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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 9, 1886. 
There were 60 convictions for unlawful 
cohabitation under the Edmunds law in Utah 
last year. The President has finally 
determined to appoint a successor to Judge 
Advocate-General Swaim,suspended. Swaim’s 
case will probably he left with the courts 
for future action.A blizzard raged 
in the Northwest from Saturday to Monday 
—being especially severe in Kansas, Nebraska. 
Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota and New Mexico, 
Snow fell in large quantities, and was badly 
drifted; and railroad business was much in¬ 
terrupted in consequence. In Pennsylvania 
during the same period there, were disaster- 
ous floods—the loss to lumbermen in one 
section alone being estimated at $3,000,000 .. 
The total earnings of the Northern 
Pacific Railway for the year 1885 were 
nearly 811,500,000. This is a decrease of 
about $1,900,000 as compared with 1884.. 
.The resumption of work in the iron 
collieries at Pittsburgh brings out the state¬ 
ment that the strikers lost nearly $2,01X1,000 
in wages, and the operators have suffered to 
a large amount by the prolonged suspension.. 
. .A vein of petroleum has been discovered 
at Park Hill, Ontario, 175 l'eet below the 
surface Small-pox has almost entirely 
disappeared from Montreal, though it is 
still playing havoc in some of the neighbor¬ 
ing villages. In L’Assumption, a village 70 
miles from Montreal, 60 cases are reported, 
and an “•alarming outbreak” is reported 
from Ballyduff, Ontario, There are a consid¬ 
erable number of cases in and about Quebec, 
also There are still reports of a threatened 
outbreak among the Black-feet and Blood 
Indians of the Northwest, who are greatly 
enraged at the recent hanging of some of 
their race,who were guilty of special atrocities 
during Riel's last rebellion, The Crees and 
Stoniesare also said to be highly discontented, 
although at present working quietly. The 
“whites” of Manitoba are much displeased at 
these belligerent reports, as they tend to 
check immigration,which is earnestly desired 
in that Province, and accordingly they 
declare that there is no likelihood of fur¬ 
ther trouble in the Northwest .. 
...In this city last year there were 35,696 
deaths, 30,030 births and 11,716 marriages, as 
against, in the preceding year, 35,054 deaths, 
30,527 births and 11,805 marriages. Thus the 
death list increased 662, and the number of 
births fell off 497, due possibly to the sudden 
cessation of foreign immigration.Ex- 
Senator Jonas, of Louisana, who was lately 
appointed Collector of the Port at New Or¬ 
leans. is considered an “offensive partisan” on 
account of having used his office to secure his 
own re-election to the U. 8. Senate. The Civil 
Service Commission is to investigate the mat¬ 
ter, and meanwhile Jonas will not be “con¬ 
firmed” by the Senate . The New York 
Daily Commercial Bulletin of Jau.“ 5, esti¬ 
mates the fire losses in the United States and 
Canada during December at $9,300,000 and 
the aggregate loss during 1885 at $94,300,000, 
or $16,000,1X10 less than the previous year. 
Forty-seven million bushels of grain were 
shipped from New York to foreign countries 
last year, and not one bushel of them in an 
American bottom. In 1884 there wore two 
small shipments under the flag of the United 
States. Last year not one. Of the 1,192 ves¬ 
sels which carried this immense quantity of 
freight across the ocean in 1885, more than 
half were British. In round numbers, 44,000,- 
000 bushels went in steamships aud 3)000,000 
in ships under sail . With regard to the 
commotion against Land Commissioner Sparks, 
Special Agent Webster Eaton, after examin¬ 
ing a portion of the Duluth and St. Cloud 
districts, reported that 4,300 homestead entries 
had been made, all requiring five years' resi¬ 
dence by actual settlors, and yet there were not 
100 actual settler? living by farming on the 
soil in the whole region. The latest ad¬ 
dition to the Canadian colony of American 
bankers and trustees is Judge Yates, of Peo¬ 
ria. Ill., a gray-baired old citizen and lawyer, 
who was put in charge of the unsettled estates 
and the funds of the widows and orphans of 
the community. He has contrived to steal 
about $ 250 , 000 . most of which he has spent as 
he went along. When the storm was about to 
burst the venerable rascal slipt off to Canada 
between two days .. Secretary Whitney 
expects to see at least $10,000,000 voted for the 
increase of the Navy .... Prof. Greener, 
of Washington, Secretary of the New York 
Grant Monument Fund, th i n k s that half a 
million dollars will be raised for a memorial. 
