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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-07

The stocks Of Flour of all grades in first hands
are good, and the market is only fairly active.
dealers combining themselves to near wants.
Wheat is firm and moderately active for milling
lots while badly cleaned and tough grades are
very hard to move ut satisfactory prices futures
continue to tuctuatc, but in narrow margins, and
close without material change. Corn, Rye and
Oats strong. Produce Of all kinds is in liberal
supply and easy
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-07

very hard to move at satisfactory prices futures
continue to iluctuatc but in narrow margins, and
| close without material change. Corn, Rye and
Oats strong Produce of all kinds is in liberal
| supply and easy.
BALTIMORE, July 7.-vireina Is consolidated,
81 10 4Os II; new :'s IS bid to-day. Cotton
| firm: middling 9hs. Flour quiet. with more
| stea'liness in tone: Howard street aud Western
| super 50 5Oa2 30; DO extra So OOa:s % do
| family SO 7:1ai 80: City Mills super 81 5Oat 60
do extra 50 25at 90; do Rio brands IL 5nl
CD; Patapsco family - IL; do slprrlativc
| patent - 80. WhcatSouthcrn higher and firm
Western excited AMI higher closing easier ana
| weak Southern red S:'a>S; do amber JOl92 No
| 1 Maryla S1aSSls: No = Western winter rod
spot 81 y asked; Aug 81 'aaSS; Sept SS'saSs7,.
| Corn-Sonthern nominal: Western higher AMI
quiet Southern white 1TaiS: do yellow 11aiS
Western mixed spot lG'!.s4'i;tl Aug .i5I.a4GI-
steamer lt. asked. oais firm and fairly active:
| Southern 31ai2: Western white :}Sai | ; do mixed
35a:I7 Penna 37al2 Ryo quiet ut i5a';G.
Hay easy and duh prime to choice Wrstcru
$9a12 So. Provisions finn. Mess Pork $40 5ua
| | 90. Bulk meats -ahouldcrs and clear rib sides
packed Gi4al Bacon shoulders 1aS clear rib
| sides ! y hams l2h4al3ia. Lard refined "a,
Butter quiet; Western packed 1nAl3; cream.
cry 15alS. Eggs dull at l2al2h. Coffee higher,
| Rio cargocs ordinary to fair 9a9T.. Sugar
steady; A soft g.. Whisky steady at 81 l9al 20
NEW YoRK, July Stocks quiet but firm.
Money easy at / J.a3 Cotton firm; upands
| 81; Orleans 911.16; futures opened steady.
Flour quiet and firm Wheat 2ihs3isr higher
| and active. Corn 1a1't.c higher Pork firm at
$40 G2 gall 90. Lard firm ut 81 9j.
New YORK. July THE wheat market opened
very bullish bascd on continued bud crop reports,
| and frightened shorts are covering very freely.
Prices advanced fully 1a1 ic during the first half
bONr n leading tn hlp
mcnt. The market continued excited at noon.
Wheat advanced 2l,a:il.,r and very much
excited. Corn was up 1a1a,c Oats advanced
a4a1 &c
CHIcAGo July 7.-August Wheat is easier and
declined to 81 III. Corr firm, active and
higher August 3Oa3ol.. Oats firm and higher;
August 31k, Pork W ak and lower; August
$40 10. Lard strong and higher; August 81 CD.
GEORGETOWN CATTLE MAEKET.-At Droyers'
Rest Tuesday 10 Cattle were offered and sold as
follows best 5a5E.c: good 4*!a5; medium AAa
AZ. common 34aiEi: 795 Sheep and Lambs
sold at Gl-a7 for Lambs, and iIaa4 I. for old
Sheep. is Cows :and Calves sold at $3' to $40
per head. IS Calves brought 5Ia to &c. Market
excellent.
MARINE NEWS
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA. JULY :. 1856.
Sun rises ........1 Az Sun scts."".... .....7 2S
ARRIVED.
Schr Cora, Clark Cove, to w Smoot & Co.
Sehr Eleanor Fanduscn, Perth Amb,y, 70 WA
Smoot & Co.
SAILED.
Stmp f C Knight, New York, by r "A Reed
& Co.
MEMORANDA.
Schr Gay Thomas, for this port, sailed from
Barren Island Sd.
Schr Covington, for this port, sailed from Rali-
moro 9th.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-07

CHICAGO. July 7.-August Wheat is easier and
declined to 81 ] III. Corr firm, active and
higher August 3Oa3Oi,. Oats firm and higher
August BIZ. Pork ak and lower; August
$40 10. Lard strong and higher; August 81 90.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-07

