The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 81, Ed. 1 Monday, June 11, 1883 Page: 3 of 4
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TES AMD PECULATIONS
OF
WHARFAGE
OF THE
APRIL 1, 1881.
All rnwds and their owners landing jjoods on the
wharves thereby contract to pay, and are respon-
sible for the wharfage on the same, according to
the following rates to be collected from the vessel*
or their agents: Sets.
Anchors and Chains, per 100 Its.
Barrels, wet
Barrels, dry
Barrels, empty, wet
Barrels, empty, dry
Barrel Staves, per M
Bacon, per cask
Bacon, per case
Bags or Sacks in bales, per cubic foot
Bafcginp. per cubic foot
Bagging, per 100 yard roll, each
Bagging, per 50 yard roll, each
Baskets, per nest
Ballast, per ton
Bales, over 5 cubic feet, per foot
Bedsteads, each
Bedsteads, common, each
Bedsteads, boxed, per cubic foot
Bellows, per cubic foot
Bananas and Plantains, per bunch
Breakfast Bacon, per box
Boxes, liquors, cneese, soap, candles, etc
Boxes extract, coffee, ink, bluing, etc. (small;..
Brooms, per dozen
Broom Handles, per M
liroomcora, per bale
Brick, fire, per M
Brick, common, per M...
Bran, per sack
Bran, per ton of 2000 lhs
BlUjds, Doors and Sash, per cubic foot
Boil era. steam, per 100 lbs
Bones and Horns, per ton of 2000 lbs
Bone-dust. i»er ton of 2000 lbs
Bone-black or Bone meal, per sack of 100 Tt>B...
Bolts and Spikes, Rivets, Nuts and >Vashers,
per xeg
Buckets, per dozen
Buckets, well, per dozen
Butter, per keg
Butter, per firkin -
Building stone, rough, per ton of 2240 2>s
Buggies, each
Buggies boxed. per cubic foot
Carboys, each, full
Carboys, empty
Casks, wine
Casks, hardware, per 100 tt>s.
Casks, merchandise, per cubic foot
Carriages, each
Carriages, boxed, per cubic foot
Carts, each
Castings, hollow or solid, per 100 lbs
(battle, grown, each
Cattle, two-year-olds, each
Cattle, yearlings, each
Cattle, calves, each
Champagne, in baskets
Chairs, per bundle (2 each)
X'harcoal, per sack
/Cotton, per bale, landed
W'otton, per bale, shipped
Cotton, per sack
C oal, dumped in carts, per ton of 2240 tt>s
Coal, dumped on wharf, per ton of 2240 ft»s
Coal, in Casks
Coaches, Stage, each 1 00
(Corn, per sack 3
Corn, in shuck, per bbl £
Cotton Seed, per ton of 2000 lbs. cargo 25
Cotton Seed Meal, per ton of 2000 lbs 30
Cotton Gins, per cubic foot 1
Cotton Planters, each 10
Corn Planters, each 10
Corn Shellers 6
Corn Mills, per cubic foot 1
Coffee, per sack of 135 lbs 4
Codfish, per drum of 500 lbs 15
Cordage, per 100 lbs 5
Cotton Ties, per 100 lbs. (inward)
Cotton Ties, per 100 lbs. (outward) 5
Copper, per 100 lbs 5
Copper, pig, per 100 lbs 5
Coal Oil. per case
Cocoa nuts, per 100 25
Collars, Horse, per dozen
Crates. Crockery or Merchandise, per cubic ft..
Cultivators, each
Drays, eacn
Doors, each
Demijohns, full
Demijohns, empty
Dry Goods, in case, per 100 lbs
Filters, boxed or otherwise, per cubic foot
3-'lour, per sack
Flour, per hair sack
!Fustic and other Dye-Woods, per ton of 2000 lbs
f ertilizer or Guano, per tou or dOOO lbs
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot
Groceries, dry, boxed, per 100 lbs
Grain, for export, including Bran, per 100 2>s..
Grind and Millstones, per 100 fl>s
*unny Bags, in bales, per cubic foot
ilrdwa
lames,.
Jiains, per cask
JiArdware, per 100 lbs
liaines, per dozen...
per bale
Iluy, per half bale
Hogsheads, empty
Hogshead Staves,"per M
J lav Cutters
2/aif barrels, wet....
£Ialf barrels, dry
lalf barrels, empty
Hoop Poles, per 31
Jlorses and 3Iules, each
logs .
Jorseshoas. per keg
louseliold Goods, per 100 fi>s
Hides, loose, each
Elides, in bales, per 100 lbs
{ides, green, in bundles of 2 each
ce, in hogsheads
ce. as per invoice, less 30 per cent, for waste,
per ton
Ice Cream Freezers, each
Iron, boiler, plate, bar, hoop, wrought, sheet
and galvanized, per 100 lbs
Iron Pipe, Gas and Water, per 100 lbs
Iron Shutters and Wrought Fittings, per 100 lbs
Iron, junk and scrap, per ton
Iron, pig, per ton of 2240 lbs
iron Safes, over 3000 lbs. per 100 lbs
Iron Safes, under 3000 lbs, per 100 lbs
Junk, in bales (except iron;
Kegs, merchandise
Kegs, empty
Kits fosh
Laths, per M
lemons, per box
jl.ead. per 100 Tbs
Lumber, per M
^Leather, per 100 lbs
fclalt. per sacx
Iarble, per 100 lbs, dressed
ilarble, per ton of 2000 lbs., rough
tlarble dust, per barrel
Machinery, per 100 lbs
£1 ineral Ores, per ton of 2000 lbs
blowing Machines, each
{•loss, per bale
Matting, per roll
Kails, per kep
Kails, per half keg
Oakuin, per bale
Oats. per sack
(>fl Cake, per sack
Oranges, per box
Ordnance Stores, per 100 lbs
Oysters, per bbl.. t-
jPaint, per 100 lbs
Pails, per doz
S'ails, hour, per nest
Paper, printing, per bundle
Paper, wrapping, per ream
Pecans, per sack
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot
Pine-apples, per 100
Plows, each
Plows. Sulkv
Plow Material, k. d., per 100 lbs
Potash, per 100 lbs
Posts, fencing, each
Powder, kegs
Powder, half-kegs
Powder, auarter-keers
Railroad Material for construction and opera-
tion:
Railroad Iron and Steel Rails ) Per Ton 1
*t. R. Fish Bars. Plates and Chairs V of [
5i. R. Frogs. Spikes. Bolts and Nuts ) 2340 lbs. J
R. Iron Bridges, Locomotives. (Per Ton of »
K. R. Trucks, Wheels. Axles, etc. J 2240 lbs J
It. R. Iron, for street railroad, per ton 2240 B>s.. 50
R. R. Passenger Cars, each 15 00
K. R. Passenger Cars, Narrow Gauge 10 00
Railroad Platform Cars 8 00
H. R. Platform Cars, narrow Gauge 5 00
Ft. R. Lumber, per M feet SO
ti. R. Ties, eight feet long, each 2
Raisins, per box 3
Raisins, per half box 2
Raisins, p^r quarter box..
rlags, per bale
Refrigerators, per cubic foot
Rubber Belting, per 100 lbs
Booting Slate, per tou of 2000 lbs
Hope, per 100 lbs
Fait, per sack
Bana or Soil, per dray-load
Sewing Machines, each
Sewing, K. D., per 100 lbs
Sieves, per package, 2 dozen
Sawdust, per dray-load
30
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THE TEXAS EXPRESS COMP'VY'S
Reduced Rate* on Sbipmei*
Pounds aud Pnder to th- '
Point*, viz:
Packages, per Potrxo
F ROM
Galveston
Austin.
Acquilla
Alien7
Alexander.
Allevfon
Arliiigion... 125 SO 35 +> 50
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Abilene '25 3J 4«>');
Athens 30 3.V^ 50
Albany .25 -50 j>?|' • •*»
Atacoea 30,3rjt5 50
Areola
Algiers, La.. -'5-•••=•' fOfO
Al'xudria.La 2P. •>'
Ba>rd ;25:*>4;
Big Springs. :
Bios'mPrai t 2r> 30}*}
Bonham *
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Big Sandy..
Bay u Sale.. ~5!-5j35;j0.i0
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Banks
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Bremond
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Breaham
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Bryan
Burton
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Buffalo
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Bel.ten ;25|30;?i5 45
B. Rouge, La 25 30 35 4
Brooks'on. . IS25 30 35 1
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Caldwell.
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Cameron
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Crawford
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Clifton ..
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Chappel Hill,25 25 25 3
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Cheneyvilie. 25 30.35 45 50
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Dublin 25 30 35 40 50
DeKalb 25 30 35 45 50
Dodd City... 25 30,35 45 50
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Eola 125'25 35 40 JO
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Flatonia 125 25 35 40 40
Forney !25!25 35,40 40!
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ghingles, per M
Hheep, each
Bhooks, box, per carload 5
Sliooks, box. less than carload, per 100 5r>s
Shell, per dray-load 5 bbls
poda. in casks" and drums, per 100 lT>s
^hovels and Spades, per dozen
Spices, per sack
Stoves, per cubic foot
Sugar, per hogshead
Sugar per t>£>!
Sugar, Havana, in boxes
Smoke-stacks, per 100 lb>j
Stoves ana Trimmings, oer 100 lfcs
Sidkies
Tierces Beef
Tierces Lard
Tierces Rice
Tierces Hams
Tierces Tallow, etc
Tierces with bbls. inside
Tierces, empty
Timber, "Walnut, etc,, per ton of 50 cubic feet ..
