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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. July 7, 18S3. 
John Roach was the lowest bidder for the 
four new cruisers ordered by the last Congress. 
He bids for the Chicago $889,000; the Boston, 
*619,000; the Atlantic, *617,000, and the Dol¬ 
phin (the dispatch boat), *315,000. The con¬ 
tracts have been awarded him.Gene¬ 
ral Butler, of Massachusetts, has vetoed the 
bill for a *2,000.000 State tax, saying that 
$1,000,000 is quite enough, and $1,500,000 am¬ 
ple, and, beside, the money will not be needed 
for some time to come .The house 
and grounds of the late Cornelius J. Vander¬ 
bilt, the half-crazy son of the old Commodore, 
which origiually cost $325,000, were sold at 
auction the other day at Hartford, Couu., for 
*40,300. The glassware and pictures went 
for a “song.”.W. H. Vanderbilt, 
the 200-millionaire, brother of C. J. , Monday 
added $100,000 to the endowment fund of 
Vanderbilt University at Nashville, making 
the total amount $700,000.,..Enoch 
Pratt, of Baltimore, gave a deed of the Pratt 
Free Library to that city Monday, and besides 
drew a check for $833,333.33, which will be 
invested in city fluids for the support of the 
institution.President Arthur, 
Monday, appointed Colonel Holabird Quarter¬ 
master-General, to succeed General Ingalls, 
retired. Outside of army circles Holabird is 
not much known, but he was next in succes¬ 
sion and got the place, though much political 
and social influence was exercised in favor of 
others...The “best citizens,” of Dodge 
City, Kansas, are in favor of tolerating gam¬ 
bling. The business men of Topeka, in the 
same State, have condemned the temperance 
movement......The Post-office Depart¬ 
ment has received information that the Aus¬ 
tralian colonies have resolved to apply for 
admission to the Universal Postal Union. If 
the application is successful Bolivia will be the 
only country with an organized postal service 
not included in the Union.. .Murders 
and suicides, but especially murders, take up 
a great deal of room in every daily we get 
hold of. Sometimes the murders are done by 
lynching, but it is very rarely that one deserves 
mention. To spread nauseatingly minute ac¬ 
counts of them before the people, however, 
is one of the marks of “enterprise” among the 
Dailies.Mrs. Langtry is to get. £500 
a week during her Australian engagement. 
.James L. Jones, Democrat, has 
been elected to Congress from the First district 
of Alabama.The Georgia Legisla¬ 
ture met Wednesday.A revolt in 
the State Prison at Salem, Oregon, resulted in 
the escape of eight convicts, the wounding of 
two and killing of three more on the 4th. 
.Three hundred assisted immigrants 
arrived here on the Batavia, Wednesday. 
Over 100 of the worst cases, collected from 
various vessels, have been sent back. 
.A point of importance to pensioners 
has just been decided by the Acting Secretary 
of the Interior in the case of the application 
of John R. Collett for increase of pension. 
The decision construes the law of June 18, 
1874, defining total and permanent helpless¬ 
ness to mean permanent injury, requiring 
regular personal attendance and aid of an¬ 
other person. This is a reversal of previous 
decisions of the Department..The 
excess in the value of exports over imports in 
the 12 months ending May 31, 1883, is $99,334,- 
649: value of imports of merchandise. $721,- 
068,482; increase over 1882, $197,748; value of 
exports, $820,403,181; increase, $57,488,561.... 
.Secretary Teller is investigating a 
charge that some registers of land offices in 
Nebraska use their positions to force adver¬ 
tisements into certain newspapers at the ex¬ 
pense of settlers. ....Over $1,000,000 
worth of whisky stamps were called for 
Saturday, to be used in the next few days. 
Evidently the overloaded whisky men find it 
hard to escape paying taxes due. 
