MAY 2 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tins ut i\)t U>erii. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 25. 
Grant is better—nearly well; but many 
fear the recovery is only temporary.♦ . 
..There is no Lieutenant-Governorship in 
Maryland. In this the State is not singular, 
as the Constitutions of Alabama, Arkansas, 
Delaware, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, 
New Jersey, Oregon, and West Virginia all 
fail to provide such an officer....The El 
Paso Times says: New Mexico spent last year 
for liquor $0,455,000 and for churches and 
schools $45,000.Dram shops are de¬ 
fined by the new legislation of Kansas as 
“common nuisances.”...A law has been 
enacted by the Alabama Legislattire fining a 
man $100 if he gets drunk out of his own 
house_... .The election in New York next 
November will be noticeable for the number 
of state offices to be filled. A Governor, Lieu¬ 
tenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comp¬ 
troller, Treasurer, Attorney-General, State 
Engineer and Surveyer, 32 State Senators, 128 
Assemblymen, and a large number of import¬ 
ant county officers' will be chosen. This year 
is the first time since 18751 marked by so many 
vacancies, and the thing will not occur again 
until 18!ll.... Ex-Senator Pendleton has sold all 
his possessions in Cincinnati, and now has not 
so much as desk-room there.United 
States Treasurer Wyman, having resigned 
voluntarily to take a business position as the 
head of a trust company at Omaha, the Presi 
dent has appointed Mr. Manning’s friend, 
Conrad N. Jordan, to this important position. 
Mr. Jordan has been cashier of the Third 
National Bank of New York and treasurer of 
the New York, Ontario and Western Rail¬ 
road, and is the financier who prepared the 
new debt statement.. The will of Mrs. 
Eliza W. Morgan, widow of the ex-Governor 
of New York, leaves $3S3,0U0 to her imme¬ 
diate relatives and friends, and distributes 
$135,000 to various benevolent institutions.... 
Francis Copeland and Frank Watson, well 
known stockmen, had a dispute at a horse 
race in the Indian Territory, and began shoot¬ 
ing at each other with Winchester rifles. 
Both were killed.In Montreal there are 
18 cases of small pox in Hotel Dieu. All were 
developed within a week..The values of 
imports of merchandise, for the year ended 
March 31, were $590,191,000; excess of exports 
during the same period $147,575,000; a de¬ 
crease of $87,100,000 in imports, and $18,003,- 
000 in exports compared with last year. 
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has 
directed its attorney in Washington to take 
an appeal from the decision of the Commis¬ 
sioner of the General Land Office, throwing 
open to settlement lands claimed by tbe com¬ 
pany as part of its laud grant.... 
The President, Friday, approved of the sen¬ 
tence of the court-martial in the case of Gen¬ 
eral William B. Hazen, adjudged guilty of 
“indulging in unwarranted and captious cri¬ 
ticism of his superior officer,” the Secretary of 
War. After thus being reprimanded, the 
Chief Signal Officer was discharged from 
arrest and ordered to resume his duties. 
The Wisconsin Legislature closed its 37th ses¬ 
sion Monday. N ine hundred and sixty-three 
bills were introduced during the session, and 
425 become laws. The Governor sent in vetoes 
of bills for appointing fish and game wardens, 
preventing the shipment of game from the 
State, and for the preservation of trout in 
Washburn County.An ice-jam in the 
river at Belleville, Out., caused a flood Thurs¬ 
day night, drowning a number of cattle, 
sheep, and pigs, and wrecking houses and 
barns. The people were compelled to leave 
their dwellings in great baste to save their 
lives. The loss is placed at $100,000... 
For tbe half year ended December 31 last, the 
net receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway de¬ 
creased, comparatively*, .£221,000, and the 
working expenses were reduced £04,000. 
At the meetiug of the Maryland State Tem¬ 
perance Alliance, at Baltimore, on Thursday, 
it was determined to start again a Prohibition 
Party in Maryland, and committees on organ¬ 
ization and platform were appointed......... 
