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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
WEEKLY BUSINESS REVIEW.
SITUATION IN GENERAL.

The past week has been in ell respects slow
and dispiriting. while in the speculative market
it has been dead. Up TO Monday wheat con-
tinued to decline until the price in Chicago fell
below sOeents. But for the past two days the
prospect has been favorable 10 an upward turn,
which should continue in the direction Of an
advance. Money matters ere unchanged, the
anomaly being seen of money abundant. and
eager for sound investment and at the same
ness circles in the city. Country balances have
come in more freely. The prospect for summer
trade is not fattering on the whole, although
one can scarcely designate the situation rs hard
times. The state OF trade is rather unsettled,
and everything is in a state of suspense. wait
ing for some uryn basis on which to build with
confidence the enterprises OF business
So GROCERIES,
The later repoe.s from The East state that .su-
ga!s are selling more freely, and that greater
firmness prevails; sugars have been duh and
dropping for some time, although hedecline of
late has been light, yet the market lacked
strength enough 10 maintain even an &c adj
vance for more than a few days at a time;
standard A sugars are held at lie, and of AS at
sc; hsrd sugars aze-loszc for granulated, lie
leans sugars about closed out; there is an occa-
sional demand, but the warm weather has made
barely active: prices can be shaded East mere
traction; holders think coffee a good stock to
have, and 1t is matntafDed that they are selling
tons are unchanged from those of yesterday.
CHEESE are ac1Ve ana OeelHlng: now hesd al
I2l<aIsIzc here. Rice firm, and larger trsnsac-
lions: prices are without notable change, al
p thocsh about $<1 higher than early in the
son. Hooden-ware, in Cleveland. has adusnced
3nnter,aIly, but owing TO fair Ocks throughout
he county prices are but slightly changed un-
s4oubis.1iy ihe presedt higher figures viii be
maintained, in which event jobbers must soon
follow. Siraps dali and quiet. The May trade
was lighter than was tfedicted, and the out
come generally unsatisfactory. The prescott
week opens with fair trade, but notone of
much activity.
DRY GOODS.
There has been decided Improvement of
trade over that Of two weeks ago. Country deal
ers having sold down their early purchases. are
now laying in their second, and In many cases
third supply, showing by their liberal selections
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
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Trade Palace, Oct. 7.

Trade Palace, OcT. 4.
TO the Country Readers:
We respectfully ask your lmme :
A,a+a atkentiou &c the best selected
rtccl< CfDry Goods, Notions SnG
Millinery ever Drought 10 his c!sy.
Nv uivino our individual attention
I.S s-I1yinq in Nev1 York, we have
secured q line OF Silks, Black
Goods Dress Goods Dornetles,
~TooIans FlanreIs. ShaWls. Table
Linens. Blankets, Comforts NO
tons end Millinery at such rates
ana on such terms SIS eoa DIES us
to offer. the 10 weSt prices know II
since 1862, Cur'priecS are aiike 10
all, and CHANGERS SIS wei as Oth-
ers will find s-Ea 9th eT9 house
more abrasive goods or lower
prices.
Il =. AYRB5 81 90,
TRADE PALACE.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
MONEY, STOCKS. ETC.

NEW YORK, June 2.
Money easy at 21Sas per cent.
Choice mercantile paper is quoted at 31s per
cent; prime 495.
Sterling firm at ca 81 for SO days, and 81 80
for sight.
Custom receipts s3920t0.
Gold strong, opening and closing at ll61l, with
sales during the day at ll65S.
Loans were made fiat.
Rates for borrowing were l94 per cent? per
annum, and l-Gi 10 I-3l per cent per diem.
Treasury disbursements sG64.OOo.
Clearlngs. s36,OOO0O0.
Specie shipments $4,000. of which 100000 is
gold coin-
Government bonds strong.
State securities firm.
Railroad bonds quiet.
Stocks opened heavy and lower, with a decline
in prices ranging from a to AZ per cent. The
leading features were Union Pacinc, Lake Shore,
Western Union, Pacific Mail and Northwestern.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03

