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MARKETS QUITE QUIET.
\CKV LITTI.K DOING IN THE LE ND
ING DEPARTMENT* OF TRADE.
Spirit* Tnr|M*tiline Uanlrd Firm at
27r, Bat no *ialrt Itt*porlr<l—lt<>ln
in Fair Dt-maud at l BrhflliKfil Quo
tation*—Cotton Haift and Steady,
With a Merely Nominal Demand.
Market* hy Telearaph.
Savannah. Feb. I.—The general markets
Mere quiet ami without change. Rosin was
the only active market, sales being com
paratively large. The wholesale markets
were quiet. Cotton remained quiet and
steady and unchanged. The following re- J
lume of the local and telegraphic markets
will show the tone and the quotations at
the close to-day:
t OTTOS.
The market remained unchanged with
the tone quiet an I steady. The demand
was moderate an i the sales for the entire
dav aggregated i '> bales. At the Cotton
Exchange the market was bulletined quiet
and steady, and unchanged at each call,
with sales of 133 at the first, 302 at the sec
ond and none at the last call.
The following were the olheial spot quo
tations at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good middling 8
Middling —7%
Eow- middling „ 7'. ;
Good ordinary 7% j
Market quiet and steady; salts, 4li>
bales.
Sea Island Cotton.—The market remain
ed quiet and easy with only a moderate
demand at the following quotations:
Choice Floridas, nominally 19
Extra fine Floridas. nominally ..18
Fine Floridas. nominally 16%
Extra choice Georgias, nominally.l7
Choice Georgias, nominally 16
Extra fine Georgias 15
Fine Georgias 13%@14
Medium fine Georgias l3',*
Medium Georgias 13
Common Georgias 12%
Savannah Receipts, Exports and Stocks:
Receipts this day 2.175
Receipts this day last year 3.301
Receipts this day year before last .. 1,753
Receipts since Sept. 1, ’95 580,508
Same time last year 776,791
Same time year before last 827,355
Exports, continent, this day 5,888
Stock on hand this day 79.365
Same day last year 100,019
Receipts and Stocks at the Ports—
Receipts this day 15,242
This day last year 22,797
This day year before last 22,906
Total receipts since Sept. X, ’95 4,006,827
Same time last year 6,175,718
Same time year before last 4,892,618
Stock at the ports to-day 934.286
Stock same day last year 968,777
Daily Movement at Other Ports—
Galveston—Quiet; middling 8; net re
ceipts, 1,853; sales, 566; stock, 113,448.
New Orleans—Steady; middling 8; net re
ceipts, 5,281; gross, 5,721; sales, 1,250; stock,
370,350.
Mobile—Easy; middling, 7%; net receipts,
1,685; sales, 100; stock, 42,787.
Charleston—Steady; middling 7%; net re
ceipts, 1,348; stock, 43,652.
Wilmington—Steady; middling 774: net
receipts, 623; stock, 14,752.
Norfolk—Steady; middling, 7 15-16; net
receipts, 823; sales 472; stork, 41,158.
Baltimore—Nominal; middling 814; gross,
299, stock, 16,648.
New York—Quiet; middling B*4; sales, 413,
atock, 185,110.
Boston—Dull; middling, 814; net receipts,
207.
Philadelphia—Firm; middling, 814; stock,
8,373.
Daily Movement at Interior Towns—
Augusta—Quiet; middling 7" 8 ; net re
ceipts, 422; stock, 38.687.
Memphis—Quiet; middling, 7 15-16; net
receipts, 867: sales, 2,750; stock, 234,135.
St. Louis—Steady; middling, 7 15-16; net
receipts, 61; gross, 1,611; sales, 60; stock,
75,435.
Cincinnati—Steady; middling 8; net re
ceipts, 151; sales, 325; stock. 7,675.
Houston—Dull; middling 5; net receipts,
8; gross, 1,407; stock, 29,550.
Exports of Cotton This Day—
Galveston—To Great Britain, 3,900; con
tinent, 5,291; coastwise, 3,118.
New Orleans—To Great Britain, 3,900;
France, 7,969; continent, 230; coastwise,
2 523.
Mobile—To the contiße.nt, 5,888.
Savannah—Coastwise, 231.
Charleston—Coastwise, 631.
Wilmington—Coastwise, 2,365.
Norfolk—Coast wise, 879.
Boston—To Great Britain, 1,309.
Total foreign exports from ail ports this
day and so far this week—To Great
Britain, 9.109; to France, 7,969; to the con
tinent, 13,729.
Total foreign exports since Sept. 1, 1895
To Great Britain, 1,283,679; to France, 358,-
109; to the continent, 1,088,136.
Liverpool, Feb. 1, 12:30 p. m.— Cqtton, de
mand moderate; prices l-32d lower; Amer
ican middling fair, 4 15-16d; good middling,
4 11-16d; middling, 4 19-32d; low middling,
4*-d; good ordinary, 4-VI; ordinary, 4 S-16<1;
eales, 8,000 bales; American, 7,100 bales;
speculation and export, GOO bales; receipts,
8,000 bales; American, 4.9U0 bales.
Futures opened steady, demand mode
rate; February, 4.30; February-March, 4.29
(&>4.28<fr4.29; March-Aprtl, 4.28; April-May,
4.26; May-June, 4.2604.2604.26; June-July,
4.25; July-August, 4.2564.2404.25; August-
Septomher, 4.2104.22; September-October,
4.11; October-November, 4.07. Futures
steady; tenders at to-day's clearings, none.
1 p. m.—Cotton, American middling,
4 19-32d; February, 4.31. buyers; February-
March, 4.2904.30, buyers; March-Aprll, 4.28
5i4.29, buyers', Aprll-May, 4.27, buyers; May
une, 4.26104.27, sellers; June-July, 4.26,
sellers; July-August, 4.25, buyers; August-
September, 4.22, buyers; September-Oeto
ber, 4.11(04.12, buyers: October-November,
4.0764.08, buyers. Futures closed steady.
New York, Feb. 1, noon.—Cotton fu
tures opened quiet, hut steady; February.
7.97 c; March, 8.00 c; April, 8.03 c; May, 8.09 c;
June, 8.10 c; July, 8.140.
New York, Fob. 1, p. m.—Cotton futures
closed quiet but steady; February, 7.94 c;
April, 8.03 c; May, 8.07 c; June, 8.10 c; July,
8.12 c; August, 8.10 c; September, 7.75 c; Oc
tober, 7.59 c; November, 7.54 c; December,
7.66 c; sales, 31,600 bales.
New Orleans, Feb. I.—Cotton futures,
quiet and steady; sales, 13,500 bales; Feb
ruary, 7.87 c; March, 7.90 c; April, 7.94 c;
May, 7.98 c; June, 8.01 c; July, 8.04 c; August,
7.92 c; September, 7.44 c; October, 7.32 c; No
vember, 7.30 c; December, 7.31 c.
New York. Feb. I.—Total visible supply
of cotton for tile .world is 3,919,258 bales,
of which 3,498,1158 bales are American,
against 4,952,849 bales and 4,628,649 bales re
epeetively last year. Receipts of cotton
for the past week at all interior towns
were 53,308 bales. Receipts from the plan
tations, 95,092 bales. Crop in sight 5,539,567
bales.
New York, Feb. I.—Riordan & Cos. say
of cotton to-day: “Prices in the cotton
market have shown a declining tendency
during the week Just passed, the weak
ness being especially noticeable in the new
crop months. To-day Liverpool surprised
the trader:# by an irregular advance of a
point or more. This caused a slight im
provement at our opening, but there
eeemed to be no demand, and prices soon
gave way, closing somewhat lower than
yesterday. March opened at 8.02 c and
closed at 7.98 c bid. May, which has now
taken the place of March as the active
trading month, opened at 8.09 c, and closed
at 8.07 c bid, with the tone quiet and
steady. After the close the large esti
mate of receipts at New Orleans on Mon
day caused another depression, and there
were liberal offerings of March and May
at a point lower than the closing bids.
