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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov, 17, 1883, 
Full returns from Massachusetts give Rob¬ 
inson a majority of 10,101 over Butler, while 
Ames has 13,000 for Lieutenant-Governor. 
Abbett is elected Governor of New Jersey by 
7,500 majority, and the Democrats hold the 
Legislature by five majority on joint ballot. 
The Republicans in New York have obtained 
eighteen majority in the Assembly and four 
in the Senate, but the Democrats seem to have 
secured the minor State offices. Democratic 
gains in Virginia give the Legislature to that 
party by large majorities. Reese, Republi¬ 
can, is elected Supreme Court Judge 
in Nebraska by a majority of 10,000- 
Four-fifths of the members of the Missis¬ 
sippi Legislature will be Democrats. 
John Flemming, of the notorious firm of 
Flemming «S? Meiriam, the Chicago “ blind- 
poolers,” who swindled their dupes out of 
over $1,000,000 by bogus grain speculations 
about a year ago, and against whom we 
warned our readers, was at last arrested at 
Bismarck, Dakota, last Monday, On the ex¬ 
posure of the rascals in Chicago, Flemming 
sought refuge in Canada, but as he had 
swindled hundreds all through the Dominion, 
they made it so “hot” for him there that he 
returned to this country. He has been in 
Bismarck a couple of months, and has dealt 
considerably in real estate; but all his known 
property has been attached by attorneys 
acting for the dupes of the firm. Lots of 
these swindlers are now practicing the same 
tricks, however, aud they are still finding 
lots of nincompoops to enrich them. 
The cyclone last week at Springfield, Mo., 
killed 11 persons, aud two more are not ex¬ 
pected to live. Loss of property very heavy. 
.The Chief Signal Officer’s annual 
report says that the service has been serious¬ 
ly crippled by diminished appropriations, 
and urges Congress to be more liberal in 
future. He recommends a separate office on 
the Pacific Coast, and a decided extension of 
service in that important, region.The 
Grand Jury of Chicago has returned indict¬ 
ments against Frederick Erby, Frank Moore. 
J. A. Parkes and H. H. Sbapley for using 
the mails in the iuterest of lotteries. Erby 
represented the Henry College Lottery of 
Louisville, Moore, the Louisiana State Lot- 
-tery and Shaplev, the Little Havana. All 
gave bail except Sbapley, who w r ent to jail. 
.The main walls of the Mormon Tem¬ 
ple at Salt Lake City are completed. They 
are 10 feet thick, solid granite, 85 feet high. 
The foundation was laid 38 years ago. The 
cost to the present time is $4,500,000. It will 
take six years more to complete the building. 
........ Gen. Grant has written another letter 
to Gen. Fitz-John Porter, exonerating him 
from blame at the second battle of Bull’s Run. 
-....The special agent division of the 
Pension Office is to be reorganized so that 
branch offices will be located in all parts of 
the country at which all claims of a doubtful 
nature requiring investigation can be inves¬ 
tigated on the spot.P W. Parkhurst, 
a first citizen, Sunday School Superintendent, 
etc., used the funds of the Clyde, O., bank of 
which he was cashier, in an inefficient man¬ 
ner, and has gone to see his folks, leaving his 
fellow officials in the concern to settle with 
$60,000 or so worth of depositors.Shen¬ 
andoah, Pa., has been partly destroyed by 
fire; over 3-50 families are rendered homeless. 
Loss, nearly $1,000,000. John Cashers. Treas¬ 
urer, will receive subscriptions from the gen¬ 
erous-hearted.Fitch, defaulting cashier 
of the Warren, Ohio, Second National Bank, 
has got five years imprisonment for stealing 
$80,000—$16,000 a year.All told, it 
costs Mapleson $300,000 to carry Adalina 
Patti, with two maids and a valet, through 
40 nights of opera in America.News 
from the Arctic regions is to the effect that 
the phenomenally warm weather in the laud 
of ice has made it impracticable to bring 
De Long and those buried with him home for 
burial.Argument is commenced iu the 
Supreme Court suit brought by heirs of the 
late Sarah Ann Dorsey of Louisiana for the 
purpose of setting aside the will by which 
Mrs. Dorsey left her property to Jefferson 
Davis. It is maintained that the testatrix 
was subject to undue influence.The de¬ 
crease in the national debt for the first four 
months of this fiscal year is at the rate of 
$118,820,000 a year........ The American ter¬ 
minus of the Bennett cable will be at Loblolly, 
the south end of the town of Rockport, Mass. 
.The engineers estimate that it will 
take about $30,000,000 to build the Hennepin 
ship canal if it is ordered by Congress. A 
vigorous effort is to be made to get an appro¬ 
priation.Monday appears to have been 
the first really wintry day over a great part 
of the Northern States. Fierce gales doing a 
world of damage and severe cold inflicting a 
world of misery are reported from all the 
States north of the Ohio and Potomac. 
