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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 23,1886. 
The anti-Chinese agitation still continues on 
the Pacific Coast. On Wednesday night, all 
Celestials in Chehalis, W. T., were driven for 
refuge to the brush by a gang of hoodlums. 
Most of the poor fellows were bare-beaded and 
footed. It was snowing hard.President 
Darling or the Toronto Board of Trade says 
that at the close of 1885, trade in the Dominion 
was in a sounder condition and business more 
active and healthier than at the opening of the 
year. Payments of late have materially im¬ 
proved, and purchases have been made with 
great caution.The Cigar Manufacturers’ 
Association of this cit y ha ve declared a “lock¬ 
out” against over 7,000 men, women and 
children in their employ, who wanted a trifle 
more than starvation wages... 
.... The Superintendent of the Board of Health 
of Montreal rejKirtsthat there is not a single 
case of smallpox in the city or suburbs. 
....Still reports continue to come from the 
Northwest Territory that the Blackfeet Indians 
will “rise” in Spring. Now they are wander¬ 
ing off their reserves well armed, resisting 
the police authorities, etc. Sir John Macdon¬ 
ald says, however, that such reports come 
from malcontent traders, and that there is no 
fear of any trouble... 
‘ ‘Boycotting” is rapidly extending in this coun¬ 
try. The Cigar Makers’ Union threaten to boy¬ 
cott the goods of 14 Anns that have locked 
their shops in this city. Tbreo firms are boy¬ 
cotted in Syi’acuse, N. Y. The Knights of 
Labor have boycotted four manufacturers in 
Chicago. In Massachusetts alone, there are 
200 local assemblies of the Knights of Labor, 
and all join in boycotting persons and iheir 
goods against whom boycotting has been de¬ 
clared. In Ireland, the evils of boycotting 
are by far the worst, and it is to suppress the 
practice that all parties iu the English Parlia¬ 
ment arc inclined to combine in stringent 
legislation.The divorce cases in Lane 
County, Oregon, for 1885, outnumber the list, 
of marriages twelve to one, according to the 
San Francisco Bulletin... 
The Government anti-Bell telephone suit is 
to be tried in Washington first, before the 
District Supreme Court, and thou, whichever 
side wins, before the U. S. Supreme Court — 
The Government is bringing suits against 
people who have unlawfully cut timber on 
the unsurveyed public domain. One fellow 
in Utah has mills of 10,000-feet a day capa¬ 
city, and the lumber is worth 84 per thousand 
feet in the tree!.The Labor Committee 
of the House of Representatives has acquired 
much importance owing to the organization 
of so many industrial societies, such as the 
Knights of Labor, the Granges, etc. The 
Committee is to introduce a bill raising the 
head of the Agricultural Department to the 
position of a Cabinet officer as Secretary of 
Agriculture and Labor. There was great 
competition to get good places on this com¬ 
mittee, by those who wished to influence the 
“working men’s votes.”.One of the 
severest storms that ever visited the Pacific 
coast began on Sunday and reached its great¬ 
est force about noon on Thursday. It raged 
from the northern boundary of Wyoming 
Territory to the southern boundary of Cali¬ 
fornia—rain, snow and wind at the rate of 
82 miles an horn - most of the time, wrecked 
houses, shattered windows, flooded basements, 
upsetting of wagons and railroad cars, total 
interruption of telegraph communication, 
railroad washouts, etc.. ... 
The silver discussion has been active iu Con¬ 
gress during the week, where bitter language 
was used about the “conspiracy of capitalists 
and bondholders” who want a stop put to the 
coinage of silver dollars. Senator Beck, of 
Kentucky, started it; then Vance, of North 
Carolina, both Texas Senators, and Brown, of 
Georgia, joined in. Eustis, of Louisiana, 
wants to pay the interest on the 810,000,000 
worth of bonds recently “called in,” entirely 
in silver. The silver men are decidedly the 
most aggressive.In Maine, the great 
prohibitionist State, over half the commit¬ 
ments to jail last year were for drnnkenness, 
and exceeded those of the year before by 440. 
More bloody crimes and murders were there 
due to liquor than in any other State in New 
England! . Ex-Senator Ross, of Kansas, 
has been appointed Governor of New Mexico. 
.Southern Dakota has 450,000 popula¬ 
tion—much more than is requisite—and 
having already elected Senators and Members 
of the House, is demanding admission into the 
Union as a State. There is a very good 
chance that she will be admitted, though some 
Congressmen growl that she didn’t wait until 
her admission before electing Congressmen. 
Several of the old States, however, acted pre¬ 
cisely inthe same way before demanding ad- 
msision. 
