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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08

The road and equipment $4,000 mile tho
First Mortgage Bonds limited $4,000 mile and
have be Issued by the Central Trust Company
Trustee only road b compIred in sections and equip
ned 2ls miles have already completed The First
Mortgage covers the rights large tracts OF va
able coal and the Black Warrior Coal Field OF
North Alabama Is payable the LIST days OF
January July and the principal Is due Janu
airy lst. 1922.
addition the obligation OF tho Railway Company and
the security mortgage traffic contract has been exc
cued between Georgia Pacific Railway Company and
the Richmond Danyille Railroad Company. whereby
twenty per Of the gross receipts Of the Richmond and
Danyile Railroad Company from traffic received from tho
Georgia Rahc Pathway Company Is appropriated TO secure
the payment Of the nteyss the bonds hereby offered
subscriptions may the ONCE Of the Company
No 20 Nassau st. New. York before the 10Th day Of
Aprl. 1883. at y.
subscriptions 10 be paid ~ follow;
on the 10Th day OF April. 1888 l. per cent
ON the 10th day OF May, 1885 - per cent
the 18th day Of June. 1883, 10 per cent
the 10th day OF July, lsSS, 10 per cent
on the 18th day OF August 1884, 10 per Gems
on the 10th day Of september. 1888, 10 per eer-
ON the 10th day Of october. 1885, 10 per cent
Ten per cent OF the subscribed for 10 be delivered
on the first payment and per cent each payment there
after excluding fractions ofa bond.
In the subscribed exceeds tho amount offered
above the Richmond Danviile Extension Company
serves TO the night make aoments the sub
scrbers regard being the order In which the sub
soriptOns received
information apply the office Of the company
w r. TRIGG, Treasurer.
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4 rORYADO IN ARKANSAS.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, April IA severe wind
rain and hail storm prevailed IN central and southwest
crn Arkansas Thursday night doing considerable dam
axe 10 buildings and fences and blowing down many
trees Along the line OF the Hot Springs and Malvern
Railroad tornado developed and the force OF the
wind lifted passenger coach from the track and sent II
down an embankment. Several persons were bruised
hat none seriously Two buildings blown down at
Alexander Station on Iron Mountain road, north OF
Mayern and the effects Of the storm visible az faT
AS Benton. The tornado especially disAsrOu. al
NabeyaIe ten miles south of Little Rock. the Iron
Mountain Railroad. dozen residences and "a many
stables we're blown down and the roads IN the neghDor-
hood 40 covered with fallen timber as to be impossible
No lives were lost.
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4 PANIC IN CHICAGO MARKETS.
Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. /


