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EXCURSIONS. ,.
Grand Moonlight Excursion!

SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 18TH, ON TIiF
new steamer Ellen M. Mccoy. Boat leaves the
foot of Fifth street at 1880 p M, Covington, and
Main street, Cincinnati, at g p. m.. Tickets, 80
cents Brass and string music.
Sunday excursion to New Richmond, Ohio.
Boat leaves Fifth street at a. m, and Main street.
Cincinnati, at 10.a m., arriving at New Richmond
at p m; returning, leave New Richmond at s.
arriving at Cincinnati at p. NJ. Round trip 50
cents. W. G. MCCOY.
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New w5s,..-.....;,.....,..,,. 1854 1854
New per cents. -. ...... ...... 1OlA JlH
The following is the 80 D. m. report for New
York STOCK Market, US received by Lea, Sterr5tt d
m West Fi,rd straat.
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FARMERS COLLEGE.
FARMERS COLLEGE,

College Hill, Hamilton Co., O..
MAINTAINS REGUiAR CLASSICAL, PHIL.
IYl 0SOPHICAL Scientific, Ladies' Classical and
Teachers Courses. Admits both sexes to an the
advantages of the College. Thorough courses In
Drawing and Vocal Music Expenses reduced to
lowest point No extras whatever. Scholarship
holders have free tuition, Special attention given
to Teachers. Healthfu1ness, safety, convenience
and beauty Of location unequaled For full in
formation address
]. B. SMITH, President,
t2S College Hill, Ohio.
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Announceinemts.

Hunter pleaded guilty and were remanded
for sentence
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HOGS-Market duh and weak. Common 81 90
@3 Is, fair to good sS 2O@S 40, ad choice at s. 50
@3 60 per Genital gross.
CATTLES-Dull and easy market. Common at
81 7592 rs, medium at 50 50a3 fair to good 50 g;
l. and choice ii 25tG4 80 per tti,tal
SHEEP-Market dull. Common sefl at So SOFA
25 good to choice at S35Oa4 25 per GENITAL gross.
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Live Stock Market.

CINCINNATIJ june ~ 2. NJ.
The following are the receipts and shipments OF
live stock for the past "A hours:
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For New Orleans,

WEDNESDAY, 18th, at 5 P. NJ, POSITIVELY,
AZ d CHAs. MORGAN, A. Stein, Master
fs$ssl Apply on board, or to Royse &Mosses
e'Iss7zs z.eS J. c, .Dormau q Co., Matt. Mcclure
George Charter Agents
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CGVENGTON.

I The examination.of the Senior Glass of
the High School commences tomorrow.
The Neatherby case occupied the atten-
| ton of the Criminal Court this morning.
The culvert under Third street and
about thirty lot. of the street caved in last
night.
! A little boy named Johnny Leonard fell
from fence yesterday, and dislocated his
left elbow joint.
Cholera infantum is raging in the city.
! Several deaths have occurred from this dis
ease in the past few days.
The Covington g. Cincinnati Bridge. Com
! pany have accepted the basis of tax settle
ment proposed by Council. -
Ed. Cleary for an assault on Constable
Hufnage1, was fined $25 and costs, when he
should have been acquitted. ..
/. The remains of Mr.. Mike 0'Hern, who
died at Canton Station, we're inferred in St.
Marys Cemetery this morning
James Rowe, the man that gave Reuben
his reward, had his photograph taken this
morning. A copy will be hung in the
Council Chamber in memory of Reuben.
The following is the amount of beer
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For Huntington,

