Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 December 1886 — Page 4

THE TREASURY Synopsis of Treasurer Jordon’s Annual Report, Showing the Receipts and Expenditures of t’ the Government for the Past Fiscal Year—Tho National Bank and Stiver Questions. Washington,Deo. 6.—The annual report nf Mr. Jordan, Treasurer of the United jL States was given to the,press to-day. Mr. Jordan presents a very comprehensive report of the operations of the treasury for | ■ the fiscal year ended June 30,18811, amt its f condition on that and subsequent dates. The net receipts of the Government for the fiscal year were $386,489,737; the net expenditures were $34:|483,13$. The repeipts wore $13,749,029 greater, and the expenditures were $17,743^911 less than last • year, making an increase in the net receipts for the past fiscal year over that of 1885 of $30,493,817. The Excess of revenue over expenditures was $951,956,589. During the year bonds amounting to $44,531,350 were redeemed and applied to the sinking fund. , Treasurer Jordon suggests a revision of ; the method heretofore adopted in making up the sinking fund, by which the sinking ' fund charge for the current year will be $37,430,458 instead of $49,813,738, according to the present method. By the present method tho entire debt of t he United States will be retired by the year 1908, and if the method suggested by Treasurer Jordan is adopted the debt will be extinguished by the year 1913. Attheelose of the year the United States bonds held as security for National bank circulation amounted to $375,974,900, a reduction of $30,130,400 duriug the year. Three per cent, bonds amounting to $34,458,730 were withdrawn during the year, most of which was surrendered for redemption. The amount of bonds deposited during the year was $20,934,900, and the bonds withdrawn amounted to $01,063,400, - -showing a decrease of $31,117,500. Of the movement of redemption of National bank notes of late years Treasurer Jordan says: “The National bank notes presented for redemption during the fiscal year amounted to $130,290,000, which was $19,913,533, or 1320 per cent less than the amount presented for redemption in the fiscal year 1885. That there would tie a falling off in the amount presented duriug the first three months of the fiscal year, and my opinion, based thereon, and expressed in my last report, that the culminating"point in the second upward movement in bank note redemptions had been reached in the fiscal year 1885, has been verified. The rate of increaM in the redemptions of bank notes during the second upward movement, covering the fiscal years 1883,1883, 1884 and 18S5, is represented by the percentages 37, 34, 33 and 19 respectively. A feature of this upward movement was the constantly ■ decreasing volume of National banknotes actually outstanding, from $363,431,988 on January 1,1883, to $319,069,933 on June 30, 1885, a’decrease of $43,333,053 This seems to indicate that the volume of bank notes outstanding during that period was excessive, or above the point at which it could b® profitably maintained. Another fact, however, should be considered in this „ connection, which is that during these four years of increase in redemptions the silver certifl- -■ cate circulation of the country was increased $75,755,183—from $39,110,729 on June \\ 30, 1881, to $114,865,911 on Eiecember 31,1884. yb This increase much more than balanced ^K^gjieerease in bank-note circulation, and thelippafeht excessive issue of bank notes might, to a considerable extent, be due to that fact. The decline in the volume of bank-note circulation has continued without interruption, until the amount 2 outstanding on September 30, 1886, was $303,511,341, making a total reduction of $58,910,747 since January 1, 1883, and also after December 81.1884. the silver certificate circulation gradually decreased until on July 31,1886, it had fallen to$27,301,807 from $87,364,644. The average outstanding for a year preceding that date was about $91,000,000. Since July 1,18S5, the decline in the bank note circulation has apparently had the effect to check the decrease in the bank note redemptions, as they have steadily fallen off from that date, until they now are for the current fiscal year about twenty-one per cent, less than in the preceding year. Still, further on, while discussing the question of the retirement of the National bank circulation, the treasurer says: “As there seems to be on the part of the public an idea that the treasury is locking up mopey in its vaults on account of this fund, the wholo operation of the retirement of the notes of a National bank will be stated here in order to relieve any apprehension which may be felt on this subject: The three per cent, bonds of the Washington National Bank of Westerly, R.. I., amounting to $100,000, were called on the 15th day of September, 1886. On the 13th day of October, 1886, the bank sent its duplicate receipt to this office, the original being held by the Comptroller of the Currency, with the request that a deposit of ninety per cent, of the tabove amount should be made to retire its circulation with the Treasurer of the United States as agent for the redemp, tion of the notes of the National banks and requesting a check for the ten per cent difference. Accordingly a credit •has placed upon the bool&s of the surer, as agent for the National banks for $90,000, and a check for $10,000 and the amount standing to the credit of the bank in the 5 per cent, redemption fund, in this case, $4,500, returned to the bank.. The amount of redeemed notes charged to this account since it was opened is $1,893. The annual percentage of such redemption is 25.96, and it will therefore take at least four years before the greater part of tho notes of this bank will be redeemed. The amount credited to the- general fund thus created stands on the books of treasurer, as agent, as a credit for the redemption of the notes of the banks, and as the notes come in for redemption they are charged to this account, and the National bank circulation outstanding is decreased by a corresponding amount. At present, owing to the active business sea

