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JUNE 80 
Wans of !l)o Work. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 28, 1883. 
The abortive Star-route trials are reported 
to have cost the Government over .$(>50,000. 
The defendants probably had to pay nearly 
half as much for victory as the Government 
paid for defeat. The lawyers who gobbled up 
most of the outlay from both sides, are going 
in for more, by instituting other eases. There’s 
no doubt that somebody ought to get punished, 
but a conviction is mighty difficult with a 
Washington jury. Indictments still pending 
against Brady, John Dorsey. F. 1’. Lilly, Cl. F. 
Brott, John N. Miunix. C, H. Dickson, James 
W. Donohue, William W. Jackson, A. E. 
Boone, A. G. Cabell, J. B. Henkerson, W. S. 
Barringer. Alvin O. Buck, Edwin G, Sweet 
and W. Pitt Kellogg. Here are some items bn 
which a good deal more will have to be added 
when all accounts are made up Special 
counsel—B. H. Brewster, services, $5,000; 
George Bliss, services and expenses, $50,813.55; 
R. L. Merrick’s services, $32,500; W. W. Ker, 
services and expenses. $28,970; W. A. Cook, 
services, $5,250; A. M. Gibson, $5,000; H. H. 
Wells (jury bribery cases). $2,622,45—a total 
of $130,156. Witnesses’ fees and travelling ex¬ 
penses to March 13, 1883, $79,570.72. Jurors’ 
fees, first trial, $2,852; jurors’ fees, second 
trial, $4,590—a total of $0,888. Reporting 
first trial ,$3,508; reporting second trial, $6,300 
—a total of $9,808. Printing record, first trial, 
$7,240.84; printing record, second trial 
(estimated), $12,000—a total of $19,240.84. 
Detective service, flirt trial, $4,381.01; de_ 
teotive service, second trial, $4,911.08. p, H. 
Woodward, Post Office Inspector (estimated), 
$7,076. These sums aggregate $261,318.25 
.United States Shipping Commissioner 
Duncan, who divides the fees of his office 
—nearly $20,000—between himself and his 
three "dear boys,” has sued the N. Y. 
Times for libel for talking of his con¬ 
duct in plain, vigorous language.Hill 
United States Architect, is under investigation 
for having overcharged Uncle Sam a trifle of 
$5,000,000 in his contracts for erecting public 
buildings.The President has appointed 
Isaac H. Bromley of Connecticut, George G. 
Haven of New York, and Arthur L. Conger of 
Ohio, Government directors of the Union 
Pacific Railroad. All except Conger served 
last year.“ Assisted” Irish immigrants 
still pouring in here. They get from the 
English Government $25 apiece. 
James Frederick Wood, fifth Bishop and first 
Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, died 
Wednesday night at 10 o’cloc k. He was born 
in Philadelphia April 27,1813, Ins parents hav- 
ng come from England four years before his 
birth. Father, merchant and importer; son 
educated in England for five years, Served 
11 years in banks in Cincinnati. Became 
Catholic April 7,1836. After seven years’ study 
for the priesthood at Rome, was ordained 
March 24, 1S44; same year returned to this 
country and served in Cincinnati till April 26, 
1851, when be was appointed Coadjutor Bishop 
of Philadelphia; became lull Bishop Jan. 5 > 
I860, and Archbishop June 17, 1875. A man 
of great executive ability and financial 
capacity.For a city to be governed by 
the whiskey element is had enough, but to be 
ruled by whiskey soaks and grog venders i b 
unendurable degradation. But this is the 
position of Chicago as described by the 
Tribune.Harvard on Wednesday easily 
beat Columbia in the University boat race— 
H. 32 lengths ahead.The St Louis 
School Board has ordered that after Septem¬ 
ber 1 next,corporal punishment shall be abolish¬ 
ed in the public schools of that city.... A bill 
which has just passed the Michigan Legisla¬ 
ture requires all teachers in that State* to pass 
an examination in physiology and hygiene, 
with particular reference to the effects of 
alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon 
the human system.Postmaster General 
Gresham has a basket for the heads uf post- 
office officials who are careless in the delivery 
of newspapers.Proceedings have been 
commenced to disbar Kate Kane, the Mdwuu. 
kee female lawyer.Gen. Cassius M. 
