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HOME NEWS. 
gence in causing certain piers of tbe new 
Capitol to be improperly repaired, and that 
Supervising Architect Jones and Consulting 
Architect Koch designed the internal con¬ 
struction without due regard to the safety of 
the building, thereby contributing to the 
fatal fall of the building. 
Saturday, Nov. 24, 1883. 
Canada is beginning to grumble at the 
large number of destitute Irish immigrants 
whose support the “imperial Government” is 
shifting on the towns and villages of the Do¬ 
minion.A suit for $20,000,000 has been 
brought against the New Almaden (Cal.) 
Quicksilver Miuing Company by the widow of 
one of the three original owners.Peti¬ 
tions will be presented to Congress asking that 
provision be made for tbe retirement of en¬ 
listed men after 25 and 35 years’ service. 
Thirty cases of diphtheria have been reported 
in Waterbury, Vt. The schools were closed 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 24,1883. 
The breeders and importers of Percheron 
horses in the United States met at Chicago ou 
November 15, and decided to recognize the 
American Percheron Stud Book as the stand¬ 
ard authority. Its editor was directed not to 
admit to registration after the present year 
any imported horses except those registered 
in the Percheron Stud Book of Prance. 
The National Norman Horse Association held 
its annual meeting at the same place and time, 
lately,and much excitement prevails,. I The usnal ^P 01 '*® were heard - Instructions 
During the present season the lumber mills in 
Otta wa cut 340,000,000 feet, and the mills out¬ 
side of the city in the Ottawa Valley cut 400,- 
000,000 feet.The Secretary of State of 
Illinois lately licensed the “Chain of 
Rocks” Bridge Company,” which proposes to 
bridge the Mississippi ten miles above the big 
St. Louis bridge. The capital stock is $2,000,- 
000. The project is believed to be in the inter¬ 
est of the Gould lines and the Chicago & 
Alton Railroad Company.The steamer 
S. H. Parisot was burned on the Mississippi 
River with her cargo, near Natchez. The loss 
is $250,000. One of the crew was drowned, 
and it is feared that some of the passengers 
perished.In Milwaukee a summons has 
been filed by Daniel Wells, Jr., in a suit to 
compel Peter McGeocli to account for money 
involved in the settlement of the McGeoch 
lard failure, a few months ago. Tbe amount 
involved is $1,500,000 .During the last 
fiscal year the increase in the sale of liquor 
licences in Maine, compared with the previous 
year, was 130, Vermont 27, New Hampshire 
116, Rhode Island 14.The annual fig¬ 
ures of the Post-Office Department present 
a remarkable indication of the growth of 
Dakota. These returns show’ that, it has more 
Presidential past-offices than any one of 21 of 
the States.President Arthur has been 
solicited to incorporate in his annual message 
a recommendation to Congress of such action 
as will promote the digging of a canal across 
the Maryland Peninsula.An extraordi¬ 
nary dullness prevails in the iron and steel 
manufacturing business. Numerous mills are 
shutting down in all sections.The tax 
list of real and personal property of St. Louis 
for the current year show’s a valuation of 
were given for the enforcement of the by-laws 
expelling members for misrepresenting the 
breeding of any horse for registry or sale. 
