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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 8,1888. 
Fraudulent Boston and Chicago Firms. 
—The Postmaster-General Tuesday adopted 
he report of Attorney General Freeman, and 
issued an order declaring 23 firms of Boston, 
Mass., to be engaged in conducting a fraudu 
lent and unlawful business and directing that 
money orders and registered letters be with¬ 
held from them. The firms put on the black 
list are: M. F. Jones Co , post-office box 3630, 
alias Wilder & Co.; Tremont Jewelry Com¬ 
pany, alias Tremont Spoon Company, post- 
offi box 3415 and alias A. W. Vane & Co.; 
G. W. Ingraham Co., I? Battery march street; 
the Standard Silverware Company, corner of 
Milk and Batterymarch streets; Tracy & Co., 
282 Washington street; Kendall & Co., pub¬ 
lishers of Youths’ Home Library, 226 Frank¬ 
lin street; William Haynes and HayneBCo., 
alias American Manufacturing Company, i9 
Milk and 810 and 812 Federal streets; the 
Illustrated Monthly and Miscellany Publish 
ing Company, 79 Milk street and 8 ,10 and 12 
Federal street; British Cutlery Association, 
20 Devonshire street; Sheffield Knife Com¬ 
pany, alias Sheffield Cutlery Company of 
Sheffield, England, and Boston, United States, 
America, C. H. Gurney, manager; Great 
English Sterling Cutlery Company and Great 
English Knife Company, Birmingham and 
Sheffield, England, and 45 Milk street, Boston, 
United States of America, John Smith, Jr., 
manager; Domestic Manufacturing Company, 
3 Tremont Row; Middlesex Manufacturing 
Company, Ashland, Mass.; Graham & Co., 
Walnut Hill, Mass.; H. Lee, post-office box 
893 South Farmingham, Mass.; Sanderson & 
Co., Readville, Mass. The firms declared to 
be fraudulent concerns were engaged in a 
great variety of schemes to swindle the pub¬ 
lic, such as bogus jewelry, watches, cutlery, 
furniture, etc. It is estimated the aggregate 
business of the 23 firms during the past year 
has been upwards of $2 000,000, The Post¬ 
master General has declared S. Mayo, alias 
Geo. S. Mayo. & Co., 56 LaSalle street, M. G 
Sanford and M- G. Sanford & Co., 163 Ran. 
dolph street, Chicago, III., frauds, and directed 
that money orders and registered letters be 
withheld. The scheme was to advertise Bibles, 
prayer-books, etc., at greatly reduced rates 
and never to forward the articles... 
Contributions are flowing in generous streams 
from all parte of the country for the relief of 
the Germans whose homes have been destroy¬ 
ed and whose lands have been made desolate 
by the late floods. Every week tens of thou¬ 
sands of dollars are sent from New York, 
Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee. St. Louis 
and all the other prominent centers of popula¬ 
tion, to assuage the sorrows and mitigate 
the distress of our trans-Atlantic friends. 
Why not send some of this relief in the shape 
of a thousand or so barrels of choice Ameri¬ 
can pork? It would remove their prejudice 
and enlighten their ignorance at the same 
time it relieved their distress.. 
The “plant” of the Standard Oil Company ( 
consists of newspapers, pipe-lines, storage 
tanks, oil country and Western refineries, 
trunk pipe-lines, oil-cars, refined oil depots, 
seaboard refineries, capitalized at over $ 100 ,- 
000,000.Gen. Francis A. Walker has 
by * special request resumed superintendence 
of the census of 1880. Congress has voted 
$ 200,000 for the completion of the publication 
of the work, which, it is promised, will be 
completed in 1883,.......A bill has been in¬ 
troduced into Congress directing the Secretary 
of Agriculture to send to the sufferers from the 
German floods all seeds, etc., belonging to this 
Department, for which there is no need in 
this country, and also directing him to receive 
contributions of grain, etc. for the sufferers. 
