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APRIL 30 
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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, April 25,18S1. 
The floods are still raging In the West. At Fond 
Du Lac, Wls., many of i he streets were submerged 
by the overflowing river and were navigated by 
boats. Families were compelled to vacate their 
houses In several wards ol the city. The damage 
is great. At Rockford, Ill, It la the busiest season 
with the manufacturers, but the recent floods 
throw some 1,500 men out of employm* nt. At Elgin, 
Ill., buildings were swept away, railroad tracks 
were washed out and large bridges destroyed. 
Damage done to property there will amount to 
$200,000. Hundreds of men worked continuously to 
to protect the iuBnulaeturlng interests at Rock 
Falls, III. At Fort Atkinson, Wls., all the low 
lands near the river were flooded. The Ice rush¬ 
ing down the stream carried bridges, dams and 
everything before. It. It. Is estimated, that $300,000 
worth of property have been destroyed In Kane 
Co,, Wls. Heavy losses are reported in Minnesota 
and Nebraska. 
Kansas has received Into her limits and cared 
for over io.ooo ol the freedmen since the exodus 
began and has been the means of turning 10,000 
more into other states. All attempts to check the 
Incoming of the colored people have failed as they 
are bound “to come to Kansas, the home of John 
Brown." 
On the 19th inst.6,R9i Immigrants landed at Castle 
Garden, this city, and on the 2lst 4,000 more. 
Eight, other steamers are due this woek from Eu¬ 
rope, carrying immigrants. The following statis¬ 
tics give the total number of immigrants landed 
in the years named: 
In 1876. 
.68.264 
In 1879. 
.135,070 
In 1877... 
In 1878. 
.54,538 
.75.347 
In 1880....: . 
.327,3/1 
A comparison wltu last year shows: 
1880 
1881. 
January. 
»,083 
February.. 
5,768 
March. 
27,703 
The Buffalo. New York and Philadelphia Rail¬ 
road, running from Buffalo to Emporium, on the 
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, with narrow- 
guage connections, has been purchased by a syn¬ 
dicate composed of the following gentlemen: J. & 
W. Sellgoian, Drexel, Morgan & Co., Winslow, 
Lanier & oo., Kidder, Peabody & Co, Clark, Post 
& Martin, and K. W. Clark & Co. 
Ex-Gov, Morgan, of New York, has added to the 
$ 100,000 given a year ago, for erecting a library 
building for the New York Union Theological Sem¬ 
inary, a still further donation of $100,000 toward 
purchasing a site for the building. The erection of 
buildings for the uses of the seminary u contem¬ 
plated, one of which will be named in memory of 
the late President Adams. 
in a test case at Milwaukee on the 20 th, to de¬ 
termine the legality of the celebrated antl-treatlng 
law of Wisconsin, it was found that the law was 
inoperative, because of an error In the text or Its 
supposed enactment. The hill as drawn specifies 
the repeal of an old law that was dropped when 
the State statutes underwent their recent revision, 
and Judge Mallory held the law to he inoperative 
and void. The Illinois state legislature has re¬ 
ported favorably on an “ antl-treatlng” bill. It 
imposes a penalty of $10 for each offense. 
In a little over three months about $26,000,000 In 
specie have been Imported Into this country ; and 
since January 1, 1S79, about $ 200 , 000,000 of gold in 
coin and bars has been brought hero. 
The twelfth annual reunion of the Society of 
the Army of the Potomac will be held In Hartford, 
Conn.. June 8th. General Wright will preside. 
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, will be the 
orator arid Captain Summer, of Bridgeport, Conn., 
the poet of the occasion. It Is expected that Pres¬ 
ident Garfleld and Generals Sherman, Sheridan, 
Slocum, Hawley and other officers will be present. 
The new Postmaster General la Instituting 
searching Investigations Into the mall service, and 
the need thereol Is great. Mr. James will do well 
If he can bring some of these public swindlers to 
punishment. Gen. Brady, Second Assistant Post¬ 
master General, has been discharged on account 
of his connection with the mall service frauds, and 
“ there’s more to follow." 
The regular meeting of the World’s Fair Com¬ 
mission was postponed until the 27th Inst. In order 
to give the transportation companies tune to in¬ 
crease their subscriptions. But there Is Uttle hope 
now of having the Fair In 1883. One of the Com¬ 
missioners recently said “ We are preparing to 
surrender the thing with decency and dignity." 
