Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1879, Page 5

WEDNESDAY: JANUARY 1, 1879—-SIXTEEN PAG tifally suppiled by nelghboring farmers sng sbippers. The locsl demand was easily pro- videa for, and there were no Jmportsnt bulzes fn prices, the miidness of the winter enabling sellers to recelys stock almost any day, and prevent n seageity o the market. Prices ranged from 83@50c per bu. The new crop was_short both West and Esst* 1o New Fnzland, New York, and_Ohto the crop was unwsuslly Jight, eod in the Northwest the Btates of Jows and Minncsota were the largest producers. Wisconain, which ordinanly ylelds well, reccived potatoes from other 8tates.” The HE CHICAGO TRIBUN Umotky. Prices have been lower than In appears to have oqualed that of the previous year tn the recollection of the trade. A rec jeur. for twenty years back shows no lower firnres. ‘The Chicago trade In Colorado and tervitorial The very low morket hias prevented the farmers | woola continues to increase, anat promises to from realizing mnch out ot the crop; and the | assume grand proportions. An {mportant dealers, though they have handled a good quan- | stock of Bolurldo is now carried here, and tho tity of sced, have hal very narrow marging to | sales the past season have excecded those of work on. Tho dectining tendeney of prives has | previous years, though at lower prices. mude the dealers very cautlous, and tley have The average priccs of domestic ficeces In tho refrained from filling thelr store-houses with | New York market for a long term of years are sced a8 In former years. The deprersion was | glven Lelow, those for the past two scasons due to the preacnce of the heasy surplusof tha | Leing estimated: crap of 1577, Evervhodv believed timothy to he 1874 rheap In the previous year, and hought heavily, IX Eantern dealers wera londed down with geed, | Fine fleece, per b, . ... 5, twice & year with goods a large portion of which would become stale before they could be disposed of. The network of rallrosds that now covers the West enables’the country mer- chant to keep buying all the time in Iots to sult his convenlence, and any article out of stock can ba replaced within two or thres days without the merchant leaving his store. He can order by telegraph, and reccive by exoress the goods, which are packed in Chicago within half an hour after tho order fs received, and shipped on the mext train. And this new method of doing Lusivess involves an equally HE YEAR 1878, over twenty years, where he fs well and favorn- bly koown, ana where he accamulated a 1argo property. 1o has always Leen a atrict Repub- llcan, and during the late ltobellion was Presl- ilent of the Chieago Sanitary Commisston. The Boston Advertiter says Juage Brrax’s home in Waslington fa noted for its elegant Lospitality, nnd Is a favorite placo for all who are fortunate vuough to enjoy his acquaintanve. Ilo speaks Loth French and German flugytt dealers think thers can scarcely bas further decline from prices, which are lower, take them all poand, than any which obtalned pro« vious to the War. Our jobbers now control the trada of & very lane ares, meeting with com- paratively Iittie rivalry in tho West, and nona from the Kast, i munl{lnz the vast sectlion of country Iying west of the tenth degres of lon- eitude from Washington. The sales of : correes were Iarger than for any previona year, hut they made very littl2 money for the desler, owing to the almoat continuous ehrinkage in values. A decline fn prices of 25 per cont s noted, and rescnt auotations ars the lowest that have Trade, Oommaroe,' and Manufac- tures of Ohicago for the Pasi Year, A Season of General Prosperity, Notwithstanding the June | A s tem Bercnen says hio shall aot 20 of? on lecturing 5. 10°78, 1rips bereafler, but tual he intends to stay at i o o Yoo with ia charch and. make tho prayer Bunkruptcics. Svenly detibuccd the Tast meus navi oy | temamtsree, perlh 424 789 fe o o e wat iorTly cxhaeted befots Oetor | Tadlcal departare from the old plan porened by | FSERKRST™ snce I60L, Tho $ear ovened” v meet{ogs what iney uscd to be. very {ittie Western secd the past year, The T — bcr?' The potatocs w:’rn Injured by the hot,dry | the wholesale merchant and jobber. Heisno | March the market had declined to 15} @203, f crmln “b ls?smwns ,nhnrr. |;bmn 3 per ITAY. cent} nt s arge decreage wase OLY lost slcht of In th abundance of eced of tho TaapAram preceding season. The quality of the siew crop | {0 the first halt of the year was moderately was about an averag he Buropesn demand | profitable and satlsfactory. The Western tim- h;a‘gnl:?n lnlr bc:‘a'v]vuxml:u{.u'llnu; mn:’u-imetm'! othycrop of 18i7 was remarkable for its fins e ckicnad iinancial iroutilus apd the frea Tity, which made {t o favorite in the Enat. offerings of domestic eced fn the Importing | JUBHES countrles. Prime timothy sold at §1.2551,30 1 | Irices kopt up under a good shipoing demand January, down to £1.19 next month, at 3132 in [ till tho carly appearance of graes turned them August, $1.05 in November, and $1.054¢1.30 ot | downward, and later on the rallroads doubled et hqrering the past fow wocks e IEht | he frelzits, which crushed all tho Eastern ) ¢ been quickly taken. The ye clored witls & £tock of About 59,000 baga here, x | trade. A good deal of old b Bt '1""' eer, Iarge portion of which belones to the crop of ‘The new crop year opened Bept. 1 rather in- 1477, and s &t present withheld from market, auspiclously. The crop of 1878 sccmsto have GLOVER been alarge one In the United States. The The hocn, I exccllent demand, for exoort, and | quality of the Northwestern hay s o8 good os export business hera hins been .zmd, fucressed | Usual, excepting that of Jast year, The early through the effurta of several enterprising loeal | fall trade has been grood, the lake regions hav- dealers, and Chicaza scems destined to rank | Ing taken o considerable quantity of timothy, fl"l,l!flrfl";%' "‘;flmfl nlfl;llcnr}!“dfl."- The | but aside from this demand and a moderate usiness tas been bullt up parl at the cxnense . of New York and several Kastern ani Western | 1ocal,ono thero has been no antlook of impor. points. Foreign lbuvers have founa out that tuction fs made in relghts, which will make It thers s virtuo in Western claver,and that it can | JUSLOD 18 CCS 1f relriyte, o be had cheaper fn Cnicago_than_st points | POS THE chrr anADE There 1t ey oranded a8 New Forl soeil | ooy brovided for with looso hay hy the neigh- and subjected to commissions, transfer cliarges, [ 1o PROTE o0 for WAl Jogso [y BY UG mefrhe and otlier unncceseary nd old-fogy cxpenses, [ LOTINE farmers in sx plin ety Through-freight contsacts could be made hera D tlly decaantl fue: new whiicla. asien at os low a fizure 8 at the seaboard, and conse- [, The T elvatel i O e ot uently have enconraged tius nesw departure, | K { Do Drives. Are SUEIE O | nyiand and Germany have taken most of tho | the short crop. Within the circle which usually clover scnt_across tho Atlantic, tho bulk of it '“P""“" Chicago, the wild Jands are fast noder- oing to Coutiuental ports. “The fall export, | 801N cultivation, and thclpnladumlon of prairie demand continued good to the close of tho | U8Y ”,"‘fi,“,:fl?,‘“‘{,},“"‘é}' ;x‘;‘?';om at £9.00Q year; and there has heen no materlal accumuine [ 5470 Hatlor = !»8.