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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 12, 1887. 
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was stricken 
with apoplexy on Friday. March 4, and died 
at 0:80 a. M., on the following Tuesday, after 
havinp Iain iu a comatose condition for many 
hours before the end. Born at Litchfield, 
Conn., Juno 24. 1818; his father, Lyman 
Beecher, being also a minister and famous 
preacher and author. Henry was educated at 
Amhersd College, graduat ing iii 1884. Studied 
theology at La lie Seminary. Edited the Cin¬ 
cinnati Journal in 1880. Became pastor of a 
Presbyterian church ut Lawreueeourg, Ind., 
in 1887. aud at the sametime had charge of au 
agricultural paper. Took charge of a church 
in Indianapolis in ’8ft, and in 1847 accepted a 
call from Plymouth Church, a new Congrega¬ 
tional organization in Brooklyn—where for 
40 years he maintained the reputation of one 
of the best pulpit orators jn the country. 
From 1801 to 1*158 was editor or the Indepen¬ 
dent, aud since 1870 edited the Christian 
Union. Was a liberal contributor to the 
Ledger and a few other papers, aud the au¬ 
thor of several books. II is weekly sermons, 
taken down by stenographers since 18511, were 
published in several parts of the country. 
Sorrow over his death and sympathy with his 
bpreaved family sincere and widespread 
The steamer Egypt, which left this port for 
Lisbon on Fen. 22, with 08,01)0 bushels of 
wheat, foundered on March 2; crew saved 
just as she went down. After alt. the 
bill conferring ou women the right to vote at 
municipal elections in this State was defeated 
Wednesday in the Assembly, by a vote of 08 
to 48, after having triumphantly passed the 
Senate. Many objected that it was favored, 
not by the women of the State at large, but 
only by n handful of “short-haired sisters.” 
Others insisted that if passed the eonrts would 
declare it unconstitutional, as the second arti¬ 
cle of the State Constitution limits the suff¬ 
rage to moil. Woman suffrage can be grant¬ 
ed only by an amendment to the Constitution. 
.'.Missouri is without a militia, as the 
Legislature failed to make auy Appropriation 
for it, owing, as dispatches tell us, “to the 
labor element, the ex-Confederate element and 
general cusscdncss.” Strikers can do rioting 
now with comparative impunity.The 
Dominion is making preparations for a more 
rigid enforcement of iier fishery claims. 
Trouble expected to begin in April w hen the 
season opens....Minister Bowel 1 denies the 
truth of the reports that Canada is preparing 
to increase largely the duties on some imports 
from the U. S. and wholly to prohibit others, 
by w ay of retaliation.Lucy Parsons, wife 
of condemned Anarchist Parsons, is lecturing 
in favor of Anarchism to squads of foreigners iu 
many parts of thecouutry.and the frouzyvboer- 
sodden. foul-mouthed lot are everlastingly 
almsive of all the authorities and institutions 
of the country which is giving them it fur bet¬ 
ter livelihood than they could ever have got 
at home. Liny was locked up in Columbus, 
Ohio, Tuesday ,for using Billingsgate language 
toward the Mayor and all other authorities. 
Her wretched, little, disappointed audience 
was crazily threatening.Anarchist 
Oscar Nee be, jailed at Chicago under sentence 
of 17 years' imurisonmeut, lost his devoted 
wife the* other day, and was permitted, Wed¬ 
nesday to visit the l>ody and his children,under 
charge of a Deputy Sheriff. . 
Charles J. Peterson, publisher aud proprietor 
of Peterson’s Ladies’ Magazine died suddenly 
at his home iu Philadelphia a w eek ago, aged 
68.Commodore Kittsou lias sold his 
celebrated pacer Johnson (with a record of 
2.06'.*, on Oct. 8, ’84) to Frank Siddalls, soap- 
man of Philadelphia, for 820,000. 
Mississippi overflowing Arkansas for 40 miles 
opposite Memphis along the Memphis and 
Little Rock R. R..Bee, Manning 
bade the Treasury good bye Wednesday and 
starts on a trip to Europe next Tuesday for 
the good of his health at the suggest ion of t he 
directors of hisnew bank.The Com¬ 
missioner of Indian Affairs has awarded con¬ 
tracts for famishing for distribution among 
the several Indian tribes, 815 wagons, 470 sets 
of Harness, 882 milch cows, 280 yoke of work 
oxen, 444 brood mutes 95 bulls, 14 stallions, 
1,100 stock cattle and four mules.The Ku 
premoCourt, ot 111..will bear arguments in fav 
or of a new trial of the Chicago Anarchists 
Tuesday.The U. H. Supreme Court 
holds that the United States undoubtedly have 
power to provide for the punishment of those 
who injure Chinese; but it can (ind no statute 
to give effect to the power. 
