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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Tub Japanese Minister at Washington is re¬ 
joicing over the birth of a daughter, the first 
child of Japanese parents born In this country. 
The Internal Rovomie Department has de¬ 
cided that the increased tax on whisky and to¬ 
bacco takes effect front and after midnight of 
the 3d inst. 
The New Hampshire election, last week, was 
nearly a draw game between the dominant 
part es. The Republicans have a majority in 
the Legislature, which will secure the election 
of their candidate for Governor (Cheney), but 
the Democrats elect two of the three members 
of Congress and a majority of the State Coun¬ 
cil. 
The National Fire Insurance Company of 
Philadelphia has temporarily suspended. 
Montpelier, Vt., has suffered from the most 
disastrous fire known in its history. 
There has been a dead-lock in the cotton 
market at Charleston, S. for two days, owing 
to a difficulty between buyers and sobers con¬ 
cerning the manner of weighing. 
Reports from all quarters Indicate the thaw¬ 
ing of the frozen rivers and coming freshets. 
A wooden bridge at. Stillwater, the second 
oldest bridge on the Hudson river, was set on 
fire at two o’clock, A. M„ March 13, and entirely 
destroyed, together with two stores, nine 
dwellings, and Flower’s Hotel, in the village. 
The loss is about $50,000. 
We Imvii’thnd all the cold weather on this 
side after all. Dr. Do Haas, the American 
Consul at Jerusalem, sends the Information 
that for the first time known to the present 
inhabitants t he cold weather was so severe as 
to form Ice. The Arabs haviug never seen ice 
before, were completely mizzled and could not 
understand “why water should change into 
glass !” 
It Is understood that, the President will take 
no further action In the affairs of Arkansas, he 
being influenced by the recent expression of 
the House against governmental Interference. 
The appropriation for the South Pass of the 
Mississippi river Is $>,850,000. The pass is to be 
improved by Eads's Jetty system. No money Is 
to be paid until the work shall be approved by 
the United States Engineers. 
The Democrats of Pennsylvania will hold 
their Stale Convention in Erie on Sept. 8 and 
the Republicans theirs at Lancaster, May 36. 
The Sub-Committee of the N. Y. Canal Hoard 
recommended a reduction in canal tolls of from 
10 to 50 per cent. 
A bill has been introduced In the New Jersey 
Legislature providing for n State Board of Vital 
Statistics aud regulating the issuing of burial 
certificates. 
Gov. Hendricks of Indiana has convened the 
Legislature of that State in an extra session of 
40 days because of Its failure to perform legis¬ 
lation indispensable to the administration of 
the State Government, A session of 00 days 
has just closed. 
The Independent says:—“It is too soon to 
discuss the question of candidates lor the next 
Presidency; yet, when the time comes, James 
G. Elaine will be, at least, one of the persons, 
and probably the most prominent, that will 
attract the attention of the Republican party.” 
The President has nominated W. L. Hurt to 
©ORE’S RURAL WEW-YOR 
be Postmaster at Boston and Roland G. Usher 
to bo Marshal for the District or Maasachuaetts. 
The aggregate sum In the twelve general ap¬ 
propriation bills passed during the late session 
of Congress is about $175,000,000, apart from 
other bills containing appropriations. 
A meeting of the stockholders of the Toledo, 
Wabash and Western Railroad is to be held 
May 13 to consider measures for the financial 
relief of the company. 
Among the bills defeated during the late ses¬ 
sion of Congress was that for the benefit of the 
Bayfield and St. Croix Railroad, the object 
being to confirm to the company about $390,000 
in earth and $15,000,000 worth of flue timber 
land. There was a strong lobby for the bill; 
but its single opponent, Eugene N. Howell of 
Philadelphia, worked quietly in securing Its 
defeat. 
Il ls intimated at the Treasury Department 
that the contemplated call for the retirement 
ol $30,000,000 bonds on account of the sinking 
fund will not be made for a day or two, and it 
has not yet been absolutely decided what the 
numbers of the bonds to bo called In are, not 
can It yet be learned whether they will be all 
registered or coupon, or what proportion of 
each denomination of bonds is intended to be 
called in. 
William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper 
walked at the head of Mrs. Henry M. Field's 
funeral procession, In the Madison square Pres¬ 
byterian Church last week. Behind them were 
Prof. CharJier, Prof. Schaff, George Ripley, C. L. 
Brace and the Rer. Drs, Holland and Prime. 
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. 
Adams. 
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven¬ 
tion is called for March 35. 
