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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 21. 1882. 
Washington has “comet parties.” The 
guests assemble at four a. m. and view the 
comet until the sun rises. Refreshments 
are served to t he comatose assembly. 
St. Paul, Minn., is one of the most prosper¬ 
ous cities of the Northwest. During the Inst 
two years its wholesale trade has increased (10 
to 100 per cent. 
A blast of 5,700 tons of powder was recently 
fired at Steaven’s Camp, on the Oregon ami 
California Railroad. The effect was tre¬ 
mendous. It tore down the side of a moun¬ 
tain, dammed up a creek for a mile, and 
blocked a wagon road for a distance of 
half a mile. 
In the Vermont House of Representatives a 
bill has been introduced providing that con¬ 
demned prisoners be rendered insensible be¬ 
fore execution. 
Under a ruling of the Supervising Inspec¬ 
tors of Steambouts at Chicago, tugboats are 
prohibited from taking adrowniug person on 
board under a penalty of $.500 for each case. 
How humane! 
Fifty Mormon bishops have left Salt Lake 
City on a proselyting tour to Norway,Sweden 
and Denmark. This is the largest, number 
of bishops that ever left in a body to prose 
cute missionary work abroad. They will not 
venture into Germany, being deterred by the 
opposition to missionaries who went there. 
The members of the New York State As¬ 
sembly will not occupy the new Assembly 
rooms this Winter until the repairs are made 
that are necessary to safety. 
Geo. C. Miln, who recently left the pulpit 
for the stage, appeared as Hamlet at the Grand 
Opera House in Chicago on the 1 Otb inst. 
Mr. Henry Vfllard, the President of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad, has offered to en¬ 
dow Oregon University with $50,000 if the 
State will increase its annual legislative al¬ 
lowance from 82,500 to 85,000. 
The body of Miss Adelaide Phillips, the 
well known smger who recently died, is to be 
interred In the Marshfield (Mass.) buiying 
ground, a few rods to the south of the Web¬ 
ster tomb. 
The fastest long run by railway ever made 
west of Chicago was that by the Burlington 
special train which brought the Vauderbilt 
party from Burlington to Chicago 207 miles, 
at the average rate of 59 miles per hour. 
Yonkers, N. Y., has been celebrating its 
bicentennial this week. The Phil ipse Manor 
built in 1682 by Frederick Philipse. was the 
center of attraction. 
“Cedar Croft,” Bayard Taylor’s homestead, 
near Konnett Square, Pennsylvania, has been 
sold at auction under a peremptory order of 
sale. Some time ago the farm lands were 
sold, and now the remainder of the lands, 
with the homestead have been disposed of 
for $14,050. 
An oak tree at Woodbridge, Connecticut, 
is believed to be from one thousand to eighteen 
hundred years old. It is twenty-seven feet in 
diameter, and. crowning a hill, can be seen 
for thirty miles A celebration was held 
under its branches recently, at which ex- 
Governor English presided. An association 
to preserve the tree was formed, and several 
hundred persons participated in a collation. 
The School Board of Cincinnati is just now 
being upbraided for permitting a child of the 
jauitor of the Eighth district school to lie and 
perish of scarlet fever in the building. No 
less than thirteen hundred children were 
thereby exposed to the disease. 
It seems to Vie generally believed in Georgia 
that Ben Hill's place in the Senate will be 
captured by Governor Colquitt. 
California has Republican, Democratic, Pro 
hibition and Greenback tickets in the field, 
and will soon have another to be called “anti- 
slickens.” The refuse from mines is called 
“slickens,” and the ticket will be put-up by 
those whose farms and other property are in¬ 
jured by its accumulation ne/ r the streams. 
President Arthur entered his son at Prince¬ 
ton College, Princeton, N. J., this week. He 
made a speech to the students declaring much 
confidence in Princeton. 
Wild ducks dashed themselves against the 
electric lights at Fairfield, la., during a storm 
Monday night, extinguishing all but one. 
Nearly 200 ducks were picked up in the 
streets. Quite a duck story 1 
There are 7,134 survivors of the war of 
1812 on the pension rolls and 24,661 widows 
of survivors. 
General Custer presented to New York city 
a buffalo calf which he captured at Smoky 
Hill in 1868. It grew to bo au enormous ani¬ 
mal, and was called “Big Ben.” Several 
years ago Ward, the sculptor, used him as a 
model, and pronounced him the finest speci¬ 
men he ever saw. “Big Ben” died on Tuesday 
night in Central Park. 
Mr. O’Connor, a bank president at Knox¬ 
ville and the wealthiest man in the State, 
shot and killed General Mabry, who had 
threatened his life. Along came Joseph. A. 
Mabry, jr., who shot and mortally wounded 
his father’s slayer and w as himself killed by 
O'Connor just before he died. The perform¬ 
ance of the tragedy took two minutes, and 
had its origin in trouble about a transfer of 
property. 
