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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 20, 18S3. 
Three inches of snow in Toledo, Ohio, May 
21.A political feud between readjusters 
and straight-out Republicans in .Jerusalem, Va.. 
resulted in the killing of John L. Newson, by 
Llade Lewis, Monday last.Terrible 
flood Sunday at. Dead wood, Dakota: halt the 
town destroyed—damage estimated at $700,000. 
In all that, section great iujurv from floods 
due to heavy rains and melting snows on the 
mountains. Many lives lost .Reform 
in tliis State, has added $900,000 to the expens¬ 
es of running the State Government, owing 
to the creation of new' offices and incident 
salaries for famish ing politicians. Free canals 
will also add to the taxes, and it is thought 
that 82,400,000 more will be wanted this year 
than last........ Much talk of defalcation and 
swindling in high army circles owing to losses 
in gambling. Col. Igles, Lieutenant-Colonel 
A. P. Morrow, of Gen. .Sherman's StalL and 
Paymaster Wasson are only a few of the 
prominent delinquents.The Ohio brew- 
ers, in their convention at Cleveland, resolved 
to vote against any party “known to be iu 
favor of law's prejudicial to our business in¬ 
terests.”.Guiteau’s miserable bones 
have been disposed of by the Surgeon-General 
nobody knows how.Only 1,569 Chinese 
arrived at San Francisco doling the first 
months of this year as against 11,SIM) in the 
same period of 18S2, Of 450 who arrived re¬ 
cently 330 will go to Victoria to work on the 
railroad. The steamer City of Rio Janeiro 
sailed for China Thursday week with 250 Chi¬ 
nese, the greater portion of whom were pro¬ 
vided with certificates which enable them to 
return....The President has appointed 
lawyer Walter Evaus of Louisville, Ky., Com¬ 
missioner of internal Revenue to succeed 
Green B. Raum. Evans was a partner of Ex- 
Sec. Bristow: later one of the Grant “ Old 
Guard" of 800 at Chicago, Republican candi¬ 
date for Gov of Ky., in 70, and was strongly 
recommended by Postmaster-Geueral Gres¬ 
ham: Silas Butcher of New York declined the 
place.Main track of the Atlantic and 
Pacific Road has been built 560 miles west of 
Albuquerque, N. M., during the ye sir, and 
only 10 milasmore now remain to be built to a 
junction with the Southern Pacific at the 
Groat Colorado. Central division completed 
to a point three miles w r est of the Arkan¬ 
sas River in the Indian Territory, 100 miles 
west of the State line of Missouri. The road 
has been strengthened at all weak points by 
rip-rap so that washouts in the future are not 
expected. The lands earned by construction 
to date ore 17,220,000 acres. The road is fully 
equipped with rolling stock.South 
Carolina is rejoicing over the beginning of a 
new railroad making a direct line between 
Charleston and Chicago, thus more intimately 
uniting the Southeast with the Northwest.... 
Sec. Tellrr will let a cattle company build a 
railroad on the government land to the sum¬ 
mit of Pike’s Peak, this Summer...Four 
million herring have been placed in the Ohio 
River by the C. S. Fish Commissioners, and 
five million salmon have been distributed by 
the Cuvier Club.The national conven¬ 
tion of negroes called to meet at Washington, 
September 24, will meet at Louisville, Ky., 
instead ou the same day.Heavy im¬ 
migration into Kansas reported by the Kan¬ 
sas Pacific R. R.: last year’s sales of its lauds 
—106,000 acres—are already exceeded. 
Creditors of the Freedmenls Saving Bank at 
Washington, whose bankruptcy created such 
a hubbub some years since, have just received 
a final dividend of seven per cent, making 
65 per cent, in all.“Bob” Ingersoll has 
been “ pitching into” the Government lawyers 
and witnesses in behalf of the Star-routers dur¬ 
ing the week.. Kate Kane the lawyer 
who threw' w ater in Judge Mallory’s face, w as 
released from jail in Milwaukee. Sunday, 
where, she had been confined a month for con¬ 
tempt of court. Her lady friends took her 
away iu a hack and presented her a purse.... 
