from tbls country. In certain Departments such 
attempts have hitherto proved very successful.... 
....An insect destructive to the olive la fast 
spreading m France. In '78 its ravages were con- 
llned to Provence, hut in ’79 they extended to 
Languedoc and the Department of nerault. The 
egg is deposited in the olive. The larvte gnaw the 
pulp, and make passages through It. The olive 
conveniently withers and fails, and the larva 
passes into the soil, there to transform Itself into 
the shape of a chrysalis.Texas is Import¬ 
ing large quantities of Merino sheep. Tmporta. 
tlons during the past season have been much 
larger than ever before.All over the South, 
indeed, especially in hilly districts, there has been 
a very considerable Increase In the number of 
sheep the past year, ana the movement is growing. 
Unusual attention is also being paid to the quality 
of purchases.An imported Durham cow. the 
property of a farmer near Aurora, Ill,, has given 
birth to six calves In less than two years. The bo- 
vines were born In pairs....Shaugbal Pierce, the 
cattle king of Jackson County, Texas, lately sold 
7 ,ooo cattle for $ic per head. _Mr, Pierre Lor- 
rllard recently purchased in England the famous 
French stallion Mortimer, paying tor him the sum 
of $40,000. The magnificent animal arrived hens 
the other day ou the steamship Italy.The 
largest pair of mules received In St. Louis durliijr 
the season, weighed ti.ooo pounds together, and th e 
height of each was is hands. . The amount of 
of Armour & Co., bankers, and of the firm of 
Planketon & Armour, the most extensive hog pack¬ 
ers In the world. His brother, P. D. Armour, still 
remains to get up " corners ” In pork. He leaves a 
wife, but no children. 
The exports of Wheat and Wheat Flour have 
been from July to Dec. isso, as follows : 
Oregon, July l to Dec. 20,1880. B l U |ra 
Ca ifornia. July 1 to Dm. 22.. 10862488 
Atlantic ports, July 1 to Jau. 1.1881.. .7 108.042.886 
Total,biishelB......114,677 88tf 
The Agricultural Department estimates the annual 
HOME NEWS 
Monday, Jan. 10 , 1881. 
Judge Osborn of Catskill has just rendered a 
decision against county Judge Thornton, of Sul¬ 
livan, who was elected in 1878 for a term of six 
years. During the canvass, Thornton announced 
that be would serve the coun’y it elected, for 
$1200 per year, the regular salary being $2,600. 
Thornton was fleeted and true to hlspromtee has 
drawn only $ 1,200 a year salary. The unsuccess¬ 
ful candidate did not take his defeat kindly and 
brought a quo warranto suit against Thornton, 
claiming bis offer to serve the voters ot the 
county for less than the regular salary was In the 
nature of a bribe, and that he (Bush) should be In¬ 
stalled in the oilice as the one who received the 
greatest, number of legal votes. The case was 
tried last Summer but decision has just been ren¬ 
dered. Judge Osborn holds that the promise 
to take $l,eoo only, was lathe nature of a bribe, 
but he refuses to place Bush on the county bench! 
so LbatGov. Cornell will have to All the vacancy 
until another election .The New York Press Club 
gave their annual dinner at the St. Nicholas In 
this city last Thursday night. Speeches were made 
by Mr. Beecher, Gens. Grant and Sherman, Mayor 
Grace, and other notables . The botanical depart¬ 
ment of Cornell University has recently received 
a gift of $10,000 from the Hon. H. w. Sage of 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Col. John H. George, a good aut Lorlty, claims 
that New Hampshire’s summer business toots up 
$ 6 ,ooo.noo a year. He bases his estimate on the 
railroad receipts from this business of $600,000, 
which he thinks Is 10 per cent, or the whole, other 
estimates place the aggregate amount at $2,000,000 
per annum. One thing is sure, the business Is 
great and growing .Chicago’s prosperity is 
very remarkable. The past year has been marked 
by an enormous increase !u Its business. The 
bank clearings were greater than for the previous 
year by $336 000,000, the total sum being $1,693,000,. 
