JAN 27 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 30.1883. 
San Jose, Cal., on New Year’s Day, had the 
first snow storm, to oover the ground, since 
1849.That fottr-o’ck cfe-in-tbe-morning 
comet won’t afford excuses for staying up all 
night for the next 652 years, as its “ period ” 
has been fixed at that figure........ It is pro¬ 
posed that the Government should buy the 
house in which Lincoln died, for $15,000. 
.. .The Girard estate in Philadelphia 
left by Stephen Girard for educational 
purposes, is now valued at $9,630,000, 
and the financial report of the receipts shows 
they amounted last year to $1,033,807, inclu¬ 
ding a balance from 1881 of $91,000, and the 
expenditures of the year were $994,000 . 
Boston is reviving the talk abouc that World’s 
Fair the Hub was all agog about a year 
ago.Troops sent to remove intruders 
from Indian Reservation, Poplar River, Mon¬ 
tana.Terrible blizzards in Manitoba, 
Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa during the early 
part of the week—railroads all blockaded by 
snow and numerous deaths from freezing, es¬ 
pecially among recent settlers nnacqainted 
with the rapid variations of climate and un¬ 
prepared for its extreme severity. Un¬ 
usually cold weather extend* d all the way 
down to the Gulf, and most of the way east 
to the Atlantic. Another extremely cold 
“wave” on its way hither from the ex¬ 
treme West now.Two broken banks, 
two swindling bank presidents and cashiers, 
and thousands of swindled poor depos¬ 
itors in Jersey City........United States 
troops directed to “preserve order’’among 
belligerent Creek Indians......Disastrous 
fires have been a prominent feature of late. 
The monev loss by the burning of the New- 
hall House at Milwaukee was about $500,OfK); 
but sadder, much sadder still, is the loss of 102 
people, cremated in the horrible furnace. 
The keeper of the bar-room on the ground 
floor of the hotel has been arrested tor setting 
the place on fire, and has been removed from 
jail, for fear of being lynched by a mob, 
He was in great financial distress and very 
heavily insured The fire began in his place 
and many circumstances indicate that he 
atrociously set fire to the building.Sun¬ 
day la«t the Planters’ House, the oldest hotel 
in St. Louis, was partly burned Tremendous 
scare among the guests. Only three people 
lost—all male servants—suffocated.. 
Tuesday morning Tweedle Hall, Albany, N. 
Y., a famous meeting place for political con¬ 
ventions, was utterly destroyed by fire. No 
lives lost, but loss of properly amounted to 
$300,000 Numerons otber great fl res East, West 
and South.The loss by fires through¬ 
out the United States the past year is put at 
$90,006 000, by the N. Y. Commercial Bulle¬ 
tin, from careful examination of fig¬ 
ures.. A bill was introduced in the 
Pennsvivania Legislature on Wednesdav last, 
making it a misdemeanor for the Governor, 
Lieutenant Governor, and members of the 
Legislature to accept passes from railroad 
companies. This form of bribing legislators, 
judges, and the servants of the people, should 
be prohibited and punished everywhere. 
The joint resolution providing for the sub¬ 
mission to the people of Arkansas of a con¬ 
stitutional amendment forbidding the pay¬ 
ment of the railroad aid, the levee, and the 
Holford houds, was adopted i" the Senate by 
a vote of 30 to 1, last Wednesday. It will also 
pass the House.Of the 46,162,738 bnshelB 
of grain shipped to Europe from New York 
in 1882, not a Bingle bushel went under the 
American flag.Polk, the Tennessee 
swindler, it is said, really feels his 
disgrace. Marvelous I.. Con¬ 
gressman Shackelford of North Carolina, 
is dead, and Congressman Herndon, of Ala., 
is dying.Counsel in the Star-route 
cases still wrangling.There’s little doubt 
but a law will be passed for two cent postage. 
