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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31, 1883.
Trouble In France.
Utterly without cause thero appears to
be a very general distrust in France of the
permanence of the republic. The distrust
it is true may work the very thing which
it professes to fear from other oauses.
The crisis which the excitable people of
Fninco have worked up has for its iuimc
I into cause the death of Gambetta who
w is easily the strongest man in France
and an earnest republican. But why such
an r (fret should follow such a cause it is
n i' t-: sy to see.
S nic tl.e death of the son of the late
i in ere r it has been understood that young
Prince Victor was the one on whom the
iti nnp:irtists had determined the imperial
crown should fall if they ever came to the
ficnt
But on tbo death ef Gamboltn, Prince
) rorun, apparently more in his own
inlciest than in that of Victor, issued a
I reclamation that made great excitement,
ami 1 1 10 presence soon after of the ex
Killings Eugenie in Paris about the sam?
I iiiic added fuel to the flame. She left the
ci v at the request of tho government, it i
said, and Prince Jerome has been impris-
U'.ICll.
Mi'untime the legitimists who want the
Ham bin duke, Cbambord, as king have
b en credited with plots to aim a great
m iry thousand men at cue place ai.d
aniitl.o:. And to such an extent were the
iv pub icaus alarmed by these perform ances
that some of them propoee to pass a law
I Miiishing all members of families that
li.ivo ru cd over France.
Tli's has raised a storm and seems to be
a very harsh measure. The ministry did
no' follow such a courso as tbo deputies
ppiored and within two or three days
the ministry has resigned and 11. Falliercs
has been callod on to form a new one.
i his has been partially done, and it is
nnw thought that there will be a dissolu
tion of the Chamber of Deputies and anew
c.iction.
The whole thing goes to show the
trouble they see who try to run a republic
whoso inhabitants get excited and lose
their heads. If the republicans of France
w ould only keep cool nnd not quarrel
among themselves all the plots of Bona
partists or legitimists would be idle nnd
do no harm to the republic.
gHut as it is no one can safely predict
t in outcome of affairs. The French are
Uio Athenians of modern times they
like to see and to hear some new thing
and the glitter of a crown, whether im
perial or kingly, has an attraction for many
of them. The worst thing about the matter
is that, whatever the result may be, there
5s quite a time of political disturbance that
any political Vennor may with safety
predict as coming in the near future in
France, and especially in her principal
cities.
eclipse, of tho sun qn tho I
! noxt will Inst six minutes,
Last Wednesday S. M. Field, a wealthy
and prominent oitizon of Newport, Ver
mont was arrested by J. P. Mollrath. a
secret service agent of the United States
treasury department at Washington, for
passing counterfeit money. A great deal
of counterfeit silver has been in circulation
in that scotion which is supposed to have
been made by a gang of counterfeiters
who have headquarters on tho Canada
side of tho line. The coins are of the
denomination of fifty cents, and made of a
composition to which powdered glass is
added to give the "true ring" to the metal
and are then silver plated and, when new,
are a good imitation. The coins are all
dated 1878.
Mr. FieMs was taken to Burlington on
Thursday and had his bearing Friday.
Wo copy the report of the hearing from
tho Burlington Free Prtsi:
The case of Solomon M. Fields, the
prominent and wealthy citizen of New
port, Vt., iwho was arrested on January
24th, on the charge of uttering counter
feit money, came up for hearing be.'ore
W. L. Burnap, United States commission
er, yesterday morning. John Edwards
of Newport and A. G. Snfford of this city
appeared for Mr. Fields and Kittrcdge
Haokins of Brattleboro, United States
district attorney, represented the govern
ment. Only two witnesses were exam
ined. The first, Mr. Linslcy of the
Memphremagog House, Newport, testified
to having received from Mr. Fields (who
it appears is a bibulous citizen) six coun
terfeit silver fifty-cent pieces in payment
for liquor at the barof the hotel mentioned,
during the present month. Five of these
were kept and marked by the witness and
identified by him before the commissioner.
Tliey are very poorly exocuted indeed and
would be detected as spurious coin at a
;lnnce. A long cross-examination was
indulged in by Mr. Edwards, the chief
practical oute.omo of which was the
enumeration by the witness of a number
ofjprominent citizens of Newport who
are in the habit of slaking ibeir thirst at
the hotel named .and who might have
paid therefor in fifty-cent pieces but
uidn't work off counterfeit ones.
The second witness wns Mr. J. P.
McElralh, chief of tho New England
department of the government secret ser
vice. He testified tnat he investigated
the case and tracked the counterfeit mon
ey to Fields. The sptirii us coins taken at
other places were exactly similar to those
taken tit the hotel and were made from
the same dio. He proceeded to arrest
Fields, and while doing so Fields attempt
ed to throw Into tho stove a packngo done
up in paper which he carried in his pock
et, and which on investigation the witnoss
found to bo five dcllois in the counterfeit
lilty cent pieces. Fields thereupon showed
eviry sign of trepidation nnd expressed
an earnest desire to settle the case, offer
ing to redeem what counterfeit coin he
hail jiaBSedand to pay the witness what
expenses he bad incurred. He stated to
the witness that he did not know where
the counterfeit coin camo from and that
lie must have taken it in tbo usual course
nt business.
This closed the testimony, no witnesses
being offered In the defence; and no argu
ments were made. The commissioner
then held the respondent for trial in the
coming term of the federal court in the
sum of three thousand dollars; and tho
respondent himself and E. A. Baker of
Kichford were accepted us bail. The
extreme penalty of the crime with which
Mr. Fields is charged is a fine of $5000
and ten years imprisonment.
The total
sixth of May
and no longer one will probably occur
within tho noxt hundred years. It will
be partially visible in many places, but
few will see it in its entirety, as its path
lies almost through the ocean, touching
land nowhere but at a little Island In tho
South Pacific called Carolina island
which Is out of the track of an y established
commerce or travel.
Sinoe about tho time when Arab! fell
little has been said about tho movements
of the " Prophet" in tho Soudan. But this
rebel is not dead or hardly sleeping. His
army is si ill at li is back, ho has control of
a large region, and tho lanaticism o! ins
followers does not decline. Tho Egyptian
government is reported to feel " great
anxietv" over the condition of affairs, and
well it may. El Mehedl may yet outdo
Arabi in making trouble for thek koilive.
John Wilkinson, a Newark, N. J., car
driver, has all the symptoms of hydropho
bia with the exception of aversion to
water, a lack which tho doctors think
precludes the theory of hydrophobia. He
is very savage, moves on his hands and
knees, snarls and snaps and barks like a
loe, nnd the physicians liavo to give mm
a cane to gnaw as a dog would a bone, to
prevent him from attacking them with his
teeth. The doctors think he may have
meningitis.
The oilier day Hon. J. II. Buihtel of
Akron. Ohio, formally presented to the
college that bears his name tho sura of
$100,000 in his own behntr. and s'.uuu m
behalf of Mrs. Lydia Messenger. He
stated that he intended making the college
his residuary legatee at his dentil, and as
he is worth 62,000,000, nnd has few
relatives to leave much of his proper! y to,
tho institution will then have a hand? nine
endowment. Mr. Buchtel has now given
tho college 300,000. Mrs. Messenger
has given it 50,000, and she also an
nounces her intention of making it her
residuary legatee.
By the latest figt ring of tho agriculture )
bureau at Washington, it Is reported, the
corn crop of 1882 is placed at 1,G:)5,000,000
bushels, and the yield of wheat at
510,000,000 bushols. Up to 1879 the
maximum yield of Indian corn in this
country (which occurred in that vear was
1,547.001,000 bushols. Last year's crop,
by the abovn estimate, exceeds that of
1879 by 87,000,000 bushels, and falls only
about 207,000,000 bushels unditr tho crop
of 1880. The latost otlicial estimate of the
last year's wheat orop places it at about
80.000.000 bushels more than that of 1S78.
