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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 19,1888. 
The Government on Tuesday', gave a check 
to the heirs of Gen. R. E. Lee, in payment 
for the Arlington Estate, which, of course, is 
to remain a National Come try. Congress ap¬ 
propriated $150,000 for the heirs; but of this 
$25,000 have been retained against unpaid 
taxes now in litigation .Trouble antici¬ 
pation at Milwaukee because the Mayor or¬ 
dered that all saloons should be closed at mid¬ 
night, saloon-keepers augrily refuse to com¬ 
ply and threaten the Mayor.The Flori¬ 
da Ship Canal Company has effected organiz¬ 
ation at a stock holders' meeting in Washing¬ 
ton by the election of ex-Govemor John C. 
Brown of Tennessee as president, the Hon. 
Wm. Windom, vice-president. Geo. C. Gor¬ 
ham, secretary, S. T. Moyer, treasurer, aud 
General Chas. P. Stone, chief engineer, with 
the following directors: John C. Brown, Wm, 
Windom, Gov. Benj. F. Butler, Senator Wm. 
Mahone, Townsend Cox, Gov. Wm. E. Cam¬ 
eron, S. T. Meyer, A. W. Jones, A. S. Mann, 
M. Jacobs, V. D, Goner, and Senator John 
P. Jones. It was announced that $26,000,000 
had been subscribed to the capital stock of the 
company. General Stone will place a corps 
of engineers in the field without delay and 
work is expected to be under contract by the 
first of September. It is estimated that the 
canal will cost $30,000,000 aud will be com¬ 
pleted in three years. The proposed route 
will leave St. Johns Paver about 20 miles above 
Jacksonville and thence run in a direct line as 
nearly as possible to the Suwanee River on 
the Gulf of Mexico, making a tide water canal 
less than a hundred miles in length and deep 
enough to float the largest ocean steamer 
from ocean to Golf.The Civil Service 
Reform work has been divided up so that 
each Commissioner is assigned to a district. 
Commission Eaton takes the principal eastern 
cities, such as New York, Philadelphia and 
Boston: Commissioner Gregory is assigned to 
Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo. Detroit, Toledo 
and other lake cities; and Commissioner 
ThomantoSt. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, 
TT«nsn.s City, New Orleans aud other cities in 
the Southwest. Each Commissioner will take 
with him an assistant detailed from one 
of the Departments in Washington. These 
assistants will be selected from among officials 
who have already served on examining boards 
in the departments there and who are familiar 
with the work. The examining boards in the 
cities will be selected by the Commissioners 
from persons in the service in those cities, and 
they will hold examinations not more than 
twice a year..,.The Crow Indians of Mon¬ 
tana are to be removed to the Big Horn and 
Little Big Horn.The President has ac¬ 
cepted another 50 mile section of the Northern 
Pacific railroad iu Montana, making 600 miles 
of road west of the Missouri Ri ver.The 
Hon. Geo. Stoneman, California, has tender¬ 
ed his resignation as a member of the board 
of Indian Commissioners... A new counterfeit 
five-dollar gold coin has made its appearance. 
It purports to lx* a coin of the United States 
struck at New Orleans in 1843, is heavily 
plated and 59^ grains light.The Navajo 
Indians have just released some 300 slaves on 
the demand of Indian agent Rioi-dan. 
The receipts of the Post Office Department for 
the first nine month of the present fiscal year 
were $22,043,079 and expenses $20,644,445. 
..In the 10 months ending May 1, 417,689 
immigrants landed on our shores; same period 
last year, 551,601.By a recent adapta¬ 
tion of electricity machines when in motion 
can be stopped instantly.The Star 
Route trials still drags on—lawyers still orat¬ 
ing and drawing big, big fees........The 
receipts of that very big dog show here barely 
covered expenses.Advices from the 
Cariso mining district in Western Texas state 
that an immense deposit of chloride and horn 
sil ver has been discovered in the section of 
country lying between the Pecos and Rio 
Grande Rivers. The surface croppings of 
horn silver are said to be the richest on the 
continent.Several hundred Cree Indians, 
encamped twenty-five miles from Fort Walsh, 
in the British Northwest, are preparing to 
cross into Montana to avenge the death of 
members of their tribe killed in recent horse¬ 
stealing raids.Mr Vanderbilt on his re¬ 
tirement from the active management of his 
railroads has been succeeded by several 
of his relatives and his chief executive assist¬ 
ants, but it is doubtful whether they can damn 
the public with the grace and fluency for 
which he has been distinguished.Gov. 
