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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 2, 18.%. 
As the revenue receipts have been light 
during the month and the pension payments 
heavy, the public debt has increased about 
£2,000,000 ,.. The total length of main 
lines of railroads, not including second tracks, 
sidings or renewals, laid in the United States 
during 1885, has been 8,113 miles—about TOO 
miles less than in 1884, and less than in any 
year since 1878 , The new track laid this year 
is distributed as follows: New England, four 
lines, 18.5 miles; Eastern and Middle States, 
20 lines, 281.9 miles; Middle and Western 
States, 32 lines, 404 miles; Southern States, 44 
lines, 727,4 miles; Missouri belt, 21 lines, 542.5 
miles; Kansas belt, 24 lines, 828.0 miles; Colo¬ 
rado belt, two lines, 14 miles; Pacific belt, 14 
lines. 340.9 miles. Total in 84 of the 47 States 
and Territories, 160 lines, 3,112.3 miles. 
...The Newark dog- 
bitten children have beeu successfully treated 
by Pasteur and are to start for home to-mor¬ 
row. Pasteur says that carbolic acid is much 
better than hot iron for cauterizing dog bites. 
...Over 9.000 Chinamen are now employed 
by the 241 cigar-makers of San Francisco; but 
the anti-Chinese agitation has induced five of 
the chief employers to agree to employ Union 
workmen, and 200 men left Boston Monday to 
take the places of the Celestials. When they 
got to Chicago, however, it turned out that 
the ageut who engaged them had disappeared, 
and they were left “stranded.” It is expected 
that white men will soon fill all the manufac¬ 
tories .. , Owing to the falling off on 
exports of agricultural products, to pay for 
goods we have bought in Europe, gold had to 
be exported last week, the first time witliin 10 
years. At the same time last year the exeess 
of exports was over £49,900,000..There 
has been a world of disorder and lighting 
among Polish Catholics at Detroit, because an 
objectionable change of priests was made by 
the Bishop . Great distress has beeu 
caused by the stoppage of several collieries 
in Pennsylvania, because the companies have 
combined to limit the output, so as to raise or 
keep up prices. The men have been working 
on “starvation wages” so that they could lay 
nothing aside, and rioting is ex j tec ted ....... 
At other collieries the men are out on a strike 
for •‘living wages,” and much bitterness ex¬ 
ists against the “scabs” who take their places, 
many of whom have been severely beaten, 
and all of whom are guarded by 
police or private detectives. The Knights of 
Labor are sending supplies to the famishing 
people. Much wretchedness and desperation 
in nearly all the Pennsylvania coal mining 
regions .The State Auditor anti Attor¬ 
ney General of Illinois are investigating 
several co-operative insurance companies. 
They appear to have no means of keeping then- 
promises to pay certain sums upon the death of 
members. The number of su< h societies has in¬ 
creased enormousl y of late,and there is no doubt 
a vast amount of swindling in the management 
of many of them _We are very sorry to 
learn that the mammoth seed house of D. M. 
Feriy & Co., of Detroit. Mich., was burned 
yesterday morning. The flames started in the 
packing department at 9 a. m., and by 10 the 
Ferry Block was all in flames. The Ferry 
building was erected six years ago, and occu¬ 
pied half of the square,being one of the largest 
iu the city. In the burnt building 400 people 
were usually employed, besides 400 more on 
the firm’s mammoth farm outside the city. 
Had the fire not occurred on a holiday, the 
loss of life must have beeu heavy. D. M. 
Ferry’s stock alone is estimated to have been 
worth from £1,000,000 to £1,200,000, and the 
building was worth 8250,000—total insurance, 
£460,000. The loss on the other burnt build¬ 
ings will foot up the aggregate to at least 
£1,500,000. All are at a loss to account for the 
lire, though incendiarism is suspected, as there 
were uo fires iti that part of the building 
where the flames were first seen. 
Three deaths from trichinosis during the 
week, two in this city, where thirty-two peo¬ 
ple have been more or less severely affected by 
it from eating badly cooked pork at a family 
reunion, and one near Cleveland Ohio, where 
a family of four are affected from eating chips 
of raw ham. Several other cases are reported 
here and there ; but. we have noticed no more 
deaths ... There is a movement to give 
each ol’ the nine Justices of the Supreme 
Court of the United States a Private Secre¬ 
tary at Government expense. Each Secretary 
would have to be a stenographer, and would 
probably command £2,000 per nunum . 
