HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 29, 1887. 
Over 28.000 freight and grain-handlers 
along the river front in New York, Brooklyn 
and Jersey City are on strike—a serious blow 
to the coastwise and foreign commerce cen¬ 
tering here. Over a week ago about 2,000 
Jersey coal haudlers struck, some against a 
reduction of wages; most for an advance of 
2!;f cents an hour. At the same time the 
freight handlers on the Old Dominion Steam¬ 
ship line struck for 30 instead of 25 cents an 
hour for day, and for 60 cents an hour for 
night work. Both strikes were on the point 
of failing, as plenty of new hands had been 
obtained, when the K. of L. “called out” all 
the ’longshoremen, boatmen, grain handlers 
and other workers in the three cities. They 
demand the advance asked for the employes 
of the O. P. Line afid insist that no freight 
from that line shall be taken for re-shipment 
by any other line or railroad. A large num¬ 
ber of transatlantic and coastwise steamers 
can’t go to sea on time, as they can’t discharge 
or embark cargo, or get a supply of coal 
aboard. Many large workshops and factories 
have had to shut, down, owing to a lack of 
coal. Prices for this have gone up day by 
day, aud the poor are the worst sufferers. 
More strikes in the State last year than in any 
former one: but the Commissioner of the 
Bureau of Statistics and Labor says 70 per 
cent, of all were successes. The strike has de¬ 
pressed prices of most stocks as well as of 
agricultural products for export. . 
.A law making it only a misdemeanor to 
kill the betrayer of a woman is proposed in 
Illinois, and is supported even hy clergymen.. 
.An earthquake, Thursday, in Nebraska, 
testified to the indignation of the w orld at the 
defeat of Van Wyck in his struggle for re- 
election to the Senate due absolutely and openly 
to railroad influence. He was the most wide¬ 
awake aud persistent antagonist of all sorts of 
monopolies iu Congress... .A bill intro¬ 
duced in the N. Y. Assembly proposes to make 
combinations to comer articles of food, fuel 
and other necessaries of life legal offences and 
punishable tvs such.. .Another severely punish¬ 
es any one who makes false statements in 
registering live stock.The average 
production of each man, woman and child in 
the United States is estimated at £200 a year. 
It would require the yearly labor of nearly 
400,000 persons to pay our aumtal pension list 
without any further addition—and this, 22 
years after a war of only four years. 
...Mormons, while acting very U, umble”in 
Tennessee, have carried away many a “con¬ 
vert.” The Legislature is now 1 considering a 
bill which makes it a penal offence to preach 
polygamy in that State... J. C. Matthews has 
been again rejected by the Senate as Recorder 
of Deeds for the District of Columbia—17 to 
31 votes.A new system of fortifica¬ 
tion is advocated by Gen. Sheridan. Instead 
of building forts above ground as targets for 
the enemy, he prefers pits for men and guns, 
the latter to be raised just before firing by 
hydraulic, pneumatic or electric motors. 
Safer, cheaper and better adapted to various 
positions than old-time forts.The 
sales iu the Alabama Land Office were the 
heaviest, in years last week, amounting to 
$5,350,365 at 81.25 per acre. That syndicate 
of capitalists seems to have succeeded in grab¬ 
bing up a vast mineral area for a tithe of its 
value. •••>•••• 
_There are 28,000 divorces granted annu¬ 
ally in this country. There is one divorce to 
every 16 marriages. In Europe the rate is 
one to 300........ Another bond call has been 
made. This time for $14,000,000 three per 
cents redeemable on March I.Thirty- 
nine cadets have been dismissed from West 
Point for deficiency.1 Hiring 18 c 6 North¬ 
ern and European capitalists have invested 
$129,226,000 in Southern manufacturing and 
business.... > • • • 
Cree Indians in Montana starving. 
