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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 31. 1883. 
The Permanent Exhibition Company of 
Philadelphia has dissolved.The Hon. 
Thomas H. Herndon, member elect to Congress 
from Alabama, died Wednesday.The 
Massachusetts House of Representatives has 
passed a bill providing for biennial State elec¬ 
tions and biennia] sessions of the Legislature. 
.The Postrofflce Department Thursday 
placed the following names on the list of per¬ 
sons and firms engaged in conducting fraudu¬ 
lent schemes; William M. Clinton & Co., 
Bloomington, I1L; Comet Publishing Com¬ 
pany, Bloomington, HI.; Western Card Com¬ 
pany, Norman, Ill.; Union Novelty Company, 
Mount Pulaski, 111.; Star Publishing Company, 
Atlanta, Ill.; the Agents’ Guide, Lincoln, HI., 
and the Guide Publishing Company, Lincoln, 
Ill. All of these alleged firms and companies 
are fictitious, and are the successors of a fraud¬ 
ulent combination which transacted business 
under the name of C, C. Williams & Co., at 
Springfield. Ill., until it was black-listed by 
the Post-offlco Depart ment. The fraud which 
they were practicing consisted in the adver¬ 
tisement and sale of what purported to be a 
“new American watch,” but which was in 
reality only a worthless tin sun-dial. Post¬ 
masters have been directed to discontinue the 
delivery to the above addresses of money 
orders or registered packages.A bill 
has passed the Wisconsin Assembly to im¬ 
prison tramps in the State Prison for not less 
than six months nor more than a year. 
The Supreme Court in Chicago filed au opinion 
in the case of Lester and others against the 
Board of Trade, in favor of the latter. The 
suits, numbei’ing 20, grew out of the “July 
wheat corner. ” The market for the close of that 
month reached 136, and a large number of oper¬ 
ators refused to settle at that figure. The court 
decides they mast settle according to contract. 
.Seth Green, the fish-culturist, is seriously 
ill...... .The salt boom in Western New York 
is attracting a good deal of immigration and 
capital.Postmaster- 
General T. O. Howe died suddenly at the home 
of his nephew. Col. J. II., Howe, at Kenosha, 
Wis., at five o’clock last Sunday, from pneu¬ 
monia. He was born at Livermore, Mass., 
Feb. 26, 1818: studied law and was admitted 
to the bar. He was a member of the Maine 
Legislature in 1810, and at the end of that year 
emigrated to Green Bay, Wis., where he prac¬ 
ticed law till 1850, when he was elected judge 
of the Supreme and Circuit Courts. He was 
first elected to the U. 8. Senate in 1861, and 
was successively re-elected until defeated by 
Matt. Carpenter in 1879. He was offered a 
seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench by 
President Grant, but declined. In Dec. 1881, 
he accepted t he Postmaster-Generalship. His 
wife died in 1881, and his only surviving rela¬ 
tives are his son Frank, his daughter, Mrs. 
Totten, wife of CoL Enoch Totten, of Wash¬ 
ington; bis nephew, CoL James H. Howe, and 
his niece, Mias Grace Howe, of Konosha . 
The new Compulsory Education law in Rhode 
Island requires that every child between the 
ages of seven and fifteen years shall have 16 
weeks of schooling each year. No child under 
12 is to be allowed to work in any manufac¬ 
tory, and no one under 14 who cannot write 
his name, age, and place of residence, and read 
some part of the State Constitution.Gen. 
N. B. Buford of Kentucky died at Chicago 
Thursday night..Gen. Diaz has been 
well entertained at Washington during the 
week.Numerous candidates, but no ap¬ 
pointment, to succeed Postmaster-General 
Howe.Secretary Folger slowly conva¬ 
lescing.Tbe President soon to visit 
Florida in search of health.One hundred 
and fifty Mormon converts from tbe Southern 
States have left Chattanooga for Utah. 
The estimated expenditure of the Domiuiou 
of Canada for Hie year ending June 30, 1884, 
is $45,504,145. The amount voted the present 
year, ending June 30 next, is $54,877,264. 
