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(Ecnmncrnal.
SAVANNAH MAKKBT.
OFFICE OF TIIE MDUN'ISG SKWH. j
Savannah. Ga.. Feb. 2. 1884. 5 p. m.i
Oottox.—There was no special stir in the
(•srkc-T. which was rather quiet and easier if
anything. There was quite a large amount
•f cotton changing hands, but this does not
Bfcpresent the actual day's business, as the
part of it was partially contracted for
davs ago. Quotations remain at un-
figures, but they represent sellers’
ra ther than buyers’. There is very little
j iML. jj f m the situation. Buyers are encour-
A,i to continue to hold off, because of more
arrivals at the ports, as well as the be-
;hat a fair amount of cottons still remain
IS the plantations. But sellers are firm, and
full prices, backed by an easy money
The total sales for the day foot up
bales. The official rei>ort of the day’s
Bmsiuess at the Exchange was as follows:
market owned quiet and unchanged, with
Rales of 2.587 bales. At 1 p. nt. it was quiet,
Htir ,a!c.s being 03 bales. The market closed
HinU. with further sales of 200 bales. Below
be found the official closing quotations of
Hae Cotton Exchange:
f Middling fair IC%
■ Good middling 10 9-16
B Middling 10-%
I Low middling 10
I Good ordinary 9 9-16
R Ordinary 8%
Comparative Cotton Statement.
ItKOKI PTS, EXPORTS AHDSTOCKON HAND FEBRU ARY 2, 1881, AND
POII THE KAMI TIME I.sKT YEAR.
1544. I I MCS.
Sea I I Sea |
[eland. j Upland, j I aland. j Upland.
Stock on hand September 1.. 17 4,285, , - ,i 1
Received to. day 185 1 1.474• j 807 2.832 J
Received previously 8,678 688,003 1 j 8,723 617,279!
Total 8,778 j 594,312 0.29 f t! 654,942]
Exported to-day. . . | ] Si, (too I 276 1 2.239)
Exportedpreviously, . ... I 7,656: 529,702;] 7,485 502,897
Total
| Stock 0B 4'"’ ' ' on ship- 1 j j j
1 Island.— Thß market was quiet, but
yEv linn and uuchanged. Xo transactions
reported. We quote:
nominal.
4
BKu. .37 <s—
3B @—
SRm 39 (tt—
BExtra fine 40 @ —
B Kice.—Business was very moderate, but the
was improved, and quotations remain
Ktnchanged. The sales were 182 barrels. Ap
tided'are the official closing quotations of
Board of Trade:
I Good 5%@5%
I Prime- 6}%*e%
B Naval stores.—The market for sturits
vßarpentine was quiet, but very firm. There
j w- re no transactions, owi- g toihe high prices
red by holders. The official report of the
’flktoard of Trade was as follows: The market
*4>pi ned steady at 82c. for regulars. At Ip. m.
flat was firm at 32c. for regulars. It closed at 4
jrip . m. steady at 32c. for regulars. Rosins —The
apfcarket was firm and in good request. G aud
IK ad-. sneed 5c.. and Hand I 10c. The total
sales for the day were about 1,10 barrels.
Bie official report of the Board of Trade was
as (pilous: The market opened firm, at the
foilsivi ng quotations: A. B, C. 1> and Esl 17%,
r $1 20. ~G 41 30. II *1 40. I *1 50, K 41 75, M
4f Jf , \ $2 75, window glass 43 25, water white
St If l No sates. At Ip. nt. it was firm, quo
tatl ns being revised as follows: A, B, I>
and E 4! 17%, FII 20, G4l 35, H 4! 50, I |1 60,
K 3 80, M $2 25. X' $2 75, window glass $3 25,
W 8! r white $3 50. S ties 900 barrels. It closed
at 1 p. m. unchanged, with no further sales.
NAVAL STORES STATKMBNT.
SirtriU. Rosin.
>Bt ' on hand April Ist ... 2,105 41.971
to-day 65 956
Sb'coived previously. 128,077 495,553
m Tot 130.837 541,480
7 Exported to-day 127 838
Exported previously 122,342 451.443
Total . .122,469 452,281
V ick .n hand and on shipboard
t‘ i * day ... •• 7,766 89.199
H -eipts same day last year 17# 2,304
■• s xNCIAi*. aiouey is easy. uomeslie
u\',. \ 7,v-The banks and bankers are buy
!%, - : i drafts at par. and selling at H s%
| ’ rt :11. ■! -count. Sterling Exchange—Alar
* v i ly ; sixty day bills,'with bills lading
listta.diol. commercial. 4* 79%; ninety days,
If ;>T!H; . 44 7?’,; French franks. 45 27; Swiss
. i franks. $5 27. , „
Sl UKiTiKS.—The market is very dull and
*..,t fttr atn/'L-i Honda steady
Stocks and Bonds. —City Bands. —Mar-
set quiet. Atlanta 6 per cent., 102 bid,
04 s.-ked; Augusta 7 per cent., 10* bid.
ill .v i.ed; Columbus 5 per cent., 84 bid, SO
n-ke l: Macon 6 per cent., 101 bid. 102 asked:
New Savannah 5 percent. April coupons, 81
*l% a-ked. Savannah 5 percent. May
•oupons, 80% bid.
o; ite Bonds. — Market steady. Georgia news’s,
1889, 13 bid, 105 asked; Georgia 0 per cent..,
counons February and August, maturity 1883
an I'--\ lei bid, 102 asked; Georgia mortgage
on W. A A. Railroad regular T per cent.,
sou pons January and July, maturity 1886,
104 bid, 105 asked; Georgia 7 per
eent. gold, coupons quarterly, 113 bid,
114 asked; Georgia 7 per cent., coupons Jan
uary and Juiv. maturity 1696. 119% bid, 121
asked. Ocean Steamship 6 per cent, bonds
guaranteed by Central Railroad, 97 bid. SB%
linked. Savannah Gas Light stock. 13 bid,
II asked.
Aki. road Stock*.— Market weak. We quote:
Central common, nominal, 30 bid, 31 asked.
Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent, guar
antee!, ex-div., 130 bid, 121 asked. Geor
gia c- inmon, 117 bid, 148 asked. South
w - in 7 per cent, guaranteed, ex-dir., 113%
v, i. 1 ; 4 a-ked. Central Railroad 6 per cent.
*cr; ties. bid, 87% asked. Atlanta
vnl '.S' -t Point Railroad stock, 93 Did,
D 1. Atlanta and West Pomt 6 per
cent, certificates. 94% bid. iB% asked.
K-. id ZJea/i#.—Market firm. Atlan
t <ti!f Ist mortg. consolid’d 7 per cent.,
is January and July, maturity 1897,
’o i bid, 111 asked. Central consolidated
'.r i.-D 7 per cent., coupons January
a . July, maturity 1893, 110% bin,
.Georgia Railroad 6 per cent., 1897,
I- " . 3 asked. Georgia Railroad 0 per
104 bid. 105 asket. Mobile A
U i mortgage indorsed 8 per cent, con
i' !a anuary and July, maturity 1389, lvS
ir, i. 'o asked. Montgomery A Enfaula Ist
■s :' n; i* per cent. ind. by Central Raiiroaii,
II , : i asked. Charlotte, Columbia A
v . Ist mortgage, ltd bid, 105 asked.
" Columbia ft -Augusta *1 mortgage,
' * asked. Western Alabama 2*l nmrt
i . lor.sed, s per cent., ex-coupons, 110%
1 4 asked. South; Georgia A Florida
lit bid, 115 asked; South Georgia
t i. i 31 mortgage, 100 bid. 102 asked.
T in.—Market firm; demand fair;
* ~ clear rib sides, 10%c.; shoulders, s %c.;
, •: clear rib sides, 9%c.: long clear.
* , ju. li'rs, 7%c. Hams. 14%<§15c.
i>■ no isd Ties.—Market steady with a
•uac i. We quote: Ragging—2% tbs.,
V- p-.; I ttfc,.. ifi tbi.., luto
* ; *.. 9 i J9%e., according to quan
bG ! brand. Iron Ties—Arrow anl Delta,
*- ;i per bundle, according to quantity
r. j. Pieced ties, II 10951 15. Ragging
e c ;.in retail lots a fraction higher.
Cui’f The market is strong; demand
nod-rat-, We quote for small lots; Ordinary,
i .: medium. 13%c.; prime,
, K t large lots about Ic. lower.
, 11 - y jOops.—The market ls steady with
, ■ -. cks full. W - quote:
■ * a<9 , >:c.; Georgia brown skirt
• % do., 5%c.; 4-4 browu
;j : .'' • white osnaburgs, 80510 c.;
e l 4 5- : c.; yarns, 85c. for best makes;
mvw.i driiiiugs, ti jCb-c.
* L —Market steady; demand fair. We
? s "'- " l ! -'rfiue, $4 00 £4 25; g?xtra. 14 75;
.*s*o w; Roller Mills, 10
' ' ■ - ■ l‘> 75; choice patent, |7
D; v - ! mixture, |7 00.
B uianas, yellow, $1 50@2 50. Lem
*• c ".8 ample, demand very good; Messi
er V" per box. Oranges—Market
* 4 K light, demand active; Florida,
*- ’ J -' *>J per box.
'-.—Market Arm and scarce; demand
-/ ; ' v >’ piote in job lots: White corn,
72c.; mixed corn, 75c.;
, -■ 72c.; mixed oats, 64c.; car
' c., steady, demand good. Meal,
si ' 1 •*! 15. Grist, per two bushel sack.
and tv .—Market steady and well stocked; fair
, _ ‘ “ quote, in job lota: May, Xorth
-1 ' Kastern, none; Western. |l 05.
r.v , ° ,,L > Etc.—Hide*—Market active:
a • i , * air: . dry flint. 14c.; dry country
st' .7 ’ w ’°°l nominal. Wax, 270. Deer
30c ’’ Balted ’ *®- otter skins,
I.a .p.—The market Is firm. We quote:
p. ®5 ,;!i and tubs. 19c.; in kegs, 19%c.
mww<. lOEd -—Market well stocked, demand
* f!. : ’ Pf I ™®; 12 25 per barrel.
