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GENERAL TRADE.

Business is very quiet on Change.
Meats and lard dull; Hour steady; corn
meal dull; sugar strong; coffee firm; mo-
lasses 6ru; rice frm; nails dali; hay
very dull, choice scarce; corn dull and
easy; oats steady; bran tending down,
dull and nominal; apples, none 10 market;
potatoes quiet; cabbage quiet; onions noni-
nal stock peas dull; beans steady; butter dull,
little doing; cheese quiet; eggs dull; dried
apples, good dem and dried peaches neglected;
cotton-seed oils steady; cotton-seed meal
quiet. Other articles unchanged in tone and
nrica.
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MEMPHIS COTTON sTATEMkNT

The New York spot market opened easy
al IL. dull; at 2. quiet, closing quiet Sales,
362 bales; contract, 400 bales. Closing quo
tations were as follows:
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Liverpool spots began the week at 53(9
SD, and closed at 5 11-1695 13-l6d Friday
evening.
Liverpool futures began the week at
5 5064d for June deliveries, and closed with
Juue-July quoted at "A 64d.
The local market opened with niddling
quoted at Zoe, the price on which the pre-
yious week opened, and from which value no
change was made during the week on mid
ding grades, while all the remainder OF the
list went off &c on Tuesday, which quota
lions were maintained the remainder OF the
week. Business continues very dull, the
trans actions of the week not quite reaching
1000 bales. The stock is being gradually
worked down by the daily increase Of ship.
ments over receipts. We have heard ne ad-
ditionsl particulars concerning the growing
crop since the elaborate reports published
Sunday morning. The following table shows
the closing quotations az compared with the
nrevioua Waak.
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RIVER AND WEATHER.

NEW ORLEANS, June liar we'd: John
A. scudder, ST. Louis No departures.
PTTsBURG. June 11.-Noon-River feet
inches, and falling. Weather clear and pleasant.
WHEELING, June l1-Noon-River feet
sinehes, and falling. Weather partly cloudy and
cool
CINCINNATI, June 11.-Noou-River 10 feet
4 inches, and rising Weather clear; thermome-
ter ~. Arrived: Wyoming. New Orleans No de-
psrtures- Sight-River 20 feet inches. and MS
ing. Weather clear and pleasant. No arrivals or
departures
LOUISVILLE, June lI.-NooD-River fall
ing, with feet II inches in the canal, and feet
II inches IN the chute on the falls. Business dull
weather clear and cloudy, with heavy wind all
night Arrived and departed: Mary Houston, New
Orleans to Cincinnati; James W. CAT Memphis TO
Cincinnati; Coal City and tow, Vicksburg to Pitts
burg.
EVANSVILLE June l1.-NooD-River fall
ing, with 20 T3e feet By the gauge. Weather clear
and pleasant; thermometer 81 10 74e. Arrived /:
Andy Baum, Memphis, 10 pm. Departed: Andy
Baum Cincinnati, = p m. Night-River falling,
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The Liverpool spot market at noon was
quoted easier, but not quoisbly lower. Sales,
5000 bales, of which $3.50 bales we're Ameri-
can. Receipts. none.
At 1880: Uplands, 11-16l; Orleans,
5 13.16d.
The Liverpool future market at noon was
quoted quiet; June.July, AZ Cad; July-Au
gust, 5 AZ 64d; Augusi-Se ptember, 81 Cad /;
September October, 5 4S Sad; October. No
5 3964d.
AT $3.50: Ju!y-Ausust, As Gid; August
September 8 52-641; OGlahsr- Der,
5 AZ SAD.
At 4: June.J ulY, 5 43 64d.
Futures closed steady.
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Transaction. aggregated 365,OOo sharep, q.


NEW 0RLEArs, June u.-Sight exchange
on New York, 81 so per $1,000 premium.
Sterling exchange-bankers' bills, 4S694S63
LONDON, June 11-Illinois Central, 45I;
Pennsylvania Central, COZ; New York Cen
trail, 2s1; Erie, 374; Erie seconds, $50; Read
ing, 30s.
PARIS, June 11.-Rsntes 79f 27!c.
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Daily Report.

The Memphis market opened and closed
dun. Sales 100 bales, of which rs bales are
Tor export, anu p to spiuners. Closing ouo.
tations were as follows:
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WHISKY, ETC.

