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New York Produce Market

NEW YORK March lS.-Ootton flrmer, and 500
bales middling uplands sold at 2S19c State and
Western Flour dull, and prices iayor buyers; south
buyers; winter red Western, s1'25al. Corn scarce
and advanced 1c.; new mixed Western, 90 a9sc. !;
new yellow Jersey 99c 09sl'OO. Oats frmer; State,
61@62c. Western, 66Ac in store. Beef quiet Pork
frmer; new mess, s26 Lard steady; steam-ren-
dered, 14@914Ac. Whisky firmer Western 99c.
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FROM CALIFORNIA.
billiard Match.

SAN Francisco, March 1S.-Rudolph and
Deery played billiard match last night of 1900
points for $4,000. Rudolph was the victor,
making 1900 points while Deery was making
$40. Rudolphs greatest run was 312, and
Deery's ia.
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stock Quotations BY TeIegrapn-2P.m M.
New York Money and stock Markets.

NEw YORK, Marcl 16.-StOcks unsettled Money
active at per cent. Gold. llz5. Flve-twenEles.
do, 1O9J1; do do new, 1O7zS; do. 1867, lOs7S
do. 1885, 1Os; 1O4Os, 1855; Virginia es, new
20; Missouri IS, 91%; Canton Company, 60; Cum
berland preferred, 27; Consolidated New York Cen.
trai and Hudson River, 81 Erie, 25J4 Reading, 96N
Adams Express, 614; Michigan Central, 1i9;
Michigan Southern, S6H; Illinois Central, 139
Cleveland and PittsburR, 97N; Chicago and Rock
island, 11s26 Pittsourg and Fort Wayne, ,1934 West
ern Union Telegraph, 32A.
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HOUSE RoBBERY.-The residence of Mrs.
Moser, Palmer street, below Frankfort Road,
was entered by thieves yesterday afternoon
who forced open rear door, and stole two
silk dressas
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ATTEMPTED SUIcIDE.-Patrick Glacken was
Yesterday found in McLean's woods, Kenslngton
avenue. near HarrOwgate, with his throat cut
and near him was found a razor. The unfor-
Eunate man was removed to the Episcopal Hos
pital. He is supposed to be deranged.
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BRUTALITY.-Wiliam j. Bruce Git should be
Brute) has been held in $1,000 bail to answer the
charge of cruelty beating the woman he has
sworn to protect Bruce resides at Thirteenth
and Wire streets.
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SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-Ellen Murphy aged
sixty-one years, last evening slipped on an icy
pavement on Callowhill street, near the Wire
Bridge, and falling, seriously injured one of her
ankles. She was renewed to her home, twenty
fourth and Biddle streets.
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THE WESTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH EDI-
FICE corner of Seventeenth and Filbert streets
has been sold to the First Reformed Presbyte-
rian congregation, now worshipping at Eigh-
teenth and Chestnut streets, for $35, 600. Next
Sunday will be the last service under the old
organization. Rev. P. T. Stevenson is the pas
tor of the Reformers.
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PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 40 s. Third street,
SECOND BOARD.

uTEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT RINGS.
w ~ solid Is-karat hne gold QUALITY WAR
hSANA""' FARR & BROTHER, Makere,
as4yfmS No. S94 OHESNUr Street. below Fourth
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MoRTALITY.-Early this morning an infant
fifteen months old, the child of one of the
dodgers in the Third District Station House, died
in the cellar on its mothers breast
The body of an infant was found this morning
on the steps of residence at Sixteenth and Car
penter streets.
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SUPPOSED MURDERER.-Last night man
entered q drinking saloon at Broad and South
streets, and acting rather strangely, soon at
tracted the attention of some of the inmates.
1t appears that a couple of them had been read
ing in the papers description of the man who
murdered the woman Tobin at Woodville Pa,
few days ago, and comparing it with the
visitors appearance, concluded that he was the
him him before Alderman Flood, io.' who % committed @ @
him to await requisition from the authorities
of Woodville. He gives his name as Patrick
Sweeney.
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SLIeHT FIRE.-About o'clock last evening q
slight fire occurred in the house of James Gas
ton. Ninth street, above Columbia avenue, by
the explosion of q coal oil lamp.
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PUGIIIsTIC.-Some nights ago Sergeant
Duffie, of the Seventeenth District force, was
attacked at Eleventh and South streets by gang
OF roughs, headed bya William Evans, and rather
severely handled. The Sergeant stood his
ground, however, and succeeded in arresting
Evans, who was committed to prison by Alder
man Dallas to answer at Court.
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THE 'iSTAR" COURSE OF LEcTUREs.-O
Monday evening Mr.. John G. SAKE will lecture
at the Academy of Music on "French Folks at
Home" and will recite his poems of "The
Proud Miss Mcbride" and ''The Press" Mr..
SAKE is too we'll known as humorous poet and
as an elegant and popular lecturer to need any
special commendation in advance. Those who
attend at the Academy on Monday evening may
be assured of most attractive entertainment.
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RABID CANINE.-A dog suffering from an
attack of hodrophobia was yesterday killed in
Aramingo
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MASONIC, ELEcTIoN.-At an election held last
evening, the 18th inst, the following Sir Knights
were elected officers of Cyrene Commandery, No
year, commencing with Good Friday
Sir A. B. Frazee, EN-. Commander.
Sir l. Layton Register, Generalissimo.
Sir Aaron Ward, Captain General.
Sir j. w. Wroth, Treasurer
Sir CHARLES ]. Firing Recorder.
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THE NUMIsMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN
SoCIETY.-A special meeting of the Antigua
ran Society was held last evening, in the hall
No. 524 Walnut street, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the report of special committee on the
removal of the rooms of the society. The COM
mittee reported in favor OF changing the present
meeting room to one at Ninth and Walnut
streets. The report was accepted. The COM
mittee was continued to take charge of the
books and other property belonging to the
association, and see that they are properly
moved to the new quarters.
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more than pound of reason, espeshily
when a man mistakes bigg foot for a
small one.
Avoid tite boots, mi friend, as you
would the grip NV the devil, for many a
man haz caught for life fust rate habit
for swearing by encouraging his feet to
hurt hiz boots.
/ hav promised mi two feet, at least a
dozen ov times during mi checkured life,
that they never should be strangled agin,
but i find them to-day as full of pain az
the s,umick axe from sudden attack OF
tite boots.
But this IL solemnly the last pair ov
tite boots will ever wear; will hereafter
wear boots az bigg az mi feet, if hav to
go barefoot to do it.
am too old and too respectable to be
phool emmy more.
Eszy boots is one of the luxuries ov
life, but forgit what the other luxry il,
but don't kno az care, provided j can
git rid ov this pair ov tite boots. M
Emmy man kan have them for seven
dollars just half what they kost, and if
they don't make his feet axe wuss than
an angle worm in hot ashes, he needn't t
pay for them.
Methuseles IL the only man that / kan
kali to mind now who could hav afforded
to wore tite boots and enjoyed them;
he had crate deal of waste time to be
miserable in, but life now days IL too
short and too full ov aktual Dizziness to
phool away emmy of it on tite boots
Tita hOotg are an Insult To annV man 4
understanding.
He who wears tite boots will hav to
acknowledge the korn
Tite boots hav no bowls of mersy;
their insides are wrath and promiskious
cussing .tf
Beware of tite boots. M sf
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Restricted Suffrage In Massaehu
setfs.
From the New York world.l

! IlOlu tuc NeH lOTh W OIiu.
There is in the Constitution of the
State of Massachusetts, provision to the
following effect, namely, that no per.
son shall have the right to vote, or be
| eligible to office under the Constitution
of this Commonwealth, who shall not be
able to read the Constitution in the Eng
lish language and write his name" On
the 10th instant a proposition to bestow
the privilege of suffrage upon women
being under discussion in the Massachu-
sett House of Representatives, an
amendment to that proposition was of
fered, to the effect that the right of each
sex to vote shall not be restricted
because of any requirement in the State
Constitution concerning the payment of
taxes or ability to read and write the
English language. On this, debate oc-
Cured, in the course of which it was
evinced that, as the Constitution of Mas
sachusetts excludes from suffrage all
who do not pay their taxes or who can
not read and write the English language,
there were 55,050 persons, now otherwise
qualified for suffrage, debarred from the
ballot in the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts. The total number of voters
now in Massachusetts being 262, l20, it
appears from this statement that num-
Der of people in Massachusetts exceed
ing twenty-one per cent. of the present
voting population are excluded from the
polls. Such being the statement, the
amendment to do away with existing re-
strictions was voted down by a vote Of
9S to SO; and then, the original question
of woman suffrage coming up, that, too,
was voted down by 1873 to 60; from which
it very decidedly appears that the Massa-
chusetts House is in favor of restricting
suffrage, first to men only; and, secondly,
TO such men alone as pay taxes and can
read and write English These two
facts are left for the readers own con-
sideration, and TO them only will be
added this remark-that in respect to
literary qualification for suffrage Massa-
chusetts is more stringent than any other
State in the Union. Connecticut only
requires ability to read; Missouri has an
anticipatory provision that after 1876
ability to read and write shall be condi-
ton precedent to voting; and in the
other States there is no literary qualif-
cation at all Further, it may be re-
marked-and this last is a very curious
ircumstance-that no ordinary negro
field hand from the South, were he to re-
move to Massachusetts, could vote-frst,
because from his poverty he could not
pay taxes, and, second, because he could
not read or write.
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The Jute Plant in the south.

