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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 6,1886. 
Since the collapse of the transcontinental 
pool, a fortnight ago, the various Pacific rail¬ 
roads have been cutting freight and passenger 
rates briskly west of the Mississippi; the con¬ 
necting lines cast of the river have as yet 
taken no paid in the struggle. The “pool” 
paid the Pacific Mail Steamship Company 
$85,000 a month for not cutting rates, and as 
this subsidy has stopped, the company has 
bought two new stea mers and will have a week¬ 
ly service from New York to San Francisco via 
Panama, It is thought peace will soon be de¬ 
clared, but, the former extortionate rates can 
hardly be restored.The Grant Monu¬ 
ment Fund is still only $115,891,00. The Han¬ 
cock widow fund now amounts to $35,950. 
_In view of the recent decision restricting 
telephone charges in Indiana to $3 a month 
for the use of each telephone,the telephone mon¬ 
opoly has determined not to let out any more 
telephones in the State. A bill has been in¬ 
troduced in the New York Legislature limit¬ 
ing charges to $5 a month per telephone. 
A Tennessee court in which six murderers had 
just escaped conviction, has closed its labors 
by sending a hungry woman to prison for two 
years for stealing a quart of buttermilk. 
_The Republicans in the Senate want the 
$75,000,009 appropriated by the Education 
Bill, to be paid to each State and Territory 
which have separate schools for white and 
colored children, in proportion to the number 
of white and colored childr en in each accord¬ 
ing to the census of 1SS0, and not in propor¬ 
tion to the number of each color attending 
the schools. Without this proviso, it is 
thought the white schools of the South would 
get a disproportionately large share- 
Last Tuesday delegates (334) from all the divi¬ 
sions of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its 
connections unanimously refused to agree to 
the “relief scheme” proposed by the road. 
The company required the men to abandon 
all other organizations and to surrender their 
rights against the company in case of injuries. 
The Baltimor e & Ohio fund of a like kind now 
amounts to over $6,000,000, mainly collected 
from the men, and under one rule and an¬ 
other forfeited by them. The philanthropic 
scheme will probably be dropped: otherwise 
the men will strike... A big strike began Tues¬ 
day on the Southern Pacific Railroad and is 
likely to extend to the whole Gould system— 
An excellent special committee has been ap¬ 
pointed by the House to investigate the owner¬ 
ship of the Pan-Electric telephone stock. 
There is to be a big Congressional fight over 
Eads’ Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway, 
which seeks to make this country liable, for 
$37,000,000 “for the benefit of a private cor¬ 
poration located and to be operated exclusive¬ 
ly in a. foreign country.”.Canadian 
manufacturer's urging the Goverment to 
increase the duties on foreign goods, pork 
among them.Sir John Macdonald 
says that,outside of compensation for losses in 
the late rebellion in the Northwest, the expen¬ 
diture in the field and for transport services 
was nearly $ 4 , 000 , 000 . The population of the 
Northwest Territory is: Whites, 33,344; In¬ 
dians, 30,170; and half breeds, 4,84$—a total 
of 48,362. He attr ibutes the whole trouble to 
Riel’s blandishments and misrepresentations. 
Latest reports say there will be no Indian 
troubles in the Northwest this year. 
..The Canadian Maratime Provinces are 
loudly dissatified at the Governor-General’s 
speech which intimated that the Gover nment 
did not expect a renewal of the fishery 
clauses of the late reciprocal treaty with this 
country. They insist on the exclusion of 
American fishermen (by force, if needed) from 
Canadian waters to compel the free admission 
of Canadian fish into the United States in 
return for permission to our fishermen to fish 
in such water's.Virulent attacks are 
being made in the Dominion Parliament at 
Ottowa ou the Government for hanging 
Riel. It is said the Government secretly 
favors the attacks, as it wishes a vote on its 
course in that matter.The half-breeds 
of the Northwest have thanked the Govern¬ 
ment for recent aid for the distressed, aud the 
proposed admission of representatives from 
that section into both Houses of Parliament.. 
.The Supreme Court of New Jersey, 
has ordered the railroads passing through the 
State to pay to the State $300,000, the amount 
of the tax levied on all railroad property. 
This will meet all current obligations, and 
prevent State bankruptcy.The public 
debt was reduced $3,903,153.41 iu the month 
of February___In Salt Lake City five 
Mormons were sentenced Monday to six 
months’ imprisonment for unlawful cohabita¬ 
tion. Several were convicted and will be 
sentenced at a future day.It. is charged 
that laborers on the Panama Canal are dying 
at the rate of 40 daily aud 14,600 yearly. 
