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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, August ib, 1881 
The latest reports this morning concerning the 
President’s condition denote no material change. 
The physicians are hopeful of his recovery, but 
Dr. A gnew is somewhat reticent, ic is said that 
another operation will be performed to allow the 
escape of the pus which Is continually gathering 
in the wound. It was thought during the week 
that he was doing much better as he was able to 
write a short letter to his mother at Mentor, but 
later the indications are that his condition is yet 
very critical. 
Latkst.— Telegrams of this morning (16th) state 
that the President spent a poor night, and his 
temperature is higher this morning with con- 
tlnued nausea and vomiting. 
The main Centennial Exhibition building was 
sold at the Philadelphia Exchange on the 9 th, to 
Mr. W. C. Bullitt, attorney at law, lor the sum of 
$97,000. it was rumored that the real purchaser 
was ihe Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The 
building originally cost $ 1 , 000 , 000 . In its con¬ 
struction 76,ooo ooo feet of lumber and 8.600,000 feet 
of Iron were consumed. The structure was 1,330 
feet long aud 464 feet wide. It was sold clear or 
encumbrance, the mortgage to be paid out of the 
purchase money. 
The first party of Chinese students connected with 
the Educational Commission In this country left 
for home o > the 8th, going by the way of sau 
Francisco, The parly numbers about 20: other 
parties wilt soon follow. 
The official returns from 73 counties In North 
Carolina give 9,000 majority against prohibition. 
Haywood gives the Prohibitionists 21 majority. 
So far It stands alone. 
Edgar M. Johnson, the Democratic nominee for 
Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, Is a devout Hebrew. 
A vein of silver two feet wide bas been discov¬ 
ered at Moretown, Vermont, on the top of a moun¬ 
tain. The ore has been assayed In Boston and 
found to be worth $ 5,000 per ton. The owner or 
the land has refused $i8,ooo for the claim. 
A party or nearly a thousand Mormon imml 
grants arrived Inirtah a few days since. They 
were foreigners, and described as having no ap¬ 
pearance of Intelligence among the men nor come¬ 
liness among the women. 
Mrs. Millard Fillmore, widow or President Fill¬ 
more, died at Buffalo on the llth. 
Eighty thousand acres of Arkansas land have 
been bought by the Catholic colonization Society. 
The aim Is to induce Irishmen to become farmers. 
Eight New York ladies, whose huBbands are es¬ 
timated to be worth $300,000,000, aggregate, dined 
together the other day at one of the Saratoga 
hotels. 
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt otters to defray two 
thirds of the cost of suitable bulldlDgs for a female 
college at Nashville, Tenp., provided the trustees 
of Vanderbilt University contribute the remain¬ 
der. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at 
$50,000, and the Rev. George Price is named as the 
probable head of the institution, when completed. 
To the Mrs. Gar field fund Bostonians have sub¬ 
scribed $123, against $117,600 subscribed In New 
York. $12 000 In Philadelphia, $n ,600 In Chicago 
and $5 200 in Washington. 
Judge Cooley, ol Michigan, is prominently men¬ 
tioned for tne vacant place on the Supreme Court 
bench, to succeed Justice Clifford. He is very 
favorably known to the profession as a Jurist and 
and a law writer. Ex-Attorney-General Devens 
and Chief Justice Gray, of Massachusetts, are also 
spoken of. 
The convention of the American Bankers’ Asso¬ 
ciation opeued at Nlag ara Falla Wednesday with 
a good attendance, 
A Washington dispatch says the essence of the 
verdict In the Whittaker case wUl be the finding of 
Whittaker guilty of committing the alleged out 
rage on ntmself. This vet diet wilt be unanimous 
and coupled with the unanimous recommendation 
that ne be dismissed from the service. 
The boat race between the Cornell University 
crew and the Vienna crew was won by the latter. 
The Cornells haven’t won a race. 
