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New-York tribune., 1874-03-14

Corn Meal strong though quiet s'les Of LOO 0oS 9ao m
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81 G 81 67 ~ 5jat Coz Cob Meal 81 -O"si 7oi
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slow, snail sales have Of Pane Western A. 10 9O'ei IN
ierior quoted st $50 l5e II, -, a., -, ,.-o,. b.1
and "a .. Sprpg lrrey would have TO De mde
W,.t,r Zaoe
ipouiry to shippers mainly though We no'ee I.f
d for Winter and note Of % 900 hu.h Amber ~ - o.
$1,000 bush at 81 10 aSl oZ lW ul
gr,e Sprinp lows IL % for NO thcago ogNb
5Od.l 53 for No. Chcao Spuug Sl 4ia$i - 10,
55aSl no MlSaukee ~ oJaf oV
No Nuisance. II 81 Weseu; 81 O1 q io Amber uo
IN store 81 GO Sprug; included 10 tke sats ~ wv
No Mnuesota al 81 ST. Paul inspections AMI ~ ~ i9f
Michigan Bailey quiet heavi saes ssi ght OF -Vy
Feneh Canadian terms Barley a uu nv
tine Oa. sre dull the trade tohi on e S
New Ohio Mixed az % GO4c Nhte ~ o3goO'
a. m Ic on track; Western 63o6i 2 Wh'e oSp
Gs state GA aGjc R'e quiet though m Sor u H @
,cye and easier; shippers hold Of the trae ea' on 20
nTes, NO wants he bush Western hTd at
In atcJ05Or.i western Nuie AZ oo~'os'
Western Yellow A. SSaaOc; jersey Yellow At 80 2Ho' 90 ~,
INNIRs-Trsde very dn sut prices ere quoted nomna AZ
for heavy averages Goth, l22 Tor HRH u
Cecna At 0ad91, and BOr.eo At l22Gl24c Bags are very
oue and STEADY at l3c
SGOaS6J, gold, for Guanale snl 'shiueha ~ -.
HOPS-Iho Transactions 1uy limited and pces on III gAe'
except Iesriug ald Olis iywer We quote as i'0"s -
New-York tribune., 1874-03-14
THE MARKETS.
ICsrelarr repoTei ior THS Ts,DuSE
RECEIPTS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE.
STATEMENT OF EXPORTS.

T., following complete us' Of exports saPPeI IA vessels "S'
were cleared .9-ily for foreign yors
1NrNrRP-Bark Lorenzo
New-York tribune., 1874-03-14

uFNPTbere ha. been uOhing done In this line since oar @ M
rrce. remain about the qlosd 81 s0J - SO y oi
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SiDse SzOOaezlO; UuIresi fl3JaslJO JAtt qle az @
Butts dull al -'5i c-lltA sA1i "''- o"O N
scli i1ce our lat that price , --,... ..
nay AND STRAW-Ibe basinsi only moderate, and prices re-
steady. lrne Timothy, at - - AT
to Good DO 81 as23; shipping Grades AZ sly@7&Oi So'
yoob AZ sl7gSis. straw flid@4oi snort no
10. al SO. a. DO. Oat at Slj0FlI ,-,.-...
10 lugot Copper c'ntinues Only not
p1ees dosnwar tendeucy the sales nc ue a'u
n Gske - q 4c cash New Sheatne gcLllsu a. oo 80
and BZe and icOg Metal Sucs shll al $50
All ST. Bots at 3Uc Iron i ,u Yer Gull uf al 1ee
o, anl sales prices are nomns ulcanse Ne
quo Gelga abOn $40 and EgutoI az 9Ji ~" A
$50 Cray Forge al so IA ~ SO ~
-j cuuuev cash lOr ue uis all sou o ~
Fneb: SCRAP Fg Led without ch'ngr, ana ie Is At
or no 1u Mauufacture quoted &C. bar Pipe ANA Sheet les
per Pig I'm Is nominal stel Iof Stral m4'
Eng h n lover: gold an }, ana Zc ior hr
Gge Plates a., also very quiet without decided c4Age ia pcA
Oher Metals dol.
m ,nois 40 NJ al 90 nat ~2~aS2l 80 W tt jJf M 100 %
At ~Oas2 Rye sJl 49, Goani fed al 20 per
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Another Spiritual Expose.

