The Herald from Shreveport, Louisiana • 2

PRICES CURRENT CITY HOTEL ARRIVALS TSE HERALD THE LIEKALD THE MARKETS Good judges the market be-ieved that a play for point or two on the long side niigh be expected with a or rather everish speculation for the rest of the week barring further political excitement Trading in the dry goods market is comparatively light with prices unchanged In staple ettons with the exception of such lines a9 are desired for export the tendency of prices is in favor of buyers In woolen stocks trade is dull but riees steady And Air Carlisle says: must not be deluded into a feeling of security by the fact that there ras been a suspension of gold with- drawals during the last few months and a large accession to our stock of gold from abroad during the same time because there is no sufficient reason to believe that the condition of alfairs will be permanent if our existing system is TUE LOCAL MARKET Shreveport La Dec 22 1896 The Board of Trade quotes the local rnatket as closing firm Good ordinary 5 11-16c Low middling 5 15- 16c Middliug 6 3-lGc Good middling 6 10c Receipts were as follows: Rail 231 wagon 121 steamer 106 day 401 last year 475 Receipts to date 83222 last year 65612 Sales 162 factors 125 streets 37 sales last year 76 factors 57 streets 19 Shipments Rail IL 83 30 to-day 113 la-t year 134 stock to-date 56666 last year 3G5S0 stock to day 29154 last year 30 510 At all United' States ports today Cl 404 last year 37477 United States Ports Since Sep tember 4573045 last year 3230 481 visible supply this year 4066575' -last year 3961379 increase 105197 New York quiet and steady New Orleans quiet Futures 5 to 7 points olF NEW YORK FUTURES Quotations from k-ti PROVISIONS Bacon 5ic Dry salt meats steady at 5-Jc Breakfast bacon 9c Hams choice canvased sugar cured 11c Lard compound 4fc pure gjc BKEADSTUFFS Flour best patent $540 half patent or straight 515 extra fancy 490 Corn meal 175 per barrel 38J pouud sicks 10c less Crackers ABC soda crackers ar quoted at 6c cream 8c by the lot Rice new Louisiana 3)04J COFFEE AND TEA- Coffee easy fair 161c medium grade 18 better 20021 Tea fair 25 good 40050 fine 750 85 finest 1000125 per pound by the SUGAR AND MOLASSES Sugar standard granulated 4 St Emma granulated 6 snow white 4f prime yellow clarified 4 seconds 4 AIolasies common 18025 prime open kettlo 38 TOBACCO Chewing Tobacco good medium 11 inch 17025 better grades 35050 fine quality 50075 tfmoking 25052 ESCULENTS Onions 75c bushel Beans navy 303 pouud Cabbage 1 0502 U0 Irish Potatoes 56000c bushel Kraut 2850300 barrel SAGGING AND TIES Bagging 21b 7c If lb 6 Twiue lor baling purposes quoted at 10c lb by the bale Irou Ties 45 lb $1 50 GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFF Corn mixed sacked 44c bushel Hay choice prairie (Arkansas) 9 00 Texas 10 50 Oats white 34c Rust Proof 40 Rye 90c Barley 75c-1 Bran 75c corn 90c per 100 fit Millet seed 85c seed meal 90c sack Wheat 95c FRUITS AND NUTS Apples 2 500)3 00 Almonds 12015 14 lb Brazil nuts 10 lb 4 Jocoanuls3 75 Currants 508 Dried apples 607 evaporated 78 Filberts 12c lb Lemons 3 5004 50 Oranges Louisiana 4 50 Peanuts 4J05J roasted Pecans 910 Walnuts 11c lb Raisins 1 5001 65 box Loose Muscatels 5e CHICKENS AND EGGS Hens doz 1 75 Broilers 1 50 Fryers large 1 75 Eggs 20022 Butter country lb 12015 Turkeys lb HIDES AND WOOL Dry hides No 1 flint lb Dry hides No 2 Badly bug eaten Dry salted No 1 Bull hides Green salted hides Ditto glue and cut Wool tub washed choice Wool unwashed clear Wool burry and black Beeswax prime 1 allow Sheep skins Goat skins 8 6 li2 5 6 4 1 2 14015 100104 508 20023 2403 10025 10020 ABOUT ADVERTISING We believe that advertisement should be based on subscription to be fair and equitable between publisher and advertiser and to warrant ajustrate We are embarked in a legitimate business and will no advertisement unless we can make a reasonable and just profit out of the same The position may be novel but it is true The space'- issued be-lone to the people who pay for it the subscriber and reader as well as the advertiser Having fixed a rate based on the reas onable