THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT 2? 
644 
tos of t!]c Week 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 20. 
In the National Treasury there are nearly 
$20,000,000 in Government securities which 
are uncalled for. Some of them have been 
due 50 years. Why the owners do not call for 
them is wholly unknown.........The Demo¬ 
cratic electors of New Jersey recently request¬ 
ed the Attorney General's opinion as to the 
eligibility of national bank presidents and 
cashiers to serve on electoral tickets. The 
Attorney rendered the opinion that such offi¬ 
cials are eligible. They are not (Jnfted States 
officials, but the officers of private corpora¬ 
tions.I t is stated that the Homan Court 
has decided the long standing dispute between 
I .aval ami Victoria universities of Montreal 
in favor of the former...The gross re¬ 
ceipts for the eight days of the Dominion and 
Provincial Exhibition at Montreal, which 
closed on Saturday, were not quite $13,000,... 
.The towns and villages in the vicinity of 
Philadelphia are being flooded with circulars 
of the “Interior Associated Press,” a Cincin¬ 
nati concern that proposes to set up one iu the 
newspayier business, and guarantees rapid uud 
vast, fortunes. The promoters of the scheme 
offer to print Republican, Democratic, or 
Greenback papers at the rate of $15 per 5,000 
. - *, 11 i»■each copy to bear the name of the edi¬ 
tor or publisher, and name of city or town in 
which he lives. The Society for the suppres¬ 
sion of Vice pronounces the scheme similar to 
one it broke up Rome years ago. It is a fraud. 
..An order, promulgated by the Nihil¬ 
ists societies in Cuba, to aid in the advance¬ 
ment of Cuban independence by the destruc¬ 
tion of property by simultaneous fires and ex¬ 
plosions throughout the island has been put in 
operation. The police of Matnnzaa arrested 
24 persons the 24th inst., for attempting the 
destruction of the city. Members of Die so¬ 
ciety in Key West, Fla., claim that they have 
received private advices of other similar at¬ 
tempts in the interior of Cuba, accompanied 
with great destruction of property.It 
is reported that a large number ol' deaths have 
occurred from starvation among the Indiaus 
on the Canada reservations.The Sov¬ 
ereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the 
world met iu the Grand Opera House at Min¬ 
neapolis this week. The reports of officers 
show about 500,000 lodge members and 90,000 
encampment members,again of nearly 12,000 
lodge members and nearly (5,000 encampment 
members during the post year.A wost- 
bouud passenger train on the Indiana, Bloom¬ 
ington and Western Railroad was wrecked by 
a broken rail near Farmer City, 111., Wednes¬ 
day morning, and 15 or 20 persons were so 
Imdly hurt as to be rendered helpless, and 10 
or 15others wore slightly Injured, but proceed¬ 
ed on their journey. Ex-Governor Hendricks 
was on the train, en route to Peoria, but mir¬ 
aculously escaped injury....Robert Hoe, 
of the well-known firm of R. Hoe & Co., 
manufacturers of printing-presses, who died 
at Tarrytuwu, N, Y., Saturday, iu his 70th 
year, was the son of Robert II oe, au English¬ 
man, who came to this country in 1803. The 
son entered the firm at an early age, and lias 
been loug known for his private charities and 
patronage of the flue arts.A new fea¬ 
ture in the bond now exacted from the steam¬ 
ship companies landing steerage passengers 
at New Yolk, is that they pledge themselves 
to return unsatisfactory emigrants any time 
within one year after their arrival. The Com¬ 
missioners of Emigration have now a smaller 
number of paupers on their hands than they 
have hid for n good many years...The 
National Telephone Association has just con¬ 
cluded its session iu Philadelohia. In Balti¬ 
more the number of telephone couueetious bus 
reached 1,450; New York, 4,210; Brooklyn, 
1,84(1; Cincinnati, 2,233; Detroit, 1,700; and 
Albany. 1,102.The balance of trade 
against Canada during the fiscal year, ending 
June, was $26,086,000...The Quebec 
Municipal Government is iu a deplorablo con¬ 
dition. It is said that a ring exists, and that 
pet contractors have been paid fabulous sums 
by order of the mayor, in an irregular man¬ 
ner. A deficit of $50,000 bus already been dis¬ 
covered.The Dominion Government 
has determined to deepen all its canals to 11 
feet, and charge a small tell to cover expenses. 
