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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Marcli 14,1881. 
Messrs. Win. M. Evarts, of New York, Allen o. 
Thurman, of Ohio, and Timothy Howe, ot Wiscon¬ 
sin have been appointed Commissioners to the In¬ 
ternational Monetary conference at Paris, to be 
held lu April. Hon. Levi P. Morton has been ap¬ 
pointed Minister to France. Mr. Lowell, present 
Minister to England, has been requested by the 
President to retain that position. 
Judge J. W. McDill, or Iowa has been appointed 
by the Governor to Hll the vacancy caused by Sen¬ 
ator Kirk wood's elevation to the Cabinet. Mr. 
Frye, of Maine, takes Mr. Maine ’b seat in the Sen¬ 
ate, and ex Secretary Ramsey will probably sue- 
ceed Mr. Window from Minnesota, Angus Camer¬ 
on was nominated ror senator, rrom Wisconsin, on 
the 4St,h ballot. 
On the arrival of the ex-President and Mrs. 
Hay os. with the family, at Tremont, Ohio, on 
March 8th, they were met at the depot by about 
three thousand citizens, and with bands of music 
and shouts and cheers, were escorted to their resi¬ 
dence. There Mr. Homer Everett, In a speech full 
of cordiality and sincere wishes ror their prosper¬ 
ity and happiness, welcomed the ex President and 
hla family homo. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes then held 
an informal reception, shaking hands with ruily 
two thousand persons. 
The Yorktown Centennial committee, of which 
Senator Johnston, or Virginia, Is chairman, have 
appointed a committee consisting of the chairman, 
Senator Butler, of south Carolina, and Representa¬ 
tive Lorlug, ot Massachusetts, to prepare invita¬ 
tions. The committee have decided to Invite the 
President and Cabin**., the members of the Forty- 
sixth and Forty-seventh congresses and Governors 
of all the States aud Territories. The latter are to 
be conferred with at once to learn what military 
organizations contemplate participating in the 
celebration. 
The Whittaker trial is “ dragging its alow length 
along,” with no probability ot approaching its end 
very soon. Experts In handwriting have been ex¬ 
amined this week, but no one, unless It is Whitta¬ 
ker, knows whether he wrote the note of warning 
or not. H. 1$. claflin, 8. v. Whlie, G. 1. Seney, H. 
R. Bennett and Stewart L. Woodford have raised 
$500 to pay Whittaker’s counsel in Ills court- 
martial. 
A German socialist meeting was held recently 
In Faneull Hall, Boston. There were 4,000 pres¬ 
ent. The speakers were the German socialists, 
Fritcz-ihe and Viereck, Wendell Phillips, John 
Swiuton and others. Resolutions expressing 
sympitoy with the German socialists were 
adopted. 
The heavy storm of rain and wind on the 9th 
Inst, cleared all the ice out of the Hudson River as 
far up as sing sing. The propeller Leader made 
Its first trip of the season 'Thursday morning, from 
that village to New York. 
Edison has removed from Menlo Park, N. J., lo 
Fifth avenue, New York, considering his Inven¬ 
tion complete, lie now proposes to light whole 
cities from central stations. 
It Is feared that Professor E. 1). Sanborn, ot 
Dartmouth College, who has been connected with 
the Institution lor 36 years, win soon be forced to 
give up on account of 111-health. He has also been 
so unfortunate as to lose most or his fortune by 
unlucky speculations. 
Immigration sets lu strongly this Spring, and the 
arrivals in 1881 are likely to exceed those of last 
year when they were the largest in the history of 
the country During the week just past ibe land¬ 
ings at Castle Garden numbered 6,323, an increase 
ot 2.470 over the first week of March, 1380. 
The Union Pacific railroad has declared a quar¬ 
terly dividend or one aud three-fourths per cent. 
This rate is likely, hereafter, to prevail. Sidney 
Dillon was elected president of the road. The 
surplus earnings for the year were $13,204,000. 
Fire was discovered In a room In the basement 
of the Wisconsin Capitol, at Maalson, on Thurs¬ 
day afternoon, sdlust., but was soon extinguished. 
The room la used Tor storing paints and oil, and 
the fire la supposed to have originated spontane¬ 
ously in a heap ol rags that lay In a comer. Dur¬ 
ing the excitement, "Old Abe,” the famous war 
eagle, screamed and flapped his wings, and being 
let loose, took a trip 10 another portion of the 
basement, and remained there till all danger was 
over. 
