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SEPT 8 
THE R0RAI- MIW-YOISCEB. 
of tfjj^ Wuk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 1, 1883. 
The internal revenue collections for July, 
1882, aggregated *11,875,000; for July, 1883, 
*9,161,000. The principal items of decrease 
were manufactured tobacco, *106,400, and 
banks and bankers, *100,000. The principal 
items of increase were spirits, distilled from 
material other than apples, peaches, or grapes, 
*490,000, and fermented liquors, *149,000. 
An extensive forest fire is raging between 
Seal Cave and Great Pond, ten miles from 
Bar Harbor, Me., on the western side of the 
island. The fire burned over two thousand 
acres Two hundred men surrounded the 
burning district with a ditch, preventing 
further damage.The Postmaster Gene¬ 
ral’s report will state that during the last fis¬ 
cal year 3,000 postoflices have been established. 
The net increase is about 2,000, about one post- 
office to every 1,(300 people, and 6,000 money 
order offices.A cyclone on Tuesday night, 
Aug. 21, nearly wrecked the city of Rochester, 
Minn. Twenty-four persons were killed and 
over forty were seriously injured. A passen¬ 
ger train on the Northern road was blown 
from the track between Rochester and Zum- 
brota, and there are minors of great loss of 
life thereby. M. Cole, a miller of Zumbrota, 
was killed while at work. Five lives were 
lost at Kasson, and horses and cattle are found 
dead in all directions. In response to a call 
for help from Rochester, Governor Hubbard 
sent *5,000. The damage to property in the 
latter city is estimated at *394,000.Lord 
Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, with his 
son and two or tliree English lawyers, arrived 
in New r York city by the Celtic last week. 
During his visit in this country lie will be the 
guest, of the American bar. The only things 
settled by his hosts of the New York State 
Bar Association is that the Lord Chief Justice 
will have a reception at the Academy of Mu¬ 
sic, October 11, and a dinner at the end of 
that month, and will sail for home November 
9. Lord Coleridge is 62 yearn old, tall, hand¬ 
some, florid, and a fine genial old gentleman 
of charming manners. Meanwhile he is mak¬ 
ing a tour throughout the country, being now 
in New England.A Helena (Mont.) 
dispatch says both ends of the Northern Pa¬ 
cific Railroad have been connected 30 miles 
west of Mullen tunnel. The golden spike will 
be set by President Villard September 8. 
Revenue cutters have been ordered to patrol 
the coast to protect the country against epi¬ 
demic diseases.General Hancock will not 
accept the command of the army of the West, 
succeeding General Sheridan...... The work 
of the pension office at Washington is now in 
a more advanced condition than at any pre¬ 
vious time in its history.The first ap¬ 
pointment in the Treasury Department under 
the Civil-service law was made on Saturday, 
that of Miss Mary F. Hoyt of Connecticut to 
a *900 clerkship..... 
A fearful gale arose on Sunday on the Great 
Banks of Newfoundland. Eighty fishermen 
are reported drowned. Two hundred dories 
are said to have been lost. The fishing vessels 
were much damaged by the storm.... Charles¬ 
ton, S. C., is rapidly growing in commercial 
and industrial importance, Her commerce 
during the past year reached $75,000,000, 
while 6,500 persons were employed in manu¬ 
facturing. .North Carolina sends a grand 
exhibit of crude products to the Exposition of 
Domestic Industries to be opened on Wednes¬ 
day at Boston.Boston is to open on 
Monday a fine display of foreign art and in¬ 
dustry. The day is the centennial of the 
signing of the treaty of peace which ended 
our Revolutionary War. 
.. The September Postal 
Guide will show that there are now 48,049 
postoffices in the United States, of which 
2,176 are Presidential offices and 6,373 money- 
order offices. Since the year 1876 the number 
of postoffices has been increased 40 per cent. 