There will be a convention at Davenport, Iowa, 
on the 26th of May to consider the most feasible 
plans for an enlargement and extension of water 
routes of communication between the great rivers 
of the West, the lak©3 and the ocean, c ongress 
will be asked for appropriations to this end. The 
Governors of the states interested will appoint 10 
delegates; eacn organized Board ol Trade, five; 
each city or town having no Board of Trade, five; 
and each regularly organized Farmers’ Alliance, 
three. 
Senator Frye, of Maine, the youngest man In the 
Senate, “ stirred up the camp ” ihe other day by a 
vigorous speech against the Southern policy, and 
Mr. Coke or Texas, Mr. Call ol Florida, Wade 
Hampton ot South Carolina and others have felt 
called upon to reply to the charges made by the 
new Senator from Maine. 
The old home ot Lincoln was recently torn down 
at Springfield. III. A boy bought all th* shingles 
for a dollar, and, with a scroll saw', la turning them 
Into ornamental mementoes, which he easily sells 
at from 60 cents to $1 eacn. 
What is fame anyho w ? An Athenian paper pub¬ 
lishes the Cabinet as: Secretary of State, Blanne; 
Treasury, Nln; Navy, Kelnf; Interior, Verkoyed; 
Foil master Gneral, He,-ones; Attorney General, 
HacVragh; War Secretary, Lincoln. 
It Is suggested that the good time coming when 
swords snail be turned into plowshares, etc., has 
dawned on Atlanta, Ga. Tne Christian Index, a 
religious paper published there, has a font of type 
cast from bullets used by the UdIou and Confeder¬ 
ate armies before General .Sherman entered the 
city. 
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A Wonderful Remedy. 
Mr. R. P. Lewis, of East Saginaw. Michigan, 
writing to the editor of the Laporte (Ind ), Argus, 
says: *• I wish you would aUow me to say, over 
my own signature, a word In behalf of a remarka¬ 
ble curative agent— Compound Oxygen. It is not 
a medicine but n vitallzer, and Its effects are nat¬ 
ural. direct and permanent. Its use Involves no 
risk or Inconvenience ot any kind. I speak both 
from observation and experience. I was induced 
to try it by the recommendations of such men as 
T. 8. Arthur and Judge Kelley, and also a personal 
friend, and have found ft. more than was /tram¬ 
med. This was over six months ago, and the qoo<l 
effects hare been permanent. A gain of fourteen 
pounds In six weeks was the avoirdupois result, 
but my general spirits were lightened up at least 
a ton. There are three other men here who have 
tried the Compound Oxygen with even more strik¬ 
ing results, ana I am acquainted with the history 
ot each case. Oneof them lost, his voice last winter, 
and was so run down In general health that little 
hope was entertained of his recovery. The Oxy¬ 
gen cured him without change of climate or stop¬ 
ping work, and he says he Is as well as ever. A n- 
other, -who had worked for years as a paying-teller 
In a bank, and was all used up and not expected 
to live beyond a month or two, took the Treat¬ 
ment, and Is a hundred per cent, better and recov¬ 
ering rapidly. Another, who was In the last stages 
of consumption, has ti led It and ts greatly Im¬ 
proved. He tells me he. would have been dead long 
ago out for this remedy. I have no axe to grind In 
making this statement, and if you should not pub¬ 
lish it I would lose nothing by the refusal, though 
tf you should others might be benetitted, which la 
all the end I have sought to compass." Any who' 
may desire to Investigate the claims made for this 
new and natural remedy, can receive pamphlet* 
testimonials, etc., postage free, by addressing 
M essks. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and llll Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
At the ripe age of three-score and seventeen 
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Beaconsfleld, died In Lon¬ 
don, on April 19. His career was one of the most 
extraordinary In English history. Belonging to 
the Hebrew race against which, until lately, there 
was, in England, a bitter prejudice, which has not 
entirely disappeared yet, by genius and energy, 
unaided by family connections, In a country 
where family connections are all-powerful, he 
made himself leader of the House of Common, Min¬ 
ister of Finance In the most commercial of coun¬ 
tries, and Prime Minister of one of the mightiest 
of modern empires. 
[Des Moines lowa state Register.] 
We notice the following lu an exchange: Mr. 
