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' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAYv AUGUST 7 , 1887-TWELVE PAGER 1HE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. Chicago Speculator * Dome on 'Change " Beady for a feu Raid- BUT CORN GOES UP INSTEAD. Wheat Alno Jumps a Peg , and Closet at the Top Only a Light Trade In Oats Quota tions. CHICAGO pnonuoE MARKET. CHICAGO. August 0. [ Special Telegram BKE.J The local crowd came down to busi ness cocked nnd primed for a further break In corn and wheat Wheat opened weak. Doth cereals sold off J c from the opcnlnr , ( September wheat touching C8c nnd Septem ber corn 3939/c. ! This weakness lasted not to exceed half an hour. Thereafter firm ness , accompanied by an advance , were the features of the trade. Local influences are generally bearish on corn and -the predilec tion to sell on bulges , great and small , is well -defined. The speculative offerings yesterday and for the first hour to-day were very heavy , but the public never for a moment stopped buj Ing , and when sellers withdrew to catch their breath there was a clamor for "more corn. " The popular demand was far from being satisfied. There is a noisy and numer ically largo speculative element' which will not believe that the crop has been hurt by the drought , and proof to the contrary , piled mountain hlicli , produced no more effect than rain drops on a duck's back. The fatal istic notion tbat crops will bo an average one , and that "what is to be will be , " has "taken full possession ot 75 per cent of the bears. August corn opened at 40c , sold down to ,7j)8'O52 ) fc , advanced to 40) c , eased oil again to SO c , advanced during the last half hour to 40Xc , and closed at40 c. October opened at 41c , sold down to 40c , advanced to 41Vc , delivered to 40c , cltmbid rapidly to 41tfc and closed at 41XQ 41 ? { c. May started In at 44c , sold off Me , then advanced to 44/c , dropped Back to 44c , bnlged to 44J < c and closed at 44fc. Wheat for September opened at GS c , ro- credcd to GSc , advanced to C9c , easing elf ) { @ Jfc several times , but closing firm at tno top. October opened nt 70 < 4fc , sold off to 09j < c , advanced to 70Jfc and closed at 70c. December sold oft from 7c ! at the opening to TJc and closed at 74c. The market was quiet and very narrow nnd to the latter cir cumstance Is duo the advance. Ivory little property being offered with which to fill out standing contracts.for the bears , who are constitutionally opposed to going home Sat urday night with trades open. Cables came In weak , and foreigners wbo had bids in re duced their limits Ic per bushel. The week's fttatlstlcs were favorable to the bulls , how ever. The western points receipts show a falling oil ot 600,000 bushels , as compared with last week , and the seaboard clearances are , within 100.COO bushels of last week's big total. This , It Is thought , assured nn In crease of less than 100,000 bushels In the visible. The speculative stagnation is dis heartening to the bulls , however. There was a light trade in oats and the speculative market was without special fea tures. Pi Ices fluctuated narrowly and closed kOJfc bettor than yesterday for de liveries beyond August For cash and this month's delivery the tendency was down ward owing to the continued lareu receipts. In provisions the week closed with a fair showing of Interest. There was no particu lar activity In the trading , vet the market was closuly watched and toward the close at least a strong undertone was plainly noticeable. Early in the session , however , the bear side had to call it * for time. The closings showed an advance . of 2 > i@5c on lard , while short ribs averaged WMc lower for near delivery. January short ribs yvero advanced 5c. September sold at 90.fi5O.G2) ) < for lard and 97.U3J < @a05 for fihort ribs , closing at 90.60 and * 3.03 } re spectively. August lard was 5@"K ° and August short ribs 5c under September. Octp- , ber was lOc over September for lard and 2. (3 > 5n under for short ribs. Pork closed at 910.50 for September and $10.69 for October. The product for next winter's delivery was stronger. _ CHICAGO lilVK STOCK. CIIICAOO , August 0. | Special Icicgram to the BEE. ] CATTLE About all the fresh re ceipts wore sold out at nn early hour at price : much the same ns on Frldav , which was the highest dav for the week. The general mar ket for the week closes rather bettor on prime corn-fed steers , but all ether classes , am especially thin and common grasscrs , have declined 25@30c during the week. The bcs 1000 to 1700 Ib. steers have sold within a range of 94.OM4.80 ; best 1400 to 1500 Ib. ulcers at S4.SOflH.50 : averages of 1200 to 130C Ib corn-fed , S3.75@4.15 ; grassers , S2.50@150 Texans , 83.20(33.40 ( ; common cows , Sl.OOCi 1.50 ; fair to good cows , 82.0CX32.50 ; bulls 91.50(32.50 ( ; stockers. $1.0092.50 ; feeders , 81.75(32.25 ( , Shipping steers , 1350 to 1500 Ibs. . 94.00@4.70 ; 1200 to 1350 Ibs. , 83. < 55@4.40 ; 050 to 1200 Ibs , 53.00(34.00 ( ; stackers and feed ers , 91. 5l.00 ( ! ; cows , bulls and mixed , 91.00@2.75"bulls ; , 91.50@8.00 ; Texas cattle were slow ; cows , Sl.COaja.80 ; steers , 92.25 ® 8.20 ; 239 Nebraska halt breeds , 1204 to 131M bs ; , 83.40@ .45. lions Trade was slow and prices JQlOo lower on coarse and common stock , but steady on best assorted heavy nnd light. Fair to good mixed sold as low ns JJ5.15@ 6.20 ; best mixed , S5.25@5.30 , and best heavy at $5.35(35.45. ( A large number of good mixed sold nround about 85'JO. As Armour wes out ot the pit there were only two buyers of that class. York shorts and other light grades sold at S5..25@5.so. Prices dur ing the week have advanced and declined 5@ lOc , and are now about wheru they were fast. Saturday. A large number of > graded hogs arrived during the week. FINANCIAL. , - NEW Yonx , Aiuust 0. [ Special Telegram tothe-13EK. | STOCKS. Contrary to expecta tions , the market opened caller and broke off fractionally. The shorts who bought the most stocks vesterday had covered the bulk ot their holdings and there was less support to the market , particularly as about 60 per cent ot the active traders were not in the ex change. St. Paul and Northern i'actfio were the weakest stocks on the list and broke 1 point. Western Union also broke 1 point The boars , who regarded all rallies as the best time to soil , began offering stocks more freely than buyers were able to take thorn , nnd the whole list weakened gradually until a half hour bcforo the close , when the bank statement came In and much to the surprise ot all exhibited a decrease In revenue of 81,208120. . This had a depressing effect , and values declined rapidly and Iho market closed tame at Inside prices. The only strong stock was lilclunond Terminal preferred , which advanced from Cl to G3& The total sales worn 108,230 shares , Including 21,000 shares of Heading , 0,100 shares of Western Unlop , 7,900 Lackawanna , 7,20 New England , 10.000 St. Paul , 3,100 Northwestern. tiovr.nxuF.NTb Government bonds were dull but linn. YESTEIID.VY'S QUOTATIONS. U. S. 4's coupon .127K ! C. &N. W . 