The Eogllsh pedestrian, William Gale, who un. 
dertook to walk fi ooo quarter miles In as many 
consecutive ten minutes, in New York, finished his 
task Tuesday night at 6:40, and continued on 
the track until he added H additional quarters to 
his wonderful record. 
The most destructive flood ever known to have 
occurred in the northern gold mining country took 
place m Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. Colore do, 
on Monday, the 8th lnst. The damage resulting 
wes confined to the town of central, Blackbawk 
Idaho Springs. The first Indications of the storm 
we. e visible from Central about two o'clock in the 
afternoon, when dark threatening eloudB began 
to Increase over James’ Peak and the surrounding 
mountains and the roll of heavy thunder swept 
over the el^p. Soon the clouds burst and the 
village streets were flooded to the depth of four to 
five feet. The damage at Blackbawk and Central 
Is over $100,000. Borne lives were losr. 
Judge Colt, of Pittsfield, Maas., shot himself 
through the head with a pistol on Tuesday night. 
He was appointed to the Supreme Bench in 1875 . 
Matthew Vassar, nephew of the founder of 
vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., died in that 
city on the 10 th lnst., aged seventy-two years. 
His wealth was estimated at over $i,ooo,ooo. 
Ex-Senator Browning, of Quincy, Ill., died on 
Wednesday night, aged seventy-elx. 
“Maud S.” reduced her time to 8:io&, on 
Wednesday last at Rochester, N. Y. she per¬ 
formed the feat with the greatest ease, and her 
driver says she can do slUl better. Mr. Vanderbilt, 
ber owner, expects her to make 2:09 tills season. 
She will trot next at Hartford, Conn., when Bhe 
will be driven with a view to securing her owners 
desired record. 
Paterson, N. J. Is a circus afflicted city, it is 
estimated that In the stoppage of mills aDd iosb of 
ttme whenever one of these tented excrescences 
puts in an appearance the manufacturing inter¬ 
est suffers to the extent of at least $50,000. 
Ten dollars fare from Boston to Kansas City! 
For some days it has been possible to buy a pas¬ 
sage from Boston to Chtcago by way of the Grand 
Trunk Railway for five dollars, and on Tuesday 
announcement was ma le that the Chicago & Alton 
Railroad would accept five dollare for passage 
from Chicago to Kansas City on the western 
boundary of Missouri—half way across the conti¬ 
nent. 
A secret meeting of Irishmen who believe In 
fighting England with dynamite, has been held in 
Cnicago. The members are reported well organ¬ 
ized, with $ 100,000 In their treasury. 
The. government realized the sum of$C5S,209 
bythesale ol postage stamps In the cities of 
Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. 
Louis during the month of July. 
Ex-President Hayes, Secretary Blaine and ex- 
Senator conkling have, it la said, promised to 
visit the Atlanta exposition. Dates have, of 
course, been carefully arranged so mere will be 
no clashing. 
The population of this country Increases in 
compactness. The cities grow more rapidly than 
country towns. At the beginning of the century 
one seventy-fifth of the population of the United 
States was in the cities . the present proportion Is 
one-fifth. 
Elder James White, founder of the Seventh Day 
Adventists, and president of the publishing asso¬ 
ciation and college, located at Battle Creek, 
Mich., died Saturday, aged 60, He was a direct 
descendant of Peregrine White, the first child 
born In the Pilgrim father’s oolony. 
A Connecticut patriot has tendered to President 
Garfield the use of a magnificent mansion, on the 
dividing line between Newport and Middletown, 
for as long or as short a period as he may desire, 
it commands lovely views an<^ ts, besides, a his¬ 
toric spot, for there earthworks were thrown up 
during the revolution and engagements fought 
between the British and American troops. 
An old historical document has been found by a 
clergyman In Moats county, New Jersey, contain¬ 
ing an account of an attempted assassination of 
Gen. Washington, In the summer of 1776, in which 
a member of his lire guard was implicated. The 
guard was hung for it on the 28th of June. 1776. 
