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f£ntrs of ttye Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. Aug. 4,1888, 
A despatch from Gilroy, Cal,, reported two 
shocks of earthquake Monday. A rumbling 
sound was distinctly heard....-The earn¬ 
ings at Sing Sing prison, N. Y., for the 
month of July, are $19,091.43, and the expendi¬ 
tures $14,080.78, leaving a net profit of $5,- 
010.95.A fierce struggle for the elec¬ 
tion of a United States Senator to succeed 
Rollins, has been raging among the Repub¬ 
licans in the New Hampshire Legislature for 
the last seven weeks. Rollins saw he had uo 
chance after a fortnight’s fruitless balloting, 
and resigned; then “Bill” Chandler, Secretary 
of the Navy, hastened home cock-sure of an 
election; but his “boom” never amounted to 
much, and steadily fizzled out. Every Repub¬ 
lican in any way prominent in the Granite 
State appears to ha ve been nominated at one 
time or another. The Democrats never hav¬ 
ing had a chance, stuck solidly to their “first 
love.” At last on Thursday, on the 42nd ballot 
Austin F. Pike was elected, by the following 
vote:—Whole number voting, 315; necessary 
for a choice. 158: Edward H. Rollins, 1; Aaron 
F. Stevens, 1; William S. Ladd, 1; Gilman 
Marston, 19; Harry Bingham, 112, Democrat: 
Austin F. Pike, 181. Mr. Pike, having a ma¬ 
jority, was declared elected United States 
Senator for six years from March 4th, 1883. 
The result of the ballot was greeted with 
tumultuous applause. 
In Union, S. C., SO persons were poisoned at 
a festival Saturday, by ice cream carelessly 
prepared in a brass kettle. There were no 
deaths.In Clinton, Mass., 25 persons at 
the boarding house of Mrs. Lynch have been 
attacked with a painful illness, caused by eat. 
ing canned blueberries.Five suits for 
damages and penalties have been commenced 
in Philadelphia against the Western Union 
Telegraph Company for delay in transmitting 
messages.Beer and song seem to go 
well together, if we are to judge by the sale of 
the beverage during the recent Saengerfest at 
Buffalo. This musical festival lasted one week, 
during which the consumption of lager ex¬ 
ceeded that for the corresponding week of last 
year by 2,130 barrels. This is equivalent to an 
excess of 80,000 gallons or 1,050.480 glasses 
over the ordinary consumption. The expen. 
diture for beer was §52,824 more than usual. 
Besides this an immense quautity of wine, 
alcoholic liquors and mineral waters were dis¬ 
posed of. It is estimated that Buffalo profited 
by the festival to the extent of $300,000. 
The Secretary of War has summarily dismissed 
Cadet Thomas Hartigan of the senior class 
of the United States Military Academy at 
West Point for hazing new cadets. Good, 
.The postmaster at Kalamazoo, Mich., 
is to be suspended for absence from his post 
without leave.A chaplain in the army 
is to be court-martialed for duplicating his pay 
accounts during absence without leave. He 
recently returned from abroad, and on reach¬ 
ing San Francisco was placed under arrest. 
.Col. A. F. Rockwell, in charge of pub¬ 
lic buildings and grounds in Washington, rec¬ 
ommends that $25,000 he appropriated for 
improvements at the White House. The total 
of appropriations asked for the next fiscal 
year for the expenses of improvements and 
care of public buildings aud grounds is $216,- 
960....Boston uses a hundred gallons of 
water a day for each inhabitant, and refuses 
to be less wasteful, though told that in many 
cities the average is less than half the amount. 
This has made an enormous new reservoir 
necessary.The appraisal of the property 
of the poet Longfellow shows an estate valued 
at about $350,000, of which $200,000 is per¬ 
sonal property, and $150,000 real estate. 
The Treasury Department has received a re¬ 
monstrance from the British authorities 
against the return to England of three alleged 
pauper emigrants, who were going to friends 
in this countiy who had promised to take care 
of them, and which emigrants had shown let¬ 
ters to that effect, upon their arrival in the 
United States. The matter will be inquired 
into.The coopers in nine different shops 
in North St. Louis struck for higher pay Wed¬ 
nesday. They demand seven cents for hoop¬ 
ing and ten cents for making full hand-made 
barrels. They have been getting five and eight 
cents...... 
The New Mexican Railroad enabled the 
authorities by the rapid transportation of 
troops to put down a rebellion in Tamaulipas 
before it bad full time to organize for offense. 
