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THE RUBAI- NEW-YORMER, 
Wms Of i\)t IPffk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 3, 1883. 
The railroads centering in St. Louis have 
blacklisted 322 yard men who were specially 
active in the late switchmen’s strike in that 
city and East St. Louis, and aunouuce that 
they .will not, under auy circumstances, reem 
ploy them.. .The colored people of Keo¬ 
kuk. in a mass meeting on Weduesday night, 
resolved to ask the next Legislature of Iowa 
to adopt the section of the Civil Rights Bill 
which has been decided to be unconstitutional 
by the Supreme Court of the United States.... 
... .A great fire in Savannah, Ga., has burnt 
up 8L00U,000 worth of property 
aud rendered 1,500 people homeless.The 
character of New York politics and city gov¬ 
ernment is very well illustrated in the men 
who are running for aldermen. In the 24 al- 
dermanic districts, 17 of the candidates are 
active and retired liquor dealers.The 
postal estimate for 1883-4 is that the deficiency 
in revenue on account of the reduction to two 
cents will be less than §3,000,000, which was 
the figure at which the postal officials advised 
President Arthur to put it last year.It 
is estimated that the reduction of the public 
debt during the past month was about $10,- 
500,000.One thousand two hundred 
pounds of dynamite exploded at Brook’s tunnel 
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Sunday, 
blowiug into unrecognizable fragments George 
Reynolds, watchman Hammond, flag¬ 
man Tice aud two blacksmiths who were walk¬ 
ing on the track. Trees were uprooted and 
rocks were blown into the river and vicinity. 
.Great things are foretold of Haskell’s 
multicharge cannon which is fired by “pockets” 
of powder situated at different points between 
the breach aud the muzzle, each pocket ex¬ 
ploding after the ball has passed it. The other 
day a 111-pound shot was hurled 7 1 u miles 
during an experiment at Sandy Hook, with a 
force that would send it through IS. 82 inches 
of solid wrought iron. Haskell expects that 
before the trials are ended the gun will throw 
a 155-pound projectile 15 miles or through 24 
inches of solid wrought iron armor.A 
baby lived only five minutes, but in that brief 
existence had time and abilitjrto say, “Famine 
for five years!” Plenty of people in Michigan 
believe the story, and are alarmed by it. 
Tbe President has proclaimed November 29 
as Thanksgiving Day, aud the Governors of 
most of the States are following his example... 
Articles of incorporation of the United States 
Railroad Companj r , with a capital of $75.- 
000,000. were filed last Tuesday at Denver, 
CoL Its object is to build a railroad from 
San Francisco to Denver.Keeley has 
again “ explained” to the directors of his 
company the cause of his delay in testing his 
motor. They are dissatisfied and threatening 
to sue him.Mifflin Emlen Bell, of Des 
Moines, la., has been appointed Supervising 
Architect, by Secretary Folger, instead of J. 
G. Hill. Mr. Bell was architect, of the Capitols 
at Springfield, HI., and Des Moines, la. 
The report of the fight between the Mexican 
troops and the Apaches arose simply from a 
murderous squabble between three Mexican 
officers, two of whom were “ wiped out.”. 
Gustavns Vasa Fox, the active and efficient 
Under-Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln, 
died in this city last Monday.Venuor 
announced on October 28 that the first cold 
snap would occur on November 3. 4. and 5. 
.An inch of snow fell at Memramcook 
and Dorchester, Canada, on Monday night. 
.The Chicago Hansom Cab Company 
has been incorporated, and 50 hansom cabs, 
like those in London, will be running in that 
city by January 1. Charges. 25 cents a mile, 
or 75 cents an hour.Five women are 
candidates for the office of Superintendent of 
Public Schools in as many Nebraska coun¬ 
ties, and all are regular party nominees. 
An explosion took place in a squib factory in 
Kingston, Pa., where nine girls were at work. 
Five of them were burned to a crisp, and the 
four remaining will all die.3(1 clerks 
have been employed in the Internal Revenue 
Office in Washington, since May 1, examining 
the claims for rebate for tobacco taxes. 
There are 46,152 such claims, varying in 
amount from 810 to §48,000... .... Seven hun¬ 
dred excursionists from the Northwestern 
States passed through Nashville the other day 
on a prospecting tour through Tennessee, At 
least 10,000 Northerners are expected to 
settle in Tennessee the present season.... 
... .R. George Q. Cannon, the Mormon apos¬ 
tle, is in Washington with the Utah Com¬ 
mission. He says the result of the Edmunds 
Law has been to unite the Mormons. 
