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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1892)
We are sorry to note the illness jf Mrs j. B. Lowe. pisses Sophronia, Jennie and Co- _ pent spent several days in Ro- Cto last week, guest of the Dent louse- The Clark mill dam was consider- biv damaged by last week’s heavy ■sins- •jjjg Dun woody property was sold aturday. It all sold very cheap. that were worth 170 per pair jniy brought $20. Mr. Carr pur¬ chased the mill. One night last week the store of T. J. Davis, located in the western portion o f the county was burned to the ground. His entire stock of .(roodswas consumed by the flames. I jj e sustains a heavy loss as he bad This is the second time be has happened to this misfor- and he has reasonable grounds to believe it was the work of an in- endiary. Henry J Jordan the fiendish rascal who has been wanted j so , long i.i by the and citizens of this . county, at last been captured in Ala. people are yet very much ema- at the savage conduct of tin. and if he ever falls into their wiU be (k ' alt with as he deserves. We learn that our efficient eoun- T'-easm-er, M. F. Perry went to Jort Valley Monday and deposited the Exchange ° Bank the funds of county for safe keeping. 1 From , „ valley „ he , went . to . Baker „ , coun- to visit his brother the lion. J. Perry and other relatives. Rev. Joel Mathews is quite sick this week. TAYLOR, GA. We ars hiving a fine rain to- lay. Cotton plaating is the order of day. n0u o“ t!ien to break the trees town. W. II. F. SANDY POINT. Walter Bliek visited The Rock Ben Collier has corn up and on his place, who can beat it. Lookout, Musella girls,you might as well say ‘yes” and be done with Some of <jur boys pays Musella a visit nearly every Sunday. I believe °me of them are afraid of Jem. ilrs * J- D. McGee and Mrs. Sarah visited Roberta this week. K1 's. Ellis visited her son, Judson, Musella last Sunday'. ’ I woder what has become of Miss Upha, 1 have not seen her in a j° n Brother g time. ' Purifoy', of Selma, Ala., peached Mem in interesting sermon at on .he 31st. Miss Mozdle Sandifur visited her •lend, Lua, last Tuesday, till Lanar has gone home. If any )f the girls want a sweet- kart go to Joe Collier he says he is prepared 'o accommodate all. A. B. OAK GROVE. I he reieut heavy' rains have done nu <‘li dosage to farms iu this sec- ion. i'he witcr conrses were higher ban they have been iu several years kf°re. J. 11. I 1 efts goeswlthouf;shoes when it rains much. Guess the mud feels good to his feet. F. M. Felts says he can't go to John Mai pass any more because the scribe, “little jimmie” will look in his jug for a chew of John’s good tobacco, and little Jimmie does not chew much either. Little Jimmie is in trouble about his valentine. Be calm Jimmie it was not intended to strike yon like it did. You must not slap who you please or some one will know why the valentine worries you so. Any one wishing to rent a first class buggy top should apply to W. C. Smith, It will leak enough to keep the cushion from taking the dry rot. Another marriage is booked for the near future. It seems that Will Felts is causrht © in a Webb and don’t want to set out. More anon. MYSTIC* LEE POPE LOCALS. Fully fifty per Cent of the peach 1 J I here are a few pear trees and not one of , the , young pears seem to be hurt by tho coW snap _ This proves that this section is bettCT ac | apted tQ {mH cultur(J ^ othe ,. ^ j mMd , e Georffi tw> 30 [t higher than Fort Valley . A negro boy fell dead while at work on L . T . Lee ’ s plantation i as t week> ^ c0lisic!e ,. ab!e decrease in ^ a for cotton ^ Lce j n Grapes and , tobacco . , attracting ,, I l are jthe , attention , of „ the , progressive farmers , of , this . section. Ed. c S. T Lee is now hard . , at . work , on his 4,000 Elberta trees. Ed and _ . » . . Lewis Lee have now, growing in full view of the depot, 10,000 one and two fear old Elberta peach trees. McKav Bros, also have 2,000 fine young peach trees. Some of our .farmers are now planting cotton. M. W. Pearson has just finished his beautiful residency. Carr & McCarty are doing a big merchantile business. Aaron McCarty is having a long rest from work and school by shoot- ing off one of his toes. Lee Pope will soon be laid off in town lots and streets. Those ex- pecting to go into raising tobacco, fruit, vegatables, grapes or mer¬ chandising should come down and look at the situation. X. Y. NOTES FROM GAILLARD. Miss Ida Carswell, of near Musel¬ la, is visiting relatives near here. Mrs. A. F. Knight is spending a w r hile with her sister, Mrs. R. II. Knight. Great interest is being manifested in the prayer meetings of this com¬ munity, and we are prompted to say are doing a great deal of good. Monday night the young people congregated at the residence of Mr. J. N. Powell, where they were enter¬ tained by Musses Annie and Tudie Powell. They are fervent worship¬ ers at the shrine of music and are affable j’oung ladies. Two tramps were at the depot tbe other evening waiting for the freight train and when they heard that the train was annulled they put out down the railroad. They got Mr. Carr to cairy r them to Ft Valley'. Jnst as he was entering the town the tramps sprang from the buggy' and were soon lost in the darkness, leav- ing Mr. Carr unpaid in the cold and a long way from home, Xo doubt he arrived at home a colder but wiser man. F. O. B. TANTALIIINO. She (gazing upward at the old famihai orb)—How provoking it is- He— Who, what? the other “That I can never, never see side of that moon.