Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1891 — Page 7

THE IInDIAKAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1891.

IE MLOTLIS NATIONAL BAM re!fEtiKl TJnltfd Ftates Depository. Cerner P.ocro, Odd Fellows IT all. TFIO. P. IT ATG KIT, PTM't. F. E. RESrORti, Ch CONDITION OF THE MARKETS

Concerted Pressure to Sell Fairly Swamps the Entire Chicago Market. Better Crop Reports from the West, Together with a Barprisiafflj Good New lork Bank Statement, tha Principil MBar" New. HONEY, STOCKS AND BONDS. Lowest Flares for th Wek Reached In Mtocka, Followed by m 8tlfT Bally. NEW YORK. May 16 Money on call was easy, -with all calls made at 6 per cent., closing offered at 8. Prime mercantile paper, 57 per cent. Sterling exchange-was quiet and steady at $4,833.1 for sixty -day bills and 4.884 for demand. The total sales of stocks to-day were stares, inclndina the following. Atchison, 16,0C5; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, 6,700; Lake Shore, 2,700; LouisTille & Nashville, 13.X10: Missouri Pacific. 3,975; Northwestern. North American. 2.U00; Northern Pacific. C.875; Northern Pacific preferred, 12JOO: Richmond Ac West Point, 6.105; SL Paul, 56.51U; Union Pacilic, 14.SN); Western Union. 3.3UG. 1 He stock market was- actiyw and, while weak at first, rallied sharply, nearly recovering the early losses and bringing prices op close to those of last even in a:. The general expectation, in view of the extraordinarily heavy shipments of gold for the last two weeks, was that tbe bank statement would show a serious decrease in the reserves, if not a complete loss of the reserves. There was therelore vigorous effort to sell all the stocl's which the market would take iu early trading, and althonah there was undoubtedly good support driven many of the leading shares, the effect was to make an extremely feverish and withal weak market. The support was apparently withdrawn toward 11 o'clock and the pressure to sell became more urgent, so that a sham decline all along the line brought prices down from 1 to 2 per cent, from last evening's figures, the lowest prices ot the week being reached. On the downward movement Manhattan, Chi vatio Gas, Louisville & Nashville. Pacific Mail, Union Pacific and Hock Island were specially prominent. T he strongest spot on thH list was theN'ortbern Pacific, which were helped by the cable artvic? from Berlin, giving-interviews wjth some influential o dicers of the , Dentscte bank, in which th j expressed great friendship for Mr. Vilisrd, and deprecated the re cent stories of :i break between that gentleman and the b'ink. The bauk statement, however, when it appeared, showed a small increase in the reserves, instead of the loss expected, and tliero was a rush to buy, greater even than the previous pressure to sell, and prices rallied very sharply, recovering in tDe fif. teen iniuntes Irtft to do business almost all the losses of the morning. Thero was most excellent buying of the Northern Pacific, .Missouri Pacific, the Whetliug fc Lako Erie. Kock Islaud and Union Pacific. Tno entire list shared in the improvenient,which warn material in all positions. The market closed active and strong at the recovery. The final cbuuge are euerally small fractional lo-isep. but tho Northern Pacific are higher, while Louisville & Nashville is down l3 and Pacific Mail 1 per cent Railroad bonds were quiet and followed cloly the movements in the share lint, being weak in the early dealing, but stiffening np later. The final cuangee are, as usual. inMignific.tnt umon the active iMir. but Seattle, Lake Shore firsts, lost iiJ-j. ar os. tJovernment bonds were dull and steady. State bonds were dull without feature. Closing qnotatious were: J'our ier ct. rejcllaHjiLakePhore.. 109 Vour per ct. cup.ll'JK;!I.ead Trust .. IS r our ami es rer-. 1 ihj Ko'irstnl coup. 101 FaciTicCsot 'U5...11-' Aduuis Express.. .1 17 A iron AT. II 32 Altou & T. il. pref.PJd American Lxpresll3 Ices, x Ohio 1G7. Louis. diNash 75 U I v N. Albany 24i Missouri Pacific... 6i N.J. Centnil 1154 Northwestern 1074 North west'u pref.. 133 X. Y. Centrul HH)t O. A Misistpi.L.. 183a '. & O. prrf.lsts.. 45 o.drM. rrer Peoria, I). A E.... 19 1'ulluiun l'alace...l0 IT. 8. Express 2 W.,St. L. P 10 W.,ht.L&P.pref. At lls-Fariro Ex... 140 'VTesteru Union.... fa04 t O. pref. ifcls.. 2h .,B. f.L.C.4s.L... T,2 !.. lck. St Wes.iy; . Vot Wayne 150 Like Liie 61 Wta... I J 1 1J. .V W.pref.... z NEW YORK, Ma7 1G.-Iiar silver, 07o per oui.ee. LONDON. May 16. Ear silver. 4A. Died tmuce. per The weekly bank statement following changes: Keeerve. increase. Iouns. decrease hpecie; uecrea.e J-ettal tciiderp. iucrease J)epeit.. decrease. Circulation, decrease shows the 148.0OO .. 4.442.20O 3.775.100 .. 2,046,200 .. 5,111.200 43,100 The banks now hold S4,9t2.8."i0 in excesi of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. Ttaslness of the Clearlng-IIoases. BOSTON. May 17. The following table, compiled from dispatches from the managers of the clearing-houses of the. cities named, shows the gross exchanges for last Aveek. with rates per cent, tf increase or decrease, aa against the similar amounts for the corresponding week in 1KX): New York 9722,501,488 Decrease.. 2 2. 6 ItoMton 94.3S J.572 I)ecres..25 O Chicago 02,925.000 Increase .. 4.2 Philadelphia.... 6i,300,15S Increase.. 14.8 fct.Loul 2l,49.,410 Decreae 9.3 hau Francisco. m 1.830,035 Decrease... 0.4 Iialtimore 12,951,123 Decrease.. 17.8 New Orleans.... 0,12O,h3O Increai.. 6.1 Cincinnati 13.29t.40O Decrease.. 4 0 ltttsliurg.. . 13,4a9.4?i Decrease.. 12.0 Kana City..-. 9.:iji),0Jl Decrease .17. 4 ronUvllle 7,9t,155 Decrease.. G.i Dualo 7.670,10 Increaie...l2.7 liaUeston. 4,205,814 lncrease..309.7 Idilwankee 5.910,000 Increase.. 5.7 Minneapolis.... ri.642.o74 Increane.. 2.5 lTovldence..... 5,77,3uO Increase... 6.1 1(etroit C531,ltt Increase.. 9.1 Cleveland 4.940.nn6 Decrease.. 1.7 tiuaLa 4,180.842 Decrea.e..23 5 Denver 4.S11.S53 Decrease.. 6.1 t. Paul 4,451,228 Increase.. 5.7 Indianapolis.... 5.029,513 Increaie..l70.O Columbus 3,206,000 Decrease.. 5.5 IklrniphU 2,765,912 !ncreae'..30. laJlas 1.853.149 Increase... 49.0 Duluth.. 1.952.SSI Dccrease-.OO.O Hartford 2.014.23 Increase ..ia3 Itkhmond....... 2.504.007 Increase M. 5.4 Nashville 2,356.745 Increase ... 5.4 Portland, Ore.-. 1,79.807 Decrease... 19.7 PaltLake... 1,316.969 Decrease... 0.7 Washington..... 2,134.435 Decrease.19.0 1'eorla 1,669,943 Increase 19.8 ht. Joseph 1,239.03 1 Deireaoe.15.4 Kewllaven 1,445.913 Increase ..19.2 Kocnester 1,492.766 Ifecrtae... 6.1 rpnnjrfleld 1,160,466 Decrease,. 5.1 Portland. Me.... 1, 087,06 Decrease... 9.5 Worcester . 1.180.O47 Decrease.. 2.1 Port Worth .. 1.16.576 Increase ..61.8 HouxClty. 1.037,615 Iucrease ..16.8 reattle 967.570 Decreae...l4.3 NorfolK 1.013.S6S Increase . 47.6 Tacowa. 974.781 fncreane ..16.7 ;rand llaplds... 773,i48 D-ereive 1.5 'vilnalnrton 792,619 increase .. 2.2 frrracu$e 844,633 Decrease.. 2.1 j.os Autreles.... 69H.962 Increase.. 9.2 Wichita 5KH.!i39 Decrease.. 8.s I-oweli 776,730 Increase.. 6.1 Dirminham.... . 64 S, 8 74 Decrease..24.4 J es Moines. 916,313 Increase.. 15.5 Chattanou:a.... 423.1KK) Decrease.. 8.1 New liedToriL... 43o,s79 Increase ..17.8 Iexiutfton. 491,956 Increase.. 2.8 'J'opeka 361.860 Iecrease.. 8.9 Lincoln 6M,597 Increase.. 1.4 31ontreal '10.K66.333 Increase ..17.9 Halifax 1,10,179 Decrease.. 5.0 lIousti)n 2.665.26U Total ....$l,19.0-2.79O Decreae..l7.1 OutsMe New York 475.67892 Decrease.. 7.9 "Not included in totals . It will be noticed in the above table ot clearing-houM changes that Kochester has been added to the comparative list, making sixty cities now reporting comparisons. A year ago at this time there were fiftyfour cities making comparative statements, and two years sgo the comparative list numbered only thirty-six cities. TIL4DINO AT CHICAGO. Marks Opsnsd Stronger, bat Fell Off on Increased Sales, Closing at m Loss. CHICAGO, May 16. Reports of generous rain-fall in the Southwestern wheat belt were circulated on the Board of Trade at the opening this morning. It materially changed the speculative situation in the -wheat pit, as it quieted the talk of damage drj weather and temporarily silenced

