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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-03
DRY Goods.

NEW YORK, Dec dry Goods-Somewhat i'm
proved order request and fair personal inquiry.
A mode ate assortment Of cotton goods OF all
descriptions has been taken. but the market lie
without activity. Mems clothing Woolens are
very dull.
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For over q quarter of q century, physi-
clans have prescribed Nichols Bark and Iron
es a reliable and valuable remedy for dys.
pepsis and general debility.
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eale Maize scarce and the marhes saainst buyers.
Ban ley quiet and steady. and cats higher
cHoAso kARKErs,
lguruished ~ q. n Kinney q Do, 9rsin ana Pro
visaon Brokers'. No sChamber OF Commercial
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Total ordinary expendituIes........s2gO.8l6.478 )
Leaving a surplus of. 5


The requirements OF the sinking-fuud for
the past fiscal year, including a balance of
t622, $40 II from the preceding year, have
been fully met. 1t is estimated that the re-
qnirament for the present fiscal year viii be
81 620, COLI of which there has been ap-
year the sum of 81. O67 ,050.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The net expenditures on account of the
District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1884
were s.. 407, 04962. The revenues deposited
In the Treasury on this account for the same
period were s., $40. 726.13-
Since December /, 1883, there has been re-
tired, through the operation of the sinking
fund, $264, 700 of the bonded indebtedness of
the District, reducing the amount annually
required for interest $l5, 1926.
Since the duties of the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund Of the District of Colum-
bia were deVolVed on the Treasurer Of the
Unit ed States by the act Of Congress OF June
IL, 1873, there has been retired 81 $40. $50 OF
the funded debt, causing reduction in the
annual interest charge OF $96, 286. p.
The amount realized from tie sale OF the
bonds IN which the 10 per centum retained
from contractors IN the District Of Columbia
was invested ss required by the act of June
IL, 1878 go Stat 1867 has exceeded the
sum necessary to pay the amounts originally
withheld, owing TO the advance In the Sc
curities In which the investments were
made. The surplus has been covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts on
account of proceeds of sales of guarantee
fund, District of Columbia, 70 be hereafter
disposed Of IS Congress may direct. One
halt of the amount originally retained was
paid by the United States, and one-half by
the District Of Columbia.
ALASKA.
The Alaska Commercial Company took
during the present season 100, 900 seal skins
on the islands Of 81. PaHl and St George. the
maximum number allowed by law. Of which
"a $50 have been shipped 70 San Francisco
snd he tex thsreon paid, the rest still re-
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Miscellaneous Markets.
LIVE STOCH.
indianapolis Live stock Marhet.

UNIoH br0CK-YAEDa, Dec, i
CATIIB-Receipts, ZOE head; shipments. $50 head.
The receipts OF shipments were very light and
quality only medium. Prices on these barely
steady; fair supply of butchers grades and of fair
quality. Prices shsde lower than Saturday and
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-03

Hoes-Receipts. $500 head; shipments 1,sSo
head. Quality good Market opened quiet st
hsde decline. especially on heavy and light pack
ing grades, while select heavy shipping Wergsbout
steady. Trade ruled steady until sll were sold.
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THE TREASURY.

