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HIDES, rALLow, WOOL AND HOPS.

All descriptions remain previously quoted.
 HIDES AND SKINS-Culls and brands sell about 1c under the quotations. Heavy salted steers, 10c; medium. SC; light, Sc; Cowhides, Sc; stags Sc; salted Kip. Sc; Calf 10c; dry Hides, 16@16kc; culls and brands 13@131ac; dry Kip and Veal, 16@16l2c; dry Calf, 1S@20c; 5Q1Oc; Deerskins. good summer 25@30c per lb; medium, 20c; winter. 10c: Sheepskins, shear ings 20@S0c eacl; short wool. 40q70c each;
 TALLOW-No. rendered. 3@311c per ID; No. 2, 2621sc refined. Dc; Grease. %.
 WOOL-Fall clip-San Joaquin, defective. 70 Sc; Southern Mountain. s@1lc; free Northern, l2@13c: Northern, defective, S@11c per ID. S@1Oc for good 1897 crop 11414c per tb.
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said General Fund shall be paid, as in this section hereinafter provided. all
 the expenses of the various depart ments of the City and County, except such expenses as are by this Charter to be paid out of the Funds specifically provided for the payment of such ex- penses. For the six months ending on the thirtieth day of June, in the year nineteen hundred, each and every of said departments shall expend the moneys set apart to each of them by the Board of Supervisors of the existing municipality. So much of said moneys set apart by said Board of Supervisors to the Superintendent of Public Streets
 Highways and Squares for the fiscal year ending on said thirtieth day of June, in the year nineteen hundred, as shall remain unexpended at the time this Charter takes effect, shall be ex- pended during said six months by the Board of Public Works in the opera tions of the department committed to its charge. All the expenses of the City and County which are not to be paid out of specific funds shall be paid during said six months out of the General Fund Should the moneys set apart by the Board of Supervisors of the ex- isting municipality to any department of the City and County become or be exhausted at any time during said six months. or should any department ere ated by this Charter have no money specifically provided for it during said six months, then in each such case the expenses thereof shall be paid out of the General Fund. notwithstanding anything contained in sections six and seven of Chapter I of Article III of this Charter. Such pensions as may accrue to ffremen under Article TX of this Char ter during said six months shall be paid out of the General Fund. The existing municipality mentioned in this section is the existing municipality of the City and County of San Francisco, and the several funds which are to be trans ferred as in this section provided are funds of said existing municipality. All the funds of said existing municipality not mentioned in this section, and which are authorized by law, shall be continued in the treasury until the ne- cessity -or their continuance ceases.
 Sec. s. When the necessity for maintaining any Fund of the City and County in existence at the time this Charter takes effect has ceased to ex- ist, and a balance remains in such Fund. the Supervisors shall so declare by ordinance. and upon such declara- tion such balance shall be forthwith transferred to the General Fund.
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DRIED FRUITS, NUTS. RA1s1Ns. ETC

Beyond the speculative demand for Apricots already mentioned there Is nothing new.
 DRIED FRUITS-Prunes. carload lots 3AQ 4Ac for 4O-5Os, 3A@s%c f. 5O-6Os, 2A@3Ac for 6O-7Os. 2AQ2Ac for 7o-s0s. 1AG2Hc for So- sos, 1AQ1s4c for 9O-1O0's; Peaches. 3G5c; fancy. 51k@6c; peeled, 10Q121kc Apricots, 5Q61sc for Royals and rose for good to fancy Moor parks: Evaporated Apples. 61ed7c; sun-dried 4@5c:. Black Figs, in sacks, 2@2Ac; Plums 4hd4%c for pitted and 1G11ac for unpitted bleached Plums, 5@5Ac; Nectarines. 4@5c for prime to fancy; Pears. 21k94hc for quarters and 3@51sc for halves. according to color, etc.
 RAISINS-11a02c for two-crown. Sc for three crown, SIC for four-crown, 4lkc for Seedless Sultanas, 2%c for Seedless Muscatels and $1@ l 10 for London layers; dried grapes. 2hc.
 NUTS-Chestnuts quotable at Sc per softshell Almonds, 21kqs1ac for hmardshsll m 5@6c for softshell and 7GSc for paper shell; Peanuts. 4p5Hc for Eastern and 41ac for California; Pecans. 6k@Sc; Filberts, Slsa10c; Brazil Nuts. S@l9c per ID; Cocoanuts, $4 50Q5 per 100.
 HONEY-Comb, S@1Oc for bright and 567c for lower grades; water-white extracted. 41aQ Sc; light amber extracted, 3ZQ4Ac per fb.
 BEESWAX-24@26c per ID.
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BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOS1N N. April S.-The Boston Commercial Bulletin will say tomorrow of the Wool mar ket: The market continues to manifest general dullness throughout. The only sales made are from the bargain counter. Sales of mothy ieeces and two-year-old territory Wool fill up the domestic side, and the larger sales of for eign almost wholly composed of few blocks of South American and Australian Wool held by outside speculators, who are weary of holding for further rise. The sales are at quickly picked up by regular dealers, who view the situation with much confidence. The sales of the week were 652 GOO pounds domestic and 7S1 eco pounds foreign, against 349l0 pounds domestic and 22,573 pounds foreign for the same week last year.
 The sales to date show decrease of 3s, ,993 goo pounds domestic and 34. 6l5 300 pounds foreign for the corresponding date in 1897. The receipts to date show decrease of 29, 1f2 bales domestic and 122 33S bales foreign.
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POTATOES, ONIONS AND VEGETABLES.