the talk of insect damige. It was thought that copious rains In Kansas bad certainly drowned out the chinch-bugs. Acting on this theory the "bear" leaders made a little more aggressive campaign, and they bad great help in the shape of selling orders from the Southwest and from outsiders generally. The local demand was not great. In faot, the local traders seemed to be acting against their privileges. Whenever the market reached the price at which "puts" had sold last night the holders of these privileges, having an insurance against loss, would do a little buying. Any bulge, however, brought most of this wheat on the market again. Charters of vessel room for about 00,000 bushels of wheat were made here last night and this morning. The news became public during the morning, and lifted prices almost to the point at which they closed yesterday. The bulge was not maintained, however, as ollerings were liberal. The "bear" leaders during the day were Beam and Linn, who put out substantial lines of "shorts." Bullish news was not wanting. The favorable New York bank statement, continued dry weather and prospects for a late crop season in the Northwest. advioes from 6 an Francisco that buying by France there had been reuewed. several firm cables and estimates of a' heavy decrease in the visible supply were among them. In the face of all this, however, the heavy pressure to sell by local bears and the representatives of New York. &L Louis and other houses, gave the market a decidedly weak tone during most of. the day. July opened at ?L023 and immediately broke to $1.02 and rallied to $1.02, declined to $1.0113. recovered to 9L0S&& sagged oft and closed at $1.01 34Corn started with an appearance of strength, but it was very quickly dissipated when it became known that the predictions of frost in the Northwestern cornbelt, made for last night, were not verified. Instead of suffering damage the young corn plants were benefited by rain. This caused holders of property to throw it on the market and these offerings, coupled with the weakness in wheat, gave a decided heavy tone to the market. July, which opened at wa'Jc, sold straight down' to 54C, and after a slight rally, dropped to 577hC, closing one point higher. Oats ranged lower because of the rainfall, which did away with talk of damage by the oat-louse, the net loss lor the day in July being 34C Provisions started out very strong, but weakened on heavy sales by holders of all sorts. The market ranged steadily downward, but tho transactions after the first hour were light. July-pork opened at fll.fi) and sold off to t il.. A closing 2c higher. Lard is oft.07i?c compared with yesterday and ribs. 10c The loading futures ranged as follows:

OjUiont. Ojfnlng IlighetL Lowest. Closing. Wneatr-May.. fl.063t l.o6 11.06 $i.o June.... 1.063 1.0634 i.05t LQ5?i July 1.025k 1.023 i.oil 1.0124 Corn May.... 624 . C21 tlH 61 j June.... M 58 July 5 5U 677 6 Oats May &iht Hht Cl1 m Juue.... to &7- 497s July 474 474 464 4GJ rork May. 11.45 11.45 11.15 H.l7a . July ll.f.O 11.60 11.30 11.32 frcpt 11.W D.M 11.521 11.SS Lard-May.... 6.40 6.50 6.37c S.40 . July 6.f.0 S.ftt .5f S.521 8eyt 5.t3 6.85 6.72 2 C.75 Bh'trilM May 8.95 5.85 a.5 July 6.10 6.IJI2 6.00 6.01) Sept 6.40 6.40 6.30 60

