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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 8,1887. 
Last Saturday a blackguardly editor of a 
paper tried to shoot Governor Martin of Kan¬ 
sas, at Atchison—locked up.. The 
latest official reports show that the population 
of Utah is about 200,000 of whom 132,000 are 
Mormons, but, all told, the Mormons number 
102,000 as many of them live in the adjacent 
Territories. Of these, 40,000 are children un¬ 
der eight. The assessed valuation of the Ter¬ 
ritory is 835,000,000, and the income of the 
Church from tithings is over $550,000 a year. 
The nou-Momions in the Territory number 
only 55,000.President Cleveland 
and wife are having a fine time out West 
where they are very enthusiastically received 
by all parties and classes. Of course, there 
are social bickerings and heartburns, and 
some political carping, but the President of 
the Nation is well received everywhere iu his 
official or personal capacity. Only two news¬ 
paper men, one reporter each for the Associ¬ 
ated and the United press, are to be allowed 
on the special train by which he is making his 
Western trip... 
It looks as if that Chinese banking syndi¬ 
cate has been smashed. A cablegram from 
Englaud says the Queen Regent of China has 
ordered that the whole thing should be ended. 
All the European Powers protested so vigor¬ 
ously against the special concessions made to 
America that the "effete old empire" couldn’t 
keep its engagement. The papers here are 
jubilant at the loss of a "big thin"” for our¬ 
selves, because the bogus "Count" Mitklezich 
secured the concessions, and because he is 
fooled they are glad that Americans are to 
have no telephone, no bank, no privilege to 
print money aud bonds, no silver diffusion, 
and no plunder iu the Celestial Empire. A 
lot. of money has been lost by some people, 
aud the "Count” has made a good deal. Will 
our Government follow the example of Euro¬ 
pean Governments and compel China to keep 
its engagements with our citizens ? Hardly... 
.... The Missouri Legislature lately passed a 
local option law, and 24 counties have 
voted under it. Of these 19 were canned 
for prohibition, but a petty little Circuit 
Court judge in St. Louis lias nullified the 
whole movement for the time being by de¬ 
claring the law unconstitutional. Of course, 
the Supreme Court « ill reverse the decision; 
but meanwhile the rum-sellers are on top.... 
.High license has been in force in 
Minneapolis barely three months, and in St. 
Paul and other places where licenses do not 
expire till January, the law hasn’t yet gone 
into operation ; but where it is observed, the 
number of saloons has been reduced one-third, 
while the j'ovenue has increased 50 per cent. 
There are now 550 fewer rum-shops in the 
State than there were three months ago, and 
when the licenses run out, it’s likely there will 
be 1,000 fewer.Michigan’s netv lo¬ 
cal option law went into effect on the 28th 
ult. Under its provisions one-fifth of the 
voters of a county can apply for the calling 
of an election to determine whether intoxi¬ 
cating liquors may be manufactured or sold 
in the county. Such application has already 
been made in several counties. 
... .A Kansas judge decides that colored chil¬ 
dren eauuot demand admission to white 
schools.Johu S. Delano, whose father 
was in Grant’s Cabinet, is a partner of "Joe” 
Dwyer in a New Mexico cattle ranch, and 
they own 20,000 head of cattle between them. 