.The Indiana State Treasurer, at the 
solicitation of the Trustees of the Pardue Uni¬ 
versity, has agreed to advance one year’s in¬ 
terest on the University bonds. This action 
seemed to be necessitated by the failure of the 
Legislature to make an appropriation. The 
Agricultural and Mechanical College is at¬ 
tached to the University.The National 
Swine Breeders’ Association, in session in 
Chicago, has appointed a committee to secure 
such legislation as will open foreign markets 
to American pork. An official classification, 
for use in all State and other leading fairs, wil 
be prepared.A flock of 17,000 sheep is 
being driven from New Mexico to Winter 
near Fremont, Nebraska. Three thousand 
tons of hay have been put up for them to nib_ 
ble at.. The Louisiana, Memphis, Nash 
ville, St. Louis, Louisvillp, Lexington, WashI 
ington Park and Chicago Driving Park jockey 
clubs and leading breeders of the South and 
West have accepted the call of the Louisville 
Jockey Club fora turf conference for the pur¬ 
pose of adopting a uniform scale of weights 
and rules, and to consult as to adopting the 
most stringent measures and laws to eradicate 
fraud and purify the turf. Great interest is 
taken by all lovers of race-horses in the coun¬ 
try and much good is expected to result from 
such a gathering of breeders and club repre¬ 
sentatives.A thousand sheep from On¬ 
tario for England are detained at Montreal 
because 14 are affected with scab.The 
value of the willow’ crop of Wyoming County, 
N. Y, is estimated at $120,000. The heaviest 
crops are found in the towns of Perry, Gainea- 
$210,000,000. an increase of $20,000,000. Vl11 ® and War ^ aw ’ and t,he willows are Sapped 
to Syracuse, Buffalo and New York to Ger¬ 
man basket makers, where they command 
The Postmaster-General of Canada will fol¬ 
low the course of Postmaster-General Gresham 
in forbidding the sending of lottery circulars 
and tickets through tbe mails.Hallet 
Kilburn’s verdict for $60,000 for having been 
imprisoned for refusing to surrender bis books 
to a Congressional investigating committee, 
has been set aside as excessive, and a new 
trial has been ordered. He got $100,000 at 
the first trial.Ninety of the hostile In¬ 
dians defeated by Gen. Crook some months 
ago have come in to the San Carlos Reserva¬ 
tion. The total number on the Reservation is 
83 bucks, 340 women and children. Only 40 
are now out, and they will be in soon........ 
A Montreal dispatch says 5o0 to 1,000 men 
hired by the Canadian Pacific railway, at $2 
a day, to work on the road north of Lake 
Superior, have arrived in that city absolutely 
destitute and have entered 300 actions against 
the company for w r ages and damages. The 
men are all French Canadians and great in¬ 
dignation exists among their compatriots. 
-They had a cyclone in Oxford and Frank¬ 
lin Counties, Me. The damage in Oxford 
County is $100,000. In Franklin County the 
loss is $50,000. Houses and barns were de¬ 
stroyed and cattle killed. The damage is 
heavy thronghout Northern Maine. Much 
timber land was damaged. Lots on the 
Androscoggin and Sandy Rivers were totally 
destroyed. In Vangfield 2,000 acres were de¬ 
stroyed.New York canals close De¬ 
cember 1, if not sooner closed by ice.. 
Furious storms have caused great suffering 
and enormous losses during the week. To 
enumerate merely the names of places that 
have suffered would fill a couple of columns. 
.The New’ England railroads killed, 
the past year, 221 persons and injured 535. 
16 of the killed and 52 of the injured w T ere 
passengers....A story has been “going 
the rounds," to the effect that Lincoln’s body 
has been secretly removed from tbe sarcopha¬ 
gus at Springfield, Ill., to prevent the possi¬ 
bility of its being stolen by robbers. The 
tale, however, is absolutely contradicted. 
The body is perfectly safe, and has not been 
seen by anybody since it was soldered in a 
lead coffin on October 9,1874.In Madi¬ 
son, Wis., the coroner’s jury finds that con¬ 
tractor Nowlan was guilty of gross negli- 
from $4 to $24 per ton.Fifty persons in 
Thom, West Prussia, have lieen attacked by 
trichinosis.The Russian Government is 
still engaged in its war against the phylloxera. 
