DEC 22 
846 
Ims r»f \\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec, 15. 1883. 
Washington is overran with place-seek¬ 
ers. There are nearly 400 applicants for the 
position of the driver of the House mail 
wagon.General Sherman, in a letter 
to John Swinton, denies that he ever said 
there will soon be an armed contest betweeu 
the representatives of capital and labor. He 
thinks this country was never so happy and 
prosperous as it is now.... .. A dispatch 
from Victoria says there are 3,000 destitute 
Chinese in British Columbia who can only 
subsist by robbery and murder. Legislation 
is asked forbiddiug further Chinese immigra¬ 
tion.The directors of the Southern 
Exposition at Louisville, Ky., have decided to 
hold another exposition in 18S4, the dates to 
be so arranged as not to conflict with the 
World’s Exposition at New Orleans. An ad¬ 
ditional fund of ?‘J50,000 will be raised. 
The design adapted for the main building of 
the World’s Cotton Exposition, at New 
Orleans, makes it 1,400 feet long and 000 feet 
wide, with a Music Hall in the center capable 
of seating 13,000 persons. It will be the 
largest structure for exposition purposes ever 
built, with the exception of the one iu which 
the Loudon Exposition of 1863 was held.... 
_A petition asking Congress to establish a 
Soldiers' Home in Kansas has been forwarded 
to Senator Plumb, of that State. It contained 
20,000 names.Barnum has finally se¬ 
cured a sacred white elephant, at Rangoon, 
Burmab, for an alleged payment of $200,000. 
It will be shown here next year after having 
been exhibited in England and France.... 
....In the year ending June 30, American 
vessels exported and imported at New York 
goods totalizing $201,530,770 to $1,200,217,844 
carried by foreign craft.The Pennsyl¬ 
vania Legislature adjourned sine die on 
Thursday. Governor Pattison vetoed an ap¬ 
propriation to pa v their salaries on the 
ground that they had failed to do what 
they had been elected for. They passed 
the hill over his veto, however. Most of 
the members turned into the treasury 
$110 each, pay for the 11 days’ recess 
at the beginning of the session. 
At Winnipeg the business of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway is at a standstill, and the 
trouble is extending far along the line. No 
trains are moving, and the workshops have 
been closed. The company reduced its ex¬ 
penditures, jhe engineers struck, and the com¬ 
pany retorted with an order discharging 3,000 
workmen. The agitation among the farmers 
against the Dominion burns more and more 
fiercely.It is rumored that Sydney 
Dillon will resign the Presidency of the Union 
Pacific Railway Company, and that Charles 
Francis Adams, Jr., will take his place .. 
Acting Deputy-Comptroller of the Treasury 
Thompson w as stricken with paralysis, yester¬ 
day, while at his desk in Washington. 
Frank James was released on bail at Kansas 
City, on Thursday, and was immediately re- 
arrested on a charge of killing Cashier Sheets 
at Gallatin in 1868.Butlerism has got 
another black eye iu Massachusetts, Geu. A. 
P. Martin, the Citizen’s and Republican can¬ 
didate for Mayor of Boston, having defeated 
Hugh O'Brien, the Butler-Democratic candi¬ 
date, by a plurality vote of 1,542. Last year 
Palmer, the Butler candidate, carried the 
election over Green, the Republican man, by 
2,138, The vote was the largest ever cast in 
the eity. Martin, the new Republican 
Mayor, is a Democrat in National poli¬ 
tics, but an opponent of Butlerism. 
The failing of the Comstock mines brings 
hopeless ruin upon Virginia City. This place 
and Gold Hill, which is practically a part of 
the same town, had 35,000 inhabitants eight 
years ago, merchants with $1,000,000 capital, 
a score or more men worth from $300,000 to 
$30,000,000 each, private homes that cost 
$100,000, and hotels and everything else to 
match. Now' there are but 5,000 inhabitants, 
nearly all miners and gamblers, the fine houses 
are all carried away or abandoned, real estate 
cannot be sold for the amount of the taxes, 
nothing can be sold which is not worth carry¬ 
ing away, and in a little time the gorgeous 
city must entirely disappear. There have been 
$285,000,000 worth of gold and silver taken 
from the Comstock mines, and this witbiu a 
distance of half a mile.Mackey and 
Flood of San Francisco, the bonanza men, 
have bought the Quijaton mines in Arizona, 
80 miles from Tucson, for $450,000, and there 
is great rejoicing down that way.,.The 
National Republican Convention to nominate 
a Republican candidate for the uext Presi¬ 
dential election will be held at Chicago on June 
3 next. The selection of this place is regarded 
as] a good thing for Logan and Blaine, and a 
set-back for Arthur.The case against 
ex-Senator Kellogg of Louisiana for compli¬ 
city in the Star Route frauds has been con¬ 
tinued by Judge Wylie until the next term of 
court. The Government asked for delay be¬ 
cause of the absence of Mr. Walsh, their chief 
witness. These Star Route trials are always 
lamed by something .The United States 
Court, decided at Washington last w-eek the 
contested will case of the heirs of Sai’ah Aun 
Dorsey against Jefferson Davis to recover 
possession of certain property left to the latter 
by Mrs. Dorsey at her death in favor of Mr. 
