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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-04

selling being based almost wholly on
more favorable conditions in the west
ern half of the belt.
The condition figures of 76.5 which
carried the crop down to July 25 were
lower by point than generally ex-
pected, even by the bulls. After an ad-
vance of the best part of a dollar a
bale, price slumped under heavy Of
ferings from both sides and the mar
ket had a downward tendency during
the remainder OF the week.
1t was generally considered that the
crop, over almost the entire cotton re-
gion at the end OF the week was con-
siderably improved as the result of
more rain In the western belt and scat
tered showers In the eastern belt. Re-
ports from the Atlantic were to the
effect that fields were clean and In
condition TO stand considerable rain.
In tho spot department prices lost
three-eights of cent, middling closed
at f27sc against 1aAc last week and
121sc this week last year. Sales on the
spot amounted to 6t3 bales against 740
bales last week and 912 this week last
year; sales TO arrive amounted to 70
bales against 346 last week and 800
this week last year.
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PRICES LOSE ALL
OF PREVIOUS GAIN
Renewal of Heavy General
Liquidation at Opening
of Cotton Market

New York, August 3.-There was re-
newai of heavy general liquidation at
the opening of the cotton maket this
morning and prices not only. lost all
they mad gained after yesterdays crop
report but sold into new low ground for
the movement Covering checked the de-
ellne but caused only slight rallies and
while the final tone was steady, last
prices were from % to IS points below
the closing figures of yesterday.
The market opened weak at decline of
10 to u points and sold % TO 80 points
net lower within the first half hour UNI
der heavy offerings which seemed to come
from Gall directions. October contracts
broke to 12.4sc ana December TO y 5Oc.
comparing with 1291c and II Soc, the best
point reached after the publication of the
governments crop report early yesterday
afternoon. This level represented de-
Cline of practically rs points from the high
records established last Monday and
around 12i5c there was active realizing by
recen. sellers for over the week end. This
demand checked the decline and caused
rallies of or points from the lowest,
but the Improvement was rarely main
tained and the market was still very
nervous in the late trading, although
business was Ear less active than 1t had
been on the carly break.
Reports Of continued light rains or
showers in the southwest tended to in
crease the more optimistic view ot the new
crop outlook and the talk around the
ring also reflected a feeling that the ao-
ton Of tho market this morning had con-
flrned claims that the August bureau
had been fully discounted.
In addition TO renewed liquidation and
hear pressure there was considerable
southern selling here which local bears
attributed partly to hedging new crop
cotton owing to the approash OF the pick
Ing season and the fact that new bales are
now beginning to show up moro freely in
the southwest.
Receipts today 945 bales, against OH last
week and 102, last year. For the week
10000 bales, against 1924 last week. ana
2G266 last yeer. Today's receipts at New
Orleans, 34i, against u last year: at Hous-
ton 4o6 against 2o40 last year and at Gal
weston 42s. against $50 last year.
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New York Cotton Futures
Daily Cotton Market

Galveston: Steady; middllng. 13Ac;
net receipts. 42S;s gross receipts, 423
(sales, EOS; stock, 21,546; coastwise. 225.
New Orleans: Steady middling, 1875 c j;
net receipts 344; gross receipts, 344s
sales, 20; stock, 26.596; coastwise. SAC.
Mobile; Stock, 219S.
Savannah: Steady middling, t2hc;
net receipts, rs; gross receipts, rs;
stock. 21,430.
Charleston: Nominal; stock, 3145.
Wilmington; Nominal stock, 500.
Norfolk: Steady; middling, 1880; net
receipts, 81; gross receipts, 81; sales
II; stock, 5000; coastwlse. 1854.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 1880
stock, 1857.
New York: quiet; middling, 12.90c;
gross receipts, 81; sales, AZ; stock, 1874,
s23: coastwise, 975.
Boston: Quiet; middling, 12.9Oc; net
receipts, 10 gross receipts, 504 stock.
1919; continent, $50.
Philadelphia: Steady; mlddling,
t3.t5e; stock, 975.
Total today: At an ports, net 945,
continent, $50 stock, 225.720.
Consolidated: At all ports, net 945;
continent, $50.
Total since September 1: At all ports,
net 11.s50.432; Great Britain. 4,t45.029;
France, 1.161,666 continent, 4,44S,546,
Japan 512,196; Mexico, 9S61.
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100 Year Old Catfish