115 U. do prof erred. . . 1451. N. Y.0 . 108J/ Canada South'n. . 50 O. K.&N. . . 94K Cwntial Pacific. . K7 O. T. . 27 ChlcagoAAlton.150 Pacific Mall . do preferred..173 P. , I ) . &K . 2 < J C. , U. &O. 141 PullmiinPaLCar.145 > D. , L.&W. Uoadlng I ) . AltO. . . Itock Island 127h' Urie. . . . . . . . SO ? , ' St L. AS. F. . . dapruferri 07 do preferred. . . 74Y Illinois Central. .12UV 0. , M. * StP siji - do . 121 ' " " " i preferred. K ! A'T v ! ! 27" St P. & 0. 45V LakeShore ! ! ! ! ! ! W ; do preferred. . 111H L. AN M Texas Pacltlo. . . . 2SjJ Michigan Cont'l. . 83 UnionPsclllo. . . . 50 Mo. Pacltlo W \V..St \ LAP. . . . 17J No. Pacino 80 * do preferred. . SO do preferred. . . . 59 \V. U. Telegraph MONEY On call easy at 3@4 per cent ; last loan 3 per cent ; closed otTured nt 8 ® i per cent FBIUK MeucANTiLE PAPKII 5 > iQ0 per ecnt. EXGIIAKOK Dull but steady at ; for sixty day bills aud ftS3 } { for'cle- MAIiKKTa. Chicago , August 6. Following quota tions are the 3:30 : closing tlrures ; Flour-Quiet and unchanged. Wheat Unsettled , advanced and at close WAS steady and Kc above yesterday ; cmsb , C7k'cs September , C9c ; October , 70 ll-16c. Corn Fairly active nnd generally strong er , vloaitig nt ; < Wc nhove yesterday ; cash , 89 11-lCc : September , 40\'n ; October , 41 5-10c. Oats Weak and lower for cash and Au gust ; cash , 24 > { c ; September , 25 > < c ; May , olxc. ityo Dullat43Kc. Barley StrotiK at C7c for September. 'Prlmn Timothy Seed 82.15. Flax Seed S1.05. Whlsky-81.10. Pork-Steadier ; cash , 815.00 ; year , 512.10(3 ( 12. 15 ; . fanuary , 812.05. Lard Model ately active , fluctuated within small range , closing steady ; cash 80.55 : September , 80.no < 30.C2W ; October. 90.70. Bulk Meals Shoulders. 85.70@5.80 ; short clear , 88.30aa& ( ' > ; short ribs , 88.00. Butter Closed easier ; creamery , 21j27c ( } ; dairy , 15@22c. Cheese Steady but not active ; full cream Cheddars OU@9ife ; flats. OJtfaoHc ; Young Americas. 0&gltic ( ; skims , 0 > i@7c. Kifgs-Dufl Hides In moderate demand ; heavy green salted ; 7c ; light do. 75J@8c ; salted bull hides. Cc , green salted call. UX@9c ; dry flint , 12rt ic : ! ; drv calf , 1213c ; deacons 30c each. Tallow Easy ; No. 1 country , 3J c ; No. 3 , Sc ; cakes , 4c. Receipts. Shipments. Flour , bbls . 1G.OOO 18,000 Wheat , bu . 52.000 145,000 Corn , bu. . . , . 133,000 82.000 Oats , bu. . . . . 195,000 82,000 Hye , bu . 1,000 1,000 Barley , bu . 9.000 . . . . New ICurk. August C. Wheat Receipts. 117,500 ; exports. 203,000 ; spot lots Xo lower , with moderate business , closin steady ; options opened weak and } { & lower ; later ruled stronger and advanced } @Xc , closing firm at about the best ; un graded rod , 71V825fc ; No. 1 red nominal at 84c ; No. 2 rod , 78tfo | n elevator , 79 > @ 7 Kc delivered , 79&Q79KC f. o. b. ; Septem ber closed at 79Xc. Corn Soot lots firm , but very quiet ; op tions } t@lc higher , closing firm : receipts , 33,000 ; exports , 34.000 ; ungraded. 46H@47 c ; No. 2 , 7c ( delivered , September closing at 47Jfe. Oats )4 < $ Mc lower ; dull ; receipts. 54.000 ; exports , 379 ; mixed western , 30@34c ; white western , 37@42c. Petroleum Steady ; United , Kges Firm ; western , 12@l5Xc. Pork Dull and nominal. Lard Dull and n shade lower ; western steam , spot S6.82W. Butter Quiet and lirm ; western , 12@25c ; western creamery , 18a25c. ( Cheese Steady and quiet ; western , 7@ Minneapolis , August 0. Wheat Mar ket weak nnd but little trading ; No. 1 hard , cash , August , Tic ; September , 71Kc ; Octo ber , 725 c ; No. 1 northern , cash , Aueust and September , 70c ; October , 71Jffc ; No. 2 northern , cash , August and September , CSc ; October , OUVc. On track : No. 1 hard , 73o ; No. 1 northern , 72c ; No. 3 northern , 70e Flour Market Inactive ; patents , 84.10 ® 4.20 ; bakers , S3.20@3.SO. Receipts Wheat , 57,000. Shipments Wnoat , 25,000 bu ; flour , 25,000 bb.'s. ' . Milwaukee. August C Wheat Market unsettled nnd weak ; cash. OSJ4@i5sfc ; Sep tember , cajfo : October 70 ® TOic , Corn Kc higher ; No. . sujfc , Oats Dull ; No. 3 white. 28c. Ityo Steady ; No. 1 , 45c. Barley Advancing : September , Gljic. Provisions Weak ; pork , August , 814.50. Cincinnati , August 0. Wheat Steady ; No. 2 rod , 72c. Corn Strong ; No. 3 mixed , 43c. Oats Steady ; No. 2 mixed , 27Xc. Kyo-FIrm ; No. 2 , 4Gc. Provisions Quiet nnd unchanged. Pork In fair demand at 815.00. Lard Quiet at 80.37K- Whisky Active and llrra at 81.05. St. IjnulH , August 0. Wheat Strong ; cash. 07Jf@08 c ; September , lOtfc. Corn Strong ; cash , 35f@36c ; September , ; . Oats Strong ; cash.23 > fc ; September , Pork-Dull at 915.50. .Lard $0.40. Whlsky-8t.or . . Butter Quiet and firm ; creamery , 25@2Sc ; dairy , 17 < 32oc. Kansaa Oltjr , August 0. Wheat- Weaker ; No. 2 red , nonu on the market ; No. 2 soft , COe. Corn-Steady ; No. 2. cash , I34c bid , 34-tfcnsKod ; September , 34 0. ( fats-No. 2 cash , 23' asked. New'Orleani , August 0. Corn Easier ; white , 54c. Oats Dull , weak and lower at 33 > © 34o , Corn Mertl-Steady at 82.35. Hot Products Quiet and steady ; pork , 813.C2.t.f ; lard , relined tierce. C.C2K. Bulk Meats Shoulders , 85.80 ; long clear and clear rib , LIVESTOCK. Chicago. August 0. The Drovers' Jour- Dai reports as follows : Cattle llecel pis. 2,000 ; steady : shipping steers , 83,0004.70 ; stockora and Inoders , 81.25(33.00 ( ; cows , bulls and mixed , 81.00(9 ( 2.75 ; bulk , 81.50@2.00 ; Texas cattle , slow at 81.0003.20. Hogs Receipts , 0,000 ; steady for good , common lOc lower ; rouzh and mixed , $4.70(4 5.00 ; packing and shipping , 85. 10(45. 45 light , 84.CO@5.30 ; skips , 83.00 4.00. Sheep Receipts , 1,000 ; steady : natives , 12.50@4.35 ; bulk , 83.2. 3.75 ; western. 