Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1874, Page 12

- 12 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUND. Y, JULY 12, 1874. DOTHEGIRLS HALL. ! An American’s Observations of a Oheap English Boarding- School. A Feminine Counterpart of the In- stitution Diclicus lias De- scribed, How. a TodgingTonse Is Haintained by the Contributions and Vork of {he “ Popils.” The Squeers Family Reproduced in Real Life. The Relief of a Visit to the Neighbor- ing Stratford-on-Avon. . Carresrondence of The Chicaao Tribune. Dorrecmmis Havy, Englaud, June 23, 1674 The foct of dating a lettor froma medieval monastery deep in the heart of England 18 cal- culated, onewould naturally euppose, to dood the wnter from s country which has no vesterday with torrents of romanticand poetical medita~ tions, Visions of the shorn monks who, centu- ries 230, glided through theso long corndors, who gtole up and down these wide stairways, who watched tne flow of tho tivy Avon, before Shak- £peare gave it 2 greater glory than Natare, from thore casemented windows, one would suppose, would steal between the page rod the writer a8 the sliadowy figures of the camera obscura fall upon a white screen. v would seem like living in a dream of bygene ccuturies, one would think,—s dresm wherein, by fome necromancy of the imagioation, the six- feentl and nineteenth centuries were mingled iotoone; & dream wherein the Chicagocnno of to-day was enabled to wauder at will through the twilight vistas of three long centuries agone. Aud yet, though the room in winch I write was { once the dormitory of priests before apostatizing IHeury lnid eacrilegious baods on conventual | and monastic possesxi0as ; though the wide win- Gows, set in the thick walls ke the windows of a catbedral, look over green fields to where the Avon wreathes golden gorse and emerald verdure with a eilver ribbou ; though it is whispered with paling cheeks and quivering Jips thiat the foundations of the house are un- dermined by secret subterranean passegesleading no one knows where, and threaded only by ghostly cowled figures; thougn o sentinel left by fhe feudal ages, with battlemented walls and machicolated towere, the castle whero once = yemorseful Barcn deserted a faithful wife, and Jived the life of & disznised recluse at her very gates while she mourned him dead, is 1 view of my windows; though thus ) HISIORY, POETRY, RELIGION, AND TRADITION lend their influences to stir my pulses snd to send rapturous thrills through my being,—I find myself in & most prosaic mood, prepared to doel with ike ideal suggestions of my situation 25 with the barest facis of a most commonplaco experience. And when I have told you further of this quaint old mansion you will know why. Before we came to this lovely region we read Fawthorne’s bock of pilgrimazes, * OurOld Home.” We read with delight Lis_picturesque descriptions of Warwick Custle, of Leamivgton, of the swect sylvan country round ,sbout, of Strutford-ou-Avon, and of Kenilworth,—deecrip- tions Lot the less enjuyable iu that they were nob swoven Lirough and throngh with thuse sombre threads which were ever the strongest though the darkest of his subtle fancs. And ve read, too, casuat description of an interesting old Louse which, vith fantastic gables and buttressed wails overgrown with ivy, stood upon the outskirts of 2 famed old town, tll_our owa imeginations be- vame illumined with the reflection of bis geniue, we tood in the ligat thereof to vow that we 0, Wouid 10ake APILGDTNAGE,— that 1ee, too, would stand on cho bridge over the Avoa aud be filled with the subtlg ethier of emo- iion wlich throws cuc into ecstatic trances at beboldiug the gramd ol. castle; that we, too, would muse over An beart’s sorrows at Eeuilworth, and Shakepel:c's grave at Strat- ford; that we, t0o, would lcok wpon the old mongstery waudeiing so wice aud thrusting quaiut gables up against the s S0 ove Lright day we came do 1 from London by train, sagacionsly Lipping tie suard with o #hilling and thus secaring & thizd-class compart- meut entirely 10 ourselves. Aud let me bere re- murk, that it is most absurd extravagance for American who _cannoi affor:: o do things any 1i¥% u prince to travel otherwayx. irough the raral districts.where the lower o1di . f the peo- desire to Ple iave neither the means nor travel, the compantonship of the | ss cary is not & whit more object:onable in first or md class. These carringes aro just as clean, e ouly difference being that the geais are not susiioned 8t the buack =y the others are, and Jccasiouully not cashioned at sll. Upou ons jowney for which we bougut third-class tickets i were put into & firsi-cluss cairiage on account of the crowded coudition of the train. Far from resarding this a5 8 zain, we were quite dissatisfied for the stufly damssk cushions were so full of dust that we cou!d rcarcely brestbe in the loaded stmusphere wheuever wo moved; the curtaing rere out of order and could not be drawn from the windows, aud our seclusion was #o absolute tLat had death come iuto our midst we could have mude no sign to the outer world. The regular tariff for third-cluss travel is 2 penny a mile, for second-class oue aud a balf peuce, for firet-class two J:ence, 80 for first-class tickeis you pay just iwice what a third-cinss ticket Costs, aud you are not much more comfortabio. OUR DESTINATION. We alighted from the tram but a short. dis- tence from tho old bouse which bad loomed so prominently in our meutal perspectives all day. And when upon reaching it we saw on_tae lawn & notice of #Apartments to let,” that we did not theu and {uera sbout hozaanas to that propi- tious fate was not that our hearts were void of 1he necessary juspiration, but that we forbore for the ralke of tho village rustics, who might re- gard our demonstrazions not as the pociry of gengativn but as the prose run mad. But we did not rush blindly inte the camp of the Phil- tines. doubting not that they were as gentle Is- raclites us ouiselves, for wo had lived long enougl in England to encompase fully the truth that the professional lodging-house keeper iu tho regions that ato the Meccas of American devotces is usmally a phlebotomist of most magnificent capucity. The) e, the Aged stepped cautiously into a chemist’s shop to make prelimiuary induirtes concerning the regime of the bouse, returuing alter a moment 1o feport : “He says it'a all right, but—" What thet mystic monosylizble meant, what terrors of sheetod ghosts, what blood-curdling ebrieks of monks untimely taken off and rest- Jess 1o their graves, what horrid figures rioting throuch tbe sient watches of the night, what dreadful atmosphere of horror livgering, about this veperable abode, this netulous and inscru- tablo fro— implied, wo did not force the pentlemanly drug- gt to confess, e “all night” gave us cour- Y50 t0 proceed. So, half-an-hour Jater, we woro 3uite at home in the macsion named for the dis- aaple whom Jexus loved, reckless that the incom- prehensivle * but?’ miglt siguify a mighty projec- tion of the ghostly world iuto our lives, or a daily chill of invisiole and awful presences about us. Aud now that we have dwelt hero many days, wa 46 not know whether the record of these days should bo written npon our memories in golden letters or black. To be sure, our rooms are composed of magnificent distances; our beds &re canopied and curtained with rich but faded damacls, that