The next, issue of the Guide will be compressed 
into 36 pages—the number fixed by the con¬ 
tract.W. J. Davis, who ran five cream¬ 
eries in the vicinity of Beloit, Wisconsin, and 
one at Hinckley, Illinois, has disappeared, 
leaving debts to the amount of over $80,000, 
.H. I. Kimball went from Chicago to 
Atlanta and arranged with leading citizens to 
place a larger hotel on the site of the Kimball 
House, at a cost of *500,000. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept 1, 1883, 
There are about 4,000 Mennonites, or Aua’ 
baptists, in Manitoba, divided into ten or 
twelve villages, and occupying the richest 
land. They came seven years ago, a large 
reservation being set apart by the Government 
or their exclusive use. Their language is a 
mixture of Russian and Low r Dutch, and their 
customs and habits are primitive in the ex¬ 
treme. They are not at all cleanly, living 
under the same roof with pigs, cows, horses, 
and poultry, and they keep aloof from the set¬ 
tlers. Their elders decide minor disputes, but 
the power belongs to the people, without whose 
consent no business of importance can be trans¬ 
acted. They are, of course, subject to the 
Provincial law_California's wheat crop for 
the present year is estimated to be worth *60,- 
000,000. One-third of this will be retained in 
the State for home consumption and seed, and 
the rest will be exported to foreign countries. 
The wheat product of the other Pacific Coast 
States and Territories will he worth *20,000,- 
000 more, making the value of the total wheat 
crop of the Pacific Coast *80,000,000 which is 
more than the entire value of all the precious 
metals mined in the United States during 
1882.The Bell Fanning Company’s 
farm is said to be the second largest in the 
world. It is in the Qn' Appelle Valley, Mani¬ 
toba, and is about ten miles square. The cap¬ 
ital is *600,000, of which 85 per cent, has been 
expended, and the stock is held entirely in 
Canada aud England. Last Fall, before the 
railroad reached there, the company broke 
several hundred acres of laud, and added to it 
largely in the Spring, now having a growing 
crop of 1,000 acres of wheat and 1,800 of oats. 
..Reports from over one hundred to¬ 
bacco towns in Connecticut and the Old 
Housatonic Valley indicate that the tobacco 
crop will be a full average in yield and excel¬ 
lent in quality. The average reduction in 
acreage is fifteen per cent.The Pennsyl¬ 
vania Patrons of Husbandry have a yearly 
picnic at Williams Grove which lasts a week 
aud is addressed by prominent students of 
agriculture. New inventions are displayed 
and practical agriculture is exhibited and 
taught daily to 25,000 farmers. Of course, the 
politicians drift to this rally of the grangers, 
but the picnic has grown to be a unique and 
useful institution until the Philadelphia Times 
considers it “of greater importance than 
State Boards of Agriculture or State agricultu¬ 
ral societies, because of the greater number 
and variety of agricultural interests repre¬ 
sented...The hop crop of Wisconsin has 
been imperilled by hot winds.... Rhode Island 
has one sheep to every 17 inhabitants; Con¬ 
necticut one to 10, and Massachusetts one to 
26, while Maine has six sheep to seven inhabi¬ 
tants; New Hampshire two sheep to three in¬ 
habitants, and Vermont three sheep to every 
two of her population. Forty-five years ago, 
Massachusetts had one sheep to about t wo of her 
inhabitants, or 225,841 sheep to 737,700 persons. 
.... Hog cholera has appeared at Patchogue, 
L. I. Several farmers have lost many swine 
from the disease.The Ohio fruit crop is 
a failure. Apples, peaches and pears are very 
scarce. Grapes are lotting badly, and the 
supply of all kinds of fruit is far from, ade¬ 
quate. Potatoes are doing finely, but are 
high in price. Bugs and maggots are destroy¬ 
ing nearly all the cabbage, cucumber nud 
squash crops.The wheat crop of Ontario, 
Canada, shows a falling off equal to over 33 
per cent, as compared with last year. This 
shortage would be very seriously felt were it 
not that other crops promise good returns, es¬ 
pecially the hay crop, which is the largest 
ever grown. Barley is estimated to produce 
4,570,000 bushels less than in 1882. The oat 
crop is excellent and the rye crop moderately 
good. Corn and fruit crops are to a large 
extent a failure in all parts of the Province. 