00.000.000 more than that of 1879, and
50,000,000 moro than that of 1880.
Fike in Vkihjknnes. Friday afternoon
a lire broke out in tho upper story of the
Charles Adams' block, on Greene street,
occupied by L. L. Liberty as a photograph
"allery. lhe firemen quickly responded,
and two good streams played upon the
lire in a few minutes after llio first alarm.
Liberty's largo windows, his stock of
chemicals and his furniture were destroyed
or badly damaged. The next ll ior was
occupied by J. H. Donnelly, tailor. His
goods were removed to the sample room
of the Stevens House, and his loss is
nominal, mostly from water and interrup
tion to business. Tho lower floor was
occupied by Mrs. E. E. W. Wales, with
millinery and Indies furnishing gnorls.
Many goods were removed, but her stuck
is seriously damajred by water. Total 1. -s
on building, goods, etc., about .91000, fuliy
covered by insurance.
The forestry commissioners Hon. E.
J. Phelps, Hon. Frederick Billings and
Fx-Gov. Redfield Proctor held their first
meeting in New York, Thursday.
Tho clergy of the Episcopal church in
the diocese of Vermont will meet in
convention with the bishop in trinity
church, Rutland, on TuesdBy and Wednesday.
The United Stales supreme court is
three years behind in its calendar and is
f illing fifty oases further bohiud yearly,
The famous Lawrences estate at O.jlirc
Point, Newport, R. I., was bought by the
late William Beach Liwren'.-e. less thun
forty years ago, for $12,000. He sold live
villa sites. Since his death a parcel has
been sold to Miss Catherine L. Woife for
$210,000, and another to General J unes
H. Van Alen for $100,000. 0;ber bnildins
sites wero taken at corresponding prices
by rive persons. The amount realized
thus far from Air. Lawrenco's farm is
over $800,000, and there yet remain
unsold several building sites. '.Miss Wolfe
is erecting on her plot a villa which will
cost, including grading and pertaining
buildings, $250,000 in addi'.tnn t.i the
prico of the land. The exterior material
of the house is brown stone, elaborately
carved, and there is an iiuuienso roof,
covered with dormers and gables. No
word is exposeil to view, copper and glass
being seen where stone is not.
Arr exchange presents the following
tabulated statement of buildings destroyed
by fire in the United Slates in the first
eleven months of last year, namely: :!i!2
hotels, 98 churshos, 02 school bouses, 20
court bouses, li asylums, 1:! college
buildings, 7 hospitals, (i almshouses, 2
customhouses. Total, 585. The value'
of all this property is st at nine' y million
dollars. It is further estimated tint at
from one to two per cent additional
expenditure in construction that is, for
lhe provision of preventitivo means at
least two-thirds of this largo sum would
havo been saved, to say nothing of the
lives which have been sacrifice.). To this
loss of money should also be added
tbe great expenditures in the year,
to maintain fire departments and for
premiums of insurance, altogether some
where between $120,000,000 and $140,000,
000, from eighteen to twenty pa- cent
addition to the $700,000,000 of taxes
levied hy federal, state and municipal
authorities.
Important Decision-in the lit ii.and
Liyuou CuusAOE. Monday the supreme
court at Rutland rendered a decision in
the habeas corpus cases of James Kennedy
and Bridget Kennedy, his wife, Pal Heady
and John Holmes, all of wfioai are
serving out sentences in lb 3 Inuie of
correction for selling liquor, and alsiin
the petitions for certiorari to review. The
judgement of the .justice of the peace, in
the cases of state vs. James Kennedy an 1
state vs. Bridget Kennedy. Tho court
held that certiorari would lie in criminal
cases to rcviow judgments of justices of
the peace. The oourt also held that erim'
inal" have the right of appeal in all cases
and if they cannot furnish biil, they have
a right to take an appeal and to bo kept in
jail till the trial in the county court, and
i hat the judgment of justice donyin " a
right of appeal because they could not
furnish bail was illegal. Tbecourl ordure I
the discharge of James Kennedy, Bridget
Kennedy and Pat Ready, on ground that
they were denied n right of appeal
Holmes's petition for h'lbcns corjuti was
dismissed.
IUkthoi.di's Colossus. I was asking
a gentleman who has been prominent in
raising money for the pedestal to M. Bar
tholdi' statue of liberty if it is inevitable to
be put out in the bay two or three miles
from tho nearest point of this city, lie
said he thought there was now no chance
of its going anywhere else tineo tun gov
ernmen' has been requested to give the
site for the purpose, although ho admitted
that such a figure would lose much of its
identity with Now York by not being on
this island so that human beings could
asemble around the base of it. "I think, '
"that some traditions of antiquity have
influenced the artist in putting bis' statue
on a small island instead of a pla- e like
the Battery. Thero was one famous col
ossus of Rhodes which cost 0,000 and
weighed 720,000 pounds.and Phidias, who
took the palm from ancient sculptors,
put up several colossi, one of them (10 feet
high. Tho biggest statuo in Europe now
isofjnst that height, and represents St.
Carlo Borromco. The statuo of B ivaria
is 65 feet high and 95 feet with tbo
tal. After tho statue is put up in tile hay,"
said my friend, " I think it will serve to
make the bay moro visited and no doubt
many of the steamers will run in close to
it. Some others will make regular trips
toil. When we consider what an am
phitheatre of houses and pooplo willulti
mately surround this bay, the Pharos in
the oenter is a great thing, nnd its bur
ning lorcn will be, so to speak, the cjo ol
the bay." "JJrutnlwa'j Lounger," in Xcw
York Tribune.
From Our Rovular Uorro.pondeut
Washington Letter.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 27, '83.
Lincoln Hall has been resounding this
week to the ringing cloquenoe of numer
ous noted advocates of female suffrage
Tho 15th annual Washington convention
of the national woman's suffrage associa
tion has jnst olosed its Interesting sessions
and among the dologatos were many long
and widely known workers in the cause.
Tho Irropressiblo Susan B. Anthony still
comes to the front and presides with her
usual ability, decision aud pluck. Time
treats her kindly, for, after close sorutiny,
I discover no new traoos of his ravages,
since two wintars ago when she stood on
tho samo platform. She delivered the
opening addre.w: "Why we come to
congress," in u black satin dress, simply
but fashionably made with plaitings,
ruffles and lace; this pretty attire on a
woman whoso attire has been distingiushod
for its severity, scorned almost like an
unspartan concession to frivolous fashion.
These woman have been considered
totally dovaid of capaoity for tasteful
dressing. It cannot be charged that they
give thoir whole minds to thoir drapery,
but their costumes were almost without
exception, tasteful and, in some instances,
elegant and handsome. Encouraging
proof that in womtn the ooquetry of dress
cannot be wholly consumed by the fires
of her enthusiasms.