%0@“(!’!-' Yralrie sold 5t tion of eced in this markct. The stock at the | gz &0 N noth 1 i close is about 2000 bags, Prime opencd in | $7-00@3.25. New No. 1 timothy rauged duri uyi Jauuary at $4.75, aold next month at #4.00, rose '.‘é" ‘;"" 'fl' ‘;;Z:‘. ff‘%fz‘m‘ &;‘d 'i”l‘x’ixl:tl?nr:!x:"e Irreqularly, reaching $4.60 In September, fel1 | 50 L PIRING brodit KREKGTO0, The areonce alterwards to 83.05 in November, roso to §5.95 | Price CR0Lin 18 Dpland areraged b (@4.00, and closed at 8355a:Li. Lrices bave | (AN Shor 10108 U Srerened, 8525, Dbeen low, but the crop pays the farmer quite as | 958! el Ly d 1.00 well ss ‘other products, nud the acreage is in- '@"j‘go’:::"fl;’lf &:‘&:fi"l’l‘n“"ufil',‘;f'“’ bout §; creasing In the older settled counties of the “The Agrienltural Bureau reports that the ,:;K’ Northwestern Btates. The Western crop was L 4 A large in 1878, hoving increased in some sections :{':E‘“:n:‘"fh‘;’wf&flz”fl%fm&? wwas 0,000, about 50 per cent, and Lhe quality was very sat- fsfactory, New York und other Eastern sections had o smaller crop than usual. IIDES. 1 n T"‘“ ';L‘_A?“n'd"l’"‘u ” be BTATISTICS BIOW A DECLINE fras Iarger than tn 1877, and fatr prices were ob- | ) 1hg receipts sad 8 gain In the shiptents of u|ncdr£: the farners, The old was about used up when tho new flax began to come futo war. | bides, a8 compared with the previous year. Tho ket, ‘Tho new scason opened with consiilerablo | product of the city slaughter-houses was larger. «‘»ccul-uon, and Eastern crushers entered the | Tho reduced receipts from the country were "":g:g"';'m‘;":gd ) n‘:f“}{;p’g"zh;“&wm‘f{l attribuced lu part to a smaller kill of eattle, was i o g 01 ity | 1o 9 but it proved to be a good one nod falr In quale Prices averaged 15 to 20 per cont lower than fn ity. The market for new sced advanced 106¢1%, | 1877, and the acason has not ylelded much more with sharp competition between Eastern and | than a living profit to dealers, Prices have Western buyars, but this risc was lost Inter, | veen sifding down afpee October, 1877, the #liea tis. faborte that Englund was of tho vera | yuost rudical cliauges belng i tho first aud of a fioanct i crators , Calcutta sced would b diverted to this market, | 195t months of the year, while {n sum- thongh tho East Indian crop was supposcd to | mer the market was Inclined to steadiness, (Continued from Third I'age.) cases far beluw the facts In the case: 4,401.604 1ba poultry, 277 coops do, 09 packages game, 147,043 packages eous, 1,050,085 boxes cheese, 552,200 bris apples, and 70,019 bu besns. WHISKY, . TNE MARKET YOR WHISRT has changed radically during the pasttwo vears, Tho bulk of the product of our loval distillers used to be sold as highwines, but tho sales In that torm dwindled to about 85,000 brls in 1877, and have now practically ceased. Distillers say that the trade has now got Into the channel where it legitimalely Lelongs, and that it s in & mora healthy condition than ever be- fore, showing & laree Increase for 1878 over the previous year. The movement, however, now belongs to the department of manufuctures ratber than to the produco markets. The ex- port movement ia rapldly on the fncrease. For the year ending June 80, tha quantity exported from the United Btates was 5,500,000 gallons, heing atout double the quantity exported dur- Ing the last preceding tlscal year. Chicazo has done her full share -In this auginented supply, her exports during the past fow months having been unusually large, Our distillers now send thelr goods nearly all over the Unlon, even to Balt Lake and California, 0s well ns to forclgn countries. The ranre of quotations for high- wines a8 the basis of the trads has been very untform, belng $1.03@1.05 {n January, H.m@’g 1.04 in February and March, 81.0¢4 In April and May, gradunlly advancing to 1,08 tn November, sfterwhich it declined to $1.05, and ruled steady nt £1.00 In Decomber, The average price of the year was £1.05.2, apainet §1.07 {n 1877, $1.08 In 1876, and $1.12)¢ 1n 157 DAIRY PRODUCTS, l THE QUANTITY OF GOODS HANDLED helng taken as a gauge, the year 1878 was by all odds the most successful In the history of tle trade, our receints showing an increase over any previous year of fully 20 percenti but, viewed from an economie standpolut, the year was not satisfactory either to producers or deal- ers, prices having ruled lower than at any pre- vlous perlod within the past twenty years, The scason was highiy favorable to a Jarge produc- tion, hut not to excellence in quality. The pro- tracted seanon of extreme liot weather rendered 1t difficult to turn out n fincclass of goods, and, fn comparison with 1877, both butter and cheesa exhibited a talling-off Jn quality. Whilo all tha Wentcern States have materially Increased thelr production, Nlinots, Wisconsin, and Iowa have inade the preatest vrogress, 150 new factories longer overwhelmed with work duringa few weeks in the spriog and sutumn, and fatigued by fnactivity the remainder of tha year, but drives s steady business, which can therefors be done on Jess profits per dollar's worth sold than before. Tho wholesale dealer is also con- stantly in the recelpt of fresh goods, so that ha bas no stala commoditfes to disposo of. The result fs, that articles nelther grow ont of fashion nor lose their quality by long keeping. There is thus no loss In this dircctlon; and hera 1s another clement of chesp trade, as the mer- chant Is not obliged to maka his cuistomers psy for losscs Incurred on nnsalable goods, These things, with modern Improvements in the man- ner of handling, alded by focreased competition, have reditced the wholesale or {obhing *nrofit"? toamuch less percentage than that obtained a few years ago, and epables the consumer, in many departments at least, to buy at retail at s small advance on manafactarors’ prices. There Is still another fact which eonduces strongly to this result: our merchants now make very few bad debts. The panic of 1873 mado it necessary to very materially shorten the lines of credit; and they have pever revived tho old fashion, thongh the merchants of the East have tried to recover lust custom by offer- ing to sell gouds on long time. The retaller has long since discovered thut short credits mean low prices, and that they enable him to compete saccessfully with the men who do not psy as they go, 1t Is not too inuch to say that sbout all the Western trade worth having fa now concentrated fn the West,—which sitho same tLing as saying that most of it comes to Chicago, The men who go to the seaboard for their zoods are mostly men with whom our merchants do not care to deal. Even the short-credit system s now belng extensively improved upon, and those who have adopted the Improvement are abundantly satls- fled with the change. Thoy belisve that “the best way to resume §s to resume' {n earncst, and from this date will zell only for cash. Tho advantages ot this plan are obvious. Money does not command so much interost as afew years ago, and for that reason the buver can better afford to pay; but the wholesalo mer- chants have dlscovered that when they pay cash for their purchases they can obtain goods much more cheaply than on eredit, and in order to do this they must insist on the same terms with thelr customers, to whom, fn return, they give the full benefit, This policy gives the death- blow to much of what used to be called “enter- and at the close of Juna to M4Y@183c. Dar- fog August sand September, under reduced stocks and an fmproved demand, tha market ruled firm at & 3§@%c advance, but later in the acason prices resumed thelr downward course, and the end of the {elr found them at 11@ 17¢c. In the prics ol 8UGARS, There hiss been s decline of 10 per cent, the year opening 103¢c for standard A, and closing at We9ige. 