The number of immigrant® landed at the 
customs districts of Baltimore, Boston, De¬ 
troit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New 
York, Passamaquoddy, Philadelphia and San 
Francisco during October was 48.865. The 
total number of immigrants during the 10 
months ended October 31 was 501,037, against 
668,015 during the same period last year. 
President Arthur says it is settled that, the 
Democratic nominee for the Presidency will 
not come from east of the Alleghanies, and 
that the coming campaign will be fought out 
in Indiana, Ohio and New York.The 
Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that as 
the Pullman Palace Car Company claims to 
take passengers to enable thorn to sleep, it is 
responsible for depredations on their valua¬ 
bles while they are its guests.The en¬ 
tire roof, inside walls and iron and stone col¬ 
umns of the new south wing of the Capitol at 
Madison, Wis, fell last week, killing four and 
hurting 20 persons, several of them fatally... 
....In the Superior Court of Chicago, in an 
agreed ease against saloon-keepers fordoing 
business on a $103 license given by Mayor 
Harrison, Judge Anthony decided the Har¬ 
per bill, fixing a much higher liceuse, to be 
constitutional. An appeal to the State 
Supreme Court was taken, and a decision is 
expected within a week.The exposition 
at Louisville, Ky., closed last week. The fate 
has been open 102 days, during which 800,000 
persons were in attendance.. .The Attor¬ 
ney-General of Illinois has given an opinion 
that certain criminal illustrated papers of 
New York are proscribed in this State by 
law, and that the sellers may be fined or im¬ 
prisoned. Circulation of the same vile pic¬ 
tured papers has already been declared ille¬ 
gal in Georgia, Virginia and several other 
States.The United States basl6!, t doc¬ 
tors to even’ 10,000 persons. In England the 
propo rtion is six to 10,000; in France, three 
Germany, three and a fraction; Hungary and 
Italy, six, and Switzerland seven.Of 
Mexico’s debt of $117,000,000 Englishmen hold 
about $85,000,000. The rest is held in New 
York. The republic’s annual revenue is about 
$33,000,000, mainly from the stamp tax and 
tariff duties. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1883. 
The corn canneries of Maine put up 4,864,- 
000 cans of corn this season.At. Akron, 
Ohio, R. F. Palmer’s family were all taken 
violently ill; supposed to be trichinosis from 
eating head cheese. Two will probably die. 
. A cheese three feet eight inches thick, 
five feet four inches in diameter,circumference 
16 feet 0 inches, aud weighi ng 5,283 pounds, 
is on exhibition in Boston.In Pendleton 
County, W. Va,, some children dead of diph¬ 
theria were buried in a pasture field, and cat¬ 
tle grazing there have taken the disease and 
died of it.Maud S. made a trotting 
record of 2. 10% at Rochester, N. Y., on Au¬ 
gust 11, 1881, accompanied by a running 
horse. This was the best trotting record until 
last Thursday, Oct, 15, when it was beaten at 
Prospect Park Fair Grounds, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Two teams entered for a purse of $2,(XX), 
with $50(1 added in ease the “ record” should 
be lowered. These were John Murphy’s bay 
gelding Frank, and a running mate, J. O. Hay, 
and James Golden’s H. B. Winship and run¬ 
ning mate Statesman. Frank won the first 
heat in 2.08%, and Winship the second in 
2.10%'. Half a length only separated the two 
in the first heat as they flew under the wire; 
Frank was defeated by a length in the second 
heat, and badly beaten by Winship in 
the deciding heat on Friday. Time, 2.80%. 
.Capt. L. B. Crouch, an unmarried 
Texan stockman, has an insurance of $60,000 
on his life.There are no vv 1, 103 students 
in Girard College, Philadelphia, which is 
very nearly it® full capacity.It is re¬ 
ported that Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, 
who has an enormous land grant in Florida 
for building the canal connecting the Atlantic 
with the Gulf, has sold 4,000,000 acres of 
Florida land to an English syndicate at $1.25 
per acre.An order in the Canadian 
Council has been passed admitting swine in 
bond to Canada at all warehousing ports for 
slaughter for export, instead of as now on the 
western frontier.Many ranches have 
been plundered and a number of cattle driven 
off and killed by Crec half-breeds, 50 miles 
south of Buford, Dakota. General Whittier 
has been appealed to l’or aid, and has referred 
the matter to headquarters.C. H. 
Pease, of South Winsor, Ct., has raised this 
season 496 bushels of onions from one acre of 
ground, at a cost of $100, and his profit is 
$239.On July 1 there were 11,750,000 
cattle in France aud 5,962,000 in Great Britain; 
there were 2,750,000 pigs in France and 2,500,- 
000 in Great Britain; there were 23,500,000 
sheep in France aud 20,000,000 in England.... 
