HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 25, 1886. 
For mouths the large cities of the North¬ 
west have been flooded with counterfeit, silver 
dollars, so nicely executed as to deceive even 
the most expert numismatists. The metal 
was a composition so closely resembling silver 
that the most careful analysis was necessary 
to detect it. At last the counterfeiters have 
been caught, after many weeks of shrewd de¬ 
tective work by McKinley, of die Secret Ser¬ 
vice. They arc a Milwaukee doctor, an Illi¬ 
nois negro aud two white men. The latter 
did the mechanical work in a louely cabin 16 
miles from Pullman. Ill., and the doctor 
shinped the coin to agents in the various 
cities... .The courts decide that railroads can¬ 
not carry beer in Iowa. . . 
A rich vein of silver ore is said to have been 
discovered at Buck Shoals, Dubois County,In¬ 
diana. ..The great Montreal Carnival 
will be held February 7-12.During 
1886 there were manufactured in Michigan 
4,097.943 barrels of salt, an increase of 798,169 
over 1885 ......Large numbers of granges, 
farmers’clubs and butter, cheese and egg as¬ 
sociations in this State are supporting War¬ 
ner Miller for re-election to the Senate. 
The annual report of Secretary McCook of 
the United States Senate shows that the sala¬ 
ries and mileage of Senators thelast year were 
$384,687, and the salaries of officers aud em¬ 
ployees $834,200. Over $150,000 were expended 
for newspapers and stationary, $50,000 for 
miscellaneous items, and $24,0 >0 for special 
select committees. There were expend¬ 
ed for school purposes in this State during the 
year ending August 20. the sum of $18,284.- 
986.64, an increase of $339, 318.54..., Two 
or three Canadian monitors were armored and 
plated for the purpose of keeping a channel 
open in the St. Lawrence from Montreal to 
Quebec, but are now frozen in tightly at Sor- 
el, where they will have to remain for the win¬ 
ter. The order for them was given too late 
to have them finished before the ice shut them 
in.., Senator Saulslmry introduced a lull Tues¬ 
day, providing that an alien shall be subject 
to the dirties of citizenship after a residence of 
three years m the United States, but shall not 
be entitled hr vote till two years after the is¬ 
suance of his certificate.Last Saturday 
in the House Mr. Morrison’s motion to consid¬ 
er the tad Of hill was defeated. 154 to 149. Six 
Renublicans voted with the minority and 
23 Democrats with the majority. 
Speaker Carlisle and Colonel Morrison sav 
that no further attempt to consider the tar ill 
bill be made at this session... 
... .A bill has been introduced in the Alabama 
legislature to establish and maintain an indus¬ 
trial college for women. Fifty thousand 
dollars are asked for the establishment and 
$25,000 for maintaining it. There is a growing 
movement all over the country in favor of 
greater attention to industrial education. 
. .Six Knights of Labor are on tidal at Wyan¬ 
dotte. Kansas, for wrecking a tram and kill¬ 
ing two men during the southwestern strike. 
There’s by far too much Anarchy in many of 
the deeds of the K. of L.The Louis¬ 
ville Jockey Club has completed arrangements 
whereby in the spring of 1889 there will be run 
at the course a race of a mile and a quarter 
for a stake of $50 000, called the West Ken¬ 
tucky Stake, perhaps the richest ever run in 
America The summary is as follows: Fifty 
thousand dollars for yearlfuers. two and three- 
year-olds on January 1, 1887; $40,000 to the 
winuer, $4,000 to the second and $2,500 to 
third. The nominator of the winner to 
receive $2,000; nominator of the second to 
receive 1,000, and nominator of the third 
horse to receive >500: by subscription of $56 
each: 300 entries to fill, or the race to be de- 
cla red void at the option of the club . 
.Wednesday both the Houses of Congress 
adjourned over the holidays to January 4.... 
.Governor Hill of this State has declined 
to Intefore between Mrs. Druse and the gal¬ 
lows. She killed her husband, chopped up his 
body and burned it at Warren, Herkimer Co. 
