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The English national rifle association
have accepted the challenge of the rifle asso
ciation of America to compete in the match
for the championship of the world during the
centennial at Philadelphia.
A correspondent of the London Hour
states that Germany has hinted to France
that she will transfer Lorraine to France for
the little consideration of $400,000,000 in
gold. The French will not, probably, buy
back their own territory, as they hope some
day to re-anuex it by the power of the sword.-
As one result of the African ex
plorations of Mr. Stanley, an offer of $25,000
baa already been received by the secretary oj
the London missionary society for the estab
lishment of a Christian mission at Lake Tan
ganyika; but of course the New York Herald
will claim credit for it.
Mrs. Thomas, or Thomassen, widow
of the dynamite assassin, and her children,
have sailed from Hamburg for New York.
Her case has excited unusual sympathy.
The Americans in Dresden subscribed and
presented her $1,500. She resolutely refused
to permit the adoption of her children by
German notabilities.
An application, indorsed by minis
ters of various Hebrew congregations, has
been made for the erection on the centennial
srounds5 rounds of a Jewish restaurant, to aecommo
ate the 75,000 Israelites who are expected
to visit the centennial grounds, and who will
observe the dietary laws of their religion. At
the expositions of Paris, London and Vienna
the Jews had a similar accommodation.
A physiognomist writes that regular
white teeth, seen at once upon the mouth
opening, but not projecting, nor always eu.
tirely seen, denotes acuteness, truth and
goodness. Small, short teeth, which are
seldom pure white, denote strength ; long
teeth always imolv weakness and want of
spirit. Those which are firm and strong,
whatever the color, denote firmness. Jf the
upper gums is much seen immediately on
opening the mouth it generally denotes dul
fiess and coldness.
An interesting review by the Lon
don Telegraph of parliamentary changes in
Great Britain in 1775 shows that during the
year eleven members of the house of com
mons died; the seats of five others were
made vacant by the appointment of the mem
bers to various positions; six members re
signed, and two members became peers by
right of succession, while two others were to
be called to the house of lords by the act of
the crown. Fourteen peers died during the
year—four earls, two viscounts and eight
barons.
The growing wealth of Liverpool
and of its citizens is exemplified by the sums
bequeathed by some of the leading men of
the city who died during the past twelve
months. It will be seen from the following
list that the legacies of eight of these gen
tlemen represent in the aggregate upwards
of £4,000,000: Robertson Gladstone, £550,000;
James Houghton, £500,000; Richard Hough
ton, £500,000; Charles Turner, M. P., £700,-
000; James Tyrer, £200,000; R. L. Jones,
£350,000; J. J. Rowe, £500,000, and 11. Daw
son, £1,500,000.
France seems to be getting the better
of the rest of mankind in the development of
novel industries. A Parisian woman has es
tablished very recently an institution for the
propagation of ants for the sake of the eggs.
Bhe selects from every brood the best layers
and sells the eggs at a good price to the bird
fanciers as food for pheasants. A number of
agents are kept constantly employed in pro
curing from the forests fresh supplies of the
insects which comprise her stock in trade,
snd the business has already attained very
considerable dimensions.
Ihe extent to which insanity pre
vails in the English royal navy is shown by
the tables in the annual statistical report and
in the report of the navy lunatic asylum by
Inspector-General Macleod, M. D., who Ims
for; many years been in the charge of that
institution Flitf* tiuiubur <f now oiu.oo rc
turned under the head of insanity out of a
total force of 44,530 men and boys in the
navy during the year 1874 was fifty-one. The
actual admissions into the asylum at Yar
mouth during the year were forty, of whom
seven were officers, ten pensioners and the
remainder petty officers, seamen, etc. The
average number of patients constantly under
treatment in Yarmouth appears to be about
200, as 198 was the number remaining on the
Ist of January and 207 on the 31st of Decem
ber, the admissions during the year being
forty and the deaths and discharges thirtv
on*.
