BEARS AND BEAR HUNTERS.
TheUreat Swamps near LackavraxeD, Pa.,
v hero the Black Bear Feeds on Wild
liouey and Pigt-Hon' lie is Hunted and
Trapped.
In the extensive swamps of Wayne
and Pike counties, Pa., and Sullivan and
Delawaie, N. I., the black bear, even at
this late day, roams and rears its young
in a security almost as undisturbed as it
did a centurv asro. and finds in the out
lying areas of beech and oak forests as
ample supply of food. The hunting and .
trapping of these animals furnishes both
pleasure and profit to many of the back-,
woods inhabitants, hundreds being captured
every year. Their skins and meat;
command ready sale. The skins bring
. from 315 to S25, and the meat sells for ;
twenty cents a pound. The hunter i
realizes from $60 to $80 on a full-grown
bear. The principal bear hunters in the !
Pike county region are the Shaffers and
Q.licks. They live in the depths of the
woods, seventeen miles from this place.
Pinchot Swamp, Balsam Swamp, Indian
Swamp, Maple Swamp, and Hemlock
Swamp are great bear haunts. Jonas j
Shaffer, the youngest member of the i
former family, was at Lackawaxen, Pa., ;
a few days ago after some supplies, and
a .New lork iSim correspondent gleaned j
some interesting particulars from him
in regard to bears and their habits. He
said :
"Nex' to a bee tree, a bear likes to run
foul of ayaller-jacket or a hornet workin' I
in the woods. He'll prance 'round till
he finds the hole the yaller bee goes
into, 'r the hornet's nest on a tree 'r
stuck fas' to a rock. Then they's fun.
In about three jerks a bear'11 turn a yal- j
ler-jacket'8 nest wrong side out. Two 'r
three digs with his paw unkivers't. The !
little yaller reptiles fight like fury, and
sometimes kiver the beaj till he looks
's if he had mustard spread all over him.
But the bear shets his eyes an' kind o'
grins, an' licks the honey out's clean's i
yer old woman'd wash a platter. An' !
all the time he smacks his chops an'
don't pay any more 'tention to the bees j
th'n if the? was so many straws a-ticklin':
of him. I shot a big bear onct which
was goin' through a yaller-jacket's nest1
over nigh Injin swamp, 'n' killed him
dead. If I'd only wooded him, an' he'd
a showed fight, I'd a tackled him, o'
course. But there he laid dead, and if |
them little scamps didn't scare me out; 1
an' I was 'fraid to go an' skin my dead j
bear 'till they made up their minds to ! i
quit an' dig out.
" But it's more fun to see a bear git at
a hornets' nest. One o' these '11 be's
big '8 a half bushel sometimes, an' 'r
gen'rly stuck into a rock 'r in a tree mos' i i
always o' reach o' everything. But when j
a bear claps his eye on a hornets' nest i
you see a smart critter. If it's on the 1
rocks, he climbs up till he stands on the i
edge o' the ledge above it. Then he
kicks big stones 'n pieces o' wood down <
at it till one hits it, an' off it goes, fol- '
lowed by a million or so o' the maddest ;
hornets't ever got on their ear. Mebbe : i
you don't know't, but a mad hornet ain't ; i
a takin' a back seat for anything that i
prowls the woods. When one o' their ]
nests is kerflummixed like this, they '1
seemed to know who done it, an' tney j i
wait for the bear to come on. He ain't 11
long a comin'. Then the hornets go for <
him ; but he don't care. Sometimes ]
hell get up on his hind legs and square : i
off at the hornet's with his paws an' <
strike out as if he were boxin'. All the ! <
time they's a goin' on his face, and he j
keeps his eyes shet. Often hell lay
down an' roll on the nest, 's if he wanted
to tease the hornets more ; an' I seen a , 1
big she bear onct take up a nest she had I
stoned down, put it under one o' her < ,
arms, and prance off with it's if't was a '
good joke on the hornets. One mad
hornet I guess could kill the biggest ox i
't ever stood, but a hull nest of 'em never <
raised a lump's big's a buckshot oca <
bear. When a hornets' nest's in a tree,
an' the bear can't reach it with his paws ]
. 'r a long stick, he'll git up on the limb ! i
and dance on it till the nest comes down.
