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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 2. 1882. 
Senator John J. Morgan, Democrat, has 
been re-el* c ted United States Senator from 
Alabama by an almost unanimous vote. 
Gov. McHenry, of Li., has refused to issue a 
certificate of election to Wm. Pitt Kellogg 
to the Lower House of Congress on the ground 
of non-residence in the district (the 3rd) or 
State. Kellogg was elected by an undisputed 
ma j irity of about 2,000 votes.The re¬ 
port of a sale of 3 000,000 acres of land by the 
Northern Pacific Railroad is confirmed. The 
company receives #4 per acre, to to paid in 
the preferred stock of the company at par. 
This stock will be retired under the provis¬ 
ions of the charter. The syndicate making 
the heavy purchase is headed by Baring Bros., 
the well-known English bank* rs. It is pro¬ 
posed to colonize tbe land, all of which is sit¬ 
uated east of the Missouri River, with Eng¬ 
lish fan ilies.In connection with the 
Star Route scandals, several prominent gov- 
ernmant officials at Washington have been re¬ 
moved from office on the ground that they 
were unduly favorable to the “Star-Routers” 
at the expense of the government: postmaster 
Aingerand marshall Henry are chief of the 
“decapitated.”.C. Porter L?e, presi¬ 
dent of the failed First National Bank of 
Buffalo, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in 
prison for embezzlement of $220,000—news 
that a well-tc-do rascal should get even a part 
of his deserts.Dried prunes, com¬ 
pressed tongue and other canned meats put 
up in soldered tin cans and not weighing over 
four pounds, will hereafter be admitted to the 
mails as fourth-class mail matter. 
OwiDg to the drop in iron and steel the Penn¬ 
sylvania R, R. Co., has ordered the con¬ 
struction of 65 locomotives and 0,000 cars— 
employment for a iarge number of mechan¬ 
ics and laborers.Between Denver, Col. 
and Eastern cities the mails have been sys¬ 
tematically robbed for several months. To 
say nothing of tbeft3 of money and valuables, 
the extent of which r can’t be estimated, an 
aggregate of over 1000,000 has been stolen 
in drafts, checks and money orders. Total 
Iosb must be over 81,000,000. No clue to rob¬ 
bers yet.The fall in petroleum has 
ruined thousands in Pa., and hundreds else¬ 
where. In the 48 hours ending with Friday 
Nov. 24, the drop in values amounted to $15,- 
000.000.All accounts appear to agree 
that the Garfield Monument Fair in Wash¬ 
ington will be a failure. Outlay too heavy— 
$ 8,000—and attendance slim. 
Memorials in favor of free canals in view of 
the result of the New York elections are being 
sent to the Canadian Governor General, and 
the result seems inevitable. Free tolls would 
enable forwarding companies on Canadian 
rivers and canals to compete with the Erie 
Canal route.After mature deliberation, 
the St. Louis grand jury has refused to indict 
Editor CockeriU for killing Lawyer Slay back 
the other day. Nothing more w ill be done in 
the matter—justifiable homicide. 
At the recent election in Utah the Mormons 
threw 21,000 votes, the Gentiles not quite5,000. 
Yet-it is claimed that 10,000 Mormons were 
disfranchised for polygamy under the Ed¬ 
munds Act. Most of these were women; in 
fact only 3,000 men were disfranchised, av- 
eragirg three wives apiece. The Mormon 
women vote much more freely than the Gen¬ 
tile women, who often refuse to register and 
to vote, and the large mo jority was probably 
greatly due to their votes... 
A tpecial census bulletin just issued shows 
that in the United States there are 4,923.451 
persons of 10 years of age and upward who 
are uuable to read, and 6,239,958 who are un¬ 
able to write. Of the number of persons re¬ 
turned as unable to write 3 019,080 are white, 
pnd native whites unable to write are 2.255,- 
460 Colored persons of 10 years of age and 
upward unable to write are 3,220.878, or 10 
per cent' of the population. Illiteracy is con¬ 
fined principally to the Southern States. 
From Nov. 26 to date, telegrams have told of 
Bnowfalls all over the country as far south 
as Northern Alabama—very heavy in the 
Northwest.The transit of Venus on the 
6th inst. will be the last visible passage of the 
planet across the face of the sun until 2004.... 
_Gen. Andrew S. Herron, Congressman 
elect from tbe Sixth Louisiana district, died 
very suddenly of heart disease at bis resi¬ 
dence on last Monday night.A terrible 
storm in Buffalo, N Y., on the 25th destroyed 
upwards of $200,000 worth of property.... 
