uf i\)t ti%h. 
HOME NEWS. 
Satuudat. April 17, 1886. 
The authorities of Montreal have begun a 
crusade against the nude in art. Action is to 
be taken against one of the wealthiest gentle¬ 
men in the city, for keeping in his house cop¬ 
ies of the Venus of Milo, the Venus di Medici, 
Canova’s Venus, Power’s Greek Slave, the La- 
coon, and other works.St. Cloud, 
Minn., is several miles back from the west 
side of the Mississippi, 75 miles north of St. 
Paul; population about 6,500. Sauk Rapids is 
three miles above on the other side of the 
river; population about 3,350. Wednesday 
about. 4 30 r. m, a south western tornado struck 
both, clearing a swath 600 yards wide, and 
leveling 150 to 300 houses in St. Cloud. Accord¬ 
ing to latest advices, 4 killed and 135 wounded 
in St. C.; 34 killed and 90 wounded in S. R. 
Great destruction of property; much mourn¬ 
ing and distress.. Same day, a tornado 
at Burlington. Mo., did much damage, and 
another at Monroe, Mo., killed three passen¬ 
gers, injured several others, “destroyed dwell¬ 
ing-houses, barns and out-houses, killing 
thousands of dollars worth of stock”. 
Another in Wise County, Texas, ‘Lwept 
everything before it, injuring 12 persons, and 
destroying a number of houses and other 
property.”.A wirlwiud in Jamestown, 
Dak., destroyed a brewery, but did much 
damage to offset the good deed.A tor¬ 
nado at, Exira, In., blew down over 50 houses 
and did a world of mischief.. .The U. S. Senate 
performs “executive business”—confirming or 
rejecting Presidential nominations, discussing 
treaties with foreign countries, etc, etc.—in 
“secret session,” from which all except Sena¬ 
tors are excluded. Senators and the few uec- 
cessary attendants are bound by honor and 
oath to tell nothing of the doings in such 
sessions; but such information always leaks 
out, especially if of an important nature. That 
all discussions should now be open is a grow¬ 
ing opinion among Senators, and a very de¬ 
cided conviction among newspaper men who 
would then find considerably more materials 
for their columns. Many Senators are there¬ 
fore urgent for the abolition of “secret ses¬ 
sions,” and, of course, all the newspapers un¬ 
animously insist on the wisdom of the change, 
and on the old-fogyisin, folly, stupidity and 
“total depravity” of all who dare cling to the 
time-honored custom. Of course, the “press”— 
the Third House—is right... .For the first time, 
under the new suffrage’ law, women voted for 
city officers, last Wednesday, in New' Bruns¬ 
wick, Canada.The iron and copper 
mining districts of Michigan “are preparing 
for an exodus of miners and speculators” to 
Alaska, on the representations of a number 
out there already.The Senate, by a 
vote of 35 to 10, has rejected the President's 
recommendation of a Joint Commission for 
the settlement of the fishery question with 
Canada. Ice and bait, being articles of com¬ 
merce, American fishermen have a light, to 
buy them in Canadian ports, under British and 
American law, as Canadians have a right to 
buy them in our ports. It. is also maintained 
that American fishing vessels have just the 
same rights a s other American vessels in 
Canadian ports, and remonstrances against 
Canadian action have been sent to the 
Imperial Government. 
.The subscription list for the $30,000,000 
Canadian Pacific Railway bonds closed in 
London Tuesday. It is reported that the 
applications reached $30,000,000. 
.“Sec. Manning is improving and will re¬ 
sume his official duties soon,” say some. 
Daniel E. Lockwood, of Buffalo, N. Y,, has 
received from the President a tender of the 
Treasury portfolio in view of the disability of 
Secretary Manning,” say others. 
