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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
TRADE AND COMMERCE.
Dun's weekly Trade Review


NEW YORK, July 6.-R. G. Dun 4
Company's weekly review of trade
says:
The interruption of business by the
railroad strike has been such thai
usual signs, whether bright OF
ate has passed the tariff bill, but in
SUCH shape that no one ventures to
FISK much on its final passage without
further alteration.
speculation in products has TUNED
largely upon temporary uncertain
ties but meat products have been
higher, with threatened famine,
here and the probability that
larger quantities will be spoil.
| ed ut Chicago while improved
crop prospects have depressed
wheat. The crop year ends with mar
row exports, though a little larger
than OF late, and the aggregate for the
year has been not far from 165, 900 900
bushels, flour included, though at the
lowest average prices ever known
The years receipts at Western ports
were about los, 900, 900 bushels, against
249, 100000 the previous year. Cotton
promises so well. and the stock in
sight here and abroad are so large
that speculation for an advance is
difficult. With two months of the crop
year yet remaining over 7, $50, 900 bales
have already come into sight and
there is strong promise of much
larger yield this year. The iron in
dustry has not yet recovered from the
coal miners strike, when 1t was Sc
riously interrupted by the blockade OF
railroads at the west. An obvious of.
feet will be restriction of repairs and
Car building and of track laying. A
large and somewhat lasting reduction
in the demand for iron is the natural
consequence of disturbances affecting
rail way earnings. The demand for
iron products does not appear better
and prices are again tending
downward in spite of the
general feeling that an
advance would follow the Terminal
mine strike. Textile manufacturers
do not improve, only two important
cotton factories manufacturing striped
goods have stopped indefinitely,
while the unsold stock of print cloths
at Fall River and Providence has
reached 1,064 900 pieces and down.
ward revision in prices of bleached
sheetings is expected. Quite q large
number of wooden mills have
filled all orders in hand and closed
for the present, and in most branches
only for the future fall far below ex~
pectations. Interruption of traffic is
felt in these industries, but much
more the uncertainty has shown how
far foreign goods may be delivered at
lower prices than domestic after new
duties take effect, and behind these
causes OF hesitation lies the fact
that with many hands out of
work and wages reduced for
others, and prices of farm pro-
ducts exceedingly low, the buying
power of the people is greatly re-
stricted. Minor Industries are also
affected much in the same way, and
especially where important changes of
duty are expected. Failures during
the week have been ISL in the United
States against 334 last year and 81 in
Canada against % last year with no
important failures as yet since the
new half year began.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
FINANCIAL,
BraIstreet's Financial Review

