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Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
Country Produce.

 Cabbage-11ac per pound. Apples-Per barrel $225Q2.75. Onions--Per pound, 11sc. Cotton seed-Per ton, N.00. f. 0. b. Cotton seed hulls-Per ton, $6.OO. Cotton seed meal-$l8.5O per ton. Irish potatoes-50Q60c per bushel. Sweet potatoes-50c per bushel. Butter-Country, 15Q2Oc per pound; Jer- sey., ,30Q35c.
 Peas-Iady. s1.75 per bushel; white crowd CT, $1.00: mixed, 75c Dried appies-Peeled. S1kc per pound. Poultry-Large flyers. 15Q17c; broilers, g Q10c: cocks. 15c; hens, 25c. Eggs-20c per dozen. Evaporated peaches-7k4S19c Vinegar--Apple. 12laQ1Sc; pure double strength, 20425c.
 Hay-Guinea grass, small bales, s12.50 per ton; German millet, small bales. s15.oo per ton; German millet, from wagons 40q6Oc per hundred; No. Timothy, $15.00 No. Timothy, $16.00; choice to fancy, $17.0O.
 Hides, Wool, Etc. Hides--Green salted, 5d6c. Hides--Dry flint, 7Q9c. Hides-Dry salted, 6QSc. Beeswax-24c per pound.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
St. Louis.

St. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 3O-Flour was un- changed.
 Wheat was higher; December, 55sc; May. 59kc.
 Corn was unchanged.
 Oats were higher; December, 16ssc; May, 19Ac.
 Pork-Standard mess, new, $9 12R. Lard-Prime steam, $5.20 choice, S5.25. Bacon-Shoulders, $5.25; longs, $5.121a; clear ribs, S512h short clear sides, $5 Dry salted meats-Shoulders. S4.75; longs si5O; clear ribs, s4.621a; short clear sides. s475.
 High wines were steady at s1.22.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
No,v vor,, Ootton Market.

New York, Dec. 3O.-Cotton was dull; mid ding gulf Skc; middlng uplands, Sho: net receipts 1910 bales; gross receipts, 84e4 bales exports to Great Britain, 3555 bales; exports to the continent 1885 bales; forwarded, 956 bales; sales, 730 bales: spinners, 126 bales; stock, actual, 17S634 bales.
 Total today: Net receipts. 37,962 bales;
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, La, Dec. SO.--Cotton futures cember nominal; January, 7.79; February, 7.S7; March, 790; April, 7.94 May 799; June, SOP; July, S.06; August, 799; September, 7U; October. 762
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
Rates of Exchange.
Birmingham Clearing House Rep

New York exchange rates rule from 50 gents discount to par.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
THE MARKETS.

[ State Herald Office, Dec. 30, 1895.
 Money in the local market is in active de- mand at from to s per cent, according to the security offered
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31

4Be;- cut-loaf and crushed, 5lkc; granulated,
 Freights to Liverpool-Market firm and quiet; cotton by steam 1sd asked; grain, 31ad asked.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
Local Cotton Market.

Clearings S94, ,6S4 59 Last year ....,,., ............ ...... 66, ,637 75
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31

Strict middling ......... ......... ..........79s MluullnB ...-.... ..''....'I
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31

In Wall Street. New York, Dec. SQ--The opening of the
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31

pork closed 221ac higher, May lard 10Q12kc and May ribs 714c higher.
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31

The visitors find the best schools and
schoolhouses in the country well-built
churches and places of public amuse-
nent and the beginnings Of public
libraries. These cities have come to In
diana since the war. and many of them
have come during the past ten years.
The rural portions of the State are as
much interested in the welfare of these
prosperous and growing cities as are
those who dwell IN them, as they have
done more TO create diversified agri-
culture than all other markets. These
cities are the best hope of the future
for the farms of Indiana.
In this connection the Journal may
be par6oned when it adds that these
cities are too important and that each
has too valuable a future of its own
to harbor the small envy of rivalry. All
of them cannot grow alike, but it is bet
ter TO have a city of fifteen thousand
people, with a steady growth. with a
population free from pauperism, than a
city Of 100000 by forced growth. which
brings all the ills of feeble industries
and partially employed people who
do not own their homes. So much being
said, it may be added that Muncie is
one of the cities of which all Indiana
may be proud, and of which all those
who attended the encampment speak in
admiration of the public spirit displayed
by its citizens the past week. The en-
tertainment was successful because its
leading business men gave their atten-
ton to their guests. They left nothing
undoEe to please their visitors and one
of the reasons of Muncie's prosperity is
that its business men are public spirited
citizens who have the good sense to act
in harmOnv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31

