Bii-i f.'t'M.OI, Wont 'inil N. W.:> ' 
North uni) Hart. $1.50«2, Wtest and X V* 
. North mid Kiwi, 80c.t$l 
Open# mu, Noil h ii ad 
n'jlOj.i tjznnk, black, $1,403 
Bavarian*. 2SGj2tUe.; patent Bavarian 
plish, VlM-tSe.. BelKlaus.iJaiWo.: Cuhl 
Ion; linseed oil, D'C ®— v gallon, >n eu 
fi'Nc.; neatsfuol oil, ii0c.fii)81: leather, 
Hunt hemlock; 20®30c. In middle do 
unite liberally. New State '* in very lair race ft., 
but stork does not, accumulate, ami we hear of tn- 
.inneft* wti ere orders huri: had to hold over. State 
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that recently made by Alvio Clark for the 
Washington Observatory. Preparatory steps 
to casting a lens of five feet In diameter have 
been taken near Tarry town, N. Y. If his ex¬ 
periment proves successful, ns ho lifts reason t o 
hope, Mr. TymbyV efforts will place American 
astronomical science far in advance of that of 
other countries. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Sterling, Whiteside Co , III., April 13. 
Corn and its concomitant, hog, Is our staple 
farm crop; of last year’s growth of corn there 
Is lest In hands of producers than will he re¬ 
quired I o carry the stock of the country through 
to next harvest. Old corn Is held by a few pro- 
lflYc-: good to prime. 15K60C11C.; fair to good.la® 
lSKc,: poor to fair, 12^^14 Hc^ fartt.goert to prime, 
lfiWiec.; fair to good. It® 15c..; poor to fair. t.f| 
14c.; skimmed. StalSHC.; Ohio, liictory, good to 
prime, flat, 15@li5e.: fair to good, flat, laQlfJC.f fair, 
13&15c.s poor. lh312He.f slommed. O&llc. 
l’ractical men in Missouri hold that mining ducers varying from one thousand to S5«C>00 
Dried Frniia.— Apples arc working down low in 
Mock, fine holders find very Utile difficulty in real¬ 
izing further advanced prices The demand is very 
fair from Utelobbing trade. Be led peaches of prime 
quality are in scant supply and firm, smith fruits 
realize full price*, with light supplies. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Tiie Attorney-General has decided that the 
household effects in use by persons or families 
from foreign countries, if used abroad by them 
not loss than one year, and not Intended for 
any other persons, nor for sales, may bo admit¬ 
ted into United States ports free of duty with¬ 
out any limitation as to value. 
Mr. F. F. Browne, editor and proprietor of 
the Lakeside Monthly, published in Chicago, 
has been obliged to suspend the publication of 
hts magazine on account of continued 111 health. 
He hopes to resume bis duties in the fall. 
The Toledo paper asks Congress to appro¬ 
priate money to enlarge the Wabash and Erie 
canal and extend It to St. Louts. 
In consequence of recent statements that 
certain bounty laws have been lately passed by 
Congress, the Rocond Auditor's office is Hooded 
by letters <>f inquiry and requests for paper 
blanks for application. Up to tho present time 
no bounty law has been passed by this Con- 
North Adams, Mass., in on t he eve of dividing 
itself Into two villages, each of which is ex¬ 
pected to sot tip its own paradise before the 
fall. 
Philadelphia gets an income of $1,000,000 from 
the manufacture of wall paper, and wishes to 
be protected from the pauper arsenic of foreign 
countries. 
The overflow of the Mississippi Itlver has 
caused much suffering in Louisiana. Many of 
the finest plantations in the RLate are under 
water, numerous families have been washed 
out of their houses, several women and chil¬ 
dren are reported drowned, and hundreds of 
people arc without food or shelter, 
A boy fifteen years old was arrested in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass., April 83, charged with murder¬ 
ing a child aged four years. 
