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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, February L, 1890. 
The Supreme Court of Montana has just 
decreed that, the Republican member of the 
legislature from Silver Bow County is en¬ 
titled to the seat claimed by his Democratic 
rival. Tiiis gives the legislature to the Re¬ 
publicans by one majority in joint session 
and leaves no doubt about the addition of 
two more Republican members to the 
United States Senate. The Democrats, 
however, refuse to pay any attention to the 
Court’s decision and the deadlock contin¬ 
ues. For 90 days already the Senators and 
Assemblymen have been drawing pay and 
doing nothing for it. 
The Union Pacific and Chicago and North¬ 
western Railroad Companies having just 
withdrawn from the Interstate Commerce 
Railway Association, a severe cutting of 
rates is sure, once more to prevail in the 
West and is likely to extend eastward 
along the trunk lines and their feeders. 
Farmers and others who have goods to ship 
or journeys to make should take advantage 
of this falling out among-the roads_ 
.The Stetho-telephone, invented and 
lately patented by Mr. James Lowth of 
Chicago, claims to be much better than 
the Bell Telephone and not to infringe at 
all on the latter. It has no diaphragm of 
any kind for receiving and transmitting 
sounds, the chief feature in the Bell tele¬ 
phone. It is a receiver and transmitter in 
one, and, combined, is 4% inches long. The 
former is like an ordinary telephone re¬ 
ceiver and, like.it, is placed to the ear. 
Attached to this ear-piece is a contrivance 
from the lower end of which a transmit¬ 
ting button projects two inches. The but¬ 
ton is pressed lightly against the side of 
the throat. As the user speaks into space, 
all the changes taking place in the larynx 
are conveyed by the button to the electric 
parts of the instrument and through them 
over the line to the distant receiver, in 
tvhich the most perfect sounds are formed 
and reproduced. The instrument has given 
complete satisfaction in trials between 
Chicago and Milwaukee and other points, 
and a wealthy company has been organized 
to introduce it. It appears certain to prove 
a powerful rival of the Bell monopoly. 
The Economite Society of Economy, Pa., 
has accumulated property worth $10,000,000 
and its membership has dwindled to 30 
souls, all old people, and no new members 
are taken in. It is a religio-industrial as¬ 
sociation on the tontine plan—everything 
going to the last survivor, who will be 
pretty well off.Blanche K. Bruce, 
colored TJ. S. Ex-Senator from Mississippi, 
has been appointed to the fat office of Re¬ 
corder of Deeds in the District of Colum¬ 
bia : income about $15,000 a year. It has 
been held by colored men constantly since 
shortly after the war.There were 
in all 98 leeral hangings in all parts of the 
United States last year, against 175 lynch- 
ings, of which 139 occurred in the Sunny 
South and 36in the North. 
Gov. Abbett, of New Jersey, is flat-footed 
in favor of the Australian ballot system... 
Henceforth the entire control of immigra¬ 
tion affairs in New York City will belong 
exclusively to the United States Govern¬ 
ment. Hitherto it has belonged to New 
York State. It is probable the new land¬ 
ing-place of the immigrants will be on Bed- 
loe’s Island, in the harbor, and that Castle 
Garden will be devoted to other uses. The 
former belongs to the United States; the 
latter to New YUrk State.After 
a delay of two months, President Harrison 
has recognized the United States of Brazil 
in behalf of the United States of America.. 
.The grippe has well-nigh lost its 
hold everywhere. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, February 1, 1890. 
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has by 
a vote or 141 against 32, declared in favor of 
full manhood suffrage—a vast stride ahead 
in liberal ideas. Count An- 
drarsy, the famous Austrian statesman, is 
thought to be dying.Captain 
Wissmann, commander of the German 
forces in East Africa and himself a distin¬ 
guished African explorer, has just received 
several decorations from Emperor Wil¬ 
liam in recognition of his services in 
extending the German territory there. 
The disputes as to land between the Eng¬ 
lish and Germans in that quarter have been 
adjusted—for the present at least. In the 
fierce wrangles between European nations 
over the possession of the Dark Continent 
none of them seems to consider that the 
aborigines have any rights whatever in 
the territory.For eight years 
France has been paying bounties in the 
hope of increasing her mercantile marine ; 
but the increase has been only six per cent. 
