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absence Of outside support and local disposition
to try the market short side in view OF un-
satisfactory cables. heavy supplies and apathy OF
spot demand; closed steady at unchanged prices
TO points net decline; December, 5.SoQ5.Soci
March, 6Gs.O5c Spot coffee-Rio Arm No. in
voice, 61zc; No. Iobbing. 20; mild Cordova quiet
the United States II 900 bags; cleared for Europe
1000 bags; stock. 47S.OOO bags Total warehouse
deliveries from the United States, u,iS5 bags.
including 1896 bags from New York: New York
stock to-day. $4,000 bags; United States stock
GA 053 bags afioat for the United States ~,2 wv
bags total visible for the United States LOIS o5S
1885
Sugar-Raw strong; lair refining. Sssc; centrifu-
gal, sc test, 15-16c; refined firm.
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REAL-EsTATE TRANSFERS.
Fourteen Transfers, with a Total Cor
sideratjOn of $4O,35O.

Instruments filed for record in the recorder S
Office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty
four hours ending at p. m. Dec. 8, 1897. as fur
nshed by Theo. Stein abstracter of titles, cor
ner of Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indian
apolis, Suite 229, first Office floor, The Lemcke,
Telephone 1850:
Thomas F. Brewer to Mary Schifferly..
part Lot g. Lewis & Co.'S Arsenal
Heights addition observation-disclosures. 81, 800 90
William w. Dye to Bertha Iske. part
northwest quarter of the southwest
Range .....-...........i.... 100000
John S. Duncan, executor, to John G.
Duncan's addition Observation-Disclosures. 100000
division Square ......................... 100000
ct al. Lot go Square TO- Lincoln Park. 100000
Lot 2os Morton place .. 10000
Tilman Beikes to Edwin F. Hedges, Lot
addition -. 100000
Frlnk e. Walker guardian. to John V.
vision Outlet Observation-Disclosures. s66.S7
lot ................... 4S3. SO
Edwin r Hedges to Amelia Beikes. Lot
addition 100000
Sarah Z. Eden. executrix, to George c.
Steigeman Lot 5, in Block 4. Walkers
East Ohio-street addition .........,..,.. 10000
Charles e. Hawthorn to Eugene j. Re
han ct al, Lot 5S, Clark's first addi-
ton Haughvile. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3OO.OO
Samuel e. Hardy to Kenneth E. Hardy,
ers second Brookside addition -. 10000
Joseph H. Clarke to George Cohle, jr.,
street addition Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Transfers IA; consideration $4O $50. 90
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Oils.

WILMINGTON, Dec. s.-Sprits of turpentine
firm at 2s9 ea3OKc receipts, 12l casks Rosin dull
quiet at sl.4Oq19O; receipts, 50 brls. Tar firm at
$105 receipts, 145 brls.
SAVANNAH, Dec. S.-Spirits of turpentine
opened firm at 20kc closed firm at 30ssc bid; re-
ceipts 9,4O2 brls. Rosin firm and unchanged;
sales, l. 766 brls; receipts, $3.50 bales.
OIL. CITY Dec. S.-Credit balances 65c: certih-
Gates first sales 1000 cash at Csc and 1000 regular
at sc; closed offered those prices. Shipments,
81 $50 brls: runs, 9S SOB brls.
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Petroleum dull. Rosin
steady; trained, common to good $1.40Q14 40.
Spirits of turpentine steady at 3SAc.
CHARLESTON Dec. S-Spirits of turpentine
firm at soc; sales. none. Rosin firm and un-
changed; sales,
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO, Dec. S.--Trade in cattle was very
duh and buyers were unusually exacting. as there
were q good many lots OF attractive looking corn
fed cattle. Prices very Irregular and averaged
15Q20c lower than at the close of last week with
sales Of common dressed beef steers at $3.50Ta5.75
and really good shipping cattle at S.25T $50. Choice
beeves sold around $4.75 and fancy Christmas cat
the sales to-day were much below A.75, many lots
selling for much less than country shippers paid
for them. StockerS and feeders were in large
supply and averaged 10GI20c lower than last week.
80 did butchers and Gamers stun, while very
few calves went over S6.23. Great numbers Of
cattle left unsold.
Buyers OF hogs succeeded N supplying their
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Marriage Licenses.

