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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 26,1887. 
The Supreme Court of Washington Terri¬ 
tory has granted an injunction asked for by 
the General Land Office to restrain the North¬ 
ern Pacific Railroad Company from illegally 
cutting timber on public laiids. The United 
States Attorney says that the result of the de¬ 
cision will be the recovery’ of about $100,000 in 
trespass suits now pending against this com¬ 
pany. - t . Jack Frost has knocked out 
Yellow Jack all through Florida. 
Emma Lazarus, the well-known Isrealitepoot, 
translater and magazine writer, died hero last 
Saturday. A thorough Gentlewoman. 
... Brigadier General Randolph B. Marcy, 
the father of Mm. George B. McClellan, died 
at Orange, N. J.,on Monday night, aged 76.. 
The rebellious Knights of Labor are organiz¬ 
ing m nearly every State against the au¬ 
thority of the present general officers. They 
are generally supporters of beer and anarchy 
and are bitter against Powderly for his oppo¬ 
sition to both. 
.After consideration Judge Emerson of 
Missouri, has decided to accent the marshal - 
ship for Eastern Missouri.so that Miss. Phoebe 
W. Couzins “’must go.” She’s been doing 
splendidly all agree. The faculty of 
Cornell University have decided to dispense 
altogether with honors. All mention of hon¬ 
ors will be omitted from the register and from 
commencement programmes. Students doing 
special work will receive mention of it in their 
diplomas.St Louis annually handles 
$250,000 worth of chewing gum. one-fourth of 
the amount consumed in the United States .. 
.A boy’s cigarette caused a $8501,000 
fire at Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday. 
Isidor Cohntield, well -known as the owner of 
the champion stallion Maxey Cobb, 2:13%, 
and the team with the fastest record—Maxey 
Cobb and Neta Medium has become involved 
in business troubles in this city...The 
three-vear-old record now stands at 2:18. 
Sable Wilkes made this remarkable record at 
San Francisco recently. The best time 
heretofore was 2:19%'. 
... The net gold in the Treasury is $207,766,- 
020. an increase of nearly $5,000,000 siuee the 
1st inst and an increase of nearly $20,000,000 
since. July 1 last. The circulation of stand¬ 
ard silver dollars has increased by over $1,000,- 
000 since the 1st inst. aud by nearly $8,000,000 
since July 1.ViscOUUt Kabuvnma. 
Admiral of the Japanese Navy, accompanied 
by a staff of five Japanese officers, is making 
a tour of this country Inspecting uuval sta¬ 
tions. .......... The official figures of the new 
census of Buffalo show the total population 
to be be 230.284, an increase of 27,466 over the 
census of 1885.George L. Rives of 
New York, Mugwump Democrat, has beau 
appointed Assistant Secretary of State by the 
President .. Frost and Ice wore visi¬ 
ble throughout the South Monday morning, 
something almost unprecedented at this season 
of the year. ... ... .The Secretary of War 
has issued au order reserving 640 acres of land 
for the military reservation of Camp Spokane, 
Washington Territory.Great im- 
S ortance is this year attached to the vote of 
Tew York £ ‘tbepivotal Slate,”a.s it rany affect 
the issue of the Presidential election next 
year The total vote of the State on Sec¬ 
retary of State, from official returns, is 
1,041,597. It was divined as follows: For 
Cook, Democrat, 468,300: for Grant. Republi¬ 
can, 453.242; for George, Labor. 70,359; for 
Huntington, Prohibition, 41,157. The Repub¬ 
licans uearly always cast a heavier vote in 
Presidential than in other years, aud they 
rely considerably on the votes of the young 
men who will cast their first vote next year. 
_The Republicans carried Virginia by a 
popular vote of 3,000. although owing to the 
gerrymandering of the election districts the 
Democrats have the Legislature .The 
official returns of the Pennsylvania election 
show the following totals for the State Treas¬ 
urer: Hart. Republican, 385,514; McGrau, 
Democrat, 340.269: Irish. Prohibitionist. 18,- 
471: Kennedy, Labor, 8,896; plurality, 45.245; 
total, 758,180 . .All over tbecouutry 
farmers are jubilant at the late decision of the 
United States Supreme Court granting them 
the right to bore holes in their own ground.... 
