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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13
Real Estate Transfers.

Instruments fled for record in the recorders Office
of Marion county, Indiana for the twentyfour hours
ending at P M, Dec. IL, 1886, as furnished by
Elliott Butler, abstraeters of titles Room % Etna
Building:
Anna L. Dean and husband to Anna L.
Walker. lot l3 in Meikels subdivision
of outlot 1874 in Indianapolis. -----.-.. 81, 500 90
John Q. Parr to Frank r. New, part of
lots So and So, in Holloway & Jeni-
sons southeast addition to Irvington.-- 10000
John S. Morris and wife TO Isabella Stu
art part of the south half of the north
west quarter of section 21, township
Ia north, of range east. ---.-... 100000
Emma l.. Smith and husband to Albert
Izor, part of block 10, in Holiness
West-end addition to Indianapolis. 10000
Edward S. Jafray to Edward +. Claypool
part of lot 6, in square 65; also, parts
OF lots 10 and IL, in square 65, all in
Indianapolis. 1872, 500. 90
William f. Bridgford and wife to Levi
6Iresh, part of the northeast quarter of
the southwest quarter of section 4 and
part of the northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of section T. town
ship Is north, of range east. -....... 1,155.O0
Augusta e. House ct al. to Warren D. O.
Wright, part of the northeast quarter of
the southeast quarter of section 2,
township I6 north, range 4east ... 1000 90
Conyeyances 2; consideration. Sal, 155. 90
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Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec 11.-Cotton quiet; middng,
9lee; low middling 87se: good ordinary, She; net
receipts 10 1T bales; gross receipts 1887 bales;
exports to Great Britain, A. 100 bales; exports to
France 4 472 bales exports to the continent 6,072
bales coastwise. 1850 bales; sales, 5000 bales;
stock, 325, 492 bales.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.--C. L. Green & Co.'S report
cotton futures SAYS: With further intermediate
fluctuations, contracts made another Decline the loss
tonight showing 709 points off.
LIVERPOOL, Dec -Cotton-Demand good at
unchanged rates. sales IL 900 bales including 1000
bales for speculation and export and 10, LOO bales
American.
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INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS,
Fairly Active Markets, with Strong Prices on
Most Staple Articles the Leading Feature.


Most Staple Articles the Leading Feature.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. IL.
The volume of trade in the week closing to-
day has been. on the whole. quite satisfactory,
yet the mild weather has been something of a
check upon sales in some lines of goods, yet the
volume of business now in progress quite hand
somely exceeds thatof the corresponding period,
1885. To-day prices were steady and strong in
tone. The coffee and sugar markets are still
tending upward The New York Shipping List
says of these staples: SIN the face Of predic-
tions, from time to time, that the climax has
been reached, the situation has continued to
strengthen, and each advance has been fol-
lowed by the development of a fresh
speculative interest For some time
past the operations of European spectators
was the most prominent factor in causing the
advance, but Rio has commenced to bull the
staple of which she is the chief producer, and
the inward flow of the tide seems to be irressti-
BILE. There has been some improvement in the
sugar market, and slight advance in values has
been established, due, however to the reflection
of stronger feeling in Europe rather than the
development of any material change In the rela-
tions of supply and demand in this
country Quite a speculative interest has
recently developed in tea, and the buy
ing on this account of several large
blocks of Oolongs and greens, indicate that con-
fidence in the future of the tea market Is
in values is looked foH Supplies of those kinds
are likely to prove less abundant than was pre-
dicted early in the season, and under these cir
cumstances current values are considered alb
normally low. The produce markets were active
to-day, but on no article is there the firmness in
prices of the early part of the week. The mild
weather admits of shipments Of apples and po-
tatoes and the market is well supplied, yet
prices are well held. The same is true of the
egg market Poultry and butter continue in
large supply, and prices close weak In other
markets there is nothing new to note.
GRAIN
The local market was tame to-day, and prices
Of Friday barely sustained. Bidding on Change
lacked snap dealers showing considerable indif
ference as to trading. Prices to-day ruled as
follows
WHEAT-No. 2 Mediterranean. ..... 80
NO. Medlterranean- --..................s, VTl2
no = req. 10
No. 3rsd- ........-................7 5la
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NEW YORK Dec. 11.-Petroleum opened steady
to firm at 6Ssec remained steady and broke at noon
to 6634 steaded and closed strong at 81 l4c. Sales
1852 900 brls. Turpentine dull at 36c-
OIL CITY Dec 11.--National Transit Companv's
certificates opened at 68l4c; highest point reached
e5sc lowest, 66stc; closed at 673sc Sales, 1872
600 brls clearances 3219, 600 brls; charters, 49,
$40 brls shipments 136. 822 brls.
PITTSBURG, Dec. H. Petroleum weaker and
irregular; National Transit Company's certificates
opened at 6Sl2c and closed at 81 SEC; highest point
reached, 68A2c; lowest, 663Ac.
WILMINGTON, Dec. 11.-Turpentine firm at 33c.
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Cash prices were as follows:

No. 2 epring wheat. TT 077sc; No spring
wheat, Tic; No. red, 77sc; No. 2 red wheat
TIC; No. 2 corn, 36s a $780, No. oats, 264c
seed. 9lac; prime timothy, ST. 7S01.79; mess
pork, $11 10 Is; lard. G. OIL lOc; short-rib
sides, loose 5 80 a Coo; dry-salted shoulders.
boxed, 4 70 al SOC; short-clear Sides boxed, s. 80
05 95c; whisky $1.18 sugars unchanged.
Receipts-Flour 1000 brls; wheat, 5000 bu;
corn, ISL 900 bu; oats, 129, 900 bu; rye, As 600
blu; barley so, 600 bu. Shipments-Flour, IL, 600
brls; wheat 1l,000 Blu; corn, $4,000 bu: oats,
$4,000 blu; rye, LOCO Blu; barley, 49, 900 bu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13

No. 2, 29Ac; No. white 32aac: receipts 500
bu Clover-seed, $3.50 for cash; $4.55 bid for Jan
usry.
TOLEDO, Dec. 11.-Wheat active and weak; cash
82c; january, S2lac; May, $3.50. Corn duh and
lower; cash 39c: Oats steady; cash, 39c. Glover
seed dull and lower; cash, "a 57l9; February 81 10
Receipts-Wheat. SO, 600 bu corn, IA 900 bu; oats
1o00 bu Shipments-Wheat, J, 600 bu: corn, H.
600 bu oats. 5000 bu; clover-seed, 127 bags.
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Evansville 6 Terre Haute.
Via Vandalia Line.l

T,veTndpls. .7:3oam pt12:00m 4:0Opu sslO.45pur
Ar Indpls 50am f10.O0am 335pm 4:l5pn
Via L & st. t. Ryt
Ive Tndpls. *1o:50pm f5:30pm "l1:55am 7:laam
AR Indpis. 3:45am i10:0Oam 3:35prn t:25pn
aDaily. idaiy except Sunday p rarlor car, sleep
ing
These trains carry the magnificent Monarch parlor
sleeping and buffet cars. the finest run in America
between indianapolis and Evansville. Cars opei
for passengers at $3.50 p. m. Train does not leays
until 1045 p. m.
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LIVE STOCK.

The Dullest Market of the Season for Ship
ping Cattle-A Quiet Day for Hogs.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec IL.
CArTLE-Receipts, $50: shipments, $50. The
offerings were of only fair quality; the demand
was sair in butchers grades, but the dullest of
the season on shippers, and number went
through in first hands
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13

While much Of the original forest remained,
with only few clearings. 1t was great protec-
ton TO wheat by holding snow evenly over the
surface during the coolest weather. Now the
winds have such sweep that most of the snow
is drifted in banks to the fences, whore Ii docs
more harm than good. On prairie soil wheat is
always best next the fences
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13
Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE market very quiet
in demand, which was confined to moderate selec-
tons of miscellaneous description, but large sales
were reached through the deliveries old engage
very firm, with wooens looking better.
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business of the Clearing-Houses.