'The low prices led to a largely-locreased consumptlon, and, although the business was done on an exceedingly small profit, the season was a fairly satlsiactory one. ‘the trade in New Orleans sugars auring No- vember snd December was l-rzcl,z‘_ln excess of any former year for a like period. 'The anles for theso two months ara said to have exceeded tho outirs sales for 1877 of that class of suears. The increased sales are ascribed to the fact that the uality of the 1878 crop was superior to that of ormer scasons, Thero has bocn a satisfactory increase in weather in summer. The partial fatlure of sup- plics East, sent Eastern busers Weat, and LIBRRAL BIIPMENTS were made (o New England, New York, and other States fn October and November. The local demand was also good, the prospect for higher prices inducing dealers to secure a fair stock. ~ The unususl circumstanco of blg Eastern demand here, and the fafl- ure of the suburban crop, gave the commission dealers & chauco to recelve and sell o uran quantity of potatoes than they had bandled in several previous years. Peach- blows of 1873 sold at 4¥d60c, and Early Rose at. 4055, in car lots. The market was flrm all through tho fall, and would jrobably have been 1ouch bigher had it not been for the mild weath- cry which enabled shippers to forward lsrge sup- nllca‘ ‘The daily demand was sufllcient to absorb the offerings, and trade fell off in the luhpnrt ug ,.\'u\'ember only because shippers were afrald of frost. The stock hersisa fair one. The winter re- ceipts are very Jight, and higher prices are pre- dticted na sooti as the potatoesthat are not keep- fog well bave been sold. According to tho returns of the Department of Asriculture, the crop of powatoes fa this country was 124,000,000 bu In 1873. POULTRY AND GAME. TIR TRAFPIC IN POULTRY and gomo was more satisfactory than in 1877 Prices averaged lower, but the season was more sultable fn tho last ararter of the year, which i the period when'the trade is heaviest. The suo- ply of poultry all through the country was largzer, hence & decrease fu tho shipments; and some dealers estimate that s smaller quantity was liandled here in the fall than usual, the low prices after November keeping it back. This would imply larger recelnts the rest of the win- ter. A greater proportion of tha receipts than ordinarily was live poultry, as shippers feared a repetition of the previous mild fall, which brought them heavy lostes in dressed stock. Poultry sold at 4@10c, the recent range befug 4@8e per 1by ““There ore laws that shackle our Indastries,’, enys o Scathern paper. Yes, That revente tax oo whisky has cver been an focubuson yoor pristipal production, | The genfal Florida elimate has had a beneficial effect uvon Uen. 8rinxen's rheumatism, but it has not been able to influence his signature. That 1s as bad as ever, | “Lightning-rod candidates’” {s the term ap- lied to numerous candfdates for the United States Benate whoso chances are considered rather allm, Almost anyhody of a sympathetic nature swill pity tbe Bt. Lould Democratic siepublican, It feels 8o bad because Mr, BLaivg made such a mistake. TAR TEA TRADE, and, in comparison with any of the half-dozen preceding years, the busineas has been prosper- ous. Theahrinkage In valiues was qulte severe, ~{ully 20 per cent,—~but most of the declino ook place early In the season, the last half of the vear baving beco characterized by rather more than ordinary stcadiness. The direct {m- ports Into Chicago exhibit a urked increase,— amounting for 1878 to_about 150,000 packages, ogalnst 100,000 for 1877, 50,082 for 1870, 45,907 for 1875, and 32,620 for 1874. Present prices ore the lowest known for twenty vears, and the consumption {s very large. Cbicago s recox- nized s tho cneapest market In the United Btates for Japan tess. CANNED GOODS & PICKLES, EXCEPTING TEACHES, of whichi the supply was scarcely more than one-ffth as Jarze as for the previous season, and prices of which have raled (materialiy high~ er, there has been a greater or less shrinkage fn values of .both fruits and vegetables. ‘The former have declined 10@20 per centand the Iatter 20@25 ver cent. Of most descriptions, the supply has ateadily exceeded the demand, which from tbe beginnlog to the end of the ses- son was strictly of a hand-to-mouth eharacter; and, taking into cooslderation the dapreciation in values and tho prevalling qufetucss of trade, it will readily be fnferred that the scason was Dot an eminently prosocrous one. Sales snow n falling off as conpared with 1377, Nor has tho course of the TICKLE MARKXT met the expectatious of the more sanguine. Not only has thera been n quite severo decliog in prices, put the volume of sales also has de- clned, and wo ars not divuleing any secrot when we'nssert that tho results of the year's business were disappointing. In prices there —— RANDALL {s willing the South should have s Mississippl Levee bill and a Texns-Pacific subsl- Ay, provided he is elected Speaker of the next Congress. ——— When & fellow is beaten for the United tates Benate, he fecls like n littls @irl who discovers that ner best doll Is stuffed with sawdust, » ee— 1t 18 barrowing to the Demoacratic mind to Kkuow that the TeLLEr Cominittee has got the money, ilnd will proceed to business, —— The Buflalo Xzpress eays that it has nothing agatust DAvip Davis, but it Insists that the Tresidential chioly shall not be enlarged, | Mr. and Mra. JEWETT, of Chlcago, are now in Washington, and will assist at Mrs, Hargs' reception to-day. | The spirits have agreed that Crantzy Ross shall be restored to his pareuts within ten days. Mappy thought. 70 ] lias been more plenty than In 1877, but less so than in other sexsons. Tho heavy losses entalled the previous year, and the low prices, have op- erated to discourage hunters and shippers; and the Game laws have been moge rigorously en- forced in some Btates, Wisconsin cspecially, ‘The weather of the past two months has been very favorable, and tho game has arrived in excellent condition, and probably netted tho shippers moro mouey than ft did a year ngo, the. light loss by decay having more than compensated the alight declino in f Those friends that were incidentally omitted fn your gift-nnking on Christmas-Day can now Le remewbered, f One day moro and the time comes }nr turning over & uew leaf,—abandoulng bad bLabits, etc., ete. 4 TELLER now has an opportunity o show what sort of stufl he is mada of, ——— Don't date your letters to-day 1878, e ee— N i vi has been an average shrinkage of about 20 per CIIARTER OAL Thase Staven albues T themaanataetorose > | be liebt. Tho market did not recover fromn the | Hides, aliiough deciiaing, have been relativery | trices. Desters: anticiate. anter