THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 2S 
ms of tl]e tVffk, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 19. 
New York City has 40,000 gam Were outeido 
of Wall Street.Although Frenchman 
are spoken of as “ frog eaters,” It Is asserted 
as a fact that more frogs are now eaten In 
New York alone than in all of France. 
Prof. Packard, acting President of Bowdpin 
College, died suddenly Sunday.The 
late six days'go-as-you-please walk, at Cbi 
cago, was won by Punchot, who made 400 
miles.The Court ut. Quebec denied the 
application for the extradition of John E. Eno, 
the New York bank president, who swindled 
the Metropolitan Hank out of $4.000,000. 
Secretary Folger has decided that such foreign 
baggage as wedding trousseau, wedding 
presents, etc , are dutiable. The decision, how¬ 
ever. seems to conflict with the recent decision 
of the U. 8. Supreme Court in the Astor case. 
.A company while boring for 
natural gas 12 mile* from Pittsburg. Pa., 
hasstruck oil, causing intense excitement in 
that neighborhood.Letter-carrier* will 
probably not lose their 15 days' variation, 
according to the act of Congress, notwith¬ 
standing the failure to appropriate money to 
pay substitutes during their absence. 
_The yellow fever is quite bad at Guava- 
inns Mexico. There are several cases at Ma- 
zotlan, and people are fleeing from the latter 
place The Ilermosillo authorities have qnar- 
antined the Swiora Railroad. Thn fever this 
year appears confined to the Pacific Coast. 
.After the discovery of frauds in the Bu¬ 
reau of Medieine anil Surgery. Secretary 
Chandler had the accounts of other Bureaus 
overhauled, and they were found to be all 
straight.The New York Emigration 
Commissioners have decided that, no more as¬ 
sisted immigrants shall lx* permitted to remain 
in the country if objection >* made by one 
member of the Board . Over 200 promo¬ 
tions have been made in the Pension Office at 
Washington.The Sub Treasury bus 
pai<i out about. *91X1.000 In silver dollars since 
April 1. The silver coin is coming into the 
Sub-Treasury foster than it. is paid out. The 
banks throughout the South are continually 
sending ft hick and asking for either national 
bank bills of small denominations or silver 
certificates .The decision of President 
Charh*- Francis Adams. Jr., of the Union Pa¬ 
cific Railroad Company, to discontinue the 
publication of monthly reports of the opera¬ 
tions of that company, recalls the fact that a 
very few years ago he was an earnest advo¬ 
cate of publicity regarding the conduct of 
railroad companies as essential to a perfect 
HV'd.ein of corporate management ... Gen. 
Diaz lias been elected President of Mexico 
without opposition. He will Msume office 
next December HO. Gonzales, now President, 
on retiring, will txoome Governor of the State 
of Guana Ouato.The Committee en¬ 
gaged in revising the Old Testament has fin¬ 
ished it* lubors. After its submission to the 
Convocation the Testament will be issued to 
the public. T wel ve of the twenty seven mem¬ 
bers died during the revision.... .There 
w „ remarkable performance at the Chicago 
driving park the other day, Westmont. the 
noted voung pacer, traveled one mile with a 
running mate in 2:03%. This is the fastest 
time ever made for any distance by either 
a pacing or trotting horse. It beats all re¬ 
cords by several seconds.It is 
understood that, friends of Judge-Advocate 
Geueral Swalrn of the army will seek to 
have him retired, and that he has become 
a wreck physically and mentally in conse¬ 
quence of nervous prostration, llis court- 
martial has been postponed till September.... 
The National Educational Association, held at 
Madison, Wisconsin, has attracted 3,000 
teachers, and promises to be the largest 
educational gathering ever held in America. . 
It is nnnmmced that, no more one dol 
lar notes can be supplied by the Treasurer un¬ 
til nbout the first of August. The order for 
their preparation could not he given until 
after tlie appropriation bill was passed, and 
the failure to fflipplv is due to the delay of 
Congress.At Cincinnati, Coroner Mus- 
croft has ended the investigation upon the 
dead bodies of persons killed in the- Into riot. 
