Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1888, Page 11

i IHE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDA ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— e ———— e ———————— THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS Holders of Long Wheat Continue to Unload. CORN STILL RULING DULL. The Oits Market Featureless—Pro- visions Comparatively Strong— Cattle Unusually Duall in All Grades—Hogs Quiet. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET, Cmicaco, June 23.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.—It was another day of unload ing of long wheat and a further break in prices in consequence. This liquidating pro- s has been going on for 8o long that it is tiresome even to write about. The wonder is that it has not all been finished long ugo. The trouble 1s that one set of bulls sells out to another set, who in turn, when a further decline has exhausted their patience or their money have to unload on somebody else. The break in about five weeks has been and as can be seen, the liquidating proc has been gone through withe time and again. There was some variation from the past hi tory to-day, in that a fair reaction occurred before the close and the last prices of to-day and yestorday are not fur apart. The bulls have seen so few comforting signs of late that they welcomed this one as an indication that the crisis has passed. There was no news of counscquence and the market was left wholly to local influence on the fact that certain lines of long wheat bought at considerably higher prices werestill held and they believed this propertywould yet come out ana cause a repetition of recent stampedes. In this, at least as far as to-day was con- cerned, they were only half right, Some of it came, and when the crowd all turned sell- ers in consequence, the lowest prices of the summer so far were reached, but there was good buying at the decline and it was soou checke Then it was rumored that one line of loug wheat which everybody was watch- ing for, had been protected with margins to such an extent that, if the property was worth apything, the bears could not hope to dislodge it, and prudent shorts hurried to their «ales. Hutchinson was talking he wheat, but was believed to have covered an enormous e, Cudahy wason the floor for the first time in a week and talked as this was a ‘“‘low day.” Bloom was buying wheat and took 300,000 bushels of Decembeor in one lot from Ream at 82c. July wheat opened at 1915c, which was l,e under yester- day's close, and immediately advanced to 70ige, then declined to 78}c, advanced to 4 (@791 ¢, declined to 7314¢, then advanced igc again, and that was the price at the lock close December wheat openea at 3¢, down 1o Slize and closed at S2ge. The conditions scemed favorable for gome upward reaction in the corn market this morning, and the opening was 4@ ¢ higher. Receipts were 16 cars less than the estimate, and less than half were of contract grade. It seemed as if the turning point in receipts bad come and that the market could take care of arrivals without difficulty. However, the stronger opening furnished the opportun- ity wanted by some holders of long corn who were dismayed by yesterday’s weakness and hastened to get out. They found no great demand for their grain, and under the free offerings prices fell to the lowest point yet Yeached. There was fair recovery, however, when the offerings of this long corn was ex- hausted, and as compared with yesterday’s close prices stand only ki @!{c lower. July corn opencd at 4735¢, sold up to 47%¢, then down to 467Ce, up to47%c, down to 46’(c, then up to und closing at 7L @17%c. Sep- tember corn opened at 491c, sold down to 481,¢, and closed at 48%; @i83c. X There was only a moderate speculative trade in oats and the marl featureless, fluctuatiens generally following those in the July oats. opened at B01fc d 035¢ to 3015¢, and clo eptember oats opened at sold down to 25%¢c, and closed at 2: In provisions a comparatively ket was witnes No _mi characterized trading, but there was evidently less liquidation than for some days past and increased the nervousness among the shorts. A better undertone unquestion- ably prevailed, though excepting lard products, suffered but little change in prices. Lard ¢ «d_7:¢c higher than yesterday, while short ribs were only pork unchanged to be highier, CHICAGO L1V Cuicaco, June cial Telegram to Tue Bek |—CATTLE ade was dull in all its branche unusually dull for Saturday, with values 10@15¢ lower than the lowest of the week on the ordinary run of cattle, making a degline of 60@s0e since the down- turn set in on good to choice natives, and £1.0001 on green and grassy stocks. Pexaus have had to stand their share of the decline. No regular buyer seemed to have anything like an urgent order. Iat cattle were lying in their pens, apparently looking as though they had not been disturbed dur- ing the forenoon, and many lots had to be carried over. Butchers stock and Texas were ulso dull and neglected. Both sales- men and buyers were in @ hurry to get away to the convention and races and cared little whether they transacted any business or not. Politics und horses were the subjects of con- versation and dispute. Business was scarcely mentioned. Inferior to fair, §3.65@ 4.50; medium to good, $4.75a5.25; cows, & @3.50; stockers and feeders, 8200375, Texaus, receipts 18500, steers ot $2.65(3.75; cows, #1500, 3 ; Hoas—Trade was quiet, prices steady and rather easier at the