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PECK RIDDLED.
-1870
Product. Wages. Hands
(Thousands.) (Thousands.)
Boots and shoes....$17,813 $4,933 11,403
Clothing. 44,713 8,19> 26,090
Women's clothing.. 4,83) 14,273 4?, 19.)
,-:-1880-?
Product. Wages. Hands.
(Thousands.) 'Thousands.;
Boots and shoes....$18,979 $4,902 13.401
Clothinz. 81,133 18,2:4 63,030
Women's clothing.. 13';,4 ? 27,321 90,00 )
It has been demonstrated suSScient'v
by comparisons rax ie h3re a ii abroad
that labor in boots aad saoas 13 cheaper
than in Europe. In clothing a tariff is
Ineffective. Fashion aal taste alone for
bid.importations of ready-raiie clothing
lad ?ive a clear field to the ho ue manu
facturer, though his materials, by tariff
taxation, are so much higher thaa the
foreign clothing manufacturer has to pay
that the protection by the tariff on
clothing is quite neutralized. In other
industries where tariff protection i3
equally ineffective similar showings can
be made. In 'clothing, the least pro
tected article, Jbe increase is high est:
75 per cent, in product, 125 per cent, in
wages aad 150 per cent, in the number
of hands. - Women's clothing has ri?en
in the product from four and a naif
millions to over twenty millions. Th3
new census will show a he ivier increase
yet, <~*Pbese items suffice to show the
damning evidence of facts ignored by
n
* jX DISSECTION OF THE NSW YORK LABO?
COMMISSIONER^ REPORT ON THB
EFFECT OF THB TARIFF ON LABOE
AND WAGES.
Labor Commissioner Peck, of New
f$ork, having made an alleged investi
gation of "the effect of the tariff on
wages,w has issued a one-sided report in
which he claims that protection is a boon
and thev McKinley law a blessing. Mr.
Schoeahof,a well known writer on the
tariff, thus, riddles Peck's peculiar re
. port in the columns of the New York
?. World:
Mr. Peck's totals show a net increase
9 In, wages for 1891 over 1890 of $5,377,
925, and a net increase in products in
this State during the same period of
$31,315,139.
I will not inquire into the relevancy of
the statement to the McKinley bill or any
other tariff measure. If the increase does
r - not show more than toe ordinary ratio,
the report falls short of its purpose. So
3<?iS leagas no-data are furnished, as by the
United States Census, covering all in
. dustrial occupations, the inference is not
excluded that selections are made with
a.view jfco covering a certain end in vie .v.
Many very important industries arc left
jcot. Cotton, woolens and other tex
*,>f "?les, iron^and steel products, etc^,are
not mentioned at all. Did they not
show a sufficient increase in wages to
. jp?rade them as glorious examples of
ftaj?ff tjenef&s?. ^T?6 these* are thVprin
< eipal industries * which nave received
;taiiff favors.
v j X w3l showt iu round figures, their
rates of increase, under the benefieent
'"protective tariff, from the census of 1870
_Jjto 1880 (in thousands) :
PRODUCTS..
Inc.
ISTOl 1SS0. &D3C
Cotton goods.$11,173 $9.70.) $l,47i
Hats, caps and ma
. - terials. 10,700 7,500 3.2)0
Iron and steel and
; manufactures.; 53,000 27,030 26,0 ;
Here we have the principal industries
which can be classed pre-eminently as
.protected industries suffering a deciir. i
within one brief decade of 633,000.000 ?
from $39,000,000 in 1870 to $56.000,
000 in 1880. In the cruder iron and
steel products and manu.' stures New
York State, in 1870, coatrijj.eJ over
15 per cent, to the total product of the
-United States. In 1880 the percentage
of the State of New York had gone
down to 8 per cent, in the total of these
industrial products. Under the b'ight
ing influence of the tax on the raw ma
atonal the industries falling under these
headings have become tranferred from
the Democratic State to the Republican
3 State of Pennsylvania.
It is no, known to the writer that a
perceptible increase has taken place m
the succeeding decade, which is to be
"covered by the expected returns of the
eleventh census. All reports have so
. far tended to advertise further decline
in these industries in this State. If proof
were required further than that of the
generally known condition of these in
dustries in New York State, the omis
sion of Mr. Peck to inclose them in his
tabulations would have furnished it.
Cotton goods have not increased
either, as ?3 well known. Their manu
i&cture becomes mor&and more concen
trated in certain favored localities from
natural causes, the same as in England.
In all wool goods the decline is general
and alone doe to the tariff on raw wool.
The decline in the consumption of wool
in proportion to the growth of the popu
lation, and the corresponding increase
inlsacddyaad Wool substitutes to make
rup the deficiency, give full evidence of
;rlt3 of a tariff on raw materials,
in- shoddy goods, of course,
would make up for the difference. But
the^tence of Mr. Peck does not seem to
warrant Sie assumption that increased
prosperity came to the working people
in* 1891 krexcess of that enjoyed in
1890, against the g?nerai depression in
wooBen*<ssp?r^he?e else, a fact so welL
known to everybody at all' familiar with
the? trade? Th? three branches cited
goffered a decline in wages paid out and
in the number of work people employed,
according to the census tables, as fol
lows (in thousands) :
WAGES ?XD HAND3.
Number Number
if --. Wagas. Haada. Wages. Hands.
gpolV....$2,635 9,14i $2,^IS 9.9W
Hats, oto?t etc... a,6? 5,870 2,155 5,213
Iron and steei
products...9,90C 18,634 4,991 13.567
Totals.$15,150 33,689 $8,364 28,680
These industries suffered a decline to
the extent of $6,780,000 paid less iu
wages and 5018 fewer working people
employed. " But what is of farther and
greater significance is that the rate of
wages, as shown here, has gone down to
the extent shown here.
< The average per hand employed is as
follows,
- ' 2370. 1880. Dec.
Cotton goods.1287 $224 $63
Hats aad caps, etc. 446 413 33
Iron aad steel products. 525 370 155
This is indeed a showing which would
gft? lhe death-knell to any high-tariff
sentiment still rampant in the greatest
manufacturing State of the Union were
any facts wanted to prove the absurdity
oltl|e claims usuallyjset forth.
I wii1. not draw any inferences from
this nor generalize on the tacts further
than to show the positions of certain in
dustries which ought to have steadily in
creased in product and in wages paid
out finder the benign influence of the
tarilT,%ut have, on the contrary, sufferei
the heaviest decline.
That these facts have been ignored by
f a Democratic official authority of the
State and spurious facts substituted to
. bolster up the policy of the opposition
party is the only thing which gives a
somewhat serious tone to the absurdity
of the publication.