_A China steamer Thui-sday brought 1,000 
cases of opium to San Francisco. The duty 
amounts to 8150,000.The prohibitory 
liquor amendment w'as defeated in the Penn¬ 
sylvania Senate, yesterday week, by a vote of 
21 to 18—less than a constitutional majority. 
.All druggists in Biddeford and Saco, 
Me., have been indicted for selling liquor. 
..Great excitement over gold discoveries 
in Lower California.The Mexican au¬ 
thorities have protested against Gen. Crook’s 
pursuit of the hostile Apaches into Mexico. 
He appears to have obtained the consent of 
all the military authorities in the country 
“invaded,” and his movement is heartily ap¬ 
proved by the citizens in Mexico and Arizona. 
He has about 400 men, over 200 of whom are 
Indian scouts. A telegram this morning says 
the General has found the hostile Apaches in 
an intrenched position in the Sierra Madras 
Mountains in Sonora. His advance scouts 
were repulsed. In a general advance Crook’s 
forces Killed 301 ndians. The remaining bucks 
broke a nd fled, and Crook at once pursued them. 
Destructive forest fires are reported to be rag¬ 
ing in N ew Hampshire and Vermont.A 
band of 53 Canadian Cree Indians have been 
captured near Musselshell on the Upper Mis¬ 
souri River in Montana, and are being driven 
back to Canada.The great $14,000,000 
bridge connecting this city with Brooklyn, the 
finest on the globe, was formally opened Thurs¬ 
day. Half holiday here; nearly whole holi¬ 
day beyond the river; gala day iu both places. 
Immense throngs in the streets, especially 
about the bridge ends. River alive with the 
gayest of flags. President Arthur, Governor 
Cleveland, Mayor Edson of New York, Mayor 
Low' of Brooklyn, and crowds of functiona¬ 
ries, big and little, hideous, homely and hand¬ 
some, honored the opening. The President's 
arrival at the New York pier was announced 
■with salvos of artillery from the forts, and 
when he reached the Brooklyn tower the guns 
of the four meu-of-war in the stream added 
their roar to the general din made by steam 
whistles of tugs, steamboats and gim firing on 
the Brooklyn side. Grand displays of oratory 
by day and of fireworks by night.. 
Helena, Ark., has succeeded in compromising 
her debt at 50 cents on the dollar..The 
Baptists have unanimously indorsed the ac¬ 
tion of the Missionary Union and pronounced 
their accounts correct They are also to have 
a Baptist Bible.Delaware has increased 
her Governor’s salary to $2,500. At tins rate 
per square mile the Governor of Texas would 
have $320,000.The late Bishop Peck 
of the Methodist Church gave all his prop¬ 
erty to Syracuse University, having “an 
ambition to die without anything. ”.The 
fuller the accounts of the cyclones and tor¬ 
nadoes that ravaged wide areas in the West, 
yesterday week, the greater the dispair of giv¬ 
ing even a bare notion of them iu the short 
space that can be allowed here. Lamentable 
and aw'fui accounts reach us of losses of life 
aud property in or near Racine and Union 
Grove, Wisconsin: Harvard, Olive, Carlin- 
ville, Hillsborough, Peotone, Mt. Pulaski, 
JSprinfield, Tallula, Macon, Carrollton, Litch¬ 
field, Clinton, Pana, Jacksonville, Littlelterry, 
Taunton, Illinois: Jaincsburg, Montgomery 
City, St. Charles, Wentzville aud Columbus, 
Missouri, while hundreds of other places ou 
the lines of the tornadoes suffered disastrously. 
Never, so far as we remember, has the wind 
played such havoc over so wide a range. 
The Canadian House of Commons has adopt¬ 
ed an address, thanking Lome for the great 
services he has rendered Canada. His suc¬ 
cessor will arrive in October.The 
Washington monument reached a bight, of 
850 feet Thursday. 
