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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 28, 1884. 
The House Military Committee have dis¬ 
covered that some of President Hayes ap¬ 
pointments to the army from civil life were 
contrary to law, aud they are considering 
what legislation is required in the premises. 
.A resolution introduced iu the New 
York Senate contemplates making corpora¬ 
tions and others using canal lands and waters 
pay a just rental to the State.Mr. Lit¬ 
tlejohn has introduced in the New York As¬ 
sembly a resolution instructing a committee to 
frame a bill to tax corporations to such an ex¬ 
tent that the revenue shall support the State 
canals. The railroad men will regard this as 
insult added to injury.C4en. Grant is 
well enough to travel aud is going South—to 
Florida, perhaps; certainly to Virginia, pro¬ 
bably Norfolk.Terrible blizzards last 
Monday and Tuesday in many places in Da¬ 
kota and Minnesota......The Canadian 
Government will send a troop of mounted po¬ 
lice for service in the Rocky Mountains, in 
view of the recent troubles with the Metlakat- 
la Indians. By the present law the functions 
of the Northwest Mounted Police are confined 
to the Northwest Territory, and until the law 
is changed the Govern ment could do nothing 
....Senator Plumb, of Kansas, says our 
army of 35,000 men costs within $500,000 of 
the outlay on the German army 400,000 strong, 
“Ours is the best paid army iu the world.’’.... 
_Indiana, with only one-third of the ter¬ 
ritory that Kentucky has on the Ohio River, 
has appropriated $150,000 for the relief of the 
flood sufferers, or six times as much as was 
voted by the Kentucky Legislature for tbs 
same purpose.“King Howard,” of New 
Orleans, millionaire, real head of the Louisi¬ 
ana Lottery, political manager and the most 
powerful man in the State, began business in 
the Crescent City only a few years ago with¬ 
out a cent as agent of the Kentucky Lottery 
Company. The enormous income of himself 
and his confederates comes from the pockets 
of disappointed dupes all over the country.,.. 
Representatives of the Louisiana sugar-grow¬ 
ers are in Washington, aud are reported to 
be threatening the Democracy with the loss 
of the Louisiana electoral vote unless their 
demands are complied with..The Iowa 
Legislature recently defeated a bill raising 
the salaries of judges in that State from $2,000 
to $3,000 per annum. For the third 
time since the year opened, northern Texas 
wears a mantle of snow.1 he Indians 
at Poplar Creek and Wolf Point agencies, Mon¬ 
tana, are at the point of starvation. They 
have eaten their dogs and horses, the game is 
destroyed, and many warriors are unable to 
resist the extreme cold. The rations issued 
monthly by the Government are devoured 
within a few hours.Notwithstanding 
the sufferings and exposure occasioned by the 
flood, the deaths iu Cincinnati last week were 
fewer than for the corresponding week of 1883. 
Last week the deaths numbered 07, and for 
the corresponding weeks of 1883 and 1882 
there were 145 aud ]02 respectively. 
The Governor of Texas has sent three com 
panies of rangers into the districts which 
have suffered most from fence-cutting, 
with the expectation that some fun¬ 
erals will follow their advent. 
The bodies of Captain DeLong aud his com¬ 
rades of the arctic exploring steamer Jeannette 
arrived at Hoboken Thursday, and were car¬ 
ried iu grand procession through this city yes¬ 
terday to the Navy Yard at Brooklyn. 
The New York Assembly has passed a bill pro¬ 
hibiting the making of any further contracts 
for convict labor in the State prisons.... 
The resolutions granting a loan of nearly $30,- 
000,000 to the Canadian Pacific Railway were 
carried through the Dominion House of Com¬ 
mons iu Committe of the Whole.Ac¬ 
cording to Bradstreet’s reports there were 218 
failures in the United States during the past 
week. The number was 25 less than the pre¬ 
ceding week, 14 more than the corresponding 
week of 1883, and 83 more than the same week 
of 1882. ...Secretary of the Treasury lias issued 
the 120th call for bonds. Amount, $10,000,000. 
