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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 10, 1881. 
The Republican State Convention was held 
in this city on the 5th, and was organized un¬ 
der the Presidency of Ex-Senator Thomas C. 
Platt. Senator Warner Miller was the tem¬ 
porary, and Mr. Chauncev M. Depew the per¬ 
manent, Chairman. The nominations were:— 
General Joseph B. Carr for Secretary of 
State; State Senator Tra Davenport for Comp¬ 
troller; Leslie W. Russell for Attorney Gen¬ 
eral; General Hosted, of Westchester, for 
State Treasurer; Silas Seymour for State E >- 
gin err, and Judge Francis M. Finch for Judge 
of the Court of Appeals. 
In the vote for a United States Senator, 
taken in the separate houses of the General 
Assembly of Rhode Island on the 4th, Mr. 
Nelson W. Aldrich received 55, a majority of 
all the members of the Assembly. 
On the night of the 4th inst. frost was 
reported to the U, S. Signal Station in this 
city from Erie, Pa., Boston, Mass., Daven¬ 
port, Iowa, Detroit, Mich., Grand Haven, 
Mich., LaCrosse, Wis., Oswego, N. Y., Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa.. Portland, Me., Sandusky, O., St. 
Paul, Minn., aud from our exchanges we 
notice that t he sudden change was general 
throughout the country. In New England 
the temperature fell from 17 to 30 degrees, in 
the lake region from 14 to 20, in the Ohio Val¬ 
ley from 10 to 22 and in the Mississippi Valley 
from 10 to 22, The greatest fall was at Nash¬ 
ville, where a difference of 47 degrees was 
marked, the mercury falling from 59 to 12 
degrees in twenty-four hours. At Norfolk 
there was a change of 40 degrees, at Chicago 
36 and at Milwaukee 30. At Lewiston, Me., 
Stove, Vt., Wolf boro, N. H., Bangor, Me., 
Manchester, N. H., and other northern towns, 
snow fell and ice was formed. Much damage 
was also done to the tobacco crop in the South. 
The lowest temperature (38 degrees above 
zero) in this city was reached Wednesday 
morning at six o’clock, the average tempera¬ 
ture for the day being 44 degrees. 
The French guests arrived here on the 
Canada. They were met with an ovation at 
the pier, and were escorted by the Seventh 
regiment up Broadway to the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel. 
In company with the State Reception Com¬ 
mittee, they visited the Military Academy 
at West Point on Friday last. The ships-of- 
war Kearsage and Vandalia transferred the 
distinguished company to that point. On 
Saturday they proceeded to Niagara Falls. 
ScoviLle, G-uiteau’s brother-in-law, has con¬ 
sented to act as the latter’s counsel. He does 
not anticipate a speedy trial. He says the 
defense will be insanity, and that he under¬ 
takes the case at the urgency of his wife, 
Guiteau’s sister, and almost the only friend 
the assassin has on earth. 
Director of the Mint Burohard has issued 
the following: “The Government has fixed 
no valuation upon mutilated silver coin other 
than the market value of the silver they con¬ 
tain. They are purchased at the mints by 
weight, as bullion, and the value depends on 
the price of .silver on the day the coin is re¬ 
ceived at the mint.” 
Two European steamships landed 1,483 im- 
migants at Castle Garden on the 4th, the 
Sailor, from Bremen, 9UJ, and the Erin, from 
Liverpool, 567. Among the latter are sixty- 
three of the exiled Hebrews from Russia, 
fourteen of whom will be sent to Houston, 
Texas; the remainder will be taken care of by 
the Local Committee until places are found 
for them. 
The public will be gratified to learn that 
the work of repairing and renovatiug the 
White House is going on briskly; that plumb¬ 
ers are specially busy there; that the gas and 
sewer pipes are to be taken out and replaced 
with porcelain-lined piping; and that partic¬ 
ular attention is to be paid to the condition 
of the bath-rooms, and their sanitary im¬ 
proving. There are to be now carpets also, 
with new furniture, altogether costing 810,000. 
The public received an impression during 
the illness of President Garfield that the White 
House was not a safe edifice to live in. 
General Francis A. Walker lias been asked 
to accept the presidency of the World’s Fair 
at Boston, contingently, we presume ! 
Forty-eight of the expatriated Jews who 
are now on their way to seek homes in this 
country arrived at the Castle Garden emi¬ 
grant depot recently by the steamer Egypt, 
from Liverpool. There were 10 families 
among them, and all a pipe a red to be active 
energetic, healthy people. They were met by 
a deputation of the committee lately organized 
in this city to advise and aid them and their 
suffering compatriots, and were sent to Chi¬ 
cago aud Toledo, where efforts will be made 
to locate them and get them employment. 