years as draughtsman IN lace factory. He
then enlisted I'm the army. He was such
prolific writer that volume of new verse
from his pen appeared almost every year
tie also composed many of the tunes 70
which his songs are sung.
Moliere still holds his own with the Paris
public against all Corners. A performance of
lie Bourgeois Gentiihomme' given recent
ly at the Conique Franchise brought the
largest receipts ever taken at single per-
formaIce there. According to the tradi-
tons of the house. every member of the
company, whether societaire or pensionaire.
must appear in the burlesque ceremonial
with which this comedy ends.
Mr.. Thomas Hardy says. In his preface to
the edition of Tess" that the de-
seriptions of landscapes. of prehistoric anti
quities and OF old English architecture to
be found in his books have all been done
from the real He has drawn map of
Wessex for this volume-which volume is
the first uniform edition of his works. The
new novel will be included in 1t. He has
written preface for each story.
The tercentensry of Tasso will be OBJ
served at Rome by an exhibition of manu-
scripts. relics, and works relating TO the
poet. This VIII take place in the Convent
of SAINT Onofrio, where he died in 1896 The
Minister of Public Instruction, DIR. Bacceli.
has established competition for the best
work on Tasso to be written by students in
the Italian universities The prizes will be
awarded on the Capitol, where the poet
was to have been crowned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
THE ONION TONIC CO."
LITERARY NOTES.

Hamline Garland. is writing a story of
Dakota life.
Mr.. Howells's new volume of poems,
STOPS of Various Quills," is nearly ready
for publication.
1t is said of Paul Bourget, who is extreme
flattery of women.
The concordance to the Psalter which Mr.
Gladstone constructed nearly fifty years
ago has just been published for the first
time.
Jeanette Glider says that Robert Louis
Stevenson never found the discussion of IL
licit love necessary to the strength of a
story
Rudyard Kipling has been spending sew
eral weeks at the capital. He has been
making close study of George Washington
relics.
1t is reported here that among the unpub-
lished manuscripts of Stevenson has been
found a complete volume, entitled Letters
to Boy of Twelve.
1t is said that while Robert Louis Steven
son received large sums for the serial rights
of his stories, he did not get much money
from these works when reprinted in book
form.
Mary Cowden Clarke. the compiler of the
Concordance to Shakespeare" is now eighty
six years old. but in spite of her age
takes vivid interest in life and books She
lives in Genoa.
One of the most polished writers of the
colored race is Rev. Alexander a. Crummel
for years professor in Liberia College, w.
A. He was educated at Oxford College,
England. and until lately was rector of ST.
Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church, Wash
ington, ID. G.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana has edited, revised,
and added to his lectures on the making Of
a newspaper, which viii be published in
book form by the Messrs. Appleton. Few lee
lures have attracted more attention than
these by the editor of the Sun, and the book
is sure to have a wide reading
David Christie Murray. the English novel;
ist, who has taken up a residence in New
York, has a strong intellectual face. and is
thought to resemble Henry Ward Beecher.
He IS better equipped than most literary
men for giving public readings. as he is a
fine elocutionist and clever actor.
The Gentleman's Magazine, the first num-
Der of which was published in 1871, was the
first English periodical ever to appear under
the name of magazine" Ii has regularly
continued every month to the present time:
The word margarine is slightly altered
form of the Arabic word for storehouse,
.smaehazfn.'
August. Lustig, the Alsatian dialect poet
who has lately died, was 2 most popular
citizen or Afuahausen. He was born Ia 1870
A HartmanneNeiler. and served for some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
'1NDIANA,s GROWING CITIES.

