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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18
THE COTTON MARKETS.

1856. Lard, S3dS5SO. Short-rib sides,
50. 60qS3S So; dry-salted shoulders, 425d$i50;
short clear sides, SdAl2ls Whiskey. Sis.
THE COTTON MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL. November 7.-12:30 p NJ.
cotton-Demand moderate; American mid
ding 4 lS-52d; sales. lOc0 baies-Ameri-
can. $500 bales; speculation and export.
$3.50 bales; receipts, 1900 baIes-American,
49, 200 bales.
Futures opened quiet demand moderate:
American middling. low-middling clause.
November, 20-64ft4 21-Gid.. November ard
December, 16-G4di ibid: December and
January, li-6ilf4 l5-6id.; January and
February. l3-5fQl 12-64d.; February and
March. 1l-6ia4 12-6id.; March and April,
( 12-64lH lied; April and May. 4 12-6ig
l3-64d. May and June. 13-6iQ4 ii-6id.:
June and July. 13-64d.; July and August.
li-6iel4 15-e$d.
Futures steady.
4 =. M.-American middling. November.
4 20-6id. November and December,
l7-6id.. sellers; December and January,
4 1i-64Gl4 l5-Ad., sellers; January and Feb
ruary. 415-G4d.. sellers; February and
March, l2-6ldi l3-64d.. sellers: March and
April, 4 l2-6id.; April and May. 4 l2-Stp
l3-eid., value: May and June, l3-6id.,
buyers; June and July. l3-64frf 1850,
buyers; July and August, ii-6iaf l5-6id.,
sellers.
Futures closed quiet.
NEW YORK. November n-Cotton--
Middling Gulf, Sc: middling. &c; net re-
ceipts, 2.0s6 bales; gross receipts, 1908
bales; Forwarded, 1893 bales; sales. 80
bales; spinners, 10 bales; stock. 2ool46
bales.
Totals to-day: Net receipts. 59024 bales;
exports-to Great Britain. $40 bales; TO the
Continent. 6.9s7 bales; 10 the Channel none;
stock. l,1O6.3C6 bales.
Totals so far this week: Net receipts.
155 92S bales; expOrts--to Great Britain.
g. g37 bales; 10 France, GO bales; 10 the
Continent, 1874 bales; TO the Channel.
none.
Total since September 1st: Net receipts.
3O52. 235; exports-to Great Britain. l,0S4,-
III bales; 10 France, 2l5,sS5 bales; to the
Futures closed quiet and steady; sales,
1856 400 bales; November, 40: December,
S.57: January, S.6I; February. N.7i;
March, S.Sl; April, N.S0; May, N.O; June,
1913; July, T.9.
NAVAL-STORE MARKETS.
WILMINGTON. n. c.. November IL
Rosin-Firm; strained, sl.55; good strain
| ed $3.50
Spirits Of Turpentine-Dull; machine and
| irregular. nothing doing.
Tar-F1rm at Sl.05.
Crude Turpentlne-FIrm; hard $40;
soft. 81; virgin. $l.D.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. November H.
Turpentine-Firm at 25i4c.; sales. none.
Rosin-Firm sales none. Il and G, $40;
ID and T., sl.i5; i and G, $50; ", N.55;
/ and X $50; NJ, $50; y. 81; window
glass, SEQ; water-whte. $40.
SAVANNAH. GA. November H-Tur-
pentine-Firm at 2ji4c.; sales. 1000 casks;
receipts, O45 casks
Rosin-F'irm at decline Of Sc. I'm F, @.
and II grades; sales, 400 barrels; receipts,
7.70l barrels: A. b. c. ID. and II, S.50; +,
sl.55; G. 81 80; II, 81 .65; / and X, $40; NJ,
'l.9O n. $40; window-glass. $3.50; water
white 81 co
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18

Cash quotations.: Flour quiet and easy
hard wheat, spring patents $500 Neo, In
wood; soft-wheat patents. si.l5qA.9e;
wheat, SSQSsiSc 10 2 corn. 2plG2ixc.
No. 2 oats, 1ShnlS%c. Mess pork, S.6ele
1856. Lard, s3.75Gx.S0 Short-rib sides,
50. 60qs3.S So; dry-salted shoulders, 81. 25d$45o;
short clear sides, sidSIl2h. Whiskey. Sis.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALMANAC. NOV is, 1896.
Sun rises ........655 HIGH TIDE
sun sets .......4:56 Morning .........3;55
Moon sets .......jOl Evening. ......"..3:3
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INTERESTING COMPARISON.

