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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. May 6, 1882. 
The May Music Festival, Tbeo. Thomas 
conductor, opened in this city on the evening 
of the 2nd inst. It was a pronounced suc¬ 
cess both artistically and financially it is 
said. Mr. Thomas and Mine. Materna, the 
Vienna prirna donna, were especially well 
received, this being the first appearance of 
the celebrated German vocalist In this coun¬ 
try. The chorus comprised over 3000 voices 
and the orchestra 300 performers. It is esti¬ 
mated that over 7000 people were in attend¬ 
ance the first night. The concerts were 
seven in number. 1 he rent paid for the 
Armory building in which the festival is held 
is $10,000. 
The aggregate receipts of the government in 
nine months were $300,000,000, and the sur¬ 
plus is $105,000,000. The heavy receipts are 
accounted for by the heavy importations of 
foreign goods. 
The executor of the Lewis will made an ex¬ 
amination lately of the securities depos¬ 
ited in the Newark Savings bank by the es¬ 
tate. They amount to $1,400,000, which will 
be turned over to the United States treasury 
to be applied to the extinction of the nalional 
debt as the will directs. 
The Garfield monument commission announ¬ 
ces that the responses have been so liberal as 
to warrant the assurance that the work will 
be consummated. While a suitable structure 
can be erected with the funds on band or 
promised, it is proposed to open subscription 
lists in every city and town of the United 
States on Decoration Day toallow the pub¬ 
lic to contribute to a more elaborate monu¬ 
ment. 
An attempt was made on the lives of Wil¬ 
liam H. Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field re¬ 
cently by means of explosives through the 
mails. Fortunately the dangerous character 
of the packages was discovered on the way to 
the post-oifice station, whence they were to be 
delivered at the residence of the geutlemen. 
The sixty-tbird anniversary of the in¬ 
stitution of the Independent Order of Odd- 
Fellows in the United States was Wednesday 
celebrated in various cities and towns through¬ 
out the country. 
The corner-stone of the new Hammond Li¬ 
brary building, to be erected with the pro¬ 
ceeds of a fund of $27,377 donated by Col. C. 
G. Hammond, of Chicago, and to form an 
adjunct of the Chicago Theological Seminarj', 
was laid Thursday morning with appropriate 
ceremonies. 
A mass meeting of the women of the State 
of Indiana who want to vote has been called 
to meet in Indianapolis on the 19th inst. 
The appropriation made by the State for the 
expenses of the Immigration Commission at 
Castle Garden, N. Y., has been used up, and 
the Legislature has failed to make further 
provision for the same. The expenses are 
about $20,000 a month. At a meeting of 
the Commission last Tuesday Commissioner 
Forest offered to provide a fund for the pay¬ 
ment of the salaries of the employees pending 
the action of the Legislature. 
It;is stated here that Judge Hilton has 
determined to convert the immense floors of 
the Stewart stores into neat offices. 
William H. Vanderbilt owns $60,000,000 in 
government bonds. He has received from the 
Secretary of the Treasury a check for the 
quarterly interest thereon, amounting to 
$475,000. 
It is stated that to repair and put in con¬ 
dition the thirty war vessels that need it, will 
cost $3,173,000, and the time is variously esti¬ 
mate! at from two to eighteen months. The 
most powerful gun in actual service is the 
eight-inch muzzle-loading rifle (converted), 
whose actual power at 1,000 yards distance is 
to perforate a plate of solid wrought iron 
eight and one half inches thick. Its range is 
10,280 yards at thirty-nine degrees elevation. 
It carries a ball weighing 180 pounds, dis¬ 
charged with thirty-five pounds of powder. 
There are fifty-one such guns actually avail¬ 
able for service. The cost of repairs on vessels 
since 1865, is $23,075,000 »nd the total cost of 
vessels in the navy is set down at $72,345,778. 
It is said the trustees of Cornell University 
will erect a drill hall, opposite the gymnasium, 
to coat from $15,000 to $20,000. It will be 
used for the military drill in inclement 
weather and possibly for the commencement 
exercises. 
There are reports to Po’keepsie from the 
interior of a heavy white frost Tuesday night. 
The next morning plowed land was frozen 
two inches deep* and ice was visible on the 
roadside pools Serious damage to budding 
fruit is feared. 
The following distinguished Americans are 
over seventy years of age: Thurlow Weed, 
85; Charles O’Connor, 78; David Dudley Field, 
77; Charles Francis Adams, John G. Whittier 
and Jefferson Davis, each, 74; Oliver Wendell 
Holmes and Cornelius K. Garrison, 73; Jere¬ 
miah S. Black, Robert Toombs and Pbineas 
T. Barnum, 72; Wendell Phillips, 71; Judah 
P. Benjamin, Alexander H. Stephens and 
Horatio Seymour, 70. 
