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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 5, 1883. 
Gen. Geo. Crook has followed the hostile 
Apaches into Mexico; but telegraphs that he 
will strictly refrain from violating the con¬ 
vention in such matters between that country 
and this. The Mexican troops are co-operat¬ 
ing with liirn. The Tombstone Rangers won’t 
attack the San Carlos Reservation, as they are 
assured the Indians there are friendly—and, 
then, it is w ell guarded by armed Indians and 
U. S. troops.The N, Y. Legislature lias 
adjourned trine die ... 
The Mayor of Minneapolis has vetoed the or¬ 
dinance fixing saloon licenses at $1,500. The 
friends of high license in Council lacked one 
vote of enough to pass it over his head. 
The cyclone which passed over Texas on Fri¬ 
day afternoon a week ago was accompanied 
by a destructive hail-storm. Some of the 
hail-stones were irregular chunks of ice five 
inches in thickness..Another terrible 
storm passed over Texas and Louisiana on 
Saturday night and was almost as destructive 
as that of a week ago. Aid is beiug furnished 
to those who have suffered.. .Greeu C. 
Ramn, of Illinois, Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue, has resigned—going to practice law 
in Washington, according to some; going to 
accept from a whiskey concern a bigger salary 
thau the $6,000 a year he was getting, accord¬ 
ing to others.' 1 No polit ical significance,” says 
Raum,., .....The Cree Indians have lately 
been raiding from Canada across the line, 
plundering our settlers. Orders have just been 
issued that Canadian Indians raiding on Amer¬ 
ican soil lx? arrested by the troops and all their 
carts, tents, robes and horses be confiscated, 
and all but the latter destroyed and the Indi¬ 
ans compelled to recross the border. Sixty- 
five captured Crees have just been conducted 
across the border. Their ponies and blankets 
were returned to them this time.A 
man offered $10,000 for a license to sell liquors 
at wholesale in Westfield, Mass., for five years, 
but the authorities refused.The Cana¬ 
dian legislators are asking an addition of $500 
per annum to their salary.In 1882,198,- 
687 Germans left the Fatherland to settle 
abroad. Of the chief contributory States, 
Prussia sent out 116,000, Bavaria, 12,000, and 
Saxony and Wurtemberg each 7,000, the rest 
of the 27 German States being represented by 
smaller numbers—official.Navigation 
was opened on Lake Champlain, Tuesday- 
.... During the past six months 132 national 
banks were organized. Senator Anthony 
is improving.A. Bronson Alcott is again 
in a very weak condition.A heavy fall 
of snow interfered with the progress of the 
building of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 
Montana Thursday.Detectives in On¬ 
tario, Canada, fighting about a part of the 
plunder “blind-pool” Flemming was forced by 
them to disgorge to get out of one jail, after 
which another party has popped him into an¬ 
other.Cigar-makers’ strikes all over the 
country except where their demands for a part 
of the recent reduction of taxes on tobacco 
have been granted.Forty-two life-sav¬ 
ing stations, between Sandy Hook and Cape 
May, were clewed Monday for the season. 
Professor Willard Fiske has just returned from 
Europe to “sever Ins connection” with Cornell 
University. He will make Florence, Italy, his 
home for three or four years. He has been 
buying books for the University library and is 
overworked.For the first four months 
of last year the receipts of the Patent Office 
were $337,198, while for the four months of 
the current year ended April SO, the receipts 
aggregated $405,911.So many disrep¬ 
utable mining companies have swindled the 
public of late, that reputable men shrink from 
having anything to do with mining companies 
that seek patronage by any form of adver¬ 
tising. Indeed, the Miners’ Exchange in this 
city has just been forced to close up, as gentle¬ 
men would not patronize it.Marsh. T. 