confidence in a prosperous future. The system
OF dc unoralizing retailers by postal card price
currents" giving "in9e6nite prices" ON stlll
more Indefinite fabrics. has done some mischief,
and is 10 be considered rs illeg innate IL should
be Abandoned by all WHO make pretensions 10
honorable cee1ings-
Prints are now offered at all kinds Of prices,
choice styles taking the lead at S@S &C.. while
Job lots hang IRE at So Lawns perca les and
gren edinss are-ciCsei y rsclGuP- Worsied pla1ds
quiet. W00ens a,tivee ar extremely low prices
PRODUCE.
The principal trade runs on eggs and live
poultry which ar active though prices Tor the
former are weak. Butter is exceedingly dull
and bad to handle though constantly crowded
on the market. Vegetables and early fruits
have fairly begun their campaign and every
thing thus far IS held st high figures The straw
berry season -pI onises 70 be a success. the
scarcity OF later fruits viii make sharp de-
mand for these while they last.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
It's worth while 20 cay but little OF the great
staples which ha We Isin inactive for two weeks.
1t has been generally rather rough on specula-
tors bat spot transactions have beer so COM
p'etely suspended IS TO render all markets
merely no inal. IL Is not likely that this con-
already begin to ioe family visible.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
NEW YORK CoTToN MARKFr.

NEW YORK. June 2.-Uotton-Is dull; sEIes
were made of middling upland al I61k5I65zc
Futures closed quiet. with sales of 27,1O0 bales
as follows: Seller June, Is 29-32c; seller July,
10 l32c; seller August, IS 3l6c seller SeDten Der
Ii 1-i6c: seller October l5l7Scc: seller Novem ber
10 5-lec; sellerDecember, 10 slice: seller January
10 1-l6c; eler February, l5Sc; seller March
10 29-32c; seller April, l6c; seller May, Is l-l6c
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
NEW YORK METAL MARKET

NEW YORK, June Observation-Disclosures
copper is quiet anu dEo.a..AsS.-, new SheetingS
at SOc 1nGot Lake-ls quiet. sales were made at
&c. Pig lron-ls dull sales were made OF Scotch
at 2s@ SIC: American at dull 2sG2Sc. Russia
Sheets les were made st lslS, gold. NaiIs-T'he
market Is unchanged: sales OF cut were made at
3z951zc; clinch at 5Q6hc. Horse shoes-Sales
Were made OF No. al 24a25c.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
NEW YORK DRY GOODS mARXF,T.

NEW YORK. June AIRY Goods-Jobbiug
branches more active, but the package trade in
cotton gooos remains quiet, and wooden goods
are moving slowly; prints, are generally quiet
in first hands, but Gamers makes have sold
tournament shirtIDgs prints, are reduced TO
I1sc. The Daily Bulletin says: Two hundred
and fifty cases of Germania and Scotia mills
rex.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
REVIEW OF THE HOME MARKETS.

'
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, SSsne 2, 1873.
The aspects Of trade were entirely dsad and
fiat and a qRieter set G. gentlemen thar those
on Change not often met Chicago mar
kets looked better. July wheat strengthened
and marked s5izg9tc. Corn for July, CSC. But
in almost all commodities buyers and sellers
held views SO far apart that nothing like trade
was possible. The grain market here was I'M
changed. II quotations are regarded as nom-
insI, there being not enough transactions to es-
tabiish market Trade on the streets was
quite encouraging. Strawberries are becoming
more plenty and cheaper each day. TheSeason
will presently be at its he ght.
lGuctatlons- are given for the buying prices o.
rain and produce, and the selling prices for
hnrrr end other nerchandiSe,I
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
BosToN WooLMA

BOSTON. June 2.-Wool-A fair demand and
steady prices the new clip is near al hand
nan u1actureTS are buying cautiously. The only
Kinds or Wool really wanted are medium grades
and combing ard delairesh esces, There is more
inquiry foT Ohio and Pennsylvania fieeces end
there is prospect ihatEtocks of this description
VIII soon d1sappear. Sales were made OF Penn
sylvania flesces at 5Og55c, including choice
neeces at 52%d53c; Wisconsin and Michigan
Heeces a. 4S9521Sc; combing and delaine fieeces
at oo90oc; new kentucky cOmbing at 4S,d5Cc. y
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03
EAST LIBERTY LIVE STOCK MARKsr

