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Mondav, Oct. 31, 1881. 
Affairs at Washington. —On the 24th 
nst, the President, nominated Ex-Governor E. 
D. Morgan of this State as Secretary of 
the Treasury in place of Mr. Windotu. He 
ivas at once confirmed by the Senate, but 
would not accept the office. On Thursday 
last the name of Judge Charles J. Folger, of 
New York, was sent to the Senate by the 
President and that body confirmed Mr. Fol- 
ger’s appointment to the secretaryship of the 
Treasury. Postmaster-General James was 
reappointed, and was at once confirmed 
without reference to a committee. His nomi¬ 
nation was made as a compliment to the effic¬ 
ient service he has already rendered the Post 
Office Department. Mr. Frank Hatton, of 
Iowa, was also confirmed as First Assistant 
Postmaster-General to succeed Mr. Tyner. 
On the 25th the Senate adjourned after hav¬ 
ing confirmed most of the nominations made 
by the President. In the last hours of the 
session there was considerable fillibustering 
over the nomination of one Statham, to be 
Postmatter at Lynchburg, Ya. Wilson, the 
present incumbent, had betrayed his trust, 
and Statham was named as his successor, but 
being recommended by Senator Mahone, 
whom the Southern democrats do not particu¬ 
larly love, be was opposed by the democrats, 
and by dilatory motions they prevented his 
confirmation. The nomination was finally 
laid on the table, and will be taken up in De¬ 
cember at the regular session. The only work 
of importance done by the Senate in special 
session was the electing of David Davis 
as President of the Senate and e,v-offino 
Vice-President of the United States, and the 
confirmation of the nominations to the Cab¬ 
inet noted above. 
Mr, Windom has resigned his jiosition in 
the cabinet, and has been elected United 
States Senator by the Minnesota Legislature. 
In the Senate the vote stood Windom (Rep.), 
29; Smith |Dem.), 5; scattering 4. In the 
House Windom 8(5, Smith 11, scattering 3. 
Mr. Beecher resigned the editorship of the 
Christian Union of this city, on the 25th inst. 
A terrible disaster occurred on the Missis¬ 
sippi river near Davenport, Iowa, on the 27th 
inst, whereby a steamer with about 30 persons 
on board was dashed to pieces against a 
bridge. Only eight persons were reporUsi 
saved. The cam rods of the engine gave way 
and left the steamer to the mercy of the waves 
and she was hurled with violent force against 
the ah utments. The latest report says that 
18 persons have been saved. 
The completed census of New Mexico Terri¬ 
tory gives it 119,565 inhabitants, males being 
in excess by 9,000^108,721 are whites and 111,- 
000 native, showing that the native white 
Mexican stock is still the most important ele¬ 
ment. The increase since 1870 is only 8,000. 
In the Criminal Court Messrs. Bcoville nud 
Robinson, counsel for Guiteau, made an appli¬ 
cation for the postponement of the trial of 
their client, and after hearing argument pro 
and con the Court stated that under all the 
circumstances in the case he would postpone 
the trial from November 7 to November 14. 
Mr. Seoville stated that in his opinion the 
Court had jurisdiction over the case, and inti¬ 
mated that he would not raise any question on 
that point. 
An interesting ceremony took place in Union 
Square, this city, on the 25th. It was the pre¬ 
sentation to the city of a handsome bronze 
drinking fountain, the gift of Mr. Daniel Willis 
James. The total higbt of the work is 18 feet, 
and the cost #35,000, The exercises were brief 
and in good taste. What’s the good of a foun¬ 
tain without water ! 
Four hundred and sixty-one persons were 
arrested during the fiscal year ending June 
31, 1881, for depredations upon the United 
States mails. Of these 424 were prosecuted in 
United States Courts and 37 in courts of the 
several States where the aiTests were made. 
In the United States Courts 188 were convict¬ 
ed, 20 were acquitted, three escaped, five for¬ 
feited bail, proceedings against 24 were dis¬ 
missed, one was killed while resisting arrest, 
and 1J7 a wait trial. 
