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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 15, 1883. 
The wife of Robert Toombs died in Clark- 
ville, Ga., of paralysis....... The widow and 
daughter of Stonewall Jackson were in Boston 
early in the week, the guests of Gov. Ben. But¬ 
ler.Hanlan has cabled to England that 
he will row Layeock (Australian) on the 
Thames course for $5,000 a side — Five of the 
naval cadets a t Annapolis have 1 >een dismissed 
for hazing.A party of 500 editors visi¬ 
ted the Louisville Exposition. The speech of 
welcome was delivered by Harry Waterson. 
.Ilelmbold, the whilom patent medicine 
man, has been sued for $250 in Philadelphia 
for the work of painting his advertising sign 
on the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.A 
train on the St. Louis and Evansville road 
carrying a company of Illinois militia, return¬ 
ing from an encampment, was thrown from 
the track. Nine of the militiamen were killed, 
andfifte > oundod.President Arthur 
has ret.u iv from his visit to the Yellowstone 
National Park. He’s in excellent health and 
nearly ready to start on another junketing 
tour to Baltimore, New York, Newport, etc. 
.75 per cent, of the Government clerks 
in Washingtou borrow money from brokers 
who charge them from two to 20 per cent, a 
month interest. One firm floes a business of 
this sort of $40,0<H) a month........The Labor 
Federation in Washington has taken steps to 
form a society for the protection of women 
from insult on the streets of Washington at 
the hands of “mashers and dudes, who make 
their living by deception.”.Postmaster 
General Gresham will direct the President’s 
attention to the fact that several Postmasters, 
who are the proprietor's of newspapers, have 
inserted the advertisement of a lottery comp¬ 
any, sharply criticising the Administration on 
accouut of the decision excluding lottery let¬ 
ters from the mails. Some prominent 
landscape gardeners and the Garfield monu. 
tuent committee have selected the highest 
point in the Lake View Cemetery at Cleveland 
as the site of the dead President’s monument. 
It is an irregular plot of about 90,000 square 
feet, overlooking the lake. The plan is to run 
a broad boulevard about the lot, connectiug 
with several walks and drive-ways. The view 
from the hill is described as magnificent. 
John E. Both well of New York is said to be 
directing a railroad survey across Wyoming to 
the Yellowstone Park, backed by a London 
syndicate and the Union and Central Pacific 
railroads. The country to be developed by this 
road is noted for its agricultural grazing land, 
as well as for timber, soda, coal, iron aud pe¬ 
troleum .The President has issued a proc¬ 
lamation declaring that the world’s industrial 
and cotton centennial exposition will be opened 
on the first Monday in December, 1884, at New 
Orleans, and continue until May 81,1885. 
5,440 patents were issued during the first: quar¬ 
ter of t he present fiscal year as against 4,881 
for the corresponding quarter last year. Dur¬ 
ing the past, week the Patent Office issued 467 
patents, 25 designs, 5 trade-marks, 18 labels, 
and 8 re-issues. Of the domestic patents New 
York secured 72, Massachusetts 47. Illinois 40, 
Pennsylvania 40, Ohio, 25, and Connecticut 24. 
The foreign patents numbered 16.In 
1872, Benjamin E, Bates of Boston, made a 
conditional contract to give Bates College, 
Lewiston, Me., $100,000 provided $100,000 more 
were raised within five years. The heirs claim 
the condition was not fulfilled. The trustees 
of the college brought suit to secure the 
amount. The full bench of the Massachusetts 
Supreme Court sustained the decision of the 
lower court which was against the college.... 
A disease has broken out among the swine of 
Springfield,town of Jamaica, L L,believed to 
be hog cholera. Many farmers have hogs rick 
with the disease. Two of them lost 15 in one 
night.During July the national debt was 
reduced in round numbers $7,91(0,000; during 
August $6,671,000: total for the first two 
months of the present fiscal year, which began 
July 1, $14,572,441—the exact figures. 