Tin Plate, per 100 lbs
Tin, pig, per 100 Its
Tobacco, chewing, per 100 lbs
Tobacco, smoking, per cubic foot
Tiles, per ton of 2000 lbs
Trunks, filled with merchandise or nests
Tubs, per nest
•Trucks, Railroad, per 100 lbs
Wagons, each
Wagons, Spring or Cane
Wagon Material, K. D.. per 100 lbs
Washing Machiaes, each
Washboards, per dozen 4
Watermelons, each 1
Water Coolers 2
Wire, per 100 lbs 5
Wheelbarrows 5
Wheels and Axles, railroad, per 100 lbs 5
Wheels and Axles, log carrier 75
Wood, per Cord 25
Wool, per sack 10
White Lead, per 100 lbs 5
5£ine, in rolls, per 100 lbs
Goods not in above list will be charged in pro-
portion, say: Less thau forty pounds to the cubic
foot will be classed as measurement and charged 1
cent per foot: forty pounds and over to the cubic
foot will be classed as weight, and charged 5 cents
per 100 pounds
All goods and articles of every kind, landed or
deceived upon any of the wharves, are thereafter
lit the risk of the owners, and not of the Company,
and must be removed the same day, or, at fur-
thest, the next day. After which time, any of
said goods and articles remaining on the wharves,
the owners and consignees thereof will be respon-
sible for. and will be charged an additional wharf-
age of one-third the rates specified in the preced-
ing schedule for every day they so remain, and
jnay be removed by the Wharf Company without
further notice (at the lisk and expense of the
goods and the owners and consignees thereof) to
any part of its premises, continuing the charge for
additional wharfage each day they remain on said
premises. Or the Wharf Company mav have the
game removed and stored elsewhere than on its
own premises without further notice (at the risk
and expense of the goods and the owners and con-
signees thereof), and the same will be held until
ail charges are paid.
The Company hereby gives notice that it will nflft
lie liable for losses if caused by excessive and un-
tisual weights, or by piling up heavv articles, such
as salt more than four sacks high, and railroad
iron more than three tiers high, on the wharves.
Or by landing articles of extraordinary weight,
guch as locomotives, without special permission vin
Writing) from the Company's agent: but that it
tvill hold ali persons liable for such damages as
fnay be occasioned by overloading the wharves,
%v-itnout special permission.
The Company also gives notice that it does not
undertake storage, and will not be responsible for
losses or damage, from any cause, to goods or ar-
ticles landed or received on its wharves.
All vessels of fifty tons and over not engaged in
receiving or discharging cargo, or seized by legal
process, and lying at the wharf after such seizure,
V iii ke charged wharfage at the rate of five ceuts
per registered ton for each day. Vessels of less
than fifty tons will be charged wharfage at the rate
t>f $2 per day.
On all shipments from the interior to be delivered
to a vessel or agent on through bill of lading, the
carrier placing produce, goods, etc., on the wharf
Lt responsible ?°r wharfage.
y JOS. AIXEN* Secretary.
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Pearsal 25'30 35 45,50
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gute i City.. 25'80|35j45!5»'
ouary 25 25)25 35;3£
Rauger 25'30 35 45 50
Reagan 25 25 35 3." 35
Rice 25 25 35 i'.i 40
Richmond... 2" 25 25
Riverside 2." {25 25 25
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Round Rock. 25 25 35!35
Rosenburg... 2525 25 25 2:
Rogers 2525.25,30 35;
Sparta 2530 3 ; 15 50
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Twohig 25 30 45 ti j 7 0
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Taylor 25 25 35 3.-) 35
Trinity 25 25 25 25 25,
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Van Alstyne. 25;:i0 3:. 45 50
Ve rmilionv'e,25 25 35!40 40
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Waco 25 25 25130 35
"Whitney 25;25 35 40 40
Wortham 25 35 35.35 35
Waxahachie. 25 3() 35-40 50
Waelder 25125 35 40 40
Weimar 25;35 35;35 35
Waskom 2';30 3515 50
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RAILROAD
TIKI! CAKS IN EFFECT SUNDAY, JUNE 10.
North Daily.
South Daily.
12H<Z&14c: cream, Swiss. 25<fc26c; Lim-
bureer, 15<&.16c
CO'—
lishmentfor slaughter at Victoria, in Southern
Texas, has an immense outfit. Two or more are la
5.10 p. m.'; 5.00 a. m. Leave
7.20 p. m.j 7.15 a. m. Leave
1.40 a. m. j 3.00 p. m. Leave
! 1.30 a. m. | Arrive
8.55 a.m.' Leava
3.25 p.m.; (Leave
7.00 a. m. 6.20a. m.;Arrive
;11.00 p. m. Arrive
7.55 p. m. 7.55 p. m.'Arrive
10.15 p. m.il0.15 p. m.1 Arrive
Galveston
Houston
Palestine
Denison.
Texarkana
Little Rock
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
New York
... Arrive1 8.00 p. m. 11 00 a. m.
Arrive 5 50 p. m. 9.10 a. m.
— Arrive 10.20 a. m i 2.50 a. m.
... Leave 12.40 p. m.j
... Leave 1 6.50 p. m.
Leave j 1.15 p.m.
Leave #.30 p. m.j S.50 p. m.
Leave 4.30 a.m.
Leave 8.45 a. m.j 8.45 a. m.
Leave, 7.55 a. m.; 7.55 a. m.
QUICK TIKI:—FIRST-CLASS EQUIPMENT—SOLID TRAINS.
No Change of Cars-Of any description between Galveston and St. Louis.
Close Connection at LITTLE ROCK for the Southeast, and in the Union Depot, ST. LOUIS, with
Express Trains in all directions.
EXCURSION TICKETS
TO ALL THE PRINCIPAL SUMMER RESORTS in the North. East and Southeast, good until October
31 for return, and now on sale at Low Rates.
Two Express Trains each way daily, offering passengers ^[hoice of Routes via Teiarkan
and the Iron Mountain Railway, or via Jlineola and the Missouri Pacific Railway.
Pullman Palace Sleeping; Cars attached to all Throug-h Trains.
For Tickets, Rates, Time Cards, or any information, apply to
J. S. IGacNAMAEA. Ticket Asrent, Galveston, Texas.
I B. W. WcCULLOUOH, | H. P. HUGHES,
[ Ass t Gen'l Pass. Airent. Marshall. Texas. Pass. Agent. Houston. Texas.
H. M. HOXIE, Third Vice-President, St. Louis. Mo.
H. C.!TOWNSEND,
Pass. Agent, St. Louis.
Gulf, Colorado and
S^lSTT-A. FE
RAILWAY COMPANY
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
)
Galveston, Texas. May 14th, 1883.
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Direc-
tors of said Railway Company have called a meet-
ing of all the Stockholders of said Company, to be
held at its office in this city on the 1st day of Au-
gust, 1S83. at the hour of 12 m.. for the purpose of
considering and determining as to the necessity
for constructing, completing, improving and op-
erating its Railway, by the issuance, sale and dis-
posal, by said Company, of Second Mortgage Bonds
of said Company, in sums of one thousand dollars
each, to an amount not to exceed thirteen thousand
dollars per mile on the main track of said Com-
pany's Railwaj, constructed, and to be constructed
or acquired, and all branch lines of said Railway.
Said Bonds to run for forty years, from October
1st, 1883, and bear interest at the rate of six per
cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, on the 1st
days of April and October in each year, at the city
of New Yorfc. The issuance of said Bonds by the
Company to be limited as follows: Not to exceed
$CCKX) per mile on or before the 31st of December.
1883; and additional issues so that the aggregated
all Second Mortgage Bonds shall not exceed
amounts per mile, and on or before the dates as
follows: December 31st, 1884, S3000; December
31st, 1885, $4000; December 31st, 1886, $5000; Decem-
ber 31st, 1887, $0000; December 3lst, 1888, $7000;
December 31st, 1889, $8000; December 31st, 1890,
$9000; December 31st. 1891. $10,000; December 31st,
1892, $11,000: December 3ist. 1893, $12,000: and
December 31st, 1894. $13,000; the miles of comple-
ted railway to be ascertained by certificate of the
President and Chief Engineer of said Company,
and the payment of the said Bonds to be secured
by a Second Trust Deed and Mortgage on all the
railway, franchises and property of said Company
as follows:
Any and all railways of said Railway Company,
now constructed, or hereafter to be constructed or
authorized, wheresoever situated, including main
lines, branches, extensions and acquisitions, to-
gether with all the railways, ways and rights of
way, track, rails, bridges, viaducts, culverts, fences,
and structures of every kind, all depots, station
houses, ena-iue houses, car houses, wood houses,
machine shops, water tanks,and ail other buildings,
together with the lots or parcels of land on which
each aud all are or may be erected, and all loco-
motives. tenders, passenger, baggage mail, freight,
hand and other cars, and afl other rolling stock
and equipment, all machinery, tools, implements,
fuel aud materials, all furniture, maps, books of
account, vouchers, receipts, and assets of every
kind, all leasehold premises and leases, income,
tolls, rents, issues, profits, reversions and remaind-
ers, ail whieft herein specified recited premises and
property, and all other real and personal property
now or at any time belonging or to belong to said
Company with all appurtenances thereto, together
with all the present and future franchises and
chartered rights, privileges and immunities, which
now do or at auy time may belong to or appertain
to said Company, including the franchise to be a
Corporation. But it is understood that the lands
which may be acquired by said Company from the
State of Texas, and all other lands it may acquire
by donation or otherwise, except those acuuired
for some of the purposes hereinbefore specified,
aud used in connection with said Railway or the
operation thereof, are not hereby conveyed nor in-
tended so to be.
P. IP, Secretary.
B.ELIAELS.
G..H.&H.R.R.