re, EAST LL,sI;.STZ PA. June 2.-REEE CATrLz
The receipts FOR to-day were f,037 head
and total for the past days were 1895 mead
the supply for yard sales is excessively light:
bus IS has been good and nearly everyth
man last week on good stock; the bulk OF the
offerings cave been good 10 extra and bat very
Few common cattle, with 8 loads Of Chero-
KEGS: about 80 loads reported TO arrive; East
erh buyers are doing very little, claiming that
Inc prices are too high 10 do them any good
sales We're made of best at 81 OGzz Is; medium
20 GOO az % 2oy5 20; common 10 fair at So 50G
oW, D1!ls scarce at 81 00G5 %; stoekers scarce
a 621<. -
HoSs-ReceiPts for to-day were $3.50 head,
making total for the p ST 2days OF $500 head
sales were made OF Workers a. SUOG7 70: Phil
adelphias at s. SO6S 90.
SHEEP-Receipts today were zoo head
and total for the past days were 800 head
sales were made OF the best ~ So 25a5 50
medium al Il 25G4 IS; clipped at 8 25@5 80.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03

THE purchasing prices Tor Government bones
In Indianapolis vary from the New York quota
roas k(al Der cent
CENTRAL STOCKS.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-03

CHICAGo IIvr sroC,K ATARvrr

CHICAGO, June 2-CATTLE-The receipts
today were 5000 head; the market was more
active, and hrm, and iOsal5c higher; Texans sold
az sSG4 %; stockers, sold at So 50@4 75 butchers
SOLD al si9o; shipping steers, sold az S. 50G6 IS !:
ior Ordinary TO good, sales we've choice steers,
foeEo So shipments, 1900 head.
hOGS-Ine receipts to-day were ll0O0 head !:
the market was dull, slow and weak and tend
ing strongly downward; sales were good TO
cnoice bacon, 50 eCS7; heavy hogs, s6 75a7 =;
sca,awegsi 60 Dat %; sales were mostly made
at S9I 70; shipments, e,u0J head.
SHEEP-Ihe receipts to-day were lOau head
the market was weak and easy, and small de-
nano; poor 20 choice shorn, SO at So 5O@5 25.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08
The Lawyers and Stenog raphers.

The estimation in which each of the
counsel and the judge in the Beecher
trial is held by the reporters may be
matter Of interest to them as it is to the
public. Judge Nelson is looked upon
with disfavOr from the stenographic
point of view, though very popular 9th
erwise with the reporter. His tone of
voice is usually subdued; his brief rulings
are often unheard by the stenograpers
most distant from the bench. Mr.. Ev-
arts, who is the most deliberate speaker
of all the counsel, and who is among
the clearest toned and loudest speakers,
is nevertheless looked upon by the stenO-
graphers as the most difficult lawyer to
report. Sentences of Mr.. Evarts are so
long and so involved, so frequently in
terrupted by parenthetical remarks in.
jected into the middle of a phrase just as
the thoughts suggest themselves to the
speakers mind, and the reporter, when
transcribing the notes, must be able to
recall, in some degree at least, the EN-
phasis and infections employed, in order
that he may properly punctuate the sem
tence. The sentences of Mr.. Evarts are
so long that well-known stenographer,
who often had occasion to report him,
once told him that it was necessary to
"get on the top of the capital letter of
sentence, telescope in hand, in order to
see the full stop at the other end of it,"
Mr.. Beach and Mr.. Tracy are regarded as
the least difficult of counsel to report,
both having strong, sonorOus voices, and
both being fluent and even speakers.
Mr.. Shearman, too, and Mr.. Porter as
well, may be placed on the same general
category of fluent and easy speakers,
though they are not entirely so even and
facile takers as Mr.. Beach and Mr..
Tracy. General Pryor is the terror of
the reporters, and the rumor that he is to
sum up on the legal points is already
canvassed with alarm. He is very rapid
in ordinary delivery, but at times, when
hurrying through the unimportant parts
of a sentence to emphasize1be important
point, Pryor speaks at the rate of four or
five hundred words minute. One hun
dred and fifty words minute taxes the
ability of the best stenographers. When
General Pryor reaches his most rapid
rate of speed, the stenographers lay down
their pencils in despair.-Ne,o York Tri-
b,Ine
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08
Wrecked In Sight.

