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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday Jan. 17, 1884. 
The Citizens’ Reform Association, of Buf¬ 
falo, is preparing several large volumes which 
give the private history of the liquor sellers 
of that city. Already these volumes contain 
the biographies of 500 men. They say the 
record is so bad that, on its publication, 
licenses should be either revoked or renewal 
refused.Dissatisfied with Southern 
Georgia, a large party of immigrants recently 
set out for Arkansas and Texas, and in Dalton, 
Ga , they met a large party returning from 
those States to their old homes in Georgia and 
Alabama.John H. FlenmiiDg and Fred 
L. boring were couvieted Monday in the 
United States District Court in Chicago of 
carrying on an extensive grain swindle under 
the firm name of Flemming & Merriam. Each 
was sentenced to 1:3 months in the county jail, 
and to pay a fine of 1600. A writ of error was 
subsequently granted, and the prisoners were 
released on 810,000 bail_The traveling show¬ 
men are exhibiting three skeletons of Guiteau 
—his skeleton when he was a boy, bis skeleton 
before he shot Garfield, and his skeleton after 
he had been banged.Chas. Delmonieo. the 
famous restaurateur, was found dead iu a gully 
near a road on the side of a ruountaiu uear 
Orange. N. J.. last Tuesday. He had probably 
tumbled headlong into it while on his way at 
night to a neighboring house seekiug shelter. 
He had been more or loss insane for about a 
year, and had escaped from his attendant 
when he began his crazy w anderings. He had 
been dead probably a week when found. 
The snow had concealed him from passers-bv. 
A couple of rabbit-bunting boys saw his feet 
and arms sticking out from a mass of sand 
and slush, and got 8500 for the discovery. 
His fortune is variously estimated all the way 
from $1,500,000 to §5,000,000.Governor 
Ireland, frankly acknowledging iu his mes¬ 
sage to the Legislasure of Texas his inability 
to enforce the existing laws against the de¬ 
fiant fence cutters, recommends such legisla¬ 
tion as shall make fence-cutting punishable 
with imprisonment in the penitentiary, and 
triableTn auy court in the State . . They 
expect a thousand delegates to the Mississippi 
River Convention in St. Louis in February. 
The point that they will make is that, no mat¬ 
ter what the volume of traffic ou the river 
may be. the river should be ready to carry the 
products of the great valley, so that the rail¬ 
road companies may be restrained from 
charging unreasonable rates for freight. To 
dike the river properly, aud thus insure the 
millions of acres of rich bottom lands agaiust 
the semi-annual overflow would cost §50,- 
000,000. This is not. to be urged; but it is to 
be proposed that the channel shall be nar¬ 
rowed so that there shall be a swifter current 
to carry the sediment that now makes new 
bars every year. Tbe House has appropriated 
81,000,000 for immediate use on the Missis¬ 
sippi improvement, to preveut the loss of the 
work already done. The Iowa Legisla¬ 
ture has renominated W. B Allison for 
United States Senator by acclamation. 
Surgeon-General Robert Murray’s appoint¬ 
ment has been confirmed.There is a 
movement on foot in the New York Bar Asso¬ 
ciation to prefer charges against at least five 
Supreme Court. Judges, who give all judicial 
patronage to a few favorites, and from whom 
it is claimed decisions favoi able to corpora¬ 
tions have been obtained by bribery...... 
A stringent auti-Chinese Bill will be intro¬ 
duced in the British Columbia House, declar¬ 
ing it unlawful to enter British Columbia 
and imposiug an annual fax, to be fixed bv the 
House, on Chinese over 14 years old. 
Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, thinks that the 
population of his principality has increased 
100,000 iu the last year.The payment 
ot the public debt is 8455,000,000 in advance 
of the requirements of the Sinking Fund Act. 
.The pay-roll of the Mississippi River 
Commission includes not only 67 engineers 
and a large number of clerks, but, as the de¬ 
bate showed, no fewer than 44 cooks, The 
salaries of these cooks alone amount to §1,800 
a month; aud, excluding all the laborers, the 
annual expenses of the Commission for per¬ 
sonal sendees are over half a milliou a year. 
_Iu Erie, Pa., three physicians are danger¬ 
ously ill from blood poisouing. which was due 
to carelessness in making post-mortems. 
