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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. April 1, 1883. 
Half a Million Coming.—I f the immigra¬ 
tion for the iirst quarter of 1883 is any cri¬ 
terion by which to estimate that for the whole 
year, we may tie sure of s largely increased 
number over the arrivals of 18.31. The follow 
ing table will show the comparative number 
of immigrants for the iirst three months of 
1881 and 1883, or, more accurately, for Jan¬ 
uary, February, and the first 19 days of 
March: 
January . 
February. 
March. 
18 !»i. 
8,082 
9,753 
11,996 
1882. 
11.242 
16,7-2 
15,682 
Total.. 
. .29,831 43,676 
or an increase of 13,845 in two months and a 
half. The total for March last year was 
37,708, but this year it will be nearly, if not 
quite, 40,000. 
Steamship companies are increasing their 
facilities for carrying passengers, and the 
White Star Line Company say they cannot 
meet the demands made upon them. The 
Anchor Line will have five ships a week on its 
Glasgow route, and the Bremen Line will run 
three vessels weekly. Last year there were 
31 steamship lines bringing passengers to this 
port, employing 173 vessels: this year the 
number will be increased to about 300. There 
were 1670 Ita lian immigrants landed in three 
days of last week and they report that their 
countrymen will come over in swarms this 
year. A better class of Germans are coming 
over; some are farmers with means. Out of 
950 that arrived week, 700 were what we call 
travelers’—men who visit various parts of the 
country and when they find a location that 
suits them they buy land and settle as farmers. 
About th3 same percentage of other nationali¬ 
ties have reached here as last year, the Irish 
excepted. They do not come in large numbers 
until April sets in, and May is their favorite 
month for crossing the ocean.” 
President Arthur's first public reception at 
the White House attracted one of the largest 
crowds over seen in the mansion. The clear, 
mild weather was favorable to a large attend¬ 
ance. and the citizensand temporary residents 
of the District have been six months waiting 
for an opportunity to greet the new President. 
The presence of Gen. and Mrs. Grant was an 
additional attraction for hundreds. 
Judge-Advocate-General Swaim has made 
his report of the case of Sergt. Mason to the 
Secretary of War. He holds that the sentence 
of the court-martial is invalid by reason of 
certain irregularities and informalities in 
the proceedings of the court. 
As labor strikes have cost Cincinnati about 
one million dollars the past year her Board of 
Trade has concluded to try the experiment of 
establishing a board of arbiti ation which shall 
hear all complaints about the price of labor 
and endeavor to make such rulings as will 
satisfy the employers and the employed. The 
idea is a good one. 
The New York committee on the Exposition 
of the American Agricultural Association have 
adopted the report of a sub committee on 
charter and by-laws. The charter names the 
company as the “American Exposition of 
1883 ” It has also been decided that the exhi¬ 
bition, instead of being a world’s fair, will 
be merely a national exposition of American 
products, including every industry. Itis esti¬ 
mated that $1,500,000 will bo needed, 
Solon Chase, the veteran Greenbacker, has 
begun the publication of a new paper at 
Chase’s Mills, Me., and calls it Them Steers. 
A name is everything. 
It is discovered that Mi's, Scoville did not 
write the letters to Mrs. Garfield in behalf of 
Guiteau and to the President about Conkling: 
they were the work of a Chicago newspaper 
reporter who only troubled her to sign her 
name to them. 
In the Massachusetts House, last week, the 
prohibitionists nearly scored a victory. The 
bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
intoxicating liquors was lost by a tie vote of 
110 to 110. 
The four tracks of the New York Central 
Railroad are now completed and in use from 
Albany to Buffalo. 
It is estimated that $05,880,480 will be re¬ 
quired to pay the Mexican war pensions aud 
$28,201,033 to pay the pensions of the Indian 
wars, or an aggregate of $98,583,113. 
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“So Weak I Could Scarcely Stand.” 
