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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 3, 1881. 
Swarthmore College was burned on the 36th 
ult. Damage estimated at $300,000. The fire 
originated from an explosion of chemicals in 
the physical laboratory. The Trustees on the 
37th ult. decided to continue the .session in the 
Chestnut Drove House at Media, Pa. They also 
decided to rebuild the college as soon as the 
losses are adjusted with the insurance com¬ 
panies. 
The Presidential mourning decorations on 
the public buildings alone in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
cost $10,000. 
At Council Bind’s, Iowa, a carload of gun¬ 
powder exploded recently, shaking the city to 
its center and demolishing the Rock Island 
railroad round house, repair shops, freight 
house and fifty freight cars. The explosion 
duga hole in the ground 15 feet deep and 45 
in diameter. Large windows in all parts of 
the city were shattered and the plaster torn 
from the houses. Windows were broken in 
Omaha, on the opposite side of the river, and 
up the Missouri Valley, 30 miles north. The 
loss will roach hundreds of thousands of dol¬ 
lars. It is reported that the car in front of 
the car containing the explosives was set on 
fire by a passing locomotive. This in turn ig¬ 
nited the next ear aud the explosion followed. 
General Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia, 
left a i estate of $970,333, of which $186 covers 
the value of the books in his family residence 
and $1,773 his choice wines. 
The Chinese Educational Commission Home 
established in Hartford, Ct., several years 
ago, finally closed its doors on the 26th inst. 
The last party of students, 37 in number, have 
started for Chiua, in charge of Commissioner 
Wood an 1 one of the teachers and servants. 
The fine building, erected there by the Chinese 
government two years ago, will be sold. Mr 
Yung Wing, attached to the Chinese Legation 
and who has fostered this educational enter 
prise since its inception, remains in this coun¬ 
try for the present, but it is expected will re 
turn to China next Winter, after the arrival 
at Washington of the Chinese Minister who 
has been recently appointed. 
Recent reductions on three notorious star 
routes in Oregon will save the government 
about $130,000 yearly. Let the good work go 
on. 
At noon on the 30th ult. all the sub-commit¬ 
tees of the Committee of Twenty-eight, en¬ 
gaged upon the consideration of the World’s 
Fair project, met at the rooms of the Boston 
Board of Trade. Reports upon the site, ex¬ 
penses and income, co-operation of other New 
England cities, management and result of the 
Philadelphia Exposition and permanent or¬ 
ganization were presented and carefully con¬ 
sidered, but no decision was reached which 
can be given to the public at present. Two 
weeks will be taken for the consideration of 
these reports and all possible information as 
to the popular support will be gathered by the 
committee. In two weeks the Committee of 
3-8 will meet again, and a final decision will be 
reached as to the expediency of holding a 
World’s Fair. 
A wind and rain storm iu Guthrie, Green 
and Kossuth Counties, Iowa, has iuflicted se¬ 
rious damage. Half a dozen farm houses in 
Guthrie were blown over, and several persons 
seriously injured. In Guthrie Center several 
business blocks were unroofed and residences 
moved from their foundations. The Baptist 
church and other buildings were damaged. 
A train on the Fort Dodge road was 
blowu from the track near Ripley. Three 
cars were demolished and eight persons in¬ 
jured, two sei'iously. 
The programme of the ceremonies at the 
opening of the Atlanta Exposition, on Wed¬ 
nesday, October 5, has been completed. The 
ceremonies will be exceedingly impressive. 
Many representative citizens from every part 
of the United States have accepted invitations 
to participate. Most of the buildings are fin¬ 
ished and exhibitors are rapidly putting their 
displays in shape. The city is fast filling with 
visitors. Thursday, October 37, has been de¬ 
cided upon as Governors’ Day and all the 
State Executives are expected, at the conclu¬ 
sion of the Yorktown celebration, to visit 
the Exposition before returning to their 
homos. The 1st Connecticut Regiment and 
other military organizations are expected to 
take part in the exercises of that occasion. 
