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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 26,1882. 
Three farmers were murdered at Chestnut, 
Logan Co., III., on the 2let. The murder was 
committed in the night, the heads of the vic¬ 
tims being nearly cut from the bodies. It is 
supposed that a discharged hired man was the 
murderer. 
Herbert Spencer, the eminent English scien¬ 
tist has arrived in this city. He was accom¬ 
panied by Edward Lott, of Derby, an old and 
intimate friend, who will be Mr. Spencer’s 
companion during his two or three months’ 
stay in America. 
Gen. B. F. Butler has received the Green¬ 
back nomination for the Governorship of 
Msssachusetts. 
There is still widespread ferment among 
factory, shop and mine operatives of all kinds, 
and not a day passes that there are not tidiugs 
of trouble somewhere. The Harmony mills 
at Cohoes, N. Y., are in partial operation 
after being closed for three months. The 
great strike of iron workers in Pittsburg and 
other Pennsylvania districts has also a broken 
back. This was for an advance and it is not 
obtained. It has cost the workmen millions 
in lost wages and the companies millions 
more. 
Owing to the large increase which has been 
made in the force of the Pension Office, it has 
become necessary to rent several additional 
buildings. The office formerly occupied by 
the Census Bureau has been rented, and about 
, r >00 pension clerks are now at work there. In 
addition to this, three dwellings ad joining the 
Pension Office have been engaged, and are 
now being fitted np for occupancy. Acting 
Commissioner Clark says that about the first 
week in September there will be upward of 
1,700 clerks in the Pension Office, and the 
probabilities are that still further accommo¬ 
dations will be necessary. 
President Arthur left this city od the 22d 
for a visit to Newport, R. I. He was ten¬ 
dered a reception by Ex-Gov. E. D. Morgan 
and wife. 
The Maine Republicans have put an inde¬ 
pendent State ticket in the field, with War¬ 
ren N. Vinton for Governor. The Democrats 
of Delaware have nominated Chas. C. Stock- 
ley for the governorship. The Greenbackers 
and Democrats of Michigan have united in 
nominating J. W. Begoll of Flint for Gov¬ 
ernor and full State ticket besides. 
The American rifle team which is to com¬ 
pete next month with a team from England, 
are practicing regularly at Creedmoor and 
doing some good work. Colonel Bodine has 
been elected Captain of the American team. 
Vennor predicts a severe storm period on 
the lower lakes toward the end of the present 
month and the entry of September. He also 
predicts similar disturbances along the New 
Jersey coast, and southward to and beyond 
Charleston on the Atlantic coast. 
William E. Fitzpatrick, of Milwaukee, Wis., 
who claims to be the heir to the throne of Ire¬ 
land, has been writing to Mr. Gladstone, the 
British Premier, to urge upon his royal sister 
Victoria that she renounce her title to his 
country. 
Tne Board of Audit on the expenses attend¬ 
ing the illness and funeral of the late President 
Garfield has made a rule to deal directly with 
claimants only, and no assignments of claims 
will be recognized by the board in passing the 
accounts. 
A member of the Quebec LegMature re¬ 
ceives f80O a year for his services. The reduc. 
tion of this salary to 1600 is being agitated by 
some of the Canadian newspapers. A New 
York legislator receives $1,500 per annum, 
and frequently manages to double that amount 
before t he session is over. 
Fifty-three new cases of yellow fever were 
reported on the 23d at Brownsville, Texas, 
and two deaths, the latter Mexicans. From 
Matamoras, Mexico, eleven deaths are re¬ 
ported and several new cases. The mails 
were not yet running at that date. Business 
is stagnant, and mechanics and laborers are 
suffering for want of employment. 
The English steamer Castalia has been 
chartered to load 500 mules at Philadelphia, 
Pa., to be taken to Alexandria, Egypt, for 
the British Government. 
In Dundee, 111., Sunday, Henry Bellman, 
while cutting oats with a reaper, ran over his 
three-year old daughter. Both of her legs 
were cut off and she soon bled to death. Bell¬ 
man is partly crazed, and regards the accident 
as a judgment on him for working Sunday. 
There was a celebration at Ogden’s Grove 
near Chicago last week for the purpose of 
raising funds to erect a monument to the 
memory of John Brown. Mrs. John Brown 
came from California to take part in the 
ceremonies. She demen the report that she is 
living in abject poverty in California, but 
states that she has an interest in a farm there. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
IPT 2 
She will visit her husband’s grave before re¬ 
turning to the coast. She is 60 years old. 
The Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati 
was sold by the Sheriff on the 24th, to satisfy 
a debt of about $75,000. The property was 
appraised as $117,200. The Rev. Dr. J. M. 
Walden of the Book Concern bought it for 
$78,133,34, being two-thirds of its appraised 
value. He was solicited by the trustees of the 
college Thursday to bid it in. The trustees 
have decided to elect the Rev. Dr. W. K. 
Brown and his wife, Mrs. McClellan Brown, 
as President and Vice-President of the college 
for ten years, and to open it early in Sep¬ 
tember. More than $60,000 have already been 
raised by subscription, which, with the avail¬ 
able assets of the college, will liquidate its 
debt. 
AR«on and a Blessing Beyond Price. 
If Compound Oxygen never effected a radi¬ 
cal cure of any disease, but only retarded its 
progress and made the invalid life more ease¬ 
ful—gave refreshing sleep to the sleepless, a 
new sense of vitality to the u>eak and nervous, 
freedom from pain to those who suffer, bring¬ 
ing sunshine and cheerfulness into sick rooms 
—it would be a boon and a blessing beyond 
rice. That it does all this and more, wo 
a ve the grateful acknowledgement of thou¬ 
sands who have come under our treatment. 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, it* na¬ 
ture, action and results, with reports of cases 
and full information, sent free. Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1109 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 26,1882. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are brief!v condensed from a few of the many 
reports telegraphed to this city within the 
last 24 hours:— Boston, Mass. Receipts of 
wool continue liberal, but a big hole has been 
made in the seaboard stocks by the liberal 
purchases by manufacturers during the past 
week. Interior advices represent trade rather 
lively, but checked by high views o f growers. 
More wool has changed hands, however, in 
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia than 
in several weeks past. General outlook good, 
but no speculation or prospect of change in 
prices in the near future. English cable¬ 
grams report a hardening tendency in Aus¬ 
tralian wools, which are scarce; grades are 
plentiful; weak Scotch clips dearer; but Med¬ 
iterranean wools are lower.. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Cotton dull but steady. 
Wool has been active, but closed quieter, 
owing to large sales—prices very firm. An 
active demand for wheat on old contracts; 
but new orders “few and far between.” Corn 
fairly active. Oats have declined 15c. to 18c. 
a bushel. Fine dairy products active and 
higher, but the market is glutted with “off" 
grades... 
Cincinnati, Ohio.—No. 2 wheat scarce at 
$1.02; ungraded plenty at 95c. Corn irregu¬ 
lar at 95c. Provisions scarce and firm. To¬ 
bacco prices $1.25 above last week; offerings 
114 hogsheads...... 
Louisville, Ky.—Weather again rainy 
after a short dry spell. Wheat receipts thus 
far in August less than half those for same 
period in July. About one car-load in every 
10 is damaged from rain. Nearly half the Ky, 
wheat crop is shipped, and farmers are now 
holding for higher prices. Dealers paying 
95c.@97c. for No. 2 red. Corn prospects 
never better—a good crop assured. Oat crop 
large, but grain light in weight—not exceed¬ 
ing 24 to 26 pounds per bushel, and owing to 
being rain or weather-beaten selling at 35@ 
40c. Tobacco crop improving: prospect fair. 
Leaf tobacco market strong. 
Chicago, I1L: A stronger feeling in grain ; 
receipts fair; shipments heavy. Provisions 
more active; prices advancing. 
Minneapolis, Minn.—Weather variable in 
the Northwest. Heavy rains over much of 
the country retarding harvest work at a very 
critical time. No serious injury yet to wheat; 
but if wet weather continues it is feared it 
will sprout—danger mainly in Northern Min¬ 
nesota and Dakota. New wheat arriving: 
of excellent quality. Oat crop never equalled. 
Prospects for a good corn crop improved dur¬ 
ing week...... 
