been formed in this city to press a bill before 
the State Legislature providing for the pur¬ 
chase of a strip about 300 feet wide from the 
head of the rapids to the needed distance be¬ 
low the Falls. This State Reservation could 
be had, it is supposed, for $-$00,000 to $900,000. 
..Horrible Are at Milwaukee: Newbali 
House, largest hotel in the city, burnt up: 
118 victims. 
The autnor of Hop Culture in last week’s 
Rural, Mr. F. B. Brook, of Washington, is a 
Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents. 
Correspondence solicited.— Adv. 
HOME NEWS, 
S®* No family dyes were ever so popular 
as the Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The 
Binck is far superior to logwood. The other 
colors are brilliant.— Adv. 
Saturday, Jan. 13, 1888. 
An active temperance campaign has been 
opened in Delaware to obtain, if possible, the 
passage of a prohibitory law by the present 
Legislature.The immigration to Can¬ 
ada from all parts of the world during 1882 
was 98,691. In addition to these 76 728 passed 
through Canada en route to the United States, 
.A draft for a commercial treatv between 
Mexico and the United States was before the 
Foreign Relations Committee Thursday. 
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, denies the 
report that a meeting has been held at his 
office with the object of putting him in the 
field as a candidate for the United States Sen¬ 
ate The Attorney -General of Pennsyl¬ 
vania rendered a decision on Thursday against 
the Western Union Telegraph Company in 
the application of citizens of Philadelphia 
asking that the State file a bill in equity 
against that corporation for violating the 
provisions of the constitution relative to the 
purchasing or consolidation of competing 
lines.....At the annual meeting of the 
Society of Plymouth Church,Brooklyn (H.W. 
Beecheris), held Thursday evening, the treas¬ 
urer’s report showed receipts of $37,825.39. of 
which $37,588 36 was from pews. The expen 
ditnres, included $90,000 as Mr. Beecher’s sal¬ 
ary, $2,500 each for the assistant pastors and 
the sexton and $6,605.04 for music.The 
message of the Governor of Illinois estimates 
that 150,000 persons are in charitable institu¬ 
tions of the State.Marshal T. Polk, the 
defaulting Treasurer of Tennessee was 
arrested at San Antonio, Texas. He tried to 
get to his silver mine in Mexico by offering 
an $8,000 bribe to his captors. His nephew 
and servant are said to have crossed over 
into Mexico with a large amount of money 
.A story printed in a Boston 
paper purporting to tell the story of the find¬ 
ing, by an alleged American artist named 
West, of some members of the party of Lieut. 
Chipp, of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, in 
Northern Siberia, proves to be a cruel hoax. 
.The charge of conspiracy against Mr. 
Dickson, the Star Route juror accused of ille¬ 
gally influencing the jurors in favor of Dor¬ 
sey & Co., is dismissed.....The Presi¬ 
dential Succession Bill was passed by the 
Senate last Tuesday...The mills in the 
neighborhood of Camden, Me., are almost 
entirely stopped by a drought—a most unu¬ 
sual thing at this season of the year. Re¬ 
ports from Me., N. H., and Vt, tell of an 
unprecedented winter drought.............. 
The mints coined nearly $95,000,000 last year, 
of which $66,000,000 was gold and $28,000,000 
silver 
Ayer’s Hair Vigor prevents the hair from 
turning gray, and restores gray hair to its 
original color. Try it!— Adv. 
General Improvement. 
“Iam feeling quite well. No cough; ap¬ 
petite good; regular in roy habits; and I am 
very much encouraged. * * * I do not 
feel that difficulty in breathing; nor do I feel 
so nervous.” Our Treaties on Compound Ox¬ 
ygen, its nature, action and results, with re¬ 
ports of cases and full information, sent free. 
Drs. Starkey&Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
Clergymen, speakers, singers, and actors, 
find that Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is wonder¬ 
fully effective .—Adv 
Don’t die in the house. “ Rough on Rats.” 
Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches.— Adv. 
Barnett’* C'ocoaine, 
The Best of All Hair Dressings. 
