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become sufficiently dry to justify planters 
in putting in crops this year. 
The savings banks in the State of New 
York have on deposit the aggregate sum of 
$550,066,657; the average increase in de¬ 
posits in the last 10 years has been $23,000- 
000 per annum, all of which shows that 
there is general prosperity among the wage- 
earners of the Empire State. 
Representative Bland, of Missouri, yes¬ 
terday introduced in the House a bill to re¬ 
duce taxes by placing on the free list all im¬ 
ported goods exchanged in foreign countries 
for farm products of the United States. It 
provides that in all cases where it can be 
shown by proof satisfactory to the Secretary 
of the Treasury that any goods, wares or 
merchandise imported into the United 
States have been purchased abroad by ex¬ 
changing farm products for such goods, or 
when such goods have been purchased with 
the proceeds or avails of farm products in 
foreign countries, such goods, wares, or 
mercnandise shall be imported free of duty. 
Any deficiency in the revenue caused by 
this act shall be provided for by the levy¬ 
ing of an income tax upon all incomes of 
$2,000 and upward. 
FOREIGN. 
SATURDAY, April 26, 1890. 
The great labor question holds the field 
throughout Europe to-day. There, as here. 
May 1, has been selected as the day for an 
impressive out-door demonstration in sup¬ 
port of the eight-hour movement. Cable¬ 
grams tell us that 250,000 men will be in 
line in the great street parades in London, 
while a still larger number will be present 
to listen to addresses in Hyde Park, the 
great center of metropolitan popular dem¬ 
onstrations. Large displays will also be 
made in other great industrial centers 
throughout the United Kingdom. In Bel¬ 
gium, that hive of industry which has a 
denser population than any other country 
in Christendom, 1,000,000 men will take 
part in the movement. In France upwards 
of 500,000 promise to be in line at the prin¬ 
cipal centers of labor. In Germany 300,000 
men, if reports prove true, will “ demou- 
strate.” After considerable vacillation, 
the Government has decided to remain 
neutral in the matter, though thousands 
of troops will be held in readiness to help 
the civil authorities to maintain peace. 
All the railroads and a great number of 
the largest employers of labor have declared 
that any person who remained absent on 
May 1 without a valid excuse should be in¬ 
stantly discharged. In Germany, as else¬ 
where on the Continent, the labor move¬ 
ment partakes largely of a Socialistic char¬ 
acter, and its principal leaders are 
Socialists; hence the Governments and the 
wealthy sticklers for the present laws of 
property are bitterly opposed to it. In 
Austria-Hungary ail parading has been 
forbidden, and all working for the Govern¬ 
ment who may dare to take a holiday on 
May 1, will be discharged, and most of 
the large employers threaten to follow 
the Government’s example. The labor 
representatives declare, however, that 
a parade shall take place at Vienna 
and Buda-Pesth, with or without of¬ 
ficial permission. Over 200,000 men will 
parade in Italy; 150,000 in Spain and 
350,000 in Holland according to the latest 
reports. No doubt men of violence—Anar¬ 
chists, Nihilists, Carbonari, Black-hand¬ 
ers, etc., who are constantly plotting in 
secret and ever ready to avail themselves 
of every opportunity for public violence, 
will take part in the proceedings, and cause 
trouble, and the workmen, too, or a large 
proportion of them, are easily excited to 
turbulence, so that numerous conflicts with 
the civil and military authorities are prob¬ 
able whenever vast parades take place—at 
least on the Continent. 
Never in the history of England has there 
been such an enormous guzzling of alcoholic 
beverages as during the past year. The 
total revenue receipts for such beverages, 
both foreign and domestic, amounted to 
£29,265,000, or £1,800,000 in excess of the 
estimates of the Chancellor of the Exche¬ 
quer. The duty on alcoholic beverages rea¬ 
lized over £5,800,000. The beer duty exceeded 
the estimates by £270,000. The duty on 
foreign spirits exceeded the estimates by 
£421,U00; on home spirits by £1,010,000, and 
on wine by £12,000. 
