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APRIL 25 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
foetus of i\)t IDcek. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 18. 
The New Orleans Times-Demoerat asserts 
that 170,000 of the people of that city have 
never visited the Exposition. But they 
expect people to travel 1,200 or 2,000 to do so I 
.Justice Wylie, of the U. S. Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia, has notified 
the President that he desires to be put upon 
the retired list...Secretary Lamar as¬ 
sured Capt. Couch, the Oklahoma boomer, in 
an interview tbls week, that it was the policy 
of the President to execute the pledge of the 
Government and to protect the Oklahoma 
territory from the intrusion of white persons 
who claim that they have a right to enter 
upon it as public domain, subject to preemp¬ 
tion and homestead settlements. The Admin¬ 
istration, he said, was determined also that 
the cattlemen should leave .The North¬ 
ern Pacific has 500 men pushing the Cascade 
branch line to completion, which will require 
$10,000,000 or $12,000,000 and two years’ time. 
.... The President has assured ex-Representa- 
tive Budd, of California, that he will appoint 
a California man to succeed John Russell 
Young as Minister to China.. Lieut. 
Scheutze, United States Navy, has been selec¬ 
ted to convey the rewards of this Government 
to the natives in the vicinity of the Lena 
River, who aided in the search for the De 
Long party.Grave charges of corruption 
are made against Caron, Dominion Minister 
of Militia. Caron repudiates the charges..... 
Colonel Couch, since the death of Payne the 
leader of the Oklahoma “boomers,” is a na¬ 
tive of this State aud a “Forty-niner.” He is 
medium sized, mild mannered, dresses in con¬ 
ventional garb, and presents no suggestion of 
the wild border-man. He was colonel of an 
Hlinois regiment in the War of the Rebellion. 
...Mr. Vanderbilt absolutely denies that he 
is in hard luck. He says he has lost only 
$12,000,000 within a j-ear ...GeD. Grant. 
much to the joy of everybody, has vastly im¬ 
proved in health during the last few days. 
He has been able to move about the house 
with little or no aid, and has had some meals 
at the family table. His throat has been 
much better, and there has been a widespread 
impression that he may recover entirely from 
his present malady. It has been asserted by 
several of the city papers that the doctors 
have been wholly mistaken with regard to the 
nature of his ailment—that he is suffering, 
not fro m epithelial cancer, as they supposed, 
but from malignant sore throat. The Sun 
and World this morning emphatically state 
that the doctors have blundered; the doctors 
maintain, however, that their diagnosis is 
correct, and that the recovery of the General 
is only temporary', being due to the sloughing 
off of the cancerous growth in the throat; but 
that a relapse must soon occur. Here, where 
official bulletins of the old hero’s health cure 
issued to the eagerly interested public three 
or four times a day, and where private re¬ 
ports are constantly passing rouud, the im¬ 
pression seems pretty general that be will get 
over this attack, and, as many say, “be Presi¬ 
dent again” before be “steps down and out.” 
....The movement of the Canadian troops 
against the “rebels” in the Northwest Terri¬ 
tory is slow, owing to the iuclemency of the 
weather and the natural difficulties of the 
road; but it is reported that a battle will soon 
take place. Other reports say Riel will not 
fight a “pitched battlebut will fall upon 
Gen. Middleton’s communications; cutoff his 
supplies, and barrass him by a guerrilla war¬ 
fare. There are numerous rumors that the 
Government is trying to secure a settlement 
of the insurrection by making concessions to 
the dissatisfied half-breeds. There are many 
reports also that many of the troops are 
wretchedly equipped and armed, while the 
commissariat department is said to be badly 
managed. The disaffection among the In¬ 
dians is also reported to be much more bitter 
and widespread than at first supposed, aud 
large bodies of different tribes are said to be 
joining the “rebs.” Ou the whole, it appears 
not improbable that Canada has a pretty big 
job on her hands in the Northwest........... 
The Manitoban Legislature, finding that the 
half-breed troubles in the Northwest are af¬ 
fecting immigration to Manitoba, protests 
that there is not the slightest disturbance in 
that Province, and that the existing trouble 
is confined to the districts of Alberta and 
Saskatchewan, along the north bank of the 
Saskatchewan River, some hundreds of miles 
northwest of the settled parts of Manitoba.... 