It is thought that this will have the effect of 
cheapening and facilitating the commerce of 
the Dominion.The political campaign 
appears to be fairly under way. Blaine start¬ 
ed from Maiue last Wednesday, and since then 
has delivered a few speeches, notably at the 
Massachusetts State Fair at Worcester. He 
is now in this city, and will “swing round the 
circle’’ to Ohio and Indiana, the elections in 
which States iu October, us well ns that iu 
West Virginia, must have a great effect on 
the general elections in November. Both 
parties boast that they are confident of sue- | 
cess. Considerable sensation was created 
during the week by the publication of a batch 
of letters which Blaine sent about 12 years 
ago to Warren Fisher, then of Boston, in rela¬ 
tion to some business transactions in which 
both were engaged. The Democrats say they 
prove conclusively that Blaine, who was 
Speaker of the House at the time, is all that 
is objectionable in a public official; the Re¬ 
publicans maintain they contain no new 
charges, and that their publication is the re¬ 
sult of personal malice against an honorable 
man. All voters will have many opportuni¬ 
ties to hear or see them discussed from every 
point of view before the election. It is also 
claimed t hat numerous scandalous charges are 
being prepared against Cleveland. So much 
has been said against Butler for years that no 
new accusations are likely to stick to him, as 
people believe that everything that could pos¬ 
sibly be said against him, with any chance of 
credence, has been already published. It, pro¬ 
mises to lie a mud-throwing campaign. 
Tiie Secretary of State of Maine furnishes the 
following footings of the vote for Governor at 
the hist election: Robie, 78,912; Redman, 59,- 
0(51; H. B. Eaton, 3,137; Eustis. 1,190; W. F. 
Eaton, 97; scattering, 10. This shows a Re¬ 
publican plurality of 19,851, and a majority of 
15,411.The name of ex-Hecretary Mc¬ 
Culloch is now mentioned as the successor of 
the late Secretary Folger.The monu¬ 
ment to General Reynolds was unveiled with 
becoming ceremonies at Philadelphia last 
Thursday.The freshmen class at Cornell 
University is very largo this year......... Im¬ 
porters of rags say that the prohibitory order 
of the Treasury Department will cause a tem¬ 
porary suspension of their business unless they 
can find something else that will satisfy the 
demand for puper stock.The American 
Forestry Association has concluded Its session 
at Saratoga, N. Y., and was largely attended. 
.Telegrams this morning from Cleve¬ 
land, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, Coshoc¬ 
ton, and Cambridge, Ohio; Wheeling, W. Va.; 
Indianapolis, Muncie, Fort Wayne, and Au 
burn, lad. ; Detroit, Adrian, Anu Arbor, Port 
Huron, Ypsilanti, Luusiug, Crass Lake, and 
Chelsea, Mich.; London and Dresden, Ont.: 
Louisville, Ky.; and Dubuque, Iowa , say that 
an earthquake visited all these places, und 
doubtless the whole intervening count ry, be¬ 
tween two and three r.M. yesterday. The 
shock varied in severity in different places, 
but did no injury anywhere. It lasted from 
five to 30 seconds, according to location. 
FOREIGN. 
ACROSS the Atlantic the chief political event 
of importance during the week has been the 
meeting of the Emperors of Russia, Germany 
and Austria at Skierniwice, a small town in 
Russian Poland. It is thought the meeting 
was arranged in Russian territory as a con¬ 
cession to the Czar, for having received so 
much “cold shoulder” from the other two 
since his accession to the throne. All passed 
off quietly daring the assemblage, owing, 
doubtless, to the extreme precautions taken 
by the authorities to keep Nihilists aud other 
anarchlste at, a distance. The Emperors were 
accompanied by their respective Prime-Minis¬ 
ters, and the conclusions those arrived at. will 
doubtless have no small effect >>n European 
affairs for some months at least, and perhaps 
for some years. It is said that the meeting 
“secures a lasting peace to Europe. The prin¬ 
ciples of unity, conciliation and appeasement 
will now replace all isolated action, aud re¬ 
move all uncertainty as to the morrow’s 
events, thus exercising a favorable influence 
upon the political and social world.” There 
is talk of a considerable reduction of the vast 
standing armies of the three empires as a re¬ 
sult of mutual agreement. Meuu w hile, the 
military manoeuvres of the German army 
are assiduously carried on..Iu Italy. 