The Georgia Prohibitionists are scoring victory 
every t ime. First they passed a local prohib¬ 
ition law in the legislature. Then they car¬ 
ried Atlanta and Fulton County by over 200 
majority, after having carried three-fourths 
of all the counties iu the State. The liquor 
men then faded to stop the official count before 
the United States Court, and failed. Then 
they tried it before the State Court, and fail¬ 
ed again. The count has now been completed 
and the result has been declared, while the 
liquor men are beginning to fight in another 
shape In North Carolina the Prohibit¬ 
ionists are organizing for political action, and 
they are contemplating the same move in Geo 
gia.U. S. Consul-General Mueller 
reports that Germany dreads American hogs, 
wheat and imports generally, but still more 
the importation of American ideas, and thus 
explains the present feeling iu Germany 
against our country Of the £275,000,- 
000 of deposits in the Massachusetts savings 
banks, over £252,000,000 are in sums less t han 
£300 each. - The Connecticut legislature 
has appropriated £5,000 for a statue to the 
memory of Nathan Hale. . Orange riots 
have again broken out in Conception Bay, 
Newfoundland, At Harbor Grace an Orange 
mob began the rioting, and more trouble is ex¬ 
pected .At a meeting of ex-soldiers at 
Terre Haute. Ind., last Wednesday, resolutions 
were adopted demanding the passage of laws 
grant ing pensions at the rate of £8 per month 
to all surviving Soldiers, sailors and marines 
who served 60 days or more iu the war of the 
rebellion. A bill w ill be brought into Con¬ 
gress to tliis effect.At Salt Lake City 
Judge Zane has condemned Brigbam Young 
Hampton to a year’s imprisonment for con- 
spiling with disreputable women to entrap 
prominent Gentiles. The Mormansare finding 
the laws pretty hard against them generally.. 
A new comet has been discovered by Pro¬ 
fessor Brooks of Phelps N. Y.A mass¬ 
meeting of all trades is to be held in Philadel¬ 
phia next mouth to agitate for a new eight- 
hour law- It is confidently said that 
many more people have been killed by Indians 
in Arizona aud New Mexico than have been 
reported. A bill has been introduced into 
Congress providing for the enrollment of a 
regiment of frontiersmen especially to put an 
end to Apache outrages iu both these Territor¬ 
ies, as the persistent pursuit by the regular 
troops has hitherto been unsuccessful . 
The N. O. Exposition Company has sued two 
directors of the Great. Eastern Steamship for 
obtaining £10.000 by falsely representing that 
she was ready for sea. She was to be an at¬ 
traction aud a hotel at the Exposition last 
Winter, it will be remembered.The 
managers of the New Orleans exhibition deny 
that there is a financial crisis going on there. 
The receipts are not what were anticipated, 
the travel from the North being small, but the 
exhibition is in no danger of bankruptcy. 
Chicago is first in the field as a bidder for the 
inter national exhibition iu 1892, upon the 400th 
anniversary of the discovery of America. 
A bill pledging government support has 
already been drawn, aud the advocates of the 
scheme base their claim to this premeditated 
honor upon the grouud that Chicago is the 
“typical American city.” .Col. Platt 
B. Walker, editor of the North-western Lum¬ 
berman, says that of necessity there must lie a 
shortage of from 15 to 20 per cent in the log¬ 
out of bis section this Winter, owing to the 
warm weather, many of the men, owing to 
the absence of snow, are going away iu dis¬ 
gust.The written opinion of Judge 
rowel's, of Utah, who recently refused to nat¬ 
uralize a Mormon on the ground that he was 
not fit for citizenship, adds another gain to 
the battery playing upon the stronghold of 
Saints .The Fitz John Porter bill will 
be put through the House us soon as possible 
after the holidays.The hills contracted 
by the United States Fish commission will lie 
paid without challenge. The First Auditor 
stopped the accounts for examination, but 
after a careful overhauling the First Comp¬ 
troller of the Treasury has approved Prof. 
Baird’s accounts without “alteration or modi¬ 
fication.”.By the latest estimate made 
by a man who is vouched for by the N. Y. 
Graphic, the late Vanderbilt’s wealth is put 
at £305,<H)0,(H K). A count of the securities iu the 
vault of the Lincoln bank of this city, will it 
is said, prove this point.The Boston 
chamber of commerce has unanimously adop¬ 
ted an expression of opinion favoring recipro- 
ity with Canada. It asks to have this matter 
considered with the President’s recommenda¬ 
tion regarding a commission to consider the 
fisheries question- . ....... 
... .The Western Union Telegraph Company 
is reported to be anxious to have the Govern¬ 
ment purchase its plant for postal telegraph 
purposes, as comprehended by Sena tor Cullow's 
Bill. It is stated that, should the Government 
buy up the telegraph company’s property for 
the purpose uamed, the latter could build new 
liues with improved appliances at much less 
cost, and become a successful competitor with 
the former. 
Coughs.— Brown’s Bronchial Troches are used 
with advantaKe to alleviate CotiRhs, Sore Throat, aud 
Bronchia) Affections. Sold only in boxes.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 2, 1886. 
