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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. April 15, 1882. 
John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., a wealthy 
gentleman, has decided to create a fund of 
$1,000,000 to be known as the “ John F. Slater 
fund,” for the education of the freedmen of 
the South. The fund is to be vested in the 
hands of trustees, who are to apply the income 
according to the instructions of the donor. 
Mrs. Gam Wah, the first Chinese woman 
ever seen in the courts in this country, was 
the complainant Tuesday last against Ah 
Yanne, indicted for felonious assault with 
intent to kill Gam Wah. He was found guilty 
and sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison. 
Ah Yanne has already served nine years 
for murder committed in California. 7 he 
woman excited much curiosity. 
Immigration from Italy continues to in¬ 
crease. The largest number of Italians ever 
brought to this country in one vessel ar 
rived Tuesday in the Elysia—930. There 
were 3,070 immigrants landed at Castle Gar 
den that day. 
Reports from various parts of Indiana in 
dicatethat a hard freeze has killed fruit. 
A syndicate of New York gentlemen has 
bought 120,000 acres at the head of naviga¬ 
tion of the Yellow River, Montana. A large 
city named Billings has been laid out and 
nearly all the lots sold. 
The effect of the star-route exposures is seen 
in a surplus of $078,425 of postal revenues for 
the quarter ending with the old year. This 
was the first quarter since the war in which 
the department has been able to show a surplus. 
There was a deficiency of $685,015 for the cor¬ 
responding quarter of 1S80, and the revenues 
for the quarter ending with 1881 exceeded 
those of 1880 by $1,449,626, while there was 
an increase of only $11,180 in expenses. 
There is still an immense quantity of water 
in the lower Mississippi valley, but at nearly 
all points the river is falling and the situation 
is rapidly improving. The favorable change 
was felt in the northern part of the submerged 
district a number of days ago, and has ex- 
extended to the Gulf and through nearly all 
the overflowed streams coming in on the west. 
There i 3 still a good deal of suffering and 
many persons require help, as they will for 
some time to come, but the panic is ended and 
there is a more cheerful talk about the crops 
The elder of Horace Greeley’s two daughters, 
Mrs. Ida Smith, died last week of diphtheria 
at Chappaqua, the old family home on the 
Hudson. She was about 30 years old, and 
was widely known and liked among her father’s 
friends. She had inherited much of the great 
editor’s strength and firmness of character. 
The Guiteau bill of exceptions makes a 
pamphlet of 39 pages. There are 32 exceptions 
as to matters occurring up to the time when 
the case was given to the jury, and exceptions 
also to the rulings of the court denying a new 
trial and overruling the motion in arrest of 
judgment. In the charge of Judge Cox no 
less than 36 clauses are made the subjects of 
exceptions to rulings on questions h bout the 
prisoner’s swindling propensities and his al¬ 
leged insanity. The appeal of Guiteau has 
been set down for Monday, the 24th. Lawyer 
Reed will ask for two weeks more time. Let’s 
have an end of this foolery—a rope’s end, for 
instance! 
P. T. Barnum has recently brought to this 
country an “immense” elephant, “Jumbo” 
by name. He cost $30,000. When he was 
transferred from the dock to Madison Square 
Garden, 16 horses and four elephants were re 
quired to draw him. 
Henry Moett, the Taghkanick murderer, 
whose trial has been so long pending, at Hud¬ 
son, N. Y., pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 
the second degree, and he was sentenced to 
prison for life. 
The book upon which Guiteau has for some 
time been engaged has just been printed. It is 
entitled, “ The Truth, and the Removal.” It 
contains numerous letters of sympathy, which 
the author says he has received, including 
more than thirty pages of communications, 
fx-om young women in New York city. In 
his preface the author says: “ If all other 
remedies fail, I shall boldly appeal to the 
Presideut for relief under my own hand.” 
Further on he says: “ I bad rather go to glory 
in June than to Auburn prison for life.” 