John Hay, Assistant Secretary of State, on ac¬ 
count of private engagements, will not be able to 
comply with President Garflhds and Secretary 
Blaine's request to remain in the Department. 
He has been succeeded by Judge Bancroft. Davis, 
who held the same poslUon under Seward In Lin¬ 
coln’s time. 
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Churchill, widely known as a 
speaker and w riter on the rights of women and re¬ 
form generally, died In Providence, It. 1.. on the 
7th lust. She has been residing near Boston. 
Caltioriilans ane pronouncing eulogies on George 
W. Ridley, accessed, because he gave a sack or 
flour which was sold and resold during the war 
until It netted $50,000 lor the United States Sani¬ 
tary Commission. Giving a Back of flour is a gen¬ 
erous thing, but some eulogy ought to be reserved 
for the man who contributed the most to the $50,- 
000 . 
Mr . Henry G. Pearson has been nominated by 
the Preside nt to be Postmaster of this cl ty He Is 
a son-in-law of ex-Postmaster James, and was for¬ 
merly Assistant Postmaster. 
Professor J, M. Van Yleck of Wesleyan Unlver- 
I slty has been appointed by the bishops of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church as one of the delegates 
to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference, to be 
held in <m Road Chapel, London, England, be¬ 
ginning on the 7th of September, 18S1. The Hon. 
Oliver Hoyt oi Stamford is the only other delegate 
from Connecticut. 
A protracted and bitter controversy, growing 
out of defalcations In the ohemlcal laboratory at 
Michigan University, has been closed by the resig¬ 
nation of Prof. Rose, who with Prof. Douglass had 
charge of the accounts of that department. 
The Atchison, Topeka and Saut.a Fe Railroad 
made a connection on the llth lnsi. at Dinning 
Junction, where aellver spike was driven In at 3:46 
p m. Engineer O’Neill of engine 5o3 of the AtchlsoD, 
Topeka and Santa Fe road ran the first engine to 
the Southern Pacific road. There was no further 
demonstration. 
A bill has been introduced In the Assembly 
appropriating $3,two towards the erection or a 
monument In memory of General Nicholas Her¬ 
kimer and his associates In the battle of Oriskany, 
and to contribute thereto such stone In the locks 
of the Chenango canal as are not needed by the 
State. 
Miss Barbara Scott., ot Montreal, bequeathed 
$ 30,000 to found a chair of civil engineering In the 
McGill college; $2,ooofor a classical scholarship, 
to be called "The Barbara scott Scholarship;” 
and $ 2,000 to the building fund of St. Gabriel 
Church, of Montreal. 
It Is said the post al card has decreased tne sale 
of writing paper $ 12 , 000,000 annually m the United 
States. 
Twenty eight men and women formed a crema¬ 
tion society at New York lately with Rev. J. D. Ben- 
glass, a chaplain In the United stales navy, as 
president.. All aetlve members will be cremated 
free charge at death. A company with $ 50,000 
capital is to be incorporated. 
A large stone weighing 2,000 pounds. In the 
flouring mills of August Fischer, of Chicago, burst 
recently with a loud noise, and three persons were 
seriously Injured by the flying pieces. Tne 
stone was an Imported artl cle, four feet In diam¬ 
eter and one loot thick, and was making about 
276 revolutions per minute. 
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[La Crosse Republican Leader.] 
Having been cured by St. Jacobs Oil, I recom¬ 
mend the same to all sufferers with Rheumatism, 
says Mr. L. Shlffman, 2804 Calumet Ave., Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Czar of all the Russians, Alexander 11 , has 
at length been murdered by tbe Nihilists. Yester¬ 
day he attended church In the inornlDg in Bt. 
