The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-11-22
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week, at sec per head
q. W. Afford bought Eve horses at Dan.
vile, privately, at $40 to 500.
Dr. T. B. Montgomery -old to Tip Bruce,
u Boyle, one extra fine rule for $3.50.
u. B. Boone sold a car load Of hogs in
Louisville, Wednesday, at 81 90 per cwt
Cattle that will dress IS - SO pound. sell
in New York att c to 9lc. Exporters pay
SIC to 9lc for best
George Vaughan sold TO Burnside, his
lot Of hogs, weighing on an average Of $50
pounds, at2I cents.
The Paris RentuokidH reports sales Of 1868
mule colts at s32 per head; GO yearlings at
s55, and IS at $40 IS.
George d. Wearen has butchcred, 80 tar,
about 100 hogs, and has as many more
very fine ones awaiting slaughter
John W. Coppage bought Of Bivion IS
fat mules for $50 l2l a head. He will
ship them to New Orleans, this week.
Lebanon Times.
Tim W. Higgins shipped two car loads
Of hogs to Louisville, Monday night, for
which he paid 81 30, 80 IS and 80 40 per
hundred pounds.
Twelve thousand cattle, a majority Of
which is far above the average in quality,
will be fed in Clark county, this winter,
says the Democrat.
Leo Hayden sold his LOT Of 40 hogs, av-
eraging about 400 pounds, to George d.
Wearen, at p cents. They were the finest
lot we have seen this season.
With but I6 days Of the season gone,
Chicago packers have slaughtered 1856, 6S9
hogs against 243,O7l tor the same period Of
last year, an excess Of $4,000.
MT. STERLING CouRT.-Cattle sold at
least so per cent. lower than a month ago,
prices ranging from llc to &c per pound.
Mules brought from $50 to $780,
The prices Of some articles are eighteen
per cent. lower than before the war. Corn
has not been 20 low since 1s45, excepting
in 1861, cotton not 80 low in twenty-three
years, and mess pork since 1874.
Our correspondent at Middleburg, writes:
Messns. Cofiey 4 Bryant bought Of various
parties, Is head of fat hogs, for which
they paid 81 50 per hundred pounds. They
shipped them to Cincinnati last week.
At a sale in Adair last week, says the
Spectacle, COWS sold at figures ranging
from SIG to S35 25; 5 calves at SIC each; a
pair of mules sl6O, and one 2-yesr-old
mule $50. The trotting mare, Lulie
Wheat, brought 1858.
Two more extensive stock dealers, Mess.
John and Harry Tilford, living near the
Boyle and Mercer county line, have made
assignments this week. These gentlemen
owned about 600 acres Of land, and were
supposed to be worth about 100000.
F. NJ. Smith, of this county, weighed on
Tuesday, one hundred head Of cattle that
averaged 1876 pounds, and seyenty-one
head that tipped the beam at 1898. He
sold them last week to Goh, of CLARK, at
ACC. per und.-[Lexington Gazette.
Gilman, the noted sheep trader, has re-
Gently purchased in this and other coun-
ties, about 1900 fat sheep, averaging
over l59 Lbs, at about cents. They
will shortly be shipped to New York, and
from thence to England Winchester
Democrat
Mollie Mccarthy, the Western wonder,
that was exploded in Louisville on the
4th Of July, has been returned to her old
quarters in California. For her own repu-
tation and the purses Of her owners and
admirers, she had better never have left
her native State.
The Messrs. Hamilton, of Clark, who
some time ago suffered the loss Of their
thoroughbred bull, 18th Duke Of Thorn.
dale, valued at $4,000, are now called
upon to mourn" the loss Of the Sth Duke
of Geneva, another extra fine bull, for
which they paid $4,000.
The dying squeals Of the fat boyines, arr
now heard all over the land. Many far.
mers unwilling to take the low prices of.
fered for hogs have determined to make
bacon of them. trusting that the future
price of that necessary article will pay
them for their trouble.
The Winchester Democrat publishes sale:
of 20 cattle, averaging | ,5S5 lbs. at AZ cts
100 hogs for December delivery at cents
III do, averaging 1858 pounds, at 81 25 to
81 30, present delivery; 90 good mule colts
at s2l go per head; l25 sheep, at So so to
81 per head, and $50 barrels Of corn, at
81 75psr barrel
BIZ. Lancaster sold to Henry Bradford
ON the 18th inst, 9 head yearling mules, al
SIS per head. Joshua Vancleave sold to
the same person II head yearling mules al
same price. George Bridges bought foI
b. +. Mattingly, 81 head scrub cattle, from
various parties in Taylor county, at cents
per pound Lebanon Standard.
The winnings of the get Of Lexington al
the various races this year, amounts tC
$7O,Gl5, of which sum the Duke Of Ma
genta takes SS6,55O, having won eleven oil
the twelve races he ran, beating all Of the
best colts of the year. Previous to his
leaving for Europe, Mr.. Pierre Lorillard,
paid his brother George, $40, 900 for him.
DASvILLE CoURr.--Capt. II. 7. Bush
reports as follows About 700 to 800 cattle
on market, quality generally good. About
s. to $40 difference between buyer and
seller, consequently the cattle were mostly
Withdrawn. Prices offered were to 81 cts.
for the best. Unbroke mules from $50 tC
500; broke mules from SIS to 500; horse,
from $50 to $75.
GEORGETOWN CoURT-Four hundred
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