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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 30,1883. 
Paymaster Wasson’s of the Army, sentence 
for losing Unde Sam’s money in gambling in 
Texas, is that lie be dismissed from the army 
and be confined at hard labor for 18 months 
in some prison to be selected hereafter. 
Secretary Chandler has decided to permit 
Commander Frederick Smith of the Navy, 
who was court martialled for duplicating his 
pay accounts, to resign from the service. 
The will of Archbishop Wood, of Philadel¬ 
phia. bequeaths all bis effects. r<*fl and per¬ 
sonal, to his successor in office, in trust for his 
use as such Archbishop, aud to lie transmitted 
for the like use to his successor in the Church. 
.Two million dollars’ worth of opium, 
in neat 40-pouod boxes, is now in San Fran¬ 
cisco bank vaults, as collateral for loans of 
three-quarters its value to Chinese importers. 
At least $3,000,500 worth has been imported 
of late in anticipation of the increase of duty 
from $0 to $10 a pound on July 1st.The 
projectors of the Louisville Exposition have 
fixed upon prices for privileges. Lemonade 
must pay $3,500; ice cream, $800; cider, 
$1,200; the restaurant, $2,500: beer, $5,000, 
and popcorn, $1,500...Wednesday Gov. 
Ben. Butler visited Harvard College whither 
he was invited as the special guest of Presi¬ 
dent Elliot, to attend the alumni dinner. On 
his arrival he is said to have l»eon perhaps the 
most unpopular man there, but the most pop¬ 
ular before his departure. Senator George 
Frisbie Hoar, President of the Alumni Asso¬ 
ciation. w ho ought to have presided, remained 
away on account of Butler’s presence. 
Inside the Garfield vault in Lake View Cem¬ 
etery, Cleveland, is a tall silver vase which 
Mrs. Garfield keeps filled with fresh flowers. 
On the casket lies Mme. Modjeska’s offering 
of immortelles. Near by is a sheaf of wheat, 
and at the foot the large palm-leaf fan that 
was laid on the casket at Elberon. On the 
fence outside hangs a box in which visitors 
drop contributions to the monument fund, 
amounting to about, $2.50 a day...The 
contract for a new trans-Atlantic cable has 
been signal.President Walter Q. Seott of 
the Ohio State University having resigned, 
the trustees elected President Scott of Athens 
University to the place.The represen¬ 
tatives from the counties of Dakota south of 
be forty-sixth parallel met Wednesday in 
Huron and determined to hold a Constitutional 
Convention at Sioux Falls, Sept. 4....A 
gap of 118 miles, which will be covered about 
the end of August, is the only break in the 
all-rail communication between Duluth and 
Puget’s Sound_....The Treasury reserve, 
which had been steadily increasing for sev¬ 
eral days, Tuesday amounted to $142,482,000. 
It is stated that payments for the present 
month, on account of pensions, will not 
amount to over $1,250,000. The quarterly in¬ 
terest, on four per cent. loan, amounting to 
$7,350,000, will be due to-morrow.The 
President appointed the following cadets at 
large to West Point military academy; Man¬ 
ning J. Logan of Illinois son of General 
Logan; Andrew Curtin Quay of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and Pierepout Isham of Illinois, with 
Robert A. Emmett of New York and Sam¬ 
uel D. Hatch of Iowa as alternates. 
