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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday,February 9, 18S0. 
The New York Herald has headed a subscription 
list to relieve the famishing people In Ireland with 
$ 100,000 .. In Washington, on February 2d, a draft 
of a bill to reorganize the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture was submitted to the full House committee 
on Agriculture, last week by the Sub committee. 
The Sub-Committee was Instructed to perfect this 
bill and report It to the Committee next Wednes¬ 
day. This hill will recommend an enlargement of 
the powers of the department. A majority of the 
Committee are In favor of making the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture a full-fledged Cabinet officer, 
with the same salary and emoluments as other 
members of the Cabinet. A provision to accom¬ 
plish this object will be Inserted In the bill now 
being prepared by the Sub-Committee Mr. Co¬ 
vert, Chairman of the Committee, will make a 
minority report to the House, recommending the 
abolition of the Department of Agriculture. He 
will also oppose any attempt to make Mr. Le 
Due a cabinet officer. Mr. covert does not believe 
that it Is the provluce of the general Government 
to run a Department of Agriculture any more than 
to create a department of mining, a department 
of stock raising, shoemaklug, or any of th« other 
industries of tho several States_Utes attacked 
a supply train carrying ammunition and rations 
to Major Morrow in New Mexico the other day, 
but they were beaten off toy C’apt. Carroll and 60 
soldiers and scouts In charge, one Navajo scout 
being killed aud two soldiers wounded. Accord¬ 
ing to latest accounts Major Morrow was closely 
pressing VloWrl.t and his baud of Apaches, aud 
other troops were heading off the savages.... 
Preparations are under way for a new American 
Arctic expedition under the direction of Dr. Emil 
Bessels, late elder or the scientific staff of the Po¬ 
laris. It la to be fitted out by private enterprise, 
and will sail tor tho North next year via Jones's 
sound, where Dr. Bessels intends to establish a 
meteorological ataiion, to co-operate with those 
of the International congress. At this station a 
yacht will be kept to maintain communication, 
while the principal ship of the expedition, a pow¬ 
erful steamer, will explore the unknown regions 
to the northward and westward.... There Is great 
excitement In Denver, Colorado, over a new dis¬ 
covery of gold near the mouth of the canon of the 
Platte, a mile from the south Park railroad, and 
only 20 miles west of Denver. A vein of mineral 
ores was struck in the Dolly Varden mine at a 
depth of 20 feet, last Friday, aud specimens assayed 
give the value of the ore at $ 21,199 per ton, $ 20,176 
oc it being gold. 
The third trial of Mrs. Smith and “ Cove” Bennett 
for tha murder of the former’s husband, a Jersey 
City policeman, has resulted in their acquittal.... 
The politicians all over the country are laying out 
no end of work over conventions big and Utile j 
but they ought to bear In mind that, while it takes 
a great many conventions to nominate a man for 
the presidency, It only takes one election to defeat 
him. A poll of the republican side of the House 
at Washington gave Blaine 42, Sherman 10 , Wash- 
burne 4 and 11 blank, with a large number of ab¬ 
sentees.The democratic national committee 
meet at Wash) ugtou February 2.1 to decide when 
the next national convention shall he held.It 
has been secretary Sherman’s ambition to reduce 
the public debt below $ 2 , 000 , 000,000 while he was 
at the head of the treasury. Last, week he came 
within $7S4,ooo of bringing it down to that point, 
and this month’s statement will no doubt see the 
debt, less cash In the treasury, below $ 2 , 000 , 000,000 
FOREIGN. 
The Irish famine Is growing apace. While the 
people are starving In thousands there’s a world of 
wrangling about the uses of the funds contri¬ 
buted for their relief. This Parnell agitator In 
this country seems to be the chief cause of the 
trouble, and will probably cause more injury 
than benefit to the distressed population The 
chief fund hitherto raised Is that or the Duchess 
of Marihorough, wile of the Viceroy of Ire¬ 
land, amounting to more than $ 200 , 000 . Par¬ 
nell charges that only those who pay rent and 
truckle to the landlords are relieved from this 
source. This assertion Is emphatically contra¬ 
dicted oy tue Duchess and a host of others, among 
them some of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops. 
