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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. SO, 1882. 
General Sherrasn denounces, as an inten¬ 
tional falsehood, the statement in a New York 
paper that he had been received into the Cath¬ 
olic Church.... Oscar W ilde sailed for Europe 
Wednesday. He was fool enough to be swin¬ 
dled out of $2 TOO by “ bunco” men a few 
days before be left.; but smart enough to stop 
the payment of the checks be had given for 
$1,160 of it.Ex-Senator Lot Morrill still 
lingers, but. his physicians say there is uo hope 
of his recovery.The Senate has passed 
Senator Edmunds’s bill against political as¬ 
sessments end Senator Pendleton’s bill on 
Civil Service Reform. Both now go to the 
House. “Good men” hope, aye, expect, both 
to be passed without delay. 
After a painful illness of upwards of six 
months our occasional contributor, Isaac A. 
Hedges, of St. Louis, died cn December 19, 
aged 78 He was well known throughout the 
country for his inventions, especially those 
connected with the sorghum sugar and sirup 
industry. When here early in the year, he 
looked bale and hearty end not over 60. 
Charles E. Upton, the Rochester, N. Y., bank 
wrecker, who swindled the City Bank out of 
from $200,000 to $.850,000, according to differ¬ 
ent estimates, has been set at liberty on $20,- 
000 bBil—a good chance to clear from $180,000 
to $230,000..The swindler’s brother in¬ 
law, Moore, owns a bank at Victor, N. Y., 
and he is reported to have just faded for 
$100,000—1,200 depositors “ scooped in ”. 
The Jewell family, of Ipswich, claims the 
sum of $1,250,000 from the National Govern¬ 
ment on the ground that a member of the 
family furnished the Government during the 
Revolution with a sum of money that, with 
the interest added, amounts to the above sum. 
.Col, D. C. Cox, of Washington, for¬ 
merly a prominent Ohio politician, walked 
into the river at Chicago Saturday and was 
drowned. He was a cousin of Congressman 
Cox, of New York, and was pension agent at 
Washington under President Grant Bnd As¬ 
sistant Adjutant General of Ohio under Gov¬ 
ernor Cox.William Vaughan shot and 
mortally wounded two brothers named Boone, 
great-grandsons of Daniel Bocne of Ken¬ 
tucky fame, at Ladonia, Tex., this week in a 
dispute about potatoes. A hundred men are 
in pursuit of the murderer.Tbetobac 
co manufacture of St. Louis has increased 
since 1872 so that it consumes now 18,000,000 
pounds of tobacco, against 5,750,000 in the 
former year.A navigable channel has 
been dredged from Lake Okeechobee in the 
heart of the Florida everglades to the Gulf of 
Mexico by way of Caloosshatchie River, 
opening up an extremely rich sugar country 
.The Garfield fair at Washington netted 
the hospital fund $10,000, swelling the total to 
$80.000........ The surprising statementcomes 
from Washington that Guatemala is about 
to ask admission as one of the United States, 
and that President Barrios visited Washing¬ 
ton to ascertain the feelings of the Adminis¬ 
tration and of the opposition leaders. 
Pupils of the public schools in Newark, N. J., 
were requested to bring one potato each for 
the Home of the Friendless, the plan resulting 
in the contribution of a small wagon load.,.. 
... .The bill introduced in Congress to permit 
the construction of a wagon bridge between 
Omaha and Council Bluffs is supported by 
the merchants of the latter city, but a hard 
fight is being made by the Union Pacific R R, 
which has a monopoly of car ferriage. The 
estimated cost of the work is $2,000,000, which 
can be readily obtained.YeeOt, who 
made a fortune in the laundry business 
at Allegheny City, has returned to China to 
marry his cousin. The matter has caused a 
vast amount of talk. Secretary Folger was 
appealed to, and decided that under the last 
law the bride can not be brought here .. .. 
In the House Wednesday the amendment of 
Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey, to the Post- 
Office Appropriation bill, which seeks to cut 
down by one-half the compensation received 
by the land-grant and subsidi zed railroads 
for carrying the mails, was modified as to 
phraseology aud adopted. The bill then 
passed by a vote of 163 to 21, aud goes to the 
Senate with the provision for two cent post¬ 
age incorporated in it.By a deebion of 
a Virginia court the school fund of that State 
has been increased by $500,000, one-fifth of 
which sum is to be devoted to the mainte¬ 
nance of a colored normal sohoil. 
