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THE BUBAL NEW-YORICO. 
fCemg of tlje Wttk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, October 13, 1888. 
Sidney Hinman has just arrived in New¬ 
port, R. I. from New York in a skiff eight 
feet long by three and half feet wide. He 
carried a main-sail and a jib and encountered 
a severe storm in the Sound. There has 
been a serious strike on the Chicago street 
railways during the past * eek. Several seri¬ 
ous conflicts with the police have taken place. 
More trouble is looked for. Chief Jus¬ 
tice Fuller was last Monday sworn in, accord- 
to the impressive rites of the United States 
Supreme Court. Associate Justice Miller 
administered the oath of allegiance. Follow¬ 
ing the ceremony about 20 attorneys were ad¬ 
mitted to practice at the Supreme Court bar, 
and the new Chief Justice adjourned the 
Court. After the ceremony all the members of 
the Supreme Court called at the White House 
to pay their respects to the President. 
A secret organization of Anarchists, embrac¬ 
ing many prominent citizens of Widfield t 
Kan., has just been unearthed. It is called 
the “National Order of Videttes.”. 
A live electric light wire at Houston street and 
Bowery, this city, on Saturday afternoo^ 
knocked over a car-horse, gave a stirring 
shock to a number of passengers in the car, 
set fire to the elevated railway structure and 
cut up numerous other antics before a line-man 
finally brought it into subjection. 
In the Mexican district of Ures an eruptive 
fever is causing many deaths.Jack¬ 
sonville continues to suffer from the yellow 
fever epidemic, though the number of new 
cases daily has diminished a little. 
—From China and Japan it is reported that 
terrible storms about the beginning of the 
month caused the loss of many thousands of lives 
and an immense destruction of property. 
The Supreme Court of Utah has entered Anal 
judgment in favor of the United States in its 
suits to dissolve the Mormon Church Corpora¬ 
tion and to have its property declared escheat¬ 
ed to the Government: over a million dollars’ 
worth of property is in the hands of the re¬ 
ceiver.Nearly two hundred people 
were injured by the giving way of weak tim¬ 
bers at the laying of the corner-stone of St. 
Mary’s Catholic Church at Reading, Pa , on 
Sunday; of this number but one has died 
though several are seriously hurt.A 
new Russian loan of fifteen million 
rubles has been started. 
_The majority report of the Utah Commis¬ 
sion renews and emphasizes the doctrine that 
Utah should not be admitted into the Union 
as a state until the Mormons shall give full evi¬ 
dence of having abandoned polygamy, and 
until the National Constitution shall be so 
amended as to prohibit polygamy in all parts 
of the United States.The state of 
Sonora, Mex., levies a tax of $2 on every baby 
born within its limits.. A grand 
stand which had been erected at Quincy, 111., 
to accommodate 6,000 people, on Wednesday 
night partially collapsed, causing injury to 
500 or more individuals. About 150 were 
seriously injured, yet, at last accounts, none 
had died, although there are many who 
cannot recover....A new line of 
steamers to run between New York and 
Norfolk is proposed.Few 
signs yet of an adjournment by Congress. 
Senators are now indulging in a tariff debate. 
Members of the House are watching the Sen¬ 
ators.New York City politics are badly 
mixed. There are four candidates for Mayor, 
named by the Republican, Labor, County De¬ 
mocracy and Tammany Hall. The Mug¬ 
wumps are trying to defeat Hill and elect Cleve¬ 
land. The fight promises to be intensely bit¬ 
ter_A "road-sculler” race, with noted oars¬ 
men as competitors is in progress at Madison 
Square Garden. The men sit on wheeled ma¬ 
chines which they propel by work similar to 
that done in rowing.Wm. A. West, chief 
inspector of the Post Office Department, has 
just issued his report. He shows that during 
the last fiscal year, 12.957,611 pieces of mail 
matter were registered, of which only 845 were 
lost, or one piece in every 15,334 pieoes hand¬ 
led. A comparative statement is given which 
shows that in 1885, 10,531,642 pieces were reg¬ 
istered and 1.243 l 06 t, or one in every 8,472 
pieces handled, in 1887,11,914,792 pieces were 
registered, of which one in every 11,187 were 
lost, In 1886, 11,102,607 pieces were regis¬ 
tered, and of this number one in every 10,655 
pieces were lost.Already the steamers 
running between Hong Kong and Ban 
Francisco bring fewer Chinese. This is 
the first result of the new law ..The 
Illinois State Board of Labor Statistics 
has been collecting statistics regarding 
the amounts of the mortgages in Illinois. 