The Rev. liency Ward Beecher has declined 
his congregation's offer <>f a six months’ vaca¬ 
tion, on Hie ground that so long an absence 
would he Irksome to him and unjust to those 
who have paid high prices for pews, 
Rt. Louis 1ms a rumor that Carl Schurz will 
soon resign his scat in the United States Sen¬ 
ate and take editorial charge of his German 
paper there. 
President Grant has vetoed the Senate Fi¬ 
nance Bill, which provided for the inflation of 
tho currency. 
Though the California const itution is only 30 
years old, the people think that they have 
outgrown St, and the late Legislature, by a 
nearly unauimous vote, submitted a proposi¬ 
tion to the people for a convention to make a 
new one. 
A phydeian of Moravia. N. Y„ who recently 
attended a small-pox patient, forgot when 
cleansing himself afterward to wash his whis¬ 
kers, which were long and heavy, and having 
occasion to extract a tooth from a patient the 
6ame day, thus communicated the disease, 
which spread and caused the death of a number 
of persons, including Mrs. Dean, the lady who 
received the disease from the physician, and 
her two daughters. 
The Catholic Bishop McQuald of Western 
New York, in a recent speech on the religious 
question in the public schools, made the decla¬ 
ration, liable to a very dangerous interpreta¬ 
tion, that “this question must come into 
politics if we would obtain our constitutional 
rights. When the question is finally settled it 
will be upon the principle of equal rights and 
privileges to nil/' 
Greater preparations than ever before are be¬ 
ing made for summer tourists among the White 
Mountains. The Boston, Concord and Montreal 
Railroad will have its track laid ta a point very 
near the turnpike leading to the “sky railroad,” 
and the Portland and Ogdensburg road is being 
graded through the Notch. 
Mr. Theodore R. Tymby, the inventor of the 
revolving turret battery, having had great ex¬ 
perience in machinery for wielding heavy 
ordnance, is contemplating the construction 
of the largest telescope lens ever made, He 
proposes a Icnsj more than twice the size of 
and funelting should bo combined in order to 
realize fair profits from making iron, lead, and 
zinc in that State. 
Among a party of Swedish emigrants t ecetitly 
arrived in Portland, Me., was a man and his 
wife, about forty-five years old, with their 
brood of nineteen children. 
A company lias bocn organized in Detroit for 
t,hp purpose of manufacturing sheet plate glass 
at Platln Creek, on the Mississippi, 30 miles 
below Rt.. Louis, whore the requisite buildings 
have been already erect ed. It is expected that 
1,000 persons will lliul employment at the 
works, and that. 30,000 square feet of polished 
plato glass will be made weekly. 
The Boston QuestIon—Shall women be ad¬ 
mitted to seats on the School Board?—will be 
argued before the full court. So June. 
The Massachusetts Legislature has made a 
law vesting In the Amherst College graduates 
power to choose the five college trustees. 
Two thousand five hundred of the leading 
business men of Now York have signed a peti¬ 
tion asking the President to veto the inflation 
measures of Congress. 
The building of a great elevator, which is to 
be the largest in Hie world, has been begun 
at Milwaukee. It will bo large enough to 
contain 1,000,000 bushels Of wheat, and will 
01. i About $800,000. '* 
As placed before the Judiciary Committee of 
the House of Representatives by the tax pay¬ 
ers’ delegates, the condition of South Carolina 
la Just this p-The total value of property has 
steadily and enormously decreased since the 
end of the Rebellion ; the expenses of t he Gov¬ 
ernment are excessive, the presumption being 
that most of the revenue la stolen by men In 
power; these men are kept, In office by the 
votes of people who do not pay taxes; the 
tax payers have no representation in tho Gov¬ 
ernment,; taxation amounts to confiscation. 
Two munificent donations have Just been 
presented to Union College, one of $100,000 by 
Mr. Brown of New York, and the other of $50,- 
OOO by a lady w ho made the r Iff In belief that it 
wusa fulfillment of the purpose of her fat her, 
who died without having carried it into effect. 