It has already spent $150,000 in the enterprise, 
and further large sums will be needed to com¬ 
plete the work.The students of the 
Mass. Agricultural College are to have a 
course of lectures this Fall and Winter. Col, 
John E. Russell, Sec. of the State Board of 
Agriculture, will lecture on Monday evening, 
December 10, on Tropical Flora. Maj. Henry 
E. Alvord, of Houghton Farm, Orange Co., 
N. Y., and Dr. James R. Nichols, editor of 
the Journal of Chemistry, will lecture iu 
January. November 26, Ex-Pres. Stoekbridge 
lectured upon the subject, ‘ ‘ Shall a Farming 
Man go West ?”....It is alleged that large 
importers of American cotton in Italy have 
found quantities of matches inserted in the 
bales.A telegram from Buffalo,.N. Y., 
November 22. says a decision in the case of the 
Messrs. Jebb and others against C. J. Hamlin 
audtbe American Grape Sugar Company has 
been handed down by r,he Supreme Court. It 
is adverse to the Messrs. Ilumlin. The case 
involved the payment of royalty on the man¬ 
ufacture of grape sugar for the use of a patent 
owned by the Messrs, Jebb.The Angora 
goat is becoming popular in Texas. Succes B 
has been obtained in grading tbe common 
kind to a wool-bearing standard .......A 
sensational sale of Merino sheep is reported 
from Adelaide, Australia. The flock belonged 
to Mr. E. W. Pitts, The Levels. The highest 
price paid for rams was 190 guineas, (about 
$999). Altogether 162 rams were sold for 
$8,428 guineas, the average being 52 guineas 
($270) per head. On the second day of the 
sale there were sold 1.927 breeding ewes, 622 
ram lambs, and 574 ewe lambs, giving a total 
of 3,123 sheep. The sum obtained for these 
was £32,158. A pen of nine two-year-old ewes 
made 50 guineas ($260) each. The total real¬ 
ized by the two days’ sale was £41,510 6d for 
3,402 sheep.The Cheyenne and Arra. 
pohoe cattle company, of which ex-Mayor 
Cooper of New York is president, has leased 
100,000 acres of laud in the Indian Territory, 
and means to put 60,000 cattle on it. The land 
rent is two cents a acre per annum, and the 
lease runs 10 years.A nabob who lives 
near Cincinnati hates the noise and likes the 
taste of English sparrows, and encourages 
boys to catch them about his grounds. All 
sorts of traps are used, but the most effective 
is stiff coal bar, smeared over boards or logs 
and sprinkled with oats. A bird tied by the 
leg with a thread is put there as a decov, its 
cries attx’actother sparrows from all quarters, 
and numbers try to get the oats and are stuck 
in the tar. They may be eaten at once, but 
are better for a week’s feeding on grain. The 
flesh is white and firm, and called better than 
quail or anything else of the kind, unless if be 
the reed-bird. Now, boys, there’s a hint! 
.The annual convention of the National 
Grauge was opened at Washington, Wednes¬ 
day, 27 States being represented, William 
Saunders, of the Agricultural Department, de¬ 
livered an address of welcome, and speeches 
were made by ex-Gov. Roble of Maine, J. R. 
Thompsou of Washington, and Mr. Harrison 
of Alabama. W orthy Master J. J, Woodman 
of Michigan delivered the annual address. 
He said that the organization is more pros¬ 
perous now’ than it has been for many years, 
and that its ranks are rapidly filling up. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 24, f883. 
El Mahdi, the False Prophet, has completely 
defeated the Egyptian army sent against 
him; the cablegram says be has annihilated 
it, only one European escaping out of a 
couple of dozen officers and newspaper cor¬ 
respondents. The Egyptians numbered about 
12,(KX) men, mostly the folio were of Arabi 
Pasha, who were sent down to the Soudan as 
a pimishment. The rest were wretched 
peasants forced unwillingly into the army. 
El Mahdi’s followers are variously estimated 
at from 200,000 to 300,000 semi-savages, 
rudely armed, but fanatical. The fight lasted 
three days, the Egyptians being formed in a 
hollow square, which was at last broken, 
when a regular massacre ensued. Hicks 
Pasha, an English colonel, who succeeded the 
American, Gen. Stone, last January, perished 
with his army... .Mr. Jas. Russell Lowell,U.S. 
