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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 29, 1883. 
During the past year the street cars of New 
York have carried 145,000,000 passeugers. 
The convicted Georgia Ku-Kluxers have 
been sentenced to two years' imprisonment 
and fined £500 each.The organization 
of a secret society to protect hen roosts in 
Camden County. N. J , was followed by the 
shooting of a negro chiekeu-tbief after a few 
days.Cave City, in Calaveras County, 
Cal., once had 1,000 inhabitants, but after the 
failure of the gravel mines the people moved 
away, and now the “city” consists of a hotel, 
a saloon and a haystack.The new can¬ 
tilever bridge over Niagara River was for¬ 
mally opened in the presence of 10,000 people. 
In testing it 20 locomotives and enough 
loaded cars were ruu upon it to fill both 
tracks from end to end.Governor Mc- 
Enery, of Louisiana, has been renominated 
by the Democratic Convention at Baton 
Rouge .Sharon and Flood, millionaires, 
of San Francisco, straggled for control of the 
Opbir mine, aud the election was watched 
with great interest. Flood carried the day 
by a small majority, through the energy' of 
his son. The contest cost, for the purchase of 
shares and proxies, over a quarter of a mil¬ 
lion dollars.Bells were rung in Green- 
castle, Ind., the other evening, when they 
completed the county subscription of $60,- 
000 , conditional upon which the millionaire 
glass-maker, W. C. De Pauw, gives $240,000 
to De Fauw University. This gift is to be 
followed by a greater, as 45 per cent, of the 
De Pauw estate, exclusive of the glass works, 
is to go to the uuiversity after the testator’s 
death, and this 45 per cent, is estimated at 
$1,500,000.The Ohio canals have earned 
during the year a total of $155,016; expenses, 
$220,035. It is claimed that had it not been 
for the floods there would have been a bal¬ 
ance of $50,000 .The w innings of Han- 
lan, the oarsman, during the last five years 
amount to $70,00*1. Of this sum he lias man¬ 
aged to save about $40,000, of which $80,000 
are invested in a hotel on Toronto Island. He 
has a wife and two children.The New 
Albany, Leavenworth & Canuelton Railway 
Company has been incorporated, with a capi¬ 
tal of $1,000,000. This will be the first rail¬ 
road to pass through Perry County, Ind. 
The anthracite coal tonnage of all the car¬ 
rying companies for the 11 months of 1883, is 
29,659,886 tons, an increase of 3,439,229 tons, 
over the same period last year.Ex- 
Senator Spencer has been dismissed from the 
charge of contempt of court, owing to a de¬ 
fect in the subpeena. He threatens to bring a 
suit for damages, He says Dorsey was one 
of the small fry in the Star-route rascalities. 
There were Western men much deeper in it. 
.Fifteen hundred men, employed by 
Grant, Ben net & Co., iron masters, of Pitts¬ 
burgh, have accepted a reduction of 10 per 
cent, in their wages .There is much ex¬ 
citement in Las Vegas. N. M , over the re¬ 
cent discoveries of gold.,.Pierre Lorn- 
lard won $57,911 the past season on the turf; 
the Dwyer Brothers $125,000.The ex¬ 
penses of the U. S. Courts for the last 
fiscal year amounted to $3,000,000 . 
Colorado has a settled population of 800,000 
and a taxable valuation of $ 110 , 000 , 000 , repre¬ 
senting an actual property value of $ 200 ,- 
000,000. She is traversed by 3,000 miles of 
railroad, and in 1882 her mines yielded $26,- 
000,000 in gold and lead.The Hennepin 
Canal is to be—if it is ever made—80 feet 
wide on the water line and 7\£ feet deep. 
Congressman Miller’s bill calls for an appro¬ 
priation of $ 1 , 000,000 to prosecute the work. 