Market strong. We quote: Cut
('r *''' 9tan d&rd A, 8%.c; extra C, 7%c.;
k<fA LT '~; Ttle demand is fair ami the mar-
C.,: ?"■*: Wltn 11 ,ull stock. We quote:
IOLj . 35c., f. o. b.; small lots, 95c/g)
a,I^ ACC S;- Mar kt firm; moderate de
(w '*c quote: Smoking,
Hi-V'd-tbrnman. souml 3.><piOc.; medium,
right, 50qi75c.; Une fancy, 85a)c.;
4we. 10; bright navies,
ar t 2 a vies, 40350 c.
* 4 KKKTb BYT BL KOItA T H.
FINANCIAL.
Ff;b -I.—Spanish gold, 131%. Ev
-qk, rC nroi; on the t'nited States, liii days.
'' rr f>'? premium; ditto, sluirl eight, !Kq9%
o" London, 19%<g19% premium; on
i.3, premium.
"SIMIN, Feb. 2, 2:30 p. m.—Consols, 10l 5-J6.
sf s Kao *v>ni*t of this week says: ‘‘The rate
‘.’l 'unt for bank bills. CO to 90 days, is
■y. and for trade bills, bo to 00 and: jv, “’/x
troi, s''''t' 5 * Semitics which derive -import
markets are depressed, Trailie
returns from home railways are declining.
American railway securities show a moderate
improviwiont; Central Pacific has advanced 1
point, Denver and Rio Grande 3, Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern 2, and Louisville and
Nashville 3>... Anglo-American Cable has de
clined. common 1 point, preferred 1%.”
New Yoke. Feb. 2, noon.—Stocks buoyant.
M. easv at 1%@2 per cent. Exchange—
long, 41 85%'@4 85%; short, 44 BS@4 88%. State
bonds quiet. Government l>ouds steady.
5:00 p. m.—Excnange. $4 8514. Money, l’£@2
tier cent. Sub-Treasury balances—Com. 4115,-
447,000; currency,*9,l4l,'pOO. Government bonds
closed firm; four and a half per cents, 114 l 7;
four per cents, three per cents. 100%
bid. State bonds steady.
X'ot since October last have the sales at the
Stock Exchange reached the total attained
to-day. 685,000 shares having changed hands.
From the opening until the close of business
the tendency of prices was upward, the reac
tions, which occurred at intervals, having in
variably brought in buyers, and this caused
rapid recoveries. The bulls were in full con
trol, and were materially assisted in their op
erations by a large increase in the number of
out-of-town orders, and by purchases to cover
short contracts. The smaller bears have gen
erally covered, and are now enlisted on the
bull side; but the large bears are still heavily
short, as the borrowing rates for stocks plainly
indicate to-dav Oregon Navigation com
manded ' a per cent, per diem for use, luis
viile and Nashville 1-16^4,and Northern Pa
cific preferred. New York Central and Read
ing 1-64. and Canadian Pacific, Manitoba and
New Jersey Central lent flat. The activity
amt excitement covered anything witnessed
on the Stock Exchange for a long time past, i
and the dealings in some of the leading shares !
were on an enormous scale. Union Pacific j
leading with 129,000 shares, an unusually j
large total for any stock. The advance rangeil j
from to 3 per cent., ami extended through- |
out the entire list, 'i he great features of the j
market were Union Pacific, Western Union. ]
Missouri Pacific, St. Paul, Lackawanna, Lake 1
Shore, and the low-priced Southwestern j
shares. The rise started under the leadership i
of Union Pacific, which advanced 2% per cent.
As the buying movement in this stock pro- j
grossed, it was discovered that the supply was |
smaller than anticipated, and this greatly as
sisted the advance. Western Union followed !
closely after Union Pacific, and rose 1% per !
cent, on a business of over 50,000 shares. Mis
souri Pacific also advanced sharply, selling up
l’i per cent., and closed at the highest point
of the day. The attempt of the bears to cover
in this stock did not meet with much success,
as the market ran away from them. The deal
ings in Nt. Paul and Lackawanna were large
at steadily advancing prices, the former rising
1% and the latter 2 per cent. Several promi
nent bears “twisted” on these two stocks to- I
day. Lake Shore was another leading feature
in speculation, rising 2 per cent., with consid
erable buying for \ underbill's account.
Northern Pacifies were more active and high
er, common advancing % and preferred VA
per cent., and Oregon Transcontinental sold
up to 25. In syrapathv, low-priced South
western shares exhibited more animation and
strength than for months past. Grangers
were purchased freely, on the belief that the
meeting, on Monday, of the Western Trunk
Line Association will result in some definite
understanding between tiie roads. Northwest
rose to 12o'Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy
to 124%, Omaha to 3 9 4 , aud ditto preferred to
95. Canadian Pacific and Pacific Mail ad
vanced to 53 and 46%, respectively, the rise
in tiie former being due to the shipments of
stock to London, which has reduced the sup
ply here to a very small amount, and in the
latter to the increased freight business of the
! company, an extra steamer having been sent
■ out this week. Michigan Central rose to 94%,
aud reacted to 92%. I.ate this afternoon there
was a reaction of 1 /a. 1 per cent., owing to
-ales to realize by the smaller class of opera
tors and room-traders, who usually closeout
on Saturday on a bull market; but in the final
transactions there were rallies, and specula
tion closed very firm, with many shares close
on to the highest point. Compared with last
night’s closing, prices are %@2% per cent,
higher. The following are the closiug quota
tions:
A ia. class a.2 to 5 81* Manhattan Elev. 47%
Ala. clasaA,small 81* Memphis & Char. 36%
Ala.classß,ss ... 99* Metropolitan El.. 91
Ala.class C,.ls .. SO* Michigan Central 92%
GcorgiaOs *lOl Mobile & 0hi0... 9%
“ 7s, morlgagt *lO4 Nash. A: Chatt’a 52%
“ 7s, gold *ll2 N. J. Central 87%
Louisiana coneols*77% New Orleans Pa-
N. Carolina, old. *29 cific, Ist mort. 84
“ new. .. .*l6 X.Y.Central 115%
“ funding ... 10 New Y'ork El .. 105
“ sjiecial tax *2% Norf. AW. pref. 38
So. Caro.(Brown Nor. Pacific,com. 22%
consols .104 “ pref. 48%
Tennessee Us, old 38 Ohio&Mississippi 22
w now ‘37% “ “ pref. SO
Virginia Cs *4O Pacific Mail 46%
va consolidated *4l Pittsburg 135%
Va. deferred ..... 8 Quicksilver 5%
Adams Express. 128 “ preferred.., 31
Am'cau Express 100* Reading 55%
Ch’peake A Ohio. 14% Riciim’dA Al’gh’y 4
Chicago & Alton 140 Richm’d A Dauv. 53
Chic.A N’rthw’n.l2o Ilichm’d A W.Pt.
“ preferred . .140% Terminal 28%
Chic. St.L.A NLO. 83 Rock Island 118}^
Consolkl’ted Coal 21 St. Louis A San F 21
Del., Lack. A W 123% “ “ pref 40%
Den.&RioGrande 21% “ “ Ist pro 86%
Erie 27% St. Paul 91%
E. Tennessee lid 6% “ preferred 116%
Fort Wayne 133% Texas Pacific 21
Hannibal A St. Jo 38% Union Pacific 81
lhirlcm u 193 U. S
Illinois Central 13*% •• pref. 29%
Lake Shore lOiP s Well A Fargo 103
L’ville A Nash 48% Western Union... 76-%
*Bid.
The weekly statement of the associated
bauks, issued to-day, shows tlie following
changes: Loans increased 44,855,200; specie
increased 41,04u,000; legal tenders increased
473,900; deposits increased 45,177,200; circu
lation decreased 465,300; reserve decreased
1180,490. The banks now hold $19,298,375 in
excess of legal requirements.
COTTON.
Liverpool, Feb. 2, noon.—Cotton a shade
easier; middling uplands, 5 15-1 C i; middling
Orleans,6 l-16d; sales 7,000 bales; forspecula
tion and export 1,000 bales; receipts 31,000
bales—American 26,500 bales.
Futures: Uplands, low middling clause,
February and March deli verv,s 53-64@5 70-Old;
March and April, 5 61-*J4 ®s'6o-64d; April and
May, 6 2-64@8 l-64d; May and Jane, 6 4-64d;
June and July, G 9 64d; July and August,
6 12-tUd; August and September, 0 15-64(1.
Market quiet.
1:30 p. ra.—Sales to-day included 4,900 bales
of American.
Futures: Uplands, low middling clause. !
April and May delivery, 6d; June and July, i
6 8-64d; .Inly and August, 6 11-64d. Closed
cheaper for near months.
New York. Feb. 2, noon.—Cotton quiet:
middling uplands, lo%c; middling Orleans,
11c; sales 225 bales.
Futures: Market steady; sales as follows: :
February delivery, 10 67c: March, 10 Ssc;
April, 1101 c; May, 11 15c; June. 1125 c; July,
1141 c.
5:00 p. in. —Cotton quiet; middling uplands,
I0%c; mntdlimr Orleans, lie: sales 225 bales;
Di'i receipts 1,600 bales, grosss,oo2.
Futures—Market closed dull, with salos
of 42,000 bales, as follows: February delivery,
10 63®10 70o; March. 10
July, 11
tember. 11 13:011 15*: October, 10 75(ol0 78c;
November. 10 05% 10 08c..
The Pont'* cotton report says: “Future de
liveries closed cheaper for near months.”
Galveston, Feb. 2.—Cotton firm; mid
dling 10 7-16 c, low middling 10%c, good ordi
nary 9%c: net receipts 2,721 bales, gross 2,721;
sales 1,823 bales; stock 75,712 bales.
Norfolk. Feb. 2.—Cotton quiet and easy:
middling 10%c; net receipts 1,846 bales, gross
1,546; stock 44,033 bales; sales 577 bales; ex
ports, coast wiae 587 bales.
Raltimoke. Feb. 2.—Cotton steady: mid
dling 10%r, low middling 10 3-16 c, good ordi
nary 9%c: net receipts 95 bales, gros- 1.039;
sales 90-3 bales: stock 21,496 bales; sales to
spinners 700 bales.
