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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-12

Western superfine "a 2ba5; extra. So 25a
8 10; family. $6az: Wheat nrm and quiet: No.
Western winter red, 81 40al AZ: No. Chica-
80 spring, u s2Al 80; Corn: Western active
dull: Western white, Sesyt1 mixed,
$3.50. Rye nomiaally 70a72.. Clover
seed active and firm at l4al5c.
Provisions, quiet and steady. Pork, Sl7ai7 p.
Bulk meats, packed shoulders, 7c; clear rib,
&c. Bacon, shoulders, 7zc;. clear rib, 9hc.
Lard, refined, 1 1zal1sc Butter quiet ami
steady: Western good to prime, 23a26c; West
ern extra. fine, Ta2Sc. Petroleum: crude
quiet at 12ka12hc: refined nominal. Coffee
strong and active: Rio, carsoes, Ha201sc;
jobbing, 1711 1a22c. WHISKY, 81 Is.
NEW YORK. Jan. y Flour: No. 9. Sd 35a5;
" estern supernns ami State $6 50a5 30; COM
mon TO good extra. IS 80I5 yJ; good to choice,
s. S5a6 10: white wheat extra, 81 l5aS 70; DO
Luuis. So 9JaS 10; Minnesota patent, 81 75a
0 70. Rye -four steady at 81 50a5 10. Corn-meaI
quiet and ungraded. Wheat dull with
only limited demand: ungraded spring,
81 27a1 a0:winter red W estern dull and nominai:
No. 3 Milwaukee,, in store, 81 ~; No. Chicago
spring, in store, 81 40; No. Chicago spring,
| choice, Al 35. Rye steady: Western, S3aS5c.
Barley: six-rowed State III fair demand and
firm at SOC, others unchanged. Malt quiet and
unchanged. Corn dull, with limited business: !:
new Western mixed, migrated, 56taa59c;
mixed new, no grade, 61Aa5sc; DO steam, 5S,s
mixed Western and State, 4Oa50e; white
Western do, 43a52c. Hay unchanged. Hops
| firm and unchanged Cotiee in fair demand and
| firm: Rio, cargoes. l9a22%c gold; Jobhlng, l9a
| a2S. c, gold. Sugar quiet but Arm: Fair to
good refining, w ASK c; prime, 94c; refined in
| fair demand and firm at hsSal2c. Molasses
unchanged. Rice steady. Petroleum dull and
nominal: crude, 15hc; renned. &c; naphtha,
l5c. Tallow firm at SHaShc. Strained resin
quiet at 50 55a2 90. Spirits t,Irpentine easier
at 48c. Eggs firm: Western, 35a36c. Pork ex-
cited and higher, and The market opened
and closed lower: Old mess, ST; new mess,
dull: Long clear Western, 93fc; do city, SIC.
Dressed hogs easier at 81 70. Lard opened
higher. but closed dull and lower: Prime
steam, 1850; February. ll.50afl.9Oc. Butter
dull: Western, l4a3je. Cheese trm at 7al4c.
Whisky steady at 81 ID.
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RIVER NEWS.

