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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 29. 
The Weather.— The hottest day of the sea¬ 
son thus far was Friday last when the 
thermometer was reported as marking 99 deg. 
in the shade. The death rate has increased 
nearly 190 per cent, within the last few days, 
the increase being mostly among children un¬ 
der five years of age. Oa Wednesday the 
deaths reached 130 and Thursday 198, and 
onFriday 182. Whilcnianyare enjoying their 
Summer vacation in the country' the swelter¬ 
ing multitudes here are Jongiug for Venuor to 
forward a “cool wave” from Northern ice¬ 
bergs. The following will show how the 
temperature ranged at the several places 
on the 27th ult. At Nashville 94 deg. was 
reached, at Boston, Mass,, 98 deg. A1 
bany, N. Y., 91 deg.; Oswego, 84 deg.; Pro- 
vincetown, Mass,. 90 deg.; New Haven, 88 
deg.; Block Island, 86 deg.; Burlington, Vt., 
and Portland, Me , 79 deg.; Eastport, Me., 
74 deg. In the West the worst of the warm 
wave was at Sandusky, Ohio, where 88 deg. 
was registered. At Cleveland, Ohio, Cairo, 
Ill., and Dodge City'', Kan., the maximum 
was 85 deg.; North Platte, Neb,, and Esca- 
naba, Mich., 84; Omaha, 82deg.; Milwaukee, 
deg.; Cheyenne, Wyoming, 78 deg., Al¬ 
pena, Mich., 75 deg., and St. Vincent, Minn., 
63 deg In the South the highest point 
touched, except at Nashville, Tenn.,wasat 
Memphis, Tenn., and Port Eads, La., where 
86 deg. was recorded. This city, it will be 
seen, stands ahead with its close approach to 
100 deg. in the shade, but we cry “enough!” 
Professor George R, Rossiter, of Marietta 
College, in Ohio, died on the 27th after a brief 
illness. He has been connected with the col¬ 
lege since 1843. 
In twenty years there has been but one 
“ long session” of Congress which has ex¬ 
tended beyond the fourth week of July. That 
was the first session of the Forty-fourth Cor. 
gress, which was protracted till Aug. 15,1876, 
but whose proceedings were virtually sus¬ 
pended during the sessions of the National 
Conventions of that year. The first session of 
the Forty-seventh Congress will certainly be 
drawn out into August, though for how long 
is not now known. The amount of unfinished 
business before both Houses is certainly with¬ 
out precedent at this stage of the session. The 
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, with its 135 
amendments offered in the Senate, still awaits 
the action of that body and is alone good for 
a week's discussion. Perhaps the simplest 
plan would be for the Forty-seventh Congress 
to sit by relays during the entire remainder 
of its term! 
Having been disposed of for the Summer at 
the Thousand Islands, at K»uka Lake, at 
Manhattan Beach, at White Sulphur Springs, 
at Long Branch, at the Pacific Coast, and at 
various and multitudinous other places, Pres¬ 
ident Arthur is now reported to be preparing 
for a trip to Milwaukee, Wis. Meanwhile 
people say that he has formed no plans for the 
season at all, and that all the reports of his 
intentions only serve as topics for conversa¬ 
tion and laughter at the White House dinner- 
table. 
There is trouble in store for West Point. 
Another colored man will soon apply for ad¬ 
mission to the Academy. He comes fronj 
Florida. If he is admitted perhaps there will 
be trouble for him, too. 
The President has approved the act appro¬ 
priating $50,000 for Mrs. Lucretia Garfield 
le3s any amount paid James A. Garfield on 
account of his salary as President. 
A party of Chippewa Indians were in Chi¬ 
cago on the 27th, on their way to Washington 
to conclude negotiations for the transfer of 
3,200,000 acres of their reservation on Red 
Lake, Minnesota, to the Government. 
