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Very cold in the far west.
Squirrels are a California pest.
Qnails are abundant in the west.
The hog cholera prevails in Canada.
Cards were invented in France in 1390.
The Miesissippi river continues to rise
rapidly.
Diphtheria is very prevalent in Louis
ville, Ky.
There are 951 convicts in the Kentucky
penitentiary.
The Alabama river is now higher than it
has been since 1875.
In five short months we will see who is
nominated for president.
Victor Hugo kisses the hand of every
lady to whom he is introduced.
There are 329 beet-sugar mills in Ger
many.
Stncf. Dan Rice made a profession of re
ligion, he has decided to become an evan
gelist.
The entire State of Florida will comprise
one supervisor’s district in the taking of the
census.
On account of want of money the public
schools of Richmond, Va., have been closed
temporarily.
There were 20,000 accessions to the Meth
odist church in Texas during the conference
year just closed,
Do something this year. Hitherto you
have been more a planner than a doer.
There is no promise of this life or the next
except to the doer.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Tennessee will convene after the National
Committee’s meeting, and appoint delegates
to the National Convention, hut nothing
more.
To take a strong-willed, energetic man
into the Church and give him nothing to
do, is a great folly. Such men must be ac
tive. If you do not give them something
to do inside the Church, the devil will be
likely to findjthem a job outside.
The number of men who will scrupu
lously respect the sacred ness of private con
versation is smaller than many warm
hearted and impulsive people think. This
is a hard lesson for the best sort of people,
but they will learn it sooner or later.
The Jackson (Tenn.,) Tribune and Sun
for January Ist, deserves notice as a “boom
er.” Its sixty columns of matter sfcow up
the industries of that ambitious city of
West Tennessee, in a manner creditable to
their enterprise. We congratulate the pa
per on its success.
This country has unquestionably taken
a downward step in its political ethics.
There has always been more or less cheat
ing at elections, but never until recently has
it entered into the very plans of parties.
The doctrine is boldly avowed that it is
right to fight fraud with fraud. It will not
take long to touch bottom on this line~
One portion of the American press is
now engaged in stirring up sectional ani
mosities by repeating every harsh express
ion that is written or spoken, and by mag
nifying every Haw that can be detected by
the sharpest eye of the office-hunting poli
tician or the most crazy-minded zealot. It
is a shabby business, whether done in the
North or in the South. —Christian Advocate.
A word is due the Christmas greeting of
our friend Wallace, editor and proprietor
of the Fayetteville, (Tenn.) Observer. It
is said that not a feature has been (‘hanged
in its type or arrangement since the first is
sue in 1850. Its type is the largest in all
of our exchanges. Its pnbl cation was
commenced by N. O. Wallace and A. H.
Berry. Mr. Berry died seventeen years ago.
Number one of the twenty-seventh vol
ume of the Western Christian Advocate is be
fore us. Rev. W. C. Johnson, D.D., the
editor and proprietor, has had his share of
hardships, having been compelled to sus
pend publication twice at Memphis because
of yellow fever, in 1878 and 1879. Last
fall he brought it to Nashville ; now he
locates permanently at Little Rock, Ark.
His friends and others who may see proper
to patronize the Western Advocate are re
minded that a two-dollar post-office order,
together with expressions of good-will, wili
secure his attention for a whole year.
EFFECTS OF FOOD AND DRINK.
According to Dr. Bock, of the
nervousness of our times is attrilvitable to
coflee and tea; the digestive organs of con
firmed coffee-drinkers being a state of
chronic derangement, which reacts on the
brain, producing fretful and lachrimose
moods. Ladies addicted to strong coffee
have a mania for acting the persecuted
saint. Chocolate is neutral, and the most
harmless and fashioxable drink. The petu
lant humor of the Chinese is ascribable to
their immoderate fondness for tea. Beer is
brutalizing, wine impassions, whisky infu
riates, and eventually unmans. Alcoholic
drinks, combined with a flesh and fat diet,
totally subjugate the moral man, unless
their influence be counterbalanced by vio
lent exercise.