.Virginia presents a claim on the 
Federal Treasury for about $750,000 on ac¬ 
count of the distribution of surplus revenue 
forty-five years ago.The last of the 
whiskey ring suits has been compromised by 
the Solicitor of the Treasury, by the accept¬ 
ance of the terms of settlement offered by 
Hess, of Chicago. A local bitter enemy of 
Hess's offered to pay more for the judgment 
against the “old man,” but the Treasury re¬ 
fused to enable a private enemy to gratify his 
malice by holding the judgments over the head 
of Hess.Captain W ebb’s dead body has 
been found in the Niagara River some dis¬ 
tance below the “ Whirlpool,” and identified 
by his w ife. A contribution w ill probably be 
raised for his nearly destitute family on this 
side of the water and a movement is on foot in 
England for the erection of a monument to 
him........ Polk, the Tennessee swindler, has 
appealed from his sentence of 20 years’ im¬ 
prisonment aud a fine of nearly all he robbed 
the State of. That rascal will never be 
obliged to carry out that sentence. Why. he 
belongs to a “ high-toned ” family, has crowds 
of political “friends” and multitudes of 
sympathizers with a “gentleman in distress,5 
and then he stole, not a few paltry dollars, but 
nearly half a million; and, better still, he has 
it yet to use as “soap” to lubricate 
his way out of jail—such a man to be 
ignomiuously imprisoned—Pshaw!..... 
The 12 Philadelphia street railroad com¬ 
panies carry 106,573,000 passengere in a year 
at a cost of four cents each, but. exact a fare 
of six cents, and hence make an average profit 
of S34n pei* cent, on actual capital.The 
session of the Mass. Legislature has come to an 
end after sitting 26 w-eeks, averaging about 
four days of actual work to the week, so that 
though it was extended to 206 days 
agaiust 175 days, the longest previous session, 
there were only 120 days of actual work. It 
has been memorable on account of the con¬ 
stant squabble between the Republican 
majority and Governor Ben. Butler who 
was elected as a Democrat, and who has been 
“ stirring things up ” vigorously aud per¬ 
sistently, especially the abuses connected with 
the State Almshouse at Towsbury where some 
very sad abuses seem to have been practiced 
for years, though no doubt Butler exaggerated 
their atrocity. He seut 13 veto messages all 
of which wore sustained except one This 
was a bill increasing the salaries of the clerks 
of the two Houses from $2,500 to $3,000. The 
average “outside” opinion seems to be that 
Ben. got the best of the scrimmage; but as his 
conduct is held to have a tendency to cast 
nprobrium on the Old Bay State, the Republi¬ 
can detestation of the man has become in¬ 
tensified. 
Captain John Ericsson massed his 80th birth¬ 
day Tuesday much as he has passed every oth¬ 
er day of the last. 10 'years—by working 
hard in his dingy New’ York chamber from 8 
in the morning till 10 at night. The inventor 
of the screw T propeller, the rival of George 
Stephenson, the builder of the Monitor and 
originator of what is believed to be a torpedo- 
boat of terrible power, is still a strong and 
hearty old man, and he has now practically 
finished a steam-engine—a sun-motor designed 
for pumping water on the Plains, where its 
small cost is likely to make it invaluable. 
Jay Cooke has given his fine place of Ogonzt 
for a young women’s school. There is a su¬ 
perb Norman-Gothic building, five stories 
high, built of granite and iron, and containing 
nearly 100 rooms, costing $40,000, aud on 
which Jay Cooke has spent $25,000 for furnish¬ 
ing.The extent of electrical literature 
and study is indicated by the statement of 
Prof. Bell that he has record of over 40,000 
publications relating to this subject. He says 
there are more than 500.000 telephones in use 
in the United States to-day, aud the manufac¬ 
turers cannot supply the demand........ The 
internal revenue receipts for the year ending 
June 30 were $144,553,000, and the cost of col¬ 
lection was $5,120,000 or 3)^ per cent This is 
really a very low cost. The cost of collecting 
the British “inland revenue” is about four per 
cent. The tax on spirits fell but little short 
of $75,000,000, being an increase, while that on 
tobacco was $47,891,000, a decline. The re¬ 
duction of taxes which took effect July 1 is ex¬ 
pected to throw off about $42,000,000—mostly 
from tobacco, banks and matches. 
.The Wisconsin Central Rail¬ 
road Company has decided to build a line 
from Chippewa Falls to St, Paul, Minu. The 
encroachment upon their territory by the 
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha 
road has led to this move, it is said, and steps 
will be at once taken so that the road may be 
completed by the end of the year.. 
.The son of Gen¬ 
eral Booth, of the Salvation Army, is about to 
marry Miss Charlesworty, tl e heiress, whose 
fortune in her own right is estimated at $50, 
000.For government, work on 
rivers and harbors in Virginia and the 
Carolinas during the last fiscal year the out¬ 
lay was $201,468, and for the next year the 
estimate is $475.200. 
The telegraphers’ strike still continues. Both 
sides appear resolute, but unfortunately the 
companies have the longer purees. The 
Brotherhood threaten to order out all the 
railroad telegraph operators as a last resort. 
