SEPT.4© 
of X\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Sept. 12, 1881. 
On Tuesday the 2d., the President was suc ¬ 
cessfully removed to Long Branch. The ac¬ 
commodations for his removal were most com¬ 
plete and he stood the journey remarkably 
well. On Saturday the 10th., an affection of 
the right lung was discovered, which it is 
thought may prove to be an abscess. The 
parotid gland is doing well, but there is much 
fear, as we go to press, as to the effects of the 
lung difficulty. Mr. Blaine’s cablegram to 
Minister Lowell at 10.80 last night was far 
from encouraging. 
The Governors of most of the States of the 
Union issued proclamations that Thursday, 
the 8tb inst., be observed as a day of prayer 
for the President’s recovery. In some places 
Tuesday and Friday were set apart as days 
for special prayer. These days were very 
generally observed throughout the country. 
The universal, omnipresent Smiths have had 
a reunion at Pea pack, N. J., about S.000 de¬ 
scendants of the original John Schmidt being 
on the ground. 
An aerial voyage in a balloon will be made 
this week by Prof. Samuel A. King, Winslow 
Upton, of the U. S. Signal Service, and sev¬ 
eral representatives of the press. The voyage 
will be from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to the 
Atlantic seaboard. Useful scientific results 
are expected from experiments to be made. 
Michigan has suffered terribly from forest 
fires the past week. It is reported that 20 
townships have been burned out, over 2,000 
families made destitute of a home and 300 lives 
lost. The greatest suffering is in the vicinity 
of East Saginaw. An appeal to the people of 
the United States has been issued aud mater¬ 
ial aid has been rendered the unfortunate peo¬ 
ple. 
An express train on the Chicago and Alton 
R. R. was stopped and robbed by 16 masked 
men, on the night of the 7th They forced 
the express messenger to open the safe, and 
with a guard stationed on either side of the 
train five or six of the robbers went through 
the train demanding the passengers money 
and other valuables. Seven of the robbere 
have been arrested up to this writing. The 
entire country is aroused and under arms, 
searching for the desperadoes The exact 
amount of money and valuables taken can¬ 
not yet be stated. 
Drs. Reyburn, Woodward and Barnes and 
Mrs. Edson who have been in attendance on 
the President have retired, leaving Drs. Bliss, 
Agnew and Hamilton in charge. The cause 
for this action was the President’s belief that 
three medical attendants would be sufficient. 
Geu. Wm, T Sherman was in Worcester. 
Mass, on the 7th. inst. bj r invitation of the Ag¬ 
ricultural Society. He delivered an address 
at the annual Fair. 
New London Conn, has been celebrating 
the one-hundredth anniversary of the battle 
of Groton Hights. Edward Everett Hale de¬ 
livered an address fitting to the occasion. 
The hottest day known in this city this year 
was Wednesday the 7tli inst. when the ther¬ 
mometer marked 108° in the shade. There 
were several cases of sun-stroke. In Baltimore 
and Philadelphia the temperature was 100° 
Pittsburg 99 ° : St. Louis 97 - : Boston and 
Albany 96 °. 
The Social Science Association, lately in ses¬ 
sion at Saratoga, has elected Prof. Francis 
Way land, of New Haven, President for the 
ensuing year. 
The 'White House is now closed for repairs 
and px esents a deserted appearance. 
Another land mark in the Metropolis will 
soon disappear, to make way for the “ march 
of progress.” Cyrus W. Field has bought the 
property at Broadway and Battery Place, 
long known as the Washington Hotel. It has 
historical interest a* the oldest building now 
standing in this city. Mr. Field will erect a 
building ten stories high, of Milwaukee brick, 
with stone trimmings. It is to be fire-proof 
throughout. The old house, which will have 
to give way to this modem improvement, was 
built in 1742, and is locally famous as hav¬ 
ing been Washington’s head-quarters while 
the Father of bis Country resided here. 