We have been among those who hoped
that a light crop movement in January
would have given us a materially higher
market this month, but though the Jan
uary receipts have fallen far below the
estimates of these, prices have not im
proved and the present outlook seems to
indicate that the market, instead of go
ing higher, is likely to have a gradual
decline, as the planting season draws near.
The dry goods trade is dull, the mills are
said to be accumulating manufactured
stock, and nobody seems to fear any scar
city of cotton anywhere. But more than
all, it is the general and growing belief
that the south intends to beat the record
in the extent of her cotton-planting op
erations during the coming season. That
paralizes speculation and leads the mills
everywhere to rely upon hand to mouth
buying to keep their spindles and looms
at work. Shrewd southern farm
ers and merchants are already
selling October and November con
tracts against the cotton they expect to
raise and control, and the wide and in
creasing difference in price between the
spring and the fall deliveries will hardly
encourage those who have held back their
cotton so far to persist in holding. Can
dor compels us to say that we believe that
the south will do well to market every
bale she can at present prices, and that
the farmers who sell now against the cot
ton they are about to plant will get a much
better price than by waiting until the
bales are ready for shipment.”
NAVAL STORES,
Spirits Turpentine—There was but little
demand for the product to-day, and little
disposition to sell less than the official
quotations. At the Board of Trade at the
first and last call, the market was bulle
tined hrtn at 27c for regulars, with no sales
reiwrted.
Rosin—The prices remained unchanged,
and the demand was good. At the Board
o; Trade, at the first cail the sales were
1, 34 barrels, and at the last call 4.344 at
> ■ terday s quotations. The following were
the official quotations:
A. B, C 1 00 1 31 55
D 1 15 K 1 75
E 1 25 M 200
F 1 35 X 2CO
G 1 35 W G 2 1274
H 1 50 W W 2 25
Naval Stores Statement-
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock on hand April 1, 1895.. 2,421 89,289
Received to-day 158 3,272
Received previously 292,739 1,019.865
Total ! 295.299 1,132.357
Exports to-day 359 9,595
Exports previously .231.399 881,705
Total 281.758 891.300
Stock on hand and on ship
board to-day 13,541 221,057
Stock same dav last year .. 12,537 199,295
Receipts same day las! year 329 3,580
Charleston, S. C„ Feb. I.—Spirits tur
pentine market nominal; nothing doing;
sales none. Rosin firm; sales none; B,
C. 31.00; 1), $1.10; E, 31-29; F, 31-30: G, 31-30:
H, $1.40; I. $1.50; K. $1.70; other grades
no demand: prices not quoted.
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. I.—Rosin, noth
ing doing. Turpentine, steady; machine,
27c; irregular, 2614 c. Tar, firm at 95c.
Crude turpentine, quiet; hard, nothing do
ing; soft, $1.50; virgin, $1.90.
New York, Feb. I.—Rosin, quiet, easy;
strained, common to good, $1.6901.62%.
Turpentine, dull and easy at SOtqSO'.NC.
FINANCIAL.
Money—Steady.
Foreign Exchange—The market was
weak. The following are net Sa
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
$4.88; sixty days, $4.87; ninety days,
$4.86%; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $5.19; Swiss sixty days, $0.20%;
marks, sixty days, 94%.
Domestic Exchange—The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at 1-10 per cent, premium
for amounts to SI,OOO and over.
Securities—There Is but little doing In
market, but offerings are light and quo
tations in many instances nominal. Har
dening tendency In Southwestern railroad
stock.
Stocks and Bonds—State Bonds—Geor
gia, 3*4 per cent, bonds of 1930. 101 bid,
101% asked; Georgia 314 per cents,, due 1915,
102 bid, 10214 asked; Georgia 414 per cent,
bonds. 1915, 11414 bhl, 115 asked; Georgia
Smiths, maturity 1896, 101 bid. 10114, asked;
South Carolina 41 2 5. 107 bid, 108 asked
City Bonds—Atlanta 7 per cent., 197 bid,
108 asked; Augusta 4%5, 1925, 105 bid, 106
asked; Augusta 7 per cent., 113 bid, 114
asked; Augusta 6 per cent., 11l bid, 112
asked; Columbus 5 per cent.. 103 bid, 104
asked; Macon 6 per cent., 116 bid,
117 asked; Savannah 5 per cent., quar
terly April coupons, 108% bid, asked;
Savannah 5 per cent., quarterly May
coupons, 108 bid, 109% asked; Charles
ton 4s, 95 bid. 96 asked.
Railroad Bonds -Savanmih, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent, interest coupons, 112 bid, 113
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated 7 per cent, coupons, January
and July maturity. 1897, 101 bid, 102 asked;
Central Railroad and Banking Company,
collateral gold, 6s, 90 bid, 96 asked; Cen
tral of Georgia Railway first mortgage
ss, 1945, 109 bid 111 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway consolidated ss, 50-year
gold bonds, 87 bid, 88*4 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway, first preferred incomes,
32 asked when issued; Central of Geor
gia Railway second preferred incomes, 15
bid 18 asked when issued; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred Incomes,
13 asked when issued; Georgia railroad
6s, 1910, 111 bid, 113 asked; Charlotte. Col
umbia and Augusta first ss, 106 bid, 107
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augus
ta sacand mortgage 7s, 112 bid, 113 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new ss, 90
bid, 94 asked; South Georgia and Florida
first mortgage 7s, 106 bid, asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage is
105 bin, asked; Savannah, Americus and
Montgomery ss, 49 bid, 51 asked; Ocean
Steamship 5 per cent, bonds. 1920,96 bid.
97 asked; City and Suburban railroad
first mortgage 7 per cent, bonds. 78 bid,
80 asked; Electric Railway ss. due 1935
24 bid. 30 asked; Alabama Midland 5 per
cent, indorsed, bid, 90 asked; Bruns
wick and Western is, bid, 75 asked;
South Bound railroad ss, bid. 78 asked;
Southern Railway ss, 90 bid, 91 asked.
Railroad Stocks—Augusta and Savan
nah, 93*4 kid, 95 asked; Central
common, 10 bhl, 12 asked; Georgia com
mon, 175 bid, 178 asked; Southwestern, 92%
bid. 93*4 asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 99 bid, 101 asked;
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent,
certificates, 99 bid. 100 asked; Savannah
Construction Company, 77 bid, 79 asked.
Gas Stocks—Savannah Gaslight stock,
22*4 bid, 23*4 asked; Electric Light
and Power Company, 69 bid, 70 asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.—Citizens' Bank,
110% bid, 111% asked; Chatham Bank,
49% bid, 50 asked; Germania Bank,
107 bid, 108 asked; Merchants’ National
Bank. 101*4 bid, I(K% asked; National Bank
of Savannah, 130 bid, 132 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 103 bid, 101*4
asked; Southern Bank of State of
Georgia, 166 bid, 168 asked; Savan
nah Bank and Trust Company. 106 bid,
107 asked; Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company, A. 52% bid,
53V asked; B, 50% bid. 51*4 asked;
Title Guarantee and Loan Company, 93
bid, 94 asked. _
Factory Bonds —Augusta 1* actory, 6s,
103% bid, 104 asked; Sibley Factory 6s, 100
bid’, 101 asked; Enterprise Factory tis, 105
bid, 106 asked; Eagle and Fhenix Manu
facturing Company. 6 per cent, bonds, 85
bid, 88 asked.