.... Secretary Bayard and Chairman Belmont, 
of the House Committee on Foreign Relations, 
are reported to be heartily iu favor of the ne¬ 
gotiation of a new treaty of reciprocity be¬ 
tween the United States and Canada. Public 
opinion on the other side of the boundary is 
also making itself known. At Halifax, for 
example, the Chamber of Commerce has unan¬ 
imously resolved to urge the Dominion Gov¬ 
ernment “to negotiate such reciprocal trade 
relations with the U. S. Government as would 
be mutually advantageous to both countries.” 
..Blaine goes strongly 
for silver coinage.As the idea gains 
ground that the Panama Canal will prove a 
failure, the Nicaragua Canal route is gaining 
a great access of attention. It is thought, 
much more practicable than Ead’s Tehuan¬ 
tepec ship-railroad scheme.Apostle 
Lorenzo Snow was sentenced last week in the 
District Court at Ogden, Utah, ou each of 
three convictions of unlawful cohabitation, to 
six months’ imprisonment and 8300 fine and 
costs. James H. Nelson, on one conviction, 
was sentenced -to six months’ imprisonment 
and 8300 fine and costs. Both men were defi¬ 
ant. James Taylor, ou promising to obey the 
law, was sentenced for the same offence to pay 
a fine of $300 and costs, but without imprison¬ 
ment.Gov. Cornell says there is no 
intention among the Grant monument cor- 
porators to ask for public aid from the State 
or Congress. The fund now amounts to 
$114,145.The earnings of the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad during 1884 were $S,349,557; 
expenses, $5,124,374—net earnings about three 
millions and a quarter, against a little over a 
million in 1884, The increase is chiefly due to 
transportation of troops, ammunition, etc., 
and also food, during Riel’s rebellion.The 
movement of manufacturers to avail them¬ 
selves of the Pennsylvania natural gas as fuel 
is growing, many large manufacturers re¬ 
moving to the area where it can be otaiued, 
as an enormous saving is made in the cost of 
fuel for furnaces, etc. The Standard Oij 
Company has gone into the business heavily, 
and will supply the gas to both Buffalo and 
Cleveland—the farthest points to which it has 
hitherto been driven......... One of the most 
serious explosions iu the history of the Rocky 
Mountain mines took place early Wednesday 
morning last week in mine No. 4 at Almy, 
Wy.j canting the death of 13 men. 
An important decision of the United States 
Supreme Court in the Mississippi railroad 
cases completely settles the question that a 
State Legislature may pass laws prohibiting 
unjust discrimination in freight charges. It 
shows, too, that if the State Legislatures do 
their duty, there is no need of invoking the 
powers of Congress.The cashier of the 
late Wall Street firm of Grant & Ward says 
that their debts at the time of the failure 
amounted to $16,792,647. Since that time 
$11,770,039 had been paid to creditors. The 
amount which would probably be realized 
from the remainiug assets was about $150,000. 
So, at best, there will be a deficet of about 
$5,000,000 !. 
Cornell University has 685 students—26 
more than ever before in the history of the in¬ 
stitution. More are coming. 
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. 23, 1886. 
A bill is to be introduced into Parliament 
by an Irish member, providing “for the growth 
and cultivation of tobacco in Ireland.”. 
.... In the west of Reland out of 9,300 tenants 
under the Land Act of three yearn ago, which 
greatly reduced rente, 7,100 now absolutely 
refuse to pay a cent of rent unless an abate¬ 
ment of from 10 to 50 per cent, be made iu the 
' ‘fail' rents” provided for in that law. Starva¬ 
tion among the peasants and fishermen along 
most of the west Irish coast.... The an uual meet¬ 
ing of the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture 
and a general Farmers’ Institute will be held 
at Harrisburg, Wednesday and Thursday, 
January 27 and 28. Evexy farmer in the 
State is invited to attend.In Southern 
California, unthrashed barley, baled as hay, 
brings $20 per ton.On the Rio Grande 
Plantation, Capo May County, N. J., 7,420 
tons of uuatripped sorghum caue were gath¬ 
ered from 960 acres. The marketable sugar 
made was 881,000 pounds; sirup, 50,000 gal¬ 
lons; seed, 10,000 bushels, all finding ready 
sale at fair prices. 
_Cigar manufacturers are vigorously pro¬ 
testing against auy increase of duty on 
Sumatra tobacco. The tariff bill of 1883 in¬ 
creased the duty from 35 cents to 75 cents per 
pound, and they protest against a further in¬ 
crease to $1.50 and $2 per pound as proposed. 
