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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oet. 6 , 1883. 
Send sums of less than $5 by the new postal 
note. It costs but a three cent, stamp, and the 
transmission is rendered safe. Our readers 
and agents will find this method preferable to 
the old ay ay of sending registered letters or 
money orders.Last W ednesday the 
great exposition building at Pittsburg, Pa., 
was destroyed by fire—loss about § 1 , 000 , 000 . 
Buildiug erected in 1875 ; 400 feet, long by 150 
feet wide. The Exposition (Society will lose 
§150,000. The rest of the loss will fall chiefly 
on exhibitors. A large number of the heaviest 
losers among these were agricultural imple¬ 
ment. men some of whom will lose from § 8,000 
to § 10,000 apiece... .In Chicago, some excite¬ 
ment is caused by the publication of certain 
circulars alleged to have been sent out by a 
few prominent commission houses of Chicago 
and New York to country customers, outlin¬ 
ing a method by which they can speculate on 
a small scale. Another “blind pool" arrange¬ 
ment. Be ware!.Secretary Folger, in 
an annual report, may recommend long two 
per cent, bonds, into lAliich upon terms favor¬ 
able to the government and just to the holders 
of four per cents, the latter maybe converted. 
..In St. Louis, the procession of the 
Veiled Prophets Tuesday night was a feature 
of the second day of the fair, and attracted 
the largest crowds ever seen in the streets. 
The railroads brought 60,000 people to the city 
in one day.Juh, the Apache Indian 
leader, got drunk, fell from bis horse down a 
precipice into a stream—that was the end of 
the old miscreant, Geronimo has been elected 
to succed him, and is reported to l>e at 
the head of 150 savages. He is short of amuni- 
tion, but “long" of horses, of winch he is offer¬ 
ing one for every lot of ten cartridges. 
Two men in Miles City, Montana, pretended 
to have learned by telegraph that the Govern¬ 
ment had thrown open the eastern part of the 
Fort Keogh Reservation to settlers. They 
whispered this cautiously to special friends, 
enjoining strict secrecy, Before night there 
was a stamnede, the supposed public land 
claims were staked oft', shanties were put up ( 
tents were pitched, and the jokers say that, a 
toAvri was laid out, and a real estate “ boom 
was under full headway before nine o’clock in 
the evening. But by ten the joke wore out, 
and the place was deserted. .. 
Ex. Mayor Prince, of Boston, has thrown a 
bombshell iuto the Butler camp by declining 
the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant- 
Governor.Hitting Bull is in a state of 
uncertainty as to which of his two wives he 
will give up, and the ceremony of receiving 
him into the Catholic Chin ch has been indefi- 
nitly postponed.Snow in Northern New 
England, and also in Minnesota, a week ago. 
...Gov. Murray of 
Utah says that. Mormonism is to-day broader, 
deeyier, stronger and more aggressive than 
ever before. The pologamists are only about 
20 per cent of the Mormons, and the remain¬ 
der can outvote the Gentiles. The governor 
considers the Edmunds’s bill practically a fail¬ 
ure_Gens. Sickles, Badcau and other offi¬ 
cers who resigned to go abroad for their coun¬ 
try and are reinstated, find themselves in 
trouble by a decision of the second controller 
of the treasury, who refuses to pass the pay 
accounts of officers so reinstated. An ap¬ 
peal will lie taken to the courts. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 6 , 1883. 
An International Forestry Exhibition is to 
be held in Edinburgh next year. 
New Hampshire’s manufacturers are experi¬ 
encing the evils of cutting down the forests. 
Many factories have stopped their AvheeLs for 
want of water in the streams... 