Liss keen gonerations of men and women come and go; our windows ard af ecclo- giassical wize, atd open upon = lovely landsgape such aa is tho pride aud boast of England b, Yo stairs are wide enough for-a squad o mounted cavalry to ride up &nd down the wie. dow-janes, not larger than sckers, are Tich 1n rerrospective kuggestions, being coverod with names that fuded out.of being vears and years 8go; & vel of the wonderful ivy, which 1o this climato often puts forth Icaves as largo as a diuner-plate graciously hides tho Larsher marks of sge. Lvery tdealizing toach of time which chastens acd throws a grucaful 1lluion of legend and tradition over the rongnest details makes our surroundings charm- iag. " But,"—we bave learned tho sccrot of we do not langnish ahd make sorrowing lament, though the provisiona which we purchased with reasonzble generosity in tho morning come upon our table at noon curtsiled of their fair dimensions, as if sosked in alum- weter, for we long nogo learncd what strango sorcery for contracting provisions an English lodging-house keeper's touch possesses. Wo uiter but feeble complaint, though we are served with coarse crockery that seems to havo only o hebdomadal racher than a threo times- daily washing; for once, when wo vontured to sugizest moro uf cleanliness, we were comforted by the assurance that to-morrow was the day for weshing out the children’s stockings sod *we should then havo our disbes wiccly washea for ue iv the zoapy suds! We do not weep even when we see the filthy scullion, who boasts of & loug pedigres of chimuey sweeps, come to lav our table with both hands full of pldtes and glasses, and carrying tho £poons for convenience in ker mouth ! We do pot tear our braids oven when thi§ samo ill-smelling, Ann. making o sublime osteutation of neatness with an eyo to prospective sixpences, polishas our glasses upon an apron which we Lknos to be protean in its ser- vices, belng either pocket handi:erchiof or sun- bonnet as its wearor deeires. We do pot ovon gnash our teeth over tho culinary sbortiony that are sorved to us continually,—scorched coffee, burnt steaks, and suct puddings of thecrude con- sistency of boiled custard, for we count ourselves iichly repaid for huo- ger and thirst, for meals inturrupted midway by excursions to 8 cooushop for something to supploment & miserably-cooked repast by the knowledge wo have thus gained of the inner life of & cheap English boarding-school, au in- stitution of which, thauk God, wa Americans, with our noble system of publio schools, know nothing. DOTHEOTRLS HALT. All Americans bave read * Nicholas Nickleby,” but probably few huve doue so who Liave Dot Te- garded the Squeers establishmont as an ex- travagant burlesque, quite without prototype or paraliel outsido of Dickens' imagination. = The sordid duplicity of old Squeets, the ob- eequious hypocrisy and unutterublo meanness of the she-Squeers, the piggardliess and brazen pretension of the wholo establishment, see to American readers the wildest Sgment of an errauc fancy. And yet in this bouse from whenes I write, in 2 dilnpidated portion where the ricketty foors rite and eiuk lize tho billows of o summer sea;’ where the walls are dark and damp, with rbeumatism, neurn'gis, and cou- eumption in their very touch; wjere the doors hang cespondently on ruscy binges; wher c‘mlrnind& have fresh access and the beating xyzius rup in streams over the suuken stone floor of what was once the monks' refectory, but is now the chuldron's * dining *all,” is existing to- day. a wretched caricaturs of s chool, & com- plete counterfeit of the Squeers estabhishment, which we bave named Dothegirls School, If I were o use s pro-Raphuehite's peocil in pic- turing this iniquitous fraud upon tio poor chil- dren of Dothewirls Hall, some incensed Briton would launch a note at T Trisuxi: to-monow declariug that I was guilty, perbaps of fewinino Lyperbole, perinps of malicious falsehood. And doubtless ha would deny the existenco of such schools in England witli all sincerity, for it can- nos be, in the mid-afternoon of an enhghiened ceutury, in a country where a culture at once broad and refined is so geueral as in the middle classes of Englond, that such a flagrant wrong agamnst the children of even ths lower classes can be sutfered to exist except it hide itself in secrecy. The subject of ENGLISH 30ARDING-SCIOOLS Ihave examiued withinterest, and I am satisfied that the goveral average of such institutions is of Ingher excellence than in our own country. All over the Kingdom many Christian women— and in Do couutry i the worid I suppose sre more saintly women and more blexsed nbomes than in England—have made their Lomes iuto schools wbere, with richest coiturs, most seositive cousici aud lotiiest stand- aras of womauvly char: they labor raithfully o bring & barvest of spuitual and intelleciual wezl:h to their pupils. But as long na Erg'and neglects to educate her clildren in zcheols where the stacdard of cducation is a3 high as in our own, schools supported by the people’s money and recogmized as the fruition of a dem- ocratic yearning to male the most of talents, bo they ten, tive, or one, in Millzosaire's child or in pauper’s, just 5o loug will MISERABLE CHEATS like this * take tu and do for” the unfortunate offspriug of patents too poor or 00 iguoiaut to do their duty by their children. Every day wo wonder if, in our own country, the law against obtainivg mouey on falso protenses would mot operate against women who preiend to tesch pianos of which every fourth Ley is ss dumb as owce was Baul of . 'farsus, whilo the othars wheezo and wl 2 superanuusicd diva with catarrh. tend to instruct them in Freueh, bat put them in the care of a poor lit:] glikh nursery waid, whoao gweot face speaks volumes of mournfal patience with ber hurd lot, wio is callod jade- moivelle to keep up the buse illusion uf a Freach governess, but whose most arduous du:ies ato not teachmg conjugations, but cumbing tho clildren's heads, wasiung sheir feet, and making thewr beds, and who could not for ber soul’s sal- vation read a page of Telemaque correctly. This fraud goes on iu this house, where tweuty poor cluldien, showiog paintully'in dress, manners, aud expression that Iife comes to them in sacke clota and nshes rather than purple sud fine liven, bringing them the lot of Lazarus rather than that of D: are cheated of sutlicient foodnecessary for tho buildiug up of symmezrical bodies, aro robbed of overy swect license of cbiddhood, and are regarded 110t a3 80 mauv im- mortal sonis, conceruiug whom their Divine Aag- ter has given ‘solemn charge, but as #o mzny nuigances which must be tolerated &t £30 a year. 1 visited the Infant Qrphan Asvlum at Slocgh s tew weexs ngo, aud I know the charity of :he Government Lo its orphans to be absolutely mag- nificent compared with the desliups of parcnts who send taeir lucilese children to Dothegirls Hall. Surely a cry reaching to the very thiono of God would go up ngamst zuy charifable institution whicll foiced poor caildren to sit in tho cold and darkness bleak epring evenings, chilled to the marrow, aud blinking lke bats when brougat to the lizht, as these chuldren aro forced. Surely tho law would lay s hand on any iustitution provided for paupers, where a green baize, foul with much uso, covors tho breakfast and tea table, removed when . larger incureion than ustal of lodgers makes