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AUG 19 
fCaus of l!)c Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Congress Adjourns.— After a long strug¬ 
gle to adjourn, Congress accomplished that 
feat on Tuesday, Aug 8th, at three o’clock, 
p. in. Owing to the noise and confusion in the 
Chamber at the close of the session on Monday, 
Mr. Bayard's vote in favor of the resolution 
for adjournment sine die at eleven o'clock p. 
m. that day was not heard or recorded by the 
Clerk. The vote of Mr. Bayard, if recorded, 
would have made a majority of one in favor 
of an adjournment sine die on Monday night. 
The session covered 246 days and was one of 
of the longest ever inflicted upon the country. 
The first session of the 33d Congress adjourned 
August 7, 1854, after sitting for the same cum 
ber of days, the first session of the 44th lasted 
254 days and adjourned August 15, 1876, and 
the first session of the 34th continued 261 days 
to August 18, 1856. The first session of the 
32d lasted 275 days, while the 31st made the 
longest record of all by sitting 302 days from 
December 3,1849, to September 30, 1850. 
The closing days were disgraced by the pas¬ 
sage of the River and Harbor Appropriation 
Bill over the President’s veto, and now the 
majority of Congressmen are at home trying 
to explain to their constituents why “they 
acted so.” The President is now in New York 
for a few days and the members of the Cabi¬ 
net are “ rusticating” in various places. 
The Society of the Army of the Cumber¬ 
land, through its Garfield Monument Commit¬ 
tee, have determined to give, under the pro¬ 
visions of the joint resolution of Congress of 
August 5,1882,a National Fair and Bazaar,in¬ 
dustrial and art Exposition, to be held in the 
Rotunda of the United States Capitol, in the 
City of Washington, commencing on the 25th 
day of November, 1882, and ending on the 3d 
day of December, 1882, its object being to 
raise the greatest possible amount of fund6 to 
aid in the erection of a statue at Washington, 
D. C., to the memory and honor of the late 
President Garfield. 
A list of 422 appointments to clerkships in 
the Pension Office,the first batch of the 800 pro, 
vided for in the Legislative bill, has been made 
public. According to this list, of the 422 ap¬ 
pointments, New York gets 39; Pennsylvania 
41; Illinois, 25 and Kentucky 24, and in these 
fou rStates the Stalwart element is fully recog¬ 
nized. In New York Mr. Hiscox gets 3 
places, Mr. Crowley 5, and Mr. Miller 3. Mr. 
Lapham fails to get a single place. In 
Pennsylvania Don Cameron gets IS; in Illinois 
Mr. Logan gets 7, and in Kentucky Represen¬ 
tative John D. White, who was Chairman of 
his delegation to the Chicago Convention and 
has a “306” medal, gets 21 out of tb 24 places 
New York gets one $1,600 clerkship, seven 
places in the $1,400 class, 13 in the $1,200 class 
12 in the $1,000 class, five in the $900 class,and 
one in the $720 class. 
The great strikes are all collapsing. Ihe 
New York freight handlers’ strike has ended, 
and the men are allowed to seek work where 
they can get it. The Unions will be main¬ 
tained. The attempt of the National tube 
works at McKeesport, Pa., to start with non¬ 
union men is reported as an assured success. 
The old hands are rapidly leaving the amal¬ 
gamated association and returning to their 
old places, in all there are now 500 men at 
work, and there is no fear of further rioting. 
The outcome has of course encouraged manu¬ 
facturers at Pittsburg, and some ills there 
will start with non-union men in a few days 
unless the whole strike is abandoned. About 
250 of the strikers were at work in the Har¬ 
mony Mills, Cohoes, N. Y., this week, and the 
company chink that over 1,000 will return to 
work soon. 
Trenor W. Park, of Bennington, Vt., has 
promised to give 40 of New York’s poor chil¬ 
dren a mouth of fresh air and happiness at 
his country home. 
Members of the first Congress were paid by 
the State. Massachusetts paid $8 a day and ex¬ 
penses, New Hampshire allowed a guinea a 
day, a servant and two horses, Rhode Island 
40 shillings a day, North Carolina £50 a year, 
South Carolina £300 a year, and Georgia 
£100 a month for actual service. 
