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i 00 0 0 00 02 02 2 8 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1898. LAST WEEK IN JANUARY MONDAY'S MARKETS OPEN UNDER GOOD CONDITIONS. Breadstane and Provisions Lire Stock- -The Wool Market-Trade Notes Indianapolis Jobbing The wheat market was stronger at the opening. Liverpool was up 1 to Paris was quoted 15 to 45 centimes highThe announcement was made. of reduction in Italian wheat duty of per bushel.

This doubtless was the cause of higher cables, and helped the market on this side, as it was taken as Levidence of a shortage in Italian supplies of a serious nature. The world's ship. ments were 5,174,000 bushels, very considerable falling off. The decrease an Russian shipments was more than an offset to the Argentine Increase. The English visible made 720,000 bushels decrease, and the on passage also decreased 720.000 bushels.

The visible supply showed decrease of 685,000 bustiels. Exports were 440,000 bushels. All these showings were considered decidedly favorable to holders, and helped the market very considerably to resist the aggressive selling of veteral lending houses. Car lots In the Northwest were 423 cars, against last week and 185 cars last cars year. Primary receipts were 432,000 bushels, against 255,000 last year.

The seaboard markets and those of the Northwest were up about the same as Chicago. New Tork reported thirteen boat-loads sold for export, and Baltimore claimed the sale of fifteen boat-loads to France. One of the morning papers had a very pretty story to the effect that Mr. Leiter had received an offer for his line of wheat from France that would net awery neat profit. Later this report was contradicted, but it afforded a consoling morsel to those who believed it would come later.

January wheat closed at 95 cents. May opened at sold at and closed at July sold at Sc at, the opening, declined to rallied to 85c and closed at September closed at 78c and December at 78c. Corn was steady. It has been that way for days. There was nothing new In sight tu move It out of the groove.

The visible it creased 655,000 busbels. Mag closed at 29c. Oats deereased. 529,999 bushels. The trade WAS dull, and changes.

in price were scarcely perceptible. The influences are so nearly balanced that prices remain very nearly stationary. Provisions were higher. The recelpts of hogs have been falling under last year. At seven leading points receipts today were 50,000, against 60,000 last year.

For nearly two weeks provisions have been improving, and to-day reached the highest point in the advance so far. Wheat Crop Outlook. two years ago. Brokers' Gossip. With the exception of California and several places along the Ohio river there Is a feeling of present satisfaction with the outlook for winter sown grain.

Such satisfaction has been increasing since the first rainfall that started the plant to growing after the seeding was done. The weather has been soft In nearly all parts of Western Europe almost all the time since the freezing time began, and fears are more marked with regard to an overgrowth than to an undergrowth at this time. In Eastern Europe the situation is somewhat different, with the winter sown grain in Russia in many places said to be showing poorly in Roumania too, and parts of Austria-Hungary are complained of In a similar way. In the southern hemisphere not much change has been shown by reports for the last week. As harvest progresses in Argentine estimates greatly differ as to the result.

Some of these estimates figure the outcome for the exportable surplus at about. 15,000,000 bushels. On the other extreme they 80 as high as 36,000,000 bushels that may be spared for export. If a medium estimate were made from extremes probably it would be safe to expect about 25,000,000 bushels from that country. Uruguay is now expected to furnish about 4.000,000 bushels or 5,000,000 bushels for export, and Chill 5,000.000 bushels or 6.800.000 bushels.

Reports from Australla appear to be growing worse, rather than better, and very small exports at most can be expected from that country, while reports from India are too much in advance of harvest to make any satisfactory estimate. Still the crop Prospecte seem to be fair, and considerable amounts are expected to be available for European shipments. The supply of wheat in the Northwest holds out well, and, as usual, shows that most early predictions of small production were not fully justified. These estimators do not realize the large acreage probably, or they would be less positive of the large shortage of yield. Still we are drawing toward the end of the large arrivals In Minneapolis.

Farmers nOW hold less than common in January, and stored supplies are only half of last year in the interior, and less than third of L. W. Louis's Wire.J New York. January 2. The market was heavy from the first.

houses seemed to have selling orders, and although opening prices were below the official quotation of the morning, London arbitrage houses bought very sparingly. The exceptions to the general heaviness were. Metropolitan, the Vanderbilts and Consolidated Gas. The strength of the latter was thought to be partly due to short interest which has been out for scme time, and partly to Albany advices statins that a bill providing for the consolidation of the New York gas companies would undoubtedly be presented to the State Legislature, and that the inNuence of the present dominant political party would be used to its passage. The buying of the Vanderbilts was especially good, notably New York Central, where one broker who is related to the Vanderbilt family, took some 4.000 shares.

For two weeks Vanderbilt's brokers have been steady buyers of this stock, and the story on the board is that orders emanate from W. K. Vander. bit: The holdings of Vanderbilt have said to have been very much reduced during the last year by sales in the London market. It is, of course, supposed that W.

buying is based on the knowledge of his plans for the Introduce tion of new economies in the manages ment of the New York Central in conJunction with other Vanderbilt properties. The buying of Metropolitan continues to be apparently for the politiclans. Although some writers in the press contend that recent purchases made by this company have been at extravagant figures, notably the Second-avenue, in riders profess the utmost confidence as to the future, and predict 900 for the stock. Northern Pacific securities were less 80- tire than for some time; the news that the control of the Seattle road had been Required by the Northern Pacifle brought In no fresh buying. Sugar WAS somewhat Inclined to be heavy, the short interest has been reduced and the support is smaller than for some time.

The professional element is bearish. Commission houses are doing little or nothing. Boston Wool Market. Sales for the week, 4,000,000 pounds. The Improvement expected to hit the trade in January has come.

The brave boys who did not drop their wool during the November slide are feeling better, as, thanks in part to foreign markets and in part to the excellent demand for new woolen goods, prices are now back to the full rates attained at the hight ofthe October activity. The shocking weather haw materially cut down the sales, but it is a plain fact that the sales made have been universally at full rates, and in some cases, notably on No. fleece, at the highest rates vet touched Judging from the steady demand for wool, the American mills are not as well suppiled as was supposed to be the case. From July 24 to December 1 the imports of Merino wool Into the United States were but 4.759,021 pounds, mere This includes the Ethelgonda wool, too, which is still in bond, and may not' come: on this market at all. Now four months of full running time (and leading scouring, plants are to-day running on double time) without the addition of any new supplies from abroad makes a big hole in stocks on hand.

Further. It must be remembered that the big advance in wool that took place in 1897 occurred only in the United States. The average price of wool abroad in 1897 was low. Our advance was the result of the tariff pure and simple. We have yet to feel result of the advance of wool all over the world.

