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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 6, 1882. 
Nineteen State Legislatures met this week; 
those of Arkansas, Nevada and Tennessee 
Monday; Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, New 
York and Pennsylvania Tuesday; Colorado, 
Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland. Mas¬ 
sachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and North 
Carolina Wednesday, and that of Indiana 
Thursdav. Next week come those of Cali¬ 
fornia, Kansas, New Jersey, Texas, West Vir¬ 
ginia and Wisconsin. In the political com¬ 
plexion of these bodies there is, of course, a 
marked change from their immediate prede¬ 
cessors in favor of the Democracy, although 
in Maine declining Greenbaekism gives the 
Republicans a majority of 92, against 32 last 
year. The New York Assembly is Democratic 
by almost two to one, but as the Senate holds 
over, the majority is so narrow that Tam¬ 
many again holds the balance of power, and 
endless complications are not impossible. 
Pennsvlvania has a Democratic House and a 
Republican Senate, but in the latter the major¬ 
ity is so small that a few Republicans elected 
as independents bold the balance of power, 
and upon the action in organizing is supposed 
to hinge in a great degree immediate recon¬ 
ciliation between the Cameron and anti-Cam¬ 
eron factions of the party. Both Houses of 
the Indiana Legislature are Democratic, while 
with Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin the 
contrary is true. Of the 25 Legislatures 
named, those of Arkansas, Colorado, Dela¬ 
ware, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West 
Virginia have United State Senators to elect, 
and in each case the present incumbent is a 
candidate, that of Davis of Illinois only ex 
cepted.The report of , the Mississippi 
River Commission says that the method pro 
posed—the contraction of the width of the 
river and the protection of the banks by dikes 
and revetments—are matters of experiment 
financially. “No cheaper methods are possi¬ 
ble and if they fail, it is a qnestion whether 
the improvement of the Mississippi is finan¬ 
cially possihle.” Gen. Comstock thinks levees 
are of little value to improve low-water nav¬ 
igation and dissents from the report of the 
rest of the Commission.The consolida¬ 
tion of the Commercial and Gazette news¬ 
papers of Cincinnati, the on» edited by Murat 
Halstead and the other by Richard Smith, is 
an alliance to astound the gossips of news¬ 
paper society.The committee who man¬ 
aged the fair for the Garfield hospital in the 
Capitol at Washington finally admit that it 
cost more than it came to and ask for sub¬ 
scriptions to make up a deficit...The 
Star Route trial progresses slowly, and is 
marked by numerous undignified squabbles 
between Judge Wylie and the attorneys 
for the defence.In announcing an in¬ 
crease of 1,645 failures this year over the 
last, Bradstreets calls attention to the fact 
that they largely occurred since September, 
while trade was being adjusted to a lower 
range of prices....The widow of Colonel 
SI ay back, of 8t. Louis, after an expenditure 
of $2,000, has withdrawn her suit for dam¬ 
ages against John A. Cocberill. The 
New York Courts seem strongly inclined to 
curb the unscrupulous greed of Jay Gould 
and his crowd, having within a week given 
three decisions against him—one with regard 
to the Western Union Telegraph Co.; another 
with regard to the Mutual Union Telegraph 
Co., and a third with regard to the elevated 
railroads of this city. There is hope for the 
people if the judiciary of the country shall 
remain honest and independent... 
The Co-operative Dress Association, of which 
Kate Field was president, closed its store in 
New York last week. The association opened 
the store a year ago. The assets are reported 
to be $239,560; liabilities, $128 256. including 
$15,044 due Miss Field.The receipts of 
the Patent Office for 1882 were over $1,000,000 
..Assistant Commissioner of Patents 
Stoetbridge has resigned.The Supreme 
Court of the United States has affirmed the 
judgment of the lower court in what is known 
as the Indiana Drive Well case, the vote 
being four against four. The lower court had 
decided in favor of the reissue of N. W. 
Green’s patent. Judge Mathews was not 
present. This simply affirms by an even 
decision and leaves the law of the case 
in a somewhat shaky and unsettled condition 
...The board of managers of the Nation¬ 
al Soldiers’ Home ask $1,122,088 for the next 
fiscal year. Five hundred more inmates are 
expected than last year, when 680 inmates 
were admitted. The managers recommend 
that worthy destitute soldiers, even though 
they cannot trace their ills to any origin in 
the service, be admitted. The inmates of the 
homes number 13,000.The Indian 
Agent at Fort Peck, Montana, telegraphs to 
the Indian Bureau that the Milk River.coun- 
try is overrun with white hunters, slaughter¬ 
ing the buffalo by thousands The Indians 
are becoming restless and the agent fears 
trouble. The presence of the military is re¬ 
quested. Mr. Price informed the agent that 
white hunters had no business on the reserva¬ 
tion and that the Secretary of War would be 
asked at once to have them removed. 