Factory Stocks —Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, 60 bid, 64 asked; Eagle and Phoenix
Manufacturing Company, 25 bid, 27 a.sfled;
Augusta Factory, 77 bid, 80 asked; Uran
iteville Factory. 155 bid, 158 asked: Lang
ley Factory, 107% bid, 108% asked; Enter
prise Factory, common, 9s bid; 101 asked;
J. P. King Manufacturing Cos., 108 bid, 110
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
80 bid, 83 asked; Savannah Browing Com
pany, 85 bid. 90 asked.
New York, Feb. I.—Money on call was
5 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 6@7 per cent.
Sterling exchange was weak, with ac
tual business in bankers’ bills at s4.B7@>
4.8774 for sixty days, and $4.8804.88% for de
mand.
Posted rates, $4.85®4.89%.
Commercial bills, $4.86® 4.86%.
Bar silver, 6774 c.
Government bonds steady; state bonds
were dull; railroad bonds were easier.
Silver at the board was neglected.
New York, Feb. I.—The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, $94,778,124;
currency, $84,711,964.
New York, Feb. I.—The weekly state
ment of the associated banks shows the
following changes:
Reserve, increase $1,944,900
Loans, decrease 717,200
Specie, increase 685,000
Legal tenders, increase 1,436,500
Deposits, increase 706,400
Circulation, decrease 11,500
The banks now hold In excess of
legal requirements 39,623,400
New York, Feb. I.—The New York Fi
nancier says this week: There was less
change in the statement made by the as
sociated banks of New York ending Feb.
1 than had been expected. The decrease
in loans was only nominal, compared
with the heavy liquidation which has
been going on without interruption for
weeks past. The loan item, however,
may show an abnormal expansion during
the coming month, but it will not as Is
general the case indicate a revival in
business and an accompanying demand
for money. It has been the custom among
certain of the New York banks when
they buy new issues of government bonds
to enter them as loans—that is, loans to
the government—and there is no reason
to believe that this custom will be de
parted from after the allotment of the
pending bond loan. An increase in the
lean column is a feature that might well
be made at the present time, since the
total has gradually fallen until It is much
the smallest that has been made since
the late panic. The banks report a gain
of $2,121,500 in cash during the week, al
though the interior movement must
have increased their holdings not much
less than $4,000,000. The increase in spe
cie was only $685,000. It would be inter
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1896.
esting to know how much of this was in
gold and what proportion in silver certi- :
ficate*. The statement. If it is to be Inter- '
pretea In a general sense, means more
than anything else, that the banks have
made ample preparation to meet the new
loan. They held, at the close of the week,
an excess cash reserve at $35,900,060 as
compared with about $19,000,000 during the
middle of December. They have reduced
their loans over $45,900,000 and they have
sl3,ie,i6 more in cash holdings than at
the time mentioned.
The coming week and its incidents will
greatly affect the next statement, but the
fui! effect of the bond loan will be wit- i
nessed in variations in the statement ex
tending over weeks. The average show ,
the following compared with the last two
years:
I Feb. L MFeb. 2, '96 Feb. S. 'M j
Loans ..... 1447,142.70 b $490 345,400 $419,8307500
Specie ! 76,845,900 81,535,500 129,558.909
Legal tens. 85.389.200 91.W7.300' 130,916,209 j
Net dep'ts.. 490,447,200 546,965,200 551.808,488
Circulation i 13,799,u0u 11.371.90 u 12,602,900
Total res... 162,235,3*0 173,592 800 249,575 100
Re-s. req’d. 122,611,800 186.741,30$ 187,902.1 to
Ex. of res..| 35,623,400 36,851,500 111,623,000
New York, Feb. 1, noon.—Erie, 16; North- I
western, 100; preferred, 145; Lake Shore, |
145*4; Norfolk and Western preferred. 8%; i
Western Union, 84; Southern Railway
common. 10%; Southern Railway preferred j
29%; American Sugar, 10*7%; Baltimore and '
Ohio, 40%; Canada Southern, 48%; St. Paul,
72%; Rock Island, 69%; Delaware and Hud- 1
son, 127; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, 163; Manhattan, 106%; Michigan
Central, 93; New York Central. 97%.
New York, Feb. I.—Speculation at the
stock exchange to-day was quiet and in
the main firm. At the opening the market
was weak for a time on T,ondon selling.
Local operators were also sellers to a
moderate extent, the belief having pre
vailed in certain quarters that the passage
of the free silver bill would have an ad
verse influence. The selling, however,
was not tm|>ortant and the decline slight.
Shortly after the opening the market be
gan to improve, and under the leadership
of General Electric, Sugar, Tennessee
Coal and Iron and the Grangers, an ad
vance of % to 2 per cent, took place. Gen
eral Electric scored the greatest gain,
moving up from 29 to 31. The rise in the
stock was due to the revival of the report
that the company had secured a contract
to furnish the Manhattan company with
electric motors. Directors of the Manhat
tan say that all there is to the story is
that the Electric Storage Battery Com
pany will make an experiment on the
Thirty-fourth street branch within the
next three months. Union Pacific rose
1% to 8; Sugar 1 to 108; St. Paul % to 72%;
Rock Island 1 to 70%. and Louisville and
Nashville, %to 47%, Near the close there
wore sales to realize profits, and prices
ran off *4 to 1 per cent. Boston was a sell
er of Burlington and Quincy at this time
on the December statement of earnings.
The market closed steady. Net changes
show gains of % to 1% per cent.; Burling
ton and Quincy lost % per cent., and Read
ing and Jersey Central % per cent. each.
Bonds were easier. The sales footed up
$812,000. The sales of listed stocks aggre
gated 72,110 shares, and of unlisted stocks,
11,332 shares.
New York Stock List—Closing Bids—
Stocks and Bonds—American Cotton Oil,
17%; do preferred, 65; Sugar Refinery,
107%; do preferred, 9884; American To
bacco, 78%; do preferred, 100; Atchison, T.
and S. F., 15%; Baltimore and Ohio, 40*4;
Canada Pacific, 58%; Chesapeake and
Ohio, 16%; Chicago and-Alton. 154; Chica
go, Burlington and Quincy, 77%; Chicago
Gas, 65; Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern. 163; Dls. Cat. Feed, 16%; Erie, 16; do
preferred, 27; Edison General Electric
30%; Illinois Central, 96%; Lake
Erie and Western, 21%; do pre
ferred, 73; Lake Shore, 115%.
Louisville and Nashville, 46%; Louis
ville anil N. A., 9%; Manhattan, 106%;
Memphis and Charleston, 15; Michigan
Central, 93: Missouri Pacific, 25%; Mobile
and Ohio, 23; Nashville, C. and St. L., 65;
United States Cordage, 5%; do preferred
10%; New Jersey Central, 107*4; New York
Central, 97%; N. Y. and N. E., 48; Norfolk
and Western preferred, 8%; Northern Pa
cific, 4%; do preferred, 15%; Northwestern,
100; do preferred, 145; Pacific Mall, 29;
Reading, 14%; Rock Island, 69%; St. Paul
72%; do preferred, 127%; Silver Certificates,
67%; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 30; do do
preferred, 100; Texas Pacific, 8%; Union
Pacific, 7%; Wabash, St. L. and P., 7%;
do do preferred, 17%; Western Union, 81-
Wheeling and L. E., 11%; do do preferred
37%; Southern Railway os, 91%; Southern
Railway common, 10%; Southern Railway
preferred, 29%.
State Bonds—Alabama A, 108; do B, 108;
do C, 100; Louisiana stamped 4s, 97%•
North Carolina 4s, 102; North Carolina 6s’
120; Tennessee, new set, 3s, 85; Virginia
6s. preferred, 5%; Virginia Trust Receipts,
6; Virginia Funding Debt, 61; South Caro
lina 4*%s, 106.