Potatoes and Onions are easy Asparagus and Green Peas are firmer, but Rhubarb Is weak and in heavy supply
 Tomatoes are weaker owing to the arrival of S36 boxes from Mexico.
 Mexican Tomatoes, sl 75Q2. and Los Angeles $1 25@1 50 per box.
 POTATOES-Early Rose 3595oc: River Reds, 5O@60c River Burbanks, 50Q60c per sack; Ore gon Burbanks, 50QS0c; Petaluma Burbanks 60 @7oc per sack; Sweet Potatoes, ,75c@s1 10 for Merced: new Potatoes, 1G2c per lb.
 ONIONS-Choice. g 5O common s1 75@2 25 per ctl; cut Onions. 50c@$1 25 per sack; Aus tralian, $3 per cit; Nevadas, g S5.
 Receipts were 7s4 boxes As-
 Asparagus, g 25 for fancy, sl 5O@2 per box for No. 1. 75c@s1 25, for No. 2; Rhubarb, 25Q75c per box for small to good and s1 for extra choice; Alameda Green Peas 2lkGsc per 121kc Cabbage, 65@75c per ctl; Carrots 25@60c per sack: Garlic. 1OQ15c per lb; Cucumbers, 25c@$1 per dozen.
 PERFORATED VEGETABLES
 Potatoes, sliced. raw. 12e per ID In lots of 25 lbs; sliced desiccated 16@1Sc: granuated raw, 13c; Onions, 6oc:. Carrots, old, 13c; new. 1sc; Cabbage BOG; Sweet Potatoes, 3oc Turnips 25c; String Beans, BOG: Tomatoes, soc.
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PUBLIC DEBT AND CASH.

The following is a statement of the pubic debt and the cash in the Treasury ot the United States at the close of business March 3l received from Secretary Gage: interest," bearing debt sS47 S66, ,6S0 debt on which inter est has ceased since maturity, s1 2S3, 7S0; debt bearing no interest S3S6 232, S34 certificates ana Treasury notes, offset by an equal amount or debt. $1 SIP. 2s6 227. Compared with the state ment issued February 2S the figures show a de- crease of certificates and Treasury notes aggregate debt of s. 6S5, 125. The cash in the Treasury at the date mentioned was: Gold s210 903 334 silver S5l2 432 53 paper Ss SIS, S24 bonds. minor coin, fractional currency, etc. s32. .644,2 274; aggregate sH 9~ 4fN. The cash ha IT. ance in the Treasury February 2S was S22o,- 564 2O3 and on March s1 S226. .166, ,943 showing an increase during the month of $602, I39.
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PROVISIONS.

Previous prices rule for all descriptions. The demand Is nothing extra.
 CURED MEATS-Bacon. SIC per ID for heavy, 9%c for light medium, 10&c for light, lie for extra light and 12zac for sugar-cured; Eastern sugar-cured Hams. 101s91c; Califor- mia Hams, 10c; Mess Beef. $9 per bbl; extra s9 extra prime Pork, s10; extra clear SIS; mess, SIG; Smoked Beef 11Q12c per ID.
 LARD-Eastern tierces quoted at 5k per ID for compound and 7c for pure pails TAG; California tierces, 51kc. per fb for compound and 61ac for pure; half barrels, GAG; 1O-fb tins, 71hc; 5-fb tins, Sc.
 COTTONLENE-Tier 5Sd61sc; packages, less than 300 fbs-1-ib pails t0 in a case, SAc; case SAc; 1o-ih pals, in a case, Shc; 50-1b tins. or 2 in a case. 7esc; wooden buckets. 20 barrels, about no IDS. 711c per ID.
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EXPLANATION.