The foundation of the family fortune was 
laid by Columbus Delano, who started a bank 
at Mt. Vernon, O., and charged only six per 
cent, for discount wbeu the legal rate was 
eight per cent. The idea was as novel as it 
was popular, aud the Delano bank did a fine 
business.The Mayor of Argonia, 
Kan., gave birthlast week to a fine boy. This 
is the first instance in the history of the world 
where the Mayor of a city has made such a 
record. It is hardly necessary to state that 
the Mayor of Argonia is a woman who was 
elected last spring..George Bancroft, 
the historian, though in his 87th year, aud in 
spite of his recent accident, is still a devoted 
horseman. He way be seen any day, when 
at Newport or Washington, mounted on a 
prancing steed, trottiug over the well-made 
roads. Mr. Bancroft does not consider that he 
is too old to work yet, and he does a eertaiu 
amount of writing every day of his life. A 
good constitution and plenty of cougenial 
work he has found conducive to good health 
aud longevity.Gen. John P. Rea, 
the newly elected Commauder in-Cbief of the 
Graud Army of the Republic, was born in 
Chester Co., Pa., Oct. 13, 1840, aud enlisted in 
Piqua, Ohio, iu Company B, Eleventh Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, April, 1801, for three 
months. Aug. 18, 1801, he enlisted for three 
years in the First Regiment. Ohio Cavalry, 
aiul was promoted Sept, 23, 1801, Second Lieu¬ 
tenant; March 12, 1802, First Lieutenant; 
April 1, 1803, Captain; was breveted Major 
for gallantry in battle Nov. 23, 1803, and re¬ 
signed Nov. 24, 1803. Has lived in Minneapo¬ 
lis, Minn., since 1875, practicing law, and edit¬ 
ing a newspaper. He is now a judge of the 
Supreme Court.... 
... It looks as if the Anarchists—some of 
them at uny rate—would hang..The 
Chicago Inter-Ocean is trying to raise a fund 
for a monument to their victims.... The snow 
sheds along the trans-continental railroads 
sometimes are miles long, where the roads run 
through cuttings. The farther north the road 
the more need of protection from accumula¬ 
tions of snow Since spring over 3,000 men 
have been employed on the Canadian Pacific 
snow sheds. The biggest and strongest sheds 
are across the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains.. 
.Ex-United States Senator and Ex- 
Governor William Barrett Washburn, of 
Massachusetts, died suddenly Tuesday at 
Springfield, Mass.The United States 
revenue cutters out on the Pacific are still 
capturing Canadian and American vessels 
that have been stealing seals in Behring Sea 
—an average of about two American to one 
Canadian thiefs; but. then, the Union’s popu¬ 
lation is close to 60,000,000, whereas the Do¬ 
minion has less than 5,000,000 people b> pro¬ 
duce seal thieves.Kingston, in this 
State, has suffered much from caterpillars 
this fall. They came in millions, covered 
trees, vines and shrubbery, stripped them of 
leaves, and in many cases destroyed them. 
They dropped upon the hats and bonnets of 
pedestrians, crawled up trousers and petti¬ 
coats, and made themselves very unpleasant. 
generally.... 
Bush fires are doing immense damage in the 
Ottawa, Out.., lumber regions. The smoke 
from such has caused a fog on the St. La wren re 
that, is reported to have cost Montreal $12,000 
a day.Knights of Labor at Erie, 
Pa., have commenced a crusade against Sun¬ 
day work. They have begun suit against 
several employes of the Northwestern Trans¬ 
portation Company, charging them with un¬ 
loading a boat in violation of the act of 1794, 
prohibiting all labor on Sunday except, that of 
charity or necessity..'.A posse from 
Texas, hunting horse thieves in the Chickasaw 
Nation, at daylight Saturdav, attacked a party 
of men, who were sleeping beside a camp tire. 
Two of the campers sprung up and attempted 
to escape. Believing they were thieves, I ho 
posse fired and mortally wounded them. They 
proved to be peaceful immigrants. 
Chicago is to have a new water tunnel under 
the lake, eight feet in diameter, four miles 
long, to cost *0,000,000, have a capacity of 
100,000,000 gallons daily, to be completed iu 
three years..The United States are 
to have a new 0,000 tons urtnored battleship, 
costing *2,376,000. When we got this and one 
more our navy will consist of two good ships. 
.... .The prolonged session of the New 
Hampshire Legislature has caused a deficiency 
Of *135,000.The United States Su¬ 
preme Court will convene on Tuesday next 
for the October term. There are 1,119 cases 
on the docket, an increase of 37 Compared 
with the same date last year. The Court ad¬ 
journed last. May for the summer holiday, so 
that while very important, business awaits their 
decision, the judges have had quite a loug 
term of leisure. 