We wash the men success; but- 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 4, 1883. 
_The Holstein cow, Echo, owned by Fred. 
C, Stevens, the proprietor of the Maplewood 
stock farm, Attica, N. Y., has just completed 
her year’s milk record,which foots up 18,120^ 
pounds, w hich is 115 pounds more than the 
record of the famous cow Aggie, which hu-s 
heretofore led all the bovines of the world. 
Echo is 10 yean: old and weighs 1,610 pounds, 
consequently has given over 10 times her 
weight in milk during the year. The largest, 
yield in one day was S5 pounds; in a month 
4,196 pounds.Con Kohrs 
a Montana man, has bought a two-thirds in¬ 
terest in the Davis, Hauser & Co, cattle herd. 
The price paid was $266,000. The entire herd 
of 12,000 head is valued at $400,000. The sale 
is the largest single transaction in cattle that 
has occurred this year. Kohrs & Rielenberg 
now hold the controlling interest in 25,- 
000 to 80,000 head of horned stock, the total 
value of which on the range is upward of? 
.... The San Francisco Grocer says that the 
experiment of raising ostriches in that State 
appears to be progressing favorably. At the 
farm near Anaheim, a number of young ost¬ 
riches have been hatched and are said to be 
all dead........It is estimated that 
between 25,000 and 40,000 head of young 
bleeding cattle will be shipped into Montana 
this year from the East. Of this young stock 
about 40 can be carried in a car. but of the 
beef cattle shipped back from Montana the 
average is but 20.In the Counties of 
Madison and Beaverhead, Montana Territory, 
over 500,000 acres of excellent farming and 
grazing land have been thrown open to the 
public for homesteading and pre-emption. 
The land was previously withdrawn from the 
nubile domain for the benefit of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad Company, but the route was 
considered impracticable, and a new route by 
way of Helena was found. 
The Agricultural Holdings bill passed its 
third reading in the British House of Com¬ 
mons Wednesday. This wall give a modicum 
of much-needed relief to English tenant far¬ 
mers .... W hile crossing the great Brook. 
lyu Bridge Wednesday, a large number of 
Potato Beetles were seen scattered along the 
Brooklyn approach on theside rails mid on the 
foot-path. Tw o or three sat on the fence at 
the Brooklyn tower, taking a view of the 
scene, and four that, had attempted to cross 
the bridge lay crushed under the feet of the 
foot-passengers. One had got as far as the 
New York tower, and another was seen just 
entering the depot on the New York side. 
These passengers paid no fare.The 
Treasury Department has issued a notice that 
the laws prohibiting the importation of meat, 
cattle and hides are suspended, but that quar¬ 
antine will be imposed on cattle from outside 
ports, excepting from North and South Ameri¬ 
ca,..The Bremen (Germany), Senate has issued 
an order to all vessels from America with 
pickled pork, to notify custom authorities of 
the quantity on board, under penalty of 300 
marks’, fiue.A heavy rain and hail storm 
passed over the northern part, of Lancaster 
County, Pa., on Saturday night, aud great 
damage was done to the growing tobacco. 
The pine forests along the Adriatic at Raven¬ 
na, Italy, celebrated by Dante and Byron, 
and which furnished the shipyards of Rome 
and Venice, are to be cut down, because an 
excavation for a railroad has so drained the 
soil that the trees have died..,.Col, Wallace 
manager of the Northern BenegnI railway in 
India, has just sailed from New York, after 
a month’s sight-seeing in this country. He is 
full of India, aud is surprised that the world 
in general Is not also. It is a country of 250,- 
000,000 of people with 11,000 miles of railroad, 
carrying passengers cheaper than we do, but 
charging more for freight. Locomotives are 
shipped from England and set up after their 
arrival. About 6000 miles of the railroads are 
owned by guaranteed capital aud 5000 by the 
Government, und the increasing uet-worW is 
bound to make India the coming power in the 
East, according to Col. Wallace. American 
wheat growers should tnakeu note of this. 
The Leavenworth Co. Kansas Horticultural 
Society, appointed and instructed a commit¬ 
tee to investigate the origin, history and mer¬ 
its of flic Crimson Beauty Raspberry. The 
report is that it is as hardy and as early as the 
well-known Turner, of larger size, better fla¬ 
vor and color and more productive. The com¬ 
mittee finds, however, that there is “ no evi¬ 
dence that it. is a seedling or new variety, but 
that there is evidence satisfactory to them, 
that the Crimson Beauty is an old variety, 
taken up, renamed aud propagated.”. 
It does not appear thut this berry, whether 
a new or old variety, has been disseminated 
very much, which it certainly deserves to be 
if as good, productive and hardy as the com¬ 
mittee believe it to be... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug., 4th, 1883. 