It allays irritation, removes all tendency to 
dandruff, and invigorates the action of the 
capillaries in the highest degree, thusjiromot- 
ing a rigorous and healthy growth of hair. 
Its effect upon the glossiness and richness of 
the hair is such as cannot he surpassed. 
Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are the 
best. — Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS 
Saturday, Jan. 13, 1882. 
Silk production is said to be in the follow¬ 
ing proportions: Italy, 37 per cent.; China, 
36; France, 8; East India (Bengal), 7; Japan, 
6; Spain, 2; Persia and the Levant, 4. 
According to the Journal des Fabrieauts de 
Sucre, the production of beef-root sugar in 
Europe this year amounts to 1,920,0001008, 
an increase of 137,500 tons over last year. 
Germany is still the greatest producer, head¬ 
ing the list with 675,000 tons; Austrio-Hun¬ 
gary ranks next with 450,000 tons; France 
third, with 410,000 tons; Polish Russia fourth, 
275,000 tons.The Wisconsin 8tate Cane 
Grower’s Association will hold its third an¬ 
nual meetiDg at Madison on the 12th, 13th 
and 14th of February next.It is stated 
that the Canadian Government has decided 
to permit homesteading and pre-emption 
upon lands now leased for ranch purposes in 
the Northwest, the lessees to be allowed a 
proportionate redaction of rent for lands 
taken.The amount of wheat now in 
California is put at 419,000 tons; of barley 
89,000 tons.The House Committee on 
Agriculture has agreed to recommend an ap¬ 
propriation of $30,000 for the purpose of send¬ 
ing representatives of this country to the 
Hamburg cattle fair.It is the general 
expectation that the tax on tobacco will not 
be reduced this session below the rate pro¬ 
vided in the Senate Bill—12 cents a pound. 
This item will cut off $6,500,000 of revenue 
.The drugs used as substitutes for hops 
in brewing are reported not to be "work¬ 
ing ” satisfactorily. Some of them spoil the 
brewing and when others are used the beer 
must be used soon or it will spoil.Herr 
Richter, in the Prussian Reichstag, said last 
Tuesday that there was no reason for the pro¬ 
hibition of American pork. The prohi¬ 
bition of our hog products is causing much 
opposition, farmers being the chief supporters 
of the measure.At Reading, Pa., two 
butchers were arrested Monday, charged with 
selling the meat of bogs which had been 
bitten by mad dogs and died of rabies.. 
The Chippewa Indians, Little Thunder and 
Leading Father, have gone to Washington, 
to exchange a portion of their reservation at J 
Red Lake, Minn., or certain agricultural Im 
plements, cattle aud utensils for a.civilized 
Christian life such as they are living. They are 
accompanied by Father JgubtiusTomozina,a 
Catholic missionary.The Secretary of 
the Treasury estimates that rebates on manu¬ 
factured tobacco would amount to $12,490,000. 
An increase of clerks would be needed.... 
....In Ireland the applications for relief 
under the “ Arrears of Rent Act ” affect 
130,000 holdings. If they were all granted 
higher for May. Oats, unchanged. Rye, 
2%c. higher. Barley unchanged. Butter lc. 
lower. Eggs, steady. Dressed hogs, 32Wc. 
higher. Pork, 15c. higher. 
Wheat: KcFUtar. «7(»97He. January, 98c. February 
kt.i^Wc. May; PiotVQuv. ail the year: No 2 Red 
Winter, Site, cash: January; Siqf@ai 0 sc.. all 
the year: No. 8 91c; rejected Me. No 2 Chlcnito 
Spring, OTVsiaasH* Cf»a|i; January 937<c. 
all the year; February: Sl ui-U Ylriv. No. 
3 Chicago SprLuit. 82c: reject, .1 # 4 o. CoitN, 56® 
STWe. cash; MUe. January; 53?d£M4$c.February; 55W 
May; M'^c. all the year: rejected. «5e Oatb 
steady nt. Sr,oi.'V ,94 -cash: 3A-Jic January: 3>by>S«c Feb¬ 
ruary: ss*fc all the year: S7J$ «!&%,*. M»v; rejected, 
S 8 c RYE firm at 6 U-. lURLSY steadv at 79®»ie. 