... The wife of Senator Beck died iu Wash¬ 
ington Sunday night. Ruth IiurniOn, 
grandmother of Mrs. Cleveland, died at her 
home in Jackson, Mich., Sunday .Trade 
dollars are being redeemed by the Treasury 
as fast as they can be counted; many of those 
presented here, the Treasury says, have been 
split and filled with alloy so skillfully as al¬ 
most to defy detection.Near liigbLs- 
town.N.J,, Tuesday, some cars ran off the (rack 
and toppled over Thestoveset (ire to the bag¬ 
gage car and two unfortunates were cremated. 
........ Both branches of the Maine legisla¬ 
ture have failed to give the necessary two- 
thirds vote on the passage of the amendment 
to the constitution providing for female suf¬ 
frage. . .Many think it likely there most be an 
extra session of Congress, us the last Congress 
was so culpably slow in passing the appropri¬ 
ation bills that tbu General Deficiency Bill— 
like several other important ones—didn’t reach 
the President tor his signature' until after the 
end of Congress, though be Went, to the 
Capitol to be at bund to sign the bills 
DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In 1827, ami is to-day. as It was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the marled; u pure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size I* now doub¬ 
led and cuke weighs nearly half a pound, but. the duali¬ 
ty and price remain the same. Ask your goocer for 
Dixon'* big cake. 
at once as soon as they were engrossed. 
Morrison and Raudall, chairmen of the Com¬ 
mittees on Ways and Means aud Appropria¬ 
tions, are blamed for the delay. The former 
was defeated at the last elertiou, and Randall 
is likely to share the same fate at (lie next, as 
a new reapportionmeut of the. Congressional 
districts of Philadelphia is likely to be made, 
making all live of them Republican, instead 
of four Republican and one Democratic—Ran¬ 
dall’s. Many departments Of the Government 
will be greatly hampered, and several will 
have to suspend work owing to want, of funds 
through the failure of the bills appro¬ 
priating the necessary money. Re¬ 
duction of public debt iu February, £1,400,000. 
.The Maine House of Representatives 
has passed a new and very stringent liquor 
law.A fight in Coronado. Kansas, over 
the location of Wichita county seat, has caused 
the death of nine men, two from Coronado 
and seven from Leoti, its neighboring rival. 
.The Rhode Island House has in¬ 
definitely postponed a measure looking to 
the repeal of the prohibitory law though a 
strong opposition to it lias arisen even 
among business men.... -.-The “Chinook,” 
a warm wind from the Pacific, has molted 
most of the snow in Mdntuua, aud surviving 
cattle again find feed....A fuel famine 
has been one of the characteristics of the Mon¬ 
tana wiuterj coal has been 819 per ton in all 
towns, and at Fort Benton 860 per ton. At 
the great falls of the Missouri the guests at the 
hotels have been obliged to retire at six r, m. 
to save fuel, and in some parts of the Terri¬ 
tory people have perished because they had 
nothing to burn. The last act signed by the 
President was for a railroad to m wly discov¬ 
ered coal mines which will in future amply 
supply the Territory.By a fire ou the 
Bowery here Monday morning the trains ou 
the elevated railroad ou Third Avenue were 
blockaded. A number of male passengers 
tried to get from one train to the station close 
at hand near 14th street, by walking on a nar¬ 
row plank w alk by the side of the road. The 
train moved towards the station, add it 11- 
year-old hoy tried to get on the platform of a 
moving car, but the gate was closed, and ding¬ 
ing to it his body projected over the crowded 
walk and swept HI of the men to the pave¬ 
ment 19j-i feet, below*. Three were killed in¬ 
stantly, another lias died since: the rest, 
though badly injured, are likely to recover. .,, 
.... Warden Howard, of the Jeffersonville 
prison. Indiana, is short £75,999 in his accounts. 
