HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 6,1886. 
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of 
State, died last Sunday morning at Washing¬ 
ton. The Kuddeif, accidental death of her oldest 
daughter two weeks before was a blow from 
which she never recovered. The Secretary's 
double grief is sadly tragic......The Pills- 
bury flouring mills at Minneapolis divided 
$35,000 surplus profits among 1,100 employees 
last year.*. 
_English holders of Confederate bonds have 
retained ex-Judge Fullerton of this city as 
counsel, and are going to force the United 
States to pay the bonds! ! !.Gen. Hazen, of 
the Signal Service, seems to have a special 
faculty for quarreling with bis superiors, bul¬ 
lying bis subordinates, and in his reports, etc., 
furnishing fun for tlxe newspapers. Charges 
are now made by the Treasury Department 
that money has been spent extravagantly 
and illegally by his Bureau, which Gen. 
Sheridan says is of no earthly use to the 
army, and should be made a civil, instead of a 
military institution. Let, it be attached to 
the Dep't of Agriculture and furnish frequent 
and trustworthy weather reports to our 
farmer friends!.Dr. Shrady, editor of 
the Medical Record, laughs at the recent hy¬ 
drophobia scare, and says there have been only 
three genuine cases of hydrophobia in the 
United States in 10 years! How the world or 
somebody on it is given to lying!.It is 
estimated that the receipts of the 10,000 saloons 
of New York city average 4220,000 a day, or 
about §74,000,000 annually. Judge Brewer, of 
the U. S. Circuit court in Kansas, has elabo¬ 
rately decided that no State can, by legislation 
or by constitutional amendment, prohibit the 
liquor traffic without payiug for the private 
property thereby destroyed or injured. The 
case is to go to the U. S. Supreme Court, 
where it cannot be reached under three years! 
.The United States Government is the 
greatest printer ami publisher in the world. 
The number of publications issued annually 
amounts to about 2,500,■000, of which about 
600,000 are bound volumes.In Warsaw, 
Ind., Barney Card has been arrested for forg- 
ingnotes to the amount of §30,006. He secured 
$8,000 from fanners whose names were obtain¬ 
ed by tearing the signatures from the assess¬ 
ment blanks in the county auditor’s office. 
....Geronitno, the bloody Apache renegade, 
together with his infamous band, has surren¬ 
dered to Lieut. Mans. Careful estimates 
place the number killed by these fiends during 
their last raid at 170. Many of these were 
women, some of whom were highly refined 
and connected. A great number ot the men 
were barbarously tortured and mutilated. 
Most of the women were inhumanly outraged, 
and fiendishly tortured and mutilated. The 
savages expect to he treated kindly like 
so many similar devilish raiders, and to be 
fed and petted at the San Carlos Reservation. 
They have already been comfortably clothed, 
well fed and cared for. In Arizona aud New 
Mexico, the scenes of their atrocities, there is 
a fierce demand that the wretches shall be 
promptly hanged, and the Government is ur¬ 
gently pressed for vengeance on the monsters. 
... .George L. Lorillard, well known, like bis 
brother Pierre, as a great patron of the turf, 
died last Wednesday at Nice. France, where 
he was passing the Winter. He had for years 
been a victim of inflammatory rheumatism, 
and his death had previously been three times 
expected.It appears probable 
that the killing of the brave Indian fighter 
Capt. Crawford, who had fairly hunted Gero- 
nimo to bay, was due to a blunder. The U ar 
Department believes he and lus company 
were mistaken for hostile Indians, all reports 
of treachery, etc., etc., to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding.A suit is being prepared 
by Solicitor-General Goode, at Washington, 
to try the validity of the Bell telephone pat¬ 
ents. The papers are full of scandal about 
Attornev-Geucral (larland’s connection with 
the case, as he owns $ 1 , 000,006 worth of stock 
of the Pan-Electric Company, a rival organi¬ 
zation, the stock of which was presented to 
him grat is while in the United States Senate. 
Secretary Lamar is also besmirched, as so 
many high officials in bis Department own 
stock in the same company, which was also 
presented to them gratis. The whole business 
has an unhealthy look morally—but the fact 
remains that the Bell Company is an odious, 
extortionate and dishonest monopoly, the over¬ 
throw of which is demanded for the public 
welfare . 
