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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 81, 1889. 
Delegates to the Congress of the Americas 
will meet in Washington on Octobers. They 
will be the guests of the Nation, and before 
proceeding to business they will make a tour of 
the North and West to inspect their character 
and resources. This will probably last from 
October 3 to November 15. When winter sets 
in they will travel through the South. All 
the governments on this continent will, it is 
expected, be represented, and great hopes are 
entertained of good results from this friendly 
conference of all American interests. 
An effort is being made to obtain a fit jury 
for the trial of the six men accused of murder¬ 
ing Dr. Cronin at Chicago. There is great 
danger that a Clan na-Gael supporter may 
contrive to get in, to hang the jury instead 
of the murderers. The trial is likely to at¬ 
tract as much attention as that of the Anar¬ 
chists two years ago. Two desperate attempts 
have already been made to assassinate wit¬ 
nesses against the accused. Nothing will be 
left undone by the desperate friends of the 
murderers to insure a miscarriage of justice. 
.During the year ending J une 30, 
1889, out of the Federal Army of 22,000 men, 
there were 2,842 desertions, whicn cost the 
Government 8600.000. This enormous rate of 
desertion in the best paid army in the world, 
is attributed to the neglect, abuse and cheat¬ 
ing practiced on the enlisted men by the of¬ 
ficers. Their faults are, no doubt, exagger¬ 
ated, but the desertions still remain. 
The poor whites are following the example of 
the negroes in abandoning the Carolinas. The 
Memphis and Charlestown Railroad has made 
arrangements to carry 400 white families 
from both States to Arkansas, and 8,000 neg¬ 
roes from both States to the Yazoo Delta in 
Mississippi; 3,000 more negroes have already 
gone on the same line; while other lines have 
also done a heavy business in transporting 
Carolina negroes to the West in spite of the 
efforts of planters to keep them at home. 
... A trust of paramont interest to farmers 
has just been completed—one to put and keep 
up the price of diamonds: a Diamond Trust.. 
The woolen men still continue to fail: the last 
to do so is J. M. Mackintosh of Milton, Mass., 
liabilities 8100,000. In spite of the 
discontent of the veterans at the refusal of the 
railroads to grant a one-cent-per-mile rate, 
the annual meeting of the Grand Army, at 
Milwaukee, Wis., is quite respectable in 
numbers. Tuesday over 35,000 men were in 
line at the grand parade, and 200,000 enthusi¬ 
astic spectators made the welkin ring. Gen. 
Sherman, Mrs. John A. Logan and Pension 
Commissioner Tanner, appeared to be the 
hottest favorites. A large number of posts 
had formally resolved not to be represented 
on account of the obduracy of the railroads. 
The Commissioner says he is indoubt whether 
to ask for 8110.000,000 or 8115,000.000 for pen¬ 
sions for next year, a rise of about 880,000,000.. 
On Thursday his administration was most en¬ 
thusiastically indorsed by the veterans, and 
his policy applauded to the echo. 
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, has been 
elected Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing 
year. .... 
Jack Dempsey, the “ Nonpareil,’ middle¬ 
weight champion slugger of America, was 
“ knocked out ” in the tnirty-.-econd round by 
George La Blanche, tne “ Marine, 5 ' in a glove 
fight in the rooms of the California Athletic 
Club, at San Francisco, last Tuesday night. 
Jack weighed 151 pounds; and George, 161; 
the odds were 100 to 35 in favor of the former 
before the battle. He defeated the “ Marine” 
some time ago, and will have another fight 
with him soon. This is his first defeat in 
nearly 50 contests.The Inman 
steamer City of Pans, has smashed all pre¬ 
vious trans-Atlantic records—her own among 
them-by making the passage from Queenstown 
to Sandy Hook in five days, 19 hours and 34 
minutes—four hours less than her former un¬ 
precedented record.In analyzing con¬ 
gregational generosity Rev. James Brownlee 
finds that among the Baptists 36 cents is the 
annual contribution p< r head; the Method¬ 
ists, 74 cents; Episcopalians, 81.37; Presby¬ 
terians. $3.17, and the Dutch, 85.21. 