General Capron, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, has imported through the
American Consul at Calcutta, a small
quantity of the jute plant with view
to introducing its culture into the ex-
treme section Of the Union south Of the
frost line. ID is being distributed to
planters in Texas and Florida, who will
give il fair trial. 1t is ibrous plant,
resembling coarse flax, Of easy culture
and rapid growth, with a comparatively
large product. The crop when ripe, is
cnt down to the roots, and after being
steeped in water for a week or so the
bark slips easy, and the silky. tber is de-
tached, cleaned, assorted, and packed in
bales Of 800 pounds each. Its annual
product in India is estimated at more
than 1000 tons. Il is the material Of
which gunny bags and cloth, and bagging
for cotton, as well as cheap cordage,
mats and carpets are made its great
use, however, is for haling cnt-
ton As il takes about six yards 10
wrap q bale Of cotton, a crop Of
3,O0O. 900 bales would require, Of course,
ls,OOO,OOO yards Of bagging. The ma
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chinery for making it in India is very
rude; in fact, no progress has been made
in it for centuries. But jute factories OF
colossal size have been erected in Great
Britain, some of which employ 200 hands
and work up 1000 bales per week into
bagging, sacking, sheeting, carpeting,
duck, etc. In France some 10000 tons
of the raw material are consumed annu-
ally, and in our Northern States its man
ufacture is steadily increasing Jute is
spun on machinery made on the same
principle as that made for fax and hemp
but differing in size and proportion 1t
is more easily worked than either of
these fibres, which fact, connected with
the cheapness of the raw material, ac-
counts for the rapid progress of the jute
manufacture in Great Britain, compared
with linen Or hemp. After being used
up as bagging, etc., it finds its way to
the paper mills for the manufacture of
coarse papers.
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JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS.
Tight Boots.

/ would list like to kno who the man
was who fust invented tite boots.
He must hav bin a narrow and kon-
trakted kuss.
If he still lives hope he haz repented
ov hiz sin or IL enjoying CRATE agony ov
some kind.
hav bin in CRATE menny. tite spots
in mi life, but generally could manage to
make them average; but there IL no such
thing as making pair ov tite boots aver
age.
Yu kant git an average on the pinch
ov tite boot, emmy more than yu kan on
the bite ov lobster.
Emmy man who kan wear a pair ov tite
boots, aud be humble and penitent and
not indulge ip profane literature, will
make a good husband.
He win do mere tksR that, he will do
to divide up into several fast klass hus-
bands and be made TO answer for whole
naberhood.
Oil for the pen ov the departed VIM.
Shaksspear TO write an anethema against
the boots, thatyould make anshunt Rome
wake MP and howl agn, AZ she did once
before on previous oekashun.
OH for the strenth oy Her kuies, 20
tare into shu strings all the boots ov
creashun and skater them 10 the : winds
Of heaven
Obi for the suty oy Venns, tew make
bigg foot look hansum without a tite
boot on IT.
OH for the payshunce Of Job, the
Apostle, 10 nuss . tite boot and bless II,
and even prefer one size smaller and
more pinchful. --.
Obi for pair ov boots bigg enuf for
the foot Ov a mountain.
/ hav bin led into the above assortment
ov Obs from havingin my posseshnn
at this moment, pair of number nine
boots, with a pair ov number eleven foot
in them.
Mi feet are az dogs noze the fust
time he wears a muzzle.
think mi feet will eventually choke
the bcc.s 10 deth.
I liv in hopes they vii
/ suppozed had lived long enuf not
70 be rkooled agin in this way; but hag
found that an ounce Of vanity weighs
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EconomicaIYonfh.