_Cincinnati has begun to clean up after the 
flood, and finds the work terrible. Shawnee- 
towu. 111., aud Newport, Ky., seem to have 
suffered more in proportion than any other 
towns on the Ohio. Reports of appalling de¬ 
struction and destitution are numerous, bnt 
relief measures are progressing vigorously in 
most cities east of the Ohio, aud money is 
being sunt daily to the afllicted districts. Cin¬ 
cinnati is maintaining her last year’s enviable 
reputation for taking care of her own suffer¬ 
ers, and the Secretary of War has increased 
and improved his facilities for distributing 
relief .The British Government has 
given this country the steamer Alert for the 
Greely relief expedition, and she will be used 
as a supply vessel. She was built expressly 
for arctic navigation.The Earl of 
Huntingdon, after making arrangements for 
the settling of English and Scotch farmers 
on the extensive lands which he and his 
associates have purchased in Florida, will 
spend a few weeks in Washington. 
... A very persuasive rascal induced a num¬ 
ber of ignorant Illinois women to cut off their 
hair aud intrust it to him to be made up into 
fashionable forms. They expected to thus 
achieve a permanent and beautiful style of 
coiffure; but they never saw the man or the 
material again.Tremendous floods in 
the San Gabriel Valley, California. Loss 
along the Southern Pacific R.R. over $500,000. 
.The anniversary of the birthday of the 
Father of his Country was appropriately ob¬ 
served yesterday in Washington; Baltimore, 
Md.; Richmond, Va.; Boston, Mass.; Prince¬ 
ton, N. J., and other cities.The local 
government of British Columbia have proposed 
a bill to prevent, under certain limitations, the 
immigration of Chinese; also a bill to regulate 
the Chinese population of the province so as to 
draw a big revenue from them.It. has 
been ascertained that in connection with the 
secession movement in Manitoba there are 
secret organizations scattered throughout the 
United States with which prominent Irish- 
Americans are connected......... One of the 
most terrible cyclones that ever devastated 
any part of this country swept across the 
Southern States from the Mississippi to the 
Atlauticlast Monday aud Tuesday. A telegram 
from Charleston says it was the most de¬ 
structive ever known in South Carolina. The 
telegraphic service was so much interrupted 
by the storm that reports were not received 
from all parts of the State as late as yester¬ 
day, but those received show that the storm 
prevailed with great violence in 14 counties 
in that State, and that 34 persons were killed 
and 48 wounded in these counties. The de¬ 
struction of houses, fencing and timber cannot 
be estimated. In the localities that suffered most 
committees have been organized and liberal 
subscriptions are being made for the relief of 
the sufferers. Col. Lipscomhe, Master of the 
State Grange, has issued a formal address to 
the patrons of husbandry appealing to them 
to come to the relief of those who have been 
rendered destitute. We trust that this ap¬ 
peal will be answered from all parts of the 
country. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1884. 
O. B. Hadwin of Worcester, late member of 
the State Board of Agriculture, bas been 
elected Treasurer of the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College, Johu C. Gumming of Wo¬ 
burn having resigned.. ..The House Committe 
on public lands has agreed to report favorably 
a bill forfeiting the land grants of the Ontona¬ 
gon and Brule River, the Marquette aud 
State Line, and the Marquette, Houghton 
and Ontonagon roads, comprising about 300,- 
000 acres.With a view of suppressing I 
Payne, of Oklahoma notoriety, and to protect 
the Indians, the United States Senate Com¬ 
mittee on Indian affairs, has instructed Sena¬ 
tor Dawes to report a bill which provides that 
trespassers upon Indian lands shall be im¬ 
prisoned for a year or shall pay a fine of $500. 