Discontent in Brazil is reported to be 
growing rapidly. Lately three battalions 
of troops became turbulent in Rio Janeiro, 
and were ordered to embark for the south¬ 
ern provinces, but they refused, and the 
government has had to yield. Cries of 
“ Down with the Dictator 1 ” are popular. It 
is reported that the government has de¬ 
cided to submit the constitution to a popu¬ 
lar vote instead of to the Constituent As- 
sembiy, which it promised to convoke. Still 
later reports intimate that it will itself for¬ 
mulate a constitution by the summary 
method of making a proclamation of 
one. Religious instruction in the State 
schools has been suppressed. The 
Ministry is reported to be at sixes 
and sevens, half of the members insisting 
on resigning and the other half resolved to 
stick, at all hazards. The planters are said 
to be assuming a hostile attitude, and the 
planters are extremely powerful. Another 
report declares that tne government in¬ 
tends to abandon Rio Janeiro, with its 
500,000 population, which has never been 
very friendly, and has lately become more 
or less hostile, and seek a national capital 
in a smaller and more subservient place. 
Dom Pedro’s friends are said to be greatly 
encouraged, while they are growing more 
numerous, and a restoration of the Empire 
is looked tor by many. It should be borne 
in mind, however, that all these reports 
come by the way of Lisbon, and that Dom 
Pedro belongs to the royal family of the 
Braganias. 
Gladstone, Parnell and, indeed, all the 
Liberals and Home Rulers are strongly 
opposed to Balfour’s new Irish Land Pur¬ 
chase Bill. A few years ago such a measure 
would have been hailed with joyous accla¬ 
mations by all Ireland and the friends of 
Ireland elsewhere, as an enormous benefit; 
but the Irish demands have increased since 
then ; and, moreover, if the measure were 
accepted by the people, the Liberals and 
Home Rulers would lose their chief argu¬ 
ment against the Conservatives—the rack- 
rented condition of the Irish tenant- 
farmers. 
Down in Buenos Ayres the price of gold 
is still fluctuating more violently than it 
ever did here during the late “ unpleasant¬ 
ness.” The other day it dropped from 315 
to 256 in a few hours, and the next day 
there was a further decline to 240 ! 
According to the last reports discontent 
is seething in Russia, and the Nihilists are 
constantly plotting the overthrow of the 
government and the death of the Czar. No 
strikes occur there, however, as the 
strikers would be packed off rightaway to 
Siberia. Treachery seems to pervade all 
branches of the government. Lately plans 
of several fortifications as well as plans 
for the mobilization of Russian troops on 
the German and Austrian frontiers have 
been stolen from the War Office. 
In France, President Carnot has been 
“ swinging round the circle” in southern 
France, and has been very well received 
everywhere, and enthusiastically in some 
places. Just now everything goes on ap¬ 
parently very favorably for tbe Republic, 
although there is a rumor of another Cabinet 
crisis: but Ministers and Cabinets have 
changed so very frequently under the Third 
Republic, that not much importance can 
be attached to the matter. 
Emin Pasha is ready to start to recover 
his old province with the aid of German 
and native troops, the latter being employed 
by the Germans. Stanley says that Emin 
is already blind in one eye and nearly so in 
the other, and must be entirely blind within 
a year. A Coptic clerk who was m Emin’s 
employment at Wadelai, before the Stanley 
“ rescue,” has made an affidavit that the 
only reason for the revolt of Emin’s forces, 
which occurred about a year before 
Stanley’s arrival, was the discovery that 
Emin had made three attempts to sur¬ 
render to the Mahdi. 
Belgium is to guarantee a loan of $30,000,- 
000 for the Congo Free State in order to 
build railroads and otherwise aid in de¬ 
veloping its great resources. 
The British East African Company, the 
great rival of Germany in East Central 
Africa is about to push its lines vigorously 
into the interior. The European nations 
are scrambling for Africa now even more 
eagerly than they did for America three 
centuries ago. 