Baltimore, Md., has just got permission of 
the State Legislature to extend her limits Two 
miles on Hie cast, two miles on the north and 
one mile on the west. 
During the last twelve months, six ocean 
steamers have been lost, viz., Atlantic, City of 
Washington, ism alia, Ville du Havre, Europe 
and America, and nearly eight hundred lives 
have been sacrificed. Tho Wilmington and 
Anna are also probably last. 
Ex-Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania has been 
spending several months in the Southern 
Rtates, for the purpose of recruit! rig his health, 
and is now Journeying through the Western 
cities. 
bushel each, according to circumstances of 
the farmer. Corn Is selling at. 67c,; oats. 40c.; 
potatoes, $1-40; tame hay, prairie hay, 
$6; spring opens iate; in plowing corn stubble, 
frost is yet an obstruction to the plow. freezing 
hard every night. The outlook for farmers is 
favorable, the surplus stock of grain will lie all 
consumed or sold hy next harvest; whether a 
large or small crop rewards their energies, re¬ 
munerative prices await them.—J. s. w. 
A ppleion. Win., April 25.—A big snow storm 
April 30; snow on the ground yet; farmers are 
growling; birds and frogs arc peeping; we are 
making maple sugar; have been for a month; 
winter wheat not seriously Injured yet. Hay 
plenty, $10 per ton; butter, 35o. per lb.; eggs, 
15c. per doz.; potatoes, 75c.; corn, 75c.; wheat, 
$1.35; oats, 50c. Fires feel good ; freezes every 
night— e. n. 
We quote:— outiierp Bilged uppics. 11®13c. for 
1873. and Ik* 15c. for fanev do. State ah cod; 123.13c. 
lor 1873 crop: Western, II ® 11>«c. for Jxo* crop. 
Blmikbnrrips quoted at iTH-AUk?. Peered peaches, 
prune Georgia new. North Carolina, 2b® 
2Rc„ Virginia. 23304c.! unreeled. IV He -for halves 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
iturnetl'a Flavoring Extract*. —The superior¬ 
ity of these r etracts consists in their perfect purity 
and (treat strength. They are warranted free 
from the poisonous oils and adds which enter 
prune Georgia pew. 24JI3BC.; Norm Carolina. 
28c., Virginia, 22304c.! an reeled. Kw-Hc. fur halves 
and !i»93<c. for quarters. Fitted cherries. 27@3Ic. 
Raspberries S&S&lc. Plums. 17 
Egg*. -The market )in» advanced sten tly. and 
with the present rale of demand and receipts fu - 
ther improvement i* looked »or. The large falling 
otr in receipts looks a little suspicious-as it Is not 
liKPiv Umi product inn cmld Hu nillv ;cn*l sucl- 
denty diminish. Still dealers don’t, horrow any 
trouble, hut prefer to enjoy Llie first, really good 
market Hint lma favored them this season without 
speculating upon probabilities. Duck ami geese 
ace « not wanted* ‘ 
Wo. quote* Slato and IVsnuaylvanln, 21'}£22 c.; near 
points. 210022c.: extra fresh. Western. 21 cj other 
Western und Southern, 20®20Xc; duck, 22@Mc.; 
geese, 10343c, 
Fresll Fruits.—Apples tiro going out In sellers’ 
favor—Hint Is, the scarcity puts some grades ahead 
that were recently looked upon n« second quality, 
f.ots must be perfectly sound to firing full figures. 
Straw berries are of tire quality and very salable, 
except when tile weather is too stormy. I lie hotel 
and Broadway demand support* -. rices for the prin¬ 
cipal port t the supply. Peanuts are doing better 
with the approach to wartu weather. 
We quote apples Koxbory Russet?, f '■to: English 
doselected Bed und Gl-eeiitr e-- **-. <0 •' 0.50. 