000. The Increase In grain shipments was very 
great; twenty-three millions of bushels more of 
cereals were hauoled than in ’78. 
Li dia E. Pimkham’8 Vegetable Compound has 
rapidly made its way to favor among druggists, 
who have observed its effects on the health of their 
customers. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Plnkham. 233 
M estern Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for pamphlets. 
x ropic-tfruit Laxative, an agreeable sub¬ 
stitute for pills and nauseous purgatives. One 
lozenge is the dose. Physicians prescribe It. Sold 
by druggists. 
"My mother drove the paralysis and 
out of her system with Hop Bitters,’’- E 
Sun. 
LWalla Walla Watchman,] 
\VI*te Words of a Willing Witness. 
At the close of a mass meeting, according to the 
report ot the same published In a La Grange pa¬ 
per, reference was made to the phenomenal efficacy 
or St. Jacob’s Oil In the many painful diseases lo 
which mankind Is subjeot. We refer to the above 
as showing how strong a hold the Old German 
Kernedy for Rheumatism has on the experience 
and good wishes of the great public. 
iv!i.uc i.ouuiy, mmols, nave just put in operation 
their large sugar works. The main building 13 
live stories high, built of brick, Is r,6 reet by iso 
feet. In addition to this is a stone wing, no feet by 
60 reet. making one of the largest establishments 
of the kind In the State. At present, the company 
la using two thousand bushels of corn per day 
The American Pomologteal Society will hold Its 
eighteenth biennial session In Boston on Sept, u 
si .. .The National Farmers’ Alliance Isspread- 
lug in a satisfactory manner to Judge by the num¬ 
ber of local alliances which, It la claimed, have 
already been chartered. Twenty- live such organ¬ 
ization are reported to have been already char- 
tered in Kansas alone-whlch number entitles 
that State to a State organization.... ...Them 
is more grain now awaiting shipment In Buffalo, 
N. Y., than has been there in forty years before 
at this time of year. The price which England in 
to be called upon to pay out of the pockets of the 
English, Scotch and Welsh taxpayers In order to 
settle forever the disquieting Irish land question, 
Is, according to the Statist, the very modest 
amount of $ 1 , 500 , 1100,000 ... .The Annual Farm¬ 
ers’ Institute, under the auspices of the College ot 
Agriculture of I Utnols Industrial University, will 
be held at the University, January 26 - 88 , 1881, it 
will be similar to those which have met with such 
ravor in past years .. Reduced railroad fare is ex¬ 
pected. Programmes are being issued__ 
At the annual meeting of the international Dairy 
Fair Association, to be held In this city, February 
S-y, an effort will be made to hold in connection 
with the meeting a dairymen’s convention, in 
which prominent dairymen and cattle breeders 
will read essays or deliver lectures. 
The annual meeting of the State Agricultural 
society will be held in Albany, January 19. 
. ..The manufacture of the little round Dutch 
cheese made from sweet milk, so popular in the 
retail trade, w elghlng from three and a halt to 
four pounds each. Is being undertaken in Illinois. 
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 23 , isso, both inclusive, Kan¬ 
sas City received 244,216 cattle, 662,794 hogs, aud 
48,928 sheep.New Zealand is said to be mak¬ 
ing great agricultural progress. The Government 
are introducing foreign fruit trees. Vine and tea 
Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheapest 
Hair Dressing In the world. It kills dandruff, al¬ 
lays Irritation, and promotes a vigorous growth ot 
the Hair. 
FOREIGN NEW8 
A barber 
named Black went from Omaha to Sydney, Neh , 
with the avowed purpose or killing Detective 
James L. Smith, for having caused an article to 
be published in the Sydney Plalndealer reflecting 
on him. Black found Smith at the Lockwood 
House and fired t *0 shots at him, whereupon 
Smith drew a revolver and shot and mortally 
wounded his assailant.The plow manu¬ 
factory of B. D. Buford & Co., at Rock island, ill., 
la burned, Involving a loss of $ 250 ,000 on stock, 
machinery and buildings, besides throwing too 
employes out of work. The loss is one-fourth 
insured. 