Tnere is a big deficit of 35,000,000 lire in 
the Italian budget. The Ministers have 
agreed on a retrenchment of 20,000,000 lire 
in the expenditures for the army and navy, 
the two •‘industries” that have been bank¬ 
rupting the nation. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
SATURDAY, April 26, 1890. 
The Little Falls and Utica cheese and 
butter markets have opened up well, there 
being a good demand and prices being fair. 
The lactories are mostly in operation, and 
the outlook is very encouraging. Cheese 
is being put on the market at two weeks of 
age. 
The annual sale of Jersey cattle at the 
American Institute has been held during 
the week. Low prices prevailed the first 
day, 102 lots bringing an average price of 
$50. The highest price was $250 for a cow. 
The next day better prices were obtained. 
The Breeders’ cup was won by D. F. Apple- 
ton of Ipswich, Mass., on an average of 
$304 for his best five animals. 
Large numbers of farmers in the vicinity 
of West Chester, Pa., are going to plant 
more fruit as a result of their discussions 
during the past winter. They have pre¬ 
viously grown the ordinary farm crops, 
but they have proven unprofitable. Large 
numbers of apple, peacn and pear trees 
have been planted, for which the soil is 
said to be very favorable. Many people are 
afraid the fruit business will be overdone, 
but the demand for choice fruit always has 
exceeded the supply. There is frequently 
a glut of inferior Iruit, but the best always 
seems to be wanted at paying prices. 
The Philadelphia Milt Exchange ap¬ 
pointed a committee to confer with a like 
committee from the Milk Producers’ 
Association. Some city people think the 
scarcity of it will have a tendency to lower 
the price of milk. 
Extensive forest fires have been raging in 
Southern New Jersey, and have done an 
immense amount of damage to the fine 
timber, besides burning buildings, fences, 
etc. 
Plans for the buildings upon the new 
State fair grounds at Syracuse have been 
submitted to bidders. There will be six 
cattle sheds each 410 feet long by 45 feet 
wide, containing in all 864 stalls. There 
will be six horse sheds, each405 feet long by 
42 feet wide, and containing in ail 480 
stables. For sheep and swine there will be 
six buildings, each 405 feet long and 37 feet 
wide, containing in ail 552 pens. Machinery 
Hail will be a structure 300 feet long by 70 
feet wide. Other buildings will be a poul¬ 
try house, press buildings, dining hall and 
a number of private buildings for manufac¬ 
turing firms. The railroads will put up 
handsome stations, and a mile track will be 
constructed on the western part of the 
grounds. The first fair on this site will be 
held next September. 
Copious rains throughout many parts of 
the West have greatly benefited the crops. 
In some parts of Minnesota, Nebraska and 
Dakota but little rain has fallen for two 
years, and the despondent farmers have 
been encouraged to renew their labors in 
hope of once more reaping a bountiful har¬ 
vest. Spring seeding was late, but is now 
well completed. 
The Senate bill providing for an inspec¬ 
tion of meats for exportation and prohibit¬ 
ing the importation of adulterated articles 
of food or drink was acted upon favorably 
by the House Committee on Agriculture 
Monday. The bill also authorizes the 
President to issue proclamations suspend¬ 
ing the importation of adulterated articles 
of food and excluding importations from 
any foreign country that may discriminate 
against importations from the United 
States. 
Grain dealers at Kingston, Ont., are buy¬ 
ing barley in large quantities and arrang¬ 
ing for its speedy shipment to the United 
States in anticipation of the new American 
tariff, which increases the duty. 
At the last Census 2,229 persons were en¬ 
gaged in agricultural and horticultural 
vocations in New York City, and 4,774 in 
Philadelphia. The number in these two 
cities far exceeded that in any other. 
The assembly bill repealing the Mase dog 
tax law was discussed by the New York 
Senate in committee of the whole Thurs¬ 
day. The committee decided to report the 
bill favorably. Tbe tax law goes into 
effect on the 1st of May. 