Minister to Great Britan has been elected 
Rector of the University of St. Andrews, 
defeating the Right Honorable Edward Gib¬ 
son by 18 votes. Mr. Lowell was supported 
on purely literary grounds, while Mr. Gib¬ 
son’s candidature was essentially political. 
The votes were 100 against 82....At a 
meeting of the creditors of Morris Ranger, 
the cotton broker, it was shown that he had 
unsecured liabilities of $4,000,000 and assets 
of only about $45,000 .A monster trial 
will begin in Hungary shortly, tbe prisoners 
being 111 persons accused of participating in 
the recent anti-Jewish riots. To prove the 
guilt of the prisoners 1,400 witnesses will be 
called.The German Reichstag is sum¬ 
moned to meet December 4. Tbe Government 
will ask the Reichstag for a grant to build 
50 torpedo boats.The Rome Diritto 
announces that Pope Leo has consented to 
appoint a Nuncio to the United States, ac¬ 
cording to the petition of the American 
bishops now at that capital...,... .The election 
for the rectorship of the Glasgow University 
has resulted as follows: Postmaster-General 
Fawcett, 707; Marquis of Bute, 670; John 
Rviskiu, 361.Poole, the Fenian mur¬ 
derer of an Irish informer named Kenny in 
Dublin some time ago, has been tried this 
week, convicted and condemned to hang next 
month.—O’Donnell, the murderer of Carey, 
will be tried at London on the 30tli. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Nov. 24, 1883. 
Fresh beef exports in October were unusu¬ 
ally large, being 12,472,290 pounds, compared 
with 2,956,200 pounds last year. Tallow also 
showed a large increase, amounting to 6,118,- 
902 pounds, compared with 2,076,235 pounds 
last year. The aggregate of exports of beef 
products for October was 32,487,800 pounds, 
against 15,046,975 last year. 
There is no doubt that the amount of our 
exports of all kinds of produce is greatly in¬ 
fluenced by prices here: the higher they are 
the smaller the foreign demand, aud vice, 
verm. For instance, the total of hog product 
exported this year was 52,895,253 pounds, as 
pared with 24,1.76,106 pounds last year. Prices 
of short riii sides in Chicago in October this 
year averaged about 6)3 cents per pound, 
lard 7% cents, aud mess pork $10.75 per bar¬ 
rel; for last year, sides about 14 , lard 
12^c,, aud mess pork $23 per barrel 
The statistician, Edward Atkinson, has 
made a calculation showing the cost of a loaf 
of bread made in the East from wheat raised 
iu the West. According to his figures, 100 
barrels of flour delivered in Boston cost 
$1382.20, and the baker adds $200 worth of 
labor aud $200 worth of yeast, etc., aud makes 
3,000 loa ves of bread, which he sells at seven , 
cents a piece, giving him an aggregate return 
of $2,100, or a*clear profit of $1,017.80 on an 
investment of $1,082.20. The object of the 
calculation is toconviuce working people that 
they can save money by making their own 
bread instead of buying it, as most of them 
do, of the bakers. 
Superintendent Maxwell, of the Chamber 
of Commerce of Cincinnati, says the produc¬ 
tion of butterine there has increased over the 
preceding year, having reached 740.S43 
pounds, in comparison with 664,899 in the pre¬ 
vious year, and SS4,365 in 1880-81. 
The Mark Lane Express of November 19, in 
its weekly review of the British grain trade, 
says: “There have been some very severe 
frosts, and the position of the wheat crop is 
exceedingly favorable, as the result is one of 
the finest seed times ever known. The ten¬ 
dency of wheat and flour Is downward. Bar¬ 
ley is slow. Foreign wheat off stands is droop- 
iug; sales are only possible when concessions 
are made bv buyers. American maize is scarce 
and advanced 12 cents; round maize is firmly 
held and dull. Teu wheat cargoes arrived; 
three w r ere sold, six were withdrawn, and 
three remained. 