Edmund’s Senate Bill authorizing the Presi¬ 
dent to retaliate against Canada was passed 
unanimously—as Riddlcberger, of Va., the 
only objector, hardly counts. Several sedate 
Senators, especially fiery Ingalls, of Kansas, 
twisted the Lion’s tail with amusing or patri¬ 
otic vigor. The hill is much the same as the 
Belmont House Bill, epitomized editorially 
last week. There's a good deal of loose belli¬ 
cose talk, but little or no likelihood of war— 
Any law that may be passed will not be di- 
PiiscfUnncoutf ^(U-jcrtijSinjj 
DIXON'S “Carburet, of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established)!] 1827. and Is to-day, as It was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
led and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quail 
ty and price remain the same. Ask your goocer for 
Dixon’s big cake. 
rected against the past conduct of Canada, 
but against the execution of a bill lately 
passed by the Dominion Parliament authoriz¬ 
ing Canadian officials to seize and search any 
American vessel found within three miles of 
the Dominion coast, counting from headland 
to headland. Next season American fishing 
vessels are sure to go armed, aud any attempt 
to carry out this law is likely to result in 
bloodshed. The first shot in such a quarrel, 
liko the firiug ou Sumter, would rouse this 
nation from one end to another, and the sever¬ 
est retaliation would certainly follow—even if 
it led directly to war. Ou land we’d be all- 
powerful; but an English fleet could bombard 
all our seaeoast cities, and levey a tax of 
$200,000,000 on them, but a few fleet Ala- 
barnas would soon ruin England’s vast com¬ 
merce. All present indications point to au 
amicable settlement of the dispute . 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 29,1887. 
There was a war scare in Europe on Mon- 
uav. In the London Stock Exchange there 
was a semi-panic, and on the Paris Bourse 
there was also a sharp decline. There appears 
to have been no real fouudation for the scare, 
which was caused by the statement of a Lon¬ 
don daily to the effect that there was extreme 
danger of war, and that the British Foreign 
Office had been informed that Germany was 
about to ask un explanation of French mili¬ 
tary preparations. The truth of this state¬ 
ment was afterward denied at the Foreign Of¬ 
fice, but too late to prevent au effect ui»ou the 
stock market. The situation on the Conti¬ 
nent, however, cannot be said by have cleared. 
The relations between Germany and France 
are far from satisfactory, and Bismarck's in. 
sistenee upou the necessity of passing the gov¬ 
ernment's army bill has not reassured the 
friends of peace. In eastern Europe the latest 
indications are that the three emperors will 
take the settlement of the Bulgarian difficulty 
into their owu hands. . 
There are a multitude of rumors belligerent 
and peaceful. The cables tell long stories one 
day, only to contradict them the next. Pres¬ 
ent indicat ions, how ever, point to war in spring 
—probably commencing between France and 
Germany.The English Parliament has re¬ 
assembled. Gosehen,Chanceller Of the Exche¬ 
quer, has been defeated in his attemps to get 
elected to Parliament for one of the districts 
of Liver pool.Irish evictions still con¬ 
tinue-, in spite of general resistance. The 
Government advocates coercive legislation; 
but will be bitterly opposed by the Puruellites 
and GJadstonians. Outlook for uu early re¬ 
turn of the Liberals to power, fair. .. 
The illustrated circular of J. F. Maucha, 
Raymond Surrey Co., Va., offers tempting in¬ 
ducement to settlers in Ins flourishing Clare¬ 
mont Colony, on Janies River.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 29, 1887. 
At the auuunl meeting of the New Jersey 
State Agricultural Society held in Trcuton on 
Wednesday, January 19, toe following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President, 
E. A. Wilkinson, Newark; Vice Presidents, 
Hon. William J. Sewell, Camden; George A. 
Halsey, Newark; N. S. Rue, Cream Ridge; J. 
S. Brick, Burlington; Corresponding Secre¬ 
tary, P. T. Guinn, Newark; Recording Secre¬ 
tary, William M. Force, Newark; Treasurer, 
Charles F. Kilburu, Newark.. Glanders 
exist to au alarming extent among Illinois 
horses, aud a quarantine bus been placed upon 
shippers of horse flesh aud horned cattle... 
