0f iJjje Witch. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 24. 1883. 
A bill authorizing Gov. Ordway to appoint 
nine commissioners to locate the capital of 
Dakota has been “rushed" through the Legis¬ 
lature. The place selected is required to give 
160 acres of land and a bonus of $100,000 to the 
Territory. A syndicate, with the Governor at 
its head and 81,000,000 in its treasury, is pre¬ 
pared to buy up all the town lots of the place 
selected—they having first, news of the choice— 
and realize a fortune each by soiling out at ad¬ 
vanced prices, following the example of the 
commissioners who selected Lincoln as the 
capital of Nebraska.Chicago has 5.000 
bars—one to every 120 inhabitants!. 
Government intervention alone can prevent 
much bloodshed between hostile factions in the 
Creek Nation.Judge Taylor, of 
Newburgh, N. Y., is reported to have 
swindled “individuals and estates" out of 
8300,000 before he went, much respected: 
“ across the river.” where he couldn’t take a 
cent of it along.The President has sus¬ 
pended E. J. Conger, Associate Justice of Mon¬ 
tana, for drunkenness and gambling.The 
town of Mason, in Oxford County, Me., has 
just elected the following officers: Moderator, 
I. A. Bean: Clerk, J, C. Bean; Selectmen, J. 
H. Bean andF. I. Bean; Treasurer, F. I. Bean; 
Supervisor of Schools, J. H. Bean, and Agent, 
J. C. Bean.Ex-Senator Sprague, the 
War Governor of R. I., has been nominated 
for Governor by the “Independents’’ and Dem¬ 
ocrats: no platform, but a bitter fight against 
“aristocrats” and “rings”.Secretary 
Teller has asked for a military guard to pro¬ 
tect the Yellowstone Park property. Sec¬ 
retary Lincoln will comply with the request. 
.TJ. S. Marshals are to wear a blue uni¬ 
form with brass buttons.The Eight 
Hour Law of 1868 is now enforced in the Navy 
Yards—men working fromeightto four o’clock 
instead of from seven to five, from March 21 
to Sept. 21, as in former ycal's. Government 
clerks at Washington are required henceforth 
to “work” seven hours a day, with half aD 
hour for lunch—much mdignant grumbling... 
Easter hasn’t been on March 25 since 1742, 
and wont be again till 1894.Congress 
didn’t grant that 830,000 to help Americans to 
make a big show at the so-called “internation¬ 
al" Amsterdam Exhibition. Folks will have 
to "go it alone.”.Gen. Diaz, of Mexico, 
is having a “good time” “swinging round the 
circle,” being splendidly entertained along the 
route. A lot of capitalists expect through him 
to get control of the railroads and much land 
in Mexico.Oklahama Payne is to coin his 
notoriety by traveling round the country with 
a company made up of some 200 Indians, Bo- 
gardns and Dr. Carver, the “sboot.ists”; Buf¬ 
falo Bill, and other like notabilities. 
Sitting Bull and 140 of his “braves" are to be 
released from military custody at Fort Randall 
and placed on Standing Rock Reservation, at 
his request Lately he’s been a 1 ‘good” Indian, 
and he craves to be near his Uncapapa 
friends.There are now 90 Mormon 
missionaries m the South; the number of per¬ 
verts is about 700 a year.The new nick¬ 
els wiR not be called in, and the dies for the 
alterations will not be in readiness for two or 
three weeks yet.The bill in the Michi¬ 
gan Legislature making it a misdemeanor, 
punishable by fine or imprisonment, for judges, 
State officers or legislators t o accept free rail¬ 
road passes was defeated Monday.. 
Many of the persecuted Jewish immigrants 
who flocked to this country from Russia about 
a year ago have hitherto been sheltered and 
fed near this city by their eo-religiouists; but 
all have now' been disposed of. They have 
been distributed in factories, workshops, on 
farms, and in small agricultural colonies. A 
small number have been sent back to Europe, 
this being done only in cases where families 
had been separated or sickness or other urgent 
causes made this seem desirable.The 
Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill to 
pay the State debt at 50 cents on the dollar 
and three per cent, interest.The Ten¬ 
nessee Legislature has passed a bill to pay a 
pension of 810 per month to all Tennessee Con¬ 
federate soldiers who lost an eye during the 
late war. Federals, too, not otherwise pro¬ 
vided for, will be put on the roll. 
