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BEAF BALL IN MONTANA.
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1 FULL OF HII’K PLUMS AND
HAWS WILL WALTZ.
Tlilrty-Fiie 8ev*n-Foot Clnn.mon at It In
the Moonlight After a l>ej’* Worry
ing- Playful Cuff, Harder
Than Bulilran'g.
From the New York Ban.
FootCubteb, Mont., Deoember 4.—We
reck on lo be pretty marly cut of tbs world
np here on the B : g Horn In winter, bnt
Cnster, btiog quite an important poet, we
maa.gt to get onr malls pretty rignlarly.
One of tb« things the boys are needy
always tickled to death orer are the bear
stories that yon publish every week in the
Bnnday edition of the San.
We don't get Sans enough ap hero to go
round; but it doesn’t matter, for, even if we
did, the boys wonld a beep rather sit
around and liaten to Parson Pete read them
bear yams. Pete used to be a Methodist
preaober, a cirenlt rider, or jndge, or some
thing of the kind, down Eist, years ago,
nntil ho dons something, and had to change
his name and came to Montane. He'a a
Jim Dandy reader, la Pete, and ao the rest
of ns prefer to sit around the blazing ootti.ii
wood flro in his stack, atd drink and
smoke and etjt-y the bear storitB as Pete
reads them to o* alond. Most of the boys
thinks it equal to a double-ringed circa-,
clowns ena every tLir.g thrown in, to spend
the evenli g in Pete’s sbsck on maii-bag
dsys
In the fall of '83 Sagebrush Bill and I
were hired by a huotiog party of three
Englishmen to take them up into the mourn
tains ami show them sport, chiefly hear*.
We slways liked to ton across a party of
Britishers cut from rhe old country on a
hnnling trip. They’re mliihty clever fel
lows as a general thirg. They come onl »n
have n good, rollickii g time, and they
spend money ss tht-ngh they were all mil
llonaires and didn’t know bow to get rid of
it fast enough. After paying the biggest
kind of wages, prjvidug more whisky—
audalwsysof trie best, mind—tban yon
oonld shake astiok at, they generally winds
np by ehnckiug s hnndied-dollar bill at
you This. 1 believes, they nails a tip.
8>geh n,h and 1 both knew localities
where bears were thicker than bowlders in
Bl-ck Canyon, and we rookoned np-n giv
ing the Englishmen their atomaebs' full of
bear beiure making back-tracts loGnater We
gleaned out way along the Little Big Horn
and the Rosebud, finding a good'many
straggling bears and slathers cf bt-ck-tstled
detr on oar way np to the monntsi s. It
was In the fall of the year, yon understand,
and the wild p'uini and clack hawa hi d
rose pip* ware ripe. A bear likes wild
plnms qnd black haws better then a Oro
C poose liken agency lump eager. Every
1 tbiy ojmes down from the mountains
Indiov.B.nd takes to the brash along
creeks in aeeroh ol berries. ’I hey are regu
lar berrying parties, and they ri ckona to
oleao ont the tipeet fimt and b- rties as they
works their way gradually down atreem
By and ty they makes their way beck to
the mcunteioa again; by thin time the reel
ol the fruit has lipeued, and they reekona
to tnsko mighty slick work it. cleaning
everyibirg up on the wey beck.
A beer sib hi* stomach full of ripe bet-
ties is t corniest ouas at times; ha seems
fairly bubbling over with Joy, almost like
the boys in lVu’e shook e-listening to the
reading. A paity of them that bsvo had a
big day’s debauch among ripe ploma end
Bows will sometimes oeleorate the occasion
with a waltz A wabz hi wbattbe boys oall
it anyway, although, of oiurae, it is not ex
actly e ball-room shindy; a berrying party
of boars having a high old tl-te among them
selves looka mighty like a wait ring Deny,
Itwaatbe third night out I run Uniter
when we bad the aati-laotlon of iotrodoctng
the Englishmen to tbeir lint rxperteno* ol
the novel eeeue known among the bays as a
bear’a wal zmg party. It oooldn’t have
been a prettier mgbt, fir the roca-ion if it
had been mode on purpose. Toe moon was
almnaltnll, and in tha clear atmosphere oi
the Rockies here on the Grow Reservation
lt;‘, tqeans that it was almost equal to day.
light.
