APRIL 46 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 9,1887. 
The U. S. Supreme Court has just decided 
that shares in National banks can be taxed by 
the various States at the same rate that other 
“moneyed capital” is taxed by them, This 
decision will put nearly #3,000,000 of back 
taxes withheld by the batiks into the treasury 
of this city, and a groat deal more into the 
State Treasury, and large sums into the Trea¬ 
suries of other States also, as most of the 
National banks maintained that their capital 
was exempt from State taxation. 
Secretary Whitney’s new baby, which has 
been such a godsend to the newspapers during 
the “silly season,” will not be christened un¬ 
til Monday, but as the “little darling” is to 
be called Dorothea it 1ms been already elected 
President of (ho St. Dorothea Flower Mission, 
of Washington, D. C.In the N. Y, 
Assembly. Tuesday, Ives’s pool bill licensing 
betting at races, was ordered to a third read¬ 
ing, 54 to 52 .Owing to the failure 
of Congress to pass the General Deficiency 
Bill, many of the United States Judges have 
had to close their courts, as there is no money 
to pay jurors, witnesses, etc. Many prisoners 
out oil bail have boon released on their own 
recognizances. All dockets already over¬ 
crowded; business must be far behind when 
courts are reopened. .... 
.Hitherto only 83,875,735 “trade dollars” 
have been redeemed; it is thought that not 
over 83,000.000 to 47,000,000 in all will be of¬ 
fered tor redemption . -The Chicago 
Grand Jury keeps right along indicting more 
boodle officials and ex-officials. The 
Oklahoma land-thieves have now organized 
as the “Texas Oklahoma Colony,” ostensibly 
to settle in the Texas “Panhandle,” but it is 
believed they mean really to invade Indian 
Territory by way of Texas instead of Kansas. 
The military authorities lmvo been ordered 
“to take care” of them,,.,. 
_Mr. Bell, o Scotchman, is building the 
fastest yacht trails-Atlantic genius can design 
to sail to this place next fall, and at last, take 
back the great Americas Cup after beating 
the fastest yacht. eis-Atlautic genius can set. 
afloat. Edward Burgess, designer ol the Puri¬ 
tan and Mayflower, which whipped ttmir Eng¬ 
lish compet itors last year and the year before, 
is to design <i new steel boat, almost the size 
of the Mayflower but sharper forward, to 
compete with the Scotchman, and Gen, Paine, 
owner of the Mayflower, will foot the bill_ 
_Friday night, April 10, the maguifieont 
hotel del Monte, at Montcray, Cal,, sheltering 
300 guests, was entirely destroyed by fire. 
Cost over $850,000. No lives lost. Fire-ex¬ 
tinguishers in every ball-way. Waterworks 
costing nearly $500,000 and capable of throw¬ 
ing a stream'lOtl feet, high; water appliances 
eostiug $20,000 within the building—all of no 
use. Total loss, about $1.500,000. 
.Them is to he a grand National 
Drill of militia companies at Washington. 
The best, drilled companies in the country .sent, 
word they would compete, three “nigger” 
companies among t he others, Hence most of 
the chivalrous white companies of the South 
are canceling their engagements. The. colored 
troops will drill nobly, however...The 
Keeley motor is again “perfected.”..... 
Over 111.000 men are at work on the Panama 
Canal and 30,00(1 would be ir they could be ob¬ 
tained. Contractors say they are all healthy; 
correspondents say the (‘ana 1 is banked with 
their graves....The turbulent, N. J. Leg¬ 
islature lias adjourned sinr die .Ben¬ 
ton J. Hall, of Iowa, has been appointed < 'oni- 
missioner of Patents, to succeed M. V. Mont¬ 
gomery, resigned.it is estimated that 
March fires cost the United States and Can¬ 
ada *10,500,000. or *3,000,000 above the aver¬ 
age in that month for a dozen years past, ... 
_AH indications point to a very late open¬ 
ing of the canals of this State, as t hey are 
still full of solid Ice, and little or no repairs 
have been done.-• - .-Barnum is seeking 
* 100,000 of free advertising by suing the 
Grand Trunk Railway Company for that 
amount of damages for killing Jumbo, at 
Hamilton, Out,,, in the latter part of ’85. ... 
Dr. James Hodges, convicted of exploding 
that bomb in the Grand Opera House, San 
Francisco, on Feb. 9, during the l’atti con¬ 
cert, has been condemned to two years’ im¬ 
prisonment .Profess* 11 Charles A. 
