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of \\)t Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. November 6.1S86. 
The elections just held have been fruitful 
in surprises, and will undoubtedly afford ma¬ 
terial for reflection to party leaders and man¬ 
agers for some time to come. The results have 
been very much mixed, and iu some cases 
the contests have been so close that their out¬ 
come still remains in doubt No groundswell 
in favor of either party is apparent on the 
face of the returns. The gains and losses are 
pretty evenly divided between the two great, 
parties. The Democratic majority in the 
House of Representatives has been greatly re¬ 
duced, but the Republicans have lost ground 
in the Northwest, a section toward which 
their rivals have for some time cast anxious 
eyes. The vote of the workingmen has made 
itself strongly felt in a number of directions. 
Amoug the surprises of the election must be 
counted the defeat of Mr. Morrison in Illinois, 
and the narrow escape of Speaker Carlisle in 
Kentucky. In some quarters these events, 
as also the defeat ot Mr. Hurd, are regarded 
as evidences of a desire to rebuke these legis¬ 
lators for the part they have taken in agitat¬ 
ing the tariff question. The most genuine 
surprise of all to the average observer was the 
large vote polled by Mr. Henry George for 
Mayor of New York city. Mr. Hewitt, the 
Democratic candidate for the office, was 
elected*!).v 113,000 votes, but the labor candi. 
date was second in the race with 68,000 votes 
in round numbers, or over 7.000 more than 
were polled by the Republican candidate. 
. .Another earthquake was felt iu the Southern 
States yesterday—the most severe since that 
that upset Charleston. It was most severe in 
Savannah. Ga.. and Columbia, S. C. Very 
slight damage was doue and no carnalities 
are reported... . 
A meeting of the Western New York Salt 
Manufacturers’ Association is soon to be held 
to establish a pool and raise the price of salt. 
Although common salt is now sold as low as 
60c. a barrel, the barrel costing 25c., “still 
there is little profit in its manufacture at this 
price bvthe most economical manufacturers.’> 
Those who oppose a pool think that higher 
prices would bring in many new manufacturers. 
.Public debt reduction in October, 
§13,101.510.A big strikeof beef packers 
for eight hours at Chicago, and a big pork 
packers’ strike at St. Louis.Mrs. Stew¬ 
art’s will leaves her estate among her own 
folks, with discretion on the part of Judge 
Hilton, her executor, to apnlv some of it bo 
th,e servicesof the Protestant Episcopal Cathe¬ 
dral and its belongings which she had built 
and endowed at Garden City, Long Island, a 
place founded as a business speculation by her 
husband. No public benefactions . 
Mondav. Liberty’s torch was lighted on Bed- 
low’s Island. New York harbor, and there was 
an elaborate display of fireworks, which had 
been deferred from the unveiling of the statue, 
owing to wet weather.Louis Berial. for 
25 veal's an employ^ in the Custom House in 
New York, shot Surveyor of the Port H. S. 
Beattie three times on Monday. Had been 
dismissed, on Beattie’s recommendation, for 
illegally charging duty on an immigrant’s 
baggage.A council of Roman Catholic 
archbishops at Baltimore has favored leaving 
each archbishop to treat the order of Knights 
of Labor as he sees fit in his own diocese. This 
doesn’t antagonize Cardinal Taseberau of 
Montreal, or commit the Church one wav or 
the other, while leaving each archbishop free 
to pounceupon troublesome Knights in his own 
section—a very diplomatic stand.Frank 
Walworth, the murderer of his father in 1873, 
in this city, died at Saratoga, Saturday, of 
pneumonia, aged 31.“Red Top,” Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland’s country place, will be form¬ 
ally opened November 15, when the horseshoe 
will be nailed over the door. 
_... Jay Gould says he found business so 
good out West that he has ordered between 
4,000 and 5,000 new cars for the Missouri 
Pacific, mostly freight cars, but including 150 
passenger coaches, also 100 locomotives. 
Consul Brigham says the rumor that a large 
filibustering party had been organized to go 
to Mexico with A. K. Cutting at its head, is 
positively untrue ...... 
