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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Nov. 7, 1881. 
The World’s Fair project is having a singu¬ 
lar see-saw between New York and Boston. 
The former city undertook it, and then gave 
it up. Boston thereupon examined it, and 
very nearly gave it up. But before tins con¬ 
clusion had been reached, the prospect that 
Boston would try it seemed to revive it in New 
York; and when Boston had about despaired 
of it the news that New York was after it 
again started the Boston movement afresh. 
This may not actually have been the way 
events went on, but there are appearances 
suggesting that such influences were at work. 
At all events people in Doth cities have the 
project now under consideration, being appar¬ 
ently reluctant either to give it up or carry it 
forward. The Boston executive committee 
of thirteen on the World's Fair met Nov. 1, 
and agreed upon the form of a circular to be 
addressed to three of the leading representa¬ 
tives in each class of business trade and in 
each profession. The circular calls upon the 
gentlemen to organize immediately in the in¬ 
terest of an exhaustive personal canvass 
among their business and other acquaintances 
so that the ground may be covered. 
Thirty subscriptions of $1,000 each have been 
made at Cleveland, O., towards the erection of 
the Garfield monument. Nearly $14,000 in 
cash has been received by the committee. 
Mrs. Garfield, at Faiuesville, Lake County, 
O., on the 2d inst, took out letters of adminis¬ 
tration on the late President’s astate. Her 
bondsmen arc W. 8. Streator, Internal Reve¬ 
nue Collector, and N. B. Sherwin, Cleveland’s 
Postmaster, both of whom have been General 
Garfield’s life-long friends. The main bulk of 
the property to be cared for is the house at 
Washington and the farm at Mentor. There 
is very little personal property, and the life 
insurance of $50,000 is equally divided between 
the wife aod family. 
On Tuesday, November 8, elections will be 
held in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, 
Colorado, Mississippi, Nebraska, Wisconsin, 
Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Minne¬ 
sota. Five of these elections will lie held for 
the purpose of choosing a full board of State 
officers, and Legislatures will be chosen in four 
Commonwealths. New York will elect four 
Congressmen; various other officers will be 
chosen in different States, and constitutional 
amendments will be voted upon in Nebraska, 
Wisconsin and Minnesota. 
The reductions in the star route service dur¬ 
ing October aggregated $55,778, making a total 
since Postmaster-General James began bis re¬ 
ductions of about $1,575,000 per annum. 
The average yearly income of the public 
school teachers in Maryland is $200. 
Secretary Folger is expected to take charge 
of the Treasury Department about the 12th 
inst. 
Senator Johnston says that the deficiency in 
the Yorktown fund will amount to $10,000. 
New York is relieved of its apprehensions on 
the score of water. Copious rains have del¬ 
uged the Croton supply region, and the stint 
gates have been raised at the storage reservoir 
in Central Park. Citizens are now using and 
wasting water with the usual freedom, and if 
frost does not lock up the streams too early 
there need be no fear of water shortage the 
coming Winter. 
Governor Long, of Massachusetts, is first to 
give the turkey warning that his day of 
doom approaches. He fixes the 24th inst for 
Thanksgiving in that State. 
The estimates of the Postmaster General 
encourage the hope that the department will 
become self-sustaining at no distant day. 
Estimating expenses at what past appropria¬ 
tions and deficiency bills prove they will be, 
Mr. James thinks $920,000 will measure the 
excess of expenses over receipts during the 
fiscal year ending with June 1883. And if 
business maintains the present rate of increase 
even that amount will not be wanted. The 
post-office department was never before so 
near self-support. 
Lieutenant Governor Weston, of Massachu¬ 
setts, has given $1,000 for the Garfield profes¬ 
sorship at Williams college. 
Colonel Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions, 
has submitted to the Secretary of the Interior a 
recommendation that Congress be asked to ap¬ 
propriate $100,000,000 for disbursement of liis 
office during the next fiscal year (ending June 
30, 1883) in payment of annual and accrued 
pensions, and also that an immediate defic¬ 
iency appropriation of $20,000,000 be re¬ 
quested for the purpose of paying all arrear¬ 
ages of pensions to claimants whose cases 
have been or may be favorably adjudicated 
during the present fiscal year. 
