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A Clergyman says that the baby that pulls whiskers, bites fingers, and
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A Hartford man has a Bible bearing date 1599. It is very easy to preserve
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A Vermont man has a hen thirty years old. The other day a hawk stole it,
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A little five-year-old friend, who was always allowed to choose the
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GENERAL NEWS.
St. Louis is to have a dog show about the middle of April.
South Chicago had a $75,000 fire on the night of the 17th.
New York is to have a new water supply to cost $30,000,000.
There are about 50,000 Northern tourists in Florida at this time.
Another conspiracy against the Government is brewing in Spain.
A sister of John Brown, of Osawatomie is a resident of Des Moines.
Dakota will spend nearly a million and a half for school purposes this
year.
King's Opera House and several adjacent buildings at Knoxville, Tenn.,
were burned Monday night.
A child in Philadelphia has just been attacked by hydrophobia from the
bite of a dog three years ago.
Captain Traynor, who once crossed the Atlantic in a dory, now proposes to
make the trip in a rowboat.
During the present century 150,000,000 copies of the Bible have been
printed in 226 different languages.
The Governor General at Trieste was surprised Tuesday by the explosion of
a bomb in front of his residence.
The man who fired the first gun in the battle of Gettysburg lives in
Malvern, Iowa. His name is Dick Gidley.
St. Patrick's Day was appropriately (as the custom goes) celebrated in
Chicago, and the other large cities of the country.
Kansas has 420 newspapers, including dailies, weeklies, semi-weeklies,
monthlies, semi-monthlies, tri-monthlies, and quarterlies.
A Dubuque watchmaker has invented a watch movement which has no
dial-wheels, and is said will create a revolution in watch-making.
In the trial of Orrin A. Carpenter for the murder of Zura Burns, now in
progress at Petersburg, Illinois, the prosecution has rested its case.
All the members of the United States Senate signed a telegram to Simon
Cameron, now in Florida, congratulating him on his eighty-fifth birthday.
The inventor of a system of electric lighting announces that he is about
to use the water-power at Niagara to furnish light to sixty-five cities.
The British leaders in Egypt have offered a reward of $5,000 for the
capture of Osman Digma, the rebel leader, whom Gen. Graham has now
defeated in two battles.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road is at war with the Western Union
Telegraph Company in Texas, and sends ten-word messages through that State
for fifteen cents.
Thirty-four counties and twenty-one railroads between Pittsburg and Cairo
report fifty-five bridges destroyed by the February flood. The estimated
cost of replacing them is $210,000.
There is a movement on foot in Chicago which may result in the holding of
both the National Conventions in Battery D Hall, which is said to have
better acoustic properties than the Exposition Building.
It is reported that more than six thousand Indians are starving at Fort
Peck Agency. Game has entirely disappeared, and those Indians who have
been turning their attention to farming, raised scarcely anything last
year.
The announcement is made at St. Louis that the Pacific Express Company
lost $160,000 by Prentiss Tiller and his accomplices, and that $25,000 of
the amount is still missing. Tiller, the thief, and a supposed accomplice,
are under arrest.
The British House of Commons was in session all last Saturday night,
considering war measures. It is rumored that Parliament will be dissolved,
and a new election held to ascertain if the Ministry measures are pleasing
to the majority of the people.
The crevasse at Carrollton, Louisiana, has been closed. A break occurred
Monday morning in the Mulatto levee, near Baton Rouge, and at last advices
was forty feet wide and six feet deep, threatening all the plantations
down to Plaquemine.
The Egyptian rebels, as they are called, fight with great bravery. So far,
however, they have been unable to cope with their better armed and
disciplined enemy, but it is reported that they are not at all
discouraged, but swear they will yet drink the blood of the Turks and
their allies from England.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
OFFICE OF THE PRAIRIE FARMER,}
CHICAGO. March 18, 1884. }
There was a better feeling in banking circles on Monday but transactions
were not heavy. Interest rates remain at 5@7 per cent.
Eastern exchange sold between banks at 25c per $1,000 premium.
Foreign exchange unchanged.
The failures in the United States during the past seven days are reported
to have numbered 174, and in Canada and the Provinces 42, a total of 216,
as compared with 272 for the previous week, a decrease of 56. The decrease
is principally in the Western, Middle, and New England States. Canada had
the same number of failures as for the preceding week.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
The week opened with the bears on top and prices were forced downward.
Speculation was heavy. Ocean freights are low, yet but little grain
comparatively is going out. London and Liverpool advices were not
encouraging and the New York markets were easy. Corn was unusually dull.
WHEAT.--Red winter, in store No. 2, 98c; spring No. 2 92@93c; No. 3.
85@89c on track.
CORN.--Moderately active. Car lots No 2, 53@53-1/2c; rejected, 46c; new
mixed, 52-1/2c.
OATS.--No. 2 on track closed 34-1/4@35c.
RYE.--No. 2 59@62c.
BARLEY.--No. 2, 66c; No. 3, f.o.b. 6l@62c; No. 5 50c.