Ex-Congressman Nathan F. Dixon is a promi¬ 
nent candidate for the Republican nomination 
for Governor of Rhode Island, 
Brigham Young was sentenced to one day's 
imprisonment for contempt, of court, in not 
haviug paid the attorneys’ fees and alimony 
decreed by Judge McKean in the divorco suit 
brought by Ann Eliza. 
The County Treasurers’ bill was passed by 
the New York Assembly; also, Senator John¬ 
son's bill providing for specie payments or: all 
contracts made after Jaiiuury, 1,1879. 
Gen Robert Toombs has been dangerously ill 
with pneumonia, but is now recovering. 
Senator Andrew Johnson’s wife is lying at 
the point of death, with no hope of recovery. 
President Stearns of Amherst College Is 
rapidly regaining his strength after his long 
aud tedious illness. 
M. Thiers has been chosen by the Boston 
Academy of Arts and Sciences as a foreign 
honorary member in the section of Political 
Economy, In place of the late M. Guizot. 
The President has signed the commissions of 
Oodlove S. Orth as Minister tn Austria, and 
Horace Maynard ns Minister to Turkey. ■ 
Shacknasty Jim, Scarface Charlie, Steamboat 
Frank, and other Modoc Indians visited the 
White House last week and shook hands with 
President. Grunt,. 
At the twenty-third annual commencement 
of the Women's Medical College in Philadel¬ 
phia on the Llth inst., sixteen students gradua¬ 
ted as Doctors of Medicine. 
At the auction sale of a menagerie In Lebanon, 
Ohio, three lions were sold for $3,300, sixty 
monkeys for $5-10, an elephant for $5,000, two 
camels for $800,»zebra for$1,000, two kangaroos 
for $860 and a grizzly bear for $170. 
There is a great diversity of opinion on the 
chances of success that the reciprocity treaty 
with the Sandwich Islands has. 
Hon. D. W. Gooch Is to be appointed Pension 
Agent at Boston, Dr. C. A. Phelps retiring. 
A private letter from Cairo, Egypt, says ex- 
Comptroller Connolly of New York, intends 
building an expensive villa In that city. The 
correspondent declares Connolly very rich. 
There are conflicting reports about Sohenok’s 
recall from London, hut Secretory Fish says 
that he is not to supersede him, and that when 
lie. Fish, retires it will be to private life. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
It is proposed to adjourn the House of Com¬ 
mons from March 33 to April 5 on account of 
the Easter holidays. 
Several lives were lost in a gale on the Irish 
and British coasts, March 9, and disaster was 
caused to shipping. 
The Emperor of Austria will meet King Vic¬ 
tor Emanuel at Venice next month. 
Mr. John Mltnhel has again been eleoted to 
the British Parliament, from Tipperary, Ire¬ 
land, by a large majority. 
The convention between Spain and the 
United States, for the settlement of the VTr- 
ginius affair, was signed at Madrid the 6th 
instant. 
Measures are being taken to protect the 
Russe-Chlncse frontier by the settlement on a 
large scale of Siberian Cossack families along 
the borders of Zalsan Bookhtarmln and Koore- 
hotn. 
On the 1st of next July, says the St. Peters¬ 
burg JVni’osfe, the rates of postage on domestic 
letters in Russia will probably be lowered from 
10 kopecks (8 cents), to 6 kopecks (4 cents), on 
letters of single weight. This reduction, it is 
said, has been determined upon inconsequence 
of the groat Increase of correspondence during 
the past year. 
The Spanish steamer Lola has been seized 
for smuggling and sold at Y'era Cruz. 
Mr. Dewdney, member for Yale, British Co¬ 
lumbia, has introduced a bill into the Dominion 
House of Commons to Incorporate a company 
to build a Pacific railroad from Red River to the 
Pacific coast by private enterprise. The corpo¬ 
rators are mostly British Columbians, and the 
subscribed capital is $10,000,000, In $100 shares. 
Mexico l* now quiet, the plot of Gen. Rocba 
against the government having failed. 
A shock of an earthquake was felt In Orezava 
and Mlnatltlau, Mexico, on the ifith ult. 
It is officially announced that a French 
Ministry ha* been formed as follows:- M. Buffet, 
Minister of the Interior; M. Dufauro, Minister 
of Justice; M. Leon Say, Minister of Finances; 
M. YVallon, Minister of Public Instruction; 
Vicornpte do Moaux of the Right, Minister of 
Agriculture; Duke Decazcs, Minister of For¬ 
eign Affairs; Gen. de Clssey, Ministerjof War ; 
Admiral de Montnlgnac, Minister of the Ma¬ 
rine; M. Caillaux, Minister of Public Works. 