He has. however, granted her a reprieve 
until February 28, when she will he hanged 
if the Legislature does not meanwhile alter 
the law about the execution of women. 
.Growing discontent and manysignsof 
revolt among the Knights of Labor, Sixty- 
seven local assemblies of Kuights.of New York, 
refuse to pay the last assessment of 25 cents for 
strikers’ purposes. Many favor th*» Anarch¬ 
ists; but Powder!y forbids the collection of 
money to aid them and all expressions of sym¬ 
pathy for them by auv part of the organiza¬ 
tion .,., Less noise has been made about t lie 
St. Louis ballot-box stuffing than about the 
frauds in Indiana, Ohio and at Chicago, but 
the indictment of 38 men for complicity’in 
them indicates that illegal practices wore-vnot 
not less common there than elsewhere.... 
_It is estimated that there are 325.570 
telephones in use in this country. Nine 
years ago there were only 870 . 
The Government will soon institute proceed¬ 
ings in Boston to test the validity of the pa¬ 
tent granted the Bell Telephone Company. 
Solicitor-General Jenks has prepared the draft 
of a bill against the company aud copies of it 
have been scut to Judge Tburmau in Ohio, to 
Judge Lowry in New York, anil to the Other 
special attorneys employed by the Govennout 
in this case, for their consideration. Action 
will be deferred until these gentlemen have 
expressed their views in regard to the pro¬ 
posed bill ....... On his second trial, McQuade, 
the “boodle" alderman of this city, was de¬ 
clared guilty by the jury after being out 15 
uiuiut.es. He has been sentenced to seven 
years’ imprisonmeut and a fine of $5,000. As 
no judge in this city would be likely to grant 
a “stay of proceedings’’ keeping him out of 
Sing Sing, his lawyers appealed r.o Judge 
Pratt of Brooklyn, who is a chronic interfere!* 
with other judges in the interest of criminals, 
and the judge has, as usual, granted what was 
asked far. It is likely, however, that Mc¬ 
Quade will he taken to Sing Sing next week. 
The trials of the ot her bribe-takers as well as 
those of the bribe-givers are to be pushed. .. - 
.The veuerable Hannibal Hamlin, of 
Maine, is wearing the first overcoat he has 
had in 40 years.Secretary Lamar has 
gone to his stock farm, near Oxford, Miss., to 
spend the holidays. Prince Alexander 
says that while in Bulgaria he received only 
the mouey voted to him by the So- 
branje, mid that he is now as poor as 
when elected to the Bulgarian throne. 
....Boston cannot tell time by the 24-hour 
clock aud gives it lip.The report of t he 
Charleston Relief Committee accounts for 
about $046,000. Vermont aud Shanghai sent 
$500 each. Cauada and Nebraska sent, simi¬ 
lar amounts; so did England aud Georgia— 
$15,000 each. The State of New' York stands 
at the head of the list with a total contribu¬ 
tion of $180,000; Massachusetts stands next 
with $99,800. Next come Pennsylvania with 
$05,000, Maryland with $39,000, California 
with $20,000 and South Carolina itself with 
$18,000. There will be about $100,000 left in 
the hands of the Relief Committee and it is 
the purpose of the city to use it in rebuilding 
the city hospitals and almshouse. The total 
amount of loss sustained on account of the 
earthquakes is estimated at $7,000.000,. 
_The Senate has passed the bill repealing 
the Tenure of Office Act by 30 to 22. This 
was passed as a cheek upon Andy Johnson. 
The House has already repeatedly passed bills 
to repeal it; but they were defeated in the 
Senate. The original law was greatly modi¬ 
fied on the accession of Gcu. Grant to the Pres¬ 
idency. ... 