_A comet discovered by a Parisian astron¬ 
omer last December will be visible in this 
country to the naked eye iu the middle of 
April, and on May 2 will bo only 12,000,000 
miles away, and shortly after sunset will be 
as brilliant as the great comet of 1881. 
The McCormick Reaper Works at Chicago 
have resumed work without discriminating 
between union and non-union hands. The 
union men still keep out, but the goods have 
not been boycotted yet; works running with 
about 800 hands—half the usual number. 
_The Champion Reaper Works of Spring- 
field, Ohio, have discharged all the Knights of 
Labor in their employment (upwards of 300), 
“in order to avoid strikes, dictation and 
coercion.” Over 100 fellow-workmen at Once 
joined the “lock-outs.” There are 3,000 
Knights of Labor in the town aud mauy be¬ 
longing to affiliated labor organizations, aud 
trouble is feared.Nearly 100 out of the 
400 employes of the Empire Mower and 
Reaper Works, of Akron, Ohio, have struck 
for an increase of 15 per cent, on the $2.70 a 
day they are now getting. Trouble referred 
to the National Board of the Knights of 
Labor.Mrs. Grant has received $200,- 
000 as her share of the profits ou the sales 
already made of the first volume of Grant’s 
Memoirs. The sale of the second volume, 
which will be ready uext month, is just the 
same, insuring her an equal sunn There will 
also be a fine profit ou the work sold in other 
countries, aud the copyright has 16 years to 
run in this country yet, and the sales must 
be large every year. . 
_James C. Matthews, colored Democrat of 
Albany, N. Y., lias been nominated by the 
President as Recorder of Deeds at Washing¬ 
ton, to succeed Fred. Douglass asked to resign. 
The place is worth between $8,000 and $10,000 
a year.The Senate Commit¬ 
tee on Military Affairs has indorsed the Fitz 
John Porter bill as an act of justice. It is 
pretty sure to pass tbe Senate now; but by a 
proportionately much smaller majority than 
it got in the House the other day. 
The anti-Chinese war still continues on the 
Pacific slope. Some 1,400 Celestials started 
for home on one steamer the other day. San 
Francisco is crowded with those driven out of 
Oregon and Washington Territory. The 
“Six Companies” are sending great numhci-s 
into Arizona and New Mexico, where white 
men are organizing to expel them. They are 
also reported to be swarming into Texas auil 
Louisiana, and, indeed, into the Southwest 
generally. Large numbers are coming east, 
also. The Chinese claim $175,700 for losses at 
Rock Spring, Wy,, last Fall. Pres. Cleveland 
has sent a special message to Congress recom¬ 
mending friendly legislation to indemnify 
them for their grievances there aud elsewhere. 
China paid this country $735,000 for injuries 
to American citizens at Canton 30 years ago, 
aud after the payment of all losses, over one- 
third of the sum remained in the United States 
Treasury. Great excitement is reported 
among the Chinese around Canton on account 
of the late outbreaks here, and retaliation on 
Americans in China is threatened. 
_Last Wednesday, the drivers and conduc¬ 
tors on one of the street car lines iu this 
city struck for higher wages and shorter 
hours. The car companies have been making 
from 12 to 30 per cent, per annum ou their 
capital, a large share of which is “water,” so 
that, the interest on the actual capital has 
ranged from 16 to 4<) per ceut. per annum. 
The men worked from 14 to 18 hours a day 
and got from $1 75 to $3.25 a day wages—but 
fines aud missing trips, for which no pay was 
allowed, cut their average wages down about 
one-third. Having families to support as a 
rule, they could barely live in a city where 
living is comparatively high. The chief 
owner of the line refused the demand, aud 
next day, the strike was extended to a num¬ 
ber of lines he owns in Brooklyn. Rumor 
having spread that the other lines were going 
to help him, every line iu the city was “tied 
up” yesterday morning. By 3 i\ si. the de¬ 
mands of the men were granted in all chief 
points, while minor points ware left for arbi¬ 
tration. The State law insists that railroad 
corporations cannot refuse or neglect, to per¬ 
form those public duties on account ol a con 
troversy with their employes about the ex¬ 
pense of performing their duties, and the 
State Railroad Commissiouers warned them 
that they were liable to forfeit their charters 
if they didn’t run the cars. 
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Messrs. Blintz Bros., Denmark, N. Y., 
who milk 60 cows say: March 3, ’85: “That 
they have tried four of the leading butter col¬ 
ors, for two yeare past have been using That¬ 
cher’s aud consider it superior to them all.” 
Manf. \jy H. D. Thatcher & Co., Potsdam, N. 