cholera still occupies the chief place in public 
attention. The violence of the disease at Na¬ 
ples still causes from 250 to 300 deaths a day, 
the aggregate numbering over 3,500, in that 
single city; while from the first appearaueu of 
the plague in France statistics show the fol¬ 
lowing results as to the nationality' and num¬ 
ber of the victims: 
No. of 
Deaths. 
French...1,140 
Italian. 427 
Spanish. 1!> 
Greek. ll 
Austrian. 0 
No. of 
Deaths. 
English. 5 
Swiss. 4 
Ucrnmn. 3 
American. 2 
Swede. 1 
Total.....1.018 
In other pails of Italy the number of deaths, 
aggregating only about one-tenth those at 
Naples, appears to be stationary. A bill will 
probably be passed by the Italian Parliament 
providing for the destruction of the slums of 
Naples, always a prolific hut-bed of pestilence. 
King Humbert has left the city, after dis¬ 
playing a degree of bravery which has won 
for him golden opinions fiom all sorts and 
conditions of men. 
Little Belgium appears to be on the eve of a 
revolution, owing to the recent election to Par¬ 
liament of a “Clerical” majority. Belgium 
is always counted among the Roman Catholic 
countries of Europe, and the “Clericals” are 
the Catholic party: while the “Liberals” in¬ 
clude all politically opposed to them, and 
among these are many “hike warm” Catholics. 
Until a few months ago, the “Liberals” had 
control of the Government, for some years, and 
passed a number of laws very distasteful to 
their opponents. Now that the latter are in 
power, they are reiinaeti ng some of the repealed 
laws, and prominent.among these is an educa¬ 
tional law, providing for religious instruction 
in schools. The “Liberals” are highly indig¬ 
nant, and appeal to the king for interference. 
He, as a constitutional monarch, says he must 
yield to the wishes of the majority of the 
people, as expressed in the last election. The 
“Liberals” break up “Clerical” processions 
and assemblages; stone prominent “Clericals” 
and their houses, und placard the towns with 
“Vive la Itepublique!” threatening revolu¬ 
tion; while their papers advise moderation in 
a way to exasperate their reader*. The “Cleri¬ 
cals” are equally determined; but as they are 
in a minority iu the large towns, their oppo¬ 
nents make more noise....In the United 
Kingdom, nothing of much interest to Amer¬ 
ica has occurred duriug the week. A letter 
and two telegrams have been received from 
Gen. Gordon, at Khartoum. They show that 
he is still safe, and strong enough to make head 
against the followers of El Mahdi. He com¬ 
plains of delay in oomingto hisrelief and that 
of the besieged garrisons iu the Soudan, and 
wants $300,000 to pay his troops. Unacquaint¬ 
ed with the outside world, he makes several 
suggestions that caunot now be adopted....... 
Nothing of importance done In China or there¬ 
abouts during the week. 
GIVEN IIP BY PHYSICIANS. 
A patient residing at Binghamton, N. Y,, 
after using Compound Oxygen for two years, 
gives the gratifying result: 
“For two yearn / could not stand on my 
feet but for Jive minutes at a time, or talk as 
many minutes; but note / can wall: four or 
five mites and do buxines* all day; and I owe 
my recovery to health to the persistent use of 
Compound Oxygen, for I used It about two 
years, gaining a little all the time. Nearly all 
the physicians who attended me gave we up, 
and some said they eovlilnumber my days," 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen, con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery uud mod© 
of action of this remarkable eurative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures in Con 
sumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide rang© of chronic 
diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1109 Girard St., Phila.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 20. 