A compilation of statistics of suicides in the 
United .States during September, October aud 
November. 1883, has been published. There 
were 347 suicides reported for the three 
months. The greatest, number at a single age 
was 11 at the uge of 50. Business troubles 
caused 40 suicides, destitution 1), dissipation 
24, family troubles 54, insanity 100, love 
troubles 20, sickness 30 and actual punishment 
12, Bachelors were 111, husbands 121, maids 
40, wives 42, widows 0 and widowers 22, 
Means employed wore: Shooting 08. instan¬ 
taneous poisoning 06. bangiug 60, drowning 
23, cutting the throat 31. and cutting arteries 
of the arms or legs 6. The native Americans 
numbered 128, English 27. Germans 114, aud 
Irish 12. Others were of scattering nationali¬ 
ties. The principal occupations were farmers 
39, laborers 28, merchants 24, saloon-keepers 
11, and domestic servants 7. Males were 258 
aud the females 80. In the daytime 269 
suicides wei’e committed, and at uight. 
78. Iu 11 instances suicide was con¬ 
nected with the crime of murder. 
The amount of copper produced by the Lake 
Superior mines iu Michigan during the year 
1883 was 37,000 tons. All other mines in the 
United States produced only about 16,000tons, 
.The divorces granted in this city 
in 1883 numbered 244. There were 300 in 1882. 
.The members of the Missouri delega¬ 
tion in Congress yesterday resolved to make 
every effort to secure the holdiug of the Demo¬ 
cratic Couvention in St. Louis.The ex¬ 
ports of provisions and tallow from the 
United States in 1883 amounted to 8114.- 
228,956 against 896,934,423 in 1882.... .A 
number of farmers, with 160 plows and 
320 horses, plowed 50 acres of Mr. Par¬ 
nell’s estate, in Ireland on Thursday. 
A telegram from New Bedford, Mass., this 
morning announces that the steamer Colum¬ 
bus, of 2,000 tons which left Boston on Thurs¬ 
day last, with a crew of 45 and 80 passengers, 
was wrecked yesterday off Gay Head; 102 
perished, and only 23 were saved. The 
vessel ran on the rocks and began to 
break up at once, as a strong gale was 
blowing aud a heavy sea running. Guy Head 
is a little north of Martha’s Vineyard- 
... Lieut.-Gov Aikens, of Manitoba, was in 
Chicago Sunday. He asserted that there was 
no danger that bis Province would secede from 
the Canadian Dominion. He admitted that 
the people bad reason for complaint. Reme¬ 
dies for all existing grievances he thought 
would be applied iu time, Lieut.-Gov. Aikens, 
it may be remarked, owes his appointment to 
the Domiuion Government.... Nearly 800 
new bills were poured into the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives Monday, making the total of the 
session nearly 4,000. No great appropriation 
bill has yet made its appearance... 
The treaty with Mexico, negotiated last year 
by Gen. Grant, was rejected in the Senate 
yesterday.The Maryland Legislature 
in joint convention elected E. R. Wilson 
United States Senator ou the sixth ballot, 
Friday.Ou the same day an explosion 
iu dynamite works near Allentown, Pa. 
killed three men and injured three others.... 
....A smart earthquake shock was felt at 
Wilmingtou, N. C., and in other places iu 
that State A similar report comes from 
New Hampshire.By the will of the 
Charles Delmonieo his sister receives half his 
estate, and the other half is divided equally 
between his two nephews and his niece. 
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AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, Jan. 19,18.84. 
California newspapers, summing up the 
statistics of the Golden State’s progress iu the 
36 years since Gutter electrified the world with 
his discovery, say that the State’s agricultu¬ 
ral product lias risen imtil it lias thrown the 
auriferous metal into the shade, being uow 
about §100,000,060 a year. The fruit product 
almost equals that of the mines, and now that 
a court has decided agaiust hydraulic mining, 
it may be prophesied that wine-making aud 
silk culture will ere long be more important 
industries than gold seeking. Irish land 
shows a continuous tendency to go out of cul¬ 
tivation, the area under all crops being tins 
year but. 15,151,230 acres, as against 15,812,296 
last year, and 15,304,235 the yea i before. The 
decline extends alike to grain, green crops, 
flax aud rotation grasses, and even potatoes 
occupy 30,006 acres less than in 1882. The de¬ 
crease iu the area under wheat is enormous, 
amouutiug to uo less that 58,000 acres, or 
• nearly 38 per cent. The growth hi perma¬ 
nent pasture does not, as in England, keep 
pace with the abandonment of tillage. On 
the contrary, the cultivated area in the whole 
of Ireland shows a diminution iu the year of 
more than 60.000 acres There is some in¬ 
crease in the number of cattle, and a slight 
increase in sheep and lambs, but the number 
of both the latter is about 28 per cent, less 
than two years ago. In pigs there has been 
a decrease for the year of over 160,000.... .. 