The Department estimates for appropriation 
bills in course of preparation by the House of 
Representatives are in amount as follows: 
For pensions, $101,575,000 ; fortifications, 
$L,000,000; navy, $28,431,078; legislative, ex¬ 
ecutive and judicial expenses, $21,840,170; 
sundry civil expenditures,$81,181,876; District 
of Columbia, $775,149. The peasions, fortifi¬ 
cations and t navy bills will be ready for re¬ 
port to the House immediately after New- 
Year’s Day. There remain for preparation 
the general deficiency bill and a possible river 
and harbor bill.Deaths—Robert Ould, 
noted through the late war as the rebel com¬ 
missioner for the exchange of prisoners at 
Richmond, Va. He had practiced law, since 
the war, at Richmond.—Rear Admiral James 
F. Rchenck, U, S. N., retired, died Thursday 
at Dayton, Ohio, aged 75. He was a brother 
of Gen. Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio,—John 
Thompson Robertson, the oldest, editor in 
Virginia, is dead. He was a man of great 
learning, and had committed to memory the 
whole book of Psalms and the New Testa¬ 
ment.—Trenor W. Park died on a steamer 
bound for Aspinwall December 15 He was a 
promineut New York capitafist.St. 
Louis has spent in new buddings this year 
$5 485 000, a million more than in 1S81..... 
The courts have ordered New Orleans to col¬ 
lect a tax of $650,000 annually to pay interest 
on the debt and provide a sinking fund for 
its redemption. 
♦ • » - 
In neuralgia Compound Oxygen has been 
found to act almost like magic. Send to Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1109 Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, for tbeir Treatise on Compound Oxygen 
and learn what remarkable things are being 
done for this class of sufferers. It will be 
mailed f ree. — Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec., 80. 1882. 
O w ing to high price for oats, the oat mills 
at Cedar Rapids, la., and at Oregon, and Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., using an aggregate of 20,000bushels 
of oats a dav intend to close until “ the market 
is more favorable.”.Owing to very 
wet weather there is great mortality among 
sheep in the counties of Northampton, Not¬ 
tingham, and Leicester, England.The 
stock raisers of the frontier counties of Ore¬ 
gon, in order to counteract the operations 
of horse thieves have organized a vigilance 
committee and are lynching the thieves as fast 
as they capture them.... It speaks well for 
the solidity of the landed interest in Great 
Britain and Ireland tha' after seven years’ de¬ 
pression scarcely any landholders have fig¬ 
ured in the Bankruptcy Court, nor even in Ire¬ 
land has there been a bank smash. 
Those 22 ostriches have arrived at their 
destination—Fresno County, Cal., and big 
hopes are entertained of successful ostrich 
farming there.A party of Buffalo, N. 
Y. capitalists, including Messrs. Jewett M. 
Richmond, B. C. Ramsey, M. H. Bush, Frank, 
lin D. Locke, and others, have purchased 
150 000 acres of land in southern Missouri, 
nominally for actual settlers. The property 
is situated in Laclede and Butler Counties, 
about 175 miles southwest of St. Louis, on the 
line of the 8t. Louis and San Francisco Rail¬ 
road, and was bought of that road.A 
movement among Texas stockmen to disarm 
the cowboys, though derided at first, is grow¬ 
ing. The number of those who announce 
they won’t hire anybody who carries deadly 
weapons is increasing, and no difficulty is met 
in finding good men.The annual meet¬ 
ing of the N. Y. American Merino Sheep- 
breeders’ Association will be held at the 
Whitcomb House, Rochester, on January 16, 
1883, at 11 a. M.The Northeastern 
Bee-keepers’ Association will hold its 18th 
annual convention at the City Hall, Syracuse, 
N. Y., on Jan 9, 10 and 11 a m., 1833. 
An Agricultural Institute will be held at the 
Industrial University at Champaign, 111, 
from January 80 to Feb. 8, 1883. Agriculiu 
ral, live-stock, and dairy associations, as will 
as farmers’ clubs, and granges throughout the 
State are especially inviteo to send representa¬ 
tives, and all interested in agricultural educa¬ 
tion or animal industry are cordially invited, 
...By a vote of 311 against 121, the 
French Chamber of Deputies has voted 800 000 
francs for the encouragement of cal tie breed¬ 
ing; it has also voted 1,409 000 francs for 
horse breeding.The Mississippi Valley 
Cane-Growers’Association, at their late St. 
Louie meeting, elected the following officers 
for the ensuing year: President. N J. Col- 
raan, 8t. Louis; Vice-President, H. K. Htout, 
Troy, Kan.; Corresponding Secretary, M. A. 
