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The cheapest railway fare in the
world will bo that on the Central Lon
don Railroad, on which there will be
three ., workmen . , trams , . daily, , the ... fare
s
for six miles being but two cents.
A cycling J corps 1 has been added to the
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equipment . of the Salvation Army, an
nounces the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser. Fifty young men have been re¬
quested to volunteer to travel for three
years on wheels.
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The tunnel that wilt connect Butler
Valley, Penn., with the bottom of the
mammoth Ebervale vein will be, thinks
the New York Times , one of the great¬
est engineering feats of the century. It
will open au almost inexhaustible sup¬
ply of coal, and will serve as a
drain for all the colleries in that vi¬
cinity.
A good illustration of the expansion
of the world’s trade during the last
thirty years is afforded by the produc¬
tion of petroleum in the United States.
In 1859, 84,00(1 gallons were produced
in the Pennsylvania and New York oi!
fields, and in 1890, 689,029,960 gallons
were exported from the various States
which now produce the oil.
A new kind of stamps will soon be
introduced in the postal telegraph ser
vice of Russia with a view to securing
the inviolability of the privacy of letters.
The new stamp is printed on very thiD
paper, and cannot be used again if it is
once put upon a letter, When used
wet and taken off the envelope it leaves
an indelible impression upon the spot
where it was attached, so that if a new
stamp is pur upon the same spot the im¬
pression of the first stamp can be seen
through it.
So great is the demand for silver
•dimes, that they are turned out now al
the rate of 100,000 a day. No less than
§3,176,477 in silver dimes have been
struck off in the past three years. For
this purpose, states the Detroit Free
Press, all the uncurrent silver coin is
being reworked, notably the silver half
dollar, which is a clumsy pocket-piece
and very unpopular. The novelty banks
which the dime savings institutions are
sending out is supposed to be answerable
for the sudden demand, The three
mints of Philadelphia, New Orleans and
San Francisco are kept busy supplying
the wants of the people in this line.
There is no doubt, states the Detroit
Free Press, that the world’s fair will be
somewhat influenced by European poli¬
tics. With Germany and England in
close friendship and Russia allied with
France to offset the power of the drei
bund, there is very sensitive aad jealous
feeling in ail quarters, and our commis¬
sioners will need to use infinite tact in
order to bring all these countries to the
point of making generous exhibitions at
Chicago. Of England we are certain,
And probably of Germany; but France
seems coy, and it is not unlikely that
Russia will need a degree of persuasion
to induce her to do justice either to her¬
self or to the fair.
John Liekenheim, of Riley County,
Kansas, who was a scout and fought ic
Kansas as early as 1855, and built the
first log cabin in Riley County, when
in Kansas City, Mo., a few days ago,
gave in his reminiscences, some idea
of the rapidity with which that city has
replaced nature. “I never thought,”
he said, “such things could be possible
on the ground I used to camp on. When
I was here last, some twenty-five years
ago, this was all unbroken sod about
here. Why, I used to camp a few years
before that down in the hollow in the
center of tho city, and I have watered
my horse lots of times at a spring on
Troost avenue. Dozeus of times I have
fought the Indians or the forces of Gen¬
eral Price along Kausas City’s river
front. On one occasion Price with his
40.000 men threatened to drive us blue
coats into the Missouri and the Kaw at
this point, but we wore reinforced and
he had to beat a retreat. In 1860 the
old Missouri had its arms spread all over
the ground where the Union Depot now
stands, and I used to fish down there.”
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
subject; the importance of sacred
MUSIC.
Text: "His brother's name teas Jubal;
he was the father of all such as handle
the harp and organs ."—Genesis iv., 21.
Lamech had two boys, the one a herdsman
and the other a the musician. first Jubal, builder. the
younger son, was organ
Ho started the first sound that rolled from
the wondrous instrument which has had so
much to do with the worship of the ages.
But what improvement has beer made un¬
der the hands of organ builders suoh as
Lernhard, Sebastian Joseph Bach and George
Hogarth Robjohn, and down Booth and Thomas
clear on to George and Ed
wonder that when ° Ur ^° the w « first ? ay organ, ‘ 1 that t° not ive
read of as given in 757 by an emperor of the
east to a king of France, sounded forth its
full grandeur a woman fell into a delirium
from which her reason was never restored.