• • The-total vote at the recent election in 
Ohio was 744.668, against 704,338 last year 
and 733,966 in 1885. Thu totals on the Govern¬ 
or arc us follows: Fora leer 356.937, Powell 
333,206, Seitz (labor) 24.712. Sharp (pro.) 29,- 
700, scattering 14 total 744.568. Foraker over 
Powell 23,732 This is n slight increase for 
the Prohibitionists over 1885, when Leonard 
had 26,081 .Gov. Hill’s appointment 
of two women on the board of management of 
the State insane asylum at Buffalo. N, Y., is 
generally commended by the New York Press, 
... Susan B. Anthony is organizing woman 
suffrage clubs in Indiana at u grout rate, and 
the movement umoug the women of that 
State was'never before so prosperous. 
At a meeting of the Faculty of the ()hio Med¬ 
ical College it was demonstrated by experi¬ 
ments made daily for the past three weeks, 
that the typhoid bacillus existed in the water 
of the Ohio River...The 
Post Office Department is rapidly approach¬ 
ing a condition of self-support on account of 
the greut business activity and prosperity of 
the country. At, the close of the fiscal year 
June 30, 1886, the deficiency was $6,900,000; 
June 30, the present year, it was under $4,- 
000 000: and Juno SO next year, it is now es¬ 
timated, will seethedefleitnotover$1,000,000, 
while at the same time there is $2,000,000 
worth of free public business done .... 
... .Typhoid fever is utjusiially prevalent just 
now and at Albany, N, Y., the Mayor hus 
advised the citizens to boil the reservoir water 
before using it.The Northern Pacific 
Railway Compauy has refused to reduce 
fares, as ordered by the Railroad Commission 
of Minnesota.Professor S. P. Langley 
has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Professor Baird .The Metho¬ 
dist Missionary Committee in New York has 
appropriated $1,202,800 for the work of the 
next year . During the past, year 127 
lives were lost from the Cape Ann fishing 
fleet.. ... Miss Willard hus been re¬ 
elected president of the National Women’s 
Christian Temperance Union... Forty- 
eight persons from the coast of Labrador have 
reached Quebec in a destitute condition. No 
doubt about great destitution in that part of 
Newfoundland .A Macon (Ga.) court, 
Thursday, handed a young colored thief over 
to flic tender mercies of his old father, who 
severely flogged the boy in public for stealing 
a sack of corn .. .. .The next anniversary 
of the execution of John Brown is to be cele¬ 
brated by I he New York Anarchists with 
speeches and a parade . Gen. Sheridan, in 
his annual report, declares that, the magazine 
gun is to be tno gun of the future. 
The Dakota saloon-keepers’ league have raised 
a fund of 810.000, have retained counsel and 
will spend the money in contesting the consti¬ 
tutionality of the local option bill.. A 
considerable number of French Canadians 
have been taking a world of pride iu “decora¬ 
tions”—titles or insignia of honor—granted 
them by the French Government. The dis¬ 
closures iu the Caffare] “affair” show that 
nearly every one of them was purchased.. .. 
.The report that au aerolite weighing 
three tons fell at Amsterdam, N, Y., the other 
day w as a roorback.Though the Demo¬ 
crats have a majority of the members of the 
House of Representatives, the Republicans 
control the delegations of 20 States, while 
their opponents control those of but seven¬ 
teen, so that, in case the next Presidential elec¬ 
tion should be thrown into the House the 
Republicans would elect their man. 
.. .The new fast train which left here yoster 
day week at night, arrived in San Francisco 
Wednesday evening on time, reducing pre¬ 
vious schedule time between the two oceans 
by one dav ...... Gov. Hill has appointed 
Michael Richard, of Utica, N. Y., over 20 
years an engineer on the N. Y. Central aud 
Hudson River R. R . as railroad commission¬ 
er. instead of John D. Kernan, resigned. 