" But bee trees is the faveryte prov- ((
ender of a bear. The best bee hunter j j
't ever burnt honey can't line a bee tree ]
any certainer than a bear, 'n when a bear >
gits scent o' one he don't give't up till ,
he finds it. Then up the tree he goes, j
givin' 't a whack ev'ry now an' then to |
find out where the holler place is. When ,
he comes to it he cuts a lidle with his
shah) claws' an' 'taint long 'fore he's a .
luncliin' ?. n wild honey.
According to Jonas Shaffer a bear will j 3
often lead the hunters a chase of twenty
miles through the swamps, and they <
have been known to keep on for fifty ]
or sixty miles before being brought to *
bay. j <
Jonas explained the manner in which i J
bears are trapped. Ed. Quick is the j (
most successful bear trapper in the State. 1
He builds a pen where he finds signs of j 1
bear, closed on three sides, and in it I
places his traps. These traps are like a
steel rat trap, only many times larger, j
the jaws being armed with long, eliarp
teeth. When the trapper sets it he j i
covers it up with moss, except on the I 1
broad pan. Meat or honey is placed in ' i
the pen, in such position that to get at 1 I
it the bear must step with one of his feet I i
on the pan of the trap. Instantly it is i
sprung, and the ponderous jaws come <
together, the teeth sinking deep into the <
bones and flesh of the poor animal. To ]
the trap a strong chain is attached. A <
good-sized tree is felled ; the branches ' <
are cut off to within a foot or so of the <
trunk, leaving that much of them pro- j (
jecting. To this tree the other end of i
the chain is fastened. When the bea" <
finds himself in the trap, he starts off ; -1
with it, dragging the fallen tree with 1
him. The stubs of the several branches I <
plow into the ground, and so harass j i
the progress of the bear that he soon , (
exhausts himself and becomes an easjy 1
prey to the trapper when he makes his j
rounds. Frequently the bear will work <
at his paw or leg until he severs it, leaving
his foot in the trap and escaping on <
three legs. Now and then it happens j
that these crippled bears are caught i
again in some trap. Only last winter <
EJ. Quick caught one with but three 1
feet. It was a ponderous one, and re- ]
^ quired the skill of three men to con- i
quer it. i
41 Ouct Ed went to one o' his traps," i
said Shaffer, "over nigh Balsam swamp.
It was gone. Ed tracked it 'bout a mile,
when it went up a tree. Fifty feet up
v. as a big crotch. From one side o' this ,
hung the big saplin' the trap'd been
chained to.. On t'other side dangled the |
trap, with the paw of a bear in it. You ,
kin 'magine th' animal must 'a been an 1,
old settler t' climb fifty feet up that tree
an' drag a trap an' a log weighin' mebbe ,
two hundred pounds along with him. j
That bear know'd what he was doin' ,
they ain't no doubt. He d'liber'tly clim ,
that tree, got the chain all right in the ,
crotch, an' then thro wed hisself down,
kuowin' his weight'd break hisself loose
from the trap. They'm cnnnin' cusses,
these l>ears is. Mos' gener'ly it takes ;
the tuck out 'n 'em, though, to git!
ketched in a trap. They seem to ?feel
shamed o' tlieirselfs, and shets their i
eyes v heu you look at 'em, and turn I
'way their heads's if they felt ter'ble
Hnaakin'."
Hbaflfer says that the prevalent idea <
that a bear is not possessed of speed is
a mistaken one. "No one wants to
come foolin' 'round these woods after
bear, thinkin' 't they can't run," he says.
"A bear that wan ts to kin kiver more
ground in a short space o' time th'n
you've any idee of. 'Taint likely't one
'11 ever chase you, but if one should,
don't try to outrun him. He kin put
musio in them four thick legs o' his'n 'n
you don't want to forgit't!"
Perils of Horse-Taming.