He enumerates 88 whose ladies he viewed. Of 
these he finds that < 'apt. Desmond was killed 
by unknown persons in a mob. one man, 
Gnetz shot himself accidentally, another, 
Smalz was unlaw full v shot on Sunday after¬ 
noon bV militia, and all others were justifiably 
killed, thev having failed to obey the com¬ 
mand of the sheriff to disperse. On Mon¬ 
day Secretary Frelirighnysen instructed by 
cable the consular officers at London. Liver¬ 
pool Marseilles. Havre. Bordeaux, Bremen, 
and Hamburg to at once appoiut competent 
physicians to inspect nil vessels and passengers 
departing for the United State* from the porta 
mentioned. The consular officers referred to 
an* instructed to refuse clean bills of health in 
all cases except, upon recommendation of the 
sanitary inspector that such bills be given. 
Consul* are instructed to report by cable any 
cases of infectious or contagious diseases 
ki.own to exist on board a vessel at the time 
of her departure for the United States. This 
course is adopted in order that health officers 
in our ports may have timely warning of ap¬ 
proaching danger, and be prepared to take 
such nn-asures its shall prevent the scourge 
from gaining ft foothold in this country. It. is 
probable that under authority conferred by 
thi- contagious disease clause of the legislative 
lull, medical examiners will be appointed as 
aitacln'-s to American consulates .at French 
ports infected with cholera, whose duty it will 
be to report periodically upon the progress of 
the disease.Towing dues in the Welland 
Canal, Canada, have been reduced 25 per cent, 
.At the latest dates the visible supply 
of sugar in the markets of the world was 
1,021,963 tons.The board appointed by 
Congress to represent the Government at the 
New Orleans Exposition will a bo take charge 
of tbe g’ovemnietit exhibit ut the J/Ottisvnie 
and Cincinnati expositions.. ..... J’hc 1 rea- 
sury Department has paid tbe following 
claims for expense* Incurred by State govern¬ 
ment* during the war of the rebellion: Ohio, 
*90,246; New York, *54.946; Michigan. *42,- 
346; Massachusetts. *26,619., ..... .The Gov- 
eminent of Liberia, Africa, colonized-chiHiy 
by American ex-slaves, has made an appro¬ 
priation of *.’>.000 to defray the expenses of the 
exhibition of its prod nets'at the New Orleans 
Exposition.There are promises of a 
war of rates between tb«* leading telegraph 
companies. This is better news for the pnhlic 
than for tbe stockholders in the rival organi 
zatlons.Chicago courts are usked to 
put the estate of W. F. Story, owner of the 
Times, into tbe bands of a con servator because 
of his mental incapacity. He is partly para¬ 
lyzed, and said to be almost an imbecile T he 
application is made by his brother and tbe 
children or his sister*, who are his only heirs, 
and is the outcome of a quarrel between them 
and Mrs. Story, who is a third wife. Tbe 
estate is supposed to l>e worth *1,iX*0,00n .. . 
. The father of Charlie Rws has spent *60,000 
in the search for his son, and examined over 
700 cases of boys supposed to be his. .. 
“Bob” Toomtis. of Georgia now 74 years old, 
stoops a good deal and walks with difficulty. 
He has lost flesh in the last few years, and a 
cataract is destroying his sight....An 
international convention of Mexican war vet¬ 
erans is to be held at St. Louis early in Octo¬ 
ber to allay bad feelings between the United 
States and Mexico. President Diaz, of Mexi 
co, promise* that 50 prominent veterans from 
Mexico will attend...... Ten thousand lulls 
were introduced into the lab* United blutes 
Congress, and out of them 173 became laws. 
A small harvest, for so much seed I. 
Messrs. Aquilla Walsh and II. H. Smith have 
been ap|M*inted Joint Commissioner* respect¬ 
ing conflicting claims to lands in Mat itoba, 
Canada .The Salvation army have de¬ 
cided to test the validity of the London City 
bv-law at the high court at. Toronto, Canada, 
this week, and the Mayor has given itutruc- 
tions to stay further proceedings against them 
until a decision is given....... ■ .The United 
States mints last year increased the number 
of silver dollars by 2 h. 000.01K), making 175,- 
000,000 coined since 1*7*. Four-fifths of the 
number coined annually remain in the Trea¬ 
sury, and only about. 40,000,000, or one-quarter 
of the whole, have been got into circulation.. 