TIME TABLE NO. 69.
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 38S3.
Leave Galveston*. Arrive at Houston.
DAILY.
/\ > « J Union Depot 6.55 a. m.
4-50 a. m. . -j H & T c Depot 7.05 a. m.
Connections for all points on H. £ T. C. R"y.
Connects at Denison with Missouri-Pacific R'y for
St. Louis.
DAILY.
i an o ir i Union Depot 5.C5» r. m.
3.30 p- M | H. a T. C. Depot S.15 p.
This train will carrv Pullman Sleeping: Car for St.
Louis, viajfci. 6c T. C. railway. Also, Ful nian Sleep-
ing Car Galveston to San Antonio, Laredo, Austin,
Dallas and intermediate points without change.
Connects with Texas and New Orleans R'y for
New Orleans; G., H. and S. A. R'v for the West.
FAST EXPRESS DAILY.
5.00 P- m Union Depot 7*00 P- it-
Solid train to St Louis: arrives St. Louis 6:50 a. m.,
second morning. Pullman Sleeping Gal-
veston to St. Louis without change.
60
80
75
90
80
T5
1 U0
40
40
40
1 00
901 00
80; 90
1 loll 2511 75 1 75 2 00
OOj 65 75i 901 00
1 15 1 2511 75 1 75|2 00
When the value is over §50 add for distances
under 50J miles % of 1 per ceat.; over 500 miles
ami not exceeding 1000 miles, >4 of 1 per cent.
Shipments made to all poiat8 in the United
States, Canada and Europe.
THE JOURNALS
OF THE
BOUSE OF REFRESEKTfiTIVES,
EXTRA SESSION OF THE
Seventeenth Legislature of the
State of Texas,
Fot Sale at Tits Haws Office.
PRICE—Senate, in Paper Cover, $1; in Leather,
$2 50. House, in Paper Cover. $1 50: in Leather.
S3. Senate and House together, in Paper Cover,
$2 50; in Leather, $4 50. A. H. BELO & CO.
Leave Houston.
7.£0 a.M
Arrive at Galveston.
DAILY.
9.49 A. M.
Connects with H. & T. C. and T. & N. O. R'ys.
Sleeping Car from Laredo and Austin.
FAST EXPRESS DAILY.
9.00 a. m H. & T. C. Depot,... 11.00 a. m.
Express from St. Louis via St. L.I. M. AS, Tex.-
Pac. and I. & G. N R'ys.
DAILY.
5.50 p- Union Depot 7 .50 p- m-
Through Sleeping Cars from St. Louis via Denison
and H. & T C. R'y.
J. S. MACNAMARA, Ticket Agent. Union Depot.
YORK
uALVESTON &
REGULAR WEEKLY
STEAMSHIP LINE
of the following named
Consisting
steamers:
SAN MARCOS Captain Kolger
GUADALUPE Captain Niekerson
COLORADO Captain Crowel!
RIO GRANDE Captain Burrows
Freight and Insurance at X-owestliates
One of the above-named steamships will leave
New York every SATURDAY, and Galveston for
New York every WEDNESDAY, and on Saturday
when the trade requires.
Steamship SAST I7AECOS,
BOLGER, Master,
Will sail for SEW sCEK,
Wednesday, June 13, 1883
J. N. SAWYES, iksont,
64 Strand,* Galveston.
H. MALLORY
C.
& CO., Agents.
Pier 20, East River. New York.
I. E. GLENNY.
ATWOUli VIOl.TCTT.
(HI i flHl
COTTON BROKERS
196 GRAVIER STREET.
New Orleans.
Orders for Futures executed in New Orleans, New
York and Liverpool.
Correspondents:
MESSRS. FIELDING & GWYNN, New York.
MESSRS. CUNNINGHAM & H1NSHAW, Liverpool.
GK!*rwra PAC-81M1LB—Prominent Let-
ters, ALL white on a black f round.
Beware of dealers who attempt to palm of!
IMITATION, SUBSTITUTION orWORTH-
LE8S soods which vield them a LARGER
PROFIT. None are eenuine without the
SAFE.
fl. H. WARSES A CO., Rochester, Si.Y.
STANDARD MILLS BAGGING CO.,
(Successors to Douglass Bagging Co.)
MANUFACTURERS OF
GREEN LETTER BRANDS OF PURE JCTE BAGGING,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Joel Wood. President.
J. D. Filley, Treasurer.
Houston ADVERTISEMENTS
•TTON SEED—Quoted at Sll 00 per ton on
wharf.
CORN—Quoted at from track for
mixed in carload lots; mixed, from store. &S©G9c:
white. G9&71c
CORNMEAL--Quoted at $3 TO ©er barrel for
Western kiln-dried. Pearl meal. 54 75 per barrel.
Grits, $4 75 per barrel. Cracked corn, $1 75 ver 100
pounds in 50-sack lots. Oatmeal, $8 00<&S 50 per
l>arrei: $4 00<&4 25 per half barrwl. City corn-
meal, kiln-dried, from mills. In saefcs, per barrel,
$3 00; in barrels. $-3 90: from wholesale grocers.
$3 30 in sacks and $3 20 in barrels. City pearl
meal, zrits aud hominy. 84 30
DRIED FRUITS—Dneo peaches nominally
Bt^c per pound. Prunes. 8W3H)c. Dried currants,
7U2®7%e. Dried apples—9®»^c for quarters, 10 iu1«.u«w.ih,iu.
^10Xc for sliced. m£<2>17c f jr evaporated I jn a light way, there bein« no especial
I)KY SALT MRaTS-Market baij of shoulders the part ,.,f invoice bujenf Supfrtiti ai
and sides and prices are nominal ;bellies offering at 1 *
%^1%
dozen for patent
EGGS—Quoted at 13@14c x>er
cases from near railroad points; island. £>6&35c;
bay, lfo£!8c.
FLOUR—Quotations for round lots from mills,
in sacks, per barrel: XXX, $"> HO choice family,
S<» 55; fancy. fG 80: patent, $8 00. In barrels 30c
extra is charged. Special figuivs given for
large lots. Wholesale grocers quote Western flour
as tallows: Patent. $7 75<^S 25: fancy, S7 25(^7 75;
choice, 75@7 00; treble extra, 25©6 50; I
sacks. 25c per bbl less.
FEED MEAL-Offered at 51 45 per 100 pounds.
HAMS—Western sugar-cured, canvased. from
track, in large lots, at 13}£®13%c; from wholesale
grocers, 13$£(&14c; sugar-cured canvased shoul-
ders. lOV6c: New York hams.l5>^&15?ic; shoulders.
120»12iic.
HARDWARE—Firm. Nails $:? 75 per ke<?. basis
lOd. Axes per dozen ?9 00^12 00. Castings
pound, 4££c. Bar iron 3H)&4c per pound.
iron. 4^$c. Barbed wire 9^10c per pound. Anvils,
per pound, 15c. Vises, per pound, 20c. Horse-
shoes. 6c per pound
HAY—Western timothy Quoted at $19^20 from
track, and §21 00&22 00 from store in large lots:
Western Texas mesouite zrass nominal; prairie (
hav 50 from track.
,.11010.—Are quoted as tollows; Dry flint.
thev run. llVi»^13V^c; dry salted. Ill£<j^l2c; wet
salted, 7@8>6c. Selected drr flint wdl bring 14c.
Butchers green, 7c.
LARD—wuoted at 51^&liv$c for refined.tierces;
ca.-is. in cases, 1lVt@i j3.4c. urocers fill orders at
operation in Chicago, and at this time the shippers
or live cattle are complaining to the pool mauager
that unless he can put up the rates on the dressed
article their business will be ruined.
COFFEE.
No change has occurred in quotations in this
market during the week, though the feeling is
somewhat stronger. The last advices from New
York quote fair cargoes at 9J4c. The Journal of
Commerce, of June o, says:
The market for the Brazil grades continues In
poor shape. The invoice demand is not of moment.
The jobbing trade is In a very moderate way. and
besides there is not much change in the character
of the Rio advices. The mild descriptions are taken
ire being no especial interest on
> buyers. Supplies are offered at
steady prices, but there is no disposition shown to
recede further.
. The quotations are for:
Rio, ord. c'rgo's 7^1® 3 ;Laguayra 9
advance
LESlONs
dONS—In fair supply at $4 00®4 75 per box
for Palermo: Messina quoted at $4 256^4 75.
MOLASSES—Quoted from first hands as follows;
Louisiana centrifugal. 30@40c; open kettle, 355S
45c: Texas. 33<&45c. Quoted by wholesale srrocers
at 40®42c for ordinary; fair to good, 44^40c;
prime to choice. 48<&52c.
OATS—Quoted rrom store at 59@61c for good
mixed Western, and at nsQ^GOc for fair to good
in carload lots from track.
OILS—Linseed, raw, CJt/c: boiled. 65c: castor.
51 35: West Virginia lubricating, 25c per gallon:
in barrels. 20c: golden machinery, 35<3>40c: lard
oil, winter strained 05c; extra No.* 1. 85c;
No. 1 80c; neats foot. 85c: train oil 60c.
ONIONS—New quoted at $1 25&1 50 per bushel
in sacks: $3 50(g,3 75 per barrel in barrels; Ber-
muda, SI 75 per bushel in orates.
URANGES—Messina, in boxes, 54 25©4 50: Va-
lencia. $7 50<&8 Ou
PECANS—Quoted at 5<&P>e for medium to larrre.
PICKLES—Barrels. 50: half-barrels, §5 75;
ten-gallon kegs. $4 25; five-gallon kegs. $2 50©
2 75.
