Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1892 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1802.

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I COLLECTIONS AND BUSINESS The Former Are Slow and the Weather Unfavorably Affects the Latter. Wheat, Corn and Oats Were Firmer, on Slight Fluctuations and a Dull Market Poultrj and Trod ace Likelj to Be Higher. MONEY AND STOCKS. Clearings and Balances of the Six Associated Indianapolis Banks. The clearings yesterday amounted toSS9, 877.70; balances, $123.SS0.14. For the corresponding date of 1501 the clearings were $G3,0:25.9$; balances, $$2,139.18. Wholesalers complain somewhat of dull collections, and retailers say the stress of weather aflects business unfavorably. The deposits, however, are fairly good and the banks have a large snrplns of money to lend at 7 and 8 percent. NEW YORK QUOTATIONS. At New YorE:. yesterday, money on c3ll was easy, ranging from 2 to 2li per cent, the last Ipan being made at 2 per cent.; closing oflered at 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4i'2G per cent Sterling exchange was quiet and steady at $4.fc3 lor sixty-day bills and 54.fc5 lor demand. The total tales of stocks Trere 418,501 Bh ares, including the following: Atchison, 21,015; Canada Southern, 4.52C; Chicago Gas, 18.2GC; Delaware, LackawanaA; "Western, 7.11C; Erie.22.C53; Louisville & NashTille, 10,750; Missouri Pacific. 13,150; Northwestern. 5.9GS; North American. 4,873; New York Central. 4,745; Nortnern Pacitio preferred, lO.GCO; New England, 11.500; Pacifio Mail. SJOO; heading, Sl.CCC; Richmond SL West Point, 15.72.: St. Paul, 33,030; Union Paciiic. 13.9C5; Western Union. 3.377. The stock market was in the hands of the bearish element almost from opening to close, and material declines marked the changes in quotations since Saturday afternoon. The market throughout was very feverish, with considerable pressure. London was undoubtedly a buyer at the decline, and while the buying from other directions was good, it was scattering and utterly inadequate to stem the flood of of stocks, both for the long and short account, which were poured upon the market during the forenoon. The short interest was largely increased by the day's operations, as indicated in the loan crowd. While there was an utter lack of organized aborts the selling uncovered many stop-order., which let the whole list down. The declines were therefore even, and nothing showed any strength. The opening was irregular, but the pressure to sell was immediately apparent and prices fell away from the opening till well into the afternoon, the industrials leading the downward movement. Cordago preferred dropped 24 and Distillers 2 per cent., while the leadingrailroad shares deolined from 1 to 2 per cent. Heading, St. Paul and Kock Island were most prominent in the dealings, but . other stocks scored equally as heavy losses. The pressure was relieved towards 1 r. M.. and the market then fell into comparative dullness, punctuated by spells of weakness and activity, but prices rallied slightly without making a single marked movement, and the trading remained utterly devoid of features for the remainder of the day. The close was quiet ana steady to firm, but closed at lowest prices of the day. The final losses of importance among the leading shares were: Omaha, V; Cordage aud Distillers, each, 1H; Missouri Pacific, 1; Heading and Lake Shore, 1U; St. Paul, Canada Southern and Wheeling & Lake Erie, l1, and Kock Island and Lackawanna, 1 per cent. Kailroad bonds were in close sympathy with the share list, but the losses were not so pronounced, and only in a few of the speculative issues was there any marked activity. Kansas & Texas seconds, however, contributed $310,000, Atchison incomes $Cci,0CO, West Point fives. S1C6.000, to the day's total of $2,562,000. The Heading issues were weak, and Richmond & West Point deolined 2lfe, to 92, and Mobile seconds 2, to 108. Government bonds were dull and easier. State bonds were dull and steady. Closing quotations were: Four rer cent. TegllGis Louis. & Nash S0 I 5c New Albany., 2734 Missouri Paciiic... G07a N. J. Central 1124 Northern Pacllio.. 2 N. Pacific pref Ct Northwestern llS1 Northwestern pref 141 N. Y. Central 1135a our perct.coup..ii63 Pacitto ts of '95..109 Atchison 422 Adams Express. ..147 Alton If. ...... 33 Alton &T. H.pref.130 American ExprassllG Che. AOhio 20 C. Jt O. rref. lsts. 623 CAO.pref.2da.. 42 h C..B.AO lOTi-2 O. & Mississippi .. 85 w r u. &Ai.prex... Peoria, D. SOSg Pullman Palace....l87a Kock Island OOs U. 8. Express 43 W.,St.L.&P. 13 V e t L. & P. pref 2y5a Wella-Farco Ex... 140 Western Union.... S27a C, C, C. Octit.lt... 71&Del., Lack, dc W...1387e Fcrt Wayne 153 Lake Erie & W.... 21 14 L.E.& W.pref.... 71 Lake Fbore 120 Lead Trusts 10 . Bid. Par Silver At New ounce; at London, 43d. York, 03o per GRAIN AND OTUER PRODUCE. The Usual Inspections A Very Dull Cora Market, with Wheat but Uttle Better. On 'Change yesterday wheat was firmer, corn easier and oats dull. There were inspected in 0 cars of wheat, 13 of corn and 1 of hay. 13 avers for shipment noted that the corn market did not move more than an Ho all day, making yesterday the dullest market that has been known for a long time. Wheat was tolerably active early in the day, but declined somewhat under unfavorable reports from abroad and closed about whero it was on Saturday. Prices on 'Change yesterday were as follows: Wheat No. 2 red, DOc: No. 3 red. Sfic; rejected, 75-2:c: unmerchantable, f5'275c; wagon wheat, S'Jc Corn (all new) No. 1 white. 41c; No. 2 white. 40c: white mixed. S9c; No. 3 white,S9?J4c. latter for one color. No. 2 vellow, E0c: No. 3 yellow. Sc; No. 2 mixed. iOc; No. 3 mixed. Ic: ear. SSc. OatsNo. 2 white. S3c; No. 3 white, S2c; rejected. 31 3 32c. Hav Timothy, choice. $12.50: No. 1. 11.73; No. 2. $9.50; No. 1 prairie. gS; No. 2, 87; mixed hay. $7.50. Prat), $13 per ton. POULTKY AND OTUER PRODUCE. The heavy fall of snow yesterday will, it is expected, mako the country roads much worse than they have been, which will tend to advance prices. Shippers ore paying: Poultry II ens. 5c &; young chickens, 8c I lb; turkeys, fat, choice hens. 10c l ft, and 9c for fancy young toms; ducks, 70 lb; geese, $6 for choice. Game-Kabbits. 75c p doz.. selling at $L Eggs Shippers paying lc Putter Choice country. 12421 fc; common, 8310c; choice retailing from store at 25 20c. Cheese New York full cream. 13314c; skims. 507c 4? lb. (Selling prices.) Feathers Prime geese. 5c It; mixed duck. 200 i lb. x Peeswax Dark, 25c: yellow, 40o (selling pricey dealers pay 18 d 20c. Wool Tub-washed and picked, CO a 33 c; unwashed medium and common grades, if in cood order, 20223c; burry and cotted, 15&lSc; fine merino, 13c. 21 Met, Tallow, Etc. Hides No. 1 G. S. hides, 5c: No. 2 G. S. hides, 4c; No. 1 green, CMic; No. 2 green, ' Ilorse Hides 2.50-33. Tallow No. 1. 34c; No. ?, C"c Grease White, Sc; yellr-... Sc; brown, 2Hc. Pones Dry, 12 13 per t ju. , OR EE FttUITS AN!"- VEGETABLES. Prices remain uncL&uged. The demand (;i fxniti, especially oranges and lemons,

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continues only fairly good. Prices to dealers are as follows: Grapes CatAwbas, SCOo for 10-tb baskets and 13c for 5-Ifc; Emperors. 4.50 per 40-lb crate: Malagas. 7 for light-weight kegs, and SIliS for medium to full weight. Apples Common, $1.50; choice, fcLTS 2.25; fancy. ?-'.50 barrel.. Cranberries Cape Cod. 6.5037 y brl; Si25 bu; Jersey. &7iG & brl. Oranges Ploridas. $2.352.50 box; single box lots. $2.50. Lemons-Choice. $44.50 box; fancy, $4.5025; Malaga. $4. Pan anas ?la 1.50 bunch, according to size and quality. Celery Home-grown, COc bunch; Michigan, I5720c for common, 4045 for fancy white plumes. Potatoes Indiana. 44o bn from car; Michigan. 45c: from store, 45 50c. Sweet Potatoes Jersey. $23.Z t brl; Illinois. 3. Cabbage Home grown, 1.25 barrel; choice Michigan, 56 100; 1.25 p brl. Onions Yellow, 1 bushel; red. 1; Spanish onions, 1.35 crate. Cider Dufiy, pure, 4.75 y trade bTl; half oris. 3; Oliver Pros, sand refined. 5.505.75 brl: half brio. S3.25S3.50: Carson's New York pure, 4.50 4 brl: half brls. 2.50. Hickory Nuts Large, 75o bushel; small, 1.25. inC JOBBING TRADE.

