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ttICBIFTtf, EXPORTS AND BTOCI ON HAND JULY SO, 1884, AND i
ron THE lAMB TIMS I. A AT TXAI.
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5 tin ItAnd mi*i on . A
• 1 Wmr.lltiu.iUy. I tool **•' > 1* *J*i
—■ . rVri WM nrm amt prices I
lt!f • ‘ ' j_ The sales for the <t-y j
remain itb-n r re the official closing j
K, r ; • ‘ r tbo lijard of Trade:
1 U *' '* * a .... s^'2'2s
; sj&i
* We quote:
Kou . |l !ntt W* 50
Country tom •••• j jjZij 40
Ts ie water * ’ " ™ , .
V .r ! stoeis.—The market was quiet but
** i ™ The sales were 52 casks. The
f *£, hv the Boar*! of Trade was as
5’ ! fhe market opened firm at 31c. bid
! ..iwrs. w.th sales of 31 casks. At 1 p.
t ,r at 31c. hid for regulars, with
f W casks. It closed at i p. m. un
-,1 with no further sales. Rosins—The
chl ” l ', ~uiet ami firm. The sales for the
q.f were M-- barrels. The official report by
, 1 .. r ,| ~f Trade was as follows: The mar
ry ’ nrd firm at the following quotations:
' I , \ l) and K $1 05. F <1 10. G |1 12),
it ■ • i |1 s:>, K *2 00, M 32 50, N $3 8)0,
. 1 tfiasst3 62>4. At 1 p. m. prices were
",tTae tomw-: A B*l 00. C D and E 31 00
' 1 1|( io, 4. $1 HK4I 12U, other* un
channel. It dosed at 1 p. m. firm and un-
C NAVAL STORES STATEMENT.
bluetts. Rosin.
Stock on hand Annllft 5.109 49.300
I, , ved to-day 548 1,.j3
K. ! |ved previously £5.142 160,032
T<)t>l 61,939 211.154
K inerted to-day ' 2,23) ~T.K
Cii '.rt. and previously 51,603 160,388
53,823 162.057
sto.'k -n hand Rad on shipboard
t-i.sday 8,116 49 - 097
Receitts same davlast Year.. 817 3,090
f;N -SCI AL.—The money m arket is stnngent.
Domestic Exchange—Banka and hankers are
buvmg sight drafts at % per cent, pre
mium. an.l selling at % per cent, pre
mium. Sterling Exchange— Market nomi
nal and scarce; sixty day bills, com
mercial. *4 80(44 81; mnetv days, prime, 34 <*9
4 791 ; French franks. 35 %*■',&: Swiss franks,
nominal. , , , ,
Securities. —Stocks and bands are weak
ami hut little doing. _ . _
stocks and Bonds. City Boru!*.— De
clining. Atlanta 6 per cent., 102 bid,
104 asked; Augusta 7 per cent., 107 bid.
Its* asked; Columbus 5 per cent.. 80 bid. -2
naked; Macon 6 per cent., 100 bid. 102 asked;
Sew Savannah 5 per cent. October coupons,
k> , bid, si asked; August coupons, 88, bid,
)2 ! - ;w*Kt <l. , . _
B>md* .—Market quiet and unchanged.
Georgia newt, lift®, ex-coupons, 103
Did. leS aske<l; Georgia 6 per cent.,
couiMins February and August, ina
turilv l'k3 and *B6. 10l bid, 102 asked;
Mortgage on W. A A. Railroad regular 7 per
cent., 0011 pons January and July, maturi
ty ,v ex-c*>u|a>ns, li-O bid, U-2 asked ; Geor
gia 7 per win. gold, coupons quarterly,
hi i. til 1 * asked; Georgia 7 per cent., ronisiiis
Jar.aarv and .July, maturity 1806. ex-cou
pous, 120 bid. vked. , ,
Kculrtxui St<uk*.— Mnrket nominal. We
quote: Central common, 68).* bid, 69)*
asked. Augusta and Savannah 7 per
cent, guaranteed, 116 bill, 118 asked.
Georgia common. 144 bi'l, 145 asked.
Southwestern 7 per cent, guaranteed, IK.?*
bid lIP* asfeeo. Central Railroad o
per cent. certiUcatea. cx-July interest
5 ! , bid. S6' 2 asked. Atlanta and West Point
Railroad stock, 92 Did, B3 asked. Atlanta
and West Point 6 per cent, certificates, to bid.
y] &ftk(Hi-
BoUroad Market weak; nominally
unchanged. Atlantic A Gulf Ist mortg. con.
7 per neat., ooupons Jan. and July, maturity
lv':. ex-coupons, IU6 bid, 109 asked. Central
consoliaatea mortgage 7 per cent., coupons
Jan. and Julv. maturity 1893. 108 1 * bid,
lev , asked. Mobile A Girard 2d mortgage
indorsed 8 |k r cent, coupons January anil
July, maiunty l>s9. ex-coupons, 107 bid. 108
ascd. Montgomery A Eufauia toi mortgage
6 per cent. ind. by Central Railroad, ex
*oupons, 100 bid. 101 asked. Charlotte. Colum
bia a Augusta Ist mortgage, ex-coupons, 101
bul. Ic2!4aaked. Charlotte. Columbia A Au
gusta 2d mortgage, 96 bid. 98 asked.
Western Alabama 2d mortgage, indorsed. 8
per cent., R 6 b.d. 107 asked: South Geor
gia A Florida indorsed, ex-coupons, 112 hid,
11:! asked; South Georgia A Florida 2d niort.
gage, ex-coupons, 99 bid, 100 asked. Augusta
A Knoxville first mortgage. 7 per cent., ex
cou|ion.-.98' bul.99’* asked. Gainesville, Jeffer
•on A southern Ist mortgage guaranteed, ex
couiwns, 109 bid, 110 askeit. Gainesville, Jer
fcr<>i\ A Southern notguaranteed,ex-coupons,
ltd bid, 105 asked. Ocean Steamship 0 per
cent, lond-guaranteed by Central Railroad,
Mi bid, 97 asked.
Savannah Gas Light stock, 13 bid, 14 asked.
Bxcon. Market firm : demand fair;
smoked clear rib sides, 9?*e.; shoulders, 7?*e.;
dry salted clear rib sides, S 7 B c.; long clear.
P,' - .; shoulders. 7c. Hams, 15c.
BAOOiMf and Ties. —Market steady with a
fair demand. We quote: Bagging—2}* tbs.,
lPgSllKc.; 2 lbs., 10'a<411c.; \% lbs., 10®
b P* lbs., P’y49?ic., according to unan
tity and brand. Iron Ties—Arrow and Oella,
31 ial 50 jier bundle, according to quantity
and brand. Pieced ties, 31 10(4115. Bagging
and tie? in retail lots a fraction higher.
CorFEk.—'The market is dull; demand
mole rate. We quote for small lots: Ordi
nary. u*.fair, ip*c.; medium.U^c.; prime,
12 1 - -.; choice, 12 : *4C.; fancy, 13c.
BUY goods.—Tue market is dull; stocks full.
W quote: Prints,4f4oc.; Georgia orownshirt
mg. 4‘ 4 c.; 7-8 do., 6V4C.; 4-4 brown
4tiet r mg, 6‘.c.; white Oonaburgs, 8®10e.;
ehecks, 64(*.‘wC.; yarns, Sic. for best makes;
brown ilriilings, 6 5 5(SSc.
Flocb.—Market dull; good demand. We
quote: superfine, $3 75(44 00; extra, 34 50(4
4 75; family, $5 7<\45 75; choice patent, $6 75'4
fkMTS.—Lemons, stock ample, demand
very good; Messina, 34 2544 50 per box. Or
an.'es— Messina, $4 75(45 00 per box. Peaches,
per bushel, $1 mk*2 00.
Gsais.—Market steady; demand good. We
quote in job lots: White corn, 89c.; car
load lots, 85c.; mixed corn, 80c.; car-load
lot-, ;5c.; oats, 52) a c.; car-load lots, 47c.,
Rea ly, demand good. Meal, 90c. Bran, 31 25.
Grist, 95c.
Hat.—Market steady; fair demand. We
quote, in job lots: Hay, Northern, 31 05.
£ i-urn, $1 10; Western. 31 10.
Hides, Wool. Etc.—Hides—Market weak:
•Tk a*;.- fair; dry flint, !3>>4c.: dry country
*i ted. IP 2 c. Wool market very weak and
declining; prime 18?;c. Wax, 25c. IX-er
stm—Him, 22c.; salted, 20c.; otter skins,
50c.434 00.
Lard.—The market is easier. We quote:
In uerce* and tubs. S',c.; in kegs, 8;'„c.;
aO-tb tins, 9c.
Potatoes.—Market lightly stocked, de
mand meliorate; prime, 33 25(43 50 per barrel.