Typho-malarial fever, bilious colic and pneu¬ 
monia are playing sad havoc among the per¬ 
sons rendered homeless l>y the recent forest 
fires. Many deaths have already occurred, 
and several of the sufferers are now lying at 
the point, of death. 
G. A. Zahn, a farmer living near Baton 
Rouge, La., while watching a corn-field with 
a gun, shot and killed Hardy Price, whom he 
saw stealing com. Zahn surrendered and was 
acquitted by the coroner. 
The depot at Irvington Station, a few miles 
north of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was struck by 
lightning on Thursday, prostrating 18 men. 
The first one to recover, finding the others ap¬ 
parently dead, dragged them out into the air. 
All recovered except one. Some had their 
clothing torn entirely from their bodies. The 
building was n -arly destroyed. Mechanics’ 
tools were strewn in all directions, as if there 
had been a powder explosion. 
California papers print a report that 35 fam¬ 
ilies from the Oneida Community, New York, 
have purchased lands near Santa Anna, Cal. 
The order detailing a court-martial to try 
Sergeant Mason, who attempted to shoot 
Guiteau, will be suspended for the present by 
order of Gen. Hancock. 
On an average, $300,000 in gold coin, bullion 
or jewelry is sent every day as third-class 
mail matter through the San Francisco Post 
Office. Half of this is shipped by the Govern¬ 
ment: the rest is private remittances. 
The forest fires which lately devastated 
Eastern Michigan were not without compensa¬ 
tion. While they destroyed many human 
lives and much valuable property, they also 
swept clean of brush and scrub growth thou¬ 
sands of acres of good soil, which would other¬ 
wise have remained a wilderness, hut which 
is now ready for cultivation. Poor consolation! 
Several memorials of the late President are 
about to be established. At Long Branch a 
memorial window of richly stained glass is to 
be put in t,he Episcopal church; a gold medal 
is soon to be issued from the U. S. mint bear¬ 
ing on one side a medallion of Gen. Gai-field, 
on the other, one of Lincoln; a fund to estab¬ 
lish a Garfield Memorial Professorship at 
Williams College will be raised; and a monu¬ 
ment will bo erected to his memory in Cleve¬ 
land. 
At Spartanburg, S. C\, on the 30th ult,, B. 
W. Hicks was hanged for murdering his wife 
in May last. A large number of people wit¬ 
nessed the death scene. 
The Republican State convention meets in 
this city on Wednesday the 5th inst. for the 
nomination of State officers. 
A dispatch from Wautoma, Wig., says that 
a terrible tornado swept a valley a short dis¬ 
tance west of that town on Thursday, com¬ 
pletely devastating a space 80 rods wide and 
five or six miles in length. Many houses, 
barns and outbuildings, and one grist, mill 
were demolished. About a dozen persons 
were seriously injured, but nobody was killed 
outright. 
The extra session of the Senate on the 14th 
inst., will Ire called to order 1 by the Sergeant- 
at-Arms, there being no clerk to perform 
that duty. It is generally conceded that the 
Democrats will elect a President pro ten i. 
The newly elected Senators will then probably 
be admitted and participate in the further or¬ 
ganization of the Senate. After the new Sen¬ 
ators are sworn in, the Senate will then stand 
37 to 37, besides Davis and Mahone, aud the 
chances therefore are it will staird for organ¬ 
ization 38 to 88, with no one to give the cast¬ 
ing vote. 
General Garfield first met Dr. Bliss when 
they were both young men. Garfield, when 
trudging to college lost his pocket-book, con¬ 
taining all his worldly wealth, and Bliss 
found it and returned it to him. 