Davis.The long fight between the pro¬ 
hibitionists in Topeka, Kan., anrl Mayor Wil¬ 
son has terminated in the Mayor’s resignation. 
He practically established a license system on 
his own hook in defiance of the law by permit¬ 
ting saloons to run on condition that they 
pay fines at stated intervals, and the temper¬ 
ance men tried to have him impeached, and 
fought him in every way possible.Secre¬ 
tary Folger is quite sick, and when he has 
improved will take a prolonged vacat ion.... 
-Our soldiers are deserting in great num¬ 
bers, because they are forced to do laborers’ 
work for no pay; are treated tyrauically by 
the officers, and are stinted in food in order 
that their superiors may fatten on their appro¬ 
priated rations. Gen. Howard, the "Christian 
soldier,” however, wants deserters to be pun¬ 
ished by long solitary confinement, and by 
having the letter D branded upon their per¬ 
sons. The recommendation not unnaturally 
causes "excited comment,”.At the 
Democratic primary elections at New Orleans 
yesterday, there was a fearful riot in the 
Seventh Ward. There is intense bitterness 
between the Ogden and MoEnery factions. 
The party that wants MoEnery for Governor 
had won a large majority of votes in the ap¬ 
proaching convention. At the polls the bit 
teruess between the factions culminated in the 
murder of three men and the wounding of 11 
others.It is charged in the Dominion 
that deserters from the American army have 
been followed into Canada, and there ar¬ 
rested by United States soldiers.The 
extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature 
is ended at last, after sitting 182 days at a cost 
to the State of $530,000, and accomplishing 
absolutely nothing .It is within the 
possibilities that the troubles in Manitoba 
may lead to complications with the United 
State-;. As it becomes more and more evident 
that the farmers of the Northwest will not 
receive any immediate aid at Ottawa, the 
popular meetings abound with coercive pro¬ 
posals. At Winnipeg, recently, delegates 
present from all parts of the Province and a 
committee was appointed to approach the 
Northern Pacific, Chicago aud Milwaukee and 
other of our railroads on the subject of induc¬ 
ing these corporations to build to the bound¬ 
ary line in order to break the Canada Pacific 
Railway monopoly. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 15,1883. 
Returns to the Dominion Department of 
Agriculture show that the arrival of immi¬ 
grants in Manitoba from all quarters during 
11 months of this year amounted to 45,905. 
By the way, the boundaries of Manitoba have 
latelj r been greatly enlarged, the Province 
now embracing nearly 10 times the area of a 
couple of years ago, as mentioned in last 
week’s Rural .The Connecticut State 
Board of Agriculture will hold its auuual 
Wiuter meeting at Waterbary on December 
10, 20 and 21.The Butter, Cheese and 
Egg Association closed its lltb annual session 
Thursday week at- Cincinnati. Col. Littler 
Secretary, reported that the total value of 
butter, Cheese, eggs and poultry marketed in 
the United States in 1883 amounts to more 
than $600,000,000. The value of milk and 
cream sold, not manufactured into butter and 
cheese, males over $100,000,000. Col. Van 
Valkenburg reported that New York received 
for butter $22,600,000; cheese, $14,600,000; 
poultry, $4,300,000; eggs, $10,000,000. Re¬ 
ports were presented from other cities. Tele¬ 
grams were received from the New York 
Mercantile and other Produce Exchanges 
congratulating the Association upon the suc¬ 
cess of the meeting. The election resulted as 
follows: Jolm J McDonald, New York, Presi¬ 
dent. Col. R. M. Littler, Davenport. la., Sec¬ 
retary (tenth re-election). Invitations for the 
next convention have been received from St. 
Louis aud Cleveland. The executive commit¬ 
tee will choose a place uext July .... Five 
horse thieves have just been lynched and four 
others are in custody and likely to be st rung 
up in the Niobrara Valley, uear Yankton, D. 
