Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1889, Page 11

THE CONDITION OF TRADE, Great Apxiety as to the Wheat Orop. MONEY STILL CONTINUES EASY. General le Business Improving—Col- tions Better—Prices Unchanged The Spring Outlook Believed to Be Good. A Resume of Trade. oy market has continued easy st week and customers ° ed with all they wanted when © names were satisfactory. Most of the anks report morc loanable funas in hand ‘han is desirable, though it is not believed :his wiil be the case for any length of time, >r longer than until the spring trade fairly spens into full activity, General trade has mproved materially, and the outlook is daily secoming more cheerful. Collections are e mon during the p seen accomn mproving and orders are increasing in nuwm- ser and size. It is believed that the svring will show the usual gain, though 1888 was an oxceptionally good year, if shere should be no great increase no dissatis- could be reasonably felt. are about unchanged. The ‘arm produce market shows more activity, wnd the prices of stuff handled by commis- sion men are, if anything, steadicr, but sta- Jles in groceries, hardware, lumber, dry z00ds and boots and shocs are the same as ast week., In a late letter to the New York Journal »f Commerce Crop Expert Prime says: It 5 t00 early yet to take any position as to the effect of the recent cold weather on winter wheat. There are no reports yet received of any aamage, but there is great solicitude to know how the wheat will come out under o the severe strain it has been called on to go through during@®the last ten days. The wheat as bare all over the winter wheat belt, ex- 't in Kansas, when th week came, extending south as far as Texas. Our Tennessee und Kentucky correspond- *n1s seem to think that the crop has received serious damage, but we must hwe warm weather befor ything - be known. What the W than anything else is moisture. ‘The specuiative operations in green teas are not favorably regarded by merchants and they are buying only as they are com- peiled t0. Stocks are everywhere light and active spring trade 1s looked forward to. I ‘The fish trade is not as good as it should be so near lent and merchants tind it dif- cult to account for the lack of an active \quiry. One explanation offered is that o throughout the country are unusually cheap, and the egg market i8 o strong competitor with the sult fish market in the lenten sea- son, as many people during the fast days buy ewgs in preference to fish if they can be had cheaper. - Rio coffec,is not selling to any unusual ex- tent, but prices are firm at the recent ad- vance, owing to the influence cxerted by the bull elique, and the reduction is the estimate of the next crop to 1,500,000 bags. The pres- ent supplies arc_ample, there being 456,000 bags at Rio, 236,000 bags in Santos, and 474, 000 bags at’ New York, Bultimore, and New Orleans and atloat for this country, against 428,000 bags at. the same Atlantic ports and afloat for our shores a year ago. Prices for sugar are maintamed by the trust, and the brokers state that they are merely selling agents for the combination und diat the organization is so powerfyul it would be folly to fight it. ~ The trust has u double advantage over its competitors, as it purchuses its raw mat at bye lower than the outside parties, while its selling price for nulated is 'y higher. It is said that as competing reliners have their full capacity sold for some time ahcad, the trust has de- ded to let them alone until the policy of Spreckels n regard to his new re- tinery has been developed. Rice is 80 cheap that the amount coming to market 1s uot very large. The planters in Louisiana do not care to sell their rough 1tock at current figur and the mills offering for shipment rather limited qua ties of cleancd goods, One dificulty in the Plorida oral trade his scason hus been the great quantity of the largest sized oranges, which are not gen- crally wanted by the trade, many having been fo large as to admit of U6 and 112 being packed in a box. Each box is carefully packed, the oranges being in layers of exactly the same size. nti OMAHA LIVE STOCHK. Cattle. Saturday, March 2, 1880, Notwithstanding the fact'that iv was the lust day of the week, and that all the cattle ) purchased would have to be held over until Monduy, the dressed beef and shipping steers sold a little vetter. The market could be quoted much higher, but the gain of yester- duy and to-duy amounted to5@10¢. The trade was fairly active, and the cattle’ were about all sold before the close. The steers sold mostly at §3.00@3 45, while one very good bunch of heavy cattle brought # 90, The butchers' stock, though not in_very heavy supply. sold u little vasicr, but was active at the prices and 1 good_demand. The cows. sold largely at £2.25(02.75, and the bulls at E1.50@2,00. A few feeders changed hands at ubout steady prices, but the trading was light in that cluss of cattle as usual on Sat- arday. Hogs. If there were any who anticipated that the buyers would be satistied with the decline of the past few duys and buy the hogs to-day at steady prices, they were badly mistaken, The hogs did not sell 5¢ lower to-day, but 1t was 80 close to it that there was no fun in it, The light hogs sold at #.25, with one trade at #4130, and the heavy hogs at #4.20@4.25. Yes- terday the light hogs sold at $i. (@ 4,50, with two trades at .35 and the heavy hogs mostly at $1.25 The market to-day was slow, the buyers holding off and trying to buy the heavy Logs at £4.20, and it was after noor vefore a clearance was made, Sheep. There were no sheep to make a market, but thiere was some inquiry, and desirable she ] woula probably bave' communded steady ! prices. Receipts, Oattle. dows. Sheop. Prevail The following Is a table of prices paid in 1% Prices. narket for the grades of stock men- ioned Prime steers, 1300 to 1500 1bs...