I. a q. Brown read carefully pre-
I l.ler reviewing the progress or
m within the bounds of the
conference from November 1880
November. 1876. which shows a mar
-r0wih ln all the interests Of the
lll
laI. here were 57,c5S members Of the
Church in tho Virginia Conference not
th1t part Of the conference Ia
"ola Carolina territory; In 1895 there
... .I-D-an increase Of IS per cent
I.. following comparative statistics
H tae growth Of Methodism I'm the
a chief cities within the bounds Of
conference:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18

Steamer Winyah. Simmons. Philadel-
phia. merchandise and passengers; J. w.
McCarrick, agent.
Steamer Virginia. Porter. Baltimores
merchandise and passengers; Baltimore
Steam Packet Company.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18
PORT or RICHMOND. NOV. II. 1876.
ARRIVED.

Steamer Virginia Porter, Baltimore.
merchandise and passengers, Baltimore
Steam-Packet Company.
steamer Pocahontds. Graves. Nor!Cik.
merchandise and passengers; virginia
Navigation Company.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-18

CHICAGO, ILL, November 17.-Bull
news did not count In wheat to-day. nor
was bull effort productive OF any result.
Wheat was for sale at all times and at all
prices, and the demand was without ener-
~. The puts" were the principal sup
against those privileges, there Is scarcely
any doubt but that greater decline than
thai vhich took place would have been re-
corded.
december wheat opened at from IA TO
Tie. sold between Is and l6sc., and
The Press., 1896-04-09

eff had my way, would smash ev- cry woman's thermometer p exclaimed an irate physician who had been rCu. ed from his slumbers in the dead of night by a nervous lady. She had found that her little instrument registered fever heat, and although she felt only slight indispOsition she fancied herself serious ly i'll and sent post haste for the doctor
 "In my opinion, the laity have no business with professional implements; !; they are too ignorant and toO panicky. Many a time a thermometer, for in- stance, will register heat from some To- cal cause when there is little or TO fe- yer. Another time when 1 was sent for at night after l was comfortably asleep by a frightened mother, found the child had only canker spot in the mouth, which, of course, produced irri- tation and heat, and consequently affect cd the thermometer. Another one of my patients bought new fever thermom- eter the other day, and it was delivered at the house just as the children were starting for matinee. While they were waiting for the carriage she foolish1y puU lA0 GuU0 III GLO uOuCu OA OuO OI lAO little girls, to test it. To her conster- nation, it registered 1O21a. You are ill, Maud!' she exclaimed. You cannot possibly go to the play.
 "The child who apparently was per fectly well, protested, and then began to howl with disappointment, but it was of no use; the mother was convinced that there was some incipient malady, so the party WAS broken up, the poor lit tie martyr was put to bed and I was sent for When I arrived, found no traces of fever whatever, only the hys- terical remains of crying fit, brought on by disappointment. What caused the rise in temperature? can't say. Per- haps the excitement after eating, for they had just had their luncheon and were wild about the theater. ''-New York Tribune.
The Press., 1896-04-09
Hall Gaines Idea.

At dinner given by the Aldine club of New York to Hall Caine that gentle man said regarding the relations be- tween Canada and the United States:
 ''The relations between Canada and the United States may sometimes be a little strained, but there seems, to an Englishman, to be no sufficient reason why two great nations should not live in friendly rivalry on this great conti- nent. I came here, sir, by way of Mi agara, where the river that divides your country from Canada looks angry and impossible enough. But dare say you have noticed that in that watery horse shoe angle, where the breach between the two countries is widest, the sun can never shine on the clouds of vapor which rise out of those troubled waters with out making beautiful rainbow, which bridges land to land.
 "Gentlemen and brother authors, in the most troubled moment between Can ada and the United States, it only needs the sunshine of good faith and good fel- lowship to bridge over the differences between you
The Press., 1896-04-09