Public Debt Statement for October.
wAsHIsGTo.E, Dec. 1.-The public debt state
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MILWAUKEE,, Dec 1.-FlOur-Dun and IN
changed. whest-Firm; No. Milwaukee, NEE:
December. 7l5se; January, 721sc; February, 73lzc
| 2, delivered. 2655@271SS Rye-Firmer; No i, sea
52kc. Barley-LoBer; No. 2 spring, 5l5Ec; No 3
extra. 4Sc Provisions Lower. Mess Pork-sll
cash and December: $40 IS January. lard Prime
steam. s6 81 cash and December. Hogs-Wesk at
s4S4 25 Receirts-FlOuI, $500 bbls.: wheat, 4l0n0
ou. cora. 10000 b1. shipments-Flour, II 900
bbls wheat, 1000 bu.; corn, 900 br.
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Msw York Financial 8arkee
HHw YORK. Dec 1.-Money-Easy ct 1311< per
cent. closed at ~
Prince Mercantile Paper 59s per cent.
Govemments-Strong.
state Securties-D1ll.
Railway Bonds-Firm.
Business was resumed at the Stock Exchange to-
day with some irregulsriIy IS 10 dealings Shortly
after the opening New York Central developed
considerable strength. advancing TO s2ss against
e95k at the close on Saturday, There were reports
current that the rsilrOsd war hsd been settled
and that the Grand Trunk would refuse TO carry
West Shore cars hereafter These reports were sub
seQuently denied, but nevertheless they had goo1
effect on the whole market Northwestern Gd-
vsnced from 9l1S to 921S; st. Paul 7s1S ID SOS;
Laekswanns ll01< TO III; Lake Shore. Ga 10 6ss;
MIR ouri Pacific IS 10 S5k: New Jersey Central -
to Az: Texas Pacific 49, TO 49,; Union Paci lie
O05s 70 blSs, and Western Union 81 70 6l16.
In the afternoon there Was report that an Ell
TWO weeks in December rad failed on account OF
the Reading Receiver 10 cooperate. This led 10
some selling OF coal shares LaehRwanna ia ling
of u per cent. 10 1t91H and jersey Central 10
481<. New York Central declined lss to 81 sales
to realize Among the other sctiye shares North
Lake Shore Is 10 673s; Missouri Pacific. "a TO 49,:
Texas f SE ana e %ssts tn 9 Gni5a Pn g
6lh. About $50 D. N. the market
bessn to improve under the leadership OF the ct.
Paul, Lake Shore, linton Paci1e and Western Ia
len. 81 Paul moved up to siA; Lake Slors to
6S1@; Kansas ana Texas TO lSh; Unioa Pacific TO
5lM snd western Union TO 621S, The marSet dur
Ing The last hour business was very active. and
round amounts Of leading shares changed a. al
vancing figures. As compared with Saturday S
closing prices are TO 21A per cent higher. except
for Re aiding and Canada Southern, which are X
30 y per cent. lower.
Transactions $1,000 shares: Delaware, Lanka.
wanna ana Western. 1900: Kansas and Texas.
TO- CO. Lake Shore. %. 900: North west - 90:
New YORK Central, 10 000 st. Paul. 5000: yexas
aud Pacific 10000; Union Pacific, q, 900; Western
Union, 23C01.
ing down from SIS per cent. TO 49, regular and 70
$50, sellers options. Consolidated Pacific sold n
Hale & Norcross, 49, Robinson, S554l, and onion
Consolidated, 100.
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FINANCIAL And COMMERCIAL.
MONEY AND STOCKS

View York Financial 8arket
nHw YORK, Dec. 1-Money-Easy ct 1311< per
cent closed at ~
Prime Mercantile Paper 53s per ceni
Goveynrnauta-2frOnO
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LOUISVILLE. Dec, L. OOtt0n-btekuyi MID
ding, SIC. Whest-Dun; no. 2 red, 73g74c.
Corn-EO 2 white, Ale; No. mixed, 4ic; rejected,
B9c Oats-No. mixed. zoe; No. ,hite, 30c.
Provisions - Steady. BulKmea's-Shoulders IS;
clear rib s6 so: clear sides. s. IS. BacOn-Shoul-
ders 81 clear rib. IS so; clear sides IS 90. Lard
Prime Leaf, SIS so.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. l.-Wheat-LOwer; cash,
4914e; January. BIC: May. 6S9591zc. Corn -
Lower; cash. 2515 s251Sc; December, 2it5c bid. 25c
asked; January. 24c BID; May &c bid, 2I1c asked.
asked,
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sterling, 60 days...4s0S =. !. 415s.........1ti5z
Sterling stgnt..-..4>4 New o. d zs..--.. ILL
Q per cent bonds. -.l0lH
,NoTE-The purchasing price for Goyecnrseat
bonds IN indianapolis varies from the New York
quotations f9I per cent
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BRIrIsH GRAIN TRADE RKYIEw.

kye--Eo 2 quiet: Ace bid; no sellers.
Bran Steady and rather dull; sl0 bid; held az
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TOLEDO, Dec. I.-Wheat-Dull ana

TOLEDO, Dec 1.-Wheat-Dull ana lower; No
REQ. cskh and December. 6914c asked: January,
5o34c bid. 5O'Ee asked; February, 7l24c; May. &c
high mixed, sS5lc: No. 2, cash. So; year, S5ISc;
January. 36c bid. . 52c asked; May, 37c bid: re-
jeeted, $3.50. Oats-Dun and uncnan ged; No. 2
&c. ClOYer-Nomnal: prime, q SO bid: Deem
Der and January. g. IS asked; No. 2, 81 80. he
neipts- Whesi. 40.00o bu- corn, 2s,000 bu.; oats,
LOCO bu. Ehipments-WhesL 1900 b.; corn,
10 600 bu. oats, none.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

Peter Cooper came TO highest honors.
The learned and the great sought his
home. be was President of three tele-
graph companies. one of the fathers of
the Atlantic Cable, and was nominated
for the Presidency Of the United States
by the National Independent party in
1876, but he died, as he had. lived, the
same gentle, transformations, unsel6sb
man. He said short time before his
death: ''A1y sun is not setting in clouds
and darkness, but is going down cheer,
fully in clear armament, lighted up
by the glory Of God. q I seem tofhear my
mother calling me as she used to do
when was a boy: Peter, Peter, it is
about bed time =
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
A Modern Instance.

