mis of tl)f Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 2, 1884. 
There is a great business stagnation through- ( 
out the country, indicated by a cutting down 
of wages, strikes, and stoppage of factories. A t 
couple of columns could be easily filled with 
such condensations as these: — A reduc- ' 
tion of the wages of operatives 10 per cent, is ] 
reported from several points in New England. t 
.All nail factories in the West have ] 
closed for six weeks. By this order 5,000 men i 
are out of employment.The Springfield 
Watch Company has reduced wages from 10 
to 35 per cent.Twenty thousand opera¬ 
tives in the mills at the Fall River, Mass., 
threaten to strike if the talk of reducing their 
wages is carried out.In New Orleans 
cotton mills the girl operatives have struck 
agaiust goiDg to work before daylight. Their 
average earniugs are about $240 per annum. 
;. A large body of English laborers have 
recently gone to the Furness Company's 
mines, Porter county, Michigan. A strike is 
in progress there.The New York roll¬ 
ing mills are producing about half their out¬ 
put capacity.The iron works at Steel- 
ton, Pa., are shut down.. .The Bailey plate 
m01 and the Maiden Creek works at Harris¬ 
burg and near Reading, Pa., are shut down.. 
.The Penn Iron Works at Lancaster, 
Pa., are idle.The rail mill at Albany has 
shut down.... None of the green glassware fac¬ 
tories iu Pa. have started up as yet. 
At Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, the coal miners 
have been reduced ten percent., and only 
those who rent from the company are em¬ 
ployed. The price is 85 cents a ton.The 
Mahoney Valley mines are running on half 
time........At McCluney half the men are 
idle.The lock-out among glass- 
workers at Pittsburgh still continues. The 
reduction of wages proposed is from 10 to 80 
per cent.Occasionally one sees better 
uews like this:—The Western window glass 
factories are running full.At Beaver’s 
Falls. Pa., the Co-operative Stove Works are 
runniug steadily....1 he Chattanooga 
steel works have begun operations.The 
collieries of the Reading Company along the 
Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad have re¬ 
sumed full time. The company stores have 
been abandoned. -The Pittsburgh iron 
mills are all resuming work.Here are a 
few specimen condensations of long accounts 
of the effects of the cold snap in the South:— 
Comia Hampton was frozen to death in the 
streets of Barnwell, S. C.Many rabbits 
were frozen to death iu Lancaster County, 
g q .A bevy of quail, 30 iu number, 
were found frozen to death near Franklin, Ivy. 
.Business was completely suspended 
in Abbeville, S. 0., during the severe weather. 
.The bauds of the dial of the town 
clock at Americus, Ga., were frozen fast by 
s l ee t,.In the northern part of Florida 
guavas and bauauas were killed, and the 
ripening oranges were injured.Skating 
and sleighing were enjoyed in Edgefield 
County, S. C., the snow being three inches 
deep.The St. Francis River, which 
empties into the Mississippi 00 miles south of 
Memphis, was frozen for a distance of over 
100 miles from its mouth. At Wood- 
ville, Ala., a negro woman who was sick, was 
frozen to death in her bed. Her three child¬ 
ren were nearly dying of starvation.......... 
Near Houston, Texas, two colored women 
were frozen to death, one on the open 
prairie, the other in a tireless cabin. 
Up in Manitoba the cold must have been ter¬ 
rible. A resident of Winnipeg who escaped 
with his life tells a reporter that on three 
nights the thermometer stood at 75 degrees 
below zero, and on eleven nights it fell below 
60 degrees. A temperature of 45 degrees be¬ 
low zero, he says, is regarded by the inhabi¬ 
tants as moderate weather !1!.The settlers 
in rear towuships of Frontenac and Addend¬ 
ing, Ontario, Canada, are iu danger of starv¬ 
ing, being unable to obtaiu provisions in con¬ 
sequence of the snow blockade. The 
number of French-speaking inhabitants in 
British North America is 1,298,£29, of whom 
1,078,820 are in the Province of Quebec, 102,- 
743 in Ontario, 56,635 in New Brunswick, 41,- 
219 in Nova Scotia, 10,751 in Prince Edward’s 
Island, 9,949 in Manitoba, 2,896 in the Terri¬ 
tories, and 916 in British Columbia. The 
French population in the Province of Quebec 
increases, while the English-speaking popula¬ 
tion is decreasing .At the end of the 
Connecticut Legislature's first fortnight the 
Senate had been iu session 60 minutes, the 
House three hours aud 25 minutes. Every 
man drew full pay for the entire time. 
The Hon. John C. New has tendered his resig¬ 
nation as Assistant Secretary of the Ireas- 
uryon “accountof urgent private business.” 