The City Council of Rockford, 111., has fixed 
the saloon license fee at * 600 , an advance of 
$100 over last year's rate. Wherever high li¬ 
cense is tided it becomes popular in the com¬ 
munity, and is never lowered, but when 
changed is always raised higher.The 
Illinois Legislature has been in session over 
four months, and lias passed only 11 bills.... 
_Deposits of one cent can lie made iu a Ne¬ 
braska savings bank, which has organized a 
children’s deparment.The steamer Gran¬ 
ite State, running between Hartford, Conn., 
and New York, was burned this day week— 
three lives lost...Much talk about Eng¬ 
land demanding the surrender of three Irish 
malcontents now resident here. Nothing in it 
but talk hitherto. Patrick J. P. Tynan, the 
notorious “Number One,’’ is living openly in 
Brooklyn, and offers to surrender to the Amer¬ 
ican authorities when needed. All have the 
best, legal help to fight against a surrender to 
the English authorities... 
The Grand Lodge of Good Templare, meet¬ 
ing iu Chicago, proposes to aidin procuring 
liquor prohibition enactments in the several 
States.Prayers were said in the Ro¬ 
man Catholic churches in Toronto on Sunday 
for the repose of the souls of Brady and Cur¬ 
ley, the Phoenix Park assassins, who were 
hanged last week.... 
The riotous acts of the striking coal miners, at 
and about Collinsville, Ill., have aroused 
grave apprehensions for the safety of life and 
property. The Governor, on being appealed 
to for aid, ordered two companies of militia 
to proceed to the scenes of disorder yesterday. 
Desperate Case. 
“As a rule,” say Drs. Starkey and Paleu, 
“our patients belong to that large class of in¬ 
valids who have failed to get relief from 
skilled physicians, or from the use of drugs or 
patent remedies. Their diseases are chronic; 
frequently of many years' standing, aud often 
so deeply intrenched in some vital organ that 
cure becomes almost a miracle. They come 
to us in despair of help from any other source, 
catching at our Compound Oxygen Treatment 
as a drowning man catches at a straw. The 
marvel is, that of these apparently hopeless 
eases, so many are ameliorated, greatly 
helped, or radically cured, by the subtle 
agent we administer. Cases which we have 
hesitated to undertake, aud which in spite of 
our discouraging answers when an opinion 
was asked, were placed in our care, have 
rapidly improved, almost from the beginning, 
and steadily progressed to a cure —as m uch to 
our surprise ami gratification often as to 
that of the patients and their friends."' Their 
Treatise on Compound Oxygon, containing 
large report of cases and full information, 
sent free, Db.h. STARKEY & Pa MSN, 1100 & 
1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa .—Adv 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 26, 1883. 
J. II. Sanders, of Chicago, one of the 
Treasury Cattle Commissioners, is ou his way 
to Europe as special agent for the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agricultm'e. It is understood his 
trip has particular reference to restrictions 
now imposed upon our export cattle trade 
with Great Britain aud to our pork trade with 
Germany and other European countries. He 
is also under instructions to examine into and 
report upon the dangers from contagious and 
infectious diseases to which our live stock Ls 
exposed by further importations from Euro¬ 
pean countries; to visit and report upon the 
international live stock show, to lie held iu 
June next at Hambui^;, and to make a general 
survey of the live stock interests of Europe, 
as compared with our own, under direction of 
the Commissioner of Agriculture.The 
Jacksonville Times says Florida has 2,500 
acres or about 12,DIM) tons of “ garden truck 
for Northern markets.Southern Geor¬ 
gia has about 10,000 acres under watermelons 
mostly to promote Northern colics.A 
Philadelphia company has begun feather- 
fanning in Accomac County, Va., having 
now 2,000 geese, and intending to increase to 
10,000.An exasperated hen in West 
Albany, N. Y,, whose chickens were killed 
last week by rats, has adopted a fitter of kit¬ 
tens—evidently bent on revenge.A 
dispatch from San Francisco says the wheat 
yield in California will be from 17 to 20 bush¬ 
els per acre. The claim is made that Cali¬ 
fornia will certainly be the banner wheat 
State of 1888.There is an increased 
wheat acreage in Kentucky, and the crop 
promises fairly. There is also a larger acreage 
of corn than last year, and three-fourths of it 
in good condition.Eighty seven suits 
have beeu filed iu the United States Court at 
Cineiuuati for infringement the of patent 
driven well. About 1,200 suits have been 
brought in Ohio.Specimens of weather 
last TuesdayMay 23. Ice half-an-inch thick 
formed last night at Dixon, HI.Two 
inches of suo < v fell about Cincinnati. No signs 
of injury to fruit or leaves.CaseyviUe, 
Ill.: Severe frost has done more injury to 
crops thau the cyclone.Memphis, Teun.: 
Ground covered with frost this morning— 
heavy enough to injure fruit.New York 
City: Raiu-storm last night, 31 inches fell_ 
. .Storm in Brooklyn—the fiercest for years... 