A curious phenomenon was noticed, on the 
5th, in various middle and New England 
States. The sun was obscured and the atmos¬ 
phere glowed with a yellow glare. Artificial 
light was in demand in some portions of this 
State in the afternoon. In Boston a base ball 
game was stopped at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, 
on account of darkness, and in Providence, R. 
I., the factories quit work at 2 o’clock, because 
of the unnatural gloom for which the gas com¬ 
panies had made, no preparation. In Utica, N. Y. 
the phenomenon began Monday night, when 
the moon, altho’ nearly full and obscured by 
no clouds, cast no perceptible shadow, having 
the appearance nearly of a copper disk. The 
street lamps not being lit, it was difficult to 
see five feet ahead, when there were no store 
lights shining on the sidewalk. The uuusual 
darkness continued almost up to sunrise, and 
there was a lack of light for some hours after¬ 
wards, 
William Martin, a Rondout., N. Y. mechanic, 
has just fallen heir to an English estate valued 
at $7,850,000, left him by James McDermott 
whom he befriended two years ago when a poor 
immigrant. McDermott acquired the property 
thro’ an uncle’s death a short time ago. 
Elias Champlain,* Supervisor of the Town 
of Liberty, Sullivan County, N. Y., while en¬ 
gaged in burning brush, was burned to death 
by his clothing taking fire. The body when 
found was almost unrecognizable. Ho was 65 
years of age. 
Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer 
reports a net reduction in star-route and 
steamboat mail service during August amount¬ 
ing to $98,337, and that the total amount of 
reductions and discontinuances since March 
is $1,479,779. 
The steamer Wyoming, from Liverpool, on 
the 2d. instant, for New York, brought 550 
Mormons for Great Balt Lake, from Great 
Britain, Switzerland and Germany, the latter 
two countries contributing over 200. Includ¬ 
ing the foregoing more than 2000 Mormons 
have left Liverpool this Summer. Another 
contingent w ill come before the season closes. 
The entire length of Chestnut Street, Phila- 
phia, is to be illuminated by electricity. It 
is the largest contract of the land that has 
yet been entered into in this country. 
Mr. Rudolph, brother of Mrs. Garfie Id, says 
that his sister’s faith has always been strong 
regarding the President's recovery, and she 
expresses implicit confidence in Dr. Bliss and 
his treatment of the case. 
W. H. Vanderbilt has presented the Rail¬ 
road Young Men’s association of Troy with 
$500 towards defraying the cost of a new 
building to be erected for the use of the as¬ 
sociation. 
The enormous increase in the freight busi¬ 
ness on the western division of the Central 
Railroad in the past four years is shown by 
the following figures: The number of freight 
care moved over the division during August 
lust was 130,655, comprising 2,689 trains both 
ways. The number of care in 1877 over the 
same division was 72,003, comprising 1,817 
trains. 
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Protection from Dltcane. 
The following, which we take from a letter 
received from one of our old patients at the 
South, dated June 5th, 1880, shows the effect 
of Compound Oxygen in keeping up vitality 
under circumstances of great fatigue, loss of 
rest, exposure to fever, and all the depressing 
influences attending on the sickness and death 
of near and dear relatives. “For ten weeks my 
sister and I nursed our father (the late Judge) 
constantly, day and ni gilt, she losing one-half 
and I the other of each night. I took the Oxy¬ 
gen regularly twice a day, aud though feeble 
and much exhausted did not have any 
symptoms of fever; while my sister who did 
not use the Oxygen at all, took the fever and 
died. She too was very delicate, but I do not 
believe she would have had the fever if she 
had been using the Oxygen. We used every 
precautionary measure in the way of cleanli¬ 
ness, pure air, wholesome food, etc.’’ Our 
Treatise on Compound Oxygen, containing 
large reports of cases and full information 
sent free. Drs. Starkey & Pa lex, 1109 and 
1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Contributions for the relief of the 
Michigan sufferers may be sent either to 
the Michigan Relief Commission, William 
Doud, Treas., Bank of North America, New 
York City ; or to Waldo M. Johnson, Joseph 
Stanard, Henry Newland, Gen. G. S. Worrner, 
or James Buttenshaw, who act as Re¬ 
lief Committee in Detroit, Mich. 