The average value of bale of colonial wool in London in 1897 (as Helmuth, Schwartze Co! so clearly, show) was but against £12 in 1896. This. fall occurred in spite of the tact that the total imports of colonial wool into Europe and America were less than the year before. Grain Notes, 0. D.

Weaver Ca's Wire.J Chicago: There is a story that Dreyfus offered Leiter for all his wheat 6c bushel over the average cost to Leiter. Dreyfus Co. say: "Deny all stories of our negotiating for the Leiter wheat." English visible decreased 720,000 bushels of wheat. It looks like a decrease in the world's visible to-morrow of 350.000 bushels, against bushels decrease last year. Board's opening Liverpool cable: Wheat- Spot 1d higher: futures higher.

Arm and higher; futures unchanged. Board's 1:30 p. m. cable shows advance over opening and advance over Saturday's close. There is a marked falling off for the week In Russian and Danubian wheat shipments only 768.000 bushels from the former and 56,000 from the latter, less than half as much as was shipped for same week last year.

King Humbert, of Italy, has signed a decree feducing. tariff on cereals from to 5 lire, to go Into effect Tuesday. World's wheat shipments for the week 5,174,000 bushels against 7.007,000 bushels last week and bushels last year. Argentine estimates exportable wheat surplus at a million tons. Closing Liverpool cable: Spot wheat steady to: higher.

futures higher; corn, spot and futures, higher. Chicago stocks: Wheat In store 000 bushels. decrease 754.000 bushels. afloat 1,229,000 bushels, Increase 776,000 bushels: corn in store 15,464,000 bushels. Increase 73,000 bushels; afloat 5,583,000 bushels, Increase 645.000 bushels.

Total visible: Wheat 37,153.000 bushels, corn 41,789,000 bushels, dats 14,534,000 bushels. Closing Paris cables: Wheat centimes higher, flour centimes higher. Antwerp unchanged. Primary Markets. Primary market receipts of wheat were 433,000 bushels, against 255,000 bushels the corresponding day of last year.

Minneapolis received 388 cars of wheat and Duluth 37 cars, a total of 425 cars. against 185 cars the corresponding day of last year. St. Louts receipts Wheat 31,000 bushels, corn 134.000 bushels, oats 53,000 bushels. Shipments -Wheat 12.000 bushels, corn, 48.000 bushels, oats 20,000 bushels.

Toledo receipts Wheat 3.740 bushels, corn 56,228 bushels, oats 9,203 bushels. Shipments Wheat 13,000 bushels, corn 65,000 bushels, oats 6.000 bushels. Chicago receipts -Wheat 19,600 bushels, corn 259,000 bushels, oats Shipments -Wheat 10.666 bushels, corn 230,945 bushels, oats 112,568 bushels. Estimated receipts at Chicago: Wheat 40 cars, corn 350 cars, oats 250 cars, hogs, 23.000 head. Omaha received 2,800 hogs and Kansas City 7,000 hogs.

Exports of wheat and flour were: Wheat 313.748 bushels, flour 27,823 packages, equivalent to 440,000 bushels of wheat; corn 224,000 bushels. CITY WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS, Current Quotations on Various Commodities. Dry Goods. Bleached Cotton- 36. inches, Blackstone.

36 Inches, Cabot, 36 Inches, Dwight Anchor, 36. inches, Clover, Inches, Dwight Anchor, 42 inches, 9c; Dwight Anchor, 54 Inches, 100: Diamond Field. 36 Inches, 4c; Farwell, 42 Inches, 8e; First Call, 36 Inches, 36 4c; Glendale, XX. 36 inches, 4c: Lonsdale. Inches, Masonville, 36 Inches, New York Mills, 36 Inches, Lonedale Cambric.

No. 2. Pepperell, Pepperell. 9-4, 15c; Sea Jaland: No. 6c; Sea Island, No.

3. 36-inches, Be: Utica, 9-4, Utica, 10-4, 20c. Ginghams- Bates. Exerett classics, Sc; Lancaster, Normandie dress styles, Manchester staples, Tolle du Norde, Warwick. Colored Cambrice-Edwards, 3c: Slater: Genessee, Concords, Warren, Silesia-Lonsdale.

No. 20c: English AA, English A. 10c; English B. Argus, Victory Tickings ACA. Cordis ACE, Conestora BF.

Hamilton stout awnings, Lenox fancy bookfold, 18c; Diamond bookfold, Oakland AF, Warren bookfold, Lenox XX, 18c; Thorndyke; Cotton ounces, 30 inches. Tallassee, ounces, 30 Inches, Tallassee. 10 Savage, -10 ounces, 86 inches, Shirtings. Checks and Cheviots Amoskeag. Economy: New South, Rotunda.

Amoskens. plaid excelsior, Amoskeas stripe cheviots, Edinburg. 6c; Ev erett Chambray stripes, Brown Cottons Atlantic A. 36 Inches, Atlantic H. 86 Inches, Atlantic F.

36 Atlantic LL. 36 Inches, American Mills, 36 Inches. Armory shirtings, 36 Inches, Be; Armory, 38 Inches, 4c: Comet. 86 inches, 5e; Constitution, 36 Inches, Boot C. 36 inches, Boot FF.

86 XX, 36 Inches, 5e; Buck's Head, 36 inches. 50; Sea Island, 36 Inches, 4e; Household Superior. 36 Inches, Long Branch, 36 inches. Sea Island, 36 Inches, de: Statue Liberty, 36 inches, Pepperell, 12c; Pepperell, 9-4, Pepperell, 10-4. 15c; Utica Utica, 16c; Utica, 18c.

Prints- Allen fancy, American indigo, 4e: American shirtings, Merrimac shirtings, Arnold long cloth Arnold long cloth C. Berwick fancy, Berlin solids, 6c; Berlin three-fourths Turkey reds, 6c; Berlin three-fourths XXXX Turkey reds, 8e: Cocheo fancies, Cocheo madders, de; Portsmouth robes, Harmony fancler, Manchester fancier, Pacific Parthians, Pacific mournings, Simpson mournings, Venus oll blue and green, 5e: Windsor, fancies, Brown Drill -Boot 26 Inches. Darlington, 30 inches, Dwight. 36 Inches. No.

250, Mohawk, 30 inches. Provisions. The tollowing is Kingan price list: Sugar-Cored Hams-5 20 ibs to 15 lbs, for "Rehable for to 15 lbs. "'Indiana: hamlets, Breakfast Bacon- Clear, English-cured "Reliable, 11e; 100: to Ibs. 10 to 12 lbs, 6 Bacon Clear sides, about 50 to 60 lbs average, 30 to: 50 lbs average.