The American millionaire, Mr. Winans, 
rents 14 different shootings, at the cost of about 
$100,000 a year, all of whoso acres he has con¬ 
verted into one vast game preserve .In 
1870 Iowa bad 329,811 milch cows; in 1880, 
854,187. In 1870 Iowa manufactured 18,512,178 
pouudsof butter; in 1880, 55,521,958 pounds. 
It is a safe calculation to say that one cow out 
Of every 12 kept, for butter and chesse is owned 
by an Iowa farmer. The make of butter in 
the United Stutes in t880, as given by the 
census, was 777,250,387 pounds.Wheat 
from Northern Russia is offered on the Balti • 
at 92 cents per bushel, about the figure at 
which No. 2 Red has been offered at New 
York for export.The South Carolina 
rice crop has been seriously damaged by heavy 
rains and floods.Since the development 
of tree culture, the forests of Europe have in¬ 
creased from one sixth to one tilth ot the en¬ 
tire territory.To meet the demand for 
milk, cream, and butter, a number of Florida 
farmers last year imported Jersey cows. 
Nearly all have since died from eating pois¬ 
onous grass. Calves are now being tried iu 
the hope that, they will learn to discriminate. 
....Italiuu vineyard owners propose a method 
by which the properties of grape juice can be 
concentrated. The water is to be artificially 
withdrawn iusuch a manner as to leave a resi¬ 
due, which contains all the possibilities of 
white, aud which can be turned into wine in 
places where the art of wine making is rightly 
understood. The condensed substance will 
keep for years. The excellence of wine so 
made was recognized at the Bordeaux Exhibi¬ 
tion in 1882.Last Sunday night Chester, 
Vt., was visited by a heavy frost that killed 
all unprotected vegetation, although the pre 
vious week had been the hottest of the season, 
the thermometer ranging from 90° to KKrt 
and over.The late Senator Anthony re¬ 
membered his friend Major Ben Perley Poore 
by bequeathing to him the Ctmrles Sumner 
silver tankard, water pitcher and silver cup, 
and the sum of $2,50u.Last Tuesday 
an exceedingly cold wave passed over the 
maritime Provinces of New Brunswick. In 
certain parts of Cumberland County several 
inches of snow fell, and on Sunday, it is re¬ 
ported that a five inch fall of snow took place 
Moncton, New Brunswick. It is thought 
- ■ that the crops have suffered from the unsea¬ 
sonable change.Owing to the low price 
of wheat, the deficiency in other grain crops, 
and the failure in hay, roots and young clov¬ 
er, the prospects of farmers in the Fast and 
South of England are thought to be decidedly 
gloomy by the Mark Lane Express. In 1879 
the grain crops were worse; but roots were 
better; there was more hay. the clovers plant¬ 
ed were better, and prices were not so low ... 
The farmers of the valley of the Potomac 
and its tributaries have been throwing hun¬ 
dreds of hogs, that have died of cholera, into 
the river. The people of Washington are 
alarmed lest the water supply bo contamina¬ 
ted. .. In every county in south and west Jer¬ 
sey, bog cholera Is raging. Its spread is rap¬ 
id and the mortality large. Some diseased 
hogs show symptoms of pleuropneumonia,... 
....The Chicago Live Stock Exchange has 
decided to purchase ten head of cattle, to lie 
presented to the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
for the purpose of heing placed in a herd or 
herds of cattle claimed to be afflicted with 
pleuro-pneumouia until such time as it will 
take to prove the suspected disease does not 
exist....An investment of $50,000 has 
been made at Franklin, Tenn . iu the erection 
of mills for manufacturing sugar from sor¬ 
ghum, and good results are anticipated. 
Forest fires are burning fiercely on the West 
side of Port Huron, Mich. The only hope for 
the safety of the town lies in rain-A sam¬ 
ple of American cheese in London when ana¬ 
lyzed, proved to contain neither milk nor any 
of its derivatives. Its chief ingredients were 
lard and coloring matter. It came from 
New York State....At the International 
Exposition held this year at Calcutta, Irish 
butter was awarded a diploma aud medal. 
