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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 7, 1888. 
Mr. Ammi Baldwin, late cashier of the 
Cincinnati Fidelity National Bank, died sud¬ 
denly Thursday morning at his residence on 
Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. He was under 810,- 
000 bail for having aided Harper in wrecking 
the bank. No less than 31 different rail¬ 
ways, aggregating 5,478 miles, and represent¬ 
ing an apparent capital investment of $328,- 
000,000, were sold in bankruptcy during 1887. 
... . Mrs. John Jacob Astor left $25,000 
each to the Woman's Hospital, St. Luke’s 
Hospital, Young Women’s Christian Associa¬ 
tion, Children’s Aid Society, Hampton Nor¬ 
mal Institute at Hampton, Va., and the Pro¬ 
testant Foreign Missionary Society...., A 
“union for the protection of the State canals” 
will hold its first annual convention at Albany 
next Thursday. The main object of the union 
seems to be to prevent railroad discrimination, 
and to obtain reductions of elevator and 
wharfage charges.A State Prohibition 
League has been formed in New Jersey to 
consolidate the young Prohibitionists. Local 
clubs are to be organized in 100 towns, a mem¬ 
bership of 2,000 is counted on, and “no com¬ 
promise is to be the watchword for this year’s 
campaign - ”.J. I. Case, owner of 
“Jay-Eye-See” and “Phallas,” has refused an 
offer from Louisville of $40 000 for the latter. 
... A Chicago limited train, from the w r est 
running at the rate of 50 miles an hour, col¬ 
lided with a “double header” freight train 
four miles west of Meadville. Pa., on the New 
York. Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad last 
Saturday morning. Five persons were in¬ 
stantly killed and 12 wounded. It is not 
thought any of the injured will die__ .The 
total number of cabin passengers arrived at 
New York last year was 78,800 and of steerage 
passengers 371,371, as against 68,742 and 300,- 
918 in 1887 . Business failures in the 
United States aggregated 9,741inl887, against 
10,568 in 1886.Owing to the state of 
the fisheries dispute, the Canadian Parliament 
will not open until the last week in February. 
... .The Mississippi Legislature convened at 
Jackson, Tuesday. A long and stormy session 
is looked for. Among the many important 
questions to be disposed of are the convict 
leasing system and State prohibition. It is 
also probaole that a constitutional conven¬ 
tion will be called. Excitement is high. 
....Adjutaut-Genera] Powell of Ottawa, Ont., 
says that Canada could now in 48 hours put 
25.000 men in the field, and 25,000 more fully 
equipped inside of one week. In addition to 
the 38,000 men of the active militia, one-half 
of whom drill 16 days every year, there is an 
enrolled force of nearly 500.000 men. who have 
at some time or another drilled, but who now 
are on the reserve list, and would be available 
in event of trouble. The Standard 
Oil monopolists have caused a tremendous sen¬ 
sation in the oil market djring the week by 
bulling prices. A short time ago the highest 
figure was 72; now it is 95%, the rise being 
due to the manipulations of the monopoly in 
the market and the shut-down movement of 
the producers’ union which it controls. 
.... Last Saturday two trains tried to pass 
each other on the same track on the Cincin¬ 
nati Southern Railroad near Somerset, Ky. 
The remains of 15 passengers and train men 
have been found, but it is supposed that at 
least 20 perished. The cars took fire and the 
“remains” of some were cremated beyond rec¬ 
ognition, while only charred fragments of 
others were found .. . Richard S. Hicks, 
cashier of the Stafford Bank, Conn., has 
pleaded guilty of plundering the bank, and 
been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment 
and a fine of $1, The District Attorney and 
bank officials pleaded for a mitigated sentence. 