The overseers of Harvard College have re¬ 
fused to grant, the petition of undergraduates 
that attendance at morning prayers be made 
optional....The monthly statement of the 
chartered banks of the Dominiou for March 
shows total liabilities of $182,224,144, and as¬ 
sets of $212,805.681. A statement re¬ 
cently compiled, of tbe manufacturing indus¬ 
tries of the Dominion of Canada for the years 
1878 and 1884, shows a remarkable increase 
between those years. In the former year tbe 
number of people engaged in the industries 
was 26.764; in 1884 it had increased to 47,828. 
The wages paid io 1878 amounted to $7,- 
290,000; in 1884 they had reached $15,1851,000. 
The products of the industries were in 1878 of 
the value of $32,554,000, and in 1884 they 
reached a total of $77,543,000. The capital 
employed in 1878 was $34,353,000, and in 18S4 
it was $39,488,000.Immigration con¬ 
tinues to fall behind previous years’; for 
March, 23,350, compared with 28,597 last 
year. For three months of 1885. 42,180; same 
time in 1884. 56,474; 18S3, 6S,735; 1882, 111,- 
970; 18SI, 72,384’.The mother of the 
confederate General John H. Morgan, now 
residing at Lexington, Kentucky’, has inher¬ 
ited $1,000,000 by tbe death of the Baroness 
de Fauremberg, at Cannes, France. 
The heirs to the Lawrence-Townley estate, in 
England, valued at $500,000,000. report hav¬ 
ing found the missing link in their chain of 
evidence — the marriage certificate of Mrs, 
Sidney T. Brown, of Bagdad. New York. 
The document is to bring her $40,000,000. 
Tbe Legislature has passed an act regulating 
all judicial executions iu Ohio to take place 
within tbe walls of a penitentiary . 
.Very destructive floods about Austin 
and other parts of Northern and Central 
Texas; in Southern Kansas, anti elsewhere. 
Great destruction of property: considerable 
loss of life....Canadian troubles in the 
North-west growing worse. Middleton’s forces 
were attacked in the rear yesterday by 
Riel’s men. who after killing a half dozen, 
and w-oundiug several more “retired into the 
brush.” The Indians are rising. The Govern¬ 
ment’s offers of settlement have hitherto pro¬ 
duced no effect. 
“IT HAS MADE A NEW MAN OF HIM.” 
So writes the wife of tbe Rev. Dr Staples, 
of New Canaan. Couu., in a communication 
to the Methodist Protestant , Baltimore, Md. 
Mrs. Staples reys: 
“My husband has for the last year and a half 
been afflicted with that troublesome disease 
Malaria, attended also with Catarrh, which 
was rapidly growtug upon him. He was so 
feeble at the session of our last ‘Conference’ 
that he thought a week or two previous he 
would not be able to attend. He commenced 
inhaling Compound Oxygen, and put himself 
fully under the Treatment ut my earness re¬ 
quest, the week before ‘Conference,’ and if is 
astonishing to see its vitalizing effect. It was 
almost immediately manifest in an increase of 
appetite, which had beeu scarce sufficient to 
sustain him. He is gradually increasing in 
strength and vitality. In fact it has made a 
new man o f him.” 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen, v con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures iu Con¬ 
sumption. Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide rauge of chronic dis¬ 
eases, will be sent free. Address Drs, Star- 
key & Palen. 1105) and 1111 Girard St., Phil¬ 
adelphia.— Adv r 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 25. 
A cosipany of Cleveland, Ohio, capitalists 
have bought a strip of 4,000,000 acres of cattle 
lands in Southern Colorado from a syndicate, 
of which ex-Senator Tabor is the bead, and 
propose to raise cattle on a scale which is 
magnificent even for the Plains. Their tract 
is one of the largest single grants of laud in 
the country .......... An Englishman says ot 
the agricultural resources of tbe Soudan: 
There are hundreds of thousands of acres that 
will grow anything in the world—sugar, maize, 
cotton. There is no limit to the produce that 
may be taken from the soil without any man¬ 
uring or costly cultivation..A Milwaukee 
estimate predicts a fall-off of 106,009,000 bush 
els in the growing wheat crop from that of 
1884.It is stated that planters in some 
portions of Cuba are using molasses for fer¬ 
tilizing purposes, owing to the unremunerative 
prices for which it now sells on the Island ... 