Eli *. Richter and Lizzie Leach.
Rufus Schooler and I-ellie Lord.
George Knighton and Mahulda G. Branham.
Charles S. Darnall and Lena Bennett.
Ernest c. Albright and Mabel E. Scott
RAYMOND f Gill and Jennie NJ. Boggs.
Archie Knott and Minnie Morrison.
Euclid A. Shockley and Julia E. Armstrong.
Nicholas Colon and Mabel Cassidy.
Harry Fisher and Enr A. Ginz.
Frank Dodd and Josephine Mustard.
Lewis +, Rothrock and Rose e. Kremer.
John Miller and Flora Heaton.
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adm futures ranged as Follows:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady.
No: spring wheat, SS@93c; No. spring wheat.
25Ac: No 2 yellow, 25H@26c; No. oats, 2Iss@2$c;
No. white, f. 9. b.. 2aa.e; No. white +. Q. b,
l.1sAc: Prime timothy seed, 1855, Mess nork per
brl, S95G7.40. Lard, pei. 100 lbs, $3.50. 27lh;
shoulders, boxed. s. 75@5. shoTt- clear sides
goods, per gal, $1.19. Sugars-Cut loaf, 5.S9c;
granulated, 525c.
Receipts-Flour IA 900 brls; wheat, 172, coo blu;
corn 456 600 bu; oats. 600 bv; rye IL 900 bu;
barley, $1,000 bu. Shipments-Flour. 1900 brls;
haTl 600 hi
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. Section steady:
sales, 1890 bales; ordinary. 4hc; good ordinary.
45sc; low middling. 15-16c; good middlng, 5r@c;
mddling fair 15-16c; receipts, 1864 bales stock.
S66 oil bales.
MEMPHIS, Dec Section firm; mddling.
516c receipts, 4.OSS bales; shipments, 1609 bales;
stock, PAT bales; sales, 5000 bales.
NEW YORK, Dec S.--Cotton closed dull; mid
ding uplands. $780, midding gulf, csc.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Dec. s.-The dry goods market
shows no change to-day from the dull conditions
of the earlier days of the week. In staple cot
tons to-day the trading in both brown and
bleached goods has been dull, both in store and by
mail. Prints and ginghams are in practically the
same position that they were at the close of last
week. and the more staple fances are dull. Print
cloths ncminauy 2Ac.
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NEW YORK, Dec. S-The market for metals
closed with buyers having the advantage. The
New York Metal Exchange reports the market
for pig iron warrants easier with sales of 500
tons at 1910 bid and s6.75 asked. Lake copper
quiet but firm at 1O.S712c bid and lie asked. Tin
quiet at S.95c bid and 4O5c asked. and lead easy
at 3.65c bid and S7Oc asked. The firm that set
ties price for miners and smeters calls the lead
market quiet at 3.50c.
ST LOUIS Dec. s.-Iead dull at 3.49qS. SOC.
Spelter nominally 3.75@I3. 771ac.
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Wednesday,s Bank CIearings.

At New Orieans-Clearings, S1.53S, 259.
At New York-Clearings, s124, 4oo, 800; balances,
S6527,5S2
At Boston-Clearings. s1S.S1746O; balances,
s., 3I2, sos.
At st. Louis-Clearings, s4,S16,459; balances,
$G04, 1913.
At MISUNDERSTANDING $40, 7O4, e5s; balances,
81 oSS 04e
AT Baltimore-Clearings. $2.s61.6l5 balances.
$3.50, 055.
AT MISUNDERSTANDING, s5SS,21S; balances.
$1s3, 3S9.
at Observation-Disclosures, g. $4,000
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All Gray Heads.


A New Yorker and a man from out of
town were in u well-known restaurant the
other night. The stranger suddenly made
the discovery that with the exception Of
two every man in the room had gray hair
The very natural question was: Where
were the other fellows?
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Deaths.

Clara Marie Keys, two years, S12 East ST. Jo-
seph street. scarlatina.
Mrs. Francisco Wilcox, nifty years, benson
Bessie Hunter, forty-two years. 1874 South Illi-
nois street. tuberculosis.
Annie B. Vert. fort~-one years, corner Boyd
and Catherine streets, consumption
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building Permits.

NJ. Schwartz. bowling alley. 2150 Talbot ave-
nue. $780,
John Roberts. repairs. Sc Monument place.
s., goo.
Fred Budde. frame house. Walcott street, $1,000
L. l.. Williams, warehouse, 10l1 East Vermont
street sl.70l.
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VITAL STATISTICS-DEC. 8.
Births.

