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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, February 4, 1888. 
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has just 
given a most rigorous interpretation to the 
liquor-sellers’ liability law. Not only are 
liquor-sellers themselves liable for contribut¬ 
ing to the damage of any one, but their sure¬ 
ties are responsible for all damages to which 
the principals’ acts contribute. Moreover, 
sureties are continuously liable while a person 
is unable to support his family by reason of 
intoxication, the responsibility ending only 
when there is an end to the drinker’s disquali¬ 
fication . The winter carnival at St. 
Paul opened January 25. A great crowd wit¬ 
nessed the “storming of the ice palace,”whieh 
was constructed of over 00,000.000 pounds of 
ice_There is a sentiment in the House Com¬ 
mittee on Banking and Currency in favor 
of issuing 820,000,000 in fractional currency 
that can readily be mailed in small amounts. 
... The Government receipts for Jan. have 
averaged about $1,000,000 a day, and ex¬ 
ceed toe expenditures during the same period 
by more than $18,000,000. This amount will 
be reduced to about $14,500,000 by interest 
payments, and that amount substantially 
represents the decrease in the public debt for 
the month .Michigan is entirely free 
from State debt and has a surplus of $874 788 
derived from direct taxation.Ducks 
are so abundant in Georgia that the Savan¬ 
nah market has been glutted. They are said 
to be flying by thousands in large and small 
flocks, and one hunter, in eight days, killed 
over 700 . A number of bills against 
Trusts have been introduced into both Houses 
of Congress, and the monopolies are to 
be strictly investigated . 
_Pittsburgh had another great fire early 
Sunday morning, destroying property valued 
at $250,000 .... On Monday morning one 
of the largest fires of recent ' ears in this city 
destroyed three large stores ou Broadway. 
Loss variously estimated at from $1,750,000 
to $2,000,000 ... The balance of trade with 
the world for the year 1887 was in favor of 
the United States to the amount of $0,513,642. 
. From 1882 to 1887. inclusive, the far¬ 
mers of Ohio expended $3,792,094 for wheat 
fertilizers, the expenditure rising from $495,- 
825 for crop of 1882 to $757,469 for that of 
1886. It is probable that the new High- 
License law of Pennsylvania will have the ef¬ 
fect of reducing the number of saloons from 
60 to 75 pe cent, in the large cities, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, where there are now 6,000 saloons, 
only 400 applications for licenses have been 
made under the new law, though the latest 
date on which application can be made is the 
11th of February. 
Congressional Doings: Over two weeks ago 
the House passed the bill appropriating money 
for the agricultural experiment stations; the 
Senate passed it on Monday, like the House, 
without opposition, and the President signed 
it ou Tuesday, so that the money is now avail¬ 
able. The appropriation dates from October 
1, 1887, and is payable quarterly, in advance. 
Two quarters, or $7,500, are now due to each 
State and Territory that comply with the 
provisions of the law. The money is to come 
direct from the Treasury, instead of from the 
proceeds of the sale of public lands. With re¬ 
gard to the money, the First Controller of the 
Treasury has decided: 
First, that the accounts of the various expenditures 
made at the various colleges and stations should not 
be sent to the Treasury Department and there settled 
and adjusted, but that a report, including receipts 
and expenditures, should be made to the Governors 
of the States and Territories where located, and a 
copy of the report must be sent to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. In New York there is an agricultural col¬ 
lege and an agricultural station The Controller de¬ 
cides that the funds which may be appropriated by 
Congress to that State, under the act of March 3, 1887, 
do not go exclusively to the college, unless the State 
of New York so directs. The State should indicate to 
the Secretary of the Treasury what is its will in that 
regard. He also decides that if there Is no agricul 
tural college or station in a State or Territory, but 
there is a college, such State or Territory would not 
be entitled to thp benefits of the provtsioi sof said act 
of March 3. 1887, unless an agricultural college be es¬ 
tablished. or a station connected with some college 
already established; that the establishment of a sta¬ 
tion disconnected from the ordinary college w ill not 
suffice. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, February 4, 1888. 
