Saturday, Nov. 20,18S6. 
Chester Alan Arthur, twenty-first Pres¬ 
ident of the United States, died at five o’clock 
Thursday morning at his home in this city in 
his 50th year. He was unconscious for several 
hours before his death. The immediate cause 
of death was the rupture of a blood vessel in 
the brain—apoplexv. His only son and daugh¬ 
ter, his sisters, and a nephew were at his bed¬ 
side during his last moments. He had been ill 
from his third year in the White House, from 
two distinct diseases—fatty degeneration of 
the arteries and Bright’s disease of the kidneys. 
For some time his digestive powers were 
nearly destroyed, and for months past he lived 
entirely on milk. His h ’art was seriously af¬ 
fected, the organ being enlarged and the aorta 
(the great artery from which all the other ar¬ 
teries branch off) was diseased. Funeral at 
nine o’clock Monday morning; body to be bur¬ 
ied in the Rural Cemetery, Albany. N. Y., 
where his father, mother, wife and infant son 
are now buried. Son of Rev. Dr. William 
Arthur, a Baptist minister who came from 
Ireland when IS years old. Born October 5, 
1830 at Fairfield. Vt, Attended Union Col¬ 
lege, and taught school two Winters to help 
pay expenses. Graduated in 1848. Taught 
village school for next two years. In 1850 
came to New York with #500 savings and 
studied law. Later history already public 
property..The New York Anti-Saloon 
Republicans are to hold a convention at Cort¬ 
land ou Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 to perfect State or¬ 
ganization and plan future work.The 
sloop Mayflower is offered for sale at cost, the 
offer to remain open until December 1. 
The total amount, of standard silver dollars in 
circulation November 1 was 801,353,240 out of 
a total coinage of 8244,707.380. The balance 
lies idle in the Treasury, which can’t get it in¬ 
to circulation...An Iowa'barber has 
been found guilty for refusing to shave a man 
of'his own color, the U.'S. Circuit Court hav¬ 
ing decided that the civil-rights law is Consti¬ 
tutional, and that a barber-shop is a public 
place under the law.The U. S, Su¬ 
preme Court has just decided a suit, brought 
to settle all existing clnimsof the Choctaw Na¬ 
tion against, the United States. The Choc¬ 
taws get over $2,500,000, and'Col. Lamont, 
Lincoln’s friend and biographer, gets a fee of 
$250,000 for winning the case after years of lit¬ 
igation. Lieut-—Gen. Sheridan has submit¬ 
ted to the Secretary of War his annual report, 
showing the operations of the military forces 
during the past year. The army of the United 
States at the date of the last returns consisted 
of 2.102 officers and 23.040 men, distributed as 
follows. General officers, 10; general staff, 
375 officers, 1.212 men: 10 regiments of cavalry, 
411 officers. 0,942 men: five regiments of artil¬ 
lery. 272 officers. 2,473 men: 25 regiments of 
infantry. 830 officers, 10.721 men; Indian 
scouts. 595 meu: detachments, recruiting par¬ 
ties. etc., 2.003 men. It is said that the 
Dominion Government is sick of its fishery 
policy and will soon put the cruisers iu winter- 
quarters and drop the prosecutions. 
Thera are threats of a st rike on a large scale 
by the operatives of the cotton mills of Fall 
River. They have long been dissatisfied with 
the scale of wages paid, but every effort 
to obtain au advance has failed. The 
mills* are 'making large profits, while the 
operators are paid starvation wages. 
The’ receipts at the late fisticuff when Sul¬ 
livan “knocked out’Rvan at San Francisco 
in the third round, amounted to $11,000, Tin- 
expenses were $2,000, and of the $9,000 Sulli¬ 
van got 75 per cent., or 87.750. and Ryan 25 
per cent., or $2,250—the fight lasted about 
eight, minutes.....The public school 
system of Georgia is an impoverished institu¬ 
tion. It contracts with its teachers for a term 
of 65 days at five cents per day per capita and 
settles with them at about 65 cents on the dol¬ 
lar.Tuesday a fire destroyed a large part 
of the business portion of Durham. N. C.; 
loss, $3.01)0,000, including 1,500.000 pounds of 
loose tobacco. The Tobacco Plant newspaper 
office was destroyed. Insurance about $200,000. 