Y.—Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 6, 1886. 
The Associated Chambers of Agriculture of 
Great Britain on Tuesday adopted a resolution 
favoring the imposition of import duties on 
foreign grain.Last Tuesday the House 
Committee on Public Lands took a test vote 
on the proposal to repeal the Pre-emption 
aud Timber Culture Laws. The result was 
decidedly in favor of the repeal. . 
.Holland threatens to raise 
the duty on American petroleum in retalia¬ 
tion for our duty on Sumatra tobacco, by 
which Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland 
Wisconsin and Ohio are the chief beneficiar¬ 
ies.The House Committee of Agricul¬ 
ture has reported favorably a bill requiring 
our Consuls abroad to send to the Commissioner 
of Agriculture reports of agricultural experi¬ 
ments in their respective districts, and also 
statistics beneficial for our farmers... As usual 
in Winter, exports of live cattle to Great Bri¬ 
tain are light. Last week only 362 were taken 
from Boston.The oleomargarine inter¬ 
est has a powerful lobby in Washington, aud 
it is steadily increasing.A bill has 
teen introduced in the United States Senate 
providing for the inspection of meats for ex¬ 
portation, and authorizing the President to 
retaliate whenever our products are unjustly 
discriminated against, in foreign countries — 
A hog killed at Rhiuebeck, ou the Hudson, 
Thursday, dressed 868}* pounds. 
The American Veterinary College of this city 
“turned out” 38 veterinarians last Monday. 
The medical colleges here turn out hundreds 
of doctors every year.No fewer 
thau 23 mills arc at work bleaching barley in 
Wisconsin, nearly all iu the neighborhood of 
Milwaukee. The fumes of sulphur remove 
the dark stain of low-grade grain, making it a 
bright, straw color, and increasing its market 
value. Detection, it is said, is difficult, if not 
impossible. The State laws impose a penalty 
of $50 for each offense: but as most of the 
product is shipped out of the State no one has 
hitherto thought it worth while to prosecute. 
The Milwaukee brewers are now aroused, 
however... 
Those who have used the Boss Zinc and 
Leather Collar Pads aud 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. 
Crops & AXorlicls. 
Saturday, March 6, 1886. 
Except from some parts of Ohio, Indiana 
aud Michigan there are really no bad reports 
of injury to winter wheat; the condition of 
the grain iu the winter wheat area, including 
Tennessee aud Kentucky, is decidedly better 
than a year ago. Now, however, the ground 
is generally bare, and the danger line will not 
be passed before April 1. There are uo indica¬ 
tions of a very large yield: but a prospect of 
a fair average crop. Early seeding probable 
in Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota; consid¬ 
erable snow still, however, in Wisconsin, 
Northern Michigan and Northern Minne¬ 
sota, According to the “Weather Bureau,” 
the snow covering at. the end of February was 
from one to five inches in New England, from 
half an inch to six inches in the lower lake 
region, from two to fourteen inches in the 
upper lake region, a little less in the upper 
Mississippi Valley, from half au inch to live 
inches iu the Missouri Valley, and in the 
northern Rocky Mountain slope from one-fifth 
of an inch to five inches. California wheat 
is in all conditions—some just seeded; some 
two feet high and sending out heads which 
will be ripe in June—prospect encouraging. 
Reports from Kansas say the condition of 
wheat is almost universally poor. “The corn 
area will exceed any previous record.” In 
Nebraska corn left in the fields is much 
better than expected—will be ull iu soon. 
Corn eribteil on the ground will require some 
time to dry enough to grade. What little 
winter wheat has teen sown “is in excellent 
condition.” 
A knowledge of the area planted to winter 
wheat is of importance to raisers of spring 
wheat, so that they may the better decide 
how much ground to give the crop. The test 
extended report hitherto made is that, just 
published by the Cincinnati Price Current, 
The report covers only eight, of the States, but, 
according to the report, of the Department of 
Agriculture, these eight had, last year, 12,226,- 
731 acres under wheat, against 9,925,189 acres 
iu the rest of the country. These returns in¬ 
dicate that the area by States, compared with 
a year ago, is about as follows: Ohio 100, In¬ 
diana 100, Illinois 90, Missouri 90, Kansas 95, 
Michigan 100, Kentucky 100, Tennessee 90— 
indicating a general average of about 96^4 
per ceut. From all we have seen on the sub¬ 
ject, our impression is that the area now in 
winter wheat is about the same as that har¬ 
vested last year. Quite a considerable area 
was sown, however, which was plowed up, or 
on which the stand was so light, that it. wasn’t 
considered worth while to harvest it. The 
Price Current’s estimate of the condition of 
the crop in the above States agrees pretty 
closely with our own estimate given above 
for the entire country. As compared with a 
strictly good condition, it thinks the present 
stand is 93 per cent, in Ohio, 94 in Indiana 
and Missouri, 91 in Illinois, 92 iu Kansas 
(other reports are not so favorable hero), 95 in 
Michigan, 93 iu Kentucky aud 95 in Ten¬ 
nessee. 