The New York Sun tells the following
story of young Sears, the heir to an
enormous fortune made by his father in
the West India goods trade in Boston.
The old man was tighter than the bark
to a tree" The chip of the old block, y
while spending the summer of 1867 at
Swampscott, Massachusetts, was in the
habit of wearing a pair of shocking
bad shoes, though, of course, he had a
full supply of better ones All entreaty
failed to induce him to relinquish the old
ones; he stuck to them or they stuck to
him, as does an old woman with corns to
her easy buskins. He would invariably
reply: | can get a little more wear out
of these"
Appeals to his pride, his ability to fur
nish himself with better ones, etc,
having failed, the lady having him in
charge at length endeavored to touch
the soft part in his heart There goes
a poor barefooted boy" she said; now
you might do him a kindness if you
would give him your old shoes" But he
declined to do il at that time.
A few days later he came in from play
aud exclaimed; Tn a good boy amt |,
auntyf at the same time asking for an
other pair Of shoes, and saying that he
was going to give the old pair to a poor
boy He was, Of course, applanded for
his generosity. and left the house, old
shoes in hand.
Returning toward noon he was asked
if he had given away the shoes. "0h,
yes" he answered thrusting his hand into
his pocket and drawing thence a pair Of
lacings: Il gave them to that poor boy;
but aunty, saved the strings. They
were almost new, You know.
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A STRANGE STORY.
A Feminine Mystery in Jersy
JaiI-ExtraOrdinar Escape from
RIaekWeII's Island.

A Feminine Mystery i'm n Jersy
| JaiI-ExtraOrdinar Escape from
BlackweII's Island.
From the New York Herald.l
The authorities of Newark, New Jer-
sey, are considerably exercised over a
mysterious female now confined in the
jail there. Yesterday afternoon about
| five clock the cries of woman in dis
tress reached the ears of saloon-keeper
named Courier, who keeps a place on
the corner of River and Canal streets,
Newark. The cries proceeded from a
stoneyard near by, and rushing out Mr.
| Courier found female of wild, maniacal
appearance in the hands of gang of
River street ruffians, whose object mani
testify was of the most heinous character.
Courier at once sprang to the female S
assistance Her assailants at first showed
a disposition to fight, and one of them
went so far as to draw a knife. Before
he could well use it however, some citi-
zens came along and the ruffians cleared
out The strange woman was then con-
Quoted to the station-house, where she
gave her name as Ann Blackburn, and
said she was fugitive from Blackwell S
Island, New York, where she had been
confined in the Insane Department for
the last FIVE years. She was placed in a
cell, and subsequently visited by a
reporter in company with Chief of Police
Peckwell
She is woman thirty-five or forty
years of age, tall and dark complexioned,
and showing evidences of having been
exposed to the weather. Her clothes, of
the eommonest kind, were wringing wet
About her eyes was a peculiar express
sion. She conversed freely and answered
all questions put to her with readiness
and in a manner that scarcely any but
sane person could accomplish Her
story, is in effect that she was born in
Prince Edwards Island, Nova Scotia,
and has mother and brother residing
in Hoboken, Her uncle, who she says is
Professor John Mcintosh, Canadian
author. left her in his will some two hun
dred acres of land on Prince Edwards
Island, half Of which is clear and the
other woodland. To cheat her out of
this, she says her mother and brother
Dave" caused her to be placed on
Blackwell's Island. where she remained
five years. On Friday morning she es-
capped on raft composed of two boards
When near the shores of Manhattan
Island, she would have been drowned,
she says, but for an Irishman who res
cued her. Her shawl she sold for fifty
cents, and so procured means to pay her |
ferriage across to Jersey. She claims to
have walked out 70 Newark,
Such is her story, related by herself !
and it remains to be seen whether there
is any truthin it or not
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The elephant known as Young Shoe
Fly, attached to Mesrs. Gardner a
Forepaughs Menagerie, breathed his
last yesterday at II am. His remains
have been bequeafhed TO the Western
Reserve College, where the body was
taken last evening. The body will be
prepared while there and exhibited
among the curiosities. His death was
brought about BY the tussle he had with
the large elephant while in the Nermil-
lion river. No one regrets his death
more than his mate, who caused his
death. Ifis plying to look upon him.
Tears are continually streaming IRON
his eyes. and low mufmar Of groaning
is heard. His keeper says he Knows as
well as man that he was the cause Of his
death II Cgereiahd PlaiHdeater.
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The Copenhagen journals continue TO
complain Of the treatment Of their favor
ite Danish princess, Alexandra, By her
husband, the British heir apparent.
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Alf Burnett amused Brigham Young
and family at the Salt Lake theater FRI
DAY night
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Two New Orleans girls foughta pitched
battle for the ownersnipof a nice young
man with moustache and curls.
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N. j. DIGLkY. UEO, MkLLERsH. ID. MOMkAL.
UTE HAVE THIS DAY ASSOCIATE
w with us as partner, DR.. ID. McMeal.
The firm name will be continued. We return
our thanks to the citizens Of Memphis and
surrounding country for their liberal patron
age during the past, and respectfully solicit
continuance of the same for the future; guar
anteeing always to furnish the best article of
coal at the lowest market rates, and to attend
to all orders promptly, with an aim solely to
give satisfaction.
BIGLEY, MELLERSH & CO.,
South Court and Main streets.
Memphis, April l, 1870. 40-5S
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COMPTROLLER's OFFICE,
NASHVILLE, January !, l670.)
G.. w. Blackburn. Comptroller Of the
Treasury, do hereby certify that the Home
Insu. -ance Company, located at New Haven. in
the s, tate of Connecticut, has produced to me
satisfa ctory evidence that said Company. has
compli I'd with all the requirements Of the laws
Of t6e State of Tennessee imposed on lnsu-
rance Companies; and further certify that
have also complied with requirements of the
laws of In G State. made and provided in such
cases: whe refore. said Home Insurance Com
pnny has au' thority to take risks and transact
Memphis, Te euHessee; NM N, ,ou,,rpN
Comptroller of Tennessee.
H. T. TOMLINS0N & CO., AGENTS,
IL Madison ST., Memphis.
39-56
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PASSENGERS GOING EAST,
Via Louisville or Cairo,