FLAX.--Closed at $1 60@1 61 on track.
TIMOTHY.--$1 28@l 34 per bushel. Little doing.
CLOVER.--Quiet at $5 50@5 70 for prime.
HUNGARIAN.--Prime 60@67-1/2c.
BUCKWHEAT.--70@75c.
MILLET.--45@50c.
PROVISIONS.--Mess pork. May $18 10@18 25. Green hams, 11-3/4c per lb.
Short ribs, $9 55@9 60 per cwt.
LARD.--$9 60@9 75.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
NOTE.--The quotations for the articles named in the following list are
generally for commission lots of goods and from first hands. While our
prices are based as near as may be on the landing or wholesale rates,
allowance must be made for selections and the sorting up for store
distribution.
BRAN.--Quoted at $15 50@15 75 per ton on track.
BEANS.--Hand picked mediums $2 10@2 15. Hand picked navies, $2 15@2 25.
BUTTER.--Choice to extra creamery, 33@35c per lb.; fair to good do 25@30c;
fair to choice dairy 24@28c; common to choice packing stock fresh and
sweet, 9@10c; ladle packed 10@13c.
BROOM-CORN.--Good to choice hurl 7@8c per lb; green self-working 6@6-1/2c;
red-tipped and pale do 4@5c; inside and covers 3@4c; common short corn
2-1/2@3-1/2c; crooked, and damaged, 2@4c, according to quality.
CHEESE.--Choice full-cream cheddars 14@l5c per lb; medium quality do
10@12c; good to prime full-cream flats 15@15-1/2c; skimmed cheddars 9@10c;
good skimmed flats 7@9c; hard-skimmed and common stock 5@7c.
EGGS.--The best brands are quotable at 20@21c per dozen, fresh.
FEATHERS.--Quotations: Prime live geese feathers 52@54c per lb.; ducks
25@35c; duck and geese mixed 35@45c; dry picked chicken feathers body
6@6-1/2c; turkey body feathers 4@4-1/2c; do tail 55@60c; do wing 25@35c;
do wing and tail mixed 35@40c.
HAY.--No 1 timothy $10@10 75 per ton; No 2 do $850@9 50; mixed do $7@8;
upland prairie $7@8 50; No 1 prairie $6@7; No 2 do $4 50@5 50. Small bales
sell at 25@50c per ton more than large bales.
HIDES AND PELTS.--Green-cured light hides 8-1/2c per lb; do heavy cows 8c;
No 2 damaged green-salted hides 6-1/2c; green-salted calf 12@12-1/2 cents;
green-salted bull 6 c; dry-salted hides 11 cents; No. 2 two-thirds price;
No. 1 dry flint 14@14-1/2c, Sheep pelts salable at 25@28c for the
estimated amount of wash wool on each pelt. All branded and scratched
hides are discounted 15 per cent from the price of No. 1.
HOPS.--Prime to choice New York State hops 27@28c per lb; Pacific coast of
23@25c; fair to good Wisconsin 15@20c.
HONEY AND BEESWAX.--Good to choice white comb honey in small boxes 15@17c
per lb; common and dark-colored, or when in large packages 12@14c; beeswax
ranged at 25@30c per lb, according to quality, the outside for prime
yellow.
POULTRY.--Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are:
Turkeys 16@l7c per lb; chickens 12@13c; ducks 14@15c; geese 10@11c. Thin,
undesirable, and frozen stock 2@3c per lb less than these figures; live
offerings nominal.
POTATOES.--Good to choice 38@42c per bu. on track; common to fair 30@36c.
Illinois sweet potatoes range at $4@5 per bbl for yellow.
TALLOW AND GREASE.--No 1 country tallow 7@7-1/4c per lb; No 2 do
6-1/4@6-1/2c. Prime white grease 6@6-1/2c; yellow 5-1/4@5-3/4; brown
4-1/2@5.
VEGETABLES.--Cabbage, $10@15 per 100; celery, 35@45c per per doz bunches;
onions, $1 50@1 75 per bbl for yellow, and $1 for red; turnips, $1 35@1 50
per bbl for rutabagas, and $1 00 for white flat. Pie plant, 10c per lb.
Spinach, $1@2 per bbl. Cucumbers, $1 50@2 00 per doz; radishes, 40c per
doz; lettuce, 40c per doz.
WOOL.--From store range as follows for bright wools from Wisconsin,
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa--dark Western lots generally
ranging at 1@2c per lb. less.
Coarse and dingy tub 25@30
Good medium tub 31@34
Unwashed bucks' fleeces 14@15
Fine unwashed heavy fleeces 18@22
Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces 22@23
Coarse unwashed fleeces 21@22
Low medium unwashed fleeces 24@25
Fine medium unwashed fleeces 26@27
Fine washed fleeces 32@33
Coarse washed fleeces 26@28
Low medium washed fleeces 30@32
Fine medium washed fleeces 34@35
Colorado and Territory wools range as follows:
Lowest grades 14@16
Low medium 18@22
Medium 22@26
Fine 16@24
Wools from New Mexico:
Lowest grades 14@16
Part improved 16@17
Best improved 19@23
Burry from 2c to 10c off; black 2c to 5c off.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
The total receipts and shipments for last week were as follows:
Received. Shipped.