Used to get 8[25 a month wages, now gets 
$666 a month salary. He was nominated bv 
Governor Rill to the Senate last year, but his 
name was “hung up.”.Granlv, Mo,, has 
been swept, a wav bv fire; 100 buildings cre¬ 
mated; loss $200,000. Scores of families 
homeless in zero weather. 
—The railroads of Illinois have voluntarily 
begun to lower local rates within the State 
from 25 to 40 per cent. Three or four 
months ago they declared it would be ruinous 
to do so, but a trial reconciles them to it. 
Tho main building of Barnum & Bailey’s 
winter-quarters for the “Greatest Show on 
Earth.” at Bridgeport, Conn., was entirely de¬ 
stroyed by fire between 10:30 and 11 o’clock 
last Sunday night. Building burned, 250 by 
200 feet, two stories high with hay stored up¬ 
stairs. together with most of the parapherna¬ 
lia of a I tig show. All the ring animals, 
trained stallions, ponies, etc,, were burned, 
also all the tents, seats, harnesses, poles, etc., 
also all the birds, together with three ele¬ 
phants. three rhinoceroses, hyenas, tigers, 
lions and all the menagerie. Rome of the an¬ 
imals broke loose, aud wandering through the 
town and over the country, created a reign 
of terror for some time. The fire was so 
rapid no attempt was made to save the build¬ 
ing. The chariot building and car sheds were 
saved. Loss about $750,000; insurance about 
$100,000, Barnum & Bailey are already busy 
making collections from all parts of the world 
so as to start a still larger show next spring... 
... There’s a widespread war against the 
bucket shops; but the Chicago bucket shops 
intend to turn the tables on the Board of 
Trade of that city by securing proceedings 
against itas being on I v a big bucket shop.... 
_The worst forest, fires ever known in ex¬ 
tent and the amount of damages done have 
been raging for over a week iu Northern Ala¬ 
bama. Mississippi. Tennessee, and Arkansas. 
A region larger than some European nations 
has been devastated. The losses to planters, 
stockmen, and others must be immense. 
....It, is said that Judge F. Phillips, of Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo., has been appointed United 
States Commissioner of the General Laud 
Office, to succeed Sparks.. . 
The trial of Anarchist Most for inflamma¬ 
tory language, is still going on here. Most 
isn’t much; but much more Most would make 
things pretty lively. 
The Moseley & Stoddard M’f’g Co., Poult- 
ney, Vt., made a very attractive display of 
their goods at the Piedmont Exposition, At¬ 
lanta, Ga., supplying a comjdc-te outfit for the 
working dairy and illustrating the process of 
butter-making from the fresh milk to the neat 
blocks of butter printed and wrapped for 
market. The Atlanta Constitution says of it: 
“We are disposed to consider this the most im¬ 
portant exhibit of the Piedmont,” and for the 
practical workings of the Rtoddard Creamery 
with surface skimmiug attachment it was 
awarded a diploma and gold medal by the ai- 
rectors of the Exposition.— Adv . 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 26, 1887. 
TnE Indiana Horticultural Society meets at 
Indianapolis, December 6-8. C. M. Hobbs, 
Bridgeport, Ind., Secretary .The 
Connecticut “Farmers’ Convention” meets at 
Hartford, Conn., December 14-10. T. S. Gold, 
West Cornwall, secretary . 
The Chautauqua Horticultural Society will 
meet at Westfield, N. Y., Dec. 3; subject for 
discussion: the fall aud winter management 
of the vineyard. How to protect tender 
varieties. What are the best fertilizers, the 
quantity, time and method of their applica¬ 
tion? .. . The New York Dairymen’s 
Association will hold its 11th annual conven¬ 
tion at Middletown N Y., on Tuesday, Wed¬ 
nesday and Thursday Dec. 13, Hand 15. Ad¬ 
dresses are promised us follows: Prof. I. P, 
Roberts, of Cornell University, ‘‘Milk:’’ Maj. 
Henry E. Alvord, of Amherst, Mass,, “Differ¬ 
ences in Dairy Products;” Prof. L. B. Arnold, 
of Rochester. “Butter;” Mr. W. II. Gilbert, 
of Richland, “Method of Butter Making;” Mr. 