Salt.—The demand is dull and the mar
ket quiet. We quote: Car load lots, 80c., f.
o. b.; small lots, 95c.431 00.
nigar.—Market dull; fair demand. We
quote: Cut-loaf. Bc.; granulated Sc.; pow
der,' t v.; stanuant A, 7‘4c.; extra C, 0)4(4
C. yellow, 6)*c.
Tobacco.—Martet firm; moderate de-
J?* n d. We quote: Smoking, 40c.(45l 25,
Chewing—Common, sound, Ss@3oe.; medium,
•0455 c.; bright, 50(4750.; fine fancy, 8.V490C.;
extra fine, W)e.(43110; bright navies, 45(9570.;
dark navies. 40i50c.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Grown Fowls. pair 65470
Three-quarters grown, ¥< pair 40450
E- t vn. ? dozen 14415
Butter, mountain, fi iwund 20(430
Peanuts—Fancy h. p. Va. .■$ tb 10V
Peanuts-Hand picked lb 9> 4 '4
Peanut*—Spanish, small, M fb b<4—
Peanuts—Straight Virginia 8M
Peanuts—Tennessee 8® SX
PeanuU -Georgia —@—
Florida sugar, ttt 5(46
Florida Syrup, ~f, gallon So®4o
Honey. gallon 60065
sweet potatoes M bushel
Pocltrt.—Market fully stocked: demand
poor. Edds—The market i* m full supply; de
mand fair. Butter—Good demand; not much
coming in. Peanuts—Ample stock; demand
“4“‘. sTßnr—Georgia and Florida in mod
erate supply, and in fair demand. Suoar—
Georgia and Florida qoiet;rery little being
received.
EBBSETS BY TKLIGRAFH.
FINANCIAL.
Konpon. July 16.—The Economist says that
the rate of discount for bank bills, 6ixtv days
to three months, is lj-i per cent., and for trade
!'..ls. sixty days to three months, J)*®2 per
' ent., and no business is doing. Discounts
“*** deeded. British and foreign funds have
sughtly improved. Confidence in American
railway securities is increasing. New Jersey
central has risA 5 per cent.. Central Pacific.
;*? Cleveland and Pittsburg 1. Denver and Rio
••ran.le common 12, ditto mortgage 5, Lake
'i 're 7. luisville and Nashville 4, Oregon
1 . California preferred 1)4, Union Pacific 6,
umi \\ abash 1."
>*w vou, jpiv 26, noon,—stocks opened
firm. Money. I®2 per bent. Exchange
long, *4 82(44 82V 4 ; abort. *4 6tate bonds
dull. Government tarads barely steady.
5:00 p. m. —Kxcnange, *4 82. Money, I®ll*4
per cent. Sub-Treasury balances—Gold. *121,-
870,0ne: currency, *9,405,000. Government bonds
steadier; four per cents, 110 H; three per
cents. 100J4- State bonds quiet.
Stock speculation opened irregular. New
York Central was weak, falling off 1% per
cent., bat the decline in the remainder of the
list wts insignificant, except Canada South
ern. which first rose 21% per cent., and then
lost the improvement. Before the first call
there was a sharp change for the better, and
a r the day wore on the market became buoy
ant and excited. The transactions were
enormous, and blocks of the leading shares
were taken with confidence. The bears were
badly punished, and it was reported that
more than one of their leaders had to run. No
such market has been seen for a long time
past. The features were Western Union,
Union Pacific, the Grangers, Vanderbilts and
Lackawanna. Western kTnion was in brisk
demand on reports of the company’s earn
ings, which were unprecedentedly large.
Some of the shorts attempted to cover, and
this assisted the rise. Union Pacific was the
special feature of the day. and controlled to a
large extent the course of the general
market. The advance in prices ranged from 1
per pent. Compared with last night's
closing, priees were I@6 per cent, higher.
Sales 427,UX> shares, the maraet closing a* tne
follow ing quotations:
Aia. classAjttol>. 79 Nash. A Chatt’a. 40)4
Ala.claasß,ss.... 99 New Orleans Pa*
Georgi&6e 102* cific. Ist mor*... 52'4
“ 7s, mortgage 103* N.Y.Central.. 109%
N. Carolines *29 Norf. A W. pru-f.. 28
“ new *lB Nor. Pacific 20%
“ funding *9 ** prel. 49%
So. Caro.;Brown) Pacific Mail 453%
consols .103 Reading 28f 4
Tennesaee 6s *43 Richm’dA Al’gh’y 2!%
Virginia 6s *35 Richm’*' A Dim . 87
Va consolidated.*34 Ricbm’d A W.Pt.
Ch'peak* A Ohio. 7% Terminal 18%
Cnic.A Vrthw’n 99% Rock Island 113%
“ preferred . .132 St. Paul 80%
Den.AliioGrr.cde 11% “ preferred . .108'%
Erie l*)- 4 Texas Pacific—. 11%
E. Tennessee Ed. 4V4 Ur *>n Pacific... 43%
I,ako Shore 82% Wabash Pacifi .. 6%
LCvithi & Njv-. SiJJ “ pref. 15%
Memphiaft ;t3r. 30 Wett raUnion... 60%
Mobile A 0hi0... 9
•Bid.
The weekly statement of the associated
banks, issued from the clearing house to-day,
shows the following changes: Loans in
creased, *1.155.000; specie increased, *2.061,100;
legal tenders 1 ncreased, *356,100; deposits
increased, *7'9,i30; circulation decreased,
*54,200; reserve increased, *2,229,850. The
banka now hold |30,t3-,125 in excess of legal
requirements.
COT *Oll.
Liverpool, July 26, 12:30 p. m.—Cotton
firm; demand light; middling uplands.
6%d; middling Orleans, 6 7-16*1; sales 6.000
bates for stiecnlatmn r**l ex>s*rt 5.0 bales;
receipts 2,000 bales—American 1,100.
Futures: Upiauds. low uinnlling clause.
July and August delivery, 0 16-64*1; August
and September,(sl7-64d; September and Octo
ber, 6 ]S-64d: Octolier and Novemiier, 6 6-64d;
November and De*-eniler, 6 2-ild; December
and January, 6d. Market firmer.
1 p. m.—sates to-day, included 3,909 bales
of American.
Futures: Uplands, low middling clause,
July delivery, 6 17-61*1, buyers; July and Au
gust. 6 17-64*i, buyer-*; August and September,
6 17-64*1, buyers; September and Octolier,
6 17-61d, sellers; October and Novcmlter.
6 6-6 id, buyers; Noverr.ber and Dcceml>er,
6 2-64*1, sellers; Deceinl>er and January,
6 l-64d, buyers; September, 6 20-61(1, sellers,
ilarket closed firm.
,NE*r lons. July 2(5, noon.—Cotton quiet;
m**l*lling unlan*ls, 11c; middliiig Orlcan.-,
ll%c; sales 55 bales.
Futures: Market barely steady, with sales
as follows: July delivery, II 15c: August,
1115 c; September. 11 04c: October, 11 73c; No
vember. 10 56*:; lieoemlier, 10 GOc.
5:00 p. m.—i.otton quiet; buyers and sellers
apart; middling uplands, 11c; middling Or
leans, ll%c; saics 59 bales; net receipts none,
gross none.
Futures—Market closed steady, with gates
of 50,000 bales, as follows: July delivery. 11 08
11 03c; October, 10 72@10 73c; November.lO 57*(ft
10 58c; December. 10 s.V<ftlO 59c; January, 10 68
(#lO 69c; February, 10 81f#10 82c; March, 10 93
(#lO 94c; April, 10 95@10 96c; May, 11 16®
11 ltc.
The Post's cotton report says: “Future
deliveries were in moderate demand. August
a*>l*l down till the price gradually fell from
11 15c to 11 03c, closing at 11 09c. July, as com
pared with yesterday, lost 4-100 c, and Sep
tember to April 1-ld* (#2-100c. Total sales
50,090 hales. Market closed steady.”
Galveston. July26.—Cotton nominal; mid
dling 10%c; net receipts 53 bales, gross 53;
sales none; stork 15.926 hales.
Norfolk, July 26.—Cotton steady; higher
grades firm; middling 10%c; net receipts none,
gross none; sales none: stock 779 bales.
Nrw oklkans. July 26.—cotton quiet;
mi l'll nc 10%c; net receipts 9 bales, gross 15;
sales 200 bales; slock 37,388 bales.
Mobile,July 26.—Colton nominal; middling
107**'; net receipts 11 bales, gross 14; sales
none; stock 3,664 bales.
Mkj*3iito, July 26.—Cotton dull; middling
lie; receipts 22 bales; shipments 179 bales;
sales 300 bales; stock 9,343 bales.
Augusta. Julv 26.—Cotton dull and nomi
nal; middling lo%e; receipts 2 bales; sales 100
bales.
C:i aKI.KBTON,JuIy 26.—Cotton nominal; mid
dling 11c; r.et receipts 6 bales, gross 0; sale*
lo bales; stock 1,350 bales; exports coastwise
50 bales.