A very decided gum is shown in the follow¬ 
ing case of a patient residing iu Carthage, 
Miss.: “ 1 have been takiug your Compound 
Oxygen six weeks, and am glad to say that 1 
am improving. When 1 began the Treatment 
my limbs were so weak that I could scarcely 
stand on them, and they pained me a great 
deul. My cough was bad, and at times I could 
hardly breathe, and 1 suffered a great deal 
with pains in my stomach and lungs, lhave 
now gained some five or six pounds iu weight, 
andean walk two miles easily; the paiu in 
limbs is entirely gone; my cough is much 
better. It does not tear me to pieces to cough 
now, as it did six weeks ago.” Treatise on 
“Compound Ox gen” sent free. Drs. Star- 
key &c Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard St., Phila¬ 
delphia, l'a.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 1, 1883. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
within the last 34 hours. 
Boston, Mass. Manufacturers still buying 
wool cautiously in spite of tempting conces¬ 
sions from dealers who have been compelled 
to meet the decline made by commission 
houses. Market in favor of buyers, as it was 
this time last year. Stocks smaller, however, 
but then the new clip is expected earlier. 
Sales of colonial wool ended at London to-day 
(Friday, March 31,) with quotations for good 
wools well sustained, but easier iu defective 
grades. Philadelphia, Pa. Wool un¬ 
settled and weak; cotton prices hard to main¬ 
tain. Southern farm produce plentiful and 
generally lower. Potatoes have again declined 
from competition with cheaper foreign 
growths. Grain trade dull: only 300,000 
bushels, all told, available in the market. 
Corn higher and strong; but wheat has de¬ 
clined, influenced by favorable crop reports.. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Favorable weather; 
reports from the country show rapid progress 
in plowing. Season fully three weeks in 
advance of this time last year. Provisions 
higher. Grain quite active, especially corn 
which is 1 i-jC.@2c. higher than a week ago. 
Wheat has fallen 4e.@4>tfc. Oats steady. 
Wheat, No. 2, Red Winter, $1 31 @1 33. Com, 
No. 2, Mixed, 73c @73}.^. Oats, No. 2 Mixed, 
50c,w)53c. Chicago, Ill.: The tremen¬ 
dous shortage in the grain crops last year, 
especially in corn, is now beginning to be felt. 
The visible supply of American grain (that in 
all public warehouses, ou board cars, boats, 
ships, etc. everywhere) is 
Latest Preeed'g Cor'sp’d'g 
dates, week, week 1891, 
Lush. bush. bush. 
Wheat. 12,562,395 18,415,924 21,413,148 
Corn. 10,411,982 10,892,896 14,295,989 
Oats. 1,759,102 1,990,304 3,384,643 
Rye. 1,011,599 1,173,752 522,433 
Harley. 1,237,282 J,002,106 2,139,201 
A decrease, since last week, of 853,569 
bushels of wheat; 1,427,914 bushels of corn, 
and 231,303 bushels of oats. The risible supply 
of wheat was up 10 31,252,578 bushels Novem¬ 
ber 5, 1881, that of corn to 38,120,870 bushels 
ou October 8, and that of oats to 6,468,0.50 
bushels on October 1, 1881. For several weeks 
the visible supply of corn has been decreasing 
at the rate of 1,500,000 a week. Shipments of 
grain from first hands do not keep pace with 
consumption. As compared with prices a 
week ago, wheat is about ££o. higher; corn 
from 2J^(g3c. higher,and oa ts 1 % to higher. 
Wheat now; No. 2, Chicago Spring, $1 35)£@ 
1 36 cash ; $1 36, March and April, $1 'M%, 
May; 1 28%, Juue; $1 34%@1 25, July. Corn, 
66c.(g68%c. Oats, 43% ©46%. Itye, 82@84%. 
Barley, $1 04. Detroit, Mich. Weather 
excellent and crops doing finely. Roads still 
in a deplorable condition, and movement on 
them very restricted. Corn trade growing 
rapidly. No. 2, 72%c.—an advance of 1%c. 
during the week. Wheat receipts small: Spot 
$1.28%—a fall of 3 }{ in the week. Oats, No, 
3, White 51c. Clover seed, $4 30—a drop of 
20c. 