§3.40 Prime stoers, 1100 to 1500 1bs. . . Native feeders.. .. nmon to good ¢ows. oice to fancy cov ‘air to choice bulls, Fair to choice light hog Fair to choice heavy hogs. Fair to choice mixed hogs Fair to choico western sheep {#air to choice Nebraskas. . Representative Salos, STEENS. Friday, March 2, 1850 No. Av, Pr. No. Av, br, 6. X 15 820 9. 121 6. | 'S | 2 4 SETRAT =& oo 55 10 M 1 2, 1 2 I 1] 5 !l 8 ) i £ i ! 8 3. Fxi | i LIS, i MIXED- DUTCHERS' §TOC 5 2, M5 225 10 20 4 10 2,9 ATAGH. 0 1506 2.40 BUELS - &WAN 1 & C, €O, 2 PR ULER AL noas No. Av. Ehk. P No, Av, Shk ) 243 100 4.0 203 — jd 243 20 420 ) 271 200 420 L2418 LW 219 100 221 20 23 40 Monthly Statemont. The followine are the oficial receipts and shipments of live stock during the month of February, 1540, and the number of head con sumed at South Omaha: RECEIPTS. RAILROADS. DUOH SUNSS 10 RAILROADS. 10 &) COBEQ. DHLEP. M. Total . y Consumed i S.Omaha, _ Grand total Receipts Recived. The following are the official receipts of cattle and hogs for the months indicated, during the year 1888, audfor the two months past of 15%0: Month, Junuary, 1558 February, 1838, March, 1558 April, 1888, May, 185 June, 158 July, 1858 August, 188, September, 155 October, 1888 November, 1883, attle, Hogs. 2.8 71, Live Stock Notes. No shicep on sale. Hogs nearly be lower. The trade in fecders slow. Butchers' siock sclls easier. The market on beof steers fium. go, Burlington & Quincy hanled rs of stock during the month of February, the Northwestern. 207, the Rock Istand 2 and the Milwaukee 4 cars. W. A. Alsdorf, who has been the assistant superintendent of te Sioux City yards for some time, stopped here on his way to Lin- colu to take charge of the yards there. They expecet to be ready to open the yards, and the Silberhorn packing house in about a_week. The other packing house is owned by the stock yards company, and negotiations are now on foot for the léasing of the house to Chicago parties. On Saturday of last week the hogs sold at £1.30@4.40, with the bulk at $1.35. On Mon- duy the receipts were very light, and the prices paid were #.40@1.50. Tuesday’s mar- ket was lower, the extreme ringe being $4 @#.45 und the bk sclling at #.33@+.40, The trado till lower on Wednesday, with a very large proportion of the sales ‘at $b.:. Thursday’s market was.higher on the Nght weights but lower on heavy, and the sales ranged from $4.25 to $4.40, With over half the sales at .50 and above. Yesterday tho bulk of the hogs were sold at §.25. —_——— IN THE STUDIO. Some of the Work on Which Artists Are Engaged. A reporter made a visit to the studios of a few leading artists yesterday and had the rivilege of viewing the recent wark, as also that of some of their pupils. The studio of Mrs. Celina B. Higginson, out on Twentieth street, was first visited. During these busy months of teaching, Mrs, Higginson, and in fact this is true of all those visited, fiuds but little time to do any per- sonal work. She had, however, upon the walls @ reproduction in oil of a scene in Kentucky, painted by herself. In this work the foliage and the atmospheric painting are especially noteworthy and the entire picture is worthy of commendation. She has also recently finished three very good studies in hililife. Mrs. Higginson does crayon aud charcoal work aiso, Dbut excels in beech woods, October scenes and kmdred subjects. She also does some excellent work in marine painting. Of the work of her pu- pils there are but few specimens remaining n her swudio, although she has a class of forty ladies. Of that seen, an Autumun Land- scape, by Miss Helen Smith, deserves espe- Lo cial mention. Mrs. D, L. Thomas is finish- ing a very creditable marine scene, Miss C; Broadt who, in addition to teaching o large number of pupils at her studio, ulso instructs the art class at Brown cllhall, has just completed w number of * lundscapes of flower pieces in water colors and also several portraits wm criyon, She was busy with o class when visited yester- day und only a momentary glimpso of her studio and the works of hersclf and pupils upen the walls and easels was obtained, 'his, however, was suficient to convince an educated eye that both Miss Broaat and her pupils are capable of doing excellent work, Miss Broadt does not confine herself to water colors and crayons, but also works finisbed in oils and charcoal, The studio of Mrs. F. B. Mumaugh was next visited, Mrs. Mumaugh has doue but little work herself recently, but has been devoting her time principally "to her pupils, and only one of her paintings, a very pretty study in still life, was seen. Among the works of pupils exbibited was a snow scene, by Miss Lulu Warcen; a flower girl by Miss Maude Lantry; u study in sheep, by Miss Nellie Coots; a panel figure, by Mrs. Wright a landscape, by Mrs. French, and a water color pastelle, by Miss Pinney, a young laay from Idaha, who is bere studying. These are all very good, indeed, aud reflect great credit upon ‘Mrs. Mumaugi. Miss Butterfield and Miss Pettis arc asso- clated in teaching art, Miss Butterfield giv- iug instructions in_ china decoration, priue: pally, while Miss Pettis teaches painting in oil and water colors and crayou sketching, Miss Butterfield hus acquired an enviable reputation in Omaha for her work on china, and particularly is this true of her imitations of royal Worcester. Her studio is orna- mented