Ella and Frank f. Martin. 531 Drake street.
boy.
girl
Mrs and Monroe Pearson, 1920 Seventeenth
street, girl.
Jennie and Charles Gordon. 111S South Capitol
Hannah and William Myers. Door Of Hope girl.
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LIVE STOCK.
Good Cattle Steady-HOgs Active and
Lnxver-Sheen Strong.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. S.-Cattle-Receipts. 300;
shipments. light. There vas fair supply of all
good grades. Steer cattle remained dull and SLOW
Of sale at unsatisfactory prices and few were
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Wool.

BOSTON, Dec. S-The American Wool and
Cotton Reporter will say Of the wool market: on
the whole the market has not been so hfeless
for months. 1t is generally admitted. however;
that the mills grinding up the raw material
very fast All things considered, the actual
amount must be pretty nearly if not quite at the
rate of 600 600. 600 lbs per year. Such a showing
the predictions are stil rife that prices Will. not
Oct. 1. 1t is increasingly difficult to speak OF
actual prices in this market the quotations are
ALWAYS raises the presumption of concessions, It
would be difficult to put ones finger on actual
there are hardly buyers enough around to break
the market. There has been big falling OF In
while there are a number of persons who. woI'
be glad to rick up round mo- Is the hold
arc not anxious to sell at prices previoC sly
quoted The sales Of the week in Boston amount
TO 100000 lbs domestic and 100000 lbs foreign.
4,552 900 lbs for the previous week.
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TRADE IN GENERAL.
Quotations at ST. Louis, Baltimore,
Cincinnati md Other Places.

ST. LOUIS, Dec, s.--F1our unchanged. Wheat
higher closing with december at PC decre as :
opened hQssc higher sold off lac. advanced &c.
Telapsed re and closed with buyers e below O sne
track; sslc: No hard, sash ssgSsc; December IleT
Corn-Futures closed the same yesterday. after
selling ll-l6ql5-16c higher Spot-No casn as ana
oats-FHtures strong but dull sellers being scarce
and asking advance. Spot higher; No. 2,
sss ssyaSr &c. s Mat rass S 40 rye white aass
45Mc- .FIaxseed lower at $l.OS. Prime timothy
quiet prairie. Sos 50; Timothy ss5oqio50. Butter
firm creamery. ls!4Q2Sc dairy, lla1sc Eggs
and snsy Ssgrins uneRansed PORK quiet standard
N.i2h: choice, s4.i7M. Bacon-Boxed lots-Extrs
shSrt-csnr s ribs sSs7 shorts sO
extra short-clear s4s1N915O; ribs s4'aisS5
shorts. NS1l4@5. - ., ooo -,
bS Oats ss sSi Su yaiat
1900 brls: wheat 1900 bu; corn 2l2oOO Blu; oats.
S. 900 blu.
changed receipts, 1881 brls; exports s,45s brls
Ss ss sreng sgOt N Sn9 reG o. Tecep
6lS25 bu exports 200 bu; Southern wheat at ~
ssH l'e CORN oP'V dull spot 8aG5s%e month a2@
S2Nc;. December, new or old: S2lpS2Ac steamer
100 blu; Southern white corn, sO@S!c; Southern 1
yellow 3'@S5c. Oats steady No white TIVE West
receipts 22.6 Blu; exports none Rye firm; No.
sGe 0 ay saT oT he Sr grades
Choice timothy sis asked Grain freghts quiet
with light demand and unchanged. Butter firm
and unchanged. Eggs steady and unchanged
Cheese steady and unchanged Whisky I'M
changed.
CINCINNATI, Dec S-Fiour quiet. Wheat
firm No. 2 red 9214c. Corn easy; No. 2 mixed
2634 6D27c. Oats strong; No. mixed 2319Gt23%c c.
Bulk Bulk meats dull at sl.25. Bacon easy at s5.65.
Whisky steady at s119. Butter steady. Sugar
quiet and steady Eggs quiet at lie. Eggs steady
and lower: good to prime Ohio fiat. Sh@sc
TOLEDO; Dec. s-wheat higher and dull dull Mi NG
and steady; No 2 mixed cash and DECEMBER cen
changed: No. q cash, 47c. Glover seed active and
steady; prime, cash and December, sSl21s. Oil
unchanged.
DETROIT Dec. S.-Wheat-No. 1 white S9%c;
No red. 90Ac: May 92hc. Corn-No. mixed.
2712c. Oats-No 2 white, 24%c. Rye-No. 2 47c.
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SCIENTIFIC.
Puck.