Upwards of two thousand immigrants ar¬ 
rived at Winnepeg, Manitoba, within 24 hours, 
on the 11th inst., on regular and excursion 
trains. For hemestead lands 400 entries were 
made in ten days at the Turtle Mouutaiu Land 
Office. 
Hon. Charles Francis Adams was victimized 
by a party of conspirators in Boston, Mass., 
last week, to the amount of $19,000. Mr. 
Adams is seventy-five years old, and his men¬ 
tal powers have been failing for some years. 
Adelina Patti returned to Europe last week, 
taking with her $100,000 as her share of the 
proceeds of the 34 entertainments at which she 
has appeared since she came to this country 
last FalL 
It is reported this morning that the well 
known house of A. T. Stewart & Co., of 
this city is to discontinue business, and 
offer their merchandise and mill properties 
for sale. The retirement of the firm has been 
expected for some time by the dry goods 
trade. The exact financial status of the con¬ 
cern is not yet announced. When A. T. 
Stewart started in business in 1822 be had 
between $1,200 and #1.500 capital and his store 
was 20x30 feet in size, but when he died in 
1876 his retail store covered an area of 2% 
acres and was eight stories in hight. He had 
12 woolen, silk and thread mills, several facto¬ 
ries at Nottingham, England and Glasgow, 
Scotland, numerous branch bouses at Paris, 
Lyons, Berlin, Belfast and other foreign cities. 
Mr. Stewart’s estimated wealth when he died 
was $30,000,000. An army of 2.000 men were 
employed at the retail store when the firm 
determined to close its doors. 
The Ohio Senate, Thursday, passed the 
Smith bill closing all saloons and drinking 
places Sunday, The Sunday bill becomes a 
law as soon as the house concurs in a few 
trifling Senate amendments. In Cincinnati, 
Cleveland, Columbus and other large cities 
hundreds of thousands of dollars have been in¬ 
vested in Sunday resorts. All these are wiped 
out by the Smith bill, to say nothing of the 
Sunday business of all saloons. 
George Washington Grant, the close friend 
of Longfellow, is to write a biography of the 
deceased poet. 
The popular branch of Congress, by a prac¬ 
tically unanimous vote, nonconcurs in Senator 
Edmunds’s attempt to restore the franking 
privilege, and the fact constitutes a remarka¬ 
ble tribute to public opinion. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 15, 1882. 
The Cold Snap. 
Early telegraphic reports of the late wide¬ 
spread cold snap greatly exaggerated the 
injury to crops, especially the leading cereals. 
The following very brief condensations of late 
telegrams will give an idea of the extent of 
the cold and the damage done by it:—Boston, 
Mass. Late cold snap has done little damage 
to fruit and other crops-Wilmington, Del. 
Reports from all the chief points in the peach 
belt of this State show that growers are in 
good spirits. Although ice formed three- 
quarters of an inch thick, very little injury 
has been done to the peach and other crops. 
In April ’80 there was a severe frost, but the 
peach crop w'as unusually abundant-Fred¬ 
ericksburg, Va. The peach crop of Northern 
Virginia h«s been slightly injured by freezing 
weather... .Richmond, Va. A heavy froston 
the 13th killed all the early fruits, such as 
apricots, peaches and strawberries-Cincin¬ 
nati, O. There was a snowstorm Monday, and 
the thermometer was down to 20 degrees on 
two nights. The small fruits are all killed; 
peaches are greatly injured, but apples, cher¬ 
ries, pears and plums are not seriously hurt. 
Fear is entertained about wheat, which had 
jointed, but the truth cannot be known for 
some days. The plant does not appear to be 
injured. The damage has been much lessened 
by cloudiness and absence of hot sunshine. 
The freeze has caused some speculative inquiry 
for dried and canned fruits, and prices have 
stiffened, but transactions are light. 