.In Virginia peanuts are now ground into 
what proves a very fair flour for making pie 
crust and other light pastries.Professor 
Law, of Cornell University, under instructions 
from the Governor of this State, has been in 
Sullivan County looking after glandered 
horses, many of which have been shot by his 
direction. The disease is quite prevalent, no 
measures of precaution baviug been taken 
against its spreading until the present. 
Hog-cholera of a virulent character is killing 
off swine in large numbers iu Montgomery 
County, Illinois.Senator Stanford’s 
stables, on his Vina (Cal.) ranch, were fired 
by tramps early Thursday morning, 111 horses 
and mules were burned to death. The loss is 
placed at $30,000.Governor Martin, of 
Kansas, has issued a procla mation establishing 
quarantine against the States at the present 
time said to be afflicted with pleuro-pneumo- 
nia, the names of which were given editorially 
in last week’s Rural, as ba viug beeu sched¬ 
uled by Colorado.The uhicago Board 
of Trade has adopted the proposition to permit 
deliveries of 1,000 bushels of graiu, 50 barrets 
of mess pork, 50 tierces of lard, and 25,000 
pounds of meat, on contracts calling for such 
quantities. ..The North German 
Gazette is agitating the subject of doubling 
the duty on importations of leaf tobacco, so 
as to give the Government a monopoly of the 
manufacture as well as sale of tobacco........ 
It is said that Maryland farmers are about to 
engage iu the cultivation ot peanuts, aud that 
quite a large acreage will be planted this sea¬ 
son......The Missouri hog crop will be 
short, according to all accounts, but Kansas 
will produce its usual yield.... 
..Enough land in the Uuited States is 
owned by foreign syndicates to furnish 250,000 
families with SO acres of land apiece. 
There are now three sorghum-sugar factories 
in Kansas. Last year tbey produced 600,000 
pounds of sugar and 150,000 gallons of sirup. 
The product was manufactured from 19,000 
tons of cane. It is estimated that each of the 
three factories will soon produce 1.000.000 
pounds of sugar annually ....... It, is re¬ 
ported that the Northwest will be obliged to 
look principally to Arkansas aud Texas (he 
preseut seasou for a supply of peaches. Tbe 
last three years have not been prolific peach 
seasons in the West. What Michigan will 
supply is not yet known.The Hessian 
fly is reported as ravaging the wheat fields 
south of Santa Rosa. California.The 
German Reichstag has fixed the import du¬ 
ties on horses at 20 marks, bulls aud cows 9, 
oxen 30. young cattle 6 ..... . ..The fifth an¬ 
nual meetiug of the Women’s Silk Culture 
Association of the United States was held in 
St. George’s Hall, Philadelphia, the other day. 
Mrs. John Lucas presided. A report review¬ 
ing the Association’s work^ for the year and 
making reference to the $15,000 Congressional 
appropriation for silk culture was read. The 
receipts were $3,658 85. and the expenses 
$3,507.16. All the old officers were re-elected. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of 
the British grain trade during the past week, 
says: There was a copious rainfall during the 
week, and a powerful sun during the last two 
days, aud vegetation is responding. Spring- 
sown crops have made visible progress. Iu 
consequence of a prospect of a peaceful ter¬ 
mination of the Anglo Russiau dispute, half of 
the recent advance in wheat was lost. The 
salesof English wheat during the week amount¬ 
ed to 44,137 quarters at 34* Id, against 40,951 
quarters at 37s 3d during the corresponding 
week 1 'St year 
Of 900 reports, coveriug 400 principal wheat 
counties, in Ohio, ludiana, llliuois, Michigan, 
Kansas, Missouri.duriug the past five days, one- 
third present prospects favorable; quarter 
poor; nearly half very poor; Illinois and Kan¬ 
sas worst; Michigan best; better than a year 
ago; half, report prospects better than a fort¬ 
night ago, a third, as well aud a third worse, 
llliuois only State not showing improvement. 