The quotation given leloic are the selling prieet of c hot emit dealers. CANDIES AND NUTS. Candies Stick, Co per K; common mixed, Cc; G. A. 11. mixed, tc; cream mixed, 10c; old-time mixed, 7c; crin.p mixed, 10c. Nuts Soft-shelled almonds. 17c: pecans, 15c; English walnuts. 1015c; Prazilnuts, 10c; filberts, 12c; peanuts, roasted, 5 a 7c; mixed nuts, 12c. CANN'ED OOOD3. Peaches Standard, C-ponnd, Sl.75'32; 3-pound seconds. $1.30-)1.40; California standards, ?2.25&2.50; California seconds, S2S2.25. Miscellaneous Blackberries, 2pound, 852 95c: raspberries, 2-pound, 1.20 'a 1.30; pmeapplo, standard, 2-pound, $1.40 2.50; seconds. 2-pouud. 1.202.25; cove oysters. 1-pound, full weight, Sl.O5'a1.10; light, 0570c; 2-ponnd, full. filS'Sij; light. 1.20; string beans, &5ft'.5c; Lima beans. $1.10-1.20; pens, marrowfat, L10 I. 20; early June, $1.2501.50; lobsters. 1.85 'd2; red cherries. D5cS1.10; strawberries, S 1.201.30; salmon (lbs). 1.352.5a COAL AND COKE. Anthracite coal, all sizes. 7l ton; Pittsburg and Paymond City, 4.50 1 ton; Jackson, 4.25; block, 3.50; Island Citj 3.25; Plossburg and English cannel, 5. All nut coals 50 cents below above quotations. Coke Counellsville, 3.75 load; crushed, 3.25 p load; lump, 3 load. DRIED FRUITS. Apples Sun-dried, 4l-i2)5o per lb; evaporated, SSSc. Peaches Common sun-dried. 4j'35c per lb; common evaporated. 820c; California sun-dried, 71ii,illc; California evaporated, 9 15c. Apricots Sun-dried, 0)llc per lb; evaporated, ioai2c. Kaisius Loose Muscatel. 1.7522.25 per box; London layer, 222.50 per box; Valencia, 820c per lb; layer. 1)2)100. Currants 2tiHo per lb. Prunes Turkish, 730 per lb; California, 7 2? 10c. Pigs Layer. 13lCc per lb. DRUOf. Alcohol, 2.3122.45; asafetida, 25230c; alum, 425c; camphor, 55260c; cochineal, 50255c; chloroform, C02C5c; copperas, brls., 8.'5c2l; cream tartar, pure, 30235c; indigo. 0281c; licorice, Calab., genuino, 30245c; magnesia, carb., 2-oz., 2235c: morphine, P. fc W.. oz., $2.20; madder. 14218c; oil. castor, gal., 1.1521.20; oil, bergamont. lb. 4.50: opium. 2,25; quinine. P. & .. t oz., 31230c; balsam copaiba, 70S75c; soap, Castilev Fr.. 12210c: soda, bicarb.. 42 6c; salts, Epsom. 425c; sulphur, lloor, 520c; saltpeter. 8220c; turpentine, 40245c; glycerine, 18222c; iodido potass., 2.8528: bromide potass., 40 242c; chlorate potash, 18c; borax, 13215c; cincbonidia, 12215c; carbolic acid, 30235c. S Oils Linseed oil, raw. 87240o per gab; coal oil, legal test, 7214c; bank. 40c; best straits, 50c; Labrador, COc; West Virginia, lubricating. 2020c; miners'. 45c, Lard oils. No. 1, 50255c; do., extra, C02)G5c White Lead-Pure, 7Uc. IRON AND STEEL. Bar iron (rates), 1.0022c; Lcrseshoe bar. 3c; nail rod, Cc; plow-slabs, 3c; American cast steel, 0c; tire steel. Sc; spring steel, 5c DRY QOOD3. Pleached Sheetings Androscoggin L, 7Vic; Berkeley, No. 00, 7c; Cabot, 7c; Capital, Cc; Cumberland, 8c; Dwight Anchor. 8Mj; Fruit of Loom. 8Vjc; Farwell, 7:,4c; Fitchville. 6c; Full Width. 5 c; Gilt Edge, a4C; Gilded Age. 5c; Hill, 734c; Hope, 7o; Lmwood, 8c; Lonsdale, 8c; Lonsdale Cambric. 10c; Masonville, 8Mic; Peabody. 5c; Pride of the West, llc; Quinebaug, C34C; Starfcof the Nation, 6Vic; Ten Strike, C'sc; Peppereli, 9-4, 19c; Pepporell 10-4, 21c; Androscoggin 9-4, PH&c; Androscoggin 10-4. 21c. Brown Sheetings Atlantic A, 7c: Argyle. 6Uc; Boott C, 5Mc; Buck's Head, Gc; Clifton CCC. Cc; Constitution, 40-inch, 7Vic; Carlisle, 40-inch. 7c; Dwight Star. 7c; Great Falls E, 7c: Great Falls J, Cc; Lood Luck LLv 5Uc; Harper LL. 5c; Hill Fine, 7c; Indian Head. 7c: Lawrence LL, 5Uc: Lockwood B, 64c; Nabob Koyal, 3; Lone Jack II, S'Uc; Pensacola A, 5Mic: Princess. CVic; Saranao Ii, CWc; Trion Sea Island. 5c; Peppereli E, 7c; Peppereli K, Cc; Peppereli 9-'4, 17V2C; Peppereli 10-4, 19c; Androscoggin JM, 17Vac; Androscoggin 10-4, lime Prime Cambrics Manville, 5Hc; S. S. fc Son's, 5Hc; Masonville, 5V2C: Garner, 54c. Tickings Amoskeag ACA, 12V$c; Conestoga BF, 14Mjc; Cordis 140, 13c; Cordis FT, 13Vic; Cordis ACE. 12Mec; Hamilton awning, lOvc; Kimono Fancy, 18c; Lenox Fancy. 20c; Methnen AA, 12c; Oakland 200, 7Vc; Oakland 250, 8c; Oakland AF, 7c; Portsmouth, 12Vtc; Susanehauna, lihe; Shetucket SV, 7Vic; Shetucket F. 8c; Swift Piver. Gc. (Jrain Bags Amoskeacr. 