Nominally the canal is intended to promote 
commerce in the central Western States, but 
incidentally it is noticed that it will draw the 
waters of Chicago’s unclean river down into 
the Mississippi and perhaps save the Garden 
City the large sum she now pays for pumping 
.Capitalists from Staunton, Va., pur¬ 
chased 33,000 acres near Great Bend, Kan. 
paying for it $160,000. They expect to es¬ 
tablish a colony of Buukards upon it. 
Guiteau’s skeleton, which is hidden in a pri¬ 
vate room of the Army Medical Museum, has 
been polished and bleached until it looks like 
an ivory figure.They have begun to 
enforce the “four-mile” law in Tennessee. It 
is virtual prohibition. As a result the river 
steamers are freighted with jugs of whiskey 
for private consumers. The W. A. Johnson 
recently steamed away from Paducah with 
800 jugs for distribution along the river banks 
....... Catholic Archbishop Perohe died at 
New Orleans at 0.20 o’clock Thursday night. 
Born in France in 1805; ordained in 1829. 
Came to U. S. in 1837. Went to New Orleans 
in 1842. “ Consecrated” in 1870, and succeed¬ 
ed to the Archbishopship on the death of 
Archbishop Odin. John N. Irwin, Gov¬ 
ernor of Idaho, has returned to the Treasurer 
of the United States a draft for $660, sent him 
as salary for the quarter ended Oct. 30. 1883, 
and has declined also to receive the salary due 
him fpr the quarter euding Dee. 81. He states 
that lie has been unable to attend to the du¬ 
ties of the office since July 1, and cannot con¬ 
scientiously accept the pay.Lieut.-Geu. 
Sheridan has received a telegram from Ma¬ 
jor-Gen. Pope at Fort Leavenworth, saying 
that it is thought the white boy, Charlie Mc- 
Comas, is with a band of Chiricahua Indians, 
who are daily expected to reach San Carlos 
Agency.The wards of a resident of 
Jefferson County, Ga., recently sued him in 
the court for money belonging to them which 
he invested in Confederate bonds during the 
rebellion, and the jury found for the wards 
to the value of the bonds at the time the in¬ 
vestment was made .General Macken¬ 
zie, commander of the Department of Texas, 
is afflicted with mental trouble occasioned by 
nervous prost ration. Although it is thought 
to be only temporary, his condition causes 
grave apprehension among his friends. He 
is now on his way from San Antonio, Texas, to 
the Government Insane Asylum at Washing¬ 
ton. The Committee on Education of 
the State Grange of Louisiana has recom¬ 
mended that the Legislature be petitioned to 
submit to the people an amendment to the 
State Constitution requiring a special mill to 
be levied in eaeli year for school purposes.,.. 
The insurrection in the Soudan has caused a 
scarcity in the gum-arabic market. The 
prices of candy will be seriously affected.... 
... .The ship bnilding trade of Maine was bet¬ 
ter than expected during 1882.The 
miners are protesting against the introduction 
of Hungarian serf labor into this country.... 
It is reported at McKeesport, Pa., that 3,000 
employes of the National Tube Works Com¬ 
pany will accept the reduction of from 12 to 
25 per cent. January 1 .The suit of the 
State of Pennsylvania against the Western 
Union Telegraph Company for $147,000 in 
taxes on stock dividends for the years 1879 and 
1881, has been compromised at $50,000. 
Sanguine persons out in Wyoming say that 
the petroleum belt there is twice as wide as in 
Pennsylvania, and a railroad is started to de¬ 
velop things.Montana’s tax valuation 
is nearly $70,000,000, it doesn’t owe a cent, 
and the debtsof its counties and towns amount 
to less than $1,090,01X1, all told. It has 
rapid growth in all respects, aud in the 
past yea r 25,000 head of i mproved cattle have 
beeu taken into the Territory, including many’ 
thoroughbreds, with horses aud sheep and 
hogs to match.There are about 300 bi¬ 
cycle clubs iu the United States, varyiug in 
size from 10 members to 200 . and the league 
of American wheelmen numbers 8,100 mem¬ 
bers, The growth of the league during the 
past year has been double that in any previous 
year.—Mr. Cullen has introduced 
a bill providing for five Commissioners, at a 
salary of $5,000 each, to supervise jnter-State 
commerce on railroads, canals and other 
transportation lines, and commerce with for¬ 
eign countries. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, Dec. 29, 1883. 
