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Chicago Market.

Chicago, May 81
Flour-Whitc winter extras, :sS.jO011 90:
spring extras, $7G0QS.5O
Wheat-No spring Sl.5O9152 No. 9 $145
G1.46%.
Corn-47'.c for No. 1; 448441;c for No 2 :
rejected i2c.
Oats-4O24 @4O7ac for No. ..
Rye-75c for No g
Barley-5Sc for No 9
Butter-lSQ20c for choice.
Eggs-12a12La.
Cattle--Choice steers $G.50q61j; medium to
fair $5OO45G5; good to choice cows So 75a4 20;
common to fair $350G39O.
Hogs-$390Q410.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Business has improved a little during the
psst week. and it is expected that the money
market will soon get easier.
In Chicago the money market continues
easy, put the demand from grain dealers and
the increasing volume of business In all lines
of trade makes prospect of better demand
for bank funds.
Gold and governments continue about the
same as last week.
Ravens, McKinlay X Co. furnish the following
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Sbecp-kilIing Dogs.

81 would like to keep sheep on my hilly
farm" writes a correspondent, "but am
afraid of the dogs. Is there no remedy %,
There are three remedies: l. If there is
tax on dogs in your State, see that it is en-
forced in your neighborhood. 2. If there is
no dog law in your State, vote for no man
who will not pledge himself to do all he can
to have one enacted. 3. Let all the sheen
men in the neighborhood form themselves
into an association. Let nothing be done to
crafty personal spite; but if a suspicious dog
is found prowling about the farm, shoot him.
Then, If the owner can prove damages, let the
association pay them, and repeat the process.
City and village dogs must be taught to stay
at home. They are often abused and half.
starved, and it would be mercy to them TO
give them one good meal of mutton with n
little strychnine in It. The neighbors might
be told that this feast was provided solely for
visitors, so that they keep their dogs at home.
A good plan to adopt IS, when a sheep dies.
dress it and wash it with water containing a
few spoonfuls of crude carhclic acid. 1t will
preserve the meat for months. Cut it I'D in
to joints and hang it up, and you will always
have piece of mutton on hand for hungry
dog that may visit you from the city, village,
or swamp. 1t is rarely that well-bred and
well-fed dog attacks sheep, and it is not often
that such dogs wander far from home at night.
If there are any good dogs in the neighbor-
hood, inform the owners of the fact that YOU
have set a trap for the half-starved providers
from the city, and that they had better fasten
theirs up at night. In this way no harm is
likely to be dOne.-American AgricuLt,yist.
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Working Cows In Teams.

AS for the cows, says a correspondent
writing from Germany, they are worked in
teams wherever we have been, save at Ham,
burg. have seen an OK but once since COM
ing to this country, and then the creature
was on the way to the butcher. The cows
draw always by the head-not by the shoull
ers, like oxen with us. Upon the head IL
women, too, bear their loads. One sees Goa
in the cities going about with large bas' Is,
cans, tubs, and what not, set upon :,c
mat, which is followed underneath to iii the
head. They walk SO erect, however, swing
their arms with such an air of independence,
and look, when a troup Of them are seen to-
gether, SO picturesque, that one cannot make
up his mouth to enter complaint on their
behalf. In Heidelberg they flock in the early
morning, and, seen at some little distance
in the fresh, bright morning air by eyes which
the labor of the day has not yet tanned to
prose, seem like figures just stepped out Of a
picture for an hours play at real life. Some
times, however, the scene is less attractive.
In Hanover We were in a position to see the
on their way from the depot,
bearing baskets of vegetables. The basket
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A WOman's Stratngem and Its
Result.