The majesty of a great organ skillfully
played is almost too much for human endur¬
ance, but how much the instrument has done
in the re-enforcement of divine service it
will take all time and all eternity to cele¬
brate. Last April when we dedicated this
church to the service of Almighty God our
organ was not more than half done. It has
now come so near completion that this morn¬
ing l preach a sermon dedicatory of this
the mighty throne well of sacred Behold sound. this It greets
eye as as the ear. moun¬
tain of anthems! This forest of hosannahs!
Its history is peculiar.
The late Mr. George Jardine recently made
a tour of the organs of Europe. He gath¬
ered up in his portfolio an account of all the
excellences of the renowned instruments of
music on the other side of the Atlantic and
all the new improvements, anil-brought back
that portfolio to America, declaring that
Brooklyn Tabernacle should have the full ad¬
vantage he did of live ail he had obtained, his and although
Mr. Edward not Jardine, to carry has out idea, into his son, this
introduced
great organ all those improvements and
grandeurs, and while you hear this organ
you hear all that is notable in the organs of
Lucerne and Fribourg and Haarlem and St.
Paul and Westminster Abbey, and other
great organs that have enraptured the world.
In it are banked up more harmonies
than I can describe,' and all for God
hnd the lighting of the soul toward
Him. Its four banks of keys, its
one hundred and ten stops and appliances,
its four thousand five hundred and ten pipes,
its chime of thirty-seven bells, its cathedral
diapson and. and pedal night double horn and diapson, humana, its song
trumpet vox
all, all, we dedicate to God and the soul. It
Yviil, I believe, under the divine blessing lead
uncounted thousands into the kingdom. Its
wedding its marches, its thanksgiving anthems,
requiems will sound after all the voices
that follow it to-day shall have sung their
last song. To God the Father, God tne Son
and God the Holy Ghost we dedicate it!
There has been much discussion as to
where music was born. I think that at the
beginning, when the the morning of God stars shouted sang to¬
gether, joy, and all suns heard The for
that the earth the echo.
cleud on which the angels stood to celebrate
the creation was the birthplace of song.
Inanimate nature is full of God’s stringed
and wind instruments. Silence itself—per¬
fect silence—is only a musical rest in God’s
great anthem of worship. Wind among the
leaves, insects humming in the summer air,
the rush of billow upon beach, the ocean far
out sounding its everlasting psalm, the bob¬
olink whistling on the edge of the forest, the quail
up from the grass, are music.
On Blackwell’s Island I heard coming
from a window in the lunatic asylum a very had
sweet song. It was sung by one who
lost her reason, and I have come to believe
that even the deranged and disorded ele¬
ments of nature would make music to our
ear - if we only had acuteness enough to
listen. I suppose that even the sounds in
nature that are discordant and repulsive
make harmony in God’s ear. You know
that you may come so near to an orchestra
that the sounds are painful instead of pleas¬
urable, and I think we stand so near deva¬
stating storm and frightful whirlwind we
cannot hear that which makes to God’s
ear and the ear of the spirits above us
a music as complete as it is tremendous.
The day of judgment, which will be a day
of uproar and tumult, I suppose will bring
no dissonance to the ears of those who can
calmly listen; although it be as when some
great performer is executing a boisterous
piece of music, he sometimes breaks down
the instrument on which he plays, so it may
be on that last day that the grand march of
God, played by the fingers of thunder and
earthquake and conflagration, may break
down the world upon whici the music is ex¬
ecuted. Not only i3 inanimate nature full
of music, but God has wonderfully the organized plainest
the human voice, so that in
throat and lungs there are fourteen direct
muscles which can make over sixteen thou¬
sand different sounds, and there are thirty
indirect muscles which can make, hundred it has
been estimated, more than one and
seventy-three millions of sounds!