......To complete the Census of I8H0 will. 
it is thought, take 1* months more, although 
the last Congress extended the time only uotil 
next January. The originnl bill, io 1*79, 
limited the expenses of the Census Office to 
*3,000.000. Two years later the Superintendent 
of the Census asked for *600.000 to make it 
"full and satisfactory-’’ The time set for the 
issuing of the last volume was December, 1881. 
The census people are now asking for even 
more time than they did then....Gov. 
Ordway. of Dakota, is again being invest)gat 
ed. this time, at Redfleld, in his own State, by 
tbe local authorities, and again asks that, the 
job be done thoroughly. United States Dis¬ 
trict Attorney Campbell is on the stocks with 
him, and the’inquiry concerns everything in 
general rather than anything in particular... 
.C. P. Huntington, the millionaire 
railroad king, was quietly married to Mis. A. 
D Worsham at New York, Saturday morning, 
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher officiating... 
Lost Thursday afternoon n cablegram from 
81 Johns, Newfoundland, announced that the 
United States steamers Thetis and Bear had 
rescued aeven survivors of the Greely explor¬ 
ing expedition, having found t hem at 9 P. M,. 
June 33. at a point five miles west of Cape 
Sabine, iu latitude 78deg. 45 min., and longi 
tude 74 deg. 35 min. west. The survi vors were 
Lieutenant and Brevet-major A. W. Greely; 
Sergeants Brainard, Fredericks and Long; 
Hospital Steward Bittlerbeek; Private Con¬ 
nell; Sergeant Ellison. Sergeant- Ellison had 
both hands and feet frozen off, and died abort 
ly after he was found. Their condition when 
found wus most desperate. They were on the 
verge of starvation, and had on hand only u 
few fragments of boiled sealskin strijrs made 
from clothing. Eighteen others perished at 
the place before relief came. Their names 
and the dates of their deaths are:—Sergeant 
Cross, January 18. 1884; Esquimaux Fredertk 
Christiansen, April 5; Sergeant Linn, April 
6- Lieutenant Lockwood April Sergeant 
Jaw ell, April 12; Private Ellis, May 19; Ser¬ 
geant Ralston, May 23; Private Whistler. May 
24; Sergeant Israel, May 27; Lieutenant Kis- 
lingbury, June 1; Private Houry, June6; I rl- 
vate Schneider, June 18. The? bodies ut the 
following five were not found, having been 
buried in the ice and sw ept, away j—S ergeant 
Rice. April 9; Corporal Saler. June3; Private 
Bender, June 6; Dr. Pavy, June 6; Sergeant 
Gardner, June 12; Esqutineau Jens Edwards 
wus drowned on April 29 while out in his kyak 
scaling. Greely cables to Gen. llnzen:—“For 
the first time in three centuries England yields 
the honor of the farthest north. Lieutenant 
Lockwood and Sergeant Rraiuard on May 
18 reached Lockwood Island, latitude S3 deg. 
24 min., longitude 44 deg. 5 min. Thev saw, 
from 2,000 feet elevation, no land north or 
northwest;” but, there was an open polar sea. 
Americans can now boastof having been near¬ 
est, to the north pole at ft sacrifice of only 19 
lives, this time. 
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It Will Cost You Nothing. 
“For what?” For a medical opinion in your 
case, if you are suffering from any chronic 
disease which your physiciau has failed to re- 
lieve or cure. “From whom? 1 From Li's. 
Starkey & Palen, 1109 Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, dispensers of a new Vitalizing Treatment, 
which is now attracting wide attention, and 
by which most remarkable cures in desperate 
chronic cases are being made. Write and ask 
them uot only to give an opinion inyour case, 
but to furnish you with such information in re¬ 
gard to their new Treatment as will enable you 
to get au intelligent idea of its nature and 
action. It will cost you nothing, as they make 
no charge for consultation. — Adv. 
AGRICU LTURA L NEWS, 
Saturday, July 19. 
New York used up last year a million dol¬ 
lars’ worth of chicory from California in the 
manufacture of coffee.The Indians are 
harvesting the grasshoppers which have ap¬ 
peared in great numbers at Lincoln, Roseville 
and vicinity in California. After drying 
them, they shake off the wings and store them 
away for winter food.Seven thousand 
acres of land in the Adirondack region, N. 