That was an awful drama the wind
and waves acted off the coast of Cape
Cod, in which the Italian bark Giovanni,
from Palermo for Boston, went down
with all hands save one, in the gloomy
gray of the breaking morning, within
four hundred yards of land. First the
steward and the carpenter lashed them
selves to plank, but the latter sunk to
his grave in the surf. The shore was
lined with stout men, but no boat could
live in such sea, or if it could the men
were not there to launch her. Lights
were burned on shore. At eleven o'clock
p. M. the main and mizzen masts went
by the board and then her cargo foated
off for the wreckers, watchful and wait
ing. The bombs which were to convey
lines to the ship were found to be worth
less. There was no hope for them.
Lights were burned all night; men were
seen clinging with dying grasps to the
rigging-to anything which might give
them hope of life. They could see the
lines of men on shore. When daylight
broke, two men were struggling with the
breakers on planks. A merciless wave
swept them into eternity. Five mem
all that were left-were clinging together
in the foretop. They had clung there
all night, waiting for the day to bring
them rescue. Morning broke, but there
were. no bombs that were not worthless
and no boats putting out-only men on
the shore looking on those accursed
bombs and looking out seaward as those
poor fellows on the Italian ship were left
to their fate, and dropped one by one
from their death-clutch into the nav of
the terrible sea.
1t is useless to say all was done that
could be done. Whose dreadful crime
was it that those bonds were worthless
And then those men looking on from the
shore-did they go out afterward to
gather in the cargo as it hoated along the
shore for miles? 1t causes us TO look out
over the Atlantic and cry, "Oh, for an
hour of the Deal "-,&. Louis
Republican.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08
A Monster Woman.

The Covington kentucky Record tells
this almost incredible story: An old
negro woman by the name of Brown,
living about nine miles south of Coving-
ton, on the farm of Mr.. Pullen, had a
daughter about twelve or thirteen years
of age, who had for long time been
bed-ridden with hopeless attack of par
alysis. Her mother, an incarnate fiend,
growing weary of the constant care and
trouble which the afflicted daughter re-
quired at her hands, determined to put
her out of the way, and selected the
most cruel and torturing method that
debased ingenuity could suggest-burn-
interpreting to conceal her crime un-
der the guise of an accident. Having
perfected her diabolical plans, about two
weeks ago she set about putting them in
execution. Placing the child on a chair
by the fireplace, and tying rope around
her neck, she began by saturating the
head and clothing of the almost helpless
child from bottle of turpentine that
she had procured for the purpose. The
child struggled with what power of mo-
ton it could command, Knocked the
bottle from the hand of its mother and
broke it, saturating the mothers cloth.
ing with the infammable fluid. In the
struggle, the mothers clothing took fire
from the fireplace, and she abandoned
her terrible crime to save her own life
She ran and threw herself into branch
near by, and extinguished the flames
but not until she was fatally burned
The clothing of the child also took fire
and it was very severely burned. At the
time it was supposed to be an accident
but the monster woman subsequently
when in the agonies of death from heI
burning, revealed the fact as above de
tailed
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08
Life on the Texas Border.

On the 3lst ultimo, Capt. Goodman,
while working in his field, on the east
prong of the Nueces, was fired at by
seven Comanches. After night set in he
informed his neighbors, and, by ten
o'clock, raised squad of eleven men,
badly armed and worse mounted, the
Indians having stolen all their best
horses. 1t being very dark, they made
small progress in the pursuit at once,
but the next morning, at day-break,
struck the Indian trail. They moved in
steady trot all day, and night over
took them supperless and without water !;
still the next morning they pushed to-
ward the headwaters of Devils river,
which they reached about eleven a. M,
on February 3, hungry and famishing.
Three of their number turned back the
day before, so that only eight remained.
Near where they halted, they discovered
fifty or sixty horses grazing in a little
valley near a dense thicket, when a
murmer of joy escaped them. They
staked their horses in a mountain gorge
and crawled cautiously up to the thicket,
where they discovered five Indians
grouped around Ere. A volley from the
danger. Several were wounded, but all
succeeded in making good their escape
amid the dense thicket. All their equip
age and arms were left in camp. Shields,
beautifully adorned with long, golden
hair, worked with colored feathers,
beaded moccasins, lances, bows, arrows
and saddles were among the trophies.
But of more importance still they
captured forty.four stolen horses. While
the Americans were gathering up the
horses two Indians came up to the
thicket with two mules loaded with
buffalo meat. Mr.. Goodman gave chase,
killed the Indians and took their mules
and meat, the latter being what they es-
pecially needed, as they started with no
provisions and dared not shoot OH the
trail for fear of alarming the Indians.
They reached home safely after six days
out, with forty-three head of the stolen
horses, which were soon restored to their
proper owners. This was glorious
achievement. Two hundred such men
would afford ample protection for our
whole line Of exposed frontier.-,Austi'
| iSf1fesDldn
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08