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1882, 
the total number of acres of public laud dis¬ 
posed of was 15,699,848, an increase over last 
year ol about 5,000,000 acres. The cash re¬ 
ceipts for this land amount to about $8,361,- 
091, as against about $5,000,000 during the 
last fiscal year. The number of acres entered 
for agricultural pui poses as “cash sales" dur¬ 
ing the year amounted to 3,699,899 acres; for 
mineral purposes, 3,706,810 acres; for desert 
lands, 166,055 acres; for coal lands, 7,194: 
6,347,729 acres were entered under the home¬ 
stead laws, while 2,216,244 were “proved up” 
under the same laws; under the timber culture 
acts, 2,609,797 acres were entered and “proved 
up;” under the various land warrants, rail¬ 
road grant, school and selection acts, (inclu¬ 
ding various kinds of scrip,) 615,866 acres were 
disposed of. The great increase in the dispo¬ 
sition of public lands during the last fiscal 
year is said to be owing to the large immigra¬ 
tion in the Northwest. In Dakota the increase 
is more noticeable than in any other State or 
Territory. The area of cash sales in Dakota 
alone was 698,094 acres, and the homestead 
entries in the same Territory were more than 
2,000,000 acres. 
The Royal Commission appointed to re¬ 
port upon the condition of British agriculture 
has fulfilled its mission. An immense amount 
of evidence was taken, all pointing to the 
general public opinion that bad seasons and 
foreign competition have combined to produce 
the farmer’s present position—the first caus¬ 
ing the loss in produce, the last that in value. 
Formerly farmers were compensated for short 
crops by higher values, but this has been all 
changed by competition. Some English 
authorities find comfort in believing that this 
pressure will not be so great hereafter, owing 
to the increasing values of labor and laud in 
the West; and it is asserted that, since the 
English Government ordered the inquiry, the 
prices of English wheat and beef have risen 
in spite of American competition. 
Col. W. C. Knight, an eminent agricul¬ 
turist of the Old Dominion, is now editing, 
with great ability, the Southern Planter at 
Richmond, Va... 
Harvesting weather throughout France is 
said by the Paris Bourse of August 7 to have 
been favorable to that date. Late storms had 
resulted in no damage. The Southern and 
Eastern regions, which contribute about 40,- 
000,000 hectolitres of grain, will probably 
yield more than an average crop of excellent 
quality. The Western and Northern regions* 
which average 60,000,000 hectolitres, have 
suffered some from the rain, but with fair 
weather during the month may be relied on 
for the quantity mentioned. In quality it 
will not rank so high.. 
-- 
Capt. W. H, Jordan, of the Bremer 
County Horse Importing Company of Waver- 
ly, Iowa, passed through this city this week 
with a large importation of Cleveland Bays 
and some 20 draft stallions. The Clevelands 
attracted special attention. Their beautiful 
bay color; their similarity of form and va¬ 
rious characteristics denoting purity of blood, 
made them look every-inch a stylish and pow¬ 
erful breed of carriage horses. The large 
draft horses were also greatly admired, and, 
taken altogether, the company have some¬ 
thing to be proud of. On Monday they will 
be shipped to Waverly, Iowa.— Adv. 
♦ ■ 
♦Ladies of all ages who suffer from loss of 
appetite, from imperfect digestion, low spirits 
and nervous debility, may have life and health 
renewed and indefinitely extended by the use 
of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedies. We 
have not only a living faith in Mrs. Pinkham, 
but we are assured that her medicines are at 
once most agreeable and efficacious.— Adv. 
-- 
Diamond Dyes are so perfect and so 
beautiful that it is a pleasure to use them. 
Equally good for dark or light colors. 10 cts. 
— Adv. _ _ _ 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per box.— Adv. 
For bilious fevers and malarial disorders 
use Ayer’s Ague Cure. Taken according to 
direction, its success is guaranteed.— Adv. 
--- 
To act on the liver and cleanse the bowels 
no medicine equals Ayer’s Cathartic Pills.— 
Adv. 
---- 
DON’t Due in the house. Ask Druggists for 
“ Rough on Rats.” Clears cut rats, mice, 
weasels. 15c.— Adv. 
--- 
See Johnson & Field’s Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement, issue of August 26, page 591.— 
Adv. 
DANDRUFF 
Is Removed by the Use of Cocoaine, 
And it stimulates and promotes the growth of 
the hair. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are the 
best.— Adv. 
&\}£ i^liuhcts. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, August 26. 
Chicago. — Wheat strong; regular, $1 06@5 
1.06%, August; 99%@99%c., September; 98%, 
October; 99c., Novembei; 98%c., all the 
year; No. 2 Red Winter, $1.06@1.00%, cash; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, $1.07, cash; $1.07@ 
1.07%, August; No. 8 Chicago Spring, 92c. 
