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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 22, 1S84. 
Gen. Godfrey Weitzel died at Philadelphia, 
Pa.. Wednesday. Graduated at West Point in 
1855 at age of 20.Madame Anna Bishop, 
the famous singer, died of apoplexy in this 
city on Tuesday, aged 70.The criminal 
fool who “didn’t know it was loaded” has 
been fatally busy in several sections of the 
country during the week. Why doesn’t some 
benefactor of the race kill the nincompoop?... 
The adoption of the Hudson Bay route for 
freight between Manitoba and Europe is still 
engaging the attention of the Dominion Par¬ 
liament. Much of the trouble in Manitoba is 
attributed to Fenians from this country. 
A newspaper in [lion, New York, was printed 
last week by electricity, the first instance of 
the kind on record.The New York 
Legislature has passed to a third reading the 
bill authorizing the taking of land at Niagara 
Falls fora State park.The Keely motor 
is finished, the workmen have been discharged, 
but—“the vibrators must be focalized and ad¬ 
justed" to a nicety. Then the motor will mote 
—or Keeley will ask for more time.......The 
New York Assembly has passed by a vote of 
82 to 32 the bill making the Civil Service Act 
of 18S8 mandatory instead of discretionary 
upon cities of over 20,000.Mrs. Frank 
Leslie, the New York publisher, is to marry 
the Marquis de Leuville, “an Anglo-French 
‘nobleman’ of independent fortune.”-Vau- 
derbilt owns 930,840 shares of stock, worth 
$88,750,000; railroad bonds worth $26,357,420, 
government bonds worth $70,580,000, and 
other securieties worth $5,000,000, His wealth 
equals the $200,000,000 of the Duke of West¬ 
minister. and the income from it is six per 
cent., while that of the Duke is but two. so 
that he is clearly the richest man in the world. 
........During the last 10 ten years the 
French-speaking population of Canada has in¬ 
creased at a much greater ratio than the 
English.The Scott Temperance Act 
was adopted in County Oxford, Ont.. Thurs¬ 
day'. by a majority of 900 .The A ellow- 
stoue National Park Improvement Company, 
of which Mr, Rufus Hatch was the founder 
and is the president, is in the hands of a re¬ 
ceiver. Adverse legislation in Congress pre¬ 
vented the company from issuing it® stock and 
raising money. Mr. Hatch is the heaviest 
creditor, having invested $112,000. The 
“help” now in the Park are said to be short of 
food, and kept there by six feet of snow all 
round them .Of petroleum wells, 2,890 
were put down in 1883, against 3,260 in 1882, 
and 3,852 in 1881.Gen. Grant left Fortress 
Monroe Monday for Washiugton. where he 
will spend two or three weeks. He is improv¬ 
ing in health, but still has to use a crutch.... 
About fifteen educational bills are before Con¬ 
gress for action. Senator Blair proposes to 
appropriate 8120.000,000 for common schools, 
to be expended within 15 years in the States 
and Territories in proportion to illiteracy. 
Representative Willis has introduced a meas- 
use to set aside $55,000,000 within ten years. 
Senator Logan’s bill provides for the annual 
appropriation of $50,000,000 from the internal 
revenue,and Representative Perkins has rate o- 
duced a similar measure for disposing of $30,- 
000,000 .A bill to flog wife beaters 
passed the Massachusetts House Wednesday... 
.The Dominion Grange concluded its 
session at Ottawa the other day. The election 
of officers resulted as follows: Master, Jabel 
Robinson, Middlemarch (re-elected): Over¬ 
seer. R. W. McDonald, Pictou, N. 8.; Lec¬ 
turer, R. J. Doyle, Owen Sound; Secretary, 
Henry Gleudenning, Manille; Treasurer, J. 
P. Bull, Down field; Chaplain, Jessie Trull, 
Oshawa; Steward. T. S. McLeod. Ralston.... 
.St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated with 
enthusiasm in many of the principal cities 
throughout the United States and Canada. 
