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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1884. 
The British Columbia members of the Ca¬ 
nadian Parliament are determined to force 
the government into legislating this session 
against Chinese immigration in that province, 
although it is believed the government will 
disallow the bill. It is estimated that 1,000 
Chinamen have crossed into the United States 
from British Columbia......... Four wood- 
choppers have beeu billed by the falling of 
trees, and 15 badly injured, in the Black Biver 
lumbering regions, Wisconsin, this season — 
.... Apaches killed an American prospector 
near Ures, Texas, and then attacked the camp 
of two men and their families. They killed 
the men and one woman and took the other 
into captivity.Matthew Arnold will 
sail for Europe, February 27.Connect¬ 
icut's tramp law is inoperative, since any 
tramp may escape its penalties by swearing 
that be is looking for work.. At Crested 
Butte, a small mining camp in Gunnison 
County, Col., last Thursday morning, 67 men 
went down the Colorado Company’s mine. 
Of them the 11 last just starting down were 
hurled back 50 to 60 feet by the force of an ex¬ 
plosion of tire-damp in the mine. The men 
in the mine are all thought to have perished: 
though as the entrance is blocked up some 
may yet be alive below.The On¬ 
tario, Canada, Legislature was formally 
opened at Toronto by Lieutenant-Governor 
Robinson Thursday.Judge Drummond, 
of Chicago, one of the oldest judges of the 
United States, is about to retire from the bench. 
. There were 02 vessels on the naval 
register in November. 1883; of these 20 were 
built prior to the rebellion, 81 during the war, 
41 since the close of hostilities. The original 
cost of the 02 vessels was $40,706,612, repairs 
$41,200,820, total cost $81.007.485. The repairs 
exceeded the original cost by $404,200. So 
says Secretary Chandler. A poor navy for a 
first-rate power.The Texas Legislature 
is still struggling with the fence-cutting prob¬ 
lem. Several bills providing for very severe 
penalties for fence-cutting are under discus¬ 
sion; and several others against monopolizing 
land, blocking up roads aud fencing in water 
privileges have beeu introduced; a mighty 
knotty question this fence-cutting difficulty. 
.. The National Executive Committee 
of the Prohibition party have decided to hold 
a National Convention to nominate Presiden¬ 
tial candidates, in Pittsburgh, iu May.... 
General Grant is still confined to the- house, 
where he has received hosts of guests the past 
two days. His injured limb continues slightly 
painful, but troubles him most by its weak¬ 
ness. His general health is excellent. He 
emphatically denies having in Mexico auy in¬ 
terest that can be promoted by confirmation 
of the treaty negotiated between that coun¬ 
try and this by himself and Mr. Romero. His 
only wish is to promote the best interests of 
both countries and render them more friendly 
and happy. The treaty, which was rejected 
by the Senate last week will probably be re¬ 
considered.The Queen of Tahiti and 
suite arrived at Ban Francisco Tuesday even¬ 
ing on the steamer City of Papaete. 
The U. S. Senate has decided by a vote of 
35 to 19 to put 35 addditional clerks on the 
pay-roll at $6 per day while the session lasts. 
If the session lasts till the end of July the 
salaries will amount to $88,000 ; 35 Senators 
will thus have a clerk apiece; all the others 
as chairmen of committees have a clerk each 
already.. Frederick Douglass, the 
Washington representative of the colored 
race, married, last Thursday, Miss Helen M. 
Pitts, a white woman, formerly of Avon, 
N. Y. She is 35 and he is 73. having daugh¬ 
ters as old as his present wife.The 
House Thursday passed the bill making an 
appropriation for the payment of the rebate 
on the tobacco tax, by a vote of 270 to 1. The 
bill appropriates $3,750,000.The Na¬ 
tional Board ot Trade now in session at 
Washington favors Congressional aid for en¬ 
larging the Michigan and Illinois Canal and 
completing the Hennepin Canal to Rock 
Island.The House Committee on Pub¬ 
lic Lands has unanimously agreed to report 
to the House a bill to declare forfeited lands 
granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad. The 
bill provides that homestead entries, selec¬ 
tions, etc., already made on the land shall be 
valid .The Senate Committee on For¬ 
eign Relations has ordered an adverse report 
on the resolutions requesting the President, to 
terminate the Hawaiian treaty. There wdl 
be a minority report iu favor of the resolu¬ 
tions.Mrs. James J. Mapes, the widow 
of the eminent agriculturist aud scientist, 
Prof. Mapes, who died in 1865, and the mother 
of Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editress of the 
St.jNicholas, died of heart disease yesterday, 
at her residence in Fifty-ninth Street, after a 
short illness. She was 75 years old. 