At some of the Western agricultural fairs a 
“great secret” is sold in sealed envelopes at ten 
cents apiece. Hero Is the secret: “Never buy 
an article before examining it. If you bad 
known this before, you Avould not have paid 
ten cents for a worthless envelope when you 
could have got a dozen good ones for the same 
price.”.A fcAv years ago great ef¬ 
forts were made to acclimate English spar¬ 
rows in South Australia, Avbieh have proved 
success F ul to a most inconvenient extent,as the 
birds have lately increased so much, and have 
inflicted such serious damage on wheat, vege¬ 
tal ties and fruit crops, that a reward of fid. 
per dozen has been offered for their heads by 
the Government, and 2s. fid. per hundred will 
be paid for their eggs.It is found 
now That tea and cot. oa are Ceylon’s most 
paying crops. Cinchona, too, is rapidly in 
creasing in production. Crop prospectsthere 
are decidedly better than last year 1 . • 
The highest price ever paid in Englaud for a 
Hereford animal was paid the fitli of this 
month by a Chicago man. Mr. Culbertson, 
Jr., bought the prize bull Grove 3d (No. 5,051), 
for £810, or about §4,000, at a public sale of 
the Leenherd near the tow n in England from 
w hich this celebrated breed of cattle takes its 
name.The October crop report of the 
Ohio State Board of Agriculture, based upon 
returns from about 600 township correspon¬ 
dents, says: Wheat, acres thrashed to date, 
606,222; bushels produced, 6,060.440: total for 
the State at the same rate. 25,508,200 bushels, 
against 45,450.000 last year; oats, acres 
thrashed to date, 135.104; bushels produced 
from same,4,412,035;total for the State at that 
rate, 27,214,066 bushels against 10,050,000 last 
year. The condition of corn as compared 
with October 1, 1882, is 76 per cent. The 
probable total yield is about 68 , 000,000 bushels, 
against 00,809,000 last year. The damage by 
frost was very severe in the northern half of 
the State and light in tbe southern half. 
Grapes along the Hudsou River never were so 
plentiful. Grocers here are selling Concords 
at two cents a pound...The 
Washburn & Moen Co. are still prosecuting 
suits for royalty on barbed w ire fence against 
those who have made it under license, but 
AA'ho work to avoid the payment of royalty as 
per contract. Jacob Haish got special rates, 
and Judge Blodgett at Chicago, has just de¬ 
cided that the other licensees need pay no 
more than Haish pays, notwithstanding the 
contracts... 
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FOREIGN NEWIS. 
Saturday, Oct. 6 , 1883. 
Just as King Alphonso of Spain Avas about to 
leave Germany after his late visit, the Emp¬ 
eror conferred on him the honorary title of 
Colonel of a Uhlan regiment—one of 
these terrible light cavalry regiments 
that seemed ubiquitous in the invaded 
country during the late Franco-Ger¬ 
man Avar, The regiment is stationed at 
Metz, the chief city in tbe territory As-rested 
by victorious Germany from prostrate France, 
and doubtless sviley Bismarck had selected 
this very regiment for the honor of kingly 
command with a viesv to exasperating in a 
special manner the French people whom Al¬ 
phonso was about to visit. The shresvd Chan¬ 
cellor’s scheme svas quite successful. On ar¬ 
riving in Paris the Spanish King was very 
civilly received by Pres.dent Gtevy and the 
Ministry, with tbe exception of General Thi- 
baudin. Minister of War, who purposely ab¬ 
sented himself. At the railroad station, how¬ 
ever, and on his way from it to his residence, 
Alphonso was greeted with the most uproar- 
ous clamor by the angry Parisian rabble— 
the fiercest in the world. The “Uhlan King ’ 1 
Avas bitterly execrated all along the route, 
and the authorities, ever ready to suppress 
popular manifestations hostile to themselves, 
made no adequate attempt to disperse the 
crowds or suppress the uproar. Presi¬ 
dent Grevy apologized to the King, who 
however, cut short his visit. Behind the King 
of Spain were the people of Spain ayIio felt 
themselves insulted in his person. Intense 
popular excitement and indignation in the 
Peninsula. King received home with extra¬ 
ordinary enthusiasm. Never has he been one- 
tenth so popular. Frenchmen living in Spain 
insulted. The French embassy at Madrid had 
to be guarded from popular fury by 
troops. Hostility against France intensified. 
