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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 26, 1889. 
The Navajo Indians of Arizona own 245,000 
horses and ponies, 300 mules, 3,500 cattle, 
800,000 goats and 500 burros. The wool 
clipped for the year amounted to 1,200,000 
pounds. They also sold 300,000 sheep pelts 
and 100,000 goat skins. The Indian farmers 
raised 8,000 bushels of wheat, 75,000 bushels 
of corn, 20,000 pumpkins and 15,000 melons... 
....Twenty years ago there were92 lightning- 
rod factories in the United States. To-day 
there are but three, and those doing a trifling 
busine«s.... The United States consume 
160,000,000 pairs of boots and shoes per 
annum, 100,000,000 of which are furnished 
by the New England States. 
It turns out that several organizations of 
so-called White-Caps have been bogus, being 
started by witless witlings for the purposes of 
practical joking. During the past week there 
are accounts of three whippings by real White- 
Caps and a large number of “warnings.” In 
three cases, the victims have started suits 
for damages against those who have mal¬ 
treated them, and in two cases attacking 
White Caps were fired upon and several were 
wounded and one killed. Where they met 
with resistance, they always fled. Later re¬ 
ports go to prove that a large proportion ot the 
more reputable members are farmers. 
Detroit wants a cattle inspector. Chicago 
and St. Louis have one.In South 
Omaha 10,000 men are employed in the pack¬ 
ing-houses.The only Spanish moss 
manufactory in the United States is at Fort 
Worth, Texas.The shortage in the 
stock of domestic wool in the United States is 
48,000,000 pounds. According to the 
figures furnished by the chancellors of the 
several dioceses, the total number of active 
Catholics now in the United States'is 8,157,656. 
The number of priests is 8,818, of churches 
1,353, and of chapels 1,480. There are 199 
orphan asylums, 32 theological seminaries, 
725 colleges, 549 academies, and 2,799 parochial 
schools, with 697,196 scholars. There are 13 
archbishops and 73 bishops. It is customary, 
in making allowance for infants, minors and 
non-church goers, to compute the entire popu 
lation of any religious body in this country as 
50 per cent, greater than its number of active 
members. On this basis the total number of 
Catholics in the United States, active and 
nominal, would be, for 1888,12,000,000. against 
9,500.000 in 1884.Justice Miller of 
the United States Supreme Court has just had 
an operation for lithotomy successfully per¬ 
formed on him. It is the second within ten 
years, the first having occurred in 1878. 
There is a midwinter flood in Montreal. The 
wharves are submerged, and it is feared that 
the temporary dike completed last year will 
give way. Owing to mild weather a 
part of the ice palace in process of erection at 
Montreal collapsed Thursday afternoon, the 
thermometer registering 55 in the shade. 
It looks as if the St. Paul ice palace would 
have to be built of artificial ice, if built at 
all.The twenty-first annual meeting of 
the Woman’s Board of Missions was held 
Wednesday at Worcester Mass. During 
the past year $93,941.41 were received 
in legacies and donations..... 
Those who have the George Washington 
centenary in hand in New York have asked 
the State legislature for $175,000 to defray 
expenses of one sort or another.“ There 
is not a particle of rain, snow or even mist in 
the United States to-day,” said the United 
States Signal Officer in New York last Sun¬ 
day morning.There are in South 
Carolina 15,000 whites who cannot read or 
write, an equal number in Tennessee, 20,000 
in Georgia, 20,000 in Alabama. 15,000 in Miss¬ 
issippi, 20,000 in .Louisiana, 20,000 in North 
Carolina, and 25,000 in Virginia.High 
License has cut down the number of saloons 
in St. Paul from 763 to 361—a falling off of one 
half in one year .The railroads east of 
the Mississippi River have made inauguration- 
day rates of one full fare for the round trip, 
tickets limited from Feburary 28 to March 
8.The Ohio legislature has passed 
a bill to suppress “ bucket shops,” and gam¬ 
bling in stocks, bonds, petroleum, cotton, 
grain, provisions and other produce—implying 
that a buyer or seller must receive or deliver 
goods which the contract calls for. 
During the past 13 years 423 railway com¬ 
panies with 43,770 miles of lines—more than 
one-third of the entire mileage of the country 
to-day—and representing in securities almost 
$2,545,000,000, over 30 per cent, of the present 
railway capital—have been seized by the 
courts for the benefit of their creditors and 
sold at auction. The directors of nearly all 
of them, or the director-in-chief at any rate, 
have made big money out of their roads 
while the stockholders suffered. The roads 
are, for the most part, used for stock-gambling 
purposes, the officials in control making 
money by arbitrarily raising or depressing 
the stock, with no regard for the interests of 
the share-holders. Then some of them were 
purposely wrecked to “freeze out” 
the original stock-holders. 