Cash quotatious were as follows: Flour dnll and unchanged: No. 2 spring wheat, M.G6ai.tfi; No. 3 spring wheat, Wc 31.01; No. 2 red. tl.UKOl.Ob; No. 2 corn, (S: No. 2 oata, "lc; No. 2 white oats, 5134 JWioc: No. 3 white oats, SOSlioc; No. 2 rye. 91092c; No. 2 barley nominal; No. 3 barley, f. o. b.. 03 75c; No. 4 barley, f. o. b., 70c; No. 1 flaxseed. $1.15; prime timothyseed. $1.'801.LO; mess pork, per barrel. Sll.12Vail.15: lard, per pound. HIS 6.S7I2C;; short-rib aides (loose), 5.&"5.90c; dry-salted, shoulders boxed), 5.1 Otf-5.20c; short-clear sides (boxed), . C.:-0 0.40c; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gallon. $1.17; sugars unchanged. On the Produce Exchange, to-day, the butter market was unchanged Eggs, 14 14V. Receipts Flour, 6,000 brls; wheat, 18.000 bu; com, 157,000 bu; oats, 19000 bu; rye, 7,000 bn; barley. 8,000 bu. ShipmentsFlour, 7.CO0 brls; wheat, 1M),000 bu; corn, 21.8,000 bu; oats. 132.000 bu;rye, 2,000 bu; barley, none. . AT NEW TO UK. Ruling Prices In Produce at the Seaboard's Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK. May 16. Flour Receipts. 11. 92 packages; exports. 1..V-3 brls, and 5,413 sacks. The market was quiet, closing easy. Sales, 12,700 brls. Low extras, $3.90 4.50; winter wheat, low grades, $3,90S4.50; fair, to fancy, $4.(3025.40; patents, $4,850 5.00; Minnesota clear. SI. 503, 15; straights. 4.S525.20; Minnesota patents. $5.1006.15; rve mixtures, SLCCQruo. Corn-meal dull; yellow Western. $3.4004. Wheat Receipts. 74,800 bu; exports, 127,66," bo; sales. 4,060.000 bu futures, 97.000 bu spot. The spot market was dull and weaker; No. 2 red, 1.16 in store, $1.163401.17 at; oat, $1.163401.1814 f. o. b.; ungraded red, L0514'3Llu3; No. 1 Northern, to arrive, $1. 15340 1.16: No. 1 harl, to arrive, ILISIq L10; No. 2 Milwaukee, Sl.lO1 Options opened 2ti03fO higher on poor English weather reports, declined l3011oon good Western crop news, rallying and closing firm on expert demand at 1034O below yesterday; No. 2 red. May, closing at $1.15; June closing at $1.13; July, $l.O901.1O7g, closing at $1.10; August. $1.0f Vo1.065h, closing at $1.0534: September, $ l.om0l.O55gi, closing at $1.04; October, $).C434'1.051, closing at $1.05; December. &l.051Lv'3l.(n, closing at $L06; May, 1892, $1.098. closing at $1,007 B.nrlej- out of season. Barley malt dnll. Corn Receipts. 92.950 bu; exports, 7.752 bu; sales. 944,000 bu futures, 141.000 bu spot The spot market wus irreaular, weak and fairly active; No. 2. 690700 in elevator, 70100710 afloat; ungraded mixed, CbV3 73cT Options are 401c lower on free selling of increased receipts; May 9c, closing at C'.c; Jnne,e5gartr7lc closing at 6c; July, olVS&Vvc. closing at 65c; An gust. toV 047bC closing at C4; September closing at Oats Receipts. 63.000 bu; exports. 10 bu; sales. 160.000 bu futures. 51,000 bu spot. The spot market was dnll and lower. Options were dull and irregular. May closing at504c; June closing at SSr July, 51340 55c. closing at 55c; August. 44044c; Sep. tember. No. 2 white, 58c; mixed Western. 5l05ic; white Western, W07Oc; No. 2 Chicago. 570580. Hay quiet and firm; shipping, 50055c; good to choice, OO0N)c. Hops firm; State, common to choice, 25032c; Pacific coast, 2-")0324c Coffee Options opened steady from unchanged to 5 points decline, and closed barely steady from unchanged to 5 points down. 8ales, 11,250 bags, including the following: May.17.80c; July, 17.65017.70c; August. 17.2c; September, 16.5O016.wc; October, 15.90016c; November, 15.30c; December. 15.10c; ppot Rio dnll and steady; fair cargoes, 20c; No, 7,1812018;tc. Sugar Raw dull and nominal; fair refining, 27bc asked: centrifugals. 96 test. 3Ve. asked; refined quiet and unchanged. Molasses Foreign dull; New Orleans steady; common to fancy, 25035c. Rico dnll and steadr; domestic, fair to extra. 50634c; Japan, 63640. Cotton-seed oil dull and steady; crude, off grade. 25-S2yc; yellow, off grade, 350 ;0c. Tallow quiet and unsettled; city ($2 for packages). 50. Rosin quiet and steady; strained, common to good. $1.6001.65. Eggs firm; Western, 160 lfi1; receipts, 6,317 nsckages. Hides dnll and firm; wet-salted New Orleans, selected. 45)75 lbs, 6iSc; Texas, selected, 500 00 Its. 60bc Pork quiet and steady; old mess, $110 12.50: new mess. $12. 750 13.50; extra prime, $1L75012.25. Cut meats steady and quiet: pickledbellies, 54 e; pickled shoulders.434c; pickled hams. 930 104c Middles quiet and firm; short clear, 7c. Lard weaker and dull; Western ster.ai. V.w.lc. Options Sales. 1,250 tierces; itay. 6.70o askexl; June. 6.70o asked; July. .06,82c. closing at 6.T70 bid; August. 6.90c; September, 707.02c, closing at 7c bid. Butter dull and weak; Western dairy, 10 16c; Western creamery, 15c; Western factory, 13c; Elgin. 20o. Cheese quiet and easy; partsLims, bc. TltAD IN GENERAL. Quotations at Phlladslphla, Iialtimore, Cincinnati, 8U Louis and Other Points. ST. LOUIS. May 16. Flour steady and unchanged. Wheat opened weak and I40 below yesterday's latest figures, and values gradually easexl off nnder libera! selling, the decline not being checked until about 11 o'clock, when there was some recovery, but the market was unsettled to the close, which was 01o below yesterday's. No. 2 red. cash. $1.030 L04; May, 5 1.03 bid; July, 97Lj0'tt&io, closing at 97 78c;