hunting fOI them, my hand encountered
a miners pick, and, grasping it, turned
to find Tom at my side, and a huge griz-
ely standing upon his hind-legs within
six feet of us.
As he slowly waddled toward us, the
light from the dying embers of the fire
revealed his open mouth, cleaning white
teeth, and huge paws, extended as if to
embrace us both in one grasp, while his
eyes shown like balls of fire.
Terrified as l was, had presence of
mind enough to raise the pick, and, Just
as Tom fired, brought it down; but,
with a hoarse, angry growl, the bear
struck it a blow with one of his huge
paws, with as muck ease as boy would
would bat his ball, which sent it spinning
from my hand. He was within two feet
of us when Tom again fired. This time
the ball struck a vital spot, and the
huge monster, with howl of rage and
defiance, reeled for a moment, and then
rolled over on his side, dead.
Up to this time neither of us had
spoken but now the silence was broken
by Tom, who exclaimed: "That was an
ugly customer let's start up the fire, and
see what he looks like"
But ] was in no condition to start up
the fire, for as soon as the terrible excite
ment was over, the reaction came, and /
sank to the ground trembling as though
in an ague fit.
| soon recovered, and, by the time
Tom had a bright fire burning, was
ready to examine the bear. As he lay
stretched out before us, he was a monster
indeed. His shaggy dun coat was thickly
fecked with patches of gray. and his
huge paws made me fairly shudder when
l reflected what a narrow escape we had
from their embrace.
Daylight revealed the unwelcome fact
that the creature had attacked and
killed one of our mules during the night,
dragging the carcass some distance from
the spot where he had been picketed.
The bear measured nearly seven feet
in length, and six feet one inch in girth.
We greatly regretted the loss of our
mule for it prevented our taking with us
the much desired skin of the grizzly as a
trophy. The experience, however, taught
us lesson, and we never afterward failed
to mount guard while travelling
through the Sierra Madre country.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-08
American and English Work.

A practical mechanic, says the Spring
field Republican, who has been looking
over the locomotive works of England,
writes to the Railroad Gazette letter,
comparing the British engines with
American, and makes some very pointed
suggestions. He thinks the American
the American engines are put together
with the most skill, at the parts being
easily accessible and adjustable. On this
account class of repairs frequently
necessary can be done in twenty-four
hours on the American machine, which,
on the British, necessitates taking apart
of nearly the whole engine, and the build
ing up again. The position of the bolt
heads and nuts, where they can be easily
reached, makes all this difference. The
use Of forward trucks alse in America,
enables our engines to run double the
length of time of their rivals, an English
engine tearing itself to pieces in twelve
months" to use the mechanics express
sion. On the other hand, apart from this
fault in their general plan, the British
engines are built better than ours and
have fewer breakages. There are "no
broken straps, no abominable cast-iron
cross-heads," in the technical language of
the writer The proportion of the parts
is better, and on the whole ga British
engine is company's engine, while an
American engine is builders engine"
And one great occasion of the superiority
of the British article, says our observer,
is the general employment of skilled
draughtsmen to carefully design all the
parts before they are made in the shop,
while in our railwaywork-shops draughts-
men are unknown" The excellence of
American tools is attributed to the
constant employment of the best
skill in design in American tool
shops, while the rule-ofthumb guess
work is elsewhere in our industries too
generally prevalent. Neverthcss, even
with this drawback, the great superiority
of the American system Of providing for
the locomotive flexible bed-truck en-
ables us to contest the markets of Canada,
Russia and South America. The Custom
house returns show that for the past two
years sixty or seventy American loco
motives year have been sent abroad,
at an annual valuation ef nearly q
million dollars.