Government Bonds—United States 4s
registered, 107; United States 4s, coupons’
108%; United States 2s, registered, 96.
MISCELLANEOI S MARKETS.
Bacon—The market Is firm. Smoked
clear sides, 6%c; dry salted clear rib sides,
6c; long clear, none; bellies, 6c; sugar
cured hams, 11c.
Lard—Market firm; pure, in tierces, 674 c;
50-pound tins, 6%c; compound, in tierces
6%c; in 50-pound tins, 5%c.
Butter—Market steady; fair demand;
Goshen, 15c; gilt edge, 19c; creamery, 20c;
Elgin, 24c.
Cheese—Market dull; 8%@llc; fancy, full
cream cheese, 10@12c; 20-pound average.
Fish—Mackerel—Half barrel, No. 1, ss,so;
No. 2, $7.50; No. 3, $6.00; kits. No. 1. $1.25;
No. 2, $1.00; No. 3.95 c. Codfish, 1-pound
bricks, 6%c; 2-pound bricks, 6c. Smoked
herrings, per box. 20c; Dutch herrings, in
kegs, $1.60. New mullet, half barrels, $3.30.
Salt—Demand la fair, and the market
steady; carload lots f. o. b., Liverpool,
200-pound sacks, 48c; Virginia, 125-pound
burlap sacks, 32c; ditto, 125-pound cotton
sacks, 35c; smaller lots, higher.
Syrup—Market quiet; Georgia and Flor
ida syrup, buying at 23c and selling at 23®
25c; sugar house at 18@32c; Cuba straight
goods, 23(@30c; sugar house molasses. 15@
20c.
Tobacco—Market quiet and steady
smoking domestic. 22@60c; chewing, com
mon, sound, 21®27c; fair, 23@35c; good, 36®
48c; bright, 60@65c; fine fancy, 65@S0c: ex
tra fine, $1.00@l.l5; bright navies, 25@45c.
Sugar: Equality quotations; Savannah
prices—Cut loaf, 5.80 c; crushed, 5.80 - pow
dered, 5.43 c; XXXX powdered, 5.55 c; stan
dard granulated, 5.18 e; cubes, 5.43 c; mould
A, 5.43 c; diamond A, 5,18 c; confectioners’
A, 5.05 c; white extra C, 4.68 c; extra C
4.55 c; golden C, 4.43 c; yellow. 4.25 c. Tone
firm.
Coffee—Steady; standard No. 1, 20%c- No
2,20 c; No. 3, 19%c; No. 4, 18%c; No, £17%":
No. 6, 16*,4c; No. 7, 15%c. ™ ’
Flour—Market steady; patents, sl-*O
- $4.00; fancy, $3.80: family $3 56 ’
Corn—Market is steady; white corn, job
lots, 46c; carload lats, 43c; mixed corn
Job lots, 45c; carload lots, 42c- cracked
corn. Job lots. 87%c sack.
Oats—Carload, 30c; job lots, 33c; Texas
rust proof, 50c; Georgia, 60c.
Bran—Job lots, 90c; carload lots 80c
Hay—Market steady; western job lots
$1.00; carload lots. 95c. ’
Meal—Pearl, per barrel, $2,20; per sack
95c; city meal, per sack. 90c; pearl grits'
per barrel, $2.30; per sack, $1.00; grits d pi
sack. SI.OO. v
Wines—Domestic port, sherry, catawba
low grades, 60@>85c; fine grades, $1.00ff11,50
California light muscatel and angelica
$1.35@1.75.
Liquors—Market firm; high wines
basis, $1.22; whisky, per gallon, rectified,
100 proof, $1.35® 1.75; choice grades, $1.50®
2.00; straight, $1.45@3.50; blended, $2,000
4.00; lower proofs in proportion. Gins lc
per gallon higher. Rums 2c higher.
Lemons—Market quiet; per box, $2.75.
Apples—Fancy red, $3.2503.50.
Dried Fruit—Apples, evaporated. 8%59
10c; common, 7@Bc.
Raisins—L. L., $1.50; loose, 50 pound
boxes, 5c pound.
Oils—Market steady; demand fair; sig
nal, 45@50c; West Virginia black, 9@l2c;
lard, 65@70c; neatsfoot, 60@85e; machinery
20@30c; linseed, raw, 44c; boiled, 47c; kero
sene, Georgia test, 10c; water white
He; fire proof, 12c; guardian, 11c; de
odorized stove gasoline, 13c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement—
Alabama and Georgia lime in fair demand
and selling at 85c per barrel, bulk and
carload lots special; calcined plaster, $l6O
per barrel; hair, 4@sc; Rosecfale cement
$1.3004.40; carload lots special; Portland
cement, retail, $2.40; carload lots. $2 10
Nuts—Almonds, Tarragona, 16c; Iv’icas
14c; walnuts, l’rencn, 11c; Naples, l‘'%c :
pecans, 10c; Brazils, 6c; filberts. 10c as
sorted nuts, 50-pound and 25-pound boxes
10® lie, cocoanuts, $3.75 per 100. ’
Cabbage—Native, scarce; imported 10c
Peanuts—Ample stock, fair demand
market steady; fancy hard pickled Vir
ginia, per pound, 6c: hand picked per
jiound, sc; small hand picked, per pound.
Onions—Crates, 90c; barrels, $2.00; sacks
$1.75. ’
Potatoes—lrish, barrels, $1.65; sacks
$1.40; seed. $2.2503.50 barrel.
Oranges—Boxes, $2.5003.50..
Nails—Market firm; steel, lOd to 60d in-
elusive; *2.92 per k- g; Sd, 33.02 ; 6d, 13.17; 4d,
to sd, 33 32 ; 3d, $3.62; finishing, KM to 12d,
$3.07; Bd, $3 17; and. 43.32. id. $3.52; 4d. $3.67;
3d, fine, $4 02. Spikes, ai! sizes, $2.92. Wire
nails,, lOd to 0d inclusive, 13.17; Bd, $3.27;
6d. $3.42: 4d to sd, $3.57; 3d. $3.87. Finishing,
lod to Aid $3.32; Bd. $3.42; 6d, $3.J7; sd. $3.77;
4d, $3.91.
Shot—Firm; drop to B $1.30; B to larger,
$1.55; buck. $1.55.
Iron—Market very steady; Swede, 4%Q
6c; refined, $2.00 base.
Gun Powder—Per keg, $2.75; half keg.
sl.®; quarter keg. se. Champion Ducking,
quarter keg. $2.23. Austin smokeless, half
keg, $8.45; quarter keg, $4.30; 3-pound can
ister, $2.10; 1-pound canister, 75c. Less 20
and 10 per cent. off.
Lumber—Demar, i both foreign and do
mestic, is firm. Ordinary sizes, $11,003
12.00; difficult sizes. $13.0(8318.00; flooring,
boards, $15.u0@25.00, ship stuffs,
sawn ties, SIO.OO.
Pouluy—Market firm; grown fowls, per
pair, 6u@7oc; %-grown, 45@50c; half-grown,
So@4oc.
Egg*—Market unsettled; candled, per
dozen, liai2c; country, 2c less.
Hides, Wool, Etc.—Hides—The market
is weak: dry flint, 8c; dry salt, sc; dry
butcher, 6c; green salted, 4c. Wool—
Quiet;, prime Georgia, free of sand burrs,
and Mack wool, 13c; blacks, 10c; burry, 7@
9c; wax, 25c; tallow. 4c. Deer skins, 18c.