G. B. Haverer, Foreman N. Y. & N. H. S. B. Co , 
suffered for eight days with terrible pain In the 
back, almost to distraction, until he heard of and 
used St. Jacobs oil, one bottle of which cured him 
completely. 
AGRICULTURAL NEW8. 
The University of Vermont and the State Agri¬ 
cultural College form one institution, and hare 
together the present year 321 students, of whom 143 
are medical students, leavtng 78 to pursue either 
the agricultural or classical course.A telegram 
from Chicago on the 20 th says that an unknown 
disease has broken out among the horses of that 
city. It begins with a swelling Jubi below the 
fetlock, which after a little time, testers and be¬ 
comes a discharging sore. It yields slowly to 
treatment; but unless taken early, the poisonous 
matter spreads Itself upward and Infects the 
blood, causing death The horses are, In any 
case, laid up from two to three weeks. About 
350 horses belonging to the omnibus and express 
companies were laid up with It, to say nothtDg of 
the. Illness among the large number of other horses 
In the city....me butter dealers of Washington 
Market—the largest in this city—have unani¬ 
mously agreed that they will not handle oleomar¬ 
garine In any shape, so that they will henceforth 
sell It neither as butter nor oleomargarine.Talk 
about the Jerseyman who stole that red-hot stove! 
here’s a Kentucky man got away with four hives 
of bees!.Gov. Ordway, of Dakota was In 
this city during the past week seeking relief for 
the 7,000 sufferers by the late .Missouri flood. 
He says from fifty to a hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars are needed to relieve the present distress 
.Lately 473 horses were on exhibition in 
Paris, France, competing for prizes aggregating 
$ 02 , 600 ,.. Turkey is the last European country to 
prohibit Importations ot Our hams, sausages, pork 
and bacon Reports dated Feb, 6 from the Argen¬ 
tine Republic say the wheat crop had just been 
saved in splendid condition; and fanners were 
asking high prices. Potatoes were the largest 
crop ever grown and, of course, prices had there¬ 
fore fallen.in New Zealand, according to 
early Feb. reports, wheat about to be reaped 
promised an abundant crop, and the area un¬ 
der it would he sure to Increase for the next few 
years. The wool clip was the best ever known. 
Arable land In England has been gradually de¬ 
creasing In area, the decrease in flve years being 
442,000 acres; and there has also been a decrease 
in the number of cattle, a decrease ot no fewer 
than 3 , 000,000 sheep since 1874, and an appreciable 
reduction In the number of pigs and horses_ 
The S. E. Australia Minister ot Railroads, of Vic¬ 
toria, refuses compensation for damage to crops 
by sparks from engines, and expresses a belief that 
ricks are often placed where they may best catch 
Are.It will he remembered that, about two 
years ago, just after tne English embargo on im¬ 
portations of American cattle, we announced that 
by order of Governor Robinson, of this State, the 
distillery cow stables of Graff, Fleiscbmau & Co., 
Bltssvllle, L. I, were quarantined to prevent the 
spread of pleuro-pneumonia from a lot of Infected 
cattle on the premises. The above firm now claim 
$2,400 for rent which they could have got for the 
stables during the period of quarantine and $300 
for hoard which “humanity obliged them to lur- 
nlsh to the imprisoned cows;” and the supreme 
Court here has just ordeied Gov. Cornell to show 
cause why the claim should not he paid out of 
moneys appropriated by the Legislature to prevent 
the spread of Infectious and contagious diseases 
among cattle. 
Mr. C. F. Mills, Springfield, ill., announces that 
entries for the first volume of the American 
Clydesdale Stud Book close this month.,A 
disease called *• black itch" has just broken out 
among cattle in Jones Co., lowa. The affected 
animal violently scratches Its bead umil the 
hair 1 b rubbed off, and death follows In about, two 
days. it. is thought to he non-contagious. 
The Governor of Michigan has appointed April 28 
as A rbor Day, the idea being to devote the day 
throughout the State to the planting of ornamen¬ 
tal and shade trees.Strawberries sold on 
the Chicago market last Wednesday Tor 60 cents 
per quart. They were shipped from Mississippi.... 
—J. H. Paine, of Wisconsin, has been appointed 
Chief Clerk ot the Department or Agriculture to 
succeed Gen. K. A. Carmen, relieved. 