A comparison of the product, of wages
and of hands employed in industries
furthest removed from the influences re
ferred to shows on the contrary the
following increases:
will n,->w return to the facts adducei by
him to support his theory.
The increase in products is set dowj
as $31,000,000. The increase from IS7?
to 1830 was ?300,000,000. Considering
the price influions o" all commodities,
as compared with 1S80, and the decline
in such important industries noted above,
the increase of 1S30 over 1370 shows for
New York fully $tt00,0QO;000, or 631
per cent. On the same basis of progres
sion the ?1,080,000,000 of 183 ) ought
to have growftto $1,830,000,000 in
1890. The ^ears.of ti% end of the de
cade, however, mus* show the greatest
ratio of ^crea^^jaarrly on account of the
increase ot-25 p?sent, in the population
of thei Statoand 'pdrtly on account of the
2enerai\trac?e activity ruling in 1889,
1S90 ancfcl89? against the great stagna
tion ruliulr. and spreading in intensity
from 18?3 to 1S37. Tue ratio of in
crease ought from these consideration5 to
be nearer a hundred millions than seventy
millions, which would be the average of
the decade.. If Mr. Peck, is not able to
show more than thai- ;vH>ne millions of
increase he and his theory stand con
demned by his own figures.
Eeed on "Exfrararanee."
Ex-Czar Reed is something of a
humorist ia bis way and he has seldom
been more humorous than he is now in
accusing the Democratic House of "ex
travagance," because with a Republican
Senate and a Republican President
against it it could not repeal the sugar
bounty act, the steamship subsidy acS
and such like acts passed by the Reed
Congress, with the deliberate intention
of increasing the expenditures of the
Government and making the increase
permanent.
The Reed Congress and the Harrison
administration have run the annual ex
pense for pensions alone up to $110,
000,000, so that with this and$10,000,
000 a year for sugar bounties we bave a
permanent expense of $150,000,000 a
year altogether aside from what are
properly the ordinary expenses of gov
ernment.
Under the Disability Pension bill and
other pension acts now in operation the
annual expense for pensions will increase
or some years to come. It will reach at
.east $150,000,000 a year, and the only
chance the country has of getting rid of
it is by outliving the pensioners. The
sugar bounty will be repealed as soon as
the Democ; ils elect a President and a
majority of tue Senate. Until then it re
mains with the otiur permanent charges
imposed on the country by the most
scandalous Congress the country ever
had.
With a Democratic Senate these per
manent charges can be greatly reduced.
When Mr. Cleveland is inaugurated he
will certainly renew the practice of that
strict economy which characterized his
first administration and resulted in the
surplus which Harrison has dissipated.
In tue meantime Harrison is responsi
ble before the country for the increased
expense of his radical administration. He
is costing the country a round hundred
million a year more than Arthur cost it.
Where is the Republican who will say
that Harrison is worth this much more
for the country? It may be that we are
to have another Republican r.i Presi
dent in the future. If so, let us get one
who costs less and is worth more for the
money.?St. Louis Republic.
Why Wagc3 Go Up.
The protectionist says that wages go
ip because of the taxes he levies on
abor.
The truth is that wages go up because
abor becomes more eifective. If two
men, with improved machinery, can
produce what four men did before, the
pay of each of the four being a dollar a
?ay, the employer can afford to pay
?ch of the two men $1.50. He
will make- a dollar a day by the opera
tion, a id the cos. of labor in his pro
iuct will be just that much less than it
was.
In a late number of the American
Wool and Cotton Reporter is a capital
answer to the question we have asked.
To-day the help that ten years tended
120 spindles in worsted mills are tend
ing 160 spindles, "maidng the increased
production, it is declared, of at least
equal quality."
The Noble comb has taken the place
of the Lister comb and it "gives double
the quantity of top, in the same time,
from the same 3tcck."
The change from the fly to the ring
frame gives 4000 revolutions a minute,
instead of 2600.
Machine-dyeing has taken the place
of hand methods, so that "in the use of
acid-dyestuffs feats are accomplished in
less than two hours, and in the employ
ment of sweet dyes in less than four
lours, that by the uncertain hand pro
cesses would demand several daJU for
their performance.
These are facts that have had a strong
influence on wages in the worsted in
dustry. Wages depend upon efficiency
and product as well as upon the law ot
supply and demand. Invention has
greatly multiplied man's power, and
therefore the man receives more for his
work than he did when his tools euabled
him to produce less.
When a protectionist says that wages
depend upon a statute that he has com
posed he is simply slandering humaD
genius.?New York World.
Wages Not Dependent on the Tariff.
"If the workingmaa pursues his in
quires furthur he will find that during
;hat famous period when the United
5tate3 had a low tariff, from 131G to
1861, wages here were as much h'gher
is those in any European country as they
ire now, and that during that low tariff
Deriod they were steadily rising. He
v ill find that wages in this country have
ilways been higher than European wages,
lot on account of any tariff, but oa ac
count of the circumstances surrounding
is?the large quantity of cheap, fertile
md easily accessible land; the almost
lad no less; that labor organizations
lave as much influence oa such things
lereas in England, and no more; and
:hat the promises which the protective
policy is commended to the favor of the
aboring men cannot possibly be fulfilled
>y any tariff 1& v, end are, therefore, a
ielusion and * anare.?Harper's Weekly.
KILLED BY BRIGANDS.
??ve Men Waylaid in the Sicrre Madre
Mountains.
A news special of Friday from Duran
go, M<xico, says: Celeas Mertez, agent of
he State bank of Durango, was on hia
vay to Mazatlan, through the Sierre
dadre mountains on Wednesday with
?10.000 in gold coin, being transported
n bags on the backs of burros. Knowing
he dangerous character of the country
hrough which he was to pass Martez was
ccompanicd by five guards well armed.
Mty miles south of Durango and just
s they were making the ascent of
range of rugged mountains they
pere attacked in ambush by brigands,
vho have been the terror of that section
or several years. Two guards were killed
t the first volley. Mertez and hii re
naming men returned the fire, but were
oon overpowered and shot down, with
he exception of one guard who escaped,
le told his f *ory to the authorities and
[overnmext troops hastened to pursu?
he robber*. - = "
IM Prominent Papers Ha?e to Say in
Regard to Poles,
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WOULD THEY WERE AS HONEST!