BRANDIEs-Cognsc, S5@16 peach, 81 so
@3 so; apple, 1908 so.
WHISTLES : Redistilled, soc a 81 so;
straight, 81 50@4, according to age.
WINEs-Imported port, 81 5094 sherry,
81 $500; champagne-Americane extra dry.
Sos Piper Heidsick, $24@26 Mumm's
extra dry, $26@28 Pomery Sec, 329 500
81 so; w. Cliquot, 500 50@31 so claret,
s. 1907 per box; Catawba, "a 50@6.
BALTIMORE, June 11.-Whisky unchanged.
ST.. LOUIS, June 11.-Whisky steady,
81 a.
LOUISVILLE, June 1I.-Whisky quiet,
81 ID.
CINCINNATI, June 11.-Whlsky steady,
IL 13.
New ORLEANS, June 11.-N Risky I'M
shauged.
CHICAGO, June H. Whisky steady and
unchanged.
PGLTRIEs, HIDES AND LEATHER.
HIDES, ETC.-No. l dry flint hides, l6c; No. 2
dry hides, 123913c; salt hides, 10@124c /;
No. green salt hides, 5i@73c; No. 2 green
salt hides, &c green hides, 596c. Bseswax
prime yellow, 28930c tallow, 7@73c ;
ginseng, per pound, 81 so. Deerskins-
prime, 25(133c.
CANDLEs-Full weight, l51c.
LEATHER-Oak sole, per pound, 35@40c;
hemlock; 27@30c; harness, 5000; skirtiug,
7S@40c; French calf, 100000 pr dozen
| domestic calf, S30(945c per dozen.
FEATHERs-Prime, 40c.
WooL-Tub.washed, 25@35c per pound
anwashed, 1929; bury, 10@16c.
HORS AND MULES.
The mule market is well supplied with all
| qualities. The horse market is dull.
MULEs-No l dray mules, to years old,
| Is TO 161 hands, S200@250; 153 to Is, Sl50lg
| 1876; Is to ISL, Sl35@150; 14i to Is, S10O@125.
HoRsEs-elood driving, $1cJ(920O; heavy
draft, S1509200; saddle horses, S1259250
plugs, S4O@75.
HOUSED UILDING MATERIALS.
Bricks, lime and cement quiet at former
prices.
FRAMING LUMBER-Yard prices Rough,
SIS per 1000 feet; dressed, $50; yellow pine
flooring, S25; shingles, 1904 so; lathing-
Poplar, 81 rs; cypress, 81 pc rI000 laths.
Extra prices for extra lengths above 20 feet.
| LIME AND CEMENT-Alsbsma lime, 95c@
| 81 barrel; Tennessee, $4,000; Louisville
cement, 81 20 al rs barrel; Rosedals &c.
ment, - so barrel; Portland, IS; plaster oil
Paris, ~ 90.
NA1Ls-s3 IS per keg.
PETROLEUM MARKETS.
| Observation-Disclosures lots I3c ner sellon
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New Orleans spots began the week at
10se, he price ruling at the close OF the pre-
vious week. A decline Of l-lee YVES an
nounced on Tuesday, followed by another on
Wednesday, and the week closed as indi-
Gated BY the following comparative list.
lima s+t Tuna 1st
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New Orleans futures closed the week with
June deliveries declined IS points, and other
monlhs Is TO 26 points, as the following COM
paTative list Of quotations indicate:
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24
A HORRIBLE FATE.