The Interior Department has decided to re¬ 
commend that General Crook’s Ajiache 
prisoners be placed on a reservation by them- 
sel ves at or near Warm Springs. New Mexico, 
a hundred miles or so east of the routes by 
which they can retreat to their old strong¬ 
holds, At present most of them are on the 
San Carlos Reservation...The West¬ 
ern nail manufacturers,report light stocks and 
trade good, but they are not satisfied. At a 
meeting hi Pittsburg an effort was made to 
secure a suspension of work in the factories in 
order that prices may be boomed.Mc- 
Geoch’s liabilities amount to a good deal over 
$6,000,000, without including his Milwaukee 
indebtedness. Two-thirds of it is to the 
Chicago banks, but they are pretty well 
secured. There are but $50,000 with which to 
meet the unsecured claims. Nichols & Co., of 
Chicago, a commission house, whose business 
was worth $250,000 a year, has gone to the 
wall. The MeGooch failure led to a general 
call for margins. On Monday and Tuesday 
morning Nichols & Co. were called upon for a 
quarter of a million iu margins, which was 
more than they could put up. They closed 
out their trade themselves, and promised to 
pay dollar for dollar; but will not be able to pay 
over 50c. on the dollar. Nearly a dozen smaller 
concerns have also burst up on account of Me. 
Geoch’s failure.The fish supply in Lake 
Erie has been seriously reduced by the whole¬ 
sale destruction which has come from unre¬ 
stricted seining. The catch this year has been 
small and poor. Still the fisherman will fight 
the new law against seining.N. H. Ens- 
ley, a negro professor in Howard University, 
Washington, a graduate of Newton Theo¬ 
logical Seminary, and a learned Greek scholar, 
was ejected from a public restaurant at 
Chicago, Tuesday, on account of his color.... 
President Arthur intends soon to leave Wash- 
ingtou for three months. He desires to visit. 
Newport, the Yellowstone Park, the Louis¬ 
ville Exposition, and take a trip over the 
Northern Pacific road.During the past 
ten months 52,810 Canadians have emigrated 
into the United States.It is stated that 
not over $60,000,000 is to be paid out for pen¬ 
sions this year. Commissioner Dudley in¬ 
tended to disburse $100,000,000, but finds he 
can not accomplish the task. It is expected 
that $20,000,000 of the appropriation will be 
carried over to next year.. . . 
In accordance with a recent act of Congress 
the President has reduced the number of in¬ 
ternal reveuue districts from 126 to 82, by con¬ 
solidating two or more small ones, and in re¬ 
taining officials the rule has been, in the case 
of collectors who stood equally well, to drop 
the one who had held his office for the longest 
period. The salary of collector is from $2100 
to $4500. Considerable grumbling among the 
dismissed is, of course, inevitable.The 
Iowa republicans met in State convention at 
Des Moines, Wednesday. Buren. R. Sherman 
was re-nominated for governor, O. H. Man¬ 
ning for lieutenant-governor, and Prof. Akers 
of Linn for superintendent of Public Instruc¬ 
tion, all by acclamation. The convention then 
proceeded to an informal ballot for Supreme 
Judge. Before the first formal ballot was 
concluded it became apparent that Judge Reed 
was successful, and he was declared the nomi • 
nee of the convention by acclamation. 
Credit should be given to Tennessee justice for 
proceeding with the trial of Treasurer Polk 1 
for stealing $400,000. His counsel pleaded j 
that he had paid back $50,000 and hoped to i 
raise $75,000 more, but the judge proceeded to 
impanel a jury.There is apparently 
serious talk about a pneumatic tube between 
New York and Chicago for the transporta¬ 
tion of letters and small packages. The tube 
is to be four inches in diameter, and boxes will 
go through in about four hours. The cost of 
building is estimated at $4,250,000.The 
brewing year begins with May, and in the last 
one there were made in this country 17,349,000 
barrels of beer, of which 5,843,000 were made 
in New York, 1,706,000 in Pennsylvania, 1,585,- 
000 iu Ohio, 1,298,000 in Wisconsin, 1,022,000 
in Missouri, and 1,071,000 in Illinois. The 
Massachusetts product was 857.000 barrels, 
while Connecticut made 119,000, New Hamp¬ 
shire 256,000, and Rhode Island 69,000........ 