Two or three years ago, when the
Grand Army adopted the plan of hold
ing its annual encampments in other
cities than Indianapolis, the Journal ap-
proved the change. not because Indian
apolis would not give the representa-
tiyes of the veterans an annual well
come. but because it appeared that it
would be an excellent thing to have
these meetings held in any of the dozen
or fifteen cities in different parts of the
state The reasons then assigned were
that it would afford the people in each
section of the State opportunity to see
more of the men and women of the war
period than they otherwise could, and
give to tens of thousands of the present
generation an object lesson in patriot
ism. The plan has been attended with
greater success than could have been
reasonably expected. Four cities have
already entertained the encampments
rovaIly--Fort Wayne, Evansville, La
favette and Muncie. Not the least. of
the advantages of the plan is that the
naonle who go to these cities on these
occasions obtain correct impressions of
the Indiana cities OF this oeriod. They
laa,n that these cities are no longer
struggling villages. hut cities with fine
residences. business blocks. good hotels.
electric. street cars. large manufactur-
ing interests, and made UP largely Of
the homes of PEOPLE who own them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER.
A Dreadful Calamity to Have to Live
I'm the House with One.

New York Evening Sun.
Some Gay, when the punishment is fixed
to fit the crime, the worst thing that can
befall a criminal will not be death by cleo
tricity or hanging, or even by drawing
quartern~. No. the most henious of Of
processes as these. He will be doomed
to dwell under the same roof with an anna
teur photographer, and the worse the crime.
the more enthusiastic will be the amateur
photographer and the smaller viii be the
roof that covers them. It is only under
conditions limited as to space that the anna
teur photographer rises to his full powers
of diabolical ANNOYANCE. He is not a pleas
ant companion at any time, this amateur
whose talk is all Of plates and processes.
whose fingers and clothes are fearfully
wonderfully and chemically affected. and
whose mind is all ana always upon the
one topic. But when he is at close range
he is particularly and unspeakably awful.
Every room in the house Is turned into a
dark room, should he so demand IL, bath
rooms preferred, as having running water
and being especially inconvenent for the
rest of the household. Furniture and hang
ings are looked upon as merely so many
scenic accessories Many time entrance
is denied callers because the halls and
drawing room are in the act Of being taken.
That valuable utensil, the clothes horse.
is no longer available for laundry service.
When draped with curtains, there's nothing
like them for "a background, says he of the
camera. The worst and most humiliating
time of ALL however, Is when the amateur
photographer is seized with passion for
portralture, and insists upon perpetuating
the features of his unfortunate family in a
manner as revolving TO art as II is 70 van
ity. He thinks nothing. either of display
ing these awful lkenesses upon all occa-
sions, his mind being concerned only with
their technical instead of their personal as
pect. Only the strongest ties of affection
can render his presence at all supportable.
He Is simply an infiicton and q torture.
His true place In society Is beside the
thumb-screw, the gallows or the whipping
post. where no would at least be of some
practical service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31


the changes Of the moon and sort OF
periodicity In the changes of weather, but
there Is no connection between the two.
A moons quarter is roughly equivalent TO
week, and meteorological observers have
noticed a tendency n the weather to
change and repeat itself every seven DIS
That this periodicity. if it really exists.
has any connection with the changes OF
the moon Is purely conjectural and fanciful.
high astronomical authority says:
When close comparisons are made be-
tween the moons positions and records OF
rainfall and wind direction. dim indications
or relation exhibit themselves, but in every
case where an effect has been traced it has
been of the most insignificant kind. and
no apparent connection mas been recognized
between one effect and another. Certainly
there is nothing that can support the ex-
tensive popular belief in lunar influence en-
weather, and nothing that can modify the
conviction that this belief. as at present
maintained, is an absurd delusion.
If the idea that the moon has direct
and controlling influence on the weather is
absurd the idea that it has such an infiu-
ence on vegetation is still more so. There
is no more connection between the changes
of the moon and the growth of plants than
there is between the movement OF clouds
and the flight of birds, or between the
fashion of spring bonnets and the average
rainfall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31