bedding £carce, to cover the girls in their squalic beds, Butely public opinion” anywhere in ths civilized world would cry vengeauce, did it kuow of any school where children aro requived to bring forks, spoons, Luives, tuwela, and bed-lmew, to Lave all these articles coniiscated for tho use of & lodeing-house, wuilo the rightful owners are compelied to use the pal- triest pewier plato aud fare wise:ably as to bed- linen and chamber-drapers. TUE BEST POLTION OF TIIS NOTSS is given up tolodgers, sud we caa ceriify thatthe licon (which 18 corton) of our beds is always marked with the name of a papi, the towels the sume, whils a #poon or fork £cldom comes upon our table that we do ot wax rigsteously irate to read thereuron tho names of Lizzie Sutberland, Sarah Bremmin, Mary Clement, and otacrs of tuo school. And whon we sece the poor little creatures Luddling abont the pump Taw, damp mornings, when the stmosphere is like a breath fiom a tomb, each thrusting a tooth-brush under the spout while one operates the handic, and wo rezlize thats pump is the most luxarious toilet appliance they bave ; when we arc waited upon, our bell auswered, our tables sot, our dishes wasned, by theso pale-faced girls who aro supposed to ' be getung an education, but in reality aro saving Thewr dishoncst mistress a sorvant's wages; when we meet them on the stairs contiuually going, woepwg, to ther wretched beds in the midale of the dzy, ostensibly as o punishment for somo ovil deed, but reaily to save & meal to the pockets of Miss Betsey and Miss Sarah Squeers; when wo bear bitter cries from the dircy rdom in which the girls sleep on beds fic only for a dog's occupancy, and, from resouudiug blows, know that girls of 12 aod 13 are bewg beaten a8 & bratal man beats his horso; when we see them . CLUTCH WITH PITIFUL AVIDITY the bits of stalo cako and dry pastry that wo throw from our windows to tho fowls in tho yard below; when we hear the strident voice of tho nmistress, pitched to the natural key of the vira- g0, and licar thameful epitbers applied to the trembling pupils in the rade phraseology of an ignorant woman, wno owes no allegiancs to tie laws which govorn aspirates ; when we sce this samo mistress and recoguize v ouce by tao iu- dubitablo £igns of o gross and vulgar nature that she is a8 untit for her office as would Le a cart-borse barnessed to the chariot of the sun, wo thank God tuat in all the Iength and breadth of our own beloved coustry cannot be found such a loathsome ulcer upon the educational body as Dothegurls Hall! I wonder 1f Americans who bave never visited England reaiize that OCR NATIONAL PECTLIARITIES are 0s aggressively evident to tho English as those of a freshly-caugit Diiton let loose uapon’ our sliores. are tous. I uever reaized the American idiosyn- crasies til1 eaw them loom up 80 portentous- Iy as tiey doin the atmospbere of this insular Kipgdom. Itis as impossible for an_American to disguise his_nationslity in Euglaod 28 for a Turk to hido his in Chicago. We huve been long enough abroad to becomo so adjusted to the enigmatical monosyllable, Xe: Libits of English nccont, manner, and intous~ niusic and who set children to practiciog upon | tion, that the mannerisms of our own country- men offend us almost 88 much as foreiguers. ‘We never noticed till we had been months oo foreign soil how persistently our people elaborate their conversation with * Oh dear's!” 0 my's!” “Gracious me's!” “You dou't mesn it!” ete. It must be we uee these ejacu- Iations as sort of escape-pipes tor our enthusi- astic overflow of soul, an emotional vent for which the placid Jokn Bull has no need. Ocos— sionally the imperturbable Britisher ronses into a nerveless * Really 7” or a calm **Just faucy I but these are almost the ouly exclamations for which his jelly-fish temperament has ex- igencies. But an American hus usually only to utter one of his somewhat metallic notes in a chorus of oleaginous snd fruity Eoglish voicos toreveal himsell at 0nco as not to the manor born. Perhups our hyperborean winters congeal all the uucculence and flavor of our voices, or it may be it is our fierce wind which chusol them to tho sharpest attenuacions of sound, for we certainly are not far enough removed from our English ancastors by time to_bave 50 lost all vocal con- sangnimty with our English cousins. A few days ago our party went to STRATFORD-ON-AVON to do, asis the tourist's wont, the Shakspeare noighborhood. Wo started early, m the lovelicat part of lovely day,—snd cortainly a benutifal davof Juvein England is the ideal croation of color and form, with its tender greon of the grass, its more sombre but_glistening green of hedgerovws, its turquoise skies across which flescy argosies float elowly ns if loth to leave & scene 80 fair, the perfect roads trimming noble country seats o d clegant villas a3 wich broad, brown borders, and the dulcot landscape stretch- ing far as eve can roach. And then the tempera- ture of a sweet June day ia this country issuch as must have ripened the golden fruit in the garden of the Hesperides or tlushed into warmest crim- son the roses of Elysium, it 15 so tender; yet crisp cnough to pat to uttor shame 0wo of our swoonng Jume days. We drove slowly, so entranced were wo by the sweot influences of the day, ptopping to Joiter awhile in the pretty little caurchat Hamp- ton-Sucy, which 13 a miniaturs cathedral, nud where is the tomb of Justice Shallow, who, ag the Lord of Charloote, punished Shnkspoare's illicit deer-sLooting. So 1t way long past noon when wo renched Stratford. Ins:ead of driving atonco, as we should Lave doue had our carnal natures been less vigorously ussertive, to the famous old house where the iwmorial Will was born, we sought and found the Shakspeara Hote), whera wo ordered dinuer. We were shown into & pretty coffco-room furnishede more like a = moderatoly-zenteel parlor in an American village than liko the typi- cal coffee-room of Dickens' novela. Here we rested till dinner was sorved. And I relate it as =z proof that woe Americans have Yaukee Doodle written all over us, and that our national eaglo £crewns in our very voicos, that altbough our party of three grown persons aud two children was clotned entirely in _Euglish gar- menty, though wo ordered Engleh visnds, snd by uncounscions imitation used En- ghsh iricks of speech, though wo mever once mentoned buckwhest cakes or G. Wash- ingtou, nor once eud **we do shinge bettér over on our eide,” yet we overhoard Lhe waitross call to o fellow-servapt within five minates of our : ** Be sure to make tea for them Amer- icaps,” Later in the day, as we stood in the church where Shakspears long 2go was turnod into s hundful of dust, we overbeard s party of English people behund us specutating concern- ingus, The youngest mewmber of our party wore & Scotch " suit mnde by an English tailor, 80 vne of the Exglish Indiss sad : * They aro Scotch of course, for see that sweet little laddie.” The *‘sweet littlo laddie's” mamma heario, this, turned ber head for an _instant's sweet communion of sympathetic souls, when the lady mstantly corrected herself, say- jog: “Oiy, uo! they ure American: And yet notone of s had spokena word suve in whispers to each oLber. In the Shakspeare Hotel we amuacd ourselves esamiving the holel register and culling, as bees cull sweets, the names of Chicegoans from the scauty list of Americans who have visited Sirat- ford