_As the time for the meeting of the Cana¬ 
dian Parliament approaches it becomes more 
apparent that the death of Riel cannot be 
used as a political factor to build a party 
upon. The race feeling will make trouble, 
and the Conservatives will be forced into 
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making concessions to the French element— 
such as they have never before been willing 
to make; but there is no organizing hand in 
the opposition to make a cry of free trade, 
administrative reform aud justice to the half- 
breeds effective in politics.The 
President lias, at the request of the Secretary 
of the Interior, issued an executive order 
withdrawing 360 square miles of laud sur¬ 
rounding Crater Lake, in Oregon, from settle¬ 
ment and public sale, pending legislation look¬ 
ing to the creation from these lands of a 
national public park.The Mallory 
steamship company has agaiu been placed 
under boycott at Galveston by an order issued 
last week by the executive committee of the 
Knights of Labor of Texas. The present 
trouble was practically caused by the com¬ 
pany’s refusal to discharge the uew men and 
employ the November strikers in their places. 
.Manager Oakes, of the Northern Paci¬ 
fic Railroad, says negotiations are pending for 
the sale of all the lands east of the Missouri at 
Bismarck, amountiug to about 4,000,000 acres, 
for 810,000.000 of the preferred stock. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad and its allied com¬ 
panies is to establish a relief department on 
the plan so successfully operated by the Balti¬ 
more & Ohio. The members will be assessed 
on a scale according to their pay. The fund 
will lie used to pay accident benefits, sick ben¬ 
efits aud an insurance at death. The men, 
however, object to the plan, and even threat¬ 
en to strike if it is enforced, as they say it is 
simply a scheme to reduce their wages by 
forcing them to insure against accidents ou 
the road, so as to lessen the liability of the 
company for damages. 
. .From the action and discussions of Congress 
so far, it is very evident that a reciprocity 
treaty with Canada is out of the question for 
the present,. Even the President's suggestion 
of a Commission to consider the matter of fish¬ 
ing rights, meets with no support . The repre¬ 
sentatives of the New England fisheries, who 
oppose the free admission of Canadian fish, 
have monopolized attention. If the advocates 
of reciprocity were half as active as its oppon¬ 
ents, the facts and arguments before Congress 
would not he so one-sided. The friends of the 
treaty are letting the case go by default. 
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. 
It also contains a list of the 
$3,300 
worth of Presents offered to 
those who send us clubs. This 
is distinct from the Rural’s reg¬ 
ular Premium-list. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 6,1886. 
The vintage of 1885 in Europe was the small¬ 
est harvested iu many years. We shall have an 
abundant, supply of French wines, however, as 
long as the California vineyards hold out. 
_The merchants of Buffalo arc trying to 
have the New York State Fair located at that 
city this year. A suitable site can be secured 
for from $10,000 to $20,000—“a trifle compared 
with the benefits to be reaped by the city.”... 
_The Texas Oklahoma Homestead Colony, 
Deuison, Texas, is inviting membership at a 
fee of $3 each, aud making big promises of 
securing fine homesteads for each “as soon as a 
land office is established there.” Land Com¬ 
missioner Sparks says: “I liavea very positive 
opinion that no bouelits can be derived from a 
membership in the alleged ‘colony.’" Laud 
fraud sharpers are not all engaged exclusively 
iu Floriila land swindles. 
The National (.fane Growers' Association (suc¬ 
cessor to the Mississippi Valley Caue Growers’ 
Association) has been in session in St. Louis 
since Thursday morning. 
The Marquis de Mores thinks of exporting 
“frames” of lean young stock to France to be 
there fattened by the farmers. This has at 
times been quite a trade with Scotland. 
Mores says he can land the stock in France for 
$50 a head, and that when fattened they will 
there be worth $130.The census of 
Nebraska shows that the population,from 1880 
to 1885, increased from 452,433 to 350,645, 
over 50 per cent. The number of farms in¬ 
creased 58 per cent. The acreage under culti¬ 
vation has just doubled. The value of farms 
grew from $ 105 , 000,000 to $280,000,000; value 
of live stock from $33,000,000 to $83,000,000. 
Wheat shows no increase, but other grains 
show from 200 to 500 per cent. The manu¬ 
factured products increased from $12,000,000 
to $43,000,000. In all material points the 
growth in wealth aud facilities has outrun 
the increase in population.. 
_A proposition is before the House Com¬ 
mittee on Agriculture advocating the exten¬ 
sion of the Signal Service system generally to 
the country districts. It is proposed to make 
every telegraph offices signal station for the 
display of weather predictions to be indicated 
by lanterns at night aud (lags in the day-time. 
It is estimated the cost of the plant will be 
$25,000, and the annual expenditure after its 
establishment would be $250,000. 
The Microscope raised the standard of 
Thatcher’s Orange Butter Color until three emi¬ 
nent experts in New York State reported good 
euough.— Adv. 
Cro|)5 & iFlavlifts. 
one. The havoc now is considerably less dis¬ 
astrous than it was then. . 