Bagging and Ties—The market is firm;
Jute bagging, 2% pound. 6%c; 2-pound, 5%c;
1%-pound 5%c; quotations are for Job lots,
small lots higher; sea island bagging, B*-je;
iron ties, large lots, 80@85c; smaller lots,
90c.
Dry Goods—The market is firm and
advancing; demand brisk. Prints, 433'jc;
Georgia brown shirtings, %. 4%c; 74. oc;
4-4 brown sheetings, 6c; white osnaburgs,
7%0; checks, 40'%c; brown drillings,
6Q7%c.
OCEAX FREIGHTS.
Cotton—Market quiet. Rates quoted are
per 100 pounds; Boston, per bale, $1.25;
New York, per bale. $1.00; Philadelphia,
per bale, $1.00; Baltimore, per bale, $1.00;
to Liverpool, via New York, 32c; Bremen,
via New York, 38c; Antwerp, via New
York, 36c; to Havre, via New York, 38c;
Amsterdam, via New York, 43c; Genoa,
via New York, 43c; Reval, via New York,
65c; Hamburg, via New York, 38c. Direct:
Barcelona, 4oc; Genoa, 45c; Bremen, 38c;
Hamburg, 38c.
Lumber—By Sail—Freights are steady
at ruling rates. Foreign business Is more
or less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4.25*9
5.50 for a range including Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, base 44 feet,
16c. Timber rates, 50c@$1.00 higher man
lumber rates. To the West Indies and
Windward, nominal; to Rosario, $12.00®
13.00; Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, SIO.OO
@11.00; to Rio Janeiro, $14.00; to Spanish
and Mediterranean ports. $11.30011.50; to
United Kingdom for orders, nominal for
lumber, 4-pound 5s standard.
By Steam—To New York, $7.00; to Phil
adelphia, $7.00; to Boston, $8.00; to Balti
more, $5.00.
Naval Stores—By Sail—The market is
quiet. Large sized. Cork for orders, are
4s 9d; Genoa, 2s 3dS3s 61; Adriatic, 2s 6d@
3s 9d; South America, rosin, 65c per bar
rel of 280 pounds. Coastwise—Steam—To
Boston, 11c per 100 pounds on rosin, 90c
on spirits, to New York, rosin, B%c per
100 pounds; spirits, 85c; to Philadelphia,
rosin, 7%c per 100 pounds; spirits, 80c; to
Baltimore, rosin, 7%c per 100 pounds;
spirits, 70c.
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.
New York, Feb. I.—Flour, dull, un
changed; southern flour, quiet, firm.
Wheat, dull, higher, with options general
ly nominal; No. 2 red, store and elevator,
80%@8t)%c; afloat, 81%'ii8!%r; options open
ed firm and excited, with prices advanc
ing 1%@2%C, declining %@%e, closing firm
at l%@i%c over yesterday; No. 2 red, Feb
ruary, 74%c: March, 73%c: May, 73%c;
June and July, 72%0. Corn, dull, firmer;
No. 2, 36%c elevator; 37%c afloat;
options were dull and firm at
%c advance; February, 37c; May, 36%c;
July, 38%c. Oats, dull and firmer; op
tions firmer but dull; February, 25c; May,
25%c; spot prices: No. 2, 25%c; No. 2
white, 26%c; mixed western, 25028 c. Hay,
steady and unchanged. Wool, fair de
mand, firm and unchanged. Beef, steady
and unchanged; beef hams, dull at $15.50;
tierced beef, dull and unchanged. Cut
meats, quiet, firm and unchanged. Lard,
quiet, firm; western steam, 6c asked.
Pork, firmer; mess, $11.00*111.25. But
ter, quiet and weaker; state dairy, 10@
18%c; state creamery, 14@17c; western
dairy, 12@15c; Bigins, 19c. Rice, firm and
unchanged. Molasses, fair demand, firm
and unchanged. Peanuts, quiet; fancy
hand picked, 5%c. Coffee, barely steady,
unchanged to 5 points; March, 12.15 ip
12.50 c; May, 11.75®11.80c: June, 11.55 c; July,
11.45 c; September, 10.85@t0.95e; December,
10.75 c; spot Rio, dull, steady; No. 7, 13%
13%c. Sugar, raw, dull, firm; fair refin
ing, 3%c; refining, firm, fairly active and
unchanged. Freights to Liverpool, quiet,
unchanged.
Chicago, Feb. I.—From last night until
this morning, wheat rose from l#l%c in
value. When traders reached their offices
this morning they found themselves un
expected gainers or losers according to
their standing on the market. The open
ing minutes of the session were marked
by much excitement. "Shorts” exhibiting
nervousness and covering their wheat as
best they might. The bulge was entirely
unlooked for after yesterday's compara
tively easy market, but it came through
the action of the Liverpool market, where
a gain of Id was made on a decrease of
1,600,600 bushels In stocks during January.
Prices ruled firm during the naif session
and just before the close made another
spurt, final quotations being the best of
the day. May wheat opened from 66%@>
66%0, advanced to and closed at 6774c—2@
2%e. higher than yesterday. Cash wheat
was strong and 2c per bushel higher.
Corn showed a fair Improvement by rea
son of the boom in wheat, but it was evi
dent that the trade was not exuberantly
bullish on this grain. Business presented
nothing out of the ordinary and the ses
sion was not unusually active. May corn
opened at 30%c, advanced to 31c, closing at
30%c,—%c higher than yesterday. Cash
corn was firm and %c per bushel higher.
Oatsu moved higher on the merits of
wheatT but the advance did not seem to en
large the business to an appreciable ex
tent. May oats closed %c higher than yes
terday. Cash oats were firm and half a
cent higher.
But a moderate business was transacted
in products. As would naturally be pre
sumed, prices advanced In sympathy wuth
the extraordinary strength of wheat and
on a gain in the value of hegs at the
yards. At the close May pork was 15c
higher than yesterday. Domestic markets
were firmer.
Loading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat-
Fob .. ..04% 65% 6178 65%
May .. ~66%@66% 67% 66% 67%
July .. .60% 67@7% 06% 67067'%
Corn-
Fob .. ..2774 28% 27% 28%
May .. ..30% 31 30*4 30%
July .. ..31% 32% 31% 32
Sept .. ..32% 33*4 32*4 33
Oats—
Feb .. ..19 19% 19 19%
May .. ..21®21% 21%@21% 21 21%@21%
July .. ..217-i 21% 21% 21%
Pork—
Feb .. .$lO 60 $lO 60 $lO 60 $lO 60
May ...10 80 10 87% 10 77% 10 85
July . .11 0274 11 02% 11 02*% 11 02*,4
Lard—
Feb .... 5 75 575 575 5 75
May ... 595 5 97% 5 92% 5 97%
July . .. 6 0774 6 12% 6 07% 6 12%
Ribs—
Feb . 525 5 25 525 5 25
May . .. 5 45 5 50 5 45 5 50
July . .. 5 5774 560 5 57% 5 60
The cash quotations were as follows:
Flour was firm; prices unchanged; No. 2
I spring, 64*4@65%e; No 2 red. 6*%@9%c; No.
i 2 corn, 28%@25%c; No. 2 oats, 19%c; mess
! Pork, $10.57*4@ 10.67%; lard, $5.72%@5.50;
short rib sides, $5.32%@5.40; dry salted
shoulders, $4.7505.00; short clear sides,
$5.2505.50. JVhisky, $1.22.