CLAsPED HANDS AND CHARAoTER.-Just clasp your hands quickly. Don't stop to do it with intent. Clasp them. How did you do it :? If you are woman, natural ly you clasped them with the left thumb outside the right, and the fingers as inter- laced w"re nearer you than the right one; that is, beginning with the digit nearest you, thumbs and fingersI would be ar ranged in this order: Left thumb, right thumb, left forrfinger, middle right fore finger, middle left finger, middle right finger, third left finger, third right finger, little left finger, little right finger.
 If you are the man who absolutely dom- mates woman, then the order was pre- cisely reversed. Where the order of thumbs and fingers read left, in describ- ing the order of the masculine fingers it would be right.
 If the man should be classed under the popular term of "henpccked." he will clasp his ha uls just as the woman does, with the left thumb nearest him, and the fingers inter aced ill the same order.
 This funny fad arrived in Washington ill the brain of an Indiana young man forty eight hours ago. He brought it at some previous date from Europe. Tn | forty eight hours several hundred Ot men and women have been asked to clasp their hands. At Mime. Yang's reception groups of women stood around clasping and un- clasping their hands and wondering why they were doing so and what it meant At other receptions the samo sight was seen, until any one who wasn't in the se- cret might have imagined Washington had been suddenly struck with a devotional attitude
 No explanation comes with the simple
 little test Only it is 's:lid that in a marrh d couple tn" on" vino in cIaspirg hande and in; eracinG fling. r1 brings the right thumb nearest the body. with thr right fingers correspondlnl piar q u re- latiOn to the left fingers, viii b, hr don,- i member of that familv- Wne" | tO3l tStL7.
The Press., 1896-04-09
THE FAT CAPTAIN.
Ills Order, Its Method of Execution and
 the Boys Comment.

the Boys Comment.
 'Join the militia. if you wish, my boy," said the old man ln his kindly way, "but don't get in a company that has fat captain.'
 II don't see what difference that can make," returned the boy. "Do you mean to contend that a fat man can't be good soldier?"
 "Well, not exactly that, my boy," explained the old man. "but in some ways you will find the thin man or the man of medium build preferable. Didn't I ever tell you of my experience?"
 "Never."
 "Ah, that explains your doubts, then. You see, once had an ambition to wear a uniform and march behind a band, just like you, and joined a com pany that unfortunately had fat cap tain. No one thought of the captain par ticularly at the time the company was organized, but we all learned to look out for such trifles later. While we were in the armory it was all right and everything always passed off satisfac- torily, but when we began to drill out of doors-ah, then we found how seri- ous matter drilling with fat captain was"
 "But why?" asked the boy. 'You haven't told me that yet. '
 He'd lose his breath just at critical moments He'd start us out at double time and then get so winded himself that he couldn't stop us. Of course we would have to go on. We were too we'll drilled to stop until we received the or der to do so. remember once he start ed us out, lost his breath, was unable to order halt or to keep up with the column and we ran three miles before we stopped"
 "What made you stop then?" inquired the boy.
 i've ran into stone wall," replied the old man promptly.
 "Poohl Why didn't you scale it? You were nice kind of soldiers, you were. If I'd been your captain, I'd have court martialed the whole lot of you for dis obedience of orders. 7,
 Then the old man looked at the boy, and the boy looked at the man, and a chasm seemed to open up between them. They were DO longer friends. Chicago Post.
The Press., 1896-04-09
TIE DEVILS CODE.
Legend of 8 Monk, the Devil and Quick
 Nights Work.

Nights Work.
 Stockholm's s public library contains a wonderful work which is called "The Devils Code'' and which in addition to its extraordinary name is said to be the biggest manuscript in the world. Every letter is most beautifully drawn and the magnitude of the work is so great that it seems impossible for any single monk to have done it.
 The story of the origin of the manu- script, however, not only gives it as the work of one man, but also states it to be the work of single night. The story runs as follows:
 "A poor monk had been condemned to death, but was told mockingly by his judges that if he was able to copy the whole Code between darkness and dawn he would be saved. Relying upon the impossibility of the task, those who sentenced him furnished him with the original copy of the Code, with pen, ink and parchment and left him.
 "Death must have been as little liked in the middle ages as it is now, for the monk, forgetting the hopelessness of his task, commenced it. Before long, however, he saw that he could not save his own life by such weak exertions, and fearing cruel and horrible death he invoked the aid of the prince o1 darkness, promising to surrender his soul if he were assisted in the task.
 "The devil kindly obliged by appear. ing on the spot, accepted the contract and Sat down to tho work, and next morning The Devils Code was finished, the monk being found dead. The copy ing clerk from the internal regions pre- sumably fed away win the poor mans soul as soon as the wicked compact was finished. "-Pearson's Weekly.
The Press., 1896-04-09
Is MORPHEUS BAsHEuLi
Then Here Is . Pussy Cat Charm With | Which to Woo Him.