On the other hand Parnell and his crowd are 
charged with refusing to relieve rent-paying ten¬ 
ants from the proceeds of the contributions he Is 
gathering here. The Herald fund will probably 
soon be tue largest, and will certainly be the best 
administered 
In Silesia, also the famine la exceedingly severe, 
and the efforts among the German-speaking people 
to relieve It are second only to those of the Eng¬ 
lish-speaking people to mitigate the distress In 
Ireland. Italy, too, especially the Southern prov¬ 
inces, Is hard pinched, indeed, were It not tor the 
supply of food of all kinds which America Is pour¬ 
ing Into Europe, our traus-atlanUc friends would, 
most of them, he in a famishing condition. War 
preparations and war surmises arc still the order 
of the day among the curious public, while occa¬ 
sional assurances that everything Is delightfully 
peaceful, coming from the rulers, have little effect 
on the minds of the masses. 
The London standard's Vienna correspondent 
says^Parnell'e reception at Washington Is regard¬ 
ed here as a mere comedy.’’....The London Stand¬ 
ards St Petersburg dispatch says the Government 
Is about to start u journal to combat the Nihilists. 
_The Tlmes'8 Berlin dispatch says the LUtra¬ 
montanes in the Bavarian Chambers have re¬ 
solved to appeal to the King, Imploring him not to 
consent to the augmentation of the army....The 
cession to England or a strip of the African Gold 
Coast, as a measure of prevention of the smug¬ 
gling of spirits by American traders, was officially 
THE BUBAL NEW-Y0BKEB. 
announced In the House of Commons Friday. It 
was also confirmed that correspondence between 
the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Busslau Gov¬ 
ernment had been discovered In Cabul.,.,The 
exciting parliamentary election In Liverpool re¬ 
sulted Friday In the return of the Conservative 
candidate, Mr. Edward Whitley, by a vote of 26 ,- 
106 to 23.8S5 for Lord Kamsajt the Liberal candi¬ 
date, who had made a hid for the home-rule vote 
pledgffig his support to an Inquiry Into the ques¬ 
tion of home-rule. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
La., estimates this year’s sugar crop at 175,000 
hogsheads of a finer quality than usual....The 
total home clip of wool last year amounted to 232 ,- 
500 ,000 pounds ...The 8. c. Board ot Agriculture 
has just employed a. permanent chemist that 
analyses of commercial fen tlizers may always he 
obtained ... 8. c. charges a privilege tax of 25c. 
on every ton of fertilizer sold or offered for sale 
In that State.... in Denmark wheat occupies 5 per 
cent, of the whole cultivated area ...Russian 
wheat from the Baltic has t.o be mixed with Ger¬ 
man or Danish wheat to lit It for the English 
market The total amount of estate sales re¬ 
ported at the Mart, London, Eng. for the year 1879 
was £7,693,764. The corresponding figures ror ihe 
three preceding years were 1876, £ 10 , 495 . 927 , 
1877, £11,738,832; 1878, £9,839,397. Dr, Glen Of 
Cal. Is said to have had 45,000 acres In wheat last 
year—yield suO^JOO bushels ... By the late reduction 
of tax on tobacco the government loses $ 1 , 000 ,- 
000 yearly; the grower gels no more for his crop; 
the consumer pays as much for his “weed,” 
but the middleman laughs The dairy business 
in Cal. is largely In the hands of the Swiss who 
piactlcesoiling almost exclusively Europe pro¬ 
duced «ll,ooo cwis ot hops last year, and America 
I55,u06cwts—There sa" boom” Just now on the 
Norman-l’ercheron horse_The American Agr. 
Ass. Is going ro Issue a semi-annual periodical ... 
