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The Portland daily press., 1877-06-12
FOR SALE.

TN Falmouth. near Presumpscot Falls. II acres of
L good land, with barn, 1Sx2O feet; Al miles from
Portland; three acres in grass cut the past year,
about four tons of hay. Price $500. Inquire of
ALBERT j. MERRILL, 80 Lincoln Street, foot Boyd
Street. Also two tenements, to let, IS Franklin ST.
for small families. ju7eod1w*ttf
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Maine Central
RAILROAD,

HEs 1917
Passenger Trains leave Portland for Ran-
COR, Dexter, Belfast and WaterviIle at
Ito and 11.20 p. M
For Skowhexan at ITO, LIS and II 20 D. m.
For Augusta, HaIIoweII, Gardiner and
Brunswick at 6.15 a. M, LIS, 5.15 and IL 20 p.
m.
For ROckland and all stations on Knox & Lin
coin r. R., and for Lewiston via Brunswick at
6 10 a. m. and Ito p. m.
For bath at 6.15 a. M, ITO and 5.15 p. m.
For Pennington, Weymouth, Winthrop.
keadfeld, West WatervilIe and Water
vile via Lewiston at LIS p. IN.
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STEAMERS.
For Halifax Direct.

aK The Steamship Falmouth,
fH1HEAM Grand Trunk Wharf fii e avsyv
|AMfsSikSsST HURSDAY at 600 P. M. for
=. - ?, Halifax Nn direct making
only on day of sailing until p M. For freight or
passage apply to j. B. COYLE, JR., Agent,
mh27dtf Franklin Wharf
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SIX building lots, on Carter street, West End, at
- 10 cents per foot. Terms 500 down, the balance
can remain Mortgage two three years, at seven
per cent Inquire Of L. E. WEYMOUTH, Centen-
NAL Block, ap233m
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TO LET.
To Let.

10 Let.
| A FIRST class Brick house, in the western part
"A OF the city, 10 rooms newly repaired through
out, sunny and pleasant, and near the Horse Cars
Inquire of 3. d. VERRILL,
ap10dtf 205 Middle Street.
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To Let.

TO Let,
r OVER half of house 10 Carlton St., contains
IL seven rooms, gas, Sebago and furnace. Enquire
at No. II Exchange St. c. G. TOLNIAN.
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For Sale.

ON Peaks Island, a II story French roof House.
" very pleasantly situated within two minutes
walk from Jones' Landing. Terms cash. Apply to
j. c. STERLING, Al Oxford st. myi9dtf
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ITO family without children-fve rooms at NO.
Il So NEW HIGH ST., with modern convenient
ees. my23dtf
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REAL ESTATE.
For Sale.

DESIRABLE Lots on Congress Street, Pine
~ Street, Spruce Street, and Vaughn Street.
Also-Two good frst-elass houses on Congress
Street, with modern improvements; house
Lincoln Street; three houses on Winter Street;
two houses on Danforth Street, block of two houses
on Fore Street. Inquire of
JOHN G. Proctor,
ju2d3w SO Exchange Street.
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For Sale or Rent.

TEyHE two story Brick House. No. IS Pleasant St.,
Il second above High st. Ten rooms. Sebago and
gas. Possession June LIST. Apply to VIM. III. ,ER-
RIS, Real Estate Agent, my25tt
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For Sale,

House and lot at No. 81 NeWbury
st. Apply at house, IL. RUBY.
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The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
WASHIN GTON.
Patent Gases,