From the Alton, ILL.,, Telegraph.
A mammoth blue fulton catfish was
brought TO the Peter Pocst fish market
which weighed 131 pounds and is the lar
gest catfish that has been caught in the
Mississippi river waters for twenty-five
years.
The fish was caught by William Murphy,
a fisherman at Elsah. Its measurements
were not taken accurately. but in the
Judgment of the fisherman 1t was a. large
as ali ordinary man, nearly six feet in
length by about IS inches in girth. Its
head would weigh about 20 pounds and
was at least IS inches across.
It's capacious mouth looked az IL II could
swallow fair sized boy. and in the gen.
eral appearance as 1t lay on the deck OF
the dock 1t looked as IL 1t might weigh
800 pounds and powerful enough to drown
a man who should by chance run afoul Of
It in deep voter.
According to the estimate of the age of
the fish given by the old fishermen, it
was over a century old. II -ney have been
spawned when Washington was serving
his last term as president.
The last big fish as caught here was In
about 1885, when one weighing about lie
pounds was brought into the Alton mar
ket This Is Fulton cat, a species that
grow to enormous size and which grow
crafty and are not often capture6
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NORTHWEST LINES
ACTIVE At START
Northern Pacific and Great
Northern Show Loss
at Close

New York, August 3.-Under the leader
ship of the Hill issues and few other
stocks which play an important part IN
crop movements today's brief stock mar
ket began with much promise to the nuil
side.
Activity in Northern Pacific and Great
Northern was much in excess of usual
dealings, the movement later spreading
TO certain of the grangers and the trans
continental group.
In the final hour when demand for these
stocks had run its course, the list sud
Derby reversed itself, turning many ma
terial gains TO moderate net losses.
Such -industrials as United States Steel.
Amalgamated Copper and affiliated prop
critics were heavy, while the hard coal
stocks, which were prominent features
of the preceding days strong market. ap-
peared to be under pressure.
Among the specialties there were more
spectacular gains than elsewhere, and
especially In Tobacco, both in the ex-
change and outside on the curb. while
National Biscuit was forced TO yield some
of its recent recovery.
The bank statement was the most fea-
tureless of its kind for weeks. Actual
loans showed a decrease of about 81, 750, :
600. while the cash gain was scarcely more
than nominal
The only notable feature OF the state
ment lay in the exhibit OF the banks and
trust companies, not connected with the
clearing house. whose loans fell off over
100000.
The bond market was firm. There was
large dealings in Atohison convertibles.
Total sales. par value, s1.235,000. United
States government bonds on call were
UNCHANGED
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New Orleans. August 3-The week s
trading In the cotton market result
ed in a loss of SO to 10 points on
the most active months in the future
department. The high prices were made
on Monday and the low prices on Sat
urday. At the highest the trading
months were 10 to Is points over last
weeks close and at the lowest they
were so to II points under. The range
of prices was 73 to 81 points.
Rains in Texas and Oklahoma held
the market down in the fore part of
the week, in spite of bullish expecta-
tions concerning the August condition
report. which was issued Friday. Bears
were encouraged to put out fresh short
lines and one story was that a new
bear pool had been formed. After u
temporary advance on the condition re-
port the market continued to decline,
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From the New York Evening World
Here's good news for the lazy summer
time. An English doctor says reading in
bed isn't anything like as bad as the
family have always told MS 1t WAS. In
fact, done In the right way II hurts the
eyes less than reading sitting up.
Had 1t been the universal practice
during the last 20 or 80 years" says this
Jewel of an authority. TO give careful
directions how to read, lying down, In
stead Of saying to one and all 'You must
not read lying down, there would be less
nearsight and better eyes In the com-
mupity than now exist
If YOU would read lying down without
harm follow three simple rules: Arrange
the bed or sofa so that the light comes
from behind your head and strikes full
on the page. Don't hold the book Gloss
to the eyes. Don't tip It, Hold IT so
that the lines of the letters are at right
angles to a line drawn from your eyes.
Not only may you read thus without
injury, but you may have the added sat-
isfaction that your position Is giving your
body a time for rest and repair Willis
you amuse yourself.
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CLOSE LOWER IA TO /
SO At II CENTS up
Statement That Foreign De-
mand Was Light Has
Effect on Wheat