At the national capital the street parade wras 
reviewed by President Arthur from the por¬ 
tico of the White House. Less intoxication and 
fighting than usual.... Itis given out as one of 
the results of the recent St Louis meeting of 
barbed-wire makersthat stepshave been taken 
for the consolidation of all barbed wire man¬ 
ufacturers in the country under the name of 
tne National Barbed-wire Company. Another 
meeting will be held in a couple of weeks, at 
which the final arrangements will probably be 
made. The announcement of this action has 
caused an advance of one cent a pound on the 
price of wire as fixed by the late meeting. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, March 22, 1884. 
ie value of exports of breadstuffs in Feb- 
-y, 1884, was $10,103,338, against $15,773, 
the same time last year;'for the eight 
iths which ended] February 29/$110,359, 
640. against $149,481,143 the corresponding 
period of last year .A large number of 
horses are dying in Oregon from blind stag¬ 
gers.Numerous crevasses along the Mis¬ 
sissippi levees in Louisiana. Great destruc¬ 
tion of property in Point Coupee, West Baton 
Rouge, Iberville and Assumption Parishes— 
the best sugar - producing section. Many 
breaks below New Orleans also.A solid 
train, consisting of 31 cars loaded with corn, 
which was contributed by farmers of Sedge- 
wick County, Kan., to sufferers in the Ohio 
Valley, left Wichita, Monday morning. The 
31 cars contained 12.400 bushels of corn shelled 
and cleaned.A disease resembling pink¬ 
eye is prevalent among horses in Columbia 
County, N, Y. Several have died.A 
rascal is victimizing the farmers and other 
residents of Peel Co.. Ontario, Can., by selling 
them a solution which he claims will silver- 
plate all articles that are coated with it. The 
fellow' is a fraud.A steamer sailed from 
New York this week loaded with agricultural 
tools and cotton and woollen goods for the 
coming exhibition in the Cor cun capital. 
Swine plague is prevalent in Arlington, 
Mass., and neighboring towns. One fanner 
has lost 200 out of 400, and with others the loss 
is heavy, half their droves having died. 
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Society has 
offered the sum of $2,000 to the Clydesdale 
Association if it will give its Natioual Exhi¬ 
bition of borsos at the Pennsylvania State 
Fair to be held at Philadelphia uext October. 
......The National Horse Show Association 
null hold its second exhibition at Madison 
Square Garden, this city, on May 27. The 
prizes already' amount to nearly $18,000. En¬ 
tries will close on May' 1.The loss of 
cattle on the ranges in the West during the 
past Winter has been estimated at about 10 
per cent.Exports from New' York last 
week iucluded 672 live cattle, 7.300 quarters of 
beef and 1,000 carcasses of mutton.Over 
700,000 head of cattle wore required at Chica¬ 
go, last year, to supply the dressed beef trade 
throughout the country.The number of 
hogs packed in this country during the season 
of 1883-84 is 5,370.000, as compared with 0,182,- 
212 for the corresponding time in 1882-83—It 
is stated that Germany and France have 
raised more hogs than their home markets 
will consume, and are furnishing the English 
markets with their products.During the 
past W'eek steamers carried from the port of 
Boston, for the foreign markets, 1*072 cattle, 
319 sheep, 1,887 quarters of dressed beef, 51 
carcasses of mutton.The cattle buyers 
of Eastern Washington Territory are pay¬ 
ing . $12 for calves, $18 for yearlings, $25 
for two-year-olds, and $40 for cows. 
The breaking of a levee at Roberts Island, 
near Stockton, Cal., on Tuesday night, de¬ 
stroyed 27,000 acres of wheat, valued at $500.- 
000. Further breaks are anticipated, in¬ 
creasing the loss to $1,000,000 ......Mi’. 
Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, is said to be 
meeting with the most gratifying success in 
the butter and egg business.The Gov¬ 
ernor of Texas has paid a reward of $100 for 
the arrest of a fence-cutter in Jackson County, 
while the fine imposed by the court was only 
$10..Trichinosis, engendered by home¬ 
bred pork, has developed at several places in 
Germany.The Lyons Chamber of Com¬ 
merce bas entered a protest against the em¬ 
bargo on American hog products.At 
the Kennel Club exhibition in New Haven, 
Conn., 400 dogs were shown, three of them 
being valued at $5,000 each..A tract of 
6.000 acres of pine land in Lincoln County, 
Wis., containing 100,000,000 feet of timber, 
was recently sold to a Chicagoan for $100,- 
000 .The Canadian Agricultural and 
Arts Association ask that further importa¬ 
tions of cattle, sheep and pigs into the Domin¬ 
ion be prohibited until such time as the foot- 
and-mouth disease is abated in Great Britain 
and the United States.During the past 
year the average price realized for Canadian 
cattle, including the grass-fed and store stock, 
was £21 ($105) per head. Stall-fed caltle, 
how'ever, at the early part of the season rea¬ 
lized an average of at. least £25 ($125) perhead. 
