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The New York herald., 1879-09-23
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKETS.

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jersey Sr.'s'S 6.s,. ss.oa. $500 200 lsisa 1851:
p,s.s sss5 is 8 sss is5ss 2s sss
M ss~
and values we're weak The herds 70 hand ranged frsP
por ss es psa Rsnkf sseSs a
beenaowed not. allowance 55 lbs Sc lbs. net:
ssj 'ss
s"d for for self So Moran os @ ns st head !. g.
a head q % s S head st a .sS Oss
for Isaac Waissl 10 Illinois steers at &c. eae Per IL
II fs pss h. .0s ~ isf 81 fa aa
head 8 head e. e @ s = Of % pS per hsss sssd ON g
head at loh4c per lbweghts cwt. IA cwt. cwt.
H. Burchard sold for Roberts IL Ohio steers At 9sc
aSs Pi' s Weight s fSs .
@ head sw s ss S'f dl B. ~ IS Ts
BE head as'f si Pei WITH e.
AZ ss+s g. head e o exc g head head :.
A. sy
ssps e ss Ss Dson os ss
FL s;sss e s~: aas2f:ss
S with 81 OF per head on y e. head cad sold ~ top rate
ss:s :, S',i' v',S It
sIs on the herd; % head 5sss ios; );
Commission 81 Western mixed herd, 2. Sc ioc
per M Weights ew So e. aSn .s tSs
H. Soc SO Kentucky .tsers-se head at &c. sc ID.
X j hs4s s% at sf D' Sssifss
ssa head as esS assa
Sse at @ 20 o s e ~hs a
Weight ysf 81 cw s. oDonne sold 1so for W.
81 '':
% bead and 81 Gscay Ss.s Co. IS =
s ss per xS 81 Of
weight 81 cwt 100 Missouri steers 1t sc s9e per h.
% g. soc sw 0' assS on saa & Aiaa ss
las anSss '.sfs' ssd f ~ssss
s per & Wssst - oS.eG isssd Sss s
per lb. with Soc head 2s head; 3s head At &C.
ST. @ ws y Sp M
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oa for Morris s S s
Ss'tas i* ss : ~
S%H r b o afrS
se pc. s ss ss ~ s:ss
Wcshene for poty CO 40 nSs q steers :. e. Pee
s psr Ss
8 k SS pr Tsss:s
head At os y of ps I s%s y head Ssss. s
Tor self 200 Texan steers at 6,sc. ekc. per
Ssassg .1,s $ tss ss' Il .i.$4n 81 ss $ as. ss
hsadAwelsRts hts sS cwt ~ cws yogsi sold
a.s ~
SsaS wssss o:
sas per ib.. with of per head weight ew. 81 u
'a'is pes i sssfs ssshs. sas ~ E. a'a A'
lambs has mproved the latter having advanced ~ PEE
sas 'Psrp per b. s''D Mixed dock. Ssil:
.Psi'das se e1s sasA Is ss
sss' IL l. l. head, iSs iSs 4; i,i Pss s,a:: T.
a. amss5o seaa head S 'ss lbs e So per psr s
K s S p @ s
1919 Mss9a, sheep & ss az " 40 per & eSt tS % 9hio Phi
per H. is Kensacsy sheep S
g Jan srs .sd
ssss 5 oh2 ssy sss ds ID @ @ s at 81 psr
Ia state sheen and lambs. 4 lb. :! ,Sa.
IS ss s 8 y 8 per stss :HS
por lb isl head 20 lbs g SO ewt $40 head 70 bs
olssssss Ss es .oa is ksasassy sheep
b. 4s4 State scep and ismbs-s8 head os iba 81 Ss
y $50 Stat State smOs@74 e head s. es per head
5os Canada lambs-aos head lbs. ss 80 as IS pc:
81 head e M r sa a. S per ~ n 4 81 as"S Ssr sr s: m
actual .ss .. st *
vEAls AND OALvrs-The feeling of for inferior quality
calves. Fair quality veals IN fair demand Grass fsd
calves sold at ~ 3c per H. meal fed calves at &c
veais at size. a &c per To-
a @ rates which cha are ssssdy
lots at 50 9oa "a asi l2is per cwt
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
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COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON THE SPOT 1-2C. LOWER FUTURES
LowER-FLoUR HIGHER WHEAT HIGHER
CORN HIGHER-oATs HrdHER-PoRK HIGHER
RosIN QuIET-CoFFEE FIRMER SUGAR FIRM
PETROLEUM FIRMER.
MONDAY. Sept. 22-6 p. M.
The merchandise markets were generally strong
under a continued good demand. and prices were in
some higher. On Change the markets were
excited. and there advance oil along the line
Flour excited and decidedly higher as was old
wheat, which was irregular and fuctuating Corn
and likewise decidedly higher. Whiskey firm
Pork and lard frmer Cotton the spot 16c lower
Futures lower Coffee firm. Sugar frmer.
Oils we're quiet as naval Petroleum
Hrmer
ALCOHOL was very 900 bbis sold for October
delivery At 3O16c.
CorrKR-The market for Rio firm Wo!note sales Of
800 bags Ro City of Para l0lc: 1000 bags do
Abers, ut 13<c. 749 bags do, OK Albcrs, on private
terms, and 6928 bags santos Glcr, also private
Tho following Withdrawn from stock +-3po
bags RIO Ulrika 5uO bags do LOO do do, 7eU do.
do 1000 do do. 92s do. do and 2s2 do Santos all
Abers Yesterday tho er arrived with 1910 bags Sunos
and the Ulrika arrived with 5.3is bags. Mild ruled
frm We quote-Ordinary cargoes l2c. fair do, lSc.; ;
good do l51sc primo do f6c extreme range for lots,
12sc. 17hsc; Santos, fair to good, i5c l5hc ninety
days; Java. government bags 2c 23c mats 2Jc.
25c Singapore Ice lie; CcyIon. lac. i6c.; Mara
caibo, 1lhc 16hc; Laguayra. i3c. i5c jamaica i2c
q ike ST. Domingo lolc. Ike; Porto Rico. l5c
Iec; Costa Rca, lac. I7c Mexican. i4c loc. Angos
2c Weekly Rsc codes statement. complied by Mossrs
William Scott 4 sons:-
The New York herald., 1879-09-23