New YoRK. July Stocks qnict but firm
Money easy at i.a:;. Cotton firm upland'
9h; Orleans 911.16; futures opened steady
Flour quiet and firm. Wheat 2As3I,r higher
and active. Corn 1a1'!c higher Pork firm at
$40 G2 gal CO. Lard firm ut ST 9j.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-07

GEORGETOWN CATTLE MAEKET-At Droyers
Rest Tuesday 10 Cattle were offered and sold rs
follows best 5a5 E.c good 4;ta5; medium a Es
IA common 3ilaiE. 795 Sheep and Lamb.
were sold at GlaI for Lambs, and :iI4a4 I. for old
Sheep. Il, Cows and Calves sold At ST., to $40
per head IS Calves brought 5la to &c. Markc
excellent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25

street. He has sixteen branch Offices, OF which
five are In New York city. He has two private
wires to Chicago, one to Boston and one to
Philadelphia. which also place him IN com
munication with intermediate points. bis
transactions in banking securities and vari-
Gus speculative commodities involve thou
sand millions year. He is at his
office before 10 o'clock every morning, and
though most stock brokers leave little after 3,
he usually remains till nearly o'clock, and
sometimes as late as midnight His fifty clerks
at the Broad-street Office dine together there In
regular dining room which he fitted up for the
purpose, and there he also takes his midday
repast. He does not use tobacco, aHd par
an article on finance daily, which is as
picturesque as it is able and this is sent
in circular form all over the country. He writes
legible hand. and often jots down on q
small brown pad his ideas for kilograms and
perhaps articles for publication, as he saunters
about his luxurious main Office, where the
crowds are seated in red plush chairs survey
ing the bulletin board for quotations He is q
member of the Stock Exchange. the Petroleum
Board and the Chicago Board Of Trade He is
also member of the Union League and the
American Jockey Club He has an elegant
home in West Fortieth street. and also sum-
nier residence in Newport, whittier he goes dur
Ing the season. on Friday afternoon. and re-.
mains till Sunday night this constituting his
only vacation.
Is not so active in Wall street speculations as In
former days. but he still takes what IS termed a
flyer" when the time seems ripe His office IS
in the Washington buildings. at the lower emo OF
Broadway, and commands an even better view
of the bay than that of Cyrus w. Field on the
floor below. Rufus Hatch was always free
lance in Wall street; he was always eloquent.
fearless. and untrammeled by railroad al
lances. In addition to his stock trans,
actions he now has the New York man
agement Of the Cattle Ranch and Land Com
pany of London which has leased a large
tract of neutral territory between Texas and
Mexico; it is a sort of no mans land, but the
lease was obtained from the United States gov
eminent. He usually reaches his Office at $50
A. M. and leaves at 5. He has had an interest
ing business career. and is still vigorous and
ambitious. He is bon vivaut, takes his Veuve
Cliquot at the Hoffman, in Beaver street, oppo-
site the great Produce Exchange building, or at
Delmonico's He is a member of numerous
clubs. among which are the Union League, the
Carleton and the Thirteen, the last being organ
lied to set at defiance the popular superstition
in reference to parties of thirteen at the same
table. OSCAR WILLoUGHBy RIGGS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson's Grave.
Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican.
These paragraphs from the private letter of a
woman whose home is at Colorado Springs have
a general interest: Zone day was spent by four
OF us who could climb in visiting the grave Of
H. H.. 1t was sunny December DAY, with no
snow except where there was no sun. We had a
fast team of horses went to the western
end of Cheyenne canyon, where are the seven
falls, one above the other, reaching to the top
of Cheyenne mountain. At the extreme end OF
the canyon there is a semicrcle of high rock i'm
possible to climb until within two or three
years, since which time staircase has been con-
structed of 100 steps. Up we climbed for half
mile, when we reached plateau. an acre Of
which Mr. Jackson bought by request of H. H.
for her burial place. 1t is spot which she
used often to visit and as often noted the fact
that there the sun is the frst to strike in the
morning and the last to leave at night It over
looks Colorado Springs and Mrs. Jackson's form
er no me, but the town is so far away that It
looks little more than checker-b board on the
vast plains reaching to the eastern horizon. Her
grave looks like any other and Is covered with
kinniSnick, a trailing vine which grows aband-
antly there. and which resembles the box cul-
tivated in shrub form in many old New England
gardens am told that the wish Of H. III. was
to have her grave level with the ground, with
nothing to mark the place, but it is presumed
that Mr.. Jackson will erect fitting monument
there to ner memory. The back of H Fl. s.
writing desk at her old home is profusely COW
cred with the kinnikinick vine which clings to
her gravo."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
A Rather Risky Costume.