... .The December sales of Thoroughbred 
horses in Kentucky were 118, for which a total 
of $120,560 as paid.St. Julien, 
2.11%, who was retired from the turf because 
of trouble with one of his legs, appears to be 
all right now and if he proves so he will be 
started next year. The Atlanta 
Council composed of five Prohibitionists and 
10 others, has cut down the liquor license fee 
from $3,000 to $1,000 . The gigantic 
Lick telescope, the largest refracting telescope 
in the world, made by the late Alvan Clark of 
Cambridge, Mass., is at length ready for ex¬ 
ploring the star depths.Dr. James 
R. Nichols, founder of the Journal of Chemis¬ 
try, died at Haverhill, Mass., Monday, aged 
68. He graduated from the Dartmouth Col¬ 
lege medical school, and got rich in the drug 
business at Boston and Haverhill, Mass. 
....In speaking of the losses by fire in 1887, 
the New York Daily Commercial Bulletin re¬ 
ports the December fire loss at $10,300 800 
against $11,200,000 for December 1886. The 
total fire waste for the year amounted to 
$129,254,000. which has not been exceeded 
since the Boston fire. This is about $13,000,- 
000 greater than the losses of 1886 . 
Three bills were introduced on the first day of 
the present session of the Ohio Legislature, 
limiting passenger fares to two cents a mile. 
. Albany, N. Y.. has raised $50,000 for 
a public hall suitable for bolding conventions 
and monster meetings of all sorts. The rais¬ 
ing of the sum was necessary to secure the 
handsome Bleecker legacy for the same pur¬ 
pose.Gov. Marmaduke was the fourth 
Governor of Missouri to die in office. Lieut- 
Gov- Moorhouse, who succeeds him, has been 
an active Democratic worker for a score of 
years, and was a delegate to the Democratic 
National Convention of 1872 and 1876. He is 
a Prohibitionist as well as a Democrat .... 
The Maryland Legislature began a 90-days 
session Wednesday. There are but four Re¬ 
publicans in the Senate and 20 in the House, 
the total joint vote being 117. 
.. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, introduced 
a bill on Thursday providing for a World’s 
Exposition at the National Capital in 1892, 
and thereafter a permanent exposition of the 
three Americas in honor of the 400ih anniver¬ 
sary of the discovery of America. On same 
day in the House Mr. TavJor of Ohio, intro¬ 
duced a bill for the preservation of woods 
and forests of the National domain adjacent 
to the sources of navigable rivers; also to 
restore the old rate of duty on imported wools. 
Mr. Grant of Vermont, introduced a bill to 
reduce the postage on fourth-class matter.... 
. . .General John C. Fremont is spending the 
winter at Los Angeles, Cal., and proposes to 
complete the second volume of his memoirs 
before spring _Over $67,000,000 were 
invested in new buildings in New York city 
last year—an increase of nearly $9,000,000 over 
1886 and $20,000,000 over 1885. Building in 
Boston was quite as large as ever before. 
A Mormon lobby pervades Washington, seek¬ 
ing the admission of Utah. United 
States Sub-Treasurer Canda is to resign and 
accept the position of President of the West¬ 
ern National Bank of this city, made vacant 
by the recent death of ex-Secretary Manning. 
He had charge of the Sub-Treasury in this 
city. His place was worth $8,000 a year; but 
he had to furnish bonds to the amount of 
$400.000. .:. 
It is doubtful whether the Senate will con¬ 
firm Secretary Lamar as a Supreme Court 
Judge. His lack of legal experience, as well 
as his utterances during the war, is urged 
against him.About all the flint-glass 
factories in the country were closed Satur¬ 
day. In the Eastern concerns it is a lock-out; 
West, a strike. C. J. Hamlin, owner of 
the fast trotting mare Belle Hamlin, with a 
record of 2.13%. yesterday refused an offer of 
$30,000 for her, made by several Cuban gen¬ 
tlemen _The strike on the Reading rail¬ 
road system and the iron and coal mines 
worked by the company is complete. Over 
100.000 men are out. Some time ago the com¬ 
pany advanced the wages of the miners eight 
per cent., the rise not to last after January 1, 
unless other concerns paid as much. Others 
haven’t done so, and the Reading insists on 
going back to old rates. This alone would 
cause a strike, but it was precipitated by the 
railroad strike. Men in other mines are to be 
called out to-day. Sympathy generally with 
the strikers. Arbitration probable. Powderly 
is dangerously sick. May live a few days or 
die at any hour. Hardly likely to recover... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 7, 1888. 
