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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 29, 1883. 
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad 
and a committee of colored j eople have agreed 
that all suits against the road on account of its 
having prevented negroes from riding with 
white folks, shall be withdrawn and further 
suits discouraged on condition that the com¬ 
pany shall put on separate aud excellent ears, 
with equal accommodation, for its colored 
patrons within three months. Other Te xan 
railroads will follow this example... 
After October 1, the Western Union Telegraph 
Company will charge a uniform rate of 25 
cents for the first 10 words and two cents for 
each additional word between the cities in 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu¬ 
setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey—a reduction of 
50 per cent, in some cases and of 40 and 30 per 
cent, in others. The same rates will be charged 
on messages sent to and from points in New 
England to this city, Brooklyn, Jersey City 
and Staustead. Quebec. Messages fi om New 
York City to the oil regions w ill be taken at a 
reduction of 2* to 30 per cent. The rates will 
apply to 3,500 offices, at only 200 of wdiich is 
there any competition with other companies. 
.Spiecheo has been elected Principal 
Chief of the Creek Nation in the Indian Terri¬ 
tory by 40 majority over Perriman and Chi- 
chate—a defeat for the Liberal and Progressive 
party.The new comet discovered 
away in the depths of space on September 4, 
by our occasional contributor, Prof. Brooks, 
of Phelps, N. Y., is causing a sensation among 
astronomers, as it tans out to be the comet of 
1812, whose period is about 70 yearn, and 
whose elliptic course stretches out to about the 
orbit of Saturn. The nucleus and short tail 
will he visible to the naked eye when it is ap¬ 
proaching nearest to the sun about the middle 
of January.About a hundred thou¬ 
sand Canadians are engaged in the lumber 
business The total product of lumber in Can¬ 
ada in 1881 was $38,541,752,... 
Those five Memphis cotton-seed-oil mills have 
failed to consolidate for the benevolent pur¬ 
pose of raising the price of cotton seed a little 
for the benefit of the planters, and the price of 
cotton-seed oil and cake a great deal for the 
benefit of their own pockets. The 
report of the Ohio State Auditor shows the 
collections under the Scott liquor tax law to 
be nearly $2,000,000 in the State, which has 
been distributed in localities where collected 
to the poor and to the general revenue and 
township funds.Illiteracy has increased 
in Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada and Cali¬ 
fornia, and decreased in Georgia, Mississippi, 
North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia w itb- 
in the past ten years...England hav¬ 
ing jnst greatly reduced fees for patents, to go 
into effect at the beginning of the new year, 
our Commissioner of Patents recommends a 
still lower scale of fees for this country. The 
office has an accumulated surplus of $2,500,000, 
and the profits last year were about 40 per 
cent, of the gross receipts... 
Ben Butler has been nominated for Governor 
by acclamation by the Democrats of Massa¬ 
chusetts, and also by the Greenbackers. 
A telegram from San Francisco says that 
Judges Field and Sawyer have just decided 
that Chinese laborers, even though British 
subjects, are excluded from this country by 
the law of 1880. The question of treaty rights 
is ignored by the decision which is purely ju¬ 
dicial...Texas has 6,139 miles of rail¬ 
road. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 29, 1883. 
Which of you have ever seen a larger Thoro¬ 
ughbred horse than Prince Charlie,the famous 
race horse imported last Monday by Mr. 
Daniel Swigert, owner of the late Wm. H. M- 
Sanford’s model breeding farm, near Lexing. 
ton, Ky.'? The horse is 17 hands high, and 
his frame while beautifully symmetrical, is 
proportionately large. He is 14 years old 
and son of Blair Athol.The largest steer 
in Nebraska is a Short-horn grade, the prop¬ 
erty of Sweet & Rider, whose farm is ten 
miles west of Nebraska City. When weighed 
some weeks ago he was 3,282 pounds. He will 
be at the great cattle show- in Kansas City in 
November, and it is expected he will then 
weigh 3,6(10 pounds.At the Bridgewater 
Mass, cattle show, Friday last, Gov. Butler 
said that at a “ love feast” at Lieut.-Governor 
Ames’, shortly after his election, his immedi¬ 
ate predecessor. Ex-Governor Long, kindly 
offered him his collection of cattle fair 
speeches, as with them Ii6 could get along well 
at the cattle shows. But Ben. preferred his 
own simple and guileless orations.The 
Signal Service predicted frost'in the Northwest 
and West last Friday and Saturday. No frost. 
A laugh on the S. S.A good deal of 
talk in the papers about the virtue of witch 
hazel rods (diviningrods) in discovering water. 
Many well authenticated tales told of success 
with them. Which of you can add to the list? 
.According to Gov. Sheldon there arc 
in New Mexico 8,000,000 acres of good agri¬ 
cultural land well supplied with water. 