NEW ofk Letter.
The sensation of the production of Sylvia" at
the Academy of Music was when Mime. Carozzi.
in the character of Cupid. threw off her red
tunic and revealed herself to the other charac
ters in the play. She is French woman of the
pouter-pigeon build. She was dressed entirely
in flesh -colored tights, with the exception OF
small and narrow scarf which fell from one
shoulder to her hip. There was sort of gasp
from the audience when she pulled off her tunic,
and a spasmodic and instantaneous reach for
opera-glasses. Then 1t was discovered that
she wore clinging silk Jersey of precisely the
same shade as her skin. II was decidedly
risky costume, but is was success
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
One Golden Hair.

Found in An Old Volume Of Burns.
A wcman's hair! single strand!
And yet a most fantastic thought
Flashed DER me, as my fingers caught
And drew it forth across my hand.
Like to some living thing that turns,
Instructive, from the spoilers touch,
The hair curlei upward from my clutch,
And sought again the page of Burns;-
A page whereon the bard had told
A woman's charms, in verse divine
"Her hair was like the links of gold.
Her checks like lilies dipped in wine.''
A womans hair! single shred!
A golden fibre rudely torn
From some proud beauty to adorn
The book of love, wherein she read
Wherein she caught the fash and FIRE
Of purest passion ever given
To sanctify poets Tyre,
And lure painting heart to heaven.
A golden hairl A slender thingl
A soft and silken COLL And yet.
In death, it still would pay debt
Of love unto the poet.king.
This single hair-this twining hair
A sweeter. nobler tribute pays
TO him who sang beside the Ayr
Than any human lip can phrase.
The ashes of the dead that lie
Sealed fast in old sepulchral urns
Are not more safely kept thanI
Shall keep this Offering to Burns.
- NJ Matthew
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
Senator Evsrts's Lons-sentence Chestnut.

New YORK Tribune.
Governor Alger relates story at Senator
Evarts's expense. When the Senator arrived in
Detroit last winter with the other statesmen
who went there as guests of the Republican
Club, it was Immediately told around that he
had got off great repartee on the train. Some
one had asked him about his long sentences. He
had replied with sly laugh that mo one objects
to long sentences except the criminal classes
There was reception given the distinguished
visitors. While 1t was In progress some one
spoke to Senator Evarts about his reputation for
long sentences and he replied that ''No one OBJ
jects to long sentences except the criminal
classes" Later in the day dinner was given
the statesmen. At the dinner table the ailu-
sions to the Senators prolific use of words drew
out of him the reply that mo one objects to long
sentences except the criminal classes" There
was banquet at night at which speech making
was the order of the day. Senator Evarts WAS
called out. He almost Immediately alluded to
the repeated jokes that were hurled at him for
his extended sentences, and adding that they
came from the Democratic camp, said: s'No one
objects to long sentences except the criminal
classes" This fourth repetition of the joke was
too much for the senatorial party, and they inn
mediately took vote in executive session to ad-
monish the Senator that another alluslon to thu
criminal classes anc long sentences would be
voted a Chestnut
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
A Mistaken Idea of Artists.

fnIIHutIpHIH IBT6gTHPH.
It is much the too common habit of the paint
ers of easel pictures to talk as if the making of
easel pictures was the only fine art worthy of
serious consideration, and to assume that man
who covers canvas with paint must necessarily
be an artist and entitled to all the artistic con
siderations Still another much too common as.
sumption is that the public in some way owes a
very special consideration to man who takes
up easel picture-making for business, whether
his pictures are of particular intrinsic worth or
not. 1t is on this last assumption that the vari-
Gus futile art club projects are based
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
A Reckless Threat.

