DEC 4 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 27,18S6. 
The funeral of ex-President Chester Arthur 
took place from the Protestant Episcopal 
Church Heavenly Rest in New York, Monday. 
No services at the house. Large crowds in the 
street, but no display. Among those present 
were President Cleveland, James Cf. Blaine, 
Roscoe Conkling, ex-President Hayes, Govern¬ 
or Hill, mayors of various cities, the Congress¬ 
ional delegations, representatives from the 
United States Supreme Court and former 
members of Arthur’s Cabinet. The funeral 
train left for Albany at 10:20 a. m., where it 
arrived at 1:22 p. m, Thence it proceeded al¬ 
most iunned iately to the Rural Cemetary. Here 
Bishop Doane read the burial service of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. All members 
of the Albany city government were present, 
and all public oiliees were closed during the 
funeral.At the close of business October 
30, of the #1.158.448,183 interest-bearing debt 
the books of the Register of the Treasury show 
that 81,011.222,002 was registered. Of this 
amount 811,088,100 was held by foreign hold¬ 
ers, $293,588,200 by the Treasurer of the United 
States for national bank securities, and of the 
rernainding, 8700,950,702, insurance companies 
held #01,507,000; savings banks, trust institu¬ 
tions, etc,, #118,597.000, and individual trust¬ 
ees $450,840,702. Only one per cent, of 
the registered bonds is held abroad. There 
are about 53,500 individual aud trustee holders, 
representing $400,840,202, or an average of 
$8,726 each . 
..There are scandalous reports that Judge 
Manning, of Louisiana, the newly appointed 
Minister to Mexico, has been grossly drunk at 
the Mexican capital. The charges are lightly 
regarded at the State Department. There ap¬ 
pears to be a clique of scandal-mongers down 
there.Erastus Brooks, the well-known 
editor aud politician of this city, died at his 
home on Staten Island on Thanksgiving morn¬ 
ing.Ex-Gov. Chaue 3 r , of Manchester, 
N. H., has been appointed United States 
Senator to succeed Austin F. Pike, deceased... 
.H. M. Hoxie, first vice-president of the 
Missouri Pacific Railroad, died in New York, 
Tuesday. He hail entii’e control of the Gould 
Southwestern system during the great strike 
last Summer, aud his great exertions thor¬ 
oughly broke him down. He had filled nearly 
every position on a railroad from brakemau 
to vice-president.Ex-Vice-President 
Wheeler is said to be a total wreck physically 
and mentally at his home in Malone, N. Y., 
and a physician is in constant attendance. 
_Senator Wade Hampton while deer hunt¬ 
ing on his Mississippi plantation, on Monday, 
became separated from the rest of the party, 
who, toward evening, supposing that the Sen¬ 
ator had left the field, returned home. At 
eight o'clock that night General Hampton 
being still absent, a searching party started 
out aud found the old General a short dis¬ 
tance from the house, much exhausted and 
painfully hin t, but making his way home¬ 
ward. At about three o’clock in the after¬ 
noon, as he was riding through a thick wood 
where vines were numerous, a “Supple Jack” 
vine caught his gnu and discharged it, the 
load of buckshot entering the head of his 
horse, killing the beast instantly. The animal 
fell on Senator Hampton, and in his rnainod 
condition it took him some time to extricate 
himself. He had been walking through the 
woods for nearly five hours with only one 
good leg .Ex-Gov. John S, Phelps, of 
Missouri, died at St. Louis Saturday night at 
the age of 72. Bora in Simsbury. Ct., was ed¬ 
ucated at Washington, now Trinity College, 
ami went to Missouri in 1843. .. 