Clay of Kentucky is the same fiery Cassius of 
old. Some one having stolen some, of his 
sheep, he offers a reward of $100 " for the dis¬ 
covery of the thief—dead or alive.”. 
Japan has just received a draft for $786,000 
from our government for money wrongfully 
exacted some years ago.The cyclone re¬ 
cord is a long one again this week. . The 
contract for erecting buildings for an Indian 
training school at Lawrence, Kan., is awarded 
to a firm in that city, at $44,919, the buildings 
to be similar to those at Carlisle, Pa. 
The Massachusetts Senate, 35 to 7, killed the 
House bill to increase the salaries of legislator- 
50 per eet.The Milton hydraulic mining 
company’s reservoir at Smartsville Cal., con¬ 
taining 650,000.000 cubic feet of water, burst 
Monday. Tbe rush of water was irresistible 
and swept everything in its path. It raised 
the middle Yuba River 100 feet. The roar of 
mshing v'aters was heard several miles away. 
It carried away all bridges and several lives 
are reported lost. Loss on reservoir, $75,000. 
.United States Judge McCrary’s 
opinion in the case of the Philbrook heirs, who 
claim ownership to land on which nearly all 
of the city of Little Rock, Ark., was built, is 
that whatever may have been the original 
merit of the claim, the claimants slept too 
long on their rights and now* are without 
remedy.At the Ohio Democratic Con" 
vention in Columbus Thursday, Judge Iloadly 
was nominated for Governor—used to be a Re¬ 
publican. The platform commends a tariff 
for revenue limited to the necessities of the 
Government, condemns the reduction on wool 
as a discrimination against agricultural in" 
terests, favors a graded license system in re¬ 
gulating the liquor traffic and protection of 
Americans abroad, and demands a purification 
of the Civil Service.By the treaty of 
1866 the Choctaws and Cbiekasaws agreed to 
emancipate their negro slaves within two 
years, and give them equal rights for which 
the United States were to give them $800,000. 
If the Indians failed to adopt the negroes the 
m< mey was to be used to settle the latter else- 
where. The Choctaws failed to adopt them 
aud the government failed to remove them, 
so that they have remained there ever since 
without citizenship, right or title to land. On 
the 14th the Choctaws met in council aud de. 
cided to adopt the negroes. 
Gcu. Crook wishes the surrendered Chiriea- 
huas to be allowed to settle in the San Carlos 
Reserva tion, aud not to be punished for passed 
outrages. Any attempt to hold them respon¬ 
sible for their crimes will drive them back to 
the cliffs and gorges of the mountains where 
they will fight till the last man is dead. The 
red-handed murderers are no worse than the 
6,000 Appaches he put on the reservation ten 
years ago, and if these are put on the other 
Indians will watch them jealously to prevent 
another outbreak through four of the ven¬ 
geance of the ueighboriug white settlers who 
threatened to "wipeout” the reservation 
some weeks ago. Gen. Scofield recommends 
that for the present at least their management 
should be left entirely in the hands of Gen 
Crook, and that both the War aud Interior De¬ 
partments give him full authority’ and means 
to carry out his policy, " This seems to be the 
only possible way to a successful issue.” Sec, 
Teller says that while the Interior Department 
is ready to educate the children of the cap¬ 
tured Indians and allow the unmarried women 
to go on the reservation, the others shall not 
go, because the Indians now upou tbe reserva¬ 
tion, the Indian agents and the white settlers 
in the surrounding country’ do not want them 
there; because putting them there would prac¬ 
tically be turning them loose, 1 >eeuu.se they 
would only remain until next Spring, when 
they would go upon the warpath again; aud 
then his appropriations for the support of In¬ 
dians would not allow of his keeping the four 
or five hundred of Crook's captives. 
