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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, October 4. 
Secretary-of War Lincoln has decided in 
favor of the a/lmixsson of colored men into the 
Signal Corps.The price of steel rails 
has advanced $2 a ton..There is a gold 
fund of $130,000, 000 in the United States Treas¬ 
ury.Leavenworth, Kan., has been se¬ 
lected a* the site for a new Soldiers’ Home. 
The city donates 040 aoreH of land and $50,000. 
... .fJen. William A. Throop, who shot him¬ 
self at Detroit on Wednesday, died Thursday 
........ George Bancroft, the historian, held 
his 83d birthday reception at Newport yester¬ 
day .A new railroad to the coal fields of 
Tennessee was opened Thursday. Chattanooga 
will be the distributive point for about 40 car¬ 
loads a day....The losses by fire in the 
United States and Canada during September 
are reported at $0,200,000, a larger loss than 
ever before known in September. So far the 
fires of 1884 have been at a rate which if kept, 
up, will make the year’s fire loss foot, up $111,- 
000.000..The Sing Sing Prison’s (N. Y.) 
profits for September were $7,000. The Au¬ 
burn profits were $000.The coal miners 
in the Dos Moines, la., region, struck a month 
ago for four cents a bushel as the mining rate, 
and have won the fight.Prince Edward, 
sou of the Prince of Wales, will travel in 
Canada aud the United States next year. 
The “Union Veteran Army,” an organization 
intended to secure pensions and lands for the 
veterans of the war, held its third annual con¬ 
vention at Hartford, Conn,, Wednesday, aud 
elected officers for the year. They meet at 
Albany next year.On the same day the 
writing paper makers' branch of the National 
Paper Milkers’ Association held a session at 
Springfield, Mass., and resolved to advance 
the price of writing paper one to two cents 
per pound. This action was taken in conse¬ 
quence of the order prohibiting the importa¬ 
tion of rags. The prices of paper of nil sorts 
are going up, and unless the embargo on for¬ 
eign rags is soon removed, it is thought that 
most of the cheap newspapers that have 
sprung up of late, will have to give up the 
ghost.There were coined at the various 
Mints of the United States during September, 
5,674.385 pieces, valued at $4,613,363. Of this 
amount 3.850,000 were standard dollars and 
$2,128,293 gold.In Denver, Mark M. 
Pomeroy (Brick Pomeroy) has been indicted 
on the charge of committing fraudulent acts 
and perjury in connection with his min¬ 
ing scheme. Pomeroy is now in New York. 
A warrant will lie issued for him. 
_Forest fires are raging in Prince George 
county, Va .The strike of the stove 
molderi at Pittsburg is said to lie virtually at 
an end, the men having agreed to a reduction 
of 12K per cent iu their wages. Owing to 
the recent depression in the iron business a 
similar reduction is likely to be made in the 
pay of other iron workers. Just now, business 
in Pittsburg is pretty brisk, however, and all 
the works are running full-handed.The 
Upper Mississippi River is rising, aud fears 
are entertained that immense damage will be 
done in the lowlands.F. S. Chanfrau, 
the actor, was stricken with paralysis last 
Wednesday evening in Jersey City, aud died 
during the night. He was 60 years old. 
John McCullough, the actor, broke down ut¬ 
terly while playing as Hparticus in the “Glad¬ 
iator,” at McVicker’s theater, iu Chicago, last 
Monday night. He is a complete wreck 
physically and mentally, through overwork 
and overindulgeuee in whisky, etc..The 
North Carolina State Exposition was form¬ 
ally opened iu Raleigh Inst Monday. Sena¬ 
tor Joseph R, Hawley of Connecticut was the 
orator for the day. The Exposition is an ex¬ 
haustless and splendid exhibition of the State’s 
resources.Alien Hamilton, a court¬ 
house clerk iu Montreal, has laid information 
against George Bricuult for using insulting 
language and aunoving a peaceful citizen. 
