JULY 45 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 8,1882. 
From Jan. 1st, 1883. the immigrant arrivals 
at. this port aggregated 278,153, against 200,082 
in 1881. The total of the whole year, there¬ 
fore, is likely to be somewhere near half a 
million. The arrivals this year at the port of 
New York alone now promise to exceed I hose 
at all our ports for the years 1877, 1878, and 
1S79, taken together. They will probably be 
more than the total immigration in 1854, when 
occurred the great exodus from Ireland. 
Somewhere toward a million immigrants are 
likely to be received at the different ports this 
year—one tenth as many as arrived here 
during the whole 60 years from 1820 to 1880. 
And unless disasters now unforeseen occur, if 
we gather the unexampled harvest which the 
fields now' promise, the immigration for 1883 
wdll probably go ahead of that for the present 
year. Never before w r as the increase so great 
as it was since 1879. If we can count upon an 
average yearly immigration for the next 
seven years equal to that for 1880, 1881, and 
1883, we shall receive in this decade only, 
between seven and ten millionsof people from 
abroad to be added to our permanent popula¬ 
tion. During the 60 years from 1820 to 1880 
the arrivals aggregated only ten millions. 
These immigrants, too. are bringing a vast 
amount of mouey into the country. Barring 
the Ialians and the Jewish ref ugees,those w’ho 
are coming now are generally piovided with 
some pecuniary means with which to establish 
themselves. If they bring no more than 50 
dollars apiece on the average, the aggregate 
is enormous when we count them by the 
million. 
A law' suit which has been pending for some 
time between the Moseley and Stoddard 
Creamery and the Cooley Creamer Co., has 
been decided in favor of the former company. 
The litigation was over a certain patent which 
the Cooley Creamer Co. claimed the Moseley 
had infringed upon, but the courts have fully 
sustained the Moseley and Stoddard Company. 
A terrible accident occurred July 4th at 
Mingo Junction, O , on the Ohio River, two 
steam packets having collided, one of which 
was sunk. A panic ensued and hundreds of 
frantic excursionists battled for their lives in 
the river. The steamer was overcrow'ded. 
About 15 bodies have been recovered and 50 
persons are still missing. 
Ex-Gov. Goodwin of New Hampshire died 
at Portsmouth on the 4th inst. He was very 
prominent in the political affairs of his State 
for many years. 
The amount of tolls collected on the canals 
in this State during the last week in June this 
year was $23,530 65. Last year the amount 
was $34,444 99. The total number of tons 
cleared this year has been 194,018; last year, 
226,775. 
A Senate resolution calling for information 
about pensions has brought out some inter¬ 
esting facts. There were close upon 270,000 
pensioners on the roll last September, when 
the annual statistics were made up. Butabout 
twelve thousand pensions had lapsed through 
not being called for during three successive 
years, and five thousand were those of sailors 
whose residences were not known. The actual 
number paid was 252,851, the amount being 
$51,224,204. New York State heads the list. 
To her 32,034 pensioners the annual sum of 
$3,426 533 was given, but arrears brought the 
amount up to $6,510,411. Pennsylvania’s 28,- 
292 pensioners required $5,746,802, and Ohio’s 
24.663 had $4,941,520. More than two million 
dollars each went to Indiana, Iowa, Maine, 
Massachusetts, and Michigan; more than one 
million each to Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, 
and New Jersey. The Third Congress Dis¬ 
trict of Maine surpassed all others in the 
amount it received. Tne next annual statis¬ 
tics reported will show about twice as great 
an outlay. 
The tariff commission recently appointed 
met in Washington on Thursday last to organ¬ 
ize for work—and Summer recreation at the 
prominent watering places. 
Little Rock, Ark., was visited by a tornado 
on the 4tb, which destroyed considerable prop¬ 
erty. Rain fell in torrents. Also near Osage 
Mission, Kao., a severe storm took place. 
Beulah, a small town in Crawford Co., had a 
number of its bouse9 blown down. Girard 
also suffered badly. 
The large majority by whi^h the temper, 
ance amendment was adopted in Iowa seems 
to have inspired its advocates with a gener¬ 
ous feeling toward their opponents. It is ru¬ 
mored in the State that the Prohibitionists are 
talkiug about petitioning the General As¬ 
sembly to purchase at a fair price the proper¬ 
ty of the brewers which will be confiscated by 
the enforcement of the prohibitory law. 
A small army of Mormons, the third in¬ 
stalment this year, landed last week at Cas¬ 
tle Garden. They numbered 927, 100 of 
whom were children. There were 34 elders 
of the Mormon Church among them, who had 
just returned from two years of missionary 
labor. One of the elders said that two more 
ship loads of the chosen people would cross 
from Europe during the present year, but 
neither probably would be as large aB the one 
just arrived. Most of them have come in 
families and have a very contented aspect. 
