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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-13

Boston, May I2-Flour dull: Western supers
S3e53 70; common extras, - 1904 %; WiscOnsir
eItrns, f4G4 50; Minnesota do, 81 26d5 so; Wis
consin and Minnesota patent spring wheat extras
Sc 25618 80: winter whests s6@57 CO. Corn steady
mixed and yellow. 46a4Sc. Oats moderately ac
tive: No. and extra white, 36g39c; No. 2 white
559S517c; No. white and No, mixed, S31zsS4c-
Rye, 6G65c.
BALTIMORE May 12,-Fiour quiet and steady:
Western superhne, S3(63 so; do extra, s4g4 so; dc
amily. 81 75@5 So Wheat: Western firm: No 2
Pennsylvania red steady at 81 l215; No. Western
81 1oIal lO14: June, 81 lOh9l lOII. c m: West
ern dull: Western m xed, spot and April, 42Lza
4255Sc; May, 42}+9429zc; ne, 43s431sc; July,
i3}s9i354c steamer, 4O149io5sc.
LOUISVILLE. May II. - Flour quiet and un,
changed Wheat hrmeE Red and amber 81 o.
Corn firm: White 39c: mixed, SIG, Oats
higher: White. 32c: mixed. 30c. Rye higher
at 54c. Hay firmer at S99ll So Pork steady
,t $40. Lard quiet and steady: Choice leaf tiercc
re; do keg SIC. Bulk meats steady at $40
2E@4T0G4.9Oc for loose. Bacon steady at 400.
g5Isc for loose. Sugarcured hams, 8i399llzc
Whisky steady at 81 oil.
New YORK. May 12.-Elour in good demand
and firm. Western, So 3lt9S 50; comnion TO goo
Extra, s. 6o@5 30; good to choice, 50 95G4 j0
white wheat extra, S 55G5j %; extra Ohio
I095; st. LOUIS, SO s0@5 %; Minnesota patent
50 o0@7 70. Wheat: rejected spring, sO9S2c; un
No. spring, 81 Ol@l 06; ungraded winter red,
9Sc9Sl 49,; No. 2 do 81 16Lal III; ungradcd
white, 81 l5a9l l515; No 2 do, 81 1891 l3Il. Ry,
4 mer: No. Western. jSJ4tS5SI2c Bari y duh.
Malt dun and nominal. c III in fair demand,
ungraded, 45@4Gc; No. 3, 45c; steamer, 4514a46c;
No. 2, 4j54@4Gizc; steamer, white and yellow, 47c
Oats in active demand: No. 3, 331zc d,
white, S41gc No. ., S4A@Sc; do white,
iG@364c; No. l, 35c; DO white 3syyc;
mixed Western, S4435c; white Western
6@Ssc., Hay, hops aud coffee quiet and uu-
changed; Sugar in fair demand and firm; fair 10
good refining, G14@6 7-1Gc. Moasses steady. Rice
lctiye but firm: Carolina, 6h@7I4c: Louisiana.
i1s@634c. Petroleum dull: united, 75@755sc:
crude, 7A@754c: refined, SIC Tallow ste dy
at 6A@G1sc. Resin nominally unchanged. Tur.
entine firm at 3Oc. Eggs steady: Western, ne.
Pork quiet; new mess, $40 lj@lO 25; old So l2%c
Beef quiet and steady. Cut meats quiet and un-
changed. Butter nominally unchanged. Cheese
nominally unchanged. Whisky dull at 81 05
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

WILMINGTON, N, C.. May 12-sprits turpentine
nominal at 261ac
OswEGo, May 12-Wheat firm: No. / hard
Duluth SPRING 81 l0 No. 2 Milwaukee, 81 O3;
Corn firm: Old No. Western, 451S@46e.
NEW ORLEANS. May 12,-Pork quiet and weak
Old, 81 4o@s 50; new, $40 50@lO 621a. Others un-
changed, Sight exchanges on New York, u pre-
MUM; sterling, S4 sly.
INDIAEAPoIIs. NAV l2-wheat strong: No, 2
red, 81 obSl 06. Com firmer at 84150I35c Oats hrm
at 2612@2S1ac, Bulk shoulders, S1zc; clear ribs.
HA@4h5c Lard, b.S71s96c Hams, T,Sa7I$c.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-13
Cincinnati Live Stock Market.