Receipts at Washington from internal revenue to-
day were s5s5. 1893 IS and from customs s4677s9 rs.
The steamship Celtic, which arrived last night.
brought $C45.0O0 In gold from Europe.
Government bonds were stronger than on Saturday
and there was considerable increase In the value of
business. The sixes 4ss aud hves Of 1881 recorded
an advance Of at the close. All classes closed ut
he oh .ricoa AZ tha dnu
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A Painful Scene.

Yesterday morning while seven 81
eight old and reliable citizens were hold
ing down chairs and boxes IN a aMichi-
gan avenue grocery and unanimously
agreeing that this was the greatest copp-
try on earth, q stranger entered and SAID:
"Gentlemen, suppose you are fanitl-
lar with politics?" :. .@i,'hssss, 80
I"We are." they replied in chorus. ",
"And you know all about the funda-
mental principles Of liberty?" J" .'
eve do" - a'1 'I q
."Well, I'm glad on it, for I've made
bet with a feller back here as to how the
reading of the Constitution begins. One
of you just write me down the first ten
words" j"eft,,
:, While he felt for a stub Of . pencil
every man began scratching his head and
cautiously cycling his nelghbor. One
began muttering: "Now ! lay me-,
and q second said something about
Resolved" and third wrote on the
ton of cracker box: "On motion, It
was voted that-tIiat-" There was a
great deal of coughing and sneezing and
nose blowing, when boy came in and
said that the strangers horse had run
away. He rushed out, and seven faces
frightened up and smiled, and seven
men. took fresh chews of tobacco and
tried not to look too important when the
"The Constitution? Why, every one
of you can repeat it by heart with your
eyes shut-of course you can: :"-!Desro~
FREQ Press. .-., ...,, a-,-...,.., ,.., ...-.s.,,
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Sermons hY TeIephOne.

Invalids can remain in their sick
rooms and hear their favorite minister's
sermon-by telephone. In church at
Richmond, Va, q transmitter was placed
upon one of the pillars of the pulpit, al
most entirely hidden from sight. A
small insulated wire ran down inside the
pulpit rail and across the angle OF a
stair, up the wainscotting and along
under the top rail out through q glm!et
hole in the window frame, and to the
top of the parsonage, passing down
through the ventilator into the chamber
of the invalid young lady where it was
attached to the ordinary hand telephone.
Imperceptibly to all around the little
instrument did it's work, conveying to
the ear of the patient sufferer the sounds
of the well-known voice in the pulpit for
the first time in long years. Of course
the reverend doctor was anxious during
the morning sermon, as his thoughts re-
verted to the distant listener, to know
if she heard, and his pleasure may be
imagined when he learned that the ser.
vice, sermon, prayers, hymns, organ and
singing had been audible to the person
for whose comfort the arrangement had
been planned.
A telephone has beer placed in the
CONGREGATIONAL church at Mansfield,
O',io, the wires leading to the houses OF
severalaged and invalid persons. A con-
temporary in describing it says it sur
mounts floral decoration on the table
in front of the open platform, where it is
hardly seen. The speaker pays no 1T.
tention whatever to it, yet every word
uttered in the auditorium is easily heard
in the rooms of the dwellings which the
wires reach. The first message from the
minister was from Scripture: 1.-THE
word is nigh unto thee;" " His word
runneth very swiftly"
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A PIague Of LOcusts.