The annual report on the condition
of tlie British army shows that out of 24,895
recruits inspected no fewer than 7,579 were
rejected. The returns show r that, however
true it may once have been that Ireland was
the recruiting ground for the British army, it
does not now furnish its proportion, though
in this respect it did better last year than in
some preceding ones. Out of each 1,000
recruits lust year England and Wales fur
• nished 76.2; Scotland, 76.2; Ireland, 153.4,
and colonies and foreign countries, 8.4. The
proportion in Scotland is very low indeed,
anti it is stated that the supply of men there
is becoming exhausted, especial difficulty
being experienced in keeping the Highland
regiments at all full. The English are at
times boastful of the splendid physique of
their army, yet out of 10,000 recruits 1,480 or
nearly one-sixth, are under five feet five
inches in height, and 2,921 are between five
feet five inches and five feet six inches, so
that nearly one-half are under five feet six
inches.
The Diabolism of Avarice.
A cotemporary thinks, with Shylock,
1 ‘it “There lie land-rats and water
rate,” and proceeds to expose some of
the internal machines which have been
invented to gnaw holes through the
bottom of vessels and sink them. One
of these consists of a box filled with
automatic machinery, which works an
auger through the bottom of the ship.
Auother is a machine which bores bv
the motion of the vessel and at the
same time drops a powerful acid in the
channel cut by the tool. These are the
most noted varieties of rats which have
been invented to sink a ship as silently
and surely as fate.
The motive for constructing these
machines is manifestly incited by the
greed of avarice. A large insurance is
secured on comparatively worthless
articles, of course on sworn invoices.
The ship goes to sea with these infernal
machines packed in the hold. They do
their hellLli work. The ship is bored
below its water-line, and it founders at
sea, and the remorseless murderers on
the land pocket the proceeds of the in
surance. On account of these devilish
inventions safety at sea is almost as mi
certain as the cast of the dice.
God has laid upon us many severe
trials in this world ; but lie has created
labor for us and all is compensated.
Thanks to labor, the bitterest tears are
dried; a serious consoler, it always
promises less than it bestows; a pleas
ure unparalleled, it is still the salt of
other pleasures. Everything abandons
you gayety, wit, love —labor alone is
always present, and the profound en
joyment it produces. Have I said
enough? No; for these privileges of
labor we must add a greater yet; that
it is like the sun ; God has made it for
the world.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
RYE AND INDIAN DROP CAKE.
One pint of Indian meal, half a pint
of rye meal, two spoonfuls of molasses,
a little salt; work it with cold milk so
as to drop from a spoon into hot fat;
he sure to have a smooth hatter.
BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.
One quart of milk, one pint of meal,
scald the meal with the milk; one cup
of molasses, two, three, or four eggs.
Boil in a cloth or a pudding-boiler two
or three hours. Serve with sauce.
GRAHAM ROLL'S.
Take one pint of sweet milk, one
teaspoon ful, of salt, and stir in Graham
flour to form a thick batter. Mix this
at night, and in the morning have your
roll-iron smoking hot; pour in the
hatter, and hake in a quick oven. They
are delicious.
BREAD CAKE.
One pound of light brown dough, one
teacupful of butter, two teacupfuls of
sugar, three eggs, one and* one-quarter
of a pound of raisins cut fine, and half
a pound of citron. To be worked to
gether by the hand, and beaten till
thoroughly mixed; then add the fruit
and hake one hour.
EGG MINCE PIES.
Boil six eggs hard, peel, and shred
them small; shred double the quantity
of suet; put to them one pound of
currants, the peel of one lemon cut
very fine and the juice, six spoonfuls
of sweet wine, mace and nutmeg, one
fourth pound sugar, a little salt, one
ounce each candied orange and citron.
Make a nice light paste for them.
INDIAN BREAD.