_Henry L Hazen, of the Signal Service, 
predicts that the coming Winter will be a 
mild one. His prediction is based upon a 
thorough examination of all indications in 
possession of the signal Office. Mr. Hazen, in 
making this prediction, disregards the as¬ 
sertion of meteorologists that a cool Sum¬ 
mer is invariably followed by a cold and 
THE BUBAL 
tormy Winter.The aggregate clear¬ 
ings reported from 25 clearing-houses for the 
week endiug Nov. 25 reached the stupendous 
sum of 81,553,799,998. This was an increase 
of more than 8300,000,000 over the previous 
week, and has rarely, if ever, been equaled in 
the history of the American financial world— 
shows business is nnnsually brisk.... ....The 
Diccesan Council of the Episcopal Church in 
Mississippi unanimously elected the Rev. Hugh 
Miller Thompson, of New Orleans, Assistant 
Bishop of that Diocese.. 
Railroad war in the Northwest Btill raging 
fiercely.Another heavy frost occurred 
in Pensacola yesterday, making three in suc¬ 
cession, and rendering it absolutely safe for 
all yellow fevei refugees to return. 
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A Rapid Recline Arrested. 
Mrs. Anna G. Fourqurean, of San Marco* 
Texas, wife of a well known and influential 
citizen of that place, writing under date of 
May 21, 1881, says: “In the Spring of 1878, a 
deep cold settled on my lungs; I had a dread¬ 
ful cough, accompanied by daily fevers, sleep¬ 
less nights, indigestion, loss of flesh and 
strength, mental depression, and hemorrhages 
from the lungs. This state continued for 
eighteen months, notwithstanding I had the 
treatment of good physicians. By this time 
I had lost all vitality, spent most of the time 
in bed, coughed continually, raising a large 
quantity of deep yellow mucus, and after a 
little sleep in the latter part of the night, I 
would awaken drenched by night sweats, and 
so prostrated that I could not raise myself in 
bed until 1 bad taken a little brandy. I began 
to lose hopes of life. My husband and my 
neighbors thought I could not possibly live. 
About this time your ‘Compound Oxygen 
Treatment’ was brought to our notice. My 
husband immediately sent for it; I stopped 
the use of all medicines and began the ‘Treat 
ment.’ I was too weak at first to take it for 
ns long a time as two minutes; but gradually 
the Inhalations increased in length and 
strength, and would leave 6uch a delightful 
sense of relief to my lungs that I loved to in 
hale. My fevers grew lighter each day until 
I had none. Two weeks from the beginning 
of the treatment I begun to feel like a new 
person; could take walks; found myself sing- 
ing while at my work; indeed I scarcely recog¬ 
nized my own self; my flesh increased, and I 
felt and looked younger. I used the ‘Treat¬ 
ment’ four months faithfully; after that irreg¬ 
ularly for several months, and at the end of 
twelve months from the time I began it, I 
had no cough, no sign of lung disease; in 
other words, I was well It is more than a 
year since I left off taking the Oxygen, and 
I have had no return of the disease” Our 
Treatise on Compound Oxygen, its nature, 
action, and results, with reports of cases, and 
full information sent free. Das. Starkey & 
Palen, 1109 & till Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dsc., 3. 1882. 
The weather in a large portion of the South 
daring the week has been so bad as to retard 
cotton picking. Wheat h as been firmer dur¬ 
ing the past week, in view of tbe contiuued 
firmness of the foreign demand and tbe di¬ 
minished receipts at the principal Western 
points. The net result of a larger export 
movement this week and of the diminished 
receipts has been a decrease of the visible sup¬ 
ply. Corn is firm in all the seaboard markets 
and in Liverpool, on aocoant of the great 
scarcity, but at the We3b is weak and lower, 
in consequence of large receipts, which have 
resulted in an increase of the visible supply. 
Provisions have declined daring the week as 
the resultof larger receipts of hogs at Chicago. 
.. .There has been very little activity in 
wool daring tbe past week, and the general 
condition of the market has been unsatisfac¬ 
tory. The worsted mills in all sections appear 
to be very busy, and the call for this class of 
wool exceeds that for any other description, 
but looms running on other styles of produc¬ 
tion are less actively employed, and demand 
for raw material is comparatively light. 
Hence, while all long-staple wools are closely 
sold up at full prices, the market for other 
kinds is fairly supplied and favors buyers. 
Concessions of K@lc. per pound are occasion¬ 
ally made to influence sales Hopes are en¬ 
tertained in some quarters that the increased 
Consumption of seasonable goods, stimulated 
by the cold weather, will encourage manufac¬ 
turers to more confident buying in prepara¬ 
tion for future requirements, but the majority 
of dealers look for a quiet market until after 
the holidays. The colonial auctions in Lon¬ 
don have developed a weaker market for Aus¬ 
tralian wools, but the decline has not been 
sufficient to encourage buying for American 
account. Western markets are steady bat 
quiet. . 