European “news” this week has con§isted 
mainly of assertions one day and contradic¬ 
tions the next of the probability of war, the 
condition of the Crown Prince, etc., etc. 
Warrants have been obtained for the arrest 
of six more Irish members of Parliament, 
among them Editor O’Brien, who has just 
been liberated, and has gone for his health to 
the South of France. In England distress is 
growing almost intolerable among the work¬ 
ing classes. There are 14,500,000 persons 
whose wages are less than $2.50 per week, and 
there are 7 000,000 people who are classed as 
paupers—that is, supported wholly or in part 
at public expense. It is proposed to encour¬ 
age emigration Dy paying the whole or part 
of the passage money to English colonies out 
of the public Treasury ... Bismarck’s new 
army bill virtually adds 700,000 men to the 
468,000 now ready for active service, to say 
nothing of the 1,100,000 reserves ready for the 
field in case of war. He wants $70,000,000 
more for his new contingent, so that over 
2,200,000 men can be put into the field for a 
campaign. The treaty between Germany and 
Austria, concluded in ’79, has just been pub¬ 
lished to warn Russia that if she attacks either 
she will be resisted by all the powers of both. 
The Czar, however, continues to pour his 
forces towards the frontiers, quarters having 
been prepared, according to report, for 200,- 
000 in Bessarabia, to operate against Rou- 
mania and Bulgaria, and probably_ finally 
against Turkey. On the slightest, hostile 
movement, however, Austria is to push for¬ 
ward an army to defend the threatened prin¬ 
cipalities. Just now France is more disposed 
^to peace than she has been since the close of 
*the Franco German war, and this may moder¬ 
ate the war spirit of the Czar, as he can no 
longer feel sure of an ally in that quarter.... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 4, 1888. 
.... From the State Controller’s report it 
seems that in D83 there were in Texas 4,491,- 
600 sheep, assessed for taxes at, $9 223 234. In 
1887 there were in Texas 4.275.394 sheep, as¬ 
sessed value $5,016,684. According to Wash¬ 
ington reports Texas flockmasters are divided 
in opini< n with regard to the tariff on wool.. 
..Mediterranean ports have furnished 
50.000 bags of beans for the American market 
within two months, making the largest im¬ 
ports since 1881.In Scotland last year 849 
Aberdeen-Angus cattle were sold, at an aver¬ 
age of $82.72; a year before 814 head brought 
an average of $119.86. Of Short-horns 753 
were sold, at an average of $103; in 1886 986 
brought an average of $104.20. The outlook 
for both in 18S8 is considered good .Ten 
tons of superior Texas cotton seed were 
shipped from Galveston, the oihor day, con¬ 
signed to the German East African Coloniza¬ 
tion Society, Zanzibar, Africa. An experi¬ 
enced planter accompanied the seed for the 
purpose of instructing the natives of Zanzibar 
in the cultivation of the cotton plant. This 
event marks the introduction of cotton on the 
East Coast of Africa_ Judge Brewer, 
sitting in the United States Circuit Court for 
the District of Colorado, has just rendered an 
important decision in favor of the United 
States, in the case of The United States rs. 
The Cleveland Cattle Company, involvingthe 
title to what is known as the v igil and St. Va- 
rian or Las Animas grant, which covers a 
large part of Southern Colorado. The defeat¬ 
ed company will probably appeal to the 
United States Supreme Court. 
_Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading, Pa., has been 
appointed Pomo ogist of the Pennsylvania 
State Board of Agriculture.The six 
largest potato dialers in Boston have com¬ 
bined in a Trust known as the Consolidated 
Produce Company, lately organized at Port¬ 
land, Me., with a capital stock of $400,000, of 
which $100,000 is preferred. The object of 
this Trust is said to be to regulate the price of 
potatoes, which for the past few years have 
been subject to so much competition and 
price-cutting as to take away all the profits of 
the business. Dividends are restricted to 
seven per cent, per annum on either the pre¬ 
ferred or the common stock, but the whole 
seven will have to be paid on the preferred 
before anv on the common is due •. . .Sev¬ 
eral wealthy residents of Coahuila, Mexico, 
have closed the sale of 500.000 acres of land in 
the State of Coahuila to the representatives of 
an English syndicate, which already owns 
2,000,000 acres in that State. The considera¬ 
tion was $125,000, or twenty-five cents an acre. 