The steamship Nevada landed W82 Moimon re¬ 
cruits from Europe in New r York the other 
day, en route for Utah-.... A cock-and-bul] 
story comes from Washington that evidence 
has just been discovered that Dorsey bribed 
three of the jurors at bis late trial.. 
Within three years the number of saw-mills in 
Arkansas has increased from 319 to over 1,300. 
.Canada’s cotton factories are to be ran 
only four days a week. There is complaint of 
over-production.A syndicate in GaL 
veston proposes to build wharves out to deep 
water in the Gulf of Mexico. To do this they 
will try to borrow $5,000,000 of the State’s sur¬ 
plus, which will exceed $5,000,000 two years 
hence, and will be $10,000,000 within five years^ 
if the State sells the school lands. 
Rhode Island and Delaware together are 
mailer than the Yellowstone^ Park.It 
is proposed to raise the salary of Philadelphia’s 
Mayor from $5,000 to $10,000 a year.The 
city of Devil’s Lake, Dakota, isnotyetlOOdays 
old, but ah-oady choice lots are sold at $2,000 
each. It has seven large hotels and two banks, 
.David L. Payne (Oklahoma Payne), 
President; J. B. Cooper, Treasurer; C. B. Cal¬ 
vert, Secretary; and A. W. Harris, Assistant 
Secretary, the officers of the Oklahoma Com¬ 
pany, an organization to locate lands in the 
Indiau Territory, were arrested at Wichita, 
Kans., last Wednesday for conspiracy to vio¬ 
late the laws of the United States by settling 
upon lands in tho Indian Territory.Deer 
are dying in large numbers in Virginia of a 
disease called black tongue. 
The French authorities at Washington have 
been refused permission to take 20 Indians 
from their reservations to be shown at the ex¬ 
hibition at Paris, because such exhibition 
would demoralize Die Indians and render them 
dissatisfied with life at the agencies. 
For the last fiscal year $216,780,809 were col¬ 
lected by all our Custom Houses at an expense 
of $6,442,127, the average cost of collecting $1 
in all districts being two cents and nine mills. 
.... The formal opening of the Northern Pa¬ 
cific Railroad took place last Saturday, Sept. 
8, in presence of a large concourse of visitors. 
The main line is 1,980 miles long and there are 
674 miles of branches. The road has a bonded 
debt of $40,000,000, and preferred stock to the 
amount of $48,000,000—an entire indebtedness 
of $ 88 , 000 , 000 . Its land grant embraces the 
alternate sections of land for 20 miles on each 
side of the road in the States, and for 40 miles 
in the Territories, with an additional 10 miles 
on each side as an indemnity limit, within 
which lands may be selected to compensate 
for those taken by settlers inside the original 
grant. This grant is expected iu time to pay 
off the preferred stock. There are two im¬ 
mense bridges on the line, one over the Mis¬ 
souri River between Bismarck and Mandon 
costing $1,500,000, and the other over tho 
Snake River at Ainsworth, Washington Terri¬ 
tory. There are also two large tunnels, one 
at the Bozeman Pass, in the Belt Mountains, 
and the other at the' Mullan Pass, in the main 
division of the Rocky Mountains. The former 
is 36,000 feet long, and the latter 3,850 feet. 
The highest summit passed at any point on the 
line is in the Bozeman tunnel, which is 5,565 
feet above the sea level. The Mullan tunnel 
has a slightly less attitude, being 5.548 feet 
above the sea. This gigantic project, now 
brought to completion, was first mooted by 
Asa Whitney in 1845; in 1858 a government 
survey was made under Isaac I. Steven: Joriah 
Perham, of Maine, finally obtained a charter 
from Congress in 1864, and after minim: him 
and half a dozen other men. it finally stands a 
magnificent fact—au achievement which 
shows what American pluck and perseverance 
can do...... .. 