Cleveland, Ohio: Hurricane here last night— 
the heaviest in ten years. Snow falling now 
in Anglasie County. Small fruits all killed. 
Other fruits badly damaged. Crops here¬ 
abouts greatly injured by wash-outs, etc. 
_Wilkesharre, Pa.: Raining since Sunday; 
storm severe now. Heavy rain and wind 
greatly injuring crops.....Port Huron, 
Mich,: Storm still raging with sleetand snow. 
Many wrecks aud great losses on the lake. 
.... Helena, Ark.: Considerable frost. Cotton 
on uplands seriously damaged. Such low 
temperature never before knowm here at this 
time as during lost two days.Augusta, 
Ga.: Late and more complete news from the 
growing crops in this section of Genrgia and 
South Carolina state that the young cotton is 
suffering from the cold weather blight, drain 
and garden crops are generally uninjured, 
hut watermelon vines, a specialty in this sec¬ 
tion, are seriously damaged.:... Mont¬ 
gomery, Ala.: Light frosts were reported 
yesterday, but without damage to crops. 
_Havana, Cuba: The drought now prevails 
over a great pari, of the island and may prove 
disastrous to the growing crop. It is so great 
at Cuibarien that a demijohn of water for 
drinking is sold in the town for 15 cents. At 
Puerto Principe the absence of rain inflicts 
immense damage ou the adjacent pastures, 
and fears are entertained that numbers of 
cattle will perish for lack of food and water, 
as the wells are drying up. The drought, 
however, is favorable to sugar-making. As 
the end of the cane hurvest approaches the 
calculations of its deficiency grow more 
accurate, and trustworthy estimates now 
figure the crop at 452,000 tons, or 25 per 
cent, less than that of last year. 
Wholesale stealing of mules and ponies re¬ 
ported from the Kansas border of the Indian 
Territory...The South Carolina Truck 
Farmers’Association has just been organized 
by 70 Grangers in Barnwell County. Already 
there are 5,000 acres planted in the State in 
“truck” chiefly for the Northern markets... 
-Advices from Egypt state that the condi¬ 
tion of the crops is excellent, due to the ample 
irrigation of the various canals. The wheat 
crop is large in quantity and "good in 
quality.The Wisconsin State Fair 
is to be held at Madison. 
A largo herd of imported Jersey cattle, which 
were brought over to Philadelphia in the 
steamship Lord Clive, aud w hich have been in 
quarantine for some time to meet the require¬ 
ments of the law, were sold there on Thursday 
last at Herkness's Bazaar. The bidding was 
spirited. Mr. J. B. Morris, of Saugatuck, 
Conn., had Royal Beauty, bred by P. De 1a. 
