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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-25

No. white Michigan. 81 II do new 81 10Y; extra do.
81 %; amber Michigan. new 81 iu september. 81 oets;
No red winter. new 81 l6 No. do. ncw. 81 io1s;
amber Illinois now 81 Ia Corn dull: hss mixed Ave.
September 49zc. low do. 4sc grade Ale Oats duh,
No. 2, sic Michigan 3lse rejected. 2sIsc. Receipts
shipmsnss"SJ ibis iour. 1900 bushels wheat. 10000
buffalo. August "a. 1876.
Lake receipts 6ooo bbls wheat. 1900 bushels
5000 bushels corn. l2UJO do. 1900 de-
1880 do. Shipments by canal 10 tdewatsr-Con 100000
bushels To interior points Wheat 1000 bushes corn
4uOb 500 do 5y railroad-rlour. l. 100 bbs
wheat bushs; corn. III o. do. IL 900 do
500 do. Canal freghts quiet steady 5c for corn
To New York. Flour quiet unchanged Wheat dull sales
OF 1000 bushels No. milwaukee, club at 81 l5 400 do
Sneboygan 81 l5 Corn dull sales Of BOO bushels No
mixed Western mt 49c. SOc Oats None here; wanted
Rye neglected Bsroy-None here Seeds inactive. Pork
lower heavy mess SlS 50. Lard lower at lO5ec High
wines nDminally 81 IL. -
Flour dull Wheat in active demand and higher; No. 2
Chicago spring. Soc Yl1sc September O3s4c Oc-
tober; No Chicago spring Soc so>sc rejected 0oc
1876 Ale. 43ssc 435Sc. september 1895 Octo
bcr rejected, lo Ons-Cash higher and options steady
SEE spot; 3O.sc 34c. September; rejected 2oc 2Ie
Pork dull weak and lower; SIG SO spot SIG 42i Septe
sss 4 80 ne h $40 .aor tIa s an the weak
Bulk meats easier shoulders, 6iSc 6c short rib mid
Mhiskey 81 90 Railroad ireghts unchanged Receipts
Flour, 1000 bills wheat 5000 bushels 3o4 800 do:
oats 5000 do rye. 400 do. barley. 2so, do ship
636OOO do oats. 81 900 DO. barley. $40 do. At the
afternoon call of the BoardWheat shade easier; 0lsc.
September. 93sc October Cora hrm 4ic. August 43ic
September, 43sc. October Oats hrmer; ssc septen'-
SIS 30 september October Lard lower $40 ID
September. 80 w u 50 95 October.
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PRINTING CLOTHS MARKET.

PROVIDENCE. Il. l.. August ~. 1876
Printing cloths higher generally held at 4ic for best
Gas standard and cloths light stock market do
mand active.
HAVANA MARKET.
HAVANA. August "a. 1876
Spanish gold 22Sii 22SA Exchange steady. tho
United States 81 days IA discount short
sight do ~ discount. go days gold "a pre- e, MUM
premium. Sugar firm.
EUROPEAN MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, August 2i-Evening.
Linsesd oil, 24s per
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@.2-l 45.7i4 49,, 800 also
l4.Ul3 1929 3I,S77 2Jv
SO2y4 5f,3 1883 1913
7,U3J 1866 e9,l7p 1859
53.26i 3s.0o7 1884 2,I99
! 49.l2o 54.452 253,105 1874
1851 1850 290,0i2 as
SO.OJ2 73.17J Is i.235 4,62l
" - uuiet vt 1916 n lac. for
~. 20 tiorces and 1888 bills.
|e0QO lbs. prime sold vt sac. y

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. i56 49, Tho market Grmer;
125 bts sold at 81 IL and 50 last evening, ut 81 13
fRkiGnTswith stronger oil market aud steady
for tounagc moderate business compished in the
OF pctrolcu charters Grain tonnage and
sail. stcAuy and moved rather slowly The engage
mcnts 10 Liverpool. psr stean 10 Obbls Hour ut
100 tcrces art 35s. $50 ticr.es beef nj ts cheese
JOs to lpndon per steam 2|Uo bushels grain at Id
10 lbs 30 Glasgow steam ~ bushels grain pri
waite terms; 40 fish oil iOs to HIM. per steam,
500 bushels At ID 10 Ibs The charters embraced
British brig hence Cork tor orders with 1900 quarters
grain at Us; Norwegian bark hence I" Cork for ordcs
to United Kingdom with 500 bb.s. Eaphtha at
5s cd. HAT: u British brig. hence ST. Johns,
n. r.. with LOO Jblse refined petroleum ut ice.
per round Dbl under deck and f3c. deck this Is the
first shipped for this destination In tho
history OF tho petroleum trnde lta bark 40 tons
hence the Mediterranean with 1000 and about
Ivyp bills do. private terms Norwegian bark hence
Exmouih with 900 bills do. at os 3D.. a Norwegian
bark with 2OJJ bb naphtha, to United Kin gdom
IS I'D. Italian barkontine. from Philadelphia to
United Kingdom direct VITA 800 bbls refined
IS American schooner hence 20 Seville with $3.50
do. at 2Us British ship. from Phlxdephia to Con-
tnent. Dutch with TO bbs do. at 5s an American
brig hence to barcelona with liOJ bbs do, NJ o. I'd
British brig. 2U7 laid the berth for Bahia with
era ut current rates
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A BUTCHERS SUICIDE.