The most disastrous cloud-burst that over oc¬ 
curred in North Carolina, happened near 
Rockingham, Richmond County, last Sunday 
night. It instantly swelled the Pedee River, 
and the mad torrent, far bey ond its banks, 
swept crops, cattle, fences, homes, mills, etc., 
before it, doing a world of damage and caus¬ 
ing several deaths. Eight cloud-bursis have 
occurred in the State Since May 1.Tne 
charge against Justice Field, in connection 
with the Terry matter, has been finally dis¬ 
missed by the California State authorities at 
the suggestion of the Governor. All the 
prosecuting lawyers have also withdrawn ' 
from the deputy-marshal Nagle case; but the 
question whether his action in shooting Terry 
is to come under Federal or State jurisdiction 
will be soon argued before the United States 
District Court at San Francisco. 
A window and table glass trust is the latest, 
under the name of the United Glass Company. 
For 10 years the glassware business here is 
said to have been in poor shape. The object 
or tne trust is, of course, “to save expense, 
cheapen the price and make a profit.” 
There’s some doubt whether the Western man¬ 
ufacturers will join.The formation 
of the Crockery Trust is deferred “till next 
year.”.Down in Marion County, 
Ala., the other night a masked band of regu¬ 
lators took to the woods tlnee proselyting 
Mormon Elders who had refused to obey a 
warning to leave, and having hung tnem up 
by their thumbs, flogged them unmercifully. 
Some married women they had perverted 
were warned to return home, under penalty 
of like fiagelation. Lynch law is the common 
antidote lor the poison of Mormonism in the 
South, where it finds more victims among the 
ignorant “white trash” than in any ocher 
part of the country... 
Jubilation. 
Misery adds to misery, sometimes, in our 
endeavor to escape it. Presently we are con¬ 
fronted by disheartening accumulation: we 
know not where to turn, and courage is al¬ 
most gone. 
But a beneficient providence opens the way, 
at sadly rare intervals, and then—Jubilation. 
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Bunker Hill, Ind., March 14. 1888. 
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Mrs Florence Blue. 
Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 80,1885. 
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Rev. John C Breaker. 
Manchester, Me , Feb. 22. 1888. 
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M. A. Commings. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 31, 1889. 
After Axtell, the three-year-old trotter, had 
made a mile in 2:14 at Washington Park, 
Chicago, on August 23, breaking the record 
of trotters of that age. Col. Conley is reported 
to have offered $100,000 for the colt to Mr. C. 
W. Williams, his breeder and owner; but. the 
offer was declined. The rumor of such an 
offer, even if it was never made, or if made 
by collusion, simply as a friendly puff, is a 
big advertisement for the owner and the trot¬ 
ting tracks where the phenomenon may here¬ 
after appear.Last Sunday, Henry 
Shaw, the philanthroDist and best friend of 
St. Louis, died at, fiis home in St. Louis at the 
age of 89. An Euglishman by birth, born in 
1800, be came to this country in 1819, settled 
in St. Louis, then a petty place, in the hard¬ 
ware trade in a small way. In 20 years he 
amassed a fortune large enough to induce him 
to retire from business. After traveling the 
world over, he devoted bis attention to the 
study and cultivation of plants and flowers, 
and set out the now world-famous botanical 
garden known as the Shaw’s Garden. Some 
time ago he gave to St. Louis the splendid 
Tower Grove Park, and he has also bequeath¬ 
ed to it Shaw’s Garden and most of the 
$2,500,000 he has left behind him. 
