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An editor is described as II man who
Is liable to errors of gramnlcr, tooth
ache. typographical errors, and has
twenty-five thousand people watch
ing to catch him tripping--a man OF
sorrow and acquainted with grief,
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An obfiging gentleman who thinks
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
By Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
estIC.

Domestic.
NEW YORK, July 30, II O.. m.-COffee
quiet; sales-244G per Memnon, BIT per City
of Para; taken from stOck-8788 per City Of
Para 5G3 per HALEY, 3612 per Pascal, 1886 per
DOn1ati. Raw sugar easy; sales-40O hhds.
Refined sugar moderately active and prices
nominalIy unchanged; hards firm, softs easy.
Linseed oil 56G157.
D. m.-Cotton quiet; Middlings II Ills.
Coffee steady; fair Rio 1914. Sugar dull.
3:15 D. m.-Coffee quiet; sa1es-29GO per
City Of Para on private terms. Stock 67.436
bags.
CHICAGO, July 3O-Wheat opened at 90
bid August, 81 x bid September. Corn $3.50
1871 August, 381S bid September. Pork-$9 60
August, SO Is September. Lard .10t@715
August 72 SeP 96sn s 253O Oct 0ctoP PER
September. Corn-38T August, 80 asked Sep
TENDER. Pork-$9 571a019 60 August, 50 Is
September. Lard-7121a. bid August, 1921
bid September. Dry salt meats Shoulders
5, short rib Cos, short clear 6.15.
Union Stock Estimated receipts of
hogs to-day, 10,0O1; official yesterday, 10,299;
shipments, ALL; light $4 25G14 S., heavy
81 3004 IS for common to choice, Cattle
Receipts yesterday, 6199; shipments yester-
largely of Texans: market dull and weak.
/ D. m-CIose-Wheat- o. July, SO asked
August, 911a September. COrn-4019 July, 384
bic August, 1871 bid September. Oats-27
July, Zj4 August, ZzIs september. HOfK-
50 521a July or August, So 10 September.
Lard-7.121a@715 July or August, 1921
September.
ST. LOUIS, July 3O-O Opening Wheat-895s
August, 81 September. Corn-No trading.
l p m.-Wheat higher; No. red 80, and
advanced to 80 August, 9O5g and advanced
to 91}4 September, 81 cash; No. 3 red 80 July,
$4,000 cash Corn quiet; 353l July and
August, 35@4 cash. Oats higher; 2524 July,
2515G126 cash. Whisky steady at 81 %. Pork
stronger; jobbing at $40 Cut meats firm !;
car lots loose-shOulders $40, short rib 6,
short clear 81. Bacon quiet; shoulders 516.
short rib 666@6621a, short clear 6.8O@685
Lard nominal at 705
1 Is p. m.-Wheat weak 80 July, 8824 Au-
gust, sellers 901s September. Corn dull; 3524
August, 81 September.
CINCINNATI, July 30.-Mess pork $40. Ba-
cOn-Shoulders so, clear rib sides 612, clear
sides 634. Sugar-cured hams 1O1a68tOa4. Bulk
meats Shoulders $40, clear rib sides $50,
clear sides 81. Lard-eurrent make steam
40, country Kettle 724, city 7}<. Hogs-Re-
Ceipts to-day 1904; common So 75014 %, fair to
good 81 35ta4 50, choice 81 6O6t4 70. Whisky
quiet at ST o..
1.4Op. m.-Whisky closed at 81 o..
Foreign.
LIVERPOOL, July 30 IL 80 D. m.-Cotton-
Firmer; Middting Uplands 6 9-16d, Middling
Orleans 11-16d; sales 10000 bales. of which
1000 are for export and speculation. Receipts
1000 bales, OF which 5000 are American; fll-
lures easier.
Wheat Western spring 1 9s I'D, No. 2 IS
10d; winter IS 10d, No. 2 IS Sd. Flour
Western canal 21s124s. Corn--NeW mixed 22s
6dG122s Sd. Oats-2s Sd. Pork-Prime mess
Western 49s. Lard-Prime Western 98s Sd.
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Bacon Long clear SOs, short clear S2s Cd.
TalloW American 37s Sd.
80 p. m.-Breadstuffs quiet Corn New
mixed 22s 3dD22s 3d. Wheat Western winter
No. los, No. 2 9s Sd. Bacon-Long clear
Dos Sd. Weather fair.
p. m.-Flour quiet; extra State 23s Sd,
Western canal 236D24s. Wheat dull California
club los ,4d@10s Sd, do average 10s@10s Id.
Corn dull. Oats rs sd. Barley 3s.. Glover
seed-American 40sG143s. Receipts of wheat
for the past three days $4,000 quarters, of
which 10000 quarters are American.
8 p. m.-Bacon- Cumberland cut steady at
30s, short rib 3Os cd, long clear 3Os Cd, short
clear 32s Cd. Lard-Pime Western steady at
38s 3D.. Flour-Extra State steady at 25s.
Wheat Spring No. 9s Id, No. 2 8s lid. Other
articles unchanged.
LONDON, July 80, Up. m:-Flour quiet; extra
State 23s Cd. Wheat Arrived eargoes steady;
Chicago 43s Cd, red winter Ats I'D, California
Sos; cargoes to arrive a shade easier; Chicago
39s 6d@4Os, California 4Gs 6d@4gs; arrivals
goes 23s Cd; do to arrive 23s(033s Sd.
s 80 p. m.-Tallow-37s 6dG137s Cd.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

