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THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB, 
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Hmrs of ih/ IWch. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 7. 
The Republican Convention to nominate 
Republican candidates for the next Presiden¬ 
tial election, met at Chicago last Tuesday. 
There were 820 delegates, and 411 were neces¬ 
sary for a choice. Hullotting began on Friday 
morning, and on the fourth ballot James Gil- 
espie Blaine, Ex-Speaker of the House, Ex- 
Senator aud Ex-Secretary of State, was nomi¬ 
nated. The following were the results of the 
different ballots: 
BtTMMA 
Candidate. 
OK THE 
balloting: 
1st. 
2 d. 
3ri. 
1th. 
...334 X 
349 
375 
541 
...278 
276 
274 
207 
... 93 
85 
69 
41 
... 63K 
61 
53 
7 
... 30 
28 
25 
0 
... 13 
13 
13 
15 
... 4 
4 
7 
2 
... 2 
2 
2 
0 
_____ 
■ 
— 
— 
... 818 
818 
818 
813 
As only 411 votes were necessary for a choice. 
Blaine’s nomination was made unanimous. 
During the casting of the fourth ballot, on a 
telegram from Logan, who was at Washing¬ 
ton,'Illinois withdrew'hi* name and cast its 
solid vote of 34 for Blaine. Then Indiana cast 
her SO votes in the same way. Next Ohio 
withdrew the name of Sherman, and cast her 
4(1 votes for the Man from Maine. Then enthu¬ 
siasm made the hall u regular pandemonium 
with yells, wild gesticulations and hurrahs for 
the Plumed Knight. After recess, John A. 
Loguu, of Illinois, was nominated for Vice- 
President by acclamation, Blaine having tele¬ 
graphed that his preference was for him. 
There is talk of a bolt among the 
malcontents; but most of them are 
pretty sure soon to fall into line. 
The Republican National Convention of 1880 
also met at Chicago on Wednesday, June 3, 
aud it was not until the following Monday 
that balloting began. Twenty-eight ballots 
wore taken on that, day, aud eight, on the next. 
The two loading names before the Convention 
were those of Grant and Blaine. Grant’s vote 
was 80* on the first ballot; it touched its mini- 
mum—302— on th«85tb; reached its maximum 
—818— on the 35th. and closed with the famous 
300 on the lust, ballot. Blaine started with 284 
votes, and did notgetmore thanSHBon any sub¬ 
sequent, ballot There was no serious break in 
his column till next, to the last—35th ballot. 
On the 34th his vote was 275. On thaL ballot, 
Garfield, for whom not more than two votes 
appeared on any preceding count, showed 17 
votes. On the 85th ballot Garfield's 
vote had jumped up to 2 -jO, uu< 1 Blaine s 
had dropped to 57. On the next and last, 
ballot the former had 3!)'.)—878 being 
necessary to a choice—and the latter 42. 
The Convention of 187G met in Cincinnati on 
Wednesday, .Juno 14. The balloting began 
and ended on the third day, Friday. There 
were seven bullots. The leading men at the 
start wore Blaine, Morten ot Indiana, aud 
Bristow. On the first, ballot Blaine received 
285, Morten 125, and Bristow 113. Conkling 
had 99 and Hayes 6L Blaine’s steadily in¬ 
creased to 308 on tho sixth and 851 on the sev¬ 
enth ballot, while Morton’s and Conkling’s 
steadily fell off on every ballot. The break to 
Hayes began on tho fifth ballot, when he got 
104 votes, which were increased to 113 on the 
sixth aud 384 on the seventh ballot. 
In St. Louis the United Presbyterian As¬ 
sembly has adopted a report, refusing to de¬ 
clare the use of instrumental music in churches 
unlawful.A Havana letter says that 
the mercantile and political situation there 
continues to be desperate. The sale of the 
Island to the United States or Mexico, is a 
general topic of conversation. Taxes so enor¬ 
mously heavy, nobody can pay them. 
The Fourth Regiment Infantry, of the Ohio 
National Guard, was disbanded on Monday, 
for inefficiency at the Cincinnati riots. 