.. .That St. Louis train robber took §120.- 
000 instead of §50,000 as first reported Offi¬ 
cials “ know who he is and he’ll soon be arrest¬ 
ed”.The Rt. Louis Sugar Refinery, the 
largest iu the West, has shut down, unable to 
compete with the Sandwich Island sugar, 
which isadmitted free of duty. Several other 
refineries have lately shut down for the same 
reason .Iu the new Vermont Legisla¬ 
ture the House has passed a bill granting suf¬ 
frage to women, by a vote of 132 to 82. 
Two alleged Know-Nothing organizations in 
Chicago are’'reported to' 4 havej 1,500.to 2,000 
members devoted to the theory that foreign¬ 
ers shall not hold office in America, aud work¬ 
ing by secret circulars and private meetings.. 
.It is seml-officially announced in 
Canada that a dissolution of the Dominion 
Parliament, has been decided upon. It will be 
the most, important election since the act of 
federation.The Chiuese laundrymen of 
New York have decided to form a trade-union 
for the purpose of keeping up the rates on 
their work, and will fine every Chinaman who 
does not join or who cuts rates §100, boycott¬ 
ing him if he fails to pay. Chineses cheap 
labor will soon be a thing of the past. 
.The estimates of the oxpeuses of the 
postal service for the next fiscal year aggre¬ 
gate §55,346,150 while the appropriation for 
for the current year was §54,365,863, showing 
an increase in the estimates for the next year 
of §076,286...The Secretary of the 
Treasury has this week issued the 144th call 
for the redemption of bonds. The call is for 
$10,000,000 of bonds of the 3 per cent, loan of 
1882. We’re wiping out the public debt at au 
“alarming” rate. What shall we do with 
surplus taxes wheu they can no longer be 
applied to its payment?. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturdat, November 6, 186. 
European news of little general interest. 
Bulgaria embroglio still menacing the peace 
of Europe. Grand Sobranje for electing a 
Prince is in sessiou at Tirnova, but makiug 
little or no headway, owing to the evident op¬ 
position of Russia and the timidity of some* 
the indifference of others and the want of 
combination of all the other Powers. Kaulbars 
issues orders in the name of the Czar, in oppo¬ 
sition to the Government, as if in a Russian 
Province. All parties—politicians, military 
officers and soldiers—engaged in the conspir¬ 
acy against Prince Alexander in May, have 
l>een set at liberty on the peremptory demand 
of Kaulbars. Nabokoff, the military leader, 
has started a rebellion in favor of Russia, at 
Bourgas, and Karkoff. Karaveloff and Met¬ 
ropolitan Clement, the political leaders, are 
plotting a new coup d' fit at. War likely in 
Spring or before, unless Russia is allowed her 
own way. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 6, 1886. 
The Dairy Commission of this State cost 
§30.000 in 1884; §50,000 last year, and §105.000 
is wanted this roar. Now that State laws are 
backed up by Federal law ought uot something 
really good bo got for this outlay ?. 
. State Dairy Commissioner Hurst re¬ 
ports that the sale ot butterine and oleomar¬ 
garine in Ohio has declined 75 percent, within 
the first five months of the operation of the 
State dairy laws.... First dead duck— 
Easterbrook & Co., oleomargariuo manufac¬ 
turers, at New Haven, Ct.. have suspended on 
account of the Government tax law which 
went into effect Monday.Dr. Merriam, 
chief of the new Bureau of Ornithology, de¬ 
nounces the English sparrow. The pest spreads 
over 130,000 square miles annually,... At 
least §4,000,000 were paid out for leaf tobacco 
in Danville, Va.. in the year ended September 
30, and as much in Lynchburg.The fac¬ 
tories in Manitoba have increased from six 
cheese factories in 1885, to seven cheese and 
five butter factories in 1880. .. ... 
.The hop crop of Washington Territory 
this year was about 2,550 hales. .. In 
the summer packing season of 1886, Chicago 
packed 258.000 more hogs than Kansas City, 
St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cedar Rapids, Indian¬ 
apolis, Cleveland and Cincinnati combined. 