The Attorney-General ht.s decided that the 
exportation of 1 winded whisky to Bermuda, 
with a view T to its reimportation for the pur¬ 
pose of evading or delaying the payment of 
the tax, is not an exportation within the 
meaning of the law. The Attorney-General 
holds, however, that the tax due upon the 
spirits at the time of exportation is collectable 
on its return to this country.Col. 
Parker having declined the postmastership of 
Washington, Mr. Frank B. Conger, son of 
Senator Conger, has been appointed to the 
vacancy.The net increase in post- 
offices for the last fiscal year was 1,689 over 
1882.The annual report of the pen¬ 
sion office shows the receipt during the fiscal 
year of 53,411 applications for pensions, an 
increase over the previous year of 35,605. 
There were 17,000 letters received from Con¬ 
gressmen.....At .Milan, Tenn., Mrs. 
Pope was stung on the nose by a bee and died 
from the effects of the sting in a few minutes. 
..... During 
the past six months the Boston port physician 
has examined 23,530 “ assisted emigrants,” 
mauy of them too feeble by reason of age or 
other infirmity for self support and who must 
be aided by private and public charities. 
Most of them were without luggage and 
scantily clothed. The steamship 
Nevada brought to this port, Monday. 540 
Mormon concerts, in charge of 22 missionaries. 
The converts are from Sweden, Denmark, 
Wales, England and Norway. The numbers of 
men and women are about equal.. 
Through the exertions of the Geographical 
Society of Quebec, a survey is about to be 
undertaken of the remarkable country lying 
between Lake St. John and Hudson Bay. A 
large proportion of the cost of the expedition 
will be borne by the Governments of the Do¬ 
minion and Quebec. The conven¬ 
tion between the United States and Mexico, 
providing that no troops of either country 
shall cross into the other in pursuit of Indians, 
has been prorogued for one year. 
About 400 teachers have arrived at Lake 
George to attend the annual Convention of 
the N. Y. State Teachers’ Association. 
The Directory of Milwaukee, about to be 
issued, shows an increase in population during 
the past year of 10,000 and a total population 
of 148,000.The “Glorious Fourth’’ 
was generally celebrated throughout the 
Northern States, and a trifle more than usual 
at the South, A large number of casualties 
occurred, of course, from too free a patronage 
of the “ flowing bowl,” but in addition a great 
many were due to the obstreperous celebration. 
In a little provincial town like Chicago, for 
instance, there were 38 casualities, including 
three deaths, five fatally wounded, 23 more or 
less maimed for life, and seven slightly in¬ 
jured. The chief instruments of destruction 
proved to be toy pistols and small cannons.... 
.There were five accidents in Syracuse, 
caused by toy pistols and cannon. The Socie¬ 
ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 
announced that they will prosecute the sellers 
of these implements. Here the number was 
so large that we have yet only a pigeon-hole 
full of installments of the list. 
Mexico also elects a President next year, and 
there is abounding talk of candidates. Gen, 
Diaz seems to be the favorite among Liberals. 
.The court-martial at Yokohama 
investigating the cause of the wreck of the 
United States steamer Ashuelot, which was 
lost on the Coast of Japan, recommends the 
dismissal of Commander Mullau and the sus¬ 
pension of Engineer Entwjstle for one year. 
Lieut. WyckofT is exonerated. Mullan was 
found drunk on duty, and incapable generally. 
He was dismissed under Graut, but reinstated 
in the early days of Hayes’s occupancy of the 
White House. This has cost the United States 
some $300,CKX) or more .It is official¬ 
ly reported that the cost of running the Star 
Routes in the Pacific section, comprising two- 
fifths of the United States, during the fiscal 
year about to end, w as 10 1-10 cents a mile, as 
against 15 3-10 cents a mile during the preced¬ 
ing fiscal year.Ten persons who re¬ 
ceived injuries or lyid relatives killed in the 
Brooklyn bridge disaster have brought suits 
against the cities of New' York and Brooklyn 
and the bridge trustees for damages, from $5,- 
000 to $20,000 each. Lawyers make them be¬ 
lieve that somebody is liable because the bridge 
was opened before completion, and because 
there were not policemen enough to prevent a 
panic.The citizens of Bismarck, D. 
