Commercial Advertiser from Topeka, Kansas • 3

-u Ui.mi 4 igfegt rfwMtf ihf fi mW Wi J.J. If, Mi.lu jnijww gfSMMtliniMMM (Mi TR AVIS, A'JiAJ R1PLE SOU, State 'ti'f 'the Markets. 1 ll flllu U'll I- it I 1 Kf of Topeka-Grain Market. YJ Theta has been quite a change In the grainifnarket since our last issue, heat -has! materially deolined, and 'lour has dropped! about twenty per eent.f -i t'i' Wheat 2, No. 8, $1.25 to $L80; No.

4, $1.10 to spring, $1. Flour, No 1, No. 2, No. 8, low grade, $4.50. Com, 85o.

i A i "iin expected 6n 'time' to-day. As a matter 'of cou'rpe track 1b not In a go6d ooiiditlon, from' the' effeot of the" rains, "and necessitates a slower 'rate 'of The Santa Fe train from Kansas city came "111 last bight ovei1 the K. after malc-injf an uhcuccesBfql attempt to' coihe inbVef the Midland. The Santa" 'Fe road. west is damaged by the and yesterday the precaution bf running an engine a head of the pAssen-train was resorted to.

The company has a large force of then at work, and everything Will Soon be In good order, If the rain will only let up for a while. The officials of both roads are doing all in their power to prevent further damage, and are deserving bf credit for their efforts. But is almost a thing impossible for man to fight against the elements." JVb trust that the rain is now over, anc pleasent weather will soon bring a more desirable state' of affairs. Blade, ''i-' i r. 1 i The Kansas Baptist convention is in session.

About forty delegates from different sections of the State are present. i- -ft' Reck Morrow are gaining quite a reputation as' venders of meats, I IK) U. game, etc. 1 1 -I The Price She Paid, is the title of a new novel. We dont know what the article was, but it is safe to say if she bought it at auction1 and an other woman there was desirous of becoming the- owner also, the price she paid was more than four times as muen as it was worth.

Washington Nation. hl 1 4 i The Norristown Herald knows'of a girl who was kissed 980 times in one evening at a' church festival, anc each kiss brought her in 10 cents None of us could afford to pay a gif $98 for kissing her all alone all the evening, and the 10-centway givep all a chance. Detroit Free Press. () 1 IA. The price of flour is getting so high that several Danbury people tf an economical turn are giving monejr instead of bread to tramps.

Danbury News. TOPEKA CARRIAGE FACTORS if 1 lifH Hi CO fl 0 A a i 10 UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF J. A. POIiliEY Sc, Agents for the Celebrated. STUDEBAKER WAGONS.

An agent, soliciting subscriptions for a book, showed the prospectus to a man, who, after reading, "One dollar in boards, and one dollar and twenty-five cents in sheep declined subscribing, as he might not have boards and sheep on hand when called upon for payment. Chicago Tri DIALES IN HORSES, 1 I- 1 keeps ti regular Feed and Auction Stable. BUYS AND SELLS AT rivato Hi Sale Boards Stock Low Runs a Regular Hack Line! W'Leave orders at Office, corner Sixth and Quincy streets, Topeka, Kansas. i No Fear of Death in Dying. A striking fact in connection with the dying is that they are not afraid of death.

You notice this even jn executions." The taajority of meil who are hanged are reported to have died game. Death following disease or injury is seldom accompanied with. fear. Disease dulls the intelligence, so that the situation may not be-fully comprehended; or there may be ain, and death looked upon as a re-ief. Nature, by a kind provision, seems to prepare for the flight of the spirit.