By Friday’s and Saturday’s telegrams to the 
N. Y. papers we learn the following: At 
Portland, Me. half a million cans of corn have 
been already put up.The wool market at 
Boston is excited and the sales for the week 
ending Friday footed up 5,751,500 pounds— 
nearly twice as much as the largest previous 
week’s business during the year. Domestic 
fleeces are firmer and a shude higher. 
In Providence, R. I., Cotton is strong— mid¬ 
dling upland 12! £e.; middling gulfs, 12%_ 
In Buffalo, N. Y., the fruit trade, owing to 
dry weather, is greatly reduced and prices 
are higher than lost year. Prices of wheat 
are tending upward. Canal freight on wheat 
4%c. per bushel to this city: on corn, 4c. 
Prices of grain in Philadelphia are unsettled 
owing to impending advances in storage rates 
by the Elevator Company. About 1,500,000 
bushels cram the elevators and there are 
600,000 bushels more on the trades. The R. 
R. Co’s., demand the release of the cars or 
a demurrage of $2 to #3 a day, and the Ele¬ 
vator Company demands from the merchants 
l%c. per month over present rates for storing 
the grain in barges. Wool is active and ad¬ 
vancing, many lots having been withdrawn 
for higher prices—Week’s sales 1,000,000 
pounds.From Detroit, Mich, comes 
news that rain is wanted everywhere, but it 
will be too late to materially benefit corn, po¬ 
tatoes and fruit.. Grain markets fluctuating. 
The production of salt during the last three 
months has been the heaviest in the history of 
the State.In Chicago provisions are 
stronger on report of a light hog crop and a 
short corn crop. Grain unsettled but stron¬ 
ger than early in the week.Peoria, IU.» 
welcome rains. Grain receipts good. 
Cleveland, Ohio. Large forest fires near-by; 
weather hot; drought. No. 2 Red Winter 
wheat $1.40.Evansville, Ind. Drought 
continues. Tobacco prospects pour. Grain 
scarce; prices going up.Milwaukee 
Wis. Much needed rains late in the week. 
Feed going up on account of scorched pastures. 
A little new wheat coming forward; millers 
busy. Prices unsettled. 
St. Paul, Minn.—A steady downpour for 
the last three days. Brisk demand for lum¬ 
ber. Wheat trade heavy. Labor scarce.... 
_Omaha, Nob.—Abundant rains during the 
week. Crop prospects brightening. Coni, 
50 cents per bushel. Hogs, $6.50 per hundred 
.Louisville, Ky.—Weather hot. Scat¬ 
tered rains last week ; but some districts with¬ 
out an appreciable shower for 10 days. Pro¬ 
visions buoyant. Grain and flour stationary 
but firm. Tobacco receipts light; prices firm: 
total advance in manufactured tobacco 4@6c. 
Heavy transactions in wool have exhausted 
stock. Medium unwashed, 27 %c.St. 
Louis.—Provisions strong aud advancing : 
stock nearly exhausted. From 300 to 500 bales 
of cotton arriving per day. Speculators pre¬ 
pared to warehouse every bale for an advance. 
Middling, 11% with an upward tendency. 
Horses and mules active ; supply small. Hot, 
hot, hot .Kansas City, Mo.—Demand 
for cattle brisk. Hogs sell readily for $6.10@ 
$6.50.San Francisco, Cal.—Freights 
heavy. Holdors reluctant bo sell grain. Trade 
in agricultural implements brisk. Australian 
advices say the export to England of frozen 
meat and fresh fruit promises to become an 
important business.Baltimore, Md — 
The R. R. Co.’s advance in storage charges is 
1 %c. per bushel for first five days after the 
12th, and 2%'c. for eveiy five days thereafter. 
Export of grain impossible at current prices. 