Corn unsettled at 77%c.@77%c., cash and 
August; 76%c.@76%c., September; 74%c., 
October; 71%c., November; 66%@66%o., all 
the year; rejected, 76o. Oats active, firm 
and higher at 41%c., cash, 4l%c., August; 
36%e , September; 859ac., October; 35%c., 
all the year; rejected, 37c. Rye firm at 
at 67%c. Barley easy at 91%c., Septem¬ 
ber. Flax-seed firm at $1.31. Butter steady, 
with a fair demand. Hogs —Market strong 
and active; prices fully 5c. higher; quality 
poor: mixed, $7.75@8.55; heavy, $8.60@9; 
light, $7.80@8.60; skips, $5@7.60; the mar 
ket closed strong. Cattle— Market active; 
desirable grades stronger; exports, $7.20@ 
7.75; good to choice shipping, $6.60@7.10; 
common to fair, $4,-10(5,6.20; mixed butchers 
active and firm at $2.50(24.00; stockers and 
feeders, $3<g4.25; range cattle active; better 
qualities stronger; cauners only steady; Tex¬ 
ans, $4.15@5, half-breeds, $4.75@5.80; Texas 
cows, $3.40@3.90. Sheep— Market slow and 
weak on account of unfavorable Eastern ad¬ 
vices; common to medium, $3@3,6Q; medium 
to good, $3.70@4; choice to extra, $4,20@ 
4.40. 
Cincinnati, O. —Wheat strong and ac¬ 
tive; No. 2 Red Winter, $1.02, spot; $l.03@ 
1.08% August; $1.04% November. Corn firm; 
No. 2 mixed, 80c., Bpot; 75%@76c. October; 
66%@GG%c. November; 64@64%c. all the 
year. Oats weak; No. 2 mixed, 43c. Rye 
strong at 75c. Pork higher at $22.75; Lard 
dull at $18.25. Bulk-meats strong, shoulders, 
9%c. ; clear rib, 13 %c. ; bacon strong and 
higher; shoulders, 10%c.; clear rib and clear, 
15%c. Hogs firm; common and light, $0@ 
8.35; packing and butchers, $7.75@8.80. 
St. Louis.—Wheat opened strong, but 
under the influence of other markets became 
unsettled, and closed weak and lower; No. 2 
Red Fall, 98%c.(5 $1.00%, cash; 9$%c., August; 
98%c., September; 99%e., October; $1.00%, 
November; 98%c., all the year; sales at 98% 
@99%c., August; 98%(299c., September; 99% 
@99%c., October; $1.00%<§?1.01, November; 
98%(298%c., all the year; No. 3 Red Fall, 94 
@96%c.; No. 4 do., 91@92%c. Corn opened 
higher, but closed lower at 77@77%c., cash; 
77c., August; 74%c., September; 70%c., Oc¬ 
tober; 64%c., November; 60%c., all the year; 
59%c., May. Oats unsettled at 88%@39c., 
cash; 34%c. bid, August; 34%e., September; 
34c., all the year. Rye firmer at 65@G0c. 
Cattle. — Market active and firm, with 
butcher grades constituting the larger part of 
the offerings; canning Texans, $3.25(^4.00; 
good to choice, $4.00(24.50; native cows and 
heifers, $3.00(24 00; butcher steers, $8.50@ 
$4.50. Bulls, $3.00(23 50; light shipping steers, 
$4 50@5.00; heavy do., 5.50@6.50; exporters, 
$G.50@7.25; Western half-breeds, $4.25(55.00. 
SnEKP—Good demand at easier prices; me¬ 
dium to fair muttons, $8.25@3.75; good to 
choice, $5<g4.50; Texans range at $3.00@4.00. 
Sheep—Stock, $2.50@3.25; lambs, $2.00@3.50. 
Hogs strong and in fair demand; pigs and 
light Yorkers, $7.50@8.00; good Yorkers, 
$8 15@8.40; butchers’ to best heavy, $8.40@ 
9.00; grassers, $7.0C@8.10; culls, $6.25@7.40. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
N«w York, Baturday, Aug. 26,1882. 
Brans ant> Peas.— Demand not very active, and, as 
a rule, confined to the ordinary run of Jobbing par¬ 
cels, with buyers figuring close on cost. In some In¬ 
stances there is a disposition to withdraw supplies 
where quality is in any way attractive. 
