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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 24,1885. 
The Privy Council has dismissed the ap¬ 
peal on behalf of Riel, and it is reported that 
do further attempts to save him from the 
death penalty are likely to succeed. Never- 
thele°s, the situation in Canada is such that 
the execution of this man, however justifiable 
under the law, can hardly be anything else 
than a grave political blonder. The relations 
between the French and English colonists are 
so straioed at present tbat the two races can 
scarcely live together peaceably. The irrita* 
tion growing out of the small pox epidemic 
has greatly widened the breach, and the exe 
cution of Riel in the face of the strong sym 
pathy felt for him by the French must be 
expected to render the situation less tolerable 
and more dangerous than ever, If he is exe¬ 
cuted the present Ministry is pretty certain 
to be soon overthrown by the solid opposition 
of the French Canadians, and worse evils 
may follow.*.. 
When a young couple are married in Mas¬ 
sachusetts it is more likely that they will be 
divorced within the next 15 years than tbat 
either will die.The lower House of the 
Georgia Legislature has passed a bill levying 
a prohibitory tax upon the game of base ball 
because it encourages idleness. 
..There are 100 Mormon missionaries in the 
Southern States at present. Twenty more ar¬ 
rived at Chattanooga, Tenn., Wednesday, en 
route from Salt Lake City for East Tennessee 
and North Georgia.Apropos of the 
racing season about to close, it is announced 
that Ed. Corrigan has won §70 000 with bis 
stable this year; Pierre Lorillard, §00,000; the 
Dwyers, about §00,000: Green Morris, #50,000; 
Milton Young, Lucky Baldwin, and R. C. 
Pate, about §40,000 each .The Gov¬ 
ernor of Massachusetts has appointed Tburs. 
day, November 26. as Thanksgiving Day...The 
Board of Management of the North, Central 
and South Ameiican Exposition, to be opened 
November 10, at New Orleans, report that 
35 States and Territories will be represented 
by exhibits. They have also been assured of 
the participation of Guatemala, Honduras, 
San Salvador, United States of Columbia, 
Venezuela. Peru, Chili, Brazil, Argentiue Re¬ 
public ar.d San Domingo. From Europe there 
will be large representations from Great Brit¬ 
ain, France, Germany, Belgium. Austria and 
Russia, while from Asia they will have China 
and Japan. This is a small edition of last 
year’s big show...Up 
to the first of October the number of immi¬ 
grants landed at Castle Garden this year was 
25,000 lees than for the corresponding period 
last year.It is stated that there are 
at the post office department, at Washington, 
§2,000,000 tbat have accumulated from mis 
directed registered letters.Colorado 
is said to contain 3,000 artesian wells . 
_The 13th annual Women’s Congress, held 
at Des Moines, la., last week, attracted over 
200 women, including the leading workers 
from all parts of the country, while the papers 
and reports presented gave unmistakable evi¬ 
dence of the constant deepening and broaden¬ 
ing of tbe movement for women's advance¬ 
ment. The meetiDg opened Wednesday with 
an address by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and tbe 
cougress lasted three days, papers on a wide 
range of topics being read and earnestly de¬ 
bated..The 11th annual convention 
of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions 
of the United States was opened Tuesday 
morning at tbe Disciples’ Church iu Cleveland, 
O. Between 500 and 600 delegates were pres¬ 
ent, besides many visitors. The total receipts 
for tbe year were §16.020. During tbat period 
153 auxiliary branches were added. 
_A foot of snow fell in the northern penin¬ 
sula of Michigan, Tuesday, blockading the 
railroads. There was a light fall at Galena 
and Monmouth, ill... 
Since the boom in stocks began last July, tbe 
price of seats in the New York Stock Ex¬ 
change has taken a tremendous jump upward. 