Latest reports from Kansas best; one-tenth of 
the reports say half the last crop remains : 
third a quarter. Ohio, Indiana and Michigan 
most only eighth. Fanners disposed to sell 
now. 
W. Russell, Aurora, O., manager of eight 
butter and cheese factories belonging to 
Frank Hurd, says, Jau. 15, 1S85: “I have 
tried all the Butter Colors, aud atn convinced 
that Thatcher’s Orange Butter Color is the 
best in the market.”—.4dc. 
-♦♦♦-— 
A slight cold, if neglected, often attacks the 
lungs. Brown’s Bronchial Troches gives 
sure and immediate'relief. Sold on ly in boxes. 
Price 25 cts.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, April 25, 1885. 
Chicago.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is 2}fe. higher; No. 
3 Spring, 4*£c. higher; No. Z Red Winter, 
lU^c. higher. Corn, l*c. lower. Oats, 4%c. 
higher. Rye, steady. Pork, 15c. higher. 
Cattle, from 10c. to 50c. lower, according to 
grade, the greatest depression in the pork 
sorts. Hogs, a trifle lower Sheep, 50c. lower. 
Whkat. — Wheat active Bole* minted: April, 870*8 
885fte! .May, «9>ft®B&ko: June 90-% kUllftc; No. 2 Spring, 
BPSfi'dKrtjSe. No. a tin, J9V»jUe: No. '•>’ Red DfiuSUSMc- No.S 
Ked,S7e Corn—Q uiet; Sales ruuged: Cash. i'77ftai7e: 
April. 4014017540*. May 4714 a-Hc: Juiu\4ThW»4H!ie. Oats 
— steady: Sales ranged; Cash April. 840 
OPltu- May. -MviM-tp!. RYE-No. 2, 635ftC. HARLfST— 
No. 9, 68<i6lc Point.-Active. Cash. *117U@*ll 75; 
April, $11 700U 7a: May, *11 6714011 HU. June, *1175 
<ail W. Lajxd.—Q uiet. Sales ranged: Cash, *6 900 
6 98*4- April, *fi 90.1,6 *2iv May. *690@h935ft; June,**! 95® 
*7 00. CATTt.U - Export, u,#3#u: cows and mixed. 
*20004 V) stockera, <8IA04 9*1. feeders, *8 400*4 90; 
Texan*. ftl® 5. Ifoos.—Murket weak: rough mixed, 
ft4.2Vg4.45; packing and .‘.hippiug, S4.45i-g4.75. light 
*1.3004.65: skip*. *.1.5110*4 2.4. tlHkfil' —Market low. 
Inferior (trades, ft? 7503 75: medium, *8 U0@4 25: good 
*4 85; choice, ft) 75. 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago. No. 2 red wheat is 4c higher. Corn. 
2c. higher. Oats, 2c higher. Pork, 23-.^c. lower. 
Whkat.—A ctive. No. 2 Red, ftl02, cash : *1 Olfcf, 
May: ftl 0844 ,.lone: 01 tiihkt. July. Corn-D ull: Cash, 
44 m 4 l'■ 40 ; April, I t'-tc; May. 4l?sr June, IV4ftc. Oats 
—F irm: Cush, 365sc. May. 3.Vde; June,3.Vfce. Ryk, 
firm at B2c Baulky—S teady at 50©7W. Kuo*, !R*0 
10 e. Flaxseed Steady at ftl.35 Hay, firm-r aud 
unchanged. Bran nrm at rtigStc. Pork. *12 08*4. 