.20 to lbs 74c. Clear bellies, 25 to: 30 18 to 20 lbs average. 14 16 lbs average. Clear backs 90 to 25 average, lbs average, 14 7c. to 18 French lbs backs.

average. flitches 8 10 to 10 lbs average, Shoulders Reliable. 16 lbs average, 10 to 12 the average. sugar-cured, "Indi10 to 12 lbs. "Reliable." ketde-rendered, Pickled Pork- Fancy, boneless pig.

$14.50: bean, clear, family. $11.50: clear backs, rump. $10.50. Fresh Pork Loins -Short cuts, 14 to 30 lbs. 610; short cute, 10 to 13 lbs, Te: short cuts, to 9 lbs average, Cottage hams, 6c; skinned shoulders, ham 'butts or pork roasts, 6c; tenderloins.

spare ribs. trimmings, Set. hocks, small bones, shoulder bones, tail bones, 4c: pigs' heada. dressed, Dried Beet Hams- Regular sets, 140; outsides. Insides, 15c; knuckles, 1514c.

Sausage Bulk, link. Te; smoked pork, cents. Coffin. Fetcher Co. Smoked Meats S.

C. hams, Primrose hrand. 10 lbs average, 12 to 14 lbs average, 15 The average. 9e: 18 to 21 Ibe average. skinned hams.

18 to 20 tbs average, boneless hams, Breakfast Racon Boneless, English-cured, Primrose brand, 6 to lbs average. Primrose brand, to Ibs average, sugar -cured, Hoosier brand, 8 to lbs average, sugar red Hoosier brand, 10 to 12 lbs average, sugar-cured Hooker brand, average. narrow. Englialcured bacon bellies, -to 9 lhs average, Englis bacon bellies, 10 to 12 lbs average, Sugar l. Primrose brand, to 10 1ba average: angar-cured, Primrose brand.

19 to 14 Bacon Clear sides. to 30 lbs average, 30 to average, 40 to 60 The clear backs, light average, Te: to lbs average, to 30 Ibs average. clear 10 to 12 lbs fancy average. 11 to ibs 22 ibs to 50 60; French fitches, extra short clear sides, to Ibe Groceries. Indianapolis wholesale sugar prices: Dom6.00c: crushed, powdered.

XXXX powdered. standard granulated. fine granulated, 8.80c extra fine granulated. 5.63c coarse 5.63c; cubes. 8.69c; mold 5.6505 diamond A.

1.500: confectioners Columbia A- Keystone A. 5. 2. Windsor American A. A Ridgewood A- Centennial A.

5.06c: 4 Phoenix A- California A 5 Empire A- Franklin 4.58c; 6 Ideal Golden ex. C--Keystone B. 4.81c: 7 Windsor ex. C- American 4.69e: 9 yellow ex. C.

California 4.6301 10 yellow Franklin ex. C. 4.56g: 11 yellow- ex. C. 4.50c: 12 yellowAmerican ex.

C. 4.450: 13 yellow -Centennial ex. C. 4.38c: 14 yellow- California ex. 4731o; 15 yellow, 4.25c: 16 yellow.

4.19c. Canned Goods--Blackberries, 3-1b, 86c: cove oysters, 1-Ib full weight, 85c: 1-lb light weight, 60c; 2-1b full weight, light weight. peaches, standard, 3-1b, seconds, 3-1b, pie, 85 90c; pineapples, standard. 2-Ih, seconda, 2-1b, string beans. 3-1b cans, salmon, 1-Ib, pineapples, Bahama, pease, sifted, early June, marrow, 85c: soaked, 706 80c; tomatoes, 3-Ib, 75680c; corn, sugar.

80c apple butter, a dozen, 3-1b, 90c. Spices--Unground: Allspice, cassia, 10015c: mace, nutmegs, Dried Fruits -Apples, sun-dried, currants, lettron. figs, 10814c: raisins, Two Crown, a pound, evaporated apricots, dates, Miscellaneots Groceries- New Molasses-Fair to prime, choice, 33015c: Medium, choice. 35045c; sorghum. 28c: corn sirup.

bbls, 22c gallon; Halfbbis, 24c gallon. Vinegar, Malt-(40 grain test), bbls, gallon. Pea' Beans-Hand-picked, Rice--Carolina, Lake, Salt-In car-loads, see: in small lots, 90c. Starch--Pearl, Chan pion Gloss, 1 and 2-1b packages. corn, 1-Ib packages.

Candy- Stick. sic fib; common mixed, New in barrels, $1.200 In barrels, $8.50: 1,200 in half-barreis, $3.73: 600 in half barrels, $3.25. Oatmealbarrels, $1.90. Rolled Oats- -Barrels, $3.50. Cheese, Selling prices: New York cheddar (cream) 12c: Wisconsin and Ohio cream, 11c: Swiss domestic, 13c to 15c; brick, 13c; Limburger, domestic, -skims, 3c.

Fruits, Vegetables and Game. Selling prices! Rabbits -15c to 80c dozen. Opossunis-25c to 35c each, Lemons $3.50. Oranges A box, $3.00 to $345; Tangarines, $3.54. Figs -New layer, a lb, Dates -New.

a lb. Apples A barrel, fancy, $3,500 $4.00. Cabbage- A barrel, Potatoes -Per bushel, Onions- New. a barrel. Celery- A dozen; Hones- New, 1lb cups, Grapes baskets, 12c.

Sweet Potatoes- Genuine Jerseys, $4.00 a barrel: Illinois, $2.756 3.00. Cranberries Per barrel. fancy, per box, Spanish Onions -Per crate, $1.76. Quinces $1.25 a bushel. Pears $1.50 a bushel.

Hickory Nuts- Shellbarks, soc; large, 65c per bushel. California -Per case, $1.75. California Plums Per case, $1.25. Almeria Grapes -Per barrel, $6.00. Leading Drugs and Oils.

Carbolic acid, 27030c. Alum, 304c. Asatoetida. 25030c. Barbs, 608c.

Bromide of potash, 48c. Camphor, Chloroform, 60 Oplum, gum, a 1b; powdered. $3.750 8.90 1b. Subnitrate of bismuth, $1.35 a lb. Cinchonidia, 20025c.

Iodide of potash, $2.590 2.60. Quinine. P. W. an ounce; German.

Morphine, Cocaine, $8.0503.25 Bicarb soda, Epsom salts. 4005c. Saltpeter, Resin, a barrel of 300 lbs. $2.50622.75. Castor oil, Lard oil, ex.

No. 1 winter steamer, 35c; No. 1, 55c. Neatafoot oil, 65c, Fish oil. 49c.

Linseed oti, raw, 40c; bolled, 42c. Turpentine, White lead, Alcohol, Oil of. bergamot, $3.00 a lb. Oil of lemon, Tinners' Supples. Charcoal Tins, Best Brands- IC, 10x14, 12x12, $5.50 6.00; IX, 10x24, 14x20, 12x12, 36.15@ 7.25.

