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From Shreveport South Western.
Liverpool, June s, noon.-Cot-
ton a shade frmer; uplands liz
and Orleans I'D.
New Orleans, June 8.-Cotton
advanced &C.; middling 29c.; sales
1850, receipts 35S and exports
267 bales. Gold 1884,. Flour
firmer; superfne So, double extra
So % and treble extra So Co.
Corn scarce, 81 10. Oats u to 73c.
Bran 81 Is. Hay-prime S26 to
q. Pork S33 rs to 80 so. Bacon
shoulder 141 clear rib Is and
clear sides 1910. Lard-tierce 19a
and key 201e. Sugar-eommon
81 to 1Oa and prime 134 to 1919.
Understanding 45 to Coo.
Whisky and coffee unchanged.
New York, June 8, evening"
Cotton frmer and active; sales
5000 bales at 31c. MOney-in-
creased demand and sharp at 7
per cent. Gold strong at 1889.
San Francisco, June 1.-Thom-
as and staff arrived seven days
from New York.
Topeka, Kansas, June 1.-Sher-
If of Saline county reports Indians
killed thirteen men, women and
children, and carried off as many
more. Settlers coming east for
protection.
Leayenworth, June 1.-About
twenty whites killed by Indians
in West Kansas the past week.
Massacre the result Of guerrilla
fighting rather than a general In
dian war. Scene of operations ex
tend from Republican and Solo
mon rivers to the end of the Kan
sas and Pacific railroad. Fears
felt for the surviving parties.
Portland, Me-, june 2.-Lawyel
Parkers wife fatally shot a MILL
ner on account of jealousy.
Lewistown, Maine, June "a
boat with nine men capsized ovel
the falls and four drowned.
Chicago, June "A Fort Smitl
special to the Tribune states
party of $50 Cheyennes attacked
an unprotected settlement, 16t
miles from Topeka, Sunday morn
ing. They came Sunday evening
under pretence of friendship an
massacred thirteen men, womel
and children. Women ravishe'
and bodies mutilated.
st. Louis, June 2.-Expeditiol
from Forts Hays, Harker and r
ley moving against Indians, witt
orders to pursue vigorously an,
punish severely any Indians founC
Depredations are by Sioux ant
Cheyennes, divided into bands c
9 to IL.
indianapolis, June 2.-Commc
dOre James P. Foster is dead.
Washington, June 2.-PennsyI
vania claims cigars manufacture
by convicts should be exemE
from taxation. The claim will b
rejected on the ground that COZ
yicts might make whisky.
Second Lieutenant VIM. Niece
Goth Infantry, for riotous and di
orderly conduct, is sentenced I
dismissal and FIVE years imprisol
ment in the Louisiana Penitenti;
ry.
Concord, n. H., June 3.-Go
Stearn's inaugural reccommen(
speedy ratification Of the 15t
amendment.
D Rochester, n. Y, June 3.-TN
: brothers were drowned.
: New York, June 3.-Amor
Q 1400 steerage passengers land'
{ yesterday from the Steamer Ma
1 haitian, were 800 English al
3 Welsh skilled workmen of ditfe
: ent trades. Influx of Norwegian
I continues enormous. tits state
: that 10000 will arrive within Il
next eighteen months. Their d.
tination is invariably to the Mort
west.
a Newark, June 3.-Brewer's CT
vention adjourned after passing
resolution that lager beer shol
be taxed as a necessary, not as
!. luxury; that its manufacture p
# notes temperance.
n Mobile, June 4.-The steam
Mary Swan, bound up the Ala
ma river, sunk yesterday 20 mi
s. above Mobile. Eight humid
: barrels of freight and boat to
loss.
, Baltimore, June 4.--Revel
johnson arrived.
IN Washington, June4.-Brickl
N ers at the navy yard resolved
'h .4~,.I-c ,1.Iosc %rro o0loraI man