The old Senate Bible, which mysteriously 
disappeared three weeks ago, was found by 
Assistant Doorkeeper Bassett, one morning 
recently, on the Secretary’s desk, where the 
purloiner had secretly replaced it. 
In consequence of the exhaustion of the ap¬ 
propriation for fuel, light and water, IS em¬ 
ployes of the New York Post Office building 
resigned. 
The late Gen. William Sutton, of Massachu. 
setts.has bequeathed his Masonic library to 1 he 
Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts, and 
his agricultural books to the Farmers’ Club of 
West Newbury. 
Horace Maynard, at one time United States 
Minister at Constantinoj le, and Postmaster 
General under President Hayes, died suddenly 
of heart disease at Knoxville, Term., on the 
2d inst. 
A terrible fire at Racine, Wis., is reported 
as we go to press. The fire, according to 
the account received, has burned that section 
bounded by the lake on the East, by the river 
on the South and Weft and by Fourth street 
on the North, which comprises about nine 
blocks, but not the finest ones in the city. 
The loss will probably be from $1,500,000 to 
$2,000,000 on this property. 
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“ Surprised at Her Recovery.” 
A gentleman at San Marco, Texas, writes, 
October Sth, 1880 : “ My wife’s case is the 
most decided, cure of Consumption I have 
ever seen. She had been coughing for two 
years with an occasional hemorrhage. For 
four or five months had been having fever all 
the time, expectorating profusely; so much so 
that she could not sleep at night, having 
night sweats, and reduced so in flesh and 
strength that she could barely leave her bed. 
She was attended by the best physicians in 
the State, but without any good results. Two 
Home Treatments of Compound Oxygen 
cured her, and for eighteen months she has 
been in better health than for many years. 1 ’ 
Treatise on “Compound Oxygen” sent free. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 aud 1111 Gi¬ 
rard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 6,1882. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are briefly condensed from telegrams received 
here witbin the last 24 hours :— Portland, 
Me. Meats of all kinds very high and scarce. 
Farmers preparing an increased acreage for 
planting throughout the State. Boston, 
Mass: Wool, stiffer and brisker. Stocks much 
reduced, and supply will be about exhausted 
when new clipcomes into market. Negotiations 
now in progress for new clip in South and 
some sections of the West. Growers have 
high views as previously indicated. As high 
as 25c. has been paid for unwashed wools in 
Mo. Probability now strong that owing to 
competition buyers will offer prices that will 
ot be afterwards realized at seaboard.... 
hiladelphia, Pa: Wool, if anything, a 
aade firmer. Good demand for dairy aud 
irm products. Foreign potatoes bringing 
etter prices as supplies run light; 22,500 bags 
rere received this week in condition unfit for 
se owing to detention of steamer in Atlantic 
je-floe. Grains very irregular with sharp 
uctuations in prices. Stocks of all kinds less 
ban 400,000 bushels. Louisville, Ky: 
.eaf tobacco active. Low grade fillers have 
dvanced lc, during the past fortnight. Bur- 
jys bring full figures, prices ranging up to 
2%c. for fine fillers and cutters and 26c. for 
sincy cutters. An early movement in wool: 
tedium unwashed quoted at 25c. Cattle mar- 
et very easy under free receipts of heavy 
loppers. Chicago, Ill: The mo3t suc- 
ussful wheat “ corner” even worked here 
losed with the end of April. A11 the ‘ * short” 
ales were settled except a trifle of about 400,- 
00 bushels. The profits of the “cornering” 
lique must have been about $1,000,000. 
Vheat market now uneasy through fear that 
hey will unload 3,000,000 bushels of wheat 
hey have here in store. Feeling will continue 
intil after May 10 when new storage rates 
mist lie made. Interest centering in corn 
‘deal”, oats standing next in popularity. 
Reports that wheat is beiug shipped to in- 
and millers as far west as Minnesota. 
Preeed’g Cor'sp’d'g 
week, week 1831, 
“heat. 
its... 
r* v — 
irley. 
Latest 
dates, 
bush. 
10,577,513 
8.4(17 247 
2 . 
, 1,092,759 
009.185 
bush. 
10,809,461 
8,319.520 
2,222,247 
941,298 
044.034 
bush. 