It will show some surprising figures. 
A terrible railroad accident occured on the 
Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mud Run last Wed¬ 
nesday. Tne accident occurred between 
eight and nine in the evening. Seven long 
trains loaded with people going to attend the 
celebration of the Father Matthew Society 
followed each other over the track. In 
some unexplained manner one train 
smashed into another. Over 80 persons 
were killed, 100 more injured. 
Six Chinamen attempted to pass into this 
couuiry from Canada last Wednesday. They 
came on the Canada Pacific railroad in bond 
and claimed to be residents of the United 
States. The collector of customs at Piatts- 
burg refused to allow them to enter this coun¬ 
try and they were sent back to Montreal. 
Meanwhile the Chinamen are the wards of the 
railway companies. They must either stay in 
Canada by payment of $50 poll-tax or the 
company must send them back to Hong-Kong. 
Meantime orders have been telegraphed 
to the Pacfic end of the railway to take no 
more Chinamen as passengers. A 
steamer loaded with 16,000 gallons of refined 
oil in tanks caught fire in Brooklvn Thursday, 
and caused a loss of $500,000. The oil belong¬ 
ed to the Standard Oil Co... New York con¬ 
fidence men are unusually bold just now. 
The case of Adam Badeau against Mrs. 
General Grant was set down for Thursday, 
but owing to Counsel’s inability to proceed at 
present another postponement was made. 
.The Steamer Baltic sank at her 
dock in Liverpool last Monday.. 
A party of 25 engineers are *at work around 
Joliet Ills, mapping out a route for the pro¬ 
posed Hennepin Canal ..A tramp gained 
entrance to the Eighth Lutheran Church, near 
Fort Wayne, Ind., Wednesday, and set fire to 
the altar, which was burned, and the church 
was saved only by the timely discovery of the 
flames. The tramp escaped ..Governor 
Gordon and other State officials of Georgia 
were re-elected without opposition .A 
curious bet has been made at Charleston, Ind. 
A prominent young lady of Democratic views 
promises to marry a well-known young man 
if Harrison is elected. If not the young man 
is to pay her $100.A coal famine with 
higher prices for fuel is what threatens all 
towns and cities along the Ohio and Missis¬ 
sippi rivers ..Chief, the big elephant bej 
longing to Forepaugh’s circus, became unruly 
while being unloaded at Philadelphia, Wed¬ 
nesday. He broke loose and put his keepers 
to flight. 25 bullets were fired into 
his body and he will probably die. 
James C. Flood the “Bonanza King” is dy¬ 
ing of Bright’s disease at Carlsbad. 
Senator Edmunds introduced a bill this week 
to pay the widow ot Chief Justice Waite $8,745, 
a sum equal to the balance of his salary for the 
year in which he died, and this was passed by 
the Senate Wednesday..Judge Thur¬ 
man has given $2,000 to the Democratic Cam¬ 
paign fund. How much did Candidate Mor¬ 
ton give the Republicans ?.The colored 
people of Maryland are holding an industrial 
fair at Baltimore which is attracting much at¬ 
tention. It is their first attempt in that line. 
. The retaliation bill has been practi¬ 
cally shelved by the Senate committee on 
foreign affairs. Eight citizens of Jack- 
son Miss, who violated the quarantine law 
by returning to the city, during the epi¬ 
demic, were fined $25 each. 