Congressman Hewitt, of New York, has re¬ 
ceived special attention from the Sultan, in 
Constantinople. His Majesty told Mr. Hewitt 
that he was very fond of the Amerieau nation, 
because it harbors no designs against his em¬ 
pire.Meetings of negroes to protest 
against the late decision of the Supreme Court 
with regard to the constitutionality of the 
Civil Rights Bill, are being held in most of the 
large towns in the North. They are generally 
conciliatory in tone.From Milam 
County, Texas, reports early in the week 
spoke of much bitter feeling and probable 
bloodshed between colored and white men, 
owing mainly to exasperation of the former at 
the late decisions, the effects of which were 
misunderstood. Later dispatches say there is 
little fear of a disturbance as the two classes 
have had several friendly conferences. 
George Gould, son of Jay, and Carrie Astor, 
daughter of our most distinguished million¬ 
aire, are reported to bo “ engaged.”. 
.The total receipts of the Post, Office 
Department, for the past fiscal year were $45,- 
508,692. The expenditures were §42,816,700. 
Surplus, §2,691.992.At the close of the 
bicycle race of 72 hours, or 12 hours per day, 
in Chicago on Sunday night, the score stood 
as follows: Prince, 889 miles; Morgan, 883, 
Woodside, 865; Shock, 865, and Dawse, 650. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 8, 1883. 
The announcement that Mr. Russell has 
consented to take charge of the defense of 
O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, is an assur¬ 
ance that no effort will be lackiug to save 
his neck from the gallows. Charles Russell, 
who by the way has just returned from the 
United States, is accounted one of the ablest 
members of the British bar. Apparently Mr. 
Sullivan, who had charge of O’DonneH’s pre¬ 
liminary defense, as well as Roger Pryor who 
went over for the purpose, will be associated 
with Russell.... ....News comes from the 
west coast of Africa that the Italian De 
Brazza, whom France foolishly set to ruin 
Stanley’s peaceful work of civilization, has 
been killed in a fight with natives on the 
upper Congo. The latest authentic news from 
him is that he had accepted for certain mem¬ 
bers of his party, an escort furnished by 
Stanley to a point, above Stanley Pool. The 
story of his death is not officially credited at 
Paris...The Panama Canal Company 
has nearly 10,000 men, 30 steam excavators, 
40 locomotives and 800 tip-carts at work, and 
claims to have taken up two-thirds of the 
great cut between Obispo aud Paraiso, The 
rapidity of the work will be much hastened 
during the Wiuter, the most favorable sea¬ 
son, when 15,000 men will be employed. One 
American dredge, the Hercules, removes 6,000 
cubic meters of earth a day. The port works 
at Colon are nearly complete, and the whole 
work will be finished in two years according 
to the roseate dispatches from Panama. 
One of the sharpest shocks of earthquake ever 
felt in Bermuda occurred on the 20th. The 
oscillations continued fully 10 seconds..... 
An International Labor Conference lias been 
held at Paris during tbe week, and adopted an 
address expressing sympathy with the interests 
of the workingmen of all coiuitries and pro¬ 
testing against wars.Moutero, tbe rival 
of Iglesias for the Presidency of Pern, has 
been driven by the Chilians from his last 
stronghold Ariqtiipn, which has surrendered 
without a battle. The Chilians having evacu¬ 
ated Lima, the place has been occupied by 
Iglesias, who some time ago made peace with 
the Chilians, conceding to them the niter lands 
of Tarrapaca, all the guano deposits and a 
large section of country...Iglesias has 
not yet been “acknowledged” by tbe United 
States Government.Influential Liberal- 
ists of England declare that they will persist 
in a policy of absolute and unfaltering justice 
to Ireland, but will stand no nonsense about 
the maintenance of the Union.The Irish 
Emigration Committee is said to bo arranging 
for the wholesale shipment of Irish people to 
Canada. Large contracts have been made 
with vessel-owners for the transportation of 
emigrants. The Canadian Government is said 
to be a party to the arrangement... 
Snow fell in Scotland a fortnight ago. both 
on the hills and on the low grounds as far 
south as Dumfrieshire. Hills were covered, 
and in some places the valleys had a depth of 
two inches.... 
Cholera having again broken out in Egypt, 
there has been another exodus of foreigners. 
There were six deaths from it in Alexandria 
last Sunday. It has also appeared at Mecca. 
Despite the disapproval of Lord Derby, the 
Colonial Minister, the Australian projectors 
of the explorations and occupation of New 
Guinea have determined to proceed with the 
expedition. A steamer has been chartered, 
and will take six mouths’ provisions, tents 
and arms. Each subscriber will obtain a 
land warrant for 1,000 acres.Owing 
to the spread of Nihilism, the Russian 
Ministers have recommended to the Czar 
that the heads of universities hereafter be 
appointed by the government.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. Nov. 8, 1883. 