In the same part of 1885, Chicago was 542,000 
ahead .The man who puts up a 
barbed wire fence in Nebraska is responsible 
for any damages sustained by men or animals 
coming in contact with it...The 
State convention of the Anti-Horse-thief As¬ 
sociation of Missouri met at Sedalia, on the 
21st inst., 2(H) members being present. Re¬ 
ports by the committees showed the order to 
be increasing in orders and influence, and 
horse stealing decreasing as the means of de¬ 
tection and capture become more certain.... 
.During the seven weeks ending Septem¬ 
ber 18th there were 82 fresh outbreaks of 
pleuro-pneumonia reported in Great Britain, 
and there wero 31!) cattle attacked. The above 
figures show an increase over tho returns for 
the corresponding week of last year, when 
there were 64 fresh outbreaks and 276 animals 
attacked. .The great, Killerby 
Herd of .Short-horns belonging to the late J. 
B. Booth, Yorkshire (England.) was sold re¬ 
cently, 58 animals bringing an average of 
§464.12.The exports of live stock 
and dressed meats per steamships from Boston 
for thfe English markets last week were 827 
| cattle,and j l,280 # quarters,of beef. 
.The London market for American live 
cattle is flat, at 11 cents for best, estimated 
dressed weight.It is rumored that the 
International Range Association is about to 
establish huge stock yards at St. Louis, in¬ 
tended as special opposition to Chicago. 
...Latest cablegrams 
state that the November wool sales in London 
have l>een postponed one week, to the 30th. 
Great efforts have been made to increase the 
available supply, which is now claimed to be 
125,000 bales. A quiet market is expected.... 
The grain elevators in middle and northern 
Minnesota and Dakota are overflowing, and 
3,000 cars of wheat billed to Minneapolis can. 
not be brought, into the city because the 
trausfer roads cannot handle it. .. . 
.The National Horse Show which has 
been in operation here during tho week, was 
moderately successful. It was altogether a 
“dudish affair 11 patronized almost exclusively 
by fashionables to whose tastes and whims it 
catered. We have a long report of it; but we 
do not think it worth the space it would 
occupy.. 
Crops & illftrlids. 
t 
Saturday, November 6, 1886. 
The regular weekly review of the Mark 
Lane Express of Monday last, concerning the 
English breadstuff’s markets aud stocks hold 
abroad, contained the followiug: “ The de¬ 
liveries of native wheat have been small 
at 6d. to Is. above the previous week. The 
sales of English wheat were 48,910 quarters at 
30s. 3d., agaiust, 56,950 quarters at 31s. 4d. 
during the corresponding period last year. 
Country flour is firm aud 6d dearer. Foreign 
wheats are firmly held. Values are unchanged. 
Corn has risen 3d to Od. The domestic wheat 
markets have not shown much change during 
the week, except that the tendency has been 
to hold well to the slight gains. 
That usually careful journal, tho Cincinnati 
Price Current, furnishes some statistics aud 
conclusions concerning the peanut crop which 
are ot interest. It reports the supply as fol¬ 
lows: 
Bushels. 
Stocks In all markets, Oct. It®. 981000 
Tennessee crop. . Sm.uco 
Virginia crop. l.ttnu.uOO 
North Carolina crop. 150,10) 
Total supply. 8,735 000 
Lpsh stocks oo Oct. 1,1886, at— 
Cincinnati. 359,700 
Virginia..... 800,000 
Tennessee. ... 175,000 
Wilmington. 35.000 
Total consumption, 1885-86. 2 715,803 
Consumption In: 
issi-85.a.noi.noo 
18*3-84. 2,170,000 
Wi-Hs .. . 1,970,000 
1881-82. 1,520,001 
1 “80-81. 2,1'K,(»XI 
1879-80. 1,927,000 
1878-7!). 1,380 OX) 
1877-73,..... l.OUH.OuO 
1876-77. 1,187.000 
Stocks at “other points” include 35,000 ntish- 
els at St. Louis, 4,000 bushels at Louisville, 
and estimated 11.000 bushels at Evansville. 