Much trouble at Racine, Wis., about distrib¬ 
uting the funds raised for the sufferers by the 
late tornado. A widow who lost three cracked 
window panes chased the Committee-man be. 
cause lie refused her demand for $6.25. A 
man who lost a chicken called the Committee 
thieves because they refused to give him pay 
for a Jersey cow; a man living in a $1,600 
house became abusive because he couldn't gc t 
three times the worth of an old shanty de¬ 
stroyed over his tenant s head. Those that 
suffered least are the most exacting. Relief 
fund looked upon as plunder. Both 
houses of the Massachusetts Legislature have 
passed a resolution to pay Walter Shanly $75,- 
000, damages sustained in building the Hoosac 
Tunnel.The quarantine regulations now 
enforced at New Orleans against vessels from 
Aspinwall are said to be effectually killing the 
trade between the two places, which was ra]>- 
idly assuming large and promising propor¬ 
tions..... 
Examinations under the Civil Service Re¬ 
form regulations have commenced in Rhode 
Island and Michigan.The official 
journal of Mexico states that the Government 
has granted a concassiou to the citizens of St. 
Louis for the construction of two imj>ortant 
lines of telegraph and railway, running 
through the richest section of the republic, 
with a cash subsidy of $7,000,000. 
Lord Churchill, in a communication to Glad¬ 
stone, offers proof that the Khedive was the 
real author of the massacre at Alexandria.... 
A fierce war is being stalled against the 
“trade dollar,” most business houses here and 
in the neighboring towns refusing to take it 
after July 1. Employes even have in many 
cases given notice that they wont take trade 
dollars for pay...... 
During the past week, the Mississippi Valley, 
between Cairo and Alton and the valley of 
the Missouri in the vicinity of Kansas City 
and 8t. Joseph, Mo., have suffered from the 
“June rise” of the rivers named. The levee 
on the banks of the Mississippi, opposite the 
mouth of the Missouri, gave way under the 
tremendous pressure of water brought to bear 
upon it, and thousands of acres of the most 
fertile lands in Sou them Illinois were flooded 
and the growing crops destroyed. On the 
Missouri shore like damage was inflicted. 
Live stock, fences, dwellings, barns, etc., etc., 
were swept away, and the labor of a whole 
season in several counties rendered of no avail. 
Railway trains were for a time prevented 
from making good their entry into or exit 
from St. Louis, although Kansas City was per¬ 
haps the greatest sufferer in this respect. Ark. 
ansas too 1ms been a heavy loser. By this time, 
however, the impediments to transportation 
have been in good part removed, as the water 
has been slow ly subsiding for two days past. 
The damage to the agriculturists who were 
submerged on the Illinois aud Missouri low 
lands will run well into the millions, although 
it is at present impossible to give anything 
like even an approximate total of the loss. 
Western Michigan aud western aud southern 
Fenusylvaniania have also suffered from 
freshets and exceptionally high waters in the 
livers, aud considerable loss 1ms been sustained 
in this way in those regions. New Orleans 
looks upon the upper Mississippi “June rise” 
without a shadow of a suspicion that the high 
waters will do any damage in the lower river 
valley, and expects that the high water above 
will undoubtedly insure uninterrupted barge 
traffic between it and St.. Louis.The 
number of immigrants who have arrived in 
theDomiuion during the present month is over 
eighteen thousand.The President ap¬ 
pointed Mr. Frank D. Conger to be Postmaster 
at Washington...A general outbreak 
of the small-pox among the Arizona Indians 
is indicated. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 30, 1883. 
Western journals speak of the lowlands of 
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys as likely 
to be converted into a semblance of Holland, 
with great dikes protecting the farms from 
floods.The 13th annual commencement 
exercises of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College took place at. Amherst, Mass., on June 
20, Gov. Butler and staff being present. On the 
evening of June 19 the alumni listened to an 
address by U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture 
Loring. At the graduation exercises in Drill 
Hall, Governor Butler presented the diplomas 
to the graduating class. In the course of his 
remarks he said: “Had I a son of my own to 
educate I should send him to the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College, for this institution 
is destined to lie honored with a glorious fu¬ 
ture.” The exercises were very largely at¬ 
tended. The prospects of the college never 
were brighter, aud indications point to a large 
class entering the coming year...... Barbed 
wire manufacturers of the c ountry were in 
session at Chicago early in the past week to 
consider the advisability of forming a new as¬ 
sociation and refusing to pay further royalty 
to the Washburn & Moen Company. 