A San Francisco paper narrates the '
following exciting incident which took i
place recently in that city during an ex- |
hibition of horse-tamiug given by a Pro- j
fessor Tapp : The horse stood near the !
centre of the inclosed circle and the j
professor about midway between him |
and the inclosing high barricade, the
horse perfectly subdued under the eye
of the commander. Some person on a
seat in the rear of Tapp asked him a
question, and for one instant Tapp re/v*,/*
liolf fnrrwvl Ill's head '
JJWICU AXIO CJ C OUU null ?
to answer. In that instant the crafty
brute sprang upon him like a tiger. j
There was a yell of horror from the '
spectators as the horse caught the man
up by the clothes at the small of his i
back, shook him as a terrier does a rat,
and flung him through the air against
the inclosing planking. Before Tapp !
could regain his feet the ferocious monster
was again upon him, seizing him
with his teeth by the left shoulder and
endeavoring to kneel down upon him.
This the cross-hobble prevented him
from doing, and the cool professor, with
liis shoulder still in the -grip of the
monster'8 jaws, struggled to his feet and
with his right hand 60 held the bit as to j
prevent as far as possible the successful;
working of the horse's jaws. The crowd
was intensely excited. Mr. Wooden
seized a long pole and poked it between
tiie halter and the horse s tower juw, uuu ;
still further retarded the biting. The i
friends of Tapp called for a gun, but there ,
was no gun, and what is remarkable in a >
collection of 200 Californians, no one I
had a revolver, or the murderous brute :
would have been shot dead instantly.
The horse and Tapp continued fighting
half way around the ring, Wooden on
the seats outside still hampering the former's
efforts with the pole. The
spectators on the front seats also did all
they could to distract the man-eater's
attention, one lady seizing the crutch of
a man sitting next her and beating the
horse over the head with it. By the aid ;
of these distractions Tapp was enabled
by degrees to draw his arm through the ]
horse's jaws, the horse chewing it as it
slipped away from him until finally it
was entirely withdrawn. The crowd
shouted to Tapp to jump for his life, but
the plucky trainer called for his whip,
and with his mangled left arm dangling
by his side, so tickled the fetlocks of
Oogniac that that enterprising animal
was again what Tapp fondly calls subjection.
Last evening the tiainer was
in the stable office with a friend pouring
an odorous liniment over his bandaged
arm, and the man-eater, with all his evil
passions inflamed with the taste of blood,
was romping around his prison and
eagerly reaching up for a mouthful of
any timid spectator that ventured near
enough to look down at him. The people
will continue to look forward with
interest tn the solution of the Droblem
[>f whether Tapp will tame the mansater
or the man-eater tame Tapp.
Words of Wisdom.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe
unless it is mixed with a little adversity.
To be really and truly independent, is
X) support ourselves by our own exertions.
Success has a great tendency to conceal
and throw a veil over the deeds of
men.
He who boasts that his heart has remained
whole, confesses that he has only
i prosaic, out-of-the-way-corner heart.
Thousands of good people never half
snjoy even enjoyable homes, because
they are always looking ahead, and never
learn the beauty and the value of to-day.
They go through life expecting enjoyment
by and by, but without the art to
take it as it comes. They learn too late
that they passed happiness on the road
sritliout recognizing lier.
The same earth produces health-bear- i
tng and deadly plants?and ofttimes the j
rose grows nearest to the nettle.
The safety and progress of humanity
lepends upon each man's filling his appointed
place?no matter how humble it
jeems?well. We are all workers?each
jlasa is dependent upon the other. The
rude fisherman of the Northern sea, as a j
jpreat Euglish writer has finely said, col-(
lects the oil which fills the scholar's
lamp in the luxurious capital three1
thousand miles away.
Run Down on the Mississippi.
James Crowley, his wife and baby,
ind a son fifteen years old, Ephraim
Weaver, and a widowed sister, named
Susan Smith, and her baby, left Hamil
THE REALM OF TRUMPERY.
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! Where Toy*, Mock Jewelry, nuil Novell!?* j
i Come From? Atnericnu Ingenuity.