POULTRY—Chickens ouoted at 34 0fl^4 75 per
dozen, for full grown: spring chickens, $2 50^2 75
per dozen. Turkeys, full-grown gobblers. $15 0l>£$
18 00 per dozen; best mixed coops, $12 OOC&14 00
per dozen; hens and partly grown, $9 00(2^1100
oer dozen. Geese and ducks nominal.
POTATOES—No old in marketoble condition of-
fering. New selling at 75(^yoc per bushel, accord-
ing to quantity and quality.
PETROLEUM—In steady supply at 13c per gal-
lon in barrels: 16c incases for .-gallcn cans, and
20c in cases for 1-gallon cans: 150 test. 20c in cases
and 23c in barrels. These are jobbers' prices;
small advance from wholesalers is charged.
RAISINS— Layer, 40^^ 50 per box; London
layers, $2 75jgi2 85 per bo*
'RICE—Wholesale grocers quote: Louisiana ordi-
nary, 5£4<g&5&c; fair to prime, 6(&6]-»c; choice.
6-;*&7Vic-
SAL.T—Liverpool coarse quoted at $1 00 per .sack
in carload lots; in lots of 500 sacks and upward,
97J£c: Liverpool fine. Sl 35 for carload lots: Sl 40
for small lots: Louisiana coarse. 95c: Louisiana
fine, $1 25
SARDINES—Imported, quarter-boxes, §14 25<&
14 75 per case: American, uuarter-boxes. $8 00<£
8 25
SCRAP IRON—Wrought scrap, $14 00^15 00 per
ton: heavy castings. $14 00 per ton; stove plate
SO ^0 r»er ton
SUGAR—Selling from flrst hands as follows:
Louisiana pure white. S-^c; choice white. 8^6
off whites. S^otS^c; yellow clarified. 8^<®8^c;
second<. Open kettle entirely nominal;
grocers fill orders at >£c advance. Northern
refined firm: wholesale grocers quote as follows:
Cut-loaf, 10U;tfr£l<ttie: crushed and powdered, 10^
(&1041C; granulated, 9«ii<(£i0c; standard A, fJUg<&
%.
VEGETABLES—Cabbages, $3 00^5 00 per crate,
for common to choice. Green peas, 3^@4c per
lb. White beans, 5^<&53£c per lb. Black-eyed peas,
4®4V£c; lady peas, 7c : wbippoorwUl peas." 4c; clay-
bank peas, 7c per tt>. Carrots. S3 50. Beets. $4 00
per barrel
WOul.—The following covers the extreme range
of views as to values: Fine to medium, free of
burs, 22Vo@24c: coarse, free of burs. 16®l*Jc; burry
and dirt3\ 5((jl0c lower.
mv.wiu.bigUB
Fair cargoes... 9 !Jamaica
Good cargoes... 9V4v7fc 9^ St. Domingo... 8 9W
Prime cargoes.. 9^4(^10 IPorto Rico 10W?U3%
Santos, fair to Costa Rica.. ...
good ^ Jlexican 9^®14
Java 18 ®23 Angostura 9 <&14}-$
Singapore 12 @15 |Savanilla 9 &l4'l£
Maracaibo 9 ©15 | Mocha 23H&26
Since the date above given Rio has advanced to
9f£c, with quotations at 9V4@9V<^c on Friday.
The total visible supply of Rio coffe© for the United
States (not including stock in second hands) on the
5th of June, as made up by the New York Com-
mercial and Shipping List of June 6, was 341,835
bags, against 341.862 bags on the 6th of June, 1C82
a difference of only 27 bags.
SUGAR.
There has been a good inquiry for Louisiana
sugars from flrst hands during the past week. In
Northern refined a moderate trade has been done
and prices are steady and unchanged. The Journal
of Commerce, of the 6U1, reports the New York
market as follows:
There has been a very quiet market for raw to-
day. with the only sale reported being a cargo of
centrifugal, said to have been 95^ test, at 514c cost
and freight. Importers, as a rule, hold flrm. and
on the old standard of quoting the basis of 6"-f^7c
for fair to good refining may be given, but accord-
ing to the more generally accepted method the fol-
lowing figures are near as can be reached on the
apathetic condition of trade. For muscovado. Nos.
~ to 9 Dutch standard. 86 test, at 6 9-16c, and for
muscovado, about No. 10 Dutch standard, with the
test 89. at 6«fc<&6 15-16c, while for muscovado under
No. 13 Dutch standard, rest 92. at 7%c. The centri-
fugals, 95 test, are quoted at 7 ll-16c, at 96 test at
73*<&7 13-I6c. Refined are firmly held on a good
demand. Quotations are:
Cut loaf 9V$<a — ! Standard A —
Crushed 9t$<& — I Off A 8V4@8*6
Powdered i*ls6£9^ I White extra C.. .8
Granulated 9 & — Yellow extra C.
Mould A 8*$<& — C 7H®'*6
Confect'r A .. .8%© — 1 Yellows (^7
The statistical position of sugar at the four
ports of New York. Boston, Philadelphia and Bal-
timore on May 31 was as follows, the figures
being the totals for the four ports:
Receipts .Dist1 tion
past
week.
past
week.
Stock.
1883.
Hogsheads..
Boxes, etc..
Bags
Meiado
Tons
41,596
189|
108,7041
643!
33.314; 100.874
99 i 9.151
75.617 824,123
3311 335
1S82.
82,129
1". Oil
534,0;6
34,872) 26.713! 103.483! 80,655
A. McASHAN.
C. S. LONGCOPE.
LOXGCOPE & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
No. S Main Street,
HOUSTON, - - TEXAS.
Liberal Advances made on Cotton.
I11 Store and to Arrive:
100,00CT BUNDLES
COTTOM TIES,
LIGHTNING AND ARROW;
5000 ROLLS
BAGGI INTO.
FLOUR delivered at any point in
the State-
Turnley Bros. & Co.
JDK. jYI. PEKL,
General Practitioner,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
12. P. Turner
ITTOIIII k COUNSELOR AT LAW
No. 62 lllaln Street, Houston, Texas.
Practices in State Courts at Houston, Supreme,
Appellate aud District Courts at Galveston.
£b t(®altetoitljcfos.
cGEsmsaciAL.
News Office, Saturday, June 9, 18s3.
Cotton.
GALVESTON SPOT HARKET.
The Exchange repeated yesterday's quotations,
and bulletined the market as ciosing quiet. Sales.
239 bales
official quotation's for spot.
This
Yester-
Last
Last
aay.
day
Friday
year.
Low Ordinary..
&
Ordinary
">vk
10
Good Ordinary.
8T-6
11
Low Middling'...
'li-r,
Ql.i
1W
Middling
10' "
10 ~
10
11*4
Good Middling..
102*
1V>LH
Middling Fair .
10 -A
l'>74
10%
1296
Stained, HUH '• sand\
cotton.
lower.
GALVESTON FUTUIIE MARKET.
Futures opened very dull and ltr,6 points lower,
were dull but steady on the socond e vil, dull but
steady or. the third cali. and <-lo>ed du.I but steady,
with July at vestlav's fl^uivs bid, August 2
points nr.. the other months 1&.'~ points
higher than yesterday.
quotations VOU FUTUae dklivkrv.
The inside flsfures of the following quotations
are bidding ra. and the outside figures the ask-
ing prices:
M TH
Jan. ..
Feb.1..
Mar ..
Apr. . .
May ..
J'ue
First i Second
Call. . Call.
Third
Call.
D.itft
Closing
Yester-;
day.
9.61t
iS'les
i
Julv 10.00-09 10.05-10-'lO.Oft-12 10.06-12 10.06-091.
Aug 10.13-19 10.15-18 10 1G-19 10.16-19 10. j 8-20
Sept 9.S0^9»): U.89-U1. i).01-'JJ 9.91-92 9.89-00
Oct. 9.6S-70 9.70-72' 9.79-72; 9.70-72 9.09-71
Nov 9.5>M>0; 9.58 61 j 9.(>1-62 9 61-62
Dec.1 9.58-60'! 9.56-62' 9.60-62; 9.60-62
To'lJ i .j......
9.59-61
9 59-61
2O0
200
100
200
3200
700
BALLINGER & MOTT,
125 Poitoffio Street,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
F. Lammers. E. S. Flint, late of R. A.Brown & Co.
Lammers & Flint,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COSfXlttlSSXON MERCHANTS,
MALLORY BUILDING, STRAND. GALVESTON
A RTICLES ON ALL THE LEADING TOPfCS
jla_ of the day are fco b© found it the columns ol
The Weekly News.
♦Asked. +Bid.
sai.es.
August—100 bales at 10.16; 109 bales at 10.18.
September-100 bales at9.fc>3: 100 bales at 9.91.
October--100 bales at 9.69. November—100 bales at
9.59; 100 bales at 9.62.
The G-eneral 3ftarket>
{^"Quotations represent wholesale prices. In
making up small orders higher prices have to be
charged.
AMMUNITION—Powder, per keg, 50. Blast-
ing powder. $2 90 per keg, agents' price; jobbers
charge $3 25. Shot, drop, per sack. $2 00: buck.
$2 25.
BACON—Selling round lots at following figures:
Shoulders, 9-*»}i<&95£e: lone: clear 11}£(&11$&C: short
clear. 12<2>12Vac; bieakfa^t bacon", from store,
]5&15^c. Jobbers fill oraers at advance.
BAGGING AND TIES—Quiet. Standard. 2}^to.
1234c: 2tb. ll^c: 1341b. 10He: iron ties,$l 40^1 50
per bundle. Baline twine, 10(^13c ^ lb.
BONES AND HORNS—Bones, clean and dry, $15
ton delivered on track. Horns, fresh and clean,
ox, 7@Sc each: steers. 3^4c; cows, l^li^c each.