CoRN-The market Is firm and the demand
good Sales-f50 sacks white at CSC, and 100
mixed at SOC ~ bushel
OATs-Are in fair demand and firm; 400
and 200 bags sold at 42c f@ bushel,
BRAN-The inquiry is light; 500 and 100
bags sold at Coo " 100.
HAY-Demand light; choice SD; prime $11
6112 u ton.
BULK CORN-The market is dull and mac
tive, and movements appear to be impraC-
ticable In the present relation of this market
to the foreign trade. Prices are nomnally
quoted at 44l14415c.
WHEAT-R Receipts small and demand light
at S5@95c for Texas and choice No. Western
WHIsKY-The demand for this article is
moderate and in prices scarcely any change
from day to day. We quote choice Cinein-
natl 81 05@1 06, fair to good Western 81 020
03, Louisiana $101 OF.
Demand good and prices firmer.
We quote bury 9010c, Louisiana clear 200
2tc, lake 23123119ec ~ ID.
BUTTER-Fafr stock and in moderate re-
guest. view creamery + fine 22 y New
York dairy prime 20022c, New York dairy
good 16m17C, Western creamery 18G124C, West
ern dairy 11015c u b.
CHEEsE-Is in light demand. New York
cream 11112c, Ohio factory 8GD81ac fB Ii.
POULTRY-Old chickens So 50l14; young
81 5O@3; ducks $2@3; geese 1904; turkeys So
STARCH-In fair demand at 3031lc in lots.
POTAToEs-Weste at 81 5001 rs " Dbl.
OF Louisiana potatoes there Is good
stock, with light demand; prices easy at
81 2561 80 ID Dbl.
ONIONS - Western 81 5OG1 rs. Louisiana
onions are in moderate demand at 81 so
~ Dbl.
SWEET POTATOES S2602 rs u Dbl.
CABBAGEs - Are steadier. Louisiana cab
bages are quoted at 81 5005 u box.
BEANs-Northern 3@314c. Western 21a@
234o ~ tb.
EGGs-Western 5@12c; Louisiana 25028c %
dozen.
RICE-Light stock and firm; demand good;
No. 2454G15e, common G0614c, ordinary 61a0
exc, fair 6}4@61sc, good 7@71sc, prime u
orc, choice 75gc B fb.
SA1T-We quote dealers prices from their
warehouses at $4,000 " sack for coarse, 81 o.
al 10 for fine. Turks Island dull and neg
lected; held at 3O032c y bushel. Table salt
In pockets 134071ac each, as in size.
COTTON TIEs-Are quoted at So Is 58 bundle,
with discounts according to quantity.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
DEPARTMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS,
Room No. t6, City Hall,
New Orleans, July N, 1873.

New Orleans, July az, 1878.
As 1t becomes necessary for the preservation
of the health OF the city at this season of the
year. that every possible effort should be made
towards keeping the public avenues. cutters
and alleys clean and free from all offensive
matter, hereby respectfully call upon the pub
lie to assist the authorities by complying with
the following requests, to wit:
l. Such residents as have yard hydrants are
requested to permit same to run sufficient
time to wash away rubbish. filth. etc., and to
render the street cutters fresh and clean. This
step becomes necessary as many of the cross
streets, or streets parallel with the river. are
without water plugs. and the difficulty hereto
fore experienced In flushing these cutters be-
ing mainly due TO defective drainage and the
want OF water.
Q. Residents will please place. or instruct
their servants to place, the garbage In boxes In
front of their dwellings before o'clock q. M.
prior to the city carts making their rounds.
strict adherence to this plan will remove in q
great measure. the cause OF the great number of
complaints concerning the non-remoyal of
garbage.
therefore earnestly request all good citizens
to aid the authorities In keeping the streets
and cutters clean and healthy. and in assisting
to remove any waste or offensive scattering
promptly.
If proper spirit is manifested by the public
In this respect the workings of this department
will be greatly facilitated and much of the
cause for complaint heretofore existing mate
rally obviated. JOHN MoCAFFREY,
iy28 Administrator.
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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. |
Executive Department. !
jy23 81 auto