An Overworked School-Girl. 
From one of this large class of sufferers we 
have the following testimonial: 
“ Cinnamtnson, N. J., Aug. 1, 1880. 
“From a feeling of gratitude and a desire 
to benefit others in a like situation, I volunta¬ 
rily give my experience with the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment. When I began it I had 
for more than a year been suffering from ner¬ 
vous prostration; for I belong to a class which 
increases yearly, viz. overworked school-girls. 
My general improvement for nearly two 
months after I began the Home Treatment 
was scarcely perceptible, but at the end of that 
time I began to improve, and now, after eleven 
months have passed, I can safely say that I 
liave been cured. I sleep and rest well, and 
am (ffiHerttllg in the possession of a good ap¬ 
petite. while headaches and backaches are 
quite unheard of. My throat is cured, and 
my voice is stronger than ever before. T sur¬ 
prise my friends by my greatly increased 
physical strength. The fact that I have in¬ 
duced several friends to try this Treatment is 
an evidence of my faith in its curative pow - 
er.” Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, 
containing large reports of cases, and full in¬ 
formation, sent free. Dre, Starkey & Pa- 
len, 1109 and illl Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 10, 1881. 
The following agricultural news has been 
culled from telegrams received here from 
Friday noon to date: Eastern States. — 
Portland, Me.: The advance in breadstuffs is 
the most noticeable feature of the week's 
trade, Provisions and all country produce 
are likewise buoyant.Boston, Mass.: 
There is a good healthy tone in the wool mar¬ 
ket and prices are well sustained with a good 
demand from manufactories. Sales of all kinds 
amounted to 2,500,000 lbs., including Penn, 
and O. fleeces at 43(&45e. for X, XX, XXX, 
and above, Mich, at 41(a 43c., principally 42c. 
There has been a noticeable advance in flour 
aud pork, the former reaching 810 a barrel 
wholesale, and the latter 824 a barrel for first 
class—the highest prices for several years. 
Demand consumptive rather than speculative, 
.Middle States,— Buffalo, N. Y.: 
Wheat dull; 81.58 bid for hard Duluth on spot. 
No. 2 corn, 72c. Cattle receipts for week, 
10,355 head; prices stronger.Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa,: Three cargoes of wheat taken for 
Lisbon; but British shippers are not buying, 
and supplies of all grains are in excess of ter¬ 
minal storage. Prices ruling too high for large 
export trade. Demurrage of 81 per car being 
paid to railroad companies under protest. Ow¬ 
ing to the break of the Chicago corner in corn, 
the closing prices of wheat and corn have 
dropped 2c per bush. Wool quiet, hut prices 
very firm; the week’s sales aggregate 
650,000 lbs. Western States.—D e¬ 
troit, Mich.: Wheat less active: most of it 
held against “options” (that is, against con¬ 
tracts for future delivery). Supply of pork 
and lard unusually small. Apples, beans, aud 
potatoes scarce, with upward tendency. Local 
mills grinding to full capacity. No. 1 white 
wheat, 81.42% cash; Nov., 81.45%. Corn, No. 
2, Oct., 09c.; Nov., 70c.Grand Rapids, 
Mich.: Owing to the drought there has been 
an increase of price in all farm products and 
every-day necessaries. Butter, eggs, pota¬ 
toes, meat, poultry, etc., rule higher now than 
at any time since the war, and prices are still 
going up. 
•.Chicago, 111.: The “corner” in corn has 
burst up. Until Friday the receipts of grain 
were very heavy, as it was rushed forward to 
meet the obligations of the “shorts.” Arrivals 
were 3,130,389 bush, of corn; 333,071 bush, of 
wheat, and 408,624 bush, of oats. Shipments: 
1,133,704bush, of com; 209,679 bush, of wheat; 
aud 440,022 bush, of oats, leaving 11,300,000 
bushels of grain in store against 7,622,451 at 
same time last year. Elevator capacity is 
19,(XX),000.,-..Cleveland, Ohio: No. 2 red 
winter wheat, 81.50; Timothy, 82.90; clover, 
85.50@5.75.Cincinnati, Ohio: Grain 
and provisions quiet. Wheat until Wednes¬ 
day dull, but rallied on Thursday. Corn and 
oaks slow and lower.Dayton, Ohio: To¬ 
bacco raising an important industry here; the 
yield will be larger than was expected. 