The agricultural Department building at 
Washington is assessed at $331,825 and the 
NEW-YORKER. 
grounds at $089,086, according to a transcript 
from the city’s effleial assessments. The Bo¬ 
tanical Gardens’ grounds, are assessed at $1,- 
463.251; buildings, $556,676 and hot houses, 
$58,508...The Department of Agricul¬ 
ture puts the yield of potatoes this year at 
157,000,000 bushels. The crop is reported of 
nearly medium prolificacy, rising to 100 
bushels per acre only in Vermont, Nebraska, 
Oregon, Washington, and tbe Northern belt 
of Territories. Michigan averages 98, Min¬ 
nesota 97, and the more northern approach¬ 
ing nearest these figures. The general aver¬ 
age is about 7S bushels per acre....To 
stimulate improvement in tbe breed of farm 
horses, tbe Massachusetts Society for Pro¬ 
moting Agriculture offers prizes for colts 
sired by tbe five costly Norman stallions 
which it has recently imported... 
The next annual meeting of the American 
Poultry Association will be held at the Bay 
State House, Worcester, Mass , on Fiiday, 
Feb. 2, 1883, at 2 P. M.Deer park3 are 
free from taxation in England; there are 331 
of them south of the Tweed. The immunity 
of these aristosratlc luxuries from taxation is 
creating discussion.A telegram from 
Dartford, Wb., Bays: “ The sorghum mills at 
this place have tnrned out 0.000 gallons of 
firup of excellent quality, and the Gordon 
Mills at Fond du Lie 8 000 gallons. Twenty 
mill in this part of the State have made 810,- 
000 gallons, readily finding market at 50 cents 
per gallon.”.Several head of cattle 
have just died of pleuro-pneumonla at East 
Lampton, Pa.The wool clip in Califor¬ 
nia this year is reported to be less by 15,000,- 
000 pounds than in 1831........Tbe Mark 
Lane Express said last Monday: Progress 
with hopelessly late wheat sowing is very 
slow under most unfavorable circumstances... 
A oold storage company of Boston have now 
nearly completed tbe largest refrigerating 
building in the world. It is of stone and brick 
100 by 80 feet in size and 70 feet high. The 
capacity is 800,000 cubic feet, the cost $200,- 
000, and the ice chamber bolds 600,000 tons 
of ice. It will be used for storing dressed 
beef and mutton, and the Chicago refrigera¬ 
ting cars will unload at the door.The 
official estimate of the French wheat crop for 
1882, 115,703,773 hectolitres, or 378,964.467 
bushels, is about 100,000,000 bushels larger 
than the estimate of the Bulletin des Haller, 
The quality is inferior and the imports thus 
far have been larger than for the correspond¬ 
ing period in 1881. But it is not expected 
that the imports will continue at the same 
ratio.Bostonians are organizing a soci 
ety for the extermination of ths English 
sparrows which have driven into exile blue¬ 
birds, swallows, martins and wrens: worse 
still, the pests when numerous do immense 
damage to crops.The Kentucky pub¬ 
lic elevator, owned and operated by a stock 
company of Louisville, and tbe firslj of the 
kind erected there, was opened yesterday. 
Its capacity is 500.000 bushels. 
The Commissioner of the General Land Office 
states, in reply to an inquiry made hy an ex- 
soldier, that when a soldier’s declaratory 
statement is filed to a tract of land the soldier 
is required to make an actual entry to the 
land and also to establish his residence aricl 
commence improvement within six months 
after the date of filing, and that he is allowed 
tix months more within which to commence 
the residence improvement. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 2, 1882. 
At Constantinople there are reports of a con¬ 
spiracy to dep*ose tbe Sultan and enthrone 
bis brother. The Cabinet has been dissolved, 
some of the Ministers imprisoned and a new 
Cabinet formed with Vefyk Pacha as Prime 
Minister. Turkey in her efforts to intei vene 
in Egyptian affairs is peristently snubbed by 
England, and treated coldly by tbe Kaedive. 
This morning’s cablegram says that it has 
finally agreed that Arabi Papha 6ball not be 
tried. Tbe accusation that he aided in burn¬ 
ing Alexandria and committing other out¬ 
rages is to be withdrawn; whereupon he will 
confesi that he rebelled, and Iben he will be 
condemned to perpetual banishment, but with 
hie army rank and ail its emoluments. Too 
many “ big bugs,” the Sultan among them, 
would doubtless be inculpated during his trial. 
