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THE RUBAI- WEW-yOBKER 
Ims of t !)t IDtek. 
HOME NEWS. 
Matwuday, Oct. 13,1883. 
Id the “October” elections last Tuesday, the 
Ohio Democrats elected Hoadly as Governor 
by about 10,000 majority, to succeed Foster, 
Republican, and gave him a Democratic leg¬ 
islature. In Iowa the Republicans triumphed 
as usual by a large but decreased majority, 
deeding Sherman Governor, and a Republican 
legislature..... 
Johnson, the six-year-old pacer, without a 
break, made a mile in 2:10 at the Chicago 
Driving Park on Tuesday afternoon, thus 
beating the record. He is owned by C. A. 
Mather, a banker of Berlin, Wis., who last 
Summer paid $ 10,000 for a half interest held 
in Milwaukee; $50,000 would not buy him 
now........... 
The Northern Pacific Railroad which invited 
some 300 guests, most of them from Europe, 
to witness the “driving of the golden spike,” 
that indicated the completion of the road, is 
“in a fix." The European guests were guar¬ 
anteed their expenses from the moment they 
left home until their return to it, and all hav¬ 
ing been left to their own sweet will after the 
driving of that “golden spike,” many of them 
have been “seeing the sights,” and a few of 
them “seeing the elephant” since then, and 
some of thorn are still lingering here, while 
“every man Jack” of them has charged all 
“expenses” to Mr. Yillard, President of the 
road,who was fool enough to invite thorn. The 
expenses at the ceremonies were, it is said, 
$250,000. Good Lord! What must the whole 
bill come to? The Northern Pacific Company 
shares are 40 per cent, lower now than six weeks 
ago. Is the public afraid the invited guests 
will eat and drink up everything?... 
During the last five years 124.000,000 ounces 
of silver have been coined into standard sil¬ 
ver dollars. The profits to the Government 
arising therefrom were $17,300,000.At 
the convention Oct. 4 of the Lumber Manu¬ 
facturers 1 Association of the Northwest.it was 
insisted that the proper thing to do was to ad¬ 
vise a lessened production of logs during the 
coming Winter, so as to be able to charge 
higher prices for lumber n^xt year.A 
scheme is on foot to organize a National as¬ 
sociation of brewers, saloon keepers, cigar and 
tobacco men, its professed object being “to 
combine against the ‘persecutions’ they are 
subjected to by people who are constantly cry¬ 
ing out that the law is being violated. With 
a dreamed-of capital of $2,0(H),000 and the 
“inflooence” of their members, the promoters 
of this new scheme say that they expect to 
accomplish .something.... ..Henry T. Wright, 
defaulting assistant post-master of Racine, 
Wis., was sentenced to five years and one day 
in the penitentiary,this week, and fined $5,000, 
the amount of bis deficit...The will of 
of Hugh Hastings divides 45 shares of the 
Commercial Advertiser stock among five 
nephews and gives the rest of the estate, save 
his books ana $13,000, to his wife. President 
Arthur is one of the executors.The State 
Department, at the instance of Congressman 
Finnerty of Chicago, has taken steps to find 
out whether O’Donnell, Carey’s murderer, isau 
American citizen. If he is, steps will be taken 
to secure to him a fair trial........ The Presi¬ 
dent has approved the a'lion of the court- 
martial in thecaseof Lieut. Daniel W.Davies, 
O. S. N., who was found guilty of drunken¬ 
ness and of absence from duty without leave 
and was sentenced to be dismissed from the 
service. 
A letter weighing half an ounce cun cow be 
sent for two cents. A proposition to remove 
this limit and make it an ounce is already 
being agitated.The temperance peo 
pie are waging a vigorous warfare on the 
Washington, (D. C.) saloon keepers...It is 
understood that Secretary Teller will decide 
adversely to the claim of the Southern Pacific 
Railroad in the matter of the Texas Pacific 
land-grant.....Trinkett defeated St. Julien 
Friday week at Albany, in three straight 
heats. Time—2:18—2:18*^—2:231/.Up to 
the time that the mails were prohibited to the 
lotteries, M. A. Dauphin, of New Orleans, 
was the largest single patron of the registered- 
letter and money-order divisions of the United 
States. Henceforth the letters will be re¬ 
turned with the word “Fraudulent” stamped 
across the envelopes... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct, 13, 1883. 