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A Blessed State ol Affairs. 
It is a blessed state of affairs when good be¬ 
comes contagious. When the endeavor to 
achieve one object accomplishes many. Fav¬ 
orable results sometimes get into occult sym¬ 
pathy with an established instance of their 
kind and follow with that persistency which 
sometimes characterizes extremes of good and 
bad luck, and accounts for the expression, “It 
never rains but it pours.” For instance: 
Danville, Des Moines Co., Ia., July 11, ’88. 
Compound Oxygen saved my life by the 
blessing of God. mrs. s. a. swan. 
Haggertstown, Md., July 14, 1888. 
If it had not been lor Compound Oxygen I 
would have been under the sod. 
C. H. SPANGLER. 
Gainesville, Ga., July 21, 1888. 
I fully believe that Compound Oxygen sav¬ 
ed my son’s life. m. a. turner. 
Suffolk, Va., July 10, 1888. 
I have used your Compound Oxygen, and 
have been greatly benefited thereby. 
L. S. WHALEY. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
ing the effect of Compound Oxygen on inva¬ 
lids suffering from consumption, asthma, bron¬ 
chitis, dyspepsia, catarrh, hay fever, headache, 
debility, rheumatism, neuralgia; all chronic 
and nervous disorders. It will be sent, free of 
charge, to any one addressing Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
331 Montgomery St.,San Francisco, Cal. —Adv. 
■ ■ • • • . 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October, 13, 1888. 
The apple export business is in full force. 
Last week we sent from this country to Eng¬ 
land 72,000 barrels. Prices on the other side 
range from $1.87j^to $2.75. Baldwins and 
Greenings sell best. The supply of Newtown 
Pippins never equals the demand on the other 
side.Hardly a week passes without a 
suggestion of a new substance to take the 
place of jute-bagging. Palmetto bark fibre 
is the latest. Many are of the opinion that 
a case of fine wire netting to be used 
several years will be used eventually. 
. .Experiments with Pasteur’s method of ex¬ 
terminating the rabbits in Australia, have 
proved successful.The next National 
Convention of Cattle Growers, under the aus¬ 
pices of the Consolidated Cattle Gl ower’s Asso¬ 
ciation, will be held at the Grand Pacific Ho¬ 
tel, Chicago, convening at 2 P. M. Monday, 
November 19th, next. One of tne most inter, 
estmg features of the meeting will probably 
be the discussion growing out of the report 
which the Hon. J. H. Pickerell will make, of 
the Texas fever experiments that have been 
conducted at the Chicago stock-yards this 
summer. Secretary, Alvin H. Sanders, 226 
La Salle St., Chicago.....Omaha people 
think their pork packing business will be sec¬ 
ond only to that of Chicago. What do 
I Chicago people think ? .The 
English Royal Agricultural Society have 
issued a prize list for jams, preserved fruit, 
&c., in connection with the society’s jubilee 
meeting next year at Windsor. There are two 
sets of prizes, one for fruit growers, open to 
individuals and associations of growers, and 
the other manufacturers of jams who are not 
fruit growers. One condition of the compe¬ 
titions is that the jam and preserved fruit and 
jellies must be prepared exclusively from 
fruits grown in the United Kingdom in 1888. 
The object is to get up an increased interest in 
fruit canning &c.Wilmington, 
Del., opened its first agricultural fair Tues¬ 
day, ana Secretary Bayard was the 
orator of the occasion. .... 
The present orange crop in Florida is said to 
be the largest within the history of the State. 
The estimate is that the yield will be fully 
4,000 0<)0 boxes. Will oranges be cheap?.... 
Over 2,000.000 lambs are slaughtered in this 
city every year. We lead the world in lamb¬ 
killing . .Massachusetts has this year ap¬ 
propriated $81,421.75 for agricultural pur¬ 
poses .The cost of keeping a sheep one 
ypar in Montana is put at 30 cents. 