83.00 ® 3.50 ; Texans , 82.00(33.30 ; lambs , 84.00(25.00. ( Nnttonnl Stock Yards. Kaat St. Louis. III. , ' August 0. Cattle Receipts , 400 ; shipments , OOU ; the market was was a shade stronger ; fair to choice heavy native steers , S4.00@4.20 ; butchers' steers , fair to choice , 83.40(43.90 ( ; feeders , fair to good , . iaoo@3.60 ; stockers , fair to good , 3a.oo2.GO. floes Receipts , 500 ; shipments , 000 ; market was firm ; cholco heavy and butch ers' selections , 85.30Q5.40 : packers and Yorkers , medium to prime , 85.0005.30 ; pigs , common to good , t4.40Q5.00. Knntma City , Aueust 0. Cattle Receipts , 1,300 ; shipments , official yesterday , 2,700 ; good steady ; common weak and slow ; good to choice corn-ted , 93.20(34.00 ( ; common to medium , 93.253.00 : stockers , 82.002.40 ; feeding steers , 82.503.00 ; cows , 8U75&2.50. Hogs Receipts , 0,000 ; shipments , official for yesterday , 2,000 ; good to choice steady. Jt.20@5.30 ; common andgrassers weak and hard to sell ; common to medium , 84.503 5.15 ; grasscrs and pigs , 83.00@4.40 OMAHA. LIVK MTOOK. Saturday , AUK 0. Cattle. The run of cattle to-day was the same as yesterday. The demand for good corn-fed natives was a little better and the market firm. There was considerable competition between the buyers of tbat class ot cattle , and by bidding against each other prices were run up above anything sold in a good many weeks. Ono bunch went at 84.25 and one at 84.30 , but those prices could not bo considered as the market. It requires good corn-fed natives to bring 84.00 , and It is to be doubted if any of thecattle coming In now would sell much above that. It any , If sold on their merits. The market was nbout steady on butchers' stock and feeders , but was slow. _ Hofta. The receipts ot hogs show a loss , as com pared with yesterday , of 800 head , but at the fame time thn receipts wore liberal for Satur day. The general quality of the hogs was , aud there were few very good heavy Eoor tn. The market opened at a decline of fully 5@lOo and with only two ol the packers represented on the market. The market was weak nil day and closed fully lOo lower , but with everything sold. The decline was felt most strongly on heavy hogs. Slinup. There was a train of Oregon sheep in , but none sold. _ Receipts. Cattle. . 800 llofts.t . , . 3,500 Sheep . 1,100 Prevailing Prices. Showing the prevailing prices paid for lira stock on this market : Choice steers. 1300 to 1500 Ibs. . . . 83.90(34. ( 00 Choice steers , 1100 to 13C/J Ibs. . . 3.80C43.90 Fat little steers 000 to 1050 Ibs . . . . 8.00043.75 Corn-fed range steers 1300 to 1400 S.60 3.83 Good to choice corn -fed cows . . . . 9.75(33.00 ( Common to medium cows . 2.00&3.50 Uood to choice- bulls . 1.7562.23 Light and medium how . 4.75(34.90 ( Uood to choice heavy hogs . 6.0TX25.15 Uood to choice mixed hoga . 4.90(35.00 ( representative Hales. NAT1VK STKKKS. No. Av. Pr. . ' No. Av. Pr. WKSTEK * STKEIIS. 11 . . . .1363 93.05 COWS. No , Av. I r. No. Av. Pr. . . . . 808 32.M 1..1160 83.25 I' . . . . 1370 125 BUtl.S. 1..1C20 53.50 KKEDEItS. 14..1125 52.85 52.85CALVES. CALVES. 19. . . . SCO S3.C5 BOOR. No. Av. Bhk. Pr. No. AT. Shit. Pr 05..313 80 84.75 70..2JO 24055.00 63..811 40 4.bO 72..245 40 5.00 C9..1PB 200 4.M 70..U47 40 5.00 GO..800 80 4.a5 6'J..2G7 40 5.00 03..211 200 4.00 CO..250 120 5.00 . ' .9..205 120 * M 59..287 . . fi.00 73 . . .219 1.80 4.00 09..257 200 5.00 70..iftO 160 4.90 45..251) ) . . 5.00 03..245 200 4.90 GI..249 120 5.00 74 . . .COT 200 4.90 73..253 60 5.05 03..SB 200 4.03 'i7..225 120 5.05 71..244 . . ' 4.95 67..255 80 5.05 &S..230 40 4.95 C3..271 100 5.05 73..2M1 40 4.95 50..204 40 5.05 08..235 200 4.O. . C5..2JU 80 5.05 ( VS..218 SO 4.95 CO. , .349 120 5.05 90..207 80 4.95 70. . .385 200 6.05 82..218 40 4.95 ( VS. .2711 40 5.05 75..218 120 4.95 03. , .358 120 5.05 CO..247 40 5.00 C7. , .2110 SO S.05 C7..223 200 5.00 CS. , .299 400 5.05 67..275 120 5.00 C'J. , .270 bO 5.07 } OS..047 . . 5.00 (54. , .273 40 5.10 59..2CO 80 5.00 58. , .310 SO 5.10 53 . . .271 40 5.00 G3. , .2SO 80 5.10 Stock Bold. Showlngtbe number of head of stock sold on the market to-day : CATTLE. O. II. Hammond & Co 154 Conklln & Co 84 Local 04 Total 303 lions , Anglo American Packing Co 2320 O. ft. Hammond A Co 211 Armour Jfc Co 1104 Total JMH5 Held over 225 Shipments. Showing the amount ot stock shipped ever the different roads to-day. CATTLE. 11 C. , B. &Q Chicago 2 N. W Chicago SHEEP-nOUHLK DKCKS. 0 U. ! . . . _ . . Chicago AH sales ot stock in this market are made per cwt Uvo woUht uiilow othorwUo stated. bead hogs soil at Ifavar Ib. tor all weight * "Skins , " or heirs weighing loss ttuvit 10J Ibs , no valuo. Pregnant sows are dockei 49 Ib3. and stasrsSOlbi. by thoDiibllo luipootor. Weekly Receipt * . Shewing the ofllclal receipts of cattle and hogs at the yards during the past weok. CATTLE , iioos. Monday , Aue. 1 374 t 71 Tuesday , Aug. a 609 4,020 Wednesday. Aue. 3 448 4OiO Thursday , Aug. 4 852 3,307 Krldav , Amr. 5 389 3,108 Saturday , Aug. 0 480 3,420 Total . . . . . . . . . . .3.610 20 078 Live Stock Noton. Hogs lower. Cattle market way up In the clouds. S. A. Myers , Benedict , was on the market with two loads of cattle , Frank llershey nnd K. Boettcher were in with six double decks ol Oregon .sheep. George Boetel. Millard , was in and mar keted a load of 310-lb hogs at the top price. W. II. Austin , Franklin , came In with two loads of hogs , which sold on the market K. W. Banks , Shclton , was in with a load of hoes and also to look after some feeders. D. P. Tlpton , of JJrownvillo , sou of ex- Senator Tipton , was among the visitors' at the ynrds. J. K. Thompson , the well known Council Bluffs shipper , was ever with ono load of very good hogs. Conklln & Co. had fifteen loads of corn-fed steers In tiom York. They did not arrive until after tno market closed. C. Graham , Itavenua , topped the market to-day with a load of73lb ho.'S. His load yesterday also topped the marKet. The Lucas Land and Cattle company , Ben edict , marketed 84 head of native steers'nver- aning 1,420 Ibs at 84.30. the top for a long time. Gallogloy , Shields and'Merrill , Chapman were nil here with sevmi loads ot corn-fed western-cattle of their own" feeding. Ono hundred head averaged 1,353 aud brought 5.05. : ) 5.05.As As was published several days ago , the next meeting of the live stock shippers' associa tion will bo held at South Omaha August 10. at 2 p. m. An Invitation Is extended to all shippers to be present and join the associa tion. tion.L. L. C.Johnston. Seward , was In and mar keted a load of very cholcu two-year-old cord-fed natives of his own raising and feed- Inn. Seventeen head averaged 1,370 and brought SI.25. Mr. Johnston Is feeding 1,400 head of sheep. Shippers are liable to bo misled by the high prices on the cattle market to-day , and they mast bear in mind that the market was ex cited owing to the competition between the buyers. Under different circumstances the same cattle might not have brought over 54.00. ' For some time past efforts have been mndo to have a better mall service at South Omaha. To-day Mr. J. B. Blanchard called upon the authorities at the Omaha post-oftico and succeeded