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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, December 12.1885. 
The Oklahoma “boomers” are being re¬ 
moved by the United States troops from Okla¬ 
homa on the “double quick.” The last of them 
will reach Arkansas City and Caldwell to¬ 
night or to-morrow. Many are now without 
a cent on the approach of Winter...A 
good deal of uneasiness in the Northwest 
Territory, Canada, is reported over the 
threatening attitude of the Blood Indiansnear 
Fort McLeod,and other tribes throughout that 
section. The death of Rtel is said to have 
aroused them to hostility. They are leaving 
their reservations, stealing horses and defying 
the police. Some expect a widespread Indian 
outbreak. The authorities of Manitoba, how¬ 
ever, telegraph from Winnepeg that these 
stories are shamefully exaggerated, that there 
will be no war, and that immigrants 
will be quite safe...Congress met 
last Monday, and a very long but sble and 
comprehensive message from the President 
was read before both Houses. He recom¬ 
mends the repeal and modification of ourland 
laws, with a view to prevent land grabbing— 
the accumulation of vast tracts in the hands 
ef single persons or syndicates. He approves 
of liberal appropriations for the Department 
of Agriculture, and desires that all farmers 
should avail themselves of its advantages. He 
urges the amendment of the laws relating to 
contagious diseases atnoDg live stock with a 
view to make them more efficacious in meet¬ 
ing the necessities of the situation with regard 
to diseases now here, and the risks of import¬ 
ing more. He expects the removal of restric¬ 
tions on importations of American hog pro¬ 
ducts into France: but the German and 
Austrian embargo is likely to continne. The 
message meets with an unusually large 
measure of approbation from all sides, here 
and in Europe. Several bills have already 
been introduced into Congress to meet its 
views on matters of agricultural interest. 
Mr. Van Wyck of Nebraska, has a bill for the 
taxation of unpatented lands ownpd by rail¬ 
road companies. It requires such companies 
to pay the cost of surveying and locating 
lands within 60 days after the passage of this 
act, or that in default thereof, the lands shall 
be subject to entry under the Homestead and 
Preemption laws and liable to taxation. Tbe 
passage of tbe bill should be certain. It 
would be simple justice to Western States, and 
of much importance to Western settlers. 
....The Edmund’s Law, under which a large 
number of Mormons have been imprisoned for 
six months and fined 8300 each, has exasper 
ated the “Saints” almost to the point of rebel¬ 
lion. Late last week U. S. Deputy Marshal 
Collins, having been attacked by a couple of 
Mormon desperadoes, killed one of them in 
self-defense. Through fear of the Mormon 
mob, be surrendered to the U S. troops under 
Gen. Me^rook. The Mormons attempted to 
capture and lynch him. Gov. Murray, of 
Utah, fearing an attack on tbe Federal author¬ 
ities, asked the President for more troops, 
there being onlv a single regiment stationed 
at Salt Lake, Reinforcements have been sent 
from Omaha, and more are held in readiness 
at San Francisco. Tbe Mormon chiefs, know¬ 
ing the insanity of rebelling against tbe Gen¬ 
eral Government, aredislaiming any intention 
on the part of their people to rebel or cause 
trouble. It is evident the Government will 
stand no nonsense in Utah.A great 
deal of complaint on the Pacific Coast about 
the smuggling of Chinamen into the country 
from British Columbia contrary to the anti- 
Chinese immigration law. Large numbers 
steal slyly in themselves: and many more are 
smuggled in by “whites” on small vessels.... 
.... Six children were bitten by a mad dog the 
other day at Newark, N. J., and within less 
than a week contributions enough were made 
to pay the expenses of sending them to Paris, 
to he there treated by Pasteur, by inoculation 
against hydrophohia. Four left last Tuesday 
with the mother of one and a doctor. Pas¬ 
teur cabled that a core was certain if they ar¬ 
rived before tbe end of the period of incuba¬ 
tion of tbe disease. The length of this would 
depend on the rabidity of the dog and the 
constitution of the bitten. Pasteur has now 
74 patients from different parts of the world, 
and has lost only one, who came too late..... 