In Nebi-aska delegates to the National Anti- 
Monopoly Convention were elected in all the 
districts of the State yesterday.Heavy’ 
rains reported throughout; most of the West 
during the week, raising the rivers and streams 
aud doing considerable damage to crops. 
A telegram this morning announces unpre¬ 
cedented rains in Southern Nebraska. In 
Pawnee County alone sixteen lives were lost 
by r floods aud several others in adjoining 
counties..... 
The " June Rise” in the Missouri due chiefly 
to the melting snows of the Rocky Mountains 
discharged into the Platte, the Cheyenne, the 
Yellowstone and the upper Missouri valleys^ 
lias been additionally swollen by the rains, 
and has attained unusual bight,. The Upper 
Mississippi having been also swollen, after the 
junction of the two at Alton, Ill., the flood 
swept down to St. Louis with great force. Im¬ 
mense da mage has been done to crops on the 
low lands on both sides of the river, but espe¬ 
cially in Illinois. 
The President has appointed Captain S. L. 
Phelps oi the District of Columbia, Minister 
to Peru, and Mr. Richard Gibbs, of New 
York, Minister to Bolivia. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 23, 1883. 
The Texas Land Office Commissioner states 
that peddlers of Texas land scrip are still sell- 
iug large amounts in the Northern States at 
good prices. This is a swindle, as the prices 
in Texas are nominal.The Glens Falls Live 
Stock company was incorporated in Albany, 
Tuesday to raise, improve and breed sheep, 
horses, horned cattle and domestic animals. 
Part of the business is to be curried on in Bent 
County, Colorado, uud part in Glens Falls, N. 
Y. where the principal office is located. The 
duration of the company is 20 years, and the 
capital stock $35,000.The Iowa crop pros¬ 
pects compiled by’ John R. Shaffer, Secretary 
of the State Agricultural Society, and based 
on reports from every county’ in the State 
from June 1 to 20 inclusive, are as follows: 
Corn—In 569 townships the area planted is re¬ 
ported as 3,424,710 acres, and 7:24 townships 
place the average condition of the crop at 82 
per cent, or 13 per cent better than at the cor¬ 
responding time last year. In the acreage 
there is a marked increase. Many complaints 
of poor seed have been made aud much re¬ 
planting has been done, most of the seed 
planted early having rotted. The late plant¬ 
ing gives more promise of a crop. The con¬ 
tinued rains of the past w eek will in all prob¬ 
ability reduce this percentage. In the wheat 
report, wdtb the most favorable weather for 
the future, the. crop will not bo a full one. In 
round numbers, placing the area at 2,000,060 
acres, the product is given a-s 20,060,000 bush¬ 
els. The condition pf Winter wheat is 87 per 
cent, and of Spring wheat, KM) per cent, or as 
compared with last year, 10 per cent better. 
With a favorable season and no injuries by 
insects, the product will reach 22,000,000 
bushels. The condition of oats is 105 per cent. 
This crop promises to be the largest ever har¬ 
vested in the State, the probable yield being 
70,000.0(H) bushels. The condition of other 
crops in per cent is as follows: Winter rye, 
94; Spring rye, 101; Winter barley; 95; Spring 
barley, 100; broom corn, 85; amber cane, 84; 
flax, 9S; meadows and pastures98; tobacco, 91; 
millet, 87; potatoes, 07; sweet potatoes, 92; 
onions, 100; apples. 80; peaches, 46; plums 77; 
cherries, 65; grapes, 80; currants, 91; rasp¬ 
berries, 86: strawberries, 93; blackberries, 76; 
and gooseberries, 77. All small grains aud 
grasses promise a bountiful yield, with good 
weather from this time. Iowa will not suffer 
for want of her staple crop, torn, and the 
people are hopeful.YV. H, Vander¬ 
bilt, weighing 210 pounds, seated in a carriage 
weighing 212 pounds, was drawn one mile on 
the gentlemen’s driving park, New York, 
Friday, in the unprecedented team time of 
2;15j s . Maud 8. aud Aldine were the pro¬ 
pellers.Telegrams from a number of 
points in Virginia and North Carolina say that 
heavy rains there recently have been of great 
benefit to all the crops. The putting out of 
tobacco plauts has been very general, and the 
prospects are that the crop will be as large 
aud of equally as good quality as last year. 