....There was a heavy suow storm in north¬ 
ern Illinois and Wisconsin Tuesday. In Wis¬ 
consin four inches of snow fell......The 
high license bill just passed by the New Jer¬ 
sey Legislature empowers local Excise Boards 
to charge any fee from $25 to $500. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April 18, 1885. 
Across the Atlantic, the Prince and Princess 
of Wales are making a tour through Ireland. 
The“loyalist«” greet, them everywhere with the 
wildest enthusiasm, which provokes the hot 
wrath of the “patriots,” so that there are num¬ 
erous “rows,” black eyes aud bloody noses at 
all the places at which the royal party stops. 
Often the police take a belligereut part in the 
"shindy,” and as the Irish “constabulary”are 
armed with rifles and bayonets, severe w’ounds, 
and a few reported deaths have occurred 
among the masses, while the “bobbies” have 
been by no means unscathed. Parnell aud his 
followers are bitterly opposed to this “royal 
progress” as undertaken to conciliate the 
people, without giving them the substantial 
reforms demanded.The war between 
France and China is at an end. The Chinese, 
having massed heavy forces near Laugshou, 
fell upon the French in overwhelming num¬ 
bers and drove them out of the place, but 
pursued them ou their retreat in a slow and 
ineffective fashion; otherwise they might have 
captured the whole or a greater part of them, 
as their number and strength were sadly re¬ 
duced by casualties in war, aud the unhealthy 
climate. The Chinese with much moderation 
then offered to make peace, if the French 
demand for millions of “indemnity,” were 
withdrawn, and Formosa evacuated. France 
has consented, and is now making peace on 
terms she rejected six months ago, having lost 
millions of money, thousands of men and a 
great deal of prestige in the interval. 
The latest cablegrams indicate that, it is quite 
possible that Eoglaud and Russia may retnaiu 
at peace for the present. If so, Russ'an diplo¬ 
macy and Russian arms will have secured a 
very decided victory. Pendjeb, the point in 
dispute in Afghanistan, has been occupied by 
Russian troops, and a permanent government 
has been established. If England permits this, 
her influence in Afghanistan is certain to be 
soon dominated by that of Russia, and all 
over Asia,the Bear will be more respected than 
the Lion. The present English Ministry seems 
to shrink from war as if made up wholly of 
Quakers. The probabilities, however, are 
still strongly in favor of war, for which the 
Conservative Party, and all the “Jingoes”— 
who constitute the majority of Englishmen 
just now—are clamoring. If left to a popular 
vote, war would probably be declared at once 
both in England and Russia. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. April 18. 
The oranges imported at New York during 
1884 were rallied at about $1,800,000, in a to¬ 
tal of $5,067,851 of green fruit received from 
abroad. Lemons rank next to oranges, ban¬ 
anas next, then cocoanuts, pine apples, grapes 
and limes. The duty on the oranges and 
lemons amounted to $690,882. . 
....The receipts of wool at Boston since Jan¬ 
uary 1,1885, have been 85,279 bales domestic, 
and 10,379 bales foreign, against 77,851 bales 
domestic, and 20,617 bales foreign for the 
corresponding period of 1884. This is an in¬ 
crease of 7,928 bales domestic, and a decrease 
of 10,283 bales foreigu.....It is claimed 
that exporters of live cattle and dressed meats 
are losiDg money steadily at this time. 
.... A total of 851 live cattle, 8S8 live sheep, 
and 1,000 quarters of beef were exported from 
Boston last week.Among the exports 
from New York last week were 1.650 live cat¬ 
tle, 8,960 quarters of beef, aDd 1,830 carcasses 
of mutton..In view of the great scarcity 
of meat in Manitoba and the North-west to 
meet the requirememenfcs of troops, the Do¬ 
minion Government has just passed an Order 
in Council suspending quarantine regulations 
which made it Imperative that all cattle enter¬ 
ing the Northwest from the United States 
should be held in quarantine 00 days, and cat¬ 
tle may now be brought over aud slaughtered 
at once for the use of the troops and the people 
in the Northwest.Poaches are killed 
in Missouri, according to reports, and small 
fruits injured.The peach growers of 
Maryland and Virginia speak hopefully of the 
prospects for a floe crop, late frosts and the 
rot beiug the only drawbacks now to be dread¬ 
ed, as the trees have oume through the long 
and severe Winter in iiret-rate condition, and 
the buds show well ... ..The April crop re¬ 
port of the Secretary of State of Michigan 
shows the condition to be above par.... 