with many beautiful results of her work. Miss Butterfield also does some work in 0ils and crayon. Miss Pettis is a conscientious and serupu- lous artist and her work is always accurate, Sho has recently completed crayon portraits and sketches in oils and water colors. fi‘fl:u_t:firihur &maluull:)nu sro s study of s il N water colors and a portrait o Mra. Driscoll in crayon, w B The eyes are the windows of the soul, but most of us have pains elsewhere, THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. Bears Pounding Wheat With In- creasing Courage. CORN TRADE FAIRLY ACTIVE Oats Ruling Nearly Steady—Provis- fons Governed by a More Posi- tive Underourrent of Strength -Cattle, CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET, CnicaGo, Tur Bee, | pecial Telogram t0 here was 43{c break in wheat to-day, and only a shight recovery from tho inside pr. cs. Tho bears have been pound ket with increasing courage for Yesterday they thought they met with small resistence, and this morning when they put the pressure on, the ‘‘peg’ snapped. Some have it that the peg had been pulled out, and the market left by the bull leaders without support. There is a decided distinction between smashing the peg and having the peg voluntarily pulled out. The best observers in tho pit have been insisting Fight along that the big lines of wheat have been steadfly reducing, and that the supposed concentration qf wheat for accourt of the Fairbank party has ceased to be a reality, in other words, that the leaders have been selling out, and that they now have compara- tively little interest in the market. Thus be- lieving, the bears went at wheat hammer and_tongs. The opening was weak around #1.07 for Ma, For half an hour the price hung between £1.06% and $1.071¢, and then it took a plunge to $1.051 rade was not 80 very heavy on this sharp break, but the bears kept whacking away and the stream of long wheat erew largc 1t came out on open stop loss orders and in ¢ other way. The market recovered to 81.0: settled to £1,0334, rallicd again to $1.05%, and a few moments before 12 o'clock started on the down track once more. At 12 o'clock sharp the price was $1.05, and a minute after- wards it touched $1L043. A spasm jumped the quotation to §1.0s%. The next decline was 1o $1.041. A #¢ rally occurred 1 the price then slipped down to $1.03. his proved to be the bottom. It was 41j¢ below the top price of the early morning and 434¢ unds erda lose The last quota. tion was $1.031;. There wasa heavy trade in July today within a range of 3c. The openimg was around 933@315¢. On the hrst bri the price went to 91icc, and on the second break it went from $2lcc to 03 c. The close O1'e. With regard to the re- ports that Fairbank has sold out his wheat, that gentleman informed the writer at the close of the session to-day that he not only had not parted with his wheat, but that he had bought wheat to-aay, and that at the present moment is actually long larger line than he has been at any time during the campaign. In_connection with this it is not out of place to mention the general belief that Fairbank is getting a new set of brokers and that the tremendous sell- ing by concerns that have been representing him was of the concerted move to_en- able this operator to repl his wheat through other brokers at an advan s 18 mentioned as a piece of floor go at it is worth, The foreign markets . but the Ame markets were crally weak, Dualuth especially so. thwest sent bullish news and heavy sell- ingg ords "The weakness in wheat tended perhaps more thun anything else to cause a halt in the previous upward tendency of corn, and induced some heavy selling of May around e, The trading was fairly active and con- siderable lines changed hands early in the se ion, but the neighboring wheat pit bo absorbing in_its interest later in off the crowd of local te was a firm undertone ed principally by the good shivping nd, but at the end of the duy the prices showed u_decline since the corresponding time yesterday of about ke Oats withstood the general weakness of the other cereals, ruling nearly steady. This was not so much because of any special sup- port derived from buying as through absence of the desire to trade, the speculytive market ruling slow und dull 0 }c lower. May sold at the previous range of 27l @27ic, and there were some efforts to change into i The receipts were a moderate buymg of No. 2 10 go to store at ¢ or about 1{c lower The provision trade was governed by a more positive undercurrent of strength. The stock exhibits, esnecially of pork be- ing somewhat under expeetations,the bear ele- t found it convemientto act conserya- tively. While the demand on cash and in- vestment account was comparatively fair the business actually transacted was only mod- crate. Yet prices averaged, and as a rule closed higher than yesterday. In pork the da, ad Tigeand in se. Short ribs closed unchanged to higher. too v and drew me the specu CHICAGO LIVE STOCK Cmicaco, March 2.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bek.|—CaTriE—Recoipts 2,000, mar- Iret steady; natives, $2.90@4.75; stockers, $230@3.00; cows, bulls and mixed, $1.40@ 3.1 Hoes—The demand centered on packers and shippers, both grades solling o shade higher at $4.45@ 450, aguinst $4.40@@4.45 yes- terday; light sorts dull, neglected und lower, the 150 to 1901b averages closing at F4.45004.50, FINANCIAL. Nrw Youk, March 2.