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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26
COMMERCIAL.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT. |
Monday Evening, March Is. 1878.


Monday Evening March %. 1878. !
| GENERAL REMARKS-To-d day has been
clear, but owing to O northeast wind blowing it
| WAS somewhat cool. Business continues lamen-
| tably dull.
| The advices from Liverpool. Havre and New
| York were unfavorable. and the Cotton market
here was easier. though not Guotably lower. The
sales reached only 26o0 bales.
| The advices from the Western centres oftrade
we're not unfavorable as regards Provisions: in
| fact, the markets up in those regions exhibited
some steadiness: but here there was no demand
! except in very small way. Prices. neverthe-
| less. are steady at our last quotations. In the
jobbing way there was slightly easier feeling
The demand for Bacon Is very restricted.
Reports from the controlling markets Of the
West show no change in the market in Wheat
or Flour. and in this city day there was but
little demand for Flour. and the prices remain
easy and unchanged. The supply is ample and
we'll assorted.
Western Corn Meal is in good supply with
moderate demand at easier prices.
For Sugar there was q fair inquiry for low
grades. with steady market. Receipts, 1876
hogsheads; sales. 167 hogsheads.
There was fair demand for Molasses. and
prices Of the same are easy The receipts were
476 barrels sales. 283 barrels.
There was fair demand for Corn and prices
were easy. The sales footed up 1870 barrels, at
prices from Al to ACC, according to quality.
CoTToN-.Although Saturdays quotations
were maintained, the general tone OF the mar
in prices, and failing to obtain 1t generally
withdrew. taking with them only 1900 bales as
the total OF their operations.
Liverpool is reported easy on spots, Havre Is
pressing sales, and New York weak with futures
at 80yS points down.
The following Is the official closing of the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

noceipIS dJ pOrLS S1nCo september l.. u, S32, O93
receipts same time last year. ......... 1890. OO5
Receipts same time year before. g. 7O6 $50
The consolidated report for three days gives
exports to
G.B. Fee. Con. Chan. Silks.
This week $50. .27.64O 1857 6463 7,4o1 64s,746
Last week IA. $50 II 1913 17112 6515 1913, 1903
This week Pty'r 1867 $3.50 1888 -. 743 44o
OCEAN FREIGHTS-Are quoted as follows
BY steam Cotton to Liverpool 7-16d; to
| Ravel ID; to Bremen ID; to Boston, Provi-
denee Fall River. Philadelphia and Baltimore,
yia New YORK or r.; to New York Nc; grain to
BY sall-Cotton to Liverpool 7-16d: to
Havre. nc; to Bremen &c; to Genoa X@1c;
grain to Liverpool load
Steam rates to Northern ports are quoted at
81 % on molasses p Dbl to New York, and s4@4 50
p hid on sugar. By sail the rate on molasses to
New York is 81 Is . Dbl.
SIGAR-ReceiDts 1856 hhds; sales 167 hhds,
There is fair inquiry for low grades. and the
We quote: inferior 1850; common to
good common 5h@6Ae; fair to good fair sA
@67sc: fully fair 6A@7c; prime 7A@71ac; strict
iy prime 75s@74c; gray clarified ----@-c; yellow
clarified, as IN quality, s@8Ac; of whites, good
to choice. 81@8Ac; white clarified $4,000,
,;MOLASsES-Receipts 47s bills; sales 283 bbls.
The market is steady, with only moderate en-
Quiry,
We quote: Common 1s@1sc; fair 2o@2se;
prime 32@34c: strictly prime s6@asc: choice
,FLOUR-.Western advices show no material
cnange IN the markets there on wheat or -four,
and as there was very little demand to-day in
the flour trade here, prices remain easy and
unchanged. The Supply is ample and well RS-
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umn, says:
The money market continues dull, and pre-
sents no features Of interest calling for com
ment. Profitable and safe, employment for
borrowing demand from responsible sources,
It continues to accumulate Notwithstanding the
Of trade do not seem to be increasing, and the
good time coming is still In the future, and its
outline SO indistinct that many who have been
it more proftably in the early future have be-
gun to despair Of the anticipated starting up Of
business. and are now trying to lend even at
the present low rates.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26
FIRE ASSOCIATION
OF PHILADELPHIA.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.