The State Normal Colored Institute at Peters¬ 
burg, Va., has purchased the Fleet Farm in 
Chesterfield Comity for $13,500, and propose 
erecting a building to cost $8,500 to accom¬ 
modate 500 pupils.President White of 
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., has re¬ 
signed on account of trouble arising out of 
his opposition to secret societies in the college. 
The resignation has been accepted. 
A Geneva dispatch says the emigration from 
Switzerland to America has assumed alarming 
proportions: that several districts are fast be¬ 
coming depopulated and that Guttanen is 
without an inhabitant. The exodus is due to 
bad harvests and American competition. Re¬ 
ports from Liverpool say that ship-ownere are 
making preparations for an extraordinary 
European immigration to this country the 
present year.Capt. Eads has resigned 
his place on the Mississippi River Commission. 
In a meeting of the body Hie other day, Eads 
said that unless the Atchafalaya was stopped 
up the Mississippi would find an outlet through 
it and leave the Crescent City on a dead lagoon: 
the other members thought, the danger some 
centuries off and would only agree to put a 
sill across the Atchafalaya opening into tbe 
great river to prevent the channel being cut 
more than 18 feet deep, aud thereupon Eads 
lost temper and sent his resignation to the 
President. The Atchafalaya is a bayou near 
the mouth of the Red River about 220 miles 
above New' Orleans. It is 260 miles loug and 
in flood-time carries a large share of the 
Mississippi to the Gulf, thus lessening the 
pressure on the levees along the 340 miles of 
the lower river.Gov. Cleveland is in his 
office in New York capitol from8:30 a.m. till 10 
o’clock at night..The Iowa supreme court. 
is to re-hear the ease involving the validity 
of the prohibitory amendment, and arguments 
will begin April 3.The book-keeper of 
the Merchants’ and Planters’ bank of Mont¬ 
gomery, Alabama, has lost $60,000 of the in- 
stitution’s-fuuds in speculations. To chronicle, 
however briefly, the smaller dishonesties of 
the week would require a page.There will 
be a grand meeting of the Irish Land League 
and its American supporters at Philadelphia, 
April 26. 
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Compound Oxygen, its nature, action aud re¬ 
sults, with reports of cases and full informa¬ 
tion, sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 81, 1883. 
The milk dealers of this city have fixed the 
price of milk for April at. three cents a quart. 
There’s a truce in the “milk war” on condition 
that the aggregate prices of milk per quart 
for the twelve months shall amount, to 40 
cents, instead of the 41 cents demanded by the 
producers and of t’.e 88 cents offered by the 
dealers. The truce wi II probably soon be broken. 
.The American demand for Clydesdales 
is reported to have caused the price of such 
horses to bo doubled in Scotland within a year 
and-a-half..The Italian wines are im¬ 
ported into France in sealed wagon cisterns. 
On account of their containing so much alcohol 
and tannin they do uot suffer by this mode of 
transit.A German-English syndicate is 
reported to have secured, for the settlement of 
German emigrants, 1,000,000 acres of Mexican 
lands in the States of Nueva Leon, Zacatecas, 
and San Luis Potosi; aud to be also negotia¬ 
ting for nine additional millions of acres.... 
....Trained horses have shown in England 
that they are capable of jumping great dis¬ 
tances. Chandler cleared 30 feet over a brook 
at Warwick; Calverthorpe, 33 feet over hur¬ 
dles at Newport Pagnell; King of the Valley, 
35 feet over the Wissedine Brook, Leicester¬ 
shire; Lottery, 34 feet at Liverpool; Peter 
Simple, 37 feet at Boston.Our sales of 
domestic hops to foreign countries during tbe 
seven months ended January 31, amounted to 
nearly 51* million dollars, against, sales 
amounting but a trifle over one million dollars 
for the same months of 1881-2.The 
10th volume of the Herd Register of the 
American Jersey' Cattle Club is now ready, 
carrying the bull numbers from 6,000 to 7,000, 
and the cow numbere from 12,000 to 15,000, or 
4,000 animals...A Lynchburg firm has 
received an order for a lot of smoking tobacco 
direct from the Sultan of Turkey.Great 
Britain has 27,392,871 sheep, and the number 
has been steadily decreasing since 1874, when 
it was over 34,000,000.The Country 
Gentleman gives a full summary of public 
Short-IIorn cattle sales for 1881 with the fol¬ 
lowing total result: Number sold, 3,573; 
average price, $192.40; total. $687,400. The 
average price at such sales in 1881 was $158.07, 
an increase of 21 per cent... 