Another of those irritating spiritual
exposures which persecute the faithful
has been made. A young girl, aged
thirteen years, resident in Peoria, has
been performing wonderful feats under
the direction of certain departed NOR
tails. Her mistress departed husband
has been writing notes through her to
his wife, directing her to leave money
in certain places, where it was faithfully
placed, to be mysteriously removed by
a mercenary spirit. Christmas presents
were made by the devoted soul to his
living wife, who footed the bills for t"r
own presents with delicious conjugal
regularity. Tables, and pillows, and
bedsteads, and pianos exhibited pow
ers of locomotion of convincing de-
scription. 1t is probable that the
Peoria newspapers would have become
converts but for the irritating exposure.
A skeptic, on examining the vase pre-
sented to the wife by her dead husband,
found trade mark on it; found the
tradesman who owned the mark; found
the purchaser to be the little medium;
and then everything was confessed and
made clear. Children should never at
tempt to play medium; they are sure to
be found out.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Packing Oranges and Lemons.

\ full grown orange tree yields from
500 to 1000 fruit annually, and arrives
at the bearing state i'll three or five
years,as does the lemon tree; both grow
luxuriantly in most soils. The planta-
tiOns I'm the Mediterranean cOuntries)
are called gardens, and vary in size, the
smallest containing only small num-
Der of trees, and the largest many thou
sand. The fruit is gathered in baskets,
lined with canvas, the basket being held
by strap attached and passed around
the neck or shoulders. From the gar
den the fruit goes to the repacking mag
azine, where it is removed from the
boxes, in which it was packed i'll the
gardens, and repacked for shipment by
experienced female packers, after hay-
ing been carefully assorted by women,
and wrapped in separate papers by
young girls, As many as 800 persons
(mOstlv women and children) are en-
ployed by some of the fruit growers i'll
their gardens and magaZines,in gather
ing, g,sorting and repacking for shipment,
the wages paid them varying from nine
TO sixteen cents day. In sorting. every
fruit that wants a stem is rejected. The
boxes are then securely covered, strap
ped, and marked with the brand of the
grower, when they are ready for ship
ment. Twenty years ago, this trade
was nothing in its commercial charac-
teristics, or the inducements it offered
to capitalists. Now il is progressing
with giant strides into prominence, and
is a considerable source of revenue to
the government
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
The Holy Sepuleher.

The Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, NJ
A., in his pilgrimage Through Pales
tine," thus speaks of Jerusalem so
course the first attraction to every
Christian pilgrim in Jerusalem must ol
necessity be the Holy Sepulcher, and
hither, within half an hour of our ar.
rival at the tents, We bent our steps
and on every day of our soiourn in Jeru'
salem we made a point of visiting the
church which contains the spot which
in all the world is, out of comparison,
the most venerated by the Christian.
1t was certainly very repugnant to oul
feelings on descending the broad flights
of steps which led to the chnrch, and
on entering the great door, to see just
within the precincts row of Turkish
soldiers sitting on a diyan smoking
their narghilehs, and chatting and laugh
ing in total unconcern for the reverence
felt by Christians for this thrice-holy
place. 1t was, perhaps, still more hui
initiating to reflect why these sneering
followers of the false prophet were pre-
sent, and to recollect that their sole OBJ
iect within the building is to repress
the violent contentious of the rival
churches and sects, which would inevita-
bly, proceed to continued feuds but for
the overpowering presence of the armed
guard. Notwithstanding this, one could
not but feel indignant as well as morti-
fed at the custody of the most holy OF
Christian sites being committed to the
Moslems, and one began to understand
something of the fiery zeal which ami
mated the Crusaders in their brave
efforts to rescue the Holy Sepulcher
from the hands of the infidel. Soon,
however, all thoughts of the Turkish
guard were forgotten, as we found our
selves at the very threshold of the tomb
of our Blessed Lord: and then we fol
lowed in the line of the pilgrims who
are always congregated here; and re-
moving our shoes at the vestibule,
entered, when our turn came, into the
Chapel of the Angel, so named as COM
memorating the spot where the blessed
messenger of heaven was seen by the
holy woman sitting on the stone which
he had rolled back from the door,"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15

