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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 19,1887. 
After a year’s trial of prohibition in Rhode 
Island a petition signed by merchants aud 
others, representing 810,000,000, has been sent 
to the General Assembly asking that steps 
should beat once taken for tlie repeal of the 
constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale 
of liquor. They say it has paralyzed business 
and driven away trade; while in spite of law 
many men get drunk .......Edward Atkin¬ 
son calculates our national debt at 78 cents 
per acre of our territory; and that of the six 
lending European Slates at $80.00 per acre.. 
. ..The Maine House defeated the bill pro¬ 
viding for a compulsory town school system 
by a vote of 77 to 85. it has also killed the 
bill giving women the right, to vote in town 
elections.Last Monday and Tuesday 
1.000 of the leading women at Leavenworth, 
Kuasas, registered and will vote under the re¬ 
cent law granting municipal suffrage to wo¬ 
men.Uf the legislatures of 88 States 10 are 
Republican and 19 are Democratic. There 
are 23 Democratic and 10 Republican Govern¬ 
ors.The drought committee appointed 
by the Texas Legislature have just reported 
that there are 37,780 people xu the drought dis¬ 
tricts needing assistance, and among them 
they distributed the 8100,000 appropri¬ 
ated by the Legislature. .. The proposed 
Prohibition amendment to the Constitution 
in Illinois was killed in the Assembly, Wed¬ 
nesday, by a vote of 78 to 08. There can be 
no more Prohibition legislation in Illinois for 
two years...In compliance with one of 
the provisions of the new Inter-State Com¬ 
merce Act, railroads all over the country are 
making arrangements to cut off all free passes 
from one State to another alter April 1 — . 
.The Clerk of Cook Co., III., refuses to 
register the alleged marriage certificate of 
Nina Van Zandt. and Anarchist Spies. 
.Cutting, of Mexican border notoriety, 
having spent all his funds in lecturing in 
Texas, is now typesetting in New Orleans, and 
wants some one to back him in a lecturing 
tour in the East.A new discovery in 
mechanics has just been tried at Montreal, by 
wbieb the hardest substances can be pulver¬ 
ized, they say, by the action of air set in 
motion like a cyclone. Nails, asbestos, phos¬ 
phates, mica, iron slag and flint rock were re¬ 
duced to “impalpable powder.”..By the 
breaking down of a defective bridge on the 
Boston aud Providence R. R., near Boston, 
Monday, a train was hurled down about 40 
feet to the road below, and 89 persons were 
killed and 98 more or less seriously injured. 
Three of these have died since and five more 
are expected to die. Report says the railroad 
people knew for a longtime that the bridge 
was weak and wouldn’t,therefore, allow heavy 
freight or gravel trains to pass over it. 
.The Schooner yachts Dauntless aud 
Coronet started last Saturday on the $30,000 
race across the Atlantic. The Dauntless was 
built 30 years ago, and was champion in her 
day; the Coronet has just been completed 
with “all the latest, improvements.” She is a 
trifle ahead in the betting. When lastsighted 
by steamers that, have just arrived here they 
were about 530 miles out, and the Coronet 
was 33 miles ahead... 
... The President has contributed 8100 to the 
Hendrick’s Monument. There arc 
8,000 convicts in the State prisons in Cal.—one 
to every ISO white voters.Indian Com¬ 
missioner Atkins will promptly carry out the 
new law assigning land to individual Indians 
(inseveralty). ..The Tennessee House 
has passed a bill raising tile school fupd from 
$2,000,UX) to $8,000,000, Gov. Taylor will sign 
it if it passes the Heuate.The great 
prison problem now in every State is to dis¬ 
cover some sort of work for the prisoners,that 
will not compete with free labor. In several 
States (this among them) many or most, of the 
prisoners are idle, because the Legislatures 
passed laws forbidding labor on goods tbat 
could come iu competition with the products 
of free labor, without naming any substitute. 
Much demoralization and trouble expected 
from compulsory idleness. 
....A bill in the New York Legislature seeks 
to change the law prohibiting the killing of 
song birds by allowing dealers in plumage- to 
sell the feathers, etc., of birds killed in other 
States—a deadly blow at the original bill. 
... .Charleston and Somerville, S. C.. had two 
slight earthquakes Wednesday mm rung...... 
Fears of a serious conflict between Mexican 
soldiers aud American citizens on the frontier 
near Nogales, Arizona.The N. Y. 
