for sale in New Orleans, which has hitherto 
been nn exporter of the fruit. 
definitely of the European outlook, as the con¬ 
sequences of the recent German elections will 
have become plainer, and spring, which was 
to bring war, will have begun. 
short session of Parliament will be held about 
the middle of April_Fierce wrangling 
yet about the election of Senators in West Vir¬ 
ginia and New Jersey. Can’t decide on any 
particular candidate.Commodore 
WilliamTruxton. XT. 8. N., is dead.. 
... .Owing to financial embarrassment, an 
extra session of the Virginia [legislature has 
been called .Nina, or “Ninny,” Van 
Zaudt’s effigy, despite her protests, is now on 
exhibition ih Chicago.... Disgraceful 
partisan proceedings in the Indiana Legisla¬ 
ture are bankrupting the State.'l he 
President lias signed the Chinese Indemnity 
Bill_A high license bit [before the New York 
Legislature is stoutly supported by the Re¬ 
publicans aud vigorously opposed by the Dem¬ 
ocrats, with a few bolters on both sides...... 
Women henceforth will have the right to vote 
at municipal elections in this State., .The 
President has approved the act prohibiting 
the importation or foreigners uuder contract 
to perform labor in this country; also that for¬ 
bidding the hiring of any persons imprisoned 
for violating the laws of the United States... 
A Catalogue of the “Wonderful Chair,” 
combining five articles of furniture with 50 
changes, and sold at a price within the reach 
of all, mailed on application by the Luburg 
Chair Co., Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
An Illustrated Catalogue of Children’s Car 
riages giviug latest novelties, and greatest 
number of designs ever manufactured, mailed 
on application by the Luburg Carriage Co., 
Phila., Pa.— Adv. 
HOME NEWS, 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
Saturday, February ‘10, 1887. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Spring Wheat is 1c. lower; 
No. 2 Red, ',jc. higher; Corn, 1T*c. lower- 
Oats, unchanged; Flaxseed, lj^c. higher; 
Pork, $1,09 higher; Butter, from 3 to 5c. high¬ 
er; Eggs, 1 ki'e. higher; Cattle, from 5 to 10c. 
lower; Hogs, from 15 to 25c. higher. 
CincAO*).—W heat.—T he hUrhest'eiwih prices were as 
follows: No. 2 Spring, at TMtiSTfOvr No. 3 Spring, at 
70c; No. a Red. Tike. Cos*.—No. a. Oats.— 
No. 3, ?8'tl'924c. Rvie. No. 2. Me. iURl.KV.-No. 2, 
SU<.i:A2e. Flaxseed—N o. 1.81 (M'.i 1‘riine Timothy581 8:5 
mi si. Mkhh Pork.—# 15 82915 :<5 per hbl. Lard.— 
*7f.?7U2t4 per lull lbs. Short Rib sides (louse), $7 fi7t£ 
Mi 70; drv salted shoulders(boxetl), 85 SU96 (W; Short 
clear side*. (boxed), *8 (Kg/S 10. Hitter. —Creamery, 
2H*W'2;e. Dairy. lS92(ie. Eons, r>er dozen 
Cattle. Market slow. V.c. 10 cents lower than yester 
day. Fancy, #S).s@r, IS: Shipping steers, mo to 1,500 it, 
#35091 90; smokers and feeders. d2.iiO.c-1jeows, bulls 
and mixed. 8393 ,5; bulk, $2 ?5it3 15- Hoop.-Mar¬ 
ket slow, but steady. Rough nnd mixed. 8515®5 60; 
packingandshipping. #5 .*109685; light, $4 '-u... :> in- skips, 
is .'x'MJ'l Ki). Hiikici-.-M iirkel, steady and Strang. Na¬ 
tives. ,83®5, Western. $3 .5094 75. Texans, $2 Dota l 25, 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is %c. higher. 
Corn. ksC. higher. Oats, unchanged. Butter, a 
a shade lower. Flaxseed, Gc. lower. Pork, 
50c. higher. Cattle, choice heavy, 10c. lower; 
other grades, from 5 to 15c, higher. Hogs, 20 
to 80c. higher. Sheep, somewhat lower. 