CHICAGO, April THE grain market closed
tonight almost In a panic Prices were not only tum-
bling but there being passed around the stories OF
failures which usually rife in panicstricken crowd
Wheat closed at 81 05 tor May and corn at 52Sc for
the same month. These figures were the last on the
curb the regular board closing prices at O'Clock were
Iec higher. Prices very weak all day. but sud
den decline just before the close caused by report
that very prominent house here, with close connee-
lions NewYork, had been swamped by It's heavy load
OF long" grain The rumor was false, but 1t had it's
effect
The nervousness here Is pretty well illustrated by the
prevalence OF these rumOrs Of late. Reports have cir
cuated concerning firm with Cincinnati connections,
and yesterday hundreds Of inquiries were made from
York Baltimore Cincinnati and elsewhere as TO the
concerns solvency. This story started. 1t is be-
eyed because charges have been gossipped about
relative the firms treatment OF come OF Its customers
The concern whose name was handed about to-day is
very staunch and we'll known commission house.
The feeling wheat and corn has become exceeding
ly ''bearish." Deliveries Of wheat were made to-day
in year" contracts at 81 Oh, and buyer OF year
wheat has the property delivered TO him at once-an
extraordinary and illustrating how I'M
willing the local operators are 20 hold the grain at
present prices Predictions of 50cent May corn and 81
May wheat made on all sides. The firms
that do most OF the NewYork trade are not
now prominent in the market operators at
the seaboard being always 10th to going
short and decidedly opposed. 1t is said, to selling af
Ter a big break. :" Phil" Armour to-day predicted
rsly shortly in graIn spoke rather despondentiy of
pork which he admits owning The other great packers
are ON short SIDE McGeoch Is SAID 10 De anxious
for considerable break lard that lac can take In
another Dig line at lower figures, and then lower hA
There has been some talk within the last few days OF
Armour getting into wheat. IL has grown out OF the
fact that he IL an open bull on II at the present
fgurea. Handy would undoubtedly have succeeded IN
getting up his wheat pool Tor May the stock had mol
een large here and 50 great an amount o. sensy
been required. The Cncnnatian, moreover, lost Ms
gtroueest ally when Mr. Perrin, Of Cincinnati, died
pressed by the tumble In grain and corn Dial they are
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were neglected, excepting small sale OF Central AT
o. decline of e per cent. The other transactions
were unimportant City bank stocks were firmi
sales comprised shares America at l0l, ana ~
shares Merchants at 12012.
Railroad bonds showed no great general improve
ment in prices and with few exceptions they were
not unusually active Early prices were fraction
better but the final changes from Yesterday were
small and irregular. New York. West Shore and
Buffalo firsts which maintained their prominence,
fiuctuated between 79ls and 70i2 and closed I'M
changed at 79le considerable part of tho busi-
ness in them was done on buyers sixty days options
Mutual Union Telegraph 6s were much less active
than they were yesterday, but they made further
gain of the fraction at S7l2 after early sales at SI
Erie second consols were firm at 974. VI inc
Southwestern issues, Iron Mountain irsts were duli
but per cent higher at IA than the last previous
price, but seconds fell 81 to 1104 Missouri Kansas
and Texas general mortgages advanced to 62l2
from Slaa yesterday; Texas Pacific incomes de-
clined to 6slsa6sls, while firsts Rio Grande
DIVISION closed 7s higher at 1888 after considerable
sales at 1884, International and Great Northern cou-
pom 6s advanced to So. Wabash general mortgages
were dull but per cent higher at 50. Oregon and
Transcontinental aud Northern Pacific securities
were quiet and strong. Denver and Rio Grande
consols were Il lower at 96l4. Atlantic and Pacific
firsts Western Division, declined to 81 and incomes
after dropping per cent closed only a lower at
25l4. Louisville and Nashville general mortgages
yielded a to 95si.
The Sub Treasury to-day lost on balance $404-
1Ol. made up of coin loss of S445, 49, less cur
rency gain of $41,366. The transactions cover:
Receipts $607 2SS; payments $1,Ol1 1888; cur
rency balance $6,62s, Cyl; coin balance, $l23,-
S02, $40. Money ruled easy at from u TO per
cent. the lower being the closing rate.
The following the comparative quarterly state
ment of the State banks of the city of New-York.
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CLOSING PRICES OF PHILADELPHIA STOCKS
R.oortea 5y JoaS II. DAVIS q Co. II WaLL-si
SATURDAY. April 7-P. VI.


Stocks were strong and active to-day, on re-
newal of the upward movement momentarily
checked Yesterday. From the first there was no
psrceptible hesitation, but prices moved steadily
forward : at the close they were, with few excep-
tioDs. nearly Mt their best. Union Pacific which
was weak and lower yesterday, showed remarkable
strength. and led the advance by q final gam OF z
per cent closing at 99ls after touching 1888 III
was not only the strongest but also the most active
stock. The advance was accompanied by rumor
that the company had marketed the new
collateral trust loan, which was recently
the subject of litigation. The rumor was denied
officially after the close of business, but it is under
stood that negotiations have been entered upon.
Second only to Union Pacific In buoyancy, Missouri
Pacific rose q per cent TO LOG and closed quiet but
strong at its highest point Wabash preferred fol-
lowed closely with gain of L. per cent at 52s4,
affer sales at So. Except in these stocks the ad-
vance of the active list was less than 1 per cent
The general buoyancy made prominent the stocks
which were weak. OF these Western Union Tele-
graph was conspicuous and while Its fluctuations
were narrow il barely escaped closing at its lowest
,uice $751; New-York Central and st. Paul and
Omaha preferred recorded slight declines. In gen.
eral the market closed strong and confident.
Government bonds remained dull. The as, which
we're most in demand. advanced q per cent to 100,
ta,t did not hold the gain TO the end. The final
bids were irregular being Is aud d higher for the
long issues, Il lower for IS. and unchanged for Gigs
Annexed are the closing quotations.
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financial.