The sale of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph 
to the Western Union has been completed The 
price named is *5,000,000 new Western Union 
stock and $60,000 per anuuin to the Baltimore 
and Ohio Railroad Company. The negotia¬ 
tions were between J. Pierjwint Morgan, for 
the syndicate of bankers that recently ad¬ 
vanced *10,000,000 to the Baltimore and Ohio 
company, and Jay Gouhl. Western Ut ion 
takes the *8,875,000 of Baltimore and Ohio 
Telegraph stock, besides the plant. 
Chief Judge Huger has extended the stay of 
execution of sentence against Jacob Sharp 
till argument can lie heard before the Court 
of Appeals. He was elected last fall by 75.000 
majority; he would be defeated by a larger 
majority now.. 
....The evictions just, made by an English 
laud syndicate in Northwestern Iowa equal iu 
barbarity anything of the kind that ever oc¬ 
curred iu Ireland.....Judge Bond has 
decided that Virginia must take the interest 
coupons on her State debt in payment of 
taxes. Railroad Commisssoner Kier- 
nan has tendered his resignation to Governor 
Hill. . 
FORE IGN N EWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 8, 1887. 
Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin, was 
tried Thursday" for publishing in his paper a 
list of the meetings of the National League in 
the "proclaimed” districts. He attended with 
the robes and all the iusiguia of his office, ac¬ 
companied by the coujicumeu and other offi¬ 
cials and cheered by an enthusiastic crowd. 
The Crown-paid judge dismissed the charge. 
The government has appealed and postponed 
the case of Editor O’Brien till the result of the 
appeal is known. It. looks as if the Crimes 
Act eauuot be enforced. Prosecution and 
conviction bring honor and glory instead of 
shame. Callanin, an informer now testifying 
against his forme.r comrades at Ennis, ac¬ 
knowledges that he has beeu in the government 
pay for five years; that he committed one 
murder and planned several others to gain the 
confidence of the moonlighters, that the police 
paid him for inciting several outrages so that 
they would have the glory of Suppressing 
them; that he has beeu a liar, a drunkard, 
an idler, and a convicted thief. A poor tool 
for the government work, 
-Recently the blackguardly Marquis of 
Ailsbury was warned off New Market Heath 
race-course for directing his jockey to pull 
one of his horses so as to lose Ujo race and win 
a lot of beta he had made against his own 
horse. This has given a great impetus to the 
movement to reform the House of Lords. It 
is claimed that out of its 550 members only 
113 arc fit. to be legislators. 
Germany yesterday paid France $12,500 
compensation for the family of the "heater" 
Brignon, who was shot to death by the soldier 
Kaufman near the frontier. Investigation 
continues as t»j the responsibility for the mis- 
fortuue.After his lengthy conference with 
the Austrian Chancellor Kulnoky, Bismarck 
has had a two days’ conference with Rignior 
Crispi, the Italian prince Minister, who wus 
iuvited to Berlin for the purpose. A tripar¬ 
tite alliance, offensive and defensive, has been 
formed between Germany, Austria and Italy, 
Italy has full power to take imlepeudpnt ac¬ 
tion on the Mediterranean, and should Italian 
interests conflict with those of France or Run 
sia, Italy will rely upon the support of Ger¬ 
many and Austria. In case of war. Italy's 
million soldiers aud enormous ironclads roust 
be a very important Rem in the fight. Itislikely 
that a central European Zollverin, or com¬ 
mercial league, including uniform customs 
duties on the frontier, a division of the rev¬ 
enue on the basis of the population of the 
various States, and internal free trade, will be 
formed between the three Countries. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 8, 1887. 
From 25 to 40 car loads of grapes and pears 
liave each week for some time been leaving 
California for the East. Chicago is the best, 
market, for California fruit, and Denver rauks 
next.The registration of bulls in the 
A. J. C. C. Herd book has been reduced to $1 
for members, and *3 for the public. 
....Hog cholera is ravaging the north part of 
Howard County, Ind, Over $3,00(1 worth of 
animals have already died, and the disease is 
not checked.....So much suspected 
butter has been forwarded to Washington for 
government inspection that the Chemist, has 
been obliged to establish an intermediary sta¬ 
tion for the West and Northwest at Chicago. 
