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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 16,1883. 
Gen. Crook, the famous Indian fighter, was 
born in Wayne township, Montgomery Co., 
Ohio. He entered West Point Academy in 
1848, graduating in 1862. In 1856 he became 
first Lieutenant. Before the war he was on 
duty in California where he gained high repu¬ 
tation in fighting against the Pitt River In¬ 
dians, the bravest hostiles west of the Rockies. 
In 1861 he was recalled to the States, and ou 
May 14. was promoted Captain of the Fourth 
Infantry. In Sept, following he accepted a 
colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteers. 
In May ’62 he commanded au expedition 
against the Va. Central R. R., near Dublin 
Station, and iu the same mouth broke up a 
Confederate camp of 2,900 men under Heth, 
in Louisburg, W. Va. He commanded a bri¬ 
gade at the second battle of Bull Run and An- 
tietam. In March, 1863, he was confirmed 
Brigadier-general and in July following was 
ordered to the command of the Second Divis¬ 
ion of Cavalry. Army of the Cumberland, At 
Chickamauga he commanded the cavalry on 
the right. In Feb. 1864, he was ordered to 
West Va.. and iu May fought the successful 
battle of Floyd Mountain. He was with Hun¬ 
ter in the movement against Staunton and 
Lynchburg. On July 18, 1864, he was made 
brevet Major-general of Volunteers, and in 
the following mouth succeeded Hunter in com¬ 
mand of the Department ol’ West Virginia. 
Under Sheridan he commanded the Eighth 
Corps and fought at Opequan, Fisher’s Hill 
and Cedar Creek. After the last victory he 
was promoted full Major-general of Volunteers 
to date from Oct. 21, 1864. After the war he 
was placed in command of the District of 
Boise, Idaho, where he subdued the Suake 
Indians. From 1871 to 1875 Gen. Crook com¬ 
manded the Department of Arizona, At that 
time the Apaches numbered 20,000 divided 
into 20 bauds, occupying a territory 200 
miles square. Of them over 6,000 were“hos- 
tiles” occupying the White Mountain country'. 
After a hard struggle these surrendered in 
1873. Crook was then transferred to the De¬ 
partment of the Platte, where he subdued the 
Sioux and conducted the famous Black Hills 
campaign. Afterwards he w as again placed 
in command of the Department of Arizona, 
and in his late campaign in Mexico has once 
more deserved the praise bestowed on him by 
Gen. Sherman as “asplendid Indian fighter.’» 
Gen. Crook crossed the Mexican frontier on 
May 1 with 193 Apache scouts and 42 men of 
the Sixth Cavalry, with rations for two months 
on mules, in pursuit of a band of Chiricahua 
Indians, belonging to the Apache tribe, which 
had been committing unutterable havoc iu 
Arizona. The band was composed partly of 
“hostiles’’ from the mountains in Arizona, 
partly of Mexican Indians and partly of skul¬ 
kers from the San Carlos Reservation. These 
last had been fed and clothed by' the Govern¬ 
ment and were out on a holiday of carnage 
and pillage, intending to return to Uncle 
Sam’s liberal care after they' had indulged 
.sufficiently in their hellish fun. After a bar. 
rassing march through a rugged, mountainous 
country, where water was often unattainable 
for 24 hours, Crook surprised the Indian vil¬ 
lages about 250 miles south of the Mexican 
line in the heart of the Sierra Madre Moun¬ 
tains. slaughtered many' of the “bucks,” de¬ 
stroyed the villages, captured a large amount 
of pillage collected by the “hostiles” in their 
numerous raids, recovered six Mexican cap¬ 
tives—five women and one child—took nearly 
400 prisoners, including the infamous Loco 
and Nana often reported to be dead, and 
crossed the line into Arizona where lie en¬ 
camped at Silver Creek, 12 miles north of the 
line,ou June 11. In this brilliant campaign he 
could have scooped in the whole of the hostiles 
who fled like jack rabbits to the mountains 
after the surprise of the villages, and were 
ready to surrender, but he couldn't wait, 
as by the terms of the treaty with Mexico his 
operations were limited to the time of the 
pursuit and fight, and after the victory be had 
at once to retrace liis steps. He is now wait¬ 
ing to see whether the whipped Indians will 
surrender voluntarily, and if they don’t he 
will again cross the line to hunt them down, 
if permission is given from Washington. Sec. 