Beat two eggs very light, mix altern
ately with them one pint of sour milk
or buttermilk and one pint of fine
Indian meal; melt one teaspoonful of
butter and add to the mixture; dis
solve one tablespoon ful of soda or sal
eratus, etc., in a small portion of milk
and add to the mixture the last thing;
heat very hard and hake in a pan in a
quick oven.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.
\ pint of rich milk, H squares, or
\h ounces of Baker’s unsweetened
chocolate, softened on the fire. Let
the milk boil, then stir the chocolate
in very hard, add pint of best white
sugar, and 2 tablespoonfuls of molasses,
boil until very thick, taking care not
to burn it; pour on buttered tins, and
when nearly cold cut in squares.
FLANNEL CAKE.
Mix 3 tablespoonfuLs of flour with 1
pint.of cream ; add 2 eggs, and heat
the whole well till quite smooth; then
add slowly % pint of new milk, into
which has been put a teaspoonful of
baking-powder. Beat all well together,
and fry with lard, a little of which
should he made hot for each cake. Eat
with powdered sugar, mixed with cin
namon or grated nutmeg.
PUMPKIN AS A POULTICE.
A correspondent of the New York
Farmer Club gives an instance in
which a woman’s arm was swelled to an
enormous size and painfully inflamed.
A poultice was made of stewed pump
bins, which was renewed every fifteen
minutes and in a short time produced a
perfect cure. The fever drawn out by
the poultice made them extremely in
offensive, as they were taken off.
TO ROAST A TURKEY.
It should he killed at least two days
in advance. Make a force-meat of
grated bread crumbs, pepper, salt,
sweet marjorau, minced suet, and the
beaten yelk of an egg. Chop the
liver, gizzard and heart for the gravy.
Stuff the craw and the body, and sew
up the openings. Dredge with flour,
and put the bird in the bake-pan, with
the bottom well covered with nutter.
MINCE MEAT.
Take of roast or boiled beef, chopped
fine, one pound; chopped suet, one-half
pound; raisins, stoned and chopped,
one pound; currants, one a half pounds;
apples, chopped very fine, one pound;
moist sugar, one pound; candied peel,
shred fine; citron, half a pound; or
ange, quarter of a pound ; lemon, quni
ter of a pound; ground ginger, half an
ounce; allspice, half an ounce; salt,
quarter of an ounce; the juice and peel
(grated) of two large lemons; one nut
meg ; one-half pint syrup. This is an
excellent recipe.
SCRAP PUDDING.
Put the scraps of bread, crust and
crumb, into a bowl, with sufficient
milk to cover them. Cover with a
saucepan lid or a plate, and put into
the oven to soak for about half an hour.
Take out and mash the bread with a
fork till it is a pulp; then add a hand
ful of raisins, and as many currants, a
teacupful of brown sugar, half a cup
of milk, some candied lemon peel, and
one egg. Stir up well, grease a pud
ding dish, and pour the pudding in.
Grate over a little nutmeg, put into a
moderate oven, and let bake for an
hour and a half.
DELIGHTFUL SUPPER DISH.
Take a salmon, trout or wfiitefish,
steam till done, then remove all the
bones and superfluous skin, and season
with pepper and salt. Sauce—one
quart of milk, one small cup of flour,
a thyme—minced fine—a slice of onion,
if desired, and two eggs. Wt the
flour and stir it in the boiling milk,
add the seasoning and let it come to a
boil; then remove from the fire and
add the two eggs, thoroughly beaten.
Have ready a well-buttered dish, put
in a layer of the fish, then of the sauce,
and so on until the dish is full, having I
a layer of sauce last. Cover with a
layer of grated bread and a little grated
cheese. Bake half an hour and serve
hot. If trout be used some butter will
be required.
When a widow presses your hand
...id tells you how she has made four
dozen clothes-pins last her twelve years,
and she droops her eyes and says a
paper of pins lasts three years, and she
looks up and smiles a rosy smile, how
on earth is a feller to break away and
leave the house and convince himself
that she loves him onlv for his wealth ?
A City of Health.
