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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
TOPICS OF TRADE.
Dunn n Co.'S Review of Trade for
the Past Week

Dunn n Co.'S Review of Trade for
the Past Week.
X. G.. Dunn q Co.'S weekly review of
trade says: There is some improvement in
the East, and u more confident feeling, and
Mt Chicago the tone is very hopeful But at
most other Western and nearly all Southern
points business shows no increase in volume.
and is rather hesitating. The payments
through all the clearing houses, for January,
show scarcely any increase over last year,
although yearly and quarterly disbursements
ON account of previous business were very
much larger than year ago, and the returns
Tor February thus far exhibit substantially
the same situation. The industrial outlook is
modified by the great strike of the Councils
vile coke workers, which must cut off large
supplies of IRON if it lasts, and by great
decrease in the iron output The coal mar.
ket is dull and weak. The demand for wool
continues strong, and worsted goods are
rising. Sales at Boston in January were
iI04t,O00 pounds against II ,339, 900 last year,
N increase of about SO per cent, and the
the market for dress goods is particularly
active-agents looking forward to a time of
extraordinary prosperity, But orders for
heavy goods are scanty, and clothiers,
remembering the heavy losses of the past
winters, are buying with great caution.
Trade in cotton goods is fair in volume, and
print goods are a shade stronger in price.
The boot and shoe trade show some i'm
provement as to volume, though the prices
obtained are not highly satisfactory.
Sugar refinels are busy, with ample orders
for future delivery, though the present trade
is naturally light. The grocery trade is
fairly active, and indicates no decrease IN the
demand for consumption. Provisions have
been a shade weaker, with a fall of tx cents
in corn, and wheat and oats have declined
each fraction ON small sales, but coffee and
oil are stronger and cotton unchanged.
The low price of cotton tends to make
trade dull at the South, the farmers holding
back for higher prices: but at New Orleans
the general trade improves materially. At
Nashville it opens very dull, though buyers
are cautious, and at other points reporting it
is only fair or dull st. Louis reports fair
volume, but no improvement, while Kansas
City finds a better wholesale and a quiet
retail trade AT Denver and st. Paul trade
is fair; at Minneapolis very active in lumber,
with excellent logging prospects: at Omaha
without Improvement, and at Milwaukee and
Detroit quiet. Cleveland reports fairly
good trade in most lines, and pig iron slightly
better, but 1000 600 tons OF ore are ON the
docks, half unsold Pittsburg notes better
demand for merchant iron, because of the
STRIKE and good trade in bottle glass, but
dullness in other branches of the glass bust
ness.
At Chicago, wool receipts are more than
double last years and there is some increase
rI al In 81 N
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

| PARADISE FISH BUILDING ITS NEST.
are crimson, with ten or twelve vertical
blue stripes. The tail is crescent in
shape and is crimson, with blue border.
| When the fish is excited all the coors
are brilliant. When the male fish is
| fighting for the possession of female Of
the species he extends all his fins and dis
plays their most vivid colors. The tail
is covered with small spots, like the
eyes on peacock's tail, and the under
surface of the fish becomes jet black. The
colors of the dorsal fin change constantly
from green to blue, sometimes showing
white spots, and the body trembles
perceptibly, radiating colors of every
hue.
As summer approaches the fish become
very active and build nest. The male
fights for the possession of the female
and the victor betakes himself to a corner
of the aquarium, where he commences
to construct his nest Taking position
about an inch below the surface of the
water he frequently takes air into his
mouth and then elects it forcibly in the
shape of little bubbles covered with
glutinous substance which prevents them
from bursting for several hours. He
continues to make bubbles until he has
little floating platform about six inches
in circumference and quarter of an inch
thick. When the nest is finished the
female approaches and deposits her eggs
beneath the nest. The male gathers the
eggs with his mouth and places them on
the bubbly nest. When all the eggs
have been cared for the female again
makes her appearance, and the operation
Is repeated until about thousand eggs
are on the nest. The eggs hatch out in
sbout thirty. six hours. - Chscago Herald.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