Charleston strawberries, per quart. 5(k<me. Hickory 
nuts, Peanuts, prime Virginia. tUSm-. 
other Virginias, »2 $b 2.25: North Carolina do.. U;y 2.50: 
Tennessee, *1.S2JP«.2. Pecan#. 6S#8c., a* to size. 
Flour.—TbeTchas bof-ti a lair shipping business, 
rt-om tite o,^ . and the low grades which have been rmet wanted 
into the composition of many of the factitious ” mv ,, roa t about steady flgoros. The better grades 
fruit flavors now in tho market.. They are not 
only true to their names, but are prepared from 
fruit# of the best quality, and are so highly 
concentrated that a comparatively small quan¬ 
tity only need be used. 
Joseph Burnett Sc Co., Boston, Manufactu¬ 
rers and Proprietors. For sale by all Grocers 
and Druggists. __ 
We have frequently spoken a favorable word 
for the Blanchard Churn. It is a pleasure to 
commend an article that is exactly what it is 
represented to be. They are made only by 
Porter Blanchard's Sons, Concord, N. II. 
of stock arc iu light demand und lower. 
Superflne State.5 701* j! If) 
Extra do.” § <5 
No. 2* ..... * o *«> 
Extra Ohio, round liuufi.J) f> H 
Trade brand?. 5 l 52 
White tv neat, extra.8 m 
St. Louis.« W 
IIvt! flour. . . i/nlfoS 
Corn meal. .Ter?cy. * "Tt* * {'1 
Brandvwtne . * f Jj) 
Western.5 903 * 50 
THE MARKETS. 
we?termv:.v.::.:.3 oo® 4 so 
Fur** mid Klein*. The demand Is small, but re¬ 
ceipt are light and price? are strong. 
vVe quote:-Nn. I qualitv Otter w piece Nortn 
and East, f? " I t, Wrstand N. VV-. $5617: Gmv t ox. 
North and East. 9 'e. c.*l : West and .N. W . h ^0bc.; 
Red Fox, NotT.li and Hurt. 41> ■ nil W eM and N.W., 
81.2V<m 7 >: It luck Bear, .Norm and Bast, f 1-" 3o. W’H- 1 
and N W., ?.h ci 12; Brown Cub*. North amt K,\st.U%o. 
West And N. W-. #2*c3; Fisher. North Last, tl* 
in. Wes', and N W., *8 m 10; Mink, dark,North and 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yot.K. Monday, April 27.1874. 
It eeeipts.-Tlie receipt? of the principal hinds of 
,reduce for the past week are as follows -. 
produce tor me pm 
Egas, libls..... 
Cotton, bales. 
Dried Fruits, pkgs. 
Flour, bids. 
Wheal, bush. 
Com. bush 
Oats, bush. 
Grass Reed, bush.. 
live, hush. 
Barley, hush.. 
Beans, bush. 
12.995 Corn meal. bbls.... 
Ifi.OM Corn meal. bags... 
Stt.TIop*. hales. 
92,11111 Pork, bbls.. 
.'.' 19 ,( 101 ) Beef, pkas . 
(With Cut meats, pltgs... 
145,81111 Lard. tcs.. . 
1,711 Butter, pkos... 
11 f,80 Cheese, i'kg?. 
9,045 Peanuts, bugs. 
1,605 
Muskrat. *nl! North and K.*t, is/ .W., ivt.i a now. 
vv. 18^200.! Mnsknit, winter. Nortli and Last, 
28c.. West und N W.,22®25c.. Muskrut.-nrltH- North 
and Film. 30(9360-, West ami X, W., 2i ivdts. 
North Mint Eubl. f,w.se„ West and N. W-, ■ Dw.t B» a- 
I.TiOj ykuiik. striped. »KMrt?l 
< train.—There has been a liberal export trade in 
both wheat and corn, and the, large arrivals have 
been cosily placed. 
Itenns mill Pens.-Export#ut bonus i-asl'week. 