Teller says the renegade Indians guilty of 
murder, theft and other crimes should not be 
allowed bo return to the agency; but that they 
should be held as prisoners and punished for 
their crimes. The children should be taken 
from their parents and put to school. 
The scandalous Star-route trial, at Washing¬ 
ton, after lasting nearly 29 weeks, was brought 
to an end on Thursday forenoon by a verdict 
of “not guilty” in all cases and upon every 
count. The verdict was hailed with loud ac¬ 
clamation in the court and outside. In 
Brewster, “Attorney-General,” the Govern¬ 
ment is supposed to have one of the most bril¬ 
liant lawyers in the country; he engaged coun¬ 
sel regardless of expense; brought witnesses 
from the ends of the land at enormous cost, 
employed detectives and spies iu shoals; offered 
money' and pardon for evidence even of the 
poorest sort, yet all his efforts have failed to 
convince 12 "good men and true” sworn to de¬ 
liver a verdict according to law and evidence, 
that the accused were guilty according to the 
indictment, of “a Conspiracy to defraud tlae 
Government.” Gross waste and maladmin¬ 
istration doubtless reigned iu the Post- 
Office under Hayes, but that the Dorseys, 
Brady, etc., “conspired” to profit by it hasu’i, 
been proven. More indictments are to be 
brought against Brady, and civil suits for 
overpay,amounting already to $300,000,against 
the “acquitted.”.“Bettie and the Baby” 
will have to pay §400 to lawyer Bigelow for his 
voluntary but vain attempt to free Sergeant 
Mason. The fellow brought suit for §3,000. 
but offered to settle for §500. The Am. 
Home Missionary Society’s cash receipts for 
they'earare reported at §371,100; it employs 
1,150 missionaries, has 106,638 Sunday School 
and Bible-class scholars and supplies 2.659 
churches and stations. Year’s total resources 
§398,816; total expenditures, $358,912; $100,000 
are to be raised for mission work in the West 
and South.Several of the highest dig¬ 
nitaries of the Mormon Church are visiting 
Conejos Co., Col., to inspect the Mormon 
colony and to buy more land for converts 
now crowding into Utah—fully 20,(XX) of ’em 
are expected from Europe this year.. 
The Niagara Falls Park Commissioners say: 
“That in the Judgment of the Hoard It t« desirable 
to select and locate as proper and necessary to bo re. 
served for the purpose of preserving the scenery of 
the Falls of Niagara and restoring said scenery to 
natural condition the following lands, (lout Island, 
the Three Sisters Islands, Bird Island, Luna Island, 
Chapin Islands, and small Islands adjacent to said 
Islands In the Niagara River .and the bed of said river 
between said islands and main lands in the State of 
New York, and also the bed of said river between 
Goat Island and the Canadian boundary, also a strip 
of land beginning near Port Day In said village run¬ 
ning along the shore of said river to and Including 
Prospect Park, the ollff and debris slope.'’ 
The amount of property to be secured will 
not, it is believed, exceed $ 1 , 000,000 . 
The Massachusetts House has passed, 64 to 52, 
a bill increasing the salaries of members from 
§500 to §750. The Senate has passed—16 to 12 
—a bill incorporating the Cape Cod Ship 
Canal Company. Capital, $5,000,000. The 
company is required to deposit §200,000 with 
the State as a guarantee of good faith. 
The Massachusetts House has killed the Sen¬ 
ate Bill ubulishiug the poll tax as a pre-requis¬ 
ite to voting.The remains of John Howard 
Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” late¬ 
ly brought from Tunis, by banker Corcoran, 
of Washington, were laid awaj r “for good” 
at Oak Hill Cemetery at Washington last 
Saturday.A large number of jMa¬ 
sons injured during a pauic at a perform¬ 
ance of Nathan’s Circus at Suspension. 