Atlanta Constitution.
In a few days we shall marshal our poets for a
spring parade. In closely buckled columns we
shall present them for review. In ponderous
hexameter. in dainty triolet, in compact sonnet
and casual quatrain. in lyric and elegac rhyme
IN dialect and straightaway we shall array
them. and challenge American journalism to
produce their equals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25

tering.rams against her walls" No. What
was that culver? "Oh." you say, shat was the
tramp of hostile legions." No. The culver and
the roar the outburst of Omnipotent
laughter from the defied and insulted heavens.
Rome defed God, and He laughed her down.
Thebes defed God, and He laughed her down.
Babylon defed God. and He laughed her down.
There is great difference between Gods
laugh and His smile His smile is eternal beati
tude He smiled when David sang. and Miriam
clapped the cymbals, and Hannah made gar
ments for her son, and Paul preached, and John
kindled with Apocalyptic vision, and when any
man has anything to do and does it we'll. His
smilel Why, it is the fifteenth of May, the apple
orchards in full bloom; it is heaven at high
noon, all the bells beating the marriage peal.
But His laughter-may it never fall on usl 1t
is condemnation for our SIM it is wasting
away. We may let the satirist laugh at US,
and we may be the target for the merriment
of earth and hell but God forbid that we should
ever come to the fulflment of the prophecy
against the rejectors of the truth: II will laugh
at your calamity" But, my friends. all of US
who reject Christ and the pardon of the gospel
must come under that tremendous bombardment
God wants us all to repent He counsels. He
coaxes. He importunes and he died for us. He
comes down out OF heaven. He put. all the
worlds sin on one shoulder. He prs all the
worlds sorrow on the other shouldef. and then
with that Alp on one side and that Himalaya on
the other He starts up the hill back of Jerusa-
lem to achieve our salvation. He puts the palm
of His right foot on one long spike. and He puts
the palm of His left foot on another long spike,
and then with hands spotted with His own blood
He gesticulates, saying: Look look and live;
with the crimson vail of my sacrifice I will
cover up all your sins; with my dying groan
will swallow up all of your groans. Look, lve!'
But some of you this morning turn back on that.
and then this voice of invitation turns to a tone
divnely ominous that sobs like simeon through
the first chapter of Proverbs Because | have
called and ye refused. have stretched My hand
and no man regarded hut 70 have set At nought
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25

The Cross Should Have Been with a Goose.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
DIR. Funkhouser, a st. Louis scientist, has an
egg produced by a cross between a rooster and a
duck. 1t is probable that the Doctor is trying to
trace the evolution Of mugwump.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
A Wonderful Record.


When in Lawrence the other day we were
shown man who has been married nearly fifty
years, and who in all that time has not failed a
single morning to get up and start the kitchen
fire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
Signs Of Modern Greatness.

Atlanta Constitution.
Some of the newspapers are beginning TO criti-
else Talmage's grammar. After while Talmage
Will DO as great . man a. Sam Jones.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
A False Economy.

Miss Perkins, in her breach promise
case with Lucky Baldwin, testified that
he paid her $40 for a single kiss. This
recalls circumstance in Mr.. Baldwin,
career that shows how II false economy
brought so much trouble on his expert
enced head.
About the time Baldwin got into his
Perkins trouble the advertising agent of
the AppeGl called upon him ut the Tai
lac House, Lake Tahoe, and solicited
the advertisement Of the summer-resort.
Mr.. Baldwin was anxious to insert the
advertisement, for which the agent
asked $40. Mr.. Baldwin refused to give
more than s., and thus negotiations
were discontinued and the advertisement
not accepted.
In few days the old fellow went
down to Los Angeles and offered this
woman $40 for Il kiss Meanwhile his
business was neglected ut the hotel, and
it was known by reason of an insuifi-
ency of advertising, and, sick of the
business, he leased it to another party.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Baldwin
has paid out a great many 500 for kiss
es, and, had he spent the same amount
in advertising the merits of his business
and hedged on the rosy lips of the girls,
his hotel would have been household
word wherever the English language is
spoken.
We do not claim that man must
eschew the fair sex entirely and stop
kissing pretty girls. Far from it; but,
if Baldwin had divided the thing up
and paid So for the kisses and $15 for
the advertising, he would doubtless
have secured about rs much kissing,
and also laid up vast amount of adj
vertising for a rainy day.
A man who is well advertised does
not have TO pay out much money for
kisses, for everybody knows that women
flock about well-known man like flies
around molasses barrel. while an OBJ
scure individual is compelled to break
himself to get any recognition.
We hate to see n man practicing this
ridiculous, false economy with women
and newspapers. II Baldwin had spent
more on the press and less on that Per-
kins woman she would not have the
money to attack him in the courts, and
the press would have been defending
his character from calumny.
1t is indeed a sad, sad world when
man gets TO be as old as Lucky Bald
win and pays out money to designing
women that ought to go into the chan
nels of newspaper enterprise and assist
in building up the growing and mighty
N,nSt - To9eog, I No9, d9,nooJ
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