... The Amber 
Cane Growers of the State of New York will 
meet at Lyons, N. Y-, Feb. 15-16 for their 
seventh annual convention. Manufacturers 
of molasses and sugar are requested to bring 
samples of their work........ 1 he 15th animal 
meeting of the Wisconsin Dairymen’s Associ- 
tion will be held at Sparta, Wis., February 
8-10. T lie present programme is us line as any 
of previous years. Tnose who care to know 
how to get up a programme t hat shall interest 
and instruct should send for a copy of this one 
to D. W. Curtis, Fort Atkiusou, Wis. 
....The average yield of spirits per bushel of 
grain in the Chicago internal revenue district 
for the month of December was 4.48 gallons. 
. The first direct consignment of Texas 
meat has just arrived iu London. It com¬ 
prised 4,575 carcasses of chilled mutton, 740 
quarters of beef, 390 turkeys, 48 fowls, 70 can¬ 
vas-hack ducks and eight casks of tongues. 
The jneut arrived in first-class condition, aud 
was eagerly bought up by London household- 
the sale of live stock, which was decided upon 
as follows: 50 cents per head for cattle, ex¬ 
cept calves, yearlings and stock cattle, which 
shall be $10 per car load; provided that par¬ 
ties buying hogs and sheep for New York shall 
charge not less than $5 per double-deck car 
and for Baltimore not less than $6 per double¬ 
deck car, and $4 per car for single-deck car 
loads of bogs and sheep bought for the same 
places, and provided further, that all live 
stock driven into the yards shall be sold at the 
following-named rates, to wit: Cattle 50 cents 
per head; sheep and hogs, 10 cents per head. 
No sales to be made for less than 50 cents. 
The next business of importance was the pass¬ 
ing of a resolution pledging nil members and 
firms to dispense with the services of travel¬ 
ing men and all mauner of drumming for 
business. The meeting then adjourned. 
The theft of 8,500 hogs from stock trains in 
the last two years has just been discovered in 
Wisconsin. The thieves hoarded the cars, 
opened the doors, threw out the porkers, 
closed the doors and then jumped off. The 
gang owned a big soap factory in Chicago, 
and made thousands of dollars. The loss to 
shippers is about $20,000. The cot¬ 
ton planters along the Mississippi have forced 
the Cotton Oil Trust Co. to make a consider¬ 
able advance in tlie price of cotton seed. They 
were using it on their land, rather than sell 
it for the pittance previously offered.Our 
wide-awake friend, J. 8. Woodward, of Lock- 
port, bus been elected Secretary of the New 
York State Board of Agriculture, instead of 
sleepy T. L. Harrison, who has dozed in the 
place for 20 years. Salary, $3,000 a year, 
with a clerk at $1,200. 
Action of the Heart. 
In restful sleep the heart slows up and its 
beats number ten less every minute—six hun¬ 
dred less every hour, and in the usual time 
allotted to sleep, eight horn's, four thousand 
eight hundred less than the number given in 
the same period of wakefulness. This means 
rest to that wonderful organ, a rest that re¬ 
stores its powers and euables it to discharge 
its functions in a more healthful and vigorous 
manner. The cases of heart disease which 
have been cured by the use of Compound Oxy¬ 
gen, as administered by Drs. Btarkey A Palcn, 
are a very interesting study. They all report 
insomnia relieved as a beginning and then go 
on to tell how the palpitation gradually was 
relieved, and the action of the heart became 
regular aud comfortable. If the action of the 
heart he kept up to full working capacity by 
wakefulness the time cannot l>e far off when 
it will wear itself out, and the palpitation and 
flutter which cause so much trouble may, 
therefore, with good reusou, be feared. A 
treatise on Compound Oxygen, giving the 
mode of action and results of this remarkable 
curative agent, will he sent free. Address 
Drs. Starkey & Palen. 1529 Arch street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
One of their patients. Rev. L. H. Morey, 
Seneca Falls, N. Y., says, in a letter dated Oc¬ 
tober 12, 1885: “I think it must be a year or 
more since I purchased a Compound Oxygen 
Home Treatment, and used it up. I am con¬ 
fident it did me a great deal of good iu throat 
and heart troubles; the fluttering ard pain 
frequently experienced in the heart, have not 
touched me for months. I did not think of 
Compound Oxygen for that trouble, but used 
it for throat catarrh. The distressing heart 
trouble has certainly left me.” In a letter 
dated October 30, lie adds; “With the excep¬ 
tion of a cold, contracted since I last wrote 
you, 1 am in perfect health. What gratilles 
me most is my complete deliverence from pain 
iu the region of the heart, and from frequent 
ami distressing 11 litterings or palpitation of 
the heart, from which 1 suffered for years: it 
used to trouble me so much that i could not 
sleep ou my leftside; and frequently 1 would 
start up in bed, and have to sit up till the sen¬ 
sation hud passed; the sensation was usually 
accompanied by faintness. Now I sleep on 
either side, and have not for months, had a 
return of either the pain or the fluttering. I 
used the Compound Oxygen for possible help 
to lungs, throat, and catarrh, especially the 
latter. 1 believe the Compound Oxygen to ho 
a nerve and brain restorer; at least, I work 
professionally with surprising and unwonted 
freedom from exhaustion.”— A dr. 
