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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. May 27, 1882. 
At. Moorobead, Minti , on tho 22nd ult., the 
temperature reached five degrees below 
freezing, ami before morning an inch of snow 
hud fallen. In St. Vincent there was also 
a heavy xno a . In Bismarck there was a 
strong northwest wind, cloudy weather, and 
the thermometer registered 29° above zero. 
The storm extended generally over the fur 
Northwest. On Saturday night there were 
slight snowfalls on the Brockenridge division 
of the Manitoba line, reports to that effect 
having been received from Howard bake, 
M miles from St. Paul, Grove City, 84 miles, 
aud Herman, 178 miles. At Grand Forks, 
Duk., a violent northwester brought an inch 
of snow, with tho thermometer at 30°. 
The General Term of the Supreme Court of 
the District of Columbia has announced its 
decision overruling the exceptions in the 
Guiteau case and affirming the judgment 
of the Criminal Court. The decision was 
read by Judge James, all tho Judges concur¬ 
ring in it. Mr. lteed it is said has obtained 
the necessary signatures of Guiteau prepara¬ 
tory to the habeas corpus proceedings. Gui 
teau is constantly watched night and day. 
He does not want a minister and says he is 
fully prepared to step over the line from earth 
to paradise without any eut tidy assistance 
Justice Haguer recently carried up to the 
Senate the old family Bible that belonged to 
Augustine Washington, father of Gen. George 
Washington, which was sent to him and 
placed in his custody for safe keeping and to 
exhibit, to Congress. It contains the family 
record of births and deaths, also the time of 
baptism of the children. It passed into the 
hands of Mary Washington, tho mother of 
George, who wore the goods of which the 
cover was made. She ga ve it to her d mghter, 
Bettie Lewis, of Fredericksburg, and she 
passed it over to her BOH, Robert Lewis, and 
be presented it to Bett^ B. Bassett, who now 
owuh it, and has had tho Bible in her posses¬ 
sion for the past forty-six years. 
There landed at Now York on Monday al¬ 
most 7,000 persons, aud last week Over 17,000 
arrived. The arrivals is the first half of this 
month counted up to 42,21ft, against 32,420 in 
the same period lust your, and the total number 
of immigrants who have reuched New York 
from Europe since January 1, is 180,591, a 
gain of 43,000 over last year’s record for the 
same period. Many of those who come with¬ 
out aim stay in New York, or drift oil into 
New England or tho Middle Atlantic States. 
The majority are ticketed through by enter¬ 
prising railroad and steamship companies to 
the Northwest. 
The S euate has passed the bill for the relief 
of the officers and crew of tho United States 
steamer Monitor who participated in the 
action with the rebel iron clad Merrimao in 
March, 1862. Tho urnount of appropriation is 
stated at the actual value of the Merrimac at 
the date of tho action, not exceeding *200,000, 
The recent discovery of native copper sev 
enteen miles south of Laramie City, IV y. l er., 
is causing great excitement, choice specimens 
sent to Denver aHsuying *8,000 to the ton in 
silver. 
The Legislature of this State has appropria¬ 
ted another *1,000,000 to carry on work ut the 
new capitol at Albany. Appropriations of 
*5,000 have already been made for repairing 
the “ cracks” in the walls, 
Tho American Association of the lied Cross 
is about to close up its relief work in the Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley. Professor J. B. Uubboll, of 
Michigan University, special ageut of the Red 
Cross, is now in New Orleans, having truv 
ersed the entire length of the valley, scatter¬ 
ing assistance among sufferers in an intelligent 
and systematic manner, and leaving behind 
him sub-agents to carry on the work begun by 
him, while he pushed forward to his destina¬ 
tion. Money, clothing, etc., have been fur¬ 
nished to many suffering and destitute fami¬ 
lies out of funds received by the trustees, Sec¬ 
retaries Folger and Lincoln and Commissioner 
Loring, while garden seeds have been shipped 
to Vicksburg by the associate society at Roch¬ 
ester, ts. Y. Large quantities of seeds have 
also beeu purchased at New Orleans by Fro 
lessor Hubbell and distributed by him among 
farmers in the lower portion of tho valley. 
Our government maintains 86,000 naval 
officers ut the same time that it refuses to main¬ 
tain a navy. We have sixty seven so-called 
“ serviceable” vessels. But the strange part 
of their alleged serviceability is that not a 
' siugle one of them is worth repairing. Four 
of these vessels cost the enormous sum of 
* 1 ,690,000 each, and forty eight *1,000,000. 
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 
State Convention, at Detroit, Mich., voted, 
Thursday, in favor of female suffrage—86 to 
47— after a spirited discussion. 