Bricault. had called him a “dude.”.At 
Bradford, Out., Canada, a sensation has been 
created by the discovery of a scheme which has 
been carried on two years, to defraud the Cus¬ 
toms by the smuggling of graiu from the United 
States under untruthful invoices. Walter 
Marshal, formerly a miller there, but now in 
the States operating in grain, with head¬ 
quarters in Michigan, has been shipping large 
quantities of graiu to local dealers. His son 
did the clearing there and made affidavits to 
the invoices. The charge of the Custom au¬ 
thorities is that Marshall invoiced, say 400 
bushels of wheat aud loaded 500, thereby 
getting ahead of the railway 7 by the amount of 
the freight upon 100 bushels, aud ahead of the 
Government by the duty. Marshall has beeu 
put under bonds and the matter reported to Ot¬ 
tawa.Over sixteen thousand negroes 
have emigrated from the United States to 
Liberia, and others are constantly going. 
General Rosecrans says that the investigation 
at the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. O., and 
Taguas, Me., found no corruption. 
Vermont is a model State in more ways than 
one. but she especially shines in the manage 
ment of her public finances. Her assets 
exceed her liabilities by $72,000 . 
Samuel Lappio, who robbed the State of 
Kansas of hundreds of thousands of dollars 10 
years ago, while serving as State Treasurer, 
and who escaped from prison with the aid of 
bis friends in 1876, has been captured in 
Washington Territory .The insurance 
companies are canceling policies on lumber 
yards in Cleveland, Ohio, and no more will be 
issued. It is certain that an organized band 
of incendiaries is at work, but there is no clue 
to them. Hundreds of men are guarding 
their property and great alarm prevail* - . 
Since the groat fire three weeks ago, numer¬ 
ous fires have been started, and considerable 
losses have boon incurred.The reduc¬ 
tion of the public debt for September is esti¬ 
mated at $18,000,000... President Arthur 
has lingered for two weeks at Secretary Fre- 
lingbuy sen’s farm-house in New Jersey, and 
the village gossips have a match arranged be¬ 
tween him and Miss i'illie, the oldest daugh¬ 
ter, a tall and winsome brunette........The 
New York firm of Arnold &• Constable have 
lost by the embezzlements of their employes, 
including Messrs. Seymour and Fodder, nearly 
$2,000,000; of this amount Pedder alone took 
$1,000,000, Pedder and Seymour have made 
overall their property to the firm, aud have so 
far escaped prosecution...Henry G. 
McDaniels wus reelected Governor of Georgia 
without opposition Wednesday. Only ubout 
one-third of the vote was cast, and at Augusta 
only 800 out of 7,000 votes were polled........ 
The Peabody Fund trustees have distributed 
$60,000 In carrying on the educational work in 
the Southern States the past your....... - The 
Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City has 
601 inmates, and is wholly self-supporting. 
The earnings for the past three month* were 
$27,186, the contractors paying 50 to 62 cents 
per day for labor.The Georgia capitol 
com mission awarded the contract for the 
building to a Toledo firm for $862,765. The 
material will be limestone, from the Bedford 
quarries in Indiana.Last Wednesday 
was the first day for the collection of local 
taxes in this city, and of the $3,000,000 receiv¬ 
ed, the Aston; paid $425,000, the New York 
Central and Hudson River Railroad $440,000, 
James Gordon Bennett $29,500, ami the Goolet, 
estate, in part, $150,000........ John W. Gar¬ 
rett, President of the Baltimore ami Ohio 
Railroad Company, died at Deer Park. Md., 
on Saturday. He leftbetwoen $15,000,000 and 
$30,000,(XX), to be divided equally between his 
three children—two sons and n daughter. He 
bequeathed $6,000 a year in perpetuity for 
charitable purposes in Baltimore, and $50,000 
a year for charitable purpose* in Baltimore 
or Maryland during the lifetime of the long- 
esHived of bis children, and thereafter if the 
condition of the estate shall then justify it.... 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
Saturday, October 4. 
In Ireland His Royal Highness the Duke 
of Cambridge, Commander-iu-Chief of Her 
Majesty’s forces, is making a military in¬ 
spection of the troops ami their quarters. 