Hops, when introduced into England from 
the Netherlands in 1524, were regarded only 
as a means of “spoyling good beer,” aud in 
1529 the city of London petitioned against 
coal from Newcastle on account of the stench, 
and against hops “because they did spoil the 
national drink.” It was not until 1771 that 
they became subject to duty. To-day the 
British Anti-Beer Adulteration Society seems 
to desire the passage of a law that beer should 
be flavored with nothing else.A company 
with $2,500,000 capital is preparing to drain 
1,000,000 acres of land in Cameron, Calcasieu, 
and Vermillion, in the southwest corner of 
Louisiana, and to make a Gulf front of 100 
miles of agricultural land between Lake 
Charles and Sabine Pass. Steam plows for 
the work have arrived from England, ca¬ 
pable af plowing fifty' acres a day'.At 
the late annual meeting of the State Board of 
Silk Culture of Califarnia S. A. Sellers of¬ 
fered to lease his grove of 3,000 mulberry trees 
to the Board at$20 an acre. The Board de¬ 
sire to make the place au experimental sta¬ 
tion and build a cocoonery'. The silk-reeling 
school is yielding gratifying results . 
Three-fiftli9 of the cotton in the Memphis dis¬ 
trict has been marketed. The crop is 
twenty per cent, short.Minnesota’s but¬ 
ter product for 1883 will nearly reach 
18,000,000 pounds, worth $5,300,000. 
Three leading cattle dealers of Chicago have 
taken au interest in the Union Stock-Yards 
Company of Omaha, which has a capital of 
$1,000,000.There are about 800,(MX) head 
of cattle in the Black Hills.After four 
years of rapid decline in the number of sneep 
kept in Great Britain, the returnsof 1883 show 
an increase more than sufficient, to offset the 
loss in 1S82 in England and a satisfactory gaiu 
in Scotland and Wales also. Whether or not 
the Queen’s self-denial in the matter of Spring 
lamb has had anything to do with the size of 
the flocks the returns do not show.Of the 
six largest sugar-producing countries of Eu¬ 
rope. Germany this year carries off the palm, 
with 800,000 tons, or 39 per cent, of the whole. 
Next come Austria, with 475.000 tons, France, 
with 425.000, Russia, with ‘350,000, Belgium, 
with 75,090, and Holland, with 25,000. Ger¬ 
many' has not only the greatest number of re- 
fiueries, 857 out of 1,204; but the largest also. 
. In consequence of the representations 
made to the Customs Departmeut by Ontario 
millers respecting the inferior quality of the 
present year’s crop of wheat, the millers will 
hereafter be credited with the duty on four 
bushels aud forty-five pounds of wheat for 
every barrel pf flour produced from imported 
wheat ground in bond aud exported. For¬ 
merly the department held that a parrel of 
flour could be obtained from four bushels and 
thirty-five pounds of wheat.The reports 
that come in from all parts of Wyoming to 
Cheyenne are unanimous in the assertion that 
the cattle are in first-class condition to start 
the W inter, come what may. This is a good 
outlook for the business, seeing that the cattle 
got through so well last AA r inter under the 
worst possible circumstances.Mr. Brown 
of Georgia has introduced into the House a 
bill which provides for the *'epeal of all laws 
prohibiting the distillation of apples or peaches 
into brandy or the manufacture of wine or 
brandy' from grapes, by the producer or owner 
of the fruit or by any distiller who acts as 
his agent, or who distils the fruit and receives 
part of it iu payment for his services. The 
bill leaves the question of taxing of sueh 
products to the States.The farmers of 
the country who have had to pay damages for 
infringement of the driven-well patents, and 
all who have ever had a well driven, w ill be 
interested in knowing that no less than ten or 
twelve hills have already been introduced in 
Congress to cover their grievance, if they 
have any, and to guard them against loss in 
the future for suits for damages. Represent¬ 
ative Morey of Ohio is one of the many' au¬ 
thors of these bills, and he say's there is a gen¬ 
eral determination among members from 
Michigan, Indiaua, Ohio, Illinois, and some 
other States whose farmers are interested 
largely, to have a bill passed at once that will 
stop extortion upon innocent purchasers of 
the various points to driven wells. The bill 
which he has introduced provides that if any 
person buys a patented article in the open 
market from a regular dealer for bis own use. 
