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HUME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 14,18S5. 
Galveston, tbe largest, handsomest, most* 
energetic and enterprising city on the Gulf, 
has just been visited by two calamities. First 
came a “strike,” ordered by the “Knights of 
Labor,” against the Mallory steamship line, 
because the local agent refused to engage white 
laborers belonging to tbe organization at 
higher wages than those for which he could 
get other workmen—colored or non-union 
whites. Tbe strike extended to every wharf 
in the city; to all workers in the cotton presses; 
to all cart men hauling freight; to all hands on 
the railroads bringing goods to the city; in 
fact, at first,to every class of workmen, though, 
later, compositors and others who had nothing 
to do with any business connected with ship¬ 
ping, were allowed to resume work. The 
strike, after lastiog nearly a fortnight and 
paralyzing all business, was compromised 
early in the week, after having inflicted a vast 
amount of injury on tbe commerce of the city. 
Disaster No. 2 was far more serious. Shortly 
after one o’clock on Friday morning flames 
burst out of a foundry near Strand Street, 
which runs east and west along the Bay. The 
chief wholesale business houses of the city 
occupy the middle part of tbe street, flanked 
on either side by residences, cotton presses, 
warehouses, etc. The burning foundry was 
between Kith and 17tb Streets—some distance 
to tne west of the business part of the city— 
towards the Gulf, which runs at an acute 
angle with tbe Bay. The wind was from the 
north, 8nd as the fire spread, the gale became 
fiercer, rusbiDg with tornado force into tbe 
vortex of flames, and sweeping them together 
with dense masses of smoke and showers of 
sparks southward toward the Gulf. Before 
noon the following day, 52 squares containing 
over 300 residences were swept away. Tbe 
buildings were nearly all wooden, though 
many of them were worth from $30,000 to 
$60 000 each. The business portion of the city 
is uninjured, tbe fire stopping in its eastward 
course at 17th St., four or five blocks to the 
west of any of tbe stores. The lossis various¬ 
ly estimated at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, 
Energetic Galveston is sure soon to rebuild 
the devastated district... 
. .The most strenuous efforts have been made 
by the French-Canadians to secure a com¬ 
mutation of the death sentence passed upon 
Louis Riel; but from present indications it is 
most likely tbe condemned “rebel” will be 
banged next Monday, to which date he wa 6 
reprieved the other day. His death must be 
a serioas calamity for Canada. Already the 
English-speaking and French-speaking in¬ 
habitants are bitterly opposed to each other, 
and the execution of this half-demented wretch 
is certain to intensify the mutual hostility. 
Already several of the French Members of 
Parliament have notified Sir John Macdonald 
that they will withdraw tbeir support, if the 
execution takes place, and it is not unlikely 
that most, if not all, tbe others will follow 
this example. Nearly all, except tbe French- 
Canadians, are in favor of tbe execution, 
especially tbe Orangemen and those in tbe 
neighborhood of tbe scenes of tbe late re¬ 
bellion; and any mention of a commutation of 
the sentence makes most of them frantic. 
Many in tbe North west threaten “Lynch Law,” 
if tbe poor fellow is not hanged. The Do¬ 
minion bangs very loosely together now. 
Columbia in tbe far west and Nova Scotia iD 
the far east, are kicking against it, and if 
Quebec joins tbe malcontents, it seems very 
doubtful whether the union of the Provinces 
can last much longer. It looks now as if af¬ 
fairs in Canada are getting into a condition 
not unlike that in the United States before 
the late “onpleasantness.”. 
.. ..The hearing of the application to the In¬ 
terior Department for permission to use the 
name of the United States in the suit against 
the Bell Telephone Company is now in pro¬ 
gress before tbe Secretary of tbe Interior an 1 
the Commissioner of Patents. The facts sec 
out by the applicants are in effect that Gray 
filed a caveat for a telephone on tbe same day 
that Bell’s application for the patent of a 
multiplex telegraph was filed, and that Gray's 
caveat was,contrary to the Patent Office regu¬ 
lations, shown to BeU. Tbe latter’s specifi¬ 
cations were accordingly amended to embody 
the essential features of tbe invention set forth 
in Gray’s caveat, The representatives of the 
Bell Telephone Company, however, profess to 
be able to negative tbe allegations made and 
to prove both the originality and priority of 
Bell’s invention..... 