Milwaukee, Wis.: Weather changeful and 
stormy: considerblo damage to unthrashed 
grain as the result. A large yield of potatoes, 
but the shortage in other parte of the country 
has caused prices to be double those of lost 
year. Receipts amount to 15,000 barrels per 
day. Wheat changeful; prices 1 @2c lower. 
Minneapolis, Minn.: A good deal of threshing 
•luring the week; millers purchasing 100,009 
bushels of wheat a day at the highest price 
for eight years—60 per cent, above last year's 
prices. Other crops turning out well. Large 
crops of potatoes selling for shipment at 
double usual prices, 80 cents. Over $120,000 
daily required by millers to pay for wheat 
.St. Paul, Minn.: Weather gloomy. 
The agricultural machinery trade reports a 
surprising promptness in the payment of 
farmers’ notes. Prices for labor high_ 
Omaha, Neb.: Produce dealers jubilant at 
present high prices, which hold firm with an 
upward tendency. Labor high. Reports 
from all over the State show advances in 
grain, and farmers who have crops are doing 
well.Denver, Col.: Flour and wheat 
steadv. Hay on demand at better prices. 
Vegetables plenty.St. Louis, Mo.: The 
Fair is attracting an unusually large attend¬ 
ance. Few fat cattle or good packing hogs 
are offered here now. The thin stock received 
goes off slowly and at raisers’ loss. Sheep 
offerings are mean. 
In Bradst.root’s—the excellent paper pub¬ 
lished by the large mercantile agency of that 
name—there appeared last Saturday an estim¬ 
ate of the wheat and com crops for 1881, 
founded on 3,(XX) reports from all the grain¬ 
growing sections. Of it this is a summary: 
WHEAT. 
„ Bushels. 
Western States.3-vS’ 137.IXK) 
Paeiiie coast.aa, 32 >,mo 
Colorado and Territories. l2,nno,<*ib 
England. l.flUOjOtO 
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Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, the great 
, remedy for diseases peculiar to females. Send 
to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 Western Ave., 
Lynn, Mass., for pamphlets. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative is the best and 
most agreeable preparation in the world for 
constipation, biliousness, etc. One-half to one 
lozenge is enough. Price 25 and 60 cents per 
box. 
Middle States . 
Southern States 
. 84,500,000 
10,000,1X10 
Total. 
This is against 
showing a loss of 
is a summary of 
Western States in 
Illinois...,,.. 
Indiana. 
Iowa. 
Nebraska.. 
Michigan. 
Minnesota.. 
Missouri.. 
Ohio.... 
Kentucky. 
Wisconsin. 
Kansas. 
1880. 
.50.500,000 
. 48.400,non 
. S4.7sJ.OO0 
... 11.900,000 
. 33,315,000 
.44,500,000 
.28,000,1100 
. 48,500.000 
. 9,000,000 
.. 16,000,000 
.19,300,000 
.368,962,000 
480,000,000 bushels in 1880, 
111,038 bushels. Following 
the yield of wheat in the 
bushels: 
1881. 
24,*75,000 
29,750,000 
24,000,000 
14,6.36,0<l<) 
13,640,000 
33.170,000 
18,890,000 
35,815,001 
8,037,000 
19,500,000 
19,949,000 
Total.843,570,000 248,137,000 
Returns of the corn crop are less favorable 
than those of wheat, but nevertheless will not 
be pleasantly regarded by the operators who 
have gambled upon a half crop. Summarized 
the com crop of 1881 is as follows: 
... . „ Bushels. 
Western States. 869,241,000 
Southern States. 247,500,000 
Middle States. 62,400,000 
New England Stales. 7,000,1)00 
Pacific coast. 2,500,000 
Territories. 5,000,000 
Total...1,193,641,000 
The yield of com in the Western States is 
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shown by the following table: 
Ohio. 
Michigan. 
Indiana.. 
1880. 
. 119,940,000 
. 84,816.000 
. 99,229,1*10 
. 2411,452,1*10 
.. as,7«7,rtjn 
1881. 
74,250,000 
25,470.000 
75,950.000 
166,268,000 
37 ,->90 nm 
Illinois. 
Wisconsin. 
Minnesota,. 
Iowa.. . 
Missouri. 
Kansas. 
Nebraska. 
. 15,4 79,000 
. 200,192,000 
. 160,463,000 
.106,219,010 
. 59,507,1*0 
17,200,11*) 
191,980,000 
125,240,000 
73,333,1*10 
81,705,000 
Total. 