Arrangements are being made by the Post¬ 
master General whereby the mail from this 
city to Chicago shall roach its destination 
about a day sooner than it now does. The 
mail will leave here at 4.35 a. m., arriving at 
Buffalo at 7.40 p. m. and at Chicago at 9.05 a. m. 
of the following day. The regular mail 
train now leaves here at 8 a. m f and reaches 
Chicago at 7.40 p. M. the second day. 
A Newark N. J. Bank has been robbed of 
$2,000,000 by its fonder cashier. He has 
turned States evidence and has involved sev¬ 
eral others in the crime. 
Wendell Phillips has been invited by the 
Treasurer of the Irish Land League to go to 
Ireland and advocate “ No Rent,” but the 
“ silver-tongued orator” declines. Ho cables a 
despatch full of sympathy but says his health 
will not permit him to continue in public 
speaking to any great extent. 
Snow fell in many localities on the 4th. In 
jxjrtions of Chautauqua county it reached a 
foot in depth. At Mauneh Chunk, Pa., the 
mercury went down to 12 degrees above zero. 
Governor Cornell lxas designated Thursday, 
November 24, as a (lay of national thanks¬ 
giving and prayer. 
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, the new 
Minister from the United States to Spain, 
with his w ife, sailed for Europe in the steam¬ 
ship Illinois from Philadelphia on the 5th. 
Miss Blaine, daughter of Secretary Blaine, 
and ox-Senator John Scott and wife of Phila¬ 
delphia also railed in the same vessel. 
The resignation of the Hon. JohnW. Fos¬ 
ter, Minister to Russia, has been accepted by 
Secretary Blaine, in the name of the Presi¬ 
dent. The President has not yet decided upon 
Mr. Foster’s successor. For the present the 
affairs of the Legation will be under the 
charge of Col. Wickham Hoffman, as Charge 
d’Affaires ad interim. 
Postmaster-General James will retain his 
place in the Cabinet till the 1st of January, 
when he will take the direction of a new 
bank in New Y ork city. 
Hoboken, N. J., had a $300,000 fire yester¬ 
day. Had the fire companies responded the 
flames might have been checked before much 
damage was done, but being volunteers, work¬ 
ing without pay, and having been ill-treated 
by the City Council, two only out of seven com¬ 
panies responded and one of these was made 
up of one alderman and 25 small boys. The 
citizens, generally, did not blame the firemen 
for their non-action. Hoboken may now' 
see the advisability of having thoroughly 
equipped, well-paid fire companies! 
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“.Wonderful. Wonderlul Medicine!” 
So exclaims a patient, Rev. J, S. Fesperman, 
of Statesville, North Carolina. Writing June 
2d, 1880, be says: “In the Providence of God 
I owe my present state of health to your 
Oxygen. I was near the gate of the grave, 
and as I believe close to the great jtortals of 
eternal life, when I commenced taking what I 
now consider the greatest of all healing agents, 
Compound Oxygen. I can not refrain from 
saying, ‘Wonderful, wonderful wonderful 
medicine !” Physicans and friends had believed 
that I could not. live any length of time, and 
I am here yet, with my large family of 
children, and able to walk from three to 
four miles every morning. I can not 
speak in terras too high of your remedy.” 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, con¬ 
taining large reports of cases, and full in¬ 
formation, sent free. Drs. Starkey & Pa- 
len, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Nov. 7, 1881, 
Illinois Embargoes Eastern Cattle. 
The folio wing proclamation has been issued 
by Gov. Cullom of Illinois: “State of Illinois, 
Executive Department, Springfield, Ill., Nov. 