Coercion is still being vigorously enforced 
in Ireland. Meetings of the National League 
are forbidden by the Government, but nev¬ 
ertheless held by the people. If they assemble 
openly in large numbers they are dispersed 
by the constabulary and troops, so they are 
generally held secretly, though often as many 
as 6,000 are present. All who attend are 
liable to imprisonment; and the conductors of 
papers, who announce the meetings in advance 
or tell anything about them after they are 
held, are at once pounced upon and prosecuted. 
The landlords are greatly discontented at the 
reducaon on judical rents just made b} T two of 
the three Land Commissioners; the third— 
O’Hogan—didn’t sign the older, simply be¬ 
cause he thought the reduction was not large 
enough. This upsetting of “vested rights” in 
land, the most solid and enduring of all 
kinds of property, is watched by rad¬ 
ical reformers of all natims. ... .... 
_The Irish question still engrosses most in¬ 
terest in Great Britain; but the crofter trouble 
in Scotland, the tithe question in Wales, and 
the labor conundrum in England are also 
topics of great interest. It is now probable 
that w - hen Parliament assembles next month 
a good deal of attention will be given to 
other questions besides the Irish. 
On the Continent the aspect of affairs is a 
trifle less belligerent. Russia, Germany, and 
Austria are loud in their declarations that 
neither wants war; but each also says that it 
isn’t afraid. All three, together with France 
and Italy, are increasing their forces and 
preparing for a conflict with the utmost 
diligence. Factories are working night and 
day turning out the latest improvements 
in rifles, cannon, ammunition and all other 
deadly preparations. The armies are already 
immense. The mobilized strength ol France is 
set down at 2,051,458 troops, exclusive of the 
territorial army, which is equally large; that 
of Russia at 1.922,405: Germany, 1,493,690, and 
Austria-Hungary. 1,035,955. The military 
strength of Italy has now attained proportions 
that would have been deemed incredible ten 
years ago. Including militia, it is alleged to 
amount to 2,387.332 men. If, however, a 
similar inclusion tie made in the case of Russia, 
the military strength of that power will prob¬ 
ably be found to exceed even that of the 
French Republic. Compared with these fig¬ 
ures the numerical proportions of the British 
army ought almost to satisfy the members of 
the Peace Society. Including the militia and 
volunteers, as well as the Indian army, it can 
just muster 781,677 troops. And these have 
to serve for the defence of territory distributed 
over a very much wider area than that ruled 
by any of the other powers.There is 
talk of an offensive and defensive alliance be¬ 
tween France and Russia, to include Den¬ 
mark as well as Norway and Sweden, as an 
offset to the triple alliance between Germany, 
Austria-Hungary and Italy. Russia wants 
control of the Eastern Peninsula at least as 
far south as the Balkans, as a reward for her 
sacrifices in the late Russo-Turkish war; but 
Austria, Laly and England are resolved to 
prevent this for personal reasons, and Ger¬ 
many backs up Austria as an ally and to check 
Russian aggrandizement. Meanwhile Rou- 
mania has 300,000 troops ready to oppose any 
Russian advance, and Bulgaria and its late 
enemy, Servia, are also ready to put over 500,- 
000 men in line, for all three know that if 
Russia succeeds in her object they will become 
m#re provinces of the Empire. Nihilists 
are still pretty active in Russia, though great 
efforts are made to suppress not only them¬ 
selves but all accounts of their doings. Eight 
of them are said to have been hanged at St. 
Petersburg on January 2, for trying to kill 
the Czar during his recent visit to the Don 
Cossack country. All the universities in Rus¬ 
sia are at present closed, owing to the i iolent 
discontent shown by the students. This is re¬ 
ported to be due, however, to the harsh rules 
to which they are subjected rather than to po¬ 
litical motives. 