The recent fire at Port-au-Prince destroyed 
one ttiird of the place and the loss Is estimated 
at $2,000,000. At the alarm of tire, repealed on 
all sides, the local authorities hastened to sup¬ 
press the conflagration, and exerted their 
whole enory to confine the fire to the place 
where It originated. In vplte of all efforts the 
fire, driven by a strong northwest wind, gained 
the two facades of the Islet, and in an hour 
and a half had destroyed the entire northern 
quarter of the City. 
The revolution in Bolivia Is ended, according 
to the news from I,a Paz to the 30th January 
last, and the constitutional Government, has 
gained the victory. Qtmvedo and his troops 
took to flight. The Government, and the army 
returned to La Paz on the 30th ult., having 
captured eight pieces of artillery aud 500 
prisoners. 
The special appropriation of $75,000, with 
which the German Government proposed to 
defray the expense* of the representation of 
Austria in the Centennial Exhibition at Phila¬ 
delphia, has beeti thrown out by the Budget 
Committee of the Reichstag. 
Count Valmaseda has arrived in Cuba. 
Lady Mon!aunt has been found guilty of 
adultery. 
The Berlin correspondent of the London 
Dally News reports that, the German Govern¬ 
ment Is Irritated at the conduct of Spain in the 
Gustav affair and ut the clerical leanings of 
King Alfonso’s Ministers. He adds that this 
feeling will find expression when the new 
Spanish Minister presents lila credentials to 
the Emperor. 
Birmingham, England, baa erected a statue 
of Priestley at. the approach to the Birmingham 
and Midland Institute. 
It is said the Emperor of Austria lias accepted 
the resignation of Baron Sanborn, Minister at 
Washington. 
An outbreak occurred among the Chinese 
prisoners in the Criminal Jail tn Iklngapore ou 
the afternoon of Feb. 13 in which Ruperint.cn- 
dant Dlgby Dent was mortally wounded. Six¬ 
teen warders were also wounded. Fifteen 
prisoners were killed and forty-five wounded 
before order was restored. 
OBITUARY NOTES. 
Dr. A. D. Lord, Superintendent, of the State 
Institution for the Blind, at Batavia, died on 
Sunday week. He had charge of the institu¬ 
tion since 1808. 
Mr. Elbert A. Brlnckerhoff, whose death at 
Jamaica, L. 1., at. t he ago of eighty-nine years, 
is recorded, was one of New York's oldest and 
most influential merchants. 
Malcolm McNeill, who died recently in Chris¬ 
tian Co., Ky., owned real estate In Chicago 
valued at, $3,000,0(10, and also f ossessed much 
property in the South. He was one of the first 
to begin rebuilding after the tire of 1871, by 
which lie lost over thirty houses. 
Dr. diaries Adams, rather of Charles Adams, 
Jr. of North Brookfield, Mass., State Treasurer, 
died In Oakham Saturday week at t he advanced 
ago of ninety-three years and twenty-one days. 
The death of the Kev, John Wright Roberts, 
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church In 
Liberia, is announced. He was the successor 
of Bishop Burns, and both were colored men. 
Mr. Roberts entered the ministry in the Libe¬ 
rian Mission Conference in 1838. 'I he Bishop 
was a man of high character for piety and in¬ 
tegrity and a good administrator. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio, March 8.—Win¬ 
ter was open and mild till the first of January; 
since that we have had a most terrible winter. 
There have been more days that the thermome¬ 
ter marked below zero than I ever saw in two 
winters before. The severest cold experienced 
herein January was on the morning of the 10th, 
when the thermometer noted 10° below zero; 
the greatest cold In February was the llth—18° 
below zero. Of course peach buds are all killed, 
and probably one-half of the potatoes burled 
are all spoiled. I suppose apples are all right, 
though I have seen quire a number of apple 
trees so split with the cold that 1 could put my 
fingers In the cracks. I think the wheat will 
prove all right, if the snow ever goes off so one 
can see it. Stock, as a general thing, have 
wintered very well. Hay was high, but there 
was plenty of grain stalks and straw. Hogs 
are 6c. per lb. and not plenty. Wheat, corn and 
oats were all good in this section last season, 
and now sell about a* follows:—Corn, 65c.; 
oats, 53c.; wheat, $1. Corn has brought better 
MABSH 20 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, March 13, 1875. 
Beans And 1’XAS.—Exports of beruis cast week, 
916 bids.: since Jan. 1, 1.780do.; same time last year. 