The report comes from Chicago that the 
propeller Menominee encountered in mid-lake 
on Tuesday night a thick, cold cloud, which 
burst on her decks, covering them with snow 
and slush to the depth of six inches. For five 
minutes the atmosphere was like thai of Win¬ 
ter, but as the steamer was moving rapidly 
she soon came into a warm temperature. The 
incident is unprecedented, but the facts are 
vouched for by other officers and passengers, 
and the story is corroborated by the ther¬ 
mometric condition of that night. Tally one 
for Vennorl J 
The boiler of the Bteamer Gold Dust ex¬ 
ploded on the 7th, and the vessel was burned 
to the water’s edge and sunk 200 yards north 
of Hickman, Ky. There were 106 persons on 
the Gold Dust. Of these 64'were put on board 
the City of Alton, 13 are dead, 12 were badly 
burned and left at Hickman and 17 are miss¬ 
ing. All the ladies on board were saved. 
The Gold Dust was built in 1878 by Captain 
E. W. Goukl at a cost of $59,000. She was 
purchased a year later by the Anchor Line, 
and was valued at the time of the disaster at 
$35,000. The company carries no insurance, 
and she is a total loss. 
Mrs Garfield has written a letter to the 
Women’s Silk-culture Association thanking it 
for the dress pattern recently px-esented to 
her, and saying that it shall be preserved as 
an heirloom and a memorial, and adding: 
“Had Gen. Garfield’s life been spared it would 
have given me pleasure to have put this fabric 
into a dress suitable to honor some worthy 
occasion.” 
Several State Conventions for nominating 
State officers have taken place this week. In 
Indiana the Republicans renominated the 
present incumbents; in Massachusetts tbe 
Prohibitionists, on the 9th inst,, nominated 
a full ticket, with Charles Almy, of New Bed¬ 
ford, for Governor; John Blackmer, of Spring- 
field, for Lieutenant Governor; S. F. Root, 
of Douglass, for Secretary of State. The 
Democratic Convention of this State will be 
held at Syracuse, N. Y., on September 21. 
The Republicans of Kansas have renominated 
Gov. St. John for tbe gubernatorial chair, 
A resident of Lexington, Ky., tying impor¬ 
tuned to subscribe for one of the daily papers 
of that city, consented to take it if the pub¬ 
lishers would send him the sheet blank. They 
agreed, and it goes to him regularly uuprinted. 
He carefully keeps it on file, and pays for it 
with punctilious exactness. He prefers blank 
verse I 
Joseph Crosby, of Zanesville, O., has been 
elected an honorary member of the Royal So 
ciety of Literature of the United Kingdom, of 
which Prince Leopold, the youngpst son of 
Queen Victoria, is President. The society is 
old and aristocratic, and its list of members is 
very limited, but includes a number of Ameri¬ 
can scholars. 
A charitable organization in New York 
city, known as the Earle Guild, distributes 
ice to the destitute sick during the Summer 
months and thus does a great amount of good 
and relieves much suffering. Those to whom 
ice is a constant necessity aDd who use it 
freely all the time, can hardly appreciate how 
precious it may become in the crowded tene¬ 
ment house to the sick person who has no 
means of obtaining it save through charity. 
Mr. J. B. Grinuel of Iowa gives a summary 
of the results of his trip East in quest of aid 
for the storm stricken town and college that 
bear his name. From William E. Dodge he 
received a gift of $5,000 for rebuilding the 
college, while Mrs. Dodge gave $1,200 to found 
a scholarship for a female student Russell 
Sage and David Dows gave $1,000 each, as 
also did David Whitcomb, of Worcester, 
Mass,, and John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Arabi Pasha has at length been very re¬ 
luctantly declared a rebel by Turkey ou the 
demand of England. He still remains on the 
diffusive near Alexandria There have been 
a few unimportant skirmishes. England is 
still hurrying forward troops from the United 
Kingdom and India. Arabi too is increasi. g 
his forces. The Turkish contingent to the 
forces invading Egypt is about to start. We 
expect to have to tell of a real battle in next 
issue. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Crop reports for the week continue on the 
whole to be very favorahle, although some 
districts have suffered considerably from an 
excess of raiu. This has been especially the 
case in northern Indiana and the lakeiegions 
generally. Reports from Canada of recent 
date spoke very brightly of the crop outlook, 
but yesterday’s telegrams say that great in¬ 
jury has been done to most crops and espe¬ 
cially to rye throughout nearly tbe whole of 
Ontario by the treacherous weather of the 
last ten days and the stormy weather of the 
last two or three. In the Southern States, 
too, Alabama complains of too much rain, 
In the West the check to the marketing of 
grain by the bad weather and low prices con¬ 
tinues. For the three days to August 9th, the 
aggregate receipts of wheat at the six princi¬ 
pal Wtstern markets—Chicago, Milwaukee 
Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis and Peoria— 
were only 696,669 bushels, and the shipments 
East only S30.240 bushels, against 1,033,596 
bushels of receipts, and 1,051,077 bushels of 
shipments in the first three days of this month. 