The more substantial English farmers, hoping 
for a rise iu prices, have not thrashed their 
wheat. Tliis keeps them short ot cash and 
reacts unfavorably on trade.Capt. 
Haley T. Blocker, who has just returned from 
South Florida and the Lake Okeechobee re¬ 
gion, tells the Tallahassee Economist that the 
Okeechobee Drainage Company have not re¬ 
claimed one foot of overflowed land, though 
they have received grants for 450,000 acres on 
the score of drainage claimed to have been 
done by them.The sire on the English 
turf whose yearliugs have made the most 
money this season is Hermit, as the nine eolts 
and fillies by him have been sold for 8,410 
guineas, oi 934% guiueas each. ..... ..The 
stewards of the Jockey Club of England have 
ordained that in future jockeys shall receive 
licenses only on condition that they are not 
owners of race horses, aud that if a jockey is 
found betting on a race his license will be 
withdrawn. The latter regulation is directed 
against Mr. “Plunger” Walton, with whose 
operations it will materially interfere.. 
The ostriches ou the Anaheim Farm, Califor¬ 
nia, laid 305 eggs during the season from the 
first of May last until the first of October. 
The birds have been plucked twice since their 
arrival on the farm. The firs; clip, in May 
last, yielded 8500. The clip in December 
yielded 2,500 quills of all kinds from 18 birds, 
and is valued at §1,000.The seventh 
auuual meeting of the Dutch-Fi iesiau Asso¬ 
ciation of America will be held at the Butter¬ 
field House, Utica. N. Y., on February 6, 
1884. Addresses will be delivered by the 
president, Dr. F. W. Patter sou. Dr. E. L. 
Sturtevaut, and several others. 
A Texas stock dealer asserts that 2,000,000 
head of cattle are fed on “free grass” in his 
•State. The net profits of the owners of the 
stock is about 25 per cent., and the aggregate 
value is §40,000,IKK). The lands ou which 
the cattle are fed are largely the property 
of the public schools of the Stale. 
-- 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Saturday. Jan. 19, 1884. 
Across (lie Atlantic violent discontent still 
rages iu Ireland. Mass meetings both of Na¬ 
tionalists and Orangemen are prohibited by 
the Government; still large meetings are held, 
aud were it uot for the largo force of soldiers 
and constabulary, both factious would now' 
lie murdering each other by wholesale in the 
north of Ireland. The English Government 
insists that the Land Act, the aid to immi¬ 
grants and ot her measures have greatly bene¬ 
fited the inhabitants; while Parnell and bis 
followers maintain that very little real good 
has been done by the Land Act; that aid¬ 
ing immigration is merely a cheup way of 
exiling the people, and that much larger con¬ 
cessions must lie made before agitation will 
cease. What measures short of "home rule’’ 
aud virtual independence would satisfy them 
nobody can tell.Iu England the cotton 
operatives of Lancashire and the iron oper¬ 
atives of Staffordshire are on a large strike 
and great distress prevails. In fact, all over 
the country, w'hile the wealthy arc having au 
uuusually gay season, the laboring classes 
are severely pinched. The horribly wretched 
and immoral condition of the poor, packed in 
miserable quarters iu London, aud to u less ex¬ 
tent in other large cities, has attracted a 
great deal of attention of late among the 
“upper classes,” and the Government is likely 
to try to effect a reform of this terrible evil. 
.Across the Channel, in France, 130,000 
idle workmen in Paris demand profitable 
employment from the Government in such 
violent language that the Assembly bus just 
refused to receive their representatives; work 
Lslikely to lie* provided, however, 'tin - French 
war vessels steaming along the Madagascar 
coast have been amusing themselves by bom¬ 
barding towns aud villages, and now Eng¬ 
land demands heavy damages for injury to 
the property of her subjects by such ruthless 
barbarity. Whet her the French and (. hinese 
will really go to war over Tonqtiiu is still 
doubtful. Not only do one day’s cablegrams 
contradict those of the preceding duy, but the 
different cablegrams of each duy ure con¬ 
flicting. Admiral Gi urbet is about to attack 
Buc ninh, aud China must soon take u deft 
uitc stand. Eire is uow drilling troops and 
fortifying Canton. Pome talk about media¬ 
tion by this country.The general im¬ 
pression in Spain is that Alpliouso will soon 
have to fight for his crown. It is generally 
conceded that his visit to Germany was a mis 
take; but the Spanish troops are to be organ¬ 
ized on the German plan.Germany and 
the Pope appear to be on very friendly terms, 
audit is conceded that Bismarck has "gone to 
Couossa.”. Iu Russia a panic has been 
caused among the high officials by the murder 
of Lieut.-C’olooel Sudeikin by a band of Ni¬ 
hilists iu St, Petersburg. The murdered offi¬ 
cer had special charge of all measures agaiust 
the Terrorists and was greatly trusted by the 
Emperor, who has been deeply affected by his 
slaughter. Most of his murderers have been 
captured.El Malnli is still advancing 
towards Egypt. There is a report that Khar¬ 
toum has been captured. Most of the tribes of 
northern Africa favor him. England has 
been negotiating with Abyssinia to make war 
against the Prophet on condition of receiving 
a large part of the Soudan, if he is defeated. 