Victor Hugo sketches in Les MiSer-
abIes a charming picture of two young
lovers In a mOonlit garden, who confess
their mutual love, and confde to each.
other their secret sorrows, before she
asks him: ''What is your name?" This
seems improbable and unnatural, but
such Indifference to ordinary habit and
practice is not confined to.works of fic-
ton; for the spirit Of this garden scene.
if not the details, was duplicated not
long since in a Western town.
a man and woman, advanced years.
tramped together into the town from q
remote country district. He carried his
coat on his arm. His collarless neck
and shoeless feet showed that he did not
cultivate personal vanity. The woman s
appearance indicated that she also ig-
nored the rules of fashion. The man
left her at q store where he learned the
way to the County Clerk Office.
Entering the Office of that official, he
said: E'I want to get pair O licenses. ="
Experience enabled the clerk to I'M
| derstand that the man wanted a
marriage license and he asked the usual
| questions:
whats your name?"
''Huh?''
''What Is your 72Gn3e?'
"My name?''
Eyes, yO1r name.
'"Oh! It's Jones. J"
eyes But which one of the Jones
are you?"
Erasmus Jones.''
The clerk looked thoughtful for a
moment. Words disguised by their pro-
nunciation were problems that he was
often called upon to solve. He seemed
| relieved in a moment, as he concluded
! that the name of an ancient scholar had
somehow fastened itself upon this IN
scholarly person.
''EraSn1ats Jones,''' he Wrotes t,Whom
do you intend to marry?'
"Huh?" as if uneasy at too many
questions.
f.What is the lady's name?''
"Oht SUI n
"Susan what? What is the rest of it?''
''Huh?' perplexed again.
''What is her family name? Her last
name? Hers it Susan Smith, Susan
jackson, Susan''--
ooh! [ dunno"
"'You don't know?" =
''No. Dyer hafe to know that?'
"Of course [ do!''
| wen, you just nOld on minute.
go'n' ask her." and off he went.
In a few moments he returned with
his intended bride, whose named proved
to be Susan Williams. The license was
made out, and a Magistrate was sum
moned to marry the pair. The bride
groom, reluctantly, put on his coat dur
ing the ceremony; but as soon as tina
was finished off it went again.
Hanging it over his shoulder, h'
glanced at his bride, and announced tina
she'd been lookin' seventeen years fo1
a woman that suited him, n he guessed
he'd found her."
The pair received the congratulation
of the spectators and began their brida
trip homcward. - Youths Companion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
PETER COOPER.

The following biography of one of our
scountry's most noble and helpful citizens
appeared in recent number of the
Vide Aa0d1e:
On the 9TH of April, 1883, the great
.city of New York was in mourning.
Flags were at half-rnast. The bells
tolled. Shops were closed, and in the
windows the picture of kind-faced,
white-haired man was draped in black
All day long tens of thousands passed by
AN opensooffinin All Souls Church; Gov
.,ernors and millionaires, poor women
with little children instheir arms, work
men in their common clothes, and ragged
newsboys--aH with aching hearts The
great daiies like the Tribune and Herald
gave six columns to the sad event, Mes
.sages Of sympathy were cabled from
England. -a.rr r3
Who was this man whom the world
cmourned on this April day?'
Was he a President? Oh; no. A great
General? Far from it. One who lived
magnifcently and had splendid. car
riages and diamonds?e Not at all.
He was simply Peter Cooper, ninety
two years old, the bestowed man in
America. -se ElEN Rtefe 1E7e. -
Had he given money! Yes; but other
men in our rich country do that. Had
y
widely known? No. He would never
sgo to Europe, because he wished to use
his money in different way -f.ss
Why, then, was he loved by a whole
Nation? for even the Turks, Parsees
and HindOos talked about him. Anew
York journalist gives this truthful
asanSwer: e-s st.5a.-rs-et
''Peter Cooper went through his long
life as gentle as q sweet woman, as kind
as a GOOD mother, and as honest and
as guileless as a man could live, and re-
main human. -
Some boys would be ashamed to be
considered rs gentle as a girl Not SO
Peter Cooper He was born poor, and
always was willing that everybody
SHOULD knew it. He despised pride.
When his old chaise and horse came
down Broadway, every cartman and
omnibus driver turned aside for him.
Though a millionaire, he was rather
their friend and brother, and they were
personally proud and fond of him. He
gave away more thanhe kept He found
places for the poor to work, if possible,
gave money if they were worthy, and,
though one OF. the busiest men in Amer
aica, always took time to be kind.
His sunny face was known every
where. His pastor, Rev. Robert ConYer,
said this of him: W
Ibis presence, wherever he went,
lay like bar OF sunshine across a dark
and troubled day, so that have seen il
light up some thousands. of carewern
faces as if they We're saying who looked
~on him; 1T cannot be so bad a world as
we thought, since Peter Cooper lives IL
st and gives us his benediction.
And how did this poor boy come tc
mis- success and his honor?
BY his own viii and perseverance
Nobody could have more obstacles tC
overcome. His parents had nine chill
.dren to support and no money. Hi.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
A recent official report says that ths