A bachelor named Tait, residing near 
Wabash, Indiana, has for many years declined 
to dispose of any of the wheat produced on bis 
farm. The idea has taken firm lodgement in his 
mind that he is to be married and be the father 
of a large family, and he iB just as ambit¬ 
ious to raise large crops and store them up us 
the average American citizen is to accumulate 
mountains of silver and gold. Mr. I ait is 
further jxissessed of the idea that a great famine 
will visR the land in the future, and that 
ho will then need every pound of his wheat 
to supply the wants of his family. 
Ground was broken Tuesday for the Garfield 
memorial church at Washington. The old 
frame has l>een moved to a lot near at hand, 
and services will be continued there till the 
i iew church is finished. A bout 80 members of 
the church assembled on the church site, and 
with simple and informal ceremony ground 
was broken for the new church which is to 
commemorate the death of President Garlield. 
There was no programme arranged for the 
occasion. 
The United States Government is about to 
obtain a large sum from a source of internal 
revenue not mentioned in tho laws and not to 
be placed under the head of conscience money. 
The long litigation about the will of Joseph 
L. Lewis, of Hoboken, N. J., who left his 
property to the government has been termi¬ 
nated, and *900,000 goes into tho Treasury as 
Mr. Lewis’s bequest. The pretended wife 
gets nothing, but certain heirs of Mr, Lewis 
in the West indies have received about *300,- 
000. The remainder is awarded to the United 
States, and bonds representing the amount 
have been placed in the hands of certain trust 
companies, subject to the ur<Ur of the Gov¬ 
ernment. 
'I’lio Story of A Great Discovery 
There appeared not long since, in the Chi¬ 
cago Weekly inter Ocean, a remarkable arti¬ 
cle with the above t itle, occupying nearly five 
columns of that able journal. It describes very 
clearly and with great particularity tho in¬ 
ception, development, and successful result of 
an effort by a thon .uglily educated and intelli 
gent American physician to discover an ele¬ 
ment, or combination of elements in nature 
which would, without a resort to drug-medi¬ 
cation, cure diseases through a restoration of 
weakened or exhausted nerve and life-forces 
to their normal condition. The scientific as 
pent of the discovery is so clearly explained 
in the article that both the learned and un¬ 
learned can see the basis of facts and legiti¬ 
mate deductions upon which to rest. Many 
uf the practical results already obtained 
through the use of this now vitalizing sub 
Btence, and in cases of tho most desperate 
character, where all remedies had failed and 
the most skillful physicians found themselves 
at fault, are given in the article, and its high 
value as a health restorer testified to by indi¬ 
viduals well and honorably known throughout 
the country, who have in their own persons 
proved its wonderful healiDg power. 
The paper referred to is written calmly, ami 
presents the whole subject in a way to arrest 
attention and bring conviction to almost any 
one who can reason from known facta uud 
natural laws, and weigh evidence with impar¬ 
tially. Tn order to give the article a still wider 
circulation limn it obtained through the 
source in which it first reached the public, it 
has been printed ill a neat pamphlet and will 
be mailed by Starkly & Falkn, 1109 aud 
111] Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa., to uuy 
one who will drop them a letter or postal 
card.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
within the laBt twenty-four hours : Boston, 
Moss. The seaboard wool markets are firmer 
under reduced stocks and n moderate demand, 
manufacturers being compelled, in spite of 
themselves, to meet the hardening views of 
sellers. New wool comes forward slowly. In 
.southern and South western markets holders 
don’t want to sell except at, prices higher than 
present seaboard rates would warrant. Little 
doing in the West and Middle States, as tho 
cold Spring has delayed shearing, bat grow¬ 
ers are very firm. A long Eastern dealers 
there are some fears that present rates cannot 
be sustained in face of increasing supplies. 
No Important change iu foreign markets. 
Bad weather for the last fortnight has de¬ 
pressed all sorts of business. 
Philadelphia., Pa.; Gotten dull; prices un¬ 
changed. Wool prices favor buyers, as new 
clip is late and stock on hand low. Grain 
exporters are doing nothing; feeling “ bear¬ 
ish,” and prices weak. “ Provisions” active 
at a further advance. Butter plentiful and 
declining. Potatoes active and higher owing 
to scarcity. Southern farm products very 
stiff. Delaware and Maryland strawberries 
plentiful and a few lots of Georgia peaches 
are already on tho market. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Corn dull with a downward 
tendency. Wheat still lower with light 
stocks in store. Country roads in bad condi¬ 
tion owing to recent heavy rains. ..Lou¬ 
isville, Ivy. Crops in this State are in prom¬ 
ising condition notwithstanding the cool and 
rainy weather. Advices from more Southern 
States say the wheat harvest now in progress 
there develops the heaviest crop ever known 
in that section. Leaf tobacco active at an 
advanceof in dark lugs; J-t’c. in good dark 
leaf, and lc.®2o. on Colony cutting leaf. 