Polk, the defaulting ex-State Treasurer of Ten¬ 
nessee, was reaxTested Thursday at Nashville 
on an order issued by the Criminal Court, his 
bail not being thought sufficient. The 
swindler is much disappointed because he 
can’t continue to attend the races 1.Mrs, 
Myra Clarke Gaines has gained auother vic¬ 
tory over the city of New Orleans. Her pre¬ 
vious verdict has been affirmed, the amount 
being $1,925,667, The spunky little women, now 
78, has been persistently fighting for her rights 
for half a century-Ad vices from Indian Ter¬ 
ritory say Chief Bushy Head has called a special 
session of the National Couucil of the Chero¬ 
kee nation, to be held at Tahlequah April 30i 
to consider differences between the constitu¬ 
tional party &Dd the turbulent faction under 
Spioche which has caused so much trouble of 
late: also what disposition has been made 
$300,000 appropropriated by Congress to the 
Cherokees for lands purchased from them for 
the use of the Osages. The wire fence ques¬ 
tion, which is giving a good deal of trouble, 
will also demand attention. Questions as to 
whether negroes in the nation are citizens is 
also likely to come before the Council.By a 
vote of 55 “nays” to 105 “yeas” the Massachu¬ 
setts Legislature has refused to sanction a 
constitutional amendment allow ing women to 
become justices of the peace and notaries pub¬ 
lic. A two-thirds vote was necessary War- 
rants have been issued at Washington for the 
payment of $8,525,000 to pensioners. 
The money-order system will lie extended to 
334 additional post-offices July 1—a large pro¬ 
portion of them in the Northwest.Roar 
Admiral Baldwin, commanding the United 
States naval forces on the European station, 
has been ordered to proceed with his personal 
staff to Moscow to attend the forthcoming 
coronation of the Czar.The decrease of 
the public debt falls under $3,000,000 the past 
month because we have been paying $10,000.. 
(XX) extra for pensions... The steamer 
Grapler, plying between Puget Sound and 
Alaska, was burned last Sunday; 65 persons 
out of 100 on board reported lost; mostly 
Chinamen who perished through pauie........ 
George William Curtis was re-elected Presi¬ 
dent of the Civil Service Reform Association 
Thursday evening. The cause was reported to 
be prosperous.From January 1 to May 
1, two steamship hues took 19.800 immigrants 
to Oregon, to say nothing of those that went 
by other vessels and overland. Of them 50 
per cent, settle in Puget Sound; the rest scat¬ 
ter in the grain region east of the Cascade 
Range.Trial of the suit brought by 
the New York, Lake Erie and Western Rail¬ 
way Company against James McHenry, the 
English railroad magnate, for wrongful ap¬ 
propriation of funds, has ended in a verdict of 
$1,496,823 for the plaintiff by direction of the 
court. A cablegram from London, however, 
announces that McHenry has just become 
bankrupt.The Massachusetts State 
Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity last 
Januai’y enjoyned the Standard Fertilizer 
Company of Dux bury to “cease and desist” 
the manufacture of the fertilizer after May 1, 
at that place, on the ground that the odor, etc., 
were offensive to the inhabitants. A majority 
of these protested against this action, but it 
has been sustained by the courts.The 
New York Senate and Assembly Wednesday 
applied the gag law and rushed through the 
Congressional Appointment Bill, which gerry¬ 
manders the State so as to give 20 districts to 
the Democrats and 14 to the Republicans. 
The Woman Sufferage Amendment received 15 
out of 32 votes in the N. Y. Senate.Lawyer 
Kerr talked Star Route turpitude to the jury 
for one whole week at Washington. The 
“Star-Routers” offered to submit tbe case 
without further argument: refused. Lawyer 
Bliss now talking. More talk to come on Gov- 
eimnent side; silence probably on the other. 
.Trotting is booming in tbe South as 
much as base-ball in the North and West. 
There were 180 horses on the track at Nash¬ 
ville, Term the largest number since 1843, 
when the great Peyton race was run for $40, - 
Ct00.The arrivals at the Jacksonville, 
Fia., hotels the past season have numbered 
44,167. The Winter travel in Florida this sea¬ 
son has been heavier than ever before. 
-- 
“In Better Health titan for Many 
Years.” 