The purchase comprises much mountain land. 
English capitalists now own fully one-quarter 
of the State of Coahuila. A train of 
twenty-four cars, laden entirely with eggs, to 
the number ot 31.000.000, left Strothoy, Ont., 
for New York, the cm her day.... -The wool 
sales at Antwerp opened last week at a sharp 
advance. The outlook in all European mar¬ 
kets is considered good for high prices. 
It is stated that the warehouses and mills 
abroad are bare of wool, and that the short¬ 
age in the clip of South America, on account 
of droughts, will more than counter-balance 
the increase in the clip of Australasia, where 
the season has been unusually favorable 
Receipts of domestic wool have been 
heavier aud foreign wool lighter in Boston so 
far this year than in January, 1887.The 
Argentine Republic, S. A.', imported 25,698 
improved sheep for breeding purposes in the 
first nine months of 1887, against 12,519 in 
the same part of 1886. This means stronger 
competition from that section in the near fu¬ 
ture. The United States Consul Elf¬ 
wing, at Stockholm, has just informed the 
State Department that the Swedish Govern¬ 
ment has declared against the importation of 
pork from the United States unless it is well 
salted. The consul says that the order is 
founded on a report that a hog pestilence is 
raging in the United States .The 
amount of leaf tobacco sold from the ware¬ 
houses of Danville in January was 2,700,000 
pounds. For four months of the tobacco year 
the sales were 10,700,000 pounds, as against 
5,500,000 for the same time last year. 
The Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association of 
Connecticut has adopted a constitution and 
elected the following officers: President, 
Frederick Bronson, Southport; Vice-presi¬ 
dent, M. W. Terrill, Mtddlefield. Directors: 
For one year—S. C. Colt, of Farmington, for 
Hartford County; George E. Jones, for Litch¬ 
field County; W. D. McCready, for Fairfield 
County; E. S. Henry, of Rockville, for Tol¬ 
land County. For two years—J. O. Couch, 
of Middlefield, for Middlesex County; D. D. 
Bishop, of Cheshire, for New Haven County; 
Charles Johnson, for New Loudon County, 
and Dr. G. A. Bowen, of Woodstock, for 
Windham County. 
The operation of the clause prohibiting the 
importation of neat cattle into the United 
States is suspended as to Great Britain and 
Ireland upon the condition that it shall be 
shown that pleuro-pneumonia has not existed 
in the districts whence the cattle are obtained 
for one year prior to their exportation and 
that the cattle are fully protected in trans¬ 
portation; such cattle will not be per¬ 
mitted to land unless accompanied by affida¬ 
vits certifying to their health. All cattle so 
imported shall be subject to a quarantine of 
90 days. Deer are doing so much 
damage to the crops in Grass Valley, Cal., 
that Indians are employed to guard the fields 
by Dight at.d day .Free veterinary 
clinics are held at the Illinois University, and 
the farmers of the neighborhood, who bring 
in their sick stock derive much benefit, as do 
the students .The Treasury Depart¬ 
ment has decided that a Shetland pony, im¬ 
ported at Port Huron, Mich., by a resident of 
that city, and intended for the use of his chil¬ 
dren, is not entitled to free entry under the 
rovision for animals specially imported for 
reeding purposses.In Venezuela a 
prize of $4,000 has been offered to any person 
who will suggest a means of profitably and 
successfully converting locusts into grease or 
any other useful article .A vote 
taken in the Cherokee Council Monday night 
was favorable to a lease of the Cherokee Strip 
containing 6,000.000 acres, for $125,000 per 
annum. This was passed by the Senate Sat¬ 
urday and now awaits the signature of Chief 
Mayes, who is favorable to the bill. The Cher¬ 
okee Live Stock Association, which now has 
it, was the successful bidder. 