.The U. 8 . Supreme Court has rendered 
a decision in which it is held that the law of 
A labaoia prohibiting miscegenation is not in 
conflict with the 4th Ame ndment of the Con¬ 
stitution or with civil rights legislation 
founded on it, for the reason that it applies 
the same punishment to both offenders, white 
and black, without discrimination.The 
Republicans of the Colorado legislature, after 
quite extended caucusing, finally agreed 
upon Judge T. M. Bowen of Rio Grande, 
as United StateB Senator. Ex Gov. H. A. 
W. Tabor was chosen for Secretary Teller’s 
unexpired term, ending March 4. Both were 
duly elected. In West Virginia, John E. 
Kenna, a Democratic member of the present 
House, elected to the next one, has been 
chosen Senator in place of H. G. Davis, whose 
term expires March 4. In Minnesota Dwight 
M. Sabin has been elected U. 8 . Senator to suc¬ 
ceed William Windom who has been a mem¬ 
ber of the U. S. Senate for 12 years and of the 
House for eight. The struggle has been long 
and fierce, and has spoilt Windom as a can¬ 
didate for the Presidency in 1884. Tabor is 
President of the Northwestern Car M’f’g Co., 
and a “ rustler”... 
Bills are before both Houses of Congress to 
prevent the importation of adulterated teas 
an enormous business now, all the heavier 
here because prohibited in other countries by 
stringent laws........ “Disastrous fires with 
heavy losses of property and deplorable losses 
of life in many parts of the country ” might 
be kept “standing ” here week after week.... 
_The Marquis of Lome convoyed his wife. 
the Princess Louise, to Charleston, S. C., at 
the end of last week. She has gone to spend 
the Winter in the warm Bermudas; he is on 
his way back to the bleak Dominion, which 
he seems in no hurry to reach.The Sen¬ 
ate Railroad Committee has agreed to report 
a bill allowing the Southern Pacific and its 
connecting line 3 to consolidate, so as to make 
one line from the Atlantic to the Peciflc. 
The Star-route trial still drags its turbulent 
slimy length along. Thomas J. Brady, one 
of the chief defendants, has just sold bis ele¬ 
gant house for $125,000. This he purchased 
while getting a salary of $8,500 a year. 
The defendants’ lawyers have already cost 
them $75,000.Congress has “fre* list¬ 
ed” timber squared orsided, not specially enu¬ 
merated; sawed boards, plank, deals and 
other lumber of hemlock, whitewood, syca¬ 
more, basswood and all other articles of sawed 
lumber; also laths, shingles and pine and 
spruce clapboards.”.Mr. O’Donnell has 
been confirmed as Railroad Commissioner by 
the Senate of this State by a vote cf 23 to 7, 
and Messrs. Kernan and Rogers have been 
confirmed unanimously........ Of Oklahama 
colonists 50 left Coffeyville, Kan., on Janu¬ 
ary 30 to meet Captain Payne and a batch 
from Missouri On February 1 an organized 
movement was mode upon the Indian Terri¬ 
tory. They intend to start a place to be call¬ 
ed Boudinot City, and expect the Govern¬ 
ment will not remove them, as it has granted 
the “right of way” through the country to 
railroads.. Attorney General Marshall, 
of California, has sued the Central Pacific 
Railroad Company for $2 000.000 with inter¬ 
est and costs, as damages for the refusal by 
that company to carry State messengers, luna¬ 
tics, prisoners, etc., free of charge in accord¬ 
ance with the terms under which the State 
granted aid to the company.The New 
York Assembly passed the bill, by a vote of 
108 to 6 Wednesday, reducing the fares on the 
elevated railroads at New York from 10 to 5 
cents at all hours of the day... 
The reduction of letter postage from three 
cents to two is now practically accomplished. 
Both branches of Congress have authorized 
it and it only remains to fix a date on which 
the rate shall take effect.Newfive-cent 
coins coming into circulation. New coins 
will be struck off at the Philadelphia Mint at 
the rate of $5,000 per day.New salt wells 
lately discovered near Le Roy and Warsaw 
Western New York. Much local excitement. 
Canadian and Auburn syndicates on the spot 
to make large purchases of land on which to 
sink wells..... 
