533.60 Common 2.50S3.00 fcpring lambs 3.5035.50 .bucks, per head. .oo94.uo I Elsewhere. CHICAGO. July 5. The Drovers' Jour nal reports: Cattle Receipts, 3,000; shipments, . The market was quite steady. Beeves, 4.50'254.80; steers, 53.404.40; stoclcers and feeders. 2.30 23.50; cows, bulls and mixed, 13.10; Texas cattle. l.a!'Sa25. Hogs Receipts, 8,500; shipments, 2,500. The market was strong to lOo higher. Mixed. S3.70S3.90; heavy. $3.70 3.95; light. $3.70: skips, $303.40. bbeep Receipts, 500; shipments. The market was steady. Natives, S.S'SS; Western. 3.904.80: Texans, 834: lambs. S5S6.10. BUFFALO. July 5. Cattle steady and unchanged. Receipts, 211 car-loads through and 2 car-loads for sale. Sheep and lambs in fair demand and stronger on gooa quality. Receipts. 24 carloads through and 9 car-loads for (sale. Sheep, choice to extn. 84.755; good to choice. $4.50'24.70; Lambs, choice to extra, 86.757; good to choice, G.40S;6.70. Hogs active, strong and higher. Re ceipts. 33 car-loads through and ii6 car-loads for sale. Mediums, heavy and mixed. $45) 4.05; heavy Yorkers, $404.05; pigs, $3.b5 3.90. KANSAS CITY. July 5.-The Live Stock Indicator reports: Cattle Receipts,' 3,200; shipments, 1,770. I be market was 10c niguer. Steers, S3.4O04.4O; cows. $103.45: stack ers and feeders, $2. 650 3.75; range steers, $2 2.80; range cows, $1.502. Hogs Receipts, 6,500; shipments. 2.130. The market was 150 nc higher. Bulk, 83.52 2&G5; all grades. 83.453.60. Sheep Receipts. 1.200: shipments, none. The market was steady. Lambs. $203; good to choice muttons, 4.5005.50; stockers and feeders, $3.25 4.10. ST. LOUIS, July 5. Cattle Receipts, 1.500; shipments, none. Market steady. Good to fancy native steers, S4.2O04.6O; fair to good native steers, $3.7004.30; stockers and feeders, $2.3003.40; Texans and Indians. 2.1003.40. Hogs Receipts. 4.000; shipments, none. Market 5c higher. Fair to choice heavy $3.6003.75; packing grades, 3.650 3.75; light, fair to best, $3.7008.80. Sheep Receipts. 2.000: shipments, none. Market steady. Fair to choice, $3.8004.60. EAST LIBERTY. July 5.-Cattle-Re-ceipts, 1,519: shipments, 2,415. Nothing do ing: all through consignments. Fifteen car-loads of cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 2.900; shipments. 2.500. Market firm. All grades, $404.05. Nine car-loads of hogs shipped to New York to day. Sheen Keceipts. 1.200: shipments. 1.000. Market slow at unchanged prices. . on. WILMINGTON. July 5.-Spirits turpentine steady at 38c. Rosin firm: strained. 1.07l2: good strained, $1.12. Tar firm at $1.G5. Crude turpentine firm; hard, $1.25; yellow dip, $2.35; virgin, $2.50. CLEVELAND. July 5. Petroleum easy: standard white, 110. 73fc,c; gasoline, 74, 9c; gasoline, 86, 12c; naphtha, 63, 7c. CHARLESTON. July 5. Turpentine quiet at 363 380. Kosiu firm; good strained, 91.40. INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS. Trade Rather Qnlet with "So Changes In Valoen of Importance. ' Indianapolis, July 5. About the only department in which there was any trado 10-day was with the commission men. As usual the day following a holiday all other branches of trade were doing but little. In prices there were no important changes. Hides and leather, both East and West, are more active, and, with this, prices are liriner. The iron and hardware markets both rule firmer. In all lines of hardware better prices have been obtained this year than for some years past, there having been less cutting prices than usual. Everything in the dry-goods line carries a strong tone. As to groceries an impression prevails that sugars and coffees will go. lower. The produce markets present no new features. Lower prices lor poultry and eggs next week may bo looked for. Homo-grown cabbage abundant Lera ons are very firm; 87 per box is wanted for choico stook. Black and red raspberries are in only moderate supply another week will about close the seasou with raspberries. Tho provision market carries a steady tone and a good deal is doing in a jobbing way. The sued men are doing but little, but for months past they have been doing an nnprecedentedly large business. GRAIN. . There was little doing in the local grain market to-day. Receipts are light and prices ruled easy at the following range: Wheat No. 2 red, 85c; So. 3 red. 78c; rejected. G8c; " unmerchantable. 