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out” among 
the cattle in Lehigh county, Pa. Com¬ 
missioner Fink has announced his award of 
percentages on eastward bound live stock 
among the various railroads. The percent¬ 
ages are: Lake Shore, 2(1; Michigan Central, 
7; Fort Wayne, 14; Panhandle, 8; Grund 
Trunk, 11; Nickel Plate, 8)4 Baltimore and 
Ohio, 5}^; and Chicago and Atlantic, 11. By 
this arrangement the Vanderbilt roads and 
the Fort Wayne road are the heaviest suffer¬ 
ers by the change from the old schedule, in 
which the Panhandle and tbc Chicago and 
Atlantic roads were not represented as inde¬ 
pendent linos.The fruit shipments from 
the Hudson River Valley are simply immense 
and surpass those of nil previous years The 
amount of grapes alone that is being shipped 
is between 500 and 000 tons daily. Of tliese 
there are numerous varieties, but the Concord 
is the principal grape produced. The season 
will continue for two weeks yet. The district 
from which most of the fruit is taken extends 
from Cornwall to Kingston. A local news¬ 
paper says that in five years from now the 
whole river front, and for several miles in¬ 
land, will be one vast vineyard. Large quan¬ 
tities of late poaches are also being shipped. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. Oct., 13,18S3. 
There is a great deal of talk about forming 
a federation of all the Australian colonies on 
the model of the Dominion of Canada. A 
conference for the purpose will be held at Sid¬ 
ney late in November.Tourguenieff, 
the celebrated Russian novelist, was huried 
at St. Petersburg last Tuesday. Streets and 
windows were crowded... .The Khedive is ex¬ 
pected soon to grant amnesty to all who were 
implicated in the late rebellion, except those 
convicted of murder and outrage.A 
few scattered deaths from cholera yet in 
Egypt. It is now nearly certain the epidemic 
was not Asiatic cholera but a local pest gen¬ 
erated chiefly by filth, and the festering car¬ 
casses of men and beasts slaughtered during 
the late war...... 
The Czar and Czarina of Russia left Copen¬ 
hagen yesterday morning for St. Petersburg. 
.The difficulty between Spain and 
France is still unsettled. Daily cabinet coun¬ 
cils have been held at Madrid and the Ministry 
has resigned. Prime Minister Sagasta consid¬ 
ers that the moment has arrived to leave to a 
new Ministry the task of adopting final 
measures concerning the affair with France, 
the latter having positively refused to give 
further satisfaction to Spain for the recent in¬ 
sult to King Alfonso and regarding the inci¬ 
dent at an end after M. Ferry's note of apolo¬ 
gy had been published. In France, General 
C’ampeuon has been appointed to the Secreta¬ 
ryship of War, vacated by General Tbibau- 
diu. The London Standard’s Paris dispatch 
says there is fear that if Spain docs not ob¬ 
tain satisfaction for the insults to King Al¬ 
fonso, Germany will interpose and exact it. 
It is asserted at Paris that Germauy will re¬ 
quire an apology as well as Spain. This is 
regarded as an outrageous design on the part 
of Germany to force Franco to go to war, 
and “all Europe” will, it is thought, be indig¬ 
nant—except, perhaps, those countries that 
may see some private advantage in the strug¬ 
gle. 
A Russian has been arrested while sketching 
in the vicinity of the forts at Konigsberg, 
Germany.Lord Lansdowne, the new 
Governor-General of Canada, and Lady Lnns- 
dowue sailexi from Moville yesterday for 
Quebec in the Circassian...... 