The Maine beet sugar factory Is said to have used 
9,000 tons of beets In '79, and made 1,440 000 
of sugar, which sold for 8* c. per pound.... A beet 
sugar factory Is to he started at Franklin, Mass., 
with a German Superintendent and a capacity of 
150 tons dally — Delaware peach growers got 
$ 1 , 500,000 for their 3,961,235 baskets of peaches 
last year—Five cotton factories near Peters¬ 
burg, Va„ give work to 715 operatives and used, 
in’79, 9,000 bales of cotton_aoo wagons loaded 
with tobacco came into Lancaster, Pa., one day 
last week ...The largest sugar mm in the world 
will soon be erected In 8t. Charles parish La.,— 
weight of mill and engines, 300,000 pounds.... 
Owing to the advance In prices ot Iron and wages, 
the National Association of stove Manufacturers 
on last Thursday raised tllh wholesale price of 
stoves to fix cents per pound, with extra for 
trimmings, etc.—they all do it.The regular 
ticket nominated for l8$o-'8i, by the present board 
or managers of the Internarlonal Dairy Fair Asso¬ 
ciation, Is:—for President, Hon. Hln$m Smith, 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; lor Vice-President, Col. R. 
P. McGlincy, Elgin, 111; for Treasurer, W. W. 
Dexter, Chicago, Ill.; for Secretary, col. R. M. 
Litller, Daveuport, Iowa .. At wholesale the best 
Carolina rice is selling at 7% to cents per 
pound, while East Indian rlco commands but 0 to 
6 cents per pound.... After the mills now being 
construe led oro completed, Minneapolis, Minn., 
can turn out 16,000 barrels of flour per day_ a 
(Quebec merchant has experimented successfully In 
shipping beef to England In the carcass. The ani¬ 
mals aic beheaded, the entrails are taken out, and 
the bodies pressed into a small compass and irozen. 
The hide la not removed until the voyage Is over, 
and It Is claimed that, the meat is superior In ap¬ 
pearance to other Imported beer, and keeps longer 
_A London paper, in tracing the inode In which 
122 of the titled families ot England have acquired 
lands, states t hat scarcely a dozen or the number 
got. them by professional or commercial pursuits. 
The writer asserts that not one-tenth of the 5,5uo,- 
000 acres possessed by the 122 was acquired for 
value received. They were gifts of erownlands. . 
..David Dows, the great N. V , capitalist and grain 
speculator, la said to have 45 Out men huylng corn 
up In la., for an expected rise before next harvest: 
In some parts of la., corn has sold for 15c. per bush. 
_The N. J. Game Society are arranging to let 
loose a large number of quail In different parts of 
the State next spring and call on the people to see 
that the game laws are rigidly enforced,...The 
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance company, of Kalama¬ 
zoo, Mich., has a list of 2,002 members, paid out 
$11,486 85 (Of which $9,229 52 were for losses), aud 
has $US4.50 remaining In the treasury. Assess¬ 
ments on members during the year were $8,- 
046.94. . The Canadian Dairy Association will hold 
Its annual convention at London, Out., Feb. 18-20. . 
The ninth annual convention of the N. Y. State 
Dairymen’s Association and Board will be held 
at Utica Feb. 10 -H. . . The creameries in lowaare 
paying $llo toll.20 per one hundred pounds for 
milk this winter. That Is more than 60 percent. 
higher than that paid lu the summer_Several 
farmers In Kentucky are working their Short¬ 
horn cows. They do as much plowing as horses, 
and feed better for the exercise they have. . . At 
the receut annual meeting of the N. Y. State 
Grange the following officers were elected for the 
next two years:-Master, W. A. Armstrong of 
Chemung; Overseer. Guy Shaw of Yates; Lectur¬ 
er, Prof. W. B. Lazenby or Tompkins; Steward, 
General E. F. Jones of Broom; Assistant steward, 
W. C. Gifford of Chautauqua; Treasurer, J. A. 
Varney, of Erie; Secretary, 11 H. Goff, of Mon¬ 
roe ; Gate-keeper, Allen Potter of Cortland; Ceres. 