Moreover, he was only guilty of un-uccessful 
patriotism.The English refuse to recog¬ 
nize Nabar Pacha as Commander-in-Cbief of 
tihe Egyptian Army to which post he has 
lately been appninted. An English General 
will probably get the place. The False 
Prophet is reported to have been badly de¬ 
feated in the Soudan... 
Arrests of Anarchists continue in France so 
vigorously and numerously that terror is said 
to have seized upon the terror-spreaders. At 
a late meeting the Gambettaists announced 
that in the event of the retirement of Grevy 
from the Presidency, they would urge the 
election of a military officer. This has caused 
much excitement among the “solid” men of 
France, as indicating that the country is on 
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the verge of an awful crisis, so that a strong 
man is needed at the head of the Government. 
The Germans think it means a “ war of re¬ 
venge” at tbe earliest favorai.1) moment. 
The Right Hon. Charles Dawson has been 
re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. 
M. Roche Vernet, M. Duclero’s Chief of Cab¬ 
inet, died suddenly in Paris yesterday. 
Russia has just concluded a new loan of 
£8,( 00,000. Tcis brings the total debt of the 
Government up to £553,000,000, or about 
$2,765 000,000, and it is remarkable lhat this 
is almost double the figure of 10 years ago. 
Since 1872 the annual deficit bas averaged 
£24,000,000, or about $100,000,000, while dur¬ 
ing ihe 29 preceding years th« average wns 
only £11,000,000, or ab out $55,000,000. 
Tbe officials of the Kopin Bank at Moscow 
have been arrested for stealing $9,600,000. 
The victims number 2,320, and include many 
farmers and peasants who had placed their 
savings in the bank. Several churches lose 
their funds.Hostility to missionaries 
has been revived in China, and several terious 
attacks are reported.The wife of United 
States Minister John RuFsell Young is seri¬ 
ously ill in China.A few weeks ago the 
Adige and Tiber overflowed their banks and 
inflicted an enormous loss of property and a 
heavy lots of life upon Italy; now heavy rains 
have oveiflowed many parts of France, Bel¬ 
gium, Holland, and especially Germany. The 
Main, Neckar, Mcselle and the Rhine are all 
swollen and the water fronts of their cities 
arc submerged. The boat bridges at Mayence 
and Cologne have been secured with double 
anchors. The Main Valley forms one great 
lake. The E.be Valley is flooded. Two vil¬ 
lages near Olmntz are submerged. The Seme 
is rising rapidly and some parts of Pat is are 
inundated. Tremendous floods in Austria are 
causing immense disaster. Similar disastrous 
accounts are coming front aloDg tbe lajgeriv- 
ers in ail Central Europe.Vienna police 
have seized the stock of a tobacco factory at 
Lemesver, Hungary, and found a number of 
packages loaded with dynamite... 
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40,000 Horses are bought and sold annually 
by seventeen of the leading dealers of New 
York and Chicago, who unanimously declare 
that the one half and three fourths blood 
Percheron-Normans have more style, action, 
best endurance on pavements, and sell for 
more money than any other class of horses on 
the market .—Chicago Tribune. Nearly 1,000 
of this popular breed have been impotted 
from France by M. W. Dunham, Wayne, 
Ill.— Adv. 
Tested bs Time. For Throat Diseases, 
Colds and Coughs, Brown’s Bronchial 
Troches ha vejiroied their tfficscy by a test 
of many years. Price 25 cts,—Ada. 
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Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per bov.— Adv. 
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♦Ten years ago the name of Lydia E. Pinfc- 
ham was scarcely known outside of her native 
State. To-day it is a household word all over 
the Continent and many who read the secular 
and religious journals have become familiar 
with the face that shines on them with a 
modest confidence, in which we read the 
truth that “Nothing ill can dwell in such a 
temple.”—Ado. 
It is beyond question that Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral has done and is doing vast good, and 
is worthy of the place of honor it holds at the 
head of all remedies for diseases of the throat 
and lungs.— Adv. 
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Don’t Die in the house. “Rough on Rats.” 
Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bedbugs, 
15o. — Adv. 
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The most eminent physicians of the Bge 
recommend Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for all 
bronchial troubles.— Adv. 
(gpHoods. scarfs, ribbons and any fancy 
articles can be made any color wanted with 
the Diamond Dyes. All the popular colors 
—Ado. 
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Premature Loss of Ihe Hair 
May be entirely prevented by the use of Bur¬ 
nett’s Cocoaine. 
Housekeepers should insist upon obtaining 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts, tney are 
the best.—Ado. 
$tlatkrts. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Dec. 2. 
Chicago.— Compared with prices a week 
ago, “regular” wheat is %c. higher for cash; 
No. 2Red Winter 2c. lower; No. 2 Chicago 
Spring l%c. higher. Corn is 10Xc. lower than 