They had sold for §20,000, but last week one 
brought §30,000, and now §32,000 have been 
offered, or within §500 of the highest price on 
record, obtained in 1881. Secretary 
Manning’s late order prohibiting tbe ship¬ 
ment of American grain or other articles in 
Canadian bottoms, except for export, has 
caused considerable excitement among ship¬ 
pers in Minnesota. Tbe effect of the order 
will be to cause all shipments from Duluth, 
which are bound for New York, Boston, or 
other American ports, a large portion of 
which has been going via Collingwood or 
Sarnia, on the Grand Trunk, to go via Buffalo 
and roads centering there .Here is a 
rough tariff, obtained from an employment 
agency, of the wages of various grades of help 
in California: Cooks, §240 to §720 a year; 
nurses, §180 to §360; housemaids, §180 to§300; 
coachmen, §360 to §720; Butlers, §500 to §600; 
Chinese cooks and general servants, §240 to 
$420. Even a child of 14 cannot be hired as 
nurse under §120 a year.The Chinese of 
Tacoma, W. T., who have lately been warned 
to “go,” haveagreed to do so if §2,500 are paid 
them for tbeir immovable property. It is 
thought tbe money will be raised. The anti- 
Cbinese crusade still coutiuues vigorous all 
over the “Far West.” There is a heavy emi¬ 
gration of Celestials westward to China and 
eastward to the Cis-Mississippi States . 
....Tbe graveyard insurance companies of 
Pennsylvania have been succeeded by a new 
kmd of enterprise, in which the policy-holders 
are divided into classes of 500 members each. 
Whenever a birth occurs iu the family of a 
member the other members in tbe class are 
assessed 25 cents each. This would give a 
fund of §125, §100 of which goes to the bene 
ficiary and $25 to the company for collecting. 
©tc.Squirrels are emigrating by 
millions from Mississippi to Arkansas, swim¬ 
ming tbe river in large bodies. A similar 
hegira took place in 1S72.The daily 
deaths from small pox in Montreal are still 
about 40, and it is spreading steadily in tbe 
surrounding country. In several widely 
separated places in tbe United States 
cases are reported where the outbreak was 
clearly traced to Montreal, and the State and 
National authorities are taking great pre¬ 
cautions along the whole frontier as far west 
as Manitoba, to prevent any more importa¬ 
tions of the plague. During the mouth of 
September 607 deaths were reported in Mon¬ 
treal. Of the victims 600 were children under 
10 years of age. All but eight in a hundred 
occurred among Frencb-Ganadians. 
..A number of Cree Indians from Canada 
have sought refuge in the Fort Belknap Indian 
Reservation, Dakota, with some of the spoils 
of Riel's last rebellion. There appears to be 
no legal way to get rid of them. 
Tbe subscribers to the $250,000 fund raised for 
General Grant some years ago, resolved 
Thursday to give the fund to Mrs. Grant, and 
on her death to her children and grandchild¬ 
ren. There is a present deficiency of about 
§25,000 in the fund, owing to improper in¬ 
vestment. Jay Gould and some of the other 
original contributors offer to “chip in” to 
make it good.By an explosion of 
mine gas at Plymouth Junction, Pa., Wednes¬ 
day, three were killed and 13 injured—several 
fatally...New Jersey temperance 
women in convention at Trenton propose to 
procure a law forbidding the licensing of 
liquor sellers within a mile of a school. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 24, 1885. 
A great deal of land around Winchester, 
England, may be leased for 25 ceuts an acre. 
.Charles K. Glidden of Springfield, 
Mass., was fined $U0 Tuesday for selling oleo¬ 
margarine for batter. He has appealed. 
.Tbe total receipts at the late Ohio 
State Fair were §29,796.51 .Tbe 
hooey produced in Ohio last year is valued at 
$276,975, while tbe fowls produced 32,602,321 
dozens of eggs, valued at $4,890,348. 
.Partridge and quail shootiog became 
legal on Thursday in Pennsylvania. New 
Jersey protects these birds until November 1. 
Tbe season for deer opened on the I5tb. You 
are liable to a fine .and confiscation of your 
gun if found trespassing upon New Jersey 
land bearing a proper caution sign, although 
you may not be hunting on the premises. Fish 
and game are not plentiful iu New Jeisey. 
Squirrels have been legal game since Septem 
her 1, but are very scarce . 