in having tuonecessary orders issued to the postal clerks to open the Omaha packages and put the South Omaha mall In a separate pouch , to be dropped at the proper place. The followlne letter has been received by the .secretary of the Stock Yaids company : Dear Sir : At a meeting of the executive com mittee of this association , held recentlv. the following resolutions adopted by the Mon tana Stock Growers' association were unani mously endorsed : Whereas , Thopiactice ot selling cattle upon the markets of Chicago , St. Paul , St. Louis , Omaha and Kansas City for a fixed price per head Is considered by every member ot this association to bo un fair , unjust and against the best Interests of the Industry , especially with reference to range cattle ; therefore , be It resolved. That the commission salesmen of the above men tioned cities bo requested to remedy this great evil by changing the present method of selling cattle at 50c per head , regardless of value , to ono per cent (1 ( per cent ) of the gross sales. I was Instructed to communi cate with all the stock yards on this subject Will you kindly lay the matter before the members ot the stork yards you represent at the next meeting. Yours truly , Wyoming Stock Growers' association , Thomas B. Adams , secretary. A meeting has been called tor Monday afternoon to consider the question. It Is not likely , however , that the commission men will agree to the propo sition. OMAHA "WHOLESALE MARKETS Saturday , August 0. 1'roduoe. The following arc the price ? at wlilch round lota of produce are told In this -mar ket. ket.Eaas Eaas The receipts are not heavy but about equal to the demand. While the bulk of the stock Is moving at lln the market Is not very strong and an occasional sale is made at 1Uc. BUTTKU-A sllaht Increase Is noticeable in the receipts of the common grades , but choice butter Is very scarce. The West Point creamery butter la selling at 23Vc and the output of other creameries at Sic. Choice dairy butter , 17@18c : medium grades , 13@l6c ; lower grades. 9@llc. CHEESK Fancy full cream Cheddars , single , lOc ; full cream twins. 10 > fc ; Young Americas , lie ; brick cheese , 100 Ibs , In case , now , 13c ; Llmburecr. 100 Ibs , In case , new , lie ; Swiss , fancy Ohio , new. 19o. POULTUT The market Is lower on poul try. It Is difficult to obtain over 52,25 for the best spring chickens , and some of the smaller ones go as low as 91.75. At this season of the year when chickens are plenty It Is almost Impossible to sell the very small ones. The best old fowls are going at 52.75 @ 3.00. POTATOES. The receipts are not heavy and the market Is urm. mocks are moving at55@00c. ONIONS. The market Is fairly well sup plied with good stock. The. price for good stocK Is 75o per bush. . BEANS. Hand picked navy beans are quoted at SL75 per bushel and the other grades are selling from tbat figure dovru to GAME. There U no game eomlngr In , the weather being too warm to handle Ik Pop COHN. There Is hardly Key Bale for pop com. An occaslomJ sack is cold at l@lKo per Ib. jjuuuH-A.fcw are celpts are light and barely equal to the city demand. The stock for the most part Is not suitable for shipment. Blackberries. 82,75 per 10-qt cste ; blueberries , 53.00 per stand. TOMATOES Home-grown stock Is becom ing plenty and was sold at very low prices. Good stock Isivrorth about 75c a bushel. PLUMS The ronrket Is fairly well supplied with choice stock , made up of the varieties known as Purple Dimnne , Bradshaw , Co lumbia and other well known California va rieties. Choice stock Is belling at 91.5031.75 pnr box. > i PHONES There are some very largo and showy California prunes on the market , known * n thoGross prunes , whlcn are sell * IDE at L75 per box. GIIAPES California rrape < are expected to arrive In the market early iu the weak. Them are a few Kansas grapes In , which are selling nt 76c per 10-lb baskets. NKCTAIMJIEB-C.A few California nectarines are arriving , which are sold at 81.50 per box. PKABU 'I he market Is well supplied with cholco California Bartlett pears , which are moving at 52.00@2.25 per box. MELONS Watermelons have not been so plenty durlne the past two days , nnd prices Jiavo stiffened up somewhat Good stock Is selling at E15a ( > 20 per hundred. Cantaloupes , $1.60@1.75 per box. PKACUES There h a good supply of peaches In , of which late Crawfords nnd strawberry peaches form the bulk. Good stock , 81.50 per box. APPLES Theic Is n good supply of very fair stock on the market at 33.50c 2.75. CKLV.HY There Is a liberal quantity of celery arriving from Kalauiazoo. Medium sized buches , : c per bunch. LEMONS There nre some very fancy largo Malorl lemons on the market which are sell ing at 99.00. There are a few Veruelll lemons on the market which are selling at $7.60. Grocer's List. COFFEE Ordinary grades , 20W@21c ; fair , 30X@ ' . c : prlme.22@'A'ccliolce.2S ? : ( ( < r.Mc ; fancy green nnd yellow , ) Q25c ; old government Cross , 20 > f c. CANNEH GOODS Oysters , standard , per case , $2.90(33.10 ; strawberries. 3 Ib , per case , S2.70fiW.75 ; raspberries , a Ib , per case. S2.70 ® a.75 ; California pears , per eaoo , 84.40 < ro4.50 ; apricot ; , per cnse , 83.COi.7J3.70 ; peaches , per case , $4.40(44.50 ( ; white cherries , per case , 85.60 plums , per case , 5f3.50@3.oO : blue berries , per case , S2.00@2.10 : egg plums. 2 Ib. per case , S2.50 : pineapples , 2 ib , beans , per ease , S1.70 : 2 Ib lima bean ? , per case , 6UK ) ; 2 Ib matrowtat peas , per case , S2.40@2.50 ; 2 Ib curly Juno pea * , per case , 92.75 ; 3 Ib tomatoes , 2.45 ( 2.50 ; 2 Ib coru , 82.50. i - PROVISIONS Hams , } { ® , " > Xc ; breakfast bacon , l\9 &l"obacon \ sides lOijjlOKc : dry salt , 8K9c ; shoulders , 7Jfc : dried beet hams , 12Q13C : dried beet regular , HXl2c ; hamspicnic , 8XK9c. WOODUNWABE Two-hoop palls , per doz , $ .1.45 ; 3-hoop palls , 9MB ; No. 1 tub. SG.50 ; N < fo. 2 tub , S5.50 ; No. 3 tub , 84.50 ; wash boards , S1.75 : assorted bowls , S2.25 ; No. 1 churns , § 9 ; No. 2 churns , 53 ; No. 3 churns , 87. 