He cute down half on the original project. 
President Cleveland has just given $100. The 
Fund now amounts to $113,870 .. John 
Sherman has been renominated for the United 
States Senatorship by the Republican caucus 
of Ohio, without a dissenting voice. This in¬ 
sures his re-election . Chicago is to have a 
crematory. That one lately erected on Staten 
Island, near this city, is kept pretty busy.. 
It is rumored in Washington that the 
President is likely to supersede Gen. Crook in 
command of the Department of Arizona, The 
people there have been very much discontented 
at his manner of conducting the war against 
the Indians, Sheridan still continues his 
friend, however ... The President has 
refused to give official countenance to the 
“American Exhibition” in London. All along 
this has been a strictly private speculation, 
got up for profit by a few adventurers in the 
name of the. American people, Many promi¬ 
nent Englishmen believed in then’ misrepres¬ 
entations, however, and lent their names to the 
scheme. We have persistently refused to speak 
of it, though we have received “‘any number” 
of circulars, etc., about it. President 
Cleveland has made changes in only 643 out of 
over 4.000 offices filled by Presidential appoint¬ 
ment., aud of the 49,500 postmasters, only 7,000 
have been changed . Dr. Alexander B. 
Mott, of New York, aud other Americans, 
have organized aud secured incorporation 
papers for the “American Institute of Hydro¬ 
phobia,” for humanitarian purposes only. 
The Pasteur system is to be practiced, and re¬ 
liance is placed on public benevolence for most 
of the means to support the institute. 
For a full illustrated Descrip¬ 
tion of our Free Seed Distribu¬ 
tion for 1886, examine the Nov 
14 issue. Preserve it for future 
reference It is sent to all ap¬ 
plicants for specimen copies. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 9, 1880. 
In St. Paul. Minn., a company of Eastern 
capitalists is about to organize for the pur¬ 
pose of erecting elevators along the lines of 
railroads in North Dakota, which will be con¬ 
ducted on an entirely new plan. The com¬ 
pany proposes to furnish to each farmer a sep¬ 
arate bin in which to store wheat, and in this 
way, when he is ready to sell, ho can always 
get the wheat which he delivered. It is also 
proposed to lend money at seven per cent, in¬ 
terest, to be secured by wheat in store. 
The legit imate outcome of the Chicago dressed 
beef industry comes in the moving of the pack¬ 
ing-houses farther West into the heart of the 
cattle-raising region. If dressed beef can be 
shipped 1,006 miles in refrigerator cal’s, it can 
2,000, and Hough & Dustin, of Lincoln. Ill., 
will build a monster packing-house on the 
Northern Pacific at Miles City, Mont. They 
will put up 10,000 tons of ice this Winter, and 
their establishment will be able to kill aud 
pack 200 beeves a day . 
Last Thursday Speaker Carlisle appointed the 
various committees of the House of Represen¬ 
tatives for the current session of Congress. 
These have to investigate aud report upon all 
legislation connected with the subjects em¬ 
braced within the scope of their respective 
lines of supervision. Whenever a bill .or res¬ 
olution is introduced into the House, it is at 
once “referred” to the committee in charge 
of the subject to which it relates. The Chair¬ 
man in charge of the Committee (his name 
always comes first) is by far the most im¬ 
portant personage connected with it, as he 
can easily pigeon-hole any measure which may 
have been “referred” to his committee, if he 
is opposed to it, or push any measure he may 
favor. The Committee on Agriculture will 
have charge of all legislation relating direct¬ 
ly to the agricultural interests of the country. 