this year. We wero told that for many years the” Awerican travel to this sbrine has never been eo light- as thus year. We rlso_spent our time in critical convereations ou Stzkegears's playa, taking for our subjects tie titles which adorued tho entrances of tio different rooms, Over the coffec-room_was the very apptopriate inscription, * As You Like It;” over the comiaercial-rovm was *‘f'ne Lempest ;” while over the nex: chamber, whexs we relieved ourselves of our vernear of Warwicksaire dust, aod put a few artistis touckes to_our back-air, was msciibed * Midrummer Night's DAam. Everstlung iu Stratiord sesms to exi o Iy raiher than sbsoluiely,—rolutively to Shlk- re. You will ken thig:e shop-windowscrowd- ed with his busts acd siatnetics, wiudows drap- ed with pocket-baadkerchiefs printed with son- tences from Lis dremas, aod with fesioons of collms called the Suakspears, or the * Will.” You wili see his statucs 10 ahnostus maoy piches 25 the towa has buildings ; everywiers cups and ©s, mugs and vased, oraautented with hia ctures wizhout number of Div birthpiace. « is the Shekispeare Hotel, tho Shakspeare Hall, Shakspeure street, Sbale spearo court, and Slanpssre squaro, Walking the stree: to the church where 'he was buried, you neo Shakspearo New Place; elsewhere you find Shakspeare Grammar Scaool, while, turning into an ailey, you como to the Shakspearn Meaz-Sh we were told, thonga we did that somewnere inthe town isthe a Pump. ‘T'he whole town seems to live upon the fame of thé immortal bard, as a profane philosophy claims that the epiritusi bodies of other aphares are nourisbed by the aroma of food cooked on earth; and so vital is Lis upiritual presencs in tho places which know him three centuries ago. that it scemed to me 231f he only yesterdny drifted into the world of ehadows. So, whenever Isaw an old maa or venerablo woman whose thoughts could evi- dently float among countless grecy isles of mem- ory, I could hardly forbear stopping to ask such what they remombered of the world's great poet. Of course we visited the birthplsco, where we were received by an oxceedingly ladylike custo~ dian, but not the Miss Ashwin whom Hawthorne mentions €0 pleasantly, for_sho long ago went where ail intelligent English people seem to de- sue to go—to a radinut country over the sca— where waves the star-spangled banoor. Of course we noticed the broken floor of the front room over which Hawthorne speculated so curiously, but for which tue fact that the room a6 long used as a butcher’s shop scemod to us amplo cxplanaiion. Of course we stood in tho room where the most divive genius the world ever koew became .incarnate in the flesh ; of course we tried to decipber Sir Watter Seott’s name on the window-{rame,crossed and recrossed asitis with tho scribblings of those who thought to gain & specious lustrs of fame from brilliant companionsbip ; of course, as Americans, we were shown the blurred spot in the wall where Harriet Boccher Stowe once wrote her name, but from whence some fiery Southerner erasod it during the dark days of our internccine strife ; of course, we wandered to the chureh and thought cur solemn thoughts, lean- ing upon the railing which separates the chaucel from the transcptand visizors from Shakspeare's gravo; of course we didit all, for thusdo all Americans who cross the Atlantic. And we were reminded, as we came out of the church into the lovely lime walk which all who have visited Stratford will romember so well, that the drama of lifo is the tragody of death to-day as when Shukspeare died. We came out from a dreatn-vorld—wherein Benedict sad Boatrice, the ardent Rumeo aud the teuder - Juliet, Titania, and Boitom, the weaver, tho noble Dane and the lackadaisical Ophelia, with hosts of other indofinitely-outhned bewngs of the poct's fancy, were grouped around n sublime ceuiral figare, —to meet & faueral train. And we stopped one moment, that hearts well scquainted with grief might yield the penediction of a sight to those to whom frief was 8o desolatingly, 80 awfully new. But then the youngest cries ‘Let's go back and see Shakepeare's -fuueral!” and fecling con-~ vinced anow that the poot's epint must baunt the placo, since even a funeial has only a Shak- spearean siguificenco tos child's comprehension, wo walked slowly away. BenTia DAYNE. e e HUMOR. An exchange mentions orange-peel as a power behind the thrown. —It ix enid that the prettiest girl in Harrisburg ibs a xlmwspnpamarrie:. She carries them in her ustle. The oditor of the Panama Star spologizes for the non-agpoarance of Lis paper by suving {lmt ho bad to haul off to dig buckshot out of his egs. —*How long will my chop be, waiter " angrily asks o hungry mau in o 1estaurant. ““About 5 inches, gi1,” was the accurate reply. —+*Thol rainest in this boscrm,” o8 the chap said when a basin of water was thrown over him by the Jady he was serenading. —Josh Billings says, ** Success don’t konsist in never making blunders, but in nover maiug the same one the seckond time.” —Tho proprietor of = sausage-mill in New York was lately neard to regret that o many dogs should be killed **out of eeason.” —*4 groas falling off in the house to-night.” 28 tho fellow said when a drnnken man tumbled out of the fifth gallery into the pit. ' —Wowd-bo contributor—* I wish you would tell me something to write about.” Editor— *#Well ! Right about face,” —A Mnine book-agent has been disabled by the kick of a horse, and the proposition to give the horse s public testimonial crestes no little entbusiasm. —** In me brother's body hero ? asked Pat of the morgue-keeper. .+ Och,” Baid Put, ** you'll know him in a minate by an impid- iment in his spaache.” . —* I'd hata to be in your shoes,” said a wom- nn of the East Side, yesterday, as she was quar- roling with s neighbor. ** You couldn't get in them," varcastically romarked the neighbor.— Terre Haule Express. — What do you know of the character of this man ?” was asked of o witness at a police-court the other day. ** What da I know of his charac- ter? Ilmow ittobe unbleachable, your hon- or," he roplied with much emphasis. —At High Falls, N. Y., the othor dsy, & young "y crossing a field, was kuocked down by & ram, gnd the next tims the damaged dam- 86l saw her lover she informed that astonished youth that he might go avout his business, us she was disgusted with the sex, " —Astronomers tell us that the tail of the comot will, after passing over the earth. euvelop the moon, thus verifying the words ot the poet: Boon az the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wond'rous tail. —An old lady writeato say thet sho wae warmly in favor of women doctors for women; thata sick woman will tell one of her own sex more avout her feelings in five minutes thansbe would amals doctor in an hour. —A Holiday's Finish—Landlady (to potman)— “Joe, put tlus log out.” Potman—* He says he has fourpence.” Lnndlanj—' Then don’t be so rough. Ask the pontleman what he'll have.” —Punch. —T'ae Schenectady Sfar is respoueible for the statement that a Jue-bug, buzzing around in a dark Water'own parlor, lew aguinst a youug lady's faco with such foree as tu become hope- lessly entangled in her beau's mustache. —It is =aid that the mosquitoes are unusually large this season. The ouly satisfaction that peaple who aro obliged to remmiu iu the city can get from this 18 the hope that the old bull mos- quitoes will loaf around the back-yurds at night and eat up the tom-cuta. —A country ewspapor says that, in reply to a question from the lucture-committco of the chief town of the district a8 to the subject of a lec- ture to be given at the inatitution. the lecturer telographed, * A Tasto of Nup.esand Romo.” The operator 1pade it read, A Lasto of Apples and Rum.” —A murried Iady, who was in the habit of spending most of lier time in tho ociety of her neighbors, happonod to bo takea ill, andseat her husband in great baste for a physician. The ‘husband ran a short distazce, and then returnad, exclaiming, ** HK dear, where shall I find you whon I come back 7 —The Charcelior of the New York Law School told tho gradnating lawyers to mArTY 8s 500D Bs they could. 