'em8 nf llje Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 7, 1S8L 
Th 3 tesl iinouy in the Guiteau trial was con¬ 
cluded on We In »sday, and tho court ad¬ 
journed until to day to give tlie lawyers 
for tho defence time to prepare tli ir law 
points for submission before the making of 
speeches to tbe jury logins. Most of the t>s- 
timony offered ly Mr. Sccville on Wednesday 
was rul'd out by Judge Cox. D). Beard, of 
this city, was called to the stand by Mi. Sco- 
ville, w ho said ho wished to show that in this 
doctor's opinion Guiteau was insane on July 
2, but the Court excluded the testimony. Mr. 
Sco ville asked permission to call several other 
witnes <es, of whose existence he had learned 
sine 3 the case for the defence wa closed, and 
whose testimony would be material on the 
subject of iusanity, but Judge Cox refused to 
admit the testimony. Now the end of the 
farcical trial is in view, and if it shall be 
reached next week the public will be grate¬ 
ful. On New Year’s Day' Guiteau held a re¬ 
ception at Ids “ rooms ” in jail, and about 300 
persons flattered bim with a visit. 
Mr. Scoville has received a bona fide 
proposition from a medical gentleman for the 
body of Charles J. Guiteau. This gentleman 
(whose name Mr. Scoville declines to make 
public at present) has offered to pay imme¬ 
diately $1,000, the amount of the purchase 
money, on condition that he shall have the 
body of the prisoner as soon as the executi on 
of the lasv has been met, to dispose of ab¬ 
solutely as he shall see fit. He also agrees to 
take his chances of waiting one month or 20 
years for the consummation of the bargain on 
Guiteau’s part. This liberal proposition was 
submitted to Guiteau on Friday, and seemed t G 
impress him quite favorably. After reflect¬ 
ing a moment he suggested; "‘1 think I 
ought to bring more than that. Perhaps some 
other fellow will offer $2,000. Then I can pay 
my debts, and if I get a now trial that miser¬ 
able Corkhill can’t bring on a iot of fellows 
just to swear how much I owe them.” 
Boston has contributed about $02,000 to the 
Michigan Relief Fund. New York has given 
over $144,0u0. 
The Fifth regiment, n. g. s. n. y., was dis¬ 
banded on the 0th by order of Adjutant Gen 
eral Townsend, after an existence of 43 years. 
There is a deep foeling of regret and indigna¬ 
tion among both rank and file. 
Navigation on the upper part of the Hudson 
River has closed in consequence of the recent 
severe frost, and the river between Hudson 
and Albany is frozen over. In 1300 the river 
was open till the 19th of January, and during 
the last 100 years navigation has continued 
later than December only eleven times, the 
latest cessation occurring in 1601, when the 
river became unnavigable about the 3d of 
February. The upper portion of the river 
generally closes in December. 
Mr. Vennor has predicted that the first week 
of January will give a dip of 10° or 15° be¬ 
low zero and will last for four days. After 
that tune the weather will moderate to mild¬ 
ness, and from snow to rain. Two other cold 
dips, with mil d weather intervening, will 
probably occur before the end of the month. 
Iowa has 21,596 teachers, only 7,252 of whom 
are men. Their average salary is $31.16 per 
month; that of the female teachers is $20.26. 
Postmaster-General James retired from his 
position on the 4th inst. He leaves the ac¬ 
counts of the Department in a better condi¬ 
tion than they have been for many years. 
The annual sale of pews in Plymouth 
Church, Brooklyn, Tuesday night, realized 
$36,000, a decrease of $4,000. 
Friday last was “ baugman’s day.” Martin 
Kenkowski, who murdered Mina Muller in 
the woods at Guttenberg on the afternoon of 
May 3 last, went to his death on the gallows 
in Jersey City protesting his innocence with 
his last breath. At Marshall, Mo., John A. 
Phelps was hanged for the murder of 
Elijah Keyton, a wealthy farmer, who 
lived near Brownsville, in Saline county, 
on the night of April 23 last. At Elrni a, 
N. Y., tfie banging of Joseph Abbott, 
convicted of killing George Reed, a fellow 
prisoner in the New York State Reformato¬ 
ry, in that city on April 10, 1660, took place. 