.. Anti-vacciuationistB rest one of tbeir chief 
arguments on the fact that calves have tuber¬ 
cular consumption—a communicable disease. 
Late researchers by Strauss show tbat the 
proportion of cases of tuberculosis in calves 
does not reach one m 100,000.The 
International Landowners' Congress, held ut 
Pesth, adopted a resolution asking the Central 
European States to combine in adopliog pro¬ 
tective measures against tbe importation of 
American and Indian Wheat. 
..The enormous increase in tbe shipments of 
fruits from California may be seen from tbe 
following figutes: In 1874 there were shipped 
5,029,840 pounds of green fruit. Ten years 
later, in 1884, there were shipped 11,090,070 
pounds, while the shipments for the previous 
year reached 19,222,580 pounds. For the first 
six months of this year, the number of pounds 
shipped has reached 23,937,680, more than 
double the entire shipment of 1884, and nearly 
a fourth more than the entire shipment of 
1883. It is estimated that the entire shipment 
for this year will reach 35,000,000 pounds.... 
..The growing ot tobacco is prohibited in 
Great Britain and Ireland on account of the 
enormous revenue duties that are collected on 
the imports o£ tbat staple..There 
are said to be 165 Farmers’ Alliances in Da¬ 
kota, with a membership of 5,000. Thirty- 
six counties have organizations . 
. .California has an average wine yield of 400 
gallons per acre, while iu France it is only 196 
gallons......A new thing in butter is 
a German device, which consists of a centrif¬ 
ugal machine which expells all tbe butter¬ 
milk and water from the butter. This is said 
to impart a much finer flavor, aroma and 
grain, and far better keeping qualities, than 
when made in the old way.The 
Illinois Live Stock Commission declares con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pnomnonia to exist in the fol¬ 
lowing places, and recommends tbe Governor 
to prohibit importation from them: Tbe 
counties of New York. Richmond, Kings and 
Queens, in the State of New York; the count¬ 
ies of Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Union, Hunter 
don. Camden, Burlington, Hudson and Mid¬ 
dlesex; in the State of New Jersey; the 
couoties of Baltimore and Prince George, iu 
the State of Maryland; the counties of Fairfax 
and Loudon, in the State of Virginia; the 
counties of Harrisou and Pendleton, in the 
State of Kentucky; tbe county of New Castle, 
in the State of Delaware; tbe county of Jeffer¬ 
son, in West Virginia, and tbe District of 
Columhia. Contagious pleuropneumonia 
has again made its appearance among some 
of the herds of cattle in Southampton town¬ 
ship, Burlington County, N J . and the State 
Board of Health has ordered two cows killed 
tbere.A California farmer has just 
shipped 56,000 pounds of mustard seed to New 
York. This is the largest shipment ever made. 
....The total shipments of apples to Great 
Britain for this season thus far amount to 82,- 
234 barrels, against 120,682 barrels for the 
same time last year, and 77,374 barrels in 1S83. 
... .The first attack of black leg tbat has oc¬ 
curred in the State since 1874 has just been 
found at Greenfield, Mass., where several 
cows have recently died from this highly con. 
tagious disease. Tbe State Commissioners 
have ordered tbe cattle tbat have been ex¬ 
posed to contagion to be isolated, the dead to 
be buried, and the premises to be thoroughly 
disinfected. Women own 955 farms in 
Iowa, including 20 dairy farms. 
... Tbe export of cattle from Montreal con¬ 
tinues to keep ahead of former years at this 
season. Tbe total exports to date are 56 80S 
head, au increase of 5,270 head over 1884. 
Sleep For The Sleepier*-. 
Sleeplessness is a growing evil. Jn our busy 
age. when so many men and women overtax 
both phvsical and mental strength through 
overwork or pleasure taking, there are five 
times as manv cases of “Insomnia” as there 
were a generation ago. What to do for these 
cases i« one of the difficult problems with 
which the medical profession bos to deal, Tbeir 
chief dependence lies iu the use of Chloral. 