Mrs. Amy T. Dunn of Indianapolis
gave a very entertaining charaotor lecture
(Z jkle's wife.) She appeared in costume
ind simulated au old woman of seventy,
a genuino type ot tno lemtnine jnow
Englandor of fifty years ago. who married
and moved to .the western states and
territories. It was a satire on man's laws
for woman and his treatment of woman,
It was a very ureditablo performance, and
presented the suurage idea tuny ana
,'oroibly. Miy Wright Sswall of Indian
apolis gave "The Lesson of the Nebraska
Campaign," which, by her interpretation
is, that woman is capable of dovising and
executing grand schetuos in spite of
overwhelming disadvantages; that women
can act in unanimity and from purely
impersonal motives. All of which is
calculated to abate "vain man's" native
arrogance of superiority. Sho is a strong
woman and speaks with frco and even
eloquence. Pheobe Couzins told "What
a woman without a Country" is. Ten
years ago Miss Phoebo was the professional
bcaul y of the sisterhood, but that was ten
yoars ago. Lillio Devereux Blake spoke
from tho text: "Is it a crime to be a
woman?'' There were addresses also by
Harriot Spattuck of Boston, Virginia
Minor of St. Louis, Dr. Caroline Winslow
of Washington, D. C, Henrietta West
brook of Philadelphia, and others equally
well known. During one of the morning
sessions which wore of rathor a private
character, being devoted to executive
business, a reporter succeeded in entering
tbe bat! and csconotd himself in a quiet
coruer. But he could not escape the eye
of over vigilant woman. He was ap
proached, and kindly told that they wanted
io have "a little family talk," wanted to
say something that would not got into the
papers. So ho was compelled to fold up
his note book and "quietly steal away."
Tho public meetings of the convention
were well attended, the largo audiences
being mostly composed of women who
seemed io e in sympatny witu lue cause
but there was also a sprinkling of con
gressmen and of somo men, prominent in
otujial lilo nero. llie committee on
resolutions presented a series which were
read, discussed and adopted. Tho gist of
it was that women are citizens of the
United States, that by voting they could
directly influence legislation for the
promotion of morality and good governj
ment, that they want congress to pass
without dei ay a sixteenth amendment to
the federal constitution now pending in
the Senate, which prohibit the several
states from disfranchising United Statos
citizens on account Df sex. In short,
they want to vote, and they say they
surely will vote in the course of time.
country. As great a polltloin n as he was
a patriot, at tbs eloctions of 1877, confi
dent In Ilia justice and patriotism of our
towns and rural districts, be hurled at tbe
enemies of the republic a p'.'oud defiance.
Tbe boundless enthusiasm tnd devotion
which form the strength, 'glory and safety
of France in supremo mo ments undo the
strength of Gambetta thi ougbout his life
This is why Franoe wan so dear to bin:.
and he so dear to Franco. Tbe tie now
broken plunges Franco into tho crudest
grief. Tho republic has been struck a
terrible blow, but it Is not shaken. Tho
work of France and of Gambetta is no
longer ephemeral. It is the incontestable
triumph of national sovereignty. It is
tbe pacific, progressive march of society,
armed henceforward with right and
strength. Such is thei work for which, on
tho groat day of the funeral, France
ordered solemn bom ago. For hor the
glory of Gambetta and of the French
re public are imperishable." The speaker,
whose voice b strayed tbe keonest emotion,
was violently interrupted by a few depu
tie , who had tbe bad taste to laugh aloud
at tho passage referring to the terrible
blow struck at tbo republio by Gambetta's
death; bat the end of the spoeoh was
received with every token of respectful
sympathy.
LFrom Our liCKUlar Correspondent.)
Paris Letter.
PAltIS, Jan. 10,
'83
The ordinary or regular session of the
French parliament for 1883 was opened
today in the Senate nnd chamber of
deputies. Although tho proceedings were
purely formal, consisting of the olcctlon
of officers, it was impossible not to fool
the deepest interest in tho reagsembling of
the. lowor house, as the deputies met for
tbe first time since the removal by death
of the most prominent figure in thoir
midst. Gambetta's seat has already been
seized uv anotner member, despite the
wish of his friends that it should be
allowed to remain vacant for a few weeks
as a mark of respect to the great states
man whoso remains havo not yet been
conveyed to their last resting place.
Sentiment was allowed to give place to
political exigencies, and the bench whence
Gambetta so frequently rose to hurl
defiance at his adversaries, or ta gain
even their applause by tho foroo cf his
magnificent eloquence, was to-day occu
pied by a deputy whoso physiognomy is
familiar only to his own electors. For
lhe first lime one was brought absolutely
face to faeo with tho immense void, the
rent in nature "brought about since the
legislaturo adjourned for the New Year
receBS. It seemed impossible to realize
that little more than a year had passed
since Gambetta, at tho head of a young
and vigorous ministry, read from that
me tribuno his first and last official
declaration as premier of France, and
that barely eleven months havo elapsed
since, in a magnificent speecb, he chal
lenged the House cither to accept his own
terms for remaining in office or to allow
him to throw down tho reins of govern
ment. M. Guichard, an old man of eighty,
temporary president, by right of age,
fulfilled the difficult task of delivering a
speech on the memory of one who, nearly
forty years his junior, occupied the min
isterial bench only a year ago, and seemed
to till the highest office in tho service of
the state. M. Guichard, an attached
friend of the deceased statesman, said:
"Gentlemen, wo shall never again hoar
at this tribune, wo shall never again see
before us the man who represented tho
soul of France. He had bis misson.
namely, tho dofenco a or.trnnce of France
against her invaders. Nothing stayed
him. Tho Prussians encircled Paris; he
passed over their lines. Our arsenals.
our magazines, our treasuries wero empty;
he found money and resources; he organ
ized the defence; he raised armies; at his
vcice Franco with an admirable movement
fought over hor own ruins, saving at
once tho honor, future and destiny of tho
From Our lingular Corrcioniient.l
Our .European Letter.
London, Eng., Ja n. 10, '83.
The enthronement of tho new arch
bishop of Canterbury will take place tbe
first week in April in the ancient cathedral
Dr. Benson, tho new primate, having
fomally accepted tho high divinity, will
shortly be received by the queen at Wind
sor.
Speaking of cathedrals,vfQ are reminded
that the grand tower of Peterborough
oathodral has shown such evidenoo of
decay that it is condemned by the architect.
Chichester cathedral was a fow years ago
in a similar stato; but, owing to the
liberality and enorgy of tho citizens, it
was proscrvod, and if precautions arc
taken in time, Peterborough may also be
saved. The groat tower, erected moro
than eight hundred years ago, is an archi
tectural monument too interesting to go to
ruin.
The topic of tho week in nrtistio circles
is the extraordinary caso of a couple ol
hundrod pictures being pledged for small
sums with various pawnbrokers by a
daring individual who had induced a groat
number of artists to send pictures to an
exhibition in Regent streot called the
" British Fine Art Gallery." The artists
received printed invitations in tho usual
manner, and sent their works, but when
they went to see how their pictures wove
hung, or if any of them wore sold, they
found themselves sold, for tho " British
Fine Art Gallery" had its shutters up, and
the pictures were gone, and also " Mr
Walker had walkod off," his name novor
having been Walker at all. Eventually
nearly one hundred of the pictures were
discovered, advances having been made
upon them of about a sovereign each, the
gold frames surrounding them being, in
many instances, worth treble the amount
Another exchange of diplomatic notes
on tho Egyptian question has taken place
between the French government and Lord
Granville. It is hoped that tho passing ill
feeling in France on that subject has now
subsided. Lord Granville says signifi
cantly that the British government has no
fresh proposals to make on tho subjuut of
control, and that, in consequence, the
negotiations camo to an end. Lord Gran
villo adds that tho correspondence closed
in a satisfactory manner, and promises the
continuance of an amicable understands
on other points between the two countries.
There is no chango in England's policy, as
tho original plan is being steadily carried
to its legitimate conclusion. When order
is permanently restored our troops will
quit the country.