THIS DAY, 18th, at P. NJ. POSITIVELY.
~ n The C. ~ o. Railroad packet FLEET
Ifasss##sfa WOOD, J. T.. Campbell Master
sn<hzaaszs Freight received on Wharfboat foss
of Broadway. W. Honshell, Supt.
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WEDNESDAY, 18th, at P. NJ. POSITIVELY,
fsS n ANDY BAUM, H. J. Vinton,. Master.
INT afsIs5 Apply on board, or TO Royse & Mosset
sa4zzz'ss6 Agents, ON N. o, ,Wharfboat.
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MILWAUKEE, June 12-Flour duh and weak.
Wheat weak: opened &c lower and closed heavy:
No. Milwaukee, hard, 81 0954; No. j Milwaukee,
81 o.; No. Milwaukee, 81 or. May, 81 07; June
demand at lower rates. No. q $3.50; new, 36249
37c. Oats dull and depressed: No. 2, 25114c.. Rye
in fair demand at lower rates: No. 1; SIC. Barley
cash or May, 62c; June. 63c Provisions dali and
nominal. Mess pork. 81 S71a. Lard. prime stsam,
65sc. Lake freights: Wheat to Buffalo, 2114c.
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PHILADELPHIA. June 12-Flour nominal super
Minnesota do. $4g5 So Wheat demoralized at
81 2O91 %: red ST l6@1 %; white, 81 %. Corn de-
moralized yellow, 4Sc; mixed, 46zac cash, May or
JUNE; 4zc, July; 4719c, August Oats dull white
Western, 320e33c; mixed Western 33lg32c. Rye
G5@6Gc Mess pork. 50 5Otalo Hams. S@sc. Lard
dull city kettle, 634c. Butter: Western Reserve.
43@15c; creamery, l8@20c. Eggs easier: Western,
1l@llHc Cheese: Western choice, SAgSt4c. Pc
troleum quiet refined, HE; crude 99914c.
Whisky dull: Western 81 OF.
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THIS DAY 10Th, at P Ne, POSITIVELY, :.
~ n. UNITED STATES, C. David, Master
$3 Freight received on Wharfboat, foot oi
a1zs..s.se4 Vine street. Thos. Sherlock, Pres't
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
Didn't Marry for Love or Money.

4 farmers son from near Reilly was in
town last week selling hogs, and ran into
an old acquaintance on the street.
WAT dye think, Bill? I'm mar
RED" said the Butler county youth.
"The deuce you are | Well, / never
thoueht that of you, Sam. Who is she p
"Old Uncle Dan Farrel's daughter
Mary and I'll open your eyes bit,
Bill. You won't believe it, maybe, but
it's honest gospel truth. 1 didn't marry
that girl for neither love nor money
honest Injun," said Sam, with smile
that made his face look as though his
eyes were about 10 be fenced in.
Bill leaned up against lamp-post and
gave him a look of speechless amaze
ment for second or two, then whistled,
and slowly said:
Well, then, by the old Harry, I'd
like to know what you did marry her
for, anyway"
"Well, Bill, I'll tell you how it was.
You see she's one of the best little work
eys in that part of the country" returned
Sam, with double dose of the old
smile.
"Oh, that's how it comes, is ita" said
Bill. "Well, old John Robinson bought
a couple O. mules last week on that very
same recommendation.
Sam said he had to meet man at 8
o'clock, and hurried away Cincinnati
Breakfast Table.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
The Dead.Letter Office.

The Dead-Letter Office is an interest
ing place to visit; not Mt all like q living
letter office, but large room containing
many tables at which sit clerks examin-
ing, sorting and arranging the piles OF
correspondence that have come to
naught. Some open letters, which are
then passed TO others for examination,
when those containing money are passed
on to clerks whose duty it is to make a
memorandum OF the contents. Then the
whole is freshly reinclosed to return to
the sender; and, ia case it does.'t find
him, it comes back to Washington. It
is interesting to see the contents OF the
moDeyed letters. Small pieces OF silver
and currency are plentiful, and some
times a bit OF silver will have a piece Of
currency wrapped around it, SO careful
ly ! The bank-notes range from 81 to
900, and perhaps higher, but that was
the largest one we saw. Who would be
so careless as to let S2e note go astray ?
1t must have been lovely woman; for the
direction on all the letters we glanced at
was in feminine chirograpby. The many
articles which have failed to find an own
er and have returned To the Dead Letter
Office, such as iewelry. emoroideries,
and all the little things that are sent by
mail, were until recently kept on exhibi-
tion, and formed quite G curious muse
um; but they are now packed away pre-
paratory to being sold at auction
Washington Cor. Of the Hartford
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
Confederate Coffee. Etc.