August W. Gcisi, nged hfy-four butcher by trade,
living at No so Chryste street. shot himself through
tho Head under the stoop OF his residence q. an carly
hour yesterday morning Hc left several letters bid
ding goodby TO has w,ic and friends, but gave no
reason Tor his act
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ADVANCE AND DECLINE
The following tho changes compared with yes
ierday's closing prices =
ADVANCE HANNIBAL and ST. Joseph, n; Illinois
Central u; Producers and Petroleum, ~ gold n.
Observation-Disclosures and Lackawanna. So; Delaware
and Hudson Canal. sis Erie. 3b; Lake shore, Ia !;
New Jersey Central Isl Northwestern, 4 do preferred
II; New York Central, "a: Pacific Mail /; Rock
Island, "a; Western Union, Ia
The rest of the market without change
THE MONEY MARKET.
In consequence Of the increased volume OF speculation
and the general activity stimulated thereby money was
more active and the advanced, closing at tx
per cent
The following were tho rates Of exchange New
York al the toned cities y:-Savann ah
" premium; Charleston, % u u premium; Cincinnati,
steady, par to SOC. premium; New Orleans COM
mercial 3l6; bank, u Chicago, % discounts St Louis
Is premium
Sterling exchange steady. Primo nominal usk-
ing rates, ASS and 40; selling rates. 4s71s ISIS a
ls9H a490 Rcichmarks, 94k 95 and 951S. Cables.
&C. Prime Paris, 6l5ss and 5.1sA.
rHR GOLD xARKxr
Gold opened 1l07s, and with intermediate sales at
Ill 110zs closed Ill During the day the borrow
ing rate ranged from per cent to fiat fhe carry
Ing rates per cent Reports concerning tho &C
ton OF tho syndcaes on the AZ per cent loan some
what affected the market
OPERATIONS EXCHANGE
Gold balances. 81, 400 700
Currency balances l,JSI,VOS
Gross clearances Observation-Disclosures. 1853 COO
CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT
currency exchanges. S44. $50 O4S
Currency balances. 2.2'2a53
Gold exchanges 400 OGO
uou uo1auces.... 1910
INVESTMENT snARKs.
Investment shares brought tho following prices
Rock Island. 1o6A 1861 LOG 1861 10lsl 1044
New York Central and Hudson 1879 lo7i1; Morris
and Essex, 90; Union Pacific. 90.
GOVERNMENT bonds
Government bonds very moderate business
wero steady. The following are the closing quota.
1855; do do, 1881. registered, 1ls,s lls,f !;
do do, do. coupon, ll97s l2oh do do, 1865
registered ia 1l44 do do, do, coupon. ia a
Has do do. do, new, registered, ll5 49,; do
do, do coupon 1867 1862 do do. 1867, registered
ils ll9i4; do do, do, coupon, 1l9 IDA do do,
ls6s, registered. 12os4 a 121A do do, do, coupun
1904 l2lA; do, tenfortes registered, 1l6i4 a11Gs;
do. do coupon, l19,s 1aol do. nvcs, 1881, regis
tered, III all'4; do DO, do. coupon, III HIS.
RAILROAD BoNDs.
There also but few transactions of note in
railroad bonds New Jersey Central convertible and
consolidated nsis declined respectively so and 3d.
Hannibal and St. Joseph convertible advanced to sll..
ST. Paul nrsts brought ll5ts. Chicago Burlington and
Quincy sevens brought ll1t Tho following were the
xosing quotations for Pacific Railroad bonds: --Union
srss, LOG TO 1o6t<; Union land grants los TO los y;
Union sinking funds, e5a4 10 955s Ccntras 1O9% to
1l0Js.
The UNITED STATES TREASURY.
Rsvenus receipts to-day, 5000 900; customs receipts
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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
MARRIED

