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St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 10, 1884.
Messrs. Editors: The upper portion of Vermont is one of the pleasantest regions in America during the summer, and one of the bleakest during the winter. It affords ample opportunity for the tourist, providing he chooses the proper season, but the present time is not that season. Still there are men and women here who not only endure the climate, but praise it unstintingly, and that, too, in the face of physical hardships the most intense. The writer heard of a striking illustration of this a few days since which is given herewith:
Mr. Joseph Jacques is connected with the Vermont Central Railroad in the capacity of master mason. He is well advanced in years, with a ruddy complexion and hale appearance, while his general bearing is such as to instantly impress one with his strict honor and integrity. Several years ago he became afflicted with most distressing troubles, which prevented the prosecution of his duties. He was languid, and yet restless, while at times a dizziness would come over him which seemed almost blinding. His will power was strong, and he determined not to give way to the mysterious influence which seemed undermining his life. But the pain and annoying symptoms were stronger than his will, and he kept growing gradually worse. About that time he began to notice a difficulty in drawing on his boots, and it was by the greatest effort that he was able to force his feet into them. In this manner several weeks passed by, until finally one night, while in great agony, he discovered that his feet had in a short while, swollen to enormous proportions. The balance of the narrative can best be described in his own words. He said:
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TheSt. Charles Hotel, Paducah, Ky., was burned Sunday night.
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Wm. H. Guion, of the Steamship firm of Williams has failed for $2,000,000.
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Icehas prevented the ferry boats from crossing the St. Clair river at Port Huron.
Theprohibitionists declare that they will place a presidential ticket in the field next fall.
Lowellmanufacturers have given employes notice that there will be a reduction of ten per cent in wages beginning Feb. 1.
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Therewas a railway wreck, caused by a broken rail, on the Wabash road near Macon, Mo., on Monday; several persons were injured.
Itis estimated that the United States Senate is the wealthiest deliberative body in the world, the seventy-six members of that body representing $180,000,000.
A rumoris in circulation at Ottawa, Canada, that the Canadian Pacific road has asked the government for additional assistance to the amount of $14,000,000.
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Itis claimed that there is at the present time between 100 and 150 foreign vessels engaged in the oyster traffic on the Virginia coast without right or authority.
Thepeople of Ouray, Col., lynched Mike Cuddigan and wife Saturday, on suspicion of having murdered a child whom they took from a Catholic asylum at Denver.
Itis said that the buffaloes have come north of the Missouri river, in Montana, and the Indians killed eleven hundred in one day not far from the mouth of the Musselshell.
Thehorror of the week was the wrecking of the steamer City of Columbus off Martha's Vineyard, January 19th. There were 129 persons on board of whom ninety-seven were lost.
A sealwas discovered in the track of the steamer Armstrong, at Morristown, N. Y., on the St. Lawrence river. This was the third or fourth seal seen in that vicinity in the last half-dozen years.
Thecandle factory of E. L. Schneider & Co., located on the corner of Wallace and McGregor streets, Chicago, was Sunday swept away by fire. The loss is $150,000, and the insurance $57,000.
Thefriends of Mr. Hintz, the unsuccessful candidate for postmaster at Elgin, Illinois, threaten to defeat the re-election of Representative Ellwood in the next campaign, who is held responsible for his defeat.
TwoIrish members of the British Parliament, Matthew Arnold and P. J. Sheridan,—the latter supposed to be the mysterious No. 1 of the Phœnix Park assassination scheme—are in Chicago the present week.
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Judge Shepard, in the Superior Court of Chicago, Saturday, dismissed three bills for divorce, holding that when a wife separated from her husband her residence as well as her domicile follows his, and that the Illinois statutes excludes from its courts all suits for divorce in behalf of persons not legal residents.
TheOnondaga (New York) Indians have held another council, at which it was shown that a majority of the nation is opposed to dividing the lands in severally, but is willing to agree to a division of such timber lands as can not be protected against depredations. The Christian party is to be represented at the next conference with the State commissioners.
Nearlyone-fourth of the business portion of Leipsic, O., was burned Friday night, and flames swept away 1,145 bales of cotton at Murrell's Point, La., and twenty-one buildings at Lowell, Mich. A boiler explosion at Cincinnati, in the Corrugating company's manufactory, Saturday, led to the destruction of $50,000 in property.
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Office of The Prairie Farmer,Chicago.Jan 22, 1884.
Papers devoted to finance and trade inform us that the number of business failures in 1883 was 9,184 against 8,782 in the hard times of 1877. The fear is, that the worst is not yet come, but this feeling happily is not by any means universal among most far seeing business men.
The transactions at the Chicago banks were a trifle slower than last week. The regular loan market was quotable on Monday at 6@7 per cent.