At St. Louis two murderers, Joseph Michael 
Kotovsky and Charles Ellis—the later color¬ 
ed—were hanged in jail, the former for the 
murder of Augusta Simons, October 8, I678 ) 
and the latter for the murder of Mack San¬ 
ders; and at Franklin, La., Teneuce Achille 
and Sterling Ben (both colored), were hanged 
for the murder and robbery of L. Armaud on 
the night of July 31 last. The new year opens 
up unusually brisk in this sort of business. 
Nearly 1,000 workmen are employed on the 
new State capitol at Albany, N Y, The 
amount expended on the structure last year 
was $1,190,000. The galleries in the Senate 
chambers have been altered,and a large amount 
of carving has been done. The walls on the 
east front have been carried up and are now 
ready for the iron roof; and the northeast pa¬ 
vilion is now read, for roofing and the iron 
girders for the roof of the front center are 
furnished in part. The legislature and State 
officers are accommodated in one section of 
the building. The cost of the entire structure, 
when finished, will be about $19,000,000. 
There have been many changes and good-sized 
jobs ou tbe building since it was begun. It 
has been a “ bonanza ” for somebody. 
About 3,000 bills and resolves have been 
introduced into Congress. How many are 
useless, and how few will ever be honored 
with a place on the statute books remains to 
be seen. 
Mr. Hewitt, of New York, has offered a 
resolution in Congress reciting the fact that 
the Khedive of Egypt had presented the 
United States the obelisk known as “Cleo¬ 
patra’s Needle,” and tendering to His High¬ 
ness the Khedive the thanks of the people of 
the United States for a gift which only the 
oldest of nations could make and the young¬ 
est could most highly prize, and Mr. Miller 
presented one urging that the proceedings of 
Congress be printed in newspaper form 
weekly, and a copy thereof supplied free to 
every family in the United States. 
Five shipwrecked member? of tho crew of 
the schooner Bird, of Rockland, Me., sustained 
life by cutting the throat and sucking the 
blood of the second mate after his deata. 
Two others also died. 
On the 4th inst. the Legislature of this State 
assembled at Albany, but owing to the near¬ 
ly equal division of both political parties, 
the “unpleasantness” between Tammany and 
the straighout Democrats has prevented the 
organization of the Assembly up to date. 
Prof. J. W. Draper the scientist and au 
ther, died at Hastings-on-the-Hudson on the 
4th inst., aged 71 years. 
The Mrs. Garfield fund statement is a. fol¬ 
lows: 
Total amount received for lids fund to the 
present date, anil paid to the United States 
Trust Company...$301,891. 
Total amount paid by the United States 
Trust Company for $311,000 United States 
four per cent, registered bonds. 361,070 75 
Balance of cash In the hands of the 
Dulled States trust Company. .. $930.97 
The total amount received for General Gar¬ 
field’s mother and paid to her, is $1,120.25. 
-*-*-»-- 
An Almost Magical Effect. 
Report of a Compound Oxygen patient: “ I 
was unable to digest my food on account of 
Chronic Inflammation of the Stomach and 
Torpidity of the Liver. The Treatment had 
an almost magical effect from the first. My 
improvement in strength, appetite, and ability 
to digest my food was indeed wonderful,” 
Treatise on “Compound Oxygen”sent free. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa.— 
Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 7, 1881. 
According to the census returns, the follow¬ 
ing table, compiled by Bradstreet’s, shows the 
wool clip of 1860, by number of fleeces, pounds 
of wool and average weight of fleeces:— 
Alabama. 
Arizona. 
Arkansas. 
California. 
Colorado. 
Connecticut. 
Dakota .. .. 
Delaware. 
Florida. 
Georgia. 
Idaho . 
Illinois. 
indiaua. 
Iowa.. 
Kansas.. 
Kentucky. 
Louisiana. 
Maine. 
Maryland. 
Massachusetts .. 
Michigan. 
Minnesota. 
Mississippi. 
Missouri. 
Montana. 
Nebraska. 
Nevada. 
New Hampshire. 
New Jersey. 
New Mexico. 
New York. 
North Carolina.. 
Ohio. 
Oregon. 
Pennsylvania ... 
Rhode Island- 
South Carolina.. 
Tennessee. 
Texas. 
Utah. 
Vermont. 
Virginia. 
Washington. 
West Virginia.... 
Wisconsin. 
Wyoming.... 
Totals. 
Number of Pounds of 
Average 
weight of 
fleeces. 
wool. 
fleeces. 