Biilkmkats— Lour clear. *5 90: short rib, *6 000605; 
6hort cigar, 8*1 25. Lard—F irm a( ft 1 * H.4®6 90, Re¬ 
ceipts—Flour, 4,UUp bbis, 
Boston. - grain, corn has declined dui In* the 
week, but at Ihe close was firmer. Steamer Yellow 
was held at TNc.; Steamer Mixed, Ve: No Grade 
55@.4fie.. per bushel, us to quality. High mixed Is 
quoted at 59(*52c. per bn»hel. Oats 6144 have been 
lower, but are firm at the close ut uu udvuu'e. We 
quote jlarlev at 47@48e No. I White ut 47c; No. 9 
White. 4iq,0l5^c: No 8 do, 4800410, aud mixed, 48 
<@)44c. 4' bush* ! io* tnquality. Bran, at *19 per ton 
for spring, aud *20 for winter. Fine Feed and .Mid 
dllntrs, *19021, and Cotton Seed Meal, *26.70 u Pm to 
arrive, aud *'JJ 5u<t29 uu on the spot. Barley sells 
fulrly at 65095c. per bushel, a- to quality. PRODUCE. 
The market tor butter Is steady aud tile de¬ 
mand quin- gout). Sales: New York and Vermont 
choice dairy, 21082c per it., um) fair to good, 1502110: 
Western creamery. 25026c, for due: choice, at 23® 
24e, and common to Rood lit lH@88e: Imitation 
creamery, 17c tor choice; choice ladle parked, is® 
lie. per B>; fair bo good. Western, 11012c, choice 
dairy. l60lSo: fair to good do, ut 18 ol5e. per pound. 
Chbksu—I n moderate demand with sales in small 
lots Of choice nt. U® IDgc- tali- lo good. Western, 
Big 10c and common skims nt 204c. per n*. Kaos 
—Quiet. Fresh Eastern. lfltiBlfilfte; New York aud 
Vermont, 16'jdBlac Neva Scotia at 16c, ond Western, 
15014160. Beans In light supply and flrm Northern 
Pea. at ftl 7U- New York pen ut *1 60® 170; medium 
at fl. 1501,56 per bushel for hand picked. Canada 
peas are quiet at KOc 0 *l 05 per bushel and North 
ern aud We«t0rn nt *UI5®1 40 per bushel. Potatoes 
— quint and easy with sales at f>3<s«90. per bushel 
as to quality- Acci-ks—Q ulet-at 30 for choice und 
ftl 0002011 for other kinds Dried Aiti.ks In light 
request at tslltc, for quartered hii, 1 sliced Poul¬ 
try -Fresh killed Is In demand and llrtn at ISgitfe, 
for choice young Northern turkeys lfi»17c for choice 
Western turkeys, and fresh chickens at.25026c. per 
pound. ___ 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkvy York. Saturday, April 25,1R85, 
BUKADSTUKkS AND PROVISIONS. — AS OOmPftrod With 
cash prices a week ago, No. 2Chicago wheat Is )ftc. 
lower- Ungraded Winter Red is Ifftc. lower; No. 2 
Red Is 1*4C. higher. Corn. Ungraded mixed Is 21^c, 
higher: steamer mixed is lifts, higher; No, 2 mixed is 
] 14 c. higher. 
r lour. Feed and meal.— Flour—Quotations: Fine 
*2.7503.75. Superfine, *8.5004.00 Extra No. 2, *8.70® 
4.25; Good to Fancy Extra State, *1.4005.00; Good to 
Choice Extra Western, t-i50®6.20; Common to Fair 
Extra Ohio, 43 7504 30- Good. *4 35 0 4 50; Good to 
Choice. «4 55 0 6 00: Common Extra Minnesota. S3 700 
4 00: Clear. ftl.iiU04.75- rye mixture, «» 40 *4 65; 
stra'ghr, si 5005 24: patent ft5.OQ0fi.2O- baker’s extra, 
*1 50®5 95: St. Louis common to fair extra. 447(104 85; 
fair to good. *43005 2V good to very choice. *590® 
6 00; Patent. Winter Wheat extra nt ftl 840*6 10: 
Oltv MUt extra for West Indies, *4 900*5 00; 
South America, *.4 050*5 25, market closing quiet. 