The Ijord Lieutenant, Earl Spencer, is very 
solicitous for the safety of his Highness; 
but the old Duke reviews troops, stops at the 
best hotels, aud goes about apparently with¬ 
out. fear of Fenian or dynamiter. In Eng 
land, through the mediation of Queen Victo¬ 
ria and the Prince of Wales, a compromise 
upon the Franchise and Redistribution Bills 
is being arranged by Premier Gladstone and 
the Marquis of Salisbury, leader of the Con¬ 
servatives. The conditions proposed are that 
the goverumeut shall submit the Redistribu¬ 
tion Bill to Parliament at the Autumn session, 
the Marquis of Salisbury agreeing to have 
the Franchise Bill passed in the House of 
Lords, if the Redistribution scheme shall 
prove at. all acceptable to the Tory wing. 
The House of Lords are to have no con¬ 
trol of the Redistribution Bill until after 
the Franchise Bill shall have become a law. 
.England’s troubles, owing to the sus¬ 
pension of the sinking fuud in Egypt, still con¬ 
tinue. Italy 7 has added her protest against the 
measure to those of Germany. Austria, France, 
and Russia. The Powers would probably 
have consented to the step, had England con¬ 
sulted them; but as she acted independently 
in a matter of international interest, they are 
now waiting to see what she will do iu face 
of their strong protest. The exasperation of 
France agaiust her, both ou account of the 
trouble in Egypt aud England’s supposed se¬ 
cret machinatious in China,is growing so bitter 
that there is danger of war, unless England’s 
policy becomes more conciliatory. The French 
fleet is nearly as powerful as that of England, 
and more powerful in Chinese and East In¬ 
dian waters; for England’s possessions being 
so vast, and widely separated, she has to scatter 
her war ships all over the globe. “Chinese” 
Gordon has not only raised the siege of Khar¬ 
toum, but routed the followers of El Mahdi 
on all sides, captured Berber and Djalizen and 
and arrived at Bendy. Gen. Lord Wolseley, 
it is reported, has been recalled to England, 
probably to lead an army against the Boers of 
South Africa, who, emboldened by their suc¬ 
cessful resistance to England’s forces a few 
years ago, have become intolerably aggres¬ 
sive. The more host ile the relations be¬ 
tween France and England, the more friendly 
are these between the latter and Germany be¬ 
coming. There is talk of a general readjust¬ 
ment of the Old World to Britain’s disadvan¬ 
tage. Germany is to take Holland and North¬ 
ern Belgium ; and so secure the great object 
of her longing—a seaport on the North Sea; 
France is to get Southern Belgium, and the 
restoration of Alsace and Lorraine; Austria 
is to extend to the Dardanelles; and Russia is 
to contest the British supremacy in India. 
Meanwhile starving French working-men are 
to be employed by the government in the con¬ 
struction of public works, beginning with new 
fortifications for Lyons. France declares that 
after an attack on Kelung. in Formosa,where 
the most vauablecoal mines in the East are sit¬ 
uated, she will discontinue operations against 
China; but she increases her demand for in¬ 
demnity to 90,000,000francs. China is defiant, 
at present, if such a demand is presented. 
John Russell Young, our Minister there, 
offered to meditate, at the request of France, 
he says. China refused; France denies that 
she has made any such request, and the Gov¬ 
ernment at Washington, through which it 
must have passed, does not confirm Young’s 
statement.In the last 34 hours there 
have been 234 fresh cases of cholera iu Italy 
and 174 deaths, against 321 eases and 194 
deaths the previous 24 hours. In Spain there 
were only three cases and two deaths; and in 
France no fresh cases and no deaths. 
HICK IIKA I) 4 CM E. 