.The report of divers settle that the 
plates of the wrecked Oregon hail been driven 
in by collision from outside, not out by a 
dynamite explosion among the cargo, as al¬ 
leged. The hole was six feet high: three broad, 
vessel broken nearly amidship; nearly all the 
cargo recoverable.The Senate 
has'voted to admit Washington Ter. as a 
State.The House is still wrangling 
over the admission of Dakota as a State. One 
bill divides the Territory, east and west, on 
the 46tb parallel; another, north and south, 
on the line of the Missouri, and there are sev¬ 
eral other propositions. Conflict of plans ex¬ 
cuses delay of action.Rhode Island 
has passed a prohibition Constitutional 
Amendment “by an overwhelming majority.” 
Liquor men dumbfounded; others jubilant. .In 
Iowa, the House Committee investigating 
Judge Hayes, charged with rendering de¬ 
cisions effectually nullifying the Prohibitory 
Law', reports that the charges are sustained, 
and recommends the censure of the Judge, and 
such other action as the House may deem best. 
.. .Strikes of school lays for shorter 
hours and less work are becoming rather com¬ 
mon Five reported in different parts of New 
York and Pennsylvania, this week. Collapse 
in all cases, mostly owing t.o mothers formid¬ 
able with slipper,‘or shingle, or the terrors of 
a dark closet, or a supper less curly bed....... 
.John H. Noves, founder of the Oneida 
Community, near Utica, N. Y,, died Monday. 
.Fifteen State Commissioners were 
present at the 16th annual meeting of the 
American Fishery Association held at Chicago 
Monday...V VVA 
.. A Senate bill raises the salaries of U. S. 
District Judges from 83j500 to $4,000. The 13 
Police Justices of this city, petty lawyers or 
third-rate politicians, get $8,000 a year apiece. 
. .Collector of the Port Hager, of San Francis¬ 
co, says the new Chinese Minister was not 
insulted. He wasn’t allowed to land, however, 
till his credentials w'ere shown.The 
House Committee on Territories, will report 
adversely all bills relating to the proposed 
Territory of Oklahoma...... 
... .Chicago declines to be submerged even to 
gratify St. Louis, and declares the report 
that Lake Michigan is rising the folly of a 
would-be-funny nincompoop,.... 
_The strike on the Goulcf system continues; 
but most of the trains are reported by Vice- 
President Hoxie to be running regularly, and 
carrying all the freight offered. Letter¬ 
writing and mutual reciminations between 
Gould and Powderly, with much good sense 
on the side of the latter, but a better style of 
argument on the side of the former—a 100- 
mulionaire can always command the best of 
logic, language and brains. The K. of L. 
everywhere and other labor organizations art- 
preparing to systematically support the strik¬ 
ers with contributions, the sums now aggre¬ 
gating about $2,500 a day. Hoxie has refused 
n.n opportunity of arbitration offered by the 
merchants and other citizens of St. Louis. In 
spite of all talk, the Strike appears to be a 
failure It has done much injury to the 
prestige of the K. of L, and to the trade, 
manufacture and agriculture of a large part 
of the country; but a gigantic struggle for a 
fairer adjustment of the relations of Labor 
and Capital is inevitable, and this seems the 
beginning. Occasional acts of violence here 
and there; no great out-breaks. Other strikes 
quite numerous in all parts of the coiintry 
against reductions in wages, or for higher 
wages, or shorter hours for the same or even 
higher wages, and also through sympathy ora 
desire to help other strikers m the same line, or 
to compel the discharge of obnoxious foremen 
or non-union operat ives, or for various other 
causes. Mutterings still heard of a vast 
strike hi May fora “work day” of eight hours. 
The general public seems to be getting a trifle 
tired of so many strikes on all sides; aud es¬ 
pecially of the multitude of hoycottmgs and 
their ‘attendant parades, remonstrances, 
threats and denunciations..... 
Friday the Dominion Government was sus¬ 
tained by Parliament in its management of the 
Northwest, rebellion, the vote of censure pressed 
against it being lost by a decisive majority.... 
. . .The Massachusetts House of Representa¬ 
tives divides 77 for and 128 against, the bill 
allowing women to vote in municipal elec- 
tious.A strong Mormon lobby at 
Washington and the peaceful slumbers of the 
anti-Mormon hill in the House Committee on 
the Judiciary, lead some to fear that it is a 
violent case of cause aud effect.. 