It ia rumored that the Boston, Iloosac Tun¬ 
nel and Western Railroad has made liberal 
propositions to the Rochester and Pittsburg 
Railroad for a consolidation, the object being 
to create a through line touching Boston, 
Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and Pittsburg, 
and having direct traffic between Buffalo and 
Boston, avoiding the Vanderbilt lines. 
A letter addressed to Mr. Obedient Servant, 
Custom House, New Bedford, Mass., reached 
the proper officer the other day, it being a re¬ 
ply to an official communication by a person 
who mistook the scrawled autograph of its 
sender for a flourish under the name. 
In the last few days the deaths in Chicago 
have been increased about 25 per cent , which 
is attributable to the heat. The death rate 
has especially increased with children under 
five years of age, the average being about 20 
per day. The principal cause of death among 
the little ones has been cholera infantum, 
about two-thirds of the deaths occurring from 
that malady. The record for July 27th Bhows 
the deaths of 33 infants, but two of whom 
were over one year old. 
Patrick Diver, a well-to-do New Yorker, 
was accosted the other morning by a rough¬ 
looking man in tatters, who begged for 10 
cents, saying he was nearly starved. Diver 
refused to give the man any money, but tak¬ 
ing a card from his pocket wrote to a friend 
who keeps a hotel near by, as follows; “Give 
this poor fellow a dinner—whatever he wants. 
Will settle the bill when I come back. P. 
Diver. When Mr. Diver got his bill it read; 
Mutton stew, 50 cents; roast veal. 50; beef, 
cabbage, etc., 40; lamb stew, 50; tomatoes, 
30; Scotch ale, 75; salmon, 40; eggs, 20; lob¬ 
ster salad, 20; cigar, 10; pie, 10; total $3.95. 
Forest fires have been raging from Glen 
Dam, Mich., to within a mile of Tawas City. 
At the Miner Farm, a few miles from Tawas 
City, the farm products were burnt. The 
farmers drove their cattle to the shore and 
sent the children to town. On the East 
Tawas road many of the farmers’ fences and 
much hay and grain were in flames and three 
houses were burned. 
Quite a heavy frost surprised residents on 
the the suburbs of Troy, N. Y., on the morn¬ 
ing of the 22d, The “ oldest inhabitant” is 
puzzled to find a similar instance of the 22d 
of July in past years. No frost was found 
in this city last Thursday or Friday !! 
How doe** Compound Oxygen Cure? 
We answer in two important ways: First, 
by a rapid purification of the blood, in con¬ 
sequence of a larger supply of oxygen to the 
lungs, and second, by revitalizing all the 
nerve-centers, the Compound inhaled having 
in its manufacture become magnetized, 
which gives it the quality known to chemists 
as “ ozone." A new healthy action is at once 
setup in the diseased system and general im¬ 
provement follows as surely as effect follows 
cause. If you wish to know all about this 
new and remarkable remedy, the use of which 
is rapidly extending to all parts of the coun¬ 
try, send to Dks. Starkey & Palen, Nos. 
1109 and 1111 Girard Street; Philadelphia, 
for their Treatise on Compound Oxygen. It 
will be mailed free.—A dv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
To summarize the agricultural situation:— 
All over the country the weather for the past 
week has been highly favorable to the corn 
and other growing crops, except grass, which 
is reported somewhat dried up here and there. 
Prices of breadstuff's, contrary to iate cus¬ 
tom, are relatively considerably weaker here 
than on the other side of the Atlantic, so that 
the situation presents the spectacle of the 
seller depreciating the value of his wares 
while the buyer sustains them, not only by 
purchasing but by arguments of facts and 
figures; for it is conceded that under no cir¬ 
cumstance can Great Britain have over three- 
quarters of an average crop of wheat while 
the weather there during the past week has 
been unfavorable enough to cause apprehen¬ 
sions of a worse outcome. In Ireland it has 
somewhat improved, and there will be an ex¬ 
cellent potato crop, but a very poor cereal 
harvest. Owing to the present troubles in 
Egypt half the cotton crop will certainly be 
lost and the greater part of the grain crop 
through inattention to irrigation. Here the 
chief cause of the decline in prices of wheat 
are, first, the reports of the supereminent ex¬ 
cellence of the harvest; second, the large 
amount thrown on the market. The receipts 
have been very heavy in the primary mar¬ 
kets in the West—St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, 
Toledo, Indianapolis and Cincinnati... 