.The projected treaty with Mexico 
admits to this country, free of duty, 82 arti¬ 
cles of which 24 are already on the free list, 
and six are not produced here; sngar and to¬ 
bacco are the only home products the new 
treaty adds to the free list. Not much com¬ 
petition is feared from them. In return, Mex¬ 
ico admits, free of duty, all hardware, tools, 
and machinery adapted for mining and agri¬ 
culture.The project of laying that new 
sub-Atlantic cable, under the auspices of 
.Tames Gordon Bennett, of the N. Y- Herald; 
Mr. Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail¬ 
road, and others, and which was to deal so 
fatal a blow to monopoly, iB said to have 
collapsed.Senators elected to the United 
States Senate are:—Illinois elects Gov. Cnl- 
lom, aged 53, who has served three terms in 
Congress, in the House, and has a high repu¬ 
tation for ability and integrity. Texas has 
re-elected the Hon. Richard Coke, a native of 
Virginia, but a resident of Texas for many 
years; an able lawyer; elected Governor in 
1874, and re-elected in 1876. Senator M W. 
Ramson has been re-elected by North Caro¬ 
lina. In Maine Senator Wm. P. Frye has been 
re-elected; Tennessee has reelected Senator 
Ishani G Harris and Arkansas 8enator A. H. 
Garland. Senator Hoar has been re-elected 
by Massachusetts, and Senator 8aulsbury by 
Delaware.Reverend Hicks, Guiteau’s 
spiritual adviser, has just transferred his in¬ 
terest in that miscreant’s skeleton to Surgeon- 
General Crane.In order to 
keep up or raise the price of coal the wealthy 
coal companies of Pennsylvania have de¬ 
cided to stop the coal production for three 
days each week until the end of February— 
starving miners and a shivering public....... 
Clark Mills, the sculptor of the equestrian 
statue of Washington at the National Capi¬ 
tol, and other similar works, died Saturday. 
.Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, says in his 
Message to the Legislature that the population 
of the Territory has doubled in two years, 
and now reaches 360 000, and that the amount 
of taxable property is $50,000,000... 
President Arthur has signed the Civil Ser¬ 
vice Bill... 
Brain Workers. 
In this country nearly every active busi¬ 
ness or profess ional mao is overworked, and 
suffers from waste of vitality. Few reach 
the age of forty-five without this waste of 
vital force showing itself in some form of dis¬ 
ease more or Iobs troublesome or dangerous. 
Now, unless something can be done to re¬ 
new the wasted vital force, these diseased 
conditions must go on increasing until aD 
utter break-down is the result. Many, warned 
in time, retire from business or professional 
life and seek in change and relaxation a 
measure of the health which they have lost. 
With much the larger number, this retire¬ 
ment is felt to be impossible; and they go on 
sufferin g and failing until the disastrous end 
comes in paralysis, softening of the brain, or 
sudden death. 
As a restorer of vital force , it has been 
lately shown from the results obtained dur¬ 
ing the last twelve years, that Compound Ox- 
gen is the most efficient agent yet discovered 
by the medical pi'ofession. Its use by over¬ 
worked business and professional men would 
save many hundreds of lives every year , and 
give to thousands more the ability to work 
without the weariness, exhaustion and peril 
which now attend them. A Treatise on Com¬ 
pound Oxygen containing large reports of 
cases and full information, sent free Address 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 Girard Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 20, 1882. 
The North Carolina cotton crop will be, it 
is thought, 500 00ft bales less than last year’s 
crop. Mnch of that left in the fields is badly 
damaged by late extraordinarily heavy snows 
Virginia’s cotton crop will also be less by 
several thousand bales.Dogs destruc¬ 
tive among sheep in places too numerous to 
be specified.The American Short-horn 
Herd-book, published at Buffalo, N. Y., by 
Allen & Bailey, since 1846, was turned over 
to the Short-horn Breeders’ Association last 
Saturday, on payment of $25,000. The Asso¬ 
ciation also purchased the American and the 
Ohio Short-horn Records. All will be com¬ 
bined in the American Short-horn Herd-book, 
to be published at Chicago.The num¬ 
ber of flouring and gristmills in the United 
States, in 1S80, according to a report from 
the U. S. Census Department, was 24 332, 
employing capital to the amount of $177,- 
861,878, and employing 58 407 persons, to 
whom was paid $17,422,816 The raw mate¬ 
rial used was valued at $441,525,225, from 
which a product waB obtained worth $505,- 
161,712. These figures show an average of 
2.4 persons per mill, eash person receiving a 
yearly compensation of about $298 Jt shows 
also an average earning of each mill of $2,- 
615 per annum.A new cattle disease in 
Europe, caused by a minute fungus, shews 
itself by an enlargement aud ulceration of the 
tongue. It also attacks the bones of the face 
and jaws, and appears inside and outside the 
throat in form of tumors. Reported to be 
very destructive among young stock. 