McLArs-HoLDxx Thursday, August "a, by the
Rev. DIR. Harper, OF Philadelphia l.. G. NOLAN 10
ELLA l. HOLDEN, OF this city. No cards.
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BEFORE CALIs-iy3D =. NJ.
STOOL Dist oil 36is. TAX 100 shs Nil stP pr. OK
SVVO U. u 4 Y Tao Lik lou ao........... e7,s
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

sugar; the alcohol becoming very sugary,
and losing several degrees of strength.
The antiseptic property of sugar is now
well known; fruits, flesh, ETC., may be in.
definitely preserved in syrup of sugar, as
they also can in honey or glycerine A
curious TACT has long been observed, name
ly, that the life of animals which breathe
in water is incompatible with the presence
therein OF even an inconsiderable quantity
OF sugar. One of the explanations of this
phenomenon is that of the diffusive ten
dency of these bodies, which prevents the
lie and propagation of animalcula, or
toment cells, as these organs swell and
even burst in syrupy solutions; the high
density of a liquid is accordingly, of chief
importance in determining its antiseptic
properties. Iii some parts Of Europe one
OF the methods pursued in the preservation
OF fish consists in removing the viscera and
sprinkling sugar over the interior, keeping
the fish in horizontal position, so that the
sugar may penetrate as much as possible
1t Is said that fish prepared in this way can
be kept completely fresh for long time,
the SAVIOR being as perfect as if recently
caught from the water; and salmon, in
especial, treated in this way before being
salted and smoked-a tablespoonful of
sugar to five pound fish.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

A group OF lasses were skating merrily on
the river near Omro, Wis, on Dec. H..
when a noisy graccless scamp appeared
upon the ice and began to annoy them in
many ways. So persistent were his persecu-
tions that the girls were resolving to take off
their skates and 60 home, when the avengrr
glided from the opposite bank. 1t was
only girl-a coy, rosy, slender girl. She
went up to the young scapcgracc, and
seizing him by the collar dumped him upon
the ice. She handled him as she would a
feather duster. She took off her dainty
glove and cuffed his ears till he roared for
help. She dragged him along the ice and
rolled him into a snow bank. She also
said something. She remarked that If he
ever troubled them again there would be
coroner's inquest on the river.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Atarecent seance or Spiritualists, meeting
in London, after an overture with banjo.
bell, and tambourine, three spirits appeared
upon the scene and announced themselves
as the Apostle Paul, Tom Paine, and little
Indian girl. There were detectives in the
audience and they hugged the three ghosts
like bears until the lights were turned on.
The apostle was then discovered to be an
impostor in a white shirt. There is one
thingof which Spiritualists lose sight What
consolation can weary world derive from
contemplating a hereafter in which the
pauses are filled with tambourine,ianeles.
and Paul, who was the apostle of common.
sense as well as Of Christianity, has nothing
better to do than to go skylarking with
Tom Paine and little Indian girls? Is not
utter annihilation pleasanter destiny than
such mummery as that 9--N ]. Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Among the young women at the high
school in Portland, Me-, was a poor lass
who worked in boarding g-house. She rose
at o'clock every morning, got breakfast
put the kitchen in order, and then went to
school returning in the afternoon, she
cleared the lunch table, cooked the supper,
and did other housework. Last week she
fell sick of fever and was taken to a hospital,
where the matron ascertained that she wore
only one petticoat underneath her thin
calico gown. She has been sent to Auburn,
N. Y, where she has relatives. She still
shows pluck; she says she will go back to
the boarding.house and high school.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27
Cheese Factories.

1t is only twenty-five years since the
first cheese factories were established in this
country. Any change that lessons the hard
labor OF the masses is deserving Of praise,
and this associated dairying has done. To
show how this mode of cheese making has
increased, we quote few remarks from a
paper read on this subject by DIR. Sturtevant
at the American Dairyman's Association at
Philadelphia, October II, which was re.
ported for the New England Farmer. The
DIR. said:
The era of associated dairying first inaugu.
rated by Jesse Williams, of Rome, n. Y,
in 1851, has had a remarkable develop
mental effect upon the dairy interests of
the country. From a pursuit considered
but as an incident of farm practice, the
manufacture OF milk has become a leading
industry in which large capital is invested,
and an enormous product of manufactured
goods turned out. In 1852, but one factory
was in operation in the country, using the
milk Of but two diaries, and receiving a fancy
price of cents pound for its cheese.
In 1861, the factories had increased to fifty.
six. In 1864, we have record of the increase
to 4O2. In 1866, the number had increased
to 500. Ia 1871 to 1881. In 1876, accord.
ing to the estimate of L. B. Arnold, the
number Of factories in operation is 4,5OO
the number of cows tributary about
100000, and the cheese production about
lSO,OOO.OO0 pounds. During this interval
from. 1861 to date, the price of cheese has
been, at times, as high as twenty-eight cent,
a pound, or four times what Mr.. Williams
received.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