T.Irrigation works in India, which are 
generally acknowledged to be the only per¬ 
manent protection against the terrible and 
constantly recurring famines, appear from 
the official tables published in the Govern¬ 
ment Gazette to be capable of returning con¬ 
siderable profit. The only exception is Ben¬ 
gal. where the irrigation of 872,866 acres at a 
cost of 12 250,000 rupees has yielded during the 
four years under review a return only over 
1-I0per cent. The Punjab heads the list, the 
irrigation of 1,423,000 acres in that Province 
yielding a return on the capital sunk of a frac¬ 
tion over seven per cent. In Madras the re¬ 
turn is over six per cent.., and in Bom bay over 
three-and-one-half. These figures show that 
irrigation judiciously carried out is profit¬ 
able.One of the largest cattle sales on 
record was consummated at Denver, Col., last 
Thursday. II. D. & ,T, W. Snyder & Co., of 
that city, bought of Snyder Brothers, of 
Georgetown, Tex., over 29,000 head of cattle 
and 400 horses, for a consideration of $600,000 
cash. The former firm now owns nearly 
54,000 head of cattle aud 1,000 horses... 
The prospects of the Cuban tobacco crop are 
poor in consequence of a drought. Insects are 
infesting the plants in the Veulta Abajo dis¬ 
trict. .. .Over 17,000 carcasses of mutton in a 
frozen condition were r ecently received atMau- 
ehester, England, from South Australia. 
At a meeting of the agriculturists in London, 
the sentiment that America should be per¬ 
mitted to send dressed beef, but should be 
prohibited from sending live cattle, to Great 
Britain, w-as much applauded...The re¬ 
port of the Chief Inspector of Stock of New' 
South Wales, made from the reports of 35 
sub-inspectors, shows that in 14 days they 
made 209 inspections, and found over a mil 
lion acres infested with rabbits, which 210 
men are employed to destroy. Nearly $1,- 
500,000 has been spent by the Government of 
three colonies, and immense sums by private 
persons, but little headway seems to be made. 
.Nebraska's School Board has a sur¬ 
plus of $181,000 from the sale of school lands, 
which three months hence will reach $300,000. 
.Work is to be begun this week on the 
great canal that is to irrigate the San Luis 
Valley, in Southern Colorado. The canal is 
to be seven miles long and at the bottom 60 
feet wide, and there are to be many lateral 
canals from it—all to irrigate 800,000 acres of 
land now almost worthless. Several colouies 
are to be organized to occupy this land. 
A telegram from San Francisco says that the 
rumor that Claus Sprockets has eoruered the 
entire Hawaiian sugar crop is confirmed. 
The quantity is estimated at 80,000,000 pounds, 
and is sufficient to enable him to control the 
sugar trade of that coast.The Millican 
and Continental Companies, of Dallas, Texas, 
representing $5,000,000 worth of cattle, will 
consolidate on January 1....The United 
States Government filed an amended bill iu 
the Mexican laud grant suit in the Federal 
Court at Denver the other day, setting forth 
that the original Mexican grant was for 
97.000 acres, and that in 1869 or 1870 a survey 
was made and the original boundaries fraud¬ 
ulently enlarged so as to include 1,500,000acres 
in New Mexico and nearly 30ft,000 acres in Col¬ 
orado. The new bill implicates ex-United 
States Senators Chuffee and Chilcot, 
of Colorado, and the late Judge Holly, of 
New Mexico, in the frauds.Dr. 
Fairbrother has requested Governor Hamil¬ 
ton to call an extra session of the Illinois 
Legislature to vote money for rebuilding the 
Southern Normal University. An extra ses¬ 
sion will cost $356,000; the foundation walls 
of the burned edifice are valued at $100,000, 
and the Doctor says that they will be lost if 
the rebuilding is delayed until the next regu¬ 
lar session.. Professor Knapp has been 
appointed President of the State Agricultural 
College at Amos, Iowa. The Trustees make a 
statement regarding the removal of President 
Welsh, in which they say Mr. Welsh has been 
physically unable to disehaige bis dqjjes for 
two years, and not even able to manage his 
correspondence, being also childish, irritable 
and exacting. He asked for consent to go 
to Europe last Spring, and before couscut was 
given Mr. Welsh and his wife departed, the 
trip being purely one relating to his private 
affairs. He received his full salary', though 
he was absent a considerable time in 1882, and 
although he was absent nearly all of 1883 his 
salary was only scaled down $300. He ex¬ 
pected to be absent iu Europe during 1884 and 
wanted to retain his position for the credit it 
would give him abroad.A vast quan¬ 
tity of grain is said to be now stored in the 
Russiau capital. Recently a large shipment 
from Ribinsk arrived, aud it is believed that 
nearly 150, IKK) tons are now within the city— 
a circumstance which moves the Moscow 
Gazette to congralulate the public ou being 
able to look forward to the coming Wiuter 
without being afraid of the high prices which 
generally are paid for grain in that season. 
.... The total exportation of w'heat from Rus¬ 
sia , from Juuuary 1 to November 15, was 
about 14,500,000 metric quintals (53,277,838 
bushels), 150,000 quintals more than in the cor¬ 
responding period last year.The wheat 
freight riug iu San Francisco, it is reported, 
is likely to incur losses reaching from $2,000,- 
000 to $3,000,000 by the decline in freights. 
