Oats, >/c. lower. Pork, 7}4c. lower. Cattle, 
shippers, 20c. lower: stockors, etc., steady. 
Hogs, from 5c. to 20c. lower. Sheep, lower 
grades 00c. higher; others, 00c. lower. 
Wiiv.at. - Sales ranged : April, May, 
7WW8MC! .lime, T9VM®0HC.i No. 2 Spring, TO^@7SVc. 
Corn.—C ash, April. May. »>M® 
i«Ue; June, at UATS-Aetlye-, sales ranged, 
cash. 29®29>4e; April. 29e; May. 290.29 je. Rye.- 
Nn. 2, 62c. Barley— No 2. ut 59e. Mess Pork.— Cash, 
assikicis SKI; Stay, at $s 37*.v<3jft HO: June at 89 05<«>9 07H- 
Lari>.—Q uirt anil Steady; sales ranged; Cash, at 
*.*i Bltf&S 90; May. $5 8JW43 90; June, $895® 5 97K- BmJC; 
m rats. —Shoulders. S4 0u®410; shun rib shies, at 851 
®5 20; short Clear soles, at $r> 55@5 no. cattle— Mar¬ 
ket atoariv. Shipping steers, at $120*5 00: Stockers 
uud feeder*, $2 fowl SO; cows, bulla and mixed, 
at *1 7V<i)l 00: bulk, at *2 7**4 78. nous. Market firm; 
purity of blood essential.Arbor Day 
was widely celebrated in Massachusetts last 
Saturday, and is bring celebrated in Ohio to¬ 
day.The celebrated trotter Gen. Butler 
is dead at the age of 30.The butchers 
of the country iu convention assembled during 
the coming week at St. Louis, will talk of mo¬ 
nopolies by dressed meat shippers,and of West¬ 
ern cattle kings. They will be especially bit¬ 
ter against the Chicago shippers, and will ad¬ 
vocate Eastern butchers’ boycotting of West¬ 
ern dressed beef .For the year ending 
March 1, the Armour Packing Co., at Kansas 
City, slaughtered 62,575 cattle, and three other 
Arms a total of 85,260, making an aggregate 
of 87,835, against 80,202 for 1884-5, and 58,856 
for 1883-4.“Buttcrine” imports into 
the United Kingdom for the first three months 
of 1886 were 20,587,904 pounds, while the 
quantity of butter imported was 42,605,920 
pounds. Not unlikely some “butterine” stole 
in as butter.The "sudden arrival of warm 
weather has been disastrous to the maple 
sugar crop of Wisconsin. 
voted on the question, the larger places gener¬ 
ally for license, the smaller places against it. 
Monday Richmond gave 5,681 majority out 
of a combined vote of 12,201 for the “wet” 
ticket. Liquor prohibition promises as lively 
a time as debt readjustment for some months 
in the Old Dominion..Prohibition 
is observed more or less stringently in 115 out 
of the 137 counties in Ga..Senator 
Payne, of Ohio, says all the bribery talk is 
“baseless gossip and scandal.” “Unproved" 
is suggested for “baseless.”. The 
general impression is that there will be no 
tariff bill passed at this session of Congress. 
If passed by the House, the Senate would kill 
or pigeon-hole it.Of 2,156 nominations 
sent in by the President, the Senate has 
hitherto rejected only eight.Some say 
Congress will adjourn in August; others, in the 
middle of July. What has it hitherto” done 
except gabble, chiefly “to make political capi¬ 
tal” for one party or the other?.Love¬ 
sick Jones, of Florida, will return to Washing¬ 
ton if the other Senators won’t, tease him. 
_Of 180 Mormon recruits that arrived here 
from Euror*? Tuesday, about 50 were children; 
200 more " ill arrive in a few weeks. 
Receipts of the Government, for the first nine 
months of the present fiscal year (ends June 
30) were $7,000,000 more, and "its outlay $16.- 
000.01X1 loss than for the corresponding period 
last year.The Carrollton (Miss.) Grand 
Jurv has foiled to bring in a single indictment 
for the murder of those 15 “niggers” in the 
court-house; but it examined 165 witnesses.... 
Ferhvdric gas, “the best illuminating gas 
known,” “invented” by Col. McCarthy, it is 
said, can be sold for three cents a 1.000 feet— 
we are paying $1.75 for coal gas. This hydro¬ 
gen gas is over 2bj times hotter than coal gas. 