The Ford Immigration Committee favor a 
bill providing that all intending emigrants be 
compelled to give three months’ notice of their 
intention to come to this country, and to sub¬ 
mit to an examination by a United States 
consular agent or other proper officer 
as to their character, antecedents and general 
fitness, upon the result of which will depend 
their admission to the United States. It is 
also recommended that provision be made for 
the return to their Dative country of emi¬ 
grants, who after two years’ residence in the 
United States shall prove to be objectionable 
and the Government assumes control of Castle 
Garden.No Governor, so far as we 
have seen,has neglected in his message to refer 
to the tidal wave of bribery which struck 
this country in November. 
Nothing new with regard to the 
“Electric Sugar Swindle'”. 
The Dominion Government has decided to 
largely reduce, if not entirely withdraw, the 
amount annually expended to assist immi¬ 
gration into Canada. Last year $244,789 were 
expended on this account, and now the 
Knights of Labor have demanded that no 
more assisted passages be granted. They are 
urging Sir John Macdonald to introduce a 
measure to exclude alien labor, and he has 
promised to move in the matter. He states, 
however, that any measure he may introduce 
cannot exclude working-men coming'into the 
country from any other portion of the 
British possessions. The Dominion 
Government is now considering the question 
of increasing the duty on American flour 
from 50 cents to $1 per barrel as an offset to 
the proposal to impose a duty on fresh fish 
entering the United States from Canada. 
The annual resources of Alaska are estimated 
by Governor Swineford in his last report at 
$9.000,000. ; .Miss Mary Garrett of 
Baltimore.is building, for Bryn Mawr College, 
a girls’ preparatory school. to cost $200,000. 
Her father, the late Robert Garrett, of the B. 
and O. R.R., left her about $20,000,000. 
Mrs. Jay Gould died January 14tb, aged 50 
years..A vein of silver extending 
for miles, and showing an assay of $2,800 to 
the ton, has been struck within twelve miles 
of Duluth.W. D. Washburn has 
been chosen United States Senator for Minne¬ 
sota, and Anthony Higgins for Dela¬ 
ware; both Republicans. Matt. W. Ransom, 
Democrat, has been chosen for North 
Carolina. The farmers were opposed 
to the three beaten candidates. 
Wednesday, Senator Hale reported from the 
Census Committee, with several important 
amendments, the House bill to provide for the 
taking of the 11th census of the United States. 
Provision is made for an enumeration of the 
surviving veterans of the war of the rebellion, 
the organizations to which they belong, and 
their length of service during the war. The 
population schedule is to include an inquiry 
relating to the number of negroes, mulattoes, 
quadroons, and octoroons. Statistics are to 
be taken relating to the recorded indebted¬ 
ness of private corporations and individuals, 
and also to animals not on farms. 
The House has passed the omnibus bill pro¬ 
viding for the admission of North and South 
Dakota, Montana, Washington and New Mex¬ 
ico, and the Senate is likely to pass it also.... 
In the Wisconsin Senate the other day, a 
bill was introduced providing for the appoint¬ 
ment of a railway commission to decide on 
the reasonableness of rates charged by rail¬ 
way companies in the State.George 
Hacker, an Indianapolis anarchist, who 
stabbed his employer, James Bruce, because 
the latter expressed gratification at the elec¬ 
tion of General Harrison, was sentenced 
Thursday to fourteen years in the peniten¬ 
tiary.In the Roman Catholic Cathedral 
at Philadelphia, Thursday morning, Miss 
Louisa Bouviei Drexel, daughter of the late 
Francis A. Drexel, was married to Edward 
De Vaux Morrell, Archbishop Ryan officiat¬ 
ing. The gifts to the bride are valued at 
$250,000.In the Illinois Senate the 
other day Mr. Fuller introduced bills for re¬ 
ducing railway fares to two cents a mile; 
making it unlawful, with a fine of from $1,000 
to $5,000, for elective or appointive officials to 
accept or use railway passes.The 
boomers are pouring into Oklahoma by the 
hundreds. Within the past week 750 wagons 
have crossed the Canadian River on the way 
to the coveted lands. The authorities appear 
to be doing nothing to check the 
invasion or expel the invaders. 