...... Preparations for the Winter Carnival at 
Montreal opening February 4, are very much 
advanced. The expenses will be treble those 
of the previous carnival. The money is all 
subscribed. The ice palace is three times the 
proportion of the one last year. Invitations 
were issued to President Arthur and the 
Governors of the States of the Union. Favor¬ 
able replies are already received from many 
Governors.The Baltimore and Ohio 
Telegraph Company has bought the lines of 
the National Telegraph Company from New 
York to Chicago, and will promptly compete 
with the Western Union at all the chief 
points in the country...... Lord Laudsdowne, 
Governor-General of Cauada, has been ap¬ 
pointed Knight of the Grand Cross of the 
Order of St. Michael aud St. George. 
Fifty-seven lives were lost by that, explosion 
of fire-damp at Crested Butte, Col.—all that 
had gone down into the mine.The re¬ 
duction of the public debt in January will be 
about $11,800.000.The New Jersey 
House of Assembly passed a resolution having 
for its object the enforcing of the reserved 
rights of the State to take the property of the 
New Jersey Railroad and Transportation 
Company at the first cost of the road. 
In the Supreme Court at Newburgh, N. Y., 
it was decided that Justices of the teace 
cannot hold ofilce after they have attained 
the age of seventy,- .The United States 
bench in the West is still further crippled by 
the resignation of Judge Thomas Drummond 
of the Seventh District, one of its ablest mem¬ 
bers. He is 73 years of age, and has been at 
liberty to retire on full salary since passing 
the age of 70.Ex-Gov. John Letcher of 
Virginia, several times Member of Congress, 
is dead at Lexington..... .. .During the past 
year 2,623 buildings were erected in New York 
at a cost of $44,304,638.. The New Or¬ 
leans Cotton Exposition managers are iu high 
feather over the prospects for their show, and 
the capital of the company lias been increased 
from $500,000 to $1,000,000.Twenty 
Roman Catholic prisoners charged with mur¬ 
dering Orangemen at Harbor Grace. Nova 
Scotia, last St. Stephen’s day, were formally 
committed to the St. John’s penitentiary this 
week to await trial at the ensuing Spring term. 
.The Mormons have raised a general 
contribution of $2 a head to test the consti¬ 
tutionality of the Edmunds Act.The 
Fitz John Porter hill passed the house yester¬ 
day by a vote of 184 to 78. 
In the Interest of Suffering Humanity. 
We call attention to a new Vitalizing Treat¬ 
ment which is taken by simple inhalation, 
aud which acts directly upon the weakened 
nerve-eeuters and vital organs, restoring them 
to their normal activity. Its operations are 
all in the line of physiological laws and 
forces, and ft cures by giving to nature her 
tme aud healthy control in the human organ¬ 
ism. Thousands of most wonderful cures ha ve 
been made during the last thirteen years. If 
vou are iu need of such a treatment, write to 
l)rs. Starkev & Palen, 1109 Girard St., Phila¬ 
delphia, to send you such documents and re¬ 
ports of cases as will enable you to judge for 
yourself as to its efficacy in your own case.— 
Adv. t • * _ 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday', Feb. 2,1884. 
The sales of thoroughbred Aberdeen-Angus 
aud Short-horn cattle in Scotland last year 
footed up 819 head, for which $148,000 were 
paid......Mr. Ferguson, of Kiunochtry, 
Scotland, sold last year from his stock of 
Polled cattle to the amount of nearly $20.- 
000.The Autumn rounds-ups of cat¬ 
tle in the Indian Territory show that 
the reported loss of cattle from thefts and dis¬ 
ease was greatly exaggerated. One stockman 
recently sold his ranch and 8,000 cattle for 
$140,000, and another received $30,000 for 
7,000 heads of beeves.An order in the 
Canadian Council has been passed approving 
the regulations regarding the importation 
of swine from the Western States for breed¬ 
ing purposes. The regulations provide that 
the animals must be boars or sows, aud must 
be accompanied by a certificate that there is 
no disease in the district from which they 
come. The animals must remain in 
quarantine for 21 days at the Point 
Edward quarantine station.The 
famous brood mare Midnight, dam of the 
still more famous trotter Jay-Eye-See, died at 
Palo Alto, Cal., on January 19, just after drop¬ 
ping a handsome colt by Electioneer. She was 
19 years old, wa* bred at Wood burn, Ky., and 
had been sold by David Bonner to ex-Gov, Le- 
land Stanford in August, 1882. Her colt, Elec¬ 
tricity, lias been put with Norma, aud is doing 
well.. A verdict of $8,000 damages has 
been returned against the Big Four Road 
in Lafayette, Ind., in favor of a fanner who 
was hurt in a run-away accident, his team 
having been frightened by a passing train.... 
