JUNE 9 
NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 2, 1888. 
The number of “hostiles” killed by Crook iu 
the late battle has run up to 50. His own loss 
was nearly as heavy, chiefly among the Indian 
scouts. Thursday last he was still pursuing 
the enemy 200 miles south of the Mexican 
boundary.The National Board of Health 
will be sadly disappointed at losing the chance 
of controlling the $100,000 appropriated by 
Congress for the prevention of yellow fever; 
the Marine Hospital Sendee is to get it. 
The new Irish National League, the successor 
of the Land League, is said to be greatly 
prospering. It has $125,000 now m Ireland to 
be put “where it will do the most good,” and 
expects soon to have $1,000,000 there. 
Baum has been hired by the Export Whiskey 
Association to look after its interests before 
the Attorney-General, wtio has been asked by 
See. Folger for an "opinion’" as to whether 
the exportation of bonded whiskey is not an 
evasion of taxes due the Government, which 
shouid be prohibited.The Knoxville 
extension of the Louisville and Nashville 
Road will be opened for business June 4. It 
will be the short line from Cincinnati to 
Eastern Tennessee and the Carolinas. 
General Beauregard says the colored people 
in the South are decreasing iu number. He 
thinks the neglect of the infirm and of the 
young is one cause. Crime, he says, has in¬ 
creased among them ..Two hundred and 
seventy packages of adulterated tea were 
seized here by Government officials. The 
Chinese Minister iu Washington believes that 
such action will improve the grade of tea 
seut. to tliis country.There were 22 
deaths during the week from yellow fever in 
Havana.There was a more general 
observance of Doeoration Day in this city, 
Brooklyn and the chief cities of New Jersey 
than lias been known since the holiday was 
instituted. New York city never before wit 
nessed such a magnificent procession as that 
which the President of the United States re¬ 
viewed at Madison Square, Business was en¬ 
tirely suspended, all public buildings and 
thousands of private dwellings were bedecked 
with flags, and the ceremonies in the ceme¬ 
teries were impressive and attended by large 
crowds. The day was also generally observed 
in the cities of the Northern, Central and 
Western States. 
A thousand negroes iu the Cherokee Nation 
are sending to the Secretary of the Interior a 
formal protest agaiust the action of the 
Cherokee Council declaring that, the money 
received from the Government for Cherokee 
lands shall be distributed only to Cherokees 
bv blood. The negroes claim the same rights 
as the Indians.The grand lodge of Good 
Templars held its 20th annual session in Chi¬ 
cago last week, about 170 delegates being in 
attendance. Friday the members attended a 
reception at the Palmer House given by Gen. 
and Mrs. Grant. The afternoon was spent in 
discussing the ruling of the right, worthy 
grand templar that, a good templar attorney 
has a right, as an attorney to defend saloon¬ 
keepers. The decision was reversed. George 
B. Katzcustem of California was elected R. 
W. G. T., Dr. Oronhyateka of Ontario, R. W. 
G. C., and Miss Gertie L. Cushman, Ohio, 
chief superintendent of juvenile templars. 
Adjourned to meet, in Washington, the fourth 
Tuesday in May, 1884.The Department 
of the Interior has detennined to have nothing 
more to do with internal troubles of the Creek 
Indians: the entire matter has been turned 
over to the War Department.Indians 
on reservations with whom the Government 
has no treaty, will not in future be supplied 
with coffee, sugar or tobacco except as a com¬ 
pensation for labor performed.The total 
value of imports of merchandise for the 32 
months ended April 80, 1883, was $733,177,431: 
an increase of $25,153,004, The value of ex¬ 
ports was $811,041,354; an increase of $38,- 
765,573.The receipts of the patent office 
for the current year will be $1,200,000 or 
$200,000 more than last year. After July 1, 
the force in the office will be reduced by 21 
clerks. This reduction will not affect the ex¬ 
amining divisions but will, it is stated, retard 
work in copying divisions.The Prohi¬ 
bition State Convention of New Jersey has 
nominated Dr. Isaac N. Quimby, of Jersey 
City, for Governor.At a council meet¬ 
ing in Milwaukee, Monday, an ordinance was 
adopted to the effect that saloon-keepers 
whose licenses were revoked by Mayor Stowell 
should have an appeal to the council and a 
majority vote should-restore the license with¬ 
out extra expense. A petition 820 feet long 
bearing the names of leading citizens, four 
abreast, was presented in support of the Mayor, 
but he was downed. The Massachusetts 
Senate, Monday noon, passed a bill abolishing 
the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite for 
voting.The trouble with the Yankton 
County, Dakota, repudiated bonds lias been 
adjusted and new bonds issued for principal 
and back interest.During a fierce wind 
and rain-storm at Beloit. Wis., May 25. a man¬ 
lier of live fish, some of them weighing a 
pound, dropped in the business streets, and 
hail stones, the largest four inches iu circum¬ 
ference, fell.Duluth, Minn,, has gone 
wild over the reported discovery of gold and 
silver in paying quantities within its limits... 