87.STAUCII STAUCII Mirror Gloss , 5 * c ; Graves Corn , Gtfc ; Oswego Gloss , 7c ; OSWOKO Corn. 7c. BnooMS-Extra 4-tle,52.00 ; No. 1,32.00 ; No. y , 9L75 ; heavy stable , S4 Svnur No. 70 , 4-gallon kegs. S1.S2@1.35 ; New Orleans , per gallon , obivjlflc ; maple syrup , half bbls , "old time , " per gallon , 70c ; 1-gallon cans , per doz , 910.00 ; half-callou cans , per doz , 95.50 ; quart cans , 93.00. CANDY Mixed , SX < ailc ; stick , 8X@9 } c. C'RACKiuib-tUttMieau s soda , butter and picnic , 4 } < c : ( .xcaius , 7 > fc ; ginger snaps , 7 > fc : city soda , 1 1 " 1 PICKLES Medium. In bbls , 87.00 ; do In half bbls , 94.00small ; , In bbls , 58.00 ; do In half bbls , 84.50 ; gherkins , in bbls , S9.00 ; do In half bbls , 55. * . " 6) c ; white extra C , Bkc < t5J c ; extra C.'nXM 5ic ; yellow ( CpJi | < 35 c ; cut loaf , CJi@7c ; powdered , 7 ( < r. > cv DIIIED Fnitia-s Apples , new , ) fa GJfc ! ovapoiated , 50-lbrlng , I7' @l8c ; raspberries , evaporated , 2702 * ! ; blackberries , evaporated , OJtfMMe ; pltfeiO'cherrles ' , 12@l3c ; peaches , now , Jfs , 7Jfd $ " evaporated peeled poaches , c ; evaporattd , unpnrcd , c ; new currants , G4 ( < J7c ; prunes , vfKl W c ; citron , 25c ; rai sins , London teyjitu , § 03 : California , loose inuscatels f l.&p ipw Valenclas. 7ifc. , Ki rirfEi ) LAjuvrfTlercc , , ; ' 40-lb pmiaro * 'cans , fyA : . so-lbWraund ? cf 30-lb round , 7 > io ; KMb'tiallsl.JrKt'-5-lb palls , 7&c ; S-lb pails , l c , > ' ' TOIIACCO Lorlllard'sClimax. 44c ; Splen did , 38c : Mechanic's Delight , 41c : Leguott & Meyer's Star , 41c ; Cornerstone , 34c ; Driim- inond's Horse Shoe , 37c ; T. J. , Sic ; Sorg's Spearhead , 44c. TKAS Japan , per Ib , 20@50c ; gunpowder , B.X 30c : Youne Hyson.v" ; Coneou , C5@ 70c ; Oolong , S0@05c. General Markets. SPIRITS Cologne spirits , ibb proot , 81.10 ; do 101 proof , 81.12 ; .spirits , second quality , 101 proof , 81.10 ; do 13s proof , Sl.Ofl. Alcohol. 188 proof , 82.10 per wine gallon. Redistilled whiskies , 81.00@1.50. Gin blended. S1.50 ® 3.00 ; Kentucky bourbons , S2.OU@fj.00 ; Ken tucky and Pennsylvania ryes , 83.00@Q.5U ; Golden Sheaf bourbon and rye whiskies , 3L50@3.00. Brandies , imported , S5.00@8.50 ; domestic , S1.30o.00 ( ) ; , Gins , Imported. S4.50@ 0.00 ; domestic , $ L25@3.00. Champagnes , im ported , per case. 828.00(333.00 ( ; American , per case. 810.00 ( 10.00. HIDES Green butchers' . 5X@Oc ; green cured , 7 c ; dryfltnt , ll@12c : dry salt. 9@ lOc ; green caff skins. 7Hc ; damaeod hides , two-thirds price : Tallow 3c. Grease Prime white , So ; yellow , 2c ; brown , l } c. Sheep pelts , 25@75c. HEAVY HABDWAIH : Iron , rate. ? 2.70 ; plow steel , special cast , 4Kc ; crucible steel OKc ; cast tools , do , I2ccif ( > c ; wa on spokes , per set , S2.00@3.50 ; hubs , per sot , 81.25 ; fel- lees , sawed dry , SI.00 ; tongues , each , too ; nxles. each , 7.r-c ; square nuts , per Ib , 0@7c ; coil chain , per Ib , C > j@l3c ; malleable , 8Ql c ; Iron wedges , Cc ; crowbars , Co : harrow teeth , 4Vc ; spring steel , 4 < 35c ; Burden's horsu shoos , 84.75 ; Burden's rnulo shoes. 8. > .75. Barbed wire' In car lots , 84.00 per 100 Ibs. Iron nails , rates , 10 to 50 82.00 ; steel nails , 82.75. COAL Egg. 89.00 ; nut , 89.25 : ranee , 59.25 ; fowa lump , S3.00 ; Iowa nut , S3,75 ; walnut block , 83.00 ; Illinois. S4.25@4.75. Dry Lumber. DIMENSIONS AND TIMIIURS. 13 ft 14 ft 10 ft li rt 30 f 123 * rtJ24 ft 4X8 , 17.51) ) 17.60 17.60 WKO ! sww'iiolw ' SM 2x2 17.50 17.50 17.50 19.50 20 00''J2.5b22.60 , ] 2x8 , 17.70 17.50 17.50 19.50 20.00 83.50 S2.M 2x10. . . . 17.0 17.50 17.50 111.50 20.00 22.50 22.60 2x12. . . . 18.00 1H.IW 18.00 20.00 20.60 23.6U 24.M ) 2x1-8x8 . 13.60 18.50 18.50 19.5020.r | < UI23.0i ) 23.00 UOA11DS. No. 1 , com , s 1 s , 910.50 No.a.corasls 17.00 No.4com.sls 18.50 FFNCINO. No. 1,4 AC In , 12 & 14 It , rough S19.50 No. a , ' " 10.00 CEILING AND PAIITITION. 1st com , Jf in White Pine Celling 834.00 Clear , % in. Norway Pine Celling 10.00 A , 13.14 and 10 ft11.1. ? " ! ? . " ' . S22.00 B , " " " 21.00 C , " ' - . . . . . 15.50 D , " M M * * 13.00 ( "WK ° A11DS' . . , , , , n u . . A13 Inch s. 1 B. . , 540.00 Na 1 , com. 12jn sh s. , 12 * 14 20.50 f "il 'lOft 19.00 No. 9 " -tjoti" 13 & 14 ft 19.00 " " " 10ft 17.50 1st " .nd3d. clrfFlnTbfs : 2 S..8M.OO 8d. clear , 1 IncHJsvus. , S45 : 1JIK , 2 In 47.00 B select , 1 inch , ' s. 9 s. , 830 ; l # , l # , 2 In 37.00 ( i . White cedar , C lav s. , l2Kc ; 9 in. qrs. , lie ikeatm Arlzon. Mohave Mi'nery It is BO hot In Nogalcs thnt they say the hens there lay imrd- boiled pgcs. " A fnrnier a YSlotn wont out to look at his pigs during 6feo of the moltinjr dnvs niuf found nothing loft except three buck ets of loaf lard. At Tombstone they have to splice two thermometers together to get any idea of the heat. San Antonio is bragging about its de lightful weather for this time of the year , and claims thnt pcoplo there got their cars frostbitten in the evening. A man at Florence has taken so much calomel that tbcso hot days the mercury rises to his head , nnd ho gets so tophcuvy that ho has to walk with n crutch. The streets of Albuquerque are so hot that small bovs ' get vapor buths by merely following tho'strcotsprinklcr. John L ; Miles , of Davenport , proposes to bring his family to this city to spend the summer , so thnt lie can the better Attend to his vast business interests here. THE POPLAR RIVER INDIANS , Glimpses Seen in the Damps of the Bedaklns. INDIANS AS AGRICULTURISTS. Faithful Scrvnnts of the ( Jovcrnmcnt Times Have Changed The Pnplnr niter Indian Po lice A Queer Crew. A visit at the present writing to the Poplar River agency , near this fort , writes a correspondent of the Philadel phia Hecord from Fort Keogh , would convince the most skeptical that the In- dlan of romance and fiction and the In dian of reality arc two totally different personages. There was a time when the Upper Missouri and its tributaries were the favorite hunting grounds of the great Sioux nation , now so sadly dispersed and scattered throughout the northwest. Hero ouco rosined the buffalo in count less myriads , and antelope , deer , elk anil various other largo ganio nnimals were also found in thn greatest abundance. Then the ideal Dakota warrior , mounted on a fiery little bucking broncohis lariat trailing In. the crass , and himself gaudily costumed in beads , feathers , paint and the like , went forth to conquer his life long foes and everlasting enemies , the Crows. To-day the picture is sadly changed. The Poplar River Indians are occupied along the rivers and through the bottoms as of yore , but instead of a rifle , or a war-hatchet , or a long bow and feathered arrows proudly and dotlantly carried about , the abled-bodicd bucks and over-worked squaws stand with hoes in their hands and do their share at tilling the neil like any other white man. Soon after the capture and breaking up of Sitting Bull's great band in the winter and summer of 1881 there wore something like 0,000 In dians at the Powder Creek agency. They were savages in every sense of the word , possessed a magnificent pony herd , but they were still prisoners of war and warsdofthe government. lt wns hard to teach them the arts of civilisation and the ways of husbandry in a night , so as lo ng as the rations lasted and the