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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 21, 1883. 
The Princess Louise arrived at Newport, R. 
I., on Saturday, and, with her suite, took an 
ordinary train for Boston, where she met Lord 
Lome. They started together for home at 
Ottawa, Canada, on Monday........ 
The steamship Nestorian has lauded in 
Boston, Mass., 650 wretchedly poor Irish 
immigrants, the expense of whose voyage was 
paid by the English Government. The Par- 
thia brought a less number of the same class. 
They will be sent into the interior by the 
steamship company. Sixty-nine evicted farm¬ 
ers from Galway and Mayo have landed in 
Philadelphia.A firm of Chinese 
merchants in Waynesboro 1 , Ga., have petition¬ 
ed the Chinese Minister in Washington,through 
their attorney, for redress from the United 
States Government for wrongs done them and 
grievances committed by a mob at that place. 
.The Pennsylvania House has passed a 
bill abolishing the contract system in prisons 
and reformatory institutions.Evidence 
is closed in the Star Route cases, and now the 
lawyers are explaining it and confusing the 
jury-The Washington Grand Jury last. Wed, 
nesday presented indictments against ex-Senu- 
tor Kellogg and Thomas J. Brady, in connec¬ 
tion with Star Route frauds in Texas. 
Professor 0. C. Marsh, of Yale College, was 
elected President of the National Academy of 
Sciences.Mr. Daggett, United States 
Minister resident at Honolulu, denies the 
statement that Chinese sugars are expoited to 
this country as the product of the Hawaiian 
Islands. The sugar from these is admitted 
duty free.The New’ York Stock Ex¬ 
change Relief Committee has $4,800 left of the 
money collected for the Ohio flood suffers. 
Sixty Mormon missionaries sailed from this 
port for Europe last Tuesday,... 
A proposed prohibitory amendment was 
defeated in the Lower House of the Michigan 
Legislature last w’eek.Leonard B. 
Hodges, Superintendent of Tree-Planting of 
the Northern Pacific Railway, died at St. 
Paul, Minn., on the 13th. He w r as born in On¬ 
tario Co., N Y., in 1823, and w’ent to Minne¬ 
sota in 1849 and has attained a National repu¬ 
tation as an arbor icnlturist. He was the au. 
thor of the original law' for timber-culture on 
public lands.----Charles R. Miller, former¬ 
ly of the Springfield Republican, has been ap¬ 
pointed chief editor of the N. Y. Times. 
Jay Gould, with a self-made fortune of $100,- 
000,000 at the age of 47, proposes to retire per¬ 
manently from active business. He can close 
his business m 24 hours. He has six children. 
S. J. Gould, at 23, is to take charge of affairs. 
.De Lesseps and Nathaniel Appleton 
are said to have $3,000,000 to spend in cutting 
a canal through the Cajje Cod peninsula. 
Immigrants for the Northwest are passing 
through St. Paul at the rate of 10,000 a 
week........Work in the Minnesota pineries 
is practically suspended. The estimated total 
cut of logs on the streams about St. Paul is 
435,000,000 feet, or 50,000,000 in excess of any 
former year... 
The Alabama Claims Court has completed 
arranging its docket. There are now’ 5,770 
eases on it.A telegram from Muncie, 
Ind., on the 16th says: “On "Wednesday last 
Charles Rhodes, a young man, 18 years old, 
started for the country with a box of Hercules 
cartridges under his arm, used to blow up 
stumps. When only about half-a-mile from the 
city the entire box of cartridges exploded ,blow- 
ing his body to pieces. Some of his clothes 
hung on the trees 70 feet high. Buildings 
near-by were made a total wreck.”. 
Captain Eads says that w’ork on the Tehuante¬ 
pec Ship Railway is going ou, and the road 
will be finished before the Panama Canal is 
opened.In Connecticut the Senate 
has defeated the Prohibitory Constitutional 
Amendment by a vote of 11 to nine, four 
members being absent. A two-thirds vote is 
required to submit the amendment to the 
. George Scheller, the liquor- 
store keeper, who has been on trial for setting 
the Newhall House on fire at Milwaukee, has 
been acquitted—verdict greeted with cheers. 