Roston, Feb. 2.—Cotton quiet; middling
10%c, low middling 10%c, good ordinary 9%c;
net receipts 907 bales, gross 2,004; stock 7,300
bales.
WiLMiNOTOX, Feb. 2. —Cotton quiet; mid
dling 10 5-16 c; low miditliug 9 15-lGc; good or
dinary 9 5-16 c; netreceipts 211 bales, gross24l;
stock 8,616 bales.
Philadelphia. Feb. 2.— Cotton firm; mid
dling 10%c, low middling 10%c. goo<! ordinary
9%c; net receipts none, gross 118 bales; stock
9,327 bales.
New Orleans, Feb. 2.— Cotton weak: mid
dling 10 7-16 c, low middling 10%c, good ordi
nary 9%c; net receipts 3,086 bales, gross 3,788;
sales 5,000 bales; stock 390,750 bales; exports,
to Great Britain 11,089 bales, to the continent
400.
Mobile, Feb. 2.—Cotton quiet; mi-idling
10 5- 16c; low middling 10 l-16c; good ordinary
9 11-16 c; netreceipts 1.537 bales, gross 1,537;
sales 1,200 bales; stock 41,743 bales; exports,
coastwise 672 bales.
Memphis, Feb. 2.—Cotton steady; middling
10%c, low middling 9%c, good ordinary 9%c;
net receipts 1,089 bales, gross 1,331; shipments
2.340 bales; sales none; stock 82,040 bale 6.
ACOUSTA, Feb. 2.—Cotton quiet; middling
10 3-18 . low middling 9%c; receipts 243 bales;
sales 833 bales.
Charleston, Feb. 2.—Cotton quiet but firm;
middling io %o, low middling 10%c, good ordi
nary 9%c; net receipts 1,228 bales, gross 1,228;
sales 400 bales; stock 62,696 bales.
New Yoke, Feb. 2.—Consolidated net re
ceipts for all cotton jiorts to-day, 14,773 bales;
exports, to Great Britain 14,039 bales, to the
continent 400. , .
The total risible supply of cotton for the
world is 3,381,410 bales, of which 2.778,010 bales
arc American, against 8,237,424 and 2,574,41.6
respectively, last year. The receipts of cotton
at all interior towns for the week were 45,8.i3
bales; recci|>ts from plantations, 80,9-54 bales.
Crop in sight, 4,737,329 bales.
PROVISIONS. GROCERIES. ETC.
Havana, Feb. I.—Sugar—The market be
came more animated toward the end of the
week; prices, however, continue to rule low;
sales were confined almost entirely to centri
fugals, which brought 6%(®7 reals, gold, per
arrobe; 351 hogsheads of inferior to fair mus
covadoes were sold at 4(55% reals; it is re
ported that the markets on the coast are ac
tive, ami that rates are higher than at Ha
vana: it is said that many planters will cease
making museovadoes, owing to the prevailing
ruinou- prices; stock* in warehouse at Havana
and Matanzas, 15,000 boxes, 49.500 bags and
36,400 hogsheads; receipts during the week,
2,309 boxes. 9,500 bags and 11,050 hogsheads;
exports during the week, 1,850 bags and 5.600
hogsheads, all to the United States. Bacon,
$37 096538 00, currency, per cwt. Rutter, su
jierior American, si>s 00 (667 00, currency, per
quintal. Flour, $32 50Q38 50, currency, per
bbl. for American. Hama. American sugar
cure-1, $53 2>V<557 75, currency, per quintal for
Northern,and SO2 503K53 50 for Southern. Lard,
in kegs,s34 50@35 75,currency, per quintal; in
tins, $33 250540 50. Potatoes, $6 00C&6 50. cur
rency, per bbl. Tallow, $23 000C24 25, cur
rency, per quintal. Wax, yellow, sl3 00®15 25,
gold.’ per arrobe. Honey, 3% reals, gold, per
gallon. Kmpty hogsheads, $4 25054 50, gold.
?>!in>pr novnm 1. Bhookfi noiniDHlj for sugAr
lev-b-ji. : 2:; r 22 r-:tF, gold; for molsssos
hot -heads. 21 reals. Reans, white navy, 33%
reals, currency, ier arrobe. Chewing
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1884.
tobacco, $63 00@69 00, currency, per quintal.
Corn. 13(<413% reals, currency, pier arrobe.
Hoops nominal. Freights firm at previous
quotations.
New Y ork. Feb. 2, noon.—Flour dull. Wheat
%c higher. Corn opened %e lower_ but re
covered. Pork firm; mess, $!
firm. Freights weak.
5:00 p. m.—Flour. Southern unchanged.
Wheat—spot lots %7a.%c higher, closing firm :
ungraded spring. 41 02; ungraded red, 65c@
$1 15; ungraded white. 98ta9S%c; Xo. 2, red,
February delivery,l 04%@1 05%. Corn—spot
lots %@'%c higher; ungraded, 49%@1%c;
choice wiiite Southern, 72;<573c; X'o. 2, 60%c;
February delivery, 60%@61c. Oats —spot lots
firm; No. 2, 39%cl Hops firm and unchanged.
Coffee, fair Rio. on spot, firmer at 12%c: No. 7
Rio. on spot 10 90c, February delivery 10 75®
10 85c. Sugar firm; centrifugal 6%®6%c; re
fined weak—standard A 7 cut loaf
and crushed B%c. Molasses steady; New Or
leans 30@55c. Cotton seed oil, 43®’48c. Hides
steady and in moderate demand; wet salted
New Orleans, selected, 50 to 60 pounds, 9®loc;
Texas, selected, B%®loc. Wool steady. Pork
very quiet; held stronger; mess, on spot, sl6.
Middles firm; long clear 9c. Lard 10®15
pioints higher, closing firm; contract grade,
on spot, 9 50c; February delivery, 9 47®9 50c.
Freights to Liverpool firm; cotton, per steam.
3-likl; wheat, per steam, B%d.
Baltimore, Feb. 2, noon.—Flour quiet and
easy; Howard street and Western super
fine, $2 75®3 25; extra, 43 50®4 65: family.
$4 90®5 75: city mills supierfine, 42 75@3 50;
extra, $3 75-.'®6 25; Rio brands. 45 75®0 CO;
Patapsco family, $6 50; supierlative patent, $7.
Whe.it—Southern steady but quiet; Western
firmer, closing dull; Southern, red $1 10541 13,
amber 41 12®1 15; No. 1 Maryland, $1 13®
1 13%; No. 2 Western winter red, on spot and
February delivery, 41 07@1 07%. Corn—South
ern steady; Western firmer, elosing dull;
Southern, white 616t02c. yellow 57®58c.‘
5:00 p. m.—Oats firm; Southern, 41@44c:
Western, white 42®43c, mixed 40®41c; Penn
sylvania, 40®43c. Provisions higher and firm:
Mess pork, 416 25. Bulk meats —shoulders
and clear rib sides, packed, 7%c and 9%c.
Bacon—shoulders B%c, clear rib sides 10%c.
Hams, 14®i4%c. Lard, refined, 10c.
Coffee quiet; Rio cargoes, ordinary to fair,
11%®12%c. Sugar quiet: A soft, 7%c. Whisky
steady at 41 18®l 18%. Freights dull.
Chicago, Feb. 2.—Flour dull. Wheat
active and a shade higher; regular, February
delivery, 91%®92%c; No. 2 Chicago spring,
91%®91%c; No. 2 red winter, 98%c®$l. Corn
active; cash lots, 52%®52} 8 c; February de
livery, 52}%e£53%c. Oats steady: cash’ lots,
32%c": February delivery, 32%@32%c. Pork
moderately active and higher; cash lots $1660
@l6 70, February delivery sls 50@15 70. Lard
firm; prices advancing; cash lots $9 15@9 20;
February delivery. 9 15@9 25c. i.ttlk meats
firm; shoulders, 6"soc; short rib, 8 75c; short
clear, 8 80c. Whisky steady. Sugars un
changed.
Lopisville, Feb. 2.—Wheat firm. Pro
visions—Mess pork, sl7. Bulk meats—shoul
ders, 7c; clear rib, B%c; sides, 9%c. Bacon—
shoulders, 7%c; clear rib, 9%c; clear sides,
9%e. Hams, sugar cured, 12%c. Lard, choice
kettle, lie.
Cincinnati, Feb. 2. —Flour quiet. Wheat
firm; Xo. 2 red, $103@104 for cash. Corn
easier; No. 2 mixed, 50%c. Oats firm; No. 2
mixed, 36%@87c. Provisions—Pork strong;
mess, el 6 f>o@lo 75. I.ard strong; prime steam,
9 00c bid. Bulk meats strong; shoulders, 7%c;
short rib, S%c. Bacon firmer; shoulders. 7? 8 c;
short rib. 9%e; short clear, 9%c. Whisky
at 41 11. Sugar steady. Hogs firm; common
and light, ?4 90@6 25; packing and butchers.
46 00@6 75.
Sr. Lons. Feb. 2.—Flour steady. Wheat
quiet and nominally unchanged. Corn higher;
48@4S%c for cash; 48@48%c for February de
livery. Oats a shade better; 33@33%c for cash;
33c for February delivery. Whisky steady at
$1 15. Provisions strong, market active;
Pork, jobbing sales at sl6 75. Bulk meats—
long clear, 8 70@8 75c; short rib, 8 80c; short
clear, 9 10c. Bacon—long clear, 9%c: short
rib, 9%c; short clear, 9%@9%c. Lard, 9 10c
asked.
New Orleans, Feb. 2.—Flour steady;
family, $4 00@4 50; high grades, to 00(a,5 Be.
Corn in fair demand; mixed and white, 56@
57c; yellow, 58c. Oats firmer at 43@45c. Pork
in fair demand and higher; old, sl6 75; new.
417 25. Lard steady: refined, in tierces 9c,
in kegs 9%c. Bulk meats in fair demand and
scarce; long clear and clear rib higher at 9c.
Bacon closed in fair demand and searee;
long clear and clear rib firmer at 9%c.