Roofing Tins, Best Brands--IC. 14x29, 5.25: IC, 20x28, IC. 20x28, old style, $12.00. Block Tin (in pigs) -16c. Block Tin (in bars) 18c.

Zinc -Sheet, 10c. Copper Bottoms -20c. Planished Copper-20c. Solder Iron 27 27 C. best bloom, gal.

ranized, 75 and 10. per cent. Lead- -Pressed bare, 6c. Wire Nails. Base price, $1.15.

Advance Common tense, shingle, tobacco, flooring and common brads, 10d to 16d, 5c: 8d and 9d, 10c: 6d and 7d. 20c: 4d and bd, 3d 45c: 2d. 70c. Barbed common and barbed car nails, 15c advance over common. Casing and Smooth Box-100 and larger, 15c; 8d and 9d.

10c: 6d and 7d. 35c: 4d and 3d. Sic; 3d, 70c; 2d: $1.00. Barbed box, 15c advance over smooth. Smooth Finished- -Advanced over, common, 10d and larger, 25c; 8d and 9d, 35c; 6d and 1d, 45c; 4d and 6d.

65c; 3d. 85c; 20. $1.15. Fine- 3d, 90c. Dressed Meats.

Prices to retail dealers: Beef Carcasses: Extra choice steers, medium steers, good cows, medium cows. good heifers, medium helters, $5076c. Hindquarters- Extra choice steers, medium steers, good cows, 70 Sc; medium cows. good heifers. Forequraters Good, Veal -0c.

Lamb Package Coffees. The following are Indianapolis prices on package coffees: Ariosa, Lion, $10.40, Jersey, Mall Pouch, King Bee.1 Imperial, Excello, Java Blend. $16.90. In each case the city price is 40c above the New York price. Retail Coal Market.

Anthracite. $7.00 ton: Brazil block, Island City lump, Paragon lump, Jackson lump, Pittsburg lump, $4.00: Winifrede lump. $4.00: Raymond lump, $4.00: Blossburg, smithing. Pocohontas, Jump coke, 11c A bushel: crushed coke. 12c; all nut coal 25c a ton less than lump price.

Seeds. Clover- Buying prices: Prime, No. $2.25. Selling price: 25c to G0c more. Timothy- Selling price: Blue Grass -Fancy, extra clean, 75c; red top, Alsyke- $6.0005.50.

Butter, Eggs and Poultry, Poultry, eggs and butter steady. Poultry- Hens. 6c; chickens, 6c: cocks, 3c; hen turkeys, 9c; young toms, 7c; old toms, be: ducks, 5c. Eggs -15c. Butter -10c.

Leather. Selling prices: Harness leather. 316360: sole leather. oak. sole, hemlock, 2320 260; skirting, 34641c: single strip, city kip.

60075c: French kip, city calf, French calf, Jobbing Prices in Flour. Best winter and spring patents, $5.40273.75 barrel; straight grades, a rel; tamily, a barrel: low grades, for foundry, $2.50 t3.00 barrel. Merchant Iron. Bar- base. Horse Shoes a keg of 100 The.

American Cast. Steel-0c. Horseshoe a box. Hides and Tallow. Dealers are paying for No.

1 hides No. hides, No. 1 calf; No. calf, No. tallow.

3c; No. tallow, 21c. Wool. The following prices are paid for wagon lots: Good, unwashed, 15016c; burry and cotted, 12c; tub-washed, THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Cattle About Steady Hogs Active and Higher Sheep Few.

Indianapolis Union Stock Yards, Jan. 21. Cattle -Receipts 350 head. Shipments 250 head. The few cattle offered sold usually at last week's closing prices.

Prospects steady. Export and shipping cattle we quote: Gond to prime steers, 1,350 lbs and upward 10 Fair to medium steers, 1,350 lbs and upward 70 Good to choice 1,150 to 1,300 lb steers 3504 60 Fair to medium 1,150 to 1,300 lb steers 4 1004 30 Medium to good 900 to 1,100 1b steers Good to choice, feeding 4 40 Fair to medium reeding 3 5003 85 Common to good 7503 Butchers cattle we quote: Good to choice 3 Fair to medfum 00 Common to light 5002 Good to choice 0003 Fair to medium Common old cows 50 Veal calves Heavy 500 Prime to fancy export bulls. Good to choice butcher Common to fair bulla. 25 Hogs- Receipts 2.000 head. Shipments 8,000, head.

The hog market was active. with packers and shippers buying at advance of to be in prices. All sold. and the close was steady at the advance. We quote: Goood to choice medium and Mixed and heavy packing 7003 8003 5 Good -to choice Common Pigs.

03 60 00 0003 60 Sheep Receipts light. Shipments none. Indications favor at least steady prices for sheep and lambs. Few here Good to choice lambs Common to medium lambs Good to choice sheep Fair to medium Common Bucks, per head 3 Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago.

January receipts of hogs to-day 29,000 head; left over 1.000 head. Market active and dc higher: light mixed $3.65 3.85, heavy roughs $3.55 3.65. CattleReceipts 16,500 head: stealy to strong; beeves cows and heifers 4.50, steers (Texas) stockers and feeders Sheep -Receipts 18.000 head. Market firm. Saturday's offcial: Hogs--Receipts 12.207 shipments 3.190 head.

Cattle -Receipts 145 head: 'shipments 456 head. Sheep Receipts 832 head: shipments head. Estimated receipts. bf hogs 23,000 head. Live Stock at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, January: and etrong: shippers and butchers 3.86, packers light common and roughs CattleActive and higher; shippers, 4.75, butchers, common $2.25 3.00. Sheep -Steady at LambsStrong at $4.0005.75. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Wheat Opens Strong and ActiveThe Quotations. Chicago, January 21-Wheat opened very strong to-day.

May. at against closing price of and being quoted shortly afterward at Almost everything was bullish. The chief factor was the surprising strength at- Liverpool, that market reporting opening advances of and maintaining its strength. The world's shipments -were comparatively emall, being made so by the falling off in the Russian and Danubian, bushels by the former and 56,000 by the latter, less than half as much as last year. The Italian wheat -duty has been reduced 12.8 cents per bushel for ninety days.

Liverpool stocks were also much smaller, which was given AS one of the reasons for the advance in that market. The only bear factor was the Northwest Minneapolis and Duluth reporting 425 cars, against 185 a year ago. Last week's receipts were, however, 535 cars. Notwithstanding the sharp opening advance here, trade continued dull. There was a little selling against calls, causing May to react to but the market recovered later to Corn was dull and heavy in spite of the strength of wheat and the light receipts of 333 cars, Professionals were inclined to sell for reaction.