Among the chronic ailments hardest to bear 
and hardest to cure may l»e classed “Sick 
Headache,” from which so many suffer peri¬ 
odical tortures. In our administration of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen wu have been able to break the 
force and cont inuity of this disease in nearly 
every case, and where the Treatment has been 
continued for a sufficient time to make a rad¬ 
ical cure. In a recent ease which came under 
our treatment, we have the following report 
of prompt relief. It comes from a gentleman 
at Wind Ridge. Pa He says: 
“I had suffered for ten months with a Mind, 
nervous headache, never being over two days 
without it. I tried different kinds of teas said 
to be good for headache, but my bend only 
got worse. I saw your Compound Oxygen 
recommended. * * * I commenced inhaling 
on Wednesday. On Sunday I had a very se¬ 
vere spell of nervous; sick headache—got 
numb. T used the Compound Oxygen for 
three weeks, and have not had a sick head¬ 
ache since. It has been nearly a month since 
l stopped using it. I feel very grateful to 
you for so good a medicine. * * * Also for 
another painful condition I feel that three 
weeks of your Treatment has cured me. I 
hare often hail to take morphine. Not a pain 
any more." 
Our “ Treatise on Compound Oxygen,'' con¬ 
taining u history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curat ive agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures iu Cou 
sumption. Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide rauge of chronic 
diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. Star- 
key & Pauen, 1109 Girard St., Phila.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 4. 
The new Veterinary Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania was formally 
opened last Tuesday.To the Peace 
League convened at Geneva, Switzerland, 
there has beeu presented a plow manufactur¬ 
ed out of swords used in the last two Atneri 
can wars.In the province of San Ped¬ 
ro, Brazil, the destruction of all eucalyptus 
trees has been ordered. It appears that the 
tree favors the generation of a terribly dan¬ 
gerous dragon fly, which attacks all living 
creatures, aud whose sting is fatal within a 
few minutes.The oldest aud largest 
tree in the world, so far as known, is a chest¬ 
nut near the foot of Mount .Etna. It is hol¬ 
low, and big enough to admit two carriages 
driving abreast through it. The circumfer¬ 
ence of the maiu trunk is 212 feet. The Griz¬ 
zly Giant, monarch of the Mariposa Grove, 
measures 92 feet....A telegram from New 
Orleans, ou October 1, says: “The British 
steamship Kairos, Capt. Liddle, for Antwerp, 
with 144,000 bushels of gram, went to sea this 
morning without detention, drawing 24 feet 
six inches. This is the largest cargo of grain 
that ever left this port on any vessel.”. 
The Champaign (Ill.) sugar works are running 
night aud day.Dr. Rose, of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, reports that thousands of 
hogs have died of swine plague iu parts of 
Maryland and Virginia.The tobacco 
year in Virginia closed with September. At 
the annual meeting of the Lynchburg Tobacco 
Association, Wednesday, the Secretary report¬ 
ed the sales for the year to be a little over 
21,900,000 pounds, 3,000.000 less than the year 
previous..A strange disease has broken 
out among the cattle in Oatawissa Valley, Pa. 
.Contagious pleuro pneumonia is re¬ 
ported again virulent on Long Island . 
The inspections of leaf tobacco in Richmond, 
Va., for the year ending September 30, 
amounted to 29,665 hogsheads and 4,778 tierces 
and boxes, as against 83,783 hogsheads and 5,000 
tierces and boxes for the previous year. 
....A gold medal of the first class has been 
awarded to Professor Riley, of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, at Washington, by the In¬ 
ternational Forestry Exhibition at Edinburgh. 
....Rosa Bonheur is painting a pictnre for 
the frontispiece of the Percheron stud-book of 
Franco .The Quceu has won a prize, at 
the Amsterdam International Exhibition, for 
pigs bred at Windsor on the model farm of 
the late Prince Consort.George Loril- 
iard has sold his farm at Islip, L. I., to B. 
Cutting, for $125,000.Iu bis superb 
garden at Varzin Prince Bismarck makes a 
specialty of roses of all varieties, and when¬ 
ever at home takes great pleasure (n attending 
to them with his own hands.The New 
England milk producers made an agreement 
at Boston last week with the contractors, 
whereby the latter will pay 52 cents a can, 
with the understanding that the farmers 
should take care of their own surplus milk. 