in tilllng OF the soil. Besides their gem
eral household duties they have the milk
10 take charge OF, and generally they
have The care of the fowls. The men
have more machines to Tighten their
labors than the women have. Still it is
likely that the women on most farms
would derive benefit by tending
flower, vegetable, and fruit garden. 1t
furnishes change of occupation and
creates necessity for exercise in the
open air and sunshine. A supply of
fine vegetables and small fruits serves
to diminish the amount of cooking re-
quircd. Less discomfort is produced by
handling the hoe and rake in the sun
than by standing over II hot cooking
stove. There is actual pleasure in rails
ing fine vegetables, small fruits, and
flowers. as is evident from the fact that
many persons of wealth, refinement,
and leisure adopt gardening as pas
time. The laying-out planting, and
cultivation of Il garden exert u refining
influence on the persons engaged in
them. A woman who is a good garden
er is generally good houselkeeper. The
habits of care and order employed in
the garden are likely TO betransferred
to the house.
There is nothing degrading about
garden work. 1t is an employment in
which ladies of rank and quality have
been engaged in all ages and countries.
In the days of slavery the wives of
southern planters did very little work
in the house, but they took great pride
in their proficiency as gardeners. They
delighted in having the earliest peas
and asparagus, the tendercst lettuce,
the largest tomatoes, and the finest
Strawberries. Ordinary garden work is
not very hard. Any woman who can use
Il broom or mopstick can handle a hoe
OF rake without being fatigued. A great
many kinds of light garden tools are
now made expressly for the use of wO-
men. 1t is as easy to make bed Of
flowers to grow in as bed for people
to sleep in. Nothing pertaining to the
management of a garden is as hard rs
washing and ironing. With gloves to
protect the hands and broad-brimmed
hat or sun-bonnet, garden work may be
performed without endangering person.
al beauty, which it is the duty of every
woman to preserve. Garden work calls
in exercise in turn every muscle in the
human body, and in that way aids in
securing beauty in form and graceful
ness in movement Chicago Times.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
He Couldn't Call it q Miracle.

Col. Michael Boland. of Kentucky,
recently related to n reporter in New
York story which illustrates the ready
Irish tongue. He was with the advance
guard of Sheridan in the valley of the
Shenandoah. The soldiers in his COM
mand became engaged in n close-quar-
ter fight in the woods. They ran out
of ammunition, and he went back and
brought them new supplies. AS he was
dealing it out the bullets were flving I'M
comfortably around him. One ball
struck man named Kelly, native of
the Green isle, just as the colonel was
handing him some cartridges. He was
knocked sensclcss, and Boland thought
he was dead. But there was something
about his appearance that made Boland
run his hand down where the bullet
had struck. The touch showed that
there was no blood flowing. and the
colonel pursued the investigation furth-
or. The noise made by the striking bull
let was as if it had hit button. Inside
the mans breast pocket he found set
of three-card-monte cards. They had
the bullet Embedded i'm them. Kelly be-
gan to come to and was soon able to sit
up. The colonel knew him for an old
sport. He handed the man the cards
and showed him the bullet, remarking:
''The cards have saved your life"
The Irshman looked dazedly ut the
bullet for moment, and then, rs his
mind became clearer, he replied in
great excitement:
Heaven help me! if IL had been a
prayer-book it would have been %
miracle. IN Y. Tribune.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
Gatcs of Happincss.

All men and women should rejoice to
remain part child all through life, how
ever long its course may run. The
games, the dance, the anecdote, the as
sembly of friends, the feast, are as much
u part of humanity as its natural power
to laugh or to perceive the points of wit.
Amusement is one of the forms of hui
man happiness. This happiness, like
old Thebes, has hundred gates for its
coming and going the gate of tears,
for man woeps when he is happy, amid
music or in rcvislting his mother s
home, the gate of pensivcness, for he is
happy when he reads ''Gray's Elegy" or
walks in the rustling autumn leaves;
the gate of admiration, for man is hap
,py amid the beauty of nature and of
art; the gate of friendship, when heart
finds its companion heart; the gate of
hope, for man is happy when the COM
ing days are pictured with these angel
figures of expectation. OF these hundred
gates of happiness amusement makes
unexplained by the Builder of human
life. 1t must open before us and we
may all pass in and out as long as the
heart shall remain unbroken by death
or grief. Req. David Ssoing.