Which to Woo Him.
 A discussion has recently been carried on in The Vegetarian on the subject of the magneticpower of the cat. One gen. tleman writes:
 "Allow me, as one who often has sleepless nights and has tried every thing you suggest, to mention remedy which I have found above them all, and which you do not notice. It is simply to take a pet cat to sleep with one. Cats are the very best magnetizers and hyp- notists, and the safest. To obtain the remedy it will not do to take a cat into your bed and as soon as you have found relief neglect her. You must be kind to the cat before and after and make her your friend. She 5?1ll give you precious sleep. when all other remcdi z fail, and better than all put together. The cat is the truest friend of man, were man in- teliigent enough to know it, The Egyp- tians knew what we seem not to know. Do not force your cat to lie this way or that; let her take her own way. Do not even force her to come to you if she does not wish it, but let her be in the room, outside the bed. Sooner or later she will come in and nurse you as no other animal can. Even to look into the eyes or even the face of a cat will often pro- duce feeling of drowsiness, leading to sleep Cultivate the friendship of pussy, and you will never regret it. "
 As a pendant to the above, l may give the following incident which happened in my own family, and which shows how powerfully magnetic is the cats influence on it's prey. One morning my daughter (then quite a child), on going into the garden early, was surprised at seeing the favorite cat crouChing on the ground, perfectly motionless, with it's eyes fixed on a rat which maintained the same position opposite to her. So en- tirely was the latter trantfxed by the gaze of its enemy that it never moved when the child went quietly forward, and gently taking up the rat by the neck carried it into the adjoining yard. 1t re- mained quiet ill her hand, but on being placed on the ground, and man stupid ly taking hold of it by the tail, it inn mediately turned and bit him, being by that time aroused from it's stupor. That the ancient Egyptians hold 'the harm less, necessary cat'' in great veneration may be known from the mummied re- mains of the animal preserved in the British museum and elsewhere. They were even ill the habit of expressing their sorrow and respect by adopting outward signs of mourning when the family possessing a cat was deprived ot it by death. h.-London Light.
The Press., 1896-04-09
Queen Margh. rita's Views.

Queen Margherita of Italy holds the strictest Catholic views as to the nullity of both civil marriage and divorce. At the time when Signor C1ispi first was in power, not only were his two divorced wives still living, but also Donna Lima divorced husband. When at last Queen Margherita gave way to the pressure put on her to admit Donna Lima to court, she did so in these words "Very well Tell Signor Crispi I will receive his wife, but will receive only one of them, and it must always be the same oneP'
The Press., 1896-04-09
A Couraa Dinner.

"When open the front door upon my arrival home at night" said Mir. Flat by, II inhale the fragrant odor of a de- lightful soup. Passing in leisurely manner up the first flight of stairs, ] finish the soup at the second floor, and then find that the fish has been served. l take fish as I proceed along the hall and up the second flight of stairs. On the third floor find the roast and on the fourth a dainty dessert. When l reach my own floor, all really want is a cup of coffee and cigar New York Sun.
The Press., 1896-04-09

For plain, comprehensive and instruc- tive treatise on the subject of agricultural chemicals and fertilizing mixtures, from the pen of Connecticut specialist of ex- tensive practical experience as we'll as a thorough scientific knowledge of the sub ject, one should. read the pamphlet re- gently issued by Lucien Sanderson, of New Haven, in which the whole subject of crops, soils and fertilizers is treated and explained in a most interesting and profitable manner. MT. Sanderson has long been a manufacturer and compound CT of agricultural fertilizers and chemi- calls, and in this pamphlet are intelligently set forth the advantages and results of using what he distinguishes as his special formulas or brands of fertilizer, each for it's appropriate crop or class of crops. Accompanying this are liberal testimoni- als and endorsements, many of them illus trated, from users of these fertilizers in all parts of New England, demonstrating the soundness of MT. Sanderson's knowl- edge and methods as we'll as the value and demand for his goods. Connecticut Hn1s1nA0s
The Press., 1896-04-09
A Double Anniversary,

She-Do you remember what day this is the anniversary of?
 He-Well, should say did. She-I thought you would. He-Humph Who could forget the day his own house was burned? She-George
 He-What?
 She-It $ the day you proposed to me Tears and a scene. Watchword.
The Press., 1896-04-09
Real Endowment.

Simmons-You laughed at that dreary old yarn of Mudge's as if you really enjoyed it.
 Timmins---I did really enjoy it. It is one of my own jokes. Indianapolis Journal
The Press., 1896-04-09
COLLECTORS NOTICE.