50000c; July. 844 c. Com No. 1 white. 8Cc; No. 2 white, tthc: No. 3 white, 345c, latter for oue color: No. 4 white, 33c; No. 2 yellow, 34; No 3 yellow, 33c; No. 4 yellow, 32c; No. 2 mixed, 34c; No. 3 mixed, 332C; Xo. 4 mixed, 31c; mixed ear, 34c; yellow, 30c; white, 36c latter for one color. Oats No. 2 white, 32ic: No. 3 white, 31c: No. 2 mixed. 31c; rejected, 29c. Bran Local dealers are bidding $9.7509. Hay Timothy, choice, $13; No. 1, $12,25; No. 2, $7.50; No. 1 prairie, $0.75. Indianapolis Jobbing Trade CANNED GOODS. Peaches Standard 3-pound, $2.2502.50; 3-pound seconds. S1.C50 1.75. Miscellaneous Blackberries. 2-pound, 80090c; raspberries, 2-pound. 9Oc0$l; pineapple, standard. 2-pound. $1.4002.50; seconds, 2-pound, $1.10 01.20; cove oysters, 1-pound, lull weight, $1.1001.15; liglit, 70073c; 2-pound, full, $20 2.10; light, $1.1021.15: string beans. 85095c; Lima beans, $1.2001.30; peas, marrowfat, $1.2001.40; small. $1,502)1.75; lobsters. $1.85 -02; red cherries, U5C01.1O; strawberries, $1.2001.30: salmon (lbs). $1.9002.50. COAL AND COKE. Anthracite, $6.7507 ton; Jackson lump, $4 ton; nut. $3.50: Brazil block, $3.50 ton; nut. $3; Pittsburg. $4 ton: nut. $3.75; Raymond and Winifrede. $4 fc ton; nut. $3.75; Dogger lump, $3,25 4 ton; nut, $2.75; Island City lump, $3.25 ton; nut. $3; Highland lump, $3 p ton; nut, $2.50; Piedmont and Blossburg, $7 t ton; Indianacannel, $5 ton; gas-houso coke, 13c -K ba, or 3.25 4 load; crushed coke, 14c & bu, or $3.50 4 load. DRY GOODS. Bleached Sheetings Blackstono AA, 734c; Ballon & Son. 7c; Chestnut Hill, Cc; Cabot 4-4, 7Lc; Chapman X, Gc; Dwight Star S, 9c; Fruit of the Loom, 9c; Lonsdale, flcj Lin wood, 8c; Mason ville,834c; New York Mills, 1034c; Our Own, S'iic; Pepperell 9-4. 22q Pepperell 10-4, 24c; Hills, 8c; Hope. 7; Knight's Cambric. 8c; Lonsdale Cambric, 10c; Whitinsville, 33-inch, 0Lc; Wamsutta, lOic. IJkown Sheetings Atlantic A, 714c; Bontt C, Cc; Agawam F, Sjc; lied ford R, 5c; Augusta, 5 oc; Boott AL, 7c; Continental C, CJic; 1) wight Star. 8c; Echo Lake, Gic; Gramteville EE, Oc; Lawrence LL, 534c;

Pepperell E, Ttc; Pepperell R, 62c; Pepperell 9-4. 20c; Pepperell 10-4, 22c; Utica 9-4, 22ljc: Utica 10-4, 2tiioc; Utica C. 4c. Grain Bags American, $17; Atlantic, $18; Franklinville, $18.50; Lewistown, $17.50; Cumberland, $17; Grocers. S1S.50; Harmony. $17; Ontario. S16.50; Stark A, $21. Ginghams Amoskeag, 7c; Bates, CLjc; Gloucester. 64c; Glasgow. 6c; Lancaster, 7c; Iianelman's. 71oc: Renfrew Madras. 8ic; Cumberland. 6c; White.eBookfold.Oc Prime Cambrics Manville. Gc; S. S. &, Son, Cc; Mason vi lie, Gc: Garner, Cc. Prints American fancy. 6W; Allen's fancy. Cc; Allen's dark. Cc: Allen's pink, 6c; Arnold's, 6c; Berlin solid colors, Gc; Cocheco. 5Lc; Conestoga. 6c; Dnnnell's, 6c; Eddystone, 62c; Hartel, 6c; Harmony, 434c; Hamilton, GLc; Greenwich, 5Lc; Knickerbocker, 5L2C: Mallory pink. 6Lc; prices on dress styles irregular; depends on pattern. Tickings Amoskeag ACA, 12Lc; Conestoga BF, 14V5; Conestoga extra, ISc: Conestoga Gold Medal, lSc; Conestoga CCA, 12c; Conestoga AA, 10c; Conestoga X, 9c: Pearl River. 12c: Falls OBO, 32-inch, 122C: Methuen AA. l2L:c; Oakland A, 6; Swift River, eLjc; York. 32-inch. 12c; York, SO-inch, lOc. DRUGS. Alcohol. $2.2502.30; nsafo?tida, 15020c; alum, 405c; camphor, 60065c; cochineaL. 50055c; chloroform, 50055c; copperas, brls, 85c0$l; cream tartar, pure, 30035c; indigo, 80081c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30045c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25035c; morphine, P. fc W.. oz. S3.10; madder. 12014c; oil. castor, gal, $1.280 1.S2; oil, bergamot, Ifc, $303.25; oDium. $3.8003.90; quinine, P. & V.t oz, 41046c; balsam copaiba, 75080c; soap, Castile, Fr., 1201Cc; soda, bicarb., 4