13,526,122 
13,034,799 
3,101,200 
389,587 
1,276,178 
various 
ETROIT, Mich. Late advices from 
ctions of Mich., state that, judging from up 
iaranees, this season will witness the largest 
heat crop known. Late frosts have c .used 
image to fruit; some say two-thirds of the 
sach crop are ruined; but the genera indi¬ 
cations promise a fair yield of all crops. 
Many fields plowed, some already sowing 
Spring wheat and oats. A large acreage of 
Spring crops being put in. Country collec¬ 
tions unusually prompt_ Milwaukee, Wis. 
Warm weather and rains good for agricul¬ 
ture. Wheat strong and active. Country col¬ 
lections poor... .Minneapolis, Minn. Weath¬ 
er cool in the Northwest during past week, 
with somo severe frosts, but favorable for 
wheat seeding, which has progressed satisfac¬ 
torily' and is nearly completed on high ground, 
and progressing rapidly on low. Flood in 
Red River Valley is subsiding, and wheat is 
being sown in lower Valley. Much bottom 
still overflowed, causing much suffering and 
loss to emigrants on the way to Manitoba, as 
railroad travel is interrupted and people are 
huddled together in much discomfort under 
tents, etc. Large wheat crops expected in 
Manitoba and Dakota. Old wheat mov¬ 
ing more freely—receipts here last week 
241,000 bushelB. Immigrants arriving here 
faster than they can be sent for¬ 
ward. The R. R. Co. has erected 
barracks for temporarily sheltering them. 
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[New York Spirit of the Times.] 
THE WAY OF THE WORLD. 
The trite saying that “ not one-half of the 
world knows how the other half gets along” 
is exemplified in innumerable ways and in¬ 
stances, And this is not to be wondered at; 
for as the world grows older and, we trust bet¬ 
ter, the increasing wants engendered by a 
progressive civilization render farther division 
of labor indispensably necessary, even in the 
humbler avocations of life. It is a fact, rec¬ 
ognized by r all observing men, that almost 
every trade or pursuit induces some special 
disorganization of the system characteristic 
of such avocation, presenting the paradoxi¬ 
cal result of a man killing himself, as it were, 
to live. Such being the disagreeable and un¬ 
fortunate condition of affairs as related to 
human effort, it is very obvious that any 
means of warding off the very undesirable 
consequences referred to, must be a source of 
extreme joy' and satisfaction to the toilers of 
the earth, as well as of vast profit, in the ag¬ 
gregate, to the activity and industry of the 
world. These observations were suggested upon 
recently bearing of a case of “ water rheuma¬ 
tism” so called. Any type of this dreaded 
disease is severe, and often agonizing, its ap¬ 
proach is sometimes insidious, but more fre¬ 
quently, however, it is the result of cold, and 
often develops in a few hours or days at most. 
It is surprising to consider how many people 
are afflicted with it, and how serious a tax 
upon their time and resources it is in many 
instances. No branch of industry seems to 
ba free from its disastrous influence, as the 
following experience related by Mr. George 
Drake, 46 and 48 Oak street, Indianapolis, 
Ind., goes to show “ I am now, and have 
been employed in buggy-washing in a livery 
stable for two years. My calling requires me 
to be in the water for hours at a time, and I 
contracted what is called, in our occupation, 
water rheumatism. I used a dozen different 
remedies without any benefit, aud was getting 
mightily discouraged when I noticed a refer¬ 
ence in a local paper to an article called 1 St. 
Jacob’s Oil.’ I thought I would try' a bottle, 
and did begin its use. I found it gave me im¬ 
mediate relief, and after employing four bot¬ 
tles of the Oil I am entirely cured. I have per¬ 
sonally told my friends that are in the same 
business, and they all say' that it is doing the 
same for them that it did for me. The com¬ 
plaint I speak of is a very severe one. When 
I began the use of the Oil I had laid off from 
work on account of the pains resulting from 
working in the water. I will continue to use 
the Oil, and I know I can work in water by 
its use all the balance of my life without any 
bad results. This experience and information 
may be of service to others working in the 
same pursuit as that in which I am engaged, 
and I cheerfully give it for the benefit of all 
so situated.” Wheuever there are horses or 
carriages there must be an abundant use of 
water; and as already shown, one of the re¬ 
sults of constantly working in the water is 
the disease called “ water rheumatism.” It is 
certainly' a matter of especial congratulation 
not only for these workers, but for all work¬ 
ers—for all mankind really—that such an 
efficacious substance exists as the Great Ger¬ 
man Remedy. And we also have positive 
word and assurance from old and experienced 
horsemen that St. Jaeol>3 Oil is the very best 
remedy ever introduced for the ^uick relief 
and cure of many' of the ailments of “ man’s 
best friend,” the horse. Thus, if double effi¬ 
cacy, so to speak, constitute an argument for 
the adoption of an article, this famous sub- 
substance is most certainly' entitled to full 
consideration .—A dv. 