It is composed as follows: Democrats—Hatch. 
Missouri; Aiken, South Carolina; Green, 
North Carolina ; Winans. Michigan; Frede¬ 
rick, Iowa; Davidson, Alabama; Stahlnecker, 
New York; Morgan, Mississippi; Glass, Ten¬ 
nessee. Republicans — White. Minnesota ; 
Funs ton, Kansas; Price, W isconsin ; Hires, 
New Jersery ; Pierce, Rhode Island ; Swin¬ 
burne, New York; Gifford, Dakota. As the 
House is Democratic, of course. the majority 
of each Committee is Democratic, and so is the 
Chairman. Here is the Committee on Public 
Lauds; Democrats—Cobb, Indiana; Henley, 
California ; Tan Eaton, Mississippi ; Forau. 
Ohio: Laffoon, Kentucky: Stevens, Missouri; 
Landis, Hlinois: McRae, Arkansas: Strait, 
Minnesota. Republicans—Anderson. Kansas; 
Payson, Illinois ; Stephenson, Wisconsin : 
Jackson, Pennsylvania: Vooihecs, Washing¬ 
ton, Territory .. -••• 
... The Tobacco Growers' Association at its 
convention at Buffalo last Wednesday, agreed 
to these three propositions: First—To ask Con¬ 
gress to levy a proper duty Upon a whole bale 
of tobacco, not exempting any portion thereof. 
Second—To eanse the duty on unstemmed 
tobacco to be fixed at_$1.50, and stemmed j$2. 
Third—That the standard of taxation shall 
be upon wrappers .— . 
The Indiana State Board of Agriculture has 
several branches of more or less importance to 
the farmers, which will hold then annual 
meetings at Indianapolis in the Agricultmal 
Rooms. The Indiana Jersey Cattle breeders 
w ill hold their annual meeting January 19th. 
The Indiana Bee-keepers' Association will hold 
its meeting January 20th and 21st. The 
Indiana Short-horn breeders will hold their 
meeting January 26th and 27th, The swine 
breeders will hold theirs on the 28th, as will 
also the Indiana wool growers. Indiana 
farmers should make a note of the dates of these 
meetings, and make it a point to be pres¬ 
ent. The Fifth Ensilage Congress 
will assemble nt the Grand Cent ral Hotel, New 
York, on Wednesday, July 20th, at 10 o’clock 
a.m. The opening address will be by Mr. 
Geo. G. Smith, of St. Albans, Vt.—J. G. 
BROW r N, See'y, 55 Beckman St., N. Y. 
THE T1IORBURN POTATO. 
This is.no doubt,the most valuable acquisition 
in the potato line ever offered. Messrs J. M. 
Thorburu & Co., of 15 John St., New York, 
now offer it for sale for the first time. They 
also send us a circular describing its merits, 
also giving the names of the distinguished 
growers from many sections who have passed 
judgment upon its value, by a trial of single 
tubers the past season. We advise our readers 
to send to the above-named Ann for a circular. 
—Adv. 
Crops & ftliu-licts. 
Saturday, Jan. 9, 1886. 