. The essence of !orce bill legislation
and Negro Domination at the South is
extracted by the Hon. Frederick Doug
lass. This is what he says:
"I believe that this is to be ultim i*e"y a com
posite nation. There is nothing else in store for
us. Itis almost certain t > come. I am inclined to
think that there ?ifl eventual? com in this
country a dictatmahip. Jher? is a growing
demand for a strong government that will he
able to protect all of its citizens, rich and poor,
white and blick alike
'Lam working with the republican party be
cause I believe that it is the best instrument to
secure this condition of justice toal'. In fact,
there is nothing better for us. Th:; election of
Cleveland eight years ago turned louse arro
gance and assumption everywhere. The coun
try was growing praduftlly wors? and more in
toierantinit* hearing of all questions relating
to the negro.*
A strong central government, even to
the extent of dictatorship ! That is what
Mr. Douglass wants, and he is working
with the Republican party because he
believes that the Republican party is
most likely to give him what he wants.
He is right about that. With Federal
bayonets at the polls and Nesro domina
tion in the South, Douglass' ideal dicta
torship would not be so remote.
The situation would be simpler if all
white Republicans were as honest and
candid as the Hon. Frederick Douglass.
?New York Sun.
PRESIDENT HARRISON'S L?2TVER.
President Harrison's letter of accept
ance is simply a stump speech in the
form of an epistle. It is less a docu
ment to elucidate his views or to explain
his party's purposes than an attempt to
gain votes by accommodating those views
and purposes to a hostile public opinion.
Four years ago Mr. Harrison had only
contempt for "cheapness." Now he ar
gues that the law passed to increase prices
has really lowered them. .The paradoxes
of protection never had a more daring
adapter than the president. According
to him the same law has increased prices
to the farmer and made food cheaper to
the consumer; has lowered the cost of
manufactures by taxing their raw mate
rials; has enabled the producer to pay
higher wages by reducing the price of
his product.
In one respect only has Mr. Harrison
the entire bravery of his Bourbcnism: he
defends the Billion Dollar Congress from
its initial usurpation to its c osing out
rage. That the people condemned this
congress, and incidentally his adminis
tration, by a majority of more than
1,300,000, is calmly ignored by the pres
ident. He says that "a vote of want of
confidence is asked by our adversaries,"
as if that vote had not been given in 1890
and repeated in 1891. The election this
year is simply a demand for judgment
upon a verdict once rendered and con
firmed .
President Harrison's tardy recognition
of Mr. Blaine's action in forcing the par
tial amelioration of reciprocity upon a
bill tihat had no original saving clause
will hardly atone for his previous action
in claiming all the credit of it. Good at
far as it goes, this so-called reciprocity is
?tili "a sham," as the Democratic plat
form declares it to be. It untaxes for
eigners only. It applies to our poorest
nstead of to our best customers. And it
:avors other countries at the expense of
>ur own.
The President's contention as to the
iffect of tariffs on wages is thoroughly
iisingenuous, not to say d'shonest. He
cnows that the duty under the McKinley
aw in many schedules is more than the
mtire labor cost in the articles protected,
;nd yet he repeats the deceptive clap
rap about the necessity of covering "the
iifferences in wages" between this coun
ry and Europe. He claims that "pro
ective duties strongly tend to hold up
rages, and are the only barrier agatnst a
eduction to the European scale," when
?e knows that the wages in free-trade
England are from 30 to 100 per cent,
ligher than in any protectionist country
n Europe,.. and that the variations in
vages in the same industries in different
States of our Union, under the same tariff,
ire as great as the difference between the
iverage wages here and in England.
It is characteristic of this nefarious
ystem of false pretenses that it should
:onvert the letter of acceptance of a
Resident into the dishonest screed of a
peciai pi eader.?New York Worid.
THE PENSION SCANDAL.
A correspondent from Texas says that
the Third party leaders are making some
stir with the statement that more pen
sions were granted under Cleveland than
under any other administration.
This is one of the preposterous "state
nents" that proceed from ignorance,
md can be accepted by me n who will
lot keep informed concerning the course
of public events.
Next to his tariff message, the most
notable public service rendered by Mr.
Cleveland was the veto of the Dependent
Pension bill. It was a courageous, pat
riotic and able message ; it was a mes
jage directed to the intelligence of the
a.merican people. It was a protest
against the looting of the treasury under
the pretense of patriotism.
Mr. Cleveland well knew that it ar
rayed against him the organization
inown as the Grand Army of 'he Re
public, and there can be but little doubt
that it was ona of the most eff. c'ive
influences leading to his defeat in 1888.
To-day all over the North the political
influence of the Grand Army of the Re
public is used in behalf of Mr. Harri
son against Mr. Cleveland. It is sur
prising, therefore, to hear that in the
State Of Texas people are listening to
Third party demagogues, who stop at no
misrepresentation, and hesitate at no
Blander.
Under the law of June 27, 1890, nearly
1,000,000 pensions were granted in the
year ending June 30, 1891.
The first year of Mr. Cleveland's ad
ministration, 35,767 pensions were
granted.
The first year of Mr. Harrison's ad
ministration, 51,921 pensions Tere
granted.
The second year of Mr. Cleveland's
administration, 40,859 pensions were
granted.
The second year of Mr. Harrison's ad
ministration, 66,637 pensions were
granted. t
The third year of Mr. Cleveland's ad
ministration, 55,194 pensions were
granted.
The third year of Mr. Harrison's ad
ministration, 156,486 pensions were
granted.
During the four years, 1885 86 87-88,
covering Mr. Cleveland's administration,
192,070 pensions were granted.
JUuring one year of Mr. Harrison's ad
ministration, 125,486 pensions were
granted.
During three years of the Harrison
administration 275,041 pensions were
granted. The average during Mr. Har
rison's administration will be over 100.
000, or more than double the average
during the administration of Mr, Cleve
land.
Under Mi. Cleveland the pension bu
reau was conducted in a business-like
manner; every applicant received prompt
justice under the law.
Mr. H arrison, when he became presi
dent, appointed Corporal Tanner com
missioner of pensions, a man utterly un
fit for the place, and ins'ructed him to
"be generous with the boys." Corporal
Tanner began by making laws for him
self. He gave everybody a pension who
asked for it. The scandal after a few
montha reached such proportions that
Mr. Harrison removed Tanner and put in
Commissioner Raum. Raum did not im
prove matters at all. We do not suppose
that the president iotended to improve
them. But Commissioner Raum has in-re
political sagacity than Corporal Tai ner
and has been able to do much for tue
party without making the bureau so ridic
ulous, though in the end he will certainly
make it more infamous.
lhe annual appropriations for pensions
alone will shortly reach $200,000,000.
The proportion to be paid by the south
ern states will be from $50,000,000 to
$65,000,000, or one-fourth of the ex
ported cotton must go to pay the south
ern proportion of the pension list.