_In his annual report to the President. Bee. 
of War Endicott reflected on Gen. Miles’s 
conduct in accepting the conditional sui-ren- 
der of the Apaches. He “vindicates” the 
General by another report in which he says 
that the orders under which the General was 
acting were “not knoivn to the Secretary 
when he made his report.”.The Gener¬ 
al’s department is enlarged so as to include 
Southern California and the whole Mexican 
frontier from Fort Bliss, Texas, to the Pacific 
coast.The Territories are reported 
to be growing rapidly in wealth and popula¬ 
tion. Dakota has a population of half a mill¬ 
ion and it is increasing at the rate of 8.5,000 a 
year; Montana has 110,000; Washington Ter¬ 
ritory, 210.000, and Idaho. 85.000.Mary 
Harner, a Cleveland servant girl, has inheri¬ 
ted $250,000 from a relative in Philadelphia.. 
... .The Dominion Government intends to 
build two new cruisers for the protection of 
the fisheries....It is expected that the total 
catch of fish in Canadiau waters will reach 
the value of $19,000,000 this year. Upwards 
of 00,000 men arc engaged in Canada in pros¬ 
ecution of the fisheries, with about 1,400 ves 
sels valued at 21* millions of dollars_The 
English Government has refused tosauction the 
bill lately passed by the Newfoundland Leg¬ 
islature prohibiting the export of bait, unless 
it is proved that the measure will not inter¬ 
fere with the just demands of American and 
French fishermen.Polygamy seems to 
be on the decline in Utah. Lester Herrick, a 
wealthy bishop of the Mormon Church, has 
left the Territory with his legal ivife, leaving 
behind three other wives and families. John 
Sharp, another bishop, some time ago pleaded 
guilty to unlawful cohabitation and promised 
to obey the law. The hiding away of John 
Taylor to escape trial, and the bail jumping 
of Georgo Q>. Cannon, President of the 
Church, is causing much unfavorable com¬ 
ment among Mormons. 
Not long ago a lot of chests of tea were 
seized in Ban Francisco on their arrival from 
China, and in the chests were found 3,003 five- 
tael boxes of opium aud 456 pounds of partial¬ 
ly prepared opium. Jfhis was sold,at.auction 
and fetched over $25,000.The loss of 
life on the Panama Canal, and the ill-treatment 
of the workmen employed aro said to be worse 
uow tlrni they ever have been. De Lesseps 
says 180,000,000 fraucs more are needed to fin¬ 
ish it.A bill has been introduced in the 
Senate to place imported sugar, molasses, 
boards, lumber, aud timber on the free list ... 
.The estimates of appropriations needed 
for the year ending with Juue 30th, 1888, as 
sent to Congress by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, aggregate a little over 8385,000,00.. 
_Gold in paying quantities is said to have 
been discovered near Paducah, Ky. ..One 
applejack distillery in Warwick, N, Y. paid 
$6,000 tax during the past eight mouths. 
Dynamite cartridges, beiug thawed to blast 
stumps, exploded arid killed two men at Lan¬ 
caster, Pa., Thursday.Ex-President 
Hayes’s son, llurchard, is to bo married to 
Mary Sherman of Norwalk, Ohio, December 
30. The care aud custody of the Bar¬ 
tholdi Statue will he assigned to the Wav De¬ 
partment, probably. The St. Louis aud 
Chicago aud the St. Louis, Chicago aud Peo¬ 
ria Rail ways have console la ted........ J udge 
Peckham of this State has decided that the re¬ 
peal legislation of the Broadway Railway is 
constitutional.... Maiue is sending Christ¬ 
mas trees to New York by the steamer load. 
... .One of the special orders in the Senate for 
this week was the resolution authorizing the 
Secretary of War to accept 500 acres of land 
near Chicago for a military post.. 
Among the Republican candidates for Senator 
from Minnesota are ex-Governor C. K. Davis, 
of St. Paul; R. B. Laugdon and Thomas 
Lowry, millionaires of Minneapolis, aud Gor¬ 
don E. Cole, of Faribault.The North¬ 
ern Pacific Road is about to reduce fares to 
four cents per mile iu Dakota aud five cents in 
all Territory to the westward. 