ronsinte. b | prise,” under which the trader w l00 often | cont,'and tn the cost of produetion of 15 to 50 ¥ decling, and the speculative deal was 8 IoMDE | higher than leathor, owlng Ju part to the re- | Januars, the bolk of which will hiave to bo sold | }ike the gombler whoso mottd wi Heads, I | percont, During 1877, owinz to the cxistence one. The new crop opened at $LGEL3I and | quced suvplies; and this fact, tozetber with the clored ot $1.18@12% Ol sced soid b $L.84 | depression of tha mavufacturing interest, has down to 81.20. deterred the tanners from runuing to anywhoere The American production of flax I Increasing | yenr thelr full capncity, and caused them Lo fol- steadily, and the home demand readily absorbs | jow the actual want plan of Luyiug. Rather the crop. The Imports of Kast India sced aro | froq offerings of fmported hides In'the carly part yearly diminlshing, and it is believed ‘hat Snt of the ecason cut off o mood deal of Eastern ihred years they will ccase. The imports trade. Tho fall eales were much helow the ay- Caleutta seed during the four montha ending erage in volume, and pricen have dropped stend- Mnreh 4, 1878, werd 152,500 bazs: intheaame g | y1¢ inder augmenting receints until they have in 1877 thev wero 254,565 bage, and o 1879 they nenrly reached woat dealers consider a reason- reacked 233,084 bags. Klnx Is ponular with thic | yylq Gosls for tanucrs to buy ons and the pros- farmers, and it s calulated thot the acreage | poee now fa rather more cncouraging. The ex- will be fncreased 25 per cent fu the West next | pores from the local maricet were leas than seasun. Toce trade in usual, . HUKGARIAN AND MILLET TRR SELLING TNICKS Yeaa fale fn Lhe sprin, but not. extensive. For | of bides 1n this market sluce tho fall in quota- the past two or threa years the apriug has been | yjons cummenced wos as follows, Tho buylug favorablo for the ermination and development peices were about Xc lesss of other crups, and there hia been Nttle demand ot Jan, aet, Dec. win: talls, I do nov lose anything.” But the plan has this imporiaiit advantage: that the man who pays pays only for what he buys, and not for the purchases of other people who do not pay. ‘It also tends fo lucrease his profita by cutting off the competition of the class who have no capital of thelr own on which to do business. ‘The area of territory supplied by our whole- £ale merchants basnot been materially fncreased during the past year, cxcept along the lne of the Northern Facific Railroad and {n Colorado. But it has ‘““flled out™ in almost every direc- tion, Our dry goods and boots and shoes, with many other articles, sre now belnr supplied to the Paclfic Coast, and aro distributed over every intermediste section of territory where civilized of a combination among the plcklers, prices were kept up during the autamn and early win- ter, until buyers had put {n thelr winters sup- ply, and then tho market broke badly, causing pretty scyere losses to the trade generally. As aconsequence buyers have moved very can- tiously ‘the past season, taking only such quantities a8 were needed for the pursuance of current trade, thus leaving with the 10anufag- turer the burden of carrylug the k. We ara enabled to report & cousiderable fucreass 1n the distribution of fancy mixed pickles and chow-chow, in the manufaciure and salo of which Chicago stands without a competitor on this side of the Atlautic. The excellence of the home-made chow-chow s rapldly forcing a rec- ognition of its merits among consumers, and at the present flite of progress a very few scasons will suffice to drive the Jmported article entirely from the market. Prices of pickies In barreis cieess, DNitnots, of allthe Westcrn Statee, takes the load In the quantity produced. Within a radius of filteen miles of Elein, which fucludes the principal factories of Kane, Du Page, Kendall, und Cook Countles, thy monthly product fs about 00,000 boxes. Wiscousin stands next. Tho chlef ehece-producing counties of “that Btato arc Walworth, Green, and Sheboygan. 'The Jatter Ia not only the banner county of the Waezt us to quantity, but gs to quality ns well, The shipmeuts from there durlug the past sea- son have excerded 300,000 boxes, Our direct export trade, and also our trade with the South and the Paclile Btates, shows a steady and satis- nctory @rowth, though the prevalencd of yellow fever “futerfered to sumo cxtent with tho Bouthern trade. Our business with that section I8 principally confined to Kentucky, ‘Tonuessee, Georgla, lLoulsiana, and Missourl. Our ahip- ments abroad are to Liverpool, London, Gias- here, as the New York law prohibits recelpts in- to that Btate after Jan. 1. Tnere are indications that exporters will n enter the market. The average .rice of prairie chickens was nbout $3.50 ver doz; of quail, $1.00; and of malisra ducks, 82.00. Venison sold at 0@10c per 1b. The re- ceipts from the plains and beyond were light. Itis understood that cfforts aro belag made to make the Game Jaws of the differcnt States larnonious, and to vput the shooting scason s few weeks later thanit mnow s, claimed,'would give the farmers, requl: cra, and sportsmen anh equal chance to alaughter the funocents, and oilow dealera the best time In the whole year to scil them. The birds uesd all tue protection thoy can get. VALUE OF RECEIPTS. THE PINST BELLING VALUR Unexpecied Closing of All the Testimony In the Conapiracy Trinl, Spectal Dispaten to The Tridune, Hantroun, Conu., Dee, 3L.—The teatimony in the Charter-Oak conspiracy case closed to-lay very unecxpectedly, an impressfon having pre- valled that the Btate had fmportant evidenco to offer n rebuttal. Thbe lnst witness was State Iusurance Commissloner Stedinan, who, on a cross-examination continued from yeaterdav, teatified that bo dfd not kuow or regard It ng his bualness what amount Furber pald for n controlling futercst In the stock when he went into the Company. Iowever, boforo approving the Furber contract, the witness had sn under- starding that no dividends wero to be paid on veut. Mr, Htedmau further sald that when ho :,’]'n“gga':'t"“]‘:",{“l,fid :‘,‘;‘“c{’:,"‘,',l,'f,"‘{,:‘:’fi,;’,’;‘} Tails, and iLis (00 Jato to. fesony aiything elae, | Jenqeacs i i Q,fi 7% | 1678 wan noarly as folluwa: sent to the far South and Bouthwest, while 8t. | $8.50. Of pickles ana_chow-chow, the year's told Furber tiat the Company’s capl frolugg chicfly to the manufacturing districts, | These eceds are very prolifle, vielling soictines | Heavy cow T By o7 o7y }'m’i:gg" Louls *‘merchants” havo resolved they would | sales foot up about $530,000. and the buaiuess W Vi ed ¢ Fixty bushels to tho ucra; aid o nelghborbood | Green sters.... N0 By dig B doue on a cavital of §135,000, tal was = Impaired, bo did. mot sy | Owing to the greatly dopressed condition of the Otien Invorit Tt & ol com e s anttiool | tizsen aice capturo tbe business, or b, Alcabol, ete like Buuysu's that 1t cauld not st its obitetibngy! ‘bus-rirat - Buglish mouufacturiog lutercats,.there Jos. boon A b Py xuloes R o e Ll e R gisut, Littog thelr nalle and shaking thelr fists thero was o techoleal fimpalrment, Argument | Jess than tho usual demand foy ths nftrice f(','fi.“.'f:'m‘fxfl?'