Opium. Bromide, Chloroform, or some other 
narcotizing substance. These bring tempor¬ 
ary but not refreshing Sleep, and leave the 
nervous system, after their effects cease, in a 
more exhausted condition than before and 
with a lessened ability to sleep. The case of 
every one who resorts to these drugs becomes, 
in consequences of the necessity for continu¬ 
ally usiug them iu gradually increasing quan¬ 
tities. simply hopeless. 
But is there no safe way of quieting th > ex¬ 
cited nei ves.uud inducing a sleep that will he 
healthy, refreshing, and permanent! Happi 
ly there is, under a treatment which does no 
violence to the system and cures hv restoring 
the vital forces and nerve power to their nor¬ 
mal condition, 
A wonderful case of “Insomnia,” and recov 
ery from it is that, of Mr. Arthur Hagan, the 
well known wholesale tobacconist, of Philadel¬ 
phia. Mr Hagan is otic of the largest dealers 
in tobacco and is the Philadelphia representa- 
tivtsof the grout Baltimore bouse ot G. W. Gail 
& Ax. To a gtutlemuu who called on him at 
his store. No 68 North Front St,, to inquire 
about bis case, Mr. Hagan said: 
‘‘My case was one of severe and long conti¬ 
nued insomnia, proceeding largely from dys¬ 
pepsia, the result of too great application to 
business. (Sleep became almost on impossi¬ 
bility. My tils tress during night for not being 
able to secure ref reshiny slumber was dread hit. 
It weakened and distracted me during the day 
and made attention to business a slow mar¬ 
tyrdom Fur live or six years 1 was under the 
care of different physicians. 
“Aftor passing through a long variety of 
experiences as to physic and diet. I happened 
one day to pass the office of Drs. Starkey A; 
Palm, and noticed tbe sign “Compound Oxy¬ 
gen." As oil other modes of treatment bad 
failed 1 thought 1 would try this, so I went in 
and began it at a venture The Oxygen did 
not work an immediate miracle on me. but l 
soon felt than it was doing me good. He fore 
tony 7 began to know the pleasure of sleep, 
tiy degrees the dyspepsia left me and the power 
to sleep relumed. My recovery was slow, but 
it was real. For several mouths i took the 
Compound Oxygen, core fully obey lug instruc¬ 
tions and constantly gaining strength, my sys¬ 
tem receiving the vitalizing which it so badly 
needed. 
“This took place about two years ago and I 
have enjoyed a prime condition of health ever 
since. I hare been able to attend with pleasure 
amt satisfaction to my business. J eat and 
sleep as well as a man ea n desire 10 .” 1 f special 
Information 1»desired in regard to the remark¬ 
able treatment from which such surprising 
relief was obtained u w ill be furnished by Dra. 
Starkey & Palcti, 1539 Arch 8c., Pmladelphia, 
who mad mail free tbeir treatise on Compound 
1 Oxygen to any one who will write to them tor 
> it,—Ada. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 24, 1885. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of 
grain trade during the past week says: A 
majority of tbe samples of tbe new wheat 
crop are unsatisfactory. Sound wheats are 
6d dearer (IX cent per bushel). Tbe sales 
of English wheat during the week were 76,092 
quarters at, 30s lid (per quarter of eight bush¬ 
els) against 73.412 quarters at 82s 4d during 
tbe corresponding week last year. Flour is 
freely offered at the lowest rates. Prices of 
superior barleys are advancing, those of in¬ 
ferior are declining. Foreign wheats have 
gradually improved and are quoted at 6d to 
Is dearer (IX to 3 cents per ousbel). Flour 
has occasionally been 6d dearei\ The receipts 
from America are markedly declining. Three 
cargoes arrived, two cargoes were sold, one 
was withdrawn and three remained, includ¬ 
ing one of California; 12 are due. At to¬ 
day's market sellers of wheat held firmly to 
tbeir demands. Flour was against buyers. 
Coru was quiet. Barley was quiet. 