RATS EATING OYsTERs.-The proprietors
OF the restaurants near the City Hall have
a new annoyance: in the form of rats that
infest their places and eat their oysters.
The restaurant keepers, on opening their
saloons in the morning of late, have found
large heaps of empty shells lying in the
baskets that they had left filled with un,
opened oysters. At first they suspected
their walters, but watch having been set
at night, the rats were found to be the
thieves. The rodents. selecting the largest
and finest oysters, nibble at the mouth of
the shells until they make a hole large
enough to admit their tails; then they suck
out all the juice, and the shells then burst
open, leaving the oyster exposed. The rats
then eat the oysters.-N. y. San, 18Th.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

STAMMERrNG.-A gentleman who stam-
mered from childhood almost up to man.
hood gives very simple remedy for the
misfortune. $50 into a room where YOU
will be quiet and alone, get some book that
will interest but not excite you, and sit
down and read two hours aloud to yourself,
keeping your teeth together. Do the same
thing every two or three days, or once a
week, if very tresome, always taking care
to read slowly and distinctly, moving the
lips but not the teeth. Then, when con.
versing with others, try to speak as slowly
and distinctly as possible, and make up
your mind that you will not stammer.
Well, tried this remedy, not having much
faith in it, must confess, but willing to do
almost anything to cure myself Of such an
annoying difficulty. / read for two hours
aloud with my teeth together. The first
result was to make my tongue and Jaws
ache, that is, while was reading, and the
next to make me feel as if something had
loosened my talking apparatus, for could
speak with less difficulty immediately.
The change was SO great that every one
who knew nae remarked it. repeated the
remedy every five Or six days for month,
and then at longer intervals until cured.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

CHICKENS FIT TO EAT.-Don't imagine
that it makes no difference how your
chickens have been brought up Don't
suppose that they will be good anyhow.
Chickens have been carefully dressed,
dellciously stuffed, assidously basted, and
tenderly roasted, and yet they were not fit
to eat. There was flavor about them that
no soda rinsings could cleanse and no sea-
sonings conceal. These were chickens that
had picked up their living around pig
sites and other unclean places.
A chicken may be spoiled in dressing it
to cook. If killed with full crop, and
allowed to lie for hours before it is "drawn, -
Tor relieved of its internal organs), it gets
an unpleasant flavor. Fowls should be
caught and shut up without food for twelve
hours or moro before they are beheaded.
Then the crop and intestines will be empty,
and the task of picking and dressing it will
be greatly lessened. Old fowls are not
necessarily tough-only cook them long
enough. They are more tender twenty
four hours after they are killed, than if
eaten Immediately.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Cold IN THE HEAD.-The medical journals
lastspring published repeatedly the formula
for DIR. Ferries new remedy for cold in the
head. As the season for that distressing
malady is at hand we print the recipe,
which is Trisnitrate of bismuth drachms.
pulverized gum arabic 2 drachms, and
hydrochlorate of morphia . grains. This is
used as snuff, creates no pain, and causes,
says the London Lancet, the entire disap.
pearance of the symptoms in few hours.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

AN UNFORTUNATE WISE MAN.-The New
England Journal of Education says: "a
gentleman made application for school in
Maine, and presented himself to the board
for examination as to his qualifications.
Arithmetical questions wereproposed. The
teacher stumbled and halted, but finally
made out to cipher out the answer. Said
the committeeman: Can you locate Boston,
He answered know all about it, probably
just as well as you do; have heard of tho
place several times, but can't somehow or
other seem to locate it. With view to
helping him out the committeeman said F.:
1T is the capital of some State, is it not?'
Yes, | believe it is what State? We'll.
| know, probably as we'll as you do, what
State Boston is the capital of, but, you see,
haven't got the flow of language TO ex-
press it,
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27
POefrY.
WHEN JENNY COMES.

