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SS’nus iff tijc TOetk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 25, 1882. 
Longfellow is dead! At 3:15 on the after- 
noon of the 24th ult., the church bells of Cam¬ 
bridge anuounced the solemn fact that the 
poet’s spirit had taken its flight to the un¬ 
known land. He was taken dangerously ill 
ou Monday last with inflammation of the 
bowels, but by the middle of t he week it was 
thought the crisis had been passed. On Fri¬ 
day, however, he had a relapse from which 
he never recovered. He passed away sur¬ 
rounded by a small circle composed of his 
family and a few intimate friends. The 
poet was born at Portland, Maine, February 
27, 1807. Entered Bowdoin College in 1821, 
graduating in 1825. His literary career began in 
boyhood, seven of his best poems being writ¬ 
ten before he was 19 years of age. With his 
later life and work, the world is familiar, 
and the story needs no repetition here. One 
has said “His passing away is tbe end of a 
beautiful song that has had no false note in 
it.” 
Eleven thousand eight hundred dollars pay 
the yearly salaries of all the New England 
Governors, and the Governor of Massachusetts 
gets $5,<X>0 of it. The Governor of New 
Hampshire receives only $800, 
The Lower House of tbe Massachusetts 
Legislature passed the bill permitting women 
to practice as attorney at law. 
President Arthur has disapproved the find¬ 
ings in the Cadet Whittaker case, by which 
Whittaker was sentenced to “be dishonor¬ 
ably dismissed fr-mi the military service 
of the United States and to pay a fine of $1, 
and to be thereafter confined at hard labor for 
one year in such penitentiary as the reviewing 
authority may direct." The President says 
that certain papers were improperly admitted 
in evidence, and that there is in that respect 
error in the proceedings of the court in relation 
to a material issue, the foregoing proceedings 
and sentence are disapproved, and it is ordered 
that Cadet Whittaker be released from arrest, 
Another railroad horror occurred on the 
21st, ult. at Sweet Briar Station, near Bis- 
mark, D. T. A train loaded with workmen, 
plunged through a bridge and eight were in- 
gtant'y killed and 22 injured. 
The Mississippi waters are subsiding gradu¬ 
ally and the crevasses in some of the levees 
are being closed up, i he suffering, however, is 
still great and there is much need of assistance. 
If the annual June rise is not serious, there is 
yet hope that the land may be put in condition 
to raise some crops, though, of course, they 
cannot be more than a small average of what 
they would have been if their had been no 
flood. 
The Grand Jury have decided not to indict 
Mr. O. B. Potter, the owner of the old World 
Building, the burning of which a short time 
ago was the occasion of such great loss of life 
in this city. 
Nearly 4,000 im nigrants arrived at Castle 
Garden, this city on the 22d, ult. 
Ex-President Grant and wife were guests at 
the White House last week and the President 
gave thorn an elaborate dinner which was 
attended by several “big bugs" of tbe capital. 
The postal mails are becoming so heavy be¬ 
tween New York and Syracuse that five of the 
trains are “ worked ” complete on this route. 
Matter has to be carried west and east to clear 
it out. Postal officials say they cannot imag¬ 
ine where all the mail comes from. 
Fifty officers and teachers of the Chinese 
Sunday-school in Chicago have sent a petition 
to the President to veto the Chinese bill. 
The first Connecticut River shad of the sea¬ 
son was caught last Monday afternoon. It 
weighed 5% pounds, and w as sold for $5.25. 
Gov. Jerome of Michigan has issued a card 
of thanks to the public who so kindly aided 
the sufferers by the recent forest fires, and 
says that the need of individual assistance is 
APRIL 4 
n ow happily ended. Contributions at the 
present time have been equal to the earlier 
and most pressing necessities, and the State 
has made provision for the future. 
After a debate of over three hours the Free 
Canal resolution was adopted in the New 
York Assembly on the 23rd ult., by a vote of 
74 to 44. The resolution was also the special 
order in the Senate, but, because of tbe ab¬ 
sence of four or five Senators, its considers 
tion was postponed until next Wednesday. 
T here seems no doubt that it will secure a no 
less decisive majority in the Senate than in 
the House, and the question will thus be submit 
ted to tbe people at the next election. 
The Anti-Chinese bill passed the house on 
23d ult., by a vote of 167 to 65. It will now- 
go to the President for his approval or disap¬ 
proval, It is thought he will veto it on the 
ground that it violates the treaty made with 
China last year which allows suspension of im¬ 
migration but not prohibition,and that to sus¬ 
pend it for 20 years is, in fact, a violation of 
the intention of the treaty. If the suspension 
had been for 10 years instead of 20, the bill 
might have passed almost unanimously. 