In all these while receipts have largely in¬ 
creased, shipments eastward have not in¬ 
creased in proportion, so that stocks have 
been accumulating heavily. But in this con¬ 
nection it is worthy of note that even with so 
comparatively small an export movement as 
this, and with a continuance of as large 
receipts at the West as now, it would require 
nearly three months at the present rate of 
accumulation to bring the visible supply of 
wheat in the United States up to what it was 
a year ago. It would seem, therefore, that 
with the prospective greater demand from 
Great Britain and Western Europe the accu¬ 
mulation of stocks in this country at the 
present rate is having more effect upon prices 
than it is entitled to. The price in Chicago 
now is at least 10 cents per bushel below the 
average price for the last ten years, and 
Western farmers are becoming reluctant to 
market their grain at such low figures. 
Owing to the high prices of corn the foreign 
and home demands for it, as a ch eap substitute 
for wheat, diminish, and the use of wheat 
flour proportionately increases. Although the 
present prospect promises a fair corn crop, 
yet the “ visible supply” is run so low that it 
will require at least six months before the 
stock can reach the level of a year ago. For 
two months more the stock must necessarily 
diminish. Six or seven months ago there was 
as much com in 6tore in Chicago alone as the 
“ visible supply ” now amounts to in all parts 
of the country. 
Com is therefore too high and too scarce to be¬ 
come to any great extent a substitute for 
wheat, as usual. Even for its ordinary purpose 
of fattening hogs and cattle, its use is being 
greatly- economized, and it is likely to be in less 
demand for that purpose in proportion to the 
diminishing supply of hogs coming to market. 
At the West there is a difference of only 
about 20 cents between the price of a bushel 
of No. 2 corn and a bushel of No. 2 wheat. 
At this small difference corn will not be 
much used for human food. The Southern 
States are one of the largest markets for corn 
for this purpose, but the cost of transporting 
a bushel of corn from, say, Illinois to Alabama 
or Georgia is much greater in proportion per 
bushel than for the five bushels of wheat rep¬ 
resented in a barrel of flour; consequently the 
difference between wheat and corn to the con¬ 
sumer in those States will be less than it is at 
the West. The necessity for corn to feed 
mules on cotton plantations is, however, prob¬ 
ably larger than usual this year on account of 
the destruction of the stocks of corn iu store 
on plantations by the floods in the Mississippi 
this Spring, but this demand will be met from 
Texas, where the corn crop is immense. New 
corn from that State was shown on ’change 
at New Orleans on the 20th insfc. It was hard 
enough to shell, and well informed parties 
Btill claim that the crop of Texas will be 140,- 
000,000 bushels. Considering that last year 
Texas imported corn, this is a significant fact, 
as regards future prices. Still another fact 
which has a bearing on the future price of 
corn is that the new crop of oats is already 
coming in to Chicago and St. Louis, and will 
at once diminish the demand for corn. 
Owing to the high price of corn hogs should 
continue high. Moreover, the stock of hogs 
in the country is rapidly diminishing. The 
high prices of corn and pork have led farmers 
to fatten their hogs as rapidly' as possible and 
rush them to market. Accordingly the re¬ 
ceipts are steadily diminishing at the chief 
Western markets. At Chicago, whore the 
receipts represent at the present time over 
two-thirds of the receipts of hogs at all points 
in the West, the weekly receipts have now 
fallen to about 60,000 head, against twice that 
number a little over a month ago. 