.The McCormick Reaper Company, of 
Chicago, restored the old price of wages, aud 
the strike ended.....The sharpest 
corner is in canued peas...The 
Austrian Parliament has dissolved with¬ 
out enacting the threatened import duty on 
foreign grain. Hungary, as a great gram 
producer, is dissatisfied; but we have cause to 
be quite content.The French Chamber 
of Deputies has fired the import duties on 
cows and bulls at 12 francs, on bullocks and 
heifers at eight, francs, ou calves at four 
francs, on sheep at three francs, on hogs at 
six francs, on lambs, she goats and sucking 
pigs at one franc; on fresh meat per 100 kilos 
at seven francs, and salt meat at francs. 
The Chamber has adopted the entire tariff 
bill by a vote of 281 to 194.The 
Chicago Farmers’ Review, as the re¬ 
sult of a multitude of inquiries, says: “The 
most important fact during the last week is 
the development of the serious damage to 
the winter wheat crop. If we harvest a crop 
of 70 per cent, of the yield of 1884 east of the 
Rocky Mountains we shall do welL The crop 
has been badly winter killed, brought about 
by late seeding, severe weather early in Jan¬ 
uary, and an unprecedentedly dry and cold 
March.” 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, April 18, 1885. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is 3c. higher; No, 
2 Chicago Spring, lc. lower; No. 2 Red 
Winter, 4V£c. higher. Corn, 5c. higher. 
Oats, steady. Rye, 3c. higher. Barley, le. 
higher. Pork, 75c.. lower. 
Wheat. — Wheat active- Sales ranged: April, Bt%® 
8631c; May. ‘'realise: June 8794< 1 90Bic; No. 2 Spring. 
8 l%'* u 1 %e No 3 do,74'»7fic: No. 2 Rod 91%(a92e-No. 8 
Red.35c Cons-Sales ranged: Cash. 447$<*«8e: April, 
43%®I8%0\ May 45%<* IT%C: June. 43%<al7%c. Oats- 
Weak* Sales rauir**d: Cash ttmaSlie- April. Silt*® 
80c: May. .43%*34%i*. Rvit-No. 8, 66%c BAULKY— 
No. V, K8*64c Pork.—A ctive. Cash. $11 55® $lt «0- 
April, $11 55®P 60- May. $11 47%®ll 85. June, $11(1(1 
(ml I a-). Lakd. Firm. Sales ranged: Cash, $6 92% 
®6 95* April, »6 92%®0 95 . Mny, #« June. 
$fiflW6*1u>. Bullcnieats Shoulders, *4 50 r-160: short 
rib, $5 87%®5 B0- short Clear, $6 35-»6 40. Cattle 
—M arket quiet* export. $5 60*6; cows and mixed, 
*2r«T*V2*> Stockers, #3 5*4465: feeders. $3*04*4 65: 
Texans. $44.6 lfi. Haas.—Market weak: rough mix¬ 
ed. 8l.?V*4,50: parkin* aud shipping, $4/0uM.«5. light 
#4.8544.65: skips, $3.503$l 25. Sheep.—M arket active. 
Inferior grades. *825®4 00: medium, $4 00®4 50; wood 
$4 50: choice. *5 25. 
St. Louis.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 red wheat is unchanged. Corn. 
l 8 £c. higher. Oats, lc higher. Barley steady. 
Pork. 5c higher. 