The Georgian town of Jelisawetpoi,
near Tiflis. has suffered a plague OF !ocrsts
almost as bad as that which afflicted
Egypt in the days of Moses. The insects
INVADED the town in such Plumbers that
the merchants had to shut up their shops,
and walking about the street was exceed
ingly difficult. The Russian authorities
ordered the inhabitants to make a united
effort to kill the pests, but the generous
people refused, believing it sin tn. dc
stroy a locust, until the authorities
threatened to punish every householder
who failed to deliver daily given weight
of insects. The canals were filled with
locusts. so that water tor drinking and
washing could only he obtained by strain
ing. The houses swarmed with the
creatures, and many families went week
without bread because their ovens were
literally filled with them. They tried
in vain to drive the locusts away by
lighting holy candles and burning In:
cense. The Arminian priests regarded
the plague as a visitation of God, and
brought from neighboring town the
bones of Jacob, which they carried
through the streets of the afflicted city
in procession, fairly wading through
masses of dead and living locusts as they
marched along with the relics OF the
patriarch. The energetic measures taken
by the police finally abated the evil. but
not until the gardens, orchards and vine
wards had been stripped hare, and tn
people had suffered for more th'i. a
,DaoH H.-.
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The Position of Agriculture.

In his essay on Farming" Emerson
writes: "The glory of the farmer, IS
that, in the division of labors, it is his
part to create. All trade rests at last on
his primitive activity. He stands close
to nature. He obtains from the earth
the bread and the meat. The food which,
was not, he causes to be. The first
farmer was the first man; and ail his,
toric nobility rests on possession anu
uae of land. Men do not like hard work.
but every man has an exceptional respect
for tillage, and feeling that this is the
original calling of his race-that he
himself is only excused from it by some
circumstances which made him delegate
it for a time to other hands. If he have
not some skill which recommends nm
10 the farmer, some product for which
the farmer will give him corn. he must
himself return into his due place among
the planters. And the profession has IN
all ewes it's ancient charm, as standing
nearest TO God, the first cause" II aagrl-
culture really occupies this position
among the industries, how important IL
is for the farmer to show proper, respect
for his calling, by doing his work in the
best manner, by employing. the best
methods, by making use OF all that
science and experience teach, in ordir
that he may reap the greatest posslnle
results, and thereby compel people IN
other callings to believe what Emerson
nys of this one.
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Sabbath Singing at Seaside Hotels.

Tea over and the week. day machinery
cleared away from the parlors and piaz-
zas in all the houses, the piano is opened,
the Carnnina SacrG got out, and for an
hour or two the whole village is voca
with the sober strains of Hamburg
and "Mear," or the lifting inspiration ol
Hold the Fort'' and "Pull for the
Shore" AS music it doesn't touch the
highest artistic mark, certainly, but 1T is
soothing and sympathetic. Thoughtless
misses and stalwart young swells, who
for six days a week know little melody
but " Conosci IL suol" or "Mldame An
got" feel the gentle infection, and those
who came to sneer remain to sing.
Quaint, isn't it, to see young Biceps, Just
arrived with all his blushing Springfield
honors thick upon him, roaring away
like a sturdy, red-faced, siX-foot sucking
dove, and rasping his manly larynx with
an intractable chromatic, as he looks
over the book with sweet Nelly s.,
the daintiest little devotee who ever car
ried Door fellows thoughts skyward on
the wings of earthly sentiment? But
there is nothing like proximity. Biceps
won't be the worse for little vicarious
devotion; and if Nelly can make him
available in convertible" or other
bonds, why shouldn't she? So none OF
your soothing, you esthethic heathen
If you don't like the music or the spirit
of it, light your cigarette and take a
stroll down the promenade. BY the time
YOU get back the singing will be. over
and the crowded piazzas in much the
same tide Of unsanctified gossip and
Irritation as on ordinary evenings
Charles Carroll, in Ha7per's Magazine
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The Serenade.