Lydia E Pinkhatn’s Vegetable Compound 
will at all times, and under all circumstances, 
act in harmony with the laws that govern the 
system. Address Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 
233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for cir¬ 
cular.—Adv. 
“ Rough on Rats.” Ask druggists for it. 
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, bed-bugs, ver¬ 
min. 15c.—Adv 
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Tender Itchings in any part of the body 
cured by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. ’Tis the 
best.—Adv.. 
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The attention of our readers is called to the 
Manure Spreader advertisement on page 22. 
—Adv. 
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Premature Loam of the Hair. 
May be entirely prevented by the use of 
Burnett’s Cocoaine. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their perfect purity and 
strength.—Adv. 
SPECIALS FROM THE CHIEF CENTERS 
Up to Saturday May 0. 
Chicago.—Wheat dull and unsettled; No. 
2 Chicago Spring, $1 27@$1 27%, cash; $1- 
27%, May; $1 29%, June; $1 28%, July, $1- 
17%(ff'$l 17%, August; $1 06%, all the year; 
No. 3 Chicago Spring, $1 15@1 IS; Rejected, 
90c.@$1. Corn active but unsettled at 74%c., 
cash; 74%c. (iy74%c., May; 73%c. (</ 73%c., June; 
74c., July; 74%o., August; C0o,@B0%o., all 
the year; Rejected, 72c. Oats dull, weaker, 
and lower at 53c., cash; 53%c,, May; 53%c., 
June, 46 %c., July; 38%c.@38%c., August; 
35%c.@35%c., all the year. Rye 82c. Bar¬ 
ley steady at $1 08©$ 1 10. Flax seed dull; 
merchantable, $1 36(g$l 38; Rejected, $1 32. 
Butter quiet and weak; Creamery, 22c.@26c; 
fair to choice Dairy, 12o.(«,32c. Hogs5c.@ 
10c. lower than yesterday; common to good 
mixed, $6 20@$7 40; heavy packing and ship¬ 
ping, $7 45@$7 80; light, $6 85@$7 40; skips 
and culls, $4 50(7£$6 60. Cattle market 
steady, with a fair demand; exports, $7 30@ 
$7 80; good to choice shipping, $0 80(2$7 20; 
common to fair, $5 75®$6 60; low grades 
plentiful and ver 3 T weak; mixed butchers’, 
sluggish and 10c. lower; poor to fair, $2 50@ 
$4 50; choice to extra, $5®5 50; grass Texans 
weaker, common to fair, $4@$4 50; good to 
choice, $4 75®$5 75; stockers aud feelers, 
$3@$5 10; large supply and light demand. 
Sheep market dull and w'eak; inferior to fair, 
$3 90@$5; medium to good, $5 75®$6 50; 
choice to extra, $5 00®$7 25. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, May f>, 1882. 
Beans AND Peak -Business in brans Ik fair for the 
season and prices arestrong for all prime state stock. 
German arrive freely and Beetu quite readily placed. 
Peas held (Irm ut late prices. 
Beans, marrow, prime. 64,23; do. fair to Rood, 63.90® 
4.IS; medium, choice, 6-3.1 '@3.50; fair to good, $3.10® 
3.35: pea, choice, 68.45563.00; fair to good, 63.l<@3.35; 
white kidney choice, £1 IS',14.211: fair lo good, 68.75a 
4.10 red kidney,choice, 62f*@2.S«'-. fair to good.62.40® 
2.75; turtle soup, gi.7UAl.75; German prime, 2.750*3.00; 
ordinary. $2.090172.50; Uultrnrnla Limn, $1.50. 
Peas, ‘greeu, prime, 614'<*1.45; poor to good, $1.20 
(<$1.55, Southern b. e., per 2-bU. bag, 63 75491.00. 
BRKAOsvurrs and Pbovirtoxs.—O n’chauge the mar¬ 
ket hue been called a "weather market.'' Tim tape 
bus been intently vvutehod In order to ohtnln n speou- 
latlve prop but'nothing of permanent Import has 
followed. The market closes weak for both wheat 
and corn as Liverpool orders have been more or less 
modified If not actually cancelled- Dais also oARler. 
Flour holds up well In high grades. Low qualities 
are feeble. For provisions there Is solid sort of tone 
Induced by moderate supplies, but business must 
soon revive to support, It. Some bacon has been 
retunied from abroad. 