—[Special Telegram to Tup Bee. | —Srocks—London prices were firm this morning and cables brought liberal buying orders. This started our market off firm, first prices showing gams of },@¥( per cent. Later Manhattan Elevated and Louis- ville & Nashville were 34 higher. The state- ment of this company, showing an inc in earnings for Junuary of 144,000 indu. large foreign buying, St. Paul was quite firm throughout the session, bat the fluctu tions were confined within & narrow range. January statement of the company shows a net increase of 300,000 over t year. It is sid that the Manhattan elevated company will issue bonds for the payment of the jn dg- ments and return to 6 per cent dividends, yaying 4 per cont in cash and 2 per cent in cerip annually. An encouragig feature to the bulls is the broaening tendency of the zarket in heretofore inuctive shares, Wes- tern and Granzer stocks, however, lag. The reports of fresh rate cuiting in the north west keeps the would-be investors out of these securities, Union Pacific continues to- be the favorite, and the bulis are confident it will cross 75 before the 1st of July. Phila- delphia continues to buy the Villard group. The last prices were about the best of the day, and the undertone was quite firm, May ruled easy at 2 per cent. ‘The total sales for the day amounted to 97,000 shares, including St. Paul, 10,000; Western Union, 6,500; Ore- gon ‘Transcontineatal, 4,000; Louisville & Nashville, 9,000; New England, 2,500; Erie, 4,000; Union Pacifie, 3,500, and Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy, 2,500, The following were the closing quotations : U.8. 48 regalar...)27% Northern Pacifl UlS dscoupons. I8N | dopreforr US. 07% C. & N, W U84 Ao preferred, N. Y. Central a0 & Alton .. 1 Chicago, Burlington & Qulticy 101 L& . D. L. o 1ilnois Central; dopreferred. . B & W, . 11% UnionPacific. . Kunsas & Toxas .. 135 W, 8t L. &P LakeShore. . 104%| do preterred. Michigan Centrai.. Bil{|Western Union. MissouriPacific ... T2l Moxgy oN CarLrL—Easy, at 13(@2 per cent. PriMe MERCANTILE PAPER—4 @0 par cent, SrewiaNe Excuaxoe—Dull, steady and changed; sixty-day bills, $4.50; demand, 885 e e PRODUOK MARKE S, Cuicago, March 2 —Wheat —Weak and lower; 1,093, Corn—Stade firm i, May, 85%e. Oats—Steady; cash, '5c; May, 27 810c. cash, 821,05 April, Rye—43 Barley—Nothing doitig, Prime Timothy —$1.45 Flax—§1.48, Whisky—$1.03, = - Pork--Shade firnfery€cash, $11.20; May, $11.87! Lard—Steady; cash, $,7214; May, . Flour—Steady: winter wheat, $§2.50@ ? spring wheat, $155@1.65: rye, §2.75(@ 3.1 Bulk Meats — Shoulders, £5.2 short clear, $0.12}@6,25; short rib @5.95. Butter. 14@24c. Cheese. 105g@11¢ teady s chedtrier, Stoady; full cream cheddars, flats, 103/@llc; Young Americas, 19@280; dairy, frosh, 13@14c. < heavy green salted, 53 light green salted, 5ig(hi,c; green, (@i ige salted bull, 41g(r41¢o; green bull, 8je: green saltod calf, bige; dry flint, Tig@se; green galted Kip, dei dry “calf, Tasc; dry salted hidos, Tallow—Steady; No. 1, solia packed, 4}, @ 43{c; No. 2, dci cake, Shipments. Flour, bbls, 000 Wheat bu Corn, bu 4,400; exports none: spot, dull, nominally 1i4¢ lower with optlons; No. 2 red, 96140 ¢ in elevator, Ov@Wie afloat, Vi@ f.0.b.; No.3 red, (2L, 3¢ options more active but heavy and lower, and closed 114@ 1}g¢ lower than y 5 March, O6ige. Corn—Receipts, £5,000; exports, 1¢2,000; spot quiet and easi 0. 2 43%(¢ in ele- vator, 445¢(@blic afloat; No. 2 white, 4615 (@d7e; ungraded mixed, 4l@@dde: steamer mixed 421, (0431503 options fairly active but h@lie lower, closing weak. Oats—Receipts, 19,000: exports, 1,000 spot_dull and unchanged; Mareh, 80%¢ April, 8137c: May, 33%@34i¢c; spot No. 2, white, 8215 (@33e; options quict but ste Coffec—Options opened steady; ¢ stendy at 15@2ipoints up: - sales, 0 + March, $16.55@16.60: April, $10.55@ £10.550016. ot Rio, firm; fair cargoes, $18.50. Petrolenm — Firm but quiet; Umted, closed at 921¢c, Eggs—Weak; western, 133141, Pork—Active; new, $13 Lard—Dull but steady; western steam, £1.1234. Butter—Steady; western, 13 30c, ecse—In moderate demand; western, Mgatilge. Liverpool, March 2.—{Special Cablegram to Tie BEE 00 p. m. close.—\Wheat— Jash, quict and in limited aemand; Califor nia club wheat, 78 93.d; No, 2 red winter, 7s Sd3 do spring, 8s; futures, wheat dull and in poor demand. Corn—Steady and in moderate demand; American mixed corn, 45 11gc. lour—Minneapolis first bakers, 23 3d. Futures—Wheat duil and 4 poor demand m and in poor demand ; bacon steady lard quiet; cheese steady; lard futures quict] small business. St. Lo cash, 4¢3 ) Corn—Lower Oats—Steady March 2.—Wheat —Lower: is, Mareh 2. — Whea t—Ea: May, 431 -t'irm; No. 3. 31 _iirm; No. 2 white, nll: No. & a4l 1kee, y—Dull: No. 2, Provisions Kansas City, March 2 —Wh No. 2red, 23g¢ askad; May, No. 2 sofi, ¢ ¢ asked; May, 2 cash, 1o bids nor 3" No. 2 of- white, no bids ferings: nor offering TR Oats—No bids not; offerings. Minneapolis, Manch 2.—Wheat—Sample wheat unsettled and lower; cars; shipments, 63" ed Closing: hard, March, 81.13; May, $L17; §1.130 No. 1 northerny -darch, $1. $1 043{; on track, €.04; No. 2 northern, March,'92c; May, 93¢; on track, Cincinnati, March 2.—Whcat—Quict and lower; No. 2 red, 95c. Corn—Stronger; No. 2, mixed, 33c. Outs—Neglected; No. 2 mixed, 23}¢@2e. Whisky—Steady at $1.03. LIVE ST Cnicaco, March 14,000: mariet market steady 'n $4.60(4.90. natives, .354.50 National Stock Yards, Enast Louis, March 2.—Catue — Receipts, shipments, 100 heavy and nativ good., $3.0000 @3.00; rangers, corn-fed, # fod, 1,503, Hogs — Receipts, 2,200; shipments, market steady: chol selections, $4.35@4.55 light grades, £4.40(@4.60. Ka City. March 2.—Cattle—Re- ceipts, 1,3 shipments, 860; dressed beef and shipping steers closed weak, dull and a shade lower; good to choice, $3.90(04.25; common to medium, §2. stockers and feeding steers, steady, $1. 