8o a8 to develop their argumeuta- tive powors 2—Boston Post. —aAn old vetorau was rolating his exploits to a crowd of boys, and mentioned having been in five engagenien “That's nothiog,” broke in alittlo fellow, **my sister Agues bai been co- gugod eleven times. —Naturalists claim for the crow that it is one of the bravest of birds, becauss 1t never shows the white featbor. # -A youny lady fell overboard the other day during & yacht-race. She was picked up, aad they call it a re-goita. % A young 1ady engaged to be married, but get- ting Sick of her bargain, appliod to u friend to help ber untio the kuot befors it wus too late. +4Oh, cortainly,” be replied, *‘it's veryoasy to untie it now, while it is only a beau-knot.” —A Truly Happy Day—* Well, Leonora, what Rave you and Harold been doing at Aunt Mabel's to-day 2" “Had diuner.” **Aud what did you do atterdinper ?” - Hud tea.” “But whacdid you t!o between dinuer andtea?” * Had some cake!" . —* Charlov, what makes yourchaeks so red ?" asked his sister’s admirer of a littie 3-year-old. * Cause 1 put some of sister's paint on. She i vory day.” It was 2 painful disclosare ody,—ut least Charley thought so itor bad goue. —Why did yon leavo your last place?” in- auired a young housekeoper about o eugago anew sorvant. **Why, you .sce, ma'am,” re- plied the applicant, “T was too good-looking ; aud when I opened the door folks took me for the missus.” —If o man is geiting shaved in a berber's shop, and a fly aligats apon bis nose, aud h o gives bis bead a twitoh to temove tho fly, duriusg ¥ Lich the barber removes o plico of the wau's ear, who is to blame,~—the man, or the barber, or the fis, or the ear, or thie razor? —A young fellow in & Western town was fined $10 for kiesing n giri sgainst her will, and the following day the dumsel sent bim the amount of the fice, with & nota saying that the next time he kissed ber lie must be lers rough about i3, and be earefal to Go 1t when Ler father was Dot about. aelor one day set tho table in his lonely ) plafe . for nmuelf and an imaginary He then sat dowan to E) abods w wifo and five cuildren. dine, sud a8 often as he helped himself to food | he pt the sama quantity on each of the. other plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the same time computing ti:e cost. He isstill o bachelor. —* O gracious ! no,” excizimed Mrs. Marrow- fat to Mra. Quogys, raisiug Lier hauds and speak- ing in o very excited tone. **She was so ill whon her new bonuet came home that she coulds’t get up ; but, dear xakes! Jane, that didn's matter nothing, for sho just put tho hat on and 1ay with ber head out the front window the whole afiernoon.” —Invention Is Better than Cure—Chief Clerk of Government Otiice (to vouthful aud rather rapid subordinate)—Oh, Mr, Scatterbrains, I am given to undorstand (bat the day afier to- morrow is the Derby Day, and I must therefore Tequest as & favor tbat sou will take some medi- cino and other necessary precautions toavoid the recnrrence of one of those Lilious attacks from whichi you suffered fast year.—Puach. —On & cruise the sailors saw a comet and wero eomewhat surprized aod alarmed at its appear- ance. The bands met and _appointed a commit- teo to wait on the commander aund aek bis opin- ionofit. Toey approached him and said: * We want to ask your opinion, vour honor.” * Well, my bogs, whint is it about 7 ** Wo want to n- quire ebout that thing up there.” * Now, be- tore I answer you, first let mo know whas ' you thwk it is?” * Well, your hovor, wa bave Luj]ke;l itall over. and we think it is a star eprung 2 leak.” —We have the best of reasors to believe that the Capital has bocome a grester favorito tlan over with the fair sex since its chauge of dress. Last Sunday a richly-ztired young lady was Btepping out of St. Matthow's ~ after 11 o'clock church, when an energetic newsboy dashed up from the carl-stone and howled io her aifrighted ear, “‘Hyar's yer Sunday momning Cap-ee-fal!” **Great heavens, Jane!” stuielted the fainting dameel to her companion, as she crooked her neck like o gazelle in the dircetion of ler pan- nier, ‘‘Great heavens! are they ull falling out Washington Capilal. —There is nothing more assimulating, more artful, more tainted with duplicity cthan & glass ove. A Danbury man, little given to his cups, and afllicted with oue of these optical decen- tions, drops in to sce us from timo to time, and invariably whan he is tight. To gaze nt tho nac- ural eye of that man and eee it drunk at every syuare inch of its spheroidity, aud then turn to i glass eve to behold in it the vigor of youth, the tire of genius, and the essence of sobriety, is trying to the nerves.—Danbury Nvws, FINANCIAL, SaTuRDAT EVENING, July 11, The condition of affairs in monetaiy circles to- aay was & continuation of the quiet of yesterday. Thedeposits at the bauks are increasing be- yond the demand for lcans, and the unemployed surplus is conscquently augmenting. This is the normal stite of affairs at this season, and sorves the ugefal purpose of accumulating fands for the movement of the crops, and for tho fall trade, both of which will soon begin. At the banks the rais of discount is 10 per cent, with doviations in exceptional cases. At the grain and pork bauks mouey would be freely loaned at 7@8 per cent. On the strcet, money is8@18 per cent; real csiato loans 9@10 per cent. Tho decrease in the reczipts of grain, and con- sequently in tho shipmeuts Eastward, nre mak- ing exchange on New York more scarce. It sold to-day between oacks at 25¢ to 50¢ preminm for 8L.000. % The clearings for the week were £22,697,- 275.65, and the balances $2,229,065.06. The cor- responding figures las; vero £25,467,535.2( ‘“1":,,2'2,131'%{"" last Fear wero §£25,467,535.20 c Bank of Chicago made i Trudss Iast 0 1. 2. Contos, of the Arm of Tos & Coatey, real estaie deelers, as Assiznee, As yot their liabilitics and assets are nudetermined, r. - Coates not having examined the affairs of tha concern, s Skow-Petersen, Isberg & Co. report the rates of foreign oxcuange: London. 4ST1/® 190; Paris, 5131@512}¢ ; Hambnry, 053{@96551 Berlin, 72725 ; Delgium, 515@51134 ; Holland, 41}5]»@4525;% ?weélm;i 233 !\'rérn ay, 11135; Den- mark, 565 Finland (Russia), 205" Cabi foks Tonaoa g Pma,?saa;‘ Hhle Zeane: The doal ’-OC.;L ?TOCKS, 'he dealingsin local stocks are very light. Bank stocks are nomuasl, aud the npvntiun% in the others barely sorve to afford weekly guo- tations. L Tollowing are some quotations besed on actual salea: National Senk of Illinois, Home National Bank Firat Natioual Bank City Nutional Bunk. Union National Ba .108 Merchants’ Savings, Loan, and Trus Chicago Gas Company. Cnomber of Commerce North Side Rallway. Fidelity Savings. . Traders’ Insuranco Compan; Iuter-State Industrial Exposition. DEFAULTING RAILWAY DO ‘The following latest New York quotations for defanlting radway bonds are reported by A. O. Slaughter: Bid, Asked, Burlington, Gedsr Rapids & Minnesota first-mortgage s, gold, Minnesots Di- vision ... sosive B 3 Burlington, Cedar apids & Sinneaota first-mortguge 7s, gold, Milwaukea Di- vision....... 