... .The Official Journal of Mexico publishes a 
contract between the Mexieau Government, 
and Jay Gould aud Gen. Grant, consolidating 
the Mexican Oriental and Mexican Southern 
Railroads. The Mexican Southern was for¬ 
merly without a subvention, but will now re¬ 
ceive $6,000 for every kilometer constructed; 
equal to $9,654 per mile. The forfeiture 
clause is modified in the interest of the rail¬ 
road company.The shoe manufacturers 
and shoe operatives at. Cincinnati have come 
to an understanding and terminated the lock¬ 
out, which has kept 2,500 men idle for a fort¬ 
night.The Pittsburg iron-masters aud 
their operatives have also compromised and an 
enormous strike is thus avoided.The 
Rock Island and Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy Railroads have been indulging in a 
little knifing the past week, cutting passenger 
rates as low as 15 cents for tickets from Chi¬ 
cago to Kansas City and Leavenworth.. 
The Readjustors are reported to have lost 
heavily in the Virginia elections last week. 
Democrats consequently jubilant; Mahonites 
not showing any depression yet, however. 
.... Mr. Hurlbert, late editor of the New York 
World, does not believe that. Pulitzer owns 
that newspaper. He says that Gould lately 
had a trade in cable properties with John 
Pender, the London cable man, and unloaded 
the World on Pender in precisely the way that 
Mr. Scott originally unloaded the paper on 
him .Dr. Josephine Walter has carried 
off the position as resident physician at the 
Mount. Sinai Hospital in New York, after a 
competitive examination of candidates. 
The Erie Canal opens the season with a very 
largo business, and people begin to call the 
abolishing of tolls au assured success. During 
the first week there were 216.109 tons of 
freight moved, agaiust 147,014 liist year, and 
up to May 19 no less than 518 boats’ had 
cleared from Buffalo, against 214, and yet the 
season in 1882 opened nearly a month earlier 
so that the daily average this year was 43,17 
against 5.57 last..Mormon missionaries 
have converted a large number of women in 
the western part of North Carolina, near 
Rutherfordton, and it is said that the cere¬ 
monies of baptizing the new converts were 
attended by the most, horri hie orgies, outdoing 
all that was previously known of the abomina¬ 
tions of Mormonism. There is great excite¬ 
ment there and the Mormons will probably be 
driven out of the State if not lynched. 
Because the Michigan Supreme Court decided 
that pool-selling was not a lottery business, 
Detroit is being overrun with public I Jotting 
shops, where people risk money upon base-l>all 
games and distant horse-races.Lawyer 
Merrick lias been summing up against the 
Star-Routers during the week.Hanlan 
easily defeated Kennedy, Thursday, in the 
boat-race at Point of Pines........ Striking 
coal miners at Des Moines, Iowa, whose 
places had been filled by colored people, threw 
a can containing blasting powder, with lighted 
fuse attached, into a house containing sleeping 
colored men and their families, Wednesday 
night, by which two women and a child were 
injured, the latter perhaps fatally.The 
Government of New Zealand ha ve agreed in 
conjunction with the Government of New 
South Wales to renew for two years the con¬ 
tract for carrying the mails between San 
Francisco and Australia and New Zealand. 
Should the United States, however, refuse to 
contribute a subsidy the contract is termin¬ 
able at. the end of the first year. 
A panic, believed to have been created by 
thieves, caused a stampede among the visitors 
to the East River Bridge at about four o’clock 
in the afternoon of Decoration Day, when the 
crowd was greatest. A number of people fall 
down the steps leading from the New York 
approach to the inland span of the bridge 
proper. A terrible scene of disaster and con¬ 
fusion followed, and 12 persons lost then' 
lives, aud 35 were severely injured while a 
large number of others were hurt, badly. 
Much fear is felt by the friends of the Har¬ 
per’s High License Bill in the Hliuois legis¬ 
lature that through the over-zeal of some of 
its supports it is likely to fail. Wishing to 
alter a misquotation in it, they “corrected” 
the journal of the House, an ill-considered 
action which has furnished the opponents of 
the measure with au opportunity to demand 
an investigation, and as it is so late in the sea¬ 
son it is feared the bill will be shelved,.. 