Recent immigratian has probably brought 
its population up to 150,000, and, like 
Dakota and Montana, it will soon be knocking 
at t he door and asking to be admitted as a 
State......A Washington dispatch says that 
the Secretary of the Interior is likely to rec¬ 
ommend to Congress the repeal of the pro • 
emption luws and the timber culture act, for 
two or three reasons, but principally because 
both acts “ offer a premium to dishonesty,” 
It seems that special agents have for some 
months been employed in the Territories, with 
the result of discovering great numbers of 
fraudulent entries.The State Fair at 
Lewiston, Me., last week was the biggest ever 
seen in the State, the receipts reaching $20,- 
000.The “ wheel of fortune” feature of 
the Wisconsin State Fair realized $2,500 over 
the $1,000 paid the Agricultural Society for 
the privilege of introducing that kind of gam¬ 
bling.The poultry exhibition, some cattle 
sheds, and a barn on the State Fair grounds at 
Waverly, N. J. were burned Thursday. Loss 
$4,000.A convention of representatives 
of all classes interested in the Animal Indus¬ 
tries or the United States will be held in Chi¬ 
cago, Thursday and Friday, November 15th 
and lfitb, 1883, for conference concerning 
contagious diseases among our domestic ani¬ 
mals. In addition to addresses aud reports, 
the following topics are proposed for dis¬ 
cussion: 
1. The extent to which contagious diseases 
exist, among domestic animals in this country. 
2. The modes by which they are introduced 
or disseminated. 
3. Methods by which they may be eradica¬ 
ted, or infected districts isolated, 
4. The efficiency of existing legislation rela¬ 
tive to such diseases. 
It is desired that this convention may be 
national and thoroughly representative in its 
character. The time and place have been se¬ 
lected for the convenience of a large number 
of those directly interested in the questions to 
be discussed, who are expected to be in at¬ 
tendance at the Annual Fat Stock Show under 
the auspices of the Illinois State Board of 
Agriculture, and at meetings of a number of 
important live stock associations to be hold 
during the continuance of this show. 
Agricultural, live stock, and dairy associa¬ 
tions are invited to send representatives, and 
all persons interested in breeding, rearing, 
transporting, importing, or exporting any 
class of farm animals will be welcomed to the 
convention. 
The Indiana Fanner puts the damage to the 
corn crop in the northern divisions of Ohio, 
Indiana and Illinois at not less than 25 per 
cent: while in the central and southern sec¬ 
tions of the same States, the injury to the crop 
has been very slight.The Government 
has appointed a commission to investigate the 
subject of trichinae in swine. It will soon be 
in Chicago.The Deering Harvesting 
Works have been incorporated at Lake View, 
Dl, with a capital of $2,500,000.A bill 
just passed the Georgia Legislature requires 
that all dealers in oleomargarine shall notify 
customers when oleomargarine is offered to 
them. All manufacturers are required to 
plainly label their product; the hotels, restau¬ 
rants, and otherplacesof entertainment where 
oleomargarine is used, are required to post 
signs in their dining-rooms, as follows: “This 
house uses oleomargarine.” The same notice 
has to bo put on the bills of fare. Such legis¬ 
lation elsewhere has had little or no effect on 
the sale of “bullock’s butter.” for it has been 
found impossible to secure the enforcement of 
such laws. Indeed, hardlv any attempt has 
been made to do so. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 29,1883. 
Gen. Manteuffel, Viceroy of Alsace-Lor¬ 
raine, has ordered that the German language 
shall be used instead of the French by all 
municipal ami judicial functionaries at Metz, 
Tionville and other places hitherto exempt in 
the acquired territory.A grand conven¬ 
tion of Irish Nationalists is to be held at Leeds. 
England. A programme of moderation is urged 
by Parnell, Rossa delegates from America to 
be excluded.The Princess of Wales Is 
becoming deaf. The best ear doctors can’t 
suggest a remedy.Advices from Guaymas 
Mexico, on the Pacific coast, give horrible ac¬ 
counts of the ravages of yellow fever. Mazat- 
lan also is suffering terribly, 800deaths having 
occurred from the plague in six weeks. 
A gialien outrages still continue in Ireland 
The Orangemen and Catholics are also coming 
to blows here and there in the north of the 
island on the question of “Home Rule,” the 
Orangemen being now, as they always have 
been, greater sticklers for British rule. The 
fear, real or pretended, of violent outbreaks 
between the two parties, affords the govern¬ 
ment a pretext for suppressing some of the 
mass meetings projected by Parnell and his 
followers in favor of the Land League and 
Home Rule.Of course, Gladstone’s visit 
to Copenhagen had no political significance. 