Flaxbkkd jitronyer at £1 23®! 27c: (rood ertishimr on 
truck. 8 2m,: rejected, SITU- choice Rustdau *1.14. 
llrmcn dull: creamery, fair to fancy, 25<oo9c; dairies, 
good to choice 2-'lat"3c pucklng stock I3fi&l4e Eoos 
steady at 2,V»2Tc. DiekkhjCS Hoos—Goi'd lots, S7.H1® 
T44. Fork $17.1(1® 17.15 cash. Pons Market slow; 
mixed, $5 fiiVttfiJXi; h»avy, #o OUtsATii llitln. 75® 6 so 
skips, $3.75® 5 35. Cattle—M arie* t'airly active with 
prices steady: (rood to rhnlcc shipping, jr-.Altar. 00 - 
common to fair, HI - butcher*’ plentiful, but 
about steady at $ 2 .V 0®1 40 ; ato- kern and feeders *3 00 
@•1 3) very heavy re elptsof low grades and medium. 
SirKxp—Market over sutplled. hut price* steady- 
common to fair, tS O'ts i.an; medium to good 81.40® 
4.00; choice to extra, $-1.96645 60. 
Cincinnati. —Compared with prices a week 
ago No. 2 Red Winter wheat is 5c higher 
for cash, but unchanged for Jan,, Feb. and 
all thn year. Corn, new ear, 2 to 4c higher; 
No. 2 mixed, 4c higher for cash and Jan.; 
45*c. higher for Feb.; 2>^0. higher for May; 
strady for all the year. Oats, 2c. lower. 
Butter steady. Hogs a shade lower. 
Wheat firm; No. 2 Red Winter, $1.01 (AUK! «pot; 95c. 
January; 97c. February- 99c. nil the rear Corn- steady; 
new car, 4SftSHc: No 2 mixed, M^c. spot, MWtr5IMc 
Jnnuary; Me. Fehruary; Vdye Mav 55Mc all the rear. 
Oats si- ady: No. 2 mixed, it 9 ty;i 4 iie spot; SRc. Jan¬ 
uary: 36J4C February :i74t'e Mav; 3«L4c all the year. 
Ryk Hrmer at s3<s>KlHc B milky firm, extra No. 3 
Fall, 8VA70C. Pork firms new, 817 2"<«,I7 .ni. Lari. 
firmer at 111 4fK»lfi.87t$e. Berrien firm: eliol'-e Western 
reserve, 25c: choice Central Ohio. 10c Hoos firm; 
common aud light, $i.::5®6,00, packing and butchers’, 
$ 6 . 20 ® 6.60. 
St. Louis. — Compared with prices a 
week ago No 2 Red Fall wheat is 5c. high¬ 
er: No. 3 Red Fall 3c. hinder. Corn 3%c. 
higher. Oats 2c higher. Rve 2>£c higt er. 
Barley steady. Butter do Pork 15c, lower. 
Wheat—N o. 2 Red Fall, $l fP<rol 7 !iU cash; $1.0274 
1 4’Jauuary: $1 f'2&* February: $1 Piqi ®1 HU March- 
$1.1161-4 No. 8 Red Fall, ‘Ht.t»iic; No 4 do. NVn 8554c. 
Torn, 4844481 * 0 . cash: lR#4M8H*v Janu rv; 1774 . 44 su,. 
February;-18 -rc March: 49 ( 41 : April, safe M v Oats 
88 !d® 34 e. cash: SSfoft January; 377*0 February; mm® 
S5 »*<«.' :lc all the year 38c May. RYE dull at 6ttf@57c. 
Barley «teady; sample lots. «wiS‘,e, Nebraska. 7 • <4 
79c BUTTfRntr-adr i dairy 28tA33c: creamery 466440c. 