. ...A Janesville (Wist dispatch says a 
furious bail-storm practically destroyed the 
entire tobacco crop of EcliertCounty Monday 
night. The damage is estimated at fully 
*100.000—A severe hail-storm passed north of 
Sterling, Ill., Monday evening, doing *50,000 
damage to crops.Official estimates of 
the wheat and other crops in Russia show 
that the yield will be generally satisfactory.... 
The report of the Board of Trade in the Fow¬ 
ler lard case, in Chicago, exonerates the firm 
from McGeoch’s charge of offering adulter¬ 
ated lard. The report censures Fowler Bros, 
for the methods observed in manufacturing 
prime steam lard in the employment of secret 
pipes. It lays the firm open to the suspicion 
of using contraband articles. The report de¬ 
clares that the impurities in lard, by the em¬ 
ployment of a microscope can be easily de¬ 
tected. The investigation cost for testimony 
work over *250,000. Fowler spent $50,000 in 
the defense. The case involved lard worth 
*1,500,000. The most peculiar fact developed 
was the worthlessness of the expert testimony. 
Samples of lard were secretly prepared and 
given to the experts. Their reports pro¬ 
nounced pure, stock adulterations, and adul¬ 
terated samples pure The Board of 1 rade de¬ 
cided to censure the Fowlers for their loose 
manner of conducting business, but the motion 
to suspend them from the Board was lost_ 
The Orange crop in California this year is said 
to be the largest ever known in that State, 
notwithstanding the fact that many trees 
were damaged by the February frosts. The 
Lime crop, on the contrary, is much smaller 
than usual. Heretofore not many oranges 
have been exported from California. They 
are liked well enough for their sweetness and 
flavor to have been consumed almost wholly 
within the State up to the present time. They 
are preferred, as a rule, to any except Flori¬ 
da*, and very few Floridas have reached the 
Golden State. In time, however, with the 
orange crops increasing as they have been do¬ 
ing. California will have to seek a market in 
the Eastern States for her surplus. 
Throughout Northern New York the rust and 
rot have materially affected the potato crop. 
.American reaping and binding ma¬ 
chines recently came out ahead in a field con¬ 
test in Italy, in which several countries were 
represented.One hundred cattle from 
Canada, which were suspected of being in¬ 
fected with disease, were killed on their ar¬ 
rival at Liverpool, England, on Thursday. 
No trace of disease was found in the remain¬ 
der of the same shipment, and they were re¬ 
leased and forwarded to various markets...... 
The Texas papers claim that the profits on cat¬ 
tle-raising in that State have averaged 100 per 
cent, in the past, five years, while in some 
eases they have reached 500 per cent, and the 
claim is well substantiated by statistics. 
The Bulletin do£ Halles, of Paris, says the yield 
of wheat this season in France will be 85,000,- 
900 hectolitres, compared with a yield of 
104,000,000 to 105,000,000 each year since 1872. 
The quality', however, is exacted to be good. 
... Mr. A. E. Gibbs, of Westfield, Mass., who 
has written so much about poultry of late 
in the Rurat., dropped dead Thursday' from 
heart disease.The Kansas 
State Board of Agriculture reports a wneat 
harvest of 23,882,919 bushels, or a “decrease 
from the crop of 1882 of about 7,000,000 
bushels.” The oat harvest is reported at 29,321- 
862 bushels, and about 170,000,000 bushels of 
corn are promised, not less than 4,655,022 acres 
having been planted in com, and the condi¬ 
tion lteiug 100 as compared with the state of 
the Kansas cornfields one year ago. The Kan¬ 
sas rye harvest is reported at 4,882,298 
bushels. The steamer Ionia from New 
Zealand via the Straits of Magellan, lately ar¬ 
rived at Plymouth, England, with 13,000 froz¬ 
en carcasses of sheep in good condition. She 
made the voyage in forty-five day's. 