All persons liable to pay a town tax of 20 mills on the dollar on the list of 1895, also military and poll tax, are hereby notified that I will be ready to receive the same at B. F. Maine's shoe and Friday, May 1st, 1896, from a. m. to p. m. !; at Post office, West Stafford, Tuesday, April 28, from 10 a. m. to p. m:; at Odell & Jones' store, Stanordvtlle, Wednesday, April 29th, from 10 a. m. to p. m.; at Russell Colburn's store, Staf- ford Hollow, Thursday, April 30th, from 10 a. m. to ? p: m.; and at Bidwell & Co.'S market, Staf- of April on the dates not specified above. All taxes are due April 1st, and are payable at par until May 1st, after which date int crest at per cent; per annum and legal fees for collection will be charged.
 AMOS N.. NICHOI S, Collector.
 Stafford, Conn.,, March 18th, 1896.
The Press., 1896-04-09
A Left Handed Compliment,

A certain rociety lady was designated as a social lemonade dispenser because she said so many sour things in a sweet way. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Press., 1896-04-09
ANECDOTES OF STURGEON.
How She Great English Preacher Came to
 Be R Smoker.

Some years ago was at hotel in Paris, and to my great delight found MT. Sturgeon ono wet afternoon in the smoking room. Eo was attending re- ligious confeG ence and was accompanied by kind of bodyRuard of elders and deacons, one or two of whom constantly watched him. Fortunately for me, none of them smoked, and when they mount ed their usual watch he literally choked them off in few minutes. l was there fore his sole audience on two or three occasions. I have known most of the good conveTsatiOnists and raconteurs of my time; but, except perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson, he was by far the best. l understand that a biography of MT. Sturgeon has lately appeared, but have not seen it and doubt if the author has preserved the following anecdote, which I venture to write down, as nearly as can remember. in his own words:
 "You wouldn't guess what calling I wanted to follow. l wanted to be a whipper in of hounds. Yes, there was never meet near where I was brought up without my attending, and many a 
 fields, and many a time was alone at the death. could not do it now"-and then he looked at his ample waistcoat and laughed. Inever heard more pleas ant laugn nor one more sympathetic and infectious. He continued
 "You wouldn't guess how came to be smoker. When was 16, went to my father and told him there was a va cancy, and that I should like to go in for it. "A vacancy for what?' he asked. For whipper in to the hounds, and I should be sure to get it.. He answered, very solemnly, Charles, my son, you should be whipper in of souls,' and he sent me down into the Fen country to preach ill the villages. When I came home, developed violent cold, with a good deal of fever and some twinges of rheum atism. I told my father all my experiences-howI had been receiv ed, how they had crowded in-but there was one thing in particular that dwelt on,
 II had observed ill e,ery cottage that the old people Sat in tho chimney cor ners and that t!,e table before me was ornamented with two long pipes, cross ed, between two jars Cf tobacco and tA7o hymnbooks. At one of these meetings, just as l was about to speak, an old man took up and filled a pipe, and then drawing hot cinder from the fire pro- ceeded to offer it to me. I gave him a look intended to wither him up, for allowed no levity"-here another laugh.
 "'I see, said my father, 'how you have acquired that heavy cold. When was better, I started on another tour, but before left home my father said in his most impressive tones, Charles, my son, if they fill and light pipe for you, smoke it. If they don't, fill and light for yourself. And, in any case, don't keep them from their tobacco. In that climate and at this time of year smok- ing is your best protection against te' verish colds '-London Realm.
The Press., 1896-04-09

Dr. c. F. Scott, the state veterinarian of Wisconsin, says that when the gold enrod is eaten by horses it produces g fatal disease similar to consumption.
The Press., 1896-04-09

CURE FOR RHEADAOHE.-As remedy for all forms of Headache Electric Bitte1s has proved to be the very best. It effects permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to it's. influ- ence, We urge all who are afflicted to procure bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In case of habitual constipa- tion Electric Bitters cures by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only Fifty cents at E. K. Taft's Drug Store 3
The Press., 1896-04-09
Lost and Found.

For everything that is given solne- thing is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. The civi- lized man has built coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He has fine Geneva watch, but can not tell the hour by the un.-Emerson.
The Press., 1896-04-09
BEFORE you purchase a
 Carriage. call and eX-

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 My facilities for repair ing are unsurpassed, and prices the lowest.
 All work warranted as represented.
 JOHN c. WIGHTMAN,
 Stafford Hollow. IF you are in need of Spectacles or N Eye Glasses call at
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