May opened higher at and declined to Oats were quiet and barely steady. Receipts were 291 cars. May opened shade higher at and sold at Provisions were helped by the light hog receipts. Pork and ribs were in good demand. May pork opened higher at 89.85, sold at and advanced to: $9.90.

May lard opened higher at 4.82½c. May ribs opened higher at 4.85c and advanced to 4.87½c. quotation (By L. W. Louis's Open- LowArticles.

ing. est. est. Closing.Wheat- Jan.24.Jan.22. May 92 July $5 CornMay 29 29 July Oats July May Pork May 9 85 9 90 9 82 9 87-90 9 77 LardMay 4 82 4.85 4 82 4 85 4 77-80 RibsMay 4 83 4 87 4 82-85 4 87 80-82 Closing cash markets: Wheat corn 270.

oats 22c, pork $9.77, lard 1.75c, ribs 4.85c. Indianapolis Grain Market. Wheat- Quiet: No. red No. red January wagon 91c.

Corn- Steady: No. white 29c, No, white 29c, No. 3 white 29c. No. white 26c, No.

2 white mixed No. white mixed No. white mixed No. 2 yellow No. 3 yellow No.

yellow No. mixed No. 3 mixed No. 4 mixed ear Oats- Steady; No. 2 white 25c, No.

white No. 2 mixed No. 3 mixed -No. 1 timothy No. 2 timothy Inspections: Corn- -No.

3 white 14 cars. No. 4 white 2 cars, No. 3 mixed 5 cars; total, 21 cars. oll: Standard 41c, Cudahy 4c.

STOCKS, MONEY AND BONDS. The Market Fluctuating and certain-The Quotations. Barley, Rye, Flax and Timothy, Chicago, January 21. Cash barley No. 3, to 42c.

Cash rye May Cash Max $1.25, cash Northwestern $1.29, May $1.28. Cash timothy $2.75, March $2.80. Wheat Puts and Calls. Chicago, January 24. Wheat- Puts: 93c.

calls: 96c. Corn--Puts: 29c; calls: Indiana 011. Montpelier, January Indiana New York, January -The tone was uncertain at the opening of the stock market, and changes were very much mixed and small, except in the case of. Manhattan, which started at a sharp decline of London's low quotations of international stocks seemed to have but little Influence here. The market showed manipulation in the high-priced specialties during the first hour, variations in many cases exceeding a point either Consolidated Gas was conspicuous for jump of to Metropolitan Street Railway rallied from 144 to and New York Central and Michigan Central scored gains exceeding a point.

The grancers, sugar and the active list generally were quiet, under the bear pressure. Money. Money on call nominally per cent. Prime mercantile paper per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at for demand and at for sixty days; posted rates and commercial bills 482.

Silver certificates Bar silver Mexican dollars Bonds. Government bonds steady; new 4s registered is coupon 4s 4s coupon 25 100, 55 registered 58 coupon Pacific 6s of '99, Stocks. (By L. W. Louts's Open- High- Low- Closing.

est. est. ing. Atchison 121. pref American Tobacco American B.

C. Canada Southern Chicago Gas. 95 Chesapeake Ohio. Leather, pref General Electric Jersey Central Kas. Texas pid.

a Lead Manhattan Missouri Pacific Northern Pacific pd N. Y. Central Northwestern Omaha Pacific Mail Reading 213 Rock Island South. Railway pid. Sugar Refinery St.

Paul Tennessee Coal Pacific 30 Vestern Union Wabash pfd 18 Sales to noon, 118.710 shares. Indianapolis Clearings. Jan. 24. Jan.

17. Clearings $842.449 12 $831.870 00 Balances 58.734.16 62.342 00 Mrs. E. A. Parker Dead.

Mrs. E. A. Parker died Saturday afternoon- at her home, 34 West Twenty-first street. of paralysis.

She was stricken Friday afternoon. Mrs. Parker was ty-one years old and the wife of EbenA. Parker. Mr.

Parker and three childrenBart and Sallie Parker and Mrs. 8. A. Wilson, ct. Franklin- survive, The tuneral will be held to-morrow from the fainresidence.

ENTRANCE -INTO CHICAGO: C. G. HAS ARRANGEMENTS ALMOST COMPLETED. WIll Make Rates from New Orleans to Omakin the Same to Kansas City Other Railroad News of Interest. Kansas City, January -It is nounced Here that arrangements by which the Kansas City, Pittsburg Guit railroad wal secure an entrance 1 to Chicago have been all but completed.

The entrance will be gained over the Burlington tracks out of Quincy, Ill. The Pittsburg and Gulf has already teased the right to use the Burlington station and terminals at Quincy and the bridge across the Mississippi river. A contract for the use not the Burlington tracks "by the Pittsburg Gulf for freight and passenger tramc between Quincy and Chicago had been drawn up and is under consideration by President Stillwell, General Manager Gilham and the attorneys of the Pittsburg Gulf. Officers of both roads say the deal has not been consummated, Sut it is almost certain that it will go through. Branch lines now building and near completion will give the Gulf road its entrance to Quincy, and these.

lines with another branch, the Omaha, Kansas City Eastern, on which traits are now running between Quincy and Omaha, and will complete the company's lines from Omaha to the Gulf. pending contract with the Burlington can be effected, the Pittsburg Gulf will also establish through train service from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico, at Port Arthur. A storm Its been raised among Kansas City shippers by the announcement of the Pittsburg Gulf officers that they propose to make, when their lines shall be completed, the same rates on shipments from New Orleans and gulf to Omaha as ire made to Kansas City. In other words, the freight will be hauled through Kansas City and two hundred miles farther north at Kansas City rates. Concerning Railrond Men.

George Bradbury, general manager of the Lakh Erle Western, will be here to-morrow and will remain in the city the rest of the week. E. A. Ford, general passenger and ticket agent of the Pennsylvania lines, is in Washington, D. C.

H. W. Dean, for many years a passenger conductor on the Vandalla, died Friday at Terre Haute of paralysis. He was buried yesterday. A number of Indianapolis railroad men attended the funeral H.

Howell has been appointed traveling engineer on the Chicago Eastern Illinois. W. M. Pennington, of this city, who has been acting as agent of the White Line at Memphis, has been appointed W. W.

Richardson, district passenger agent the Pennsylvania, is in New Orleans, accompanied by Mrs. Richardson. They will leave that city Wednesday for Florida for about ten days. George Porter, private secretary to E. O.

McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Big Four. is in the city, the guest of Frank McDonald, city passenger agent. Mrs. Porter is with him: E. R.

Infersoll, formerly city ticket agent of the Monon here, and later with the Union Pacific at Cincinnati, is in town. He ill leave this evening for Seattle, where he has a position with steamship company, M. A. Zook, chief engineer of the Louisville, Evansville St. Louis, is in the city for a few days.