None of them are as yet polygamists, and it is 
said that very few of them will become such 
in the West. Some have been for 30 years in 
the Church of Latter Day Saints; others are 
recent converts. 
Independence Day passed off very quietly 
in all parts of the couutry and in this city un¬ 
usually so. While all cities observed the 
“glorious Fourth” in a way, yet the hilarious, 
“spread-eagle” style of celebration is gradual¬ 
ly giving way to more quiet methods. 
The statistics of the Mailing and Distribu¬ 
tion Division of the New York Post Office for 
the fiscal year just closed have been prepared. 
The mail matter originating in New York ad¬ 
dressed to other offices in the United States 
consisted of 71,802,692 letters, 18,019 830 pos¬ 
tal cards, 63,872,016 circulars, 151,398,988 
newspapers and magazines mailed by pub¬ 
lishers to subscribers, 67,210,728 transient 
newspapers, aud 9,934,704 packages of mer¬ 
chandise. New York does some business 
with the outside world, evidently. 
Mr. Logan has introduced a bill in the 
Senate providing that all enlisted men of the 
Army who have served either in the regular 
or volunteer service for 30 years and have 
been honorably discharged, shall be retired 
from active service at their own request on 
three-fourths pay. 
Latest reports regarding the movements of 
the Crow Indians in Wyoming Ter., state that 
the cattle killing continues, and hunting par¬ 
ties are destroying wheat fields in Northern 
Wyomlug. The report that settlers had 
killed three Crow-s lacks confirmation. It is 
feared that another Indian war may be begun. 
.V. few days ago a seedy travel worn tramp 
appeared at the Westmoreland (Pa.) poor- 
house and applied for lodgings. lie gave 
bis name as John Ilenry Rheoibeig. The 
steward took him in, but said that he must 
take a bath. The man demurred at first, 
but finally consented. When he disrobed 
for the bath lie Laid aside a bag of gold coin, 
and then unbuckled several large belts filled 
with greenbacks. In a few days he died, 
leaving $21,000 in hard cash. Poor fellow ! 
Postmaster-General Howe sa s that the 
postal revenue does not warrant the reduction 
of letter postage to two cents, or that on 
newspapers one-half. 
Wonderful Improvement. 
“ I had been sick with a cold and the worst 
cough I ever had in my life, for about five 
weeks. Expectorated every morning a tough, 
yellow matter, streaked with blood. In about 
three days after I commenced inhaling Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, the cough, raising of bloody 
matter, and that awfully distressed feeling, as 
if a cord was drawn across my chest and a 
weight put on, were all gone. The rapidity 
with which I have improved iu breathing is 
wonderful.” If you wish to know all about 
this curative agent of which cur correspond¬ 
ent writes, send for our Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen. It will be mailed free. Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1,109 Girard St., Philadelphia, 
Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The following items of agricultural interest 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
within the last 24 hours: 
Boston, Mass.—There is a dull feeling in 
wool and the busine-s here has been light. 
There is less pressure to buy in the interior at 
the prices demanded. The market is likely 
to be comparatively quiet for some weeks to 
come. Combing and clean selections are an 
exception, as these grades are likely to meet 
with a good demand, so far as fine Delaine 
and No. 1 combing are concerned. Ohio and 
Pennsylvania fleece?, X and XX, at 40c @ 
43c.; Michigan and AVisconsin fleeces at 38@ 
40c. Unwashed wools have been in demand; 
there have been considerable, sales of Texas at 
29c@32c.; Western unwashed has been sell¬ 
ing at 25c @38 \ for flu© and medium grades, 
down to 17c.@23c. for low and coarse; Comb¬ 
ing aud Delaine selections range from -13c. @ 
48c. for fine Delaine and No. 1 Combing. Cal¬ 
ifornia wool dull, with small sales of Spring 
at 26c.@30©. Pulled wool has been in fair 
demand, with sales at 45c.@47e. for choice 
Eastern and Maine super, and 28c @43c. for 
common and good supers. Australia wool 
has been quiet, with sales of 15.000 pounds at 
44c. Carpet and other foreign wools remain 
the same and have been quiet, The sales of 
the week amounted to 1,300,000 pounds of all 
kinds . 