son, none Dut mutilated notes are sent. in for redemption. Persons presenting these notes for redemption are paid either by check on New York or in such form of currency as may be desired by them. The indebtedness on the part of the treasury, created as above described is, no doubt due in legal tenders, but is liquidated in the manner stated, and no attempt is made to reserve any specific sum of legal tenders, or any other form of currency out of the general treasury balance in which to pay these constantly accruing liabilities. There was on November 30, of the kind of liability, adding the 5 per cent, fund, whioh, theoretically, is also composed of legal tenders, the sum of $94,753,383. The total amount of legal tenders in the Treasury on the same date, exclusive of that held to redeem the legal tender certificates which are used in the banks as reserve in their stead, „was 939,548,188, thus showing that there must be held in the treasury in some other forms of money, the balance of 935,904,301. The entire sum of 994,753,389 may be said to be composed of 939,545,188 legal tenders, 983,800,100 standard silver dollars, and 933,803,100 gold. It the books of the treasury stated accurately, the balance due by it as a depository, the amount now reported as a credit balance would be materially decreased. That these balances should not be so reported is, in the opinion of the treasurer, one of the greatest defects of the presant treasury system. Discussing the question of silver coinage, after referring to the fact that there are now in circulation 981,781,448 in standard dollars, the treasurer says he thinks that 985,000,800is the extreme limit of circulation which may be obtained. It oertainly can not be maintained at that sum when the new silver 91 and 93 certificates are in full supply, and a return to the treasury ol one-half of the amount of standard clollars now in oiroulation must tie looked for; and so he asks whether, the further purchase of silver jiullioa-be determined upon, the [light not cease, and the sum . s s saved to the treasury. The s el ponded so far upon the coinage idlver dollar; outside of the coat I consequent loss upon the purchase of ) bullion, amounts to 94,033,467. All of coinage |hig which It, cos i

per dollar, end the cost of these coins, to 48,4)9,407. To add to this loss would seem unnecessary, and the sum could he expended in the purchase of that amount mors of the silver bullion. The adoption of this plan would at least have the merit of adding just so much to the oredit of the silver profit fund. Besides, the cost to the Government for transportation of these coins averages 41.95 per 41.000, and the cost lo the people of their return to the treasury averages 43.54 per 41,000. The averse cos t of transportation to the Government of the silver certificates per 41,000 is fifty cents, the cost to the people, say, 91-35, a saving of 93.7#per 91,000, a strong argument in favor of the issue of such amount of these certificates as the business of the country will permit to be carried om without disturbing its gold revenues or interfering with tine maintenance of si strict parity between the two metals, The amount of silver dollars coined to date is 4846,618,886; the amount of gold coin and bullion on hand is 8354,450, S58. The cost of the $846,673,386 rs $816,049,369; the present value, 91SS,014,t&4 —showing an actual less of 488,084,914. The bank of France to-day is in this jio sit ion. It holds in its cash at par 8230,373,860 in silver, its present value at par of exchange, exclusive of abrasion, is 9168.509,691, showing a loss of its entire capital and surplus, which amounts 844,038,313, and 810,000,000 in addition if called upon to liquidate its affairs to-day. Treasurer Jordon recommends Alterations in the present sub-treasury system, in order that it may conform to the financial changes which have taken place since this system was adopted. As the country increases in wea lth and population, With the consequent increase of its revenv.es and disbursements, it will be found impossible to continue the system in its present form with the extension of the three jier cent bonds which, without some depression or event that can not now be forseon, mast take place during the ensuing flsital year, the only bonds available for the purposes of the siuking fund- will be the IX and 4 per cent, bonds. At the present cost of the collection of the revenue of the country, say 83.70 per 8100, the loss on the existing sinking fund, say 945,000,000 jier annum, will be 8765,000 annually, assuming 3 per cent, as the best rate which the bonds can earn. Without discussing the consequent possible derangement of our existing financial system if purchases for the sinking fund are to be maintained at their present figure it will be found to be impracticable to make these purchases, the treasurer says, at such terms and in such manner as to relieve the money market in times of financial distress. As these derangements happen almost invariably at the time of moving of, the crops of the country, this statement is equivalent to saying every productive interest in the country must pay toll to foreign buyers, through the lower range of prices which obtain at such times, because of the fact that our arrangements for collecting and disbursing our revenues are so defective as to need an artificial and violent remedy in order to place in active circulation the moneys withdrawn from the business of the country. This method of dealing with the public moneys is not true of. any countpy but this, and the practical sense of the American people, as shown through its representatives in Congress, should be adequate to find a remedy for this constantly recurring evil—one sure to grow and become more burdensome in our future National history. ‘This remedy,” he says, -‘should be found and adopted with the comingsession of Congress, because the evil complained of will be upon us before its next meeting, and the t reasury left without any means of supplying the urgent needs of the country.