St. Locih.— Wheat.— Active, and unsettled. No. 2 
Red cash, 77V'; March. 77c. nominal: May, ?UW@8b%)C; 
June, finite’. Cork.—D ull No.2 mixed, rash, 8H%938$(c; 
March. aiRMiSSVje; April, 84tec. bid; May. 35|.$®354ic. 
Oats. Dull. iNo. 2 mixed, cash. 271^0- May. 
2vi<f.7i2SUc. Rvic. at Me. Hav.—F airly active at Arm 
prices. Prairie, 87 notafl ill): Timothy. 89 DftffilS 50. 
Butter.— Steady. Creamery. 24927c: Dairy, I5 m>27c. 
Dairy, 15923e. Foos.— Easy at 12913H0. r lax-seed. 
— ‘Me. Point. *15 25. LARD.—at St; Bl i.KMEATS. 
—Loose lots, long dear, and short ribs. 87 75; 
short clear,*7 ):'i Boxed lots-1 s'tig clear, 87 711} short 
ribs. 87 76; short clear. 8si.»j, Bacon—I ^uir clear, 
$820; short ribs. 88 23: short clear, 88 S7k>98 45. Hants — 
Stoutly at fill's 13. CA'rrut.— Market active. Choice 
Heavy Native steers. 84 31Vs > Hi; Fair to Good 
Shipping Steers. 83 TO)*.I 25; Butchers Steers, fair 
to choice. $3 40(34 00: Feeders, fair to good. 82 80 
F.ii: Stockers, fair to good, *2 i»,(»2 to; Tcxaus. 
common to choice, 81 HOodS 4(1. Hon*. - Choice 
heavy ami Butchers’Selections, 85 6C9' 1 sti; Packing, 
fair 'to good. 85 4095 fid; Yorkers, medium to fancy, 
$5 20@5 35. Pigs, common to good, *4 80(5,5 10. SHEEP. 
—Common to fair, $2 fit)@3 (10; medium to prime, $3 80 
®4 85. 
Saturday, Feb. 26, 1887. 
A common custom of cuttle king land grab¬ 
bers on the plain* lias been to buy the alter¬ 
nate sections of railroad lands and fence the 
contiguous corners in such a way as to inclose 
the government sections, thus preventing the 
passage of those who might want- to “take up” 
the latter. The Attorney Genera I declares 
such fencing illegal........ Curtis A Atkinson, 
of Clay County, Texas, have contracted with 
a Montreal firm to deliver to it, before Junel, 
6,000 female cattle from yearlings tosix-year- 
olds for *00,000—an average of $15 per head. 
Purchasers will have to pay an import duty of 
$6 per head, making the average cost, $21 per 
head-first direct shipment from Texas to Can¬ 
ada. Will he used for breeding purposes on 
the great Northwestern ranges. ... .Com¬ 
missioner Column agrees with the Rural on 
the danger of introducing the English rabbit; 
and on the absence of any present power to 
prevent its “unnecessary and hazardous” in¬ 
troduction ... Dairymen at Elgin. Illinois, 
find that the oleomargarine law has largely 
diminished the demand by Chicago manufac¬ 
turers for creamery butter. It is thought that 
the genuine article will not bring over 30 cents 
per pound for years to come........ 'Flic 111 i- 
nois Board of Agriculture finds the public 
about equally divided in preferences between 
Chicago and Springfield as a permanent site 
for the State fair. Decatur is a greater fav¬ 
orite than Peoria.The Illinois Horti¬ 
cultural Society wants $8,00(1 for the Legisla- 
latnre; and $34,000 are wanted for State nnd 
county fairs.Reports of the unparal¬ 
leled mortality among the range cattle of the 
West continue to come in, and it is feared that 
nearly half of the entire herds have perished 
from exposure., . . Boston is having a 
pleuro-pncumouia scare. Investigation into 
the death of a lot of cows, lately shipped there 
from Bulfalo, disclosed the presence of the con¬ 
tagion. Strict quarantine has been euforced 
and the State Cattle Commissioners are try¬ 
ing to stamp out the plague m its inolpiency. 
