The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-02-07
LaSD. STOCK AND cRoP.

The worlds crop Of wheat for 1878, was
estimated al 1891 600 bushels.
Jas. Smell, Of shawhan, sold IS head Of
mules to u. f. Cloud, at $40 PER head.
G. T. Sandidgc bought q q. W. Afford,
a j-ycnr-old mule. i5l hands high, for 500.
The Newman (Ga.) Herald says that
mules range there at s75, 500 and $40
per head.
T. X. Schulz, Of Scott county, sold 10 r..
j. Megibbcn, Of Harrison, 40 hogs at 49,
80 per cwt.
The Drovers Journal states that the total
value Of live stock handled in Chicago last
year was slO0,lOl, $40.
@. W. Afford bought Of X. r. Turner,
Of Casey, on Court day, small mules, 4
and years old for SiGG.
Il. II. Owens returned from Selma, Ala
bama, this week, where he aold car load
Of mules at an average Of SIS per head
Il. l.. salier, Of Boyle, sold few days
ago in Atlanta, Ga, car load Of mules at
$40 per head. II was an extra lot Of
large broke stock.
Tom. Harper traded horses three times
last week, and wound up with the same
horse back and money in his pocket. Some
body cheaied.---l Woman.
HARnoDsnURo COuRT.---About 200 eat
tie on the market ranging from fair to
strictly high medium, $40 per 100 Lbs.
being the highest price paid.
BANK TocK.-Thirty shares Of Marion
National Bank sold last week al 500 per
share, and seveniy-Gve shares in First Ma
tional, Lexington, at SIP per share.
The number Of hogs packed from No.
vember to date at Chicago, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, indianapolis, Milwaukee and Louis
willie, Is 4,640, 1888, Of which nu'rher Chica-
20 is credited with 2,5l4,Ss3.
There Is much melancholy prevailing
among American cattle exporters because
the British Government has suddenly re
solved to stop the importation Of Ameri-
can cattle, through fear of pleuro-pneu-
mcnia, which i a mild type Of the rinder-
pest.-lC-J.
W. u. Kidd has returned from New Or
leans, where he sold car load ofl9 mules
at sl27.jO per head. in a week or 80. He
was quite lucky in his sales, a. the market
was overrun with mules, there being over
LOO head offering when he reached the
city 4 Winchester Sun.
PARIS CoURT DAY.---At Paris on Mon
day, the cattle trade was dull. From $50
TO 200 on the market, and prices ranging
from 3 10 4 cents. Mule trade a little
brisker. One hundred offered, and nearly
all sold at prices ranging, for green stock,
$50 to $50; broke, $50 to sl2j.
W. ID. Sutherland purchased in Louis
vile last week, 20 mules at S76.4O each,
and shipped them to Selma, Alabama.
W. l.. Collins. Of Frankfort, sold "a cattle
Monday, at S33 per head lie also sold Is
head Saturday, to Mr.. Headley. Of Lex
ington, averaging La, at AGENTS. -lClark
Democrat.
William and Mike Cloyd returned from
Atlanta, Wednesday, whittier they had
been with3O mules, which they disposed Of at
an average Of $40. The mules were small
and unbroke. Mr.. Cloyd tried the expert
ment Of drivingIacross the country, but he
wont do so any more, as he is out from SIS
TO 500 besides loss Of time by the trip.
LOUISVILLE No change to note in the
cattle trade, the market remaining ac-
tive and firm at 81 to AZ for extra shippers;
81 to &c for best butchers; 3 10 81 for me-
dium to good, and lie to 2ac for lower
grades; Steers for stopping in demand at
% to 81. The best select butcher hogs sell
at 1913 to $3.50; choice $500 to $40;
common to good $3.50 to S3.25; smooth fat
sheep Of 100 to 1875 lbs. weight, are in de-
maud at to A cents fair to good butch
ers' p to % cents.
NfONNlh NUM- httN vas
bright, the crowd unusually large end bu-
siness generally, was lively. All Of the
$50 cattle offered were sold at fair prices.
The Auetioneers report as follows
Capt. ]. NJ. Higgins; Trade fair. Bid
ding on good stock lively, sold pair cat
tie for $50; 20 steers, at S2l; do. So !
do, s2l; 20 do, at $50; : calves, at ST.
COW, Sii.50; do, $40; 2 do, $40; do,
SIS; l COW and cali, $50; do, $3.50. No
mules sold publicly.
Capt II. 7. Bush; Mostly common stock
with very little advance in prices. | sold
S small calves at S. per head; IA common
yearlings at $40 per head; 90 common p
year-olds, at S2i; pair Of oxen at $50; 2
scrub oxen at $40; scrub cattle at $40
per head l horse $40; I do, 500; do,
SIS. No mules.
LINCOLN COUNTY.