... .Just as we go to press comes news that the 
Spanish Ambassador to France has resigned 
on account of the refusal of the French Gov¬ 
ernment to apologize further for the insult to 
Alfonso. Bismarck still insists that the insult 
was meant for Germany, and was inspired by 
high French officials too cowardly to vent 
their hate for the oouqnorers openly. 
Madagascar advices state that Mnkobo, the 
commander of the Hovas lias offered rewards 
for the slaughter of the Captain of any French 
man-of-war which shall wreck or burn any 
vessel. The same advices report that th° 
French garrisons at Tamatavo and Majunga 
are virtually blockaded.Resignations 
are the order of the day ill France. Caines- 
casse, Prefect of Police in Paris, is the latest 
example. He ought to have prevented that 
insult to Alphonso, which has already disrupted 
two Cabinets:.Switzerland will soon 
protest that France is building fortifications 
iu Savoy, in conflict with existing treaty en¬ 
gagements .Stanley writes to a friend 
that he lias been elected Father und Mother of 
the Congo country. This outdoes George 
Washington. 
Prof. HorsforiPs Halting Powder. 
Is Put up In Glass Bottles, 
having w ide mouths to admit a spoon. Bot¬ 
tles are preferable to tin cans as they are 
safer, cleaner and preserve the strength of 
baking powder much better. Almanac and 
Cook Book free. Ruinford Chemical Works, 
Providence R. 1.— Adv. 
-- 
“We know Heart Disease can be cured, 
why? because thousands say they have used 
Dr. Graves Heart Regulator and know it does 
the cure .—Plympton News, 1 ’ $1 per bottle at 
druggists.— Adv. 
el)c iHarkfte. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 14, 1883, 
The Summer hog packing season lasts from 
March! to October 31, and the Winter sea¬ 
son from November 1 to February 28. It is 
only of late years that Summer packing has 
attained importance, Now, however, a great 
many hogs are packed even in the hottest, 
months, although far more are st ill packed in 
the four Winter than iu the eight other months. 
The Cincinnati Price Current, which treats 
principally of hog matters, from special reports 
estimates the number of hogs packed from 
March 1 to October 10 to bo as follows at the 
principal packing points, a comparison being 
also made with the number packed at the same 
places during the same period last year. 
March 1 to October 10— isss. 1¥0. 
Chicago.1,(150,000 1,510,000 
Kansas City. 523,478 237.300 
Indianapolis . 171,410 112,000 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 161.585 158,945 
Cincinnati .. .. . 101.000 65,000 
St. Louis. 212.000 190.100 
Cleveland, 0. 111.000 182,000 
Milwaukee . . Ml ,(100 100.000 
Above and all other places...3,230,000 2,845,000 
To last week .3.165,000 2,750,000 
For the week . 11.5,000 95,1X10 
Thus from March 1 to Oct. 10 the total num¬ 
ber of hogs packed was 3,280,000, compared 
with 2,845,000 a year ago—tin increase of 435,- 
000. From the Drovers’ Journal of Chicago, we 
learn that the average weight of the hogs re¬ 
ceived there in September was 258 
pounds—the heaviest average weight, 
ever known in September. The receipts 
were about 100,000 more than during the same 
month last year. Doesn’t this explain why 
prices for hogs are from $3 to $4 per 100 
pounds lower now' than at the corresponding 
time last year? A potent factor which has 
worked to the disadvantage of pork packers, 
has been the development of the refrigerator 
beef system. Hundreds of localities tiow T use 
choice fresh beef whore they formerly used 
cured hog products. The dressed beef trade is 
extending enormously. The Massachusetts 
Ploughman says that fully three-fourths of 
the dressed beef sold in Boston comes from 
Chicago in refrigerator ears. About 60 a 
week arrive there, each containing, on an 
average, the meat of 28 head of cattle. Al¬ 
lowing 80,000 pounds to a car, this gives a 
weekly supply of 1,800,1X10 pounds. The 
growth in the demand for mutton has likewise 
made inroads upon the consumption of bacon, 
hams, etc.. 