Tobacco growers, however, are well organized 
and very urgent for t he increase. The present 
duty of 75 cents per pound is five times 
greater than the average price of leaf tobacco 
grown in the United States. 
_Michael Davitt approves the proposition 
to buy out the Irish landlords, and suggests an 
Anglo-Irish arbitration. Commission to settle 
terms of the purchase.Complaints come 
from Florida that several people have been 
“poisoned” by eating frosted oranges; the cold 
drove iuward the “poison” naturally held in 
the skin.The New York State Court of 
Appeals sustains the law establishing a milk 
standard of 12 per cent, solids and 88 per cent, 
water.Five members of the Hausmoyer 
family at Tarentum, Fa., have died of trich¬ 
inosis. The lives of the three remaining mem¬ 
bers of the family are despaired of. 
.... Marshall P. Wilder helps along the Massa¬ 
chusetts State Agricultural College by giving 
its library 250 volumes of agricultural and 
horticultural periodicals aud pamphlets, 60 
bound volumes—a complete set.—of the Loudon 
Gardener’s Chronicle (folio), that cost $500, 
each volume containing the giver’s autograph, 
the records of the American Bornological Soci¬ 
ety for 37 years, and of the Boston Society of 
Natural History from 1866 to 18S5 Inclusive... 
_The New York State Beekeepers’ Associa¬ 
tion, founded by Moses Quimby in 1868, will 
hold its annual convention in Rochester, Feb. 
2-4. All associations in the State are entitled 
to three delegates. New York beekeepers are 
invited to attend.The estimated 
yield per acre of the coru crop in Illinois for 
1885 is 31.7 bushels, the largest since the crop 
of 1880.Trappers in the towns of 
Western Massachusetts have been unusual Iv 
busy this Wiuter, Muskrat skins are worth 
from 25 to 35 cents iu Springfield, and good 
fox skins sell for $1.The chemical 
preparations that have been resorted to in 
France to cheek the ravages of insects in 
vineyards appear to have failed, and the re¬ 
port comes that mildew aud phylloxera are 
fast spreading.In spite of, or rather 
owing, iu part, to the constant exportation 
of horses from the United Kingdom, there is 
a serious scarcity there of horses suited for 
certain purposes. The latest returns 
published by the War Office regarding the 24 
regiments of regular cavalry in the British 
army, show that for upward of 17,500 cavalry 
troopers there are only about 10,300 chargers. 
.Revenue frauds have been discovered iu 
Chicago iu the importation of potato starch 
as farina. Farina is on the free list, while 
there is a duty of two cents per pound on 
potato or corn starch. The frauds have been 
going on for years. No doubt many other 
shipments have escaped detection. Has this 
had any influence on the low prices generally 
paid for potatoes at the starch factories!. 
A new State Agricultural Society of Massa¬ 
chusetts, has been organized, so that the old 
“Loring ring” has been completely “knocked 
out.” Edward Burnett, of Southboro, was 
enthusiastically elected President is spite of 
his strong protests. 
The number of Texan aud Indian cattle receiv¬ 
ed in Chicago last year was298,188 head,against 
259,874 in 1884. From the Northwest the re¬ 
ceipts of range cattle last year were about 
30,000 less than, in 1884. During 1885 Swift & 
Co. slaughtered 429.483 head of cattle, Ham¬ 
mond & Co. 160,900, Armour & Co. 325,131... 
.The total receipts of wheat and flour 
expressed in wheat at San Francisco in 1885 
was 16,890,878 centals, against 17,277,840 cen¬ 
tals in 1884, according to the Commercial 
Herald. This represents iu bushels 28,160,465 
for 1885, and 28,796,400 for 1884. 
.The wool clip of California in 1885 was 
36,561,890 pounds, which is the smallest since 
1873, although but 852,940 pounds short of 
1884. The average annual dip for ten years 
ending with 1885, is 44,898,000 pounds, the 
largest year being 1876, 56,550.970 pounds,. 
..The receipts of Western dressed beef 
at New York aud Jersey City last year more 
than doubled the receipts iu auy former year* 
At the lowest estimate they averaged 100 car¬ 
loads per week, or 5,200 car-loads for the year; 
equal in round numbers to 160,000 carcasses. 
The receipts at Orange, Newark, Paterson, 
and other outlying cities and towns which 
formerly drew their supplies from the stock- 
yards will carry the total up to 200,000 car¬ 
casses, equal to one-third of the total beef 
supply of New York City and it environs. 