Johu Welsh, Ex-Miuister to England, and 
head of the Centennial Exposit ion at Phila¬ 
delphia, died in that city last Saturday. 
The average indebtedness of Canada is nearly 
$58 per head, which is more than twice the 
per capita of the indebtedness of the United 
States.The Cigarette Act has just been 
published in Massachusetts, and whoever, not 
being a parent or guardian, gives tobacco or 
snuff to persons in that State under 16, or 
whoever sells the same to persons under 16 is 
liable to a fine of $50. . 
Gross mismanagement of Soldiers’ Orphans’ 
Schools of Penn., in the interests of an un¬ 
scrupulous, utrocionaly cruel “ring,” has for 
some days been under investigation, and as a 
result Gov, l’attison, on Thursday, demanded 
the resignation <>f the Rev. R. E. Higlieo, 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
whose neglect of duty permitted the atrocities 
to continue so long. He also summarily re¬ 
moved Rev. J. W. Sayres, male Inspector of 
Soldiers’ Orphans' Schools, and Mrs. E. E. 
Huttev, female Assistant Inspector. The tes¬ 
timony, he says. “show's a most pitiful, cruel 
aud inhuman neglect of the children; a want 
of the commonest necessaries of decent living, 
and insufficient moral and religious training. 
A sadder or more shameful story of deliber¬ 
ate human cruelty could not be exhibited.” 
The rascals starved the little orphans mid 
stuffed their ow n pockets with, the money that 
should have filled the stomachs of their 
charges. 
-« « « 
After two years’ tidal, we unhesitatingly 
pronounce the Boss Zinc and Leather Coi> 
lar Pad, the only diu-able and successful one 
that we have ever used. It retains its shape, is 
cooling, prevents chafing, aud thereby keeps 
the horses’ necks clean and healthy. Hiram 
G. Dodge & Sons, Wood & Coal Dealers, 
Madison, Wis.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. April 17, 1886. 
Recent exposures of enormous frauds un¬ 
der the Pre-emption, Timber-culture and 
Desert Land Laws have aroused a great deal 
of indignation against the legislation which 
made them possible, and unlimited distrust, of 
the official machinery which permitted or 
aided them. It is, therefore, proposed by the 
Public Lauds Committee to aliolish all three 
laws by one Act. If the extent and fiagrance 
of the frauds were fully known to the public, 
the demand for some prohibitive and punitive 
legislation would be so loud all over the land 
as to drown the clamorous remonstrances 
of the conscienceless laud-grabbers and 
their tools, as well as the feeble complaints 
of the few honest settlers who might lie 
injured thereby... 
,.. .The House Committee on Commerce has 
agreed to report Congressman Dunham’s hill 
to provide for the inspection of live stock, 
dressed meats, hog products and other pur¬ 
poses. Mr. Dunham represents the Chicago 
meat-handling trade in this measure, and 
probably hopes to tio something to restore our 
pork products to good standing in Germany 
and our live stock to admission to Great 
Britain. The bill provides for inspectors, 
and punishes severely the importation of 
adulterated articles of food or drink. It is 
said that, it lacks provisions for penalties upon 
the manufacture of adulterated or unwhole¬ 
some food for exportation.. 
France proposes to raise the duty on foreign 
maize.According to the February 
report of the Department of Agriculture the 
number of horns has increased from 11,564,- 
572 head, in the United States in 1885 to 32,- 
077,656 head in 1886, au increase of 513,-085 
head. The average value w'as given last year 
at $73.70 per head, while this year it is given 
as $71.20 per head, a decrease in value of 
$2.43 per head, or about three per cent. Mules 
have decreased from $82.38 to $70.00 per head, 
about the same percentage as horses. Prices 
of horses range higher in New Jersey than in 
any other State, where the average value is 
given as $118.17. The next highest is given in 
Pennsylvania, where it is $117.38. In Ohio 
the average value is placed at $100.SO. 