Cattle 30,963 15,498
Calves 375 82
Hogs 62,988 34,361
Sheep 18,787 10,416
CATTLE.--Diseased cattle of all kinds, especially those having lump-jaws,
cancers, and running sore, are condemned and killed by the health
officers. Shippers will save freight by keeping such stock in the country.
Receipts were fair on Sunday and Monday and the demand not being very
brisk prices dropped a little. The supply of choice beeves was light. We
quote
Choice to prime steers $6 00@ 6 85
Good to choice steers 6 20@ 6 50
Fair to good shipping steers 5 55@ 6 15
Common to medium dressed beef steers 4 85@ 5 50
Very common steers 5 00@ 5 50
Cows, choice to prime 5 00@ 5 50
Cows, common to choice 3 30@ 4 95
Cows, inferior 2 50@ 3 25
Common to prime bulls 3 25@ 5 50
Stockers, common to choice 3 70@ 4 75
Feeders, fair to choice 4 80@ 5 25
Milch cows, per head 25 00@ 65 00
Veal calves, per 100lbs 4 00@ 7 75
HOGS.--All sales of hogs in this market are made subject to a shrinkage of
40 lbs for piggy sows and 80 lbs for each stag. Dead hogs sell at 1-1/2c
per lb for weight of 200 lbs and over, and 1c for weights of less than 200
lbs. With the exception of cripples and milch cows, all stock is sold per
100 lbs live weight.
There were about 3,000 head more on Sunday and Monday than for same days
last week, the receipts reaching 11,000 head. All but the poorest lots
were readily taken at steady prices. Common to choice light bacon hogs
were sold from $5 80 to $6 70, their weights averaging 150@206 lbs. Rough
packing lots sold at $6 20@6 75. and heavy packing and shipping hogs
averaging 240@309 lbs brought $6 80@7 40. Skips were sold at $4 75@$5 75.
SHEEP.--This class of stock seems to be on the increase at the yards.
Sunday and Monday brought hither 5,500 head, an increase of 2,500 over
receipts a week ago. Prices weakened a little. Sales ranged at $3 37-1/2@5
65 for common to choice, the great bulk of the offerings consisting of
Nebraska sheep.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK, March 17.--Cattle--Steers sold at $6@7 25 per cwt, live weight;
fat bulls $4 60@5 70; exporters used 60 car-loads, and paid $6 70@7 25 per
cwt, live weight, for good to choice selections; shipments for the week,
672 head live cattle; 7,300 qrs beef; 1,000 carcasses mutton. Sheep and
lambs--Receipts 7,700 head; making 24,300 head for the week; strictly
prime sheep and choice lambs sold at about the former prices, but the
market was uncommonly dull for common and even fair stock, and a clearance
was not made; sales included ordinary to prime sheep at $5@6 37-1/2 per
cwt, but a few picked sheep reached $6 75; ordinary to choice yearlings
$6@8; spring lambs $3@8 per head. Hogs--Receipts 7,900 head, making 20,100
for the week; live dull and nearly nominal; 2 car-loads sold at $6 50@6 75
per 100 pounds.
ST. LOUIS, March 17.--Cattle--Receipts 3,400 head; shipments 1,600 head;
wet weather and liberal receipts caused weak and irregular prices, and
some sales made lower; export steers $6 40@6 90; good to choice $5 75@6
30; common to medium $4 85@5 60; stockers and feeders $4@5 25; corn-fed
Texans $5@5 75. Sheep--Receipts 900 head; shipments 800 head; steady;
common to medium $3@4 25; good to choice $4 50@5 50; extra $5 75@6; Texans
$3@5.
KANSAS CITY, March 17--Cattle--Receipts 1,500 head; weak and slow; prices
unsettled; native steers, 1,092 to 1,503 lbs, $5 05@5 85; stockers and
feeders $4 60@5; cows $3 70@4 50. Hogs--Receipts 5,500 head; good steady;
mixed lower; lots 200 to 500 lbs, $6 25 to 7; mainly $6 40@6 60.
Sheep--Receipts 3,200 head; steady; natives, 81 lbs, $4 35.
EAST LIBERTY, March 17.--Cattle--Dull and unchanged; receipts 1,938 head;
shipments 1,463 head. Hogs--Firm; receipts 7,130 head; shipments 4,485
head; Philadelphias $7 50@7 75; Yorkers $6 50@6 90. Sheep--Dull and
unchanged; receipts 6,600 head; shipments 600 head.
CINCINNATI, O., March 17.--Hogs--Steady; common and light, $5@6 75;
packing and butchers', $6 25@7 25; receipts, 1,800 head; shipments, 920
head.
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Read what a wheat-grower says of his experience with the
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FIFE WHEAT
It is the best wheat I ever raised or saw. I sowed one quart and got from
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