Per relic and sired by Downey, struck down to 
him for $1,000. C. Easthorpe, of Niles, Ohio, 
obtained Bobby’s Princess Royale for $975; 
Mr. II. D. Trusti, of Wallingford, Pa., “Con¬ 
volvulus” for $1,075; W. H. Burr’s “Pilot’s 
Veronica” for $1,010; and W. R, McCready, 
of Saugatuck, Conn., “Orauge Peel’s Rosa” 
for $900. The prices obtained for the other 
animals ranged from $205 to $710.A 
determined effort is being made to secure the 
removal of Commissioner Loring, chiefly on 
account of his recent peremptory removal of 
Dr. Collier, Chief Chemist of the Department 
of Agriculture. Farmers’ clubs and Granges 
in this State and elsewhere regard this as an 
evidence of the Commissioner’s opposition to 
sorghum culture, and are “resolving” in op¬ 
position to him. A thorough investigation of 
the Department is to he sought when Congress 
meets.The Mark Lane Express, in its 
review of the British grain trade during the 
past week, says it is now certain that the 
wheat crop w ill not amount, to an average 
yield.Reports from Maine say the rav¬ 
ages by the potato beetles bid fair this year to 
he more extensive than in any preceding one. 
Potatoes are second in importance only to hay 
in Maine.Tho harvest prospects in 
Franco are favorable.Bosnia advices 
say that the ground is covered with three 
feet of snow, and the crops are probably 
ruinpd. Great suffering is apprehended. 
In Lexington, Ky., the sale of Thoroughbred 
yearlings by D. Swigert, Saturday, was at¬ 
tended by horsemen from all parts of the 
Union. Forty-four head brought $48,000_ 
Crop reports to the N. Y. Times from 120 
counties, in 80 States and Territories South 
and West, indicate that tho wheat crop will 
be larger than the average of five years back. 
The corn crop is almost uniformly better than 
last year aud likely to approach that of 1880. 
The cotton crop prospects are encouraging. A 
remarkable increase in the acreage of the hay 
crop is most promising. Fruits give every in¬ 
dication of a large yield. Miscellaneous crops 
are in a generally flattering state. While we 
shall not have a booming year, there is a solid 
basis for a healthy, progressive und profitable 
general trade 1 .Maple-sugar is a failure 
throughout this State, so says the State Agri¬ 
cultural Society.The average value of 
cut flowers sold iu 1 Kind on is £1,200 daily. 
Camellias have gone out of favor and Gar¬ 
denias, the Prince of Wales’s favorites, have 
taken their place.Two hundred sacks 
of orange peel, valued at $1,060, were lately 
shipped from San Francisco to Havre—the 
first shipment of the kind. Orange peel is, in 
fact, largely imported into New York. 
The Ohio State Fair Ls to be held at Colum¬ 
bus, Sept. 3 to 7. Premiums to the amount of 
$25,000 will be offered. W. I. Chamberlain, 
Columbus, is Secretary, and will furnish 
information on request.The Ohio Wool 
Growers, too, have begun to “move” in the 
matter of forming a National Wool Growers’ 
Association.Tho American Nursery¬ 
men’s Association will meet at St . Louis, June 
20.Reports of a fresh outbreak of 
pleuro-pneumonia among cattle near Wash¬ 
ington.The annual drive of stock from 
Texas has fairly begun. Thousands of cattle 
and horses from Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, 
and other Southwestern States are on their 
way to the trail in tho Indian Territory. 
.Several cases of glanders among horses 
at Rock Falls, HI.The largest single 
sale of mules ever made in the United States 
took place at Colombia, Term., May 11. The 
purchaser was W. B. Leonard, who paid $185 
a head for 155 animals, making an agregate of 
$28,675. They are tor use upon sugar planta¬ 
tions, will be taken to Louisiana in August 
next. Mr. Ridley, the owner of the stock in 
question, is said to lie the largest mule raiser in 
the country, und Maury County, Tennessee, 
claims to have the most extensive mule market 
iu the world.There is snow' on tho moun¬ 
tains iu upper South Carolina. The cold 
there is unprecedented at this season, as it is 
also iu Georgia.Over 8,600 acre* have 
beeu put iu new vineyards in Fresno County, 
Cal. An enormous grape crop is expected 