1t is great pity that Miss Anna
Dickinson's name and fame should be
clouded in her later days by the sad
disclosures of her damage suit. All the
testimony, including her own, goes to
show that she is 81 moral and mental
wreck, though she retains enough of
her once brilliant mind to make fight
that would be worth watching If 1T were
not SO pathetic. 1t is probable that her
mind was beginning to lose its poise at
the tine she determined. contrary to the
adj &c of all her friends, to go upon the
s. ge. Her utter failure as an actress
y ded in her breakdown, and her wild
charge that the newspaper critics had
formed a conspiracy against her was
proof OF her loss of judgment. AS a
matter of fact, Miss Dickinson had the
friendship of the press, and nowhere
would she have received quicker recogni-
tion had her histrionic efforts been
worthy of praise. She is naturally
woman of intense nervous energy, and
her early career in the lecture field
offered her an outlet for her dramatic
power that was closed when the cause
for which she labored no longer needed
her. No other subject ever inspired her
as did the questions of the war, and
her talent frittered itself away until it
was beyond recovery. Her case is a
tragic one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Honest money is the noblest work of a
government.-Philadelp Press.
oh, if we but had watchdog of the State
Observation-Disclosures North Ameri-
can.
We have never met pessimist to whom
the bright side of a dollar seemed dark
Puck.
Getting most out of life consists mainly
in allowing worry to get the least.-Balti-
more American.
The Allison presidential boom has in
Cured the support of Charles A. Dana
Chicago Dispatch.
We are slow to find out that long before
we were born the devil learned how to hide
his cloven hoof.-Rams Horn.
The young onion is now in the market
and the confirmed vegetarian is growing
stronger day by day.-Chicago Post.
People who want to get their pictures in
the newspapers should apply to the patent
medicine men.-Atlanta Constitution.
Sign in front of clothing store in Texas
town: lowing to the low price of cotton,
all-wool suits marked down to .9S."--Life.
Just because her home life doesn't happen
to be happy, Spain needn't think she can
be cross with strangers.-Detroit Free
Press.
Helen Gould goes ahead acquiring knowl-
edge like a young woman who intends to
quarantine against the title craze.-Wash-
ington Post.
Mr.. Joaquin Slllier appears 10 tiililh IHdt
poetic license entities a man to make an
eggregious Democratic party of himself.
Kansas City Journal
Anna Dickinson demanded 81. 900 from
Jay Gould and universal suffrage from
Governor Pattison, but received neither.
--Pittsburg ChronicIe-Telegraph.
"You don't seem to hold very high opin-
ion of the latter-day woman Il don't.
She has ceased tn be a lady and has not
yet succeeded in becoming gentleman"
Life,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31

one OF the greatest areas Of arid land.
has left the matter entirely to state
governments, and the result is that not
only has irrigation up to date failed Of
extensive development, but what has
Deen done IN many cases has been i'll
done and will have to be largely reor-
ganlzed before the best results can be
obtained The board which has just
Deem appointed consists of five officials
or the Agricultural and Interior depart
ments who have given special attention
TO the subject, both on its practical and
scientific side. and its work is likely TO
prove valuable. 1t does not involve the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
A PARIS MILITARY PANIC.
Remarkable Scene i'm that City ON the
Day of Cnrnof's Funeral.