E. H. Luther, for some years prominently con¬ 
nected with the press of New England and lately 
a well-known member of the corps of Washington 
correspondents, died at Worcester, Mass., aged 
about 30 years. A grocer of Boston lert $70 
to be annually expended In caring for his dog, and 
that fortunate animal now cats sirloin steak three 
times a day and sleeps on a spring bed_Liz¬ 
zie Burton, the Illinois horse thler of 17,13 very 
handsome, and in appearance perfectly modest; 
but she has been stealing horses ever since she 
was 10 years old.The Yorktown celebration 
committee has selected Hon. Robert C. Wlnthrop, 
of Massachusetts, for orator, and James Hope, or 
Virginia, to deliver the poem. 
Professor Felix Adler In his lecture at stetnway 
Hall on "Rational Education*’ made an earnest 
appeal to the audience to do their best to spread 
Intelligence among the working people, asserting 
that upon the enlightenment of their children de¬ 
pends the safety or our institutions.A fatal 
railroad collision took place recently at Lamokln 
Station In Pennsylvania, owing to a misplaced , 
switch. Quite a number of the passengers were 
seriously Injured, and In point of damage to rail¬ 
road property It Is said to be the worst aeclde nt 
that ever occurred In this country. 
William a. Ltghtail, the oldest marine engineer 
In the country, died at Brooklyn last week, aged 
76 years. He was born at Albany. He w as engineer 
on the first Hudson river steamboa t, the Clermont. 
.The annual sale of pe-ws in Plymouth 
church occurred In Brooklyn, Tuesday evening. 
The first was bought by Horace B. Claflln for $;ou 
The high priced pews brought higher prices than 
last year. The total amount realized was $12,000 
agalist $40,000 last year..The frame spin¬ 
ners of the Webster mill, at Suncook, N. ii„ struck 
on Tuesday, and later tbe weavers of the Webster 
and Pembroke mills, numbering 200, also struck 
work. The Btrlke was caused by a cut down of 
10 per cent, on the 1 st of January, it is likely that 
more will follow.At LoekDort. the mumifi. 
SPECIAL FROM THE CHIEF CENTRES 
England Is about to withdraw from Candabar 
before the Ameer Is firmly seated on his unstable 
throne. Blanqul, the chronic revolutionist, has Just 
died in France, in Germany there is a national 
movement against the Jews, supported, it is said, 
by Bismarck, who does not favor it openly 
however. The Germans strongly object to the 
fact that the Hebrews are accumulating most of 
the money in the Empire; obtaining prominent 
places in the press, the theater and the govern¬ 
ment and generally pushing offensively aside their 
Teutonic neighbors, The movement will probably 
end only In temporary exasperation on both sloes 
Greece and Turkey are still disputing upon the 
territory demanded by tbe former of the latter. 
By last accounts the Powers had ceased to offer 
arbitration and Greece had determined to go to 
war with her far stronger neighbor, in the expect 
tatlon that, m any event, Europe would not allow 
her to be badly thrashed. 
In south Africa the Boers have rebelled against 
the British and driven away most or the troops 
stationed in their territory. They are the descen¬ 
dants or the original Dutch settlers or the Cape of 
Good Hope, who until lately maintained their 
independence by retreating northward as the 
British extended their domtnlon since their con¬ 
quest ot the colony in isoc. When the South 
Atrlcan diamond fields were discovered In their 
country the Transvaal Republic—a few years ago 
the British seized upon it. on the plea that the 
Boers could not control the turbulent diamond 
hunters—and now the sturdy Dutch Republicans 
are seeking to regain their Independence. It win 
probably be a vain effort, as England Is sending 
fresh troops to reconquer the land, and never 
willingly gives up a territory once acquired, how- 
Dntil Saturday, Jan. 8. 