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N YORK TRIBUNE WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
UPTOWN OFFICES. No. ,23S broadway, corner Thirty
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LEM oFFTCFs Nos. l,007 and $500 Thirdave. corner
-fftast, to al regular Of
ice rates.
NOTICE TO NORTH CAROLINA BOND
~ HOLDERS.-T will be at the National Bank OF the Re-
public In city OF NewYork, for twenty days from the
10th day April 1881. the purpose o facilitating the
balance the old Oustau dng bonds OF the
state North Carolina for bonds author
Of March 1879 amended by Act Of January
is. 1888.
viz:
Glass known old bonds" issued before
Aprl 1851 redeemabe at 40 per OF the principal
issued under Acts sed before the late
Western North Carolina Railroad dated October /,
1866: October /. 1866; July l. 1857; Jan-
AIRY l. 1868; October 1868. For Wilmington Charlotte
rutherford Railroad dated July 1862 January
1896 January 1867 and Western Railroad, dated Oc
tObcr 1854 edeemabe at % per cent OF the principal
Class issued under Funding Acts OF March TO-
1866 and August 20 1868 redeemabe at 10 cent of the
principal.
Bonds transmitted 10 at the bank during the time
toned will be exchanged and bonds returned whOat
the holders except Express Postal
further information desired by the holders OF bonds
will be given by the National Bank OF the Republic
during the tune Indicated In this notice.
J. II. WORTH, Treasurer OF North Carolina.
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he Clearing House statement to-day Is

follows: For the day-Exchanges S11s.3s9, 742 !;
balances SIS, 81, sos. For the weck-Exchanges,
S69S. 257 9O3 balances S29, 365, 901.
The customs receipts at Washington to-day
amounted to 1907 SOL, and the internal revenue re-
cepts to 1852 3O7 The Treasury received S246, 900
in National bank notes for redemption the tot al of
such receipts for the week. compared with the same
l.rf Iii, foil
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PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY,

PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY,
NEw-l YORK, March 80. 1883
HNHE annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Panama Railroad Company will be held at the once
OF company No 81 Wast. Monday the ninth day Of
April IL purpose electtrg
for the next ensuing and for the transaction Of
such other business may before the meetfng
Polls will he opened ~ m ana be closed at y.
Transfer books win be closed The afternoon OF the 30h
inst reopened the morning Of the 10th proximo
n. e. PENFfELD. Secretary.
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Bid. Asked

In State bonds, the principal business was In
Tennessee compromise. which rose nearly per cent
& xgx o,osins strong. Arkansas Ia railroad issnAa.
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
OFFICE DELAwAnE AND HUpsov CANAL Co.

OFFICE DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL Co..
NEw-YogK. April .. 1888 !
The annual meeting OF the stockholders OF the Delaware
Canal Company will be held at the Office the
company Of church CITY
on TU ESDAY, THE std DAY OF MAY NEXT, for the
election of managers ana other business.
Will be opened at IL O'Clock and closed AT
proposition Will be submitted for nm increase OF the
thirty millions dollars the
he bonds OF 1884 1851 1884, they
A fail attendance Is requested.
books viii be closed from the evening OF
April Ia until the morning OF May g.
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Business Ghantes.