.Delegates representing 17 fraternal so¬ 
cieties. with a membership of 530,000, met at 
the Riggs House, in Washington, and organ¬ 
ized a National Congress of Fraternal Bene¬ 
ficiary Societies... One of the latest 
ways in which Wall Street men have found 
the opportunity to invest funds as a specula¬ 
tion is a scheme that has several thousand 
dollars back of it. to preserve Autumn leaves 
by a new process, the invention of a Yankee 
college professor. The leaves—so promise the 
bulls in the enterprise—will retain all their 
fresh and bright hues for years, and remain 
fast to the limb just as nature produced them. 
.Mr. Ward, a Clyde shipbuilder, is 
crazy enough to assert that Secretary Whit¬ 
ney has—in a public advertisement—attempt¬ 
ed to bribe English ship designers by offering a 
high price for the best plans for our new war 
vessels. It is charged that this was a bribe to 
men in the service of European Governments 
to betray the plans for European war ships. 
Englishmen, themselves, build war ships for 
all foreign governments able to pay for them, 
and, of course, Whitney was perfectly justified 
to seek suggestions for our new ships from 
every quarter.Pay Director Fulton 
has been appointed Paymaster-General of the 
Navy. Born in Tenn. in 1835; a State legis¬ 
lator in 1857-58: purser in the Navy in Nov. 
1877; always served with distinction in 
the Navy since then.There are reports of 
plots and counterplots for the annexation of the 
40,000 square miles of Honduras to this country. 
Soil rich with vast amounts of gold under it, 
but an obstreperous, refractory people ou it... 
_Austria is willing to settle that diplomat¬ 
ic squabble, and Charles Jonas, of Wisconsin, 
has been appointed Consul at Sprague. For¬ 
merly Austria refused to receive him. as he 
was an ex-Austrian subject and conspirator, 
and a bitter enemy of the Emperor. Austria 
will soon appoint a Minister at, Washington; 
and we’ll send one to Viepuia, vice Kioley re¬ 
jected.Ingersoll has “no time” to plead 
for the Chicago Anarchists.Mr. Benton, 
United States District Attorney for the West¬ 
ern District of Missouri, lias been reinstated 
iu the office from which he was suspended for 
what was deemed undue political activity. 
All the Democratic Missourians were earnest 
in his favor.A Chinese has bought 
for $16,000 the exclusive right of selling 
opium in Panama, and the money will be de¬ 
voted partly to the hospitals and partly to 
reducing the public debt,.A fierce, 
blinding blizzard and snow storm prevailed in 
the Northwest Tuesday night and Wednesday: 
the worst in 10 years in Dakota. Snow be¬ 
gan falling at St. Paul early Tuesday morn¬ 
ing and continued all day. After midnight a 
blizzard set in, and Wednesday morning the 
streets and sidewalks were badly blockaded, 
so that travel was next to impossible. The 
blizzard began in the western part of the 
State and swept east and south through Wis¬ 
consin. Railroad travel is greatly impeded 
and street, cars find it almost impossible to 
run. The wind was blowing hard Wednes¬ 
day and drifting the snow as fast as it fell. 
No such storm hail occurred there so early in 
the season for years. The thermometer at 
Denver. Col., stood at four below zero Wed¬ 
nesday, and iu different parts of the State 
dropped to 20 below. The Colorado railroads 
are open, but in West Kansas and Nebraska, 
where the snowfall was much heavier, block¬ 
ades are reported. The gale and snow storm 
swept over the great lakes with terrible vio¬ 
lence, and the loss to shipping will probably 
be great. Already it is known that over 100 
lives and $1,000,000 worth of property have 
been lost. Wednesday night and Thursday 
snow fell over the northern part of the Mid¬ 
dle and Eastern States and rain deluged the 
rest, while high winds were everywhere 
prevalent. 