It is feared, however, several of the infected 
herd have been soatterd here and there in 
New England. 
.The third N. Y. Farmer 
From Four to Sixty-Foul’. 
A visitor to a school examination iu Athens 
or Rome on a day in the year A. D. I might 
have heard the question asked by the teacher, 
“How many elements are there in nature? 
and the scholars’ answer, as found in the 
hooks, would have been, “Four—earth, air, 
tire, and water.” That answer was as far as 
science bad reached at that time, but diligent 
research, prosecuted in the intervening ages, 
has given to the scholar of to-day a dilTerent 
answer. A visitor to a school in London, or 
Paris, or Philadelphia, would hear the same 
question replied to by a modern scholar with 
“sixty-four!” One of the most interesting 
discoveries made in modern times by drivers 
into the mysteries of nature is that of “Com¬ 
pound Oxygen,’’ Drs. Starkey & Palen, of 
Philadelphia, the physicians who have been 
for years treating their patients with this reme¬ 
dy, are glad to satisfy the curious in regard 
to it, and will mail free to any applicant a 
copy of their brochure of nearly 200 pages, 
entitled “Compound Oxygen, its Mode of 
Action and Results.”—.4c/r. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
Saturday, February 28,1887. 
The Riviera is the strip along the Mediter 
ranean coast from about Cannes in France to 
Spezzia in Italy, including the towns of 
Cannes, Antibes, N ice. V ilia f m non, Mouaco and 
Mentone, in the French part; and San Remo, 
Albenga, Savona. Genoa, Rapallo, Chiavari 
and Spezzia, iu the Italian, together with a 
number of smaller towns in both. To the 
north rise hills or mountains extending often 
to the sea; to the south stretches the genial 
Mediterranean. The whole region is the most 
salubrious winter sect loo in Europe, and every 
town is thronged each winter witii wealthy 
visitors from all parte of the civilized world. 
. The great carnival festivities, ex¬ 
tremely bright this year on account, of the 
presence ol many princes, royalties, and 
Other notabilities, were tardily ending at 
about six o’clock last Wednesday morning 
when an earthquake over the whole region 
suddenly converted mad revelry into the wild¬ 
est terror. The earth heaved like a moving 
snake; buildings shook, split ami toppled 
partly or wholly; chimneys and other pro¬ 
jections crashed downward; people, in all 
sorts of undress, tied frantically t > the open 
places: villages and other buildings on the 
hillsides glided to the bottom; havoc, de¬ 
struction and horror were everywhere. 
Other shocks followed till lust night, and 
others are expected. The known deaths al¬ 
ready number over 2,56b, and there must lie 
many more, us the survivors are afraid to 
return to investigate. More than as many 
more are more or less wounded. Visitors 
have fled or are ileclng as fast as traius and 
vehicles of all kinds can carry them away. 
Troops, tents and provisions have been sent, 
by the Governments to the a Heeled region. All 
sorts of rumors fill the papers, all going to 
show that Twit* in truth an awful calamity. 
_ . Each State or kingdom of the Gerriiau 
Empire has a government, of its own, but the 
Congress,or Keicbrtag, regulates matters con¬ 
cerning the whole Empire. A short, time back 
as a majority of this body, while willing to 
grant, appropriations for an addition of 40,000 
men to tue army for three years, refused to do 
so for seven, Bismarck dissolved it,, and at the 
elections held last ^Monday, a very decided 
majority in favor of the seven years term— 
septemiate—was elected. As in France, when 
there are three or more candidates for office 
in Germany, anti none of them gets a clear 
majority, a second election must be held. This 
happened in 56 cases the other day, trad the 
actual outcome won’t be known till after the 
second electiojis. The septemiate, it is esti¬ 
mated, will have 220 supporters and 177 op¬ 
ponents; but Hit majority on this point being 
composed of several parties at variance 
on othc-r points, it js likely they 
will split after passing the army hill. 
