Daily Republican., 1885-08-03
Letter from Balt1mOro.
Of the ReDublfcaT,


BALTIMORE, July 3lst, 18S5.-As you
do not often have q letter from this city
I concluded to send you few items.
We feel the pressure OF the duh
times in business generally, but there is
more life and activity in all kinds OF
business than there seems to be in Will
mington. Large quaint Les of all kinds
of fruit and produce are being shipped
from Mary land and Virginia to this
city, and 1t is much cheaper here than
in your city. may mention few arti'
Gle in order that your readers may see
how cheap many articles sell here.
Fresh beef is about two cents less per
pound, melons from 10 ID rs cents, to-
matoes equal to the Delaware) cents
per half peck, round potatoes to IL
cents per half peck, good country print
butter 20 cents per pound prime butter
% cents, sugar corn from 10 to 10 cents
per dozen, and other things in proper
ti0n. Thus you see we can live much
cheaper here than in Wilmington and
many other cities.
VIM. T. Tull, of your city, after an
absence of some sixteen years, is now
visiting Ais relatives and friends in
this city. Mr.. Tull has Just signed a
contract with Messrs. Hill & Havery
No. 8 North Charles street, for an agen
cy for The Personal Memoirs of U.
8. Grant" This contract gives Mr.
Tull control of very important terri
tory in Mary land. In order to show
the popularity Of the book written by
General Grant, will simply state tha,
when the pa ublishers, Charles l.. Web
ster &Co., New York, ST gned their frs
contracts about the first of May, with
Messrs. Hubbard & Bros, 723 Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, the contracts wer,
put out at q very small percentage. tt
show more plainly what / mean,
quote rule No. from the publishers
circular Agents will be required II
best territory to put as high as three
books to every ono hundred people, ant
in less desirable territory less per
centage, as low as one I'd every one hun
dred people, making thr ree grades OF ter
ritory-poorest one per cent, next bes
two per cent, and best three per cent.
Messrs. Hill x Havery, who are tn
general agents for Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia, Nortl Carolina ant
South Carolina, are succeeding beyon'
their highest expectations. They ar
both quite young men, and came TO thi
city from the East about two years ago
They are live, active men, and wei
adapted to their work. They are sign
| ing contracts with their agents from
three to twenty. we per cent. in Mary
land and other parts of their territory
One agent in this city reported 125 OF
ders for five days.
| am Informed that the general agen
for Delaware only contracted for on
and q half percentage. If the contrac
for Delaware had not been given a
such an early date, tue percentag
would have been from three to twenty
i've. The popularity and orders for til
memoirs are far hey ond the most san
guine expectations OF It's publishers an
agents.
There Is considerable building goin
GA here, and the health of the city
good, considering the intense he
weather for the last two or three week,
In my next | will give you an accouu
of the humane way in which dogs ar
killed that are found running aroun
are caught and disposed of. There
no such high Office of dog catcher ii
this city. None Of the citizens here al
pire to such a high position. MOI
anon. RAMBLER