STATEMENT OF ASSETS, JANUARY /, 1873
Bonds and Mortgages and ground
rents. secured upon property in
the city Of Philadelphia 49,. 81 1913 ,ss2 n
United States registered bonds ..... 442, 493 Is
And loans and warrants of the city
of Philadelphia. Observation-Disclosures. 449,O69 10
Loans Of the city of Pittsburg and
other cities. .......--..-.-....-.--.. 1890 90
Loan of the Masonic Temple Of Phil
adelphia. Observation-Disclosures. 21.eoo 90
Real estate in the city of Philadel-
phia ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ee.92o 10
Bonds Of various railroads and
other corporations. ...-...--...... 335,S40 90
Stocks of various railroads and
other corporations ....--....--... 82o997 60
Accrued and uncollected INTEREST,". 1880 q
Premiums due by agents in course
Of collection NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1884, TAG 50
Cash on hand. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 125049 80
Market value 3.77s 449 At
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

The Philadelphia Ledger reports that resump-
tion is coming along Of its own motion in
Philadelphia. 1t says:
80 near together had gold and greenbacks
lars were given out in change, when greenbacks
or national bank notes of 50 or upward were
rendered In payment for small amounts. There
it came about In busness-like way, gold dol
lars being easier OF access than 81 bills. Thus
specie resumption on a gold basis is resuming
itself.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

UNITED STATES BRANCH.
Assets. fire ts218O33s rs United
States government stocks) 90 ,ssi, 800 ~ "
Liabilities, fire. including reinsur-
ance- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1464.os5 I'D
Surplus in United States ST az SCI ~
Southern Department, Office at Louisville
Ky.-BARBEE Il CASTLEMAN, Managers
New Orleans ELSHANS d WOODS.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

Gross receipts since Saturday. $500
Gross receipts previously. 500 837-1 SOB 666
Total supply. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ], $50 O22
Exported to-day. ........... 1000
Exported previously. 1.256 1851 ,267 s14
Total stocks this day .................. 262. 208
TOTAL STOCK this day last year. 253 1913
The exports o-day were II. 0so bales to Liver
pool.
Net receipts since Saturday. .-.-......... 4772
Receipts from other ports .............-- 1,057
Net receipts last Sunday and Monday. 1904
Net receipts same time last year. ........ 1884
Net receipts since Friday ................. 62g
Net receipts same time last week S,G4l
Net receipts same time last year. $685.
Net receipts since september 1..........1 260 80
Net receipts same time last year ......1 .o87 O61
Cotton on shipboard as per account of the
Cotton Exchange. as follows: Liverpool Al .341*
bales. -Havre 11.214, Bremen 1927, Mediterranean
100, North Sea 1144, Baltic ports 1916, Spain
-. Mexico =, coastWise 217s;. total. 76.54O
bales. This. taken from the stock at noon, as
noted at the Exchange leaves In presses 1s5. 668
bales.
t*The figures for Liverpool include 81 1853
bales for Channel ports for orders.j
The receipts at oil ports, consolidated. as per
kilograms to the Cotton Exchange, show totals
from noon yesterday to noon to- day of 1851
bales against 1850 bales last Sunday and Mon
day. $3.50 last year and 1892 the year before last
The movement at ports for three days up to
IL m. to-day. is given below:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26
COMMERCIAL
Union ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON.

Net cash surplus to policy holders,
actually On hand ................. s3,4o8,722 81
In addition to the above the policy holders
have the security Of the shareholders obliga-
tions for the balance of the subscribed capital
to the amount Of il,2SO,OOO.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

Not the least hopeful sign Of the times is the
growing interest Of the people along the Illinois
river in the all-water route to the sea via St.
Louis and the jetties. The newspapers are
alive to the new route and are doing oil they
can to turn trade into it's natural channel.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26
The movement at ports for three days up to
ID m to-day Ia given halou. - Fl
Same time Same time

Receipts at ports since September 1.....3, s32 O93
receipts same time last year. $50 O05
Receipts same time year before. 7O6 $50
The consolidated report for three days gives
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

There was slightly better feeling yesterday
In the market for State and city securities.
State Consols were firmer. and were quoted at
7714077]s, while Premium Bonds were stronger
at 3614@3Gss. There seems to be an idea abroad
that these securities have touched bottom. and
are now on the ascending scale. OF City Con-
solidated Bonds $4,000 were sold at from ssA to
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-26

Sales to-day $500 bales Market dull.
COTTON STATEMENT.
In store and On shipboard Sept. l. 1877. Fl 1856
Gross receipts since Saturday. $500
Gross receipts previously. .502 837-1 SOB 666
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01

SqcH@N We respectfully inform the citi
&-{NV zens of Wilmington, and the sur
IL rounding country that we continue
nzEz to manufacture and keep ON hand
at our large and long established ware
rooms, Furniture of every variety and
style, consisting OF Mahogany Rosewood
and Walnut Furniture suitable for parlor,
d4Antng-room and chamber uses.
Our assortment of Furniture is larger ana
more varied thanScan be found in Delaware,
and all articles sold at our establishment
are warranted as represented.
Venitian Blinds OF the most fashionable
designs made to order and kept constantly
on hand. We also manufacture and con
stantly keep large assortment OF Sprtn
Hair, Moss and Husk Mattresses
J. d j. N. HARMAN
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
The Head Man Of the NIfIwau-
kee Wheat Corner.