• War” broke out Monday between the rail¬ 
roads running west of Omaha. Fares for pas¬ 
sengers fell from $14.30 to $9.30. The tickets 
are limited to one day. The cut is made by 
the Wabash.Hugh Hastings of the New 
York Commercial Advertiser is dead. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 15, 1883, 
The September returns to the Department 
of Agriculture indicate a lower condition of 
com than in August in every section of the 
country and in nearly every State. Tho only 
gains in the West are in Missouri, Kansas and 
Nebraska, where slight improvement is indi¬ 
cated. Minnesota stands as in August. Ar¬ 
kansas makes a gain of 1 point, and Georgia 
and Alabama remain as in August, but all the 
other cotton States show a heavy decline. The 
figures are also much reduced for each of the 
Middle States. The com surplus States show 
changes as follows: Ohio, a reduction from 
89 to 82; Michigan, 68 'to 60; Indiana. 
95 to 85; Illinois, 86 to 82; Iowa, 85 to 80. 
The increase in Missouri is from 83 to 84; 
Kansas, 99 to 101; Nebraska, 84 to 87. The 
decline in New York if from 91) to 77, and in 
Pennsylvania from 99 to 89. The general av¬ 
erage of condition on the 1st of September was 
84, a decrease of five points during the last 
month. The cause of tins reduction, so nearly 
universal, is drought, which is reported from 
every State of the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf 
Coast and the Ohio Valley, and lieyond the 
Mississippi to the.cresrt of the divide between 
that river and the Missouri. Between the 
Ohio River and the lakes the distribution of 
rain has been unequal, in a few places in ex¬ 
cess, while a deficiency is generally reported. 
The crop is nearly everywhere late, requiring 
one to two weeks’ longer season than usual to 
mature. Where Kansas and Missouri seed 
was planted in more northern territory the 
crop is still later, causing much apprehension 
as to ripening. While planting was late und 
the early season too wet, with drought follow¬ 
ing, the average temperature of the Summer 
has been low, making a full yield an impossi¬ 
bility. “The condition of wheat when har¬ 
vested,” as reported in these returns, averages 
83, which indicates a product 17 per pent, less 
than the yield of last year, or a loss of 86,000,- 
000 bushels. The crop of oats will be large, 
the general average being 99. The promise 
for potatoes is good, represented by 95, throe 
points higher than the reported average of 
September, 1882... 
Horace Greeley’s farm, Chappaqua, N,Y., was 
bought at auction by Miss Gabrielle Greeley 
for $10,000, half of its estimated value. Nobody 
would bid against the “old man’s daughter.” It 
cost $70,000.... The Canadian Pacific Railway 
exhibit, consisting almost entirely of agricul¬ 
tural products, at the International Exhibi¬ 
tion in Amsterdam, has been given the high¬ 
est award—a diploma of honor -..At 
a meeting of the Ohio Wool-growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, held during the Fair in Columbus, a 
movement wes strongly favored to try and in¬ 
duce Congress to restore the wool tariff of 1867. 
.Representative Cox, of North Caro¬ 
lina. who hits been traveling iu Germany, says 
public opinion does not justify the prohibition 
against American pork......... A new name 
for the Jersey—“the rich man’s goat.”. 
Minnesota’s wheat crop is conservatively esti¬ 
mated at 40,000,000 bushels—a surplus of 30,- 
000,000, all harvested in good shape. Unpre¬ 
cedented.. .The official statement of the 
cotton crop of the United States for the year 
ending August 31. 1883, issued by the National 
Cotton Exchange, at New Orti ans, on Septem¬ 
ber 8, shows the total crop to have been 6,944,- 
756 bales, including receipts at shipping ports, 
6,000.612 bales; shipments by rail routes, over¬ 
land, to Northern spinners, direct from pro¬ 
ducers, 641,801 bales. The report shows that 
Southern mills consumed 313,393 bales, an in¬ 
crease over last season of 26,439 bales. The 
increase in the total crop, compared with the 
previous year, was 1,498,708 bales. The tak¬ 
ings of United States spinners for the year 
were 2,073,096 hales, an increase of 108,561 
bales.The farmers of Delaware County, 
I ml., report that a great deal of the Kansas 
corn planted last. Spring will be too late to 
properly ripen. I t Is feared that the greater 
part will only be valuable for fodder.. 
