THE BUBAL WEW-Y9BKEB. 
JAN S! 
^fms of t\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 15,1887. 
After nearly three weeks’ delay Judge 
Pratt, of Brooklyn, has denied “boodle” al¬ 
derman MeQuade’s motion for a new trial, ex¬ 
pressing the opinion that the sentence, cannot 
be reversed on appeal. Jake Sharpe's motion 
for a change of venue to another county, has- 
been denied by Judge Barrett, and Richmond’s 
motion to compel the District-Attorney to per¬ 
mit his lawyers to sec the evidence given 
against him and the other bribe-giveis has 
been deuied by Recorder Smyth. O'Neil, an¬ 
other of the boodle aldermen, will be tried 
January 24. Those still untried refuse to en¬ 
gage lawyers to defend them, ns conviction is 
pretty certain, and the Court must then ap¬ 
point a lawyer to manage each defendant’s 
case. Thus each will save an outlay of about 
$10,000 of the “boodle," while throwing all the 
costs of each case on the county. Gov 
ernor Rusk severely rebukes striking work¬ 
men, in his biennial speech before the Wiscon¬ 
sin Legislature, as hindering progress and 
prosperity.Something like a million 
tons of rock fell, Thursday, from the cliff on 
the Canadian side of Niagara into the abyss 
below. Shock felt for miles around...... 
The Government's suit against the. Bell Tele¬ 
phone Company was begun at Boston, Thurs¬ 
day. The answers of the defendants will be 
due on the first Monday in March, and the 
case will then take the usual course. It is 
thought, the patent will have run out before 
the case is finally decided.....There were 
500 more marriages in New York City in 1886 
than in 1885. Not less than 1,590 widowers 
were married again, the number being 815 in 
excess of the widows. About 8,000 of the 
brides were under 20 years of age. Only ODc 
man was married for the fourth time,aml only 
one for the fifth. 
..The Hoosae tunnel and railroad (Mass.) has 
been sold to thoFi tohburgrailroad for $ 10,000,- 
000.Strikes are very numerous in all uon- 
agricultural industries. In a great, number 
of cases the men have got what they demand¬ 
ed, and they have confessed defeat in only a 
few. The coal freight handlers on the roads 
from the Pennsylvania hard coal regions are 
nowon strike, and coals have gone up from 
75cents to $1.90 a ton here. A coal famine is 
threatened, and several large factories will 
have to shut, down unless matters are settled 
soon. Thousands out of work—8,000 strikers 
in the Wilkesbarre region alone, and on an 
average each idle striker forces another per¬ 
son in some other business to lie idle also,as so 
many lines of business are dependent on u full 
and free supply of coals. The coal field own¬ 
ers are just as selfish and as utterly regardless 
of the public convenience and welfare—It’s 
“The publie be d-d" with all of them. ... 
.... According to the report of the Railroad 
Commissioners, the trunk lines of New York 
carried but 152,297 tons of through freight 
more than in 1885, a result of increased canal 
traffic. There was an increase of 92 in 
the number of persons billed compared with 
1885, the total number being 508. The phy¬ 
sical condition of railroads in New York con¬ 
tinued to improve throughout the year. 
Amendments to existing laws and new legisla¬ 
tion previously recommended by the Board 
are again advised .The President and 
Mrs. Cleveland and the members of the Cabi¬ 
net have been invited to become the guests of 
the Governor-General of Canada during the 
approaching enrni val at Montreal........ The 
Cherokces, Ohocktaws, Heminoles and Chicka- 
saws are reported to be very uneasy at the 
action of the Creek delegation at Washington. 
These are in favor of selling the Oklahoma 
district, which the four other tribes, who are 
also interested in it., bitterly oppose, as they 
deem it the entering wedge towards disrupting 
the whole Territory . 
_The Illinois State-house at Springfield has 
been completed. It cost $4,500,000, and is one 
of the finest, in the United States. Our Stute 
House at Albany has already cost over 
$18,000,000, and is not yet completed, and no 
one has yet ventured to call it “the finest 
in the U. S.”....Two members of tlie 
Dominion Cabinet have resigned—Mr. Costi 
gan, the Minister of Internal Revenue, and 
Mr. MeLelan, the Minister of Finance. 
.Present indications point to a speedy dis¬ 
solution of the Dominion Parliament and a 
new election February 9. The balance of 
probabilities of success is in favor of the 
pijsallanms* 
DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In IW, and l» to-day. as it was then, ilio 
neatest and brightest In the market: a pure plumbago, 
glVlUg OH DO IKNBUUUUB ..- 
Itwl and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quali¬ 
ty and price remain the sumo. Ask your goocer for 
DUon’s big cuke. 