it shall be sufficient defense in any suit by the 
patentee to show' that it was tiought in good 
faith, aud the patentee must look to the dealer 
for damages for infringement.It. was 
shown at a recent tueetiug of Miuuesota 
stock-breeders chat three-fifths of all cattle 
in the country, other than milch cow's, are west 
of the Mississippi, and that the northwest 
Mississippi valley'—Minnesota, Iowa, Nebras¬ 
ka, Missouri. Kansas and Dakota—has 0,398,- 
000 this year, against 5,830,(XX) in 1882, show¬ 
ing a gain of nearly IU per cent. The gain in 
the ranching section altogether averages 6 per 
cent. Five States, which have hut just begun 
the dairying business—Mississippi, Iowa, Min¬ 
nesota. Kansas and Nebraska—increased the 
number of milch cows by 245.000 in the year, 
equal to nearly 10 per cent. Iowa, which has 
nearly half the whole number, shows a gain 
of 12 and Nebraska one of 22 per cent. 
.The eleventh annual meet¬ 
ing of the New Jersey State Board 
of Agriculture will be held at Trenton, 
February 5 aud 6. There will be interesting 
papers read on agricultural and horticultural 
subjects, to be followed by discussions. 
Fanners from all parts of the State are in¬ 
vited to attend, and each county hoard of ag¬ 
riculture, or county agricultural society, is 
requested to send one delegate. P. T. Quinn, 
Newark, is Secretary . A syndicate of 
stockmen is engaged in fencing into ranges a 
tract of 6,000,000 acres, leased from the Cher- 
okees for five years at an annual rental of 
$100,(XX). It is believed that 1,000.090 head of 
cattle will be placed on the inclosed grouuds 
• by'April 1 .. It is believed that, at least 
four thousand miles of wire fence have been 
destroyed iu Texas by the small herders. 
Coleman and Brown Counties suffering the 
most. One man owns an inclosed tract 
thirty miles square, and a corporation has 
286 miles of wire fence... .Holland, in the la»t 
three centuries, has recovered fom the sea 
at least IK),000 acres. The lake of Har¬ 
lem became terru iirma between 1840 and 
1852, and the Zuyder Zee is in process of 
transformation into 500,000 valuable acres. 
Holland' has now 1,479,000 oxen aud cows, 
aud her present output of cheese is estimated 
to be worth $3,000,000. 
FOREIGN. 
Saturday, Dec. 29. 
The expense of the w'arou which France en¬ 
tered when she undertook. in 1870, to march 
ou Berlin is now declared to be $1,727,000,000. 
As the war began in August and ended in Jan¬ 
uary, the cost to France was nearly $10,000,000 
a day, besides the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. 