expectation of a fair city circulation we propose to maintain the rate and the joint stock company composed of the actual advertisers subscribers and the publishers are going to have the full benefit of the columns of The IIerald A WORD OF ADVICE Christmas will soon be here and if you want to sell your goods you had better advertise them in the Herald 'll IT Blackman Bolinger 1 Hubbard Chicago Crawford Winutield Paul Southerland Texarkana Mrs Mathews Texarkana Mrs Crurae Haughtou Crouch Buster Ark King Blackburn A Lowry Beutou Oweuby Many Cavitt city McFarland Keithsvllle It Phillips Dallas Jas Robbe Memphis Ingram Sexton Tex Miss Leigh Hoss Greenwood At Trosper Bethany A Stewart aud wife Longview Webb Minden Bucklev Morgan Powell ltice Tex Bell city Harris Bloominggrove Harris Bloominggrove Ii Johnson Corsicana Gray Homer 0 Phillips Boone Airs A Towue and child Mala-Tex Airs Aliteheli and child Malakotr Allss Mary Barnett Minden A Aleyer Chattanooga A Boots Allion Neb Williams Pleasant Ilill Wart Haugliton Salter Lonvell Miss Jno A Miller Ituston Airs Jno Rovdstou Cane River -L Wall Ft Worth Frierson Frierson Pegues Mansfield Dr Walker AlaiWield A Hewitt Alausficld Mrs Weeks Hermanville Aliss Taylor Bethany AI Mitchell St Joe Mo Fritz Simmons Omaha Neb Miss Zu Coruelus Clarksville Tex Aliss Maggie Cornelus Clarksville A Brown New Orleans A Oolbeit Haugliton Nelson Taylor Mrs I Livingston and 4 children Howard 'S Richards Ckuich Point II Steven- 17- aard Stew 1 Wa-'f 'U Oi leans Lb- 1 nroe -1 Iiughton -y Reading Pa -t Zachary ordou Jackson ins Potts ville -Joweli aud eon Red River FAMOUS RECIPE How the Hoboken Turtle Club Concocts Its Time Honored Turtle Soup Good livers will be interested in this recipe By it ISO pounds of turtle will produce 80 gallons of soup It is tfco rccipo used by the Hoboken Turtlo club for many generations and the original recipe is now iu the hands of the steward of the club: Take a kettle of SO gallons capacity and fill nearly full of water Put in 8 sets of feet (32) well cleaned and 80 heck3 of beef To this add 2 dozen parsley 1 dwzon leeks a half peck of small ouions end sat and pepper to suit Boil the whole to rags about 20 hours Kill the turtle scald off the thin outside glazed portion and take c(T fins Put the shell cut up into small pieces into boiling water until the citron comes off Then add the turtle meat also cut in small pieces To this add the meat cf 8 heads which have been su-i-ciently boiled to romove the skin Strain oT the stock through a fine sieve Strain twice out of pot and back again Now add cirion and boil three hours Then add turtlo meat and heads and boil the whole until the citron is wholly done Add these spikes Quarter pound each of ground allspice ground cloves ground mace and ground nutnmgs a pound of sweet marjoram and the came of thyme and summer savory with black ana cayenne pepper to taste Put the spices into two small srlr bags and drop iuto the pot until satisfactorily seasoned taking cut mul putting in again from time to tlrno and occasional iy squeezing the lags into tht pot After adding the turilo meat and heads boil five hours until ch the sour taste is gone Boil ovt a flc-r fire and be sere to kep well stirred tc avoid brraii When corLd and peered to vtfEd let it get perfectly ccol Infers coirji up or touci iug with a spoon It should assume a gelatinous ccnsiofeECy 'Keep at same temperature Cso 2 gallons each of claret sherry and brandy Original recipe in possession of Phillips steward Hoboken Turtle club New York Herald And Sho Weak Quickly has just gone across the street said the demure little 6-year-old to tire culler she say when be asked the lady as demurely as before as soon uyun had gone St Paid lit ii If you i-wi-ald give the ixrir v- dress The sub- iy 10c per week Every Afternoon Fxeept Sunday PUBLISHED Bt Tha Herald Publishing Company A SUTUKKLANI) Manager 8 CRAIN City Editor Herald will be delivered by carriers far 10 cents a week Subscription by mail $100 a year Olfica on Commercial alley near Spring street Entered at the as second-class matter Skrsyeport December 22 1896 Prescriptions