David Mil.es, a large stock breeder, of Mil¬ 
ford, Mass., was gored to death by a pet Hol¬ 
stein bull in his lmrn, Dec. 17 The Sixth 
National Agricultural Convention, under the 
auspices of the American Agricultural Asso¬ 
ciation, will be held iu New York Feb. 3—5, . 
The following are the officers of the new 
Fertilizer and Chemical Exchange of this city 
C. V. Mapes, President; John Kehoe, William 
H. Bowker aud William H. Reed, Vice-Pres¬ 
idents; George B. Forrester, Treasurer, and 
John T. "Williams, IT. J. Braker, R. G. Kirk¬ 
land and A. S. Maleonson, Directors . .. 
Holland sent us during the past year £250,000 
worth of flowering bulbs .... Glanders iu 
an unusually fatal form is attacking horses in 
Elmira, N. Y. The annual meeting of 
the New Jersey Horticultural Society was 
concluded Wednesday afternoon, when the 
followiug officers were elected: President, A. 
W. Pierson, of Vineland; recording secretary, 
E. Williams, of Montclair; corresponding sec¬ 
retary, T. C. Lovett, of Little Silver; and 
treasurer, C. L. Jones, of Newark . 
The milk producers of Orange County, New 
York, have been again discussing the feasibil¬ 
ity of establishing a Farmers’ Milk Exchange 
in this city, so as to he independent of the milk 
dealers. Such associations have for some time 
been operating successfully at Boston and 
Springfield, Mass. ... The Association of 
Missouri Wool G rowel's propose to hold a grand 
National Sheep shearing at St. Louis, Mo., on 
April 7th aud 8th, 1836. The St. Louis Cotton 
Exchange guarantees $1,500 in cash premiums. 
This should be an interesting occasion to all 
who are within its reach The report of 
the Registrar shows that the value of the crops 
in Ireland this year increased £8,471.115 as 
compared with 1834, and that it was £1.419,820 
above the average for the preceding 10 yearn.. 
A syndicate of Eastern capitalists are pre¬ 
paring to turn the water-power at Harper’s 
Ferry, W. Va., to account, and expect to turn 
the place into a second Pittsburg .. Small 
pox has disappeared as an epidemic in Mont¬ 
real and the U. S. quarantine has been raised. 
Besides the loss of millions of trade, owing to 
jjeople keeping away from the place through 
dread of contagion, the epidemic cost the city 
£118,000 in actual outlay, and another large 
sum will be needed to meet the remaining en¬ 
gagements entered into . 
.. During last year, bees in Ohio gathered 
I, 731,095 pounds of honey, estimated to be 
worth £276,975, while fowls produced 33,602,- 
321 dozen of eggs, valued at £4,890,$48. The 
value of the eggs was nearly equal to that of 
the wool produced in the State . The 
greatest “cablxage patch ” in the country is 
said to be oneiu the vicinity of Chicago, which 
contains 190 acres, all devoted to the cabbage 
culture, producing iu favorable years 1,100 
000 beads ...... Last year there were grown 
in Kansas 116,511 acres of sorghum 
.. The grocers of New York are said to make 
profits aggregating about £4,212,000 a year on 
bogus butter ... Potatoes are advancing 
steadily in the East, and bid fail* to be pretty 
high lx*t'ore the next crop is marketed. 
— The average, home price of wheat in all 
ports of the country for the last five years has 
been 95c. For the ten years previous the 
home price was £1.05. The present average is 
78c... Stocks of grain in store in New 
York on December 26: Wheat, 9,518,825 bush¬ 
els; corn, 1,089,127 bushels; outs, 1,223, 454 
bushels; barley, 188,282 bushels; rye, 144,471 
bushels ..The wool imported last year 
was iu volume about 17 per cent, as compared 
with the home production. Iu 1880 it was 20 
perceut.; in 1881, 18per cent; in 1882, 14 2 
per ceut.; in 1883, 20.6 per cent. 
... An experiment was lately made at, the 
Michigan Agricultural College Farm to see 
how much hay equal lots of Merino and South¬ 
down sheep would cut up dean. The result 
showed about an equal consumption, although 
the South Downs averaged nearly 50 pounds 
heavier thau the other sheep.. 
Holland takes the lead iu the manufacture 
of butterine. There are now about 45 manu¬ 
factories iu that country, the majority of 
which are hi North Brabant, where the farms 
are small, and can only maiutaiu one or two 
cows. Consequently, as these farmers can 
only make a small quantity of butter, apt to 
spoil before it can be collected or sent to mar¬ 
ket, they are the more willing to muko con¬ 
tracts with the mauuluctures of butterine. 
The consumption is chiefly in England. Ex¬ 
port iu 1883 amounted to 40,000 tous, valued 
at 4,350,000 florins.The next London 
wool sales will opeu on Tuesday, Jauuury 19, 
with about 230,(XX) bales on sale ..... In 1812 
wool sold for £2.50 per pound .There is 
au unmistakable and general feeliug all along 
the line iu foreign markets to advance the 
price of wool. 
