MARCH 4'/ 
Mvws of i\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 10, 1883. 
Wigging’s terrible storm has turned out “an 
Irishman’s hurricane” at sea, with the wind 
straight up and down the mast. Wiggins is a 
fraud, a humbug, a—but in speaking of the 
charlatan, the quack, the mountebank, there 
is danger that we, who have said not a word to 
advertise the fellow, may indulge in vilifica¬ 
tion as loudly as the general rim of papers 
which have been advertising him for weeks 
and without whose aid the fraudulent weather 
sharp would never have emerged from his 
proper obscurity. That people should believe 
in his prophesies—and many have done so— 
only adds to the long list of proofs of popular 
gullibility another more ludicrous even than 
that afforded by the success of the Chicago 
“blind pools”. 
The 47th Congress catne to an end at noon 
last Sunday, the members having sat up all 
Saturday night to finish needed legislation— 
mainly the passage of appropriation bills. The 
first session of Congress was eight months, the 
second three months. In both Houses 10,650 
bills and resolutions were introduced, but only 
650 were passed, and of these less than a dozen 
were of national importance. Among the 
more important bills which failed to become law 
are the Nicaraugua canal bill, the national 
education bill, presidential succession bill, ship¬ 
ping bill, the bill to restore Fitz John Porter 
to the army, the bill to retire General Grant, 
the bill to extend the bonded period on dis¬ 
tilled spirits, and bills to establish a postal tele¬ 
graph system and postal savings banks. 
The tariff bill reducing the import duties on 
certain imports and increasing those on others, 
was passed the last night. Internal taxation, ex¬ 
cept on liquor and tobacco, has been removed. 
It is thought, that this will reduce the revenue 
about $50,000,000 a year; while the reduction 
of import duties will reduce it about $25,000,- 
000 more; but there will still be a surplus of 
about $75,000,000 applicable to the payment, of 
the Na tional Debt.The repeal of the tax 
on bank checks, drafts, capital and deposits of 
banks and national hanking associations, 
matches, perfumery, patent medicines, etc*., 
goes into effect July 1, next. The reduction 
of the taxes on tobacco,, cigars, etc., takes 
effect May 1, next. The revised duties on im¬ 
ports become operative on the 1st of next July 
.The aggregate amount of all the bills 
is $230,327,511 made up as follows:—Pensions, 
$86,575,000; military academy, $318,657; forti¬ 
fication. $670,000; consular and diplomatic, 
$1,205,755; navy, $15,804,434: army, $34,681-, 
350; postroffice, $44,480,520; Iiulian, $5,362,655: 
legislative, $20,164,206; sundry civil, $23,906,- 
147; District, of Columbia, $1,699,867; defi¬ 
ciency. $2,813,187; agricultural, $405,645; mis¬ 
cellaneous bills involving appropriations of 
money. $750,000.The aggregate of ap¬ 
propriation for the last year, including $18,- 
735,875 for the river and harbor bill, was $205-, 
509,030, and for the preceding year, including 
$11,441,300 for the river and harbor bill, was 
$219,367,983. 
Alexander H, Stephens, Governor of Georgia, 
died a little after midnight on the 3d. He was 
bora on February 13,1812. His father was a 
poor farmer who died in 1826, his mother hav¬ 
ing died when he was an infant. He was edu¬ 
cated at the expense of the Rev. Alexander H. 
Webster. He was admitted to the bar in 1834. 
He was elected to the lower branch of the 
State Legislature in 1836, and re-elected in ’38, 
’39, '40 and ’41. In 1843 he was elected to the 
28th Congress, and re-elected to the Jive fol¬ 
lowing ones. He retired from public life in 
1859. He was strongly opposed to Secession, 
but iu 1871 accepted the Vice-Presidency of 
the Confederacy. In May, 1S65, he was ar¬ 
rested, but after a short, imprisonment at Fort 
Warren, Boston Harbor, be was released on 
parole in the following October. In 1872 he 
was elected to the 43d Congress, and re-elected 
to the four following ones. Last year he was 
elected Governor of Georgia, a position he 
held at his death.Three men have been 
arrested in Springfield, O.. for swindling the 
people of Marysville by drawing up contracts 
to cure diseases, which their victims were 
asked to sign, these documents afterward turn¬ 
ing out to be promissory notes.The dam¬ 
age from the Ohio flood along Mill Creek, 
Ohio, will aggregate $179,870.The en¬ 
tire loss at New Richmond, O., has been about 
$100,000.Additional donations of $1,000 
each have l>een sent by Mr. James Gordon 
Bennett, of the New York Hei-ald, to Law- 
renceburg, New Albany, Shawneetown, Au¬ 
rora, Newport and New Richmond.. 