0Gc; salts, Epsom, 40oc; suipuur. Hour, 406c; saltpeter. 8020c: turpentine, 4604Sc; glycerine, 2202Cc; iodide potass., $2.8303; bromide potass., 40042c: chlorate potash, 23c: borax. 13015c; cinchonidia, 12015c; carbolic acid, 45050c. Oils Linseed oil, raw, 61c gal; boiled, 64c; coal oil, legal test, 9 U0 14c; bank, 40c; best straits, 50c; Labrador, 60c; West VirEinia lubricating, 20030c; miners', 65c. ,ard oils. No. 1, 50055c: do., extra, 65070c. White Lead Pore, 7c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Gooseberries $1.25 drawer. Cabbage New. $1.2501.50 4? brL Raspberries Red, $101.25 per crate of 24 pints; black, $202.25 per crate of 24 quarts. Potatoes $303.25 Id brL Apples Choice, $3.50 1 brL Onions Bermuda, $3 crate. Potatoes 50055c bu;$1.3O01.45 brl, in shipping order. Watermelons $18025 100. Tomatoes 75c 0 Si box. FOREIGN FRUITS. Raisins, California, London Layer, new. $2.7503 box; California, loose, muscatel, 3-crown. $202.25 box; Valencia, new, 100 12 4j TT; citron. 24025c 4 H: currants, 70 7Lo lo; bananas, $1.2502.25 bunch; Lemons Messina, choice, $7.5009 box; fancy, $707.25. Oranges Messinas, $6. Figs, 12014c. Prunes Turkish, new, 7h 0734C. GROCERIES. ' Coffees Ordinary grades. 202021 c; fair, 21io022i2c; good. 22L1023I2C; prime. 23i'2)2412c; strictly prime to choice, 240 25L2C; fancy green and yellow. 26027c; old government Java, 35036c: ordinary Java, 304031 14c; imitation Java,28429c. Roasted colli ees, 1 lo packages, 2540; Banner, 2514c, Lion, 2514c; Gates's Blended Java, 254c; Arbuckle's, 2040. Sugars Hard, 7g084c; confectioners' A, 63i0"c; oil" A, 620634c; coflee A, 60 62C; white extra C, 640638c; extra C, 680 6ic: good yellows, 606c; fair yellows, 5V20c; common yellows. 534057gc. Bkans Choice hand-picked navy. $2,150 $2.20 bn: medium hand-picked,$2.1502.2O. Shot $1.4001.50 bag for drop. Dried Bkef 110112C. Flour Sacks No. 1 drab. 4 brl, $33 1,000; .jbrl,$17; lighter weight. $1 4? 1,000 less. c Lead 620 7c for pressed bars. Rice Louisiana, 507c Spices Pepper, 19020c; allspice. 12015c; cloves. 26030c; cassia, 10012c; nutmegs, 80 085c 4? Id. Wooden Dishes Per 100, 1 Id, 20c; 2 Its, 25c, 3 Ids, 30c; 5 Its. 40c. Wrapping-pa per Li ght-weight, straw 23403c IB; light-weight rag. 23t03c lb; heavy-weight straw. l3402c lb; heavyweight rag. 23403c lb: Manilla: No. 1. 80 9c: No. 2. 5o0Oio; print paper. No. 1, 60 7c No. 3, S. & C, 10011c; No. 2, S &. S., 809c; No. 1. S. Y C. 740 Sc. Twine Hemp, 12018c $ lb; -wool.801Ocr flax, 20030c; paper, 18c; jute, 12015c; cot-'' ton. 16025c. n .Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 35045c; choice, 450 55c. Svrnos. 2S038c. Salt In car lots. 87c: small lots. 950 $1. Woodenwaue No. 1 tubs, SS08.25; No. 3 tubs, 8707.25; No. 3 tubs, $6025; 3-hoop pails, 81.CO01.C5; 2-hoop pails, $1.4001.45; double washboards, $2.2502.75; common washboards, $1.5001.85, clothes-pins, 500 85C 4 box. LEATHER, HIDES AND TALLOW. Leather Oak sole. SS 33c: hemlock sole. 2202Sc; harness. 26020c; skirting, So 034c; black bridle. i doz., $53055; fair bridle. 300078 doz.: city kip. $60080: French kip, $850110: city calf-skins,; 6Oc0 $1: French calf-skins. $101.80. Hides No. 1 G. S. hides, 6c; No. 2G. S. hides, 4205c; No. 1 green, 4042C; No. 2 green, dic. Sheepskins 4Oc0$l. Tallow No. 1, 334c; No. 2, 34C Grease White, 334c; yellow, 3c; brown, 2C Horse Hides $2. NAILS AND II0RSE8II0E9. Steel cut nails, $2.25; wire nails, $2.55 rates; horseshoes, 4? keg. 4.2.); mule-shoes, 4 keg, $5.2o; horse nails, 405. OIL CAKE. Oil cake, $23 ton; oil meal. $23. Jobbing Trices Smoked meats Sugarcured hams, Keliable brand, 10 lbs average. 12c; 12 lbs average, ll4C; 15 lbs average, 10-4C; 172 IBs average, 10A4c; ao IDs average and over, 10c: hnglish-cured breaktast ba con, light or medium. 10 vc: English-cured shoulders, 12 lbs average, 74C; sugar-cured shoulders, 10 to 12 lbs average, 7c; sugar-. cured shoulders. 