Young Skinner plays the guitar and
sings songs of his own composition. The
other evening he visited his lady love on
Cottage Hill, and standing beneath what
he supposed to be the window, sang:
Come, love, come,
The moon shines bright;
Come, love, come,
Be my queen of night!
List to my 10y,
AS softly sing;
List to me, pray,
Loves gift bring!
The window above was softly opened
and deep Mass voice sang:
Clear ont, clear,
The moon shines bright;
Git, fool, git,
Or we'll have nIht.
List to my lay,
And don't stop 10 sing,
Or III let loose the dog,
And tho shotgun bring.
:-0H Cfy Drrteki
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ITEMS OF INTEREST,

American women eat more candy than
all the other women in the world.
"Sweets to the sweet.nl-. Chicago
Journal. No.. IA, ..,;c, -..,..,s,., ~
Gen. Walker, who Is to, superintend
the United States census OF 1880, esti-
mates that the population will be be.
tween forty and forty-seyen millions.
, General Ewing was private secretary
to President Tyler at the same time his
father, Thomas Ewing, Sr was :Secrc-
tary of the Treasury. Another member
of Congress, Whitthorne, of Tennessee,
was private secretary to President Polk
TILE MOSQUITO. ,., ,i{
Buz.z.z-z-zip! Buz-buz-z-z-zip!
Then we chase around the room, 81 sf'a
Bark our shins up in the gloom we zHi
To build that insects tomb .t--.r,3
With loaded pillow-slip.
t4 But how vain Is our endcayor, ~ Is
More uncertain than the weather, ~ siHi
For we hit him "hardly ever" -,
'.1 -" (Forgive us),, ""!.,.s'',f s1.''+
And back he comes upon our blood to siPp
~, -, ,tr,..t 'S 80 Wheeling Leader.
Talk of the bravery of the sterner sex !
DO You remember the first time you
asked her, sfWill you take my arnF'
While you trembled all over like the
narrative Of q stump-tail dog and expert:
enced the sensation Of having swallowed
your Adams apple, what did she 90!
Why, she took your arm as coolly as sue
would eat pickle. Boston 1ra1scIR
There is story-frst told at p public
dinner of English horticulturists1of a 2
gentleman who had such floral zeaP'
that, though he stumbled and broke q
leg in alighting from his carriage at q
show to which he was contributor, be
not only PERSISTED in superlnten Ding tne I.
mafned in the vicinity Of the building
for three hours, without consulting .
doctor, until the judges awards were
known. Here" as Victor Hugo woulS
say, "was heroism enough to gid . CEN
ury." p. Sit was, q wooden leg. 81
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ADesperate Struggle foI Lie.

Mr.. William Butler, an employe at
Stoddard's factory, in Dayton, Ohio,
has had a narrow escape from a horrible
death. AS he stood on ladder shifting
a bolt from n pulley, a set-screw in the
shaft caught in his clothes, and began to
wind them up. The shaft is within two
feet of the ceiling of the room and is ten
feet from the floor. AS the clothes
wound up, pulling him to the shaft, he
braced his feet against the wall with all
his power. and held himself there until
his clothes tore off him. The collar-band
of his shirt was so strong that it very
near choked him before it tore. He was
drawn so close that the shaft rasped the
skin from his breast. When the clothes
tore off he dropped to the floor. He never
uttered cry, and none of the other men
in the shop knew Of his danger until the
struggle was over, though he was sepa:
rated from them by only a thin board
partition. He was carried to his home
and his numerous bruises dressed. The
shock to his nervous system left him as
weak rs an infant.
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Emperor William and His Wife.

The Empress of Germany was not
Emperor Williams first love, the de-
mands of royalty compelling him to give
up his attachment for a lovely countess.
It is commonly believed that the mar
riage has not been in all respects happy
one to the parties most intimately con-
cerned, and that the king and queen pre-
ferred living apart. The wife devotes
herself to the cultivation of art and to
philanthropic works, and the husband
to his state duties. But they have been
happy in their two children, and the
emperor has never followed the usual
kingly example and insulted his wife by
making public parade of his favorites.
And certainly the devout messages sent
by William from the field to his wife
during his last and greatest campaign
gave evidence that at that distance his
affection was strong. Duringrecenty years
whatever differences may have existed
have been removed, and the revered
couple have lived happily toget her, en-
Toying most of all the society of their
children and grandchildren. The en-
press was sixteen when she was mar
ried, and Is seventeen years the en-
perer's Junior. .--eprtngfeH Dntont
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Hints on Archery.