nRUGGIST.-A splendid chance for live
druaRst 10 start the pest In Passaic
store plate glass windows and marble floor viii
lie LEI cheap drug store. Inquire Of ALFRED sPEER
Passsic. y. j. or ~ WsTreBst, n. y
For SALE. IN BOSTON.
WINTER-sT. TRIMMING STORE.
oldestablished stand. Best location the
stock and well bought. CHEAP RENT.
Only selling other business OF owner requires his
fun attention. Address C.. Tribune Office.
ROCER-Wanted TO take the finest store
NJ on the business Passaic, " j. sheyi
and counters in Inquire of ALFRED SPEER 10 Warren
st., n. Y.
SPLENDID CHANCE for a JOURNALIST
~ THE DOVER ENQUIRER" and DOVER DAILY
newspaper TO be sold At public
" H., Thursday April ~ 1881. Large
circulation leading large section OF the state
daily edition. Established 80 No other
Republican paper In Dover $1,000 Inhabitants To be sold
OF deceased partner the
Hon John varney particulars apply e. A.
SECCOMB, 68 Broad-st, New-York.
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A $500 Wanted one year. Company
IA note with collateral $4,000 First Mortgage bonds on
valuable mining property ni and miEe) In the EAss In
Address RoNps Boz 40, rrioune ONCE Scw.vork
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se7.2lb. 500 s7O.g3l. 800 Ine. 3.7l6, OO


The bank statement to-day only partially reflects
the payments made by the Treasury during the
week ended last night; but the small gain in cash
$780,, 500, however, shows an unsuspected out-go
of money to the interior. The following are
the totals of the statement and the changes from
last week
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
A Police Scandal at Pera.

A remarkable affair, which aptly illus
trates the state of society in CONSTANT
nople, has "a correspondent says) just
been hushed up. On the information
of the detective police of Pera, a num-
Der of persons were arrested a few
weeks ago for making counterfeit coin.
The evidence for the prosecution showed
many discrepancies, and n of the de-
tectives, becoming alarmed, declared
that the accusation was false, made with
the object of extorting money, and that
the false coins and Implements
had been concealed in the houses of the
accused by the detectives themselves.
This revelation caused a general panic
among the detectives, and other scandals
were divulged. Upon this the Sultan
ordered an investigation, which brought
to light the fact that the police of Pera
have for the past four years been system
atically in partnership with professional
criminals, that there has been a regular
division of spoil between them, and that
the police have given facilities for rob-
berries and murders both before and
after the fact. It was also shown that
a profitable business in false accusa-
tions has been Systematically carried
on, the detectives finding the subjects,
the police arresting them, and the de-
t%ectfves negotiating their ransom. AS
an instance of the profitable
character Of the business, the cor
respondent mentions that on search
ing a box belonging to the doorkeeper
of an exalted official connected with the
police, 1000 Turkish gold pieces were
found, besides a number Of valuable
articles of jewelry. The investigation
was pursued to the point where it was
about to compromise a person of great
wealth, recently acquired, whose palace
friends found means to obtain an order
for the suppression of the inquiry. 1t
is said that these very friends urged the
Sultan to begin the investigation, well
knowing that at a certain point the per-
son in question would pay literally to
get the proceedings quashed.-s 81. James
| Tnzette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Homemade Clothing in the Olden Time.

