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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 13, 1886. 
The House Committee on Railways and 
Canals has decided to report favorably the 
bill committing the Government to the con¬ 
struction and maintenance of the Hennepin 
Canal. It provides for the acceptance and en¬ 
largement of the existing Illinois and Michi¬ 
gan Canal from Chicago to La Salle. 96 miles, 
and the construction of a canal from Henne¬ 
pin to the Mississippi River, at Rock Island, 
74 W miles, with a feeder 37 miles long. The 
estimated cost is £6,673,000 for the canal and 
feeder, and *2,299,000 for the enlargement of 
the Illinois and Michigan Canal, or nearly 
*9,000,000 in all. It is proposed to begin with 
an appropriation of £1,000,000 and follow it 
with £ 2 , 000,000 a year until the work is done.. 
.Some weeks ago Sir Ambrose Shea was 
appointed Governor of Newfoundland. He 
was the first native ever appointed and the 
first Catholic since the days of Cabot.. His ap¬ 
pointment, however, has just been canceled— 
the Orange body made such strenuous efforts 
that the Government couldn’t resist the press¬ 
ure.The Virginia Assembly favors 
“local option,” and a bill “ingrossed” provides 
that on petition of one-fifth of the popular 
vote cast at the last election, a special election 
is to be held in any county to determine 
whether liquor is to be sold nothin its borders. 
All cities and distilleries arc to be excepted 
from the operations of the law.The 
Mass. Legislature is likely to pass a bill requir¬ 
ing wages to be paid weekly to working 
people.Major-General Winfield Scott 
Hancock, Commander of the Military Division 
of the Atlantic, died at his head-quarters on 
Governor’s Island, at 2.55 o’clock last Tuesday 
afternoon. Although his death had been 
sudden, he had been in poor health all Winter, 
and had never fully recovered from the shock 
caused by the death of his only son, and sole 
remaining child, Russell Hancock, on Decem¬ 
ber 30, 18S4,. on his Mississippi plantation. 
General Hancock was bora in Montgomery 
County, Pa., February 14, 1824; entered West 
Point in 1840; graduated 1844; received com¬ 
mission as Lieutenant of Infantry in 1846. 
Served in the Mexican War, and against the 
Mormons under A. S. Johnston, lias made 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers in 1861, and 
greatly distinguished himself in all the cam¬ 
paigns of the Army of the Potomac, especially 
at Gettysburg, where he commanded the left- 
center, and on the third day repulsed Pickett’s 
famous charge of 18,000 of the flower of the 
Confederate army, thus deciding the contest. 
His career since, who does not remember? 
Regret universal; condolences from all quar¬ 
to's multitudinous. Will have a quiet funeral, 
and lie buried at Norristown, Pa. 
_The will of Wilber F. Storey, late editor 
and owner of the Chicago Times, has been 
declared valid. The Court, says he was of 
sound mind, and not unduly influenced when 
he made it. The paper and most of his other 
property goes to bis young widow — blood- 
relations left out in the cold.John 
Bigelow, of this city, and Nathan Appleton, 
of Boston, appointed by the Chambers of Com¬ 
merce of the respective cities to inspect the 
Panama Canal, according to the request of 
M. de Leaseps, started ou their missiou Wed¬ 
nesday.Archbishop Gibbons, of Balti¬ 
more, is to be created a cardinal at the Con¬ 
sistory to be held in Rome next month. He 
was horn in Baltimore July 23,1834: ordained 
priest in 1861 1 made Bishop of Richmond in 
1872.The largest coal-produciug combi¬ 
nation in the world—one that will practically 
monopolize the whole coal production of the 
South — is being perfected at Birmingham, 
Alabama. A convention of the representa¬ 
tives of all the corporate and individual in¬ 
terests in the Warrior coal fields, comprising 
244,700 acres, has met there “to secure a con¬ 
solidation of interests for mutual advance¬ 
ment and protection.”.A syndicate, said to 
represent a capital of £50,000,000, is to reor¬ 
ganize the Reading railroad, Pa., and also 
to control the leading hard coal companies, 
and also the shipments of soft coal, for the 
purpose of puttiug and keeping up prices— 
“milking” the public.It is reported 
that six mounted Canadian policemen have 
l>een ambushed and killed near Regina. Mani¬ 
toba, and that a rising of the Indians and 
half-breeds in the Spriug is a foregone conclu¬ 
sion. The police in some parts of the North¬ 
west Territory are said to be insubordinate. 