Last Monday the Secretary of the Montreal 
Corn Exchange received official notification 
from the Dominion Government of a reduc¬ 
tion of 50 per cent,, in canal tolls on grain for 
this season only. The announcement took the 
members of the Exchange by surprise, aud 
considerable indignation was felt.On 
Monday, in the Lower House of Congress, 
Mr. Hiscoek, of New York, moved to suspend 
the rules and pass a bill repealing the internal 
revenue taxes on tobacco, allowing the use of 
alcohol, free of tax, in the arts and manufac¬ 
tures, and repealing the tax on brandy distill¬ 
ed from fruit. The House adjourned without 
taking action.The Senate and House 
have passed a bill fixing one cent as the rate 
of postage on newspapers [weighing four 
ounces or less, when sent by persons other 
than the ^publisher or news agent. Oregon 
went heavily Republican in its State elections 
on Tuesday.The Massachusetts Legisla¬ 
ture has adjourned till January, after having 
raised the salaries of the members $150, over 
the Governor’s veto.Last Monday Gen. 
Orville B. Babcock, formerly Private Secre¬ 
tary to President Grant, but, of late, engineer 
of tho Fiftfi Lighthouse District, together 
with his chief clerk, Mr. Levi P. Lackey, 
formerly Assistant Private Secretary to Gen. 
Grant, and Mr. Ben. P. Sutter, a seaman, 
were drowned in Musquito Inlet, off the coast 
of Florida, while superintending tho w ork on 
the lighthouse now building at that point- 
boat upset in u high sea. Babcock was 44; 
born in Vermont, graduated at West Point 
in 1801; served honorably throughout the war; 
was brevetted Brigadier-General in 1865. 
Ferdinand Ward, of the late firm of 
Grant & Ward, owned 24 horses. He is still 
festively happy in Ludlow' Street Jail, in the 
same room that held that lesser swindler, 
Boss Tweed.New York business men, 
representing $350,000,000 worth of capital, 
have organized to fight unjust discriminations 
of railroad pools, and ultimately telegraph 
and express discriminations.The North 
Carolina State' Exposition is to be held in Ra 
leigh from October 1 to October 28. 
A United States special revenue agent, who 
has been investigating the subject, reports that 
farmers in tho vicinity of London. St. Mary’s, 
Soaforth, and other places in Ontario, Can¬ 
ada, have been for over a year defrauding the 
revenue of the United States by passing flax 
through the Custom-house as tew.The 
sessional allowance of members of the Quebec 
Legislature is for the future, to be $600; but 
this year $700 are allowed, owing to the ex¬ 
ceptional length of the session .The Do¬ 
minion Government paid over recently to the 
Bank of Montreal $1,400,000, being the amount 
due to the Nova 8cotia Government for the 
purchase of the railway from New Glasgow to 
the Straits of Causo, and for their interest in 
the Pietou branch of the Intercolonial rail¬ 
way.A special dispatch to the San Fran¬ 
cisco Evening Post, from Guaymas, says that 
five of the Mexican States have declared war 
against the general government on account of 
Pmsideut Gonzales's revenue stamp edict, and 
that troops are l>eing concentrated in the in¬ 
terior.Secretary Chandler’s son is going 
to follow the sea like his father, and has been 
appointed a naval cadet.A bill has been 
introduced in the Senate offering a reward of 
$100,000 to anybody w ho shall discover the 
cause of yellow fever aud a preventive of it, 
or u preventive without the cause... A 
convention of Exposition and I air Managers, 
appointed ft committee at St. Louis, Wednes¬ 
day, to report a plan of organization aud man¬ 
agement of a Worlds Fair, to lie held at St. 
Louis, in 1892, to commemorate the 400th an¬ 
niversary of the discovery of America by Co¬ 
lumbus .......The Manitoba Legislature has 
passed to a third reading the bill rejecting the 
Federal Government's terms for a settlement. 