The Indian Rights Association is organized at 
Philadelphia. Wayne MacVeagh is president. 
The object is to secure to Indians rights and 
privileges enjoyed by citizens.Prepara¬ 
tions are being made for a big fight in the 
Wisconsin Legislature over the prohibition 
amendment. It is reported that the liquor 
dealers have a powerful lobby established. .. 
....The mineral out. put of Utah last year ex¬ 
ceeds $10.000,006.A consolidation of all 
the leading rubber interests in the country is 
proposed. A committee was appointed at the 
recent meeting in New York and they will re¬ 
port at another meeting to be held in New 
York January 17.During President 
Arthur’s New-Year’s Day reception the Hon. 
Elisha Allen, “ Minister Resident from the 
King of the Hawaiian Islands to this coun¬ 
try,’’ died suddenly in the White House. He 
was born in Salem, Ma«s., in 1804. 
T. Polk, State Treasurer of Tennessee, is re¬ 
ported to be a defaulter to the amount of 
$400 000 and to have absconded. Polk is 52, 
a graduate of West Point, a relative of Gen. 
Leonidas Polk, on whose staff he served in the 
Confederate army; a nephew of President 
Polk and, of course, has occupied a high social 
position...... Alex. H. Stephens appears to be 
disposed to make the best Governor Georgia 
has ever bad in the estimation of the criminal 
classes. Since he took office, less than eight 
weeks ago, he has pardoned and turned loose 
upon the community forty-eight convicts, 
twelve of whom were murderers and five 
were convicted of rape.Over a thous¬ 
and men have been thrown out of employment 
by the closing of the Bessemer 8 teel-Works 
and Rail Mills at Cleveland, O.Mr 
William H. Vanderbilt and his relatives have 
secured the control of the new “Nickel Plate 
Railroad,” the directors of that road having 
resigned in their favor.... 
Contrary to general expectation the Pendle¬ 
ton Senate Civil Service Reform Bill was 
pushed through the House last Thursday after 
less than half an hour’s debate. At least 30 
members are known to have prepared speech¬ 
es ou the matter, which would have killed 
either the bill or those who heard or read 
them. As President Arthur is known to be 
favorable to the measure it is sure to become 
a law, much to the joy of the office-holders, 
who will not be liable to removal “except for 
cause.”.Argument has commenced be¬ 
fore the Attorney General of Pennsylvania 
with a view to compel the Western Union 
Telegraph Company to obey the laws of that 
State, which are opposed to monopoly of tele¬ 
graph lines........Very heavy snow-storms 
in the Northwest and heavy snow-storms near¬ 
ly everywhere else throughout the country.. 
Revitalizing a Worn Out System. 
An elderly lady in East Orleans, Mass, 
after a year’s use of Compound Oxygen, re¬ 
ports that, through its vitalizing effects, she 
has been able to keep about in her little store, 
and earn enough for her daily needs. “ I 
commenced,” she said, “ using your Com¬ 
pound Oxygen a year ago last April; have 
had in all three supplies. For more than a 
year I have not failed to be able to be in my 
little store, and, averaging sales, earn enough 
for the day’s needs. This I esteem a ver 
(treat, blessing, and as I believe the ability to 
do this was due to the use of the Compound 
Oxygen, I have wished others on the down 
hill side of life, and obliged (because unable 
to work) to depend on others for support, 
could know, as I do, its power to revive warn¬ 
ing abilities of both mind and body." 
Our treatise on Ccmpoutd Oxjgen. its na¬ 
ture, action and results, with reports of cases 
and full information, sent free. Drs Star¬ 
key & Palkn, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan., 6 . 1882. 
The Boston Advertiser gives these live¬ 
stock receipts for 1882 at Watertown and 
Brighton, the stock-yards for Boston 
market. Cattle, 130,093; sheep. 626,608; 
veals, 85,645; fat hogs, 807,949; pigs, 3,586; 
totals of cattle and sheep received from each 
of the New England States, Canada and the 
West for 1882 and 1881: Cattle, Maine, 1882, 
9,896, 1881, 13,528; New Hampshire, 9,168, 
7,459; Vermont, 13,238,11,718; Massachusetts, 
8,5‘ 8 , 2,483; New York, 1,408, 2,078; West, 
85,552, 167,131; Canada, 8,571, 382; sheep, 
Maine, 1882, 89 656 1881, 54 512; New Hamp¬ 
shire, 45,170, 40,484; Vermont, 118,369, 97 ,- 
469: Massachusetts, 7.616, 9,286; New York, 
84.883, 44 159; West, 845.777. 219.268: Canada, 
43,137, 39 638.“Cherokee Outlet,” In¬ 
dian Territory, is reported to be overrun with 
white herders, who have erected buildings 
thereon and fenced off large pastures for 
stock. Numerous complaints from Indians to 
Secretary Teller, who has ordered Agent 
Tufts of Musgegee to warn the herders to 
leave the country with their stock and to 
tear down buildings and fences within 20 
days, from Jan. 1. If they are still there 
at that date, the military are to drive them 
from the country......Colonel Muir, the new 
Secretary of the American Shorthorn Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, and editor of the Herd Book, 
has established himself in Chicago, and will 
at once enter upon the duties of his position. 