Beerbohm’s estimate of the world’s de¬ 
mand and supply of wheat for 1885-G ending 
June 30 next, is, probnble requirements. 35,- 
000.000 quarters or 280.000.000 bushels; to 
meet this shortage in some countries, he esti¬ 
mates other countries will have an exportable 
surplus of 26,000.000 quarters, or 208,000,000 
bushels, leaving a deficiency of 9,000,000 quar¬ 
ters or 72,000,000 bushels, which means that 
the world’s reserve stock must bedrawnupou, 
and of course the prices must advance. The 
London Miller makes the probable require¬ 
ments 29.878 987 quarters, and the exportable 
surplus 26.592,890 quarters, leaving a defi¬ 
ciency of 3,286,687 quarters, or 26,290,476 bush¬ 
els, or about one third ol Beerbohm’s estimate. 
It estimates the probable reserve of old wheat 
at 11,500,000 quarters, or 92 , 000,000 bushels. 
Sir John B. Lawes values the wheat yield of 
the English harvest at 29X bushels per acre, 
and calculates that a little over 17 million 
quarters (136,0<.’0,000 bushels) will be needed 
to supplement the home production duriug 
tbe current harvest year. 
Messrs. I. C Houghton & Co., of Liver¬ 
pool, England, cabled, last Wednesday, that 
they had just received the following prices 
for American apples: Baldwins, $3,15 to 
$3 40; Greenings, $2-43 to $2.67; Kings, $3 86 
to $4.37: Hubbardsiou8,;$3.15 to §3 40, Spies, 
$2 91 to $3 15; Goldeu Russets, $2.91 to #3.15; 
Spitz, §2.91 to $3 40; Newtown Pippin, §5 53 
to§5.97. They report an active demand. 
The hop season in Knglaud has been very 
unsatisfactory; two-thirds of the crop there, 
says tbe Kentish Observer, having been dam¬ 
aged by drought and high winds. The Keutish 
journal adds that in Germany, also, tbe crop is 
behind expectations as to the quantity and qual¬ 
ity. The Observer calls the total output of tbe 
United Kingdom 400,000 cwt., but confesses 
to an interest in learning what the agricul¬ 
tural returns will be on that point. Hops 
here are steadily going up. They are now 
held in the hop raising section of this State 
at better figures than those offered in this city. 
The high price of peanuts in 1888 led to a 
great Increase in tbe peanut area in 1384, and 
an enormous crop. Virginia yielding about 
2,000,000 bushels; Tennessee, 1,250,000 and 
North Carolina, 300,000. About 200,000 bush¬ 
els must also have beeu carried over from the 
previous year. The crop usually begins to 
come into market early in October—October 
1st being the beginning of the peanut season. 
Though last year’s crop was very good, its 
great size depressed prices throughout the 
year, which ranged from 3c. to 4c. per pound, 
varying in fractions slightly from 3.bjC, 
The North Carolina crop is marketed chiefly 
at Wilmiugton, and is sold principally in tbat 
section; the Virginia crop is marketed main¬ 
ly at Norfolk, and the Tenuessee at Cincin¬ 
nati, and from these points the country at 
large is chiefly supplied. The low prices here 
prevented importation last year; and though 
peanuts are raised in many other sections, the 
aggregate Is so small as to be hardly wt rtl) 
noticing. The V irginla crop was pushed into 
consumption much more freely than that of 
Teuuessee or North Carolina, and a propor¬ 
tionately much smaller share of it is now on 
hand. There has been a large decrease iu 
acreage this year in all three Biatts, and the 
conditions have been less favorable than in 
1384, so that tbe Cincinnati 1’riee Current 
which lately gave a full report of the crop, 
allowing for decrease owing to curtailment of 
acreage aud less propitious weather, estimates 
the output to be, tor Tennessee,700,000 bushels, 
a decrease or 550,000 bushels; Virgluia, 1.500,- 
000 bushels, a reduction of 500,000 bushels; und 
North Carolina,2u0,000, a reduction of 100,000, 
or a total output of 2,400,000 bushels, against 
3,550,000 bushels in 1834; 2,460,000, in 1883 ,and 
1,850.0110 in 1882. The low prices in the prim¬ 
ary distributing markets, made last year's 
crop yield less to producers than the smaller 
crop of the year before, the estimate being 