_The N. Y. Assembly has passed a bill mak¬ 
ing it a felony to poison an animal worth 
$25.The American Cranberry 
Growers’ Association at its late meeting 
at Newton, N. J., resolved to secure a stand¬ 
ard measure for cranberries .Last 
year’s crops having been ruined by drought 
in Clark, Commanche and Gray counties, 
Southwestern Kansas, the inhabitants have 
petitioned Gov. Martin for seeds to plant in 
spring. Gov. Martin reports that great distress 
prevails in Southwestern Kansas owing to the 
failure of the crops last year and the rigor of 
the present winter.The Atchison, 
Topeka and Santa Fd railroad intends pur¬ 
chasing 100,000 bushels of seed-wheat and 
sending it into those parts of Kansas where 
farmers have suffered most from last year’s 
failure of crops. The company will take the 
notes of farmers, due in one year, at three 
percent., and will charge nothing for trans¬ 
portation . A permanent organization 
of nurserymen was effected at Rochester, N. 
Y., a few days ago, under the name of the 
Eastern Nurserymen’s Associati n. The ob¬ 
ject of the association is to promote the inter¬ 
ests of th° nurserymen in the Eastern States. 
... The annual report of the State Control¬ 
ler of Tex as,recently issued, says: The shrink¬ 
age in cattle values during the year was $9 - 
844.388, with an increase in number of 126,728 
head. The number of cattle in the State is 
over 7,000,000, valued at $7 a head. 
Mining men of Montana are becoming alarmed 
over the fact that a vast majority of the pub¬ 
lic land in the Territory is being classed by U. 
S. Surveyors as agricultural, thus allowing it 
to be claimed by the Northern Pacific Rail¬ 
road under its grant 
Since the 1st of November t^e exports of 
meats, pork included, have fallen off 30,000,- 
000 pounds, and of lard 35,000,000 pounds, 
compared with a year ago—the reduction in 
meats being equivalent to the meat product 
of 225,000 hogs, and the reduction of lard re¬ 
presenting the product of 1 000.000 hogs. 
A great, deal more dehorning has been done in 
the West in the last few months than ever be¬ 
fore in the same time.According to 
the latest statistics, there are in France 13,- 
275,021 cattle, 22,688,230sheep, 1.420,112goats, 
5.774,924 pigs and 2,938.489 farm horses. 
H. S. Hyde, of Springfield, a wealthy manu¬ 
facturer, has been appointed trustee of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College by Gov¬ 
ernor Ames, instead of Henry Holt, deceased. 
Ex Commissioner of Agriculture, George B. 
Loring, has also been appointed a member of 
the State Board of Agriculture instead of Dr. 
J. R. Nichols, deceased. 
During the cold snap of last week, in spite 
of all efforts, 15 carloads of cattle and hogs, 
destined for Boston and New York, were 
frozen to death near Palmyra. N. Y., and sev¬ 
eral carloads at other points. The loss of stock 
on the cars is also reported heavy from other 
sections. . 
.The Bureau of Animal Industry is 
making vigorous efforts to stamp out pleuro¬ 
pneumonia in this section During the past 
two weeks 53 affected cows have been slaugh¬ 
tered on Staten Island. A large number have 
also been killed in Westchester County and 
many others rigidly quarantined. Thirty 
cows were killed in Jersey City a week ago. 
A very strict quarantine has been established 
in Hudson County, N. J. Every bovine in 
the county must be inspected, and - all healthy 
animals are to be marked by fastening a 
numbered brass tag with a copper wire in its 
ear, and making an entry of its description. 
Cattle must not be removed from the county 
under a penalty of $200 for each offence, ex¬ 
cept cattle taken through the county without 
being unloaded and those taken to the stock- 
yards for slaughter. The owner of a healthy 
auimal must not sell, kill or move the animal 
without a special permit; no one must buy it 
without a permit; it must not wander on the 
roads or upon laud where it can come in con¬ 
tact with other cattle, so that it may not be¬ 
come infected. If an inspected animal be 
found to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia 
it is killed, aud the owner reimbursed at a rate 
which has hitherto averaged $26. The car¬ 
casses are to be sold to fertilizer makers. Of 
620 head hitherto examined, 206 are diseased 
aud 54 have been killed. 
