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One of the Philadelphia papers prints a 
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500 000, which are known to have taken 
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Auburn, N. Y., held a special school 
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FOREIGN. 
Saturday, May 24,1890. 
Henry M. Stanley has been the great 
sensation in England of late. No hero re¬ 
turning from victorious wars has ever, in 
modern times, been received with more Im¬ 
pressive acclamations than those accorded 
to him. Royalty, society, the leaders of 
learning and fash ion as well as the common¬ 
alty have all vied and are still vying with 
each other to do him honor. He has cen¬ 
sured the government for its failure to take 
advantage of his discoveries, thereby giving 
the Germans a vast advantage in appropri¬ 
ating valuable regions in Central Africa, 
and his reproaches have been respectfully 
met by the highest authorities in both 
Houses of Parliament. Banquets and 
social honors have been heaped upon him, 
and now it is urged that the grant of a title 
shduld mark the Nation’s sense of his ser¬ 
vices to science, commerce, humanity and 
England. He is now urging the coloniza¬ 
tion of the Upper Congo basin by negroes 
from this country. He says there is ample 
room there for double the number of negroes 
now in the United States without disturb¬ 
ing a single tribe of aborigines. The region, 
he says, is salubrious, and anything and 
everything could be grown in it, and every 
one of the newcomers might become the 
owner of nearly a quarter square mile of 
land. The “hero” is engaged to a Miss 
Tenant, a wealthy and distinguished 
English lady, and the marriage will soon 
take place in Westminster Abbey, amid a 
most brilliant concourse of spectators. He 
may be knighted and “ settle down;” in any 
event she’ll accompany him in all his future 
adventures. 
Out of the 2,000,000 inhabitants of Nor¬ 
way as many as 20,000 emigrate to the 
United States every year. The cause seems 
to be, not that the country is too poor to 
support the population, but that an aristo¬ 
cratic class has been built up which obtains 
its stamp of nobility from the universities, 
anti in its selfish exclusiveness cares no¬ 
thing for the needs of the artisans, the 
tradesmen or the agriculturists. 
Ex-Commissioner of Agriculture, Dr. 
Loring, who recently entered the United 
States diplomatic service as Minister to 
Portugal, finds as little for him to do at 
Lisbon as ex-Senator Palmer found at 
Madrid; so he will summer at Newport 
and around Boston. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, May 24, 1890. 
The 14th annual meeting of the Ameri¬ 
can Association of Nurserymen will be 
held at the Park Avenue Hotel, this city, 
June 4—6. There will be three sessions 
daily. Reduced hotel and railroad rates 
have been secured. U. S. Pomologist Van 
Deman and other well-known pomological 
authorities will be present and give ad¬ 
dresses. Space is provided for exhibits. 
Charles A. Green, secretary, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
A new route for the shipment of Kansas 
grain to Europe has been inaugurated 
during the mouth, it is by the Atchison 
road to Galveston, Texas, thence to Liver¬ 
pool by boat. Should this route prove 
a success, and there seems no reason why 
it should not, its importance to the agri¬ 
cultural interests of the far West and 
Southwest cannot be estimated. Should a 
deep-water harbor be secured on the Gulf, 
the results will be still greater. 
A Missouri farmer has a mare which gave 
birth recently to equine triplets which are 
active, perfectly formed and give promise 
of attaining maturity. Such cases are 
rare. 
Wealthy Pennsylvania farmer. Stranger 
wishes to buy farm. Farmer shows him 
over farm: names price. Two other 
“strangers” drive up. They induce first 
stranger to play cards. He wins $6,000. 
Farmer joins in. He still owns farm and 
$2,000 worth of experience. 
Pillsbury, who recently sold his Minne¬ 
apolis mills to an English syndicate, has 
completed arrangements for a 1,000-barrel 
mill at Kansas City. He already has an 
elevator there with a capacity of 1,500,000 
bushels. 
The Schuylkill Valley, Pennsylvania, 
farmers are fearful of the loss of their en¬ 
tire grass crop by means of a mysterious 
worm which has appeared within the past 
10 days. No name is known for it, but it is 
said to be the same worm which caused 
great havoc 20 years ago, but has not been 
seen since. 