The Texas Wool-Growers’ Association met in 
San Antonio June 6. The Hon. H. J. Cham¬ 
berlain was elected President; O. S, Nowell, of 
Kinney County, Vice-President; D. E. Bently, 
Tom Green County, Secretary: and John 
Wieldaud, San Antonio, Treasurer. A reso¬ 
lution was unanimously passed: “That we re¬ 
cognize the tariff law taking effect July 1, 
1883, to be an unjust discrimination against 
the wool growers of the county and duugerous 
to their interests.”.A destructive in¬ 
sect among the Illinois strawberries has 
caused a genuine panic. It is not at all sur¬ 
prising. The damage has been so great that 
the strawberry exhibition in Southern Illinois 
had to be abandoned. The bug, according to 
Professor Forbes, has been known for a long 
time, but never before fed upon strawberries... 
Last week's net supply of hogs at Chicago was 
13,585 more than in the corresponding time last 
year—quality much better than a year ago. 
The amount of product made was about 2,- 
500,000 pounds greater than for corresponding 
week last year. The shipment of produet for 
the week (gross receipts for meats aud lard), 
less the receipts, were 2,794,000 in excess of 
corresponding week last year, which amount 
was nearly balanced by the increase in manu¬ 
facture.The N. Y. P. Weekly says: 
“The reserves of wheat on July 1, 1882, were 
small, but probably with visible supply of 10,- 
000,000 bushels was with the invisible supply, 
including flour, fully thirty-five to forty mil¬ 
lion bushels. The reserves, including visible 
and invisible supply on June 30. 1883, will be 
about 87,500,000 to 92,600,000 bushels. 
Many Berlin (Conn.) farmers are having to re¬ 
set their tobacco plants. E. Brown dipped his 
in a decoction of hellebore aud lost. 7,000 to 
8,(XX).On tho Chicago Board of Trade, 
Wednesday, the announcement was made that 
George Stewart & Co., commission dealers in 
provisions, had been forced to suspend by 
leases in McGeoch’s lard deal. Their liabili¬ 
ties are said by a friend to be $150,(MX). This 
failure was speedily followed by that of Sam¬ 
uel Dailey & Co., who are short to the amount 
of about $50,000. 11 D. Armour volunteers 
aid to any respectable firm temporarily em¬ 
barrassed by the flurry.. 
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad has sold all its 
pine lands, comprising about 750,000 acres iu 
Alabama and Mississippi, to a Land and Lum¬ 
ber Company.Lands 50 miles east of 
Bismarck, the newly selected capital of Dako¬ 
ta, are now selling for $5 per acre, an increase 
of $2 in less than a year.Near Cynthia, 
Iud., Saturday, Bub Hnngerford, a farmer, 
while blowing up stumps with dynamite, was 
mortally injured by the premature explosion 
of a cartridge.Dalrymple, the wheat 
king of Dakota says the wheat acreage in Da¬ 
kota is fully one-half larger than last year, 
and the plants are so vigorous that an increase 
in the average yield per acre would not be at 
all surprising. He has made a tour through 
a large portion of Dakota. Minnesota, and 
Wisconsin, and the indications point gener¬ 
ally to a very good crop of spring wheat. 
The Michigan State reports show that there 
were 5,079,488 sheep sheared in 1882 in that 
State, yielding 11,805,579 pounds of wool, and 
that tho number of sheep in the same town¬ 
ships in 1883 was five per cent, greater. On this 
basis there will lie 2,353,343 sheep sheared 
this year, with a total clip of 12,043,000 pounds. 
But at present prices it will not bring as much 
as did the crop of 1882.Landlordism in 
Italy survived the Bourbons and escaped the 
revolutionary tendencies of the Garibaldians. 