.Reports from Maryland and Delaware 
say the cold snap has done little harm to the 
peach buds.Michigan reports declare that 
the fruit buds in the “ peach^belt” wentjnto 
Winter in excellent condition, and were saved 1 
from injury by the cold by proximity to Lake 
Michigan. Of course in all cases some dam¬ 
age was done; but that is to be expected every 
Winter.The late Dr. J. R. Lee, of i 
Hartford, Conn., among other bequests, left e 
$2,000 to the Hampton Normal Agricultural C 
School of Virginia!.....Reports from t 
Jamaica are that the coffee crop is expected f 
to be small, almost an entire failure iu some t 
parishes. Sugar making has been begun. A e 
great drawback Is the scarcity of laborers t 
through the continued exodus to Aspinwall 1 
and the Windward Islands. The weather is f 
favorable to the crops.While Guera- 1 
sey and Red Polled cattle are invited to the J 
next Michigan State Fair, Ayrshire* have ] 
been stricken from the premium list. 1 
Entries are now being received for the 26th ( 
volume of the Short-bora Herd Book. Ad- ; 
dress the Association at 115 Monroe Street, i 
Chicago, Ill.The fourth national con- s 
vention of the American Agricultural Asso- i 
ciation will be held at the Grand Central 
Hotel, New York, Wednesday and Thurs¬ 
day, February 6 and 7, 1881.A mass 
convention of Connecticut tobacco growers 
will be held at Central Hall, Hartford, at 11 
A m. February 7. All growers are urgently 
invited to attend.There is to be an¬ 
other hearing on the Sumatra tobacco tax. 
New York merchants have retained Ex-Secre- 
tai-y W. M. Evarts to argue before Secretary 
Folger in favor of having his forme)* decision 
on the Sumatra question sustained. If this 
is not done, an appeal will be made to the 
courts by the “ trade. ’\FGrowers should bestir 
themselves also .The outbreak of trichi¬ 
nosis at Einersleben, in Prussian Saxony, has 
been reported upon by a physician and ap¬ 
pears to have arisen from the practice of eat¬ 
ing raw pork minced up and spread on bread, 
as is the habits of the peasants. Of the 257 at¬ 
tacked 50 died, and no remedy had any effect. 
All who ate over a quarter of a pound died. 
Those who ate- the pork cooked were lame 
and had sore eyes. It was native pork. 
A strange and fatal disease is reported to have 
broken out among the cattle in the western 
part of Dallas county, Texas. Large numbers 
have died, the disease failing to yield to treat¬ 
ment.California canned $2,600,000 
worth of fruit in 1882, against $1,500,000 in 
1880 and $500*000 in 1875.France re¬ 
ports general agricultural distress. Hungari¬ 
an breadstuff's rule the market and drive home 
products out of Pains, although hampered 
with a heavy import duty, and farmers have 
applied to the government for aid.A 
good maple sugar season is predicted by the 
farmers who know the signs of tbe times. 
.The National Board of Trade, after 
hearing an argument by Mr. George J. Brine, 
of Chicago, has passed a resolution favoring 
retaliatory measures against the countries 
which proscribe American pork.Dr. D. 
E. Salmon, of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, who is now in Chicago, has sent a com¬ 
petent man to Mexico, Missouri, to investi¬ 
gate the mysterious cattle disease in a herd iu 
that vincinity.At a meeting of the So¬ 
ciety of Arts last Tuesday evening, at Lon¬ 
don, England, over which the Marquis of 
Lome presided, a paper was read discussing 
the question of emigration to Cauada. It 
was asserted that only emigrants of good 
character were scut to the Dominion. Are 
the other sent to the United States ? Sir Al¬ 
exander T. Galt said that. 200,000,000 acres of 
land in the Northwest, had been given away 
in farms on the simple condition that the 
farmers should have the right of ownership.. 
.Four cases of trichinosis were discovered 
the other day in Wabash, Indiana, among 
Germans who came from Saxony last July. 
Since December 1 they have eaten raw pork 
everyday. About Christmas one of the chil¬ 
dren was taken sick and soon died. Then two 
others and the mother were stricken, and at 
last account, their recovery was doubtful. 
, The disease in all cases was in istakeu at first for 
dropsy, but is now ascertained positively to be 
; trichinosis...Last Wednesday the lower House 
j of tbe Texas Legislature passed a bill provid- 
- mg a penalty for fence-cutting of from one to 
, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary; 
5 but a person owning aud residing upon laud 
3 inclosed by another who refuses ingress and 
j egress may lawfully open a passageway 
t through the inclosure. Also, u bill providing 
that the illegal inclosing of lands of another, 
5 or of public lands, be punishable by a fine of 
l 50 cents to $1 for each acre per month. Both 
enactments will take effect immediately upon 
their passage, but they have yet to go to the 
t Senate. Fence cutting is especially brisk just 
s now; fences within sight from the Capitol at 
1 Austin wore destroyed the other day......... 
o A length} 7 communication on foreign discrim- 
n ination agaiust the American hog has been 
sent to Congress by Secretary Frelinghuyseu. 
e He asks delay of retaliatory action. Nothing 
e new in it. Resolutions favoring retaliation 
it are still being pressed iu the Senate and House- 
o 1 Si>ur onjyour Represen tatives.by .letter 1 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 2,1884. 