The Senate Committee ou Agriculture has 
reported favorably a bill to make the 
Agricultural Department an executive De¬ 
partment. it provides that there shall be a 
Secretary and au Assistant Secretary, both of 
whom shall be practical agriculturists; that 
there shall be live bureaus iu the department, 
as follows: Labor and Industrial Education, 
Agricultural Productions, Manufacture and 
Machinery, aud Transportation. It provides 
for a transfer of the geological surveys from 
the Interior Department to the new Agricul¬ 
tural Department. The duties and powers of 
the department are maiuly to collect and dis¬ 
seminate information relating to agricultural 
interests..... 
A bill has been introduced in the Senate by 
Mr. Williams, of Ky., to prohibit tiie importa¬ 
tion of neat cattle from the Dominion of Can¬ 
ada. After reciting in a pi'eamble that the 
importation of neat cattle from the United 
States into the Province of Canada is abso¬ 
lutely prohibited—with the exception that 
such animals are permitted to enter iu bond— 
it provides that the importation of neat cattle 
from Canada into the United States shall be 
prohibited until the President shall declare 
that the discrimination in this matter against 
the l nited States has ceased, and that llie 
operation of the act shall be suspended at that 
time until the President shall by proclamation 
declare it to be again in force.... 
In France a bill repealing the prohibition of 
the importation of American pork was adopted 
last Tuesday, with an ameudrueut authorizing 
Minister Tirard to prescribe the mode of 
inspection. In the debate Mr. Arohard main¬ 
tained that the fears of disease were exagger¬ 
ated. The American salters prepared meat 
according to the most approved methods. Ho 
cited the me lioal reports from Chicago and 
Cincinnati furnished by the American Minis 
ter showing the rarity of trichinosis. Secre¬ 
tary Frelinghuysen telegraphed to Minister 
Morton on the 22d insl. as follows ; “ Health 
Offic er of Cincinnati certifies that records of 
that city, the center of pork trade, do not 
show a single case of trichinosis. Dr. Rauch, 
Secretary Health Board of Illiuois, reports 
only 11 deaths from trichinosis in whole State 
in 16 years, traced in each case to eating raw 
pork. City Physician of Chicago states rec¬ 
ords show only two cases there in four years, 
also due to eating raw pork. The places men¬ 
tioned are the great pork-producing and con¬ 
suming districts of United States, while the 
whole country consumes more pork per capita 
than any other country.” 
The Secretary has since received from Mr, 
Morton the two following telegrams: 
I. 
Paris, March 38, 1882, 
Pork bill, with microscopic amendment 
passed Chambers. Vote on amendment—256 
yeas, 216 nays. MORTON. 
II. 
Paris, March, 29, 1882. 
The Pork bill passed yesterday provides for 
inspection in France by experts appointed by 
Minister of Commerce, who shall have the 
right to prescribe mode of examination. This 
last clause, which was introduced by amend- 
rneut, has iu view the re establishment of 
micrographic examination. Our friends and 
former Minister of Commerce opposed it. 
MORTON. 
We thought our fierce article of last week 
would “fetch ’em"—after its appearance, they 
passed the bill the very next day! 
-M-*- 
ening the hair and rendering it dark and 
glossy. It cures baldness and eradicates 
dandruff. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are the best. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, April 1, 1882. 
Beans and Peas.— The market Is better for mar¬ 
row beans. Extra grade Slate Mediums are higher, 
but sell slowly a* German* have n .stronghold upon 
consumers. Sellers are candid enough to admit Mint 
much of the ..rop Is equal If not superior to 
many marks of home .grown. Fancy beaus quiet. 