The tobacco division of the Internal Revenue 
Bureau computes the average quantity of leaf 
used during the past year in the Unit'd States 
in making 1,000 cigars at 23 pounds. The fin¬ 
ished product exceeds In weight the leaf used 
by an average of eight per cent., most of 
the excess being chargeable to fine-cut chew¬ 
ing tobacco and damp snuffs.. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Bismarck, who is still in poor health, is be¬ 
coming more and more the terror of Europe. 
Lately the North German Gazette, the same 
mouth-piece through which he is accustomed 
to fulminate against the American Hog, used 
towards France language which the London 
Times characterized as “an unjust and brutal 
menace”, Public securities all over Europe 
straightway' dropped in anticipation of possi¬ 
ble war; but things are quieting down. The 
old Emperor seems peacefully disposed, and 
although Europe is groaning under war 
burdens, in the shape of immense armies, the 
active horrors of war are hardly likely to 
break forth just now.In England Parlia¬ 
ment has been prorogued, leaving Gladstone 
“master of the situation’’ after several severe 
battles aud a couple of slight defeats. 
Annnm has completely surrendered, to France 
and a t reaty of peace has been signed. A 
French “Protectorate” is acknowledged, 
French “Residents” are to live in all the 
principal towns in Touqulu aud be protected 
there by troops ; the Chinese who have done 
nearly all the fighting, are to be expelled and 
no more are to be admitted, and in short, An- 
nam is to be the beginning of a French “In¬ 
dian Empire.” China is, of course, jealous, 
and hastily arming; but unless much encour¬ 
aged by Russia or Germany, the Celestials are 
hardly likely to go to war.The Count. 
de Chambord, last of tbo Legitimist heirs in 
France, is dead at last, and t he Count do Puris, 
eldest son of Louis Phillip, is now heir to the 
kingly'throne of France, both on the side of 
the Legitimists and OrleanistH. The Republic, 
however, is stronger than ever, judging by t he 
results of the late elections.O’Donnell, 
who killed James Carey, the informer, said 
before he was committed for trial at Capo 
Town : “1 am not guilty of willful murder. 
The killing was done in self-defence. Carey 
drew a revolver from his righLhand pocket 
aud 1 snatched it and shot him”.Prime 
Minister Sagaste this week tendered to King 
Alfonso the resignation of the Spanish 
Ministry..,. 
There was a collision the other morning off 
Eddystone.Light, in the English Channel, be¬ 
tween the. French steamer St. German, bound 
from Havre for New York, and the steamer 
Woodburn from the East. The Woodburn 
sank immediately' and eighteen of her crew 
were drowned.. 
Temble volcanic convulsions in and near the 
island of Java. Mountains and islands disap¬ 
peared, and new volcanoes—16of them—have 
appeared in the Straits of Sunda The num¬ 
ber of deaths caused by the calamity is put at 
SO,000, The loss of property is immense. 
There is talk of exhuming the remains of 
Shakespeare.Work is being pushed along 
the line of the Panama Canal.The Porte 
has declined to permit Admiral Tngleflold, of 
the British Navy, to make surveys for a canal 
in Palestine.The Russian forces among 
the Tekke-Turkomnns number 15,000 men..... 
The Dutch Artie steamer Varna has founded 
m the Kara Sea; the scientific party on board 
was rescued; the Danish Artie exploring 
steamer Dijmphna was safe at last accounts. 
.Advices from the interior of Colombia 
report that the attempt at a political revolu¬ 
tion has been suppressed. Bogota advices, 
dated August 15, report a revolt by a battal¬ 
ion at Ziponnirn, against the national and 
State authorities. One thousand national 
troops left Bogota to quell the disturbance_ 
-» 
A startling fact.. Heart disease is only in¬ 
ferior in fatality to consumption, do not suffer 
from it but use Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator. 
It has cured thousands, why not you ? *1, at 
druggists —.4 dr. 