10.50; American, 18.50; Franklin ville, 17.50; Harmouy, 10.50; Stark. 10.50. Ginghams Amoskeag Staples, Cc; Amoskeag Persian Dress, bkc; Bates Varwick Dress. 8c; Johnson BF Staples. Olfcc: Johnson BF Fancies, 8Mjc; Lancaster, 7c; Lancaster Nomanda, 8c; Carrolton, 4c; Renfrew Dross. 8Hc; Renfrew Novelties. lOMic; Whittinton Heather, 734c; Calcutta Dress Styles. 7M2C Prints Allen dress styles. 5Uc; Allen's staples, 5o; Allen TP, 514 c; Allen robes, 5 c; American indigo, 5Uc; American robes, Olsc; American shirtings, 5"Vic; Arnold merioojic; Arnold indigo, 5c; Arnold LCC, i'c; Arnold LCB, 10c; Arnold Gold Seal, 10c; Cocheco fancy, Cc; Cocheco madders, 5Mc; Hamilton fancy. Cc; Manchester fancy, Cc: Merrimack fancy? Cc; Merrimack pinks and purples, G'sc; Paciiic fancy, Cc; Pacitio robo, GMtc; Pacitio mourning. Cc; Simpson Eddyetono. (c: Simpson Berlin solids, 5c; Simpson's boil finish, 7c; Simpson's grey's Cc; Simpson's mournings, Cc. OnOCEHIES. Coffee Good, 202 21 Vic; prime, 21Vi2 22c; strictly primo to choice. 23223ic: fancy green and yellow, 25V2274c; old government Java. 3230c; ordinary Java, LUMj'S30c; imitation Java, 272284c. Poasted coffees 1-lb packages, 19l4C Sucars Hard, 424vic; granulated, 40; confectioners' A, 4lic; off A,424I.4C; extra C, 3U24c; goodyellows, 8i2235jC; fairyellows, 38 c. Molasses and Syrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 30240c; choice, 40 a) 50c: syrups. 3042c. Honey 1621ifc f lb. Pice Louisiana, 52GMtc; Carolina. 425c Beans Choice, hand-picked navv, 22) 2.25 bu; medium hand-picked, 222.10. Spices Pepper. 1C2 18c; allspice, 12215c; cloves 20225c; cassia, 10212c; nutmegs, 80 Wc i tb. Salt In car lots, C5c; 6mall lots. 101.05. Wood en ware No. 1 tubs, $727.25; No. 2 tubs, 0ai5; No. 3 tubs, 525.25; 3-hoop pails. $1.70tfl.75; 2-hoop pails. $1.4001.45; double washboard?, 2.2T22.75; common washboards, l.502LS5; clothes-pins, tOu 85c i box. Wooden Dishes Per 100. lib, 2Co; 21b 25c; SIbs. 30c; 51bs. 40c. Twine Hemp. 12218c tb; wool, 8210c; llax, 20230c; paper, 18c; jute, 12l5c; cotton. 10225c. Shot-Sl.5021.55 bag for drop. Lead 727 for pressed bars. Flour sacks (paper) Plain. 1-32 bbl, i 1.000. a50; 1-10. 5; bid. 8; bbl, 10; No. 2 drab, plain. 1-32 bbl. J 1.000. 3.75; 1-10, 6.25; l 10; . 2l; No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 1.000. 7; Ml'. 8.75; 14.50; '4. 28.50. Extra charge for printing. NAILS AND IIOB3ESIIOES. Steel cut nails, 1.80; wire nails. 2.10, rates; horseshoes. keg, 4.2"; mule-shoes, U keg. 5.25; horso-nails. 4'a5. OILCAKE. Oil cake, $24.J0 per ton; oil meal, 24.50. LEATIIEll. Leather Oak sole. 2-12S3c; hemlock sole. 22228c; harness, 21231c: skirting. 31253c; black bridle, t doz., 00205; fair bridle,

C0O78 p doz.; city kip, C5S5c; French hip. 65COS1.10; city calf-skins. 70c2l; French calf-skins. 11.80. PROVISION'S. Hams Sugar-cured, 20 lbs average, 02 9Msc; 18 lbs average. 914y14c; 15 lbs average, OMioc; 10 to 12 Mi lbs average. JPi'SlOe. Breakfast Bacon Clear, English-cured, 10211c. Bacon Clear sides, 25 to CO lbs overage, 7"4c; 40 lbs average. 7c; clear bellies, 10 lbs average, 84 c: 18 to 22 It a a erase, 74 c; clear backs, 8 lbs average, 7l2c. Shoulders English cored, 12 lbs average, 7c: 10 lbs average. rVjc. Dried Beef Inside pieces and knuckles, OVic; outside. OVsc Pickled Pork-iBean pork, clear brl 200 lbs. IC; family pork brl 200 lbs. $15; rump work. brl 200 lbs, 11. Lard Kettle-rendered, in tierces, Bl-H; lower grades, 727l.fcc. SEEDS. Clover Extra choice recleaned, 00-lb bn, 4.752LW: prime 4.0024.75: English, choice. 4.2524.50; Alsike. a9 to quality. 7.5020: Alfalfa. 5.5027; wbite Dutch, ns to quality. 739.50. Timothy Fancy. 45-lb bu. $1.702 l.K); choice, l.55l.); strictly prime, 1.5001.55. Blue-grass Fancy Kentucky. 14-lb bu 2.5022.75; English choice, 24-Ibbn, $1.8521.95. Orchard Grass Choice, 14-lb bu, 1. 521.50. Italian Pve GrassChoice, 18- lb bu. $1.5001.75. Pcd TopChoice, 14-lb bu. 45255c. TINNERS' SUPPLIES. Best brand charcoal tin, IC, 10x14. 14x20. 12x12, 7.50; IX. 10x14, 14x20 and 12x12. y.50; IC, 11x20. roofing tin, 5.7526; IC, 20x28, $11.50212.50; block tin. in pigs, 20c; in bars, 2Sc. Iron 27 B iron, 3'4c; C iron, 5c; galvanized, 50 and lOtoGO per cent, discount. Sheet zinc. 7c. Copper bottoms. 24c Planished cooper, 2Sc. bolder. 15216c.