The Despnir ot Science. 
Rheumatism and Neuralgia, two remorse¬ 
less demons of human suffering, have puzzled 
the masters of medical science. They are 
finally agreed that the first is a blood disease, 
and that the second is an affection of the 
nerves. For their cure until recently the 
faculty prescribed similar remedies. Princi¬ 
pal reliance was placed on external applica¬ 
tions in both affections. Lately several of the 
most distinguished physicians of Philadelphia 
have prescribed nitro-glycerine to neuralgic 
patients. 
Now, the dynamite, or nitro glycerine, treat¬ 
ment of the old-school faculty has not yet re¬ 
sulted in any cures. Skeptical sufferers from 
acute neuralgia or rheumatism, in the major¬ 
ity of cases, would prefer to have the dyna¬ 
mite placed directly upon the affected part 
and exploded promptly. Cures are, after all, 
the vindication of a new departure in the 
healing art. The Compound Oxygen treat¬ 
ment solves the question as to the complete 
eradication of both rheumatism and neuralgia 
from the system. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1529 
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa., send a Home 
Treatment which can be used with perfect 
ease and safety at the patient’s residence. The 
effects of the Compound Oxygen are felt im¬ 
mediately ; the system takes a new tone and 
life becomes full of enjoyment again. A postal 
card sent to the above address will secure an 
interesting pamphlet on the discovery, appli¬ 
cation and cures made by Compound Oxygen. 
— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 7, 1888. 
Cholera has broken out among the hogs, 
and they are dying in large numbers at Au¬ 
burn, N. Y. The garbage carts Tuesday were 
loaded with dead hogs, upward of 125 having 
died during the day- Assistant Secre¬ 
tary Maynard has informed a resident of 
Three Rivers, Canada, that there is no foun¬ 
dation for the report that Congress has voted 
$2,000,000 or any part thereof for the settle¬ 
ment of claims of hay exporters of Canada 
for alleged excess of duty levied on hay 
shipped to the United States. 
Professor L. H. Bailey, of the Michigan Ag¬ 
ricultural College, has been engaged to deliver 
a course of lectures in practical horticulture 
to the students at Cornell University, to begin 
Januarj’ 4 and ex tend over three weeks. He is 
also to alternate with Professor Roberts in at¬ 
tending farmers’ institutes.The Second 
Annual Exhibition of the Western New York 
Poultry Association will be held at Rochester, 
N. Y., February 1 to 8.At its Decem¬ 
ber examinations the Ontario Veterinary 
College at Toronto graduated 29 candidates.. 
.France devotes 15,000,000 acres to grape¬ 
growing. Last year 162,000 acres were set 
with grape vines.Florida is suffering 
from the rabbit plague. They are raising 
havoc with green peas and cabbages. 
Tbe Dakota Territorial Farmers’ Alliance 
claims 20,000 membership. 
It is estimated that the average shrinkage of 
a Texan steer en route to Chicago is 100 
pounds, and this amounts in a year to between 
45.000 and 50,000 head of cattle .New 
York has received about 450.000 bushels of 
foreign potatoes so far this year.The 
total export of apples of the crop of 1887 up to 
the end of the year was between 430.000 and 
450,000 oarrels.Foreign potatoes are 
commanding about ten cents per bushel less 
than choice American varieties in the markets 
of tbe East. . . .In the production of pota¬ 
toes tbe United States is fourth among the 
countries, the value being $73,302,480. Russia 
is first in this, with $450,000,000; the German 
Empire second, with $263,550,090 ... The 
United States stands til'st in the production 
of cereals, the value in 1886 being $1,161,215,- 
453. Russia comes next, with $1,109 159 673. 
Germany is third, the values being $750 148,- 
109. and Austria-Hungary fourth, with $648,- 
043,475. Great Britain, including all its colo¬ 
nies and dependencies, only produced cereals 
to the value of $437.282.910_ The largest 
amount of land held in the United States by 
an alien corporation is that owned by the Hol¬ 
land Company in New Mexico. It embraces 
4,500,000 acres . 