Rye coffee, with the coffee left out,
was the Confederate breakfast. drink,
and when sweetened with sorghum was
a dose to be remembered. Cane sugar,
though it brought high prices and was
regarded as a luxury in the last days of
the Confederacy, was always to he had
In plenty for those who could buy it.
Sorghum, however, was the "sweet-
ening" best known and cheapest III Con-
federate times. Every planter cult
waited it; every owntc of even few acres
had Mt least one OF those acres set il
sorghum cane. Eousekeepers rang the
changes on it in every possible form.
Sorghum cake, sorghum pudding with
sorghum sauce, sorghum pies-all the sc
and more were on their bills OF fare.
Preserves were put up with it, and the
sirup itself was "A standard article OF
food on most Southern tables. Indeed
it is scarcely too much TO say that the
| hardy Chinese sugar cane WAS one of
the pillars OF the Confederacy, inasmuch
as it became staple article of food at a
| time when food WAS scarce and famine
seemed to draw near. The list of reci-
pes in q Confederate cookery book reads
oddly enough "Yeast from dried APP
pies" "ditto from life everlasting"
"calves' foot jelly without wine or lem
ons," brandy and vinegar being the sub
stitntes; "hard candles without wax, F"
and "Confederate gum-arabic, which
last was cherry yRlue dissolved in vinegar,
are among those which l remember
Juvenile Confederates had few sweet
meats or candies, and one of our house
| 1,D1 4,..a l. nr,1I
sorghum into anything ilse taffy-a
thick ielly-like sirup was the nearest APP
proach thereto of which it was suscepti-
BILE. Red pepper and mustard We're
made at home in plenty from home
grown mustard seed and cayenne pep
pers. The mustard WAS beaten 10 Il
mortar, or ground in spice-mili with
comparative ease; but the preparation of
the pepper was a trying time for the
household. First strung and dried in
the sun; then, to make sure, dried again
IN the oven, the pods were rubbed into
! powder with heavy wooden pestles III a
wooden trough, and run through a
sieve. This sufliced for ordinary pur-
poses, but for the castors the product
was again dried, pousded and sifted
! The work was done in an outhouse by
veiied women, but general atmosphere
OF sneezing and weeping always accom-
panied the pepper-making. Black pep
per--to be had only in small quantities
rose steadily in price throughout the
war, until in April, 1865, it was sold for
$500 a pound, an amount equal, at the
scale afterward fixed for Confederate
money values, to more than 81 in gold
Mrs NJ p. Handy, in PhjtGdeLDh5a
u efEIU Times
The true northerner., 1878-01-11

The Beating blasts, in tn, ir winter wrath,
Sweep furious round my trembling form
ID .ep drifts Of snow obs'ruct my pa'I,
Dark clouds proclaim All approaching Storm
blood red sun In an angry west
Sinks slowly down to his mighty rest.
And darker shadows VIII gather soon,
And wilder yet shall the cold winds blow
Far keener the frost In the cheerless gloom,
And deeper the drifts OF the binding snow.
oh where, in the darkness OF niRht so dread,
Can fainting traveller rest his heady
In the crowded city. where, clear and warm,
Ten thousand cheerful hsarths glow bright,
No refuge found from the clustering storm,
No shelter for me from the freezing night.
In vain turn 20 the PEASANTS ooor,
Ian spurned from his threshold. I'm poor IN
poor
Too wide the rents In my garments old;
Exposed 10 the frost my feet half bare;
NJ hands unprotected. and swollen with cold,
And my lirnbs are benumbed by the chill,
damp air.
Oh gracious Heaven IL IL mine 10 die
On a stormy night meath wintry sky?
How sweet TO be laid in an early tomb,
In my childhood's hour of peace and mirth,
q God! that THE mi ght have been my doom
Long ere had tasted the b,t'err Of earth!
Twere Joy had disease only borne me away
In the brighter hours Of my younger cay'
With pleasure / look to that happy hour.
When my spirit, reScncd from pain aud strife,
And summoned aloft by that unseen Power,
viii awake in the blaze of a glorious life
My spirit exuiting frcec shall soar
TO the faircr realms OF that unknown shore
MOUNT FORFsr, Ill. r.. ii. =.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
THE WESTERN METROPOLIS.
The Commerce and Industries of Chica GO
Favorable Exhibit for 1877.
From the Chicago Journal