MI: Peter McGeogh, the head man in
the milwaukee, wheat corner, the leading
feature OF the grain trade during the past,
Few days, is said to have already made a
profit OF quarter of a million. McGeoph
ana the parties he represents were stated
by the Wisconsin papers recently to have
been buying July No. 2 wheat steadily
ket was sold down from 81 O5 to g0I
gents. About June 10 the presence of
McGeogh, backed by the invisible pow
er OF unlimited funds, began to be ap-
parent. AS fast as any wheat came to
milwaukee, IL was bought by the ring
and shipped to the East, SO that the
shorts could not get hold of any of it to
denver on the contracts they had made
Tor the month. The result was that Nc
ueogh was the man against the multi
tad' and that as long ago as the 10Th of
July he was the owner of two million
bushels of wheat bought at figures con-
sldera6iy lower than those which now
rule McGeogh's extraordinary line of
proceedings is attended with some
strange results. For instance, the natur-
al margin of variation between the diff
ferent markets, allowing for the cost of
Irelghts, is up to II to 1 cents. At least
that is the usual limit for the difference
between Milwaukee and Chicago, be-
vi pun anu NEW OTk. COmC-
umes difference in the local specula-
tive feeling makes variation of 23
cents on the price of a given grade of
wheat. Bat the natural range Is from
nothing to II cents. The purchase of
such large amounts has made a differ
ence between Milwaukee and Chicago,
GU No. 2, of nearly scents. The relation
between Milwaukee and New York is
equally abnormal, SO that parties who
buy in Milwaukee and sell in New York
at the present figures will lose 81 cents
ON every bushel. McGeogh, the operat-
or who has attained such prominence in
the grain trade, ,Ecame to this country
from Scotland twenty-five years ago.
He is generally successful in his opera
tons, although he is reputed to have lost
heavily in bull corner somewhat SINH
lar to this one that resulted disastrously
to Schroeder II Lindblom about three
years since.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
Office Holding In Liberia.

According to letter of the Charleston
Is. c. News and Courier's correspond
snt, who has recetnly returned from Lii
IBERIA, the annual cost of governing that
country, which has $500 voters, is $1O1,-
1872, equal to 500 for each voter. There
are 116 officeholders, besides host of
magistrates and constables. 1t cannot
be said Liberia pays its officers exorbi-
tant salaries, judged by the American
standard. The President gets $4,000, and
the chief justice 5000, while the treasurer
has to content himself on $1,000. The
Legislature absorbs $4,000, but war ex-
penses are put down at the moderate fig-
ure of 81 ,566.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
lad. 'L.'l,'p.ELpHfA MARKETS.

July 3lst, 8 p. IN.
\ The market is quiet, tie de-
KIM cOndned to choice fresh ground
"A, Extra Families. Low grades
sales Of ls0 barrels, including
baeytra family, at IS % a o 20 for
fancy; Pennsylvania do. do. at
for medium 10 choice; Ohio do.
.s52j for choice new wheat, and
I'D other high grades at SO a ! %.
bur is quiet at 20 IS for Pennsylva-
brn Meal is 1Ominal at 80 GO a 2 65.
k-New Wheat is coming forward
kely, and meets with a model ate
|maud, but prices are lower. Sales
bushels including Western No 2
Isis, Pennsylvania Red at 81 OF.
Ehe demand, both for export and
assumption, has fallen Off, and the
Is quiet. Sales Of 5000 bushels,
grlcled, at 42a 46c.; steamer at
and prime dry Yellow, cars and
bot, al 90 a &c, sail mixed at 47c.,
ai6Ic,, August. Oats.-Supplies
fOpare coming forward freely and
bet Is dull, but prices are quotably
ed, Sales Of 5000 bushels, includ-
nixed al Slhc, stained at 80 q $780,;
te at 50 a.; and new white at 80 a
kY.-lOO bbls, Of Western IRON
bid at 81 06X per gallon.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01

