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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23

Merchants CheerfuI--They Enter the Year
1856 with Confidence as Regards Business.
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. %.
The year is rapidly nearing its close. and the
last two or three days the volume of business
has been so unexpected an improvement over
the preceding days Of the month as to create
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.

In order to meet the demands of its country pAt<
rons arrangements have been made whereby the Sum
day edition of The JOURNAL is circulated to all possi
BILE points reached by railway early the day Of les
publication. The special features of The SUNDAY
JOURNAL are well known. They will be increased
during next year. The circulation of THE SUNDAY
JOURNAL is the largest and best of any Sunday p@pe
published in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

Yesterdays Quotations Produce at the
Two Great Centers.
NEW YORK, Dec. e. -Flour-Receipts, IT,
DIT brls; exports. 1924 bris, $50 sacks; market
steady. Sales, 10. 500 brls.
Wheat opened firm and closed weak; receipts
s3O0bu; exports. 3.577 bu sales, g. 752 600 bu flu
lures, $4,000 bu spot. No. 2 spring. 93c; IN
.raded spring. 92!e; No. 2 red, 92sc elevator,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23

To prevent the spread of chicken cholera, Dr.
Salmon recommends mixture Of two ounces Of
sulphuric acid to two gallons Of WAGER. This
will destroy every germ of cholera that it touches
in a few minutes, being of the best dissn-
fectants known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23
Oils.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Petroleum-Tbe market
opened active at S614c broke to 8534c, became quiet
and firm at figures below SIC. until late in the last
hour when it touched Ssc, closing at 81 lac. Sales
5913 600 brls.
PITrSBURG. Dec. 25.-Petroleum dull but firm
National Transit Company certificates opened at
s6lsc and closed at 87lec; highest price, S7lsc low
est price, 861sc
BRADFORD Dec. % National Transit Company
certificates opened $500 and closedat 1c; high
est price $780, lowest price, $3.50; clearances s.
796, 900 brls
TITUSVIILE Dec. Educational Transit Com
pany certificates opened at 857sc, and closed at
s7l4c highest price, $3.50; lowest price, s5aac.
LONDON Dec. 22.-Calcutta linseed oil. ABS Cd
per quarter Refined petroleum. 7140734d per gal.
Turpentine spirits firm; spot, 26s Cd per cwt.
ANTWERP Dec. 22.-Petroleum. 19f paid and
19lef sellers.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK. Dec. 22.-Asde from order request
for fair assortments also moderate business in other
classes of cottons the general demand has been light
The movement continues of very good proportions,
and large quantity of stuff is going forward.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23

IuarkeO aoou1 VIC satue DIS yesterday we quote:
Export grades. -........... $5.0O05.4O
Good to choice shippers Observation-Disclosures AIS OATS
Common to medium shippers. --.".--... 3.2504OO
Stockers and feeders --.............. 2.6OO3.6 60
Good to choice nefers. Observation-Disclosures. 3.oO03.4O
Good to choice Observation-Disclosures. 2.7OO3.25
Comm on to medium cows and hefers.. $50 02. 40
Veals. common to good ..-.-..--..-.... 3.O0O5.O 90
Bulls, common to fair. 1.5002.25
Bulls, good to choice. Observation-Disclosures. 2.5O03.25
Mixers. common to good 90. OO045. 90
HoGs-Receipts, e, 700; shipments, $3.50. Quail
ity fair, market opened steady, closing firm. All
sold. We quote:
Heavy packing and shipping $3. 65 03, 20
Light and mixed packing ---.-........ 3.5OO3. go
Common to good light. 3.2003.55
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, 400; shipments.
$50. Very light supply. Market shade stronger
on good grades. All sold. We quote:
Good to choice grades ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. So 03.15
Common to medium grades .............. 1850 60
Culls, per head NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .50O1.O0
Lambs, common to choice .-....--.- 2.5O03 90
Bucks, per head. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2.0O03 90
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LIVE STOCK.

Only Choice Grades of Cattle in Demand
Hogs Steady and Firm-sheep Stronger.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. %.
CATTLE-Receipts SO; shipments, 25. But few
here, and but few wanted except choice grades.
Market about the same as yesterday. We quote:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23

Corn-Under very liberal arrivals and less
ening of shipping demand all quotations have
weakening tendency and rule lower than yester
day. The large visible" increase testifes to the
very liberal movement during the past week Flu
lures in local circles not wanted. Markets at
Louis, which is &c higher. We quote:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
At the Telephone.