Cruel and inhumu 1 punishments, resulting in 
three deaths, were the mile. The report of the 
legislative investigating committee just, made 
is horrible_ . The general impression on 
Wall street, is tjiat investors in the Cotton 1 lil 
Trust ore likely to “get left.” It, is considered 
a “blind pool” arrangement in which the big 
insiders are likely to “squeeze” all other in 
venters....An assembly of Knights of Labor 
here has disbanded iu order to go to work as 
t he central organizat ion had forbidden them to 
do BO. ...Both houses of the Texas Legislat ure 
have passed the bill prohibiting bucket shops 
and dealings in futures under penalty of fine 
and imprisonment in the county jail, not less 
than oue mouth or more than six mouths. 
The la w goes into effect in !K) days.... 
The baseball season will be early this year. 
The “Natiouul League” has reorganized, tak¬ 
ing Pittsburg and Indianapolis in the place 
of Bt, Louis and Kansas City. The “associa¬ 
tion ’ has a club at Cleveland In place of uue 
at Pittsburg. At the end of the season see 
how ucar Boston is to the bead of the list. .... 
....In tin* last Congress Mr. Butter worth, of 
Ohio, introduced a bill providing for complete 
reciprocity—absolute free trade—between 
this country and Canada, and the project is 
receiving a good deal of favorable notice on 
both sides or the line. 
... Swindler George Frederick Parker, 
“President” of the “British-American Claim 
Agency.” made arrangements to denosit 42,- 
500 as bail, and to go off to Europe by one of 
to-day’s steamers. District Attorney Martino 
heard of the plan and yesterday refused to 
accept bail at all. There was a murder case 
for trial before Recorder Smyt h on Monday, 
but Martino has put it off and the Recorder 
has set Parker’s trial down iu place of it, des¬ 
pite the vociferous protests of Lhu sw indler’s 
three lawyers. It is thought to be of the 
highest importance to the public that this 
rascal should be railroaded to jail, liis two 
confederates are out, on 41,000 bail each, aud 
will be tried as soon as Purker’s case is disposed 
of.Up to last Saturday night there had 
been tiled in t he Pension Office 7,716 applica¬ 
tions for pensions under the Mexican Pension 
law, passed late in the last session of Congress. 
.The U. S. Supreme Court has just 
decided that it is unconstitutional for any 
State or municipality to impose a tux or 
license on drummers or traveling salesman 
from another State seeking to sell goods by 
sample or otherwise, ns to do so would be to 
intercre with interstate commerce which, ac¬ 
cording to the Constitution,Congress alone eon 
regulate.Dr. Mary Walker will be a 
Dime Museum attraction iu Philadelphia on 
aud after April 4. ....It is being tele¬ 
graphed all over the country that the New 
York Produce Exchange will make a great 
display of cereals at “the American Exhibi¬ 
tion iu London.” This is a windy humbug, a 
private money-making enterprise, which is 
seeking to palin itself off on the public as a 
national affair. The Dukes of Westminster 
and Argyle have just withdrawn from the 
“honorary council” of the affair. 
.Col. Rob’t. N. Scott for years in charge 
of the publication of the records of the war, at 
Washington, was buried Tuesday.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 12,1887. 
Hitherto wool bus been rated first-class 
freight; but wool dealers and growers re-pro 
seating the handling of more than 500,000,900 
pounds ot wool a year, have petitioned for a 
reclassification so as to place it in the third 
class. Anthony Comstock’s men are 
making war ou hog-guessing in this State, ou 
the ground that it. is a lottery. The owner of a 
hog at Rod Hook near Poughkeepsie (guessing 
tickets £1 apiece) and the proprietor of the 
hotel where the guessing occurred, were ar¬ 
rested the other day; and several other 
“guessiugs” were prevented.The 
Produce Exchange has voted that hereafter a 
“car lot” of grain is to mean 1,000 bushels, in¬ 
stead of 900 as hit herto.The Inspect¬ 
or of Milk sets down one-fourth of the milk 
dealers of Boston as professionally dishonest. 