Cctewayo has been restored, or r ithor is
tone; but, lor tno present, there is a
deadlock in the arrangements, owing to
the antagonism of the chiufs. Zululand is
not a very large country not larger than
Denmark and it was impossible that it
could long continue to be governed by
thirteen kings. Under such circumstances,
as tho late Dr. Doran onco remarked,
thero must bo monarchs occasionally out
at elbows. When Germany was divided
into small states, thero wero thirty-six
king3 or reigning dukes, and it is recorded
that a grand duke was obliged io go
without clean linen on a stato occasion
because the washerwoman revolted. Ccte
wayo will not perhaps greatly trouble the
Zulu washerwomen; but there are many
other claims upon monarchy, and the
revenues of Zululand could oertaialy not
sustain thirteen kings. It is now proposed
to reduce tho number to three, Cutowayo
to be tho principal. This plan may answer
but it is doubtful.
l noto tnat tno new sleeping cars,
specially constructed by the Pullman car
company for service on English railways
have just arrived at the King's Cross
terminus of the Groat Northern railway.
These cars are built on what is technically
known au the " English pattern,'' having
side entrances, and thus dispensing with
the end platforms; and tho vehicles thom-
sclvcs are divided into compartment!, so
as to combine the comfort, and to somo
extent tho privacy, of an English first
class carriage with tho conveniences of
the American sleeping car. There is a
continuous passage from one end of the
car to tho other for tho attendant's use,
but ordinarily each section is separated
from the rest by doors and curtains.
Fike at Winooski. Tho villlage of
Winooski was last Saturday morning
visited with a very disastrous fire, and
which at one time threatened to bo of still
greater extent. Tbe fire originated in a
very novel way. About 7 o'olock that
morning a freight train, oom posed in part
of several platform cars loaded with steel
rails shipped from St. Albans to Boston,
camo in from Essex Junction and passod
the station at a rapid rate and when
opposite the largo storo house uf the
Burlington woolen mill company one of
the oars loaded with rails jumped tbo track
taking several other cars with it and
collided with somo freight oars, nmong
which was a car containing an iron tank
holding 4000 gallons of crude oil for
manufacture into gas. Wboi tho oars
struck the rails wore thrown in all direc
tions, some of them as many as fifty feet,
and the tank was broken and oil liberated
and sot on fire by a "hot box" on ono of
the freight oars which collided with it.
The tank exploded, scattering the burning
oil in all directions and against the sides
of tho storo house which was soon a burn
ing mass, and owing to tno combustiblo
nature both of tho building and Us contents
wool, camels hair, flour, etc., rondored
any attempt to save either building oc
contonts a hopeless task. The store house
was 100 by 80 foot, two stories, with an
attic over a portion. Tho Dro spread from
tho storo house to the coal and wood sheds.
containing five hundrod tons of coal and
five hundred cords of wood, which were
soon on fire and demanded the best efforts
of the firemen to keen it under control.
The fire department of Winooski were
early in tho dayj supplomonted by hose
oompanies from Burlington and were
greatly aided by tho powerful force pumps
of tho mill aud also of El wards & Slovens
machine shop, and it is doubtful if with
any less cflioient work tho fire could have
been kept from spreading to the dwellings
in the villago.
Two brakemon on tho train wereslightly
injured by tbe collision and an employe of
the woolen mill, named Smith, who was
standing on ono of the car loads of lumber,
was blown off by tho explosion nnd
somewhat injured. No other casualilius
occurred. The burning petroleum found
its way into tho sower which runs through
the mill yard, and several explosions
occurred in the sewer, shaking tbo ground
around, and throwing jets ot (l.imo from
the openings.
The store house contained 408,000
pounds of wool, worth $00,000; machinery
for the mills costing $10,000 ; 300 barrels
of flour, of which 120 wero owned by
aattord, Humphrey is Co., of Winooski,
and the rest by tho Burlington flouring
company; a number of bales of camels
hair; and a large quantity of dye stuffs
ana teazles, lhe burning coal and wood
was at last extinguished witli a loss ol
two hundred tons of coal and ono hundred
cords of wood. Of tho cars on the Bide
track twelve were loaded with tbo property
ot tno juill Uo., viz: seven with corn,
three with green lumber, and two with
merchandise, llicso, with live or six
cars loaded with rails, wero wholly
destroyed. Tho store house was worth
$15,000. Tho loss of tho company is
estimated by Mr. Kennedy at r.ot to
exceed $95,000, on which they have
$75,500 insurance, $1,000 being on the
building, $71,000 on its contents, and
$500 on the coal and wood. Most of this
is placed in the associated manufacturers'
mutual insurance companies of New Eng
land $10,000 each in tho Arkwright,
Alillownor's and manufacturers' compa
nies of Boston; a like sum in tlio Rhode
Island company of Providence and Fire
man's of Worcester, and the rest in the
Fall River and other companies. The
fuel was insured through tho agency of
T. S. Peck. Saflord. Humphrey & Co.,
had an insurance of $1,000 in tho same
agency, which will more than cover their
loss. The loss of the railroad company is
some Sl-'.COO to $15,000. Tho total loss
will thus aggrogato from $105,000 to
$110,000, on which lliero is $70,500
insurance. The company will sustain a
net loss of somo $20,000.
A valuable stock of indigo, impirled
by the company from Bengal, was fortu
nately stored in another building and was
not injured. The company has also
100,000 pounds of unsortod wool, or twenty
days' supply, stored elsewhere. As it
has a cargo of wool on tho sea soon to
arrive, and as supplies of dye stuff, etu.,
ordered by Mr. Kennedy by telegraph on
.Saturday, are already on the way, the
business of tho company will gutter no
interruption.
The woolen mill comp inv suffered the
toss of a dyehouse by tiro in 1802 involv
ing a loss of $11,500, and in 1803 a
larger iiyeliotiso was Durned with its
contents, occasioning a loss of $03,000.
Both of their losses, however, were covered
by insurance, and this is the first net loss
sustained by the company.
FumtUAitJ-.-Venuj Is I "Are you the judge of wjorpbatesP'
, . wJ. - l. ..llfofl into
Sh. rises low throe hours rlr "".-lm
judge of probate," was the reply.
that's it, I expect," quoth the old lady.
"Vou seo my fathor died dotested and lie
left several little infidels, and I want to be
their executionor. Wheeling Leader.
Hnw many norsons dying of "the secret
. .u-t-..l..l,a"
wounds wliioti Dlneu Denoaiu uwn
oi.i fin.i ltif in irivinsr voice to thei
pains in song! How many who make life
a selfish paradise, would experience
If bv ant tale, or play,
poem, they would communicato the joys
of their deliclousiy overourueumi ,
the souls of others! milium Mathews.
IJj. 1),
Planets in
morning star.
beforo the sun. No plannt of the systorn
presents so many points of interest or is so
olosely allied to the planet on which we
dwoll as Venus. Sho Is our nearest
neighbor except tho moon, is nearly liko
the earth In dimensions, in the length of
her day and night, in tho possession of an
atmosphero, and in the probable moun
tainous condition of her surface. Besidos,
she gratifies our losthetio by being the
most beautiful star the eyo beholds, and
she is tho only planet that is visible in the
presence of the noonday sun.
Venus rises on tno 1st a lew minutes
after four o'clock in the morning; on tho
ffluti sho rises a quarter alter lour o clock.
Mars is morning star. Mars rises on
the 1st about half-past six o'clock in the
morning; on tho 28th she rises a few
minutes before tlx o'clock
Uranus is morning star, and is fast
approaching tho point when ho is in tho
most favorablo condition for being seen
with tho naked eye.
Mercury is evening star until tho 5lh,
and morning star the rest of tho month.
Ho is near enough to his western elonga
tion during tbe last week in the month to
bo visible io the nuked eye, rising an hour
before tbe sun, nnd about four degrees
north of tho sunriso point. Mercury sets
on tho 1st about six o'olock in the evening ;
on the 28tli he rises at half-past five o'clock
in the morning.