Amrnst 0,1063. 1nainir at tW-Decern- I

ber, 98i0994c, closing at 984c. Corn opened steady and about unchanged, but eased oil, and the tendency was down to the close. '1 he last sales were at declines of 7801tc from yesterday's close; No. 2, cash, 5934c: May, 5934c. closing at 59 bid; July, 56140574c closing at 56. Oata quiet and easier; No. 2, cash, 50c; July, 44044I4C, closing at 44c asked. Rye steady and quiet; No. 2, 89c. Barley, nothing done. Hay fairly active; prairid, $12; timothy, $13016.50. Bran quiet; sacked, f. o. b.. this side. 80c Flaxseed steady and unchanged. Butter lower; creamery, 15020c; dairy, 14018c Eggs weaker at 13c. Cornmeal steady at $3.1503.25. Whisky steady at $1.18. Bagging, 547c. Iron cotton ties, $1.3501.40. Provisions quiet and demand light. Pork, standard mess, $11,500 11.024. Lard, 6.124c bid. Dry-salt meats Boxed shoulders, 5c; longs. 6.15c; ribs, 6.2006.25c; short clear, 6.374c. BaconBoxed shoulders. 5.50c; longs, 6.5506.6Ocj ribs. 6.60c; short clear. 6.75c. Hams. 100 12c Receipts Flour, 3,000brl8; wheat, 13,000 bu; corn. 54,000 bu; oats. 49.000 bu: rye, I. 000 bu; barley, none. Shipments Flour, 5,000 brls; wheat, 3,000 bu; corn, 79.000 bu; oats. 14.000 bu; rye, none; barley, none. BALTIMORE. May 16. Wheat No. 2 red dull; spot, $1.15; the month, $1.14; June, $1,134; July. Sl.OOf August, 31.053; eteamer No. 2 red. $L124; receipts, 82,097 bn; stock. 204,264 bu. Corn Mixed dnll; spot and the month, 7O07O4c; July. 6534066iic; spot No. 2 white, 70c: receipts. 5.122 bu; stock, 87,748 bu. Oats steady; No. 2 white Western. 59000c; No. 2 mixed Western, 58 059c; receipts, 2,000 bu; stock, 88.044 bu. Rye quiet; No. 2, 95c; stock, 8.040 bu. Hay firm; good to choice timothy, $11012. Provisions quiet, ' Mess pork, old, $12; mess pork, new, $13. Bulk meats Loose shoulders. 5.75c; long clear and clear-rib aides, 6.75c; sugar-pickled shoulders, 6.50c; sugarcured sacked shoulders, 7.50c: hams. 11.250 II. 750. Lard, refined, 84. Butter dull and lower; creamery, fancy, 20c; creamery, fair to choice, 17 19c; creamery, imitation, 15016c; ladle, fancy. 14015c; ladle, good to choice. 12014c; rolls, fine, 15c; rolls, fair to good. 12014c; store packed, 12015c Eggs active at 15c. Coffee firm and unchanged. PHILADELPHIA, May 16.-Flour steady but dull. Wheat Options irregular. Milling grades scarce ana dnll; No. 2 red. May, Sl.lo01.14; June. $1.1201.124; J nly, $1,094 t&l.lO Corn Car lots weak and unsettled, closing 4c lower. Options wholly nominal. No. 2 mixed, in grain depot and elevator, 72: No. 2 mixed. May, 694070c; June, 684069c; Jnly, 670674c; August. 664 H7c. Oats weak; No, 2 mixed, 5Cc; No. 3 white. 56U 0',7c; No. 2 white. 5458c; No. 2 white. May, 57405tc; June, 580584c; July, 68k084o. Provisions in fair demand and steady. Butter dull and weak; Pennsylvania creamery, extra. 20c; Pennsylvania prints, extra. 26027c. Eggs dull but steady; Pennsylvania firsts, 164- ReceiptsFlour, 2,100 brls and 8,400 sacks; corn, 43,600 bu: oats, 13,000 bu. Shipments Wheat, 600 bu; corn 75,000 bu; oats, 16,700 bn. MINNEAPOLIS. May 1G.-Sample wheat was dull to-day at a lower range of prices. The offerings were not large but they were in excess of the demand, which was light for the best wheat. There was little demand for the poorer classes and few sales made. One buyer took about all the No. 1 Northern that was sold at lo under Jnly. Elevator companies were not in the market, and only a few cars were bought to go to outside mills. Receipts, 116 cars; shipments, 111 cars. Closing prices: No. 1 hard. May, $1.09: on track, $1,094- No. 1 Northern, May, $1.04; June. $1.07; July.$1.077B; on track, $1.07. No. 2Northern, May, $1.04: on track. $1.01401.05. CINCINNATI. May lC-Flour dull and neglected. Wheat heavy; No. 2 red, $1.06' 01.07; receipts. 2,500 bu: shipments, none. Corn lower; No. 2 mixed, 64o. Oats doll and lower; No. 2 mixed, 54c. Rye scarce; No. 2. 92c. Provisions quiet aud easier. Whisky steady: sales, 1,103 brls of finished goods on a basis of $1.17. Butter heavy und tending lower. Sugar in light demand. Eggs firm at 14c. Cheese eteaay. TOLEDO. May 10. Wheat dull and lower; caah ami May, $1.09: July, fl.Ol: August, 99lsc; December. $1,014. Corn dull and easier; cash. 63c. Oats quiet; cash. 53c Clover-seed steady; cash. $4.20. Receipts Flour. l'JS brls; wheat. 7,945 bu; corn,T0.S49 bu. Shipments Flour. 1,202 brls; wheat. 40,500 bu; corn. 23.SO0 bu; rye, 408 bu. DETROIT, May 10. Wheat No. 1 white, casu, $1.10; No. 2 red, cash and May, $1.0.-'4; July, $1.0134 asked; August, Wg asked. Com No. 2, cash. 65o asked; May, 64 4. Oats No. 2. cash, 514c; No. 2 white, cash. 53c Receipts Wheat, 6,000 bu; corn, 7,000 bu; oats, 5,800 bn. on NEW YORK, May 1 6. Petroleum opened steadr, advanced c on a few buying orders from tb West, then became dull, and remained bo uutll the close. Pennsylvania oil. June option Opening, 6c; highest, 6$34c; lowest. 08c; closinc, 68 Sic. Total sales, lo.ooo brls. Turpentine dull und steady at 39 U a 39 4c OIL CITY, May 1 6.-N at ion al t ansit certificates opened at 67340; highest, 59c; lowest, 674c; closed. 68a Bales. 69,CKl brls; clearances, 412,000 Iris: charters, 30,158 brls; shipments. 57,824 brls; runs, 84.000 brld. WILMINGTON, May 16.-8pirits of turpentine firm at 354c. lioun firm; strained, $1.25; pood strained. $1,274. Tar firm at $1.50. Crude turpentine Urni; hard, f 1.40; yellow dip, $2.40; virgin. $2.40. CLEVELAND, May 16. Fetroleura quiet; standard white, 110, 63c; gasoline, 74', 84c; gasoline, 86, 12c; naphtha, 63, 64c PITTSBURG, May 10. Petroleum National transit certificates opened at 68c; closed at 680; highest. 680; lowest, 67c CHARLESTON, May 1 6. Turpentine steady at 354c Kosln nnn; good strained, f 1.35. SAVANNAH, May 16. Turpentine firm at 35 4c Rosin firm at $1.42 4 1.52 4. Cotton. NEW ORLEANS. May 16. Cotton dnll: middling, 8 "fee; low middling, 74C; gooa ordinary, 7 1-1 6c Net receipts, 737 bales; gToss receipts, 1,337 bales; exports to Great Britain, 3,700 bale: coastwise. 10 bales; sales, 350 bales; stock. 174,513 bales. Metals. 8T. LOUI8. May 16. Lead steady and unchanged at 3.974c. NEW YORK, May 16. Plg-lron dull; American, $16&18. LIVE STOCK. Good Cattle Unchanged Hogs Slow and Lower Sheep Unchanged. INDIANAPOLIS. May 1& Cattle Receipts, 100; shipments, 250. There was but few fresh arrivals, and the offerings were generally common stock. The demand was not good on that olass, while good grades were steady. About everything sold at the close: Export grades f 5.25a 5.75 Ciood to choice shippers 4.7005.10 Pair to medium shippers 4.0oa4.:t5 Common shippers 3.3503.75 Rockers, common to good 2.752 3.25 Good to choice heifers 3.75 4.25 Pair to medium heifers 3.003.60 Light, thiu heifers 2.502-3.00 Good to choice cows. 3.5034.00 Pair to medium cows - 2.5033.25 Common old cows 1.25 ct 2.25 Yesls, common to choice. 3.0025.O0 Pulls, common to choice 2.50 4.00 Milkers, common to choice 15.002 35.00 HOGS Receipts, 2,350: shipments, 1,950. The quality was fair. The market opened slow and a shade lower on heavy grades, and closed quiet, with all soid: ITeavy packing and suipplng $4.632s4.75 Mixed 4.50 r 4.65 Light 4.254.60 Heavy roughs 3.75 i 4.1 5 Pigs 3.2524.00 Sheep and Lambs Receipts, S50; shipments, . The market was quiet at unchanged prices; wool grades not wanted: Good to choice clipped $4.6035.00 Pair to medium cupped 4.0O34.40 ommon clipped 3.0033.75 Pucks V head 3.O0df5.00 Spring lambs (30 to 60 IBs) 5.50 a 7.00 Elsewhere. CHICAGO. May 16. The Evening Journal reports: Cattle Receipts. 1.500; ship-; m en ts. 1,000. The market was steady. Extra to prime steers. $600.25: others. 4.500 6.90; Texans. $3.5004.85; cow. Jf2.5503.5O. Hogs Receipts. 10.000; shipments, 6.000. The market was steady. Rough and common, $3.7504.25;, mixed and packers. $4,400 4.70; prime heavy and butchers' weights, $4.7504.85: light. $404.70. bheep Receipts, 500: Fhiprnente, S.C00. The market was steady. Westerns, $5.50 5.65: lambs, $6.5007.50. BUFFALO, May 16. Cattle Receipts, 145 car-loads through and ? car-loads for sale. Market dull nnd slow: nothing doing. Veals slower; good to choice, $4.5005.25; common to fair, $304. Hogs Receipts. 85 car-loads through and 54 car-loads for sale fresh and hcld-over stock. Yorkers, light to good. $4.700485; mediums, 4.9505; pig. $4.500 4.05. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 7 car-loads through and 5 car-loads for sale fresh; 6 car-loads held over. Market stronger

and active. Clipped sheep, fair to best, $5.2505.65; common, $4.5005; Colorado clipped. 5.40; clipped lambs, $6.2506.65; common, $5.2506. CINCINNATI. May 16. Cattle inlightdemand and steady. Common, 2.250 3. 60; fair to choice butchers' grades. $3.7505.50; prime to choice shippers, $5.2505.85. Receipts, 190; shipments, 250. Hogs quiet. Common and light, $3,750 4.80; packing and butchers', $4.5005. Receipts, 1,040; shipments, 350. Sheep easy. Common to choice, sheared, $3.5005; extra fat wethers and yearlings. $5.250 5.5a Receipts. 2,760: shipments. 2,260. Lambs Fair demand and easy for spring. Common to choice. $5.5005.75. EAST LIBERTY. May 16. Cattle Receipta, 819; shipments, 567. Nothing doing, all through consignments. No cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 4,650; shipments, 3,950. Market dull; Philadelphia. $505.10; best Yorkers and mixed. $4.8004.90; pigs, $40 4.50. Fifteen car-loads of hogs were shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 900; shipments, 400. Market slow at yesterday's prices. ST. LOUIS, May 16. Cattle Receipts. 700; shipments, none. Market steady. Good to fancy native steers. $5.1506.10; fair to good native steers, $4.1005.25; Texans and Indians, stronger, $3.5004.90. Hogs Receipts, 1,000; shipments. 1.600. Market steady. Fair to choice heavy, $4.00 04.75; mixed grades, $4.2004.05; light, fair to best, $4. 5004.6a Sheep Receipts. 200; shipments, none. Market steady. Good to choice, clipped, $405.80. KANSAS CITY, May 16. Cattle Receipts. 2,030; shipments, 820. The market was steady. Steers. $3.0505.05; cows. $2.60 04.75; stockers and feeders, $2.9004.50. Hogs Receipts, 6.200; shipments, 3,240. Market steady. Bulk, $4.4004.50; all grades. $304.65. . Sheep Receipts, 1,330. Market lower. IDIAKAPOLIS MARKKTii

