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JUNE 46 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 9,1883. 
According to the report of Mr. Bnrcbard, 
Director of the Mint, now iu the hands of the 
printer, the yield of the mines of the United 
States for 1882 was *33,500,000 in gold aud 
$46,800,000 in silver—a decline of $2,200,000 
in gold and au increase of $3,800,000 in silver 
as compared with the previous year. The 
greatest comparative decline was in California 
where the yield was $14,000,000 less than in 
1881. In Oregon, where the mining is chiefly 
placer, there was a diminution, and also in 
Nevada, Idaho and Dakota. In silver the 
principal increase was in Idaho, Montana and 
New Mexico, Idaho shows an increase of 
$700,000. Montana $1,740,000, and New Mexico 
$1,500,000. Colorado furnished about $600,- 
000 less silver than in 1881. Of the total sil¬ 
ver production $15,750,000 were exported, 
$5,994,000 furnished by the mines and assay- 
offices to manufacturers; $350,000 by private 
refineries for the same purpose and $24,700,000 
used in coinage.The Massachusetts 
Senate—17 to 11—has agreed to submit to the 
people the question of abolishing the poll tax. 
.In the Pennsylvania House the rail¬ 
road anti-discrimination bill passed a third 
reading after an ineffectual attempt to strike 
out a clause to imprison offenders. On this 
question the vote was a tie, and Lieutenant- 
Governor Black voted in the negative, thus 
retaining the clause iu the bill...The 
Senate straightway passed the bill- also a bill 
repealing the provisions of the act of 1868 
limiting the amount of money to be borrowed 
for the construction of railroads to $60,000 
per mile. The new bill allows a capital stock 
of $150,000 a mile and provides that it shall 
not exceed $300,000 per mile, stock and bonds. 
.In the Pennsylvania House the bill 
prohibiting consolidations of competing tele¬ 
graph companies and escheating lines which 
are thus consolidated was passed finally. 
The Senate also has adopted a resolution pro¬ 
viding for the appointment of a committee to 
investigate the legal relations of the Standard 
Oil Company to the State.No more 
deaths have occurred owing to the terrible 
accident on the Brooklyn Bridge on Decora¬ 
tion Day-. The jury has censured the trustees 
of the bridge for mismanagement in failing to 
have a sufficient force of police to regulate 
the traffic, etc. The severely wounded and 
the relatives of the killed intend to sue the 
bridge managers for damages, which they 
are pretty sure to get........Maryland has 
refunded $3,000,000 of her six per cent, debt 
due in 1884 at 3.65-100 per cent.Lawyer 
Merrick, although iu feeble health and watched 
by a doctor, is making the ablest effort for 
the Government, in the Star-Route trial yet 
submitted,and worries the prosecuting lawyers. 
He finishes to-da.y, and the case is expected 
to close this month.The Marquis of 
Lome in his farewell address has told the 
Canadians to co-operate with us for the salva¬ 
tion of Niagara Falls.People at the 
War Department say that nothing whatever 
is known about Gen. Crook except that he 
went into Mexico a month ago with 50 cavalry, 
50 mule drivers and 200 Indian scouts. The 
reports received are reckoned mere worthless 
rumors, and it is not certain that he has even 
seen au Indian. Gen. Bherman is still confi¬ 
dent that Crook is safe, but expects to hear 
nothing from him for two weeks to come. 
He has no time to “ send back couriers simply 
to notify newspapers where he is.” Two 
boys and 18 women and children belonging to 
the family of Loco, one of the hostile chiefs, 
have surrendered at the San Carlos Reserva¬ 
tion, having been cut off from the inaurauding 
band. The number of fighting “liostiles” 
is between 100 and 150. Gerouimo is in com¬ 
mand, and the Indians won’t fight unless 
forced to do so... A disgraceful scene in 
the Pennsylvania House early Wednesday 
morning before adjournment. The members 
were intoxicated and very disorderly-. A mat¬ 
tress belonging to the watchman was thrown 
from the gallery on the head of Speaker pro 
tern. Mackin, and afterwards Representative 
Gentner emptied a pitcher of water on him. 