203 cows, slow and weak, $1.20@2.70. Hogs—Heceipts, 5,300; shipments, 903; market weak and 2/5@5e lower; common 10 choice #4.15@4. ioux City, March 2. St. 1,500; heavy and butchers’ packing, #.30@4.50; ttle—Receipts, 285; shipments, 125; steady and unchanged'; stockers, $2.00 @2.75; ors, $2.9) (3,50 feeders, ' $2.20@2.90; and fat cows, £1.50@2.60: cannors and bulls, $1.00@1.75. Hogs — Keceipts, 1,150; . market steady; light and mixed, #1342 heavy, $4.20 (@425, Wherever there is woney to be made quickly, eriminals may be expected ahead of wmissionurics, Solomon is said to have been wise. We should like to observe Solomon's expression atan “aficrooon tea,” mumic!” asked cher, after explaining that our first purents were made from the dust of the earth, *Henry ¢ Au ex-base-ball tosser has reformed and become an evangelist, This is the first case of the kind we have heard of and the data from which a conclusion can bo reached a5 1o how many yehrs 0f penitence are neces- sary 10 regenerute 4 base-bull crank, An exchange comments on the fact thau “A minister in westerh New York is suing one of his parishioners for failure to pay for two funeral sermens.” ‘The parishioner doubu is of the opiuion that one funeral sermon is enough v for uny a supertiuous luxury. A Muine minister pecently said that he once upon a tine received {rom an admiring female parishioner a present of a nicely-mude burial robe. The gith wus made in such evi- dent good faith and ignocence of any idea of impropriety that he reecived it with thauks and cheerfully lad 8’ by aguinst the need that must come, ¢ At u prayer meeting held recently in a Boston suburb a “‘browier” arose, and, after prasmg God' gu»dr_.olfi to him, concluded: “And finally I got'm Beébt, and ‘my debt in- stead of decreasing increased, and to-aay I owe §200. Yet God ‘bas kept me in perfect peace of mind.” How about the other fellow ! — A Reward For Sobriety, Hiram Barker, of Dover, N. H., willed his son #5,000 yearly until his death. 1If lie shall keep sober ten years he can draw $250,000 at the expiration of that period and & like amount on similar conditions at the end of each succeeding ten years. If he gets intox- cated once he loses all, The son will try to show that his father was insane; also that he was unduly influenced. e The modern cane has become so large and ponderous that many dudes wre uo longer able 1o carry oue, wan, and two : THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MARCH 3, 18‘9.—SIX;I’EEV PAGES. o o e e KT IN A ROTEL ROTONDA, A Fertile Field For the Student of Human Nature. THE UBIQUITOUS REPORTER. The Generals, Colonels and Judges Who Jostle Each Other—A Sen- sational Elopement and a Newspaper Item, A Night in a Hotel, For the student of human nature, es- pecially if he be of the night owl order, there is no more interesting place to pass a night than in a hotel rotunda. All sorts and conditions of men—at least that branch of the sorts and condi- tions which has baggage or is dble to liguidate in advance—jostle each othe elbow! The clerk behind the semi- cireular counter, resplendent with dia- monds and a gleaming expanse of shi front is the autocratand the nonchalant blase manner in which he furnishes any sort of information, from the quotations i ts 1o the value of the of the ds mar! prima dona’s dinmonds; never fails to command the admiration of the loungers. With what magnificent grace he strikes the gong and sends the bell boys skurrying along the corridors of the great structure! How like the grand seigneur he picks his goid-filled teeth and _ familiarly greets the “governors,” generals,”™ “colonels™ and profe who lounge into the room! Happy is he who knows the hotel clerk. It ) o'clock nd the lofty rotunda is a blaze of ele hght. Hundreds of footsteps clic ¢k, over the marble floor. Groups of fair women—presum- ably fa t least, since no description ever deals with the other sort—lean over the baleonies watehing the pano amie scene below. Over to one side a group of moustached and whiskered individuals in high-heeled boots and broad, white sombreros — gentlemen cowboys from Wyoming, not at all as- tonished at the glories of the metro- olitan hotel. They ail have their hands in their pockets, and chew huge cigars, all have their big hats tilted at the most unconventional angles, all wear as tho stamp of th nobility the unmistakable impress of “the ranche,” but all in some way impress the ob- server as being eminently qualified to ke care of themselv 1 all places and atall times, Gathered about the entrance to the hote e is another group. Some are in silk hats and broadeloth, and some are in furs, some are smooth-shaven and some need a shave, some « short, some are tally some fat and some lean. These are the politicians. They know everybody. shuke hands with cverybody, and, as a general rule, drink with éverybody Clustered around all the steam radia- tors with their feet several degrees higher than their heads,are the **drum- mers,” sending up to the stained glass dome above volumes of cigar smoke and oceastonally startling the room with the loud ha-ha of their laughter. Over near the main entrance, i way, is a group of countrymen ful subjects for the confidence men and card-sharps who occasionally loiter through the room. Thev arc “on the jury” and ave having a ~high old time” on ‘the county’s two dollars aday. Civ- culating through the throng by twos and threes and occupying the best seats, arrayed in the extreme of fashion, are igarctte-smoking young squibs whose ’s salary would scarcely pay for rd in the hotel. The entrance doors swing ceaselessly in and out; a