It nr hat have been somewhere about mid
higet when Sagebnsh nudged me in the
ribs and woke me np. We were ocoup*i"«
a pair cf buffalo robes together underneath
the provision wagon. One of the English
men bunked Intidc the wagon, and the
other two slept in a little wedge bnt do.e
to band.
"Hank," atys Ssgebrnih in a low voloe,
"listen. What do yon muko li to be? ’ soya
he.
Both of ns rcaa np on onr elbows and
looked atoned, bnt we oonld see nothing
Ocr ears stood ns in better terviee, how
ever, than our ejte. We oonld distinctly
bear a r,pular bable of eubdnod yelpings
and whinnying*, and bneky granting, in
termingled with thesonnd of mtflLd oufls
and blows,
“Waal do yon make it ont to be. Hank?”
gays Sig'btusb again after liahnitg for a
minute.
“A bear s waltzing party, by thunder! 1
■ay si, ‘’what’s your opinion?"
••Just ahat I was going to figure it np at
myee’f,” says Sagebrush; ana then we
crawled ont from beneath the wagon and
wok. np the Britishers end told them to
turnoot if they wanted to see a genuine
circus.
“A beet’* waltxlrg party P says one of
them—laird somebody, I forget hia sur
name—“a bear’a waltzing party I Dr you
think we’re a pack tf blarsteil chump,?’
a. vi he. Yen see, they thought we were
giving them e big stiff. Not one rf them
bad ever heard of .u:h a thing, let a’one
stein’ it. I reckon it was like asking them
to ewdlow a pretty big story. Still there
wee no deceiving their own eon, and alter
listening awhile they had to allow thai
■otuetiiiog of a moat »xr,ordinary nature
was going on, and that nut very far away
from onr comp.
By this time Sagebrush and I bad git
the wnole thing fignied down pretty fine in
our own rniuda, t r we were no strangers to
vrsltz'i’g b.an. Not that the sight in at all
soon mon oue, however. Bean,' wal zirg
partita are a etiffictmtly unoemmon occur
tenet- lo m.ke ttn m interesting < v- n to old
moanteineeta like u-, and plenty of the
ho a have never w en one at all. We we re
both u 'ereateo, perhaps quite as much so
aa th Eug.ietnen, tor we knew jam what
to e Z| tu». The moonl’gbt vaa ao beami-
fo ly bi gbt and aoit aha m-iipw like, and
the night so silent and calm that we knew
the « a! t wonld be the prettiest kiud ot an
enterteii m- m if we coaid get a good poet-
tkn to see II from.
Wti's the Eng iabmen oho ill d into their
clothes—they always shed their dude at
aigh’, jnattui? they were down E eat—and
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three years, and although I bad witnessed
half a dozen in my time, there was alwiys
something so wierd and faacira’ing about
the soens to me that they generally held me
spellbound for a minute or two. Espec
ially woe 1 his tho ease on tbis bright moon
light night, and it was folly five minntes
before I oonld make np my mind to crawl
back to camp. The Englishmen oonld
hardly control tbeir excitement when I told
them wbrt I bad seen, and Sagebrush was
almost as impatient as they were.
The narrow offshoot of brash was too far
from the ball to make it a flrst-olass look
out so I gnlded tho party quietly along the
bank of the oreek and ont io a thick emmp
of brash that I had located as being ab„ut
200 yards rearer the bears. Noiselessly and
mostly on all-fours we orapt on one behind
the other in Injun file, I in front, the £t-
{lishraen coming next, and Sagebrush
-ringing np the rear. Every man was
armed nun a Wtnoiieeier 4o, » big bowl,,
and a revolver.
As we orawled nearer and nearer th*
•ranting and whinnying and cuffing grew
ouder. and, by putting onr ears to the
ground, we oonld hear the pattering tread
of numerous soft but heavy feet moving
about.