.Of the “boodle” aldermen of this city, 
McCabe has been declared insane, and 
McQuade is now on trial. Waite, Fullgraff 
and Duffy have turned State’s evidence and 
testified that 13 of the Board of Aldermen of 
1884 (24 in all) conspired to vote away the 
franchise of the Broadway railway for a bribe 
of #30,000 apiece, and deputed “Billy” 
Moloney, clerk to the Board, to get other 
votes to override the Mayor’s veto. These 
were obtained. States prison appears to be 
the certain home of all the boodle takers and 
givers who have not already fled from the 
country, unless some may manage yet to es¬ 
cape. forfeiting their bail of $40.000. 
-The Chicago stock-yard strike has ended. 
Powderly, a week ago. ordered the men to re¬ 
turn to work, and after considerable grum¬ 
bling by some extremists, they obeyed. The 
packers, however, refuse to discharge the new 
hands they have taken on; and on this account 
and because the supply of hogs has been short, 
not much over one-third of the old hands have 
yet been taken back. The best nnd least tur¬ 
bulent meu have been selected. All have to 
sign a contract that they will not quit work 
again without giving a fortnight’s notice in 
advance, and each has to make a deposit of 
$50 as security that he will keep his pledge, 
the packers paying five per cent, interest 
thereon. Many of the new hands, or “scabs,” 
have quit work, as they are afraid of violence 
from the old hands, who show their ill-will 
plainly, though as yet they have committed 
no violence. They are very much discontent¬ 
ed at the new regulations, and the trouble 
may be renewed. Doubtless the new hands 
will soon all disappear..... 
-- . . 
Acts like a Charm. 
From the record of cures of Asthma, suffer¬ 
ers may rest assured in Compound Oxygen 
they will find at least relief, and, in reason¬ 
able probability, perfect cure. Not all have 
been cured who have tried Compound Oxy¬ 
gen. but all have found relief. 
Mrs. E, A. Porter writes from Hydesville, 
Cal., Nov. 24, 1885; “It is now seven mouths 
since I received the first treatment for my 
sou’s use, and he has not had symptoms of a 
return of the asthma since taking the first 
dose. I take pleasure iu recommending it to all 
my friends who are afflicted with any chronic 
disease. It seems to act like a charm on the 
disease peculiar in this climate.” 
A monograph on Asthma, with many other 
reports, and a brochure on Compound Oxy¬ 
gen of nearly 200 pages, will be sent, post¬ 
paid and free, on application by Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1529 Arch Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.—A ri p. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 20,1886. 
Some English producers lately sold potatoes 
in London at $4.97 per ton. The expense of 
shipping and selling was #7.66 per ton, or $2.69 
per ton above the returns from the sale. At 
Chester, near Liverpool, potatoes were selliug 
for half-a-cent a pound a fortnight ago. 
.The National Bureau of Statistics says 
that not more than 1.000 buffaloes are now in 
existence. The Vermont. Legislature 
has just passed a bill providing that all hotels 
and restaurants using oleomargarine shall put 
up large signs notifying the public of the fact. 
.At a meeting of the Cotton Factors’ 
Association at New Orleans, Monday, it was 
unanimously resolved that charges for stor¬ 
age, drayage, weighing and labor on all cotton 
received from and after that date, when sold 
and delivered within 60 days, bo reduced from 
75 cents to 60 cents per bale. The Commer¬ 
cial Press, an independent establishment, re¬ 
duced the change for storage, for 60 days, 
from 50 to 40 cents; compressing from 65 to 
50cents; drayage to ship 25to 15 cents and 18 
cents per bale. This will force a reduction of 
excessive changes ou cotton at other Southern 
ports also, much to the benefit, of planters.... 