A Railroad Boarding House DESTROYED by
Fire-E1eyen of the Inmates 1Iiserably
Perish in the FIanes-Seyeral Others
More or Less Seriously Burned.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, March H.
A Deadwocd special to the Pioneer Press says:
AT eleven o'clock last evening fire was dis
covered in the large two-story boarding-house
owned by Hood g. Scott, in Brownsville, on
the Homestake Railway, nine miles from this
city, ana in less than thirty minutes the entire
structure was destroyed. The following
named persons persisted in the flames: Peter
Hansen, Lewis Hansen, R. c. Wright, Thomas
Finless, James Chalmers, James Tenneclifr,
Samuel Hayes. Fred D. Peters, Charles Ham
montreed, w. III. Andrews, Harvey Wood
Several others were burned and more or less
seriously injured.
The building was long, low, cheaply-con-
structed affair of pitch pine, and burned with
the greatest rapidity.
The bunk-room occupied loft, access to
which was gained by means of one ladder t
the end of the room. The fire undoubteu1y
started near the ladder. cutting off all retreat.
Several of the deceased leave large families,
and all were well known and esteemed.
Brownsville is located in a heavy forest,
from which the Homestake Company draws its
immense supplies of fuel and timber for mines
and mills. The deceased were employed in
its preparation. Large numbers OF people Wis
tied the camp this morning, and much excite
HeUL prevails.
The ire originated through the carelessness
Of the cook, Peters, who placed a bundle of
kindlings at the side of the stove. from which
the burning Goals fell. The flames Immediate
~ communicated to the pitchftine fran work
of the building, over which they spread with
great rapidity. cutting off all retreat from the
loft by way of the ladder. One window. at the
end of the loft not over ten feet from the
ground afforded ample means of escape, had
the inmates promptly availed themselves of
it, but aroused from sound sleep they ran
fS,I ycl tI,ay
selves by Jumping. and they were badly
burned, the legs of two so seriously that am
pntation will be necessary.
The room was usually occupied by thirty
men, but at the time of the fire twelve were
absent in camp,
Peters WIS asleep on the lower floor, but SO
bewildered was he when aroused that he made
no attempt to escape by the door, not five feet
distant.
The remains of the eleven unfortunates
present most sickening sight, many being
headless or limbless, and all eha,red and
blackened beyond all TO sibie recognition.
The Coroner will hold an investigation. =
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24
THE PLUMBER.

Aplumber sat within his home
OF wealth and luxury.
He n ard the storm go bowling by,
1t filled him full of glee.
Rain beat upon the window panes,
Fast freezing as it fell,
an icy pail spread DER the land,
On city, hill and dell.
His little child came in the room,
In costly raiment clad.
She stole unto her parents side.
And thus addressed her dad:
Say. papa dear, why do you smile,
On such fearful night?
The storm it shakes the windows so,
I'm paralyzed with fright!
s'Think of the poor within their homes,
No coal to keep them warm!
How can YOU smile, my papa dear,
While others feel alarm?
The plumber stroked her golden curls,
And took her on his lap:
Then to his little child he said:
NOW listen to your pup.
ct The ice and snow, the frost and hail,
Bring gladness unto me:
With joy hear the wintry blast
Which bowls SO dismally.
sSThis princeiy home wherein we dwell,
- Those bronzes r. CHI and rare,
Those pictures brought from foreign lands,
Our carpets, silverware,
My bank-stocks and my real estate,
Your mothers diamonds. too
All came from winters icy breath,
so dreaded, love, by you.
8 I'll tell you how these blessings come
To others, thorns and stripes
The storys told In these four words,
From busted water pipes.
s{ -STectdtOr
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24

You've lost again and the money s
mine,,' cries the confederate, grabbing
the pile of greenbacks.
A tirst-class scheme, you see, and
no mistake
$ But suppose the countryman sus-
poets something, and makes a fuss?'
inquired the reporter.
Suspects something. Sam; why of
course he suspects something now, if he
is not clean-gone idiot. But then the
boys are ready for that. The moment
he squeals and talks about being swim
died the sharpers make a tremendous
noise, and the confederate refuses to
listen to any protests. When the up
roar is at its height the keeper of the
joint appears and plays the highly re-
spectacle dodge.
leone, come, gentlemen he re-
monstrates, .this will never do. lean t
have any trouble in my place You'll
have to settle your difficulty somewhere
else.'
1.-The two sharpers then get into a
dispute with him. The uproar becomes
tremendous, and suddenly some one
cries:
q. Look out. here comes the policeH
Then the sharpers separate. The
one with the money rushes to the back
OF the saloon and gains the street by
secret exit. The steerer rushes out OF
the front door, but Just as the fleeced
countryman from North Adams is about
to follow, a third confederate dashes
into the saloon and runs against him,
nearly throwing him over in the col
llslon. The new stranger seems terri
bly, incensed at this. and standing in
the doorway SO that no one can get out,
disputes with the countryman until the
escape of the boys is completely coy
cred, and then pretends to understand
what has happened.
You've been shamefully swindled,
sir. There are no police coming. I
just saw the rascal who has your
money jump on that car a moment
ago.
He points to street car going
down town, and the countryman dash
es after it pell- mell, only to find that he
has gone off on wild goose chase.
"He's safely disposed of the moment
he starts for the car, you can bet. for it
would be like hunting for a needle in a
haystack for him to try to find us after
his back is once turned. The boys
simply wait little while, and then
meet for the grand divide of the Doodle.
The nd-shaker and the steerer come
in for twenty-five per cent each of the
gains, and the joint-keeper, for the use
OF his saloon and playing the highly
respectable racket, gets ten per cent.
The remaining forty per cent. goes ITO
the pocket OF the capper, the one who
pretended that he got of the car, you
and he gives small share
of that to the man who blocked the
door when the countryman tried to
catch the one he thought had his
'ne docs the Dusi IL pay velle" asked
the reporter.
.sDoes it pay2 Does it?'' repeated
coincidence SAM with an emphasis
to Danish all doubts. "Will |
water run down hill? Does fire burnp
My friend, if you think it doesn't just
get a jolnt-keeper to show you the
record of'his little ten per cent. DIVES,
and never ask that foolish question
again. Why, my blooming daisy, the
weather has assumed Rocky Mount
amin mid-Winter temperature when we
don't divide five hundred dollars at
least between. us for six days work, /
with evenings Of. We don't work |
nights in our profession, you know.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24
The Monkey and the Sugar.