SHOULD PURCHASE TICKETS BY THE
Erie & Atlantic & Great Western R'y
Forming the best and most comfortable line to
New York, Boston, and Northern and Atlantic
cities, with magnificent Palace Combined Day
and Night Coaches, through to New York
without change.
TWO EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY.
This is the only line from Cincinnati to New
York under one management; the only line
from Cincinnati to New York without break Of
Gauge; the only line whose trains run through
to New York without change; the only line
running coaches through without using COM
promise wheels; the only line running Palace
Broad Gauge Coaches through without change.
nS- If you desire prompt time and certain
connections, finest scenery on the continent,
most comfortable cars in the world, most mag
nifcent dining halls and ample time for meals.
and the safest, best, and most comfortable
route-go to New York by the ERIE AND Ar
LANTIo AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Tickets by this line for sale at all Ticket
Offices through the South,
Genil Passenger Ag't, N. Y.
W, n. SHATTUC,
Gen1 South n Ag't, Cincinnati, o. 2-39
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The 2.45 pm. train from Memphis leaves
daily. The 400 am. train leaves daily except
Sunday. Since the completion of the Ohio
river bridge at Louisville, the omnibus and
ferry transfer at that point is avoided.
Sleeping cars run through on the 2.45 p m.
train from Memphis to Louisville, connecting
day cars, running through from Louisville to
Philadelphia and New York without change.
Berths, sections or state-rooms can be engaged
in through cars to New York at Ticket Office,
23713 Main street.
Trains connect for Nashville and st. Louis
as follows:
Leave Memphis. 2.45 pm. 4.00a.m.
Arrive Mt Nashville-.s... 900 am. 6.00p.m.
% " st. Louis......-10.0O pm. 1900 pm.
Ticket Office. 1914 Main street, near Jeffer-
son; and ut Depot, head Of Main street.
/; T. BOYD, Superintendent;
JAS. SPEED, Ticket Agent 9-62-t
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The Home Insurance Company
OF NEW HAVEN, CONN,
JANUARY 1. 1870.

capi,oi 'Tel 2f5 40
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INSURANCE.

- tateme en- t of
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CoPARTNERSHIP.
COpartnership Notice.

N. J. BIGLKY. GEO. MRLLERsH. D. McMEAL.