At the Brighton meeting of the
British Social Science Association, Dr.
B. W. Richardson described an ideal
city, so constructed and governed as to
reduce the deaths in the first genera
tion to 8 por 1,000, and in the succeed
ing generations to 5 per 1,000 yearly.
The arrangements are made for 100,-
000 people. They live in 20,000
houses, on 4,000 acres of laud. The
highest houses have four stories of 15
feet each, but the residences have
mostly two or three stories. No cellars
or underground rooms are permitted,
the cellarage being taken up with arched
subways communicating with similar
subways in the streets. For construc
tion glazed bricks are used, to prevent
the absorption of watei by the ton
during storms. The bricks are per
forated so that currents of air pass
through the walls. Inside, neither
paint, paper, nor plaster is used, the
bricks being laid so evenly that their
glazed sides form a level enamelled
wall. The kitchen and similar offices
are in the top floor, smoke being taken
down through shafts to central chim
neys, where it is passed through a gas
furnace to produce complete combus
tion of its carbon. The hot water boil
er being at the top of the house, every
room has hot and cold water without
stint. Bedrooms have 1200 cubic feet of
space to each person, and no unnece&sa
ry article of furniture or spare clothing
are allowed in them.
The streets have subways under the
pavement, and on one of these runs a
car track for heavy traffic. This sub
way construction, combined with the
open arches under the houses, gives a
maximum of cleanliness, economy, and
health in the management of water
and gas distribution and of sewerage.
Twenty hospitals, or one to 5,000 peo
ple, are scattered at equal distances
through the city. Public laundries
art under the direct control of the
sanitaiw officers, the washing of cloth
ing in promiscuous masses being
considered a fruitful cause of disease.
The inhabitants are not obliged to
haye their washing done out of the
house, but the laundry business, so far
as it is patronized, is under strict sur
veillance. For similar reasons tailors
and other mechanics are not allowed to
do their work at home, buildings being
provided for them. In the city neither
liquor not tobacco is sold. The dead
are disposed of by burial, but the cem
etery ground is filled with a highly
carbonaceous earth, coffins are forbid
den, and a heavy growth of trees is
kept lip.
In this city the author thinks infantile
diseases, typhus, typhoid, puerperal,
hospital, rheumatic, and other fevers,
and all the train of alcoholic complaints
would he wholly or almost unknown.
Smallpox would he under complete
control, while consumption and para
sitic diseases would be greatly lessened.
Over pneumonia, bronchitis, summer
complaints, and the round of children’s
diseases the new city would have less
control. It will be observed that the
author considers it impossible to secure
the greatest health by any system of
construction if the people are left to
arrange their own habits of life. He
tlif'rpfhrn mils nn ihp nirl nf govern
ment to prevent overcrowding, filthy
habits, and the communication of dis
ease by clothing. It lias been calcu
lated that if the death rate could be
reduced to an average of 8 per 1,000,
the average expectation of life would
be raised to 86 years, and the probable
mean duration of life would be 120
years, while old people would live to
160. With a death rate of 5 per
1,000 the expectation of life would
be 137 years, the probable mean dura
tion 190 years, and old people of 250
years would be found. Dr. Richhard
son, however, did not raise his expecta
tions above 90 years as the average
length of life. The effect upon popula
tion of such a death rate would be
simply revolutionary. England has
had for thirty-five years a mean birth
rate of 33.8 per 1,000. With a loss of
5 per 1,000 the increase would evi
dently he 28.8, and in five years
“Hygeia,” or the city of health, would
gain 15,340 inhapitauts, by natural in
crease. If immediately built, it would
double its }>opulatiou before the end of
the century, and in the year 2,000 it
would contain 3,450,000. Thus the
operation of the perfect health regula
tions would seriously affect the balance
between population and food produc
tion, and the death rate would probably
rise again in spite of regulations to
keep it down.
Significance of the Fingers.
The question wether the index finger
of the human hand is longer or shorter
than the third or “ring” finger does
not appear very abstruse, yet Prof.