Special crop reports to the American Rural 
Home, of Rochester, N. Y., from all the wheat 
growing regions indicate that, the plants are 
well covered with snow, and all in good con¬ 
dition in that respect for a large crop. Thou¬ 
sands of acres of wheat land in Dakota, how¬ 
ever, will lie fallow this Summer, to correct 
foulucss and weediness. 
The terrible cold of the past week has added 
to the fears of the Western cattlemen. In 
many parts of the country the roads are com¬ 
pletely blockaded, and the movement of agri¬ 
cultural products aud stock on the "’ay to 
market has been much impeded or entirely 
hindered. The railroads, too, iu many States, 
and especially in the West, have been serious¬ 
ly hampered by snowdrifts. The wheat 
markets early in the week dropped every¬ 
where, owing chiefly to the throwing of a 
large amount of “long” wheat on the market 
and the continued unwillingness of Europe to 
buy at our figures. Later, prices went up, 
owing to increased export demand, and the 
Saturday, Feb. 6, 1886. 
Low prices of grain, high railroad freights 
aud extremely cold weather have made things 
dull during the week in the Northwest. East¬ 
ern shipments are excessively dull. The total 
shipments of flour, grain and provisions east, 
from Chicago during last week amouutod to 
only 25,000 tons against 85,000 for the corres¬ 
ponding week last year—and business was 
then considered dull. Lately, only IS car- 
loads of corn were received at Chicago in one 
day, against 300 on the corresponding day- 
last year; but receipts are now about 250 car¬ 
loads a day. All through tfie more North¬ 
western States, however, shipments are un¬ 
usually light. Besides the above causes, the 
great snow blockade of country roads and 
railroads impedes shipments. In many sec¬ 
tions 20 per cent, of the corn is stilt under the 
snow; iu many others, especially iu Nebraska 
farmers are burning corn for lack of coal and 
wood. The impression is growing stronger 
that the Agricultural Department’s estimate 
of the crop w as too high as regards both 
quantity and quality. Anywhere in Illinois, 
Iowa, Misouri, Ohio and Indiana, corn to-day 
is bringing paying prices; blit farmers are 
not selling freely, and as seeding commences 
iu March in Illiuois. Iowa and Nebraska, 
farmers won't have much time to ship their 
surplus corn. A great general reduction of 
freight rates is likely, however, or else the 
railroads will cut rates clandestinely. 
The condition of t he winter wheat varies. 
There are from 12 to 14 inches of snow in 
Northern and Central Illinois: from 18 to 24 
in Wisconsin, aud about, the same in Minne¬ 
sota and Nebraska. In Missouri and Kansas 
the depth varies greatly. Iu nearly all States, 
however, there are considerable areas in which 
the crop is only partially covered, aud else¬ 
where the ground is quite bare of snow aud 
covered with ice: but on the whole, the crop 
is safely blanketed north of the Ohio; south 
of that river the ground was generally bare 
before last Wednesday’s widespread snow¬ 
storm: later advices do not say whether the 
snow that then fell nearly all over the South 
from the line of Northern Texas, has remained 
on the ground—probably not iu most places. 
Immense damage has been done to the wheat 
crop of California, by freshets iu the Sau 
Joaquin Valley and near Stockton, w hile 25,- 
000 acres of growing wheat have been ruined 
by the breaking of the levees on Robert’s 
Island. Most of the island is owned by the 
Glasgow-Califoruia Land Company, composed 
principally of foreign capitalists, who lose 
$000,000by the inundation.A sleet storm 
has ruined many orchards and groves in New 
Hampshire. At Nottingham, one man lost 
1,000 peach trees_Of all the States iu the 
Union, the recent frosts have done the most 
damage in Florida, in proportion to the value 
of horticultural and pomological products. 
The cold was almost, unprecedentedly severe, 
aud extended over the entire Peninsula, except 
the southern point, on which little is cultivated. 
A great, number of the bearing orange trees 
were either damaged or entirely ruined, while 
the loss in fruit alone is estimated at fully 
$1,000,006. In the young orange groves, a 
large proportion of the trees were ruined en¬ 
tirely, and nearly all the rest greatly injured. 
Garden truck, a great deal of which is grown 
in the State, was much damaged or wholly 
destroyed. As usual, some reports say the 
damage was not very great and will not las 
permanent. The rosiest reports come from 
natives, the gloomiest from Northern settlers. 
The warning from the Weather Bureau that 
the “cold wave” was copiing, caused many to 
pick their fruit at once, working day and 
night, and thus saving much money. At 
Jacksonville, the thermometer registered 12° 
above zero; in 1835—the year of the greatest 
Florida frost—it registered 8 U above zero. 
action of a “bullish” crowd iu Chicago. 