Had he meant to enter into any negotiations 
with foreign powers, he would have brought 
along Lord Granville, Secretary of Foreign 
Affairs; for etiquette peremptorily requires 
that the work in each department of the gov¬ 
ernment must be under the supervision of the 
Minister in charge of that department. Glad¬ 
stone, however, did what no “Commoner” 
ever did before him—he invited to dinner on 
board his vessel the Emperor and Empress of 
Russia, the King and Queen of Denmark, the 
King and Queen of Greece, and a galaxy of 
attendant Princes, Princesses, etc., etc., every 
one of whom accepted the imitation, and all 
had as jolly a time as such exalted personages 
can have..France will have to eat 
a large dish of “humble pie” or “crow" before 
the Tonquiu trouble is settled. As the French 
“weaken,” the demands of the Chinese grow 
greater and more peremptory. An appeal has 
been made to England to act as peace-maker 
or keeper, and it is probable that the difficulty 
will ultimately be peacefully settled. Chiua 
knows quite well the embarrassment a war so 
far away from home must cause to France, 
and the Chinese A mbassador in Europe, Mar¬ 
quis Tsing, is proving himself an admirable 
diplomatist in turning everything to the ad¬ 
vantage of the people he represents. The 
French Ministry can’t declare war without 
the consent of the Assembly and Senate, and 
this consent will certainly not he given, as the 
country is becoming clamorous for peace in 
the East at any price short of a manifest in¬ 
jury to national honor. 
Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator cures all 
forms of Heart Disease, nervousness and 
sleeplessness. — Adv. 
Skin diseases vanish by use of Swayne’s 
Ointment. Nothing better.— Adv. 
£l)c iilorkcte. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, September 29, 1883. 
An estimate of the wheat crop of the United 
States at this time can only approximate the 
truth; an estimate of the wheat crops of the 
world at large must be still more uncertain, 
yet it is of high importance both to the buyers 
and sellers of wheat that the best aud latest 
information on this subject should be placed 
before them. Last year’s wheat crop in the 
United States amounted to 502,789,300bushels. 
The Department of Agriculture, in its pre¬ 
liminary estimate, says there will be a proba¬ 
ble shortage of 86,000,000 bushels in this year's 
crop as compared with last year’s. The re¬ 
ports of the State Boards of Agriculture, how¬ 
ever, make the deficiency considerably 
greater, for these make the shortage in seven 
States and one Territory 113,500,000 bushels, 
and between these two sources of informa¬ 
tion the estimated deficiency ranges from 86, 
000,000 to 120,000,000 bushels. Our gross ex¬ 
ports of wheat (flour reckoned ns wheat in¬ 
cluded) last year were 146,724,305 bushels 
against 121,020,922 bushels jn 1881-2. There is 
a large surplus of wheat from last crop still 
on hand, however, and though it Is uncertain 
how large this really is, it is thought that it 
will go a good way towards making up for the 
deficiency in this year's wheat crop. But 
isn’t there a considerable wheat surplus from 
old crops every year when the new crop comes 
into market? 
Various estimates of the wheatcrops of the 
world have been mode from the best obtain¬ 
able sources by recognized “authorities” on the 
matter, within the last few weeks in this 
country and Europe. These vary consider¬ 
ably, but in view or the enormous extent of 
country covered bv them, and the necessarily 
Uncertain data on w hich t hey are based, the 
ditferen ces between them are not very re¬ 
markable. They are, of course, only approxi¬ 
mations, and the truth is likely to be in the 
neighborhood of a middle position between 
the extremes. The estimates are usually 
formed on the basis of a comparison of the 
present condition and outlook with the ascer¬ 
tained results for a series of years past—usu¬ 
ally for the last ten. They are generally sup¬ 
ported by a long array of figures and 
arguments; but here there is room only for 
the final figures of a couple of the latest and 
most trustworthy. The New York Produce 
Exchange Weekly of Sept. 14, estimates the 
deficiency in the world’s wheat crop at. 81,000,- 
000 bushels. On the other band Le Fer- 
mier, a Paris agricultural authority, figures 
for the world a deficiency of only 42,278,750 
bushels. Here is a comparison of the estimated 
deficiencies and surpluses of various countries 
according to these two authorities, the French 
hectolitres being reduced to bushels. 
■The fallowing table shows the two estimates of the 
surplus of exporting countries: 
Exchange 
Weekly Lc Fnrmler. 
Bushels. 
North American.115.000,000 
India. Persia, etc. . 35,500,000 
Russia. SS,OOo,lXX) 
Austro-Hungar.v, Roumnnla, 
Turkey.10,000,000 
Australia, N'evv Zealand, etc_ O.POO.OOU 
Chill. 8,500,000 
French Algeria. 1,000,000 
Bushels. 