Andrew Caldwell, special agent OF
the General Land Office, has made
such a report in regard to the giant
trees of California and their preserva.
ton as has induced the Secretary of
War to send two companies of cavalry
to Sequoia National Park and the
Yosemite Park to prevent depreda-
tons on these kings of the forest. In
the table in which he gives the num-
Der and size of the trees in the groves
visited, Mr.. Cauldwell only classes as
giants those which are forty-five feet
in circumference or more, as measured
three feet from the ground OF these
two thousand six hundred and seven
ty-five were found. Forty-four are
over eighty feet in girth and several
are more than hundred. One is one
hundred and six feet in circumference,
which makes diameter of more than
thirty-fve feet. These are the largest
trees in the world, and some day will
be an object of curiosity to thousands
of tourists. Th&government is doing
good work in keeping them standing
in the places that have known them
for thousand years.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

A good coal mine on the Pacific
coast is fully as valuable, insists the
New York Tribune, as a gold ledge,
because coal is much scarcer than the
precious metals. A large body of fine
bituminous coal is said to have been
struck this week in Shasta county.
The discoverer is familiar with coal.
mining and has the capital to develop
1t Immediately. As the cheapest coal
here commands SO per ton and ordi-
nary soft stone coal from so to $12,
1t may readily be seen that there is a
fortune in good coal vein.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

We may learn a lesson from the ex-
perience of Mexico, observes the Den
YER (Col.) Republican. The army Of
Mexico is composed almost entirely of
Indians, and it is a we'll known fact
that the Mexican cavalry is entirely
capable Of enduring a great deal of
fatigue and Of making long marches
on short rations. A Mexican regiment
is the best kind of material with
which to fight wild Indians. The In
dams Of this country differ consider
ably from the civilized Indians of
Mexico. They are wilder race, and
more war-like, but in those tribes
which have made considerable progress
in civilization the savage character of
the men has been sufficiently subdued
to admit of their employment in the
cavalry service. They would be Just
as tardy as the Mexican Indian SOL
diers, and they could be employed in
wars and campaigns against those
tribes to which they would not
belong.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

For over year the French in Ton
kin have been trying to destroy the
bandit bands that infest the country.
Bandits and pirates are the curse of
the Indo- Chinese peninsula. The story
has often been told of the hunereds of
Chinese pirates who infest the large
archipelago known as the Robber
Islands, near the coast of Tonkin.
These bands, in their little vessels,
have preyed for many years upon COM
merce, but they have been at last
nearly destroyed by persistent efforts
of the French and Chinese govern
ments to root them out; now the
French have an opportunity to turn
their attention to the hundreds of
bandit bands who terrorize the main
land.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

and six days lator 1,k.leave OF his troops
From June ~, 1865, 70 \, %ch 9, 1869, he com.
manded the military alKtion of the Missis,
sippi; was promoted lieHtepant general July
IS, 1866, and upon the elevation of General
Grant to the presidency Became general.
made professional tour of EuropN and was
everywhere received with the honor due to
his distinguished rank and services. At his
own request he was retired Feb y, 1884.
General Sherman received many honors,
among them the degree of LII d. from Dart
mouth, Princeton. Yale, Harvard and other
universities, and from 1871 to 1888 was a
member of the board oi regents of the Smith
sonian Institution, and in 1873 published his
memoirs
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
ADMIRAL PORTER DEAD.
The Admiral's Remarkable Life-The
Wars in Which He Was Engaged.