{flu'a‘&‘f..mif c:-nq::nlllllluvQ ot Ve | o average selilng |r'lE6“nr2$iml}y l‘nhl'e‘n in stee cheenil at tho lanumerable caravan of Mf passing by TOBACCO. then began, John ). Buck ouening for the prosc- [ 7800 B0 30, 00, FIBP L BHEQ has beon | ariun millt.. The price ranges Teous GG | this marker fof & Kumber of 5bre 18 Mbmartens Tan's them, OF course, New York has long since been THE GROWTII OF OUR TOBACCO vutton. “Ha clalmed that, while the accused bad | precedentedly low, vir., from 2aSe per b, | 60¢ 40 the spring, ond recently ut 8540, Heavy, | Miscell loft out In the cold, uotwithstanding tho stren- | trade continues nninterrupted. Although dur- scted under tha form of the law, it was not ac. | From tho vety bealuning of the scuson, June 1, o S Wotsl troruee uous eiforts of Lier leading merchants to prevent | iR the first half of the year—owinz to the cording to Hts substance. The frandulent re- | the supply at all yoluts lu the United State and BROOM-CORN, 20041 | Tatal In 1857 dircct importations of forelgn zoods to the | 8%itatlon by Congress of the question of a re- turns were eriminal In that they docelved tho | Conads hascunstantly exceededtliodamid, and BIKCE TR EARLY MONTIS .00 | Total in 147 . West. Not only have most of our Weatern buy- | ductionof the tax~the demand was very much polfes-holders and fed thom to continue pay- | (i hiiar thocloroof Novembortherowers i sight | Of the year this product ine heen decliniug n S l",l‘.‘l "; i trom 1657 4 4,800,000 | cry reased to make thelr purchases at the sca- | Festricted, and the market fu an unsatisfactory inents of premiuma to on insolvent inatitution, | 1,000,000 boxes, exclusivo of that In the hatds | pries aimost continuously. Tho tendency of B 000 o el 8bg o sopurrency 18 8bOUL | 10074, but the Esstern drummmer bas long aine | ¢ondition generally. Asumming up of the year's 87,000,000, or about 83¢ per cent. Reduced ta a speclo basls, the produce trade of tha past two years foots up as follows: Year 1478 -8:218,000,000 Year 1877, . ee 204,150,000 Deing an fucrease of 733 per cent. The valuo of tho recelpts of lumber, coal, and flsh are not Included fn the above, bLelng Incor- porated {u the following stattstics of wholesale sales. TIHE WHOLESALE TRADE, ‘The general courso of busincss among our wholesale merchants has been more satisfactory in many respects than thuse of any previous year since the panic of 1878. All have not farcd well, but the great mojority have been fully as succcssful na they dared to hopo twelve wonths ago, snd some have prospercd beyond expectatton. There has been loas of alstrust In the future of values, and more confidence fn men. This, kowever, 18 most noteworthy dur- Ing the last half of the year, Tho first few months there was a great desl of anxiety as to tho possible &ffect on business of the resunpe tlon of specle-payments, and everybody was on the qul vive to sce who would seck the shelter of the Bankrupt law before it went out of operation, As timo progressed one after anotber entered the court, and at last there was a perfect rush; but it was found that fow **took the benefit of the ace™ towarus the last except those who were loaded down with dobts of long standing, and many of them focurreu through the shriukago of real estate. Very few becawo bavkrupts who wera not long before kuown to be practicallv so; and their action cleared the commercial stmosphere of the murky clonds which bad long obscured tho prospect of better times ahead, At the beginaing of the yeart was widoly be- Meved that prices of sl kinds of merchandise had necessarily tuuched bottom. They had been declinlog slmost continuously, at the rate of 10 (@13% per cent per sonum, ncarly ever since 1873, making & total drop of some 40 per cent. on the aversge, and it was thought they could ¢ono lower, But the end was not yet, Prices Kept golug down under the fuct of = supply which exceeded the demand, though a vortion of eur manulactured products baa sought and found a ready market fu Furope. This further weakenlg was fu reality o greater embarrass- ment than that of former yoars; as many deal- ers had stocked up wmore freely in the bellef that the bitterness liad possed. ‘I his depression was, however, almost contincd to the winter und spring. After midsuummer quotatlons wero gen- crally steady, anda the course of husinces bas been smooth ever since; oxcept that some fn- Mr. Buck further claimed that Furber hod arawn $370,000 from the treasury under his con- tract In tweuty montha; that the stock ho bought when 'he went in was ypald for months later by comumissions from the sama rource; that Furber always managed to keep 1he Company his creditor durtng i his transac- tions; that the efforts of the wecused to stralghten out the accounts wero only for the vurpuse of gettine up renorts satlsfactory to tho Insurance Commissiouer. It was notlee- able, for instance, In _preoaring the achedule of real estate, that hio entered all tnercased values, but mads no deductlons for property known to Le neatrly worthless, Cowmenting o the stipu- Iatlon fn'the Furber contract for compensation for risks incurred, Mr, Buck arcued that Furber could not have Jost cven it the business stopped aud premium reccints wore no longer recelved rom which todraw bis commissions to relmburee him, for he could have hmlnrolnud( in any court of justice to rccover what be bad contributed to the nssets, Tho Wiggin and White contracts . wero characterized as bare frauds, and the pro- yision tuat they might by termiuated by the Company meant vothing, for Furber and his gasociates constituted the Company., In cons lon, Mr, Buck claimed that the evidence against Furber, Wizwin, and White was frrestst- ble, and thev niould be convicted. As to \\'mkelz, he made no claim, Judge Foster, of Norwich, will follow for the prosecution ' to- auorrow, and it s now expected tho vase can o clused this week.. Leouard Bwett, of Chicogo, hu }o make ono of the tureo addresses for the eleuse, business shows an lnereass In the total sales of fully 10 per cent. From the adjournment of Congress untll its reassembling the market was almoat continuously active, and in general re- 2ults the scazon of 1878 may bercgarded a9 fair- Iy satisfuctory. A capital of $2,000,000 Is re- qulred to carry on the business which, for the period in roview, amounted to $12,000,000,—an increasa over 1377 of 10 per cent, The above {igures eutitle Chicogo to tho dlatinctivn of be- fug the SECOND LAROEST MARKET fo the United States for the sale of manufac- tured tobacco, New York gslone exceeding her in the amount of aales. Thers {2 now scarcely o promiuent manufscturer o the country who haa niot established bero an agency for the ssle of his goods, and tho year 1879 bids falrto eclipse, in polnt ol sales, all former seasons, Within the past year and a Lalf thero has been witnessed a very prouvunced chango in the character of the demand. In former tlmes finecut wos chiefly souzht for, and very littio attention was puld to the manufnctuse of pluz; but latterly the quality and style of pluz to- baceo have been immonsely fmoroved, while the tlne-cut has detcrlorated. “Asa result the latter s now under neglect, whils the sales of the formor bave increased on hundred fold. Fur the low grada fino-cut there is now so little call that some of the lurge mauufacturers