No sea-surpent has turned up this year
to advertise the Atlantic watering places,
but some fishermen near Squan Beach,
New Jersey, have hooked monster from
the deep which deserves passing notice.
1t weighs about one thousand pounds,
and is in many respects shaped like tur-
tie, but no part of its outer casing is of a
consistency to be dignified by the term
shell. The head is shaped like turtles;
the fiukes are under, but the back and
belly are radically different. The back of
the monster is convoluted, and concave
seams run fore and aft. The skull is
hard, but the lip or bill is rather soft and
slightly flexible. The mouth and gullet
are lined with soft white teeth, some of
them two inches long.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
RAILROADS.,

DELPHlA, WILMINGTON d
IlAORE RAIL ROAD.
June 10th, 1873.
Vlllleave Wilmington as follows
telhia and Intermediate Stations.
sH, goo, s4l, 10 % a. IN, 2 80,
,sF, p, In.
I and ! ! New York, 2 %, 544, o At a. m.
Fofe and Intermediate Stations,
A III ,sa5 and |. Washington, Y Il 81, / Is sas,
4. Ky, o,Os, p, m.
Oi Delaware Division, leaye for:
sAe wv, $50, a. m. LOS, 6 80 nm.
tgI ana Intermediate Stations.
tpl0, $50 p. IN.
Ppm. ''' '''o'
SUNDAY TRAINS.
\ ''lPala ai and Intermediate Stations.
y l 0'W' t'jJ, p. IN,
'''pllA and New York, 2.Os. 8 a, a.
'''' aud washlsgton, 1851. / 16 a
-1e, ~ ~ Information passengers are
p" 'ne llma tables posted at the
ID. F. KENNEY.
SUPERINTENDENT.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01

The statue of liberty, which Is to be
erected on Bedloe's Island, New York,
as the gift of the French nation, is to face
BILE, by which it is thought a greater light
will be thrown upon the ocean than if
the statue faced the ocean, as at first de-
signed. The figure will be of hollow
copper, filed with sand, and according
to the estimate of NJ. Bartholdi, the
sculptor and designer, will cost about
500, 200. The statue, with the pedestal,
will be three hundred feet above the lev
ell of the sea.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
FATAL. SWINGING ACCIDENT.
A YOUNG LADY's NECK BROKEN.

A YOUNG LADY's NECK BROKEN.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 31.-At
Homecoming, Md, about dusk Tuesday
evening, Mary Pritchard, aged 10, and
Abraham Lynch and Robert Dick, aged
about twenty years each, were swinging
on swing made of pole fastened to a
tree by a. fork cut in the end, when the
forked piece broke, throwing the swing
ers distance of about fifty feet. Miss
Pritchard's neck was broken and her
skull fractured. Death was instanane-
GUS. Dick sustained severe concussion
OF the brain, but is in an improved condi-
ton. Lynch escaped with a few bruises.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01

General Boynton writes letter to the
Cincinnati Gazette, indicating that there is
considerable inaccuracy about the letters
from Europe about General Grant. We
can't understand how this can be. At last
accounts the sold man" was carefully re-
vlslng MIR. Young's manuscripts. In one
OF his Paris letters NJ. Young distinctly
stated that he had submitted the same to
Grant for revision.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01

'NHE ARTIzANs SAVINGS BANK:
5O2 MARKET STREET,
INCORPORATED JANUARY 24d, 1861:
Open to receive deposits daily from o A
M. until p. M, and on Tuesday and Sat..
urday evenings from to O'clock. ''V
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND
regularly made in April and October
When dividends are not withdrawn tbev
re accounted as deposits. Thus permanenyt y
each year. -'o III
MANAGERS,
Clement Humyth, George W Rusb.
Chas. W.. own d, George S, Capelie.
Mathan,l K. Benson, NJ. L. Lichenstein.
Henry F. Dure, Edward Darlinotn,n
w. Hastings, Job III. Jackson
Edward Pusey, VIM. ii. Swift.'
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. w. BUSH, President.
GEO. 3. CAPELLE, Vice President.
feb2l r.. T. TAYLOR. Treasurer
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
kumington Markets.