The American Association of Jacks and 
Jennets is the latest. It was organized at 
Springfield, Ills., Sept. 17. W. H. Good- 
pasture, Nashville, Tenn., is Secretary. It is 
said that over $50,000,000 are invested in jacks 
and jennets in this country, and if mules are 
added, the sum would exceed $100,000,000. 
No class of stock has been so much neglected 
and none would respond to good breeding, 
care and management more profitably or 
readily. This neglect is worse in other 
countries than this, and American breeders 
need fear no competition from abroad ... 
In this connection it may be stated that efforts 
are again being made to create a boom for the 
Angora goat .... A correspondent of 
the Ohio Farmer writes that Idaho cattle are 
now being laid down in New York in less than 
120 hours from the Idaho ranges, 25,00 miles 
distant. The stock is fed and watered in tran¬ 
sit. The running speed on the Union Pacific 
ranges is from 40 to 45 miles through. It is 
intended to establish a regular rapid transit 
line, each train being equipped with a dining 
and sleeping car. Tne stock will not be un¬ 
loaded, and the only delay will be for wa¬ 
ter .It is said that the Marshalltown 
(Iowa) Barbed Wire Works, will, owing to 
exorbitant freight rates, be compelled 
to move their plant East.. 
weather in July, which hastened the harvest 
fully ten days. Since harvest began little or 
no rain has fallen, which has enabled the 
farmers to secure the grain in good shape. 
All the grain thrashed so far has been dry 
and in good condition, except where it'is 
stack-burned on account of its being cut be¬ 
fore fully ripe and stacked before cured. 
Oats are a light crop, having rusted badly 
and also blighted some. Many places will have 
to ship in oats before another crop, while oth¬ 
er parts report a small surplus. 
Owing to the ruling high prices farmers 
are disposed to sell their grain as quickly as 
they can,and in many instances will sell them 
selves short of seed. From all parts of the 
territory come reports of prairie fires, which 
have destroyed thousands of acres of grain in 
the stack and which must amountto hundreds 
of thousands of bushels of all kinds of grains. 
The Cincinnati Price Current after carefully 
reviewing all obtainable figures concludes 
that the following is a fair representation of 
this season’s production of wheat compared 
with last year: 
1888. 18S7. 
Winter crop.255,000,000 293.000.000 
Spring crop.180.000.000 163.000,000 
Total, bushels.385,OCO.OOO 456,000,000 
The abatement to be made in comparative 
weight of the grain is considerable. Last 
year’s crop is reported as having been 58.5 
pounds to the bushel. If this season’s crop 
averages 56 pounds its equivalent will be 
370,000,000 bushels on the basis of last year’s 
weight, or as compared with the 456,000,000 
bushels reported. 
Farmers and others who have a little leisure 
time for the next few months will find it to 
their interest to write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 
of Richmond, Va. They offer great induce¬ 
ments to persons to work for them all or part 
of their time.— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, October IS, 1888. 
Crops & iHorkrts. 
Saturday, October 13, 1888. 
The October crop returns of the Department 
of Agriculture show that the condition of the 
present corn crop has been equaled only three 
times in 10 years, and is exceeded materially 
only by that of 1879, when the condition was 
98, and the subsequent ascertained yield 28 
bushels by the census of 1880. The present 
average of condition is 92, against 94.2 in 
September. 
The condition of buckwheat has declined 
heavily from 93.7 last month to 79.1, mainly 
from the effects of frosts, as this grain is pro¬ 
duced only in the higher latitudes. 
The average condition of the potato crop is 
about 87. a decline of less than four points. 
New York stands at 82, Michigan at 83, a de¬ 
cline of six and seven points respectively. 
Tobacco has fully maintained the condition 
of last month, averaging for all kinds 88.3. 
The general average yield of winter wheat 
is 12 bushels per acre, and spring wheat 
slightly over 10 bushels. The quality is much 
below the average, which will still further re¬ 
duce the supply. 