Now, I say, when God has so constructed
the human voice, and when he has filled the
whole earth with harmony, and when he
recognized it in the ancient temple, I have a
right to come to the conclusion that God
loved music. setting
I propose this morning. In apart
this organ for sacred use, to speak about sa¬
cred music; first showing you its importance
and then stating some of the obstacles to its
advancement. for the im¬
I draw the first argument the fact that
portance of sacred music from
God commanded it. Through Paul He tells
us to admonish one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, and God, through all
David He cries out, earth.” “Sing ye And to there v»
kingdoms of the are
hundreds of other passages I man’s might name
proving that it is as much a Indeed, duty to I
sing as it is his duty to pray.
think there are more commands in tne Bible
to sing than there are to pray.
God not only asks for the human voice but
for instruments of music. He asks for the
cymbal, and the harp, and the trumpet, that as in
well as the organ. And I suppose
the last days of the church, the harp, the
lute, the trumpet and all the instruments of
music, whether they have been in the service
of righteousness or sin will be brought by
their masters and laid down at the feet of
Christ, and then sounded in the church’s
triumph, on her way from suffering Praise Him into
glory. “Praise ye the Lord!”
with your voices. Praise Him with stringed
instruments and with organs.
I draw another argument for the import¬
ance of this exercise from the impressiveness something
i of this exercise. You know of
what secular music has achieved. You
know it has made its impression literature, on govern¬
ments, generations. upon laws, One upon inspiring national upon
whole thousand
air is worth thirty time men in as the a
standing army. There com63 a
battle when one bugle is worth a thousand
muskets. I have to tell you that no nation
or church can afford to severely economize
in music.
morn? 7 ° f you !UB Illustrations of what
hrnnif brouKht into ngcaudo the kingdom ' ThrouKli of Jesus It you Christ, wore
warof^ ^.^^ttho the pulpit, but argument when, and in tho the
il y l or V°, John rds JfewtouorToplad.v. Isaac Watts or Charles the love Wes- of
'T SUn « to your soul then you sur
rendered, as armed castle that could not bo
wAlirib narps thnli. 08 ™ There tS itS was ™< n l0 £ beotch ^tnn solaier to a
dying m New Orleans, and a Scotch minister
came in to give him tlio consolations of th :
®°? pel >’ {be man turned over on his pillow
Oh. mother, dear Jerusalem.
When shall I come to thee?
He sang it to the tune of “Dundee,” and
everybody in Scotland knows that; and as
he began to sing the dying soldier turned
?mrL on h l ?,P idow , an, l said to the minister:
where did . you learn that?” “Why,” re
phetl the minister, “my mother taught me
*“ a A *° did mine,” said thedying Scotch
sold er; and the very foundation of his heart
himself was upturned, to Christ. and then Oh, it and has there irresistible he yielded
an
power. Luther’s sermons have been forgot
ten, but his “Judgment Hymn” sings on
through the ages, and will keep on singing
l °f the archangel’s trumpet
shall un bring about that very day which the
hymn celebrates. I would to God that thosa
who hear me to-day would take these songs
of salvation as messages from heaven; for
just as certainly as the birds brought food to
Elijah by the brook Cherith, so these winged
harmonies, God sent, are flying to your soul
with the bread of life. Open your mouths
and take it, O hungry Elijahs!
In addition to the inspiring music of our
own church day we have a glorious inheritance of
with psalmody which has come down fra¬
grant the devotions of other genera¬
tions—tunes no more worn out than they
were when our greatgrandfathers climbed
up on tnem rrom tne church pew to glory
Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When
they grandmothers were cheerful, our grandfathers ar.d
When used to meditative, sing “Colchester ”
they were very then the
board meeting-house rang with “3outli
Street” aud “St. Edmond’s.” Were they
struck through with great tenderness they
sang “Woodstock.” Were they wrapped in
visions of the glory of the church, thev sanat
“Zion.” Were they overborne with the love
and glory of Christ, they sang “Ariel.” And
in those days there were certain tunes lived mar
ried to certain hymns, and they have
in peace a great while, these two old people,
and we have no right to divorce let them.
“What God hath joined together no man
put asunder.” But how hard-hearted we
must be if all the sacrod music of the past,
and all the sacred music of the present does
not start us heavenward.