steady stream of visitors flows up and down the broad steps and the clerk’s gong punctuates the shuflling and clacking of footsteps and the mon- otonous drone of voices. tr S0 the bustie goes on till near mid- night, with all its kaleidoscopic changes and an occasional mild excite- ment about train time. But now the crowd begins to thin out. The ranchmen go clanking into the bar and toss off their “‘night-caps™ of straight whisky, a *“judge,” a “gen- eral” and a *‘professor” follow these and open a bottle of pomery; the politi- sians drop off one by one; the drum- scatter, some 4o make a night of "’ some to bed, and at midnight the rotunda is comparatively deserted. The clerk goes to sléep in his casy chair and the porter goes 10 sleep on another, and nothing disturbs the silence but the impatient footsteps of the few guests who wait for the late trains. After a while the door swings partly open, and a gentleman insinuates him- self into the hall. The gentleman has evidently seen better days. His brown overcoat has a shiny surface, and is buttoned where there ave buttons and pinned-where there are none; Lis pants are bagged at the knees and short; his beard is long, and *‘weedy and long is he.” He glances at the sleeping clerk and porters, and sidles over to the most secluded settee in the rotun- da. “Better than the jug,” he mutters, as he stretches himsell out for the night. All quiet again to the door. A till a cab rattles up lady and gentleman enter, who register as Mr. —— and wife. They are shown to a voom, and the clerk and porters settle down in in their chairs. A half hour passes and o second cab rattles up—an old gentleman this time, robed in® furs, with fierce-looking beard and whis- kevs. He doesn’t regist but opens a whispered colloquy with the elerk, who pricks up his ears in evident an- tercst. Then the clerk springs an electrie call-box and sits down to wait, while the old gentleman snorts and blows up and down the floor li young locomotive. A counle of polic men come in at the ladies’ entrance, and simultaneously atthe front door enters a4 young man in a long checked” ulster. The checked ulste winks at the blue coats and the white shirt front and they all wink back. Then the old man and the policeman and the elerk hold a short secret session and the checked ulster, carelessiy inspecting the register, drinks it all In ufew minutes the porter and ong of the policemen go up stairs, while the old man, the checked ulster and the clerk awmt develop- ments, Meanwhile the other blue coat has been 1nvestigating and come across the gentleman on the secluded settee and pulled him to his feet, *‘Hello, professor! we've got a room reserved for you down below. Come on.” Then the developments came—first in the form of the porter, then the blue coat, and after them Mr. — and wife. At sight of these last the flerce looking old gentleman puffs up and sputters: “Out of my sight, you d—d scoundrel, and you, you young "hussy, come along with me. I'll teach you, ixcuse me,” interposes the young “scoundrel,” my wife will remain with me.” Your what?” yells the old gentle- man, “My wile, I said, but don’t our explanation should be m vate?” 8o thoy adjourn to the parlor above you think e in pri- while the young man in the uister, the clerk and the policemen chuckle to- gether in whispers, Soon the old gentleman comes back and, buttonholing the officers of the law and the clerk, informs them that he has made “‘a terrible mistake™ and requests as a special favor to an old man that the ill keep it from the “d-—d reporters Then they shake hands all round and theold gentleman is assigned a room while the checked ulster with another wink rushes out to supply from imagination for a morning paper the miseing details of “A Sensational Elope- ment.” All quiet: down again and the porter and clerk ceturn to their slumbers, Mysterious ugures come from some- where beneath the stairs and flood the floor with water; drunken *“‘rounders™ reel inand ask the clerk if he can’t wake up the bartendor to give them a drink; a policeman wanders in and warms his fingers at the radintors, and s0 the night wears away till the grey dawn creops in at the windows and the night in the rotunda is ended COUNCIL_BLUFFS OR MENTION, N. Y. Plumbing compar Coaland wood. Colonel Brewer his house Mond ng at lo'clock prepared to march up Broadway to the Third ward polling place. ck Tate was arrested for the lar- of an overcoat from Philip Booth, for whom he worked during the month of December. His case was continuved. L 619 Blway. ib will meet at Rasmussen Jepsen and Marin J. Thomas, both of Neola, and C. A. Cooley and Mattie Unongst, both of Couneil Blufls, were married yesterday by Squire Schu The Maennerchor masquerade will be given at Masonic tempie to-morrow cvening. The preparations have been quite extensive, and it will be quite an enjoyable aflair. Frank Jones and Maurice Kelley wero run in yesterday afternoon for lighting on Vine street. A half emptied bottle of whisky in Jones’ pocket explained the whole difficulty The remains of M died Wednesday o on West Broadway, of rheumatism of the heart, were forwarded last evening to Sterling, 11, for interrment, W. Currie, who was crushed under a box of plate glass last Tuesday after- noon, died of his injuries Friday even- ing. The funeral will take plice at 2 o'clock this afternoon. from his resi- J. . Over, who ring at her home dence on Second avenue. There is &« member in the firm of Kiel Dick 1 hotel proprictors. His name is Holst, jr. and he has shown a speei aptaess for hotel work, With a littlc more experience he will prove a des able