1 The Governor prorogued the Legislature. It 
is probable that an appeal to the country w ill 
be made immediately. 
horses never was brisker in Texas.A 
cattle ranch boom is just being started in 
Montana_All over the West the low price 
of wool is leading the shrewdest flock masters 
to pay greater attention to the improvement 
of their flocks for rnuttou, by crossing them 
with the English mutton breeds..... Australia 
and New Zealand sent Great Britain 17,275 
frozen sheep in 1881; 66,095 in 1882, and 
184,62*1 in 1883; while in the first three months 
of 1884 the trade bad increased to 96.115 car¬ 
casses, or at the rate of 384,400 a year.. 
The English agricultural papers teem with re¬ 
ports, experiments and discussions on ensilage, 
its supporters beine chiefly among those who 
have tried It; its opponents among those who 
haven’t.Butter and cheese commission 
merchant Benjamin F. Van Valkenburgh, of 
this city, has been appointed assistant to J. K. 
Brown, Dairy Commissioner of this State. 
The appointment meets with general appro- 
va ] .The managers of the National Horse 
Show, which closed last Saturday in this city, 
say they have lost considerable money by It; 
but, then, they had lots of fun.The apple 
and pear crops of Orange, Sullivan, Delaware 
and all the midland counties in New York, 
were nearly destroyed by the late frost. 
Tho steamer Boston City brought to Boston 
Sunday 216 Holstein cattle.The stables 
of the Glasgow Tramways Company, Ander- 
ston, Scotland, burned Saturday—200 horses 
burned to death.... It appears that the trouble 
of the French vineyard hits from the ravages of 
the phylloxera are drawing to an end. Had 
these continued as great as in 1878 “not a sin¬ 
gle acre of vineyard would now be in France;” 
but the report of the Inland Revenue Collect¬ 
or says last year’s vintage was the most satis¬ 
factory since the post’s ravages began. The 
area of land and number of plants attacked 
are steadily decreasing.Last W edneday 
sales of the new clip of wool were made at Al¬ 
bany, N. Y , at 23 cents to 24 cents a pound— 
the lowest price ever reached there since 1860. 
.The Second Annual Fat Stock Show will 
be held at Kansas City, Mo., from Thursday, 
October 30th to November 6th, both iuelusive, 
Edward Hareu, Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. 
The following table shows the premiums as 
compared with last year, and with those of 
this year at Chicago: 
Cattle. 
Hors.. 
Sheep. 
Total. 
KAds, City, 
1B83. 
Kans. City, 
1984. 
$3,995.00 
965.00 
445.00 
$5,255.00 
1.075.00 
835.00 
$5,405.00. 
$7,165.00 
CblcaKO, 
1884. 
$4,770.(10 
1,150.00 
1,275.00 
$7,195.00. 
Is Consumption Curable? 
An annual death-rate of nearly 100,000 by 
Consumption in the United States gives, so 
far as tbe medical profession is concerned, a 
most emphatic and disheartening negative to 
this question, But under the new Vitalizing 
treatment of Drs. Starkey I’alen. of 1109 
Girard St., Philadelphia, quite aseiti|»liatic an 
Mtllrmative can be declared. Dus treatment 
has inaugurated a new era in the healing art. 
We are speaking within the limits or facts 
when we say that during the past thirteen 
years, in thousands of cases tho progress or 
Consumption has been arrested by its use, aud 
hundreds of lives saved. Ir. many instances 
where it seemed that tho patient could not 
survive for more than a few days oi a few 
weeks, the vital forces have rallied, and there 
has been a slow, but sure, return to a better 
aud more comfortable health. If you wish to 
know' ali about this remarkable treatment 
write to Drs. Starkey ft Palm, and they will 
send you such documentary evidence as will 
enable you to judg e of its real value .— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 7. 