& iilavhfts. 
Saturday, Feb. 4, 1888. 
According to the telegraphic reports from 
a number of points in the Northwest, that 
section has had very mild weather since last 
Saturday—January 28—and snow has been 
rapidly disappearing. South of the Ohio 
River, in Tennessee and Kentucky, the snow 
is all gone. Central and Southern Illinois re¬ 
port the snow going off very rapidly, and in 
Kansas and Missouri the snow is all gone, but 
the frost is not yet out of the ground. 
The sudden demand for Western corn is slack¬ 
ing somewhat, but the demand for oats is in¬ 
creasing. 
Bradstreet’s, this morning, thus summarizes 
its telegraphic information from all points: 
Wheat has been heavier this week ai d is lj^c 
lower. The total exports of wheat and flour, 
both coasts, this week aggregate 1,652,990 
bushels, about the same as last week. Tne to¬ 
tal exports of wheat July 1 to February 1 are 
12,073.000 bushels less than in 1886-87, and our 
calculated available export surplus (wheat and 
flour) on January 1 last, is 58,000,000 bushels, 
against 93.000.000 bushels one Year ago, 85,- 
000,000 bushels two years ago and 152,000,000 
bushels three years ago. This allows for 40,- 
000,000 bushels reserves next July, and 
amounts to more than the United States will 
probably be called on to ship abroad, equaling 
a supply of over 10.000,000 bushels monthly. 
Wool is stronger than on January 1, and 
holders are making fewer concessions. 
An Unpublished and Unrecorded Record. 
“Really, how well you look. You are much 
stouter, and look ten years younger than when 
I saw you a few years a^o. Then I did not 
think you were long for this world.” “No,” 
my friend replied, “four years ago I little ex¬ 
pected to be in the land of the living at this 
time. It had for many years seemed unavoid¬ 
able that I should have a sick spell in the lat¬ 
ter part of January. So regularly had this 
been the case that my family looked for it. 
Four years ago an attack of pneumonia in 
January was followed in February by an at¬ 
tack of neuralgia of the heart. So sudden and 
violent was the attack, that although within 
forty rods of my house I was unable to reach it 
and was carried into a house near where I had 
been standing. I soon rallied and was carried 
home. This was succeeded by two lighter at¬ 
tacks. After recovering so I could be about, 
I was taken down with three successive at¬ 
tacks of renal calculi. Recovering from these 
I was prostrated with a long siege of diarrhoea 
from which the attending physician had little 
hope of my recovery. I had little strength 
left; little vitality; recuperative powers seem¬ 
ed gone; felt completely prostrated. No life, 
no ambition, no power. I then commenced 
the Home Treatment. In a few weeks I was 
able to try work again, although quite feeble 
and not able to endure fatigue or much labor. 
I resorted to the Compound Oxygen more reg¬ 
ularly, and to my surprise all the old bad feel¬ 
ings gradually disappeared. Life assumed a 
brighter aspect. Strength and the elasticity 
of youth in a great measure returned. And 
now though of three-score and four years, I 
feel younger, brighter and more active than I 
did twenty years ago. To Compound Oxy¬ 
gen I give all the credit; and I would recom¬ 
mend all chronically afflicted to try it. Tell 
all such for me that it will be greatly to their 
interest if they w ill call at the office of Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., and get their advice upon their 
special cases, which is given free.” 
A volume of two hundred pages, on “Com¬ 
pound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and Re¬ 
sults,” will be mailed free to all on receipt of 
address.— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Feb. 4,18E8. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.— The quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. 
Ordinary. 7% 7% 
8 trlct Ordinary. 8% 8% 
Good Ordinary. 9 3-16 9 3-16 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 9 11-16 9 13-16 
Low Middling. 10% 10% 
Strict Low Middling. 10 7-16 10 9-16 
Middling. 10% 10% 
Good Middling. 10% 11 
Strict Good Middllng...ll% 11% 
Middling Fair. 11% 11% 
Fair. 13% 12% 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 11-16 Low Middling, 
StrlctGood Ord.8% | Middling. 