Cincinnati, ()., Feb. I.—Flour strong
and higher; winter patents, $3.7003.95;
spring patent, $3.5503.89. Wheat quiet,
but firm; No. 3 red. track, 73c. Corn quiet
and steady; No. 2 mixed, 2874 c; mixed ear,
297.5 e; No. 2 yellow, 30c. Oats quiet and
j steady; No. 2 mixed. 21c; rejected mixed,
20@21c. Pork active; mess, $10.50; clear
mess, $11.50; family mess, $11.50. Lard
easy; steam leaf, 6%e; kettle, 6%c; prime
! steam. $5.55. Bacon easy; loose shoulders,
5%c; short rib sides, 5%c; dry' salted meats
j easy; loose shoulders, 4%c; short ribs,
| s*,ic. Whisky steady, $1.22.
St. Louis, Feb. I.—Flour 5c higher; pat
ents, $3.85@3.90; extra fancy. $3.55(53.65;
fancy. $3.i0@3.20: choice, $2.7002.85. Wheat
higher; February, 65c; May, bSc; July. 65c.
Corn higher; February. 26%c: May, 27%c;
July, 29%c. Oats higher; February. 19c;
May, 21%c. Pork, standard mess, $10,504?
10.62%; old, slo.<y>fi I0.lt). Lard, prime steam,
$5.55; choice. $5.65. Dry salted meats,
shoulders, $4.95; ribs, $5.70; clear, $5.90.
High wines steady, $1.22.
Baltimore, Feb, I.—Flour firm. Wheat
strong; No. 2 red spot and February, 74
@74%c; May, 73%®74c; southern by sample.
75(j7Se; do on grade. 71**674<*c. Corn
firmer, mixed spot and February, 33Vd
32V: March, 33t,534c; May. 3*$3SV;
steamer mixed, southern, X2%ft
Oats firmer; No. 2 white western,
23V bid; No. 2 mixed do, 23' t fi24V Rye
firm; No. 2, 42?i43c, nearby; 4Si-4e west
ern; stork. 102,300 bushels. Hay quiet.
#l*.o® asked. Grain freights active. Other
articles unchanged.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE! ’
sTvANNAir^SundayT^eb^lTl^^
gun rises 6:46
Sun sets 6:14
High water at Ft Pulaski 10:05 am, 10:36 pm
High water at Savannah 1136 am, 11:36 pm
The time ball cn Cotton Exchange drops
12:(D m.. 75th meridian.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Bark Emblem (Nor). Andersen, Sharp
ness.—Dahl & Andersen.
Schooner Mary F. Godfrey. Wicks, Phila
delphia, with coal for Electric Railway
Company.—Vessel to Harris* & Cos.
. (BEARED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Greta Holme (Bn, Ritchie,
Antwerp via Bremen.—J. F. Minis & Cos.
Steamship Berkshire, Kirwan, Balti
more.—J. J. Carolan, agent.
Bark Frede L. (Ital), Schalfflno, Anger
f. o.—Dahl & Andersen.
Bark Srecna P. (Aust), Glabalo, Trieste.
—Dahl & Andersen.
Schooner Ida E. Latham, Albertsen, New
York. —Harris* & Cos.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Berkshire, Baltimore.
Steamship Greta Holme (Br), Bremen,
and Antwerp.
Barkentine Trinidad (Br). Santos.
Schooner Gertrude A. Bartlett, Barba
dos.
MEMORANDA.
Beaufort, S. C., Feb. I.—Arrived, Port
Royal, schooner Rob Roy, from Philadel
phia.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. I.—Sailed, schoon
ers Mary Curtis, Baker, Richardson;
Fannie Brown. Lamson. Richard, Va.;
Clara E. Bergen, Burroughs, New York;
Isaac H. Tillyer, French, Elizabethport;
steam yacht Aileen, Jacksonville.
Boston, Jan. 3u.—Arrived, schooner
Thelma, Leo, Brunswick.
Passed High Light—Schooner Maggie S.
Hart, Savannah for Camden.
Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 30.—Cleared, bark
Hoppet (Rus), Tork, Nieuwe, Dieppe, Hol
land.
Sailed—Schooners John S. Deering,
Woodland, Baltimore; Henry P. Mason,
Blair, New York; Ebenezer Haggett,
Poole, New York.
Darien, Ga., Jan. 30.—Arrived, brig Jen
nie Hulbert, Kodich, New London.
Fernandina, Fla., Jan. 30.—Arrived,
schooner Matilda D. Borda, Norton, Bos
ton.
Sailed—Schooner Marjorie, Edwards,
Baltimore.
Liverpool, Jan. 30.—Sailed bark Kamf-
Jord (Nor), Hansen, Savannah.
Hamburg, Jan. 29.—Arrived, bark De
fensor (Nor), Nielsen, Savannah.
Lisbon, Jan. 29.—Arrived, bark Ossuna,
(Br), Andrews, Darien.
Newport, Jan. 30.—Sailed, bark Kings
County (Nor), Port Royal, S. C.
MARITIME MISCELLANY.
The latest publication of the Hydro
graphic Bulletin publishes the following:
Jan. 9.—Lat. 27 30, lon. 60, passed a dere
lict, bottom up, low in the water.
Jan. 13.—Lat. 26 40, lon. 69 25, at 7:30 p.
m., passed an object which appeared to
be a derelict; too dark to make a careful
examination. Jan. 14.—Lat. 27 22, lon. 73 OS,
passed a large lowermast with white mast
head and a large boom, both upright and
apparently attached to a submerged
wreck. There were no barnacles on the
spars.
Jan. 17.—Lat. 30 23, lon. 74 38, passed the
derelict schooner Varuna, of Perth Am
boy, N. J.
Brig Marla (Ger), from Buenos Ayres
for Falmouth, was abandoned, on fire. The
crew' were picked up Jan. 14, In 22 50 N, 41
50 W, by steamship Raveit.swood (Br),
Newton, after having been adrift for three
days in an open boat. -
Dec. 31.—A piece of the bottom of a wood
en vessel of about 400 tons, supposed
Amcrican-bullt, stranded at Cape Corn
wail, England. It Is metalled and metal
fastened and a piece of the false keel had
been lately put on. About 50 pitch pino
deals, marked “C. C. C.,” were found with
the wreck.
Absecon Lighthouse, bearing WNW, g
miles, passed through a largo amount of
wreckage, consisting of a deck house,
stanchions, mouldings, etc., painted white
and not long adrift.
Jan. —. —Lat. 37 30, lon. 66 16, passed a
quantity of wreckage, consisting of 150
oil barrels, buckets, planks, failings, etc.
Michael, brig (Br), Porter; at Tusket
Wedge, N. S., Jan. 16, from Sb. Martins.
Bark Rosalia C. (Ital), Ceearo.no, was lost
on the passage from Nassau for Charles
ton, She was beached Jan. 20i on Abaco
Island, in a sinking condition. Vessel and
cargo were lost. The crew and materials
were saved and brought to Nassau.
NO TICK TO MARINERS.
Pilot charts and all hydrographic Infor
mation will be furnished masters of ves
sels free of charge in United States Hy
drographic office in Custom House. Cap
tains are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department.
For additional shipping news see other
columns.
PASSENGERS.
Per steamship City of Augusta for New
York—Hr. P. H. lngall. Stirs. P. H. Ingall,
Z. M. Corbates and 2 steerage.
Per steamship Gate City for Boston.—
Patrick J. O'Brien, Miss Lizzie Lindsay,
August Lindsay Edward Dunderdale, J.
E. Coleman. G. W. Williams.
Per steamship Berkshire for Baltimore—
M. Koshland, Geo. Toomlp, Miss Correll,
W. W. Maclcay, A. C. Cool, W. A. Thomas,
L. Smith.
EXPORTS.
Per British steamship Grerta Holme, for
Bremen and Antwerp.—For Bremen, 5.888
hales cotton, valued at 12:77,093; for Ant
werp, 1,663 tons phosphate reck.