Beans, marrow, IBs! prime, $3.2l>jp3.25; do. fair to 
g ood. *1 •’ . no. medium 1881. choice, fi 75(«2 SO; 
o. fair to good,'$25lk*>2 65; do. pea, 1881. choice, #3 53 
3 60, do. fair to good, $3 25<a)3 50; do. white kidney, 
1881. choice. $3.Wait'*; do. do. fair to good, $3.21) 
6M.S0 do. red kidney. IH81. choice. $2 85; do. 
do., fair to good, $2-0X62 60; do turtle aoup, $2.30; 
do. foreign oea beans. $3 U0(ijg3 25; do. do., medi¬ 
ums, $1.65&1.61 j; do do., ordinary, $1.40(5)1.60; do., 
California lima, $ 4 . 00 ; Peas, green, 1881, prime, $ 1.15 
<gil.50. do. do , poor to good, $1 2o@L33: do. Southern, 
b. e. P two-bush., bag, $ 1 .C 0 . 
BitRADSTtws a no Puo visionk. — The market” for cash 
grain have generally been fairly active. There has 
been a good demand for cash wheat, but buyers and 
seller* were generally too much apart a* to price for 
an extensive business. The flour market Is slow, 
and us far as deinund Is concerned there Is no Im- 
puremeut; rye Hour Is firm. Corn meal moderately 
active demand; oat meal quiet. There has been an 
upw rd movement of values in provisions. 
The total exports from New York for last week 
were of pork 3,019 bbl.; bacon and hams 3,384,77? ib. 
lurd, 1,494,928 It.. 
Prices for flour, natal and feed.—No. 2, $ 2 .!xk», 3 . 75 , 
latter extreme: superfine, $3,60*41.0); latter extreme; 
common to fair extra suite, $1 0QCM.83; good to fancy 
do., $ 4 . 90 ) 67 ,.V; Common to good extra Western. 
$4 !w$S 30) good to choice. $> 25-48 50: common, to good 
extra round hoop Ohio; $1 04.t5.3LV good t•> choice do., 
$5.2507 50; common extra Minnesota $-1 65^5,90; clear. 
$ 6 . 2 * 817 . 25 - rye mixture. $5. $>3)6.25; bakers' extra, 
f G(ft7 50; straight, $A75«<t? 75; patent. $6 76(3(8,50; St, 
,onls common to fair ex Ira, $l.x.V&5.25: good to very 
choice family $5 30 38 .-. patent Winter wheat extra, 
$6,754(68.25: city mill extra Tor West Indies, $5.60t s t6; 
Mouth America,$6OOejfl.25: patent, $7.25968. Southern 
flour-common to good extra at $4.9005.75; good to 
choice do., $5.8ik®7.75. Kyo Hour—Superfine. $3,60i«4. 
latter an extreme Corn meal steady—Brandywine, 
$4.70. Yellow Western, quoted, $l.QivjM 50. Feed. 40 
Ib. Divas)?ijc; 60 It- $1.05*1.lb, middlings, $1,20*1.50. 
Kye feed, $1,35. 
Prices for grain.—W ukat, ungraded Winter red. 
$1.0t*L13in; steamer No. 8 red, $1.09: No. 3 red, $! 13 
*1,1344;steamer. No 2 red. tl.lljd; No. 2red, it.UU 
*1 MW for certificates $1.19*1.15)6 delivered mainly 
«t $1.15*1.15%; mixed Winter, $i l«W; steamer mixed 
Winter, $1 10 ; steamer No 1 white, $1.15: No. 1. white, 
$1.16^*1.17: No 2 red August, I.MUflU.lIJ: do. Sep. 
tember $t llWi@1 154*: do. October, $1. iB)** 1.164* do. 
November, $1 16W<«1 17J4i do. December. $11741* 
l.lHtfc; do seller the year. $t.l4k<iS»t. 14)4. Rvk quiet, 
firm, 74*78c: Canada and State, car-lots and boat¬ 
load*. No 2 Western.78Wc Cons-Uncraded West 
ern mixed. 87*90c: posted mixed. 8 S 4 ie; yellow 
Southern. Me. on dock, No. 2, white Me. No. 2 mixed. 
91c. In store, 92hie. delivered; No 2 mixed August, 
90)4*010! do. September, H75(i'3O7)<0: do October, 
WiV4*80 l .(ej do. November. SHvOtg.Hfce: do December, 
78)4c: do. seller the year, ?6»^(Si7b58e. Oats— No. 3, 
54W*56J^o: No. 2, 574j@59o: No. 1. quoted, 59o; 
No. 8 white, 65c; No. 2 white, 70<3>71o, No. 1, quoted, 