A SECOND EMPHATIC ENDORSEMENT. 
Mr. Win. B. Mitchell, editor of the Journal- 
Press, St. Cloud. Minn., wrote to Mr. Wm. 
Penn Nixon, asking if a card with his signa¬ 
ture, recommending Compound Oxygen, was 
genuine. Mr. Mitchell writes: “The follow¬ 
ing letter from Mr. Wm. Penn Nixon, the 
well-known editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 
explains itself, and will be read with interest.” 
“The Inter-Ocean. Chicago. Jan. 16. 1883. 
“Mr. W. B. Mitchell. St. Cloud. Minn. 
“Dear Sir:—I am always happy to bear 
testimony to the great value of Compound 
Oxygen, as manufactured by Drs. Starkey & 
Pafeu, Philadelphia. I think it the most im¬ 
portant remedy for throat anrt tuny troubles 
that ivas ever discovered, I feet that it saved 
and I am always glad to recommend 
it to those that are suffering from such trou¬ 
bles. The erred tens not only genuine, but J 
endorse the remedy note as fully as I did in 
the card , Verv truly yours, 
“Wm. Penn Nixon. 
Our “ Treatise on Compound Oxygen .” con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures in Con¬ 
sumption, Catarrh. Neuralgia, Bronchitis. 
Asthma, etc , and a wide range of chronic 
diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. 
Starkey & Falen, 1109 and 1111 Girard St., 
Philadelphia.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1884. 
The recent severe cold spell of weather ex¬ 
tensively damaged the orange groves of Ala¬ 
bama to the extent of over $1,000,000, and itis 
estimated that the loss in Mobile County alone 
will approach closely to the above figure. In 
Florida many of the orange growers took 
warning from the Signal Service reports, aud 
warded off the effects of the cold by building 
numerous fires in their groves, and saved their 
trees.The Convention of Colored La¬ 
borers and Sngar-Growers, called to take ac¬ 
tion relative to the sugar tariff, met at New 
Orleans Monday evening last. The resolutions 
of the late Sugar-Planters’ Convention were 
indorsed, and a series of additional resolutions 
adopted, protesting agaiust any reduction or 
removal of the tariff on sugar, against the 
ratification of the Mexican reciprocity treaty, 
and the continuance of the Hawniiau treaty.. 
.... The Indiaua State Bureau of Statistics re¬ 
ports the following as the total gross value of 
agricultural aqd manufactured products of 
the State for 1883: Wheat, $31,405,573; corn, 
$40,364,656; oats. $5,870,336; barley, $219,550; 
rye, $197,182: buckwheat, $31,667: flaxseed 
and straw. $278,446; timothy, clover, bay, 
etc.. $22,085,434; Irish aud sweet potatoes, 
$2,632,680; tobacco, $770,611; poultry, eggs 
and feathers, $3,505,737; cider, vinegar and 
wine, $305,426; dairy products, $9,580,000; 
wool, $989,416; fattened hogs, $21,491,588; 
slaughtered cattle. $4,048,400; slaughtered 
sheep and lambs. $227,780; orchard products, 
$2,500,000; sorghum, and maple sugar and 
molasses. $1,523,196; garden products, $4,751,- 
278; mineral products, $3,888,418, The grand 
total foots up $156,562,322. The products of 
manufacturing industries are valued at $160,- 
527,282, making a total for agricultural pro¬ 
ducts of $817,089,604.Sprats are so nu¬ 
merous in Scottish waters this season that mil¬ 
lions of them have been sold for mauure. 
Sixty tons of them were lately caught in the 
River Tay aud put at once upon the laud. As 
there are about 72,000 average sprats in a ton 
the total number destroyed must be enormous. 