The arrow flies with the wind. The top fig ures at station indicate minimum temperature for the days; those underneath it. if any, the amount of rainfall of melted snow in inches and hundredths during the last twelve hours. Isobars, CT solid lines, connect points of equal air pressure; isotherms, dotted lines equal temperature. The word high means high barometric pressure and is usually accompanied by fair weather: low refers to low pres by cloudy weather and rains Lows usually first appear on the Washington coast When the pressure is high in the interior and low along the coast, and the sobars extend north and south along the coast. rain is probable; but when the low is inclosed with isobars of marked curvature, rain south of Oregon Is inn probable. With a high in the vicinity of Idaho and the pressure falling to the Cali fornia coast, warmer weather may be expected in summer and colder weather in winter. The reverse of these conditions will produce opposite result.
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GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

BAGS-Calcutta Grain Bags, nominal; Wool Bags, nominal; San Quentin, s5 30.
 COALrAll coal descriptions down again to the old figures. Wellington, $S per ton New Wellington. $S; Southfield Wellington, s7 50; Seattle, s6: Bryant. s6: Coos Bay, s5 50 Wallsend, s7 50; Cumberland, s1O 25 in bulk and s11 50 in sacks; Pennsylvania Anthracite Egg sl4; Camel s10 per ton; Rock Springs, Castle Gate and Pleasant Valley S9; Coke, SIP per ton in bulk and $14 in sacks.
 RICE-Is higher again. Chinese mixed. s4 45 CA 50 per ctl; No. l, S4 S0G4 90; extra No. l, s 1865 50; Hawaiian. $5 37l9q5 50; Japan, s5 % @p5 40 Rangocn s4 75.
 SUGAR-The Western Sugar Refinery Com pany quotes terms net cash: Cube Crushed and Fine Crushed, 65sc; Powdered, CSC; Dry Granulated. 5s4c; Confectioners' A, 5Ac: Mag noia A. 53sc: Extra c, 5Ac; Golden c. 5Mc Candy Granulated SAC; California A. 51sc per lb: half barrels, 4c more than barrels, and boxes 1ac more.
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office. where complete sets of charts and sail- ing directions of the world kept hand for comparison and reference. and the latest Information can always be obtained regarding lights, dangers to navigation and all matters of interest to ocean commerce.
 The time ball on top of the building on Tele- graph Hill IS hoisted about ten minutes before by telegraphic signal received each day from the United States Naval Observatory at Marc Island. Cal.
 A notice stating whether the time ball was dropped on time CT giving the error. If any. Is published the same day by the afternoon papers. and by the morning papers the follow ing day W. s. HUGHES.
 Lieutenant U s. N, in charge.
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BRADsTREETs REVIEW.

NEW YORK, April S-Bradstreets to-mor- row will say: A sensible quieting of demand for staple goods is perceptible in the various detailed trade reports coming to hand this week. At the East the drift of matters affect ing our foreign relations has been such as to discourage new business. but this tendency has been considerably accentuated by untimely cold weather. which has checked the usual Easter demand to considerable extent Re- ports from the West that the heavy rush of spring business Is about over. and that or Here again reports of unreasonable weather are met with. A fairly good business is re- ported ct the South, but slight check to our
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SdD r TaHClSCO leIlpeTaluTe MdAlIuuln, tZ. minimum AS; mean, 55. WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL
 FORECASTS The area of high pressure which was last evening central the California coast has moved eastward and is central in North Utah and Idaho. The pressure Is falling quite rapidly in Western Oregon and along the Northern California coast. This will cause cloudy weather throughout the greater portion of Northern California and rain from the vicinity of Point Arena and Colusa north ward.
 Forecasts made at San Francisco for thirty hours, ending Midnight, April g. 1898: Northern California-Fair in southeast DOT tion; cloudy and probably occasional showers in northwest portion Saturday; cooler in the interior of north portion; fresh southwest wind.
 Southern California-Fair Saturday; fresh westerly wind. Utah-Fair Saturday; warmer. Arizona-Fair Saturday.
 San Francisco and vicinity-Generally cloudy Saturday; fresh southwest wind Special report from Mount Tamalpais. taken at D. m.-Clear; wind west. 2 miles per hour; temperature, 59; maximum temperature, 63.
 w H. HAMMON.
 Forecast Official.
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CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO. April S.-The opening in wheat was steady, July starting at S37sQS4c. about where 1t left off yesterday. The closing of the Liverpool and Continental markets and nearly all the principal domestic exchanges took away from the market half of the usual spec ulative motive. and the pit at the opening and for that matter during most of the ses- sion, was not more than half filled. Enough bullish news was to hand to cause a moder- ate demand to short contracts and as offerings were even scarcer than buying orders the market for time moved upward July advancing to S4QS4lsc from S3% 1S3stc, where 1t had sold immediately after the opening Crop news from California fully as unfavorable yesterday but outside of this reports were generally favorable. The figures on the Ar genuine weekly shipments depressed the mar ket for time. Shipments last week were re- ported at 1,372, GOO bushels an increase over the to s3tsc After that. however. the market ruled strong 10 the end. The Cuban situation so long depressed factor in wheat, has now apparently become a bullsh influence Many the belief that hostilities would result in an advance to prices and acted according to their belief Additional strength, was given the was taking place in corn, causing more or less sympathetic buying and sustaining prices sional shorts and the inevitable Iiouidation which comes on the market during periods of afternoon. the market becoming quite strong under moderate general buying July finally advanced to S4aQs4Ac and closed firm at SAC.
 There was quite brisk demand for corn and the market was strong all day May closed 7sc higher
 Oats dull but firm. May closed 7sc higher.
 Provisions were decidedly dull Hog prices were responsible for an opening decline in provisions, packers being the sellers early. The strength of corn and reports of large Govern ment inquiries for products caused a better demand later and the decline was recovered. The close was steady, May pork unchanged: May lard shade higher and May ribs 2Jac higher.
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
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Saturday,. April 9.