.... Some one tried to pass a nickel in mar¬ 
ket in the City of Mexico a few days ago, 
which led to a quarrel and firing, with cries 
of “Dowm with the uickel!” A mob passed 
through the streets, and all business houses 
were closed. Troops fired blank cartridges 
into the crowd, and the cavalry charged upon 
them before order was restored ......Owing 
to imperfect health, the Empress of Austria 
will cease appearing in the chase, aud devote 
herself to literary work, poetry being her 
specialty. She has procured a printing press 
which has been set up in the Imperial Palace 
at Godollo. Fourteen thousand cotton 
operatives in Lancashire. Euglaud. are idle 
in consequence of the strikes. Half the mills 
in Blackburn have stopped ... . The strike 
at Marseilles of sailors end steamship firemen 
is extending. Nine hundred have have left 
work. Steamers are unable to obtain a prop¬ 
er complement of meu.According to 
the calculations of the Belgian Association 
with regard to the abuse of alcoholic drinks, 
the annual consumption of spirits is now 12}£ 
and that of beer 254 litres per inhabitant. 
The litre is about one aud three-quarters Eng¬ 
lish pints. The sum spent annually in the 
public houses is estimated at 475,000,000 
francs. The retail liquor trade is perfectly 
free iu Belgium, and anybody can open a 
Dublic house where he pleases. 
The British regiments uow in Egypt wall be 
filled to their maximum strength, making the 
total number of British troops in Egypt 10,000 
men.There has been an Irish-Orangemeu 
riot at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. Some 
600 Orangemen, while marching through the 
town in precession with their regalia, ban¬ 
ners, etc., were attacked by about 3<X) Roman 
Catholic J risluncn armed with shot-guns used 
in sealing, bludgeons, etc. The Orangemen 
appear to have been uuanned, for they at 
once fled, after a volley had been poured into 
the throng, killing five and wounding 11 
more, of whom five are sure to die, it is said. 
For Throat Diseases, Coughs. Colds. 
etc., effectual relief is found in the use of 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Price 25 cts. 
Sold only in boxes. — Adv. 
Wisely Adopted by Dairymen. 
The adoption by most of the prominent 
dairymen and farmers of the United States, 
of the Improved Butter Color made by A Veils. 
Richardson & Co., Burlington. Vt., is a proof 
of their wisdom in a business point of view. 
Nearly' all Winter butter is colored iu order to 
make it marketable, and this color is the best, 
in regard to purity, strength, permanence and 
perfection of tint.— Adv . 
“I am using Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator 
with great results, had Heart Disease for niue 
y'ears. so bad could not lie down.—John Mc- 
Guff, Pike Station, O. The Heart Regulator 
cures all forms of Heart Disease, nervousness 
and sleeplessness.—.4dr. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
December 29, 1883. 
From the returns of the State Agriculture 1 
Department of Illinois the corn crop of that 
State for 1888 is shown to be 186,563,508 bush¬ 
els. The total area planted was 7,304,598 
acres, which gave an average yield per acre of 
25V bushels. As compared with the average 
the quality of the grain is 69 per cent. 
A telegram from AA’ashiugton yesterday tells 
us that the preliminary estimates of the 
principal crops ol’ 1883 just completed by 
Statistician, J. R. Dodge, show that potatoes 
and all root products aud oats have yielded 
abundantly. The average yield of corn per 
acre is a little less than 23 bushels, being 12 
per cent, less than the average yield for a 
series of years. The quality of corn north of 
the parallel of Kri is worse than for many 
years. Iu Illinois the yield is estimated at 31 
per eeut less than au average. One feature 
of the corn crop in 1883, Mr. Dodge says, 
should be a lesson to farmers The plantiug 
of Nebraska seed in Minnesota and of Kan 
.sas seed iu Illinois has demonstrated the folly 
of attempting to aeeliuiute southern maize iu 
more northern districts. Much of the loss from 
frost would have been avoided had seed beeu 
carefully' selected from the best com grown 
in the immediate neighborhood. The wheat 
crop is slightly in excess of 400,000,060 bushels 
and the cotton crop is about 6,000,000 bales. 
A New York importer of Sumatra tobacco 
has had his goods so baled as to evade the 75 
per cent, duty on packages containing 85 per 