Waller, of Conn., has done well in vetoeing 
a bill reducing taxes on railroads.The 
mention of Prince Leopold’s name in connec¬ 
tion with the Governor-generalship of Canada 
does not take well over the border after the 
“semi-royal experiment” of Lome. 
Valentine’s recumbent statue of Gen. Robert 
E. Lee has been accepted by the Lee memo¬ 
rial association of Virginia, and will be un¬ 
veiled at Richmond June 27...The 20th 
anniversary of “Stonewall” Jackson’s death 
was commemorated at Richmond, Va.. the 
other day by military parades and an “ora¬ 
tion”.Streator. 111., has raised the 
liquor license fee from $300 to $600. 
Rockford, Ill., has put up the license to $600 
and Geneva, which for many years had no li¬ 
cense, now charges $500...... 
Pe<Tple in Grinnell, Iowa, the town so badly 
wrecked by the tornado last June, have sent 
$500 to sufferers from the tornado in Missis¬ 
sippi.In 35 counties of New York there 
had been a decided diminution in the number 
of tramps since the passage of the anti-tramp 
law. In some counties the race is actually 
extinct; in 29 counties the law has been rigidly 
enforced, in six partly, and in five not at all. 
.The New Capitol at Albany, 
this State, has already cost $14,223,000 and 
the architect says $4,731,000 more are needed 
to complete it.... 
.The immigration into Canada for the 
four months of the present year was 22,255. 
.Senator Fair’s wife, in just one hour’s 
time, got her divorce, $4,250,000, the magnifi¬ 
cent family residence iu San Francisco, and 
the custody of her three minor children; the 
badish young man of 30 was awarded to the 
father.At various points along the Un¬ 
ion Pacific Railroad, the question of water on 
the alkali plains has been solved by arte, 
sian wells. Borne of them, in the most un¬ 
promising locations, give out abundant sup¬ 
plies as clear and wholesome as that from a 
mountain spring. The depth of the wells 
varies from 250 to 900 feet.Proctor 
Knott has been nominated for Governor by 
the Kentucky Democratic Convention. 
China is to have a consulate at Chicago to 
protect the 700 Celestials there from mob 
and police persecution.Wilmington, 
Delaware, taxes telegraph poles in the streets 
$1 apiece. The Western Union resisted, but 
pays $850 under protest.Dodge City, 
Kansas, reported to be still in the bands of 
the vigilantes.The flag of Texas flies over 
what’s left of old Fort Alamo at Ban Antonio, 
the Catholic Bishop having just handed it 
over to the State. It was heroically defended 
against 4,000 Mexicans during the “ War of 
Independence ’’ in 1*50 by 140 Texans. Siege 
began February 24; place stormed March 6; 
all the defenders fell but six, including Col’s, 
Crockett and Bowie; the six were massacred by 
order of Santa Anna, after having surren¬ 
dered on a promise of protection—Mexican 
loss, 1,600... 
A terrible week of tornadoes and cyclones the 
past, all over the country, especially in the 
West and Southwest. Many fives lost: im¬ 
mense destruction of property. A partial list, 
however condensed, would fill this column, or 
even this page. 
“ Do not Suffer a Hundredth Part.” 
A lady who had been for twelve years a 
fearful sufferer from Neuralgia, complicated 
with other diseases, makes the following re¬ 
port after three mouths’ use of Compound 
Oxygen: “ I cannot sufficiently e.cpress my 
gratitude to you for being the means of re¬ 
lieving me of so much pain. Do not suffer 
a. hundredth part as much as previous to 
the use of your Treatment." Our Treatise on 
Compound Oxygen, its nature, action and 
results, with reports of cases and full i n for¬ 
mation, sent free. Drh. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 & 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, 
Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 19, 1883. 