have dis- contloued 1ta productlon. Prices have aver- ured about 5 per cent lower than for 1977, tue decline taking placa early in the scason, DRIED FRUITS. DESPITE TIR PACT that the year 1878 witncesed a greater shrink- ago of values than for any previous year “ja the recollection of the oldest inbaoitant,” fou- bers msscrt that they bavo doue s larger and mors satisfactory business than for 1677, The decline In prices extended to nearly every arti- cla In the list, and varied from 10 to 50 per cent, with 25 per cent a fair averazo. Strange to say, the most staplo lices suffured the most, peaches, apples, pruucs, sod currants, for in- stance, deprecisting fully oue-half, But thede- cline came 8o gradually that it was not gricvous 1o bear, holders being enabled to shift thoir load before serious losses were sustained. New York slons excepted, Chicago now bandics nore dried frult than any other city ou the cou- tinent. The capital employed in the business Ia $1,000, and the annuul “sales reach the lurve sggregate of §LO00,000, The trade at the present thms 18 fn a gnoro hualthy condition than for several sessons previous, and, now that the odlous Bankrupt Isw is out of the wav, coutldence ls ravldiy being restored, and tho future growth of the trade promises to ba even more vigorous thau in the yeurs prior to 1674 A feature of the markel that of Jute has attracted s good deul i:l atiention 18 the proportions that our trade Ul of factorymen, Of this linmense quantity s not inconsiderablo portfon would longalnes ha massed {nto consumption at relativetv fair prives llul. for tha opportunity of holding furnisted by the * coolers,’ 1n the coolers the goods rapidly deteriorate, losing their flavor aud becomingz sharp and moldy, which, of course, depreciates their market value. As to whether or not tho *cooler” 18, fu ordinary scasons, of practicul odvantoge, it 18 not expedicnt to discues in this connection, but that fts adoption during the past eenson bae worked a serious fnjury to the trade doea not adwit of 8 deubt. The year opened with prices ot 133@12%Cc, irom.which point they gradually erop upward until the middle of March, wien they stond nt 1835143, From thet thne until the be- eluniug of Auguat they os steadily declined, the quotation on Aug. 15 being K’ Alout the st of October, under & sharp export and specu. latlve demany, pricea abruptly advanced, For the space of a furtnight the inarket was active and strong at B34@Yi¢e, and then 1t weakened, prices falling ol to b, saud further along Lo Tde, kl‘mdum:rl of . DUTTRR have mo reason to compluin st the season of 1878, Althuurh the production largely exceed- ed that for any previous year, the warket was at no time glutted. 'The demand throughout tho reusou was more thau usually sctive, owing to the increased requireinents vf “the European trade, avd prices Lave ruled relutively higher thnn suy other of the products of the farm. Deslrablo tavle grades, espeviully, have cowmn- mauded high prices the year round, At mo veriotl was there m surplus of strictly choico grades, and, exceptlug a fow weeks at midsume er, prices of the best qualitics did not go be- low e, Frou Jan, 1 to March 1 prices of rood to fancy ranged from & dic. Frowm that date they steadlly declined until June, when Ligl8c were the rullng fleures, Toward the end of July they began to advance, and the year cluses What we have writtcn spplies, to blo grades only, Inferlor qualifies glected, aud throughout the summcr ?.'c"l;f.'" werea dru even at Lhe low range of @Be. “Ihe exports of butter and cheess for 1878 was about 95,000,000 los of the former and about 150,000,000 Ibs ot the latter,—a large increase over 1517, ‘Tho growtl of the export trade dur- Iluxlllm past twelve years is shuown by the fol- owlng: the market las been downward ln sympathy with other staples, but the principal couse of HoPs. the decllve is over-production. It §s catlwated TOPA JIAVE RULED LOWER that tho last erop fs ut least ove-third larger | ¢non tn the preceding vear, aud the seazon los than that of 1877 An increase In acreago s | ot boen very satisfactory, either to the growers reported in Kavgas, Nebrasks, and somo parts | or tne denlers. A largo surplus from the great of Tllinots, and the sield In many scctions was crop of 1577 was carrled into tho past year, ond evormous. Everybody was survrised ab the | pricos were low, with a very dull market during magnitude ot the cron. Tho year's business | thg first part of 1573, When the new crop was large, tho dealings belng for the most part | nromised to be sbort, the brewers nstocked np with manulacturers, for there was litte to fn- | witn 1877 liops, at very cheap prices, duce apeculators ta eator the fleld, Tho profits | Tue trado fu new hops bas been conducted on wero sllm. Some of tho farmera found broom- | o rathier moderate wcale, at low but tolerably corn as remuperative as anything they ralsed, | eyey pric Tho brewers, being alrond: whilo dealers and others in tho trade saw all | stocked, by not bought so freety as usual, their galus disappear {o the steady fall in pricea, | bowever, they lave contracted for 8 good many At tho beglnulug of 1878 broom-corn, sold at | New York hops, which were preferred to Wes 4@0ge per 1b, bezan to show sligns of weakuess | crn, because they wero superior In quality, in the spriug, and declined steadily alter | Western hops sold at (@S¢ In Junuary down fo Auguat, reaching 13¢@de I December, ‘Ihe | 43¢ fn summer, and Eustern at 0010¢ down svring sales fell below antlcipations, ond a sur- | to 7@fe. ‘I'hie price of the crop of 1538 was 12 (flm 01 2,500:4:,000 tons was cartled over dn the | (214¢ for New York, and 8atde for Wisconsin Weat, chielly in Chicaro. grades. In the United States THR HEAVY NEW CROP TUE CROP OF 1878 commenced tu arrive a fow wecks eartier than | was about thres-quartes of au average one. ln usual; and the (M reccipts wers very lare. | New York State the new crop was sn ordlnsry Manufacturcrs bought freely on a weak nsrkot | one In quahity and r\unnllly; fu Californla {t was till tha close of ngvicotion ended the seasun of | only fuir, aud In Wisconsih almust o fallure— low frelghits, and slnce trade bias been falr, The | being estimuted at 5,00 balvs, against 50,000 demaud was principally from the East, thougl | bales in 1577, ‘Lhe “top crop® {u Wisconsin thie home trade wos large, and 3 growing an- | wus due to the fujuriously ot wenther in sum- nually, About 800 tovs are uow manufuctured | mer, sud perhaps begloct, 88 the outlouk was in this State. Tho year closcs with the local | not In the direction of bt prices. market beavily stocked, Denlers expect a large ‘F'he exports from this clty were large fn the surplus will have to be carrled over, snd pray | early partof the vear. ‘Ilie exports of new for a smaller crop lu 187V, Broow-corn {s an ar- | hops from New York sine Sept, 1 were about tleie of domestic consumption ouly, and, os the | 14700 bales. ‘The forelgn demand is iner log, demand fs rather limited, f¢ is an casy matter Lo | aml the market closes tirm on exportasle grades, overstock the markets, The Engtish crop is reported to be detleient in TUE QUALITY OF THE CROP Hine grades, and tho German supplles ure kept of 1878 was guod, the chicl abjection belng | out of Great Britain because the prices asked coarseness. The low grades predomiuated, but { for them are considered too m§u; henco Amert- more hurl was raiscd thau fu ordinary years; | vau hops are likuly to tiyd in Jubn Bull a good aud, for the firat time, {L has been worth Jess | custower. than medium brush, ‘The production n the ;t'mt s dlmbumd x:m : ‘I‘l m;:lshr\un I:\)\nl-; BALT, R tous; Nebrusks, 1,500 tons; Wis- ’ conain, 200 tous; Jowa aud Mlssouri, 600’ tous. - BALTIAS RULEL LOWER The New York and Oblo crop was less thau in | than ever before in this market, and the husi- 18i7, Tho farmurs fu this State recelved $40.00 | tiess Las been prosecuted o very closy margius, {L‘{'fl}w hl;'-: i d ::IM‘:(‘-:"'K‘: “l“:: 3:‘1 Deaters report a beavy Western businues, and z ubliabed statement of recciy s " taialcading, a8 20,000 T {s rockoncd s a ears :ll”lhm:w that "ilh ln;_rluuln?:.