.Gland ere is raging to an alarming de¬ 
gree among Chicago horses....There are 
200 breeders of Galloway cattle now in this 
country.The celebrated Holstein cow, 
Mercedes, died at Iowa City, Iowa, last Mon¬ 
day, of milk fever. Her calf also died; both 
were valued at $10,000. Mercedes had the 
greatest milk record in the world. Her last 
calf sold for $4,200.About 500,000 rose 
trees are imported annually into this country 
from England and France.The value 
of the wheat exported by the United States? 
into Canada for the six months ended Decem¬ 
ber 31, was $2,159,725, represented by 2,882,- 
741 bushels.The depreciation in value 
of farm crops aud the failure of corn and 
winter wheat in Illinois has decreased the 
value of crop and live stock products $07,4U4,- 
000. The value last year was $250,579,000.... 
.... As we anticipated last week, a number of 
the cases of what was supposed to be foot-and 
month disease in Kansas, are due to other less 
dangerous diseases. Last week’s telegrams 
also exaggerated the extent of the infected 
area. Telegrams yesterday and to-day differ 
on this point, some declaring that infected 
herds are found ouly in Woodson County, 
near Neosho Falls, while others maintain 
there are several cases in Coffee and Lyon 
Counties also. All the veterinarians that have 
seen the ailing animals unhesitatingly state 
that the malady is genuine foot-and mouth 
disease; but several who have not seen a case 
maintain that the symptoms do not indicate 
that plague. The Legislature of Kansas is now 
discussing the advisability of appropriating 
$250,000 to stamp out the disease by kill¬ 
ing badly affected beasts, quarantining 
the others, and destroying or disinfect¬ 
ing all infected objects. The owners 
are to he paid for slaughtered cattle. 
The United .States Senate has passed a bill 
appropriating $59,000 for the extirpation of 
foot-and-mouth disease not only in Kansas, 
but wherever it may appear in the United 
States. Towards the close of last week a re¬ 
port was sent out that the disease had broken 
out near 8igel, Effingham County, Ill., but 
investigation proved that foot-rot, not foot- 
and-mouth disease, caused the trouble. A 
false report also came from Cumberland Co., 
Dl., and from Wapello, Louisa Co., Iowa.. 
There will be a meeting of the Devon breeders 
of America, to form a Devon Cattle Club, on 
Wednesday, March 26. at 10 A. M.. in Stock¬ 
man’s Hall, near East End Hotel, Pittsburgh, 
Pa. All breeders of Devon cattle are iuvited 
to be present. Steam-care run out from Union 
Depot every 10 minutes to the Hotel. 
.Dr. Bridge. Veterinary Surgeon of the 
Ill. State Board of Agriculture, says contag¬ 
ious pleuro-pneumonia has got into Willson 
Township, Chester County, and into Mont¬ 
gomery County, near Hynwood.Re¬ 
ports of foot-and-mouth disease are rife at 
Kirksville, Adair County. Mo., and a scare 
about the presence of the disease in Boulder 
County, Colorado, bas just’been abated. 
A bill has been passed by the Provincial Leg- 
slature of Ontario, Canada, to prevent the 
spread of contagious diseases among horses. 
