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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 18, 1882. 
After Mr. Conkling declined the Associate 
Judgeship, it was informally tendered to Sen¬ 
ator Geo. F. Edmunds of Vermont, but at the 
urgency of his friends who think there is work 
for him yet in the Senate he refused to allow 
his name to be sent to tbe Senate. On the 
13th inst. Judge Blatchford, of this city, was 
nominated to the position, and he has accepted 
the nomination. John Russell Young, of the 
New York Herald staff, has been nomina¬ 
ted Minister to China, and confirmed by the 
Senate. 
Cuarley Wright, the negro boy, who saved 
three lives at the Park Row fire in this city, 
has received a silver medal from the New 
York Humane Society, and an elegantly de¬ 
signed gold one from a similar society in 
England. Besides these he has received $163 
in cash. A good day for Charley! 
The anti-Cbine 6 e bill has been discussed 
during the past week in the House with con¬ 
siderable energy. Representative Taylor of 
Ohio, tbe successor of Gen. Garfield, opposed 
the bill. He was listened to attentively by 
both sides of the House for over an hour— 
an unusual compliment. 
During the month of February there arrived 
in this country 28,247 emigrants, and nearly 
one-third of them came from Germany. A 
comparison of the number arriving in the 
eight months ending February 28, 1881, with 
the number arriving in the eight months end¬ 
ing Feb. 28, 1882, shows an increase of about 
70,000 in the eight months just ended. The 
number of immigrants from Ireland has de¬ 
creased, and also the number from Canada, 
which has fallen from 78,500 to 51,600. The 
number from England and Wales has in¬ 
creased 88 per cent., and the number from 
Germany 50 per cent., the number from 
Norway and Sweden about 43 per cent., and 
the number of Chinese immigrants has risen 
from 3,517 to 15,486. 
Ex-President R. B. Hayes is President of 
the Fremont Savings Bank Company just 
organized at Fremont, Ohio, with a capital of 
$50,000. 
It takes 9,703 officials to carry on the city 
government of New York, and their salaries 
foot up over $10,450,000 a year. 
The forest fires in Michigan last Fall, like 
the floods on the Mississippi this Spring, did 
a vast amount of damage, and the Michigan 
Legislature has just appropriated $255,000 for 
their further relief. 
Commissioner Dudley says that he will re¬ 
quire $ 100 , 000,000 to pay the pensions to sol¬ 
diers whose claims are to be adjusted during 
the next year. 
Fitz John Porter’s back pay, if he is rein¬ 
stated in the army, will amount to $115,000. 
The House Committee on Railroads and Ca¬ 
nals agreed to the bill for the construction of 
a canal from the Mississippi to the Illinois 
River. The measure appropriates $ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
For the improvement of the Missouri River, 
so as to make it navigable from Sioux City to 
St. Louis, $8,000,000 is tusked of Congress. The 
territory which would be benefited by this 
improvement contains 520,000 square miles, or 
330,000,000 acres, a territory eight times larger 
than tbe entire six New England States, and 
twelve times the size of the State of New 
York. Scarcely one-tenth of it is cultivated, 
and yet it has a population of 5,000,000, and 
assessed valuation (on real aud personal pro¬ 
perty) of over $ 1 , 200 , 000 , 000 . 
Mr. Hodge, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in¬ 
troduced a joint resolution in the House on 
the 14th, requesting President Arthur to par¬ 
don Sergt. Mason and restore him to the rank 
he formerly held in the Army. The resolution 
passed both houses with few dissenting votes. 
Mr. Alvord has introduced a bill into the 
Legislature of this State reserving a certain 
tract of land in the Adirondack s for a public 
forest, free to all persons, for the purpose of 
bunting, fishing, and camping, to be called 
the Adirondack Forest, and authorizing the 
Governor, Comptroller, and superintendent 
of the Adirondack survey to cause the hounds 
of said forest to be marked by a well-defined 
line and monuments, and to report to the next 
Legislature. 
