A spinner is obliged to buy cotton to prevent stoppage of his mill, a sale of yarn is impossible for the moment and he decides on a "hedge" transaction.
As the sale of the goods could not always be effected promptly, we remained debtors to the bankers for the purchase price, while they were in possession of the goods or the documents.
They had no regular wages, but shared in the profits from the sale of the oil and whalebone.
He has calculated that the sale price of his yarns allows him to pay 24 cents for goodmiddling.
As the movements of cotton and cotton products run on parallel lines, he has the same chance, for the sale of his production, on the basis of 24 cents, as he had at 22 cents.
His actual sale price is the stipulated price, and the differences which arise from the "future" contract, are added or deducted.
There to my delight I found, on listening to the sermon and buying some literature on sale in the ante-room, that there were people who had passed through my own difficulties, and had given up the dogmas that I found so revolting.
We took a little shop, printed the pamphlet, and sent notice to the police that we would commence the sale at a certain day and hour, and ourselves sell the pamphlet, so that no one else might be endangered by our action.
This pamphlet was put in circulation as representing our view of the subject, and we again took up the sale of Knowlton's.
We continued the sale of Knowlton's tract for some time, until we received an intimation that no further prosecution would be attempted, and on this we at once dropped its publication, substituting for it my "Law of Population.
The day before the pamphlet was put on sale we ourselves delivered copies to the Chief Clerk of the Magistrates at Guildhall, to the officer in charge at the City Police Office in Old Jewry, and to the Solicitor for the City of London.
The book was never challenged till a disreputable Bristol bookseller put some copies onsale to which he added some improper pictures, and he was prosecuted and convicted.
There were in a box adjoining ours, at the latter place, two men, who discoursed concerning the sale of certain merchandize.
Sometimes this staple or place of sale was at home, sometimes abroad.
Before he became Pope, it chanced one day that he was walking in the market-place at Rome and saw some fair boys exposed for sale as slaves.
The coffers of the Church were enriched by the sale of relics, which each traveller eagerly desired to possess.
Indulgences forsale are carried about by the Dominican Tezel, a most impudent sycophant.
He had received a little book, ornamented with the arms of the Archbishop of Mentz and Magdeburg, and containing the regulations to be observed in the sale of indulgences.
The doctrine and the saleof indulgences operated on an ignorant people as a powerful stimulus to evil.
But let us look at some of the scenes which then took place in Germany during this sale of the pardon of sins; for we here meet with anecdotes which, by themselves alone, give a picture of the times.
A PIANO for sale by a lady about to leave England in an oak case with carved legs.
This gentleman was in a hotel in Boston when the law forbidding the sale of liquor was in force.
Few of the inhabitants kept establishments open for the sale of merchandise.
They found a centrally located square, the place where people would be likely to go for an early morning sale of potted plants and cut flowers.
This bill, which passed the legislature and is now a law, aims to wipe out the saloon dance hall absolutely, and so to regulate the sale of liquor in all dancing places that the drink evil will be cut down to a minimum.
The desire is gratified by the sale of a useful and indispensable tool; and thus, by degrees, he exits off his own means of subsistence.
And then their wives and children, or other men's wives and children, hawk them for sale in populous neighbourhoods on market evenings.
Emile de Girardin and our good Borget (his co-tenant at the time) wager the sale will be four hundred thousand copies.
The sale of the book was in a measure due to the sort of scandal it provoked.
Some of her capital and some of his own, probably the sum accruing from the sale of Les Jardies, at present definitive, had been invested in North Railway Shares.
Most of the revenue was made by the sale of city lots.
They went to extraordinary lengths in all sorts of grafting, in the sale of public real estate, in every "shenanigan" known to skillful low-grade politicians.
As has been pointed out, a large proportion of the city's wealth was raised not from taxation but from the sale of its property.
Some of the enterprising miners had even brought large amounts of goods for sale at a hoped-for profit in California.
I can't help thinking the bun business is a factor, and though women did the murder, it may be they were interested in the sale of the buns.
First, Miss Prall, I'd like to hear from you what plans Sir Herbert had, so far as you know, regarding the sale of his great bakery business.
In addition to this it is reckoned that the sale of such of the reclaimed land as belongs to the Government will realize a sum of LE.
His business capacity was unbounded, and not the smallest detail, from the purchase of a coal cargo to the sale of a year's crop of sugar, was carried out without his personal direction.
The attention of Congress is called to the necessity of withdrawing from public sale this part of the public domain and establishing there a forest preserve.
Vanderbilt, of the city of New York, by virtue of a salemade under a judgment in a suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage in the supreme court of this State, in which I was plaintiff and Ulysses S.
The sale of such arms and ammunition is prohibited except by persons about to leave the Territory, and then only to bona fide residents (excluding Indians and traders) upon application to and with the approval of the collector.
By sale of some silver coins, a few tea spoons, and a few trinkets 5l.
This evening I found, that, by what had come in during the 4th, 5th and 6th in the way of donations, and by the sale of Tracts during this week, there was more than enough to pay the weekly salaries.
In the course of the day came in still further, bysale of articles, 10s.
During this period also two sisters kindly made some ladies' bags and baskets, and gave the profits arising from the sale for the benefit of the Orphans.
Yesterday afternoon, accordingly, came in by sale of trinkets 1l.
From a sister as the profit from the sale of ladies' bags 6s.
We are of opinion that ye Gentleman who took all ye trouble above mentioned did deserve to be paid one shilling per Pound upon ye sale of ye said Books.
Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale: Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land.
I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.
Congress was deadlocked on the money question, though called in a special session to grant relief; and Cleveland at length resorted to the sale of bonds under an act of 1875 to procure gold for the Treasury.
The first sale was made in January, 1894, and the financiers, to pay for the bonds, drew nearly half of the amount of gold out of the Treasury itself.
The chronicle of all the frauds connected with the manipulation of land grants to railways and the shameless sale of legal privileges cannot be written, because in most instances no tangible records have been left.
They do not constitute a part of the commerce between the states any more than a contract for the purchase and sale of goods in Virginia by a citizen of New York whilst in Virginia would constitute a portion of such commerce.
If tramps have nothing else to call their own they have votes, and votes that are for sale cheap for cash.
The name was given to it probably in derision, for pork is the one ware that is not on sale in the Pig-market.
The sale of spirits has greatly decreased since the government took the monopoly of the manufacture and sale of liquor.
He prohibited the sale of grain to the people of Novgorod, who were thereby compelled to make peace.
But he neglected no serious affairs; his farm, his stock, the sale of his produce, were all admirably conducted and on a plane of widely recognized honor and integrity.
The sale of the almanac was greater than that of the "Pilgrim's Progress," and the wealth of Franklin stood out in marked contrast with the poverty of Bunyan a century before.
But in addition the Crown should have the right of sale of claims in proved districts, where the ground has a certain value.
Provision is made against the sale or destruction of the eggs of game-birds and the sale of dead game in the close season.
In connection with natives the control of the sale of intoxicants is another matter of South African importance.
The sale by auction of claims in proved districts would bring in a large additional revenue and do no injustice to the prospector.
South Africa has already recognised this by the remarkable consensus of opinion which she has shown in the prohibition of the sale of intoxicants to coloured people.