Richard Harding Davis in Harpers Maya
zine.
The unpleasant incident of the day was
one which was unfortunately acted In full
view or the balconies of the hotels Meu-
rice and Continental These were occupied
by most of the foreigners visiting Paris.
and were virtually the grand stands OF the
spectacle.
In the Rue CastiglIone. which separated
the two hotels. and in fun sight of these
critical on-lookers. a horse was taken with
the blind staggers and upset stand.
the street In an instant the crash of the
falling timbers and the cries of the half
cipitated into the street struck panic into
the crowd OF sightseers on the pavement
moment marching past. The terror of an
other dynamite outrage was in the minds
bad 6a All Ia ana WITHOUT WARNS 10 ie tb bn
sands of people broke into a confused mass
of screaming terrified creatures, running
madly in every direction and changing the
quiet solemnity of the moment into a scene
of horror and panic. The fremen dropped
with the crowd: and then the French sol
diers who were lining the pavements. to
leans and English on the balconies. who
were looking down like spectators
at a. play. tucked their guns un-
mad rush for safety. 1t was a sight that
made even the women on the balconies Keep
silence in shame for them. IL was pathetic,
ridiculous and inexcusable, and the boy
officers on. duty would have gained the
sympathy OF the unWlHHlS. Spettdlof6 Htu
they cut their men down with their swords.
and shown the others that he who runs
away from a falling grandstand is not
needed to live to fight a German army later.
1t is true that the men who ran away were
only boys fresh from the provinces, with
duh minds filed with the fear OF what an
Anarchist might do; but it showed a lack
of discipline that should have made the di-
rectors of the salon turn the military pic
lures in that gallery to the wall. until the
picture exhibited in the Rue de Castiglione
was effaced from the minds of the visiting
m y a a
policemen running away from horse with
the blind staggers. and not, on the con-
trary, Selling the chance to club every one
within reach back to the sidewalk. Re-
member the London bobby who carried
dynamite bomb in his hand from the nall
of the House of Parliament, and the Chi
cago police who walked into a real Anarch-
list mob over the bodies of their comrades,
and who answered the terrifying bombs
with the popping of their revolvers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
AMERICAN CAmELs INCREASING
Despite the Fact That They Arc
Butchered and Sold reef.

San Francisco Examiner.
F. NJ. Campbell. who has been for some
time at the famous Gunsight mine.
the line OF southern Arizona, says the cam
els of the desert are increasing very rap
idly, and that there are now between three
and four hundred of them. This is surpris-
ing. he says, considering the large number
that have been killed and palmed off for
beef in the last few years, and the inroads
made upon the bands by passing showmen.
Mr.. Campbell gave some interesting details
of these tawny denizens of the waste
places, introduced many years ago by
Ben Butterworth and now grown wild.
These hulking animals he said. roam
rivers. in stretch of the low Eagle Tail
mountains and the desert adjoining. There
is very fine bunch grass in that region, and
the camels keep in good condition. L have
several times seen as many as eight often
in band, and most of them very large.
Different persons have been there from
time to time catching them for the circuses.
That is the source of supply now for all
the shows. The hunters go out in bands
of half a dozen ON mules, as horses would
be of no account. The camels, cumbersome
as they look, run very fast. and only mules
are enduring enough in that tough coun-
try to wear them out The hunters stretch
out, surround band, and out of ten or
dozen manage to cut out and stay by
couple, wearing them out and catching
them finally with lassos. The camels are
very wild at first. but speedily tame down.
and the showmen 2an do anything they
please with them.
Il was for nearly two years there min
ing, and myself and men were furnished
with camel meat right along and thought
it very good. We paid % cents pound for
a good deal of it, and we thought 1T as
good as beef we had usually eaten. The
old prospectors, who had turned to peddiing
meat, never said word to us, but took
their pay regularly to go away and come
back again. At last we found out it was
nothing but the camefs meat which they
were furnishing U.S. Then we began to
draw the line.
IF the meat sellers and circus people
would let the camels alone for awhile they
would increase much faster. The animals
are interesting to see on the desert, and do
no harm"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31

The Harvard faculty having decided
against football the Harvard Advocate
threatens awful things as a result. 1t says:
Healthy and athletic college men will
hardly be content to sit still and pore over
their books for the three months before
Christmas without any excitement. If they
are not allowed the excitement of football,
it is too likely that they will seek the UNI
healthier excitement of dissipation. And
not only will many men who now play foot
ball, and keep straight, go to the devil if
football is given up, but they will drag down
with them a good many more. 1t takes
more than one man to gamble, and it usual
ly takes more than one to go into town.
And as football men are and will be- with or
without football, the most popular men in
the classes, weak-minded persons will take
a peculiar pride and pleasure in walking
the primrose path in their company" This
is very funny and boyish. If the writer of
that paragraph happens across it ten years
hence he will turn two or three colors and
wonder how he could ever have been such
idiot.