Tbe Atlantic cables have been very busy dur¬ 
ing tbe week on matters of little public inter¬ 
est. France still hesitates before Bac-Ninh. 
Chinese Gordon is hurrying rapidly to Khar¬ 
toum, and nothing of importance is expected 
from the Soudan till he begins operations 
there. Royalist and Bonapartist intrigues 
are ruffling France. Nihilist action is dis¬ 
turbing Austria, and Vienna and its suburbs 
have been declared in a state of seige. The 
appearance of the ‘ ‘White Lady,” the ghostly 
harbinger of death iu the Royal family of 
Prussia, is agitating Germany, but the old 
Emperor is as healthy as can be expected at 
his age. Usual trouble in Ireland. 
Queen Victoria is in better health than for 
years, and will go to Baden in April to attend 
the wedding of her granddaughters. She is 
still making herself awfully ridiculous 
about the late John Brown. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
February 2,1884. 
The Cincinnati Price Current has made a 
special examination of the wheat stocks in the 
country and published the results yesterday. 
The report shows the total supply of wheat to 
be 175,000,000 bushels. To this is added 35,- 
000,000 bushels in flour in the hands of deal¬ 
ers, making a total of 210,000,000 bushels for 
the remaining half of the crop year. The es¬ 
timated requirements for the time are: For 
domestic food, etc., 126,000,000 bushels; 
for export, including flour, 57,000,000 bushels, 
leaving a surplus of 27,000,000 bushels. This 
is calculated upon the basis of exports of 
120,000,000 bushels this year against 148,000,- 
000 bushels last year.A lusty rival is 
contesting with us in the English meat mar¬ 
ket; for Old England’s trade with her 
Australasian colonies is making progress. In 
1880 only 400 carcasses were imported, while 
in 1883 188,645 were landed in Eugland, being 
62,783 from Australia and 129,732 from New 
Zealand. Twenty-one cargoes arrived in a 
perfectly satisfactory condition, seven were 
not quite so good, while three were unques¬ 
tionably bad. For New Zealand meat the 
lowest prices obtained were 10 cents a pound 
for sheep and 16 for lambs. In the case of 
Australian mutton the highest price paid for 
sheep was 15 cents and for lambs IS cents. 
Australian frozen beef does not seem to be in 
much demand, as the importation of quarters 
has fallen off from 1,373 iu 1881 to 758 iul883. 
Advices from India as late as January 14 
report wheat as being very dull, but sellers 
were demanding late rates. The London Miller 
says, however, that in London and Liverpool 
Indian wheat is out of favor, “ less for quality 
than for being in excess of demand.” Argen¬ 
tine Republic lias had a good December 
harvest, aud a surplus ofr- wheat and maize 
for export Is expected of double the usual 
quantity. 
The Agricultural Insurance Company, 
of Watertown, N. Y.. makes an excellent 
showing iu our advertising columns this week, 
and from all we hear, it is a well and ably 
conducted company, which affords a trust¬ 
worthy means of compensation for losses to 
farmers and others. 
Abundant rains, which have fallen through¬ 
out California, insure a crop should the or¬ 
dinary Spring showers follow. Nothing doing 
iu wheat there. The rain has caused a bad 
break in barley. Australian advices intimate 
that the probable wheat export from the new 
crop will aggregate 700,000 tons, Australian 
wheat is now fetching top prices In England. 
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No Safer Remedy can be had for Coughs 
and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat, than 
“Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” Price 25 
cts. Sold only in boxes.—Adv. 
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My daughter was troubled with Heart Dis¬ 
ease for 5 years, given np by physicians, had 
sinking spells, constant pain, great swelling 
over her heart extending to left arm. aud se¬ 
vere spells of neuralgia extending over entire 
body, doctors could not help her. Dr. Graves’ 
Heart Regulator cured her within 8 mos.— 
Jas. Tilton, Concord, N. H. $1 per bottle at 
, druggists.— Adv. 
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, Tim Best for Butter, 
f There is but one best color for butter, and 
1 thut is Wells, Richardson & Co’s Improved 
i Butter Color, no candid investigator doubts. 
3 It Is the best, butter color in tbe world; is free 
t from sediment or impurity, always ready for 
t iustant use, and it imparts to butter that 
* rich dandelion yellow, without a tinge of red, 
which is the acme of desirability in any butter 
a color.— Adv. 
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g MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Q 
; . Chicago.—C ompared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is higher; 