840 bbls-J of peas. 21.050 bushels. Receipts of beans 
are light, Put there is no chance for large business 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
We see, in the London Building News, that it 
is proposed to construct a railway from Naples 
to the crater of Mount Vesuvius. The jour¬ 
ney will lie made in an hour and a quarter, ami 
the line is to cost six or eight hundred tbousand 
dollars. One of the promoters is said “to be 
enabled, by itis study of the subject, to guaran¬ 
tee the safety of the passengers In t.iie event of 
an eruption.” 
The French Government has advised M. de 
Lesseps to accent the decision of the Interna¬ 
tional Commission in regard to tolls on the 
Suez Canal. 
According to the last returns the aggregate 
income of the English life insurance offices 
is $77,000,000: their total accumulated fund# 
amount to $ 500 , 000 , 000 , and the policies in force 
represent, nearly $1,750,000,000. 
Queen Victoria will lie formally invited by the 
corporation of tho city of London to parlicipate 
in the entertainment to bo given by the city to 
the czar, and it is possible that the Queen will 
take this opportunity to emerge from her long 
seclusion. 
The General Transatlantic Company’setesmer 
L’Ameriqne, which left New York on the 4th 
of April for Havre, sank on the 11 of April near 
Lhe Island of Ushant, off the coast of Brittany. 
26 miles W. N. W. of Brest. Everybody was 
saved except the second officer. The passen¬ 
gers and crew were rescued, by English, Nor¬ 
wegian, and Italian vessels, which were in the 
vicinity. 
The Dukinfield mine, where the recent explo¬ 
sion occurred is still burning fiercely. 
It was rumored that the ex-Empress Eugenic 
would be in Paris Friday and Saturday last 
ineoynito. 
The French military tribunal has acquitted 
Col. Stoffel of the charge of suppressing the 
dispatches front Bazalne to MacMabon. 
The Atlantic cable of 1866 lias been broken 
about twenty-five miles from Valentiaby recent 
storms on the Irish coast. 
Queen Victoria has sent a message to the 
House of Commons recommending a grant of 
£35,000 to Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley. 
The Canadian House of Commons has vindi¬ 
cated its dignity and Louis Riel has been pun¬ 
ished for his temerity by a vote of expulslop 
from that body, 
ari* light, hut there Is no chance for lurga business 
at thin ditn nf spring, and price* for wholesale par¬ 
rels ure unchanged. A few retail lots nuiy be quoted 
,8c, higher than our into? for fancy, mediums oi 
marrows. Pea beunsand kidneys of all t ind* merely 
nominal. Canadian peas quiet, with very liberal re¬ 
ceipt*. No trade in B. E , the few remaining are 
higher lien*. Gie°n peus tif all kinds ur • quiet. 
Ti -nlc in seed lor near by planting about over. 
The quotation * are Mediums, *1 HJtml.hfi tor prime, 
ami si5.V4l.Tl' tor other grades; prime marrowfat*, 
f 3(iai2.3f»} other crude*. 32.95-Hf2.tll: prime oca beans, 
fcuft&eSO; do, full - tot* down to *25c2.1(l. kidney. 
«.d J4@1.25-. kidney whltc H40A2.60. Peas now 
run-.item, in Mils. free. 11.22s 1.25: do., in bulk, 
and bond.fl.OlLt 1.98; Green new. (1.60® 1.70. South¬ 
ern B. B. peus. $8.76 4* 2 bush.bag. 
\Vc quote seed'.—Daniel <• Roiike. ? l V bushel 
Champion of England, *3.50; Bluu Imperial. *.3.<5 for 
prime and $3 for common. 
llccswnxi—There i* lea? inquiry from bleacher?, 
and exporter- are purchasing with some reserve, but. 
stocks have become much reduced through the. lib¬ 
eral Purchases roc-ntly, and full lute prices are in¬ 
sisted upon. Rales hu- e been made ul SiMrt >C. for 
Western and Southern; tho latter price for selected 
lots. 