Fhe river continued to rise here at
noon to-day, with IA feet 4 inches in the
channel, q rise of s inches in twenty.
four hours. The ice gorge in front of the
city moved this morning. Full particu-
lars will be found in our local columns,
dispatches to the Merchants Exchanged
OLE CITY, Pa, Jan. 12-10:W A. M
Weather clear and cold. Light rain last
night. Wind west. Thermometer 81.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Jan. 12-10:10 Am.
River 6 ieet 3 inches and falling.
Weather CLOUDY. Thermometer 80. Wind
west.
PITTsBURG, PA, Jan. 12-12:35 P. M
River feet 8 incnes and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer 80.
Wind east.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Jan. 12-9:A A.
M.-KanaWha River 9 feet inches
and rising. Considerable rain last night,
and indications Of more. Thermometer
SO. Weather calm and cloudy.
Special to the Star.
PORTSMOUTH, o., Jan. 1850 A. M
The river broke here yesterday but
doing no damage. This morning the
river Is clear of ice and twenty-five feet
of water. Twenty-Five barges passed
down last night through the gorged ice
from points above. The steamer Scioto
came down from Ironton last night at IL
O'Clock, and will return at noon. The
Fannie Dugau will leave for Hunting
men are again in good spirits at the
prospects.
RIPLEY, o., Jan. 12.-9:09 A. M.-The
ice. in theriver parted abouta mile above
here, just below Charleston bar, a few
minutes ago, and the whole body is now
moving down solidly.
BoAT-HANDS' GOSSIP.
In. the cases against the owner of the
Tigress No. p. the jury yesterday at
Pittsburg rendered verdict for $3.50 in
favor of Harriet NJ. Tarr, whose son was
killed, $230in favor of Robt. Tarr, $3.50 in
favor of Saml. Lawton, and $500 in favor o!
Robert Featlers. The three last named
were injured by the explosion. The to-
tai amount recovered in the five cases,
including the $4,000 by Harriet Tarr for
the death of her husband, Is So, 900. :. A
great ball will be given tonight on the
isteame II james W. Gatf, now laid up in
Green River. -. Captain Gait has got the
/
Bar He tried to get her barge off, but
while at work large cake Of ice cut it
to pieces. The barge contained about
500 tons of freight for New Orleans, all
of which is lost; cargo fully in
sured ;. "A dispatch to the. Red River
Transportation Company says SIXTY
leet ofTone's Bayou dam was washed
away, and is caying fast. The
river is lfalling' In consequence. Geo.
Moore, bar-keeper of the Susie Silver,
died on the 9th inst. on the boat, while
she was laid up at Point Pleasant.
-. The Monongahela Navigation Com
pany report the total re-
ceipts of tolls for the past year at $212,-
6l5 5S, an increase over 1876 OF $17, ,6Sl 5i,
and decrease of 49, 979 30, as compared
with 1874. =. Captain II. b. Moore, OF the
Bonanza, came down. yesterday from
Portsmouth.
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CHNOHNNATL DAILY MARK EFT.
C1NoINNATI, Jan. 12-2P. M.

FLOUR The market is steady and quiet.
We quote 81 1OaS for fancy, $6 75a7 for family,
Sc 5a6 60 for extra, $5 50a5 80 for superine, and
"a 50a5 % for low grades per brl. Spring wheat
nour is quoted $6 40aB rs. Rye flour is worth
"a 4Oa4 50 per brl. BuckwReat flour is joD-
bing at $S 25a9 80 for prime to choice.
UATS-There is no activity in the market
beyond q moderate consumptlve demand. We
quote 35aSsc for good to prime white; and 3oa
3lc for fair to good mixed. Inferior gades uull
at 25a27c per bu.
CORN-Is in moderate demand to-day and
steady with no material Grange. The receipts
are liberal. Prime mixed ear will bring 44e
ner bu, and Is held generally at 4ic. No. 2
mixed shelled in elevator is worth 45c per bu,
RARLBY-There is not much doing, but the
offerings being generally light, the market
CONTINUES firm. We quote 81 O5al 15 per bu for
urine to choice Canada, and fair to good Of
fared at 9ocaS1. Fail will bring 81 05 for choice
90ca$l for good to prime. and offered ati75aSOc
for inferior. Western spring is worth 7Oa5Oc
for prime to choice, and neld at 40a65c for infe-
rior to good, per bu.
Rcd wheat is worth 81 35al As for fair to prime.
w hite is worth 81 4jal SO for good to prime. and
held at 81 53al So for choice per bu. Hill is
worth as much rs white, but none offering.
RYE-There is a continued firm market,
with moderate offerings. Good to prime sam
ME on track is WORTH 16aSJc per bl. No. 2 in
elevator is heldat SLASH per bu.
BULK MEATS-The market is quiet.
shoulders are QuOUeu o5zdo/sCt anu IT'D SlQcS
Ss%asz<cper Id, loose, for haifcured. Fully
cured meats are held HaAc beyond these tlg-
ures. IN
nominallv 7sa7Xc for shoulders, 9&a10c for
rib sides. and l0kc for clear sides, per lb. all
backed. Sugar-cured hams are worth 12Aa
l3c uer lb, njobbing lots.
MESS PORK-The market is quiet Prime
city mess is offered at SIT rs per brI, but the
demand is light at that figure.
TARD-There is not much demand, and the
marie ct is easy IN tone. Prime steam is quoted
lie ner lb. Kettle leaf lard is held at IL 1sal2c,
ana little or no demand at the outside figure
for jobbing lots.
I are quoted 6.sa6sse, and rib stiles S3Scper lb.
Hams arc wo. Tn 9alUkc per lb, according to
COTToN-Is quiet to-day and steady at the
inside figure Of yesterdays quotations. We
quote: Ordinary l0&c, good ordinary llFc,
low middhDg l2c, middlIng l2kc, good mid
ding l2Xc, middling Lalr lSxc, fair 14c per lb.
WHiSkY-The market is steady at 81 % per
gallon with sales - brls.
BEANS-The market rules steady and there
is ONLY moderate demand. Choice navy are
worth $2a2 IL per bu, and good to prime sell at
81 50a1 10 per bu. Inferior are quoted 81 2Ja
1 rs per bushel.
BROOM CORN-The demand is light. with
liberal supply, but the market issteady. RED
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National Associated Press to the Star.
SENATE,