A. W. Wyman, Assistant U. S. Treasurer, Las 
been promoted bo the U, S. Treasurership va¬ 
cated by James Gilfillan.Of the tempo¬ 
rary clerks in the Pension Office whose ap¬ 
pointments expire this month 2*50 will be reap¬ 
pointed and 30 will be discharged. There will 
be no further reappointments until April 1. 
Three hundred clerks have been dismissed 
from the Census Office.A most danger¬ 
ous counterfeit of the standard silver dollar is 
circulating in Ohio and Indiana. It has the 
exact weight, ring and appearance of the gen¬ 
uine, and resists the acid test unless the outer 
coating of silver is penetrated. It would read¬ 
ily be accepted as genuine by merchants. 
Missouri has now a high license law—a bond 
required of 82,000 to insure an orderly house; 
and a tax of not less than 825 or more than 
8200 for State purposes, and not less than $250 
or more than $400 for county purposes, for 
every six months, the amount of the tax to be 
decided by the court granting the license. 
_The Connecticut House passed a bill plac¬ 
ing the funerals of executed criminals under 
the control of the sheriff, who may cause them 
to be decently and quietly buried at the ex¬ 
pense of the State. 
Mr. Tabor of Colorado says that his 30 days’ 
experience as Senator cost him $10,000. 
The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill to 
prevent delay or discriminations by railroad 
or transportation compauies.The man 
who baled the water out of his cistern at Alton, 
TU.. and took refuge in it with his family on 
the day that. Wiggins's storm did not come, 
was only one amoug- hundreds of credulous 
fools whose freaks are reported from different 
parts of the country.The gold-hunters 
are turning their faces toward Alaska in a 
mass, and a movement that way has been 
begun which is said to threaten to become a 
stampede in a few weeks. A party of 20 of 
the oldest miners of the gulch will leave Dead- 
wood, April 1, equipped by a pool of $20,000 
that was raised amoug the business men of the 
city in one afternoon. Lc tore from Nevada 
report a prospective hegira from that State 
also, while the papers of Colorado, Arizona, 
Montana and California indicate that numbers 
are preparing to leave from those localities 
.An Anti-Free Pass bill in the Penn¬ 
sylvania Legislature has been passed, but with 
an amendment allowing the railroads to issue 
free passes for “charitable and benevolent pur¬ 
poses.” So, hereafter bribery through free 
passes to the legislators will be regarded as 
benevolence... 
The cigar-makere throughout the country are 
demanding an increase of 81 per 1,000 addi- 
tional pay—or thereabouts. AH agree that 
neither the consumer nor producer will gain 
anything by the reduction in the tobacco tax j 
and the workmen want to share in the gain 
with the dealers_The body of John Howard 
Payne,author of “Home, Sweet Homo,” was 
met at New York by two representatives of 
Mi*. Corcoran and taken yesterday to Wash¬ 
ington in a special car offered for that purpose 
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
Upon reaching Washington the body will be 
placed for the present in the receiving vault at 
Oak Hill Cemetery without ceremony. 
AT THE POINT OF DEATH. 
A clergymen in South Haven, Mich., who 
has been greatly benefited by Compound Oxy¬ 
gen, and who has used his influence to induce 
others to try it, writes as follows: “An elder¬ 
ly lady here, who is now able to see to her 
household affaire, was tong ut Ike point of 
death from Consumption. A day or two 
since she walked out a distance of four blocks. 
All are expressing surprise concern ing Jar re¬ 
covery. The Oxygen is doing more l’or these 
cases than ail the physicians." Our Treatise 
on Compound Oxygen, containing large re¬ 
ports of cases and full information, sent free. 
Address Drs. Starkey & I’ai.en, 1109 and 
1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 24, 1883. 
Last week’s cold rain worked havoc among 
the sheep flocks of Texas. Wost of the Nue¬ 
ces River the loas will reach $250,000... 
A species of wild potato has been discovered 
on the table lauds of southwestern Arizona, 
in altitudes of S,CMX) to 12,000 feet, and is spoken 
of as superior in taste and flavor to the best 
cultivated potatoes. Experiments in the cul¬ 
tivation of the plant are being made in the 
State Agricultural School of California. 
More than 60,000 small landed proprietors in 
Italy have been expelled from the Crown lauds 
on account of their inability to pay the taxes. 
........The rain-fall in California thus far 
has been very light. It is feared unless there 
are plentiful showers before April 1, the wheat 
and bailey crops well be almost a total failure 
except in the coast counties . The Annual 
Meeting of the Holstein Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion was held at Syracuse, N. Y., last Wed¬ 
nesday, Mr. E. H. Powell presiding over 116 
present, from Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Lsland, Connecticut, New York, New 
Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken¬ 
tucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, 
Minnesota and Nebraska. The number of 
registered animals is 5,003, and there has been 
an increase of 2,007 during the past year. 