1, 1881, In pursuance of the act of the 
General Assembly of the State of Illinois, en¬ 
titled “ An act to suppress and prevent the 
spread of pleuro pneumonia among cattle,” 
approved May 31, I, Shelby M. Cullom, 
Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby 
proclaim that I have good reason to believe 
that pleuro pneumonia among cattle has be¬ 
come epidemic in certain localities in the 
Btates of Connecticut. New York, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland 
—viz.: in the County of Fairfield, in the State 
of Connecticut; in the Counties of Putnam; 
Westchester, Kings, and Queens,, in the State 
of New York; in tho Counties of Lehigh, 
Bucks, Berks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, 
Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, 
and Cumberland, in the Stateof Pennsylvania; 
in the Counties of Bergifl, Hudson, Morris, 
Essex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon, Middle¬ 
sex, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, 
Camden, Glouster, and Atlantic, in the State 
of New Jersey; in the County of Newmustle, 
in the State of Delaware; and in Cecil, 
Hartford, Baltimore, Howard, and Carroll 
Counties of Maryland; and I hereby, as re¬ 
quired by said act, prohibit the importation 
of any domestic animals of the bovine species 
into this State from the aforesaid counties in 
the States of Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland 
after the 10th day of November inst., unless 
accompanied by a certificate of health properly 
signed by a duly authorized verterinary in¬ 
spector. Any corporation or individual who 
shall transport, receive, or convey such pro¬ 
hibited stock shall be deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall 
be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than 
$10,000 for each and every offense, and shall 
be liable for any and all damage or loss that 
may oe sustained by any party or parties by 
reason of the importation or transportation 
of such prohibited stock. (Sec. 4 of act ap¬ 
proved May 31, 1881.) In testimony whereof 
1 hereto set my hand and cause the great seal 
of State to bo affixed. Done at the City of 
Springfield, the day and year above written. 
By the Governor: S. M. Cullom. Henry Dem¬ 
ent, Secretary of State. ” The above proclama¬ 
tion has been received just as we are going to 
press. 
The following items of agricultural news 
are condensed from telegrams from the various 
points received here from Friday evening, 
November 4, to this Monday afternoon, No¬ 
vember 7: Portland, Me.—General business 
falling off, and will do so until end of year. The 
season, however, lias been prosperous and 
profitable, especially in all kinds of agricul¬ 
tural produce... 
Boston, Mass.—Demand for wool good, full 
prices sustained. Sales for the week 2,450,000 
lbs including Ohio and Pennsylvania at 43@44c 
for x and 44(</45c for xx and above. Michigan 
in demand at 42(542> i 'c, though some heavy 
lots have been sold as low as 41c. Consider¬ 
able doiug for the Philadelphia market in No. 
1 fleeces at 45(5 47c for Michigan aud Ohio. 
Unwashed fleeces ranged for 15(<f24c for low 
and coarse; 27@38c for fine, and 38(j£35c for 
medium. California wool hard to sell. Beef 
dull. Pork and lard quiet; flour dull and 
prices less firm........ Buffalo, N. Y.—Re¬ 
ceipts of grain, instead of increasing as usual 
at this season, are falling off. Owing to a dis 
position to hold hack grain at the West many 
vessels have had to seek more remunerative 
business than competing for the small grain 
freightage. The grain receipts for October were 
only 6,237,751 bushels, a falling off of 10.000,- 
000 from same time last year—the smallest re¬ 
ceipts in ten years. Shipments of grain by 
canal this year foot up 28,302,872 bushels 
against 03,278,404 in 1880. Shipments of grain 
from elevators by railroad from January 1 to 
November 1 were 19,788,860 bushels, against 
24,309,738 bushels in 1880, The small busi¬ 
ness tracable to railroad wars and consequent 
close competition, and wild speculation which 
has prevented grain from coming forward- 
Philadelphia, Pa.: The wool market is 
quiet; holders are firm, however. Cotton 
quiet, with a shade of improvemnnt. Flour 
prices are a little off, while wheat prices are 
slightly stronger. Produce fairly active at 
good prices. A fair jobbing trade in pro¬ 
visions.Dayton, Ohio: Favorable re¬ 
ports still come in from the tobacco coun¬ 
try. Desirable tobacco remains strong, prices 
of lower grades have advanced slightly, w hich 
is significant.Cincinnati, Ohio: Re¬ 
ports from tobacco regions say the second 
crop is maturing uicely. The pork packing 
season has opened but business is so far light. 
Cora wheat and flour dull........ Toledo, 
Ohio : grain market strong ; prices firm, with 
an upward tendency. No 2. red Wabash 
w heat, $1.33 spot ; $1.35].,j Dec.; $1.37% Jan., 
$1.40 Feb. Corn No. 2. spot, 61c. Oats No. 2. 
44c.Louisville, Ky. : Pork packing 
has not begun, weather being too warm aud 
farmers’ prices being thought too high. To¬ 
bacco quiet end stationary. The new crop 
of barley brings 3(a5c. more than at this time 
last year. Provisions firm. Wheat receipts 
light with a declining tendency in prices. 