Mackin caught Gentner by the throat, threat¬ 
ening to kill him. Members interfered and 
locked Gentner in a room to keep him 
away from Mackin.... 
Several tobacco warehouses cremated at 
Lynchburg, Va,, money loss $200,000; and 
five men killed by falling walls.Fish- 
kill, New York, celebrated the centennial an¬ 
niversary of the virtual disbanding of the revo¬ 
lutionary army by Washington’s order of 
June 2, 1783, furloughing non-commissioned 
officers and soldiers who then struck tents and 
marched to the old cantonment, and from 
there left, for their homes.Owing to a 
decrease in imports there was notable falling 
in the Customs receipts for the 11 months of 
the current fiscal year; the receipts being $10,- 
000,000 less than for the corresponding period 
of last year; but the net loss is only $7,000 000 
owing to the increased receipts of internal 
revenue and from miscellaneous sources in 
consequence of the decrease of imoorts. 
A circular is issued by the Department of the 
Interior directing superintendents of all na¬ 
tional institutions under control of the Depart¬ 
ment to submit estimates of such supplies as 
they will need the next fiscal year. This ac¬ 
tion is taken in order that the contract for 
supplies may be obtained by advertisement 
and competition. This has not been the 
practice heretofore.Sixteen thousand re¬ 
jected models of unpatentable inventions -were 
sold at the Patent Office Friday week for $762. 
.The New Hampshire constitional prohib¬ 
itory convention has adopted resolutions ask¬ 
ing the next Legislature to take the necessary 
steps to have submitted to the people a pro¬ 
hibitory- constitutional amendment, pledging 
the support of delegates to the movement, 
asking churches and temperance organizations 
to circulate petitions to the Legislature to call 
the convention, and depreciating any weak- 
ing of the present prohibitory law.Bis¬ 
marck has been chosen a-s the capital of Dako¬ 
ta. The place has about 4.000 inhabitants 
and is situated on a high bluff on the east side 
of the Missouri River where it is crossed by 
the Northern Pacific R. R. Yankton, hitherto 
the captal, is inclined to test the legality of the 
transfer without a vote of the people. 
In the Iowa town of Traer the City Council 
posts a list of drunkards iu every saloon, and 
orders the keeper thereof to sell no drink to 
any of them.The Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
road will not give the usual reduced rates to 
tent shows wishing to stop in Altoona, Pa. 
The company’s shops are there, and the man¬ 
agement claim that circuses demoralize the 
workmen, swallow up their earnings, aud are 
a nuisance.Barn urn’s big circus tent was 
burnt up atChieago on Monday. It covered four 
acres. No loss of li fe of man or beast, but 
loss of $20,000 in price of tent.In Pitts¬ 
burg, there was a panic in the oil market 
Tuesday, in consequence of a drop of cents 
per barrel. The sales were 4,600,000 barrels. 
..A dog luncheon here—that is, a recent 
luncheon to pet dogs of dainties served on del¬ 
icate porcelaiu—cost $200. Did any extrava¬ 
gant folly- of old monarchical aristocratic 
France ever surpass this?.Disgraceful 
developments from the capital of Texas. 
Forty or fifty members of the Legislature 
were indicted for gambling; and this shows 
how great must be the demoralization of the 
the Texas Legislature. All the indictments 
were stolen from the County Clerk’s Office; 
and this shows how loosely the business of ad¬ 
ministering the laws is carried on...The 
President, Wednesday, appointed William S. 