There has never in the history of any
civilized nation be^n a treasury raid of
such gigantic proportions, so thoroughly
organized, so systematically carried on,
so destructive to the moral standards of
the people, so productive of idleness and
vice as the pension scandal in the United
States.
It grows worse year by year. No Re
publican president would dare to attempt
to check it. Mr. Harrison signs every
private pension bill presented to him.
Mr. Cleveland examineo erch measure of
this character, and deluged Congress
with his vetoes.
In view of this record it i3 astonishing
that any intelligent man should assail
the record of Mr. Cleveland in connec
tion with the pensions. He has rendered
invaluable service to honest government
in his veto of the pension bills, and he
deserves the hearty support of all men,
regardless of party or of sectional rela
tions, for his efforts to protect the treas
ury of the Uuited States from the organ
ized army of greed.?Courier Journal.
TELEGRAPHIC (MIES.
The News ol the Worl? (Mensel Mo
Pitlij and PoMefl Paiir*
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The Seaside house hotel at Rockaway,
L. I., was burned to the ground Tuesday
morning. Loss, $55,000.
The GreeDsbur::, Pa., glass work3,
owned by Kuhn Bros., shut down for an
indefinite period Thursday, throwing 300
men and boys out of employment.
A news special of Thursday states that
the British bark Hope has gone down at
sea. Six of her crew of nine were
drowned. The lost men were ail Welsh.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
accepted all of the bids for ocean mail
service, which were opened a few days
ago at the department, with the exception
of that from New York to Rio. This bid
will be rejected in order to accept a more
advantageous service on practically the
same route.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says : Governor Jones, of Choctaw In
dian cation, has requested the Indian
bureau to send to his aid Indian police
and troops to assist in suppressing acts
of lawlessness being committed by bands
of men with whom he says the authori
ties are unable to cope.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says : Another of Central American re
public seems on the brink of political
corruption. The state department is in
formed by telegraph from Smjose Costa
Rica that President Ridriquez has de
clared himself dictator in that country.
Several political arrests have been made
and great excitement prevails.
A question that is deeply interesting
the merchants of New York city is as to
who will be liable for the damage to
goods detained so long in quarantine, or
injured by fumigation. Nobody seems to
know. The steamship companies dis
claim all liabilities and marine insurance
men say they cannot well be sued, but
some merchants feel like suing somebody.
A news special from Bedford, Pa.,
says: The republican conference of the
twentieth congressional district Tuesday
nominated J. D. Hicks, of Altoona, oa
the 232d ballot, this ending one of the
most hotly contested congressional con
ferees contests in the history of the state.
The deadlock resulted from an attempt
to force the renomination of Congress-,
man Scull.
A committee of 100 in charge of noti
fication of Cleveland and Stevenson in
Madison Square garden on July 20th last,
met in New York 'Iuesday to decide
what should be done with the balance
of $1,311 left over after the payment of
all expenses. By a unanimous vote it
was decided to turn the money over to be
used in the payment of expenses incurred
in warding off cholera.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Tuesday
says: The threatened Reading railroad
strike seems to have been averted. Chief
Arthur, of the engineers, and other labor
men met President McLeod and General
Manager Sweigard. The grievances
were p resented and a basis of agreement
reached, the company conceding some
things. Engineer Schaefer, who was
dismissed for joining the brotherhood,
will be reinstated.
A special dispatch of Thursday from
South McAllister, L T., says: The recent
trouble between the Choctaw national
and progressive parties is settled for the
time being. Twelve of the Choctaws
who did the killing have laid down their
arms and surrendered for trial. Ihe
other three will give themselves up at
once. The remaining armed men have
agreed to lay down their arms and go
home. The governor has promised pro
tection to the prisoners who arcin charge
of officers of their own party.
The New Jersey republican state con
vention met at Trenton Tuesday. The
platform adopted approves the Minneap
olis platform, condemns the Democratic
doctrine that the protective tariff is un
constitutional, and endorses, in glowing
terms, Harrison's administration. The
rest of the platform deals with state is
sues, attacking the state ardmini^tratiou
aDd makes a point of the countenance
given by the Democratic state officers and
party leaders to race-track gambling.
Ex-Congressman John K-. an was nomi
nated for governor.
A $500,000 BLAZE.
Business Houses at Albany, N. Y.,
Burned.
About 2 o'clock Sunday morning fire
broke out in the upper portion of the
Lyon building, on the north side of
Hudson avenue between Green and
Pearl streets, Albany, N. Y, and spread
with frightful rapidity. When the tire
men arrived the entire top story was in
fi imes and there was a perfect rain of
sparks upon the surrounding buildings
and into the adjacent streets. The fire
appeared to have caught in one of the
upper stories occupied ]>y shirt factories,
and had made such bend way when dis
covered that there was nlready danger
that the front wall, five stories high,
would fall inio the street.
At 2:30 the tire which started in what
was formerly the Second Reformed church
had spread to the north end of that struc
ture, the flames licking up the wooden
pillars of the old belfry, and poured up a
solid column of flame over a hundred feet
in the air. The entire department was
on the ground, and the indications were
that the entire block bounded by Hud
son avenue, Gre> n Brave aud South Pearl
streets, would he swept away. The loss
will not fall short of $500.000.
Disastrous Cyclone.
Petersburg, Va., was visited Wednes
day by a destructive cyclone, tearing
down houses, fences and doi?g gr?ai
damage. It is thought there has been
several lives lost.
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
Six Deatlis in the City Announced ey
tie Heal Boarl
Latest News of the Scourge at Other
Places.
The board of health of New York city
announced Wednesday afternoon that,
from a bacteriological examination made
by Professor Herrman Biggs on bodies of
the several suspected cholera patients,
there have been six deaths from Asiatic
cholera in the city of New York within
the past few days.
Those who have died are: Charles
McVoy, thirty-five years, plasterer's as
sistant, died at 879 Tenth avenue, Sep
tember 6th; Mrs. Sophia Wigman and
William Wigman, died September 10th
and 11th respectively at 768 Eleventh
avenue. The husband fifty-two and the
wife sixty-three years old and each had
been sick about eight days; Minnie Lev
inger, one year and eight months, died at
her parents' home, 411 East Forty-sixth
street, September 11th. Charlotte Beck,
living at 1764 Second avenue, who was
taken sick Tuesday in her apartments,
died two hours after the doctor called.
All of these cases were originally re
ported to the health department as sus
pected cholera, and had been under the
investigation of physicians connected
with the department.