_During the past year the average number 
of inmates of national soldiers’ homes was 
8,946, againsfr8,05U the preceding year . 
ObeyE. Owens, receiving teller of a national 
bank in St. Louis, was sentenced in 1S82 to 
five years’ imprisonment for embezzling $200- 
000. After he bad served one-half his term 
President Cleveland pardoned him, on the 
ground that he has been iu prison a sufficient 
length of time, How many poor wretches 
have served a much longer term for stealiug 
less than one-hundredth part of that sum! 
.Prominent bankers and trustees of the 
defunct Freedman’s Savings Bank claim that 
the Government should pay the amciuut owiug 
to the negro depositors, and a bill providing 
for such payment is before Congress. 
Every week a number of pauper immigrants 
from Europe are shipped Home again from 
this port.... Six tons of molten steol ex¬ 
ploded in Carnegie’s Pittsburg steel works on 
Wednesday, probably fatally burning four 
employes.The notorious fishing schooner 
Highland Light, bought by the Canadiau 
Government, is renamed Vigilant, and is 
beiug fitted into a Government cutter. 
Application was filed yesterday at the General 
Land Office to enter 90 acres of Chicago’s lake 
front, worth $15,000,000, as public land, under 
the Taleott survey.Ilavuna exported 
$500 ,000 worth of fruit to the United States 
during the year ending November 80. She 
collected $1,089,299,66 in customs dues during 
the same period.A general tie-up of the 
Brooklyn horse-car lines on Thursday ended 
after a dozen hours of discomfort and incon¬ 
venience for the public. The men wanted the 
road officers to sign terms for hours aud 
wages during 1887. The officers dually agreed 
to do so...There were 1,500 strikes in 
Now York this year. The 18,000 ear drivers 
in New York aud Brooklyn gained a strike at 
a cost of $100,000, which they claim has 
added $2,000,000 to their annual pay-roll aud 
which has lessened the hours of lalior 23 hours 
per week, besides creating additional employ¬ 
ment for 3,000 men.A general horse- 
ear strike is imminent'.in Boston... .The Penn¬ 
sylvania coke miners’ troubles are settled to¬ 
day.The President has appointed the Hon. 
Louis K. Church, of New York, to be Gover¬ 
nor of Dakota. It was only a year ago since 
he placed Mr. Church upon the Supreme Court 
bench of the Territory so that he might bo 
able to appoint a “resident” as Governor..... 
Lately many protest shave come from the West 
against the maintenance of government ware¬ 
houses in this city fur Indian supplies, as it 
was alleged purchases should be made in the 
West to lessen cost of transportation. The 
Government said experience sliowudthat when 
bids were sought outside New York, there was 
little or no competition except from New York 
parties, hence prices wore always too high. It 
has just been decided that the Indian ware¬ 
house will remain in New York, but bids for 
provisions will be received in St. Louis at each 
annual spriug letting. Bids for transporta¬ 
tion will be received in New York. 
Ex-Governor Bloxhatn, of Florida, is 
now said to be certain of succeeding the sad¬ 
eyed Jones iu the Senate. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Sautrda y December 25, 1886. 