pony herd held out the captive aborigines did very well ; but as soon as food began to foil the Indians failed also , and it is said that great numbers of them died from starvation. Since that unfortunate epoch missionaries of llio church have been busy among them , who , together with the efforts of the government agents , have placed the Poplar River Indians on a self-supporting basis. INDIANS AS CULT1VATOHS OF TI1K SOIL. Last year more than a thousand acres wore under cultivation , although the crows were almost a total failure owing to the unfortunate drought which prevailed - vailed throughout the entire northwest. The present spring has been an excep tionally good one , and promises good crops if the wnather shall hold lino. It is interesting to study Indian nature at this agency. The poor redskins do not seem to know when they are well on" . In the bottom are some 700 or 800 farms owned and worked by Indian tenants ; but no sooner do the corn and potatoes begin to show forth than the owners evince n desire to eat tiiom at once. The agent has found many of thorn skulking around the gardens in the night-time eating their owtl vegetables ; and in the morning those very same innocent "sons of the forest" would swear black and blue that some one else had stolen the provondur. INDIAN SCHOOLS. There arc a number of schoojs at and n the neighborhood of Poplar river , and cue .largo industrial boarding school , which ! s run , under contract , by the mis sionary society of the Methodist Episco pal church. At Doer Taila Presbyterian school close by , the teacher is Joseph Rogers , an educated Indian , who teaches the youngsters of his race Christianity and everything else in their native Dakota language. Wlien I was last at Poplar creek I was much interested in this school , particularly the Sunday- school , where 1 heard a number of youth ful rod-coated throats render the follow ing to one of our own familiar church tunes : Wa-kau-tau-ka Ito kam ya 81-ce-cft-na-jlu-pl , Ko-kto-pa-wln-go ota hiu lleuna-jiu-pi , < ] a , Olilnnl do-wau-pi , do-wan pi ; Jesus h l-dod wnn-pi. This , translated into our vernacular is neither more nor less than our good old inspiring hymn of "Around the throne of ( iodonnigh. " "Sun of my soul , " was rendered with such gusto and vim that threatened to lift the roof from its fastening * and send it sailing away into the air. The first of the fourteen stanzas was literally given as follows : Mlnagt U anpetuivl Wnnlkiya tecchlnda , Ikiypdau ynun kiulmu Ilanhepl klu wanlca ce. THE ANTIPATHY TO 1IAIK ON THE FACE. While at the Agency I made sure to vis it the camp in order to inspect the Y/ank- / ton bravo whim at homo. Aside from their meritorious progressions , bucks , squaws , papooses , boys and maidens still cling lo their ancient savage antipathy to hair growing on the face. It was not an infrequent sight to sco the old man. the youths approaching manhood , and the middle agou fellows too. squatted on the grass with bits of mirrors before them , busily at work pulling from their faces with line nippers the sprouts of growing beard. Even the squaws were engaged in u like occupation , pulling unmercifully at their eyebrows until every barb was removed , and thou cov ering over the face with red , green or some other colored paint. In all that camp there was not an ab origine ' " 5th the lightest suspicion of hair on nor or his face , the efforts of the missionaries having been success ful in every other particular excepting tliis ono barbarous custom and the highly civilized occupation of horse-stealing , The writer never lias : n nil Ills plains ox- perience.seon but ono bearded Indian. Ho was n Northern Cheyenne , and seemed very proud of a fiery red mustachewhich gained him moro than usual attention from the squaws. Ho was , however , not on speaking terms with his male neigh bors , who regarded him somewhat as wo do our modem nineteenth century dudes. CANINES IiY Tlin THOUSANDS. In the ono Yankton village at Poplar River I think it is a low estimate to say that I saw 5,000 dogs. Montrrcls , noude- scripts , hounds , hybrid , wolves , curs of every description , followed mo all over the camp , smelling my hcols and hugging mo closely , but taking to their hcols Hko u shot at the slightest evidence of hos tility on my part , I should judge there were two dogs to every Indian in all the camps I visited. roi'LAii iiivr.n INDIAK vourn. The Indian police at Poplar River are bettor to BOO than circus clowns. Thcro are twenty privates and two ollicoro , and they evince the most passionate desire to wear a uniform of some kind. Ono pri vate I saw were u colonel's blouse and shoulder straps , and a pair of common cotton drawers for trousers. Others were gotten up in similar style , and adorned themselves with tin , brass or some otiior raotal in galore whenever pos sible. It should bo stated , however , that they have been and are good and faith ful servants of ttio government , earning every cant of the pay they receive , and also ready aud obliging to go anywhere when ordered , at any time of day or night. 8UP1-LANTINO THK WittTK WOOD-HAWKS. There was a time , nnd only n few years auo.whon the noble red man would have scorned to use an axe , handle n hoc or do any other kind of manual labor. When the first steamboats caino pushing far up the Missouri and Yellow- stonn rivers thore'preccdcd themor came along at the same time , adventurous white wood-hawks , who camped along the rivers in the heart of the Indian country for the purpose of sunplving the boats with fuel , Wood yards were es tablished at various convenient points , and although the enterprise carried with it isolation and exceeding lonrsoincnuss , yet there was money in it , and not a few made fortunes out of tluxsehenio. It In hard to believe that within a year or two all this has been changed. Caucasian woodhawks have disappeared , and in their places stand Indian chopper * , who hail the boats am ! haggle oji the price of wood with a business insight that prom ises each individual wealth in the near future. Between Poplar River r.nd Rocky Point , on the Missouri , there is not a single wood yard whoso proprietor is n white man. The Indians have got there at last , and from present indications they promise to stick. A CltKW OK UF.DSKIN3. Ono other little incident will servo to show how rapidly the nborlgino of the northwest is forsaking the ways of his forefathers and taking to the customs nnd habits of the white man. A month or two ago , while the steamer Rosebud was climbing up the Missouri bound for Bunion , the crow got to growling among themselves and struck for higher w.xgos. Upon reaching