Executive department. }
Whereas, I have been officially informed that
on the third day of December A. d. 1877 ROB
ERT SIMMONS was wiIlfully and maliciously
murdered In the parish of Claiborne. and that
JOE HOWELL and WALTER PRICE, late of
said parish, are accused Of having committed
said crime; and whereas. said Joe Howell and
Walter Price have fed from the justice of this
State, and it being important and highly neces-
sary that the perpetrators of such crime should
be brought to justice and dealt with as the law
directs;
Now, therefore. I, FRANCIS T. NICHOLS.
Governor of the State of Louisiana, have
thought proper to issue this. my proclamation,
calling upon the good people of this State to
give their aid and assistance in apprehendinR
and arresting said Joe Howell and Walter Price
In order that they may be tried for the crime for
which they stand indicted. And by virtue of the
powers vested In me by law. ] do hereby offer q
reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest
Price in any jail or prison Of this State and
upon their conviction of the crime Of which
they stand accused.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed
these presents and caused the seal of The State
Of Louisiana to be hereunto affixed, at the city
of New Orleans, this nineteenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy eight, and of the Independ
ence Of the United States of America the one
hundred and second year.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS.
By the Governor:
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State. jy20 lot
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BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS,
Nau 0rlnnns II1lu Of 1879

BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS,
New Orleans, July u, 1878.
The undersigned Committee on School
houses will receive sealed proposals, addressed
to said committee. for repairs to the plastering,
whitewashing and painting of the following
mentioned schools at the office of the Board of
School Directors. No. 80 Burgundy street. on or
before WEDNESDAY, August 7, 1878. or at the
places designated below:
Jackson Boys and Girls School, Clio School,
webster 5UhOUi. Franklin School Bianvflle
School. Claiborne School. st. Philip School.
Washington No. 1 School, Magnolia Girls
School, Paulding School, Jefferson No. / School,
Marshal School. Fisk School, Robertson School.
st. Ann School. Fillmore School. McCarty
School, Leontine School.
Upon application to the secretary of the
Board of Public School Directors. the kind Of
work required upon the schools mentioned
above. and also the specifications under which
said work Is to be done. will be exhibited by
the secretary of the board.
The Board of School Directors reserves the
right to reject any or all bids. Bids to be made
for cash.
SEQ. sWARBRICK. No. So Camp street
ROBERT Fl. hartley 70 Constance St,
Chairmen.
Or Box No. 2 Mechanics and Dealers Ex-
change jy28
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THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, july 81 1875
OF 5o@75c, good mixed and clay at s1@1 100
The market Ia dull,
u AL -

at 5O@75e, good mixed and clay at s101 100
The market Ia dull.
HoM1NY Wholesale 50 70; iobbing SO.
PORK-Ihere were no sales reported to-day,
and there Is still no disposition on the part OF
buyers TO operate beyond their immediate re-
quirements. The feeling is easier, and we
quote the market $40 5O0010 rs on trade
sales, dealers iobbing at $11 per Dbl.
DRY SALT MEATs-0wing to the dull de-
mand former prices are scarcely maintained.
The last round lot reported was at 57Oc for
packed shoulders, but to-day the tone of the
market Is weaker, and we quote shoulders
SIC loose and 52S615.65c packed. Dealers
rates are firm at 558n534c loose and packed.
BACoN-The market was very quiet to-day,
but holders OF property do not appear to
have altered their views OF it's value. The
supply Is fair and the demand Is light. We
quote shoulders 53415Tac, clear rib sides 81
C07c, and clear sides 714079Sc Dealers prices
are quoted firm at SC for shoulders, 71S0071lc
for clear rib sides, and 71so for clear sides
LARD-The demand Is fair in the local trade
and prices remain steady and unchanged,
and we hear of some considerable sales for
shipment ooastwise at full prices. Prime
steam 71La0724o,, and refined ,81sQ828c, in
tierces, kegs 81a0S59c for refined and SC
for packers leaf Dealers job at an advance
of 33401ac on these prices. Sales-40 tierces
refined to arrive at SIC.
HAMs-Continue dull and Inactive, and
prices are easy and unchanged. Plain are
quoted S15GlSc, and choice sugar-cured 10IS6l
lie, according to size, quality and brand. Deal
ers obtain an advance of 7401ao on these
prices.
BREAKFAST BAooN-The supply Is ample
for the demand, and the market Is steady for
choice goods at 7zz9s@8e; dealers are charging
71at081ac for small lots.
Fulton BEEF-Half bbls $40; extra West
ern mess SIS f8 Dbl.
PACKERS Hoe Products Dealers are sell
ing on orders In the job trade at SIS SOFAS rs
u half Dbl for pig pork So 30 " Dbl for prime
$5 50 for prime mess SO 80 for rump pork.
COFFEE There Is a light demand and the
sunnlY Ia fair
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There was but small movement yesterday
In securities, and rates were easy. State Con-
soils opened at 7211a, and closed steady at 7260
7214, against 73G73A on Monday. Reported
sales $4,000 In the Exchange and 100000
outside. Premium Bonds closed quiet at 1921
@33, with sales of $4,000 in the Exchange and
SIS 600 outside.
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NOTICE TO VENDORS
OF
SCHOOL BOOKS.