.There's a great “boom” in 
California wheat which advanced five cents a 
cental in San Francisco last Monday, Ad¬ 
vance believed to be permanent. Due to 
small quantity of wheat on baud—not over 
3,000,009 bushels for export; while disengaged 
shipping there is enough for twice that 
amount. Scarcity of shipping has been n 
frequent cause of low prices for wheat iu Cal., 
as moans for marketing have often been alto¬ 
gether inadequate.A great inter¬ 
national exhibition of com driers will open at, 
Milan, Italy, May 1. Two prizes of 2.000 liras 
each (4886) for best Oriel'S of corn and rice, 
open to the world. Applicant* for admission 
address Executive Committee. Ministry of 
Agriculture, Rome, by March 31...Up to 
March 1, 08L inches of snow fell iu St Paul, 
Minn., and there were 104 continuous days of 
sleighing ,...The second Wool Grow¬ 
ers’ Convention and National Sheep Shearing 
under the auspices of the Missouri Wool 
Growers’ Association, will be held in the Cot¬ 
ton Exchange Building, St. Louis May 11th 
12th aud 13th: 81,769 in premiums.......The 
new cotton oil enterprise proposes to build fac¬ 
tories at once at. Norfolk, Vn.. Wilmington, 
N. 0., Charleston and Columbia, 8. (*., Savan¬ 
nah, Maeoti. Agustn and Atlanta, Ga., Mo¬ 
bile, Montgomery, Demojiolis. and Sheffield, 
Ala., Jackson and Meridiem Miss., New Or¬ 
leans and Shreveport, La,, Memphis, Teun., 
Houston, Galveston, Dallas and Sun Antonio, 
Texas, Little Rock, Ark., and refineries at 
Kansas City, Mo., Chicago HI.. Philadelphia, 
Pa., Camden, Jersey City and Hoboken, N. J. 
.... There’s some danger that t he Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station Law can’t go into 
effect this year, as no appropriation was 
made for the Stations in the regular appro¬ 
priation bills, aud it is doubtful whether 
one was made in t he Hatch Bill.. 
The registered membership of the newly es¬ 
tablished Audibon Society for the protection 
of birds, in Jau. 81. w as i 9,830, an increase of 
2,099 during the month..There are 
now 20,647.000 acres of laud (just about the 
area of Ireland—20,819,840acres) in the United 
States owned by 2.1 foreign landlords and syn¬ 
dicates. 
One Thon Hand Dollars Would liot Balance 
the Benefit. 
The following letter is one of many in a sim¬ 
ilar tone from enthusiastic patients of Drs. 
Starkey & I’alen, 1529 Arch St., Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 
Mr. E. W. Robinson writes from Plattsburgh, 
N. Y.: “I have no objections to your using 
my name in connection with my case lief ore 
the public. I have had more ease in breathing, 
and less pain and lameness about my body 
than for many years before. Thunks to your 
treatment, 1 am able to work the most of the 
time. To tell the plain truth, it put me in 
shape I could work. I would not be set bark 
to the time I began your treatment for a thou¬ 
sand dolt am. 1 can walk with more ease,go up 
and down stairs, get in or out of a wagon in one- 
third of the time, aud double the ease 1 ever 
could in many years before for which l owe 
you, gentlemen, many thanks.” “Compound 
Oxygen, its Mode of Action aud Results,” 
is the title of a brochure of nearly 200 pages 
freely mailed to any application. It makes 
clear to any one bow such statements are 
justified.— Adv. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York. Saturday, March 12,188?. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Hay ash Straw.— Hay—Prime Timothy, 80c. No. 
1 do. ?5c; No. 2 do- 60t$ti5c; Shipping, .’>5e; Clover, mixed 
55@65e. Clover, 5IKit95c. Straw- Long Rye, 60@65e; 
oat, 45®90c. 
Hops.—B rewers show no disposition to take tn sup¬ 
plies for future requirement* and content themselves 
with a hand to mouth policy. American Hops.-State 
1888. beat, 20c: do < oninion lo Good. lotiolSc. do, W8B 
crop, prime i<>choice, ii'-i.v. do medium, n®uie; Pa 
eitle Const, crop Irt-tt 1 , lies!, 20®22C( do common in good 
jC;«l!lc: do. 1885, good lo prime, 8((t,|0e. .foreign Gcr 
miiu. 1*88, bi'St, 2n"i'.‘le: and common to good, 1 F.olKc: 
English, do. best, 15<a>20o. 
Kuos.—state 18!qc; Western, best, 16t#sii;t)4,e; Mary¬ 
land, Hi!t®Ri?ie 
Kkbo. —quotations are for: 40 lbs. at 82J^(<t90e. 60 
lbs. at 82)6®H.'iC.; UK) It mi. ut 85® 99c: sharps ut 95e«;*l, 
and rye feed IfkmSOe, screenings nt l.’Vo T5e. 
Poultry.— tnx— fowl®, Jersey, State, and Penn 
sylvunlu, perft, ‘JWf'JMjc; fowls, Western, per ft. H®nqjc. 
roosters old, per t'*. .fyytic; turkey*, per ft swale; 
ducks, western pet pair, WkiisWc. 
Poui.TUY.-Datt.HsKt>. Turkey*, fancy.per ft,He; tur 
keys, prime, per ft, ut Bl&lOu, no, poor iq fair, ?®?Uc: 
chickens, Philadelphia, broilers, liu-dtSe: do. Bucks 
C ounty, uoel&c; do, and fowls, state and Western, 
choice, iowylle, do.do. Jersey, 13 m He:old cocks, per lb, 
?c; ducks, western, good lo prime per ft. 12((iil3c; do. 
do. Inferior, per 3,'.laidle! Geese western per ft. 8® 
lot--, Squabs, white,per doz, *5®550; Squabs, dark, per 
iloz, $2 51KM/3, 
Kkuits.—Krksh.—A pples.—Bald wins, per bbb.nt *:t 50 
4 00; Greenings, per bbt, *4«5. '.'rapes.—Cataw¬ 
ba at 4(«/7c. per ft: Cranberries,at S2 250C2 73 for Jersey 
per crate. Florida orunges ut $3 750S4 25 for bc*t, per 
box; 8 1 29'di8 50 Tor choice; $1 2f.r*l 7.9 for lower grades. 
Fruits.— Dried.—A pples Fancy Evaporated, 12 
do. choice, do. at 12c: do. prime. llMdlUe; 
do. do. .State, sliced, 18i<>i5 l »ie: do. choice, Statists'; ilo. 
do. prime. 4®ftc. Peaches. -North Carolina, peeled 
choice, new. lVtslie; do. do. do, fancy. MOW. 18(j))Ike;do. 
Georgia, choice, ItwdSc; do. do. prime fancy, new. 
17® 18c; Cherries, pitted, ll(v<<d2tte. Raspber¬ 
ries evaporated, IT&dHc; do sun-dried, Itic. Black 
berries-prime, 9.W'<&luc. Whortleberries—Tc. Plums, 
7.(jit^c. Peaches ■unpeeled halve-,ftJtjtjpOo;do. do. quar¬ 
ters, 1 tk&uJe. 
Elgin k. an!> Mical-FLOUR quotations; Fine $2 80 
4810,latter for fancy; Superfine, $2 i(WW30; Extra 
No, 2, *112501 a till: Good to Fancy Extra Slate, ft! f.O&t ut; 
Common to Good Extra Western,$8 25®:!fit); Hood to 
Choice Extra Western, K5®5 no; Common to Fair 
Extra Ohio, $8 254*1 (K); Good to Choice, $l U.'f.oS 111; 
Common Extra Minnesota. 25 43 00; Clear, *8 05 ■<. 
4 29; Rye Mixture, $8 65®4 25; Straight $4 fu Put 
«nt,$4 iocM 10; Bakers' Extra. *8 h;k» 4W) at, IgjuisCom¬ 
mon to Fair Extra, $8 2-’>ft(8 80; Kulr to Good, *4u<i4 on; 
Good to Very Choice, $4 700*3 29; 1'utcnt VV Inter 
Wheat Extra, $4 41X4*9 29, city 3!III Extra for West 
Indies,,*! Mx-ii l 65. southern Flour.— Common to Fair 
Extra at *3 406**90, and Fair to choice, *4(5)5 25. Rye 
Flour. —Superfine, *2 706*2 90. Corn Meal.— Yellow 
Western quoted at *2 50(5)2 75.and Brandywine at 
*2 65® 2 75. Ruck wheat Flour.—Q uoted, *i 50@i 65. 
Peanuts— 5(5)5t(ic. for fancy hand picked; 38J@4J.4e. 
for farmers' grades. 
Cotton. —The quotations, according to the American 
classification, are a« follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands, 
anil Gulf. 
Texas. 
