National Republican., 1880-08-11
nALrrNoRr. Md. Aug. 10.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Aug. 10.
Cotton dull. Middnng, llLc.
Flour steady and unchanged.
Wheat-Southern steady; western easier and
weak. Southern red 81 e5dl 10. do. amber, 81 Il
@l Is; No Maryland, 81 IL; No. 2 western win
ter red, spot and August, 0SsSFel OS5.; Sep
tember, 81 OssS; october, 81 0sJs@i o.
Corl-Southcrn steady; western easier and steady.
Southern white, SIC; do. yellow. 52c; western
| mixed, spot, and August, isl4@ioJIc; September,
Oats Steady. Western white, aly4GS5c; do.
mixed, SitG33l5c
Rye higher Gt 17c.
Provisions firm, but without quotable change
Butter quiet. Prime TO choice western packed.
| liU2Oc.
Eggs quiet at 12c.
Petroleum unchanged.
Coffee hTm. Rio carsoes ordinary to choice, lGJ0
Sugar firm. A son, 1870.
Whisky unchanged.
| Frcights unchanged.
Ecceipi>-Flour G7gi bblS wheat. 4i4 $50 bu;
corn, $500 bu; oats, 1900 bu; rye, 100 bu.
| shipmentS--Nheat. IA $50 bU; corn, 273i9 bu.
| SllcN-Nhcat 4i2,3l9 Uu; cOrl 2s,3l0 bu.
| Virginia skies, deferred, Gl%; do. consolidated,
56ls do second series, %; pasi-due coupons, $50
| new tCt-iUrtics AZ; North Carolina skies, Old,
@9L5 Virginia ten-iurties, coupons y3 bid to-day.
| ONE of the most affecting appeals we have
read for q long time is the leading editorial in
Il recent number of the Jamestown (DakOtal
-4lert: I'VE need money to pay wash bill Of
long standing"
OSE cannot be too careful Of his dict. A
Delaware paTson ate some peaches which were
so wicked as to fall from the tree recently, and
in two hours he became so dcmoralizcd that
he went hshing.- Hawkeye.
Ar a late Ohio camp meeting Rev. Mr. Har-
riscn, the hoy rcvivalist' who made such
sensation in TalmaSe's tabernacle last spring,
prayed that the CLOSING hours OF the meeting
might put hell in cousternation."
JonN w. GOODMAN, IL Pttsburg man, wants
to bet 5000 that Pennsylvania will give GAR
field 10000 majority; 5000 that New York
will give him 5000 majority, and $4,000 that
Garfield will DO elected president of tha
United States.
"YoUR future husband seems very cxactng;
he has been stipulating for all sorts Of things"
said mother to her daughter who was on
the point of being married. "Nevcr mind.
mamma" said the ailectionate girl, who was
already dressed for the wedding; these are his
last wishes"
AT recent democratic meeting in Bridge.
port, Conn, the orator of the evening waxcd
warm and shouted out; "lf there is q repub-
lican ia this house | would lilSo 10 have him
rise aud tell his feelings" A man in the back
part of tho room arose. "Aro you rcpubli-
can p said the orator. Yes replied the
man. :" How do feel {" asked tho speaker?
II feel like one good egg among bushel of
rotten ones" The catechism ended.
ATHENS in Greece, which in 1870 had q
population Of Is l07, now has GS,G77. The
Piipus in the same time has increased from
II, ,O47 TO n GlS, and not many American cities
have done bettcr. Pitlas increases from
2G, 100 to 81 227; Corinth from 6Oi7 to 1855;
Sparta from lO,6sG TO 1907; rhebes from
8 473 to GO29. Laurum, or ErgaslerIs, the
site of mine somewhat famous in diplomatic
history, had but a single hut in 1866; in 1876
il had population $500, which has now
grown to G,500. Greece is looking up in tho
world