Feus generally quiet; green low. 
beans, marrow, prime, (14,20; fair to good, (3.65611 
4.00; medium, choice, $3.40@3.45: fair to good, $8.0.d« 
8.35; UeaiiB, pea, choice. $8.86@8.45; fair to good, $8.00 
@3.30; white kidney, choice. $3,8n@3 90: fair to good, 
$3.60@3.75:rod kidney, choice, $'2.80(02.95; fair to good, 
$2 406*2.75; turtle soup, $1.75@1.HT>; German prime, 
2.7,'i&p3.15; California Lima, $4.50. 
Peas, green, prime, $1.35<fl>1.40; poor to good, $1.00 
@1.25; Southern b. e., per 2-t)IL bag, $4.00. 
Receipts for the week, 1,34*1 bushels. 
Exports 612 pkgs. 
buKAnsTtriTK ami Provisions. Business In nearly 
all ‘Change goods is speculatively bnsrd, and prices 
for grain hare worked into a fairly strong scale. 
Flour Is well distributed in the sale for home use or 
export. Dealing* In big products have been large, but 
as they are. largely "paper," prices have not specially 
brightened. 
Prices of grain.—Wheat, No. 2 Spring, $1,30@1.35: 
Spring, $l.lor<st.3o; red Winter No. 2, $1 41@1.42; red 
Winter, $1.2(I@I.I5; while Western and State $1.30(<a 
@1,86, Rye, K9@93e. Gats, white No. 1, 65c.; 
No. 6, 60c.; mixed. No. 1, 65e.;, No. 2, 63@65c.; 
No. 3, 62 o. Corn, Western, mixed, 77@82e.; do. No. 
2, Slc.j white Western, 83@U0e. ; new yellow. 
Southern, H0@87c.j white Southern, 8570950.; yellow 
Western, 81@86c. barley, Canada, No. I, $1,82; 
do. "bright,” $1.23(01.23 ; Slate, 4 rowed, $1,10; do. 
2 rowed, 5t@rl.0o. Harley malt. Slate. 2-rOWed, $1.00 
@1.06; do. 4 rowed, $1.US@1.15; do. Canada, $1.25@1.40. 
Receipts for the week, wheat, 131,900 bush.; corn, 
41,950 do. ; oats, 72,830 do.; rye, 14,500 do.; malt, 
75,142 do.; barley, 96,500 do.; flour, 57 900 bbls.; corn 
meal, 2,350 do. 
Exports for the week, flour, 53,260 bbls.; corn meal, 
1,768 do.; wheat, 48,641 bush.; corn, 026,450 do.; oats, 
3,575 do. 
Price* of flour, meal and feed,—Quotat ions : Flour, 
No. 2, $2.90@3.7fi ; latter extreme ; superfine, $4704.50; 
common to Talr extra State, 8l.a.b 'i. good Infancy 
do., $5 10@8.00; common to good extra Western, $ 4 . on 
@5.25; good to choice, $).»».>■< 50; common to good 
extra round hoop Ohio, il.TUiip.'Jb ; good to choice do, 
$6.!ll)@8.0(f; common extra Minnesota, Sl.dOSiS.HI; 
clear, $0 75<®7.25; rye mixture, $'..-3r@6 7ri; tinkers'ex¬ 
tra, S6e<ii 25 ; Straight, $6 75@7.75 ; patent,, $7(SH,50 ; 8t. 
Louis common i" fair extra, $1.7Ut§)6.uO; good to very 
choice tnmlly, $6.10(08.50. Patent Winter wheat ex* 
ten, $7@N.60 ; market closing steady. Southern Flour, 
t o.20inj6.65— Good to Choice, $0.7lku8.60. Kyo Flour, 
l.25@4.75, Buckwheat Flour dull, $1.90«t2 85. The 
season is about over, and quotations more or Icbh 
nominal. Corn Meal firmly held. Sales 3UU bbls. 
Yellow Western, $3.50, quoted $3.50@3.8.5. 200 bills. 
Brandywine, $i. 
Prices for Provisions—Pork, old megs, $I6.00@16.75. 
