The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-19
PhiIadeiphia Trade Report.

SATURDAY, Feb. 19--Cloverseed is scarce and in
demand at full prices Sales OF 100 bushels at ss19h
@s37N, the latter rate for choice, and 800 bushels
on secret terms. Timothy is nominal. Flaxseed is
taken by the crushers at $22s. .nH u- Erol CID
There is a steady demand from the home con-
sumers for Flour, but an almost total absence OF
any inquiry for shipment. Sales of 900 barrels, in
cluding super1ne at s4-25a450; extras at s4.69ha
475 Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra family
at s525 for fair up to Sc for fancy; pennsylvania
do. do. at s5'2465'T5; Indiana and Ohio DO. do. at
s525@625; and fancy brands at s610@750, ac-
cording TO quality. Rye Flour may be quoted at
s4'15 u barrel a|.
steady, owing to the light receipts and stocks.
Sales OF Pennsylvania red at Sl'2491'26. Rye may
be quoted at 81 per buShe for " estern and PENN
sylvania Corn is less active at the recent decline
Sales Of 1000 bushels new yellow at 90c. Oats are
unchanged. 2b00 bushels Pennsylvania sold at bi@
In Barley and Malt no sales were reported.
Bark-The last sale OF No. Quercitron was at $50
Whisky is steady at 9sc for wood and s9c.@si for
iron-bound Western. aoe- fr cI s I.TH
"A letter from Mississippi, intended to pre-
judice favorably the case of q murderer, says
that the writer knows of family of high social
standing in that State whose tempers are so un-
controllable that the members, male and female.
will, upon trifing misunderstanding arising,
hurl knives at each other across the dinner-table,
and that in the presence of strangers. ~
1t Is q cute Yankee who is a conductor on
one Oh Inc DO5LOu bLTceL cars. lie KNOWS now 10
please his passengers, and 80 even at this late
day he still announces, in stentorian tones, at
every trip, the arrival at the nearest point 10
the Coliseum" And then all the passengers
look at one another and smile complacently and
the car moves on. r... .... n
"A Canadian has raised breeze by suggest
ing through the papers that the motto, "Let
knowledge grow from more to more" which
was placed upon the walls of q college in To.
ronto, is not good English. Friends of the col
lege are rushing into print, and suggesting thai
the critic write to Mr.. Tennyson and ask him to
correct the mistake in the next edition of II
| MenlOTidnl. ...-. : r
| To Virginian who asked him to use his in.
| huence to reduce the tax on tobacco, General
| Butler last week wrote-"You will see the diff
| Guilty of throwing away some thirty millions OF
| revenue rather than have some few people
thrown out of employment. Besides when tn,
| taxes are honestly assessed everywhere tobacco
| will rise in price, so that men in our manufac
| tories will manufacture it still, and these mel
| will have employment again"
| The Newark Advertiser reports that th
students have been having lively times at Rut
| gers College, growing out of an attempt on tn,
| part of the seniors to attend the juniors oration
| for the junior year honors The juniors rushed
the seniors from the hail. and the Faculty having
sustained the seniors in the encroachment, tn
juniors refused to speak at all at the exhibition
| Finally, however, compromise was made, an(
| only the seniors who belong to the society whicl
speaks and the juniors are to be admitted to hea
| the trial. 1