A gentleman in Meldon, Ill., whose wife was 
in a very low state of health, and who could 
get do help from physicians, sent for a Com¬ 
pound Oxygen Treatment. After using it, he 
wrote: “My wife-a health has greatly im¬ 
proved. At the time she commenced using the 
Treatment, her stomach would retain scarce!y 
any food, but soon after taking, her food be¬ 
gan to digest, and her general health to im¬ 
prove. She has enjoyed better health during 
the last six months than for many years.'' 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, its nature, 
action, and results, with reports of eases and 
full information, sent free.. Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1109 & 1111 Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa .—A dv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 5, 1883. 
The American Jersey Red Swine Club is the 
name of a new organization for the improve¬ 
ment of the above breed; membership fee $2 
per annum; entries received for registration 
in record books. W. H. Morrison, Secretary, 
Elkhyrn, Wis., will furnish full information 
on application.Telegraph reports re¬ 
ceived here May 1, say that the crops in the 
northwest of Arkansas, southwest Missouri 
and Indiana Territory are very backward.... 
From some parts of the West come news that 
late frosts did not do much injury to fruits as 
they occurred “during the light of the moon.” 
Marietta, Ohio: Frosts on Sunday and Tues¬ 
day have hurt strawberries, cherries and early 
pears somewhat: but not apples. Excellent 
prospect for fruits.Rising Sim, Ind.: 
Three heavy frosts, have done little harm to 
fruit.St. Louis, Mo.: Dispatches from 
fruit regions of Southern Illinois say late frosts 
did little damage. Country south of Carbon- 
dale a vast flower garden, all fruit trees being 
full of bloom. Abundant crops of all ex¬ 
pected..Other reports from different 
parts of Ohio and Indiana regarding the dam¬ 
age from the frost on Monday night are to tbe 
effect that the wheat was not injured, aud but 
little of the fruit. Early poach and pear trees 
were partially in bloom raid were damaged, 
and the strawberry vines were injured. 
The Delaware peach crop was not injured by 
the frosts of the latter part of April. The 
trees are healthy and in geueral bloom. 
Frost has killed one-half the peach crop of 
Georgia and has damaged fruit at Petersburg, 
Ya. It is feared that the tobacco plants have 
been hurt in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C. 
There are over four million bushels or grain 
loaded for shipment in the lake vessels which 
are lying in the Chicago harbor.The 
wheat on Ex-Pres. R. B. Hayes’s farm in Da¬ 
kota was three inches high Thursday.Half 
a million dollars’ worth of sheep are reported to 
have been drowned this week and last in 
North Carolina.Three factories in the 
United States consume nearly two million eggs 
a year in making a peculiar kind of paper used 
by photographers.The following adver¬ 
tisement appears in a Riveriua (New South 
Wales) journal: “Wanted—A cultured gentle¬ 
man capable of milkiug goats; a university 
man preferred. Applications, with testimo¬ 
nials as to proficiency, to be addressed,” &c. 
.From a live-stock census, taken on the 
10th of January last, it appears that the total 
number of horses in Prussia was 2,403,289, as 
against 2,271,380 in the year- 1873; of mules 
572, as against 984: of asses 6,313. as against 
8,784; of oxen 8,735,596* ns against 8,639,514; 
of sheep 14,716,732, as against 19,666,794; of 
pigs 5,801,784, as against 4,295,920, and of goats 
1,672,370 as against 1,481,401. 
Between January 1st and March Slat this year 
the people of Berlin ate 1,638 horses. 
Nine thousand Marechal Niel roses were picked 
from one bush in a year at Newport, which, 
at 10 cents a rose, afforded a fair profit. 
St. Louis spent a million dollars in the im¬ 
provement of her pork-packing facilities last 
year, and is much disappointed because the 
business has not correspondingly increased. .. 
_Mr. Trevelyan, Secretary for Ireland, says 
that the Irish Land Act has reduced rentals by 
$1,000,000 a year. Next to the emancipation 
of the serfs in Russia by the late Emperor, it 
is the most radical measure any modern gov¬ 
ernment has undertaken.The Trans¬ 
vaal authorities in South Africa have granted 
large concessions of territory, subject to a roy¬ 
alty upon minerals, to certaiu individuals, and 
a company is being formed in develop the 
land granted. The Boers hope thus to relieve 
themselves from present financial difficulties.. 