All the members from Alsace-Lorraine, the 
provinces ten’ll from France iu 1871. arc op¬ 
posed to the government., in spite ol the ut¬ 
most efforts of the latter to obtain a different 
result. Great rejoicing in France at this proof 
that it is impossible to Germanize the people. 
Many outsiders advocate to make the 
province a neutral zone, with an inde¬ 
pendent government., ns the surest way tei 
maintain peace between Frauce auti Germany. 
Peace still nearly as doubtful a-s ever; fill 
countries still preparing for war, but most of 
them hoping for peace. The triple alliance 
between Germany, Austria and Italy for re¬ 
ciprocal defence and guarantee of present 
possessions, which was to come to an end 
March 1, is rearranged. France and Russia 
appear to have a secret understanding. Next 
Saturday it may be possible to speak more 
Institute 
will bo held at Oswego. March 2d and 3d. 
The following speakers will attend : -I. S. 
Woodward, Mrs. Emma Taylor. Dr. E, L. 
Sturtevant, Hon. Seth Tenner. Col. M. C. 
Weld, Lieut.-Governor Jones, Major H. E. 
Alvord, Prof. I. P. Roberts, Prof. L. B. 
Arnold, W. H. Gilbert, C. S. Plumb, W. A. 
Armstrong. F. D. RedfleJd, J. F. Converse 
und Gerrit S. Miller, The range of topics in¬ 
cludes sheep, pigs, manures, dairy cattle, 
Uolsteius, Ayrshire’s, fruit growing, ensilage, 
farm education and butter making. This in¬ 
stitute will be, in many respects, the best yet. 
Let everybody go—..-. 
.The negotiations for the site of the new' 
stock yards in St. louis, involving the pay¬ 
ment of sbO.uoO, have been completed, and 
the deed to 207 acres of land delivered. The 
contracts for the construction of the yards 
provide for an expenditure of $600,000. 
The bill giving the Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture a seat in the Cabinet lias been passed 
by both I louses of Congress by overw helming 
majorities; but the Senate having made 
amendments to the House Bill, the matter was 
yesterday referred to the House Committee on 
Agriculture. There is little doubt that the bill 
will be passed and signed by the President, 
though many of the political papers bitterly 
oppose it. The Weather Bureau and several 
other bureaus are likely to be transferred to 
the New Department..Euler advices say 
the Australian colonies will have 160,060 tons 
of wheat for export .Wool manu¬ 
facturers, not having a pressure of orders, buy 
sparingly. Wool purchases are of smaller 
volume and prices favor buyers. There is 
some tendency to cheapen the Duality of goods 
manufactured, and there is talk of stopping 
woolen machinery.Spot cotton at New 
York is 1-16 cent, higher since the reduction 
of local stocks by lire .. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
New York, Saturday, February 2<i, 1887. 
State of the Market. Ascoropnred wltheush prices 
last week. Hour is unchanged; No. 1 Hard Wheat lSjc. 
higher: No. 8 Red i^e. higher; JJO. 2 Red tec higher- 
Uugrnded Mixed Cora. tic. lower; Out*, steady; Fork, 
80c. higher, lard 5® I lie higher; Butter «ud Cheese 
sternly; Eggs, a trifle better; Poultry n shade 
lower; fruits much higher; vegetables a little higher. 
Flour. Feed asp Mkai. - Flour—Q uotations: Fine 
82 :S0dtS 15; Superfine, $2 71)93 80; Extra No. 2, $3 20® 
a 60: Good to Fancy Extra State. *3 &0®4 tel: Com¬ 
mon to Good Extra Western, 83 I.VS3 60: Good to 
Choice Kxtrn Western, $:; «.V<t5 00; Common to Fair 
Extra Ohio. 83 159»<W; Good to Choice. 84 0505 (JO; 
Common Extra Minnesota. S3 1593 8<>; Clear, 83 60s) 
4 25; Rye Mixture, 83 ffljjii 25: Sn-alght. 84 14194 60. Pat- 
oni.t-l iotas 2h: Bakers’ Extra. $8809450- St, Lotus Com¬ 
mon to Fair Extra, $8 1593 1*0: Fair to Good, $194 tVO; 
Good to Very Choice. $4 7095 20. Patent Winter 
Wheat Extra. 81 409 ffl 20. Cttv Mill Extra for West 
ladle*, SttikgU Sotminus Flour.— Common to Fair 
Extra at 83 5093 SO, nnd Fair to Choice, * 1,45 20. Rye 
Flour.— Supertlne, $2 8593- Corn Mkai..-Y ellow 
Western quoted at 82 MVV2 75,and HTnndywIne nt 
$2 7592 85. RICK WHEAT FLOUR. - quoted, $1 75®1 85. 