_W. H. Vanderbilt, the many times mil¬ 
lionaire, financier, railroad king and Great 
Mogul generally, suddenly died of apoplexy 
while in his study talking to President Gar¬ 
rett, of the Baltimore and Ohio R R , last 
Tuesday afternoon. He was in his 65th year, 
and an apopletic end of him has long been 
expected. During the seven years since his 
father’s death, who left him se many million*, 
he has nearly doubled the pile, leaving to his 
heirs,'^it..is 'thought, about 1190,000,000. He 
was certainly the richest man in America, 
probably in tbe world. It was expected that 
his death would cause a crash In tbe stock 
market, as it was thought the enterprises in 
which he was so prominently interested would 
suffer by his death; but be has speculated 
very little of late, an i his investments were 
nearly all permanent, so that there was no un¬ 
settled business to disturb the market. A 
number of prominent capitalists met at once 
at Jav Gould’s, and formed a pool for the pur¬ 
pose of sustaining prices, pledging $12 000 . 000 , 
and as much more as might be needed, for 
that purpose. Next morning, in the first half 
hour, stocks declined from one to four per 
cent.; but the action of the pool which bought 
in everything offered below a certain figure, 
checked a disastrous decline, and stocks soon 
rose to the same level as the day before.. 
California is having pbenominally heavy 
rains, at least 12 inches having fallen in San 
Francisco from Nov. 1 till Thanksgiving—the 
heaviest downpour since 1849. Great fears 
are entertained of disastrous floods in the 
Sacramento and other rivers.The Su¬ 
preme Court of Ohio has decided that a rail¬ 
road company has no right to carry oil for 
the Standard Oil Company »t one price and 
charge another company a higher price for 
the same service—a blow at railroad discrim¬ 
ination generally!. 
The Rural’s Regular Premium List and 
posters will be sent to all applicants. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 12, 1885. 
About 16.000,000 pounds of wool are 
annually imported from the Black Sea dis¬ 
trict of Russia. All is entered a9 unsconred. 
The duty on unscoured wool is 2^ cents a 
pound; that on scoured cents. Tbe Gov¬ 
ernment agents here claim to have proof that 
the whole importation was scoured wool, so 
that the Treasury has lost five cents a pound, 
or $800 000. Then in the matter of exchang¬ 
ing roubles for dollars, $160 000 more were 
lost; and the wool, though entered as un¬ 
scoured, was undervalued enough to make the 
total loss to the Treasury, $1,100,000 Then 
look at the effect of this swindling upon tbe 
wool growers of the United States! The 
Government is to prosecute tbe importers.... 
_8euator George of Mississippi, has intro¬ 
duced iDto Congress a bill to establish agri¬ 
cultural experiment stations in connection 
with agricultural colleges in the several 
States, and Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has 
introduced another to open to homestead 
settlement certain portions of the Indian 
Territory. This refers to Oklahoma. The 
President is authorized (required) to open 
negotiations with the Indians for the purpose 
of securing a session of th e land. 
... Four persons sick in this city now from 
trichinosis, due to eating badly cookedpork.. 
... A ten year-old girl died Wednesday, at 
Wabash, Jnd.,from tbe same disease, due to 
eating raw pork a fortnight ago. 
... Tobacco growers all over the country are 
greatly exercised about the duties on Sumatra 
tobacco, a Ado kind used only for wrappers. 
Various association* have resolved “that the 
duties shall be raised.” Last Tuesday dealers 
in leaf tobacio met at the Leaf Tohacco Ex¬ 
change here, and passed resolutions asking 
Congress to change the tariff on the article so 
that the law shall read as follows: 
Leaf tobacco ’of which 9ft per cent or more of the 
tohacco Is u»e* for wranners and nl*o when If Is the 
product of different countries, packed toffotber In 
one package. If not 'tcmiaed, *1.110 per pound, end If 
stemmed, *3 per pound upon t*»e whole of Mich 
packaer. All other tohacco In tbe leaf, unmanufac¬ 
tured and not stemmed. 20 cents per pound: If stem¬ 
med. 2’ cent* per pound. 