It specially applies to glanders, and provides 
machinery by which a court can compel 
the owner of a horse so diseased to de¬ 
stroy the animal.The Senate 
Committee of the New York Legislature 
that has been investigating bogus butter, 
report that the adulteration of butter by 
tallow oil, bone oil and lard oil was found in 
almost, every town and city hi the State and iu 
an amount which equalshalf the production of 
the natural article. Thu imitation is so dis¬ 
guised that often it. nan only lie detected by 
chemical analysis. Out of 30 samples of al¬ 
leged butter purchased by the Committee in 
New York, only 10 were genuine. The poorer 
kinds of bogus butter sell for from 20 to 
30 cents to lalioring men, aud the better 
grades at 40 or 45 cents. The cost of manu¬ 
facture ranges from 12 to 18 cents, the aver¬ 
age being 14 cents. The manufacture in this 
State is chietly carried ou iu New York and 
Brooklyn, several concerns manufacturing 
over 8,000.000 pounds each out of fat brought 
from the West, from France and from Italy'. 
The bulk of the bogus blitter is manufactured 
in the West and sold in New York, to the 
detriment of the State's dairy interests. Many 
dairy farmers have been driveD out of busi¬ 
ness in consequence. The loss to the State is 
estimated at from $5,000,000 to $10,090,000 
yearly. The Committee estimates that 40,- 
000,000 pounds of the product are sold annu¬ 
ally in the State, ami the illegitimate business 
is breaking our export butter trade. The 
effect of the deception iu the trade is delete¬ 
rious to business morals. Ru Marine can be 
sold at 18 cents less than natural butter. 
The Committee lias framed a bill which pro¬ 
hibits, under penalty of $200 due or six months’ 
imprisonment, the side of adulterated or un¬ 
wholesome milk, and the dilution of milk 
with water. It also provides Mint the manu¬ 
facturer of butter shall brand bis name and 
the weight of the but ter on the package. Can6 
for the sale of milk shall be stamped with the 
name of the county where the milk is produced, 
unless Bold exclusively iu the county. It also 
deals severely’ with the sale and manufacture 
of bogus butter and cheese. 
Horrid pains in Heart Disease. Use Dr. 
Graves’ Heart Regulator aud get relief. Price 
$1. Druggists.— Adv. 
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We call special attention to the Advertise¬ 
ment of E. B. Richardson & Co., Seneca 
Lake Nurseries, Geneva, N. Y., who are in 
want of more salesmen.— Adv. 
A Mplendid Dairy 
is one that yields its owner a good profit 
through the whole season. But he mustsupply 
the cows with what they need in order for 
them to be able to keep up their product. 
When their butter gets light in color he must 
make it “ gilt-edged” by using Wells, Richard¬ 
son & Co’s. Improved Butter Color. It gives 
the golden color of June, and adds five cents 
per pound to the value of the butter.— Adv. 
“BROWN’S Bronchial Troches” are ex¬ 
cellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore 
Throat. They are exceedingly effective."— 
Christian World, London, Eng .— Adv. 
Sudden death results from Heart Disease. 
Take iu season Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator, 
Price $1.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, March 22,1884. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
w'eek ago, “regular” wheat is lj^c. lower; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, %c. lower; No. 2 Red 
Winter, lc. lower. Corn, Ji'c. higher. Oats, 
}{o, higher. Rye, }$c. higher. Barley, 2c. 
higher. Pork, 20c. higher. 
Wheat.— Quiet hut steady. "Regular” cash. 8934 
®9Uc.‘ March, 89W09OC; April, 90May, 9494)0 
95Uje; .Time. 9fl@*«*97e: July. kityiMiSc: August, 9(17-60 
97e; September, 960963*0: No. 2 Chicago Spring, 90(9 
92«c: No. » Chicago Spring. 78080c - No. 2 Red Win¬ 
ter, 980*1. COBS—In good demand un<l steady. 
....IV. B‘W» ! M6*C.iL_BBi. 
and steady. Cash. 8?»ic.. April, May. 347* 
03SWC; .(line, .l>>ttfi«9S>4C: July. SHWwaSc: August, 90c. 
All the Year. 29®29!<C. RYE quiet at 60e, Barley 
I n gold demand at 64©fide. Flaxseed Ann at *1.63 
on track. Pork In gonrt demand. The market ad¬ 
vanced I'xaWc. oil the list- Sales* ranged: Cash. 
