Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-11

The Markets.
. ss5Esa: g de censel. ssS: a. Tss Psst due Sso
BSLTI&okaE AEsusf Daa Ell -cotton du-mid
sa.7s; DO. family, 81 oae IS city mills super. & IS IS
DO Rio I Srands. s. 75Ss Sass Pssapsco & family,
soSsss5n res ssteady TeseS % steady c9sps
winter red sPot and iusnss. ic5si. .oss ssfssTn ssp
No,ember. iSsai SsGSef Scrn, southern stssas
western higher and siror g-southern white, 81; do
ssssR 5 Is: Bd :Ss and sS S
Oats stesdy and fairly sctise-western white S4aSo:
ssf and n Hss IS 30
$3.50. Provi.ions strong.mess pork. 1890. Bulk
Pssha and dss ssaE aS sss
western packed. isa26 Erss % quiet "a " feSSe PesrO
leGnoeInds hn nominal; refined ss Coffee firm
S Soft orHary %hssy n saS's sue srFsr
Freishts Ere frm. Reoeipts-nour. s.7 barrels wheat,
s iS 5arSe eG Ss
sds s ss5 1 busheIs corn. issf bushels saies-wheat
Ios 9sTa august 100 1Tshs ssocrs
Money. 2kas: Exchanee-ions. 4Sisi short ss$x.
NEW YORK. AUGUST n.-Flour dull and weak
"hess SNt slightly In buyers favor. Corn quiet.
Great western rs. morsse ernstses oer ana
Gates, G9s4 Atlantic and Great Western seconds
Illinois Central. ll6k. Reading, IL. New York
Ce ntral. lS7k; 2p. m.-Erie, 44x BEADING, i0x.
Great Western frst morieaee trustees certi6cates @
6sk., New Jersey Central c9nsols. lllH. Read
NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON.
The following quotations were current In New
1aa YS5k tOSay M as reported BY Lewis John
u per cents, M! !sal II New Jersey central 7eS:
Ohio an and d. Mississippi. ss SSsf ETis. i2A: MICH
Lake Shore. loss; Northwest. l0Ok do. preferred,
Q, p.dT Iron sdl Mountain, s6s; Rock Island. a.
Louis and nd Pacific. An do preferred; t25;
u C. ano !. O.. 72N. Pacific Mai. 4Izs:
NORFOLK, Va, Is AGITATBD over the sum-
mag suspension OF the assistant chief OF police
OF that city by the newly elect i req 1Juster
mayor Mr. Wr. Lamb, the officers C. me bei1g
an Pni5 active participation IN al election,
which II seems is prohibited by the rdles adopt
cd by the police board, which Is composed or
the mayor ard the presidents or the two branch
es OF the city council. Mayor Lamb at first re-
rUSed TO allow the deposed officer the benent OF
legal counsel al the hearing but In this he wss
ovei ruled by the other members OF the board.
an application from the representatives OF the
press OF the city TO be allowed TO be present TO
report the proceedings was voted down, Mr..
Fred 5. Taylor, president OF the select council,
vigorously protesting against the exclusion,
whilst Mayor Lamb and Gen. Y. ID. Groner, pres
ident OF the common council, favored what is
tdllc0 cIdi III MBS
at this point discovered that Mayor Lamb ia
his order OF suspension, had failed 20 specify al
what elect the assistant Chief had taken an
active pant and In what manner so a motion
weS adopted poetpoDjng the tIlal until some
time In september, IN order that the mayor may
make bis charges more specific
AS TO WAsPs.-The President OF the Concord
school OF philosophy. forwarded a letter TO the
clup, psi pg brother Gardiner II bis experience
v th wasps bad demonstrat I'd the alleged fact
that only female wasps use their stingers and
soliciting en early reply. my 'sperience wild
WaSpS lurS back ober halt a century," replied
the old man as he pas Sed along the letter. "a1'
IL de only fack ever demonstrated am dat I
break lpr de bushes on de gal!op, an neber
Lime. Kiln Proceedings, Detroit Free Press
TRYING SOMNAMBULIsT.-Anin Investigation or
the behead1ng or U. w. Phelps by a somnam-
bullstic bedfellow named Click at the little
village or Tyro, fn Davidson county, n. C. a
Few nights ago, develops the fact that Click.
the sleep-walker, has made other serlous mis-
takes during sleep, and that his disposition to
walk In hts sleep and cut up foolish capers has
been so great that he he's at tunes been obliged
10 tie himself upon retiring. He has walked
out OF windows when asleep and frequently has
nuit himself The accused had an exainina-
uon Friday on the charge OF killing o. w.
Phelps In his store while awaiting an attack
from some colored thieves, but after hearing
the testimony he was discharged, the court
being satisfied from the evidence that the pris-
oner was not accountable for his actions while
asleep.
Howard Harron n murderer I'm nv1eon or