Destruction of Sheep. —On the eighth
inst., a number of worthless dogs got
amongst the sheep of two farmers in the
Eighth district, near Capt. P. Smith, and
killed twenty-four sheep. Capt. Smith re
ports to us that there are two negro men
near his farm, who have between them, nin
dogs of all sizes, colors, and kinds, each
warrented to kill a sheep on sight in five
minutes by the watch. Here is a subject
for the Stock Breeders to discuss at the
Convention next month.
BILL ARP’S MEMORIES.
Things Get Uglier aiul Less—He Comments
on Man’s Duly to Posterity.
From the Dixie Farmer.
“ I remember, 1 remember, the house where I
was born,
The little window where the sun came peeping
in at morn :
He never came a wink too soon, nor brought too
long a day;
But now I often wish the night had borne my
breath aw ay.”
I don’t mean that last line for myself,
though, like Tom Hood, I do have the
blues sometimes; but I was soothing myself
with the sweet memories of the past, and
wondering if everybody was alike about
the way things draw up and shrink as we
grow old. I know very well that the years
grow shorter and time passes more swiftly;
but wlen I last visited the home of my
youth, after an absence of many years, there
was nothing half so large as it used to be.
The old house had shrunk up, the hills
were not so long nor so steep, the branch
seemed almost dry, and it was not near so
far from one familiar spot to another.
Some things seemed large enough, and even
larger than my memory called for, for they
had been growing all the time. The apple
trees I helped to plant, and the shade trees
round the house, had grown, and I felt
happy to look upon the fruits of my youth
ful labors. There was an old stone wall
built across the lower side of the horse-lot
to catch the wash. My brother and I built
it of round, unshapen rocks, called “nigger
heads,” and we had to lay a broad base and
taper It like building a pyramid of cocoa
nuts. It took patience and skill, and when
it was all done we were proud of it ; and I
am proud of it still, for it is a good job,
and the wash has filled it up to the brim,
and it has not given away nor lost a stone,
though the rocks are not near so large nor
the wall so high and so long as 1 expected
to see it. It, too, had shrunk up, like
everything around it.
I used to think that when a man got
grown this shrinkage of tilings would stop,
but it don’t. The years still grow shorter
and shorter, the ChrDtmasses are" drawing
nearer together every year, and just so it is
wiln material things, for I have visited the
old homestead siveral times since I grew
up to manhood, and the shrinkage keeps
going on. The world must seem mighty
small to a man who lives to be a hundred ;
but he don’t realize it, I reckon, unless lie
goes back to the scenes of his childhood,
and looks at the old hills again. But there
is a solid comfort in doing something that
will outlive us and serve a useful purpose,
even though it be the building of a rough
stone wall. Suppose it does change hands,
and strangers step in and get the benefit and
reap the fruit of our labors, it is a comfort
still. Other people have worked for us,
and we must work for somebody else who
will come after us.
Old Dr. Johnson said that it was every
man’s duty to do one of these these things
for posterity : plant a tree, write a book, or
become the father of an honest child.
Whether it be a fruit tree or a shade tree,
it will comfort somebody in the years to
come. I never think about that but what
my mind goes away back to the time when
a good old man, for the love of beauty and
his adopted town, planted two hundred
water oaks around the churches in Rome,
and he planted them well and carefully,
and now they are the pride and ornament
of the town. And when I was in Tusca
loosa, last summer, I was charmed and im
pressed with the long lines of druid oaks
that made a bower over the wide streets;
and that, too, was a work by another good
old man. Who does not love and respect
such disinterested benevolence, such love of
the beautiful in nature?
But a man ought to he careful about
what kind of a tree he is going to plant for
posterity. I’ve got a clever old nabor who
has a large peach orchard and the fruit is
not worth having, and when I asked him
where he got his trees, he said he picked up
gome peach stones about and about, and
planted them. Hedid’nt’bud nor graft,
but just relied on the seed, for he didn’t
know any better, and has wasted the land
and five years of valuable time in waiting
for the fruit to get better, and he is waiting
still.
As to writing a book, there’s not many
men fit for it, or inclined to do it if they
could, and besides there are not many writ
ten that benefit posterity very much. There
are too many books unless they were better.
Why, a few years ago one of my hoys, who
was just turning twelve years old, read so
many of these exciting romances, written
hy Mvyne Reid, that he and two other hoys
abou' bis age took a sudden notion to go to
the West on an exploring expedition, and
they started one Saturday with two dollars
ij? money and a dog and a gun apiece.
Well, it took us three days to overtake
them and bring them back, but it cured
them, for they were plum worn out when
they got home, and had’nt explored much
either.
But the most delicate part of Mr. John
son’s advice is a problem that has not yet
been solved, for no man knows whether his
offspring will be honest or not. Though I
reckon a father is not to blame for being a
father if he does his best to raise his chil
dren in the right way. Raising children is
a good deal like raising horses, or cattle, or
anything else. There are ancestors away
hack on one side or the other who had the
devil in them, and sometimes that same
devil will crop out and come to the surface
in the third or fourth generation. The best
men sometimes have the worst children, and
it looks like the devil hankered after
preachers boys more than any body elses,
and the Scriptures tell mighty bad things
on some of the offspring of the prophets
and patriarchs, like Samuel and David, and
even old Father Adam, who didn’t have
any ancestors at all, raised up a very bad
boy, and couldn’t comfort himself by say
ing he was ruined by associating with
hia nabors children.
But still it is both lawful and scriptural
to multiply and replenish, and if it wasent
it would be done anyhow, and therea noth-
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
ing left for old bachelors but to go to
writing books or planting trees, for my
doctrine has always beeen that a man who
has no children of his own, ought to be
made to help support somebodyelses. It
aint fair for one man to raise up half a
dozen boys to fight the battles of his coun
try, and to protect the property of another
man who wont raise any. There is a wo
man for every man, and a fraction over,
and if he lives to be thirty years and dont
take one, then I would let some reputable
woman tender her services, and if he dident
take her, I would make him support her as
long as she lived. There is no more pitiful
sight in nature, to me, than a nice girl
waiting long and patiently for some feller
to come along and marry her, and he wont
do it. I always feel like marrying them
myself, just out of sympathy. Dont you ?
Bill arp.
PROGRESS THROUGHOUT DIXIE.
It is with pleasure that we note progress
in many of our cities and all along the
lines of railways. Where repairs have
scarcely been kept up heretofore, new build
ings and fences are to be seen, foundries,
corn, flour, and lumber mills, fruit trees,
and other evidences of improvement-
Among the most notable cities that are
moving on in the car of progress are Mont
gomery, Birmingham, Gadsden, Huntsville,
Union Springs, and Mobile. We want en
terprises that will make our towns more
worthy the love of their citizens, more at
tractive to strangers, and to possess all the
elements of a genuine cosmopolitan char
acter —parks with fountains and statuary,
thoroughfares with elegance, and public
edifices with magnificence.
Sheep.
The increasing demand for wool fabrics
and their rapid enhancement of value point
to sheep-raising in the future as more pro
fitable than in the past. This branch of
business has been wofully neglected of late,
so that it is doubtful whether there are as
many sheep in the United tStates as there
were ten years ago. Manufactories are in
full blast for the production of fabrics, but
thty are suddenly confronted with the fact
that the markets are almost hare of wool.
Eastern and Southern farmers have been
driven out by competition from wool grow
ers in Texas, the Northwest, and Australia.
And the latter in turn have neglected this
great industry. Now the golden opportu
nity is presented for magnificent profits in
a few well-selected localities in this coun
try. We know of several farms finely
adapted to sheep-raising, in connection
with other stock.