According t,o the request of Queeu Victoria, 
asking of Mrs. Garfield a photograph of her 
late husband, the picture has been forwarded 
to her Majesty, by Mr. J. F. Ryder, the 
photographer. It is the same size as the one 
that hangs iir catafalque, is silver tinted and 
elegantly framed. The photograph scut to 
the Queen is considered by Mi’s. Garfield the 
best photograph ever - taken of her husband. 
Mr. E. G. Booth, a wealthy Philadelphian, 
and a native of Virginia, is erecting a hand¬ 
some villa on the bluff at Yorktown, Va., at a 
cost of $1,000, for the use of Pr esident Arthur 
at the coming centennial celebration. He has 
also offered to erect such stands along the bluff 
for the benefit of prominent visitors as might 
be required. 
It is announced that Lieut.-Gov. Tabor, of 
Colorado, will next Winter found an exten¬ 
sive public library in Denver. The building 
is to cost $200,000, and will open with 100,- 
000 volumes. 
Mr. Orlando B. Potter gives $2,000 toward 
the publication, in form suitable for public 
circulation, of the late President Garfield’s 
opinions and utterances upon the importance 
and necessity of reform in the civil service 
of the country. Mr. Potter’ hopes that oth¬ 
ers will contribute, and names George Wm. 
Curtis as custodian of the fund. 
The law library of the late Judge Clifford, 
of Mairre, is valued at $30,000. 
The dome for the new Observatory at West 
Point Military Academy, now being con¬ 
structed, of paper, is expected to have scien¬ 
tific uses besides that of a mere covering, it 
will act as a non-couductor of heat aud elec¬ 
tricity, and maintain a uniform temperature 
within the building, thus preventing an elec¬ 
trical disturbance of the instruments used. 
The amateur Cabinet makers are busy as¬ 
sisting (?) President Arthur in appointing a 
new Cabinet. It seems to be the general 
opinion that there will be a complete overlraul- 
ing of the Cabinet, which is, of course, the 
privilege of the new President. Attorney 
General McVeagh has urged the President to 
accept his resignation before the special meet¬ 
ing of Congress on Oct. 14, and Secretary of 
the Treasury Wiudom wishes to variate liis 
position in order to become a candidate for re- 
election to Congress from Minnesota. George 
S. Bout well of Massachusetts, is mentioned for 
Treasurer. Mr. Blaine will probably insist on 
the acceptance of his resignation at an early 
day, but who will be liis succussor is very un¬ 
certain. Hamilton Fish, of N. Y., is men¬ 
tioned for the place. If any man, now a mem¬ 
ber of the Cabinet, remains there it will be 
Secretary of W ar Lincoln. However, we are 
not Cabinet makers. 
The physicians who attended the late Presi¬ 
dent are being hauled over the coals on ac¬ 
count of their autopsy of the remains. Dr. 
Hamilton reviews the case in this month’s 
Medical Gazette, and soon the whole thing 
will be thoroughly aired in the cientific 
papers. It seems that the doctors were all at 
sea as to the nature of tire wound, and that the 
case was a more desperate one than they had 
given out. 
A Washington r umor has it that ex-Gover¬ 
nor Dingley, elected to succeed Mr. Frye, of 
Maine, in the House of Representatives, will 
decline in favor of Mi-. Blaine, who, back 
again in his old field, won’t object to liis old 
place of Speaker. 
There are strong indications that the ques¬ 
tion of a bankruptcy law will be a prominent 
subject before the next Congress. The Senate 
committee is considering the matter and has 
received a large number of communications 
bearing on the subject. 
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friends say I am looking ten years younger 
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containing large reports of cases, and full par¬ 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 3, 1881. 
Tn e following is a condensation of agricul¬ 
tural new’s teleg raphed from all the principal 
points in the country between noon on 
Friday, Sept. 30, and date: Eastern States. 
Portland, Me.: Food products .strong and ac¬ 
tive. Dairy and farm products firm, with 
decreased supplies, indicating much higher 
prices. Continued fine weather has assured 
an abundant harvest to com packer s aud the 
ripening of all the crops in this section. 