As the hold upon life grows weaker, so does the desire for life grow less, and in scarcely a single instance within my experience, or within that of my professional brethren with whom 1 have conversed upon this point, has not the dying man relinquished life at the last without seeming reluctance or fearer; Tie several physical phenomena which accompany the act of dying vary considerably in the early stages with the causes which produce death. There is much similarity in the latter steps. Death offers then a physiognomy which once witnessed is not hard to recognize again. Among the more constant signs are the failing pulse, which gradually becomes imperceptible first at the wrist and lastly at the breast itself the extremities grow cold; the countenance changes as the venous blood courses the ar-eriesta skin grows clammy as the muscles relax the eye glazesjthe ja5v-droops; the fluids accumulate in the windpipe, causing the death rattle, so called, as the air passes through; the breath comes short and finally ceases. As the red blood leaves the brain the judgment becomes obscure and the senses deficient.

Speech is incoherent; Many times last words are imagined by affection to mean more than intended at all. It grows dark or more light are common sayings as the optic nerve loses its stimulus, or strange sights may be seen and sounds heard as occurs sometime in the twilight. The hallucinations of the dying may be often explained upon natural causes Philadelvhia Disvatch. Men, says some philosopher, are frequently like tea the real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out until they have been in hot water. Very true, and they are quite as often like whisky the mischief and meanness in them are not drawn out until they are drunk.

If you toss a penny fairly, and it comes up heads three times running, the chances for the fourth are still exactly what they are at first that is exactly equal. Gamblers deny, this, but no mathematician A HOME AND FARM OF- I 1 it 1 1 jiliur ,1 I I It I I J. YOUR. OWN! 'I ij ii 1 -J On the line of a Great Railroad, with good markets East and West. i i i 1 i j.

Ml i. i SOV IS THE TIME TO SEC8SE IT. is A I rwn I 1 JAOTaM .0 .3 This space belongs to 4 i I DEALER IN FINE' STATIONERY, V' Six Doors North of TeJt House. 1 Xii. Ul r-.

i The Flood, The recent heavy rains west of us and in this rvicinity has caused a rise" in all the streams tributary to the Kansas river, and that stream is now within six incheB of its highest point in the last month. Advioes from up the river say the Republican, Blue arid Smoky rivers are overflowing' the 'and last night these streams were reported as still rising, From that fact we may expect a rise -here this and to-morrow' Evening ot from one to one aqc( a half From six oclock yesterday evening to six oclock this morning riyer had risen twenty-five inches, and this forenoon it" was rising at the rate of an inch and half an hour. It has risen about seven feet in the last two days. A portion of the town of Salina is reported as being inuedated, and families having to vacate their houses. Soldier from its mouth to the residence of 1 Robert Forbes, a distance of seven miles, has overflowed its banks, doing an immense amount of damage to the crops, and farms on each side of the stream are under water.

S. W' Harper Stod. Gordon, Wm. Foster, Meads, A. H.

La-fon, Robt. Forbes, and many others, will be heavy losers, as their farms are on1 the bottoms "that .1 are overflowed. The 1 1 water rose in and around the 1 resideuce of Mr. Lafon necessitating the removal of his family and goods to a neigh borg. It was boasted that Mr.

Lafon owned as pretty a field of fall wheat as was ever seen in the State of Kansas. Now' it is submerged iiiover-flowed waters', and, bf will be almost totally destroyed. His cornfields puffer in like' Avenue road the water is withjh two feet of the Soldier creek1 bridge. The bridge and those above, as far as we could learn, are safe, and teams crossing" all the while.1 The raging Shunganuhga wail oL a regular high last t6 the bridge on' theAVekiue It ImA fallen somewhat "to-da. AVhether has been any damage done by wS were unable to learn.

A washout is reported on the road west of Brookville, a station about 150 miles here, and yesterdays from the was abandoned there, an 4, up to this, ime no train has come from the west end. The train from Kansas City was about fifty minutes late, but is Dealers in Choice Fancy and Staple Groceries; 1 ALL KINDS OP if Fresh and Fielded Fish! 1 1 We take extra patne to get the earliest and best fruits the market affords. i We keep, at all times, Champagne Cider, .1 AMMMa m1 AtLne Cwnlto IV Keept Hb all blUioBf vUitiiiwfcuo vn. Oranges and Lemons, and other fruits to wholesale, and guarantee tp compete Eastern markets on duality and price. We also handle AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, 1 1 iV I Lime and Hair.