Admiral Porter died suddenly at 8:l5
o'clock Friday morning at his residence, 17l4
II street, Washington, d. G. Death resulted
from fatty degeneration Of the heart, which
relentless disease asserted its fatal clutch upon
him at Newport, r. l. last summer, when,
contrary to the persistent advice of his
physicians. he overtaxed his strength by
taking violent exercise, and was stricken
down with complication of diseases, incnd-
;ng congestion of the lungs and dropsy. The
FAMILY were made aware, weeks ago, that his
death was only question of "a short time.
and that efforts of his physicians were
directed solely to the postponement of the
inevitable and making his last hours as com
portable and as free from pain as possible.
SKETCH or THE DECEASED.
David d. Porter was a son of Commodore
David Porter, who distinguished himself by
capturing several British vessels during the
war of 1912.
The subject of this sketch was born in or
near Philadelphia in June, 1918.
Young Porter entered the navy as midship
man in 1920 In ls4l he became lieutenant
The Mexican war gave him a chance to see
active service, and for two years he was
prominent in our naval operations against
Mexico.
In 1861 Porter was promoted to the rank
of commander. He commanded the twenty
one mortar boats which bombarded Forts
jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans,
April 1924, 1862. On the 2Sth the forts sur
rendered to him.
The following September or October he
took command of flotilla of gunboats on
the Mississippi river. He rendered efficient
AID to the land forces III the capture of Ar
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

From statistics just published it APP
pears that the total addition to the
country's railway mileage during 1890
has been nearly $500 miles, or about
700 miles moro than was laid in 1889.
The total amount of railway com.
pleted January l, 1917 be 1877, 172.
OF this amount 1922 miles, or over
20 per cent, has been constructed dur.
ing the last five years. The Southern
Atlantic, Gulf and Mississippi States
with total of 2,15S miles, lead, as
they have for three years past, any
other two groups Of States.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

That the President and Vice PresidentY
of the United States should be elected ~
popular vote, instead of by an electoriN
college.
That the Alliance shall take no part as
partisans in political struggle by afiiliat-
ing with republicans or democrats.
That we favor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
That the volume of currency be in
creased to $50 per capita.
That all paper money be placed on an
equality with gold.
That we as landowners pledge our
selves to demand that the governments
allow us to borrow money from the
United States at the same rate OF in
terest as do the banks.
That senators of the United States
shall be elected by vote of the people.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
IA Beautiful Fish With Curious Habits.

There is on exhibition at little aquar-
ium in window in New York a curious
group of the finny tribe never before
seen in this country. 1t is family Of
Cochin China paradise fish consisting Of
full grown male and female and several
of their little progeny. The fish is Q
marvel of beauty. The head is gray in
color, and is notified with dark spots,
and the gills blue, bordered with crimson.
The eyes.are yellow and red, and the
pupils black. The sides of the body
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.


Texas is fairly alive with Alliances and
Alliancemen, and the very best, most in
elligent men, who were formerly, as
democrats or republicans, active against
zach other, are uniting in every township
to form party of the people.
These Alliances are virtually school
houses in which the correct principles OF
political economy are being taught.
They are the well-springs of regenera-
ton from political serfdom for the bene-
fit of the Goulds, Quays Belmonts and
but beings to be found by legislation
that they may be bed and impoverished
at the leisure of the money leaders.
The Wall street machinery, now in the
one-man control of Jay Gould, during the
month of November, 1890, by simply
Withholding $75, 900, 900 from business
uses, caused depression in securities of
$500, 900, 900. Jay Gould, after year of
quiet, got $75, 600, 900 where he could
dam it and prevent it flowing into the
market. The men found themselves as
an army with supply trains cut off. Fall
ure after failure; down went banks, busit
ness men and depositors by the thusands'
not alone in New York, but in every
city touched by the financial wires of
mans dependence upon man.
This is called Operating the market
This is the direct result of so shortening
the volume of money that two or threeV
men can corner and control it.
The Wall street operators lose millions.
and to keep up the fever, the govern
ment pours millions of dollars into the
laps of gamblers. and in turn slaps the
tariffs and the taxes upon the farmers.
The wealth producers are ground still
deeper in the soil waiting for their
bodies, and the wealth absorbers go on
skinning each other, controlling eau
cuses. political parties and legislation.
The Earrings fail for 500, 900, 900, and
banks rush to their rescue. A farmer
fails to produce enough from his land to
meet the interest on his mortgage, and
the law steps in and confscates his home,
and he steps out heart broken man with
heart broken family.
Texas is an empire of itself We pray
God that its Alliances may be even more
numerous than are its school houses, and
that in each one may be taught the
principles of financial reform, and thus
the punishment of robbers and the PIE
vention of panics.
The payment of the entire bonded
debt of the government in full legal ten
der greenback money.
The abolition of a system that permits
government to pay interest money on
what it has the pewer to create.
The free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer as full legal legal tender
Carrying on the public improvements
not by taxation, but by the letting of
work to those who will receive their pay
in full legal tender greenback money,
never to be retired through the hocus
pocus plan of converting 1t into interest
drawing United States bonds, or any
other bonds ON which the government
can guarantee or pay interest.
On with the Farmers Alliance! They
are the day star of our redemption from
bondage. All we can do to help on this
work is labor of duty and of love for
humanity, and it will be done persist
eDtlv..-Ad0ance Thought
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