Senate having refused to confirm Mr. Arkell 
as Railroad Commissioner instead of O’Don¬ 
nell, Gov. Hill has nominated Michael Rick¬ 
ard, “ft mild Republican,” a Knight of Labor 
and locomotive engineer of Utica, supported 
by the Labor Party.... .The Dominion 
Government will not continue its investiga¬ 
tion into the feasibility of shipping groin from 
the Northwest to Europe through Hudson’s 
Bay. Bay frozen most, of the year. Private 
enterprise may cont inue the inquiry. 
Owing to the failure of Congress to pass the 
Sundry Civil Service Bill in time for the 
President’s signature, the Weather Bureau is 
paralized. Out of 70 stations 18 only remain 
in service—nearly all in the Gulf States. 
Chief omission, $18,000, for “observations and 
report ft on storms.” Movcmeuton foot to make 
it up by public contributions.Canada 
expects Ibis year the greatest rash of European 
immigrants that has ever occurred. 
Ice gorges on the Yellowstone and Little Mis¬ 
souri Rivers, uud at several points on the 
Upper Missouri, are musing great damage by 
forcing the rivers to ovei How the bottom 
lands. Still greater disasters uro threatened 
when the gorges break, as the mountains of 
released waters are likely to sweep away fill 
obstructions. Inhabitants fleeing to the high 
anils; watchers stationed for miles and miles 
along the river to give warning. Maudan is 
submerged, and Bismarck partly so. River, 
usually three-quarters of a mile wide at Bis¬ 
marck, is now a sea six miles wide rushing on 
at the rate of 10 miles an hour .A 
bill licensing betting at races is causing con¬ 
siderable rumpus in the N. J. Legislature, but 
is likely to pass. So is that, before the N. Y. 
Legislature.The Corbin High- 
License Bill, in N. J. is causing us much fuss 
as the Crosby High License Rill in N. Y. 
Democrats practically killed the N. J. bill 
Wednesday.Out of 840,000 female 
voters in Mass, only 1,571 voted at school- 
board elections iu 1881, and 1,911 in 1886, 
though the law' of 1880 allowed all of them to 
vote—hence, less than six iu 1,000 took Die 
trouble to vote.Rev. P. M. Donohue, 
an American, has invented a new explosive 
called carbonated glycerine, more destructive 
than melinite, and lias sold the secret to the 
French Government. George Garrett 
Sickles, father of Gen. D. E. Sickles, died at 
midnight. Thursday, aged 87—19 years older 
than the General. Astnart lawyer, but an < c■ 
centric man. Leaves $3,000,000 to bo divided 
among the family.The trial of George 
F. Parker, “President of the British-Ameri¬ 
can Claim Agency,” has been deferred till 
next Tuesday. 1 n 1870 lie was sent to State 
Prison for three years for steal ing a sealskin 
saeque; and another indictment still stands 
against him for stealing six shirks. 
.Yesterday' was Pres. Cleveland’s fiftieth 
birthday... .. .The Richmond. Buffalo’s 
newest and best furnished hotel. St. James’ 
Hall, Buffalo’s oldest and largest theatre, and 
several stores and other buildings were de¬ 
stroyed by fire at 3:30 ocloek yesterday morn¬ 
ing/ There were 185 people in the hotel, of 
whom a majority' wore injured. About 80 are 
so badly burned that their death is predicted. 
A number of dead bodies are supposed to bo in 
the ruins. Ten bodies are recovered and six 
people are missing.... 
Danger Abend. 
It is a well known fact that the Spring 
months are the ones to be dreaded most by 
persons of all ages, on account of the great 
increase in mortality caused by Pneumonia, 
Membranous Croup and Diphtheria, to say' 
nothing of the lesser evils in the shape of 
coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, etc. 
Those in best physical condition are quite as 
liable to these acute attacks as the most deli¬ 
cate. Hence the necessity' of a remedy that 
will act as preventive as well ns cure; one 
that will strike, at the root of the disease , also 
one that does not contain a particle of that, 
enemy to mankind—the deadly drug opium — 
which, although it may soothe and relieve 
temporarily, surely destroys the tone of tho 
system and saps vitality more completely 
than disease itself. The only remedy known 
that includes and combines these requisites is 
“Dr. Hoxie’s Certain Croup Cure,” the reme¬ 
dy' above all others for all attacks to throat 
and lungs. The most delicate infant or the 
most feeble adult may take it without fear. 
It. is the only patent medicine for coughs, 
colds, croup aud hoarseness, that eminent, 
physicians use and recommend to their pa¬ 
tients. Always keep it iu the house. 
Dr. Hoxie used this great remedy for over 
twenty years among the most prominent citi¬ 
zens of Buffalo, N. Y. AS he was an eminent, 
physician in regular standing aud practice. 