New York and Cincinnati will aim have such 
a station.The Secretary of the Kan¬ 
sas State Board of Agriculture reports 0,520.- 
423 acres as the amt in coni in that State this 
season; 2,520,332acres or 40 percent, of the 
area plauted is not worth husking, leaving 
4,000,076 acres which it is estimated will yield 
82,557,258 bushels of corn. This is only 49 per 
cent, of the average annual crop for five 
years . . .Gov. Moonlight, of Wyom¬ 
ing officially says the Territory is adapted for 
fanning purposes as well as for stock raising, 
aud the advantages of combining the two are 
well recognized. The Governor estimates that 
the population now numbers 85,660. 
Conservative observers predict that flic boom 
in real estate in Southern California will 
burst before New" Year’s. Orange land.winch 
if very well located may be worth $300 an 
acre, has beeu ruu up to *700, wheat land to 
$150 to $200, aud raisin land to from $250 to 
$400 per acre. Town lots are correspondingly 
elevated, and it is said that 845,000,000 will be 
due ou these real estate purchases before Jan¬ 
uary 1.,.The resignation of Judge Man¬ 
ning as United Slates Minister to Mexico is in 
the hands of the State Department. It is 
stated that Mr. Connery, formerly mauagiug 
editor of the New York lterald, the present 
Consul-General, will succeed him. 
The onion crop is being harvested at Hilli- 
ards, Allegan County. Minn. It is estimated 
Unit there are about 8,000 bushels on the 
swamp, ond some are selling at $1 per bushel. 
About double the amount of ground is being 
prepared for next year’s crop. 
....The Illinois Live Stock Commissioners 
think they have stamped out, "pleuro” in that 
State, but to do so they have slaughtered over 
8,000 head of cattle in CMcugo. Gov. Oglesby 
says it’s time for other States to raise their 
cattle quarantine against Illinois....,.The 
French Academy of Medicine having declared 
oleomargarine unfit for use in the hospitals, 
the French M iuister has ruled it out. 
-A number of Jersey cattle have been 
seized by the custom officials at Rock Island, 
Que,, for having been brought into Canada 
and sold, in contravention of the proclama¬ 
tion prohibiting the importation of United 
States cattle, and for failure to report the 
same for duty, as required by the customs 
law. The penalty provided for such an 
offence is the slaughter of the cattle and a fine 
of $200 for each importation... 
... The President of the Lynchburg Tobacco 
Association in his annual report makes the 
total sales of leaf tobacco for the year 1887, 
38,500,(MM) pounds, a decrease from last, year of 
23 percent .... A dispatch from Bel¬ 
lows Falls, Vt., says, the potato crop, which 
is usually to bo depended on, proves a failure. 
Iu many places there is uot yield enough to 
pay for the digging, and wherever there Is a 
yield, they all become rotten in a week after 
diggiug. A wide territory reports the poorest 
success ever had, causing a large loss. Re¬ 
ports of the rotting of potatoes everywhere 
are unusually numerous this year, 
Rural Readers are all entitled to a back 
No. free, as sample of the Phrenological 
Journal and Science of Health, and a list of 
Books on Phrenology, Physiognomy, Health, 
Self Culture, etc. Address on Postal, Fowler 
& Wells Co., 775 Broadway, N. Y.— Adv. 
Crops & iWorkfis. 
Saturdav, Oct. 8, 1887. 
Mark Lane Express suys that the demand 
for seed in the provinces caused an advance in 
local markets of fid to Is, but only made the 
price m London firmer. Sales of English wheat 
during week, 75,502 quarters at 2<Hs 5.1, against 
60,431 quarters at. 80s 3d during the corres¬ 
ponding week last year. 
The New England Homestead’s special re¬ 
ports from the principal potato growing sec¬ 
tions of America confirm the previous estimate 
of a general shortage in this important crop. 