Liberals, all the provincial elections of late 
having gone in their favor. The Conservative 
Government has lately been weakened by in¬ 
ternal disagreements on vital measures. 
... The House has passed a very stringent 
antipolygamy bill; and the Senate is likely to 
concur.John Roach, the great ship¬ 
builder died of cancer last Monday. 
The Senate yesterday passed the Inter-state 
Commerce Bill by a vote of 48 to 15, The 
House is sure to past it and the President to 
sign it. Various views of its effects have 
been expressed. All the railroad monopolies 
oppose it—therefore its results are likely to be 
good for the people. Now that national legis¬ 
lation has undertaken to solve the railroad 
problem, any short-comings or mistakes in the 
first attempt can be readily rectified. 
....Gov. Ireland confirms the reports of great 
distress and suffering among the settlers in 
Western Texas. Drought is now terrible 
throughout the whole State. Through¬ 
out the vast area embraced within the great 
cattle and cotton districts known as the “ Pan 
Handle,” North Texas, West Texas, South 
Texas, and the general cotton belt, no rain 
has fallen since Sept 1, nearly four and a half 
months. No great losses of stock hitherto re¬ 
ported; but no new grass is springing up and 
great ultimate loss is inevitable. In the wheat 
regious the situation is no better. Outlook for 
farmers and stockmen everywhere gloomy— 
..... .At the funeral of Bishop Potter in New 
York 450 clergymen were present. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 15,1887. 
The German Reichstag (Congress of Repre¬ 
sentatives of the whole Empire) was dissolved 
yesterday, because it refused by 185 to 154 
votes to grant Bismarck’s demand for appro¬ 
priations for 40,000 additional soldiers for 
seven years. It would give them for only 
three years. Elections for new members to 
take place Feb. 21. Bismarck says Germany 
doesn’t care who governs Bulgaria, but can¬ 
not afford to lose Russia’s friendship. War 
very probably in May, or sooner. May ori¬ 
ginate between Germany and France, or down 
in the Balkans. A Franco-German war is 
inevitable in the near future, and both seem 
to think it would be better right now than to 
keep up such tremendous armies. Bismarck is 
trying to reconcile Russian and Austrian 
claims in the Balkans, and the Czar has 
made new propositions, which may be ac¬ 
cepted by the Powers. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 15, 1887. 
The wheat harvest in Victoria, Australia, 
is 12,000,000 bushels, on average of 12 bushels 
per acre__ Receipts of live stock at Chi¬ 
cago last year fell olf 154,10. head from the 
total of 1885.Last year Chicago received 
84,388,000 pounds of hides, or 17,160,OIK) jioiuids 
more than for 1885 . Montana cattle 
men are almost panic-stricken at the outlook 
lor their stuck which is dying from exposure 
and lack of food . In 1**1 Chicago 
received 198,000 range cattle, and in 188(1 re¬ 
ceived 501,500, against about 500,000 in 1885. 
The growth of the range industry in that time 
has been marvelous.The Italian Gov¬ 
ernment has decided to impose a duty on im¬ 
ported grain ranging from about 25 cents to 
$1.75 per <jt\, “with the object of relieving 
agricultural distress.” It won't hurt us much 
as Italy gets her imported bread-stuffs almost 
entirely from Egypt, Russia, Roiunauia and 
Australasia... • About 4 , 000,000 pounds 
more of dressed beef were shipped from Chi¬ 
cago in 1880 than in 1885 .. A total of 
55,917 live cattle and 8,248 live sheep were ex¬ 
ported from New York last year, against 
58,775 and 4,61U iu 1885.The shipments 
of live stock and dressed beef the past week 
per steamships from Boston for the English 
markets were 1,0.'2 cattle and l,0ob tjuniteis 
of beef. Iu 1886 New York received 
515,288 beeves, 5,087 milch cows, 241,409 
calves, 2,008,815 sheep and lambs, and 1,975,541 
hogs, against 550,002 beeves, 5,252 milch cows, 
207,070 calves, 2,047,880 sheep utnl lambs, and 
1,928,061 hogs for 1885. These figures show a 
decrease, of 41,844 beeves and 44,571 sheep and 
lambs, and an increase of 485 milch (rows. 
33,289 cal ves and 47,480 hogs .. ... It is slated 
that Armour & Co., of Chicago, killed 1,112,- 
000 cattle, 880,056 hogs and 85,777 sheep dur¬ 
ing the past year. They canned nearly 
40,000,000 pounds of meat. 