I A New York Times reporter recently
| visited fin importing firm in that city, j
' where the trrent floors were packed full
with an infinite variety of toys, mock i
jewelry, Ac.?quite $1,500,000 worth in j
I all. " Where do all our goods come ,
! from ?" said one of the firm, iu answer
I to an inquiry from the inquisitive scribe;
"why from all over the world. The
higher class of toys, fancy work-boxes,
writing-desks, and inlaid goods come
from Nuremberg. Cheap toys, penny
whistles, monkeys on sticks, jnmpingjacks,
cheap sets of furniture, dolls and
marbles, &e., are made in the mountainous
districts of Saxony. Formerly these
too came from Nuremberg, but now their
manufacture has been forced out to the
country where the cost of living is at
the lowest point, and consequently the .
price of labor is smallest. The cheapest.
sorts of china and glass ornaments and
toys also come from there, but the best,
iuclading handsome vases, figure pieces,
glass jewelry, cameos, and things of that
sort, we get from Bohemia, mostly about
Gablonz. They send from there great,
quantities of imitation sapphires, garnets, i
topazes, and other bogus gems, that I
would almost deceive the very elect, so 1
long as the elect are not lapidaries, j
which are sold here for about $12 per j
gross, and a big business is now done i
here in setting these false stones. That I
work is done here better and more taste-,
fully than in any other country, except,;
perhaps, Franco, and the extent to
which Yankee ingenuity has supplanted
hand labor by machinery enables us to
compete in price in much of the mock
jewelry trade with even the poorest paid :
of the artisans of France. You would :
be horrified, no doubt, by the by, to ;
know how little people do earn over j
there, especially in Saxony and Bohemia, i
Many of them, adults and skillful '
workers, do not earn more than five or j
ten cents per diem ; but they all work, i
even the little children. No one who j
has eyes to see and fingers to toil, can !
be spared. Thev do not eat meat, and
live almost entirely on coarse bread and
beer. A merchant or employer will
supply to a family a model, say for such !
a pair of dice sleeve-buttons as you j
showed me and the requisite material.
? J.i 1. ? I
l'ney CUVltie up me wurp. iuuwi^ Micm- |
selves, so that every one of them has I
something to do in it?whatever he or I
she can do best. So they manage to turn
out a great deal, but they get very little
for it.
" But to return to our Rources of supply.
Those real tortoise-shell goods
come from Furth and Nuremberg, the
pearl?or, to speak more correctly, the
mother-of-pearl?goods from Vienna.
They are the most expensive of this
class of stuff, excepting the inlaid
enamel sets and pieces of jewelry made
in France, some of which range one
third higher. The system of manufac-j
ture in France is different from that al- j
ready described. Instead of giving the j
work out to families, the French do it in ;
factories?small ones outside of Paris, j
big ones in Paris. From the French i
come the most novel, original, and j
charming of all the designs in this cheap i
jewelry. They put just as much skill j
and taste upon this enameled bit of
brass, an imitation of a piece of Pompeiian
jewelry, as they would if it were
real gold and diamonds. In this respect
the United States alone approaches
them. There are, indeed, certain specialties,
such as ladies' chains, sets, and
certain other metal workings for personal
adornment, and perhaps a little use, in
which we really excell France. The socailed
' Scotch wood' works comes from
England; the harmonicas from Austria
maiDly, some also from Saxony ; aocordeons
from Saxony ; jewsharps from
Austra ; fine china dolls from France ;
wax dolis, worsted dolls, and rag dolls 1
from Saxony ; india rubber dolls from |
the United States. By the way, we ;
make in Connecticut now almost all the j
mechanical toys, those which move by
clock-work. And we make tops of in- '
finite variety in this country so cheap !
and good as to defy foreign competi- I
tion. The lot of vegetable ivory stuff'
comes from England ; those crystal j
beads from France and Italy. There i
is a range of stuff comprising an infinity j
of things all from Japan and China. |
Some of the inlaid cabinets are exquisite j
pieces of work, and when you talk about i
prices of labor, what do you suppose the j
"> nnf fnnrptlipr flip thoTlSSnds I
lilCU WiiV/ puv ? T
of minute bits that go tofmake up a cabinet
like that which is sold here for $15 ?
