English Prices For American Goods

English Prices for American Goods.

  One of the commercial puzzles vet to be explained is the reason why you can buy excellent "Blue Point" oysters in London for a shilling a dozen : why the Atlantic and Scribner's Monthlies can be bought there for the same price ; how it is that American butler, cheese and beef are now to be found in nearly every village of Scotland and England. The greater part of the sea-coast population of Wales live on American canned goods, all of which can be bought for for less there than here- a cut of American beef, for instance, costs two pence halfpenny (or five cents) a pound. Developing our commerce; is a good thing, but is there any reason why we should not be able to get things produced here for at least the same price that our British cousins can?  If Atlantic and Scribner's Monthlies are for at least the same price that our British cousins can? If the Atlantic and Scribners Monthlies are to be bought in London for a shilling-, -why should we pay more than a quarter of a dollar for them? or, what is a more vital question, with American beef at  five and six cents a pound at retail, why is it that the lowest price in the wholesale market here is seven and one-eighth cents a pound, and that without the added expense of transportation and other incidentals? An explanation is in order from the producers. 

   A terrible battle with rats took place recently at Bostick's Mills, near Pee Dee, N. C. It seems Gen. Bostick and one of his employees, Anderson Wayles, went into a corn-house which had been stored with corn for nearly twelve months, and which had been closed for that length of time. After getting in they found that the place was literally alive with rats, who, so far from showing terror, began to attack fiercely the men, who in an attempted to beat them off. They came upon them in droves, biting them about the hands and face and legs, several actually getting under Wayles' shirt. In the struggle over a heavy bale of fodder which blocked up the door and prevented their retreat. Both men cried for help, and were rescued from their perilous situation. The whole of Gen. Bostick's left ear was eaten off, and his face horribly gouged. Wayles presented a sickening sight; his nose and lips being literally eaten so that his best friends could not recognize him, while his left eye was torn from its socket.