close than otherwise, Best heavy sold at 0. An occasional lot may have made £.75, but at the close buyers were offering only $.05 to speculators, bulkk of mixed sald between §5 55 and §5.65, with light sors@ at £5.55@%.60. Common mixed sold dowe. to $5.54, bl FIVANCLAL, ne$® —[Special Telegram to OCKs-~Another dull and un- week has been witnessed in the stock market, but on the whole the feeling was steadier than during the previous one, and on some sceurities slight improvements were made. The chauges, however, were not the result of any increased investment demund but chicliy owing to the local specu- Tative situation which, in consequence of the bearish view of traders had ercated a short interest relatively large considermg the warrow and contracted state of the market. The street had expected the Rock Island dividend would be reduced 1o ut least b per cent for its fiuancial state ment showed the company had failed to earn its regular dividend from the trafiic of the roud although with the premium of §555,000 received from the sale of new bouds its total incowe left a surplus when the dividend was made at the rate of 6 per cent per annu, Later when the Vanderbilt lines, Lake Shore, Michigan Central and Canada Southern announced two dividends and made better statemenis than bad been thought possible, an active cover- ing movewent sprung up, which stimulated the whole list. Fhe course was further aded by accounts from all sections of the country fuvoruble to growis ps. The Lake Shore statement shows ab: £200,000 less net eavnings than for the corresponding six mouths of 1557, but still over & per ceut on stock. Michigan Central shows a small baluuce over the amouut required for divi- dend, aud Canada Soithern a swali de- ficioncy, The unews from the west- ern aud northwestern states shows there wre evidences that the granger sontiment which . a few years ago threatened wo cripple all the railways in the colwdry, is becoming again rampant end is involving not only local but national political jesues. The new rates ordered in Iowa are sver 40 per cont lower than Lhe existiug rates Nuw Yom Tnr Bew): satisfactory in Nobraska, and this state last year elected legislators pledged to the enforcement of cheap transportation. The Baltimore & Ohio company has taken another step toward placing itself in & position to liquidate its lia- bilities, having sold its parlor and sleeping car business to the Pullman company, a8 it had previously disposed of its telegraph and express business. The market to-day was & typical midsum- mor Saturday’s one, and devold of interest- ing features. Trading was small, only reaching 48,460 shares. The reduction in dressed beef rates by the Vanderbilt lines caused a weak feeling in the stocks and prices declined slightly. Grangers were steady and received small gains, on the ac tion of the same railway commissioners in postponing the tim for the new tariff to RO into effect until July 5. The bank statement cut no figure in the market. Closing prices com pared with those of a week ago show net wains on all active stocks except Western Union, which was off %, and Union Pacific i¢. The gains extended to ¢ voints. Bur- lington and St. Paul headed the list, Reading 115, Northwestern %, Lacawanna %, Louis- Iville & Nashvillo %, Rock Island 1, Eake Shore 15, New England 1. GOVERNMENTS—Government bonds were firm. YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS, . Rdsregistered, . & N. W UL 8,48 coupon. Ao p) .8 4'4s rogistred. 1074 N. Y .Central U8 44x conpon. .1 g VB Dy 0% | Pactfic Mail. 2040 D& E Pacific 05 of 05, Canada Southern Central Pacific Chicago & Alton. . N ading. Itock Isian( 5ty 8t L, &S, F. doproferred. IL Bais 0., M, & St. Paui. 1linols Central.... 1164 do preferred LBEW. 113 8t. P, K &T o preferrad., Lake 8hor H0%| Texas Pacific, . & N. A% Union Pacific. Michigan Ce L 0 Missouri Pacific. L. &P, Migsouri Pacific dopreferred. MoNEY 0N Cari—Easy at 1@1}¢ per cent. Prive MERCANTILE PApER — 4@6 per cent. STERLING Excnmavee—Dull but steady at 457 for sixty day bills; $4.881¢ for demand. PRODUCE MARKETS. Chicago, June ~Following are the 50 closing prices: winter in bar- pring els, §3.0 § sacks, £2.00@3.10; in ba 3100350 Wheat —Unsettied ; opened casy, closing @?3c lower than yesterday; for July and August and cash, 3¢; July, Wle; August, i Corn July, 4 Oats range Unsettled but steady; cash, 47c: 16: August, 481{c. luctuations contined within narrow close being oas Flax & Whisk; . $13.60( 43 August, |§ rd—EFirmer and more activa L2214 (@825, August, $3.525g. Salted Meats—Shoulde 0D 3 short ribs, & 5. Butter — Unchanged; creamery, 15@18¢; dairy, 13@22e. ull cream cheddars, flats, 3 young Americas, Unchanged at 14@14!ge. changed; green salted calf, 414 flint, i dry Tallow—Unchanged; No. 1, solid, 2, 8¢, and cake, 4c¢ per lu, Receipts. Flour, bbls . 