The latest idea in international congresses
is one to discuss fire prevention, soon to be
held in Paris.
After several years of trial, pulleys COW
cred with papier mache are gaining in fa-
vor among British machinists.
A singular effect of a bee sting is related
by an English astronomer The sting was
not painful but in about fifteen minutes
the face of the victim, became vio-
lently flushed, and blains rhite blisters
appeared all over her bod. ms and legs /;
and then, more curiously II, she devel-
cped sharp attack of asthma. This yield
ed to home remedies, and the blisters
turned from white to red, disappearing in a
few hours
Sudden and great fluctuations in the level
of water in wells in stormy weather, closely
corresponding to the fluctuations in wind
velocity recorded by Professor Langley,
have been observed by DR.. Romei Martini.
This explains the popular tradition that bad
weather may be predicted from the sud
den rise and fall of wells. Curiously how
ever, small and rapid changes of barom-
eter are more certain 10 affect wells than
large changes.
The longevity of astronomers has often
been noted. A French compiler finds that
Fontenelle lived to one hundred Caroline
Herschel to ninety weight. Cassini to ninety
SEVEN Sir Edward Sabine to ninety-four
MORAN to ninety-three, Santini and Sharpe
Robinson and Long reached ninety. The
long list of those who lived to eighty
includes HALEY, Newton, Herschel. Kant
and Roger Bacon.
A strongly phosphorescent strontium sui
phide has been investigated by Professor
Mourelo. Of Madrid. The pure compound
shows no phosphorescence, the presence of
a small quantity of alkali seeming 10 be
necessary and a trace of subnitrate of bis
muth an advantage. After cooling from a
high temperature very slowly, the sub
stance is made strongly phosphorescent by
even a very little light Pulverization de-
stroys this property, which may be re-
stored by long heating with starch.
An extraordinary account comes from
Devonshire of a club. found in muddy
pool, that had evidently pushed its way
when young into a cage-ilke space formed
by the roots of a tree. and, being unable to
escape. had grown into the shape OF its
close-ftting prison. Lack of room had
caused the tail TO develop only to the ex-
tent of a llItle deformed stump. The back
fin also had vanished, and the whole fish
had been distorted into the gnarled and
twisted form of the root cage, being hid
eous in appearance. yet seemingly strong
and healthy. 1t is difficult TO imagine how
a fish could get food for years under such
conditions.
It appears that the curious remedies OF
century or two ago are stu retained in
some parts Of the earth. A Russian journal
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woman who has not come to the years or
discretion. Often the objections of parents
arc against the habits of the men who
would take their daughters. Vicious men
should not find an ally in the preacher of
the gospel; still they do.
Whenever a couple appears before a cler-
gyman to be married outside of the pa
rental home or without the parental per-
mission, as conscientious man and the ex-
ponent of righteousness as well as ethics,
he should make careful inquiry and refuse
if he should learn that the parents with
whom the girl was living at the time are
ignorant of her purpose. Unfortunately,
the law does not make such irregular mar
riages misdemeanor punishable by fine or
Imprisonment, but when the wrong and I'M
happiness which such an act often involves
are considered, the offense is none the less
grave because not recognized by law.
The frequency of divorce has led to much
investigation to ascertain the cause.
Doubtless the leading cause is the ease
with which the marriage relation may be
entered into by inconsiderate persons. A
large part of the marriages made without
the knowledge Of parents are more or less
inconsderate, and for that reason turn out
to check inconsiderate marriages there is
reason to believe that the divorce courts
would have shorter dockets.
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he calls 1.-The finest OF its kind ever con-
structed. and, with possibly two or three
exceptions the handsomest building ever
erected" He thinks that the building VIII
help the library, and that Congress VIII
presently make such annual provision Tor
book-buying as has long been enjoyed by
the British Museum. ITO this end. adds
Mr.. Spofford. present conditions in the
personnel of the literary staff will greatly
contribute. Mr.. Young, the librarian, by
reason of his long connection with the
press, will be able, as we have never been,
to reach the newspapers.
A London writer says: I'm Hall Gaines
forthcoming novel, The Christian will be
found many pages of peculiar interest to
all for whom the world behind the scenes
possesses any fascination. In the course
of the strange adventures of that forward
mink. Glory Quayle Mr. Game submits his
heroine to the test theatrical, ana pre-
sents her at one period of her career IN
the guise of a music hall artist. For the
intimate details of the life which the novel;
list thereupon paints, in utterly uncompro-
missing colors. he has not rested content
with hears5v. On the contrary, he has, as
did Mr.. George Moore with that mastery
piece Of ugly nakedness, 'Mummer Wor-
ship gone for his facts to the fountain
head. And, among those experts who
have freely placed their knowledge and
opinions at his disposal perhaps the most
eminent Is Miss Cissie Lotus"
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kills all kinds of fish in great numbers,
small as well as large, and drives away
those 1t does not kill Whatever the cause
may be, dynamiting seems to be on the in
crease. Deputy fish commissioners can seize
seines. but they cannot prevent dynamiting,
because it is generally done in safe places
and at a very early hour in the morning,
when there is little or no danger of detec-
ton. There has probably been more dyna-
hitting in Indiana streams during the pres
ent season than ever before and it has been
participated in or encouraged by some who
would not have thought of doing so before
the present law was enacted. Indianapolis
fishermen who have visited favorite locali-
ties this season. expecting to catch bass, as
in former years, have had no success and
have found abundant evidence of local dy-
namiting. This practice is difficult to pre-
vent at best, and if farmers and land-own-
the law. 1t is worth considering whether the
growing spirit of hostility to the law would
not be Modified by making it less severe.
Some of it's provisions are, on their face,
impossible of enforcement, as those against
fishing with "a set line or "in any man
ner whatever except with a hook and line,
which line shall be held in the hand, or be
attached to a pole or rod which shall be
held in the hand" A favorite method Of
fishing in the country, and it is legitimate,
is to attach the line to a flexible stick
thrust into the ground at the edge of the
water thus enabling one person to watch
three or four lines. There is nothing muir
dsrous or destructive about this, yet the law
prohibits it. This provision of the law could
not be enforced if every other man in the
State were made deputy fish commission
er. 1t looks little as if there were a feel
ing in many localities that the present law
is framed in the interest of city sportsmen
and as if this feeling were taking the form
of general hostility to the law and causing
an increase of dynamfting.
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PrnmOfinw MafrimOnY