At the Atlanta Exposition two suits of 
clothes—for Governor Colquitt of Georgia 
and Governor Bigelow of Connecticut—were 
made from seed cotton picked in the morning. 
Walnut timber thieves, who have been over¬ 
running the Indian Territory, have been 
checked by Secretary Kirkwood, who has 
rendered a decision that all walnut on the In¬ 
dian reservations belongs to the Indians, and 
cannot he removed without their consent. 
The New York Central Railroad Company, 
on the 2fitb, made an advance in its rates for 
passengers to the West. This action was due 
to the fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company a day or two previous increased its 
rates. The Central did not increase the prices 
to the same ratio as that charged by the 
Pennsylvania company. The Central’s sched¬ 
ule, issued lately, is on the basis of 89.25 for 
Cincinnati, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, In¬ 
dianapolis, Milwaukee and Toledo; 8*.25 to 
Cleveland, $14.25 to Quincy, Hannibal and 
Kansas City an l $11.25 to St. Louis. These 
are the net prices, the rates being formed by 
means of a rebate from the prices based on 
$20 to Chicago. 
At Mount Washington, N. H.. on the 20th, 
a slight snow fell, the wind blew ninety 
miles per hour, and the mercury fell to 8° 
below zero. 
Hamlin Brothers’ sugar refinery, at Peoria, 
Ill., the largest glucose factory in the world, 
was totally destroyed by fire on the 27th. The 
loss is estimated at $500,000; insurance, $250,- 
000, Four hundred men are thrown out of 
employment through the disaster. 
The water in Cochituate Lake, the source of 
Boston’s supply, is very low and badly tainted 
with vegetable impurities. A committee of 
the city Government have made an investiga¬ 
tion with the view of deriving a supply from 
the branch works at Sudbury River, but 
found the latter also polluted. A water fam¬ 
ine is not feared, hut the danger is that pump¬ 
ing will have to he resorted to, in which case 
the supply must lie reduced from 34,000,000 
to 20,000,000 gallons daily. 
Immigrants have been pouring into the 
country for the last three months at the rate 
of almost 2,<MH) a day—171,803 in 90 days. 
Notwithstanding the. turmoil in Ireland, less 
than 10 i'msp cent, of the total immigration is 
Irish—1(5,301; the English. Scotch and Welsh 
number nearly 30,000, the Germans, 59,000, 
Canadians, 19,000 and Swedes, 13,059. 
Walker Blaine, oldest son of the Secretary, 
is reported to be a candidate for nomination 
to Congress in the Third District of Maine 
next year. 
Twenty thousand people visited the cotton 
exposition on Thursday and enjoyed the fes¬ 
tivities prepared for the occasion. It was Gov¬ 
ernors’ Day, and there were present Governors 
Hoyt;, of Pennsylvania; Bigelow, of Connecti¬ 
cut, with his full staff; Jarvis, of North Caro¬ 
lina: Hagood, of South Carolina, and Colquitt, 
of Georgia. Speeches of welcome were made 
by Gov. Colquitt and Director-General Kim¬ 
ball, and responses by each visiting Governor 
and other distinguished visitors. The Govorn- 
ors were then wined and dined at Exposition 
Hotel, and in the evening were the recipients 
of various attentions from the citizens. 
President A. D. White, of Cornell Universi¬ 
ty, who recently resigned the Berlin mission, 
has entered into bonds with the trustees of the 
University not to accept, any political office 
for four years. 
An old gentleman from the interior of Ohio 
last week presented for redemption $17,000 in 
six per cents, called in last July. He refused 
to accept a draft on the Treasurer, and iusist- 
ed on being paid in gold. The coin, which 
weighed 75 pounds, was placed in a satchel, 
and the man staggered under the load as far 
as the Assistant Treasurer’s room, where he 
began the task of counting the treasure. Af¬ 
ter the entire amount was carefully counted 
and found to be correct, the old gent was per¬ 
suaded to express the coin home. 