4 23 Kansas, ayetiue', j(' 243 MRS. P. AMANDA WASHBURNE, SCHOQL pp, ART! ALSO Piano Iiessons, Tuition. Plano, $15 for twenty-four Lessons; Vocal, from $20 to $10, according to capacity of pupils. Mi'll I in COMMERCIAL AD7ERTISER.

SUNDAY 'MORNINQV' JuNB 10 1877. 000 COPIES. New Advertisements j.Wilimarth' Fine Stationery, 'I), H. Forbes Hardware ah 4, Cutlery. Wu i ij i i'.

W. A. Travis Dealer in Horses; also, Livery Stable. Erastus Smith Boots and Shoes. Reck Morrow Meat Market.

Only one person' in ten1 fii Rhide Island is engaged in agriculture, and he digs his beets with a corkscrew so as not to disturb the soil of Massachusetts and Connecticut. 4 The May debt statement shows a reduction in the national debt of 500,000, making ah aggregate of in eleven months, or $25,000,000 not including $10,000 received from the Geneva Award fund, covered into thS Treasury. 1 t'V A commercial exchange says: Hogs are We never thought hogs were very sharp. When breaks into a cabbage you, may chase it fourteen hundred times around the lot, and it will try to crawl through every three-inch crack in the fence without once seeing the hole it made to get in. A I Secretary Evarts proposes to reorganize the consular system, after the plah adapted by Great 1 Britain.

In making appointments for consul it, is proposed to select men familiar with commerce and manufactures selecting commercial men for commercial districts, and for manufacturing districts men acquainted with the special manufacture Of the districts to which they may bC assigned. Consuls will be instructed to Careful; ly observe the progress made in mah-ufactutak in their districts, send samples of textile fabrics, and report in detail the progress and cost of Manufacture, in order that American manufacturers may he 1 fully Informed upon this subject, and1 introduce such manufactures as may prove profitable to American industry and enterprise. At commercial districts consuls will be required. make themselves familliar with the local exports, and imports, the destination of the former and the consumption of the latter, and report fronts time to time what commodities of American production might be' added to our export trade with proflt-to American commerce, It is belieted by this system American exports to South America and the Islands of the Caribbean Sea could be quadrupled in the next four years. Blade.

i si Topekas head is level on her contemplated water power improvement. The late flood has given a water and all that1 'Was necessary to verify the the engin-. eer was to go along the banks of Kaw from the city to the proposed place of the dam and the water level at different points. 1 The site of the dam is the very best, and water seven feet higher the recent liieght would not overflow the hanks at that point, nor adjacent country above the dam. The fall of water at the city is also verified as well as the line of the canal or race.

This is taking fortune at its flood. Valley Falls Era. Retail Market. ml ir PRT GOODS.1 1 5 Denims 12 8 Chevoits. i Carpets chains 20 12 Boots, coarse 8 50 Sheeting, br 5 do fine 6 Gingham, dom 8 Canton Flannel 7 Jeans 25 Stripes 8 )kl: 18 25 1 20 80 22 5 00 10 20 80 15 Ducking, 15 22 I I mans.

Prime Navy Common do 1 I iH-I -i COFFEE. Rio Prime TO. Rio Choice lb 27 9 v. Roasted and ground 85 molasses. Sorghum $1 gall New Orleans gall Refined Syrups gall.