Fort Itorthold ( the agency of the Mtindan and Gros-Ventro Indians ) the white laborers came out openly , re fused to work and abandoned the boat. Captain Todd , master of the steamer , stepped ashore and interviewed some of the redskins , and In ton minutes ho had booked the following crow : Little Sioux , Spotted Wolf , Grey Head , Sheepish , Charles Brower.Cra/y Horse White Calf , Two Bulls , Stink Face , Kddio Hill , Hull Head , Rod Fox , Young Hawk nnd Ulno Stone. With this novel outfit the boat proceeded on to llonton with perfect suc cess , having loft the white strikers stand ing dismayed on the bank and boiling with rage to foot it back to civilization the best way they could. Captain Todd had to throw off his coat and instruct the aborigines in tho' ways of the stevedore , handling barrels ; tying ropes , moving wheat and other things.but after tno first lesson ho uovor had a moro willing crow , and ho dons nol want n better. The boat arrived at Honton on time , the Uros-Vcn- tres and Mtindans having covered them selves with bacon grease , flour , dirt and glory. The only little drawback was that the redskins would stop in the mid- dlr of a job to smoke the pipe of peace with the white men , nnd also to find out just when they were going to got paid. FUN AT A DAKOTA BALL. A Great Social Kvcnt Made to Rc- Bcmble a Mad House. Dakota Boll : There was a grand ball given up in Kstelline ono night three or four years ago. It was the chief social event of the sea son in which it occurred , and elaborate preparations were made. It took place in the largest hall in town , located over the Golden Bowl saloon , which institu tion had a bar m it that would hurt your eyes to look at. There was an orchestra brought down at great expense from a Gorman settle ment at the head of Stray Ilorso crcok. There were four or five in this band , in cluding a big fiddle trained to stand up on 'Is forelegs , which had a barbed wins for is longest string. Wo all wont who were living in town , and u scope of coun try us larjro as the stale of Jersey was ransacked to furnish ladies enough to make it interesting. The gentlemen connected with Spnuld- ng's ranch also came. They wore fond of society , and it might be said they were in Kstolltno's social swim. Thcro was Mr. Bill Hosteller nnd Big Jack and Long Jack. If wo rcmembor rightlv.Mr. Pockmarked Smith nnd Mr. Patsy Dougherty were present. Wo are posi tive that Suub'cm Pete nnd Mr. Dennis McCasoy were in the party , asvoll as Wisconsin Joe , Buck Reno , and Jimmy the Road Aecnt. The gentlemen were all fooling well when they left the ranch. On arriving in town they rode into the Golden Bowl saloon , and up to thn bar and sampled the stock of foreign and domestic liquors , after which they bunched their horses in the street and came up to the scouo of the festivities. 0 o'clock the head Promptly at mu sician draw a rip-saw across the barbed wire string of the big fiddle , and the floor manager yelled , "Form on ! " Then we all danced , the big fiddle groaned , the little liddlo screeched and the parlor organ borrowed from the First Regular church could occasionally bo hoard when the others stopped to rest. Each danced as long as ho or she could ; the floor shook , the lamps swung , the man who called off got his nose up in the air nnd yelled , and the big fiddle roared. Everything wont smoothly till the second dance niter the supper taken at the Headquarters' hotol. At this point the ranch gentlemen came up in a body they had before been dividing their time between the ball room nnd the dispensary below. They came in and drifted up to the head of the hall , when suddenly Bill Hosteller jumped up nnd cracked his heels thrco times together and yollcd : "Wour-rccklf l'm-er terror. Ynr-r-r ! " The man who was ulayinjr the church organ fell ever back ward off the platform and started for the door on his hands und knees. Then Buck Reno jumped up and struck his head against thn ceiling twice before ho came down , and whooped : "lla-r-r-r ! So'ral ! Yo-ow ! " Long Jack threw hia hat on the floor nnd turned n handspring , in which his feet broke a hanging-lamp , nnd then howled : "Yi-hi-yi-hi-youck ! I wantcr fight ! Stop bull fiddle Y-i-i-l-i " yer ! - - - - ! Tlio violinist reached the door in two jumps. The rest of us were going all the timo. "I'm or murd'ror ! Ju 'ear mo ? I'm er bloody murd'rcr ! " yelled Pockmarked Smith. "Whoo-pol Whoo-po ! ki-vike ! ki- vlko ! ki-vlko ! ki-viko ! " yelled Patsy Dougherty , us ho beat the floor with n chair. "Clear this year hall , or I'll oat ycr ! Git out cr I'll drink yer blood ! " whooped Big Jack. ' Say , I've shot men in 'lovcn territo ries ! " said Jimmy , the road agent , as ho pulled out a gun and began to practice on the stops of the organ. "Ya-a-ha ! I've stabbed men from Now Orleans to St. Paul , " returned Wisconsin Joe. Joe."Jcs "Jcs * watch Dennis McCasoy ! Keep your eye on old Dennis McCnsoyl" howled that individual as he smashed up the stove with a chair. " 1 km lick anything that walks ! War-r thar ! War tliarl Ltir-r-riup ! " put in Snub-'cm Pnto. "Yiko ! Yiko ! Wh-a-a-a-nh ! ( Jimmo room ! gimme room ! " snarled Bill llos- tettor again , ns lie pounded the platform with n board torn from the platform. Then they wont around 01100 more. Ho had a room , so far us wo society people of Kstclllno were concerned. Wo were acquainted with those gentlemen from the ranch , and wo had been falling over ono another in getting down stairs. They kept it up nmong thomsolvRs in Iho hall and down In the saloon for a couple of hours and then wont homo. Such little ovcnts used to frequently occur nt social gatherings in Kstollino In an early day , and it does us good lo recall - call them , EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS. Harvard ProftosoN Endeavoring t < Introduce New Method * . Boston Advertiser : Harvard eolleg tins been cndcavore to extend the UM ol the labrntory , or experimental method In teaching physics In the preparatory schools. Physics \ one of the studios re quired of a candidate for admission to tno college. This year , the physics department has planned two courses preparatory to the college work , which , it Is hoped , will bo adopted by the pre paratory schools. Ono of this is an eta- mcutifry course , designed for those who intend to present minimum physics at their entrance examinations ; nnd the other , an advanced course for those who wish to present maximum physics. Both courses contemplate the use ol the ex periment * which hitherto ho has been in the habit of seeing the teacher norforu in the lecture-room. The elementary course consists of forty experiments to bo