14 to 16 lbs average. (-uc: California hams, 10012 lbs average, 84C; cottage hams. 84c; boneless ham, 10c; dried beef hams and knuckle pieces. selected, 11c. Bacon Clear sides, 30 lbs average, 634c; clear sides, 40045 lbs average, 620; clear backs, medium aver age, 6y4C; clear backs, 20 to 25 lbs aver age, 62C; clear bellies. 13 lbs average.. 72c; clear bellies, 18 to 20 lbs average. Gc. Dry salt and pickled meats Clear sides, unsmoked, 640; clear backs, un smoked. 6ic: clear bellies, unsmoked, 7c; beanpork. y brl. 200 lbs, $14.50; beau pork. 4i brl. 100 ns. ; nam or rump pork, ori, 200 ids, $11.50. Bologna Skin, largo or small, Gc; cloth, large or small. 52C. Lard Fure win ter leaf, kettle-rendered, in tierces, 74C; in tubs, GO lbs net, 74c; in one-half barrels. 75mc; in 50-lb cans in 100-lb cases. 7: in 20-lb cans in 80-lb cases, 72c; in 10-lb cans in fLffc nooa T3 rtrimA lonf larrl in' tierces, 7c; prime leaf lard, in 20-lb buckets. 74C. PRODUCE. Eggs Shippers paying 10c; selling from store at 12c. Poultry Hens. 9o lb: young chickens. 3 to 4 lbs per pair, 122013c i lb; cocks. 3o; lb; turkeys, choice fat hens, 8c; choice young toms, 6c; docks, fat. 6c; geese, choice full-feathered, $405 doz; geese, plucked and poor. S5304 4 doz. Butter Fancy creamery, 18020c; fair creamery, 13015c; hne dairy, 8010c; good country, o a c, according 10 tue couamon in which it is received. Common stock will bring but 304c lb. Wool Tub-washed" and picked. 30335c; unwashed medium and common grades, if in good order. 18022c; burry and cotted, 14 018c; ileece-washed, if light and in good order, 28030c; burry and unmerchantable. according to their value. Feather. Pnmo geese, 35c P1 lb; mixed duck, uoc4 Id. Beeswax Dark, 18c; yellow, 20c tinners supplies. Best brand charcoal tin. IC, 10x14. 14x20. 12x12, $6.5007.50. IX, 10x14, 14x20, and 12x12, $808.50: 1C. 14x20. rooting tin. $5.75: IO. 20x28, $11.50; block tin. in pigs, 25c; in bars, ' 27c. Iron 27' B iron. 3oc: u iron, 5.jc: gal vanised, 60 .per cent, discount. Sheet zinc, 7c. Copper bottoms. 20c. Planished cop per, c2c. Solder,. 15010c. HEEDS. ' Clover-Red. choice. GO lb bu. S3.250&5O; prime. $303.25; English, choice, $3.2503.40; white, choice, $6.5007; alsike, $6.7507.50; alfalfa, choice, $0.7507.50. TimothyChoice, 45 lb bn. 5l.GO0l.75; strictly prime. Sl.5001.60. Blue-grass Fancy, 14 15 bu, 1.1501.25: extra clean. $1.0501.10. Orehard grass Extra cleau, 14 lb bu, 95c-0$l.lO. Red-top-Choice, 14 lb bu. 50080c; extra clean. 45060c. English blue-grass 21 lb bu. $2.4002.60. Acme lawn-grass 14 lb bu. $1.0501.75. I ennessce-grown German mil let, 70S S0c; Northern-grown German niillot. 65070c 4 bu; Hungarian, choice. (;075c bn. Buckwheat Japanese, 1.1001.25; sil

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THE COMING OP DEATH.

The Signs Many and Variable Dying Uiuallj - ' a Y y- . Medical Journal. , The signs of impending death are many and variable. No two instances are precisely identical yet several signs are com mon to many cases. Shakspeare. who ob served everything else, observed and recorded some of tho premonitory signs of death also. In the account of the death of Faistaft, the sharpness of tho nose, the coldness of the feet, gradually extending upward, the picking of the bed-clothes are ac curately described. For some time before death indications of its approach become apparent. Speech grows thick and labored, the hands, it raised, fall instantly, the respiration is dif ficult, tne Heart loses its power to propel the blood to tho extremities, which, conse quently become cold, a clammy moisture oozes through the pores of the skin, the voice grows weak and husky or piping, the eyes begin to lose their luster. In death at old ago there isa gradual dull ing of all the bodily senses and of many of the mental faculties; memory fails, judgment wavers, imagination goes out like a caudle. 