1t appears from the studies Of r. p.
Bigelow on the habits of the Portu-
guese man-of-war, that this interesting
jelly-fish feeds largely on small fish,
which, swimming against its tcntacles
are caught and benummed The fish
struggling to free themselves from
contact with the poisonous tentacles,
cause the latter to contract, and
thus the prey is drawn up to the
feeding bells. II the fish does not
struggle, the tentacles fail to contract.
The feeding-beIIs spread themselves
ever the fish and digest it.. New
Fork Independent.
Yokohama, q Japan. j. $780, m,,eA
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

The school attendance in the South
has increased from an average of 1914
per cent. of the population in 1880 to an
sRexagasof 49, per cent. of it in 1890.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

- il.ern California there are said
q b. l"lGsas aged from one hundred
s9''t s.rn to one hundred and forty
,aai ICY 1--we " aeArn., -four. ana
waiter,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26

The Alliance legislature of South Caro-
lima will hereafter exact a royalty of 81
per ton on phosphate rock, mined in the
rivers, instead of 81 as heretofore. There
is vague report that valuable phos-
phate mine was discovered in the Oke-
feenokee swamp before its recent sale;
but as this property has now passed out
Of the hands of the state, there is no
chance of Georgia ever getting a royalty
thereon. Alliance Farmer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
GENERAL SHERMAN DEAD.
THE BATTLE OF LIFE ENDS AND
THE SOLDIER SLEEPS.

For a Long Time General sherman
Wavered Between Life and Death,
and Fought Bravely the Hope
less Battle.
General William T. Sherman died in New
York City Saturday at $50 o'clock p. m.
The end came peacefully and quietly while
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-07
PEDAGOGICAL,

The Leavenworth Times says it does not
believe in the Democratic and Republican
policy of fighting the agricultural inter
ests of Kansas. The Times is not alone IN
this belief-Atchison Champion.
No, it is undemocratic and unrepubli.
can to do so, apd the truth is it is not
being done by either of the old parties so
far as we have seen; certainly not by
Republicans. On the contrary, every
body without regard to party, endorses
the farmer, magnifies his profession, and
defends his interest Nor is this disin-
terested concern: Everybody who has
sense enough to know anything knows
that agriculture is the basis of all indus
tries and enterprise in the country; that
upon its success depends the success of
all else, and all this talk about fighting
the agricultural interests is worse than
poppycock.
The Times nor Champion are such
dolts as not to know that criticism of
political ideas and methods affecting the
welfare of the entire communicable
best interests of the farmer as well as
everybody else-is quite different
thing from fighting the farmer. AS well
say that to oppose the merging of church
and state is to antagonize the church
and defend anarchy. Such suggestions
tend to arouse passion and engender
prejudice, and at the least are a species
of cheap deniagogy,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-07