The butcher: Eyes, mann, we can
send you tue fifteen cent steak and
the Irish potal oes.'
The preacher; ooh, dear, l hard
ly know how to use this instrument.
Is that you Brother Brown? You
must be at the prayer meeting to-
night. l expect you to help me
out"
Baseball artist; "Say, Billy, we
just clawed them other fellows up.
They fouled out, right along. Did
you hear about my three bagger?"
Policeman: There's a man down
here who is badly beaten up. Send
three or four officers to help me ar
rest him"
Young miss: ooh, Mamie, you
just ought to have been at the love
ly party last night. wore my
new silk dress, and Willie was
there, and made Jenny Maroon
jealous, and danced fourteen times,
and we had the loveliest supper,
and-you hateful exchange, what
did you cut us of for?"
Old bachelor: Look here, / want
to know whether 1 can get 1347
without walking down and seeing
him? How does it come that my
wire always gets crossed? What's
that you say, exchange, that it's be-
cause I'm a Grabbed old bachelorr
I'll have revenge for -"
Wife: "You say you won't be
home to dinner? l didn't know the
lodge held meetings in the day
time"
Lawyer: q don't see how the
judg e could have decided that the
corpus deficit was minor issue be
fore the ultra vires question"
Young man: "That you, Chaw-
lie? Heard about you last night,
but won't give it away. 1 met one
of the minstrel men last night and
we had fourteen drinks. He's q
dandy singer. How do you feeli
Yes-just SOL feel that way too
Ma, tn. So long"
Reporter: ''Is that man who
was shot through the lung and
heart expected to live? If he dies
before O'Clock IN the morning let
me know"
Cook: ''Is dat you, Alexander
Well, l declare, how curious 20
voice do ssound FREQ dis here tele'
phone, hel he Amt it funny
FL 90 to de Salvation Army vic
you, OBJ course"
Old maid: "Well, l hope yoG
can hear what 1 say now. In
yelling loud enough, goodnes:
knows"
Dude: "Deah me! Miss Ange
line, l can't pwomise 10 be out
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12

Every man who sells more than
he buys is directly interested
in keeping the prices of every
thing at the highest point where
they can be maintained without cur
failing consumption; and, converse
ly, those who buy EOre than they
sell are interested in depressing
prices to the lowest point compati-
BILE with industrial prosperity. To
which of these two classes does the
farmer belong? If anyone belongs
to the first named class, he is the
man. Producing within himself
such a great proportion Of what he
consumes, he needs to buy less than
other men, and in an era OF high
prices is in a peculiarly favorable
position to secure his greatest
prosperity.
There are a few special reasons
why such times favor farmers rath-
er more than the average of OF her
producers. They particularly bene-
fit him o. because he has a great
variety to sell. Other successful
producers usually have a speciality,
and even when nearly everything
else is high a single product may,
through over-production or other
wise, be low. But a share of far m
products are certain to be among
those which are booming-and with
various kinds Of grain, stock, stock
products, dairy products, etc, at
his commoud, his average is bound
to be good. 2. What he has to sell
is classable only among the necessa-
ries of life. People must buy of
the farmer. They can turn the cold
shoulder TO high priced luxuries, but
high priced necessaries they must
have. 3. All classes must patron
ize him-nO man can turn his back
on the market for bread and meat
1t is equally patent that an era OF
low prices is in many respects pc
culiarly hard one for agricultural
people. The special compensation
which they have in such times is
that they are absolutely removed
from danger of suffering for the es-
sentials OF comfortable living. Ia
this regard they are safe. But in
attempting to realize a profit from
their business, farmers fare in mar
ket rather worse when prices are
low than many other substantial
producers whose products go on
sale.
Just now the tendency in prices
of agricultural commodities in
general is slightly upward. There is
no "boom'' in anything, nor is there
any probability of such a thing su-
pervening at this time. There is
undoubtedly, however, slight
manifest impulse toward reaction
from the deep depression which has
been so disastrous to interests OF
all kinds. The restoration of better
prices will no dOubC be very grad
ual; but by no one should a change
of this kind be more heartily and
gladly welcomed by the farmer
Stockman.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
Honesty is the Best Policy.