They are wholesome food, but the cost of get¬ 
ting them to English markets leaves no profit 
for the salesmen....The Missouri State 
Board of Agriculture solicits estimates of 
crops and information with regard to the re¬ 
sources of the State from competent men in 
every town in the State. Farmers in each 
town are urged to see to it that one name 
should be at once forwarded to the office of the 
Secretary of the Board of Agriculture for en¬ 
rollment in his list at correspondents, with a 
view of obtaining full and reliable crop re¬ 
ports during the coming season. Address J. 
W. Sanborn, Secretary, Columbus, Mo 
The annual meeting of the State Stock Breed- 
el's’ Association of Nebraska will meet at Lin¬ 
coln, February 13, 14. Charles H. Walker. 
President, Rising, Neb. The State Wool 
Growers' Association will bold its annual 
meeting at the same place on February 15. P. 
Jansen, President, Fair bury. Neb. These 
meetings will occupy the time of the lust three 
days of the Agricultural College Lecture 
Course, for fanners. For full programme, or 
for certificates giving reduced fare on rail¬ 
roads, address, S. R. Thomas, Acting Secre¬ 
tary, Lincoln, Neb....The Indiana Swine 
Breeders’ Association will bold its eighth an¬ 
nual session on Wednesday, Jauuary 80, at 
Indianupolis, audou the following day the In¬ 
diana Wool Grower*’ Association will meet 
at the same place........ The 25th A nnuul 
Fair of the Linn Co. Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical Society will be held at Cedar Rapids, 
la., Sept. 9,^10 and 11, [1884.Dr.lDab- 
ney, State Chemist, announces that vast and 
rich deposits of phosphates have been discov¬ 
ered in Eastern North Carolina. The discov¬ 
ery is worth millions of dollars and creates 
great excitement among capitalists.The 
“Pet Stock Show” opened here Wednesday 
last, iu Madison Square Garden with 6,000 en¬ 
tries, of which over 1,000 were pigeons. It is 
the largest show of the kind ever held. The 
attendance is good..., —The Grand Jury has 
indicted John Radel, owner of the South Or¬ 
ange Horse-Oar Railroad, Newark, N. J., tor 
keeping glaudered horses and permitting them 
to pass through the town .......The New 
York State Senate Committee on Public 
Health was directed to investigate the matter 
of adulteration of dairy products aud also 
in beverages, Thursday.Among the 
new applications of cotton is its use, in part, 
in the construction of houses, the material 
employed for this purpose being the refuse, 
which, when ground up with about an equal 
amount of straw and asbestos, is converted 
into a paste, and this formed large slabs or 
bricks, which acquire, it is said, the hardness 
of stone, and furnish a really valuable build. 
iug stock.Specimens of sausage, sent 
to Peoria, III . from Fulton County for analy¬ 
sis, were found invested with trichina?. 
Three peisons, who ate the sausage raw, are 
dangerously sick.A deputation from 
lower Canada waited upon the Secretary of 
State and requested the intervention of the 
government in support of their claims upon 
the United States for the recovery of exees. 
sive duties exacted upon large quantities of 
hay which was taxed as “ manufactured 
goods,” instead of as “raw material.” The 
Secretary promised to lay the question before 
his colleagues. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1884. 
Mrs. Stapleton Bbetherton, a Lanca¬ 
shire iadv just dead, who in life gave $10,000 a 
year to the Pope, has bequeathed to him 
$2,500,000.Russia has formally demand¬ 
ed of the Porte the prompt payment of $1,350, 
000 still due of the indemnity exacted at 
the close of the Turko - Russian war.... 
.At the Consistory to be held iu 
Rome on February 21, six new Cardinals are 
to be created.Earl Grosvenor. son and 
heir of Duke Westminster, England, is dead. 
A very promising young married man—virtu¬ 
ous, too....So extraordinarily mild has 
been the weather in England that an ascent 
of Snowdon, Wales, was made on Jan. 6. a feat 
almost unprecedented. No snow was visible. 
.The English revenue for the past year 
amounted to £90,035,522. This is a net in¬ 
crease over the previous year of £3,690,064. 
With the exception of miscellaneous receipts, 
which show a decrease of £230,843, there is an 
increase in every branch of revenue, includ¬ 
ing £2,838,000 from the property aud income 
tax: £352,000from the customs, £300,788 from 
stamps. $290,000 from the Post-office, £60,000 
from telegraphs, and £51,000 from house! duty 
.Edmond About, the uutbor, has been 
elected a member of the French Academy by 
19 votes, against 15 for M. Coppeu.... 