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The Rural New-Yorker will be sent 
from this date until January 1st, 1885, for 
$ 2 . 00 . 
— - ■ - 4 ««- 
No disease can show’ such quick results as 
Heert Disease; do not delay, Dr. Graves’ Heart 
Regulator is a specific. $1 per bottle at drug¬ 
gists.— Adv. 
Sufferers from Coughs, Sore Throat, 
etc., should try “Brown’s Bronchial 
Troches,” a simple but sure remedy’. Sold 
only in boxes. — Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago regular wheat is l%c. lower; No. 
2 Chicago Spring %c. low’er; No. 2 Red Win¬ 
ter, 2c. lower. Coni %c. higher. Oats y H c. 
Rye 1 higher. Hogs from 15 to 25 per cent, 
higher. Cattle somewhat higher. Sheep a 
trifle lower. 
WiiKAT.-Was dull and weak, early prices declln- 
Ing^e., 1 nule r y cm.- relay's closing figures, Put later. 
Influenced by an advance In corn anil provisions, the 
market rallied IVifelJ*'. and closed within U of the 
outside figures. Regular wheat for November: 
MM'*954&\. closing lit !*5fcj,c : December, •oycia'XWic., 
clotting ut 5«SS<,c.! January closing at (We.: 
February. 93?s/a;9S^c.. closing nt SWfcc,- May, $1.0874® 
•-0S, cloning a( $1 .05: No. Chicago spring, 95@!)»e., 
closing at OWcs/OUe.; No. S do. MitotSSjU; No. 2 Reel 
Winter. Corn was excited and strong- the 
Invisible supply reduced, nnd this influence, 
coupled with war rumors, was I he reason assigned 
for the advance; the market opened nt about, ves'er 
day’s closing, advanced WMlRe.. Muv showing the 
most strength, and closed #t®;U<c. higher Ilian yes¬ 
terday; sales ranged: cash, KHfcwdPWo.. closing at 
November, ISwIUUe. closing al IW*. Decern 
her and all the year. i’Siw 19Vfic.. closing nt 49Ve • 
January nnd February. l*J4®49ij)o., closing at 49c.; 
May. f>Pty.c53Ue., dosing 92%. Oats. Firm and In 
good demand: sales ranged: 2ife.29V4o.! November 
29Me.r December, SOUGWic.: all the venr, 24Wc.: 
Janunry, 2!«sia.;’!iH4c. 1 elo8lng at2944c.: May, SRg'reSSfcio. 
closing at 33Vte. It vs. Steady nt S7&V. Harley. 
Gnlet at 62c. Hons. Market brisk, and prices SffiilOc. 
higher than yesterday. Packing. i.'.fi; Packing 
and Shipping. #t.HO@5.f0; Light, *4®4..V.: Skips. $3.rxxa 
4. C attle—M arket steady; Exports #6.30(5MU; Good 
to Choice Shipping, *5.4Uwe.lO: Common to Atedlum, 
SumS. 10; Range Cattle Steady ; Grass Texans, #8.7.V6, 
4.83: Americans, *1.5ife.5.3S. Siikkp—M arket dull; In¬ 
ferior to Fair, #2<u,:i per 100 lb.; Good. $8.25: Choice. 
$8.75. 
St, Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Fall Wheat is higher; 
No. 3 ditto ViC. higher. Cora unchanged. 
Oats, 2c. higher. Rye, “i'c. higher. Cattle, a 
shade higher. Sheep, 25c, to 40c. lower. Hogs, 
10 c. to 20c. lower. 
Wheat—N o. 2 Red Fail, $UJ 0 %r»l .02 cash; $1.0194 
fisl.OI** December; gl.OHU January; $1.06 February; 
$ t. 10® 1.101k May: No, 3 Red Fall. U4(it96c. Cons —1414 
(# 4 * 94 *’. rash; 4Hk(«40hc. November; Hie. December; 
4‘Mir&4flUc. a|| the year: 4»i<i42i*e. January-; 4644® 
HWe. May. Oats 2,H ensh; 'ifiSZc.bid December; SfiUc. 
all the year: 2Ko, January: 32c. May. Ryu dull at Mia® 
53Hc. Harley dull. Hons in active demand; Yorkers. 