The association has rented rooms in Montauk 
Block, opposite Haverly’s Theatre. 
A fatal disease, believed to be a brain trouble, 
has broken out among the horses at O.-ka- 
loosa, Iowa. The attack usually causes death 
in from 12 to 30 hours.Two Kentucky 
farmers, a father and son, named Begley, 
were enticed to New York to purchase coun¬ 
terfeit money, and paid $300 for a $5,000 
package of bank notes end gold. All parties 
were arrested by a police inspector, when 
Begley’s bag was found to contain stones, 
paper, and a small bag of salt.By 
direction of Mr. Teller the following attor¬ 
neys and land agents are debarred from 
practice before the Interior Department and 
local land offices: Geo. 8 . Bridwell, Mitchell, 
Dak ; Orlando T. Letcher, Mitchell, Dab.; E 
C. Carpenter, Beloit, Wis.; Dudley J. Spald¬ 
ing, Black River Falls, Wis.; J. L. Ayres, 
Mitchell, D. T. The disbarments are made 
because of connection of the parties with the 
recent Dakota land frauds.The Mark 
Lane Express says: “ Beyond a doubt No. 2 
American red winter will be the standard of 
value in the world’s wheat market for the 
cereal year 1882-’8S. Farmers’ deliveries and 
various extraneous supplies render British 
millers quite independent of the American 
contingent for the present...Drought 
seriously affected the yield of wheat in all 
parts of Australia. The estimated yield of 
1882 is 13,720,000 bushels; in 1881 it was 6.462,- 
00D bushels.London advices received 
by the Australian Frozen-Meat Export Com¬ 
pany state that the shipment by the Luci- 
tania was the finest yet received from that 
company, Mutton sold for 6 d; beef, hind 
quarters at 6 >£d, and tore quarters at 5>£d 
At tne time English mutton sold in London 
at 7d and English beef at 6 %d." Pink¬ 
eye” has broken out severely among the 
horses in Cleveland, Ohio. Hog cholera 
has swept off from $4 000 to $5,000 worlh of 
hogs near Providence, R I.Three cow¬ 
boy desperadoes lynched oh “general prin¬ 
ciples,” at Princeville, Oregon, turned out to 
be cattle thieves.. 
MM. Piette and Krizib, at an agricultural 
gathering at Lundeburg, in Germany, drove 
an ordinary thrashing machine by electricity, 
attaining a speed of 1,400 turns a minute, and 
illuminating at the same time the yard in 
which the machines were exhibited.The 
Vermont forests, their condition, and what 
measures are Deeded for their protection, are 
subjects committed to the investigation of 
Forestry Commissioners just appointed by 
the Legislature.Last week a shipment 
of 30,000 pounds of rice was received in New 
Orleans from Alabama. It was the result of 
an experiment in the cultivation of the plant 
in that section.New Orleans is now re¬ 
ceiving apples from Kansas and Western Mis¬ 
souri by rail. The first consignment from 
Leavenworth was received on Christmas Day 
..The total receipts of cattle at Buffalo, 
N. Y., during the year 1882, were 37,115 cars 
(t 630,955 head, which shows a falling off of 
1,51.8 cars or 25,986 head, as compared with 
last year; of sheep there were 7,300 cars or 
l 460,000 bead, an increase of 1,788 cars or 
o4T,600 bead, while the receipts of hogs show 
a decrease of 735 cars or 84,725 head. 
A number of blooded horses, lately the prop¬ 
erty of Mr. F. Gretton, deceased, have been 
sold at auction in England. AmoDg them 
was Isonomy, which brought 9,000 guineas 
or $45,000.One of the pecuJiar features 
of the present situation in the breadstuffs 
markets is the apathy which prevails in 
view of the extremely unfavorable prospect 
throughout Europe for the next grain crop. 
The markets of both Europe and the United 
States seem to be completely devoid of any 
speculative spirit, or indeed of much activity 
of auy kind. The reports on Thursday of 
disastrous floods in nearly all parts of Europe 
did, indeed, cause an advance in wheat in 
Chicago and New York of an average of l^c. 
per bushel on all optkns; but this was the 
first symptom that the foreign situation had 
had any effect. Liverpool grain detilers write 
their correspondents here that they have con¬ 
fidence in thp distant future options for both 
wheat Bnd corn, but no early advance of any 
conseqences is expected. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan 6 , 1882. 
