Grain Freight Free To Liverpool

t Chicago for higher prices led. in the fore part of April, to some curious results. The export of grain had been stopped, the mrket rates at Liverpool being lower than those of Chicago. The railway officials refused to lower their rates, saying that they saw no good reason for sacriflcing their revenues to enable the promoters of "corners" to adjust questions of supply and demand bet ween themselves and consumera. The managers of certain ocean steamship iines having steamers billed for early departure were in great straits for freight, and even begged for grain to be carried as ballast, free freight. A press dispatch from Chicago, April 7, said that the day before the agents of the eastern Iines terminal there were asked by wire if they could not furnish stuall cargoes on condition that no charge should be made for transporting it ty water to Liverpool. Again, on the 7tb, the steamship people rene wed their appeal, offering as addiüonal in. ducement a premium of several cents per hundred pouuds to the shipper. The offer of a premium was made by the four Iines running between Boston and Liverpool. No offer of so unusual a nature were received frora the New York Iines. - Aro. Ship. Silver hair-pins are used by gray haired ladies.