....William Reed, Treasurer of the South 
Boston Horse Railroad Co., has embezzled 
$104,000—turpitude going on for five years; 
meanwhile he has had a high reputation for 
religion an- 1 honesty,. ..Owing to excessive 
charges of the Bell Telephone Company, 400 
users of phones in Rochester, N. Y., struck on 
November 7. They have been trying a new 
telephone invented b.y Dann and Lapp, of 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y., and it is said to give 
entire satisfaction. It is constructed on the 
principle of making and breaking the circuit 
instead of having a continuous circuit,as in the 
Bell telephone. It doesn’t infringe on the Bell 
patents, and a new company to ruu it is being 
organized .The estimated whiskey product 
of Kentucky for the year ending June 30,1887, 
is 13,503,837 gallons.The Treasury De¬ 
partment has decided that anchovy is dutiable 
at the rate of 36 per ceut. ad valorem. 
Five hundred acres have been added to the 
St. Joseph stock yards, and #200.000 will be 
expended upon them.A dispatch from 
St. Louis says another strike on the Atlantic 
Railway system is imminent unless conces¬ 
sions are made to the_employ6s.Thanks¬ 
giving’s storm on Lake Michigan was the 
severest ever known, and there are fears for 
the safety of many vessels. Latest estimates 
of losses from last week’s storms: 36 vessels; 
44 lives; #724,000.. .Same day heavy snow 
and sleet storms aie reported in many parts 
of the Middle States and fierce blizzards in the 
Northwest. Reports of eight people frozen to 
death in different parts of Dakota ... - .The 
execution of the Chicago Anarchists was to 
take place on Dec. 5.; but the penalty has 
been suspended till the full bench of the Su¬ 
preme Court has passed upon the question for 
a uew trial .It appears that the Dornin 
ion Government is about to establish a bureau 
of Trade aud Commerce.... In the trial of 
Me. Q.uade, one of the “boodle” Alderman of 
this city, the jury after being “out” for over 
48 hours, failed to agree—uine for acquittal, 
three for conviction; only one of them reso¬ 
lutely. They couldn’t believe the evidence of 
Fullgraff aud Dully the two “squealing” 
aldermen— a lamentable miscarriage of 
justice aud a strong impeachment of the 
present jury system.Both houses of the 
Vermont Legislature have passed a railroad 
commissiou bill, with only one dissenting 
vote. Its provisions are moderate; but 
stringent enough to meet gross railroad 
abuses.Three Commissioners at $8 a day 
and $5 a day for clerk, when engaged on 
duty, with ueeessary expenses—all expenses 
not to exceed $5,000 a year.Steve Dorsey 
is growing rich by attending to his ranch, aud 
keeping out of politics. 
... .In regard to the Standard Oil Company’s 
acquisition of the Richmond Terminal Com- 
pauy, which owns the Richmond aud Danville 
systems of railways, it is stated that the 
charter of the Terminal Company allows the 
company to acquire rail ways in a dozen States, 
to consolidate with other roads and to change 
its name. It differs from other railway char¬ 
ters in Virginia in that it permits the acquisi¬ 
tion of roads with which it does not directly 
connect, and which means that the Standard 
Oil Company may consolidate as many paral¬ 
lel railways as shall be ueeessary to make its 
grip upon the commerce of a dozen States ab¬ 
solutely sure.A conspiracy lias been 
discovered in Buffalo, N. Y., between several 
prominent members of the Board of Trade aud 
the manager of the Richmond Elevator, to steal 
grain by the boat load, to be sold in this city 
or elsewhere, the manager to get two-thirds 
of the profits; 10,000 bushels are supposed to 
have been stolon: guilty parties arrested; 
manager turned State’s evidence; others 
released on $2,500 bail.The Canadian 
government is anxious that Esquimalt, the 
naval station on the Pacific, should be imme¬ 
diately fortified in view of a possible Russian 
attack........ President Arthur left about 
# LOO,000 in real estate aud as much more in 
personal property. , All goes to his son aud 
daughter to whom considerable legacies were 
left some time ago by their maternal grand¬ 
mother.The election of several Knights 
of Labor to the Georgia Legislature may indi¬ 
rectly lead to the abolition of the convict camp 
system. A bill is to be introduced into the 
next Legislature limiting or abolishing the 
convict lease system. As conducted now the 
convict camps are an outrage to humanity 
and a disgrace to the State.It is said 
that the Civil Service Commissioners propose 
to hold four examinations for government ap- 
poimnouts annually in interior cities and towns 
in the various States, so that the people in the 
rural districts may have the same advan¬ 
tage in competitive examinations as the 
inhabitants of the larger cities. 