.Bismarck is still pursuing his 
scheme for the insurance of all laborers 
by a fund to be derived from a fixod per cent, 
upon wages, contributed by employers and 
varying somewhat with the risk of the vo¬ 
cation. From this fund indemnities will bo 
paid fpr injuries. The Government will in¬ 
spect the associations, supervise their invest¬ 
ments, and supply funds only iu ease of un¬ 
avoidable deficits. Agricultural laborers are 
not included, or employes of the government 
aud members of the civil service, probably be¬ 
cause the latter are protected by a pensiou sys¬ 
tem...“Chinese” Gordon has beeu ap¬ 
pointed Governor of the Soudan by the 
Khedive, with full powers. His object will 
be to secure the evaeuatiou of the region by 
the Egyptian troops aud European residents. 
El Mahdi’s followers were yesterday reported 
tc be all around Khartoum, but this morning’s 
cable tells us Col. Coctiogon, commander at 
Khartoum, writes irom that place that there 
is food enough there to last 6,000 men five 
months, and that the gralu supplies are com¬ 
ing in as usuul.........The Freneh attack on 
Bac-Ninh has been postponed till the middle 
of February; and meanwhile negotiations 
with China are slowly progressing. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
January 26, 1884. 
In this market the downward movement iu 
wheat and corn continued until last Thursday. 
As compared with the prices of wheat options 
at New Yoi k on January 10, prices on Wed¬ 
nesday last, left off from 5 5-8c. to 6 l-4c. per 
bushel lower; as against, those of December 39 
last, the decline was from 7 7-8c. to about 9c. 
per bushel, according to option. Like com¬ 
parisons of prices at Chicago show a decline of 
5 8-8c. on February wheat between January 
10 and 23, and 6 3-8c. between December 29 
last and Wednesday of this week. On Thurs¬ 
day the market was firmer and there was a 
moderate advance. On Friday news from 
California about the drought greatly excited 
Chicago, aud operators there bought heavily, 
resulting in a considerable advance in prices, 
the rise yesterday being H e, At New York 
the net gain was about lc. 
Indian corn option prices went off a little at 
New York on Saturday last, about 1-8 to %c. 
From that time to Wednesday eveuiug there 
was a steady though moderate gain of 3-Sc. to 
%c. The loss in prices of ludian coin at New 
York between January 10 and 23 was 3 3-8c. 
to53-8c. per bushel; from December 29 last 
to Wednesday evening the decline was but 
2 l /£c. to 8 3-Sc. per bushel. The course of 
prices of coin at Chicago, like those here, has 
of late been upward. February corn at Chi¬ 
cago on January 10 and on the 23d was quoted 
at 53 S-8c. On December 29, 1883, it was 
56%c. r showing a loss since of 33.1 c. On 
Thursday corn was off a littleon some months. 
On Friday it fluctuated with a net gain of a 
fraction. Trading was not heavy. 
The reaction in prices of wheat to a higher 
levelwhich began on Thursday wasdue in part 
to reports of declining receipts at the West 
and the reported decrease in stocks at this port 
and vicinity, as well as to the very general 
impression that the market hud been pretty 
heavily oversold. The stock of wheat at 
New York on Monday was reported to have 
been reduced 382,196 bushels on the week, the 
total beiug 483,526 bushels smaller than one 
year ago. No. 2 Red in store here amounts to 
3,978.272 bushels, a decrease of 403,800 bushels 
on the week. The stock of coni here has de¬ 
creased 62,302 bushels during the week ended 
January 21, although the total is 830,286 bush¬ 
els larger than it was one year ago. 
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An Electric Lighter for $5 is being sold by 
Eastern Electric M’f’g Co.,Boston,Mass.— Adv. 
Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator cures all 
forms of Heart Disease, nervousness and sleep¬ 
lessness .—Ad v. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Coughs 
aud Colds: “ I do not see how it is possible for 
a public man to be himself in Winter without 
this admirable aid.”— Rev. R. M. Devens, Po- 
casset, Mass. —Adv. 
The Record of the Fair?-. 