The physicians of the health board
have no end of trouble in ascertaining
how the malady was contracted. Every
precaution has been taken to prevent the
spread of the cholera. The bedding of
each patient was burned and the pre*
mises thoroughly fumigated. The
: mayor gave reassuring replies to all
questions and seemed to feel con
fident that the pest would make
no appreciable headway. Dr. Bry
ant says the health department has two
physicians at each house where sanitary
inspection has been made at each house
suspected. Disinfectants have be^n
thoroughly used and a complete I f of
all who have entered tho premises, ^as
been made, and their movements regis
tered.
! The effect of the news upon the ex
changes and in business circles was not
as far reaching as might be imagined.
The cotton and coffee exchanges fell off
from 7 to 10 points from the closing
prices of Tuesday, but the news was re
ceived so late at the stock exchange that
no drop occurred.
The deaths recorded above are the first
from cholera in New York city since 1866
when over 1,600 died.
Russia's report.
A St. Petersburg cablegram of Wednes
day says: The daily average of new
cholera case3 and deaths in the provinces
of Voronezh, Kjisin, Samara, Saratoff and
Orenburg and Don Territory is 400 new
cases and 200 deaths e.ich. In the lieu
tenancy of Caucacus the daily average is
1,550 cases and 550 deaths. It will be
seen from these figures that there has
been no diminution in the rate of mor
tality, the deaths still reaching 50 per
cent of the number of persons attacked.
quarantine raised at toledo.
A Toledo, O., dispatch says : The lake
quarantine was raised Tuesday by secre
tary of the treasury who would not au
thorize the hiring of a tug which the
state had employed. There is great in
dignation.
CANADA QUARANTINES.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Ot
tawa, Canada, states that the government
has taken further steps to guard against
the introduction oi cholera into this
country. A proclamation was issued
Tuesday ordering a quarantine for twenty
days to be observed for vessels arriving
in any port in Canada.
THURSDAY'S DISPATCHES.
The New York evening papers report
one new case in the <ity Thursday and
two suspects in Brooklyn. Another is
reported as far east as New Haven. The
health board i* distributing circulars
throughout the city warning the people
and advising them how to avoid the
plague. These circulars are printed in
English, German, Italian, etc.
There is no sort of apprehension felt
by the masses just now, but this may all
be changed within a week. The appear
ance of the plague in different sections
of the city would seem to indicate that it
will s^ecp the whole i-land and the ad
jacent towns if it once breaks the control
of the health department.
Keports received indicate that the
presence of cholera in the city has stirred 1
up all sections of the country. Havana ]
bus dechred New York ships unclean 1
and other cities are preparing to closely 3
scrutinize trains from N w York.
MAYOR GRANT'S PROCLAMATI >N.
Mayor Grant Thursday afternoon gave
out the following:
Mayor's Office, September 15.?To the Public:
Drea led cholera has app ared in this city and
the health department has so far shown its
ability to airest the dieease promptly. The j
health department und department of charities 1
and correction are fully equipped to arrest and i
care for every case and stamp it out of the im- -,
mediate locality in which it is discovered. 3
The pr< clamation goes ou to say that -
reception hospitals, with doctors and ,
nurses, are all equipped and ready to re
ceive and isolate each case as it is discov
ered ; that physicians are closely watch- j
ing the thickly populated tenement dis- 1
tr?cts ; th it federal and state authorities
have established quarantine stations for
those coming from abroad ; that the
chamber of commerce is taking active
measures to lend assistance; that no en
ergy or needed expenditure will be want
ing, and that excessive fear on the part
of the public is not justified.
The mayor calls for confidence in all
these provisions to cure for the public
weal. The record of the past in stamp
ing out typhus and other infectious dis
eases, the proclamation reads, should
justify faith in the ability of the health
department to master the monster cholera
that has come to us from foreign lands.
The public will be intel ligently advised
as to the progress of the disease. The
paper closed:
Rest assured that all will bo d<>no by the
authorities to meet every emergency and with
the confidence of the public au 1 ; heir aid in
enforcing sauitary regulation*, the cholera will
be mastered, health restored and peace, good
ordu- and happiue-s maintained. ,
REPORTS FROM OTHER PLACES.
New Haven, Conn., was in a Hurry of !
excitement Thursday over whut seemed
to be a genuine case of cholera. Romeo
Rooney, a farm laborer, was found writh
ing in agony in a Held on the outskirts of
the city. The police were notified and a
hospital ambulance culled. Ti e man was
exhibiting all the symptoms of the dread i
disease. News that there was a proba
ble case of cholera spread like wildfire.
Rooney's brother, l eliding with him on 1
Hudson street, was stricken with the 1
same symptoms. He was also taken to
the hospital. The residents of Hudson
Ureet were filled with consternation. 1
That part of the city is on new, marshy 1
nrrouzui und ia unhaaJthg- At the IlO&- 1
rrrrrr,- nnwrver, it tsi said that the men <
were not suffering from cholera.
decreasing in' russia. ]
A St. Petersburg cablegram of Thurs
day states that there is a marked decrease \
in the number of new cases of cholera in
?.issia, particularly in Vol^a towns and
in (,'s.ucussus, where the disease has raged
with violence.
spreading in antwerp.
Measures taken at Antwerp, Belgium,
to repress the cholera are totally insuffi
cient and the policy of the municipal
authorities who, despite the fact that
cholera victims are daily taken to hos- i
itals, deny the existence of the. disease, 1
as caused the general public to forego !
personal precautions that no doubt wcuid
tend greatly toward checking the disease.
in hamburg.
Two hundred and four Dew cases were
officially reported at Hamburg, Wednes
day, and eighty-one deaths, *n increase
of six new cases and a decrease of fifteen
deaths over Tuesday.
quarantining all around.
Savannah's quarantine against New
York is on. The steamship Tallahassee
was inspected Thursday morning, being
the initiatory step under the new regula
tions. All on board were found to be
well, and the vessel passed to the city
without a minute's delay.
brunswick acts.
Health Officer Dun woody, of Bruns
wick, Ga., issued orders Thursday that
all vessels from all ports north of Hat
teras must be stopped at quarantine for
inspection. If they stand satisfactory
inspection they will be allowed to come
up to the city. When the pilot3 board
at sea if any contagious disease is found
aboard the ship they will be sent to the
Sapelo island quarantine station.
Nashville's precautions.
The Nashville city board of health has
ma?2 provisions for inspecting suspicious
illness on railroad trains. They have
also arrrnged for quarters for cholera
cases tha? may be developed. The board
also adopted a resolution to prohibit the
sale of watermelons either from stores or
wagons, and will confiscate and destroy
all found being offered for sale.
warning the b7eam8hip companies.