The Mississippi House of Representatives 
has passed a bill to prevent the sale of tobacco 
to minors without an order from their parents 
or guardians. 
The Executive Committee of the New York 
•State Agricultural Society have selected Utica 
as the place where the annual fair of tbe 
society sha 1 be held, and Sept. 25 to 29, inclu¬ 
sive, as the days, a later time than usual. 
The dates were selected at tbe request of the 
dairy and hop growing interest of Central 
New York. 
Mr. Van Voorhis has introduced into Con¬ 
gress a bill to regulate immigration. It pro¬ 
vides, among other thiugs, that the masters of 
ships shall pay one dollar lor each immigrant 
brought to this couutry, the money to be paid 
into the Treasury for an immigrant fund. 
A Livingston County man has bought and 
shipped over two tons of skunk skins this 
Wmter. 
Nelson Gardner, treasurer of the Baptist 
church of Plainfield, N. J., has committed 
suicide. He left a letter stating that he had 
.stolen uud used *one $3,000 of the church 
money, and killed himself in consequence. 
A man who is said to be insane attempted 
to kill Dr. Gray, Superintendent of the State 
Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y. on the 15th, 
in the latter’s office by shooting him. The 
ball passed through the Doctor’s left cheek. 
Dr. Gray was one of the expert witnesses in 
the Guiteau trial. 
A Case ,l Given Over to Die.” 
The following report of a case in which, to 
all appearances, the patient was beyond the 
reach of curative agencies, is one among the 
many surprising results which are continually 
attending the use of Compound Oxygen:— 
* • The last Home Treatment that 1 ordered 
from you,” (writes a physician in Vermont 
“ was for Mrs -. She was given over to 
die by her old physician (who had treated her 
for twenty-two years) and friends. 1 was 
called to see her when she could uot speak a 
loud word, or lift her head from the pil¬ 
low; could take no food except a little beef- 
tea. 1 sent to you for a Home Treatment cf 
Oxygen and your advice. She has been 
steadily improving; she is around the house 
seeing to her household affairs. Her neighbors 
say that if she gees well there is no use of any 
one’s dying." Treatiseon Compound Oxygen, 
sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and 
1111 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 18, 1882. 
Tbe following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received in this 
city within the last 24 hours:—Boston, Mass.; 
wool market steady but sluggish during the 
week: sales, 2,150,000 pounds, including all 
sorts: manufacturers buying only as they 
need, and apparently determined to adhere to 
this policy. There was a break in prices about 
this time last year and the year before, and 
many expect one this year; in which case 
there is likely to be a sharp advance towards 
the end of the year’s clip. In comparison with 
stocks on hand all over the couutry at this 
time for the two last years, the present sup¬ 
ply everywhere is small; foreign supplies, too, 
are light; holders are firm, and the condition 
of the market is better than at this season in 
either of the years mentioned. It is likely 
therefore that prices of wool will not go down 
much, if at all.Philadelphia, Pa.: Wool 
weak and very dull: cotton % cent higher. 
Breadstuffs are moving fairly for home con¬ 
sumption, but there are hardly any exports. 
Flour has advanced 25c. per barrel in sym- 
pathy with the advance in wheat. Hog pro¬ 
ducts have all advanced slightly, reflecting the 
movement in Chicago.Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Trouble from high water practically over. 
Cotton very firm. Grain has a strong upward 
tendency, especially corn, which closed Friday 
at 68 %c. for mixed and 80c. for No. 2. Hogs 
steady aud firm... 
The Chicago, 111.: Speculative interests in 
breadstuffs have completely controlled the 
market during the past week. April wheat is 
“cornered" by a clique of speculators, who 
have bought enough of it to control the mar¬ 
ket and they are forcing the “shorts" (other 
speculators who have sold April wheat which 
they hadn’t) to pay smartly for their confi¬ 
dence in a tumble in prices. There is a strong 
impression that May and June wheat too is 
“cornered" by the same clique. Price of No. 