ShaetTer. Dean of the faculty of Cornell I ni- 
versity, Ithaca, N. Y., has been appointed to 
till the vacancy in the presidency of the Jowa 
State University occasioned by the resigna¬ 
tion of Dr. Pickard,.. That terrible 
drought still continues in Western Texas. No 
rain for months. Wells mid water-courses 
dry. Grass all dried and eaten up. Cat¬ 
tlemen forced to move out. Most of the 
sufferers still remaining will do so if they 
cau.. Monday Gov. Marmaduke of 
Mo. signed a bill exempting loan and build¬ 
ing associations from taxation. Societies of 
this kind are being rapidly incorporated...... 
Thirty-nine years ago modern Spiritualism 
came into existence with the spirit-rappings 
of the Fox sisters near Rochester, N. Y., and 
anniversary meetings have been the order 
of the duy, during tile week. The number of 
sincere believers js estimated at several mil¬ 
lions, including a number of eminent scien¬ 
tists.'.Monday champion sluggger, 
John L. Sullivan attended the regular White 
House reception, aud was introduced to the 
President, by his manager, Pat Slieedy. Pa¬ 
pers making lota of fun of the visit—a trifle 
$U0ffUauf0U0 §UU - ertu>ihfl. 
DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron" Stove Polish wuf 
established to 1H27, and Is today, us It was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size is now doub¬ 
led and eake wclghH nearly half u pound, but the quali¬ 
ty and price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dixon’s big cake. 
fills much space in the “silly season,” when 
Congress isn’t sitting and news is scarce. 
_Last Wednesday the anniversary of the 
death of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson at 
Shiloh, a 15 foot-high bronze statue of him 
on horseback was unveiled at Matarie Gome- 
try, New Orleans. Jeff Davis was among the 
speakers. The local branch of Grand Army 
participated in the grand display.Wed¬ 
nesday Rhode Island had the fiercest electoral 
light since that of Sprague for Governor iu 
1802. Republican, Democratic, and Prohibi¬ 
tion tickets in the field. A clean majority 
overall other candidates is necessary for a 
choice: where there is only a plurality—the 
excess of votes cast for one over any one of 
several competitors— the ejection is thrown into 
tlie Legislature. John M. Davis, Democrat, 
was elected Governor by a clear majority of 
978. The Democratic Lieut. Gov. and Secre¬ 
tary of State got, pluralities only; but the At¬ 
torney-General wus elected. Prohibition 
drew most of its votes from the Republicans, 
aud there were a great many Mugwumps who 
knifed the Republican nominees. The Assem¬ 
bly stands »s follows; Senate—Republicans, 
19: Democrats, 13. House—Republicans, 37; 
Democrats,85. Or. 47 to 40 in grand commit 
tee in favor of t he Democrats. The Demo¬ 
crats in the present Assembly have only seven 
Senators and six Representatives out of the 
Whole 108. . 
..., Iu Wisconsin 32 cities in the State elected 
Mayors, Tuesday, as follows; 13 Republicans, 
11 Democrats, three Labor, four Citizens’ and 
one Independent, in Milwaukee the Repub¬ 
licans and Democrats fused against the Labor 
ticket. The Labor ticket, carried the town, 
however, by 1,500, though the fusionists elect¬ 
ed 15 out, of - 35 aldermen.Tuesday’s 
election ut Minneapolis was a victory for the 
Democrats, v ho elected ID aldermen to the 
Republicans’ II. The Democrats already had 
nine to the Republicans’ six ; so now t.Jie coun¬ 
cil stands 19 Democrats, 17 Republicans. For 
the first, time in years the Democrats arc iu 
power .The vote lor Mayor of Kansas 
City, Mo., Tuesday, was as follows: Kurupi, 
Republican, 0,309: Worthen, Democrat,3,124; 
Welch, Labor, 1,935. The Republicans elected 
their entire city ticket, except the treasurer 
and four aldermen. At Dubuque, Iowa, 
Monday, the Knights of Labor elected nearly 
their entire ticket , including the Mayor and 
aldermen, In every ward. The Republicans 
elect their candidate for City Attorney. 
Roche, Republican, has been elected Mayor of 
Chicago by over 3(1,00!) majority. The Demo¬ 
crat i>Labor- Anarchist, party, to which Car¬ 
ter Harrison gave ail his influence, was over¬ 
whelmed. Many respectable Democrats of 
all classes, especially those who had a solid 
stake iu the city, vot ed with the Republicans. 
The Anarchists forced themselves into the 
lead, aud now most of the Democratic and 
Labor Parties are disgusted with themselves 
for having made such a blunder. All respect¬ 
able men are jubilant at the al ter rout of this 
un-American rabble; but. their expectation 
that the Anarchists will “stay defeated” with¬ 
out, an effort, to force themselves to the head 
again, is sure to be woefully disappointed. 