Rounica, of North Carolina, to be Secretory of 
the Civil Service Commission.The Secre¬ 
tary- of the Interior has received the North¬ 
ern Pacific Railway- Company’s checks for 
$23,025, to be paid the Flathead Indians for 
right of way through their reservation in 
Montana .The overseers of Harvard 
college last week by a close vote of 13 to 11 re¬ 
fused to confer a degree of L. L. D. upon 
Gov. Butler. The President and Fellows, 
however, voted unanimously for him. It has 
always been the custom to bestow the honor 
on the Governor of the State as a matter of 
course; but Butler is personally so intensely 
disliked that the time-honored practice has 
been abandoned iu his case, solely on account 
of this personal dislike.Mrs. Myra 
Clark Gaines’s offer to compromise her claim 
against the city <>f New Orleans for $1,317,000 
has been rejected, and the matter appealed to 
the United States Supremo Court.The 
father of the late James Fisk Jr., died at 
Brattleboro, Vt...The record for May 
shows that the destruction of property by fire 
in the United States and Canada falls this 
year considerably below the average ol' the 
past eight years. The a verage for May dur¬ 
ing that period is $7,577,000. The losses of 
the past month amount to $7,000,000. If this 
indicates that the people ai e growing less 
(ttreless and reckless iu t he matter of fires, it 
is a most encouraging sign. 
Thursday- evening a large number of promi¬ 
nent Kentuckians and other Southern men 
dined and wined here with some prominent 
Northern men for the benefit of the Louisville 
Exposition next Fall. The “ Young South ” 
much praised and toasted.Apropos of 
McGeoch’s refusal of Fowler’s lard at Chicago, 
the dealers there and here say all lard is 
adultered: some much worse than others. 
Competition “ compels’’ adulteration. Pure 
lard seems one of the hardest table delicacies 
to be got now .Violence feared from 
striking miners at Belleville aud Collinsville, 
Ill. A band of 300 to 400 marching with 
banners bearing “Bread or Blood.”. 
The High License Bill passed the Lower House 
of the Illinois Legislature yesterday by a vote 
of 79 to 55—nine Democrats voted for it and 
four Republicans against it—sure to pass 
the Senate now. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 9, 1883. 
Here is the pith of a. u umber of telegrams re¬ 
ceived by different papers iu this city within 
the last three days, mostly- within the last 24 
hours. They- will give an idea of the condition 
of the crops in different parts of the country 
at the latest date. - 
Illinois: Champaign— Wet and cold still 
prevent progress in corn growth or cultiva¬ 
tion. With advancing season complaints in¬ 
crease of poor seed, and there is an absolute 
scarcity of seeds to replant: louder complaints 
than in 25 years. Wheat and grasses growing 
finely. Mattoon: Weather very favorable for 
cultivation of growing crops. Much «orn 
planted a second time. Considerable wheat 
ground plowed up and planted to corn; wheat 
wont make half a crop. Oats fine. 
Arkansas: Crawford Co,— Winter wheat 
in good condition—au average crop. Corn 
and oats, good stands. Cotton thriving ad¬ 
mirably. Grant C-0.—Cotton good; an aver¬ 
age acreage of grain. Ouacita Co.—Crops 
all late, but in good condition: cotton pros¬ 
pects fine. Little River Co.—Cotton and 
farm crops generally good. White Co.— 
Farm crops first-cl ass... 
Wisconsin: Outagamie Co.-Winter wheat 
110—10 per cent, better than au average crop. 
Spring wheat, 90. Rye, 100. Barley, 90. 
Oats, 90. Clover, 110. Weather very wet 
lately. Cora not nearly- all in. Above aver¬ 
age applicable to the whole of the Fox Valley. 
Minnesota: St. Paul—R eports from 35 
crop-reporting stations on the Northern Pa¬ 
cific R. R. indicate that the prospects are 
unusually good. Drv weather prevailed in 
some localities, but recent general rain has 
brought, grain up, and it is now in a fair way 
to stool nicely. Seed breaking progress¬ 
ing satisfactorily-. Small grain up and looking 
well in all parts of the State. Weather ex¬ 
tremely bad for corn along the Omaha Road, 
but excellent for small grains. Early planted 
corn mostly rotted; nearly all replanted. A 
large increase of acreage under grain. Warm 
aud heavy rains of late; wheat fairly jump¬ 
ing; with fine weather a large increase in 
yield..... 
IOWA: New Jefferson —Wheat and other 
small grains promising, though heavy crops 
are not expected... 
Kansas: Leavenworth — Cool, damp 
weather has greatly helped wheat: prospect 
for good yield brighter... 