BRAN—Quoted at $1 Qv&l 05 n rouna'ots from
mills: jobbing from store. $1 15(^.1 20
BUTTER—Quoted as follows. Kansas, 20®.25c.
in large and small lots, for common to cnoice;
good Goshen, 30©35c; Western, nominal: Texas*
quoted at 15fe20c for fair to choice: oleo-
margarine and butterine, l$®20c for good to
choice.
CANDLES—Quoted as follows: 16-ounce weight
from first hands, in carload lots, 15c: from whole-
sale grocers. 15V£(&16e.
CANNED GOODS—Two pound standard goods,
per dozen: Strawberries, $1 35&1 45: pineapples,
standard, $1 i*)G&l 85: seconds, $1 45^bl 50; pears,
SI 25: peaches. standard, 2-tt>, $1 75f<^l5<0;
seconds, 2-tts $1 55@1 60; 3-tt>. standard. $2 25
©2 30 ; 3-1b. seconds, $1 75(8^1 85; blackberries,
51 15(&1 25; red cherries. Sl 75: gooseberries, $1 13
(&1 25: peas, marrowfat, $1 25&1 35; Lima beans,
$1 50; string beans, $1 25; corn ranges from $1 15
<&1 60: tomatoes, 2-lb. $1 05^1 15; do. 3-tt», $1 40<&
1 55; oysters, 1-lb. 1. w., 60<a65c ^ dozen: 2-lb, 1. w.,
$1 10(2,1 15 dozen; l-ff>, f. w., SI 15^1 20; 2-B>, f.
w.. «2 00<a2 10: salmon, Sl 65<ai 75: apples. 3-8) can.
SI 50i2>l 55 V dozen.
CALIFORNIA CANNED GOODS—Wholesale
grocers fill orders at tne following quotations per
dozen for 23^ lb cans: Peaches, $3 00<&3 1"»: pears,
$3 10<&3 15; apricots $3 00^3 10; currants. $2 10
^2 15; plums, $2 75; black cherries. $3 i5<f£3 20;
white cherries. $3 30: nectarines, S3 25; strawber-
ries, $3 55; quinces. S2 75; grapes, $2 73; black-
berries, 82 95
COFFEE—Wholesale grocers' quotations: Ordi-
nary. 9c: fair, 10tf£l0V£c; prime, ll^llj^c;
choice, 12<2^ 12^c; pea-berry, 14(&14i/£c; Cordova,
12g£12}£c; old government Java, 22^20c. according
to grade. Importers of Rio coffee fill orders for
rouad lots, of not less thau 260 sacks, at the follow-
ing prices: Fair, 9^®9f4c: «ood, 10^1(94c:
prime. 10^(ai05ic: choice. 11 M&IIWb
CHEESii—Quotations ai® as tollows: Western,
COXSaiSRCXAL GLEANINGS.
There is but little change to note in the loca
business situation. Trade is quiet but not dull.
A moderately fair movement in groceries and pro-
duce generally, with a rather more active demand
for Hour of home production, is reported. Money
continues easy, and in abundant supply for all
legitimate purposes of business. In Eastern mar-
kets summer quietude is reported, and trade is
still unsatisfactory to a large degree. The Com-
mercial and Financial Chronicle, of June 2, says
" in the business situation the indications show a
somewhat improving tendency," and cites the
settlement £>f the labor troubles at Pittsburgh " as
one among the many evidences of this." The
Chronicle considers the only really disquieting
feature at the moment to be the strong tone of
foreign exchange. It says it would require an ad-
vance of sterling to $4 90 net to make gold ship-
ments profitable. It says:
The great obstacle to free shipments of bread-
stuffs at the moment is the existing speculation,
based upon an assumed scarcity of grain for de-
livery within the next two months. Consequently,
prices of these staples are maintained at figures
which effectually bar ont exports. If. as now ap-
pears probable, the crop of wheat should prove
to be abundant, the movement to market of that
portion which is earliest harvested must break
down Dricei- at least of wheat, aed thus bring the
produce within the reach of exporters.
The New York Shipping aud Commercial List, of
J one 6, says:
The general markets are fast settling down into
summer quietude, aud as usual in dull times and
excessive competition in trade, prices in a great
majority of cases favor buyers, the more notable
exceptions comprising some of the speculative com
modities dealt in at th^ exchanges. * * * There
is also depression in the woolen interests, ami
some of the New England milts, it is said, will shut
down by mutual agreement for sixty days, in order
to bring the supply And demand into closer rela-
tion. In regard to the other prominent industries
of the country no general complaint is heard. The
outlook on the whole, while not flattering, is bv no
means discouraging. Quiet markets are likely to
be the rule for the next two months, or until some
reliable estimate can be formed as to what the
harvest will be. * * * Meanwhile, money
abundant, the rates of interest are low, the labor
of the country is quite gent rally employetl, immi
grants are coming in freely, there is a universal
agreement in caution and commercial concession
tocircumttances well calculated to prevent serious
disturbances and keep the list of insolvencies
w.thin bounds, and, finally, all nature is now work
m increase the wealth of the country.
he New York Commercial Bulletin, of June 6,
thus reviews the grocery trade:
While business is fair and probably shows some
increase on the distribution of supplies to the in-
terior, operations in goods from flrst hands are
rather slow, and on one or two articles were almost
i standstill. The quiet feeling was especially
noticeable on merchandise affected by the tariff,
lar^e operations discounting the change having
tnl:~n palce previous to the opening of tlie month,
and buyers now feeling more or less independent.
Prices, too. are doubtful in a great many cases, and
must so remain uutil trading is resumed under the
new duty.
On and after to-day the closing hours for futures
at New Orleans will be 2 o'clock on Saturdays, and
2.30 on other days of the week. Up to this date the
closing has been at 3 o'clock, except on Saturdays.
On and after July 1st all spices will be duty free.
The present duty is. on nutmegs, 20 cents; mace,
:5cents; China cassia, 10 cents; cloves, 5 cents;
allspice, 5 cents, and pepper, 5 cents. The proba
bility is. however, that by July 1st the prices on all
or most of these goods will have advanced at least
one-third the amount of the reduced duty.
The visible supply of gold in the United States at
the present time is a little less than 3300,000,000
of which about two-thirds is in the United States
treasury. It is estimated by good authorities,
however, that more than three hundred millions
are in private hands, chiefly iu the way of hoarded
more?. <
The Northwestern Lumberman is authority for
the statement that the total annnual consumption
of lumber in the manufacture of agricultural im-
plements in Chicago amounts to about 20,000,000
feet. Of this about 7.000,0*30 feet are pine. Three
quarters of the remainder is ash, the great staple.
Oak is the factor of next importance, but it is not
used to the same extent that it is in the wagon-
making industry, where it commands a higher
place. Hickory, maple, elm, white wood and bass-
wood, and Norway aud white pine are the other
kinds of lumber employed.
The Maritime Register remarks that " it will as
tonish many people to know that foreign vessels
can carry passengers between American ports
Yet the attorney-general has given his opinion that
there is no statute against such transportation
business/'
The New York Commercial and Shipping List
says:
The new overland route to California via steamer
from New York to New Orleans, thence to San
Francisco, is getting an increasing share of the
freight traffic. Goods are now delivered in San
Francisco by this route in sixteen days from New
York, which Is v«ry good time. The steamers leave
this port every Wednesday and Saturday for New-
Orleans, and shipments are also made by the Gal-
veston steamers.
Of the outlook for wheat, the Cincinnati Price
Current, of June 7, says:
On the Pacific coast the promise was never bet
ter. and the yield is expected to be immense. In
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois the previously apparent
great damage to the crop can not be overcome,
and the outlook is practically unchanged. These
States may be expected to fall off about 50,000,000
bushels from last year, when they were credited
with 140.iXW.000. Otherwise the wheat crop of the
country gives promise of a fairly good yield, and
with conditions which tend to a favorable disap-
pointment in the size and fullness of the wheat ears
or beads, and quality of the grain. The possibili-
ties of the wheat crop may be said to have a range
•from 350,000,000 to 425,000,000 bushels. Complaints
of ravages of the fly are made in many quarters
The New York Commercial and Shipping List
WOOL.
The lo<?al market has ruled quiet, without quota-
ble change in prices. Receipts generally are readily
marketed. Eastern markets for both wool and
woolens continue in an unsatisfactory condition,
and there is some talk of shutting down a consider-
able number of the woolen mills for sixty days,
while some have already suspended. Texas wool
is reported as accumulating rapidly at'New York.
At Boston, at last advices, but little Texas wool had
made its appearance.
The New York Commercial and Shipping List, of
the 6th instant, says:
We are unable to report any increase in the de-
mand since our last. Occasional small parcels are
taken up.with a view of covering actual necessities,
but beyond this line of action buyers refuse to go.
the unsatisfactory condition of the eoods market
lending no encouragement to larger operations. In
our last issue we mentioned the fact that a number
of mills had closed in consequence or the depression
existing, and since then action has been taken by
other concerns, with a view of lessening the pro-
duction. The outlook for the new clip is exceed-
ingly unfavorable. Buyers have withdrawn from
the principal sections where new wool has been of-
fering, and their absence has served to make sellers
the more anxious.