An agitation for land reform has recently 
sprung up in Italy, however, and the Govern¬ 
ment is trying to suppress it, without success. 
The impoverished tenants refuse to be sup¬ 
pressed. One of the pojmlar prints, t he Popolo 
Italinno, in a recent, issue, says: “ The carbin¬ 
eers, the police, the soldiers, may suppress ag¬ 
itation, prevent its coming to a head, but, 
alas! suppression in this case will do no good. 
Reforms quick aud speedy are needed.” The 
suppression measures will but drive discon¬ 
tent below the surface.For the first time 
in seven years the National Millers’ Associa¬ 
tion is not contesting a patent suit, and the 
members are correspondingly happy. All tho 
“ roller” suits have been settled, aud the asso¬ 
ciation has nothing before it. but a considera¬ 
tion of all means which can increase the yield 
of flour, and thereby reduce the price of the 
loaf to the consumer.It is reported that 
the East Indian Railway Company, in conse¬ 
quence of advice received from the Govern¬ 
ment relative to American cornpt tition, has 
lowered the rate for the carriage of grain 
from Delhi to Bombay, to 84 shillings per ton. 
...It wasn’t for himself but for Henry 
W. Raymond, that G. W. Chillis purchased 
the Germantown Telegraph. Raymond is a 
son of the late H. J. Raymond, of the New 
York Times.'.The Land Corporation of 
Ireland for the occupation and purchase of 
farms from which the tenants have been 
evicted met in London, Monday. The chair¬ 
man reported that the operations for the year 
had been beneficial and that tenants were re¬ 
turning and paying rents. A dividend of five 
percent, was declaret l...David L. Payne 
(Captain) has applied to the United States Cir¬ 
cuit Court at Topeka, Kansas, for an injunc¬ 
tion to restrain General Pope and Secretary 
Lincoln from interfering with his entrance in¬ 
to and occupation of the Oklahoma district in 
the Indian Territory. This application brings 
up for decision the whole question of the status 
of the Oklahama district, and the United 
States District Attorney for Kansas will be in¬ 
structed by “Brewster, Attorney-General,” to 
attend to the case.....Commissioner of 
Agriculture Loring on Mouduv last appointed 
the Rev. N. H. EgJeston, of Williamstown, 
Moss., to be chief of the Forestry Division of 
the Department of Agriculture, instead of 
Franklin B. Hough, Ph. D. Mr. Egleston lias 
made a study of forestry. So had Dr. Hough, 
who lately published a 381-page book entitled 
“Elements of Forestry.”.Iu the season of 
1881-2 more Mum 3,000,000 trees were planted 
in Great Britain, out of which number Scot- 
laud claims about 2,000,600, England 600,000, 
Ireland 300, (XX) and Wales 400,000. 
The Denver Tribune of the 23d inst. says that 
unless some unforseen disaster comes crops iu 
Colorado will be unusually large this year, 
Grain and grasses are in especially fine con. 
dition.Reports received by the Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture of Tennessee show 
that, wheat is damaged by rust, in nearly every 
county in the eastern part of the State. In 
some counties most, of the wheat is harvested. 
The crop is of good quality in Anderson, 
Blount, Cauiptiell, Carter, Cooke, Granger, 
Greene. Hamblin, Hawkins, Johnson, London. 
McMinn, and Morgan Counties, but is very 
poor in the other counties. Late rains have 
greatly helped corn. Apples aud peaches have 
suffered from late frost, and the crop will be 
short. Clover, hay, aud oats are in poor 
conditions..... 
Tho Land Department of the Kansas Pacific 
in May sold 52,058 acres, mostly to cattle men; 
no previous year since the department was 
organized show's such large sales in a single 
month. The total sales for the five mouths 
of 1883 amount already to 119,710 acres more 
than was disposed of during all of last year. 
.. ..One of the most, importan t lund suits ever 
entered in a Texas court has beeu filed by 
George W. Russ, formerly Adjutant-General 
of Indiana, against Count Teifener, of Italy, 