I have also noticed the power of sacred
song to soothe pertubation. You may have
come in here this morning with a great
many worriments and anxieties, yet, per¬
haps, in the singing of the first hymn, You you
lost all those worriments and anxieties.
have read in the Bible of Saul and how he
was sad and angry, and how the boy David
came in and played the evil spirit out of
him. A Spanish king was melancholy. The
windows were all closed. He sat in the
darkness. Nothing could bring him forth
until Faraneli came and discoursed music
three or four days to him. On the fourth
day he looked up and wept and rejoiced, that and
the windows were thrown open, and
which all the splendors of the court could not
do the power of song accomplished. If you
have anxieties and worriment mts, try this
heavenly charm upon them o not sit
down on the bank of the hymn, but plunge
in, that the devil of care may be brought
out of you.
It also arouses to action. A singing If church
is always a triumphant churchi a congre¬
gation is silent during the exercise or par¬
tially silent, it is the silence of death. If
when the hymn is given out, you hear the
faint hum of here and there a father and
mother in Israel, while the vast majority are
silent, needs that minister have of Christ who constitution is presid¬
ing to a very strong
if he does not get the chills. He needs not
only the grace of God, but nerves like whale¬
bone. It is amazing how discharge some people, their who
nave voice enough to all
duties in the world, when they come into the
house of God have no voice to discharge
this duty. I really believe that if the church
of Christ could rise up have and sing hundred as it ought souls
to sing, that where we a
brought into the kingdom of Christ there
would be a thousand.
But I must now speak of some of the ob¬
stacles in the way of the advancement of this
sacred music, and the first is that it lias been
impressed into the service of superstition I
am far from believing that music Refined ought al¬
ways to be positively where religious. music has been art
has opened places lawfully The drawing sec¬
ularized, and so.
room, the musical club, the orchestra, the
concert, by the gratification of pure taste,
and the production of harmless amusement,
and the improvement of talent, have become
great forces in the advancement of our civili¬
zation. Music has as much right to laugh in St. in
Surrey gardens as it has to pray
Paul’s.
In the kingdom of nature we have the glad
fifing of the wind as well as the long meter
psalm of the thunder; but while all this is
so, every observer lias noticed that this art,
which God intended for the improvement of
the ear, and the voice, and the heal, and the
heart, has often been impressed False religions into the have ser¬
vice of false religions. the hymning of their
Congregations depended more than upon the pulpit proclam¬
upon Tartini, the musical
ation of their dogmas,
composer, dreamed one night that Satan
snatched from his hand an instrument and
played upon it something fulfilled very sweet—a in
dream that has often been our
day, the voice and the instruments that
ought to have been devoted to Christ. eaD
tured from the church and applied to pur¬
poses of superstition. obstacle been inordinate
Another lias majority an
fear of criticism. The vast of peo¬
ple singing in church never want anybody
else to hear them sing. Everybody is If wait¬
ing for somebody else to do his duty. we
all sang, then the inaccuracies that are evi¬
dent when only a few sing would not be
heard at all; they would bo drowred out.
God only asks you to do as well as you can,
and then, if you get the wrong pitch, deficiency or keep
wrong time, He will forgive any
of the ear and imperfection of the voice.
Angels will not laugh if you should lose your
place in the musical scale, or come in at the
close a bar behind.
There are three schools of sin ging, I am
told—tbe German school, the Italian school
and the French school of singiug. and Now, that I
would like to add a fourth school,
is the school of Christ. The voice of a con¬
trite, broken heart, although criticism, it makes may not better be
able to stand human
music to God’s ear than the most artistic
performance when the heart is wanting. I
know it is easier to preach on this than it is
to practice,but I sing for two reasons—first,
because I like it, and next, because I want
to encourage those who do not know how. I
have but very little faculty in that direction,
yet I am resolved to sing. God has com¬
manded it, and I dare not be silent. He calls
on the beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons
to praise Him, and we ought not be behind
the cattle and the dragons. that been in the
Another obstacle has way
? f thfl advancement of this holy art has
been the fact that there has been so much
angry discussion on the subject of music.
