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HOME NEWS. 
A bill before ti e South Carolina Legisla¬ 
ture appropriates $138,000 for disabled Con¬ 
federate veterans.The Baltimore gas 
companies couldn’t agree on consolidation, 
but they have all raised the price of gas from 
50 cents to $1.50 per 1,000 feet.A gas 
“trust” in Chicago monopolizes the business, 
and charges prices which make gas-users pro¬ 
fane.A g8s “trust” just formed in St. 
Louis is causing a world of grumbling among 
the citizens.Michigan’s State Treasurer 
announces a surplus of $874,788. Considera¬ 
ble grumbling that so large a sum was taken 
unnecessarily out.of the tax-payers’ pockets.... 
... The total number of immigrants arriving 
in Canada from January 1 to November 30 
Alas 138.103. compared with 309.402 for the 
same period last year. The total number of 
immigrant passeugers to the United States 
from Canada for the 11 months of 1887 reached 
65.621, as compared with 45,587 for the 
same period last year. A telegram from 
Eldorado, Kan., says that there is beiug 
secretly organized an immense scheme to 
make a raid on Oklahoma in early spring. 
This movement extends over two or three 
States, the arrangement being that the wav to 
open the Indian Territory is to open it. They 
say that 100.000 men will goiutotbe Territory 
at a given date, and that, the Government has 
not enough troops to keep them out . 
The English clergyman. C. A. Berry, who 
was invited to fill Beecher’s pulpit in Brook¬ 
lyn, thankfully declines. The attempt 
to force upon the public schools of St. Louis 
an obligation to give special instruction in the 
German language at an annual expense of 
800 . 000 , was recently voted down by a major¬ 
ity of 4.000 in a School Board election. The 
platform of the majority was: “No language 
but the English should be taught at public ex¬ 
pense in the schools.A syndicate which 
has bought large tracts of iron land in the 
Vermillion range of Minnesota is made up 
partly of Englishmen and is said to have a 
capital of $5 000,000 with plenty more to 
follow if necessary. Dr. Asa Gray, the 
eminent botanist has had a stroke of apoplexy 
at his home at Cambridge, Mass. Rather 
serious at the age of 77.California is 
being flooded with immigrants and excursion¬ 
ists. The Pennsylvania Railroad is selling 
round-trip tickets good for six mouths at $117 
each The Union Pacific Railroad will 
have to surrender 200.000 acres of laud near 
Denver. Col., as the lands are found to he out¬ 
side the railroad grant.A series of 
wholesale robberies has been discovered in 
the feeding department of the stock-yards at 
Pittsburgh, Pa.—18 employ<*3 already ar¬ 
rested. Robberies supposed so have been going 
on for rears . Harper, the wrecker of t.heFi- 
delifcy Bank, Cincinnati, and chief manipula¬ 
tor of the late corner fiasco in wheat at Chicago 
has iieeu convicted on 35 counts, and sentenced 
to 10 years' imprisonment. The penalty is 10 
years on each count; but it was thought advisa¬ 
ble—to avoid all possible legal complications 
—not to make his sentence cumulative; but 
simply to impose the penalty for a single of¬ 
fense. Lots of other high-toned rascals who 
have betrayed trusts and swindled the public 
in various other ways under the guise of 
respectability or religion, are being arrested 
here and there, and many of them are tried, 
and a fe w punished. ... 
... .The Iowa temperance alliance hasdeeided 
in secret conclave at Des Moines to try and 
push some very radical prohibitory measures 
through the Legislature this winter. 
The Fishery Commission has adjourned for a 
time. Some say there’s no chance of an 
agreement; others that, there is a fair prospect 
ot one_ Messenger Chief, a noted trot¬ 
ting stallion, died from rupture Thursday 
night at Versailles, Ky. He was a bay horse, 
foaled in 1870, by Abdallah Pilot, darn by 
Mambrino Messenger, and was the sire of 
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Maud Messenger (2:I6,V) and others. He was 
owned by George A. Singerly, editor of the 
Philadelphia Record, who paid $16,000 for 
him and valued him at $20,000. Over 
1,300 delegates representing Republican clubs 
all over the country are ill convention here 
now-. The general sentiment seeuis to be to 
make the next Presidential fight, if possible, 
ou the line of “protection,” against “free 
trade.” The President’s late message has 
set all parties discussing this subject, aud the 
papers are already full of it. Farmers in all 
sections are giving voice to their sentiments 
on thequestion.... Two thousand delegates 
to the Christian conference in Washington 
called on the President.Besides organ¬ 
izing and receiving the President’s message. 