Tetter, Erysipelas, Blotches, all cutaneous 
eruptions cured by Swayne’s Ointment.— Adv. 
illxu'Kds. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago.—"R egular” wheat Blow- prices fluctuated 
wtthln a range of M>c, and closed about the same as 
yesterday’s closing figures. Com w: - quiet but 
steady. Oats were quiet an i nsy, Cork teas 
stronger. Lard opened and closed higher. Wheat 
quiet; $1.1X11$ August; $1,(10K<* I.UUTjt September: $1.02 
@1.027* October' $L04% November' ai-Ud-t nil the 
year: No. 2 Chicago Spring fl o0(al.(PV<.; No. 8 do. 
9354c; No. 2 red Winter. $1.nf'#L CORN quiet; SU*c. 
enshi Kite August: 50146 50-Xe September; SOciOcto- 
her; -1604654c all the year. Oats easy nt 2-Ur cash; 
285*e August' 26%c September. Rtk steady at 5fe. 
Barlev quiet nt (4&M<ve. FlANSEKD ntvady at $1.85. 
Butt mi quiet; Creamery, fair to fnney. l>- iHc; 
dairies, good to choice, l?o He. Enos quiet at lfiVka 
17c. Pork stronger nt $12.03 L><» 12. It) cash; $I2.UVW; 
@12.05 August und September; $12. 1K@12.I iU October; 
? 11.fir,Mil.7o November• $11 Out*'1.65 ull the year; 
$12.1456012,15 for January . Hous- Market brisk ana 
higher. Prices—Packing $4.6505; packing and ship¬ 
ping, $5.10@0.40t light *\S0«6t skips $3.5004.75; Cat¬ 
tle— Market slow, weak and 10c lower, sales—Ex¬ 
ports $5.MVfi}t\SU: good to choice shipping steers $5.25 
@5 70; common to medium $4iu.$5. SHERI'—Market 
steady and values strong. Hales—Inferior to fair $2.85 
@3.50; good $1; choice *1.15. 
Cincinnati.—W heat demand Ortn at fl.Oft&Scptcm - 
her: October $1.0056. Cokn 52Wc spot. Oats easy at 
2856029c. Rye quiet nt ntio. Pork quiet at tlSt* 1.4.25. 
Laud fair nt M.IISc. Hitter steady: choice West¬ 
ern Reserve, 20c; choice Central Ohio, 15c. Hons 
steady; common and light, $4«3,75; packing aud 
butchers' $4.7305,85. 
St. Lot ts. -Whkat unsettled; No. 2 Red Fall, fl.lMW 
@l.04fk cash: $1.045401.0$. August. *1.05@1.05q< Sep¬ 
tember; $l.07sr t.071s October; 8., IIV.i | .08* No' ember; 
$1.05 all the year. Corn firmer; cash sold nt ir-Lc, 
tfi4£c August: 4fl0493te. September; l«%c October; 
4I7fje all the year. Oats, 27c ensh; 2596c September; 
2554<7o33J$o all the year. Nothing doing In Rye or 
Burley Hitter steady; dairy, 12017c. Cattle— 
(Inod grades steady, with a fair demand, but poor 
grades weak und slow; exports JS.SOtufl 15; good to 
choice shipping $5.23®5.ir>- medium to fair $4.75® 
5.23; common and mixed lots of butcher's stuff *3.50 
@4 00. Sheep— market llrm on good grades, which 
were wanted ut $8,850)4.30, Oood common to medi¬ 
um $2.7503.50; Texans, good to choice, $2 75@8.75. 
Hoos— Market dull und unsteady; light $5.4005.50; 
mixed packing $4.0O@3,1O; butchers $5,20@5.40. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York. Sept. 1, lft<8. 
Beans and Peas.— Beans—marrow, l'S'J, prime, #2.15 
<«i2.50: Beans, medium. 1882, prime $2.3002.35; do pea, 
$2.30(32 40; do. w hite kidney 18.82, choice, $S.&0@2.C5; 
do. turtle soup, 1*82, $8.65@S.T5' do. foreign, medi¬ 
ums, $1.60®$1.7$t Peas, green, 1882, prime, $1.2501.80. 