The farmers of the Chemung Vallejo, N. Y., 
are said to be discouraged at the low juices of 
tobacco, and will reduce tobacco acreage, 
growing common farm crops instead... 
The Bronson Cattle Co. was organized here on 
Wednesday, capital $180,009, to carry on busi¬ 
ness in the United States and Mexico. 
In view of the complaints of farmers (Jueeu 
Victoria has modified her orders about Spring 
lamb; but then the Duchess of Westminster, 
wife of the richest English nobleman, will not 
allow Sjiring lamb in her households—she has 
a dozen or so.The Belgian Government 
will probably propose a duty on tobacco, suf¬ 
ficient to produce 8,000,000 francs yearly- 
_Henry (.irosjean, French Commissioner of 
Agriculture to the United States, who has 
been here two years, sailed for home Wednes¬ 
day. He considers the Northwest no place for 
French emigrants, but thinks California suited 
to them on account of the climate. He proph¬ 
esies a great future for California wine. 
The World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial 
Exposition was chartered aud organized at 
New Orleans this week. The president, of the 
organization is Col. Ed Richardson, the larg¬ 
est cotton planter and cotton factor in the 
world.Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, now . 
Superintendent of the State Agricultural Ex¬ 
perimental Station at Geneva, N. Y., and for¬ 
merly of Massachusetts, is proposed as the 
successor of Commissioner Loring by the peo- 
j)le who are hunting for the latter’s official 
scalp, Dr. Sturtevant would make a good 
Commissioner, but what of Dr. Loring’s claims 
to that character ?...... 
A telegram from San Francisco says steps 
have been taken to organize a National Wool- 
growers Association. The object is to exert, 
an influence on the passage of la ws, promote 
the wool industry of the country, and repeal 
the law reducing the tariff on wool. A gen¬ 
eral meeting of the growers of the State is 
called at Sacramento, September 12.An 
attemj)t is made to revive the interest in rais¬ 
ing the Ramie plant in the Southern States. 
It. is proposed to form an association to make 
experiments w'ith its culture in different sec¬ 
tions.The farms and stock which are 
required to furnish, the milk supply for New' 
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City are worth, 
at a moderate calculation. $15,000,000. 
The sale of the Jersey cattle imported last 
November by T. S. Cooper of Coopersburg, 
Pa., began here Thursday, under the manage¬ 
ment of Peter C. Kellogg & Co. Sixty-one 
animals sold brought $43,705—an average of 
$717.46 each. This is the largest average ever 
made in the sale of Jerseys, except that of 
the last day of the Cooper-Madux sale, May 
12, 1882, when 52 registered animals brought 
an average of $761.86 per head. On Thursday 
the highest price was $2,800, paid by Mr. 
Darling for the cow Sultane; $2,600 were paid 
by Mr. Shoemaker of Baltimore, for the fine 
old cow Clementaise, by Pedro, son of 
Eurotas; $2,000 were paid by Dr. T. Edgar 
Hunt, Glen Gardner, N. J., for her sou, Count 
St. George, strongly in the Coomassie blcod 
through his sire, and $2,150 were paid by M. 
C. Easthope, Niles, Ohio, for the cow Daisy 
of St. Peters, whose dam is credited with a 
butter test of 21 pounds iu seven days in a 
prominent Western herd. The blood of 
Coomassie sold well throughout, but especially 
through his son Khedive. Nine cows of this 
strain, several of which were bred to Pedro, 
son of Eurotas, averaged $1,498 each. The 
highest of this strain was Lady of Kassassin, 
that went to Colonel H. S. Russell, Milton, 
Mass., at $2,350..,.... 
On Friday 58 animals brought $69,685—an av¬ 
erage of $1,200.08 each, w hich exceeds by $438 
per head any preceding average for an entire 
day’s sale. The highest. juice yet paid for a 
female was given for the young cow Khe¬ 
dive’s Primrose, bred to Pedro aud bought by 
Mr. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, for $5,150. Dur¬ 
ing the two days 119 Jerseys were sold for 
$113,370—an average of $952.68 each. 
