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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jau. 1, 1887. 
John Alexander Logan died at three 
minutes past 3 o’clock last Sunday afternoon 
at Washington, D. C., in his Gist year. He 
had been ill from rheumatism for some weeks, 
and during his illness there had been a con¬ 
stantly increasing tendency to brain compli¬ 
cations— rheumatism of the brain.—and of 
late this had prepared the doctors for the 
worst. The last two days he was so weak 
and lethargic that he couldn’t be roused. At 
miduight Saturday his pulse grew so weak 
that fears were felt of his death at any hour. 
At 2 p. M. he revived enough to recognize his 
faithful,ever-present wife, then closed his eyes 
in a lethargic sleep from which he never woke. 
Born in Jackson County, III., Feb. 9, 1826. 
Served in Mexican war in 1845—6. On return 
home, studied law and began practicing in 
1851: chosen to the State Legislature in 1852; 
re-elected in 1856. Sent to Congress in 1858; 
re-elected in 1860: resigned in 1861 to take 
part in the war. Was a private in a Michigan 
regiment at Bull Run, after which he raised 
an Illinois volunteer regiment, of which he 
was made Colonel. Was advanced so rapidly 
that, in Nov. 1862 he was Major-General. Was 
iu active service the whole war except four 
months. Was one of the very best corps com¬ 
manders in the army, and the best among the 
volunteer officers. In May 1865 succeeded 
Howard in Command of the Army of the 
Tennessee; but soou afterwards resigned. 
Same year was appointed Minister to Mexico, 
but declined. Elected to Congress in 1867, 
aud re-elected in 186!*. Elected United States 
Senator for Illinois in 1870, since which time 
he has been prominent in public life. A 
brave, skillful, patriotic soldier; afar-seeing, 
outspoken, thoroughly honest statesman; an 
upright citizen and a faithful friend, the 
whole nation bewails his unexpected aud 
untimely death. . ., .... 
Gen. Logan’s body will rest temporarily in 
Washington. Chicago officially offers a site 
fora burial plot and monument in Lake Park, 
and the offer will probably be accepted by the 
family. All parties iu Congress seem willing, 
or rather desirous, to pension the widow. 
Some want to give *5,000, the sum Mrs, Grant 
gets; others, *2,500 a year, what Mrs. Ilaucock 
receives. The General left little or nothing, 
except his lately published book, “ The Great 
Conspiracy,” and that hasn’t sold as largely as 
expected; but admirers of the General and 
Senator will now doubtless aid the widow by 
buying the book. Friends are contributing a 
fund for Mrs. Logan, aud it already amounts 
to over $30.000... . Galveston had a $100,000 
fire which burnt up 20 houses the other day. . 
There is some desultory talk in California 
about dividing the State. The question of 
irrigation is one of the factors in the problem. 
Los Angeles is anxious for division, as iu case 
of a division it would probably be the capi¬ 
tal of the new Southern State.In or¬ 
der to encourage immigration to Cuba, the 
Spanish Government offers to pay the whole 
cost of transporting Spanish immigrants and 
their families thither. It will also pay the 
cost of passage of free foreign immigrants 
from Europe and Africa to Cuba, and wil] 
grant $10 to each free immigrant from Asia 
and Oceauica...--Twenty Buffalo, (N Y.) 
breweries have sold during the past year 400,- 
000 barrels of ale and beer, valued at $2,520,- 
000 at wholesale.In the year just 
closing 8.010 miles of new main line railway 
track have been built in the United States. 
Kansas leads the country with the surprising 
amount of 1,520 miles, the greater part laid 
within the last six months. Assuming the 
average cost throughout the country to have 
been but $20,000 per mile, the expenditure for 
roadway alone was $160,000,000. Present 
indications are that the year 1887 will show' 
even greater activity .The Temple the¬ 
atre at Philadelphia was burned Monday. 
Loss, $500,01X1; insurance, $100,000; owned by 
Mr. Singerly, proprietor of the Record, and a 
great Holstetn-Frleeian man. .The whole fami¬ 
ly of Joseph Seidlote, a Cincinnati car-paint¬ 
er, consisting of himself, wife aud son, were 
poisoned to death Friday by eating canned 
green peas.The heirs of Roger Mer¬ 
ritt, a revolutionary hero, are endeavoring to 
make good their claim to the land on which 
the village of Port Chester, N. Y., now stands. 
The property is worth about $15,000,000. 
Judge Manning, who was appointed Minister to 
Mexico after the Sedgwick affair and was 
reported to have gotten disgracefully drunk 
on his arrival there, sends a long denial and 
explanations to the New'Orleans Times-Demo- 
crat...The biggest Christmas gift this 
year was probably that of H. H. Warner, the 
Rochester (N. Y.) patent medicine man, who 
gave to his responsible employes a choice of 
$250,000 worth of stock in his business, or, if 
they prefer, the same amount in money, de¬ 
cision on the same to be given by July 1. 1887. 