At a meeting of cattle dealers at Chicago, 
st Monday it was decided to form u perma- 
»nt organization and to adopt the name 
The National Live Stock Exchange.” The 
iost important business before the meetiug 
as the fixing of a uniform scale of prices for 
Crxips & iWflrlids. 
Saturday, Jan. 29, 1887. 
A further reduction in number of hogs 
handled in the West, as compared with cor¬ 
responding week last year, is shown by the 
packing returns,which indicate a total of 215,- 
000 hogs for the week, against 255,000 last 
week, and 585,000 for corresponding time last 
year. Total from November 1 to dale 5,165,- 
000 hogs, against 5,355,000 a year ago—a de- 
rease now’of 190,000Jiogs. 
It is evident now that there will be a falling 
off in tbe amount of winter packing, while 
the domestic consumption has been excellent,, 
and foreign exports have been liberal, with 
an encouraging prospect. The indications are 
good, therefore, for higher prices in the near 
future. Indeed prices would be higher now 
were it not, that the marketed hogs have of 
late been rather poor. 
BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES 
Contain ingredients which act specially on 
the organs of the voice. They have an extra¬ 
ordinary efficacy iu all affections of the 
Throat, caused by cold or over-exertion of the 
voice. They are recommended to Singers 
and Public Speakers, and all who, at any 
time, have a cough or trouble with the throat 
or lungs. 
“ I recommend their use to public speak¬ 
ers .”— Rev. E. II. Chapin. 
“A simple, and elegant combination for 
Coughs, etc." —Dr. G. F. Bigelow, Boston.— 
A du. 
Communications Rkckwicd for thk Week Ending 
JANUARY 29,1HS7. 
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C. P. C.— W. K. Taylor, tlmnks.—A. C. O.-A. D. V,'.—P, 
II.-S. H. M.-C. H, W.-.l. H. D.—II. M. M.. thanks. - 
J. R. M.-G. B. W.-F. 8. W—J. G. B -G. G.—A. A. K. 
J. C. W.—T. H. H.—W. F.—E. D. K.—F. L. G.—Subscrib¬ 
er—W. H. G.-W. K. S.—T, K. H—A. P.—C. W. R.-H. 
M. M. V.-P. E. J.-FI. VV, R.—D. L. D.-G. L. P.-G. V.- 
W. F. B.-T. H. G.-L. Y.- A. C. O.-.I. J. S.-L. J. 31.- 
T. H. Y.-G. H. B. S. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, January 29, 1887. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Spring Wheat is %c. lower; 
No. 2 Red, l>£c. higher. Corn, %c. lower. 
Oats, %c. lower. Flaxseed, 41.fc. higher. 
Pork, 30e. higher. Butter, Creamery lto 2c. 
lower, dairy, 2c. lower. Eggs unchanged. 