10,000 Wheat bu + 11,000 Corn, bu, + 144,000 '4c; No. Shipments, 11,000 5,000 165,000 9,000 5,000 1,000 500 ; exports, 1 spot lots he: dull, closing’ weak ; options fai , closing havy at a > of aded red, S35 @ss!g0; 2 in_clevator, 8i¥gc in_ sto e Corn—Receipts, 112,0005 exports, 10,000 spot lots dull and’ ¥7¢ lower, closing weuk} ve and 1@iie lower, closing st prices; ungraded mixed, He; e, nominal;eleye ! livered; July closing at OatsReceipts, 1 T exports, market dull and lower: mixed western, 37c; white western, 3i@43c. Coffee—Rio entircly nominal; options mod- erately active but irregular, closing steady at ver. Sales, futures 3,500 bags. lowc H@ite; red, sGige July closing at 306 June, Petroleum—Uniited closed steady at Bugs—Steady; western, 151 @154 c. Pork—Dull and_ unchanged; mess quoted 5 for new: $14.00@14 for old. Lard—Firmer but dull; western steam spot, $3.50(8.524. Butter—Stend Cheese—Quict; Ohio flat, T@se. St. Louis, June 23 —Wheat—Lower; cash, 821563 Junh, S2e; July, Tl Corn—Lower: cash, H@iic July, -H\l'. western, 13@19¢. June d4c; Lard—$§7.87}4. Whisky—81.14, Butter—Firm; creamery 14@17c; 12a@ e, Minncapolls, Juno &1 — Whent — It coipts, 120 cars; shipments, 31 cars, o, 1 hard, cash and June, '79¢; July, Ve, August, 0'ge; No. 1 northern, cash and ' Junc, 7Sci’ August, No. 8 northern, cash, June _and July, 74c, On track: No. 1 hard, 8le; No. 1 northern, 79 80c: No, 2 northern, TH@ibe. Flour—Patents to ship in sacks in car lots, #4.35(04.45, Cincinnati, June mand; No. 2 red, 8 Corn—Duli; No. 3 mixed, ble, Onts—Lower; No. 2 mixed, 34}4@35c. Ryo—Dull; No. 2, 63c. Pork—#14.25, Lard—$5.00. Whisky—Firm at $1.14. Milwaukee, June 23 July, 75075 c; August, 0 Corn—Quict; No. 3, 46¢. Oats—Kirm; No. 2 white, Ryo—Lifeless; No. 1, b5c. Harley—Dull; Provisions—Steady; mess pork, cash and June, $13.50, Kansas Qit 0. ved, July, Rust, 78%c. Corn—Lower; No. 2 cash, 4% asked; July 4130 asked. Outs—No, 2 July, 20cbid, 213 asked. Liverpool, June 23 —Wheat—Quiet and California No. 1,68 7d per cental; ved western spring aud red western winter, 0s 6dGw0s 8d per cent Corn—Dull and lo 7d per cental New Orleans, June in sacks mixed, white, 67¢c, Outs—Lowe te, 1@i1340. Corn Meal—Jasier at §2.50, Hog Prodicts — A shade £14 lars Bulk M clear #8.00; clear ribs, £ —_— STOUK. dairy, 3, —Wheat—Fair de- Wheat—Weals; June 23.—Wheat—TLower; e bid, Toige usked; Au mixed western, 48 LIVE Ohicago, June 23, reports as follows: Cattle--Receipts, weak; inferior to aod wmixed, §1.70@3 Texans, 81 Hogs—Recvipts, 11,000, mar steady; mixed, §5.45 878 light, $5.40@5.70; pigs aud culls, $4.00@ Sheep--Receipts, 1,000; market steady; muttons, $.00@5.00; western feeders, $3.15@ 8.50; Texus wuttons, $1.75@3.00, Kaneas City, June 23.—Cattie--Receipts, 1,500; shipments noue; fat grassers stead. common lower; good to choice corn-fed, $.25 @5.50; ecmmon to wedium, $.00w5.00; grass The Drovers' Journal 1,000; market 0d, 806,45 range steers, £2.00@3.80; stockers and feed- ere, §3.25@8.50; cows, £.00@3.50, Hogs—Receipts, 7,000: shipments, 1,500; market active and higher; common to choice, .10@5.45; skips and pigs, $.50 @5.00, National Stock Yard, Touls, June 23.— Cattie —Receipts, 1 ents, 6,400; market steady; choice native steers, 85 40@8.00; fair to good butchers' steers, ; stockers and hy B(@4.30, shipment medium to chof feeders, )(@8.00; range Hogs — Receipts, 2103 market firm; choice heavy and butchers’ selections, #.60@5.70; packing, dlum to prime, $5.40@5.60; light grades, $2.25@4.45. s OMAHA LIVE STOCK. Oattle. Saturday, June 23, 1888, The trade was very dull to-day, although there were twenty-six fresh loads on the market. Good corn-fed cattle were nom- inally steady. The grass cattle market is weak and slow with comparatively no_de- mand. Common grass cows are slow at $1.50 Hogs. he receipts were fair for the last day of the week, sixty fresh loads being on sale. In addition to the fresh receipts there were about thirty loads in the hands of specula- tors. The general market was about steady and the hogs were all sold before the close. Sheep. There were no fresh receipts but a fow holdovers changed hand: Receipts, Cattle. Hog: Prevatlinz Prices, Thefollowing 18 a table of prices paid in thismarket for tho grades of stock mon- tioned. Primesteers, 1300 to 1500 1bs.. Prime steers, 1100 to 1300 1bs, Fatlittle stecrs, 900 to 1050 1bs. 4.00 Common to good cows Choice to fancy cows. Common to choice bulis ... Fair tochoiee light hogs. . . Fair to choico heavy hog: Fairto choice mixed hogs. Kepresentatve Sales CATTLE. Pr, $1.60 1. No. 13 cows.. (X 11 cows . 1 yearling 12 heifer: 2 stoers. . 5% corn-fed westerns 65 steers. Y steers. Av. 014 65 western, unshorn . 50 western, unshorn. No. Ay. Shk. 178 230 160 22 120 160 820 40 160 120 200 200 200 120 Live Stock Sold. Showing the number of c sheep sold to the leading buy market. carrL G. H. Hammond & Co. Swift & Co Haslkett Jte 5 MeCloud, Love Cron Hun : HOGS! H. Hammond & Co Omaha P Co Armour-Cu J. P. Squires & Co obs & White Davis & Atwood. Bartlett & Co Omaha P. Co. Armour C. P, Co. Highest and Lowest. The following are the highest and lowest prices paid for mixed and heavy loads of hogs on this market during the past few days and for the corresponding period in 1357 and 1586: [ June 1858, June 18T, T 1885, BB20 @HO (446 @47 (B0 @B 95% @HH | ... ... .