PENSIONS FOR VETERANS. Residents of Indiana and Illinois Whose Claims Have Been Allowed. Pensions have been granted the following-named Indianians: Original Jerome mills, Charles J. Johnson. Additional A. W. Morgan. Increaso Lewis Myers. William A. Cowen. John E. Maddox. tieorgo Willis, anniel Ii. Yocum. KelAsue and Increase Abraham L. fctocer. Original widows, etc. Mary Bartlett, Aldretta E. Gregg. TO RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS. OnsriDal Lorenzo D. Evans, W'm. 8. Shepherd. Additional Wni. LaBounty, James Curley, John M. Williams. Increase 8amuel V. Toms. Adam Almanrode, Wni. llookei. James Connerly, Joseph Mc Uraw, W'm. II. Kuin. lleissue Lorenzo Brnwnley, C. Thurber. Original widows, etc. Lucinda llorn, Tersis A. Hill, Eva Thurber. Medical Value of Sweet OIL The Housekeeper. The value of sweet oil used in rnbbing is not generally appreciated. When a little child has taken cold and seems restless from the etlects, nothing is more soothing than sweet oil rubbed into the skin, before a warm tire, with a gentle pressure of the hand. The oil should be rubbed on the soles of the feet, down the back and neck, and around the hips, and the little one should bo carefully shielded from any draft while this is done. Such a rubbing will take the place of the daily bath at a time when the child is suilering from cold and it is not advisable to exposo it any more than is necessary. If the little one has a croupy cough and shows signs of hoarseness, a thick ilannel saturated with sweet oil and sprinkled with camphor, and heated as hot as tbo child can bear it, should be laid over the chest, high enough to extend around the throat. It should be covered with another Ilannel or a layer of cotton batting to retain the heat. The heated Ilannel should be changed for another as soon as it cools. By this method the cold of a little child may often bo broken np, and the most serious disease averted. The lungs and breathing-tubes of a little baby are peculiarly delicate, and auy child during infancy is very liable to contract serious diseases of the lungs from very slight cause. The little one is also cured by very simple remedies, and this layer of hot oil acts as powerfully as a mustard-plaster on a grownup person. A child that has been eutlenng seriously with a cold one day, after careful treatment of this sort will often wake np the day after with hardly a suspicion of illness. There is no better laxative than sweet oil for a child. Fence Building. Philadelphia Inquirer. Among tho first items of farm work that usually have attention in the spring is the building or ropairing of fences. Our own plan is to attend to this in the fall, so that there will bo no possibility of its interfering with work that has to do directly with tho production of crops. We do not intend now, however, to discuss the best time for doing that work, but to ask whether so much of it is really necessary. About the heaviest tax we have to pay on our own farms in the way of an expenditure that brings nothing back is the labor and material employed in fence building; but we have got so accustomed to cutting our farms up into little fields that it is hard to overcome tho practice. We see adjacent fields grown to corn, and wheat, and meadow, with strong fences between them, as if the owner was afraid that one crop would encroach on the territory of the other. ' The theory is, we believe, that he may want to pasture one of the Holds at a season when there is a standing crop in another, but if he does ho the chances are very much against his getting value enough from it to pay for maintaining the fences. Then there is the waste land of the fence row no small item, and the fence row is very apt to be a harbor for weeds, aud time is required to keep them down that ought to be given to the cultivation of crops. Theso things may have all been said beforo, but we want to bring them fresh to your mind just now, so that before yon rebuild those fences you may stop and ask yourself if they cannot better be wholly dispensed with. Some day we shall get to the point of keeping our cattle up, to the greater economy both of land and leed, and then we shall be able to do away with our fences wholly. , The Advance of Farm Values. American Agriculturist. In the central West, throughout tho Ohio valley, the farms which cost a dollar or two per acre fifty years ago, are now held at 40, 50 and 00 or more per acre, improved with commodious and substantial buildings, furnished with convenient and often elegant furniture, carpets, a sewing-machines, libraries and musical instruments. There are indeed poorer establishments, occupied by younger or less enterprising farmers, but improvement has been general if not universal. Beyond tho Mississippi are newer lands, more recent improvements, made by men who went into that region with scarcely more than willing hands and stout hearts, and their Investments have virtually been created with hard and patient labor. In the enthusiasm of snccessassnred by strong will and stout muscles, they have borrowed money from friends in the older States, or from banks; and they are paying up their indebtedness rapidly in this season of abuudact crops and stood prices. But the mortgage record remains, even though nine-tenths of tho debt may havo been already repaid; and yet demagogues quote the entire amount as the burden that is crushing tho energy and life of the young farmer. A reliable and successful farmer of tho West declares that he can purchase a farm of one hundred acres at 100 per acre and pay its cost with the protits of its cultivation in live years. 1 know a farmer in the valley of the Aroostook, in Maine, in the latitude of Quebec, who bought a farm for $7,5(X), paying one-third down, and two installments of 2.500 each in two years from the product of bis labor, besides making improvements and putting money in bank. As this is tho beginning 0! the year an attempt to estimate the time lost in idleness at different periods during the past year would perhaps show that tho real number of hours worked by farmers is no greater than the timeutalized by those employed in many other pursnits. f bo farmer is busy at some seasons, working early and late, but there aro seasons when he does not work moro than an hour or two each day. The object should be to attempt to produce something that will permit of tho greater utilization of the unprofitable seasons. Improved stock means Improved methods. The Holsteiu cow. which yields so largely of milk and butter, cannot be placed on the pasture intended for a scrub. The cow will respond to good treatment, but she cannot travel live or six miles a day over a scanty pasture seeking her food and fulfill her duties in yieldiug a larpe supply of milk. She cannot produce something from nothing, and tho farmer who improves his stock expecting the breed to supply the deficiency in food or pasturage should stick to his scrubs, as the pure-bred stock will sot satisfy his expectations.

THE SPECULATIVE INTEREST

At Chicago, Yestertfay, Centered Chiefly in the Wheat and Provision Pits. The Former, After Selline Up to 92Uc. Gave Wav to Lower Cables and Local Dullness, Dropping to and Closing at Olc TRADING AT CHICAGO. Light Trading In Com, with Insignificant Price Chances. CHICAGO, Jan. 18. Wheat opened more active, strong and higher this morning, but after scoring an advance of lc, sentiment changed in the pit, and the close shows the appreciation wiped out and prices unchanged from the closing figures of Saturday. The early news was nearly all bullish, tho 6trong factors were the light receipts everywhere, tho strong and higher cables, the very cold weather in the South west and the heavy decrease in the visible supply. There was but little wheat for sale in the early trading and, as the 'short' Interest was large , and a general desire to cover seemed prevalent, the market assumed a strong tone at the start and held it most of the day. Domestic markets were all advancing, and a good many operators who havo been holding oft waiting for the turn seemed to think it had come, and were good buyers. At the same time frightened shorts" were making haste to cover. Tho strength exhibited held even the chronio 'bears'' in check for a time, and there was very littlo pressure from that interest. Pardridge sold