Flour fairly active at a decline of 10c.(i{15c. 
on all grades..... 
Toledo, O. : Weather cold; crop prospects 
not good. Evansville, Ind.: Wheat in 
good condition aud prospects excellent. Some 
complaint of Army-worm in meadow aud 
corn. Springfield, HI.: The report 
of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, 
soon to be issued, gives a rather gloomy out 
look for the future meat supply. There is a 
limited number of farm animals in most 
counties when compared with the same date 
last Spring, and the inferior condition of the 
stock is reported as the result of the partial 
failure of tho crops last season, and the con¬ 
sequent high prices of hay aDd grain, which 
induced farmers in many sections to feed 
sparingly iluriug the Winter, with tho expec¬ 
tation that the pastures would bo as good as 
usual In the early Spring, and that stock 
would soon regain flesh and be up to the 
average in condition. The cold, backward 
Spring, and partial failure of grass, owing to 
the severe drought last season in Central and 
Southern Illinois, have disappointed feeders in 
obtaining the much needed supply of grass 
for stock. There is considerable reduction in 
the number of farm animals as compared 
with May 1, 1881. In many of the counties 
of the State tho high price of feed and the 
partial failure of crops in the southern part of 
the State necessitated the sale of much stock 
usually retained for breeding purposes. The 
homo and foreign demand for horses has in 
duced farmers to Bell at the prevailing high 
prices more horses than heretofore, thus large 
ly reducing the usual number in many conn 
ties. There has been cuasiderahle complaint of 
loss of horses by so called “ pink-eye,” and fre¬ 
quent abort ions are reported by horse breeders. 
Farm animals, while generally healthy, are 
much below an average in condition. Tho 
open wet Winter, muddy roads and feed- 
yards, with scarcity of feed, have made tho 
past season one of the moat trying for live 
stock of any year on record. The cold, wet 
Spring has been unfavorable for the usual 
growth of pasture, aud stock has not been 
doing well up to this date. 
Cora.planting has beeu delayed by frequent, 
rains, and tho cold weather has been unfavor¬ 
able for growth uud much of the early plant 
ed seed has rotted in the ground, mak¬ 
ing replanting necessary. Concerning the 
grain and grass crops, dispatches confirm 
the danger resulting to Winter wheat from the 
Army-worm iu the southern counties, whore 
the blades in many fields have already 
been stripped from the straw, tho worms feed¬ 
ing off the heads of late and tender varieties 
of wheat. Farm animals, owing to a Hcurcity 
of crops, are in a thin condition, and, with 
few exceptions, the number reported is loss 
than lost year at. corresponding dates. The 
past month has been cold and wet. The fre 
quent spells of freezing and thawing weather 
have been very trying to Winter grain aud 
grass, especially clover. The grass and grain 
crops on drained lauds have uot been injured 
perceptibly by the frequent severe changes 
during the pad. month. In some of the south¬ 
ern counties there has been considerable com¬ 
plaint of a scarcity of miu, and tho bard, dry 
ground has worked to disadvantage. While 
the growth of crops bus been slow and unsat¬ 
isfactory, vegetation has been retarded by the 
cold weather since April 11, up to which time 
the seusou was uearly one month iu advance of 
corresponding dates in previous years. I he 
reports indicate an improvement in tho con¬ 
dition of Winter wheat in all sections of the 
State. The wheat on drained lauds is much 
above an average iu condition, and has seldom 
promised a better yield per acre. The wheat 
on wet lands hus been injured by the excessive 
and continued rains, and wifi not make an 
average crop. In some localities, wheat was 
injured by the severe freezing weather of 
April 11 aud 12. Chinch-bugs in largo num¬ 
bers are reported in the wlieat iu various 
localitil's, but- as yet no serious damage hus 
resulted therefrom, owing largely to the 
frequency of the cold rains. The chinch-bugs 
have damaged tho wheat crop roost where the 
fields are adjacent to timber belts. Theleavos 
and accumulated rubbish provide shelter for 
those insects. The army-worm in some local¬ 
ities is at work on the wheat, and farmers are 
apprehensive of serious loss thereby. In the 
southern portion of the State wheat has been 
more generally pastured that heretofore on 
account of the failure uf the forage and grain 
crop of 1881. Pastured wheat, iu proportion 
to the cropping, will be light in yield and late 
in maturing. 
Detroit, Mich: Weather more favorable. 
Favorable reports as to Spring wheat sowing. 