The English farmers have an idea that the 
foot-and-mouth disease is spread among cat¬ 
tle by fox-hunting, and point to the great 
increase during the month of August, when 
cub-hunting commenced. The farmers threat¬ 
en to poisou foxes and bounds unless the sport 
is suspended.The excess of value of 
exports from the United States over imports 
of merchandise was §4,197,052 in the mouth 
of September; for three months, §1,833.184: 
nine months, £47,966,208; twelve months, 
$117,326,909. In gold and silver coin and bul¬ 
lion there was an excess of §512,261 in im¬ 
ports in September, and for three months an 
excess of imports of §1,518,676; for twelve 
months an excess of §5,933,443 in imports- 
....Maine farming has a boom. The State 
lias spent this year $2,225,000 in farmiug 
machines and manures, §700,000 being for 
phosphates. The dairy product is improving 
and the farm mortgages uregrowiug fewer. 
.The Auburn (Me.) canning works have 
done their biggest year’s business, puttiug up 
70,000 cans of pumpkins, 40,000 cans of toma¬ 
toes and -50,000 cans of corn, a total of 160,000 
cans.Four towns about Rye, N. H., 
raised 20,000 barrels of apples, and Boston 
dealers are buying them up. The best bring 
$3.50 to §4 a barrel.Cider is selling for 
$5 a barrel around Vergennes, Yt. 
The wool-growers of Washington Territory 
have formed an organization and passed 
resolutions calling upon Delegate Brents of 
the Territory and the Congressmen of Oregon 
to use their best efforts to secure the restora¬ 
tion of the tariff on wool, the same as it was 
before the last Congress changed it. 
The surveyor of customs at Greenport. L. I., 
reports that 91,550,000 menhaden were caught 
in the waters about Long Island, duriug the 
past three months. The, value of the fish was 
$400,00. Tbe fish made 274,650 barrels of 
oil, and a large quantity of “guano.”.. 
Au immeuse cloud of locusts has appeared in 
the State of Pueblo, Mexico.By latest 
accounts the deficiency in the receipts of the 
Horse Show here amounted to $5,000. 
One-half of the corn crop on the first bottoms 
of the Wabash River in Indiana was ruined 
by a freshet. One fanner has UK),000 bushels 
underwater .A meeting of the Ameri¬ 
can Cotswold Association will lie held at the 
Sherman House, Chicago, the evening of Fri¬ 
day, Nov, 16. during the continuance of the 
Fat-Stock Show, aud all breeders and persons 
interested in the Cotswokls are invited. As 
business of importance will bo transacted at 
that time it is hoped there will be a large at- 
tendauce.Some of the Rheep stations of 
New South Wales contain from 100,000 to 300,- 
000 acres and as many as 280,000 sheep. On 
one farm 2,000 sheep were shorn before break¬ 
fast by about 75 shearers.A polled An¬ 
gus or Aberdeen steer of 2,866 pounds’ weight 
is now in quarantine at Quebec. He will go 
to Kansas City in time to appear at tbe Fat- 
Stock Show there next month.... 
Commissioner General Morehead had an in¬ 
terview yesterday with Gov. Cleveland of 
New York on the subject of the World’s Ex¬ 
position aud Cotton Centennial to be held at 
New Orleans next vear. The Governor has 
been invited to appoint one delegate from 
each cotton mill aud jute factory in the State 
to the annual convention of the National 
Cottou Planters’ Association of America, 
which takes place at Vicksburg, Miss., on 
Nov. 21. The Hon. George West, of 
Ballstou, has offered a bonus of §5,000 to 
the inventor of a machine that will pre¬ 
pare jute fiber for market at a price to 
compete with the same quality from In¬ 
diana, the award to be made by President 
Morehead at the coming meeting. 
In 1850 “Brown’s Bronchial Trochks 
were introduced, aud their success as a cure 
for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, aud Bronchitis 
has been unparalleled.—.4 dr. 
Don’t lie convinced that those pains around 
your heart are not heart disease; they are; do 
not delay,but procure Dr. Graves’Heart Regu¬ 
lator; 30 years have proved its value.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Nov. 8, 1888. 
The prices of the various sorts of grain 
often rise or fall a cent a bushel in the course 
of a single day, sometimes three or four 
cents, or even more; has it ever occurred to 
you what a great difference is caused in the 
value of the total crop by a rise or fall of 
even a single cent a bushel? Put the total 
wheat crop this year at 400,000,000 bushels, 
and a rise or fall of a cent a bushel, mukes a 
difference of FOUR MILLION DOLLARS in the 
value of the crop; and if the question whether 
the price were to go up or down one cent a 
bushel hinged on a cast of the dice, §8,000,000 
would depend on the throw. Put the 
present corn crop at l,600.0u0,000 bushels, and 
one cent a bushel advance, will amount to 
§16,000,000 on the aggregate crop, and here 
§32,000,000 would depend on the cast of 
the dice—and the causes that send the 
prices up or down a cent are sometimes 
of the nature of dice chucking. 