and might easily have been pardoned
for supposing her charms had subdued
the sturdy Mr.. Bannister. But, toe
polite to betray what she thought, she
asked, in a reserved tone, what the visit
meant.
MADAM, you have beautiful
daughter, so at least / am told, and ]
can well believe it, now that 1 have seen
you. 1 have a nephew, young, hand
some in short, fit match for her,"
"Sir," replied Mrs. Calf, with some
asperity, "my daughter is engaged.
pardon me, madam, she is not"
"How, sir" responded Mrs. Gslt, the
color rising to her cheeks, ''do you dis
pute my word ?"
"Not at ALL" replied Mr.. Bannister
''but 1 beg leave to convince you that
you are mistaken"
mistaken !" echoed the lady.
"Yes, for the intended marriage is
not practicable" continued the visitor
"And why? questioned Mrs. Galt.
because my nephew adores your
daughter, and she loves him. He has a
tolerable fortune of his own, but have
one still better to give him, and, as l
am determined this match shall take
place, 1 tell you frankly, that you will
risk three lives if you strive to prevent
it, for your intended son-in law must
measure swords with me, as well as my
nephew, before he robs my boy of the
chosen of his heart"
Mrs. Gait was a humane woman. She
hated bloo1shed, and had, besides, no
aversion to money. The words, she
has tolerable fortune of his own, and
1 have one still better to give him, ="
had their weight. A little conversation
with Mr.. Bannister convinced her, that
he was ready to make any pecuniary
sacrifice for his nephew's happiness.
and she took care to propose very hard
conditions, to which he acceded with a
readiness that settled the matter at
once. The lovers were soon united,
and they made it principal part of
their happiness to form that of the
generous benefactor who procured it
for them.
John Burney was even more submis-
sive and attentive to his uncle's wishes
than he had been before his marriage,
while from Sophie Mr.. Bannister ex-
perienced the duty and affection of
daughter, though she could never pre-
vail upon herself to reveal the secret of
her appearance in his chamber, and he
on his part as carefully kept the knowl-
edge of the supposed apparition from
his nephew and niece, lest he should
cloud their happiness by introducing
superstitious fears into their minds.
The thing is therefore to this hour
unaccounted for. 1t still forms the
occasional subject of Mr.. Bannister's
ruminations, and sometimes, when he
finds himself unable to sleep, he looks
around his chamber (where he has ever
since, contrary to his usual custom,
burned light with sort of anxious
curiosity, Saying to himself, did l,
after all, really see a ghost ?"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Climate of the Eastern Atlantic
states.

In all our farming operations the
winters enter into serious calculations.
A long winter season means expensive
cattle feed, and consequently dimin-
ished profits. The trouble generally is
that mild winters mean hot dry sum
mers, and thus we lose at one end what
we gain at the other. In the nice even
balance of climate adapted to the best
agricultural results, we doubt whether
any States will excel Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Delaware. Here for
instance in the vicinity of Philadelphia,
we had no frost to speak of till the first
of November. Rare flowers, usually
killed by the least white frost, were in
full blossoms up to that time. The
tuberose, dahlia, geranium, and other
things, usually suffering from cold be-
fore the white frosts come, were bloom
ing then. Even up to this time, with
the first week in November gone, the
thermometer has only once, and for a
few hours only, gone below thirty-two
degrees. Cattle Craze in the pastures
as comfortably as ever, and will do so
probably for month to come. 1t is
indeed rare that any very severe weather
comes on before the middle of Decem-
and it is often near Christmas before
the real winter sets in. Beyond all this,
it very often happens that February is
quite mild, and once in awhile there is
no severe weather to speak of after the
end of January.
1t reads strange to us at this distance
North to read early in the season of
severe frosts South. Thus, in the mid
die of October, Petersburg Virginia)
paper came to hand, telling us that
''Jack Frost, the harbinger of the old
winter king, paid his devoirs to this
vicinity on several occasions during the
past week." and about the same time
to read that ice a quarter of an inch
thick was formed at Memphis. As we
know that frost destroys yellow fever,
people might well be glad to know that
frost comes so soon there-still, as a
fact in climatic studies, it has bearing
on the great agricultural question of
the day.
There are, of course, plenty OF places
which have some advantages over the
often do better by travelling as they do,
to other places, than if they had staid
at home, even though they left the best
advantages behind them but the eli
mate of these Eastern Middle States,
not so very hot or dry for any length of
time, and though so severe at times in
winter, yet of comparatively short dura-
tion, ought surely not be among the
things that grumblers should take um-
bragg at.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
The Minister.IdOl.