347,.VJS 
702,207 
2.19 
70,531 
313,093 
4.09 
210,413 
537,368 
4.25 
4,152,349 
16,798,036 
4.04 
740,443 
3,197,391 
4.28 
59,279 
229,333 
3.86 
30,244 
157,025 
5.19 
21,907 
97,946 
4.45 
58,003 
160,645 
2.87 
527,589 
1,289,560 
2.4-1 
27,320 
127,149 
4.65 
1,037,073 
6,093,066 
0.87 
1,10.1,430 
0,167,019 
5.60 
455,359 
2,971,975 
6.52 
499,071 
2,355,892 
5.71 
1,000,209 
4,592,576 
4.59 
135,0:11 
406,678 
2.99 
505,918 
2,776,407 
4.90 
171,184 
850,(784 
4.96 
07,979 
299,089 
4.39 
2,189,38'J 
11,958,497 
5.41 
207,598 
1,352,124 
5.05 
287,094 
731,643 
2,56 
1,411,298 
7,813,924 
5.18 
184,277 
993,434 
5.40 
199,453 
1,282,656 
6.43 
133,095 
655,012 
4.89 
211,825 
1,060,589 
5.00 
117,020 
441,110 
3.76 
2,088,831 
4,019,188 
1.92 
1,715,180 
8,827,195 
5,14 
461,088 
917,756 
1.98 
4,902,480 
25,003,756 
5.10 
1,083,102 
5,718.521 
5.27 
1,770,598 
8,470,273 
4.76 
17,211 
65,080 
3.81 
118,889 
272,708 
2.29 
072,117 
1,917,268 
alss 
2,111,887 
6,928,129 
2.87 
288,121 
973,246 
4.17 
437,991 
2,548,216 
5.81 
497,289 
1,836,673 
3.69 
292,883. 
1,889,123 
4.74 
074,709 
2,681,444 
3.97 
1,336,807 
7,016,491 
5.24 
140,225 
691,650 
4.93 
35.190.860 
155,580,493 
4.42 
The following items of agricultural news are 
condensed from telegrams received here from 
noon yesterday to noon to-day: Boston, 
Mass.—A very firm feeling in wool; the new 
year opens with a good demand at full prices. 
Sales of the week 3,000,UU0 pounds, including 
large lines of fine fleeces bought to arrive 
from neighboring markets. X and XX Ohio 
and Pennsylvania, 43@45c with an upward 
prospects; from 46@47c now asked for desir¬ 
able lots. Michigan and Wisconsin fleeces 
firm at 42@45c. No. 1 Ohio and Michigan 
have sold for 46(5.48c. Unwashed fleeces firm 
at 25@82>&'c for fine; 25@35c for medium and 
17(«24c for lotv and coarse. Combing und 
delaine scarce and firm at 47@50c. 
Philadelphia, Pa. —The high cost of grain will 
make a difference of 10,000,000 gallons in the 
distillation of whisky for the year 1882: 31,- 
000,000 gallons were distilled iu the United 
States during 1381. Wool market quiet but 
holders are firm. 
Cincinnati, Ohio: Pork packers busy; hogs 
steady and firm; common and light, $5@6.40; 
packing and butchers’, $6.25(^0.62. Wheat 
active and higher; red Winter, $1.40. 
Ch.cago Ill.: Grain market weak and unset¬ 
tled. Receipts of breadstuffs for the week, 
106,610 barrels flour; 201,292 bushels wheat; 
360,448 bushels corn; 292,973 bushels oats, and 
272,442 bushels barley. In I860 the receipts of 
grain were (count j tig flour in bushels of grain) 
165,853,370 bushels, and in 1881 the receipts 
were 151,017,047 bushels—a falling off of 14,- 
838,323 bushels, or about 9 per cent. In 1880 
the shipments were 154,377,115 bushels, and iu 
1881,142,244,506 bushels—a decrease of 12,132,- 
607, or about 8 per cent. Receipts of hogs 
here during the past year have been 25 per 
cent, less than in 1880, though the prices have 
been better. Tbis is due to the vast volume 
of business done by packers in the Summer of 
1680. Iu 1881 the receipts of live stock were 
1,497,994 cattle, 4S,97n calves, 6,470,417 hogs, 
494,032 sheep, aud 12,906 horses. In 1880 the 
receipts were 1,380,194 cattle, 7,049,476 hogs, 
335,228 sheep, and 10,353 horses. Of the hogs 
received in 1881, 5,178,000 were slaughtered 
here. The total value of live stock handled 
in Chicago for the year is $192,500,000. 