Judge Major, sitting at Frankfort, Ky,, has 
held that the State has the right to tax all 
railroads in the State in the manner arrived 
at by the Railway Commission.Senator 
Edmunds, of Vermont, has been elected Presi¬ 
dent of the U, S. Senate instead of David Da¬ 
vis, of Illinois, whose term as Senator expired 
a 
on March 4. President of the Senate is equiv¬ 
alent to Vice-President of the United States 
.A delegation of negroes from the In¬ 
dian Territory has been in Washington seek¬ 
ing an appropriation of a part of the Territory 
for their use. Most of the adult negroes there 
were slaves to the Indians before “Emancipa¬ 
tion.”... .The Pennsylvania Legislature is 
about to try to obtain some information as to 
the “working” of the notorious Standard Oil 
Company, by means of an investigating com¬ 
mittee regarding the conduct of one E. G. Pat¬ 
terson, who was employed by the State to col¬ 
lect evidence in a suit against the cottipauj' 
for back taxes. The company, however, 
bribed him to suppress the testimony he had 
collected at the expense of the State. 
Dunlap Mill and elevator at Albany, N. Y., 
burnt. Three men killed; three badly hurt: 
150,000 bushels of grain destroyed; total loss 
$575,000.The Constitution provides that 
a State cannot be sued by citizens of another 
State for debt; but it was thought that the 
debts might be assigned to the creditor s 
State, which might sue the indebted State for 
the amount. New Hampshire and New York, 
accordingly, sued Louisiana for money owed 
by that State to citizens of the other States, 
who had assigned their claims to their respec¬ 
tive States. The U. S. Supreme. Court, how¬ 
ever, has just decided that New Hampshire 
and New York are merely collecting agents 
for their citizens, and that such an evasion of 
the provision of the Constitution cannot be 
allowed.Col. Harry Gilrnor, a famous 
Confederate cavalry officer, died Saturday a t 
Baltimore, aged 45.A new comet has 
been discovered by our contributor. Prof. 
Brooks, of Phelps, N. Y. It is called the 
“Brooks Comet.”.Flemmiug & Merriam 
and the other Chicago “ blind pool ’’ swindlers 
have not been indicted yet. Flemming has 
been arrested several times in Canada, but 
has always got off after “squaring” with his 
victims. He laughs at his dupes elsewhere, 
having “behind him” a million dollars, more 
or less, out of which he has swindled the pub¬ 
lic in all parts of the country. The other 
rascals have “gone into hiding” uutil the 
“storm blows over.” Many of their victims 
are too much ashamed of their gullibility to 
sav much about their losses. The amount 
"scooped in” by the scoundrels is estimated 
at $2,000,000 at least.A bill restoring 
the death penalty has passed the Maine House 
with amendments permitting the jury to 
recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the 
court and giving the pinsoncr’s counsel the 
closing argument. .. .The Massachusetts 
House has defeated, 127 to 60, the bill giving 
female citizens a right to vote for city and 
town nlHces, to hold city and town offices and 
to vote in town meetings.The loss to 
the city of Louisville by the defalcation of the 
tax collector and back tax collector Ferguson 
foots up $147,202.50 .Polk, the aristo¬ 
cratic Tennessee swindler, has been let out of 
jail on $20,000 bail .A bill incorporating 
the International Railroad and Steamship 
Company has been signed by the Governor of 
Florida. Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, is the lead¬ 
ing spirit. A trunk railroad will be built down 
the backbone of the peninsula to Key West.... 
. .Ex-President Diaz, who was re-elected Pres¬ 
ident of Mexico, the other day, is on a visit to 
this country and has been officially and pri¬ 
vately feted and honored most highly in New 
Orleans and Texas. Our relations with Mex¬ 
ico are becoming very intimate and friendly.. 
James Gilfillan, Treasurer of the United States 
since Spinner’s retirement, has resigned, he 
having accepted the position of treasurer and 
manager of the Mutual Trust Company of this 
city at a higher salary.Minnesota has 
established the death penalty for murder. 
Ex-Gov. Churchill. Of Arkansas, according to 
a joint investigating committee of the Legisla¬ 
ture, is $204,000 short in his accounts. 