Abroad the prices of breadstuffs at present 
turn on the question of stock on band, rather 
than on the extent of demand and supply, and 
all the wheat-importing countries are so 
heavily stocked, that little relief can be ex¬ 
pected for a month to come. Here the price 
of wheat during the past week has sustained 
a striking decline. The causes for this are not 
new ones. The visible supplies arc increasing. 
Exports are very light when they were ex¬ 
pected to be heavy. Stocks abroad continue 
of such proportions as to preclude the proba¬ 
bility of an early reentry of foreign buyers 
into thu market here, and, worse than all, 
farmers have continued to market their crops, 
which has piled up the grain at the West and 
conspired to weaken prices there even more 
noticeably than at thu East. The question is 
being seriously asked how much lower is wheat 
to go. The statistical position of the cereal 
iu its widest sense is now here. Stocks are all 
that appear to count. They are iu excess of 
present wants, and prices lag. 
Prices of corn have been maintained much 
better than those of wheat during the week, 
principally because proportionately not so 
much of it has been rushed to market. If farm¬ 
ers will hurry their crops to market as soon us 
they are harvested, of course, the price of corn 
will drop in a few weeks »« much us that of 
wheat has fallen this week. 
This year’s wine crop in California will be 
40 per cent, loss than was supposed, the total 
yield not exceeding 10,000,000 gallons. The 
immediate cause Is a disease of the vines, 
known in France as “cauleine," which mani¬ 
fested itself for the first time this year. On 
the other hand, for a quarter of a century the 
vintage has not been so good in the section of 
France which produces champagne. In spite 
of the ravages of the phylloxera, the vinynrd 
istsare jubilant at the yield and quality of the 
vintage. 
Summing up the situation in the wool mar¬ 
ket, Brndstreet savs the available supply of 
derimblo wools in Eastern markets is unusual¬ 
ly light for the time of year, and the offerings 
at. coirtitry points are very moderate. As there 
is every reason to believe that the last clip was 
fully as large ns that of IH82, it is difficult to 
account, for this condition of affairs, except 
upon the assumption that a great, deal more 
wool has been bought by manufacturers direct 
from the growers than has been generally 
supposed to have been thus withdrawn from 
the market. In view of the fact that eight 
months must yet elapse hefore the next clip 
will begin to come forward, holders as a gen¬ 
eral thing are taking a very confident and 
hopeful view'of the future of the market, and 
are offering stocks with a good deal of indif¬ 
ference. The present lull in demand is the 
natural sequence of the recent activity and 
excites no concern, as consumptive require¬ 
ments are increasing rather than falling off, 
and there is every indication of a strong mar¬ 
ket and steady trade during the coming Win¬ 
ter months. 
The United States Agricultural Department 
has received final returns of the yield of wheat, 
oats, barley, rye, and minor products in 
Minnesota for the year 1883 The yield of 
wheat was. for 2,571,037acres, 38,305,373 bush¬ 
els- being an average of 14.89 bushels to the 
acre. There were 922,813 acres sown in 
oats, returning 34,448,009 bushels, au aver¬ 
age of 37.33 bushels to the acre. Barley, 304,- 
000 acres, producing 7,344,785 bushels, or 24.16 
bushels per aero. Rye, 25,834 acres; produc¬ 
tion 439,178 bushels. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago. —As compared with cash prices a 
week ago “regular” wheat is 31/c. lower; No. 
2 Chicago Spring, 4c lower; No. 3 ditto, 2.1.7c. 
lower: No. 2 Red Winter 1 ). t .e. lower. Cora, 
){c. higher. Oats. %o. higher. Rye, 4’Jc. 
lower. Barley, J/c. lower. Flaxseed, 2c. 
higher. Pork, 25c. higher. Lard, 85c lower. 
Hogs, just a shade lower. Cattle, Montauas 
and Texans a trifle higher; other classes 
steady. Sheep from 25c. to 40c. lower, on a 
poorer quality. 