The American Indian corn exhibit at the 
Exposition in Edinburgh, Scotland, is as¬ 
tonishing the natives. Some of the Scotch 
journals have declared “that Indian corn 
is pleasant to the taste and lighter than 
oatmeal,” and that “ if people are once ac¬ 
quainted with the really wholesome and 
nutritious food that can be made from this 
corn it is thought that exportation may pre¬ 
vent the waste in America.” 
California hop-growers have formed a 
State Association; the annual meetings 
will be held the second Monday of July of 
each year. 
It is said that Senator Stanford, al¬ 
though the breeder of some of the most 
famous trotting horses in the world, and 
the owner of a large number of them, has 
rarely in recent years attended a horse race. 
The lady-bug which was to do such won¬ 
ders for the fruit growers of Los Angeles 
County, California, has been pronounced 
by the County Horticultural Commission¬ 
ers of little or no value, and they have 
given it the scientific name of Humbugii. 
The College of Agriculture at Cornell 
University is to have a new and commod¬ 
ious building erected for its accommoda¬ 
tion. 
Young Bob Wallace whom we mentioned 
last week, has been arrested at Havana, 
Cuba. 
At a sale of Short-horn cattle at Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky., this week, 34 head brought $5,865, 
an average of $83. This is a remarkable 
falling off from a few years ago. 
The president of the Board of Agricul¬ 
ture of the British Government has begun 
a movement against unclean milk. He de¬ 
clares his belief that it is the cause of a 
third of the summer mortality among the 
infants of the metropolis. 
The State Dairy Commissioner of New 
Jersey has been investigating the swill-fed 
cows in Hudson County. 
Over 800 farmers, representing every 
township in Bucks, Montgomery, Chester 
and Delaware Counties, Pa., met at Doyles- 
town on Wednesday to discuss the situa¬ 
tion. Nearly all will join the Farmers’ 
League. 
Serious frosts have prevailed over about 
two-thirds of Iowa, besides cold weather 
over the entire country, and more or less 
frost in various places. A hail-storm in 
Wayne County, Ohio, on Sunday, smashed 
all exposed windows, killed hundreds of 
sheep, destroyed fruit and other trees, and 
drove through roofs covered with oak 
shingles. Hail-stones an inch in diameter 
fell in Georgia. Vacaville and Sacramento, 
Cal., were visited by hail, which injured 
the cherry crop. Near Stockton several 
hundred acres of land were inundated. 
The Genesee, Chemung and Mohawk Val¬ 
leys, New York, have been flooded, and 
much damage done to crops. The flooded 
districts in the Mississippi Valley are grad¬ 
ually emerging and becoming fit for culti¬ 
vation. 
Bekcham’s Pills act like magic on a Weak Stomach 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Saturday, May 34, 1890. 
Brass.—M arrows—New, $2 40®$2 45; New Mediums 
choice, $1 95®$2 00; Pea, 81 90®$1 95; Red Kidney, $4 10 ; 
White Kidney, choice ,$2 35®$2 40; Foreign Mediums, 
$1 50®$1 65; California Lima, 80 60(383 TO: Italian, 31 60 
(331 75. Qreen Peas. 81 ‘A>®$1 05. 
Buttes— New—Elgin, best, 15*4@16c; Western, best 
146a@15c; do prime, 18*14c; do good, U@12 do poor, 
6310; State. Dairy, half-arttlns, tubs. best. 15<315c; do 
prime, 18314; do hue, 11(312; Welsh tubs, tine, 18314c; 
do good. 11(312c. Western imitation Creamery, best, 
11 ( 312 ; do nne, 9310; Western dairy, One, 11 ( 3 —c; 
do fair. 8310c; do poor. 6®69<ic; do factory, fresn, best. 
8310c, do prime, S®9o, do good, 7«sB; do poor, 5 
® 6 }$c. 
New Cheese.—F ancy White, 89408%; fancy colored, 
894® -; fair, 808)4; light skims, 7(3—; skims, 2 ( 38 . 
Eoos,—Near by fresn, 153—c; Canadian. 153-; 
Soutnern. 14*4® !494c: Western, best. 14^315c; Duck, 
15(317 c, Goose, 18^,<0c. 