There are about 1,100 tenants on the Ker¬ 
ry estates of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Gov¬ 
ernor-General of Canada. Gen. Buller, the 
Englishman sent over to aid the landlords In 
the West of Ireland to compel their tenants to 
pay rent, or else to submit to eviction, declares 
that many of the tenants are charged rack- 
rents, and that all rents on the estate are very 
high. Lord Lansdowne denies the statements 
from Ottawa.The pleuro-pneumouia 
reports from Lancaster county, Pa., have 
proved to be unfounded .For the 12 
months ending December 31 last we exported 
$142,122,020 worth of breadstuffs against 
$129,090,137 worth last year... 
_A telegram from Lima. Peru, says that iu 
consequence of the closing of Peruvian ports 
agaiust vessels from Chili, the wheat supply 
from that country bus censed, ami iu order to 
meet the demand for wheat the municipalities 
have been authorized to take steps to have the 
necessary supply brought from California. 
Wheat has just- jumped up in California, part¬ 
ly on this account, no doubt.-. 
Here is the amount of milk or its equivalent 
received in New York by the several freight 
lines during the last two years. The figures 
show the number of cans of 40 quarts each: 
Condensed 
Milk. Cream. Milk. 
1835 .4,55.1.4511 hl.W m.J'H 
188B.6,258,465 I00.HS0 77,103 
The total cost, to the city dealers, including 
freight charges paid, is estimated for 1885 at 
$8,169,800 and for 1886 at $8,774,400, The 
price paid per quart varied according to the 
supply from time to time, but averaged, as in¬ 
dicated by the Milk Exchange bulletins and 
platform sales, a fraction under three cents 
per quart for full milk, and in proportion for 
cream and condensed milk. The milk-produc¬ 
ers, however, realized an average, after de¬ 
ducting freight charges, of less than two cents 
a quart, or an aggregate, in round numbers, 
of $0,500,000 each year. While the milk pro¬ 
duction of these years was large and the ag¬ 
gregate of sales enormous, the prices realized 
by the farmers were, lower t han at. any former 
period in the history of the milk traffic. 
_The health authorities of Montreal, some 
weeks ago, declared that glanders was very 
prevalent among horses there. Thereupon 
the United States authorities embargoed the 
importation of horses from that place and 
the surrounding country. Thousands of 
hoists are imported through Montreal each 
year, and a very large number from various 
parts of tbo Dominion were thus thrown on 
the local overstocked market, or had to “eat 
their heads off’ at the expense of the shippers. 
The latter say they will sue the city for dam¬ 
ages, as no glanders exist among the horses 
there. Official investigation has proved this 
to be a fact, and yesterday the embargo was 
removed. . 
.The net supply of live hogs at Chicago, 
from November 1 to January 13 inclusive was 
1,890,000 against 1.794,000 last year, making a 
decrease, of 404,000 this season.G. D. 
Hammond, of Detroit, prominently identified 
with the shipment of dressed beef is dead. 
He was pioneer in the introduction of refrige¬ 
rator ears, and at Glasgow, Scotland, had one 
of the largest dressed meat markets iu the 
United Kingdom.... 
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Thai Yellow Complexion 
Meaus biliousness; biliousness means a per¬ 
verted liver. Some of the bile has gone wrong 
and entered into the blood instead of going 
into the bowels, where it wu-s needed to do its 
legitimate work. For the want of it in the 
right place you suffer constipation, and lie- 
cause of its presence in the wrong place you 
suffer jaundice. Nothing will correct that 
perverted liver and restore it to right habits 
so effectively or so readily ns Compound Oxy¬ 
gen. This is not a drug. If is easy and pleas¬ 
ant to take; simple in its operation, and cer¬ 
tain in it-s results. It bus proved a blessing to 
Sufferers from liver troubles and other chron¬ 
ic ailments. If you have symptoms of a dis¬ 
corded liver or of impure blood, or of failiug 
digestion, you will find Compound Oxygen 
the remedy most sure to restore the diseased 
orgaus to healthy action, Drs. STARKEY <fc 
I’alen, of 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 
publish a work of nearly two hundred pages, 
entitled Compound Oxy/jen -Its Mode of ,4 c 
tion and Results, iu which many cures are 
reported. They mail the work free to appli¬ 
cants.— Adv. 
Crops k iUnvhds. 