COLUMBUS, Jan. 1.-Among the bills
read second time and referred was
one by Curtis, to punish officers for &C.
cepting bribes or compoundiug ,felonies.
Mr.. Monahan offered a jontresolution
providing for a committee to inquire
into the causes Of the trouble between
the coal miners and the mine operators,
and report remedy for strikes. Also,
a resolution calling upon our Senators
and Representatives in Congress to se-
cure an enactment for counting the
Electoral vote, which, by its reasonable
ness, will commend ITSELF to the people
and relieve the country of suspense.
=. Mr.. Reese offered a. resolution that
the committee wait ON Hon. VIM. A..
Wheeler, and invite him TO the hall.
Reese, Hudson and WarnOck were
named a the committee.
AT 11:50 they appeared at the bar, ac-
companied by Mr.. Wheeler. The Senate
then took recess of ten minutes to
allow Senators to pay their respects.
Mr.. Bates introduced bill to nav the
Judges OF the Supreme Court $4,60O a
year.
Mr.. Ransom introduced a lengthy
amendment to the Police Bill of CIncin.
natl. Read the nrst time and referred
HOUSE. :
COLUMBUS, Jan. lin the House,
.Brunneps House resolution requesting
the Commissioners of Railroads and
Ielegraphs to inform the House whether
railroad companies operating in this
State have complied with the law In ref
ereuce' to burning candles for illumi-
mating cars was taken from tie tables
and adopted.
In the afternoon several bills were in
troduced.
The adjournment resolution was re-
considered, amended, and, after a long
debate, finally passed in such shape as
to provide for adjournment from Friday,
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From the Official Report
Awards to wheeler & Wilson.

l. A Medal and Diploma for New Wheeler
& Wilson Sewing Machine" for the following
reasons:
GA LOck-sttteh Sewing Machine
surpassed i'm the fine WOrknHam-
ship of its parts, and possessing
great originality, great adaPta-
bi4itY to different classes of work
beth ON cloth and leather, beauty
Vf Rtitehs ease and ra pidity of moe
tiOa, and completeness of dis
piay0
?. A Medal and Diploma for "The New
Wheeler Il Wilson Sewing Machine " for
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FINANCIAL.
CINCINNATI. Jan. l2-l:aO 2. NJ.

CINCINNATI. Jan. l2-l:D 2. NJ.
Gold opened in New York to-day at 10G, and
is now worth lO6H. Dealers here are buying aJ
106 and selling at 1867 for coin, and gold checks
are drawn on New York at 1861.
Eastern Exchange is quiet to-day but steady
at yesterdays rates. Wequete it l-20 discount
buying ana 1-D premium selling.
Sterling exchange is dull, but rates are steady
at 81 S6 for sight drafts, and 81 "a for sixty day
bills, per {, in gold.
There is very little local demand for Govern
ment securities. They are steady to-day at
the following rates:
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In ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE EASTERN
ADVERTISERS IN THE STAR, MR.. E. DUN
CAN sNIEFEN, NO. 70 AspoR HOUSE, NEW
YORK CITY, has been appointed our general and
special Agent for the Eastern States. This will be
branch Office of the STAR, Mr., sniffen being au-
thOrized to make advertising contracts on our be-
half, and receipt all collections therefor In our
name.
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past "a hours were as follows:
Cattle. Hogs Sheep.
Receipts. ...s.....s 900 Oo1o OtI
Shipments. .......... 1870 746 266
HOGS-The markets. inactive to-day on ac-
count Of the bad weather. A few medium
qualities sold at $6a6 DO per Genital. The Offer
ings are mostly of common grades and the
market has an easier tendency.
UATpLE-Quiet and steady at 80 25a3 FORM
ferior, So 25a4 for medium, and 81 25a5 80 for
good to choice, per GENITAL.
SHEEP-Firm and quiet market at 81 25a5 30
for good to extra, and $3a4 for common to
good per Genital.
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Yesterdays Congressional.
National Associated. Press to the Star
SRNATEs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11,-In the Senate,
yesterday, Mr.. Mitchell stated that he
would soon propose torenew bill for
the relief of j.. Milton Best, Kentucky,
which nad been vetoed. Mr.. Withers
announced his intention to make q
speech on the occupation of Petersburg,
Va, in the late election. The revised
statutes were taken up and amended. to
having charge of ordnance to make
quarterly reports.
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HOUSE,.