If claims are true, it. must soon come into gen¬ 
eral use.Gee. Manning is well enough to 
drive out.Ex-President Arthur is again re- 
ported to be a very sick man in spite of all 
denials. . .Geronimo and those of his 
band who escaped with him from Lieut. Mans, 
the other day, have begun another series of 
horrible murders and atrocities in Arizona. 
Gen. Miles is now after them, Gen, Crook’s 
headquarters having been transferred to 
Omaha, Neb.Several of those injured 
by that Minnesota cyclone have since died. 
Sauk Rapids has been “wiped out.”.. 
Congress is asked to give $2 a day for the period 
of his confinement to each union soldier put in 
a Confederate prison at any time during the 
war. About 25,000 such ex-pensioner are sup¬ 
posed to be living. The Committee on Inva lid 
Pensions think $4,(X)0,000 would be required; 
others say $10,000,000.Another project 
is to pension for life everybody captured and 
confined in a Southern prison... 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 1,1886 
Tide Loudon wool sale closed April 81. Tho 
total amount offered duriug its progress, was 
276,000 bales. Of these 112,000 bales were 
bought for Great Britain, 116,000 for the Con¬ 
tinent and 3,000 for America. The remainder, 
46,000 bales, will be offered at the next series. 
A comparison with t he prices prevailing at the 
previous series shows the Australian and New 
Zealand, greasy, averaged 1 ’ j cent and two 
Cents lower than the previous series; do. fleece 
and scoured- two and three cents lower; and 
do. snow whites, two cents lower. 
in Ricbmoud, Va., the tobacco t rade is dull. 
Thero is a disposition to keep leaf home for a 
better demand ; storage and insurance very 
low, $1.25 per hogshead for four months; ex¬ 
tra storage and insurance range three-fourths 
to one-and-three-fourths per cent. New bright 
West Virginia tobacco Offering freely at low 
figures. Little interest in Kentucky and 
Western tobacco. A rebate of 90 to 100 per 
cent, on all imported ingredients entering iuto 
the manufacture of tobacco is sought when¬ 
ever the tobacco is exported. 
We give below the comparative wholesale 
prices in this market for various products 
during the past year. These prices are those 
given for the first of each month. The high¬ 
est prices are quoted for butter, with a fair 
average price for the others. The pork and 
poultry were dressed, the beef alive. The 
articles are all quoted by the pound, except 
the eggs. 
Eggs. Poultry. Butter. Pork. Beef. 
January.... 27 12 80 4)^ 4.35 
February... 2 ili 1U 85 5)4 
March...... 22)5 12 84 594 \ 
April. 12H 12 35 h 5W 
May........ 13 29 5*f 5« 
June. 14 13 19 6 5)4 
July..":;... 18 12 20 5)4 5 
August. .... 14 12 19 0 5 
September.. 16 18 23 5« 
October. 21 12 23 5 1 5 
November.. 28 14 29 5kj 5 
December.. 28 14 28 5*4 4J4 
Many tons of poultry wore sold at 35 to 
!K) cents per pound to special customers, and 
many hundred dozens of eggs were sold at 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
Saturday, May 1, 1886. 
Representative W. H. Hatch, of Mo,, 
Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, 
last Wednesday, introduced into the House 
the Committee’s oleomargariuo bill.The 
Minnesota Knights of Labor have purchased 
000 acres in Crow Wing Co., and will establish 
thereon a co-operative colony. The land is to 
be held iu common forever; but the profits are 
to bo divided yearly among the workers. 
... .For the five months ending March 31, ex¬ 
port* of beef, pork and daily products aggre¬ 
gated $31,661,164, against $41,180,331 in the 
same time a year before.England 
exported only 85 pure-bred Short-horns in the 
last, quarter of 1885, 15 animals going to the 
Argentine Confederation, 10 to Denmark, 
seven to Franco and one to Russia.A 
Total of 1,740 Short-horn cattle were sold at 
public auction in England last year, at an 
average of $172.68. In 1884 the average wins 
$227.12 for 1,660 head. The year 1888 was be¬ 
tween the two, and 1882 and 1881 were below 
18S5.The imports of live stock 
a.id dressed meats from American and Cana¬ 
dian ports at Liverpool in January, February 
and March, 1885, amounted to 20,810 cattle, 
2,055 sheep, 121,370 quarters of beef, 10,585 
carcasses of mutton and 880 hogs. This year 
the totals were 11,518 cattle, 2,147 sheep,101,012 
quarters of beef, 6,408 carcasses of mutton 
and four hogs.About 00,000,000 
pounds of imitation butter were sold in this 
country last year.. ..The shipment of 
American apples abroad for the season, now 
concluded, aggregates 805,848 barrels.. 