Wheat — 1 "Regular," unsettled at. 9l%c. October, 93 
@384c. November- December; 9544c. Jan¬ 
uary: $1,027* Muy; No. 3 Chicago Spring 9U6(»/92c; 
No. 3 do. S2UIW No. red Winter $1 <KHf. Cons In 
(rood demand, but Irregular nt 4 I Wt4-')<e. rash; inly. 
October! 18e. November: 46 m PVljo, pace unbox; 16440. 
Janunrv; .iKbjMitSl^e. May. Oath steadyat 275tf<i*2*)ie- 
rash; ?4e.October- 2S'„e. November; 2s^/„"2'7>e Decem¬ 
ber. 29c. all (be year: 3I6^32qSc. liny. Rvicflrmat 
55e. Baulky .inlet at me. Ki.osm) Arm at 81.35. 
Pork In fair demand uud steady af SIM 75 m. 11 rash; 
*10.66 October; gliUUUfiUil. Id November; $10,374® 
10 10 December; sio.^Wi-aio.-tO all the year; $10.85 
fa 10,87 4 January- St0.974M-M.00 February. I.a tin In 
fair demand at 7. do. for cash; 7.-13(87,I74e. Octo- 
her: 7.30 Mi 7.32.4*'• November and la‘comber: 7.30c. 
all the year; 7.35*7.874c. January; 7.474c. February. 
Mous Market steady and quality poor: parking. Si.31) 
fa4.90; Parking nml shipping #4.T>® 5.'.>5; Light. $1.75 
MS. 2!,; skip®. S3 25 5 1.15. * ATTUt- Host outlie strong, 
others 10c lower than yesterday; exports $6.3 v»«.R0; 
good t n choice shipping. *5.S0<.<6; common to me¬ 
dium. $4<®5.15*. range rattle weak; Montanos *5 |0; 
Texans $ If,44.25- Wyoming $1.75. SuKKC Market weak; 
qunlltv lower; Inferior to fair $3.10c<j3.IKl; good $3.50; 
ehoier. 81 75: Texans $2.10@>3.50. 
St. Loins.—Compared with cash prices a 
week ago No. 2 Red Fall wheat is Y c - lower. 
Corn !^c. higher. Oats J^c. lrgher. Cattle, 
steady. Sheep, steady. Hogs, from 15, to 25c. 
ower. 
Wiikat steady: No. 2 Red Fall, $1.0014®’.6W: 
rash; «I.OH?fi October: $1.0196 November: 81.024 
December; 81,004 all the your; $1,04 January: $1,114 
May: No. 3 do. 91 fa5l-V(. Cons slow at 454«4fic. 
rash; 4.14c. October; 13-4*5. November 414'c. all tile 
year; 41c. January; Mny 414c.. Oats firm at 21 tv. 
bid cash: 27c. bid October; 274c November: 28We. 
December:27c year- 3l4t:. May Hvn dull nt 50c. bid. 
Baulky milet nl jOftTOe. Loos ut l 14 *- Flaxsbkd, 
$1.33. II tv prairie, id,.. >.m t: Timothy, 111(913.00. 
Cattle “iiptdy fair, but quality poor: movement 
slow and prices weak: no good shipping grades 
oftV red; would bring full prices If here: common to 
medium steers $L35>.i 1.7": mixed butcher lots, $3.25. 
Texans t'i..sCfa4.25; ladtans S't.niK., 1 40. 811 Kite -Good 
grades steady and in demand: common dull and 
weak; common to medium. 82.59.'3 95: fair to good. 
? :3.50® 4.00; prime, $I.?A Hnus—Market dull anil weak- 
ight $i.77stf 1.85 heavy $<.$5®5; packing #1.41X31 85, 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yoke. Oct. 13, 1383. 
Hkanr and Peas.- Rcan»—mnrrtiw, prime, $3.50 
688.60: Mean*, medium, prime. $8.00®3.15; do. pea, 
$3 MOfa.'i.lO; do. foreign, mediums, $2.20®$2.30: Peas, 
1832, prime, #1.80® 1.50. 