Congress has transacted no business, except 
introducing an unusually large number of 
bills in the Senate. The House committees 
not having been appointed yet, no business 
can be done, as there are no committees to 
which measures can he referred.It is 
said there are 60,000 persons in New York city 
out of employment. The Sun, Herald and 
World have been making sad disclosures of 
the mere starvation pittances paid to thou¬ 
sands for many hours’ labor chiefly by Jewish 
clothing merchants. Powdprly is a very 
sick man owing to a bad attack of hemorrhage 
of the lungs, Tuesday. Dissensions are in¬ 
creasing arn-mg the K. of L. Over 120 dele¬ 
gates of the Federation of Labor, represent ing 
650.000 trade-uuionists, independent, of tlie K. 
of L.. have been in session in Philadelphia .. 
.. ..The bait act. which was lateiv passed by 
the Legislature of the colony of Newfound¬ 
land has received the royal assent. It forbids 
the catching or sale of bait to foreign fisher¬ 
men, and goes into operation on January 1... 
_There’s an immense boom in copper here 
and in Europe, the London market leading 
the way upward..The Dominion Parlia¬ 
ment is to be summoned on January 31. 
... A parcel post convention is to be nego¬ 
tiated by our Post-office with Canada, like 
that now existing between this country and 
Jamaica. Mexico and Bermuda..Mer¬ 
chants of Denver. Col, yesterday appeared 
before the Interstate Commerce Commission, 
charging the Southern, Central and Union 
Pacific Railroad Companies with violation of 
the short and Jong haul clause of the Inter¬ 
state law. The complaints allege that in the 
transportation of dried fruits from San Fran¬ 
cisco to Denver the railroad companies charge 
$2.30, while from Sou Francisco to Omaha, a 
distance much greater, the charge is only 
$1.05, It is further alleged that the rate from 
Omaha to Denver is only $1.40... 
... .Senator Reagan proposes to amend the In¬ 
terstate Commerce law by bringiug all cars 
owned by private persons aud corporations, 
such as the Pullman Co., within the scope of 
the act. and also by making the long and short 
haul clause more binding where rail and 
water routes ore competing. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 17, 1887. 
Coercion is till being vigorously enforced 
in Ireland. Over 250 of the most prominent 
agitators are iu prison, and more are being 
tried; while many, like Parnell, keep quite 
out of harm s way.John L. Sullivan 
has been having a week of triumph ou the 
“old sod.” Thousands of enthuasiasts of all 
classes and both sexes attend his pugilistic ex¬ 
hibitions.Very bitter speeches on the 
Home Rule question by all parties are the or¬ 
der of the day in England. There is a report 
that Great. Britain has joined the “Triple Alli¬ 
ance” of Germany, Austria, and Ttal v, in so 
far that in the event of war she trill send a 
fleet against Russia in the Baltic and guard 
the Italian coast against any hostile attack. 
This could come only from France, the second 
naval power in the world... 
... After some trouble aud delay the election 
of M> Sadi-Carnot to the Presidency of the 
French Republic has been followed by 'he 
formation of a Ministry under the Premier¬ 
ship of M. Tirard, formerly Minister of Com¬ 
merce and Minister of Finance. Tho pro¬ 
gramme outlined in the new President's mes¬ 
sage aud in the declaration of tho Ministers, 
is one of harmony and peace, and of attention 
to the economic interests of the country. The 
encouragement of industry and the strength¬ 
ening of credit are prominent among the ob¬ 
jects which the Government proposes for it¬ 
self. Among these arc measures of financial 
reform, measures In the interest of labor, and 
bills providing for bankruptcy reform, regu¬ 
lating savings banks, benefit societies, and 
poor relief institutions, aud providing for the 
extension of agricultural education, and the 
creation of chambers of agriculture. 