I’er Italian bark Ifrede L. for Anger for
orders.—6,loo barrels rosin, valued at $14,-
44fi.—Paterson, Downing & Ce.
Per Austrian bark Sreena P.. for Trieste.
—2,925 barrels rosin, valued at $9,500 and 150
casks spirits turpentine, valued at $2,035.
S. P. Shotter Cos.
Per schooner Ida E. Latham for New
York —297,225 feet of pitch pine lumber and
7,907 feet of cypress lumber. Total 305,132
feet.—Cooney, Eckstein & Cos.
Per steamship Berkshire for Baltimore.—
688 bales upland cotton. 952 bales sea is
land cotton, 817 bbls rosin, 82* bbls rosin
oil, 400 bbls turpentine, 11 bbls fish, 96,542
feet lumber, 212 sacks clay. 25 bdis hides,
9 bales sweepings, 16 bales domestics, lo
cases, domestics, 61 orates ve geaables, 29
bbls vegetables, IS6 pkgs mdse.
RECEIPTS.
Per Central of Georgia RaSwav Com
pany, Feb. 1.—L929 bales eottom, 1,356 bbls
rosin, 51 bbls spirits, 305 pkgß mdse, 138
pkgs domestics. 62 oars lumber, 5 cars
wood, 2 cars hay, 1 car oats, l car c s
meal, 1 car fresh meat, 3 cars horses.
Per Savannah, Florida and. Western
Railway, Feb. 1.—472 bales cotton, 1,828
crates fruit and vegetables, 11 bbls fruit
and vegetables, 8 cars wood, 12 cars phos
phate, 1,636 bbls rosin, 95 bbls spirits, 28
cars lumber, 1 car bran, 1 car wire, 2 cars
flour, 1 car rice. 1 car oats, 1 car lard, 1
car nails, 1 car corn, 1 car hay, 1 car cot
ton seed, 1 car pitch, 8 cars mdse, 9 bdls
hides, 4 cars pig iron, 1 car leaf tobacco.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railroad,
Feb. 1.—3 cars wood, 1 car hoop iron, 1
car brick, 1 car castings, 3 cars mdse, 3
bdls hides.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular
Railroad, Feb. 1.—55 bales cotton, 7 cars
stone, 1 car hay, 1 car lumber, 5 cars wood,
9 cars mdse.
—"Are you on intimate terms with your
neighbors?” “No; but they are with us.
Why, they know dreadful secrets of ours
that we never heard of even.”—Harper's
Bazar.
—There was a good deal of sound human
nature in the unexpected reply of the
dying old woman to her minister’s leading
question: “Here, at the end of a long life,
which of the Lord’s mercies are vou most
thankful for?” Her eyes brightened, and
she answered: ‘‘Mv victuals.”—Louden
Household News.
J. E. BURGESS. A. R. STEWART,
President Gen. Mngr., Sec'y Tr . M
Stewart Contracting Company
GENERAL CONTRACTORS Rough and Cot Granite for belli
AND BUILDERS, •)&/<'(£&• ***? *****
Cmihed Granite for Concrete and
COLUMBIA, S. 0. Macadam. aa
BRANCH OFFICE. 8 BULL STREET, SAVANNAH, CA.
THE RETIRED BIRGLAR.
A Singular and Most Unfortunate
Mishap With an Unexpected End
ing.
From the Nen York Sun.
"In a house that I was looking over In
a town up the state one night," said the
retired burglar. "I came across something l
that I never struck but that once In all my
experience, strange as It may seem; and
that was a Jot of wedding presents, all
just as they were arranged for display.
When I turned my lamp into the room I
wished I had brought a horse and wagon; .
there was a good deal of It that wouldn't
have been of any earthly use to me. but it
seemed a pity to leave any of It behind.
But if I couldn't carry it all off I could
have the fun of picking, and I started to
look the things over. They were arrang
ed on tables and chairs and on the floor
around on three sides of the room; on the
side oposite to the side that I had come
in at, and on the sides to the right and left;
running around those three sides in a sort
of irregular order. On the side where I
was there were a few chairs. I thought I’d
start in on the left and work around to
the right, and I started from the door and
had gone about three steps when I went
down through the floor, as it seemed to
me, but what I had really done was to
step down through an open register. I sup
pose somebody must have dropped some
thing down through It and have taken it
out to get it and forgot to put it back.
"There w as a wire screen under the reg
ister over the pipe opening to keep things
from dropping down the pipe, but it was
very fine light wire, and it didn’t stop me
at all; I just slid down*lnto the pip*i push
ing that along under my feet, when I
dropped Into the pipe I had been facing
to the left; in some way as I went down I
got skewed around so that when I got
down as far as I did go I was facing to
the front; that is, toward the center of
the room. Tbc pipe didn't go straight
down, but with a curve. I had thrown up
my hands as I went down, and I suppose
I might have gone plumb to the furnace
if I hadn't clutched at the edge of the reg
ister opening and hung on. A minute be
fore I was going to take my pick of a
roomful; now where was I?
“I had started across the room carry
ing my tool bag in one hand and my lamp
in the other. The shock when I went down
had shaken the bag out of my hand, but I
had held on to my lamp, though it was ly
ing on its side now with my fingers clutch
ing through the handle. The falling of the
tool bag and the striking of the lamp on
the floor and the scraping of the wire
gauze down through the tin pipe must
have made all together a good deal of
noise, and I expected every minute to hear
somebody moving about tip stairs and com
ing down to haul me out, hut nobody did
come, and I set my lamp up straight, and
after I'd waited a minute or two more I
started to seo If I could haul myself out.
"As I lay tn the pipe my head was be
low the level of the floor; by a great effort
I could raise myself so that the upper half
of my head was above the opening, but no
higher; there was no room tor play; when
1 got that high I found myself with my el
bows close to my body and fairly wedged
into the pipe; I couldn’t get any higher.
"I let myself down again, and after a
while I pulled myself up again, and held
on by one hand and held up the lamp
and swung it round on the things. Then
I let myself down again, and wondered
w'hat I was going to do. It wasn’t only
uncomfortable there in the position I was
In; it was mighty hot and unpleasant
every way. If I let go I didn’t know hut
what I -should slide down against the fur
nace, and of course I couldn’t stand it
for an indefinite length of time, and when
I’d been in the pipe, I should imagine,
about two hours I made up my mind that
I wouldn’t try to stand it any longer; I’d
got to come out some time, and-I might
just as well come out then; in fact, better,
for while the chances of my getting away
at all were mighty small, they would be
better at night than they would be in the
day time.
“So I made up my my mind to kick on
the pipe and wake up the hous and have
the thing settled. So I kicked; once,
twice, and then I kicked again; and by
snakes! I kicked the pipe open at my feet;
there was a joint there and I kicked it
apart; and the sections I was In sagged
down with my weight, and I slid out on the
collar floor. The sagging down of that
part of the pipe detached it from the part
above and tt fell on the cellar floor along
side of me. That made noise enough to
wake everybody up; there couldn’t be any
doubt about that.
“I went out by the same cellar window
that I came in by. It was The first and
only such lot of stuff that I ever struck,
and I never got a thing out of It; in fact,
I added something to it myself—a set of
tools and a dark lantern."
ABILITY AS A TELEGRAPHER.
Remarkable Feats Performed by the
I,ate LKut. Swift.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
First Lieut. Swift of the Ninth Cavalry,
United States army, committed suicide at
Fort Robinson, Neb., on Thursday morn
ing by shooting himself through the hfart.
He had been post exchange and acting
commissary officer. During the past week
he was relieved of both duties, and an
investigation of his books was in prog
ress. He leaves a wife and large family.
Lieut. Swift’s suicide closes one of the
most remarkable careers In the United
States army. From the position of tele
graph operator in a small town of Vir
ginia he became a private, corporal, ser
geant and lieutenant In the army In as
many days as there were promotions.