_Columbus, O. The cold snap has been 
disastrous to the fruit, and especially to the 
peaches. Secretary Chamberlain, of the State 
Board of Agriculture, thinks that the crop is 
badly injured, if not entirely spoiled. The 
farmers report that the wheat is heavily dam¬ 
aged.Wheeling, W. Va. Despatches 
from points in W. Va., Ohio and Penn, show 
that the cold snap has damaged the early ap¬ 
ples, peaches and small fruit. Grains unjured, 
_Indianapolis, Ind. The unexpected cold 
spell and frost have put the fruit crop in jeop¬ 
ardy, and it is thought that peaches and Bmall 
fruits will prove a failure. The damage to the 
growing wheat is now thought to be less than 
at first predicted, and that the injury will 
be slight_Louisville, Ky. Fruit and vege¬ 
tables are not seriously injured by the cold 
Bnap. The wheat in many places grew so rap¬ 
idly during the mild Winter that it is now far 
advanced, and the most experienced farmers 
fear that it is seriously hurt.. 
_Chicago, Ill. The reports as to in¬ 
jury of wheat by the slight freeze of Monday 
night are regarded here as exaggerated, and 
they have had little influence on the market.. 
South Haven, Mich. The prospects in the 
fruit belt are flattering, aside from the slight 
damage to early and small fruits from the cold 
snap.. .St. Louis, Mo. The cold snap has cer¬ 
tainly injured fruit, bit the reports of ex¬ 
tensive injury to Winter wheat are proving 
exaggerated.... Fargo, Dakota. The late snow 
and rain storms have putt ck farm operations 
all through the Northwest. The rivers are all 
booming and most of the country too wet for 
work.... 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
within the last 24 hours:. 
Boston, Mass:—Wool dragged heavily dur¬ 
ing the week. Manufacturers buying only 
for immediate wants, and shopping around for 
bottom prices. Dealers anxious tosell, though 
prices rarely cover first cost and expenses of 
handling and carrying. Less confidence in 
an advance before the new clip comes into 
market. Interior reports indicate higher 
opening prices than those now current at sea¬ 
board. Unshorn Ky., wools have already 
sold at 25c. and with freight added they 
wouldn’t fetch so much in Eastern markets. 
Next series of colonial wool sales w'ill open in 
London on May 15 with about 350,000 bales... 
Philadelphia, Pa.: Little-grain here—less 
than 215,000 bush., all told. No exports. Com 
and wheat are 3@4c. higher than last week, 
and oats 6c. higher and scarce at that. Cotton 
steady, but spinners buy sparingly. Wool 
dull, but not lower than last w'eek. Butter is 
5c. per pound lower and tending downwards 
on increased supply. No cheese except the 
usual small quantity from Penn, creameries. 
More activity in farm products, and potatoes 
are higher. Hog products firm. 
Cincinnati, Ohio: Hog products very firm, 
with marked increase in prices. Wheat and 
corn steadily advancing in price. Oats unu¬ 
sually strong. Rye and barley scarce and 
firm, with an advance of 2@5c. 
Chicago, lfl.: A heavy speculative trade in 
grain, with higher prices for corn and oats. 
Shipments of these have been heavy, and the 
stock of grain on hand has been notably re¬ 
duced, except in case of wheat. Hog pro¬ 
ducts very strong, and two large packiug 
houses have ordered stocks back from Liver¬ 
pool, to take advantage of better prices here. 
Armour & Co. have bought American pork 
heavily in the Antwerp market, and for the 
present are holding it there. 
Latest Preced'g Cor’ap'cPg 
dales, week., week 1381, 
is far superior to logwood. The other colors 
are br.lliant.— Adv. 
We are strongly disposed to regard that 
person as the best physician who does most to 
alleviate human suffering. Judged from this 
standard, Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 Wes¬ 
tern Avenue, Lynn, Mass., is entitled to the 
front rank, for her Vegetable Compound is 
daily working wonderful cures. Send for 
circular to the above address.— Adv. 
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Flies, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice, 
cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” 15c. per 
box.—Ada. 
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Burnett’* Cocoatne. 
THE BEST OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS. 
It allays irritation, removes all tendency to 
dandruff, and invigorates the action of the 
capillaries in the highest degree, thus pro¬ 
moting a vigorous and healthy groivth of 
hair. Its effect upon the glossiness and rich¬ 
ness of the hair is such as cannot he sur¬ 
passed. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are the 
best.— Adv. 