.There has been started in Berlin a 
“share company for the removal of trichina} 
from pork.” A patent is being applied for on 
a recently invented process to that effect, 
consisting of pickling pork by means of a 
highly heated brine, in which muriatic acid 
forms a large ingredient, which process, it is 
claimed, will kill any trichime that may be 
in the meat, aud preserve the latter peraia- 
nently.Mr. Hammerling, of Minneap¬ 
olis, bis wife and three children, aud Mrs. 
Hammerling’s sister, were taken sick after 
eating raw ham aud the disease was pro¬ 
nounced. trichinosis. Hammerliug died last 
Wednesday aud the others arc iu a critical 
condition."... The Mark Lane Express, of Feb. 
18 in the review of the British graiu trade for 
the past week, says: The mild, spring-like 
weather favored sowing beans and peas. 
Preparations to saw Spring grain crops are 
being rapidly made. Autumn-sown crops 
look exceedingly well.The dog ques¬ 
tion is stirring up the agricultural mathema¬ 
ticians all over the country. One writer, 
after making careful estimates of the dam¬ 
age by dogs in the Northern States alone, 
finds that it costs not less than $88,000,000 an¬ 
nually to support our dogs, a sum that would 
buy 106,000 farms at Government prices for 
land, or it would buy 132,000 neighborhood 
libraries of 200 volumes each.•.The 
World's Fair Committee at San Francisco asks 
for an appropriation of $2,000,000. All the 
Governors of States and Territories are re¬ 
quested to appoint commissioners to visit the 
fair.The Winter- meeting of the Michi¬ 
gan Horticultural Society will be held at I .. 
Lapeer on February 26, at the invitation I ag 
of the Lapeer Horticultural Society. I at 
Of beef products, the-exports for January, I of 
18S4, were 19,796,975 pounds, valued at $2,119,- t! 
655, against 13,724,428 pounds valued at $1,- 
635,310 in January, 1883. For the three P< 
months ended January 81, 1884, the exports of I 
beef products were 64,189,838 pounds, valued I 
at $6,395,597, against 42.188,944 pounds, val- I 
ued at $5,057,328 for the corresponding three I 
months of the preceding year.Foot- I 
and-mouth disease is not very fatal. Out of I 
114,102 animals attacked in England in the 
first half of 1883 only 3,464 head died. d 
The importations of black polled cattle (Gal- D 
loways and Aberdeen Angus) into the United I ^ 
States aud Canada last year reached a total n 
of about 1,000 head, aud a still larger number ^ 
are expected in 1884.A meeting of I r 
Northern and Southern dairymen and plant- v 
ers assembled at Nashville, Term., the other I ^ 
day. Px-omiuent dairymen from Iowa, Indi- I ^ 
ana, Illinois and Wisconsin were there and re- I t 
ceived a hearty welcome. Able addresses on I j 
the subjects of dairy-farming, stock-breeding, I j 
and horticulture were delivered by represen- I { 
tative men. Tbe greatest harmony aud goo<l I < 
feeling prevailed among the 600 delegates in I 
attendance. The Noi’tbeni visitoi-s expx-ess I ^ 
themselves delighted with the people and cli- I ( 
mate of Teunessee, and a uurnber w ill go to 
that State permanently... - On the 15th of Jan- I 
I vary a meeting was held at. Syracuse for tbe I 
impose of establishing a Cheshire hex'd book. I 
’here were present the principal breeders of 
he State, and it was the unanimous opinion 
hat the time had fully come to establish a 
lerdbook. A society was formed to be known 
is the Cheshire Swine Breeders’ Association. 
Daniel Green, President; Gilbex-t Button, I 
Tice-President; E. W. IDavi>, Secretary. R. 
D. Button, E. R. Coe, F. H. Britt, E. J. Clark 
md W. J. Havilaud were chosen Executive 
Committee. A scale of points was adopted, I 
xud the fee for registration fixed at $1. It 
,vas also voted that in showing Cbeshires in I 
breeding classes they should be shown not fat I 
but in good, breeding condition. 