Chicago August 3.-Ststements that
foreign demand was light had a weaken
ing effect today on the price OF wheat
The market closed irregular NC lower to
ss@1kc up. Latest trading left corn un-
changed to &c down, oats at a decline of
&c TO isG1sso, and provisions varying from
Zoe less expensive to a shade advance.
Although prospects were for much
lighter world shipments than a year ago.
no response came from Europe in answer
TO American offers to export wheat. This
fact, with North Dakota advices that so
far rust was not hurting crops proved
disheartening to bullish spectators.
Dread of frost in Canada and reports
that rains had stopped Russian harvests,
brought about a show of strength at the
outset, but seemed TO have nothing TO do
with a bulge which made the September
option conspicuous near the close. A
local short in that future was covering
on hearish scale but also was actively
reselling December. September which
was relatively firmer than other deliv-
cries, fiuctuated from 93ssG9siac to 9slsc,
with last sales asd1ac up, at 93c.
An estimate that the crop would be TO-
CVc000 tons larger than year ago, exert
ed bearish influence on corn. Septem-
Der swung between 667so and 67Aa677sc,
closing firm at 67ssQ671sc, the same as
list night. Cash demand was moderate.
No. yellow was quoted at 74774isc.
Oats reached a new low level for the
season. One reason was the prospect for
q plentiful supply of hay. There were
signs, too. of an increase In receipts,
September ranged from Sl1ac to $3.50,
with the close s1a4c as a fall of 1880 net.
Provisions dragged. owing to the light
ness of shipping demand. At the finish
of the day. pork and lard were OF &c
to Toe. but bacon heidNsubstantially I'M
changed.
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London, August 3.-Moderate activity de-
veloped in most sections of the Stock ex-
change trading during the week, and there
was q general advance In prices except
in home rails, which closed weak
The termination of the dock strike
prompted early purchases OF nome
rails at an advance, but the lower owl
dend announcements and fears that the
railway bill, which will enable the ran
roads to raise freight rates, caused
general setback.
Investors paid attention to the gilt edged
section where prices gradually hardened
Government purchases advanced consols
a quarter of point, but this was lost
later under profit taking. Mining shares
under the leadership of diamonds We're
bought heavily by professionals and Paris
houses. They closed considerably higher.
Canadian Pacific was the feature In the
American section. The stock advanced
points under international. buying, ac-
cornpanied by rumors of fresh issue OF
shares with a bonus to holders.
Favorable crop reports and improved
trade advices gave the business good
tone There was fair demand for United
States Steel, American Coppers and Union
Pacific. These shares led a general i'm
provement ranging from to points.
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What for?' Want some tackle to
stretch the wire"
When White recovered from his sur
prise he gave Hunter the tackle and gave
him car fare back to the island Hunter
went back and Saturday reported he had
half the wire stretched.
Hunter was sentenced TO two years in
the workhouse on four charges of larcenX
being given six months on each charge.
He had been arrested in September, 1911.
for the theft of motor boat accessories In
South st. Louis
He eontendsd he was not to blame, but
shouldered the responsibility, because, he
said, he had acted as host on a motor
boat trip. during which his guests stols
| the attachments from other boats. He
pleaded guilty in court, saying he wouldn't
get his friends in trouble
| He. was sullen when he first arrived
| at the workhouse, but soon livened uls
! and when made a trusty worked twice as
hard. trying to please.
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Coffee Market