Saturday, Jan. 15, 1887. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trad adoring the past, week, says: 
Trade in English wheat has been inactive, but 
values have been maintained, owing to the 
supplies being limited. The sales of English 
wheat, during the week were 80,841 quarters at 
35c. 3d, against 80,961 quarters at 39s lOddur- 
ing the corresponding week last year. Flour 
is steady. Foreign wheats have rather slack¬ 
ened off linden* the publication <>t the Loudon 
stocks, which show an excess over the general 
estimate. Increased quantities about combined 
with continued accumulations In America al¬ 
so had their Influences on prices. Corn is 
rather cheaper. Barley is steady. 
According to the report of the Russian Min 
ister of Agriculture too deficiency in the w in¬ 
ter wheat crop of 1886 was about 27 percent, 
as compared with the averages of the last four 
years, nut; an increase of ulxiUt. four per cent. 
Im spring wheat averaged over the same pc 
riod. Still, the crop of 1886 exceeded that of 
1885 by 5X2,000 quarters. 
The Department of Agriculture’s estimate 
of area,product, and value of corn, wheat and 
oats for permanent record are completed. 
The official work of the. year has been thor¬ 
oughly reviewed, with the aid of State co-op¬ 
eration and all available data of crop produc¬ 
tion. and the aggregates nr® substantially 
those recently reported. The corn crops in 
round numbers aggregate 1.665.1100,000 bush¬ 
els, grown on 75,000,000 acres, ami has a farm 
value of $ 610 . 000 . 1100 . The yield is 22 bushels 
per aero, 4 1 bushels less than last year. There 
is an increase of aroa of over three pci* cent 
and u decrease hi product of I I per cent., 
while the average price has increased 13 per 
cent., or from 82.8 to 36.6 cents per bushel. 
The aggregate product of wheat, is 157,000.000 
bushels from an area of nearly 37.0110.000 
acres, having a farm value of $314,000,000. 
The average value is 08 7 cents per bushel, 
against 77.1 for the previous crop and 64 5 
cents for the great crop of 1884. This is 35 
per cent, reduction from the average value 
between 1870 and 1881). The yield of the 
spring wheat, centres is belter than v.as ex¬ 
pected early in the Season, and on the Pacific 
coast much worse. The general average for 
winter and soring wheat, is m arly 12.1 bushels 
pel 1 acre. The product of oats is 624.000,000 
bushels, 5.000.000 less than last. year, from an 
area of over 23.0flli.nil0 acres, producing a value 
of $186,000,000. The average Yield is 26.4 
bushels, against 27.6 last year. The average 
value is 29 8 cents per bushel, last year 28.5 
cents per bushel. 
The following is the latest crop summary: 
Reports from correspondents show that fields 
of winter wheat in Ohio. Michigan. Indiana, 
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri are very gen¬ 
erally well-protected with snow. In Atchison, 
Dickinson. Lincoln. Neosho, and Sodgewick 
Counties in Kansas the fields are reported 
bare and the ground llrv, with the crop look¬ 
ing poorly. There is a free movement of corn 
to market reported in Illinois anil Nebraska. 
There is very little movement of corn in Iowa, 
and one-fourt h of the counties of the State are 
importing corn from adioiningStates. There 
are serious reports of cholera among the bogs 
from fully one-third of the counties in Illinois, 
With more or less prevalence of the disease in 
Indiana. Iowa, and Missouri. In Adams and 
Mason Counties iu Illinois the disease is in¬ 
flicting serious lasses.” 
Chicago statement of the visible supply of 
grain on January 8: Wheat. 68,84(5,000 bush¬ 
els. an Increase of oio.ooo; corn, 15,077.000 
bushels, an increase of 1,295,000: oats, 4.878,- 
000 bushels, a decrease of 147.000; rye. 440,- 
000 bushels, an increase of 3,000; barley, 2,724,- 
000 bushels, a decrease of 62.000. 
New York statement, of the visible supply 
of grain on January 8: Wheat, 68.845,689 bush¬ 
els, an increase of 615,820: corn, 15.077,818 
bushels, an increase of 1,294,734; oats, 4.877,- 
817 bushels, a decrease of 148.768; rye. 438,- 
607 bushels, an increase of 3.718; barley, 2,824,- 
079 bushels, a decrease of 'll 719 bushels. 
There is not much act.i vlt.y in the clover trade 
and some of t he large dealers regard the 
outlook as favoring cosier prices bv next 
mouth, while others are fairly confident tlmt 
values will be maintained. The foreign move¬ 
ment of clover seed this season has been of 
moderate proportions only—fur short of be¬ 
ing liberal—and the current, movement iu that 
direction is not important. 