wheat early around 9lVfc 2) 02c, but soon grew more conservative and covered the most of it soon after putting it out. Logan, Mitchell. Gitl'ord aud Counselman & Day were among the roost liberal individual buyers, though Schwartz, Dupee and most of the private warehouses also bought freely, largely on - New York orders. Some of the other houses with foreign connections sold moderately on the advance. During the last hour without apparently sufficient reason tho market turned very weak. The crowd had bought freely on the up turn, expecting the boom to continne, but when there wero indications of a halt in the upward movement, and closing Liverpool cables came weaker, confidence was undermined and selling became urgent. May opened at Hc, and sold up without any considerable reaction to 02 Vic. then turned about and without any reaction sold down to. and closed easy at 91 Uc, the price at which it left oil on Saturday. Trade in corn was light and tho prioe changes insignificant. The speculative interest of the day centered chiefly in the wheat and provision pits. Corn was firm, however, on tho poor grading of the receipts and tho widespread snow-storm which w;ll tend to keep tho grading low. The close shows an advance of '$c, with fluctuations confined to Uo range. Oats were dull, steady and featureless. Hog products active and higher. The receipts of live bogs were below the estimate and prices at the yards were excited at 10215c higher. This with tho strength in wheat gave the produce market a strong start. The tendency throughout tho session was upward, though there were some sharp breaks caused by "shorts" raiding the market under the lead of Pardridge. Late in the session the estimates lor tomorrow were for only 25,000 head of hogs and prices of produce advanced again and closed firm at the top. Pork was especially affected and closed with an advance of 32I4c The leading futures ranged as fol-

Optiont. Op'ning Highest, lowest. Closing. Wheat Jan... 8fi , 74 toh 862 May 81 W4 81 l 814 Corn Jan.... ss ss 8 38 Feb 3914 3s)a 3D4 3aii May..... 414 41 411 41H Oats Jan 29 29 29 291 May SlU 313 31 4 31 Tork Jan.... 811.60 11.67 $11.42 ll.C7i May 11.80 11.95 11.72 11.95 Lard Jan.... '6.rH 6.33 6.27 c.33 May e.57 CC5 c.57 6.r5 Sh'trib3 Jan. 5.65 e.72 c.co 5.72; May 6.95 COO .5.90 COO

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour firmer, but not quotably higher. No. 2 spring wheat, cOlvc; No. 8 spring wheat, 81 282c; No. 2 red, fOc; No. 2 corn, 8Mjc; No. 2 oats. 2UVsc; No. 2 white, f. o. b.. S22:c; No. 3 white, f. o. b., o0232c; No. 2 rye, c3c; No. 2 barley, 00c; No. 3, f. o. b., 43200c; No. 4. f. o. b te:52c; No. 1 flaxseed, 95c; prime timothy-seed, $1.2261.25; mess pork, per brl, $&45fe&50; lard, per pound. O.iWvi'S) (.:.": short-rib sides (loose), 5.75c; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), 4X2Vfe4.75c; short-clear sides (boxed), 5.905.)5c; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gal, 1.18. On the Produce Exchange, to-day, the butter market was steady and unchanged. Pggs. 22S23c. Peceipts Flour. 19,000 brls; wheat, 33,000 bu; corn. 147.000 bu; oats. 128,000 bu; rye, 15,000 bn; barley, 40,000 bu. ShipmentsFlour. 22.000 brls: wheat. 8C.C03 bu: corn. 45.000 bn; oats, 180,000 bu; rye. 9,000 bu; barley, 81,000 bn. AT NEV YORK. Ruling Prlees In Frodnce at the Seaboard Commercial Metropolis. NEW YORK. Jan. 18. Flour Receipts, 23.990 packages; exports, 1,S0 brls and 5, SIS sacks. The market was dull and heavy. Sales. 21,100 brls. Wheat Peceipts, 112,503 bu: exports. 832,117 bu; sales, G,910,0CO bu futures, 207,000 bu 6pot. The spot market was fairly active, unsettled and weak; No. 2 red. fl.om in store and in elo vat or, 1.12 1.044 afloat, $1.02U'2l.O4?i f. o. b.: No. 3 red. 93c; ungraded red. 94UcSSl.C4'l4; No. 1 Northern, $1.03U1.C5; No. 1 hard. $1.00'2)1.0734;; No. 2 Northern. 0SVsi'0Sc. Options advanced mlo 011 firmer cables, foreign buying, decrease in stocks and a large local operator purchasing, declined lMc on large India shipments and selling by the leading buyer of the morning, and closed steady at lieo over Saturday; No. 2 red, January, 81. 01 Mi 1.018, closing at $1.01Mj: February, gl.01T81.02?8, closing at $1.02; March. $1.03 1.038. closing at $1.02; April, $1.0314'a 1.0414. closing at $1.C3; May, $1.024 1.03 710, closing at $1.02; June, $l.U)Va) 1.0134, closing at $1.01U; July, VJctWac, closing at ITJc Pye dull and weaker; Western, OCMi OSMtc. Barley quiet and steady. Barley malt dull. Corn Receipts. 193,750 bn; exports, 181,071 bn; sales, 400,000 bu futures, 107,000 bu spot. The spot market was dull and easy; No. 2, 50445lcin elevator, 513-4352o afloat; ungraded mixed, L0'S52c; No. 2 white. 53c; No. X, Hjuiuc; steamer mixed. 495'25lc. Options advanced s Uc, in sympathy with wheat and expected freer receipt; January, 5034 251c. closing at OOc; February, 50 2 2 50 Uc, closing at 5'Jyc; March closing at 504C; May. 5o?ae. closing at 4U:i4c. Oats Peceipts, 15,b75 bu: exports, 95 bn; sales, 2c0,000 bu futures, 101,000 bu spot. The spot market was dull and firmer, closing irregular. Options were moderately active and firmer; January, 30c, closing at SC $c; February, 3027c. closing at S07c; May. 37 7lGu87iaC, closing at JiiVsc; spot No. 2 white, &c; mixed Western, SO 238c; white Western, 374242c; No. 2 Chicago, S742S74c. Hay quiet and ririn. Hops firm; and active. Coffee Options opened steady from 10 points up to 5 points down, and closed dnll from unchanged to 10 points down. Sales, 8.500 bags, including the following: January. 12.70 d 12.75c; February, lZSi 12.40c; March. 12.15212.20c: Mav. 11.852 lt.'JOc; June, 11.75c: September, 11.70c; spot K10 dull and firm; No. 7, 134c. Sugar Paw dull and neglected: refined quiet. Molasses New Orleans quiet and firm. Pice steady and quiet. Cotton-seed oil dull and easy; yellow, 2942C Tallow dull and steady. Kosin steady and quiet Eggs quiet and steady; Western, 21c; receipt. 4,475 packages. Pork quiet and steady; mess, 9.75210.75; extra prime, $0.50. Cut meats strons. Middles firm. Lard much higher, strong and more active; Western steam closed at 6.0740 bid; sales. 1,050 tierces at 6.C24 6.05c. Options bales, 5,750 tierces; January, 0.06c bid; February, 6.0Sc; March, 0.73 a C77c, closing at 6.77c; May, 6.c62C00o, closing at (102 aCOlc. Butter iirm; Western dairy, 182Sj3c; Western creamery, 21232c; Western factory.

15G23C; Elgin. S14S2c Cheese fairly active and steady; part skims, 54210c. GRAIN AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Figure Showing the Quantity la Sight in the United States .Saturday. NEW YORK. Jan. 13, The visible supply of grain on Saturday. Jan. 10, as compiled by the New York Produce Exchange, was as follows: Wheat, 44,000,200 bu, a decrease of 1,514.703; corn. 7,7C2,C7S bn. a decrease of 180. 7S7; oats, 3,511,804 bu, a decrease of 1S3JU; rye, 2,1S0.370 bu. a decrease of 54,114; barley, 1.792.1S2 bu, a decrease of 153,519. The Foreign Grain Trade. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: English wheats are dnll and demand is inert The heavy English reserves and the collosal stocks in the various porta havo caused a fall of Is on the finest samples without inducing buyers to purchase. Foreign wheats have suffered a similar reduction. The total decline since the st of December is 4s on California and 2s on American red winter. The stuck of foreign wheats amount to 6.22J.000 quarters, against 4,043,000 quarters on the corresponding date last year. Until the demand shall have moved a part of this surplus of 2.000.000 quarters dull markets are inevitable. A hopeful sign in connection with tho increase in continental buying is the cessation of the Pnssian and Roumanian supplies. American Hoar is Is lower; oats are la and corn is Cd cheaper. Daring the week beans and peas were scarce and commanded Is more. At to-day's markets the prices of English and foreign wheats did not move buyers to purchase. English Hour dropped Is; barley was steady; oats and corn unchanged; beans and peas were hold for an advance; linseed was 3d lower. TRADE IN GENERAL, Quotations at St- Loul, Philadelphia, IJaltlmore, Cincinnati and Other Points. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 18. Flour steady bnt quiet and unchanged. Wheat opened strong though a4c oil', but quickly recovered and advanced lc. About noon a weak feeling took hold of the market, and there was a relapse of 14o from the top, from which thero was a rally of 3sc, and tho closing price was steady at He above Saturday's last figures; No. 2 red. cash, b9c; Jauuary, 8S?Bc, closing at884o bid: March, 91c, closing at 90 c bid; May. 9142927b 0, closing at 01 Tic bid; July, S7H28SC, closing at b74c bid. Corn stronger, with wheat, but speculation hud little interest on either side. The close was 42?8C higher than Saturday: No. 2 cash, 37437Uc; February, SG?s37Vic, closing atS7c; May.SS 034c, closing at Syo asked. Oata etrong and 4c higher; No. 2, cash, 30c: May, 312 31J4C closing at 31c asked. Rye dull; No. 2. 81A$o bid. Barley quiet; Minnesota, 482 COj. Hay quiet and unchanged. Bran dull and unchanged. Flaxseed steady but quiet at 00c BuUer steady but quiet and unchanged. Eggs firmer at 2o4c. Corn-meal, S2.1022.15. Whisky steady at $1.18. Bagging, 5142714C. Iron-cotton ties, $1.23Sl.i5. Provisions very firm. PorkOld mess, $929.50; new mess, $11,37411.51. Lard. S.0520.12laa Dry-salted meata Shoulders (boxed), 4.35c; longs and ribs, 4.85c; short clear, 0.05c Paeon Shoulders (boxed), 5.25c; longs and ribs. 0.25c; short clear, 6.37426.50c. Receipts Flour, 10,000 brls; wheat. 76.C00 bu: corn. 431.000 bu; oats, 81,000 bn: rye, none: barley. 13,000 bu. ShipmentsFlour, 8,000 brls; wheat. 27,000 bu; corn, 139,000 bu; oats, 16,000 bu; rye, none; barley, 4.0C0 bu. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 18,-Flour quiet Wheat Speculation was bullish under big clearances from Atlantio ports and higher cables; choice ungraded, in grain dopot, $1.03; No. 2 red, in export elevator, 90c; No. 2 red. January, 992994c; February. $12 1.004; March, $1.01421.02; April. $1,032 1.034. Corn a shade firmer; No. 4 mixed, in. gram depot, 43c; No. 3, in export elevator, 45Vic: steamer yellow, in graiu depot, 51c; steamer, in export elevator, 47?424Sc; No. 2 yellow, in grain depot, 53c; No. 2, spot and January, 4914c; No. 2 mixea. January, 4954 250c; February. 49l4 2494c: March. 49U 2494c; April, 49l-4 2494c. Oats quiet; No. 3 white, clipped, 94c; No. 2 white, 414c; No. 2 white, January, 39240c; February, March and April, 3S42S9c. Butter steady but dull; Pennsylvania creamery, extra, 31c; Pennsylvania prints, extra, 35&3c. Eggs steady but quiet; Pennsylvania firsts, 22c. Cheese steady; part skims. OlOc. ReceiptsFlour, 2,300 brls and 22,300 sacks: wheat, 8.800 bu; corn, 77.500 bu; oats. 8,400 bu. Shipments Wheat, 05,400 bu; corn, 411,iOJbu; oats, 27,100 bu. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 18. May wheat opened at87c, and until noon fluctuated considerably between S77c and 87o. Just before tho noon break thero was a spurt to87;l4c. with sellers at S77sc, but this would not hold, and in a few minutes the price was down to 874 c. The cash market developed a good call for No. 1 Northern wheat, and during the morning ales were made pretty generally at 80c. but later dropped off to 854 c. Low grades were not in favor, and coarse grains, except oats, did not show much activity. The receipts of wheat hero were 414 cars and at Dnluth and Superior 07 cars. Close: No. 1 Northern, January, 83c. May, opening, 87asc; highest. 87?bc; lowest, bCTfcc; closing at 807&C On track: No. 1 hard. 804c: 1 Northern, 54c: No. 2 Northern, K022c. CINCINNATI. Jan. 18. Flour was in fair demand: family, 3. 652 3.80; fancj $4,102 4.30. Wheat strong; No. 2 red, f 5c: receipts, 2,200 bu; shipments. 1.000 bn. Corn in good demand and stronger; No. 2 mixed, 432 43l4C Oata easy; No. 2 mixed, 34234Uo. Rye quiet; No. 2, 87c. Pork in light demand and higher at $11.50. Lard active and stroug at 6.20c. Bulk meats in light demand and held higher at 5.15c. Paeon quiet at 0.75c. Whisky in good demand; sales, 1,109 brls of finished goods on a basis of $1.18. Butter atroua; fancy Elgin creamery, 82c; Ohio, 28230c: choice dairy, 102 18c. Linseed oil steady at 33235c. Sugar in fair demand; hard refined, 4V4 25Uc; New Orleans, 34 24c. Eggs stronger at 20 221c. Choose firm; prime to choice cured Ohio flat. 112114c. BALTIMORE. Jan. 18. Wheat firm; No. 2 red, spot and January, $1,014 asked; February. $1,014 bid: March. $1,024; May, $1,034 bid; steamer No. 2 red, 974c bid. Peceipta. 22,270 bn; shipments. 1C7.701 bu: stock. 881.579 bn; sales. 19,000 bu. Corn steady: mixed spot. 50sb250j4c; February, 50c asked; March, 49249 c. Receipts, 195.185 bn; shipments. 87.&00 bn: stock. 1.331,933 bu; sales, 121.000 bu. Oats quiet: No. 2 white Western, S9c; No. 2 mixed Western. 3742373c. Receipts. 1,000 bn; stock, 111,430 bu. Rye quiet and tinchanged; stock, 117,811 bn. Hay firm; good to choice timothy, $13.50215. Provisions firm and unchanged. Butter firm and unchanged. Eggs weak at 22c. Coffee steady; Rio cargoes, fair, 17c. TOLEDO. Jan. 18. Wheat was weak; No. 2, cash and January, 91 lie; May, 9Clijc. Corn steady; No. 2, cash, 41l4c: No. 3, 394c; No. 4, 384c. Oats Cull; No. 2 cash. 314c. Rye. dull; cash. 8c. Clover-seed dull; prime, cash and January. $5.55; February, $5.f!0; March. $5.05. Receipts Flour, 203 brls: wheat, 13,100 bu; corn, 2,100 bu; oats, 155 bu; clover-seed, 4C.2 baes. Shipments Flour, 950 brls; wheat, 4.00J bn; corn, 05,400; oats. 1,000 bu; rye, 2.100 bu; cloverseed, 555 bags. DETROIT. Jan. 18. Wheat-Cash.white. 92c; red, 92c; January, 92c; May, ICic Corn Cash. 404c. Oats No. 2, cash. 34c: No. 2 white, 34:Uc. Pve, 87c. ReceiptsFlour, 200 brls: wheat, 13,414 bu; corn, 2,000 bu; oats, 0,351 bn. OIL NEW YORK. Jan. 18. Petroleum opened steady, declined '40 and closed steady. Pennsylvania oil-Spot, sales none. February optionOpening, G23ic: highest, 254c; lowest, 62e; closing. 02c. Lima oil No sales. Total sales. '20, 000 brl.. Turpentine was quiet but steady at U2CMOC. WILMINGTON, Jan. 18. Spirits of turpentine steady at 31e. Rosin dull; strained, Sl.15; good strained. $1.20. Tar steady at $1.35. Crude turpentine steady; hard, $1; yellow dip and virgin, $1.90. OIL CITY. Jan. IS. National Transit certificates opened at G25kC; highest. ii'Zc lowest. GUc; closed at 62 Sc. Balea, 4,000 oris; clearances, 82.00O brls. shipments, 61,939 brls; runs, 0,371 brls. PITTSBURG, Jan. 18.-Petroleura dulL National Transit certificates opened at 02?ic; closed at G2c; highest, 62 24c; lowest, 62 c. CLEVELAND. Jan. 18. Petroleum easy: standard white, 110. Gh e: gasoline, 74, 7c; gasoline, bC, 10c; naphtha. 033, 6c. SAVANNAH. Jan. 18. Turpentine firm at 3lc. Bosin firm at $1,102)1.15. CHARLESTON. Jan. 18. Turpentine, 31. Rosin firm; good strained, $1.50. Cottoa. LTVERPOOL. Jan. 18. Cotton Spot quiet; middling, 4d. e'ales, 8,000 bale?, of which 1,000 bales were for speculation or export aud Included 7,100 bales American. Futures closed quiet

and steady: American middling, low middling clause. Jauuary. 3 Hl-tf ld. rollers: January and February, 3 6l-G4d: February and Warob. 3 61-G4&3 C2-6ld: March and April. 4 1-T4d. seller: April and May. 4 4-64 d, sellers; May and June. 4 7-Md; June and July. 4 10-64d. value: July and August, 4 13-65d. values; August and September. 1 15-64 21 16-C4d. NEW YORK, Jan. 1 ?. Cotton steady: middlingupland. 7 9-lGc: middling Orleans. 7 15-ltc. 8;le. 40 bale. Sales lat week, not before reported, 56i bales for consumption, and 28 bales for export. Futures closed firm; sales, 91.800 bales: January, 7.20c; February. 7.34c: March. 7.41c; Arrtl, 7.54c; May. U.GTc; June, 7.77c: July, 7.M7c: August, 7.95c; September, 8.03c; October, 8.09c NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 1. Cotton 11 nu: middling. 7c; lovr middling. 6c; good ordinary. 6 1-1 Cc. Net receipts, 10,951 bales; gross receipts, 11.510 bales: exports to Groat liritain, 5,740 bales; exports to France, O.OOlbales; exEorts to the continent, 5,500 bales; sales, 4,400 ales; stock, 501,515 bales. Metais. NEW YOTtlv. Jan. 18. Pig-iron moderately active; American, $15.7517.75. Copper quiet and weak; lake, 11c. Lead steady; domestic, 4.17c Tin dull and vreak; Straits, 19.75c . fcT. LOUIS, Jan. 18. Lead dull and weak at 3.90c Dry Gootia. NEW YOKK. Jan. 18. The market for dry goods opened without much change from previous conditions. American indigo and shirtings are to be advanced the 1st of February to 5e and 4c, respectively, by agents, and Feb. 15 by Jobbers. Batter. ELGIN. Pb. Jan. 18.-Butterfinn; sales. 2,700 pounds at 30 c LIVE STOCK.