A story comes from Athens about Greek
briganding very refreshing to honest people,
and suggestive of the question whether wO-
men might not govern Greece better than its
men. One of the curses of modern Hellas,
as everybody knows, is the unextrpated
guild of brigands, who infest the land, defy
ing the government, suppressing commerce,
demoralizing the peasanty, and robbing and
numbering strangers or rich natives. One of
these unhanged villains lately captured the
youthful son of widow woman of property,
well known upon the border. The usual
message was sent down from the hills: The
brigand chief must have 900 drachms by a
certain day, or the life of the boy-he was
only twelve years old-would pay the forfeit
AS usual, too, the last hope which mother
could cherish in such frightful position was
the chance Of government help. The wretch
eddy weak administrations which play at " in
and out" in Athens still allow these scoun-
drels to hold the roads and passes of the
country, and this poor woman had to trust
to her own courage and wits. Neither were
wanting; there was some true old Odyssean
blood in her, and she hit upon a plan for
saving both her child and her drachms. She
had a brother, a young fellow of perfect
pluck, though his cheeks were as smooth as
the Dalian Apollo's, and him she dressed up
carefully as Ureek girl. Having appointed
to meet the rObber chief in a certain spot,
she took up 200 drachms and present of
cakes and fruits, the "Greek girl" going
with her as a"guide." On reaching the
place they found the scoundrel waiting, with
the captive lad bound hand and foot beside
him. The woman first ascertained by cum
ming questions that the man was really alone :;
and then offered, with many applications,
her money and the present of cakes and
fruits. The villain took the latter and
munchbd while he counted out the drachmas :;
then, with fierce oath, he said it was far
too little-that she must go back and send
enough to make up 900, or the head of the
lad would be sent down to her without DELAY.
While the woman chung duplicating to his
knees, the "Greek girl" suddenly flung a
grip of iron round the robbers arms, and, as
the fellow was then pinioned, the outraged
mother drew loaded pistol and shot him
dead. The pair lost no time in liberating
the lad, nor did they forget to cut off and
wrap in cloth the head of the "chief;"
and, as a reward of 5000 drachmas had been
set upon this precious article, they made
quite an excellent days business of it, on
arriving safe and sound at their own village
London Telegraph.
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That have long since emerged from 1t Is
of course pretty evident, but men have been
hanged on less circumstantial evidence than
was brought against me. FOrty-five pounds
in notes were stuffed into the pocket OF that
fatal sketch-book which was found in my
possession. 1t was impossible for me to
prove that had not stolen it, or that the
pistol did not belong to me. True, no one
had ever seen me with it until the coast.
guardsman came up, but equally true was IL
no one had ever seen the unhappy man with
such a weapon. We could never find out
how he came by it, or how he managed SO
carefully to conceal it. These were awkward
facts which told heavily against me, setting
aside minor details. No, there was only one
line of defense, and this, in the end, was
adopted successfully.
had to prove that the young artist was
suicidal maniac, who had been in confine-
ment in the Homeskirk asylum at the time
had visited it some years previously; that
he had been released under the impression
that he was cured, and that it was quite
possible for the malady to hsye returned. l
could not rely on my position in life, and my
hitherto untarnished character for having my
account of the tragedy believed.
But, ali me ! the anxiety whilst these things
were pending and the evidence got together.
The director of the asylum who had shown
me over it was dead; the keepers or attond-
ants changed or discharged; the medical men
or other authorities connected with the case
were all in the far north, and were subpGnaed
with considerable difficulty. The friends OF
the unfortunate lunatic had been greatly to
blame in allowing him such unmatched free
dom, but it was thought that, in permitting
him to travel in pursuit of his much-loved art,
they were adopting the surest means of re-
storing him to health. l recOllected after
wards that he had been pointed out to me,
during my inquisitorial visit to the asylum,
as peculiar case of mOnomania. He be-
lieved that he had committed some dreadful
crime, which he could not expiate with his
life. l recollcct that he eyed me distrust-
fully, appearing to overhear and resent the
muttered remarks the doctor made about him.
He recognized me probably from the first
when we again met on the height above that
little seaside town, and my face may have
revived in his poor demented brain some hor.
rible and mysterious association, and thus
became the exciting cause of that access Of
his madness which ended in self-destruction
However this may have been, it was difficult
to account for the strange and disagreeable
effect bis presence always had upon me
Could 1 but have remembered earlier where
L saw him before, l should have been, o
course, on my guard. His life, poor fellow
might have been spared, and L should have
escaped the fearful suffering endured willis
standing under the shadow of the Blacl
Beam.
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is two feet deep, fifteen inches square at the
bottom and twenty at the top, and, filled
with green vegetables; makes heavy load;
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''For his vindication General Grant could
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-"Humph!" said an Englishman to a
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fields, "oats are all very well in their way,
but in England we feed them to our horses,
while here they are food for men,"
Say, ay!'' said the Scotchman, sam just
see what fine horses there are in England,
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C. F. Kennedy, of Altamont, Calffor-
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for $4,000 because she didn't marry him
when she said she would.
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