Eeker, in a paper on “Some Remarks
upon a Fluctuating Character in the
Human Hand,” published in “Archiv
fur Anthropologie,” is unable to come
to any definite conclusion. Previous
authorities differ on this point, and he
therefore studied it in four aspects; 1,
in the hands of apes, especially anthro
pomorphous apes; 2, in the lower races
of man; 3, in European man; and 4,
in art. He found that in apes the index
finger is shorter than the ring, and
often considerably so, the greatest dif
ference, five-sixths of an inch, having
been found in a male chimpanzee.
Twenty-four negro men had a shorter
index finger, and one had the two fin
gers of the same length. Fifteen negro
women had a shorter index finger, in
three the two fingers were of equal
length, and in six the index was the
longer.
No decisive conclusions have been
arrived at in respect to Europeans, but
it appears probable that the index fin
ger is longer in women than in men.
Among men it is longer in the slight
than in short and thick persons. All
the measurements of human hands
were made by tracing the outline of
the hand laid down on a sheet of paper,
with the axis of the middle finger
placed upon a line drawn parallel to
the sides of the paper.
In all such matters we are apt to
turn to the art productions of the
ancients as a criterion, and in this case
they do not fail us. “The Dying
Gladiator” has the index of the hand
longer than the “ring finger.” In the
“Apollo Belvedere” there is no differ
ence. In the “Venus de Medici/’ the
“Venus Pudida” at Rome, and in the
“A enus” by Praxiteles, the index fin
ger is the longer, thus repeating the
observations upon living women.
From these facts —that the index fin
ger is relatively shorter in apes and
negroes, and relatively longer than the
ring finger in white women of good
birth, and that great artists have never
made a short index in a hand which
represent ideal perfection—it is sug
gested that the longer index finger re
presents a higher type of beauty, and
that in this respect as in others the
female form appears to be the purest.
The Story of a Life.
Life is full of vicissitudes and ro
mance more startling than ever dropped
from the novelist’s pen. Recently in
New York an old lady, in an old-fash
ioned black bonnet, and respectable
but scant mourning garments, was ar
raigned in a police station. The land
lord of an apartment house said the
old lady, Mrs. Mary Vanderbergh, had
disturbed one of his tenants, Eunice
Crolatt. “What have you to say,
madam, in regard to the charge?”
asked the sergeant. “ Eight vears
ago, sir, I was the happy wife of Rob
ert J. Vanderbergh, the chief book
keeper of the Bank of America. We
were very well to do, because I brought
to him on my marriage day, thirty
years ago, a goodly sum. My father
was old Tom Carlyle, the famous ship
ping agent of Philadelphia, and I did
not leave him empty handed. Just
eght years ago this Eunice Crolatt fell
into my husband’s way. He abandoned
me and lived with her, He lost his
position, squandered my money, and
became insane. Then I took him to
my little home of only two rooms, in
which I maintain myself by sewing,
and have nursed him there ever since.
I tried to kill the woman. I had a
pistol pointed at her breast, and was as
close to her as I am to you, sir, hut a
policeman broke my knuckles with his
club and the pistol fell to the ground.
I found that woman and heaped upon
her a bitter recital of all the wrongs
that she has done.” The unfortunate
wife was discharged.
Things Fanners Should Not Do.
A farmer should not feed his stock
in the public highway, thereby losing
the droppings of the* stock that may
stray off; he should not let his open
ditches become filled with falling tim
ber and decaying grass, hut keep them
quite clear; he should not leave his
plows and harrows out all winter;
should not keep more stock than he
could feed well; should not put off go
ing to mill until the meal-tub is empty ;
should not put oft’ hauling wood until
the wood-house is empty; should not
go to town oftener than he has busi
ness ; and when he does go, should keep
away from the grog-shops; should not
heat his stock unmercifully; should not
run his wagon without grease; should
noi pui his plows away covered with
mud; should not cut wood with a dull
ax; should not bother his neighbor too
often to turn the grindstone for him ;
should not depend too much on borrow
ing ; should not let his wife milk in bad
weather; should not suffer gaps left
down in the fence; should not throw
the grubs from the fence-corners into
the public highway; should not let too
much fence rot down before beginning
to repair; should not keep scrub stock
of auy kind ; should not put off ditch
ing until plowing time, thereby having
two jobs on hand at once and hut one
hand to do them ; should not let corn
stand out all winter as feed for birds
and mice.— lndiana Farmer.