Mrs. 11. Stone of Oswego; Pomona, Mrs Elliot 
Makepeace of Jefferson; Lady assistant Mrs 
llungerford of Tompkins; Executive committee, 
L. II. Bishop (chairman) of Jefferson; F. f. Capeu 
of Monroe, (Secretary;) S. O. Potts of Columbia; 
W. A. Armstrong of Chemung; H. H. Goff of 
Monroe. At the late annual meeting of the Ne¬ 
braska State Board of Agriculture, the following 
officers were elected for 1880:—President, Martin | 
Dunham; Omaha; 1st Vice-president, J. T. Clark¬ 
son, Schuyler; 2d. vice-president, .T. B. Dins 
more, Sutton; Treasurer, C. Omaha; Secretary, 
D. H. Wheeler, Plattsmoutb; Managers, J. F. 
Kinney, chairman; E. McEnlyrc, R. Daniels, 
G W. E. Dorsey and E. N. Grenell. Competitors 
for Arbor-Day premiums must do the planting on 
tho third Wednesday in April next... .Illinois is 
to go Into cheese heavily next season, and lowa ex¬ 
clusively— well, nearly so—Into butler making_ 
The Department of Agriculture has bought 10,000 
pounds of Early Amber cane from one Minnesota 
farmer for $1,000. ...Abundant rainsm California 
have enabled farmers to plant 3,000,000 acres of 
fall wheat—a thing that has never happened 
before_A bill before the Iowa Legislature pro¬ 
hibits the sale or diseased swine.... The average 
wheat yield per acre In the Uidled Slates In 79 was 
13 9-10 bushels_Maine farmers have an Idea that 
sugar manufacturers aud refiners are pocketing an 
unfair share of the proceeds from sugar beets.... 
The negro exodus Is beginning to be very disagree¬ 
ably felt by planters who can't get enough laborers 
in several parts of the South... Great Britain 
has 175,000 acres In orchards—10,000 more acres 
than last year_ Lamartine, Mich., Is encour¬ 
aging the cultivation of Early Amber sugar cane... 
South Carolina basket Willow Is said to be equal 
to the best Imported... .A sugar beet factory Is to 
be started In Oswego County, N. Y.; 25 men will 
raise from 1 to 16 acres of beets next season for It 
—not nearly enough to make It pay_A sugar 
beet convention will be held at Elmira, N.Y., April 
is. Experts will toll all about the Industry ... 
There are 20 schools of forestry In Franoe_Far¬ 
mers about Amherst, Massachusetts, led by Levi 
stockbridge, are urging that the state pay a bounty 
of a penny a pound on all beet sugar made fer a 
term of years.,,. Norfolk, Va„ Is to have a cotton 
factory.... The Committee on Agriculture of tho 
Massachusetts Legislature recommend the adop¬ 
tion of a memorial to Congress providing tor legis¬ 
lation to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneuinonla. 
. The A. A. A. Is begging tor annual memberships 
for $1 and life memberships tor $50. Cattle hoots 
are worth $50 per ton for ham buttons.. In France 
18,000,000. It Is estimated, live by agriculture, 9 ,ooo- 
ooo by manufacture.... in 79 France produced only 
605,400,oou gallons of wine—506,ooo.ooo gallons less 
than in ’78, and 660,000,000 gallons less than the 
average for the ten preceding years....Tne next 
N. Y. State fair will probably be held in Albany, 
tho owners of the fair grounds there being less 
hoggish than those at Rochester... .A resolution is 
before congress for the appolutment of a Com¬ 
mission to Investigate the cotton worm, its ravages, 
and the most effectual means of exterminating it. 
.... Very successful annual State Grange meetings 
have lately been held at Milwaukee, Wls., and 
Bloomington, 11L Membership said to be Increas¬ 
ing... It is said the National Grange is about to 
make a combined attack on high rufiord freight 
charges, and memor&lize Congress for legislation 
against thorn. An effort is to be made to secure, 
say 4 , 000,000 agricultural votes to the party that 
promises the most before the next general election. 