The drought ill Texas, Virginia and New Eng¬ 
land has been broken by liberal rains; but a 
great deal of irreparable injury has already 
been done to the crops... 
Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, says one- 
sixth of the laud cases appealing for lower 
rents have not been heard, aud when all are 
settled, he claims the reduction of rents within 
the whole island would amount only to $5,000,. 
000.... The preachers in Aurora, Ind., counsel 
their flocks not to attend the fair, because in. 
discriminate gambling Is allowed.Can. 
ning factories, according te> the Rochester 
Democrat and Chronicle, are buying all the 
best peaches, and thus keeping the prices 
high... .The Memphis cotton-seed mills,which, 
owing to a lack of the seed, are operated only 
four or five months annually, are to be con¬ 
solidated. As it is, they are unable to pay 
cotton growers euougb to induce them to ship 
the seed, and much of it is consequently used 
for fertilizing purposes. By consolidating the 
mill owners hope to raise the price of tho oil 
and to pay producers such prices as will keep 
the mills supplied The peach-growing cen¬ 
ter is gradually moving south. A few years 
ago there were great orchards iuNew Jersey. 
Then Delaware was the chief producer. Now 
Maryland und Virginia are coming to the 
front. The largest peach farms are in Mary¬ 
land. The Round Top Farm has 126,000 [teach 
trees. On the estate of ('ol. Watkins there are 
120,000 trees. A poach tree's usefulness is 
over after ten or twelve years of life, and the 
soil iu which it grows is unfit for poach cul¬ 
ture .. ..The carrying of cattle on long steam¬ 
ship voyages has become a regular feature of 
commerce, but we rarely hear of a vessel 1 ic¬ 
ing converted into an aviary. The arrival 
here Thursday of the Comet from Tampico, 
with fourteen hundred parrots, shows that a 
floating aviary is as practicable as a floating 
cattle pen.A cablegram hist 'Wednes¬ 
day says the continued spread of the cattle 
disease in nearly every portion of England 
causes the greatest uneasiness. In some sec¬ 
tions of England only American beef is now 
to be obtained. Reports from Scotland state 
that the disease has not yet. made its appear 
ance there.Tho wire-fence war will en 
gage au extra session of the Texas legisla¬ 
ture. Home of the pastures are fenced with¬ 
out a break for forty miles or more, and the 
only choice left to travellers is to drive two 
days’ journey out of their way or cut the 
fences.The Texas cotton-buyers* and far¬ 
mers’ differences have been settled. Cotton is 
to be weighed at the compress by the public 
weighers, in conjunction with a weigher se¬ 
lected by the press and approved by a majori¬ 
ty of the buyers. If a dispute arises, then a 
disinterested person shall be called in, and his 
decision shall be final... The statistical bul¬ 
letin of tho German Empire reports that the 
number of persons who cultivated the tobacc 
plant in Germany was 215,249, and that the 
area under cultivation was about 55,000 acres, 
showing a decrease of about 30,000 planters 
and 13.000 acres in the year 1881. Tho largest 
area of land under tobacco cultivation last 
year was in the Grand duchy of Baden (17,000 
acres), and then came Prussia (8,200 acres), 
Bavaria (8,000 acres), Alsace-Lorraine (7,500 
acres), and Ue-sse-Damistadt (2,400 acres). The 
total weight of the tobacco crop when dried 
was 38,850 tons, as compared with 61,315 tons 
in 1881, and of this quantity 11,670 tons came 
from the grand duchy of Baden, 9,884 from 
Prussia, 8,383 from Bavaria, 6,674from Alsace- 
Lorraine, aud 1,129 from Hesse. .. 
Fresno County, Cal., is making a canal 100 
feet wide from King’s River to irrigate 30,- 
000,000 acres of dry and worthless desert. 