This country, last, year, produced 12 , 000,000 
bushels of flax-seed on 1,300,000 acres, 
an average of 10 bushels an acre—value 
$ 18 , 500 , 000 . All the fiber is wasted, for as 
present, handled there isn’t, strength enough in 
it. Last year we imported $1,807,639 worth 
of flax aud 312,160,000 worth of goods made 
of flax. The raising of hemp is rapidly de¬ 
clining. In I860 the production was 74,493 
tons: in 1870,12,740; in 1880. 5,025. and last 
year, less than 6,000 tons Cause, substitution 
of jute for bagging, and of manila, sisal and 
jute for cordage, yarns, etc. Importations of 
substitutes last year were valued at $11,531,- 
994. The Flax aud Hemp Spinners’ and 
Growers’ Association, which met the other 
day at St,. Louis, vigorously opposed any re¬ 
duction of duties on foreign flax, hemp, or 
substitutes therefor. 
There appears to be a combined movement 
on the part of cheese factories in this State aud 
Canada to defer opening until about May 
10, to keep down the make of fodder cheese, 
so as to keep up prices of the stock on hand. 
During the past Winter cheese has paid well 
in comparison with other farm products, and 
it is thought that if the customary amount of 
fodder cheese is made, foreigners will lie able 
to force down quotations not only for the 
stock on hand at the time, but for that made 
afterwards. The trade appeal's to favor a 
light make previous to grass cheese. What 
should be done with the milk, say, from April 
1 to May lOf If made into butter the quality 
must be poor, and the price is likely to be less 
than that for cheese. High prices for cheese 
early iu the season tend to lessen consump¬ 
tion for quite a long spell afterwards, and is 
there not a danger that, an increased make in 
Great, Britain and Holland will block our for¬ 
eign markets afterwards? 
Dairy products arc lower iu consequence of 
poor export demand for cheese and fuller re¬ 
ceipts of new-milk butter. 
Exports of wheat continue somewhat 
heavier than of late, and prevent any mater¬ 
ial fall in prices. The decline in the visible 
supply was only between 600,000 and 700,000 
bushels—one of 1,000,000bushels was expected. 
The visible supply of coi n has increased 3,- 
530,000 bushels, and prices have been lower, 
partly on account of heavy receipts and partly 
because of the collapse of au attempted Feb¬ 
ruary “corner” iu Chicago, Oats have been 
stiff, though the visible supply has increased 
246.000 bushels. 
The cut rates on the transcontinental lines 
(there are four all-rail aud two part rail and 
part water) have caused heavy shipments east 
from Sao Francisco. Davenport, la., tele¬ 
graphs that California oranges are driving 
others out of the market. Cotton here has 
gone up quite lively during the week. Ou 
Thursday there wus an advance of $1 a bale 
in the course of the day. The Standard Oil 
Co. is reported to have put up the market to 
get rid of large stocks on baud; after it had 
unloaded, prices fell again. 
, Hops still continue a drug—very little de¬ 
mand for any except the liest, which bring 10 
to 14 cents per pound. Pacific slope hops 
much neglected. Receipts here from Sept. 1, 
to Feb. 26, 113,138 bales; exports in same 
period 50,900 bales. Brewers generally have 
as much as they have room for, mauy being 
stocked up till next December. Dealers, too, 
are heavily stocked, but most <4 I hem will have 
to buy more to fill contracts. The stock in 
growers’ hands is quite large; but there is 
little prospect of chunge iu prices for the next 
two mouths at auy rate. The area and pros¬ 
pect for next crop, which will lie known in 
late May or early June, will influence prices; 
but. even with a poor crop uext year, prices will 
hardly go above 25 cents to 80 cents a pound. 
The winter pork-packing season closed on 
March 1, and next week will show a general 
summing up of the results and forecasts for 
the future. 
A Sore Th rout orCouirli, if suffered to progress, 
often results ill an incurable throat or lung trouble. 
“Brown's Bronchial Trochesf give Instant relief. —Aclv 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, March 6,1885. 
Chicago.—C ompared with prices a week 
ago, “regular” wheat is 1 %c. lower; No. 2 