The present rates of duty are70 and 30cents 
per pound respectively. The cigar manu¬ 
facturers are combining to oppose any rise in 
the duty..... 
The International Range Cattle and Horse 
Growers’ Association of all tbe States and 
Territories containing large cattle ranges, and 
British Columbia, calls for a convention at 
Denver. Col., on Jan. 17.No subject Is 
exciting more general interest in the West 
and Far West just now than stock raisiDg 
and the suppression of contagious stock disea¬ 
ses; of these “hog cholera” is by far the most 
disastrous. The French Chamber of 
Deputies has voted, 338 against. 174, to increase 
tbe already high duties on imported cereals 
and cattle...Judge Koon, of the District 
Court at Minneapolis, has just decided that 
the new anti-oleomargarine law of Minnesota 
is unconstitutional. Tbe Dairy Commissioner 
says the decision affects only the fourth sec¬ 
tion of the general law prohibiting the manu¬ 
facture and sale of adu’terated dairy products. 
..Advices from m 06 t parts of Ireland 
say hundreds of landlords are In tbe deepest 
distress and some of the smaller one6 on the 
brink of starvation, owing to the failure of 
tenant* to pay rent. The latter think evlo- 
tions will soon be Impassible. Magistrates 
are is Mites diepair. Tbe police, lately 
“loyally” harsh, are now currying favor with 
the peasantry. Agrarian outrages are also 
numerous ... 
A dispatch from Alexandria, La., says most 
of the sugar mills throughout that parish fin 
ished grinding last Saturday, Tbe cane this 
season has yielded extremely well, in some 
places making even a larger amount of sugar 
than ever before. Five acres of ground on 
theEmfield place, on Bayou Boueff, which 
had been fertilized, yielded five hogsheads ot 
sugar to the acre. 
Tilltnghast’s Puget Sound Cabbage 
seeds are rapidly gaining in public favor. 
Wherever tested the unanimous verdict is that 
they surpass all others in actual merit. Cab¬ 
bage growers in any part of tbe Union will, 
od application to Isaac F. Tillinghast, La 
Plume, Pa,, be referred to growers near them 
who can speak from experience as to theii 
value in that section.—Adi>. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, December 13, 1885. 
Deliveries of home grown wheat in the 
United Kingdom last week were checked by 
tbe weather. The Mark Lane Express cables 
that really sound samples were difficult to ob¬ 
tain. Foreign wheat was. and continues to 
be extremely dull. Late advices by wire and 
mall state that ice has been setting in fast at 
Cronsdadt, St. Petersburg, Wyborg and other 
Baltic ports. Odessa reports “immense ac¬ 
cumulations of grain” at Russian railway 
stations in the south west—a quantity estimat¬ 
ed in all at about 2,1X10,000 poods—say 1,215,- 
000 bushels. 
The crop reports of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture for December give the farm prices of 
the principal crops. The increase in the pro¬ 
duct of corn baa reduced the average value of 
the crop to 33 cents per bushel. The average 
value of tbe previous crop m December was 
S 6 cents. The reduction is largest in tbe Ohio 
Valiev and in the Southern States. West of 
the Mississippi the increase of stock feeding 
has corrected the tendency to extremely low 
prices. The average in Missouri is 26 cents, 
tbe same as last year. In Kansas it is 24 in¬ 
stead of 23 last year In Iowa. 24 instead of 
23 In Nebraska. 19 instead of IS. It is 28 
cents in Dakota, two cents lower than last 
year: 32 in Minnesota, one cent lower; Rli- 
nois. 28; Indiana, 29; Ohio. 32; Michigan. 34; 
Kentucky. 35; Pennsylvania. 49; New York. 