Wheat.—A ctive. No, 2 Red, 98c. cash*. 97%c, 
May: 99%e, .Tune: *111199, July Oqrn-DuII: Cash, 
4?PC*43990: April. 12140 - May. ).>%<■ June, 44e. Oats 
Rasy: Ca*h, 8l%e* May. MWc; June,3Uj,c. Rvf, 
file Baulky -Steady at 5o/a70e. Flaxseed—S teady 
at $1,35 P<mK, *12 25. But.kmkats—L ong elear. *’• 90: 
short rib. #6 l>0<*6 25; 6bort e'esr, *« 2d. Laud-F irm 
at $'i 85®fi so. Cattle - Market firm: Exports, #f,«o 
<45 90: Rood to choice shipping. *5 20 m 5,so- fair to 
medium. $4.P5'm5 Hi; Texans, $4 .ina:5 i.x.i. Sheep Com¬ 
mon to medium $2.2543.00: fair to choice, #4.60 
»4 85. HoaH—Light at $1 SViti 10: packing, at *1.15 
<44.35* heavy ill $4.40®4.7U. 
Boston-. - Grain.— Cork Is In good demand. Steam¬ 
er Yellow.r,5%*456<:. • Steamer Mixed, 55**53%c: No 
Grade .W 49 *55e per bush. Oats are flrm'sule* of No. 1 
White and barley, at 44%®45e: No. 2 White. 41%i»4Se: 
No 3, 4l®41%e. and of mixed ut 4<>%<a42c. V bush. 
Rvb. 77<aHHe. v hush. Barley. Canada West No. 1 
choice extra light 93*95c No 1 Canada West, 83i»90c: 
No 2 do. at 79‘itSle: six-rowed Slate. THiatSe: and two- 
rowpd State, F2v»68. Bran, at *19 F ton for spring, 
and *19 50,420 for winter. Pine Peed and Middlings 
at $19421. and cotton SePd Meal. *26.30 * ton to 
arrive, and *2750428ou the spot, nxv aku Stiiaw 
— Choice grades of liny have been In demand at *18 
<a*i8 50 oer ton, fair to good at $l6i4l7. and common 
(n fair at *1I41\ Rye straw |s held at ttdaift for 
choice Swale Hay at $ 111 x 11 . oat Straw at # 9 ® w 
per ton. New Buttkh — New York and Vermont 
choice dnlry. $2A$*c per It. and fair to good, IV,»?fie: 
Western creamery. 2342%* for f ilr to guild: Imita¬ 
tion creamery, 17® 1 8c for choice: choice ladle pack 
cd, It® 15c. per »: choice dairy t6-<41Sc. and fair to 
gond.lH ai5c, obi Batter hKAIHe for common to choice 
creamery: and 10®14c Tor dairy Cheese—N ew York 
aud Vermont, extra Sept and Oct, ut lt<<Ml%c. B 
tt- New York good to choice at lO®Uo, Western, 
choice, 11<41 l%c: fair to good, S'*ll)e per tfc. Eons 
— Fresh Cape. He: Pastern. 18c; New York 
aud Yt,. lVitLW • Weateru, 1141V : Provincial, 
liable. BRASS -Pea. choice hand picked, *1. VS 41.53 B 
bushel; Inrgo.do, do, $1.40481.45: medium choice. $1.35 
<*1.40: <1o. screened. $1.20*7,35- Yellow Eyes. Im 
proved *1.9iV4l.95: Bed Kidneys. $1.95482.00: Canada 
ocas. Kilo'll 1 05 per bush for common to eholec. 
Green Pens nt # 1 . 1 . 1 *-*’ 4<». Potatoes— We Quote 
Eastern, RosifiSc. V imshr Northern. NV./fitv. Seeps 
—D omestic Flaxseed at Chicago Is nominally at 
$1 3?><zl 89 >i b tsb'-I. Calcutta Linseed to nrrlve Is 
dull nominally *1 Itkml 75 per bushel. Grass Seeds 
show little change. We quote Clover Seed Western 
at 348%e- New York at B.flOc per tb- Timoihv at 
$1 4<y<ni <91 per bushel Red Top at $1 900.2(10 per bag; 
and Canary at 3%®J% per lb. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yohh. Saturday. April 1*. 1885. 
brkadstures A«n Provisions. — as oomoared with 
cash prices a week ago, No, 3 Red wheat Is 1%'c. 