Bridge, N. Y.—a terrific rain-squall brought 
the tent down on 1,500 spectators. 
A company has been organized for the pur¬ 
pose of laying two new cables between this 
country and Europe...A Toronto Judge 
has just decided that a divorce of Canadian 
parties obtained in the United States is not 
good.The Veteran Mining Company 
which seeks to rope in old soldiers as stock! 
holders, is proclaimed a swindle of the flirt 
water by soldiers and others at Denver, Col. 
.The rush of settlers to Oregon is un¬ 
precedented. From January 1 to June 1 there 
have landed at Portland alone by steamer 
from San Francisco, 26.000 passengers and 
112,000 tons of freight. Steamers have also 
had to double their trips to Alaska. Recent 
discoveries in the mining regions of Northern 
Idaho and Montana have also served to at¬ 
tract settlers to those districts.General 
Grant has promised to loan a number of art 
treasures, gathered in different parts of the 
world, to the Louisville Exposition. 
Norman L. Munro, the New York publisher, 
has sued James Gordon Bennett for $100,000 
damages for estranging the affections of Mrs. 
Munro by libelous publications in the Herald.. 
Rufus Hatch “& Co.” are going to open the 
Yellowstone Park iu a short time. Lots of 
European and American “nobles,” capitalists, 
railroad and other monopolists, newspaper 
men and notabilities of all sorts invited to ad¬ 
vertise the park by their presence at the open¬ 
ing. Invitations generally accepted... 
Gen. Phil Sheridan’s friends have bought him 
a house at Washington, which he will find 
open for him when he succeeils Sherman as 
head of the army.Mrs. Howard Hart 
has given the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
at Troy, N. Y., 360,000 to endow a professor¬ 
ship of technical mechanics to bear the name 
of her late husband.Minister Hunt 
and Admiral Baldwin have received gold 
medals commemorative of the Czar’s corona¬ 
tion, and Admiral Baldwin has received a gold 
snuff-box with a portrait of the Czar set in 
brilliants, to mark the Czar’s personal appre¬ 
ciation of the courtesy of the United States in 
sending a special naval mission to Moscow. 
.The only surviving grand-daughter of 
Thomas Jefferson, MrsMieklebam, is in Wash¬ 
ington, destitute and aged, and charitable 
contributions for her benefit are in course of 
collection...... 
The Pope intends to convene a Plenary Coun¬ 
cil of American Catholic Bishops, etc. 
The United States District Court at Austin, 
Texas, decides the Civil Rights Act unconsti¬ 
tutional as an infringement of State sovereign, 
ty, in a ease in which a negro woman claimed 
damages for not being permitted to ride with 
“white folks” in a railway car.Phila¬ 
delphia is arranging for a scientific congress 
in August, 1884. at which many distinguished 
Europeans are expected....... Frequent com¬ 
plaints having been made by people on the 
Pacific Coast that Chinese women and labor¬ 
ers were being smuggled across the frontier 
from British Columbia contrary to the law of 
May 6, 1882, an agent was sent by See. Folger 
last Winter to investigate the matter. He- 
says there are 10,000 Chinaman in British Col¬ 
umbia employed chiefly on railroads, at the 
fisheries and in mines; and thtf although a few 
stragglers may possibly have stolen across, 
there has been nothing of the sort worth 
mentioning... 
Tornadoes and cyclones frequent north, south* 
east and west during the week. One did much 
damage in Long Island.The League 
Island Navy Yard will be closed on July' 15- 
This will throw 500 persons out of work. 
The greatest trotting event for this year is set 
down for July 19, when St. Julien and Cling¬ 
stone, the fastest geldings in the world, wil 
compete on the Driving-Park track. Chicago, 
for $7,000, ShoulJ SblOX be beaten the 
Driving Park will add §1,000 to the profits of 
the winner. It is believed that investi¬ 
gations are now being conducted iu accordance 
with the instructions of Secretary Folger 
which may lead to some efforts being made to 
prevent the importation of paupers, criminals, 
and cripples into the United States from the 
co untides of the Old World. 
» • • — 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 16, 1883. 