Broom Com.-It Is somewhat difficult to close 
out other than small lot# at the moment, with steady 
prices Insisted upon. Green hurl fceiHr.; green, 
short and medium, 7®9c.; red and red-toppod, MSSTu. 
II Idler. The late liberal decline In prices at¬ 
tracts a good demand. During the prevalence of 
high prices consumers were disposed 10 carry only 
just sufficient stock to carry them atom: from day 
todav, more parHCUlwy a? the season for new ap¬ 
proached, and they ave now in the market buying 
Wheat. Spring. No. 2. 
No. 1. 
Winter Red. 
Amber.... 
White. 
. $1 |'.3®1 55 : 
. 1 58 «1 02 
. 1 (Okl on 
Burley, Canada West. 
state four-rowed.... 
Mall Canada West. 
.l pr. ,.,1 75 
. 1 55® 1 fit 
Corn. Western mixed. 
Yellow. 
W t • if tt _ 
. 83® 81 
. 8fi» 87 
_ __ (VtMhei fit 
White. 
liny « ml Rt raw—Realize firm prices with light 
r< N'erth River'shipping, fl retail lots, $1.20@1.40i 
Clover. 90?, 9.7c. tor tlr.t crop, and 15 mH.c. lor seoond ; 
salt, 7iKv)7 >o. Straw, UUwsVi. for long rye ; (t.i®7ac. for 
short; rye nominal for wheat; fOc.ovJl tor oat. 
Dealers quote by t he ton at t he railroad depots as 
' pi i'iie timothy hay, $210025 t> 'r ton; fair to good. 
$210*23; shipping grade, $19. Clover. gon<l. $17@*18 
No. i rv j straw. $11(9,15 per bin ; No. 2 do..$lI@ld; No. 
I out, $1 i7(!o17. 
II rips.—Supplies of Jitlmo are not more than suffi 
ciept to meet the demand.and for this class ot slock 
holder? are firm In their views. On the common 
grades there t» no disposition to make furthei con¬ 
cessions, with trade moderate.. 
American, new, rood to choice, 28@32c.r do.. Ion to 
Maple Sugnr-IsIn good demand atstroagprices. 
Western, new, belt colored. LcgW-: do. eark.it® 
lie. Maple sirup, USdrifC. W.i «1.1UC?1.20 -P gall. 
3liseelIn neon*. — Spirits turpentine 42c. V gal- 
hnlf flrktn-tub# and Welch tubs are placed aboni on 
arrival, although there ts some disparity In price. 
This is uecounted for In good part from the fact that 
This t* accounted for In good part Trnm tne luoi imii 
the Eastern trade work considerably upon Welch, 
and as they are carrying some little 6tock Of old. 
they have hardly been in the mork- t to an average 
tbev have hardly been iD the mork- l to an average 
extent. We'cl! tiiha M quality show very well »* 
compared With State half tub?, the receipts Of the 
latter only occasionally showing any better. There 
L some mile trade from near-by shipping points, 
with the order* culling for larger lots. New V\ estern 
has been arriving sparingly, but larger arrivals are 
expected in a day or so. Desirable lots bring strong 
prices. Old i* being worked in fewer hands and 
realize* lc. advance. ' We advance quotations gen¬ 
erally, and call thorn firm. 
NEW.—Wu quote Orange oottntv pall*, faucj 40c.. 
other palls. fkV38c ; State half tubs eholoo, 8i®.8c.; 
do. fair to good. 340*636(5.; Btnto Welsh tubs, chotoe, 
36<a38c.! do fair to good,S2(Stvlc.; Westertu dhotco, 3. 
©34o°( do. fair to good. %rilc.; do. po«>r, 27«.A'l(e. 