The average of reported condition of cotton 
is 78.9, a decline from 83.8 in September. 
Louisiana and South Carolina show the great¬ 
est reduction, and Texas, Florida, and North 
Carolina the least. 
A special report to the N. Y. Journal of 
Commerce from Chicago says: The hog has 
been and is still the mam source of profit to 
the farmer. Prices have been remunerative, 
and there has been no inducement whatever 
to keep them back a single day after they were 
fit to market, hence we have had a steady flow 
of hogs for over a year. We cannot recall a 
time when at this season hogs were so thor¬ 
oughly cleaned up as now. In fact, the spring 
pigs must be the mam reliance for fall and 
winter packing. The prospect of an immense 
crop of corn does not indicate any increase in 
hogs in the near future. Hogs have to be 
grown and made just as a crop of corn, the 
only difference is that it takes double the time 
to make a hog that it does to grow a crop of 
corn. Those who have hogs are shoving the 
new corn into them as fast as possible. Buyers 
locate every hog fit to s ip, but it takes weeks 
now, where it did days in former seasons, to 
pick up a car load of hogs in any of our 
great corn and hog districts. 
It is reported that the grape crop of Califor¬ 
nia this year is much below the average in 
size and quality of fruit. The early grapes 
coming as they do, from the large valleys of 
the interior of the state, where the weather 
has been unusally warm and the drought has 
had its greatest effect, arrive in the market, 
in an apparently dead and unattractive condi¬ 
tion. 
The report of the Territorial Statistician of 
Dakota states that the farmers will be obliged 
to come south of the frost line to secure their 
seed Some spots were not injured by frost, 
but these are not enough to cut any figure. Cen¬ 
tral Dakota has produced a fair crop, and of 
good milling quality. Two or three of the 
newer settled counties report good crops. 
South Dakota was badly injured by the hot 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas. 
Ordinary. 6 11-16 6 13-16 . . 
Strict Ordinary. 7 13-16 7 5-16 
Good Ordinary. 8 836 . . ’ 
.Strict Good Ordinary.. 8 -y <j% 
Low Middling . 9 5-16 9 7-16 
Strict Low Middling... 9 9-16 9 11-16 ...*' 
Middling. 9 13-16 9 15-16 .! 
Good Middling.10>6 1QV 
Strict Good Middling.. 1036 locfe 
Middling Fair.10% 10% 
Fair.11% 11% ...... 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary. 6 % I Low Middling . 836 
Strict Good Ord.7 5-16 | Middling... 9 ^ 
The speculative market developed a much better 
feeling to day, and yesterday’s loss was regained In a 
great measure Closing prices are 6 points up on Oc¬ 
tober and 2 . 0.6 points on later deliveries, with a fair 
business reported. Sales, 108,000 bales. 
Poultby-Live-FowIs. near-by, per ft,9®9%c: fowls 
Western, per ft,9®9%c- roosters, per ft. 6c: tur¬ 
keys. per ft 10312c: ducks, western, per pair, 50® 65c- 
geese, western, per pair, $1 25@1 40; chickens; spring! 
per lb. 9@10c. 
Poultry.—Dressed—T urkeys, per ft, 7@13c; Fowls, 
Philadelphia, — ; do western, 9®lie: squabs, 
white, per doz. *3 25: do dark, per doz, *2 0O@2 25; 
chickens Philadelphia spring, 14®18c: do western do, 
8@12c; ducks, spring, per lb, 8®20c; do, 9@llc. 
Game.—W oodcock, per pair, $1; Partridges, per 
pair 75c®$1 25; Wild Ducks, per pair, 8i>c(4$l 00. 
Grouse, per pair, 60@55c; English Snipe, per doz., $1 50 
©Hops.—S tate, 1888, best, 30®32c: do, good to prime, 
25ft28c; do. 1887, fair, 14@16: do common, 12®13; do, 
old,6n)’o; California, Ichoice, 27@29c; do good, 1S@16; 
do common, 9® 12. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hav—Choice Timothy, 85@90c 
good do 75@80c, shipping 55@60c; Clover, 50c; mixed, 
55-a.60c. Straw.—No. 1, rye, 70®75e; short do, 55c; oat. 