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Fearless Threshing: Machine. 
We call the attention of farmers and thresh- 
ermen to the the advertisement of the cele¬ 
brated Fearless Threshing Machine, elsewhere 
in this paper. Unparalled honors have been 
bestowed upon this machine, at fairs and ex¬ 
hibitions, State, National and International; 
and, if universal victory at trials is evidence 
of superiority, then most assuredly was an 
ex-President of the New 5 ork State Agricul¬ 
tural Society correct, in saying of the Harder 
Machines, “they are the best ever made.” 
And, as equally good and reliable testimony 
has been borne times without number, persons 
designing to purchase will do well to consult 
the manufacturer of the Fearless, Minard 
Hai'der, Cobleskill, N. Y.— Adv. 
bush.’ bush’. bush. 
Wheat. 11,732,326 12,im,735 20,723,131 
Corn . fi,yl 3, ■ 48 9,690,651 13.169,414 
Oats."..... 1529,799 1,102,691 2,m3sS 
Hve * . 939,083 995,941 44 1 ,491 
Barley..,* .. 933,243 1,030,9;4 1,760,(172 
Louisville, Ky. : Hog products going up. 
Leaf tobacco steady, with no new features. 
Cotton in good demand.. 
Detroit, Mich:—Country roads so bad as 
to greatly impede or entirely hinder traffic. 
TV heat market bullish, with large transactions 
in “ future." Corn scarce and held by specu¬ 
lators. 
Milwaukee, Wis:—Weather pleasant. 
Wheat strong and active, with heavy milling 
demand from the interior, causing a rise of 
May wheat to $1.28. which is %c. more than 
Thursdays’s figures aud l%c. higher than 
Monday’s. 
St. Louis, Mo.,—Grain markets quite ir¬ 
regular. Hog products advancing: livestock 
in small supply and selling well... 
Kansas City, Mo.—Crop advices through 
this section continue favorable. Rains so 
far sufficient. Cattle in good condition, hav¬ 
ing wintered better than for several years, 
Minneapolis, Minn. : Weather throughout 
the Northwest unseasonably severe even for 
the middle of April. Wheat sowing progress¬ 
ing rapidly in most sections, but it will be late 
before it is completed, even w ith a good sea¬ 
son. Immigrants crowding hither and being 
sent forward to the Northwest as fast as tran¬ 
sportation can be f urnished. Spring trade the 
largest ever known in the Northwest. Coun¬ 
try roads still in bad 6hape. River at flood 
tide, and a further riseexpeeted. River traffic 
open to St. Louis. Lake transport facilities 
doubled for the coming season. 
San Francisco. Copious rains have ren¬ 
dered the crop prospects excellent. Bread- 
stuffs very firm......*. 
Baltimore, Md,: Speculative transactions 
in grain very heavy. Receipts of oats very 
large, but prices remain Ann. Hog products 
have an upward movement. A good season’s 
trade in canned goods expected. 
New" Orleans, La.—Reports from the Miss 
issippi Valley show the waters are slowly re¬ 
ceding. The lower part of the State west of 
the Mississippi—the chief sugar raising section 
of the country—is nearly all under water. 
Sugar plantations, * bich so short a time since 
promised richly, are now devastated by the 
floods. Planters and laborers are not only 
rendered houseless, but in too many instances 
they are deprived of food and the commonest 
necessaries of life. Their stock is worn and 
emaciated by hunger and exposure; fences, 
implements, and gear have been washed away 
and destroyed. The loss to the sugar interest 
has already been placed at 75,000 hogsheads. 
It is estimated that at least 100,000 people who 
were lately maintaining themselves have been 
compelled to exist on charity or by govern¬ 
ment aid...... 
jgpNo family Dyes were so popular as the 
Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The Black 
<Xl)f iUavhcts 
SPECIALS FROM THE CHIEF CENTERS. 
Up to Saturday April 15. 