*17,95 m I*: March at 417.97*4<SIB! May, *17.90018.1H; 
June. *1S.CG3C01H.2<h July, *18 10018.223*; All the year, 
* 15 . 90015 . 98 . Lard In fair demand. Cash. *9.4009.46; 
April,*9.4009.60; Mttv. *9.6009.60: June, *9.873^0*9.70; 
closing at *9.5509.70; July. *9.62J£@9.7236; All the 
year, *9.17J£@9.20. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, March 22,1884. 
By. a ns asp Peas.— Demand Is lucking In anxious 
features, and buyers move only to the extent of 
known wants. 
Beans- marrow-, prime.new,*2 8502.90; do. medium. 
prime *1.8001.85' do Southern, B. K„ *3.25<«.3.50: Cali¬ 
fornia, Lima, $808.15. 
Breadstcffs and Provisions.—as compared with 
prices of a week ago, Ungraded Winter Red Wheat 
U 2c. lower; No. 1 Red is 3c. lower: ungraded White 
Is Hie. lower. CORN.—Ungraded Mixed ts 3*c. lower. 
No. 3 Is &c. lower; No. 2 Is 54c. lower In elevator; 
Old No. 2 Is 9se. lower in store: Yellow Southern Is 
lc. lower. Oats.— No.3 mixed Is lc. lower- No. 2 Isl^c- 
higher; No. 1 Is 136c higher; No. 3 White Is 36c - 
higher: No. 2 Is %c. higher; No. 1 is unchanged; 
Mixed Western is unchanged, White do. do.; White 
State do. 
FLOUR and mkal.— Flour—Quotations: Fine, $3.35® 
3 ; «uperflue,$2,(50>«.8.9d, latter an extreme; common to 
fair rxtra Slate, $3.40'<t3.(iM; good to funcy do.*8.8506; 
common to good extra Western, $».40®:i.7Bt good to 
choice,*3.8009.91);common tofalrcxtro Ohio. *3.4004; 
good, *4.0505- * *' good to choice, *5,5505 00; com¬ 
mon extra Minnesota, <3.1003.60; clear. *4.000 
„ . good to very 
choice, 85.6000.50: pntent Winter wheat extra; 
*5.50,1.5.85; city mill extra for West Indies, *5.2i> 
(OiS.iKi; south Anurlca,*5.SV,*5.IO. Southern Flour— 
Common to good extra, *S.5di.,L75: good to choice, 
#4.1*100.30, Ryk Flour Superfine, *3.1003. 75; mainly 
*3.50*8.60. Buckwheat Flour Dull; season about 
over Small sales at *3.O0w8.5P. Fi nn-Steady with 
fmr trade. Cobn Meal—B randywine, at *3.45, 
quoted *3.35@3.45;Yel)oW Western, *3.0u®3.30. 
grain—wheat— Ungraded Winter Bed, at 90c.® 
*1.19; No. 3 lted, *1.08 in elevator* No. 3 Red, *1.09 
11 -1601.09914delivered from store; * 1.1014 for rail certi 
He id - m elevator, Including No.2 Rea, I ree on board 
from store at lc. under the April price; No. 1 Red. 
*1.18; Ungraded White,SUU- No. 2 Red.seller March, 
nominal, at*W>7?$: do. April, *!.08«»U<s36; do. May, 
*l.UH» 0 l.Mjii' do. June, dosing at *1.12.0; do. July, 
*i.u, Rye— Canada spot and to arrive goon, at 76»;c; 
State, 78 c: Western, ungraded and No. 2, at 73a. Bar- 
ey—N o. 1 Canada, Dec.; feeding hurley for export, 
it f«Uui.35c: ungraded Canada, iic. Harley Malt— 
0|I4C« uruTrrcuj o*vn •••/ » 
seller March, closing, 6I3»C,t do. April. (ilSfraftJcv do. 
Muy, closing S9c.; do. June, closing, (He , do. July, 
r,.vie. uats - No. 3 Mixed, at 10c.- No. 2, n@41.kjc.; 
No. i, quoted llifcc: No- 8 While. 15300.: No. 2. 44 360 
11630.; No. 1 quoted 46c.: mixed Western. I0@ilo.; 
while do., 483t.<M6e.; While State, 4B@4l>3uc.; No. 2 
mixed, seller April, tOtyifetehe.; do. May, 41(3,413*0.; 
do, June, 41)40 41 Me. 
visible 8urri.Y of orain in the united states and 
CANADA. 