S 4.80.ui4 4 ( 1 ; Packing, *4.40«c4,r>5; Heavy. #t.50r<i4.75. 
ATTLE —Market less active and not so strong; Ex¬ 
ports IP; Heavy shipping, $!f.2S®li; Light do.. 
$4.75<«Ji 50; good butchers' steers active at #404.50; 
Native cows and heifers, f.V- 1 ; Texans, $.V.’.Vt. 1 ’> 
principally #x.7.Va$4: Indians, $3.life4. Sheep— 
Market steady: Medium to Fair, Muttons, $2,85(5,3.80; 
Good to Prime $3.50®!; Fancy, $4,35. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York, Saturday, Nov. 24, 1883. 
Deans and Peas.— Beans—marrow,prime, new, #3.10; 
Beans, marrows, prime, old, *2 8 .yg2.90; do. medium, 
prime. $2.S0; do. pen, *2.Hik®2_35; do. white kidnev, 
choice. #8.25; do. red kidney. 1883, choice. $.’>< 45 . 10 : 
foreign pea beaus, * 2 .iVa' 2 . 3 ‘: (Jo. foreign, mediums, 
new, #2.30<i«'J.2n: do. do. old. $2.0Vo>3.IO. Peas, green. 
1S82, prime. 1,9); do. Southern It. K. pens, #3.20 
®S.»; California. Lima, $320®8 so. 
Breadstufkb and Provision*.— As compared with 
prices of a week ago, ungraded Spring is ic. higher; 
No. 2 Chicago 1* the same; ungraded Winter red Is 
Bfjje. lower; No. 3 red Is lJ4e. lower for rail certifi¬ 
cates. Kye—Western Is Sc. higher; State Is ‘ 40 , higher. 
Coni—Ungraded mixed is me. lower; No. 3 new Is 
94c lower: No. 2 delivered la the sumo; white and 
yellow Southern Is me- lower. Oats—No. S mixed is 
me- higher: No. 2 is 14 c. higher; No. 1 Is the same; 
No, 3 white la Me. lower; No. 2 white is '4c- higher: 
No. 1 la me. lower; mixed Western 1 * the same; 
white Western I* lc. lower; white State Is (lie same. 
Flour, Feed and Meal quotations; No. 2, $2 S0@ 
3,2U;8Uperflne,$2.9tV(t3.40,latter uu extreme;'couimon to 
fair extra State, #H.fiifei.8.90; good to fancy do., S4.40®s; 
common to stood extra Western, gs iiLi-i.vo good to 
choice,#!25a.fi.90: common extra t'hlo.ls.tfe® ;. in good, 
#4,45(5,3 t*i; good to choice, #5,UNAS.50- common extra 
Minnesota, $8.(AV«4.30; clear, $4.$U®5,25; rye mixture. 
f 4.J0®fl.20: straight. #S.. , *)nt6: patent, #5.85 •( 6.90; St. 
,out* common to fair e-xtra, *3.6o.v4,25: fair lh good, 
44. »><*.'.»! good to very choice. $3.3 um.i>, 75: patent 
Winter wheat extra, #5.40. 1 ,6.75; city mill extra tor 
West Indies, $5.3*1.1(5,50; South AflOTlCH, #5 50 s5 60; 
Southern Hour, common to good exlru, #8.7B®4.90; 
good to choice, do. #3<rt>6.50; Rye Flour SupcrtlDe, 
$3.65oj3.90, mainly $3.63®3.73. Buckwheat Hour, #8.40 
®3.80; latter an extreme, Feed—40 tt. S2W«8fC4c.; 60 
lb,85®90c.; 80 Hi, 90®95«.; 100 It, 93c.u##1.0fi; sharps 