Fbuits.—Fresh.—A pples, Der bbl. 83 25@$S00; Lem¬ 
ons, per box, $2 50(384 50; Oranges, Florida, 88 50 ( 38700 . 
Strawberries, 6(320c. 
Domestic Dried— Apples —Evaporated, old, 7@9%c. 
do choice, new. ll< 312 e; prime, ll)® 109 sc; sliced, new, 
4%@7c; do old, 3 JV 3844 C; Chopped, 4 « 4 ; 4 c, Cores and 
skins, 2<»2kc. Cherries, new. S(312c; do, old, S( 310 c. 
Raspberries, new. 25«3Ue; Blackberries, 4®4%e. 
Peaches, Delaware, evaporated, peeled, 15®22e; do do. 
unpeeled, 7®.be; Georgia, evaporated, peeled, new, 18 
<3l5c ; do do do, unpeeied,7®9>fce; do do, sundried, 83 
10V»c. Huckleberries, new,lo> 4 ®llc. Plums, new, 5 %® 
6 %e. 
Hay and Straw. -Timothy, best, 85(390c; do good, 
70 < 380 e: do medium. 50c®6O; Clover, mixed. 45(360e; 
shipping, 85(3400. Straw— No. 1 rye, $1.®)®$1 10, short 
rye, 40®50c, oat and wheat, 30,a40c. 
Game.— Plover, per dox, 81 60(381 75 ; Snipe do do, 
81 00(382 00. 
Honey— In one-pound boxes. White Clover U< 312 o; 
Buckwheat, IU 31 II 0 ; Beeswax 22<323c. 
Hora.-State, New, 17®19c; do, good, 17@18c; do 
common,13®14c; do 1888, oesi.Il®12c; dodo prime, 10 ® 
Uc, do do. common, 7@Sc ; California, New, best, 17® 
I7%c; do good to prime, !6@17c do Old, best, 11® 12c; 
do common and fair, 7<39c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy,hand-picked.quoted 
8 M@ 8 Kc. and farmers’ grades at ?®794e, Pecans, 9® 
10c. Chestnuts, 84 00®86 00 per bushel: Hickory Nuts, 
81 50®$2 00 per bushel. 
PorLTBY. Dressed—T urkey? mixed, per lb 11® 
16c; Fowls western, choice. 11^(6.12c; do common to, 
good, 9® 10c; Ducks, spring, good. 18@20; Squab; 
white, per dozen, 83ro@*3 25, do dark, do, 81 M)®$2 00: 
Chickens, spring. 20 , e3()c- Fowls near by. 11®-c; 
Capons. 16 a.22c: Slips, 16®18c. Broilers, heavy, 25(3320; 
do. light, 35®37c. 
Poultry—Live. —Chickens—Spring, per lb, I8@25c; 
Fowls near-by,per lb, ;0-»®Ilc, do W estern,per lb, 1 UJ 4 
@lle; roosters, per lb, 6 ) 4 ®?e; Turkeys, per lb, 11 ® 
12c; Ducks, Wescern, per pair, 70®80 85; Geese,West¬ 
ern, per pair, 81 oo@81 37. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes— Maine per bbl. 82(382 25 ; 
New Brunswick, $2« 82 25; State do, 75c® *1 50 do New 
Orleans, »3 50(3*4; Charleston do, $3®$3 5t), Western, 
do, 75c.@81 50; Bermuda, do. 83 5u®$6’ f(); Florida, do, 
83 00(384 00; Scotch Magnum, per 168-lb. sack, 81 50 
@81 75, Sweets do, S2 50®$4iJO. Cabbage, per 100, 
8iono®815 00. Turnips, per bbl, $150®8175; Onions— 
Bermuda, per crate, 82 25; Havana, 00 do, 82 005 82 25; 
Tomatoes, per crate, 81 50(384 00. Beets per crate, 
81 00(381 50; Asparagus, per dozen, *0 50&$175 Egg 
Plant, per bbl., 83 00(388 00; Peas, per crate, *0 40 ® 
80 60; String Beans, per crate, 80 25®*1 75; Cabbages, 
Florida, per bbl.. 813 83 50 do Charleston. 82 50* 83 CO; 
Cucumbers, per crate, $0 50@$3 00; Squash, per crate, 
25c.® I 25. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—Warm rains In several sections of the 
Northwest acted as the chief element of weakness 
during the early hours, and the late decline was due 
10 heavy “long” selling by a prominent operator at 
Chicago. Cables were firm early, while late accounts 
were dull. Receipts showed a slight inc-ease. and 
clearances were only moderate •• Bradstreet ” re¬ 
ports a decrease of 596.000 bushels in available stocks 
east of the Rockies for the week ending May 17. 