made by the pupil m addition to recular Instruction from the textbook. The advanced adds to these forty experiments and the textbook work sixty otnt r experiments of a more elab orate nature. Pamphlets have been pre pared by the instruotors in physios at the college , descriptive of both courses. In order to bring the experimental method ns used nt Harvard to the alien lion oi toauhers , lectures have been given ; f Tuesday and Wednesday of thin we/ / the Jefferson Physical laboratory ay u vard by Dr. H U and Dr. WhttnIn which the apparatus used and the ( an * tngcs of this method in teaching karq been shown. Those have had on both dnvs an altendnnco which Dr. 1NH re gards as indicative of muoh _ jjst. in the plan. About 7fi traople , mostly teach ers , have been present. On Tuesday morning Dr. Hall lectured on the proposed elementary course oi forty experiments. He propounded these two questions : Was such n course prac tical ? And was it desirable ? To the first , ho said that ho had sent out circu lars to the loading schools of the country nnd found that they devoted ono hour n day during school year to physics. This , ho thought , answered the question oi practicability In the affirmative. In regard to its desirability he had no doubt. A student learned moro from ono experiment actually made by hlmsnlf than from forty made by nn instructor. Doing it himself ; taught him to think logically , and not to jump nt conclusions. It was morovcr a valuable training foi him physically , developing especially the powers of observation. On this account- finch n course had a unique value. He then proceeded to expound the nature of the course as planned , and the use ol the apparatus employed. On Wednes day nuornoon the sixty experiment course which is to bo taken by advanced students , was in a like manner explained by Dr. Whitney. . GncftslnR at China's Population. San Francisco Call : The government of China is now engaged in a work which should have occupied its attention long ago. It is attempting to take un accur ate census of the empire , and so to solve what has always boon nn insoluble puz- 7.1o for geographers. There is hardly any subject in geography on which so many conlrary opinions have been held as the population of that empire. An imperial census of the empire was taken in 1812 , and the population of the eighteen provinces was given at ! J ( ,447,183. 'Forty years uftorwardMor risen figured the total at 800,000,000 , Cooke tit 800,000,000 and Pierer nt 410,000,000. Ten years later , a general distrust in the accuracy of those estimates prevailed in well-informed circles , and the opinion was widely hold thntlho entire population of the empire did not exceed 250,000,000 , If it was ns largo ns that. Mr. Williams was inclined to fnvor nn cstinmtft of 800,000.000. though he has subsequently admitted that this figure may DO too low. The reason for discred iting these very largo figures was that they implied an average population throughout the empire of 800 to the square nillo n proportion nearly equal to that , of Belgium , which is populated throughout its area , while largo tracts of country in China are known to bo un populated. Ten years ago , Robert Hart undertook to guess nt the population of the empire from calculations based on house taxes and other imposts ; but lie arrived at no conclusions that wore satisfactory. The new returns which are now coming In appear to have been more carefully pre pared. They are predicated on the pro ceeds of head taxes , house taxes and the like. The returns from twelve provinces are all in ; they foot up 331,000.000. If the other six provinces return the same figures as they did when they were last counted , the total aggregate will too about 401,000,000 souls. , The fluctuations in population , caused by civil wars and famines on ono hand , and by the development of industry and agriculture on the other , are very re markable. Thus , the Province of the Cho.Kiang on the seaboard is said to have contained 26,000,000 people a year ago ; in 1843 its population was reckoned nt 80,000.000 ; now it returns 11,601,000. The Tnoplng rebels held possession of this province for many years and con verted parts of it into a desert. Mang , So is another decaying province. In 1842 it reported 17.000,000 , and now 11- 000,000. Kiang-Su , the province in which Shanghai is situated , had 40,000,000 popu lation when Pierer made his estimates ; it now returns 20,000,000. Hoonun , lying west of Kiang-Su , has fallen from 89- 000,000 to 23,000,000. All those provinces were held by the Tnepings until Gordon extirpated thorn , and the ravages of war were followed by the equally cruel rav ages of famine. On the other hand , the province of Quantung , from which the Chinese in this country come , has nson in popula tion from'21,000.000 to 20,000.000 ; its neighbor Hoonau from 20,000.000 to 81- 000,000 , and the prosperous and fertile province of Sc Chucn is credited with an extraordinary increase of 350 per cent in less than half a century. In 1812 Us popu lation was reckoned at 21,000,000. It is now returned as 71,000,000. These figures must no considered as mere guesses. There is In China no mich machinery for taking n census as we have in Christian countries , nnd China- men are proverbially Inaccurate in fig- ures. Revising the HI bin. l The work of revising the bible , wheh ' | is going on in Germany , does not np'pear to bo making the desired progress. This is partly owing to the diminution which has taken place in thy membership of the commission , but moro to the failure of members to attend the conferences. A meeting of the commission , hold at Cologne lately , was only attended by eight persons. The revisers began the third and last reading of the old testa ment , taking first Isaiah and the Psalms. The former book was finis - is hod and the latter half com pleted. Another silling will be com pleted in the autumn , and Ihon the read ing of the psalms will bo resumed , and tlio reading of Jeremiah , Eiukinl nnd so\eral of the minor prophets bo pro ceeded with. Sub-missions have boon appointed to road Jeremiah and Genesis , and thcsn will hold sittings In Whluumn week and in the autumn. It hits been found expedient that a commission of scholars well acquainted with the lan guage of Luther ami the requirements of tno present ago should bo appointed to decide on various questions * umsctlng the decision of the sample bible which Is being prepared , and the minister of public worship has agreed to defray all incidental expenses. General Crook , accompanied by Second end Lieutenant Lymnn W. V. Kcnuon , aldc-do-carap , hns gone to Fort MoKln- uey , Wyo.