there are those who would have this oxer
cise conducted by music.il instruments. In
the same church there art those who do not
like musical instruments, and so it is organ
and no organ, and there is a fight. In
another church condnc&i it is a question whether the
music shall be by a precentor drilled or
a drillod choir. borne want a
choir . and so ne want n precentor, and there
is a fight. Then there are those who would
like nJs.'ss^R&^af.’Sf i„ the church to have the organ played
it breaks out in wheels rockets bine lights
an SoSB P w e ouKv^°the r orga n n played in al
!Z e l t T !i ' aad oth ;: rs ' V0 ", M
™ lt tuU ? f staccato passages that inaae
the audience .. jump with great eyes and hair
ZZ ^TF, by V f? a °; th e W 1Cc 1
'V..■'VA'. v An;1 be woo tries to please , all
XuVuzajs w.l* s j£
to-day, is a mighty hindrance to tue ad¬
vancement of this art. In this way scores
of churches are entirely cripple las to a 1 in¬
fluence, and the music is a damage rather
than Another a praise. of
obstacle in tin advancement that
this art has been the erroneous notion
this part of the servics could be conducted
by delegation. Churches have said; “Oh,
what an easy time we shall have. This min¬
ister will do the preaching, the choir Will do
the singing and we will have nothing to do.”
And you know as well as I that there area
great multitude of churches all through this
land, where the people are not delegation expected to of
sing, the whole work is done by the audience
four or six or ten prrsons and
are silent. elder
In such a church in Syracuse an old
persisted in singing, and so the choir ap¬
pointed a committee to go and ask the squire
if he would not stop. You know that in a
great multitude of churches the choir are ex¬
pected to do all the singing, and the great
mass of the people are expected to be silent,
and if you utter your voioe you are interfer¬
ing. There they stand, the four, with opera
glass dangling at their side, singing,
“Rock of Ages, Cleft for-Me,” with the same
spirit that the night before, on the stage,
they took their part in the “Grand Duchess”
or “Don GiovannL”
My Christian friends, have we a right to
delegate to others the discharge of this duty
which God demands of us? Suppose that
four wood thrushes should propose to do all
the singing some bright day when the woods
are ringing with bird voices. It is decided
that four wood thrushes shall do all the
singing of the forest. Let all the other
voices keep silent. How beautifully the
four warble I It is really fine music. But
how long will you keep the forest still!
Why, Christ would come into that forest and
look up as He looked through the olives, and
He would wave His hand and say, “Let
everything that hath breath praise the
Lord,” and, keeping time with the stroke of
innumerable wings, there would be five thou¬
sand bird voices leaping into the harmony.
Suppose this delegation of musical per¬
formers were tried in heaven; suppose that
four choice spirits should try to do the sing¬
ing of the upper temple. Hush, now, thrones
and dominions and principalities. David!
be still, though you were “the sweet singer
of Israel.” Paul! keep quiet, though Rich¬ you
have come to that crown of rejoicing. this is the
ard Baxter! keep still, though Four spirits
“Saint’s Everlasting But Rest.” long would now
do all the singing. how
heaven be quiet? How long? “Hallelujah!”
would cry some glorified Methodist from un¬
der the altar. “Praise the Lord!” would
sing the martyrs from among the thrones.
“Thanks be unto God who giveth us the vic¬
tory!” a great multitude of redeemed spirits
would cry.
Myriads of voices coming into the har¬
mony, and the one hundred and forty and
four thousand breaking forth into one accla¬
mation. Stop that loud singing! Stop! Oh,
no, they cannot hear me. You might as well
try to drown the thunder of the sky, or beat
back the roar of the sea, for every soul in
heaven has resolved to do its tried own singing.
Alas I that we should have on earth
that which they cannot do in heaven, aud
instead of joining all our voices in the praise
of the most high God, delegating perhaps
this most solemn and most delightful ser¬
vice.