Sot’TUittiN Flour—C ommon to good exira, *4000 
•1.75- good to Choice *4 so-MOtl. Kyk Floor Suoerflne, 
* 4 , 00 * 1 . 60 , latter fo’choice. Corn Meal Dull. “Saga¬ 
more’’ at *880: Yellow W-<ter» quoted nt *3 0003 35: 
Brandvwine ut *8 8503 40. Feed-Q uoted for 40 
to 50 lb*, ut *19®50- 60 10 30 lbs. *1H®20: Kin tbs at *80 
<022. Sharps at *52024. Rye feed nt *19020. Linseed 
Oil MEAL.-Gnr Ints, ftSS 40 lu bulk, *27 40 sacked. 
Grain. —Wurat. -No.2 Chicago, 9 «®984ftc ungrad¬ 
ed Winter red. 950.0*1 0'1£- No. 2 red. *10016: No. 
V red for M-«v 99ds ®fti 005*c- do. .luup. ftl 0iqf®i 0256; 
do, July. ftl am;® 1.04V. dn, August, ti O4M01 0554 ; do, 
October, *1 07Arc: do. November.SI OStftVl OUft-do, De- 
comber, *1 inq-gi mu, uvi; Western. 73®75c: State. 
76U0771C.-- Canada. )»4*?«Qc. Bariev and Barley 
Malt.—D ull, prices without d u elded ehnnge Corn— 
Ungraded mixed. No. 3. siQe: steamer 
mixed, 55o. lu elevator Steamer Yellow 56c, In 
elevator: No. 2, 5V®554'c, In elevator: St c nmer 
white 66", In elevator; low mixed, r,4e. in eleva¬ 
tor: yellow. r,6c, In elevator No 8, mixed for 
Aorll. 44Qt’: do. May, 55054 V- do. June, 559a®5fi9$c: 
do, July. do, August, 47 ',.t.'. 7q.o. Oats— 
No, 8, mixed, 39c: No. 2. iWy-atOMc, In elevator: 
No. I, 40ck, No. H, white. 42c: No. 2. -I'kat 'ttfe: No. 
1. 4fiO: mixed 5Vestern 40® lie White do. 42048c; 
white State. 430Uc: No. 2, mixed for April, 40V’; 
do. Mnv. lOVttlGV- do. Juno. 4OV«t40V-. 
Brans.— Quotations are: Marrows, ftl e 0 : medi¬ 
ums, *1500154: pea, ftl.500155: red kidney, *2; 
turtle soup at—: w hile kidney at *1 50® 185. 
Peas.— Green are quoted at *1 25 for new. 
PaovTstoxs.—Pork—The quotations areas follows: 
ft 13 a 13.2.4 for mess: ft 18.25 413,75 for family mess; 
*14 25016 Tor clear back, (the latter for fancy), and 
jtin.75011 for extra crime. Dressed Hoos Sales at 
5V4c. for bacon to 5V-. for light average- anil 6e. for 
pigs. Cut Mbat8-i 8 lbs. pickled bellies at 6c. 
and 10 IT, average nr nqc. Sales of llebt smoking 
bellies are quoted at 7-V-: plrk'ed hams at 909V;. 
Oltv pickled shoulders arc quoted at sqc- smoked 
shoulders, t',‘4c: pickled hams, 9W- smoked hams, 
lOQ illr.. Middles - For long and short clear, half 
and half, nt Chicago. 6.15 Is quoted, Breir.—Extra 
India uiess. *2502750. extra mess in barrels at *11 50 
012 - packet at * 12oi 12 ni 1 for barrels; plate beef at 
*11 <50019 50: family at *(8®ll Bren Hams—Q uoted 
At *20 00 for new. and *19 00 for old, with light 
demands. Laud In May option sales at 7.46c 
®7 80c- June oo'lon snles at 7 26 07.27c- July option 
sales at 7 3407 3«c : August option sales at 7 1107 12c. 
City steam Is- steady at 7.04o»and warned moderately. 
Refined is dull; Continent quoted at 7 45c, and 
Sout h American. 7 75®7.90e.. 