The Washington County (N. Y.) Agricultural 
Society already aspires to have Gov. Butler, 
of Massachusetts, for orator, at its fair, m 
September.... 
A bill has been introduced into the U. S. Sen¬ 
ate granting to the Puget Sound and Canadian 
Railway and Immigration Co. the right of 
buying public land along its routein Washing¬ 
ton Territory at the rate of 200 000 miles for 
each 10 milee of railroad for $1 25 an acre.... 
The the third annual meeting of the New 
York Amber Cane Association will be held 
at the American Hotel, Geneva, N. Y.. on 
Wednesday, Feb. 7, opening at 10 A. M. All 
interested in the growing of sorghum and the 
manufacture of its products are cordially in¬ 
vited to attend. Full information on all 
topics connected with the matter will be given 
and a fine line of implements of culture and 
manufacture will be on exhibition. C. J. 
Reynolds, Sec , Corning, N. Y...Payne 
is preparing for another invasion of Okla¬ 
homa.The Iowa Sheep Breeder’s Asso¬ 
ciation met at Des Moines on Jan 10 at the 
same time as the State Agricultural Society. 
They declined to vote $50 towards helping to 
pay the expenses of the committee sent to 
Washington by the National Manufacturers 
and Wool growers to look after the wool in¬ 
terests in the revision of the tariff.The 
fifth annual meeting of the Northern Illinois 
Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association, took 
place at Elgin, Jan 10. They are opposed to 
meddling with ths tariff on wool....... 
The Dominion Government is about to in¬ 
troduce a measure shortening the process of 
obtaining land patents in the Northwest..... 
A Missouri bee raiser lately transferred his 
150 hives to Florida that his bees may keep 
busy all the Wintei in that land of flowers; 
and on the Mississippi there are bee boats that 
carry hives up and down that river to keep 
pace with the blooming of the flowers.... The 
Pa. State Board of Agricnlture held a meeting 
last Wednesday and elected officers for the en¬ 
suing year. James Miles, of Erie, was elected 
President........ The N Y American Merino 
Sheep Breeders’ Association met in Rochester, 
N. Y., Tuesday, in annual session. The 
officers were re-elected. Oppostion was ex¬ 
pressed to any change in the tariff on wool. 
........The N. Y. Fanciers’ Club,” patroniz¬ 
ing poultry, pigeons, and pet stock, will hold 
their exhibition at Madison Square Garden, 
in this city, on Feb. 13-16.Gray sq >ir- 
rels are so troublesome in Connecticut that 
the farmers wish to exterminate them, and 
they are being killed in great numbers. A 
party of three recently bagged 105 in a day. 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Saturday, Jan. 20, 1882. 
While drought and cold are characteristic of 
the Winter here with heavy snow in places; 
across the Atlantic rains unprecedented in 
severity within living memory have been fre¬ 
quent all over the Continent, and heavy rains 
with extremely heavy snow-storms have done 
mnch mischief in Great Britain. All the large 
rivers of Europe have overflowed their banks 
since the end of November and caused an 
enormous loss of property, especially agricul¬ 
tural, nearly everywhere. Great numbers of 
farm stock of all kinds have been drowned; 
fences and farm buildings have been swept 
away, together with stacked grain and hay 
and other stored farm products. Many lives 
too have been lost, much rich land has been 
ruined or greatly injured by heavy deposits 
of sand, and it will be some time before the 
low country along *be great rivers and their 
multitudinous tributaries can recover from 
the disastrous effects of the floods. The 
European floods are more disastrous than ours 
as most of the country they spread over 
is far more thickly settled....Several 
earthquakes in the province of Murcia, Spain, 
during the week........ As usual most of the 
English news is Irish. Marwood, the English 
hangman, has been kept pretty busy of late 
in the Emerald Isle hanging people convicted 
of agrarian murders. Thursday Parnell’s 
land was plowed gratuitously by friendly 
farmers. His place is for sale The timber 
on the estate is valued at $75,000, aud the en. 