How Long to Milk Cows.
Some cows settle this question for
their owners, and such—unless they
are fine, large animals and calf-raising
is the chief use of the cow—should be
fatted and killed at four or five years
old, or sold. Asa general rule, it is a
poor cow that does not need to be dried
off before calving. As to how little
milk pays for the trouble of milking,
that depends upon the number of cows
and the amount required for family
use or for sale. If the milk is worth
four or five cents a quart, it will pay to
milk every cow r that will average two
quarts a day; if less than that quantity
is obtained, I would advise to dry off
the cow.
The practice of half-feeding dry
cows is a poor system. All cows that
are worth keeping should be well kept;
and any animal with young should be
as well fed as when giving milk,
though the feed need not be so rich or
oleaginous as when the milk is set for
cream or used for butter-making. The
rapid taking-on of flesh at this period is
an sound health.
If you expect to have a fine calf,
stop milking at all events six weeks
before the cov will come in again.
Some cows will give milk the year
round if you allow them, and it is hard
to dry them before they make a bag
anew, but this should always be done.
It will be found profitable to feed cows
well, and curry them twice a week
thoroughly,
The Serpent and the Slanderer.
The serpent was once asked : “Pray,
what profit hast thou in depriving other
beings of their life ? The lion kills and
eats; the wolf strangles and devours ;
other savage beasts destroy to satisfy
their ravenous appetite. But thou
alone strikest the innocent victim, and
infuseth thy deadly venom, without any
other gratification than the fiend-like
pleasure of destroying.” “And why
do you ask me ?” replied the serpent.
“Rather ask the slanderer what pleas
ure he has in scattering his poison, and
morally wounding those who never
injured him? Besides, I kill only those
who are near me. He destroys at a
distance. He scatters his deadly ve
nom here, and a hundred miles hence,”
“ O wearisome condition of humanity !'*
How many wretched homos in our land!
How many neart-hroken invalids! Life with
many signifies a mere onerous existence.
All are subject to disease, but when health is
removed the hope is nearly gone out. Sick
ness is usually incurred through exposure or
carelessness. Especially is this true with
those diseases peculiar to woman. Through
her own imprudence and folly she is made to
drag out a miserable existence—a source of
annoyance and anxiety to her friends, and
anything but a comfort and pleasure to her
self. Exposure to the col l at times when
she should be the most prudent, and overtax
ing her body with laborious employment, are
both fruitful causes of many of the maladies
from which she suffers. Gradually the bloom
leaves her cheeks, her lips grow ashy white,
her vivacity departs, she continually experi
ences a feeling of weariness and general lan
guor, and altogether presents a ghostly ap
pearance. What does she need? Should she
take some stimulating drug, which will for
the time make her “feel better” or does her
entire system need reparation? She requires
something which not oulv will restore to
health the diseased organs, but will tone and
invigorate the system. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription will do this. It imparts strength
to the diseased parts, brings back the glow
of health, and restores comfort where previ
ously there was only suffering.
Every invalid ladv should send for “The
People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser,”
in which over fifty pages are devoted to the
consideration of those diseases peculiar to
Women. It will be sent, post-paid, to any
address, for $1.50. Address, It. V. Pierce,
M. D., World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.
Agents wanted to sell this valuable work.
Chapped hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, saltrheum, and other cutaneous affec
tions cured and rough skin made soft and
smoth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
ful to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
& Cos., New York, as there are many imita
tions made with common tar, all of which
are worthless.