At length tho dump of brash was
reach-d, and peering eagerly tbrongh the
opehiumi, aa we lay tide by side, flat on onr
stomachs, we saw a sight that nuns ot us—
ard particularly the Englishmen, since they
had never seen anything like it before—will
ever be likely to forget. As near as we
oonld count them, there mast have
been at least thirty live head of
bear. They were a big berrying party of
olnnamons harvesting their wsy back to
ward the monataiag, and they were oelo-
brating a day’s tenet Ing with a moonlight
jolHfio .tian or waltz.
Every mother's eonjof them was moving
abont bolt npr-ght on his hind legs. Same
were twirlicg rannd and ronna, like chil
dren at plsy trying to make themselves
ijiddy; some were capering olameily about
ike n dancing bear £ oncessw Cheyenne,
while others were Bssbaying book and forth
in among them. It was a lively crowd of
bears, a trgalar oinnamon saturnalia, as one
of the Britishers afterwards called it in
the company were cinnamons that easily
stood Beven foot high, 'when bolt upright,
and from that height they graded down to
last spring cubs that didn't stand much
above tbree. Every bear present was dodg
ing abont and wa" z og aa lively as a lot of
humans at a fancy ball.
Tho whinnying and yelping voices were
made by the yenng-ters and ihs rongh like
grantirge |by the big folio we. Every one
of them wuh making some kind of a noiso
ta they waltz id and sashayed round and
among one another. The E. glisbmen after
ward allowed that tbis was troru the excite
ment of the waltz and from ao many of
them being tog-'her; but Sagebrush and *
knew better. Wo bad seen the danoo b-
fore, and hrd heard the same whinny ng
grnntirg always, and eo we knew that it
wi-a a tegular part of Ibe per ormanoe, jast
like the irobestraat the Onster beta.
The noise, that aonndtd liho in tilled
Mows, we oontdn’t at fliat duke ont. By
and by, bo sever, several of the biggest
bears aaeheyed over toward our pc hi non
until they were not more tliair f.-ny or
fifty yards away. Ab they whirled and
wal z,d round and ronud, and dodged
abont and waved their fore paws np and
down, we oonld see thrm lisnUff and fotch
one enolber sidewise pats with tho il it of
their big paws that sounded like tho thud
of u me ill id sledgehammer. One ot these
pats would have kneoked aoy one of us out
of iima so quick that w„ would never have
known what muck ns, and yet wo could
see they were nothing bn-, plaifnl 1 ttle
end i, s-ven and taken in the beat of bataor.
Wo lay there, watching them almost
without drawing broath for fear of bitray-
Ir.g our pretence and eoatiog them iff, for
fait twenty uinuks. borne tales we were
fsily spell- bourn,' by the weird neari|
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remarked before, and it i* difficult to say
how long we should have lain there and
watched them had il not been for a lilts oo
nurreaie th. t u, let all our ovlculationa and
brought np the ball with a round ram.
The whole gathering bed been gradually
ed-lng over io onr direction, aa if tbny were
doing it on purpose to give na mote show
to etc them. A little knot of old bears tuen
circlrd off e littlo lo themeelvts and apart
(rum tha main crowd. They were whirling
abont and er jojinR themselves, Ubt-n, all
at onoe, en lmpndtnt youngster, no higher
,han the middle rib of soruo of the party,
sashayed over to them and oommenoed
whirling about right In the thiouevt of
them. One of the *011 bears cessed his
waltzing a moment and waited till tho cub
oarna battling by him, when he fetched him
a cuff on tbe side ot hi* head that bowled
him over like a nine pin.
Tbe youngster scrambled to hia feet, and,
nothing dannted, etmutenoed waltzing
among them again as lively at before. Thu
cheiky proceeding teemed altogether too
mnoh for the older bears; they ad tamed
tbeir attention upon tne unlucky cub, end
euffed him head over heel* fetter than be
could-rise lo hie feet They cuffed Dim
around ao lively that the acene was a good
deal more than comical, it was the most
ridiculous thing any of us hod ever teeD,
end to save onr live* we oouMu't k<a>p from
roaring right out
In atwinkling the whole orowd of waltz-
en were down on ell fours sod scampering
off into tbs brash bke critters frightened
oleen out of their wits. Tbe transforma
tion from perpendicular kraltzers to loping
fugitive* wav so sudden and complete that it
w.n, if poiMble, still more cimleal than tba
enffirg of the cub; all we oonld do was to
rail on the ground elmcet choking with
touchier.