BosToN, Dec l2-The following table. COM
pilcd from dispatches to the Post from the
managers of the leading clearinghouse in the
United States, gives the gross exchanges at each
point for the week ending Doc. ii. 1885, in COM
parison with the corresponding period in 1885:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13

"HAD lumbago two years. st. Jacobs Oil
cured ia Fueger, st. Louis. No.
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Cincinnati. Indianapolis. st. Louis & Chicago.
CINCINNATI DIVISION.

Indiana, Bloomington Western.
PEORIA DIVISION
Depart-Pacifc Elk. and Mail, daily, andre. 700 am
Express 1900 m
Kansas and Texas Fast Line re-. s. AIS PM
Burlington and Rock Island Elk
press, daily, r c.. and LOO pm
Arrive-Eastern and Southern Express,
daily I. c. and s...-.----.----. 500 am
Express 10:40 ana
Express and Mail g. and rc.--- 1855 ON
Day Express, daily. r. c. and s---- $50 ia
EASTERN DIVISION.
Decentralization EXPRESS Mail daily ST. r. 9. 4:10 ana
Atlantic Express 8. and r. &C.. $3.50 pm
Night Express, daily, and r. g. 300 pm
Arrive-Paciic Express daily s. and re-. 7:20 am
Western Elk. and Mail s. and re. $50 PM
Burlington and Rock Island Elk
press, daily, s. and r c.. 1890 pm
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SHEEP-Receipts, 300; shipments, 10. FAIR
supply; quality some better market barely
steady, especially in the common and medium
class; one load of Christmas wethers, average
162 pounds, sold for s.. 90.
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wabash. ST. Lonls & Pacific.

Indianapolis Peru & Chicago DivisionA
Depart-Michiean City and Toledo Mall - 7:15 ana :
Detroit Toledo aud Mich City Elk. 2: . pm
*Detroit and Toledo Ex daily, S.. 7:0O pm
Arrive-Detroit Toledo & Mich. City Ex., s. I:i5 ana
tDetroit and Toledo Ex., daily, s.. .1O:45 am
Detroit Toledo & Mich. City Mail 6:45 PM
Sleeper daily 10 Detroit.
iSleeper daily from Detroit
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HoGs-Receipts, $500; shipments, 165 Quail
ity good. The market opened moderately active
at about yesserday's closing prices; trade ruled
rather quiet to tho close about all sold.
Best heavy packing and shipping 800 to
$50 lbs average. 81. I504.3O
Light and mixed packing. -........... 3.S004. 10
Common to good light .......-... 3.700.405
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis.

Depart-Cin. D'ton and Toll. dy. and 400 ana
Cincinnati, Dayton. Toledo and NY 1923 ann
Cincinnati. Dayton, Toledo and New
York p c. oi,,n pf1
Conncrsville Accommodation .--.-. 5:3O pm
INTERCHANGEABLE Accommodation. 800 am
Gin, Peoria and St Louis, Pc. 49, LAP am
Cincinnati; Accommoda alton ......--. 4:55 pm
Gin Peoria and st. L.. d'y, c.c.and .1o:45 pua
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indianapolis, Decatur Springfield
| rerar+Decasnr and Peoria Through Mall $50 ana
Montezuma Accommodation. 53O pm
Fast Express daily, I. c. and s.. 1880 pm
Arrive Past Express, daily and 900 am
Montezuna Accommodation. ..-1O:15 am
Through Mail ..... 555 pna
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% per cent. rule
NEW YORK, Dec. 1l-Bar silver, 99g.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
The Language of the Cane.