Mr. Zook was formerly superintendent of the Monon. Daniel Creamer, chief, train dispatcher of the Chicago! division of the Big Four, is fatally ill at Los Angeles, and his death is expected at any time. J. G.

traveling passenger agent of the Indiana: Decatur Western, went to California after him a few days ago, but his condition is such that he can not be moved. Mr. Creamer left this morning to be with Superintendent Bender, of the Chicago division of the Big Four, was called to yesterday by a message announcing the death OL his sister. Fred Bro en. of Brownsburg, has been appointed auditor of the Honduras Railway and Navigation Company with salary of $2,500 a He is a cousin of Al.

McQuown, train-caller at the Union Station, and at the time he was appointed vas teaching school in New York. Conductor Lawson, after two weeks illness, resulned his run on the Indiana, Western, between this city and Roachdile, this morning. A. assistant comptroller. of the Pennsy W.

Roney, auditor of the Vanilla, and James Hewitt, auditor of the Big Four, are in the city making an examination of the books of the Union Railway Company. They praised the manner in which the bustness of the auditor's office particularly is conducted: A. B. Stictney, of St. Paul, president of the Chicago Great Western, has written a pamphlet on the currency question in which no deals at length with the subject of banking.

Ratroad Equipment. The Intercational Great Northern has placed order for fifteen engines. The Southern Pacific has placed an order for 500 box cars, to be delivered during the summer. The Pittsburg Western has contracted for 50 coal cars, and will order the same number of box The Philadelphia Reading has ordered a combined engine and car, to be used by the officers for inspection purposes. The Pittsburg Lake Erie has ordered 500 hopper-bottom coal cars.

300 being of pounds and 200 of 80,000 pounds capacity, built to Lake Shore Michigan Southern standard specifications. The motives power department of the Reading company has filed a requisition for a number of passenger and freight locomotives. The Atlant Valdosta Western has placed an order for fifty flat and ten box cars, two cabooses and three passenger coaches. The Cincinnati. New Orleans Texas Pacife railriad has lets a contract for 500 cars, divided as follows: One hundred furniture, 200 box and 200 flats.

This road is now receiving 200 cars, for which the contract was let some time ago. The Chicago Northwestern has placed an order for five eight-wheel passenger engines and six six-wheel switchers. The passenger engines are of the same class an those purchased in the fall of 1895, and the switchers like those purchased in the spring of 1896. The Seaboard Air Line has ordered five ten-wheel and two six-wheel switching engines. President Woodford has purchased 1,000 freight cars, one-half.

of which number goes to the Indiana, Decatur Western and the others to the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton. The total cost is 980. The terms given are $10,980 paid Of January 3, 1898. and $6,000 a month for thirty-five months thereafter, and at the end of that time the payments shall be $6,000 a month for fifty-three months with Interest at 5 per cent. Railroad Surveys have been made for the Greenbrier line (branch of the Chesapeake Ohio).

but not definitely adopted, nor have arrangements yet been made to let contracts. On the Peoria St. Louis two miles of track were laid in 1897, and it is expected to nish the road from Green Valley to Springfield. forty-eight miles. by July I.

Trackage arrangements have been made with the Peoria, Decatur Evansville for the use of Its road from Green Valley to Pekin. The project of building thie Terre Haute, Oingy Chester from Tetre Haute to Mt. Vernon, Ill. to connect with the Wabash. Chester Western, being revived.

A St. Louis arm will finance the scheme. The Wisconsin Michigan to be extended from Faithorn Junction to Iron Mountain, Mich. about thirty miles. and the preliminary survey is now being -made.

It is stated that the Oregon Short Line has closed a contract for 3.000 tons: of seventy-two-pound steel rails, to be used son the Idaho division in place of the ty-two-pound rails now in place. With the order recently placed and the new rails laid last year, the order will be about sufficient to complete the relaying of the line from Granger to Huntington, It is stated that the Reading Railway Company Intends making- a number of improvements on the Shamokin division Among these will be the establishment of a large scale near East Mahanoy Junction. and the abandonment of Mahanoy plane and the Frackville branch as far as the coal traffic is concerned. It is claimed that these changes will result in the saving of thousands of dollars annually In the handling of the coal traffic. The car movement last week surprise to the managers of the local railroads.

It was expected that there would be a falling off in the business, but on the contrary some of -the roads show an Increase and nearly all of them are up to the average. The country roads are so bad that there is little hauling. and most of the grain is shipped from elevators. Hides, cotton, hardwood lumber and corn products also make good showing. The west-bound tonnage makes a good showing for this month, and north and south roads are doing much better than was anticipated at this season of the year.

The total movement for the week was 27,542 with 7,169 empty and 20,073 loaded cars, against 22,962 with 6,792 empty and. 16,900 loaded cars In 1897 and 27,365 with 7.666 empty and 19,699 loaded cars in 1894 The train sheets show the following movement on the Indianapolis roads: Monon 520, against 38 Indiana. Decatur Western 482, against 407; Cincinnati. Hamilton Dayton, 794, against 607: Lake Erie Western 528, against 430; Pennsylvania lines -Indianapolis Vincennes 744, against 681; Loutsville division 864, against 659; Chicago division 810; against 598; Indianapolis division 1,931, against Vandalia 2,448, against Peoria Eastern linesLast district 716, against 691; West dis trict 953, against 851; Big Four lines Chicago division 2,266, Cincinnati division 2.857, against 2.598; St. Louis division 1,854, against Indianapolis division 2,274, against 2,036.

On the Belt 19,066 cars were transferred. Belt engines handled at the stock yards 1,329 cars of- stock, and on the private switches 926 loaded cars. Railroad Statistics. The Car Movement. loading it) one mile.

Klondike Rate Out. Last year the railways of the United Sattes carried over 13,000,000,000 passengers one mile. They also carried 000,000 tons of freight one mile. The total amount paid in dividends on stock was call it $88,000,000. Of the total earnings of the railways about 70 per cent.

came from freight service and 30 per cent. from passenger service. Let us assume, then, that of the $88,000,000 pald in dividends, 70 per cent. of 000, was profit on freight service and $26,400,000 was profit on passenger service. Let us drop fractions and call it 000 from freight and $26,000,000 from passengers.

By dividing the passenger profit into the number of passengers carred (13,000,000,000) we find that the railways had to carry a passenger 500 miles In order to earn $1 of profit- or five miles to earn 1 cent. Their average profit. therefore, was less than two-tenths of cent for carrying a passenger (and his baggage) one mile. By dividing the freight profit into the freight mileage (95,000,000,000) we find that the railways had to carry one ton of freight 1,530 miles in order to earn: $1, or over fifteen miles to earn one cent. The average profit.

therefore, was less than one-fifteenth of a cent for carrying a ton of freight (besides loading and un- Klondike passenger rates are. hopelessly demoralized, although scarcely any bustness has yet begun to move. Present indications are that the men who are organizing parties for the gold felds will take all the profits on transportation and the railroad companies will do the bustness at rates which will little more than cover operating expenses. All kinds of cut rates are being made from the Eastern and Middle States to I Seattle on party business. From Chicago a rate of 1 cent a mile is said to be obtainable.