NEW YORK, July 6.-Bradstreet's
financial review tomorrow will say:
Considering the railroad strike and the
accompanying stoppage of traffic on
several Washington systems, the stock
market has been remarkably firm.
Such condition is not speculative
novelty, the market having often in
the past received support when SINH
lar depression circumstances were en-
countered.
In this instance, however, manipu.
lative assistance has not been extended
to prices ard it will seem that the pas.
sage of the tariff bill by che senate,
coupled with foreign buying of stocks
and with a general feeling that the
strike would collapse or be suppressed
by the federal authorities have
checked liquidation and Diverted short
selling. London purchases were not
so large but were sufficiently continu-
GUS to afford practical support to the
market. They were based largely on
the prospect of speedy settlement of
the tariff question and on the deter.
mlnatlOn OF the united states govern
ment to use force against Instructors
OF interstate commerce. London's
bullish tendencies were, however,
checked by failure on Friday Of a
brokerage house in the city. 1t is an
nounced that the public issue in Lon
don of the new Baltimore and Ohio
loan has been q complete success.
While the influences above referred to
have checked ceiling and re-
suited in a steady tone
with some slight advances, there
has been no activity, the Fourth of
July holiday breaking the work here
to some effect, and the summer vaca-
tion also lending to reduce speculative
participation. Both the street and the
public wait for the termination of the
strike and solution of the tariff The
passage o. the compromise measure by
the senate was little direct influence,
as the bill goes at once to the house, in
which body, if rumor is correct, there
is earnest opposition to some of the
changes in the provisions Of the final
Wilson bill.
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great transcontinental lines of traffic
20 indefinite interruption. The gen.
erel says that it would require an
army of 100000 men to quell the
disturbances and break up al once the
blOckades at the many points where
| they exist, and that is why he is
obliged to attack them in detail, al
ways an unsatisfactory military pro-
cedure. "The force has been INSULT
cient. With the increase of deputies,
of policemen and of troops, both ma.
tional and state, there will be tomor-
low an adequate force for quelling the
disturbance at Chicago and maintain
ing order. That done the strike will
be practically over, as Chicago is of
course storm center of the move
ment. don't know, however, that
the strikers will return tn their
places.n A batch of new men en-
gagged for substitutes for the striking
employees left for Chicago today and
more are expected to leave tomorrow.
ALTGELD's TELEGRAM SIMPLY BOsH.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-Attorney
General Olney was today questioned
as to his views of the Altgeld letter to
the president he said: IL is hardly
worth while to discuss at length the
false promises contained in the illogi-
cal nonrequiters of the Altgeld mani
festo. AS a campaign platform it is
safe prediction that the author will
be bound to be the only person to
stand upon it. The soil of Illinois is
the soil OF the United States and for
all United States purposes, the United
Int 10
marshals and its troops, not by
license or committee, but as officers.
The paramount duty of the president
of the United States is to see that the
laws of the United States are faith
fully discharged, and in discharge of
that duty he is not to be hampered
or crippled by the necessity of con-
sultipg any chief of police, mayor or
even governor. In the present in.
stance nothing has been done and
nothing ordered which the most capti-
GUS critic can condemn as any invasion
of state rights. The action of the mas
tional executive has been exclusively
directed to the enforcement of the
United States laws, the execution of
the processes of United States courts
and the prevention of any obstruc-
tions of the United States mails. The
motion that the territory of any
state is to sacred to permit order
to the exercise thereon by the United
States government of any of it's legiti-
mate functions never had any legal
existence and as rule of conduct be-
come practically extinct with the
close of the civil war;
The attorney general was not dis.
posed to further discuss the mat er,
but it can be stated with certainty
that the fact of the riotous strikers
going to obstruct the traffice of the
railroads and persist that the exc
cution of laws has not in the least
shaken the governments purpose to
enforce the law at all hazards and at |
all costs.
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COTTON.
McElroy & Co.'s Circular.

NEW ORLEANS, July G-McElroy
& Co say:
Futures-Quite a number of COM
plants have been received from Texas
within the past few days of damage
by shedding as a result of the recent
intensely hot, dry weather, and these
accounts for the steadiness exhibited
by our market in face of the decline OF
1 to 2-64d in Liverpool and spot sales
of only 5000 bales Reports until re-
Gently have been extremely favorable.
The plant is known to have progressed
well. The stand is good and
fields clear, and 1t will take more than
a few reports OF shedding to change
the general conviction that the out
look is an excellent one. We are there
fore iaclined to believe that the pres
ent steadiness must give way and that
the tendency will be toward lower
level.
Siuce the above was written we have
received the gdvIce Of rains in Texas
at Paris, Bonham, Honey Grove and
Waco, besides like reports from Selma,
Ala, and Columbus, Miss, where
moisture was needed. Business here
has been only moderate today and
fluctuations have been within ner.
row range. Prices at the closing ars
about the same as yesterday. Spots
are steady and unchanged with salee
of only 800 bales.
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On the produce exchange today, the butter
market was unchanged. Creamery, 14k@l7H:
dairy, n@Ahc. Eggs, firm, l0Ac
st Louis.
81 Louis, July G.-Flour-Dull unchanged.
Patents. S2s5@295
Wheat-Wa1 depressed, closing Xc Off No. 2
red cash 53A; July, 53Ac August. 52Hc; Sep
TENDER, 53Hc; December, 5Slsc.
Corn-Dul', unsettled &c off. No. mixed
cash, 4lc; July, 38zSe: ptember. 3S7sc.
Oats-Quiet and lower. No. cash. 40c.
July, 34e; August 28<c; September 2SXe
Rye-Quiet No. 2syot, Sic
Barley-Noihing doing.
Bran-Lower. DALI east track Gle.
Flax seed-s115.
CoveT-sz50a850.
Timothy-sl.4O
Hay-strong; prime to choice timothy sll0cs
0I3.0O.
Butier-s'aroe, frr; separator, i5Sl7c; choice
dairy, 14014He.
Eggs-Firmer: IKE.
Corn meal-S2 1902 Is
Whskey-SL20
Lead-Firm at $40
speter-Dull, SILK.
Cotton ties-S0c
Bagging-l3H lbs, 10 az lobs, 6X.
standard mess jObbinS. $780, 0HIs lard prime nfuS
steam, sS55; choice, s662lt; dry salt meats
loose shoulders, s6O0;o longs and ribs Sc 75.
shorts. $500 bacon. packed shoniTers'
g q. longs 81 50; ribs, 81 !; ssoIIs. s7.SS&
'r"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
MARKET: REPORTS.