Consumptives, Take Notice.— Every moment
of delay makes your cure more hopeless, and much
depends on the judicious choice of a remedy. The
amount of testimony in favor of Dr. Schenck's Pul
monic Syrup, as a cure for Consumption, far exceeds
all that can be brought to support the pretensions of
any other medicine. See Dr. Schenck’s Almanac,
containing the certificates of many persons of the
highest respectability, who have been restored to
health, after being pronounced incurable by physi
cians of acknowledged ability. Schenck’s Pulmonic
Syrup alone has cured many, as these evidences will
show; but the cure is often promoted by the em
ployment of two other remedies which Dr. Schenck
provides for the purpose. These additional remedies
are Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills.
By the timely use ot these medicines, according to
directions, Dr. Schenck certifies that most any case
of Consumption may be cured.
Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal of
fice, corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every
Monday, where all letters for advice must be ad
dressed.
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS,
Louisville.
Flour and grain quiet and unchanged. Provisions
easier but not quotably lower. Pork nominal. Bulk
meats, 7%, 7%, 10%, 10%, 10%@11%c. Bacon, 9%,
11%, 12%@12%c. Sugar-cured hams, 16 lbs average,
14c; 14 to 15 lbs, 14%c; 12 to 13 lbs, loc. Lard,
tierce. !4%c,; keg, 15c. Whisky, $1.06.
NEW ORLEANS.
Corn is quiet at 53@55c. Oats are easier at 48@ 19e.
Bran is quiet at 80c. Coffee is firmer. Ordinary to
prime, 17%@19%c. Other articles are unchanged.
Gold 113; sight % per cent, discount. Sterling
commercial, 5.42@5.43; bank, 5.45%@46.
MEMPHIS.
Flour is quiet and unchanged. Corn is steady and
in moderate demand at 52@55c. Oats steady and in
moderate demand at 48@54c. Lard quiet and un
changed. Bulk meats—advance asked but none
established. Shoulders, Bc.; clear rib, 10%(§10%c.;
clear sides, ll@ll%c.
NEW YORK.
Flour in better inquiry. Superfine state and
western, $4.25@4.75 ; St. Louis, $5.20@9 00. Wheat
—very limited business. No. 2. Chicago, $1.23@1.25.
fVu-n in notice demon<l. Mixed, old, alioatT 71 r.
Oats quiet but steady. Mixed western and state,
45@47c Coffee quiet and unchanged. Jobbing at
16%@20%c. gold. Sugar quiet and unchanged. Mo
lasses—stock withdrawn in favor of higher prices.
Pork heavy, $20.G5@21.00. Beef quiet. New plain
mess, U@ll%c.; extra do., 12@12Kc. Cut meats
quiet; middles quiet. Western long clear, 10%c.:
city do., lie. Lard heavy, 12%c. January and cash.
Butter—Choice firm ; others heavy. Western, lficffl
25c, Whisky, $1.10%.
EOTTON MARKET.
Louisville.— Cotton quiet, 12%@12%.
Galveston.— Cotton is steady. Middling, 12%c.
Mobile.— Cotton is quiet. Middling, 12%@12%c.
New Y'ork.— Cotton quiet. Uplands, 13c; Or
leans, 13 3-10 c.
Memphis.—Cotton is steady and in fair demand.
Middimg, 12%c.
C ATTLE MARKET.
Chicago. —Cattle, receipts 500 head ; market quiet
and prices unchanged; shipments 2,000 head. Hogs,
receipts 14,000 head; market dull and s(®loc. lower.
Sheep—receipts 800 head; market dull and un
changed.
Nashville. Scalawags, 1%@2%e ; common
butcher's, 2%@3c.; good butcher s, 3%@4c.; select
steers, 3%@4c. Sheep—grown, weighing upwards
of 100 lbs., $3.50(54.25. Hogs—well fattened, 6%,
6%@6%c. 4
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