A. PEBBLES Smith, of the Society Of ANA
teur Photographers of New York, has in
vented a new fash lamp which, with a
small quantity of magnesium, throws a
ball of fame as large as hogshead. With
an ordinary charge Of powder he can illu-
inmate the street for several hundred feet
as clear as daylight.
At a recent exhibition given by the New
York Camera club lantern slide was
shown which had been made from photo
graph that had been sunk in the harbor Of
Gibraltar for more than a week in the
trunk of ". 7. Colbron, who was the only
cabin passenger saved from the i'll fated
Anchor line steamer Utopia
Mr. Childs. Of Newport, r l., is reported
to have invented a panoramic view camera
which is SO arranged as to sweep the entire
horizon, producing a negative IS inches in
width and feet long. The camera con
s.sts Of a drum, about which Is wrapped
the negative film, while certain mechan-
ical devices cause Tids angle lens TO re-
volTe about the drum
An international Photographic exhibit
ton viii be held psxt September in GlAs-
gov under the auspices OF the Glasgo" and
West Of Scotland Photographic associa-
tons. The exhibition will Be open 70 both
professional and amateur talent InforDa-
ton may be had b. addressing William
Goodwin. honorary secretary. 3 Lynedock
street. Glasgow, Scotland
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-07
ghe aa1ieha Daily eagle: gmesaau ornime, Gully 1891

the remedy must be heroic. The Star
has acted upon this principle and the
result is already apparent. By reveal
ing the extravaganza of the municipal
government and showing the people how
they were being robbed. the Star manu-
featured a public sentiment which COM
PEELED the city council to make a mater
ial retrenchment in the public expendl-
lures by abolishing useless offices and
cutting down excessive salaries. The
end aimed at has already been partially
accomplished, without any OF the
dangers which the EAGLE predicted. 1t
Is true that the outside world knows
that Kansas City was tax-ridden, and
that the administration of its municipal
affairs was extravagant, but 1t also
knows that the local government Is IN
mu5h better shape now than when
the Star began its fight on the
abuses which have disgraced the city.
There need be no fear about investing
money here on account of excessive taxes
or municipal corruption. The decent
and honest element in this community
IS so largely in the majority that there IS
no danger that the city will ever be
given over for any protracted period OF
time to its enemies. There is whole
some public spirit in Kansas City which
entirely precludes such contingency.
AS long as this is kept active and rend-
cred operative at the polls there Is no
reason to apprehend that extravagance
will steadily prevail in the management
of municipal affairs. Bad government
can only exist as the result of negligence
on the part of good citizens, and to keep
this fact always in view and to impress
it upon the minds of the voters of Kan
sas City is one of the things which the
Star is here for.
Kansas City is already beginningto re-
spond to the stimulating influence of the
cheering agricultural outlook In the
southwest and is preparing for the good
times which the big crops in Kansas and
Missouri are bound to bring. But the
revival of prosperity to which these ma
terlal causes will contribute will be vast
~ aided by the impulse for reform
which has become prevalent among the
DpODle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-07
SAINT AND SINNER, BOTH.

A note from an old friend residing on
q tributary of the Marais des Cygnes re-
questing us to indulge in ''write-up" of
s. n. Wood is acknowledged, but we beg
to be excused. True. as the writer sug-
gests, we had been acquainted with him
for more than thirty years, served IN
legislatures with him and in state con-
ventions; that we were publishers IN al
most adjoining counties, and had fought,
bled and had ran away from old Pap
Price with him in Missouri; but poor old
Sam will be written up" doubtless
even to the satisfaction of the morbid
and overcurious, within the next few
months. AS a saint he was bright, but
as a sinner, miserable, dirty and unrell-
able. Sly cunning with him equaIed
any other attribute of which man
might be proud, and altogether he was
very human. As a public factor no COM
prehensive history of Kansas can be
written with his name left out, but we
feel neither inclined or competent TO
sketch one or the other. Upon the whole
his life was queer admfxture of joke
and uncommon earnestness, of the lowest
comedy and of the highest tragedy.
Legend and story will preserve the I'M
worthy in their echoes which will reach
farther up and down the Arkansas val
ley than the vibration Of the bell of the
school house he never built, and more
numerously, the other will disappear
with his crumbling dust and be forgot
ten by even the people who would have
had the main line of the Santa Fe
through their county seat but for the
unreliability and greed of him whose
grave has now become one of their dis
tinctiVe honors.