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HOMifl NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 16. 1882. 
The j ury in the new trial of the Star Route 
cases was completed on Friday...The 
naturalization question before the Spanish- 
American Claims Commission has been set¬ 
tled in accordance with the doctrine enun¬ 
ciated by the United States.Ilanlan 
and Kennedy are to row for $5,000 next June. 
.Deaths of children by drowning from 
the breaking of ice reported numerously from 
all quarters.Grave-robbers unusually 
busy; detected at Philadelphia, Richmond, 
Cleveland and Montreal.On Thursday 
Vanderbilt and Rufe Hatch denounced “ cor¬ 
ners” and “futures” as disastrous to the busi¬ 
ness interests of the country, before the New 
York Senate Committee investigating the 
matter.The Northwestern orGranger 
railroad war came to an end on Thursday. 
The arrangements between the combatants 
for transcontinental business which existed 
last year will be continued during the coming 
year...Secretary Teller has told a dele¬ 
gation of Chippewa Indians that he could not 
reverse his decision giving the Turtle Moun¬ 
tain lands to the Sioux Indians, but he would 
ask Congress to set aside a reservation for 
them and pay them for the improvements on 
their former lands. The Senate Committee 
on Iadian Affairs will probably provide an 
appropriation of $10,000 for them, which will 
give $200 to each head of family.The 
House Appropriation Committee will recom¬ 
mend that $805,000 be appropriated for the 
West Point Academy for the current year. 
. The Senate has confirmed the nomina¬ 
tion of Gen Pope to be Major General and of 
McKenzie to be Brigadier-General. 
The House Committee on Education have 
agreed to report favorably the bill appropri¬ 
ating $10,000,000 annually for the next five 
years to advauce public education. It is pro¬ 
posed thatthis sum shall be distributed among 
the several States and Territories, according 
to ratio of illiteracy.There is an organ¬ 
ized movement on the part of pensioners to 
ask an increase of pensions in cases where a 
soldier lost an arm or a leg in the service. 
Mr. Ferry’s bill provides that where an arti¬ 
ficial limb cannot be used, the pensioner shall 
receive $50 a month, and with artificial limb 
$40 a month........A petition is circulating 
for signatures among manufacturers and 
dealers in tobacco, asking Congress, when it 
reduces the tax on tobacco, cigars and cigar¬ 
ettes, to provide for a rebate on stamps already 
bought, equivalent to the amount of reduc¬ 
tion. The pitition also bespeaks prompt ac¬ 
tion on the tax measure, since the agitation of 
the question is causi ng loss to the trade. 
.The law exacting a tax from drum¬ 
mers in Washington no longer exists. 
It is understood that the Marquis of Lome 
and the Princess Louise intend making 
a tour in the United States of four or five 
weeks’ duration, visiting Los Angeles, South¬ 
ern California, and other cities of the Union. 
They arrived in San Francisco from British 
Columbia, last Sunday. During Lord Lome’s 
absence it is prob ible that General Sir Patrick 
L. McDougall, K. C., M. Q., will assume the 
duties of administrator.The rate payers 
of Niagara Falls, Out., are taking measures 
to establish a park on the Canada side of the 
Falls.... Canadians still agitating the question 
of free canals.The Alabama Legisla 
ture has annulled the charter of Selma for 
the purpose of ridding the city of a debt in 
curred through issuing bonds in aid of rail¬ 
roads. ....... The Governor of Georgia has 
pardoned Cox, who murdered Colonel Alston 
at Atlanta in 1879.A great increase in 
smuggling across the Canadian frontier. 
A national meeting of commercial travelers at 
Baltimore urges Congressional action to for¬ 
bid unfriendly State legislation.Dr. 
Bliss has drawn from the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment the $6,500 awarded him by the Garfield 
Board of Audit. Old Fuss and Feathers 
claimed $25,000.Senator Pendleton has 
introduced a Civil Service Refirm Bill in the 
Senate which provides for fixed tenure for 
government employes and prohibits removals 
except for absolute cause, no attention what¬ 
ever being paid to political influence. 
Estimates for improvement of the Mississippi 
River for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1884, aggregating $4,573,000, have been pre¬ 
pared. This sum is to be expended in narrow¬ 
ing the channel and protecting caving banks 
on six reaches below Cairo.The rail¬ 
road trains in Texas now carry an armed 
guard to protect them from the festive masked 
robber.Extensive arrests have recently 
been made by Indian police of parties hunting 
buffalo and other game on reservations in 
Indian Territory. There is a federal law 
against this sort of depredation.Over 
100,000 white Virginians, having paid no poll 
taxes, could not vote in the late election. 
Postmaster General Howe wants the govern¬ 
ment to go into the telegraph business. 