.The English Privy Council 
has just permitted the immediate landing of 
Canadian cattle carried on vessels that had 
touched at an American port lrefore taking 
them on board. The rule used to lie that uo 
cattle could be landed alive from a vessel 
which within 30 days had touched at a 
scheduled port, unless for slaughter at the 
port of debarkation. Canadian cattle can now 
be taken directly to pasture from such ships.. 
.. .The New Jersey State Board of Agriculture 
will hold its annual meeting in the Masonic 
Hall, Trenton, N, J., ou Tuesday and Wed¬ 
nesday, February 3 aud 3, commencing at 10 
o’clock, A. M. We notice that a wide-awake 
programme has beeu provided and New Jer¬ 
sey always exceeds rather than falls behind 
the promised interest. P. T. Quinn, Secre¬ 
tary, Newark, N. J. 
Quarter Century devoted to the improve¬ 
ment of Thatcher Orange Butter Color. It 
was the first, is the best and has beeu every 
day in every year. If you want the highest 
human testimony, send your address to H. C. 
Thatcher & Co., Potsdam, N. Y.—Adv. 
Crops •& {%tax\ut$. 
Saturday, Jan. 23,1886. 
The Chicago Times the other day reports 
from nearly 590 points as to the crop of corn 
and hogs in the North west and Southwest. It 
apjHjars that the yield of corn has been over¬ 
estimated and its quality ranked too high. 
Ohio and Indiana framers have sold more 
freely than those in other States. Hog cholera 
has made its appearance in every State of the 
corn belt, forcing hogs upon the market much 
more rapidly than is usual, and it is probable 
that the receipts at the chief packing points 
for the remainder of the season will be less 
than last year. 
It is reported that the biggest wheat deal 
ever attempted is now in progress in Chicago. 
It is said to be worked by Phil. Armour and 
the Minneapolis millers, as well as by railroads, 
elevators and ‘ ‘grain" l tanks. It contemplates 
putting wheat do mi as low as possible—cer¬ 
tainly below 80 cents at Chicago—buying in 
heavily a.s it descends, and then jumping for a 
profit of 80 to 40 cents, making the price over 
$1.20 in May. Pork aud provisions are to go 
up with it. The amount of wheat to be “con¬ 
trolled” to render the scheme successful is, it 
seems to us, by far too large to permit shrewd 
men to embark iu such an enterprise. Ac¬ 
cording to good estimates, 892,000,000 bushels 
of wheat remained on hand ou Dec. 31, of 
which 58,000,000 bushels were in the “visible 
supply” and 234,000,000 invisible aud in the 
form of flour. It may be that the latter esti¬ 
mate is.too large, for all the interior storage 
points, such as St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, 
Detroit, Toledo aud Buffalo, have beeu re¬ 
ceiving orders from millers in the country for 
supplies of wheat, which shows plaiuly that 
little or no wheat exists iu their neighbor¬ 
hoods. Council Bluffs is buying wheat in 
Chicago! Evidently there is not a large sur¬ 
plus in the hands of farmers, or, if there is, 
they are able and determined to stick to it 
for higher figures. The Northwest holds fast 
to the opinion that DO cents for cash, No. 1 
Hard, is about right, and though it has touched 
84 cents at Minneapolis, but little was market¬ 
ed at that figure, and confidence iu 90 cents 
remains firm.. .The general impression is that 
the recent frigid wave did little or no harm 
to winter wheat, as its advent had been 
preceded by a heavy fall of snow, 
which warmly blanketed the crop. 
Last Saturday there was a drop of one to two 
cents per bushel in wheat, due to the large 
visible supply and to a foolish rumor that the 
English Government would recommend a duty 
on wheat imported from the United States into 
the United Kingdom. Ou Tuesday there was 
au advance of l?<i cent per bushel, due to a 
decrease of 850,000 bushels in the visible 
supply, aud to reports that Austria, Russia 
and Turkey, as well as all the Dauubian 
States, anfi perhaps most of the rest of Eu¬ 
rope, would be at war as soon as Spring ren¬ 
der campaigning possible—aud certainly 
bloody trouble seems brewing north of the 
Balkans. There seems little doubt now that 
the visible supply will rapidly decline even in 
the abseuce of exports, as receips arc small 
aud sales to millers at interior points sharply 
increasing. 
Indian corn has followed wheat. When the 
advance iu wheat prices came, corn showed 
an improvement in juices too, though to lesser 
extent, and there was not so much activity in 
the market. There is considerable interest 
taken in the reported plan of the Chesapeake 
& Ohio Railroad to ship com freely to New¬ 
port News for storage. 
The oats market has been quite but moder- 
■When Baby waa sick, we gave her Caatoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Caetoria, 
When ahe had Children, she gave them Castoria, 