OF the great changes in social life
which have marked the last two genera
tions, non is more complete than the
change IN the method of clothing the
rural population. It seems quite incred-
ible to young people that the methods
which their seniors tell them of, so en-
tirely different from the present, should
be remembered by those not yet very
old. These changes are not so striking
as the railroads and telegraphs have
made; but they have been scarcely less
influential il the domestic and social life
Of the country people.
Perhaps young readers may be pleased
to hear again how their grandfathers
and grandmothers clothed themselves.
Now, one who wants a new suit goes
into the clothing store, which is found
in every village, and may be fitted, s.cap
q pie," in an hour. In the former day
it took a full year to get a suit of new
clothes.
For the linen part of the clothing
which would be wanted. the flax seed
was own in the last week Of April, and
the flax was pulled in July and spread
upon the ground, where it remained a
few days to dry. It was then piled in
an open shed till autumn, when the seed
was beaten out, and the stalks were
spread upon a grass fieldt % be s:rotted,"
where it was left several weeks, being
turned once O. twice, which vas done
very expertly with a pole for that pur-
pose. After rotting, so that the woody
part Of the stalk became brittle and
could be easily separated from the bark
the fibre-it was laid up, in bundles,
overhead in some building till winter,
when the separation of the fibre was to
be done. This was called dressing"
which consisted in '.breaking," and
s'swingling," and "hetcheling.n After
this rough process, which was done at
the barn-on a dry, bright day if posi-
ble-the flax passed through another
and finer hatchel under a more expert
hand.
The .stow," which was taken out at
the last hatcheling, was made into a
coarse fabric called STOW cloth" The
flax was then readyforthe distaff, which
was supported by an arm of the wheel.
The flax wheel-'the little wheel''-can
be found now in somec cabinets of histori-
cal curiosities. After the spinning the
yarn was boiled in a weak I've to soften
and bleach it, and was sent to the weav-
,er's, not far off, perhaps in the family.
The loom was not, however, in every
household, as the wheel was. 1t was
more than year from the seed sowing
to this point Of the work, and yet after
the weaving, the finest of the cloth was
to be bleached or "whitened'' by being
spread upon the grass and sprinkled
with water, having also an addition OF
lye.
The linen cloth, prepared by sucn a
long and varied process, furnished al
most every article of summer clothing
for the family, and all the summer sheet
ing and pillow cases, and all the towels
and strainers, and all the bags. Besides
these, the fax raised on the farm fur
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

nished the material for all the ropes
used, and all the shoe thread and candle
wlcks and Irvine and tow strings, and
much of the thread used in making
garments. eg a.rss-
For WOODEN clothing, the first thing was
to shear the sheep. Every farm had
sheep enough to furnish all the wooden
goods of the family, flannel, fulled
cloth, cloth dressedf for swomen's wear"
and stockings. The wool was first
''sorted," by female experts, then picked
n oiled and sent to the carding ma
chine, and returned in rolls. It was
ready then for spinning on the .big
Wheel" This was done in the pleasant
weather in some open chamber, and the
elastic step and the pleasing attitude. of
the maiden spinner, inspired by the
music Of her wheel, required no lesson
from a master. n
The yarn was sent to the loom, and
that part Of the fabric which was in
tended for t'fulled CLOTH was carried
to the cloth dresser. The piece was
numbered by figures made with thread
and the corresponding numbers re-
corded with the owners name in a book
for that purpose. The fulling and
coloring and shearing and pressing re-
quires several weeks, so that it was not
TIL winter that the family could have
their new and warm garments. These
were made-by a ,tailoress pcrhaps-in
the house, though some of the garments
might be cut by a tailor in his shop.
Only a little trimming of the clothing
came from the store.
A large item of homemade wooden
wssthe blankets, in addition was the
flannel sheets. They were colored in
domestic dyes and woven in tasteful
patterns. The stockings and mittens
also had their fancy colors. Some of
the flannel also was colored, so that,
as of old, the household were clothed in
scarlet.
The same home production furnished
the clothing for the feet. To get a pair
of shoes, the beginning was when the
family COW was killed. The hide was
carried to tanners and marked with the
initials of the owner, and not till after
several months was the leather ready
for shoes, which were made for the
family to their several measures in their
oWA AOuoC. ~ was UllC lucuUlCdl lldCc-
rial which had been raised on the farm.
For fine shoes, there were the cali-skins
from the family veals; and the sheep
skins made leather aprons and mittens.
What forecastings, what patient wait
ings, what hopeful expectations r inn
piled in all this!
Let no one suppose that the farmers
families were not we'll clothed in those
days, and that they must have been
worn out with incessant toll. There
are witnesses enough now to testify that
they were as comfortably clothed then
as now, if not so cheaply, and that
there was no more drudgery, no more
excessive work by the female members
of the household, and no such despair
ing cry for help in the kitchen as we
now e ar.-Country Gentleman.