Louisville, Ky.: Leaf tobicco firm. Last 
year’s sales were 07,408 hogsheads; stock at 
the close of the year, 4,882 hogsheads. Cotton 
quiet and holders indifferent; buyers’ limits 
are below current quotations.Detroit, 
Mich.: The soft weather last month checked 
travel and the movement of produce, causing 
a scarcity of funds in the interior. Grain 
trade small and entirely speculative. Esti¬ 
mates show that only 9,100,000 bushels of the 
last crop of Michigan, wheat have gone from 
first hands or about 40 per cent, of the yield. 
The receipts of wheat here were 12,887,642 
bushels in 1880, aud 10,007,630 bushels in 1881, 
a decrease in 1881 of 2,S80,006 bushels, or over 
22 per cent.Milwaukee, Wis.: The 
wheat market fairly active, with a slight rise 
in prices. Flour quiet, but firm. Stocks are 
reduced, and millers having contracted ahead, 
but little increase is anticipated. Provisions 
are not specially active, with lower prices on 
certain grades. Of tbe six chief Western 
Lake ports—Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, 
Detroit, Cleveland aud Duluth—this is the 
only one iu which the receipts of breadstuffs 
in 1881 exceeded those of 1880. This exception 
is due to the heavy receipts of flour during 
tbe past year, which raised the total receipts 
of wheat (counting flour in bushels) to 34.811,- 
024 bushels, or 3,761,490 bushels more than iu 
1880. The grain receipts at the above six 
ports from January 1, 1881, to December 10, 
(date of last consolidated report) were 172,- 
238,755 bushels, against 222,771,755 bushels for 
the same time in 1880. The shipments from 
the six ports in 1881 were 150,881,411 bushels, 
against 208,658,793 bushels in 1880. The fall¬ 
ing off in receipts at the six ports was 50,532,- 
822 bushels, or over 22 per cent., and in ship¬ 
ments 43,777,328 bushels, or 23 per cent. At 
Montreal the grain receipts in 1880 were 19,- 
964,408 bushels, and in 1881 they were 15,780,- 
894 bushels, a falling off of 4,177,514 bushels, 
or nearly 22 per cent. The shipments from 
Montreal in 1880 were 21,634,048 bushels, aud 
14,094,826 bushels in 1.881, a decrease of 7,539,- 
223 bushels, or nearly 35 per cent. At Toledo 
the grain receipts (including flour) in 1880 
were 43,213,596 bushels, and in 1881 the i’e- 
ceipts were 30,319,681 bushels, a falling off in 
1881 of 12,898,915 bushels, or nearly 30 per 
cent....._Minneapolis, Minn.: The weather 
throughout the Northwest has greatly im¬ 
proved, except as to lack of snow. The log¬ 
gers report about two-thirds of full work 
being done. Wheat received last week grades 
better than that to hand during the preceding 
week, Market quiet, however, though one- 
half the milling capacity is idle from lack of 
grain. Plenty money in the country. 
San Francisco, Cal : Ocean exports of pro¬ 
duce for December, were value of $7,348,60U— 
the largest on record. Total year’s exports, 
$53,711,460; previous year’s, $34,804,200. Bar¬ 
ley higher, owing to prospect of a dry season. 
. Baltimore, Md.: Demand for flour 
good; receipts ample. A good inquiry for 
Southern wheat, for choice grades especially. 
Receipts small with a tendency to advanced 
prices. An active demand for white corn for 
the Southern ports; markets for Western and 
Southern, firm. Oats a shade firmer. Cotton 
market buoyant, prices about 12) a points high¬ 
er. Provisions firm, with an advance in lard. 
Sirup market strong. Stock of potatoes 
diminishing: market firmer. 
Norfolk, Va.—Two snow storms since New 
Year’s have impeded country travel and pro¬ 
duce movement. Cotton coming in slowly; 
stock on hand still large.Wilmington, 
N. C.—Weather cold. Cotton firmer and in 
good demand. Provisions aud grain steady 
.Nashville, Tenn.—Cotton market quiet 
and inactive. Cattle receipts and demand 
fair. Hog receipts light with demand equal 
to supply.Winnipeg, Manitoba.—W eather 
very mild and pleasant. The recent raising 
of the snow blockade on the Canada Pacific 
Railroad, west, has allowed the marketing of 
large quantities of grain, distributing a great 
deal of money among farmers. 