California produced io,uoo,ooo gallons of wine 
during 1880, of which 700,ooo gallons were sweet 
wine. Of brandy, 450,000 gallons were manufac¬ 
tured ; also raisins to the value of $100,000. The 
sale of grapes lor table use yielded $150,ooo. The 
total yield from the culture of the grape during 
the year isso amounted to $3,600,000.The Da¬ 
kota floods have covered 227,000 acres ot the richest 
Missouri bottom farms.One of the largest 
cattle transactions ever made has Just been closed 
by Messrs. Hughes of St. Louis and Simpson ot 
Weatherford, Texas, purchasing the famous Mll- 
lett ranch near Dallas, Texas, for $300,000. 
Rati freights from Chicago to New York have 
been advanced to $0 per ton. They were $5 per 
ton on grain tor a very short period_In Cali¬ 
fornia and Oregon it Is expected there will be 500 ,- 
000 tons of wheat available for export, for which 
there will be no vessels to carry It until the pres¬ 
ent crop Beason shall have lapped on to its succes¬ 
sor...The New York canals will probably 
not be opened until from May 12 to 15 .The 
exports or wheat and wheat flour from Atlantic 
and Pacific ports since July 1st, isso, have been 
equal to about 162 .!^ million bushels of wheat. 
The exports of grain from Lyttleton, New Zea- 
and, have been: 
188(1. 1679. 1878. 1877. 
Flour, tone. 4.529 8,063 6,508 5.474 
Wheat, bush .3 682,943 1,314,926 1,175,514 98,3,029 
Oats, bush.1,181/326 185,571 213,618 384,Ui7 
Barley, bush. 383,647 60,461 11)1,416 94.680 
The visible supply of grain, comprising the 
stocks In granary at the principal potuls of ac¬ 
cumulation at lake and seaboard ports aud on rail 
frem Western hike and river porta and frozen in 
on New York canals: 
1881. 
April 16, 
bush 
1880. 
April 17, 
(mall. 
Corn. 
.13,378,708 
13,969,947 
2,086,255 
1,350.585 
544,070 
0(08 . 
Barley. 
Rye. 
.. 1,699,9® 
Total. 
40,951,904 
The Duchess of M arlborough has completed ar¬ 
rangements for the entire outfit ot fifteen Irish fam¬ 
ilies, who will be provided with free passes to 
Manitoba and located there In neatly-rurnlshed 
farmsteads.Land Commissioner Coffin, or 
the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, closed on 
the uth lust, the sale of 138,000 acres of land In 
Barry County, Mo., to the Missouri Land com¬ 
pany of Scotland. A large number of Scottish 
colonists will be settled on the land.Accord¬ 
ing to statistics published in the Ceylon Observer, 
there are now S5,ooo acres In the Island planted 
wltu oinehoua, the total number of plants being 
nearly 100 , 000 , 000 , valued at $to, 000 , 000 . About 
10,000 acres are planted with tea, giving an annual 
yield of 500,43)0 pounds. They relative importance 
of coffee m Ceylon has greatly declined.The 
Brazilian newspapers were, at last accounts, dis¬ 
cussing a law’submitted by the Minister of Agri¬ 
culture to the late Parliament for the creation at 
many points in the Empire ot practical schools of 
agriculture, combined with model farms, similar 
to those In France, whence owners of estates can 
get superintendents.The Secretary of the 
Interior has received a circular issued by the 
“ Freedmen’s Oklahoma Association ’’ of St. Louis, 
J. Milton Turner, President, and Hannibal C. Car¬ 
ter, General Manager, it promises 1,000 acres of 
land to every freedman who will go and occupy 
the public lands of Oklahoma, Secretary Kirk¬ 
wood haR referred the circular to the Commission¬ 
er of the General Land Office, with a view to as¬ 
certaining the legality of the proposed occupancy 
of the Government reservations In that Territory. 