sales— Ungraded W inter Red at 84c@$l 04; No. 2 Red 
afloat, 81 01®*1 0294 . do in store quoted, $1 0 I ®$1 1)1*4 ; 
No. 1 Hard Spring nominal, $1.04%. RYE.—Unsettled 
and dull. Sales—Western, 61c delivered for export. 
Western, in boatloads, quoted at 59%®6le.: State, 39 ® 
61c ; Canada, 58%®59c. BARLEY—Nominal. CORN— 
’• Bradsireetreports a week’s decrease of 1,149,000 
bushels in available stocks east of the Rockies. 
Saies—Ungraded Mixed and White at 3764 @ 42 > 4 e.; No. 
3 Mixed, 89%c. delivered; Steamer Mixed, Ire. In 
elevator. 40)40 afloat; No. 2 Mixed, 4o®40^c, in 
elevator. 40)4®41c. afloat. OATS.—Sales—No. 3 Mixed, 
33c. elevator; No 3 White. 359*®36c. elevator; No. 2 
Mixed, 3894®34%c. elevator. 84%®85e. delivered ; No. 
1 Whlie, 89c. elevator; Ungraded Mixed Western, 32® 
®35c.; White do. 35@40%c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—The market opened active and firm. 
Three carloads ot corn fed Texans brought *4 40@ 
«4 ill; Kentucky Stillers $4 50®$5, and 7 carloads sold 
at *4 €0; corn-fed native cattle ranged in price from 
84 50 to *5 15, and 6 head (extra) brought |5 85. Oxen 
and Stags sold at $3 5u®*4 65; Dry Cows at*2@83. 
Latest cable advices show no improvement In Euro¬ 
pean markets and shippers can hardly expect any 
more encouraging news until the receipts diminish. 
MILCH COWS.—Receipts 159 head. Market slow, but 
prices steady for all grades and firm for good stock. 
Medium to choice milkers sold at $35 to 852 50 per 
head. 
CALVES.—Buttermilk calves sold at $3®$3 60 per 
100 lbs.; mixed lots at $4®$4 5u, and medium to choice 
veals at $4 50®$5 37% (a very few picked calves bring- 
, ing $5 50). 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Reported transactions were 
at *5 50®$6 for medium to prime Sbeep; $6 75 for 
winter fed Lambs (all clipped stock), and 3% carloads 
of Virginia Lambs offered sold at 9@9%c per lb.; a 
few ‘-culls” going as low as Sc, A little bunch of 
Jerseys topped the market at 994 c. 
HOGS.—A few small lots sold at $4®$4 40, and the 
market is quoted as steady at $4®4 50. Sales—State 
Hogs, 147 lbs., at $4.25; do. 200 lbs., at $5. State Pigs, 
U)0 lbs., at $4.40. 
BURLINGTON ROUTE. 
BUT ONE NIGHT CHICAGO TO DENVER. 
“The Burlington’s Number One” daily 
vestibule express leaves Chicago at 1:00 
p. m. and arrives at Denver at 6:30 p. m. the 
next day. Quicker time than by any other 
route. Direct connection with this train 
from Peoria.* Additional express trains, 
making as quick time as those of any other 
road, from Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria 
to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Council Bluffs, 
Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Atchison, 
Kansas City, Houston and all points West, 
Northwest and Southwest.— Adv. 
MARKET NOTES. 
Peanuts are higher. 
Chickens are lower. 
Fowls are selling well alive. 
Turkeys are not in much demand. 
Hops are higher but there is little trad¬ 
ing. 
Squash varies greatly both in price and 
quality. 
Asparagus is in large supply and the 
price is low. 
String beans have dropped in price ow¬ 
ing to the liberal supply. 