The old post office site and property in New 
York has beeu sold for 8650,000, to Herman 
H. Camrnan, who purchased it for the Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. 
The consumption of beer in this country is 
said to ha about 16,000,000 barrels a year, or 
two-thirds of a barrel for every able-bodied 
American citizen. Enthusiastic advocates of 
beer estimate that the day will soon come 
w hen the consumption will be 50,000,000 bar¬ 
rels a year. 
The excess of the government receipts over 
its expenditures for the first quarter of the 
current fiscal year is estimated at. $39,461,000. 
It is believed that the surplus for the year will 
bo from ninety to one hundred millions. The 
pension payments have not been as large dur¬ 
ing the first quarter as they will be in the re¬ 
maining quarters. The large expenditures 
on account of the River and Harbor bill are 
yet to be made. 
In five States—Oregon, Maine, Vermont, 
Ohio and West Virginia—the elections for 
members of the Forty-eighth Congress have 
been held. These have in the present House 
of 293 members, thirty-two Representatives 
—twenty-two Republicans and ten Demoerts. 
In the next House, which will have a mem¬ 
bership of 325. the same States will have, as 
now, thirty-two members, Maine and Ver¬ 
mont losing and Ohio and West Virginia 
gaining one each. Politically they will stand 
sixteen Republicans and sixteen Democrats— 
a net Democratic gain of six. 
T. O. Howe, Postmaster-General, declares 
bis belief in the near possibility of cheaper 
postage without making the postal service a 
burden to the general Government. 
The block of stone for the Washington 
monument to be contributed by Nebraska is 
four by six feet and bears the State’s motto 
and coat-of-arms. 
In the old hail of the House of Representa¬ 
tives in Washington, each State is allowed 
space for two statues or busts of its prominent 
sons. Hitherto Ohio has not used either of 
her niches. This defect is now roost fittingly 
remedied, as, at the last session of the Ohio 
Legislature, a bill was passed appropriating 
810,000 for a statue of General Garfield, to 
be placed in one of the spaces allotted to Ohio. 
Some of the most prominent sculptors of the 
country are competing for the work. 
In the 43 counties in Ohio, full returns from 
which are reported, the Prohibition gain is 
994, and the loss 2,693, making a net loss of 
1,699. In the counties reported they have 
made their largest gains, the indications being 
that they have suffered more in the 45 coun¬ 
ties to hear from. It Js thought, therefore, 
that the Prohibition vote of the State will not 
foot up much over 12,000. Last year Ludlow, 
Prohibition candidate for Governor, received 
16,597 votes. 
The oldest living graduates of Harvard 
University are Dr. William Perry, of Exeter, 
N. H., and W. R. Sever, of Plymouth, Mass., 
both of the class of 1811. 
“Am Wonderfnlly Improved.” 
A gentleman in Coal City, Pa., who was in 
the first stages of consumption, having night 
sweats, cough and expectoration streaked 
with blood, with loss of flesh, ordered a Com¬ 
pound Oxygen Treatment in June last. In a 
letter dated August 22d, he makes this very 
favorable report: “ I am wonderfully im¬ 
proved, and when I look back on those hours 
of suffering at the commencement of your 
treatment, I can hardly believe my eyes. I 
am Increasing in flesh and strength, and my 
lungs are wonderfully developed, if not quite 
well. * * * Last Saturday I walked up a 
high hill on my way home without coughing 
once, a thing 1 have not done since last 
March.” Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, 
its nature, action, and results, with reports of 
cases and full information, sent free. Drs. 
Starkey & Pajoen, 1109 and 1111 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 21, 1882. 
With regard to the French harvest, the Lon¬ 
don Standard’s Paris correspondence says 
that, although the total quantity, namely, 
112,400,000 hectolitres, exceeds by more than 
9,000,000 hectolitres (about 26,000,000 bushels) 
the production of au average year, the qual¬ 
ity is so far below the average as to make the 
actual value of the yield less than that of an 
averagecrop .... 
Mr. James Caird, the authority on agricul¬ 
ture, estimates the requirements of Great 
Britain for foreign wheat from the 1st of Sep¬ 
tember at 15,500,000 quarters (124,000,000 
bushels), or nearly 2,000,000 quarters (16,000,- 
000 bushels) less than were imported during 
the same period last year. Sir John B. Lawes. 
however, is disposed to think that the British 
requirements of foreign wheat will not be over 
112,000,000 bushels..... 
C. P. Bailey, of San Jose, Cal., Col. Rich¬ 
ard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga., and Col. Robert 
Scott, of Frankfort, Ky., are regarded as the 
goat kings of America, Mr. Bailey alone hav¬ 
ing a herd of 5,000 Angoras on his rauch in 
Nevada. Last year he shipped eastward 10,- 
000 pounds of mohair at 60 coots per pouud, 
and during the past two years he has sold 
$30,000 worth of goats.... 