.The English sparrows which are 
eaten in Philadelphia for reed birds, are con¬ 
sidered as being a great delicacy. The flesh 
of the sparrow is darker than that of the reed 
bird, but the Philadelphia cooks say that only 
those who ha ve never eaten anything but reed 
birds can tell the difference... The 
Treasury Department has authorized the ex- 
tention of the cattle sheds at Patapsee, near 
Baltimore, and the construction of three addi¬ 
tional for the accommodation of cattle ex¬ 
pected to arrive about. October 1.The 
total value of the exports of domestic bread- 
stuffs, from the United States during the 
month of July, 1883, and during the seven 
months ended July 81,1883, as compared with 
similar exports during the corresponding 
months of the preceding years were as follows; 
July, 1883, $10,179,597; 1882, $16,468,269 
seven months ended July 31, 1883, $85,328,- 
532; 1882, $81,824,578. 
The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Assoc- 
atiou will hold its annual convention in Cincin¬ 
nati on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiv¬ 
ing Day.........The English harvest has 
progressed slowly during the last week. 
The payment, of $300,000, the proceeds of the 
sale, of some lands belonging to the Cherokee 
Indians, commenced Monday at Vinita, Tale 
quah, and Fort Gibson. About 1.600 are en. 
titled to money_.-.A butter and eheese ex¬ 
change has been organized at Des Moines, la. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 15, 1883 
Lately a concentration of the Powers of Europe 
has been taking place around two centers— 
Germany and Russia. Norway und Sweden, 
Denmark and Bulgaria have been drawing 
dose to the former by alliances and friendly 
expressions, wliile Austria-Hungary, Italy» 
and of late Spain aud Roumania have become 
closely allied in the same way with Germany. 
England keeps free from all Continental com¬ 
plications, aud Franco's Republicanism iso¬ 
lates her among the crowned heads of Europe. 
The neutrality of Belgium and Switzerland is 
guaranteed, and Portugal prefers the friend¬ 
ship of marntime Euland to all others politi¬ 
cally, while the Sick Man of the East who 
stays iu Europe by tolerance, must offend 
neither side. The King of Spain is now on a 
jaunt to Austria, and will next visit Germany, 
where an alliance open or secret, is pretty sure 
to be contracted, although ou his way borne he 
will through courtesy visit France. The Czar 
is visiting Norway and Sweden where the 
PrJuce of Bulgaria keeps him company. He 
too will courteously visit Germany before re¬ 
turning home. The recent accessions to the 
Austro-Germanalliance is likely soon to embol¬ 
den Bismarck to issue a proposal for a general 
congress of all the European Powers with a view 
of determining upon u general disarmament. 
It is said that tho Governments of Austria, 
Spain, and Italy have already signified their 
willingness to participate in such a congress.. 
Much grumbling by English fishermen at 
Newfoundland at a series of outrages per 
petrated by French fisherman. A British 
admiral investignliug the matter.Yel¬ 
low fever is raging at Gunymas aud Hermos- 
ville, Mexico.The census of the popula¬ 
tion of the Austrian empire, taken for the 
night of Dec. 81, 1880,gives the following gen¬ 
eral results; tho total population of tho whole 
empire was 37,786,000 souls. Of these 15,642,- 
002 fell to the Hungarian portion, aud 22,144, 
244 to the Austrian or Cisleilhan portion. Ac¬ 
cording to their nationality, the populations 
are distributed as follows in round numbers: 
There are 10,000,(MM) Germans, 6,191,000 Mag¬ 
yars, 7,055,000 Bohemians, Moravians, and 
Slovaks, 3,290,000 Poles, 3,180,000 Ruthcuians 
1,220,000 Slovenes. 4,176,000 Serbo-Crouts, Mid 
3,518,000 Roumanians. There are, taking 
them altogether, 19,000,000 Slavs—a little 
more thun half the whole population of the 
empire. With respect to religion the inhabi¬ 
tants of Austria-Hungary are classified as 
follows: Roman Catholics, 29,753,169; Ortho¬ 
dox Greeks 8,450,000; Calvinists, 2,180,000: 
Ev angelical (Gexman Reformed Church), 1, 