Patent Cases.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-The Commissioner
of Patents today heard arguments in the case
of interference between the application of Hoe
ing press and the Mayall patent owned by the
Bullock Printing Press Co., for reissue of
which application is also pending.
Telegraph Rates.
Theodore M. Vail, superintendent of the
railway mail service, VIM. A. Knapp, chief of
the post office department., and j. B. MINI
mick of the Office of first assistant postmaster
general, were today appointed as a commission
to revise rates of tolls paid by government to
telegraph companies and fix them for the en-
suing fiscal year.
Various.
1t is reported that the Secretary of the Treas
ury will make important recommendations in
his report to Congress concerning the Bureau
of Statistics, among which will be suggesting
that it be reduced from separate bureau to a
division of the department. A committee is
now investigating the affairs of this bureau.
Major Z. q. Hunt, disbursng officer at Men,
phis, has been directed to relieve Capt James
Mcmillan as chief disbursing officer of the
Freedmen's branch in the Adjutant General s
office.
Chief Engineer D. B. Macomb has been o.
dered to the Hartford as fleet engineer of the
North Atlantic station.
Rear Admiral Reynolds, commanding the
Asatic station, has sent the U. s. steamer
Alert to search for the shipwrecked persons,
sixteen men and one woman, reported on some
the schooner Urania sailed from Kodiah,
Alaska territory, on the 29th of December,
1875, for San Francisco, AMI has not since been
heard from. She had on board Mr.. Sheeran,
y. S. collector at Alaski, Capt Lee and wife
and others. in all numbering sixteen men and
one woman. 1t is probable that the shipwreck-
ed persons are those who were on the Urania
and may yet be rescued.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
Terrible Fire!
st. John, N. B., in
Ashes.
All Public Buildings,
Hotels and Newspa-
per Offices Burned.
The Water Front
Swept.
ALI the Best Residences
Destroyed.
Telegraphic Communication Cut
Off.
Three Quarters Of the City Gone at
Midnight.
And the Fire Still Raging.
And the Fire Still Raging.

Mr.. j. S. Bediow, Superintendent of the
Western Union line, received the following
despatch this morning. 1t comes from stations
near st. John, telegraphic communication with
that city being cut off:
12.15 A. M
All the public buildings the principal hotels,
all the newspaper offices, and about three
quarters of the city of St. John, N. B., is
burned. The fire is still raging. North and
South wharves, Dock street, Market Square,
Prince William street, Kiug street all the way
down to the lower cove, and part of Germ aine
street are swept clean. The telegraph office
being burned and all communication being cut
off, it is.impossble to get particulars, but it is
the most disastrous fire that has happened in
the eastern country.
BANGOR, j une 20.
The following, embracing all the particulars
of the fire at St. John, N. B., obtaina BILE at
this hour 11.30), was sent theIWhig and Cour.
ier by the operator at Sussex, the telegraph
office at st. John being destroyed:
The fire commenced in McLaughlin's boiler
works, York Point Slip Half of the city is
gone. The Victoria Hotel Academy of Music,
all the newspaper offices, all the best houses,
North and South wharves, Dock street, Mar
ket Square, Prince William street, King street
all the way down to the lower cove, and part
of Germaine street are burned. Several lives
are reported lost.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
MINOR TELEGRAMs

c. D. Sanders & Co.'s mills in Liyermore. N.
b., were burned yesterday.
Charles B. Lewis, an insurance agent. died
IN Brooklyn yesterday, aged g.
The whaleboat from New Bedford for Eng
land was spoken June 4th, in lat. 41.55 long.
67.1O. The occupants were well.
In the New Hampshire Legislature Yesterday
bill granting right of way through the state to
the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad was or.
dered printed
Hyman, the colored Congressman WIN was
recently appointed collector of internal revenue
in North Carolina, will probably fail to receive
his commission. A good man was displaced to
make place for bin, and now it appears that
Lyman is dssoute and does not even reside in
the district.
Baltimore papers are very severe upon the
Saratoga Hotel exclusion of Jews, and COM
ment upon the fact that such action should
have been taken in section which demanded
the amendments to the Constitution and the
Civil Rights bill. ''0
A check was recently received at the Treasu-
ry department pretending to return consider
able sum of money to the treasury which be-
longed to the government. The check was ac
companied by letter full of penitential ex-
prssslons. declaring that the writer was Moody
convert. The check having been sent to Boston
has been returned to the Treasury with state
ment by the bank there That DO such person as
the drawer of it was known.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
FINANCIAL AND COM m ERCIAL
Review of the Portland Nlarhe,.


FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 10Th
There is general decline in prices this week .pd
goods are selling slow. Dealers are ruying in small
quantities just as they need for actual use. There is
but little activity in the dry goods market bnt prices
remain firm. The money market is generally mn
changed and loans can be obtained easily on good
security. Gold closed Wednesday, June 21st. at
$1O1.
Inc last apples OF the seas on are about gone and
the remaining lots command high prices. Beans are
IN good demand and mediums are quoted at 49, Is to
$zo'. Butter is coming in quite plenty, and family
lots are quoted at 20 to 25 cs and store lots at o
20 cts. Cheese is in quite good demand and we
quote it rather higher this week. Coffee is firm and
unchanged at the quotations of last week, Cooner-
age shows no improvement. Copper and cordage are
unchanged. Opium is lower and is quoted at Ss7s
Duck is in good demand at the quotations. Fish er
hibit no change in demand or price. Flour is ouite
firm but not quotably higher. Sales have been yery
light the past week. Raisins are firm and UNCHANGED
Lemons are higher and quoted at $500 to $40 90
while oranges are falling of slightly in price. Corn
is rather stronger this week and our prices ale adj
vanced. Hay is coming in quite plenty and several
fine lots have been sold from the carts at $500 to
$500. Iron is steady this week with fair demand.
Lard is dull and the quotations show a reduction
this week. Leather continues in fair demand. Lum-
Der Is unchanged. Molasses is very dull and some
sal es have been made at lower prices Linseed oil is
lower. Eggs are rather scarce and prices have ad-
vanced to 10 q II CENTS Bermuda onions are high
er and are quoted at $3.50 to S2.75. Beef is dull
FORK is selling slow and prices about 30 cents
lower. Sugars lower and granulated is quoted at
12tc, extra at 11cs. Teas are quiet and without
change. Tobacco is dull and sales are small at the
quotations.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
ME MOI BANDA.

The following details of injuries sustained by ves-
sells on the Peruvian coast by the great tidal wave,
are furnished:
Ship F Sargent-Rudder stock gone and spindle
bent, main transom in stern started; covering board
and water ways both sides slightly started.
gone, seven planks starboard bow badly chaffed,
and copper badly torn.
Ship Uncle Tobey.-quickwork from stem to miz
zing rigging gone seven stanchions amdships broken
and covering board split; jibboom gone with all at
tached. starboard quarter started, stem from main
transom up smashed, spanker boom broken, rudder
appears damaged, and leaking inch an hour, To
discharge and go into dock for further examination
Barque Sargent bOwsprit and jbboom gone
with all attached foremost gone torecastle started
quarters stove, catheads and spanker boom broken,
main and fore channels crushed, rigging damaged
Ship John Bryce,-jibboom, toretopmast and top
gallant mast gone bulwarks from fore to main rig
ging smashed two boats gone and other lghtinjury.
Ship st Joseph,-jibboom. bowsprit fgure6ead
and eutwater gone orecasle started stanchions and
rails on both sides broken, channels gone pankiDo
on port side badly chafed, Sc.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 81.
BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.
The Ridde ford Fourth of July.

ne BIddef ford EOurth OF J uIy.
BIDDEFoRD June 20.-Fire companies from
Berwick, South Berwick, Peabody, Richmond
and Hallowell, in addition to the others before
reported have voted to participate in the mus
ter here July 4th. Several military organiza.
rions have accepted invitations.
Annual Meeting of the Bangor and Pts.
caIaquis Railroad Company
BANGOR, June 2O.-TEe annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Bangor and Piscata.
quis Railroad was held in City Hall today.
The Treasurer's report shows that the net
earnings were $40, 1893 81 from December first
to May first. The Superintendent's report
shows the total number of miles run to be IT,
AIS. The rolling stock consists of four engines
and eighty-four cars of all kinds The old
board of directors were elected, with Hon.
Moses Giddings President. The act further
extending time for the city to aid in the extern
sion of the road was accepted, also that au-
thorizing change of location so as to run direct
to this city; also act allowing the city to aid in
the change of location. The matter of narrow
ing the gauge was referred to the directors
with full power to act. The vote to extend the
road to Moosehead Lake was unanimous in
favor.
Suicide.
GREAT FALLS, N. H., June 20-The wife of
Thomas Sherman of lebanon, Me-, committed
suicide yesterday, in fit of temporary insani-
ty. She was about 80 years old.
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NEW YORK.
Conservation of n Bishou.