The noted pugilist, Jim Elliott, was shot dead 
in a Chicago saloon last week by Jere Dunn, a 
notorious sporting man and a partner of McKee 
Rankin in a horse-breeding farm on an island 
in the Detroit River.Murat Halstead 
has left the office of the Cincinnati Commer¬ 
cial-Gazette and gone to Washington, from 
where he contributes news and comments to 
the paper in the shape of telegraphic letters. 
.Superintendent. Kimball, of the Life¬ 
saving Service, finally secured his appropria¬ 
tion for the erection of 10 more stations, and 
lie will soon go west to locate several stations 
on the Lakes. Others will be placed on the 
Atlantic coast from Cape May to Cape Ilenlo- 
pen.Ex-Goveruor William Sprague, of 
Rhode Island, who was divorced from Kate 
Chase about a year ago, married Mrs. Dora 
luez Calvert, a divorced woman, at Staunton, 
Va., last Thursday.The Post-Office Ap¬ 
propriation bill, as it finally passed, establishes 
two-cent letter postage, to take effect Oct. 1, 
1883.Pensioners who have been getting 
$18 and $24 a month lor loss of legs or aitu^ 
have only to forward their pension certificate 
and post-office address to the Commissioner to 
get the increased stipend of $24 to $30 respect¬ 
ively..... 
“ The only thing that ever did me any 
good.” 
Writing of the very remarkable improve¬ 
ment in her condition which followed the use 
of a single Home Treatment supply, a patient 
at Walworth, New York, says: “It has been 
about one month since I used up my three 
months’supply of Oxj'gen, aud I nm feeling 
quite well again. Do not have any cough now 
nor hoarseness. It is the only thing that ever 
did me any good, aud 1 thank you very much 
for the wonder/ id good it has done forme. Ido 
all my work—can walk quite a distance; do 
not seem to get tired. I have not done so much 
work for almost two years as I do now. Could 
but just get around the house wheu I first com¬ 
menced using the Oxygon.” Our Treatise on 
Compound Oxygen, its nature, action and re¬ 
sults, with reports of cases and full information, 
sent free. Drs. Starkey & Pa lex, 1109 and 
till Girard Street. Philadelphia, Pa,— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
Saturday, March 10, 1883. 
The great flour mills throughout Minnesota 
are not producing a third of their capacity. A 
number now wi nnin g will close next week be¬ 
cause of the scarcity aud high price of wheat. 
.A huge trade iu cattle was completed 
last week. Luther B. Smith, late of Colum¬ 
bia. Me., now of Denver, Colorado, and Flor¬ 
ence J. Hall, of Gainesville, Texas, purchased 
a half interest in the cattle ranch of Cains 
Forsythe Bros. Cattle Company, embracing 
22,00(1 head of cattle and 60,000 acres of land. 
The consideration was $300,000.There 
were 400,000 bushels of corn delivered iu St. 
Louis Thursday ou March contracts, to be 
shipped to New Orleans for export. 
Since the resumption of navigation, two weeks 
ago, the St. Louis aud Mississippi Barge Com¬ 
pany have taken from St, Louis 1,100,810 bush¬ 
els of corn in bulk, and 840,263 bushels of 
wheat to Now Orl ans for export. In addi¬ 
tion to this, over 5,800 tons of package freight, 
consisting of flour, pork, meats, Nc., have 
been handled by the company, making a total 
of 46,025 tons.One of the most valuable 
points to Germany in regaining Alsace-Loraine 
was the recovery of au extraordinarily rich 
hoj>-producing district.A large amount 
of valuable land iu Erie and Cattaraugus 
Cotinties. N. Y., is claimed by the Seneca In¬ 
dians, aud injunctions upon the white occu¬ 
pants have been served. There is much ex¬ 
citement over the matter..B. F. Pritch¬ 
ard, Washington, has lieen placed upon the 
postal fraud list. An inspector’s report shows 
that ho advertised himself as a pension aud 
patent, attorney, when, in fact, he bud been j 
debarred from practice liefore all the executive 
departments.The Crow Creek Indians 
havo signed an agreement ceding 400,000 acres 
of land to the Government. This will open I 
several townships immediately adjoining 
Chamberlain, Dak.A Senate committee 
is authorized to examine the condition of the 
Sioux Indians upon then- Reservation, the 
character of the same, and the feasibility and 
propriety of its reduction, as contemplated by 
the recent treaty.. .The report is partially 
confirmed by President Villard of the N. P. R. 