T., last Saturday, in a few hours subscribed 
$80,000 to make up the sum required as a de¬ 
posit by the commissioners appointed to locate 
the capital of that Territory. .Ex- 
United States Senator Thurman's son has 
written a letter stating why he will not vote 
for Mr. Hoadly for Governor of Ohio. 
... .The uew Child Labor law. prohibiting the 
employment of children under 15 years of age 
in any industrial establishment in New Jersey, 
went into effect on July 1. The principal ob¬ 
ject of the law is to prevent the employment 
of children in the silk and flax mills of Pater¬ 
son, where it is estimated nearly 4,000 are em¬ 
ployed.The law prohibiting the 
sale of cigarettes to boys under 16, went into 
effect the same day.The war against. 
the “ trade dollar ” is extending. Notices are 
displayed in stores, etc., saying “trade dol¬ 
lars ” won’t be taken, as the United States re¬ 
fuse to receive them for dues, and will only 
buy them for bullion, and the silver in each is 
worth only 85 cents.Within the 
last three days 80,01 HI gross of boxes of mat¬ 
ches have been sold in this city. Inst Monday, 
the taxes having been removed on July I, the 
price of ordinary' matches fell from $1,50 to 
50 cents a gross, but as the demand was so 
great manufacturers raised it to 75 cents. 
“ Parlor matches” sold at from.75 cents to $2 
per gross. Retail prices.are as low in propor¬ 
tion as wholesale in all classes.John 
Baptist Purcell, Catholic Archbishop of Cin¬ 
cinnati, died at 11.45 Wednesday night (July 
4) at theUrseline Convent, St. Martins, Brown 
Co., Ohio, He was born iu Mallow, Ireland, 
on February 26, 1800, Iu 1818 he came to this 
country and soon afterwards entered Asliury 
College, Baltimore. In 1820 he entered Mount 
St. Mary’s College near Emmitsburg, Md., 
and iu 1824 he went to France, where he was 
ordained priest at Paris, in 1826, Returned 
to the United States in 1827, and became Pro¬ 
fessor iu St. Mary’s College, and afterwards 
President thereof. Became second Bishop of 
Cincinnati, Oct, 13, 1833, and in May 18, 1850, 
Archbishop of the “ Province of Cincinnati.” 
Visited Rome in 1862. and iu 1809 took part iu 
the General Council at the Vatican. As a 
churchman he was a brilliant success; as a 
financier a miserable failure whose incapacity 
brought wretchedness to 5,000 depositors who 
trusted him and bis brother the Rev, Father 
Edward Puieell with about $4,000,000 of their 
hard-earned savings. Father Purcell died ill 
1880, and the Archbishop since then lias been 
leading a dead-and-alive sort of existence. It 
is as clear as the mid-day sun that not a cent 
of the lost $4,000,000 was ever appropriated to 
his ow n use by either of the brothers. 
.The Iow a Republican Plate Convention, 
wliich met at Des Moines yesterday week, 
chose as temporary' president Hon. John A. 
Kasson, who proclaimed the harmony of the* 
party' in opposition to free trade and free al¬ 
cohol. Governor Sherman and Lieutenant 
Governor Manning were renominated. Judge 
Reed, of Council Bluffs, was placed on the 
ticket for the supreme bench, and Jolm W. 
Akins for superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion. Among the vice-presidents of the con¬ 
vention was Addison Rhodes, a negro w r ho 
had been sold on the auction block. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturdat, July 7, 1883, 
The receiver appointed in the affairs of Mc- 
Geoch, Everingham & Co., Chicago, reports 
liabilities to members of the Board of Trade, 
after deducting offsets, at $1,195,000; to banks, 
$3,950,000, against which the lard held is 
estimated to cover $3,800,000, leaving a deficit 
of $150,000 —total of net liabilities $1,345,000. 