....Boston, Mass.: Wool still firm; but sales 
falling off as compared with previous weeks 
in Sept., amounting during the week to only 
2,568,850 lbs. Hides dull and weak. General 
business very brisk.Providence. R. I., 
and Fall River, Mass.: Cotton steady aud 
Scarce: Middling uplands, 12J,£; middling 
gulfs, 12%. Middle States.— Buffalo, N. Y.: 
Suspension of grain shipments from Chicago 
due to the corner in October corn has demor¬ 
alized lake trade. Steamers have left there 
for this place with corn at %c. per bushel, en¬ 
tailing a loss of %c. on every bushel carried. 
Ordinar y canal shipments of grain are light, 
at 4J,.,o. on wheat and 4c. on com to New 
York---Philadelphia, Pa.: Wool quieter; 
sales, 850,000 lbs. against 1,500,000 lbs. last 
week; but market very strong, and outlook 
favorable to sellers. Cotton quiet; stock here, 
4,560 bales. Grains active on speculative ac¬ 
count: prices higher all round. Exporters are 
doing nothing in wheat, as prices here are 
above those in foreign markets; but there is a 
good demand for com. On Thursday 250,000 
bushels were sold for export, and 
prospect good for larger exports. 
Western States. Detroit, Mich.—Move¬ 
ment in grain light; farmers holding back 
against contracts for future delivery. Great 
danger that laud in the burnt district will be 
sold for much less than its value owing to the 
great distress of the burnt-out owners. Ow¬ 
ing to rise iu prices, the laboring classes find 
it difficult to obtain more than bare necessa¬ 
ries.Chicago, 111.—Grain markets ac¬ 
tive, excited arid higher, the result mainly of 
a speculative Hurry during the week. Wheat 
has advanced 10c to 13c per bushel, sales for 
November delivery being made ou Thursday 
as high as $1.44j-g. Cora has advanced, din¬ 
ing the week, 7c per bushel, and oats 4c. The 
grain is now in the hands of the Chicago 
clique who are pushing the Cincinnati comer 
to the wall. In store 6,851,475 bushels of corn, 
rnd 3,330,000 bushels of wheat. All lake 
freights have beeu as low as lc per bushel for 
corn to B iffulr; for grain is higher here than 
there, and higher iu Milwaukee than here 
whither 3:1.003 bushels of com have just been 
sent. Cuttle receipts are unusually heavy, 
those of Wednesday (10,300 head) being the 
heaviest ou record.Peoria, Ill.—Grain 
receipts very good. Weather warm. Fair in 
progress.Cleveland, Ohio—No. 2 red 
winter wheat, $1.47; corn, 75c; high mixed 
No. 2 oats, 51c— ,.. Cincinnati, Ohio.— 
Wheat advanced steadily till Thursday, when 
it dropped lj-ty. Cora scarce aud firm. Flour 
ditto, with a speculative demand. Oats, rye 
and barley’ firm. Little doing in hog pro¬ 
ducts.Indianapolis, Lid.—Wheat firm 
and advancing rapidly. Indications with re¬ 
gard to com crop are more favorable. 
Fair just over.Milwaukee, Wis.— 
Weather has been unsettled, with more 
or less rain every day, causing con¬ 
siderable damage to unthrashed grain. Re. 
ceipts of cereals still light, owing to unfa¬ 
vorable weather. Contrary to expectation, 
there has bran a sharp advance of 6@8c. per 
bushel iu wheat. Flour in good demand; local 
mills taxed to their fullest capacity.St. 
Paul, Minn.: Poor crops in Southern Minne¬ 
sota. Bad weather still demoralizing trade. 