A delegation from the Council of the North¬ 
west Territory has arrived at Ottawa with a 
“bill of rights” from the people of the North¬ 
west. It demands the grant of the right of 
habeas corpus, representation in tbe Commons 
and Senate, the construction of r railways 
through the Territory, and a rebate equal to 
the duties now imposed on agriculturaljmple- 
ments and lumber.Tramps are over¬ 
running Florida to such an extent that the 
Comity Commissioners have decided to an¬ 
chor great lighters in the St. John’s River, 
and corral the tramps there for 90 days each. 
.Twenty-five horses—chiefly roaders 
and hunters—belonging to the Meadow Brook 
Hunt Club, were burned to death in the stable 
at Meadow Brook, near Hempstead. N. J.. last 
Wednesday night. Some of the animals were 
high-priced; loss £25,000..... 
Horatio Seymour died at Utica, N. \ r . yester¬ 
day.President Cleveland 
has determined that the Government’s suit to 
upset the Bell telephone patent shall be prose¬ 
cuted promptly and earnestly. This extor¬ 
tionate organization, which has an annual 
iucoine of millions at stake, finds hosts of 
supporters in tbe press. It is stated that for a 
single favorable article in one of the great 
New York dailies it paid £5,000. Of course 
the appearance of that single editorial would 
determine the whole policy of the paper in the 
controversy. Secretary Garland, it is said, 
will donate his entire stock in the Pau-Elec- 
tric Company to some charitable institution, 
so as to be free from all “intangling alliances.” 
W hat a godsend some of the political papers 
must find in the controversy—they can till 
their columns with the matter and their 
coffers with the boodle!. . 
....The Grant Monument Fund here now 
amounts to £115,194.57. It increases very 
slowly. None of America’s millionaires has 
yet contributed. The United States Senate 
has passed the bill appropriating £500,090 
towards the cost of the monument. Will the 
House be equally liberal?.Peter 
McGeoch, of Milwaukee, well-known as a 
former large operator in provisions and grain 
at Chicago, is suffering from two late strokes 
of paralysis.The Senate has passed, by 
a vote of 33 to 22, the bill providing for the 
division of the Territory of Dakota at the 
46th parallel of latitude, and admitting the 
Southern portion as a State ..,.. . Very 
heavy rains since Wednesday east of the 
Alleghauies—west of the crest of the moun¬ 
tains only local rains have prevailed. 
.... The anti-Chinese war on the Pacific coast 
is becoming more open and determined. All 
the labor organizations, under the guidance of 
the Knights of Labor, are boycotting the 
Chinese and threaten to boycott those who 
employ them or deal with them. All the 
Chinese scattered through the surrounding 
country were lately forced into Seattle, 
W, T., and then all the resident Chinese with 
the new-comers were expelled from the town, 
and their passage was paid to San Francisco. 
The Territorial militia was called out, and 
the compulsory emigrants were given the 
choice of going or staying—they preferred 
the former. The mob grew turbulent; the 
troops fired, killing a few and wounding 
others. The United States troops were sum¬ 
moned, and now hold the town with bristling 
bayonets. More trouble expected. At Port¬ 
land, Oregon, an organization is being formed 
to expel tbe Celestials, and the greatest trou¬ 
ble of all is expected to occur soon in San 
Francisco. Tbe people have given up all ex¬ 
pectations of effective Congressional legisla¬ 
tion to keep out the hated race, and seem 
determined to take the matter entirely into 
their own bauds. The vast majority of the 
population is opposed to the presence of the 
Celestials in the country, though, of course, 
the antipathy Is strongest and most active 
among the laboring classes, whom their cheap 
labor keeps in poverty.. 
The Canadian Government has expended 
£40,000 in relieving distressed settlers and 
half-breeds in the Northwest Territory. 
Prohibition is said to have caused business 
failures at Atlanta, Ga. A large amount of 
capital—some say as much as £4,500,000—has 
left the city to be invested chiefly in Texas, 
and outside creditors are frightened aud press 
for the prompt settlement, of outstanding ac¬ 
counts with Atlanta merchants. 
80-DAY SEED CORN. 
Dear Editor: I have a limited amount of 
a very superior quality of extremely large 
field corn which has recently been originated, 
aud which will mature in from 80 to 90 days. 
Ears are from 10 to 14 inches long, and has a 
slender cob and very fine, large grains; is a 
marvel of beauty; 134 bushels of shelled corn 
have been raised per acre. I am very anxious 
to know what this corn will do in other cli¬ 
mates before advertising it for sale, and will 
send a large sample package free to any farm¬ 
er who will take good care and report his suc¬ 
cess with it, and will inclose 25 cents in silver 
to pay postage, packing, etc., on same. Ad¬ 
dress W. F. Rust, Springfield, Ohio.—Ado. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 13, 1886, 
Mr. Gladstone has reduced by about 25 
per centum the rents of the farms on his 
Hawarden estate. 