A good many people, doubtless, have felt
an interest III the matrimonial reunion ar
ranged by the Rev. Mr.. Meese, of Auburn,
this State particulars of which have here
tofore been given in the Journal. Mr..
Meese it will be remembered holds the
banner record for marriages, having per-
formed that ceremony over 1,200 times dur
ing his long and useful career. Stated in
another way, the extent of his service to
his felow-beings is better estimated: In
performing 1900 ceremonies he made 2,400
people happy-an achievement few persons
may hope to accomplish in their lives, and
over which he may well feel an honest
pride. For, of course, the 240O people were
happy at chat early stage of their matri-
monial career, whatever may have been
their experience later. 1t was Mr.. Meese's
beautiful belief that the bliss to which he
gave official sanction was permanent in
character else he would not have ventured
on the experiment of calling his clients to-
gether after many years to celebrate their
married state. The idea of such a celebra-
ton was truly patriarchal and Arcadian
in it's simplicity, and had nothing further
developed from it beyond mere married
folks picnic'-a love feast with Cupid
somewhat disabled by age-it is open to
praise LOT us novelty ana perseverance,. but
larger things are to grow out of that gath
ering. over one thousand people assembled
to commemorate the series of events in
which Mr.. Meese had served as the good
fairy and so we'll did these husbands and
wives and their children who accompanied
them bear out the faith of the preacher in
the advantages of matrimony, so fervent
was their testimony as to its beauties, so
earnest their rejoicing that they felt the
missionary spirit move within them and
resolved to engage in formal effort TO
bring others to their way of thinking.
Hence it was that the Meese Marriage AS
ISOLATION was formed with intent to en-
courage courtship and promote wedlock.
That this association will accomplish a
great work can hardly be doubted. 1t will,
for one thing meet with but little antag-
onism and with a great readiness on the
part of manageable folk to cooperate.
For marriage is really a popular institu-
ton, and it is only certain modern condi-
tons working in favor of celibacy that
make special efforts in its behalf at all
necessary. Once upon a time the fair maid
and the eligible youth would have needed
no outside urging to induce them to become
one in law and in name. but now there is
a disposition TO postpone matrimony, with
the result that 1t Is sometimes neglected