Spain’s present import duty on flour is 
$1 49% a barrel, and on wheat 30% cents a 
bushel. The Conservatives demand an in¬ 
crease of 25 p.er cent in the duties on all for¬ 
eign flour and cereals, and a bill to that effect 
has been introduced in the Spanish Cortes .., 
Five immense petitions have been sent to 
Washington from the various dressed beef and 
canning companies of Chicago to the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission. It is the be¬ 
ginning of a great law suit, involving mil¬ 
lions of dollars in interest, which will be con¬ 
tested in the United States Supreme Court, 
and involves the cons itutionality of the In¬ 
ters! ate Law. The individual damages claim¬ 
ed by losses in rebates since the enforcement 
of the law amount to $950,000. 
Crops & Alavlicts. 
Saturday, Jan. 7,1888. 
The American Grocer in its review of the 
business of 1887, among other things says the 
demand for canned goods was large and prices 
generally higher than in 1886. The packing 
done east of the Rocky Mountains was com¬ 
paratively light, but in California it was the 
largest on record. There has been a decline 
in the prices of wheat and flour and an in¬ 
crease in that of corn. Rice has advanced 
about 25 per cent, or 1% to 1% cent per 
pound. The cost of salted meats has been 
greater than in 1886 and the prices have been 
also increased at the seaboard, by the greater 
cost of transportation. There has been no 
increase in the average prices of fresh meat 
and poultry. Lard has been higher than 
during the previous year. Butter has been 
cheaper than in 1886 and the prices of cheese 
and eggs have advanced. Prices at present 
show an upward tendency. 
The reports to Bradstreet’s of total stocks of 
wheat in the United Siates and Canada, east 
of the Rocky mountains, out of farmers’ hands, 
December 31, 1887, are from 70 cities and 
towns in addition to stocks in railway ele¬ 
vators at 1,000 towns in the Northwesi, and 
furnish an aggregate of nearly 70,000,000 
bushels (against 44,500,000 bushels reported in 
the official visible supply statement) as com¬ 
pared with 87,000,000 one year ago. Wheat, 
corn and oats have been weaker and lower 
within two days, chiefly on the temper abroad. 
Interest in produce speculation at Chicago 
has increased of late Prices of hogs and cat- 
cle at Western markets have advanced 20 cents 
to 30 cents, The total exports of wheat (and 
flour), both coasts, this ween equal only about 
1,500,000 bushels of wheat, the same as last 
week. The total so shipped, July 1 to date, is 
76,000.000 bushels. 
According to Bradstreet the elevator 
stocks of wheat in the Northwestern States 
and Canada, outside of St. Paul, Duluth and 
Minneapolis stocks, are propably about 25,- 
000.000 bushels. 
Tbe quantity of grain frozen in on the New 
York canals is comprised in 7,600 bushels 
wheat and 6,300 bushels corn. 
A steady movement of wool on a scale 
which compares well with last year, but at 
lower prices, prevails in the Eastern markets. 
Tbe situation is, on the whole, weak. The 
stocks of wool at the principal centers are 
larger than m January, 1887, but yet, in view 
of all the circumstances, are not considered 
excessive. In the country most of the stock 
has been picked up, except in Ohio, Texas and 
California. 
The hog packing in the West from Novem¬ 
ber 1 to December 29, 1887, is reported at 
about 3,875,000 against 4,775,000 hogs the cor¬ 
responding period in 1886, being this season 
so far a decrease of 340 000 hogs. The weight 
of the hogs slaughtered so far this season is 
less than in 1886, being at Kansas City 30 
pounds per hog short in the last three weeks, 
ana at Cincinnati 20 pounds short in the last 
three weeks, but in Iowa and Nebraska the 
weights compare favorably with those of 
1886. The receipts at the 10 principal points 
do not come up to expectations. The lard 
production will be less than the average. 