Country accounts, it is assumed, will balance 
themselves. The receiver has $200,000 of cash 
assets, and Mr. McGeoeh proposes to raise 
$450,000 additional, and to pay 50 cents on 
the dollar of obligations. It is believed that 
this will be agreed to by' all parties. 
A telegram from Memphis, Tenn., yesterday', 
says the following is the sulstance of replies 
to 350 letters of inquii y, and gives the condi¬ 
tion of the growing cotton crop in the terri¬ 
tory tributary to Memphis, which embraces 
West Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Ar¬ 
kansas and North Alabama. In 166 localities 
the weather during June is reported ns having 
been unfavorable, in 98 fair, and in 86 favora¬ 
ble. General complaint is made of excessive 
rains during the first half of the month. The 
reports from 254 sections show that no land 
has been abandoned, while in 96 sections a 
slight abandonment of crops is reported on 
account of rain and the great scarcity of labor. 
Two hundred and fourteen districts report the 
stand as good. 56 as moderately good, .and 90 
as poor, In 277 of the reports the plants are 
said to be small, but forming well, and in 73 
not so well. In 270 localities no blooms are as 
yet reported, and in 80 only a few. The con¬ 
dition of the cotton crop in 125 districts is re¬ 
ported to be good, in 124 fair, and in 102 poor. 
One hundred and fifty-four sections report the 
crop as in poorer condition than last year, 90 
as in better condition, and 98 as about the 
same. The wet weather which prevailed dur¬ 
ing the first, half of the month caused nearly 
all the crops to become grassy, and planters 
are still having hard work to overcome this 
evil.Col. John G. James has resigned 
the presidency of the Texas State Agricultural 
College. Among the numerous applicants for 
the place are Col. Lane and General Redd of 
Ala.; Prof Alex. Hoff, of Fort Worth; Prof 
C. B. Martin, of Waverly, and Col Spraight 
Austin. Prof. Colo, however, will probably 
be elected. C. C. Georgeson, Professor of 
Agriculture, for two years and formerly for 
two years on the editorial staff of the Rural 
New.Yorker, also resigned his chair at 
the end of the session. There is a good deal of 
silly prejudice umong the students against en¬ 
rollment in the Agricultural Department, and 
it speaks“well for Prof. Georgeson’s manage¬ 
ment that as many as 42 students secured in¬ 
struction from him during the session. From 
intimate personal acquaintance with him, we 
are sure there are very, very few more 
capable of making the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment of the college a success, and on account 
of the college we regret his resignation. 
Osborne & Co. of Auburn, N. Y., makers of 
twine-binders, have brought, suit for $150,000 
in the United States Court against Esterly 
Son of Whitewater, Wis. Attorneys for 
Osborne claim that Esterly & Son sent out air. 
culars to the effect that Osborne was infring¬ 
ing on the Appleby patents used by them. 
It was Orange Judd’s father-in-law, that was 
at death’s door in Florida, not Orange Judd 
himself, as the wires misstated.The 
wheat crop, according to the Cincinnati Price 
Current, will amount to the 440,000,000 bushels, 
against 504,000,000 bushels last year. The coni 
crop is reported in good stand generally, the 
acreage lieing considerably increased and the 
condition averaging well. Many sections are 
suffering from excessive rains. Seventy per 
cent, of the returns report fair to good sup¬ 
plies of old corn on hand.The crop 
prospects in the Williamette Vallej', Oregon, 
are reported as never more favorable. It is 
anticipated that the surplus of wheat for ex¬ 
port this season will be at least, 225,000 tons, 
and may reach 300,000. The population of the 
valley is steadily increasing, new enterprises 
are being started, and the general business 
outlook is full of promise. 