Cattle Unchangea Oogi Actire, Closing Steady Nothing Doiug In Sheep. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 18. Cattle Receipts, ; shipments. Not enough here to establish a market. The feeling about the same as last week. Export grades Good to choice shippers Fair to medium shippers Common shippers Feeders 950 to 1,150 lbs mockers, 500 to 800 lbs Good to choice heifers Fair to medium heifers Common, thin heifers Good to choice cows Fair to medium cows Common old cows Veals, common to good Bulls, common to medium $1.50 35.05 3.25 & 3.05 2.5033.00 3.25W3.75 2.25 ft 3.00 3.00 a 3.50 2.40& 2.75 1.85'a 2.20 2.7533.25 2.20S2.G5 1.00 b 1.75 3.5035.00 1. SO a 2.00 2.25f3.00 Milke'rs, common to medium l? 00 tf 20.00 Milkers eonrt to choice 25.0035.00 Hoos-Receipts, 2.000; shipments, 1,200. Quality fair. Market opened active and higher; closed steady. All sold. Heavy packiug and shipping $4,203 4.30 MlTd . 4.053'4.2o Light.::: 4.004.20 Heavy roughs 3.5033.00 Sheep and Lamus Receipts, : shipments, . Nothing doing for the want of stock. The feeling strong. Good to choice sheep $4.2534.65 Fair to medium sheep 3.7534.10 Common sheep 3.0OS3.50 Good to choice lambs 4.75 a 5.50 Common to medium lambs 3.5034.50 Bucks, per head 3.0034.50 Elsewhere. CHICAGO. Jan. 18. The Evening Journal reports: Cattle Receipts, 17,000; shipments, 4,000. The market was steady. Top prices, $1.6524.95; no extra steers on sale; others. $3.2524.50; stockers, $2,252 3.10; cows. $1.25S2L45. Hogs Receipts, 30,000; shipments, 12.000. The market was active and strong to higher. Rough and common. $424.05; mixed, $424.15; prime heavy, $4.2024.35; light, $424.15. Sheep Receipts, 4, COO; shipments, 1,000. Sheep were steady and lambs slow: ewes, $3.2524; mixed. $4.5035; wethers, $525.75; Westerns, $5.1525.40; lambs. $525,124. BUFFALO, Jan. 18. Cattle Receipts. 109 car-loads through and 260 car-loads for sale. The market was dnll and 15225o lower. Extra steers, $4.9025.10: choice, $4.5024.85; good, fairly lat, $4.2524.50. Hogs-Rcceipts, 157 car-loads through and 115 car-loads for sale. The market was stronger. Heavy grades, $4.4024.50; packers and mediums, $4.8024.40. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 12 car-loads through and 105 car-loads for sale The market was steady and firm. Sheep, extra fancy. $5.5025.80; good to choice, $525.40; fair to good. S4.2524.75: lambs, good to extra natives, $0.5027; common to fair native, $i.i026.20. NEW YORK. Jan. 18. Peeves Receipts, 5.771. including 53 cars for sale. The market was very dull. Native steers, $3.7525: bulls Uand cows, $223.50; dressod beef steady at 7294c Shipments to-day, CCS beeves. Calves Receipts. 712. The market was steady. Veals, 528.50: grasscrs, 2.5023; Western calves, $2.7523.60. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 14,505. Sheep 6teady. Lambs Vfeo lower. Sheep, $.15020; lambs. $5.7527.124; dressed lambs slow at 9211c. Hogs Receipts, 11.200. including 2 carloads for sale. The market was nominally steady at $4.1024.45. LOUISVILLE. Jan. 18. Cattle Receipts on choice. S00. The market was firm and active. Good to extra shipping, 1.2524.50; light shipping, $424.15; bulls. $1.7522.60; light stockers, $1.5022.25; shippers and feeders, $2.5023.25; best batchers, $2.7524; thin, rough steers, poor cows and scalawags. $1.5022. Hogs Receipts, 1.S00. The market was steady. Choice packing and butchers,4.15 &4.25: fair to good butchers, $424.10. Sheep and Lambs Receipts light. The market was active and steady. All sold. Fair to good shipping. $4.2524.50; common to medium lambs, $3.50. CINCINNATI, Jan. 18. Hogs in fair demand and steadr; common and light. $3.75 24.15; packing and butchers, $4.1024.80. Receipts, 7,280; shipments, 230. Cattle dull; fair to choice butchers stock, 82.754; prime to choice shippers, 5424.75. Receipts. 1,830; shipments, 200. Sheep in light supply and steady; common to choice. 324.75; extra fat wethers and yearliugs, $4.7525.. Receipts, 2.30; shipments. 10. Lambs in fair demand and firm; common to choice, $4.2526.25. ST. LOUIS. Jan 18. Cattle Receipts. 900; shipments, 1,200.. The market was steady; fair to good Texan and Indian steers. $2.7523.75; fair to good natives and feeding steers, $2.5023.50; butchers' steers, $3.5024. Hogs Receipts, 4.800; shipments, 4,100. The market was 5210 higher; fair to prime heavy, $4.1024.30; mixed, ordinary to good, 3.7024.15; light, fair to best. $3.9024.10. . Sheep Receipts. 500. The market was steady; fair to choice clipped Texaus, $3.00 24. KANSAS CITY. Jan. 18. Cattle Receipts. 2,200; shipments, S.600. Steers active aud 10c higher at S3.1025.20; cows steady and 10c higher at $1.5023.50; stockers and feeders steady but quiet at $1,752 3.50. Hogs Receipts, 3,700; shipments, 2,f00. The market was active and 10c higher. All urades. $3.4524.20; bulk. $4.0524.15. Sheep Receipts, 100; shipments, SCO, The market was strong and unchanged. EAST LIBERTY. Jan. 18,-Cattle Receipts, 3,234; shipments. 1.S0L The market was slow. Best grades 1015c off. Common unchanged from last week's prices. No cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts, ll.OiXh shipments, 9,000. The market was slow. Good medium and selected, $4.45 24.50: Yorkers. $4.8024.40. Twelve car-loads of hogs shpped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 4,200; shipments. 3,400. The market was active and a shade stronger than last week's prices. A fine crop of ruta bagas can be grown on the potato patch, and this is the way J. E. May tells of doing it in the Practical Farmer. On half acre of potato ground, after the last hoeing, ho sewed two ounces of seed of purple-top Swede, and when digging the potatoes was careful to hoe the dirt around the roots. It did not take four hours longer in digging the half acre. He took from the patch one hundred bushels of tine potatoes and seventy-five bushels of ruta bagas. This, be thinks, is better than raising a lot of watery turnips. Timothy seed Is very small, and it is easily destroyed in the ground if too deeply covered. Early in the spring the ground should bo harrowed fine, and the seed broadoasted on the surface, to be slightly brushed in. It is better to broadcast the seed if the field is expected to have an evenly-covered appearance, as drilling not only covers t be seed too much bnt causes it to come np too thickly in some places and too sparingly in others. Thomas Smith, of Hampton, Conn., kills ticks with snjilf. He lavs the sheep on its side, opens tho wool, shakes the snuff on tho skin in places three or four inches opart, and closes the woo), and in about three days the ticks and nits will all be dead.