—what it ought to be without a bounty. 
Sixty per cent, of her carrying trade is in 
the hands of foreigners .The work 
on the Nicaragua Canal is being pushed bo 
vigorously and successfully that the canal 
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is likely to be opened in 1895 or ’96. 
Major Serpa Pinto, whose action in central- 
southern Africa has been the “ immediate 
cause ” of the trouble between England 
and Portugal, has arrived at the s&a-coast 
at Delagoa Bay, East Africa, and is likely 
to visit America for his health. Matters 
have quieted down between Portugal and 
England diplomatically; though not in¬ 
dignation still seethes in the former 
against the latter and English goods are 
still bo y cot ted. England could, of course, 
retaliate with crushing effect, however.... 
.Emin Pasha has so far improved that 
he has left the hospital at Bogamoyo. 
Sir William Whithey Gull, one of the most 
eminent physicians iu the world and “phy¬ 
sician in ordinary” to the Prince of Wales, 
died the other day.There’s a big 
strike among the dock-laborers at Liver¬ 
pool.The late Duke of Aosta is said 
to have left $7,500,000 to his three sons. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY, February 1, 1890. 
The Onondaga, N. Y. Farmers’ Club 
have been discussing the question of turn¬ 
ing the Erie and Oswego Canals over to the 
United States Government. 
Clothilde Second has just completed a 60- 
day record at the Lakeside Farm, in which 
she produced 223 pounds 5% ounces of but¬ 
ter. From all records we now recall, none 
have exceeded this for that length of time. 
This cow has given more milk since drop¬ 
ping her first calf when a two-year-old, than 
any other cow on record for a similar time, 
so it seems that quantity and quality of 
milk can be combined in the same animal.. 
..A scheme is projected for divert¬ 
ing the cattle which are now shipped from 
various Atlantic ports to Europe, through 
the St. Lawrence route to Montreal, 
there to be exported. This will prove an 
injury to American cities now engag¬ 
ed in the trade, but may be of advantage 
to the shippers.The 
English authorities report that during 
1889, the value of living animals imported 
for food was £10,360,087, against £7,727,307 in 
1888 ; grain, £50,808,127, against £50,675,221; 
dead meat, £18,601,309, against £15,218,991; 
butter, £10,243.728, against £8,902,193; mar¬ 
garine, £3,652,722, against £3,362,826; cheese, 
£4,494,554, against £4,542,278; eggs, £3,122, 
813, against £3,077,109. The single item of 
cheese seems to be the only one in which 
there was any falling off, while some com¬ 
modities show a large increase. 
The Agentine Republic allows a bounty of 
a half-penny per pound on beef exported, 
a half-farthing on mutton, and 12 shillings 
per bead on cattle. It is said that but a 
small part of the beef produced is good 
enough to stand freezing.Mr. Smith, 
the United States agent at Mayence, re¬ 
ports that the prevalence of high prices for 
meat in Germany has caused a firm of 
butchers in Mayence to try the experiment 
of importing live oxen from the United 
States, and that arrangements have been 
made for the shipment from Illinois to 
Germany of 900 head of fat oxen within 
a period of two months. He is informed 
that this is the first time that live oxen 
from the United States, all ready for 
slaughter, have been imported into Ger¬ 
many. 
Mr. John W. Akin of Scipio, N. Y,. has 
just sold a Percberon colt, Victor, 6051, of 
the French Monarch strain for one dollar 
per pound. The colt was foaled October 
27, 1886, weighing a little over 100 pounds 
at birth. His dam was a good milker, and 
was fed liberally. The colt made the great¬ 
est gain when the mare was fed ground 
wheat and oats with plenty of hay, some 
weeks gaining five pounds per dav, the av¬ 
erage for four months being 4% pounds per 
day. He has developed into one of the finest 
Percheron stallions in the country, being 
16% hands high and weighing 1,650 pounds. 
Mr. Akin is a strong advocate of home-bred 
stock, believing that as good animals can 
be bred in this country as in France, and 
at much less expense. This colt will tend 
to strengthen this belief. 