2 Chicago Spring wheat has advanced 4c. per 
bushel during the week and other grades have 
followed suit; com is from 4c. to 5c. higher 
than a week ago. The comparatively light 
deliveries of grain at interior points; the con¬ 
tinued diminution of the visible supplies and 
an important decrease in the quantity of grain 
“ on passage” from all sources to the United 
Kingdom and tbe continent, are being urged 
as indications of a much higher range of prices 
in the near future. Market quotations on 
"futures,” however, arc lower than such an 
opinion would warrant 
VISIBLE SUrriJES OF GRAIN. 
Latest Preced’g Cor’sp'd'g 
dates, week. week '81, 
bush. bush. bush. 
Wheat. 14.453,313 16,118.519 23,383,090 
Corn.12,928,173 14,200,419 14,757,951 
Oats. 2,022,885 2,288,241 S,464,688 
Rye. 1 ,901,706 1,160,086 6’6,691 
Barley. 1,869,808 2,848,360 2,402,049 
A further and sweeping reduction is thus 
shown in the aggregate visible supply of grain 
—in that of wheat of as much as 1,660,176 
bushels: in that of corn of 1,272,046 bushels, 
and in that of oats of 260,326 bushels. The 
visible supply of wheat was up to 21,252,578 
bushels November 5, 1881; of corn, as high as 
28,120,876 bushels on October 8 , and of oats, 
as much as 6,468,050 bushels on October 1, 
1881. 
Detroit, Mich.: Owing to bad roads there 
is much difficulty hi marketing farm produce, 
hence merchants find collections slow and 
backward. A large amount of capital is in¬ 
vested in lumber and grain speculations. 
Wheat is being shipped freely; stocks are re¬ 
duced 390,000 bushels while receipts hardly 
average five cars daily. Wheat No. 1. white, 
$1 27%c. cash; April and May, $1 28; June, 
$1 20 ) 4 ; July, $1 23)4; August, $1 10 %. Log¬ 
ging has practically ceased in the woods of 
Michigan; 75 per cent of the projected log 
crop has been cut.St. Louis, Mo.; 
Tobacco market steadily improving; good new 
burley loaf brings $14. Cattle receipts re¬ 
markably light; demand greatly exceeding 
supply and an advance of %c. °n grades. 
Horse and mule market weakened by loss of 
Southern orders consequent on the flood N>. 
2. red fall wheat, $1 37)4, cash; $1 2 8}-g, April; 
$128, May; $1 20%, June; $109%, July. 
Corn higher but slow at 66 c., cash; 67%c. 
May.Kansas, City, Mo.: The wheat 
crop in this section of Missouri and in Kansas 
is reported in excellent condition—never more 
promising at this season. The cattle market 
maintains the improved tone of last week. 
Hogs active at an advauce of 5c.@10c. 
Milwaukee, Wis.: Weather against free out¬ 
door movement, having turned wet, much to 
the injury of couutry roads. In wheat 
there has been a rise of lc. per bushel for May 
options over April, and June has been 
14 c. under April. Demand liberal. Mill 
stuffs scarce and ad vancing. No. 2. Milwau¬ 
kee hard wheat $1 39)4; do. &0 % 28, cash; 
$1 20 ) 4 , April; $127%, May; $1 26%. June. 
Corn higher, No. 2. 66 c. O ts higher and 
active: No. 2 , 43c... 
Indianapolis, Ind.: Prospects good for a 
large wheat crop in this State. Fruit, too, 
promises well.Evansville, Ind.: Farm¬ 
ers actively preparing for Spring work. 
Louisville, Ky.: Grain receipts light; stocks 
of corn hardly equal to the demand. An ad¬ 
vance of 5@6c. during the week on corn, and 
2c. on oats. Wheat still very dull, as flour is 
being delivered here from other points at less 
than the cost of manufacture were. Large 
sales and brisk trade in all grades of leaf 
tobacco, with fairly liberal receipts. Common 
dark lugs have advanced %@%e. per pound. 