70 FLOUR. A No.l, winter wheat Fancy fall wheat Extra Family sack 1 Rye Flour sack, Bran, $100 lbs Shorts, 100 Tbs. I ir Corn Meal, 100 lbs Corn Chop FRUITS. Choice N. V.

dried apples, lbi Choice dr'd lb, Inferior do do do Choice dried peaches, -Fair to good dried peaches, fi Layer Raisins, ft Prunes, Dried Blackberries, ft Dried Currants, 1b Dried Raspberries, choice, 1b, Pitted Cherries, 1b GREEN FRUITS, AC. Apples. peck Apples Mien, per Bbl. Oranges, doz Lemons, do do 50 90 1 10 5 00 1 525 5 50 4 50 3 50 50 76' 125' 60 10 9 8 2Q1 15 20 11 12V 10 30 25 50 4 75 50 50 20 2 30 20 03 Maple Sagar, $to SALT. Ohio river, per bbl 1 Saginaw bbl Fine dairy, 1b i SUGAR Choice yellow eoffee, per lb 1 11M Common yellow coffee, per White Crushed Pondered and granulated, per 1b MEATS.

eef I.1.', id Rib 10 Boll 6 Veal Steaks 12 Roast 10 Mutton Steaks 12 Stew 10 Lamb. 12X Pork Steaks 10 Roast 10 Dried Beef 17 Buffalo 15 Rams 20 10 poultry, per doz 2 50 EGGS. Fresh, doz 1 7V BUTTER. Strlotlyoholee, 12 Common packed, fc.vrr. t.

5 CHEESE. N. Y. Factory 1b Good State, 1b 1 BEEDS I Piax ft Clover Timothy, 1b BlueGrass, Osage Orange, ft Orchard Grass, ft RedTOp1 tlk da. FISH.

Codfish, choice, per lb White fish. No. 1, per Mackerel, No. 1, per 2 25 Mackerel. No.

3, per 1 25 Herring. Holl. Keg i i tobacco. Plug, 60 Natural Leaf, per Fine Cut, per Smoking, per lb HARDWARE. Cut Nalls, per Fence Wire, per i.

Fence Staples, per lb Bar Iron, per Fence Barbs, per lb lumber; per 20 00 Siding, per 18 00 Flooring, per 25 00 Finishing, per 32 50 Shingles, per 3 00 Lath, perM Stock boards 27 00 Pickets .22 50 Joists, per 22 50 12 11 13 14 14 12 15 15 15- 12 3 00 8 15 -9 20 15 6 20 9' 25 85 15 'i 1 8 85 2 50 1 50 2 00 75 1 00 1 25 1 00 5 6 23 50 25 00 45 00 60 00 4 00 3 50 55 00 45 00 27 50 COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET. Rutter, fresh lb 12 15 Eggs, doz 7 8 ckens, alive. doz 2 00 2 40 Do dressed 1b Turkeys, alive, each 1 00 Do dressed, i'- ard 1b 11 Vheat, No. 2 100 3 70 4.. 60 12 1 10 75 65 23 25 22 30 45 45 90 60 4 3 Okts.W bushel.

i. 18 'iorn, the 23 ejv Corn Do do shelled 25 -ye, bushel, iarley, prime, 40- otatoes, Irish, new Early Rose (for seed) -attle stall fed steers Stock 2 Fat 2 75 8 60 rr Calves -5 10 ogs, live, 100 lbs 5 00 6 00 logs, dressed, 100 lbs 6 "aeon, Hams 12 14 Do Sides 12 -Do 8 1 10 Ides, green, 1b 4 5 Do dry, 1b 10 12 Wood, cord 4 00 5 00 Hay, ton nnrrrrt 4 50 500 jioal, bushel 15 22 The Wathena Reporter says, and Oregon, shake 1 It is surmised that it 'Will1 soon Kansas and California, -shake Y'Troy Chief. After ehurch. reading the ads? go to ch pi 1 1 H. iiVl VA of I Fear is the universal offspring of uncertainty.

in, i i 'i i i in i Mild Climate, Fertile Soli, best country for -Stock Raising In the United States. Books, Maps, Full Information, also The Pioneer sent free to all parts of tbe world. ii Address, O. DAVIS, Land Com. U.

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