fFrom the Chicago Journal.l
According to the Chicago Tribu,ae's
elaborate and carefully-prepared annual
statement and review of the trade, man.
ufactures and commerce of this city for
the past year, the grand total of Chica-
COS Wholesale and jobbing trade for
1877 amounted to $685., 900, 900 (gsld
valuotion) as against 1856, 500, 600 in 1876
increase in 1877, SS, 200, 900. And this,
too, IN spite of the fact that 1877 was a
terrible "hard times" year.
During the past year S212. 163. 600
worth OF produce, including grain, flour,
1--we stock, provisions, hides, butter,
etc., was received and sold in this
market. In addition to this, s., ,O0O, 900
OF foreign and domestic green fruits
were sold here during the year, SO, ,OOO.-
600 of dried fruit; 81 500, 600 cured fish.
S760, 600 fresh fish, SO, 500, 900 oysters.
$500, 900 of canned goods, and ST., OOO.-
600 Of tobacco and cigars.
Chicago's lumber trade in 1877 reached
l,O65 6O5 thousand feet, besides 529, 269
thousand shingles, The total receipts of
coal were 1,64l, ,4SS tons. The years
sales OF building materials are estimated
at 81 ,025, CO.,
The aggregate amount of the sales of
Wholesale grocery houses for 1877 is COM
| puted at $73, 600, 600; whslesale dry goods
houses about $4,000, coo; millinery
houses. "a, 800, 900; clothing houses.
$40 600, 600; hats, caps, and furs. 81
ESQ 600; drugs and chemicals, 81. 75O. :
600; crockery and glassware, So, 500, 600;
music, 81, 250,000 iewelry, $3.50, 900.
leather and leather products, 81, ,555,-
30l; hardware, $12, 250,0 900.
The total OF Chicago's manufactures
OF all kinds during the year is computed
ut S204, ,000,0 900, OF which $4S, $50, 900
was III the packing of pork and beef;
$2S, l40, 900 in the iron trade; $24 055.-
900 in planning mills and other workers
in wood; $20, $40, 900 in agricultural i'm
plements, plows, carriages, etc.; 50. 933,
600 in other metals than iron; 81, 039. .20C
IN brick and stone; $i3 $50, 900 in high
wines, beer, ETC.; $9,33S, 995 in chemi.
calls.
The grand total of Chicagos whole
sale and iobbing trade in 1877 is ,om-
puted at 1862, ,000, 900, divided as follows
Produce, $2l2, 600, 600; wholesale houses,
S276, SOC, 900; manufactures, $204, 000,
00O
The aggregate value OF the cattle,
hogs and sheep received for the year
1877 is 500 ,O0O,00O
New buildings erected in Chicago dur.
ing 1877, 1,34S, with frontage Of 3d.
500 feet; total cost, $6343 500. We're
they to be placed side by side ina con.
tinuous line of street, these new build
| r.rn1iI cvkonI 70 lacf.t,. 3 c,~
and half miles.
The losses by ERE in Chicago in 1877
foot up a total OF 81 .072, 200, which Was
insured to the amount OF $l,0lS, 92l.
Net loss over insurance, only $63, TO.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11

similar to the chocolate tablets, and
which, indeed, is the shape which the
chewing tobacco of sailors and Yankees
takes, and we have a colossal pile worthy
of being placed beside the third largest
of the pyramids of Gizeh, that of the
My ykerinos, and as massive and as high
as that old regal edifce. Let us grind
all the tobacco into snuff, and let us pic
ture TO ourselves the sad case that an
evil equinoctial wind one fine morning
blows the snuff over the ocean, and
showers it on one OF our German states,
we are certain more than one of the Lili-
putian states would have much difficulty in
recovering its existence by sboveling
away the snuff Cope's Tobacco Plant.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
A Wonderful Artesiap Well,