Ordinary. ?!/6 
Strict Ordinary. 7 rt-lt: 
7 (1-16 
7 5-16 
7*4 
7« 
Good Ordinary.8Vtf 
8 11-16 
8 11-16 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 8 15-16 
9W 
9« 
Low Middling...O'-lf, 
9 9-16 
9 9-16 
Strict Low Middling.., 9 11-16 
m 
97* 
Middling . «7.2 
10 1-16 
10 1-16 
Good Middling. WVk 
10 5-16 
HI 5-lli 
Strict Good Middling..,109i 
10 9-16 
It) 9-16 
Middling Fair. 106; 
10 15-16 
10 15-16 
Fftlr. lFlfl 
1) 9-18 
11 9-16 
HTAWKI). 
Good Or«J In ary.ft 15-16 | Low Middling. . 
...8 7-16 
Strict Good Ord.?9g 1 Middling . 
.. 9 5-16 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
Nkw York.—Provisions.—Pork.— Mess, quoted at 
*15 25(5)15 7’> for One Year Old; $15 500)1650 for Family 
Mess; *18 50(3)17 50 for Clear Back: ami *13 fill for Extra 
Prime Rrkk -City Extra India Kies*. *103)2): Extra 
Mess. In barrels *8 VVrftc Packet, *9 V); Plate. *9. Beef 
II • quolcd*2l 25».2I •’<>. OPT MEATH. Pickled Bel¬ 
lies. tn ftjiveragc. 7 : br; Pickled bellies, quoted ?tu;c: 
Ptckted Hams, 11 ) 2e; Pickled Shoulders, 7c; Smoked 
Hams Utteii 18c. Smoked shoulders,iS(e. Miudmck.—L ong 
Clear In New York quoted at 8-tic; Idnc-sisn Hods.- City 
Heavy to Light ut ikF'ftT*#'; Ptgs. 73<c. I.AtU>.—West¬ 
ern steam Spot. Sc: City Steam, 7.60c; refined, quoted 
K,nic; Continent, 8.25c-south American March,'e: April 
7.98',vs.U7e; May, B.08®8.14c; June, 8.08®H.14c; July. 8.13 
@8.23c, 
sr. loom.— Pork —*18 uo. Lard.— at *7 <i 2 t $®7 75 
Bulk meats.—L oose tots - Long clcur. *8 45. short ribs. 
•8 60: short dear, <8 70. Boxed lots—Long clear, 
*8 37!^; short ribs. *81;.* 1 ^: short, clear. *8 7.-,. Bacon 
Long clear, *8 87'^; short ribs, *9 00; short clear, 
*9 25. Hams Firm at *il 50® 14. 
CmcAoo—M ess Pomc.-MQ 10 per bbl. Lard— *7 85 
per 100 lbs. Short Rib sides (loose), *8 55; drv salted 
shoulders (boxed), *0 25; Short clear sides, (boxed). 
*8 9'J. 
Boston.—Pork. —New mess, at *16 25 m 16 50; old mess 
ut *15 25(3115 50. Lard steady at *7 50®H 80. 
DAIRY 5IARKKTS. 
N'f.'v York — Butter— Prices have not varied in any 
particular since yesterday, ruling firm on tine grades 
with a fair deinund Elgin creamery—3V»3V| Penns 
ylvnnln creamery. 34e; Western. 2oMlo?e; state Dairy, 
naif firkin mbs, Mo: Western Dairy 15f(i24<-; West¬ 
ern Factory, 10®2*u- Western ImltnMon Creamery, 
2l(S>2tie: Rolls. I.V.o'ite. Old Butter.—Western Cream¬ 
ery. 14(.(i'2'2e State Dairy. tul>*. 12(322c; Sl.ite Dnlrv 
Firkins nml tubs, 11 to 21o; Suite Dairy firkins,11 to 
20c. 
tiiiEKtsK.—There Is a moderate stir to the demand at 
rather easier prices. State factory, ttA^e. including 
fancy white, lit-lge; do colored, 18^4013^0; Eight 
Slclms IDykilic; Pennsylvania skims 2Js to 8c. 
St. Lot is, Mu. Butter dull, but firm. Creamery, 24 
(ifittK;. Dairy. iVF'.’tic. 
Boston, Ma«.-Hutter firm and active for best stock 
F.xtr fr(>Hh made western rreumery, .«X<«3lc. best 
northern fall do. 22-.f 2-'!( . Ciii i i . -Steady; New York 
and Vermont ui l.'ijjfgilivjgc. 