On May 28 the striking miners at Carliusville, 
Ill., and the militia sent to protect the mine, 
had a pitched battle—500 shots fired, two 
miners killed: many j wounded, on both sides 
.Indian Commissioner Price has re¬ 
ceived word from Fort Custer, Montana, 
that the removal of the Crows to then - agency 
iu the Big Horn Valley will be made in a few 
days.It is estimated that the decrease 
of the public debt for the mouth of May is 
about $3,500,000. The bond redemptions for 
the month amount to about $10,500,000, and 
the payments on account of pensions to about 
812,000,000.A box has been placed at 
the door of the Garfield vault in Lake View 
Cemetery, Cleveland, in which may be depos¬ 
ited contributions to the Garfield Monument 
Fund, which now amounts to $125,000. The 
trustees will meet on J uno 13 to decide where 
the monument is to be erected........ The price 
Texas paid for the old Alamo was$20,000.... 
The meeting of the Niagara Falls Commission¬ 
ers at Albany has been deferred till Juno 9- 
..The semi-centennial celebration of the 
first permanent settlement iu Iowa, which was 
made at Dubuque June 2, 1883, is held in 
that city to-day. Addresses in honor of the 
occasion are to be made by Senator Allison, 
B. B. Richards, J. K. Graves aud the Rev. 
D. J. Burrell.The steamer City of Pe¬ 
king, which arrived at San Francisco May 81 
brought 966 cases of opium, the largest quan¬ 
tity ever brought to that port at one time. 
The duties amount to nearly $238,000. 
About 400 Mormon converts arrived on the 
Nevada Sunday. Th<5 bulk of them repre¬ 
sented the Swedish aud Swiss nationalities.... 
_General Schenck, who has been cured of 
Bright’s disease by a diet of milk and toma¬ 
toes, will spend the Summer with his daugh¬ 
ters in Canada....Mrs. Algernon Sartoris 
pi de Nelly Grant) will spend the Summer 
with her father, General Grant, at his Long 
Branch cottage.. 
It, is feared at the W ur Department that the 
hostiles will elude Crook by breaking into 
straggling bands aud returning to the reserva¬ 
tions in New Mexico and Arizona. 
Through the closing of iron works at Bay 
View, Wis., more than a thousand men have 
been thrown out of employment. 
Heller Than In Ten Years. 
A gentleman in East Saginaw, Michigan, 
reports, after using Compound Oxygon: “ My 
nervousness, headache and inability to sleep 
have been almost entirely overcome. 1 feel 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 2, 1883. 
The Pennsylvania wool-growers denounce 
the last Congress and Senator Sherman for 
the failure to provide adequate protection to 
the wool-growing interest. They will aid in 
the formation of a National Association to 
oppose all Congressmen who will not promise 
to assist in getting the industry protected. 
A dispatch from Baton Rouge, Ln., on May 
26, says: “The entries of sea-marsh made by 
J. B. Watkins cover 1,159,116 acres at 12’^ 
cents j>er acre, embracing all the vacant. State 
lands in the Parishes of Vermillion, Cameron 
aud Calcasieu. Watkins has also entered 2,- 
700 acres at 75 cents per acre, State lands, and 
60,000 acres of U. S. lands, between Jennings 
and Lake Charles, north of Morgan Railroad, 
at $1.25 per acre,”.The Department of 
Agriculture puts the value of poultry and 
eggs in the United States at $475,000,000. 
This is ahead of wheat, oats aud potatoes, 
and corn is only about $308,000,000 ahead; and 
still jt is an industry not hull’ developed. 
Iu a debate on the customs tariff in the Italian 
Chamber of Deputies, Thursday, most of the 
speakers urged a reduction of the land-tax in 
order to aid agricultural interests, which they 
said were too greatly threatened by American 
competition.A large tract of land has 
been leased in England to educate young men 
for colonial life.The employment of 
cocoa meal in the ratious of French cavalry 
horses lias produced such satisfactory results 
that the practice will be continued.. 
Owing to the fencing of Texan pastures three 
eowboys now do the work of 15 to 20 when 
cattle were “loose-herded.”.High winds 
and extraordinary storms of ruin, hail and 
lightning iu parts of Ohio and Indiana, Man- 
day. Telegrams from the Little Miami Val¬ 
ley, Freeport, West Chester, Ohio, and Lan¬ 
caster, Ind., tell of much damage to crops and 
homesteads in all the surrounding country_ 
In its weekly review of tin- wheat crop pros¬ 
pects, Le Ferniier (Paris) of Mav 12 says: 
“ Iu Europe, Franco und Hungary seem to 
be at present the most favored countries. 
England, with au Important decrease in acre- 
age, promises no good. In Belgium, Holland 
and Germany they do not expect au average 
crop, and in Russia, Spriug wheat looks as if 
it would give a very moderate yield. In the 
uce of such au unsatisfactory situation, we 
occupy ourselves more than ever with what 
is going on in the United States, for on the 
yield there our future market depends.”. 