Jupiter is evening star. Jupitor sets on
the 1st at five o'clock in the morning; on
the 28l,h ho sots about a quarter after two
o'clock.
Saturn is evening star, preceding Jupi
ter nearly threo hours in rising and
setting, for tho distance betwoes the two
planets is gradually increasing. He is
still an interesting object among the stars,
though perceptibly increasing in sizo and
lustre as he wends his way towards the
sun, and travels farther away from the
earth.
Saturn set3 on the 1st at a quarter after
one o'clock in tbo morning; on the 28th
about a quarter before twelvo o'clock in
tno evening.
Neptune is evening stai.
The February moon fulls on the 2lst at
thirty-four minutes after seven o'clock in
tno evening, oho takes on only threo
phases during the shortost month of the
year, appearing as new moon, at hor first
quarter, and as full moon. Providence
Journal.
ity, vt., Hne.'V'A.V.V.V.'.'.V.'.V.V.ai
1 vurmynt, clioloo 23
I HI
4 l
14 27
21
la 19 n
Snow Bakes.
In tho polar regions snow sometimes
falls from a cloudless sky.
The mean tempcraturo of the northern
hemisphere is higher than that of the
Southern.
Tbe eastern sido of the Atlantic is
warmer at the samo latitude than the
western side.
In the polar regions, whero tho snow
lies unmelted from year to year, it assumes
a ruddy color, and sometimes becomes
red liko blood.
At three feet below tho surface of tho
earth the range of temperature i3 less
thin half what it is at tho surface; at
21 tcct Jess tuan one-tenth.
At Jakutsk, in 02 degrees and 2 minutes
north latitude, it has been determined by
actual excavation that the earth is frozen
to a depth ol 382 feet, and this stratum
ol permanent trost increases as we
advance northward.
On the darkest nights tho snow is more
luminous than tho sky, showing tin t it
retains a portion of the light which it has
received during tho day, after the sun has
set. If during tbe day a portion was
shaded, that portion is less luminous than
the surrounding snow.
Snowflakes formed at a low temperature
are smaller than those formed at a high
temperature. At a vory low temperature
they aro often less thaii one-tenth of an
inch in diameter; when formed near the
temperature of 32 degrees they are some
times found an inch in diameter.
Sometimes snowflakes falling attach
themselves together in their descent to
the earth nnd alight as a looso snowball,
perhaps two inches in diameter. After
they havo fallen thev are sometimes
driven along by tho wind and rolled into
large balls, winch have been found with a
diameter of three feet. They aro cylin
drical in shapo and hollow in the centre.
Joseph Martoll of Aiburghwas seriously
injured whilo chopping wood in the woods
a few days ago. Ho was cutting down
tree and as it was nearly ready to fall, be
found it was going to tall on his coat wiucii
he had thrown on the ground. He went
tn removo the coat nnd before he could get
away the tree fell, striking him on the
head and snouiuers, learing a iaio p,ui.u
of his scalp loose and crushing him to ine
ground. Ho was removed to his home
and medical nid called. It is thought the
injuries will not prove fatal.
Dr. George Miller Beard of New Yor
cilv. tho distinguslied practitioner and
author, died of pleuro pneamonia, after
short illness on tho 23d inst. Dr. Beard
was born in Connecticut in 1839 and begn
the practice of medicine in 18G3. He had
been an untiring writer and publisher of
many works, pamphlets and monographs
Ho had also been known as a lecturer
Among tho principal events of the doctor'
busy life was his controversy with the Rev
Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler ot Brooklyn, on
the subject of temperance; his public
contest with the faculty ol latecone:
many of whom had been oxporimcntin
with Brown, the mind reader, whioh at
tbe time created great excitement. Th
committee chosen to report on the experl
ments stated that in. Beard s theory of
unconscions muscular action (muscle
reading) had not been proved, and thai
the claim to mind reading had not been
proved. Tho subject lay quiot, almost
forgotten, fo seven years, only to be taken
up In England, where it. aroused wider
interest than in this country. Dr. Beard
spent several seasons abroad, where he
gave experiments in artificial trance. Vt
Iknrd was connected professionally as an
expert with tho trials of Cadet Whittakor
and Uinteau. In the case ot tho lormer
he testified for tho defence, taking tin
position that tho accusation against Whit
laker was unjust. In the case of Guitcau
Dr. Board's pjsition was that the assassi
was insane. He predicted, in detail, tbe
manner in which Guitcau would meet his
fatn, with insane speech on his lips, an
this prediction was lulhlleu
News and fiossip.
Sir Garnet Wolsley will probably suc
ceed tho Marquis of Lome as governor
general of tho Dominion of Canada in
1885.
A "wild" animal which was soeu in
North Hero last fall, and which was
seen by others, was last week seen near
Alburgh Springs, and chased by hounds as
far north as IIenryvillc,P. Q. It is describ
ed us being a large black nnimal, reseiii
bling a Newfoundland dogs is very tl-jct.
St-Albana Mcsswjer.
A number of leading hotel keepers of
tho state held a meeting at tho Van Nuss
house, Burlington, the 25th, to "talk up''
matters and things of interest to the
fraternity. After considerable discussion
the meeting adjourned without having
taken any definite action. Anotbor meetini'
will, it is understood, bo hold soon.
Nkw Invention. The latest nuvel
invention is that of Frank Kittrodga of
Danville, Vermont, who h as constructed a
model for a new steam engine, whose chief
distinction is that it docs away entirely
with the piston movement. Mr.Kittrcdjo's
c ngine consists of a deep rimmed wheel
with movcnble floats therein, somethin"
on tho plan of a turbine water whcol, and
steam is discharged against the onclosed
wheel, which he claims will furnish a
steady and continuous power, nnd more of
it than can be procured from tho piston
movement. Tno inventor has a pretty
good opinion of his now machine, for he
asks $00,000 for his interest in it, nnd goo I
judges say he will get it, and morn t ) i, if
he holds on."
A Braui'Ouu Hf.ioiit. John S. Wriht
of Bradford, Vt., is an eccentrio citizen.
A few years ago lie footed it to California,
but soon returned, bought a small farm
and settled down for a lonely existence.
lie has boarded over his collar, and bur
rowed a deep excavation under this
covering, and spends his life in this hole
in the ground. Ho has a second excavation
directly undoi his bod, which he uses as a
storage bin for vegetables, which ho raises
on his cultivated plat of ground. A
disappointment in lovo is said to be tho
cause of his peculiarities. Ho craves no
society, and very seldom comes in contact
with his neighbors of his own volition.
Although many of the residents call upon
him, they are received with comparativo
silence, his communications buintr few
and he evidently regards all members of
tho human race with suspicion. Wright
is quiet and peaceable, except when he is
crossed. Ho is a demorat. He is of more
than average intelligence, and would have
occupied a distinguished position in lifo
bad ho turned bis abilities in tho proper
direction; but thwarted in his fond hopes
and bright anticipations for the future, he
adopted the life of a recluse, aud while the
mercury is persistently seeking tho lowest
point iu the thormbmotrical bulb, the
village hermit seals himself in his retreat,
oblivions of the world's movements or
conditions and seeim content with his
lonely and cheorloss surrounding.
Tho death has been announce 1 of Rov,
Samuel Fish, tho oldest Baptist clergyman
in the state. Ho was born in Halifax in
1788. Before he was ordained to the
ministry, he preached at Halifax, Guilford,
Loydun and Coleraine. In 1820 lie was
ordained and callod as pastor to preach at
tho Baptist church of his native town.
where ho preachod for 50 years. Ho was
twice married. His first wife was Sorvier
Packer Guilford. Ho aftorwards married
her sister. Ho has had thirteen children,
of whom soven survive hitu.