A Week In Which Business Has Been Very Satisfactory in Its Volume. INDIANAPOLIS. May ia-Wholesale men, almost without exception, speak of trade as being of very satisfactory proportions and the business conditions promising in character. Prices, at a rule, carry a very firm, steady tone. Where prices have weakened, as in the produce markets, it is on articles which rule high in price, in fact, exorbitant in prices The coming in of green stuff quite freely, largely of home production, has tended to weaken prices on all kinds of vegetables. Cabbages, potatoes and the like are now getting in reach of the laboring classes. Oranges, strawberries and pine apples seldom sell at lower figures so early in the season. Some very good berries have been sold this week as low as $2 per case of twenty-four quarts. Some fine oranges are coming on to the market, which sell at $3.25 per box. Lemons are scarce and high. Old Irish potatoes are weak at quotations, and next week lower prices are looked for on new potatoes. Eggs, butter and poultry all rnle easy at prices quoted. In groceries there is a healthy movement. Sugars are firmer, while cdf ves are in very strong position, and further advance in prices or roasted grades probable. The seed men report trade slow, prices uuohanged, except on clover, which is weak at Thursday's revision of prices. The leather market is active at unchanged prices. The bide market is dull and prices weak. GRAIN. It was blue Saturday in the local market.' Wheat went off 2c and the other cereals were dull and lower. Track . bids to-day ruled as follows: Wheat NV2 red. $1.03; No. 8 red. $1.00; rejected. 850i5c: unmerchantable, 65075c. Corn No, 1 white, 07c; No. 2 white. 664c; white mixed, 6'c: No. 3 white, 66c; No. 2 yellow, 63c; No; 3 yellow, 624c; No. 3 mixed, 6Cc; No. S mixed, 624c; sound ear, 03c. Oats No. 2 white, 5?c; No. i white, 50c; No. 2 mixed, 50e; rejected, 47c. Bran Local dealers are bidding $13. Hay Timothy, choice, $14; No. 1, 13.50t No. 2. $ 11.50; No. 1 prairie, $7.50; No. 2 prairie, $0.50; mixed hay, $7. Poultry nens, 7403c -ft; young chick ens. 1501Sc.t ft; turkeys, fat. choice hens, 10c " ; ducks, 60 lb; geese, $304.20 perdoz. Butter Creamery, choice, 20022c; choice country, roll. 12014c: common. 608c Eggs Shippers paying 12o; selling from store at 14c Feathers Prime geese, S5o B; mixed duck, 20c i 15. Beeswax Dark. 18c;' yellow, 20a Sheepskins 40c 0 SI. Horse Hides 2. Grease White, S54C; yellow. So; brown, 24c Tallow No. 1, 44c; No. 2, 3340. Wool Tub-washed and picked, 85c; unwashed medium and common grades, if in' good order, 22025c; burry and cotted, 160 18c; fleeced-washed. if light and in good order, 28030c; burry and unmerchantable, according to their value Hides-No. 1 G. S. hides, 6c; No. 3 G. S. hides, 5c; No. 1 green, 4c; No. 2 green, 3c 'Indianapolis Jobbing Trade. The quotations given below are the selling prices cj wholesale dealers. 1 CAHNETJ GOODS. Peaches Standard S-ponnd. $2.7503.00; 3- nonnd seconds, $2.6502,75, Miscellaneous Blackberries, 2-pound, $1.1001.20; raspberries, 2-pound, $1.2001.30; pineapple, standard, 2-pound, $1.4002.50; seconds, 2-pound, $1.2001.25; coveoy sters, 1-pound, f oil wei ghfc. $1.1501.20; light, 80085c; 2-pound, full, $2.15 02.25; light, $1.20; stnng beans. 85005c; Lima beans, $1.2001.30; peas, marrowfat, $1.2001.40; small, $1.5001.75; lobsters. $1.83 02: red cherries, 95c$1.10; strawberries, $1.2001.30; salmon (lbs), $1.9O02.5a COAL AND COKE. Anthracite coal, stove size, $7 ton; egg and grate size, $6.75; Pittsburg and Raymond City, $4.50 4 per ton: Jackson, $4; block, $3.50; Island City, $3.25; Blossburg and Indiana Cannel, $5. All nut coals 50 cents below above quotations. Coke Connellsville. $3.75 load; crushed, $3 load; lump. $2.75 load. DRY GOODS. Ble tched Sheetings Biackstone AA, the. Ballon &. Son. 74c; Chestnut ilill. Co; Cabo; 4- 4, 74c; Chapman X, 64c; Dwight Star St lc; Friitof the Loom. 834C; Lonsdale, 834c; Linwcod, 8c; MasonviBe. 834C, New York Mills, 1034c; Our Own, 5S4c; Pepperell 9-4, L2c; Pepperell 10-4. 24c; Hills. 8c; Hope. 74c; Knight's Cambric. 8c; Lonsdale Cambric 104c; Whitinsville, S3-inch, 64c; Wamsutta. I03ic. v Ontario. $16.50: Stark A. $22. Brown Sheetings Atlantic A, 74c; Boott C, 54c; Agawam F, 54c; Bedford It, 5c; Augnsta. 54c: Boott AL. 7c; Continental C, 634C; Dwight 8tar, 8c; Echo Lake, 64c; GramtevillH E"5, 64c; Lawrence LL, 54c Pepperell E. 7c; Pepperell R. 64c; Peoperell 9-4. 2oc; Pepperell 10-4, 22c; Utica 9-4. 224c; Utica 10-4. 204c; Utica C, 4Ljc. Prints American fancy. 54c; Allen's fancy, 54e; Alien'. dark.5c; A lien's pink, 54c; Arnold's, 54c: Berlin solid colors. 54c: Cocheco, 54c; Dunnell's, 54c; Eddvstone. 54c; Hartel. 54c; Harmony, 44c; Hamilton. 54c; Greenwich. 54c; Knickerbocker, 54: Mai lory pink. 64c; prices on dress styles irregular; deuends on pattern. Ginghams Amoskeag. 7c; Bates. 64c; Gloucester, 6J4c; Glasgow, 6c; Lancaster. 7c; Raneltn&n's. 74?: Renfrew Madras. 84c; Cumberland, 6c; White, 64c: Bookfold,94c Prime Caiubries Manvilie. 6c; S. S. & Son, 6c; Masonville, 6c; Garner, 6c Tickings Amoskeag ACA. 124c; Conestoga BF, 144: Conestoga extra, 134?; Conestoga Gold Medal, 134c; Conestoga CCA, 12c; Conestoga A A. 10c; Conestoga X. Cc; Pearl River, 12c: Falls OBO, 32-inch, 124c; Methueu AA. 124c; Oakland A, 64c, Pwift River, 64c; York, 32-inch, 124c; York; iXMnch, 104c. DRUGS. Alcohol, $2.3102.45; assafcelida. 15020c, alum. 405c; camphor. 50055c; cochineal, 50055c; chloroform, 60005c; copperas, brls. 85c0$l; cream tartar, pure, 30035c; indigo, 60081c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30045c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25035c; morphine, P. &. W.. oz. $2.55; madder, 12014c; oil, castor, v&l, 1.2001.25; oil. bergamot. Mi. 3.7504' opium. $3.25; quinine. P. & W., 4 oz. 3-;0?Sc; balsam copaiba, 70075c; soap, Castile, Fr.. 12016c: soda, bicarb.. 4406c; salts, Epsom. 405c; sulphur. Hour, 406c; saltpeter. 8020c; turpentine, 46048c; glycerine. 22026c; iodide potass.. $3.8503: bromide potass.. 40042c: chlorate potash, 25c; borax, 13015c; cmchonidia, 12015c; carbolic, acid, 85040c. Oils Linseed oil. raw, 55058c gal; coal oil, legal test, Ox40 14c; bank, 40c; best