The deepest artesian we'll in the
world is now in progress at Pesth, and
has already reached depth of 95l
metres (3,1lS feet). The we'll at Paris,
which is 547 metres in depth, has hith-
erto held the first place in such ,hieye-
ments. The work is carried on st the
expense of the city, which has granted a
sum equal to f40, 900 for the purpose,
with the intention of obtaining an un-
limited supply of warm water for the
municipal establishments and public
baths. The water at present issuing has
u temperature of 161 deg. Fahr., and
the operations will be continued until
that Of 178 deg. Fahr. is obtained. About
IT'S, 600 gallons of the liquid stream ont
daily. and rise to a height of thirty five
feet. This amount will n I only supply
all the wants of the city, but is expected
to convert the surroun ling district into
q sort of tropical garden, by the con-
slant evolution of heat. Since June
last. the boring has penetrated through
200 feet OF dalomite, and the preceding
strata passed through have supplied a
number of interesting facts to the geolo-
gist. which have been noticed from time
to time in the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. The difficulties TO be over
come have given rise to many highly in
genious engineering devices, such as a
method for driving nails, at the enor-
nous depth above mentioned, and,
more. the means of drawing them (oy
magnets), of cutting off and pulling up
broken tubes, and, above all, valuable
mechanical apparatus ~ means of which
the water rising from the we'll il used as
a motive power, driving the drills at
rate of speed double that previously i'm
parted from the mouth of the we'll.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
Uncle Moses, Lesson.

Uncle Moses the chief executive OF
n suburban Sunday-school. Last Sun
day, raising his black face with Us
snowy fringe, he peered over his ante
bellum " stock" and collar at the little
nigs, who We're huzzing like bees in T.
hive just under his nose.
"Ordah clillen, ordah Don't yer
heah me, ehillen? Leetle jim lump
kins, dere, hesh dat talking like u cum
sterble on lection day"
When Jimmie ceased his conversation
the chief executive resumed:
Z" [ calls de deteushun oh de school
ter de way youse been a carryin' on dis
Dressed day. Wot yer bin a doin' ?
Yer knows An de way yer tongues is
bin carruscatin' is scan'lous. "
The black fingers pushed the tall col
lar back and pulled the black chin for
ward.
Now. l puts it ter yer, an 10 yer all
hssen, and yer, too, Lie Millins, | ax
yer dis question: How menny eyes you
chillens got p
Chorus" 1.-TWO"
How menny mouves yer got?"
Unanimously" One"
'' Wot does DAT mean 1t means yer
mas see twice es much es yer tells.
Now how meDny yeres yer got?'
Chorus--"Two."
"An' how menny mouves!"
"One."
"Dat means yer NUS heah twice IS
much as yer talks. Now, member dis
lesson, an you, Henry Giles, contribute
dc papers rom fore we jines i'll pra'r. :"
-Aemphis AUalanche.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
AbOnt the Size afIt.

The entire mass of tobacco which is
annually consumed in smoking, snufIlng
and in chewing on the earth is 4. .OOO..
600 600 pounds manifestly too high an
estimate for from 200, 900, 900 to 1. 5OO,.
600, 900 of inhabitants. Let us take the
half as the more probable, and let us
suppose the tobacco leaves transformed
into roll tobacco, tobacco serpent is
created which, with q diameter of two
inches, and following the direction of
the equator. coull wind itself around
the earth thirty times. Let us suppose
that the tobacco is formed into tablets
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
Extraordinary Coincidence.