*'— [Boston Herald. 'ALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Strawing AT Gnats aud Swallowing Camels. Text: "Tie blind guides, who strain at a {mat, and swallow a camel Matthew rxiii., 24. A P roverb is compact wisdom, knowledge • chunks, library - n a in a sentence, the elec¬ tricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put through a millrace. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text He means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciations of great ones. In my text a small insect and a large quanruped are Drought iufco comparison—a gnat and a camel. You have in museum or ou the desert seen the latter, a great awk¬ ward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high and stomach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal orbidden to the Jews as food, and in many •teratures entitled “the ship of the desert.” The gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It is born in pool or pond,after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the gnat as we recognize text in its it. But smallest the insect shape, spoken and of in the it is very yet inhabits the water—for my text is a misprint and ought to read “strain out a gnat.” My text shows you the prince of inconsis¬ tencies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water he is -.bout to drink there is a grub or the grandparent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or a strainer. He takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light. He “I would rather do al¬ most than drink this water until this larva be extirpated.” This water is brought un¬ der inquisition. The experiment is success- 1 ul. r i ne water rushes through the sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or Then gnat. and drinks the the mm carefully placidity. removes the insect water in But go¬ ing out one day and hungry, ho devours a Jews “ship of the desert,” the camel, which the were forbidden to eat. The gastrono¬ mer has no compunctions of conscience. He r-uffers from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel’s forefoot aud his upper jaw over the hump of the camel’s back, and gives one swaiiowaud the drome¬ dary disappears forever. He strained out a gnat, he swallowed a camel. While Christ’s audience were yet smiling at the oppositeness and wit of His illustration —for smile they did in church, unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole —Christ practically said to them. "That is you.” Punctilious about small things; reck¬ less about affairs of great magnitude. No subject over withered under a surgeon’s knite more bitterly scalpel than did the Pharisees unaer Christ’s of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put them Christ under a His microscope for examination, so finds way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out aud puts it under the glass of inspec- tion for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flat¬ they ter them must and have compliment writhed under them, the and red how hot words as He said, “Ye fools, ye whited sepulchers, ye blind guides which straiu out a gnat and swallow a camel.” There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this ser¬ mon to sketch a few persons who are ex¬ tensively engaged in that business. First, I remark, that all those ministers who of the Gospel are scrupulous photographed about in the the conven¬ text are very religion, particular tionalities of but put no stress upon matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convocation. But there are illus¬ trations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent auditory. There are men like those blind guides in of religious the text who advocate only those things mouth ser¬ vice which draw the corners of the down, and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men will go to installa¬ tions and to presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their their churches a great dormitory, and somniferous sermons are a cradle, and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons sleep iu approximate. Now, I say it is worse to church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the soeaker. from In old long age, watches or from with physical the sick, infirmity, drowsiness or will sometimes overpower one, but when a minister of the Gospel locks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people For struggling witi drowsiness it is time him to give out the doxology or pro- nouuce the benediction. The great fault of church services to-day is not too much viva¬ city, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat "hat may be easily strained out; the other of is the a great, dry