WASHINGTON, Jan. lin the House,
Mr.. Holman's amendment to the Con.
sular and Diplomatic Bill was lost by a
vote Of 100 to- 80. Consent was given. tor
the printing OF election testimony. Mr..
Willard offered u substitute for the
ICES the President to appoint three
members of an International ConVen-
tion the purpose of which may be to fix
the relation of gold and silver, and, also ,
authorizing him to extend invitations to
countries III which gold and silver are
both In legal use.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-26
Art, Music and the Drama,

Gerome has finished the clay model of the
group of two gladiators taken from his famous
picture, ''Police Verse; The work will be
cast in bronze and placed in the coming Ex-
position.
"Nym Crinkle," in. speaking of Boucicaulps
new comedy, Marriage, says that the author
'has frozen Mr.. Montague into pink deli
ciousness like raspberry ice, and no woman
under twenty can look at him 10 Marriage
without an irresistible desire to stick spoon
into him."
OF the late Mile Tietjens, The London Athe-
naum says, iShe was as great in sacred music
as in the lyric drama, if not greater. Her loss
in oratorio Is indeed irreparab!e.' At the time
of her last appearance on the stage, May 10,
''she tainted twice in her dressing room during
the performance, but she would appear, know
ing that she had to undergo painful operation
on the following Tuesday. If am to die she
said to friend, L will play Lucreza once
more And she did play the part Those
who heard her will always recall her rendering
of the despairing cry after Gennaros death.
The Academy's critic observes, "In speaking
of the artistic qualities of Mile Tietjens it is
difficult to avoid hyperboie. L am inclined to
consider her on the whole the greatest singer
whom L ever heard Her voice, when at its
best, was equally remarkable for its power and
its purity" The writer thinks that her death
leaves vacancy which no living singer, unless
perhaps Frau Materna sof Vienna, can ade-
quately fill.
At the recent meeting off the Social Science
Congress in Aberdeen, Scotland, Mr.. John
Forbes White read paper entitled, How can
Art be best introduced into the houses of per-
sons of limited income?" He attempted to
show that there is not room of the humblest
mechanic that might not be made beautiful
home. This result could be accomplished, he
said, by the persons in the house using their
eyes. They should learn to enjoy beautiful
| things around them in every day life. By
| noticing the relation of the parts of landscape
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BiOated AriStOcrats.

There has just been made public funny in
cident of the recent Ohio election. Mr.. John
Q. Covert, of the cleveland Leader, was run
ming for tbs Legislature on the Republican
ticket, when 1t was recalled by the opposition
managers that in June, 1876 he had written q
very sensible article on "Cheap Living" an
article in which he showed with the ability OF
Miss Juliet Corson, that soup could be made
at cost of six cents for peas, onions, aspara-
gus, spinach and small beef-bons which the
butcher was almost willing to give away,
soup that was savory and nutritious and
would make meal for poor mans family.
Mr.. Covert was thereon assailed as ''the SOUP
bone candidate" who thought that refuse be eff
bones were good enough for American working
men; cartoons presented him as ladling out
soup in exchange for working-men's votes or
as running down the working-men armed with
soup-bone and syringe charged with broth.
The result was that it took the official count to
decide that he was elected by some twenty
votes, though his district went Republican
by large majority. This recalls the fact
that Tom Corwin won hist first Congress-
sional election in district hopelessly
opposition by telling how his opponent, who
did indeed wear 'store-clothes," slept in q
nght-gown. He intended the story Cor Joke,
but the freemen of Ohio took it in earnest and
rallying against the pampered aristocrat de-
feated him. A somewhat similar story is told
of a Whig candidate in New York who, stop
ping for dinner at a wayside inn, ordered his
beefsteak to be broiled and not fried. Wheth-
er his alert constituents thought he was re-
lapsing into savagery or putting on airs is not
known, but they promptly made that broiled
beefsteak live issue in the campaign and he
was defeated.
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADYANCE.