The June estimate of the wheat crop of Illi¬ 
nois, made by the State Board of Agriculture, 
is 15,000.000 bushels. The May' estimate was 
20,000,000 bushels. The Michigan crop is esti¬ 
mated at22,000,000bushels, which is 10,000,000 
less than the crop of last year.The Ohio 
crop report for June gives the following per¬ 
centages, compared with the condition of 
crops for the same date, 1882: Wheat, 52 per 
cent., or 28,330.000 probable bushels against, 
45,500,000 iu 1882; barley, acreage 91, condi¬ 
tion 77. Oats, acreage 100, condition 90. 
Cora, acreage 104, condition 79. Clover, 
acreage 72, condition 88. Potatoes, acreage 
101, condition 88. Fruits, compared with a 
full crop: Apples, 87; peaches, 48; peal's, 65; 
grapes, 84; berries, 78.Reports from 
cotton planters throughout the belt tributary 
to Memphis, indicate that there is a slightly 
increased acreage, with the promise of a fair 
crop. All report some damage from frost.... 
....In the investigation in Chicago as to the 
quality of Fowler’s lard which McGeoch re¬ 
fused to receive, an employ!? in the Fowler 
packing-house testified that it was the custom 
to dump into the “prime steam lard” vat cer¬ 
tain proportions of hog fat, Iwef fat, sheep fat 
and whatever of the skim tilings from the tierces 
and canned meats there was on hand. When¬ 
ever there was no beef fat they wheeled tallow 
from the cellar and dumped it in. When the 
whole had been steamed it was run off into 
tierces, which were marked “prime steam lard 
of the James Wright & Co. brand.”. 
The barley worm has appeared in Butler Co., 
Ohio....... .A new trump law in Ohio. 
A permanent association of breeders of Jersey 
cattle has been formed in Kentucky'.A 
canning factory is being built at Waverly, 
Iowa. They are contracting with farmers to 
pay in the proper season 85.50 pur ton for corn, 
$8.50 per ton for squashes, 35 cunts per bushel 
for cucumbers and 25 cents per bushel for to¬ 
matoes.. ..... 
A large honey' crop in California.The 
greatest sort of Short-horn sale will take place 
at Chicago at the end of this month. From 
Mt. Sterling, Ivy., 150 cattle will be forwarded 
belonging to U. S. Senator J. S. Williams, 
Thus. Hamilton, T. C. Anderson and Col. A. 
W. Hamilton. They are valued at §100,000, 
and constitute the largest body of high-priced 
cattle ever offered far sale, or that ever left 
the State, at one time. They are to be 
speeded from Mt. Sterling to Chicago in 23 
hours and from Louisville, in 15hours. Other 
cattle will make the sale a memorably large 
ou©.G. B. Wiilings, of St. Louis, 
backed up by a sy ndicate of lawyers from St- 
Louis and California, is about to institute legal 
proceedings to secure a tract, of 2,700 square 
miles of land along the Gila River, running 
back to the Maricopa Mountain in Arizona 
which M as acquired by Willing’s Son from a 
Spaniard named Perolta in 1874, the deed be¬ 
ing recorded at Prescott, Arizona. The prop¬ 
erty embraces several mines and is estimated 
to bo worth at least $16,000,000. Old Spanish 
and Mexican land grants are always a nui¬ 
sance and generally frauds.A large ele¬ 
vator at. Milwaukee burst last week under the 
pressure of 116,000 bushels of wheat... _ 
Resolution 3 of the Ohio Republican platform 
reads: “ The wool tariff of 1807 should be re¬ 
stored at the first possible opportunity.”. 
There is a. grout movement of cattle from Mex¬ 
ico into Texas. During March and April the 
custom house at. Laredo passed §300,0(H) worth 
of cattle and horses, and the figures for May 
promise to be larger still,.The great 
sale of imported Jersey cattleby the American 
Horse Exchange of this city will take place 
June 28 and 29. There w'ill be about 100 head 
and a “combination sale” of choice stock 
from American herds, in addition, on 
Juue 29. . 