The site of the O’Leary stable, in which a 
$4 cow started the $200,UUO,000 fire at Chicago, 
is now occupied by a two-story brick residence 
with a tablet stating that the fire of 1871 
started at that point and went to Lincoln 
Park. 
About a thousand applications a day are 
being received for the Garfield relics. The 
committee has decided to prepare from the 
building material of the pavilion a variety of 
articles for which contributions will be re¬ 
ceived and applied to the monument fund. 
At Reading, Pa., a cannon has been cast 
which will bo twenty-five feet long. It is 
known as the Lyman Haskell gun, and the 
shot will be propelled by the explosion of 
power in four pockets as well as in the cham¬ 
ber. It will throw u ltid-pound shot ten miles. 
Guiteau’s counsel, George Bcoville, has se¬ 
cured t.he co-operation of Mr. A. S. Trade, 
a well-known lawyer in Chicago, who has 
had twelve or fifteen years’ practice and who 
has high standing in the courts there. He is 
especially well informed in criminal law. 
The Senate has confirmed the nomination 
of Charles W. Seaton, of New York, to be 
Superintendent of the Census. 
President Arthur has rented the pew 
formerly occupied by President Madison in 
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington. 
The church was built in 1815. 
Wednesday was the closing day of the Rich¬ 
mond- Yorktown centennial celebration. There 
were 20,0(X) strangers there. The procession 
occupied two hours in passing a given point. 
Business was suspended. The streets were 
thronged. The British llag was raised on the 
state capitol and saluted Dy the Richmond 
howitzers. 
At Napoleon, O., the trial of B. K. Scott, 
ex-go vemor of South Carolina, for the mur¬ 
der of young Drury at Progress, last Christ¬ 
mas, begun Wednesday, 
The Pennsylvania Railway Company has 
contracted for 50,000 plants of various kinds 
to he delivererl at the stations between Jersey 
City and Philadelphia. The purpose is to have 
flower beds at every station along the route. 
The will of the late Col. E. B. Morgan 
of Auburn, N. Y., was probated on Satur¬ 
day week. Among the public bequests are 
$100,0(H) to Wells College. Aurora, N. Y., 
in addition to $ 100,000 already given to form 
a Morgan fund for the college. 
The remnants of the Philadelphia Centen¬ 
nial Exposition have been sold by auction. 
The great organ, which cost $20,000. went for 
$5,000, and it is to be removed to a Boston 
fair building. The largest mirror in the 
world, 11 by 18 feet, in one plate, originally 
costing $5,000, was bought by a saloon-keeper 
for $900. 
It seems a queer arrangement of things that 
while the Atlantic coast has l>een terribly 
afilicted with drought the Northwest has been 
the victim of deluges. The cities of New York 
and Brooklyn are in danger of disaster from 
water famine, while other towns are almost 
inundated by the rising of the rivers. A bet¬ 
ter division of moisture between the valley of 
the Hudson and the valley of the Mississippi 
is clearly desirable. It would be strange if a 
region unduly parched should be called upon 
to subscribe to sufferers from floods. 
There are 245 towns and cities in the United 
States having a population of 10,900 and up¬ 
wards. General Walker, late Superintendent of 
the Census, predicts that the ce .sus of 1890 
will give the United States a population of 
04.407,000. 
Private Secretary Brown estimates the ex¬ 
penses of the president’s sickness at $100,000, 
of which $53,000 is for doctor’s hills. Bliss 
wants $25,00(1, Agnew and Hamilton each 
$12,000, Reylmru $3,000 and Mrs. Edison $1,- 
000, Woodward and Barnes, being govern¬ 
ment officers, may not get anything. 
The new laboratory at Cornell University 
is to lie erected in the spring, at a cost of $50,- 
000 to $(50,000. Plans are to be drawn this 
winter for uevv university buildings, which 
are to cost $150,000. They will be erected 
next year. 