Fine veal calves are not over plenty and 
sell readily at good prices. 
Long, bright rye straw is higher than 
hay. Reason : very scarce. 
Cabbage is becoming more plentiful but 
there is a good demann for choice. 
Tomatoes are very dull and there is 
much stock that is far from choice. 
There are much freer supplies of cheese, 
and prices have materially declined. 
Oats have advanced slightly in price, 
owing probably to quite an export demand 
and light receipts. 
Apples are high. Few are arriving. 
Choice Northern Spy are worth $6 per bar¬ 
rel, Baldwin, $4 to $5, and Russet, $3.50 to 
$5. 
The trade in dried and evaporated fruits 
is very quiet. About the only demand is 
for evaporated apples and evaporated rasp¬ 
berries. 
Good mutton sheep are scarce and prices 
are well sustained. From present appear¬ 
ances, the future of the mutton aud lamb 
business is encouraging. 
BUTTER has declined still further, and it 
is probable that it has about reached the 
lowest point. The trade is very dull in 
everything but the best grades. 
Peas are very low and the supply is 
large. A lavorite package is a basket sim¬ 
ilar to a peach basket but with a cover and 
holding a bushel. These are nested for re¬ 
turn. 
CORN is a trifle lower, but a moderate ex¬ 
port demand prevents any great deprecia¬ 
tion in prices. The weather has been un¬ 
favorable for planting throughout a large 
part of the country. 
Strawberries are becoming quite plen¬ 
tiful, though the price is well sustained. 
The bulk of the supply is now coming from 
Maryland and Norfolk, but some fine fruit 
reach t?s here from North Carolina and 
Charleston. 
Potatoes are considerably lower. The 
receipts both of foreign and domestic have 
been heavy, and quantities are also arriving 
from the South and from Bermuda. There 
are many potatoes received that never 
should have left the farm. They are not 
properly assorted, have more or less decayed 
tubers, and are dirty and unattractive. 
They sell slowly, while choice stock is in 
demand at good prices. 
The wheat market is subject to constant 
fluctuations, as the reports from the wheat- 
growing districts are favorable, bnt there 
is iittle change from the prices of one week 
ago. Latest reports from several Western 
States say there is no improvement in the 
prospects, and the probabilities are that 
the harvest of 1890 will show the world’s 
supply of wheat lower than the average. 
There Is little prospect of materially lower 
prices for some time to come. 
The cattle shippers who have been send¬ 
ing cattle to foreign ports are in an anom¬ 
alous and decidedly unpleasant predica¬ 
ment. They must lose money any way. 
Shipments are heavier now than ever 
known before, and last week from the 
various Atlantic ports fully 20,000 head, 
alive and dead, were shipped abroad. It 
was estimated by a heavy shipper from this 
port that last week’s shipments represented 
a net loss of $250,000 in cold dollars to the 
shippers. The cause of it all is a “ slump ” 
in the London, Glasgow, and Liverpool 
markets, and a corresponding rise on this 
s’de of the water. As compared with one 
year ago, there has been a fall of 75 cents 
p ir 100 pounds in beef abroad, and a rise of 
one cent to 1% cent a pound in this coun¬ 
try. On Saturday last the quotation in 
the Liverpool market was six cents 
a pound, and on this side 7% cents. 
In the face of this tremendous difference, 
the unhappy shippers find themselves com¬ 
pelled to continue sending cattle abroad, 
for the reason that they had engaged all the 
freight room they could secure up to Au¬ 
gust 1, at $20 a head. Thus if they do not 
ship they will lose about $20 a head, and if 
they do ship they will lose nearly as much. 
It is a serious condition of affairs, and un¬ 
less a compromise can be effected with the 
steamers, many of the small shippers will 
go to the wall soon. The big operators with 
plenty of money can stand it. To make 
matters worse, every animal shipped adds to 
the glut. A year ago there were big profits 
in the business, and everybody rushed in 
and engaged freight ahead on every steamer, 
first-class or tramp, that had freight-room 
to sell. They never dreamed of the fall 
across the water, and now they are besieging 
the steamship companies to save them by 
cancelling their contracts. 
Pi^retlaneouiS ^amtising. 
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