A steam tug’s boiler exploded at Pier 8> 
Philadelphia, on the 2Sd ult., killing four men 
and injuring others. Much damage was done 
to the piers by fire. Tbe body of Geo. Scully, 
captain of the tug, was blown a block away-, 
over a row- of warehouses and against a brick 
wall. He lived for half an hour after being 
picked up. Too much cold water on an 
empty heated boiler is said to be the cause of 
the catastrophe. 
Another International rifle match will take 
place at Creedmoor, near this city, next Fall. 
The representatives of tbe various States and 
Territories are to meet at Creedmoor on Au¬ 
gust 15, 16, 17 and 18, to •ompete for positions 
in the team, subsistence being furnished them 
on the ground during the four days. The 
American team have agreed to shoot a return 
match in 1883 on English ground, if the 
Britishers would come here this year. 
Ex Governor E. D. Morgan, of New York, 
has given $80,000 to Williams College, Mass., 
for the purpose of building a new dormitory. 
An accident occurred on the 17tb, on the 
Cleveland and Marietta Railroad, in Ohio, by 
which thirteen passengers were injured, three 
of whom were subsequently reported to have 
died. 
The total losses by fire in the United States 
last year aggregated $81,280,900, of which the 
insurance companies paid $44,641,901). 
The area of the portion of Dukotn of which 
it is proposed to form a State, is about 80,000 
square miles, or 14,000 more than the total 
area of the six New England States. 
Governor Farnham, of Vermont, has ap¬ 
pointed April 7, Good Friday, as a day of fast¬ 
ing, humiliation, and prayer in that State. 
-- 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 25, 1882. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are greatly condensed from a large number of 
telegrams received here within the last 24 
hours:. 
Boston, Mass. As hinted at here last week 
there has been a break in prices of wool owing 
to the impatience of those who consigned the 
product to commission houses. The latter 
therefore have sold at about one cent per 
pound less than the price at the beginning of 
the month, and it seems likely that the decline 
that occurred at this time last year and the 
year before, will be repeated this year. There 
is a strong impression, however, that those who 
bold their wool will get better figures before 
the new clip comes into market. 
Philadilihia, Pa. Speculative excite 
ment and fluctuations in grain are a serious 
drawback to legitimate business. All “op¬ 
tions” of last wheat crop are controlled by 
cliques in New York and Chicago, and the 
“shorts” have been covering contracts at 
steadily advancing prices until Thursday 
when the “bull” movement received a tempo¬ 
rary set back from realizations here and in 
all markets. Flour has gone up another 25c. 
per barrel. Southern farm products in large 
supply. There has been a decline of one 
cent in wool owing to pressure to sell chiefly 
among commission houses. The concession 
has increased sales considerably. Cotton un¬ 
changed............. .... 
Cincinnati, Ohio. An unprecedented rain 
early in the week in southern Ohio and Indiana 
caused a temporary check in all country busi¬ 
ness, as traffic was suspended on the highways 
and railroads. Overflow on small streams 
did much danger. Grain remarkably active 
with a sharp advance in wheat, corn and oats. 
Large local demand keeps prices above ship¬ 
ping rates. Hog products fluctuating with a 
downward tendency. Hogs slightly advanced 
in price. Wheat, No. 2, Red Winter, $l,85(g! 
$1,353^. Corn, No, 2, mixed 71%@72c. Oats, 
No. 2, mixed, 52c. 
Louisville, Ky. : Grain trade reduced ow¬ 
ing to damaged condition of shipments. 
Flour active. Stock decreasing and prices 
hardening. Heavy trading in imported 
Scotch potatoes as well as seed varieties. Leaf 
tobacco market very active and stronger. 
Lugs advanced another %c. Cotton trade 
good at full prices. Wheat—No. 2 Red Win¬ 
ter, $1.85<§;1.38. Corn, No. 2 white, 79@80c.; 
No. 2 mixed, 72@72}^c... 
Detroit, Mich, Navigation on lakes isjopen. 
Receipts of grain light; shipments heavier. 
Supply of wheat in this State is small, and 
interior millers in Michigan, Ohio, and Indi¬ 
ana are inquiring here for supplies. Wheat, 
No. 2 White, $1.32 Corn, No. 2,71c. Clover, 
seed, $4.S0 for prime. Milwaukee. 