With talents that distinguished him far and 
wide, it will be readily conceded that this 
great preparation is not to be placed on a par 
with the numberless nostrums that Hood the 
market. General agents for New York city, 
C. N. Crittenton, 115 Fulton Street. For sale 
by all druggists in the State. Price 25 and 50 
cents,— Adv. 
AGRICU LTURA L NEWS. 
Saturday, March 19, 1887. 
The first Comptroller of the Treasury has 
decided that no appropriation was made for 
the agricultural experiment stations in the 
Hatch Bill which established them. None 
was made in any of the regular appropriation 
lulls. The amount must be specially provided 
for by Congress. As it docs not meet in regu¬ 
lar session until next December, the stations 
can’t, be started this year, unless tho President 
calls an extra session of Congress to pass this 
and other appropriation bills ..The 
Fruit Land Grange, of Wyoming, Del., com¬ 
posed of the heaviest peach-growers of the 
Peninsula, has resolved, in view of the deter¬ 
mination of the produce dealers of New York 
and Boston not t<> make any deposits for 
peach baskets and crates, to withdraw all con¬ 
signments of fruit from commission merchants 
in those cities. Over 18,000 pounds 
of bob veal and 289 whole ealves were seized 
last week by the health authorities in the 
markets and butcher shops of the city and at 
the ferries. Policemen ure posted every night 
at all the North River ferries to intercept the 
unripe vchI shipped by express from out. in the 
country .A Merced, Cal., farmer 
has poisoued over 80,000 jack rabbits iu the 
last four years, and yet, in spite of tho war¬ 
fare against, them, they are increasing in 
number and are becoming a veritable plague 
to the Merced and Fresno farmers. 
.. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 
iu reply to an official inquiry from the Com¬ 
missioner of Agrieult.ure.st.utes that the quan¬ 
tity of of artificial butter manufactured and 
removed for consumption or sale during the 
months of November, December and January 
was as follows: November, 4,742,569 pounds; 
December, 2.786,278; January, 2,501,114; total, 
10,029,961 pounds. The exportations were 
November, 8,247 pounds; December, 58,089; 
January. 52,701; totul, 114,697 pounds. 
General-Manager Oliver, and President 
Butcher, of the new cotton seed oil enterprise, 
are going to Houston, Texas, to establish their 
first mill which will cost $250,000 ami have a 
capacity of 150 tons of seed a day, like all the 
others when built. Others will be established 
at New Orleans, Memphis aud Atlanta as rap¬ 
idly as machinery can be supplied. These 
four, at least, will be ready in time to work 
up this season’s crop. It looks now as if the 
Cotton Oil Trust monopoly would have a 
strong aud honest opponent—but, like tho 
Nickel Plate Railroad, the enterprise may be 
started simply ultimately to force its competi¬ 
tor b> buy it out at a big figure, putting some 
millions in the pockets of its projectors... 
The English War Office authorities have 
made arrangements for the transportation 
from Canada to London, during the coming 
season, of 8 000 horses for artillery trains. 
At the same time cablegrams announce that 
French, and especially German, buyers are 
purchasing a large number of horses in Eng¬ 
land and Ireland, for military purposes. 
The Interior Department has succeeded in 
buying over 17,600.000 acres from the Indian 
tribes in Northern Montana, and It will soon 
be thrown open to settlement—very good 
farming and grazing land report says.... 
....The railroads from Chicago propose to 
keep the rates on livestock to the seaboard 
tbo same as at present after April 1. Rates 
ou dressed sheep are to be reduced to 75 cents 
per 100 pounds; hitherto they have been 20 
cents per 100 above the rates on dressed beef, 
although the latter is much more valuable. 
Unless a reduction ns soon made iu the rates 
on dressed beef, the shippers will apply to the 
new National Railroad Commission iu the 
confident expectation that, it will at once de¬ 
cide that the present rate is too high.. 
Wednesday last 36 members of the Holstein- 
Frie»ian Association, with 264 proxies, con¬ 
vened at Bulfulo, N. Y. Will cooperate with 
the Jersey C, C. in securing legislation punish¬ 
ing fraud in registering. Registration fee 
reduced to 56 cents. Association has a bal¬ 
ance of $37,000 on band, and special premiums 
were voted—$800 to the N. Y. City Dairy 
Show iu May, and $2,000 for various State 
fairs. Officers elected: President, W. M. 