According to latest reports potatoes con¬ 
tinued to rot to a greater extent than usual in 
most parts of the country as long as they 
could be examined. Were it not for the rot, 
the crop of 1885 would have been an excep¬ 
tionally large one. and prices must have been 
low. Now it is likely that juices in Spring 
will lie high in most places, but whether they 
wall be high enough to compensate for shrink¬ 
age, rot andgeneral deterioration,time will tell 
in each case. There is no general rule applic- 
able to all cases. Returns will range from 
“very remunerative” to a “sad loss.” The 
following was the average price per bushel on 
Deeemla-r 1, last according to jnivate advices 
just received from the Department of Agri¬ 
culture: Maine, 42 cents per bushel; New 
Hampshire, 44 cents; Vermont, 35 cents; Mas- 
sachussetts. 67 cents; Rhode Island, 50 cents; 
Connecticut, 55 cents; New York. 45 cents; 
New Jersey, 54 cents: Pennsylvania, 47 cents; 
Delaware, 55 cents: Maryland, 49 cents; Vir¬ 
ginia, 51 cents; North Carolina. 57 cents; 
South Carolina. 75 cents; Georgia, 94 cents; 
Florida, $1.27: Alabama. 97 cents; Mississip¬ 
pi, 76cents; Louisiana, 84cents; Taxas, $1.00: 
Arkansas, 6(5 cents; Tennessee. 46 cents; West 
Virginia, 43 cents: Kentucky, 42 cents; Ohio, 
39cents; Michigan,34 cents; Indiana, 36cents; 
Illinois, 42 cents: Wisconsin, 47 cents; Min¬ 
nesota. 40 cents; Iowa, 41 cents: Missouri, 39 
cents; Kansas, 58 cents: Nebraska, 34 cents; 
California, 03 cents; Oregon, 36 cents; Ne¬ 
vada, 70 cents; Colorado. 61 cents; Dakota, 
42 cents; Montana, 47 cents; New Mexico, 90 
cents; Utah, 32 cents; Washington, 36 cents. 
In 1884 the average price of the entire crop 
of {potatoes was 40 cents j>er bushel. The low¬ 
est price was 25 cents in Michigan. The aver¬ 
age in New York was 39 cents; in Ohio, 42 
cents; in Indiana, 35 cents; in Illinois, 34 
cents; in Iowa, 28; in Nebraska, 29 cents; iu 
Kansas, 48 cents. The average price was two 
ct?nts per bushel lower than m 1883, though 
the crop was.not so large. Iu 1888 we had the 
largest crop ever grown iu the United States. 
There was only a small advance iu area over 
that of the previous year; but the yield went 
up from 78 to 91 bushels per nere, making a 
product of 208,164.425 bushels, or 88,000,000 
bushels in excess of the previous crop. The 
average yield per acre for a series of years, 
according to the report of the Department of 
Agriculture, was 84 bushels. Owing to the 
abundant crop in 1883, the average iprice fell 
to 42 cents per bushel, from 57 cents in 1882. 
The l«st crop aggregated 190,203.068 bushels 
grown on 2 . 216,800 acres, and valued at $72,- 
302,430. The crop, was, therefore, nearly 
18,000,000 bushels less than that of 1 833 , Since 
the latter year, the eousumpton of potatoes 
has increased with the increase of our popula¬ 
tion. The loss from disease this year will be 
considerably more during the Winter than it 
was in 1883, and for both these reasons prices 
henceforth must be better than they were two 
years ago, when they averaged 42 cents per 
bushel. 
An immense business is done anuually in 
New York City in handling potatoes, both for 
seed and home consumption. The great pota¬ 
to region of the State, north of Albany and 
west to Rochester, or beyond, finds an outlet 
for its product here. Add to this the thous¬ 
ands of bushels produced on Long Island and 
in New Jersey, and the product foots far up 
into the millions of bushels. The tubers are 
brought from the great potato fields of North¬ 
ern New York in canal boats. These are se¬ 
curely lined with straw, with the hatches bat¬ 
tened down. When shipped in tin’s way after 
November, the tubers can he kept in the boats 
until wanted. Within a lew years potato care 
have come into use. These are lined so as to 
preserve an even temperature, and in some 
cases contain an arrangement, for heating 
when necessary. In these cars {potatoes are 
shipped in good condition from Northern 
Maine to New York. In fact, the recent im¬ 
provements in shipping potatoes have about 
revolutionized the potato business. Large 
quantities are brought from Nova Scotia and 
adjoining Provinces. Those arrive in good 
condition in small sailing vessels, and find 
good sale both as eating potatoes and seed. 