A recent English writer gives the fos
lowing illustration of the sagacity OF
animals: Il
remember once in India giving a
tame monkey lump Of sugar inside a
corded bottle. The monkey was of an
| inquiring mind, and it nearly killed it.
Sometimes. IN an impulse of disgust, it
would throw the bottle away out of its
own reach, and then be distracted until
it was given back to it. At others it
would sit with a countenance of the
most intense detection, contemplating
the bottled sugar; and then, as.if pull
ing itself together for another effort
at the solution, would sternly take up
the problem afresh. and gaze into it.
1t would tilt it up one way and try to
drink the sugar out of the neck, and
then suddenly reversing it try to catch
it as it fell out at the bottom.
Under the impression that it could
capture it oy surprise, it kept rasping
its teeth against the glass in futile bites,
and. warming to the pursuit of the re-
volving lump, used to tie itself into reg
ular knots around the bottle. Fits OF
the most ludicrous melancholy would
dlteIHate VIII spaS1uS OF ueuSnI, as
new idea seemed to suggest itself, fol-
lowed by fresh series OF experiments.
Nothing availed. however. until one
day light was shed upon the problem
by jar OF olives falling from the table
with a crash. and the fruit rolled about
in all directions. His monkeyship con-
contemplated the catastrophe. and rea-
soned upon it with the intelligence of a
Huniboldt. Lifting the bottle high in
his paws he brought it down upon the
floor with a tremendous noise, smashing
the glass into fragments, after which he
calmly transferred the sugar to his
mouth, and munched it with much sat-
isfaction.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24

Colonel Coulter, of the Tennessee
Legislature, wears his hair like a
woman, the switch falling to the states
mans waist when lie shakes it out
during an excited debate in the house
St. Landry democrat., 1883-03-24

"A Philadelphia tenor took place
in church choir under his own name.
and in a negro minstrel company at the
same time under an assumed one. But
the double salary did not last long, for
persons from the church recognized
him through the sarnt cork at the show.
and he was excluded from the choir
gallery. Philadelphia Press.
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money enough to keep not alone
themselves comfortably, but also to
aid in the support Of father, moth
er or younger brothers or sisters. But
somehow the fneries Of the ladies
that come here to purchase dazzle
them. They want to own the same
or similar or better things. Then
they hear the visitors talk Of amuse-
ments and entertainments and they
want the same. Thus they are seiz-
ed with longings which cannot be
satisfied by their slender purses or
with the surplus of the income of the
average young man. and thus these
young women get off the track. 1t
is often said that this business ruins
young women, 1t is not the bust
ness; it is only the unrestrained long
ing themselves to possess the mater
ials which they are selling that brings
them to the bad
Roscoe Conkling is more and more
giving politics the 60 by and devot-
ing himself to his profession. His
business is very large, not so much
directly as indirectly, on account of
his known skill in argument and i'm
pressiveness before judges. Lawyers
with big cases like to employ him to
argue for them. 1t is said that his
annual income from his profession
reaches the comfortable figure of $50
600 year. This is certainly more
than he ever made in politics.
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The Peculiar Old Mystery!