Hams, choice sugar cured cauvased, steady at
12@12%c. Whisky steady. Coffee steady; Rio
cargoes, common to prime, 10%@13%c. *Susrar
steady; fair to fully fair, 5%@5%c; white
clarified, 7%@%c. Molasses steady; centrifu
gal, 19@36c; fair 25@28c. Cotton seed oil —
prime crude, 36@36%c; summer vellow, 43@
45c.
NAVAL BTOREB.
London, Feb. 2, 2:30 p. in.—Turpentine, 25s
i 6d.
New Y'ORK, Feb. 2, noon.—Spirits turpen
tine firm. Rosin dull at II 45@1 50.
5:00 p. nt.—Spirits turpentine firm at 35@
35%c. Rosin quiet at |1 45@1 50.
Charleston, Feb. 2.—Spirits turpentine
firm at 32c. Rosin firm; strained, 41 15; good
strained, $1 17.
Wilmington, Feb. 2.—Spirits turpentine
] quiet at 32c. Rosin quiet but steady; strained,
4112%; good strained, 41 17%. Tar firm at
|1 40. Crude turpentine steady; 41 15 for
hard and $2 00 for yellow dip and virgin.
rice.
Charleston. Feb. 2.—Market strong; sales
900 bills; fair, 5@5%e; good, 5%®5%c; prime,
y .N EW Orleans, Feb. 2.—Market steady; fair,
5@5%c; good, 5%@5%c; prime, 5%@6c.
New York, Feb. 2.—Market steady; fair,
5%@5%c; good, 5%@5%c; prime, 6%c. *
SiliuyiiiO
MINI AT UR ii ALMA N T ~
S”N Rises 6 :45
Srs Sets 5:15
Hioh Water at Ft Pulaski.. 12:00 m. 12:14 am
Sunday, February 3, 1884.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Tallahassee. Fisher, New York—
G M Sorrel.
Steamship Wm Lawrence, Hooper, Balti
more—Jas 1) West <>t Cos.
Brig Emeline (Br), Vance, Boston, in bal
last—Master.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Nacoochee, Kempton, New York
—G M Sorrel.
Steamship City of Savannah, Catherine,
Philadelphia—G M *orrel.
Schr Howard Williams, Ilyers, Fernandina,
in ballast, to load for Philadelphia—Joe A
Roberts & Cos.
Schr Carrie Belle, Lawrence, Darien, in
balla.-t, to load for Noank, Coan—Jos A Rob
erts & Cos.
Schr Virginia Lee Hickman. Morris, New
Y ork—Jos A Roberts A Cos.
Schr Manantico, Cullen, Kingston, Ja—Jos
A Roberts A Cos.
DEPARTED YESTERDAY.
Steamer City of Bridgeton, ITallowee, Fer
nandina and 'way landings—Woodbridge &
ilarnman.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Nacoochee. New Y’ork.
Steamship City of Savannah. Philadelphia.
Bark Geo Davis (Br), Hamburg.
Schr Howard Williams, Fernandina.
MEMORANDA.
Tyhce, Feb 2, 7:00 p rn—Passed up, steam
ships Tallahassee, Wm Lawrence, brig lime
line (Br).
Passed out, steamships City of Savannah,
Nacoochee, hark Geo Davis (Br),schr Howard
W illiams.
Came down and anchored.hark Konoma (Br).
Waiting, barks Memlo (Br), Geo B Doane
(Br).
Wind XF., light; cloudy.
New York, Jan 31—Arrived, schr Marcus
Edwards, Outten. Jacksonville.
Cleared, hark Daisv (Br), Lewis, Bruns
wick; schr Susan II Bitchie, Bartlett, Fer
nandina.
Barcelona, Jan 27—Arrived, bark August
Smith (Nor), Christiansen, Savannah.
Liverpool. Jan 30 —Arrived, bark Carl
Freiderich (Ger), Koch, Brunswick.
Havana, Jan 26—In port, bark Folo (Sp),
Lagunilla, for Savannah, to load for Barce
lona.
Baltimore, Jan 81—Cleared, sclir Ida Law
rence, Y’otiug, Savannah.
Delaware Breakwater, Jan 31—Passed, sclir
Francis C Y'arnall, Scott, from Savannah for
Philadelphia.
Darien. Ga, Feb I—Arrived, ship Glenliaven
(Br), Rees, Rio Janeiro; schr H A DeWitt,
Welanty, Jacksonville.
Ferna'udina, Feb I—Cleared, schr Fannie E
Wolston. Mars, New York.
Arrived, schr Sarah Potter, Keen, New
Y'ork.
New Y'ork. Feb 2—Arrived, Abyssinia, San
Domingo. Delaware, Colorado, .1 A Garfield,
Wm Cobb, Annie Lord, Harry Prescott,
Estelle Day, Lizzie Chadwick, Island City.
Arrived "out, Cephalonia, Pennsylvania,
Castilla, Wingate, Orsino, Cydonia.
MARITIME MISCELLANY.
London, Jan 81—Bark Engelbrekt (Sw),
Ecktnan, from Havre for Savannah, before
reported stranded near Shanklin, I W, got off
with loss of false keel and leaky and put into
Cowes.
RECEIPTS.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway,
Feb 2—4 bales cotton, 1f495 sacks guano, 5 bb'ls
pitch, 4 bbls tar, 1 lot h h goods, and mdse.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail
way, Feb 2—242 bales cotton. 30 cars lumber,
796 bbls rosin, 55 bbls spirits turpentine. 31 bbls
and 1.213 boxes oranges, 3 oars wood, 386 sacks
oats, 47 sacks rice, 7 bales hides, and mdse.
Per Central Railroad, Feb 2—527 bbls rosin,
1,163 bales c0tt0n,1.404 sacks corn, 70 bales hay,
822 jugs, 210 boxes tobacco, 201 sacks oats, 170
sacks bran, 95 pkgs gra4e fixtures, 125 bids
flour, 69 caddies tobacco, 35 boxes hard ware, 25
pkgs furniture, 25 bales yarns, 23 horses, 15 tes
hams, 12 bbls whisky, 10 hales domestics, 8
cases plaids, 8 cases can goods, 3 hales mat
tresses, 3 boxes framos, 3 boxes preserves, 3
pieces casting, 2 boxes wood in shape, 2 boxes
books, 2 cases empty cans, 1 box fruit, 1 bale
bags, 1 box gas fixtures, 10 pkgs mdse, 1 bag
ecar, 1 car poultry, 1 car staves, 1 car
and, 1 car cooperage. 12 care lumber,
EXPORTS.
Per steamship City of Savannah, for Phila
delphia—466 hales upland cotton, 109 bales do
mestics and yarns, 70 bbls spirits turpentine,
438 bDls rosin. 116.475 feet lumber, 100 bbls cot
ton seed oil, 48 bales paper stock, 5 bbls fruit,
512 boxes fruit, 8 bbls vegetables, 1,036 empties,
90 tons pig iron, 223 pkgs indse.
Per steamship Nacoochee, for New York
-537 bales upland cotton, 105 bales sea island
cotton, 143 hales domestics and yarns, 174 bbls
rice. 251 bbls rosin, 57 bhls spirits turpentine.
31,341 feet lumber, 24 bbls fruit, 2,907 i boxes
fruit, 13 bales paper stock, 421 pkgs mdse, L 9
bbls cotton seed oil, 15 tons pig iron.
Per schr V L Hickman, for New Y'ork—2,loo
bbls rosin— John Judge.
Per ?r!r 'Tiinaatico. for Kingston* Tn—39
! bhls flour, 63, uo feet luutbev — Potomac Fer-
I tilizer Cos.
PASSENGER*. ~
Per steamship Tallahassee, from New York—
Capt W G Raoul, Master C R Raoul, Miss C J
Stewart, J and T Stewart, Mrs H M Fleury, J
A Fleury, Mr Hunt and wife. W D Msore, M
C Osborn, W G Congdon and wife. G Bailey,
Rev W L Moore, Mrs Frost, Mrs Harris and
child. E W Doyle, Rev T F Gailor. J McGowan,
J Wakeman and wife,C II Moore, Miss Galom,
E R Perry, Mrs Perry and maid, C G Dana,
Mr Yeomans. Mr Reed, R Marcon, L E Bailey.
H Kain, I) Hughes, S Jackson. C Cozon, J
Harrison. J Slaguire, C II Loomis, Mr Jewett,
J Keidout, A Schlam, J A W Hop
kins, T O'Donnell, J Russell, II Goodrich, A
Bellows, J Flannagan.
Per steamship Nacoochee, for New York—
Mr T E Robinson and wife. Geo S T Alexan
der, G E llyett, W B Baldwin, W H Pitking
ton, E C Y'onge, J B Bigelow, C A Gill, G W
Patterson, J L Shea, Lewis Uathhone, W H
Adams, aud 7 steerage.
Per steamship City of Savannah, for Phila
delphia—Wm Frothingham, Win T Pratt, Ed
I* Lutnmis. J Thomlinson, Herbert Smith, T
Sherman, J A Connelly, and 1 steerage.
CONSIGNEES.