The Mark Lane Express of May 12 says: A 
snow storm stopped oroj>s during the w'eek. 
The wheat trade improved, and prices in Lon¬ 
don were somew hat better. In the provinces 
they were 6d®Is higher. Trade in foreign 
wheat was chiefly confined to low grades. 
Some millers expect relief , as a report has been 
circulated that the mills in America are shut¬ 
ting down.The late Iowa decision as 
regards driven wells, in the ease of W. D. An¬ 
drews et al, against George Hovey, is con¬ 
sidered conclusive as to all suite pending in 
Iowa and Minnesota, and will doubtless put 
a stop to the payment of royalty almost, 
everywhere else until the United States Su¬ 
preme Court shall again puss upon the valid¬ 
ity of the ]>ateut..At Indianapolis, Ind., Jus¬ 
tice Harlan, on May 12, denied the motion of 
Andrews & Green,fora temporary injunction 
against Niles, Scott &■ Co., of Laporte, to re¬ 
strain them from using their well until the 
case should l>e finally decided by the LT. S. 
Supreme Court. The rnotiou was denied on 
the ground that only a royalty of $16 was in¬ 
volved, and there w T as no question of the de¬ 
fendants being able to pay that. The Judge 
further said that the decision of Judge 
Gresham, sustaining the patent, which was 
affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court, 
must, remain as the decision for the Seventh 
District (Indiana) until the Supremo Coiu't 
shall decide otherwise in some other case. 
The total values of the exports from the 
United States of domestic provisions, tallow 
and dairy products in the month of April, 
and in the four months ended April 30; also 
of the provisions and tallow in the six months 
and of dairy products in the twelve months 
ended Apr) 30, as compared with like exports 
during the corresponding periods of the pro¬ 
ceeding year, wore as follows: 
April.. 87,484,716 8 6,860.911 
Four months ended April 30.. 37,578,196 36,801,201 
Provisions and tallow for six 
months ended April 30. 53,134,736 53,847,511 
Dairy products for twelve 
months ended April 80. 12,625,150 18.072,968 
.Erie canal rates are quoted at half a 
cent higher on corn and wheat than the open¬ 
ing rates of last, year, although the abolition 
of tolls which has occurred iu the meantime 
might be expected to cause a reduction. The 
eanalers are bound to take advantage of the 
present demand for freights.A bill has 
been t introduced into the British House of 
Commons by which agricultural tenants will 
be entitled to receive, when their tenancies 
expire, compensation from landlords for im- 
jirovoments they may have made on the lands 
they occupied. The landlord’s right of dis¬ 
tress, too, w'ill be limited to a sum equivalent 
to one years’s rent.On Tuesday May 
22 there will be a convention of t he veterinari¬ 
ans of Illinois at the Palmer House. Chicago... 
. .Armour of Chicago is said to be “ engineer¬ 
ing” a “comer” iu wheat,.According to 
the Cincinnati Price Current, which lias made 
extensive investigations by means of special 
correspondents, the average condition and 
promise of winter wheat compare with 
last year, as follows: Ohio, 65; Indiana, 
70; Illinois, 65; Missouri, 80; Kansas, 70; 
Michigan, 90; Kentucky, 75; Tennessee, 90; 
West Virginia, 80. The general average of 
these States is 73, indicating an aggregate 
possible yield of 194,000,000 bushels, against 
266,396,000 last year. Estimating the Middle 
aud Southern States at 60,000,000, aud the 
Pacific States at. the same as last year, it 
places the eutire Winter growth at 800,000,000 
bushels, a decrease of 84,429,000. The Spring 
wheat crop is pnt at 8,756,000 less than last 
year. It tliinks the difference in the reserves 
will place the new season on a jiarity with 
the last. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday May 19, 1883. 