.. President Gravy’s forced abdication was 
brought about almost exclusively by bis sup¬ 
port of bis son in-law, Wilson, charged with 
trading in decorations and other offences; 
and now the courts have dismissed the charges 
against Wilson on the ground that there is no 
proof of criminality. Last, Saturday a crank, 
named Aubertin fired three shots at ex-Prem¬ 
ier Ferry, in the lobby of the Chamber of 
Deputies, wounding him slightly. The inci¬ 
dent has greatly increased Ferry’s popularity, 
which as leader of the Conservative Republi¬ 
cans was waning. Kusda is still mass¬ 
ing her forces on the Austrian and German 
frontier to the intense irritation of both coun¬ 
tries. There is talk of an ultimatum hi lie 
sent to the Czar Asking an explanation of the 
movement, and if the answer is unsatisfactory 
the Austrians and Germans are at once to in¬ 
vade Russian territory. War quite likely iu 
the Spring; but, hardly probable before. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 17,1887. 
Two years ago detectives employed by the 
New York Dairy Commissioner got “oleo” 
while they paid for butter in many stores in this 
city. Tuesday four of the offenders were fined 
$500 each, and will probably tie prosecuted 
criminally also. Others to follow suit........ 
Professor Wiley, writing from the Govern¬ 
ment, Experiment Station in Louisiana, says 
that experiments in making cane sugar by the 
diffusion process were only partially success¬ 
ful at first; but, the results were better later 
on, when changes were made in the machinery. 
The strike from 110 tons of cane clarified by 
lime and sulphur according to the ordiuary 
sugar house methods, gave 143 pounds of first, 
sugar to the ton. The mean polarization of 
the normal juice was 11.79 per cent, sucrose. 
This is the best result vet. aud far hoyoDd bis 
expectations, as be did not, look for over 130 
pounds of first sugar to the ton. They are now 
converting the carbonatatiou tanks into clari¬ 
fiers, us they believe the ordinary method of 
clarification is superior to the carbonatatiou 
process, and do not think the latter will pay in 
Louisiana. The tanks are already fitted with 
steam coils, and by removing the covers will 
make very good open clarifiers. Iu 15 
years the agricultural distress iu the United 
Kingdom has driven one-seventh of England’s, 
one-sixth of Wales’s and one-fourth of Ireland’s 
grain land out of culture- Last Tuesday 
the dressed beef rate war on the trunk line 
railroads was settled at a full meeting of the 
representatives of the roads and of the Cen¬ 
tral Traffic Association. From next Friday 
the rates ou dressed beef from Chicago to this 
point will be 05 cents and on live stock 35 cents 
per 100 pounds. Arrangements were also 
made for the amicable settlement of future 
disputes. Milk producers are loud iu 
their declarations that, the prices of milk 
should go up, us feed has advanced from 10 to 
25 per cent. Over 220,000 dozen eggs are 
imported from China each year. There 
are 480 butter creameries and 66 cheese fac¬ 
tories in Iowa.... The third annual meet¬ 
ing of the Connecticut State Grange, in con¬ 
nection with the 21st annual meeting of the 
State Board of Agriculture, was held iu Hart¬ 
ford this week. It was a notable gathering 
of farmers from all parts of tho State. The 
following lectures were given: Natural His¬ 
tory of Tuberculosis—Dr. N. Cressy; Differ¬ 
ence in Dairy Products—Prof. H. E. Alvord; 
Experiments with Fertilizers—W. I. Bartholo¬ 
mew; Twelve Years of Experiment Stations 
in the United States—Prof. W. O. Atwarer; 
Connecticut Roa^-Making—J B. Olcott; The 
Railroad and the Farmer—Prof. Arthur T. 
Hadlev; The Carrying of Farm Products— 
Prof. H. W. Brewer; Farm Life in Connecti¬ 
cut-Past, Presentand Future—R. S Hiuman; 
The Possibilities of Connecticut Agriculture, 
and Our Duty—J. M. Hubbard; Thoughts 
Agricultural-wise and Otherwise Miss Fran¬ 
ces E. Burr.The Delegate State Board 
of Agriculture of Indiana will meet at Indian¬ 
apolis, on January 3, 1888 Other State meet¬ 
ings are arranged as follows; Poultry Breed¬ 
ers, January 18, 1888; Bee Keepers, January 
19, 18SS: Jersey Breeders, January 23, 1888; 
Wool Growers, January 24, 1888; Horse 
Breeden;, January24, l c 88; Short-Horn Breed¬ 
ers, January 25, 1888; Swine Breeders, Janu¬ 
ary 26, 1°8^.. . . . 