A Missing Letter. —In the report of the 
St. Louis fair, in the Rural of October 22, 
a typographical error occurs in the description 
of the Barlow Planter, made by the Yundever 
Corn Planter Company, of Quincy, Ill. In 
the sentence “A distinctive feature of the 
pkuiter is the rotary or revolving seed cup, by 
the use of which the corn is shown five hills in 
advance,” shown was made to read sown by 
the omission of a letter. 
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A Strong Endorsement. 
A lady residing in Georgia, whose son was 
threatened with consumption, wrote to sev¬ 
eral of our old patients, whose testimonials 
in favor of Compound-Oxygen we had pub¬ 
lished, asking if these printed tostiinonals 
were true. Among them was T. S. Arthur, 
the well-known author, who replied to her 
June 17th, 1880, as follows : “ Mrs. M-: 
In reply to your favor, I will state that the 
testimonial to which you refer is genuine. 
From what I have myself experienced and 
from what 1 know of the effect of Compound 
Oxygen in others, I am satisfied that this new 
remedy is one of remarkable curative power. 
Your son, I think, can hardly fail to receive 
benefit. Others as badly diseased, and suffer¬ 
ing for many years, have been cured, or 
greatly relieved, by this Treatment, as you 
will see by Dre. Starke / & Palen’s Report of 
Cases, which I am well assured are authentic.” 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, con¬ 
taining large reports of cases, and full in¬ 
formation, sent free. Ill's. Starkey & Pa- 
len, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL, NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 31, 1881. 
The following items of agricultural news 
are condensed from telegrams received in this 
city from various points from noon on Fri¬ 
day October 28, to noon to-day, October 31: 
Boston, Mass.—Hides higher and in good de¬ 
mand. Prices of wool are well sustained. Cot¬ 
ton has advanced 1-lfic over price at close of 
last week... 
Providence, R. I. —Cotton market strong at 
12 ) 4 c for middling uplands, and I2^c for mid¬ 
dling gulfs. Outlook favorable for higher 
prices.. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Butter and cheese are 
very firm: fruits somewhat dull, Prices of 
wool are exceptionally firm. 
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Flour 15c(</25c lower. 
Wheat aud all other grains except corn are 
lower. Stock of hog products low. Winter 
packing lias been begun by throe houses. Leaf 
tobacco buoyant, with firm prices.Day- 
ton, Ohio.—The tobacco crop in this section is 
turning out finely, and prices are ranging 
firm and high.Louisville, Kv.—Flour 
easy; grain dull; provisions fair. Leaf tobacco 
firmer with an advance of on dark 
grades, and lc(ff 2e on hurleys.Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind.—Stocks of wheat and corn in ele¬ 
vators ure double as large as at this time last 
year.Detroit, Mich.—Weather very 
fine. It is reported that grain rates East will 
be advanced 5c(a 10c on November 1. Grain 
trade moderately active....Milwaukee, 
IVis.—Weather still stormy and unsettled. 
Considerable damage from overflows and 
washouts in various parts of the State. Re¬ 
ceipts of wheat light, owing to impassible con¬ 
dition of roads in the interior. Flour quieter 
and lower owing to falling-off in demand; a 
number of mills are shutting down....- 
Chicago, Ill.—Bad roads and bad weather 
have a depressing effect on all trade. A bet¬ 
ter feeling in grain. The advance in freights 
has had the good effect of putting more cars 
at the service of shippers. Receipts of bread- 
stuffs for the week are; 113,810 barrels flour; 
305,88(5 bushels wheat; 1,401.404 bushels corn 
and 357,220 bushels oats. Shipments for week: 
88,022 barrels flour; 170,414 bushels wheat; 2,- 
242,435 bushels corn aud 353,177 bushels oats 
leaving in the elevators about 3,800,000 bushels 
wheat: 9,500,000 bushels coni: 375,000 bushels 
oats and 307,400 bushels barley.Peoria, 
Ill.—Hog packing houses are preparing to 
start winter packing. 