To tap it on the pavement at every
step means: 'Object is no money to
mel am trying to wear out the ferule. -
To poke person in the ribs with it
who is standing up on a chair three
rows ahead of the pokist at a Singing
match insinuates: Down in front.
To hurrledly slip it down the panta-
loons-leg and walk along with it con-
cealed therein evidences that it. has
previously been feloniously magnet
lied" from some hall-rack and the
rightful owner is approaching.
To point it at rare old painting in
a picture gallery indicates that the
check boy was asleep when the visitor
came through the entry door.
To carry the upper end in the over
coat pocket, with the bottom part stick
ing straight up in 'front.' signifies that
the nickel plate has worn off from its
bogus leaden head, and the same would
blacken the dudelet's tan-colored glove
II held in his hand.
To carelessly but gracefully drop it
denotes the exhilaration of too much
high-priced fine wine aboard; while to
awkwardly get it tangled up among
the legs and plump the bearer forward
on his nasal abutment sadly goes to
prove a wholesale consumption of COM
mon five-cent red, red liquor.
To pedestrianize on a crowded side
walk with a run through the akimboed
elbows and across the back-with ends
projecting beyond each arm-intimates
that there Is plenty of room out in the
middle Of the street for other people who
don't care to be swiped off into the gut
ter in passing.
To hold it in the center, with the
handled portion downward, is attended
by the effeminate "mover" to demon
strate this: law, this stick is weally SO
pawsitively top-'eavy, aw, that I-neyah
'aving been used to manual labah, aw.
find it widiculously weighty burden,
aw."
To present it. nicely engraved, to q
trusted clerk on New Years day as a
recognition of 'long and faithful SER
vice." conveys the sorrowful fact to the
t. C. that We employers act is an eco
nomical .stave-off'' against his hire.
ling's hoped-for raise in salary.-De.
troit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
A Diamond Clasp.

How the history of the world repeats
itself! A shocking story has been whis-
pered in my ear about scene after q
Jolly dinner given to some of the smart
est young women in town. Wild hilar-
ity existed, and a small room at Del
monico's could furnish tale that might
easily tarnish the fair regulations of
several society leaders. Stockings, cham
pagne, and bank-nOtes form a founda-
ton upon which to rear almost any
kind of monument to pleasure and i'm
prudence. A similar outcoming to a
private feast happened not, so many
years ago. and likewise at Delmonico's.
Two women, one of whom has since be-
come the wife of British peer, the
other q girl whose name suggests gentle
zephyrs, even if her size refutes any
possibility of her being waited away
in sport" dined right merrily with sew
eral intimates, friends of the other sex.
Revelry waxed high. All topics were
discussed; the faces, fortunes, and fig
ures of their friends, male and female,
were made subjects of comment, when
one bold man, not wishing these two
women to be surpassed, offered prize
of a diamond garter-clasp to which
ever of their guests had the smallest
leg. A convenient portiere afforded a
screen to all the body save the lower
extremities of the two women, and pres
emily two pairs of neat ankles and feet
were the source of a variety of opinions,
and ballots We're cast by anxious voters.
The peeress won, for her sister and she
are both famous for their beautiful
hands and feet, so diamond clasp was
added to the jewels already possessed
by the lucky owner of good leg for q
boot--IOl0H Topics
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
Superstition of Fishermen.

My father, an officer in the British
service, was an enthusiastic amateur
sea fisherman. He it was who taught
me to catch mackerel. with a trout rod
and fly, or rather with white or grey
feather tipped with scarlet and made in
the form of fish-not fly. The good
old gentleman was genial and garru-
lous, and nothing delighted him more
than to converse with the rough but
honest fishermen of the coast. On one
occasion on the east shore of Fifeshire,
Scotland-near Pittenweem, think-a
group of fishermen were seated on the
beach lazily mending their nets, at a
distance of fifty yards or so from a boat
that had been drawn up above high
water-mark. Two or three pigs were
roofing for mussels at some further dis
tance of. Happening to point to the
animals and make some remarks re-
specting those swine, my respected pro-
genitor was astonished to see every
man leap to his feet and with horror
depicted on his face run at utmost speed
and place his finger on a nail or ring
bolt or thOle pin or other piece of iron
of the boat, to break the evil spell. AT
the same time my amazed parent was
warned never again to utter the word
swine on the sea-coast. If he should
have occasion to mention the malign
animals at all he was to call them
beasties. Subsequent inquiry could
only elicit Il confused statement that the
devil enters into swine (not beasties),
causing them to run down a steep place
into the sea and spoil the fishing
american Angler.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
Cornwall Tin.