. . Tile steamer strethleven with an experimental 
cargo of fresh meat, ao steers and several hundred 
sheep from Australia to London, arrived In the 
Thames last Tuesday. Meats In good condition. . 
....In the past seven years 4,000 stallions aud 14- 
000 brood mares have been shipped from England 
to Germany ana Austria—a good evidence of the 
high opinion entertained there ot British thor¬ 
oughbred horses_In order to meet the antici¬ 
pated Increased demand of our cattle trade, It is 
said that upwards of 70(11) steamers are now being 
built in Great Britain expressly to meet the re¬ 
quirements of this interest.... Messrs Smith aud 
Powell, or Syracuse N. Y. lately shipped 19 Hol- 
stelns to Texas. 
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Our Progress. 
As stages and stage-routes are quickly aban¬ 
doned with the completion of rati roads, so the 
huge, drastic, carlhartlc pills, composed of crude 
and bulky medicines, are quickly abandoned with 
the introduction of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purga¬ 
tive Pellets, which are sugar-coated, and a little 
larger than mustard seeds, but composed of high¬ 
ly concentrated vegetable extracts and are war¬ 
ranted to cure all irregularities of stomach, liver 
and bowels. Sold by druggists. 
Thosb Complaining of Sore Throat, hoarseness 
or “ taking cold.” should use “Brown's Bronchial 
Troches The effect Is extraordinary, particu¬ 
larly when usec^by singers and speakers for clear¬ 
ing the voice. 
Why be sick and ailing when Hop Bitters will 
surely cure you 7 
THE GI8T OF THE MARKETS. 
For once the comparison of prices between this 
week and last Is omitted, but we would advise aU 
interested in the mailer to make the comparison 
themselves. It Is an Interesting way of passing 
time, and (pursued for a few months) would be 
highly Instructive. 
Next week we shall begin to quote prices of fer¬ 
tilizers, as the season for these is now at hand. 
Tho Mark Lane Express, In its review of the 
British grain trade, says: "All out-door work la 
again stopped by frost. Thrashing occupies the 
attention of farmers, and home-grown wheat. Is 
consequently more liberally offered. In some dis¬ 
tricts, notably Yorkshire, fears are expressed that 
recently-sown wheat has been frosted, or, from 
Borne other cause, is deficient In vitality. Many of 
the early-sown fields elsewhere, however, are look¬ 
ing well, borne improvement Is noticeable In the 
condition of the home-grown wheat offered at the 
country markets, hut aU, except the choicest lots, 
have been neglected. The Imports of foreign 
wheat Into London have been moderate, and Amer¬ 
ican especially small. Business has been quiet, 
and the week’s demand was of an ordinary con¬ 
sumptive character, principally for descriptions of 
foreign wheat available as a substitute for English. 
According to a moderate computation, it, la esti¬ 
mated that the requirements of Great Britain 
and France will reach 12,000,000 quarters be¬ 
tween this and August, exclusive of the quan¬ 
tity now afloat. Notwithstanding this, trade 
continues discouraging to holders. As a con¬ 
sequence of Uheial stocks to select from, and 
the bad demand for nour, millers have shown 
no desire to do more than meet present require¬ 
ments. It seems scarcely likely that any marked 
rise can be expected before May or June. Under 
any circumstances, It will be necessary for the 
American ‘ring’ to hold over siocka some time 
longer. The arrivals at ports of call have been 
small. The demand for wheat has been quiet and 
somewhat Irregular at a decline of Is and 2s. per 
quarter. Maize, notwithstanding Its scarcity, re¬ 
ceded 6d. per quarter. Wheat for shipment was 
very Inactive, though offered at is. and 2s per 
quarter less. .Maize was slow at a decline of 6d. 