Ischia is an Island seven miles long and four 
broad, having an area of 26 square miles, 
lying at the entrance of the Bay of Naples. 
Its coasts are steep and rocky; its valleys ex¬ 
traordinary fertile, and it is a favorite water¬ 
ing place for rich Romans and Neapolitans 
owing to several thermal springs scattered 
throughout the Island, especially at Casa- 
micciola, a place of 8,400 inhabitants, 17 miles 
southwest of Naples, and at Lacco, the larg¬ 
est town on the island, with a population of 
5,000. Forio, is the third largest town, con¬ 
taining about 2,300 people. These figures of the 
population were approximately correct before 
last Saturday night, when a terrible earth¬ 
quake accompanied by a hideous noise de¬ 
stroyed these three towns and several adjacent 
villages and houses. The latest account of the 
loss of lives puts it at 8,000, and nearly 
half as many more are wounded and mutilated 
more or less disastrously, In the wrecked 
towns the stench from the putrefy ing bodies 
is horrible, and although au occasional mori¬ 
bund wretch is still taken out from under the 
ruins, orders have been given to pom* “liquid 
lime” over the ruins of Casumieciola, thus 
converting it into a vast cometry. Wounded 
carried to Naples and surrounding towns. 
King Humbert at ruins. Widespread desola¬ 
tion and lamentation, Subscriptions for the 
ruined survivors are being collected in all 
Christendom, Send on yours!. 
The government telegraph lines of Venezuela, 
were opened, Tuesday, to the frontier of Col¬ 
ombia, where they connect with the land lines 
of that government, which have a direct con¬ 
nection with the lines of the Cent,nil and South 
American Telegraph company, via Galveston. 
.James Carey, the infamous “infor¬ 
mer” in the Phcenix Park murder eases at 
Dublin, who had been quietly shipped by the 
government to a British “ colony” was shot 
dead last Sunday on the steamer Melrose on 
the passage between Capetown and Port 
Elizabeth, Natal, South Africa, whither 
Carey with his wife and seven children was 
being transported by the government, be¬ 
cause there are few Irish in Natal, and it. 
was therefore hoped the fellow might be safe 
there. He was shot in presence of his family 
by a passenger named O’Donnell, who with 
his wife had been intimate friends of the 
Carey family while on board. He embarked 
for Capetown on the Kin fauns Castle 
which took the Carey family from England 
to Capetown, but finding the family going 
farther on the Melrose he and his wife de¬ 
cided to go on the same vessel. He is said to 
be an American from Ohio, and to have been 
selected by the Irish ” Physical Force Party” 
to execute the sentence of death pronounced 
on Carey. On the very night. Carey was shot, 
out in the ludiau Ocean, there was a report 
in National circles iu London that he had just 
met that fate. It is said that an agreement 
had l>een made as to the precise hour at which 
he was to be put to death, and before the cable 
could possibly couvey the news to England, it 
was offered for sale to London newspapers. 
Intense rejoicing among Irish everywhere, but 
especially ix Ireland. O’Connell will be tried 
in England, as the deed was done out at sea, 
and no doubt he will be hung, though no one 
appears to feel a bit of pity for his victim. 
The prospects of peace are becoming brighter 
every day in Peru. Meetings continue to be 
held in every part of the country, at which sym¬ 
pathy is expressed with Igiesias who lately 
made peace with Chili. lie is forming a small 
army in the north and will soon lx* able to 
suppress the roving bands of marauders who 
are now pillaging the defenseless villages. 
Gen Prendergast, Captain-general of Cuba, has 
tendered his resignation, owing ostensibly to 
ill-health, and it has been accepted by the 
home government. Gen. Castillo has been 
appointed Gen. Frendergast’s successor_... 
A treaty has been projected confirming the 
establishment of a French protectorate in 
Tunis.Small-pox and a malignant fever 
more fatal than yellow fever, are raging on 
the coast, of Guatemala.The report of 
the Duke’s committee for the encouragement 
of emigration from Ireland, states that in 
three months 5,327 emigrants were assisted 
at a cost of £<35,000, of which £26,000 were re¬ 
ceived from the Government, the rest having 
been raised by private contributions. The 
Committee says it hopes that State aided em- 
gration will be continued some years so as to 
thoroughly relieve overcrowded districts, it 
also says that the majority of holdings va¬ 
cated by the emigrants have been consolidated 
with those of neighboring tenants. The Irish 
party, on the contrary, is bitterly opposed to 
this wholesale emigration, insisting that if 
there are too many people in Ireland to lie 
supported by the land, the landlords who gob¬ 
ble up most of the money aud spend it abroad, 
are the parties who should “go;” not the 
wretched peasants who starve to pamper to 