Tho total values of the exports of domes¬ 
tic breadstuff's from the United States during 
the 1! months ended November 30, 1887, ns 
compared with the corresponding period of 
the preceding year were; 1887, $148,019,641; 
1886. $135,077,674 .Hog cholera is re¬ 
ported to the Illinois Live Stock Board as 
prevalent iu 17 counties. Otherwise the live 
stock of the State is reported healthy. There 
is only one case of foot-rot in sheep, and that 
is an imported animal. Cattle are not as fat 
as usual, owing to the scarcity of food and 
water.The German Reichstag, Monday, 
resumed debate on the cereals bill and fixed 
the following duties: Oats, 3 marks (a mark is 
23.8 cents); buckwheat aud pulse, 2; barley, 
2' 4 : malt, 4; maize, 2; starch flour, 12' ver¬ 
micelli and macaroni, 13J.<, and mill products 
1()J.£ marks. The duty on yeast was increased 
to 65 marks. The proposed duties on rape 
Hnd rape seed were rejected b} r a large ma¬ 
jority... ..Spain, Portugal and Italy have 
decided not to raise the duties ou cereal im¬ 
ports, at present at, any rate. Tho 
managers of the Southwestern Grain aud 
Seed Company, of Springfield, Mo., are be¬ 
ing prosecuted for obtaining money under 
false pretenses, by means of the Bohemian 
oats swindle. It is estimated that they have 
sold $160,000 worth of seed in Green aud the 
adjoining counties iu Missouri. One bank iu 
Springfield holds $17,(MX) of the farmers’ notes. 
.New England is depply interested in 
the rumors about the solvency of some of the 
Western farm mortgage companies. The 
loan companies of Boston alone hold 81,000 
Western farm mortgages on which $70,000,- 
000 are outstanding. And the insurance com¬ 
panies of Hartford hold mortgages on West¬ 
ern farms to the amount of $70,000,000 . . 
... The Vermont State Orange, iu session at 
Montpelier, Thursday, adopted a resolution to 
request the Vermont members of Congress to 
oppose the removal of duties on wool aud 
"raw materials.” and to secure legislation to 
“protect" Vermont agriculture, especially as 
regards bark, lumber, wool aud poultry. Iu 
the census year Vermont hnd 439,870 sheep, 
exclusive of spring lambs; 18 other States 
have more..........Thursday the Minnesota 
State Dairymen’s convention adopted a me¬ 
morial to Congress asking that the manufac¬ 
ture of fraudulent butter be prohibited, or 
that the manufacturers bo compelled to color 
their product pink.On Tuesday, the 
State Grange of Virginia, in annual ses¬ 
sion at Norfolk, protested empbuticully aud 
unanimously against the action of the legis¬ 
lature iu displacing a farmer by a politician 
as Commissioner of Agriculture, ana demand¬ 
ed that this outrage upon the farmers of Vir¬ 
ginia bo righted_ The Virginia Legisla¬ 
ture has passed a joint resolution in favor of 
the abolition of internal revenue taxes on to¬ 
bacco. Connecticut will follow suit. 
Tho Pennsylvania State Grange—200 dele¬ 
gates in attendance—met at Harrisburg, 
Tuesday, and tho generul sentiment was 
stroDgly in favor of a protective tariff, espe¬ 
cially on agricultural products that complete 
with our own. The friends aud ac¬ 
quaintances of James H. Munson, will be 
pleased, to learn of his accession to an inter¬ 
est in the well known firm of Joseph Breck & 
Sons, seedsmen, of Boston, Mass., with whom 
he has been associated during the past three 
years as manager of their seed department... 
Crops k ifttiivhds. 
Saturday, Dec. 17,1887. 
All the West and Northwest have been 
thoroughly soaked by abundant rains, and the 
water famine is a thing of the past. The raius 
have greatly Improved thecouditianof winter 
w heat—probably 50 per cent. The area, how¬ 
ever, in nearly all the West is considerably 
reduced, according to t.he best authorities, 
Kansas is drawing not only corn, but a good 
deal of wheat also from Missouri. Deliveries 
of winter wheat from farmers’ hands have 
been only nominal for the last 14 days, and 
many interior mills have had to shut down, 
owing to short supplies. The yield of corn 
does not improve as time goes on, and the 
prospects are good for considerably higher 
prices. 
Thr December report of the Department of 
Agriculture, issued last Sunday, relates mainly 
to farm prices of agricultural products. The 
average value of corn is 43.8 cents per bushel, 
against 36 6 last year, and 32.8 in 1885 Iu 
to i it was 63.8. when the estimated product 
was 1,198,916,(MX) bushels. Tho difference is 
largely due to a general depression of values. 