_It has been decided that there is no im¬ 
port, duty on flower seeds.The Exec¬ 
utive Committee of the Northwestern Dairy¬ 
men’s Association decided Wednesday to hold 
the annual convention and fair at Mankato, 
Minn., from Feb. 5 to 8 next.The fune¬ 
ral of Cyrus Sargent, a millionaire farmer, 
took place on Sunday at Bloomington, Wis., 
thirteen days after death. A niece with a 
broken limb was brought from Massachusetts 
in her bed. Sums of money ranging from $1 
to $1,000 are constantly being discovered 
about his bouse and in the fields, and an old 
Bible proved to be a miue of wealth. 
_Farmers in Campaign County, Ill., re¬ 
port that hundreds of valuable hogs have 
died from cholera in the viciuity of Fisher.... 
.... Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner of Fish¬ 
eries, Washington, D. C., is about to begin 
his yearly distribution of carp to applicants 
whose request for fish for stocking waters 
is indorsed by the Congressmen of their re¬ 
spective districts .The New York State 
Dairy Association, Hon. Harris Lewis, Presi¬ 
dent, will hold its next annual convention at 
Ogdensburg, on the third Tuesday in Decem¬ 
ber the 17th next Admission will be free to 
all, and invitation is extended to dairymen 
all through the State .The Ohio agri¬ 
cultural report says there have been but four- 
seasons in thirty-three years when the yield of 
com was as small as it is this year. The yield 
this season is placed at 28.2 bushels per acre. 
.Grain imports into Germany from Jan- 
uary to the end of September show a con¬ 
siderable falling off as compared with the 
same months of 1882, while the exports in¬ 
creased, the quantity of wheat and oats being 
nearly doubled.Thos. E. Sweet, of 
Hamilton, has sold to a Chicago syndicate 
500,000 acres of pine laud, in Mississippi, on 
the New Orleans and Northeastern road, for 
$850,000.There are 1,971,365 bee-hives 
in France, from which have been taken, this 
Autumn, 19.897,384 pounds of honey and 
5,691,598 pounds of wax, the total value of the 
product amounting to about $4,600,000. 
The steamer Bulgarian lost sixty-two head of 
cattle on the voyage from Boston to Liver¬ 
pool. In the vicinity of Tolono, Ill., 
corn is still too wet to be cribbed, and buy¬ 
ers refuse to receive it on any condition.... 
Mr. F. T. Bickford, who has been investi¬ 
gating for the Land Office in Dakota, has 
ascertained that most of the public lands in 
that Territory were acquired by the origi¬ 
nal settlers, so called, through the gross¬ 
est frauds. The law is scarcely ever complied 
with, either in letter or in spirit. The Tree- 
Culture act is made an agency of injustice to 
the public by adventurers and barkeepers of 
the towns of the Territory and the like. A 
radical remedy is necessary.The pro¬ 
prietors of a large cranberry marsh in Win¬ 
nebago County, Wis., are putting through it 
a large ditch two miles long and 12 feet wide. 
60 men are employed on the work. 
Mr. A. C, Hawkins, of Lancaster, Mass., has 
nearly 2,000 laying hens and about 200 cocks. 
During the last two years he has raised 8,000 
chicks per year. The cost of keeping varies 
with the price of grain; last year jt was found 
to be $1.50 per bead. His method of feeding 
is to give 90 ft, warm food in the morning, 
such as boiledsmall potatoes or turnips mixed 
with middlmgsaud meat. At noon hegives oats 
and at night whole corn,barley and wheat. 
The Texas Wool Grower say® the Refrigerator 
Company at. Fort Wort h expect to be ship¬ 
ping dressed meat from that point on January 
l, 1884. They expect to haudlelargc numbers 
of cattle aud small number® of sheep—250 
head of cattle and from 100 to 150 sheep each 
day. They know they can get fat cattle, 
butdon’t like to ealclulate on getting fat sheep 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 17,1883. 
Across the Atlantic Ireland is still in a 
highly disturbed condition. Protestantism 
is the dominant religion in Ulster, and 
ever since the subjugation of the Island by 
William III. (Prince of Orange) the Orange¬ 
men of that Province have been ultra-loyal. 
Lately Pai-nell’s followers have been attempt¬ 
ing to hold Home Rule and Laud League 
meetings there, and the Orangemen have been 
holding counter-meetings at the same places; 
and in some cases disastrous riots have oc¬ 
curred from the mutual hate of the factions; 
while iu all cases the presence of a strong 
force of constabulary or soldiers has been 
necessary to prevent wholesale murder. Many 
of the projected meetiugs have been prohibited 
by the Government, and probably very few 
will be permitted in future where there is any 
risk of collision between the hostile factions. 