_Three thousand five huudred aud eighty 
national banks have organized in all, of which 
2,858 are now in operation; of these 174 have 
been organized during the past year, with u 
capital of #2J,OUU,O0o in bonds.Early 
in the week forest fires were burning for 60 
miles along the Wilmington and Weldon Rail¬ 
road, Va. Damage to timber lands “enormous.” 
.Through opposition of the 
Knights of Labor the miners in the Pennsyl¬ 
vania coke regions have decided not to strike. 
........ After all Colonel Robert G. I ugersoll 
has been retained for the condemned Chicago 
Anarchists, and will argue their case before t he 
Supreme Court in March.Birming¬ 
ham, Ala., is booming with the news that 
#3.000,060 have been put into the purchase of 
the Sloss coal and iron property, which means 
two and possibly more new furnaces built 
with Eastern money. ...The freight conductors 
and brakemen of the Cleveland aud Pittsburg 
Railroad have been advanced 15 to 30 cents per 
day, and the impending trouble thus averted., 
... .President Cleveland has appointed Assist¬ 
ant Medical Purveyor John Moore as Surgeon- 
General of the Army. An Indiana man; en¬ 
tered the army as surgeon in 1853; served in 
Florida and with the Utah expedition in ’57, 
aud in the late war.The leaders of the 
labor party in Chicago are bragging that they 
will control the next Uliuois Legislature and 
elect their own Speaker.The valuation 
of projterty in Alabama has grown from 
$135,535,792 in 1876 to about $175,000,000. 
There is a balance of over $340,000 in the 
treasury.The grand jury at Chicago 
last week ignored the bill against the Pinker¬ 
ton men charged by the coroner’s jury with 
complicity in the death of Terence Begley 
near tho Union stock-yards after the recent 
strike.The Canadians propose to pre¬ 
vent Portland, Me., from becoming the winter 
port of the Canadian Pacific Railway by run¬ 
ning the proposed liue of steamers to Mont¬ 
real. The river freezes over at Montreal every 
Winter, but dynamite aud steamships are to 
be relied upon to keep a passage open.It is 
said to have cost the Dominion Government 
$6,000 a week to maintain these fishing 
cruisers during the past season .. 
.Commissioner Peck, of the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics of this State, says that in 
consequence of American boys beiug disin¬ 
clined to learn trades all the good places are 
filled with foreigners, aud the immigration of 
mechanics to this country is thereby stimulat¬ 
ed.The Welland Canal will close 
for the season on Dec. 1.The Delaware 
aud Raritan Canal will be closed on Dec. 20. 
....Sir John Macdonald has given orders 
that no vessel shall be allowed to pass through 
the Welland Canal ou Sunday, except iu case 
of distress or where there is danger of the ves¬ 
sel’s being frozen in.The N. Y. Capitol 
at. Albany is heavily draped in memory of the 
late President Arthur, but there is no money 
to pay for the crape, and the mourning drap¬ 
ery for Grant and Hendricks has not yet been 
paid for. .. It is customary for the Governor 
of Massachusetts to pardon soma one from 
State prison ou each Thanksgiving Day, and 
this year the lucky prisinor was Daniel J. 
Dwight, who was serving a life sentence for 
murder in the second degree. He had served 
10 years aud six months. 