Over $8,000,000 worth of cotton-seed meal is 
imported annually into Great Britain, and 
English grazers claim that through its excel¬ 
lence as food they can compete with Amer¬ 
icans..... 
Last year the Millers’ Associations of Min¬ 
neapolis handled about 10,000,000 bushels of 
wheat, requiring the use of $13,000,000. It 
has now in the field nearly 300 buyers, and 
expects to handle 18,000,0u0 bushels duriDg 
the present season. . .. 
The English apple crop is the “worst iu 10 
years;’’ that of Germany and Belgium “very 
poor.” The news from Canada is more hope¬ 
ful for consumers of this healthful fruit. 
Dr. George B. Luring is a handsome man 
and a pietty effective campaign speaker, but 
he could better employ himself in looking af¬ 
ter the crops as Commissioner of Agriculture 
than in stamping Massachusetts, says the 
Springfield Republican.. 
The Cape Cod cranberry crop will be very 
small this year—drouth.Professor Bur- 
rill. of the Illinois University says that further 
investigation has confirmed bis conviction that 
the yellows in peaches is due to bacteria. 
The annual report of the outgoing presi¬ 
dent of the Danville, (Va) Tobacco Associa¬ 
tion, delivered a few days ago, stated that 
the prospects of the new tobacco crop are 
very flattering Reports from various sec¬ 
tions of Virginia and North Carolina state 
that the quality and color are quite equal to 
those of the crop of 1880, “if not superior.” 
The crop in Virginia is placed at 90 per cent, 
of the average, and that of North Carolina at 
a full average..... 
A telegram of Oct., 19, from Iowa City, 
Johnson Co.,Iowaeays: “An extremely malig¬ 
nant form of hog cholera has broken out in 
this county. Jacob Seller has lost over four 
hundred head and will Jose many more. His 
neighbors also lose heavily. An examination 
made to-day shows that the animals are ema¬ 
ciated and almost covered with cancerous 
sores. The lungs seem changed to clots of 
corruption. Five pliysicans examined them 
aud pronounced the type of the disease new.” 
The National Agricultural Bureau’s figures 
on the decreased supply of hogs in the seven 
leading hog-producing States, are as follows: 
KentuqJJy, 25 per cent.; Ohio, 29; Indiana, 25; 
Illniois, 24; Iowa 20, ond Missouri 30. “ Other 
and high authorities” have placed the shortage 
at not over 10 per ceot. on the average; but 
the majority of the hogs reaching market 
come from the States named, and the prices 
offered would surely bring out all the hogs to 
be disposed of. The receipts favor the Agri¬ 
cultural Bureau’s figures, and good authori¬ 
ties believe them to be approximately correct. 
They place the average for the entire country 
at nearer £0 than 10 per cent. Great and wide, 
spread efforts are said to be making in the 
bog-raising regions to increase the supply, and 
with judicious feeding on cooked food and au 
economical use of corn for food, the belief is 
indulged that another season will witness an 
improved supply. Later advices are that the 
receipts of hogs at Chicago have largely in¬ 
creased, and that prices have suffered in con¬ 
sequence... 
The New York Silk Exchange proposes to 
establish a silk-producing colony in New Jer¬ 
sey, near New York city, where a practical 
test is to be made of the efficacy of intelligent 
and systematic efforts to “raise raw silk” in 
this vicinity. 
Our Park Board have decided to find out 
whether the men employed as gardeners are 
gardeners or politicians. The division gar¬ 
deners are to be examined horticulturalJy, 
agriculturally and arborieulturally by a 
special commission of experts. 
Newspapers throughout Kansas claim that 
there is an unprecedented scarcity of male 
help on the farm and female help in the 
kitchen... 
THE CROPS. 
Thk October report of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture nays the yield of wheat, estimated from results 
ot threshing, foreshadows a product slightly exceed¬ 
ing 500,000,OKI bushels, and possibly reaching 520,1X10,- 
000 bushels. The average yield per acre appears to 
be nearly PI bushels, on an average of slightly less 
than 37,000,000 acres. There Is a reduction of area In 
the Spring wheat region, and a large yield In the 
great Winter wheat growing bell of the West. Tak¬ 
ing the highest figures Indicated by these returns of 
yield, the distribution of the productlonklves 248,000« 
00 bushels, or nearly half the crop of the United 
States, to the six principal Winter wheat States— 
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kan¬ 
sas. The Spring wheat of the Northwest may make 
118,(XX),000 bushels. The Pacific Coast crop, which has 
been persistently exaggerated In commercial esti¬ 
mates, cannot much exceed 41,OCX),000 bushels. The 
Middle States produced about 40,000,000 bushels, and 
the Southern States slightly In excess of 50,000,000 
bUBlicls.... .. 