Prices of wheat receding lc. @ l)-7e. under a 
desire to realize. Advices from Winter wheat 
favorable. Wheat, No. 2, Milwaukee hard, 
$1.42)^; do. soft, $1.30. Corn, No. 2,43c.; 
White, 4Sc. Rye scarce at 85}£c. for No. 1. 
Barley, Spring, fresh, 91c. bid..... 
Chicago, III. Wheat has again advanced 
sharply. No. 2, Chicago Spring being 2%@ 
3Jijc. higher than a week m go and other grades 
proportionally. Winter wheats have been 
specially active. Corn in warehouses has in¬ 
creased; but prices have advanced lc. within 
the week. A few days since the weevil was 
reported in corn in one elevator and corn 
straightway advanced c. per bushel; when it 
was known that there was little damage, corn 
settled back to the old price. Since the close 
of last October this city has shipped of meats, 
(hams, shoulders, sides) 313,230,550 pounds, 
against 426,026,450 pounds same time in the 
preceding packing season; also for tbe past 
week sending forward 3,221,250 pounds lard 
and 3,600 barrels pork, against, in tbe same 
week last year, 118,840,400 pounds lard and 
5,348 barrels pork. Wheat No. 2, Chicago 
Spring, $1 S534'@$l 35)^. Corn, 63c.@66c. 
Oats, 42c @44}^. Flax-seed, $1 30@$1 35. 
St. Louis, Mo.: Land in this section is in ex¬ 
cellent condition and plowing is in progress. 
Growing wheat unusually fine. Reports from 
nearly all the Winter-wheat region in the 
West are equally favorable. Wheat has ad¬ 
vanced about 4j'iC. per bushel, and corn over 
lc. Graiu market fluctuating; receipts fight. 
Provisionsadvareing. Tobacco market strong; 
sales large. Cotton steady on a basis of 11 J„'e. 
for middling—about 53,000 bales on hand 
against 60,000 same times last year. Live 
stock supply and receipts extremely small, 
and prices are advancing 10c. to 25c. a da\ on 
cattle, according to grade: 1,500-pound steers 
bring $7 per cwt No late rains; 1 iver in nor¬ 
mal stage. 
Preparing for Death. 
FACIAL SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DISTRESS 
—PALE, HAGGARD AND SICKLY COMPLEXIONS 
The penalties inflicted by the perversion of 
natural laws, through irregularities in every¬ 
day habits, abuses of food, drugs, and drink, 
loss of rest, grief, mental anxiety, and physi¬ 
cal inactivity are depicted in the faces of 
thousands. They are manifested and visible 
to all observers iu pale, haggard, and sickly 
complexions, blue and dark discolorations 
and circles about the eyes, hypochondriacal 
characteristics, including nervousness, timid¬ 
ity, lretfulness, drowsiness, irritable temper, 
and other abnormal conditions w hich unfit their 
subjects for business or agreeable associations. 
Such a state of things is directly traceable to 
stoppages and cloggings of the abdominal 
viscera with unwholesome and irritating se¬ 
cretions, which, if allowed to remain iu the 
system are transmitted by absorption into the 
circulation, aud thence to every part of tbe 
body, acting as a blood poison and producing a 
multiplicity of disorders which seriously in¬ 
terrupt nature’s forces. This condition of the 
system is known as eostivenoss, the most p> ev¬ 
ident of all ailments,especially among females, 
aud the source of more misery und death in 
the form of nervous, painful, and functional 
diseases than all other predisposing causes 
combined. Though not immediately urgent 
or fatal in its ordinary forms, oustipation, 
by its insidious and undermining effects upon 
the system—which are little apprehended and 
less understood—places in jeopardy the health 
and fife of all its subjects, who, through 
carelessness, ignorance, or indifference, neg¬ 
lect to obey its Bignals for relief. Hundreds 
of thousands are unconsciously preparing for 
death by such neglect. As many more go to 
premature graves annually from diseases un¬ 
der different names traceable to this one ex¬ 
citing cause. The picture is not overdrawn ; 
physicians, statistics, and medical text-books 
affirm it. A costive habit of body is trouble¬ 
some, intractable, and baneful iu its effects 
and results. The remedy is simple, harmless 
palatable, efficient and economial. Simple, 
because composed of nature’s products, with¬ 
out any taste of medicine. Harmless, inso¬ 
much as a child can take it with the same 
freedom as an adult. Palatable, owing to its 
comparison in taste to a relishable bit of fruit 
or a bonbon. Efficient, for the reliance 
which can be placed on it for positive cathar¬ 
tic effects, and economical because cheaper 
than pills and purgative potions of every 
name and description. Prepared in highly 
concentrated form from rare tropical fruits 
and plants, its cathartic dose is smaller in 
bulk than that of pills and disagreeable med¬ 
icines. Tropic-Fruit Laxative, recently re¬ 
vised and highly improved, is the only prep¬ 
aration ever produced answering the above de¬ 
scriptions. A single trial will verify the ac¬ 
curacy of all claims made for it. The new 
kind is to bo bad in twenty five cent boxes 
only, with the word “ Revised” printed over 
trade mark on label. Boxes thus designated 
contain 50 per cent, more lozenges than given 
heretofore. This elegant fruit preparation 
is far removed from the commonplace ; noth¬ 
ing like it or approaching it has been offered 
sinco the beginning of time. Mankind and 
womankind the world over will welcome its 
discovery and advent into the healing world, 
both for the succor it aJTords from dangerous 
bodily ills and the freedom it holds out against 
bondage to pernicious and unwholesome 
drugs.— Adv. 