1 he muscles and tendons get stin, the voice breaks, tho cords of the taber nacle are loosening. Small noises irritate, sight becomes dim, nutrition goes on feebly, digestion is impaired, the secretions are insuthclentor vitiated, or cease, capillary circulation Is clogged. Finally the central organ of the circulation comes to a stop, a full stop, and thin stoppage means a disso lution, l nis is the death of old age, wmch few attain to. Many people have an idea that death is necessarily painful, even agonizing, but there is no reason whatever to suppose that death is a more.painful process than birth. It is because in a certain proportion of cases dissolution is accompanied by a visible spasm and distortion of the countenance that this idea exists, but it is as nearly cer tain as anything can be that these distortions of the facial muscles are not only painless, but take place unconsciously. In many instances, too, a comatose or semicomatose state supervenes, and it is alto gether probable that more or less complete unconsciousness then prevails. We have, too, abundant evidence of people who have been nearly drowned and resuscitated, and they all agree in the statement that after a few moments of painful struggling. fear and anxiety pass away and a state of tranquility succeeds. They see visions of green helds, and in some cases hear pleasing music; and so far from beiug miserable, their sensations are delightful. But where attempts at resuscitation are successful the resuscitated persons almost invariably protest against being brought back to life, and declare that resuscitation is accompanied tv physical pain and acute mental misers. Death is a fact which every man must personally experience, and consequently is of universal interest; and as facts are facts, tho wisest course is to look them squarly in the face, for necessity is coal black and death keeps no calendar. 'THE gold in a gold dollar. The Director of the Mint Corrects an Inad vertent Inaccuracy. Mint Director Leech, in Philadelphia North Ameri. cau. Permit me to call vour attention to a verr important error which occurred in the article from your special correspondenton the subiect of coinage, which anneared in vour issue of to-day. I am reported to nave said:. Tbe amount of gold in our gold coins has not been changed since we tirst began coinage in 1793. The alloy has been changed, but not the amout of pure gold." This should have read "The amount ot pure silver in the standard silver dollar has not been changed since we first began coining." The quantity of pure gold to the dollar, as fixed by the act of 1792, was 24.75 grains, the ratio in coinage being 15 to 1. By the act of June 28, 1S34, the pure gold, was reduced from 24.75 to 23.20 graius to the dollar, the ratio between gold and silver in coinage being 1 to 16.002. By the act of Jan. 18, 1837. the fineness of the gold coins was increased about threefourths :of one-thousandth by changing from the standard of .800225 to .000, which increased the Dure gold in a dollar from 23.20 to 23.22 grains, at which it has remained up to the present time. The ratio between the two metals in coinage was "fixed bv this act at . 1 to 15.088. at which it 'still remains. As this is an important error, I will thank you to correct the same. Draining Beneficial in Drought Orange Jadd Farmer. '' From many sources we learn that tiled land produced better crops, as a rule, in past dry seasons than surrounding land which never needed draining, or that had not as yet been given the needed drainage. Opponents of tiling, if they still exist. might say that tiled land is usually rich and would have produced better crops than tho poorer adjacent soils had it never been drained. They may say further that such lands lying in low places, as they usually do," have better access to moisture from be low. - They might still further argue, truthfully, that the subsoil in places previously wet is usually better adapted to raising water from below by capillary action than high-lying or poor soil. Admitting these statements to be true, they in no wise weaken the position taken that drainage is a beneht in dry times, in lands too wet at other times to be cultivated to the best advantage. Unfilled land is often wet and cold in tho spring and allows only a weak growth of plants with roots all near the surface. When