Liberal appropriations were made for pre¬ 
miums for beef and butter at the Chicago 
and Kansas City Fat Stock Shows.If 
the German decree forbidding the importation 
of American hog products is in force when 
Congress meets next December, there is good 
reason for believing thut extra duties will be 
imposed*on German wines and hosiery, by way 
of retaliation.Reports received from 
correspondents of the Kausas State Agricul¬ 
tural Department indicate that both Winter 
wheat and rye are looking well, and that wheat 
was not so much injured by the Winter as had 
been feared. Indications point to a largo 
acreage of corn and other crops. 
.Heavy emigration of farmers from 
Rlinois to Dakota; 200 passed through Bloom- 
ngton, Illinois, last Saturday, nearly all from 
Logan, Sangamon, De Witt and Ford Coun¬ 
ties. Such crowds are not uncommon. 
A prairie fire, on the sheep farm of G. N 
Crocker, fifteen miles from Arkansas City. 
Kansas, ou Sunday last, destroyed about 1,- 
400 sheep.The President has appointed 
George W. Boyiugton Registrar of the Land 
Office at Fergus Falls, Minn.The Com¬ 
missioner of the General Land Office has 
issued au order opening to settlement on entry 
under the Homestead Laws, lands withdrawn 
for, but not needed in, the final ad justument of 
the grant, made to the State of Arkansas in 
aid of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail¬ 
way.A dispatch from Glendale, Isle of 
Skye, reports that the crofters at Watersteiu 
are excited. They have driven the stock of 
Lord McDonald away —a continuation of 
rent troubles, which were settled, according to 
late cablegrams.The trotting stallion, 
Jerome Eddy, record 2.16#, was sold In Chi¬ 
cago to H. C. Jewett & Co., of Buffalo,. N. Y., 
for 825,000. With the exception of Smuggler’s 
and Piedmont’s price, this is the la rgest amount 
ever paid for a trotting stallion.Returns 
to the Department of Agriculture of cotton 
sent to market from the plantations make the 
aggregate 5,900,000 bales gone forward up to 
March 1. This is about 86# per cent, of the 
crop, as indicated by the last returns of the 
product. The proportions by States are: 
North Carolina and Texas, S3 percent.; South 
Carolina. 85; Georgia and Tennessee, 86; 
Arkansas, 87; Louisiana, S8; Mississippi, 89; 
Alabama, 90; Florida, 93.Public sales 
of cattle are announced as follows: April 4, 
Chicago, Aberdeen-Angus, Galloways, Here- 
fords, Short-Horns, West Highlanders and 
Devons; Wixoru, Mich., Short-Horns; April 
10, Golden, Ill., Short-Horus; April 11, 
Blandinsville, Ill., Short-Horns; April 12, 
Abingdon, 111., Short-Horns; April 11 mid 12, 
Kansas City, Mo., Aberdeen-Angus and Gal¬ 
loways; April 13, Skidmore, Mo., Short-Horns; 
April 18, Abingdon, III., Short-Horns; April 
17, 18 and 19, Chicago, Short-Horns; April 19 
and 20, New York City, Jerseys; April 25 to 
27 inclusive, Kansas City, Mo., Aberdeen- 
Angus, Galloways, Hereford*. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
“It Raises the largest and Finest 
Potatoes.” 
Queens Co. , L. I., Nov. 7, 1882. 
H. J. Baker & Bro.— I am very well pleased 
with your Fertilizer. I used three kinds this 
past season. Used the same quantity of each 
according to directions. Yoursraised the lar¬ 
gest and finest potatoes of them all. The sea¬ 
son was dry. I can say I like your fertilizer 
very much. Yours, etc., 
Chas. T. DeBevoiseJ— Adv. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective cath¬ 
artic medicine. Bold by druggists everywhere 
at 25 cts. per box—Adv. 
-* -M - 
Ax Extended Popularity. Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches have been before the 
public many years, They are pronounced su¬ 
perior to all other articles used for similar 
purposes. For relieving Couglis, Colds and 
Throat Diseases they have been proved relia¬ 
ble.— Adv, 
Dont die in the house. “Rough on Rats.” 
Clears out rats, mice, flies, bed-bugs. 15c. -Ad v. 
Premature Foss of the Hair 
May be entirely prevented by the use of Bur¬ 
nett’s Cocoa ink. 