In 1877 M de Lavexgne estimated the value of 
the agricultural produce of France at $ 1 , 500 , 000,000 
—Including wine, cattle and all other products of 
the soli, in 1878, Mr. Catrd, who Is to England 
what M de Lavergne Is to France, estimated the 
total value of the agricultural products or the 
United Kingdom at |7S3,ooo,ooo. The area of 
France la double that of the United Kingdom_ 
.. .The largest peach orchard in the world is said 
to he in Chambers county, Ala., near the Georgia 
line. It contains 250 acres, has yielded $70,000 
worth of peaches and la owned oy John Parnell, a 
brother of the Irish agitator, He came to this 
country some dozen years ago, and bought an old 
and worn out farm, which he has converted Into 
this immense peach orchard, and is always the 
first to have early peaches on the market, for 
which he receives high prices. He la getting rich 
at the business.The Importation ot Ameri¬ 
can apples into Bristol, England, reached 14 548 
barrels In 1880. The export trade In green or ripe 
apples from the United States has fluctuated wide¬ 
ly heretofore. In 1870 the value was $ 230 , 000 , de¬ 
clining somewhat in the next two years, but sud¬ 
denly rlBlng to $820,000 in 1878, falling to less than 
one-fourth that In 1874, and nearly recovering In 
1875 ; It dropped again to $222,000 In 1876, rose to 
nearly a million In 1877, and dropped to nearly 
one-third ot that in 187S; rose to $978,000 in 1879, 
and to $1,190,000 In 1880 .Owing to’ the In¬ 
creased demand and ready sale of Merino sheep 
throughout Addison Co„ Vt., the listers In several 
towns are appraising them at $15 per head for en¬ 
tire flocks, which makes dissatisfaction among 
real estate owners, who are well aware that, these 
Merinos will sell readily at rrom $20 to $.50 per head 
for entire flocks. Single sheep In some ot these 
flocks are worth $500 to $1,000 each, and ihe owners 
In several Instances have refused to dispose of 
them at those prices.In Vermont there la 
some complaint among farmers that an unusuat 
number of their dairy cows have "gone farrow" 
this season, which is attributed to drought so 
prevalent last Summer. ..The Vermont Ma¬ 
ple sugar the past season has never been sur¬ 
passed for quantity and quality. Farmers report 
four pounds per tree In some orchards.In 
one hundred years no three, consecutive Januaries 
In England were so cold as the three last.. 
Tormenting: Piles. 
Kidney-Wort Is an unfailing remedy for that 
tormenting disease piles, ir, moves the bowels 
gently and freely, and thus removes the cause. 
Do not fall to try It faithfully either In dry or 
liquid form.—Sun and Press 
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vkgetablb Compound Is a 
remarkable remedy for all those painful com¬ 
plaints and weaknesses so common to our best 
female population. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pink- 
ham, 234 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for pam¬ 
phlets. 
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TROPic-FKtriT Laxative 13 the best and most 
agreeable preparation In the world for constipa¬ 
tion, biliousness, etc. One-halt to one lozenge is 
the dose. Price 26 and 60 cents per box. 
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No one can he sick if the stomach, blood, liver 
and kidneys are well. Hop Bitters keeps them 
well. 
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BURNETT'S COCOAINE 
Soften* the hair when harsh and dry. 
Soothes the irritated scalp. 
AJJords the richest lust re. 
Prevents the hair from falling oft. 
Promote # it* healthy , vtg-oron* g-roicth. 
SPECIAL FROM. THE CHIEF CENTERS. 
Until Saturday, April 23, 
Bouton.—Wooi—There Is a steady demand for 
wool and prices are more settled than for some 
previous weeks, it. looks as If bottom prices have 
been reached for fine Feeces, and manufacturers 
havehe.en operating more freely. The sales of the 
week have been upward of 2 000,0011 pounds, of 
which 468,000 pounds were Uuc Ohio. Pennsylvania 
and Virginia Fleeces at. 4oco«4ic ror X, 404.420 
for XX. uud 43C@440 for XXX and fancy clips, and 
best. XX Fleeces arc now firm at 4 1 • jc. Michigan 
and Wisconsin x Fleeces have been selling at iff® 
39 c, Vermont X at 35c, and New Hampshire X at 
37540 . There la more doing in California Wool, 
with considerable Inquiry for neighboring mar¬ 
kets, New York buyers aud others looking around. 
The sales have been 416,000 pounds, at. 18^<ai30e 
for Spring, and i4c@«r.c for Fall. Pulled wools 
have been in demand, with sales of 331.uuo pounds. 
Including large lines of Western supers at32c@ 
37c, and good and very choice Eastern at40@50o. 