OLD.—State dalles,cnoico,aW36c.: do. other entire 
dairies. 33 7 ,5c.; do. firkins, 3^360., do. half tubs, 
choice, 8f5c».:i7e ; do. other, <t2e&88o.; do Ml elsh, .itffl Wc.; 
Pennsylvania pkgs., 28a3Uc.l Western do., l.l(&-hc.; 
rolls, 22@2nc. 
raisins. $2.103—: lo.se Muscatel do, $8.20^3.3(1; 
currants. i>% c.; Turkey prunes, like.<5,— : citron, 2 
28e.: Sultana raisins. Ki!4^13kc.; Tarrayma almonds, 
l«k'c. 
Poultry and Gimic.—Dressed poultry le sc«roe. 
but the Bouei al call fpr it is Interfered with through 
the urrivul of spring produce. Futu*e shipments of 
dressed had better be sent in ice. Live poultry sells 
as to 1 Vie wants of city killers, but tiicse are Irregu¬ 
lar, WUdjrtgenns are offering freely and and a ready 
outlet. The abundance of retail game for several 
years past ha# brought out a very steady attendance 
to the game market, and seasonable Items are not 
so apt to bang as in old times. Snipe also sell well. 
Ducks not wanted utthh latedate; havers fear game 
law conhscatfon on the first. 
Ourquotationa are PreKaedcbtekens.N’ew Jersey 
and Penn'u, prime. 1 Dr*20c.: lair to good. 10€lrca 
State, prune. 17(31 c.-, Western, good to prime. 14® 
17c.: poor to good. 12«rl4c. Turkey?, N. J., prime.$1® 
22c-; fair to good. 18t3'20a.: Stale, prime. 20 !. 2 ic.- 
Cotton — The market has been excited and Is 
ciuuiubly much higher, owing to the light receipts at 
the ports, with reports of heavy rains and destruc¬ 
tive, floods at the South. Dow middling upland on 
the spot Is quoted at 17c„ and contracts for April 
delivery i"Ho. 
Western, good to prime. Y.m'.'Oo.; pn,,r to good, D® 
18c. Ducks. N. .t.. prime. 23®26c.; Western do.. 20® 
23c., Geese, N J.. good to prime. J(V" IBc..: poor to fair, 
12® 16c.; Weatern, good to prime, 13®l6c.; fair to 
cood.ll®t2c. , . , 
LUTE POrUTBY.—Near point fowls nml chickens 
quoted at 15(9.17c.; Western do.. 14®15c.: turkevs.h® 
l#c.; Ducks. 87c.®$l pair for Western and $l®1.5k> 
forN. J. Geese, $2.50®'2.76 tor N. J-i do. Western. 
Olicese.—Stocks of old are worked down close, 
and the remnant of supplies will probably be closed 
out at full late price*. Rome fancy lots realize 17c. 
to the home trade and lfijfb. frou shippers. New 
does not come in sufficiently to fix upon a basis of 
prices. Wo bear of one sale uf full cream to a ship¬ 
per at 1CMC., and from 16®lCKo. is considered a fair 
$1.5U; U few prime Western. *2.23. * 
Game.—W iki pigeons, feathered or nicked, ft.25 
®l..vi v dozen; Ebgllsh snipe, $l.(®@1.75; plover, 
$1.2531,fd; sand snipe, 60e.i canvas back ducks, 7oC. 
tn.fl.45 7’ pair; red-bend, Tac.; mallard,50®GUc.; com¬ 
mon. 25®35c. 
Pro visionil.—9’herc lias been less speculation 
and a lower range of prlcus since the vetoing oi tne 
inflation bill, which lowered the gold premium and 
prompted easier market# at the West. 
New mess pork. $17: for April, flb.7-.rt for May, 
$10.85; for June, $17.10, Dressed bogs, 7&c, Gut- 
Quotation for flue and choice lots. New skimmed, 
of which the receipts are mainly, sell all the way 
from 7@13c. 
Quotations; — State factory, fine and choice lots. 