The Snuny Side. 
Enough has been written on the subject of 
consumption, to make even a well man mor¬ 
bid and apprehensive. 
But this has all been in its discouraging 
aspect. 
Now, we are led, or more exactly speaking, 
Compound Oxpgen urges us to say cheerful 
things. 
However, better than all we can possibly 
say, are the words of our patients, or we 
might say, our eas-patients, for they are re¬ 
lieved or cured now. 
Observe the comfort and encouragement in 
the following brief extracts. 
Portage, Wis., Jan. 30, 1888. 
“ My wife has been taking your Compound 
Oxyen for over two years for consumption 
and has derived much benefit from its use 
In fact I think she would have died long ago 
but for it.” H. D. James. 
Little Rock, Ark., March 30,1888. 
“ lam happy to inform you that I am of 
the opinion that your Compound Oxygen 
saved my life.” Mr. J. T. Bailey. 
Nashua. N. H., Feb. 14, 1888. 
“I commenced your Compound Oxygen 
Treatment the last of August, 1887, and was 
happily surprised to find at the end of one 
month I was almost entirely relieved.” 
Mrs. S. K, Daggety. 
Ahens, Ohio, Feb. 29, 188^. 
“ The effects of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment in my case were wonderful. I feel 
very confident that I owe my life to the Com¬ 
pound Oxygen,” Mrs. M. E. Warden. 
For further information regarding Com¬ 
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pages, containing the full history of the treat, 
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Francisco, Cal.— Ado. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Paris in May next still go on. Although the 
display will be by no means as attractive as 
was that of 1867. there is every prospect that 
the industrial growth of the world will be 
amply set forth in a splendid object-lesson. 
There is no country to which America was 
more indebted during its struggle for inde¬ 
pendence than to France, and we can now, in 
some measure, help to repay the obligation by 
takinpr an active part in the Exposition of 18S9. 
Germany refuses to make any official notice 
of it, and several other European countries 
will give little or no State aid to exhibitors 
from their own borders. Indeed this coun¬ 
try appears willing to do more than any other 
. . . .AlessandroGavazzi,an Italian ex-priest, 
who for 40 years has been denouncing the 
papal authority all over Europe and this 
country, died the other day aged 80. 
Nearly a million Lebel rifles have been turned 
out in France, yet the manufacture of them 
continues, since the Government intends to 
have four rifles ready for each soldier when 
the great mobilization comes. 
The Samoan, or Navigatiors’ Islands consist of 
a group of nine inhabited islands about 800 
miles south of the equator, and 400 miles 
northeast of the Feejee Islands. They have a 
population of 40,000 and an area of 1,120 
square miles. There has been an understand¬ 
ing or treaty between this country. Great 
Britain and Germany, to the effect that the 
islands should remain indepedent, and the 
United States have obtained control of the 
best harbor in the islands as a naval depot. 
In its new lust for colonization Germany has 
of late been carrying things with a high hand 
there, deposing one king, who is still held a 
prisoner, setting up another, fomenting 
civil war, bombarding villages, arresting 
natives and foreign settlers, among the latter 
an American. It is also said that they have 
torn down the American flag and burned it. 
Much excitement in Washington. A vote just 
passed appropriating $600,000 to maintain 
American rights and treaty obligations on the 
islands. One United States warvessel is thpre 
now, and two others have been sent there.... 
Public Speakers and Singers 
Can use “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” 
freely, without fear of injury, as they con¬ 
tain nothing injurious. They are invalu¬ 
able for allaying the hoarseness and irri¬ 
tation incident to vocal exertion, effectually 
clearing and strengthening the voice. “They 
greatly relieve any uneasiness in the throat.” 
-S. S. Curry, Teacher of Oratory, Boston. 
Ask for and obtain only “ Brown’s Bron¬ 
chial Troches.” 25 cents per box.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 26, 1889. 
In spite of the disturbed condition of French 
politics, preparations for the great Inter¬ 
national Exhibition that is to be .opened in 
Saturday, January 26, 1889. 
The following officers of the Association of 
American Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations were elected the other day at 
their Convention at Knoxville, Tenn. Presi¬ 
dent, C. W. Atherton of Pennsylvania; Secre¬ 
tary, C. E. Thorn of Ohio; Vice presidents, S. 
W. Johnson of Connecticut, C. L. Ingersoll of 
Colorado, L. L. Maginnis of Texas, E. A. 