....Prof. Wiley, chemist of the Department; 
of Agriculture, telegraphs that the yield of 83 
tons of Louisiana sugar-cane by the diffusion 
process was 11,100 pounds, or 134 pounds per 
ton of “first” sugar, instead of 80 pounds to the 
ton, as he telegraphed last week. This he con¬ 
siders a phenomenal yield, being, as he states, 
about double the ordinary yield obtained by 
the old milling process with the same kind of 
cane. He will boil for “seconds” at once. 
. According to the Philadelphia Textile As¬ 
sociation. the estimated wool clip of the United 
States for 1886 is as follows;—Unwashed wool, 
227,101,580 pounds; washed wool, 55,229,446 
pounds; total, 282,331,025 pounds. The num¬ 
ber of sheep is estimated at 48,332,331. 
On November 15 a company of soldiers was 
ordered to Caldwell, Kans., from Fort Reno, 
to keep prospectors out of the Indian Terri¬ 
tory. The greatest excitement prevails. 
Thousands of claims have been staked out in 
the Territory below Caldwell, where silver is 
believed to exist in large quantities. 
In his fourth annual message,Chief Bushyhead, 
of the C-herokees, recommends that the 30 
Indian tribes in the Territory form a confed- 
erntion for tho purpose of anticipating and 
resisting the passage by Congress of an act 
creating a Territory out of “No Man’s Land” 
and portions of Indian Territory. 
The lungs of the cattle in Clinton County, 
Ind., where pleuro-pneutnonia was reported to 
be rapidly spreading, are found to be full of 
worms about the size of a cambric needle, 
which had eaten out chambers iu the lungs 
and built up partitions. Parts of the lung 
would be hardened and often the air-cells 
closed. The pleura, however, was found to 
be in a normal condition and there were no 
adhesions either of lung or pleura, as would 
be expected iu a case of genuine pleuro-pneu- 
monia. Great alarm is felt among farmers 
over the progress of the plague.A 
Newhurg (N. Y.) pumpkin is said to have 
grown to Aveigh 250 pounds by being fed on 
milk. One of the roots rested in a pan of 
milk, of which it consumed a pint a day. 
... .The crop of apples in Great. Britain aver¬ 
ages 85.000 tons, valued at $50 per ton; about 
12,000,000 gallons of cider arc made yearly. 
The production of cider in France averages 
220,000,000 gallons. The orchards of Great 
Britain cover 180,000 acres; an acre with 40 
good apple trees will produce 1,2'MJ gallons of 
cider. Great Britain imports 900,000 barrels 
of apples yearly from the United State and 
Canada........... 
Hoarseness Promptly Relieved. 
The following letter to the proprietors of 
“lirauni's Bronchial Troches" explains itself; 
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 12, 1884. 
“Gentlemen: —The writer , who is a tenor 
singer, desires to state that he. teas so hoarse 
oil a recent occasion, when his sere ices were 
necessary in the church choir, that he was 
apprehensive that he icould be compelled to 
desist from sinyiny, but by taking [ three of 
your ‘Bronchial 'Troches' he was enabled to 
fully participate in the services. Would give 
my name, hnt don't wont it published .” 
“ Brown's Bronchial Troches" are sold only 
in boxes, with the fac-simile of the proprietors 
on the wrapper. Price 25 cents.—.4 d r. 
Crops & ilXtirlifts. 
Saturday, November 20, 1886. 
Foreign markets have been generally firm 
during the week, though prices have not ad¬ 
vanced. Farmers’ deliveries in the United 
Kingdom have declined. In France wheat- 
sowing has been practically completed under 
generally favorable conditions. Farmers’ 
deliveries of wheat have increased and values 
have improved, and the trade is very firm. 
There is little likelihood of anything being 
done about the raising of duties on grain in 
France prior to January. Iu England the 
quiet markets, despite the low stocks and re¬ 
duced deliveries, are attributed to milder 
weather, weakness of quotations here, and the 
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