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE BOARD OF J
Education for Louisiana.
New Orleans. July 81, 1878.
In conformity to section 2 of the ACT to regu-
late Public Education in Louisiana" etc.. Act
No. %, approved March %. 1877,
SEALED PROPOSALS
are invited from all dealers in SCHOOL BOOKS
to furnish by contract, during four years from
the first of September proximo. each of the text
books hereinafter named. which have been SO
lected and chosen by the State Board of Educa
ton for use in the free Academic Public Schools
of the city of New Orleans and State of Louisi-
ana; said proposals to exhibit in tabulated
form, the MINIMUM RATES at which each of
the volumes will be SOLD to pupils or EX-
CHANGED for old books on the same subject,
and to be addressed to the State Board of Edu-
cation and delivered per mail or in the office of
the Secretary. on or before SATURDAY, the
FOURTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1878.
Textbooks for Academic schools:
WOODS BOTANY.
UPHAMS ABRIDGED MENTAL PHILOsO-
PLY.
ABERCROMBIE'SlM MENTAL PHILOSOPHY
ANDERSON's HISTORY OF ENGLAND,
SWINTON'S OUTLINES OF HISTORY.
And GILMAN'Si LITERATURE,
Each of the latest edition.
ROBERT M. LUSHER,
iy285 st Secretary of State Board.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

We are constrained to indulge sometimes
in quiet laugh over the excessive boastful-
ness of our st. Louis friends, but willingly
acknowledge her strength and soundness in
commercial matters. For the first six months
Of the present year she had bankruptcies
with liabilities amounting to 1851 500. During
the same period the liabilities in bankruptcy
in Cincinnati were $3,215,OOO, and in Chicago
$g. 753, 800.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

G.B. Ere. Con. Chan. Stocks
Last week weGN a a,sI5 50 1856, ,5
yes year "oon $50 4,652 4oo5 ... 177,9Gs
OCEAN FREIGHTs-Are quoted as follows
By steam-Cotton to Liverpool ODD;
to Revel d; to Bremen ID; to Boston,
Providence, Fall River, Philadelphia "a and
re; grain to Liverpool as Sd, and - to
Bremen 7B quarter.
SUGAR-The market is quiet and firm.
We quote: Inferior @; common to
Sc; fully fair SIC; prime 81lc; strictly
prime SIC; gray clarified @; yellow
clarified, as in quality, 9191ac; off whites
good to choice, 94c; white clarified 9}S091ac
MonAssEs-T inquiry is light and prices
steady.
We quote: Common 22025c; fair 25028c;
prime 30@32c; strictly prime 36@38c; choice
40642c.
FLoUR-The sales reported to-day, includ-
ing 200 bbls last evening, amounted to 1000
bbls. the demand being confined to the local
trade, and the market quiet and easy at firmer
quotations. Sales-50 bbis at "a IS; so at S.;
Is and 100 at S. Is; Is at SIS 3711a; % at S. 50;
so, rs, 100, 100, 100 and 300 on private terms.
lily S505 25; trebles, low to choice, $40
4 Is; double extras So 5O04 single extras
S3613 25; superfine So 75'G3; common 81 500
IS. Dealers in their trade obtain an advance
OF 5UC fB Dol on tneSe prices.
Corn MEAL-Was in little demand to-day,
and previous quotations were barely main
tanned. We quote: Choice Western 81 Asa
80 in the wholesale trade, and So 7Ol12 Is in
the jobbing and retail trade Sales-25 and 80
bbls at 50 As; 25 and 25 at 50 30.
GRITs-The demand continues fair and
prices easier Quoted at SO 506D3 rs W bbl for
good to choice Western ex landing in round
lots On job lots dealers obtain So 9O04, as
in quality and brand.
CREAM AND PEARL MEAL-S2 6002 IS u
bbl as in quality.
Cow PEAs-We quote low grades nominal
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Commercial and Financial Matters.