Pork Packing at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Price Current.
The packing interest seems to be in a sort
of “ muddle ” at this time. The labor
troubles at Chicago are not settled, and the
receipts of hogs there are light, the offer
ings finding an uncertain market. Other
points are so much in the habit of gauging
their course by this great commercial in
dicator, that they are likewise hut little
business as a rule. This means that the
present light movement of hope towards
Chicago does not imply a corresponding or
any material increase in operations at the
mailer or inferior points. The fact is, the
views of the farmers are yet at a pitch
which leaves no inducement for shippers.
We do not regard the present shortage in
movement as showing a relative lack of
supplies, although it can hardly be ex
pected that a “deluge,” such as was experi
enced a year ago, is to come in the early
future. At the ten principal points the
packing for the past week has been about
158,000 against 299,000 the preeeeding week,
and 276,000 for corresponding time last
year. To date these places show a total of
about 3,310,000, against 3,470,000 iast year,
or a decrease of 1 GO,OOO.
IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.
Failure of crops and consequent depres
sion in business in Great Britain, with the
reverse condition of matters here, will
make certain the largest immigration from
that country to the United States in 1880
ever known. It will come mainly from the
middle class of population, energetic,
thrifty, intelligent, and moral, and many of
them well-to-do farmers. Our “ boundless
continent ” is broad enough for all, and we
welcome them to our shores. On the con
trary, while many are immigrating into
the United States, others are emigrating out
of some of the States. Unlike a river
emptying its waters into the sea as fast as
they flow in from their original source,
none of the population goes out of the
United States. They only move from one
State to another ; thus leaving the general
country as well off as if all the citizens re
mained permanently in one locality. The
United States are the beneficiaries, whether
of immigration or emigration. Three times
as many immigrants arrived in this country
in November, 1879, as did in the corres
ponding month of the year before, and 181,-
000 for the year ending the 30ih of Novem
ber last, against 120,000 in the preceding
twelve months. While there is a slight de
crease of population in some of the South
ern States from the emigration to Texas and
the negro exodus to Kansas and Indiana, it
is more than compensated by settlers from
Europe and the North and West. Outside
influences may control this exodus for the
moment, but human nature will assert
itself. The average African, particularly
the better portion, will clajm the old South
ern plantation as home. Like all men, the
love of home is deep-seated in his bosom,
and he has a local attachment for his old
owners’ home as nearer his own than any
other one on earth. Those who are in
veigled into a rigoroiiß, inhospitable clime
will sigh many a time for their native sun
and the “ old log cabin.” As well attempt
to hold the lion away from his original lair,
or the alligator from the warm lagoon, as
to keep the negro from his Southern home.
Nothing but chains will ever so reverse
nature.
Department of Agriculture.
New England Farmer.
A letter from Washington to one of the
morning daily papers states, “ there is a
good prospect that the country may be re
lieved of Mr. LeDuc and the Agricultural
Department altogether, as the Committee
on Agriculture are discussing the propriety
of reporting a bill abolishing the Depart
ment entirely.” The reasons alleged are,
that many of the committee regard it as an
expensive humbug, and that the present
Commissioner has added greatly to its un
populerity. Mr. Covert, of New \ork,
Chairman of the Committe on Agriculture,
is quoted as saying that “ the Department
was more expensive than useful, and that
all the legitimate duties of the organization
could he better and more economically per
formed by other branches of the govern
ment. What those other branches were,
Mr. Covert did not say, hut the fact that
such legislation is intended, should call for
an earnest protest from every section of the
country ; for it is an established fact that
the products of our Agriculture in recent
years have been the means by which re
sumption of specie payments was made
possible, a sound currency established, and
all the manufacturing, mechanical, and
commercial industries ot the country, after
a long period of inaction, were endowed
with new life.