With five loaded Winnheettra to hand
we never fired a shot. We cinldn't have
ehot a beer of them if they bad waliz -d up
and atked nt to do It aa a favor. In talking
itoveraf-er reaching oamo, ho.ev.r, wo
found that nobudy was m try for this. The
Engli.tim n allowed vhvt to have knl-d any
of that waltzing party would have eeemid
almost like cold blooded murder, and ao tt
would. They se-ined »o happy and frolic
some at d innocent like that u Under h art, d
m m could never have brought himself to
sboot. They at way 1 had tot* iff ct on m-,
any way; stmehow I m v. r ehot ab.nr nt a
•tel z n"r potty in my lif-; neither did H -ge-
btueii Bid. acd Kagebtath was not panio-
ntarty tender hearted when it come to
bear*.
104 lto
Western eUboma M mortew. IhAotmA
lot
Boath and Fla Ir toned 11} U*
Booth M OBA Fla «A mortgage U* U*
Ocean '.’tounaUp * par cent bcndi,
soomn -ed by Ventral railroad lM
Ovlneertlla, JaOenos sad Monthern
rellrnad let (uorL saanntosd lit
Oaineavilto, -eUencn sad (tenth, rn,
net v-watotd HO
OtineeTitle, lede-xon and Beatbera. Id
104)4
Kilted on a llarbed Wtr* Fence.
Mir* 1 tzzie Webb, teacher m the primary
departaied cf the pr maty school at Lent:,
Km-ar, was thrown frum ahorse oneevi-n-
lug lest week and it 1 open a barbid wire
Ootnmbne end W tern t ,« cast tot
imsnuneed 101
Angueta *. ■; 1 Yn xvtlle rallroe* 1 par
cent iri 'BCrtK,-™- fcoeda... —..tl"
A ^-.nen*. Preaton and Lnmpkln let
mertgeg* V per cent b-,nXe ...101)4
WAILBCAT nooaa
Angnria and StTannab 1 per cant, gnor-
1 .1M
OcntrM jiamvB, 1U
Oeoraia -men *M
Noutbwmtern 5 par sent, geerantoed,.., *4
Cental , .,,i cent c-nmertee IO)
At'ent* ,il West Feint Mimed Meet. . Ill
Atletita -1 Week Print S per rent ter-
UScetee I®
unmeu
Eichona* Saak — — la*
Uepltal „CR — DO
Central
Vtret -VJJ
Mam At
Atercbaiito 1
Uattan.
-.crm, December It.- Market steady: demand
good: Gwri u.uimiuae),: middling 0)4: etrlri ow
middling*#; cw mid j. ,ag 9 : rtrlcl guod ordinary
tl; good ordinary —— calea;vb7.
•■cairn, iKlrwXTTr an rocs.
xMved iw, aajs bjraU..., 131
•• •• by wagon —... vJ—15*
: -reived previously 46,35:1 47,Odd
;eet on hand UepL 1,1487 e*1
topped rc-dey 1M
■in pad prwrioasly 33.uii-39.IU
'VHEoahand 7.IH9
GMOtri Wodt*.
Apples—"btea IH*: erepor-iad -a
Cabbage—* *• 13* vet hvad
Dried
Emm- ’i
beta -Clowe geese. 8
Onions - fellow. ti.7i to *4.00 par bbL
Veannta ‘iSmt^UfSh’* ui'vunimu 4)4 to I*
°¥o£loel^irtoR. b*.00 to »M» pm bbh
Poultry—nromUi.t band,, ynang ohlotsts,11H
ta llo ri loo geek; Uve twikvyi, ,140 to FI3X,
p«r pat,-; •— retat 3 »: dueki *»o.