It will greatly relieve or oppress the public 
mind to learn that big Judge David Davis 
is not going to marry that North Carolina 
lady or any one else. He settles down at 
Bloomington, Ill., at the close of the 4*th 
Congress.Early in the week a severe 
blizzard swept over the Northwest and most 
of the West. This morning’s telegrams tell of 
another raging tberenow. Milwaukee reports 
for Wisconsin that the weather is the coldest of 
the season, and l'kely to continue so for days. 
Snowing; and trains delayed. Chicago makes 
a like report for Illinois. Topeka, Kb ns., says 
the blizzard is nearly as severe as the previous 
one, and will cause more loss among live 
stock. Many of the smaller streams frozen 
to the bottom; stock can’t get water. Chey¬ 
enne reports the heaviest snow-storm in the 
history of Wyoming. Snow from 12 to 30 
inches deep on the cattle ranges. Cattle suf¬ 
fering from excess of cold and lack of grass. 
Temperature 80 below zero. Unless weather 
moderates soon immense destruction among 
cattle. All over the West trains are blocked 
or much delayed.Gen. C. F. Mander- 
son has been elected U. S. Senator from Ne¬ 
braska. He was born in Philadelphia in 1837, 
and has been in Nebraska since ’69, at 
Omaha, where he practiced law. 
Through trains between San Francisco and 
New Orleans over the Southern Pacific rail¬ 
road began running this week. 
induced to try your treatment, and think 
that it has saved my wife from the grave or 
the asylum, to one of which she would cer- 
tainly have gone had relief not been found. ’ 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, its na¬ 
ture, action and results, with reports of cases 
and full information, sent free. Drs. Star- 
key & Palkn, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Short statements of all sorts of agricultural news 
of general, or extensive local, importance or Interest, 
are solicited from all parts of the country for this 
Department. _ 
Saturday, Feb. 8 , 1888. 
Inteuae Suffering Believed. 
A gentleman in Magnolia, Miss., whose 
wife had been a fearful sufferer from Neu- 
ralgia, made a trial of Compound Oxygen in 
her case. After six weeks he made this re. 
port: “ Since my wife commenced the use of 
Compound Oxygen, she has not bad an attack 
of headache. She was threatened once or 
twice, but it passed off; and she tells me to¬ 
day that her head feels more natural now 
than it has since she commenced to suffer 
with neuralgia. We feel happy that we were 
The Connecticut Legislature is considering 
whether the State should offer premiums for 
the destruction of the English pparrow,... 
_Australia is trying to pet rid of the Eng¬ 
lish sparrow by the bounty process, and 
heads and eggs of the bird come in by 
tens of thousands...A bill has been 
introduced into the Legislature of New South 
Wales to devote a certain sum to the erad¬ 
ication of the “prickly pear” which has 
spread so rapidly that while it could have 
been all destroyed for $250 thirty years 
ago, it will take at least $ 5 , 000,000 to 
control it now.The cash sales of 
lands at the Government Offices in Dakota 
last year included $608,004, while the lands 
homesteaded were 2 187,415 acres. In all, 
4.568,909 acres of Government land were 
taken in Dakota last year, indicaring 30,000 
settlers at ICO acres each. In addition to 
these lands the railroad companies sold sev¬ 
eral hundred thousand acres.Very 
heavy exports of clover seed in answer 
to a heavy European demand.. 
The first Kansas City Fat Stock Show will 
close on November 8 . leaving six clear days 
before the opening of the Chicago Fat. Stock 
Show on November 14. E M. Haven, Kansas 
City, Secretory.The Kansas Wool- 
Growers’ Association met at Topeka on Janu 
ary 18. A Sheep and Wool Exhibition will 
be held in connection with the annual State 
Fair. Officers for the ensuing year: Presi¬ 
dent. J. S. Codding; Vice Presidents, E. 