Per steamship Tallahassee, from New York
—A R Altmayer & Cos, G W Allen, Allen & L,
I) W Andrews, E J Acosta, Appel Bros, M S
P.yck, Branca & C, L E Byck, Bendheim Bros
A Go, T P Bond. J G Butler, J II Baker, bark
Commerce, O’Hagan & B, M Bolev & Son, J A
Brenner, Crawford & L, J M Case, E M Con
ner, W II Co*grove, Custodian Custom House,
Collector of Customs, 8 Cohen, AII Cham
pion, Jno Cunningham, J T Cohen, B J Cub
hedge, C II Carson, M J Doyle, J A Douglass,
I Dasher & Cos, Davis Bros,'W M Davidson, C
A Drayton, G Eckstein & Cos, I Epstein & Bro,
Einstein & L, A Ehrlich, Frank & Cos, M Ferst
& Cos, A Friedenberg & Cos, Fret well A S , J B
Fernandez, Fiied A H, Foote & K, A Fox, Jos
Gorham, S Guokenheimer A Son, C L Gilbert
& Cos, G A Gemunden, G C Gemunden, C F
Graham. H Garbord, L J Gazan, 8 Hexter, M
Golinslty, D Hogan, C Hopkins. J II Hopkins,
A Hanley, Holcombe, G & Cos, Win Hone & Cos,
J R Haltiwanger, J A Herschbach & Cos. F M
Hull, M Henderson,C M Holst, J M Hender
son, Industrial Mfg Cos, S Krouskoff, J Kauf
man. H Kaine. K J Keiffer, G Keieling. J F
Eubs, N Lang & Bro, L’lienthal & K, E La
biche, A It Lawton, 1) B Lester. A Leffier,
Lippman Bros, J Lynch, Lovell AL, Jno
Lyons A Cos, B II Levy & Bro, Ludden A B, J
F LaFar, 8 K Lewin,' Mohr Bros, D P Myer-
Ron. J McGrath A Cos, Meinhard Bros A Cos. B
F McKenna, Lee Ry Myers, Moehlenbrock A
D, Mickeilierry A W, H Myers A Bros, T II
Myers. J Meier, A Minis A Sons. M Mendel A
Bro, Mrs M Slnller, McDonough A B, Marshall
House, II Miller, E L Neidiinger, Son A Cos,
Jno Nicolson, J Nichols, A S Xachols, Order
Connell, B & Cos, Order notify Merchants’ Na
tional B ink, o?ueT notify T Uaderick, Palmer
Bros, F Palmer, I’ Pano. G W Parish, P Pos
tell, N Paulsen A Cos, J B Reedy, C I) Rogers,
F J Ruckert, J Ronrke, R Roach A Bro, W II
Ray, Rieser &S, J Hauers, D J Ryan, J II
Ruwe, J Russell, D Rosenheim, 8 Rosenheim,
Rnssak A Cos, Mrs A Raetz, Southern Tel Cos,
II L Schreiner, II Solomon A Son, A Scbwaab,
II Schroeder, Solomons A Cos, S, F A W Kv,
Southern Kx Cos, Savannah Art Cos, A E Smith
A Bro, J S Silva, L C Strong, A Schubart, II
Suiter, Jno Sullivan, G W Sergent.C II Strong,
II Sanders, W Steffins, L G Schwarzbaum, G
Suiter, V S Studer, P Tuberdy, F II Thomp
son, Talmage A Bro, J W Teeple, J W Tynan,
JII Von Newton, I) Weisbein, AMA C W
West, riios West, Wyllv A C, Weed A C, Wm
Wehrenberg, Capt G Watlar, S Welinski, Wil
cox A G, Inland Steamboat Cos.
Pei Charleston and savannah Railway.
Feh 2—Fordg Office, Peacock, II A Cos, R Gay,
Wilcox, G A Cos, Strauss A Cos, P O’Connor, E
V McKenzie, Chess, Carlev A Cos, Wood bridge
A H, Garnett, 8 & Cos, J C Mitchell, E T Rob
erts.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail
way, Feb 2 —Fordg Office, Peacock, IT A Cos,
E Tufts, Bond &S, II Myers A Bros, J Way,
D 1 Dancy, C L Gilbert A Cos, C II Dorsett. M
Y Henderson, R Roach A Rro, Saussy, H A R,
W I Miller, est Jno Oliver, Crawford A L, R B
Reppard, Jno J McDonough A Cos, R B Cas
sels, Dale, W A Cos, W 8 Hawkins, J W Mcln
tire, Lee Roy Myers, J C Thompson, Bacon, J
A Cos, E Rogers, McMillan Bros, A Hanley, II
Kramer, A C Roddy, J P Williams A Cos, W
McNeil, Kennedy A’ B, WC Jackson, WW
Chisholm, D C Bacon A Cos. W W Gordon A
Cos, Geo Walter, Butler A S, Garnett, S A Cos,
Jno Flannery A Cos, L J Gui martin A Co,N A
Hardee’s Son A Cos, C C Hardwick. Perkins A
Son, II M Comer A Cos, M Maclean, J S Wood
A Bro, Baldwin A Cos.
Per Central Railroad, Feb 2—Fordg Agt,
II M Comer A Cos, W W Gord >n A Cos. Order,
L J Gnilmartm A Cos, Jno Flannery A Cos, FM
Farley, Baldwin A Cos, Woods & Cos, W W
Chishoim, Geo Walter, Garnett, S A Cos, C C
Hardwick, Warren A A. Bogart A H, Saussy,
H A U, Haynes A E, Fleming Bros, T P Bond,
JII Ruwe, I’utzel A 11, A Haas A Bro, G S
Me A lpm. Jus Dorsey, A Heller, Savannah
Art Cos, A J Miller A Cos, II ’dyers A Bros. M
Boley A Son, J A Douglass, Haines A S, Weed
A C, Holst A Cos, E A Schwarz, Frank A Cos,
Allen AL, Frank Devine, L Reunion,C E Ran -
dall, barge Roekwood, Georgia Land Cos, A W
Harmon, G Eckstein A Cos, Rieser AS, Lee
Roy Myers, A Leffier, Ecktnan A V,Holcombe,
G A Cos, R Roach & Bro. Epstein A I>, D C Ba
con A Cos, E S Cullom, Order, M T Henderson,
Peacock. II A Cos, A Ehrlich, J P Williams A
Cos.
MARRYING DAUGHTERS OFF.
rr...v ... IUB billl-aooms Of
Europe.
London Society Magazine.
In France the parents make the match.
If not as ostensibly, vet no less really is
this often done in England. It is not’the
man, but the maintenance which is up
permost in the parental thoughts. It is
painful to reflect, while taking a survev
of the matches of fifty vears’ experience,
how rarely we ever could detect that the
character of a man, otherwise eligible,
influenced the parental decision. For the
most part, all the evidence offered of a
man being a scamp or a profligate is set
aside as envy, malice and all uncharita
bleness; or else with the remark, “Well, £
all young men are wild, but they grow
steady when they are married.” We once
heard a lady, in’ speakinar of a matrimo
nial event just coming off, say, “Capital
match; first-rate chance for Ellen. Not
at all the sort of man, we all know, that
6he ever intended to marry; but not one
woman in twenty does get that.” Cer
tainly in this men have an advantage, for
they can choose; the ladies must submit
to the chosen, save in the case of some re
markable belle who has admirers at com
mand. But the advantages on the side of
the gentlemen are less than they seem.
Their choice is anything but free, as far as
reason is concerned. They are the victims
of a natural illusion. They choose from
the charm and fancy of the hour, or the
pride of possessing some Lady Clara Vere
de Vere, or some simpering dimpled doll,
while in companionable qualities, and
that sunshine of the heart which relieves
the darkest w-hile it adds warmth to the
brightest days of this checkered life, are
rarely even named among men as the mo
tive of their choice. Truly, “marriage is
the door that leads deluded mortals back
to earth,” and, as with many a pretty bar
gain that has caught our fancy in a shop
window, great is the disenchantment
when w r e have brought it home.
The married ladies in the ball-room are
the pests of the poor mammas. They have
attained the object of all balls and danc
ing, and yet they have not the grace to
feel for aud give place to young girls who
sit in rows against the wall. Men prefer
the married women, and why! They can
indulge in a kind of conversation at which
we should hope that, in spite of French
novels, the single would turn away. It is
strange that the husbands should’endure
to see their wives whisked and whirled
and dragged about, well knowing that the
so-called waltzing and galopading always,
unless unusually well done, degenerates
into little better than unseemly romping:
indeed no one would believe even its inno
cence if seen where we seriously believe
it would not be tolerated, in a Ficcadilly
saloon. A fact: a dressmaker who had
seen from an orchestra the dancing now
in fashion, when asked by a lady next day
how r she had been entertained, replied:
“I suppose it’s all riirht in high life, but
in our line of life no young men would
dare to take such liberties w ith young wo
men.” No, madam, your daughter’s pros
pects never can be the better for being ex
posed to such scenes as these, least of all
in the now fashionable costume of a skirt
and a pair of shoulder-straps. It is not
the sensuous, but the sentimental, that
should prevail. The free and easy dancer,
not the graceful young lady of proper
dignity and self-respect, takes the lead in
a modern ball-room, and foolish it is for
the really modest and reserved to compete
in such a sphere. Granted, they may en
joy It, and you may enjoy it, too. If so,
be happy in your own way. Only, for
“introducing” your daughters, and look
ing to the main chance, we can not re
commend such society.
Some Comfort.
Detroit Free Press.
A little old man, driving a pony and. a
sled, was speeding up Second avenue yes
terday at a three-minute gait, when a
good deal bigger man, driving a powerful
horse attached to a cutter, came sailing
down. There was a collision. The little
old man went one w r av and the bigger
man the other, and the pony kicked him
self clear of the 6led and ran away.
“Well?” queried the big man,’ as he
tied his horse to the fence and began pick
ing up the splinters.
“Well, I’d like to give you an infernal
good licking!” exclaimed the other.
“But you can’t.”
“1 expect not, but I’ll make you pay
damages.”
“Can’t do that, for you were on the
wrong side of the street.”
“Then I’ll complain of you under the
last-driving ordinance.”
“You were breaking the same ordi
i nance, too.”
“See here?” continued the old man, as
he threw down bis fur cap and jumped on
it. “Maybe I’m left and maybe I ain’t.
I’ll just bet you $lO to 50 cents that if
your old hoss had a run away my pony
w ould have beaten him forty rods in going
a milel”
LiOUISVILiUE IN A LETTER.
Fred. Douglass’ Marrlasre —Fishing for
the Democratic Convention—The Ne xt
Exposition, and Other Subjects.
Correspondence of the Hominy Xews.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 30.—Since the
Hon. Fred Douglass has, in the eyes of
many of his color, stepped down from his
exalted position and disgraced himself by
taking a specimen of “po’ white trash”
for a wife, the affair is naturally canvassed
from various standpoints. The presen t
Mrs. Fred, was a conspicuous visitor last
autumn when the colored convention as
sembled here, and passed tor a handsome
quadroon. She appeared to be especially
under the wing of the Hon. Fred;, and
lodged aud mingled altogether with the
wives and daughters of the delegates,
seeming to have no more atliliation with
the white people than an educated negro
of the better class would be likely to have.