The market value of “Josh Billings” estate 
is $93 000. After bequeathing $1,000 each to 
his two daughters and sons in-law, be leaves 
his wife the interest on the rest so long as she 
remains his widow, and at ber death it is to 
go to his two daughters...Oklahoma is 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
said to be full of “boomers” under tbe name 
of squatters and cattlemen. They are well 
armed and preparing energetically to put in 
crops next year. The U. S, troops are arrest¬ 
ing large numbers of them and taking them 
to Fort River. If they promise to quit the 
country, they are allowed to pass out; the 
others are to be escorted ont by troops. The 
Indians refuse to sell tbe country to the Gov¬ 
ernment.......Gen. Don Carlos Buell has 
been made Pension Agent at Louisville; sal¬ 
ary $4,000 a year.Tbe agreement pro¬ 
viding for tbe reciprocal crossing of tbe in¬ 
ternational boundary line by tbe troops of the 
United States aDd the Republic of Mexico in 
pursuit of hostile Indians has been extended 
until Nov. 1,1886....... In Montreal typhoid 
fever and diptberia are prevalent. Although 
these diseases are not epidemic, there is a con¬ 
siderable number of cases. Small pox is a 
trifle less violent in the city, but worse tbau 
ever in the suburbs.Millionaire and 
Senator Sharon has just died in San Francisco. 
He has taken every precaution that not a 
dollar of bis many millions shall ever go to 
Sarah Alathea or any of her lawyers. 
Ex-Governor Glick, of Kansas, has accepted 
the Pension Agency at Topeka.The 
Canadian Pacific Railroad Steamer Algoma, 
on ber passage between Owen Sound, Lake 
Superior, and Pork Arthur, Ont, struck on a 
reef near tbe entrance to Rock Harbor, Isle 
Royal, last Saturday, and out of 62 persons 
on beard only 14 were saved. Vessel a total 
wreck; storm one of tbe fiercest ever known 
on tbe lake ........John McCullough, tbe ac¬ 
tor. who has lately been insane, died at bis 
home in Philadelphia last Saturday, at the 
age of nearly 52.- 
_Tbe Missouri River Commission, in its an¬ 
nual report, recommends the appropriation of 
$1,325 000 for next year. Once 
a very large portion of our national debt was 
owned in Europe, The annual report of tbe 
Register of the Treasury shows that out of 
$1,071,460,222 registered bonds only $11,927,- 
009 are held abroad.Five 
hundred captive moonshiners, some eating 
their lunches on the green and some lingering 
in tbe court room; over 100 convictions; poor 
mountaineers pleading formercy on accouutof 
tbeir families;tbe judge referring to the fam¬ 
ilies of four United States marshals murdered 
while serving warrants of arrest; requisitions 
upon neighboring jails for cell-room,—such 
were some of tbe scenes the other day at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., at the trials of owners of illicit 
distilleries.'William D. Foulke 
of Indiana, was elected president of tbe Wo¬ 
man's Suffrage Association, at its meeting in 
Minneapolis the other day. The vice presi- 
dents-at large included Senator Hoar and 
Mary A. Livermore.At tbe 
recent National Temperance Convention at 
Philadelphia. Miss Frances Willard was re¬ 
elected president of the National Christian 
Temperance Union. Every State aud Terri¬ 
tory, except Utah and Idaho, were represented 
at the convention. The treasurer reported a 
larger amount of mouey paid into the nation¬ 
al treasury than in any preceding year. The 
reports showed a year of great success in every 
department.of work. The meeting next year 
is assigned for Minneapolis. 
.... The last spike has been driven in that 
Canadian Pacific Railroad which a Cauadian 
statesman once characterized as a line “run¬ 
ning from hell to nowhere, through a swamp.” 
....San Francisco’s 3,100 saloons yield a 
revenue of $208,540. Tbe local press points 
out that with bigb license this sum would be 
increased tc $1,860,000, or, if half tbe saloons 
weresbut, to $930,000 .....A vigorous 
effort is to be made to secure from next Con¬ 
gress a large appropriation tor tbe old Henni- 
pin Canal, which is now called tbe “Lake 
Michigan and Mississippi River Canal.” All 
appropriations for rivers and harbors are to 
be opposed unless the bill making them con¬ 
tains millions for this project . -.Justice 
Cullen, of Brooklyn, has just decided that a 
man who uses quack medicines does so at his 
own risk.The tornado which swept 
over the country near 8elma, Ala., on Friday 
week, was unusually destructive. So far. 13 
lives are known to have been lost, while over 
50 persons have been seriously injured. This 
was only one of several lively demonstrations 
in the West and South last week, occuring in 
connection with one storm center. Tornadoes 
developed in Illinois, Texas, Mississippi and 
South Carolina, and thunder storms in the 
Ohio Valley and Wisconsin. These, like t he 
sudden and destructive down-pour near Fort 
Payne, are features of summer weather, un¬ 
usual in November, and in marked contrast to 
tbe heavy snows that were falling at the same 
time in Nebraska and Dakota.The 
Grant Monument Fund here increases very 
slowly. It is now only about $99,00(1. 
_The total expenditure by the Canadian 
Government upon immigration for the last 
fiscal year, including tbe expenses connected 
with .European agencies, will not fall.short of 
$450,000, against $511,000 for the preceding 
year. About $70,000 have been paid out to 
steamship companies for “assisted passages” 
since the present season of navigat ion opened. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 14,18S5. 
Tbe annual meeting of the Michigan Horti¬ 
cultural Society will be held at Benton Harbor 
Dec. 1 to 3 inclusive. A very practical pro 
gram has been arranged, embracing some 40 
very useful topics. Special lectures will fill 
tbe second and third evenings, and the horti¬ 
culturists of Michigan can not afford to miss 
this meeting. It will be a lively one. Chas. 
W. Garfield, Secretary, Graud Rapids. 
....The 29th anuual meeting of the Mo. 
State Horticultural Society will be held at 
Warrensburg. Mo.. Dec. 9 to 11 inclusive. An 
exhibition of new apples will be made, and a 
good time is expected. Farther particulars 
may be had by addressiug the Secretary, 
L. A. Goodman. Westport, Mo..... 
....TheHon. Victoria McDonald of Belgrave 
Square.London, daughter of Lady McDonald, 
late lady in-w aiting to the Queen, while driv¬ 
ing in a pony trap near Ashford, Kent, the 
other day, was fiercely attacked by an infuri¬ 
ated bull. The lady was thrown out and sus¬ 
tained serious injuries to the head aud body. 
Tbe pony was disembowelled, and the trap 
smashed in pieces ...Prof. 
Riley, Entomologist of the Department of 
Agriculture, expresses an apprehension that 
next year the country may suffer severely 
from grasshoppers, both the migratory and 
common kinds... Preliminary 
arrangements have been made for a national 
sheep shearing at St. Louis, April 8. 
_The California Fruit Union has been or¬ 
ganized In San Francisco to increase the sale 
of California fruits in tbe East. 
....A lake transit company has offered to 
take all of next season’s sheep shipments of 
tbe Northern Pacific Railroad to Chicago and 
Buffalo at much lo wer rates than are given 
by railroads...Tbe apple crop in 
Niagara County, N. Y., this year, is estimated 
at 800,000 barrels, the largest yield ever 
known.Tbe honey crop of Maine 
is worth $40,000 and is produced by 12 000 
colonies of bees ..The German 
Minister of ^riculture ia making inquiries 
into the distress prevailing among the farmers 
of Prussia ..The Conservatives 
in England, during the present agitation of a 
general election, are coming out flat-footed 
in favor of protection, especially for agricul¬ 
tural products ... Tbe Atlantic 
Journal says that a company of Philadelphia 
capitalists is to be formed to engage in the 
sorghum sugar cane and refining business at 
Richard, Atlantic County, similar to that at 
Rio Grande, in Cape May County. 
....The Methodists’Conference of Wisconsin 
has censured those who grow and sell to¬ 
bacco, which is an important industry in the 
“Badger State.” . The battle ground of 
Missionary Ridge has been converted into a 
strawberry patch .The Northern Pacif¬ 
ic has just sold 113,000 acres of land in Minne¬ 
sota for an average of $7 per acre to a syndi¬ 
cate in which Senator Sabin is interested. It 
is a well-timbered tract and lumbering oper¬ 
ations will soon begin. Payment is made 
partly in 5,000 shares of preferred stock of the 
railroad, which will thus be extinguished and 
canceled. This reduces the cost considerably, 
as tbe stock is now about 55........In Ger¬ 
many tbe inspection of pigs for trichinse is 
very thorough. The Medicinische Wochen- 
sebrift states that in one year there were es¬ 
tablished in Prussia 30,636 official inspecting 
stations. Out of 4,000.000 of tbe animals ex¬ 
amined, 2,000 were tricliinou3. Mexican 
(Sonora) oranges are delivered in the Chicago 
market in Cve days, richer and juicier than 
the South California fruit, Od tbe other hand, 
tbe California grower is helped by the 20 per 
cent duty levied on the foreign fruit .. . 
The Egyptian Government has issued a decree 
ordering the seizure of crops, animals and 
houses in cases of non payment of taxes. 
Egypt is now virtually ruled by Eng¬ 
land. The peasants are ground into dust by 
exorbitant taxes levied to pay interest on for¬ 
eign loans made to the late Khedive at u-urious 
ratesof interest, aud squandered with tbe most 
reckless and vicious prodigality. The bond¬ 
holders are principally English.Gov¬ 
ernor Gray of Indiana last Wednesday issued 
an anti pleuro pneumonia proclamation re¬ 
quiring parties intending to ship cattle to 
Indiana from the States of Connecticut. New 
York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir¬ 
ginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mis¬ 
souri aud the District of Columbia to make 
the customary affidavits. 
lu the Interest of Btifl'erlng Humanity. 