New York, August 3.--Coffee futures
opened steady at an advance oflQpi points
ON covering for over the week end today
but quickly TUNED easier under renewed
liquidation or selling hero inspired by
easier European cables, continued largo
brazilian receipts and talk of the con-
tinued slack trade demand Houses with
cotton exchange connections were said to
be sellers during the morning.
The close was steady bur from 9@i2
points net lower. sales a. $50 bags; August,
i. Doc; September. 1265c; October, II. re;
November. 12.19c: December, y. CSC; jan
uary, 12.s7c: February, 1s.s5c; March.
l.. csc: April, 10. a5c. May, lS.o1c: June and
July, 13c.
Spot coffee. quiet: Rio No. 7. 14lsc;
Santos No. 4, 15a4c; mild coffee. duh;
Cordova, 16d1Sc. Havre wos s4uA franc
lower Hamburg, unchanged to Y pig.
Rio. steady, unchanged. Santos, weak: 100
refs lower. As, ssx30o; rs. 7sx699. Brazilian
port receipts. 5000. against 1000 last
year. Jundiany receipts, 1900, against 81
800 last year year.
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Interior Cotton Movement

Houston: Steady; middling, 10 Lie; net
receipts. 4o6; gross receipts, 1885, ship
ments, 1881; sales, $40: stock. 1s,2l7
Augusta: Quiet; middling, 13hc; net re-
ceipts. rs; gross receipts, IS; shipments,
So; sales, 80; stock. 1886
Memphis: Quiet middllng, 1870; net re-
ceipts. 3S; gross receipts, 100; shipments,
81; sales, so; stock, 1926.
st. Louis: Quiet; middling, 1910; net
receipts, q gross receipts sos; shipments.
500; stock, 4S74.
Cincinnati Net receipts 100; gross re-
oeipts, 800; shipments. 1856; sales. 300;
stock. 2g,504
Little Rock Steady; mddling. 13c; net
receipts. 6; gross receipts, g. shipments.
127; stock, 1857.
Total today; Net receipts. 500; gross re-
celpts 1918; shipments, 1918. sales. 1923:
stock, 1884,
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Live Stock Market

Chicago, August 3.--Cattle: Receipts,
800; market steady; beeves $3.50 20,
Texas steers s5@71o, western steers
$5.s507.90, stockers $4@6.90, cows and
heifers $2.7s9S40, calves 1915 @ 1925.
Hogs: Receipts. 1000 market sener-
ally &c higher; closed weak; lights
s7.s0QS.45. mixed $735@S.40. heavy
$1,000 s.25. rough s7'25@7.4o, pigs 1910
q $40, bulk of sales $7.60@s20.
Sheep: Receipts. 1000; nNrket slow
and steady; native $1,000 Zf5, western
$3.50 a 4.65, yearlings s410@5.65, ma
tive lambs $450@7.75, western $4,000
1855.
st. Louis, August 3.-scattle: Receipts
1000, including 100 Texans; market
steady; native shipping and export
steers ss.70@9.50. dressed and butcher
steers seQs.5o, stockers s45oG6.5o.
calves s6@s.25. Texas and Oklahoma
steers $450@S.25. cows and heifers
$3.50Q7.5o.
nirs and lights s3.75 05.25, mixed and
butcher steers ss.30@s.5o; good heavy
sheep: Receipts 5000; market steady;
muttons s3.7504.75, lambs s5.e0@ 80.
stockers s2T3.50.
Kansas city, August 3.-Cattle: Re-
ceipts 100 including so southerns; mar
ket steady: dressed beef and export
steers 38.25@9.75, western steers $500
az, stockers s4.5047.50. southern
steers $507.5O, Southern cows $3.50q
$50, calves 500.
Hogs: Receipts 1000: market steady
to &c higher; bulk OF sales 1906 20,
heavy s7.s0@s05. packers and butch
ers ss9s.3o. lights $Sas.3o, pigs So
or.
Sheep: Receipts, none; market steady;
lambs s6.50@7.50, yearlings $4.25 q 8,
wethers s4G4.50. ewes $3.65G4. stock
ers $2.50Q4.
ceipts 100; choice closed Arm: common
slow; range @2QS.50.
Rogs: Receipts 1900 mostly steady;
range s4.50@s.50.
Sheep and lambs: Receipts. $500;
lambs 40 7sc; sheep SIC down.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.'S Letter