.Of the wheat imported by Germany last 
year, Russia furnished 50 per cent., Hollaud, 
11 per cent', Austro-Hungary, 8 per cent., 
Belgium, 7 per cent., and the United States, 
5 per cent....Last year this country 
imported 509,447 bushels potatoes from Can¬ 
ada, 99,204 from Scotland, and 83,884 bushels 
from Bermuda. We exported 173,344 bushels 
to Cuba, 36,337 to Sandwich Islands, 43,492 to 
Canada, and 119,295 to other foreign ports. 
Imports, 042,545bushels; exports, 392,408 bush¬ 
els.Tho farms of America com¬ 
prise 837,028 square miles, an area nearly equal 
to oue-fourth of Europe, and larger than tho 
four greatest European countries put together 
(Russia excepted)—namely France, Germany, 
Austria and Hungary and Spain. 
_The Agricultural Society of France, with 
5,000 members, will establish a French draft- 
horse stud book to “secure a disinterested and 
reliable registration” of the “Race Fraucaise 
de Trait”—French draft-horse race. It will 
admit Percberons, Normans, Boulonnais and 
Breton «nd other local kinds, not as dis¬ 
tinct breeds but merely as strains of the 
grand race of Francaise de Trait. Proof of 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday. May 1, 1836. 
State ofthe Market.—C ompared with cash prices 
last week,(lour 1825c.lower; ungraded winter red wheat 
3c\ lower; No. 2 Red, 2e. lower; corn, 1c. lower; oats, 
qc, lower; pork. 25c. lower; butter, 8e. to le. lower on 
best lots ; choose, steady ; okks. he. lower; fruit 
steady; vegetables, a abode higher for seed potatoes. 
Floor, Fkkd asp Meal, FLoeR-Quotuticms: Fine; at 
12 25(38 10; Suporlhie, $2«),.c340: Extra No. 2. 13 25® 
;i 65; Good to Fancy Extra suite, 13 ill®4 25: com¬ 
mon to Good Extra Western, at S3 25® MW; Wood to 
Choice Extra Western, $! ufinS 20: Common to Fair 
Extra Ohio, j3 2508 79, Go-si. IS 0d®4 20; Good to 
choice. $4 2505 <«: Common Extra Minnesota. 1385® 
3 ft): Clear. 18 W*4 20; Rye Mixture. 93 5004 1)0; 
Straight, $42.W175; Patent #4 5005 20' Rakers’ Extra, 
14 0Lto»4 75; St. Loul9 Common to lair Extra, 1.(25® 
3 75. Fair to Good, IS 8004 75: Good to Very Choice, 
14 sutas lOt Patent Winter Wheat Extra. 34 4005 35; 
Cl tv Mill Extra tor West Indira, at 84 6001 65; South 
America, $4 11101 35. HmiTHKUN FW>tm Cotumou to 
Fair Extra, »t!Sj®aA5; Fair to choice do., »•( ,‘K3 ..i.»i. 
Hyk Flour.—S uperfine, at $3 250845, latter for choice. 
Corn Mkal.—Y ellow Western at t$IKHgi2 <5; Brandy¬ 
wine at S'! 7'. quoted at 2 7002 75 Feed. — Market 
heavy and lower, 40 Ihs, at i21i)®75e, for Spring and 
Winter : for 60 !t>. at 70e; mi it. at ib®72Wle.; UK) It. at 
8ut'.c90e. Sharps at 96c.®|l 00. Kyc feed nominal at 
Yellow, 46Wo; No. 2 Mixed fur May, l.i'iw «■ i me; uo. 
for June IfUvipI'etc; do. for July. l^ty" UeAo; do. for 
Auvnst ijUftMeUC. 6 aT 8—No. 8 Mixed, 38M®39)4 c! No. 
3 White, 39e; No. 2 do. It aUHiOi Mixed Western, ttt 
SS®42o; White do., at 4804®. 
Provisions. Pork.- Mess quoted at 25®9 50 for 
old and «0 00®10 26 for New; WO 75®»U .»< lor Family 
Maw; 112 00® 14 IK) for Clear Rack; and *9 !KM9 18 for 
Extra Crime. Bekk. - City Exlru India Mess, at 
ll.ViVj 17; Extra Mens, Iu barrels. «S tKk^S 00; Caeket, 
50®d 00 in hhl ft . ; Fancy Plate, JJ 8 *>• 
Hums- Quoted at 130 00. cur Mka'PL—F tekled Bullies 
5 3-16c; Pickled Ham*, #e. MroMJfcS-LoM Oear In New 
York, at the West Lome Hear, 5.35c; Short UtW 
Stine. DBExsro UouB.-CIty Heavy to Ught, 5qe; I*lgs 
sue man.—western Steam spot part, SJOe; Grade. 