The Legislature of Georgia proposes to deal with 
the Mormon propaganda in that State without 
gloves. A bill has been Introduced and will pass 
the Legislature which provides that any person 
convicted of teaching Mormon principles, or en¬ 
deavoring to decoy emigrants to Utah, shall be 
fined not exceeding $ 1,000 nor imprisoned not 
more man one year or both, In the discretion or 
the court. 
The expected report of the sub committee of 
the World’s Fair at Boston, will be submitted to 
the full committee In September. It is said that 
among its recommendation wilt be that me Fair 
be held in Boston four years hence, that $6,000,- 
ooo be secured as a guarantee fond, and that the 
Back Bay site originally proposed, be the place 
selected for its location. 
The silk industry in this country has prospered 
and grown with remarkable rapidity under me 
rostering care of a protective tariff. The silk 
mills number 77. The number of firms engaged 
In me manufacture or silk and silk machinery is 
102. The number of hands employed is upwards 
or 13,000. The capital Invested Is over $10,000,000; 
more than $ 1 , 000,000 are expended In wages, and 
the value or the yearly product exceeds $ 12 , 000 , 000 . 
Tne Atlantic FlemlDg Mills at St. Louis were 
struck by Ugntnmg and destroyed on the 12 th 
lnst. The flames spread rapidly 10 the OU Works 
which were damaged to the extent of about 
$46,000, 
Lafayette, a city In Indiana, having a popula¬ 
tion of 14,000, supports 14 different regular pub¬ 
lications ; Akron, Ohio, a town of about 18,000 In¬ 
habitants, has seven newspapers, and Erie, Pa, a 
city having a population of 2«,sio, has seventeen 
newspapers—ten weeklies, three dallies (one Ger¬ 
man), three Sunday morning and one monthly, 
Denver, Colorado, has a population ot less than 
50,000, but It Includes stx men who are worth trom 
$ 1 , 000,000 to $5,000,060 each, twenty who are worth 
$ 600 , 000 , and two hundred who represent $260 ,000 
In their own right. Denver has, h sides Its hatch 
of nflh men, six widows whose combined for¬ 
tunes aggregate $ 3 , 000 , 000 . 
An enormous cannon, called tne Lyman Haakln 
Accelerating or Multleharge Gun, la to be made 
at the Scott Foundry of the Reading (Pa) Iron 
Works. It Is to be 25 feet long find nave a bore 
six inches m diameter. 'The gun will be expected 
to throw a 160 pound sUot ten or twelve miles and 
penetrate ihrough two feet of solid wrought Iron. 
Geo. W. Tabb, a former citizen Of Jefferson 
county, West virgiula, and foreman of the jury 
that convicted John Brown, In consequence of 
which his family had been greatly persecuted dur¬ 
ing the war, died at Harrisonburg, Va, recently. 
Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt's Government bonds are 
now estimated to oe worth $ 60 , 000 , 000 . 
A dying thief was compassionately released from 
the Rhode inland state Prison, and sent to pass 
his remaining days at home In Providence; but 
belore his death he craw led out and robbed seven 
houses. 
Statistics of the postal operaUon during tne last 
quarter of the fiscal year just ended, compared 
with the corresponding period ot the preceding 
year, are Interesting and encouraging. At four of 
the principle offices In the country, the receipts 
In these periods were 
June so, June so, 
. 18 SL 1880 Increase. 
New tork. $757,< 58 43 $630,416 50 $120 641 93 
Boston- - 254 355 C6 211 292 <>6 43 063 60 
BUtlmore. 88 606 09 SO,094 84 18 412 05 
Chicago. 306,091 18 2-16,251 69 69,839 60 
People should avoid, as far as possible, being run 
over by railroad cars. An empty platform car 
weighs 18,000 pounds; an empty box car, 20,000 
pounds; a passenger car, 36,000 pounds, and some¬ 
times more; and an average locomotive, 80,000 
pounds. A single pair of car wheels weighs 500 
pounds. 