Bay—Ohotoe ILawbby. ti^ito l.lu.
tone*, Prion and Oils:
Drogt m* DytateSe—Ihdtoo, beet, II to Hi
madder >1 to lit! teito, 1)4 tale: Uaggvwg, «H to
To: atom la to 4c; cochin**!, 3* to too; auaaetU
to •*.; Soar volpbnr, <H m *c; roll sal-
K ur. t - eamphog, ■ is He; coppAraa, 1 to
jo; kggefottid* 10 to SUg,
Modlctnea -optam. ME M40: IttoUb W ta
Wo; nlda, n to 40e; Iodide eottsk. I* »
*40; ihnbtrb 1*o 10 flTwwse, ItM to *110:
sloes *.o a tl; satoSMl. lto to ,1: bin, nui. lt
to ane; -iklne **•'•- to ll «i ttotorotorm, to to
Ho; castor e'l *1.71 to *X __ „„ .
Faloto, ele.-Whiletoad. sStotiy **n, •«« to
1: fan.ltarw rarstoh. *14d to »* &>; eoach rarolrii.
tin to «e. eabtast tow*. 10e to toe; wklto gtott KM
* °OUe—United, raw. Wot United. boU*d. *le;
oil > ll«h terpentine, *»Hc; cyimaer
oil. U, toUi mn:el » e to Wc; West Vlrglnta blech,
lie; lard oil Me totoln; oottoe read. Mo; beadllgbi
7Bo; kerosene 'to; seetofoot. TJo; laachtoary, 1ft
In *So- mineral trot, Ko; cotton seed. roSued. e*o-,
Tannon, aiwi**wdland end. We.
Sty toiKKia,
Brows ttblrttogs—WOFameavtlto. X. •K’t Avow
olo,lie
Brown Nbeettug!—WeyatuavGle, ,4 «J4e; Avon
oto 4-4. IWo
m-oeked ibirtugo—Frwtt et beta. X. «X*;
Cabot *)
Bleaobe.1 ->ndleie-i>r>, >-•<*, Frwit ot Lto ri.
lagti in-h lotted t ;o the Witcbettete, Ijfecc?. One side of her face was ton out
et-pt s Mj out to tbe edge of the bruab, { by the fcarbed wire end her body wi4 cut in
anc, c toppii g on all fours, crawled w eon- several j-Ue ». H.r right arm was oho
pit t{ hurdred tarda in the dirte ion ul the j broken. Tne eccideEt h«i pene<l in an out-
EeUe. Teaciicjir a narrow iff-hout ci j of-U,e-w*y plocn about three mtU* from
biuku that brracbed ont into tbe urairbs, I Lenti, and tbe lodv was not f<>nnd until an
Ipter- ' thin.pt, end there, abrut 3U) hnr- { hr.ur tf terward. She woe then in an in<en-
jards tonner, was tha prattiest waltz-1 tible condition. She bee,me conacions
—4 par 1 ! 1 avaraew, and abont tbe btggcal. I abont an boar afterward, bnt in a few min
I hodea't ease a bear's ball for nearly | utea died from he* terrible injarits.
Oenabucf. trirb
Sox ee, v-:o; • r-n.
Const -e>at - Ji.dro
1H»; Lvcoclx *»oi Ma-J
t-rVuu - g. air. e,:; ,,
lent, A,w«aatw,'t«
lag*. ir ,n-; tl
4c; Ren-apo, We.
Hhtriieg r lb -M'-rria
Anchor, a.
Carcke -i 44 sac. "
«c.
mrCffk, kjio» Lt.iul
RfltfCPH
^ tx'brt. X.
u! ICO
id* lUrt M
fivst Xt.-IQI
•CkleUArfVGU urOt'itt AJT0 Botom
.t4
id SUM, (1 P«T *m
Ml CM<r«r«(»
OtMinmd .
ApvU*—1 lb c
H!k%cb r?t+
< ►r*rr1*«
C’m—2 lb e*M, £<•,
Puttftol if »rr* .!>, in ffi.4 |IA ft M
lu*pb«rrtM~i Uimu. W,>»r«dei
Maon> b juu, |UCjllbc*>i, IM
Ptr* «b«niM 2 !b tUl, »!-•'' |M»
btrtfit bMU 11k tm*. tl. 0 dcx.