Wool—^T he market has been quiet this 
week, the sales comprising only 1.300,000 jb. of all 
kinds, and prices Indicate no change. The large 
stocks In New York, Boston, and Phllaoelphla- 
sritne so.oomoo lb.—make buyers hold off; but at 
this time hist year there were very large supplies 
on the way, against a very limited quantity now 
Of 96 , 000.000 in. of foreign Wool received at New 
lorkand Boston last year there is very little left 
ana , manufactures must have consumed at 
le.mt 100,000,000 lb. of foreign lasr year, while at 
^*» t . U “ etl *e re |H D0 Margin fo* imports 
tion. or likely to be, unless prices advance. There 
Is more or less English Combing coming forward 
bavft be '- n driven to purchase in 
Great Britain on account, of the small -cock- of 
this grade on hand. The prices of X and X X Ohio 
and l ennsyl vanla have ranged rroin -urouse • \\ i a . 
cousin and Michigan at 42 v@ 44 e., and combing 
aud Delaine at 4 Sc«.’, 50 ; (J c. tor Delaine and bmm 
tor Combing, as to quality. Unwashed Wools re- 
aSJfSS?* a moderate business, and 
lulled Wool has been seh lug at a.Vr. 2 e. for com¬ 
mon and choice supers. There is no movement of 
a ?, y « 5 0n ? equeilce 111 foreign. Holders ere very 
confident, that manufacturers will be in the mar- 
win be R^llwl We<?k ° r tW0 ’ aad that rul1 prlces 
^^‘! c ^V,n!, HEA '' B i r0 . n ^ No - nsl 'Vinter, 96 jk 
taiiiTC; No. 2 Chicago Spring, «SU'<a 98 Ve: February 
99 Qc; -March, fLUlii^.OS, May; Nrn 3 do Tl 
7 l@ 73 c. Cohn active and firm at 
Sic. cash: 37 ?,o. February; 4 ai-.T« 42 » 9 ’e. May re- 
83 ^ 340 . oats active and “tin,, aV 81 m 
cash, Si Qc. iebniftryj May. Ryk firm at 87 
in 11 cianu me political trials of the Land League 
leaders still continue. Parnell, however, and 
the other Members ot Parliament who have been 
indicted with him, have left Ireland to take then- 
seats In Parliament where they have already be¬ 
gun to give the nouse of Commons a good deal of 
trouble by obstructing all business, by means of 
technical partlamentry motions. On the opening 
or Parliament the Queen’s speech foreshadowed 
that the Government will ask for powers to Inf orce 
coercive measures in the disturbed districts, and 
at the same time introduce a bill for the relief of 
tenant farmers. Meetings of the Land League 
have been prohibited. The Pope has been writ¬ 
ing to the Irish bishops, sympathizing with the 
people, but counseling peace and conciliation. 
able, and the crops were looking well. Pleuro¬ 
pneumonia was troublesome in the North and 
foot-rot In the West, but with these exceptions the 
stock of the colony was healthy and thriving 
....In Queensland at the same date reports from 
pastoral districts are very encouraging.in 
South Australia, according to advices of Oot! 30, 
the weather was variable, and complaints about 
rust In the grain crops were prevalent. " Take- 
all’'—whatever that may be--was also causing 
anxiety to farmers. 
The tenth annual convention ot the North 
Eastern Bee Keepers' Association will beheld In 
the city of Utica, N. Y.. on the 2 d, 3 d, and 4 th day 
or February. I 8 st. Four Gold Medals will be 
awarded for tbe best essays on “ Wintering 
Beea,” “Marketing Honey,” and other very im¬ 
portant and interesting subjects. Essays upon 
all the leading topics will be contributed by 
some of America’s most eminent apiarists. 
Mr. Joseph F. Armour, who died In Cin cinn ati 
on Wednesday, and whose funeral took place In 
Chicago on Saturday, was one or Chicago’s best 
known and most active business men. He was 
born in Oneida, Madison County, N. Y., 88 years 
ago, and went to Chicago about 20 years ago. He 
was a member of the firm of p. d. Armour & Co., 
[Danville (ill.) News.] 
John Stein, Esq., city Brewer, referring to its 
valuable qualities, said to a News representative: 
“ 1 have used St, Jacobs oil in my family and rec¬ 
ommend It to my acquaintances. It has always 
given the best satisfaction and Is truly a wonder¬ 
ful remedy.” 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS 