Butter —Quotations-New butter— Creamery,Elgin 
best, 27c: do. Pennsylvania, best 26 ,j,27c; do. West¬ 
ern, heat, We: do prime 23®?4f do.good at 200380; 
do, fair nt 18®19o- Stare dairy, half firkins, tubs, best 
nt 28024c, do, half firkins, rubs, extra fine, 21022c; 
do. half firkins, tubs, good, at 19 0 'JOe- do, Welsh 
tubs, prime, ut 20021c do, tulis, good, at is-0l9c; 
do tubs, ooor, at I5016r: Western Imitation 
crenmrry. best, at 19019c: do, good, nt 15017c ; 
Western dairy, fntr, ut iilvjlle: Western factory, best, 
ut ’Sra'Sf do, poor, 9aide rolls, best, at I I ®15c: do. 
fair, at 10018c. Old butter—Creamery. State, firkins 
15017c do. good, 13®Me: do. common. 11013c: 
Western dairy, rulr, at lOwllC' do, common at 
9*10e: Western factory,fair,809o grease at41406c. 
At the Mercantile Exchange the following tele¬ 
grams were received: From Philadelphia.—Market 
easier. Quoted, extra creamery, 2.4026c : receipts 
1,00). From Boston—Market qulel. Western cream 
ery <to, 25028c- dairy at 23c. 
Cheese, Quotations: Fancy colored, Ii(tf01l9fc; 
(home trade lots, 12018 ( 40 . 1 - faioy white, IKSlIWo 
choice, 101401044c; good lots, 8@t0o rulr do. 6 a8c light 
skims. 40,e: skims, 103c- Ohio flats at, 10c. for 
best. Tile- for fair to good Pennsylvania skims, 
f°r good, and 56015* for common, 
At the Mercantile Exchange me following tele¬ 
grams were received- I'roni Philadelphia-Market 
>teaay- quoted .-L^qq.v ^ i’ 1 -' s 1 ’ A- x'!, T*r 
boxes. From Boston ctit-,L(-*r w at ii ,L yitite, t-rom 
Chicago-Market dull- Cheddars,91**100, 
Eons. —The quotations are: State, fresh, at 1454® 
1414 c: Western, U®U«e: Southern, 1801 . 9540 . 
At the New York Mercantile Exchange the follow¬ 
ing telegrams were received: From Philadelphia— 
— Market steady Quoted at 13* 18< 40 .’ receipts, 1,800. 
From Boston-Market euster. Quoted at 14 54 ®14Jje. 
From Chicago—Market lower. Quoted at 11H0I2C. 
Live Poultry The quotation* are as follows : 
Spring chickens, per pair. 7:.tv,i*l 24 fowls, Jersey, 
State and Pennsylvania, per Ib,lti0l45*c: do,Western, 
14C: roosters, old. s®9c: turkeys, per lb , 18®l4c; 
ducks. Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania per 
Dfttr, flflonrftl.23, do, Western, per pair. 7>C®*1: geese, 
Jersey. New York uud Pennsylvania, per pair, 
*1.750200: do, Western, per pair ftl.U0@ftl.62; 
pigeons, per pair. 50c. 
DuitssKD Poultry.— Frozen nt Haille. for turkeys 
and 1V015Cfor chickens. Fi-BSh kllled-turkeys.i2@i4c, 
chickens, Philadelphia, spring, per pair, at 55 
14 65c; Jersey and Buck:- County, dry picked, 17019c; 
fowls. Philadelphia, prime, 15®16 c: do. Jersey, 15® 
We. squabs. v» tilte, per aoz , ft 1 50; do. dark, per doz, 
*303.85. 
Game— Wild docks, canvas. Western, per pair, 75c 
0*2: do, redhead. Norfolk, per pnir, 3UC.06(lc: 
western at 41X060; Mallard at 25@50c; wild pigeons 
at ftl 7.4 per dor.. 
Cotton.—T he quotations according to the Ameri¬ 
can classification are as follows: 
New 
Orleans 
Texas. 