ONE ENJOYS BotH the method and result3 "when Syrup of Figs h taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, and acts gently yet promptly on tho Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, di?pels cold?, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Svfup Figs is tho only remedy ot its kind ever produced, pleasing to tho taste and acceptable to tho stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared onlv from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qnVities commend it to all and havo laado it the most popular remedy known. feyrup of Figs is for cale in 50a and 81 bottles "by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not havo it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any eubstitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, LOUISVILLE. Kt. A'EW YORK, tt.t MZELTON PIANO Is a marvel of sweetness and power, of grace, beauty and hrilllancr. Erery note U clear as a bell. Erery c hort ia perfect harmony. Every part is erenly bL ancetL Tho actloa Is llrht. firm, elaatlo reaponalr. Tlie scale U RCienUflcallreorrsct and tnualcaUj perw lect; the workman shin the kigueat skill can max them, and the materials are the boaW EEAUTUUL BEW STYLE FOB 1831 JUST RICFJVE&, LOW PRICES! EASY TERMS PEAESOiTS MUSIC -HOUSE, 2 and Si North Pennsylvania St. Tuning and Ifcepalrinjjtzr PACKARD ORGANS. Whole Family Only 5 cts. a Day Your demands answered any moment, day of nicht. tlx-rooni house. Bath, water-closet sprinkling forty feet front, and domestic service only Oc ft day. lXDlAKATOLIS WATER CO.. 75 Circle street. GRATEFUL COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. Tr a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion &ii1 nutrition, and hy a careful application ot the tine proper, tiesof well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Enps has provided our breakfast tables with adt licatcly tivorl bevr. see. which may save ns many tea vy (lootors bills. It is by the Judicious use of Mich articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up nntil stroug enough to rraist every tendency to thaeae. llni. tired of mbtle maladiea are floating around us read? to attack wherever th re is a weak point. We may eitcapq many a fatal shatt by keeping oarsolvca well fortttled with pure blood and a properly nourished frame." Civil Service fJazette. Made simply with bcillna water or milk. Sold only lulialf-pound tin, hy grocers, labeled thus: JAMES EPPS & CO. Homoeooathic Chemis London, England 111- MillUMWf or JOHN C.rJHAYN3a BosToh Mass. Belt Bailroad and Stockyard C STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGTha annual meeting ot the trckhoder8 of the Eel' Railroad and fctockyard ,Vnnpany wlU be held at thai director rrotn, in the Ucionr.ailway station. In the. city ot Indianapolis, on Tuesday. Feb. . lSfct'2. b tween the hour 1 10:30 and I'l o'clock a. nu. for tho purpose of electing nine ll rector to serve lor th ensuitg year, and for the transaction ot such other business as may come before the meetin?. Jan. a, 1802. It. 8. McKKE, Mecretary. .' 1 1 y " 11 v Indianapolis Union Station. cnnsylyaniaUnegl , Trains Run by Central Time. Leave for rittshurp, Baltimore, c d 4:15 ami Washington, Philadelphia and Xewd 3:00 jm V 1. I 4 r . O . Arrive from the East, d J 1:40 am, d 12:45 pa' and d 9:00 pin. Leave for Columbus, 9:00 am: arrive from Co lumbus, 3:15 rra: leave lor Kichmond. 4:00 pmjv arrive f rem IMchinond, b:i0 am. Leave lor Chicago, d ll:2i am; d 11:30 praj arrive from Chlcaco, d 3.55 rra: d 3:30 utn. Leave lor Louisville, d 11:40 a m, fc.oo am. d4:00m. Arrive Irom Lou's ville, d 11:10 aui, Opm; d 10:5o im. Leave for Madison, Ind., 8:00 am; 4:30 pm. Arrive from Madison, 10:25 am, C:OOrm. Leave for Vincennea and Cairo, 7:UO am, 4:10 am; arrive from Vinceunes aud Cairo, 10:55 ain, 5:o5 pm. d, daily; other trains except Sunday. At ltuliananfdiM 17 1 Lin Kitlnn Leave lor fit. Lotus 7:0 a.m.. 11:50 a. nu. 12:5S f. w.. ll:oo p. m. 'Jraina connect at Terrs) laute for K. & T. II. points. Lrana viile sleeper, on 11:00 p. m. train. Greencaetle andTcrre Uaute Aco, leaves 4:03 p. m. Arrive from bt Louis. 3:30 s 4:15 a. m 2:5o p. in., 5:-:0p. nu. 7:45 p. m. Terre lluute and Greeucastle A ceo. arrives it 10:00 a. in. lcepinjr and Tarlor cars are ran on throafc trains. THE VESTIBULE ill LiltMl,VU,MX.'i i nrtTTMiv Pin f.rvn Leare IndlanapoMs. ICo. 32 Chicago Uni.. Pullman VeUbuled coachea, parlor aud dining car, daily ..m.UJSit Arrive la t 'lucajro I:l'U pm. o.S4 ChicacoNisl.t Ex.. 1'ullrusui VsOImled coaci and le,Tjrs. dally ...... -.I-;" sa Ann e lu Chicago 7:5 . 2? o. 8-iIonou Aco 5;20 Arrive at Indianapolis. If o. 31 Vestibule, asiiy ... o. Vestibule, daily 5 So. 3.-Mnon Acc 10 40aia I'ulimau veulml.l sleepers lr Chicago stand S west end ot Union bUUoa. aai can ba takea at a. p. m.. daily. , Ticketomees No. 2d South Ilhnols stro V and J Union Station. - 1 t EDUCATIONAL INDIANAPOLIS. INn. N K tor. Washlnjrto M.d MervlUu Ktrot. Pre-Fmlnently U;e Leadirg Commercial and Short hand icrtoot. Poo-keetlpe, ruiu-sa Practice. ' Pen man shin, Hhorthand. Typewriting. Kuciuli Jiranchea. Trie, rsphy, otrice Training, etc. ly it erviiln tm lin throughout the ear. 1-ar: and strode facuHr. fcm'ATU.VS INhlkin KTKUY bKAUl'ATC . luil particulars ad.tre 1. A. Dl'TllI lu. 1'riuclpaL The Snnd.iv Journal. 2 fcr Annua

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