Feed.— t2m>tattons or. for: to lbs. at SStaSIWo. 60 
lbs. at sui.tH.5e. so lbs. at H0985e;JUftlb*. nt in.uMLV sharps 
at95c981 05, and rye feed KOc, screenings at 15975c. 
OSAl-V—W bkc.— No 1, Hard, 04c, I ngrnded Red. 
8199264,0: No. 3 Red. 83Ue; No. 2Red, vi^mHOc, No. 1 
White, :»3V; No. a Red, for February. SHU4e.N0. 2 Red 
for March, 38W989We. do for April. Mi*pa.u0.tgc; do. 
for May. MO'-mVl-Re; do. for June, 9h36St‘.)Mi'c; do. for 
July. ‘krtiw.Sl'ge- do. for August, OPil/J^o: do. for 
September, 82t(CH4$c; do. for October iHUi.iOpIfC; do. 
for November, OfAte; December. tfi3{9U7Mc. corn.— 
Ungraded Mixed, at 17Wov l9c; No. 3 R<-d, I'Ac, Steamer 
4«ajc; No. 2. ISe; No. 2 fo)March. 17*4 •/ lose; do. for 
AptII, 47'V8i4.stj,c, do. for May. I81, )S ; Ve tlo. fur June. 
|84« < (,’)4gl4C otrs. No. 3 nt Niter do. White. WlUfS.36!^ 
c. Nn. 3, ;15 i.i: msc; do. White, No. 1. white. 
38c; Mixed Western, 85A87C; White do. 37, .7 I2C; White 
Stare. tno: No. 2 for February, stet, ui'a ; do. for 
March :M?t'<tA4Jt|ct do. for April, ;u u»i,t,:n7f,e; do, for 
.May, «MRjGfi35e., do, fur Julio, 3M(,<*35Ukc- 
Provisions.—Pork.— Mess, quoted at $11 V.v^ 1150 for 
One Year Old; $15 2ft for New; $1.5 50911'. fur Family 
Mess; lit! 2te(,17 50 for Clear Rack: and $18913 25 for 
Kxtru Prime Berk.— City Extra India Mess, $18921; 
Extra .Mess, In barrels. #8 Nk-tt*: Packet, $9 SO: Hate. $9. 
CUT Meat-, tickled nellies, 11 Bi average, ;tee: 12 Ih 
average, Plckleil bellies, quoted ituc. Pickled Rains, 
llWstei-V; l'lckled Shoulders, Pje; smoked Hams, 
12vrt.l3e, Smoked shoulders, rhe. MIDDLES. — Long 
cleat in Now York quoted at so; Orbsahu Boos.- city 
Heavy to Llithr at 7 i.l , 1 je: Pig*, T4*o. Laiuj.—W est¬ 
ern Steam Spot, r.2tie; City Steam, 7C: vetlned, 
quoted7.J8c;Conttnwi4,7.tl.5e: South American. Febru¬ 
ary. 1.17c; March, 7.I697.1HI-; April, 1.2291.26c; May, 
722997.1)',June, 7.8l<.t7,3!le. 
HPTTitn. All really line grades are sustained to full 
late prices on a fair demand, otherwise them Is not 
tnilefi life lo Lhe market. Klgtn Creamery- 28929c; 
Petiusylvunlii, Creamery, 2H(,v29e; Western, 18®26c: 
State balry, half ilrldns. tuba. Pk.i.'Sc; Welsh tubs, 16 
(,t2i)e. Slate Dairy and firkins. 18ni2U\ Western Imita¬ 
tion Creamery.'l692)ie; do Dairy’- 13W18CI do Factory-, 
12«il‘.)e, rolls. lKi-. 