More tobacco aud hemp have been planted 
this year in Kentucky than ever before.. - - • - 
The total meat product of the United King¬ 
dom is put at 1.100,000 tODS from cattle, sheep 
and swiue. This has not materially varied for 
20 years, and is enough to supply 27,000.000 of 
the population, leaving 9,000,000 dependent on 
foreign importations. Last year these amount¬ 
ed to 28 per cent of the full supply, against 72 
per cent, of home production.. At the 
recent sale of Mr. Oliver’s Sholebroke herd of 
choice Bates Short-boms in England, 15 
Grand Dutchesses were sold for 9,490 guineas, 
an average of $3,160 each.The Domin¬ 
ion Cattle Company has 97,000 cattle on 
234,000 acres of the Cherokee Reservation, 
leased at two cents yearly per acre. Last year 
it declared a dividend of 20 per cent, on a 
capital of $950,000.Trade in cattle and 
Some changes have been made in the classifi¬ 
cation also. The very liberal premiums and 
the fair method of classification this year, 
should call out a very large show of the finest 
Stock, and should insure ft large attendance. 
Stock raisers and feeders should be very close 
olmervers at- these fail's, and cannot fail to 
learn much that will be of use in breeding and 
feeding Rtoek.The Southington Agri¬ 
cultural Society will hold its Summer exhibi¬ 
tion at Southington Driving Park, June 19 
and 20, 1884. W. H. Cummings, Secretary, 
Milldale, Conn. As this is in a fine part of 
Connecticut, this exhibition should call out a 
large attendance. Farmers should bake more 
holidays.Crops near Odessa, Russia, 
are suffering seriously from drought.A 
cablegram from Paris on Wednesday says 
tho Parliamentary committee of inquiry into 
the importation of American salted meats has 
approved a report agreeing to such imports 
after the meat is by microscope or otherwise 
minutely examined. The report at. the same 
time urges the prohibition of the importation 
of fresh meats from countries where it is 
known that trichinosis exists.The daily 
supply of milk for New York city is now aver¬ 
aging 12,034 cans, 196 cans of condensed milk, 
and 407 cans of cream.Thirty thousand 
two-horse trucks are employed in the busi¬ 
ness of New York city. Upwards of $20,000,- 
000 are invested in this industry.A 
farmer on Long Island, N. Y., who has a farm 
of 58 acres, raised on it last year the following: 
Strawberries, 15,000 quarts; early cabbage, 
150,000 heads; early potatoes, 12,000 bushels; 
early beets, 120 bushels; potato onions, 60 
bushels; onions from seed, 3,100 bushels; corn 
in ear, 1,500 bushels; carrots, 11,500 bushels; 
w’hite beans, 16 bushels; potato onions for 
seed, 25bushels; Brussels sprouts, 400 bushels; 
onion sets, 100 bushels; hay, 5 tons; cabbage 
seed. 18 pounds; carrot seed, 25 pounds; onion 
seed, 100 pounds; Brussels sprouts seed. 2 
pouuds; cabbage plants to carry over, 300,000. 
.The Secretary of the Interior has 
issued an order relative to the filing of 
proofs on tbe reservation lands, whereby the 
business can be done before the clerk of the 
District Court, instead of going to the Land 
Office. This will prove a matter of consider¬ 
able convenience to settlers.. Maryland 
reports a new industry in watermelon vinegar. 
... .The dairy products of the United 
States for the year ending April 30, were 
valued at $15,571,376, against $12,625,125 dur¬ 
ing the previous year. ... The annual sum¬ 
mer meeting of the Michigan State Horticul¬ 
tural Society, will bo held at Bay City, June 
19 and 20, opening with a session Thursday af¬ 
ternoon. The programme has been prepared 
by tbe Secretary, Charles W. Garfield, and, 
like all his work of that kind, is full of useful 
topics and pertinent to the best good of Michi¬ 
gan Horticulture. We know they will have a 
wide-awake, profitable time, and we wish to 
assure the members that we shall be there in 
spirit as we only wish we could in body. 
Don’t let Michigan people fail to attend; 
they can’t afford to miss this feast.. 
The Governor of New Jersey has just signed 
a bill which prohibits the manufacture and 
sale of oleomargarine in the State.The 
exports from the port of Boston last week in¬ 
cluded 1,913 cattle and 2,055 quarters of beef. 
.A total of 1,967 live cattle and 5,004 
quarters of beef were exported from New 
York last week.The next Annual Fat 
Stock Show will be held at Chicago, Novem 
her 11 to 20.-1884. Entries close November 1. 