The bucket-shops have secured a decision in 
their favor in Chicago. The court, rules that 
so long as the Board of Trade allows the tele¬ 
graph company’s agents on its floor to gather 
and send out quotations it cannot be allowed 
to discriminate to whom the quotations shall 
be sent....The Baltimore American says 
that the Standard Oil Company is apparently 
going into the oleomargarine business—that, 
is to sav,the Texas cattle trade, and adds: Why 
does uot this monopoly go into the American 
pork business and challenge Bismarck, a 
monopolist of its size?... 
Ths National Fertilizer Association met at, 
Baltimore Wednesday and Thursday, and com 
pleted its organization on Thursday afternoon 
by the election of the following officers, to 
serve for one year or until their successors are 
elected andqualifled: President.—Charles Rich 
ardsou, of Philadelphia; Vice-Presidents—C’oJ. 
W. L. Trcnholm, Of Charleston, S. C.; John 
M, Glidden, of Boston, and E. Frank Coe, of 
New York; Treasurer—W. H. Gralfin, of Bal¬ 
timore; Directors—Charles J. Baker and Robt. 
Obe;, of Baltimore; John Ott, of Richmond, 
Va., and M. A. Stovall, of Augusta, Ga. An 
attempt was made to amend the constitution so 
as to admit dealers to membership, but it failed 
.The Government bill relative to agri¬ 
cultural holdings in England has passed its 
second reading in the House of Commons 
.Au investigation of the peach pros¬ 
pect in Delaware, made liy the Statistical 
Agent of the United States Department of 
Agriculture for that State, shows that appre¬ 
hensions of damage by black frosts of April 
25 and 29 were not realized. The orchards 
made a fair growth of well-ripened wood last 
season; the trees were healthy and in gen¬ 
eral bloom, though not so full as last year by 
20 per cent. There is a large increase of new 
orchards in New Castle County.The 
Maryland poach prospect, as reported by the 
statistical agent for that State, is a full aver¬ 
age. The trees were in full bloom ou the 26th 
of April, 14 days later than usual, thus escap¬ 
ing the injury from frosts incident, to the sea¬ 
son. The prospect for other fruits in Maryland 
is unusually good....The crop prospects 
of Florida were never better. Corn and cot¬ 
ton are growing well, and there is a mine of 
wealth in the growing vegetables. 
The manufacturing of high-grade sirup from 
corn is being successfully carried on at, Ottawa, 
Kan., and the product is eagerly bought at 
60 cents per gallon .Ou May 31 there 
were 1,140,000 bushels of wheat stored in the 
Minneapolis elevators and about. 360,000 bush¬ 
els in the mills, altogether 41,500,000 bushels 
against. 1,708,000 bushels last week. The wheat 
stored at St. Raul is about 475.000 bushels, and 
at Duluth 175,954 bushels.... Why allow wheat 
to monopolize so much talk? Hero are last 
year’s principal crops, value and acreage: 
Dusltels. Value. Acres. 
Wheat. SOS,1*5,470 $114,602,125 87,067,19-! 
Corn....1,617,025,100 788,867,175 65,659,54 6 
Oats. 488,250,610 1S2.97S.022 18.498,691 
Barley. 48,953,926 80,768,015 2,272,108 
Rye. 29,900,037 18,489,194 2,227,889 
Potatoes. 179.972,508 90,804,844 2,171,636 
Hay (tons).. 38,138,019 869,958,158 32,339,585 
The cotton factors of St. Louis have united in 
a circular addressed to the merchants, farm¬ 
ers and tenants of the Cotton Belt advising 
them to abandon the credit system and to dis¬ 
courage the planting of large acreage in cotton 
this year, and to devote their labors first to 
the raising of grain, cattle and hogs, giving 
a smaller portion of their time to the culture 
of cotton.The largest, shipment of live 
stock tliis Spring, consisting of 711 head of 
cattle and 1,570 head of sheep, has been lauded 
in Birkenhead, England, by the Warren line 
steamer Victoria, from Boston. The animals 
are in a healthy condition. Sixteen sheep 
died on the passage, but uot one head of cattle 
was lost. Eleven lambs, born during the 
voyage, were also landed. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday June 2, 1883. 
Sunday last the Czar was crowned in Mos¬ 
cow amid the grandest ceremonial display 
that has ever distinguished such occasions. 
The Nihilists' threat of turning t he festivity in¬ 
to a tragedy were not carried out,eit her because 
the official precautions were too effective or 
because the revolutionists preferred to give 
the crowned monarch an opportunity of grant¬ 
ing their claims before having recourse to ex 
treme measures. Much popular enthusiasm at 
Moscow, where the nobles have been liberally 
“ honored” with fresh titles and the common 
people liberally fed at the public expense. 
A largo number of prisoners, chiefly political, 
have been either entirely pardoned, or have 
had their sentences lightened. Much disap 
pointinent that the liberal reforms exacted 
by some and hoped foFby many have not been 
granted. Riots in St. Petersburg, “ of no 
political significance” we are told; yet 160 or 