Murphree of Arkansas and W. B. Preston of 
Virginia; Executive Committee, Alvord of 
Maryland, Henry of Wisconsin, Roberts of 
New York, McBride ot South Carolina and 
Goodell of Massachusetts.The planters 
of Union and Kershaw counties, S. C., are 
somewhat alarmed at the prospect of a negro 
exodus, a number of car-loads of negroes 
having just left both counties for Arkansas, 
their passages being prepaid by railroad 
contractors, who have engaged them 
for two years under an iron-clad con¬ 
tract. It is expected that others will 
soon follow, leaving the fields without 
enough hands to till them. 
In the last 10 years New Zealand has exported 
70,000,000 rabbit skins valued at $1,375,000. 
In the same time the colony of Victoria, in 
Australia, has exported 29,000,000. There’s a 
large market for them in London. 
Inoculating hogs with the germs of the hog 
cholera, with a view to keeping them from tak¬ 
ing the disease in virulent form, was a failure 
in Kansas. Out of 307 well hogs, 290 took the 
disease through the inoculation, and died. 
...Boston received 124,468 cattle, 557,613 
sheep and 1,145,446 swine in 1888 . 
Kansas City received in 1888 a total of 1,056,- 
086 cattle, 2,008,984 hogs and 351,050 sheep, 
an increase over 1887 of 386,862 cattle, and 
141,094 sheep, and a decrease of 414 278 hogs. 
. Omaha received 1,283,600 hogs, 
340.469 cattle and 158,503 sheep during 
1888, against 1,011,706 hogs, 235,723 cattle 
and 76,914 sheep for 1887. 
Numerous petitions are being circulated 
throughout Michigan, Minnesota and several 
other Western States asking the legislatures 
to repeal the law taxing mortgages. Borrow¬ 
ers and lenders are alike anxious for this 
needed reformation.The Governor of 
Minnesota has secured the services of Prof. 
Lugger to visit farming communities in the 
northwestern part ot the State and make a 
collection of frosted wheat from various lo¬ 
calities for the purpose of having made, 
through the proper professors at the experi¬ 
ment station on the University farm, a thor¬ 
ough investigation by experiments in germi¬ 
nation, by chemical analyses, etc., of its 
virtue for seeding purposes. 
The Cornell University Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, organized under the provisions 
of the Hatch bill, has just placed all the work 
of the station on fungus diseases of plauts in 
charge of William R. Dudley, of the Labora¬ 
tory of Cryptogamic Botany. He requests 
fruit-growers, farmers, gardeners, timber 
owners, botanists and others to aid him in in¬ 
telligently laying the foundation of this work; 
..The Illinois State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture has elected Prof. Geo. E. Morrow, of the 
Champaign University, as Secretary for the 
Board.Tne war against the “Fertil¬ 
izer Trust,” is^in full blast in Georgia. A larg e 
district convention of the Farmers’ Alliance 
was held the other day at Columbus, and 
another at Athens,| at which_it was agreed 
not to buy fertilizers unless they could be ob¬ 
tained at the Driees ruling last year. Recent¬ 
ly dealers advanced prices.Reports 
from 42 New-York State dealers show 326,000 
barrels of apples on hand, of which only 15 000 
have gone out. There are also 105,000 
barrels in the hands of farmers. 
The following farmers’ institutes are arranged 
for Pennsylvania; 
COUNTY. PLACE. DATE. 
Lancaster.Lancaster. Feb. 5- 6 
Chester..Kennett Square Feb. 12-14 
Northumberland.Milton. Feb. 14 15 
Perry.New Bloomfield Feb. 14-15 
Adams.Gettvsburg .... Feb. 19-20 
York.York...._ Feb. 21-22 
Oleomargarine manufacturers are said to be 
introducing the unlawful commodity in this 
State by sending canvassers around to board¬ 
ing houses and restraurant keepers, who agree 
to express the oleo in packages concealing its 
true character. Commissioner Van Valken- 
burg proposes to stop this illicit dealine also 
.The Jacksonville Board of Trade 
wants a dollar a box tariff on oranges and 
lemons, and the Florida Senators and 
Representatives are asked to push the 
measure... 
The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Dutch 
Belted Cattle Association will be held at the 
Cosmopolitan Hotel, New York City, February 
14th, 11:30 A. M. Application for the registry 
of foundation animals must be made at the 
annual meeting to receive proper attention. 