Grain Bags American, $17; Atlantic, $18; Franklinville, $18.50; Lewiston. $17.50; Cumberland. $17: Groeers. 818.50: Harm or. v. 17i

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straits, 50c; Labrador. 60c; West Virginia lubricating. 20030c: miners'. 65c. Lard oils. No. 1, 5055c; do., extra, 65070c. White Lead Pure. 7 4C FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Apples Choice, $5.5006 & brl; medium, $4. Onions Cuban onions, $3 per bushel crate Pine-apples $101.75 per dozen. New Potatoes 7.5O0s barrel. Green Peas $1.500 1.75 per box. Green Beans $3.2503.75 per box. Cucumbers 60070c per dozen. Strawberries $2.2532.75 per crate of twenty-four quarts: Illinois berries. $3. Potatoes $3 brl from can 8L10 bushel. Cabbage Florida, $1.2501.50 per crate. Mobile, $1.2501.50 per crate. FOREIGN' FRUITS. Bananas, $1.2502.25 bunch. Lemons Messina, choice, $5 box; fancy, $V Oranges Florida. $3.7504 box; California oranges, $303.25 p box Figs, 12 014c. Prunes Turkish, 7 43 8c-QROCEIUKS-Sugara Hard, 458'2)54c: confectioners' A. 4404 Vi; off A, 4040; coff ee A, 414043(?c; white extra C, 4k04i4c; extra C. 404i4c; good yellows, 404c; fair yellows, 37g0 4c; common vellows. 3:,t0378C Corlees Good. 224234c; prime, 234 244c; strictly prime to choice. 2442540; fancy green and yellow, 26027c; old government Java, 35086c; ordinary Java, 3014 31 14c; imitation Java. 28029c Roasted coff ees, 1 lb packages. 254c; Banner. 25c; Lion. 2534c; Gates's Blended Java, 2534c; Arbuckle's, 25 4C , Beans Choice band-pickei navy, $2,550 2,65 bu; medium hand-picked, $2,600 2.60. Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 35045c; choice, 45055c Syrups, 83043c Wrapning-Paper Light-weight straw. 23403c & lb; light-weight rag. 23403c fc lb; heavy-weight straw, l402c 15; heavyweight rag. 23So lb; Manila. No. 1. 80 9c; No. 2, 54064c; print paper. No. 1,607c; No. 3, 8. & C., 10011c; No. 2, & & S., 809c; Nc 1. 8. fc C. 7i08c Spices Pepper, 16018c; allspice. 12015c; cloves, 26080c; cassia, 10012c; nutmegs, 800 85o & lb. Rice Louisiana, 6074o Salt In car lots, 95c; small lota. $101.05. Flour Sacks No. 1 drab, J4 brl, $33 1,000; Lj brl, $17; lighter weights, $1 L000 less. 8 hot $1.500 1.55 p bag for drop. Lead 7070 for pressed bars. Wooden ware No. 1 tubs, $707.25; No. 3 tubs. $606.25; No. 3 tubs. $505.25; 3-hoop pails. $1.7001.75; 2-hoop pails, $1.4001.45; double washboaids. $2.250k2.75; common washboards, $1.5001.85; clothes-pines, 500 65c box. Wooden Dishes Per 100,1 B, 20c;2fts, 25c; 3 lbs, 30c; 5 tts, 40c Twine Hemo. 120180 IB; wool, 8010c; flax, 20030c; paper. 18c; jute, 12015c; cotton, 16025c IRON AND STEEL. Bar iron (rates), 1.9002c; horseshoe bar, 8c; nail rod, 6c; plow-slabs. 3c; American cast steel, 9o; tire steel, 3c; spring steel, 5c LEATHER. Leather Oak sole, 28034c; hemlock sole, 24030c; harness, 20033c: skirting, S2034c; black bridle, doz.. $60065; fair bridle. $60078 doz.; city kip, 65085c; French kip, 85O0S1.1O; city calfskins, 70090c; French calf-skins, $10 1.8a NAILS AND HORSESHOES. ' Steel cut nails. $1.90; wire nails, $2.40, rates; horseshoes, keg, &L25; mule-shoes, keg, $5.25; horse nails, 405. OILCAKE. Oil cake, $23 ton; oil meal, $23. TINNERS' SUPPLIES. Best brand charcoal tin. 1C. 10x14. 14x20, 12x12, $7.50; IX, 10x14, 14x20, and 12x12, $8.95 9; IC. 14x20. rooting tip. $5.7506; IC. 20x 28. $11.50012.50; block tin. in pigs, 26c; in bars, 28c Iron 27 B iron, 34c; C iron, 5c; galvanized, 50 and 10 to 60 per cent, discount. Sheet zinc. 74c Copper bottoms, 80c Planished copper, 86c. Solder 17018c PROVIelONSJobblng Prices Smoked meats Sugarcured hams,' 20 lbs average, 9:,40; 174 lbs average, 10c; 15 lbs average, lOc; 124 lbs average. 10c; 10 lbs average, 11c; block hams, 13 to 18 IBs average, 104c; boneless bam, 84c; California hams. 10 to 14 lbs average, 64c; Break f as t bacon, clear, 104c; very light pieces. 10c; sugar-cured. 9c: English-cured shoulders, 11 lbs average, 74c; 16 Its average, 6;c; sngar-enred, 10 to 12 lbs average, 60. Bacon Clear sides, 20 to 25 lbs average, 74c; 40 lbs average, 74c; clear bellies, 11 IBs average, 7 34c; range of 15 to 30 lbs. without selection, 70; clear backs, 8 lbs average, 714c; 15 lbs average, 7140; flitches, short backs, 6 IBs average, 64c Dried-beef hams, inside pieces and knuckles, ISc; special selection of knuckle pieces or' inside pieces, 4c advance will be charged; hnm, outside only. 8c; beef tongues, 50c each; canvased. 5c additional Bologna, cloth, 6c; skins, large. 640; small, 64c: Wiener-wurst, 84c Dry-salt and pickled meats Clear sides, clear belhes,clear backs, 4c less, than smoked; short fat backs. 7 lbs average, Cc; bean pork, clear, per bbl 200 lbs $14; bam and rump pork, per bbl 200 IBs, $11. Aleo half barrels, 100 IBs, 'at half the price of the bbl, adding 50o to cover additional cost of packages. Lard Pure kettle-rendered, in tierces, 84c; "Indiana," in tierces, 714c. SEEDS. Clover Extr; choice recleaned, CO IB bu $4.504.65; chov:e. $4.1004.35; prime, $ VI50 4.15; English, choice. $4.5005; Alsike, as to quality, $8.50010; Alfalfa, $6.5007; white Dutch, as to quality. $809. Timothy, fancy. 45 IB bu, $1.6001.70; choice, $L550, 1.00. strictly prime, $1.5001.55. Blue-grass, fancy Kentucky. 14 lb bu. $303.25; English, choice, 24 lb bu, $1.8501.95. Orchard Grass, choice, 14 lb bu. $1.8502. Italian Rye grass, choice, 16 IB bu, $L5O0L75. Red Top, choice, 14 lb' bu, 65070c Millet, true German, $1.4001.50; common, $1.1501.25. Hungarian, choice. S1.2O0L35. Buokwheat, ailyerhull, $L2O0L4O.