All the merchants In the oil region OF Penn
sylvania have signed an agreement 10 sell
goods for cash on delivery only.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

1881, 9Oe dozen eggs were imported into the
United States during the elevens month end
ing May 81, 1878. Where did they come from?
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

The ship Zephyr, thirty days from Bath,
Maine, with cargo of 1850 tons of ice, has
arrived at Port Eads, and is on the way up to
the city. There is a ship loaded with ice for
the Crescent City Company that has been out
thirty-five days from Bath.
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COM M ERCEAL.
OFFICE OF NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT. |

Tuesday Evening. July 30. 1878. I
CoTroN-In consequence of the absence of
freight ROOM transactions are restricted, al
though the tone of the market is firm. Sales
up to the close only 100 bales.
The following is the official closing Of the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

Total thus far. So 62g 983 81 S24T, $40 II
The demand for money at the banks Is light,
and on the street the offerings of paper are
small. In securities the movement is small
and rates easy.
We quote exceptional paper 7@8 " cent; Al
do 9@1O; second grade do @; loans on
collaterals 508; Al mortgage paper 811s0tO;
second grade do @ " cent per annum.
Gold quiet and steady.
Foreign Exchange quiet and weak.
Sight steady.
State Consols steady at 72@7214.
Premium Bonds quiet at 322@33.
Stocks dull
Gold opened in New York at 1907 and
closed at 1907. Here it opened at 10000
1905 and closed at 10O}sO1005s Sales-None
reported.
STERIING-B bills -04841S, CONNER
cial 491014S2.
FRANCS Bank francs $500, commercial 5.2tI
@5.20.
S1GHT-Bank counter rate a, commercial
and bankers BIG U cent premium.
NEW ORLEANS STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
FIRST CALL, 10 A. M.
$1,000 State Consols. ................. IS
-Gfntrr TD1LE27ls DpnFpfrIruc 90TL n9g
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-31

WIt will be observed that some years are
omitted. Reliable figures covering them
could not be obtained. The Boston Journal,
with the figures before it, improves the OcCa-
sion as follows:
One curious circumstance disclosed in the
table is worth the attention of all laboring
men In 1861, the war year, the average car
penter's pay was 81 rs per day. Immediately
after initiation began to tell upon the currency
and upon all articles Of subsistence, so that
most of the latter, involving nearly the whole
cost of mechanics living, was about doubled
And yet it was not till March, 1864, that the
daily pay of the same mechanic rose more
than twenty-five cents above his daily pay in
1861. That is the inevitable effect of cheap
ening the currency-it initiates nearly every
thing else before it does labor, thus compell-
ING the iaborer for years TO pay a toll on all
he purchases, while the capitalist is thriving
on an easy system of marking up his goods.
THAT state OF things, although it might have
been mitigated, originated in the over
yyhelming necessities Of civil war; but what
would be thought of the sanity of working
man who would tryto revive It now, when we
are 10 close upon the condition Of normal
soundness again.
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SALE OF SEIZED GOODS.


Building VA m
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONETARY.

OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT. /
Tuesday Evening, July so, 1878.
NEW ORLEANS CLEARING HOUSE.
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Received Same time Same time
since Friday. last week, last year.

Receipts at ports since September [. 4,220,9l0
Receipts same time last year. ....... 1898 512
Receipts same time year before. ..... ......
The consolidated report for four days gives
exports to
This week. ....4,65l 96.474
Last week =. 2,S45 SO 121 1856
This week last
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lawsuit at New Haven, Conn, recently
brought out some interesting figures, show
ing, with authenticity, the wages of me-
chanics for eighteen years. A carpenter
brought suit to recover the balance due on
unpaid wages-the account extending from
1859 to 1876 His employer had agreed to pay
at prevailing prices'-there was no full set
Element tor eighteen years, and the question
was at last what were prevailing prices for
eighteen years. A committee of carpenters
prepared the following table, which was ae-
oented as testimony, of carpenters wages: