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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. Jau. 16, 1886. 
The Chicagoans will have their monument 
to Gen. Grant erected on Lincoln Park. The 
committee on designs are now at work, aud 
have arches, statues, towers and terraces to 
select from.Last week there were Mi 
deaths from small-pox in Moiitl’Cal—a large 
increase over the number the previous week. 
A part of the town has been flooded during 
the week, entailing widespread loss and suffer¬ 
ing. The water froze as it rose, while the 
mercury was from 20 to 2$ degrees below zero. 
Horses and cattle froze to death in their 
stables. All the factories on the canal and 
low-lying parts of the city were forced to stop. 
The loss by the stoppage is estimated at $500,- 
000 a day. Terrible suffering among the poor. 
“whose houses are often masses of ice.". 
The four Newark (N. J.) children who were 
bitten by “what was supposed to be a mad 
dog," and were treated in Paris by Pasteur, 
are home again “cured." It is not yet known 
for certain that the dog was mad. Two other 
children who were bitten by the same animal 
and stayed at home, are still in excellent 
health, and as hydrophobia does not sometimes 
develop for several years, there can .vet be no 
certainty that the visitors to Paris are 
“cured.".The Canadian Pacific Rail¬ 
way’s claim agaiust the Government tor trans¬ 
portation services in the recent rebellion is 
$700,000.Senator Riga Us, of Kansas, j 
has offered a resolution for the continued coin¬ 
age of silver till the aggregate reaches $500,- 
000,000. The Silver Question is getting to be 
sectional in its nature, the West and South 
generally iu favor of unlimited coinage, the 
East generally against it. The creditor class 
(the capitalists) seek to contract or prevent 
any large expansion of the currency; the 
debtor class and the lion-wealthy generally 
favor the expansion of the currency, or 
“cheap" money.M. De Lesseps, having 
failed to raise more money by subscription to 
build the Panama Canal, or to induce the 
French Government to permit a national 
lottery for the purpose, the French Govern¬ 
ment has decided to send out an “export" en¬ 
gineer to examine the Work already done and 
that still undone, and M. De Lesseps is about 
to invite exjierts from Germany, England and 
the United States to join in the investigation. 
If the results are favorable, the French Gov¬ 
ernment will lend enough money to complete 
the work; if not. the enterprise will be per¬ 
mitted to collapse. De Lesseps professes to be 
quite sanguine of steaming through the finished 
canal iu 188*. American “experts" say the 
thing is sure to be a colossal failure. 
The directors of the New Orleans exhibition 
have been for some weeks denying that they 
were financially embarrassed, but the worst is 
now public property, a resolution having been 
introduced iu the city council authorizing the 
purchase of the property for $ 125 , 000 . The 
city already owns the ground on which the 
buildings stand. The managers say that they 
will surrender the property of the exhibition 
for the amount indicated, aud if the city re¬ 
fuses to accept the offer the enterprise will 
have to be abandoned. Over nine months ago 
we prophesied that the enterprise must even¬ 
tually prove a failure.It is said that 
the Indians in the Canadian Northwest are 
preparing for an outbreak iu the Spring to 
avenge he death of Riel. The traders on our 
side of the line are reported to be supplying 
them with largo quantities of ammunition- 
...There is another colored exodus reported 
from the Carolinas, Alabama, anil south At¬ 
lantic States, The destination of the negroes 
ranges from Georgia to California, The mi¬ 
grations of former years, which threatened 
to be serious, were in the main failures, and 
this may also prove so. At present, however, 
it has quite a serious aspect for those in need 
of farm labor in the south Atlantic States.... 
.... It is expected that Henry Viilard will 
soon once more become the leader of the 
Northern Pacific forces. His health is much 
improved, and the other day, after the settle¬ 
ment of bis accounts with the Oregon Railway 
and Navigation Company, the trustees paid 
all his indebtedness and deeded to his wife the 
palace he was building in this city at the time 
of his collapse, and which they had completed, 
together with other property, which she at 
once transferred to another l’or $168,750. 
James Keene, the whilom “cornerer" of grain 
and gigantic speculator generally, swore in 
court here the other day that he was now 
without means, and supported by his wife’s 
fortune, which she received from him 10 years 
ago. He says he no longer speculates; but 
with regard to this there are a great many 
“doubting Thomases.”.The 
Edmunds anti-Mormon bill passed the 
Senate the other day with only seven votes 
against it. It is now before the House, with 
a strong probability that it will pass without 
any alteration or trouble. If it becomes a 
law the property of the Church goes into the 
hands of 14 trustees, and the corporation will 
he compelled to show all its books aud ac¬ 
counts. No money is to be allowed for “mis¬ 
sionary” purposes, and it is hard to see how 
Moran >u ism can continue to exist under its 
stringent provisions. Polygamy is the only 
feature warred against.President 
Cleveland aud General Sheridan emphatically 
deny that General Crook has been removed in 
compliance with the clamor from Arizona, He 
is to have all the troops he wants to extermin¬ 
ate Gerotnino’s band and restore quiet. The 
bad Indians originally numbered 42 warriors 
and 5)4 women aud children, and their wan¬ 
derings have covered Sfl.oOOsquare miles, 50,000 
of them in Mexico. Six weeks ago 11 “bucks" 
had been killed aud 34 women captured. 
Only 10 warriors were north of the line. The 
settling up of the country has greatly increased 
the number of victims. Sheridan says Crook 
is doing all that can be doue, as the country is so 
mountainous ami rough as to afford inaccessible 
refuges to the “liostilos".A “large and sub¬ 
stantial" ice-bridge at Niagara.John Sher¬ 
man elected U. S. Senator by the Ohio Senate 
and House, Wednesday. It required 74 votes 
to elect. Sherman received S4, and Allen C. 
Thurrnan 62.The Graut Monument 
Fund has reached a grand total of $114,116... 
.“Death from exposure" was the verdict 
recently rendered by a Helena (M. T.) jury 
on the body of a horse thief who had been 
hanged by vigilantes. .The mild weather 
preceding the opening of the year was very 
conducive to the health aud strength of game 
birds, which are unusually abundant, at least 
throughout New r England. 
Those who have used the Boss Zinc and 
Leather Collar Pads and Ankle Boots say 
they are the best and cheapest;, because most 
durable. They will last a life time. Sold by 
Harness makers on 60 days' trial. DEXTER 
CURTIS, Madison, Wis.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 16, 1886, 
Land Commissioner Sparks last Thursday, 
reudered a decision on the claim of the North¬ 
ern Pacific Railroad to a grant of land between 
a point on the Columbia River near Portland, 
Oregon, and Tacoma on Puget Sound, Wash¬ 
ington Territory. He holds that no such grant 
w-as made to the company. The decision af¬ 
fects the odd uumber of sections of laud 80 
miles in width for a distance of 106 miles, ag¬ 
gregating some 2.500.(K)0 acres, estimated to be 
worth > 25 , 000 . 000 . The claim of the railroad 
to these lauds has long been disputed by set¬ 
tles, large numbers of whom are iu occupa¬ 
tion. claiming the right to enter under the 
public laws. Jt must be said for Sparks that 
he is as resolutely opposed to illegal laud grab¬ 
bing by corporations, syndicates, and cattle 
kings, as to what he considers illegal appro¬ 
priation of the public domain by bogus settlers 
under the Homestead and Preemption Laws. 
.A private bill has been introduced in 
the Belgian Chamber of Deputies providing 
for an increase iu duties imposed upon cattle 
imported into Belgium. The Government has 
notified the Chamber that it will oppose the 
measure.The Chief of the Bureau of 
Statistics reports that the total values 
of the exports of breadstuff's from the 
United States (lining the month of Decem¬ 
ber, 1885, and" for the six and twelve months 
ending December 31, 1885, as comparer] with 
similar exports during the corresponding pe¬ 
riods of the preceding year, were as follows: 
December, 1885, $10,117,242; 1884, $14,361,542; 
six mouths ending December 31, 1885, $52,998,- 
732; 1884, $70,700,507; twelve months ending 
December 81,1885,$129,757,200; 1884, $117,81,3- 
403.The President of the California 
Fruitgrowers’ Union believes that with the 
earlier seasons on the Pacific Coast aud the 
quality of native fruit, California may expect 
a growing market for its fruit in the Eastern 
States. The grape-growers of California will 
be content with two cents per pound for 
grapes, and if it were not for the grasping 
middle-men in New York. California fruit 
could be sold at five cents per pound—which 
is what our Eastern grapes bring. 
The New York Fanciers’ Club will hold its 
fourth annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons, 
pets and non-sporting dogs, at Madison Square 
Garden, in New York City, during the week 
commencing February 3d. There will also lie 
on exhibition a full line of incubators, brood¬ 
ers, coops, etc. A large number of entries 
have already been made, and the liveliest and 
largest show’ ever held is expected. Entries 
close January 2d. Charles R. Hoskins, Sec¬ 
retary, 62 Cortland St., N. Y.Genuine hog 
cholera has been found in 1,505 hogs on the 
foui’ Western counties of Massachusetts. The 
Cattle Commissioners attribute it to the use of 
infected Western pork the refuse of which, 
from city boarding-houses and hotels, was fed 
to swine. 
For Coughs and Throat Disorders use 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches. “Have never changed 
my inlnd respecting them, except I think better of that 
which I began thinking well of.” Rev, Henry Ward 
Beecher. Sold only In boxes.— Adv. 
Crops & Alar hots. 