acquisition. The Peckinpaugh-Leonard e submitted to the grand jury o'elock yesterd wfternoon, afto on trial five du It was stated t} would only r but it dragged week. se was wbout 4 being tit The case of State v burn was teied yesterday and the defendant dis- charged. Mo was charged with an wssault, but the evidence was lacking. he prosceuting witness desired 1o ve the defendant put under bonds to » the peace. The Catholic Knights of Americn give an entertainment and quadrille party at Armory hall Tuesday cvening. The tickets that have been issucd, state that a gentleman and lady will be ad- mitted on each ticket. Tt should be understood gentleman and ladies, asany numbcer of ladies will he admitted. A |:]lc ing programme has been ar- ed. S e The finest line of spring goods to be found in the maricet is at A. Reiter’s, 310 Broadw: —-— The Mueller Music company have laid in a new stock of pianos. They have nearly forty in stock, which indicates the magnitude of their business. -— Sermons and Services, Bethany Baptist church, corner of Bluff and Story streets; s at the ris, pastor. Baptist—Preaching by the | 30 0. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 12 m.; young peoples’ meeting, 6:30 p. m.; all’cordially welcomed. The Berean Baptist church returns 0 its former place & wo Squire’s addition on Pacific av nue, between I'ifth and Sixth avenues. Congregational — es to-day, ing and evening. In the morning acramentof the Lord’s Supper will dministered and new members re. d, Subject of thought, “God’s Ways.” Inthe evening the Rev. C. H. McIntosh will lecture on the work of the American Missionary association. All are cordially welcome. Rey. W. Barnes, the able ular Presbyterian pastor at Ta., will preach both morning nd pop- rning, nd even: ing at the Presb church. Sab- bath school av 12 o'clock. Young peo- ple’s m t 6:30 p. m. Strangers invited. Berean is Church—Morning e and Sunday school on Pacilic avenue in Squire’s addition. Evening service in Shubert’s block on Broadway and Twenty-fourth street. Broadway M. E. Church—Preaching at 10:30 4. ., by ev. A, Thornbone, of v, In. The eventng hour will be a0 to 4 temperance meeting under nuspices of the Good Templars, M. Dunn, Pittsburg, Pa., lec- Sunday school at 12 m.; class meetingat 6:30 p. m. The public cor- dially invited, Seivices at the Presbyterian-Har- mony mission to-day at 3o'clock, con- and otne dicted by Mr. I, L. Hayden. Sabbath school at 4 o'clock; prayer meeting Thursday evening: subject, Pralm 25, Every one cordially invited. Saint Paul’s Church—Divine service to-day at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p. . The 1. Rev. the Bishop of lowa will preach morning and cvening, All ave welcome, All Suints’ Chureh—This church will be consecrated to the public worship of God by the 1tt. Rev. the bishop of fowa at § o'clock. Strangers are wel- come, Ordination—Mr. 1. J, b= ordained deacon this morning in Suint Paul’s churen, at 10:30 a, m. by the Rev. William St s Perry D. D., bishop of To The bishop will preach morning and evenin H. Rudy will o Lt Phenomenal sale of Santa Rosa cigar in 1888, Sce ad. ———— YA Gold Mine” will_be produced at the Fifth avenue theater, New York, by Nat C. Goodwin, It will bé the initial production of the comedy, which is due to the cfforts of Brander Matthews and George H. Jessop. Only one scene will be used throughout the three acts of the play, but that scene, it is aid, will be sufticiently realistic to atorie for the ubsence of others, The action‘of tho Play twkes place in Fugland, and Silas i, ‘oolcott, of Califoria, the character poi raged by Mr. Goodwin, is the only Ameri- can inthe cust. The Misses ICate Forsyth und Tda Vernou, will be scen in the principal roles of the play. which Mr. Goodwin Lopes will turn out a profituble gold wive, WEEKLY BUSINESS REVIEW. The Demand For Money ls Quite Active. RATES STEADILY MAINTAINED. An Increased Demand From the Coune try Bankers for Fands — The Friends of Union Pacific Sanguine. A Review of the Week. Cricaco, Mareh 2. [Special Telegram to Tue: Bk | ~As usual, at the closing of the month the demand for money from operators on the board of trade and from miscellane- OUS SOUTCes was quite v ind the volume of paper discounted was larger than at any preceding week for some time past. - ‘The rates were steadily maintained at 5@ per cent for city Baper, and 7@s per cont for out- side loans, The feature of the week, n ad- dition to the improved local demand, was the increased call from the country bankers for funds. The near approach to spring also justities the prediction of an early improve- ment in the ealls for money from new enter- prises. Manufacturers will need funds with which to purchase raw materials, and mer- chants who have wooa credit at the banks, and who wish to avail themselvos of the dis- counts allowed customers, will borrow quite freely, as the cost of money is small come pared to the allowances made by mane ufacturers and jobbers to cash buvers of lurge bills. There are, however, no reas- ons for supposing that money will not re- main abundant and cheap, s thero is littla prospect that the channels’ for its employ= ment witl sufficiently broaden to absord the large volume ot funds available for loans. Collections are good for the season, and the general fecling i trado is healthy, Tne warket for New York exchange failed ord_any “improvement, demand e light, offers” limited, and rates low. he sales ranged at $1,009, and closed at Gic, Foreizn exchange remains in the same rut noted for several weeks past. There are few iils being made on cither flour, grain or pro- visions, henee the