1t had long ceased to be at Mr.. Dill.
lingham's option to return to South
Carolina, and he must have congratulated
himself on having found SO pleasant q
haven as Rivermouth to rest in until
the simoom blew over. And certainly
Rivermouth congratulated itself on
sheltering SO brilliant young divine.
1 happened to be there at that period,
recovering from protracted illness, and
l had the privilege of witnessing..a spec
tacle which is possible only genteel
decayed old towns. like that in which
the scene of my story lies. To see one
or two hundred young New England
maidens burning incense and strewine
flowers before slim young gentleman
in black is spectacle worth witnessing
once in the course of ones life.
The young man who, putting behind
him the less spiritual rewards of other
professions, selects the ministry as the
field of his labors-drawn to his work
by the consciousness that it is there his
duty points-is certain to impress us
with the purity of his purpose. That
he should exert a stronger influence oveI
our minds than a young lawyer does, oI
a young merchant, or young man in
any respectable walk ~ life, is easily
understood. But a young man, because
he buttons the top button of his coat
and wears a white neck-tie, is not nee.
essarily a person of exalted purpose OF
shining ability. Yet he is apt, without
any very searching examination, to be
so regarded in some of our provincial
towns. 1 think the straight-cut black
coat must possess a subtitle magnetism
in itself, something analogous to the
glamour there is in the uniform of q
young naval or army officer. How else
shall we explain the admiration which
we have many time seen lavished Oh
very inferior young men?
1 am not speaking in this vein of the
Rev. James Dillingham;. The secret ol
his popularity was an open secret. Ii
was his manly bearing and handsome
face and undeniable eloquence that
made him favorite at once in River
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
The Elm.

l have always associated the oldest
houses in New England with the elm.
allude in particular to those which were
old at the beginning of this century
having two stories in front, the rooi
sloping down to one story in the rear.
When our ancestors began to build
houses in different style, they planted
other trees. l was surprised during my
perigrinations to find so many of these
old houses unattended by their sentinel
elm. l cannot believe that a wooden
house would outlast an elm planted
when the house was built, but in some
cases the house may have been built
under full-grown elm, which has since
perished from the infirmities of age.
On the other hand, there are ancient
houses still extant that seem to be older
than the elm that shades them. The
old Fairbanks house in Dedham was
built in 1886, but the elms that sur
round them seem to be less than two
hundred years old for the elm is not a
long-lved tree.
Those houses are in a more modern
style which are shaded by buttonwood
trees. They are generally of a cubic
form, with a hurricane roof, and con-
tain four nearly equal rooms on floor,
and seldom more than two stories.
When this new style of building be-
came popular, the public were growing
weary, perhaps, of the monotony. of
elms, which were almost exclusively
epoch of our history. The houses,
therefore, which are graced by the plane
tree, or the buttonwood, were probably
built fifty or sixty years later than those
with elms; and the Oldest buttonwood
is, perhaps, not so old by a century as
the oldest elm. The buttonwood is not
indigenous in New England. 1t was
transplanted from the Middle States,
and was, l suppose, chiefly used by
wealthy people of certain period, who
were pleased to distinguish their es-
tates from those of poorer citizens.
The houses of wealthy old English
settlers may be identified by the pres
ence of the English elm, sturdy tree
that resembles in some points tall oak
more than an American elm. Among
the wealthy Tories who resided in New
England, this royal elm was a favorite
tree and 1t seems to have been planted
at the same time with the buttonwood !;
but the houses which it accompanies
are somewhat more ornate IN their style
and more frequently have three stories,
than those shaded by the plane. When
ever you find the English elm before an
old house, you may be sure it marks
the residence OF some early Governor of
the State or colony or Of Soma Ot her
civil officer of royal appointment. l
have also remarked that it is habit of
old gentlemen among us who admire
English customs and affect a certain
iordly dignity, to praise this sturdy old
tree above its American congener, which
is more plebeian in Its associations. In
this country the English elm is allied
with the old Tory aristocracy; the Ame-
rican elm with primitive republican sim
plicity, with the cottages of the people,
and particularly with the homestead of
the Puritan Wilson FIGgg.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Chess Antique.

Before the first stone of the Egyptian
pyramids was laid, before the Petteia
of the Greeks and the Latrunculi of the
Romans were thought of, Chaturanga,
the primeval chess of the Hindoos had
for centuries, remarks the AttenGuDs,
been the cherished pastime in India.
Even that limited branch of chess OF
which the book "Chess Problems OF
End Games" is an illustration was prac-
tised in Arabia and Persia as early
probably as the sixth century. We
know that these subtleties were sort
of delight to the renowned Harcon-er-
Rasheed, and curiously enough one OF
the Oldest on recore is the composition
of his son, Mutasim Billah.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Miscellany.
LisZf at Home.