Other dark shipping grades are well sustained; 
offerings of old tobaccos very light, while 
hurleys continue active and supply of medium 
grades is scant. Cotton in strong demand at 
34 (g) 4 c. advance... 
San Francisco, Cal.: A much better feeling 
through the State since the heavy rains be¬ 
gan. Cash market for barley and oats lower. 
Best shipping wheat, $1.60 per cental. There 
have been 1,800 tons of corn imported from 
Chicago. More is expected from Nebraska. 
Crop prospects favorable. From present in¬ 
dications the wheat yield will equal last year’s. 
Owing to the long, dry spell farmers stopped 
seeding through the San Joaquin Valley, 
so that the area planted there is about one- 
fifth less than last year’s acreage; but an 
average crop is certain throughout the valley. 
Should late Spring showers fall, which appeal s 
probable, a heavy crop will be assured in all 
parts of California. Cattle feed abundant. 
The season fovored farm work in Oregon and 
W ashmgton Territory and all advices thence 
speak confidently of a greatly increased yield 
next harvest...... 
Baltimore, Md.: Weather unsettled with 
heavy snow in the latter part of the week. 
Wheat held firm, and priceH huve an upward 
tendency. Indications in the tobacco market 
point to a larger business soon. Maryland 
grades quoted a little higher. Wool market 
quiet........Norfolk, Va.: The cold suup is 
retarding operations of truck farmers. No 
damage yet to crops. Cotton market firmer: 
middling ll%e.Savannah, Ga.: Have 
had rain; but sultry now. An active demand 
for rice. Cotton market has a better feeling 
owing to an advunec in Liverpool. Prices 
have an upward tendency.Augusta, 
Ga.: Cotton receipts light: demand better anil 
sales double those of last week. Since Septem¬ 
ber 1, receipts have been nearly 40,000 bales. 
Weather favorable and farmers busy pre¬ 
paring for corn and cotton planting. Sales 
at fertilizers considerably lighter than last 
year.Minneapolis, Minn.: Weather 
cold and stormy during the week with some 
snow. No Spring work is yet being done by 
farmers. But little movement of wheat, and 
little to come forward. Bad country roads 
are reducing wagon receipts of produce. 
Market steady. Two thirds of the mills of 
the city and eouutiy flouriug mills are idle. 
Lumbermen have a full stock of logs. Mills 
will begin Cutting as 800)1 as the ice is out of 
the river. The Mississippi is open below St. 
Paul. A large number of immigrants are 
arriving daily and being forwarded to the 
Northwest—chiefly Northwestern Minnesota 
and Northern Dakota.Omaha, Neb.: 
Pleasant. Spring weather continues. Collec¬ 
tions only fairish in country places; will not 
improve uutil Spring fuirly opens. Agricul¬ 
tural implement business very active. 
New Orleans, La.: The disastrous overflow 
extern ling Over some 35 of the most fertile 
parishes of this State, causes general gloom 
among business men in this city and planters 
throughout the country. Most of the best 
cotton and sugar land In the State is from five* 
to ten feet underwater, and it is doubtful 
whether the flood will have dried off in time 
for any kind of crops. The disaster will set 
this State back some years. Several crevasses 
have just occurred in the levees just below and 
above this city, all originating in crawfish 
holes through the embankments. No danger 
of flooding the cltv, as the water will find its 
way into the adjacent, lakes and bayous. 
Cotton firm: Middling. 13c.: low middling, 
1 l%c.; good ordinary, 1 1 %c. .Memphis, 
Tenn.: Receipts of cotton very light, with a 
fair demand at stead}- prices. Floods engross 
public attention. River here now (Friday ev¬ 
ening) marks 34 feet 4 inches above low wa¬ 
ter mark; now at a standstill, but it may rise 
agaiu. Tho charity of tbe Government alone 
can save thousands from starvation in the 
submerged region. Southern advices tell of 
four crevasses at Millikun’s Bend. A large 
number of other breaks are also announced 
which must cause the flooding of all the Lou¬ 
isiana low lauds that are not already unde 
water. 