Now, in this church, we have resolved
upon tne plan of conducting the music by or¬
gan and cornet. We do it fob two reasons—
one is tliat by tnrowiug tbe whole resoonsi
bifitv uoon the mass of the Deoaie. making
the great multitude the choir, we mriht
rouse more heartiness. The congregation
coming on the Sabbath day feel that' they
cannot delegate this part of the great serv
ice to any one else, and so they themseivos
assume it. We have had a glorious congre¬
gational miles singing here. it. People bave come
many to hear They are not sure
about the preaching, but they can always
depend on the singing. We have heard the
sound coming up like “the voice of many
waters,” but it will be done at a better rate
after a while, when we shall realize the height
and the depth, and the immensity of this
privilege. I
forgot to state the other reason whv we
adopted this plan. That is, we do not want
any choir quarrels. You know verv writ
that in scores of churches there has been
perpetual contention in that direction. The
only church tigat that ever occurred under
my ministry was oyer a meloieon, in my
first settlement Have you never been in
church on the_ Sabbath day and heard the
choir sing and you said, “That is solendid
nil. sic. lhe next Sabbath, you were in
that cniarch, and there was no choh
ac all. Why? The leader was mad
or his assistants were mad, or thev
were all mad together. Some of the
choirs are made up of our best Christian
people. Some of the warmest friends I aftl? have
sZ, ? 0i “ P J n Sabbath
Sabb th th, conscientiously and suecesshilbr ^
leading the praises of God. But the maior
of the choirs throughput the land are jmt
made up of Christian people and t; tht
tourtns of the church fights originate in
organ loft I take that baci- and say nine
dymjof choired ° f ° Ur churc ^ *re
We want to rouse all our families tn tn
gsssscsftifa-BSj Childish petulance, obduracy and intracto
W Af£ U1 V °v! C8S in the Poises of the Lord “
a shower there are scores of streams
that come down tho mountain side with
voices and rippling then and silvery, pouring strLSh in one
river the So I would roiling in united ^ * ^
sea. have all the f am
have our church sing as it ought untU tU our
families sing as they ought
There will be a great revolution on this
subject in all our churches God will come
down by His 8p i rit and rou«, ^ot u Seen D the m ,
hymns 8nd tunes that have
| hreakforthintomu^c ^egfientpews fiTthe*’ church"vill" c^n
I S/takes nl^e and when the
fherew^bea his on the Sabbath rushing dav
I great host of voices
t tl harmony fo7 My Christian friends >Y
i this service where on they earth
- ^ w i,n t will wo do forever" in heaven 7 a all “
'
C’ an l shiy Fuse unanimity
c^^^ng . t V ha“ ou to a y“ eS in
[ that never t teen
ihit , , ;o „. p now » c j ear vour throats
, 1 for this duty neveJ°shMl or you will never
"“Frenchman of this j A for
KSsrsff'Srstt Kfs'T^nC.agi S3 Z Ci“av ft
..(sSdSave the Queen?” the If you enthusiasm have, you of
^wnnething ■about
Now, I tell you that these songs we sing
g a bbath by Sabbath are the national airs of
j Christ and of the kingdom of heaven
and if you do not learn to sing them here
^ do you ever expect to sing the song of
f/otr-ir psalmody, and keep st
erence for Christian us
from disgracing it by our indifference and
frivolity. When Cromwell’s army went into
battle, he stood at the head of them one day,
and gave out “Old the Hundredth, long meter doxology ” and that to great the
tuae of the regiment
host, company by company, battalion, joined by regi¬
ment, battalion by in the
doxology:
Praise God from whom all blessings below; flow.
Praise Him, all creatures here
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Fattier, Son and Holy Ghost.
And while they sang they fought, marched, and
while they marched they aud whilo
they fought they got Christ, the victory. let Oh, into men
aud women of Jesus us go all
our conflicts singing the praises of God, aud
then instead of falling back, as we often do.
from defeat to defeat, we will be marching
on from victory to victory. the Son and
Glory to the Father and to to
the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. _
CAROLINA COTTON
Damaged One-Fourth by the
Heavy Rains.
A Columbia dispatch of Sunday says:
Reports from all over the state, received
by the weather bureau, show that the
damage to the cotton crop by the recent
heavy rains was not overestimated. Dur¬
ing the past week the rainfall has been
below the normal; temperature about
the average; amount of sunshine about
the average. The heavy rains which
completely saturated the soil, and in
many places ponded, together with the
hot sunshine for the past week, scalded
and rusted most of the cotton crop, and
caused many of the immature bolls to
open, and thereby greatly decreased the
yield. From reports received from cor¬
respondents and from other reliaole in¬
formation the last report of 25 per cent
decrease is fully sustained, and at several
places the decrease in the production is
placed at a much higher estimate.