Only in the Eastern part of Nova. Scotia aud 
ou Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island is 
there a full average eroj >. Lower Nova Scotia 
aud a largo portion of New Brunswick com¬ 
plain of uneven yields and the prevalence of 
rot, while in some parts of Quebec and Ontario, 
the shortage is so serious that potatoes are 
beiug skipped in from Manitoba. Prices in 
the provinces vary from 25 cents on Prince 
Edward Island to ID and 60 cents in Nova 
Scotia and New Brunswick, and 40 to 75 cents 
in various parts of Quebec and Ontario. In a 
limited portion of Northern NowEuglaud there 
is n fair but uneven yield, which is selling at 50 
to 70 cents a bushel, the great, potato region of 
Aroostook Co., Me., having only about 60 per 
Cent, of a crop. Throughout Southern Maine 
and all Southern New England rot, blight and 
scab have greatly decimated the crop, the yield 
of which wus light at best. Hundreds of acres 
will i.e plowed, uot paying for digging. 
Prices in t his section range from 60 cents U> $i 
per bushel. New York State has uu uneven 
crop, with a serious shortage in the great po¬ 
tato counties of Washington, Monroe and On¬ 
tario. Iu some of the western counties pota¬ 
toes have already begun to move West to sup¬ 
ply the deficiency there. The crop is short 
throughout the Central, Western, North¬ 
western ami Southern States, and in no case 
is less than 50 cents per bushel.reported in the 
whole western country. Over a large area 
farmers will have to buy potatoes for home 
consumption, and the prices of seed stock will 
necessarily be very high. The crop is generally 
affected by rot throughout the country, and so 
far as indications point, the loss from this 
disease is likely to be serious, even after 
storing. The Irish crop is short, but in Eng¬ 
laud and .Scotland there is a fair average, 
which is selling now at low prices. Germany 
has a good yield. While imports may be ex¬ 
pected. we do not regard the supply likely to 
arrive from other sources than the Provinces 
as likely to cut. much of a figure, and see 
nothing to prevent farmers from receiving a 
big price for their crops. 
Potatoes are coining into Chicago from 
Wisconsin, Dakota and Minnesota in larger 
quantities, but the percentage of fine is small. 
The choice sells readily to the local aud ship- 
piug trade at 73 to 75 cents per bushel, but 
the common and poorly assorted went at 52 to 
5° cents. Some fancy stock is coming from 
Manitoba, where the crop is large and brings 
75 cents, aud in New York 80 cents. 
Tlie crops in Manitoba this year, according 
to the statistical reports, exceed all estimates. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway will be utterly 
inadequate to move the crops. In many sec¬ 
tions the yield of wheat has been 35 bushels 
to the acre. The average will be about 36 
bushels. At this figure, ou an average of 
432,184 acres, the yield will be 12,099,864 
bushels, leaving 16 . 000,000 bushels available 
for export. The barley crop averages 35 
bushels on an acreage of 56.116, or about 
2,600,006 bushels. The oat crop will reach 
5,000,000 bushels. Twelve thousand acres of 
flax have been harvested, giving a net yield 
of 180,000 bushels. The potato crop is 2,850,000 
bushels, giving 1,000,000 bushels for export. 
A dispatch from Utica, N. Y., the largest 
hop market in this State outside this city, 
says the hop market is still dull and prices 
are low, ranging from 15 to 18 cents, accord¬ 
ing to quality. The crop is larger than ex¬ 
pected, being estimated at 140,000 bales, in¬ 
stead of 80,000. aud not as clean or as perfect 
as was hoped. 
The week's packing in the West, down to 
Thursday has been 120.000 hogs, against 120,- 
000 the preceding week, and 140,000 for cor¬ 
responding time last year; total from March 
1 to date, 4,780.000 hogs, against 4,845,000 a 
year ago—decrease, 65,000 hogs. Many pack¬ 
ers do not care to operate actively just at this 
time, and various Western houses which have 
killed more or less liberally duri ug the summer 
season have closed, so that present operations 
are restricted outside a few of the prominent 
houses in the larger centers. Prices are now 
15 to 25 cents per 100 pounds lower t han a week 
ago, and about 25 cents higher than a year ago. 
I he C iucinnat i Price Current docs not expect 
that prices will decline much further, either 
this month or for the winter months. 