The eleventh annual meeting of tbe Ayrshire 
Breedei-s’ Association was held last Tuesday 
In this city. President J. D. W. French said 
that the price of Ayrshire cows had not fallen 
off in the past year, but be doubted the ad¬ 
visability of the association sending an agent 
to Scotland to purchase 20 head of Ayrshire 
cows for breeding purposes. Prizes were 
awarded for 1885, and the list of prizes for 
1886 was read.The question of adopt¬ 
ing a plan whereby all live stock will be 
shipped by weight instead of by the car-load, 
is being discussed by railway officials at Chi¬ 
cago. ... .Parties in London report that 
the shipments of clover-seed from the Conti¬ 
nent to America cout.inue on an unprecedent¬ 
edly large scale.A meeting of Western 
fruit preservers, representing the trade in six 
different cities, was held last, week in Chicago, 
effecting a temporary organization prelimi¬ 
nary to forming a permanent, society. 
At a meeting at Chicago Tuesday, in which 80 
per cent, of the linseed oil crashing interests 
was represented, the organization of an asso¬ 
ciation or pool was agreed upon, fashioned 
after the old Consolidated Linseed Oil Com¬ 
pany in existence some years ago. Stock in 
the association will be taken in proportion 
to the crushing capacity of any given mem¬ 
ber. The price of oil was fixed at. 41 cents 
per gallon, an advance of one cent. It is 
pretty sure soon to “regulate” the price of oil¬ 
cake also.. .The cash system went into 
effect on February 1 at the National Stock- 
yards, St. tends, and buyers must now pay 
before the stock is delivered. All stock is 
kept under lock and key and delivered only 
on a written order duly signed and stamjted 
by the firm owning or controlling the same... 
__A telegram from Texas says: “It is estim¬ 
ated that fully 15,000 head of cattb lie dead 
ou the pi'airie within a radius of 75 miles of 
Fort Elliott. It is the coldest Winter ever 
known in Texas.”... .The Chief of the Bureau 
of Statistics reports that the total values of 
the exports of domestic cattle and hogs aud 
beef, pork and dairy products for the month 
of January, 1886; also of lieef aud pork pro¬ 
ducts for the three months and of dairy 
products for the nine months ended January 
31, 1886, as compared with similar exports 
during tbe corresponding periods of the pre¬ 
ceding year, were as follows: January, 1886, 
£6,671,597; January, 1885, £11,965,978; beef 
and pork products for three mouths ended 
January 81, 1<S86, £20,141,29r>;for three months 
ended January 31, 1885, £28,285.304; dairy 
products for nine months ended January 81, 
1886, £6,977,354; for nine months ended Janu¬ 
ary 31, 1885, £13,200,349.Some New 
York jobbers have lately claimed that iu tbe 
shipment of dried blackberries to the West, it 
was necessary and legal to apply a certain 
amount of water aud molasses to the berries 
in transit. The West is the market for 
enormous quantities of dried blackberries, 
Chicago alone handling about two millions of 
pounds per year. The United States Circuit 
Court in Brooklyn yesterday decided that an 
allowance must be made iu tbe price for the 
decrease in value of the goods owing to the 
water thus applied. 
W. Russell, Aurora, O., manager of eight 
butter and cheese factories belonging to Frank 
Hurd, says, Jan. 15, 1885:—“I have tried all 
the butter colors, and am convinced that 
Thatcher’s Grange Butter Color is the best In 
the market.. ” For 50c we will forward prepaid a 
25c bottle to any express office iu United States. 
H. D. Thatcher <& Co., Potsdam, N. Y.— Adv. 
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 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. 
Crops & itlorlifts. 
Saturday, Feb. 18, 1886. 
Advices from Russia state that tbe increase 
in German duties on wheat has hud the effect 
of reducing the value of Russian wheat to so 
low a point, that it uo longer jjays to raise it, 
and that the acreage of 1886 will be much less 
than that of last year.France 
is said to be now receiving from India wheat 
which is able to pay the duty of about 16 
cents per bushel, but it will not pay to import 
American, Chilian or Australian wheat. . . 
. . The official report of the condition 
of the wheat crop in the Central Provinces of 
India, dated December 21, indicate a generally 
hopeful promise. 
The Every Evening, Dover, Delaware, says 
that peach-growers are despondent over the 
condition of the buds. Some predict an entire 
failure of the crop. No bnd reports have been 
received from other districts. 
The Cincinnati Price-Current reports that 
the total number of hogs handled by Western 
packers last, week was- 365,000, against, 235,000 
for the corresponding week of Inst year. This 
makes a total of 5,793,000 since November I, 
compared with 5,790,000 fora like period in the 
preceding year. 
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports 
that the total values of the exports of bread- 
stuffs from the United States during the month 
of January, 1886, aud during tbe seven months 
ended January 31, 1886, as compared with the 
corresponding periods of the preceding year, 
were as follows: 
1886. 1885. 
January... 
Seven months ended Jan. 81 
The falling off has 
.$9,407,815 $17,872,418 
.62,406,047 97,5?2,920 
l>een exclusively in 
wheat; there has been an increase in our ex¬ 
ports of flour, com, oats, etc. 
Wheat has been extremely dull in the 
Northwest during the whole week—prices 
have barely kept steady at 87'..jc, for No. 1 
Hard. Receipts at Minneapolis have been a 
trifle short of 500,000 bushels for the week— 
mostly from grain stored in elevators, with 
some from sales by farmera. The condition 
of the winter-wheat crop will be tbe chief re¬ 
gulator of prices for some time to come. 
Recent mild weather and consequent thaws 
have left the crop exposed to injury from 
freezing aud thawing iu many sections. The 
flour market is better. The thawing weather 
has given the mills more water. Output for 
the week 89,400 barrels—-shipments 79,000 
barrels. 
Grain has everywhere advanced during the 
week, mainly on account of reports of injury 
to winter-sown wheat iu the Southwest aud to 
the announcement that stocks in the United 
Kingdom have declined about 2,775,000 bush¬ 
els since January 1, and the home visible sup¬ 
ply 4,445,000 bushels since the same date. 
The amount on passage to Em'ope has in¬ 
creased about 2,050,000 bushels within six- 
weeks. This points to a net decrease ou land 
and sea (United Kingdom and United States) 
of 5,225,000 bushels within six weeks. The 
high price for cash wheat at interior markets, 
a number of points holding the grain higher 
than it is at New York, does uot, point at 
abundant country supplies. The interior mill¬ 
ing demand from the central winter-wheat 
region, for grain at primary markets, has in¬ 
creased. 
The Iudian-corn market has been higher 
aud more active. The advance has been stim¬ 
ulated by the strength shown in wheat. The 
visible-supply report indicated an increase of 
the quantity in sight of but 65,000 bushels. 
The demand for export has been noticeable, 
and this, with a little squeeze in the option 
market, managed to direct considerable atten¬ 
tion to this cereal. 
Oats have been firm and steady, but with 
limited transactions. The visible supply de¬ 
clined 170,000 bushels, which served to sustain 
the bullish view of holders. 
The butter situation is entirely unchanged. 
demand being principa lly upon choicest grades, 
which are in limited supply. Outside of the 
better grades the market is dull, andoverheld- 
stoek sales are difficult to make. 
Feb, 12. Feb. 12,'85. Feb. 5. Lowest,'*}. 
Creamery, new 
choice to fancy .81®3fiC- 82@86c. Ww85c. 19c. 
State, new dairy 
fancy.88®23c. 289*260. 2 Sm,27c. 18c. 
Exporters are not anxious buyers of cheese, 
aud without their support the market is always 
more or less depressed, Sales for export are 
made at a concession, some being considerably 
below asking prices. 
Feb. Feb. Feb. Lowest, Lowest. 
12. 12,’85. 5. '84. ’85. 
Choice, fancy 
statecream'ry 994R10J4 1294 m 18 10@10J4 84* 6@sq 
Those who have used the Boss Zinc and 
Leather Collar Pads aud Ankle Boots 
say they arp 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. — Adi). 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, February 13,1885. 
Chicago.— Compared with prices a week 
ago, “regular” wheat is l%c. lower; No. 2 
Spring, 3Wc. higher Cora, i c. higher. Oats, 
Ite'c. higher. Bariev, steady. Pork, 15c. lower. 
Cattle, a trifle higher. Hogs, a shade lower. 
Sheep, a shade lower ; lambs considerably 
higher. 
Wiika. 1 .- Sales ranged; February. 7946j$80c; March, 
TWfcw.KOuio; May. 85cm )855£e.; No. 2 Spring, 79'^m_s2c; 
No. 8 Spring, at 7U*e. Coux. -Firm; Cush. U6Ur; Ml 
niiiry. ut86^,(..^7c.. March. WcwHUc; May, at lORCiibjtc. 
Oats— tirm; sales ranged; Cash, silo: February, 3SW 
M294fce; March, 39®29J$e.{ May, :»a824Sc. Rvk-No. 2. 
“BrownV Bronchial Troches.” ure excellent 
rnr the relief of Hoars ones* or Sore Throat. They are 
exceedingly effective."— dirittfon World, !.<• ndon 
Eng—Adv. 