The last reports of the wheat crop are a trifle 
more favorable than earlier reports in some 
States, but considerably worse in others. Re¬ 
ports of the crop gathered by the St. Louis 
Post-Dispatch from over 200 counties in Illin¬ 
ois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas, 
Missouri aud Texas, indicate that in Missouri 
and Kansas tbe condition is good, the acreage 
fully equal to last year, and the damage so far 
no greater than is usual at this time of the 
year. Tennessee and Hlinoisgivo fair reports, 
but the crop in Kentucky and Indiana (espe¬ 
cially the latter) is considerably damaged. 
The reports from Texas arc meager, but those 
received arc good. It is learned from other 
sources that the condition is generally good, 
with a fail* prospect for a full crop. The re¬ 
ports also show that a very large amount, of 
last year’s com crop still remains in the above- 
named States. A Topeka (Kan.) dispatch says 
that the millers now in convention there think 
that the wheat prospect in that State is very 
favorable. They predict that, with good 
weather, the yield will be from 30 to 40 million 
bushels. Reports from 43 points in the Illinois 
wheat belt indicate that the injury from the 
Hessian fly* and the cold weather will approxi¬ 
mate about 25 por cent, of the total crop. 
The Tennessee Legislature has passed an act 
permitting fences of barbed wire, the post to 
be not more than eight feet apart, a sound. 
plank to lie put not more than three inches 
from the ground, another not more than four 
inches from the first, and then three wires, the 
first four, the second nine and the third 20 
inches from the uppermost plank. This will 
answer the old definition of a 1 ’bunkum” fence 
—“ horse high, bull strong and pig tight.” ... 
“Goldsmith Maid” has netted her owner $246,- 
750, “ Dexter” won $80,500 in 49 races, “Flora 
Temple” $92,900 in 86, “Hopeful” $86,400 iu 49 
“ Lady Thorne” $79,575 in 41, aud there are 
221 American trotters which have won $10,000 
or more each, their winnings aggregating 
$5,131,590.Why doesn’t the Department 
of Agriculture gather statistics with regard 
to trichina? in pork.The Texas cowboys 
are on strike for $50 a month instead of the 
$30 they now receive. They threaten to 
slaughter and maim the stock, bum tbe ranches 
and commit other outrages if their demands 
are not grauted... 
Thursday, 29th, the Supreme Court of Appeals 
of Virginia declared the tag tax of five cent 
on each package of fertilizer illegal.. 
Perhaps the largest transaction iu cattle ever 
made iu this country was effected at Fort 
Worth, Texas, last Saturday, the sale being 
of 75,000 head of full-grown cattle by the 
Ikards and Harold Brothel'S to tbe Franklin 
Land and Cattle Company of New York, com¬ 
posed of Charles G. Francklyn, Frank G. 
Brown, President of the Bassick Mines, Colo¬ 
rado, and B. B. Groom & Son, of Lexington, 
Ky., extensive breeders and importers of 
Sbort-horn cattle. The price paid is kept pri¬ 
vate, but the figures are understood to be 
about $25 per head, which would aggregate 
about $2,000,OuO. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, March 31, 1880. 