7.430do.; exports of peas, 71,856 bu.di. A good Indica¬ 
tion Of It lie Unproved tone of the bean market I* 
given by the stead I ness of full prion* In the luon of 
enlarged supplies. I .or id and out-of-town buyers 
are regularly replenishing mediums,»nd marrows 
are selling In' shipping parcel* of to,., luo bbls. Pea 
beans are somewhat bolter Red kidney* began to 
move, btil sellers had to ease up quotations to start 
them. White kidneys are marked down, but are not 
active. Canadian pen* have sold liberally, but re¬ 
ceipt* are free and prices are not strong. Ordinary 
green peas in good demand. State marrowtnt. have 
sold at 81.76ft?, and chnmploa at $1,50. No Southern 
B. E. here, 
We quote Beaus, new medium, prime. 
do. fair. fl.SQtXLU; do. poor, 9I.FI; marrow*, new 
prime, $2.26612.80; do. marrow, other, t2.(i.v„ 2 .l.*•; do. 
i ieas, prime new, $! Ii)ft2.15; beans, pen, other, 91.90ft 
2,10: do, kidney, new red. $3w. .'3.17 : While kidney, 
new, $2.85(i»2.40; do. other. *2>g,$J.25. Canada peas, 
fit bulk and bond, $1.05(3.11.07; do. green, prime new, 
I3.ttv-a2.05: split pear, fit bond V bid. 00; 
Southern B. K. pens, per 2 bush. bug. $l.75(". l. 
ISKKSWax. Choice Southern tin* been sold lit 
32 VO. There Is not much doing, but a small stock 
enables holders to obtain spring figures, The range 
is from 31X to 33c. for Westeru anil Southern. 
Broom Corn.— There ts very little doing, but the 
small Stock 1* closely controlled unit prices rule 
strong. Short green brush, lKftlSc.j green hurl, 13 - 
15c.; medium grout), 10ft U5c.; red and rod - tipped, 
OftlOC. 
Butter.—W e hare beard the change* rung so 
often during the past week upon such terms a* 
blue, demoralized, dispirited, and fiat, In connec¬ 
tion with our seriously-depressed butter trade, that 
we are nlm- st at a loss to give a comprehensive ex¬ 
pression tif it* dull and weak condition. Receipts 
are pouring In ruptdly upon our over-stocked cellar*. 
Spring Is advancing nn-1 hnyprs are scarce. The 
main point seems to be how to make a price In order 
to prevent an Inquirer from leaving the store, and 
when there Is seen an tirgeuev to sell it. is difiicuii 
to report useful quota"ons. The reeling tn the 
trade ts that all owners of ordinary stock aie 
•• stuck.” amt sellei* have patiently resigned them- 
selves to the angelic resolve to do the beat they t an. 
Fine butler is very scarce, and the style ol qualities 
now arriving would give thr- impression that we 
have used up tne top* nr last season’* crops. This 
makes hard work for parties who have a drst-elar* 
trade that Is willing to pay extreme rater, u* aider 
the best packages are picked out from dairies, the 
next comer wants a special concession before he cun 
be induced to take what he lerms “ leaving*." It 
will bo seen by the torrgomg that fifatc butter Is m 
a nominal and uncomfortable condition, and It® uu- 
settled surroundings, unfortunately for those who 
have over-held stock, point to low dosing flguics. 
Western butter is Iti no sound position, owing to the 
easy state of state, und extreme rules are in rely 
renllzc.d for mil* or solid package*. We quote : 
Extra hull tub®, BfKg-—C,: -Rule halt tubB. Bnft, 30*t 
88o.; do. half tub*. under grade. SOtj/.Scj do. firkins, 
I i-'ir-i do 
common tn fair,SOc-V-Qc.: do. full flulrtes, prime, 27Gv 
80c.; do. lull dairies, other, 2Sft2fledo. Weltli tun*, 
choice, 2(k@27e.; do. do., g .1, <i- . do tub®, 
other, 195522c.; Western half tubs, prime, ?2ft23c.; do. 
fair to good. 20ft32e.: do. pour, Hialfie.: do. dairy, 
packed, 23ft25o.; do. firkins, prime, 19ft2(e.; do. do., 
common, tVftltic.; do- roll.* fancy, —&25e.; do. do ., 
prime, —@ 24 c.; do. do., fair to good, 20&21c.; do. do., 
com moil, 16ftl8e. 
Cheese,—T he export demand has been good, 
chiefly for medium and lower grade*, "ur quota¬ 
tions for fancy factories represent selections filth - 
per* clutw that they lire utile to obtain tine lines at 
1614c,, but they prefernt the moment tn deal in lower 
pfioed stock, most of the sale* making at H « 15c. 