The great sale of Aberdeen-Angus polls, be¬ 
longing to H. Cochrane of Cunada, at Kansas 
City, Mo., April 26, attracted the largest as¬ 
sembly of stockmen ever gathered at the 
West. A herd of 80 aggregated $40,(XX)—an 
average of $500 per bead. I. A. Fletcher, of 
Indianapolis, paid $2,050 for the imported 
cow Black Bird—the highest price. 
The United States Treasury Department has 
bought 18 acres of land on the Charles River 
at Waltham. Mass., and the work of prepar¬ 
ing a cattle quarantine station is progressing 
rapidly.... At the annual meeting of the Ver¬ 
mont Merino Sheep-shearers’ Association this 
month, about 250 sheep, representing fifty 
flocks, were exhibited. The heaviest fleece 
was thirty-eight pounds three ounces from a 
4-year-old ram; from a 3-year-okl ram thirty- 
three pounds ten ounces were sheared. 
Sitting Bull and 150 of his band have left Fort 
Randall, Dak., for Fort Yates to engage in 
fanning.Montana stockmen say the 
past Winter was the worst they ever knew, 
and cattle are now generally in poor condi¬ 
tion, but still not more than 4 per cent, or so 
died.At the annual sheep-shearing at 
Ripen, Wifi., yesterday week, a buck weighing, 
with fleece, 153} j pounds, yielded the heaviest 
fleece, 30} £ pounds.. ..Gov. Madore of Coahuila, 
Mexico, sold 500 leagues of State laud iu the 
Saline River region, a few days ago, to a repre¬ 
sentative of an English syndicate, for a nominal 
price of 10 eeuts an acre. The land will be 
used for ranch purposes, as little of it is suita¬ 
ble for cultivation. 
Maple sugar crop extremely short in Vermont 
and New Hampshire; loss to farmers estimated 
at $1,000,000 in the former State and $500,(XX) 
in the latter... 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday May 5, 1883. 
England is determined to make short work 
with Irish “physical force,” rascals. The worst 
of it is that legitimate agitation for the re 
inoval of real grievances is for the time 
nearly paralyzed. The Dublin trials arcpro¬ 
ceeding vigorously. One prisoner has been 
acquitted of participation in the murder of 
Cavendish and Burke, but will be fried for 
“conspiracy to murder;” three have pleaded 
“guilty” of implication in the murder of C. 
and B.: but say they were forced to take part 
in it by their “superiors” in the “Invincibles.’ 1 
A number of other trials are taking place in 
different parts of the island for agrarian of¬ 
fenses committed or for “conspiracy to murder” 
obnoxious landlords and other persons. Up¬ 
wards of 600 families are reduced to destitution 
by the flight or imprisonment of the bread-win. 
ners through fear of punishment, for implica¬ 
tion in “conspiracies” ami agrarian or political 
offenses. Funds being raised for their relief. Dy¬ 
namiters on trial in London for carrying the ex¬ 
plosive, or being in some way “mixed up’’ 
with it. It appears that some one high in the 
secret councils of tbe “dynamite crowd” here 
in America warned the English Consul here 
whenever any dynamiter left for “the other 
side.” There each one was tracked until it was 
thought well to arrest him. Euglish spies aud 
detectives are almost as numerous as Irish 
“traitors.” Ridiculous for Irishmen to “hatch 
treason,” there are always so many to “peach” 
when squeezed a little, or even before. Walsh 
and Sheridau.who are in this city, and Tynan, 
or “Number One,” who is iu tbe United States 
or Mexico, if not. elsewhere, have been indicted 
in Dublin, and their extradition is to be de¬ 
manded .... 
Several officers and soldier's at St. Peters 
burgh, suspected of being Nihilists, have 
killed themselves; many mor e have been ar¬ 
rested. Over 1(H),(HXl people are now packed 
into the overcrowded prisons of Russia. The 
combined corps of tbe Russian Imperial Guard 
order ed for service in Moscow during the coro¬ 
nation festivities will lie under the chief com¬ 
mand of the Grand Duke Vladimir, and will 
consist of 19 GeneraLs, 619 officers, 12,515 men- 
3,613 hoi-ses and 22 guns. The troops began 
leaving l’or Moscow by railway' on Wednesday 
last, and will assemble there in full strength 
on May 19, Ther e will be a large number of 
Other troops, besides the regular garrison. 