Dolcoath is the name by which the:
oldest and deepest tin mine in the world :
is known. 1t is situated at Cambrone,
in the west of Cornwall. In the earlyi
part of the present century it was noted
for its enormous production of copper
ore, the sales of this mineral having
amounted to about f5,00O,000. 1t now
produces tin only. In the interval be-
tween copper and tin, about the years
1886, a period in the sinking when
the two minerals were so blended that
they could not be separated so as to
make them marketable, the whole mine
could have been purchased for f3, 900.
The market value of the same to-day is
f470,O00 (4,700 shares at f1O0 each);
SO that each sum of ESQ invested in it:
thirty years ago is now worth f., 900,
and receives dividends every twelve
weeks amounting to about f500 yeart
The produce for some two or three years
past has been forty to fifty tons of tin
per week, obtained chiefly from only
one of the eight or ten lodes~ in the
mine. About 400 hands are employed,
representing, perhaps, thousand fami-l
lies; but within the last month dis
covery has been made which will not
OulJ AdIScIy 1uCICdoc tu0 pIOuLS-
over f100 per day-but will at once!
furnish employment for nearly a hum
dred additional workers, and beforei
long some hundreds of families will be-
supported by work done on this newly
opened lode of tin.
The value of the discovery is greatlyi
enhanced by the fact that it has been
made at a depth of nearly half mile
below the surface, by a cross cut from
old workings at the very bottom of the
mine, and the new lode is as rich as the
old-so that any piece of ground meas,
uring only eight yards square Cubic.
yards) contains more than FL, 900 worth
of tin, and. so far as can be judged,
this marvellous deposit of mineral will
be absolutely inexhaustible for genera
tions yet to come.
These metalliferous lodes, or veins,
run from east to west, and may be
traced for one or two miles. The dis
covery is in the eastern part of the
mine. Two other shafts to the west-i
ward are being sunk, and in the course
of about two years, if the work is
pressed on, they both may be expected
to reach the depth at which this most
extraordinary deposit of mineral is
found, and SO lay open further immense.
stores of tin.
In the adjoining property, still little
further west, and near the Dolcoath
boundary, is yet another shaft, which
has actually struck the run of tin
ground which yields the Dolcoath
riches.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-06-03
She Paid Too Much.

Late on an evening a man about 40l
years of age stood upon the Globe.
bridge, at Woonsocket, with his wife
beside him, threatening to commit sui
eide by jumping into the Blackstone
river if she did not give him 25 cents.
The wife pleaded and begged, saying
she needed the money to purchase food
with, and he would only spend it for
drink should she give it to hin. He
placed his hand on the railing to the
bridge and again shouted to his better
half TO give him the money or over lie
would go. She implored the crowd of
people who had gathered near to save
him, but no one interfered. A voice
from the crowd sang out: Let him
60" but still she clung to him. Final
ly she released her hold, and, putting
her hand in his pocket, brought forth a
silver quarter and placed it in his hand
He seized it eagerly, and started on a
lively run for saloon near by, while
the poor woman started for her home to
offer a prayer for him whose life she
though she had saved for 25 cents
Providence Journal
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Truth.

holy and eternal Truth Thou art
An emanation of the Eternal Mind,
glorious attribute, noble part
OF uncreated being. Who could find,
By diligent searching-who can t1nd out thee,
The Incomprehensible, the Deity2
The human mind is reflection caught
From thee. q trembling shadow of thy ray.
Thy glory beams around U.S. but the thought
That heavenward wings its daring flight
away.
Returns to where its flight was first begun,
Blinded and dark beneath the MONDAY sun.
The soul of man, though signing after thee,
The stars of heaven, whose glorious light We
see,
The sun, whose radiance dazzles it
CLOVIS
Something that Is beyond us, and above
The reach of human power, though not of
human love.
Vainly philosophy may strive to teach
The secret of thy being. Its faint ray
Misguides our steps. Beyond the utmost
reach
OF its untiring wing the eternal day
OF truth Is shining on the longing eye,
Distant, unchanged, changeless, pure and
high.
And yet thou hast not left thyself without
A revelation. All we feel and see
Within us and around forbids to doubt,
Yet speaks so darkly and mysteriOusly
Of what we are and shall be evermore,
We doubt and yet believe, and tremble and
adore.
e. H. Goss, in Harpers Magazine for May.