Petersburg, and afterwards witnessed a military 
parade. While returning from this to the Winter 
Palace In a closed carriage, escorted by eight Cos¬ 
sacks, an orsinl bomb, made or glass and charged 
with, nltro-glycerine, was thrown at the carriage 
and exploded Just, behind Jt destroying the back 
part oi it. The Czar and his brother, the Grand 
Duko Michael, alighted unhurt. The eoaebmun 
begged the Emperor to re-enter 1 he shattered ve¬ 
hicle. but. he moved a few paces to see some of his 
escort that had been wounded. The thrower ot 
tbe bomb was at once arrested and tried to shoot 
the Czar, but the pistol was knocked aside. Ai 
this moment, a second bomb was thrown by 
another person at the Emperor’s feet, and In¬ 
stantly exploding, shattered both legs below the 
knees, severely Injured the lower part of the body 
aud tore the left eye out of the socket. The Em¬ 
peror rell wit h a loud, cry, aud was taken to the 
Winter Palace, close at hand, lu an unconscious 
condition. He lingered tor nearly an hour and-a- 
half and died at 20 minutes past three, the only 
word he uttered having been the name ot the 
Cz are witch, his eldest son, who was at once pro¬ 
claimed emperor on the Czar’s death. A Cossack 
and a passer-by were killed by the explosion, and 
two or three others severely wounded. The 
thrower of the second bomb was also instantly 
arrested, and one ot the wretches is said lo have 
been so roughly handled by the angry populace 
that he died. The name of the first assassin Is 
said to ne Poussakoff. Both were disguised as 
peasant b, and stood on opposite sides of the road 
that rims by the imperial atables close 10 the 
Winter Palace. Intense Indignation Is cable- 
grammed from St. Petersburg and all the Euro¬ 
pean capitals. All tbe troops In the Russian 
capital are under aims In their quarters. All the 
members of the royal family lh the city at once 
hastened to the death-bed ot t he dying Emperor. 
Immense crowds thronged the streets; a cordon 
of Cossacks encircled the spot where the assassi¬ 
nation took place. Telegromas were at once sent 
all over the Empire and to all torelgn courts and 
capitals, announcing the calamity. Messages of 
condolence were at once sent by all governments. 
Including our own, to the CzarewltCh and the Im¬ 
perial family. The news of the death 01 Ills Impe¬ 
rial nephew la reported to have been a terrible 
shock to the aged Emperor of Germany. 
What Influence the death of the czar may have 
upon European affairs It Is as yet hard to predict. 
This morning's cabli grams announce that Greece 
Is resolved upon war wltn Turkey, as the latter 
seems determined not to yield all the territory 
claimed by the former, ’the question Is now be¬ 
ing discussed by the ambassadors of the Great 
Powers mconstantlnople; it Is probable tbatGrecce 
will restrain her 7fi,uoo men, at least until the 
disposition of the new Russian autocrat becomes 
known with regard 10 ihe ” Eastern Question.” 
Hitherto he has been considered as favorable to 
the “ Old Russian" party, and therefore hostile to 
foreign Influence In Russia, and especially to Ger¬ 
man influence. 
The late Czar was born April 29,1818, so that he 
nad nearly completed hla sixty-third year. He 
mounted the throne on March 2 ,1866, on the death 
of his father, the Iron-willed Nicholas, and for a 
y ear continued the Crimean War, in which Russia 
was single-handed against Great Britain, France, 
Sardinia and Turkey, with Austria a passive 
enemy. After tbe fall of Sebastopol on September 
'55, negotiations tor peace were begun, and the 
Treaty of Parts finally put au end to hostilities In 
March, 1850. since then the Emperor’s career has 
been that, of a reformer: he released Russia from 
mllhary routine, discipline and dictation: annul¬ 
led the Impediments against Russians vlslUDg for¬ 
eign lands; granted a general amnesty to thou¬ 
sands of Poles and Russians condemned to Siberia 
during the preceding reign. His greatest measure 
of reform, however, was the emancipation ot the 
serfs, which was decreed March 8, ISfil. and carri¬ 
ed out the two following years. The Ural attempt 
on bis life was made April ig, ihiks, a 
second attempt was made during his visit to the 
Paris Exhibition In isot. The three late attempts 
on his life by the Nihilists have been already 
noticed In these columns:—that of Solovleff, who 
on April 2 ,1879, fired three times at the Emperor 
in Bt. Petersburg!); the attempt last year to blow 
up the train 011 which he was traveling from Llva- 
dlalnthe Crimea to Moscow, and the other at¬ 
tempt u little later, to destroy him Oy blowing up 
the dining room of the Winter Palace, while he 
was at dinner. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
At Russell, Kansas, on April 13 , 40,000 head of 
sheep are to be sheared by machinery.The 
Indiana Legislature has voted against a law to 
compel owners to keep stock under fence, on the 
ground that It woula be cruel to compel the poor 
rn&u to shut up or pasture hla single cow. 