B. that a syndicate of English and American 
hankers are negotiating to buy 3,000,000 acres 
of Northern Pacific lands in Dakota east of the 
Missouri, paying for them $10,000,000 in pre¬ 
ferred stock at par. 
The Secretary of the Interior has decided the 
case involving the claim of the State of Cali- i 
foraia to the tract of land of about 100,000 
acres, lying upon the borders of Lake Tullare. 
The decision approved the Creighton survey, 
and awards the lands to the State of Califor¬ 
nia. .. . The General Land Office Depart¬ 
ment is beginning to take measures to organize ! 
the Devil’s Lake district, under the new law 
establishing three new land districts in Da¬ 
kota. Ex-Representative Land, of Mich., 
is the most prominent applicant, for the new 
Register’s office there.The provisions in 
the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill repealing 
the Preemption Law and amending tla* Home¬ 
stead aud Timber Culture Law failed to be 
passed, not because Congressmen disapproved 
of them, but because the Senate was deter¬ 
mined to put. an end to the abuse of tacking 
<>n general legislation to appropriation.bills. 
Secretary Teller and Commissioner McFarland 
earnestly advocated the measures for the pro¬ 
tection of the public domain against fraudu¬ 
lent. “entries,” and succeeded m getting an 
appropriation of $100,000 for detecting frauds 
in land entries. There wus a great deal of 
agitation against the measure in Dakota, but 
it is claimed this wus got up by “ interested 
parties "—land grabbers or their lawyers. .... 
Assistunt-Secretaiv .Jonlyn. of lie* Interior 
Department, has been informed that about 
*200 settlers recently invaded that part of 
the Sioux Italian Reservation which lies east 
of the Missouri River und put up shanties 
there, and that thousands of other settlers are 
preparing to follow. No action has been 
taken by the Department, but the intruders 
will, of course, lie ordered off the Reser¬ 
vation.The cotton factors of St. 
Louis have united in a circular addressed to 
the merchants, farmers and tenants of the ('of¬ 
ten Belt, advising them to abandon the credit 
system and to discourage the planting of a 
large acreage in cotton this year, and to de¬ 
vote their labors flirt to the raising of grain, 
cattle and hogs, giving a smaller portion ol' 
their time to the culture of cotton. 
Reports from the stock sections in New Mex- i 
ico show that the stock wintered remarkably 
well, and there were but few losses. The 
sheep men report some losses in the western 
portion of the Territory. In Valencia, Ber¬ 
nalillo and Rio Arriba Counties the losses foot 
up 80,000 bead. The cattle are doing finely. 
A scarcity of water and grass is reported in 
the northern section, but no serious results are 
apprehended.A Liverpool cablegram of 
March 2 savs: The largest shipment of live¬ 
stock this Winter, consist ing of 711 cattle and 
1,570 sheep, has been landed at Birkenhead by 
the steamer Victoria, from Boston. The ani¬ 
mals are in a healthy condition. Sixteen 
sheep died on the passage, but not one of the 
cattle was lost. Eleven lambs born during 
the voyuge were also landed.A reduc¬ 
tion oi about. $4,000,000 has been made in tax¬ 
es on tobacco. This will all go into the pock¬ 
ets of manufacturers and retailors.Some 
reduction has been made in the tariff on wool; 
but there are so many clerical blunders in the 
tariff law and the effects of the measure are 
still so doubtful, that, we defer speaking of the 
matter for a week or two........Commission¬ 
er McFarland, of the General Land Office, has 
issued the following circular to registers and 
receivers of land offices, owing to fraudulent 
practices in making land entries:—You are no¬ 
tified that , by direction of the honorable Sec¬ 
retary of the Interior, the folio wing-named at¬ 
torneys and laud agents have been disbarred 
from practice before this office and the local 
land offices: Rogers & Atwood, Ashton, Spink 
Couutv. Dak.. Feb. 11, 1883; George S. Bid- 
well, Mitchell, Dak., Nov. 16, 1882; Orlando 
T. Ijetcher, Mitchell. Dak., Nov, 16, 1S82; 
"William D. Russell, Yankton, Dak., Dec. 8, 
18.88; E. E. Carpenter, Beloit, Iowa. Dec. 19, 
1882; Dudley J. Spaulding, Black River Falls, 
Wis., Dec. 20. 1882; James L. Ayers, Huron, 
Dak., Dec. 22, 1882; John D. Cameron, Sioux 
Falls, Dak., Jan. 2, 1883; Winsor & Metcalf, 
Mitchell, Dak., Jau. 3, 18SS. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, March 10, 1880. 