The agreement, which is an advance of two 
cents a can, covers fhe ensuing six months. 
Milkmen about Springfield, Mass., are paying 
“non-association” farmers four cents a quart 
for milk—said to be an unheard of pn'ce at 
this season of the year..The tobacco 
crop of this country, which in 1864 was but 
197,000,000 pounds, promises in 1884 to be be¬ 
tween 600,000,000 and 700,000,000 pounds, or 
more than three times that of 20 years ago. 
The acreage, which iu 1864 wus 239,826, has 
jumped to nearly 700,000, while the value of 
the crop, which iu 1864 was $30,000,000, will 
probably reach $45,000,000 or $50,000,000 in 
1884 .......E. C. Blackman, of Longmeadow, 
has sold three pure breed Holstein heifers and 
a bull to H. M. Tapper, who buy* them for 
the use of Shaw University, iu Raleigh, N. C., 
of which he is president.What is sup¬ 
posed to be the largest grain elevator in the 
world has just l>een built at Newport News, 
Va. It is 90 feet wide, 386 long, and 164 high, 
will store 1,600,000 bushels, and receive 30,000, 
and discharge 20,000 bushels an hour. .. 
Florida is to produce 1,000,000 boxes of oranges 
this your, 850,<$)0 more than last season. 
....President Wilder estimates the value of 
our fruit crop, annually, at $140,000,000. One 
million bushels of small fruitss were received 
at. Chicago in 1888,.The total peach 
crop sold iu Delaware iu 1883 was 3,603,705 
baskets. The crop of ’84 was 5,000,000 bask¬ 
ets sold and shipped, besides at least one-and- 
a-half million baskets taken by dinners and 
evaporators.The first public sale of 
Aberdeen-Angus cattle ever held iu New 
South Wales took place recently in Sydney. 
One bull went at $825.50; another brought 
$894, The bulls sold averaged $220.50, and 
the heifers $202.50... .The sheep und goat 
exhibition at the New Orleans’ World’s Fair 
will take place from ihe 15th of April to the 
15th of May, and $6,000 iu premiums will be 
distributed to the sheep and goat men. 
Wheat is said to be cheaper in England than 
it has been since 1780.Eight car-loads 
of butter were lately shipped from Iowa, in 
refrigerator cars, for New Orleaus. 
Iudia average* but 9j^ bushels of wheat to an 
acre this year. It is estimated thatoue-fifth of 
her wheat harvest can be spared for export... 
.... In the month of August the United King¬ 
dom exported 1,052 horses, against 1,000 in the 
same mouth iu 1888. Of these 96 came to the 
United States. In the same time the United 
Kiugdom imported 1,551 horses, against 2,440 
aud 1,643 respectively in August 1883 and 1882. 
.Last year En gland exported 7,376 
horses, which realized the sum of £410.269. As 
mauy as 1,659 went to France; Belgium took 
1,549; Holland 1,538, and Germany 446. Brit¬ 
ish North America purchased 971, and the 
United States 862; while to Australia were 
seut 71, aud to the Argentine Republic 33. 
leaving 245 for distribution among other coun¬ 
tries. On an average, every horse sent out of 
the United Kingdom brought over £55., 
The exports of live cattle and dressed meats 
from the port of Boston for the foreign mar¬ 
kets last week, were 932 cattle aud 2,068 quar _ 
ters of beef.Exports from New York 
last week included 590 head of live cattle, 
9,300 quarters of beef and 1,080 carcases of 
mutton.The value of imports of live 
stock into England last year was aa follows: 
Horses, £212,033; oxen and bulls, £7,929,246; 
cows, £1,183,477; calves, £219.519; sheep and 
lambs. £2,518.382; swine, £188,180; unenume¬ 
rated, £30,347—total, £12,226,134. Last year’s 
imports of oxen and bulls were larger than 
those of any previous year.. 
Gov. Proctor Knott, having been requested by 