| 8624 3 TTy 10| Bunday | 450G 4 1% | 865 @ 350 U 620 @HM 460 @k |44 @465 12620 @b b Sunduy 87 ¢ 37 1362 @640 | 4500 @486 Sunday 14525 @ 545 | 4 62400 4 0) 3 7 162 @600 | 400 @4 162 @645 | 445 @4 17| Bunday {400 @4 @B | 460 @ 48 @ b b5 Sunday, @HH | 440 @ 42 @h45 | 466 @475 @ b 45 @ 3 9 Range of Prices. Showing the highest and lowest prices paid, for the kind of cattle_indicated, during the past few days and the corresponding time 10 1887 and 1586 B2 @6 R0 1550 @60 15600 @615 @ 4 @ 4 20 @ 410 Uyt 0) Sunday 306 @400 BB @410 Sunday, 18 4 80 G 5 70 19 4 85 @b 65 20 4 60 G b 6) Sunday 210450 @ b3 450 @465 FOUNDS AND OVER. “June 1887, | June 1880, 1,500 T June 188k, | 42 @430 AN Wi i1 Sunday 400 4100 @50 Sunda; 600 ¥ 510 5 00 Sunday 58 8 Pork Fackin Special reports to the Cincinnati Price Current show the number of hogs packed from March 1 to date and latest mail dates at the undermentioned places, compared with the corresponding time last year, as follows TMarch 1 to June 2. L 16,000 BATHES 270,000 160,000 Thicago Kansas City. ] Omala 8t. Louis Indisnapoiis Cincinnati Milwaukee Cedar Rupids Cleveland Nebrasks Oty Live Stock Notes. Perry Bros., Wayue, sold & load of hogs at $5.45 t0-da) James Farrell, Bromfield, came in with a load of hogs. E. B. Warner, Schuyler, was at the yards, and sold & load of hogs. C. J. Furer and J. Lausing, Fairfield, were here with ten loads of cattle, Noah Kuns, York, and Thomas Donley, Florence, were in with cattle, Since the first of March Omaha has gained in the number of hogs packed, as compared with the same tife 148 year, 61,00 During the same time therd hing been a falling off at Kansas City of 07,58, _ Clay Center was pepwasented by S, Cutlor, who came in with two loads of hogs James M, Woods, ‘of ‘tte firm of Wood: White & Woads, Rifpid City, Dak., was looking over the market, The week's packing in the west has been 210,000 hogs, against/ 318000 last week, and 230,000 last'year, KN & total of 2,615,000 hogs since March 1; agatst 2,660,000'a year ago—decrease, 43,000, Commission men §re writing to their ship- pers in the country nog b ship in grass cows with the expectation of gotting way up prices. All the bupers are willing to pay for such stuff is $1.50@2.00, b OMAHA WHOLESAL MARKET. Produce, Fruits, Nuts, Ete. Saturday, June 28, Brrrer—Faney creamery roll_butter, 20@ 21c; with solid packed at 15@lbe: choice country butter, 14@ common grades, 12@ 1, Eaas—£ 14@15¢. Cnerries—Per case of 10 Ibs, §1 Southern cherri 3 per 24 quart cas STRAWY per 16-qt case. BLACKBERRIES 3,500 4.00 per D BIACK RASPBERRIES —&4.( ) per case; red raspberries, £.00@4.50 per case. Cueese—Full cream, 13 14c. Porators—Choice home grown, @Sy Utah and Colorado stock, 90@9%c; low grades, 55@65¢: new, &1 per bushel in sacks early Ohio, 3.00 per barrel; Peéerless, #.25 per barrel PouLTRY—No dressed fowl in the markets live chickens, £3.95 per doz; spring chickeus, £2.50@3.25. @2.00, § £1.50 per bu. i 0 per crate or §! one-third bu. APPLES —£2,25@2.50. VAN A —Common medium, §2 1 choice, £3,00@3.5 Tursivs—Chlifornia, 2'4@ Daris—Porsiun, tiglato por 1b. —Choice Michigan' ci per bbl. of ON10Ns—Native stock.$1.25@1.50; Spanish, box of 5 1bs, §1.75@2.00; California on: 3L(de per b, Ns—&7. 008,00 per case, —California Riversid medium sweet Riversides, #4.50 per box; Messina, £.50@7.00, Los Angeles, #4.00@ 450: Lot Angeles Navals, $4.00; liverside Nay: . $4.50@0.50 £3.75(@4.00; 21¢@3c per Ib. for California. —Good stock, $1.50@L.i5 per Porcon 4¢ per 1b. CARROTS BEAN: beans, Fio Nurs—Peanuts, raw, 13¢; almouds, Tarragona, nuts, 15(@18¢ 15c; pecans, I NEY—16@2ic for 1 1b frames; ¥, 10@12¢ per 1b. MarLe Syrur—$1.25 per gal. er bunch. WATFRMELC 35 per 100, Gurary—Omaha prices for grain are the same as Chicago cash prices, less freight, but freight rates have been so irregular lately that prices t be quoted with any de- gree of satisfaction as to correctness, Fren.—In carload lots on track.—Hay, baled prairie, common, $6.00@7.00; choice, S.50@0.00 per ton. Bran, 13 ver ton. Shorts, £12.00 per ton. Chopped feed, $18.00 (@19.00 per —Choice rice corn is quoted at 8@ other kinds 2t @3e per 1b, New stock, d0wie per doz. ; California o1 cake, 10¢ per 1b. { Brazil nu nglish wal filberts, 18¢; Ttalian chestnuts, canned ei 40 1b square 50-1b round, 8¢5 20-1b round, Sige; Jc; 51b pails, Sige: 8-1b pails, —New Orleans molasses, per bbl., ' syrup, 4c; half bbls.) sorehum, 35 ~-Hams, 107¢@11}c¢: breakfast hacon Sides, Walge: dry bacon, 1041 woulders, @i c; dricd beef, sali, SI¢@Ss;c; 10(e11e. Goons—Oysters, standard, per awberries, 2-1b, per case, ; 2.1, per case, $2.060@ California pears, per case, $1.700@4.80; apricots, per caso, 4. Deaches, per case, white clierrigs, per case, $5.80(6.00; Calitornia plums, per case, #.50 (@4.60; blueberries, per case, 32.00@2.10; cgg 50; ‘pincapples, 2-Ib, 1-1b salmon, per dozen, 1b ooseberrics, per case, 32 21D string beans, per case, §1 b Lima beans, per case, §1.000@1.63 rrowfat peas, $2.5002.6); 21b carly us, por : b tomgtocs, Granulated, 6 white extra € vellow C, 5% powdered, TI@85ct Ordinary grades, 16@17c; fancy gree ior Java, s rousted, , 214¢ Alaroma, . WOODENWARE s, per doz 81.40; three-hoop pails, 5, No. 1_tub, $7.00; No. 2 tub, $6.00; No. 3 tubs, &.00; washboards, electric, #1.50; fancy Northern Queen washboards, $2.75; assorted bowls £275; No. 1 churns, $1.50; No. 2 churn £5.50; No. 8 churns, £7.50; butter tubs, §1. spruce, in nests, 70¢ per nest. Tonscco—PLuG—Lorillard’s Climax, 45c¢; Splendid, 44¢; Mechanic’s Delight, 443 Lo, gett & Meyer's Star, 45c; Cornerstone, 30 Drummond’s Horseshoe, 45c¢; J. T., 42 Sorg’s Spearhead, 45¢: “Cut Rate,” 29 “Oh, My,"” 2ie; Piper Heidsick, f4c. TOBACY SaoginG—Catlin’s Meerschaum, 8le; Catlin’s Old_Style, 23c; Sweet Tip U. N. 0., 17c; Red, White and —80-1b paus, $1.25@1.5 Sait—Per bbl in carload lots, §1.45, Seven-sixteenths, 10@10c; Mixed, 9@llc; stick, H@9dige, ProkLes—Medium, in bbls, $.00; do in half bbls, §.50; small, in bbls, $7.00; do in half bbls, $4.00; gherkins, in bbls, §5.00; do in half bbls, $1.50. ‘b HERRINGS—0S@70c per keg. SvaAn—Bricks, 12gc per 1b: penny 4¢ per 1b.; pure maple syrup, $1.25 213e: MeLaughlin's per gal. ; Broovs—Extra, d-tie, §2.60; parlor, 3-tic, painted handles, $2.25; No. 1, 2.00; No. 2, £1.75; heavy stable