Tue Signal Service IVwither report says 
that during the week ending October 1 the 
weather has been cooler than usual in all agri¬ 
cultural districts east, oI the Rocky Moun- 
tiaus, the average daily temperature ranging 
from 3* to 6“below the normal iu the central 
valleys except from Virginia to Florida, 
where the temperature was but slightly below 
the normal. The rainfall for the week has 
been iu excess throughout the greater por¬ 
tions of the cottou aud tobacco regions and 
over the winter wheat region from Ohio west¬ 
ward to Missouri and Iowa. Iu the regions 
that have suffered most from drought, cover¬ 
ing t he great., r portion of I llinois. Southern In¬ 
diana, Eastern Iowa, and the greater portion 
of Missouri, the rainfall for the week has been 
largely in execs*. Less than the usual 
amount of rain fell along the South Atlantic 
coast, in Northern New KugUtud, Western 
New York, Nebraska, and the northern por¬ 
tions of Iowa. Frosts occurred iu the northern 
portion of the tobacco region of the Ohio Val¬ 
ley aud alotig the Atlantic coast as far south 
as Virginia, which probably resulted in some 
injury to the crops, These frosts were antici¬ 
pated, and warnings w ere issued by the office 
giving timely uotico of their occurrence. The 
rains which have occured during the week iu 
the winter wheat region will prove of especial 
value, its the sowing of wheat has been de¬ 
layed in that, section owing to the continuance 
of the drought. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Oct. 8, 1887. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Ootton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
u piumin. 
Ordinary . d i.vifi 
8trlet Ordinary.7 5-18 
GKlOd Ordinary. t 
Strict Good Ordinary.. K 11 lfi 
Low Middling.a 1-16 
Strict Low Middling... Oft 
Middling .. .9 7-16 
Good Middling. ‘tag 
Strict Good Middling... » 13-16 
Now Orleans. 
unis. 
and Gulf. 
. (I 18-16 
6 15 hi 
. 7 5-16 
7 7-16 
»Ki 
. 8 11-Hi 
8 18-16 
0 1-16 
9 8-16 
. OR 
m 
. 0 7-16 
9 9-16 
!»* 
9-R 
. 9 18-16 
9 15-16 
10 8-Ki 
10 5-16 
1(1 18-16 
11 15-1* 
HTMNKD. 
. j ..... " ii-ii, uownmouuit. ... h ;j-]ii 
Strict Good Urd.VJj I Middling . U 1-16 
Hay ami Straw.—T he hitter qualities are In 
good supply and are rather easy. Poor grades arc. 
however firm, owing to a light supply and u good de¬ 
mand. Iluv Choice Timothy per luo n>. MkuiSSc; No. 
i, iVcifne; No, 2 70o: Clover, mixed, Viat.’ic. clover 15c 
shipping, fine; straw.—Long rye T0yrfcx\ short do. i5 
tv-sic, oat, LVfiOQc, 
flops The export demand U fair, anti this gives to 
the market a steady lone, all hough brewers Mill con¬ 
tinue backward buyers., American Hops ', v. state 
new crop, choice, »to«21e; do liiedlitin to prime. lUvulUc: 
crop or 1KS6, common to good, HMiHic, do, iss.i, best, Sen 
w**; do common to medium. 4iyi7ei rad tie, Coast, crop 
1 vU /, best. Piveiie: do common to good, IdulJc: do 
1885, good to prime, italic. Foreign -German crop 18s7, 
AVe.iUe, do ISHii, best, llwldc; do, common to fair, IU 
«12c. 
Fgfri),—Quoted at sostssc. tor-It) ft j spring and win 
tor 60 lbs, HOC, 80 lbs, 80&(!H5 c. too lbs. U0c(«gl 05: 
sharps. St 02*4 («<I OJHj. Uye Feed, nominal at H5oa90e.; 
screenings, 65i47So 
VttaKTA.ai.it.-. Potatoes are In fair demand and 
Kteaily. A slow tradt* in swcot potatory ateunler prices, 
t’orn In unchanged Receipts or ontomt an* moderate 
and sell at llrm prices, Lima beans in ilxht receipt 
and dnn. Fotiuoes.—Long Island Hose* per bbl, 
t’j 40: State Burbank, per bbl. tl 90(^2 15; State 
Ilcbron, 00; Jersey v^ucoii, per bbl, $175(^2 00 