the day was there any protyacted
period of depression or heavy pres
sure TO sell, except perhaps in sugar,
which monopolized nearly halt of the
entire business done. The opening
sales came with such a rush that the
STOCK ticker quoted them at 10000
from 90 1-2 To 96 and few minutes
later the price dropped to 95 IL, de-
cline OF SIS from yesterdays closing.
During the afternoon the shares re-
ceived some inside support, selling up
to SO s but the final sale was a re.
action OF 1-2 making q loss of / per
cent on the day.
The bond market was firm in the
morning, but closed weak, the princi,
pal changes being: Declines-St. Joe
and Grand Island tirsts, 33 8 4; st.
Paul ii. and D., rs, /; Tendessee coal
and iron, Green Bay and st. Paul in
Ohio Southern AZ, and Louis
Vile ana st. Louis, AZ 8; Atlantic and
Pacific incomes l. 4, and Louisville,
New Albany consols per cent. Ad-
Island tirsts per cent.
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Strike of Farm Laborers.
Special to The Statesman.

PARIS, Tex, July 5.-There was &
lively strike 10 miles west of here on
the hay farm of United States Mar
snail Williams Tuesday. The griev
ance was that George Oglesby, the
manager of the farm, had employed a
negro. The white men, 40 in number,
demanded the discharge of the negro,
which Oglesby refused to do, where
upon they quit yesterday. There was
a fight or two Last night an officer
was telegraphed for as incendiaris m
and biOodshed were threatened. Dep.
uty Sheriff Joe billiard went up ard
arrested William McGrath and r. 2.
Collins. They were held here until
this afternoon, when Oglesby wired
that no would not prosecute them.
They were then released.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12

MEMPHIS.
MEMPHI', July 6,-Cotton quiet.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago

chicago
CHICAGO, July 6.-Wheat continued
its decline today under the depressing
influence of the strikes and closed rs
lower. Corn closed 1.2c lower
Oats 3'S lower for September and
provisions at q slight decline. In the
wheat pit the strike situati IN was the
all absorbing topic and that the labor
messages and that the fear of the
same spreading caused O good deal OF
apprehension.
Corn was quiet within 33 range
The market was weak at the close Oh
strike situation.
Oats were weak on selling pressure.
The range was 1-2 for July. Provis.
ions were very dull and easy with
wheat.
Compared with last night Septem-
Der pork Is 10 lower; September lard
2 l-2 lower and September ribs at s
lower: Lake lines are taking corn to
Buffalo ut lc.
Estimated receipts for tomorrow
Wheat, car; corn, 35 cars; oats, 20
cars; hogs, none.
Leading futures ranged as follow:
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QUOTATIONS AND STATISTICS.
LIVERPOOL.
SPOT.

.ivER DOL, July GA p. m.-Closing cotton,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
SHORT SESSIONS

Of Both the Senate and House Held
Yesterday at Washington.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The senate
held a short session today and adj
iourned at 1 35 until Monday without
having transacted any business of inn
portance
THE HOUSE.
The bill for the state taxation of
greenback occupied the attention of
the house all day and it was passed by
very large majority. The only point
of interest in the days proceedings
was the taking of the tariff bill from
the speakers table and its reference to
the ways and means committee, but
was unattended by any break or
excitement or remarks. The house
took a recess until 8 o'clock, the even
ing session being devoted to private
pension bills.
MR.. WILSON'S PLAN,
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The ways
and means committee met at 2 o'clock
and took up the tariff bill. Chairman
Wilson and his Democratic associates
endeavored to report back to the
HUuso dU ODC6 Ill IANOr VI ul5tJST60-
ment with the senate, but Mr.. Reed
and his associates insisted on reading
the senate amendments. Mr.. Wilson's
plan was made clear later in the day
when he introduced the following spe-
cial rule:
Resolved, That after the passage of
the resolution the committee on ways
and means shall be discharged from
further consideration of house bill No.
1865 with senate amendments thereto,
and the same shall be considered in
the bill. After the two hours of gen.
eral debate it shall be in order in the
house to move to non.concur in the
senate amendments to said bill in
gross and agree to committee of con-
ference as asked Tor by the senate
on the disagreeing votes for the two
houses, and the house shall without
further delay proceed to vote on said
bill.
The committee on rules will meet at
ll:30 tomorrow morning to consider
this rule, which will be reported
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stoeks and Bonds.