“N. Y. parties” are prosecuting the “Produce 
Dairy' Company,” manufacturers of 1 lut.terine 
in Providence, R. I., for royalty of one cent, a 
pound on the stuff they are turning out. Who 
can prosecute the concern for the misrepre¬ 
sentation in its name and the fraud in its 
goods?.Thirteen million sheep are 
said to have died in New' South Wales within 
the last three years for w ant of water. 
The soil of Northern Virginia, upon which 
occmTed so many' battles, is now so poor that 
it does not furnish pasturage, and cattle rais¬ 
ing there has beeu abandoned. 
The April Report of the Dept, of Ag. shows 
an increase in the prevalence of hog cholera 
aud a loss of fi,000,000of swine from all causes, 
or 14 per cent. The losses of sheep are re- 
porterfat seven percent.: of cattle four per 
cent. The losses of horses are small, only 
seven-tenths of one per cent. Losses of cattle 
are heaviest in the Southern States and on 
the ranges, from four to eight, per cent., while 
in the farm regions, where shelter is provided, 
the loss is only two per cent. 
.. ..Since January 1st, Chicago has been ship¬ 
ping eastward nearly 50,000 hogs a week, 
mostly for consumption.Auction sales 
of cattle promise to be unusually numei'ous, 
heavy and important this Spring.The 
number of horned cat tle in Illinois last year 
was 2,166,059, the number marketed 497,586, 
the average live weight 1,101 pounds, and the 
average price $3.95 per 100 pounds. The as¬ 
sessed number of bogs was 3,858,030, the num¬ 
ber marketed 3.203,145, the average weight. 
239 pounds, and the average price $8.50 per 
100 pounds.Out of a cargo of 65 full-grown 
ostriches recently shipped from Africa to Cal¬ 
ifornia, only' 86 survived the passage Ostrich 
farming has been so overdone in South Afri 
ca, that, several of the largest “farmers” have 
burst up, and others Eire making little or noth¬ 
ing. Feathers low birds selling for less than 
one-fourth of their price four years ago. 
.The following are the officers elected at the 
first National Sheep-shearing and Wool- 
Growers’ Convention held at St. Louis, Mo., 
the other day:—President, Columbus Delano, 
Ohio; Secretary'. C. D. N. Campbell, St. Louis; 
Treasurer, C. W. Simmons. St. Louis, with 
Vice-Presidents representing nearly all 
the States in the Union.The 
Prussian Minister of Agriculture says 
the Government does not at present think 
it. expedient to increase the import duties on 
grain and cattle; and that, imposts on wool 
are out of the question. The agricultural dis¬ 
tress is as great, he says, utl over the Contin¬ 
ent as in Germany....The importation 
of French wines into England is enormous, 
owing to the expectation that, the Govern¬ 
ment, in their forthcoming budget, will pro¬ 
pose an increase in the duties on w’ines. 
The Throat,—' "Brovm’S Bronchial Troches" act 
directly on ilie organs of the voice. They have an ex¬ 
traordinary effect In all disorders of the throat.— Adv. 
Crops <5c iftlarlicts. 
Saturday, April 17, 1886. 
The Department of Agriculture’s report fbr 
April makes a reduction of winter wheat area 
of 8,500,000 acres from the breadth seeded two 
years ago, and five per cent, reduction from 
the area seeded a year ago. On the Atlantic 
coast there has been very slight reduction, and 
none on the Pacific coast. The largest de¬ 
crease is in niinois, Kansas and Missouri. 