869,241,000 
Tlie Southern States suffered largely from 
the drought, and the corn crop in Kentucky 
reaches only 40,500,000 in 1881 against 80,039,- 
00U in 1880, Tennessee reports a shortage of 
48 per cent—Virginia and Texas 40 per cent.— 
and nearly the same for West Virginia. Al¬ 
together the com crop of the United States of 
1881 is short about one-third of a usual yield. 
.The value of the hay crop in 
New York in 1379 the census puts at 860,267,- 
240—the most valuable in the Union. 
One of the largest second crops of hay ever 
known in Maine—fully one-third of the fine 
first crop, quality greatly superior.The 
International Dairy Fair at Cedar Rapids, 
la., takes place Nov. 29 and 30 and Dec. 1 and 
3.Christian Kroeger, dairyman, She¬ 
boygan Falls, Wis.. lias just been fined 810 
and costs for skimming milk he took to a 
cheese factory. Afterwards he paid the par¬ 
ties $60 damages rather than stand a suit. 
.... At the late auction sale of the pure Polled 
Ayrshire herd of the bankrupt Marquis of 
Huntly, 32 head were offered, including 24 
cows, the rest being hulls and calves. The 
cow Vine Smith brought 8580, and 
the herd averaged 8250 per head. 
The Louisville Commercial cites the case of 
Capt. Chas. N. Com, of that city,who was cured 
by St. Jacobs Oil, after suffering for years with 
rheumatism.—York (Neb.) Republican. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Oet. 8, 1881. 
Beans and Peas.—B eans hold their strong course, 
a good demand attending the higher rates. Red kid 
noys lire wanted. New green peas in a small way 
quoted S'Mif*V.ir,j old, 8l.fo<*2, .Southern B. E. peas 
5.4.21 f.<j&25 19 2-bush. hag. 
Marrow beans, new, g:$.55®3.fl0; mediums, $3.50: pea , 
$&35®3.!W; white kidney, $3,311(43.55; black or turtle 
soup, S2i red kidney, new, $8. 
Receipts of beans for the week, 11,092 bush. 
Exports do. 260 bbls. 
Beeswax—U nchanged at 2l®22o., the latter for 
Southern. 
Butter.—A nother quiet week Is recorded. Fancy 
grades have sold up to arrival, hut there is a large 
proportion of the supply that, cannot he rated fancy, 
and It begins to look as If sweet and useful grades 
have been claiming too close a relationship with 
choice creamery. The butter market is not In good 
shape. Interior owners hold on stubbornly for nearly 
what Is quoted here and quotations here have al¬ 
ready restricted consumption, .Such a combination 
would lie apt to weaken any commodity, and fair 
table grades of butter are not Indispensable when 
they go above the popular nurse, especially when 
Oleomargarine Inis lightened Its hold upon bo many 
outlets. Buyers are trying to induce ladders of dai¬ 
ries to break off the tons, hut It Is too early In the 
Season. A good ninuy dairies are showing poor ends 
of Sept, owing to tlm heal of that month. 
Creamery, finest tubs, iMfcbilTe.; good to prime, 32® 
Sic.: other quality, 2l.-i.26e.; sweet cream, 29®3lc.; 
State dairies do. 2:!®28e.: do. half tubs, choice, 30®31e.; 
do. fair to prime, Welsh tubs, 25®80c.; poor 
State, 20®25o.; Western Initiation creamery, 20®80c.i 
do, dairy, choice, 20®2?c.i other, 17®23c.; factory or 
ladle-packed June and lowo, 1H®I9c_; other, I5@l7tac.; 
common Western, 15c. 
Receipts for the week, 42.315 pkgs. 
Exports do. 1,142 do. 
fold Storage to O. lb, 90s. 
The otltelnl figures of the amount of stock In this 
city for October arc as follows :— 
State creamery, tubs aud pails. 8,031 
State creamery, firklus. 1,819 
Western creamery, tubs . 18,432 
State dairy, tubs and palls. 7,810 
State dairy, firkins. 4,282 
Western dairy, tubs. 8,329 
Western factory’, tubs. 43,669 
Western factory, firkins. 2,855 
Total packages.100,227 
Stock In Boston.tpkgs).. 42,945 
Cheese.-T he stock In this city Oet. >sl In stated at 
1.2.793 boxes, la Boston nr 20,547 boxes, In Liverpool at 
lSl.lkJU boxes. The market lias been a counterpart of 
last week, dull and unsettled. Fine September cheese 
have beeu of uncertain value; some lots are reported 
to have been otiered at 13c. The home trade has paid 
our quotations, or perhaps a shade more, for a limit¬ 
ed quin,in., of State cheese. We hear of no sales of 
Wisconsin clpi tw, Ohio Cheddars arc scarce and 
nominal. Medium erodes arc dull; no export demand 
for them. Heavy .skims arc tn Very bad position. Re¬ 
ceivers have been compelled to force l-ds not keeping 
weu upon tin- peddlers at 25®a0e. a box. 