New You:, Inly 26.—Consolidated net re
ceipts for all cotton porta to- day 1,143 bales.
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 1.905,383 bales, of which 1,114,688 bales
are American, against 2.0(4,365 and 1,352,4(35,
respectively,last year. The receipts of cotton
at all interior towns for the week were 997
bales; receipts from plantations not given.
Crop in sight, 5,(43,063 bales.
PROVISIONS, GROCKBIKB. XTC.
Liverpool, July 26, noon.—Breadstuff's
firm, with less offering. Butter, good Ameri
can 70s. Lard, prime Western 38s. Linseed
oil 20s Wheat, California No. 2, 7s 8*1(078 lOd;
red Western spriug 7s 7d(flft7s 9d; do. winter 7s
Bd@7s lOd.
New York, July 26. noon.—Wheat opened
dull but higher. Corn %@%c better.
Fori steady; mess, *l7 00. Lard firm at 7 30c.
Freights steady.
5:00 p. m.—Flour. Southern unchanged;
common to fair extra, *3 50(04 50; good to
choice,*4 55@6 25. Wheat—epot%@%chigher;
ungraded red, 73c(0lO4; N0.2red,97%9?9M 2 c.
August delivery 96%d497%c. Corn—spot held
firm; ungraded, 55§ft64e; No. 2, 62%@62%c.
Oats—spot lots ! 4 <(ftlc higher; No. 2,36 c. Hops
dull and nominally unchanged. Coffee,Tair
Rio. on spot dull and easy at 9%c; No. 7 Rio,
on spot, 8 20c, July delivery Bc. Sugar easier
aud more active: muscavado 4®sc; molasses
sugar 4%c; English Island 4%(05%c; fair to
good re lining, 4? B (<ft>c; refined unchanged—C
s((*.'>%*', extra '5%@5%c. white e*tra C 5%
(05%c, yellow C 4%(<ftsc, off A s%(<ftoo, standard
A 6’ 4 c,’ confectioners' A 6%c, cut loaf and
crushed 7%e, powdered 7(07%c, granulated
6 11-;6c. Molasses steady. Cotton seed oil—
30c for crude; 36@41c for refined. Hides un
changed; Texasselected,lO(ollc. Wool steady;
domestic fleece, 32(<ft45c. Pork dull and rather
weak; old mess #(5 75@16 00. Middles slow
and nominal; long clear, Bc. Lard 6@7 points
higher; Western steam, on spot 7 35c. Freights
to Liverpool firmer; cotton, per steam, 3-16d;
wheat, persteain, sd.
Chicago, July 26.—Flour steady. Wheat
stronger; opened %e lower aud closed }4c
above yesterday; regular, July delivery 82%
(cftv> 7 8 e, August delivery 82%(083%c; No. 2
Chicago spring, 82%(@53( 4 c. Corn unsettled;
opened weak aud closed %c higher than
yesterday; cash lots 54%(055%c: July ami Au
gust delivery 54%@55c. Oats quiet but steady;
cash lots, **%<is29> 4 c, August delivery, 27%(<ft
27%c. Pork quiet and easier: cash lots *ls 50
(016 50; August delivery, *23 90. Lard in fair
demand and firm; cash lots 7 05(07 07%c, Au
gust delivery 7 o2'ji.7 07%c. Bulk meats in
Fair demand; shoulders 6c, short rib 7 75c,
short clear 8 70c. Whisky unchanged.
6 p. m.—Trailing on ’Change was on a mod
erate scale, and the fluctuations were within
a narrow range. Wheat and corn ruled
strong and closed %@%c higher than yester
day. with not much trailing. There was some
demand for wheat from Jones and some other
large operators, with light offerings. The
markets elsewhere were also quoted stroDg,
and shipping inquiry was reputed to be good
at New York. Corn was in active request for
shipmeut, ami No. 2 sold at 55@55J.1c, Doing at
a premium as compared with the future**.
The “short” interest appeared indifferent
about filling, and there were indications at
the close that Hutchinson, Hobbs. Adams and
some other big “longs" were trying to unload
on the boys. Red winter wheat sold at 85c
for cash and 87%c for August delivery, being
sold at S3J4c later on, and November at 85(0
8-5%c. Oats were fairly active ami steady
Provisions were firmer, there being orders for
iard and meat, which were sparingly offered.
Pork was quoted at 23<05Gc per barrel lower,
and some of the “shorts” cleared their con
sciences for Sunday by settling up and getting
out of the deal.
Baltimore, July 26. —Flour dull and 25c
lower for city mills. Wheat—Southern firmer
and active; Western firmer and active; South
ern, red 94@96c, amber 98@99e; No. 1 Mary
land, OS'&OyJAc; No. 2 Western winter red. on
snot 94Ji'*g,94'4c. Com—Southern nominal;
Western nominal; Southern, white 73<*}75c,
yellow 66@68c.
Cincinnati. July 26.—Flour dull; family
*3 75@4 25. Wheat stronger; No. 2 red, 85(0
Ss%c. Corn in fair demand; No. 2 mixed, 54c.
Oats firm; No. 2 mixed, Provisions
—Pork quiet; mess *l6 00. Larif firmly held;
6 90c bid. Bulk meats firm; shoulders 5%e,
short rib B%c. Bacon firm; shoulders 6%c,
short rib 9J 4 c, short clear 9%c. Whisky firm
at *1 05.
ST. LOUIS. July 36.—Flour unchanged.
Wheat higher; No. 2 red, 84%(084%c for cash;
S3@S3%c for August delivery. Cora higher
ami inactive; 47%c for cash; 4S@4S%c for
August delivery. Oats d*U; No. 2 mixed,
28(028% for cash; 34%@24%c for August deliv
ery. Provisions firmer.
New Orleans, July 26.—Coffee quiet;
Rio cargoes. 7%@11c. Sugar steady; fair to
fully fair, 4%5*4%c; yeUow clarified, 5%(05%c.
Molasses steady: common, 20c. Cotton seed
oil—marset at a standstill; prime crude, *6%
(427 c.
louisvillr. Julv 26.—Grain dull: Wheat,
No. 2 red, B<Koßsc. Corn, No. 2, white 62c.
mixed, 55c. Oats, No. 2 mixed, 34c%. Provis
ions steady: Mess pork nominal. *l6 50. Bulb
meats—shoulders 5%c, clear rib B%c, clear
sides 8%. Bacon—shoulders 6%c, clear rib 9c,
clear sides 9%c. Hams, sugar cured, 13%c.
Lard, steam leaf, 9c.
naval stores.
London, July 26. 4:30 p. m.—Spirits tur
pentine firm; spot, 255; July and August de
livery, 255; September to December, 25s Sd.
New York. July 26, noon.—Spirits turpen
tine firm at Rosin firm at *1 22(40*1 27%.
6:00 p. m.—Spirits turpentine firmer at 33%
@33%c. Rosin steady.
Charleston. Julv 26.—Spirits turpentine
quiet; 30%c bid. Rosin firmer; strained and
good strained, *1 05.
Wilmington, July 26.— Spirits turpentine
quiet at 30J4c. Rosin firm; strained 97%c;
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1884.
good strained, *1 02%. Tar firm at *IBO. Crude
turpentine steady; hard, *1 00; yellow dip and
virgin, *1 85.
RICK.
Charleston, July26.--Market quiet; fair,
5%®5%c; good. prime, 5%<46%c.
New Orleans, July 36.—Market steady;
fair, 5%@5%c; good, 5%®5%c; prime, 5%@
IfEW Yore, July 26.—Market quiet; fair,
8%(A5%c: good, 5%(46e ; prime. 6%opi%c.
MINIATURE ALMANAC—THIS DAT:
Hex Risks . 5:07
Pv* SETS 6:53
BlftH Water fd Ft T > ulN i *vi..lo 58 A H. 11:20 V a
Sunday. July 27, 1884.
ARRrVF.D YESTERDAY.
Steamship City of Augusta, Nickerson. New
York—G MTSorrel.
Steamer St Nicholas. Usina, Fernandina
and way landings—C Williams, Agent.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Tallahassee. Fisher. New York—
G M Sorrel.
Steamship Juniata, Daggett, Philadelphia—
G M Sorrel.
Bark Casas (Sp), Rodriquez, Rotterdam —S
P Shotter A Cos.
Bark Idea (Ital), Cacace, Queenstown, Fal
mouth or Plymouth for orders—M S Cosulich
A Cos.
Schr Ruth T Carlisle/- Mcßride, Darien, in
ballast, to load for Philadelphia—Jos A Rob
erts A Cos.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Juniata, Philadelptua,
Bark Fannie (Sp), Barcelona.
Bark Lorenzo Schiaffino (Ital), Trieste.
MEMORANDA,
Tybce. July 26. 7:15 p m—Passed out, steam -
ship Juniata, barks Lorenzo Schiaffino (Ital),
Fannie (Sp).