As a remedy lor Couglis, Hoarseness and 
Sore Throat, Brown’s Bronchial Troches are pro¬ 
nounced universally superior to all other articles used 
for similar purposes The late Rev. Henry Wj>rd 
Beecher said or them: "I have never changed my 
mind especting them from the first, except 1 think 
yet better of that v h'ch I began by thinking well of. 
I have also commended them to friends, and they have 
P'oved extremely serviceable. I do not hesitate o say 
that your Troches are pre-eminently the best.”—Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Jan. 7,1818 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. 
Ordinary. 1% 
8 triet Ordinary. 8% 8% 
Good Ordinary. 9 1-16 9 3-16 
8 trict Good Ordinary.. 9 9-16 9 11-16 
Low Middling. 10 H H 
8 trict Low Middling. 10 5-16 10 7-16 
Middling . 10% lu% 
Good Middling. 10% 10% 
8 trict Good Middling...11 11% 
Middling Fair. 11% 11% 
Fair. . 12 12% 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 9-16 , Low Middling. 
BtrietGood Ord.8% 'Middling 
Texas. 
9 8-16 
10 1-16 
Hay and Straw.— There are full offerings of hay 
and other than best grades buyers secure some ad¬ 
vantage. For straw a moderate sale, quotations: 
Hav Choice Timothy per luO lb, *0@85c; good do 
70@ 5c: medium 60@65c; shipping. 55c: Clover mixed, 
55ia65e. Straw.— No. 1 rye 75ia80c, short do, 55®65c; 
oat, 40845c. 
Hops The market has a very quiet look, but no 
further change can be noted in prices There are only 
small lots of good serviceable stock changing hands. 
Stare new, best. 15c, do do, good lots, 10 Uc do 
medium, 8«.9c. do common, 7i? 8c. do old. 4'a<6c; Cali¬ 
fornia, new, choice, 12@l4c: do good ll@l2c; do com¬ 
mon 7@9c. 
Poultry.-Live. —There Is a fair suppl? of live 
poultry. The demand is good for cblckeus and fowls 
witu full prices obtained- roos’ers are a little quiet. 
Dressed poultry continues in moderate sale, the 
simply is not excessive and prices generally are 
helcf steady. Quotations are for Fowis, Jersey, 
State, and Pennsylvania, per n>,9@10c;fowls,Wes.ern, 
per lb, 9c roosters, old, per lb, 5c: turkeys, ter 
lb 9c: ducks, western pel pair, 50<870c; chickens, 
near-by per lb. 9c: do, western, per lb, 9c; geese, 
western, per pair, I 00@$1 25. 
BorLTRY.-D rhssed -Turkeys, fancy, per pound, at 
12 ® 13c; do good to choice, 10«sllc. fowls,Jersey, prime 
8 c; fowls, western, 9®10c: Squabs, while, per 
doz, 83 00; squabs, dark, per doz. $2 00; 
ducks, Philadelphia, spring, per lb, 12<314c: do 
Jersey, choice, 12r®18c; do State 11® 12c; do western, 11 
<ai2c; Geese, good to choice, per lb, 10®14 c: chickens, 
Philade phia, per lb, 14@16c: do Jersey, choice, per 
lb. 12®13c. do western, per lb. lotallc; do state. 10c. 
Game.— Quail, choice, per doz.SI 50(&2 oO;Vt ild ducks, 
canvas, per pair, 83@5 50 do redhead, $2®2 25; do 
mallard, 6t@b0c; do teal, 50s>6tc. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS, 
Fruits.—Fresh.— Apples are quiet and barely 
eady Cranberries bring lull j.ri- es. Quotations 
•e for. Apples.-King, per bbl, S3 00^,4 00: 
>, Greening, 81 75 <4,2 25: do Baldwin, *2 00 
2 50; do Spitz, $3 00@4 00; do inferior, per bbl, $1 25® 