The tide of Immigration Is still setting In 
strongly. The total number of Immigrants landed 
atthls port last month was 34,835. During the 
month ot July, 18S0, ur> 382 were landed, showing 
an Increase cf 9,453 for the last month as compared 
wltn the corresponding month last year. The 
total Immigration for the past seven months was 
876.738, and for the corresponding period last year 
202 367, showing an increase ot 74,271 in 1891. 
The school fund of Texas will at no distant day 
be enormous. That state has yet unsold 40 , 000 ,. 
000 acres of school land, which will probably 
bring her public schoolfund to $100,000,000, a sum 
equal to tbe combined school funds of all the 
other States of the Union. The University of 
Texas, soon to be established, has more than $ 500 ,- 
000 with which ro erect buildings, and a perman¬ 
ent endowment of between $ 2 , 000,000 and $3,000, 
000. 
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wnat we would particularly Impress upon in¬ 
valids and tbelr friends, is the value of Compound 
Oxygen in arresting disease in its early stages and 
before ctironio conditions hare been established. 
It most be evident to the common sense of every 
one, that an agent which acts so potently In 
breaking the force of diseases which have been at 
work upon the system and have been exhausting 
it for years, can scarcely fall to arrest like diseases 
in their beginning, and when the vitality ot the 
body has not been wasted. If, therefore, you 
have the early symptoms of Consumption, Catarrh, 
Bronchitis, Neuralgia or the indications of any 
other disease which may keep its hold upon you 
until It becomes ebronie, do not neglect the warn¬ 
ing indications. Meet the enemy upon the very 
threshold, and while your vitality is yet unim¬ 
paired. If your regular physician falls to reach 
the case, then we offer you, in Compound Oxygen, 
an almost certain means of restoration—the way 
back to health -the agent that may save you from 
a life of invalidism, or from premature death. 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, with large re¬ 
ports of eases and full information, sent .tree: Drs. 
Stakkky & Palkn, 1109 and till Girard St., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.— A dv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWB. 
complaints are made all over the West, partic¬ 
ularly In Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, that wire 
fences attract lightning, which often results In the 
killing of stock. The stock Imagine that the fence 
affords protection from the storm and accordingly 
huddle close up to It. One Instance Is given 
where 65 head of sheep were killed in Nebraska 
at a single stroke, and another where 10 head of 
cattle were killed... Connecticut was famous 
for Its fine peach orchards 31 ) years or more ago, 
but for twenty years the trees have failed to bear, 
it la now said that the trees are fast Improving, 
and the State may again boast of fine orchards 
and perfect fruit. This year’s apple crop will be 
small, but the pear crop large.The Cin¬ 
cinnati Price Current says reports received by 
Secretary cbamberialn that of the-Ohio State 
Board of Agriculture, after thrashing, indicate 
that the yield or wheat in tne state will average 
13 bushels per acre, which will aggregate about 
70 cent of last year’s crop. The crop last year, 
according to the State report, was, In round 
numbers, 52 , 000,000 bushels, and consequently the 
crop this year will be about 39 , 400,000 bushels. 
Even this is more than the National report gave 
the state credit for last year.One of our 
southern exchanges says that Louis Kent, a col¬ 
ored man ot Mississippi, has had the honor, Tor 
three years past, or sending the first bale of cotton 
to market.Switzerland has always been 
considered as an eminent cattle breeding coun¬ 
try, but the consumption exceeds the production. 
The Custom House returns show that there are 
every year about so.ooo head more cattle Imported 
than exported, corned baef, hams and pork of 
the United States largely contribute to the mar¬ 
ket.The San Francisco Journal ot com¬ 
merce, after patient investigation, puts the acre¬ 
age ol wheat In California this year at 2,908,000 
acres audtbey yield 27,182 ,000 centals, which la 
equivalent to 45,300 000 bushels, or nearly 20.4 per 
cent less than last year. The surplus for ship- 
mentwlltbe l, 000,000 tons or 33 .hoo,ooo bushels. 