HE HAD AN IDEA. The Simple Invention Which Brought a Fortune to a Plodding German. [Brooklyn Eagle.] I ran across one of those men with an idea the other day. He is a middle-aged German and he lives on Vanderbilt avenue. A few years ago he was a very ordinary fellow, drudging away at a trade, with the prospect of always being poor and a drudge. That was what his neighbors thought of him. But, while he was pounding? away he emulated the example of the widow’s famous cow, “didn’t say much, but kept up a deal of thinkinCoe day he got up from his bench (T think it was a bench, though it might have been a tailor's table or a butcher’s block; anyhow, the plodding German knocked oft from his trade) and he went out of the shop with an idea. His friends noticed no change in their neighbor. If they noticed him at all, it was to reflect what a hopeless drudge of a German he was. Meanwhile, he went right ahead with his idea. Then some of his friends discovered that he did not come back to his bench. That worried them a little. A few weeks later they observed that he went over to New York every day and was beginning to dr jss better and spruce up a bit. That really gave them a great deal of ooncern. The next thing they took note of was that the petty German tradesman had begun to build a new house. Then they were terribly cut up. Finally the whole thing came out. The Vanderbilt avenue German’s idea was simple enough, but it has already m ade him rich and the money keeps coming in. His idea originated the small cs rdbaard signs, with variegated letters u]>on them, seen around the walls of every popular restaurant. The letters look like letters cut out of wall paper. Ajt first they were. Then the German thought of an improvement, and he tried making the letters of prettily figured calico. That gave the little signs greater durability, and. as he had prepared a glue especially adapted; to sticking on the letters, it struck him. to apply for a patent. Simple as was' the whole thing, he got his patent. It has filled his purse and lifted him out of the life of a drudge. Not only in every popular restaurant in Brooklyn are these attractive little signs to be found, announcing specialties on the bill of fare each day, and thus making the demand constant, but in many bar-rooms, drug stores, waiting-rooms, hotel corridors, offices and scores of other places they serve a diversity of purposes. From Brooklyn and New York restaurants the jtopularity of the variegated card signs extended to other cities, until now the little signs are in common use as far east as Boston and as far west as Chicago. Remnants of cloth are used in making the letters, and the cost is, therefore, very light. The demand has been something tremendous, and the plodding German tradesman of Vanderbilt avenue has risen 1» the dignity of a solid business man,with his office in New York, his family in a new house, and prosperity all around him.