desert. sprawling In and sleepy-eyed camel all our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christ- like vivacity as we find in the text. I take down from my library the biog¬ raphies of ministers aad writers of tbe past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring sous to Jesus Christ, and I find that without a single exception they consecrated their w:t and their humor to Christ. Elijah used t when he advised tbe Baalites, as they could not make their God respond, telling them to call louder as their goa might be sound asleep or gone a-hunt- ing. Job used it wlen he said to his self- conceited comforters “Wisdom will die with you.” Christ not only used it in the text, but when He ircnicaily complimented “The whole the putrefied physicist,” Pharise®, saying, need not a and when try one word He described :ue cunning of Herod, S3 ying, “Go ye, aud ;eli that fox.” Matthew Henry’s Commentaries from the first page to the last toruseated with humor as summer clouds with neat lightning. John Bunyan’s writings are as full of humor as they are of saving tritb, and there is not an aged man here who las ever read “Pilgrim’s Progress” who does roc remember that while reading it he smilei as often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Weslev, Georje Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor Rowland HiJ, Nettleton, George who G. Finney and all the men of the past greatly advanced th« kingdom of God con¬ secrated their wit aid their humor to the _ -i \»»&AA4«SS-o Vi the and I to So it has been in all ages, say these young theological Sabbath students, by who Sabbath, clus¬ ter in these service and sharpen your wits ai keen as scimiters and then take them nto the holy wax. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip, anJIFii soon croesel over, and a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is as much religion, and I think a little more, in & spring morning than in a starves* mid¬ night. humor Religious work without any or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments and no dessert succeeding. By People all will not sit down all frivo.ity at such a banquet. and means all lightness remove and all vul¬ and ah pathos garity—strain them out through the sieve oE holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which oversea lows the Christian church to-day, conventionally, coming up from the Great Sahara Desert o£ Ecclesiasticism, having ou its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom—and vehemently re¬ fuse to swallow that camel. Oh, how particular a great many people are about the infinitesimals while they ara did quite reckless about the magnitudes. YVhat Christ sav? Did He not excoriate tbs people in His time who were so careful to wash their hands before a meal, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing to have unclean hands; it is a worse thing to have an unclean heart How many people there are in our time who are very anxious that after their death they shall be buried with their feet toward the east, and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should face in the right direction so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the just whichever way they are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a min-, ister of the Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a way of meas- uring a gnat until it is larger than a camel. Again, ray subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of small sins while they are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts. You wifi find many a merchant, who wiiile he is so careful that he would not. take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, aud who if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills five dollars too much would dis¬ patch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus,yet which who will go intoastock company in after awhile be gets control of the stock and then waters the stock and makes $100,000 appear like $20:),000. He stole only $100,000 by the operation. Many of the men ot fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men engaged in such unright¬ eous acts, that evening, the evening of the find very day when he watered the stock, will a wharf rat stealing an evening newspa¬ per from the basement doorway, and will go out and catch the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the disboneat act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying; “I stole have been looking four for you a long while. You mv ? paper or five times, haven’t you? ou miserable wretch!” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, wiii cry out, “Police, po¬ lice !” i uat same man, the evening of the day on which he watered the stock, will kneel with his family in prayer and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children good night with an air which seems to say; “I hope you will all grow up to be as good as your father 1” Prisons for sins insectile in No size, but palaces for crimes dromedarian. mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but great leniency for mastodort-iniquity. It is time that we learn in America that sin is not excusable in proportion as it de¬ clares large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdi¬ tion postilion dollar ahead and lackey behind. To steal a is a gnat; to steal many thou¬ sands of dollars is a camel. Ttiere is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple to depress the fruit market; and as long as I can remetu bar we have heard every summer the peach crop of Maryland is a failure,and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one peach basket steals thousand . fifty peach baskets. Any summer go down into the Mercantile library, in the reading rooms, and see the newspaper reports of the crops from all parts of the country, and their phraseology is very much the same, and the same men wrote them, methodically and infamously carry¬ ing out the huge lying about the grain crop from year to year and for a score of years. After a while there is a “corner” in the wheat market, and men who bad a contempt fora petty theft will burglarize the wheat the bin of a nation and commit larceny will upon Ameriean corncrib. Aud men sit in churches and in reformatory institutions try- ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel- ism, while in their grain elevators and in their storehouses they are fattening huge caraels which they expect after awhile to swallow. Society nas to be We entirely recon- find structed on this subject. are to that a sin is inexcusable iu proportion as it is great. ‘ 1 know in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon of good frauds men. They say, “Oh, what a class you have iu the Church of God in this day,” and wnen an elder of a church or a deacon or a minister of the Gospel ora superintendent of a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter what displav heads there are in manv of the newspapers—great primer type; five line pica—“Another Saint Absconded,” “Cler- ical Scoundrelism,” “Religion at a Dis- count,” “Shame on the Churches,” while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to where there is one inside the church, and the misbehavior of those who never sea the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to become a Chris- tian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious an i irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion his as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in “Paradise Lost,” while he condemns Satan, fives such a grand description of him you have hard work to suppress your admim- tion. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats, and this gulping down great in- iquities like camels. This subject does not give the picture of of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likenesses. For instance, nil these neigh- people who, while they would not rob their borof a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the public. A man has it is a house to sell, and he toils his customer worth $20,000. Next day the assessor comes around and the owner says it is wortn $15,- 000. The Government of the United States took off the tax from personal income, among other reasons because so few people would'tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was of about to be handed over to the overseer the poor. from Liver¬ . Careful to pay their passage pool to New York, yet smuggling in Paris their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses irotn and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, tailing the custom house officer on the wharf, “There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel,” and putting a five dollar gold piece in his hand to punctu¬ ate the statement. all those who Described in the text are are particular never to break the law of gram¬ mar, and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better* fracture every Jaw of the Jan and shock their intellectual taste, and better let verb seek in vain for its nominative, and every noun for its government, and every preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward ofi election day, then*to commit a moral in¬ accuracy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others auu have no alarm about their own great transgres¬ sions. There are in every community and in every church watchdogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. Tfcey are full of suspicions. They wonder if that man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about the other man. They are al¬ ways the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell car¬ rion. They are self appointed detectives. lay this down as a rule without any excep- tian— that those people who have the most faults themseives are most merciless in their sole watching of of others. From scalp of head to foot they are fuii of jealousies and hvpercriticisms. They spend their life in hunting for musk¬ rats and mud turtles instead of hunting for thing Rocky Mountain eagles; always for some¬ mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors’ imperfections through a microscope, and look at their own imperfections through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them half