Scovell, Champaign, 1)1.; Recording Secre¬ 
tary, F. A. Gillespie, Edwardsville, III.; Ex¬ 
pert, H. W. Wiley, Lafayette, Ind. 
Several changes have lately been made at the 
Iowa Agricultural College. Prof. S. A. 
Knapp has been made vice president, in place 
of Prof. C. G. Bessay, resigned. Col. Geddes 
has been removed from the chair of military 
tactics, and Col. John Scott takes the place. 
Prof. F. G. S. Beal has been chosen professor 
in the civil engineering department; his sal¬ 
ary has also been reduced $400 per year. 
President Welch’s salary has been cut down 
$300 per annum, and that of Mrs. Welch, 
lecturer on domestic economy, a like amount. 
Five of the professors have had their salaries 
increased $200 per year, two others $300, and 
one $400.A meeting of about 400 to¬ 
bacco growers of Connecticut and Massachu¬ 
setts oocurred at Hartford, Conn., Tug- day to 
organize an association for mutual benefit 
and protection. Resolutions were adopted 
favoring the abolition or a large reduction of 
the internal revenue tax on tobacco and the 
imposition of a duty of $1 a pound on all im¬ 
ported tobacco except that grown in, or 
shipped from, Cuha.The Mississippi 
Valley Horticultural Society will hold its 
fourth annual meeting in New Orleans, com¬ 
mencing Feb. 21, and continuing fo- r days. 
It is expected that it will he the most import¬ 
ant horticultural meeting ever held, as it will 
be attended by visitors from every portion of 
the United States, including fruit growers 
and fruit dealers.Since 1874 the manu¬ 
facture of barbed wire has increased from 
enough to build ten miles of fence to 160,000 
miles in 1882.The colony of Russian 
Jews established in Louisiana as farmers, has 
collapsed........A band of Russian Jews 
numbering 15 families are reported to be 
starving at Grand Forks, Dakota... 
T B, Oakley. Oswego, N Y., has purchased 
a farm of 5,652 acres of H. H. Wilson at To¬ 
peka, Kan., for $150,000. It is said to be the 
largest private land sale in that country’. 
.The Mark Lane Express, issued De¬ 
cember 23, says of England: “It is now be¬ 
yond a doubt that the acreage of wheat in 
1883 will be extremely limited.".Three 
car-loads of Angus polled cattle were shipped 
from South Framingham, M iss., on Decem¬ 
ber 28, to Corpus Christi, Tex. They are to 
be used for breeding purposes. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 30, 1882. 
European monarchies are becoming very 
friendly with the Pope. If Bismarck has uot 
gone all the way to Cauossa, he has made more 
than half the pilgrimage. Russia has just 
made amicable arrangements, the first result 
of which w ill be that the Pope will appoint 
Catholic bishops for Poland. England is 
about to send a representative to the Vatican 
for the first time since the “ Reformation.” 
As the chief representative of uipreme au¬ 
thority on earth, it is natural that the Pope 
should gain favor with rulers when their 
thrones and lives are threatened.Some 
weeks ago Gaaibet'a accidentally shot himself 
in the hand and arm. At first the wound was 
thought trivial; but since then it bo3 grown 
worse, and now he is said to be in danger from 
an “internal abscess”. ..Great floods along the 
Rhine: immense damages to property. Heavy- 
rains throughout most of Europe....English 
Parliament to meet February 15... .Russia is 
heavily arming with Krupp guu6 bought in 
Germany. ..Jewish trouble still great in Rus¬ 
sia. The Senate has decided that no court can 
authorize a transfer of land toa Jew... .Fierce 
talk against Austria in Italy. Real cause, old 
hostility of Italians against Austrians on ac¬ 
count of the latter’s harsh conduct while rulers 
of Italy; immediate cause, the recent hanging 
by the Austrians of an Italian w ho was en¬ 
gaged in an anarchial conspiiacy against the 
Austrian Emperor.... France is voting 1,225.- 
000 francs for an expedition to form a new set 
tlement on the Congo, in Central Africa; an¬ 
other expedition bus just started to add to the 
French settlement in Tonquin, China having 
withdrawn opposition—as reported. A third is 
expected to start soon to occupy a part of 
Madagascar which is rather larger than 
France. A belt of almost virgin forest runs 
around the island. The population is about 
4,000,000 and the soil will easily' support 30,- 
000,000. India rubber is a principal export. 