, Ileal-Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the recorder's office of Marlon county, Indiana, for the twentylour hours ending at 8 r. m.. May 16, 1891, as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, Uartford Block. No. 84 East Market street: Caleb Johnson to Silas Johnson, part 01 the southwest quarter or section 2, township 14, range 2 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company to James A. New, lots 90, 97. OS and 99, Bruce Place Washington T. bootten to George Browu, lot 28, square 4. in Caven & IttK-k wood's East Woodlawn subdivision Arthur V. Brown to William O. Foust, lot 29, U. B. Pernio ary addition to West Indianapolis James M. Leach to Hollie B. Leach, part of the southeast quarter of wo tion 28, township 16, range 4 Isaac F. Beeder to Sarah Iloward, part of lot 9, square 1, In Harris's subdivision of outlot 157 Fanny E. Seabrook to frarah A. Htoben, lot 3, Haiigh's subdivision of lot 3, In 8t. Clair's addition Albert W. Denny, trustee, to Marv - Hardy, lot 24, square 1. in Caven iz Rockwood's East Woodlawn subdivision $2,000.00 13,000.00 1,550.00 300.00 650.00 33.00 6,000.00 375.00 Conveyances, 8; consideration $23,908.00 For tho week: Conveyances, 95; coneideratlon. $154,428.00. . Cooklng Chickens. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegrs ph. Housekeepers do not all know that a chicken, after the animal heat leaves the body, is not fit for food in less than twenty-four hours. During this time the muscles are stiffened by the rigor that succeeds directly after the departure of animal beat in all animals, and are tougher thau they are at any time previous. In Virginia and many parts of the South cooks kill and dress poultry with great rapidity, and plunge the pieces of chicken, while they are still warm with animal heat, into the frying-kettlc This secures the tender, succulent dishes of fried chicken which are justly the pride of the old Virginia cook. There is something repulsive to the Northern housewife in serving up a fowl that, was perhaps a few moments before strut-' ting about, the pride of the yard. An equally good and tender dish of chicken may be attained by keeping the fowl till the muscle:, relax, and it is in prime erudition for food. ln fact, only by the r.tpid process of frying can a chicnen be cooked done before the muscles stifien. This the Southern cook knows, and she never attempts to fricasse or roast a fowl that has not been bung at least twenty-four hours. A Point for Farmers. Philadelphia Inquirer. By associating together more closely, farmers may, in time, come to act together in business afiairs; they may come to buy and sell together, and so control those with whom they deal instead of being controled by them. In selling the products of the farm when these are staples not so much is to be gained by acting together, for. be-

log a producer, sales must be made at wholesale prices, but in buying much can be accomplished by united action; buying in small quantities always means buying at a disadvantage. The small purchaser pays the top price of the market for both luxuries and necessities. By combining the orders for the weekly supplies of a dozen families a discount could be obtained on almost every item, and in the course of a year the saving would amount to a snug sum for each. Beet Cultivation for Sugar. Prairie Farmer. In answer to letters asking for precise information on the cultivation of the beet for sugar-making purposes, we promised to write the matter up. Since that time the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, has issued Farmers' Bulletin No. 3, which contains the whole mazter. The Michigan Agricultural College (P. O. Agricultural College, Michigan) also puolished Bulletin No. 71. Both of these can be obtained on application. If the beets are to be tested for sugar, the seed must be from the best imported stock of pedigreed seed, which can be obtained of any of the larger importing firms, such as J. McThorbun & Co., Peter Henderson fc Co.. Geo. L. Squier &. Co., of New York: W. Atlee Burpee fe Co.. Philadelphia. In relation to planting and cultivation, the Michigan Agricultural Bulletin says: The crop should be planted early, not later than May 15, if the ground is in suitable condition. When the ground reaches the temperature of 50 F., it is safe to plant beets some days before it would be safe to plant corn. It is important to secure an early start for sugar beets so that the tap roots may secure a good bold on the soil before there is danger of dry weather. The beet wilL without injury, stand frost that would kill corn. Drill the seeds one inch deep, in rows eighteen inches apart, making the rows straight for ease in cultivating. After drilling, roll the ground once more to insure good contact of the seed- with the soil, and thus promote early germination. In Germany the rows are fourteen inches apart, but the cultivation is largely by hand. As soon as the rows of beets are plainly visible start the cultivator, not only to keep down all weeds, but to keep the surface of the soil open and porous. It is very important to secure and maintain a vigorous growth during the early period of plant life. When the beets nut forth the fourth leaf, and the root has about the diameter of a wheat straw, the plf.nts should be thinned out to one plant in a place and about ten inches apart in the row. The blade of a hoe is about seven inches wide, and by cutting out the beets by a stroke of a hoe leaving a clump of plants three inches long, the preliminary thinning may be rapidly done, and in a day or two these clumps must be thinned by hand to a single plant. This thinning to a single plant is icdispensible, for If two or more plants are left together the result will be ill-shaped and imperfectly-developed beets of no value for making sugar. A single beet in a place will secure a root of good conical form, without aide roots or "fingers and toes,11 about thirteen inches long, and weighing from one to two pounds each. Tms is the beet wanted. The beets should be hoed three times, and if the beet rises above the ground, it should be hilled up at each hoeing, because the part that ripens above the ground is of no value for making sugar. When the leaves cover the ground, and the crop has taken possession of the field, cultivation should stop, and the plants given time to ripen and develop the saccharine matter. If cultivation is prolonged, and vegetable growth too much stimulated, the sugar production may be dimin ished. Ways to Serve' Strawberries. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. For strawberry soutlle, put a quart of berries into a porcelain-lined stew-nan with a quarter of a pound of sugar and half a pint of water; stir constantly until the fruit becomes soft; then remove from the fire and press through a sieve. Rub four level tablespoonfuls of sifted flour smoothly with half a pint of cream and butter the size of an egg; add to the fruit, return the pan to the fire aud 6tir briskly. When the contents again reach the boiling point add the whipped yolks of six eggs, and lastly the whites, which have been whisked to a stiff froth. Fill a souffle mold at once, and br.ke in a moderate oven. A somewhat less expensive recipe calls for half a box of gelatine soaked for hall an hour in a gill of cold water; add a' gill of boiling water and stir until the gelatine is dissolved. Mix together a pint of strawberry juice and three-quarters of a pound of sugar; add the yolks of six eggs beaten to a cream. Strain the gelatine into this mixture and turn into a freezer. When frozen, stir in lightly and hastily a quart of whipped cream; repack the freezer and stand aside for two hours. This is sufficient for fifteen people. A little stale sponge or other sweet cake, a box of berries and some peach marmalade will make a pretty dessert. Cut the cake in half-inch slices of any shape and dry slightly in the oven; baste with partially melted marmalade or jam, cover with raw berries, and serve hot. with a sauce made by boiling half a oup of water, a cup of sugar and half a cup of jam. A strawberry tart is a delicious variation. Line a dish with paste, lay in a sheet of buttered paper and fill with crusts; bake until the pastry is done;' brush it over with a thick syrup made by boiling a half pound of sugar with a gill of water until when dropped upon a spoon it falls in threads. Dry in the oven, and when cool lay in half the box of berries, choosing the finest Mash the remainder and cook with the syrup made above until ready to jelly; spread this over the tart and serve cold. It may be further embellished with a few spoonfuls of whipped cream laid on top just before serving. , Dainty little tarts may be m adeby mashing a basket of berries with a cup of sugar and. adding two well-beaten eggs. Line little patty pans with paste, fill with this mixture, and bake. When cold heap a spoonful of whipped cream in the center of each, The Cheapness of Fat. Philadelphia Record. It is a fact that a fat animal is cheaper to produce than a lean one. as fat really costs nothing, so far as depriving the soil of nourishment is concerned. The cheapest article produced on the farm Is butter, if the labor is omitted, as butter -takes little or nothing from the soil. All carbonaceous compounds derive their carbon from the air through the agency of the leaves of plants, but the nitrogen and mineral matter is derived principally through tho agenoy of the roots. As the roots, derive their nourishment from the soil, they take from the soil that which is stored in the plants, whether in the stalks or seeds, but the fats, staroh and sugar are compounds that are formed by.the leaves absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, which unites with oxygen in the proper proportions necessary for the production of the many forms of carbon in plants. When feeding a matured animal there will be less mineral matter required than for one that is growing, and experience has long demonstrated that corn is one of the nest foods for that purpose known. When all operations on the farm are considered from a stand-point that permits of calculations to be based upon the actual value of the material taken from the soil, as well as upon the labor, there will then bono difficulty in learning the reason of certain fields becoming impoverished while others improve. Corn deprives the soil of but a small amount of mineral matter, about 10 per cent, of dry corn being water. 10 per cent, being flesh-formers and 72 per cent, being fat and beat-producing matter, though these percentages vary according to varieties of cor&, showing that the feeding of corn to stock is economical, as the more valuable elements are left in the manure. It is plain, then, that to make an animal very fat will be more profitable, when the fertility of the farm is considered, than to dispose of it in a lean condition, the extra weight not depriving the soil of but a small proportion of plant food. Thevsurface should never be sold in its originVl condition if it can be changed to something else with profit. Hay, when fed to dairy cows, and only the butter is sold, leaves a portion of the profit on the fann, as the butter is derived mostly from the .air. and it is to this fact that creameries which return the skim-milk and whey to their patrons have done much to increase the fertility of some farms by rendering the manure on the farms more valuable.