The Massachusetts Poultry Association 
will hold an exhibition in Music Hail, Bos¬ 
ton, February 10 to 15. W. F. Bacon, sec¬ 
retary. Cambridgeport, Mass.The 
New York Poultry and Pigeon Association 
will hold its first annual exhibition in the 
American Institute Building, February 19 
to 25. T. Farrer Rackham, secretary, 
Hast Orange, N. J.The Senate 
Committee has been examining railroad 
men in Washington relative to the trans¬ 
portation of dressed beef and cattle. The 
railroads all own cattle cars in which live 
stock is shipped, but dressed-beef shippers 
own their own cars for which they are 
allowed mileage. As the same privilege is 
not allowed shippers of live cattle, it looks 
to the uninitiated very much like discrim¬ 
ination in favor of the dressed-meat shippers, 
although the railroads’ explanations make 
it as clear as mud that there is no discrim¬ 
ination.Secretary Moliler, of the 
Agricultural Department of Kansas, says 
that reports received from all sections of 
the State show that winter wheat is in 
splendid condition, and that never before 
has the outlook for an enormous crop been 
more flattering than at present. He esti¬ 
mates the acreage at about 20 per cent, 
greater than last year. Barring unfore¬ 
seen misfortune, the crop will amount to 
45,000,000 bushels.New York re¬ 
ceived during 18S9 among other provisions, 
potatoes, 1,596,233 barrels; onions, 314.245 
barrels; cauliflower, 15,000 barrels ; apples, 
820,318 barrels ; cranberries 94,521 packages 
and crates. The receipts of domestic pota¬ 
toes from October, 1889, to January, 1890, 
were 581,995 barrels, imports during the 
same period being 76,694 barrels and sacks. 
There is no estimate as to the quantity of 
turnips. The estimate on cauliflower is 
based on the fall crop, nearly the whole of 
which is grown on Long Island. About 
1,000 barrels of this vegetable come from 
North Carolina and Florida in the spring.. 
.An Iowa inventor was recently 
granted a patent for a binder twine, the 
material of which is grass, bay or straw. 
The material is twisted together and then 
wrapped with a thread of cotton or other 
suitable material. 
Crops & ffliaxkrts. 
Saturday, February 1, 1890. 
There is little change in prices of grain, 
and business is dull. Barley is a trifle 
lower. Corn and oats are weak. 
The live stock market is dull, trading 
being slow, and prices varying but little. 
Receipts of live calves have been light, but 
the supply of dressed calves has been un- 
usuallv heavy for the time of the year, so 
the prices of all are declining. Some choice 
Jersey and Bucks County hog-dressed 
veals have sold as high as 10 to 10% cents, 
but common to prime sell for seven to nine 
cents, while some small ones have sold for 
four cents. Choice “spring” lambs are in 
demand and sell for $6 to $9 per head. 
Fancy lean, country-dressed pigs weighing 
40 to 60 pounds sell for six to seven cents, 
but heavier and fatter hogs vary from these 
prices down to four cents per pound. 
The poultry market is very quiet except 
for choice turkeys, chickens and ducks. 
The receipts of live poultry from the 
West have been very heavy, and prices of 
all kinds have declined. Capons are in 
good demand at 16 to 21 cents per pound. 
There is no demand for broilers yet. Fine, 
small turkeys, and nice, plump chickens 
are most wanted at present. 
Apples continue to arrive steadily, but 
choice fruit is hard to find, one dealer re¬ 
marking that there was none. Red fruit 
is most wanted, and if flue will sell readily 
at outside prices. 
Strawberries plenty and dull. 
Oranges are moderately active. Fancy 
selected bring $3 to $3.25, russet $2.25 to 
$2.62, and poor lots $2. Tangerines $3 to $6. 
Potatoes are well cleaned up, and prices 
are strong, very few arriving from the 
West, but liberal receipts of foreign stock. 
Bermudas still sell at $5 to $7 per barrel. 
Onions are scarce and high. Bermudas 
$3 per crate. 
Asparagus from Charleston sells for 40 
to 87 centsroer bunch. 
Beets, Florida, per crate, $1.50 to $1.75; 
from Bermuda, $1.25. 
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