Seattle is 2.219 miles from that city, and tickets are understood to have been sold at $22.50. The tariff rates are: On limited trains, Arst-class, second-class, $51.50. The Mileage Tieket. to The Indianapolis Baltimore, January 24-D. D.

Martin. manager of passenger traffic of the Baltimore Ohio. railroad, says that the withdrawal of the Michigan lines from the interchangeable mileage agreement will not affect the popularity of the ticket. The harmonious said he, "In which the lines Interested are working is encouraging, and the sales are increasing. Conductors tell me that the ticket is growing in favor with the traveling men and say the only objections come from men who have been accustomed to taking advantage of both the railroad and their employer.

I am posttive that the lines party to the agreement will never return to the old form -of mileage." Big Four Fast Run. The Big Four had two fast runs yesterday that are attracting the attention of railroad men. Engineman Holler hauled four cars to Cincinnati from this city in two hours and thirteen minutes, making three stops and slowing down twice for other trains. Engineman John Smith made the same run in two hours and thirty-three minutes with five cars, and stopped seven times and made two slow downs. Railroad Notes.

The Clover Leaf is handling eighty cars of coal a day. Passenger travel to the city was heavler than usual to day on account of the low rates made for the monetary convention. Freight business on the Indianapolis division of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton is keeping up well. the division handling an average of 220 loads a day. The funeral of Howard Lindsay, the Big Four switchman killed Saturday, will take place to-morrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at his late home, 1611 Fletcher avenue.

The office of the car accountant of the Indiana. Decatur Western will be moved to Cincinnati to-morrow and consolidated with that of the Cincinnati. Hamilton Dayton. W. W.

Stockton will go to that city also. The storm of Saturday night caused a great deal of trouble with the telegraph wires the Big Four, and the entire telegraph force, with Superintendent Rhoads at its head, is at work. In some places twenty miles of wire is down. An extension of the St. Louls, Peoria and Northern is almost into Springfield, Ill.

It is reported that the line will be built ton to Clinton, where connection with the Northwestern and St. Paul will be made, giving those lines entrance into St. Louis. During the first fifteen days of this month the Burlington loaded more than 13,000 cars. This was 5,000 more than for the corresponding period of last year.

It is estimated that there are still more than 20.000 car-loads of corn cribbed along this company's tracks in Nebraska, the majority of which is owned by Chicago speculators. Locomotive No. 10, one of the Chicago Northwester's. twelve-wheelers, had hold of one of the longest trains on record the other day. It hauled a train consisting of thirty-nine "loads" and fifty "emptles, besides the caboose.

The train occupied fifteen minutes in passing a given point and was nearly threequarters of a mile long. J. R. Cavanagh, superintendent of car service on the Big Four: J. Q.

Hicks, general yardmaster; T. M. Smiley, general agent of Lehigh Valley; Superintendent Zion, of the Union railway. and other officers, made an inspection of the Belt Saturday, going over the road in a special train. Their object was to note the improvements and the new Industries added.

The Santa Fe Is one of the first roads in the country to adopt on an extended scale. a system of generating electricity for lighting purposes by means of the revolution of the car axle. This feature presents several advantages, one among which is the tact that the light is uniform. It is said that the current may be so regulated that the lignt of any particular lamp may be either full or dim. Thus there is perfect control of any particular lamp of car on a moving train.

COLTIVATION OF HR MP MUCH INTEREST TAKEN IN THE GROWTH OF THIS FIBER. The Importations Vegetable Fibers Experimenting with Hemp In the Cotton States Machinery to be Tried. Correspondence Indianapolis Washington, D. January The special agent in charge of fiber Investigations. Mr.

Dodge, of the Department of Agriculture, recently said: "There is a great deal of current interest: in the cultivation of hemp in this country. There was a time when the annual production of hemp in the United States amounted to 75,000 tons, butt in recent years it has fallen off. It was only 5,000 tons for the whole country two years ago. The Department of Agriculture, since the work of the Investigations first began, has been callIng attention to the Importance of extending hemp culture and of improving the quality of the product. Much of the hemp grown in this country at the present time is retted by spreading hemp stocks on the ground.

Formerly water retting was practiced to a very slight extent in Kentucky, and at one time the navy regulations required that hemp cordage should be made only of water retted hemp. "Within two or three years hemp culture has been taken up in sections of the country where it WAS supposed that hemp could not be grown to any extent. California has been making rapid strides in the advancement of the industry, and is now producing a very fine quality ofhemp. Nebraska, Minnesota, and the group of States in that northwest section of the country are all 'adapted to the cultivation of hemp. In the past season in Nebraska, some similar ex periments in water retting have been attempted, the experimenters following the lines of information given by the Department of Agriculture as the best system for doing the work.

These experiments have been quite successtul, and the department proposes, the present year, to direct some special experiments in that part of the country. Hemp in the South. "A few years ago, hemp culture was. attempted in the Southern States, and experiments prove that it is possible to grow a very good quality of hemp In many parts of the South. The office of fiber Investigations of the Department of Agriculture has Just received from Mr.

S. 8. Boyce, of Lexington, an interesting letter regarding the feastbility of cultivating the hemp crop in the cotton section, which contains valuable suggestions. The letter Is' 88 follows: Dear Sir -While there is an oversupply of cotton, the only practical way to remedy the evil is to give the planters and laborers employment in producing some other crops. One such new crop ready to hand is hemp.

The Importations of vegetable fibers into the United States is over 300,000 tons annually, every ton of which may be profitably grown at home. Hemp is especially adapted to take the place of cotton upon the Southern plantations. Hemp is a native of southern China, delights in a moist soll, and in abundance of hot, moist weather, and has no Insect enemies and la never destroyed by storms or frosts. have experimented with hemp in the cotton States for the past five years to test the necessities of terilizers, and for the adaptability of the soil and climate to the growth of a perfect crop, and I am to say that there la less risk and greater promise, in growing hemp than in growing any other crop I known. the old cotton lands the soll must be fertilized either by a crop of cow peas, broadcast.

or by the application of cotton seed or barn yard or other fertilizers. Upon a plot of twenty-five acres I found that a liberat application bf. fresh cotton seed- 1,000 pounds per acre, or of old waste about the gin, or of yard manure, gave about equally good results. Skipping ten rows in an old cotton field, upon which no fertilizers were put, and then putting on cotton seed; upon ten rows, then skipping and fertilizing with other, kinds of manure, found that the hemp planted March 25 grew to three to five feet with manure in ninety days. A crop of cow peas, one bushel per acre, broadcast, and plowed under in November gave tweive and one half feet of hemp upon similar lands.