In addition to making fence-cutting a felony, 
tbe special session of the Texas Legislature I 
enacted laws compelling the owners ot fenced I 
lands to provide a gate for every tln-ee miles I 
of fence running in one direction: a law relat¬ 
ing to the illegal inclosure of lands, and a law 
to provide for the leasing of the 30,000,006 I 
acres of school lands which the State holds iu I 
trust for five ceuts an acre, which would give 
the school fund $1,500,000 a year, provided the 
lands can be leased and the l’euts collected. 
These laws apply mainly to the western aud 
northwestern parts of that enormous State, 
where most of the school lands are located and 
where most of the difficulties compelling the 
special legislation have occurred. Here there 
are 54 counties without a single sheriff, consta- 
table or justice of the peace. The Executive 
is provided with an appropriation of only 
$50,000 to pay for mounted police to catch the 
fence-cutters, and the local machinery for 
their punishment is yet to be provided. 
A man who married the adopted daughter of 
a wealthy farmer in New Brans wick has sued 
the farmer for $500 for the woman’s services 
as domestic after she became of age and be¬ 
fore her marriage, this being at the rate of 
$50 per year, less an amount of goals given 
her by the fanner at the time of her mai-x-iage 
to the plaintiff.The Canadian Parliament¬ 
ary x-eturn gives the following quantities of 
wheat and flour imported from the United 
States during the six mouths ending December 
31 , 1883: Wheat, 2,882,741 bushels; value, 8,- 
159,725 ; for consumption in Canada, 74,389 
bushels; value, $74,492; duty collected, $11,- 
158. Flour, 245,085 barrels; value, $1,169,535; 
for consumption in Canada, 224,946 barrels; 
value, $1,069,500; duty collected, $112,473. 
The number of cattle expoxted in January, 
1884, were 12,844, valued at $1,291,509, against 
4,310, valued at $445,012 in the same month of 
1884. For three months ending January 31, 
the exports of cattle iueroased from 13,685, 
valued at $1,111,882, to 35,072, valued at $3,527, 
106. Exports of hogs showed a decrease. 
r The farmers of Munitolm aud Dakota iu a re- 
B ceut couveution adopted resolutions in favor 
of the establishment of direct communication 
e with the markets of the Old World by a route 
s from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. The Domin- 
i- ion Government has taken au interest iu this 
- scheme, uud if the x*oad is ever built it will be 
under the control of the Government for the 
i- benefit of the people. By the Hudson Bay 
j, route tbe distance from the Red River Valley 
i- to Liverpool would be shortened 800 miles. If 
d this route is once opened, a good deal of 
r the graiu tbut now goes to Europe by way 
d of this city, will go by the northern route. 
e Mr. Nimmo, statistician of the Treasury De¬ 
ls purtment, in a lute report on pork production, 
e said: “The net weight of hogs annually 
j- slaugthered in the United States is estimated 
l6 at 5,250,000,000 pounds, the equivalent of 
i- which is 4,725,000,000 pounds of cured meats. 
... .Orange County, N.Y., milk producers are 
agitating the question of securing legislation 
at Albany looking toward the “stamping out” 
of the sale of impure and adulterated milk in 
this city. They cannot be too lively about it. 
....The late freeze damaged winter oats 60 
per cent, and wheat 30 per cent, in Georgia. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1884. 
Acx-oss the Atlantic the Liberals have 
gained a- victory ovei- the Conservatives by 
defeating a vote of censure on the Govern¬ 
ment’s Egyptian policy, etc., by a majority 
of 47 in the House of Commons. On a similar 
motion the Conservatives had a large ma¬ 
jority in the House of Loi'ds; but that makes 
no political trouble, whereas if the Minxstry 
were defeated in the Commons, custom or- 
daius that they must either resign office to 
their opponents or “ appeal to the people” by 
dissolving Parliament so that new elections 
may be held. More vigorous measures are 
being taken in Egypt, however, where troops 
ai'e being hurried on to Saukim on the Red 
Sea, and also to Sinkat. Tokar, some 
45 miles inland fromSuakim, was surrendered 
to Osman Digna yesterday morning, though 
some of the gai-rison protested, but as a heavy 
force of English troops was advancing to re¬ 
lieve the place, most of the garrisou pre- 
ferred to hand it over to the Mohamme¬ 
dans under Osman, than to the Chris¬ 
tian British. No massacre.-. 