Buklington Police Statistics The
police during the past year arrested 718
persons, 007 males and 111 females, of
whom 2SG wero Irish, 281 French and 123
Americans. Ot tho arrests, 374 wero for
intoxication, 189 for selling liquor, and 56
for breach of tho peace. Of tho persons
arrested, 45 wero sent to tho houso of cor
rection, 5 to the stato prison nnd 4 to the
reform school. At the police station 320
tramps wero sheltered. Fines and costs
amounting to $3990.38 wero paid to tbo
county clerk and city troasnror; and tho
total exponsns of tho department $.1057.
Thero are 07 policemen, of whom 42 are
private watchmen at the mills and factories
and 15 specials; the regular force consists
i f only 10 men.
That "grinding inanopoly," tho New
York Central railroad, has been doing all
tho business for tho past year at the rate
of 73 hundredths of a cent a ton a mile
just ono half of wh it the r tto was eight
years ago. Ex.
Patrick Ready of Rutland, now serving
out his sentence of about 35 years iu the
house of correction fur liquor selling has
brought a his petition for a writ of habeas
corpus to the Rutland county supreme
court, lie claims tho bail on appeal was
so extiorhita"t that ho could not 'tirnish
it. The bill on appeal was $5000 and the
fee $1200.
A Ti-:tii;ii!i.K An aiii. Saturday morning
a family of nino nogrocs living on a
plantation in Laurens oounty, S. C, killed
and eat of a gooso that had been bitten by
a dog supposed to bo nud. About two
houis thereafter the entire family became
sick and wero thrown into convulsions.
Four died Sunday niglu, and the other five
arc not expected to livo.
A Montreal dispatch says: "Tho carni
val spirts concluded with a grand ball at
tho Windsor hotel Friday night. The
wealth, beauty and refinement of New
York, Boston anil other American and
Canadian cities, was largely represented.
All Vanderbik's married daughters and
many of their friends camo specially to
auer.u uio pan.
Tho death list of this congress comprises
six representatives ami one senator
follows: Mr. Allen (Missouri), who died
April a, issl'; the next was Hon R. M.
A. Hawk; tho noxt J T. Updegrafl" (Oaio),
November 29, 1882; Godlove S. Orth
(Indiana), December 16, 1882; and then
J. W. hhaekellord, Janaary 18, 1883
Senator Hen Hill died August l(i. 1882:
joun n omitn died prior to tho tnuo for
taking his scat.
Six tons of humanity are now placed
upon tho platforms of the curiosity hal! of
a inow lorn museum, wnere a contest for
prizes offerod for fat pnople is in progress.
Somo of the heaviost present aro Recinnie
l oiter ot Uanulen, Ind., 5o0 pounds,
Dick James, Wayne county, Ohio, 504;
Frank Williams, Columbus, Ohio, 487;
Samuel M. Bishop, Petersburg!!. Va..4ti0:
Jesse Waldren, Greenpoint, N. Y 455;
fairies U bnon, Ucltast, Ireland, 307;
Amelia Hill, Brooklyn, N. Y., 400; Frank
Rush, Now York city, 335: William
Moher, Green's Farms, Conn., 3G0.
Montana Weather. At 8 o'clock
last night not a man was visible on Main
street ; they wero all rustling for a seat
on a stove.
At tho ollioe of tho Montana lumber
company this morning the spirit ther
mometer registered 04 below zero.
In a Main streot store this morning at
10 o'clock, a thermomoter hung up on'tho
wall within four feet of n red hot stove
registered 14u below freezing point.
In ono of tho Butto restaurants tho
cooking department is a board addition
standing out from tho main building, and
though the stovo this morning was made
red hut, the Chinaman was unable even to
cook somo hot cakrs. They froze solid
on tho griddle, and had to bo chopped off
with a hatchet,
A prominent citizen wentto the hydrant
this morning to draw a bucket of wator,
and in returning to tho house spilled a
little of its contents, into which ho acciden
tally put ono foot. Before he could make
another stop ho was frozen to tho ground
and was compelled to lenvo his boot in
Uio road and hop into tho hnnso on one
log.
Joseph Cool; loars Unit civil service reform
only ou pa Lie r.
Senator Plumb, muny yoars ago, was a forcma
in the office of a little newspaper iu Xeaia, O
which Wiiitelaw Ucid was the editor.
The female college, Milwaukee, wa3 Oamngcd by
Ore Friday .'0,ODO worth. The flames spread rap-
i ily into the dormitories but tite JU female inmate
were saved.
Charles Cobb, having killed a sboiiff sent to ar
rest him at Udell Station, Kan., the citizens
Wiotleld hanged Cobb to the tree nearest the place
of his capture.
The proprietor of one Albany hotel has placed i
every room in bis house a kuotted rope long enough
to reach the ground, and fastened one end of it
a staple in the floor.
In New York, last week, a policeman died from
blood poisoning, caused by the bite of a man suf
fering from an epileptic lit. The bite was inflicted
nearly a year ago,
There is an increasing tendency to establish banks
understate laws, rather than under the general
banking law, tho reason given being the greater
freedom from restrictions.
At Texarkana, Ark , E l Garrett, "colored, who
murdered his wife, was hanged Friday, he confess
cd on tho gallows, delivered a religious exhortation
and expressed repentance.
Illinois lias a surplus of $ !,00O,Oii) in the treisury
part of which i3 the proceeds of the sales of public
lands granted to the state by the United States, and
partly derived from railroad taxes.
The men who bought the Philadelphia extiibition
building for i?:7,00u have sold tho iron alone for
enough to much more-than repay the investment
and will clear about i:Jju,uiX)on the speculation.
A livery man was sued for damages at Nebraska
City -been use the horse which he had hired out to
a young couple for a drive ran away and threw
them out of the sleigh; but he proved by the plain
tiff's own testimony that a struggle for a kiss was
the cause of the accident, and the jury acquitted
the horse of all blame,
The city govcrnmcntoi'Ncw York costptlic people
there $i:J.')0 a head yearly, u dollar more than last
year. Of the nusi persons in its employ at a cost
of $7,511,(11:1,71 annually, the mayor gets $10,000,
the controller $10,000, the corporation counsel $12,
uoo; but tbe fattest pickings fall lo the sheriff, who
sets $7."),ooo, and the comity clerk and ;hc register.
who gels '.Kt.initi yearly, each.
The las' alleged discovery is that there arc horned
men in Africa. Captain S. Hay recently read
ii tpcr before- the British association in which he
stated tiiat he had seen them, and exhibited sketch
os of them, flc thought that they belonged to tho
class of malformations of which there was a noted
example in tbe ease of the "porcupine man," who
had horny plaits on various parts of his body. 1
was reinaikablc that the horns were peculiar to the
male sex. Most anthropologists think that the gal
ant captain is either Joking or romancing.
S.YNDWITCI1ES
A sclcntiilc chemical compound thatgives health
aud strength is Urown's Iron Bitters. 5wl
A man in New York has obtained a verdict of
six cents damages for slander.
The peculiar action on tho kidneys and urinary
organs ot asparagus is lre-paently noticed during
the season. Prof. Benson recently proved ia the
case of tho Emperor William and others that in
combination with malt and quinine it is anabsolute
speciilc for diseases of tho liver, kidneys and
urinary organs. Ilia method has been adopted by
the Malt Bitters Company, and this great German
food is now composod of malt. Hops, quinine bark
ami asparagus. i Medical Times. fm3ml
THE MARKETS.
llcpiftti ,i'i t tei-jraiihoi fxtrenUy for thi c,
Mountain h'reeinan.
HUSTON CATTLE MAUKKl'
AT CH Bill DUE AND BRIGHTON.