Accordingly the prices this week have ranged 
3c. to 5c. per bushel higher for wheat than 
two weeks ago, and 2c. to 3c. higher for corn. 
If the movement from farmers’ hands to the 
principal Western markets should increase 
again, as many argue that it will as soon as 
the weather improves and the Spring wheat 
is out of danger, it would undoubtedly cause 
a depression of prices again. But it seems to 
us that prices are now as low as they ought 
to be. 
On August 1, 1882. there was practically 
no “old-crop” wheat in the country. Owing 
to this dearth and the large addition to our 
population by natural increase and immigra¬ 
tion, it is hardly likely we shall have over 
160,000,000 bushels for export, in spite of our 
uu usualy heavy crop, even on the presump¬ 
tion that stocks will be as low on August 1, 
1883, as they were this year. For the past two 
years our home consumption has reached 
320,000,000 bushels. The continued high price 
of corn is due to the same conditions—the low 
supply on hand, and consequently the greater 
demand on the growing crop for home use, 
coupled with the prospect that the corn crop 
will be short of an average again this year. 
The visible supply of corn at the principal 
points of accumulation is now only about 
6,000,000 bushels, and it is reasonable to sup¬ 
pose that the entire stock of corn in the coun¬ 
try is not above 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 
bushels. If there was any more than what is 
absolutely required by the farmers to help 
out their feed for the next two mouths, the 
present high prices would have brought it to 
market. For the two years to August 1, close 
figuring indicates that there were consumed 
in the United State 3 300,000,000 bushels of 
corn, or at the rate of 1,650,000,000 bushels 
per annum, for feed of stock, distillation and 
manufacture into whiskey.glucose, starcb.etc. 
Even therefore if the crop of corn now grow¬ 
ing exceeds the Agricultural Departments 
estimate of last year’s crop—and of this there 
is still some doubt—we should fall consider* 
ably short of the amount required for home 
consumption if tbe consumption is on the 
same scale as in the last two years. The pro¬ 
bability is that consumption will be consider¬ 
ably diminished for many purposes by the 
higher price, 
Oats will undoubtedly prove one of the 
largest crops this year ever raised in this 
country; but the anticipations of receipts in 
August have been greatly disapp nuted, and 
in the Chicago and New York markets the 
bears have practically cornered the market 
on themselves for the month. The expecta¬ 
tions as to the crop of rye may not be fully 
realized, as it is reported that in central Illi¬ 
nois and some other sections the yield will be 
but little over half per acre what was pre¬ 
dicted a week or two ago. Nevertheless, 
there is still a good deal of old grain from 
last year’s crop on hand. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
within the last 24 hours: 
Boston, Mass:—Values on most kinds of 
wool are very steadily maintained, but there 
is no Indication of buoyancy in any quarter. 
Manufacturers are giving more attention to 
common and quarter-blood unwashed wools 
and the demand for fine fleeces is improving 
—these grades have been comparatively neg¬ 
lected for some time. Transactions in fine 
wools are not large, as buyers don’t want to 
pay prices asked by sheep-owners. Fine and 
medium delaine and combing fleeces are 
pretty well sold up, but supplies of other kinds 
are increasing. Only a small part of the Ohio 
clip has yet been marketed, as holders are 
uuwilling to meet buyers on a parity with 
seaboard prices... .. 
Philadelphia, Pa.: Grain trade quiet; 
though prices have fluctuated considerably, 
they close about the same as last week. Oats 
5c. higher on account of scarcity. Corn 
scarce and higher. Dairy produce 
accumulating. Fruits and vegetables plenti¬ 
ful, and in good demand.. 
Cincinnati, Ohio.: Receipts of wheat have 
decreased. Raports from hemp cutting dis¬ 
tricts show a prospect of a very short crop... 
Cleveland, Ohio: Weather throughout the 
week cold with frequent rains. 
Louisville, Ky.: Weather again very wot 
early in the week, but dry and cool at its 
close. Tobacco crop advices complain of 
“frenching” and a too forward growth... 
Chicago, Ill.: Heavy rains in the North¬ 
west. In grain there is a stronger feeling in 
corn and an easier one in wheat, with light 
receipts all round. 
Detroit, Mich.: Movement of Michigan 
wheat not yet commenced. Heavy rains pre¬ 
vented maturing of grain, and thrashing has 
not been attempted... 
Grand Rapids, Mich : Excessive rains the 
past two weeks have done great damage to 
wheat. A very small part has been secured, 
wheat in shocks and uncut is sproutiug badly. 