In Ireland deeds of violence and agitation 
still continue amoug the people in most parts 
of the island; and the Government, is vigor¬ 
ously prosecuting suspected parties. Wednes¬ 
day 12 members of the Armagh Assassination 
Society were found guilty “of conspiring to 
murder,” aud sentenced to imprisonment for 
from 2 to 10 years. People in the west of Ro¬ 
land are starving aud earnest appeals are 
being made to the charitable everywhere for 
relief. The Government is aiding the emigra¬ 
tion of evicted tenants and paupers, but re¬ 
fuses to help others, "playing into the hands 
of the landlords,” say the people. In England 
the indignation of the people against the Irish, 
on account of the Fenian tendency to “physical 
force” is being carefully fanned by a section of 
the Press. Several large employers of labor 
have “sacked” all their Irish hands, aud all 
the latter “out of work” find increased diffi¬ 
culty in securing any. Lady Florence Dixie, 
daughter of one eccentric Marquis of Queens- 
bury and sister of another, lately cold a cock- 
and-bull story about having been assaulted 
near her home uot far from Windsor Castle, 
by a couple of men in women’s clothes. She 
had lately* been attributing dishonesty to the 
Land League, and it was at once supposed the 
Irish had attempted to murder her. But out¬ 
side the most credulous no one now believes 
she was attacked—except by a semi-crazy pas¬ 
sion for notoriety'...A bad agricultural outlook 
still continues iu England, and Scotch West 
Islanders are starving. The Queen tripped on 
the stairs about u week ago and reports of 
serious injury to her caused considerable pub¬ 
lic anxiety; but she is doing as well as can be 
expected at her age. Her faithful and insep¬ 
arable attendant, the Scotchman John Brow n, 
died last Wednesday—a more serious blow 
than that stumble on the stairs. No 
change of Ministry in France, for a wonder, 
for over a fortnight. Reports, affirmative 
and negative, of President G levy’s speedy 
resignation. Agitation still active among 
Anarchists on one hand, and Monarchists and 
Imperialists on the other. Government going 
to build dwellings to relieve workmen and 
alleviate distress caused by high rents in 
Paris. Country still bent ou attacking Mad¬ 
agascar, in spite of the many petty wax's 
already on hand—in Southern Algeria, on the 
Congo, in Tonquin and in Cochin China...... 
Repeating rifles are to be introduced into the 
Prussian regiments, France having them al¬ 
ready'. Bismarck not well. Emperor ditto, 
Germany, Austria and Italy said to have 
formed an alliance against France, While 
desiring peace with her, each agrees il‘ either 
of the others is attacked to help, if needed, and 
permit no outside Power to interfere, if friend 
is getting the best of the struggle. 
Marvelous preparations for the crowning of 
the Czar. All nobles and public functionaries 
to be present. Ail sorts of precautions to 
keep Nihilists away—but who are Nihilists? 
These threaten to blow' up the Kremlin—where 
the Czar will be housed w'hilo in Mocow— 
unless their imprisoned associates are par¬ 
doned and many other concessions granted. 
All over Europe labor plotting revolt; anarch¬ 
ists threatening dynamite; nations threaten¬ 
ing each other; inonarclis having cause to 
fear; starvation in tho cabins of tbo poor; os¬ 
tentatious luxury in the palaces of the rich; 
the bone and sinew of the nations suatched 
from productive labor to form a menace to 
native discontent and to foreign jealousy 
or bate in tbe vast armies that arc draining 
them of wealth and life blood.It is 
said a secret report has been presented to the 
Sultan of Turkey, charging that several Turk¬ 
ish Ministers and liigh officials of the govern¬ 
ment have entered into an arrangement to 
receive bribes in connection w*ith the collection 
Of the tobacco taxes. The Ministers accused 
have tendered their resignation, which the 
Sultan has refused to accept. When was 
there a Turkish official, high or low, whose 
palm hasn’t itched for a bribo?. 
The projected Scottish Temperance Life 
Assurance Company of Edinburgh, which is 
to have a capital of £100,000. will insure the 
lives of total abstainers “at greatly reduced 
premiums.”.The French Government 
intends to hold a grand international exhibi¬ 
tion at Paris in 1885.Tbe "Black Hand,” 
as the Anarchist Confederation in Spain calls 
itself, counts in Andalusia alone ISO different 
centers and 38,000 members, of whom more 
than 1,000 belong to the town of Xeres. Great 
destitution throughout the Province is the 
chief recruiter of the organization, which is 
flourishing in nearly all parte of Spain in spite 
of some 2,000 arrests lately made of members. 