BitKAtisTEKES asd PROVISIONS.—As compared with 
prices a week ugo,ungraded Winter red wheat Is So. 
lower; No 4 red Is Se lower; No. 3 rod Ik 24o lower 
In elevator. 2514 c. lower delivered: uugraded white Is 
2e higher. Corn Ungraded mixed Is 4r. lower; No" 
3 Is lc. lower: No. 2 In elevator Is same us last week; 
No. 2 white Is 4c. lower In elevator. Outs-No. 3 
mixed Is 4c. lower; No. 2 Is Me. lower- No. 1 Is 4c. 
lower: No. 3 Yvhlte I* le. higher: mixed Western Is 
lc. lower; white Stale la 14c. higher. 
Flour and Meal- PLOOB—QUOt.atloiW:Vo.2.$2.30*tf3.90 
superilne, $3.15® 3,65, lutter extreme; common to fair 
extru State, $3.75(44.20; good to fancy do.. $4.25®H,00; 
Common In good extra Western, $3.7.5®4.30: good 
to choice, #4,55® 1.8S: common extra Ohio. $3.80® :.45; 
good, #4,50(3)5 60; gooil to choice, $i.flili.t6.50- com¬ 
mon extru Minn., #3.75**4.50; clear, $I.PJ.it>.25, rye 
mixture. #4.75®!i.75t sirulglii, $.5.50sgi.*5- oatcni. $5 90 
fit..35; 8t. I,mils eomniou to lair extra. $8.75.<-1.50; 
fair to good, # 1.60645 50- good ui very choice, $5.00®?: 
patent Winter wheal extra, 45.W)®;.HI: city mill ex¬ 
tra for West Indies. $5. LOtil/l. 1 -V South Uncrlcn, S5.Nl 
®5 90- Southern Hour- Common to vood extra, $3 .ik) 
iiij5.ll)- good to choice, do. $6.15'aii.r>!4. Kve hour— 
Superfine |8. i'6fa4.P0i lutter un extreme. Buckwheat 
Hour selling at #J.JO-i4.i5 for new Feed about 
steady; middlings were taken Tor export at $1.01 de¬ 
livered. Corn meal— Brandywine, #8.40; quoted #3.40 
M .50; Yellow Western, $3fa3 10. 
Puu-KH ok Grain—Wuk vt— Ungraded Winter red at 
D6c#l.l2; No. 4 rod,(Joe; No. 3 red. $1024 In elevator. 
I O 8 W. 11 1,0994 delivered: No. 2 red, f1.10®1.h'ih In eleva¬ 
tor. si in'. 1.12 afloat: ungraded white. >i 12 ; 
No. 1 white, 81.15; No. 2 red, seller October, *i.t«4 
(#1.094; do. November, $1.10®, 1.104; do December, 
81.124"* 1.124; do. January, #l.l4Ig*<»l.l5; do. Febru¬ 
ary, il.1644l.mf Itvfc—Ungraded at litc; Western 
for Ural half November, 01 c- d". to arrive, cost, 
rretglit uud insurance, at about tflJgMWic Baulky 
N o 2 Milwaukee. 7H4e- Western, i’iw ' 1 4e. Barlky 
Malt— Two-rowed bud. . ,0. 08240 ->ix rowed do. 8 S 
fa«J4c- Canada, HS®974c. Coin* Ungraded mixed 
fttnlOWWe; No. 8 ,5*i4oo5*>4c; No. 2, 69faji0o. in store 
and elevator; 5U49160C. delivered; No, 2 white, 1 W .40 
In elevator; steamer while. 49if<jij094e, delivered, 
(Reamer mixed,S'C; stormier Yellow, ’>l*e.; New York 
yellow, (lie.! low mixed. 584c; No. 2 mixed seller 
sotober, 594(*WH-; do. November, 59 ®M) 4 c; do.Decern- 