When Gen. Myer organized the Signal
corps of the army, telegraphy was decided
to be one of the most important branches
of signaling to be taught to the young
men who were to serve at frontier posts,
where they were to make tri-daily tele
graphic reports on the condition of the
weather, and a knowledge of telegraphy
was desirable, if not actually necessary.
Swift had considerable local reputation
as a telegrapher, and to secure his ser
vices as an instructor he was enlisted in
the corps and promoted from dav to day
until he attained the rank of second lieu
tenant. After joining the corps and be
ginning his work as instructor he de
voted himself to the study of electricity
and telegraphy, becoming one of the most
skillful operators that the world has ever
known and an author on the subject.
There were a lot of fancy tricks in send
ing and receiving messages that Swift used
to do. One of them was to take two mes
sages at the same time. He could write
equally well, and beautifully, with either
hand, and could take a messacw from one
instrument, writing it out with his left
hand, while he copied another message
with his right. He could also send a mes
sage with one band while he received an
other message, copying it with the other
hand. In the years that he was instruc
tor in telegraphy for the signal corps.
Swift never met his match but once. That
was when a young fellow that looked like
a typical cowboy applied for admission to
the corps. In answer to the question as
to whether he understood anything about
telegraphy, the young fellow answered
that he could*receive forty words a min
ute without being very busy. He was sent
into another room which had telegraphic
communication with the main office, for
Swift to test his ability. At first Swift
sent the young fellow about twenty words
a minute, then thirty. WhenTSwift broke
in and asked the young fellow if he was
getting it all right, he answered: “O. K.,
but hurry up, I havn’t much time to fool
away." Then the pace was Increased to
forty words, and, after keeping this up
for five minutes, the applicant broke in
and said: “If you can’t send any faster
than that you had better quit.”
A DEAD CITY OF KANSAS.
Once the Horae of Many Prominent
People.
From thte Kansas City Times
Three miles south of Atchison is th.
site of a dead city, whoee streets oncS
were tilled with' the clamor of busy tram
and echoed to the tread of thousand 0 f
oxen and mules that In the pioneer dav.
of the great west transported the products
of the east across the great American
desert to the Kocky mountains.
It was a city in which far a few years
2,5(P men a.nd women and children liy ,
and labored and loved, In which mans
lofty aspirations were born, and in which
several young men began careers thJ)
have become historical. wrs that
This city w:us located on what the earl*
French voyagers called the “grand ,Y y
tour" of the Missouri river. It slrani
into existence so suddenly and imnere.,
tibly It might almost have “Sen con S nt'
ered a creation at the magician's want
It was named Sumner, in honor of th.
great Massachusetts senator. Its offkld
motto was Pro lege et grege" (forth,
law and the people). ' r ttle
Sumner's first citizens came most'*
from Massachusetts. They had come ta
the frontier to make Kansas a freest!*
and to build a city within whose wh
all previous conditions of slavery
:>.;regarded and' where allien bo” *
should he regarded oqual. 11
The growth of Sum/ier was phenomenal
A lithograph printed in 1857 show™™™ '
of stately buildings, imposing seats of
learning, church spines that pierced the
clouds elegant hotels and theaters, the
* iv ** °atrng palaces, its eve*
lined with bales and barrels of merchant
dise, and the white smoke from numerous
factories hanging above the city like
banner of peace and prosperity
One day the steambont Duncan S Oar
ter landed at Sumner. On its hurricane
deck was John J. Ingalls, then onh- u
years olcL As his eye swept the horizon
his prophetic soul uttered these words
" Behold tfie home of the future senator
from xvfLTiSeis.
Here the young college graduate, who
since that day became a senator from
Kansas, lived and dreamed, until Sum
ner's star had set and Atchison's sun had
risen, and then he moved to Atchison
bringing with him Summer's official seal
and the key of his hotel.
Here lived that afterward brilliant au
thor and journalist, Albert D. Richardson
whose tragic death some years ago in the
counting-room of the New York Tribune
I s .. "T 1 ! remembered. His "Beyond tho
Mississippi” Is to this day the most fasci
nating account of the boundless west ever
written.
Here lived 9-year-old Minnie Hauk who
was one day to become a prima-donna
and who was to wod Count Wartou!
Minnie was born In poverty and cradled
in adversity. Her mother was a poor
washerwoman In Sumner.
Here lived John E. Romsiburg, the now
noted author-lecturer and free thinker
Mr. Remsburg has probably delivered
more lectures in the last thirty years than
any man in tho United States.
Here Walter A. Wood, the big manu
facturer of agricultural Implements
lived and made and mended wagons.
Here Lovejoy, “the yankee preacher ’
preached ami prayed and Invoked God's
wrath upon the slave-owner.
Here lived "Brother” and “Sister"
Newcomb, from whom have descended
a long line of zealous and eminent Meth
odists.
Sumner was "abolitionfst,” Atchison
was "border ruffian.” In Atchison the
"nigger" was a slave;; In SSumner he was
a fetich. It was In Atchison that tho
"abolition preacher,” Pardee Butler, was
tarred and feathered and set adrift on
a raft In the river.
Jonathan Lang, alias ’“Shang,” the
hero of Senator Ingalls’ "Catfish Aris
tocracy” and the "Last Mayor of Sum
ner,” lived and died in Snmner. When
all his lovely companions liad faded and
gone, "Shang” stiXl pined otn the stem.
“Shang” continued to live in Sumner
long after every other clttzem had moved
away, and until every house save his
miserable hut had vanished like the
baseless fabric of A vision, leaving no
wreck behind. He claimed, and was
proud of the title,” the last Mayor of
Sumner.”
He died a few years ago, and a little
later lightning struck; his cabin and It
was devoured by flames. And thus passed
away the last relic of Sumner.
Atchison secured its first railroad. The
smoke from the locomotive engine*
drifted to Sumner and! enveloped it like
a pall.
One day there was an exodus of citi
zens; their houses were torn down and the
timbers thereof carted away, and founda
tion stones were dug up and carried hence.
The forest, again unvexed by ax or saw,
asserted Us dominion once more, and to
day, beneath the shadows cast by mighty
oaks and sighing cottonwoods, Sumner
lies dead and forgotten.
DRINK FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS,
A Los Angeles Farmer Took Only
Ileer With Fifty Glasses as His
Limit.
From the San FranoSseo Chronicle.
Ackley F. Plumstead, once a prosperous
farmer of Los Angeles, lias been before
Judge York on the complaint of his
brother-in-law, J. H. Abbott, a local bon
iface, who got tired of “putting up" for
him. Abbott claimed that Plumstead had
been drunk for twenty-five years, his
farming days had long been over, and ha
was now doing odd jobs at carpentering
around town whenever he was sober
enough to work, which was very seldom.
Abbott said he could not stand it any
longer, and something must be done with
Plumstead.
When the judge asked Plumstead how
frequently he got drunk the latter re
quested his honor to define to him tnj
judicial understanding of the word
"drunk.” With some fullness, based oa
the experience of others, his honor gars
the accused an idea of the condition one
would be in to fill his notion of drunk,
wherat Plumstead said he guessed he
was that way pretty often. He said n
could not control his appetite at all times;
occasionally he could; at other times it
was wholly out of his grip. He never
drank whisky or other spirits— always
beer. , ,
When asked how much it required to
make him drunk, he said: “Any where
from one to fifty glasses.”
It was shown that his wife was at pres
ent sick, and that he had deserted her to
go off and get drunk; also that he haa
stolen garden hose and sold It to get
money with which to buy beer. On this
showing he was sent for one year to tno
Highlands asylum.
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