tire 5,000 acres at a rental of from 30s to £2 
an acre. Estimated at the former figure aod 
allowing only 15 years’ purchase, the value of 
the estate in the maiket now ought to be 
$560,000. He baH Borne good house property 
in Dublin besides.In France the sensa¬ 
tion of the week has been a “manifesto” of 
Prince Napoleon placarded extensively in 
Paris and through Ihe country declaring the 
Republic a failure end demanding a plelte- 
eite, or vote of all the males entitled to a vote, 
with a view to determine the form of govern¬ 
ment to be adopted. The thing has caused a 
great Bensation and a bill has been introduced 
into the Legislature ordering the banishment 
from France and Algeria of all dependents 
and relatives of former dynasties who ruled 
France, including, of course, the Orleans 
princes. 
At Berditscbeff, during the performance of 
a circus, the building took fire on Jan. 13, and 
300 persons perished. Birdisscheff is a town 
of Russian Poland, in the government of Kiev, 
and 1 b important for its commerce and its 
fairs. The population is over 50,060, mostly 
Jews. Reports in Armenia, Asia Minor, 
of widespread conspiracy against Turkish 
rale. Armenia is mostly Christian, and is 
composed of Turkish, Persian aud Russian 
Armenia—just as Poland is made up of Aus¬ 
trian, Prussian and Russian Poland. 
The Duchess of Connaught, daughter of the 
late Czar, and daughter-in-law of Queen Vic¬ 
toria, was delivered of a son, at Windsor Cap- 
tie, England. Saturday last.... 
Alarming reports of a conspiracy of Legiti¬ 
mists (the followers of <be Count de Cbam- 
bord) chiefly in the west of France. From 
30 000 to 150,000 men are said to be regimented 
and armed ready for a rising at the word of 
command, to restore monarchy to France. 
.A new form of government i« soon to be 
set up in Egypt, under the Khedive; but 
things are to be so arranged that in reality 
Great Britain will virtually take possession 
of the country. 
Chicago’s Largest Horse Dealer.— 
James D. Beckett says: “I Bell large numbers 
of one-half and three-fourths blood French, 
Clydesdale and English horses; principally 
French horses, because they are sought after 
more than any of the other breeds, and com¬ 
mand higher prices. This is because they 
last longer on our pavements and give better 
satisfaction to those who buy them to wear 
out.”—Chicago Tribune. These horses are 
largely bred in the West, M. W. Dunham, 
Wayne, TIL, having imported and bred nearly 
1,000 stallions and mares, and now has some 
400 on hand for breeding purposes.—Ad®. 
Coughs. Brown’s Bronchial Troches 
will allay irritation which induces coughing, 
giving relief in Bronchitis, Influenza, Con¬ 
sumptive and Throat troubles.— Adv. 
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Tropic Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per box —Ad®. 
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♦Lydia E. Pinkbam’s great Laboratory, 
Lynn, Mass., is turning out millions of pack¬ 
ages of her celebrated compound, which are 
being sent to the four windp, and find their 
way to all lands under the sun and to the re¬ 
motest confines of modern civilization.— Adv. 
The Scarlet, Cardinal Red, Old Gold 
Navy Blue, Beal Brown, Diamond Dyes give 
perfect results. Any fashionable color, 10 
cents.— Adv. 
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills cleanse the system, 
stimulate the appetite and digestive organs, 
vitalize the blood, and thus renew the golden 
age of youth.— Adv. 
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Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, cleared 
out by “Rough on Rats.” 15c.— Adv. 