Perhaps the most remarkable coinci.
dence ever known has taken place in
Allentown, Pa, where live Mr.. and Mrs.
Barney Ward, whs have been man and
wife since 1867. On the 4th If July.
1870. their first child vas born; second
was born July A. 1871, and third was
born July 4, 1872. Every succeeding
4th of July has been celebrated by Mrs.
Wards presenting to her husband fine,
healthy child, and now the Ward family
contains eight children, born within as
many years, and all on the 4th of July.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11
THE largest bell in the world is in tb

The largest bell in the world is in the
temple of Glars, in Kioto, Japan. Un-
like the great bells in Peking and Mos
COW it is whole, and it's tone is as per-
feet an1 as sweet as when first suspend
ed. Where aud by whom it was cast is
not known. Chinese and Sanscrit char.
acters completely cover it, but they are
not translatable by Japanese scbol,rs.
II is tweDty-four feet high, and sixteen
inches thick at the rim. II has no clap
per, but is struck by a sort Of wooden
battering ram ON the outside.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11

THE shipment Of gold and silver from
San Fran isco to China the pr a. mt year,
in aggregate, foots mp Sls 245 625. The
year previous it was $40, ,959, 800.
The true northerner., 1878-01-11

THE English newspapers buy their
paper by the mile TIE Lon lon Stand
ard recently advertised for 6. 2J8 miles.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-09

River 8 feet 0 inches. Weather very
warm and showery.
The Mallie Raglan departed for Par
kersburg at 10l Am.
The local packets arrived and departed
as usual.
The Katie stockdale, in tow by the
Michigan, is expected to pass up this
morning.
The Granite State, from Cincinnati, is
due this morning.
The O,Neal will leave for Pittsburgh
this morning at 7 o'clock. and the Courier
for Parkersburg at 10! o'clock.
lBy Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, May s.-River s feet Z
inches and stationary. Weather cloudy
and warm.
New ORLEANS, May Slight rain
this evening. Arriyed-Danube and
Frank Pargond. Departed-Charles Nor
gan and Kate Kinney.
ST. LOUIS, May s.-Arriyed-Lewis,
Kanawha river; Golden Rule, Keokuk,
Maude, vicksburg. Departed-Whale;
Wheeling, Howard, New Orleans. River
risen inches; q feet inches above low
water. Weather clear and pleasant
MEMPHIS, May S.--Riyer fell 8 inches;
q feet. Weather clearing; thermometer
"A. Deparled-Hard Cash, White river;
Robert Mitchell, Belle OF Shreveport,
A. ]. Baker, New Orleans; Sherlock and
Cons. Millar, Cincinnati.
EVANSVILLE, May 8.-Weather cloudy
and rainy until late In the afternoon;
clear tonight. River 20 Q 10 feet and
falling. Up-Idlewild, Liberty No. 4
and barges, Maggie Smith, Mary Hous.
ton. Down--John A. Wood, James b.
Williams, J. Sharp Mcdonald, Morning
Star, Silverthorne.
C1so1NNATI, May s.-Riyer 90 feet and
rising. Weather cool. Arriyed-Fanny
Tatum, ST. Louis. Departed-Tatum,
Pittsburgh.
St. Louis, Kanawhs, Ohio. River 80 feet
8 inches and rising. Weather clear; mer.
curry 660.
NASHVILLE, May S.-River falling
and stands 4 feet 0 inches on the shoals
LEwIsBuRs, Pa, May s.-M. Halfen.
messy & Co.'s wooden mill was totally de-
stroyed by FIRE last night. Loss S4S 900;
insurance $4,000.
LOUISVILLE, May S.-River 8 feet II
inches. Departed-John D. Parker, Dom
naIly, Fashion, Golden Crown and Gen.
Pike. Clear and cool.
VIcKsBuRa, May S. River rising.
Weather rainy. Up-Gilmore and tow.
Arriyed-Colorado. ...