Across the water the prospects of war in 
early spring are growing gloomier. The Ger¬ 
man authorities — The Emperor, Bismarck, 
Von Mollcte and others—a re strenuously urging 
the Legislature of the Empire to grant at once 
the appropriations demanded for increasing 
the army by 40,000 men. It is likely the de¬ 
mand will be conceded ere long. Meanwhile 
furloughs of absent officers and men are be¬ 
iug recalled, and the absentees aro ordered to 
join their regiments at once, and every prep¬ 
aration is being made to have the artnv ready 
for action at an hour’s notice. In France a 
new Ministry has been formed to succeed 
De Freycinet’s; but Boulanger is still Minister 
of War and the idol of the nation. As the 
country realizes that after 15 years of constant, 
vigorous efforts it has uow a finer, better- 
equipped and larger army than it has ever 
had, its spirit becomes more belligerent, and 
it is more outspoken iu its sentiments. All its 
sympathies are at present, with Russia; for in 
the event of a European war it is nearly cer 
tain that this is the onlv country which it can 
hope to have as an ally—the great autocracy 
and Republic of Europe are pretty sure to 
fight on the same side. The French army 
single-handed is perhaps now a match for 
that of any other country, and the French 
navy is second only to that of England— 
though Franco will hardly concede that it is 
inferior even to that. ... .Since 
the consolidation of Italy iu 1861 the chief 
endeavor of the kingdom has been to create a 
large and effective army aud a powerful fleet. 
It has foregone nearly all internal improve¬ 
ments, laid grinding taxes on the people, aud 
incurred an enormous debt for these objects. 
It has gained them to a great extent; but. 
even now it. is straj uing every nerve t<> i inprove 
and increase both... Spain is getting alive 
to the importance of taking a more prominent 
part in European politics, aud is increasing 
her army and contracting for ad litions to her 
fleet.Austria is fully armed and pre¬ 
pared to move into Servia and thence into 
Bulgaria should Russia attempt to invade the 
latter. In that event the English fleet will 
enter the Black Sea. and steam up the Dan- 
tibu to prevent or interrupt the crossing of the 
Russian troops.Russia has massed an im¬ 
mense army in Bersarabia rca ly to move 
south whenever ordered.Turkey lias lately 
sided with Russia in urging upon Bulgaria 
to accept the Russian candidate, the Prince of 
Mingrelia, to succeed Prince Alexander of 
Batteuberg. England warns Turkey that if 
the latter truckles any more to Russia, the 
British will occupy Egypt permanently. 
... .Eugland is using her vast money power 
in swaying continental polities. German 
baukers, w'ho hold large blocks of Russian 
bonds, arc urging Bismarck to maintain 
peace, otherwise the value of the bonds would 
be vastly depreciated. The hack-hone of 
Austria is being marvelously stiffened by 
offers of financial aid. Debt-laden Italy feels 
the same influence. More than ever the whole 
of Europe is a vast camp. The flower of the 
male port ion of every country are drilling, or 
fashioning the latest inventions in death-deal¬ 
ing arms. War is very likely in a few 
mouths; and from present appearances nearly 
the whole of Europe will be involved in it. 
It is almost certain that the Bulgarian ques¬ 
tion wall start it, and the Bulgarian question 
is still as much of a muddle as it was two 
mouths ago. 
THE WONDERFUL SUCCESS 
Of Claremont Colony is due to unusual in 
ducements offered by J. F. Mancha, Clare¬ 
mont, Va .—Ad v. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 25, 1880. 
Last fall, as mentioned here at the time, 
Undertaker O’Conner, of Biddeford. Me., sold 
to a farmer a barrel which had contained em¬ 
balming fluid. The farmer tilled the cask 
with cider nml sold it to W. L,Dennett, whose 
son died from the effects of drinking a glass of 
it. Now Dennett sues O’Conner for $10,000 
damages. .....A dentist in St. Louis fills 
tpeth for horses... 
Peacock Brothers, of Colorado City, Tex., 
have made an assignment of all their cattle 
and,ranch interests. Liabilities about $300,000. 
There are many other failures among Texas 
stockmen and a great deal of apprehension of 
heavy losses during the winter owing to scarc- 
PigceUaueoutf gMUwtteUks. 
DIXON’S •Carburet of Iron" stove* Polish was 
established In 1887, ami Is to-day, as It who (lieu, tho 
neatest uud brluhussr in the market; a mi tv plumbnuo, 
f jlvtnts off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub- 
ed nnd enke wetuhs nearly half u pound but i ho quitli- 
ty and price remain the «anm. Ask vour uoocer for 
ULxou's Lilu cako. 