45c. 
Beans.—M arrows, $2 25; medium, choice, *2 00; 
pea $1 90®1 95; red kidneys, *2 25 : foreign, mediums, 
1 35® 1 55; do small, $2 05®2 10: California Lima, $3 00 
@$8 05; green peas, new, $1 75®1 80. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Vegetables.—P otatoes.-Long island, per bbl,$175® 
185: New Jersey per bbl. $1 50<4*1 65; Sweets, per bbl, 
$1 50®$2 00, Onions, State per bbl 2 00<42 25: Orange 
Co,per bbl, $125»P0; Cabbages. Long Island, per 100, 
$1 50 ®2 50: tomatoes, per crate 25 40c; cucumbers per 
thousand. $100 <o*l 25: corn, p«»r 1U0. 40 <4*1; Egg Plant, 
per bbl, #1 25®$l 75, Beans. Lima $150®*1 75; Squash, 
per bbl, $1 00(4*1 75: Turnips, Russia, 75c@*l 00; Cau¬ 
liflower, per bbl. 75@*2 00. 
Fruits.—Fresh.—P eaches, Jersey, best, $100® 
$125; do do, common to choice, 25@75c. Apples, 
Pippin, per bbl, $1 50«<$2 25 ; do do, King, $2 25®z 50; 
do, Malden’s Blush, *2 25©2 50; do, Gravensteln, $3 U0 
fc*350; do, Baldwin, $1 00®1 65. do, Greening, $1 c5@ 
1 75: do common, *1 25.. 1 40. Pears. Duchess, $3 00® 
4 00; Bartlett, per box, *2 00<43 35; do Beurre Bose; per 
bbl, *6 00®8 00; do Bartlett, per keg. SI 50<44 0o; do Vir- 
galieu, per obi, *3 00<«4 00; ao Sheldon, do 4 00®5 00; 
do Seekel, p r hf. bbl, *3 00-44 50: do Beurre d’Anjou. 
per bbl. *4 00 jlo 00: do luferior, do. $2 00®2 50 Grapes, 
Delaware, per lb, 6®7c; do Catawba, do. 5®6c; Con- 
cord, 2 3c; do, do, Niagara, 6<a8e. Plums, Damson, 
per crate. $1 25®—. Cranberries, Cape Cod, choice 
to fancy, per bbl, $7 75*8 50; do do, colored, $6 50® 
7 50; do do; per crate. $2 21*2 75 ; do Jersey, do, (1 50@ 
2 00. Quinces per bbl, $1 5U@$3 50. 
Fbuit8 Dried—A pples.—Evaporated, new, good to 
choice, 6%@7c; dodo, old, choice to fancy, 6%<«7%c; 
do, common to prime, evaporated, 5®6c do, sliced, 
new, 4@5J4c, do, coarse, cut, 4@4%c. Cherries, new, 
18%®15c. Raspberries, new, 20,*<2. Hlaes o- rries, 
5- 5%e. Huckleberries, 11®.3. Peaches, Delaware’ 
evaporated peeled. I6.*22c do do do. unpeeled, 8%@ 
10; do. North Carolina, sun-dried, peeled, 9v»12c. 
Nuts.—P eanuts are at steady prices, with moderate 
demands. Fancy hand picked quotedat 4%®4%c and 
farmers’ grades at 4J4'»4%c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Potatoes.-Jersey, 30@55c. per_ 
bush, basket; Southern New Rose, cnoice, per bbl. *175 
®2; do, do. medium 10 prime, *1®L 50; do do, culls, bbl, 
40@50c; Southern Chili Reds, choice, bbl, $1 50®2 00. 
“Herbrand ” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.—Adv 