Cheksk.—S tate factory, IIWftoMe. Including fancy, 
whin-, 134)9140; do, colored, l3L,.i,il3l;e; Light Skims 
UU4',<d2e. 
Eons,-Are doing better with a fair demand State, 
18* |M>l)11$o, Western, IStkilHl je; Sunt horn. Ike. 
Poultry.—Lite.—F owl*. Jersey, state, and Penn, 
sylvanln, pertti, tutste lie; fowls, west on), per it, 1()(,tile; 
roosters, old, per Tb, 5)^i,t,,e; turkeys, per tb 1D9UC. 
ducks, western pci pair, rKK<tiik-. 
Potn.TRY.— DnicsaKD.— Turkeyr, fancy, per tt>, 12913c; 
turkeys, prime, per Si, at ll)n l2e, do,poor to lair, Hw 
9c, chlckenH, Philadelphia, broilers. is.iSnc: do. 
liuckH County. 13915c; do, and fow ls. Suite ami West¬ 
ern. choice, 1291 ,’Hc; do, do. Jersey, 12913c: old cocks, 
per Ih. jfitHo; ducks. Jersey, per it. 1 .Hip 13c: do, 
state, Penney Baida, and .Maryland, prime, 12@tee 
Gnerie, Maryland, per it, Ukit 1 2 c: Gcisc western per 
Ho 8911)05 squalls, while, per dog. 4 73985 Squabs, 
dark, per iloz, #25093, 
Fuijitm.—Fresh.-A pples.- Baldwins, per bbl.,nt $3 25 
3 50; Urccnliiga, per bbl, $3 3091. Grapes.—Ca- 
tuwha at *i«0e. per It', Cranberries, at $s ( ,oio for 
Cape Cod good to choice. Jersey nt $29250 per 
crate, l loridn oranges at x3 -*vaj Vj for Im-hL per box; 
$2 5093 for choice; $191 50 for lower grades. 
FltuiTS.— Dried.— Apples -Fancy Evaporated. 12tec.; 
do. choice, (lo, nt 12c; do. prime, 11911MjC; 
do. do. State, sliced, 4^95^;e; do. southern 
siloed, prime at 3 >r94c; do, North Carolina, fan- 
Ten 11 o 1 Int*s a month. 
Will buy a farm in Claremont Colony. Maps 
and full particulars free. J. F. Mancha, 
Claremont, Va,— Adv. 
€ro])$ & iUavhcts 
Saturdaj T , Feb. 26, 1887. 
The Department- of Agriculture’s estimate of 
number of sw ine iu the United Suites in Janu¬ 
ary is 44,612,866, against Ri,092,046 last. year. 
Theie are not more t han 25 points in the West 
at which hog packing is now done. These 
handled 160,000 hogs last week against a like 
number tin- preceding week and the corres¬ 
ponding week last, year Total Western pack¬ 
ing from Nov. 1, 1886, 5,880,000 hogs against 
6 ,165,000 a year ago -decrease, 2*5,000. esti¬ 
mate's till March 1 give 0,050,00)0hogs fm- West¬ 
ern winter ]lacking against ii,;i00JXH) last year. 
It is thought the average weight will also be 
below last; year's. Chicago is likely to show a 
loss of 650.000 liAigs during t he season, while 
other points will probably gain 100,000. As 
shown in our market reports, prices of hogs 
and hog products are still steadily moviug up. 
The Louisiana orange crop has been liar- 
vested and proves to be less than oue-tenth of 
au average crop. Many Florida oranges are 
P^rjcUaMfous: 
DIXON'S "Carburet of Iran" Stove Polish was 
established in 1827, and is to-day. as It was then, the 
neatest and brightest in the market; a pure plumbago, 
f living off no poisonous vapors. The size is now iloub- 
ed and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quail 
ty and price remain the same. Auk your goooer for 
Dixon’s big cake. 