Hunters may fire the grass on the Cherokee 
strip, on the Kansas line, if they choose—but 
cattle men intend to hang all who do so. 
Harper County, Kansas, claims to have 150,000 
sheep, of which number two-thirds were taken 
to that county within tho last six months.... 
_Texas isa big State, but it seems that some 
cattle men think it too small to hold both cat¬ 
tle and sheep, therefore they make the coun¬ 
try too hot for sheep owners, by burning the 
grass on the range. The number of cattle in 
the State is estimated at nearly 4,500,000- 
_Silk culture in Louisiana has of late be¬ 
come a thriving industry, and to-day prom¬ 
ises an abundant production. The mulberry 
trees have escaped injury by' frost, and the 
silk worms are increasing in quality and num¬ 
bers handsomely.English sparrows 
have thriven so well in South Australia that 
now a Government commission recommends 
a reward for their eggs or heads.... England’s 
25,000,000 of people consume an average of 
20 pounds each of cheese annually; the 50,000,- 
000 people of the States use an average of 
only 5’ 7 pounds each per year.Twenty 
thousand pounds of beef were lately shipped 
from San Antonio, in tbe refrigerator cars of 
the American Refrigerator Transit Company, 
for New York, thence to Paris, France. It is 
the first shipment of the kind ever made, and, 
if it turns out well, a heavy export trade in 
Texas dressed beef is expected. 
E. L. Loweree, Esq., cashier of the Cincin¬ 
nati Southern Railroad, says the Cincinnati 
Enquirer, was cured by St. Jacob’s Oil of a 
stubborn case of rheumatism, which wouldn’t 
yield to physicians’ treatment.—Brooklyn Ea¬ 
gle.—A dr. 
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound 
has rapidly made its way to favor among 
druggists, who have observed its effects on 
the health of their customers. Send to Mrs. 
Lydia E. Pinkliam. 233 Western Avenue, 
Lynn, Mass., for pamphlets.—Ado. 
Nature’s Way. 
Nature often cures disease, but when she 
does, it is always by expelling iu some way or 
other the cause. Kidney-Wort effectually 
aids nature in doing this, and this is w hy it 
performs so many great cures.—Sun.—Ado. 
The People’# World-wide Verdict. 
Burnett’s Cocoaine has been sold in every 
civilized country, and the public have render¬ 
ed the verdict that it is the cheapest and best 
Hair Dressing in the world. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are invariably 
acknowledged the purest and the best.—Ado. 
CLijC Utarkeis. 
SPECIALS FROM THE CHIEF CENTERS. 
Until Saturday, January 7. 
Boston.—Butter. FaLI-made choice North¬ 
ern creamery at34(« 36c per lb. do fair good, 28 
@32c. per lb ; Summer-made creamery at 25@ 
30c. per lb ; dairy lots of Franklin county, Vt., 
31 (it 33c. per pound ;do Fall Vermont, 26@30c. 
per lb ; do Fall New York, 26@30c.pei* lb; 
do New York aud Vermont long dail ies, 23@ 
28c per lb ; do common to fair, 18<* 22c. per 
lb. Western choice fresh made ut 37@40c. 
per lb ; do fair to good, S8(ff 36e. per lb ; choice 
dairy’ packed, 25(g30. per lb ; do common to 
good, 18(a 22c. per lb ; do fair to good, 18@ 
20c. per lb ; do do common. 10<a 17c per lb. 
Cheese. —Choice Northern factory at 12@ 
13 >a'c. per lb ; do fair to good, llfel2}£e. per 
lb ; do half skim; 6(<t9c per lb ; do. skim, 2(55c. 
per lb ; choice Western factory, 12j7(c 13c. 
per pound ; do do fair to good, 10(<U2c. per 
lb ; do do common, 5(t/8c per lb. Worces¬ 
ter county’ choice, 12(513c. per lb ; do good, 
9(5:lie. per lb; do commou, 5(58c. per lb. 
Eggs. —Eastern 29c. per dozen. New 
York and Vermont, 27(529c. per dozen; 
Canada, 27(5 28c, per doz ; Western, 25(5 27c. 
per doz; P. E. Island, 27@28c. per doz; 
Limed, 21(5 22c. per doz : held stock, nominal. 
Feed. —Shorts $18.50(5 19.50 per ton ; Fine 
Feed at $20(a 21 per ton ; and Middlings range 
from $22.50(0(25 per ton. Hay and Straw.— 
Eastern and Northern choice coarse hay at 