According to the official report issued August 4 , 
the total acreage of wheat for isso in Minnesota 
Is 2,960,073 acres, and for 1831, 2,960,618 acres, 
showing an Increase of only 005 acres. The crop 
for 18801 s reported to be 39,3* 1,739 bushels, which 
gives an average yield per acre for the state of 
18.30 bushels. The average per acre for the State 
ot the principal cereals was lor lsuoOats, 33.49 
bushels; corn 31.07; barley 23.81. Tbe increase in 
acreage for issi is:—Oats 8.07 per cent: corn ,12 02 
per cent, and barley, 71.24 per cent. 
The hlght ot the Nile at Cairo last Fill 
day wa3 thirteen cubits and twenty three ker- 
ats. At the same time last, year its hlght was 
nineteen cubits and four kerats. As the Egyptian 
harvest depends on the hlght to wbloh the Nile 
rises, the prospect for next harvest Is not as good 
yet as that for last harvest at the corresponding 
date; for the NUe then did not rise quite as high 
m desirable. A writer In Land and Water says 
there are from one to two thousand English land 
boldere in Virginia, with farms of from 100 to 1,600 
acres, and that they are remarkably happy. He 
especially recommends Virginia for gentleman 
emigrants with large families. *' it offers almost 
the only genuine country life with congenial sur¬ 
roundings to the expatriated gentleman.”. 
The Census Report on the luel ot the country 
states that four-fifths ot the fuel is wood and one- 
fifth coal, with small quantities of hay, corn-stalk 
and corn used In some regions. 
The latest reports from Mysore, India, are un¬ 
favorable. Rain is muoh needed, and crops are 
withering, prices rising, pastures falling, aad the 
prospects decidedly gloomy. Unless rain falls 
within a week a large portion of the crops will be 
lost. There Is a scarcity in vegetables. Reports 
from the province of coorg also gtve a had account. 
The reports from other parts of India are fairly 
good. The agricultural commission ot the 
Ontario government reports four hundred and 
seventy cheese factories in the thirty-six counties 
ot the province .The English Jockey Club 
bas bought ter $ 900,000 a fine estate near New¬ 
market. Ic Includes 2,500 acres, with a fine man¬ 
sion.... An Ohio farmerlne owed a man $320. 
To wipe out the debt she married him, and then 
tor $60 she got a divorce, thus saving $260 . 
AtameetlDgotthe New Orleans Sanitary Asso¬ 
ciation on the llth, Dr. C. B. White reported that 
2 484 hogs had been examined by the microscope 
at the slaughter-house, and six hogs infected with 
trichina) were found, all ot which came by rail 
trom 8C. Louis.Vennor says: “ We may 
expect a great change in the weather about the 
time the new comet is at Its perihelion, when It 
will be also nearest the earth. During the week 
trom the 15th to the 20th, instead of being burned 
up, we shall he nearly frozen by frosts and strong 
cold northerly winds.” 