Comparative areas seeded in principal States 
are: New York, 97; Pennsylvania, 08; Ohio, 
99; Kentucky, 95; Michigan, 99; Indiana, 95; 
niinois, 85: Missouri, 92; Kansas, 84; Cali¬ 
fornia, 99; Oregon, 103. In comparison with 
the breadth hanmtrd last year, there is an 
increase. A moderate degree of protection by 
snow' has l teen enjoyed, though the covering 
has been neither hea vy nor continuous. Winds 
have laid bare exposed surfaces ami covered 
valleys deeper. Winter-killing in patches is 
therefore reported, to some extent, while it is 
generally found that brown and apparently 
lifeless plants have roots uninjured. The gen¬ 
eral average of condition is 921.7, against 76 
last, year (the lowest ever reported) and 94 tw'o 
years ago. The average of 1683 wus 80, and 
that of 1881 was 88. Condition "f States is as 
follows: New York, 98; Pennsylvania, 99; 
Ohio, 94; Michigan, 93; Indiana, 96; Illinois, 
86; Missouri, 94; Kansas, 88, ami California 
100. The condition of the soil for autumn 
seeding was favorable in four-fifths of till 
counties. The exceptions are more frequent 
in districts of small production. In the Ohio 
Valley and in the Middle States the seed-bed 
was in good condition in nine-tenths of the 
area. In Missouri aud Kansas there was a 
larger proportion of dry areas, and one-fifth 
of the reports were unfavorable. In Virginia 
and the Carolinas, one-sixth of the area seeded 
was not. in good condition: in Georgia, one- 
third; in Texas, three-tenths. In at least five- 
sixths of the entire breadth of winter wheat, 
the condition of soil was favorable fovseeding, 
germination and early growth. Damage to 
wheat by the Hessian fly is indicated in 
scarcely one county in twenty in the winter 
wheat.. The presence is deemed worthy of 
mention in 16 counties of Indiana and eight 
of Illinois. In Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan) 
and also ju Pennsylvania and New York, it is 
respectively reported in four to six counties. 
The damage has not been serious. 
The wheat market, has been heavy, with 
good weather at the West, and an unwilling¬ 
ness on the part of the United Kingdom and 
France to buy in advance of requirements, in 
spite of the many calculations that Indian 
and Russian surpluses are low', and that ex¬ 
ports from the United States prior to August 
1 must materially exceed those in the first 
quarter of the year. Cash wheat. No. 3 Red, 
at. New York, advanced 1 ’7c. in the week. 
Wheat clearances from the Atlantic ports this 
week promise to aggregate nearly one million 
bushels, or double late averages. Ocean 
freights are lower for grain. The strike sit 
the West so prevented shipments hither that 
rates went off to get freight. 
The fruit stands aud markets are red with 
Baldwin apples. There are some Russets and 
Greenings, but. the Baldwin is decidedly the 
favorite. Apples have shown very little in¬ 
crease in price since January; at present they 
are cheaper than in any year since 1881. The 
quality is reported excellent and the fruit is 
in good condition. Reports from \\ estern 
New York sav apples are exceedingly low- 
priced. In Alleghauy Co., Pa., Baldwins are 
reported to have been sold the other day at 
public sale for one cent per bushel! 
Heavy receipts of butter and a Light export 
demand for cheese have induced concessions 
in prices of those products. 
Woo] market inactive and weak. What 
with large receipts of foreign wool and the an¬ 
ticipated arrival of a new cup, most manufact¬ 
urers are disposed to wait for something to turn 
up. Arrivals of California spring wool arc look¬ 
ed forwa rd to in the Eastern markets, and buy¬ 
ers are already off for Texas. Low und me¬ 
dium grades sire relatively firmer than finer 
sorts, the latter lieing considerably depressed. 
Present condition of market less satisfactory 
thau one year ago. The new clip iu Califor¬ 
nia appears to he of good quality. Very little 
interest is taken in the tariff discussion, inas¬ 
much ns the trade is generally agreed that 
there is small prospect for legislation this 
Spring. No one expects Die Morrison-Hewitt 
bill to pass the Republican Senate, should it 
even pass the Democratic House, iu which a 
considerable minority of the Democrats are 
protectionists. 
The market for Western tobacco was dull 
during the week, and the total sales were only 
150 hogsheads, of which 100 hogsheads were 
for export. A more hopeful feeling prevails 
iu the trade owing to the proximity of the 
time when tlio foreign contracts ure awarded. 