The New York Commercial Bulletin of the same
date has the following:
Since our last report the market has undergone
no change of a very decided character, so far as
made public, the period of the week itself contribu-
ting in a measure to retard and diminish the de-
mand. Manufacturers find no encourageineut in
the position of the goods trade, present or prospec-
tive, and are quite as indifferent about antici-
pating the future as they were months ago, when
cost was much higher. The cutting down of work
at the mills, and the total stoppage, in some cases,
noted by us some little time ago, continues, and of
course is a feature not calculated to encourage the
holder of wool, but as very few purchases have
been made in the interior, the accumulations
here are likely to increase only through consign-
ments on commission. As matters stand, it is
hardly worth while to attempt quotations, as the
figures would be only nominal, but there has been
no price paid recently showing a clear margin over
the views of interior holders, and bids are only
made when some jobbing parcel is wanted. Unfa-
vorable as the market is. however, it has been
worse, notwithstanding the treacherous memory'of
writers with a few years of doubtful experience,
and it 13 not unlikely from some of the current in-
dications that when the new clips become plenty
enough to offer a better assortment, a fuller line of
business may follow.
PORK PACKING IN THE WEST.
Tn its review for the week ending June 6, the
Cincinnati Price Current notes the paeking of 165,-
000 hogs, against 135,000 for the corresponding
week last year. It says:
The market for produce the past week has
tended downward, making a decline in Chicago of
about 50c on pork, 50c on Tard, excepting for July,
and 40(&45c on sides, and prices compared with
a year ago are now 85<&90c lower on pork, 32
50c lower on lard, excepting for July, whicn is 3*>c
higher, under manipulation, and sides 15<^25c
lower; during corresponding week last year there
was a small advance in pork aud sides. Prices of
hogs are 15@20c lower than a week ago. and about
$1 lower than a year ago. At current relative
prices of hogs and of product packers have a profit
in the manufacture.
Special reports to the Cincinnati Price Current
show the number of hogs packed from March 1 to
date and latest mail dates, at the undermentioned
places, with comparisons, as follows :
March 1 to June 6. 1^3
Chicago 657.000
Kansas City 235,265
Indianapolis 56,000
Cincinnati 44,000
St. Louis 109.000
Cedar Rapids 52.440
Cleveland, 0 40.000
Milwaukee 33,000
18S2.
S55.000
151.000
68,000
25.500
95,000
77,870
74.000
51.000
1,525.000
1.390.000
135,000
Total, all points 1,350,900
To last week 1,185,000
For the week 165,000
HIDES.
The lccal market continues without change. Re-
ceipts are light and the demand good. The New
York Bulletin, of June 6, says:
Values remain as quoted the past ten days or so
and the market steaay in tone. Tanners still buy
sparingly, but the aggregate business proves very
fair.
Dry, Indianaola.
Dry, San Antonii
pus Christi —
Dry, Western
Wet salted, Texas pullec
and packer, selected
Pounds.
Price.
.90&25
16 (&16U
.'2Q&X5
16 &16&
.a0@25
1G ®17
.18&24
17 <&•->0
.15@13
j
.50^80
.75^80
- @10^
.2l^.iO
14 @lo
FORT OF GALVESTON.
Sumjay, June 10, 1863.
ARRIVED.
Steamship San Marcos, Hines, New York.
Steamship Harlan, Frahm. Morgan City.
Steamship St. Mary, Thiessen, Indianola.
SAILED.
Steamship Whitney, Hoxie, Vera Cruz. *
Steamship Harlan, Frahm, Clinton.
Steamship St Mary, Theissen, Morgan City.
IMPORTS—COASTWISE.
Morgan City—Per steamship Harlan — 11G9
pkgs groceries, 26 cases dry goods, 168 cases to-
bacco, 37 cases household goods, 16 cases canned
goods, 98 cases liquors, I cases hardware, and 173
pkgs sundries.
LIST OF VESSELS IN PORT.
steamships.
San Marcos, Hines, New York
barks.
Herbert, Fischer. Liverpool
Rota, Sorensen, foreign
Levanter, Vesper. New York
NannieT. Bell.Fitts.Riode Janeiro...atquarantine
Concord, Tendenis, Liverpool 374
Cortez, Hansen, Liverpool 335
schooxir3.
Albert L. Butler, Eaton. New York 326
Chas. H. Fabens, Curtis, Baltimore 2S6
Cathie C. Berry. Smith, Baltimore 321
Annie W. Barker, Snowman, Philadelphia 216
SAILED
Tons,
..1367
.. 472
643
VESSELS LOADING, CLEARED AND
FOR GALVESTON.
NEW YORK.
Schooner Washington. Jordan cid May 7
Schooner Lizze M. Dunn, Anderson eld May 17
Brig Manson. Stubbs eld May 22
Schooner Jefferson, Gibbs sld May 21
Schooner Matilda Brooks, Osborn eld, June 5
Schooner Palos, Edriage eld, June 5
Brig Florence, Flynn at June 2
Steamship Colorado, Crowell sld June 9
BOSTON.
Schooner Nellie A Drury eld May 29
salem.
Bark Abd-el-Kader. Malmgreen sld Mav 30
Schooner Edward Cushing sid May 30
philadelphia.
Schooner F. J. Collins, Theissine eld May 16
Schooner Anna W. Barker, Snowman, .sld May 4
Schooner Chas. F. Heyer, Poland. at June
BALTIMORE.
Schooner Josie M. Anderson, Anderson..eld May IS
Schooner Rosa Mueller, McLean • sld May 29
LIVERPOOL.
Ship Julius, Meentsen sld April 30
Bark Cygnus, Andresen eld May 17
Bark Nadesha, Noack eld May 21
CHRIST1ANSAND.
Bark Nordcap, Neilsen eld April 12
says:
One would naturally suppose from the great
stress laid upon it by the press that wheat was the
principal source of our agricultural wealth. The
following table of last year's crops will dispel the
illusion:
Bushels.
Wheat 504.185.470
Corn 1,617,025.100
Oats 488,250,610
Barley 48.938,'.126
Rye 29.900,037
Potatoes 170,972.508
Hay, tons ... 38.138,049
Value. Acres.
$144,602,125 37,067,104
783.867.175 65,669,646
182,978.022 18.494.P'.»1
30,768,015
18,439,194 2,227,880
95.304,844 2.171,686
360,958,158 32.339.585
It will be seen that corn Is a more valuable crop
than wheat, while hay is worth nearly as much
We have notjast year's returns of butter and
cheese, but it is known that,combined, their money
value is greater than that of wheat.
The following is clipped from the Cincinnati Price
Current:
An exchange remarks that when beef cattle can
be laid down at the expOrt cities for about $6 per
100 pounds, live weight, or about $12 dressed
weight, they can be sent to London at a profit.
That market is virtually insatiable with our beef—
provided it can be landed in good order. Several
colossal experiments are now being made in the
carriage of dressed meat in refrigerator cars, ap-
parently with the hope of success. One sucbestab-
"Weather and Crops*
La Grange Journal: From the dispatches to
The News we see that every county around
us har had rain in abundance, but it seems as
though we are to be alighted. Up to this
hour—2 o'clock Wednesday-—we have had no
rain here to do any good.... Mr. J ohn A. Am-
man 11. of the AmmannYilie neighborhood,
showed us, a few days ago, a cotton boll nearly
matured, and he informs us that he has sixteen
acres of cotton as well advanced. He reports
tine crops in his neighborhood.
Columbus Citizen: Copious rains have fal-
len in different portions of our county since
our last issue, it was not general, though it
visited many localities, and will be of incalcu
s's^a'ioa I teble advantage to the growing crops.
a o«7 ana I Brenham Banner: Farmers now wear smil
ing faces. Merchants and others ditto.. ..Mr.
Wm. Kosenbaum, of the Pleasant Hill neigh-
borhood, exhibited a half a dozen half grown
cotton bolls in town on Wednesday. He has
ten acres of this cotton, and thinks he will be-
gin picking by the 1st of July.
Mariin Ball: Cotton doing very well. Oats
are being harvested, and will make from thirty
to forty bushels per are.
The Pittsburgh Commercial makes the im
portant announcement that " the tliscovery of
America by Columbus was an event of great
| magnitude.17 It was, indeed, a bf£ thing; but
what words can express the discernment of the
genius who discovered the dudei
LETTER rHOnt ST. LOUIS.
A Detective's Story-«-I>istrict Tele-
graph Messenger Boys—Personal
Mention, Etc.
[Special Correspondence of The News.l
ST. Louis, June 7, 1883.—An old Texan de-
tective told me the following story yesterday:
" Imagine a clever, gentlemanly, bright and
educated criminal—a forger and bank-robber
—who was suspected of big jobs in nearly
every large Eastern city. He and Dutch Hein-
rich were bosom friends, and although from
policy they never operated together, it was
pretty well understood that they rarely ever
undertook a job without consulting each other
sub rosa. seldom being seen together. The
man of whom I speak had a pleasant way of
saying when approached by his j>als or the de-
tectives who knew him, 4 let us reason together,1
and it is a fact that he did most of the reason-
ing. He had been operating in London ami
Paris ten years ago, and came back with a pot
of money and bonds. aud intended,
I believe, to settle down and give
the other boys a chance—at least, that is what
he told me the last time I had a talk with him.
I was at one time a perfect Javet to him, and
haunted his steps for weeks at a time, unable,
however, to get the punk on him, aud I believe
the fellow liked me. It was uo use to shadow
him, for he was the most clever drop I ever
saw. I ran across him in New York soon after
the elevated railroads were built and I tried
hard to shadow him, but it wouldn't work.
One day he left the Fifth Avenue hotel about
10 o'clock, aud turned down Twenty-third
street toward the feixth avenue road. I
jumped on a street car and passed him about
midway down the street, keeping a close watch
on his movements from the interior of the
car. Arriving at the avenue, I got off the car
and rau up the steps leading to the ticket office.
I waited until he began to ascend the steps,
aud then purchased a ticket and entered the
gate as the down train approached. He
walked leisurely up, bought a ticket, and after
glancing carelessly around among the passen-
gers made a movement as though to board the
train, which was by this time about to start.