CINCINNATI May 1S--2P. NJ
HOGS-Market active and firm. Common selling
at 50 j0a3 90 fair to good light SO 25a 20, fair to
good packing at s. 40@3 go, and select butchers
at So 6503 70 per GENITAL gross.
CATrLE-Quiet and firm market. Prices I'M
changed.
SHEEP-Market steady and quiet and prices
unchanged
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FINANCIAL.


CINCINNATI, May III p N.
Exchange on New York quiet The receipts
light and demand moderate. No change in rates
Buying at par and selling at lilo prem.
Sterling is firm sd light inquiry. The local
rates are 81 S51a iur sight and "a IS for 60 uays
per E.
Government bonds: Fair local demand for new
four per cents. other bonds quiet and no mate
ria In
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Especial River Dispatches to the Star. 7

Especial River Dispatches to the star.l
OIL Cry, Pa, May l3-9 A. M.-Alle-
gheny River foot 10 inches and stationary.
Weather clear. Thermometer $50. Wind
south.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May 1910 A. NJ
Monongahela River feet and falling
Weather clear. Thermometer $40. Wind
southwest.
PIrTsBURe, Pa, May 13-11 A. M.-River
2 feet and falling. Weather clear and
warm.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 13-9 A. M
Kanawha River 8 feet 2 inches and fall
ing slowly, Weather cloudy and threaten
ing rain. Wind south.
Steam boat Movements.
The Bonanza came down this morning
and returned to Portsmouth at noon.
The fine large side-wheel steamer Tele-
graph came down last night and will leave
this evening from the foot OF Broadway for
Maysvile, Portsmouth, Ironton, Big San
dy, Gallipolis and Pomeroy direct, and take
passengers for Wheeling and Pittsbufg
Capt. e. S. Morgan commands and j. T.
Hambleton is in the office.
The elegant and speedy c. & O. Railroad
packet Bostona came down this morning
and will leave at p. m. sharp on return
trip for Huntington, where she connects
with the early trains tomorrow for all
points East.
The City of Portsmouth leaves daily at
p. m. for Chilo.
The fine and popular Lower Ohio River
Packet Cons. Mllar, is on berth loading,
and will leave Wednesday for Memphis
Capt. W. G. Tichenor, Master, and Mr. Jas.
Wilson, Clerk, are her agreeable chief ofii<
GERS.
Capt. 0. P. Shinkles superb new excur-
sion steamer, Golden Rule. will be the next
steamer sent out by the Southern Trans
portation Company. She is now loading,
and will depart Wednesday.
Boat-hands Gossip.
Business quiet.
Weather clear and veYv warm.
The rivercontinuedt to fall slowly at noon,
with feet inches in the channel
The Robin succeeded in getting her tow
over Rising Sun Bar, and passed up pat noon
to-day. She has three barges iron ore.
s, II, Nigh came down this morning from
Ironton.
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For Memphis,

WEDNESDAY 14th, ats P. M POSITIVELY
, ~ h CONS. MlLLAR, W. G. Tichenor, Mas
Isasssssf| ter: Apply on board, or to james
& Wise. Supt, No, u Public Landing
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For Huntington.

WEDNESDAY, 14th, at 5P NJ, POSITIVELY,
M n The c. d o. Railroad packet FLEEIs
Iiss4atI WOOD, ]. T. Campbell, Master
= 5ses Freight received on Wharfboai, foot OF
Broadway. W. Honshell, Supt
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For New Orleans,

WEDNESDAY, 14th. at4P NJ, POSITIVELY.
IL n GOLDEN RULE, O. p shinkle, Master.
Apply on board, or to Royse 4 Mossot.
ARenta. No. 10 Public Landing
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THIS DAY, 18th, at 4P. M. POSITIVELY.
fsS n the c. & o. r. X Packet, BoSrONA.
hetseSE J. Bryson. Master. Freghtreceiyed on
Honshell, Supt
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The following are the opening quotations ana
the p. m. repo of the New York Stock Market
as received by Lea, Sterrett & Co., 2S West Third
street:
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street, then surprise Mrs. Pipher in Lud-
low, KY, next Wednesday evening at
o'clock. A good band will be in attend
ance.
Mr.. w. ]. Regan says there are $50 lying
in West Covington that he can row xteen
miles down the Ohio River and return
without rest the whole distance, being
thirty.two miles WHO Says he can't
do it?"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-17
Brief Notes.