Por the wtf lt ending Tuesday Jan. 30, 18:.
At market this week
' " ItlSt WlH'k
" " ono year atfo.
dxttlft. Shflep. Hogs. Caloen
...2.0115 22,:til 3riJ
... 3.1U7 15.1'. Hi.iHl m
... -i.m b.HTS ltLhK) l;tS
PlilCKS.-Kxtra fit ami heavy premium oxen. $8 75.S
9.ui; tirst ipiaLity,ss. scohihI quality, $rt 5iv7.5J:
ir.liiu IllltllllJ, ,D'".l."'"'I.U" fill 11"' uja, uu H'lai WIIK'll Ol
bide, tallow and drsRi'tl beef A few choice timrle
, .P , ,i D, vii 3 .(. nvunniif oxen,
ItKki:u i ft) i;ur, or aiMorihu to timir value as beef
stimrn. !ft;.Miri Mdi-h cows, $J;..iH)(:H.tHi; oxtm irood
44ii.iMfll.Kwi, with or without cnlves. as may Ue agreed
tarrnw ami onlinarv. 4l iicirf in wi stores, ycarlinirfl
41'j-rtVUO.t; two ye.ir-oMs. jl, wM.l'.Wi; tlm-e-year-oloV
4lii.WM4.5lW, SlifM'i,:flV,r: extra, SV.n!tir W Hor $i(i(i
trio bund. Lamlig, Wflfcir; retail, OcnV Th. Fat how
' fllT'uC 'W TT; northern dreasted ltWN.H aN'.,'c( tb Veal
ralveg. 3 :', U fr, 11 Mu-lit on hides. 'VnW- rminti-v lot.
fl'$e. Oalt sliiufl. 12 V n. Tallow. 7 Ve V It
country, 4Vi. lVlts wilh wool on, 75c$1.25 eacn:
country lots, ;5cinl.d eaoh,
HKMAl!KS.-ThB mnvrimonl in raltln -a-aa it ..-
thiiiw a little moro active than laft week. The run was
enpeelailv heavy and uutehtT seemed disposed to iu
viwi when at uuchamred rates. There were some
Rtoekers at I nlon yard, Watertown, that Bold at 3Liifl)
4e V lh, live. O. K. Sauboru sold a number of this sort.
Western Kteerfl Sold ut tinTe. live rrmntrv ntiin r..
beef sold as quoted. William Martiu sold ntne three
year old Rteers, weUhiuK MAI lhs, at 40 W head.
Milch cows wero tn fair demand. Tho fheen market
held up vory well to last week's rates. Some of the
verv best Bold at fiV'rtTc. but the bulk nf tho io. -BB
at 4flV.e V lb. Most of the flocks wore mixed Iota, i
1 rade was ttte ood William Martin sold fortv
Rheep, the tall end of a let, average 8 tba, at SH V head "
,1. N. Holt sold a lot of one hundred Hfton
Iv xheen. wetbrhiriu-U.iMi Ibn. nt V. It l P.iiio ani,i
a small lot of aheep. average w Ibs,at 4c lb. There was
ni-ui i vi y un ;"um a i Uini dL'l, UUl U.Ojr. ff in WAS
the rate ottered.
V Stuck 2ac la all that eau bn rllzH,t .,.,7
tueru aro uot nuuy buyora at tht hure. Wo iuote:
XOBTUEBN.
Creamery, choice, If lb..
u. iairtutnnm
rranKiin count:
Nhw Vurk aud t
Do do (air to jroud
WESTCBM,
Croamery, choice as raff?
im tairtotfood i 4ai
Dairy, choice ,i 2T,
Do, fair to good u g,,
Ladle packed, choice t H
Do (air to ifood ly (it ji
Do comuiou iu a Itf
CliEEHK.
The demand for Cheese hai been moderate and
prices are steady. The stock u not larye aud holders
are llrni. We quote:
New York, choice. Iff R
Vermont choice
Northern, fair to kckkI
Do, common
Western, choice
Do, choice to Koud
Do, common.
, naU
il au
6 a in
l:i a
v a 12
' 4 a 0
The market Is firmer for freah Eastern. Northern
are quiet, jieid utock are dull and take a wido rantre
We quote:
Eastern , V dozen 33 (9 33
New York and Vermont 31 (A
Canada
Northern 2
K K. Inland (4 ..
Limed. . 18 io
BEANS.
There coutlnuea to be a liffht trade and prlcea are
not fully maintained. Choice baud picked small sized
I'ea cannot be placed in round lota at over 2.b5, and
for lanfe sized buahel ia au outside Hellm
price. We quote:
Pea, Northern, HP,V bush $2 80 ra 2 di
Do Nnw York. 11 Y...
Do do, com. to wood
Medium, choice hand picked....
Do, choice screened
Do, common to ifood
fellow Eyes, improved ,
Do, choice tlata ,
Do, common
fted Kidneys
PEAH.
The market continues steady.
Canada, choice, V bush
Do. common
Green Peas, Northern
io, nestern ..
....2 06 4J 6ii
a 39 19 s iju
2 40 (4 2 Emj
2 06 4 2 35
3 Hi 3 4U
a M iSj 3 35
8 1U3 2f
3 UU J &u
We quote:
41 10(4 1 15
0 83 (fl) Jt.i
1 Ul( 1 -ih
1 35 S I io
POTATO EM.
With liprht receipts the markot Is firmer, and choice
Eastern Kobe readily command y bushel. Choice
Prolines sell at tMj!dc, and brooks at 81c. Very lew
Provincial 1'otatots are now arriving by water. Wo
quote:
Early Itose, Vbush 90 a M
Proiirtcs m t4
Peerless tjjio) 15
Kruokrf 7a M Ml
Sweot potatoes y bhl a....
VEGETABLES.
Cabbaves are easier. Hquash continue firm. Cucum
bers hiKUer. We quote :
Cucumbers, $ dozen , 3 0a3 5u
ijouuce, v uos 'a (( J uu
New beets. W uu 1 uu a ....
Cabbaife, y liMJ 2 uu a 7 uu
Ouiuus, it? bol J um j :j
QUEEN APPLES.
Apples are in fair demand. We quote:
Apples, choice, y bbl $1 m 4j ....
uj, common to ifooq 2 oj $ .1 ihj
DU1ED APPLES.
There continues to he. a irood dnmand for niinrtereil
and Hliccd. We quote :
.Southern, quartered, y lb
uo, aucea
New York, quartered...
Do. sliced
East and North, quartered
Do do, sliced
Evaporated, choice
uu, koou
fs
, 17
15
11
m y
lu
(a) In
(4 Iti
HAY AND STHAW.
The market continues dull for Hav. and IK is n
extreme price for choice Eastern and jrtheru. We
(uoie:
EaHtern and Northern, choice, coarse 917 00 r ....
tfOOd..
Do do, tfoi
Do do, liu
Do do. uoor
Western Timothy
Surale Hav
it ye straw, choice
Do. common to (food...,
(Jattitraw , ,
15 uoiji) itj uo
io uu A 13 uu
17 uu (5 IH M
14 f uu
14 uo a ....
,.. 13UU'4 ....
1 ' A) f UJ
GRASS HEEDS.
Hiiftt nrices continue to be unotpd in New Verk for
clover, where there is a Kood export trade, but there is
very inue uoinif no re, aim prices are almost nominal,
Wo quote:
Clover, western If d 14
UO iNW xorg Hj m H'-
Timothy, y bush $2 ID (fl) 2
lied Tup, tfbatf a 26
Do. do. uneven weiirht (Si
Canary 1 70 13 3 25
FLAXSEED,
Western and Canada, y bush ,...$1 30(3 1 35
HOPS.