‘n tht}u:;u:‘f lw.! Jond, instead of 14,000 1bs, which 1 nearer the bele sonually, Tha receipta of all kinds u truth. The shipuents of brovw-corn are now | #alt fa this markes approximated 1,200,000 brls, made by sctual welght, of which abaut 8 per cent was of domestic pro- duction. New Yorkand Micbigan manufactur- WOOTL, €78 were stronger competitors than fn 1877, and TAE PRICE OF WOOL this ‘partially accounis for the shrinkago in bas probably averuzed lower thau fn any year | prices, 'The local recelpts of Ouonduga flue salt sloce 1562, though a smaller fizure was touched | wers less, but the direct shipwents to fnterior in 1876. The rance was about 1XZ15 per cent | Weatern polutswere much lunger than in former yeurs, This was venitted by very low rul below that of 1877, ‘The busincss has not made | FaEk T iy, bergitd by, b ‘enabled the suybody rich, The farmers hava perhas | Egtern mauufacirers to meet the Weatern on sealized quite se tuuch money from the sheep's | prices, sud enlarge thelr trade In this diree- backs as Irom furm products geverully, and tho | tion, Ouondagu supplied most of the solar e p- | sulte Bazinaw lehl the Jalku tisde, and also Gealers buure mnta s living prasl,. Wool bawde- | e, S0SREN B e, I il sod alin &iven up as hopeless the attempt to divert the cver-swelling tide of patronage rolling fn upon Chicago. Indeed, the Chirago drummer is now amuch less numerous Individusl than he was three or four years ago,—out fora very differ- ent reason. Our merchants do not now ueed to- cater for trade ss they used to; snd, belng koown, many of them prefer to eive their customers the advantage ot reduced exponses in conductiug the busincss. We velleve it 1s not open to questlon that those well-eatablished merchants who bave ceased to soliclt orders by deputy have uniformly fared better than before the ebange. We note that Eastery manufacturers now establish agencics in this city, and In this way sccure a part of the busincss that has left the East io favor of Chl- cago. Comparatively little complaint has been heard during the post year from our merchants about frelght-discrimfuations by the rallroads. Frelzht rates bave been sliphtly {n thelr ¢ disfavor,” but uot to an extent sulliclent to counteract the ad- vanisges of this city as a depot for wholesale trade. Both forelgn and domestic goods sre handled here ou o scale which permits & paring of profits that {s not possible In places transact- Ing a smaller volume of business; and so our merchants moro than hold their own, fo splte of Eastern and Wester Influeaces brought to bear agalnst them, Wedo uot attempt to give the number of dealers n each brauch ol our wholesale trade, because It is diicult to draw tls line, as some of our larzest wholesalo werchaate sell at rotall, while many retailers do a smull wholesalo trade. Butour figuresareintended toapply tothe whole- sale trade only, giving the first sclhing cost of thie goods sold bere, which doas not Iuclude re- tail transsctions, except fo two or three inioor departments, as in jewelry snd music, GROCERIES, THR WUHOLESALN GROCERY TRADR has beeo satisfactory, and reasonably profitatle toa msjority of those engzaged in it, though same have found it Impoasible to continue. ‘Two fallures bave oceurred, bath of them lu the carly psrt of the year, which resulted fn more bustocss to those who rewalned in the trade, ‘kho currency value of the goods sold waas sliglt- 1y grester than that of the previous yesr, not- witistaudiog a decline fn prices, which is estimated st 1U4@15 per cent on the average. The shrinksge In *'values! was general, Even the most staple articles, which wera thought a year sgo to have been dowa to the lowest possible Bgures, again gave way. Bugars, for lustance, have decliped 10 per ceut, suaps 20 per cent, and coffees 25 per cont, CANADA. A Presbytorian LawsulteYoung Thioves— Beaudry's Salary aund Ilis Autl-Orange Police=Sad Accldent, &pecial Dispatch to The Tribune. MoNTREAL, Dec. 81.—The Hon, Justico Jette to-lay granted a writ of fujunction agalnst tho Board of the Temporalitics Fund of the Presby terlan Church, at the {nstanco ot the Rev, Mr. Doble, ardering it to refrain from fnterfering With the fund pending the further orders of the Court fa the matter, This is virtually o rein- atsting of the old sction, wnich was dismissed Ly the Court of Appeals on a question of sceur- ty for coats. Nearly all the parties engaged In the recent robberles snd decds of violence In this city aud nelehborhood are young men, Within the last mouth no fewer than 100 youths, most of whom were scarcely 20 years of ago, bad been under arreat for serlous offenses. At the term of the Uriminal Court youthful offenders predominat- :g; ?:gx the Judge drew particular attention to & John 8, Brazean, tmporter, b uded un- der :\n:nfl..muncuum.o 3 sl tcret mmeeting of the Finsnce Com- mitteo of the Ciey CouEdl, the question of the bayment ta 500 speclal coustubles engaped on Inst 12th of July ‘was dlscussed. The Mayor Tulter, Cneeas, guanity, (b, wanl:lh BT cive anee 23,000, 000 130, 600, 000 The following {s also a statement showing the quantity aud vulue of butier aud ported irom the Dominfon of countries durlug the years inentioned: CALIFORNIA RAISINS is assuming, It Is estimatod that fully 150 tons have been sold hers during the past season, lu quslity they compare favorably with the Malu- bad promised that it should be deducted out 9 " scended fo the scale of prices, In sympathy with | 1 S nar b : ©a frait, and in price, also, they cun sucvess- pllus own salaey i€ {t" could not be' obtaned | sust... fouieris wrbinieia CAITSE 8 2% | LY ather commadition, s oim ssmpathy with Arobabiy 33 per geit of the local reecipts was | 4urruption arose from the viaitation of the Souts | and some Josses bave necessarily been fncurred fully compets with the tmported srtict - fu Mty ¢ ¢ s & i Muchiwut wuits ‘Jhe quantity of Canadlan seot = i ¢ Trom ths Lll{; Treasury, *‘The matter was oost e s S TP :',Mflt( A Ahsnd b of 187778, howwver, alded greatly to depresa | hers foil ol to B840 tua The low prces | PY the yellow fever, and that thero was moro | on carrylng stocks. But tho business has been France, the raisin crop of 1578 was below the poliedjand ,‘,:,“},f‘,’,,?,f:{‘,‘fr was uot paid, i (idess Ziihoe mwasl st prices, because ft cliecked thie consumption of | baried it out. The luks recelpts