The homo trade pay UIJfftHc. for test factories. 
The. qu0ta Rons arc: 
finite 1 uctory Fancy at I6 Nt.: good to tine, Ki 
itiiilWc.; fair to good, lRyi16c.; dd v partly skimmed, 
lliftlso. Western factory Cheddar shape, l.'iV'" 
llVVae.; do., fiat, 15K@1RKC.; do., fair to good, 12 
ific.; do,, poor to fair, I Oft 12c. State farm dairy — 
Good to prime. 16X54lBWe.; do., fair to good, IIRffl 
1514c. 
Cotton. -Pared* on the spot have been bard to 
sell, with export demnnd tn abeyance and price® un¬ 
changed. Future deliveries have been lightly dealt 
in. The closing prices are:—March, 16 U-3 v<(16*4c.; 
April, hi 2l-32e.. May, IT Uo.C.t June. 17 ll-3'fti7%e.; 
July. 21-32c.: August, 17 26-82017 ]:<-lde.; Sep¬ 
tember, 17 3-l'i«J7J4t\, October, 1(121-ffiftll11-lUc.; No- 
tember, 17 3-l‘lt31754c., October, 16 SWfiftU ll-li-c.; N-. 
vember. 16 7-17c.. December. 16 7-l7wl0>;c. 
Quotations based on American standard of class! 
ticntton for spot cotton : 
Vphmrtt. Ahx. Orleans. Term 
Ordinary.13fcO. 13«u. 13VC. 18 Kc 
Rood ordinary.15)4 15)6 15% 15k, 
Low middling....1576 16 W '4 16)4 
Middling.16R 16% 10X 16 X 
Good middling.16;V 1«J4 17)4 17# 
Middling fair...17R 17)4 \V& 17X 
Fair.17K 18 18 * 18K 
Terras. 
me. 
15 M 
16 
Kao*.—The receipts since Jan. 1st (33,300 bids.) are 
one-half less thau for same date last your. Receipts 
have been steadier and prices have dropped to morn 
reasonable rutes, still, the supply is not large enough 
reasonable rutes, still, the supply is not large enough 
to allow grocer* to make a loading Lenten feature 
of them and the consumption Is email. Limed are 
out of market, an event that occurs at an earlier 
date than for many years since they have become so 
large an item of commerce. 
Near points V do/. 826484c.: fitate and Penn.,32ft34e.; 
Western, choice, 31ft32c,; other do., 30@31c,; South¬ 
ern, 80® 32c. 
prices for the last two years than anything else, 
and as a consequence many people are getting 
corn on ihe brain, which makes practical men 
think seriously of devoting more of their land 
to other crops- We have a few Grangers in this 
section, but. the Order has not spread here as 
in some other places. NOBtuehn Ohio. 
Cantnlin, Winneshiek Do., In., March H _We 
have had this winter the severest weather in 
the memory of man—that Is, In these parts. 
The mercury has stood most of the time at 
about 33° below zero. There has been no ces¬ 
sation of cold here since before Christmas. 
Many of t.he springs have dried up or frozen, 
and farmers have to draw water for family use. 
There is not going to be so many acres sown to 
wheat, in this section this year; farmers are 
getting sick of It. Wheat is being sold In this 
market at 75c, per bushel; oats, 41 to loo. Rut¬ 
ter, in rolls, sells at the village store at from 
30 to 35c. per lb. Eggs, 33c. per doz. Pork, 
dressed, $6.75 to $7 per 100. Stock steers, 22^c. 
per lb. Fodder is going to be scarce hero this 
spring.— j. c. n. 
Dried Fruits. — Appl s are in light stock and 
firmly held. The demand has become very light, 
Cupeeled peaches continue in demand at steady 
prices. Peeled peaches are quiet. Blackberries lu 
jobbing demand 
Apples. Southern sliced, *'-;<2i9o.; fancy d->., lo@llc.; 
Southern quarters. 8c.: state sliced. S^SSfe.: do. 
quarters. 8K<‘. ; Western quarters, fiX-Sb'-yc. Black- 
berries. MAOMc. Peeled penche*. Westeru, 21<3i23c., 
good and prime new Georgia. 26&38C.: North Caro¬ 
lina, prime, 28(3806.: choice. 31c : Lnpeeled pouch¬ 
es, halves, 8R6L9a.; quarters. 7‘A.-i8c. Pitted Chor- 
ries. new, 28(4,290. Raspberries, new, Slk&lMc. Plums, 
l‘kil22c. 
'£_ 