The mineral weatb is enormous.... Bismurck, 
it is said, advises Italy to occupy Tripoli, to 
counterbalance the virtual annexation of 
Tunisby France.... Arabi Pasha hasembarked . 
at Suez, together with half a dozen of his chief 
officers, on their way to Ces Ion, their place of 
banishment. Before starting they were “de¬ 
graded,” by a decree of the Khedive. 
Vienna began Wednesday to celebrate the 
600th anniversary of the foundation of the 
house of Hapsburg. The Emperor, Empress 
and Crown Prince received numerous deputa¬ 
tions and addresses from prominent Austrian 
corporations. Reports from all parts of the 
empire show that the anniversary is being 
celebrated with great enthusiasm.The 
peace negotiations between Bolivia and Chili 
have failed. The former requested the pres¬ 
ence of two Peruvian commissioners at the 
conference to take place in Suntiago, to which 
Chili would not consent.Onelmudred 
persons on an average are searched nightly 
at Dublin under the curfew clause of the Re¬ 
pression Act........ Of 50 Socialists who 
have just been tried at Prague one 
was sentenced to two yearn’ Imprison¬ 
ment and 44 to terms varying from six 
months to two weeks.Dr. Beason, 
Bishop of Truro, has accepted the Archbish¬ 
opric of Canterbury which has been declined 
by the Bishop of Durham on account of his 
great age. 
A Slight Cold, if neglected, often attacks 
the lungs Brown’s Bronchial Troches give 
sure and almost immediate relief. Sold only 
in boxes. Price 25 cents.— Adv. 
-- 
Tropic Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for n mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per box — Adv. 
♦Those who deaden sensation and stupefy 
the patient to relieve suffering make a grave 
mistake. They proceed upon the raise idea 
that it is legitimate to procure relief from 
pain by destroying physical sensibility. This 
method, carried to the last extremity, would 
kill the patient to end suffering It is not 
presumed that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable 
Compound will raise the dead but it often 
does restore those who are given up— Adv. 
■ — ■ 
M'llious of packages of the Diamond 
Dyes have been sold without a single com¬ 
plaint. Everywhere they are the favorite 
Dyes.— Adv. 
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“ Haudy to have in the house ”—Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral, the prompt and certain rem¬ 
edy for croup, and pulmonary affections. Ado. 
-- 
Don’t Die in the house. “ Rough on Rats. 
Clears out rats, mice, flies,bed bugs. 15c,— Adv. 
That distressing disease, the Piles, is speedily 
relieved and cured by Ayer's Pills.—Ado. 
Makes the skin soft white and smooth Ben¬ 
son’s Skin Cure. Elegantly put up—Ado. 
-- 
BURNETT'S COCOA INIS. 
Has Received Universal Indorsement. 
No other preparation possesses such re¬ 
markable properties for embellishing and 
strengthening the hair and rendering it dark 
and glossy. It cures baldness and eradicates 
dandruff. 
Buhnktt’s Flavoring Extacts are the best. 
—Ado. 
S!|C itiuriuls. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Dec. 30. 
Chicago.— Compared with prices at date 
of last report, two weeks ago, “regular” 
wheat is Ijtf’c, lower; No. 2 Red Winter %c. 
lower; No. 2 Chicago Spring l)^o. lower. 
Corn l%c. lower. Oats 2>£o. higher. Rye 
%c. lower. Barley from to lc. higher. 
Flaxseed 3c. higher. Butter 2c. higher. Eggs 
steady. Dressed hogs 32c. lower. Pork, 40c. 
lower. Hogs unchanged. Cattle a trifle 
higher 'Sheep 25c. higher. 
WintAT: Regular December; 92<89?t&\ 
all the year- ’ViiB'Wfyi'. January; 995(0. Slav: No. 2 
Red Winter, IWfc. cash; %V6c. bcecniher. !il>^rt69lWc. 
all the year; so 3 ‘Jle; rejected, sitye. No 2 Chi¬ 
cago Spring. 92® 92 Aye cash; December; 
tHfte. all the yetir: Y4-%i>t-m>*e January: WiVo May: 
No, 3 Chicago Spring, *cu' rejected r, c Corn. SO 
to easb, ViRse. December; January; 524tc 
May: Mlje all the year; rejected, 42l«e Oats dull 
at eiwht 3&(i) D'Hc December; S-Ap* all the 
year: 3Stafii.35!4c January; SSDtfe May: rejected, Sic. 