SnuyeroS, Del, Auenst !, 1873.
,o-sat lhe BraEdywine Mills for
IIG,.in Corrected Daily.
The daily gazette., 1878-08-01
.,.l and Commercial

,,.ros, Ds!:. Aqsq.;!n q%sa.;.nss ,S' BY
STOCK 9uo.a,Ho 9',.an HOUSE Buildins
: Co, 1i's ~ i2 M. to-day.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-03

Hen STocKINGs.-The other day a grocery
man at Vallejo gave a large party, at which
the daughter of the carriage painter who
lived next door created n decided sensation.
1t was not that she was more handsomely at
tired than the other ladies' present, but that
whom she grated in the dance of death" she
was observed to display the only pair of pink
silk stockings in the room. She left the
house a few moments at the expiration OF
tho dance, and in the next waltz exhibited a
pair of light blue dittoes. An hour later her
crushed and oxasperated female friends be-
held these supplementary further hose of a
delicate chocolate shade. And so it went
OF until her miserable rivals determined to
follow her the next time she disappeared.
They traced her to her fathers paint shop in
the back yard, where she was discovered,
brush in hand, and about o~rnameutinG her
neither e%xtremities with a final artistic coat of
light salmon. The exulting spies rushed
back with the damaging news, but it was too
late. The men were oil too tight to under
stand, the music had gone home, and the
lights were being put out. Thus it is that
fraud and duplicity triumph, while honest
simplicity walks around with n darn on its
calf and q hole in its heel
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-03

The PRouD CHARAcTER.-The chief and
common companion OF Pride is Ignorance.
Our pride feeds itself by dwelling upon the
possession of some ornament which we he.
lieve to be extraordinarily brilliant. But did
we see the precious jewels which adorn many
others in like circumstances we should shun
to wear ours, aud meekly set ourselves to in
crease our store of grace. When a savage
points proudly to the glass beads that adorn
his ne X, or o schoolboy plumes himself
upon being able to spell a common word, We
cannot help laughing a, their foolish igno.
rance. One day, when sitting in IN express
train, / noticed a swallow flying along-now
far ahead, now far behind-making flying
circles around the train. II wonder, thought
!, ''what the little creature would say if it
described the impression which our hight.
priced invention must make upon it! 1t
must be amused at the huge engine, with tho
putting chimney, and all the snorting, whist.
ling, kissing and rafting, while it, without
the slightest noise or effort, but only with u
pair of tinywings, which one might put into
his waistcoat- pocket, accomplished "A speed
of from eighty to ninety miles an hour!
Surely, We have not yet learned all the art of
locomotion. evenwith our six thousand years
of study and trying!"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-03

"A Better Plan.-One Of the Norwich
steamers had struck, and, while the IA SEN
gers were hurriedly making preparations for
their safety, a fat old Dutchman seized a life
prescrvcr, trying it on, began TO fill it. blow.
ing till hewas red in the face with his efforts
HALO said \ bystander, you can't ill
thstthiug; there's n big hole in it," Atiuk
look cnuie over the Dutchman's face. Men
Colt. i, BAT sot Den | better keeps my m,Ld
IN me.
CHANGING ut the ticket received for the boy
travelling half fare as under twelve, he looked
at HIM and then at his mother, then at the
ticket, and remarked that he was "a large boy
10 be riding at half fare"
II know he is, sir" said the lady; '.but
he's grown n good deal since we started"
When last seen, Sandy, the conductor OF
the noted slow trair, was on his way to speak
10 the engineer about it.
TIL landlord of a German place, who was
fond of having the autographs Of distinguish
ed guests in an album he kept for the pur.
pose, presented it ono day to ~Oppenheim, the
rich banker of Cologne, and pointed with
pride, especially TO QUE signature, RIDE Paris.
who is that 2" said O~ppenheim. ''That is
Baron Rothschild, tho banker of Paris" OPP
penheim Immediately took his pen andwrote,
o. dc Cologne
They tell of aprominentMethodis brother
at Westheld, Mass, who took his little son
to church with him Sunday evening, and sat
in the amen corner" When the enthusi-
asm wasat itsheight and the responses COM
ing often and heartily from the stentorian
lungs of the father, the boy who had also
got thoroughly aroused. kept poking his
parent in the ribs, whispering, "Holler
louder, father; holler amen louder"
a curious elopemeAt took place in England
the other day. An old gentleman ran away
with a young girl, and to the great disgust Of
her parents the couple were not caught until
they were safely married, and all the indig.
nant papa could do was To upbraid his dauph-
ter for marrying q man old enough to be her
father, much older, indeed, than he was him
self. A few weeks of happiness, or the re-
verse, with her aged adorer proved enough
for the young bride, who incentinently ran
away again with a young fellew she met at q
foreign watering place. There was, of course
a great scandal, and her father came onoe
more to upbnid her with the enorm;ty Of her
behavior. Really, ..papa," said the unreason-
able young person, there's no pl~easinR'you;
you told mo before you would not nave min.
dcd If it had been q young man, and now
whsn | have chosen a young man you are
just as angryi" The father was disgustsd
with her moral obliquity and left her to her
fate.