brooms; £1.00. Stawcn—Mirror gloss, 5jc; Graves' corn 61405 Oswero gloss, 7e; Oswego corn, 7, T as—Japans, 20@sde; Guupowder, 2@ 60c: Young Hyson, 22@dde; Oolong, 2@ie. PownER AND S10T—Shot, §1.80; buckshot, 55; Hazard powder, kegs, half ke $2.75 one-fourths, $1.50; blasting kegs, uses, 100 ft., 45@ General Markets, Leatuer—Ouk soles, hemlock sole, 21@c; hemlock dry sole, 12 nlock kip, 600c; A, & 1. runner kip, B0@7se; A. hemlock calf, 90c@$1.00; A. A. hemlock calf, “backs,” 75c; hemlock upper, 10@24c; English grain upper, 25¢; hemlogk grain upper, 216 Tampico 3. L. 3 Tampico pepple, O. D. Mo, oa, B, G. Mo, #0c; ' Simon O . Mo., $2.75@8.00; Dangola kid, 30 <. M. kangaroo, 40¢; American calf kid, iesen kids, 83.0068.75; French glazed kids. French calf kids, $4.25: oak kip #1.00; oak calf skins, £1.00@1.55; French kip 3 Russitt linings, 80.00@6.50 ; pink cream and white linings, 57 per doz, ; eolored toppings, .00 11,00, Divas—Acid—Carbolic, erystal per 1b, 50c; aitric per 1b, 60c; tactarfe, per b, bcj sul- phuric, per 1b, 4¢3 amyouia, carb, per b, 1ac; alum, per 1b, be; aleohiol, 95 per cent, per gal, 2221 blue vitriok, per b, S¢; borax refined, per 1b, 10c; camphor refined, 82¢; cream tar- tar, pure, per lb, 421 eream tartar, commer- cial, per b, 20c; cloves, per Ib, d3c; cuttle- fish bone, per 1b, duc; dextrine, per 1b, 12¢; riue, pure, per 1b, #0c; hops, fresh, per indigo, Madras, per 1b, powder, per lb, 60c; morphine, P. & 0z., #3.00; opium, per lb, $3.75: quinine, P. & .. per oz, bse: quinine, German, per oz, 45¢; Rochelle salts, per'lb, 85¢; suffron, Auwericau, per lb, 40c; saffron, true Spanish, per 0z, #1.00; salapetre, pure per lb, 10¢; sulphiur, Flowers', per Ib., be.; soda, bi-car bonate, per Ib, 8¢; silver, nitrate, per lb, $11.50;" spermacetti, per 1b, 53@60c; strych- nine, per oz, §1.25; wax, white, pure, per lb, Boe: wax, yellow, pure, per 1b, #oc. HiDEs en butchers, 4@ilge; green owred, h@blge; dry flint, 7e; dry salt, 6c green’ saltod calf, 6igo: damaged hides, off; dry salted deacons, 25¢ each. Tallow— No. -1, 8%c; 33c. Grease—Prime white, 414¢: vellow, brown. 2¢. Sheep polts—10c@#1.00,according to quality. Brand. ed hides classified as dumaged. STORIES OF PROMINENT MEN How the Duke of Wesminster Shows His Dislike of Parnell. CONKLING AT PHILADELPHIA, A Slight Race Prejudice—The Famous Ben Hur — Brigham Young's Wit—One on Boutelle—At Beck's Expense. . A Slight Race Prejudice. Representative McAdoo of New Jer- sey—who fs an Irishman, by the way— was speaking the other day, says a Washington letter to the New York Tribune, of the bill to restrict imm gration, and said -he did not think it would take very well in his district, Two or three years ago, he said, there ounty convention to nominate candidates for office, and after it was a broad-brogued Irishman got up, and in the name of his fellow- countrymen nominated one Patrick O'Brien for sheriff. Mr. O'Brien was Unanimously chosen. Then Hans Brickenstoeffer arose, and in the name of the four thousand Germans in the county proposed the name of Max Mueller as county clerk, who was also placed on the ticket. Then Isnae Op- penheimer took the floor and said that the Jewish residents of the county had never been recognized, and that he thought it was about time the demo- cratic party was taking some notice of them; therefore, he proposed M. Abra- ham Moses, o rising young barrister, for prosecuting attorne This, too. was carried, whereupon” Samuel Jones made a speech, in which he took the ground that the only remaining offic that of coroner, which was neither lucrative nor honorable, should be given to a poor wounded soldier by the name of Smith. There were cries of inquiry as to the nativity of Smith, and Mr. Brown was forced to confess that he was o genuine Yankee, barn down in Maine. At once there arose a ter- vific ery of rage: “Out wid him! Out wid him! Out wid the know-nothing!” and the con- vention broke up in a row. The Famous “Ben Hur." In the early days of this countr: there was as much opposition to ra ways as in England, and the man who predicted their success was laughed down and out. The following comes from a reader of the Telegram who lives in Brookl “In 1819 Juage John Test, who, by the way, was one of Indiana’s first judges, was nominated for congr in his dis- trict, and in one of his speeches he 1 ferred to the fact of the steam cars in Great Britain and the wonderful speed with which people were carried. He added that he expected before he died to travel at the rate of twenty miles an hour und enjoy the improved system of steam cars. These ideas and specula- tious seemed so absurd to the old farm- ers in Indiana at thatday that the judge was grected with his and groans. “Weare not such fools as to believe such nonsence aid his friends. However, the judge did live to sce his predictions fulfilled. The telegraph came into operation also. He was aman of great ability, full of learning and advanced ideas, r His daughter is now living in Brook- lyn, and General Lew Wallace. the au- thor of the world-famed **Ben Hur,” is grandson of the distinguished judge. And so the world moves and wil{ con- tinue to move. A PECULIAR DUKE, How His Grace of Westminster Shows His Dislike of Parnell. A New York Tribune special cable The Westminster-Spencer inci- tis, perhaps. the most striking in that long serie ises which the pre has occasioned. Robert 5 s half-brother, w the duke of Westminster. Before the appointed day came he dined vith the Eighty club one evening when rmell was their gues When the duke saw Mr. Spencer’s name in the lists he wrote him that he should be unable to receive at Grosvenor house a man who had sat at the same table with Parnell. Such a_letter would, fifty vs ago, have ended in a ducl. Now sions nothing but talk, and a t deal of that, There ave people in London, not a few either, who stand ready to applaud any slight or insult offered to any home ruler. “The duke’s act is approved by people of this sort. Many of his own party and his own friends condemn it. They say he might have put off the dinner altogether had he felt he could not have Mr, Spencer asa guest after he had sat at meat with Mr. Parnell. ‘What makes the case more flagrant is the fact that this dinner was arranged in honor of Mr. Spencer’s marriage last autumn. Mrs. Robert Spencer was. of course, invited. The letter to her husband, therefore, reaches het also. “The duke of Westminster,”” said one of his friends, **has one surprise a year forus. Last year it was hissale of Gladstone’s portrait. This year he breaks with the Spencers. What will he do next?” And once more he is re minded that it was Gladstone who gav him his dukedom. dine with Brigham Young's Wit, It is believed that the following ane dot of Brigham Young has never befor been published, says an exchange, The high priest of the Mormons often had to exert the whole of his wonderfully quick wit in order to preserve the faith that his followers had in him, but he ws generally equal to the occasion. A ce tain elder, while chopping wood, had cut his 80 badly that it had to be amputated. As soon as he,w. ile he came to Young and stated his case to him somewhat as follows: *‘I have al- ways been a pood Mormon; 1 b eral wivesand a good many children, and in my present maimed condition 1 donot know how Lam to provide for them. I believe truly that Christ’s representative on earth, and that you have all the power that he had. If you like you can work miracles;f you like you éan give me a new leg, and how I ask you todo it.” Young assented to all the flattering propositions as they were laid down, nd when the elder had finished speak- ng he said: *I can give you a new leg, and I will,but T want you to think about ita little at first, When the day of {udymvnl comes, wherever you are yuried, your old leg will find yon out and join itself to you, but if I give you a new one, that will rise with you, too, and the question is whether you would rather suffer the inconven of ge ting along with one for a few years here or go through all eternity with three legs. The choice was quickly Brigham Young's reputation as a mir- acle worker was saved At Beck's Exps It was a knotty point which had come up before the finance committee, says an exchange. Mr. Beck would notor could not be convineed that Mr, Vuance was correct in a certain statement he had made regarding the mattor. “Why don’t you put it in writing, exclaimed the stalwart Ken- tuckian with more than usual emphasis in his tone. *“What you ay goes in at ear and out at the oth ““Ah,” replied the witty Vance, wink- ing roguishly at Senator Allison, who sat at the head of the table, “that's be cause there is nothing there to stop it. The rest of the committee laughed heartily, but Mr. Beck looked stern. One on Boutelle. New York Tribune: Congressman C. A. Boutelle, of Maine, was a sea captain before he became the editor of the Bangor Whig and Cour He can spread his sea legsand balance himself ina rapidly whirlir ilway car, when other men would be knocking their shinsand elbows on the seats. It was in th hletic pose that he placed him- self in a parlor car on the way from Bangor to Augusta, “one day in 1884 shortly after the republican national convention had selected Mr. Blaine as the party standard beaver, Mr, Blaine himself sat in a seat facing the joily seamen who at this particular moment was not jolly at all. He had been read- ing some editorials in the leading re- publican paper at Augusta. As editor of the Bangor republican organ, whether from a sense of rivalry or from some other reason, he dissented strongly from these Augusta editorials, Presently Mr. Blaine asked quictly: SRV Boutelle, are these editorials s0 terrible bad?” The captain expressed emphatically deprecatory, Blaine ealmly added: “Well, T am very sorry to hear you v 50, for I wrote them myself.” The weather suddenly grow hot and uncomfortable for Captain Boutelle, and he went to a window on the opposite side of the car to get a breath of fresh air, until Mr. Blaine laughingly in- vited him to come back and sit down to discuss the articles in question from the point of view from which they were written. an_opinion when M. An Anecdote o This Phi a was addressed by Conkling, was one of the notable political gathorings of the QuakerCity and is still remembered the New York Tribune ame to hear Mr. Conk- ling in dres accompunied by their wives in full evening dress. The opera se looked more like an audience as- sembled to hear Italinn opera than to heara political speech.” As Senator Conkling was finishing his dinner at the hotel, Senator Don Cameron came m to see him in full evening dress. Senator Conkling had on a businesssuit of pepper-and-salt woolen goods. There were a number of New Yorkers and Philadelphians at the table. “Don’t you want to be excused for few minutes, senator, to get on your other suit?” asked Mr. Cameron. Mr. Conkling stared at Mr. Cameron as if he didn’t quite understand, and finally, asif