Gingerly, of the Philadelphia Record; Trea¬ 
surer, W. B. Smith. Syracuse,N. Y.; Secretary 
and Editor/!’. B. Wales, Iowa City, la.Re¬ 
ports from Delaware and Mary laud say the 
peach crop will be so large and prices so low' 
this year that small growers will be driven 
out of the business . .The canned 
goods makers are vigorously resisting a bill 
in the New York Legislature requiring them 
to stamp the cans with the date w hen I he goods 
w'ere put up .. The Grand Jury has failed to 
indict the “hog-guessers,” arrested in this 
State by Comstock.Wednesday Com¬ 
missioner Column, Prof. Wiley and a Com¬ 
mittee of toe Sugar Planters’ Association 
selected Ex-Gov. Waduiouth’s plantation at 
Maguolia, 48 miles below New Orleans, as the 
site for the experiment station to be estab¬ 
lished by the Government to try the diffusion 
E iroeess of extracting sugur from cane. Sugar 
iouse ami uppurtenauces tho finest in the 
State. All the cosily diffusion machinery be¬ 
longing to the Government w ill be transferred 
thither, aud all will be ready for work by 
October 1 .Very low prices ruled for 
Jersey cattle auctioned here on Wednesday; 
88 head brought ouly $9,415—an average of 
$107.During a wind and rain storm, 
the other day. pollen from tho Southern pine 
regions was scattered to the depth of hall an 
inch over the ground for miles around Prince- 
town, Iud., and was mistaken by the wise¬ 
acres for volcanic dust from the Sandwich Is¬ 
lands, or star-dust, from interstellar space- 
Nearly nine hundred fruit ears, awaiting 
loads of oranges, are lying at the chief ship¬ 
ping points in Southern California. 
.The Freueh Chamber of Deputies 
Thursday, by a vote of 82S to 288, approved 
the bill unposiug a duty of five francs per 100 
kilos on wheat imports—about 8/ cents a 
bushel.Englishman A. Fanson has 
lately been importing a large number of fine 
horses—chiefly Poreherons—from Canada into 
the United States duty free for breeding pur¬ 
poses; but special agents of the Treasury have 
just siezed $80,000 worth of them, iu Noble 
and La Grange Count ies. !mi, A number of 
w'ealthy farmers swore that they got the horses 
“for breeding purposes” aud thus duty (So per 
cent ou the value) was not charged, Fanson 
then came uloug, paid the fanners u fee for 
their perjury, and sold tho horses. Three of 
the farmers are in jail at Indianapolis, and 
others are likely soon to join them. 
.Mr. Clues. Barnard, the Secretary of 
the Chautauqua Town and Country Club, 
writes to us that the headquarters of the club 
have been removed from Houghton Farm to 
New Rochelle, N. Y___ A bill Indore the 
Illinois Legislature gives the ow ners of sires 
of live stock a lien ou the progeny of the ani 
mala. Similar laws are in force iu some 
States, and before the Legislatures of others.. 
.A kind of itch among horses and cat¬ 
tle is causing much uneasiness among ranch¬ 
men in many parts of the Northwest.. 
... .Thirty-two thousand five hundred and 
seventy-six barrels of apples were, among t he 
exports from Portland, Me, week before last.. 
.The latest price list of native wheat iu 
France shows that, the American product can 
be hud down In France, alter paying the ad¬ 
ditional duty just imposed, at 10 cents less 
than the domestic cereal..,.,...... British mil¬ 
lers at a meeting yesterday initiated an agita¬ 
tion in favor of an import duty on foreign 
flour. Bukcrs will oppose tho movement. 
The Best of Any, 
II. J. Baker & Buo: 
Dear Sirs—I have used your fertilizers ou 
potatoes and cabbages for the past six to 
eight years, ami find it the best of any 1 have 
used. The results have always been satisfac¬ 
tory. Yours truly, 
W. W. KOUWENHOVBN, 
Nov. 13th, 1886. Flutlauds, N. Y.—.Ida. 
Crops & ittorlicls. 
Saturday, March 19, 1887. 
According to the latest figures of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, the horses, milch 
cows, other cattle, sheep aud swine of the 
country are now worth $2,400,586,988 against 
$2,865,159,862 a year ago—an increase of more 
than 1 1 .7 per eeut. The value of horses per 
head increased 1.23 per cent; of sheen, 5.2 per 
cent.., and of swine 5.4 per cent. Sheep and 
swine fell off considerably m numbers. The 
value, per head, of all other kinds of stock fell 
off. Mules fell off.87 per cent.; milch cows 
4.81 per cent..; other cattle 6.33 per cent. 