POLKA dotted neckties are the rage
with young ladies.
VASES, with candesticks attached, are
among the handsome goods shown by a
New York house.
TIE Lsngtry Pompadour" is the
name Of handsome lace and silk Pom
padour for the neck, and j. SO called for
the famous English beauty, Mrs. Lapg-
try, better known as the Jersey l. ly."
SEALsKIN hats for ladies are turned
up on the side, to resemble the English
walking hat so popular now.
LADIES wearing mourning that il not
considered the deepest wear white linen
cuffs and collars at home, and also on
the street when plainly dressed; for
more dressy occasions they have white
crepe lisse co.ors, or else crimped frills.
Gold watch chains are not worn; instead
are onyx, jet, or el.e ribbon guards, or
perhaps the black bamboo chains. Grape
wells are worn fastened on the back or
one side of tie bonnet: illusion wells are
worn over the face. Instead of white
lace cravats there are dressy jabots of
crepe lisse, of muslin, or Of footing;
sometimes white china Grape is used for
cravats, and there are pretty bows of
reversing.-Bosr.
THOSE Of us who are growing old will
find comfort in the assurance of n Paris
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-17
Fashionable Tnrdfness.

1t is now considered the height of
fashionable hummery in this city to be
among the last arrivals at sociable
party given at private residence. Last
evening there was a party of that de-
scriptiOn on ON North B street-which
didn't come off. A lady who desired to
give little entertainment made the
usual preparations and invited a num-
Der of guests. She illuminated the par
lor and left the blinds open that the
glare of the gas might light the weary
traveller on the street. This was her
grand mistake. About 9 o'clock cou-
pie came up TO the house, and the young
lady looking in the window and seeing
the parlors empty, insisted on returning
home, as she would not for all the world
do such vulgar thing as to enter a
house where there was not a big room
full of people to look at her. The two
accordingly returned home. In few
minutes another couple accommodated
the situation from across the street and
retired. One after another the guests
came up, viewed the empty parlors, and
melted back into the darkness. There
was no party, and the lady who prepared
the entertainment didn't know what to
make of such shabby treatment. This
idea of trying to he the last one at the
evening party is growing to be so com.
mon on the ComstOck that the time will
come when an invitation to a Friday
evenings entertainment will mean
"Come as early as possible on Saturday
morning. - Virginia, Neo.. Chronicle.
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have dainty, delicate little friend,
tall and lily.like in her slender, swaying
form. Her big, brown, velvet eyes look
out with dreamy sweetness from beneath
wealth of red-gold hair. She was
brought up in luxury, TO dress, to live
in idle luxury; but the sunshine of I'M
alleged pleasure falls ftfully into most
of our lives, and the clouds of reverses
came and left her mother an unprovided-
for widow with three children to sup.
port. Then the girl rose hopefully up
and said: am almost glad that pow
erty has come upon us, because it forces
me to know of what material am made
and what l can do. have little talent,
l know, but | intend joining persevering
endeavor to it and see what will come of
it," That luxuriously-reared child has
more orders to- day than her slender
hands can fill. Orders for the china she
so exquisitely paints, from original de-
signs, with wild roses almost fragrantly
natural, with humming- bird lowering
here or butterfly lighting there, or a
ladySug con her way home" or q frog
leaning indolently up against some AS.
piring bullrushes. Her vases seem alive
with autumn flowers and foliage, and
the leaves of FURNISHED gold and crimson
seem to have just been gathered from
their woody homes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-17
Setting the Message.

Years ago, when the writer of this was
an apprentice hoy with another young
codger named Frank Ball, they two be-
ing the only hands in the flee of the
Orleans R'Publican, there was a presi
dents message came TO them to set. 1t
was the production Of John Tyler, and
az long as the moral law. Havii G two
copies, each took part, and set out at
early dawn to race it for the day, test
ing which could set the most type by
daylight. Starting out on the voyaga
was like ship starting out on the track
less ocean, for from the beginning no
one in those days could see the end of a
Presidents message. Without stirring,
speaking or stopping, the two boys laid
themselves out to the work. With
brains fairly Keeling as darkness came,
they stopped to measure up. They
were astoni he'd at the work they had
pli-hed, but were more astoDished
when. comparing notes, they found that
each hsd been setting precisely the same
part of the message! Poor Ball died a
few years after, and the survivor has
had little taste for setting on presidents
me sssge since.-Eimira (M " AdUer-
fiser
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President Taylor.