A dispatch from Loon Lake, N. Y.,
says: Notwithstanding the terrible per
sonal affliction under which he is labor
ing, the president on Thursday sent a tel
egram to the secretary of the treasury
saying the attorney general had sent him
an opinion to the effect that he had full
power under the law to prevent the land
ing, in this country, of all immi
grants coming from ports infected with
cholera, or any other contagious disease.
He suggested that the secretary of the
treasury convey this information to the
trans-Atlant?c ship companies, together
with an official notice that unless they
acted in strict accordance therewith, he,
the president, would issue an executive
order prohibiting entirely all immigration
from infected ports without exception.
The secretary of treasury is urged to give
the matter carefui and thorough consid
eration and to advise the president
promptly of his action in the matter.
The mayor and board of control of
Cleveland, 0., have decided to notify of
ficials of railways entering that city that
no more immigrants from infected ports
will be received in Cleveland. A mili
tary medical quarantine has been estate
lished at the eastern state line.
havana quarantine.
The board of health of Havana met
Thursday and resolved, first, to declare
all vessels arriving from New York since
the 11th instant unclean, and all arriving
from other United States ports since the
same date suspicious. Second, to ob
serve a strict quarantine against the
United States.
RED MEN IN COUNCIL.
Braves From all Parts of the Union
Assemble in Atlanta.
The great council of Red Men of the
United States met at Atlanta Tuesday.
Judge Robert T. D miel, of Griffin, Ga.,
was master of ceremonies. He called
the body to order and spoke eloquently
of the c( uncil fire's holy flame flashing
from hilltop to hilltop, purifying the
hearts and ennobling the minds of all
who came under its benign influence.
Georeia's Red Men appreciate the kind
ling of the council fire here, and they
will renew their allegiance and conse
crate their best talent in advancing their
beloved order. Throughout the state
and throughout the south the organiza
tion will be benefited. Judge Daniel's
speech was brief and beautiful, and
heartily applauded. He introduced
Captain S. D. Bradwell, state school
commissioner, who, in the absence of
Governor Northen, welcomed the great
council to Georgia. Captain Bradwell
made a happy speech. He reminded his
visitors of Georgia's progress commer
cially and intellectually. He told them
what Georgia does in the way of educa
tion, approximating $1,200,000 this year
for free school.*. "Georgia is the Empire
State of the 8outh, an empire distin
guished for the manliness of her men and
for the womanliness and purity of her
women.
Judge Joseph Suit, of Indians, was in
troduced to respond to Captain Bradwell's
speech. Judge Suit's speech was well
received. He concluded by saying that
no maiden ever hastened to a lover's ca
resses more eagerly than the Red Men had
come to Georgia to receive this greeting.
Mayor Hemphili was introduced by
Judge Daniel. The mayor gave a warm
welcome to the council. He presented
the facts about Atlanta. His speech was
well received and frequently applauded.
Past Great Incohonee Charles H. Litch
man made the response to Mayor Hemp
ail l's welcome. He had twice before
tasted Atlanta's hospitality and said he,
when a man acknowledges that he can say
no more, there is nothing beyond it. He
ihanked the mayor for the warm words of
welcome.
Great Sachem Y. A. Wright, of Geor
gia, welcomed his brothers in the name
:>f four thousand chiefs and braves, their
wives and children to the hunting grounds
}f Georgia.
After other brief speeches the exercises
?losed and the council went into secret
jession.
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
Gather in Grand Reunion at Memor
able Chickamauga.
The reunion of the society of the Army
of the Cumberland commenced Thursday
moreingat 10 o'clock. General Rosecrans
presided at the first meeting of the socie
ty. Reports from the work on the nation
al park were presented and approved. Out
on the battlefields the veterans looked up
the locations of their various commands,
and all sorts of wagons and hacks being
employed to convey the throng to the na
tional park and adjacent grounds. Gen.
H. V. Boynton delivered the annual ora
tion before the society and a large gath
ering of citizens and visitors at night.
General Boynt-m reviewed the
achievements of the army of the Cum
berland, and in so doing sought to cor- 1
rect some of the errors of history in the
memories of Grant and Sherman by the |
light of official records only recently
made accessible. In doing so he claimed
the credit of saving Grant from the dis
grace of a surprise at Shiloh, for Rosc
crana victory at Chickamauga and for
Thomas' success at Missionary Ridge.
Grant and Sherman's memories wherein
misrepresentation concerning the army of
Cumberland were given currency was
caustically reviewed. The address was a -
scholarly and eloquent effort and will no
doubt, attract muci criticism. The
audience rewarded the speaker by fre
quent applause.
It is understood the meeting to be held
in 1893 will be at Cleveland, Ohio, in
December. Almost nil of the guests left
for Washington Friday to attend the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Yeraiont Election.
A news special from Ruthford, Vt.,
9ays: Returns of the recent election have
been received from the entire state. Ful
ler, republican for governor, has 39,190;
Smalley, democrat, ha* 19,526; Allen,
prohibitionist, 1,650; Fuller's plurality,
19,664, and majority, 18,014. Compar
ed with 1888 this is a republican loss of
9,262, a democratic loss of 1, and a pro
hibitioa gain of 278.
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
ITS ORIGIN, METHODS OP PRE
VENTION AND TREATMENT.
How Cholera Germs May Be Extir
pated?Importance of the Diet
and. of Cleanliness In and
About the House.
T yTROM a pamphlet upon Asiatic
*=/ cholera, issued for free circula
I tionby Dr. L. H. Harris, of
(f Pittsburg, Penn., we make the
following extracts concerning the dis
ease, its prevention and proper methods
of treatment:
In "Wood's Practice of Medicine,
1855, ' we read that although long known
in India, the cholera first began to at
tract the attention of the medical pro
fession generally in the year 1817, when
it broke out as an epidemic with great
violence in Bengal and then commenced
the fearful march which did not cease
until it had encircled the globe.
When Dr. Wood wrote, in 1854, there
seemed to be a great uncertainty in the
minds of the medical profession and
much diversity of opinion as to the na
ture of the specific cause of the disease.
Even at that early date the "germ
theory," though not understood as now,
was vaguely hinted at by more than one.
On this question Dr. Wood writes,
"some have been disposed to refer the
results to invisible animalcules" and
while admitting that many circumstances
tend to show that such a theory is with
in the bounds of a reasonable proba
bility, adds, "still it must be confessed
that the opinion is without proof; as
these animalcules have never been de
tected."