was pecuares of the osoned Doctors that they
ever would tell patients they prescribing for them They said
good know and that would only be graft
ing foolish curiosity keep patients from knowing they
od the that most patients could not
them that ofts snow
weak and be song he is dyspepc and
digest we'll Or he has troublesome liver which he wants to
to rights So Browns Iron ,crs about which there
yery This the best preparation Of iron in the world
with gentle yet efficient ton 1t gives strength builds
ebed systems 1t enrichcs impoverished blood feminine
cal es debility. 1t what and druggist
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Twelve locomotives were shipped
from Philadelphia for Brazil last
week.
One of the civil justices of Phila-
delphia is the keeper of a gambling
house.
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jr XECUTOR'S NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that the subscrI-
Der has obtained from the Orphans Court
of Frederick county, letters testamentary
on the estate of
JACOB BOLLINGER,
late of Frederick county, deceased. All
persons having claims against the said de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same with the vouchers thereof, on or be-
fore the 10th day of March, 1884; they may
otherwise by law be excluded from all ben
eft of said estate. Those indebted to the
deceased are desired to make immediate
payment.
LEWIS A. BOLLINGER,
Sept 6 81. Executor.
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General News.

lie Jnat pTayS naTI'l LOT Hls
neighbor, begs a curse upon himself
He that recommends Kidney-Wort
to bis sick neighbor brings blessing
rich and full both to his eighbor and
himself. Habitual costiveness is the
bane of nearly every American wom-
an. Every woman owes it to herself
and to her family to use that cele-
brated medicine KidneyWort.
The King of Italy, having paid
half his fathers debts so far, and i'm,
poyerished himself in the process,
wishes to make some provision for
his family in case of his death, but
cannot induce the leading Italian in
surance companies to allow him to
insure his life with them for Gl20,-
900, They allege that their statutes
do not allow them to grant policies to
crowned heads, Here is chance
for some enterprising American COM
pany,
Plcuro-pneumonia has appeared
among the cattle in Delaware, Ches-
ter and York counties, in Pennsyl-
vania. About $50 head of cattle in
those counties have been affected, II
dozen of which have been killed. Dr..
Bridge, the official physician of the
State board of agriculture, says that
he has traced the disease in every
case to herd of cattle brought from
Baltimore to Westchester, Chester
county. Except in the three coun-
ties mentioned, there is no trace Of
the disease anywhere in the State.
Jay Cooke has not only paid
dollar for dollar of his vast indebted
ness, but is now worth at least a
million dollars fortunate mining
speculations in Colorado having made
him again millionaire. The other
members of the old firm have also
done we'll.
The largest locomotive in the
world is now being built in the Sac
ramento car shops Of the Central Pa
cifc Railroad. The engine will have
FIVE pairs of driving wheels. The
weight of the engine will be 70 tons !;
weight of tender, over rs tons;
weight of engine and tender when
fully equipped for the road, lo5 tons
The length of engine and tender will
be 65 feet 5 inches; driving wheel
hose, 10 feet inches diameter Of
cylinder, 81 inches; stroke, 26 inch
es; water capacity Of tender, 5000
gallons.
The Comte de Chambord died in a
month that has proved fatal to many
Kings of France. Philip |. died on
the Sd of August, 1860; Louis vi.
on the 1st of August, 1l0S; Louis
TX. on the 25th of August, 1926 !;
Philip vi. on the s3d of August,
1923; Louis XII. on the 30th of Au-
gust, 1851; Henry III. on the I'd of
August, 1889, Louis Philippe also
died in England in exile on the 26th
of August, 1850 The Gath of Au-
gust, the date of the Comte de Cham
bord's death, is also that of the birth
of the Count of Paris, in 1888
fact which will perhaps afford food
for speculation to the believers in
omens. 1t is, moreover, the ami
versary of the massacre Of st. Bar
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Gotham Gossip.

The deduction IN Price Of The Times
nl The T,3bune.-Coma'ng doaon to a
Penny Basis. Tile Herald and the
Afternoon Rapers.-EaU Open'nqs.-
Working Girls and their hcomes.-
Why They Fail.-Roscoe conkl'"g al
lis Profession.
New York September 22d, 1883.
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NewspaDer Law Decisions.

l. Any person who takes paper regularly from
,hc 20 itnttcc-whether directed to his name or an
,ihers OF whether he has subscribed or not-is re-
,D,nsible for the payment.
2. II any person orders his paper discontinued,
he or she must pay all the arrearages or the pub
fisher may continue to send it until payment is
n de and collect the whole amount, whether the
p,Ier is takcn from the Office or not.
No paper will be discontinued until paid up