of other fore | 8CtVity than usuial fn many departmenta duriug | done on a couscryative play, aud most dealers average, bothi i quentity and fu quality. The Ricnixoxp, Que.,, Dee, 81, T’;Zfim, team \'lwlc:lllwdl,-mlmnuuflclunulud tocarryin. | tlun sull were B0,G18 bucks uind 23 casks, pud | tho tinie the Exposltion was In progress fntho | sre sathatiea whth the result. They generally ;;l:::“mp ll:.mcml:l'nd;o“:n:' "f‘";:& l:.": 2 81~ 5 o 3 _ ‘was large, % Wwith two men aud 8 woinan broke through the SEEDS. t0 the current sear larce atocks the rarl 5,000 buze, Ty Micklzan salt contin- | gutumn. agree that the volume of business 1s tmuch tho tiue low, O opples the North produces & Thus the Bew | by 1 grow in favor with the packers, who touk 0 ctLor Ju 1ae DRad- | Lg,000 tone Of 10 LS pant year, et 18,000 uct of tha old. “Tue low Lrices barred out foreien | tois in 1577, wools, sod severul fuvolces alter arnval ut the TUB PRODUCT IN MICHIGAN The experlence of the past six months has really been inost eucoursgiog 1o the wholesale trade. A coutinuous dowoward tendeney In lurgest ever trausacted in the history of our city. ‘Ihe total sales sre cstimated at $73,000,« 000, belog tho same as {n 1677 aod 1870. ‘There TIIE SEED TRADN OF CRICAGO las grown to astonishing proportions fu the fuo between Ricbwond aud Melvourne to-day. “Tuey wero all swept under the ive b{ the u,;fll n, ‘Lh very lurge cmgi and of s more than wually d carrent, and Dever seen aguly eir uaines fln qualitv. ‘The product of the Bouthern states - also was iberal, aud thece e ¢ o past few years. The Nurthwest sccws to be o " ul SR Sl o . S | sy g o Bt e | IS Ml 5 s AR S e | i S rice i i | b . S 1, R | e e D S fug country. Flux fs now an fmportant West- | WIR 00 Lo Lk of roarket when | FEUVINE this inspcction L 811 beray | Juy shadowlni in tho lowest avpthen lower | &, KRG embloved,Taome Brms Bavie fu- £ 00 e e ot g sonr 10, bt o THE ELGIN COLLECTOR, erucrop, clover 18 annuatly growing 1o popular- | 1hy mew season of 167 up3rnc$.1:n Talie .“.’l::.&“.‘f}fi'.?\'. l:.“:;i‘l‘ghrk;:‘?m.x‘:!, i,&,fié‘. ?,7.:' deey, stll threatenine to devour ™ tho untortu- | yhich (g an offset to tho lessenlug of numbers | market soon dropped off 1o $1.90200'aud ata § Ih‘t‘!l lu.’uuln h‘lfl.'l,’u hmb DI:Y‘I:\'I A\uz;:u they advanced to $1.86w]. ut {o Nuveuiber lluc{!uul to $L.75«1.83, und closed at 617044150, Prunes opepcd’ at 10U&Ile," where they ruled compsratively steady until June, when they be- au to decliue. ‘Thd course of prices was steadl- ly downwazd untll the close of the yesr, when thoy wers quoted at 6@63{c for Turkish. Fur apples the year opened ot &2Te, snd closed at 44Ne. Tho decltua fo peuches bas been equally severe, the sesson opeulug at G)wie sud cloalng at 8}{@de for uupared Lalyes. - —— GREEN FRUIT, CUICAGO HAS HELD XK FLACE 8 oue of the largest green fruit markets on tha coptipeut. Dealers estimato that the busiuves bas fucreased 10 per ceut. Prices bave begu uale bolder, was sccompanied by dincss in mercautilo yuolations, which seemed, even to the most thwid, 1o warrant the belicl that we had passed tho winjimum. In some liues of 1rado buyers were ruther slow, becauss swall ree turus fu casby (. proportion 1o tho quaotity of grolo or the number of hogs sald, wudo lJux- uries scem all the dcarer totuany; but the great staples weretakenfreely, and retallors weroagain eucouruged to atock up. Thero Is reason (o be- liove that they will frum (bis thae forth carry wore liveral sssortpicots than for two or three yuars past, fuviting lareer custom by s mere lib- ersl display. At thu suwe time ¢ 18 not prob- able 1ot tke vountry trade will ever return to tug 01 sple wmeikod oo stockiog up ouce or above noted. ‘Lne agzgregate capital fa sbout $3,000,000, or & littls lées thay one-ulnth of the auuual salea; this Iv the swallest railo clalmed in the wholesals trade. The grocery business in Chicago 18 gonerally regarded as being on A VEKY BOUND BAsls, perhape more sa thao that of auy other city In the United States. It s fargely conducted” on 2B caplial, aud bas been less serfously affocted b‘y the bard tues than many other brauches. Uur jobuers sre cunteut o sell on small protits, but fosist oo short credits, and theic losses by bad debis.sre cowpsratively swall. ‘fhe re- scindlug of the Baukrupt uct bas, huwever miven renewed coutidence, aud we belicve they arca littdo wore lberyl in their creaits than carty In the vear. They are fucliued Lo look for an unusually prosperous tims the comiug twelve mooths, ws Loth wholedaly aud retail iy, aud Chicago is tho first timothy market In the country. Tuu East aud Bouth are supplied by this polnt, aud & direct export trade has Leen opened under very bright circumstances. The past season was not so profitable as some ©of the previous oues, but tha business lucreased in volume. All varieties sold at unprecedently low prices. the decline In sowne instacces belug counstaut uader large offerings. ‘fue average prive of the seeds named fn the Sears giveu was as follows: 1878, Timotby $1.40 i lover. Flax delayed shearing lu the Weat, sud new” Mo moved & few weeks la than usua), wud did not eell fre Epecial Dirpaieh fo The Tridune, ELcix, I, Dec 8L.—The troublo with the FElgin Tux Collectorship will probably be ad- Justed today, Fred Coruell, who was elccted Collector, bas decided Lo go to tho Los Pinos In- dian Agency with Capt. Kellev, snd the fome Nutional Bank of this ity wiil furnish the sa- curity, sud Assessor Garret Roseucrans will berform the duties of Collector. The tine Is ketting short fu wblch collections can be wade, uud the Collector should have filed his bonds fu Dec, 16, aud should alresdy bave hls Looks. 1o gelay will reeult ina portion of the taxes belng uncolleeted. The bongs required are Nh‘nflut und the smount o be corlected B4 Liout ¥8.00, but crobably not wore tLau i can b secured. This exceeds the production of any foruer year, Fiuo salt sold 10 Junuury st §1.03, weakened ¥ | to W, yose 1o Masch o SL und mmce July il July, Nuw washed fiveces opencd 1o June | pue price hus been Y per brl, all within the ab e, and iwastied et icedie, and sd- | jaymontt it kas been raised to SLOGWL 10 Vi 1w about the 1st of Auzust under un | iy price of wolar salt, Jucluding common active dewand frum Esstery sud Weatero Luy- coarse, iawond C, usa eround solar wveruged ers, thetd fell ol 1c fu the tall, aod the war [ quout $L45 per bel, Liverpool Bue walt sold b ket closed at about the opesiue fourcs. $1.50.42.03 per bax. Tbo fuswes revelved 8 bitle betier prive than ‘Tue year ciuses with a light stock of salt fu tlhey Hrob cxoeted, the uversue osld them bvlusi this wurket; und Ine recelpts by rall are ex- sbout e per b for uaalied fhoece. Ol waoaned | octed curdug th tine preceding thevpeniug of fleece sotd at 33wl per Ib B January dowo | Jake paviaation. o EXeE 8¢ at the vivec of May; sud good Wusked * - 8 254250 dow b 1o 2 e, POT A TUE WESTELN MANUPACTCLXRY TOTA l‘!:)ES; are the jninclosl bujers auslug about balf the ZNGRECENLY WELR LoRGER yuar,—the first ad bael quaster, fo quaptity | than fu 1572, Ihe sbipiments also lacieased, Tu id nEardy e Nuthaestenis wood ep ot 133 | e wedv Lt 6 Lag yess The ARKEL s bowis B48 5 1L.34% 1. TIMOTHY. The scasun bas bo* teen u Frospesous vne for