SOuBeCfHtIOn Oh u EISn0D,
NEW YORK, June 20.-The conservation SER
vices of Bishop elect Thomas Hubbard Gregg
was held today. Bishop Fellows of NewlYork
presided, and there we're present Bishop Mich
olson Of Philadelphia and Cheney of Chicago,
besides large number of clergymen. DR..
Gregg was vicar of East Halborne, Ltchfield,
Eng, and represented the low church party in
the church of England. He has now Joined
the Reformed Episcopal church and will be at
the head of the movement in England and live
in London. Bishop Cheney preached tho SER
mon. He said the Reformed Episcopal church
was but handful of corn in the earth three
years ago, but now they had seventy organized
churches, eighty ministers and five thousand
communicates.
Savings Bank FaiIure.
The failure of the Rockland Savings Bank is
complete. Depositors will not realize 20 cents
on the dollar and the Indignation consequently
is great. The officers of the institution are
charged with fraud.
I'm General
IT. The steamship France for Europe takes
The Anchora from Glasgow has reached
New York.
The Halifax bark ashore on the southwest
cape of Amherst Island, 11th inst, and aban-
doned, proves to be the Rowena of Yarmouth.
Eng, from Miramchi with deals The vessel
is total loss. Crew saved.
Highway Robberp.
NEwBURG, N. Y, June 2O.-Whie Mr.. and
and Mrs. Samuel Mckee were going home
from church festival at New Windsor last
night, they were attacked by three highway
men and brutally beaten and roboed. Robbers
escaped.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
Brighton Cattle Market.


Amount OF stock at market-Cattle 5,l17 Sheep
and Lambs 2,160; Swine $500; number of Western
Cattle 4,9l2; Eastern Cattle 25; Mich Cows and
Northern Cattle 1870.
Prices of Beef Cattle % 100 Tbs, live weght-Extra
at 81 90 G7 SO; first quality at Sc so @ s7l; sec
ond quality at S. IS q 25; third quality at SIS Is
@ 62l; poorest grades of coarse Oxen, Bulls, &C.,
at 3 IS q 5 so.
Brighton Hides u g s cents p ID. Brighton Tai
low % &c y tb.
Country Hides 7 q 7sc % tb; Country Tallow 5 a
SIC P fb.
CaltsSkins II q 12c y fb: sheared Sheep Skins at
25c; Lamb Skins SOC: wool Sheep Skins 75c a ST. so
each.
The supply of Cattle for the week is much too large
for the demand, and prices have fallen off full as
much as the rise was one week ago, the best grades
of Cattle selling fully ac P fb less than the same
grades sold for last week. few of the best lots of
Cattle sold as high TIC 49 fb. There were nearly
5000 head more of Western Cattle in market this
week than there were last week.
Working Oxen-Not much call for them and but
few pairs in market during the summer months,
few pairs each week is all the market requires
Store Cattle-None in market except Working
Oxen ana Mich Cows.
Mich Cows-Good Cows most always sell well at
fair prices. The larger portion of Cows offered in
market for sale are OF common grade, prices rang
ing from $25 q $95 " head.
Sheep and Lambs-Those in market are shipped
direct TO butchers from the West There are but a
very few Sheep and Lambs offered in the for sale,
most OF them being bought by agents for the butch
ers.
Swire-No Store Pigs, wholesale Z "a 7Ic % fb; re-
tail "a q SC P tb. Fat Hogs at 6lc p tb live weight.
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RUS sIA,s FINANCES.