.Louisville, ICy.: Rains are improving 
the tobacco crop; but Kentucky yield is not 
exjiected to bo over half of hist year’s. Leaf 
market stationary at last week’s prices. As 
compared with last week’s prices, lugs are 
bi(§>% c. I dark leaf, %(<&l%c., and good cut¬ 
ting leaf, l(g,2ci, lower.St. Louis, Mo.: 
Butter and cheese in small supply, of poor 
quality, and advancing. Provisions dull and 
weakening. Horses and mules are arriving 
now at the rate of 350 to 300 head per day 
and are selling nearly as fast at good figures. 
Several heavy general rains during the week 
have tended to check speculation in grain, 
though wheat, corn aud oats are strong aud 
buoyant.Kansas City, Mo.: Cattle 
market weak—10@ 15c. lower.Hogs fairly ac¬ 
tive ; prices firm with an advancing 
tendency. Southern States. Balti¬ 
more, Md.—Very large dealings in grain and 
considerable excitement; prices higher than at 
any time this season. No shipments during 
the week, but increased inquiry for charters 
on Thursday and Friday, it being understood 
that the “shorts” in England and the Con¬ 
tinent are becoming alarmed and are sending 
orders. Provisions quiet but steady with a 
firm and active jobbing trade. Cotton steady 
with a constant demand from spinners. 
Richmond, Va.—Weather excessively hot all 
the week. Leaf tobacco is flat. Though the 
markets for all bright grades is firm, the dark 
grades have declined 75c per 100 pounds, ow¬ 
ing to rains two weeks since in N. C. whex-e 
most of the bright wrappers are grown. The 
outlook for leaf of good quality is very 
gloomy, while in Virginia the dark crop will 
be considerably better than was at one time 
expected. Grain receipts light.Wil¬ 
mington, N. C.—Weather hot. Cotton, grain 
and turpentine crop reports still unfavorable. 
A British steamer of 1,500 tons, the largest 
here for years, is loading with cotton. 
Charleston, S. C.—Cotton continues to come 
in slowly: receipts for the week, 15,888 bales, 
against 32,015 for corresponding- week last 
year. Rice comes in slowly and all prices are 
up. Rainfall this week 0.81 inch against 1.72 
inch last week.Savannah, Ga.— 
Weather hot and dry. Cotton market weak¬ 
ened to a basis of lljgc@llc, owing to large 
sales by two “ hull” houses. A light stock 
of rice on hand; good demand and full 
rates.Rainfall, (1.20 inch against 2.17 
inches last week .Augusta, Ga.—All 
kinds of produce, meats, bveadstuffs, etc., 
have advanced, and have a firm upward tend¬ 
ency. Cotton coming iu rapidly; receipts 
since September 1, 29,090 bales against 32,088 
at same date last your. Weather still favor¬ 
able for picking, and fanners are busy gather¬ 
ing crop. In some places the fields are white 
with cotton—not sufficient labor to pick it, but 
generally labor is plentiful and efficient.... 
.. .Atlanta, Ga.—Gotten crop generally short. 
Rainfall 0.33 inch against 0.63 inch last week 
— ....New Orleans, La.—Cotton strong; 
prices advanced and operations large. Since 
Thursday-all grades are marked up—low or¬ 
dinary from 7c to 7vgc; good ordinary from 
O-'.jC to lO.'-je; middling from 10%c to H%c, 
fair firm to 13j£c. Grain active aud 
easier. Heavy rains through this and adjac¬ 
ent States will benefit Fall crops, particularly 
cane. General ostim ite of sugar crop 35 per 
cent, less than last year. 
Memphis, Team.: Flour higher. Weather fa¬ 
vorable for cotton picking, which is progress¬ 
ing rapidly. Labor plentiful and good; re¬ 
ceipts greatly over those of last, year. Av¬ 
erage weight per bale is found to be 30 pounds 
less than the average weight of ba’cs marked 
during same season last year. Rainfall, 0.72 
inch, against 0.02 inch last week.Nash¬ 
ville, Teun.: Wheat slow iu movement; sup- 