Hemp growing is no longer an experiment. no longer guess work, but a fact. It planted as here directed the results will be as stated: Apply 1,000 lbs. cotton seed per acre at a cost of 50 Plow six inches deep and thoroughly pulverize 2 00 Sow one bushel seed per acre. 2 50 No Attention Then Required.

"Give this no further attention until in full blossom, which will be In from ninety to one hundred days, if sown in latitude of Vicksburg in February, ninety days it sown in March, and in eighty days it sown from April 18 to August 18; then cut it with a combined reaper and mower, and lay it off in armsfoil; dry it for two or three days and stack it or put it under cover. crop of teas mag- precede or follow, or two crops of hemp may be grown each season in latitude of Vicksburg. "The machinery required to handle hemp corsists of only a brake made of a series of twenty sets of cast iron fluted rollers six inches in dfameter, run by hOrSE power: from the gin engine, and costing from $750 to $1,000. This is for each 500 acres of hemp grown. There are three ways of rotting the hemp straw to obtain the fiber: First, spreading the hemp upon the ground, ot leaving it so, spread while cut, unthi the fiber will separate from the talk, as now practiced in Kentucky.

Resuit, a fiber worth to 4 cents. a pound, Second, putting the hemp stalks or straw into ponds, streams or tanks of water for cigit to fourteen days, as is done. in California, Italy and Russia: then spreading ft cut to dry; then breaking out. Result. a fiber worth 5 to 7 cents a pound, according to skill in handling.

Third: breaking hemp straw. before ting and chemically treating by process, time one hour. Result, a worth to 1: cents a pound, according to skill in bardling. 0. these ways of obtaining the fiber will add from $10 to -per acre tor tit cost of the hemp, making a 1 cest of $11 to $20 an acre.

In California. the hemp is now grown upon. rapidly extending acreage. for al total cost of $15 per acre, where the wages are double the wages paid in the cotton States. Hemp Is grown successfully, and In hight and quality according to skill, In Minnesota a well-fertilized field will produce a crop, if the rainfall is sumcient, six -to seven feet high.

In 1111 11059 eight to nine feet, and in. same proportions according to greater warmth and an abundance of moisture to nineteen or twenty fret in Louisiana. central California, upon bottom lands, or with fourteen irrigation, hemp grows twelve to feet high, but the climate is cooler generally, and It requires 120 days to mature the crop. Hemp is sown in the north in April and May. In Kenutcky, in- April; in the South February land following months, and -is cut in the North In ninety to one hun dred days, and in the South in eighty tO ninety days.

The Field of Hemp. "The yield of hemp on ground fertilized, deeply plowed, caretully, pulverized and sown with a drill with shoes five inches apart, one bushel of seed to an acre, is 150 pounds of clean fiber for every foot in bight per acre. That In hemp fifteen feet high will give upward of 2,000 pounds of clean fiber. The steid per cent. is greater in warmer climates, The season of 1896 was very dry, and the hemp crop was cut short.

all, other crops were. The overflow in 1897 ed the regularity of the work, but planted in June, hemp grew to twenty feet in Eight upon these overflowed and fertilIsed lands." "The Department of Agriculture," continued Mr. Dodge, "has receutly. Issued an exhaustive report on the culture of hemp and jute in the United States; which contains statements concerning the practice in foreign lands, the preparation of the fiber for market, and some Interesting tacts bearing upon the max chine As it to a fact that the hemp of Kentucky is to-day cleaned on an old-fashioned band-brake that has been used for a hundred years, one of the greatest needs at the present timers for a machine hemp-brake which will enable the farmer to clean his crop as rapIdly as the grain crop is secured by mens of a thrasher. "It is proposed by the department, it possible, to hold a series of tatals of hemp machinery the coming fall, he there is no doubt that a good hemp machine would revolutionize the hemp Industry.

Is beyond question, that the soft. creamy and strong Aber of the commercial hemp grown in Europe fo the finest in the markets of the The Romanga is the most celebrated of ItalIan hemps. Its length being sometimes more than elght feet. The hemp of France very much resembles the Italian, and Is cultivated very largely in Brittany. Italy produces of the hemp Imported from all countries.

Compared with the French and Italian hemps, the Russian product is of low grade: and yet the Russian is the kind with which the product of this country is brought into direct competition. "Unquestionably the future demand in the United States will be for white hemp; that is to say, a water-retted rather than a dew- retted hemp. similar to the hemps of France and Italy. is said that the hemp supply of Italy is falling off and that it is deteriorating In quality. This fact alone makes it worth while for this country to undertake better hemp culture arid to produce quality of fiber that will take the place of the imported white hemps: Mr.

Boyce, In his letter, points, out the difference in the prices and the kinds of hemp, while there is not so great a difference in the cost of SMITH D. FRY. RETIREMERT. His Resignation an Probate Com missioner la Entirely Voluntary, Gus 0'Bryan, probate commissioner, who will retire from the office, said to- day: "It is to be regretted that any misapprehension should exist as to Judge Allen's attitude in reference to a changa in the office of probate commissioner. Several months since I Informed Judge Allen that I would relinquish.

the office some time during the coming apring. my reasons for so doing being of no publio Interest, but entirely personal to myself. In the same interview I suggested in the interest of the public service that my successor should be selected In time allow him to enter the office several months in advance of his formal appointment in order that he might become famillar with its duties. I desire to emphasize the fact that Judge Allen has never intimated to me any desire for elther my removal or resignation, and any contrary Impression that may prevail does him an Injustice; such action as he has taken in the matter has been in response to my own suggestions. "My resignation as probate commissioner lias not yet been tendered.

bat when It is the act will be purely voluntary upon my part, and In no sense partake of. the character of the 'resignations' so freely offered from time to time In our municipal government. In connedtion with this matter it may not be inappropriate to add that I am grateful for the many expressions of kindness re celved touching my official work, and am especially. indebted to the attorneys, of this city for their advice and assistance In my administration of the office." McCulloch Sewing: Cirele. Early in the winter a dozen or more ladies of the South Side organized the Sewing They meet on.

alternate Tuesdays, and their fingers are kept busy all afternoon patching, res pairing and making over old clothing. much for which would be entirely useless and fit only for the rag-bag, but for this darning and remodeling. The clothes are then given. to needy people who are known to be worthy of help. Any one having cast-off clothes to rive to this charity work may leave them with Mrs.

J. S. Surbey, 000 East South atreet. Our Winters. Tork Weekly.) Foreign Visitor -What a delightful elfmate you have- so mild and pleasant! 16 doesn't seem a bit like winter.

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