The evidence taken by the Hop Industry 
Committee of the House of Commons up to 
the present points conclusively to a great 
decrease in the acreage of land under hop 
cultivation in England, with a consequent 
displacement of labor almost alarming in 
its extent. As to the cause, there appears 
to be among experts an agreement of opin¬ 
ion that the change is due to the free im¬ 
portation of foreign hops, the use of chem¬ 
ical substitutes for the natural article, and 
even in cases where these substitutes are 
not used, the employment of a smaller pro¬ 
portion of hops to every barrel of beer than 
was formerly considered to be necessary. 
A large number of farmers attended the 
meeting of the Salem County, N. J., Board 
of Agriculture, on Wednesday. An ani¬ 
mated discussion on horse-breeding discloses 
the fact that the majority of farmers con¬ 
sider the raising of fancy horses and trot¬ 
ters a profitable business, provided sales 
were made at the right time, and training 
was left to those who make that a specialty. 
A discussion on fertilizers followed in 
which the majority expressed their faith in 
fertilizers judiciously applied. A resolu¬ 
tion passed at a former meeting of the 
Board, approving the Sub-Treasury plan of 
the Farmers’ Alliance, was ordered ex¬ 
punged from the minutes of that meeting. 
The Treasury Department has decided 
that tomato seeds are dutiable at the rate 
of 20 per cent, ad valorem as “garden 
seeds,” and that tropseolum seeds are free of 
duty as flower seeds. 
Florida oranges have gone higher. The 
best being worth now $7 per box and they 
are scarce at that. 
A tornado visited the upper part of 
Geneva County, Ala., wrecking about 20 
farm houses, up-rooting many trees and 
destroying about 100 head of cattle and 
horses. The loss of property will amount 
to about $50,000. 
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says that recent 
heavy receipts of American lard caused a 
decline of 12 cents per pound in the price; 
quotations now are 18 cents. 
Hereafter Eastern cattle shipped to Kan¬ 
sas will be quarantined for 90 days at Kan¬ 
sas City, at the owner’s expense, or until a 
bill of health is issued upon them by the 
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LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Saturday, April 26 . 1890 . 
Beans.— Marrows—Rew, 82 50@$-; Rew Mediums 
choice, $1 90081 95; Pea, $1 90081 95; Red Kidney, $415; 
White Kidney, choice,$2 350$2 10; Foreign Mediums, 
$1 50@$1 65; California Lima, *3 60@$-: Italian ,$1 60 
$1 75. Green Peas, $105@$l 10. 
Butter— New—Elgin, best, 19020c; Western, best, 
18@13>4e; do prime, 15017c; do good, 12014- do poor, 
UX011; State, Dairy, half-drains, tubs, best, 180—c; do 
prime, 15(017; do Hue, 12(014; Welsh tubs, line, 1501634c; 
do good, 12(014c. Western Imitation Creamery, best, 
13(015; do due, 10012; Western dairy, dne, I2<013c; 
do ratr, 9010c; do poor. 60634c; do factory,fresh, best, 
10011c. do prune. 9010, uo good, 7®s ; ao poor, a 
@8c; Old butter from 3 to 7c. per pound less. 
Chkksk.—S tate factory, fancy.1034011c; dodo dne, 
1001044c; do do. prime. 10010340 ; dodo, fair to good, 
39409J-4C; Ohio, flat, prime, 1OJ401O44C ;do good,— 0 —c; 
do, good, —0—; Skims, llgnt, 71409c; do medium, 
60io; do fun, 204c. 
Eggs.— Near-by, fresh, 1201234c; Canadian. 1194012; 
Southern, 1001134c: Western, best, 1194012c; Duck, 
15<018e; Goose, 25028c. 
Fruits.—Fresh.— Apples, Der bbl. $8 2503450; Cran¬ 
berries, Jersey, per crate, 33 50086 00. Lemons, per 
box, 82 50084 50; Oranges, Florida, $2 50087 00. Straw¬ 
berries, 5c@25c. 
Domestic Dried— Apples—Evaporated, old, 6 @l 0 c 
do choice,new. 1101234c; prime, lO01OJ^c: sliced, new, 
43407c; do old, 334@344c; Chopped, 4@434c; Cores and 
skins, 2@234c. Cherries, new, 8@12c: do, old, 8@10c. 