LSon Gambetta died at five minutes to 
twelve on the night of Dec. 31, at Ville d’ 
Avray near Paris. His terrible death agony 
lasted two hours, though he finally died peace¬ 
fully. The cause of bis death is still a mystery 
to the genera] public Up to the last people 
generally thought, the severity of his sickness 
was exaggerated for political effect. There 
was much concealment as to its nature. It is 
now said that the wound in the arm was not 
the real cause of death which was due to the 
formation of a clot of blood in the heart. 
Numerous stories—most of them of a disre¬ 
putable sort—are afloat as to the person who 
actually inflicted the wound, and also as to 
to the ailment that ended so fatally. The 
dead statesman was born at Cabors, in 
the South of France, on October 30, 1838. 
Adopting the legal profession, he became a 
member of the Paris bar in 1859 and soon ac¬ 
quired fame as a forensic orator, being much 
employed in political causes both In the capi¬ 
tal and the provinces, while be obtained im¬ 
mense popularity among certain classes of the 
Parisians on account of his advanced Repub¬ 
lican opinions. On the fall of the Empire, 
after the battle of Bedan in 1870, and the con¬ 
sequent formation of the Government of the 
National Defense in September, he was nom¬ 
inated Minister of the Interior, and soon 
showed that he possessed administrative 
powers of a high order. When a serious mis¬ 
understanding took place between the Dele¬ 
gate Government at Tours and the National 
Defense Committee in Paris, regarding the 
contemplated election of Deputies, M Gam¬ 
betta w-as selected to proceed to the former 
city and explain the position of affairs in the 
Capital, Accordingly he left Paris on Oct. 
7, 1870, in a balloon, passed safely over the 
Prussian lines, ana reached Rouen in the even¬ 
ing. Proceeding without loss of time to 
Tours, he there assumed the direction, and for 
some months was virtually Dictator of all 
those provinces of France which were free 
from the German invaders. In establishing 
and preserving the Republic Gambetta did 
more lhan any other man in France. People 
may differ in upinion about his statemanship, 
about hiB integrity, about his morality, but 
all must agree that no other Frenchman 
could sway his countrymen so powerfully. 
His death causes fears of the stability of the 
Republic, but probablv these fears are ground¬ 
less; anyhow that the continuance of any 
form of government should depend on one 
man’s life would show that the f irm of gov¬ 
ernment was not suitable for tbs people at 
large........Gen. Chanzy, the well known 
French general and life Senator, died sud¬ 
denly of apoplexy at the camp near Chalons 
on the night of Jan. 4. Gen. Antoine Eub 6 ne 
Alfred Chanzy, was born at Nouart in the 
Ardennes, on March 18, 1824. He was sub¬ 
lieutenant of zouaves in the war in Algeria 
in 1859, and commander of battalion in the 
Italian war where he gained a lieutenant 
colonelcy for distinguished bravery at Sol- 
ferino. Afterwards he served in Byria and 
again in Algeria. In the Franco-Prussian 
war he was not given a command until after 
Sedan, when at the urgent demand of Gam¬ 
betta he was placed at the head of the Second 
Array of the Loire. In spire of great skill 
and bravery, however, bis efforts were hope¬ 
less to stem the tide of German victory. 
Since the war he has been Governor-General 
of Algeria, Commander in-chief of all the 
forces and Ambassador of St. Petersburg. 
The Municipal Bank of Sapajok, Russia, has 
failed for some millions of rubles. The assets, 
exclusive of the furniture, are only 25 rubles. 
.The British Government proposes the 
neutralization of the Suez Canal....It is 
said that the O’Connor Don will succeed Mr. 
Hamilton as permanent Under Secretary for 
Ireland.Disastrous floods still continue 
along the Rhine and its tributaries, and also 
along the Danube. Towns flooded; vineyards 
destroyed, farms ruined, whole districts de¬ 
populated, the inhabitants having fled for 
safety to higher grounds, leaving everything 
behind them; starvation and utter ruin threat¬ 
ening hundreds of thousands. Losses high 
up among the millions. Public charily urgent¬ 
ly needed. A bill has been drafted for the 
Prussian Diet proposing relief for the suffer¬ 
ers.The Hungarian Premier lays that 
there is no ground for apprehension of a dis¬ 
turbance of the peace of Europe, and Gam- 
betta’s death is said to be favorable to peace, 
as he was bitter against the Germans and im¬ 
patient for “revenge.”.Mr, Dillon, the 
Irish agitator, announces that ho will retire 
from Parliament during the first week of the 
session, owing to broken-down health. 
The British Intend to divide Zululand be¬ 
tween Cetewayo and John Dunn, and in nei¬ 
ther division will Europeans be allowed to 
hold farms.The Bank of Montreal has 
sold all the land-grant bonds of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, and stock of the mad to the 
amount of $15,000,000 will be placed on the 