The demand is liitht. but nrices are well maintained.
We quote:
Good to prime, 1S83, Eastern y lb 95(1 00
uo, 1831, mjt.4 yu
POULTRY AND GAME.
The market continues verv firm for dressed Doultrv.
and receipts are well sold up. We quote:
Northern -Turkeys, choice 20 (31 21
common to tair in a m
Chickens, choice 17 4 h
common to trood 1:1 i 14
Western Turkeys, choice in A
common 10 irooa 1:1 ? 1,
Chickens, choice 17 4) lit
Fair li (ii 15
Live Fowl , , lu a i
FRESH MEAT.
There has been a fair demand at steady prices. We
1 uute :
Beer.hlndqmrters.cholce.V ft iu a 13
no, common b wv
Do, fore quarters, choice ,
ifo. common lo it mm
Mutton, extra
Do. common to irood
Spring Lamb, choice
uo, common to kouu
eal choice
Do. fair to tfood
Do. commou
Do, Worcester county, choice....
Do. do. do. com
DRESSED HOGS.
vp.W tb
Western, dress! tid.,
Northern ,
1
.a r
.8 9
.3 " 4
..l'l " 11
. .5 ie 7
10 ( tt
. $ 9
..4 (4 f
...10 iU
1 m
ASHES.
; rnoloriitp and nurkt quiet, with
and Pearls at nVSc y lb. We
The deMiiiiil
o: pjtsati
I note :
Pearls, y lb 9 (Pi
POtS ati
TALLOW.
There is a fair demand for Rendered, and thn
market is linn, with sale at dhsc Win. it reuse
ranges from 7,7Ji.c y lb. We quote:
(tendered y tt
Grease 7 & 7.i
PliOVISION TKADE.
roBK.
Extra prime, y bbl
New mess ,
Western extra clear
Boston clear
Doston bauks
,.$lrt .W a 17 uu
.. 19 5U 4 all UU
. . .... ....
. . 30 IW id iO 50
.. boAii uu
KEEP.
Western mess, y bbl
Western extra
-,xtra mate and tamiiy
Hetit hams
Beef touKuea
hams.
Western, smoked, V lb
Boston ,
Fancy, in bags
LARD
Weetprn, kettle rendered, y tt
Western, steam
City, rendered
. It 001 12 U0
, 1-J hi) A 13 uu
. 15 W A ltj 00
, . . A ..
. .. &
.UJii IS
..II 13
'.liWA 12
FLOUR AND MEAL TRADE.
There is a verv firm feelinir for Flour and prices
continue to be well sustained, but since our lost tho
transactions hare not been to any extent. Western
millers are very indifferent about Kellin even at ex
treme prices, anil appear to be confident that all lead-
itnr uriinas win command uiferner prioeB at au cany
day. We quote;
FLOUB 8PBINO WHEATS.
Western superfine $3 so 3 4 on
ommon extras 4 uu 4 au
iscnnmn 4 so id ti on
Minnesota bakers 4 7 A ri m
Uinuesota and Wisconsin patents 7 tw A 7 75
FLOUR WINTER WHEAT!.
Patenti, choice $ti 75 id 7 2-
Patents, common to vood r 25 Mi
Ohio 6 50 A ti hi
Michigan ft RU (9 ii i n
Indiana 5 35 A 5 7a
lino M. 8 75 li Ml
SL Louis 5 ha A A till
Corn Meal, y bbl 3 05 A H Id
Kye Flour 3 U)Ai ou
Oat Meal, common to irood west. 5 .VI A A mi
uai .ueai, iaucy uranas a o n 1 uu
Buckwheat, y lou lbs A
CORN MEAL.
Demand moderate for Corn Meal, with sales at ft.MO
y bbl.
RYE FLOUR.
Tim mioo rtf Ufi KMnnr have ben confined to tfiusll
lota at $.!.5tnM.ug y bbl., as to duality.
GRAIN TRADE,
CORN.
Tbe market for Corn is firm with steady demand.
hesaloH of new have ran teed from ,4c 4Duf lie I
a to quality. Old corn is scarce and sales eounned 10
...nil i.ua "mv hivh mixed corn has been sold to ar
rive from Chicago at 70c per bushel.
OATS .
The murket for oat hns been firm, and in fair df.
mitDi . we ouote ao. 1 ana extra wmie t
No. '2 whiti t ifcki. ,c; No. 3 white at ..aolc aud mixed
4txMc ousnel, aa to quality.
KYE.
The market is quiet and the sales havo been small at
toc 9 uu.
FEED.
The market for shorts is unlet, selling at lV(il9 V
ton. FmettHid aud middlings ramre from PVJ1 P
s to duality, uoiton seed meai sens atsjuauiw
ton.
BARLEY.
Tliere it notlilntf d'tinir In Hirly and prices are
luite nominal, with sales at 9dc$l u5 y bushel.
THE WOOL TRADE.
There is no chamre to notice since our report of lant
en. iuuu"mauu in iair ami prices are siemiy. rino
eces are held with considerable firmness, and the
manri continues to run on this vrade. but all rieui ru
le wool is believed to be as low now as It Is likely tn
n for some months tn i-onn. and leRditur mnmifnptiir.
its are disposed to stock up more freely. We quote:
Ohio and Pennsylvania
BOSTON MARKET. Jirj. 30.
Furnished by Darlinir St Hosmer, ot the Boston ir0.
No. 4i Commercial street, Boston,
t '"Shippers should bar in mind that the anntatfonn
b'dow represent receivers' prices for round lots and
aro made up from aetuM transaction. Extreme ono
tationscan only he realized for produce that comes up
to the etandurd of choice 111 every respect. The util
ity, condition and manner or preparing Produce for
market are very cloM-'lv olwervt-d by buyers aud hv
au important beanntf upon prices.
Bt'lTEU.
Thorn continues lo be a very litrht trade, and value
are still unsettled, with a downward tendency I ntil
buyer are dipofl,-d to operate, it m impossible to itive
reliable ) hur prlcmt for the bulk ot the stock and
our o,uotntiohs are almost entirely nominal Frenii
made western creamery is in lltrht ucent HnlderN
of llnu tall northern truauiery are not urKii'K sales
Picklock .
hoice XX
Fine X
Medium
Coarse
Michigan-
xtra aud x.
Fine
Medium
lominon
Other Western
j tne ana
Medium
'ommon
Pullod-Kxtra ,
Hupernuo ,
No. 1
Combintf aud delaiue
Medium aud No 1 combine.....
Fine delaine
Low aud coarse
Medium and unwashed
Low unwashed
Kentucky coin bias
44
, 40
FCRS
Bearskins, prime
Beaver, "
Wild Oat, "
Fisher, "
Red Fox, '
Orey Vol, "
Lynx. "
Marten, "
Mink, dark, "
Mink. pale, "
Mue quash, fall and kits
Do, whiter
Otter
op possum t
Raccoon
Skunk.dnrk
Do, striped
Do, white...
6 i 1'J
I A 4 50
IV 60
5 m H
1 id A 1 Ml
tit) 1 Ml
1 A a
:rA 1 15
WA IM
:bA 7s
til III
lu i.t
6 ( s
!.'.." 3iil fi
tilt A I
SIKH 4a
Hi
i4".
A 4ti
A&
A :
A 37
A 44
S.?
A 44
v M
A ib
A 4S
. & 'J5
A 4?
A i$
A :i
....20 tLM
...27 3.3i
Wentem.
5 nim
1 A 3 so
38 A 4U
4 7
1 2ft iA 1 61I
75 A 1
1 A 2
75 A I 50
4(1 A H 1
!!U A 40
4 A 8
8 A Ul
3 iT
fi U
as a as
40 it
, A lu