Housekeepers should insist upon obtaining 
Bthnett’s Flavoring Extracts, they are 
the best. — Adv. 
*Many a sickly woman, whose sad experi¬ 
ence had demonstrated alike the failure of 
conceited doctors and poisonous drugs, has 
obtained a new lease of life for a few dollars 
worth of the Vegetable Compound and has 
gone on her way rejoicing and praising Mrs. 
Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass.— Adv. 
^“Twenty-four beautiful cole rsof the Dia¬ 
mond Dyes, for Silk, Wool, Cotton, &c., 10 
cts. A child can use with perfect success.—Adr. 
See Johnson & Fields, Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement, issue of March 3, page 135.— Adr. 
Vitality, exhausted by overwork or disease, 
is surely restored by the use of Ayer’s Sarsa¬ 
parilla.— Adr. 
Don’t lie awake nights and cough! Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral will relieve the cough and in¬ 
duce a good night's rest.—Adv. 
J-reark.ds. 
Saturday, March 24, 1880. 
Karl Marx, the celebrated Socialist, is dead 
.. France is having 40 war vessels con¬ 
structed now: U of them iron-clad, to cost 
180,090,0UU fraucs. .Lord Mayor of 
Loudon appeals for aid for grievous distress in 
the Western Islands of Scotland.Prince 
Bismarck has granted 20,000 marks to assist 
German firms in competing at. that exhibition 
at. Amsterdam.The reports that the 
English Government proposed to appoint a 
representative at the Vatican is officially de¬ 
nied .The Right Hon. Sir George Jessel. 
Master of the Rolls—the lowest judge 
in the Court, of Chaucery—is dead —the first 
Jew that ever “wore the ermine” in England. 
.Chili, having whipped Peru and Bo 
livia, has got into a fight with the Argentine 
Republic, the Chilian troops having driven 
their opponents out of Patagonia into their 
own domain.The struggle for the ab¬ 
olition of slavery goes on in Brazil. The slave 
trade was nominally abolished in 1831, hut 
continued nearly 20 years longer. Judges 
havo recently decided that slaves of African 
birth, less than 52 years of age, are free, since 
they must have been imported since 1831, and 
contrary to law.There is au immense 
trade between Germany and Italy through 
the St. Gotbard tunnel, especially in coal und 
pig-iron, which Italy has got heretofore from 
England. While Great Britain is shivering 
and hesitating whether to allow the Channel 
Tunnel to lie perforated, Germany 1ms pierced 
the Alps and grasped (lie Italian market. 
There has been an eruption from Mt. Etna, 
accompanied by au earthquake, which de¬ 
stroyed several houses. The people living 
near the volcano are panic-stricken. 
Every British officer, soldier and boy who 
went to Egypt gets a gratuity, ranging from 
$5,000 for the generals to $10 for privates and 
boys. A similar scale of rewards has been 
adopted for the navy, and as to special medals, 
decorations aud “honorable mentions," they 
have been pouring out from the War Office 
without Interruption ever since Tel-el-Kobir 
fell.Attention has been called of late 
to the great decrease in the sales of alcoholic 
dr inks in England. The London Medical Ex¬ 
press says in explanation of this that 1,000,000 
people iu England have put on the blue rib¬ 
bon since October, 1880, and that 064,000 have 
signed the pledge.. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Oats opened weak, but elo.it<1 Arm; No. V. cash; 
Marelr rejected, :18c. Ryk, STb.e. Uailley 7.V. 
FLAXSKKD higher nt good crushing, $1.28; 
choice Hussion, $1.14. Buttee steady; rroamery, fair 
to fancy. ISvaJc; dairies, good toehold., Ur5 2.7e;pack¬ 
ing Mt-oelt. 1 ? ..We. Enu* steady at |H{.i l‘Jo. IIoos.— 
1’rloos; mixed, , 7. is- heavy, *;.>,. or,. light, 
§*>.$>@7.55; skips, 4,80 Ck! 5,73; packers hulillng off for 
lower prices and shippers' order* diminishing. Cat¬ 
tle—M arket moderately active, weak and 10 c. lower, 
except in trust desirable geodes: export steers, $ 6 . 6(1 
u£7,2d; good to choice shipping, common to 
fair ami medium. g5,S0<>< 5,90; butchering stock. $3.(0 
(•> (.DO. wllli fair demand ou cunning account; stackers 
und feeder* in liberal supply and light request, and 
demand weak ni $L)ix>V.,00 SHEW—The general mar¬ 
ket was brisk and strong and there wax a good de¬ 
mand on local and Eastern account; common to fair, 
l.;i; medium to good, $fi,1 .mdUK); choice to ex¬ 
tra. g(i.liko.7.IK); some fancy export sheen nt the 
latter price. 