Cabbage Seeds. —In answer to several in¬ 
quiries, Tillinghast’s Puget Sound Cabbage 
Seeds seem to have a very high reputation 
wherever they have been used. Persons desir¬ 
ing home testimony in any State in the Union, 
will be referred to disinterested growers who 
have tested them, by dropping a postal to 
Isaac F. Tillinghast, La Plume, Pa.—.4dr. 
Saturday, Jau. 2, 1886. 
Our Consul-General at London reports that 
the depression iu wheat cultivation in Great 
Britain has never been greater, the area under 
the crop this year being 1% per cent, less than 
last year. The farmers of Yorkshire have 
recently formed a co-operative society to buy 
goods at the lowest figures wholesale, and to 
sell their produce directly to customers with¬ 
out. the aid of middlemen. Agriculture in 
Scotland, too, is iu a bad condition, many 
farms being deserted and degenerating iuto 
a wild state, like the abandoued farms ou the 
hills of New England. This state of things is 
said to be ail due to foreign competition The 
Cousul advises American fanners to grow 
more oats and barley for exj tort, because on 
these there w ill be no competition from India 
and little from other places. 
The Mark Lane express of last Monday says 
that in spite of the cold, damp foggy weather 
the growing British grain crops were healthy, 
and says a curious feature of the market is the 
ability of holders of English wheat to under¬ 
sell foreign wheat. Quotations are 30s 2d per 
quarter—against. 31s 5d last year. American 
graius are 1 J^c a bushel lower. The relative 
importance of the United States iu supplying 
the United Kingdom with w heat at the present 
time may he inferred from the following 
record of receipts of breadstuffs at. London for 
the week ending Christmas day. They com¬ 
prised 221,880 bushels of wheat from India, 
150,584 bushels from Russia (Black Sea ports), 
47,si 6 bushels from Germany, 17,120 bushels 
from New Zealand, 7,992 bushels from Uuited 
States Atlantic ports, and eight bushels from 
Arabia, altogether 454,200 bushels. The new- 
national representatives iu France are reported 
to favor still higher import duties ou foreign 
grain, “as prices during the last six months 
have remained exceedingly low.” 
Prices of wheat everywhere have been high¬ 
er during the week, owing fii-st to rumors that 
Russia and Austria were vigorously preparing 
for war iu the Spring over the Balkan trou¬ 
bles. Theu came the report of the decline in 
the visible supply in the United States and 
Canada, east of the Rockies. The New York 
Produce Exchange puts this at 380,140 bushels, 
the Chicago Board of Trade says it is only 
67,495 bushels, Later a decline occurred, ow¬ 
ing to London cables telling of heavy stocks, 
dtillucss iu trade and folly of shipping at 
higher figures than 85 cents per bushel in New 
York. Here exports are nominal. At San 
Francisco they have been, since July 1, only 
5,85,000 bushels agaiust 12,447,000 bushels iu 
the latter half of 1884. 
A telegram from Washington, on Thursday, 
says: “The estimates of the Department of 
Agriculture for the principal cereals are in 
round millions as follows: Corn, 1,936,000,000; 
wheat, 857,000.000; oats, 629,000,000. The area 
of corn is 73,000,000 acres; of wheat, 34,000,- 
000; Of oats, 28,000,000. The value of corn 
averages nearly 33 cents per bushel, and makes 
an aggregate of £035.000.000, $5,000,000 less 
thau the value of the last crop. The decrease 
in the product, of wheat is 30 per ceut., and 
only 16 per cent iu valuation, which is £275,- 
000,000. The valuation of oats is $180,000,000. 
The reduction iu wheat is mostly in the val¬ 
leys of the Ohio and iu California. The pro¬ 
duction of all cereals is 53 bushels to each iu- 
habitaut, and the aggregate volume is larger 
than in any former year. 
Ainouut. of grain in sight in the Uuited 
States and Canada on Saturday, December 
26, aud the amount, of increase or decrease 
from the preceding week: Wheat, 58,820,974 
bushels, decrease 67,595 bushel; coin, 7,084,880 
increase 1,819,237 bushels; oats, 2,580,818 
bushels, increase 140,754 bushels; rye, 807,028 
bushels, increase, 57,871 bushels; barley, 
2,248,170 bushels, increase, 45,792 bushels. 
The amount in store in Chicago elevators at 
same time was; Wheat, 14,459,855 bushels; 
com, 1,921,998 bushels; oats, 252,453 bushels; 
rye, 299,877 bushels; barley, 223,220 bushels. 
Wheat holds its own bravely in the North- 
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When Baby waa sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she waa a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Mins, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, 