It has been reserved for medical
scientists of our own day and within the
past ten or twelve years to develop and
prove the so-called germ theory, and it
is now generally accepted by all that the
diseases referred to by Dr. Wood,
catarrh and influenza, are ' also diseases
propagated entirely.by distinctive germs,
which have been isolated and very
minutely described. Professor Koch, the
eminent bacteriologist of Berlin, by his
personal experience and experiments in
India, in Egypt and elsewhere during
the epidemic of 1883 and 1884, has es
tablished beyond serious question the
fact that cholera in its malignant form
is also a bacterial or germ disease,
having isolated and identified the
"comma bacillus" as the peculiar germ
always existing in every case of genuine
cholera and never found under other
circumstances.
These cholera germs may exist to a
limited extent in the air during periods
when the disease is epidemic, but more
generally find their way into the system
by the drinking of impure water, and
one of the best precautionary methods is
to use no water for drinking except that
which has been boiled. Spring water
and that from shallow wells should be
especially avoided.
The development of the germ theory
of this disease enables the medical pro
fession to control it to a greater extent
than formerly and suggests many means
of prevention entirely unknown during
former epidemics. This cholera germ is
readily propagated ^nd rapidly multi
plied in the alimentary canal, and its
first existence is shown by a diarrhoea,
which should be checked at once, and if
possible by remedies which at the same
time destroy the germs of the disease;
the delay of a single hour in such cases
is hazardous, since it is only in the earlier
stages of the disease that it is likely to
yield to medical treatment, and hence
the great necessity for having some re
liable remedy always at hand for such
emergency until the services of a physi
cian can be secured. Hence also the
propriety of using preventive medicines,
as well as a strict attention to the diet
and ordinary sanitary regulations during
a period when cholera and other infec
tious diseases are prevalent.
The germ theory having been admit
ted, it follows that the best preventative
remedy will be one which by experi
ence has proved most effective in de
stroying those germs and one which may
be used with the utmost safety. No
other preventative remedies should be
placed in the hands of the general pub
He.
The popular belief that brandy and
other alco?olic stimulants are a safe
guard against the dreaded disease should
be discountenanced, since it is a well
known fact that those who are accus
tomed io the use of such stimulants are
among the first to succumb to the dis
ease. Brandy or whisky or gin may in
some cases be used to give temporary
relief in the earlier stages of the disease
when other remedies are not available
but should in no case be taken as a pre
ventive. While it is admitted tha^ the
best medication is preventive, yet there
is room for choice in this matter and al
coholic beverages should be avoided as
far as possible during*the beated term
and more especially during a cholera
epidemic. It should also be borne m
mind that it is op the utmost import
ance that a physician should be
called at the earliest possible mo
ment. Household remedies, while con
venient and indeed important to use im
mediately on the appearance of the first
symptoms, should be considered simply
as a temporary expedient until profes
sional skill can be secured.
All garbage should be burned, no filth
or decaying vegetable or animal matter
should be permitted to remain unburnt,
disinfectants should be freely appiied
whenever needed, but mo3t of all should
closets, drains, outhouses and cellars be
carefully looked after. The eeilars eve.i
in the better class of dwellings are
fruitful sources of disease, they are
frequently damp and poorly ventilated,
and domestics are too apt to throw a
decaying vegetable into some out of the
way corner. Every cellar should be
thoroughly cleaned and white-washed
and if not freely ventilated immediate
steps should be taked for the fullest
circulation of pure air through every
part; quick-lime, copperas, choloride of
lime or some preparation of carbolic acid
or thymol sho*ild be sprinkled freely on
the floor along each wall and in every
crevice and corner and the utmost clean
liness insisted upon. The importance of
the santary condition of the cellar can
not be overestimated.
The stable and carriage house is an
other fruitful source of disease and should
receive more than ordinary attention.
The grades around the house should
also be looked after that there be no
pools of stagnant water and if there are
shallow wells on the premises they should
be closed and hermetically sealed.
In high localities the disease does not
prevail to the same extent as on the lower
levels. Impure water, lowness of sites
and the emanations arising from the de
composition of animal refuse, are stated
as the local causes which favor the pro
pagation and development of the dis
ease.
Personal cleanliness is of such obvious
importance that it would seem scarcely
worth calling attention to but for the
fact that many very respectable peoplt*
are so particular about the condition of
the stomach and liver, kidneys and other
organs that they almost entirely ignore
the important functions performed by
the skin. With a healthy skin well
cared f or* one would haie less .occasion
to consider internal organs. It is not so
much the matter of bathing as it is a ne
cessity for exposing the entire surface of
the body to the atmosphere. The entire
body should be sponged off with water
twice a day. A bath room is not a ne
cessity, a basin of water, a sponge and a
towel are all tha t is ieaiiy required, but
the entire body should be exposed to
the air during this abhifton night and
morning.
The diet should be carefully ^guarded
though not necessarily restricted to any
great extent. It should be such as to
maintain the digestive organs1 and the
general system in the best possible con
dition without stimulation or . depression
and should consist of both animal and
vegetable food. Unripe fruits, as well
as those which are overripe, should be
avoided. Vegetables which are not fresh
and those difficult of digestion may prop
erly be dispensed with ancLnieats which
have been kept for any length of time
should not be used.
Attention to the diet is of the most
importance if there is a general ten
dency to looseness of the bowels. In
such cases essence of beef, beef tea,
chicken soup with rice, broiled chicken,
broiled beef steak,mutton or lamb ch.>ps
broiled, boiled rice, tea ahd toast and simi
lar articles of food shorTd be given the
preference. Gum Arabic water with loaf
sugar may be used freely as a drink.
Salt meats, fish whether fresh or salted,
oysters, clams, vegetables, fruits and all
greasy food should be avoided, and the
patient should be kept as quiet as possi
ble, perfect rest being desirable.
Excessive labor both of brain and
body, worriments, anxieties, sudden
changes of temperature and everything
which tends to debilitate, enervate or
depress the system should be avoided.
The necessity for pure drinking water
has already been dwelt upon but this is
a matter of such vital importance that it
may well be referred to again. A small
quanity of citric acid or lemon juice if
added to the water will be found both
agreeable and beneficial and may be used'
as freely as desired.
Cholera although infectious, spread by.
some hidden or diffusive power, is not a
contagious disease. It is not conveyed;
by personal contact as is small-pox and,
some other diseases. It is important
that this fact should be emphaaizsd so
there need be no hesitancy in caring
for those afflicted with the disease.
??Hand and Seal."
The expression t<hand and seal,''which
occurs so frequently in legal documents,
is a reminder of the time when few men
were able to write even their own names.