ToauUoM -• IU, H» tOK Ki I M
K*<itrrVy i «
lull r hr*ftd
Iffirn*—
«< I
RMVfSffMivin
Tha following in itrlctly wbolaaate prlcaa:
lUrnn— on* in u,»rt«t.
Doit a!gaa->f«Krat unin ad?an<**ra. Wsqwoia
At 8»J0. Market atrongar and adTkacir.K rap
idly. Tendency In proviatma aaamlnv to ba aleadily
Upward. Waatarn marketa eloaa hittbar on a»f*rr
call, »nd It now aaama aa If wa would bnva rnneb
Kif h» r price a.
ana—in e jtdrgd 1111; by th* ear toad l.n.
p-i--oleosE-FVtre i-e to Fw S« lb: flit "W*
4H> it Wtr par lo: oeeatoy »:o pvt Itoi !*«-> Moat 10
Visas lie per !*i ri*-- 2r»*ee U14
I *w “•f 1%.
0-he-—Market strong to New Fork. W* new
quota fancy bio at Me; chute* to fall BHe; good
Via: mbhbab 19 to Ho.
Com—Whit* car lots 79c* laaa 75c; mixed ear
lota 7uc, l«*a 73c.
fUu Tba atcli of 1«87 being ao allm, tbar*by
eaualnw prlcaa lo advanoa ao greatly • Ith packing.
|ha dAinand thla aaaaon baa Wn bnt annil. wa
may aay comparatlvaly notblug. We qootY noml*
n%U/ No 1 In bb! (17.0 al8 no; No. 3 In bbl
l».0t»; N't. a In bbl 813.00*13 00; amallar packagaa
•n pn'portlon. White or Laha Bab In S bbl f 4 10a
8.00 |Mr H bbl aato alae. Can uackaral In eaaaa
81 Sial.35 par down for 1 lb eana.
y,. v fri*»cn »H5a3"», <»ra UbU.* I 0n»
« l*': atmUbt fancy 84 36*4 *>; aaannd pairnt '4 fti
a 83; flrat patent 8 30*8 TO. Tbaaa *r« of conns
in lob tot* to datlara Hatail prlcaa am IxfgLar.
:«U» r*x obi 8« M
r-M 4.M
Hama-PUin 13« to l3e pa* lb.
Hay— Hay la htgbat Mid acarcar on aoaonnt of
drontb oot Waai We qnotr to-ikj bo. 1 timothy
** Mid prims at at.80 to 3l.no \wr ion.
EdCeO—lj»n a rauily kH* **. «*«• *3^
^ar lb, 10 lb cava *7; * Ik wf "f*
1*5 3 ifccaaaPM**'*’ ^
H«*|—'W# quota at 73s for plain; 74c for boltad.
»•%« - Am vary atretif and ttru ai qoobU.o&a:
'THUn it. 60c, r*t»e» w •»‘- Oi. rati - • )>' -
Tataa md n,wt proof now ooniifgtn. Car lou
(Be par bn^bal; *«aa 8c hlfbar.
a.'axhj » tice par ib; pr*JBS 8K
*r lb; fane* Kcac par it.
j*Jt— un ib V'rftnU !«lb fmiud Lirarpca!
Hk; Lta^ Car lot* . m iota.
KKti Kor»-fiftim, tfl lota, |18 00; Uj* qbU»r.ty.
Taaa-ImpayUO, good lo ebolaa, 38 lo Wo; |tn-
powdor, good o obotee, 80 lo 78a. Tonni ditoxu
good to oanica, W tu Cflo; XngUab braakfut. mod
lo ebolea, 88 lo 78o; Oolong, good to cbotoa, 10 to
70c; Hcaehong, pood to oAoioa, U la TOe; /tpu.
^Hmpa^raocyiSwOtUamopen katu*41 to48a
(,«otot Hmoktog. Me to *1 *•; cbiwtog. eoto*»-l
wand. J* to roe; cuodtom, 40 ta Mot brigbi. to to|
7 Jo; flee :eney. -,1 to Wo-, litre flue., EE*o»l 19;
bright aarlea, 4* toilo; darkuarM.NtoNt
Sumtto UMaap—Pluto, *Oe; qwarto. »t»
Tube—Y«:nfib *1*0 to *1 7,; Mo* 1.1) J 9“
jgee; Ho.1, t It per Com; Bo. -, *•* F«f
* Twie-Ootton, 19 to IN; Jwto, Wo; »**«•
gamp, 18 to 10a. _ ... aw
Vinagsf—ApplSk W to 88ot ptn Arabia itetsftt,
Ko.