She seemed of mature age, was quiet and
ladv-like in deportment, and dtessed with
much taste ancl elegance. It she is alto
gether white she is a thorough brunette,
her complexion and eyes being dark, while
her hair is coarse, dark and heavy, w ith
much more of a “kink” in it than the
hair of mulattos usually has. The gen
eral opinion seems to be that she has a
strain of negro blood, perhaps very
slight, in ner veins.
Louisville is working up the National
Democratic Convention card for dear life.
The principal business men of that city
iu session have appointed a committee of
fifteen who will select a sub-committee
to prevail upon the powers that be at
Washington. Betw’een $15,000 and $20,-
000 will be necessary to insure the ses
sion of the convention here, $6,000 beiug
required to put the Exposition Building
in order to hold it, and $2,000 are set apart
for the committee who will prooeed to the
capital, “bar bills” making an important
item of their expenditures. It wuis diffi
cult at first to lid men to spare time to
go to Washington, but since the generous
appropriation for the aforesaid “bar bills,”
which covers a multitude of very high
jinks, everybody wants to be on that com
mittee.
The subscriptions for the next exposi
tion drag unmistakably. They now foot
up some little over $40,000, and it takes a
wonderful amount of heating up to get
hold of signatures. Mr. Dupont having
resigned the Presidency, a great moan
w ent up lest no one else could be found
to step Into his shoes. When a man who
has become prominent in any one position
gets out of it he is supposed to leave such
a large hole that no one else can possibly
fill it. But experience constantly teaches
that Providence has created ail shapes
and sizes of men to fit all possible kinds
of holes; the greatest difficulty being a
man’s own imagination, which frequently
leads him to suppose himself a much
tighter squeeze in it than he rfially is.
Col. Bennett Y'oung, who recently re
signed the Presidency of the Louisville,
New’ Albany and Chicago Road, has been
unanimously tendered the vacant
office and Mr. Dupont’s old 6hoes.
Jle has not yet accepted, but
bolds the matter under advise
ment, and that is doubtless the reason
why subscribers hold back. Snould be
accept, he will he the right man in the
right place—zealous, prompt and having
no private axes to grind—and the enter
prise will receive the confidence and co
operation ot the whole community. Mr.
T. E. C. Brinlev, who gave his heart and
soul and time and labor last year to the
Florida department, has been elected one
of the directors, and will be a faithful
guardian of Florida’s Interests in his new
position.
an effort was made by a number of
LOUISVILLE LADIES
this winter to reorganize an enterprise
inaugurated last winter under the name
ot the “Kitchen Garden,” having for its
object the instruction by practical lessons
of the children of poor’ white parents in
the duties of house servants. It was a
forlorn hope in the direction of solving
the great and perplexing problem of ser
vants and their undermining influence
upon domestic life. It was hoped and be
lieved that if each year a number of young
girls were taken from the poor and suffer
ing classes and gratuitously taught to be
efficient cooks and housemaids and laun
dresses and seamstresses, that something
ivould have been accomplished in making
oapabld oervants to answer the growing
demand. But, alas! instead of grasping
eagerly at the opportunity these children
of the people tossed their unkempt
heads and elevated their noses
when the Ladies’ Committee invaded
their domiciles. Finally, as an induce
ment a number of little misses, children
of the lady managers of the “Kitchen
Garden,” consented to take part, and a
few children from the byways were gath
ered in. After the term was over an ex
hibition was given at a public hall and
the society disbanded for the summer.
This year an effort to renew met with in
dignant scorn and jeers from the old pu
pils, when it was found no “young Indies”
would be enrolled, and the enterprise fell
flat. As the city enlarges year by year
the question of domestic help becomes
more hopeless of solution. The numerous
factories springing up absorb the class of
white girls available for house servants,
and those that can be induced to
submit to the degradation of “liv
ing out” in families are extortionate,
insolent and unreliable. But a few days
since the auction flag wared from a hand
some, luxurious residence in a fashion
able neighborhood. Everything about the
premises was perfectly arranged, and the
question was asked why a family so well
fitted for housekeeping and the enjoyment
of domestic coratort should break up and
change. AVas the mistress ill, or the mas
ter, perhaps? Or did the shadow of some
sorrow rest upon the household? Oh!
yesr there veas a grief that could not be
healed—the cook had married 1 She was
a paragon of perfection, and her loss could
never be supplied, and so life became in
tolerable, and the family were breaking
up to live at a hotel. As Providence has
never yet created that perfect specimen of
a cook who will not get married when she
has a chance, the outlook for house
keepers is exceedingly dreary. And a
confiding trust can not be placed in out
colored friends. Last summer the pro
prietors of a Broadway mansion left the
city for the season and placed the entire
house in the care of the colored house
keeper, whom they trusted as their own
souls. During the Exposition the lady re
ceived a message trom a neighbor t hat if
she returned home at a certain time un
announced, she might lie mildlv sur
prised at certain things. Acting upon
the hint the lady and her husband ar
rived one night to find the house
ablaze with gas light and a medley of
divers trunks and baskets and bundles in
the halls. Ensconced in the bedrooms
was a party of colored excursionists from
Indianapolis who had come to take in the
Exposition in sumptuous style, while in
the diningroom the elegant housekeeper
w as presiding in a queenly manner over a
wine supper w here the private watchman
on the premises, a white man, was one of
the honored guests. The aspect of things
in that neighborhood was sensational for
a while following these discoveries.
A CASK RECENTLY CAME TO LIGHT
in this city which promised a sensation,
and although it has simmered down for
awhile may yet develop into something
interesting. Last summer an old citizen
of Louisville, Mr. William Forwood, who
was very wealthy and had the reputation
of a miser, went to Florida to invest in
lands. He was accompanied by
his son, a young man who had been
tried and fined SSOO for hiring a negro
to shoot a rival lover in the county.
Some time in last November word was re
ceived by the rest of the family here front
the 6on that while both were out in a sail
boat on Indian river, no other person being
with them, his father fell overboard and
was drowned. He stated he bad ordered
search for the body, but no trace could be
found except bis overcoat, washed on the
bank near the town of St. Lucie. Almost
as soon as the message came the son ar
rived in the city, and the next day had
his father’s will’probated. This will pro
vided for the children, but left his wife,
who was step-mother to the older
children, almost totally unprovided
for. Young Forwood had not
consulted his step-mother on any point,
and the first she knew of the will was the
announcement in the newspapers that
it had been offered lor probate. She im
mediately consulted her lawyer and pro
tested that she believed her husband was
not dead, and that her step-children, led
by this oldest son, who is her mo-tal
enemy, had concocted some foul plot to
gain possession of the property. Young
Forwood was subjected to a rigid cross
examination, but held substantially to
the same story. In the absenee of the
slightest proof the eon’s testimony was
allowed to stand, bait Mrs. Forwood is
preparin'* to contest the will. No clue or
trace of the drowned man’s body has ever
eome to light, and the case rests in its
shroud of mystery.
Coyle Douglas.
The superiority of Burnett’6 Flavoring
[ Extracts consists in their perfect purity
i and strength.
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
High and Low Church at One Time
Shall the Church Bell Go?—hive
Corpses for the Undertakers.
Correspondence of the Morning Mews.
New York, Jan. 31.—Episcopalians,
high and low, do not know what to make
of the Rev. Dr. Rainsford, rector of St.
George’s Church, in StuyvCsant square,
| who, if I am not mistakeu, is not un
known in your part of the South. Under
the Tyng regime, St. George’s was the
lowest of low churches, but even oid Dr.
Tyng did not habitually indulge in prayer
meetings, if he did at all, while 6uch
things as “evangelistic services” and eve
ning communions were unknown during
his rectorship. While Dr. Rainsford is
thus low in some respects, and borrows
so liberally from the dissenting denomina
tions, he is equally high in others and bor
rows, so Low Churchmen think, from Ro
manism. He has early as well as evening
communion on Sundays, while morning
and evening prayer are read on week
days, and the church is open at all hours
for the convenience ot those who wish to
indulge in private devotions in the sacred
edifice.
His congregation has remained compar
tivelv quiescent while Dr.Rainsford is thus
equally evangelical and ritualistic,and al
most the only objection to his course has
come from persons living in the neighbor
hood who do not belong to the church.
These latter complain bitterlv of the in
cessant bell-ringing which his perpetnal
prayer and praise involve, especially of
the summons to the Sunday earlv com
munion and the morning service on week
days, and sigh for the good old times of
Dr. Tyng when the bell was only rung on
Sunday, and then not ottener than twice
nor earlier than 10:30 a. m.
Last summer the bell was formally com
plained of as a nuisance to the Board or
Health, and the complainants were loud
mouthed in their declarations that they
were going to put a stop to church bell
ringing all over the city. A time was
named for a hearing before the board, but
the privilege for some reason was not
taken advantage of, and the tintinnabula
tion of St. George’s bell goes on without
further public protest, although curses
deep, if not loud, doubtless greet the far
from sweet jangling on the part of those
who are awakened by it at 8 o’clock Sun
| day mornings. The ringing on other
i mornings is an hour later so that it is not
so much of a nuisance.
St. George’s, unfortunately, is not the
only church in the city, whose bells, ring
ing in season and out of season, have
driven people frantic. Several Roman
Catholic Churches are nuisances to their
neighbors because of the bell ringing
which summons worshipers to early
mass, and the Episcopal Church of St.
Mary the Virgin’s, in West Forty-fifih
street, is not popular for a similar reason.
The truth is, the would-be banishers of
bells have reason, as the French say. In
these days when every one carries
watches and there are clocks in every
house, there is no need of a bell to sum
mon one to church. In a city of magnifi
cent distances like New York, too, the
majority of the worshipers at any one
church live too far away to hear the bell,
which, therefore, entirely wastes its need
less ringing so far as the* object for which
it is intended is concerned, and merely
disturb the neighborhood.
Chimes are not so objectionable. Un
less rung too early few can find fault with
skilled chiming on well tuned bells such
as those of Trinity, wßich, for so manv de
cades, have rung the old year out and the
| new year in.