Breadstuff!) and provisions.—as compared with 
prices two weeksago.uiigriided red wheat Islow¬ 
er; No. 4 red Is Be lower; ungraded white Is 8c higher 
Corn—Uugrudcd mixed ts lc. higher; No 8 mixed Is 
214c higher. Oats—No. 3 mixed Is tgc lower; No. 3 
white Is Ik* lower: No. 2 mixed Is &c lower; No. 2 
white Is 10c lower: No. 1 mixed Is tic lower; mixed 
Western 1* 3c lower: white State Is 5c lower. 
Flour, Ford and Meal—F lour—N o. 2. $2.8003.56; 
8U per One, $3.25® 3,90. lutler extreme; common to fair 
extra Stale. $i.(K.U4. 10; good to fancy do.. *l.50f/tr,.25: 
common to good extra Western,' <1.00®4.50: good 
to choice, $4.6007.50; common extra Ohio. 84.HKrti4.ri0: 
good, $l.'<V,o5.en; good lo choice, *5.«0<a 8,75' com¬ 
mon extra Mtnn., $4.1001.50: clear, $34*6; rye 
mixture. $1.70(45.50; straight, $5.5ust,il.i»: patent. t5’;K) 
@7.60; St. Louis common to fair extra, $4.11 >@4.60; 
fair to good, $1,656(9' good to very choice, $5.1(i@>7: 
latent Winter wheat extra, 85.5007.50, latter an ex- 
re me: c ity mill extra for West imllcs. 88,50643.90- 
Sou th America. $6@6.IS' Southern Hour Common to 
fair extra $4.25<w5.3Mr good to choice, do. $.'i.:Lv.tfus;e i ;. 
Rye Hour- Superfine $3.90(34,75. Feed, JO It. 82 Um 
85e; 60 lb Mwttc! No n. 50e: 11K) Iti $J@l 10: sharps, 
81.1.7)41.20; r.ve feed !lfi@9.7c, Corn Tneul — Yellow 
Western, $3(49.4o, Braud.vYvtne, $H.40 a3.50. 
PRICES or Drain—WHEAT—U ngraded red, !)lr@ 
8'.20: No. 4 do. $1.00: No. 3d . $1.1216® 1. 14, the higher 
figure for delivered' .'deumer No. 2 do $1 l.'dq.nl. 1SW; 
No.2 do.$l 17)4(41,175; m elevator $Lt77t(>i i . Kiq,afloat; 
uugrudcd white. 7Bc@$ 1.20; No. 2 red for August, 
$1.1(!5i(rt/1.17$4; September, $t,lM>i@1.17U: October. 
AI-HILoi 1.1‘ja.j; November, #1 VIXe> I December, 
$1.2314® L24U; January, SI.25Js<(t 1.26U; February, 
$1.2lii6i. ItYK- Western to arrive, sold IPJ^c., 
cost, insurance nnd irctgbt, iurlkv dull and nomi¬ 
nal. Barley Mai.t—U nchanged, uulei. Corn Un- 
gruded mixed at J 1 »c N u. i do. 62(.. - !l .. ,\» 1 
03!<c@ r 'le, afloat; Low mixed 68c; white Western, Oflc; 
yellow do. M(ifi44c, No Vmixed for Aueiist, ttn.je; 
September. Rt@63c; October, November, 
6256008c■ OaTs —No. 3 mixed at H3Vi(" do. white, 
85c; No. 2 mixed, 835<j<3>ft594c; do. white, 86c; No. 1, 
86e: do. white, 48c: mixed Western, 35@87c; white do 
87(*4Hc: white State, 10047c; No. 2 mixed for August 
85Hit*8594c; September, 84l6<*34J6e; October, 85L,@ 
36}4e. November, 86ki@36Wc. 