Mr.. Blacke, the eminent and
wealthy coal dealer called one of
bis oldest drivers into the office and
rendered him quite large sum of
money.
"What is this for" asked the as
tonished driver.
MERELY token of appreciation
for services rendered" replied M.
Blacke kindly.
But, sir, you've always paid me
well for my services, and that was
appreciation enough
"There is really more than that
in it, JOHN" continued she gentle
man; Il really owe you the money"
Il don't understand"
"Let me tell you," and he drop
ped his voice to a whisper, ''you
have been with me for twenty years,
working 300 days every year, and
averaging three loads n day; that
makes $4,000 loads. You weigh
about 100 pounds, John, and we
have never failed to weigh you in
every load OF our superior coal; that
makes 100000 pounds, or 1850
tons. This at $3.50 per ton, John,
represents $4,725. The package
you hold in your hand contains
Sap. so, or 10 per cent, which we
think sis yours by right. We
are honest men, John, and don't de-
sire to defraud any man out OF
what is justly his"
John bowed in humble submits
sion, and is now waiting for the
next dividend. Merchant Trav.
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The Letter ] in Spanish.

A few days since stranger from
the unconverted wilds OF the east,
where tenderfeet attain their high
est state of sensitiveness, came out
to Albuquerque to visit a friend
While walking along railroad ave-
nue. he said to his friend
'.There goes a man l met up at
La Junta," giving the its natural
pronunciation
You mean LIE Hunta," the friend
replied. "That is a Spanish name,
and liz that language j takes the
sound of h."
as that so? Well, I.must try to
catch onto that"
After strolling along short dis
lance further he asked:
where are the Jemes Springs
OF which l see so much in the pa
persY'
"You should say Haymess
Springs; they arc over here in the
mountains about sixty miles,
deuce take the language-it
breaks me all up. That's a pretty
house owes theatre-that'' ArmljO
house, isn't it?'' and again he gave
the j its proper pronunciation.
"You mean the Armiho house !;
yes, it's good one, too"
How in Santa Fee is a fellow
going to tell what's Spanish and
what isn't. Why couldn't they
build their language according to
the usual plans?"
you'll soon catch on. You
will find it safest to give the Span
ish pronunciation to nearly every
thing here
An hour later they sat down at
the table of the San Felipe Hotel,
and after scanning the bill of fare,
the stranger said to the waiter:
you may bring me a nice, huicy
piece of roast beef, some pigs howl
with caper sauce, some fricaseed
hack rabbit, some pork with apple
belly, some boiled potatoes with
the hackets on-unskun, you know
some tarts with currents ia-I
mean currant ham, and, all, some"
At this point the waiter swooned
and the guests in the room let out a
roar of laughter that gave the chan
deliers the chills and fever. This
made the stranger mad, and he
leaped to his feet like a crazy man,
took off his coat aud threw it down
on The floor and stamped on it and
howled:
you fellers are tIyin' to play me
for sucker, but by gosh you've
struck the wrong snagl Whoopeel
(and he jumped up and slapped his
fists I'm a destroying cyclone
from Illinoy, an kin lick the hull
crowd! Spanish? kin sling
mork Spanish in a holy minute
than Montezuma could in a year.
Kin 1? Well l should ehaculate
that l kin! Let some idiot pull of
his hacket and hump onto me, an
the first time l hit him he'n think
he has the him hams! Oh, L guess
not! My names Jeremi-I mean
Jeremiah Homes from jackson
vile, Illinoy, an when my dander's
up I'm ravin hyena! You played
me for a sucker, but you mustn't
nudge a man by his looks. Whoop,
go sound the hubilee. Somebody
come out and face me. Let some
him crow galoot come to the front
and criticise my Spanish hargon"
His friends got hold of him aud
took him from the room, and as he
went through the door he remarked ::
Il kin take hoke, but it makes
me mad fur a lot of hackasses to
try to play me tor a greeney. -
Albuquerque Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
Tagging the Indians,

Gen. Frank Armstrong, Indian
inspector, who has just returned
to Washington from an official visit
to the San Carlos agency, says he
found everything there in first-class
order. He says every buck on the
reservation is tagged and is re-
quired .to wear his tag in sight.
These tags are made of brass, and
in different shapes. The shape in
dictates the tribe to which the wear
er belongs, and a letter of the al
phabet stamped on the tag shows
to which band of the tribe he is at
tached. A number stamped on the
tag indicates the individual Indian.
On the roll his name is written CD
posite to that number so that in the
payment Of annuities and the issu
ing OF rations each buck can be
easily identified. When the time
of settlement with them comes
round, any Indian who does not
produce his tag is sentenced to 20
days in the guardhOuse. Gen.
Armstrong says the system was de
vised by Gen. Cook when he took
the Indians, then just captured 90
the war path, to the reservation,
and that it worked admirably. Gen.
Armstrong says the Indians are
thoroughly in subsection, and good
order is maintained at the agency.
He also says that there is a great lot
of fine grazing land in Arizona, be
longing to the government, which
has not been taken. Gen. Arm
strong says that cattle owners have
about removed all their stock from
Cheyenne and ArapahOe agency,
in compliance with the presidents
proclamation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12

