Show COMMERCIAL Ifcir York General Markets V NEW YORK Aug SnopsFirm dulL WoolDull unsettled domestic fleece 20 28 pulled 025 Texas 1217 Coffee Options quiet at 15CJ20 points decline Sales 5000 bags September Ibo j1525 October Oc-tober 1515 December 1533 J spot Rio dull nominal No 71016if Migar Ear dull nominal refined stecdy fair demand Copper Weak lake SK70 LeadQuiet domestic 325 Tin Dull straits 1S65JJ1875 plates dull Steady speller steady domestic 31734 Chicago General Market V CHICAGO Aug 8 Wheat Easy cash t3V4 Sept 303g CornLower cash 37 Sept 39i OatsEasy cash 231 Sept24 Pork Easy rash 1200 Sept 1225 Lard Steady cash 76734 Sept 7714 Ribs Easy cash 1000 Sept 1500 I Sye 45Mz Barley Nominal FlaxES Timothy 350 Chicago Groin Market CHICAGO Aug 7Wheat quiet opened unchanged I un-changed to Vi lower declined 1J on lower cables a ca-bles disquieting rumor of a local national bank 1 about to Jail afterwards denied uncertainty in regard to the tenor of the presidents message mes-sage and probable course of Congress fluctuated fluctu-ated someclosed IJi lower than yesterday Receipts 113000 bushels shipments 82003 busbels Liverpool Grain Market LIVERPOOL Aug 8 Wheat Demand poor No 2 red winter 5s 7d spring 5s 7b CornSteady demand poor spot 4s IJid I August 4s Id September 4s 2d October 1 4s Shd Chicago Lie Stock CHICAGO Aug 5 tCattle Receipts 45CO J natives steady to strong Texans 10 higher I prune 47CX2480 good to choice 38546a medium c me-dium 3503SO others 2900350 Texans 215 i315 V HogsReceipts 6500 beat heavy 003515 higher early later weak common neglected light 15 higher grassy and common 454 packing 4 80510 prime heavy ana butchers 10535 prime light 455Go light mixed 520SW Sheep Receipts 7000 natives strong westerns lower natives 300425 westerns 290S345 Mark Lane Express Ylcw LONDON Aug STne Mark Lane Express says The British wheat crop is now estimated at 7000000 Quarters This leaves 21003000 quarters to be imported Deducting the stock left over from iKtt there will bo needed 19030 V 000 quarters iris not easyto see where this supply is to come from It will absorb all the good cropsiof Russia India and southeastern V Europe to till British requirements In the V meantime foreign wheats are neglected California Cali-fornia is quoted at 29o 3d per quarter Corn is chenp Old American sells at 21s and now American 6d less V Ah Sin Looked on Unmoved The stolid impassive nature ot the heathen Chinese w never better illustrated illus-trated than during tho Ford theatre disaster n dis-aster in Washington Three pie tailed exoties ironxihe Flowery kingdom conduct con-duct a washeo emporium just the eeo ond door below the historic old shell where they are wont to pursue the even tenor of their vocation which promotes the next neighbor to godliness V Something Some-thing more than an earthquake shock would probaply be required to shake any V exhibition of interest tram these Chinese Although the crash of the falling floors of the old theatre was not far from their ears and their own roof might have come tumbling over their heads next these Celestials did not manifest the slightest surprise They simply stepped to their basement door to see that the street was still there and returned to their flat irons V Through the rest of the day while thousands of excited people were clamoring clamor-ing outside fire bells were clanging ambulances am-bulances rushing by and dead and wounded men being carried past in plain view of their window those laundrymen bent over their clothes and gave no sign that they realized the progress of anything any-thing unusual V For all the symptoms of intelligence displayed them they might as well have been Pharaohs dryingup in their own Bkirs It might have been the disregard of human life which is said to be characteristic charac-teristic of the Oriental or it might have been Johns faculty for minding his own business but anyway it was a queer exhibition Washington Post |