From the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, it appears that the value of the
exports of the United States to foreign
countries for the fiscal year ending June JO,
1878, amounted to $707,771,153, upon a
gold valuation ; and for the year ending
June 30,1879, they amounted to $715,895,-
825. More than 80 per cent, of these ex
ports were from the products of the soil ;
and yet there are those who grudge the
small appropriations made by Congress for
the support of “ The Department of Agri
culture ” in the conduct of scientific inves
tigations, as to the diseases of animals, the
ravages of insects, the value of fertilizers,
the improvement of flocks and herds, and
the distribution of new and better varieties
of seeds and useful plants.
A Loving Heart.
Sunny eyes may lose their brightness,
Nimble feet forget their lightness
Pearly teeth may know decay
Haven tresses turn to gray ;
Cheeks be pale and eyes be dim
Faint the voice, and weak the limb;
But, though youth and strength depart,
Fadeless is a loving heart.
Like that charming little flower,
Peeping forth in wintry hour.
When the summer’s breath is fled,
Gaudier flowerets faded dead;
So when ontward charms are gone,
Brighter still doth blossoms on,
In spite of time’s destroying dart,
The gentle, kindly loving heart.
Ye, in worldly wisdom old ;
Ye, who how the knee to gold ;
Dotli this earth as lovely seem
As it did in life’s young dream,
Ere the world had crusted o’er
Feelings good and pure before,
Ere you sold at Mammon’s mart
Tho best yearnings of the heart?
Grant me, Heaven my earnest prayer,
Whether life of ease or care
Be the one to me assigned,
That each coming year may find
Loving thoughts and gentle words
Twined within my bosom’s chords,
And that age may hut impart
Riper freshness to my heart.
Need for Better Farming.
[Marion, Ky., Register.]
Improvements in farming always follow
the organization of farmers’ clubs, the hold
ing of fairs, ami the education of farmers
and their families. Wherever good farm
ing is found, these agencies may be looked
for as a matter of course. There are farms
in our older States that have been cultivat
ed for two hundred years, that are richer
to-day titan ever before. Many farms in
England yield twice as much now aa they
did a hundred years ago. This is the result
of study, experiments and inventions,
which have been made possible by the edu
cation of farmers, and which have been en
couraged by farmers’ societies and public
fairs. With the experience of other farm
ing sections at their command the farmers
of Kentucky should, even in the next de
cade, have better farms and make more
money, instead of wearing out their lands
and going to new States. Asa rule, a farm
er who can make money in one State can
do so in another. Intelligent industry and
energy are alike needed everywhere.
What is Vanderbilt Worth ?—“Van
derbilt may be a much richer man than is
generally believed. He told a reporter that
he was selling only about half of his hold
ing, so that he must have had about 500,-
000 shares of Central alone, which is
worth $05,000,000. And to this the con
trolling interest in the Lake Shore, with its
capital of $50,000,000; Michigan Central
with its $20,000,000, and Canada Southern
with its $15,000,000, to say nothing of his
vast outside interest in the Western Union,
Wagner Car Company, Merchants’ Dispatch
Transportation Company, and $5,000,000 in
four per cents; and it will readily be seen
that he could sell out for considerably more
than $100,000,000.”
He ought to be good to his brothers and
sisters. Yes, and to many others.
Total debt of Alabama is $7,803,000'; an
nual interest, $172,200.
They have green peas, okra and cucum
bers in Florida at this season of the year.
Five hundred millions of dollars have
been paid since the war in pensions.
The Governor of Alabama, ordered all
public offices closed and the eapitol to be
praped in mourning, on the day of Sena
or Houston’s burial,
Keep the Feet Warm.
Many of the colds which people are said
to catch, commence at these extremities;
and colds are not the worst effects of damp
feet. Persistent neglect, in this respect,
produces disease of the internal organs,
which once chronic,-can never be cured.