VI) c f-tWluls. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, March 25.1882. 
Beans and Peas.— The better marks of German 
beans have been pretty well drawn upon and a 
steadier business In noted In State. Prices, however, 
for the latter continue tame aud Keller* are willing 
to release be*t murk* of white at the rated annexed. 
Red beau*quiet; sales make little Impression on the 
stock. Peas <>1 all kinds weaker 
Beans marrow, prime, fair to good, $3.50 
@3.73; medium, choice, SU.lUSlh&'i; fair u> good, $3.10® 
8JJ5; pea, choice, #ASr>@3.45; Tnlr to good. $3.0tf@ti.3(J; 
white kidney, choice, KTrtifi Sl>: fair to good. $3.90® 
3.75 red kidney, choice, #'2.8U@2,85: fair to good, $2.40® 
2.75; turtle soup, $1.7i@1.83; German in bags, prime, 
$2.75643 l.V. California Lima, $4.50. 
Peas, green, prime, $I.40@1.45; poor to good, $1.00 
@1.25: Southern b. e.. per 2-bu, bag, $4.00. 
Receipts lor the week, 2,710 bushels. 
Exports do, 370 pkgs. 
Breadstuff# and Provisions,— Closing prices; 
Price* of flour, meal and feed.—Flour, No. 2, 
^ bbL #3.00,48 li’,. State and Western, nuperhne, $4 2o 
@4 65; city mills XX. $6.'.tHjg7.IKI; Bprtm» wheat, extra. 
$4 spring XX and .XXX’, *5.H.I@7.U0: patents, 
#6.75@8.50; Ohio, round hoop, shipping. $4.85@V25 do. 
trade brands. $5.25*6 JO. fit. Louis extra, $UJV3A25; 
do. double extra. ?'•. * i: do. family, $6.Njfj»7.50; 
Minnesota clear and straight*, $5.80@7.»i; Southern 
extra shipping, XX and family, #t>.in@7.75. 
Rye flour, auperilne. #t.25@l.85. Corn meal. Brandy¬ 
wine $8.7i*iidl. 1 5: Western. $3.35<.<63.70. Buckwheat 
(lour, V 1 it tt.*.#1.9 Wheat teed, 40 n>» IF ton, 
$23.00:524.1X1; 01 ms V ton, 0<>; UX) Os « ton 
$34.00^8.00. Rye feed, 433.5tbiW.OO. 
Price* of grain.—Wheat, No. 2 Spring, $1.30® 1.35: 
Spring, $1.10561.40. red Winter "No. 2, $1 i'@t.4J; red 
Winter, $l.lj@!.4ti; white Western and Stunt $1.35® 
1.45. Rye, 9*393c. Oats, white No. 1 58c : No.2 5614c. 
No. 3( Vk.’.; mixed, No. 1, Me.; No. 2. 53$33Mc.; 
No. 3. 52V>c. Corn. Western, mixed, 55J>77yje.; do. No. 
2, 75U.'&"ri5£r.; white Western. h0@t*X\; new yellow, 
Southern, SX3.S7C.; white Southern, yellow 
Western, 7T«Sbe. Barley, Canada, No. 1, $1.15; 
do. "bright, -1 $1.16; State, 4-rowed, $1.IB® 1.07; do. 
2 rowed, 90.0:5(1. Barley malt. State, 2 rowed, $1.0216 
@1.07: do. 4-rowed, $1.10@1.15; do. Canada. #1.23641.35 
Receipts for the week, wheat, 30,1*10 bush.; corn, 
43,820 uo.; oats, 306,656 do.; rye, 4,350 do.; malt, 
83,344 do.; barley. 97,950 do.; flour, 91,255 bids.; corn 
meal, 2,083 do. 