New, $I7,50@17.75. Lard—Prime city, 10.90c.; Western, 
11.80c..; refined, 11.40c. Bacon firm at lilac, for long 
and I0e. for short clear. Cut Heats pickled shoul- 
dera, 7'M@7ikC.; rib bell leu, ]4 th..$$$c.; 12 lti.,9M@»J6e. 
Receipts for the week—Beef, bbla. and tea ,585; pork, 
bbls., t.UOO; cut meats, pUgs.. 11,707 ; lard, do., 4,880. 
Exports for week beef, bills, and tes.,3.0U0: pork, 
bbla., 3,030; cut meats, Ihs,, 5,098,714; Inn I, do., 2,652,073. 
Buttk.il The week has been a moat perplexing otic 
for dealers. Supplies have been extremely short. 
Out of town orders had to lie refused and the local 
trade hud to go lightly furnished, About 3<X) fine 
half tubs Del. and Green Co., were lost by the sink¬ 
ing of the steamer Thus. Cornell. Prices have ruled 
stronger than quoted, hut the ottering for a day or 
two has show u better proportions anil asking prices 
are not so sharp 
Receipts for week, 13,535 pkgs. 
Creamery, fancy, special brands, etc.,45c.: choice, 
42@43e.: fair to good S8@41c.; ordinary, 25@30e.; State 
half firkin tubs, fancy, fresh. 42@43c.; choice, 39Wile.; 
prime, 36@88n.; fair to good, 3lK.o3.3e.; Welsh tuba, 
choice, 4hr< I2e.; fair tto good, 35(jo40e; Western Im¬ 
itation creamery, 87@48c.; choice, $7@4lk*.; good to 
prime, 30(033c.; ordinary to fair, 29@28c.; factory, 
choice, current, make, 36Wi3Se.; fair to good, do,30(,j<3So., 
ordinary. I8@20e.; roll butter, fine, JUwLSlc.; ordinary, 
25@29C.; State fllktUS, choice, 40@4lc.; fair to good; 
3o@39.} ordinary, 30@34o.; Canadian dairy, 80@80c.; 
Western factory, June, line, 16@18; general rim, do , 
13@15. 
The Wilmington (Del.) News says: J. E, 
Shaw, Esq., proprietor Grand Union Hotel, 
New York, indorses St. Jacobs Oil for rheu¬ 
matism and neuralgia.— Adv. 
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A daughter of Ex-Secrctary Evurts made 
herself a favorite in Washington society, not 
alone by her snowy complexion, gray-blue 
eyes and golden hair, but as well by her cups 
of chocolate. The Mexican Minister used to 
say that in his own land no beverage was so 
delicious. It was made of the best already 
sweetened chocolate, broken aud placed in a 
warm spot to melt. When afterward put into 
a farina kettle, boiling milk was poured upon 
it, and from the moment the first drop of milk 
touched it until it was done it was stirred, it 
was allowed to boil for several minutes, aud 
when it was served in delicate cups it was 
thick and almost jelly like, and was capped 
with whipped cream. This is the way that 
Baker’s vanilla chocolate should always be 
prepared.—Adv. 
Don’t Die in the house. Ask Druggists for 
“Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, 
weasels. 15c.— Adv. 
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound 
revives the drooping spirits; invigorates and 
harmonizes the organic functions; gives elas¬ 
ticity and firmness to the step, restores the 
natural lustre to the eye, and plants on the 
pale cheek of beauty the fresh roses of life’s 
Spring and early S-iminer time.— Adv. 
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The Horsford Almanac and Cook Book sent 
free on application to Rumford Chemical 
Works, Providence, R. I.— Adv. 
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Burnett’* Coconino. 
HAS RECEIVED UNIVERSAL ENDORSEMENT. 