Some considerable X pulled has been sold at 35c@ 
40c. In Unwashed Fleeces there have been sales 
of 280,000 pounds of all grades and quantities In¬ 
cluding thejbest, mediums at S0c@32e. Combing 
and Delaine Fleeces areiqulet, w<tn a few sales or 
fine Delaine and Oomolng at dlor-tSc, and un¬ 
washed at 30c. Coarse combing Wools are dull 
Foreign Wool bus been quiet, with sales of 144 ooo 
pounds Australian at 39c®42c and . 10,000 pounds, 
Montevideo at 300@22o, Montevideo wool Is held 
with more firmness, but It la a hard article to sell 
on account of the small number of manufacturers 
who use It. Carpel Wools have been quiet. 
Chicago.—Wheat unsettled No. 2 Red Winter, 
$1 11(5,1 ll>;; No 2 Chicago Spring, $1 04M@1 04\,, 
cash; No 3 do. 94c<g$l; rejected 76 c®M40, Corn 
active at -tzv.o. bid, cash. May, aud June. 
Oats Irregular at 3eg;e. Kyk firm at. $t 20 %. Pokk 
unsettled at $17 40, cash and May; $17 47#@17 50, 
June; $17 60, July Lard active at $11 20 , cash; 
Htn.x meats unsettled, Shoulders $5 75; Short Rib 
$y 60 ; Short. Clear $9. Butter Creamery choice 
32(5,33c : creamery fair u> good 29i»S0c ; dairy, 
choice 25u. 27c; dairy fair to good 204024 c; packing 
Stock 18®loo; Grease 8®IOC. Chbksb, full cream 
18® 14c; pari skim, choice lOJst&llo; part skim, 
fair to good 9(*l0c; part skim, hard 7@8c; low 
grades 4®6c. Egos were plenty at Me per dozen. 
Seeds were a lltilo more active for clover, lirrn 
and active for timothy and steady for flue. Hun¬ 
garian was firm uuder active inquiry. Prime clover 
ranged at about $4 40(%4 60, prime timothy at $2 55 
@2 6(i aud flax seed sold at $1 17. Sales were made 
of 33 bags clover seed at, $4 50 for choice medium, 
and 90 ror mammoth; two cars and 7(H) hags of 
timothy at $2 82y @9 40 tor poor to good, and $2 53 
%2 60 tor prime ; three cars tlax seed at, $117 on a 
basis ot pure ; one car common millet at $ 2 . 00 . 
Hogs market unset tled; fairly active; mixed 
packing $5 65®$c 05; light, is so®6 10; choice 
hea v y, $c 45 ; culls $6®(l 60. N oth —All sales 
of hogs In tula market are made subject to a 
shrinkage of 40 pounds for each piggy sow, and 
80 pounds for each stag. Dead bugs sell at 2c per 
pound for averages of 200 pouuda and over, and at 
le. for average of less than 200 pounds. Cattle de¬ 
mand good and prices 10 c higher than yesterday ; 
common to fair shipping, $4 70®s 1 6; good to 
choice heavy, *5 50@6 85 ; exports nominally, $5 95 
@6 35 : corn-fed Texans. $1 16(44 75; butcher’s slow 
common weak at $2 6(i@4 30; Stockers aud feeders, 
$3 80@4 60. shkef market quiet and slow, hut 
steady: good to choice. $5 6Q®6; few common aud 
no fine here; prices nominally $4 80@6 26. 
Cincinnati — Wheat strong; No. 2 Red Winter, 
$112(<$$114. Cohn strong; No. 2 Mixed. 4Sc. Oats 
stronger; No. 2 Mixed, 41>j;c. Ryk Irregular; No. 
2, $1 33(dfl 841UKUJT quiet but firm; No. 2 
Fall, $110. Pork quiet, but llrin at $1T; held high¬ 
er. Lard fltroer ar, HiiC. Bulk-meals stronger; 
BhoulderB, 5%c.; Clear Rib. $860, Bueon firmer; 
shoulders, 6 qc.: Clear Rib, 9#c : clear sides, 
9 ?i 0 . bi' itkk—T he receipt ib have uot been unusu¬ 
ally large, but the demand w as smaller than It 
generally ts, arid prices have declined during the 
week 2 ®sc 3 ? u> on the better grades, ana even 
more than this on the medium and lower quali¬ 
ties, the latter, In fact are practically unsalable In 