It. is now possible that, the heaviest run of 
bogs to market, is over, and that the ship¬ 
ments for the rest of the season will be light¬ 
er. Farmers are a trifle discouraged by the 
low price of hogs, aud the widespread fatality 
of disease Kansas alone lias lost $4,000,000 
directly from hog cholera, to say nothing of 
the general depression which the swine indus¬ 
try has suffered in other ways from this plague. 
.The Cincinnati Price Current of 
Thursday says: The number of hogs packed 
iu the West last week Was 75,000, Compared 
with 260,000 the corresponding time last year. 
The total to date since November (the begin¬ 
ning of the whiter packing season) is 5,530,000, 
against 5,555,000 a year ago. The following 
indicates the movement at the principal points 
since November 1: 
Chicago. .3,115,000 I Kansas City. 558,000 
Cincinnati. I'JO.non si. Louis.:U5,000 
Milwaukee... .. 280.000 Indianapolis. 353,000 
Cedar Rapids . ib7,ik»i Louisville...-131,000 
St, Joseph Mo. 116,OUT Cleveland.. 63,000 
The monthly average weight of hogs weighed 
at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, for win¬ 
ter seasons, compare as follows: 
4 mos. 
36 i 
24S 
254 
255 
257 
265 
268 
272 
262 
pretty 
steady, having advanced in some places and 
fallen behind in others. The visible-supply 
Nov, 
Dec. 
.Tun. 
l-’eb. 
1885-86.. 
.350 
249 
232 
1884-85.. 
.261 
272 
258 
240 
1883-84 . 
253 
242 
213 
1882-83.. 
.218 
2tu 
25U 
248 
1881-83.. 
.262 
268 
252 
2-29 
jsso-si.. 
.262 
264 
•258 
232 
1879-81), . 
264 
265 
266 
S'78-79.. 
.278 
277 
279 
286 
877-78.. 
.265 
2711 
280 
270 
S7G-77.. 
.262 
207 
257 
257 
The 
Indian corn 
market has been 
report shows a decline of nearly 400,(MX) bush¬ 
els in the week. The relatively better export 
demand also continues. 
Oats have been steady and closed here, for 
cash, last uight at. 38 cents, as against 37 ;1 , one 
week ago. an advance of one-quarter cent. 
The visible supply report, New York Produce 
Exchange, does not indicate any change in 
the total quantity in sight. 
For Thfoai IJiseiines mid Couch*. Brown’s 
Buoncmi.m. Troches, like nil re illy good things, are 
frequently imitated. The genuine are sold only in 
boxes. — Adc. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, February 6, 1885. 
Chicago. —Compared with prices a week 
ago, “regular” wheat is 1 Lc. lower; No. 2 
Spring, steady Corn, ;Lc. lower. Oats, 
r,e. lower. Pork, 45c. higher; cattle higher 
on best, sorts: somewhat lower on others. Hogs 
from 10c. to 25c. higher all round. Sheep, from 
25c. to 50c. lower ou poor sorts of nil grades ( 
and stead}- on higher or best grades. 
ranged ; t_,—, _—., . 
March,#. May. #i 2i! 
shoulder*, ssl&uno; short r 
Short clear .-.Idea. $5 fl 10:45 85. < '• 
Shill plus Hteer*. $3 306*575; s 
$2 (liK- 1 11* 1 : Cows, hulls and 
hulk, $2 I5i lloos. 
. BUUtMEATS. 
Hides. *5 3?hJ®5 60; 
.vrrbE— Market strong; 
snickers and feeders. 
...jd mixed. $1 5IK.i :t 75; 
Hough andmlxed, $3 7rtwl (0; 
hulk, K! aUMHS Or IIOOS. lYilugll iimun i sen, it"<> 
packing and shipping. *4 Id- I 60; light, *8 W@4115; 
skips, *2 40'< 8 50. SHEEP.— Marketllrm; Native*. $2 on 
(.<•5 111; Western, 4 00- lambs, $1 0tx«.i5 00; Texans. 
AO UR.'. Rll 
$2 25@3 CO 
St. Louis. - Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, wheat is IJ^c. lower. Corn, }»<•. 
lower. Oats, sternly. Eggs, 1c. higher. 
Flax-seed unchanged. Pork, 40c. higher. 
Cattle, from 10c. to 86c. higher, according to 
grade. Hogs, from 20c. to 35c. higher. Sheep, 
g#i$tfUanc0u$ ^dvevtbuifl. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Cantona, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When sho had Children, shs gave them Castoria, 
Then the cold lasted three days; lately, only 