NOTE-In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides given in the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence as to time. The second time column gives the second tide of the day. the third time column the third tide. and the last or right hand column gives the last tide of the day, except when there but three tides, as sometimes occurs. The heights given additions to the soundings the United States Coast Survey charts. except when minus sign (-) precedes the height and then the number given is subtractive from the depth given by the charts The plane of reference is the mean of tf-o lower low waters.
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SCHEDULE.

This Charter shall be published for twenty days in The San Francisco Call and in the Daily Report, daily news papers of ge-eral circulation in the City and County of San Francisco, and after such publication, viz: on Thurs day. the twenty sixth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said City and County of San Francisco, at a spe- clal election which shall be held on that day, for the sole purpose of voting upon the adoption of the same; and if a ma Jorlty of the qualified electors of said City and County voting at said election shall ratify the same it shall be sub mltted to the Legislature of the State or CaIlforria for its approval or rejec- ton. IT the Legislature shall approve the same, 1t shall take effect and be in force, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, on and after the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day Of January in the year nineteen hun dred, and shall thereupon become the Charter and organic law of the City and County of San Francisco, and shall supersede the existing Charter of said City and County, and all amendments thereof, and all laws inconsistent with this Charter
 The form of ballots at Sai election shall be as follows:
 FOR THE NEW CHARTER, y-S. FOR THE NEW CHARTER, NO. For the sole purposes of the election or the officers directed in this Charter to be elected by the pr 1ple, this Char ter shall take effect on and after it's approval by the Legislature, and the election of such officers shall be man. aged, conducted and controlled by the Board of Election Commissioners in and for said City and County in office at the time of such election.
 And for the sole other purpose of the Mayor elected under this Charter mak- ing the appointments provided in this Charter to be made by hill, and of the qualification of the persons so ap- pointed, this Charter shall take effect on the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.
 BE IT KNOWN, That the City and County of San Francisco, containing a population of more than two hundred thousand Inhabitants, on the twenty seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and cordance with the provisions of Sec ton 8, of Article XI, of the Constitu- tion of this Stat e. did elect the under signed Board of Fifteen Freeholders. to prepare and propose a Charter for said City and County; and we the
 
 of such provisions of the Constitution and within a period of ninety days after such election, have prepared and do propose the foregoing, signed in duplicate, as and for the Charter for said City and County of San Fran cisco.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate. this twenty-fifth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and uinety-eight.
 JOSEPH BRETON. President.
 JEROME A. ANDERSON,
 JAMES BUTLER.
 H. N. CLEMENT.
 A. COMTE, Jr..
 ALFRED CRIDGH
 l.. R. ELLERT.
 ISIDOR CUTIE.
 P. H. MCCARTHY,
 JOHN NIGHTINGALE. Jr.,
 JOHN c. NOBMANN.
 JOSEPH O'CONNOR.
 LIPPMANN SACHS.
 EDWARD R. TAYLOR
 A. w. THOMPSON
 Attest: J. RICH'D FREUD,
 Secretary.
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SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET.