the drought comes these small backward plants must take time to send their feeble roots deeper, so as to get them below the dry aud often cracked surface soil. On the other hand the plants on drained soil are pushed rapidly forward early in the season by the warm, aerated soil beforo serious droughts usually come, and having large, strong, deeply penetrating roots and shady tops they can defy the drought and maturo the crop. The drained soil is usually rich land that is only, or mainly, to bo used for pasture because of the trouble and uncertainty of tiling it. In a dry year, if this soil is drained, a crop can be grown in spitoof the drought, while the upland crops moro or less nearly fail. It is thus a sort of standby in a dry year. Land in a position to receive and hold an excess of water is tho most reliable part of the farm, because tho tile aids in always keeping the supply ot water right. There is probably considerable moisture condensed from the air as it circulates through the cool sub-soil. As draining opens up, or, in other words, causes the soil to disintegrate and become more friable, and less liable to break and crack .open, it is safe to say that it has the greatest power to get water from the air. Undrained eoil is clammy and is easily made lumpy and hard early in the spring, while it is still wet. This hard crust on the surface connects the capillary tubes" with the moving air above, and thus enables sun and wind to dry out the undrained soil. On the other hand, tiled soil plows up loose in epring, and remains loose all summer. m Meteorites. Popular Science Monthly. Meteorites aro particularly interesting because they comprise the only material coming to us from outer space. In consequence of the striking phenomena resulting from their rapid passage through our atmosphere, making them appear like balls of fire visible at great distances, sometimes exploding with such violence as to be taken for earthquakes, their falls have been noticed and recorded since the earliest times. The accounts, however, were so imbued with superstitions, and so distorted by the terrified condition of the narrators, that in most cases the witnesses of the event were laughed at for their supposed delusions, and it was not till the beginning of the present century that men of science and people in general began to give credit to such reports. The earliest authentic records of stones falling from the sky are to be found in the Chinese annals, which go back to 644 B. C, and between that time and 333 A. D. Biot has traced sixteen distinct occurrences. In Europe a meteorite is said to havo fallen in Crete as far hack as 1478 B. C, but Greek history cannot b depended upon for events earlier than 700 B. C. A more probable fall, in 705 B. C, is mentioned by Plutarch, while Livy, in his history of Rome, gives an account of a shower of stones which fell on the Alban Mount about 652 B. C, and which so impressed the Senate that they decreed a nine days' solemn festival. An Experiment with Potatoes. As to whether or not rotten potatoes will infect tho soil and injure the crop the following year, an Illinois farmer writes to an exchange: "For two years in succession the June freshets destroyed two acres of early and lato potatoes on a river bottom. Of sixty varieties some were nearly matured. The odor of those decaying potatoes could be smelt half e mil away. I

have since taken smooth, fair tubers, without scab or disease, from the same Held and wintered them perfectly. I find scabby potatoes on prairie soil. If these aro planted in timber clay-soil there will bo no scab among them, and vice versa. A change of soil gives fresh vigor to any. seed." The writer adds: 'I waded in three feet of water and lingered out a hatful of lato Green mountain potatoes, which had just beguu to set, as they cost then $1 a pound. The tubers were the size of butternuts. I sprinkled them with lime and they wilted soft, but wintered safely, and made a vigorous growth next year. An an experiment, I am taking out of the growing billa every year, in July, a few of the late Green mountain potatoes for seed bofore they are half matured, to see if the crop from such seed will ripen earlier. RE3INANT OF A BURST BOOM.