To a letter of inquiry from Governor Wol- 
fley, of Arizona, Acting Commissioner Stone 
of the General Land Office, has replied that 
while the act of June 2, 1862, makes a grant 
of public lands to such of the several States 
as may establish colleges for the benefit of 
agriculture and the mechanic arts, it is his 
opinion that it does not apply to Territories 
before their admission into the Union as 
States . _The great Granger’s Inter- 
State Picnic Exhibition opened at Williams 
Grove, Pa., on Monday. The exhibition is 
superior Jr all respects to that of any previ¬ 
ous year and the attendance so far has been 
very large—larger than ever before. Should 
the weather continue favorable, it will be the 
largest meeting of Grangers ever held in this 
country. The Brooklyn Kennel Club 
and Poultry Association’s show will be held 
from September 9 to 11. Over $1,000, besides 
medals and diplomas, will be given as premi¬ 
ums for dogs and poultry. Information will 
be furnished by T. Farrer Rockham, Superin¬ 
tendent, East Orange, New Jersey. 
Mr. John W. Akin, of Scipio, New York, im¬ 
porter of Percherons and French Coach horses, 
had six valuable pure-bred Percheron stallions 
injured on a barbed wire fence, during a recent 
terrific thunderstorm in the night: 21 stallions 
went through a six-wire fence in three places, 
breaking off 31 solid posts and tearing off 20 
reds of wire. All except one of the injured 
horses are doing quite well. Mr. Akin ar¬ 
rived at “Elmwooa ” with his latest importa¬ 
tion of French Coach stallions, August 28.... 
The North Dakota Millers’ Association has de¬ 
cided to place an agent in London to dispose 
of flour direct to the bakers of Great Britain. 
pean countries hold a Grain Congress in 
Vienna, Austria, in August. Estimates are 
then made of the grain crops of the world for 
the current year, the figures being based on 
the most reliable attainable data. The re¬ 
sults reached have a good deal of influence on 
the prices of cereals—for the next few months 
at any rate. Last Monday a brief abstract of 
these results was cabled to this country. The 
figures, to say the least, are startling. It ap¬ 
pears that the European grain crop was lp 
per cent, short. The grain crop in Russia, 
Austria, Hungary and Roumania will not ex¬ 
ceed 160,000,000 bushels this year. 
Advices from the West say that all the im¬ 
portant surplus corn areas, such as Nebraska, 
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana and 
Ohio, have, for the first time during the pres¬ 
ent growing season, enjoyed a period of uni¬ 
formly seasonable temperature for nearly 14 
days. The results are perceptible; first, in 
the very large and free movement of old corn, 
a good movement of oats and a fair move¬ 
ment of wheat, secondly, the weather has 
been all that could be desired for thrashing 
the oat crop and finishing up x>f the harvest 
of the spring wheat, and, last but not 
least, exceedingly favorable for helping out 
the backward corn crop. The danger line, so 
far as an early frost is concerned, is thought 
to be over. Complaints are made of low 
prices for oats, and corn is dropping in price 
every day. At interior points of production 
from Nebraska to Illinois, oats to-day will 
hardly average 16 cents a bushel. Indica¬ 
tions are that, as a rule, farmers will not hold 
their crops for higher prices this year as much 
as they have been doing of late. 
The latest San Francisco estimates of the 
California vintage indicate that it will not 
exceed 12,000 000 gallons this year. This is a 
reduction of 8,000,000 gallons from early esti¬ 
mates of this year’s vintage. This is due 
partly to damage by sanburn and mildew, 
but more especially to the fact that the drying 
of wine grapes will absorb probably 2,000,000 
gallons, while 4,000,000 will go into tne still. 
It is also estimated that the Slate will 
produce 1,000,000 gallons of brandy this year, 
brandy to a large extent superseding wine. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York, Saturday, August 31, 188S. 
NEW YORK MARKETS, 
Wool.— Spring Texas, 17@23c, and Fall do 20<a25c; 
Fall California, ll®18c, and Spring do 18<®21; Scoured 
Texas. 52®58c; Delaine, 36c; Indiana, 29c; Scoured 
Territory, 55c; Donskol, 24>^c; XX Ohio, 34c; Scoured 
Colorado, 53c; Australian, 88c. 