Janies H. Gwen, of Chemung. “Method of 
Butter Making;” Mr. Frank Blanding, of 
Hubbnrdsvillc, “Method of Factory Cheese 
Making;” Mr, F. W. Haynes, of' Oxford. 
“Method of Factory Cheese Making;” Maj. 
C P. Root, of Gilbertsville, “Method of Farm 
Cheese Makfug:” Mr. B II. Gilbert, of Utica 
Herald, “Ensilage and Feeding;” Mr Alvm 
Devereaux, of Deposit, “Stock Feeding:” Col. 
F. D Curtis, of Charlton. “Possibilities in 
Dairying:” Mr. Horace McBride, of Middle- 
town, “Milk Production;” Mr. S. R. Manes, 
of Howell’s Station, “Milk Production;” Dr. 
E Lewis Rturtevnut, Hon. J. K. Brown ami 
Mr. J. S. Woodward have been invited to 
speak; besides the discussion of the topics 
alluded to, other questions may be introduced 
under the head of miscellaneous business..,. 
....... The sixth annual meeting of the Kan¬ 
sas State Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, 
will be held in Topeka, Kansas, December 15 
and 16, 1887. E. M. Shelton, Sec., Manhattan 
Kans. ........Just before harvest time 
every year there is au exodus of Irish agri¬ 
cultural laborers to seek employment in Eng¬ 
land aud Scotland. From late official aud 
railroad returns it appears that 30.400 such 
agricultural laborers are known to have 
sought, distant employment this year between 
January 1 and August 31—48 more than are 
known to have dona so last year. 
Dr. Salmon reports that the Department 
isn’taware of any “plearo” in Vermont. The 
case reported seems not a genuine one. 
. ..Bendigo, the great English race horse for 
which au offer of $100 000 was refused two 
years atro bv his owner, a wealthy brewer, 
now has nearly that amount to his credit iu 
stakes won. and is still sound and useful. 
There is a rapidly growing wish to en¬ 
large the scope of the American Fat. Show, to 
include breeding animals of all kinds aud the 
general features of a national live stock exhi¬ 
bition. ..Last year we took only 16.01 per 
cent., or 1,173 head of the horses exported from 
the United Kingdom, while Holland took 20 
.48 per cent., Canada 21 7 per cent., and Bel¬ 
gium 24 02 per cent. For tliese we paid $307.- 
08 per head, which was a higher average than 
paid by auy of the countries named except 
Canada, whose average was $337.72. Of the 
cattle exported we bought 562 bead, which 
was 25 per cent, of the total, and for which we 
paid $164.50 per head. Canada imported 26.88 
per cent., of the total, paying therefor $175.32 
per head. The Argentine Republic tops the 
list with 31.1 per cent., and an average price 
of $259.52. Our aggregate importations last 
year were lighter, aud the prices paid proba¬ 
bly lower, than for some years. 
— At t he late farmers’Congress at Chicago 
180 persons voted for and 150 against a higher 
tariff on wool.Wool Is admitted free 
to all countries iu Europe excepting Russia, 
Switzerland, Spain. Rouniania, and Renin... 
-One hundred and sixty head of Ver¬ 
mont Merino sheep were forwarded to New 
York last week from St. Albans, Vt., for 
shipment to Australia—. Loren P. Smith, 
a graduate of Cornell University, has become 
Professor of Agriculture at. the Town Agri¬ 
cultural College.... At a meeting of Lim¬ 
erick landlords November 20 a resolution was 
adopted favoring dual ownership of land. It 
is proposed that the State advance money at 
a low rate of interest to enable landlords to 
grant insolvent, tenants three years’ rent as 
compensation on eviction, the principal and 
interest to be repayable to the Government, in 
35 years. The resolution will be submitted to 
a large meeting ol landlords in Dubliu on 
Wednesday.Speaking nt the Conven¬ 
tion of the National Grange at Lansing, 
Mich., Tuesday, Commissioner Column said 
the work of his Department had nearly’ 
stamped out pleuro pneumonia and the oleo¬ 
margarine fraud, Each State ought to have 
an experimental station and distribute seeds. 