55 Cansda Southern first-morigage s, gold.. 55 15 Chicogo & Canada Southern: tirui-mort- BRRO WL v canyessussssnnssarsitarnenss 8 Oicugo, Danville & Vincennos first- gaga e 50 Central (of Tows) first-mortgage 76, o D.s Moines Valloy rat-morigage 8 5 Dea MoincaValley land-grant 34 25 Leavenworth, Lawrenca & Gal grant 10« 50 Mivsouri, 80 . 2 5 an _mortgago 75, gold.. e 8t Joe & Denver City (ast Division) first- _* mortguge 8, gold........... PRI & Bt. Joe & Denver City (West Divisios) firt-mortgage 88, gold.... o5 2 Tosas & Pacie dntmortgsge iy nd LATEST. Nsw Yoz, Jaly 11.—Aoney closed at 2@3 per ceut. Foreizn exchange left off quiet at 43654 @4868¢ for bankeis’ sixty days' sterling, and 489 @459} for demand. Prime mercantile paper sells 23 low as 5 per cent, but most o1 the Lusi- nosa is at B1@65 por cent. Tho banks arebuy- ers, they fiuding it difficult to ewmploy ther mon- ey with thoir own customers. Gold quist and steady, opening at 110 and closing at 10934, the only prices of the day. The Taten paid for carrying were 2, 1, 34, 134, and 3 per cont, Clearances, $21,000,000. Tho Aseistant-Treasurer disbursed duriog the weolt 3,724,000, aad recowved $2,137,300° for customs. Tmports of general merchandise, including dry goods, for the week, ©7,815,000; produce cx- ports, £7,387,136 ; specie exorts, #1,085,747. Governments dull and eteady. State bonds quict and steady. Railroad bonds practically ueglected this afternoon, but quota- tions steady. The stock market opened steady, and ad- vanced 14 to 34 per cont. This was followed by o genoral ~declime of 3 to 13 per eent, but = portion of the decline was' soom recovered. At tho Seccond Board there was another change in the temper of speculstion, the market huviug been weak. During the last hour (of busivess stocks wer: generally speaking, firm, and prices_rocovere; 37 to 1 per cent from the lowest point of the aftornoon—Lake Store baviog advanced from 723 to 73, and Westorn Union from 7134 to 724, Just before the closo thiere was a reaction of 3 to ¢ per cent, and the market left off tamo. ‘The rise in Erie oerly in tho day was based on ramors that the English accountauts had decidod “to make & favorable report, which would be given to the public next week. The wideat fluctnations were in Lako Shore, which were governed by the lesonn concerning adividend. Sales to-day included 24,000 Western Union, 10,000 Eric, 43,000 Lake-Shore, 4.000 Northwestern, 5000 Rock Island, 9,000 St. Paul, and 4,000 Toledo & Wabash. It is stated that a compromise will probnbly be eifected with J. li. Diggee & Co., suspeuded. * Tlie specie paynients io-day were: Gold coin, £60,000; eilver, £100.000. The weekly statemont of the New York city banks is as follows: Loans, decreaso, £333,800; specio, increase, £5,441,100 ; logals, deurease, 82,325,400 ; depos— incroase, ©2,081,100; circclation, increase, 500 ; referse, incresse, $2.595.673. 'he Daily Bulletn this mworning aunounces the suspension of J. H. Digges & Co., wholesale dealers, of Leonard stract, with liabilities of £300,000 ; asscts uot given. 2 GOYERNMENTS. £59 Coupons, '81. + Cougons, 67, Coupons, Coupions, 6. .. Cougonk, New 51 Coupons, 10-40: Coupons, 63, 1ew,...116% | Currency 63 BONDH. Virginias, old. N. Carolinas, ol N. Carolinas, now. Miesouns... Tennessees, o Tenneseces, new. Virginias, Dew. Canton.......... Weatern Union Te Chicago & Alton. Chicsgo & Alton pfd.104 Obio & Misssiusippi. 24 ! Cin. & Col... 70 i Chi,, Bur. & Quincy.100 Lake Shore. . T2 Tadiana Central. ... Jilinois Central...... Union Pacific bonda, | Union Pacific stock. . Centyal Pacific stock, Boston, Hart, & Eric T Michigan Cezitral Pittebrg & Ft. W b 1% Del,, Lack. & West's. 106 COMMERCEAL. SaTunDAT EVENING, July 11, The following were the receipts and shipments of the leading ariicles of produce 1 Chicago during the past twenty-four hours, and for the corresponding date one vear ago : TECFITTS, 1574, 5,325 Flour, brls, Wheat, bu Corn, 'bu Oats, bu. Lye, bu,. Barley, bu. Grass beed, 1hs Flux secd, 1o, Brovm corn. 1bs. Cured meats, 1L Butter, I Live hiogs, § Cattle, No. Sheep, Luinber, N Shingle The following figures ore furnished by tie Produce Exchange : Receiced. Shiped. Poultry, coops. Y Game, pkgs. Eggs, pka Cacale, b Beaus, bu ifay, tons, Hops, 1. Fish, pligs....... Withdrawn from store on Friday for city con- sumption: 2,991 bu wheat; 9,366 bu oats; 1,098 burye. The following grain has been inspected into storo tluis morning up to 10 o'clock: 175 cara wheat; 459 cars corn; 17,800 bu No. 2 do by canal; 12 carsoats; § cas rye; 1 car barley. Total (630 cars), 203,000 bu. Inspected out: 38,113 bu wheat; 86,861 bu comn ; 11,527 bu oats ; 733 bu r¥e. The following were the receipts and shipments of breadstuffs and live stock at tins poiat during the past week, and_ for tho corresponding weeks ending a3 dated : Flour, brl Bre,bu s 2471 Barley, b 7 3,408 Livehogs, No. . 37010 43,172 Caitle. Xo 8067 14876 The leading produce markets wers rether quiet and stroog to-day. The shipping move- ment was slow, indeed dull, and the speculative traders did not seem anxious to operate exten- sively; yet buyers werc more numerous than sellers, giving higher prices. in sympathy with a firmer tone at other points. There wera very few new features to note in counection with anv of the markets, excont in oats, the feeling being but a further development of that noted yesterday. The a:tendance was rather light. The situation of the dry goods market was without noticeable change. Steadily fair ac- tivity is :.p%ueu& in the more staple articles, and all sensonablo goods o fact sre meoting with & good inquiry, sud commanded full prices. There ‘was a firm tone to tho grocery market, not oaly for tho leading articles, such as sugars, syrups, coffeos, and teas, but’ for most sido goods as well. and jobbers express satisfactivn with the presont state of trade. Sugars continue to move briskly, and refined grades were again advanced, Standard A's now quoted ¢ 10@11c ; L's at 105@105¢c, and oxtra C'sat 103{@10j4c. ' In sympathy with the steady ad- 'vance in sugars,prices of sirups and molasses are bardening. = New York was quoted Sc higher yesterdey and a correspondiniz advauce here is looked for soon. Coffees remain firm at the lately sdvanced prices, but sre more quiet. “There waa fair activity in the butter trade and the prices ruling earlier in the weok were eastly maintained. The cool weather of the past two or three days bas witnessed materially increased receipts, but on increaso in the outward movement is also noted, snd stocks are but litle larger than at tho begin- ning of the weck. Cheese remains quiet and’easy. In the bagging mariet no new fea- tures were vixible, grain bags continuing active zud firm, while other lines rule quiet and stoady. Coul was unchunged, aod the geueral festures of tho wood, pig iron, leather, aud tobacco markets were slso the snme as on the preceding duys of tho weet. Oils were moving fairly at about steady pricot, carbon