Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-05
EVENING STAR.
CommePcial.
rfeaz's review of The Baltimore

FROM the Aasr1can's review of The Baltimore
Fiour-Wrh hight receipt. Of Western and
Howard Street Flour and q very short supply
% sennd Wheat our market has favored sal
FRS curing the past week and closes strong.
Isciuded in The sales were $50 bills western
epp<r At 90. 40 bhls. North western Super at
lee-95afS 200 bills spring wheat City Mills
Ssr paIs Nptsr Whssi AZ % 81 o o s! .s sn
sholce Howard Street Super, Royal York
brand, at 9slo5O, $40 bbls. good Howard Street
super At s9Soaas;55. Loco bols: North wes;ern
DO, At s1laSlI SO, 20 bbls. Western Family at
42 and 800 oois. Fine at S1.50ass IS Der 6bl
Oty Mills shipping Extras are held above
spired. u I'M
Grain.-Yery little prime Southern wnea,
n2s been offered on the Corn Exchange d uring
past week, and the market continues very
srn Tor both eolors under steady demand for
ZONE mailing Some very prime lots Of Canada
Nnlte nave come forward, but remain un sold
consequence Of the hrmneSs OF holders.
receipts OF corn are liberal and prices have
gwen way 2a4 cents, white showing the heayi-
sst Decline. Demand moderately active, both
Sr southern and European markets. Oats
and Urn. Rye sells slowly, though the supply
e only moderate.
Holas.es Two cargoes of Cuba have ar
hVed during the past week, one of which
remains unsold, the other was taken for re-
hnIng on private terms We quote prices AZ
tollows = Cuha Ciayed 40a45 cents; Cuba
cents for old and new, and Porto Rico 4sa75
cents. =
Provisions-Our market has been mite ex-
cited during the past few DAYS, owing To the
general ADVANCE in prices bcth az ,hs Far.
ward and Westward and closes strong with
very light stocks.
Sugars.The business of the past week has
been to fair amount, the demand being prin-
sipally for refining. Sales comprise 40 hhds
grocery Porto Rico at lOaaI3I cents as To
sualIiy, 100 hhds. Cuba az iOk cents, I,5Uo
1nrr1n fn ".
cents, months, and l75 boxes Havana AT 10 "a
l2a cents, months. To day 100 hbds goods
Porto Rico grocery sold at 10 cents, 10 hhds
PRIME do. al 10 cents and 60 bids. fair English
Leland do. at 10Y cents. Market steady az the
close.
ADVANTAGES OF CRINoLINF-There ia n
church at Oberwyl. Switzerland, in which the
parIshloners have just erected = very fine new
ergan A great number recently went To haar
II played the first time, and delighted with
fts deep growls and trembling rumblings. thev
crowded In the gallery and on the small stair
ease lnoerd, go great was the pressure that a
young lady of slender form, ushed against
tne low balusirade, had the misfortune to
lose her equilibrium. and to tumble over into
we nave OF the churcn. Those in the gallery
shus tneir eyes and screamed with horror a
lew who were below looked up at hearing the
cry. and W hat was their establishment 10 Sc.
the lady slowly and quietly descending in the
6luSt OF an enormous bell -shaped parachute
The fact fs, the criRoline was enormous and
the LADY light, so the imitation of the former
oueyed up the latter and the frightened fair
one descended on the hard marble pavement
as lie nily as If she was a bird futtering down
from the lofty roof.
Miss Sarah Bell, an estImable vonnV
Isny, residing in the town of New Buffalo
Wisconsin, died on Monday moi ming under
But she took her own life. Ii seems that she
purchased some oil of bitter almonds being
warned that 1t was deadly poison: retired to
ner chamber the night preceding her death
IN Ler usual health, and under her pillow Wa
found note, containing req uest that she might
oe buried as she was dressed. In her dress
NO cause Tor the act, aside from i'll health, is
known.
MONEYS RIGRTs IN yERsoyT.-Tbe to,
lowing is an advertisement which we Gin
from the Rutland Herald
81 forbid any one in the State of Vermont
marrying Joseph Trumbly, of Crittenden VT.
10 MISS SOPHIA Pelky, OF Brandon. VT, for be-
ing engaged 10 some one else the second time
Brandon, March 30. 1866"
"A PROLIFIC Cow.-Mr. ]. W. Seaman, of
North Hampstead; on Long Island, is the
owner oil cow which on the 9Th Of March last
produced four calves at a birth. They were
All fuit crown and regularly formed, but stili
born, and two of each sex. Mr. Seaman went
70 MS stable about twelve O'Clock rnd there
were two more. He afterwards kept on the
look out TO see if there were two others to
come, but none made their appearance
- ne frrdericksburg Herald says-The
statement published that no negro labor would
be employed in the construction of the AIexan
Ora and fredericksburg Railroad is altogether
mistake. The very reverse Will be the tact.
as II Is expected several thousand will be TINS
employed. The contract has not been given
out, but II Is supposed that most OF the work
viii be done by sub-contractors
"An itinerant quack in Texas was applied
10 oy one of Colonel Hays rangers to extract
me IRON part OF an Indian arrow from his head
where II had lodged for some time al cannot
stract tnis, stranger" said the would be doc
tor, oecause to do II would go nigh kiIlIn' We:
put can give We box o. pills that will melt
IL in yer head
a LIFE INSURANCE DECIsIoN-Josenb
Easterbrock, Jr., of Camden, Me- insured his
NE Tor ShGO some time ago, and afterwards
became deranged and committed suicide nv
thooung The insurance company refused TO
pay The policy, but the Maine Supreme Conf
decides mat they must pay the $4,000 and the
costs besides.
~ Some CT the Bostonans are trying IN es-
cape the cholera by rushing into and crovd
isR the SUBURBAN towns and villages. Every
thlns IN the shape Of q dwelling. house for a
Tddiue OF twenty miles around Rostop h..