A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune
puts it in this way and it is not inapt:
There was once people who worship
ped the cat; we sacrifice to the cur dog
4O,OOO,OOO sheep annually. What a no
bic creature must be the cur dogl
These 100000 sheep would supply
all the wool we require, and, in addi-
ton to that from the sheep which the
cur dogs kindly spare to us, would
leave a good deal to sell abroad. What
does the cur dog cost? Forty million
sheep would produce s5O,OOO,0OO worth
OF wool and $5O,OOO,OOO worth of lambs.
The cur dog, then, cost US in this way
alone $l0O,OOQ,OO9 yearly, besides his
food and the fowls and eggs he destroys
and the invaluable lives which are lost
by reason of Ills bite and the dreadful
hydrophObia. We laugh to scorn the
ancient people who sacrifice to the
neither harmless nor necessary cat, but
we ourselves worship the savage, unre-
lenting dog and sacrifice our invaluable
sheep to its bloOdthirstiness.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12

you know. I have so many engage
ments, don't you know, that l can't
tell what I'm going to do next.
School girl: 81 had a big fuss
with the teacher to day, and l up
and told her that she didn't know
nothing, and that 1 could spell
heap better than she could, anyhow,
.therew
Dressmaker: I'm sorry. the
dress didn't suit you. It's just
what you ordeeed, and if you don't
know what you want, I'm sure Pm
not to blame"
Small boy: 4 played good
trick on some boys to day, Jim. 1t
was daisy. Some boys was play
ing at the side ola house, and L was
behind tree. l throwed q rock
through the window, and the man
who owned theI house be come out
and licked ali them boys, and they
didn't know what they were getting
licked about"
Lively young lady: 81 don't be
lieve a word you say, you horrid
thing. Did he tell you that?-
VIII t? Yes, yes. WHAT did she
say? That's just like her. He
don't care for her a bit. Where?
Were you there? Did you see
them togethe? l don't case. It's
not of the slightest importance to
me. 1 don't think she's the least
bit stylish. Yes, he's very nice.
You say this is the third time he
has been out with her this week.
She's three years older than he is.
1 don't believe he said it. What?
He needn't come TO see me if he
don't want to. I'll never speak to
him again, the ugly little wretch!
He's more like a monkey than any
thing else"
Telephone girl: "Say, Mollie,
have you heard the news? Well,
the Atlantas beat the Memphis. A
murder was committed. Miss
Smith has had q fuss with her
dressmaker. There'll be prayer
meeting at the Central Methodist
church tonight. Charlie Brown
was drunk again last night, and
Sallie Dasher has had a big row
with her beau. Amt it jolly?"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
Young Men and Manufacturers;


The young men of America are
divided into two classes-men who
have money and men who have not.
They are divided, also, into other
classes, irrespective of the first di-
vision, into men who are educated
and men who are not; into men
who have trades and men who have
none-or little. This class we
think is comparatively small. The
majority of young men have ener
gy. The yankee nation has been
laughed at for many things, but
never for laziness. "But," it is ask
ed, ''if that be true, why do we see
SO many young men out of employ
ment?" One reason and we an
swer nhesitatingly--they do not
know what to do. We know young
unacceptable men-who are abso-
lutely unable to find remunerative
work. Let's suggest plan. We
know two young men, one Of whom
has some money and the other
knows trade. Both are out of
employment. The first has been
thoroughly trained in the counting
room OF a mercantile establishment,
but he can't afford TO invest his
money in merchandise just now.
The other is a chain maker, but the
factories are full. Now, why can
not these two young men put their
money and experience together, 90
to small but live town in an iron
district and establish a chain facto.
ry? 1t would be on limited scale
of course, and might not pay al
first but it will be sure to succeed
Great sections of the country have
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12