58 Compared with former prices corn values 
are very low. For the preceding five years, 
nearly all under average in production, the 
average farm value was 44.7 cents per bushel, 
and for the preceding 10 years. 42 6 cents. 
Tbe price of wheat, though still low, is con¬ 
siderably above last December’s average, 
which whs 65 cents. That of 1883 was 91 cents. 
The present is 78 7 cents, a gain equal to half 
tbe unprecedented decline indicated last De¬ 
cember For tbe five years past the average 
farm value has been 90cents per bushel, and 
for the preceding ten years, $1 05. Last year’s 
farm value was SB per cent, lower than for 
tbe 10 years ended in 1879, due mainly to a 
fuller European production and a smaller for¬ 
eign dPtnand for a surplus nearly equal to a 
third of tbe entire crop. 
The range of Btate prices is from 57 cents 
in Nebraska to $1.25 in Massachusetts. It is 
above $1 in tbe Eastern and in the cotton 
States for borne grown wheat. The price in 
Texas, 80 cents, is seven cents lower than last 
December from the increase in the home 
crop. The value in New York is 96, an in¬ 
crease of 11 cents; Pennsylvania 95, an in 
crease of 11 cents: Ohio 91, aB increase of 16 
cents Kentucky 95, an increase of 19 cents; 
Michigan 8-4, an increase of 10 cents: Indiana 
86 , an increase of 19 cents; Illinois 81, an in¬ 
crease of 18 cents; Wisconsin 76. an increase 
of 16 cents; Minnesota 70, an increase of 20 
cents: Iowa 67, an increase of 12 cents; Mis¬ 
souri 77, an increase of 15 cents; Kansas 65, 
an Increase of 20 cents; Nebraska 57, an in¬ 
crease of 15 cents; Dakota 63. an increase of 
17 cents. The average for California is re¬ 
turned at 76 cents, and 67 for Oregon. 
The average price of rye is 56 cents, four 
cents more than last year; of barley 56 cents, 
an increase of seven cents; of buckwheat 56 
cents, a decrease of three cents: of potatoes 
45 cent*, an increase of five cents; of hay 
$8 62 per ton, in place of $8.17 last year. The 
average price of oats is 28 cents, the same as 
last December. 
The price of cotton averages 8.3 cents per 
pound of lint., farm value, which is nine mills 
less than the December price last year. The 
farm prices are: Virginia. 8.5 cents; North 
Carolina, 8,5; South Carolina, 8 5; Georgia, 
8.5; Alabama. 8.3: Mississippi, 8.4; Louisi¬ 
ana, 8.3; Texas, 8 ; Arkansas, 8 . 1 ; Tennes¬ 
see. eight, 
In spite ot several breaks in prices for 
wheat in the Northwest, the figures soon 
•wing back to tbe old standard, on tbe basis 
of 90 cents for No. 1 Hard. At Minneapolis 
during the week, there has heen an advance 
of five cents a buRhel from lowest prices last 
Saturday. There, at St. Paul and Duluth, 
tbe stock on hand now amounts to 11.400.000 
bushels. A rising market on these figures 
shows the existence of a strong faith in the 
future demand, and in the truth of the re¬ 
peated statement that three fourths of the 
Northwestern crop has been marketed. There 
is a notable falling off in farmers’ deliveries, 
which are very light in all quarters. Five 
flour mills ran last week, making a total out¬ 
put of 12.600 barrels. Several of tbe larger 
mills have since started, and the product for 
this week will he larger. The mills are 
troubled with low water and ice. and steam is 
employed in some of them, Tt is evident that 
a general shutting down cannot continue long. 
The wheat markets everywhere ex¬ 
cept in the Northwest, have been very dull. 
The foreigu demand has evpn declined from 
tbe low level to which it had previously des¬ 
cended. Euglish buyers’ cable points con¬ 
cerning tbe cheapness of Russian and Indian 
wheats abroad, and the necessity for wheat 
becoming much lower at. New York before 
tempting exporters. Receipts of wheat at 
leading Western cities, too, were a little 
heavier. The visible supply reports each 
showed increase in the stocks of wheat, in 
sight amounting to 1.200 000 or 1,300 000 
bushels Speculation bBS not been active. 