Y., were sold lost week at referee's sale. The 
State held an individual half interest in the 
laud which was bid in by the Comptroller at 
* 1 75 an acre. A nother parcel of 400 acres 
brought *4 an acre.Two years ago 
there were no cattle to be seen grazing on the 
lands north of the Yellowstone, between 
Glendive and Miles City, in Montana, and 
now it is estimated that 30,000 head graze over 
the same lands, which were then the favorite 
resort for large herds of buffalo.The 
crops throughout, Prussia arc iirmsnallv good. 
.A storm in Moravia. Austria, has 
caused Immense damage to the crops,....... 
... The exi*orts from Boston last week in¬ 
cluded 1,936 live cattle and 824 quarters of 
dressed beef.American dressed beef is 
just now bringing no more in England than 
in some of our Atlantic cities.There are 
now from 4.1X0,000 to 5.000.000 more hogs in 
Europe than there were two years ago. 
It now costs about. *7.25 per head to transport 
live cattle to Europe, and insurance rates are 
two per cent.The increase in pork pack¬ 
ing in the United States, since March 1, over 
the same part of 1883, is 250,000 head. 
The chairman of the Committee on Dairy 
Product* reports to the Pennsylvania Board 
of Agriculture that it costa *39 to raise a 
heifer, and that her value I* *40,...... .The 
Nationui Stock Yard*, East St. Louis, Ill., 
rete>rt, again of 5,602 cattle. 50.186 hogs, and 
16,908 sheep in the receipt* of the month of 
June, over the same month of 1883 .. During 
the past six month* the steamers of the War¬ 
ren line have taken 14,016 cattle and 6,691 
sheep from Boston for Liverpool. Of this 
number only 55 cattle and 124 sheep were lost. 
During the corresponding period last year the 
steamers carried 11,402 cattle and 24,031 sheep. 
...TheOntario Experimental Farm, Guelph, 
Canada, has lately bought 35 thoroughbred 
cattle, of the Short horn. Aberdeen, Hereford. 
Galloway, Devon, Ayrshire, Jersey, and 
Guernsey families, at an average cost of *400 
each, and an assortment of prime sheep, em¬ 
bracing the leading English breeds. 
.T, H. Lenry, of Crawford, Ga., has raised a 
sweet potato 4% feet long, and varying from 
10 to 10 inches in circumference! It grew al¬ 
most- straight down into tin* earth .. W hile 
the people of the Northern States are sbivermg 
in a cold wave, they nevertheless hear with 
due appreciation that melon* and figs are a 
drug in the New Orlcnn* market, and that the 
farmer* of Florida arc plowing under their 
early tomatoes and cucumber*. Everything 
comes to a balance in so vast a country. 
The Trustees of the Mississippi Agricultural 
and Mechanical College have decided to create 
in that institution a department of dairying, 
and to appoiut Mr. J. N. Harvey as Professor 
of that art.At trie Exposition to be held 
in Denver, Col., next Fall, the show of cattle 
will he large.A new livestock and 
poultry association win formed at Port Allen, 
T.a recently.Miss Kate Field will soon 
invest *10,001) in cattle on a Colorado ranch. 
She would have bought the mavericks at the 
round-up the other day, had they not been 
already sold. “If I had got those mavericks, 
1 could have named the outfit ’The Orphan's 
Herd,’” said she. Pure Al»erdeen-Angus 
cattle arc uot numerous either in their original 
home or else when-. There are now living in 
Scotland about 2.600 mules and females, and 
two-thirds h< many—a few more than 1.880—in 
this country. The sates in America for the 
year 1883 show a grand average per head of 
*516 28 for about 300 cattle sold .Nova 
Scotia farmers are becoming seriously alarmed 
over the gradual spread of a peculiar disease 
among cattle, which originated about 80 years 
ago. It. is not- contagious in the ordinary sense 
of the word, yet slowly makes its way among 
the herds of the country. Two years ago the | 
Domiuiou Government appropriated *20.000 
for slaughtering Infected animal* and quaran¬ 
tining those known to have been in contact 
with diseased ones. The effect has been bene¬ 
ficial. but the disease is net yet stamped out.. 