too, passed out of the building anC
in her own handsome carriage wa:
driven home.
Scorn alone in her dark eyes as
they fell upon the costly works o
art scattered in lavish profasior
about her luxuriously furnished
apartments. Hastily throwing
aside her wraps she crossed over t.
a mirror A very handsome face il
reflected. Not looking the thirty
years it had known.
Helen Armstrong-for it was she
j had heard of Edwin BENEFITS
marriage; heard that he had sue
ceeded in business beyond his most
sanguine expectations; heard that
his wife was one of the lovliest and
gentlest of women, and that Edwin
Bennett idoiized both wife and
child. This day she had seen
them.
Then came the thought that she
might have stood in that wife S
place; she, too, might have had
those baby lips pressed as lovingly
to hers; but she had put it from
her. She had chosen "Fame versus
Love" If she could only go back
to that day on the sands, how differ
emily she would now act.
Turning YEARLY away from the
mirror, she exclaimed, bitterly:
TOO late, Helen Armstrong. As
you have sown, so you must reap"
Striking It Rich.
"Have you called on the Browns
YETI" she asked as the new minister
was about to take his leave after
making a call.
'Tm just going" he replied. Its
the third house from the corner, l
believer"
"Yes-third house. They are
very, very nice people, and l know
you'll like 'em."
When the minister rang the door
bell there was some delay in an
swering it. Meanwhile the screen
doors permitted him to hear from
the interior. Brown, who seemed to
be up stairs, called ever the ban
listers:
"Say, Helen, where in thunder is
that old vest spoke of?''
"N no are you talking top de-
manded a voice from below.
"To you, of course! If you were
any sort of wife you'd put things
where they could be found"
Solomon Brown, don't cast any
slurs on me. If don't know more
about housekeeping than all the
Browns on earth I'll commit sui
eide"
"You do, Ell? What did the pau
per Smiths have to keep house onp'
Solomon, you're vile wretchY'
"Much obliged, but it's living
with you that's done it,"
At this juncture the minister was
nshered in, and Mrs. Brown soon
entered the parlor, extended both
hands and gayly exclaimed:
"Ah I'm so glad Solomon and /
both wanted to see you SO much
Solomon-Solly, dear, hurry up
and come down-our new preacher
is hereI'
And Solomon came down, painted
grin on his face, and greeted the
good man with:
swell! well! but this is good of
you! Wifey and were just wishing
you'd call. We want to see if an
effort can't be made to increase the
interest in the Thursday evening
PRAYER meetings PIX.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
SWING SONG,

Swing, swing sing, sing
Here's my throne and am kingl
Swing, siDg swing sing!
Farewell earth, Tor am on tho wing
Low, high, here fly,
Like bird through sunny sky!
Free, free, over the lea,
Over the mountain, over the sea!
Up, down, up and down,
Which is the way TO London townl
" here, wherel-up in the airl
Close your eyes--and now You are therel
Soon, soon, afternoon,
Over tho sunset, over the moon,
Far, far, over bar,
Sweeping on from star to starl
No, mol low, lowl
Sweeping daisies with my toe,
Low, low, to and fro,
ow-slow--slow-slow
The Magazine of Art
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12
How to Keen Cider Sweet.

Pure sweet cider that is arrested
in the process of fermentation be-
fore it becomes acetic or even alco-
hol, and with carbonic gas worked
out, is one of the most delightful
beverages. The Farm, Field and
Fireside recommends the following
scientific method of treating cider
to preserve its sweetness: When
the saccharine matters by fermenta-
ton are being converted to alcohol,
if a bent tube be inserted air-tIght
into the bung, with the other end
into q pail of water, to allow the
carbonic gas evolved to pass of
without admitting any air into the
barrel, a beverage will be OBJ
tanned that is a nectar for the gods.
A handy way is to fill your cask
nearly up to the faucet when the
cask sis rolled over sc that the
bung is down. Get a common rub
Der tube and slip it over the end Of
the plug in the faucet, with the 9TH
er end in the pail. After the water
ceases to bubble, bottle or store
away.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-12

The Southern Standard gives the
way to prevent rabbits from bark
ing young fruit trees: Take sui
phur 1 pint, common I've soap two
parts, mix, add water to the con
sistency of paint, apply as you
would paint; this done while the
weather is dry. The sulphur will
form shield and will last two
years. You need not be afraid OF
injury to the most delicate fibre.
The soap will improve the appear
ance of the bark, making it sleek
and glossy.