The St. Ijiiuis horse market is summed up 
as follows by an exchange iu that city: 
Streeters are demanding the attention of 
local horse traders at. t he present time, and 
tho demand is largely increased by buyers 
from Fas tern cities now- in the market. Use¬ 
ful. sound horses ot this class, weighing from 
1.106 in 1,200 pounds, good-bodied animals of 
large bone and foot, measuring from 15 1 4 to 
16 bands three inches high, are selling at from 
$110 to $140. There is an urgent deniaud for 
coach horses, too, but. they are scarce, because 
it requires an animal of excellent proportions 
aud splendid action to fill the bill. Such 
horses, measuring from 15 three to 16 hands, 
readily command from $200 to $800. Draft 
horses weighing from 1,850 to 1,600 pounds, 
built Upon short legs aud having powerful, 
broad 1 sacks and plenty of hoof, aged from 
five to nine years, sell all the way from $850 
to $550. 
The apple trade between Portland, Me., and 
England bus grown to large proportions. In 
1880-81 the apple exports ware 80,908 barrels, 
or une-thirty-fourtb of the total exports of 
the country. In 1884—5 the exports were 71,- 
400 barrels, and in 1885-6 87,801 barrels, and 
it is exneeted that this year the exports wdll 
amount to 100,000 barrels, or about one-ninth 
of the apple exports of this country, almost all 
Of it being of Maine fruit. The price to grow¬ 
ers has averaged $1.50 per barrel, the market 
now standing at $2 per barrel. 
Will the price of cattle go up‘f Nobody can 
tell, since with every little rise in price due to 
diminished receipts, an increased rush of cat¬ 
tle to market occurs. Three times since New 
Year’s the receipts at Chicago were not over 
85,01)0 a week, and each time prices rose a lit¬ 
tle, and each rise was followed by a heavy 
run, twice reaching nearly 59,(XXI head a week. 
Of course, prices can hardly rise uuder such 
conditions, 
According to the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture there were iu farmers’ hands on March 1 
6ii3,0iX).000 bushels of corn against 548,000,- 
000 bushels last year. According to the 
official report of the Dep’t of Agriculture 
the stocks of wheat in this country on March 
1, were: 
Farmers' slocks. Visible supply. Total. 
1887.r99,LMNI.O(>J 57,<*10.000 179 0O0,UCH) 
18Hfi_..... 107,000.01X1 69,000,01'IJ 159,000,000 
1885.nw.uoc.ooi) 11,00 000 217,0 0,000 
1884.1 lO.OOu.OOO 31.000,000 1 SO.OOl ',0X1 
H8U.IM.IfO'.OO) 28.000 000 Kill,(.00,000 
1882 . 98,000,1X10 11,000,000 115,000,000 
1HS1. ns.ooo.ouo 86.000, tx)0 171,000,000 
The present stock in farmers’ hands is there¬ 
fore, 8 , 00(1 bushels below the average of six 
years, while the visible supply is .84,000,000 
bushels above the average, or a total of 10,- 
000,(H)() bushels above the average By add¬ 
ing 80,000,(XX) bushels, the estimated quantity 
of flour as wheat, the total would be 2(H),(XX), - 
000 bushels against 194,000,000 lust, year, aud 
252,000,000 bushels in 1885. 
An illustrated Catalogue of Children’s Car¬ 
riages giving latest novelties, and greatest 
number of designs over manufactured, mailed 
on application by the Luburg Carriage Co., 
Phila , Pa.— Adv. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York. Saturday, March 19, 1887. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Tint market remains much the name as last week. 
Apples arc a little higher anil good potatoes sell at In¬ 
creased prices. The poultry market Is crowded and 
sales siuw. 
IXAv ami Straw. —Hay— Choice Timothy, hoc. good 
do. JOtf'iic medium, 1 aKB 05(1; Shipping, 60i<o 56c;Clover, 
mixed 55 >iA5c. Straw No. 1 Rye, COo; short do.lStsSOc; 
oat. -watte. 
Fruits.—Krrsh.—A pples.— Baldwins, per b1)l.,at $:t 50 
I iM; Ureenlngs, per hid, f-lml M). Grapes,— Cataw¬ 
ba at 1. 4 6c. per tt>; Cranberrle.,.at gi 25 «..'( for Jersey 
pet crate. Florida oranges at id 75<*1 25 tor best, per 
box; $*,>,8 50 for choke; *1 25 >d 7a for lower grades. 
Fuurrx. -Damp.—Apples Fancy Evaporated, 12kje.; 
do. choice, do. at 130: do. prime. llMtsOllWe; 
, 1 ,, (lo. Suite, sliced. 1)fv5'4e; do. North Carolina 
choice, 5ki«t>t>e; do do. prime 4@5c. Peaches.—North 
Carolina, peeled choice, uew, 1541 Ic: do. do. do, prime, 
.. do. do. prime 
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