606.05c; May, at6.W06.13e; June, at tj.ltej.fl.2yc: July, at 
r,.2Je; August, 6.310; September. nt fl.lOc; October, at 
iM7c. City sto/vin, ui iteflned QUQtni loniiiiwi/ 
fvlOc] South American, 6.75c. 
Butter— Elgin Creamery,23®24c; Pennsylvania do. , 
wueup . Western do., 19028c.; State Dairy half-firkin 
tubs 17®2:t<-.; Welsh tubs, 17®2«)e; Western Imitation 
Creamery. 14030c; Western Dairy, ll)®l8c; do. Factory, 
130180. 
CmcttsE.- State, ut 7®l«4c; Western, 7®9c; Skims, 
1X0WN . 
Boon.—State, at 12M®12Ko.; Western, at W®12Mo* 
Southern at 11®11 K-c. 
Fruits. — Fresh. - Quotations are: Apples.—Bald 
win. per Mil., at 81 V):S 1 75; GreenInR. per bbl. 
31 750200; Russet la, Roxbury. per bbl., 81 .rrtJ «); uo. 
Goldens at 31 5001 75. Cranberries.-CapeCod. choice, 
per bbl.. *8 S0®4: do. choice, per crate, at .il)e.®*l. 
strawberries—Florida at .150150. per quart for best; 
do. poor ut 15@25c: charleston, per quart, at .’ «(io45c. 
Doultry.-Ute,— Fowls, near by lots, per n., nt 
IDe.; fowls, Western, per ft. at lOc.i fowls, Southern 
lots, per Ih. at 9W«i0Ci turkeys, is-r It», ut 11013c; 
ducks, western, per pair, at 7Hc.0BOa.; geese, west¬ 
ern, per pair, nt 3L.25('tl.75. 
Poixtrv.—DHES 9KD. Turkeys, per pound, 11013c.; 
Chickens. Philadelphia, light weights t«IWlr,45eo56e.per 
it; do. winter, Pbll/tdelpuia, 2tK«i22e.; rowls, Fenusyl- 
vauia, prime, lO.'dle.; tm. Jersey, at UViollcj do Htate 
amt wm* tern, at l0rfl*Ue. Ducks, dcsey, pit tt.lSwUt 
do. western, Wc. Geese, Jersey, ut l'M l.’c; do. west 
eru, at 9(«)UK". 
Poultuy.—Fro/.kx. Turkeys, per pound, at 12® He.; 
ChJekcus, per (s>uud, at UdtUe.; Ducks, per pound, 1<0 
14c.; ueese, per pouud, at Du^iUc. 
Hay and Straw.— The following quotations are: foi 
Choice Timothy hay at85@9Uc; No. 1 at 60085c.; No. i 
common farmyard (owls. Dead fowls must 
bn drawn. It Is against the law to offer un¬ 
drawn poultry here, Jersey State and Pennsyl¬ 
vania fowls command from two cento to three 
cento more per pound than Western stock. 
This to mostly due to the foot that the flrat- 
uamed stock appears iu bettor rendition, and 
presents a cleaner and neater apijearnuce. The 
appearance of poultay I ms much to do with 
its sale. Rough, torn and discolored lots always 
find poor stile. The best selling poultry comes 
packed In boxes, Lire.ti.st down, with long straw 
or clean cloths between the layers of birds. As 
a rule, small shipments of poultry, live or 
dressed, will hard!}' pay unless one has special 
customer. It will probably be cheaper to sell 
small lots to the local dealers where cash prices 
can be obtained. In shipping poultry or eggs 
for tho first rime, write to uny good Commis¬ 
sion merchant, or, better still, go and see him, 
and make a distinct bargain before sending; 
care and cleanliness will always lie rewarded 
if persevered in. No distinction to made in 
the general market between thoroughbred and 
common fowls, except that a plump, yellow 
carcass will always command the best price. 
“I have been afflicted with an Affection of the 
Throat from chi Id hood, caused by dlpht herla, ami ha ve 
used various remedies, but have never found anyth lug 
equal to PuOWS’B BRONCHIAL TROCHES.— Rev. a. M, F, 
Hampton, IHkeCon, Ku. Bold only Iu bo xvs.—Adu. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, May 1,1886. 
2AGO.—Compared with eush prices a 
ago, “regular” wheat is 2%c. lower; 
Spring, %c. lower. Corn, %c. lower. 