The cheapest fence on lands which- overflow, and where the posts heave out. is a hurdle fence made of wood, with the panels set somewhat zig-zag so it will not fall over, aud the ends wired together. Such kind of fence can be bad where lumber is cheap, as it can be made from the strips cut from boards which are straight-edged, and also from the slabs that can be obtained at the aaw-raills.

TEH POUHDS ITW TV0 WEEKS TIIIIIK OF IT I Am a Flesh Producer there can be no foxsticn but thzt Of Pae Ccd Unr Oil in J Hjjcptcsf Si tss Of Li mo and Soda is VTithout a rivaL. Elany hare pained a pouad a aay oy me uio cfiL It cures . CONSUMPTION. SCROFULA. BRONCHITIS, CO U PBS AND COLDS, AN 9 ALL FORMS Vf SAiinu EASES. AS PALATABLE AS MILK, lie ura you pet the genuine as there art poor imitations. XTOTICK OIT ASSIQNTI'S SALE OF EXOINT2, X BoUer and Holler-maker's Marhinsry. Tools. Plsat anl Material. In pursnaoce ot an order ot tba Marlon Circuit Court of Marlon conniy. Indiana, entered In the xnatwr ot the a'Sipnnient ct Armstrong Pros I wilL on and afur Friday. May 12, lH'Jl. oiler for salft, at rrivatesale. at the boiler-works lately occupied by Arnjtrr.njr Uros at the corner st l'ennsjlranla and Georgia streets, la the city f Indianapolis. Indlaua, th sngine. tUrrandall machinery aad tools usd to the boiler-works fonnerlr occupied and operated tj said firm of ArmstrongUros., together Un the lease on the boUrr-woria Eremists and all unsold scrap Iron sod tnaurisl on sod. AU to be sold in bulk to the nUchest andbevS bidder therefor, subject to the order of the Marion Circuit Court. Terms t sals: One-third imrchAsa price to bo piud In rash, and lutfance thereof in two eoual rajmtr ts In six and nine months, tesjctiTf ly. after date, purchaser rivmir bis note with approved security, collectable with atiornry's fees, with Interest at 6 per rent, per annum from date, and without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. johk li. :L k la N I . Aseicne. TlardinfC A Ilorey. Attorneys for TrnU JEFFERSONVILLE. Ixn.. May lrt. lS'Jl. 8! proposals, in triplicate, subject to usual conditions, will bo received her until 11 o'clock a. (central standard time), Monday, the 15th dayot June, lnyi. for furnlshtnjr at the Quartermaster's Deiot here. 100.0OO gallons of MineralOil. of 1 ." flash test, lu cases of two five-frallon esns Sach. lx liveries V commence before June SO. 1 JL Preference wul bo Kren to articles of domestic production aud tnanu. ctare, conditions of quality and price (includlnjr In th price ot fort-ifrn productions and manufactures the daiy thereon) boirut ejuid., and such preference will b siren to article of American production produced on the pacific coast to extent of the corsuuip. tion repaired try the public service there, tavern, ment reserves ;he riht to reject any or all proposaIs, and toaooept the whole quantity or any portion of the mineral oil bid for. All information famished, on application here. Envelope containicK proposal should be marked "Proposal fr Mineral OIL and addressed to 1IENKV C IIOlxlKH, Assistant Quartermaster-general. U. ti. Army. lepo Q.tuu termaater. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. A T'TTTATC E. C. CO- Manufacturer ant A 1 IVliX O Bepalrarsof ClUOULAR. CHOSi. uui, uau, ana su outer Beltins. Emery Wheels and MUlHnppUe. Iilm ols street, one squart south Union Htatlon. SAWS SAWS BEL.TING and EMEKY AV HEELS, Specialties ot W. B. Barry Saw Supply Co., 132 A 134 8. Penn. el All kinds of ttawa repaired. fTT T SUPPLIES AND ATT O iMLLiLi Opposite Union Station. J1 LiO Circular 8a ws. .belting. Emery Wheels, File. Wood, and Iron Pullevs, Oil Cup and tires.-. Telephone 1332. THE MILLER OIL CO. BABBEB HUPPLIFS. J. E. BO DINE A CO, 27 and 29 Circle street. Manufacturer ol the Indianapolis Razor aal liar, ber Furniture. McGILLIARD &. DARK, Oldest and Largest Fir Iniaranes Oea oral Aftasr tn Indianapolis, O0fr-Toorpa BUxi, tti aal si East Mark l street. INDIANAPOLIS STOVE 00. U scafaetvrers at . tTOVES A2TD IIOLLO W WIG B, 89 and T Sooth Martdlaa strst. SMITH'S DYE WORKS 67 NOBTII PENNSYLVANIA ST. Oents' clothing cleaned, dyed and repaired. Ladle' dresses cleaned and dred. L S. F. GALLOWAY Solicits eorrrpon!cnce on WOOL 200 South Pennsylvania St. A! Sizes, Styles ui Prices For all kinds of people. ' IT. T. HE A USE Y A CO., llrt llM N. Ponn. BL IUdinfr-schooi open day and evet U.K. lHOcttlt repairing a specialty. J. R ETAN & CO.. Commission .Merchants, Wolaaalo Dealers lu Grain, Flour, FestL liar. eta. 02 and 61 Jasl Maryland tL We tiare ths isrrest and best line of cheap and kiich KTsde WHEELS tn the city. Agent for the In, dlana Jiicycle Mffs line ot heels Victors, lUmbltr and Eagles. " HAY & WILLETS 113 West Washinpton Street, Opposite State-house. fV Amenta wanted In every town. SIIROYER & CROSS OFFER YOU (0 cm AS THE LEADING lO CENT CIGAJR Telephone 1181. 21 WEST MARYLAND ST. NEW PLANING MILL, 164 to 174 South New Jersey streL E. II. ELDIUDGIi & CO. fF"All kinds ot has-finib Lumber, fhlnrl, u JCordylco tfc Mnnnou Co. l.s tab, 1831 FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS Mill an! Elevator UoUJers. Indlnairf:ia. Ind. Holler MiUa. Mil . clesninir Mschinery.Mlddiinrs-punfters portable Mill, etc. etc Taa strsst cars lor stockyardu aP C0 ori 4 GEO. J. MAYER. SEALS, STENCILS. STAMPS, ETC. 15 South Meridian street, XndlanapoLa, Iai Baal for ca tao lira a. DENTIST. E. E REESE, 249 East Ohio sL. bet Merldla aad Pent. EEMOVAL. MAY BROS.-MANTELS Have removed Ui northeast corner Delaware and Ohio atraeta. here they show th Urrt urk ot Mantels In the city. Call aud iiiuu our gooda l furs placing ordrra,

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