There are plenty of Hogs coming in to meet all demands. Small Hogs weak and not wanted Beef and Mutton unchanged.
 Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaughterers follows:
 BEEF-First quality, 61sQ7c; second quality. 51sG6c third quality, 4d5c per lb.
 VEAL-Large, 6d61kc; small. 7G71ac per lb. MUTTON-Wethers. Sc; Ewes. S1k99c per lb. LAMB-Spring, 10c per lb.
 PORK-Live Hogs 324G3Ac for large and 4c for medium; stock Hogs. 2A@3c: dressed Hogs. 512@6kc.
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FAMILY RETAIL MARKET.

Coal has declined again to the old prices There is no change worthy of note in Butter and Eggs.
 Meats and Poultry are about the same as last week.
 Fish Is in ample supply at the old prices The Summer Vegetables are rather cheaper as a rule.
 Strawberries are still scarce.
 Following is The Calls regular weekly retail price list:
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COMMERCIAL WORLD.
SUMMARY.

Silver unchanged. No Grain markets. Summer Vegetables firmer. Some changes in Potatoes and Oniona Butter steady. Eggs lower. Poultry in good shape. Strawberries in small receipt. Dried Fruit still dull. Provisions unchanged. Hogs weak and quiet. Coal lower again. Rice advanced. Twenty failures last week.
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NORTHERN WHEAT MARKET.

!. PORTLAND, April s.--In the absence of for egn advices to-day the local wheat dealers were not inclined to follow the advance in Chicago, and the market quiet. Quotations are firm at 70 to soc for Walla Walla, and S1 @S2c for valley and bluestem.
 Cleared-British ship Devonby Hall for Queenstown with 113,661 bushels wheat
 WASHINGTON.
 TACOMA. April S.-WHEAT-Recept heavy but prices are firmly held. No l club, soc; No hluastern
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THE WEEKS FAILURES.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency reports ZV failures in the Pacific Coast States and Terri tories, as compared with 29 for the previous week and IS for the corresponding week of iss'; The failures for the past week are divided among the trades as follows: Two notions, carpenter and builder l varieties, l restaurant commission produce, l stationery and 1ewelry' l stone contractor, l boots and shoes hotei; saloons 1 grocer 1 manufacturers agent teas and coffees 2 dry goods, mems furnish ingS, 1 general store
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DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK, April S.-The attitude of the dry goods market Is still awaiting on war matters, which still engross the attention of buyers and sellers to large extent and the former are slow to do trading in any line The attitude of the sellers is also waiting one. Staple cottons are the subject of slightly better demand
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THE CALL CALENDAR.
April. 1898.
WHENCE CAME THE GORDONS?
 Blackwood's Magazine.


 In the absence of definite data one is eft to ground a theory of the initial in- spiration of the Gordons on the undisput- ed tradition of their French origin. In the Department of Lot, in the southwest of France. there is townlet of 300 souls, still known, like the Kincardineshire fish Ing village by the name of Gourdon. France believes to this day that Gourdon is the seat of a great hidden gold treas ure, which King Clovis buried there in 5l1. chance find in 1S42 gives some cre- dence to the belief. At any raf 1t might be taken as symbolic of the gift of the race of men which France made to this country
 The Province of Aquitaine, in which Gourdon is a tiny dot, was just the place to breed hardy, adventurous race, for 1t had long been the battle ground of Southern France, swept by successive hordes from the north. As early as the eighth century a Duke of Gourdon was Constable of France, and the town touched English history when Richard the Lion fell at Chalus by the hand of soldier called Bertram de Gourdon.
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STEAMERS TO SAIL.
THE TIME BALL.

Branch Photographic Office, U. S. N, Mer- chants Exchange, San Francisco April s, 1898.
 exactly at noon to-day-i. e., at noon of the 12Oth meridian, or exactly D. m., Greenwich time. J. T. MCMILLAN,
 Assistant in charge.
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BANK CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK, April s.-The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clear ings at eghty-eight cities for the week ended April z, with the percentage of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year:
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POULTRY AND GAME.

The market is in good shape as a rule with few changes. either up down. Stocks are we'll cleaned up.
 POULrRY-Live Turkeys. 1O@12c for Cob blers and 12013c for Hens; dressed Turkeys 1201bc per 10; Geese. per pair. q 25G1 7b: Cos lings, q 75@2 50; Ducks, B 6o06 for old and
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s7@s for young; Hens, s495; Boosters. young. $7 5oQS 50 Boosters, old, SAGA 50; Flyers, s6 50 or; Broilers, s 50q6 50 for large s304 50 for small; Pigeons, s1 1892 per dozen for young and $1 25Gl 50 for old
 GAME-Nominal
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Fish, per pound
NOTICE TO MARIJERs.

branch of the United States Hydrographic Office. located in the Merchants Exchange. is maintained in San Francisco for the benefit of mariners without regard to nationality and free of expense.
 Navigators arc cordially invited to visit the