/ am having the most heavenly time
here in Weimar, studying with Liszt,
and sometimes / can scarcely realize
that L am at that summit of my ambi-
tion-to be his pupil 1t was the Frau
Won 5. S letter that secured it for me, /
am sure. He is so overrun with people
that think it a wonder he is civil to
anybody, but he is the most amiable
man l ever knew, though he can be
dreadful too, whom he chooses, and he
understands how to put people outside
his door In as short a space of time as
it can be done. go to him three times
a week. At home Liszt doesn't wear
his long abbe's coat, but a short one,
in which he looks mnch more artistic.
His figure is remarkably slight, but his
head is most imposing. 1t is so deli
cious in that room of his 1t was all
furnished and put in order for him by
the Grand Duchess herself. The walls
are pale gray, with gilded border rum
ming round the room, or rather, two
rooms, which are divided, but not sepa-
rated, by crimson curtains. The furni-
ture is crimson, and everything is so
comfortable, such a contrast to German
baroness and stiffness generally. A
splendid grand piano stands in one win
dow Che receives new one every year
The other window is always wide open
and looks out on the park. There is a
dove-cote just opposite the window, and
the doves promenade up and down on
the roof of it, and fly about, and some
times whir down on the sill itself. That
pleases Liszt. His writingtabie is
beautifully fitted up with things that
all match. Everything is in bronze,
ink-stand, paper-weight, matchbox,
etc, and there is always a lighted can
die standing on it by which he and the
gentlemen can light their cigars. There
is carpet on the fioor-a rarity in Ger
maryland Liszt generally walks about,
and smokes, and mutters Che can never
be said to talk and calls upon one or
other of us to play. From time to time
he Will sit down and play himself, where
a passage does not suit him, and when
he is in good spirits he makes little
jests all the time. His playing was a
complete revelation to me, and has
given me an entirely new insight into
music. You cannot conceive, without
hearing him, how poetic he is, or the
thousand nudnces that he can throw
into the simplest thing, and he is
equally great on all sides From the
zephyr to the tempest, the whole scale
is equally at his command. I've begun
to study now in an entirely new way,
and 1 feel that every time go to him
it is worth thousand dollars to me-
atlantic Moathly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
Walter Savage LandOr.

There is one subject upon which
those who think that what / have to
say on it is of the nature of speaking i'll
of friend, will consider that it were
better to be silent. 1 should think SO
with them, and should abstain from
touching the matter 1 allude to, if 1
agreed with them in the first PROPOSE
ton. But differing from them on this
point, and feeling strongly that it is
absolutely due to any honest profession
of opinion, to allow such profession to
have and to exercise all such authority
and influence as it may be capable of
exercising, and as he who courageously
professed it would have wished it to
have, do not hesitate to say that Lam
dor was no believer in any of the creeds
which are founded on the belief in q
written revelation. Were there any
possibility of doubt upon the subject, 1
should not make this statement. But
it was not in his nature to conceal any
sentiment of opinion, and his own ut
terances on the subject were of the
frankest. 1 remember to have seen
many years ago-a long time before L
had ever known him-a long letter
from him in which he maintained the
superiority of the old classical pagan
ism to any of the forms of faith which
have superseded it. In fact, in this re-
spect, as in many others, he was the
most antique minded man 1 have ever
met with. Without being profound or
exact classical scholar according to the
standard of a day subsequent to his
own, his mind and taste had been fed
and nurtured on classical studies, and
especially on classical poetry, from his
youth upward. In his tastes and SYM
pathies he was essentially pagan. In
his modes of thinking and feeling re-
specting the most important feall the
questions that can occupy the mind of
man he was professed equally so. 1t is
not for me TO say, or to guess even,
how far such feelings and opinions in
his case were the result of temperament,
and how far they proceeded from ex-
animation and reflection. That he had
thought much was sufficiently shown,
if by nothing else, by the letter have
spoken Of But Landor was to re-
markable degree one of those men
whose thinking processes upon every
subject are ineItricably intermingled
with and influenced by their emotional
processes.-Lippincotfs Magazine.