Pmt.Amci.rim, Pa. Butter firm; Pennsvlvanla 
Creamery extra, .'t2«i38c; Western Creamery extra, 32 
(-i!!5e; Weso rn ladle imeked, good to choice. 18(«>25c: 
Packing Bill ter. 1(5, Ilk.-. CHEESE. -Quiet; New York 
fnllcream. lie; Ohio finis, eholec, I.: W,c; Penn 
sylvunlu port skims, tetic; do, full skims. 2(<mJt>c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
Nkw York.-No. I Hard at 'JJJqc: No. a Chicago, !M@ 
91 7-lflc; No. 3 Spring, ^‘,(c; Cngruded Red, yjW'iJtO' ic; 
No. 3 Red, 9le; No 2 Bed, 93c, No. I Red H5e. No. 2 Red 
for March, nominal, do for April. 9144 «a! EM/}; do for 
Mny. !W9<t<ii9.ti*cs do. for June. 92 w.icjc; do. for July. 
tUAtiit'L'Sm do. for August.Miv-iy.q-ic; no, foi Septeiii 
her, 91'M(a92>^g; do. for December, ifib^ikgWc. B.ut 
t.itt. one ear-lond of four-rowed Stutc’ut37u corn. 
-Ungraded 5Hxed.ai i9(g.5le:N(i.8. ikke steamer 19V, 
VJIsjC; No 2. .■oq(.i..'0t v r; No. 2 for March, I97v >50c; do. 
for April, «9(,(-<e5na h c, do. TorMay taAifalGVc do, for 
June, 4!)!f(5 5oA,c oats.-N o. 8 at 34c.do. White. 86c; 
No. 2. 34b;'434*4u; do White, 86?*4r:;>%•: No, l, White, 
38C-, Mixed Western, 34ffl37c: White do. 37(*«42c: White 
Bute, 894l89Wc: No. 2 for March, .31 tii6«34fUc; do. for 
April. 3i*>,(gi3IXic; do, Tor May, do, for 
3.Vl('(i3.Y-W. 
Bri-rvi.ti,-Wnr..vr, No. Hard. PIUQiDSMl'. Winter 
Wheat—NO. 8 Red at 8T@S7tuu! No 1 while Michigan, 
RTtystSHc; Mixed red and while, nt -fiqc; COR''.—No. 2. 
45Jve: No. 8 yellow. IVy. No. 3. 45c; No 4, 14c; No.2 
Yellow. 4fK\ Oats. No 2 White, SlUe; No 3 White, 
3SJ*o; No. 2 Ml xed 3844c, Uaki.ev. No. I Canada, i.Vi 
76c No.Catmdu 68c; No. 3 ext ra. 62c; No. 2 Western. 
61,1c; Choice Western and state, 56—.97e. 
St. I.rifis. —Wiikat.— Active, but Irregular, and gen 
erally lower. No.2 Bed cash. 78jj(.c79-. May, 8D4|®8Bjc; 
dosing StlRji.*.; June, SUSiRlSlUc.-, closing 801 ^,-. cornC— 
More active, and stronger No.2 mixed, cash. 36Uc; 
May* 36t^®.-J7j,p-; chislug Wklc. Oats. Dull but firm. 
No.2 mixed, cash, W.y bid; May, 29Wc- Ryk.— steady 
al Sic bid. 
CHICAGO.—Wiikat.—T he highest, cash prices were as 
follows; No. 2 Kprlog, at ?57k6j77 l v-- No. 3 Spring, 
nominal,No. 2 Red. nominal. Co ax.-No, 2, H6*^(S)38<16c. 
Oath, -No. 2, Ryk,— No. 2, 54c. Barley.-N o. 
2, 19>v«.92e. FI.AX8 KKD—No, 1, *109; Prime Timothy, 
*1 K2®I S3. 