Of the high-rate-interest bonds $259,370 500 
have been turned into 3 per cents.During 
the last fiscal year money orders amounting 
to $113,400,118 were issued by the Pest Office. 
The fees received for them amounted to $1, 
053,710.The price of a liquor license in 
Nebraska is $1,000. It is reported the la w is a 
great success in reducing the number of 
saloons.The Post Office Department 
made a clear profit of $1,394 388 last fiscal 
year........ From October 81,1881, to October 
31, 1882, the reduction of the public debt was 
$141,510,850.For the first time within 
living memory the Potomac was frozen solid¬ 
ly across from Washington to the Virginia 
shore early in the week.The ice block¬ 
ade in the Detroit River is the worst which 
has been known for ten years.The first 
step towards patenting the famous Keelt-y 
Motor was taken a week ago, when the caveat 
was filed in the Patent Office at Washington 
and placed among the secret archives. A 
regular patent will soon be applied for. Share¬ 
holders seem contented and Keeley is boastful 
of having discovered a new, cheap and extra¬ 
ordinarily powerful motive power.,Gui- 
teau’s skeleton is in readiness to be placed in 
possession of its proper owner........ Anarchy 
prevails at Opelika, Ga., where the question 
of proper city officers has occasioned blood¬ 
shed. The factions indulge in street fights, 
and shots are exchanged. The Legislature has 
annuhed the city charter, and has empowered 
the Governor to appoint the officers. 
The recent fall of snow has gladdened the 
hearts of the Wisconsin lumbermen, and es¬ 
timates are already made that on the Eau 
Claire end the Chippewa and its tributaries 
775,000,000 feet of logs will be cut this season- 
..The National Bank of the State of 
New York has been dissolved and the Bank of 
New York takes its place, with a capital of 
$8,000,000, which may be increased to $10,000,- 
000.The Ways and Means Committee 
has reported in favor of the bill removing in¬ 
ternal revenue taxes of all descriptions from 
tobacco, cigars, snuff, cigarettes, eto., and 
amended it so that it shall come into operation 
July 1, 1883, instead of Jan. 1, 1884. 
The Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday 
laid the corner stone of the new $1,500,000 
building.Congressman Springer, of 
Ill., has introduced a joint resolution provid¬ 
ing for an amendment to the Constitution 
which shall extend the terms of the President 
and Vice President to six years and render 
them ineligible for re-election, it also provides 
that, beginning with the year 1885, the Con¬ 
gress elected iu November previous shall meet 
on the first Wednesday of January. 
The widow of the late Col. Alonzo A. Slay- 
back of St. Louis, has brought suit against 
Col. John A Cockerill for $5,000 damages in 
flicted on her by the killing of her husband. 
.Justice O. P. Lord, of the Supreme 
Court of Massachusetts, having resigned, Gov¬ 
ernor Long has appointed Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, Jr., son of the celebrated author, in 
his place.Two members of the Ohio 
Common Pleas Bench have just been brought 
to public disgrace by “whiskey.” Judge 
Hawley, in conducting court in Columbus, 
was for some time so much affected that busi 
nesa could hardly proceed, aDd at last became 
fairly imbecile during a murder trial, while 
Judge Gilmore drank so much in Preble 
County that he could not hold court at all, 
and a meeting of the bar asked him to resign. 
Something Is needed out there besides the im¬ 
position of liquor license fees....All Iowa 
is speculating upon the probable action of the 
Supreme Court in the suit involving the valid¬ 
ity of the prohibitory amendment. In all 
sorts of places, at public meetings, in corner 
groceries and sewing circles, the talk is sure 
to come around to this subject—and then 
there is anxious discussion as to ways of 
dodging the laws if the amendment holds.... 
A Great Gain. 
A patient writes: “ My cough is almost 
gone, and the pain under my left shoulder- 
blade is better, l ean sit up straight with 
ease and draw deep breaths, and can walk 
without having palpitation of the heart. I 
could not do any of these before using Com¬ 
pound Oxygen.” Our Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen, its Dature, action and results, with 
reports of cases and full information, sent 
free. Drs. Starkey & Pa den, 1109 and 1111 
Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec., 16. 1882. 