"A recent official report says that the
mercury in South Australia. often rises
in summer to one hundred and fifteen
degrees in the shade. and this has been
exceeded on several occasions. In Jan
uary. 1862, it preached one hundred and.
sixteen degrees, and in January, 1882,
IT was one hundred and eighty degrees
only thirty-two degrees below boiling
in the sun. q
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
PHILLIPSBURG HERALD.
sNAKEs az IHE- aRAss.

y ~ A1At = = 2
SNAKES IN THE. GRASS,
Beneath the ample shadow of their wagon
Some lonely ernigrannts have built their fire;
The fsmes7lea up like some fierce, captive
Which struggles in its ire.
Mother and children peacefully are sleeping
The settler, gun in hand, his watcn is Keeping
Gainst wolf and Indian foei
An the hot day he's been alert and wary,
Now he must watch all through the weary
And, tin the dawn, must scan the rolling
Patched with the young moons light.
How chill the moonbeams are! How sad and
The drowsy waters mid the rushes weep!
He LET'S his tired eyes close with watching
Lies down-and falls asleep!
THE pale moons beams upon the plain are
gentie 1nurnlur rises from the rtn;
THE night wind through the swaying grass is
And all things else are still.
Is it the night-wind signing in the grasses?
Is it the wind which makes them bend and
All. no! into the moonlit space there passes
cOilng rattlesnake!
1T sees the Waterman sleeping at his station,
And glides along with fiercely flaming gaze,
Its eyes reflect in dreadful concentration
The roaring camp fires blaze.
rIsit the night wind signing mid the grasses?
And are the slim stems stirred at its com
MOI From the shade into the moonlight passes
An Indian, knife in hand!
ne sees the wife, he sees the children dream
'TiehtenSss his grasp upon his shining knife;
Secs, on the sleepers gun, the freight stream
And swears to take his life!
He knows not Of the snake, and both are
With poisoned fang, and direr poisoned
ITO where the worn-out emigrant is sleeping,
In the great wagons shade!
Two snakes they are! and through the grass
With eIidi1e BODY and soft-treading feet;
And whore the Staging brook swirls past the
Serpent and Indian meet!
sThe pale moons beams upon the plain are
A gentle rnurmur rises from the rill.
Hark! sharp hiss, Il rush, q horrid crying,
And all again is Still
The settler azes-arises-grasps his rifle
''what was that fearful, that heartrending
scream?
And then he smiles-''Afraid at such trihel
Twas but some dreadful dream!"
He PAGES up and down the camp till morning,
Almost tCrgetS the dying lndjan S cry
-FOrgets quite when the goddess fair of dawn
ing
Dyes gold the Eastern sky.
he eats his morning meal, then feeds his
PREPARES them both for journeying on a gain;
THE wheels from out their turfy bed he forces,
And starts across the plain.
Lightly he walks along; the warm rays I'LL
him
From the bright sun which shines high over
head; t... ~
NE knows not of the snake which sought to
kill him,
But saved his life instead.
. He knows not that there lies, black and bitten,
A swollen corpse among the trampled weed;
"A record in the grass the night has written
Which he will never readl
Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
Alaskan .sLadies. ;,