Severe earthquakes in Chili on March 7, 8 and 
27. One in Colombia on March 8. Much in¬ 
jury in both countries..Envoys from Mada¬ 
gascar ask German protection against French 
aggression.Massacre of 20 foreigners 
at Port Said, at Mediterranean end of Suez 
Canal, Egypt. Much excitement among the 
Fellaheen—the workers?—throughout the coun¬ 
try. They emphatically support all now as 
much as before the late troubles—great con¬ 
sequent diseoutent which threatens to become 
turbulent.The accession of Turkey and 
Sweden to the European Triple Alliance is 
impelling....... It is saida meeting of the 
leading owners of steamships will lie held in 
London, on the Kith inst., to take steps to¬ 
wards raising capital for the (im pose of build¬ 
ing another canal across the Isthmus of Suez. 
....Gen. Torres's aunuul report on the 
Italian army levies states that on the 30th of 
September last 714,958 men were enrolled in 
the permanent armv. of whom 699,825 were 
privates. Of these (199.825 men, however, only 
162,846 were actually under arms, including 
18,000 carabineers.That fund to 
free Parnell's estate from mortgages has 
amounted to $88,(XX), although a month ago 
the cable said the attempt to raise money had 
been dropped on account of the lukewarmness 
of t he public.The appointment of twelve 
Bishops to Catholic Sees in Poland is gazetted, 
—result of the better feeling between Gie Czar 
ujttd the Pope.That great. Amsterdam 
Exhibition was opened Wednesday by the 
King of the Ncderlauds. American machin¬ 
ery has 10,000 feet space, against 80,000 feet 
for France: 20,000 for Belgium, and 15,000 
each for England. Germany and Holland. 
The U. S. will exhibit little except machinery 
—a second or third-rate show... 
Gladstone Is pret ty certain to retire from the 
Premiership in a very short time as a peer of 
England with the title of Earl of Midlothian 
..1. Kerr, who robbed a Chicago bank of 
8150,000, lias been arrested at Lima, Peru- 
....The English Commons has passed a mo¬ 
tion urgently favoring local option by a vote 
of 207 to 130... _President Salomon is get¬ 
ting the upper hand of the revolutionists in 
Hayti. They are cooped up in Maragoane— 
capture and punishment only a question of 
time.The Mnsselmans of Ceylon are said 
to regard Arabi Pasha us a saint, a pure patriot 
who has been exiled because he sought to liber¬ 
ate his country from foreign oppression The 
first white person born in Australia has just 
died at, the age of 95. When she first saw the 
light there were but 1,000 Caucasians on the 
“island continent,” while now there are 3,000,- 
000.Brazil spends over $200,000 a year 
for the encouragement of immigration, but 
while the United States received over 1,100,- 
000 immigrants in 1880 and 1881, only 40,783 
entered Brazil (u the same pei iod. 
U. 8. Minister Young has collected from the 
Chinese government 860,000. principal and in¬ 
terest, on account of supplies furnished the 
American General, Ward, during the Taiping 
rebellion upwards of 20 years. All other 
United States claims, aggregating about $200,- 
000, are promised speedy settlement. 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Aus¬ 
tralia have approved the annexation of New 
Guinea to Queensland.The Egyptian 
rebels have been defeated, with 500 killed, in¬ 
cluding the Lieutenant of the False Propoet.. 
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Better than any other kliul. 
Suffolk Co., L. 1. Aug. 12, 1882. 
11. J. Baker & Buo.: Gents—In regard to 
the success of your Fertilizer: it has proved 
better than any other kind that was sold here 
this season. Yours truly, 
F. C, FRENCH. .4rir. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches, as a remedy 
for Coughs aud Throat Diseases: “Great ser¬ 
vice in subduing Hoarseness.”— /Rev. Daniel 
Wise, New York. “Greatly relieve any uneas- 