Detroit, Mich: grain trade light. Wheat 
crop in Western Mich, is nearly all bought up. 
Elsewhere half to three-fourths is kept back: 
but it is largely sold for future delivery. 
Trade in corn, oats and flour vastly greater 
than at corresponding time in previous years, 
while in wheat it is three-fourths less. Octo¬ 
ber was the greatest speculative month in the 
year—sales 11,000,900 bushels. Scarcity of 
care restrict grain and all other trades, 
Weather and roads bad..... 
Chicago, III.—Hogs coining in freely, 
averaging about five pounds lighter than last 
year. Packing houses getting under way, 
but prices of hogs are weak. Receipts of 
grain comparatively light with a bearish 
tendency in prices.St. Louis, Mo.— 
Pork has dropped. Tobacco weaker. Wheat 
receipts increasing largely. Weather still 
inducing corn molding.Milwaukee, 
Wis.—Weather still unfavorable, grievously 
affecting receipts and shipments. The wheat 
market has taken an upward turn under 
influence of wet weather, a keen specula¬ 
tive demand and steadior cablegrams, the 
net advance being l@lJ-£o per bushel. Re¬ 
ceipts and shipments of cereals are light. 
Baa roads are blocking movement of produce. 
Romford Chemical Works, 
This is one of the prominent manufacturing 
concerns of Providence, R. I., whose reputa¬ 
tion is world wide. It was organized with a 
limited capital, but by energetic, persevering 
industry in the manufacture of their standard 
preparations, they have grown to a magni¬ 
tude which is little short of the marvellous. 
They manufacture in enormous quantities, 
Prof. Horsford’s Phosphatic Baking Powder, 
made from his Acid Phosphate. This Pow¬ 
der is packed in tin cans of tho usual sizes, and 
is made according to the directions of Prof. 
Horsford, the well known authority on bread. 
The names of the inventor and manufacturer 
of the Pow’der are a guarantee of its super¬ 
iority and healthfulness. 
Doctor* may Dl*acree 
as to the best methods and remedies, for the 
cure of constipation and disordered liver and 
kidneys. But those that have used Kidney- 
Wort, agree that it is by far the best medi¬ 
cine known. Its action is prompt, thorough 
and lasting. Get a box or bottle aud try it.— 
Eagle. 
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Attention Arkansans I—B. G. Sweet, Wal¬ 
nut, Crawford Co., Kansas, says: “Will some 
subscribers to the Rural New-Yorker, liv¬ 
ing in Arkansas, who would be willing to 
answer questions in relation to their section of 
the State, as to price of land, climate, etc., 
kindly send me their addresses by postal 
card.” 
We are strongly disposed to regard that 
person as the best physician who does most to 
alleviate human suffering. J udged from this 
standard, Mrs, Lydia E. Pinkhara, 233 Wes¬ 
tern Ave., Lynn, Mass., is entitled to the 
front rank, for her Vegetable Compound is 
daily working wonderful cures in female dis¬ 
eases. Send for circular to the above address. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative is the best and 
most agreeable preparation in the world for 
constipation, biliousness, etc. One-half to ona 
lozenge is enough. Price 25 and 60 cents per 
box. 
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Dandruff 
Is Removed by the Use of Cocoaine. 
And it stimulates and promotes the growth of 
the hair. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are the 
best. 
(LI yt 2 %lax\u\%> 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Nov. ft, I88t, 
Beans and Peas.— Several weeks of slack trade 
have caused some depression and holders have been 
forced to meet buyers. Exporters are not operating 
and the home trade make quite a handle of the re¬ 
ports of foreign beans to come. The season, how¬ 
ever, Is young and holders of prime do not express 
any alarm sit the weak condition, of the market. 
Green pens plenty at St.<5w.l.Sb for Wisconsin: South¬ 
ern IJ. E. peas doing better: quoted $8.10 per 2 hit. bag. 
Marrow beatlH. prime. $8.40; fair to good, 88.15 
($3.35; medium,choice, $3.25®3.30. fair to good, $8.00® 
8.15; pea, choice, $3.3S(»3.W| while kidney, $3.il>048.-15; 
red kidney, 43.00; o)d,$2.ttVj(ii!.R'i: turtle soup,41;Soc<j)l.yO. 