Texas. 
9 5-16 
10 3-16 
Feed.— Quoted at $1 05@110 for 40 lb spring and win¬ 
ter; latter for heavy from tracK 60 lbs, $1 02%®1 05, 
80 lbs. 8l02%®li5 100 lbs. 81 05@1 10; sharps, 81 l.% 
( 0,1 17%. Rye Feed, 95c@Sl; screenings. 75(385c 
Hay and straw.—H av- While the receipts are 
rather freer, the market is well maintained under the 
influence of an improved demand, cnoiee Timothy 
per luO tb. 81X3350: No l,75@ s oc: No. 2, 65®75c; Clover 
mixed, 60- 1 70c; clover 5d@60c: shipping. 65c. Straw. 
- Long rye 95c(o 81 short do. 60@65e oat. 50®60c. 
Hops The export demand at the moment is light 
and values remain as last quoted. Quotations 
are for: N, Y. State new, best, 13®14c, do 
do. medium to prime, 10<3l2c; do common, 8^9c, do 
18S6. 5'®7c; Pacific Coast, crop 1887, common to choice 
8 ® 12c: do common to good 6®8c. Foreign-Ger¬ 
mans, crop 1387, 18@25c. 
Poultry -live.- Fowls, Jersey, State, and Penn¬ 
sylvania, per ft. lOSllc: fowls, Western, per n>.9%@ 
10%c roosters, old, per n> 5&6 c: turkeys per & 8t. 10c; 
ducks, western pel pair, 60(3 80c; chickens, near-by 
per lb. 9(310c: do, western, per lb, 9@10c; geese, west¬ 
ern, per pair, $1 15@1 50. 
Poultry.—Dressed. -Turkeys, fancy, per pound, at 
ll®13c; do good to choice. 10® 17c. fowls. Jersey, 
ll@12c; fowls, western, 10®10%c: Squabs, white, per 
doz. 8 1 00(3:4 50; Squabs, dark, per doz, 82 75®3 00; 
ducks, Philadelphia, spring, per lb, —®—c: do 
Jersey, choice, I4®l6c; do State 12(315c; do western, 13 
15c; Geese, good to choice, per m, 8®i2c: chickens, 
Philadelphia, b oilers,20@25e; dodo roasters, 16®—c: 
dodo, per lb, 13®15c: do Jersey, choice, per lb, 13 
@l4c; do and fowls, western, per lb, 10®llc; do 
state, lie. 
Game.— Quail, choice, per doz, 82 75 to 3; Wild ducks, 
canvas, per pair, S3@4 50, do redhead. *2 25(a2 50. do 
mallard. 75@90c; do teal, 30®5uc; English Snipe, per 
doz. $2 00. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Fruits.—Fresh.— Apples.—King, per bbl, 83 50@4 00: 
do. Greening, $1 75<t2 25: do Baldwins 82 00 
®2 75: do Spitz. 83 50®4 00: do inferior, per bbl 8125® 
$1 50; Grapes, per lb, 83,5c. cranberries, rape Cod, 
fair to prime, per bbl $8@11 00: do do do common, per 
bbl. *6®7 GO: do Jersey, per crate. $2 50 «8 00 Ur 
anges, Florida, fancy, per box, $4@5 00. do do choice 
$3 25 ti 50 do do. fair to good, $2 50@3 00; do do 
common, $1 ?5®2 00. 
Fruits.—Dried.— Quotations are for: Apples.— 
Evaporated, Choice to fancy, 8%®10c; do com¬ 
mon to prime, evaporated 7 8%c: do sliced, new, 
5<-6%c: do chopped, 2%-»2%c: oo cores and skins, 
1%®1 %c; A poles.State, quarters, new. 5%v> 6%c; Cherries 
— pitt d, ln®2lc; Raspberries—evaporated, new, 22 
®24c do sun-dried. 20®21c: Blackberries. 8%c. Huckel- 
berries new, 10@llc; Reaches, sun-dried, peeled, 17@ 