Brunson, Abilene; Wm. Booth, Leavenworth; 
D. Fox, Wichita. Secretary and Treasurer, 
S. S. Ott. Topeka; Corresponding Secretary, 
H. R Hilton, Topeka; Directors, Robert Soy, 
Greenwood County; G. H. Wadsworth, Shaw¬ 
nee County; H. O. Gifford, Russell Co....The 
Iowa State Board or Agriculture has increased 
the premiums at the next State Fair on cer¬ 
tain classes of farm stock. The first prize on 
beef herds of cattle will be $500; the second, 
$250; the third, $50. There will be a $100 
prize for the best herd of cattle for combined 
beef and milk production.On January 
25 the House Committee on Public Lands 
agreed to a favorable report on the Senate 
joint resolutions authorizing the Secretory of 
the Interior to certify to the 8 tate of Kansas 
7,682 acres of land, in pursuance of the act of 
July 2, 1862, for the benefit of the State Agri¬ 
cultural and Mechanical College.The 
total number of head of beef cattle exported 
to Europe from New York during 18S2 was 
18 226, while of beef quarters there were 219,- 
939; of sheep, 18,183 head; of mutton car¬ 
casses, 46.303, and of dressed hogs, 1,395. The 
shipment of live hogs was completely discon¬ 
tinued. This trade reached 4,751 head in 
1880. The receipt of beeves at this port dur¬ 
ing 1882 aggregated 636,317 head, 4,994 cows, 
190,089 calves, 1,982,181 sheep, and 1.885.752 
swine .In Signor Berti’s plan for re for¬ 
esting Italy about $9,000,000 is apportioned 
among the provinces.The Baltic prov¬ 
inces of Russia are the scene of so much agra¬ 
rian agitation and disaffection that they are 
called the Russian Ireland........ According 
to a return issued a few days ago, the value 
of the Irish harvest last year was nearly £ 6 ,- 
000 000 or $30,000,000, less than that of the 
crops of 1881, four fifths of the depredation 
being caused by the failnre of the potato crop. 
The harvest of 1882 was, however, nearly £ 6 ,- 
000,000 more than that of 1879, which was the 
worst season since the famine year 1848... .The 
Iowa sheep breeders’ convention recommended 
the passage of a law offering a bounty of $10 
or $15 on wolf scalps, and also passed a reso¬ 
lution recommeuding a stringent dog law.... 
.Thursday the House Committee on Mili¬ 
tary Affairs agreed to report a bill authoriz¬ 
ing the President, whenever a military res¬ 
ervation shall be reported to bim as aban¬ 
doned and not needed by the War Depart¬ 
ment, to have the reservation surveyed, plot¬ 
ted, appraised and turned over to the Secre¬ 
tary of the Interior for sale as other public 
landg- . .The census-makers give the con¬ 
sumption of wood as fuel for domestic us- in 
1880 at 140,587,000 cords, worth $306,950,000. 
The greatest consumer among the States was 
New York, with 11,290,000 cords, and the small¬ 
est Rhode Island, with 154,958. Maine burned 
1,215.000, New Hampshire 577,719, Vermont 
782,338, Massachusetts 890,041 and Connecticut 
62s|639 cords. Railroads used 1,971,000, and 
steamboats 787,000 cords. There were used 
in the manufacture of brick 1,157,000, of salt 
540,000 and of wool 158,000 cords. The total 
consumption is given as 145,778,000 cords, 
valued at $321,962 000.The State 
Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat 
crop of 1882 of Pennsylvania at 22,425,- 
000 bushels from 1,495,000 acres, about 15 bush¬ 
els per acre. It is one of the largest total 
crops for the past ten years, and only exceed¬ 
ed in the yield per acre during eighteen years 
by the crops of 1879 and 1871. The corn 
crop of 1882 is estimated at 39,875,000 bushels 
from 1,875.000 acres, or at the rate of 29 bush¬ 
els per acre—about the average of the ten 
years. The estimates of other crops are as 
follows. Oats 34,580.000 bushels, rye 5,805,000 
bushels, potatoes 13,760 000 bushels, hay 2, 
931,000 tons, tobacco 28'750 000 pounds. 