snd tuipentine alone be- ing easy. Lumbor was quiet, and common grades were quotod lower 2t the yards at $10.50 for coarse inch #ud 2-mch. The receipts at the docks were lib- eral aund choice lumber, the slipments of which 10 this port since the iuspection troubles bave been greatly reduced, was firmer. Common Ium- bor was in lioeral supply and slow. Metals, mbails, and irou wete stoady aud in moderate demand. Cooversge was rather quiet, taough packers are buying for sum- mer use ana futare delivery. Building mcte- rials were in Light demand, cumpared to the trade in pravicus years, put prices are pretty gener- ally adher:d to, being down to hard pan. There were no new features in wool. Hides wero scerce and firm, there being a zood local demand. Hay was stronger all round, the recent improve- ment io the demand extending to-dsy to prairie, wuoile the eo‘erinf» of all . descriptions wers moderats, Tops wero steady; also broom-corn. Seeds weze quiet, but firmly held at the oid tizures, New potatoes were abundant, and stock not foliy mpe was dull and weak, while chojce offerings sold readily at fuil prices. 01d potatoes were slow and lower. The recoipts of green fruits were larga, especially of berries, most descriptions of which sald slowly at lower prices, Choic cherries, apples, plums, aud Aobile relchefl sold at far prices. Chickens Were salable to the local trade, and firmer ; but other kinds of poultry weredull. Egzs were firm at 12@14c. Highwines were very quiet, and firm at tho merket price of Friday, the offerings being liggt. Sales were limited to 50 brls at 94}7c per gallon. New York was a shade essier. Leiio freights wers dull and very weok. They can ecarcely be quoted othorwire than by eaying that dc was asked for corn to Buffalo by seil, with 3}{c the best bid reportcd, Carriers by sail have o hesvy competition, not only among them- selves, but with &tenta craft, asthe latter can- botter afford to take a very low rate than to lie idle, The reported charters to-day were mostly on owners' mcconn:, the principal holders of corn selling it to the vessel-owners in preference to shippwg it out themselves. A totul of six charters was reported, which will cary out 1 000 bu corn. Provisions were quiet, but & shade firmer all round. o noto au advance of about ¢ per brl on mess pork, 10¢ per 100 Ibs on lurd, and 5@10¢ perlod los on meats, thongh the demand was ight. Lard was again quoted higber in Liver- pool, but the New York quotations show that our pork is kept well ap under their les, 8o that it hardly pays to ship, even at_presenc low rates of freipht. Hogs continue firm, and tend up- wards, but our shipments of producs scarcely indicate that we shall be cleaned ouat beforo tho beginning of the next packing season. The merket closed quiet but firm st the following range of pricea: Mess pork, cash or seller July, $915.90@18.95; do, sciler August, ©18.92:4@18.95; . do, seller Septem- ber, £19.10@1.13}¢; do, seller tho year, $1£.371¢ @14.30. Lard, cash or seller Julv, 311.35@ 113734 ; do. sellor Augnet, £11.35@11.40; do, seller September, $11.45@11.50 ; do, eeller the year, £9.20@9.25; summer lard, 10%@10%c. Sweet-pickled bams, luj;@lle per I for 18@ 18 Ib averages; dry-talted meats, loose, at 63{@ 634c for shouldets, cash, 7c geller August ; 95@ 9ije for ehort mbs, cash, and 9if@Y3éc seiler August ; 937c for short clear, cash, and 92Zc seller ‘August: 8¢ for Cumberlands; 934@9}4¢ for long clear. 'Tko same boxed at X @J:c per D abovo these prices. Dacon meats, 3¢ for shoulders, 103¢c for short ribs, 103gc forshortclear,all pecked in hnds; the =ame looss, )¢ lower. Bacon hams, 12}4@lic. Mess becf, C@11.25; extra mers do, §12.00@12.25; beef bams, £23.00923.50. City tallow, 735@Tc; grease nominal at 5}{@Si{c. Sales ‘were reported of 800 brls mers pork at $19.00; 500 brls do at $18.90; 730 bris do soller August at 319.00; 750 brls do a¢ $18.95; 750 brls do seller Septcmber as §10.1247; 19 tes lard at §11.50; &00 tes do seller the vear a: £9.25; 500,000 lbs short ribs (z¢ Sabula, I:A.P. &t 9)4c; 200 tes sweet-pictled hams (14@15 ibs), sefler Augnst, at 1lic; 50 boses bellies at 9'/c; 65 bris beef hams, seller last, half July, at =24.00. The Daily Commercial Reportgives the follow- ing s the shipments of provisions from this city for the week onding July 9, 1574, and since Nov. 1, 1873, togather with comparisons: Tk, | Lard, Hens, ShoulT Urta | tes.| tes. Weck ondin Ji Sumns tima 2 o laclados allca meats exespt shoulders and ams. Flour was in fair demand for Saturday, and ruled steady, except a iurther tingo of weakness in winter Shippers looked aronnd rather mora than during the preceding part of tho weok, bus took Littl, owing 10 a_dieagreement about prices. Thoreceipts are slightly on the incroavo. Bran was in zood request, and firm. Sales were reported of 100 Lrls white wiuter ex- tras (Wis.) at #5753 600 bils spiing extras at & 725 brls do on private terms; 100 bris sugectine, at $4.35; 50 bris do at $4.00 ; 100 bris ryo on private torms. To:al, 1,675 brls. Also, 20 tons brau at $11.50 on track; 10 tons at $11.00 atmill; 10 tons at £12.50 freo on poard. The marlet closed at the following rango of prices : Fair t0 good Wistie winters.. $535 @ 6.5 Cuolce do. Red winters Goud to choi Madium to Ttye slour. 525 @ 5.30 Bran........ L1150 @1%00 Wheat was_aciive, and strong dunng the greater part of the session, averaging ic Ligher than on Friday, chiefly a8 o consequence of the oxerciee of *‘home talent.” Liverpool was quoted steady, the recent downward march hav- ing termmated, and New York was stroager. Bat our shipments were very small, and there was no nppreciable slupping demand to-dny, Dut the ehort interest soemed to regard the for- eign news 88 an indication that the British are azain about to buy, and claimed that all onr wheat will "bo wanted across the water for mixing with theirs of thonew crop. Hence they bought a good larger than they wers oxpected to tinie, There was § £0od shipping deman Iyon New England scconnt, and parly bt vessol-awners, who deomed it wise s 'R Ircight-room on their own account ‘Tather th, sccept rates which they ciaim to bane i Tnin was follosred by a good speculative 1o which seemed 0 be chielly from the Wl interest, on finding 0 sigu of tho bress wooft some of them have confidently pmfi“,df every day during the past throe weels, Supc: August opened at G13(c, declinod o tgae L& vanced o 6134c, and closed at Gle, Sefior & month, or cish No. 2, sold 3t giem® closing 8t £lio for cash and 6l3gaic for the option. High mixed® sl B SI@Ue sud reiected 3 Gl ‘ash eales were raported of 2,400 bq hi, ey at 6150 26,800 b do at 6135c; 1&3‘3‘&,‘}“‘" 612¢c’; 6,500 bu do at 613(c; 13,00 s atGi3de: 80,000 bu do at 615 §1i¢e’ 9,200 bu do s 613¢e; 22 ,600 b Tejected at 5837c; 2,800 by 38 9:200 b do at 53¢ 70,000 ba So. 4o 3 8t 630. Total, 334,100 bu. Oats were in good domand and firmer, onts were 1o higher, under a ratherlively bigqie on tho part of the firm bolding most of (o 28" now here who secmod 80Xious to run the pd up to a otill higher poiat, but did not P8 meny bids from others. Thers was Hitlg Lot 00 The market oponed ac 47¢, advanced to 471 a0d closed at £737c. Soller the month s 533 3o higher, at 44@443{c, closing at fhe pati Boller August sold at 33}(@31e.” Seller Sorii: ber sold at 321{@32%c, closing at 333, Rer the year sold at 313/@32. Rojected sy oy sk Cash salos were reported of 2,400 ba Mo g 47340 : 5,600 bu do at 475c; 1200 b doat s 1,200 bu refected at 454{c: 600 bu by sayyi, of 5lc; 600 bu do at 53c; 600 bu do mixed af o on track. Total, 19,200 bu. 4, Rye was in good demand and light sl an an advance of 2c per bu. Bales were tys} ed to 800 bu No 23t 83c, and 400 bu by gy on track at 90c. Several lots were wanted shipment, bat were not on sale. Our stocks sy worked down to & very few car-loads, and tho, are held off the ‘merket. Tae fecting for fuiery dolivery ia, bowaver,not atall t£0DE 1 buyerury isposed to be afraid the sapply will be prest than tho domsad. PR, e Jarley waw more active, and quite excited options, the news from the hnrllley—gmmc;?