I've never been there, but I've no doubt
one of them would feel himself on the
high road to a princely fortune if he got
five cents a day."
Snoring,
Dr. John Wyeth is entitled to the
gratitude of all who are afflicted with the
habit of snoring for the simple device he
has contrived to counteract the tendency.
The apparatus is described by him in the
Popular Science Monthly, and an explanation
is at the sanm time given of
the cause of snoring. In the act of
breathing, the air inav travel to and from
the lungs through the channels of the
mouth or nose. Both channels unite in
a common cavity just below the soft
palate, which is attached by one end to
the hard palate or bone forming the roof
of the mouth and the floor of the nose.
The other end of the soft palate hangs
loose, and is moved by the currents of
air passing in and out of the lungs as a
window-curtain is flapped by the breeze.
If the air passes through the nose alone,
the end of the palate is pressed gently j
down upon the tongue so as to lessen the j
movement or vibration, and no sound is
heard. But if the month as well as the
nose be open, so that two currents of air
pass in and out together dnring the act
of breathing, the soft palate is thrown ,
into rapid and sonorous vibration, and j
what we call snoring is the result. It j
follows that the remedy for snoring is to i
keep the mouth shut,"and admit the air !
to the lungs only through the channel of
the nose. This can be affected by means
of a simple cap fitting the head snugly,
and united by an elastic band, near the
ear on each side to a cap of soft material
fitting the chin.
Walking to Some Purpose.
Michael Hines of Lackawaxen, Pa.,
lias been in the employ of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company since its
organization. For the past twenty-five
year* he has been patrolman, his busi-1
nees being to walk up and down the tow !
path, to see that no break or slide occurs.
Duiing eight months of each year, for
the twenty-five years, he has walked his
rounds, twenty miles a day, never missing
a single day, not even Sundays.
This is an aggregate of 120,000 miles'
travel in the twenty-five years. Mr.
Hines has just closed his labors with the
company, owing to his advanced years,
and will return to Ireland, the home of
his youth, He will take $16,000, his
savings,
;on, 111., for the purpose of immigrat-1
lig Southward. They embarked in two j
[ride skiffs and a small flatbcat, which i
jontained their small store of worldly !
jffects. They had proceeded down the '
Mississippi until they reached a poiut
opposite Quarantine Station, floating
lown midstream, when they discovered
?omiug toward them the steamboat
Crand Duke with barges in tow. The !
men had lights displayed on their frail i
;raft and hallooed at the top of their J
roices, but the steamboat paid no attention
to the warning apd bore down upon ,
the boats, capsizing all three and hurl- i
Ing the occupants into the river. James i
Crowley passed under the steamboat aud '
sras struck by the wheel. and badly injured,
but was luckily thrown against a 1
?aps zed skiff, upon which he clambered.
Weaver also managed to reach one of the
overturned boats and to rescue his sis- :
ter, but her baby, together with Mrs.
Crowley aud her baby and a fifteen-yearold
son, were drowned. They charge
the officers of the steamboat with heart-1
less condnct in paying no attention to
their warning cries, and in refusing to j
aid in rescuing them from the water.
Making Jewelry from Sour Milk.
A new industry has been started in
Mansfield, Mass. It is no less than the
manufacture of jewelry out of sour
milk. This seems a strange anomaly,
but it is a fact. The milk oomes in the .
shape of curd from butter aud cheese- i
making counties in New York, and looks
upon its arrival a great deal like popped
corn ; but before it leaves their j
shop it undergoes a wonderful change,
and receives the name of American!
coral. The secret in making it up is (
carefully guarded, but it is certaiii that!
it has ta l>e heated very hot, during
which ooloring matter is introduced,
followed by a very heavy pressure, j
Smieof it is colored black and called1
jet, while some appears as celluloid. It
makes very han isome jewelry, and is
made into all kinds aud styles known iu '
the trader.
Florida's everglades are full of wild .
bears and raccoons.
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Farragnt at Ten Years of Age.
! Admiral Farragnt and his family were
spending the summer at the Branch, and
while sitting on the portico of the hotel
he said: " Would you like to know
how I was enabled to servo my country ?