lower- No. 2 Ked Is 2%o, lower. COBN.— Ungraded 
mixed Is lc. higher: steamer mixed Is l%t*. higher: 
No. 2 mixed Is 2c higher: yellow Is lc. higher, 
SLOD8. Kurd and heal. Flour Quotations: Fine 
*y.9043.«l Superfine, *8.5nffl4.0H- Extra No. 2. #3.75® 
4 So: Good to Fancy Extra State, $4 40 * 5.00 Good to 
CTholee Extra Western, $4 60 *6 30 Comm *n to Fair 
Extra Ohio, t'17tV<ii 30 Good, *135 44 50; Good to 
Choice, $4354(100: Common Extra Minnesota, S3 75® 
4 2>; Clear, $1,0044.80- rye mixtures, #4 5044 75: 
stra'glp. * I ?Sfl$5 W- pateul $$.35<*i>.3n- baker's extra, 
■ 4 7541.5 50: St. Louis common to Tatr extra. »475f®4 60, 
fair to good $4 6V®5 .vi; good to very choice. $ 65 * t; 25 
patent, winter wheat extra. tSJmiC 23-City Mill ex 
tra for Wiol Indies, *5U>: South America, #5 10 
<45 80, market closing heavy. ftot’TUXttx FbOim— Com 
nmn to good extra." 81 00 »1.75 good to choice $4 904 
8 IM. Rye Flour Less active and lower. Superfine, 
$4.25®4 00. Oou.n Ukal Dull and declining, "Sasa- 
moro" at $3 45: Yellow Western quoted at *3 23 43 45: 
Brandvwtne at $34195*350 FKEP — qu-ded for 40 
to 50 lbs. at $19 i»V’0- 60 to 90 lbs $19420: UMltix nt $20 
<422. Sharp:; ut $22>a24. Rye feed at $18:420. 1.IN8EEP 
Oil Mkal, — Car lots, *25 40 in bulk, $27 40 sacked. 
fie.list. -Wheat.—N o. 2 Chicago, to ar'tve, eo-d. 
freight and Insurance, idle - ungraded Winter red, 
90c.-a$l 03■ No. 3 red. 35c- No v red 97c, free on 
board from store. 98 1 ,p«9 r M, ) 'e, delivered from store 
and rail receipts, 3Hl4'S39c, In elevator: ungraded 
white, $1-41 Mi: No. 2 red for M<»y 9694 «,U9$4e: do. 
June :H4<o'it$l 02: do, July. #1 OOVs'^l.lGKe: do, August, 
#10 )Ta« 103: do, September. #1014105- do, October, 
#1 ll74s,<:. Ryic - Market dull. Western, 79 475c Stale. 
73e- Canada. 75c. BaRijo ant, Harlky Malt. Dull 
and unehauged Corn —Ungraded mixed. 51 1 54c 
steamer mixed, 5*i»3lloc. lu elevator, 54 1443494 c, 
afloat No. 2, mixed, 5B<454c, In elevator. JMts-aNftc, 
afloat- No 2 white SS'-, In elevator yellow. in 
elevator low mixed, 92)$o. In elevator; No 2, 
mixed for A or! I, 68l$w.5ie: do. May. 5346-46 , ;7^e do, 
June. 53i4 l *55i4c do, July.54G.*KiHe. Oats—N o. 8, 
mixed, 8 K 0 ; No. 2 . 384b4:ftTik\ in elevator: No. I, 
nominal, We- No. n, white, i\R,<!: N"o 2, fleetl'4e: No. 
1. 4 c: mixed Western 394411c white do, 40 444c: 
white Stare, 10441c- No. 2, mixed for April, 
39c- do, May. :|9 Aa'439'5al- do. June. 84*iyt40e. 
BEAKS.-quotations uri-: Marrows, $! 334&1.90- medl- 
ams. $1 5V*1 fill: pea, $1,55-41 50; red kidney $2*2 05, 
turtle soup al $29)42 80- white kidney at $1 80*1 85.' 
Peak.-G roeu are quoted at #1 25 for new; Southern 
blackeyed. #Ss5per two-bushel bag. 
PROvrgfOfB.— Pork—The quotations are as follows: 
#18<ai8.25 for me**: #11.25 413,7.5 for family mess; 
$14 25-416 for elear back, (the latter for fancy), aud 
$1(1.75-411 for extra prime. Dressed Hons Sales at 
14 * 0 . for buctju to 6 A,e for light average- nnd 7e. for 
pig*. Crrr Mkat* Cutters are very nr-ni In prices. 