Boston. — Corn— No. 2 and high mixed at 
89@90c.; steamer mixed and yellow at 88@ 
90c.; no grade at 87@89c. Oats —No. 1 and 
extra white at 67@C8c., and 70c. for choice; 
No. 2 white at 65c ; No. 3 white at 626*630., 
and No. 2 mixed at 0057 61c. pet- bush., as to 
quality. Feed— Shorts at $25@26 per ton; 
Fine Feed at$26@27; Middlings at $24@18 per 
ton, and Cotton Seed M-«l at $29@30 per ton. 
Hay and Straw —First qualify coarse East¬ 
ern and Northern at $20@21 per ton; poor and 
medium at $12@18; Rye Straw, $15@17 per 
ton; Swale Straw-, #9@10, and Oat Straw at 
$9@10 per ton. Butter— New York and 
Vermont, choice, at 38@40c.; do. do., fair to 
good, 35@87c.; do. do., common, 25@30c.; 
New Western, choice creamery, 42@44c.: do. 
fair to good, 20@33c.. Old Butter—New York 
and Vermont, choice, 24@25c.; do. do., com¬ 
mon to good, 18@23c.; Canada, choice, 20@ 
25c.; do. common to good, 18@23c.; Western, 
12@l8e. Cheese— Factory choice, 13}$@14c. 
per lb.; fair to good, 10@12}$c.; and skim, 2@ 
8c.; Western factory choice, I3@l3}$c.; fair 
to good, 10@12c.; and common, 5(ft Sc.; Wor¬ 
cester Co. choice, 12<fi 13c., and good, 9@tlc. 
Eggs— Eastern at 10@l9>$c. per dozen; North¬ 
ern, l9@19}$e.; Western, 18>$@l9c.; per doz. 
Beans— Northern hand-picked Pea at #3 65@ 
3.70 per bush.; do. New York, $3(77.3 65; do. 
common, $2.S5@3.45; medium choice, #3.60@ 
3.65; common to good. $2.80@3.35; \ellow 
Eyes, #3.75(0^3.20; Red Kidneys, $2.75@2.90; 
Canada Peas, 85c.@$l.l0 per hush, for com¬ 
mon to choice; Green Peas, $1.20@1.65. Po¬ 
tatoes —Aroostook Rose at $1 15@1.20; Maine 
Central Rose, $1.15; Northern Rose, $1.10@ 
1.15; Jacksons, 80(ff,90c ; ProliAcs, $1.15; Peer¬ 
less, 85(gj95c. per bush. Onions at$2@3.25per 
bbl. Apples a* $l.50@3 25 per bbl. Cran¬ 
berries, $10@1G for Cape and Country, as to 
quality. Seed— In Calcutta Linseed nothing 
has been done and prices are nominally $2.05 
@210 per bush. Flaxseed is higher at #1.40 
per bush, for Western. Grass Seed are steady. 
Clover Seed at 8<d 0c. per lb. for Western and 
New- York; Timothy, $2.60@2.75; Red-Top, 
$3 60 («j 3.70 per bag; and Canary Seed, #1.70(7? 
2.25 per bag. 
Chicago.— Wheat.— Excited, No. 2 Chicago 
Spriug, $135® 1 36, cash; $136, 8 Chicago 
Spring, $1 10K@l 13}$; rejected, 78c.@82c. 
Corn. —Active at 73%c (<t75%c., cash; 73}|o. 
@74c., April; 77%@77>.pv, May; 75}$e., June 
and July; rejected, 74c. Oats.—S trong 51 bjO., 
cash, 51 %o. Muy; 50c, June; 46>£e., July; 
38^4c., August. Pa-E.— fairly active at S2c.@ 
84c Barley.— quiet, but firm, at $1 10. 
Flax-seed.— Moderately active; poor to good 
oushiug, #1@1 35; choice Western sowing, 
$1 40@1 50. Hogs. —Common to good mixed, 
$6 60@710; heavy packing and shipping, #7 10@ 
7 65; light, $6 G5@7 10; 6Kips and culls, $5 50@ 
6 50. Cattle. —market very active and rather 