Turkey, too, will probably be allowed to in¬ 
tervene. France objects to this, but not much 
atteutiou is likely to be paid to the objection. 
.The Spanish Ministry having been de¬ 
feated iu the Cortes, have tended their resig¬ 
nations, and King Alphonso has charged Senor 
Couovas del Castillo, Conservative, with the 
task of forming a new' Cabinet . 
The lower classes of Paris are showing 
strong symptoms of restlessness. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Thkre has been a big tumble in wheat du¬ 
ring the past week everywhere, and other ce¬ 
reals have fallen in sympathy with it. Indeed, 
ever since the 11th inst., there has been con¬ 
siderable activity and excitement amoug deal¬ 
ers in breadstuff's. New York and Chicago 
have felt this most keenly, hut it has been 
conspicuous in all breadstuff's markets. Ou 
Friday night. January 4, the January option 
closed at §1.09% bid, against 81.1PM on De¬ 
cember 28 last, and 81.12*1 on December 15, 
1883. On the 10th inst. the quotation had 
dropped to §1.08% at the close, aud about an¬ 
other cent at the close ou Friday, the 11th inst. 
This steady decline, amounting to about 4c. 
per bushel since the close of 1888, had evi¬ 
dently proved very trying to some bouses here 
as well as at Chicago. At the latter city, on 
Saturday, January 12. much "long" wheat was 
thrown over, and here the same course was 
noted. In addition two well-known grain 
houses here failed, and the market began the 
down grade as to prices with some 
vigor. There were rumors also of more 
damaged No. 2 wheat in the elevators 
which would have to be posted. The 
options went off about. 2>gc. on that day and 
cash wheat l to 2c. On Monday 353,000 
bushels of No. 2 Red were pronounced out of 
condition in the Brooklyn elevators. This, 
with free selling and a disturbed and uncer¬ 
tain feeling on’change, which approached the 
“panicky,” precipitated prices still further. 
Options went off 2 to 2%e. from Saturday’s 
close. January touching §1.02%, but recov¬ 
ered, leaving a net loss on the day of about % 
to JM’c, Cash wheat declined 1% to 2c. To¬ 
ward the close there was some buying, which 
served to steady prices somewhat. On Tues¬ 
day there was an advance of % to %c, ou the 
options and of },{ to %c. on cash wheat. The 
market here and at Chicago had steadied, and 
purchases were on the basis that the bottom 
had been touched for the present at least. On 
Wednesday there was more selliug aud less 
firmness. Exporters neglected offerings, aud 
by a combination of outside causes, mostly 
manipulatory, prices went off a fraction. Ou 
Thursday there was another break of 1% to 
I 2c per bushel and §1.02 for January was 
touched, notwithstanding that the visible sup¬ 
ply had been reduced 506.909 barbels and the 
stock at New York 800,082 bushels in the 
week. Rumors of failures, weak cables, free 
sales and manipulations were the causes. 
Weaker advices from the Weston Friday let 
prices down from % to %c. further, though 
the market was quieter, 
There was less interest attached to corn than 
to wheat. The break in the latter absorbed 
all t.hi attention, and the variations iu the 
prices of coru were chiefly dun to its sym¬ 
pathy with wheat. The decline ou Sat¬ 
urday was about l%e. ou options aud lj. a e. 
for cash corn. Ou Monday it lost but % to 
M'e. On Tuesday there was more firmness 
and an advance of about On some 
options Tuesday’s gaiu was lost on Wednes¬ 
day. Cash corn, however, was firm. Specu¬ 
lative and the milliug export demands were 
very light. There was a decline of from lc. 
to l%e. in corn on Thursday, due to liberal 
sales aud in sympathy with wheat. On Fri¬ 
day corn fluctuated considerably, closing 
about %e. below Thursday’s figures. 
Lost Tuesday 200 cars of corn arrived in 
Chicago over the Alton Road for which there 
was no room on the elevators with which the 
tracks of the road connect. There is a glut of 
grain at that point. The storage capacity 
there is nominally 20,000,000 bushels; but the 
j nominal capacity is considerably more than 