In the report of the convention of tile-makers 
held at Springfield it was stated that the Sec¬ 
retary submitted the following as the average 
price of tile for the last yesr: Two-inch, $11; 
three-inch, $15; fonr-inch, $22.25; five-inch, 
$32; six inch, $41.50; seven-inch, $56 66 ;eight- 
inch, $70 83; nine-inch, $96; ten-inch, $115; 
eleven-inch, $140; twelve-inch, $16<; fifteen- 
inch, $250. It should be stated that tile is 
made in pieces twelve inches long, and that 
those prices are per 1,000 pieces....The 
sixth annual meeting of the Dutch-1 riesian 
Herd Book Association will be held at the 
Butterfield House, Utica, N. Y. on Wednesday 
Feb. 21, S. Hoxie, Secretary... 
An industrial and agricultural exhibition will 
be opened at Lisbon, Portugal, under royal 
patronage, in May, and continue for two 
months. It is a purpose of the managers—the 
Royal Agricultural Society and others—to 
make a special effort to bring into publicity 
the qualities of Portuguese woolen manufac¬ 
tures and Portuguese wines. The nsual con¬ 
cessions in railway fare are made to exhibitors. 
.There has appeared in Spain of late a 
renewed interest in wine production. Recent 
publications in that country in relation to 
viticulture are said to be specially adapted to 
younger and non-expert readers, illustrated 
with cuts, and containing much data useful to 
the vine-grower. The practice of adultera¬ 
ting wines is severely dealth with. 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Saturday, Feb 3, 1883. 
The British Isles have just been ravaged by 
a terrible Btorm which caused the loss of hun¬ 
dreds of lives along the coast and an immense 
destruction of property in all parts of the 
United Kingdom.A famine prevails in 
the government of Kherson, Russia, and sev¬ 
eral peasants have committed snicide to escape 
witnessing the misery of their families. 
Gustave Dorfe, the great French draughtsman 
and painter is dead.... ..Exiled Arnbi ib com¬ 
fortably housed in a pretty “bungalow” of 
Colpetty, the suburb of Colombo on the island 
of Ceylon. His bouse is surrounded by cocoa- 
nut and cinnamon trees and stands within ear¬ 
shot of the Indian Ocean.Cetewayo has 
been reinstated king of Zululand in the pres¬ 
ence of 5,600 Zulus. Many chiefs are dissat¬ 
isfied with the conditions of his reinstatement. 
Austria and Russia are becoming more friend¬ 
ly or rather lesB hostile.This morning 
there was a report that Bismarck had died of 
apoplexy yesterday evening. Discredited: 
but he is certainly unwell—neuralgia and 
swollen limbs. Ccnsiderable anxiety at Ber¬ 
lin about tbe condition of the Emperor who is 
suffering from a severe cold.In the 
West of Ireland the distress is appalling—far 
exceeding the scope of private charity to re¬ 
lieve. Great Fenian conspiracy to murder 
prominent government officials discovered 
in Dublin. Numerous arrests. Informers— 
the marplots of all Irish conspiracies—becom¬ 
ing numerous under the itfluenee of big Gov¬ 
ernment rewards for treachery. Country in 
a wretchedly unhappy and turbulent condi¬ 
tion. Lull in English affairs. Gladstone still 
recovering health at Cannes. Prince of 
Wales there too. England strengthening her 
own power, and weakening that of other 
nations in Egypt....*.. In France politics 
are all in a muddle owing primarily to the 
death of Gambetta, which gave an opportu¬ 
nity to Prince Napoleon to Issue his pronun- 
ciamento against the Republic. He is still in 
prison, where all attention and courtesy are 
shown bim. The Bonapartists, as usual, are 
agitating vigorously throughout tie country. 
Tbe Orleanists are quietly but steadily making 
friendB. The Legitimists are determined, 
hopeful, but few; though there is a likelihood 
they will be backed up the Orleanists if there 
is a fair prospect of success for the combina 
tion. A bill has been passed by the Lower 
House authorizing the “Executive” to expel 
from France any or all descendants of previous 
dynasties, whenever deeroedexpedient forthe 
safety of the Republic. Tbe Orleans princes 
are to be deprived of nil active command in 
the French army, and placed on the “retired 
list." The Republic is very “shaky." Affairs in 
France must be worse before they grow better 