Texas: Dallas —Saturday’s storm has in¬ 
jured crops 20 per cent.; young corn prob¬ 
ably worst... 
A case is pending in the U. S. Court at Kan¬ 
sas City involving the constitutionality- of a 
Missouri statute which prohibits the sale of 
oleomargarine in the State. Roscoe Conkling 
is attorney- for the oleomargarine men. 
At the Sirupson sale of Jerseys at Hunts’s 
Station, Westchester Co,, N. Y., on Thursday, 
60 animals were sold. The- aggregate receipts 
were $30,340, and the average price paid fox- 
each animal was $505. The rather small bull 
Torpedo, sire Mercury, dam Torfrida, fell to 
John Nicholson for $1,100. A bid of $2,550 by 
J. T, Boyd secured him the bull Rayon d’Or. 
P. W, Arnold’s bid of $825 caught the young 
cow Alphea Lady. J. P. Briudley, of New¬ 
ington, Conn., captured the bull Son of Mer¬ 
cury for $900. John I. Holly had to ran up 
his bid on the cow Lady- Vortumnus to $1,600 
before he secured her. This animal is well 
known as the “Y cow,” on account of a large 
letter Y in white hairs on her left flank. 
The Mark Laue Express of June 4, says: 
“Brilliant weather has had a beneficial effect 
on the crops. Wheat is strong and healthy.’’ 
.The Farmers’ Review of Chicago, in 
condensing its weekly reports from 1,000 town¬ 
ships in the Northwest and Southwest, fimls 
no improvement to report in Winter wheat. 
It is head up, but short. Spring wheat shows 
an improvement. Oats are backward but all 
right. Com is comiug very slowly aud re¬ 
planting is general... 
The Otoe aud Missouri Indian Reservation, 
43,01X1 acres, has been sold for $14 per acre, 
the highest price ever paid for so large a 
quantity of public land.The Porte has 
informed Minister Wallace that the commer¬ 
cial treaty between Turkey- and America will 
terminate March 13, 1884. Thereafter the im¬ 
portation of American meats, lard, and simi¬ 
lar products will he prohibited. Gen. Wal¬ 
lace has protested that these measures are ar¬ 
bitrary, claiming that Amorieuu goods, under 
the treaty of 1830, are entitled to “the most 
favored nation” treatment....Heavy 
snow storm about Denver. Col., yesterday. 
Unusually rainy- week. Abundant harvest 
assured: crops never looked more promising. 
Stock in excellent condition; abundance of 
grass on the ranges.,. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday June 9, 1883. 
There is little doubt but war is inevitable be¬ 
tween China and France if the latter poreists 
in its present attitude towards Tonquin. This 
is the largest of the Provinces of Anam 
stretching south of China and sometimes called 
Cochin China from another of its Provinces. 
Tonquin occupies the northern part bordering 
on China. Auam is governed by an Emperor, 
but the Emperor of China is considered his 
suzerain, and embaasees are annually sent to 
Pekin, but Anam no longer pays tribute to the 
Chinese Empire, The capital of the whole 
country is Hud. The religion is Buddhism, 
though the higher classes profess Confucian¬ 
ism; but the people are not religious. The 
whole population is about 16,000,000, of whom 
over 4,000,000 live in Tonquin. The social 
customs are much the same as those of the 
Chinese. The country is very- fertile and well 
watered, From 1858 to 1S62 the French, after 
an obstinate resistance on the part of the An. 
ameso, took many- towns and the whole of the 
Province of Saigon, which, with their other 
conquests, forms Cochin China, the most im¬ 
portant. French colony in the East. By the 
treaty three ports in Tonquin were opened, 
and further concessions were made in 1874, 
and the present war is due to a disagreement 
about the extent of these concessions, France 
being inclined to exaggerate them and Anam 
being resolved to 1x4 ittle them. France now de¬ 
mands that the whole of Anam should ac¬ 
knowledge a French “protectorate.” China, 
urged on doubtless by Germany and England, 
objects; so does the Emperor of Anam. The 
Chinese army is being mobilized and active 
preparations are beingmade for war—a serious 
thing iu case of a population of 850,000,000, 
even if most of them arc cowards, especially 
as European complications are likely to arise 
from any French interruption of Europe’s 
trade with China. Six thousand troops are 
ready at Toulon to embark for Tonquin, 
if needed.Reports from England 
that Queen Victoria is troubled with dropsy 
and fits of extreme mental depression. 