NEW YORK, July III view of the
continuance OF the strike and the fact
that the strikers show no signs of
weakening the share speculation is
remarkably firm. At the opening the
trading was heavy chiefly owing to re-
ceipts of selling orders of London,
which 1t was at first thought was due
to the feeling of alarm created in the
foreign speculative breast by the con-
gested state Of railway labor here, but
which was subsequently discovered
were due to the announcement of the
suspension of London banking
house, which caused Americans on
the London bank exchange to yield
slightly.
After the first furry the market
steadied itself and at no time during
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British Consols.
New York Money.

New. York, July 6-Money on call easy, per
cent last loan, per cent; closed at per cent;
prime mercantile paper, 24@4l2c; sterling ex.
change steady With sexual business in bank
ers bills, at S4SSA for demand and S487A
for GO days; posted rates, SisS@4 80H; CONNER
cial bills 1886 Silver certificates, S64G65.
Bar silver, 62K; Mexican dollars 5l3S.
Total sale OF stocks today were los. AL shares
Gone 10 Bank.
London, July 6The amount Of bullion
gone into the Bank of England on balance today
Is Ell, 900.
Bank Clearings.
New Orleans, July 6.-Clearngs, 81, $3.50, J40
New York exchange commercial 81 per 1000
premium; bank $3.50 per 1000 premium.
Memphis July 6-New York exchange sell
Ing at Sl.00 premium; cleaIings, S26s, 49,
balances, S65,4S8
New York. July Bank clearings Ssl ,39l,-
sos; balances &c, 1856, sos.
French Rentes.
Paris, July 6.-Three per cent rentes lOOf
75c for the account.
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The Fourth at Eagle 7ass .
special to The Statesman.

op5yIaI % IHt oIdItHMHU.
EAGLE PASS, July 5.-Tbe Ameri-
can veterans celebrated the 4th with q
barbecue. Patriotic speeches were
made by Colonel Sparks, Mr.. VIM.
Ferguson, Colonel Prouty and others.
The veraDs we're admODiehed in these
days Of strikes and defiance to au-
thority to remember that it ia their
special duty to maintain the institu-
tions of American freedom, to foster
patriotism and love of country, that
the Union commemorated by the
blood of their comrades may endure
forever.
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour. frmer
winter patents, S2S0a90; winter straights, 400
No spring wheat b5Isc; No. spring wheat
nom'l; No. red. t5kc; No. Q corn 4OKc:
No oats l8c; No. q white 47@4Sc;
No white, nominal; No. rye.
45@46G No. barley nominal; No. 3, nom'l;
No. 4, nominal No. l faxseed lao; prime
timothy seed, st75; mess pork per Dbl,
1880. lard yer 100 lbs s667S@G7O; short
ribs, sides QOosel. s6.t5@657K; dry saIted
shoulders (bOxed) S5 GO 6s71E; short clear sides.
(boxed) So 87h@7 90; whisky. distillers' finished
goods, per gal, 1920. No. Q yellow corn,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
NEW YORK.

The tender of today's deliveries were 1900
bales new docket and = bales Old dnnket
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-19
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Professor Max Muller, the philologist,
is 70 years old. He lives at Oxford, Eng
land, with his wife, who is an English
woman.
Hetty Green's son describes himself to
a reporter as "born a Quaker, brought
up q Protestant, educated a Catholic
and in business matters jew"
Sir Philip Currie, permanent chief of
the foreign Office, London, will shortly
marry Mrs. Singleton, favorably known
in literature under the name of Violet
Fame.
Sir Archibald Alison believes that the
great continental war cannot be long de-
layed. He means actually, of course.
The war has been going on on paper fol
a decade past.
Cornelius Vanderbilt never sees report
ers. He never attends public dinners OF
other functions. He seldom goes to his
clubs. In word, he avoids publicity ant
keeps himself in the background. He de
votes his time to his great railroad inter
ests, his home and his religion.
Dom Pedro, the eldest son of the Coun
and Countess d'Eu, is at present study
ing at the military academy at Vienna
his only associate there being the young
Prince d'Alencon The Count and Count
ess dEu have ordered that their sol
should never hear politics discussed.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-19
The Printers Devil.