Farm at Flndlay with Broad, Lighted Streets ( and Well-Paved Sidewalks. Kansas City Times. Mr. F. J. Gunsalus, of Findlay, O., is visiting friends in this city. One year ago Findlay was in the height of one of the biggest realrestate booms ever witnessed in this country, a boom that raised that placo in a few months from a quiet little county-seat with 2,000 or 3,000 people to a lively manufacturing city with a population of 25.000. Tho cause of the boom was natural gas. The gas welled up from the ground as free as air. as cheap as water, and manufacturers flocked to Findlay from all over the country to take advantage of tho bonanza in fuel. It was a gold miue for the citizens, and many farmers in the black swamp of northwestern Ohio, scarcely ablo to make a living, found themselves wealthy without ail effort. Farms that were costly at $10 an acre before the discovery of gas were worth $1,000 per acre for speculative purposes. City lots were staked for sale six and eight miles out into tho country. Unfortunately the real-estate speculation was carried on too long and with too high a hand, and the bottom dropped out of the Findlay boom. The present situation is thus described by Mr. Gunsalus: "There can be seen in Findlay what can be found nowhere else in the wide, wide world. A real-estate syndicate laid out a farm in the suburbs of Findlay more than a mile in extent. The streets, drives, walks are something magnificent. The gas costs them comparatively nothing, and every night the street lamps are lighted, lending beauty and brilliancy to the scene. But on the entire addition there is not a single house, and there has never been any demand for houses in this part of the city of Findlay. The scene is so novel, 60 decidedly original, that but for the scarcity of dwellings one would bo reminded of Goidsmithrs deserted village." The Compost Heap. Philadelphia Record. There is quite a difference between a compost heap and a manure heap. When manure is thrown on a heap, left undisturbed, and exposed to all kinds of weather, it sutlers loss of fertilizing matter in many different ways; but the compost heap is a veritable manufactory of fertilizer, and is more valuable for all purposes than manure from the stable. While the food and the management of the manure gives it its value, the farmer is limited to such amount as may be voided by his animals; but the compost heap opens a wider field for his operations by enabling him to make more manure than he could secure from his animals. The filling of the pig-pen with large Snautities of dirt, leaves or other litter oes not really make manure, for the pig cannot make something out of nothing. He works and roots in the litter, mixing it with tho manure, and at the end of the year the farmer hauls away several loads of what he considers first-class manure, but he has secured no more real manure than the pig would have produced under' any circumstances, whether he had litter or not, and the mass is nothing more nor less than compost, but it will show as good results as any other kind of manure, because it is composed of absorbent material that has preserved the manure and prevented loss of value. The making of compost is the accumulation of any and everything that can be added to the manure, all liquids entering into the heap, and nothing wasted. The compost heap is really the "savings bank" of the farm, for it induces the farmer not only to accumulate but to save. . The weeds, feathers, blood from slaughtered animals, soapsuds, night soil, and even earth, are thrown on the heap, to the advantage of ridding the farm of many unsightly objects, while the manure from the stable, which becomes a part of the compost heap, is better preserved and its value is increased. As all the materials of a compost heap are tine, the farmer can more easily