12 lbs average pickled bellies at 6 igC. bid. Sales 
art: pickled bi-llli'.i, 10 It average ut 6 lve: 13 tb, nver- 
ngcatd'ac Olty pickled shoulders nt 5*4c: smoked 
shoulders, 61 . 40 : pickled hams, 9 < 4 »l$c- smoked hums. 
I 0 > 4 ® 1 ie. Middles For long and short clear, half 
and half, nt Chicago. 6.10 Is quoted. Berk.-E xtra 
India mess. $25<a'R: extra mess in barrels at $1150 
6*12 • packet al $12ii»U50 for barrels: plate beef at 
*11 Mot 12 50: family at #13-411, Bckk IIamh Quoted 
at #20a2-'.25. I.Aitp—In May option sales ai7.2tic. 
dow n to 7 20c- Jour op'lou sales at 7 .15,-. down to 
7.27c: July option sales nt 7 42c. down to 7 35c. August 
option sales at 7 . 43 c, down to 7.41c: September closed 
al 7 51. as against 7.57<#7.59c, the eloso of yesterday. 
(Jlty Btoam is down 10 points, closing,with 7,10c, the 
best bid, but little inclination to sell at that price; 
sales at 7.10c. Refined is dull-Continent quoted at 
7 45c and South American. 7 75®7.85c. 
Butter —Quotations-New butter—Creamery, Elgin 
host, 26427c: do. Pennsylvania, best 25i'rt.2'Ie; do. West¬ 
ern , best, 25c: do prime 23<<ti24c do, good at 20r*2(c; 
do, fair at 13<*l9e- State dairy, hnlf firkins, intis, best 
at 23c. do, half ilrklns. tubs, extra flue, 2l<v22c: 
do. half firkins, tubs, good, at I9«t2fle- do, Welsh 
tubs, hirst ut - c ; do welsh tubs, prime, at 20® 
21c do, tubs, good, nt ivnise do tubs, poor, at 
i;5»17c Western Imitation creamery, best, at 
13®20c: do. good, nt i.wiTe; Western dairy, lino, 
at 11 ®Ul-: do. fair, at 10<4I lc: Western factory, best, 
at 1B® 1 6g do, poor, 94100 rolls, bent, ut I lfitlJC: do, 
fair, at l<l<<M2c. Old butter- Creamery, State, firkins 
15® 18c- do. State dairies, firkins and tubs, '5® 17c; 
do, good, 18414c; 00 . fair, H»l2e: State dnlry. fir 
kins, fine. 1 . 8 tlTe: do gcod. 1 S®i4o: do. common, 
lltol'e. Western dairy, fair, at tOollc- do, common 
at SiitlDe.- Western factory,fair, S®9e grease at 4)c«o5c. 
At the Mercantile Exchange the following tele¬ 
grams were received: From Philadelphia. -Market 
firm. Quoted, extra creamery, nt 2(!c: Western 
do, at 25®28e: receipts, 650 From Boston -Market 
steady. Western creamery do, 250*200- dairy at-23® 
24c. From Chicago,-Jlarket quiet. Creamery at 
25c. 
Cukk.sk. Quotations: Fancy colored, it'^'tolMKe 
(home trade lots. 1241214c.): fa'cy white, Jlj4<41U«c 
choice. 1li‘j®i04se: good lots, 3® 1(9: fair do fiaHe light 
skims. 4*<e: skims, bu.'lc- Ohio Mats at. lOe. lor 
beet,7400* for fair to good Penneyivaula skims, 
2!4®*Hc, for good, and for common. 
At the Mercantile Exchange the following tele¬ 
grams were received- From Philadelphia—Market 
steady* quoted, Cheddars at IMVJVfje receipts. 1,000 
lxixes. From Boston—Cheddars at 1141114 c. From 
Chicago Market steady: cheddBrs.SXaiOc. 
Eoos. The quotations are: State, fresh, at 16c: 
Western, 15)<i®l6c: Southern. 15®l5J^c. 
At the New York Slercautlle Exchange the follow¬ 
ing telegrams were received: From Philadelphia— 
—Market dull Quoted at 15c.: receipts. 2,361. 