.Some philanthropic people in Brook¬ 
lyn propose to furnish hot and substantial 
meals to the poor during the winter at the 
price of one cent per meal...As the Re¬ 
publicans have 10 majority in the Illinois leg¬ 
islature on joint ballot, Geueral Logan’s suc¬ 
cessor in the Senate will be a Republican. 
Among the probable candidates on- Governor 
Oglesby, Congressman-elect Baker and 
Charles B. Farwell. ... 
Judge Gresham who won great glory the 
other day by his scathing denunciation of the 
infamous conduct, of Jay Gould and his con¬ 
federates in wrecking the Wabash Railroad 
system, and who has since been ‘boomed’as 
a Republican Presidential candidate,says, in a 
a recent letter; “Allow me to assure you 
that I am out of politics, with no desire what¬ 
ever to again enter upon a political career. I 
never expect, nor do I wish, to hold another 
political office.” .An eccentric woman, 
recently deceased, left $150,000 by will to Miss 
Cbrissis King of Ontario, Canada, provided 
she marry a young man named Gilbert Allen 
on the day of the funeral. The provisions of 
the will were promptly complied with. 
James G Richardson of Lake City, Minn., has 
invented several contrivances so that, while 
lying in bed, by pulling wires he feeds his 
horses, lights the kitchen fire and opens the 
drafts of the base-burner in the sitting-room. 
He’s from Connecticut .John Tyler 
Wild, son of a rich and indulgent mother in 
Boston, secured $315,000 insurance on his life 
in favor of numerous persons who had be¬ 
friended Inra with loans and otherwise, aud 
then committed suicide the other day. The 
companies will probably be able to prove 
fraud, and will refuse payment. 
.Janies A. M’Masters, Editor of The 
Freeman’s Journal, a Catholic paper of this 
city, died in St. Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn, 
Wednesday morning, of a “complication of 
diseases”—the best luiowu Catholic editor in 
America. Born in 1816 at Duauesburg, N. 
Y.; sou of a Scotcli Presbyterian clergy¬ 
man; joined the Catholic Church when 21 
.What a wonderful number of cases of 
clerical immorality have been lately shocking 
public decency!....Judge Pratt of Brook¬ 
lyn, has been very conveniently sick so that 
Boodleman MeQnade’s stay of proceedings 
can’t be argued till after the holidays. 
.Henry W. Grady, of the Atlantic Con¬ 
stitution. delivered a sparkling, patriotic, 
bloody-chasm-obliteratiug speech at the New 
England Forefathers’ Day banquet held over 
in Brooklyn the other evening; and next 
morning his fame filled the country, and he is 
now talked of for the second place on the next 
Democratic Presidential ticket.Gov. 
Rusk says the Prohibitionists will be stronger 
than ever in Wisconsin at the next election... 
.... .There are in Massachusetts 65,000 more 
women than men.Grave fears of speedy 
exhaustiou of natural gas in parts of Pa. 
Likely to be exhausted before long everywhere 
say scientists; “quite inexhaustible” say spec¬ 
ulators.The coal monopolists everywhere 
are putting up prices for the consumers, while 
doggedly ref using to give more than starva¬ 
tion wages to the producing miners. 
. ...The servant girls of Greeuille, Pa., have 
formed a union to obtain an advance of 50 
cents a week ou tbeir present, wages. There’s 
a good deal of talk about similar unions else¬ 
where.John Roach, the greatest of 
American ship builders, who has had a great 
deal of disastrous trouble with the present, 
Administration, is suffering from cancer of 
the throat like that which caused Grant’s 
death. Recently a part of the jaw was re¬ 
moved; but he is reported to lie slowly dying. 
.There have been rumors during the week 
that Pres. Cleveland was in a somewhat dan¬ 
gerous condition; but the latest reports say 
that he has been suffering only from “old- 
fashioned” rheumatism which confined him to 
bed by the Doctor’s orders two days. Getting 
along nicely now ... Blaine has recovered 
from his late attack of gouty rheumatism and 
“has gone to work.”_TheReadiug Railroad 
property has been valued at $80,600,000 and is 
to be capitalized upon reorganization at a fig¬ 
ure approaching $200,000,000. The coal con¬ 
sumers ou its lines are to be taxed to pay 
interest, on nearly $120,OIK),OIK) of securities 
that represent nothing but “water.”. 
....The New' Mexican Legislature organized 
Wednesday with a Republican majority of 
two in each branch.A Chicago jury 
has acquitted the Pinkerton detective who 
killed a man just after the stock-yard strike.. 