It is asserted that. British capital to the extent 
of thrity millions went into Wyoming and 
Texas last year for investment in cattle and 
laud.Chief Moses is on his w ay' to Wash¬ 
ington to confer with Secretary Teller about 
his reservation iu Washington Territory, half 
of which was recently thrown open to settle¬ 
ment.Creameries are being established ’ 
at many places in Kansas, and it is hoped 
that in a little time the oleomargarine which 
fills the markets of the region will be dis¬ 
placed by go4H butter- .... It is understood 
that the trustees of the State Agrieultual Col¬ 
lege at Amherst are trying to secure Prof. J. 
C. Greenough of the Providence (R. I.) Nor¬ 
mal School to fill the vacant presidency. Prof. 
Abbott, non' at the head of the Michigan Ag- 
ricultral College, is also among those favora¬ 
bly considered for the place. Wouldn’t it be 
atrifleof a descent from Lansing to Amherst? 
.There is a famine in the Kurdish dis¬ 
tricts of Asia Minor. Many persons have 
died from starvation. Grain is selling at six 
times its usual price.Secretary Teller 
paid to Principal Chief BusUyhcad. of the 
Cherokee Indians, the 8800,(>00 appropriated by 
Congress for lands ceded to the Unite* 1 Sta tes by 
the Cherokee Nation. Congress has forbidden 
the settlement of any more Indians in the In¬ 
dian Territory without its consent. Bushy- 
head hopes to induce Teller to approve the 
lease of the Cherokee Strip to the C. S. Cattle 
Association; and is confident of success. Teller, 
however, declares that he is resolved to buy 
all the cattle he can for all the Indians on the 
reservations so as to enable them to be self- 
supporting. It would pay the Cherokees bet¬ 
ter to graze their mvu cattle on the range— 
but still the lease is likely to be approved. 
The Texas cattle drive is growing as it comes 
North. It. is now estimated at 400,(HX) head, 
and there’s little doubt but that’s about the 
correct figure.The cattle quarantine 
station at this port is now open for the recep¬ 
tion of imported stock.. 
The European outlook for wheat is a trifle less 
favorable than a year ago. In England the 
prospect is excellent in comparison with that 
for the last half-dozen years; but hardly 
equal to that in good years before the late n et 
seasons. The M'heat in France is fair and im¬ 
proving. As a rule the outlook iu Hungary is 
good. Late planting of Winter wheat is poor 
aud backward. Home has been plowed up 
and the land planted to Spring wheat. The 
Spring crop is doing finely. Russia is reported 
tut have a largo reserve of lust year’s crop. 
The Winter wheat there is reported fair; but 
the Spring M’lieat is poor. 
Seven dollars for hogs means $20 for mess 
pork, 12“ t 'e. for lard, and 10^ cents for sides, 
approximately.The San Francisco Post 
of June 5 says harvesting had already begun 
in the southern section, barley being ready 
for the header. Crops never looked better iu 
all sections—80 bushels per acre expected from 
barley and 00 from u heat on the ranches. 
_The sales of wheat at New York during 
May are said to have been 173,584,000 bushels, 
against 75,000,000 last year.The num¬ 
ber of cattle, in the last, ten years, has in¬ 
creased about50 per cent in Illinois, has about 
doubled in Missouri, has trebled in Ion a, and 
increased about five-fold in Kansas... 
Recently the largest mule in the world M as 
sold at Kansas City. It was 188, hands high, 
weighed 1,975 pounds, measured 15 feet 
from nose to tail, aud was six years old... 
A fine cargo of 325 bales of hops reached 
England from Melbourne lately. There is suid 
to have been u large emigration of Kentish 
hop growers of late years to the Australian 
colonies, and New Zealand hops are found 
almost equal to the bust Kentish, and are as 
yet entirely free from the ravages of insects. 
.The value of our exports of pro visions, tal- 
lo w,and dairy products during May was $0,565, - 
415, aud for the past five months, $13,838,604, 
The area of barley this season as reported by 
the Department of Agriculture is five percent, 
greater than last year, making 2,350,000 acres 
average condition 97 on June 1.. ... 