Feeling certain that he was going down town,
I swung upon the platform, and the brake-
man closed the gate with a snap just as I saw
my game recede from the platform of the
next car and walk deliberately downstairs
again. Of course I had to go with the train, as
the platform gate had closed on me, and I was
not such an ass as to jump oiT after the train
had started and give myself away to him.
Years ago I used to think I was fly, but the
older I get the more satisfied I am that it is
one of the easiest things in life for a sus-
pect to elude a shadow. I got off
the train at Fourteenth street, and crossing the
track took the tirst up train, intending to get
011 at Twenty-third street, but as wo ap-
proached the station I saw my man on the
platform, he having evidently walked down
the steps on the east side, crossed the avenue,
and then ascended on the west side. I kept my
seat and watched him get aboard, take a seat in
car I was in aud settle himself down to read his
the paper,as though going through to Yorkville.
At Twenty-third street, however, he got otf,
crossed over, and ascended the sto{>s of the
down track, and deliberately bought a down-
town ticket. I remained on the avenue unde-
cided whether to follow him or let him go, and
trust to luck to pick him up down town be-
taking the train immediately behind his. At
that moment an empty hack came down the
avenue, and I beckoned the driver to stop.
" Can you get to Twenty-third street before
the next traiu does ?"
" For money, yes!"
" I'll give you $3 if you beat the train, and a
cent if the train beats you."
" Jump in."
I sprang in and cabby drove like—excuse
me, gents—and as I hastily handed him the *3
I heard the train rumbiing along. Up the
steps I sprang, upsetting an old lady who was
forcing ahead slowly and jostling an old swell
in a white hat. The train stopped as 1 reached
the ticket office and it started before I got ray
change, but I sprang through the gate and
flung myself all over tho brakeman who was
forcing the passengers into the car so he could
close the platform gate. I don't know what
that brakeman thought, but 1 knew I
was aboard the train and I had every
reasonable hope to believe that my man was
there too. At Park place I saw him get off,
and hurriedly leaving the car I joined the
crowd and shadowed him to the Astor house,
into which he walked by the main entrance,
leaving it immediately by the ladies' door. I
followed slowly, aud as I emerged saw him
standing across the street piping the ladies*
entrance. As I came, out he smiled once,
nodded, and entered a bus to go up town. Of
course 1 let him go, as he had evidently dropped
to me.
The gist of this story is to come now. He
told me a year afterwards that he was under
surveillance everywhere and that life was be
ginning to be a burden to him, as he found it
insupportable to dodge shadows wherever he
went. There was nothing sure on him and no
warrants out, so it was worse than useless to
arrest him; the only thing to be done was to
eternally shadow him in the hope of catching
him dead to rights, and yet he dropped to and
threw off every shadow in whatever city he
visited. Three years ago he visited Galveston
and the New York detectives followed him
there, but he managed to elude them and for
some time nothing was heard of him. I was
working up a case for a St. Louis firm when I
received a note from him to the effect that he
wished to see me at a certain place just
out of town. I kept the appointment and
learned the tollowing facts: Tired of
being hounded he had determined to so
change his exterior that no one—not
even his friends—would recognize him, ami to
this end he hit upon the plan of contracting
sinall-pox. This he did and succeeded iu pit-
ting hnnself to such an extent that his own
mother would not have recognized him. It
was a desperate strategy, but he was in de
perate straits, and for some time past he has
been a prosperous farmer in Northern Texas,
living a well-regulated and moral life. He
fledged me to keep his secret for the sake of
lis family, and 1 did so up to the present
moment. The reason I speak of tue case now
that he died about seven weeks ago of
Bright's disease. Further than this, the detec-
tive would say nothing except that tue deceased
had left a wife and three children, well pro-
vided for, in upper Texas.
44 Yes, it is a bad business for a boy to lie in,
you can bet your life," replied a district mes-
senger boy to a query of mine. We were
riding down from Grand avenue in an Olive
street car, and the messenger, who appeared
to be about fourteen years of age. wore the
cynical and composed look of the thirty-year-
old man about town.
1 have been in the line for the last four
years: I was only a kid when I ran my first
errand, and if I had not been a pretty good
boy naturally, aud had a good mother, I'd a
gone wrong long afore this. So long as you
are legitimately employed in carrying business
messages, it is all right; but it is the illegiti
mate as pays the company, and the 44 queer
messages are as two to one against the re-
spectable ones. A lad sees so much as is l.ad
that he dont believe in nothin' after a while,
and he soon knows all the gamblers and fast
wemen in town."
4 Why so r
4 Cause most of the messages is from or to
them, and they always tips the kid as carries
'em. Just about the time the big stores close
up the rush commences an' a boy is sent off
with a note an' posie of flowers to some girl or
other who is crooked. Big business men with
lots of money are large patrons of the district
messenger boys, and as they don't want to be
given away, they generally tip a dollar beside
the tariff rates. Some of 'em sends to the regu-
lar swell houses of ill repute, and others send
messages to women what board at the hotels
or have their own rooms in business blocks.
Very often a message is sent to a girl for her
to meet the gentleman at Conrad's or Faust's,
or some of the restaurants, and the messenger
is tipped by both the sender and receiver of
the message. Then the poker rooms are
known to us all, tor wheu a'man is wanted in
a hurry and he is known to gamble either pro-
fessionally or for the fun of it, we are sent to
hunt him up, and often have to go the whole
round, although most of them have their rej
'lar places to play. Wives whose husbam
are on a drunk, often use us, and in some cases
go right along with us in search of the
'rolicksome spouse, visiting the saloons a
bars, closely veiled and disguised. I have one
lady customer as alius' sends for me when her
husband is on a tear—au' that's about once a
month, when he gets a bilious fit—an' we star
out in the evenin' an' visit every saloon which
has any pretensions to decency. She is always
disguised, an' waits outside when I go in, an1
when I find him an' tell him the Mis. is onto
him, he most generally always comes out on
the sidewalk and goes home with her. She is
a rich lady and keep*: a carriage, an' alius' tips
me a 4 Vwhen we find him. Another lady,
whose husoand gets 'em once in a while, sends
for me,and we make a round of the bad boose#,
for he alius' lays up there when he's full."
44 How do you find out in which house he
is?"
Oh! the madam generally owns up he's
there an' asks the lady a: me to step into a pri-
vate room until she goes up and wakes him
up. You see these women don't want no fuss
made and their houses brought into publicity,
so they owns up and lets the lady take her hus-
band away.
" Late hours and constant excitement break a
boy up very soon, and messenger boys never
turn out much good, they know so much that's
bad. Some of 'em live to be men, and perhaps
to go to Congress or become gamblers, but
most of them get into bad habits and go off
in a consumption—bad whisky and worse wo-
men generally do a messenger boy up by the
time he is sixteen, and hel^ecomes a loafer or
a piano-player for a bad house."
44 Why don't you quit the business?" I asked.
It's like goin' to sea or steamboat in' or
drivin' horses: you get attached to it an* there's
fascination in it; leastwise there is fascination
in the sly dollars a bright boy makes by ke-p-
in' his teeth well together. One time I did
quit for a month and worked steady for a lady
who had employed me at different times. She
engaged me to shadow her husband, as the de-
tectives charged her too much and did not do
the square thing by her. You see she had an
idea that her husband had another wife, and
that when he would be away from home * on
business' for two or three days at a time he
was with this other woman. Well, I shadowed
him for three weaks and found that such was
the case, and then I went back to the office and
went to work as a messenger boy again."
44 What became of the case?"
44 You can't prove it by me—I never give
anything awav—but the wife who employed
me is|ilead in love with her husband an' livin'
with him, while the other has gone east and
changed her name. There was no scaudal
about it, and the second wife was handsomely
paid to waive her claim—the lawyers fixed it
up an' the papers got left on it."
Of Texans in St. Louis, I noticed the following
during the week: J. J. Long and Miss Lulu
Loug; George Diehl and bride, of Galveston;
Major John L. Wales, of Houston; A. B. Ta
ber, of Dallas; H. K. Street and W. B. Mc-
Cord. of Vernon; H. L. Burt and wife and S.
C. Dedson, of San Antonio; W. R. Lyle. late
editor of the Evening Light, of San Antonio;
[ A. W. Pope and wife, Marshall; R. S. Rose,
Paris: W. T. Dudley, Henrietta: Jones Jones,
Waco; M. Jones,Taylor; I. A. Maroney, Fort
Worth; F. Chandler, United States army,
Fort Griffin; C. A. Hotchkiss and wife, Pales-
tine; G. J. Gooch, Palestine; B. F. Read, Min-
eola: F. M. Gilpin and family, Forney; C. W.
Helms, Runnels; J. H. Knox, of Texas Sift-
ings; Colonel Brad. Barnes, president of the
Longview aud Sabine Valley railroad; C. W.
Israel. Henrietta; A. H. Belo. wife and Miss
New*, n, Galveston: E. F. Palmer, Austin; E.
W. Taylor and wife and W. R. ICinnon and
br io. Jefferson; W. P. Gaines, Austin; W. F.
Wells, Cleburne; Mrs. M. F. Anderson, Deni-
son, and D. G. Bronson. Galveston,
liev. Fred. P. Garesche, formerly of St.
Louis, but now engaged in missionary work in
Gonzales county, T^xas, is in town and will
preach on Sunday at St. Xavier church, with
a view of asking aid of St Louisans to pay off
the debts of his three small churches in Gon-
zales county.