Accounts all over the country agree that bees 
have suffered severely in win ter-quarters from 
starvation, dysentery, etc.The seventeen- 
year locusts are expected to appear in June next 
in Marquette and Green Lake counties, Wta., In 
the neighborhood of Wheeling, IV. Va., and In 
parts of Maryland aud Virginia. They may also 
appear lu Northwestern Ohio, Lancaster County, 
l’a , and Westchester County. N. Y. The thirteen- 
year locusts will probably be seen In Southern 
Illinois. The potato bug will be round wherever: 
there Is a potato planted, without regard to State 
and county lines. The lightning-rod man will 
be out also early in June .One of tbe largest 
peach orchards m the world is in Chambers Coun¬ 
ty, Ala., near the Georgia line. It contains 260 
acres and has yielded In past seasons $70,000 worth 
of fruit,...,, The following la a summary of the 
Beed distribution by the Agrl. Dept, of Hold and 
garden, and flower seeds during the year: To Sen¬ 
ators and Members of congress, 780,079 packages ' 
agricultural societies, n. ill packages; statistical 
correspondents, 189,729 packages; granges, 355,- 
482 packages ; special farmers, 127 044 packages; 
miscellaneous applicants, 181,306 packages. To¬ 
tal uurnber of packages, 2 , 681,253 .The Colo¬ 
rado cattle Growers’ Association, In session at 
Denver, the otter day, adopted a series of resolu¬ 
tion regarding pleuro-pneumoula, concluJlngaa 
rollows; ‘Resolved, That we recommend a con¬ 
vention, to be held lu Kansas city in September or 
October next. In the Interest of Western stockmen, 
for the purpose of creating combined action in 
pressing the necessity upon Congress fovnaUonal 
legislation on the subject of contagious diseases of 
live stock, and that we solicit correspondence on 
ibis pol&t.” 
Fuel hag been so scarce In Minnesota during the 
recent snow blockades that many families have 
burned hay and unlhreshed wheat, and Appleton, 
a village of 400 to 500 people, did not have more 
than half a cord or wood and two or three tons of 
coal last week lu (he whole town. I n other places 
two or three families have crowded together lu one 
house and burned Ihe vacated dwellings. 
Two plekellng factories at PleonantviUe, on the 
Hudson River, have used this season, 11 , 001 ,uoo 
cucumbers .Our butter trade with France Is 
rapidly lucreaslbg. Up to Saturday, February 21 
wc bad exported 324,029 pounds this year. How 
much of It was oleomargarine?.Large 
quant lUca ot hay are being Imported from Canada 
to this city and PUlladelphla. The Import duty Is 
20 per cent: the freight to this place, $r>o per car¬ 
load ; wholesale price here In bales. $20 to $ 24 .... 
_Very full reports irom tbe wheat, region trib¬ 
utary to St. Louie, bhow that hitherto damage 
from the cold weather has been trifling; the acre¬ 
age la much larger than last year, and the pros¬ 
pect lsgood for a large crop. Reports from Illi¬ 
nois are equally favorably.At the late 
meeting of the Illinois state Board or Agriculture 
held at Springfield, Peoria was selected as the 
place to hold the state Fairs tor the next two 
years. 
A beet sugar factory Is to be built at Berlhler, 
Provluce or Quebec, Canada.The average yield 
of Indian corn per ucie throughout the United 
states is 20 2 bushels .Advices Horn Texas 
say that the cold wave that sw ept over the State 
during the 10th, llth and 12th of Februaiy, was 
more, disastrous to stock than any that bad pre¬ 
ceded It this winter. The heraa and flocks had 
become emaciated and weak, and many animals 
were unable to stand the severe weather. 
From the returns of Australia it appears that 
more than 2 , 500,000 acie3 of land are sown In 
wheal, being twice tbe area some eight years ago. 
The average yield was about ton bushels per acre. 
The largest wheat growing diet riot, South Aus¬ 
tralia, has an average ot little more than seven 
bushels per acre, while New Zealand averaged 
nearly twenty-three bushels and New south Walts 
fourteen and three-fourths bushels per acre. 
The Michigan Legislature has just passed a bill 
“ for the protection of dairymen aud to prevent 
deception In the sale of butter.” It provides that 
all packages composed In part or Buet or tallow 
shall bo plainly branded *• Oleomargarine,” aud 
that all made lu part of lard shall be branded 
*' Butterlne,” together with the nameot the manu¬ 
facturer in each case, a proper penalty is pro¬ 
vided for failure to obey the law.The Anti- 
Monopoly League lately started here Is Bpreading 
like “ wlld-fire” all over the country. Branches 
have already been established In 25 States, and 
others are being constantly organized. Farmere¬ 
ss they ought—are taking a lively Interest In the 
movement...-The gross Income derived from 
tobacco by farmers In the United States Is stated 
at about $ 22 , 1100,000 .Good English landlords 
are still returning to their tenants from 20 to 50 
per cent, of their rents.In Germany the 
weather has been dry and pretty favorable for 
farmtng operations .In tbe Argentine Re¬ 
public the harvest lias bpen good, but (here Is not 
much surplus wheat for export...In France 
the weather has been dry and frosty, and Spring 
cuRlvatlon is being proceeded wltb; the growing 
crops are generally spoken of favorably. 