''As man thinketh in his heart so is
he,'' we are told; but women furnish a
curious commentary upon this in their
self-estimates of beauty. Women in
Morocco think they are handsome when
they are fat, and the Alaskan bellies think
themselves charming when they are
black. They are as sure of it as the
American girl is of her pink-and-white
beauty-and as the rule goes in setting
fashions, they all get the 'Worth. of their
opinion, for there are enough who agree
with them to make it, ':the styleP and
the standard. asie-
Ludicrous as it may seem, the Alaska
matrons of high fashion and the native
damsels of the Thlinket tribes never
make a canoe voyage without smearing
themselves with the black dye that they
getfrom a certain wild FoOtOf the woods,
or with paste of SCOT and seal oil.
On sunny and windy days on shore
they protect themselves. from tan and
sunburn by this same ink coating.
On feast-days and the great occasions
when they wash off the black their
complexioHs come out as fair and
creamy white as the palest of their
japanese cousins across the water, and
the szROmen are then seen to be some six
shades lighter than the tan-colered and
cofee-colored lords of their tribe
Youths Companion, ssss sras rass
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
How Carolina Became a Rice State.

The destiny of South Carolina was
changed by single lucky experiment.
In 1896, when the colony was more than
thirty years old, the pioneers were still
engaged in buying furs from the Indians,
Extracting rosin, tar and turpentine from
the pines, cutting timber for shipment,
and growing slender harvests of grain
on the light soil along the coast. At
tenpts had already been made to grow
INDIGO. ginger and cotton; but these had
not answered expectation. A small and
improbable kind of rice had also been
tried in 1888. But one Thomas Smith
thought that patch of wet land at the
back of his garden in Charleston re-
sembled the soil he had seen bearing
rice in Madagascap. 1t CHANGED in 1896,
that a brigantine from that island
anchored in distress near Sullivan s
Island, andsthe Captain, an old friend
of thiseenterprisiftg Thomas Smith, was
able to furnish him a bag Of Madagascar
rice suitable for seed. 1t grew luXu-
riantly in the wet corner of the garden,
and the seed from this little harvest was
widely distributed. In three or four
years the art of husking the rice was
learned. African Slaves were easily
procured in the West Indies, and the
face of society in the young State was
presently changed. South Carolina be-
came a land of great planters and of a
multitude Of toiling negroes. Smith was
raised to the rank of Landgrave, and
made Governor of the colony three years
after the success of his rice-patch. The
new grain2was at first grown on uplands;
but the planters afterward discovered
that the uarlected SWamrS were more
con genial and less exhaustible. The
cruelty hard labor of separating She
grains, from the.adhering husks crippled
the strength and even checked the IN
crease of the negroes; but in the years
Just preceding the Revolution this task
came to be performed with mills driven
by the force of the incoming .and OutgO-
inc tides, or turned by horses or oxen.
A hundred and forty thousand barrels'Of
Carolina rice, of four or five hundred
weight apiece, were annually exported
before the war of independence.
Through the example of Governor OF
Georgia, the culture of rice spread into
that colony, and completed the ruin OF
the silk business. The Century.
sAAs Crernatorv Association has been
formed in Washington, and Congress is
to be asked to give it charter. Ger
man physician has given lotQn which
to- erect AacFematory similar ito that IN
Washington, Penn. One OF its mem
beers saws that the expense of burning q
body VIII not be more than thirtv-hTe
dollars, and that soon they may able &c
reduce it to twenty dollars. Washington
S9or.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

Samuel Cook, seventy, was pinned
TO the ground by 8 falling tree. when
alone in the woods, near Camdens N. y
He dug his broken leg out. managed to
crawl to where he dould be 9ounds and
viii liEc.-N. z. Herald
cox ErMsEsB - - .gfl
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

Some fifty thousand acres Of land
have been discovered to have been
ffaudulently y entered in UEalde County,
GczA-( gticzgo Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

One of the cute old fellows. BE
you a reporter asked a Cape Cod man
of a Globe scribe whom he saw writing
IN a book. at the Old Colony Depot
ayes, . was the reply. well I've jus,
had a narrow escape. just before l got
herea chap came through the car with
a ring flied with checks and wanted
fifty. cents In advance to deliver my
baggage anywhere here. but he didn't
catch your Uncle Ezra. I'm too sharp
for these confidence chaps. 1 reads the
papers. l reads the papers, l do -
I0Sfoal f1IObe
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

Beneath the ample shadow of their wagon
Some lonely emf grants have built their fire;
The fames5leap up like some fierce, captive
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17

All the hot day he's been alert and wary,
Now he must watch all through the weary
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-17
which struggles in its ire.

Mother and children peacefully are sleeping
Beside the roaring camp -fire's cheerful glow;
= The settler, gun IN hand his watch is keeping
Ky 'Gainst wolf and Indian foei