The prices, respectively, in 1881 and 1887 are 
61 and 48 ill Ohio; 60 and 45 in Indiana; 58 and 
41 in Illinois; 44 and 84 in Iowa; 65 and 37 in 
Missouri; 68 and 37 in Kansas and 39 and 30 
in Nebraska. Prices in the Gulf States aver¬ 
age lower than last, year, resulting from a 
nearly full home supply. In the Atlantic 
States prices of home grown corn are only 
slightly advanced. The average value of 
wheat is 69 cents, only three mills higher than 
the average last year. It is 83 in New York; 
81 in Pennsylvania: 74 in Michigan; 73 in 
Ohio; 72 iu Indiana; 70 in Illinois; 04 tn Wis¬ 
consin; 62 iu Missouri; 61 iu Iowa and Kan¬ 
sas; 59 in Minnesota; 53 in Nebraska and 52 in 
Dakota. The average for outs is 30.7 cents 
againi t 29,8 last year. Barley averages 58.2 
instead of 53 last year. Buckwheat 76.1, or 
1,7 cent higher than last year. The cereal 
averages for the entire country differ very 
slightly from those of hist year except as to 
corn. The value of potatoes is greatly en¬ 
hanced, being 69.5 against 45 last year. It is 
higher than for seven years, except in 1881. 
The value of hay is much increased. It aver¬ 
ages $9314 per ton against $7.36 Jasb year. 
The advance lias been iu the drought area of 
the West. Cotton values are about a half u 
cent higher than iu December last. 
New York is tho great hean-p>roducing 
State, having produced 1,303,444 bushels in 
the census year against 378 971 in California; 
181,756 in Maine aud 167,658 iu Michigan, the 
other States producing very much smaller 
quantities, the aggregate of ail being only 
8.075,050 bushels. The demand everywhere, 
especially in the South and Southwest isst.eadi- 
ly increasing. The supply in New York this 
year is very small, and prices hero uud else¬ 
where have gone up more than 50 cents a 
bushel, and would have gone higher were it 
not for tho importation of over 50,000 bushels 
Of foreign beaus within two mouths in spate 
of an import duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem. 
This is the highest importation since 1881, 
when over 1 , 000,000 were imported during the 
year owing to tho very short crop. In view 
of the fact that beaus are the most, nutritious 
of vegetables; that they are very palatable 
and wholesome, properly cooked, in all forms 
from soup to "baked;” that they are easily 
grown, and always a profitable crop, why is it 
that more attention isn’t given to their cul¬ 
tivation, and that every year we have to im¬ 
port from one-sixth to one-tliird of all used in 
the country 5 
The total exports of wheat and flour, both 
coasts, this week as exclusively reported to 
Bradstreet’s, equal 2 ,100,000 bushels of wheat, 
an increase of 500,000 bushels over last week, 
due to heavy shipments from the Pacific 
coast. The total exported from the United 
States ports July 1 to date (including Mon¬ 
treal), is 70,255,000 bushels, leaving, as calcu¬ 
lated. about 65,0(10,000 available for shipment 
to July' I next. All grains are lower this 
week on weaker cuhles and realising sales. 
The Agricultural Commissioner or Dakota 
bus revised his estimate of the wheat crop for 
1887 in that Territory. He Says it was 53,000,- 
000 bushels instead of 62,(MX),000, as estimated 
some weeks ago. 
Tho Mark Lane Express, in its weekly 
review of the British grain trade,says: “Eng¬ 
lish wheat is decidedly weaker. The demand 
1 ms lessened, while "the damp weather has 
tended to deteriorate its condition. Foreign 
wheat is further depressed. Mild weather on 
the Baltic and Black Seas enables tbe con¬ 
tinuation of the extensive shipments, which, 
combined with increased arrivals of American 
flour, make trade sick.” Wheat iu England is 
five cents a bushel lower than at the corres¬ 
ponding date last year. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw Yobk, Saturday, Dee. 17,1887. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Hops—Tho general temper is an easy one. the de¬ 
mand from shippers and brewers being equally 
light. Quotations- N. Y. State new crop best, 
ptsurrUaufous! 
DIXON’S “Carburet of troll" Stove Polish was 
established in 1837, and Is to-day. ns It was then, the 
neulesi and brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving ofl’ no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
ted and cake weighs nearly hnlf a pound, but the 
quality and price remain the same. Ask your grocer 
or Dixou’sblg cake 