This from the Republican:
A pleasant party met at the Southern the other af-
ternoon to con-raralate Mr and Mrs. George Diehl,
who were married at Bed alia on Thursday. The
bride was Miss Julia M. Barner. of Sedalia, and the
groom, Mr. Diehl, is a '•commercial raneer " of
Texas, for years connected with the well known
firm of P. J. Willis Jl Bro. of Galveston. Among
the callers were Mr. N. P. Senat, contracting agent
of the Merchants* Despatch; Mr. R. Buchanan of
the 'Frisco, and Mr. Edward W. May, chief clerk
of the Pullman Palace Car company. The bridal
party leave to morrow for Austin, Dallas and Gal-
veston.
A bevy of handsome young ladies passed
through St. Louis yesterday for various parts
of Texi's. They are on vacation from Hamil-
ton college, Lexington, Ky, aud looked lovely,
at least to Yam.
A Popular Story Shown to be Incorrect
For some reason unexplained, the newspa-
pers have recently contained several stories
purporting to narrate the circumstances in ex-
President Buchanan's early life which prevent-
ed him from marrying. Each story not only
giv'»s a different reason. !>ut speaks of a differ-
ent lady, and relates a wholly different story.
None of them is correct; and the latest, which
has appeared in the European press also, is as
flFse as the rest. It is to the effect that while
Mr. Buchanan was minister to England he
became attached to '* a lady of very high
rank, who had l»een for some years a widow,^
and that a marriage was only broken off bv
the remonstrances of the lady's relatives*
George Ticknor Curtis, who is Mr. Buchanan's
literary executor, and who is now completing
a bi- ^raphy of the ex-president, explodes this
story, in a letter to the New York Sun, and
also hints at the tragic truth in regard to
Mr. Buchanan's early love. Mr. Curtis says:
I believe Mr. Buchanan never destroyed anv
letters or even short note-* that he received
while in England, and I am confident that I
have all that he wrote. The number is very
reat, but I have examined them all; so that,
in my opinion, the statement that the White-
hou«e came near having at one time a titled
English mistress has not the slightest found-
tion. The truth is that in his early life Mr.
Buchanan suffered a disappointment in love
that was so tragic, and the circumstances of
which were so pathetic, that, with hia
peculiar temperament and character,
marriage became impossible to him
thereafter, and I do not believe
that at any subsequent period of his life
he ever entertained a serious thought of it, al-
though he always highly enjoyed the society
of cultivated woman, and numbered many of
" ages among bis ni«>st intimate friends. I
write this in order that the readers of the
forthcoming life of Mr. Buchanan may not
expect to find in it the smallest contamination
of this story about an 44 English widow of
very high rank,"' although they will find
the cause which prevented him from
ever "laying aside his long cherished
celihacy." I am sorry to destroy any little ro-
mance concerning a possible titled mistress of
the White-house, but I have the less scruple in
doing so because the idea that such a possibili-
ty is a matter of any interest savors a little of
the snobbish.
The ladv referred to was, presumably, the
Dutchess of Somerset. She and Mr. Buchanan
were very good friends hut there is no reason
to believe that there ever was anything more
tender than friendship between them. I do not
believe a word of the statement that they oor-
responded 44 to the day of his death," or that
he wrote to her 01* received a letter from her
after his return hoifce. I have ail his letters,
public and private, and there is not one to or
]'rom the Duchess of Somerset, although
there an iome fir r English ladies. Mr.
Buchanan remi'.iued^ in England for some
time after his niece, Miss l^ane. returned home.
Lady Somerset is frequently referred to in his
letters to Miss Lane, as sending her kiud mes-
sages, and so are a great many other ladies,
from the queen and the princess royal down
through the ranks of society, as well as gen-
tlemen. Miss Lane's beauty, grace and good
sense captivated many hearts in England, and
after she had come home the queen expressed
her regrets in a pretty direct way, that she had
r. t been detained in England. But as to the
snpi>osed tendresse of her uncle for the titled
widow, I believe to be a myth.
New York, May 26,
Herodotus and the Nile.
iProfessor Huxley, in Macmiilan s Magazine.]
Relatively to the bulk of water, the amount
of solid matter transported annually by the
Nile must be far less tuau that which is car-
ried down by the rapid streams of mountain-
ous countries iu temperate climates—such, for
example, as the Upper Rhone. We have no
very satisfactory estimate of what that amount
may be, but I am disposed to think that the
ordinary computation, according to which the
average deposit over the delta amounts to not
more than a layer of one-twentieth of an
inch thick annually, is, at any rate,
not under the mark. But this is a
very interesting question, for it is obvious
that, if we may assume that the deposit
of the Nile has taken place uniformly at a
known rate, it becomes possible, in giving the
thickness of the alluvial deposit in the delta,
to calculate the miuimum time occupied in its
formation. The borinjK mada under the di-
rection of the late Mr. Leonard Horner, in the
upper part of the delta, and those subsequent-
ly conducted by Figari Bey, favor the conclu-
s on that the natural loose soii which fills the
flat basin of the delta nowhere exceeds sixty
feet ill depth. Assuming it to have this thick-
ness iu any spot, it follows that, in one-twenti-
eth of an inch of depth per anuum, it must have
taken at least 14,000 years to accumulate to
that thickness at that place. And if so,
Herodotus seems, at first, to have made a won-
derfully good guess when he said that the Ara-
bian gulf and, by implication, that of the delta
might have been filled up in 4 * twenty thousand
years, or even half the time." I am afraid,
however, that any such modem estimate has
not a much surer foundation than the ancient
guess. For, in the first place, there are many
reasons for believing that the action of the
Nile has not been uniform throughout the
whole period represented by the deposit of al-
luvium ; and, in the second place, if it had been,
the simple process of division of the total thick-
ness of the alluvium by that of the annual
deposit does not by any means necessarily give
the a^e of the whole ma3s of alluvium in the
delta, or, in other words, the time which
elapsed daring the filling of the delta, as it is
sometimes supposed to do. According to Fi-
gari Bey, the deepest, and therefore earlist,
alluvium in the delta, contains gravel and even
boulders; so that, if there are fluviatile beds,
which is perhaps not quite certain, they indi-
cate that, at the time when they were deposit-
ed, the current of the Nile in this region was
much more powerful than it is now, and. con-
sequently, that its annual additions were much
more considerable. _
A Canine Oritica
[London Society.)
I11 the vear 1839 a phenomenon appeared in
the musical world which attracted considera-
ble attention in Germany. A gentleman who
was well known as an enthusiastic musical
amateur of Darmstadt, in the Grand Duchy of
Hesse, had a female spaniel called Poodle. By
striking the animal whenever music was played
and a false note struck she was made to
howl. At last the threat of the upraised stick
was equally elective, presently a mere glance
of the master's eye produced the same howl,
and at last the false note itself. A German
paper of the period says: 44 At the present
time there is not a concert or an opera
at Darmstadt to which Mr. Frederick
S. and his wonderful dog are not invited, or,
at least, the dog. The voice of the prima
donna, the instruments of the bank, whether
violin, clarionet, hautbois or bugle—all of
them must execute their parts in perfect har-
mony, otherwise Poodle looks at its master,
shows its grinders and howls outright. Old or
new pieces, known or unknown to the dog,
produce the same effect." It must not be sup-
posed that the discrimination of the creature
was confined to the mere execution of musical
compositions. Whatever may have been the case
at the outset of his musical career, toward its
close a vicious modulation or a false relation of
parts produced the same results. 4< Sometimes
to tease the dog," says our authority, 44 Mr. S.
aud his friends take pleasure in annoying the
canine critic by emitting all sorts of discord-
ant sounds from instrument and voice. On all
such occasions the creature loses all self-corn*
mand. its eyes shoot forth fiery flashes, and
long and frightful howls respond to the inhar-
monious concert of the mischievous bipeds.
But the latter must be careful not to go too
far because, when the dog's patience is much
tried, it becomes savage, and endeavors to
bite both its persecutors and their instru-
ments."
Ladttts, do you want to be strong, healthy and
beautiful? Use Hop Bitters. It never fails.
Spitting- for X*nck«
[Notes and Queries.]
I heard of a nurse the other day, a Caithness,
who spat after some one had looked at the
bahy, in order, she explained, to avert the
" evil eye." In thejjHartzldistrict of Germany,
if the cows are driven before the door of a
witch the herd must spit thrice (Grimm).
Fish women spit for luck on their hensel
(Grose). A boxer, even nowadays, spits on his
hands, and a smith shoeing a refractory horse
takes the same precaution. Scott, in his 4'Dis-
coverie of Witchcraft," recommends spitting
in the shoe of one's right foot to insure
safety from magic. # * * I find
some instances of this in 44 Vestiges of Ancient
Manners aud Customs in Modern Italy
and Sicily," by J. J. Blunt, 1&J3, page
lbs; 44 Human saliva was heretofore very gen-
erally used as a charm (Pliny, N. H., x, 52),and
was thought particularly efficacious against
the venom of poisonous animals. Pliny quotes
some authorities to prove that the pernicious
powers of toads and frogs may be di*arm«»d by
this means, and serpents rendered innoxious by
spitting into their mouth. [N. H., xxviii. 4.]
The testimony of Varro is also cited to show
that there were people in the Hellespont, near
Pasiutn, who could cure the bite of snakes by
their saliva. [Yii. 2.] Now, it is curious that
a set of men exists in Sicily to this day, called
Giravoli, who profess to heal the wounds of
venomons animals by their spittle. They fre-
quent the neighborhood of Syracuse, and an-
nually assemble in numbers at Palazzuolo on
the festival of St. Paul, their patron saint."
Dr. C. D. Barham.Southampton county^Va.,
said of Dr. Worthington's Cholera and Diar-
rhea Medicine that he used it in Bowel Dis-
eases. and in every instance its effects have
exceeded his most sanguine expectations*
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