The sales of English wheat last week were 36,903 
quarters 45s, 7d per quarter, against 54,792 quar¬ 
ters at 39s. id. per quarter for the corresponding 
week last year, ihe Imports Into ihe United 
Kingdom during the week ending January it, 
were 593,455 cwt. of wheat and 22S,510 cwt. of 
flour.” 
Baring Bros, circular of-Tan 23 savs: Wheat 
market continues dull. Bales—California October 
blit ol lading per wooden ship at as. ad ; Oregon 
prompt iron ship at 55s. t. q per 600 pounds, i al¬ 
lforma terms. Calcutta new No 2 ciub January, 
February shipment via Canal, at Ms, 3d s d. per 
402 p*umla. The average price of English wheat 
for the week ending 'uuuary 17 was 458. -lid. on 
32 871 qrs. returned. Maize steadier at ztis. 2 s 
tor mixed American. ('Oiton -East, indie fairly 
stoady, with a moderate demand, but American 
future close 3-16U. per pound lower. Sales tor the 
week, 2,320 bales spot. ;of which 350 Tmulveily at 
6qd<^.6 6-iod; 620 western at 5 i-14d®6 15-I6d; 
1,200 Bengal at 5Md@5?id.) and about 2u,000 to ar- 
rlve.and ior forward delivery. Liverpool, sales 
53,640 bales. Middling Orleans at 7„qa; middling 
upland at 7d. per pound. 
SPCIALS FROM ALL CENTERS. 
Until Saturday, Feb. 7. 
r Baltimore.— Wheat Southern red at $1 35@$i 40 ; 
do. amber at, $1 45®i 50; No 2 western winter red 
$144)*'. Corn Southern white at ai58<aoic; do 
yellow at BSC ; western mixed, spot, and February, 
BT*'@r>7MC; Marchal56Ji(«5aiiC; April. 52>tf®32;‘.;c. 
May at 52)g{ai52?it*.; steamer ul 65c. Oats easier; 
southern al 4ir<i!48c; do. mixed at. 43*4470; Penn¬ 
sylvania, 47is4.se. Rvk quiet at oor^aze. ii.iy 
prime tocholee Penn, aud Aid. $17<<®I5. Butter 
steady ; prime to choice western packed at 20® 
26c; roll, 1802LC. Egos Arm at 15®i6c, 
Bom on.—Since last report corn, oats and rye are 
steady; shorts, $1 higher, other articles not men¬ 
tioned. 
Western superlice flour at $505 25 ; common 
extras at $5 25®«; Wloconsln extras, $5 5006 25 ; 
Minnesota extras at $0®7 25; winter wheats dull 
at $6 50®7 tor Ohio and .Michigan ; $fl50®7 25 tor 
Illinois and Indiana ; $I®i 75 tor Sr,, l.ouls; patent 
winter wheats a' |i@,3 On , patent .spring wheats, 
Including Wisconsin and Minnesota at $ nan. corn 
— mixed aud yellow at 6000811 . Oats steady; sales 
of No. 1 and extra white at 6M54U.; No. 2 white, 
49xc.; No. 3 white and No. 2 mixed at 4 T 049 C. 