At anchor, outward bound, bark Idea (Ital).
Wind SW, light; fair.
New York, July 24—Cleared, sehr Eleanor,
Mott, Georgetown, S C, and Biicksville, s C.
London, July 23—^Cleared,bark Sabino (Nor),
Andersen, Pensacola.
Lizard, July 24—Passed, steamship Foscolia
(Brj, Jones, C’ocsaw, S C, for London.
Baltimore, July 24—Arrived, echr Ida Law
rence, Young, Savannah.
Coosaw, July 21—Arrived, schr Annie C
Grace, Grace, Philadelphia.
Georgetown. S C, July 24—Sailed, schr B I
Hazzard, Smith. New York.
l’euoacola. July 24—Cleared, bark Rebecca
(Aus), Jaculich, Havre; Heros(Nor), Thorseo,
Brake.
Delaware Breakwater, Ju'y 24—Passed out,
6teain hips Ben Ledi (Br), from Philadelphia
for Port Royal, S C; Amy Dora (Br), from
Philadelphia for Coosaw. S C.
Vineyard Haven, July 23—Arrived, schr
Florence Shay, Van Cleaf, Salem for Port
Royal, S C.
ISath, July 24—Arrived, 6chrs Robert H
Rathburn, Crowell, Boston, to load ice for
South; David YV Hunt, Rogers, do; Joshua
Baker, Kelley, Portland for do; Glenallcn,
Bunker, Boston for do; Carrie A Norton,
Ilodgdon, Portland for do; T Benedict,
Crocker, Perth Amboy; Hattie Dunn, New,
Thomaston.
Sailed, iirigs Chas Dennis, Connacher. Pen
sacola via Friendship, Me; Lizzie Zitlosen,
Covert, New York; Castalia, Jackson, Phila
delphia; schrs Elm City, Etheridge, do; Lewis
K Cottingham, Pedrick, do; Adriania, Colby,
do; Wm Wiler, Mason, do; Gov Hall. Cain,
do; Lida Babcock, Dare, •o; Roger Drury,
Delay, Baltimore; Kocheko, Dow, do.
New Y'ork, July 2(s —Arrived out, steamer
Canada.
Arrived, steamers France, Elbe, Britannic,
City of Montreal.
SPOKEN.
Schr Mary L Allen, Butler, from Bath for
Savannah, July 23, 8 a ni, Huttcras Lighthouse
bearing SW by W, 12 miles.
RECEIPTS.
Per steamer St Nicholas, from Fernandina
and way landings—4 bales cotton, 5 hags wool,
11 bales hides, 25 bbls squashes, 10 pkgs mdse,
39 hides and skins.
Per Central Railroad, July 26—2 bales cot
ton, 578 bbls rosin, 77 bbls spirits turpentine,
250 sacks flour, 46 bbls flour, 90 caddies tobacco,
5 cars bulk corn, 223 pieces pipe. 201 crates
fruit, 3cases plaids, 6 cases whisky, sbumpers,
10 boxes beer, 8 iron rods, 1 6crew, 6 boxes, 5
pieces tim ier, 3 pieces iron, 27 bags bobbins,
44 bales wool, 2 cases shoes, 8 cases tinware, 9
rolls leather, 2 boxes old metal, 1 iron safe, 1
box hardware, 1 bbl potatoes, 120 bbls evapo
rated peaches. 16 boxes tola tablets, 1 bdl
woolen rags, 13 bales paper stock, 92 bbls paint,
5 Dales yarns, 5 cases scrap brass and copper.
1 car walnut lumber, 38 boxes machinery, 1
pkg samples, 1 hand ear, 1 box toq)s, 1 bdl
piping, 9 bales hides. 11 boxes tndse, 11 bdls s b
doors. 9 bdls sash, 6 bdls shutters, 1 box eggs,
11 cars melons, 12 cars lumber, 1 bbl cider, 1
bbl wax.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail
way, July 26—18 cars lumber, 3 cars wood, 5
cars iron, 1 car empty bbls, 1 car lime, 1 car
stock, 1.492 bbls rosin’, 4 bales hides, 16 bbls
pears, 481 bbls spirits turpentine, 8 bbls syrup,
4 bales wool, ami mdse.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway,
July 26—20 boxes tobacco, 35 cases s t ware,
ami mdse.
EXPORTS.
Per bark Casas (Sp), for Rotterdam—2,49o
bbls rosin, weighing 992,805 pounds; 500 bbls
spirits turpentine, measuring 25,694 gallons—S
P Shotter A Cos.
Per hark Idea (ital), for Queenstown for or
ders— 2,000 bbls spirits turpentine, measuring
102,337 gallons; 917 bbls rosin, weighing 387,170
pounds.
PASSENGERS.
Per steamship City of Augusta, from New
York—Miss Fannie Venning, H Harvey, Miss
E Callum, Miss J Hanson, Mrs M Caseling,
Mrs O Galcball, J de Laughter, W J Lindsay,
J J Solomon. Steerage—W Goldstein, Mrs
Martin, Jas Dyson, J F Cox. M Deignan.
Per steamer St Nicholas, from Feruaudina
and way landings—G V Ramsey, W J Valen
tine, T J Foster, Rev J J Andrews, and 2 deck.
CONSIGNEES.
Per steamer St Nicholas, from Fernandina
and way landings—Boston str, Rieser &S, M
T Quinan, M Y Henderson, A E Smith & Bro,
S Guckeuheimer & Son, JllO Flannery A Cos,
H Myers & Bros, M Maclean, ,Wm Hone & Cos,
Lee Roy Myers.
per Charleston and Savannah Kailwav,
July 26—Fordg Office, S. F A W Rv. Mrs I) F
Hyatt, H Myers A Bros, Weed & C,W J Lind
sav.
Per Central Railroad, July 26—Fordg Agt,
R Roach & Bro, N Paulsen & Cos, C E Stults,
M Boley & Son, M Y Henderson, F L George,
J Newton. Jno Lyons, A H Champion, Frank
Devine, II Red, Eckman & V, Lippman Bros,
A E Smith A Bro, H Solomon & Son, A Quint,
Holcombe, G & Cos, F M Hull, Wm Russak,
Capt W T Gilson, T P Bond, II Myers A Bros,
W C Jackson, Peacock. H A Cos, Butler A S, L
Putzel, Lee Roy Myers, J Gardner, M Koeh
ler, J P Williams & Cos, H F Grant & Cos,
Baldwin & Cos, Putzel & H, DC Bacon & Cos.
Per Savannan, Florida and Western Kai.-
way, July 23—Fords Office. Peacock. H A Cos.
Mohr Bros, M Y Henderson, M Ferst A Cos, M
T Quinan, M Boiey A Son, Rutherford & F,
Frank A Cos, R B Renpard. H Myers A Bros,
Dale, W & Cos, Jno J McDonough & Cos, E
Chevalier, Haynes A E, Solomons A Cos, S H
Zoncks, S Guckenheimer A Son, W I Miller,
J B Reedy, J S Collins A Cos, Bacon, J A Co,W
S Hawkins, A Hanley, Lee R*y Myers, M II
Baker, D C Bacon A Cos, Meinhard Bros A Cos,
W IV Chisholm, C L Chestnutt, Kennedy A B.
C L Jones, Baldwin A Cos, W A L McNeil, E
T Roberts, W C Jackson, H F Grant A Cos,
J P Williams A Cos, Merchants’ National
Bank, S P Shotter A Cos.
Per steamship City of Augusta, from New
York—Acosta A E, E J Acosta, T P Bond, L
E Byck A Son, Branch AC, F Byck, W Bur
kamp, J Belsinger, Barbour Bros, CRUS
Banking Cos. Crawford A L, T M Cunningham,
R C Connell, J Cohen, J M Case. M J Doyle, J
Derat, A Doyle, Geo Deiter. G Eckstein A Cos
Eckman AV, Epstein AW, JII Estill. Jos
Gorham. Frank A Cos, A Friedenberg A Cos, T
Greenbaum. Fretwell A N, C L Gilbert A Cos,
M Ferst A Cos, L J Guilmartin A Cos, W Gold
stem, M Givorich, R Habersham’s Son A Cos,
J A flerschbach & Cos, C Hopkins, 1) Hogan,
A Hanley, S Ilexter, Hymes Bros A Cos, J It
Haltiwanger, Holcombe. G A Cos, OP Havens,
Kennedy A B, S KrouskoflT, E J Keiffer, str
Katie. N Lang A Bro, Jno Lyons, Dr J C Le
ilardy, Ixivcll AL, 811 Levy A Bro, W J
Lindsay, D B Lester, Ludden A B, A Leffier,
Lippman Bros, Meinhard Bros A Cos, M Lavin,
11 Myers A Bros, H Miller, Lee Roy Myers,
McKenna A W, W B Mcll A Cos, Mohr Bros,\\
Mel) Sautnol. Jno Nicolson, estate Jno Oliver,
Order, Peacock. II A Cos, Palmer Bros, Geo W
Parish, Putzel A 11, J B lteedr, Russak A Cos,
C D Rogers, J J Reilly agt, S. F A W Ry, John
liourke, H Solomon A Son, P B Springer, II
Schroder, II Sanders, Southern Ex Cos, J T
Thornton, J W Tynan, Weed A C,Walter A TANARUS,
D Weisbein, Ga A Fia I S B Cos, R D Walker,
W U Tel Cos.