BUoeritwweea* Mveoeri**.
Vflto Oto***-1140 to *1.71 rri seas torn*
roSW »ID OSES ««»*«••• 1
1, Pig 3? T9; *7. t*ri*rfgg
•eema—1 *0 to 100 per *>——• iiumI
t-iria—Printed, ill E l**i ****»•• 00 **■
jefliue—Star, 11)4*.
Jtady itocrtei, to beiee, 1 te 10*1 «• i
rwarntw BerW-Pu lb, U to IN.
Wirw Wo. .
-MwlawtH* to* *
imtor and toptosa,
tkns,TMatolNa;
iSoj
a* ib.
iiliKE Wit ISjlM WOO*. v& m
MeUtoMTI: MWg. ,4Mto»4»*i *»^i» ,, “•
SSHE-fS^MTO, enbtUbtl M09.
..r»iro tc iif*7 ■»»*«* r«*. »»»•
Vnuki au« XttU.
Anplaa —*.7B Uj 4.38.
ItatuLaa -1A» tu 3.U0 par b«nab.
Ottmi* aj
CnAub^rrlM AUie* C4A 7k M.
CcTrant* — *
1 w ICa.
rw*- j. ot.i
L* r;’ona fill -« 88e»^ f+* >5*.
ru.a *VJa« %:*o-n*ia IM tat lb; th u»a pa
ur abaii. lit y** !b; Cab walnii !l U !*• JO.
Tf; naeaua * « par lto Brarta kdapaalbt aauuib
40 9 dOOfWMOk
prmnaa
Otangaa Flcrida 43.80 to par crala.
Hide., Wool. me. ^
matt—Green eoib f" •f!lTncmi7'«c w I*
ye- pound. Do to »e; dry dtub *•» ur.mio, no
L£t Bides—Dry, per pou*d. IN to An-
fieri Bkine-Diy. per pound.» ^
Sheep Bkino—Dry, “
0he*iiin»-FM> Uori te to 1-u-
Tfcl'cw—Per pofmA ra . ,1
Leather ta Bongh - *
•.botoklpripcrpri-it ‘p
BMaVM-FB.4 W-liU IW '**
lie iO30te
rvtton i *
) r 1
t psaad «•*
waab*!. pit puoad. I
wacbatly *W*j * "
Oak aa »
m!fas Ay i
MM n
-»4« to ;i2;
in/ic.
A wai
u^tyiS* **"
, ,1, AutoUJOL-tot
V il Goto Mojgi I
FfA^.TfCitoetori^
Mbs.
Cat*rlca? 88 3«
ft i>,at hn^itr of idi kin
ranco* } ifll
$17 CG.
ir-in to-day *3-
Sew Vo.-X Vo all er-tnd. W, .,rat-ua
cut In,I Sc; IX* powder-d Die; gr-r.ulimd
7v. tvn A 7V; wbtu extra 0 *Hc; Ugbtetaaoa
oka; y<ilo«i <<.
.iMisuaa Taa bmabai, 11c; a^lutbalp^le
18 Mb ai. 2be.
Whose—Lortnird’a; 3*n *0%; 1 lh L tee Ion too;
■ edtausMtlu*Ga.pgglb; Weeaend't Scetch
boatnh lril-r I edlereKc; enui!l bledder, 43c.
Eo*r-Oouainato(gagy. W«to **to per b"
■edo—Cage, »He; boles. 1 Ib, 1)4; H ib, Ut
MKttd.JV; H lb psikAgre. *■
■torch^- B*E*g 4s per IB; 1 tt boxer 4H to N.
eotar At -
... —. ocaad.lA I
nr- i u -c Aid or*- "
i<.'a rot»,i4«toiN1*0,0 *•>;»»•?«
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