THE PROPOSITION TO REMOVE THE STOCK
EXCHANGE
from Wall street to Union square,
although it is regarded as only a bluff to
bring the down-tow n real estate owners
to terms, and is, ot all things, the least
likely to be done, would be, some think, a
step in the right direction, and one which
should have been taken long ago. There
is no good reason, such argue, why the
financial centre of the city should be as
far removed as possible from its real
centre, and the business of the nation be
transacted at one end of a long, narrow
island, when many of the persons engaged
in the transactions live nearer' the
other. Unfortunately the fact that the
expensive court house and post office
are “down-town?” not to speak
of the superb structures in lower Broad
way occupied by the various insurance
companies aud other corporations, will,
for this generation at least, retain the
Stock Exchange and banks in the south
ern end of the city. The Stock Exchange,
indeed, is more likely to move to the
Battery than to Union Square, in which
event it will be near the not yet completed
Produce Exchange.
There was buried yesterday one who
was regarded by all who knew* him as the
best hearted and most whole-souled of
newspaper men. The funeral of Dr. John
B. Wood, the “Great American Con
denser,” at the press club, was attended
by the fraternity general, and by manv of
the notable men of the city. Dr. Wood
earned his title of condenser by his ability
to prune down a neswpaper article to a
fraction of its length, and yet retain all
the news it contained. Miiltum in parco
was his motto.
Speaking of funerals, the name is legion
of stories illustrating the too previousness
of undertakers. I was told the other dav
of a Providence lady who telegraphed a
friend in this city that she was about to
pay him a visit, aud asked him to meet
her when she arrived the next morning
by boat. The message became mangled
in transmission and fell in the hands of an
undertaker of the same name as the per
son for whom it was intended.
The undertaker, instigated by the greed
of his tribe, read the telegram as a profes
sional order, and accordingly a hearse
was at the dock when the Providence ladv
arrived, and when she asked for her friend
a solemn looking personage greeted her
with:
“That’s my name, mum. Where shall
I find Mrs. ’s body? I have the hearse,
you see, and the grave will be ready as
soon as you tell me the name of the ceme
tery.”
“What do you mean?” said the as
tounded lady from Providence. “I m
Mrs. , and I telegraphed Mr to
meet me.”
“Exactly so, mum. I got the telegram,
Out supposed it was your body. What is
the corpse’s name, if you please, mum ?”
In despair, the lady called upon one of
the steamboat officials to unravel the mys
tery, and the undertaker was finally con
vinced that his services were not yet re
quired by Mrs. , who,on her part, was
forced to find her way to her friend's
house alone.
ANOTHER UNDERTAKER WAS MAD*
to play a too previous role a few days ago
through the anticipatory act of the
“corpse’s” wife. One George Hughes, an
employe in the Harlem gas works, having
been wounded in a brawl and taken to the
Ninty-ninth street hospital, his wife, who
is addicted to drink, thought she could
raise money to gratify her thirst for
alcohol by representing that he had died
from his injury. She succeeded in get
ting the wages which were due him, and
an additional sum of $4.3 was raised by
his comrades to bury him, which, how
ever, was not intrusted to her. The un
dertaker who was employed went to the
Coroner’s office, a distance of at least six
miles, for a burial permit, which was
readily granted on his mistaken repre
sentation that Hughes was dead. His
disappointment when he discovered that j
the corpse was not ready for a burial, and
not likely to be for a long time, may be
better imagined than described.
A number of plays, new, or new to New
York, were put upon the stage this week.
Although Bartley Campbell’s “Separa
tion” at the Uniou Squaie Theatre, which
was played for the first time on Monday,
is more evolved from the author’s mem
ory than trom his inner consciousness, it
has the merit of possessing a clean, if not
original plot, and is well put together.
The dialogue is fairly witty, and excel
lent acting supplies what d-JScieneios may j
exist. The last clause applies to “Con--
fusion” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, I
whose ru.u of nearly two years in London, I
however, illustrates how easy it is in gen
eral to amuse an average audieuie.
Celia Logan’s play, “That Man,” at the
New Park Theatre is of little merit, but
is also redeemed by the way in which it is
acted.
“Billy” McGlory’s conviction ot selling
liquor without a license, if it is net over
turned by anew trial, follow ing, as it does,
so closely on the heels of that oi “Sandy”
Spencer, will do much towardaputting an
end to resorts taore where girls and young
men are ruined by wholesale. When the
proprietors ol sqcb places find themselves
liable to a year’s imprisonment and a
large fine, they will go out of the business.
During the last three days of fog, the
Brooklynbrrjge has bad its opportunity,
and the fer ry boats are running compara
tively epqpty. D.
Away Up Mead.
, Ber.? h’s Capcine Porous Plasters are
easily first, no matter what may come
' next.—J, TANARUS, Macmahon, N, Y.
REGION OF BURIED TREASURE.
A Spanish Dollar and a Pile of Supposed
Decayed Bank Xoteg Found in a Pit.
On Monday, a Unionville, New York,
special to the New York Sun says, as some
workmen were making an excavation for
the foundation for a windmill on the farm
of Henry Smith, near this place, just over
the New Jersey State line, they came upon
a flat stone a foot wide and two feet long,
about four feet below the surface. Upon
removing it it proved to be the covering
to a shallow pit, the four sides of which
were laid up with brick. A bright Span
ish silver dollar, bearing the date ot 1781,
was found in the pit; also an oblong pile
of what looked like scorched paper, about
six inches long and three inches wide, and
which reached half way to the top of the
pit. Upon being touched it crumbled to
pieces. There were no legible marks
upon it, but from its shape and appear
ance it is believed to have been a pile of
bank notes.
At different times since the Revolution
ary war, buried treasure of greater or less
value has been unearthed in this neigh
borhood and other portions of Orange
county. Many coins have been found
ante-dating the Revolution. A few years
ago a farmer came upon an earthen jar,
while digging in a field near Duckertown,
which contained several hundred dollars
in English and Spanish coin. A similar
jar was exhumed near Cornwall, sealed
up and containing $1,500 in gold and sil
ver coin. It is supposed that these treas
ures were buried by persons who lived in
the vicinity to keep them from falling
into the hands of Tories and cowboys,
who were continually raiding the settle
ments, and that the owners, driven from
their homes by these marauders, were un
able to return and secure them after the
war was ended. Silver plate and jewels
have also been found trom time to time.
According to legend, there is SIOO,OOO
buried on Crabtree Island, in Yernon
township, Sussex county, and much
money and time have been spent in un
successful searches for it.
GRAND OPERA.
What It Is, and How It Differs from
Opera That Is Not Grand.
Arkansaxc Traveler.
“Father,” asked a young man of his
cynical parent, “what is grand opera?”
“I don’t know.”
“Why are some operas called grand,
while others are not so designated? It
seems to me that if a composer could
write grand opera he would never w rite
any other kind.”
“Well, you see, it is only by experiment
that a composer can determine whether
or not an opera is grand. If, upon first
production, the music is beyond the abili- i
ties of the singers and bores the audience,
it is grand. The weary yawn of a man
does more, my son, todetermine the value
of an opera than the highest recommenda
tion from a professional critic of music.
If, though, the singer can climb to the
summit of emergency, and if the audience ■
is pleased, the opera is not grand and the ;
composer goes away dissatisfied, disap- i
pointed, and disconsolate. Sometimes the ;
composer can correct the mistake brought
to light on the proof-sheet of first produc
tion. On one occasion a great composer !
produced an opera which he hoped would :
be grand, but there was so much music in !
it, the singers did so well, and the audi- j
ence went into such fits of rapture and
spasms of enjoyment, that the composer I
saw his work doomed to a wayward life of
inferior appreciation. After the perfor
mance he took the opera and sat up all j
night crossing out the music, and mark
ing in rasp flats and guinea-hen sharps. j
He went with high hope the next night to !
get a revise. The audience became rest- !
less. Men began to talk business. A
harness and buggy dealer from a neigh- ]
boring tow r n sold three buggies, two sets ■
of harness, and figured extensively on an
omnibus trade. Women drew their cloaks
around their shoulders and shivered. The
voices on the stage broke and fell in
shattered fragments. The composer went
away happy. His opera was grand.”
“Did the people continue their patron
age after the music was marked out and
the opera pronounced grand?”
“Bless your ignorance, yes. Why the
increase in attendance was wonderful.
Previous to an opera’s advent as grand—
that is, before the music is crossed out
—only people who really loved the ‘con
cord of sweet sounds’ went to 6ee it, but
afterwards it was alike to all. The man
with the dullest ear enjoyed it quite as
much, or pretended to, which is all the
same, as the person whose spirit was
stirred by the gentle touch of soul-born
harmony.”
“But, father, if there is really nothing
sweet in the grand operas why do you
take mother to see them ?”
“Because I am a fool, son.”
“Yes, but why does mother—”
“Because she is a fool, my boy.”
“Are all people thus actuated
“Yes; that is, all who are honest
enough to confess it.”
“Don’t you believe there are people who
enjoy grand operas?”
“O yes.”
“They are highly cultivated, are they
not?”
“No, not necessarily.”
“What kind of people are they?”
“Deaf people, young man.”
Kucheen Marriage Customs.
Mr. R. Gordon, who has been exploring
among the sources of thelrrawaddv river,
has given to the Royal Geographical So
ciety some additional facts concerning
the marriage customs of the Kacheen, the
curious Burmese tribe who were de
scribed by Lieut. Kreitler in the July
number of the Popular Science Monthly:
“When a man and a woman set up house
the man has to give to the parents of the
woman cattle, pigs, gongs, muskets, das,
slaves, clothes, spears and money, and
for his wife’s use he has to give coral
beads, tameings, jackets, broadcloths, etc.,
according to his circumstances. After the
gifts the woman is brought to the man’s
house,and the man has to least the bring
ers of the woman with rice and curry and
spirits aud liquors. To the elders, also,
he has to give blue waist cloths, turbans,
das or spears, according to their degree.
The man then shows the woman all the
work to be done in tho house, and bids her
do the work. After having lived
together for a long period, if
the man dies the womau cannot marry
any one; but the elder or younger brother
has to set up house with her. If there be
no brother the deceased man’s lather (the
woman’s father-in-law) takes possession
of her, and makes her his wife. If an
elder brother dies the younger brother
takes over his wife. If the father dies the
son takes over the father’s wives and
makes them his own, except his own
mother. If a wife dies the husband goes
to tier parents and asks for another wite,
and they have to give him her elder or
younger sister—a woman who is unmar
ried. If there be no sister to give
they have to give a female relative.