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Saturday, Jau. 16. 1886. 
The English wheat market shows no sign of 
hardening. There have been a few more 
purchases of American grain there within tin- 
week, owing to the decline 1 in quotations here, 
and an inference has been made that with a 
further decline on this side w r e could dispose 
of still more of our surplus. Certain it is that 
the United Kingdom continues independent of 
the United States as yet, so far as her bread- 
supplies are concerned. Nearly all her supplies 
are now drawn from Russia, India. Australia 
and New- Zealand, with smaller quantities 
from Egypt and Chili. 
The price of wheat in the United States has 
fallen. Tins is due in a great part to a ful¬ 
ler comprehension of the enormous supplies in 
sight at the leading markets on both sides of 
the Atlantic. The slight gain in exports, due 
to the decline, did not serve to stiffen prices, 
as quotations in England fell, apparently 
through fear that America was about to unload 
its surplus wheat at figures to meet the British 
market. The decreased deliveries at Western 
primary markets on account of snow and 
storm, aud the deeliucof atiout 700,000 bushels 
in the weekly visible supply, failed to sustain 
the market. There is an expectation that 
prices will rally somewhat, but no one expects 
them to go as high as they were a short time 
ago. 
During the week wheat has been falliug 
rapidly at Minneapolis—the regulator of prices 
for the great Northwest—so that figures have 
been lower than for a long time. No. 1 Hard 
sold yesterday afternoon at. 85V, cents, a fall 
of four cents during the week and mostly in 
the last, few days. This was partly due to a 
speculative movement; but. back of this, there 
is a pauioky feeling about future wheat. 
There is less confidence in permanent high 
prices for wheat than there bus been since the 
crop was harvested. This distrust is due to 
the obstinancy with which the “visible sup¬ 
ply" remains at a high figure and the persis¬ 
tent refusal of foreign countries to take our 
surplus wheat at our present figures. Country 
deliveries, owing to stormy weather, have 
been very light receipts at Minneapolis during 
the w r eek. only 477.600 bushels. The mills are 
maintaining the rate of production which they 
have followed, the output for the week being 
84,000 barrels. Shipments were 60,000 barrels. 
There is a prospect of larger production next 
week, though there is no prospeef of greater 
activity hi flour. TLtc Pioneer Press estimates 
on inquiries addressed to elevator aud ware¬ 
house men in the Northwest, that there were 
marketed in Minnesota and Dakota dur¬ 
ing 1884, in round numbers. 47,000,000 
bushels of wheat. It puts the amount now in 
store in country elevators at 0.385,000 bushels, 
and concludes that there is not more than 
6,000,000 bushels in farmers’ hands. This 
would leave the total yet to be received at the 
primary markets about 16,000.000 bushels. 
At Philadelphia, wheat has ruled dull aud 
unsettled with a general decline in prices in 
sympathy with the break in other markets. 
Futures are I )cent lower, while cash aud 
January are only three-fourths cent lower than 
at the close of last week. Flour 1ms shared 
the dullness in wheat, but has been steadily 
held at unchanged prices; in fact, millers in 
some cases have ordered stocks held for higher 
rates. Corn has deeliued 1Q cent. Stocks are 
light, aud there is a good inquiry to complete 
old contracts for export At. St. Louis bread- 
stuffs receipts and shipments are unusually 
light. Wheat has been badly depressed and is 
unsettled. Other grains are weak with light 
transactions. Flour is very dull and un¬ 
changed. At Milwaukee, wheat is unsettled 
and lower, but closed steadier. The increase 
on passage to Europe and the light demand 
there, demoralized values, May selliugdovm to 
84Vj' cents, but rallying sharply to 85cents 
under liberal purchases from short dealers and 
a reported increase in export demand East. 
Receipts are light, since the cold weather, 
averaging less than 10,000 bushels daily. Ship¬ 
ments are light, and the demand from millers 
is moderate. The flour market is dull but 
firmer. At close there was some export 
demand. 
Late advices from the Pacific Coast report 
that there were on January 1, 1886. about 10,- 
000,000 bushels of wheat there available for 
export. 
Reports to the American Rural Home, of 
Rochester, N. Y., from over 5,0(K) correspon¬ 
dents in all parts of the country, indicate that 
the snow-storm, despite the recent intense cold, 
has protected the wheat from all harm. In 
1885 the corn crop turned out inferior to that 
of 1884. There is general complaint through¬ 
out the Northwest of light, chaffy, dry and 
l moldy corn. The wheat consumption, in the 
future can be increased only by the ability to 
sell it at what are called “starvation" prices, 
because of the foreign competition. In gen¬ 
eral, the correspondents say that, there is 
nothing warranting high prices in 1886 except 
I the total failure of the crop now in the 
ground. 