me neurou Washington, Deo. A—From a source considered trustworthy, yt>\jr correspondent learned to-day that there is great danger the last attack on Ben ton may prove serious. The President is downright angry and the worst jt it is, from evidence which lias arrive* here, Benton seems to have ireally said some such things as charged, mot only at Gallatin, but elsewhere. The 1 President talks ot a thorough inquiry, and, it these things are proved, he will certainly remove Benton. Serious Freight Collision. Philadelphia, Dec. 8.—A collision between two freights and a passenger train occurred near Bristol, on the New York line of the Pennsylvania railroad yenterday morning, but so far as can be learned no ono was hurt and trains were delayed hut two hours, From meager particulars obtained here it appears that east and west-bound freight trains collided, and noon after the east-bound Pittsburgh express came along and ran into the wreck. Sent Up far For (erj. Dallas, Tex., Deo. A—Deputy United Mates Marshal Ben Cabell arrived here last night en route to Chester (111.) jienitentiary with Samuel Smith, a negro, convicted at. the present term of the Federal District Court at Waoo of forging jmstcfflce money-orders, and sentenced to live y ears’ imprisonment. —A quit-claim deed for an acre of lnuid on the Indian reservation in Onondaga County, N. Y., was recently recorded at the eounty clerk’s office. It was probably the first record of the uale of land by one of those Indians to a white man. A school-house for Indian I

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —The most valuable products of the farm in this country are the men and women that are trained upon them.— Chicago Journal. —Blessed is he who stores his plow in the fence corner, for he makes the heart of the manufacturer to rejoice.— H'cslcrn Plowman. —When the races get more money prizes than all the rest of the show, they ruin the usefulness of the society which gives them. — Western Rural. —Order, harmony and punctuality are important for success in any enter* prise, whether on the farm, in the workshop or the store.—Montreal Witness. * —Cheese cakes—Take equal parts oi flour, grated cheese and butter; season with pepper and salt, and mix with one or two eggs; bake in small eake oi patty pans.—Toledo Blade. —Prof. Roberts, speaking of the great efficiency of modern labor-saving implements and machines, says that tht “boy of to-day, with his sulky plow and self-binder, can rob the soil of mow plant food in a year than his grandfathei could in all his'lifet me.—Exchange. —Haricot Mutton: Make a good gravy by boiling the trimmings, seasoning it with pepper and salt. Strain and add carrots, parsnips and onions previously boiled tender. Slice them in. then pepper and salt the mutton, broil it orown; put it into tbe gravy along with the vegetables, and stew all to gether ten minutes.—Boston Budget. —Grape Catchup— Wild graphs make delicious catchup and jelly. Boil grapes unt 1 soft, then press through a eoar-e sieve. To live pounds of grape pulp add th>ee pounds of sugar, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of cloves, pepper and allspice, one crated nutmeg, one quart of vinegar. Boil slowly until thick as tomato catchup, then bottle.—The Caterer. —To show what can be done with early-cut hay, a Mr. Terry, writing to the New York Tribune, states that he has a team of heavy work horses that for nearly five years have livelona diet of early-cut clover and t'mothy, hay. They have not had a single feed of grain during all this time, are as fat as seals, and at no time during the five years could one see a rib on either of them. To take a heavy load of potatoes or wheat to market (twelve miles) is but play for them. CARE OF STRAWBERRIES. Why They Should be Mulched Whether Covered by Snow or Not. ! I I i Freezing weather without snow on the giound and the freezings and thawings in the spring always injure strawberries. They bear so much more bountifully when protected that it always will pay to mulch them whether they may be covered by the snow or not. Leaves are the best material available in this section, as salt hay is ; out of our reach. The leaves cost noth- ! ing but the gathering, and a person , not used to collecting them will be sur- : prised to find how rapidly a large load I may bo obtained, and how far it will go 'towards covering the plants. Six loads with side-boards covers an aore. There is no vegetation so good as leaves for manure, on account of the large per cent- of ash which they contain, and this is just what strawberries require. Leaves will not smother the plants like straw, as they are lighter and do not pack down so closely. They are the most natural protection for tender herbage. Some use evergreen brush, but they sire not so good as leaves, necessitating the labor of removing, whereas the leaves can be kept on to keep the weeds and grass from starting in the ! spring, and at the same time they have the effect to lighten the soil. It is a good plan to cover late-set plants, which need greater protection, with a small piece of evergreen brush and then cover this with leaves. It is well to do this whonever the plants are delicate, as they are more liable to be smothered, and the little bush will keep the leaves from pressing them down so as to injure them, while at the same time the leaves will furnish needful protection. It is a pleasant reflection to knbw that nearly all first-olass farmers now have their patch of strawberries, and count on them as a regular yearly delight. They do not bestow on them the particular care the gardener does, but with a horse and cultivator they give them enough culture to get a good crop. Some take pains to put out a bed, and then lot them go without further oare. They run together and soon make a mass of strangled vegetation, which speedily runs out. To have a lasting and productive bed, the runners must be kept oft' and the strength of the growth confined to the main roots. A few hours’ work will keep a farmer's strawberry bed in a condition to reward him bountifully. He wants the hardy sorts, and must be careful to plant those capable of self-fertilization, or two kinds adjoining, staminate and pistillate, or tiie bed may be barren like setera! we know.—Col. F. D. Curtis, in American Garden,