The superiority of Wells, Richardson & Co’s 
Improved Butter Color over all others made, 
is again demonstrated by its record at the 
Autumual Fairs. The test of practical use is 
what tells the story, and the great value of 
the premiums given by the Agricultural Fail's, 
lies in the fact, that the judges in these cases 
are regular farmers, who know wlmt their 
needs are and what will supply them. Wells, 
Richardson & Co’s Improved Butter Color, 
which has taken first premium at all fail's 
where exhibited, is put up in a vegetable oil 
so prepared that it cannot become rancid, a 
most important property, the lack of which is 
fatal to 60 many of the Butter-Colei's offered 
for sale. It does not color the butter-milk; it 
imparts a bright natural color, which is unat¬ 
tained by many others; and being the strong¬ 
est is the cheapest Color in the market.— Adv. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Jaii. 26, 1884. 
Bears and Peas.—B eans, marrow, prime, new, *8.1)0 
@3.05; do., medium, prime. $2.45@2 50; do. pea. S'.’. 50; 
do. white kidney, choice. $8.25(63 50; do. red kid¬ 
ney. 1883 choice, $! 25@4.hi; do. turtle soup. 13.83, 
*4.00; foreign pea beans, s2.lo@2,3ti; do. foreign, 
medium-, *2.01 m 2.& | : Peus. green., prime, *|,25@ i.30; 
(i.i southern B. K. $8.35459.50; California, I Ima, 
82 '10013.15. 
Bit ka osTtl fes ani> Provisioss.—Am compared with 
prices of a week ago. ungraded Winter red wheat Is 
7c. lower; “Posted” No. 2 red Is 3c. higher delivered; 
No. I red U lc. lower: No. :i red l* 2c. lower In eleva¬ 
tor. Ryk.—C anada and State Is 15$c. higher, corn. 
—Ungraded mixed Is lc. higher; No.HIsliqc- lower; 
steamer r Ixed is iqe. lower, delivered. Oats. -No. 
3 mixed is }$e. lower; No. 2 Is l ^c. lower; No. 1 Is J^c. 
lower; No. 3 white Is 4 jc. higher! No. 2 Is tyc. higher; 
No.l Is lc. higher: mixed Western Isle, lowers white 
do. is 2c. higher; w hite State ls>fce. lower. 
Floor, kkko am> Mkal Flour—Quotations: No. 2, 
$2.Ukii2.cb; superfine, $2.75(4 iS5, latter an extreme, 
common to lair extra State, *3.;0itS,10; good to 
fancy do. $3,45(<i(S.Ul; common to good extra Western. 
8H.20ijt3.80; good to choice, $3.6.'>(u 6.00; common to 
fair extra Ohio, $3.20«4 'o; good, $i.0Ci@5.3O: good to 
choice, fi.VM-i6 ii); common extra MlnucMota, $>.20@ 
3.50, clear, $l.'A)@r>.0U- rye mixture, $4.U <i4.8C>; straight, 
*5.00@5.65; patent. $5 St, Loul* common to 
fair extra, $.8.'JUi<t4.Ui: fair to good. 8Lt0u5.v5. good 
to very choice, $Ti.a>@ft 23: pulent Winter wheat ex 
tra, 85,40«<i6.75; city mill extra tor West Indies, $5.15 
@5.1*5; South America, *5 .h 0@5-<0. Sot ihlun 
Flovb—C ommon |u good extra, ut *• *8fl@4.65; 
S ood to choice, 84.75@ft.5u. Kyk Kun a Super - 
no at |1.40@3.75, latter an extreme. Buckwheat 
Flovu Selling at $2.150088, mainly $2.00012.73. Feed- 
40 ttauofr, HSvttAlo. 100IT', 05@8I.UI: sharps, *U«)@L10: 
rye feed. 83@y0c Cork Meal—Y ellow western, $3.oti 
3.25; Brandywine. $3.80(33.45. 
Oraib— Wheat— Ungraded Spring at *1.00, deliver¬ 
ed; No. 2 Chicago KSftc. iu store and five on bouril 
from store; ungraded Winter Red, 80c.@$1.05; '* Post 
ed” No. 2 Red, 095«c(ij.81 03 delivered; No. 4 Red, 83c; 
No. :: Red. 96»@lH!)»c In elevator; 98c delivered: No. 
2 Red. 81.04*4 free on board from store; $1.05@1.054j, 
delivered from store; $l.otiLi@1.005<j for rail eertlti 