The following items of agricultural interest, 
telegraphed here within the last 24 hours, will 
help to extend the above general remarks: 
Boston. —The condition of the wool trade 
has notably’ improved during the week. Man¬ 
ufacturers’ stocks have been rather low, and 
purchases have become heavier at the sea¬ 
board. Medium fleeces, both washed and un¬ 
washed, command the largest share of the 
demand, but the inquiry is improving for all 
desirable grades, and dealers are hopeful of 
a gradually enlarging movement, if not of 
some improvement in prices, as the season 
advances. A very small percentage of the 
Ohio clip has yet found a market, owing to 
the high views of sellers, and there is a gen¬ 
eral disposition to hold off until growers are 
willing to accept lower rates. The amount of 
wool seeking an outlet through commission 
houses is larger than usual this year. This is 
probably a direct result of the indifference of 
operators in the West, The situation abroad 
has not changed sufficiently to influence the 
position on this side of the ocean. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Supplies of wool, 
wheat and other farm produce are coming for¬ 
ward more freely. Wool is more active and 
closes firmer. Cotton scarce and very quiet. 
Export demand for wheat has been very ac¬ 
tive and a large business has been done. Oats 
continue scarce. There is a good jobbing 
trade in provisions.. 
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Corn and tobacco look 
well. The receipts of wheat have been un¬ 
precedented, averaging 120,000 bushels daily. 
Louisville, Ky.—Weather dry and sea¬ 
sonable for past 10 days—excellent for de¬ 
velopment of crops. The decline in wheat is 
causing farmers to withhold the!r grain; but 
deliveries on old contracts continue large. 
The usual heavy shipments of potatoes and 
general produce have about ceased. 
Chicago, Ill.: Heavy receipts, a freer 
movement of grain and good wea ther 
throughout the Northwest have enlivened 
business. Receipts of hogs are light, but cat¬ 
tle are coming in freely. With the receipt", 
of new wheat averaging 400 to 500 cars daily, 
price's are steadier. The receipts of bread- 
stuffs for the week were 49,992 barrels flour, 
1,248,722 bushels wheat, 1 360,994 bushels corn, 
323,281 bushels oats, 19,K.)2 bushels rye and 
1,400 bushels barley. The shipments were 
44,672 barrels flour, 1,002,527 bushels wheat, 
1,288,563 bushels corn, 323,339 bushels oats, 
19,951 bushels rye and 4,013 bushels barley.... 
’That wonderful catholicon know as Mrs. 
Lydia E. Pinkham’g Vegetable Compound 
has given the lady a world-wide reputation 
for doing good. It is like a living spring to 
the vital constitution. Her Blood Purifier 
will do more to cleanse the channels of the 
circulation and purify the life of the body 
than all the sanitary devices of the Board of 
Health.— Adv. 
-- 
JgfThe Scarlet, Cardinal Red, Old Gold, 
Navy Blue, Seal Brown, Diamond Dyes give 
perfect results. Any fashionable color, 10 
cents.— Adv. 
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Hair and Scalp diseases thoroughly cured 
by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. None like it.— 
Adv. 
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DoN’t Die in the house. Ask Druggists for 
“ Rough on Rats.” Clears cut rats, mice, 
weasels. 15c.— Adv. 
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See Johnson & Fields, Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement, issue of July 8, page 462.—Adv. 
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Burnett's Coconino 
Promotes tlio Growth of the Hair, 
And renders it dark and glossy. It holds, in 
a liquid form, a large proportion of deodor¬ 
ized Cocoanut Oil prepared expressly for 
this purpose. No other compound possesses 
the peculiar properties which so exactly suit 
the various conditions of the human hair.— 
Adv. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, July 29. 
Chicago, 111.— Wheat in fair demand; 
regular $1,053^, July; 99}-£c, August; 99% 
@99%c., September; $1, October; 98c., 
all the year; No. 2 Red Winter, $1.02%, cash 
and July; No. 2 Chicago Spring, $1.29@ 
1.29%, cash; $1.29, July; $1.00%, August. 
Corn fairly active at 78c., cash; 76%c., Au¬ 
gust; 76%c., September; 74%c,, October; 
67%@68c., all the year; rejected, 73%e. 