FAST BUTTER-MAKING. MUk Which Completed Its Journey to But. ter in Just Two Honrs. As illustrating the possibilities in the dairy since inventive-genius has been called in to 'help the^dairyman, Prof. Q. H. WhitcherTofxfm) New Hampshire Agricultural college, gives the following account cfaiJ experiment recently made there A “Sjifaoe the establishment of the creameWat Hanover it had frequently occurred to me that the morning's milk might be transformed into butter for the breakfast-table the same morning, and on a recent Saturday it was decided to try |he experiment. At 4:30 a. ra. the help at the college farm were in readiness to commence milking, and at 5 o’oloek sixty pounds of warn new milk were on the scales, at the creamery, which is located some sixty rods away. At 5:15 steam was turned on and the engines were set in motion— the machinery whioh was to do in ten minutes what nature demanded five hours to complete. Five minutes later the separator was at its full speed of eight thousand revolutions per minute, and the milk was turned on; ten miflutes later forty-five pounds of perfectly sweet skim milk and fifteen pounds of equally sweet cream were the existing representatives of the original shetv pounds of milk. At 5:45 the crea m, oooled to 56 degrees, was in the small test churn; at 6:20 the butter had parted company with the buttermilk and was ready for the salt; at 6:50 it had assumed the form of one-fourth pound prints; in ten minutes more it was on the breakfast table at the college farmhouse, thus completing the journey from milk to butter in just two hours, and only two aud a-half hours from the time that milking was commenced. It may seem a little unaooountable to those who have never given any thought to the subject of mechanical separation of cream that butter from the morning’s milk may contribute toward the completion of the breakfast of the same day, scarcely two hours after it is milked, yet such is the result of our trial, and such is the triumph of inventive genius over the plodding ways of Father Time. By the old-time methods from 36 to 48 hours intervened between milking and churning, and by the oold setting in patent cans only a part of the cream can be obtained in three hours, while the average time is 24 hours, but with the new system all the oream is ob"Ik In from

A SPINSTER'S TRAGEDT, The Cruel Awakening Which Awaited I haring Old Maid. [San Francisco Chronicle.] I knew an old maid who had the Ian twenty •fire years of her life embittered by a singular disappointment. Sho had lored. 1 never knew an old maid who hadn't. He had gone away to a distant land and sworn an oath that he would never marry. Her father had kicked him out of the house; that was really what had separated them. She wasn’t to blame, except that her lore for him had kepi him until the old man caught up with him, so to speak. He swore he would always be true to her, that he couldu’t dream of marrying anybody else, and all that sort of thing, you kn$w. Just what you’ve said yourself frequently. 8he was not allowed to correspond with him until she was old enough not to want to. She cherished the dream and loved him mainly because no other man tried to dispel it. Years had passed, and one day she got a letter with the Hong Kong postmark, and the tears cams to her eyes as she looked at the dear old handwriting. He was coming home— would arrive on a certain date. Then came a flutter to her heart. She opened an old camphor-wood trunk he hnd sent her from Japan years and years before, and she took out a bundle of old, faded letters. One by one she opened and read them. Out of their worn pages fell the petals of dead, dried roses, pale, colorless violets, little bits of maiden-hair fern, flowers that might have been any thing tc eyes that had not seen them la theh bloom, but that were precious with associations. Ah, how the years dropped from her memory as she looked upon those dim-shadowed messages from the past. Cray-haired, fond grandmother, heart and soni wrapped in the love of your dear pet daughter’s dear pet daughter, go up to that little room and open that oil, old covered box you keep "here no eyes but your own can find it, and look once more upon the yellow leaves whose fragrance bore the happy love of youthful lover half a century ago. AM'me! the roses are not half sosweet today; and the pale, dead marigold that aalls in pieces at your feet has still a beauty far beyond them all. But let us go back to the old maid. She waited with impatience for the day to come when she should be uuited to her old sweetheart. No cruel father with a hobnailed boot could come between her and her iove now. The day came, hut he did not. She thought he’d go to a hotel. She did not want to be seen asking for him, so she called the boy and asked him to copy the names of the arrivals that day. She | was walking up and down the floor until he came back. He returned and handed her a card, which read: “Mr. —- and wife, live children and three Chinese servants, from Hong Kong.”