The first execution for the murder of Lord 
Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed 
Chief Secretary for Ireland, and of the Assis¬ 
tant-Secretary Thomas H. Burke, about a 
rear ago, took place In Dublin at, S’oelock 
Monday forenoon, when Joseph Brad}' was 
hanged. All along the man has acted bravely 
and firmly, evidently believing his act one of 
patriotism. Even the government prosecu¬ 
tors, anxious, you may be sure, to disparage 
the accused, never fiiuted that he was will¬ 
ing to turn “ traitor.” “ Remember, Joe, no 
statement,” w'ere the last words of his mother 
—and he died without a w ord to betray his 
confederates......Yesterday Daniel Curley, 
the commander, leader and speech-maker of 
the Iuviueibles, was also hanged in Dublin for 
the same crime. Three more are condemned 
to the same fate within the next month, and 
nearly a dozen have been sentenced to im¬ 
prisonment of from two to 20 years, mostly 10 
years. The Dublin trials ended Wednesday. 
There arc already 55,000 troops and 3,000 
officers quartered in Moscow in anticipation 
of the coronation ceremonies on Muy 27. 
Sir John Lubbock has analyzed the balance 
Sheet of the British government and findp that 
of 685,000,000 spent in 1882, £22,000,000 went 
for war purposes, £6,000.000 for the jmnish- 
rneut of crime, aud only £5,000,000 for the 
comfort, or happiness of the people, most of 
the rest having gone to pay interest ou the 
national debt. 
The French Government is severe on Anarch¬ 
ists: six more of them were arrested at Paris, 
Wednesday, for distributing seditious pamph¬ 
lets among the troops .A treaty of peace 
will lie signed In a lew days between Chili and 
Bolivia. One was signed a few days ago be¬ 
tween Chili and Peru...De Lesseps says 
the Suez Canal Company will construct a par¬ 
allel canal at a cost of 1 £2,000,000 francs. 
Mr. Wnddiugton, French representative at 
the Czar’s coronation, has been dining with 
the German Emperor and interviewing Bis¬ 
marck in the friendliest, w'ay. He grumbles 
at getting only $50,000 to spend at Moscow, 
whence he will return via Vienna, to inter¬ 
view the Austrian Emperor- trying to make 
friends f<5r France or to placate enmity_ 
... .The French imports the first four months 
of the present year increased 84,000,000 francs 
compared with 1883. The exports decreased 
4.500,000 francs.Bismarck will spend 
trie Summer at, Kissengen for his health, his 
physicians having ordered a long aud absolute 
rest.Ou his restoration to Zululaud, 
Cetowayo found some of his former chiefs op- 
K wod to him, being supported by the Boers. 
e has just been defeated by a couple of them, 
with a reported loss of 0,000 men, but is said to 
be preparing for another tight. 
........The Columbian Government has in¬ 
formed the Panama Caual Company that it 
must pay the cost, of maintaining the 2,000 or 
3,000 fcrOops needed to keep peace on t he Isth¬ 
mus. There arc about 9,OIK) workmen on the 
line of the caual and fierce fights are frequent. 
The cost of the troops will lie about $500,000 
yearly—$7,000,000 tor the 14 yemv the canal 
will be building..... 
The revised edition of the VIRGINIA 
REAL ESTATE JOURNAL, published by 
Wm. P. Hillary & Son, Warrenton, Fauquier 
Co., Va., is now ready for distribution. It 
contains a large and attractive list of property. 
Cojiies of Journal will lie sent free to any ad¬ 
dress. Stock furrns a specialty,— -Adv. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective cath¬ 
artic medicine. Sold by druggists everywhere 
at 25 cts. per box. -Adv. 
See Johnson & Fields, Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement, issue of May 19, page 323.— Adv. 
Cleanse the scalp from scurf and dandruff, 
aud keep the hair pliable, by the use of Hall’s 
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Ren ewer.— Adv. 
♦ » ♦ ■ — 
The good effects of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla on a 
debilitated jiorson are felt at once, and a cure 
follows its use.— Adv. 
-- 
* Thousands of women have been restored 
to perfect health by the use of Lydia E. Pink- 
ham’s Vegetable Compound.— Adv. 