rigid formula and mechanical graduation in
office founded on fixed principles that will
break it down. For it will displease the adj
mlrers OF both systems respectively and dis
appointall without conciliating ary.-Detroit
Post and Tribune.
Gen.Garfeld has given up all hopes of the
mortality of the Democratic party, evidently,
Tor he says: SIT seems to me that the DEM
ocratic party will always exist in our period,
with the Catholic Church and other ingredi-
ents for its basis. The more we defeat it the
more 1t starts up; and the history of this
country will be perpetual attack upon DEM
ocracY, which will always rise above its ruins
when the vigor of the attack ceases" This
accounts for the perpetuatlon of the party in
the same way that the existence of the devil
is accounted for in theology.
That was pretty solemn gathering at
Secretary Sherman's house in Washington,
last week, when the Republican leaders re-
leved their minds on the political situation.
but it was illuminated with one delicious
gleam of humor from General Butler. When
the General arose to give his view, he began
by stating, with great seriousness, that he
was pleased to meet with his colleagues from
Massachusetts,, and that he could not remem-
ber that he had ever been called to conference
with them before, unless il was to consider
the preliminaries of some funeral. Wash
ington hasn't finished laughing at the neat
Joke vet.
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Current Comment.

1t is mistake to say Jones wants more sill
yer. He wants less, but wishes the country
to have more. Self-sacrifice is what ais
Jones.
There is a mystery of some sort in the
''private arrangements" which Southern
Congressman telegraph that they made with
Randall. -Neeo Orleans Times.
The Presidents policy will have fair and
unrest ricted trial in the Massachusetts elec-
ton. The platform of the Republican Con-
vention is the fullest Endorsement that has
been made of his course, and the canvass is
conduct ed squarely upon the platform. Ol
course there are the Prohibition and other
tnird party tickets, but if the full Republican
vote IS polled the entire opposition vote can
easily be overcome.-N. Y. Tribune.
1t W the mixture of two incongruous sys-
TENS personal and political favorltism and
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ENGLAND having once determined 10 give
her children at least an elementary education
set about the gigantic task vigorously, and
within six years the greatest of her cities has
been almost supplied with sufficient school
room for every child that lives in it. In 1871
London contained 574, ,693 children in need of
an elementary education, and only E262, ,259
places in schools for them. The amount of
accommodation has been nearly doubled.
The voluntary schools now have room for
2S4, IA, while the School Board schools ex-
istng or planned, have room for 220,549
more. There has been great improvement
in punctuality Of attendance. Two years
ago, one child in 142 came to school too late !;
in 1877, only one child in 315 has come too
late. Every gang of young thieves known
to the police has been broken up and the
members compelled to go to school. In the
year 1876, $4,000 children were sent to
school in obedience to 10000 cautions given
the parents
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News and Other Items.

Brigham Young used to be noted for his in
genuity in evading a difficulty. 1t is said that
a disciple strong in the faith once lost leg,
and prayed him to have another supplied by
miraculous growth. The prophet answered that
he could command another to grow of course
but begged his petitioner to consider how awk-
ward it would be to walk around heaven with
three legs, when the other saints there would
have only two! The device succeeded and the
sufferer went away satisfied.
Impelled by the rivalry of citizens of New
England in looking up big powders, Gov. Pres
colt of New Hampshire, has made search in
that state, and has found in Nottingham, at the
base of Pawtuccaway Mountain, huge bowl
der, called the Churchill Rock, sixty-two feet
long, forty feet wide:Eand fifty feet high, con-
tanning seventy thousand cubic feet and weigh
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Louis Kossuth, in his last letter on the
Eastern question, pleaded for the re-estab-
lishment Of the kingdom of Poland, and de-
clared that he saw in that step means of
solving that question. An address is being
circulated in Gallicia and published By the
Polish journals, as testimony of gratitude
to the ex'dictator. The document is said to
have already received several hundreds of
thousands of signature
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The new star in Cygnus has gone through
performance that is sore puzzle to the
men of science. As its gradually waning
light comes to be ex amined by the spectre
scope, it is found now to have the features of
planetary nebula. For few years past the
spectroscopists have been pluming them
selves upon the important accession TO the
proof of the nebular hypothesis that was fur
nished by the appearance of the nebule
when their light was anayzed. The asser-
tion was freely made that the irresolvable
nebula consisted largely of the simple gasses,
principally hydrogen; they were supposed to
be in the process of condensation, ultimately
to form suns. But here is star which
starts off as sun with varied assortment
OF streaks in its spectrum, and winds up in a
few weeks with simplicity of light and every
evidence of being a nebula. Evidently the
previous notions about nebule need revision.
Professor Lockyer suggests as way out of
the difficulty that the new star may not be
so many millions of miles away as the fixed
stars certainly are. If it had been at that
great distance and had burst suddenly into
fierce incandescence at the time it was first
observed it would have taken few million
years for so large mass to cool.