No other preparation possesses such remark¬ 
able properties for embellishing aud strength- 
Ciijjkse,- A good quantity of cheese has gone out 
of market. For export a line of 2,500 boxes was taken 
at 12c. I lit* stimulated trade. uud quotation* clone 
higher for all decent qunlltle*: 
state factory, fancy, selected, homo trade, ):iW@ 
l.'lWc.; fancy, 12‘ i@i:>; choice, 12«tl2)tC.; prime, ll@Usq; 
fair to good, 9Wd*l0Str<-'-; ordinary, 1(080.: Ohio, flat,best 
12@12Mc.; prune, lOwllc.; fair to good, H@l(io.; 
creamery, part skims, choice. 6Uc.i fair to good, 
5@5!4o i ordinary, SovlHc.: other skims, l@2c." 
Receipts for the week, 7,715 boxes. 
Exports do, 80.186 boxes. 
Liverpool cable, 63s., an advance, 
Steam to Liverpool, 13s. 
Cotton. The bids for cotton have been better, but 
business has not developed to an extent that more 
than holds quotations to about former ranges: 
CURRENT TRICKS. 
Quotations based on American standard of classifi¬ 
cation. 
N. Orleans 
Uplands, and Gulf. Texas. 
Ordinary. 9 7-16 911-16 9 11-16 
Strict ordinary. 10 10)4 10)4 
Good ordinary. 1013-16 11 1-16 11 1-16 
Strict good ordinary.11M 11)4 11)4 
Low middling. 11 11-16 11 15-16 11 15-16 
Strict low middling. 1115-16 12 3-16 12 3-16 
Middling. 12)$ 1246 1246 
Good Middling. 1‘2)| 12-q 12J4 
Strict good middling. 124) 13 13 
Middling fair.,. 13)4 18)6 13)fi 
Fair....?. 14 14)4 M)4 
STAINED. 
Good ordinary. 9 | U>w Middling.10 11-16 
Strict good ordinary 10 | Middling..11 11-16 
Receipts for the week, 17,799 bales. 
Exports for the week, 13,982 do. 
Diuk.d Fruits.—A ll stocks of apples are Arm ns there 
Is no pressing supply of flue. Exporters would oper¬ 
ate If goods were down to their limit. Blackberries 
very llrn.; other small fruits steady. 
Southern apples, crop, ordinary to good, 5)4@6e.; 
flue to choice, 6)4ffl8c; fancy, IK6@9)£C; Western, crop, 
1881, ordinary, wicqc. do, choice lots.644@4V4e; Stale, 
fine out. 6@6)4 lV, qrs C@5)ic,; apples, 1H91, evaporated, 
WWeDri'yo.; do, choice ring cut BkieHc.; peaches. 
Southern, crop. 14.(,16c; do. Carolina, crop, good to 
fancy. 17(-< 19c; do, Georgia, crop, peeled, 16&170; evap¬ 
orated peaches, peeled, 8fi@«3e; do. uupeeleil, 12)v«4 
14c: impeded peaches, halves, 4)4@4?4<!, do, quartet's, 
4)6@434e; plums, Hunt horn, UW@l3)ae‘, (lo. State. I3@ 
Flo;cherries, Southern, lK@l»e; blackberries, Mediae; 
raspberries, 27@87)4; huckleberries, prime, lH@l$)5e. 
Elms.—The market Is In good shape, as prices arc 
kept to a free selling limit. Next week bring* Faster, 
and a targe traffic is expected. 
Jersey, single bbls. 1R do*. 19)6642(6'.; Pa. and State 
rrosh laid, 19 c.;lWestern and Canadian do, best, l»!d@ 
19c; Southern do, . 18 @ 16 .'- 6 o., duck eggs. 30@32c.; goose 
eggs. 55@60c. 
Receipt* for the week, 16,201 pkgs. 
Exports do, hist, week, 13,381. 
Fresh Fruits,—F ew common lots of apples seem to 
bo on lutnd, and selections In a small way bring 25@ 
50 above sente. Strawberries are abundant for the 
season; tor market use the demand has run light, 
and many have been turned to restaurants at tnsldo 
priees. Cranberries are of no ueeount commercially. 
Florida Orunges firm, with the under qualities doing 
better than last week. Peauuts quiet, with prices 