Florida has hod a brief cold spell with the 
thermometer at 28 degrees; no in jury to or¬ 
ange crop. About two-thirds of the crop has 
been shipped to market already, and growers 
are holding the remainder for better prices. 
Public Speakers an«I Sinner* 
Can use “Brown's Bronchial Troches ” as 
freely us requisite, containing nothing that 
CAN INJURE THE system. They are invalua¬ 
ble in allaying the hoarseness and irritation 
incident to vocal exertion, effectuality 
CLEARING auil STRENGTHENING the Voice. 
«They i/reatly relieve any uneasiness in 
the throat ."—H. S. Curry, Teacher of Oratory, 
Boston. 
Ask for and obtain only “Brown's Bron¬ 
chial Troches.'" Sold everywhere at 25 cents 
a box.— Adv. _ 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, January 15, 1887. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago. No. 2 Spring Wheat is 1 c. higher; 
No. 2 Red, unchanged. Coru, steady. Oats, 
ditto. Flaxseed, 3c higher. Pork, 47'.so. 
lower. Cattle, a shade lower. Hogs, from 10 
to 30c. lower.. 
CuicAao.—Wurvr. The blithest cash price* were hr 
follow*: So. 'i Spring, sit 7W‘ So. 3 .spring, 7P.tr; 
No. 2 Rod. 7ii?*r. con*.-No. a. Oats.—N o. a. 
»:• U-. kvk, So. Me. Rarihv. No. i , 5'JUe. Ki.ax- 
*kkp Vo. 1 , $101: Prime Timothy. #1 80. Muss Pokk. 
Stl ST'., per bbl. I.mui. ?ii to. Short Rib sides 
Home I. $fi; rlrv - died shoulder* (boxed', £1 00; 
Short elear side*. iboredV, $8.55 Hr trial. — Easy. 
Crentnery. aivrSOVse Dairy. 'p.r'i'e. lions.*17Mi'i29c. per 
dozen tVir fresh- Catti.k -Market steady and strong. 
Shipping *t«w, »'0 10 1,500 ».. $•< c . Ol; xioe.ki rs and 
feeders, active, $‘J.4lK>i3.SO;eowH. bolls nn>1 mixed, $1.50 
i.t l V!: bulk, $■' SO'dlS H5, Texas Cattle, $2 MX®315. How. 
-'Market steady and firm. Rough ami mixed. 8 |<m 
4 |S; parking and sblppllitf. $1 tb<;4 75: lltrlu, $8anr,u 
4 Sill skips, «!•..,3 id. SHEET. - Market steady. Nh 
H ves, $2 ft.E'C' “5; Western, eora fed, $■!:<I 05, Texans, 
1, I jinibs, $4f,t,6 75, 
St, Louis.—C ompared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Bed Winter Wheat is 1 '/c. 
lower. Corn. ;i i'c. lower. Oats, unchanged. 
Butter, lower grades sternly: best creamery, 
2c. and best, dairy k*. higher. Flaxseed, steady. 
Pork, unchanged. Cattle a trifle lower. Hogs, 
ID to 40c. lower. Sheep, from 5Uc. to $1 
higher. 
Sr. Lons.- Wheat. Active. No. « Rod Winter cash, 
spzs; .inimarv. s.’ 8 S, February. 83»>r: March. 8 lHe: 
May. sTKo'SSUc. Coax.—Very dull. No. 2 mixed, cash, 
•IM.p". February. 8!h..48t*e; March. HKe: Stay, SSMTsi 
:tsMe. oats, quiet hut linn. No. '4 mixed, cu'-h. 
Kehrmirv, jsq,-: M"V, oqe. Kvk At »?••. H'ltutv. 
Pull ill l r >(.iisjq.r. IUy. Timothy, $1h Vcai:i ftd; Prairie, 
gs'itiii no, Ucttkii. Active, creamery. 24 -geic: dairy, 
inutile Boon. - Firm at .tc. Flax s*.kiv- Rasy at me. 
Pouk gl’4 25 I..tito at$«P4i4. Reut meats.-S teady. 
Loose lots, long clear. *'• M0: short ribs. «'e. short clear, 
$ti 15. Boxed lots lone elear, *r>. short ribs, $t>; short 
clear, $« ’40. Bacon Finn. Loan ei-ar. $ii xti; short 
rlliK. $g ml, short clear. «7 latino 2-V Hums at 10xo 
fair to good, $2 Wk -08 10; Stockers, fair to good, #%; 