WILiBUIt F. STOKEY’S ESTATE.
A Lively and Complicated Contest About
the Chicago Times.
The legal fight over the estate of Wil
bur F. Storey, proprietor of the Times, says
a Chicago special of July 23 to the New
York Times, grows more complicated every
day, and a small army of lawyers are
getting their fingers into the pie. The
contest is between Mrs. Storey on the one
hand, and the heirs at law, the creditors,
and the Times management on the other.
A. S. Trude, the criminal lawyer, who
has been Mr. Storey's legal adviser for
vears. and W. C. Goudy, another attor
ney of Mr. Storey, are conducting the
tight for the last named parties, while
Judge Trumbull represents Mrs. Storey.
E. G. Asay,another attorney, claims that
he is Mr. Storey’s only legal adviser,
and he has presented a petition for the
transfer of the case to the Federal court.
This petition is signed by Mr. Storey him
self, but Lawyer Trude says the signature
is a forgery,’and insinuates that Mrs.
Storey did ’ the signing. Now Lawyer
Asay threatens to horsewhip Lawyer
Trude, but the latter says he will be in
the vicinity when any such attempt is
made and offers to bet Lawyer Asay $lO,-
000 that Mr. Storey cannot hold a pen in
his hand. It is generally believed that
Lawyer Trude is a creditor of Mr. Storey
and that he has had much to sav recently
about the management of the paper. He
claims that the paper has been well man
aged, and has made a great deal of money.
He is convinced also that Mr. Storey is a
wreck, and that a conservator should be
appointed, in the meantime the gentle
men in the Ttmps office are looking for the
headsman.
MEN OF NATIONAL FAME.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON
AND HIS WORK.
How He Won His Spars and What He
Looks Like—Ex-Congressman Mc-
Pherson’s Hand FnU of Political
Wires—Senator Gorman’s Rise from
Page to Prominent Politician.
Corrttpondence of the ifomino AVe.
Washington, July 25.—There are at
least three busy men in Washington now.
There is a general impression that Wash
ington is a great loafing place, and that
nobody during the period between the
sessions of Congress does anything. But
even if this be true in a general way there
are exceptions to the general rule. One
of these is the head of the Marine Hospital
Service, in whose hands has been placed
the epidemic fund. The other two are the
respective heads of the Congressional
campaign committees. That the man
who stands at the bridge guarding the
lives of 50,000,000 people should be a
watchful and business one is not remark
able, while the men who keep track ot
every Congressional nomination in the
325 districts of ’the country, watch the
nominations for legislatures who are to
make new Senators "and supply the coun
try with political literature, would be
busy is quite a matter of fact. The man
who is responsible for the lives of the
greatest nation on earth should be busy
and watchful and vigilant. That he
sbould never sleep and never rest
is essential, and no one seems to realize
this fact better than Dr. John B. Hamil
ton, Supervising General of the Marine
Hospital Service, who holds this responsi
ble post.
DR. JOHN B. HAMILTON.
The Fortv-seventh Congress appropriated
*IOO,OOO to be expended by the President,
in his discretion, for the prevention of the
introduction and spread of epidemic dis
eases. This was placed last year in the
hands of Dr. Hamilton,and a small portion
of it used in the prevention ot the spread
ot yellow fever on the Southern border.
There remained $78,000 of the fund, and
it was through a memorandum sent to the
Cabinet by Dr. Hamilton, a few days
since, that that body awoke to the neces
sity of action in regard to cholera, and
agreed upon the orders made public some
days since for the prevention ot the intro
duction of rags and other articles which
may convey the germs ol the disease.
The recommendations of the chief of
the customs service become, through ap
proval by the Secretary or President,
law to the customs officers. Thus be
tween the Marine Hospital Service, _ its
line of hospitals and employes, medical
and official, and the customs officers, there
is a continuous chain stretching not
alone from Maine to the Rio Grande and
all along the Canadian and Mexican bor
ders as well,but up the Pacific coast. There
is not only marine hospital officers at
the ports, customs officers at all ports of
entry, but there are likewise customs offi
cials’ on board cruisers which ply up and
down the coast guarding the entrances.
With every detail of this vast system
thoroughly mastered, with wires giving
him communication with all ports, with
a full understanding of the responsi
bility of his grave position, this little man
sits at his desk by day in constant reach
of the wires and sleeps at night,
when he does sleep, with the wire
at bis bedside. Consular officers all over
the world watch for the appearance of
epidemic disease and notify him the
moment that it is seen, and instant com
munication of the fact is made not alone
to the Surgeon General but through him
to officers at poiuts where infected ves
sels or persons are likely to enter. A
young, boyish-looking man, small of stat
ure, in appearance no more tbau 25, in
fact 37, you would never take him for the
man in whose hands the life of the nation
has been placed. He is a graduate ol
Rush Medical College, Chicago. He prac
ticed medicine and surgery iu Illinois
until tbe fall of 1874, and was appointed
Assistant Surgeon in the army. In 1876
he went belore the Examining Board in a
competitive examination, and ranked the
highest—B7.os out of a possible 100 —
ever yet attained in the service, lie rose
through the various grades of that service
until he was appointed Supervising Sur
geon General of che Marine Hospital Ser
vice in 1879, which position he now holds,
giving also a portion of his time to clinical
lectures, with operations in Providence
Hospital.
EX-CONGBESSMAN M’rHERSSN OP PENN
SYLVANIA.
The two other busy men referred to are
ex-Congressman McPherson, of Pennsyl
vania, and Senator Gorman, of Maryland.
McPherson is Secretary of the Republican
Executive Committee, but is practically
its herd! and its manager—the Chairman,
Senator Iloar, giving little of his time to
the details of the work, while Secretary
McPherson is constantly at liis post. Mr.
McPherson was for "several years &
member of Congress, and was clerk
in the Ferty-seventh Congress. The
rooms of the Republican Congressional
Committee are at the corner of Vermont
avenue and II street, just opposite
the Arlington Hotel building. The
building is a large brick one, and
its rooms are filled with the para
phernalia of the committee, secre
tary and assistant secretaries, clerks
and newspaper readers, whose duties
are varied from the studying of incoming
newspapers to the sending out of docu
ments and the organization of campaign
clubs. It is a hive of industry. Every
nomination is carefully noted in a book
for this purpose; letters are read and an
swered and filed where a necessity is in
dicated, and tlifc grave, blue-eyed man, as
he sita at his desk, can tell you at a mo
ment’s notice the condition of the Con
gressional tight in every one of the 325
districts. Every district has two candi
dates, and some three, so that he must
keep track of the movements of
nearly 1,000 adroit politicians, an
swering their appeals for aid financially,
and otherwise meeting the plots arid
schemes of his adversaries with counter
plots and holding in his hand the thousand
threads, which reach to every district
of the country, and in many cases affect
Senatorial fights, for there are more than
twenty new Senators to be elected during
the coming winter.
SKNATOR GORMAN, OF MARYLAND.
The affairs of the Democratic Con
gressional Committee are adminis
tered by the Chairman instead of being
left to the Secretary. Senator Gor
man is Chairman. He is a politician by
instinct and profession and experience.
He has been one since he was 12 years of
age. At that age he was appointed page
in the Senate and continued in the service
of that body until 1866, when he was Post
master. From that position he was
transferred to Collector of Internal Reve
nue, holding that place until 1869, when
he was elected a member of the Maryland
Legislature, and in 1871 Speaker of tbe
House of Delegates in that State. In 1872
he was elected President ot the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal Company; in 1875
elected to the State Senate, aud re-elected
until 1880, when he was elected to the
Senate of the United States. He is con
sidered a knowing man, and his methods
the shrewdest. In appearance he is a small,
quiet-looking gentleman with a clerical
aspect, the last man in the Senate whom
you would select as likely to be an ex
pert politician. The work at the Demo
cratic Committee rooms on F street,
nearly opposite the Ebbitt House, is not
fairly begun yet, the organization of the
National Committee in New Y'ork having
been regarded as the signal for the be
ginning of active work.
A LIV ELY TOWN.
A Great Wool Market—Plenty of Jolly
Girls—Various News Items.
Correspondence of the Mornina Xcws.
Albany', Ga., July 24.—Albany is the
most important Interior wool market in
the State. A number of Colquitt county
sheep raisers are in the city to-day with
their clippings. They bring the universal
report of the decadence of sheep hus
bandry, owing to the increased number of
dogs, hogs and dishonest men who prey
upon the flocks.