In many of the tobacco-growing sections the 
low prices for the weed and the continued 
Competition with Sumatra tobacco have a 
discouraging effect, and other crops will be 
substituted by a considerable number; but it 
is likely enough new ground will be planted to 
make good this falling off. Prices in Lancas¬ 
ter Co., Pa., are barely remunerative. Fann¬ 
ers have all preparer! their seed-beds. The 
favorite variety will again lie Havana seed, 
but an increased amouut of seed leal will be 
put out. Leaf tobacco at Louisville is easy' to 
weak for grades. The weather is favorable 
for handling tobacco and also very favorable 
for plant beds. Tobacco at St. Louis is iu 
improved demand, but transactions are light 
because of deficient offerings. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, April 17,1886. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is 3c, higher; 
No. 2 Spring, 4c. higher. Corn, 3b>c, higher. 
Oats, %q. higher. Pork, 15c. lower. Cattle, 
steady or a decline for poorer sorts: an ad¬ 
vance for superior animals. Hogs, a shade 
lower. Lambs steady. Sheep, from 10c. to 
50c. higher. 
Wheat. strong; sale* ranged: April.75q®*iv t -ie;May. 
70Si6i. T 8 l 4 c: June, MW* 80 We,; No,Spring, TniqWiio. 
Cbltn. —Finn; Cash. •'Kp-i.;r'™; April, VD&e; May, 
37 141 ,,57V: June, at TuVoAsr. Cur-) Side? ranged: 
Cash. WwV&Mc: April, «&c. May. Rvb.- 
Nn. 2, Qflc. Him.XV -No 2, ut ride. MK-- Pork.-C ash, 
MOISfiWIO; May. at fJii5.u*> 17^4: Juao at Sll KW£9271-4. 
Lard Uulri and higher; sales rangedi Cash, at 
aft8!k,r.5 s:U; May. 9V,..June, $5 ir.’y.rft u,7. Bulk 
mCATS. Shoulder*. SI OOiJj I 10: SlmJd I lb side.-., ,T| S-i ITlvi 
e <5 $); short Clear side*, at $5 30 gIj5 00 Cattle—M ar¬ 
ket lower. Shipping steers, at $ t 0ft -fi 81: stackers 
mid feeders, *2 ’.(V.id 80s cows, bull* und mixed, 
at Shu t 00; bulk, nt «gB0t»3 00. Hour.—M arket lower; 
Rough nn<l mixed, at OlltMU SO' tmeklng aud shipping, 
at itaui 40: light, at $84604 80; skip*, ut |290($:t <5. 
K11KSP.—Market steady; Natives, $2 50^0 00; Western, 
$| IJflflgi 50; lambs, $4 Bfottft 12; Texans, $2 506M 25. 
Sr. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red wheat is 3’£c. higher. 
Corn, steady. Oats, steady. Pork, 40c. lower. 
Wheat.— Active; Bale* ranged; No. 2 Red. Cash, and 
April, 87Wci Mav.STteapfl?4o: Juno,87?*e. Corn.—F irm; 
No. 2 mixed, Cash. April, HSUe: May, 38J*e. 
Oats Dull; No. 2 mixed. Cash, at StdeW31 H.e: April, at 
'Ahuc; May. HI JM'ie Kite Weak ut .W. Barlfa 
A merican, BOtfcfiOe. Ri'trim-quiet; creamery, 2fk>ji80e; 
dairy. ytiiiSfte. E»«i> Firm at flue. Ki.axmckp at $103 
C.i.l 03, HAY—Steady. Timothy, glltodl; Prairie, 8IV..S. 
Ruan, 3814c. PoRK.fSKW. Bulk Ml atm.-L ongClear, $520; 
short Rib, at $5 30; Short Clear, $5 50. I.a up,-Steady 
at $5 8Ue Cahlk—M arket active; fair to choice 
nutlve shipping steers, at $1 lOi.vl 50: butcher steers, 
$3 ,VX®4 40; cows ami heifers, at $2 50(9.8 75; stoekers 
and feeders, $3 00©$l lft. Kook. I.lght, #3 85@100; 
packing, $8 850.1 00; heavy. $110<$4 25, Sa esc.—M ar¬ 
ket steady ut $3 50®5 75. 
Boston, — Corn, — Steamer Yellow, at tehio; do. 