Vast merit is inherent in St. Jacobs Oil, and 
we heartily recommend it to our readers.— 
Chicago (111.) Western Catholic.— Adv. 
The first need of a boy, and the constant 
need of every man is a good knife. Country 
stores are full of nice-looking ones, but they 
are made only to sell. Maher & Grosh, of 
Toledo, Ohio, concluded it would pay to make 
an old-fashioned knife that would cut, and 
those of our readers who want that kind of a 
knife will find it to their[ad vantage to send for 
and to look through Maher & Grosh’s illus¬ 
trated list.— Adv. 
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cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” 15c. per 
box.— Adv. 
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233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for pam¬ 
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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 invaria¬ 
bly acknowledged the purest and the best.— 
Adv. 
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SPECIALS FROM THE CHIEF CENTERS. 
Chicago. Wheat unsettled, but generally 
higher; No. 2 Chicago Spring, $1 32%@$1 33, 
cask and March: $1 32jR(ft1 33, April; $1 27%@ 
$1 27%, May: $1 26%, June; $1 23%, July ;'No. 
3 do., $1 08@ $1 08% ; Rejected, 80c.@85c. 
CORN fairly active and a shade higher; regular, 
62%c.; fresh, 65c., cash; 63%c., March; (53 34 c., 
April; 67 % c. O' 67%<?. ,Ma.y; 67 %C., J une; 67%c., 
July, Oats easier at 42o.@-hc„ cash; 42Lc., 
April; 45e., May; 44c., June; 41o., July. Rye 
steady at 83c. 4084c. BARLEY easier at $1@ 
$1 02. Flax-seed steady; good to choice, 
$1 22(0'$ 1 28. Pork active, at $17 25c., cash; 
$17 20(5$17 25, March; $17 0O@$17 22k, April; 
$17 40(a/$17 43%, May; $17 60(d*17 62%, June; 
$17 82<a$17 82)4, July. Lard steady, with a 
fair demand, at $10 65@$10 67%, cash; 10 67% 
@$10 70, April; $10 85(a $10 87%, May; 10 95@ 
$10 97)4, June; $11 05@$1107%, July. Bulk- 
meats easier; Shoulders, $6 50: Short Rib, 
$9 70; Short Clear, $9 85. Hogs market 
active and steady; common to good mixed, 
$8 20@*6 70; heavy packing and shipping, 
$0 75 (a $7 25; Philadelphia*ana larders, $7 30@ 
$7 Id; light, $6 30@$0 75; skips and culls, $4@ 
$0 90. Cattle market strong and active; no 
extra here; exports, $6 30«/$6 55; good to 
Choice shipping, $5 65@$6 10; common to fair, 
$5 25@$5 50; mixed butchers’ steady at $2 50@ 
$5 50, mainly $3 25(4 $4; stockers and feeders 
plenty; common aud light stock weuk at $3@ 
$5 20. Sheep market.strong and more active; 
better demand for Eastern; common to medi¬ 
um, $4 90@$5 SO; good to choice. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
# Nkw York, Saturday, March 18,1882. 
Beans and Pkas.— State beans, medium and mar¬ 
row. have not recovered from their recent heaviness. 
Sellers do not look for much attention until choice 
fo.elKfl are out <,f the way; few of the lutter now 
worth 8:-;.25. Fancy beans continue quiet- Greeu peas 
weak and easy. Southern B. K. not much asked for. 
Beaus marrow, prime, 83,8fl@:i.95;;ftttr to good, $3.50 
@3.75; medium, choice, $.s.35<,iti3.45; fair to good, $3.i 0<a 
8.25; pea, choice, #S.40cvp3.40; fair to good, 8-io>@3.30; 
white kidney, choice, $3.a5@3 90; fair to good, $3.60® 