*If you are a woman and want both health 
and beauty, remember that all superficial ef¬ 
forts to increase your persons] ( harms are vain. 
Freshness and beauty accompany health, aud 
to secure this Mi's Lydia E. Pinlcham’a reme¬ 
dies for all female weaknesses offer the surest 
moans of renovation. The highest intelli¬ 
gence loses its luster when it must find expres¬ 
sion through a bilious complexion. Good for 
either sex.— Adv. 
Coughs and Colds. Those w ho are suffer 
ing from Coughs, Colds, IIo > rseness, Sore 
Throat, etc., should try Brown’s Bronchial 
Troches. Sold on ly in boxes. —Adv. 
Physiciaus, clergymen and scientists unite 
in recommending the use of Hall’s Vegetable 
Sicilian Hair Renew*er.— Adv. 
Why wear out w ith continual coughing at 
night, w hen Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral will re¬ 
lieve, soothe and cure?— Adv. 
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—Tender Itchings in any part of the body 
cured by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. ’Tis the 
liest.— Adv. 
{3P“For five cents Wells, Richardson & Co., 
Burlington, Vt., will send colored samples of 
all colors of Diamond Dyes, with directions. 
—„4dt. 
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Tkopio-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective cath¬ 
artic medicine. Sold by druggists everywhere 
at 25 cts, per box— Adv. 
Everybody liked the Dun Shares Harrow 
till it grew dull. The “Apex” of the N. Y. 
Plow Co. does not get dull and cau be set at 
any angle. See adv.— Adv. 
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A Pure and Efleetlve Ilalr Dressing. 
Cocoaine, a compound of Cocoanut Oil, 
beautifies the bail' and is sure to allay all itch¬ 
ing and irritation of the scalp. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their perfect purity and 
strength.— Adv. 
'21)1 i-Uftrhris. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
OHK'Adq.—WHEAT Unsettled; Regular, *1.05 March; 
SLOOffil.lWs April: 61,Ulfij May: No, 2 Chicago Spring, 
tl.OMgil.07; NO. 3 do., 03c; No. 2 red Winter. kl.u8>*. 
Corn uiiseulod at nndi; 52c. March: 52c. 
April. May; rejected, Ific, Oats la good 
demand; No, 2, II(<ii42c. cash; 10c. March* We. April; 
4me. May: rejected.38e. Ryu steady at ftflqe. Baulky 
D rat und steady at . Ye. FuXjockd <|ulet at SI. I9@1.50; 
good crushing, gl.'X; choice Ku**lnu. $t.H. BUTTKB 
steady; creamery, fair to fancy, 1 v m-Oc; dulrlcs, good 
to choice.lie.'J.-vc-; packing stock. l'-Vitic. Kim* tinner 
at ISfjeJSViiC. PoiiK-lS.12i^ cus h. Hols Market active, 
firmer and 3c. higher; demand good: common to good 
mixed packing,$76V7.65; heavy, pucklug uml (.hipping, 
light, $!.10<it..B0; skips, .-n.isit./ 7.00. CATTLE 
—Exports In lurge supply, hut fight request at steady 
rates, gRtifitv 7.1S; good to choice shipping, active and 
firm,(It $6.0M.tn50: commontoiulr.SAHLiK.U1; Pinchers' 
steady, at 4l.lffeA.U0; stuckcre unci feeder.--, ft:uoc<£»,is. 
Suitin' Market slow except for hosts low erodes dull 
and fully I5(£25c. lower; exports, #tte, iee. A; good to 
choice. xS.UI®tU0; common to fair, SAMkaD.tXJ. 
Si. Lons.—Wheat, No. 2 red 1-alL$LC9k» cash; gl.U8U 
Murch; si.irtt>Vd.iuq, April; 1.12V$®1 .fit May; No. 8 red 
JfitU, trials, * Ujbjs t ttkre cfibh :_wc. _ Marnh; April 