-Henry M. Stanley, the famous African 
explorer, arrived here yesterday.For 
the first time in many weeks the Committee 
of the Grant Monument Fond Association will 
meet on Thursday next, aud strong efforts to 
revive interest in the fund will be made. The 
fund is now nearly $1:34.00.A telegram 
from Little Rock this morning says gold has 
been discovered in abundauce in several of 
the streams of Oklahoma, Indian Territory, 
and the excitement is great aud increasing 
in Arkansas, Kansas and Texas. Over 300 
claims have been already staked out. and it is 
expected there will be a regular rush to the coun¬ 
try within the next six weeks despite the ef¬ 
forts of the United States troops to keep all in¬ 
truders out,... Tne cigar manufacturers 
in Havana hnve again suspended work, owing 
to new demands on the part of the operatives! 
.O’Donovau Rossa isuo longer head of 
the dynamite fiends. He is going to try to 
make some money honestly. Ills successor’s 
name has not yet. been made public. 
Mr. Garland wants Arkansas to vindicate him 
by returning him to the Senate when Mr. Ber¬ 
ry’s term closes... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 27, 1886, 
The present cotton crop of Arkansas is the 
best ever raised there. It is estimated that the 
yield will reach 750,000 bales against 600,000 
iu 1885.The Indian Department lias 
concluded to locate the Comanohes, the Chey¬ 
ennes, tlie Araplioes, the Kona wees and the 
Wichitas, east of the ninety-eighth degree of 
longitude, which embraces Oklahoma. Tins 
will settle tho question in the negative as to 
that part of the country being open to white 
settlement.A special from Far¬ 
go, Dakota, says: The wheat crop of the Red 
River Valley proves to be larger than the es¬ 
timates. The elevators aud warehouses along 
the line of the Manitoba road are full to over¬ 
flowing, aad in some of the towns the farmers 
pile the sacks out-of-doors, as the railroad is 
unable to furnish cars fast enough to haul 
the wheat to market. The Manitoba road has 
4,900 cars, but many of them are tied up at 
Duluth owing to the lack of facilities there to 
handle t e grain. The railroads say the move¬ 
ment of grain from the Red River Valley is 
unprecedented.The London City Com¬ 
panies have resolved to sell their lands iu the 
North of Ireland ou easy terms to the tenants. 
The Salters’ Company will transfer 250,000 
acres at the purchase price, £20,000, under the 
terms of the Ashbourne act. The Fishmon¬ 
gers’ Company will transfer 20,500 acres at a 
yearly rental of £9,500. They offer to sell to 
the tenants at 20 years’ purchase on the Gov¬ 
ernment valuation, the tenants puying annu¬ 
ally 30 per cent, under the present rental. 
The Drapers’ Company offers 27,025 acres at a 
yearly rental of £12,500 at eighteen years’ 
purchase. Tho tenants accept, the offers. The 
transfer covere nearly the whole of 
the County of Londonderry. 
The California wine-growei’s have, through 
the State Board, commissioned an agent to 
represent them before Congress at the com¬ 
ing session, in order to procure protective 
legislation. They declare themselves not iu 
favor of tho passage by Congress of any meas¬ 
ure extending to grain spirits freedom of tax¬ 
ation when used in fortifying wines. The 
product of the State in wine is variously esti¬ 
mated this year at from 15,000,000 to 18,000,- 
000 gallons, considerable of which, more than 
usual, owing to the failure of Congress to 
complete the legislation relating to sweet 
wines, is beiug distilled.The United 
States Agricultural Dept, announces that 
the experiment of making sugar by the diffu¬ 
sion process in Kansas has proved so satisfac¬ 
tory that next, season a diffusion apparatus 
will be set up in Louisiana. Iu the matter of 
sorghum cane further experiments will be 
necessary to achieve full success by the pro¬ 
cess .The Hawniiau Commercial Com¬ 
pany of Sau Francisco reports that the acre¬ 
age of eaue for next year will produce 13,680 
tons if the yield is the same as last year, but 
for safety it is estimated at 11,000 tons. 