The anticipation on the part of some opera¬ 
tors that Mr Vanderbilt's death would cause 
a serious break in Wall Street, extended to an 
inference that through sympathy the wheat 
market must decline So wheat had a bard 
time of it all the week. As will be seen by 
reference to the reports of tbe Agricultural 
Department, the prices of wheat are every¬ 
where higher now than a vear ago, and from 
present, indications it would appear much 
more likely that they will go up rather than 
down. 
Tndfan corn has been relatively steadier 
than wheat, especially earlv in the week. 
The increase of 475 000 to 700.000 bushels in 
the visible sijpnlv. as reported from (Thicago 
and New York respectively, caused heaviness 
later on; hnt it seems hardly likplv that there 
will be anv downward movement unless far¬ 
mers are foolish enough to rn«b their crop to 
markrt as soon as it will pass inspection Re¬ 
ports from widely separated points in the 
West go to show that the crop of marketable 
com will fall e.onri lerablv helow the estimates 
of the Agricultural Department. A good 
deal of the late corn did not mature; much 
is not well filled out and solid. Farmers gen- 
enerally seem inclined to hold for good orices. 
Reports from Nebraska say prices opened ot 
16 to 17 cents; but none came out; at 20 
cents, however, it. h"gnn to move freely At 
mauv interior points feeder* are offering belter 
figures than those obtainable from dealers. Tn 
Southern Kansas and Northern and Central 
Illinois stockmen are offering 30 cents ppr 
bushel. The late cold snap hardened the 
corn rapidlv and put it in condition for 
prompt shipment. The general impression 
is that wh'le there will be enough to go 
around, there will be no such enormous sur¬ 
plus as was expected some time ago. Fxports 
are considerably greater than usual this 
year, 
The New York visible-supply report show¬ 
ed a decrease in the quantity of oats in sight., 
amounting t.o 107,000 bushels, while that elimi¬ 
nating from Chicago indicated an increase in 
tbe visible supply of over 7.000 bushels. The 
advance in oats for the last few weeks has 
been steady, rnainlv on account of a compar¬ 
atively large export demand and tbe moder¬ 
ate stock in sight and also because there is a 
growing impression that the crop will pot be 
aslarge as was expected Borne time ago. Many 
prophets predict quite a considerable rise in 
the price of this grain. Farmers generally 
are holding for better prices, especially in the 
West. 
The dull time of the hop vear is near, with 
very little demand. Shipped to London in 
last three months 35 000 bales against, 11000 
in same time last veur. Prime hors here 
scarce at 18c.; much complaint of slovenly 
nicking and insufficient curing. Quality of 
Faeifie Slope bop* fine: but a great falling off 
in quantity from last year Transcontinental 
freights are two to three cents per pouud 
less than la*>t vear, but best California and 
Washington T« rritory hops are queued at the 
same price as the choicest New York bops. 
The bopacreagein England increase! three per 
cent. I«stseason.according tbe British Agricul¬ 
tural Department, and tbe yield per acre is 
considerably heavier than was expected at 
picking time; though the crop is below the 
average in quantity and quality. The Ger¬ 
man crop is verv satisfactory. Best Bohemians 
and Bavarians fetch high figures; others rath¬ 
er flat.. The world’s total yield is estimated at 
1 079 999 baleB of ISO ponnd« each: its prob¬ 
able consumption is nut at 916 734 bales, leav¬ 
ing an excess of 153 265 bales Here brewers 
have loaded up heavily at low figures, and 
much demand is not expected for some time to 
come. 
I 'The further decrease in the receipts of fancy 
Pi.scettiiMOMtf gUvcrtbittfl. 
"When Baby was Bick, wo gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, bIio cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When elio bad Children, Bhe gave them Castoria, 