Many visitors are in this place testing
the curative virtues of our mineral arte
sian well. Some wonderful cures have
been wrought by its use, especially in kid
nev affections.
A pleasant event this week was the mu
sicale given at the Artesian House by
Mrs. C. T. Osborn in honor of Miss
Sharon, of Bainbridge, who is spending the
summer here. , , . .
The Social Amusement Club gave their
third weekly entertainment at the hall of
the Albany Female Seminary last even
ing. It was a very enjoyable occasion.
This club is organized every summer, giv
ing way to the German clubs in the win
ter season. . , . , .
Albany is full of pretty girls—in fact,
the young ladies outnumber the boys two
to one. We shall have to import a lot of
young men. Can’t Savannah come to the
rescue?
The Albany Cornet Band is to be reor
ganized. Prof. W. S. B. Shelton, a fa
mous cornetist, arrived in the city to-day.
He will instruct them.
The Artesian Base Ball Club, having
recently achieved victories at both Daw
son and Americus, are quietly awaiting
challenges from other amateur nines.
The Stars, of this place, play the Lees
burg juvenile nine to-day at the latter
place. A match game between two clubs
of Worth county takes place to-morrow.
The contests between our colored nines
generally result in a chapter of accidents.
A few days since an altercation occurred
between two of the members, resulting
in one of them being knocked senseless.
His life is despaired of. Yesterday the
bat slipped from the hands of the batter,
striking three negroes, one of whom was
carried home with his lip mashed, his
teeth knocked out and his upper jawbone
fractured. „
A contest between three of our favorite
pedestrians, Mullen, Haugabrook and
Cherry, takes place at the Sims-Rust ware
house this evening. They' each won ex
cellent records at former walking matches
here. It is to be a two hour go-as-you
please race for a purse of SIOO. Consid
erable money will change hands upon the
result. ....
A band of thieves, thought to be three
in number, is operating here. They have
a #ingular fancy for gold watches, and
line ones at that. The first loss reported
was by Messrs. Welch & Agar, jewelers,
who lost a lady’s watch, supposed to have
been taken by a confederate while a clerk
was showing watches to one of their
number. Mr. W. S. Fleming was the
next to sustain a loss. His yard was
entered, and his vest, containing his
watch, abstracted through a window
from the head of his bed, where it was
banging. There was a bright light burn
ing in the room at the time.
Mr. H. J. Cook, a prominent warehouse
man, while returning home a few nights
since on the Savannah, Florida and West
ern Railway, tell asleep, and upon awak
ing found his guard cut and his watch
missing. There is no clue to the thieves.
Mrs. A. P. Greer, an estimable lady,
died of consumption this morning. Her
husband occupies a prominent position
here. He was Mayor of the city last year.
Albany, Ga., July 25.—Early this
morning two colored employes at Baines’
livery stable commenced quarreling,
whereupon one of them drew a pistol, tir
ing twice and shooting his adversary in
the side. Immediately after the second
shot he threw the pistol down and made
his escape.
About tbe same time a white carpenter,
Surles by name, and a colored drayman,
Ike Jackson, engaged in a scuffle on Broad
street, when the former cut the latter
quite severely on the left arm above the
wrist. Jackson, upon being questioned,
states that it was a friendly tussle and
the cutting was accidental.
The Stars of Albany defeated the Lees
burg nine yesterday. The Artesian City
Club have challenged the Milledgeville
nine. The game will take place in about
a week. They play the Montezuma Club
on the 31st inst. A match game will take
place to-morrow between the Oakfields,
of Worth, and the Splitlocks, of Dooly
county, at Hall’s, Worth county.
The Jackson Light Artillery made their
first parade iu uniform this afternoon.
The Albany Guards have just received an
elegant new uniform of gray trimmed
with blue, epaulettes, helmets, etc. There
is some effort being made to organize a
cavalry company in Baker county.
The funeral of Mrs. A. P. Greer took
place from the Methodist Church this
afternoon. A large crowd of sorrowing
friends followed her remains to the
cemetery.
The walking match was won by
Ilaughbrook last night. He scored 11
miles in 1 hour and 42 minutes. The others
lelt tbe track.
The negro rapist who was captured by
a searching party near Gordon, Ala., last
night is a desperate character. Among
the crimes charged against him is that of
robbing and burning down a dwelling
house three miles irom Blakely, which
was done about a year ago.
Open cotton bolls brought in from sur
rounding plantations are quite plentiful
in the city. The crop prospects are very
promising. M.
Senator Thurman’s Fish Story.
Cleveland Press.
Once upon a time, when crowded about
his Presidential aspirations, plr. Thur
man replied: “I really have no ambition
in that direction.” A look of incredulity
on'every face was the only response. The
Judge took in these looks and related a
little story:
“One summer 1 was at the Oakland
House, Maryland, spending a little vaca
tion up in the cool mountain region. We
got telling fishing stories. I related some
thing of my own experience when I was
and sasv caught a catfish weigh-
pounds. When 1 told the
wdlfnt there was a general laugh, and 1
was humorously awarded the prize for
telling fish stories. 1 quietly remarked to
my incredulous friends that 1 hoped soon
to convince them of the correctness of my
story that in Western waters there were
cattish of ninety pounds weight. When I
returned to Columbus I went to the lead
ing restaurateur and instructed him to
procure me the largest catfish that could
possibly be secured. He reported in a
few days that he had one. I walked over,
and found an excellent specimen, weigh
ing seventy-five pounds. I had boxed him
and carefully packed in ice, and shipped
him by express to my disbelieving lriends
at the Oakland. From the restaurateurll
got all the recipes I could for catfisn
chowder, catfish steaks, stuffed catfish,
roast, etc., and sent them on by mail. I
telegraphed as follows: ‘Skin’your fish
before you cook him,’ a catfish’s skin
being so rank as to spoil the flesh when
the fish is cooked with it on. They got my
telegram and were puzzled. When the
box arrived, dripping from the melting
ice, they were more puzzled. The letter,
which arrived by the same train as the
fish, explained all. They bad a fine least,
and at it formally organized with a Presi
dent and Secretary, and passed the fol
lowing resolution, which was sent to me:
“ ‘■Resolved, That the troth of Allen G.
Thurman’s statements should never be ques
tioned; that his fish stories are always abso
lutely true, espcially his catfish stories.’ ”
Maurice Grau’s French Opera Troupe
arrived in New Y'ork from Havana last
Thursday. The majority will remain in
New York until the advent of Theo at
Wa’.lack’s Theatre.
KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL.
An Interestini' Letter About the Quiet
Old Town of Frankfort and Ita En
virons.
Correspondence of the Momin-g -Vrtrs.
Frankfort, Kx., July 24.—The Ken
tucky capital is one of the quietest, pret
tiest, drowsiest, sweetest old towns in the
whole Southwest. It appears to be taking
a perpetual after-dinner nap, and one can
hear the flies buzzing around its dozing
eyelids. No change alters its tranquil
outward aspect or disturbs the familiar J
tenor of its way to those who know it j
best. And it is so picturesquely lazy; it |
just seems to lie on its back in the 6un j
and look upward to its green hills in an
ineffable peace and content. The yellow
afternoon sunshine lies still and scorch
ing in the etreets— these wayward streets
that go clambering up the hills and
down the slopes without chart or
compass: but there are shady corners
here and there, sometimes right in the
heart of the town, and wide, low-browed
houses standing under the waving shadow
of trees, with great, low-ceiled rooms, and
old-fashioned halls and stairways, over
which many generations of children have
trooped. TThe Kentucky river winds
around and cuts the town In two, and a j
picturesque bridge with a gable roof con- ]
nects the fragments. Thus Frankfort !
people have acquired quite a consequen
tial manner ot saying “North Frankfort,’'
; and “South Frankfort,” as though it were
a city of magnificent distances, and the
i two localities were laagues and leagues
j apart. Talk about moving the capital!
i It couldn’t get away if it tried, and it
wouldn’t stay away it it were moved.
Tpe Capital Hotel has become one of the
hisfbric spots of Frankfort since Tom
Butord shot Judge Eiliott at its door.
The sput where the shot was fired, and
where Elliott fell, are pointed out to the
stranger much as the stones in the pave
ments where religious martyrs died at the
stake are shown to tourists abroad. The
hotel itself,. although it has had its day as
a great rendezvous for noted people, when
you take it sideways is a trifle forbidding,
being built of stone grimly and compactly,
and looks so much like a branch of the
penitentiary one shrinks a little from en
tering its massive precincts. In front it
presents a sternly simple visage, its pil
lared portico resembling a Roman temple.
There are not a few localities which
serve as Meccas to the curious pilgrim.
Every visitor knows there is a place
where Aaron Burr’s tavern once stood,
but it is now covered up with anew house
and looks just like anywhere else. It
seems to be a doubtful question whether
the present court-house is the one where
Burr’s trial took place; some old inhabi
tants are rather hazy on that point. It
appears that this is not the first and only
court house Frankfort ever knew; but
when this one came into existence is not
distinctly known. It certainly looks an
tique enough to have witnessed Burr's
christening aud subsequent promotion to
coat tails.