Uplands, and Gulf. 
Ordinary. 
HVft 
87ft 
Strict ordinary. 
9 T-lf) 
» ii-lG 
9 5-16 
Good Ordinary .... 
97* 
10 H 
105fi 
Strict Good Ordinary. 
1014 
1054 
1054 
Low Mlddlling. 
10 9-16 
III 13-16 
10 13-16 
Strict Low Middling.. 
1034 
11 
11 
Middling . 
107ft 
H5ft 
• 15ft 
Good Middling. 
It 1-16 
11 5-16 
11 5-16 
Strict Good Middling, 
1154 
117 ft 
115ft 
Middling Fair. 
115ft 
117ft 
117» 
l-’alr. 
1254 
125ft 
125s 
Stained. 
Good Ordinary..., 8 U 
1 
Low Middling.... 
9-H 
Strict Good Qrd.. 8 15-16 | 
Middling. 
10 % 
FitKftH Fruits. - Apples: 
Baldwin, per 
double- 
headed hbl, *3 )M<a ! 8'-: Greenings, *108 25. Cranber¬ 
ries—Jersey, Choice, per crate. *.9.5<i0l : Jersey, 
poor, per orate. (308.25: Florida orange* at *1.000 
*4.4 ) per box roroost, and *45003 ror poor. 
DittKD Eudits.—T ne following are the quotations: 
Fancy evaporated apples, ii5v@7u; choice do, 65ftc; 
common to prime do. 4@«o fimcT Norm < 'uro¬ 
om. Jtiu dried Sliced, 4e . choice do., HVj^.S^e ; 
choice Virginia, 3(0 314 c; choice Tennessee coarse cut, 
3c: Kentucky <lo, lu barrels. Hit extra fancy 
North Carolina pooled praehes, 11 011 vgC; fancy do.10 
fttinttc; choice 140 ,- 109 . 540 : rnnev Georgia, th*c: choice 
8541011 c; impeded halves, 754080 . impeded quarters 
plums, i)am>ous. He- prime 
pitied cnerries. 120 • evaporated raspberries. 25o: 
cun-drlod do. 33<j81e; blackberries, 1U@I0>4C; huckle¬ 
berries, 1.5018540. 
Bkanuts. Quoted at 41s <t l<h,e. for best baud picked 
aud 3lA««3)iO. farmers’ grades. 
Hay and Utkaw. We quote; choice Timothy hay, 
ftl 04@I 10.good do,9 e 0 * 1 - medium do,H5®90c;shipping 
grades, 75ia8oc: clover mixed, HuosSjc. clover black, 
<5®SOc. Straw—No, 1 rye, 90@95e: short rye, 70@75c; 
oat, 55060c. 
Hors.—We quote-State crop 1934, 1’rlme at 15016c; 
do low to fair, 10c: prime*, 1388, 7®9c; California, 
1834. 10® 18c. 
Riob.-Q uotations: Carolina and l.outslana, com¬ 
mon to fair, at <*9Qe: goad to prime at 54^iftnu; 
choice at 65ft ftW^c: extra head at eidafilio: Rangoon 
at Hft@5c: duty paid, and 2^08440 in bond; Patna ut 
Java al am@S 9 fte. 
Seeds. -For clover there lsa rair demand at firm 
Drlc.s, Quotations nre at 9c. for prime Western: 
ibfte. for choice, and 94d®l0c. for extra choice. Lin¬ 
seed Is nominal- quoted at ftl .85. 
Sugar.— The quotations are. 
Cut loaf, 654 c : Crushed. 65*0: powdered, 65fte: 
granulated, 6®61-16 confectioner*’ -’A.’* 6.8105Jftc; 
standard *A,” off A. 55.J 05 »-i6e: white ex¬ 
tra ”C,” 59 ft 05 54 c- yellow extra ”0,’* 4-7»@5c: •*0," 
49ft@494c: yedows, 454@F>ftc. 
Tallow.—P rime city quoted at 6c, with *2 charge 
for packages. 