A tumble of 6@7c. per bushel early in the 
week, but orders from the West and New 
York have brought up prices again to top 
figures. Great activity in canned goods ; 
prices advancing rapidly on a short supply of 
vegetables and fruits. Provisions higher and 
firmer.Norfolk, Va.—Drought un¬ 
broken ; heat excessive ; corn probably half 
to two-thirds of a crop on low grounds of 
Eastern Virginia and N. C. Cotton arriv¬ 
ing freely.Richmond, Va.—Bread- 
stuffs and meats exceedingly active. Tobacco 
high and active in all grades. Probably 19,- 
000,006 to 20,000,000 pounds will be manufac¬ 
tured here instead of 16,000,000 pounds in 1880. 
No vain ; great water famine.Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C.—Rain much needed : hot. All 
grain crops as well as cotton suffering from 
drought. Com scarce and wanted. Pro¬ 
visions bring full prices.Charleston, S. 
C.—A sharp advance in price of cotton dur¬ 
ing the week ; prospect for a late Fall and 
good picking season. All cotton in market 
promptly taken ; four British steamers with 
capacity of 20,000 hales waiting for cargoes 
..Savannah, Ga.—Cotton coming in 
rapidly ; labor in great demand.At¬ 
lanta, Ga.—Dry and hot ; nothing encourag¬ 
ing to report of cotton crop.New 
Orleans, La.—Drought of a month just broken 
up by a heavy shower with prospect of more. 
Too late to help com and cotton ; but if 
enough, will assist sugar. Labor strike still 
continues. Rice crop mostly harvested—al¬ 
together satisfactory. Good white corn $1 per 
bushel. Provisions active and high........ 
Little Rock, Ark.—Hot ; no rain. Reports 
of crops, poor. All cotton is open ; picking 
progressing; labor scarce...Nashville, 
Tenn.—Wheat, light receipts ; millers take all 
Com in demand. Light rains here and there 
—enough to lay the dust. Drought will tiring 
down com, cotton and tobacco to half crops 
Some 30,000 cattle were carried over the 
Penns.! Ivania Railroad during the late heated 
term in the new cattle cars, and not one of 
them, it is said, died during transportation... 
.A telegram from Chicago 
on Sept. 6, says that in view of the enormous 
flour shipments the seaboard from Minneap¬ 
olis, Minn., freight rates are being cut exceed¬ 
ingly low from Chicago to this city, flour be¬ 
ing transported tor 10c, per barrel.A 
squirrel plague is rejxirted to be destroying a 
great deal of cotton in the uplands of Arkan¬ 
sas. The pests are starving, aud pick the un¬ 
ripe cotton to get the seeds.One of the 
latest inventions is the manufacture of lumber 
from straw. A recent experiment showed it 
capable of the highest polish, waterproof, and 
it held a nail as well as a piece of oak. 
Vermont has suffered a loss, an irreparable 
loss, in the sale, to an Illinois breeder, of the 
largest herd of pure-bred Bates Short-horn 
cattle on this continent anil, perhaps, on the 
globe. Col. Le Grand B. Cannon early last 
month completed the sale of his entire herd 
to Mr. Rigdon Huston, of BlandinweU, Ill., 
already widely known as one of the most suc¬ 
cessful broedere of Short-horns in that State. 
This fi esh acquisition will give him a com¬ 
manding position among the breeders of Short¬ 
horns on this side of the water and an enviable 
distinction wherever the famous Bates blood 
is known—and where is it not ? The following 
is a list of the animals sold:—Sixth Duchess of 
Hillhurst and c, calf, Seventh Duchess of Hill- 
hurst and bull calf, Eighth Duchess of Hill¬ 
hurst, Duchess of Overtake, Twenty-second 
Duke of Airdrie, Kirklevington Duchess 
XVIII., and bull calf; Kirklevington Rose, 
Kirklevington Rose, II.; Kirklevington Le 
Grand, III.; Marchioness of Barrington, II., 
and bull calf; Marjory Barrington, Ureuline, 
III., and bull calf; Una, Lady Hilpa, Oxford 
Loo, Azalea II., Azalea III., Rose (of Sharon) 
V., May Rose IV., May Rose of Shelburn, 
Cordelia XVIII. and b. c., Lord Winchester 
HI., Lord Winchester IV., Earl of Burling¬ 
ton, (Wild Eyes,) Moss Rose IX. and c. c., 
Jacqueline, Jessemine II., Moss Rose IX. and 
b. c., Constance of Lyndale VI., Constance of 
Lyndale, IX., Constantia III., Constantia IV. 