Whatever is to be seen in the environs
of the capital you must climb to it; there
is no winding around these rugged hills,
but one needs the agility of a chamois.
There is a turnpike leading out to the
famous cemetery, but another and more
picturesque way is by the clitf path
skirting the river and rising higher and
higher into the upper world with every
tolling step. It is only wide enough for a
single person, and a lurch to the right
would bring an astonished climber
sheer down a dreadful precipice to the
river. A rocky wall rises on the left and
the path ascends by flights of steps cut in
the solid rock. Far overhead a huge
sentinel rock towers over the path like
the leaning tower of Tisa, and stands like
a watchful guardian over this wild and
beautiful scene. It has no special name,
but if it were out West it would be called
a “Pyramid In the Garden ol the Gods,”
or something else sounding equally tre
mendous, and there would be grand ex
cursions to see it and a big price charged
for the sight. The river twists like a rib
bon here and the railroad follows it, mak
ing one of the sharpest curves known in
railroad engineering in America.
THE CEMETERY IS A LOVELY PLACE
by nature, and there has been no need to
make artificial beauties. The sward
heaves into rolling hillocks and sinks
into green valleys just at Nature’s bid
ding, and tbe trees grow where tbe 6eeds
fell time beyond memory. Tbe white
shaft of the State monument over the
Mexican veterans rises and pierces the
blue summer haze and seems to tremble
in the still, hot atmosphere. Daniel
Boone’s monument is in the coolest and
shadiest part of the cemetery. Four huge
sycamores mark the spot and a semi
circular hedge of livinsr green closes it in
its quiet seclusion. The monument is
dark and stained with age, and relic hun
ters have chipped away the stone until
the letters of the name are almost illegi
ble. During tbe war it was so defaced
thpt new panels had to be inserted in its
four sidesj and appear new and white
against the old stonework. These panels
represent various scenes in the life of the
pioneer; in one he is demolishing an In
dian, and the flattery of the sculptor
makes him seem to have no trouble at all
in reducing his adversary to pulp.
The handsomest edifice around Frank
fort is the Feeble-minded Institute,which
stands high above the town- and com
mands a fine view. It consists of two
enormous solid blocks of brick ancl stone
connected like a pair of Siamese twins by
long wide halls and rows ol dormitories,
and is surrounded by extensive grounds
beautitully laid out in fountains and
flowers.
There have been several noticeable re
forms in the treatment of prisoners in the
Frankfort Penitentiary which has so long
been a bone of contention and a name of
reproach..
Convicts are no longer punished with
the lash, nor are the’ female prisoners
dressed in the striped suit. The women
formerly wore trousers like the men, and
wita their shaved heads could hardly be
distinguished from them. All this is
changed; the cells are clean, and as com
fortable as convict quarters can be made.
The women formerly were not placed in
cells but occupied one large dormitory,
but they would get into terrific combats
and seek to exterminate each other, so
they were given separate apartments,
“with modern improvements”—mirrors
and toothpicks; civilization is making
rapid strides in the Frankfort Peniten
tiary.
For a town which plays a small fiddle
in the crowd, this place can boast of sev
eral literary curiosities. Ascending a
straight and’ narrow stairway rising from
the sidewalk of Main street, one finds
himself in the dusty upper regions of the
Yeoman office, and comes face to face
with Major Stanton, the Kentucky poet,
whose writings are known all over the
land. Who does not know “the Moneyless
Man?” The Major is the last person in
the tvorld in whom one would expect to
find a real live poet. He is short and
very fat, resembling an inflated beer bar
rel in shape, with the merriest eye and
the jolliest manner in the world. He
might have stepped from the canvas of
one of the old Dutch painters. To couple
him with a flirtation with the Muse is to
make the most flexible imagination curl
up and die.
And then in a splendid old house,
framed in drooinng branches and the
tangled shrubbery of an unkept lawn, the
prettiest place in all Frankfort or near it,
dwells the poet-painter, Robert Burns
Wilson. He is a contributor to the lead
ing magazines and wrote the poem on
Garfield’s death, which, on being read by
Queen Victoria, won a special compli
ment for the author. He is rapidly taking
rank with the best Southern poets, and
opinion is divided whether the world’s
praise will be loudest for the payiter or
the poet. In one or the other role he is
bound for a laurel wreath.
Frankfort also claims tbe Kentucky
lady, Miss Laura Ford, who has lately re
ceived $5,000 for a serial story from a New
York publisher. Besides these there are
other “mute, inglorious Miltons” who
don’t make a fuss over themselves, so
that the capital is not without its share of
lions. Nor does it scorn to improve its ap
pearance in the eyes of men. It boasts of
anew opera home that never need blush
to find itself among the architectural glo
ries of a metropolis. Now and then a con
flagration sweeps away some cluster of
worm-eaten buildings, and behold! anew
uprising of brick and stone and glittering
spaces of plate glass flashing in the light
and making the time-worn street a bit
trom some stately city avenue.
So sleeps Frankfort on a summer day
among her hollows and overhung with
rocky ledges and green banners and
woven clouds above; with the silver
river winding around and through it and
the golden haze of midsummer steeping
it in soft light. Coyle Douglas.
James O’Neil and the “Monte Gristo”
Company drew almost $40,000 in _ San
Francisco in four weeks, a larger business
than Mrs. Langtry played to in the same
time witn all her booming.
Y'ou will Say the Same.
“Nothing rel’eves pain so quickly as
Benson’s Capcine Porous Plasters.”—S.
S. Stafford, New Y'ork. 25c.
THE NEW YORK REVOLTERS.
Opinions of tta® “Dudes'* Convention—
A Good Turn for Cleveland—Other
Gossip About the Metropolis.
Correspondence of the Morning yews.
Nkw Y ork, July 25.—The representa
tives of the men who are to elect Grover
Cleveland, if he is to be elected. Chose a
fitting place lor their gathering when
they met in the University Club Theatre.
For the University Club, as its name im
plies, is composed only of educated men,
and the Republican revolters against
Blaine are conspicuous—indeed it is made
a matter of reproach against them —for
their culture and intelligence. The club
itself, although composed principally of
Republicans, is, 1 have reason to believe,
Cleveland to the core.
While the Blaine newspapers belittle,
as is natural, the disafiection in their
party, and ridicule the “dudes conven
tion,” a stalwart politician on Tuesday
night gave a more honest opinion on the
subject. “It's a tidal wave,” he said.
“Cleveland will carry this State by 50,000
majority, and he is equally sure of New
Jersey and Connecticut. I shall of course
work against it, but I have no hope.”
Blaine's letter is considered here to
possess more of the harmlessness of the
dove than the wisdom of the serpent. A
joker in the Times: office says that Ruther
ford B. Hayes, the Miss Nancy incarna
tion of fraud, must have written it, and
not the bold, British lion's tail twister.
Jingo Guano Blaine! AVhen one eon
isders the character of tbe writer, indeed
one is reminded, without the aiil of Nast,
of Bottom's promise, when somebody
objected to his playing the part of the
lion in "Midsummer's Night’s Dream,”
ou the score that he would roar so
loudly as to frighten the ladies, “to roar
as gentlv as any suckingdove.” Blaine's
fear of frightening the business men has
caused biui to roar as gently as two
doves! His aggressive policy is absurdly
conspicuous by its absence from the
letter.
THE “TRIBUNE” DID CLEVELAND A
GOOD TURN
the other day when trying to injure
him. The objection made to Cleveland
by many Democrats is that he is too
much of a Republican. It is cited against
him that he never signed or acted on a
Brooklyn bill without first consulting
with the Republican Mayor of the city.
To men who arc good citizens before they
are partisans, this may seem a feather in
his cap; but among politicians, to have
intercourse with a political enemy, even
when the good of the community is con
cerned, is considered a crime. The
Tribune , however, has set all this straight.
It showed in detail that Cleveland was a
Democrat hf the Democrats; that he had
voted for Horatio Sevmour tor Governor
in 1862; for McCellan and Feudleton in
1564; in short, that he never voted for
a Republican except when Horace
Greeley was the Democratic candidate!
Dr. Johnson used to say that a ship was
a prison xvith a chance of being drowned.
To the business man whose affairs re
quire his continual presence,New York,
in summer, is a prison, with the certainty
of being more or less roasted, in fact,
such a man would be practically more
comfortable, if not happier, were he sen
tenced, about June 15, to three months’
sojourn on Blackwell’s Island. On the
island he would, at any rate, be compara
tively cool, and he would have quite as
much to arouse him there as on the
larger island of Manhattan in midsum
mer. For after one has seen “Folka” and
“May Blossom” he has ordinarily ex
hausted theatrical amusements, and noth
ing remains but eating and driuking, va
ried by the monotony of club life. Here
again, so far as heat is concerned, Black
well’s Island has an advantage over Man
hattan; for. although the average club
cuisine is doubtless superior to the fare of
either the city’s prisoners or paupers, yet
what club bouse is so cool as the peniten
tiary ?