Husbands and wives must not be at
enmity with each other. Divorce is un
known as a custom. However bad hus
baud or wife may be, they cannot separate
unless, in the case of the husband, he gives
double the amount of what he originally
gave her, and in the case of the wife, unless
she gives quadruple the amouutshe origi
nally received. If the man sets aside his
wife, takes another, the head wife has the
right to take possession of all the property
of the younger wife, as well as to sell her*.
The young unmarried men and women, so
long as they are not brothers and sisters,
act as they please inside the apartments
of the house.v The Kacheen women wear
waist cloths dyed black ifhd blue, five
hands long and not very wide. The jackets
are close fitting, and over them they have
a looser one set off with cowries. This is
probably full dress. Round their waists
they hate perforated cowries on three or
four hoops of rattan. From their knees
down to their calves they wear hoops of
rattan. Some women, the wives of the
principal men. tattoo their legs from the
knee to the ankle.
Mrs. Tabor Not Going to bo Married.
A New Osleans special of January 29,
says: “Mrs. Augusta Tabor, of Colorado,
arrived here some days ago, and with her
sister took private rooms in Canal street.
In reference to the widely disseminated
report that she had eloped with a man
named Artman, of Denver, she says: ‘l
desired to get away from the cold weath
er, aud determined on going to Cuba. I
would have gone by way of New York, but
l came to New Orleans to avoid the cold,
i will go from here to Cuba, and
then to Florida, and from there
1 will "o North. 1 wouldn’t certainly run
away from home to get married. When
I do get married I will do so openly and
above board and let my friends know. If
I do marry you can be certain it will not
be Mr. Artman. 1 will not ruarry a man
whom I will have to support, but will ex
pect my husband to support me. It may
be that Artman started the rumor; I
would not be surprised if he did. The
dispatch 6ays that he borrowed money
from various parties on the statement ot
the wedding. If there were any Denver
people who were fools enough to believe
me so foolish, l am glad that they were
duped.”
SECRETS OF THE JEWELLERS'
TRADE.
Imitation Sapphires Made anti Sold—
How Color was Introduced.
London Telegraph.
At the Lord Mayor’s Court yesterday,
Dec. 31, the Recorder and a common jury
j heard the case of Ricardo agt. Abrahams.
I The plaintiff', a dealer in precious stones,
sought to recover from the defendant, a
jeweller, the sum of £l7 14s. 4d. for a par
cel of imitation sapphires, sold and de
livered. The defendant plead a denial of
liability, aleging that the supposed stones
were sold to him as real, and turned out
to be imitation. The plaintiff’s case was
that, on Sept. 20 last he met the defendant
in the street, and offered him a parcel
of imitation sapphires, known as “beryl
sapphires.” Mr. Abrahams referred him
to his son, who was at home, and that
gentleman purchased the parcel for the
sum now sued for, having till the next
morning to decide upon the matter. He
bad, however, subsequently refused to
pay for them, alleging that they were not,
as represented, “inferior sapphires.”
For the defense the defendant’s son was
called, and said the plaintiff represented
at the time he brought the parcel to him
that the contents were real stones, but of
an inferior quality. He sold some of them
at a small profit to his brother-in-law, a
jeweller, who gave him a check, which he
stopped two hours later, informing him
that the supposed stoneß were nothing
but paste, and worthless. He thereupon
refused to complete the bargain.
In cross-examination he said he had
been in the habit of buying and selling
sapphires, but only when mounted up.
Their value then was according to their
setting. He was no judge of sapphires.
He was aware that the invoice was for
“beryl sapphires.” He did not know that
the word beryl meant imitation. He
thought it was a mere description of the
stones. He was a jeweller, and dealt in
gold and silver goods.
Mr. Alfonso Nourick, a lapidary, said
he had examined the supposed stones.
They were of the commonest kind of imi
tation known as paste, and sold by the
gross.
Mr. Geoghegan—What does paste mean ?
Witness—A mixture of violin glass aud
borax.
Mr. Geoghegan—And what are imita
tions?
Witness—l make imitations, but I make
them out of real stones.
Mr. Innes—How can that be?
Witness—l will tell you. Perhaps I
have some' pale stones which would not
be valuable. I split those, introduce the
color desired, and then join them again.
[Laughter.] By that means the public
get real stones at a cheap rate, represent
ing stones of a greater value. [Renewed
laughter.] I never heard of a beryl sap
phire. Beryl is a valueless crystal’ of va
rious colors, but would mean real, and
therefore I should consider a beryl sap
phire to mean a real stone.
Another witness (Mr. Willfam Jen
nings) was called, who examined the sup
posed stones, and pronounced them to be
paste.
Mr. Innes—Are they well got up?
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Innes—They would take atTbody
in. would they not?
Witness—That is exactly what they
were intended to do, I should think.
[Loud laughter.]
L’ltimateiy the jury lound a verdict for
the defendant.
Gerald Massey, the Reformer.
Mew Tori' Letter to Boston Globe.
Tuesday evening, at the annual Sorosis
dinner at Delmonico’s, I sat opposite a
stranger whose appearance strongly in
terested me. I wondered if he were a
Scotchman. Under-sized he was, slight
looking, a keen, flashing blue eye, grayish
moustache, brown chin-whiskers, delicate
mouth, a shock of brown hair drawn
straight over backward from his forehead
without a sigu of parting. 1 thought I
had seen the very same face some
where a generation ago. And I had.
For presently Felix Voschelis, the
English portrait painter, came along
and addressed him as Mr. Massey
and presented me. After the dinner and
the speeches I had a talk with the poet.
He impressed me as being a disappointed
man. He looks tired and speaks wearily.
His after-dinner talk, which should have
been bright and breezy, was languid,
slightly cynical, and with a my-doil-is
stuffed-with-sawdust undertone. He lec
tures in Brooklyn next week, he says;
where he goes next, or whether he will go
any further he does not know. I have al
ways had keen sympathy for this English
Burns, w r ho never had any help, who
never went to school a day, who ran away
from the loom’s slavery to London when
he was 15, and earned his first pennies as
! an errand boy, aud thenceforth fought his
■ way, drawing strength from priva
'■ tion and beauty from poverty. The
| trouble with Massey is that he* has the
j frenzy of a reformer.* He wants to recon
struct the human race at once, right off,
quick. He wants to equalize the wealth
of the world, but it is a big job. He wants
to put an “r” before “evolution” and
make iLspin. He wants to banish super
stition, but religious progress, though
sure, is as slow as the procession of the
equinoxes. Possibly he expected too
much when he crossed the Atlantic.
He had golden visions of Cortez, Jenny
Lind and Oscar Wilde before him. Arriv
ing just as Matthew Arnold made his
firstfiasco, on account of not speaking loud
enough, he advertised bis own first lec
ture as “by Gerald Massey, an English
man who can be heard in all parts of the
hail.” Alas! Let him that boasteth take
heed lest he fall. The night came. The
hall was closed, and Mr. Massey’s agent
stood pathetically on the steps and an
nounced that there would be no lecture,
“because the lecturer has had a sudden
attack of nervous prostration, and can
not speak a loud word.” The awful irony
of oratory!
Me Wasn't Blighted.
Detroit Free I’ress.
There arrived in Detroit the other dav,
half an hour after the West bound train
over the Detroit, Grand Haven and Mil
waukee Road had departed, a young man
who was in a terrible fix. He was ou his
way to a village in the interior to get
married. The day and the hour had been
set, and here he was, fifty miles away and
no show to get there unless he hired a
locomotive. Acting upon the advice of
the depot policeman, the young man had
an interview with one of the chief offi
cials of the road, who offered the use of a
locomotive for S4O.
“That’s a heap of money,” replied the
young man, as his enthusiasm began to
ooze away.
“Yes,” said the indifferent official.
“I’ll telegraph to her father and see
what he says.”
“Very well; let me kuow within an
hour.”
In about an hour the young man re
turned with a message in his hand, and
he laid it before the official without a
word. It read:
“Susan changed her mind yesterday and
was married to Frank.”
“Then you won’t want the locomotive,
of course?”
“Of course not. It was lucky I thought
of telegraphing, lor I*m just S4O ahead.”
“And you don’t feel bad over being
left?”
“Well, I’d been engaged to Susan for
thirteen years, and when I opened that
dispatch my knees wabbled a bit, but I
guess it’s al! for the best. I’m also en
gaged to a Toledo milliner, who does a
business of $30,000 uer year, and to a girl
in Columbus who expects her aunt to
leave her $20,000, and Pm in hopes of pull
ing through without going into a decline.
Sorry to have troubled you, sir. and I'll
bid you good day.”
Mow they Met Mr. Lii c.ln.
Lansing Telegram.
On the Fourth of Julv, 1861, four of the
young fellows of Company E, Third Mich
igan Infantry, of whom I was one, were
strolling up the Potomac river road,
when wo met a large cab driving toward
the city v Two colored men 6at on the
driver’s seat in suits of dark blue, with,
large plain brass buttons and plug hats.
One o£ the boys remarked: “They think
they are some, don’t they? Let’s have
somofun withthenf.” All agreed, and as
they came up we kept the road. So did
they. The team came to a halt, and a
voice from the cab said: “What’s
wanted?” and when we looked that way
there was a silver haired man looking out
of the dooF. We told him we wanted to
take a ride with him to Washington to see
Old Abe. Thereupon he stepped out of
the carriage, saying: “Didn’t you ever
see him?” and was followed by another
man, and then another until four men
stood in front of us four boys. I had only
noticed that they were fine-looking men,
when the first one said: “Soldiers, I in
troduce you to the President of the United
States; also, the Hon. E. M. Stanton,
Secretary ot War) the Hon. William H.
Seward and myself, the Hon. Gideon
Welles.” Tho President stepped forward,
shook hands with us and laughed at the
joke; but our situation was beyond the
laughing point, and soon there ware four
sillydooking fellows going for anan at
nutClMtep gait, *