President Taylor was probably the
only president 10 whom the presidency
was an uncoveted and unsought for boon.
Mrs. Taylor was so averse To public life
that it was said she prayed every night
during his candidacy for his defeat, ard
when told of his election said: "Wby
could they not let us alone? We are so
happy here. Why do they want to drag
us to Washington" Who that ever
saw General Tay lor at levee could for
get him. He grasped every new conner
cordially by the hand and sauted all,
high aud low, old maids, brides young
girls-all with the words: "Glad to see
YOU. Glad to see you. How's your
familvI Hope the children all all
wellY" His gree ting was almost equal
To Rips toast: "Heres to you and your
family. May you live long and pros
per" He hardly ever opened his mouth
without making a mistake, and people
laughed heartily. Still they loved him,
trusted his judgment and knew his heart
and hand were true rs steel, and when
he died the whole nation was mourner
ut bis grave. When Mayor ID. returned
from Europe he introduced him at din
ner party ~ my friend, d., just from
Berlin, Austria" During his candidacy
Colonel W., state elector -, after
discussing several public topics, asked
him what were bis views on the tariff
" The what, Jack" said General Tylor,
who suffered fearfully. 1.-The tariff,
general" said Colonel w. "Why,
whats that?" ats a sine qua non,"
said Colonel w, who was one of the
greatest wags that ever lived, that the
people are much excited about row."
" A ,iae qua non," said General Taylor
slowly. II believe, Jack, saw one in
Mexico, but forget what it looked like,
and Iii be blamed If have any views
Oh the tariff ash. Letter to ~. Y.
H,rgld. vrs
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IS SaW.L0gging " i'm Nevada.

A chute is laid from the rivers brink
up the steep mountain to the railroad,
and, while we are telling it, the monster
logs are rushing, laundering, flying,
leapipg down the declivity. They come
with the speed of thunderbolt, and
somewhat of its roar. A track of fire
and smoke follows them--fre struck by
their friction with the chute logs. They
descend the 100 feet of chute in four.
teen seconds. In doing 80 they drop 700
feet perpendicularly. They strike the
deep water of the pond with a report that
can be heard mile distant. Logs fred
from cannon could scarcely have great
er velocity than they have at the foot OF
the chute. Their average velocity is
over 100 feet in second throughout the
entire distance, and at the instant they
leap from the mouth their speed must be
fully 200 feet per second. A
sugar pine log sometimes weighs
ten tons. What missile! How the
water is dashed into the airl Like
a grand plume of diamonds and rain
bows, the feathery spray is hurled to the
height of 100 feet. 1t forms the grand
est fountain every beheld. How the
waters of the pool foam and seethe and
lash against the sborel One log, having
spent its force by its mad plunge into
the deep waters, has hoated so AS to be
at right angles with the path of the
descending monsters. The mouth of
the chute is perhaps fifteen feet above
the surface OF the water. A huge log
hurled from the chute cleaves the air
and alights on the floating log. You
know how bullet glances, but can you
imagine saw log glancing? The end
strikes with a heavy shock, but glides
quickly past for short distance, then a
crash like the reverberation of artillery,
the falling log springs $50 feet vertically
into the air, aud, with curve like
rocket falls into the pond seventy yards
from the log it struck.-7ruckee (Mc.)
R'pub lean.
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Proposed 70 His Grandmother.

Col. Thornton, of the East India ser
vice, tells thus the romance of his youth ::
Zone clear starlight evening in June,
Helen and were walking on the terrace
among flower beds that were cut in the
soft, green turf. Inspired by the still
ness and odorous influence of the air, l
told her my hearts secret, with all its
hopes and fears.
She looked up at me wonderingly, and
tears glistened in her beautiful eyes as
she said:
"Ah, Capt. Thornton, are you sure :?
Do you-do you love ne? 1t cannot be-
No, never
why, cried, impetuously pressing
my suit and her, you love anotherT
"Sir,' she said, almost sharply, do you
know who l amp
"'The loveliest girl in England
No, sir, ] am not; great heavens,
Capt. Thornton, am your grandmother,
"My grandmother! Talk of sudden
shocks after that, won't you? / tried to
speak, but my voice failed me. / reach
ed out my hand and touched her. Yes,
she was there, real enough, and was not
dreaming.
Tell me alp gasped.
And standing there, by the broad
stone coping, she told me all. How her
parents had died when she was little
more than an infant, and Sir John, her
guardian and my grsr dfather, had
watched over her with j a'ous care, al
ways keeping her at 5, hool, however
until he brought her home-a young
lady.
Then, while | was in India, the poor
old man fell suddenly ill, and on his
dying bed persuaded his young ward to
marry him, just in order to inherit his
vast estate, which she had refused to
take IA legacy.
g" And, believe me- said Miss Helen, /
did it only to keep it for you, the right
full heir, whose wiidness had tenn porarily
provoked the old gentleman - Wash
ing ton Capital.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-17
Bcaconsiicld rs n Dramatic MOurner.