.. ..“Jim Cummings,” the facetious St. Louis- 
Paeifle railroad robber, was a world too exu¬ 
berantly funny to remain undetected. In his 
numerous humorous letters, he “guve him¬ 
self away” to the shrewd Pinkerton detec¬ 
tives, who have arrested him aud four of his 
confederates and recovered $47,(XX) of the 
plunder. Frotheringham, the express.mossen- 
ger, was, after all. one of the gang. Cum¬ 
mings’ real name is Whitrock.. At the general 
elections for the Province of Ontario. Canada, 
the other day, the Liberal Party w r on bv in¬ 
creased majorities. This looks bad for Sir 
John Macdonald and the present Canadian 
Government. Much bitterness manifested 
during the election, as the religions question 
entered largely into it, the Conservatives 
charging that the Mowntt Government now 
in pow'er. has favored the Catholics, especial¬ 
ly in public school education. 
Canal boatmen protest that excessive ter¬ 
minal charges iu New York are driving away 
the grain trade, and tusk that $1,000,000 bo ap¬ 
propriated for canal improvements. Termi¬ 
nal charges by monopolistic elevator compa¬ 
nies. and other extortionate bodies at all the 
great receiving points should be regulated by 
law.Daniel F. Beatty, the widely 
knowfi organ manufacturer, of Washington, 
N. J.. is under arrest for making an illegal use 
of the mails.Judge Church. Governor- 
elect of Dakota, says he does not think State¬ 
hood will bo denied to that Territory much 
longer.Mr. Povvderly’s diligence in 
issuing orders to the Knights of Labor seems 
to be only less remarkable than the promptness 
with which they are disobeyed... 
....Cocaine, the deadly anaesthetic brought 
into prominence by Graut’s use of it to ease 
the agony of his last, sickness, is doing terrible 
work by inducing insanity and shattered 
health in various parts of the country. Latest 
“terrible examples,” two “prominent citi¬ 
zens” of Columbus. Ohio, one a druggist, 
Jones by name; the other Dr. Loring. both 
crazy. Other reports of similar effects from 
various parts of the country .The Super¬ 
visors of Westchester County, N. Y., sav that 
proposed regulation to force tramps to work 
or drown was all a joke; and they now want 
the resolution expunged from the record. 
... .A bill is to be introduced into Congress by 
Representative Springer for the admission in¬ 
to the sisterhood of States,of Dakota Montana, 
New Mexico and Washington Territories. In 
justice the first should be admitted at once; 
and it would have been last session were it 
not for the division of the Territory into two 
States and the Democratic belief that it would 
go Republican. If all four are udmitted they 
will be equally divided, politically. The new 
States would have no voice in the Presiden¬ 
tial election of 1888.There are strong 
indications of disruption of the K. of L. or a 
powerful secession from the order. The large 
salaries granted Powderly and the other offi¬ 
cers are causing much discontent among the 
“rank and file.” Many of these bitterly object 
to the Grand Master Workman's counsels of 
peace and order, aud his prohibition of aid for 
the Anarchists. The Trades Unions, too, are 
Tiersistent in the contention that each of them 
should be allowed to manage its own affairs 
without interference from the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the K. of L. Some of the Unions 
numbering from lfi.(XK) to 30.000, threaten to 
secede if their demands are not granted. 
There is a strong moveuieut for another con¬ 
vention to undo the work of the last, and su¬ 
persede Powderly and most of the other high- 
priced members of the Executive Committee.. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
SaptrdaY, January 1, 1887. 
The interesting European news of the week 
is made up almost entirely of rumors. Ou the 
Continent, everything still wears a warlike as¬ 
pect. Rumor says Russia has massed 300,000 
troops at ICieff.near the Austrian frontier; that 
Russia and Germany formed a direct alliance a 
fortnight ago; that Russia had no intention of 
joining France, but is disgusted with Austria; 
thut. France is getting afraid of a sudden at¬ 
tack by Germany; Hud Austria is ditto, of one 
by Russia; that Lord Randolph Churchill,who 
resigned last week from the Conservative Min¬ 
istry. will reutrn; and that he wont, but that 
his place will be taken by Smith. Secretary of 
War, as neither Hartiugtou nor Chamberlain, 
Liberal-Unionists, are willing to take part in 
a Conservative Ministry, etc., etc., etc. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 1, 1887. 
A communication framed by the execu¬ 
tive committee of the Cattle Growers’ Associ¬ 
ation of the United States will be forwarded 
to the Senate and House of Representatives, 
submitting arguments in favor of the Commis¬ 
sion feature of the bills introduced by Senator 
Warner Miller and Representative Joseph M. 
Cary for the suppression of exotic diseases 
among the cattle of the United States. “We 
appeal,” the writers say, “to that universally 
respected sentiment, ‘that governments are 
instituted for the protection of the governed. 