WOOL markets; 
Nkw York. -The market hns had a very slack look 
Ibis week. Buyers have been In only to satisfy some 
urgent wants. Tlie course of prices has been rather 
easy, and for the most purl 'light concesalons have 
been made. Sales; 25,11)1 tts XX nbtoal 37hje; 10,000 fts 
X do at 84c; 50.000 fts X and XX do ai 3too3.90; 12,000 fts 
No. 1 nt 37(<j:>9c; 10,000 fts uiiwusle-d western at 38c; 
22,01)0 fts Texas at al(to2 e; 2(1 C00 ft* Territory at I8^@ 
22ci 100 hnlea Cilpe nt 2He: I(KI,(K4) fts Motevideo at 3166 
.'Iliac; 9.000 fts scoured pulled at 36q61?c; 29,0t)0 lbs Mex 
lean, 13,000 lbs scoured Texas, 20.000 lbs Montana, 100 
bales l*4i*l India, fit) bags uo|U 6,011(1 lbs eomblug and 
92,000 lbs domestic pulled on private terms. 
Boston.—T he market Is steady and dealers are less 
willing lo granteoueesslotiH In prices previously tib 
t (lined Ohio and IVnu*y Ivnnlu Ilccc.-A havr been sold 
at:f2(v633c for X’and hR.i Nh- for XX. Michigan fleeces 
offered at 31c, but some hotders are asking 32e. in 
Fine Delaine there have been sales of Ohio Choice at 
374v<'; Good Ohio at (TV^Jtk- and Michigan nt 346635c. 
Territory wools continue (lull Fall California Is In 
heller ib-muml but ut low- prices. Nothing doing In 
Texas wool, Pulled wools have been In goml demand 
wBh sales of Choice Malm- Suiter at 4tiw45c; Fair to 
uood Super at 32vo35c, and Extra Pulled at 28in:i846c. 
Australian wool has been In fair demand at 34©374se. 
There have hern large urrlvnls of new Australian, 
mostly sold direct to mills In Cape and Montevideo 
wool nothing has qeen doing. Carpet wools have 
boon in fair demand, v tc of 36,000 pounds of English 
Combing wool has been said at 37i»4Uc. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
Nkw Youk, Saturday, March 12, 1887. 
Cattle.—O hio Steers, 1,I30 ft, average nt *585; Chi¬ 
cago do, 1,325ft, at *5 411; do. 1,369 ft, ut *5 SU, do, 1,150 
ft, at $4 85; Bulls, 1,823 ft, nt $3 60; do, 1,242 ft, at *3 85; 
Oxen. 1,585 ft, at ut *t; Chicago steers. 1,41.5 ft, nt *5 60; 
1,315 ft. HI *555; Mate Su-ers, C36j ft.at *5 29; do, 1,1.80 
ft, at *1 95; (lo, 1,203 ft, ut gt *U, Oxen, 1.817 ft. at *4 80; 
do, l,3(5 n., ut *4 60; Bulls, 780 ft, at 83: Chicago stet<rs, 
1,570 ft, at *9 iu-, do, 1,517 ft, at *5 60 Kentiu-ky steers. 
1,153 ft, nt *4 ht); do. 1,tits ft, al *1 ].9: Indiana Steers, 
1,119 ft. at *5; do, 1,272 ft, at *9 10; Michigan Oxen, 
1,6'to ft, at S« 20. do, 1.562 ft, at *1 :»i: In-y Cows, 1,186 
ft, gt «i: do, l,22u ft, at *4 25; Cows, Hulls and Stags, 
mixed, 1,-J4i> ft, at *4; Chfougq Steers, LiOU ft. ftt *5 60; 
do, 1,572 ft. (045 511; do, l, INI 16, at *5 22V do, 1,476 ft, 
Ht *3 29. 
Calm;-. The feeling was dull and prices weak with 
Ordinary to Prime VcnU selling nl fiig-sc. Veals, 185 ft, 
at 7c; do. 126 lb, at Sfjjc; do, HU lb, 5c. 
Shkkf a.xu l.AMU*.—Recelfits for six days 26,3*0 
bead against 87,935 bead for (he same time last week, 
flood to Prime Sheep sold at 9 : .Wi<^534C. Yearling Lambs 
ut *6 50(616 80 for Prime lots and a ear loud of Western 
fall dipped at like. State Sheep and Lambs, 87 lb, at 
5)*c; Ohio Sheep, 103 ft, al 96fe; Ohio Lambs, 78 ft, at 
*6 6ft; State Sheep, 91 ft, at 5^c; do, 99 ft, ftt *5 56H: 
Weatorn Sheep and Lambs, i7 ft.at Wo; Western 
Lambs, so ft, at GMjo; Mixed Western Sheep, 111 ft; at 