Eastern cities hold about the same as a year 
ago—Boston 5,000 bags. New York 8,000 bags 
and Philadelphia 6,000 hags; but those do uot 
enter into the account in either year. The 
supply available for consumption during tho 
ensuing year — October 1, 1886, to September 
30, 1887— as deduced from the foregoing sta¬ 
tistics aud estimates (which are no doubt 
carefully made) is giveu as follows: 
Stock on haml Oct t, 1836. 1,019.700 
Tennessee crop. 800.000 
Virginia crop. . 1,50 
North Carolina crop. ino.no i 
Total available supply...3,U9,700 
The aggregate pork packing in the West the 
past week has been 210,000 hogs, compared 
with 280,000 the preceding week, and 255,000 
for the corresponding week last year. This 
moderate movement of hogs is attributed 
to various influences ; the weather has 
continued favorable for feeding, aud too warm 
for packing without tho use of ice; the un¬ 
settled feeliug in regard to labor employed by 
packers has had some influence; prices of hogs 
are regarded as low by farmers, and this may 
have had some effect in retarding the market¬ 
ing. Prices at Western points, however, are 
well up to the Chicago basis. As compared 
with a week ago, prices of hogs at Chicago are 
without quotable change—a slight advance 
within this period having been lost at the 
close; the average of prices is about §3.65 per 
160 pounds, the better grades of both light and 
heavy ruugiug up to $3.95 to §4.00. The range 
of prices of product, at Chicago during the 
week for January delivery has been as follows: 
Mess pork §9.77 to §10.87J4, lard $5.87)4 to 
§6.05, per 100 pounds; short rib sides §5,02)4 
to §5,30, showing an advance of 33)4 cents on 
pork, 15 cents on lard, and 25 cents on short 
rib sides, compared with a week ago. This 
strengthening of prices has partly been due to 
fear of a strike amoug packing house hands at 
Chicago, which might for au indefinite time 
interfere withjthe manufacture. 
Chicago report of the visible supply of grain 
last Saturday: Wheat, 56,154,000 bushels; 
corn, 13,097,000 bushels; oats, 5,409,000bushels; 
rye, 467,000 bushels; barley, 3,282,000 bushels. 
This shows an increase of 780.000 bushels 
wheat; 50,000 bushels oats; 81,000 bushels rye, 
and a decrease of 339,000 bushels corn aud 71,- 
000 bushels barley. 
New York statement of the visible supply 
of gram October 30; Wheat, 50,653,901 bush¬ 
els, increase, 778,651 bushels; corn, 13,098,041 
bushels, decrease, 337,520 bushels: oats, 5,409,- 
153 bushels, increase, 50,784 bushels; rye. 466,- 
584 bushels,, increase, 30,717 bushels: barley, 
2,333,071 bushels, decrease, 70,187 bushels. 
The Indian corn market has been quite firm, 
the visible supply report for last week show¬ 
ing a decrease of 337.520 bushels. Late advices 
as to the crop are that, it is turning out much 
worse than intimated by recent estimates. 
The Chicago Tribune states that some esti¬ 
mates, covering large areas in Nebraska, Iowa 
and Kansas, place the yield at not much 
above 40 per cent, of a full crop. 
Oats have been fairly firm, with the in¬ 
crease of 50,784 bushels reported in the visible 
supply and the outlook continuing for a good 
crop as compared with late years. The de¬ 
mand has been fair. Oats were a shade 
stronger on Friday and wanted, though actual 
business was slow. Rye and barley were very 
dull and unchanged. 
The butter market has been entirely nomi¬ 
nal, and prices are unchanged. Exporters 
are almost out of the market, and late ship¬ 
ments compare very unfavorably with those 
of last year for the same time. 
Nov. 5. Nov. 5. ’85. 
Creamery, new choice to fancy.27 " 29c. 27-7>29c. 
State, new dairy fancy. 2F’:25 £1*323)4 
A good deal of activity has been infused in¬ 
to tho cheese market during the past few days, 
and prices have advanced. Fancy cheese is 
scarce, but exporters do not fa\l iu very freely 
with the advanced view’s of holders, 
Nov. 5. Nov. 5,85 
New cheese (f’ey).10 
Inqersoll, Canada, November 2.-Twenty- 
seven factories offered 21.935 boxes September 
and balance of soasou. No sales reported. 
Factorymenholding for 12)4 to 13'4 cents, 
which price buyers do not seem inclined to 
to pay. Thirty-three factories represented 
and eleven buyers present. 