She is now 64 and for the last 32 years 
has been doing very little beyond crying 
before the mausoleums, portraits and busts 
of the Prince Consort. Fears of a men¬ 
tal and phy-sical collapse.A murder 
conspiracy has been discovered iu county Tip¬ 
perary, Ireland—another “informer” and 
several consequent arrests.Lord Ed¬ 
mund Fitzmauriee, Under Secretary of For¬ 
eign Affairs, declares that the British Govern¬ 
ment will not interfere in any way with the 
disposal of the Alabama claims in Atnorica— 
sensible at last.A Feuian plot discov¬ 
ered the other day to blow up the Welland 
Canal, iu Canada. Plot betrayed to the 
English Minister at Washington by an “in¬ 
former” bore.The Government Irish 
“ informers” on whose testimony the Phoenix 
Park murderers were convicted, have been 
paid their “ blood money.” The Government 
insists that James Casey, the principal witness, 
shall leave the country lest he should lie as¬ 
sassinated, as it won't give him police protec¬ 
tion. Of the independent witnesses Alice 
Carroll will receive $2,500 and Emma Jones, 
Huseley and Meagles $1,560, and all be sent 
out of the country. Alice promised the In- 
vinciblcs not bo swear against Brady and 
Kelly if they would give her $850, but as they 
did not do so she offered her services to the 
Crown.Mr. O’Douuell, Member of Par¬ 
liament for Dungm vau, gave notice in the 
House of Commons, Thursday, that he would 
move that the appointment of the Marquis of 
Lniisdowue as Governor-General of Canada is 
calculated to excite grave discontent both 
among the oppressed Irish iu Irelnud, who 
look upon the appointment as in no sense a 
conciliatory movement ou the part of the 
Government and among the free Canadians. 
_This (lay week Thomas Caffery, the fourth 
of the Phoenix Park murderers, was hanged 
at Kilmninham Jail, Dublin.After all. 
Bismarck is accused by the aiiH clericals of 
ha ving knuckled down to Hie Pope. 1 he bill 
submitted by the Prussian Ministry to the 
Diet consists of a single paragraph, allowing 
the saying of mass and the dispensing of the 
sacraments iu consideration oi recognition of 
the Government’s modified rule iu regard to 
the duty of notifying the Government of 
church appointments.The Vatican has 
abandoned for the present the hope of estab¬ 
lishing diplomatic relations with England. 
The Pope is reported to be pleased with the 
proposed Prussian ecclesiastical legislation.. 
. ...The committee in charge of the Tuke 
fund for encouraging the emigration nf dis¬ 
tressed Ir ishm en have thus far dispatched 
4,600 emigrants from counties Mayo aud Gal¬ 
way. Hundreds of “assisted” immigrants are 
arriving in Cnuada, Boston and New York 
every week.Of Switzerland’!* army of 
205,176, only 3,090 are iu active service. 
.Ratifications of the treaty between the 
United States and Corea have been exchanged 
at the Corean capital. This is the first treaty 
between Corea and a Western power all the 
preliminaries to which have boon fulfilled..... 
....Mexican papers printed Oil the Pacific 
Coast are commencing to abuse Gen. Diaz for 
his friendship with Gen. Grant, and to declare 
that the autonomy of the republic would be 
threatened should Diaz become President.... 
_Suleiman Daoud and Mahmoud Sami, 
who were accused of setting lire to Alex¬ 
andria at, the time of the British bombard¬ 
ment, have been found guilty and sentenced 
to death. Eighteen officers were found 
guilty of complicity in the same crime 
aud sentenced to penal servitude. Betting fire 
to Moscow against the French in Napoleon’s 