The average yield of oats will be somewhat higher 
than last year or in 1879, and the product nearly as 
large as that of wheat, probably about 480,000,000 
bushels, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin, Mis¬ 
souri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kausas are 
the States highest In rank in production... 
The average yield of rye, averaged from the State 
returns, Is 14 7-10 bushels, making a crop of 20,000,000 
bushels, or nearly the same as reported by the census. 
It Is Indicated that the average yield of barley 
will be about 23 bushels per acre, aggregating 45,000,- 
000 hushels. California, New York, and Wisconsin 
together produce more than half, or 27,000,000 bushels. 
The product In 1879 was 44,000,000 bushels. 
The prospect for buckwheat Is good for nearly the 
average produet, ll or 12 million bushels. Pennsyl¬ 
vania produced nearly half of the crop, and reports 
95 as the average ooudltiou, 1U0 representing the full 
normal yield. New York makes an average of 75. 
No other State produces half a million bushels. 
The general average condition of potatoes Is 81. In 
the South, In the Ohio Valley, and In Michigan, ails 
sourl, and Nebraska the average is 100 to 106 . In the 
Northwest, and In the Eastern and Middle States, the 
condition 1 b lower. It Is70 in New York, 85 In Maine, 
and S4 In Vermont. The returns Indicate a probable 
yield of 80 bushels per acre on au area of nearly 
2 , 000,000 acres.. 
The yield per acre of corn will be reported in 
November. The condition averages 81, being very 
high In the South and comparatively low In the 
States of largest production. In Illinois with 8 per 
cent decrease In area, the condition Is only 72, In 
Iowa TO, and in Ohio 87. The three States produced 
40 per cent of the crop or 1879. A careful comparison 
of changes in area aud condition lndl ates an aver¬ 
age y leld of 25 bushels per acre, against 18 last year. 
The average of a series of years Is between 20 and 27 
bushels. New England will produce, according to 
the October returns. 7,000,1 Xu) to K,IAX),IX 1 ), the Middle 
States S2,O0 O,ixj 0, the Southern 810000,900, and those 
north of Tennessee and west of Virginia and Penn¬ 
sylvania 1,250.000,000, an aggregate of 1,680,000, 1 00 
bushi Is. Later returns may slightly reduce, but can. 
not materially Increase, this estimate. 
The cotton returns indicate unusual size and vigor 
of plant, aud capacity for a large production- The 
late development of fruitage and reported Indications 
of a small top crop limit the otherwise extraordinary 
pros eet The coincidence appears of the aamo gene¬ 
ral average ot the condition In 18SI and 1882 for June, 
July and August-89 92, and 94 respectively. During 
August and September, In 1881, the condition fell 
from 94 to flit, but In the same period this season to 
88 only. This Is higher than for any October for ton 
years, with two exceptions—1875 aud 1878. 
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Remarkable Testimony.— July 16, 1881, 
the Chicago Tribune published three columns 
of interviews with leading and most exten¬ 
sive horse dealers of New York and Chicago, 
in which there is au almost unanimous agree¬ 
ment that the grade Percberon-Normans have 
short backs, deep bodies, broad chests, aud are 
more compactly built than any other breed. 
That they have best feet for standing the hard 
work on pavements, more endurance, more 
style and action, best dispositions, giving bet¬ 
ter satisfaction generally to those buying 
horses to wear out, and sell for more money 
in the horse markets of the United States 
thau any other breed of heavy horses. Pure 
bred Percheron-Normaus are sold in large 
numbers by M. W. Dunham, of Wayne, 111. 
and who to date has imported from France 
and bred nearly 1,000 of this magnificent 
breed. He has about 400 on hand.— Adv. 
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Every lady should send 25 cts. to Straw- 
bridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, and receive 
their Fashion Quarterly for 6 mos. 1,000 illus¬ 
trations and 4 pages new music each issue.— 
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. 
Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
crows, chipmunks, cleared out by “ Rough on 
Rats.” 15e. per box.— Adv. 
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♦Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound 
strengthens the stomach aud kidneys and aids 
digestion. Either sex use with benefit.— Adv. 
- 
Ay'er’s Hair Vigor cleanses and invigorates 
the scalp; cures dandruff and itching; an ele¬ 
gant dressing —Adv. 
Renew and retain your youthful appear, 
ance by using Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair 
Renewer, the best article of its kind.— Adv. 
-- 
I3T” Twenty-four beautiful colors of the 
Diamond Dyes, for Silk, Wool, Cotton, &c., 
10 cts. A child can use with perfect success. 
— Adv. 
linruott’s Cocoaine 
Will save the Hair 
and keep it in a strong and healthy condition, 
because it will stimulate the roots of the hair, 
and restore the natural action upon which its 
growth depends. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are ab¬ 
solutely pure.—Adv. 