Oats active and firmer at 57c. cash; 57%c., 
July; 39c., August; 35%c., September and 
October, 35c., all the year. Rye steady at 
66c. Barley steady at 82c. Pork quiet and 
weak at $21, cash; $20.95, August; $21.07%, 
September; $21,15, October; $19 S0@t9.35, all 
the year. Lard in fair demand, but at lower 
rates, $12.20@12.22,%, cash and August; 
$12.32% @ 12.35; September $12.40® 12.42%, 
October; $12.20, all the year. Bulk meats 
steadj’ and unchauged. Hogs —Heavy grades 
weaker and about 5c. per 100 pounds lower 
than yesterday; light and bacon grades in 
good request and demand firm; demand prin¬ 
cipally on shipping account; quality better; 
light quotable at $7 80@8.35; a few sold at 
$8.40; mixed packing, $7.75@8.80; heavy 
packing and shipping, $8 40(@8.85. Cattle— 
Weak in many cases; decline amounted to 
10c.@15c. per 100 pounds since Thursday, and 
more on common natives and Texans; prime 
bunch of export steers brought $7.75; poor to 
choice shipping, $4.25@7.25, mainly $5 50@ 
6.50; good Texans, $3@4.25; far West Tex¬ 
ans, $3.60@4.60; native butchers’ $2,50@3 75; 
stockers, $2.30<d3,50; feeders, $3.50@4.S5; 
quite a number unsold. 
Cincinnati.—Wheat unsettled. No. 2 Red 
Winter, new, $1.00@1.01, spot ; $1 00% 
July; $1.00%@1 00%, August; $1.01%@1.01% 
September; 99c. bid all the year. Cohn 
—No. 2 mixed, 81c. spot; 81%e. July ; 79c. 
hid August and September; 7S%c. bid 
October; 75c,@75.%c. November; G8)^c. bid 
all the year. Oats scarce and firm; No. 2 
mixed, Gl%c. Rye weak at 72c. Pork dull 
at $22. Lard dull ; current make, 12%c.; 
Bulk-meats quiet; shoulders, 9%c.; clear rib 
12%c. Bacon iu fair demand; shoulders 10%c; 
clear rib 13%c; clear sides, 14%c. Butter 
dull; choice Western Reserve, 20c. ; choice 
Central Ohio, I8e, Hogs firm; common and 
light, $6.50@8.30; packing and butchers, $7.80 
@S.80. 
St. Louts, Mo.—Wheat fairly active: No. 
2 Red Fall, 96%@97%c,, cash; 96%@96%e., 
July; 96%<S96%c„ August; 99%<g993i'c. t Sep¬ 
tember; $1.00%@1.00%,0ctober; 96%®96%c. t 
all the year; No. 3 do, 94%@96c. Corn quiet 
but firm at 77@78e., cash; 77%c., July; 75%o , 
August; 74%o., September; 66c., November; 
63%e., all the year. Oats strong at 51%@ 
52c., cash. 50%@51%c., July; 35%@36c., 
August; 34%c., all the year. Cattle— Mar¬ 
ket weak and only moderately active, but 
prices not quotably lower; no native shipping 
steers offered; they would bring $6.50@7.50; 
grass natives, cows and heifers, $2 50@3 75; 
Southwest butcher stuff; $3@4.2o; grass Tex¬ 
ans and Indians, $o@4 for canning grades 
and $4 25@5 for good to best steers. Sheep— 
Market steady, with a fair demand; medium 
1 o fancy muttons, $8,50@5; Texans, $3@4.50; 
Colorado.* and common natives, $2.50@3. 
Hogs opened weak and lower; closed at out¬ 
side prices, packers not buying; shipping 
pigs, $7.25@7.65; Yorkers, $7.75@8.20; butch¬ 
ers’ to select heavy, $8.25@8.80. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
New York, Eaturday, July 29, 1882. 
Beans and Peas— Demand from all quarters Is 
moderate and oareful, and even on domestic grades 