Another failure on account of the McGeocli 
collapse occurred at Chicago, on Thursday— 
that of Whitcomb & Kendall, provision mer¬ 
chants. Their liabilities are probably about 
$110,000, due exclusively to packing compan¬ 
ies. As a specimen of “tricks in trade” here 
is a condensed account—Armour & Co. were 
the fii-st to detect signs of decay, and got a 
confessed judgment amounting to $27,442. 
They found $10,000 worth of stock on hand 
which they bought and turned on account’ 
Their total loss is put at $40,000, and for the 
remainder Armour &Co. garnisheed some 40 
firms from whom money was due. Armour’s 
wagons were busy carting away the stock all 
day on tho'4th,and it was not until the 5th that 
the failure leaked out, when the linn's doors 
were found locked and their rooms empty. In 
this connection a good joke is told at the ex¬ 
pense of Diebold, the safe man. When the 
latter was told of the failure - 'he exclaimed: 
“Why, I lent Armour one of my teams to get 
that, safe removed to his office yesterday, and 
Whitcomb & Kendall have not paid me for it 
yet.” The principal creditors stand about as 
follows: Armour & Co., $40,000; Fowler 
Brothers, $14,000; G. W. Higgins & Co . $5.- 
000; Hately Brothers, *1.000; scattering $50,- 
000; total, $110,000.The duties on 
grain imported into Madeira have been sus¬ 
pended, as the potato and beau crops are like¬ 
ly to fail, and a short, home supply of food is 
anticipated. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 7, 1883. 
William Spottswood, LL. D., is dead. 
Monsignor Capel is going to America on a 
lecturing tour.Bismarck has started for 
Friedricbrnhe, whence he goes to Kissongen 
.The French Government has decided 
to send no more troops to Tonquin at present. 
.Earl Granville, the British Foreign 
Secretary, has refused to comply with the re¬ 
quest of Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassa¬ 
dor. to remonstrate in a friendly manner 
with France in regard to her course in Annum 
.There are fears at Soura Bava and 
Rembang, Java, of a rice famine. Disease 
destroyed 200,000 acres.Placards have 
appeared in Warsaw inciting the people to a 
general revolt, and to alliance with Nihilists. 
.The health of Bismarck continues to 
improve. The jaundice, from which he has 
been suffering, lias almost disappeared. 
The Brussels Committee of the Chamber of 
Representatives rejected the import duties 
OM tobacco proposed by the Government,. 
It is reported that PresidentGrevy has refused 
the request of the Radicals of the Chamber 
of Deputies to commute the sentence of Louis 
Michel to exile.The Lord Lieutenant, 
replying to an address presented to him at 
Limerick,” deprecated forced emigration. 
He believed careful aid to emigrants having 
a prospect of success abroad was bonefl eia 1 
both to them and the districts which they 
leave.The total value of the estate left 
by John Brown, Queen Victoria’s body ser¬ 
vant, turns to be only, £6,800—about 
$35,000. 
The Government Church Bill has passed the 
upper house of the Prussian Diet, and nearly 
all the severity of the Fall laws departs iu 
that vote. It was carried by a vote of 64 to 
16. The effect of these Falk laws—depriving, 
ns they have, many hundreds of t housands of 
Roman Catholics of priestly ministrat ions, ex¬ 
cept such as may have been covertly given_ 
will not so soon pass away, but the Vatican 
should be satisfied.Thp Emperor of Ja¬ 
pan is walking backward after doing more for 
his country than any other ruler it has ever 
had. The newspapers have grown to be a pos¬ 
itive power under his nourishment, until now 
he is afraid of them, and he has permanently 
stopped 11 of them for criticising him. Mutsu 
Hi pi's reign will end less auspiciously than it 
has promised if he allows the spirit which this 
implies to retain possession of him. 
Queen Victoria is said to lie gettiug very mo¬ 
rose. It is reported that she maintains her 
seclusion in Windsor Castle under the impres- 
ion that 1« ., , . . . .,.. , , liv. 