Exports for thn week, flour,5S,490bbls.; corn meal, 
2,368 do.; wheat, 44,042 bush.; corn, 833,70) do.; oats. 
2,104 do. 
Butter. The higher quotations for solid packed 
are for new. A little old Is held for Southern orders. 
Fresh made Is now the feature of the market. Sup¬ 
plies are moderate and used up promptly. This Is 
all that keeps prices In the close ranges noted. If 
Spring hutter become* plenty enough to be curried 
over a day or two rate* run down pretty quickly for 
State. New packers for market should aim to keep 
even color and also to avoid high color. Coloring 
matter should not be churned with the creuin, but 
worked into the butter. 
Creamery, fancy, special hrnntU,etc.,41c.: choice, 
42@43e.: fair to good 38@4tc.; ordinary. 7b66*X.v. State 
half urkln tubs, fancy, fresh. 42o.; choice, 39@41c.; 
prime. 36,Xfulr to good, 90*350.: firkins, choice, 
40c.: fair to good, ®@89c; Ordinary, SOM, 34c.; 
Welsh tubs, choice ■Hoodie.; fair to good. 35@39e.;W. Im¬ 
itation creamery, 33@4 c.; dairy choice, OT@39e.; good 
to prime, SAjibhe.; ordinary to fair, 25@tilc-; factory, 
June, floe, 15@16v.; general run do. I3@14c.; choice, 
current make, 34@35c,; fair to good do. 25®32c.; or¬ 
dinary, 12® 20c.; roll butter, flue, 29@30c.; ordinary, 
25@28e. 
Receipts for week, 13,250 pkgs. 
Exports do. 651 do. 
Chicks it The cable has advanced, but not enongh 
to Induce shippers to pay the holding rates of some 
dealers, Flue factory, however, can all be placed at 
ful prices. For under grades. Including Western und 
most skint*, the buyer can help muke the 1 rtco. 
State factory, fancy mild to home trade, I2?f@ 
13c.; choice. l2@12J*c. ; prime, ll@ll. 3 ic. ; fair to 
good, itfplOljc.; ordinary, 7@So.; Ohio, flat, best 
12 ® 12 ! 4 C.; prime, 10@1U\: fair to good, 8®10c.; 
creamery, part skims, choice, . r >«@6o.; fair to good, 
5«.6 ! ie : ordinary. 36#4Mc.: ' Iron-clad, l@2c.” 
Receipt* fur the week, 15,161 boxes. 
Exports do, 13.1118 boxes. 
Liverpool cable, fils. 
Steam to Liverpool. 208. 
Texas. 
Cotton —The week lias been marked as a dull one, 
The Influence of the flood has subsided, deliveries are 
libera'at nil points lor the date, and orders from 
abroad nee moderate. The latter face Is a prominent 
cause of our weakness. Great Britain wllldrnw large¬ 
ly this ye-r from tue East Indies. The receipts at 
Bombay are 3*1,000bales, or three times the quantity 
of this date last year. 
current prices. 
Quotations based on American standard of classifi¬ 
cation. 
N. Orleans 
Uplands, and Gulf. 
Ordinary. 
Btrlct ordinary 
Good ordinary. 
Btrlct good ordlunry.11 
Low middling. 
Strict low middling 
Middling. 12 
Good Middling 
Strict good middling. 12 13-16 
Middling fair. 13 
Fair. 
Good ordinary. 
Strict good oral] 
Futures closed os follows; March, 12.09@12.10c.; 
April, 12 l3@12.14c.; May. 12.Sl@12.32c.; Juno, 12.60c.: 
July, 12.676ll2.U8e.; Augu*t. 12.81@i2.82c.; September, 
12.45@l2.4le.; October. 11.73@ll.74c.; November, 11.54® 
lL56e.; December, 11.566711.58c. 
Receipt* tor week, 10,996 bales. 
Export*, do., 18,628 do. 
Dried Fruits.— Apples of all kinds are regarded as 
good property utul price* are llrm for nil prime goods. 
Sun-dried are above the views of shippers, but the 
Btook Is not oppressive und If holders conclude to 
shade rates it w ill be after Western wants are more 
fully determined. Peaches dull at restrictive prices. 
Small fruits well held for nice round stock. 
Southern apples, ordinary to good, 554@6c.;do. fine 
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