Late advices from Australia say that the har¬ 
vest has been unusually heavy in New South 
Wales. Grass was very scarce and a water fam¬ 
ine wag threatened; bush fires were raglDg in 
several parts of tne colony, and caused a great 
dest iuetlon of fences and grass.In victoria 
much satisfaction was felt at the success ot an 
experimental export of fresh meat to England ... 
....An extremely successful Wool Exhibition had 
been held.Powell Brothers, of sprlngooro 
Pa., rnude two Importations of choice Clydesdales 
last month: all arrived here in excellent condi¬ 
tion.On February 28 , the Annual Meeting 
of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain 
and Ireland was held at Glasgow, Scotland. The 
third volume of the Stud-book was to be Issued 
within a week. From reports It seems that exports 
of Clydesdales to the Continent, the colonies and 
this country are rapidly Increasing, while in tne 
United Kingdom these horses are becoming prime 
favorites. 
The New Y'ork Legislature has passed a bill 
abollahltgcanal tolls on west-bound freight.... 
Earnest Flagg, manufacturer of oleomargarine in 
this city, hag failed, aud la accused of “sharp 
practice ’’with his creditors....... Bradstreet’s of 
the lath of March contains despatches from Cin¬ 
cinnati and tributary points, Chicago, Louisville, 
St. Louis, st. Joseph, Kansas city, Indianapolis, 
the Iowa pork cement, and Milwaukee, In response 
to the charges made abroad concerning tbe preva¬ 
lence or hog cholera and trichinosis in the United 
States. They rc port a healthier condition of hogs 
than for years previously, and say there la no 
ground whatever for apprehension, some of the 
correspondents stigmatize the charges as a “ bear” 
movement. 
The River Platte wheat crop for 1880- si has been 
variously estimated. This crop In the cluster of 
Santa Fe colonies around Ksparanz 1 and San Car. 
108 aggregated 937 ,000 bushels against 800,two bush¬ 
els ror tho previous crop. The chief export Is 
expected to be Flour. Adelaide, South Australia, 
advices of the 8th of January, 1880, state that the 
Government statistics of the Wneat crop of isso 
made 11,205,040 bushels ror that colony, of 
which 10,747,140 bushels bad been slilpprd up 
to the close of 18S0, leaving a residue to 
bring forward into isst of 457,394 bushels. 
The crop being harvested in January and Febru¬ 
ary, 1881 , will not be equal in either quantity 
or quality to last year’s outcome. It Is estimated 
that the crop or 1881 will give an average yield of 
six bushels per acre, w hich will make an export 
surplus or about 6,.->33,383 bushels. The harvest 
on January 8. 1881, was in full swing with the 
weather alt that, could be desired. 
There Is now quite a free movement of grain 
from St. 1 .outs, via the Mississippi River to New 
Orleans, which is Indicated by the export, clear¬ 
ances from thence to Europe. The boat “Oakland” 
took eight barges In tow on the tith Inst, for New 
Orleans. The barges carried 208,000 bushels Of corn 
and Bi*,0(JO bushels of wheat for export to Europe. 
This Is said to be the largest amount of grain ever 
taken down ibe Mississippi River In one tow of 
barges .An Insurance company bas been 
formed in Prussia to Insure against loss of hogs by 
trichina) ..Mr Lancaster, near London, haa4C 
acres 01 celery, and his celery commands the high¬ 
est prices in market, nis plantation, at 10,000 
plants per acre, requires ioii.oou plants. They are 
set In trenches, and vast quan tines or manure are 
used Seven horses are used In his so-acre vegeta¬ 
ble garden. Radishes between the celery bring 
about. $140 per acre, and the celery $250 per acre. 
The labor comes to $250 per week m Summer and 
Autumn. 
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l*id You Know Il f 
Some people suffer forbears from weak kidneys 
and torpid bowels and liver. If you know such a 
person tell them that Kidney-Wort is a certain 
cure. It can now be had In either liquid form or 
as a dry vegetable powder. The same effect either 
way.—Evansville Tribune, j 