....The Australian wool market seems to be 
just now the worst in the world.Large 
consignments of sheep for breediug purposes 
are being shipped from Cumberland, England, 
to Buenos Ayres, South America.The 
Northwestern wheat crop is pouring into 
Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul with aston¬ 
ishing rapidity, increasing the “visible sup¬ 
ply” to an extent that has a depressing 
effect on prices.The present okl stock of 
colonial wool in London amouuts to 7,000 
bales, against 78,000 bales this time a year 
ago. The new series of sales begins on Tues¬ 
day and prospects are growing brighter. It 
is charged that English buyers combined at 
the opening of the Melbourne sales to depress 
price.Reports from the Rio Platte are 
that the new clip will be short, iu volume and 
a weak staple.Best American steers 
weak in Liverpool at llv.< cents estimated 
dressed weight. Exports of live stock and 
dressed beef from Boston during the week 
were small—254 cattle and 3,892 quarters of 
beef.A total of 21,431 hogs were shipped 
from Chicago last Saturday week—the heavi¬ 
est on record.It is estimated that 
branding inflicts $4,000,000 worth of damage 
annually upon the cattle of this country. 
_Richard Swigert, of Lexington, Ky., has 
purchased in England, by cable, the cele¬ 
brated stallion Kingcraft, winner of the Derby 
in 1870, for $17,500. He is by King Tom out 
of Woodcraft.Henry Bcrgh says when 
he first began the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals movement the only 
gifts he received came in $1 or #5 lots. Later 
on $100 checks began to take his breath, but 
now immense fortunes float, around his way. 
... .The export of whoac m October reached a 
total of 30,753,000 bushels, against an average 
in eight veax-s of 32,537,250 bushels iu the same 
month. Tho volume was larger tlxau iu auy 
October since 1883, The years 1879, 1880, and 
1883 were respectively 61,833,000 bushels, 
40,897,000 bushels aud 36,133,000 bushels. In 
the other years the total was below that of last 
month. Oliver Daliymple, of Dakota, 
states that he will put in 31.006 acres of crops 
next season.For the year ending 
October 31, we exported 830,030,420 pounds of 
bog products against 794,257,014 pounds in the 
preceding year . Fifty thousand tons 
of soot are taken from Loudou chimneys in a 
year. It is estimated to be worth $200,000, and 
is used as a fertilizer, half a ton to an acre.... 
Con uhs. 
“ Brown's Bronchial JYoches" are used with 
advantage to alleviate Coughs, Sore Throat, 
Hoarseness aud Bronchial Affections. Sold 
only in boxes. — Adv. 
Crops <k iVUivhcts. 
Saturday, November 27, 1886. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trade for the past week, says: 
Wheat deliveries have continued very re¬ 
stricted. In London trade is slow at an ad- 
vuuce of 9d, per quarter (2 V/ cents per bushel). 
In the provincial markets values are very 
firm and slightly above the current rates iu 
Ixmdou. The sales of English wheat during 
the week were 48,464 quarters at 31s. 4d. 
against. 58,097 quarters at 30s. lOd. during the 
corresponding period last. year. Flour is 
steady. Barley is inactive. Trade iu foreign 
wheat, is hardening. Quotations ure irregu¬ 
lar and tending toward an advance. Heavy 
arrivals of foreigh oats caused a fall iu values 
of 3d. to 4d. Beans are Is. dearer. Eight 
cargoes of wheat arrived: two were withdrawn 
and five remained, four of which wore Cali¬ 
fornia and one Oregon. To-day there was an 
increased inquiry for wheat; Is. advance was 
asked ou Indian, American ami Russian. 
Flour and corn were each fid. dearer. Barley 
was quiet. There were further large arrivals 
of oats, and prices were 3d. lower. 
Latest advices from Australia report the 
prospect of the wheat crop as being exception¬ 
ally favorable, but tho harvest is expected to 
lie later than usual. The export of wheat 
from January 1 to November 1,1880, has been 
only 400,000 bushels, against 8,456,000 bushels 
for the corresponding period in 1885. The 
official returns of the Russian wheat exports 