THE PANGS OF HUNGER
Lead Starving’ Peasants to Burn
and Plunder.
A Vienna correspondent of the Lon¬
don Chronicle says that there have re¬
cently been a large number of incendiary
fires in Russia, starving peasauts having
set fire to houses in order to have an
opportunity to plunder them, Nine
places iu Kieff district have been plum
dered in two days. Many arrests have
been made
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbuekle’s 23c f? 100 a
cases; Levering’g 22%e. Green—Extra choice
23><c; choice Sugar—Granulated good ; fair 20a23c; common
lated 18@19c. 5c; off granu¬
—c; powdered 5%c; cut loaf 5%e; white
extra C 4^c ; yellow extra C 4%c. Syrup—New
Orleans choice Molasses—Genuine 48@50; prime 3o@40c; common
J0@35c. Cuba 35@38; imi¬
tation 22@25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 75@80c. Cloves 25@30e.
Cinnamon 10@12^fc. Allspiee 10@llc.
Jamacia ginger 18c.Rice—Choice 7%c ; good
6%c; Salt common Hawley’s 5%@<5c ; imported Japan 6@7c
Clieese—.FuU dairy SI 50; Virginia 70c
cream, Cheddars 12c; Data
12/£c; i-kim -----White fish, half bbla
$4 0°; pails 60e. Soaps—Tallow, 100 bars,
$200a2 25; tallow, turpentine, bars, 60 bars, 25a2 60 lbs, 50.
60 60 lbs S2
rr (1 i^- Paraano ftarlOc. Matches-
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a375; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5 gross .^3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb pkgs
5%c; cases Crackers—XXX 1 lb 5%r. ,io 1 and %lbs 6c, doj-jlb
soda 6>Je ; XXX butter
o, aC; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
-e. Union cream 9c; XXXgingor snaps 9c;'corn
lnlls Jc. Candy—As-orted stick 6%c; French
Canned goods—Condensed milk
So 0»a3 00; imitation mackerel $3 95a4 00; sid
"‘°£S |160; 6 corn 0047 82 5°: 0°a2 F - w 75; - oysters tomatoes $2 20a2 $1 50; 75a2 L.W. 50.
Bail potash $3 20 . Starch—Pearl 4%c: lump
o/$c; nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00.
c? Ulixed - 00a 1 40; quarts
!i $3 00;% r, kegs a 1 65. Shot s 1 70 *5 50; sack. X kegs
per
Flour, Grain and Meat,
t i{!n^ ; r xlra First ( aHC patent v S5 50 $6 f 25; «‘cy second S5 25 patent family
$4 ™ o°. n Corn—No. - 2 white ; ; Oats
85 j ; mixed 80c.
—N°. mixed 46a47o ; white —c : Kansas rust
Tr 0, Choice timothy, large bales.
$1.00; No. 1 timothy, large biles, 95c; choice
timothy small bales, $1.00; No. 1 timothy,small
baies, 90c; No 2 timothy, small bales, 80c.
leal 1 lain 87c; bolted 83c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 90c ; small sacks 90c. Cotton
seel meal-$I 30 per owt. Steam feed—$1.35
per cwt. Grits—Pearl $4 25.
Country Produce.
Eggs 20a23c. Butter—Western creamery 35» .
V/ I0 TonQe88 "° 20a22c; other grades # \
101 10iil2/jo. Live , • poultry—Hens 28 30c young
• ;
chickens, large 18a25e ; small 15al8o. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys dish - ; ducks — ; chickens bbl.
Sweet pel atoes, new, S2 00 a $2 50 per
pota toes GOoaSOc per bu. Honev-Strain
ed 8 al °c ; m the comb 10al2c. Onions $3 00a
4aGc perib jUg0 2 ° per lb ’ GrapeB -
Proviniana.
i> l ?^ rib SW ° 8 ’ boxetl *%c; ice-cured bel
s l()/jc. o Sngar-curod hams tlal3c, according
a l erftKe Galifor,; ^ 8Xc; breakfast -
SMST 1 : •&•»' •*
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Cotton.
Market . quiet.—Middling 8Ke.