All of tho principal wool markets are quiet 
and show no promise of increased activity for 
the present. Fine aud fine medium. Territory 
and pulled wools arc noticeably weak. Manu¬ 
facturers are not inclined to buy at present iu 
excess ot near-by wants, the outlook for the fa¬ 
brics which thev are about, to present samples 
of being still uncertain. Tho latest advices 
from London show a great degree of strength 
iu the English market, but, Melbourne dis¬ 
patches are less encouraging. Purchases in 
that, market on American account are almost 
entirely wanting, and a decline of five per 
cent, has been reported within a day or two. 
Tin* next series of sales at London will open on 
the 30th. The demand for wool for the kuit- 
goods mills of Central Now York continues 
slack, the lockout being aoparently as far as 
ever from settlement. At, Boston there is no 
quotable change in values. The current quo¬ 
tations for leading sorts, compared with a year 
ago. are as follows: 
Nov. 6, ’85. Nov. 5, 86. 
Ohio & Penn. X. 32*330. 8lf.ia5c. 
Ohio * Penn, xx.:Ufc85 se 
Ohio & Penn. XX ami above.3VC87 376538 
Midi haul X.31 ’32 32.533 
Fine Ohio delaines.8tV«o37 38 
No. l combine.36*33 88<f40 
Texas DR, 12 months.22 « 25 £<.526 
Super A.....33!il37 33:«j37 
Tiie sales of the week at Boston are reported 
at 3,145,01)0 pounds, as compared with 2,181,- 
600 last week and 2,400,600 in the correspond¬ 
ing week a your ago. At Philadelphia wool 
has been extremely dull, the week’s business 
aggregating less than 450,000 pounds. There 
is no quotable change iu prices, the majority 
of holders refusing to increase sales at the 
cost of price concessions, and having confi¬ 
dence iu the future of the market. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, November 6, 1886 * 
Chicago.—C ompared with cash prices a 
fortnight ago. No. 2 Spring Wheat is 1 %c. low¬ 
er. Corn. * l .jC. higher. Oats, unchanged. 
Rye, 2c. higher. Barley, tmehanged. Flax¬ 
seed, '4c. higher.. Pork, 45c. higher. Lard, 
27c. higher. Cattle, 15c. to 50c. lower, Hogs, 
5t\ to 20c. higher. Sheep, 5e. to 10c. lower. 
Wheat -Pull: No. 2 Spring, ?/6is)73?<(o; No. 3 spring 
No. ! Red. Futures ranged: November, 
73H t ,*73We . December, Jt'ty.n M<ic: January, 7.V*«75^c; 
May, SP-i, iNIkse. Cons, quit t, No. ?, ovqc: Futures- 
November. 355fc,.v3fij4c: December, SO-kiei37Ur; Janu¬ 
ary li May. <*.v*- W- uk: No. 
2. 2‘iit2Vlte Future*, November. Deeember, 
26*tf*W*e: January, $ibj'.a>26*}C; May, Hyb. 
OUlel: No. 2.510. ftiRLKV. No. J.flSe. Fi.w-ked.— 
No. 1.97hi'* 1*8. Mess Pork. CumIi, *9 30 19 3\ Futures. 
November, $9 HW) 45, closing ni (9 30: December. 89 30 
W-ll 35: January §11) 15*1025, I.arc -Cush, $9 96 Nov¬ 
ember, V 93Vi .IN; December. 86 of; Jummry, 
$6 •'8va‘ ; •)- Snort Utb*. Cash. |i6 uu. boxed Meats. 
— Prv suited moulders, UiuT. au: Sliort dear sides, 
$6 1046 15. Cattui. ~ Market Blow; shipping steers, 
3‘Ku 5 00; Stockers aud feeders $1 IK) RlS 8b; cows bulls 
mid mixed $1 25tjt)2 70: bulk. $2 00 s 2 10 through Texas 
Cattle, lower: cow*, $2 (HI v3 06; Steer*. 82 (SO.adl l)V, West¬ 
ern rututer*. lower; natives and lull breeds. $3 JJ 33 651 
cow*, $2 40 j1i 2 90;. Wintered .Texans, $2 75us3 20. gHous 
Other points. 50.000-1,019.700 