As an after-dinner pill, to promote digestion, 
Ayer’s Pills are wonderfully effective.— Adv. 
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Humors,Scrofula,Ulcers vanish before Ben¬ 
son’s Sk in Cure. Internal aud external. Adv. 
Bnrnett’ft focoalne, 
Will Save the Hair. 
And keep it in a strong and healthy condi¬ 
tion, because it will stimulate the roots of the 
hair, and restore the natural action upon 
which its growth depends. 
Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are ab¬ 
solutely pure.—Ad®. 
£!)f iilorSuls. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Jan. 20. 
Chicago.— Compared with prices a week 
ago “ regular ” wheat is 3% to 4c. higher for 
cash and 4>£c. higher for Feb.; but steady 
for “all the year”; No. 2 Red Winter 3c. 
higher; corn 8%c. higher for cash; 2>£c. 
higher for Feb.; l%o higher for May. Oats 
2e. higher. Rye 4>£c. higher. Barley lc. 
higher. Flux seed Sc. higher. Butter steady. 
Eggs lc. higher. Hogs, cattle and sheep 
higher on the whole. 
WbkAt llrm: Kogulnr *1 ill: January, $1 KVa Febru¬ 
ary: fti.OSS* May; 9',>«i«2hiC. all the year: No a Red 
Winter, $1.12 cash; 96bie January; 9IMi@9l’}|io, all 
the year. No !i 91c; rejected 6le. No 2 Chicago 
Spring $lJl)Jk6I0> eiwh: WmWSfe- January 
all tile year; w7Aty.t9.He February; ftl.UHH .May. No. 
8 Chicago Sprint!, H0)6ci reject* rt Bile. CORN, strong at 
6 I?Jia6'm'. cash «Se, Januaryt MCPWiV&v. February 5t>H 
@57c. May; MHc ail the vrnr: rejected, I5WJ- Oats 
steady at S7sj3T*t'' oawb: S7l*e January 37®37y|,e Feb¬ 
ruary. XiftAc ail the jear. May, rejected, 
33c H> k linn at 6t®t>’iHc- tUuucv steady at -ikASlc. 
Kl.*Xskhp firm at ft! l&W&l 2«c; wood crushing on 
track, ft..21V»: rejected, ftl.'fll; choice Russian. ftl.14. 
BUTTKH steady ;ereainery. fair to fancy ,i£V« ,'IHi\ dairies, 
good to choice 23cotSc packing atnek, 1 2«I.He Knots 
steady at 2fi®2?c. DrukkKd Hoob—G o. d lots. $7.20 
(c7 2.) Pork ftl7.2f(Uil*.S0 cash; ftl'i.SMo 690 all 
the year $17-10617. l 5 Jautiaryi $17.4 K bruary; 
®i7.l>Av MarcJi. Labd— 1U.M44M'O.H5e cosh. 10.07 
10,7 0 January! Ill 7 3*0® in 75 \ Fcbrua'y: lUfi7*yc. 
March. IIi.uk—G. on talked, $?..M!ku, 6. ft. h. ary fe 23 
(a.tt.89 light. $3 I'4li .V>; skips, SI 2fie r. ’ll; Closed *(!*KI. 
lower than yesterday. CATTi.B-l’rleeiisiea'Iy except 
on low grades, of which the supply was heavy, prime, 
$6 2ttei6.So,good toi hnle. Shipping,ft',40d.lt Uncommon 
to fair, HU butchPrs ID full aui ply hut w.ak; 
common to fulr $2. u'M.S; in ilium lo go'd. $1.27® 
4.10; Stocker* and fe» ders. $J®4 28. Sinor Maiket 
slow: b tier uuallrlrgsniiriy: pi free. $0 Str*a5,75; good 
to choice, 84.73®.-) 75, common to fair, ft-iia,l.to, qual¬ 
ity rather poor, 
St. Louib.—C ompared with prices a week 
ago No. 2 Red Fall wheat is lo. higher; No. 
8 Red Foil 2c. higher. Corn higher. 
