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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. FOR SUBSCRIBERS TO THE • ■ TDXZXIIE F-AXR,:m::EXL. + + + —+ *——— The Agricultural and the South. EIGHT PAGES FORTY-EIGHT COLUMNS. —~-0— * The Most Reliable, The Brightest and Best Agricultural, Horticultural, Live-Stock, The News, Select Miscellaney, and Literature. Full of Practical Information, Experimental Knowledge, and the Progressive Agricultural Theories of the Day. Nniiita along its weekly Ccntribulors the Leading Agriculturists an! Live-Stock Men in the Southern States. The Departments of the Dairy, the Poultry Yard, the Orchard and Garden, the Household, and the Department for the Family and the Young Folks Maintained in Full in Every Issue. FIFTY DOLLARS IN MONEY Given Away Each Month for the Largest Number of Sub" scribers to Maker of Clubs. Now is the time to secure a money premium. Go to work at once. The publishers of the Dixie Farmer will give each month to the persons sending the largest number of subscribers at $1.50 each the following sums : To the person sending the largest number, S2O ; next largest, sls; next largest, $10; next largest, $5 —$50. A GRAND PREMIUM OF FIFTY DOLLARS EXTRA, in cash will be given to the contestant who, by the first of September, will have sent the largest number of subscribers, all told, at $1.50 each, to the Dixie Farmer. Let the work begin at once; a list of five or ten names may win the highest pre mium. The names may be sent in as fast as they are secured, and will be duly credited to the contestant’s list. It is the desire of the publishers that the Dixie Farmer be a weekly and welcome visitor to the home and fireside of every intelligent farmer at the South, and to. this end they invite the co-operation, and offer for this the inducements in money premiums named to those who will secure them by making up clubs. Correspondence solicited. Address THE DIXIE FARMER, 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.