Eons Hteady ut 2nl*<a2rtc. Pork firm at *lfi.K5 cash- 
$16K5JarniarY : Job, $17 W; » 7 07$> February; *17 55 
May. Cattle—M arket weals but u fair business done. 
More Khlptiinx crude* offered; expo'ts nominally 
*5 75® 6 good to chol-e he«%y steer*. #4.7.V.6*- 50; 
light, $L2*®4 75; b 11 tell*-rs‘ steers, $1 7!Sfl? 1 Ml; com¬ 
mon to good mixed. ♦2.7"<ii$4; Htoekera and feeders 
$3TA6;4 2'. Ninette— Buyer* asking OOtiet sslnn* but 
holders firm; common to medium $3@3 75 fair to 
good, $1®4 75; prime to fancy, # 5-75 25 export, $5 50. 
Hoos—Light gtadpn active and strong; others weak 
ami lower; light ahlppInR #5 75<s>#6- packing, $5 9044 
6 . 20 ; butchers’ to extra, $ 6 . 15® 5 . 30 . 
Worn-Out Lands, 
The worn out lands are not all in Virginia. 
In every farming locality.and on almost every 
farm, there are fields that are not as product¬ 
ive as they once were. Sometimes sheep sor¬ 
rel takes possession of a whole pasture, and it 
is of no more value to the owner than if it 
was worn out. The question with every far¬ 
mer is, how shall I make my farm uniformly 
productive? Sometimes it is a matter of 
drainage—for if any particular field needs 
draining, all the things you can put into in 
the way of fertilizer will do it no good; they 
are absorbed by the water. Farmers, in try¬ 
ing fertilizers, choose out the wettest and 
worst fields, and then condemn the fertilizer 
for their want of common sense. A party in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, says that a meadow 
field of his last season was taken possession of 
by sheep sorrel. He put a top-dressing of 
ground raw limestone on one-half of it and 
got a good crop of grass, while the other half 
was just as bad as ever; and yet in face of 
such facts, farmers hesitate to use Nature’s 
cheapest and best fertilizer, ground raw lime¬ 
stone. The reports in 1882 were better from 
all parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 
Maryland and Indiana, on all kinds of crops 
using ground raw limestone than ever before, 
A farmer can buy a machine for preparing it, 
for what he would spend ou fertilizers in one 
teason. Address, Totten & Co., 
186 Railroad Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.—Ado. 
The taxable valuation of real 
estate in this city is $1,080,879,000, an increase 
of $45,880,000 over last year.The Star- 
Route trials still drag on amid much wrang¬ 
ling, chiefly on the part of the lawyers for the 
defense. George Bliss received, up to De¬ 
cember 1 last, $40,000 for fees and expenses 
as special counsel in the case. The total paid 
special counsel for the Government to that 
day was over $66,' 00.The Senate Com¬ 
mittee on Pensions recommends that the pen¬ 
sion of Mary Stover, daughter of President 
Johnson, be restored. Her pension as the 
widow of a Union officer was forfeited by her 
second marriage. She has since obtained a 
divorce.There have been 2,400 divorces 
decreed in Maine during five yearB, making a 
ratio of one separation in ten marriages. 
A bill has been introduced into the House to 
create a Government postal telegraph system, 
with uniform rates of 25c. for 10 words or 
less, and 25 cents for every additional 10 words 
.Matthew Franklin Whittier, only 
brother of the poet, is dead. So is W. A. 
Seaver, editor of the “ Drawer” in Harper’s 
Magazine, age 69; pneumonia.The debt 
of this city has been reduced from $125,000,- 
000 under Tweed to $96,000,000.The 
Pension Bill asks only about $81,000 this year. 
.General Comstock estimates that the 
“ improvement*’of the Mississippi River will 
cost $66,000,000 instead o t $33,000,000, as esti¬ 
mated by the Commission.Mrs. George 
Scoville was granted a decree of divorce from 
her husband by ihe Circuit Court of Chicago 
Wednesday...... ..Same day Lot M. Morrill 
died.Virginia has had the heaviest fall 
of snow that has occurred since 1857. 