From Baltimore—Market easy. Quoted at t4L.®15e; 
receipts liberal. From Boston—Market firmer. 
Quoted nt I5®l6l4c. From Chicago—Market firm. 
Quoted at 13!a® 13 -)ac. 
Live Poultry The quotations are ns follows : 
Winter chickens, per pair, 75c®$1 25 fowls. Jersey, 
Stare nnd Pennsylvania, per lb, 18e do. Western, 
12®13C: roosters, old 7®5c: turkeys, per lb .lil®12c: 
ducks, Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania per 
pair. 90c 4 *1.25: do, Western, per pair. 75c»#1: geese, 
Jersey, New York aud Pennsylvania, per pair, 
11.75 *2.00' do, Western, per pair $l.Wk*$1.62; 
pigeons, per pair, 50e. 
Duksskp PorLTRY.—Kronen at 11-4100. for turkeys, 
and 10.413c for chickens. Fresh killed-turkeys. 12 ® 13c: 
chickens, Philadelphia, spring, per pair, at 30c 
w,50c; Jersey and Bucks County, dry picked, 17®l‘)c; 
fowls, Philadelphia, prime, I5®l6e; do. Jersey, 15® 
16c, s<iuubs. while, per doz , $ 1 50; do,dark, per doz, 
$3«3.©. 
Game Wild ducks, canvas. Western, per pair. 50c 
®sl; do, redhead, Norfolk, per pair. 50c.®60c: 
western at 40®60; Mallard at 25®40c; wild pigeons 
at $1 75 per doz. 
Cotton.—T he quotations according to thu 
can classification arc as follows: 
New 
Orleans 
Uplands, and Gulf. 
Amcri- 
Texas. 
Ordinary. 
.... 8*34 
9 
9 
strict Or Unary. 
.... 9 8-1(1 
9 7-16 
9 7-16 
Good ordinary .... 
.... 10 
10 % 
10 % 
strict Good Ordinary. 
.... 10 % 
.... 10 11-16 
10 % 
10 % 
Low Jtlddliing. 
11) 15-16 
10 15-16 
Strict Low Middling.. 
.... ldtf* 
11 % 
11 % 
51 bid ling. 
.... 11 
11 % 
11 % 
Good Middling. 
.... 11 3-16 
11 7-19 
11 7-16 
Strict Good Middling, 
.... 11% 
H% 
11 % 
Middling Kutr. 
.... 11% 
12 
12 
Fair. 
••• V2% 
Stained. 
12% 
12 % 
Good Ordinary-.-• 944 
I Low Middling.... 
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Fertilizers.- Bl-monthlv report of prices. The fol¬ 
lowing quotations are retail prices, many quota¬ 
tions published refer to cargo quantities at whole¬ 
sale prices and are thus misleading Quotations: 
South Carolina Phosphate Roek delivered f. o.b. 
ears or boat here In bags 200 lbs 50 460 per cent, bone 
phosphate, $15418 per ton. Nitrate of soda 98 per 
cent. 13*19 per cent, ammonia 800 lbs. bags, 2$#®3o. 
per pound. Sulphate of ammonia 25 per cent, am¬ 
monia 300 lb*, bbls, 8M089$O. Per lb. Dried blood, 2c. 
—$40.00 per ton. Sulphate of Potash, 1944194 c 
per lb. 48 to 30 per cent,—#40.00 per ton. Murl 
ate of Potash. 7Wi per lb. for 80 per cent., $ 45.00 
per ton. Kalult, $14*15 per ton. Bone, fine ground, 
$35.50/r.58 per ton. Bone, dissolved, $2 >,ixi per ton. 
Dissolved bone black, $29 per ton. Mapcs Po 
into manure, $18 per ton. Bukvr tt Bros. Potato 
manure, $45 per ton; do. corn manure, $45 per 
ton; do. Oat manure. $15 per ton. William’s, 
Clark <4. Co’s. Royal Bone Phosphate, #32 per ton, 
do.. Fish and Potash. *7r per ton: do. American 
pure bone meal, $33 per ton. hardy’s Acidulated 
Rork 13 to 14 per cent available phosphoric acid, $20. 
to $22.50. 