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail¬ 
road reports the crops in 80 counties of Dakota 
tributary to it as follows, their population 
being 191,800: Wheat, 449,700 acres at 21 
bushels per acre; oats, 210,650 acres at 55 
bushels per acre; flax, 102,000 acres at 15 
bushels per acre. This would give 9,000,000 
bushels of wheat for Southern Dakota. 
Reports to the Troy (N Y.) Times from 
the potato growing districts show that the 
quality of the crop was never better. The 
quantity is much greater than last year, and 
exceeds the average crop. From 14 points in 
Vermont the crop is reported at least one- 
third larger than last year. Western Massa¬ 
chusetts report s a crop above the average. 
Very little rot is reported this year. The 
plants have been quite free from beetles. 
The Commissioner of Agriculture of Ten¬ 
nessee, yesterday issued his report of the con¬ 
dition of the various crops and stocks through¬ 
out the State, for October. The average of 
the State is as follows: Com, yield, 80 per 
cent,: cotton, 82; tobacco. 88; apples, 60: pea- 
uuts, 87; wheat, sown acreage, 100; grass, 
sown acreage, 95: fattening hogs, condition, 
102: other stock. 100. The reports from the 
different counties show that there will be a 
largely increased acreage of wheat sown. 
The farmers are generally in good spirits, 
especially since the Fall rains, which have 
considerably hrightened the prospects. The 
reports indicate that wheat has been planted 
this year with more care and success than ever 
before. In some localities farmers were un¬ 
easy because of the appearance of flies in the 
early wheat, but the frost, will destroy these 
insects before they c-an do much damage. The 
number of fattening hogs is considerably in¬ 
creased over last year, and their condition, 
as well as that of other stock, is generally 
good. 
Edward Atkinson, in his evidence before 
the Blair Labor Committee, last week pro¬ 
duced facts and figures in reference to the 
price of bread, from which it appeal's that the 
cost of the bread to the wholesale dealer in 
Boston ought to be about three and one-half 
cents per pound; but the price of the same to 
the working classes is from seven to eighteanil 
one-half cents per pound. He estimates the 
cost of distributing the bread made from one 
barrel of flour to be from §5 to §7. Of the 
price paid by the consumer, 40 per cent, goes 
to the retailer and distributor; 23 per cent, 
to the baker; 7 per cent, to the wholesale mer¬ 
chant, miller, and cooper; 11 per cent, to the 
railroads; and but 20 per cent, to the farmer. 
These facts Mi-. Atkiuson thinks account 
for much of the anti-monopoly feeling and 
talk. 
A great deal of wheat in the Northwest was 
frozen by early frosts this year. The St. Paul 
Pioneer-Press says that but. little reliable in¬ 
formation in regard to recent experi¬ 
ments in grinding this damaged wheat has 
hitherto been obtained, Samples of flour 
made from the damaged grain are very soft 
aud it works up sticky in dough. It also 
lacks strength, but if used sparingly is said to 
make very little difference. The real value 
of the grain can be better decided after the 
Hour has been given a fair trial by the bakers. 
Prices of wheat in England are steady. 
Granaries at both London and Liverpool are 
full, and there is considerable grain in barges 
for which room cannot l>e found. Foreign 
advices add that wheat stocks at nearly all 
ports are very large. The same discrepancies 
exist in popular estimates as to the available 
wheat for export in the different countries 
having a surplus, and a similar variation is 
noticed in estimates on probable require¬ 
ments. There is some uniformity, however, 
on the main points at issue—that there will be 
enough wheat to go round, although, say the 
heralds of low-crop figures, reserves will be 
heavily drawn on, and the next year will be 
begun with very low stocks curried over. 
Some authorities suspect the slowness with 
w liich the wheat market revives, may lie due to 
plans to comer that product. But others scout 
such an idea. There is a very general 
impression that, no permanent advance in 
uuotations appears probable until after 
the holidays. On these points the North¬ 
western Miller, of Minneapolis, says—quite 
in accord with views previously expressed 
iu these columns—that low prices and 
dull trade will rule in breadstuff "until 
the present visible supply is greatly dimin¬ 
ished. or until a huge comer is engineered. 
The signs are not right for the corner scheme, 
and all indications ure that t lie holidays will 
have passed before auv legitimate rise in 
prices ecmes to gladden the hearts of the bull- 
ishly inclined. Legitimate causes may possi¬ 
bly eombino to advance flour before that 
time, but there is little to ho t >e for iu the 
grain markets.” 
For the ten days ended Tuesday evening, 