haul and spread the compost, and the plants will find it more available as food. The compost heap, however, should receive attention. It should be under cover, and occasionally forked over. Though sufficient beat will be generated to decompose the coarse materials, yet there is less risk of "hre-fanging" than with manure, and more plant food can be collected in this manner than from any other mode. Dress Reform Abroad. London Letter. Again there are whispers of the appearance of short skirts iu our streets. Dressreformers are determined to gain their point, and it looks as if they would be successful. Certainly many costumes are now in course of construction for traveling and for wearing in Scotland, the skirts of which only reach half way below the knee. They are by no means unbecoming, except, of course, to short, fat figures, and the smart high boots or gaiters will rejoice the hearts of those possessed of a prettv foot and ankle. t is quite a mistake to think that these skirts must of necesssity be plain or only kilted: they will stand ornamentation quite as well as longer ones, and I have 6een several with panels which looked very well, while others have paniers not equally becoming. A very smart tailor-made dress was of gray tweed. It had a red waistcoat made separately to the little coat, with a roll collar, but the skirt was to me the most attractive feature. It was boxpleated at the back, hanging very flat and straight, and was fastened by a big button on tho left hip, concealing a pocket into which the wearer could thrust her hand with truly masculine enjoyment. Farming Fifty Tears Ago and Now. Dr. W. C. Gray, editor of the Interior, the leading Presbyterian journal of the Northwest, is evidently not of the opinion that farmers, as a class, are falling behind in the improved conditions of life; and having been raised on a farm, he knows whereof he a Hi rni s. Here is what he has to say recently in setting some one right on tho subject: "As a matter of fact, we know that the farmer is better off than he was fifty years ago. because wo were there. The hand that writes this held the plow-handle at twenty-five ceuts a day and board: chopped cord-wood at sixty cents a cord, cut, split and put up: cut wheat with the band-sickle, threshed it with tho flail: slept on a tick woven inthehouseand filled with straw, on a bedstead made with a common ax and an auger no other tools. And we were not 'poor folks either; we were well-to-do farmers, the whole seed, breed and generation, on both sides of the house. Counting both sides, there were ten families, and every family had a good, big farm. Now we do not know of any farmers who live as poorly as the farmers of those days did. Farmers now do not begin to work as hard as we used to have to do, and they have four times the luxuries." An Unhappy "dan. Philadelphia Press. "Should any person advise you to take time by the forelock," 6aid a forlorn-looking individual in tho corridor of a secondrate hotel last night, "ask him to gi you explicit directions how to proceed. I had a friend until a few days ago," he continued, "but everything is difierent now. When I come from the north she casts her eyes southward, and vice versa. I'll tell you how it happened. I wanted to give her sotno token of my esteem and decided upon a bracelet. I gave her the bracelet, but it wasn't solid gold, and in the natural course of dents the plating must wear ofT. In order to meet that foreseen circumstance I purchased a bottle of gold plate aud presented it to my friend with instructions to use it when the bracelet began to lose its brightness. I was immediately thrown out into the cold world. That's all," and he eauntered oft whistling a ditty wherein is related the descent of a certain individual to the bottom of tho sea. Fair Harvard Consolation. Boston Globe. . - These are pretty tough times for fair Harvard. Still, in tho sport or paintiug the town red. she holds the pennant, and Yale ain't in it."

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