It is estimated that fully 33 per. is lost. Hay 
a good crop. Corn only fair. 
Jackson, Mich.: Heavy rains are doing ex¬ 
cessive injury to wheat in shock. Raining 
nearly all the time..... 
Evansville, Ind.: Farmers are holding 
grain for better prices. 
Bloomington, HI.: Wheat harvest in good 
shape and abundance of tbres’ ing machinery 
has enabled farmers to store it without in¬ 
jury, Oats all harvested—an immense crop. 
Between half and two-thirds of a crop of corn. 
St Louis, Mo.; Cattle and hog-buyers from 
the East herein great force; large supplies 
but rather poor grades Horses and mules 
coming in lively on a Arm market. Every¬ 
thing decent sells readily. Missouri will have 
immense crops of all sorts. 
AUGUST REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
Washington, August 10. 
The August returns of the Department of 
Agriculture (the work of about six thousand 
correspondents) give estimates covering the 
entire producing area of over 1,500 of the 
principal agricultural counties in the United 
States upon the condition of most of the crops 
now growing. The condition of cotton has 
improved during tbe pa«t month, the general 
average being 94, which is higher by three 
points than In August, 1879. and lower by 
eight points than in August, 1880 also two 
points lower than at this date in 1873 and one 
point lower than in 1878, but. is higher than in 
the five other years since 1S72. The average 
condition of each State is as follows: Vir¬ 
ginia, 84; North Carolina, 84: South Carolina, 
98; Georgia, 94; Florida, 87; Alabama, 99; 
Mississippi, 91; Louisiana, 93; Arkansas, 96; 
and Tennessee, 86. Only North Carolina, 
Florida and Louisiana show a decline. Vir¬ 
ginia has gained 4, Georgia 2, Alabama 6, 
Mississippi 4, Texas 3, Arkansas 6 and Ten¬ 
nessee 8. South Carolina has the same aver¬ 
age as in July. No injury from drought, ex¬ 
cept slight in a few districts. In the Northern 
and Eastern divisions of Texas there has been 
an excess of rain, causing too vigorous growth 
of stalk, delay in fruiting, and sometimes 
shedding of bolls. In the entire cotton belt 
there is reported an excess of moisture, which 
has proved injurious in proportion to the re¬ 
tentiveness of soil*. This cause accounts for 
the comparatively low condition in North 
Carolina, where it is now deemed too late for 
entire recuperation. Rust begins to appear in 
districts where the rains have been in excess, 
but without, damage as yet. Caterpillars 
have made their appearance in all the States 
of the Gulf Coast, and though no injury has 
resulted, many apprehensions of future loss 
are expressed. The boll worm is also men¬ 
tioned in several States A large number of 
returns are highly favorable, prophesying a 
crop as large as the land can produce, or bet¬ 
ter than for many years. 
Tbe wheat returns for August relate to the 
Spring variety. Its condition is higher than 
for several years; it was 88 in 1880 and 81 in 
1879 and 1881. It is now 97, against 100 last 
month. It is somewhat late, but nearly ready 
for harvest at the date of return. There are 
some indications of rust and blight iu parts of 
Minnesota. In Northern Iowa the crop is 
the best since 1877. The returns from Dakota 
and Nebraska are extremely favorable. The 
general averages in the principal States are as 
follows: Wisconsin, 99; Minnesota, 98; Iowa 
93; Dakota, 99; Nebraska, 103; Colorado, 96* 
The product of Winter and Spring wheat is 
without loss by sprouting. After harvest, it 
will probably slightly exceed 500,000,000 
bushels, but the extravagant estimates assum¬ 
ing fifteen to twenty five per cent, more are 
wild assumptions needlessly tending to reduce 
the price of wheat in the hands of farmers. 
The condition of corn in this country is 
represented by 83, against 77 last year. At 
this date in 1S61, the effect of the drought was 
seen in the reduction of thirteen pol ts in the 
general condition during July, followed by 
greater deterioration in August, At the pre¬ 
sent time the circumstances are favorable for 
further improvements in most of the States 
The averages of the Southern States are near¬ 
ly all above 100, The surplus-producing 
States average as follows: Ohio, 77; Michigan, 
78; Indiana, 78; Illinois, 59; Iowa, 70, Mis¬ 
souri, 91; Kansas, 106; Nebraska, 98; New 
England ranges from 87 in Massachusetts to 
96 in Connecticut; New York, 85; Pennsyl, 
vania, 90, and New Jersey, 93. 
The gene ral averages of condition of other 