Raspberries, new, 25028c; Blackberries, 40414c. 
Peaches, Delaware, evaporated, peeled, 15021c; do do, 
unpeeled, 7010c; Georgia, evaporated, peeled, new, 18 
@15c; do do do, unpeeled,709)4c; do do, sundrled, 8@ 
1014c. Huckleberries, new, lO*4011e. Plums, new, 5140 
614c. 
Game. —Plover, per doz, 81 25@8l 50 : Snipe do, do, 
$1 0008175; Woodcock, per pair, 8-@8-; Grouse- 
do do. —0—; Partridges do, 8 -08- Duck, Mai; 
lard, 80@50e; do, Teal, 20@35c; do. Redhead,80 5008100; 
Hay and Straw.— Timothy, best, 85@90c; do good, 
70080c; do medium. 50c@60; Clover, mixed, 45060c; 
shipping, 35@40c. Straw— No. 1 rye, 850—c ; short 
rye, 40050c; oat and wheat, 30040c. 
Honey— In one-pound boxes. White Clover 11012c; 
Buckwheat, 10@llc: Beeswax 22023c. 
Hops.-State, Rew, 17018c; do, good, 16017c; do 
common, 13014c; do 1888, Desl.l2 «13c; do do, prlme.100 
He; do do, common, 7@8c; California, New, best, 150 
16c; do good to prime, 12014c do Old, best, 11012c; 
do common and fair, 709c. 
Nuts.—P eanuts are quiet. Fancy, hand-picked,quoted 
73t@834c, and farmers’ grades at 7@7!4c, Pecans, 80 
10c. Chestnuts, 84 00086 00 per bushel;.Hickory Nuts, 
$1 50082 00 per bushel. 
Poultry.-Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 110 
15c; Fowls, western, choice, 10011c; do common to, 
good, 901OC; Ducks, spring, good, 8015; Squab; 
white, per dozen, 83 500$ 1 00; do dark, do, 82 00082 75: 
Chickens, spring, 13022c: Fowls, near by, 12013c ; 
Capons, 16a22c; Slips, 16018c, Broilers, heavy, 25@32c; 
do. light, 35037c. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—snrtnsr. per lb, 20028c; 
Fowls near-by,per lb,llJ4@12c; do Western, perlb,ll 34 
@12c; roosters, per lb, o>«u,,o; turneys, per lb, 110 
13c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 75@$1 00; Geese,West¬ 
ern, per pair, 81 25081 50, 
Vegetables.—P otatoes—Maine, per bbl. $3 00083 25; 
English Magnum. 82 00; Statedo, 81 8708225; Western, 
do, 81 37082 25; Bermuda, do, $4 00088 O0; Florida, do, 
84 0008? 00; Scotch Magnum, per 168-lb. sack, 82 00 
@82 00, Sweets do, S3 00085 00. Cabbage, per 100, 
$10 00@815.Turnips,per bbl,$l 5008175; Onions—Orange 
County Red, $3 50084 50- Eastern White,85 00@$10 00 ; 
Eastern Red, 84 00085 00; State, Yellow, 83 50084 50. 
Bermuda, per crate, $2 25; Havana, do do, 82 00082 25, 
Cauliflower, per bbl., 83 00088 00; Squash, Marrow, 
$300083 50: do Hubbard. 83 00 0 8 3 50, Celery, per doz. 
bunches, 2OC0S1 50. Tomatoes, per crate, 83 00085 00. 
Beets per crate, 81 25082 74; Asparagus, per dozen, 
*4 50@8? 00 Egg Plant, per bbl., 83 00@$8 00; Kale, per 
bbl . So 60(g,$U 75; Spinach, per bbl. 81 U0@$2 CO; Peas, 
per crate, *4 00@$4 00. String Beans, per crate, 82 000 
$5 00; Cabbages, Florida, per bbl., $2 OOa$3 25 Cucum¬ 
bers, per crate, 84 00@$6 (,0. 
Communications Received for the Week Ending 
April 26 . 1890 . 
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