Cattle, 10 to 15c. higher. Hogs.from 25 to 35c. 
higher. Sheep, 20 to 30c. higher. 
cmcAao.—W heat.—T he highest ciuUi prices were as 
follows; So. 2 Spring, at 77Vje: So. a Spring, Tic, 
So. 2 Red, T*Uc. CORN.—NO. *, :«C. Oats.- No. 2. 2'VV- 
RYE.—No. 2. Me. Barley. No. 2. Flaxseed 
No.l. ft 06; I’rinii' Timothy. *192. Mess Punk. 
*12 .1716 per bbl. Laud. *6 r>. Short Rib sides 
(loose). Si! 35; drv salted shoulders iboxed). *5 30; 
Short clear sides, (boxed). Burry it.--Creamery, 
20W/2SC. Dairy. PVu22e. lions. ZlfoVSe. iso dozen for 
fresh. l AiTi.R -Market slow, but steady. Fancy. 
*3 Usi»f. 97 L,: Shipping steers. W-n m 1,N U ft. *3 tUViiS I ti; 
Stockers and feeders. *2.<314 3.85; rows, nulls anil 
mixed. SLCfiG00s bulk.*! 50to3. Meal Fed Westerns 
*4 30. flnr.K- Market strong, liellvi-Tilld 5 cents higher 
than yesterday. Rough and mixed. *4 Hltei 95; pin k 
mg and Shipping. *4 SIv,If, 12; llehl, *1 ISft I 90; skips. 
*2 73<«;4 23. Sheep.— Market steady for good, eotn 
mon 111 cepts lower llum yesterday Natives, *2 59 
6t4 90; Western, *8S4 75, Texans. #2 506*4: Lambs, *t 
@3 90. 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is '<<_■. lower. 
Corn. VyC. higher. Oats. 1 - s c. higher; Flax¬ 
seed, 7e. higher; Pork. 37.'*c. higher; Cat¬ 
tle, butchers Steers, 10 to 20c. lower; others 
steady or a shade higher; [lacking, 10 to 15c. 
higher; Yorkers, 20 to 25c. higher. Sheep, 
10 to 20c. higher. 
St. Louis.—W heat.—A ctive: No. 2 Bed cash, 81c; 
February, G«8iHic. bid, March . 82-V-- .nominal, May, 
fi3?6(i(i87c. Cohn.-D ull; No. 2 mixed, cash. 346)i34Uc; 
February, :ii6«31t}«e; March, !B*6S5)4c: May, DOftKitSiqi'. 
Oats,- Weak, No. 2 mixed, • a»h, 279fce; February, 27'Je, 
Starch, 2Sqc: May. 2944c. Bye.-E asy ni 5l!*c. Hay. 
— Dull. Prairie. *7 hi mi; Timothy, *9tol2 50. Bn- 
teu.—C reamery, 2.'toK3e: Dairy, IN" 24c. Kuuft — Al 2*0. 
Ft AXSltKD.—*1. BRA*.—At 63c FORK *12 7,3 LaI tn. 
-at #041).Bvuc meats.-L oose lots, long clear. 8«30. 
short ribs, *686; snort clear. *65u. Boxed lois—Long 
clear, *'• 2"; short ribs, $ti 39; Dior! clear. *ti All. Bacon 
Long clcur, *»90 (i»i: shorrrtbs, *7 13. short clear, *7 25 
to7 30. llama Steady at *lW*to PH*. Cattuc. Market 
strong. Choice Heavy Native Steers. <4 HUw-l 70; Fair 
to Good Snipping Su er*, *3 70wv4 SO. Butchers Steer*, 
fair to choice, *.3tot; Feeders fair to good. *2 iUVsiM S3; 
Stockers, lair to good. »4«2 90: Tiucnnit, common 10 
choice, *1 Kdtoii M>. Ho».—Maiket active and firm. 
Choice heavy and Butchers’ selections. *i sums o.v, 
I'nf king, lair in good. *l7Uiii4 90; Yorkers, medium lo 
fancy. *4 <411*4 73. Pigs, common to good, S3 sts-H iv 
sheep,-M arket active, roininoli to fair, *2 75: 
medium to fancy. *3 HOsf.5. 