Bismarck patronizingly advises Alphonso to 
exercise a forgivingspirit towards France, but 
tells France menacingly that the insult wus 
to Germany rather than to Spain. The 
French papers eat lots of humble pie; so do 
the French Ministers and President. A full 
apology is to be published, and a pretense is to 
be made to punish the noisy rabble. Gpu- 
Thibaudin’s resignation has been asked for 
by President Gnivy and accepted. Republi¬ 
can Franco is still further isolated. A bitter 
enemy noAV glowers and threatens on her 
southwestern frontier. 
The queen will have her ivay as to commem¬ 
orating John Brown, the gillie. A statue is 
to be erected in the grounds of Balmoral, a 
monument placed in the Prince Consort’s 
mausoleum at Frogmore, and a tablet in the 
nave of St. George’s chapel, Windsor. Then 
by her “ order” Tennyson, the Poet-Laureate 
has written a poem in commemoration of the 
flunkey’s virtues-,..... . 
15,000 steel iron workers in the counties of 
Glamorganshire, Wales, and Monmouthshire, 
England, have struck against a reduc¬ 
tion of ten per cent, in w ages. The employ¬ 
ers maintain that in consequence of English 
aud American competition, they must close 
their w'orks or reduce wages. Friday week 
Avas a red-letter day at Rudeshelm, Germany, 
where, in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm, nu¬ 
merous other titled personages, aud an im¬ 
mense assemblage of tbe people, tbe national 
monument 1 ‘ in memory of the unuuimous 
and victorious rising of the Geimau people 
and the reestablishment of the German Em¬ 
pire in 1870-71” avas duly unveiled amid the 
most appropriate and impressive ceremonies 
.Three more companies of French sol¬ 
diers have been ordered enrolled for service 
in th ■ fleet in Tonquin waters. The French 
Cabinet will not convene the l hainbers until 
Oct. 22.Three thousand Orangemen 
paraded the streets of Omagh, Ireland, Sat¬ 
urday , held a meeting, and passed a resolution 
denouncing the Irish National League as a 
body of treasonable conspirators against 
the Government.Nihilistic circulars 
have been issued at St. Petersburg demand¬ 
ing that the Russian Government shall cease 
its cruel treatment of prisoners, especially 
For stifled feeling, irregular pulse, irrita¬ 
bility, use Swayne’s Pills.— Adv. 
-- 
Horrid, yes, it is, that we must suffer from 
disease, but from Heart Disease, nervousness 
and sleeplessness, Dr Graves’ Heart Regula¬ 
tor Avill give you immediate relief; thousands 
say so. § 1 . per bottle at druggists. —-4du. 
Sl)£ iiturlieis. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 6, 1883. 
Widely as the various estimates of the 
wheat crops of the AVorld differ, all agree that 
the aggregate production will be less than the 
aggregate requirement, aud there is hardly 
such a superabundance of other food crops as 
to make up for the deficiency in the wheat 
crop. With low prices, therefore, at tue out¬ 
set, it is not unlikely that there may be a 
scarcity of Avheat before next years’ crop comes 
into market, and consequently a considerable 
advance in prices next year. If the price of 
Avheat were to go up now, hoivcver, to a con¬ 
siderable extent, the greater economy prac¬ 
ticed in using this cereal aud the substitution 
ot cheaper food-stuffs in many cases, would so 
limit the consumption that there would be 
little or no shortage, and there might even bo 
a considerable surplus. 
Lately the weather in England was so cold 
and wet as materially to impede the gathering 
of the wheat crop still in the fields, and newly 
marketed English whoat was damp, and natur¬ 
ally unsalable. Supplies of foreign wheat, 
however, were a* or 3 - large and prices were 
depressed, though a trifle livelier than in the 
Aveek before. Late in Sept. London granarie s 
were so filled that lighters carrying grain 
could not be unloaded. Thus it is evident that 
for some little time the British market is 
destined, OAving to supplies far in excess of 
consumptive requirements, to offer an im¬ 
pediment to any increase in quotations. One 
week ago prices for Avheat in France, Austro- 
llungary and in Russia were lower. In Ger 
many old prices were barely realized, not¬ 
withstanding the 40,000,000-bushel shortage 
which was reported in the rye crop Of that 
country. 