.Iu Ohio the Scott Bill became a law 
Tuesday, taxing each liquor-dealer of the 
State $200 a year; those selling beer and wine 
$100.The Minneapolis City Council has 
raised the license fee for saloons from $100 to 
$1,500.The Women’s Silk Culture Asso¬ 
ciation held its aunual meeting in Philadel¬ 
phia Thursday. Receipts for past year, 
$4,303.05; expenditures, $4,069.74. Besides the 
balance of $283.31 iu the Treasury, there are 
$1,000 at interest. The work of the Association 
lias greatly increased during the part year, 
and the outlook for future usefulness is prom¬ 
ising. Mr. John Lucas was I’e-elected Presi¬ 
dent, with a full Board of Managers......... 
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned sine die. 
Wednesday it defeated the bill abolishing the 
contract system in the Ohio Penitentiary after 
a stubborn contest.Flemming of the firm 
of Flemming & Merriam, the most extensive 
of the Chicago “blind pool” swindlers, fled to 
Canada, where a large number of his victims 
clubbed together and had him arrested. He 
has paid their losses to many; but so soon as 
he left prison, after paying one lot, he has 
been arrested by another in a different place. 
He is now jailed at. Toronto, and if he gets 
free there, he wdll be taken to Montreal ou 
w’arrant. No news of the other swindlers yet. 
.....The Cincinnati distilleries expect 
to shut dow’n the last of June under the 
agreement made by the pool.. 
Two hundred and eighty acres of land have 
been purchased a mile south of Lawrence, 
Kansas, on which school buildings will be at 
once erected for 300 Indian scholars, their 
teachers and attendants .George J. Gould. 
a son of Jay Gould, is reported to be a heavy 
buyer of wheat in Chicago. There is much 
speculation as to whether he is buyiug on his 
own account or for his father.The lum¬ 
ber dealers of New England propose to raise 
the price of building lumber $1 per thousand... 
The question of the validity of the prohib¬ 
ition law of Kansas is to be tested before the 
Supreme Court of the United States. The 
National Brewers’ Association have employed 
Senator Vest of Missouri to prepare the papera 
for presentation before the court,. Senator 
Vest holds that the constitution of the United 
States guarantees the right to sell and manu¬ 
facture liquor, and that no State has the right 
to abridge any right which is guaranteed by 
that constitution by amending an organic act. 
In other words, the United States having re¬ 
cognized the manufacture and sale of spirit¬ 
uous liquors as a constitutional light, no 
State can say that, the manufacture and 
sales areunlaw’ful.A telegram from Buf¬ 
falo this morning, says it. wall lie impossible to 
open the canals before May 10.Presi¬ 
dent Arthur has a severe chill on board the U. 
S. Steamer Tallapoosa at Savannah. He will 
probably come uorth by rail.In the 
Southwest the Indians have been continuing 
their outrages on isolated parties. By last 
accounts they had retreated to the Sierra 
Madre Mountains in Chihuahua, Mexico. Gen. 
Crook is preparing to follow them vigorously, 
and will command the joint forces of the Uni¬ 
ted States and Mexico. He w’ill also have 150 
Apaches from the San Carlos Reservation. He 
wires that the settlers have exaggerated the 
outrages in order to create a pretext, for seiz¬ 
ing upon the Reservations... 
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“I am gaining,” writes a lady w’ho is using 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment, “so rapidly 
in feelings and appearance, that it seems 
almost too good to be real. To have day after 
day and week and week pass without one of 
those heart troubles; to enjoy seven or eight 
uninterrupted hours of sice]) at night; to hove 
o good appetite and no inconvenience from 
stomach troubles; to feci quite comfortable 
and free from pain most of (he time , is hap¬ 
piness without alloy,'" Our Treatise ou Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, its nature, action, and results, 
with reports of eases and full information, 
sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and 
1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv, 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
Saturday, April 21, 1883. 