The samples exhibited had voyaged from Ire¬ 
land to India, and had withstood several 
months’ exposure to tropical heat. The next 
in merit was a sample of American oleomar¬ 
garine, but it. was thrown out by the judges 
on learning its nature....The skeletons of 
80,000 buffaloes have been shipped from Da¬ 
kota this year, to be ground into fertilizers for 
the older fudds. The bones are worth $8 per 
ton at the shipping station.German 
commercial papers direct attention to the in¬ 
creasing development of the beet root sugar 
industry in Denmark. Formerly the bulk of 
Denmark’s sugar supply came from abroad, 
but for some time past it has peen provided 
at home.The cattle interests are suffer¬ 
ing severely in South western Texas in conse¬ 
quence of drought.The condition of 
the crops in Nebraska is as follows: Corn, 
average condition, 106; wheat, 100; rye, 100; 
oats, 93; barley, 90j^. The yield of wheat is 
estimated at.29,000,000 bushels.. 
....According to the investigations of the 
agents sent out by the General Land Office, 
the number of fraudulent laud entries investi¬ 
gated during the past year, and approximate¬ 
ly the number of illegally-fenced acres iu the 
various States and Territories, are as follows: 
States anfl Terri- Fraudulent Acres lllecally 
torles. entries. fenced In. 
Arkansas. ..,.70 - 
Dakota.Ifiti - 
..806 2,80u,iKJ0 
California.139 - 
New Mexico....827 1,500,000 
Minnesota. .........311 - 
Washington Territory ...109 - 
Idaho..,.,,.....,. 92 - 
Nebraska.170 300,000 
Montana. 24 Not investigated 
Wyoming. 10 250,000 
Alabama. 153 - 
WlsroiitdTi. 10 - 
Florida.71 - 
Oregon.,. 88 - 
Kansas. 182 200,000 
Nevada..— 60,000 
Besides the eases embraced in the foregoing 
table, there are about 5,000 entries on w-hich 
action hus been suspended until an examina¬ 
tion can be made by special agents. These 
entries will average about 1(50 acres of laud 
each.Among the cases of unauthorized 
fencing reported to the Land Office by agents 
are those of the Prairie Cattle Company 
(Scotch), embracing upward of 1,000,000 acres; 
the Arkansas Valley Company ,1,000,000 acres; 
H. II. Metcalf. 200,000 acres; John W. Prow¬ 
ers, 200.000 acres; McDaniel & Davis, 75,000 
acres; Routchler & Lamb, 40,000 acres; J. 
W. Frank, 40,000 acres; Garnett & Langford, 
80,000 acres: E. C. ’Pane, 50,000 acres; Lewe- 
sey Bros., 150,000 acres; Vrooman & McFife, 
50,000 acres; Beatty Bros., 40,000acres; Chick, 
Brown & Co., 30,000 acres, and Reynolds Cat¬ 
tle Company, 50.000 acres—all in Colorado; 
Brighton Rauch, 125,000 acres; Cee & Carter, 
30.000 acres; J. W. Wilson, 25,000acres; Ken- 
nebeck Ranch, 40,000 acres, aud J. W. Bosler, 
20,000 acres—all iu Nebraska: Win. Hum¬ 
phrey, 25,000 acres, and Nelson & Son, 20,000 
acres, iu Nevada. Entire counties are re¬ 
ported as being fenced in Kansas. In Wyo- 
ining more than 100 large cattle companies 
are reported as haviug fencing on the public 
lands. Some of these companies are reported 
to be English, and others Scotch. 
The tri-State Fair at Wheeling, West Va.. re¬ 
ports a net profit of $25,uti0.Oliver Daly- 
rimple, who expects to thrash ont 000,000 bush¬ 
els of wheat on his Dakota farm, has arranged 
to ship it to Buffalo by lake from Duluth, and 
has secured storage in the former city. He 
wants to hold on for better prices .E. J. 
Gay, a sugar-planter with an estate of $10,- 