Hundreds and thousands OF young
ladies in Detroit have set up q target and
drawn the bow, and dozens and scores
of doctors have pulled down their signs
and moved to Toledo since this healthy
outdoor amusement was inaugurated.
Here and there an archer or an archer
css obtains printed rules and instructions
to guide the game, but the great majority
string up the bow, hang up the target
and whang away without intelligence.
The following rules will apply to all and
every locality: =,
Don't attempt to hold the bow in both
hands when you shoot.
If yod shoot over the tai get lower it.
If YOU shoot under it have it elevated.
When you miss the target and plow a
furrow along a boys scalp tally two, one
for the scalp and one for the boy.
Either close both eyes or keep both
open when you shoot. Some favor one
method some the other, but odds is the
difference as long as your father employs
glazier by the month.
Don't attempt curve shot. The
arrow is rs apt to come down on the
baby's head as elsewhere.
Some girls squlnt up one eye ana nang
out their tongue when they pull the bow.
This is not absolutely necessary to lien
shot, though it does look romantic.
There is no particular distance to be
observed, but the nearer the target you
stand the more chance you have of hit
ting some one across the street IN the
eye.
A center shot is called "duffer;"
missin" the target is termed n clone
! hand; !" hitting the horse-barn is known
as 'phoopee;" missing the, barn and
shooting your aunt's spectacles OF her
nose is called "Tom-tom;;" shooting
across young mans shoulder is known
as "snuftles;" sitting down and =? 81, shoot,
ing backwards over your, head IS Known
as bluhing the game" and holding a
spy-glass up to get line shot is called
mashing the mark. ."--Detroa Free
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from me nv heart seemed to cease beat
ing, and I thought that the last hope
was gone; but I managed to get strength
enough to raise my sou u'wester and shake
it over my head. Some one on the YES
sci seemed to get the signal, for the yes:
sci hove to, and then saw the =; small
boat come toward the wreck. This IS
the last I recollect. Five days after
ward. as I was informed by the captain
of the Otago, came to my senses, when
he told me that my signal had been no.
ticed and he put off three men to rescue
me, but they came back saying. it was
too rough to approach the wreck; that
he then called for three other volunteers,
and the first mate and two other seamen
went and took me off the wreck. He
told me that from that time until came
to I was constantly raving about being
in Monterey. I don't know what l did
say, for I have no recollection Of any
thing whatever. Calculating the time
from the day the vessel capsized to the
day the Otago picked me up, l was
twenty-five days floating on the wreck,
and, according to thes captain Estate,
ment, the schooner must have drltted
about 100 miles west from the point
where she capsized. The Otago landed
me at Port Townsend, where l was
taken into the hospital and received the
best treatment, and at the expiration OF
six weeks was sufficiently restored to
leave for San Francisco, and on my way
down received great care and attention
from the captain and officers of the City
of Chester"
Lopes is a Portuguese, forty-si1 years
of age and unmarried.
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Bismarck as an Orator.

"Hush! Bismarck is speaking" With
these words you are ushered into the
Reichstag. And it is 80. Before even
hearing word you can tell by the as
pect of the Chamber that it is the chan
cellor who is speaking. With their
bodies stretched out and ears wide open,
everybody leans forward to listen. The
pencils Of the shorthand writers fly over
the paper with the rapidity of lightning
and you hold your breath involuntarily
that you may hear better. From below
is heard a feeble voice-one of those
feeble voices which, by its nervous tone,
suggests excess of intellectual work The
words come by jerks, each sentence being
laboriously formed. The orator is some
times hurried. sometimes hesitating in
his speech. He recalls each sentence.
twists it and turns it about until he has
eliminated all the points which an ad-
versary might attack. It is then only
that he abandons it to the House. In
listening to him you experience a strange
excitement, for while this strong man
continues his speech you are momentari-
ly feeling that he will suddenly stop shore
in the middle of his discourse. Not that
ideas are likely to be wanting, but one
fears lest the weakly voice which issues
so .laboriously from the chancellor's ro-
bust frame may fail in the midst of a per-
oration without the possibility in the
hurry of picking up the broken threads.
The chancellor himself looks i'll at east
while speaking, his thin white hands
fidgeting now with one, now with an
other Of the buttons of his modest dark
blue cuirassier's uniform. Then they
P catch feverishly at the long pencils SC
much talked about; seek refuge on the
table, and at last rest on the glass ofwater
which stands on the tribune. You might
fancy that it was only this resting place
that was wanting, for presently his
speech grows firmer, more severe; words
flow from his lips with greater clearness
his thick eyebrows are lowered still more
upon the gray eyes which seem to pene
trate the ranks of the deputies. 1t is now
evident that the orator is approaching
the end of his speech; the sentences be
come shorter and more vigorous. AnC
then the chancellor draws himself up te
his full height; the voice, so weak al
first, gains clear, hard ring, and hi
throws his last sentence like bomb intt
the midst Of the chamber, resuming hi
seat amid the loud applause ofhis friends
Berlin Td9blaH.