As the ring is composed of several smaller 
pools the individual losses will probably be 
light.Bills for the disposal of the pub¬ 
lic lands are already flocking into Congress. 
Senator Plumb’s gives a land warrant for 160 
acres to every person discharged from the 
United States Army during the civil war, 
within tw'o years from his enlistment, on ac¬ 
count of disability incurred in the line of his 
military duty, while Senator Logan’s gives 
80 acres to every honorably discharged sol¬ 
dier or sailor for a service of less than a year, 
120 for a service between one aud two years, 
and 160 for service over two years.... 
... .At the last meeting of the Paris Academy 
of Sciences, it was stated that a person 
who for the past two years had been exneri- 
menting near Nice with sulpho-carhonates 
and sulphur as a remedy against the phyllox¬ 
era states that in five hectares (about 1 2}^ 
acres) of infested vines it is no longer possible 
to find any phylloxera.Neal Dow, who 
is talking prohibition in Illinois, could 
not understand why the houses and barns 
on the fertile prairies of that empire 
of agriculture should he small and cheap, 
since, their occupants are sober and fru¬ 
gal. Au old inhabitant explained that the 
land is owned in large blocks by wealthy pro¬ 
prietors who will not sell, but who rent it for 
pay in kind—12 to 15 bushels of coni per acre. 
Tlie farmers, therefore, have no inducement 
either to erect good houses and barns or to 
improve the land. Their interest is to 
"skin’’ it, and to spend upon it as 
little money as possible... 
While Califoreia is excluding the Chinese, 
her immigration association is busily inviting 
immigrants, and for this purpose California 
business men and railroad companies have 
contributed $10,588 this year. The association 
reports as follows: "From November 1, 1882, 
to Nov. 1, 1883, there were 1,218 pre-emptions 
on 167,970 acres; 905 homesteads on 124,786.99 
acres: 955 other entries ou 100,516.49 acres, 
making a total of 3,078 entries on 893,278 
acres. A low estimate of all kinds of entries 
made in the State is 5,278 on 700,000 acres. 
Of these not less than two-fifths are for spec¬ 
ulation, and in probably 1,500 cases the appli¬ 
cant iiad to perjure himself to receive title, 
leaving 3,200 actual settlers, representing 
15, U00 increase of population in the past year. ” 
FOREIGN. 
Saturday, 15, 1883. 
The latest advices from Madagascar contra¬ 
dict the report that the Mnlagassey envoys 
have been slrangled. The envoys were feted 
October 17. Admiral Ga liber, the French 
commander in Madagascar, expects to march 
inland in February or March. Much sickness 
prevails. Several defencelesstownsalong the 
coast have been valiantly bombarded by 
French war vessels...Alsace and Lor¬ 
raine are to be thoroughly Germanized. Mau- 
tcuffel, the Provincial Governor, has annulled 
the resolution passed by the District Diet of 
Upper Alsace allowing the use of French in 
debates.The Australian Federal Con¬ 
ference has adopted resolutions condemning 
the landing of French convicts in New Guinea 
and protesting agaiust the purchase of land in 
the island until British sovereignty las been 
established over it.According to a St. 
Petersburg special dispatch the Zemstvos, or 
provincial assemblies of Russias will be in¬ 
trusted by the Czar with the initiative in 
moderate reforms.A correspondent 
writing from St. Petersburg, says the prison¬ 
ers there are subjected to the most barbarous 
treatment Their food is putrid, they are de¬ 
voured by vermin, aud the todies of the dead 
are allowed to rot on the prison floors. Those 
who go mad in consequence cif their sufferings 
are strapped down and whipped with a knout. 
.The crisis in the ship building trade 
ou the Clyde, Scotland, is growing more in 
tense. Three large firms have notified em¬ 
ployes that wages would be reduced in Jan¬ 
uary, and several other firms will follow the 
example.The Canton of Valais, Switz¬ 
erland, has decided to restore the death pen- 
ishtnent for murder.The weavers of 
Lancashire, 60,000, are organizing a strike 
against a five per cent, reduction of wages. 
.The deficit in the Egyptian budget for 
1883 is £3,000,000....Moody and Saukey 
are meeting with wonderful success at Step¬ 
ney, near Loudon, England.In Eng¬ 
land, O'Donnell is sure to bang in spite of the 
strenuous efforts of his lawyers.In 
France, the policy of the Government in 
Tonquin has been approved by a large major¬ 
ity iu the Assembly. There is still some pros¬ 
pect of avoiding a rupture with China. The 
Kiug of Annum has been poisoned by the 
1 tarty hostile to France, and his successor has 
declared war against the French. In case of 
war with China the French will seize one of 
the chief ports, and hold it. England an 1 
Germany will act together for the purpose o 