Philadelphia, Pa.: Supplies of ootton are 
light; late advances maintained. Southern 
and Southwestern wools have been coming 
forward quite freely and have met with a fair 
sale. Colorado aud New Mexican have also 
been in demand at full rates, but Texas wools 
are accumulating and offered at rather easier 
prices. Prices of nearly all kinds of provis¬ 
ions are higher. Speculation in wheat tame ; 
prices of com advancing. Advices from the 
Delaware and Maryland peach belts promise 
enormous crops. Cincinnati, Ohio : 
Wheat has declined under receipts of new 
grain, which looks well. Corn, owingto spec¬ 
ulative demand, has advanced five cents. Pro¬ 
visions advancing on light stocks. Tobacco 
firmer..... 
Louisville, Ky. : An active and successful 
agricultural week. Wheat harvest nearly 
completed. Present estimates place the wheat 
crop of Kentucky at 60 per cent, larger than 
last year, and 25 per cent larger than any 
crop ever before raised in the State. Com is 
improving aud can make about an average 
crop. Barley yield full, in spite of damage 
from worms. Tobacco iu good condition but 
growing slowly, owing to constant dampness. 
Acreage of hemp the same as last year; 
growth vigorous; color good. Early potatoes 
are yielding 60 to 80 barrels per acre, and 
selling at $3 per barrel. Vegetables fine and 
abundant, Hay crop good. The Army-worm 
has disa p j reared... 
Chicago, III. : From telegraph reports as 
to the condition of the crops in 300 counties of 
I he AVest aud Northwest received here on 
Friday evening, i*" is apparent that, owing to 
the cold and rain, corn will not be an average 
crop anywhere, and that in many districts it 
will not be more than half an average crop. 
In the southern part of the corn and wheat 
belt the loss is less severe than in the northern 
part. The corn crop last year was nearly 
1,200,000,000 bushels, A reduction of one- 
fourth, aud the despatches indicate that it 
may be as serious as that, would cut it down 
to about 900,000,000 bushels. The wheat 
prospects are much more encouraging, though 
they are not all that was hoped for early in 
season. In Wisconsin the crop will be larger 
than last year, but in Iowa it will not be so 
large. In Illinois it will be about the same 
as last year. In Nebraska the yield will be 
three or four million bushels iu excess of 1881. 
The finest reports of wheat come from Michi¬ 
gan, where over 30,000,00!) bushels will be 
thrashed this year. Iu Indiana, Missouri, 
Minnesota, and Dakota the yield will be 
heavier than last year. In Kansas the wheat 
harvest is nearly over, and the crop is esti¬ 
mated at 30,000,000 bushels, or more than fifty 
per cent, in excess of the crops of the last two 
years..... 
Another telegram received in New York 
from Chicago this morning says: During the 
past week the condition of the gram crops 
has somewhat improved. From nearly every 
section of the AVest the favorable reports con¬ 
tinue to be forwarded, and, notwithstanding 
the adverse prognostications of the chronic 
croakers, an average crop of wheat, oats, 
corn, rye, and barley will in all probability 
be harvested. Corn, however, is iu a back¬ 
ward condition, and unless the weather 
throughout the country shall very much im¬ 
prove within the next 10 days or two weeks 
nothing like an average crop can be gotten. 
In Iowa the com crop is the most promising, 
while in the great corn belt of Illinois the 
prospects are indeed gloomy. Continued wet 
ami extremely cool weather have combined 
to discourage farmers, and in many sections, 
after having planted twice, they are now 
sowing grass-seed of various kinds iu hopes 
that they will be enabled to secure a fairly 
good hay and clover crop. The high price of 
beef, which has now continued for nearly a 
year, cannot be expected to drop under the 
circumstances. Stock cattls for the Fail 
market will be fed at high prices, and farm¬ 
ers and feeders will, under the circumstances, 
feed as few head as possible. High-priced 
corn will necessarily prevent the feeding of 
large herds, and those in the business who are 
extensive corn planters, and who have large 
stocks left over from last year, are the men 
who will be on the topmost wave of pros¬ 
perity when the season is further advanced. 
Last Winter stock cattle were not up to the 
average condition of previous years, and the 
scarcity of corn wUl not improve the condi¬ 
tion of things during the coming season. 
The produce markets were fearfully excited 
on Friday and very, very irregular. The 
greatest excitement was in corn, which ad¬ 
vanced fully three cents a bushel under a sharp 
demand to till “shorts,” chiefly for this month. 
The receipts were even smaller than the re¬ 
cent average, and there were rumors that 
corn is actually being shipped back 200 miles 
into the country on the line of the Illinois 
Central to supply the sections that have been 
swept bare under the attraction offered by 
high prices in Chicago and at the East for 
months past. Wheat market active and ir¬ 
regular, the new wheat—68 cars from South¬ 
ern Illin ois and 20 cars from Kentucky—is 
pronounced the best ever brought from that 
section to this market. Oats higher in sym¬ 
pathy with corn. 