When Jenny comes, the sun comes too;
The dingy walls grow brighter
And one would swear to see her there,
That Fate strove to delight her
With timid touch and conscious blush
She'll turn my pen and paper,
And, though demure, you may be sure
That little will escape her.
What's this and that, and these and those?
She'll ask, nor pause for answer;
For Jenny's tongue so well is hung
That it Outstrips a dancer.
Through varying moods her girlish tongue,
Her simple heart portraying,
Will half reveal, but still conceal,
The nook where Love is straying.
of triies glib she'll prattle on
Delightful strain of chatter;
Meant to disguise the thought that lies
Too deep for wOrdy matter.
knew she loved me- though in words
hardly dared to say so;
But when placed around her waist
My arm. she let it stay so.
And in her eyes, as in brook.
saw myself reflected;
And what l took from out the brook
Was what the girl expected.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

The roads in some parts of Germany are
lined along the entire distance with rows of
poplars, or of apple trees, the branches of
which latter bend beneath the weight of
the fruit. A fine of three shillings is the
penalty for plucking the fruit, consequently
1t is permitted to ripen, and the owners or
the community reap the benefit of their
foresight in planting shade trees at once
beautiful and profitable.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Mr.. Duffey of Oakland, Cal, went to a
masquerade ball recently in the character
of a giraffe. His costume created much
amusement, especially at the supper table,
where he remarked that no must drink
three bottles of champagne in order to wet
his throat all the way down. On his way
home at an carly hour in the morning he
was extremely fatigued, and lying down
under tree-box fell fast asleep. A tim
orous policeman seeing the strange figure
from a distance, and concluding rather
hastily that a tiger or some other wild
animal had escaped from the menagerie
that was exhibiting in the next block,
fred fourshots tthe recumbent giraffe, one
of which perforated the padding, and is now
embedded in Mr.. DufFey. The NeVs- Letter,
speaking on the authority Of the wounded
DuHsy, announces that in future he will be
sent home from fancy bills in apush-cart or
furniture agon.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Thirty years ago law student married
Miss Charity, Wisconsin lady, and set out
Tor California, where in the course of years.
he made a fortune of from S5.OOOOOO to
SlO,000,000. His first stroke of luck was
in the Amador mine; the Savage bubble
swelled his income, and the Crown Point
bonanza rounded it off. His outside specu.
lations have included dealings in real estate,
gas, water, oil, and coal stocks. His home
was one of the loveliest places on the coast
His health was seriously damaged by the
strain OF business, and he became so ex-
acting and unreasonable an invalid that
there was developed what the estrongminded
champions of the gentle section of Humanity
call an incompatibility. His friends insisted
that he had been Psychological" whatever
that may mean. His mind seemed to be
completely under the sway of an elderly
clalrvoyant who was attempting to heal his
bodily ills by means of magnetism plus
spirits, otherwise known as psychical mani
festations. The patients wife finally lost
her patience and applied for divorce on
the ground of desertion. The estate was
divided, she having $2.50O,O00 and he keep.
ing the rest, and they lived apart over
year. They met accidentally three months
ago in their daughters room, and soon
afterward he called upon her. Their early
courtship was renewed soon they were re-
engaged; two weeks ago there was a grand
wedding, the bride wearing brown brocaded
silk, and diamonds not few.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-27

Powers OF THE HAND.-It may be going
too far to say that man may Judge the
character of his fellow man hy the manner
he " shakes hands, But there is certainly
a significance in those busy members Of the
body which he who runs may read The
creator Of " Uriah Heap" has taught us not
to trust the owners of linn. moist hands
which close cordially on nothing save their
own possessions. Says commentator on
this subject 1t is the touch of the hands at
greeting which warns or chills nv heart,
ana made me know to a certainty how
much or how little | shall like the person
before me. If the fingers close about my
own, with a short, quick, colvulsive grasp.
| know that he will snap, snarl, and finally
quarrel, and that the least have to do with
the owner of those wiry digits, the better off
| shall be. If nervous, cold hand clides
INTO my own, and seem disposed to lie
there, without life, know at once that all
my happiness would be as nothing in that
awful palm. But if the hand grasps YOURS
and holds it firmly, in strong, warm fingers,
you are safe in cultivating the Friendship
OF the owner These human hands! From
the beginning of life they play an Important
part. All the greatness on earth has laid
In the hollow of the hand. The books, the
music, the pictures, the wonders of
architecture, intricaces of mechanism, the
mysteries of science and the government of
countries, with all their god-life beauties
OF COLOR sound, Symmetry, usefulness, pro.
gression, and wisdom, have lain within n
human hand