State factory, line, 12*2®I8cs.; good to prime, liytf® 
13c.; fair to good, Kits® 11 .We..: poor to fair. I0@10tkc.; 
Ohio factory. Hat, tlm- mild, L’Ki-idSc.; good to prime, 
11® 12c., fair to good, lls.tI Ic.; creamery, partly skim¬ 
med, choice, Ilkallc.; poor to good, 4®7c.; fully skim¬ 
med, W®2c,; full skimmed factory, Rj®2e. 
Receipts for the week, 40,253 pkgs. 
Exports do. 18,080 do. 
Liverpool cubic, tils. 
Steam to Liverpool, 16s. 3d,®30fl. 
Dried Fruits.—F ine qualities of apples arc firm and 
quite u number or evaporated have changed hands 
latterly In sellers’ lavor. reeled peaches scarce and 
firm-, impeeled caster. 
Apples, evaporated, new, II® t3c.; do. old, rings, 
choice, tile.; do. fair to prime, ll®l2e.; N. C. new, 
sliced, extra fancy, St£®;itt'c.; choice, TWORe.j fair to 
good, i%®7e,; Southern, new quarters, choice, 6@7c.: 
[ftl *• ‘ - **4 . < - • * r.-.n v. a. . ■ ■’ 
Truth* 
The truth is that no person pursuing indoor 
occupations, can expout to escape the conse¬ 
quences. Those great organs, the liver and 
kidneys, will become inactive, and they need 
just such n remedy as Kidney-Wort to keep 
them in healthy condition.—Household. 
24C.; choice, 22ffli33o., On. peeled, choice, 22®23c.; 
Southern, peeled, fair to good, is®20c.; unpeeled 
halves, N. 0. Uc.; halves, Teuu. Kj^®8j7c. Plums, State, 
black, I7C.; Southern Damson, 14V&®15c. Blackberries, 
l;i(«iisq.c. Cherries, Southern, dry, Wtt'.Mc. Rasp¬ 
berries, 28c. Huckleberries, 15Jie. 
Eoos.-Rceelpts for the week. 6,769 bldg.; do. last 
week, 4, V». do. Cool weather has giv<tfi the market a 
good push aud prices firm and quite close for all 
grades, ioe house eggs are hard to sell; they turn out 
poor this year. Limed are offering with a place for 
cheap use. 
Near points, 25®2iV.; State and Pa. 24®25c.; Cana- 
dlaii, 23««2;!Zi-.; Western, 23,V«24c.. Under grades 22® 
2234c.; limed State ll)@20c..j Western, 17®18e. 
Floor.— In general sales flour has fallen off In 
prices, and were It not Tor the moderate supplies a 
sharp decline would be threatened. Buyers stocked 
a "lie freely when the offering was liberal, though in 
to excited feeling of the time they paid high figures. 
There is now a disposition manifested to hold off as 
long as possible In the expectancy of a fsvorilhlc turn 
In rules. 
Frof. Horsford’s Baking Powder. 
Baron Liebig, the eminent German Chem¬ 
ist, said, “The Baking Powder of Prof. Hors- 
ford, I hold to be one of the weightiest and 
most beneficent inventions which has been 
made in recent times.” 
We again call attention to the Robbins 
Washer and Bleacher of the Bissel Manufac¬ 
turing Co., whose large advertisement appeal’s 
in this issue. We have frequently spoken in 
strong terms of praise of both the article and 
the manufacturers. Our readers who want 
Receipt-; of Hour lor the week. 97,486 bids.; corn- 
meal 2,260 do. 
Exports of Hour for the week, 64,422 bbls.; corn-meal 
1,675 do. 
Fresh Fruits. -Choice apples are firm and in de¬ 
mand. Exports for weak 7,wm bbls. Many are going 
from Cucpida. Pears have advanced. Prime grapes 
doing hotter; common lots show. Cranberries have 
a. fap- outside demand. A supply of peaches la made 
up of odds and ends. 
Fall Pippin, Baldwin, Jersey, V; bbl. $1.75 
Greening, do. Baldwin, Jersey, bulk 