New York August Especial. )-HoII-
days In Liverpool today and Monday
coupled with advice of considerable rain
in Texas. promoted selling and a general
liquidation. The market evidently was
overbought on the drouth and is trying to
find its level
Conditions abroad are good. and Liver
pool reports an excellent mill situation.
Bradstreets weekly review is the best
of the season, showing Improvement in
most quarters. and trade authorities are
optimistic on the good demands and with
prospects of continuance.
On the decline oversellng is possible.
but with continued good crop outlook the
trade thinks prices high
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New Orleans Rice

New Orleans. August 3.-Rough rice
Honduras, showed steady tone and ia
pan nominal. In clean rice grades the
tone was likewise nominal Receipts:
Rough, 1855; millers, 1874. Sales: Rough
Honduras, Pal. at 3.75@4 s5c; clean Hon.
duras, 492 at 3la45c; clean Japan, 1910. at
35sQ4c Quotations.: Rough Honduras,
S.so@4 S-5c; clean Honduras, dNQ5%c; clean
japan, 4d412c.
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Flour and Foodsfuffs

Self raising -four, Sc. 30: Tennessee flour.
So 70; Indiana -four. $50; Idaho flour, So 80
Michigan flour. 6.6S; bolted meal, per 9s
ID. sack. s1.Ss; No. 2 corn, per bushel.
kiln dried. ST. pure whent shorts. $33; pure
wheat bran, $50; C. s. hulls, per ton, $40:
prime C. 8. meal, per ton, $50: C. s. feed
meal. per ton, s26 No. timothy hay, per
ton. $26q2S: mixed alfalfa and Johnson
grass, per ton, s21ll22; corn chops. per 100
Id. sack. s1.95; Mo- corn, per bushei.
falfa hay, per ton. $24; Johnson grass,
per ten, slsa17; mixed feed. per ton, sss
Q37
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Better Meat Nowadays

From the Washington Star
J. Ogden Armour, defending packing
house methods at a luncheon IN Chicago,
said:
we eat, thanks to the packers. moro
wholesome meat than we formerly did.
My father used to tell u story about a
farm boz who once called a a house and
took an order for leg or mutton. Them
a day or two later. the boy called again.
you'll have to countermand that NUT
ton order. ma am, he said.
Ives? Why so7'
The Sleeps lmprovin'. said tina
boy"
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New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans. August 3.-Cotton futures
opened steady at a decline of 3 to IA
points in sympathy with the slump of the
New York market.
The early trading was active and heavy
In volume for a Saturday, and consider
ing that the Liverpool market was closed
for two business days. The weather map
was called favorable as considerable rain
was indicated west of the Mississippi
river.
Longs sold freely and short selling was
also in evidence. The market was stead
led by the profit taking operations of SELL
ers of the last few days.
At the end of the first half hour of
business prices were 14m15 points under
yesterdays close.
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Treasury Statement