Lady Bell Bates and b. e., Louau of Shelburn 
and c. c. With them were sold the cows: 
Grace III., Marian II. and b. e., Edith II., 
Sophronia II., Lady Shelburn, Louisa and b. 
c. , making a total of 50 animals.Our 
Norfolk, Va., advices are that the peanut 
crop is not as promising as last reported. 
Some localities in which it was thought there 
would be a two-thirds crop will not average 
one-half, and it is believed to be too late for 
rain to be of much benefit now. 
The phylloxera is doing great injury to the 
vineyards of Sicily.The dry spells that 
have become historic were in the summer of 
1630, 24 days ; 1635, 41 days ; 1637, 75 days ; 
1662, 80 days ; 1663, 45 days ; 1668, 81 days ; 
1694. 92 days ; 1704, 40 days ; 1715, 46 days ; 
1718, 61 days ; 1730, 92 days ; 1731, 72 days ; 
1749, 123 days ; 1772, 80 days ; 1791, 82 days ; 
1812, 28 days ; 1856, 26 days ; 1871, 42 days ; 
1876, 26 days.Greece has a fine currant 
crop—a very momentous matter to her. 
Says one of our humorous Dailies : The or¬ 
dinary country house in Arkansas is a log 
cabin ; in Kansas, a dugout in the prairie ; and 
in Nebraska, a sod house, built of square 
pieces of sod.” How l .While small 
proprietors are to be the salvation of Ireland, 
in Bavaria 3,739 farms were sold last year be¬ 
cause the small proprietors could not keep 
their heads above water.Scotch farm¬ 
ers are said to be very discontented, and no 
wonder, for the weather is bleak and cold, 
the wheat a thin crop, oats are under avegage, 
turnips a failure, and barley scarcely up to 
average.So hard is it to get good ten¬ 
ants now in England that Lord Lytton lately 
let tor ten yeans his home farm, 220 acres, 
four-fifths arable, for $1,400. The tenant, a 
Scotchman, receives house, outbuildings, and 
fences in good order, and when they need re¬ 
pair the landlord is to furnish material. Dur¬ 
ing the last three years of the lease the land¬ 
lord is to pay for half the artificial feeding 
stuffs, and at the end of the lease the tenant is 
to receive compensation for improvements 
.The sheep clip of Michigan is officially 
put at 10,975,163, from over 2,000,000 sheep, 
averaging 5% lbs. apiece.If all the 
creameries talked of are put in operation in 
Iowa, this year, that State will soon rank with 
Illinois in the dairy business. They are build¬ 
ing creameries all over the State and are mak¬ 
ing an immense amount of butter.A 
shipper of cheese in this city has turned round 
and is selling cheese to the trade for future de¬ 
livery ; last week he sold 1,000 boxes of August 
cheese in this way.Russian butter is 
being imported into England in considerable 
quantities, haffsomely put up in white oak 
tubs and very much like Canadian butter. 
From Australia we learn, under date of the 
middle of July, that in South Australia rains 
were abundant and the weather was favorable 
to farmers.In Victoria the weather was 
severe aud cold, causing a slow growth of 
grass aud other crops in the southern district. 
In the western district a large number of stock 
had perished from a long drought , and though 
rains had just fallen, they came too late to do 
much good: season the most unfavorable for 
yeare. Cheering reports of rain and weather 
from the northern district.At Cape 
Colony heavy rains and snow had fa lien Au¬ 
gust 2, and the prospect for the next harvest 
was considered very favorable.Mor- 
rocco is suffering from insupportable heat- 
... .The amount of money which the Peruvian 
Government has received from the sale of 
guano is estimated at twenty-tour hundred 
millions of dollars.The imports into 
Germany during the six months ended June 
30,1881, have been, from the official returns:— 