&: tricts boing_much less favorable' than a shory time ago. The now barley promises badly, bor in quantity snd quality, and it is now claimeg that tho reccipts of No. 3 will be quite. smay Now No. 2, seiler September, nponeg at $L12i¢ declined t0 $1.00, 2nd closed st SL10. Seliee tho month sold st S1.03, and 80c was bid for No. 8, geller August. Cash lots were inactire, excent the sale of 2U0 bu by sampls at 55@T50, No.2was quoted at #115@1.20; No. 3 at 8@ %0c; and rejected at 60@050. Whest o4 siead y eat was quiet and s:endy, closing at 81,143 soller the mquth, and $1.10%@ 1.10}.{B eller An‘g | Rust. After 3 o'clock the marke: wenkenod to $1.145¢ for July, and $1.10@1.1055 for August, Corn was quiet sad firm at G61).0 for July, and 61@613{c for August. S CHICAGO LIVE-STOCK MARKET. SaTURDAY EvENING, July 12, ‘The receipts of Hve stouk during the week have besu 2s foilowa: Bheey, 600 71 1u [ Hogs, 5,741 Monday. 1418 3,413 naTyS, The rates of freight now chiarged between and the points vamed are as follow il To New York, per 100 .. To Philedeiphis, per 100 It To Esst Liberty, per 100 s, 300 CATTLE—Ths wees opened extremely dull in this ‘branch of trade, with prices irregular and lower. Tus Teceipts were little more than half tiie rocent average but, so demoralized were the Eustern markets, thal shippers could pot be prevailed - upou to engage in ac- tive operations and up to Thursday the supply, small 28 it vias, exceeded all legitimase demands and prices of ebippfug grades eased off a good 255 per 109 Ra, The advance of 50,00 per cer in tne rates of freight to New York, which went into eifect on Monday July §, alz0 exaried s dejressing influence, and all things cone sidercd, the markot opencd about as inauspiciously for sellers s it well could. Towaxd the close, brightened upa little under greatlydiminisked supplics, there was eome Lmprovement in the state of trade at the East, and under an increasod inquiry from ship- pers our market assumed a firmer, hoalthicr tone, The yards are now cleared of stock, and the prospocts Zsofar ut least 28 the better grades of cattle are con~ cerned—secz rather more favorable for the telling m- torest. The extremo rango of prices was SLA0GG.M0. The ltter price was obtained by Strader, Wadsworth & Hall for 99 bead. Stock cattle are in light request only at $3.25@4.50. Calves sell chiedy at $1.50@5.23 for’ common to really good qualities.” Iaferior Lave &0ld as low 08 53,00, and extra u3 high as £6.00, To-day the market wis iuactive, owing to searcity of stock, the fresh recaipts amountiug to only 260 hesd, QUOTATIONS. Extra Beoves—Graded eteers, sveragng 1,400 Its and over. . venene...- 56108040 Choice Bieves—Fine, fat, well forized 3 year to 5 year old eteers. averaging 1,250 to 1400 Ds.... . 5753800 Good Decves—well-fattened, fmely formed stecrs, averaging 1,150 t0 1,300 1b3 ...... 5.4085.00 Mediom Grade—steers in fair tlesh, aver- sging 1,030 to 1,150 ks, ....... .. 4153523 Butchers' Stock—Common to fair steers, and good 1o extra cows, for city alsugater, averagng 830 10 1,100 s... ... Btock Cattle—Comiuoa cattie, flesh, averaging 700 10 1,050 1L, Inferior—Light aud thin cow: stags, bulis, and scalawag stee: Cattle—Texzs, cnolce comn-Te tered Nort ply L De e total crrivals being ouly 47, 24 againet weeks, €9.068' last weck und 63,521 week befors last, Tha ket opened firm on 3onday and has ccatinued @ 6 clove, prices crecping up a little from day to dsy until an aggregate adsancoof J0GSUC hus been estab: lished. The high prices now prevalent will very likely rosult in on facreased rupply, but, 38 farmers are now in the midstof their harvesting, thers is littls Frobability of the receipts being increaxed suiciently during the next week or two to cause apy very Ero- nounced decline, Tne qualitiy was improved “some, Lut the averazo is atill low even for this seacon of the year. when excellence is not lcokad for, With the exception of about 10,000 hiewd. taicen on local accoust, the offerings were chicfly tuken for the markets of New York and Boston. To-lay trade was active st firmly maintained prices. T2 supply reached only about 6,000 bead, and these were picks: fast an unloaded fromn the cars at £5.75/@5.90 for Poge | mmon ; at 36.00@3.10 for 1 cul, at $6159 oLloviizy are 8Jme of the for good to choice. trensactions zkas it 105 2 3 2y g0 |20 170 580 55 199 g2 |53 21 60 13 w3 €13 |63 135 60 53 a7 6w |62 ;0 6IS 47 159 60) |46 201 6.0 |72 18T 610 SIEEP—Thors has bren an udssuce in prices of sheep—in consequinco of the mesgre recelity, Tha total supply awoantsd to on'y 1,415 bead,and, there wus 0o appearance of activity in the deman enles toward the closo wers readily effected st 50c ad+ vanco over Luat week's prices. Wi closiag rated 25 follows: Poor to common $2.50@3.25, 2 £3.502 4,00, and gond to choice at $4.25@5.0). Lam! bivo £old af $1.50:32.73.~ PROFESSIONAL CARDS. DR. A.G. OLIN, 197 Washington-st. Tne longest engaged and most cosstul physician in tae city in the special treatmeot 21l Chronic, Nervous, and Spocial Discn: o callar to females sp alaacs, & ts 33 a dntazce treated NO CURE deal, chietly for next month and enabled holders to command an advance. The fallingoff in re- ceipts to a very iow point, both_bere aud in Mil- waukee, is confidently looked for by mans. Seller the month opened at_$1.1434, receded to £1.13%{, rdvanced to $1.15%. and closed at #1145, @1.1474. Seller August eold at 3..10@ 1.103{, closiug at $1.101¢. _Setler Setember sold at 91.06@1.061{. Cash No. 2 spring was sou- erally et a slight premiam over July, but closed at$1.14%{. No.1spring closed at ¥1.17; No. 3 do at 31.U7, and rejecied do at 98c. Minnesota wheat was firmer at €121 for No, 1, aud 31.19 for No. 2. Winter wheat was 'quiet at $1.131¢ for No. 2 red. aud 31.07 for rejected. Casli sales were reported of 3,200 bu No. 1 spring, at 31.17: 36,600 bu No. 2 spring at $1.13; 18- 400 ba do at S1.14%¢; 20,600 bu do at $1.14%; 800 bu do at 3L.141¢; 10,800 bu No. 8 spring at $1.07; 1,600 bu rejected spring at 98¢; 400 bu do at 97:4¢; 1,600 bu No. 2 northwestern (Alion.) at SLY 00 bu No. 2 red winter at €113, 400 bu No. 3 do at 81.07. Total, 106,200 bu. Corn was active, and averaged Ic Bigher. Liv- orpool was quoted strong, and Now York was firmer, with & fair export demsnd, while our re- ceipts were not extensive, though coasiderably Dr. Kean, ST., CHICAGO, NO PAY! 360 SOUTH CLARK May be consulted, persooally or by mall, {res ol caiEs 2031l ghsoic OF Borvos dissases. DIt do KEAN ia 38 only physician in the cily wio warrants curss uc oo paf. Ottice hours. Ya. m. to¥ 0. m. : Suadays frun 9w I FRACTIONAL CURRENCI. R i ea $5 Packages oFr FRACTIONAL CURRENCY FOR SALE AT TRIBUNE OFFICE. m e e e ———