Eastern exchange was firm at 60c per $1,000.
The stock markets at the East were a little feverish and here the same feeling was noticeable. There are rumors of financial embarrassment in high places, and Mr. Gould himself is said to be a little nervous over the weakness in many of his stocks.
Government securities are as follows:
4's coupon, 1907Q. Apr.123¼4's reg., 1907Q. Apr.123¼4½'s coupon, 1891Q. Mar.1141/84½'s registered, 1891Q. Mar.1141/83's registeredQ. Mar.100
The receipts of flour at this point for the forty-eight hours ending Monday morning were greatly in excess of those for the corresponding week last year. In wheat last year the receipts were 28,007 bushels; this year 50,532. Corn last year 189,661; this year 226,990.
Flour was unchanged, the article not yet feeling the uncertain condition of the wheat market.
Choice to favorite white winters$5 25@5 50Fair to good brands of white winters4 75@5 00Good to choice red winters5 25@5 50Prime to choice springs4 75@5 00Good to choice export stock, in sacks, extras4 25@4 50Good to choice export stock, double extras4 50@4 65Fair to good Minnesota springs4 50@4 75Choice to fancy Minnesota springs5 25@5 75Patent springs6 00@6 50Low grades2 25@3 50
Wheat.—Red winter, No. 3, 92; car lots of spring, No. 2, sold at 88¾c; No. 3, do. 81@84.
Corn.—Moderately active. Car lots No 2, 51@52c; rejected, 43@44; new mixed, 48@50½c.
Oats.—No. 2 in store, closed 32½@32¾.
Rye.—May, in store 57@57½.
Barley.—No. 2, 49 in store; No. 3, f. o. b. 52½c.
Flax.—Closed at $1 52 on track.
Timothy.—$1 31½@1 35 per bushel. Little doing.
Clover.—Quiet at $6 05@6 10 for prime.
Provisions.—Mess pork, February, $14 75@14 78 per bbl; Green hams, 10½c per lb. Short ribs, $7 65 per cwt.
Lard.—February, $8 65.
Lumber unchanged. Quotations for green are as follows:
Short dimension, per M$ 9 50@10 00Long dimension, per M10 00@11 50Boards and strips, No. 211 00@13 00Boards and strips, medium13 00@16 00Boards and strips, No. 1 choice16 00@20 00Shingles, standard2 10@ 2 20Shingles, choice2 25@ 2 30Shingles, extra2 40@ 2 60Lath1 65@ 1 70
Note.—The quotations for the articles named in the following list are generally for commission lots of goods and from first hands. While our prices are based as near as may be on the landing or wholesale rates, allowance must be made for selections and the sorting up for store distribution.
Bran.—Quoted at $15@12 25 per ton;
Beans.—Hand picked mediums $2 00@2 10. Hand picked navies, $2 15@2 20.
Butter.—Dull and without change. Choice to extra creamery, 33@36c per lb.; fair to good do 25@32c; fair to choice dairy, 23@28c; common to choice packing stock fresh and sweet, 18@22c; ladle packed 10@13c; fresh made, streaked butter, 9@11c.
Broom-corn.—Good to choice hurl 6½@7½c per lb; green self-working 5@6c; red-tipped and pale do 4@5c; inside and covers 3@4c; common short corn 2½@3½c; crooked, and damaged, 2@4c, according to quality.
Cheese.—Choice full-cream cheddars 13@13½c per lb; medium quality do 9@10c; good to prime full cream flats 13@13¾c; skimmed cheddars 9@10c; good skimmed flats 7@9c; hard-skimmed and common stock 3@4c.
Eggs.—In a small way the best brands are quotable at 27@28c per dozen; 20@23c for good ice house stock; 15@18c per pickled.
Hay.—No 1 timothy $9@9 50 per ton; No 2 do $8 00@8 50; mixed do $7@8; upland prairie $8 00@10 75; No 1 prairie $6@7; No 2 do $4 50@5 50. Small bales sell at 25@50c per ton more than large bales.
Hides and Pelts.—Green-cured light hides 8¼c per lb; do heavy cows 8c; No 2 damaged green-salted hides 6c; green-salted calf 12@12½ cents; green-salted bull 6c; dry-salted hides 11 cents; No. 2 two-thirds price; No. 1 dry flint 14@14½c. Sheep pelts salable at 28@32c for the estimated amount of wash wool on each pelt. All branded and scratched hides are discounted 15 per cent from the price of No. 1.
Hops.—Prime to choice New York State hops 25@26c per lb; Pacific coast of 23@26c: fair to good Wisconsin 15@20c.