Prices for Hour, meal and feed.—Quotations: Klour, 
No. 2 , 63"7*4.1'.'; Stale and Western, superfine. 64 0)@ 
6.15; City Mills. 66 ^y:<*S.*i; Spring wheat, extra. 63.00® 
6 . 01 ); do bakers', 66 . 7 ft 498 .tW; patent, $'.19(39.25; Ohio 
round hoop shippers, 6X7596.50; do., trade brands, 
$6 0 l@fi.71; itt. LemK, extra, 6SA8*6.50; double extra, 
66 . 5069 ? "I; family. 67@7.15;Minnesota, clear. 68®?.90: 
Honthern, extra, shipping, gil.liWj.Ti-, do. XX and 
fuiull V, $fi.5o@tv?5; rye flour, superfine, 64.60®-’'corn 
meal, Brandywine, gt.SOcud.W; western, 64 . 3 S 4 sl. 50 ; 
wheat feed, 4016. * ton, 623,U(@35.U(t;60 %. do.. SfikOO® 
26,00; KlUIb. do., 6'2!i.UO®31.UO; rye feed, 24.00. 
Prices for grain—Wheat, No, 2 Spring, 6l.3649l.44; 
Spring, 61,10491.-13; red Winter No. 2, $7 *' red 
Winter, $t.l7@1.4!); white Western and State, $1.30® 
@1.43 Bye, 90@95c. Oats, white No. Ck;No. 2, 
CiJ'jC.: Su. 3, ffftc.; mixed. No, l, oub.e.; No, 2, GO® 
6)Wc.: No. 8 Corn, Western, mixed, ?6opSJJc.; 
do. No. 2. white Western, 90@91c.; yellow, 
Southern. 87@ssc,: white Southern, U7@'.«k\; yellow 
Western. at*-6e. Barley, Canada, No. l,il.ll@f.lAjdo. 
•'bright," g. 15541.16; Slate, t rowed, 61,05491.111, do. 2- 
rowed. *9<e.«l. 6. malt, state, 2-rowod, 61.(1001.0$; do. 
4-rowed. 6bt >®l’)5: do. Canada, 61.2501.40, 
Prices for provision* Pork, old mess, $18,00; do., 
ex. nvss. 613.UO@I4.00; packet. do.'$15.50@16 (*'; ramily 
mess, 14@14.DU; city extra Indiana mess, $27.00028.00.; 
Beef hams, new 6 '5.fiU@25.75; Cut meats pickled 
shoulders, 10c. pickelrd bams, ISWfo.: smoked 
shoulders, lOJpjlllc.: smoked hams, 14 h@15c.; Long 
elear, lie; Lard—Prime Steam spot, H.52>u<3il 1.55c, 
Refined quoted, ires. 
Butter.— Useful table old, went out so clean this 
Spring that current, trade uses up all receipts of new 
promptly. Prices have ruled unexpectedly strong 
ail (he week for state, (the bulk of arrivals) nothing 
as yet shows grass. 
Creamery, fauev, 37 v, choice, 80@3tp; fair to good, 
38029c; ordinary, 24@260.; State half firkin tubs, fancy, 
28@29e; choice., 2<i@2?e.; prime, 2l@2k!.; fair to good, 
22@23\: Welsh tubs, choice, 27®2Hfi.i fair to good, 25® 
iifc.; Western Imitation creamery, 21037©.; dairy 
choice, 24® 20c.; good to prime, 214923c.; ordinary 
to fair, lfxmSOc.; Western factory choice, current 
make, 22@23c,; fair to good, do- 19021c.; ordinary, 12® 
180 .; 
CitKKSE.—The market Is unsettled on new slock and 
prices arc quoted as high as they will stand. The 
market, however, is not dead, hut unevenness of 
quality checks free sal ■«. Old lias a peddling trade 
at ubout former rales. 
New Cheese, State factory, Hull cream, 12®I2)4c.; 
fine, U@llfc(e.: medium, 90UIJ-4C.: poor to fair, (i'itKjJo.; 
Creamery skims, fine. 5)4®6c.; skims, fair, 4W@5o.; 
ordinary, 2@4e. Old Cheese, State rue lory, fancy 
selected, home trade, 18; choice, U14@l2Wu.; prime, 
10@1); fair to good, 8®9>Jo.: ordinary, 6®7lfO.: West¬ 
ern, Peat, prime, O&'tfio&o.; fair to good, 
7S9o. 
Cotton.—T he week Is a noted one for dullness. 
Neither foreign or home orders have appeared in 
volume enough to infiuonce prices to any certaint 