Boston —APPLES.—Greening, $2 736*3 wr hbl; Snow, 
fldir.i I: Baldwin, *1 ’756*2 73 per hbl: Hiilibardstons, 
8'.to2 Ml; Northern Spy. *.’ fiOstS per bbl; coni 
mon, *I<»1 N) perbbl. Cn ANuriiuir.it rape i'od. *IO,k 
11; fair. **<*9. Iu ull cranberries 1 here Is an advance 
of *3 to *4 per hbl. liiri KR. Northern Creamery Ex¬ 
tra, 29 to .Vic. per lt>; do ItrntN, 25 lo 27c per l*>. West 
cm Creamery Extra, She. per ft; do. Hmis. 25"28c per 
ft; do, choice. 20«23c. per ft. Dairy Franklin t’oun 
ly. finest. VK.t ;’Po; good 10 choice. 24to23c- Vermont, ex¬ 
tra. 25tgi2ic. Northern, choice. 21m. 37c; do. fair to good, 
IM>21 c: Western dairy’ good to cbtifdd, 12 m 15c. Imita¬ 
tion creamery, extra. IImIIV; l.wMi-vfti'kcd. choice, IS 
to 14c. do. fair to good, 1 lto 12c. BKans-C holi c pen 
Northern haod-pfeked, *1 13i.it St tn'r bush; do. do, 
New York.choice hand-picked, $1 I'.Si.i 1 Id: do,Screened. 
*1 25tol 50: medium choice, hand picked, *l mku I Me 
do. choice, screened. *t VM" 1 IVdo,Velios-. Fves. choice, 
*1 Aucdii v,; nat, *130: iM Kidneys.*! !’>• ' -hkksk.- 
Ncw York extra, ISScm I lc. per ft: ilo. good to Choice. 
13toi9c. die common, too lie: Vermont, extra. I3k.i'; 
good to choice. 1310 I Sc: common, ■< to lie: W esu-rii.et 
tra. IS .1 tH'ie do fine. 9toltJo common. f toSc; sage extra. 
MtolU jc Corn—Y ellow, Me High mixed, 5?to,Wc, *tcu 
mer yellow '.2' jc: steamer mixed, tut; no grmh. fu.s32c 
per bush.88 to quality Enas. Near l.ynmli ape, -.V.iak- 
per do-5; I- astern oxira«, iltoSJc; Aroostook County. :*v: 
New Y ork and Vermout, U.cf’e Western,30c;Pr*i''luc- 
lal, !«x.t32c: ICC house iW.IMe- llninl. 3*.. 2-ic. Has and 
Straw —Choice, *176*18 per tote fair. # 1 don17- ordinary. 
10; New Eng,steers, VW4t>9hk do do, cow, 9(.<9'*; I ill 
euttu. slaughter, tll^aiSWl; dead green. 1Hi do, buffalo, 
7@s; Ruonos Ayres, wflFJotji-: Kill Grumle. 19; Volin- 
video, ’JUtaaiVj. Voiatoes, -Early Kosiv’iUtoflSe. per hush- 
Beauty or tfchion. MtoiAc: Burhunk, .vv..:.'c: l'rolmc. 
35®.Vtc: Sweets Jersey, *2-«290. SaShs.- Clover. Wisl. 
(*4e- per ft.do. North,9Hi<itU?4C; die As hlli\13to2Vc; do, Ac 
slke, 12<auc: Red Top, per sack. West, tl :’9; do. 
4 IU, 11 uu«rvuxi| «'• * . . . 
wraps, #?to*3 95: do flue fill. SI llk«4 A; do, good. *1 
tot 15; Havana weed 1111. %toll; Conn and MiiwC IB 
8(<#I2: do. dlnders, ldftlfi; do, sccouds. IStolS: do, nur 
wraps, I7 (sj 22; do, fine wraps, 22<ii34, Penn, wraps. 
21 kit 35c. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York, Saturday. January 29,1847. 
Flour. Feed and Meal— Flour— quotations; Fine 
*2 256a8 05; Superltne, *2 650840; Extra No. 2. *3 15(4 
8 55; Good to Fancy Extra State, *3 6004 10: tom 