Com. Dudley, of the Pension Office, says: 
“ The bounty land laws should be generally 
remodeled and simplified.”.Secretary 
Teller says if the alleged intruders on the 
Creek and Seminole Reservations are not 
members of the respective tribes he will see 
that they are removed.Register Let¬ 
cher of the Mitchell, Dak., land office, is to 
be heard in refutation of the charge of com¬ 
plicity in land frauds recently perpetrated at 
that office.. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., has 
sold his residence on West Fifty-eighth 
Street, New York, to D. 6. Ambler of Flori¬ 
da, for $52,000 and 15,000 acres of land in 
Baker County, Florida.The hog pack¬ 
ing at all principal points since November 1 
is about 1,800,000 bogs against 2,370 000 at 
the same date last year, a decrease 24 per 
cent. The total Winter’s packing is expected 
to reach a little more than 5,000,000 bogs 
against 5,747,000 last year.Ignatieff, 
the famous Russian statesman, has left poli¬ 
tics to be a shepherd. He has stocked an 
estate of 50,000 acres on the great southern 
steppes of Russia with 18,000 Merino sheep, 
superintends for himself, and has grown a 
robust countryman, not much like the lean, 
half invalid of recent years.The coun¬ 
try is promised a sorghum craze. The last 
success reported is at Rio Grande, N. J., 
where 1,000 barrets of sugar and as many 
more of molasses were made the past season 
from 7 000 tons of cane.The receipts of 
grain at Chicago, for the past year, were phe- 
nominally light, being 25,000,000bus. less tban 
for the preceding year. The reasons are the 
increased ability of farmers to hold their 
stocks, the low price since the new crops 
were harvested, and the rapid increase of 
milling capacity.At St. Louis the ar 
bitration committee has fixed the price of No¬ 
vember corn at 68 cents. It is understood 
that all concerned in the deal accept the 
terms. About 400,000 bushels will thus be 
closed up.J. J, McDonald, of Phila¬ 
delphia, was Thursday elected President of 
the National Butter, Cheese and Egg Associa¬ 
tion, in session at Milwaukee. The dairy 
dance in the evening was but slimly attended 
because of the biting atmosphere.A 
German family at Bloomington, III., is in a 
critical condition from triebime, which 
entered their systems through eating raw 
pork sausage. One child has succumbed to 
the dreadful malady.The following 
officers of the Michigan State Bee-keepers’ 
Association were elected on the 7th inst. by 
the convention at Kalamazoo: President, 
Prof. A J. Cook. Vice-Presidents, Dr. A. S 
Haskins and W. Z. Hutchinson. Secretary, 
H. D. Cutting. Treasurer, T. M. Cobb. Flint 
was selected as the place for holding the next 
annual session, on the first Wednesday after 
the first Tuesday in December, 1883. 
The Caton stock farm at Joliet. Ill., has been 
sold to William B. Fasig for Russell Sage, 
Jr., of New York. The noted pair of mares, 
Gypsy Maid and Jennie Cuyler, were trans¬ 
ferred at a long price, an d they have been 
shipped.The House Committee on 
Ways and Means recommends the old rate of 
30 cents per gallon duty on flax-seed and lin¬ 
seed against the Tariff Commission’s sugges¬ 
tion of 25 cents.The House Committee 
on Agriculture agreed at last to recommend 
an appropriation of $414,780 for agricultural 
purposes. This is $30,000 less than last year. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 16, 1882. 
Sir Hugh Allan, the great Canadian ship¬ 
builder and vessel owner, died suddenly in 
Edinburgh last Saturday morning. 
Garabetta’s journal at Paris maintains that if 
England continues to pursue its presentpolicy 
in regard to Egyptian affairs, France will un¬ 
dertake to protect her interests in whatever 
manner she may deem best— Though the prin¬ 
cipal seaports of Germany, by their Chambers 
of Commerce, hav^ protested against the 
embargo on American pork, still the Govern¬ 
ment is resolved to prohibit its importation. 
.The K> ffir invaders of the Transvaal 
have been driven by the Boers into caves, 
one of which was blown up by dynamite, 
killing 50 natives.,.The total loss by the 
burning of the Royal Alhambra Theatre at 
London will reach $750,000 Eight adjoining 
houses were destroyed, besides all the proper¬ 
ties, dresses, music, etc.A London 
despatch says that a process for the cheap 
production of aluminum has been discovered 
and that the invention causeR no little excite¬ 
ment in the metal trade at Birmingham and 
Sheffield.Big fire in London—largest 
since Tooly St. fire—down along the Thames 
below London Bridge. Loss, some $15,000,000 
.Big fire at Kingston, Jamaica; loss 
about tbesame.... 