He was opposed to the Commissioner having 
a place in the Cabinet, because the Department 
should be free from politics. The new method 
of manufacturing sugar cane at the experi¬ 
ment station ut Fort Scott, Kan., has increased 
the amount of sugar from u tou of rune from 
70 to 120 lbs. Au acre produces 1,200 IDs of 
sugar at six cents, besides the yield of cane 
seed which is equal iu value to the sugar. 
America will soon produce all her sugar. 
These officers were chosen; Worthy Master, 
Putnam Darden, of Mississippi; Overseer, 
Joseph Draper, of Massachusetts; Lecturer, 
Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey; Stew¬ 
ard, X. X. Charters, of Virginia: Assistant 
Steward, J. H. Hale, of Connecticut; Chap¬ 
lain, A. J. Ross, of Texas. 
... .Two thousand crofters, or tenaut farmers, 
on the isle of Lewis, Scotland, .supplied with 
rifles, teuts, etc,, have begun a campaign to 
exterminate the deer in the forests. They 
allege that 6 ? 0u0 crofters are starving who 
ought to be living ou the land now given up 
to deer, and they declare that in adopting 
their present course they are actuated by 
sheer necessity. A war ship has been sent to 
bring the starvliugs to subjection ....... 
The now Russian Customs law promulgated 
Tuesduy, among other things, imposes a tax 
upon imports of plants, flowers, onions aud 
medicinal herbs, aud raises the duty ou raw 
cotton, cotton wool, cotton twist, farming 
machines and implements, flax, hemp and 
jute goods, fresh oranges, lemons and pome¬ 
granates. ... At the lute conventions 
at Chicago the following officers were elected; 
By the Percberou Horn* Breeders’Association 
for a term of two years: President, the Hon. 
T. W. Palmer, Detroit, Mich.; Vice Presi¬ 
dent, I. L. Kllwood, DeKalb, 111.; Treasurer, 
J. F. Studebaker, South Bend, hid.; Secre¬ 
tary. B. D. Thompson; Directors, M. W. 
Dunham, Captain T. Slattorly, R U. Kellogg, 
George Stubblefield, L. Johnson.Edward Ben 
nett, Dr. Ezra Stetson, J. \V. Aiken and H. 
C. Furnum. By the Short Hum Breeders’ | 
Association for threp years: E. K. Thomas, 
North Middletown, Kv.: C. C. Nourse, Des 
Moines, loa.: Arthur II Jones, Delaware, O.; 
two years: N. P. Clarke, St. Cloud. Minn. 
The directors subsequently re-elected the 
present officers: Hon Emory Cobb. Presi¬ 
dent; lion. C. E. L’Oimrd. Vice President; J. 
H. Piekrell. Secretary; T. W. Harvey. Treas¬ 
urer. Receipts for the year $40,431.26; bal- 
lauce now on hand, $17,313 94 Assets of 
the Association$.52,043 92. Hereford Breed¬ 
ers’ Association: President, Thomas Clark; 
Vice President. J. A. Fimkhouser; Secretary, 
Clias. Gudgell: Directors, Moses Fowler, 
James M. Turner, VV. D. Ewart, E. S. 
Shockoy and F W. Stone.. 
... The Aberdeen-Angus Association elected 
George Gcurv President. Wm. Watson Vice- 
President, and the election of a Secretary was 
postponed until a fuller meeting of tin* Board. 
Three directors for three years were; .Tno. S. 
Goodwill. W, R. Estill and Wm. W a toon 
.The Red Polled Cattle Association 
elected for the next year: President,. General 
L F. Ross. Iown City, Iowa; Vice-President, 
William Steel. Morton, Wts.; Secretary and 
Treasurer, J. C Murray, Maquoketa . Iowa; 
Executive Committee, J. M. Smith. Davton, 
Ohio; J. M. Knapp. Bellevue, Mich.; VV. I). 
Hill, Maple Hill, Kan .....The West¬ 
ern railroads classification committee have 
agreed to let. nursery trees when boxed or 
loaded on box ears go as third-class freight in¬ 
stead of first-class as heretofore . 