ItVK steady nt lJAltUtv .steady AtBf*®>u<4e. 
rmiXRKKb steady at SI.I7«*l 18e; Rood crushing 
on truck, J..214.' rejected $1.31; choice Russian, 
#1.14. ButtKR steudy; creamery fair to fancy, 86® 
40c; dairies, Rood to choice I2®"0c parking stock, 
1366140. Eons steady at 27r«,2“!*e. Duksskh Hoos— Good 
lots. tn.HJAt) 90. Pork fu m at $)«v5Md7.00 cash: gui.jO 
i»17 95 December; il«>Vn,in,>i all the year; $16 95s* 
16 974* January; $l?.l2t*> Kcbrusry. Laud lower at lu.HO 
(fflu.aiVfiC. cash lo.Woln m-te December; 10.Vtal0.iVic. 
all the year: in.S0»ll).M54c. Januarv: |0 4italo 1'i^e, 
Kr t mill rv Hoiiti—The market opened weak mixed, 
$!i,!i0fefi.(fi; heavy, *j.90®il (55; IlKlit, $.‘i.4 |, («i(i OS skips, 
$.175.. 5 SV Catti.k Mark, t dull, u large volume or 
lumluess done; no soles of extra cattle*: quoted at 
$6Ikkaiii.'iO; good to choice shipping. S -. iWi'JO; com 
moo to fab . *4.141015.00, butcher*’ plentiful and weak 
at a decline of l()e common to fair, 62 2lliJ.3 00 medium 
to go> d. r3.25t.t3.i5: eh< dec, $HWVre4 .‘7; stockers and 
fee ers gH.lltat.lISuner—Market fairly active and 
steady; common to fulr, gn.zusek no medium to good, 
$3 2004.25; choice to extra, $4..-ii«»4.K.*>. 
Cincinnati —Compared with prices two 
weeks ago No. 2 Red Winter wheat is lc. 
lower. Corn, new cur, 4c. lower. Oats, %c. 
lower. Bariev steady. Pork 50c. lower. But¬ 
ler steady. Hogs ditto. 
Whrvt dull No. 2 Red Winter, 95<*9fio. spot; 9?o. 
December; 95c. January; 03**. all Me* year. Cons 
heavy; now car, 44f«49c; No 2 mixed. Me. spot, noWw 
51c. December; 56>l(c all t**c ye r; 49 m 4944c. Jan 
uary: 50c. Kcbruary. May. Oats dull No. 2 
mixed, 390400. ipot; lie December; Sstj'’ all the 
year SgVfc Muv. Rvic Cta62Jie. U.tKLKY dull; exira 
No 3 Spring, TSia.-V Pour Mrm, new, $17.0001 1.25. 
Lard dull at lb .Vii.lli.2be, HrTTr.lt firm: elmUe West¬ 
ern reserve, 2 jo; choice Central Ohio. 2Se Sugar 
steady; hards, 99£®944c ; Nr.w Orleans, tiUOltye. Hous 
11 rni—Comtnon and light, $7,25w.fi. 15, packing and 
butcher*', $ti. 1004.40. 
St. Louis,— Compared with prices two 
weeks ago No. 2 Red Fall wheat is VjC. lower; 
No. 8 Rod Fall steady. Corn 2%c. lower. 
Oats 3j^c. lower. Rye steady. Barley from 
5 to 10c higher. Butler 2c. higher. Eggs 
8c. higher. Pork 5U •. lower. 
Wheat—N o. 2 Red Kali, 9f)H09r>9ic, cash: 
Wilke December; ItsmMIMIe. January: V3J$@9-le ail 
the year; BT'Wc IVdu uury; May No. 3 Red 
Kali, SIKuikik^V; No 4 do., s .'nilN‘>4p'. Colts, 4IW-'tt-tsr. 
cash; IHfcC. December; 4Bc- Juimory; 44)46444%" all 
ihe year lijv February; 4KV- May w„th- 
Us)*" cash, 344jia,3t>hic December; January, Satie; 
HtiVietS?". nil the years M%c May. Rvic qui t nt 
5.iV(iM08c. Hart.i.v St. arty, sample lot:,, littatiilc; Nc 
bruska. 7'Mtil‘c Him mi steady; dairy, VttaSte; cream 
cry, aosMiio hubs AtittiGc. Pokk dull at nip is 
cush; glli H7Ja January; Job, g 11. IK), Hous — Kirin; 
light grades, $5.Mta5.70i packing, tAtaU.25; butchers 
to extra, $6. Utah 35. sheep scarce and market llrin; 
common to medium, ti IfeaS.M-, fair to good, $3.5064 
4.25; choice to funoy, $4.50;<&5.0U. 