Dangerous Handkerchief Flirtation. 'Philadelphia Call-1 A young woman picking her way across (ho railroad tracks in Indianapolis saw a brakeman wave his hand to her from the tpp a departing freight train. She smiled sweetly and waved back. Then the brakemi\n waved more violently, and the girl smiled more sweetly and stopped and tried to get out her handkerchief to fittingly carry on the flirtation. The next thing she knew she was yanked oft the track by a flagman, just in time to escape a backing train, which the brakeman had seen and had tried in vain to warn her of. Dr. Morse, physician at Marine Hospital, Baltimore, Md., found Red Star Cough Cure a harmless aud most effective remedy in the cure of coughs. Twenty-five cents a bottle. For rheumatism and neuralgia St. Jacobs Oil is a sure cure. A rolling eye never yet gave a piercing glance. A circular saw, rather.—Ttxa* Sifting*. Is It Not Singular that consumptives should be the least apprehensive of their own condition, while all their friends are urging aud beseeching them to be more careful about exposure and overdoing. It may well be considered one of the most alarming symptoms of the disease, whore the patient is reckless and will not believe that he is in danger. Reader, if you are in this condition, do not neg4eet the only moans of recovery. Avoid exposure and fatigue, be regular in your habits, and use faithfully of Dr. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical Discovery.” It has saved thousands who were steadily failing.

atiMsiEit uvouit, vi rrauw, uiuaui ises the statement that he is no tumbler.— Rochester Post-Express. Tested bt Tims. For Throat Diseases, Colds and Coughs, Brown’s Bronchial Troches have protect their efficacy by a test of many yean. Sold only in boxes. Price 35a Love matches are very easy ;o strike, hut some of them go gut dreadfully quick.— THE MARKETS. New York, Dec. T, 1889. 5 40 5,S* » CATTLE—Native Steers.$ 4 10 COTTON—Middling. FLOUR—Good to Choice. 3 80 i WHEAT—No. a Red. 8&S£© CORN—No. 9.;. 48 © OATS-Western Mixed. 85 @ PORK-New Mess. 10 50 @11 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... 8&@ BEEVES—Good to Choice. 8*90 Fair to Medium.... 3 85 HOGS—Common to Select. 3 95 SHEEP-Fair to Choice. 3 00 FLOUR-Patents. 4 00 Medium to Straight. 3 10 WHEAT-No. 9 Red Winter... CORN-No. 9 Mixed. OATS—No. 9. RYE-No. 9. TOBACCO-Lugs. Leal—Medium.... HAY—Choice Timothy. 11 50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. 99 EGGS—Fresh.. 9014® ! PORK-New Mess. 10 8714# 11 ' BACON—ClearRtb. It LARD—Prime Steam.. 5*< l WOOL—Fine to Choice. 37 CHICAGO. CATTLE-Shippiug. 8 30 HOGS-Good to Choice. 8 85 SHEEP—Good to Choice. 9 75 FLOUR-Winter. 4 80 Patents..... 4 95 WHEAT—No. 9 Spring.... 7814® -— ~ . 8714® CORN—No. 9. OATS-No. 9 White. PORK-New Mess. 10 75 10 80 KANSAS CITY CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 8 50 @ HOGS—Sales at. 8 70 & WHEAT-No. 9. © OATS-No. 9. 97 @ CORN-No. 9. 81H® NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-High Grades. 3 30 @ CORN-White. 47 @ OATS—Choioe Western. 87*4# HAY—Choice. 13 00 @ PORK-New Mess. 11 00 @ BACON—Clear Rib...'. @ COTTON—Middling. .... @ LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 9 Red. CORN—No. 9 Mixed. OATS-No. 9 Mixed..!. PORK-Mess.. BACON—Clear Rib. COTTON-Middling.

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