offerines were light and 1ge o t0e discount per sold at 3L8 L @L851 for sixty days’ docu- Inent bills on London, und closed at £4.8 g “The Jobbing trade in some articles shows fair activity for the scason. Dry goods nre being ordered with a trifle more freedom, sules of spring g0ods in - package lots rocei ing most attention. Groceries ana collatoral lines were ordered by the consuming trade quite f Hardware sold well and prices were fairly maintained on small articles. The course of stocks in New York wero erl yand with a few e ceptions, price chunges were small. Thera isa trisugolar fieht going on between Now York on the bull side and Chicago and Boston on the bear side. The last named parties, however, confine their operations to granger stocks. The success of cach was varied, but i the end the bulls came out slightly ahiead. They sold on every advance, and covered ou de- clines, “and keep thomsclves well in hand. Atchison, St. Paul and Union Cific were the most active of the Grangers., St. Paul's statement, given out late in the week, was regarded 'as being discouraging, the company having paid out duving 155 about 5,000,000 more than it carned. The friends of Union Pucific becoming convinced that the funding bill would not be passed at 0sSion of Congress, are now asse ting bttt to pay a dividend. s ative and o trade is pending with Oregon 'Transcontinental and Oregon Navigation for the sale of the for- mer’s holdings of the latter to the Union Pa- cific and others, and the of Orcgon ‘Franscontinental advan points. Man- nd advanced (3¢ points. London w n the leading facior on tha bear side. trusts came in for a larger share of attention, and advanced 3 points, vut failed to hold all the improvement. 'Tnhe coalers were attacked by th rs and Read- ing sold off s ly, but red part of the loss, The rest of the lis without important chauge, trading for the week wa 1,139,000 shares. While there was considerable interest manifested in the produce markets during the past weck, the volume of business tr cd was lighter thau during the pre was quict and e ageregatd lighter, veing two or three weeks, trading, us a rule, being limited to smaller quantitics. Fluctuntions in prices were confinea within a narrower range thun usual, There was some realizing by the longs and also rather free offerings by tieshorts, vet there was more conservativism shown among the operators, The local specalators transacted @ fair business, but the orders from outside partics were smaller than usual. The stocks of grain are grad- ually decréasing, corn being the only excep- tion. The movement of grain from first hands is improving slowly, as farmers are anxions to forward their spring work. The shipments from the grain centers are also cnlarging, and there is 4 good business being transacted on through rutes of freight from the west, . ‘The export movement is liberal of corn and hog products, but cowparatively light of flour and small grains. There is more money bel forwarded to the interior, which would indicate an increase in business in the near futu The stocks of flour and grain in for- eign countries are moderate, and of pro visions rather liberal. The advices from abroad were a little more favorable to hold- ers, yot the changes in prices wero unim- portant, During the week there was con- siderabio business transacted i the way of transferring contracts; Operators are ape parently more anxious to place them as much ahead as possible. Prices have in- clined in favor of buyers of grain, provisions and seeds. The receipts of live stock were quite liberal at all the principal western markets, ially are in better supply, and the packing of the west for the week shows fu:'l.ln!r an increase come- vared with the returns for the o ing week i ’\’vu!l a espond- 1588, The winter scason closes se in the packing of 550,000 to 000 hogs in number, but this will be al- most entircly offset by increused weight, e JUST A MINUT News of the Saiurday Evening Bes Boiled Down, ‘Total losses of the Chicago fire are over §200,000. A big riot is in progress at Youngstown, 0., in the quarries, Berry Wall has come in for another fors tune of §200,000. The Rache bill to aboli failed to pass the senute, A family of nine got lost in & swamp in ennesse ently and all were drowned. In the house Olmstead’s Australian wllot b bill was recommended to the committee of the whole, corge Siddons and erweights, fougit seves ven rounds to & draw near Bast Saginaw Priday, Prof. Billings’ enemies are moving on him in three forees, wll preparing bills Lo separate the industrial school from tne university. ‘The body servant of Amcrican Minister Thompson has been placed under arrest by the Legitime government in Huayti, General Harrison called on President Cleveland Saturday morning. The call was returned by Mrs, and Mrs. Cleveland in the afternoon, The \vuckli)' bank statement shows that the reserve has decreased $3,470,000, The bauks now hold §13,276,000 in cxcess of legal requircments. e A Question of Sqeezing. Drake’s Magazine: A woman of enig- matical age, who {ponu» s a dress re- former, says that “if u young mau were to squeeze a woman as hard as does her corset, she would have him arrested for assault with intent to kill.” What la- mentable ignorance! This “‘dress re- former” muy have anee upon a time felt the close, fervent clusp of a corset, but she certainly has had no experieuce with the arms of — But, to slightly change the subject, doesn’t she know that girls wear tight corsets o show the young men how much squcezs ing they can stand without yelling for the police. h the death penalty go Lavine, feath. ———