Receipts of beans for tho week, 10.016 bush. 
Exports dO. 101 bbl*. 
Butteb.— Tim market Is without new features. 
Trade Is muoh below the usual expectation lor Nov. 
Flue creamery aud dairy are quoted as before, but In 
the opinion of the trade the next turn will be In 
buyers' favor. Early bought dairies are making 
money at present rates. Western and under grades 
of State dull and weak. 
Creamery, State aud Elgin, choice, 36c.; good to 
prime, ak'V’dc.; sweet cream, fresh, y&Vlic.; fair to 
good, 23®J0o.; State, Jpnr, good to prime, 25</£Kc.; 
Western, choice, 34c.; good to prime, 
SO®820.: fair to good, 28®3i)c.; floor, ifkjWSc.; 
June, prime. 36®27c.; fair to good, 28G&25C.; State fir¬ 
kins. ^dairies, choice, 2So.. ; good to prime, 2.5®27c.; 
fair. "ijiSEMo.; poor, l!k,_cS>e.;dalrlcs, half tubs, choice, 
fresh, sfesic.; good to prune, fair to good, 25 
®2hc.; Welsh tubs, choice, fresh, JlavGe.; good to 
ladle packed. Iowa,fine June,)tty-.; Ohio and Indiana, 
June, good, lib.; late made, good, fair, 15® 
15‘,ic.; poor, MiiyMHift. „ 
Receipts for the week, 28,400 pkgw. 
Exports do. 2.K25 do. 
Comparative receipts and exports from May 1st: 
Receipts, Exports, 
pkgs. Its. 
11,8110,262 
'• 1, ’79, “ 
" 1, ’78, “ 
“ 1, '77, " 
to Nov. 1, '81. 
" *' 1,'80.. 
“ •• 1, '79. 
•* “ 1, '78. 
.815,118 
" '• 1, ’77. 
22,501,933 
15,040,811 
18,769,988 
Cited by the Washington (Ind.) Gazette is 
the fact that the colts in that locality have a 
sort of lameness in the joint. J. F. Meyers 
cured his by anointing it with St. Jacobs Oil. 
Cotton.—T here Is no pointed animation and sonic 
one expresses It “ It Is anybody's market, ut. the mo¬ 
ment.’’ The outlook Is a little firmer as there arc re¬ 
ports of frost damage at some points of the cotton 
belt. 
CtlUKlCNT rate EH FOB SPOT COTTON. 
Quotations based oil American standard of classifi¬ 
cation mid on cotton In store, running In quality not 
more than half a grade above or below tho grade 
quoted. 
N. Orleans 
Uplands, and Gulf. Texas. 
Ordinary. 8 U 9bt 
Strict ordinary. 9 7-16 9 11 I?. 9 11-16 
Good ordinary. 10U' 10Hs 
Strict good ordinary’. 10 11-16 10 15-la 10 15-16 
Low middling.. 11 3-16 11 7-16 II 7-lb 
Strict low middling. 11 7-16 111116 11 ll-lb 
Middling. I1W lib, , 
Good Middling. 11 15 16 12 3-16 12 3-1; 
Strict good middling -- 12 3-16 12 7-16 12 7-16 
Middling fair. 12 11-16 12 15-16 12 15-16 
Fair. 13 7-16 13 11 16 13 ll-lb 
ST At NED. 
Oood ordinary. 8t$ I Low Middling.10 8-16 
Strict good ordinary 9J.* | Middling—. .U 3-lb 
Average of futures 
November. 11.550.1 December,11.68c.; January, n.Bfic.; 
February, 12,Ole,; March, 12.16c.; April, 12 . 29 c.; May, 
12.12c.; June. i2,53c,; July, 12 68c.. AugU8t.12.loc.; Sep¬ 
tember, 12.05c. 
Cheese.—T he market still has only a moderate at- 
temlauoe autl pricos do not exceed our Aunt Mites. 
The chief run Is upou line Sept. The homo trade Is 
also using lute markets aud the com petition Is about 
all that supports 18c. All low grades of cheese are 
dull and accumulating. , . 
estate fact’y, fine,Sept, 12^®18c.; good to prime, UH@ 