In the House of the Pennsylvania Legislature 
a bill was introduced to confiscate the lines of 
all telegraph companies which had consoli¬ 
dated with each other.The body of 
John Howard Payne, author of “Home, 
Sweet Home,” is on its way home from Tunis 
to America. Banker Corcoran of Washing¬ 
ton pays the charges.Manufacturers 
have lately been contemplating the utilization 
of the enormous water-power of Niagara Falls, 
and to prevent such “ desecration” of so 
grand a natural piece of scenery a society has 
PRODUCE AND PROVISION?, 
Vbw York. Saturday. Jan. 18, IW-3 
Brans and I’i:an Hut very little dolus for export 
and Hit* local hi* voroeut Is also slew vt hl’e ictdnev 
ure In lb lit supply and firm but all ntherwhlto bean* 
have a weuk ton- and nutMde prices difficult to 
reach. Red kidney hold firmly 
Beaus, marmw |K*2 prime. <3 05463 '25* medium ISS2, 
choice. $2 6004 .65 ditto, pea choice, sinad. $2 Mi; do. 
pen mtnrrowt $2 60. d'l white kldn-v. t$<Q, hoiee 
#3.7(ka,S 75; red kidney. 1HF2. choice, *3 70<afl 75; do tur¬ 
tle soup $2 6 .Vft 27 te do foreign medium*.n-w, $ 2 , 304 * 
2.50. do do old. $2 25; Peas, irrecn. 1H J 2, prime $1.30; 
Southern h e •< iwo hurhel ban- $? 75. 
Hotter —The murket has not n very promising ap 
pcurunce With liberal rpco'Dts am) slow trade par 
cels have accumulated, nml 111* question Is What is 
to be do"'.* with Itt Exporters hid* are b* low what 
holders want Creamery |. stljjhlly off in iiimltrv 
Creamer*', fancy. Jobhlnsr lot»,4lic: t-holee 37',<>9Sc; 
prime, 354b3«c: fair to Rood, nrdli.arv. : 
State dairies, entire tub and firkin, ffttioy, 7961 «i do.. 
Food 214523 do. balf-firkin tubs and pall* Taney 34; 
do. choice, 8U®S3c: do, pood HkfitVSc; do rulr 25<T« 
27c; State firkin* dairy enM’-e,284t2'io.; do fine.2664270; 
do. fair to good Wfit25c: Ktftie Welsh tubs, 
choice. TtkJJiUc: Welsh mbs, Food to prime 264s 
29c- State Welsh tubs fair to Rood 34f825e; Western 
imitation erearnerv. 22i»:t2c: do. dairy choice. 2v,a27c; 
do. Food to prime. 206i>24c; do. ordinary to fair, 1749 
19c; Western factory June, choice. 16Wi®17c do. fair to 
? :ood, 154416c; do choice current make 204(,2V- do. 
air to Food d«i., 164419c; do. ordinary lafflKiW; West 
ern rolls, 204428c, 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Coughs 
and Colds: “ I have been trying to get along 
without them, but with the odds rather 
against me. 1 do not see how it is possible 
for a public man to be himself in Winter 
without this admirable aid’”—[Rev. R. M. 
Devens, Pocaeset, Mass.] Sold only iu boxes. 
Price 25 cents.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Saturday, Jan IS, 1882. 
The flood along the Rhine and its tributa 
ries still continues, but is falling in most 
places. Contributions for the relief of 
hundreds of thousands of sufferers are 
pouriDg in from all over Christendom. 
Large amounts have been sent from sympa¬ 
thizers in tlis country, and more is being 
raised. At the opening of the Reichstag, 
* Revelation suggests the idea that from 
Woman comes the power to “ bruise the ser¬ 
pent’s head.” The words take anew mean¬ 
ing to-day since this is precisely what Mrs. 
Lydia E. Pinbkam's Remedies do for the 
physically diseased patient Her Vegetable 
Compound reaches the ultimate sources of the 
evil. Its actio" is gentle and noiseless, but is 
more powerful than the club of Hercules. Ada, 