half comprehending, stood up, and looking down over his manly figure, said: ““This is all the suit I have her You don’t mean to say that they w expeet me to appear in evening dress? When it was explained to him that this was the expectation of Philadel phia political audiences: he reblied: “Well, I think they’ll have to take meas [am. Why, in my state, if I should appear before apolitical audience in a dress suit I should expect to be mobbed. Conkling. meeting, which e THE ROMANTIC WEST. A Mountain Traveling Eastward With a Town Upon Its Back. “There are many strange things cc neeted with the Comstock mines,” an old resident of Virginia City to a San Francisco Examiner man. “You must recolleet that while the main workings extend from the north of Gold hill to Virginia and ow, a distance of three miles, ther a total of . 2 miles of tunnels, drifts, slopes, dumps, quips and turns, making up the interior as a total. Think of it—252 mile farther by far than from the Golden Gate to the Nevada line, and farther than across the great state of New York. Why, lovk around a little. You might go as far from Washington to Baltimore and back again and you wouldn’t be much more than half way through the Comstock. When you think of the great depth of these mines, the gigantic, incomprehensible weight of the mass resting upon the timbers and the traveling mountain, in which are these mines and on which is Vir- ginia City, you involve propositions again that have stumped the deepest thinker. For instance, queer, polished sticks, as smooth as mahogany and no thiuner than my cane are every once in a_while being taken out of the old workings. They arc as hard and as heavy as iron, and a knife will make no marlk on them. Now, what are the Originally they were twelve-ineh solid timbers, and the millions of tons bearing upon them in all divecticns, perpendicularly as well us latterally—for it is only in this way that mines can be timbered—have pr od them to this shape. They are ound sometimes in bits, sometimes in long picces, taken out wher ves have oceurred and the workings displaced. No known mechanism at }n'wunl. nor in any age in the pust, so far as history recounts, has such power to compress and work marvels with wood. The si- lent old mine has stumped the scientists, ave asked me if itis really true that Mount Davidson isslowly tray- eling eastward, with the town of Vir- ginia on her back and her mines within, It is true,and this again has set our ablest men to scratehing their he By the careful estimate of engin is'seen that V o1 City down hill ten feet in fifteen about two-thirds of a foot a year concluded that it is owing 1o the vast underground working, bat just how it is done is problematical, however, the people of Virgin are not afraid of the trip they are tak ing. They have been with it too long to et alarmed about it now., “In the consolidated Virginia and California mines of the Comstock was another strange thing, too, that for a long time caused deep study and a vas expenditure of money. The fires which broke out in the La00-foot level and burned for years seemed inextinguish- able. Kvery koown means was tried. There was o lavge body of superior cre there, as many will remember, and the owners were anxious to get atit. It WIS 00 use, 50 they put in seven solid feet of bulkbesd and shut it up. burned for seven years, and it wa a year ago that carbolic ga 5in jed by means of costly machinery and the hidden fircs put out. The gas in there was 50 deadly that not a man could up- l" ch it it was escaping. It would have been instant death, Now best ore of the Consolidated Virginin and Cali- fornin is ng out of that place wher the unseen fires raged.” - Mhe Boston Chronicle of November 20, 1769, narrates the fact thatone Lina- say was brauded with a hot irou for for- The officers put a le & on the palin of his haud. nid - lowik coal miners are working forsi cents per ton 1 April to October, and 90 ceuts per wn the rest of tug year. THE TALRATIVE GRIPMA He Diecourses on the Hot Weathor to Some Extent, HIS OPINION OF LAWN TENNIS, A Dissertation on Milk and Why He Has Quit Giving it to His Baby—Other Topios. “Jerusalem but ai'nt it hot 1" said the geipe man as the reporter boardered his car ona day last week. *“Why," he continued, as ha wiped the perspiration from his brow with his bandana, “it's hotter than it is in Chis eago Do you know just how hot it 18 younge ster!" said the gripman as he completed the fevered brow wiping process. “Oh yow don't. Well 1 will wive you a few examples. You know what effect heat and cold has on steel don't yout Well sir, the heav expanded the track on the main extention so much that instead of stopping at Lake street as was in- tended, the terminus is a half block north. Why the cable expanded yesterday 8o much that the thing was too long and a piece had ta be cut out in order to keep it taut. One of my neighbors who keeps ducks, told me yesterday that the Dirds had been laying boiled eggs for the last twenty-four hours. Up to my house the heat has been so intense that the water dried and was cut into strips for general distribution. Even then it was so dry it had to be sprinkled before one could drink it One saloon keeper up my way kept three or four hammers lying on his bar all the time for two or three days early in tho week.” “VWhat on earth did he want of hammers " said4he reporter, “Why," said the gripman, ‘you sco the fonm on ' glass of beer would dry so quick and hard that it had to be