Quincy, Ill.—This Sunday night the Mis¬ 
sissippi River at this point is nineteen 
feet above low water mark, having risen 
slowly all day. All railroads south and west 
from here remain suspended, except the 
Hannibal and St. Joseph, which is still run¬ 
ning. The inhabitants of the Sny Valley 
have moved out to the high grounds and many 
of them have taken refuge i a this city. The 
water is steadily spreading over the thous¬ 
ands of acres of fertile farms protected 
by the embankment and the loss to the farm- 
el's will he very heavy. .411 the levees in this 
vicinity have been broken by the great 
pressure of water and the low la mis are now 
completely flooded. This is the greatest flood 
ever known in this season of the year and 
there is no record of u higher stage at any time 
except during the Spring freshet in 1851. 
St. Louis, Mo.: The freight blockade is slowly 
loosening. Flour very dull; local millers talk¬ 
ing of closing down through November. Grain 
receipts still in excess of shipments. A down¬ 
ward tendency in all grains during the week. 
Provisions, too. extremely dull. Hogs are a 
full average of 20c. off during the week, owing 
to warm weather. Packing being done only 
with aid of ice. Cattle market demoralized. 
Receipts on Saturday, 1,300 head; shipments, 
700. Horse and mule receipts small and be¬ 
hind demand.Kansas City, Mo.: Weather 
clear and pleasant, bat roads bad from late 
rains......Omaha, Neb.: Rainy; travel 
greatly impeded. Prices of grain still high. 
Potatoes have fallen off 10c. owing to large 
shipments from Minn. Fears entertained of 
want of fuel during the Winter, as the supply 
of coal in the State is small.Denver, 
Col.: Stocks of grain, flour and feed are larger 
than for sometime back. Baled hav eontinnes 
to arrive. Demand for tallow and hides still 
increasing. A good trade is growing with 
Kansas towns for Colorado produce. A car¬ 
load of Colorado cabbage was lately sent 
to Kansas City—the first on record. 
San Francisco, Cal.: Late ruins starting 
grass and volunteer grains. Plowing is now 
general in many sections. Great agricultural 
activity owing to favorable outlook. Forty 
ships arrived during the week, chiefly coal 
laden to load grain. All Australian steamer 
due during the week brings $800*000 from 
New Zealand, the balance of trade in our 
favor.Baltimore, Md : G rain from the 
West to the «eaboard has advanced 2] jc, to 
5c. per 100 jMtunds. Cotton receipts still un¬ 
usually large. Grain market moderately 
quiet.Norfolk, Va : Gotten, flour and 
corn mills run day aud night.Wilming¬ 
ton, N. 0.: Cotton picking is progressing fa¬ 
vorably.Charleston, S. C.: Turpentine 
still selling at 50c. Cotton receipts heavier: 
middling 11 Kc; low middling 11c; good or¬ 
dinary lQJ.j.Savannah, Ga.: Collec¬ 
tions coming in slowly from country places; 
aud when the cotton is sold, they’ll be harder 
to make. Cotton opened Friday morning 
with a strong demand and higher prices were 
asked and paid for middling and low mid¬ 
dling: middling, 10%c; low middling, 
lOC^c; good ordinary, 91-ic..Au¬ 
gust,a, Ga.: Cotton receipts for the week in 
excess of last week’s. Yet there is a general 
disposition among funnel's to bold their cot¬ 
ton for higher prices. Collections good- 
. .New Orleans, La.: Cotton firm and in 
good demand. Middling 1 Pic; low middling, 
I0tgc;good ordinary lOPo. 
Memphis, Tenu.: Cotton receipts have fallen 
off considerably owing to bad weather, but if 
rainy weather continues planters will gin 
what cotton they have gathered, and an in¬ 
crease may be expected.Nashville, 