CWcinsati.— Wheat nrni;Nu.2ml Winter,SUM spot; 
*1.07*1 March; Sl.nsty April; *I.12H Mav; *1.0iijrf 
July. OooNPttsyat ’Oc. spot* Me. ear; He. March; 56c. 
April: 57Uc- May; iBc, August. Oats arm nt 4Sc. spot; 
19c. March; imp- May! Rye sternly «t (B!Zr. Barley 
Extra No. 3 Fall ut 'Sc. Point quiet, but steady nt 
*18.79. Laud weak at 30.0 c. Rotter steady; choice 
Western Reserve, 2fic; chi dee Centra I Ohio, 30c. Hoos 
steady; common aud light, *ik3a®7,6fi: packing and 
hutuhera 1 *7.30«.8.00. 
Si Locks.—W heat, No. ! red Kail. «i.08p, cash; $i.08k> 
March; April; 1.1 l'<,>» i.r;>,, Mav; $i.i2dt 
June: No. 8 Red Knit, $1.10. Corn lu-I.e. cash; I*",.-. 
March; April; 10-lgc.; 52V<io. Slay ; VUve. June; 55Lc. 
July. Outs. ime. cash; April 41c; 48c. May. Ryk dull 
nt .37c. Baulky quirt, at iiwri sue. Hotter steady; dairy, 
creamery, 26, .He. Pork dull m Ft-, .23 cash. 
Cattle -Exports, $f>,7;jt.i 7.00:good to choice, $<i,28<?>6.75; 
light io fair. fS.ini,t6.0 1 ; common v.Tc medium 
to choice butchers' steers 84.i.-0@ r >,T5; good to choice 
cows and heifers. *4,IHM-'i.ak common to fair, $3.50® 
•1.10; Stockers and feeders, *1.156,4.75: corn-led Tex 
mis. *5.23(it5.iM. Sheep Market steady: common to 
medium, $.'t. 50604-50; fair to good. $I. .fit.95.il5: choice to 
fancy, *3.76(%6.Z3. hoos—M arket dulll light, $7,805- 
7.15: butchers' to extra heavy. *;.5t\w 7.70. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York. March 21,1883. 
Bean-sand Picas.—T he demand small, and reports 
still more or less unsatisfactory. 
Beans, marrow, 1882, prime, 82.72!v,<V-’.>'>; medium, 
1882, choice. *2.4lK<!.2.15; do. pen, choice, small, $2.50; 
do. murrow, S2.40U2J.I2!g: do. white kidney IS- !,choice. 
$ 3 ,.‘>r«<$fl.ii 0 - do. red kidney. 1682, choice, $3.i,:-.•>• 3.75; do. 
turtle soup, *3.Idee'-). 13} do. foreign, mediums, $!.t.O 
(< 1 / 2 . 10 ; peas, green, l*'-d prime. *l.wi{1.3'-,; do. South¬ 
ern, b. e„ V 2-bushel bag, *2.75<fi&S.OO 
BREAPSTt H's and Provisions. A:- compared with 
prices lust week, ungraded Winter red wheat is 4c 
higher-No. 3 red, 5c- higher; No. 1 whit V. lower 
Rye unchanged. Corn. No. 3, 'die. higher: steamer 
white 2qe. lower. Oats; No, 3 J^e. lower; No. 2, bJc- 
higher: White State, lc. tower. 
Prices or (Hlaik—Wue.it.—U ngraded Winter red, 
9Sh.rii-l.30; steamer No. 8 red. 81.03!*! No. red, $1.16; 
steamer No. 3 red.$1.1616; No. 2 red, $1.13' i -> i. 10J-<5 for 
oertlttcute*: No. 1 red, $1.2-1; ungraded white. $L0i@ 
*1.25; No. H white. 92Uc.; strainer No. 2 white, 97c; 
No, 2 white, «l.Olil® *1.01 H, latter delivered; No. 1 
white, gl.lCKftl.lt, and $1.13!* delivered; No. 2 red 
March. $Llifc®1.18jtfi; April, fU.lWk 13 U.prk; May. * 1 . 
20<lf@!.?14t- Ryk—M arket dull; Western, lay 7le: State 
and Canada,78®T7c.,carlot* and boat loads. Babley— 
2-rowed State, jOrgSSc; 8-rowed State, KK®y5c; No. 2 