Rv k at 95c Shorts selling at $21 @21 50; fine reed 
and iiilddltugs at $21 50®t,22. IUy and straw — 
Day Is in moderate demand- Wc quoin nrst qual¬ 
ity coarse Eastern anil Northern at $15010 w ton ; 
poor and medium at$11® 14 ; Kykstkaw $ 2 l® 22 S 
ton. Produce—T he vurlods articles are steady and 
In wood demand. The following prices are paid by 
receivers: Butter-N ew York and Vennouteholco 
creameries at 2S03oo 15, fair to good 25®27c; 
Fall dairy-made, choice 25028c, Winter dairy- 
made at 18023, straight dairies, choice, at 21028 , 
dairies, common to good, at 18®22C; Eastern and 
PElsiaud, 18020 c ; Western—choice creameries 
30@33c, choice dairy packed at. 281325 c, choice 
ladle-packed 21 ( 922 c, fair to good do 1804200 , com¬ 
mon 15(oil7c. Cheese—T here has been a firm 
demand ; « holee Northern factory mt<.*a ie ty lb, 
fair to good at 12013c. and common. 9® 110 ; \\ esl- 
ernlaetory cRofce 58014c; lair to good 11012c ; 
common 9®hic. Eons-Eastern at 21 * 1 . 220 , North¬ 
ern is® 20c ; Western 10018c y dozen. Pisans— 
Northern hand-picked Pea at $1 80 ( «.i 90 y bushel; 
do. do. Western at ?l 7&(a>i si; do common $1 iin® 
$1 75 ; medium choice il 5501 tin; common to good 
$135®140; Y’ellow Eyes $2 109112 IB; Ked Kidneys 
at $175®! 85 Canada Peas 80 C(iA$i y bushel for 
common to choice. Green Peas $i 50® j 85. Pota¬ 
toes arc very quiet; we quote lloulion and MalhO 
central Rose53(na5c y bushel: Houston Jackson 
Whites at 4004 c—; Vermont Rose at $ 45 @ 5 o: do 
Jackson at 40o%-; Peerless at 40® 15, and rrolUlos 
at 000 55c per bushel' Onions- $3 mi ®3 75 «■>, bbl. 
Aitlks at *1 5o®2 75 bbl, according to quality, 
Cranbkkhiks at $6®8 60 bbl. Seeds-W e quote 
Clover .Seed as quiet at 8 9 yc y m for Western 
anil New York; l Irnotby at $ 3 ,ns 10 y bushel; Red 
’l op at $2 70®2 uo y bag; Canary seed at $2 45 ® 
$2 85, and American Linseed $1 60®1 55 « bushel; 
Calcutta $2 3702 40 . 
Chicago —Wheat unsettled No. 2 Chicago 
spnug *1 21 cash; $z 2 u. 4 V. 7 i 21 % March; $1 
22 X April; No 3 do. at $1 06 ; rejected at one. 
Corn unsettled at 35 l-2e. cash; 35 fie. March- 
40 1-2C bid May. ovrs dull, at 3lfc@3ivc. cash 
and February; Mo. April; 367c. May. Uye 
steady at 76 1-2C. Barley dull at 82c. Dressed 
hoos weak ul ft 8004 9a. Pork active hut lower 
at $11 60c. cash ; $11 7(jc. Man h; $11 H7 l- 2 e April. 
LakdIu fair demand, but lower at 7c. cash; 7 117 
1-207 100. March; 7 17 1-207 200. April. Bulk 
meats quiet, and weak; shoulders at 4 lue; short 
rib at 0 45c; short clear at 6 5oc. Koos. Fruit 
house at 8®l0c ; fresh at Me,. Potatoes Car-lots 
quoted at 50®56c. and store lota at ft.i^ir.c The 
sales are to the city irudo. Poultry. Chickens, 
dressed, 6®7C per pound ; turkeys, dressed. 9®t0c. 
per pound; ducks, dressed. I® Do. per pound- 
geese, dressed, dMo. per pound Seeds Timothy 
active nud firm, selling at $2 65@2 75. prime clos¬ 
ing at $2 Ti> 0'2 }ii. The offering only tan . < lover 
algt stronger, being In belter request with rather 
small offerings of fresh lots Bales reported at 
$47o®486. Flax at $l 6201 63. Butter — there 
Is a fairly firm feeling among holders of choice 
picked butter, but, for anyihlng not answering to 
that description the murket com limes weak, the 
supply of low and medium grades considerably 
exceeding the demand. Creamery 27®32C: good 
to choice dairy 2291 . 20 c ; medium 1802 nc; inferior 
to common io®16cj Roll I602oc. Cfi kksr —a firm 
tone pervades the market, both for lull cream 
and skim cheese. Dealers report a comiuued 
good demand at the following range ot prices; 
full cream 14 >i@isc ; part skim I2>j®i3e; low 