Scores of old English and' French deeds
are extant, some of them ex?cuter}, by
kings and noblemen, in which the signa
ture is a hand dipped in ink, the seal be
ing afterward appended, together w?h
the sign of the cross, the name of the
man executing the deed being written by
another hand. Dipping the entire hand
in ink was, however, inconvenient and
dirty, and later the thumb was substi
tuted. The seal continued to be used,
and though now it has become only a
formality, legal practice has in many
ways pronounced its employment indis
pensable
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development for the
Past Week.
The iron market for the past week shows
signs of greater activity, the demand increasing
and prices growing moire firm, and the outlook
much more encouraging. In structural iron
and steel there is a decided advance, and con
siderable enquiry is reported. The lumber mar
ket continues active, with a steady and increas
ing demand. Mercantile business is improving
in the Southern cities, ani a considerably in
creased demand is expected from farmers, who
have, during the past season, bought cautiously,
and are now in better financial condition.
Forty-three n*w industries were established
or incorporated during the week, together with
10 enlargements of manufactories, and 19 im
portant new buildings. Among the new in
dustries reported are aluminum works at Borne,
Ga., a cotton compress at Longvietr, Texas, a
$10,000 development company at Savannah,
Ga., and an electric power plant at Co vingt on,
Ey. Flour and grist mil?g are to he built at
Big Beedy, Ey., W?iis and ChilSbothe, Texas,
the latter having $30,000 capital; a foundry
and machine shop is reported.at Greenwood,
Miss., a muck bar mill at Harriman, Tenn.,
and an ice factory at Brinkley, Ark*, and
a fertilizer factory at- Wilmington, N. 01
An iron mine will be opened at Llano, and a
coal mine at Laredo, Texas, ochre works at
Cartersville, Ga., a pulp mill at Davis, W. Va-,
a rice null at Brunswick, Ga., *nd a tannery at
Borne. Ga., a $50,000 box and package factory ?
at Clemont, Fia., a $100,000 chair factory at
Louisville. ?y., furnirure factories at Kanawha
City and Point Pleasant, W. Va., saw and plan
ing mills at Livingston and Midland City, Ala.,
Jacksonville, Fla., Cro>sville, Fowlkes and Har
riman, Tenn., Lockh&rt, Miss.* and Bichmond,
Va., ahd a barrel factory at Milan, Texas. The
enlargements for the week include
coke ovens at Warrior, Ala., gas works at
Memphis, Tenn., cotton mills at OpeHka,
Ala-, and Athens, Ga., a shoe factory at .Birm
ingham, Ala., and a furniture factory at Jack
sonville, Fla. Among the new buildings of the
week areTjusiness houses at Lexington, Ky-,
Henrietta -and McKinney, Tex.; churches at
Tri on and Wavcrosa, Ga,; Meridian, Miss^
Houston, Tex., and Clifton Forge, Va.; a $20,
000 school building at Graf ton, W. Va. ; banks
at Bristol, Tenn, Pecos, Tex., and WilHamstoa,
W. Va., and a warehouse at Paducah, Kyn and
Little Bock, Ark.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee?Boasted?Arbnckle's 20.60 $ 100 lb.
cases.Lion 20-60c: Levering's 20.60c, Green-Ex
tra choice 20c; choice goodl?c; fair 18c; com
mon 16>?c Sugar-Granuiated 5%ci on granu
lated ?c; powdered $%c; cut loaf 6c; white
>xtra C 43?c; New Orleans yellow clarified
j3?c; yellow extra C 4c. Syrup?New
0i leans choice 4S@50; prime 35<g40c; common
*0?35c Molasses?Genuine Cuba 35(?SScimi
tation 22<$25. Teas?Black 35@55c; green
10@60c. Nutmegs 65@70c. Cloves 25@30a
Cinnamon 10(2)12%;. Allspice 10@llc Jamai
'a ginger 18c Singapore pepper 14c; Mace
$1.00. Bice fan? 7%c; good 6%c; common
"^@6c; imported Japan 6@7o
Salt?Hawley's dairy $150; Virginia 70c.
Cheese?Fuil cream, Cheddars ??e; flats
<2^c- White fish, half bbK$4 00; pails 60c
Soaps^-Tallotv, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3 00a 3 75;
turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $225 a 250 ;
handles?Parafine 12c; 8tarl0>$c. Matches?
iOOs $4 00; 300s S3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5 toss S3 75. Soda?Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb pkgs
r>?c; cases, 1 lb 5%c. do 1 and %lbs 8c, do%lb
Mfii Crackers?X?X soda 6^c; XXX butter
skc; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c- lemon cream ye; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn
litils 9c. Candy?Assorted stick 6%c; French
mixed 12%c. Canned goods?Condensed milk
^6 OOaS 00; imitation mackerel $3 95a4 00; sal
mon $6 00a7 50: F. W. oysters SI 75a-; L.W.
*125; corn $2 50 a3 50; tomatoes $160.
Ballnotash $3 20. Starch?Pearl 4#c; lump
5c; nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $500
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $100al 40; quarts
$1 50al 80. Powder?Bifle, kegs $5 00; % kegs
$2 75; % kegs SI 50. Shot $1 70 per sack.
F?onr. Grain and Meal.
Flour?First patent $5 50; second patent
$4.75; extra fancy $4.15 fancy $4 00 ; family
$3 50@$4 00. Corn?io. 1 white 66c.
Ko 2 white 65;; mixed 65c Oats
Mixed 42a-c; white 44c; Kansas mat
proof Mc. Hav?Choice timothy, large bales,
90 No. 1 timothy, large bales, 85c; choice
timothv. small bales, 90c; No. 1 timothy, small
bales 85c; N<>. 2 timothv, small bales, 80c.
Meal-Plain 65e ; bolted 5Sc. Wheat bran
Large sacks 80c, small sacks 82}?o Cotton
fieed meal-Si 10 per cwt. Steam feed?$L35
l>er cwt. Grits?Pearl $3.60.
Country Produce.
Eggs 12Kal4c. Butter?Western creamery
20a22V?c- choice Tennessee 16al8c; other grades
I0al2y!c Live poultry-Turkeys 10@12V{c per
lb- hens 28 and 30 young chickens
lar-'- l3a22V?c ; small spring 10al5c. Dressed
noultrv?Turkeys 18a20c; ducks I2#al5c; chick
ens 15al6. Irish potatoes, 2.50@2.75 perbbl,
*weet potato new?70a75 per bu, Honey
Strained 8al0c ; in the comb 10al2c Onions
$2 50 per bbL
Pro vivions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 8^c; ice-cured beltter
lO&c Sugar-cured hams I3al5c, according
to brand and average; California break
fast bacon 12al2%c Lard-Pure leaf ?0
leaf 93*; refined none.