An important sale of Missouri lands was effected 
In this city on this day week, by Messrs. Donnell, 
Lawson & Simpson, bankers. The lands sold form 
part of a tract of the Agricultural College lands 
apportioned to the State of Missouri unaer the act 
of Congress ot July 2 ,1852, donating public lands 
for the benefit of colleges of agriculture and me¬ 
chanic arts. They were ceaect by tbe State to the 
University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia, 
and they are sold for the account of that Institu¬ 
tion. Mr. Geo. H. Nettleton, President ot the Fort 
Scott, Southeastern and Memphis Railroad, pur¬ 
chases 116 301 acres of the lands situated in Doug¬ 
lass, Howell, Oregon, Ozark aud Texas Counties 
for the average price ot $2.60 an acre. The lands 
are divided up as follows:—Howell County, 63,128 
acres, 90id for $t.5o an acre: Oregon County, s 613 
acres, sold lor $ 1.60 an acre; Ozark County, 4,406 
acres, sold for $5 an acre; Texas County, 9 345 
acres, sold for $s 50 an acre; Douglass County, 48 ,- 
807 acres, sold for $ 1 .50 an acre. Tne railroad com- 
pany will probably extend Its tracks through the 
lands, which are b;»th agricultural and mineral, to 
increase their value.The Secretary ot the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture reports the 
acreage or w inter wheat at 1,974,693, and the pro¬ 
duct at 23,164,399 bushels. The acreage of Spring 
wheat is reported at 208,t;»-a decrease of 20,318 
acres compared with last year. The acreage of 
corn is reported at 4,171,554, against 3.654,396 last 
year. The quantity of old corn on hand is esti¬ 
mated at 18,539,000 bushels, against 19 , 111,000 
bushels at this time last y^ar. The acreage .3 of 
oats and barley are smaller than last year. The 
decrease In acreage 1 b mostly In wheat, while there 
is a marked Increase In corn and grasses. The 
acreage in cotton ts 135, 200 , an increase of 51,366 
acres. There is alBo a large increase in flax and 
hemp. 
Gould la gathering htmself about Sr. Louis like 
an octopus. He owns Its railroad connections, Its 
bridge. Its largest Iron works, its barge Une down 
the river, and he has just bought a controlling In¬ 
terest in the stock-yards which serve Its railroads. 
.Ground was recently broken lor Important 
additions to the botanical department ot Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N Y., consisting ot— 1 . a large 
addition to the present, laboratory, the whole to be 
used exclusively by specially advanced students. 
—2. A new laboratory for general students,—3. A 
range ol five plant houses. With these Improve¬ 
ments Prof. Prentiss wlU be able to make better a 
department already very efficient.At a 
meeting ol Professors of Agricultural Colleges re¬ 
cently held at Lansing, Mich., a committee con- 
slating Of Profs. Knapp, Shelton and Beal was 
appointed to make reports on experiments tried at 
the Agricultural Colleges. The following are 
some of the subjects that are to be reported upon • 
“Propagation of Swine,” “.Tasting the Vitality of 
Different Breeds of Swine,” “ Testing New Va¬ 
rieties of Wheat,” “ Breeding of corn,” “ From 
What sources do Plants get their Supply of Ni¬ 
trogen?".The Arkansas valley in Kansas 
bids fair to become noted lor the production of 
sorghum, Blrup and sugar. Several new factories 
ot considerable size are now in process ot con¬ 
struction, and the growing crop Is reported In ex¬ 
cellent condition.Angus cattle are bringing 
higher prices now In Scotland than Short Horns. 
At a late sale a cow brought 225 guineas, or $ 1 , 125 , 
and others, with bulls, from 42 to ISO guineas. The 
average price obtained for is cows was $273. 
....The shipments of strawOerrlca from south¬ 
ern Illinois the past season was estimated at 
about 3,845,000 quarts, equal to about 160,220 ozses 
of twenty-four quarts each. It would require 
about 360 cars, allowing 360 cases to the ear, to 
ship these berries to the market.Four years 
ago thirty-two acres ot rugged hlll-top a lew miles 
back ot Oakland, cal., being unfit for cultivation, 
was planted to that quick growing semi tropical 
tree, the Eucalyptus globulus, 680 to the acre, and 
It is said that this traot with its valuable crop, 
would now command $ 6 , 000 . 
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A Remarkable Revolution. 
The success of the Literary Revolution in pro¬ 
ducing a Cyclopaedia, the largest ever published 
In this country, in large type, well printed and 
bound, at the nominal coat of $15, seemed to the 
majority of book-buyore so remarkable, that, the 
second Literary Revolution, which reduces the 
cost ot this moBt excellent work to $ 10 , seems al¬ 
most Incredible. The lacts or the case are, how¬ 
ever, made so evident and so reasonable, that there 
can be no questioning them. We have la this 
office Bomeot the volumes which demonstrate their 
superior character in every way, and the facts and 
figures which are published in detail in an article 