It is estimated that over 300,000 bushels have 
been received this year. The old Mercer, 
Beauty of Hebron and Prolific comprise the 
bulk of these imported potatoes. 
Prices range from 25 to 30 cents higher at 
this market, as compared with prices last 
year. The quality is very inferior in every 
way. There are complaints from all consum¬ 
ers, Potatoes turn out soggy and heavy. This 
is due principally to the prevalence of rot 
during the past season, caused, generally, by 
the moist, hot weather. Borne sections report 
a loss of at least 50 per eent. from this cause, 
while the potatoes saved seem, iu many cases, 
somewhat affected. There is not so much trou¬ 
ble from seal*, as heretofore. Many potatoes 
pricked or injured by careless digging injure 
the sale. 
There is a good demand for Early Rose, 
from Maine, for seed, at $2.25 to $2.50 per 
barrel. The same sort from near at hand 
sell for less to be used for seed. Beauty 
of Hebron commands the same {n ice, with 
less demand. Burbank is much the same. 
For domestic purposes, the Snowflake is de¬ 
cidedly the most popular, closely followed by 
Beauty of Hebron. For good keeping quali¬ 
ties, the Burbank is considered unsurpassed. 
Probably a dozen different sorts are sold 
under one or two names, in fact, to most po¬ 
tato buyers they are much the same. 
Most lai“ge dealers prefer to buy about 
two or three weeks after the potatoes are dug 
—when the “sweating” process is done. They 
prefer to buy iu bulk and do their own stor¬ 
ing. Potatoes are sold to retail dealers in 
barrels. Most consumers buy them in small 
quantities, by the peck or half bushel. In 
f. liis way they are compelled to pay tremen¬ 
dous prices. With some system of storage by 
which they could buy a barrel at a time, the 
price could be much reduced. 
The {Mitato business at this point is not 
equal in profit to the business of ten years ago. 
Too many have gone into it, aud the im¬ 
proved trausporrntion facilities have carried 
much of the business to other places. 
The market for seed potatoes to be used at 
tbe South has heretofore been a valuable 
item, but much of this has now gone to Bos¬ 
ton, Providence or Portland—nearer the 
fields where the seed potatoes are produced. 
While the Louisiana orange crop is larger 
than last year, the rust is worse, and this, it is 
believed, will probably about equalize the 
valuation of the two crops. 
The California wheat crop is now estimated 
at 20,000,000 bushels, or from 5,000,000 to 8,000,- 
000 bushels less than any former estimate. 
Heavy snow storm iu the Northwest last. 
Sunday, iteenme n rain storm as it traveled 
eastward. Tattle or no injury reported to the 
wheat crop. Roads all over the West very bad 
ill the latter part of December; movement 
of corn aud nogs therefore considerably 
checked. In Nebraska, formers are getting 
from three to live cents a bushel more for corn 
on the ear than they could get for it as shelled 
corn. It. is to be held over for summer ship 
incut. No snow and little frost yet south of 
tie i 'hi". 
At Minneapolis, the (lour production last 
week was 94,050 barrels, averaging 16,342 
daily, against “7,200 barrels the preceding week 
and, 107,460 bands for the corresponding 
period of 1885. The list of mills running 
number 11, representing a daily capacity of 
about. 15,500 barrels. The mills running are 
storing flour quite freely, and should the 
present state of affairs continue, it ma> become 
necessary to stop part of them. The exports 
of flour from Minneapolis for December were 
98.000 barrels, against I8$,800 barrels for No¬ 
vember. The corrected figures for the year 
ending December 31. show the Minneapolis 
flour and grain trade for 1885 as follows: Ry- 
eeipts— W heat, 88,51X1,000 bushels; flour, 31,468 
barrels; mill stuff, 4,1 31 tons. Shipments— 
pi,oceUanco4» 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatoria, 
When she waa a Child, she cried for Caatoria, 
When sho became Miss, she clung to Caatoria, 
When she bad Children, ah* gave them Caatoria, 