broken before & person could get at the beer. O, 1 tell you it was hot," and the gripman again reached for his handkerchicf. “But say,” continued the gripman as he slowed up to allow u phaeton, whose driver was in o hurry, to cross the tracks, 41 guess you have héard enough about 'the hot weather. Isceyou have something about inepecting meat and milk. 1 wish that in- spector would drop in at my kitchen when my milkman is delivering the article e calls milk, for our consumption. alk about milk, that lac-lac-lactometer you speak of would have a hustle to swim in the stuff I use in my coffee. Milk! Why there is 85 per cent of water used as a_foun- dation and the remainder skimmed milk in the stuff I get. Our baby drank that milk for ubout three months and got 8o poor and thin that the little chap had to have a cloak put on when he wanted to cast a shadow, and I never knew what was the matter with him for a long time. 1 used to say to my wife, ‘I don’t sce why Johnny don't get fat,? and asked her why she didn't feed him regus larly. She always®said she did, but somie- how I never could believe it and always in- sisted that she had forgotten it, and used to feed him about a quart mysclf. I used to wonder what made the little chap always sigh 80 heavily after taking this dose, and it verplexed me to see him go and lean up against the wall with such a far-off look in his eyes. But I discovered the cause one night when I concluded to eat bread and milk for supper, and you can bet your bros gans that kid of mine dines on potatoes and cabbage of late. No more mill for him,” ‘Did you ever play lawn tennis? said the gripman. “No¢ Neither have 1, but I think it must be a great game. 1 passed a court on Eighe teenth street thie other night. There were four in the game—a lady, two gentlemen and a birdie who resembled four or five sections of a very small gas pipe put together. It was alive and wore glasses. There wus also u base ball cap and a par of linen trousers on it. The way they banged that ball around was a caution. The lady and her partner kept the creature in knickerbocker linen in a lively condition and when the game was finished he had a sort of some-time-nexte sunmer look on his face that betokened fatigue. 1 made up my mind right there never to play lawn teunis if such odd ar- rangements as he could compete in a game.? “It is wonderful how much and how little water you can get at times when you do and do_ not want it,” said the gripman. “Now when you want to keep dry the street sprinkier comes along and dampens your ico cream pants, When you want o drink and are ncar the court house you rush over to the Davis foun- in which was intended u blessing for man and beast, and behold it is dry. Itis a queer world,” “But 1 guess that is all to-duy,” conciuded the gripman, and so the reporter get off the car. LDy THREE FAMOUS OUTLAWS. How a Trio of Wealthy Cattlemen Took to the Bush, The Squire brothers were wealthy cattlemen, says the Atlanta (Ga.) Con= stitution. ~ All three of them were in- wlligent and well educated, and of & free and generous nature, caleulated to engage the sympathy of the simple peo- ple among whom they lived. One of them, the lender of the brothers, was evyen suid to have had a taste for meta~ physics, and to have studied for the ministry. They had a sister, a beautiful woman, for whnom any one of them would have given his life. She was nddressed by an ofticer of the constabulary and she re- jected him. He beeume enraged and insulted h Then began a tragedy which lasted five years. She told her brothers what had “happened, and her metaphysical brother went and killed the officer. Five of the constabulary were sent to arvest him, and they were killed by the three Squire qrothérs. Then these cattlemen became outlaws. i1shmaelites, whose hands were against the hand of ever; man who did not belong to the ruval population. They covered themselves with steol armor, worn under their clothing, and bullets glunced from their bodies until the constabula thought they had charmed lives, They would ride into a town in the daytime, disguised and armed to the teeth, enter a bank, **hold up”’ every man in the place and every one who came ther until they had sccured the mone Then they would mount theirswilt horses and fly to the bush, The country people were still in symputhy with them and would not reveal their movement, almost ever, duy the papers had nceounts of fres depredati This sort of thing lusted for five yoars. It was the continual sen= sation of the cities and the continual dread of the bunlke Finully the end came, One of their country friends betrayed them and revealed to the constabularly of Sidn the time when the Squive brothers would make a descent, When the brothe noone knew them in their disguise, and they went 10 a hotel and held up everybody before it was known that they wert in the eity, They w masters of the hotel and were drinking wine in the dining room when a large fovee of the constibu red, her which: ¢ or o s e wis n desperite number of the e the squi killed. One of them one-the motaphy si to the svreet, He dushed for h but vvas shot in the log helow th The 1ot broke the go uo farther. The rushed upon him, awid lled three of ugh the brain Phe davk ehapter ¢ the exeention of the otd brother with two comrades. Their sister was the ouly surviver of the famity. Her insalt ul been ave AL terrible e hrothe wits eiuptu 1l brother could constabulirly wfter he had them he fell, shob loscd in 1880 with