The False Prophet has been defeated in 
Upper Egypt with a lass of 2,000 men. 
In Snain secret, society of anarchists called 
the Black Hand has been discovered and many 
arrests of members have been made. It per¬ 
vades several provinces, being strongest in 
Estromaduras and Andalusia. One of its ob¬ 
jects is the slaughter of landlords. It advo¬ 
cates collective iustead of individual rights of 
property. Many agrarian outrages are attrib¬ 
uted to it. 
- 4 . -*• 
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat should 
uot be neglected. Brown’ Bronchial 
Troches are a simple remedy, and will give 
immediate relief. Price 25 cents. — Adr. 
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See Johnson & Fields, Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement, issue of March 3, page 135.— Adr. 
-- 
That sense of extreme weariness indicates 
disordered blood, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla purifies 
and invigorates.—Adr, 
Thin hail* may be thickened, weak hair 
strengthened, and the color restored to faded 
or gray hair, by using Ayer’s Hair Vigor.—Adr. 
With Diamond Dyes any lady can get 
as good results as the best practical dyer. 
Every dye warranted true to name and 
sample.—Adr. 
Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
crows, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.”—Adr. 
* Among the most efficacious of remedial 
agents are the medical preparations from the 
Laboratory of Mrs. Lydia E. Pink ham, Lynn, 
Mass.—Adv. 
Dandruff 
Removed by the Use of Coeoatne, 
And it stimulates and promotes the growth 
of the haii*. Burnett’s Flavoring Ex¬ 
tracts are the best.—Adr. 
S!|e litarliels. 
MARKETS by telegraph. 
Chicago. —As compared with prices a week 
ago “regular” wheat is a shade lower; No. 2 
Chicago Spring, ®qc. higher; No. 2 red Win¬ 
ter unchanged. Corn higher. Oats y.x. 
higher. Butter, creamerv. from 5c. to 7e. 
lower. Eggs, *le. lower. Pork, 20c. lower. 
Wheat.—R egular, $l.n>46 March; 61 .if7* April; 
81 l.s» 4 Hl.i:u h May; rejected, tOe: No. 2 Chicago 
Spring. No. :s do., flOVe: No. 2 red 
Winter. 81.10V., Coiik unsettled at cash; 
March; SWe. April; E!W<M2«j<s. Slay: 62(5' 
i, June; <«Wt\ July; rejected. 'Ac. Oats strong at 
cosh and March; fi25fie. April; l-i* v MVc. Slay; 
■Ute.ijJ ltyie.Juiic; h (A4 Sge.Jul.v, rejected, Siiu. JRYE dull 
at iBtie. Ba&lbt dull ond nominal nt ><•. Pi. ax seed 
active, tlrm und higher at $1 .!V>(cM.! 16; good crushing 
ou track, $1.2S; injected. 8L2"; choice Russian, $1.14. 
BUTTJfH dull; creamery, loir to fancy, 9G&KSO* dai¬ 
ries, good to choice, fiks.-’rc; packing stock. 12(S:lSc. 
Eoos steady at IMA 19c. PORK unsettled, hut gener¬ 
ally higher, closing steady at SlMi.'Ot 1 -i. 10 cash. 
I -''- fn good demand 
choice ship- 
r nt $2.SIRS 
■ sold fairly 
at 83.atiM.fiO: feeders, 8k4A®f*.®. Cathe—O fferings 
light, demand good; shippers the principal buyers; 
quality poor; good to fancy heavy packing and ship¬ 
ping, common to choice light. 86.70os7.3fl; 
mixed packing. St'.T'ef'L'Zc, skip*, !5.WvU'.4il for fair to 
good. Sheep—D emand active and prices 1 S(a25c high¬ 
er than yesterdayt common 
mostly $5.30@5.65. 
to prime natives, $t@6, 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, March 10,188S. 
He ass asd Peas.- As buyers do not care to deal he 
yond present wants, holders Und some difficulty to 
realize full prices. Prices are: 
Beans, marrow, 1882, prime, $2.00; do. medium 
1882. choice. $2.45<to2.00; do. pea, choice, small, *2.50 