Washington. August 3.-At the begin
ming of business today the condition of the
United States treasury was working bal
ance in treasury offices s97,3i5.a65, In banks
and Philippine treasury, s35,sl5.T65. The to-
tai of the general fund was $3.50, ,052. Re-
ceipts Friday were $2,22931S. Disburse-
ments We're $50, 4O6. Surplus TO date for
fiscal year s1,3l4.770, against deficit of
s16,1173S6 this date last year.
These figures exclude Panama canal
and public debt transactions.
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Naval Stores

Savannah, August 3.-Turpentine firm,
42Sc; sales, 72o; receipts. 9s0 shipments.
2623; stocks, 1886. Rosin firm; sales,
1852; receipts, 1868; shipments, 1o15; Stock
1ss,S6S. Quote: B, s6.s5q6.4o d. So 45Q
G.52ls:. E, se.509665 F. ss.671ka6.75; G, S. -
66.So; II. $3.50; I, So S0q6 IS; X, s6.9oGl6 IS:
NJ, s6.9Od7o5; N, $7Gl715; WIG. s7.2517. 81; ;
WV $780,
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Flour: Steady: winter patents g. Boa. 10,
straights. 81. aGGf4. 60; spring patents, $40
@5.90; straights. s4.60a470 bakers, sac
80.
Rye: No ., .ed7sc.
Barley: Feed or mixing. t5a50c; fair to
choice mailing, 60Qf75c.
Timothy seed Sac.
Glover seed: SiNQ15.
Mess pork: At .75d17.s7ta
Lard in tlerces: s1o.521s.
Short ribs. loose: 5000
Cheese Firm; daisies, 15i4I15iac; twins,
14a4@15c; young Americas. 15AG151sc;
long horns, 15hd15izc. 49,
Potatoes: Dull receipts, IS cars; Illinois,
72c; Kansas. Missouri, nc; Minneapolis.
tic; Jersey cobblers 81.
Poultry: Live. dull: turkeys, II; chick
ems, 13c; springs. 17919c.
Veal: Firm; 9a13c.
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Kansas City Grain

Kansas City. August 3-Cash wheat. No
2 CSC; No. 2 red, SIC. Corn, No. . mixed,
75lsq76c; No. 2 white, 79c. Oats No 2
white, SslI4Oc; No. mixed. 35a36c Close:
Wheat. s715@S7ssc; December. sslse; May,
92c. Corn, September. 67s4c; December.
54l4c; May, 557sd56c. oats, September, 32Ql
32lsc; December, 33hc.
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York. August 3.--Cotton seed oil
was steady for spot today, but easy for
future. owing to fine weather In the
south, the weakness In cotton and lack
Of outside demand. Futures closed to
points net lower August, 655ll6 Gic
September. G6lQ6.e4: October. 6e9q6.72c
November 6.3SNt6. 40c; December. $50
COCO. Total sales 2600. Prime crude nom
inal: prime summer yellow, 650d7c prime
winter yellow. 6.70c; prime summer white
C.cDdsc.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures

New Orleans, August 3.-Spot cotton
steady, NC down: middling, 127sc. Sales
on the spot. SO bales; TO arrive, Z; low
ordinary, 5-16c; ordinary, 10lsc good or
binary, II 9-16c; strict good ordinary,
II 15-16c; low middlng, 12Mc; strict low
middling, 125sc; strict middling, 1870: good
mddling, 1890; strict good mddling,
10 9-16c; middling fair 1SBc; middling
to fair. 14Ac; fair. 145sc. Receipts. S44.
Stock. 26.596.
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Bonds
Money on Call

New York, August 3.--Money on call
unchanged. Time loans steady, go
days 31a@3A per cent, 30 days "a q
per cent Six months Az as per cent.
Prime mercantile paper per cent.
Sterling exchange weak with actual
business in bankers bills at s4.s4.50 for
90 day bills. and at s4.s650 for demand.
Commercial bills firm 4.S3%. Bar sill
yer, 59Rc Mexican dollars, 4Sc. Cow
eminent bonds steady. Railroad bonds
irregular.