About 500 delegates x-epresenting the cattle 
men of Western Kansas and the Pan Handle 
met in convention at Dodge City, Kan., on 
April 11. A committee reported a constitu¬ 
tion and by-laws similar to the Colorado and 
Texas Associations. A. H. McCoy was elected 
President and C. W. Willett, Secretary. A 
Round-up Committee w’as appointed and a 
committee to select a Boaxd of Arbitra¬ 
tion. A resolution pledging members of 
the Association to discourage carrying fire¬ 
arms was passed unanimously; also a resolu¬ 
tion to petition Congrese to take action to pre¬ 
vent the spread of pleura-pneumonia. 
The Mexican Agricultural Society which met 
iu the City of Mexico on April 12, passed a 
resolution asking the Mexican Railway Com¬ 
pany to reduce the freight rate on the Jalapa 
and Vera Ci’uz line, to promote the exporta¬ 
tion of field products; also, requesting Gov¬ 
ernors of different States to cause the abolition 
of taxes on coffee and other farai products, in 
the interest of the export trade.The 
American Consul at Sierra Leone complains 
in a report to the State Deparment that the 
Kentucky tobacco received at that port is dis¬ 
honestly packed. The mount taken by that. 
market last year was 881,880 pounds. 
Moffatt, the London agent of the Agricultural 
Department, telegraphs that the probable de¬ 
crease in the area of growing wheat in Great 
Britain^is 16 per cent., and in France 10 per 
cent. There is also a reduction of the ai’ea in 
Russia. In Austria and Hungary the full 
breadth has been sown, but the condition of the 
plant is not. generally favorable.The un¬ 
manageable Mississippi is again on the rampage. 
Fifteen thousand aci’es of the finest lands are 
abandoned to the flood in Mississippi and Ar¬ 
kansas. The present rise is still continuing at 
the rate of six inches per day. and will cover 
nearly as great an extent of toi’ritory as in 
March. The damage will be confined chiefly 
to the inundation of crops . 
A Canada farmer dropped dead while descend¬ 
ing into bis root cellar, “ asphyxiated by foul 
ail 1 ,” local report says.It was charged 
that some vines imported from China about a 
week ago, were infested by the phylloxera. 
Samples were sent to the Agricultural Depart- 
ment for examination; aud Prof. Riley de- 
clai-es there is no trace of the pest. 
During a discussion in the Italian Chamber of 
Deputies on Thursday, on the subject of to¬ 
bacco culture, Signor Magliani, Minister of 
Fiuauce, declaiwl that the government firmly 
intended to encourage the home cultivation of 
that plant and would grant large bounties for 
the purpose, but the people, he said, must, not 
delude themselves with the idea that Italy 
w ould ever overcome American competition in 
this bi’anch of agriculture.The Jei’sey 
cow, Oakland’s Cora, 18855, A. J. C. C., is re- 
poi’ted as producing 81 pounds 5*./ ounces of 
butter from March 7 to April 6 inst..The 
49 cheese factoi’ies of Maine last year made 
586,734 pounds of cheese which sold at. an ave¬ 
rage of 13b; cents per pound.An English 
tenant about to change his residence, adver¬ 
tises for 500 rats and 5,000 weeds with which 
to comply with the terms of his lease w’hich 
requires him to leave the premises precisely as 
he found them.An appropriation bill 
now before the Michigau Legislature, contains 
an item of $59,089 forth© Agricultural College 
against $00,164 appropriated in 1881 .A 
contract has been closed at Fort Worth, Texas, 
for the shipment of 75,000 head of cattle from 
the grazing region 245 miles south of that city 
on the Gulf, Colorado and Saute F4 Railroad 
to Wichita Falls, 114 miles noi-th. It will re¬ 
quire 215 trains of 14 cars each, at. a total ex¬ 
pense of $105,850, being at the rate of $35 a 
car. The shipment, is rendered necessax-y 
by the lax-ge amount of fencing recently put 
up in the southern pai*t of the State.At 
Zumbota Falls, Minn., a cyclone wrecked a 
$5,000 bridge and many buildings, including 
th© post-office. In Desha County, Ark., 
the buffalo gnat is doing unprecedented dam¬ 
age. The destruction of unprotected horses, 
mules and cattle is fearful. It is dangei’ous to 
drive stock thro’ the bottom lands of Desha 
and Chicol Counties, as the gnats are there by 
millions. In Bolivar County, Miss., nearly 
one hundred mules have been killed by the 
pests. This year planters in the counties 
named, consider the damage by the gnats as 
gx-eat as that by the overflow.Mr. E. 