Wheat hue improved very much in the past 
two weeks, aud, w hile the crop will not be as 
large as that of last year, the quality will be 
better. Coi n isulso in a flourishing condition. 
.The (Southern Exposition at Louisville, 
Ky., offers a premium of $1,000 for the best 
bale of long staple cotton, $500 for the second 
best, aud $250 for third best. The same prem¬ 
iums are duplicated for the best three bales of 
short staple, $500 for the best exhibit of Sea 
Island cotton, and $250 for second best. 
These cotton premiums offered make the list 
foot up $5,150, A Louisville cotton house will 
increase the amount to $10,000.The cor¬ 
respondents of the Kansas Board of Agricul¬ 
ture report that although the wheat acreage 
is short of last year, the yield per acre will 
be above the average for the past five years. 
The area of coin is greater than ever before, 
and although backward in some localities, the 
Btato has never had such a bright prospect 
for a big corn crop.Arizona has 
some good pasture lauds, on which, it is es¬ 
timated, there are 2,000,000 sheep and 200,000 
Liead of cattle grazing. New Mexico has 10,- 
000,000 sheep, and the wool clip of that Ter¬ 
ritory for 1882 is reported ftt30,000,000 poundB 
which was shipped to Eastern market*;during 
the year. It looks as if New Mexico would 
be a good place for a few woolen mills. 
1 be price ol stock cattle,” says the Denver 
Journal of Commerce, " is 10 per cent higher 
in Colorado this year than it was lust, aud 
•>U per cent higher than three yours ago. 
Eight years ago, a cow and a calf were held 
to be worth from $12 to $15. To-day they 
would sell quickly at $40”..... 
A consignment of 120 Holstein cattle was re¬ 
ceived at this port on Wednesday. The 
animals were consigned to Powell Bros, and 
Smiths &, Rowell, of (Syracuse, N Y. Collec¬ 
tor Robertson refused to forw ard them unti| 
they hail passed through the Government 
Cattle Quarantine Station, at Garfield, N. J. 
although a direct passage had been requested 
by Congressman Frank Hiscock. Thursday 
the Collector received directions from Wash¬ 
ington for the forwarding of the cattle, and 
they were sent to Syracuse. The Tribune 
and Farmer, of Philadelphia, we are told, has 
been bought at Sheriff’s sale by E. Duncan 
Huiffen, advertising agent, of this city. 
The Genuantow'n Telegraph has been bought 
by George Washington Childs, owner of the 
Philadelphia Ledger.The exports of the 
products of our packing-houses and dairy- 
farms during tli© five months ending May 31 
were $48,838,604. For the same period last 
year the exports were $378,0(H) more. 
During the year 1882 there were imported into 
the United States nearly $12,000,000 of eggs at 
an average price of 15 cents per dozen. 
A German died on Thursday after horrible 
convulsions at Joliet, Ill., of trichinosis. 
Several families were tormented with it lately 
near Plainfield in the same county. Scorns to 
be a good deal of trichina.* in hogs thereabouts. 
.The penalty of being a tramp in Ohio. 
according to the new law, is imprisonment 
for from one to three years. First conviction 
at Cincinnati, Thursday.First new 
wheat, which was unusually clean, arrived in 
Petersburg, Va., Thursday—raised iu Din- 
wkldio Co. Crop about a month later than 
last year.Reports that the silk crop is 
very short in China and that silk is bound to 
go up. Probably a trick of silk dealers. 