Here the prices of Avheat for future delivery 
Aveut up nearly two cents a bushel early in the 
week, but quotations have had a downward 
tendency ever since, with frequent rallies 
every day, according as some new rumor 
from Europe or some part of this country 
tended to raise or depress the market. The 
general affect, however, has been to stiffen 
prices, as may be seen by our detailed market 
reports. 
Mr. Walker, Statistician of the New York 
Produce Exchange, has published a carefully 
compiled statement, by which it appears that 
the shortage of the wheatcrop of this country 
is 112,609,086 bushels, which makes the total 
crop 391,576,384 bushels, based on a compari¬ 
son of the Government Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment’s reports of 1882 and 1883. The N.Y.Com- 
mereial Bulletin’s calculations point to 4U0,- 
000,000 bushels us the minimum. 
Here is a tuble of the comparative prices of 
breadstuffs in this market at about the same 
time this year and last: 
oct. 5.*88. Oct. 6, *82. 
AVI titer wheat Hour. $5 25 (g 6.35 6.00 (s, 7.2.1 
No, 2 red wheat..... 1 1344*4 14« l.OBfcMl.Mte 
No. 2 mixed corn.59W<ji .6W$ .18 ffl .Tjfij 
Kyu...IKitiOt .57 _.70 W.76 
live Hour.. 2 •'•'> <*8 >5 
Comment. 3.00 (jt8 40 
Oet. 6, *82, 
0.00 «7.2> 
UBkfert.OBk 
.18 <«i .7:>hi 
.70 (hi .70 
8.50 (a8.H5 
4.Ml fc*4.:!0 
The latest reports of the area seeded to 
Winter wheat arc more promising than the 
earlier ones. The late widespread rainfalls 
rendered the ground lit for seeding nearly 
every where, and the rumors of a shortage in 
the area induced many who would otherwise 
have refrained from putting in more Avheat, 
to add to the acreage w ith the expectation of a 
short crop and consequent high prices next 
year. 
The closing prices of Indian corn daily din¬ 
ing the week at New York aud Chicago at 1 
p.M. were us follows; 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices 
last week “regular” wheat is l V H e. higher; No. 
2 Chicago Spring lc. higher; No. 3 do. lc* 
New York. Chicago. 
Oct. Oct. 
Friday, Sept, 21.61U6 .49®$ 
Saturday, Sept- 29.817$ .499$ 
Monday, Oot 1.Oik 
Tuesday, Oct. 2.009$ .4S>4 
Wednesday. Oct. 3.6049 .489$ 
Thursday. Oct. 4.5994 -4794 
Corn at Chicago at 1 v. m. yesterday was for 
November 47, against 48» : ,c. for the option 
named ou the preceding Friday. 
The decline noticeable has been due to the 
large deliveries of old coin at the chief mark¬ 
ets, also to the raanipulatinns'of a ‘ ‘corn clique 
who have been “ bearing” the market. It ap¬ 
pears as if Kansas would bo tlio “banner” corn 
State this year. Indeed, nearly all reports 
agree that the facilities for transporting the 
crops of that State this year will prove en¬ 
tirely inadequate, so enormous have been the 
yields. 
The receipts of Indian corn at the Atlantic 
ports for the week ended September 29 were 
2,550,500 bushels, against 1,814,054 in the pre¬ 
ceding week, while the exports from the same 
point a amounted to 1,389,073, against 978,795 
bushels. The visible supply of Indian corn in 
the United States and Canada, east of the Pa¬ 
cific coast, September 29, had decreased 1,625,- 
792 bushels as compared With September 22. 