Chinese Gordou is rapidly pacificating the 
Soudan aud expects to complete the woik 
without shedding a drop of blood. He bas re¬ 
mitted all back taxes, declared that he will 
not interfere with domestic slavery, liberated 
himdreds of oppressed prisonex-s, und is dow 
reforming abuses vigorously aud redressing 
injustice. Already Khartoum, which was in 
eminent danger of capture a week ago, is de¬ 
clared to be as safe as Cairo. Gordon has 
proclaimed El Mahdi Sultau of Kordofan, 
one of the largest provinces in tbe Soudan, 
and is about to start south to visit him. 
Never has the influence of one man been so 
marvelously displayed over a semi-savage 
population of over 50,000,000....... 
With regard to the Franco-Chinese trouble, 
reports ai-e cabled from China that the Chi¬ 
nese ax-e abandoning Bae-Ninh and the French 
advancing rapidly to occupy it, while Mar¬ 
quess Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador to Eu 
rope, declares that an attack on the place 
by the French will be considered a de¬ 
claration of war by the Chinese France 
is likely to have her own way, however. 
After all, the Old World can beat the New 
in the way of tramps. Eight hundred vag¬ 
rants, a score of them men whose ages ranged 
from 90 to 99 yeax-s, wei-e aiTested in a single 
week toward the close of last month in Pax-is. 
Many of them asserted that they had not slept 
on a bed for thirty years.Mary Ander¬ 
son, the great American actress, continues to 
meet with brilliant success in London, and it 
is stated that the receipts amount to over 
$10,000 weekly. No fewer than thx-ee London 
managei-s have offered to place their theatres 
at her disposal after the conclusion of her 
present term at the Lyceum, where she is act¬ 
ing.The train on which King Humbert 
of Italy was traveling between Mouralto and 
Corneto, the other day, was attacked by what 
was at first thought a baud of political despe¬ 
radoes: but what is now thought to have been 
a band of robbers. No harm done to the 
King.The Australian colonies are 
gradually forming a navy. The Protector, a 
powerful cruiser carrying six formidable 
guns, has just been launched for South Aus¬ 
tralia. Melbourne has torpedo aud gun-boats, 
and New Zealand has similarly provided her¬ 
self. A German paper suggests German 
subscriptions fox* sufferers by the floods in this 
country. Evidently Germany has a memory. 
.The two vacancies in the French 
Academy have heed filled by the election of 
M. Francois Copp6e and M. de Losseps. 
The peace negotiations between Chili and Bo¬ 
livia have been suspended.The first 
• sugar refinery ever established on the Island 
, of Cuba, and which is now in course of con- 
, structiou in Cardenas, will soon be l-eady to 
begin work. It will produce 10,000 tons 
. yearly, or about one sixth of the sugar con- 
3 sumed on the island.Sixty Irish meai- 
3 tiers of 1 arliauicnt of all shades of politics 
; have signed a memorial to Mr. Gladstone ask- 
, ing that the purchase clause of the Laud Act 
f be amended so as to authorize the Goveru- 
f ment to advance the whole of the purchase 
j money to tenants, aud extend the period for 
. repayment of the money..A Berlin dis¬ 
patch asserts that naturalized Oerman- 
t Americans who return to Germany are again 
y being rigorously subjected to military dxxty. 
d Also that the Foreign Office iguores Minister 
if Sargent and conducts all negotiations with 
s. I Washington. 