Lord Beaconsfeld's appearance IN
Parliament after the reception oil the
news Of Princess Alice's death is some
what sarcastically described by a Man
chester correspondent. He was peri, city
made up in the deepest of mourning,
which cowld not have been deeper had
the Princess Alice been his own daughter
Instead Of the queens. He had on, az
far AS one could judge, new black hat
with the deepest of cloth. His scarf
was black his coat, vest and trousers
were of the sablest hue; and altogether
u more funeral figure cauld hardly be
imagined than he presented as he walked
t. bis sat with bowed head and soft
tread, as il be were in the chamber of
death itself. This was very much over
acted, and so, for that matter, was the
speech III which he moved the address
He owe rdii the emotion. He pre- sented
in voice and manner the picture of
grief which. in the nature of things, it
was impossible to feel.
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correspondent that fashion nowadays IA
vors elderly people. "Women are found
To be most charming at fifty and upward,
and men most delightful going off from
fifty. The fashion of dress and enter
tainments all tends to this. Golden and
silver weddings are made much of; the
quilting, fur-lining, Woodworking, hair
powdering, step-dancing, and the dis
countenancing of the round-dance, are
in the same direction. The rounded
form of woman of fifty is found much
finer than the slender shape of one of
twenty to thirty. Girlish freshness,
simpering and giggling, are voted silly,
and young men verdant and shallow.
The autumnal tone is the fashion. The
veterans are having their day, and young
people have TO tarry at Jericho until
forty years and upward have ripened
them"
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takes the engineer years upon wears TO
construct, the chemist can, in so many
sixtieths of second, reduce to atoms.
Chemistry has given US the balloon;
IT has put in our hands gunpowder,
nitro-glycerine, dynamite and, above all
Illuminate of gold, an explosive so ter
rible that If an ounce of 1t be left in in
stoppcred bottle, its grains falling
among themselves by their own weight
will create CONFUSION sufficient to lay
all London in ruins. 1t has given us
poisonssO subtle that, were we to employ
such means of warfare, we could sail in
balloon over the camp of the enemy
and drop upon it shell, the bursting
of which would kill every human being
within mile of its range.
Then, too, chemistry has given us
disinfectants. To the chemists we owe
corbolic acid, chloride of lime and
permanganate of potash. Chemists have
taught us to disinfect our sewers and
drains, to ventilate our houses, to burn
gas instead of oil, and to light our streets
with what is more powerful than gas
itsel-the electric light. 1t is to chem
istry, indeed, that we owe almost all the
comforts of everyday life.
But on the other hand, the possibili-
ties of chemistry are almost too terrible
to be contemplated. As the science at
present stands, any student can, if he
have access to a well-stored laboratory,
carry away in a pill box, matter suffi.
Gent to lay London in ruins, or to poison
tho whole community of its inhabitants.
The chemist can, as every schoOlboy
knows convert water into ice in the
centre of a red-hot crucible. He can
construct a shell the size OF cricket
ball, which will explode the moment it
touches the water and overwhelm in
flames hostile feet. Indeed, the chemist
reduces the world to its original and
primal elements. For him even more
than the engineer, nothing is impossible.
And yet his power, vast rs it is, is limit
ed. He can more easily destroy than
construct. He can take life, but he
cannot give it. He can level the city
with plan, but he cannot build it
again. de can create prnssic acid, but
he Is ignorant of its antidote. He is
like the fisherman who rashly opened
the vessel sealed with the ring of Sulei-
man Ben Daud. The forces of his con-
troll are beyond his command, the powers
be can evoke he cannot lay. 1t is the
old story of Cornelius Agrippa-those
who trifle with natures secrets do 70 at
their peril.-London Observer.