Meanwhile, the Government seems resolved 
to put in force a scheme of wholesale emigra¬ 
tion. As it cannot control the Irish, it will 
try to get rid of them, aud replace them by 
English and Scotch settlers. This project has 
united against the Government all the priests, 
many of whom had hitherto been oxjposed to 
Parnell, his projects and his methods. The 
measure has not ytt been openly proclaimed, 
but there is little doubt that it is in contem¬ 
plation, aud hence the outcry against it in 
advance. The Parneliites are carrying every¬ 
thing in Leinster, Munster and Connaught, and 
making gains even in Ulster; and in the next 
Parliament their number will be greater than 
ever before. Agrarian outrages still continue, 
but thfy are neither so numerous nor so savage 
as formerly.In England the approaching 
trial of O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, is the 
chief object of interest, according to the 
cablegrams, though it is very likely more is 
said about it. iu the American than in the 
English papers. The Government will prob¬ 
ably treat the case as one of common murder, 
and refrain from introducing anything of a 
political nature, unless the defense renders it 
necessary. An attempt to blow up with dyna¬ 
mite one of the underground railroads in 
London, attributed to the Fenians, and some 
other deeds of violence, have given rise to 
such a bitter anti-Irish feeling in England 
that O’Donnell’s chances of escaping the hal¬ 
ter are greatly lessened. Indeed, in England 
and Scotland thousands of Irishmen find 
great difficulty in securing employment on 
account of this feeling of ill-will, and local 
riots and massacres are feared by the timid 
or the far-sighted.The Fair Trade 
League is still alive and actively seeking 
“protection”for British agricultural products 
against foreign competition.As might 
have been expected, England, in spite of past 
protestations, has no intention whatever of 
withdrawing from Egypt. She will keep 
force enough in that half-way house to India 
to raake'her influene predominant. Egypt will 
henceforth be merely an English dependency, 
nominally under native rule.In France 
the Tonquin "affair” is still the great subject 
of iuterest. There is every prospect that war 
will break out. between the Chinese and the 
French in a short time, unless England inter¬ 
venes. The French have 18.000 meu there, 
and Admiral Courbet, commander of the land 
and sea forces, is reported to have already 
begun his advauce against a town garrisoned 
by Chinese. If he attacks it, the Chinese 
must inevitably be drawn into the contest, and 
England’s interest in Chinese trade is so great 
that she must soon take action in the matter. 
Meanwhile, many French statesmen see the 
folly of sending thousands of French troops 
to the antipodes when they may lie wanted 
any day at home in the flerces-t war that has 
cursed Europe since the days of the First 
Napoleon. The Alphonso “incident” is set¬ 
tled diplomatically; but much bitterness still 
rankles on both sides of the Pyrenees. The 
German Crown Prince Frederick William has 
just started to visit Alphonso as a substitute 
for the Emperor. He goes by way of .Switzer¬ 
land, Italy and the Mediterranean. 
This is a move of Bismarck to still further iso¬ 
late France, by this royal manifestation of 
good-will and regret for the insults offered to 
the Spanish King in Paris. Some fear the 
Spanish Badicnls and Republicans mav in¬ 
sult the Prince aud that the object of the visit 
may thus be defeated.. .It Is not at all unlikely 
that war may break out ffext Spring_A 
crank attempted to assassinate Prime Minis¬ 
ter Ferry yesterday.... An agreement is likely 
to be arrived at between the Suez Canal Com¬ 
pany and English ship-owners on the basis 
that the administration of the Company shall 
be 44 per cent. English and 56 per cent. 
French, the English Government to contribute 
£8,000,000 ($40,000,000) towards the cost of 
constructing a second canal.Bismarck 
is reported very weak in body from 
repeated attacks of jaundice, etc., but as 
strong as ever in mitid. though unusually 
irritable. He has just bud a visit from M. de 
Giers, the Russian Minister of Foreign 
Affairs, who assured him that the Emperor 
Alexander III. entertained the warmest 
friendship for Gennauy, and that he himself 
shared in the sentiment. Yet the reports are 
rife that Russia is mussing her forces along 
the German and Austrian frontier. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1883. 
The fruit crops of Michigan have been un¬ 
satisfactory this season. The quantity of 
peaehes gathered was fair, but the quality 
was poor. The cold Spring was unfavorable, 
and many dropped from the trees during the 
Summer. In the southern part of the peach 
country, the disease known as “yellows” has 
prevailed, entire orchards being affected by 
it. No remedy is known, and it is causing 
much anxiety. The early fruit sold at good 
prices this season, but the late varieties were 
marketed at low figures. The apple crop is 
the poorest for a score of years, aud it is 
claimed that there are uot enough to supply 