It was ail owing to a resolution I had
formed when I was ten years of age.
r '-1'? ?? Von.- Orlpnns with
aUY miner >vuo ociit iv j.iv ?? v-,
the little navy we had, to look after the
treason of Burr. I accompanied him as j
cabin boy. I had some qualities that I !
thought made a man of me. I could j
swear like an old salt; could drink a stiff '
glass of grog as if I had doubled Cape
Horn, anil could smoke like a locomotive. ,
I was great at cards, and was fond of
gambling in every shape. At the close
of dinner one day, my father turned
everybody out of the cabin, locked the !
door, and said to me, ' David, what do
yon mean to be?' 'I mean to follow
the sea.' ' Follow the sea I Yes, be a '
poor, miserable, drunken sailor before !
the mast, kicked and cuffed about the I
world, and die in some fever hospital in ;
a foreign clime.' 'No,' I said, 'I'll
tread the quarter-deck and command as
you do.' No, David; no boy ever trod
the quarter deck with such principles as
you have and such habits as you exhibit. !
You'll have to change your whole course
of life if you ever become a man.' My j
father left me and went on deck. I was |
stunned by the rebuke and overwhelmed
with mortification. ' A poor, miserable,
drunken sailor before the mast, kicked
and cuffed about the world and to die in j
some fever hospital! Tnat's my fate, is
it I I'll change my life and change it at,
once. I will never utter another oath, !
never drink another drop of intoxicating ;
liquors, never gamble.' And as God is i
my witness I have kept these three vows
to this hour. Shortly after I became a
Christian. That act settled my temporal
as it settled my moral destiny."? ,
Scholar's Companion.
Little Bobbie wen to a show for the
first time in his life. When he came
home his mother asked him what he had
seen. "An elephant, mamma, that gob-1
bled Lay with his front tail."
Tlie Oaclllatiajr Pimp Ciapaay.
Fairbanks A Co. are the sole and exclusive {
agents of the Sluthour Pump, owned and man- :
aged by the Oscillating Pump Company. They !
aro the simplest and yet the moat efficient hand
pumps ever invented, their excellence being
fully attested by the fact that at the Centennial
and wherever exhibited, either in this country
or in Europe, the first premiums have been
awarded to the company for hand pumps, ship :
pumps, force pumps and fire pumps. Hie
smallest of these pumps we observed worked
by a little child, and, raising the water from a
depth of twelve feet, forced it through a hose
150 feet long, and threw it with.great force 100
feat. Water can be raised from wells at a
depth of forty feet with perfect ease. They
have been adopted by the Government in many
public works, and are coming in general use, i
supplanting all other hand pumps.? Si. Louu \
Daily Journal, Oct. 6, 1877.
These pumps are sold at all warehouses of I
the Messrs. Fairbanks, the celebrated scale j
manufacturers.
How to Grow Cheerful.
Disease is in a great many?perhaps the '
majority?of instances tne underlying cause ui <
mental depression. It will almost invariably I
be found, for instanoe, that hypochondriacs j
are dyspeptic, bilious subjects, and all persons
who have had any experience of such eases are
aware that sufferers from diseases of the kidneys
and bladder are especially subject to fits
of "despondency. The sure way to overoome
depression is to try a oourse of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, a cheering cordial which is
pecu iarly antagonistic to the "blues," As well
as to the causes which produce them. This
popular and efficacious corrective of a disordered
condition of the system remedies the
most obstinate cases of indigestion, biliousness
and constipation, overcomes disorders of the
urinary organs, purifies and enriches the blood,
and restores vigor to the body as well as elasticity
to themiad.
A few years ago no one would have thought
that more thau a hundred hours' instruction
in music could have been afforded for $ 15;
yet this is just what more than 16,000 pnpils
have secured in the New England Conservatory
of Music, with its seventy-five eminent Professors.
Full information may be secured by
addressing Dr. E. Tourjee, Boston.
The elegant company from Duffs Broadway
Theater, New York city, are playing to
a succession of crowded houses in New York
State and Canada. In the hands of this
talented organization the play of Pink Dominoes
has mado a decided nit, and is spoken
of a8 a masterly performance.