Wb call attention to tbe Compound Oxygen 
Treatment which is taken by simple inhalation, 
and which acts directly upon tbe weakened 
nerve centres and vital organs, restoring them 
to tbeir normal activity. Its operations are 
all in the line rf physiological 'aws and forces, 
and it cures by giving to uatnre ber true and 
healthy control in the human organism. 
Thousands of moat wooderfnl cures have been 
made during th p last thirteen years. If vou 
are in need of gucb a treatment, write to Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch St, Philadelphia, 
to send you such documents and reports of 
cases as will enable you to judge for yourself 
as to its efficacy in your own case— Aclv. 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, November 14, 1885. 
Tbe Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trade daring last week, says: 
Sowing in a majority of the wheat-growing 
counties of tbe North and Northwest is ser¬ 
iously backward. Trade languishes. Tbe sales 
of English wheat during the week were 60,531 
quarters at 31s. Id., against 63,812 quarters 
at 82s, during the corresponding week last 
year. Flour is freely offered, owing to tbe 
liberal foreign receipts. It is noteworthy 
that tbe inflated stocks of Californian wheat 
at Liverprol are due to accruing exigencies of 
tbe recently formed option market. Liver¬ 
pool is thus laying a sure foundation for the 
panics, corners, artificial quotations, and pos¬ 
sibly more Ber ious troubles, which for many 
years bare been the curse of trade ia America. 
The receipts of flour are increasing to an 
alarming extent, and values, as a consequence, 
show t» tendency to depreciate, American 
oats are Gd. to Is. dearer to 3c. per bush¬ 
el). No cargoes of wheat were sold or with¬ 
drawn. Eight cargoes arrived and ten re¬ 
mained. 
Late cable advices from London and Liver¬ 
pool are not encouragiug for tbe future of 
prices of wheat in England, in spite of the 
unfavorable backward condition of seediug. 
The November crop report of the Depart- 
meutof Agriculturesays: the present crop of 
com is the first full average In rate of y ield since 
1880, which was the last of a series of six full 
crops of 26 to 28 bushels per acre. The present 
crop, on an area of 73,(300.000 to 74 000,000 
acres, is slightly above an average for a 
period of 10 years, or 20^ bushels per acre. 
The highest rate of yield is 3G>* bushels in 
Nebraska and Ohio. The three corn-growing 
States which produce four-teutbs of tbe.entire 
crop, Illinois, Iowa, ami Missouri, each aver¬ 
age several bushels per acre less than in tbe 
census year—Illinois 31, Iowa 32, Missouri 30. 
Utah averages 36. Massachusetts, Connecti¬ 
cut aud Colorado 35; New Hampshire and 
Rhode Island 34; Michigan 33; Wisconsin 32; 
Kansas 31. The Southern States make an 
average yield. The quality of corn is very 
good in the East and South, medium in the 
centrat part of the West, and somewhat de¬ 
preciated on the northern border, from Mich¬ 
igan to Dakota. 
The potato crop is smaller than that of 1884, 
in consequence of injury from rot, which has 
reduced the New York crop nearly one-third. 
There is much complaint of rot in Wisconsin 
aud iowa. and in some counties of Michigan, 
Illinois and Minnesota. 
Tbe reported yield of hay per acre averages 
1^ ton, and indicates a crop of over 47,000,000 
tons, nearly as large as that of last year. 
The buckwheat crop will be large. The aver¬ 
age yield will exceed 14 bushels per acre. 
Flax culture has increased enormously at 
tbe West, aud especially in tbe Northwest, and 
the crop has been so profitable that it is likely 
that too much of it will be put in next year ; 
so that prices will be low'. This would be all 
the more regretable. as it is well known that 
flax exhausts tbe soil at a very rapid rate, a 
very few crops being suffi dent to reduce the 
land to the worn out condition that marks 
much of that in tbe Southern Stutes to-day. 
The receipts of flaxseed in Chicago during 
tbe last month reached tbe astounding aggre¬ 
gate of 1,875,000 bushels of 56 pounds each, 
and during one week tbe receipts of tbe seed 
a*tually exceeded those of wheat. For the 
first three mouths of tbe current year, the 
receipts were nearly 1,600.000 bushels larger 
than, aud the shipments were more than 1.500,- 
busbels in excess of, those for the correspond¬ 
ing time last year. About 250,000 bushels 
have been already exported, und as much 
more is under orders to move across the 
ocean. It will take tbe place in the Old World 
of so much Calcutta seed, and perhaps make 
amends for an alleged failure of the crop in 
Russia. Prices at the places of production 
have ranged from 75 ceuts to $1.10. averaging 
about, $ l. and it has proved the most profitable 
crop raised. 
Peppermint oil has risen to $3 35 per pound; 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried fur Castoria, 
When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, Bhe gave them Castoria, 