Western Michigan will attack cattle-shows in 
the East this Fall with an advertising car. The 
plan is to put specimens of grain, fruit, pump¬ 
kins, ores and other products in the car to 
show the vegetable and mineral riches of the 
region, take a professor or two from the agri¬ 
cultural college, along to give the thing tone, 
and visit as mauy fairs as possible in New 
England and * the Middle States,.Accor¬ 
ding to recent statistics, tbe total export of 
apples from the United States uud the Canadas 
for the season of 188*2-3 was 365,107 barrels. 
They were shipped from the different ports as 
follows: New York, 160,083 barrels: Boston. 
99.866; Montreal. 65,104; Annapolis, 10,893; 
Halifax, 10,632; Philadelphia, 479. Of these 
all but 6.388 barrels went to England and 
Scotland, Liverpool and Glasgow being the 
principal porta of entry. Over 15,000 barrels 
were shipped from New York and 11,000 bar¬ 
rels, from Boston in the largest-shipping week 
of the season.. 
New Virginia wheat sold in the Baltimore and 
Lynchburg markets brought $1.15 for damp 
and $1.60 for prime yesterday. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday June 23, 1888. 
At Sunderland, Comity Durham, this day 
week, several thousand children, mostly under 
12, were gathered in Victoria Hall to see some 
conjuring. After the play, the body of the 
hall had been entirely cleared of the audience, 
when 1,200 little ones came rushing down 
stairs. At the top of the first flight was a 
door which opened only 20 inches, having been 
partly closed to facilitate ticket-collecting 
earlier. One of the children fell, others fell 
over the prostrate body, a panic seized on 
those behind who rushed forward pell mell 
struggling, stumbling, falling until there was 
a horrible, moaning, bleeding pile of crushed, 
battered, suffocating, dying and dead children 
ranging fiom four to fourteen years. When 
help came over 200 wounded, more or less 
severely, were rescued from the heap, but 188 
crushed little bodies with black, swolleu faces 
lay awaiting identification. Some families 
lost two or three little ones, some nil. Grief 
and lamentation widespread, soldiers called 
out to preserve order among 20,000 agonized, 
horror-stricken people surrounding the Hall. 
The Queen telegraphed the Mayor expressing 
her grief. The Empress of Germany cabled 
the Queen her condolences. High and low 
all the world over, lament the death of the 
Innocents and sympathize with the bereaved. 
.Great floods are prevailing in Silesia 
aud the northern part of Austria.The 
Storthing has rejected a proposal to increase 
the allowance of the Crown Prince of Nor¬ 
way.A French adventurer on trial in 
Belgium for obtaining money on false pre 
fences, swears that lie obtained large sums of 
money from M. Gnmbettn and others for pro¬ 
curing important German papers aud for 
bribing members of the Chamber of Deputies 
.An Irish Agassi nation Society for 
"removing” objectionable landlords, is being 
investigate! at Mullingar.Over 4(H) 
slaves illegally held iu Cuba have been freed 
by Captain General Prendergast. In t he 
racing at Htookbridge, Iroquois, "nominated” 
by tin* Prince of Wales, won the Stockbridge 
cup, Sachem ran second in the race for the 
Beaufort hundicap, and Aranza won the John¬ 
stone plate. All these belong to Mr. Loril- 
lard. With this exception American race¬ 
horses in England have had poor success this 
year.Government has given James 
Carey, the informer, the option of proceeding 
to one of the British colonies or of being re¬ 
leased and allowed to remain in Dublin with¬ 
out police protection—_Tin French Gov¬ 
ernment owns altogether 2,316 miles of rail¬ 
roads, which, as a whole, pay very badly. 
.According to an English paper, Mr. 
Langtry is rusticating in Wales on a weekly 
stipend of $15.85 from Mi’s. Langtry. 
The movement in favor of woman suffrage iu 
England appeal’s to be gaining strength. A 
memorial to the Prime Minister is signed by 
108 Liberal Members, including the "most 
cautious W higs and most gushing Radicals,” 