Dissafisfaction at the Terms of a Loan.
LONDON, June 2O.-A Berlin despatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette says the terms demanded BY
MendelsshOn q 20. for the loan to Russia have
caused serious disappointment at st. Peters,
burg. The Russian minister of finance is
much censured for agreeing to them The
transaction is reported to have provoked the
Cars personal displeasure.
War Notes.
The Gar is greatly incensed because the
Roumanian Jews have petitoned the Wash
ington govern ment for protection. He has
warned Roumania to protect the Israelites
A London despatch from Ostrok says public
opinion in the Montenegrin army is very strong
against Venkovics, the leader to whom the de-
fence of the Duga Pass was entrusted. He is
charged with utter incapacity. Some battal-
ions have received no orders whatever, and af-
ter the retreat from Kristracs, portion of the
army SCENE lost
The Gazette states that the Russian govern.
ment has purchased the monster Krupp gun
made for the Philadelphia exhibition. The
destination of the weapon is unknown, but
there is talk of placing it upon some vessel at
Nikalaieff and usingit against the Turkish
iron-clads in the Black Sea.
An outrage upon a German subject is re-
ported from ROumania. The victim. who ia
named Henoch, is a merchant of Berlin and
being an accidental acquaintance of Kraut. the
Bessian noblemau reported recently to have
been executed, was seized at Bucharest. i'm
prisoned for twelve days and treated with the
greatest indignity and cruelty. Herr Henoch
has appealed to the Servian chancellor for ius
tice.
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Speech by Wade Hampton.

AUBURN, N. Y, June 20.-At the annversa-
ry of the Shields Guards today, Gov. Hampton
in the course of speech said:
Your distinguished Governor has been pleas
ed to allude to the contest in South Carolina
That, my friends, was not a political struggle
1t rose far higher than any such contest ever
waged on this content. 1t was contest for civ
iization,. for home rule, good government for
life itself. 1t was contest waged by the peo-
pie of South Carolina not as demagogues would
tell you, against Northern men. 1t was con-
test waged against carpet-baggers, and when
say the carpet-bagger, l mean by that, thief
fApplause.) We do not call any Northern
man, any Irishman, any German, any English.
man who settles in our midst as an honest citi-
zen, carpet-bagger; we welcome such with
open arms.
We tell them to come to our genial skies and
fertile soil, come one, come all and pledge
them in the name of the state hosptable and
warm-hearted reception. We do not ask
whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
We did not wage political canvass. We were
lighting for every interest dear to freemen and
thanks to the brave and true men and the go-
rious women of South Carolina this war for
government was successful. They have estab-
lished it in every department of state govern
ment. They have accomplished this and they
now propose fulfilling to the very letter the
pledges made and appealed to high heaven to
witness that they should be carried out
declared that il elected would be governor
l.
should know no race, no party, no color; that
all men who stood on the soil of South Caroli-
ma, native or iforegn born, white or black
should be equal before the law, and SO help me
God it shall be done. Enthusiastic applause)
l am glad to say the bitterness which mark
ed that strife is passing away, and 1 say to you
men of New York, as say it at home owe
my election to the colored men of South Caro-
lima. (Applause.) Thousadds of them voted
for me knowing that had been good friend of
the race, knowing that was the first man after
the war to recommend they should be given
the right OF suffrage, and have never yet
changed my opinion on the subject. Knowing
this, they sustained me in large numbers, and
am happy to say that nearly all fears of the
more Ignorant are passing away, and they are
satisfied they will be dealt with as citizens of
South Carolina.
-, We intend to try and elevate them, educate
Them and show them the responsibilities as
well as the blessings of liberty. We waut
them, as other citizens of America and South
Carolina, to be worthy of the great boon Of the
citizenship of this great republic.
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
Turbulent Female s,rtLer.