The cattle industry represents an investment 
of $2,0tK),(XH),(XI0 of taxable property, it, has 
been overtaken by an overwhelming and 
awful calamity, in the presence of which the 
individual citizen is helpless. We ask tha* 
you will extend to us that protection which 
everv civilized government on the face of the 
earth extends to the livps and nvonertv of its 
citizens.”,., It js now claimed that the cotton 
crop wnll reach onlv 6,000 000 bales. 
.The General Land Office has received re¬ 
ports during the past, week showing the re¬ 
moval, under perenintorv orders fmm snecial 
agents, of fences from 30inclnsnres. embracing 
over 274.000 acres of land principally in the 
Denver. Col., land district EniBnotic niuk- 
eve Prevails among horses at Bnffaln.N.Y- 
Venezuela is suffering from a nlaame of locusts, 
of which there are innumerable millions devas¬ 
tating the country.The Government 
will give un its tea farm in June next. It, has 
cost $38,000 to run the experiment during the 
last eight years.... The Moherlv (Mo.) Fair 
Association, after nine years’ eri toner, has 
been obliged to sell its “grounds.” including a 
trotting track of course, for $8,000. This is 
the concern that, two years ago. got the no¬ 
torious Frank James to start the races at an 
agricultural fair! ...The 209 head of 
Thoroughbreds sold iu Kentucky last," week 
brouebt, $153.125.The St, Louis Fair 
Association will give $50,000 in purses and 
added money to stakes at its spring meeting. 
. The Vermont Dairymen’s Association 
will meet at St. Johnsbury. .Tan. 18-20. For 
full information address O. M. Tinkhatn, 
Sec’v. North Pomfret. Vt,. The meeting 
of the Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will be helil at Rochester. Jan. 26, not 
Jan. 16. as stated last week. Those wishing 
to attend will note this correction.One 
hundred and twelve thousand five hundred 
acres of Yuma Countv. Ari., will soon be 
watered bv irrigating ditches . Hog 
cholera is alarmingly destructive in parts of 
Iowa. The same can be said of nearly every 
Western State.A complaint, is general 
among Long Island fanners that much of the 
money they tiring from New York is counter¬ 
feit. The money is mostly taken from Third 
Avenue saloon keepers, it is alleged, in change. 
and is in silver dollars .On January 10 
a company formed of Now York tobacco men 
will start a factory at Kingston. N. Y., as an 
exneriraent. Thev sav thev will emnlov 400 
girls...Professor W. K. Newton, the 
State Inspector employed in New Jersey un¬ 
der the new law prohibiting the sale of oleo¬ 
margarine. is prosecuting all offenders with 
vigor. Treasurer Toffev savs the receipts of 
fines inflicted for violations of this law 
average nearly $1.000.Similar reports 
are coming from nil over tin* conutrv. 
E. S, Munson, representing New York dairy 
interests, has written to Senatorial candidate 
Levi P. Morton, asking an expression of his 
views on the oleomargarine question, and 
Mr. Morton responds that whet her elected or 
not he shall favor any consistent, legislat ion in 
the dairy interests. He favors increasing the 
tax on oleo to at least 10 cents per pound. 
.Senator Miller’s energetic action, as 
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agri¬ 
culture during the last session of Congress, in 
favor of the Oleo Bill, is securing for him the 
strenuous support of the dairy interests of the 
State, and this the Morton party wishes to 
weaken or scare. 
I,He’s Bright Side. 
Sam Johnson once said that the ability to 
look at the bright side of life was worth to 
any man ns ranch as the addition to his salary 
of one hundred pounds a year, and when he 
wrote that sum meant n great deal. It is as 
tine to-day as then. But rnanv of those who 
are in the possession of a blue horoscope fiud 
it difficult to change the color of the landscape 
before them. Several of (he letters written 
bv patients of Doctors Starkey Palen say 
that the use of Compound Oxvgou has enabled 
them to sec everything clearly. Melancholy 
is gone; the disposition to be morose and dis¬ 
agreeable lms somehow vanished: and “I feel 
like singing all *he time,” and “ I can skip and 
run like a child,” are samples of the express¬ 
ions of the disposi'iou now. Dyttpp.pxict was 
what was the matter with most of these pa¬ 
tients. and a little timely treatment eliminated 
that disturber, and caused life to be seen in an 
entirely different light. If you would like to 
understand Compound Oxygen—its mode of 
action and results—address Dr«. Starkey At 
Pat.kn, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, aud 
you will have mailed to you free a volume of 
nearly 200 pages which afford very interesting 
reading.— Adv. 
Cvof s & fUiivhfts. 
Saturday. Juu. 1, 1887. 
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile As¬ 
surance Company of Melbourne, iu a circular 
on the crop prospect in Australia says: “The 
recent hot weather, though it has had a forc¬ 
ing influence on growing crops, has not been 
favorable to filling out wheat heads, and iu 