To keep the feet constantly warm, is to
effect an insurance against the almost in
terminable list of disorders, which spring
from “slight colds.” Ist. Never be tightly
shod. Boots, or shoes, when they fit closely,
press against the veins of the feet, and pre
vent the free circulation of the blood. On
the contrary, when they do not embrace the
feet too closely, the blood flows freely, and
the spaces left between the leather and the
stockings, are filled with warm air. Those
who pride themselves on having small,
handsome feet, will perhaps, be unwilling
to admit this assertion. They are earnestly
recommended to sacrifice a little vain dis
play, for the sake of comfort and safty, by
wearing what the makers call easy shoes.
2d. Never sit in damp shoes. It is often
imagined, that unless they are positively
wet, it is not eecessary to change them
when the feet are at rest. This is an error ;
for when the least dampness is absorbed
into ths sole, it is attracted futher to the
foot itself, by its own heat, and thus per
spiration is dangerously checked. Those
who doubt this, may prove it by neglecting
this precaution, and their feet will fee? cold
and damp, after a few moments, although,
on taking off the shoes and stockings, it
will appear perfectly dry. —Daniel Orcutf.
AGRICULTURE.
Though the oldest institution on earth,
agriculture is yet in its infancy compara
tively. It was established by God himself,
when he gave Adam and Eve charge of the
garden of Eden six thousand years ago.
Our mother earth was then beautiful —fresh
from the hands of a Maker that never
and nnmarred by sin. Agriculture is far
above the average of other vocations, in its
tendency to elevate. Who can study na
ture without being disposed to “commune
with nature’s God ?” The votaries of ag
riculture, scattered over so broad a territory,
have not the same opportunity for concert
of action, oppressive and defensive, that
other callings possess. But in true dignity
agriculture stands pre-eminent—like [the
rock-ribbed mountain, beautiful, by virtue
of its very abruptness. Before the war
every other avocation was considered as de
pendent on farming. Since, an abnormal
condition has prevailed —the planter has re
lied upon the merchant. But things are
gradually swinging round to their natural
level, when everything will be referred to
mother earth —the original source whence
springs all our wealth.
Profit on Small, Fruits. —Prof. Steele,
of Mobile, Ala., gives the following instance
of the profits in the single small fruit,
strawberries: “In Ojtober of 1878, a gen
tleman living in the neighborhood of Mo
bile, put out upon his farm 1,000 strawber
ry plants of the Wilson’s Albany variety.
They cost him $4. Of these 160 plants
died, leaving him 840 growing and in fair
condition. Last spring they came into
bearing, and from these 840 plants he sold
in the St. Louis market fruit enough to
bring him $64.02, besides having sufficient
left for home consumption. Next spring
they will be apt to do much better than
they did last spring.”
Chicago boasts of eleven thousand street
gas lamps, and Boston is ahead of that.
$450. $450. $-450.
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Nashville, Tens.; Atlanta, Ga.; or Montgomery, Ala,
Atlanta Markets.
Atlanta, Ga., January 13, isso.
Demand for cotton in Atlanta has been
brisk, and there have been better sales than
for some time, though holders exhibited
some disinclination to part with their cot
ton. The sales of spot cotton materially
increased. Prices have remained un
changed.
No change in provisions.
Sugar has advanced, and seems to be up
ward.
Hogs are dull ; stoeks light, and receipts
very small.
Tobacco is firm and unchanged ; summer
stock is reduced, which makes prices firm.
COTTON MARKET.—Good middlings 12J/ 4 'o,
middlings, 12c; low middlings ll%e; good ordi
nary lie.
RECEIPTS.
Receipts to-day 266
Receipts same day last year 58s
Showing a decrease of 322
Receipts since September - 87,423
Receipts same time 1878 07,367
Showing an increase of 20,120
SHIPMENTS.
Shipments since September 1, 1579 75,324
Shipments for same time last year 57,036
Showing an increase of 17,698
FLOUR, GRAIN AND MEAL.