March 15,1SS4, March 17, 1S83. 
Wheat, bush. 80,226,660 23,966,929 
Corn, bush .......16 980,809 14,921,889 
Oats, bush. 4,993.518 4,571,224 
Barley, bush.. ,. 2,039.679 l,8ul,0ll 
Itye bush.;. 2.I91.2K2 1.871,823 
Provisions— Pork—Mess on spot, *17.75; mess ou 
spot quoted *17.75 for old, and *18.75019 for new; 
family mess, *19020: clear back, *19.73020.73 Bekf- 
Ciiy extra Indian mess In tierces,*21028; extru mess, 
*12013; packet. *13 lu barrels nml *21.50 In tierces; 
plate beef. *12.50013. BEEF HaMS— *270 27.60 and at 
West * id. Cut Meatu At the West Green shoulders 
at 7Wc; i’lckled bellies, 12 ft average, quoted 8340 
mic ; pickled shoulders, pickled hams. 
io4»0l2'je; smoked shoulders,smoked boms. 
WfitoNc. MtDDl.E8-l.ong clear In .New York 
quoted at f'Uc. for Chicago delivery long 
and short, half and half. 9,s2vgC. Dressed Hogs, 
City heavy average, pigs, 83*0s^sc. Lard.— 
Contraet grade on spot quoted at *3.1009,73. Mar<li, 
steam 
_ _P... t*lO0 
lu.iocj South American, at *i0@lo.liic. 
Butter.— There is a fair demand for upper grades 
of stock. Medium uudlower grades dull. 
NEW BUTTER 
Creamery, selections. Elgin*, etc., ns039c; do.fancy 
86037t do Choice, 81035; do. prime. 31038' do. fair to 
good, 27iU30, ilo. ordinary, 25026; half llrklus. tubs, 
best, 330 34culo.do.do.fair to good,2503lc:Wrisk tubs, 
hi st, 29031c; do. do. do. fair to good, 26029c; Western 
Imitation creamery, choice. 28080c; do do good to 
prime, '22025c; do. do. ordinary to fair. l«02Oc; do, 
factory, br.’-t, 22c; do. do, fair to good, UJ021c; do, 
do, ordinary,.1110141!. 
, OLD BUTTER, 
State dairies, entire, choice, 29c; do. do. do. One. 
26028c; do. do. do. fair to good, 21023c; do. do. or¬ 
dinary. l<j@30c: do.do. of firkins, fine, 28029c; do. do.of 
firkins, fulr to good.22027«tdo, do. nrklns,ordinary. 
16020 c; do. hair firkin tubs,best. 30031c; do. do. do. 
flue, 28029 c• do. do. do. good. 22020c; do. do. do. fair. 
16020c: Western dairy, best, ITe; do. do, good, 150 
16c; do, do, ordinary, 12014c. 
Add 102c per pound to the above for Jobbing selec¬ 
tions of choice goods. 
Eous.—The demand continues rather careful, and 
the majority of buyers are still unwilling to invest 
except as a matter of necessity, and on the basis of 
early wants. 
State uml Pennsylvania. In barrels, # dozen, 
28We: Western, fresh. 23U02:ikc:Wc8tern, fair to good, 
223*023c.- Southern, choice, 2302334c.; Southern, fair 
to good, 220Z2-HC.; limed, foreign, 17018c.; duck eggs, 
32033. 
Note.— Western and Southern, iu cases, Vfic. below 
quotations. 
Cheese.- Market dull. The movement In State fac¬ 
tory is largely dependent upon ho ie wonts. 
State factory, fancy, lie; do.. ! rime to choice, 
H 340 1444c.: do. do. fair to good. i:t*!lc-: do do. light 
skims, prime to choice, 10012 c.: do- do, skims, fair 
to good, 709c.: Skims, Pennsylvania, ratio . 808 MC.. 
do., prime to choice, 7(40 otl. do. do. iti.r to good, I'M. 
7 c.; do, ordinary, 30534c.; Ohio flats, fi'-i to good 20 
lljic.; do, ordinary, 5®7c. 