Aldus Manutius, printer in Venice
to the holy church and the doge, en-
ployed a negro boy to help him in
his office. The boy was believed to
be an imp of satan and went by the
name of the printers devil" In or
der to protect him from persecution
and confute a foolish superstition,
Manutius made public exhibition of
the boy and announced that any one
who doubted him to be flesh and
blood might come forward and pinch
him to make sure. The mistaken
impression was removed, but before
this time the name printers devil"
had been attached to the boy and
was thenceforth applied generally to
the boyish assistants in a printing
office. Chicago Herald.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-19
The Sahara Railroad.

If the United States could cross our
continent with railroads, or if Russia
can span Asia with line of rails,
why cannot France cross the Sahara
desert with a railroad2 Possibly it
can. A beginning has been made in
that mammoth undertaking. But
the difficulties are incalculable. AS
soon as those that are now known
shall be overcome others will arise.
Consider for an instant the enormous
obstacles to making a railroad 800
miles long through territory with
out wood or tics, without water, with
out everything required to sustain
life.
Railroads have been constructed
through countries to which all the
materials required have had to be
carried. But here is a country which
does not even supply water for the
men who must do the work. The
sandstorrls that have buried thou
sand caravans are liable to arise and
wipe out all traces of man and his
work. Yet this stupendous work is
now seriously contemplated by the
French government. When it is un-
dertaken, the rails will be laid from
oasis to oasis, which lie like islands
in the great ocean of the desert. As
it approaches the south the trunk
line may be divided-one arm to run
to Lake Tchad and the other to strike
the Niger above Tlmbuctoo, from
which point steamers could descend
to Seregambia. The work may cost
hundreds or even thousands of mil
lions of dollars. New York Mail and
| Express.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-19
The Onimm POppY.

Opium, from which morphia is OBJ
tanned, is extracted from the milky
juice of the opium poppy. The juice
is obtained by making slight incisions
in the capsule while in a green but
fullgrown state The juice soon
hardens and is scraped off, formed
into balls. The seeds are free of mar
cotic qualities and may be eaten.
The plant has become naturalized in
almost all temperate and subtropical
climes, and attains height of from
three to four feet. The various colored
flowers which are borne appear in
July. In endeavoring to prevent the
use of opium the government of
China in 1889 destroyed great guam
tity, the property of British mer
chants, which led to the first war be-
tween these two great countries, re-
sulting in the opening of that great
empire to the trade and commerce of
the world. Exchange.
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The Doctors Story.

Canon MacColl quotes a remark
able case related to him by a physi'
clan who had been a pupil of Sir
Charles Bell, the eminent author of
The Bridgewater Treatise on the
Hand" Sir Charles used to tell the
following story to his class: "A
surgeon who went over the field of
Waterloo after the battle found a
man lying with his scalp cut off by a
saber stroke. He picked up the scalp
and finding the man breathing,
though unconscious, he ordered him
to be placed among the wounded,
clapping at the same time the sew
cred scalp on his head in order that
it might be buried with him, for he
did not expect that the poor man
would recover. The following day,
however, he found the man conscious
and his scalp adherng to his head,
but with the ends reversed, for the
surgeon, thinking the man was dy-
ing, took no pains to fix the scalp
properly. The man recovered, but
had to wear his scalp the wrong end
forward. "-London News.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-19
pineann1eNa La Mode.

A good story is told Of an old cap
tain" of a mine i'll Cornwall. He had
received as a present a splendid pine
apple. A few days afterward the
donor met him, and the following
colloquy ensued:
Hope you like the pineapple l sent
your"
well, yes, thankee, pretty well.
But suppose we sort of people are
not used to them fine things and
don't know how to eat EN-"
why, how did you eat it?" asked
the gentleman.
well" said the man, we boiled
EN-"
Boiled It'll" said the gentleman in
horror, thinking of his pineapple.
Yes, we boiled 'em with a leg OF
mutton. London Tit-Bits.