so much as one fault of some¬ body else. Their neighbor’s imperfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; ftheir own imperfections are like camels, ana they swallow them. But lest any might think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you we ail come under the divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question. Where shall I live now? than the shall I live forever! How shall I get more dollars here? greater than the question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question. How shall I pay mv debts to man? greater than the question. How shall I meet my obliga¬ tions to God? the question, How shall I gain the world? greater than the question. What if I lose my soul? the question, Why diu God let sin come into the world? greater than the question. How shall I get it ex¬ tirpated from my nature? the question, W hat shall I do with the twenty or forty or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater with that the question, What saall I do the millions of cycles of my post-, terrestial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said, “That doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t mean me,” and with a ruinous be¬ nevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What though poor preparation fora great eternity. As a minnow were larger than a behe¬ moth, as though a swallow took wider cir¬ cuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a giant were greater longer than a camel, as though a minute were than a century, as though time were higher, the 1 ; deeper, broader than eternity. Bo wit text which flashed with lightning of as Christ uttered it, is followed by the crash¬ ing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future, the oncoming, Eternity overshading future. O Eternity I t Eternity 1 A TENDER-IIRARTED BOY. Mamma—Willie what are you doing with that thermometer? Willie—I’m bringing it into the house. It’s too cold a place for it out here. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. liroceriee. Coffee— Roasted—Arbuckle’s 20.10 $ 100 lb, ca8es £,j on 20.10e; Levering’s 20.10c. Green-Ex¬ tra choice - 21c; choice good 19c; fair 18c; corn- mon lfiUc. Bugar-Granulated4%c; loaf off 5white granu- j ale <i _ c . powdered New 5%c; Orleans cut yellow clarified pltra c 4l{c; Bynip—New 4V0; yellow extra C 4c. Orleans choice 48@50; prime U5@40c; 35@38c;ixni- common 30^350. Molasses—Genuine Cuba tation 22(?25. Teas—Black 35(a)55c: green 40foi60c. Nutmegs 75<®80c. Cloves 25@30e. Cinnamon W(Bl2y t c. Allspice 10@llc. Jamai- ca ginger 18c. Rice—6@7c; Singapore pep- per 16c; Mace $1.00. 7%c;good 6%C; common 6(gi7o. 5%@fic; imported Japan Virginia 72%c- Salt—Hawley’s dairy Cheddars $150; 12 %c; flats cheese—Full —---White cream, fish, half bbls jgg. ’oO; b kim 100 bars, $4 pails 60c. Soaps—Tallow, bars, 60 lbs, 75 $3 (J0a3 75; turpentine, 60 60 lbs $2 25a2 50. $200a2 25; tallow, 60 bars, 10>£c. Matches— Candles—Parafine 12c; star $2 00a2 75; 60s, 400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s 5g r0 ss f3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb pkgs 51^0; £/ cases, 1 lb 5%c, do 1 and %lbs XXX 6c, do%lb 6 c> Crackers—XXX soda 6%c; butter gi^ c . XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior 7 c; l fe mon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; com* 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6%c; French m i ie <l 12%c. Canned goods—Condensed 95a4 00; milk sal- $6 00a8 00; imitation mackerel *3 mon $6 00a7 50: F. W. oysters $2 00a--—;L.W. f l 40; corn $2 25a3 00; tomatoes $1 50a2 25. Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4%c-, *omp 5%c: nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00- Pickles, plain Powder—Rifle, or mixed, pints kegs $1 00al $5 50; 40; ,4 qirnrta kegs $1 50al 80. sack, $3 00; % kegs %l 65. Shot $1 70 per Flour, firnin and ileal, Flour—First patent $6 00; second patent $5.00 ; extra fancy $4.75 ; fancy $4 50; family $3 50a$4 00. Com—No. 2 white 57c; mixed 55c. Oats—Mixed 42a-c; white 46c; Kansas nist proof 53c. Hay—Choice timothy, large bales, $1.00; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; cm nee timothy,small bales, $1.00; No. 1 timothy,small bales. 95c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 95c. Meal—Plain 56c : bolted 58c. \V heat bran- Large sacks $l 00, small sacks «1 00. Cotton seed meal— $1 30 per cwt. Steam feet* f 1.3a per cwt. Grits—Pearl $3.50. Country Produce. Errs I 2 J 8 c Butter—Western creamery 25a30c ; choice Tennessee 18a20c ; other evades 10al2^c. Live poultry-Turkeys 10<a/12%c chicken* per lb; hens 30a33e; young Dressed larRe 18a20c ; small 15al8c. poultry—Turkeys 15al7c; ducks 14al5c; chick¬ ens 10&14. Irish potatoes, 65(®79c per bo. Sweet potatoes 65c per bu. Honey-Strain¬ Onions $3 00a ed 8al0c; in the comb 10al2c. 3 50 per bbl. Cabbage 2®3c per lb. Grapes, $850al0.00 per keg. Proyinlons. Clear rib sides, boxed 0&a6>*c; ice-cured bel¬ lies 8c. Sugar-cured bains Ual2c, aooording to brand and average; California 8c; break¬ fast bacon 10c. Lard—Pure leaf —c; leas 7%; refined none. Cotton. Market steady.—Middling 6c