Flour, $825; extra family, $8 00: family $7 73
Wheat, choice Tennessee $1 55; Georgia $1 30@
1 40. Corn, white 67@700; oats, feed 60c; choice
seed 05@75. Meal 67c; grits, $4 00.
PROVISIONS.
Clear ri i sides firm at 7%0; bacon, sugar cured
hams ll@ll%c; sides 8c; shoulders 6c; lard, in
tierces, leaf, 9%(§9%e; refined 9c; kegs, cans and
buckets, 10c.
GROCERIES.
Coffee—Steady, Rio 15%@19%; old government
Java 28(6(30, roasted coffees, old government Java
29@32: best Rio 20; choice 18. Sugars, standard A
10%al0%; granulated 11; cut loaf 12a12%; powder
ed 11%; white extra C 10; yellow € 8%@9%, New
Orleans from 9@ll. Molasses, hhds 25; tierces
26; barrels 27. Syrup, new' crop 45(6)55. Teas—
Oblong 35(2}$ 1; Japan 40@$1; Imperial and Gun
powder 45@$: Young Hyson 36@75; English Break
fast 30@75. Pepper quiet at 17%; allspice, best
sifted 20; cinnamon 30; saigon 55; cloves 00; Afri
can ginger 10; mace $1 25; nutmegs $1 20(61 25;
mustard best 40; medium 25@30. Crackers, milk,
7‘4c; Boston butter 7%e; pearl oyster 7%e; soda
XX 4%0; molasses cakes 8c; ginger snap* 7%. Soap
$3 50(6)7 00 per 100 cakes. Candles L. W. 12% per
ft. Rice, fair 7%; good 7%; prime 8.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Eggs 13; butter, choice Tennessee 20<3i'22%c, me
dium 16@18c, common 12@150. Poultry, hens 18:
chickens 8@10%c; dressed 10@llc; turkeys 10@12%
Sweet potatoes 75c. per bushel, Irish $2 75@
325 per barrel. Dried fruit, peeled peaches 13@
10c, impeded s<g6c, dried apples 3@7c. Wax, 20c;
cabbage good sound heads 2c; onions, choice east
ern $4 50, choice Tennessee $3 50@4 00 per barrel.
Feathers, choice white geese 50@550, prime 45(6)50;
common mixed 35@40c. Cheese, choice cream 13
@ls.
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle, choice Tennessee 3@3%; medium 2@2%;
common 1%@2. Hogs, car load lots $4 60(34 70;
retail $4 75@1 87%. Sheep—2%@3e.
TOBACCO.
Very common grades 33@34 ; good common
grades 35@37; medium 38@45; extra medium 45@
55; fine 11 and I‘l-inch 42@65; extra fine and fancy
75@90: Brown’s extra fig 80c; natural leaf 95c; Cal
houn $1 45 ; Cook’s extra fig 80c; Cook’s extra
Leatherwood 90c; Lucy Lawson 55c; shell road 52;
fine cut in pails 60@75e. Smoking tobacco—
Blackwell’s Durham, assorted, 55c; other brands
and grades 40@50c. Lorillard’s snuff, in jars, 65c:
Lorillard’s snuff, 2-oz; packages, sl2 GO per gross;
Railroad Mills sunff 55c in jars; Mrs. Miller’s snuff
55c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Limc~ln car load lots, free on cars in Atlanta,
86c; less than carloads 90c is asked. Rose;< tale
cement $2 50 per brl of 300 lbs neat. Louisyllo
cement, ear load lots $1 75; lops than ear load $2;
Portland cement, carload lots, $4 75, less than car
load $5; plaster of Paris, “calcined,” car load lots,
$2 25; in smaller quantities, $2 50@2 75; land plas
ter, “ new fertilizer,” car load lots $2 25 per brl;
less chan oar load $2 50 per brl; marble dust in lots
s3@4 per brl.