PATERSON n. j., june 19.-Great excite
or six hundred have quit, The Haml mill has
shut down and several mills are without hands
Alta meeting of strikers in Military Hall todav
Gustave Heinricks favored returning to work.
The women attacked him and tore his coat
Dne woman threw salt and pepper in his eyes.
He drew an empty revolver. but was chased on +
OF the ball and pursued about mile, hu ndreds
OF persons joining in the chase 1t having
been reported he had shot a woman he was can,
tqred, taken before Justice Hudson and dis
c,h charged. He made complaint against a woman
VINO assaulted him, and she was arrested and
held in $500. The strikers have v,sted variana ana
mills TO persuade operatives to ioin them. Init
nave peen refused, and in some Instances the
police = have been called upon to protect the the
M hands I @ az work . The general sentiment seems ms
of the hands are still at work. 1''ne-'entns
The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21

a 10; good to fancy family brands at 25 a rs.
Wheat opened easier and inactive, closed higher; No
Corn is higher; No Mixed at 434 a 43Ac cash; 42I "a
43sc seller July; 43s q 4ilc seller August. Oats duh
at 564c bid cash or June Rye is duh at Csc. whis
key is steady at 07 Pork is higher; job lots I3 25
cash; 13 37A "a 13 40 seller August. Lard nominaly
unchanged Summer 25 a 35. Bulk Meats-clear
rib sides bid cash June; sales at for July. Ba-
con-shoulderS 5A clear Iibs at III clear sides at "a
@s.
Receipts-22OO bbls -four, 1000 bush wheat, 2O,-
600 bush corn, 5000 bush oats. 0,000 bush barley
100000 bush rye, 900 head hogs, 900 head cattle.
MILwAUKEE, June 2O.-Flour dull and unchang-
ed. Wheat is unsettled, opened lower and closed
firm; No Milwaukee at 1473; seller July at 4ss;
higher and scarce No at 45sc. Oats unsettled and
lower; No at 38c. Rye is in fair demand but low
er; No at 66lc Barley is nominal; No Spring at
Freghts-wheat to Buffalo at 2a @2A.
Receipts-45OO bbls -four. 1000 DusL wheat.
Shipments-4200 bbls -four, q 900 bush wheat.
DETROIT, June 20-Flour is firm. Wheat frmer;
extra White Michigan at 9s-freely bid; No White
Michigan at 9ib; milling at s6 9 s6i Corn in
good demand; High Mixed at 5l3c on track; No
49ac; No Mixed at 43A a 44c.
Receipts-516 bbls nour, .733 bush wheat 1884
bush corn, 9,466 bush oats.
Shipments-360 bbls four 7992 bush wheat 1888
bush corn $3.50 bush oats.
CINCINNATI, June 2O.-Pork quiet at i3 so. Lard
in good demand; steam rendeIed-small sales at 81
kettle at 81 a 10. Bulk Meats are active firm and
higher-shoulders s5 on spot; 4 S7k buyer June; S
buyer July; short rib 90 q 02l spot short clear
1925. Bacon strong and higher; shoulders 81; clear
ribs at 8; clear sides at 81 a Sa Whiskey is strong
and higher at OF q 0S, closing at inside prices.
Live Hogs firm common at 25 a 49, fair to
good light at 4 80 a 65; packing So a 70; butch
ers 70 80; receipts 2oO9 head; shipments II s09
head.
CLEVELAND, June 2O.-The Petroleum market is
unchanged at 124 tor standard White.
NEW YORK, June 2O.-Cotton is .firmer; Middling
uplands at 11sc.
MEMPHIS, June 2O.-Cotton quiet and firm; Mid
ding upIands at 1l1c.
WILMINGTON, June 2o.-Cotton is firm; Middlng
uplands at lie.
CHARLESTON, June 2O.-Cotton steady; Middling
uplands at 1lac.
SAVANNAH. June 2O.-Cotton is quiet; Middline
uplands at 11Ic.
LOUISVILLE June 2o.-Cotton is firm; Middling
uplands 115c.
GALVESTON, June 2O.-Cotton steady; Middline
uplands at H.
NEW ORLEANS, June 2O.- Cotton quiet MiddliDe
uplands at 11ac.
MOBILE, June 2O.-Cotton quiet; Mddling uplandi
at lie.
NORFOLK, June 2o.-Cotton squiet; Middling up
lands at 11lc.
AUGUSTA, June 2O.-Cotton is quiet; Middling up.
lands at II "a 111c.