Burnett, of Deerfoot Fanu, Southboro, Mass., 
has just returned fi-om the Channel Islands 
with 12 Jerseys and 25 Guernseys. Most of 
them were two-year-old heifers with calf, and 
came from the best stock on the Islands. Mr. 
•T. E. Williams, of Glastonbury, Conn., who 
w’as with Mr. Burnett on the Islands, also 
bikings home a herd of 25 head of Jerseys. 
At the annual meeting of the Araericau Jer¬ 
sey Cattle Club, Mr. John J. Holly was elected 
President, aud Messrs. W. S. Taylor, E. Bur¬ 
nett, F. Bronson aud C. S. Dole wox-e elected 
directors. The treasurei’’s report was very 
satisfactory, showing the handsome surplus 
of over #17,000.Auewbaro for the pur¬ 
pose of making experiments in feeding cattle 
and pigs, has been completed at the Mass. Ag, 
College at Amhei-st.A telegram from St. 
Johnsburg, Vt., says that many farmei-s will 
uot attempt to make maple sugar this year on 
account of the deep snow. Unless freezing 
weather comes at once, the sugar crop will l>e 
a failure in that part of the State.The 
lai’gest cigar ruanufaetnriufc finn at Coving¬ 
ton, Ky., lias agi’ecd to give an increase of $1 
per thousand to its employes after May 1. 
Cigai’-makei’s generally are gettixxg a shai-e of 
the money saved by the reduction of the to¬ 
bacco tax .The officials of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad say that lai’ge slaughter 
houses will be established at various points in 
the Yellowstone country, along the line of that 
road, with a view to the shipment, of dressed 
beef East..The Mexican Government 
denies the reports circulated in the United 
States that Americans cannot acquire laud in 
that country. The Government, generally 
grants the permission needed to hold land 
within twenty leagues of the frontier belt. 
The prohibition to pre-empt, uncultivated pub¬ 
lic lands in the frontier States does not apply 
to the possession of other lunds. With the ex¬ 
ception of these old x’egulatious, the entire 
counti’y is open to Americans.A motion 
having been made, Tuesday, in the English 
House of Commons looking to the entire pro¬ 
hibition of iiupoi’tation of American cattle on 
account of the alleged existence of foot-and- 
mouth disease in this eountiy, the Minister of 
Agriculture opposed such a measure on the 
ground that there were only a few’ cases hei’e. 
.Orange City, Fla,, has com in silk and 
tassel.An immense amoxmt of ox-ange 
seed has been planted this year throughout 
South Florida.The tix-stw’ool clip of the 
season w’as sold at Waco, Texas, on Wednes¬ 
day for twenty-five cents a pound..The 
number of bearing orange trees on Halifax 
River, in Florida, is estimated at 300,000. 
New r groves are being planted all th© time. 
A ceusns of the live stock of Prussia, compai-ed 
with the census of 1882, show’s an important 
increase, except in sheep.Abram Suy- 
dam, a lawyer of this city, was arrested Thurs- 
day for making a bogus sale of 600,000 aci’es 
of land in Virginia, by which moans English 
capitalists were swindled out of $450,000. Of 
the land 300,000 acres wore supposed to be near 
Abingdon; as to the rest, nobody seems yet to 
know where it was alleged to be... . 