Late frosts have done some damage to peaches; 
yet they and other traits promise well. Sup¬ 
plies of produce light. Potatoes jobbing at 
*1.50(3(1.60 per bushel. Provisions scarce; 
pork quotations advancing. 
Chicago, 111: The warm weather is causing 
farmers to forward corn that lias been held 
for feeding, and the receipts are exceptionally 
houvy. Shipments light except by water. 
The Wheat Committee In charge of fixing a 
price for defaulters in the April wheat squeeze 
have agreed upon *1.31 after balloting once. 
On the last day of April the settling price of 
“sellerwheat” was *1.40 while tho price for 
cosh or May wheat next day was *1.28@1.29. 
Tho April slmrtH defaulted to the amount of 
about 500,000 bushels, afterwards cut down 
to 400,000, and the Committee’s price will be 
the settling figure for about 350.000 bushels. 
The decision is looked upou as a hard blow at 
corners, and it is said that there is now at 
least a prospect for “ legitimate trade.” It 
is reported that tho late combination would 
appeal to the Directors. According to the 
rult, the decision of the Committee is final. 
The reading of the report on Friday morn¬ 
ing was followed by a break in the price of 
grain. The boys seamed to think that the era 
for manipulations was passed, and rushed 
into the markets to depress and slaughter. 
July wheat fell suddenly 3X routs from the 
highest point. The opening price was *L25>g. 
the top *1.25and the lowest price *t.22%. 
On the call it rallied to *1.24. Corn broke 2 
cents, selling from 70 cents down to OS, for 
June, aud in the afternoon at 67»i cents. Oats 
and provlrions were also lower. The bears 
were more numerous on the boards than for 
many months past. They Improved the oppor¬ 
tunity and forced a great many tailers on the 
bull side to sell out. 
Des Moines, Iowa; Reports have been re¬ 
ceived from points in uearly every county iu 
the State as to tho condition of the crops, 
They ure very similar throughout, the frosts 
and cold rains in the early part of the season 
putting the ground in bad condition. This 
was capped the night of Monday, May 23, by 
snow from one to four inches iu depth. 
Naturally this caused more or less damage, 
but uot such that favorable weather hereafter 
cannot repair. The worst results of the last 
cold snap are visible on fruits and vegetables. 
Little damage was done to small grain and 
wheat. Corn, oats, rye, and barley are re¬ 
ported in line condition. Corn planting was 
generally lute, and on account of the cold, wet 
weather much of it is rotting in the ground 
and will require replanting. In some places 
where the corn was up Monday night’s cold 
injured the tender plants. 
Minneapolis, Minn : The cold over the 
Northwest and Central States on Sunday and 
Monday last did no damage to crops in Minne¬ 
sota and Dakota. Fine weather now is bring¬ 
ing forward wheat rapidly. Farmers about 
through with sowing barley, oats and flux, 
and are well along with preparations for corn¬ 
planting. Prospects for good crops very sat¬ 
isfactory. Fruit buds aud early garden truck 
were nipped by the frost. No diminution in 
arrivals of immigrants. Nearly all ure well- 
to-do people. Railroads taxed to the utmost 
to furnish transportation for thorn aud their 
effects. 
The Northwestern Lumberman’s corres¬ 
pondence in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and 
in portions of Kansas, report that farmers 
are buying lumber quite liberally, in spite of 
the ext re ally high prices now current. This 
indicates prosperity ou the part of the farm¬ 
ers. The extensive purchase of lumber is 
more prevalent in Iowa aud Nebraska than | 
in the remaining States named, and this ar¬ 
gues to tho advantage of tho agriculturist in 
those States over his more southern competi¬ 
tors. Immigration into the Northwest is al¬ 
so having a direct effect in clearing out the 
country lumber yards. The daily 
papers have published accounts of the incor¬ 
poration in New York of the North Ameri¬ 
can Silk Exchange. Tho object of the asso¬ 
ciation is to encourage silk culture in the Uni¬ 
ted States. It is added that it contemplates 
purchasing 350 acres of laud on Long island 
and 2,000 acres in Kentucky. These will bo 
sold iu small lots to parties who desire to raise 
sllk-wormsand produce cocoons. It is further 
proposed to import silkworm eggs from the 
south of Franco and mulberry trees to start 
nurseries.*.. • • 
(Senator Sherman has introduced a bill iu the 
Senate which provides that all the public 
timbered lands adjacent to the sources of 
navigable rivers or their affluents be with 
drawn from public sale and entry; it further 
provides for tho creation of a commission, 
whose business apparently will be an examin¬ 
ation into tho practicability of increasing tho 
growth of tho class of forests mentioned, that 
the water supply iu the rivers may be kept up 
and the quantity of available timber not run 
short. The bill names Major-General H. G. 