122.012,500 
42,502,500 
28,875,000 
15,000,250 
11.850,000 
5,675,000 
Total. 
..232,000,000 225,581,250 
The following table sliotvs the deflelences In various 
countries. 
Bushels. 
France.75,000.000 
United Kingdom.143,000,000 
Belgium ana Holland. 38,000,000 
Spain nnd Portugal.8,000,000 
Unly nnd Sicily.20,000.000 
Germany.18,000,000 
Switzerland .in.nno.noo 
Greece and Medlterram n.8,000.000 
Sweden.1.000,000 
West Indies.... 
South America. 
Bushels. 
86,750,000 
138,802,500 
14.187.500 
11,850,000 
19.862.500 
7,093,750 
8,228,750 
8.512.500 
8.512.500 
Total 
,313,000,000 267,860,-000 
Several other “ authorities” give estimates 
between these two, such as Beerbohms, of 
London, who puts the shortage at 68,000,000 
bushels. The Millers’ Journal of Minneapolis, 
Miunasota, places it at 250,000,000 bush¬ 
els. This was over a month ago, how¬ 
ever, and later estimates a]ipear much more 
reliable. On the other hand, the London Mil¬ 
ler puts the total shortage at 40,000,000 bush¬ 
els. The aggregate of the old stock on baud 
everywhere, according to it, amounts to 95,- 
000,000 bushels, and the shortage of 40,000,000 
bushels is in spite of this surplus from former 
crops. 
With regard to European crops the out¬ 
come of which will effect priees'of our wheat, 
and, to a much less extent, of our corn, M. 
Bart. Estienue, of Marseilles, France, whose 
researches on the subject of European and 
Asiatic production of bread-stuffs are very 
thorough, says that the wheat crop of France, 
although not among the largest, is a bountiful 
one; wheat in Italy is of good quality, but not 
a full crop; but oats and maize are good. 
Austro-Hungary’s crop is under the average; 
but still a good one. By the way, the Hun¬ 
garian Minister of Commerce puts the wheat 
crop of Huugary for 1883 at. 91,259,707 bushels, 
against an average, for 11 years, of 58,363,- 
747 bushels; but very little reliance is placed 
on this estimate. According to M Estienne 
reports from the Turkish Dauubian Provinces 
are satisfactory, while the season in Russia 
has beeu extremely favorable to grain crops. 
In Germany wheat is of good quality and 
quantity and other cereal crops are fair. Bel¬ 
gium and Holland have good wheat, but de¬ 
ficient rye crops. Spain will have cereals to 
export. In Asia Minor, Syria aud Cyprus 
the crops have been good; aud in India, 
though the wheat crop will not be as large 
as last year, owing to unfavorable weather 
in the Punjaub, the quality will bo good. 
This is a rosier view than most others. The 
latest reports from England say the area un¬ 
der wheat this year is 13 per cent, less thau 
last, entailing a deficiency of, say, 10,000,000 
bushels; to which should be added a shortage 
of about 5,000,000 bushels, as the yield per acre 
is thought to be from one to two bushels less 
thau last year on 2,500,000 acres—the area 
under wheat. Reports made to the Interna¬ 
tional Congress at Vienna a few weeks ago 
declare that, the rye crop of Europe is 201,000,- 
000 bushels short, and as a largo proportion of 
the population of Europe use rye instead of 
wheaten bread, this shortage must effect the 
price of wheat. 
Although statistics, however, of the wheat 
crop of the world are favorable to stiff 
prices, the market during the past week 1ms 
beeu dull. This has been due muinly to the 
enormous surplus on hand in the United 
Kingdom. This is far above any possible im¬ 
mediate requirement, and accordingly buyers 
do uot care to invest their money now iu what 
will not be wanted for months to come, and 
therefore exports are comparatively small 
and stocks are accumulating. 
Here is the visible supply of grain, com¬ 
prising the stocks in granary at the principal 
points of accumulation at lake and Atlantic 
ports, and on rail and ou the Mississippi River, 
and afloat ou New York canals, destined for 
tide-water: 
Sent 22, sew. 15, Sept. 2a, Sept.24 
1888 1888 IRS? 1881 
Wheat, bush. 26,171,613 24,476,819 I8.2S7.9M 13,636 320 
Corn, bushels, 115,692.061 11.858,798 8,700,538 fl,7T)M98 
Oats, bushels, 5,710.016 5,741,(20 5,760,792 6,157.093 
Rye. bushels. 610,288 474,099 888,584 195,054 
Barley, hush's 1,097,213 1,528,228 760,785 725 186 
Total hush’s, 49.871,171 46,868,490 26.654,660 27,419,800 
An advance in price at the end of the week 
was due partly to a slight advance telegraphed 