Fi’ederick C-. Stevens, propi’ietor of Attica’s 
noted Maplewood stock farm, and son of the 
millionaire Cougi'essman Stevens, sails for a 
three months’ tour in Europe from Boston to¬ 
day. He will l’epi’esent the Amor icon Agri¬ 
cultural Association at the great, cattle show- 
in Hamburg,,. ... 
The cotton-seed oil made by the mill in Green¬ 
ville, S. C., is x-ated by dealers in New Orleans 
as the “ type of prime.” A second order of 100 
Ixarrels has been filled by the Greenville mill. 
.The total value of the expoi’ts of do¬ 
mestic brendstuffs from the United States in 
Mai'ch was $17,802,275, and for the nine months 
ended March 31, 1883, $167,233,418, For the 
nine months ended March 31, 1882, the total 
value w-as $147,711, 588 . .. Cypress is th reatened 
with another plague of locusts—eggs hatch¬ 
ing with alarming rapidity. Eveiy sort of 
contrivance being collected to catch the pests. 
.In view of the opening of navigation 
the trunk railroad lines have been cutting 
graiu rates from the West—30c. instead of 25c. 
per 100 pounds from Chicago to New York is 
the last rate.A sale of Polled Angus 
and Gallow-ay cattle, belonging to A. B. Ma¬ 
thew’s, of Kansas City, Mo., and Geary Bros., 
of London, Canada, took place at Kansas City- 
last week, when 118 animals wei’e sold at an 
average of $532, The total amount of the sale 
was $62,745. The highest price paid was 
$1,160 for “ Maria,” bought by Homin & Titus, 
Cedar Vale, Kansas; the next highest was 
$1,025 for “Cax-pie,” by J. W. Prow-ei-s, West 
Los Animas, Colorado. The attendance w-as 
veiy lai’ge, including stockmen from Missouri, 
Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Indi¬ 
ana and Nebraska. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday April 21, 1883. 
A renewal of the strike among the Royal 
Irish Coustabulaiy is threatened, the men 
being greatly dissatisfied over the neglect of 
the Government to redress their grievances— 
small pay for much w-ork and public odium. 
.Another revolution in Hayti caused by 
the persecution of the mulattoes by the full- 
bl< loded xxegi’oes. The former rebelled and are. 
up to date, successful, having captured con¬ 
siderable territory and defeated the govern- 
ment troops with n loss of 85 killed and 300 
wounded, on March 31.The situation in 
Peru is practically unchanged. The people 
declare their willingness to make any terms 
w ith Chili, but their leaders are in the road, 
aud the country is being ruined, while private 
ends are being played for.The Mexican 
drainage scheme “bangs fire,” because, as Com. 
Lorlng says, the company hesitate to send 
$200,000 to Mexico as a guarantee deposit. 
One hundred buildings, including the homes of 
several cabinet ministers, were burned in 
Mandalay, the capital of Bunnah, last week. 
.It is stated that a commission bus been sent 
from Queensland, Australia, to take possession 
of the Island of New Guinea as a dependency 
of Queensland. The Australia ns were afraid 
Gennuuy might appropriate the island. 
In Ireland the pi-isoners charged with the 
Phoenix Park murders are still being tried 
in Dublin. It appears that every one of 
the an-ested men has offered to become an 
‘•informer.” Eight of them it is expected will 
hang for the crime. Several flush arrests of 
“suspects” in different parts of Ireland, espec¬ 
ially in Limerick. On Thursday, 8 men 
charged with being concerned in the dynamite 
conspiracy in England were arraigned in the 
Bow-street Police Court, London. Norman, 
whose real name is William Joseph Lynch, 
turned informer. He was born iu the State of 
New- Y*rk. He was hired iu this city to “dy¬ 
namite” England.In Russia extraordin¬ 
ary precautions and numerous arrests are the 
order of the day to prevent the Nihilists from 
carrying out their threats of blowing-up the 
Czar and his company at hisapprout hiug coro¬ 
nation ut Moscow.Eighteen prominent 
Nihilists on trial in St. Petersburg were all 
convicted Thursday. Six were condemned to 
death.That triple alliance is stated to 