The last report of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture puts the corn crop at nearly 2,000,000.- 
ooo bushels—the largest ever raised; but as w-e 
have frequently said of late, in this Depart¬ 
ment, a multitude of reports from the West 
go to throw doubt on this estimate. 
Indian corn continued moderately steady 
during the greater portion of the week, but 
w as finally overcome by the downw ard career 
of wheat, and prices went off in spite of the 
decline in the visible supply of over 1,000,000 
bushels within the week. Indian corn is the 
only cereal in the export of which there has 
been any material increase. This is due to its 
low price here ami the absence of competi¬ 
tion in the foreign markets. 
Oats followed Indian corn quite closely in 
the speculative market, opening firm and sus¬ 
taining a moderate advance when the decline 
of about 700,000 bushels was announced in the 
visible supply. Later, however, it reacted 
and became dull and heavy at fractionally 
lower figures. It. is a trifle strange that, in the 
face of the largest crop ever grown here, the 
price of oats should remain so high. It went 
up steadily until three weeks ago, and has suf¬ 
fered very little decline since then. 
Wheat flour has been lower and in less de¬ 
mand than previously. Prices are off some 
live to 12 cents per ban-el. Inquiry is quite 
limited, ami exports from this port still re¬ 
main low. With an advance in flour, wheat, 
too, would step higher. But at present prices 
for flour, millers can’t afford to advance 
prices of wheat to any considerable extent. 
The Australian harvest is over. Ninety 
thousand tons of wheal will be available for 
export, say 30.000,000 bushels. 
The hog products speculative markets ad¬ 
vanced rather beyond expectations during the 
early portion of the week. This was variously 
explained, in the absence of any marked in¬ 
crease in export purchases, as due to specula¬ 
tive buying of lard in view of anticipated buy¬ 
ing in the near future by foreigners, where 
stocks are said to lie relatively light. 
At Philadelphia there has been little doing in 
hog products except in small lots to fill jobbing 
orders. Prices show- no important, change. 
Butter of fancy quality is scarce and wanted, 
but undergrade goods are plentiful and dull. 
Eggs advanced ie. per dozen on speculative 
holding, influenced by the cold weather and 
snow blockades, but. 8 to 4c. of this advance 
have since been lost, and the market closes dull 
and unsettled. Fruit* and vegetables an: gen¬ 
erally dull, owing to unfavorable weather con¬ 
ditions, but prices are sternly, Provisions at 
St. Louis are in limited sale, with buyers and 
sellers apart. The hog market has been over- 
supplied by Uh- arrival of delayed trains, while 
hogs are wgak at small declines. At Rul uque 
(Iowa) provisions generally art-without change 
in prices. Pork is looking up a little. Pro¬ 
duce receipts are liberal. Railroads a re ship¬ 
ping considerable pork from Davenport (Imva) 
south, and lard to Baltimore and to New York, 
this movement being earlier in the season than 
usual. The Milwaukee hog movement is light, 
and the quality falling off. The market is 
dropping. Products are dull. 
The total exports of catt le, hogs, beel'. pork, 
and dairy products from the United States 
during the two calendar years last past, as 
reported by the Bureau of Statistics, wereas 
follows: 
Cattle, uumber. 
IIorh, number. 
Beef, ciinned. 
Beef, fresh, pounds. 
Beef, other, pounds 
Tallow, pounds,.... 
Haeon. pounds. 
Ham, pounds . 
Pork, pounds. 
Lard, pounds . 
Butler. poundB_ 
Cheese, pounds.... 
Totals lvalues) 
1885. 
1884. 
.. 135,732 
133,106 
62,mu 
:ci.2i7 
.. 8.074.1140 
8,290,850 
.. 109,010.477 
117,109,601 
. 7C,514,856 
87,161,749 
. 40.175 
58,260,282 
. 867,654.320 
80S.C57.564 
.. 54,188,096 
... 77,716,772 
... 295,192,178 
45,171,738 
51,478,322 
228,853.516 
... 19.827,811 
21,308,492 
... 90,340,255 
109,219,991 
.. $93,713,028 
$96,149,142 
A telegram from Jacksonville, I’ln.. says; 
“Despatches from all parts of the State con 
firm the belief that, tin* cold wave canned frost 
to almost the extreme southern end of the 
peninsula, and there is little doubt that sub¬ 
stantially the entin orange crop remaining on 
tin* trees is frozen and spoiled. The precise 
effect upon the orange trees cannot be deter¬ 
mined until the warm weather sets in. Prob 
ubh every tree in the State w ill lose it leaves, 
and the belief of the host observers is that most 
of the young trees arc killed. It is estimated 
that 500.000 boxes of oranges, worth $1,000,000, 
were destroyed by the freeze." 
S\ i.sccllaneous 
"When Baby was sick, we gave her Cantoris, 
When she was a Child, she eried for Caetoria, 
When sho became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Caatoria, 