IT IS A SOURCE OF PERPETUAL WONDER,
indeed, why the most charming spots any
where near New York should be devoted
to tramps and criminals. Strangers when
passing Blackwell’s Island in steamboats
al ways admire its tall trees and luxuriant
verdure. When they see the forbidding
stone walls of the penitentiary and are
told to what uses the island is put, their
astonishment knows no bounds. How
much better would it be if workingmen
had their homes in the pleasant places set
apart for scamps and tramps! If the
penitentiary and workhouse were in a
less cool locality, too, it would be more of
a punishment, as it ought to be, to be sent
there. Now, indeed, all tramps, and the
average criminal, is happier on the island
than at liberty.
There is more reason for the city’s use
of Ward’s, Randall’s and Hart’s islands,
not to speak of the others. It is certainly
wise to have the hospital for contagious
diseases at a distance from the city, and
isolated from the population, while the
insafi? and sick poor, both native and
toreign, are hcSt treated in asylums and
liosp?tals which have illC benefit of tbe
cool breezes of the river. But all tiieSC
have more space than they require, and
someone of the above named islands could
have been Milized for penitentiary pur
poses, leaving Blackwell’s Island for the
habitation of the honest and deserving.
IN WHAT BLISSFUL IGNORANCE
of compara ti vely contemporaneous even ts
people do manage to live, to be sure.
While dining at an Italian restaurant the
other day, I heard a well dressed young
fellow ask, “Who is that?” as he pointed
to the portrait of a man with immense
moustaches, whose military uniform was
covered with decorations. “Victor Em
manuel,” his companion replied. “Who’s
lie?” was the next question. The other
man proceeded to tell the benighted youth
what he knew about the late King of
Italy. Now consider the marvelous igno
rance displayed by the question, “Who’s
he,” when applied to Y'ictor Emmanuel!
Had the person tvho asked it ever read
the newspapers he should certainly have
known the name of the man under whom
Italy first became a kingdom. It is but. a
few years since V'ictor Emmanuel died,
and more recently the obituary of Gari
baldi furnished facts of tne life ot Sim
whom Garibaldi was instrumental in
making King of a kingdom worthy of the
name.
A somewhat curious coincidence hap
pened in my way on Sunday evening.
When going up Broadway shortly after 6
o’clock! noticed the words “St. Nicholas”
in large letters on the side of a second
class hotel at Washington Place. The
letters had probably been there ever since
the real St. Nicholas Hotel was torn down
to make room for stores, but this was the
first time I had seen them, and I natu
rally wondered how many people, igno
rant of the distinction of the real St.
Nicholas, went to its cheap successor be
fore they discovered their mistake. About
an hour and a half later I sat down on a
bench in Union Square to take my after
dinner smoke and fell almost immediately
into conversation with a gentleman next
to me who proved to be from Savannah.
Before long he told me that when he ar
rived in New York, a few weeks ago, he
told the hackman, to whose tender mer
cies he confided himself, to drive him to
the St. Nicholas Hotel.
Imagine his astonishment when he
presently found himself in front of a
caravansery but twenty feet wide, the
lower floor” of which was devoted to an
anatomical museum, by way of rendering
It disreputable as well as cheap and
nasty.
“This is not the St. Nicholas,” Mr.
remonstrated. (I won’t tell his name, as
the story .conveys a lesson without vio
lating privacy.)
“It’s the only St. Nicholas Hotel there
is, sir,” the hackman insisted.
“That may be,” said the gentleman
from Savannah, “but it’s not the St.
Nicholas Hotel that I have been accus
tomed to stop at. That was further down
town.”
“Oh! you mean the old St. Nicholas?”
returned the hackman. “That’s been
turned into stores.”
“Drive to the Everett House,” said
Mr. , cutting short the colloquy, and
much to the disappointment of the land
lord of the “new” St. Nicholas, who was
naturally excited at the prospect of en
tertaining a guest that drove about in a
hack, to the Everett House Mr.- went.
THE CHOLERA 18 PROVING A SAD INJURY
to the various European steamship lines.
The cargo of passengers on the steamers
which sailed yesterday was less than that
of the corresponding week of any year
for the past decade, and the out going
travel promises to be still less in the fu
ture. On the other hand, the westward
travel is as large as it ordinarily is two
months later. A panic has seized the
Americans who were abroad, and while
many are fleeing from the wrath to come
to England, more -are returning to this
country. Disinfectants and drugs used
in the treatment of cholera are already
rising in price In anticipation of the com
ing of the plague, and if this fact proves
prophetic, the travelers may have only
changed the frying pan for the fire in
coning home.
After saying they-would ne’er consent,
property holders along Broadway have
consented to the building of a surfad*
railroad of some sort from Union Square
to the batterv. Whether a cable road or
an ordinary horse railroad will be built
won’t be decided for some time, but one or
the other will probably be in operation
before a great while. The underground
company, too, still exists, and the increas
ing population will force the construction
of the road it proposes to build under
Broadway before many years.
Complaints of a dull season at the dif
ferent summer resorts, with one or two
exceptions, come from all sides. The
cold weather, wbieh, to bo sure, has now
changed to hot, added to the financial de
pression, has caused the keepers of sea
side and watering place hotels nearly
everywhere to be losers. A spasm of
gayetv is in store for New London, how
ever, and a more prolonged period for
Newport, for James Gordon Bennett,
Commodore of the yacht club, is expec
ted at the first named place on Aug.
and he will probably spend the rest
the season at Newport. D.
THE DOG UNDER THE WAGON.
How an Intelligent Canine Paid his
Board.
There was a man down our way, says
a city correspondent of the Philadel
phia Record, who, though he car
ried on business m a small way,
managed to keep his head above water
and save considerable money. At last I
found out the secret. The old fellow
owned a large Newfoundland dog that
did nothing but lay around the coal yard.
Whenever a loaded cart was driven on
the scales to be weighed the old dog would
crawl from where he had been lyirg and
quietly sneak the can': .1 lie
down, apparently asleep. Th nitnal
must have weighed fuiljr UK) p *.s, and
so he counted in the weight ot 1 alleged
ton of coal. That dog wa*. worth his
weight in coal if not in gold every day in
the week. Since then whenever I’ see big
dogs hanging around a coal yard I cannot
help suspecting that perhaps every thing
is not what it ought to be. There Is also
another cute trick, aud that is dampening
the carts with water lor the ostensible
purpose cf settling the dust. In wet
weather this will add seventy-five pounds
to the weight of a load of coal.”
Effects of Heat.—Student—"Heat ex
pands and cold contracts.” Professor—“ Co
rrect. Give an example." Student—“ During
the summer the affections of city people for
their country relations expand and in winter
they contract.” —Philadelphia Call.
Pm ©Goo .
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Prior to Kemorul to My
NEW STORE
Will begin this morning and coutinue
throughout the entire week. The priees will
speak for themselves. The goods 1 oiler arc
all new, stylish and in every way desirable,
and the figures at which I make them are
pretty good evidence of my determination to
reduce the stock
Regardless of Cost!
Cash buyers will find this an exceptional op
portunity to purchase good goo*ls at exactly
one-half usual prices.
BOYS’ GLOTHING.
A special line of'BOY'S’ CHEVIOT, SERGE,
CORKSCREW. WORSTED and CABIMERK
SUITS in all styles and colors, with plaited
waists, at exactly one-half their marked
prices.
* 4 00 Suits at *2 0
5 00 Suits at 2 50
6 00 Suits at 3 00
7 00 Suits at 3 50
8 00 Suits at 4 00
9 00 Suits at 4 50
10 00 Suits at 5 00
11 00 Suits at 5 50
All Wool SAILOR SUITS, made of Blue
or Gray Flannel and worth from *3 50 to *4,
at $2 65.
BLUE SAILOR SUITS of excellent quality
worth *4 50, at *3.
UNPRECEDENTED BARGAINS
In Gents’ Laundried and Unlaundried Shirts,
as well as in Gents’ Balbriggan and India
Gauze Undervests in short and long sleeves.
DANIEL HOGAN.
Jruit, etc.
BANANAS !•
BANANAS i
IT'RESH arrival by every steamer- of choice
I’ Red and Yellow Bananas.
LEMONS! LEMONS!
As large a stock of Lemons as can lie found
in any house in the State. Special induce
ments oflered to large buyers. Send for price
list.
Also in stock:
COCOANUTS, MESSINA ORANGES,
BERMUDA ONIONS, PEANUTB.
Always on hand, best quality VIRGINIA
HAND-PICKED PEANUTS.
A full line of FANCY GROCERIES AND
CONFECTIONERS’ SUPPLIES.at wholesale
only.
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