_The Belgian Government, some time ago, 
published instructions to the people as to the 
way of cooking pork to destroy trichinae. 
Since then no cases of trichinosis have oc¬ 
curred there. If our foreign-born population 
would listen to like instiuclions, as given in 
the Rural, there would bo no more eases here. 
.In Arkansas some strawberry grow¬ 
ers, anticipating a large yield and low prices, 
gold their entire crops on the vines to dealers 
at five cents a quart, and are realizing from 
*100 to *150 per acre for their fruit.No 
fewer than 100 societies exist in Scotland, 
whose object is to promote and maintain the 
purity of'the Clydesdale horse.... Georgia wa¬ 
termelons have begun to move, and dealers say 
that the Slate* will get *500,1)00 for them from 
t he West alone_The closing day or the Chi¬ 
cago Driving Park meeting, was marked 
by the breaking of two records. "Phallus,” 
the young stallion owned by "Jay-Eye-Sees” 
owner, trotted the fourth heat of the free-for- 
all in 2 13?*. breaking “Smuggler's” great re¬ 
cord of 2.15 V*’ by 1H seconds, nud the fastest 
record for h fourth heat. -The report that 
the sOeep and cattle industries in Western 
Texas are threatened with annihilation by the 
drought, is confirmed. Sheep men are arriv¬ 
ing daily at Eugle Pass., Tex., seeking ingress 
to the Mexicftu water holes. The streams on 
the American side of the Rio Grande are dried 
U p.Southern planters have great Lopes 
of the operation this year of the cotton-picker 
invented by Mr 1 . Mason, of South Carolina. 
The machine was thoroughly" tested last sea¬ 
son; all that remaiued was to simplify and 
cheapen it, and now with many improve¬ 
ments, it is put upon the market..The 
appearance of cholera has sent up the price of 
peppermint 50 cent* a pound. This country 
raises 30.000 pound*, and the new crop will not 
be in before September. It usually brings *3 
a pound, and is largely adopted as a preven¬ 
tive, or cure for cholera........ The following 
are the exports of live stock from the T>ort of 
Montreal for tbe week ending July 12. with 
comparisons:—Cattle. 3.406; sheep. 39,140. 
Last week, 2,288 cattle and 253sheep; corre- 
K dlng week last year 1,764 cattle. 7.346 
p. Corresponding week 1882: cattle 521, 
sheep 5,940. From the opening of navigation 
to date. 21.630 cattle. 4,917 sheep; last year, 
21.799 cattle. 11.830 sheep ... Tin* Chicago 
Live Stock Exchange inaugurated a rule. July 
1. abolishing the dockage system, and agree¬ 
ing to set aside piggy sows and stag* and sell 
them alone, on their merits. The packers have 
passed resolutions that thev will not submit to 
the change. The commission meD arc stand¬ 
ing by their colors, and a dead-lock in the 
market has ensued...... .The Mark Lane Ex¬ 
press, in its weekly review of the grain trade, 
says: “The thunder-storms prevalent during 
the week generally favored the crops. There 
is no fresh feature in the market, but values 
are slightly weaker.”.The Wool Grower 
estimates that the introduction of double-deck 
transportation would add 85c. per head 1 o the 
value of the sheep in Texas........There are 
about ono million goats in Texas, five to 10 
percent, of which are clipped for their fleeces. 
A small proportion arc well-bred Angoras — 
....Dairv farming has assumed wonderful 
proportions in Great Britain, where it i* now 
growing more rapidly than in any other coun¬ 
try in the world. The amount or capital em¬ 
ployed In dairying by farmers in tbo United 
Kingdom is estimated at no less than from 
*875,000,000 to *1,000.000.000. and that by 
landlord* at from *6.500,000,1 hX) to *7,000,000,- 
000. These are vast sums and yet it is only 
too well known that British dairy farming is 
capable of much further development. On an 
average, about three pints of milk are con- 
mimed weekly by each person iu the U nited 
Kingdom, while the weekly consumption of 
cheese i* about four ounces, and of but ter 3V£ 
ounces. Our contributor, Prof. Sheldon, cal¬ 
culates that, to supply London alone no fewer 
than about 800,000 cows would be required- 
....The Yates County (N. Y.) Fair at Penn 
Yan, will be held Sept. 23, 24 and 25, instead 
of Oct. 8-10, ft* at first determined, and an¬ 
nounced in our Fair List last week. 