Detroit, Mich, Since the movement of 
wool began country payments have greatly 
improved. Old wheat scarce and firm, and 
while the Autlook for the new crop is fine, the 
country is not inclined to sell wheat. A wet 
harvest is the only fear. .. 
St. Louis, Mo. River now at a standstill. 
The rise at one ti me was three inches per hour, 
and there is no previous record of so rapid a 
rise. Great damage has been done to corn on 
the bottom lands; some wheat, too, has been 
lost. Cattle are lower but hogs are advanc¬ 
ing. 
Kansas City, Mo. AA r heat market active, 
receipts liberal and increasing. Values 
weaker; No. 1 cash is quoted at 95c. a decline 
of 5c. Hogs active at $7@8.25. 
Topeka, Kans.—The Soeretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture says: “Kansas is now 
harvesting the largest wheat crop in the his¬ 
tory of the State. The State average per 
acre is 20 69-100 bushels, the best average 
since 1866, whioh was placed by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington at 21 40- 
100 bushels. This year the acreage is 1,462,-' 
736, and the product 30,263, 711 bushels. 
Lincoln, Neb.: The weather thus far this 
week is remarkably cold, particularly at 
night. The thermometer has not marked 
above 70® in the shade at any time during the 
day. Nevertheless, all the reports of corn re¬ 
ceived are good. The outlook for wheat be¬ 
comes more flattering every day. A dispatch 
from Jefferson County says that wheat will 
average 25 bushels to the acre. A prominent 
officer of the land department of the Burling¬ 
ton and Missouri Railroad says that the gen¬ 
eral average of wheat throughout the State 
will not be less than 25 bushels to the acre. 
All other small grain will average iu pro¬ 
portion..... 
Minneapolis, Minn.: The condition of all 
growing crops in central and northern Min¬ 
nesota and Dakota is reported satisfactory. 
The wheat crops were never in better condi¬ 
tion at this season of the year. In southern 
Minnesota and portions of Iowa the crops have 
been injured by storms sad too much rain_ 
San Francisco, Cal.: The new wheat har¬ 
vest is turning out better than was anticipa¬ 
ted. Hog products are advancing. Barley is 
lower. There is a heavy export of hops. 
A telegram from Atlanta, Ga., tha other 
day says: Attention is now attracted to a new 
sort of cotton plant which bids fair to prove 
immensely valuable. For many years Mr. A. 
A. Subers, of Macon, has been carefully ex¬ 
perimenting to hybridize the cotton plant that 
grows wild iu Florida with the common okra. 
The cotton plant used is of the species which 
is found on the lowlands of the Caloosahatchie 
River. The new plant retains the okra stalk 
and the foliage of the ootton. Its (lowers aud 
fruit, however, are strikingly unlike either 
cotton or okra. The plant has au average 
bight of two feet, and each plant has only 
one bloom. This is a magnificent flower, very 
much like the great magnolia in fragrance 
and equally as large. Like the cotton bloom, 
the flower is white for several days after it 
opeus, after which it is first pale pink, and 
gradually assumes darker shades of this color 
until it becomes red, when it drops, disclosing 
a wonderful boll. For about ten days this boll 
resembles the cotton boll, and then its growth 
suddenly increases as if by magic until it fin¬ 
ally reaches the size of a big coooanut. Not 
until it reaches this size does the liut appear. 
Then its snowy threads begin to burst from 
the boll, but are held securely in place by the 
okra-like thorus or points that line the boll. 
One inexperienced picker can easily gather 
800 pounds a day, and fast hands much more. 
Were the only saving that of labor in gather¬ 
ing the lint, the result of Mr. Saber’s experi- 
rat lit would entitle him to the lasti g gratitude 
of the Southern farmer. But this is not all— 
there are no seeds iu the lint. Each boll pro¬ 
duces about two pounds of very fine, long- 
stapJe cotton, superior to the Sea Island, and 
at the bottom of the boll there are from four 
to six seeds, resembling persimmon seed. This 
new cotton, therefore, needs no ginning. 
Tnit total annual production of sugar iu the 
world is said to be 5,830,000 tons, of which the 
United States,or rather the State of Louisiana, 
produces only 125,000 tons. Of the total 
amount, 1,670,000 tons is beet root sugar, of 
which Germany produced 500 001) tons; 
Franc©, 435,000; Austria, 410,000; Russia, 
235,000. The United States consumed one- 
sixth of the total arnouut made, their con¬ 
sumption being equal to 31 75 pounds per 
capita; England consumes 62 pounds per 
capita; Germany 19 aud Russia only 7 pounds 
per capita. 
-- 
Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” 15c. per 
box. — Adv. 