Louis Blanc was buried with public cere¬ 
monies in Paris.It is reported in Lon¬ 
don that Lord Derby will be Secretary of 
State for India, Lord Hartlngton Secretary 
for War.In Ireland a large number of 
trials are now and have lately been taking 
place for agrarian murders and other out¬ 
rages.Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland, has commuted the sentence of 
death passed upon the five men who pleaded 
guilty to participation in the Joyce murders, 
a horrible atrocity in which a whole family 
were butchered. Three of the murderers who 
were convicted without having pleaded euilty 
were hung yesterday.... A French committee 
has decided in favor of creating a Ministry 
of the Colonies, and France seemB deter 
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mined to add to her colonies even on very 
flimsy pretexts. Lately she has claimed ter¬ 
ritory on the Congo and in Madagascar on 
grounds which appear absurd to all but 
Frenchmen. In Tonquin, too, she puts forth 
claims which China is preparing to resist 
even at the cost of war.It is said that 
Lord Dufferin on the conclusion of his mis 
sion in Egypt will be sent to Vienna. He is 
opposed to the restoration of the Egyptian 
Chamber of Notables...Mr. Fawcett, 
the blind Postmaster-General of England, has 
suffered from hemorrhage and is at death’s 
door.Charles Alexendre Lachaud, the 
distinguished French advocate, is dead. 
The weather was splendid for observing 
the transit of Venus in South America. 
Tuesday last a portion of the War Office 
at Madrid was burned to the ground. 
Twenty persons were injured, one seriously. 
The library and a part of the archives were 
destroyed. Young King Alphonso was 
present during the fire and assisted in sub¬ 
duing the flames. Kings are sometimes as 
useful as day laborers.Heavy snows 
in Spain, and horrible weather general in 
Europe.The Sultan has a new armored 
carriage, bullet and grenade proof.An 
Anti-terrorist Association the object of which 
i« to oppose the projects of the Nihilists, has 
been formed at St Petersburg. Branches 
have been established at Paris, Nice, Geneva, 
Zurich, London, Berlin, KonigAr-rg, Bur har¬ 
vest and Constantinople.Gen. Sir Eve¬ 
lyn Wood leaves Chatham to-dav for Egypt, 
to take command of the Khedive’s new 
army.Parnell baB petitioned the 
Land Court for the sale of his property in the 
County Wicklow— 5,000 on which there is a 
mortgage of $65,000.A female Nihil 
ist lately banished to Siberia, has killed the 
Governor of the territory........ Arabi PaFha 
and his chief followers are to be exiled to 
Ceylon. Their property is to be confis¬ 
cated, but an allowance is to be made for their 
support.During the past, week, the 
English papers have been full of Gladstoniana 
—or memoirs of the famous Prime Minister 
who has just completed 50 yearxof Parliamen¬ 
tary life. “The Grand Old Man” w ill be 73 
on the 29th. His has been a solendid, honest 
career.Col. Stewart, who was sent to 
the Soudan to investigate the condition of the 
country, telearaphs from Khartoom that the 
false prophet has been repulsed at Bara and 
El Obeid, and that Khartoom is safe. The 
first detachment of the Soudan expedition 
has reached Khartoom . 
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Knows from Experience —S. Richey, an 
extensive horse-dealer of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
who handles all kinds of draft horses, says: 
“ The prevailing color of the Norman horses is 
gray, and a matched pair of grays will bring 
more money than any other color. The Nor¬ 
mans are better selling horses and give the best 
satisfaction of any of the breeds to customers. 
If I were buying for my own use I would 
have nothing but Normans. I would advise 
the farmers and breeders to breed Norman 
horses in preference to any others with a view 
to selling on this market.”—[Chicago Tribune. 
Percheron Norman horses in their purity, are 
imported from France and bred in large num¬ 
bers by M. W. Dunham, Wayne, Ill., who has 
some 400 on hand. He has imported and bred 
nearly 1,000 in all.—Adv. 
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u 1 have been afflicted with an affection 
of the throat from childhood, caused by diph¬ 
theria, and have used various remedies, but 
have never found anything equal to Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches.”—J? er. G. M. F. Hamp¬ 
ton, Piketon, Ky. Sold only in boxes. 
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*** Lydia E. Pinkham, whose benevolent 
face is shadowed in almost every paper we 
pick up, appears to have discovered what 
Addison calls" The grand elixir, to support 
the spirits of human nature.” It is quite evi¬ 
dent that she has the patent and has secured 
the contract for making over aud improving 
the invalid corps of American womanhood.— 
[Globe.—Adv. 
[gpDresses, cloaks, coats, stockings and all 
garments can be colored successfully with 
the Diamond Dyes. Fashionable colors. Only 
10c.— Adv. 
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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 box,—Adv. 
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For throat and lung difficulties, Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral, when seasonably taken, is a 
certain specific.—Adv. 
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Try Buckingham’s Dye for the whiskers; it is 
an elegant, safe and reliable article, cheap and 
convenient for use, and will not rub off.—Adv. 
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"Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, 
roaches, bed-bugs, vermin, chip munks.—Adv, 
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The People’s World-wide Verdict. 
Burnett’s Cocoaine has been sold in ev¬ 
ery civilized country, and the public have 
rendered their verdict that it is the cheapest 
and best Hair Dressing in the ivorld. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are inva¬ 
riably acknowledged the purest and the best. 
—Adv. 