The total receipts of corn at Chicago. Milwau¬ 
kee, Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis, Peoria and 
St. Louis, for the week ending September 29, 
Avero 2,720.125 bushels, against 3.453,910 the 
week preceding, andthoshipments were 2,712,- 
198 bushels, against 3,238,407 in the preceding 
week. 
W ith regard to the cotton crop all reports 
agree that there will he a verv large shortage. 
Last weeks Bradstreet’s had an exhaustive re¬ 
port on the condition and outlook for this crop. 
The report shows conclusively that the 
present cro a has suffered from a drought 
sea reel}’ less hurtful than that of 1881, when 
an expected big crop was cut down to 5,456,- 
000 bales. The present calculations point 
to a crop of only about 4,509,000, to 4,606,000 
bales; but it is conceded that business men in 
the South invariably under-estimate in ad- 
A’ance the out-turn of a year’s crop. Moreover, 
such estimates can only be appproximations 
at best, as the weat her for the next five or six 
weeks will powerfully influence the ultimate 
yield. Reports from Texas say the cotton 
crop of that State is au entire failure, except 
in a few places. The district tributary to 
Memphis will also have a very poor crop. 
Prices, however, are not yet affected by this 
gloomy outlook, as quotations now’ are several 
points lower than at the same date last year, 
as may he seen by the following table: 
This week. 
Last year. 
Ord'nary. 
... Site 
8j$C 
Strict ordinary. 
.. 8 11-16 
9 5-10 
Good ordinary. 
.. !ii$ 
101$ 
Strict pood ordinary... 
.. rt$ 
109-16 
T.ow middling. 
.. rtte 
11 
Strict low middling ... 
.. 10 5-16 
11 3-10 
Middling ....... 
.. mq: 
119$ 
Good middling 
.. 10k 
1111-10 
Strict good middling.. 
.. 107* 
117$ 
Middling fair. 
. 119$ 
129$ 
Fair. 
.. 12# 
STAINS. 
VM 
This week. 
Last year. 
Good ordinary... . 
.. 77$ 
Strictly good ordinary 
.. 8-10 
9 15-10 
Low middling. 
.. 
10 
Middling.. 
.. \m 
1U 15-16 
Telegrams from Cincinnati and Louisville 
say tobacco is strong at an advance. Receipts 
are small and the demand ex* eeds the supply. 
Aoout four-fiths of the new crop has been cut. 
The report, that late frosts injured the “bur- 
ley” arc contradicted. 
The Kentucky hemp crop promises to be 
larger and better than last year. Cutting is 
progressing favorably and the demand is fair. 
Tho estimated yield of tbe hop crop on the 
Pacific Const is 40,000 bales, being 15,000 bales 
increase over last year. The new crop is 
coming for ward quietly, aud is fair in quality; 
1,150 bales of old crop remain in flirt hands. 
The market is dull and buyers and growers 
are apart. There has been a wonderful in¬ 
crease in hop-culturc m ‘Washington Territory, 
especially in the Puyallup Valley near Mount 
Tacoma (Renter). Some of the raisers there 
have been caught badly by the late fall in 
prices. Many who could have sold their hops 
for §1 to §1 05 per pound last year, sold them 
this year for 20 cents per pound by the Ion. 
As they can be raised for eight to nine cents a 
pound, however, there was still profit in them. 
Broom corn is likely to be a very profitable 
crop this year. About Mat,toon, 111, where 
it is raised extensively,*; 160 a ton and upwards 
have been obtained ; whereas about §70 Avas 
the average last season. Reports from Kan¬ 
sas speak jubilantly of sorghum sugar aud 
sirup making prospects. Teeming crops are 
now being gathered about the newly estab¬ 
lished factories at Hutchinson mid Sterling. 
At Rio Grande, N. J.., where 320,000 pounds 
of sorghum sugar were made last year, 7,000 
pounds are being manufactured every day 
now, aud it is expected 1 , 000,000 will be turned 
out this year. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