Poultry— Chickens, spring, per lb, ll®l2c: 
Livb Fowls, near-by, per lb, liail^c: fowls 1 
Western, per A,l(%®Uc; roosters, per a, 6y 8 ®7c: tur¬ 
keys, per ft ll@12c; ducks, western.per pair, 55®u.75 
geese, western, per pair, $1 15®$1 40. 
Poultry.—Drkssed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 13® 
16c; Fowls, western, choice, 11® HV6c; do common to 
good, lim@ll: Ducks, spring, good, 10@16; Squabs, 
white, per dozen, £2 500*2 75; do dark, do,*l 5U'<t$l 75; 
Chickens, spring, i0®17c; Fowls, near-by, 12013c. 
Game.— Plover, per doz, $1 25@*2 00 ; Snipe do, do, 
$2 00®*2 25, Woodcock, per pair, $2 25. 
Hops.— State, 1688, best, 16®17c; do, prime, 15@16c; 
do, low grades, 10@12o; do do. 1887, 5@8c; dodo do 
California, common to prime, I2®13c: choice, 14@15c. 
Hay ard Straw.— Choice Timothy, 95@*100; do good 
do, 85@—c; do medium, 70®80c ; shipping, 65®70c; do, 
Clover, mixed, 6b®70c. Straw.—No. 1, rye, 70®75c; 
short do 50®55; oat, 40®45c. 
Brans.— marrows, new, *2 40®*-; new mediums 
choice. *230®2 35; pea. *2 30®*2 85, red kidney, *3 50; 
white kidneys,choice,3.00®-: foreign, mediums, 1 35 
®1 55 ; California Lima, *3 60®*-; green peas, 
*1 40®*-. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy, hand-picked 
quoted at 7*4®79ic, and farmers’ grades at 5®6c. 
Pecans, 5®7c. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE HARKETB. 
Vkortablks.— Potatoes.- Jersey,per bbl., *1 25«*l 50; 
Long Island, do, $1 50®*1 75; Sweets, do, *2 "0®$8 25; 
Cabbage, new, per ICO, $1 50@*2 50; Cucumbers, per 
8,000. *1 25 ®81 50; Egg Plant, per bbl. $2 U0@83 00; To¬ 
matoes, per crate, 35®4uc : Corn, per 100, *1 (xi®*l 75. 
Onions—Orange Co. Red, 35c®* 1 40; Potato, per bbl, 
81 25®*l 50; Jersey White, 81 75® ’2 00; State, Yellow, 
$1 50®*-; Lima Beans, per bag, *1 25®$2 00. 
Fruits.—Krksr.— Apples, per bbl, 81 50®*8 00 
Peaches, per crate, $o 80@*1 60; do, per basket, 30c® 
*1 50; Huckleberries, per qt, 4®6c. iluskmelons, per 
bbl, 50c®*2 50; Watermelons, per 100, *5 C0@$25 00 
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It, is thought this will have a strong tendency 
to strengthen the home wheat market, and, be¬ 
sides, will result in the building of a number 
ef new mills . 
Ten thousand tons of wheat were burned in 
San Franciso on Monday, and Texas fever is 
reported to have broken out with the utmost 
virulence among the herds in the West. Such 
visitations are rank calamities so long as the 
sons and daughters of men live upon bread 
and meat.Twenty-five million dollars’ 
worth of hides were Imported into this coun¬ 
try last year duty free. A vigorous effort is 
to be made during the coming session of Con¬ 
gress for the restoration of the tariff duty re¬ 
pealed in 1872. Opponents of the measure 
stigmatize it as “ a bait to catch the cattle¬ 
men’s votes.”... 
There is a suggestion that wool-growers, 
though their attorneys, commission-men and 
other friends, should step in and run the 
forthcoming woolen manufacturers’ confer¬ 
ence at Boston. Wouldn’t this reverse the 
usual order of things—turn the tables on tfie 
manufacturers?. 
Crops & filarkds. 
Saturday, August 31,1889. 
OtfCE a year representatives from all Euro 
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