Fursh Knurrs. -Apples: Baldwin, per double 
headed bbl. $3 0043 25; Greetilngs, $3<#3 25, Cranber¬ 
ries—Jersey, choice, per crate. $3,50*1; Jersey,' 
poor, per crate. #3®8.25; Florida oranges ut * 1 . 00 ® 
$4.50 per box for best, and $2.50®3for poor. 
Dried Fruits.— The following are the quotations: 
Fancy evaporated apple*. r,i^®7c: choice uo.Ultmfi'^e; 
common to prime do. 5®«c • fancy Sort a Caro¬ 
lina stm-drisd sliced, 4c, choice do., 3Q®31$c ; 
choice Virginia.8®'iQe, choice Tennessee course cut, 
3c.: Kentucky do. In barrels. 3>$®3'qc: extra fancy 
Nond Carolina.needed peaobet, runny uo.iu 
®liU$e; choice Jo>®9ttic; fancy Gisirgla ilUc; chotce 
89$®9c; u 11 peeled haD-e*. 7t#'*»sr-. ilUficeled quaners 
6w,'u.7c- Stnfr plums, gt(®4e.- Damron*. Sc: enoleo 
pitied crx’rries. 121** 130’ prime do, UV«d2c; evapo- 
rateil raspberries, Vj xSiVgc sun-ilrled do, 23®24c ; 
nluekberries, toatoi^c; huckleberries. t3®13q,c. 
Peanuts.—Q uoted at 4>#u4«ic. for best hand picked 
and 3!>4®3!4 c- farmurs* grades. 
Hay and Straw. We quote;choice Timothy hay, 
$103. good do, 9 e 4#1- medium do, H5®90c; slilpplng 
grades, 75:*80e: elover mixed, 75<*35c. clover. 65®70c. 
Straw—No, 1 rye. S5®9Je; short rye. 65#70c; oat, 50® 
KOC 
flora.—Price* are about steady. Quotations nre as 
follows; New 14416c, for best; liatiio. for good to 
prime; 8 411c. for low grades: old nt K®Ue; Pad* 
fie coast at 8®l2c. The hop fields are now about 
bare of snow, hut we need a few days of sunshine 
to enable growers to get Into them. 
Rick,—Q uotations: Carolina and Louisiana, com¬ 
mon to fair, at |4i45'<c: good til prime at 5l*<c6e; 
choice nt 6Vt,®(i4f,c; extra heail At<4$46Mc: Rangoon 
at 47*®5c: duty paid, and 264,4294c In bond; I’ntna at 
4'K®47fie; Java at 5$g®5S#c. 
Seeds.— For clover there is a fair demand: prices 
are strong Quotations nre at 9c, tor prime Western: 
9t#c. for choice, and Sue. for extra choice. Timothy 
Is quiet aud unchuugcd: quoted ut $1 55® 1.65. Lin¬ 
seed Is nominal* quoted af $1,85. 
SiJUAK.—The quotations arc: 
Cut louf, K7dO*6i(,c; Crushed. 6 7-U3®8l«c: powd¬ 
ered. «®6Woi grapqhued, mould >a A,”fi.94®«o; 
confectioner* 1 ”A." 544 ; standard “A.” 5U®5 0-16c; 
off A, 3J4®5 9-100! white extra ’’C," 5t#45)#c' yellow 
extra “C,” 4i»4®5e* ’’C,” 4 , H,*l't4C; yellows, tt$®4»4C. 
Tallow. -Choice city quotfst at 6V#c prime elty 
6c. with $2 charge for packages. 
Vkoktaiii.es.— Quotations are for :— Potatoes— 
Rose, Maine, per double-headed barrel, #2 a 2 .2.5; Rose, 
State, rouud hoops, 51.13 xl 37; do Hat hoops, $1 62® 
1 75; do, per ISO n>, #1 til® 1 75; Burbauk, State, round 
hoops. $1 624$1 75 4H bbl; do flat hoops, $1 b2; do, ISO 
n>, $1 50®1 62; Peerless, State, V 180 It, $I.50®1 62 Mug- 
ntun Bonum, Scotch, per sack, $175; Champion do 