. The exports of live stock and dressed 
beef from Boston for the English markets 
last, week were 1.080 cattle and >8.468 quarters 
of beef. American dressed beef is slow 
abroad, at 8% cents per pnuud. 
Judge Porter has decided that a stockman 
occupying the public domain as a cattle 
range acquires no right to the same that will 
enable him to prevent other stockmen turn¬ 
ing loose cattle on the range, even though the 
first occupant has developed the water on the 
range and has it full v stocked.... .Some 
of our English exchanges just at hand report 
some late sales of farms, well situated and 
with good improvements, at prices less than 
one-third those obtained for the same proper¬ 
ties within eighr, years. Many good proper¬ 
ties are practically unsalable.. 
Hog packing returns for the week down to 
last Thursday indicate that, the ton leading 
points in the West have handled 421.000 hogs, 
against 344,000 the preceding week, and 424,- 
000 for corresponding time last year: total 
from November I for these poiuts 1,102,000 
hogs against 925.000 a year ago. Returns 
from eight other points show a total of 95,000 
to date, against, 80,000 last year. Price of 
hogs had sharply advanced, showing a gain of 
2.5 and 30 cents at Chicago. 30 cento at St’ 
Louis. 3.5 and 40 cents at. Kansas City, .50 cents 
at Omaha. 20 and 25 couts at Cincinnati, com¬ 
pared with a week before, averaging ou 
Thursday about $4.80 per 100 pounds for lead- 
iug points. At some of the largo points the 
average weights and quality are not up to a 
year ago. with decided reduction in some in¬ 
stances, but the Iowa points geuerallv report 
favorably in these particulars compared with 
a year ago, various localities showing a better 
average. . 
Ophir farm, at Westchester, trace owned by 
Ben Hollady and later by John Roach, has 
been bought bv Whitelaw Reid, who Is said to 
have ]>ald $700,000 for it. . During the 
year just, closed the corn factories in Maine 
have packet! over 11,000,000 caus.Dr. 
Puguin, veterinary inspector of Missouri, says 
two men are now suffering apparently from 
malignant, pustule, contracted while skinning 
an animal that had died front malignant an¬ 
thrax. A committee of the trustees 
of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts have voted to build and 
equip a building for instruction in mechanic 
arts at Hanover.The Fat Stock Show iu 
Chicago this year was the largest ever held, 
and the cash receipts were also very gratify¬ 
ing. Short-horns took the sweepstaltes for the 
best single animal and five or six first prizes 
in special classes. An Aherdeen-Ancus took 
the award for the best herd shown. The horse 
department, included one of the best displays 
of Clydesdales and Percherons ever seen to¬ 
gether. Next year the word “fat” will be 
omitted from the title, and the exhibition will 
iuclude breeding as well as fat cattle. 
After Thirty Years, 
That the spine and brain are intimately 
connected, all who have ever had spinal dis¬ 
ease, or who have witnessed the sufferings of 
any one afflicted with it, can attest. The suf¬ 
fering generally is of the keenest character, 
and usually greatly prolonged. It seems a 
mystery how the human frame can survive 
the agonies frequently endured, and one is led 
to wonder if the body is not toughened m the 
(lame of pain so that it is made capable to en¬ 
dure more pain. The Warren Republican, of 
Williamsport, Warreu couuty, Indiana, print¬ 
ed the following in August last: 
“Rev. Colbrath Hall, of Pike, was in town 
yesterday, looking hale and hearty, lie re¬ 
ports the wonderful recovery of his wife with¬ 
in the last eighteen months, after being a con¬ 
firmed invalid for over thirty years from 
spinal trouble. She, about eighteen mouths 
ago, began the use of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, aud attributes her recovery to the 
use Of that medicine. She now is able to walk, 
get in and out of the buggy, take rides, etc. 
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DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In lSv’i, ami Is to-day, as it was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market: a pure plumbago, 
giving oft no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
led > 111(1 cuke weighs nearly half a pound, but the 
oimlitv and price remain the same. Ask your grocer 
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