CHEW
The Celebrated
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Thj? Pioneeb Tobacco Company,
New York, boston, and Chicago.
He that judgeth without knowledge is a fool,
and wisdonais not in him. You can get knowledge
of $50 Five Ton Wagon Scale, sold on
trial, freight prepaid, by sending to Jones,
of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. Y., for free
price list.
There In ao Kxrose for Poor Bread,
biscuits or rolls if Dooley's Yeast Powder is
used. A trial will convince you that it is the
best, healthiest and cheapest baking powder.
Patentees and lnventora should read adver- j
tisement of Edson Bros, in another oolumn.
The Markets.
1ZW TOES.
Beef Cattle?Native 09## 11#
Texas and Cherokee.... 08## 09
Milch Cows 40 00 #70 00
Hogs?live 05## 06#
Dressed.* 07## 07#
Sheep Oih# 06#
Lambs 05## 06
Cotton?Middling U## 11#
Flour?"Western?Good to Choice.... 5 30 #8 95
State?Good to Choice 6 21 # 6 40
Buckwheat per cwt 2 25 <& 2 75
Wheat?Bed Western 1 2* # 131# !
No. 2 Milwaukee 1 21 #1 28*
Rye-State '8 # 80
Barley?State 75 # 82
Barley Malt 68 # 7 J !
Buckwheat 8) # fS
Oata?Mixed Western...., 84 # 40
Corn-Mixed Western 61 ## 61# |
Hay. per cwt v.......... 60 # 70
8traw?per cwt 80 # 65
? ftntm 11 aa 1q
Hop* 76'e?02 (?vi u
Pork?Mess 1S?0 @14 70
Lard?City 8team 09 @ 09 !<
Fish?Mackerel, No. 1, new 19 00 @20 00
" No. 2, new 11 76 @12 75
Dry Cod, per cwt .. 6 60 @6(0
Herring, Scaled, per box 20 @ 21
Petroleum?Crude 09)$@09X Refined, 141$
Wool?California Fleeoe 20 @ 26
Tezaa " ?0 @ 85 i
Australian " 44 @ 49
State XX 41 @ 44
Butter?8tate.... 26 @ SO !
Weetern Choice 2m @ 21
Weetern?Good to Prime,... 20 & 25
Weetern?Firkin* 19 @ 16
Oheeee?State Factory 13 @ 13
. State Skimmed...- 19 @ 11
Weetern . 09 @ 10V
Egga?State and Pennsylvania 22 @ 22>$
buetalo.
Flour 7 75 @ 8 25
Wheat?No. 1 M.lwaukee 1 22 @ 1 2<
Corn?Mixed 59,}$ @ 51
Oats 25 @ 80
Rye 9i @ 98
Barley 82 (4 83
Barley Molt 1 00 @ 110
PHILADELPHIA.
Beef Cattle?'Extra C6 @ 064$
Sheep 06 @ 06J$
Hogs?Dressed 08)$.. 08)$
Flour?Pennsylvania Extra ,...712 @7 25
Wheat?Red Weetern 1 82 @ 1 63
Rye 65 @ f7
Corn?Yellow 60 @ 61
Mixed ? @ 61
Oats-Mixed 35 @ 34
Petroleum?Crude.,,.,...0'if @091$ Refined, 14)$
Wool?Colorado 23 @ 2h
Texas 24 @ 82
Calilornla 27 @ 33
bos tor.
Beef Cattle 08 @ 08}$
Sheep 06* @ 071$
Hogs 06 @ 09
Flour?Wisconsin and Minnesota... 7 60 @9.0
Corn?Mixed 43 @ 611$
Oats? " 58 @ 63
Wool?Ohio aDd Pennsylvania XX... 48 @ f0
California 40 @ 41
brighton, si ass.
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8heep 05 @
Lambs Q7 @ 10
Hoga 071$ @ 08
watkktown, siass.
Beef Cattle?Poor to Choioe. 650 @660
Sheep 6 75 @7,75
Lamb* 700 @ 900
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