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Butter Buyer* 
everywhere are refusing to take white, lardy- 
looking butter except at. “grease” prices. 
Consumers want nothing but gilt-edged but¬ 
ter, and buyers therefore recommend their 
patrons to keep a uniform color throughout 
the .year, bv using tbe Improved Butter Color, 
made by Wells, Richardson & Co., Burling¬ 
ton. Vt. It is the only color that can be relied 
onto never in jure the butter, and to always 
give the perfect color. Sold by druggists and 
merchants.— Adv. 
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You never cease to praise Dr. Graves’ 
Heart Regulator if you ever use it in Heart 
Disease. Druggists.— Adv. 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, July 19. 
Thirty-five million bushels of plump wheat 
in Ohio this year, against 25,IKK),000 of poor 
quality last year, is the estimate of tbe State 
Board of Agriculture. In addition, oats, bar¬ 
ley. potatoes and hay are pretty close on to 
full crops, while corn promises well. Thus is 
presented a very good outlook for tbo business 
of the State. 
Tbe San Francisco Call publishes reports 
from all the agricultural counties of the State, 
showing a loss, by the June rains, to wheat of 
135,000 tons, and to barley of 80,000 tons. The 
loss on wheat is equivalent to P e >‘ cent, on 
the gross yield, which was estimated in May 
at 1,800,000 ton*. The loss ou barley is about 
12 per cent, on the May estimate of 660,000 
ton*. 
The Oregon harvest promises great, things 
to tbe Portland News: “It is safe to say that 
the crop this Fall will be one of the largest 
ever harvested iu till* State. With a wheat 
crop of 18,000.000 bushels, a wool clip of 
10,000,0(K) pounds, a large hop yield aud an 
immense fruit crop, iht* Pacific Northwest will 
rapidly overcome the effect- of tbe short crop 
of last year. This is essentially an agricultu¬ 
ral community, and a good crop of wheat, 
fruit, wool and hops menus, good times.” 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, July 19, 1884. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices 
a week ago, "regular" wheat is higher. 
Corn, 4>aC. higher. Oats, l?*c. higher. Rye ) 
2c. higher. Pork, lc. lower, but for August 
75c. higher, owing to the ** corner.’ 
W heat.—W heat unsettled, ana room active: opened 
Uc, higher, advanced . declined Wo%e., reacted 
IW.viao. and dosed I ilfec. above the tlnal quotations 
nt8iM«d3c. Coil#'—Unsettled and active, opened « 
higher. Improved palV^e.. declined 5i'.. rallied 
r*al<- and closed me, above the latest fwnreut the 
afternoon Hoard yesterday; cash ut &3to 3bjc.. July 
atBSKfeSSKc Animat. at&W September at 
USfittMtc. October at 5l%*5j*4e. November ar 4BJ4C. 
all th** year nt M94 «<5W,c. 0*r*. -Unusually active: 
cash sold early nt :«.r,j(iqc- July at JO <*»i4*e; August at 
•IfiV .*27c.: September3554all thoyeJW 
Btc Firm al 83c. Hoik Dull, but steady; cash at 
#1*4.17; July and August a*. September at SOLIS 
October a£ $2ltit$ll.i!5; all the year at #1 l.uCfejll. 
Laud - Firm and fairly active; pressed advanced 10® 
7.UiW(a7.l2j6c. Bijlk Meats- Quiet, shoulders at 6c.: 
short rli* ati.lbc.; short clear at s.'.’Oe. ft hiskey at 
#1.10. Hoos—Mixed at, iS.ibfctVZA: heavy at #6.30* 
#5.60; light at #5*3)5.65; skips at #l.3f. *#l.'< '. Cattle- 
Exports at #6.H0i*i#6.S5; good to choice shipping steers 
at #fi.l5;<3)#6.J5; common to medium at #5.4iKu,$6: about 
8,500 head of grass Texans of from 510 to lbs. sold 
ltx&20c. lower at #3.GO&#l.liO. Suxur-Supply large 