accurately and carefully compounded at Pharmacy TREE PLANTING Trees for the court square were delivered this morning and are being planted The good janitor objects to the distance between trees twenty-seven feet but he had his yard stick out and the trees go in to the fraction of an inch on that measurement Mr Wilson says they are silverleaved but they have all the ear marks of a maple He is going to plant arbor vitm along the borders of the transecting walks aad the maples go around the four sides of the square If the trees were live oak magnolia or holly they would be green all the year and make very little trash MARRIED Lofard-Stoner In this city Thursday December 22 1896 Mr Leopard and Mrs Fannit Stoner Justice Hoyle Tomkies officiating This happy event took place at eourthouae this morning and Tomkies made the pair one with an ease and grace that lent a new charm to the matrimonial ceremony The bridegroom is a nephew of Col Geo' Leopard and the bride the widow of the late Sara Stoner a son of Judge Stoner The Herald wishes them a very prosperous way through the flow-riest valleys of the world TWO DINNERS I Business may be transacted on or before a dies non and there is where a young Catholic boy has the ehance of his days Friday is a fast day and turkey a forbidden fruit and so the enterprising youth should have two Christmas dinners this year one before and one after the holiday This was told to soothe a young Catholic gourmand who thought he got no tnrkev Christmas It was a Christmas treat itself to see- bis eyes brighten up and hear him say: I bet you can crack a hickory nnt on me Saturday THREE HOBOES Three white tramps were sent in to the sheriff this morning charged with malicious mischief They have been burning fences and making themselves objectionable about the Junction PLEASE NOTE Thatjthe Herald will be pleaded to have its friends send in items of a social and newsy nature addressed to the Herald It is not our desire to slight any item that will interest may body THE WEATHER The forecast for Shreveport and vicinity fair weather to-night and Wednesday warmer to-night is GROWING IN CIRCULATION DAILY TRAIN MOVEMENTS Passenger train No 7 arrives at 10 :20 am daily Freight train No 11 arrives at 4:40 pm daily except Sunday Passenger train No 8 departs at 4:30 pm daily Freight train No 12 departs at 6 am daily except Sunday Freight trains Nos 11 and 12 will carry passengers and will run from Shreveport to Camden TEXAS AND PACIFIC No 51 west bound departs at 9:31 am No 52 east bound departs 6:09 pm No 53 west bound departs 10:17 pm No 54 east bound departs am VICKSBURG SHREVEPORT AND PACIFIC Leaves for Vicksburg 8:25 am 'Arrives from Vicksburg 7 pm SHREVEPORT AND HOUSTON Leaves Shreveport 8 pm Arrives Houston 6 :15 sm Leaves Houston 9:45 pm Arrives Shreveport 8 am KANSAS C1TT SHREVEPORT AND GULF No 1 Mail and express arrives 11 :10 am No 3 Mail and express arrive 4 pm No 11 Freight and passenger arrive 1:05 pm No 2 Mail and express depart! 11:40 am No 4 Mail and exprtes depart! 4 :30 pm No 12 Freight and passenger departs 2:30 pm Mails will close thirty mirutei in advance of railroad time GIVE IT A TRIAL Give Tiie Herald a few trial and then if it does not keep up its promise of a first class local newspaper drop it We are not holding the public np on sympathy bat on merit and if you receive the worth of your money we mi nd your working the Chicago stare on the canvassers We have had them refrigerated for the experience FRAUDULENT CRIPPLE A white tramp was up before the Court this morning charged with He has been working the town on crutches and when asked it he was not afraid that Heaven would strike him with some affliction for the fraud replied that he feared no God nor man His Honor is opposed to such sacreligeous levity and being an humble instrument for much good himself he officially informed his trainpship that he would have sixty days to consider the latter part of ins assertion and Providence would probably not overlook him either THE RIVER Shreveport Dec 22 1890 River at Fulton 22 stationary River at hreveport 07 below zero fell 02 of a foot.