H. B. Richards, Secretary, Easton, Pa. 
Representative Burnes, of Missouri, received 
a paralytic stroke Wednesday, while in the 
House of Representatives, from the effects of 
which he died next day ....The tobacco 
growers of central New York assembled in 
large numbers in Baldwinsville on Saturday. 
Resolutions were passed asking Congress to 
protect growers by imposinga duty of 70 cents 
per pound on foreign wrappers and 35 cents 
on fillers; also in favor of the abolition of the 
war taxes on all forms of tobacco. 
The meeting of dairymen and dealers at 
Springfield, Ill., was largely attended, and 
many encouriug letters were received from 
all parts of the country. On motion of Mr. 
T. B. Wales, it was determined to organize a 
national dairy fair association, with a capital 
of $100,000, in shares of $25 each .In 
conversation with some parties dealing in oleo¬ 
margarine oil they had this to say, that the 
average amount of American oil used in 
Dutch markets ran about 3,100 tierces each 
week in 1888 and about 3,200 tierces in 1S87. 
New shipments made this month aver- 
aeed 4,665 tierces per week. 
The annual meeting of the Connecticut State 
Board of Agriculture at Hartford recently 
elected these officers: President, Morgan G. 
Bulkely; Vice-President, Albert Dav,of Brook¬ 
lyn; Secretary, T. S. Gold, of West Cornwall; 
Treasurer, J. S. Kirkham, of Newingtou. 
The Board of Control of the Massachusets Ex¬ 
periment Station met Wednesday to arrange 
an application to the Legislature for an appro¬ 
priation of some $6,000 for a building in which 
experiments and investigations in vegetable 
physiology may be conducted, especial¬ 
ly with reference to the causes of 
diseases of plants and how they may 
be prevented or removed. 
(Cv0|)5 & markets. 
Saturday, January 26, 1889. 
Charleston (S. C.), January 22 —The News 
and Courier says editorially that day by day 
the cotton crop of 1888-89 assumes more gen¬ 
erous proportions, and there are few who now 
dispute the fact that it will be the largest 
crop ever made. It seems not extravagant to 
hope that with the present outlook the crop 
will approximate, if it does not reach, the 
magnificent total of 7,500,000 bales. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York, Saturday, January 26, 1889. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classlflcatlon, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. 
Texas 
8 5-16 
Ordinary. 
Strict Ordinary- 
Good Ordinary.8 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 8 13-16 
Low Middling.9^6 
Strict Low Middling... 
Middling. 9% 
Good Middling.10*4 
8trlct Good Middling..!(% 
Middling Fair.10 18-16 
Fair.11 7-16 
STAINED. 
7 
7« 
8 9-16 
9 1-16 
m 
101 $ 
10 $ 
im 
11 1-16 
11 11-16 
Good Ordinary.6 11-16 1 Low Middling. 8 7-16 
Strict Good Ord.7 % I Middling. 9 5-16 
Poultry—live Fowls, near-by, per n>, 9091^c; fowls 
Western, per it. 9e • roosters, per ft, 6@6$c: tur¬ 
keys, per tt 839o: ducks, western, per pair, 6039nc; 
geeBO, western, per pair, $1 -lOffll 65; chickens; nearbv, 
per lb. K@9c; do, western, 839c. 
Poultry.—Dresskd— Turkeys, dry picked, good to 
choice, per It, ll®14o; do do, common to fair, 8®10c; 
do, iced, dry pieked, choice, 11® 12c. Fowls, western, 
do, choice, lOtEUc; do, nearby, do do, I0@l2c; 
do, western. Iced, dry picked. 9o ; do do do, scalded, 
8®9c. Squabs, white, per doz, $1 00®$-do, dark, 
do, $250@$800. Chickens. Philadelphia, dry picked, 
153170, do Jersey, do, choice, 13® 11c; do nearby, do, 
good, 12$ 13c; do Western, do do, 11® I2e; do do. Iced, 
good to choice 10@l2c. Ducks, nearby, choice, per lb, 
14@15c; dodo, good, 13a 11; do Western, good, 13® 11c. 
Geese, Western, good, 7®8c, 
Game.—W ild Ducks, Canvas back, per pair, $2 50® 
@$4 00; do, Red Head, do, $1 00®$2 00; Mallard, do. 
75e@$l 00; do, Teal, do, 25@40c; Quail, per doz, $2 uu 
®$2 50. 
Hops.— State, new, best, 21@0Be; do, prime, 19@20o; 