.Since January 1 Chicago packers have 
slaughtered 452,000 hogs, against 440,000 head 
for the corresponding time last year. 
The convention of cattle men, which will be 
held at St. Louis, November 17 next, promises 
to be a grand affair....... It is officially stated 
that foot-and-mouth disease has entirely dis¬ 
appeared from Maine, and it is believed there 
isn’t a single case now in any part of the coun¬ 
try.The prosjiect-s are fair for a good 
wheat harvest in India..The growing 
crops in Spain are being injures! by heavy 
floods.If nothing interferes between 
now and harvest, Canada will reap a heavy 
wheat crop.Potatoes are selliug as low 
as 10 cents per bushel in some of the rural dis¬ 
tricts of Pennsylvania .Twenty-five per 
cent, less area of potatoes will bo planted in 
Maine this year than last.Agricultural 
interests in France are much depressed. Tho 
foreign production bill lately introduced, pro¬ 
poses to increase the tariff on flour, cattle. 
meat and other agricultural products. 
Prof. Brown arrived at Quebec last Monday 
with 105 head of cattle aud sheep for the On¬ 
tario Experimental Farm at Guelph. They 
represent 18 distinct strains, and many of the 
animals are of rare merit, being first-prize- 
takers at the principal shows of Britain. 
The farmers in Minnesota have combined and 
have already raised enough money to build 
eleven elevators. They are trying to render 
themselves independent of the railroads. 
Eggs are sent by mail in England under the 
parcel post system.Out of a dotal area 
of nearly 21,000,000 acres, the woods and 
copses of Ireland are now less than 330,000 
acres. In Great Britain out of nourly 57,000,- 
000 acres,2,500, W0 acres are now thus returnud- 
Tho forests of Europe are estimated to cover 
500 , 000,000 acres, or nearly 20 per cent, of 
the surface of the Continent.A severe 
hailstorm visited Rabun County, Ga., Wed 
nesday. Hailstones as large as eggs fell and 
drifted to the depth of 12 inches in some places. 
.The warehouse of Hiram Sibley, the 
great seedsman, on the uorth bank of the 
Chicago River, «ear Clark Street, Chicago, 
was destroyed by fire Sunday May 25. The 
loss is estimated at $125,000, with an insur 
auce of 70 per cent., largely in foreign com¬ 
panies. Mr. Sibley is credited with a fortune 
of $16,000,000, He is at present, eugaged in 
erecting two mammoth ten-story warehouses 
adjoining the structure which was burned, 
and will doubtless proceed to build a third.... 
... .The State Veterinary Surgeon of Kansas, 
after a protracted tour, reports glanders pre¬ 
vailing among horses in fifteen counties. 
Horace B. Enos, a wealthy farmer near Buf¬ 
falo Hart, Illinois, killed one of his employ**, 
named Moses Hartsoek, with a pocket-knife, 
because he stopped a corn-planter to talk. 
.... Strawberries to the amount of 12.LH.NJ cases 
were received Monday morning in Chicago, 
the best quality selling in South Wacer Street, 
at$1.50 to $2 for 24 quarts....-...Mr. Have- 
meyer is about to sell his entire herd of Jer- 
seys—ahout the most costly in tho couutry— 
on the ground that he is going to Europe,.... 
The latest novelty in live stock interests is an 
opposum farm which has been started near 
Hawkiusville, Georgia. The place is fenced 
with wire netting, and as the animals breed 
readily, and they have ready sale, the owner 
expects to make'it pay.During the late 
National Wool-Growers’ Convention, at Chi¬ 
cago, tbe Secretaries of several American or 
Spauish Merino sheep registers met and form¬ 
ed a National Registration League, the object 
of which is to introduce a more complete sys¬ 
tem and unity of plans in registration. Ver¬ 
mont, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and 
Missouri were represented. Albert Chapman, 
of Vermont, was elected President; W. G. J. 
Dean, of Michigan, Secretary; aud J. G. Blue, 
of Ohio, Treasurer.The Mark Lane 
Express, in its review of the British grain 
trade for last week, says: “Despite the dry 