Poultry.—Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are: Turkeys 13@14c per lb; chickens 9@10c; ducks 12@13c; geese 9@11c. Thin, undesirable, and frozen stock 2@3c per lb less than these figures; live offerings nominal.
Potatoes.—Good to choice 30@33c per bu. on track; common to fair 30@35c. Illinois sweet potatoes range at $3 50@4 per bbl for yellow.
Tallow and Grease.—No 1 country tallow 7@7¼c per lb; No 2 do 6¼@6½c. Prime white grease 6@6½c; yellow 5¼@5¾c; brown 4½@5.
Vegetables.—Cabbage, $8@12 per 100; celery, 25@35c per doz bunches; onions, $1 00@1 25 per bbl for yellow, and $1 for red; turnips, $1 35@1 50 per bbl for rutabagas, and $1 00 for white flat.
Wool.—from store range as follows for bright wools from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa—dark Western lots generally ranging at 1@2c per lb. less.
Coarse and dingy tub25@30Good medium tub31@34Unwashed bucks' fleeces14@15Fine unwashed heavy fleeces18@22Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces22@23Coarse unwashed fleeces21@22Low medium unwashed fleeces24@25Fine medium unwashed fleeces26@27Fine washed fleeces32@33Coarse washed fleeces26@28Low medium washed fleeces30@32Fine medium washed fleeces34@35
Colorado and Territory wools range as follows:
Lowest grades14@16Low medium18@22Medium22@26Fine16@24
Wools from New Mexico:
Lowest grades14@16Part improved16@17Best Improved19@23
Burry from 2c to 10c off; black 2c to 5c off.
The total receipts and shipments for last week were as follows:
Received.Shipped.Cattle42,11018,986Calves527346Hogs140,81434,161Sheep24,60011,815
Cattle.—Very few choice lots are coming in. Receipts have fallen off some 3,000 head. Of those that arrive the "unripe" predominate. Some of our feeders are undoubtedly inclined to market too young. Some cattle by experienced breeders and feeders may be "ripened" at two years, but in the majority of cases, especially with anything else than high grade short-horns, this can not be done. There is more money in holding common stock a few months longer. The feeling on Monday was very firm, and prices advanced considerably. Good heavy cattle brought as high as $6 65, though the majority sold at less. Six steers averaging 1,523 lbs brought $7. Cattle for shippers and canners went at $4 65@5; bulls $2 50@4; cows $2 25@4 75; stockers and feeders scarce at $3 40@4 45 with some of the latter at $4 50@5.
Hogs.—The hogs now arriving are light and the number is not large. Since November 1st, Chicago packers have put up 325,000 less hogs than for the corresponding period last year, and the total packing of the country has fallen off 285,000 head. Our packing houses are now running to about one half their capacity. Prices are firm. Common to fair stock $5 25@5 75; good to choice heavy $5 80@6 30; skips and culls $4 25@5 15.
Note.—All sales of hogs are made subject to a shrinkage of 40 lbs for piggy sows and 80 lbs for stags. Dead hogs sell for 1½c per lb for weights of 200 and over and [Transcriber's Note: blank in original] for weights of less than 100 lbs.
Sheep.—Arrivals are large. Several carloads from Texas came in on Monday. Common to good $3 30@4 87½; fancy head $5 75.
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JOHN BOYD, Manufacturer,199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
Gold Watch Free.
The publishers of the Capitol City Home Guest, the well-known Illustrated Literary and Family Magazine, make the following liberal Offer for the New Year: The person telling us the longest verse in the Bible, before March 1st, will receive aSolid Gold, Lady's Hunting Cased Swiss Watch, worth $50. If there be more than one correct answer, the second will receive an elegantStem-winding Gentleman's Watch: the third a key-windingEnglish Watch. Each person must send 25 cts. with their answer, for which they will receive three months subscription to the Home Guest, a 50 page IllustratedNew Year Book, a Case of 25 articlesthat the ladies will appreciate, and paper containing names of winners. Address
Pubs. of HOME GUEST, HARTFORD, CONN.
We will send you a watch or a chainBY MAIL OR EXPRESS, C.O.D., to be examined before paying any money and if not satisfactory, returned at our expense. We manufacture all our watches and save you 30 per cent. Catalogue of 250 styles free.Every Watch Warranted. AddressSTANDARD AMERICAN WATCH CO.,PITTSBURGH. PA.
We will send you a watch or a chainBY MAIL OR EXPRESS, C.O.D., to be examined before paying any money and if not satisfactory, returned at our expense. We manufacture all our watches and save you 30 per cent. Catalogue of 250 styles free.
Every Watch Warranted. Address
STANDARD AMERICAN WATCH CO.,PITTSBURGH. PA.