At Cincinnati, the Labor Party cast ls.OOO 
votes, and nearly won. They uow sny they 
would have been victorious had they kept) 
free from “entangling alliances” with Anarch¬ 
ists and Socialists, and they have resolved 
to be wiser in future. A Republican 
Mayor was sleeted. The Democratic 
ticket was third in the field, being badly 
beaten even by the Labor Party. 
The Republicans made great gains in St. 
Louis, where the Democratic vote fell off 
heavily .. . The projiosed Prohibition 
amendment, to the Constitution was defeated 
in Michigan by about 8,800 majority after a 
very bitter contest.The constitutional 
amendment increasing the salaries of State 
officers is carried by a liberal majority. The 
Governor’s salary is raised from $1,900 to 
$5,000; that, of the State Treasurer and 
Superintendent of Public Instruction from 
$1,000 to * 3,500 each; that of the Secretary of 
State and the Commissioner of the Land-Office 
from $800 to *2,500 each; and that of the At¬ 
torney-General from $800 to $8,000. The 
Republican State ticket was elected by 
about 10,000 majority The rum interests all 
over the country contributed liberally to 
secure the defeat of the amendment. The 
women everywhere worked nobly for it. The 
country towns and rural districts supported 
it heartily, but all the cities and larger towns 
gave heavy majorities against it- In the 
Upper l’eniusula u violent, blizzard kept many 
farmers ut, home who would have voted for 
prohibition, and the weather generally was 
more favorable to rum than water.. 
A telegram tins morning from Fort Gibson, 
Indian Territory, says Mr. Blaine is suffering 
seriously there “from bronchial catarrh with 
fever of a remitting type.” Doctors tele¬ 
graphed for from St, Louis and Chicago. 
Last, uight’s telegrams said he was threatened 
with pneumonia—very dangerous at his ago— 
5-1. He is visiting his daughter, the wife of 
Col. Copp i ugcr, 1 lie commander at Fort Gibson. 
Very latest, reports say that “it, is a slight attack 
of cold." lie was “doing nicely” yesterday.. 
.Home3,009 reports have been received 
by this morning’s Brads! reel, concerning the 
number of industrial employes nt- work iu 
this country at, this time as compared with 
two years ago, together with the changes of 
wages received during that, period. Two 
years ago wages of industrial employes hud 
been reduced through the Eastern, Middle and 
Western States an average of 10 to 15 per 
cent as compared with 18*2 when the prosper¬ 
ous season begun in 1879 wus at its bight. 
There were also 859,000 fewer employes at, 
work. Now there ure at least 400,000 more 
industrial employes at work than in 1885, 
while the wages on a whole, are as high us they 
were In l8S|-83, and iu some instances higher. 
.Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, who 
died here the other day, worth nearly $20,000,- 
000, has bequeathed to the Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum of Art, her entire collection of modern 
oil paintings and water color drawings and 
$300,000 iu money, the Income of which is to 
be used forever to take care of aud increase 
the collection. There are over 200 works of 
art, valued at from $350,000 to $500,000. The 
museum is a public institution, open free to 
all. Miss W. had for years given away about 
$250,000 annually in charity. 
....In New York Governor Hill has not yet 
acted upon the High License Bill lately passed 
by the legislature, but his references in recent 
messages to the abuses of special legislation 
have led many to expect a veto of the hill. 
Home of the most influential Democratic 
papers are strongly against a veto,. 
Rhode Island has fallen into line with Massa¬ 
chusetts and Connecticut among the Now 
England States in establishing a bureau of 
industrial statistics. Under a law just passed 
a Commissioner, to be appointed by the Gov¬ 
ernor, is instructed to report.annually iu rela¬ 
tion to t he condition of labor and business in 
all mechanical, manufacturing, commercial 
and industrial enterprises of the State, and 
especially In relation to the social, educational 
and sanitary condition of the laboring classes. 
Employers of every degree are required, 
under penalty of a fine, to furnish the bureau 
“all proper and ueeessary information”...... 
..... ... North Carolina also has lately estab- 
lished a Bureau of Statistics and Labor. 
.The Canadian cruiser Vigilant chased 
an American lishiug vessel seen fishing within 
the three-mile limit near Beaver Harbor, 
Newfoundland, the other day, and tired a 
blank shot at her on tier refusal to heave to; 
but she gained the line and was safe. First 
shot this year. England backs up the Canad¬ 
ian policy. Our “Retaliation Act'’ does not 
apply to acts hitherto done by Canada, but to 
all future acts. The American Fishery Asso¬ 
ciation of Mass, suggested to the 1’resident 
that the object of the Act might lx 1 accom¬ 
plished by “prohibiting Canadian caught fish 
from entry into the ports of the United 
States,” They wanted to get all of the advan¬ 
tages aud none of the disadvantages of the 
measure. The President says that the Act 
must bo enforced, if*at uJI, to maintain the 
national honor, and not to protect any par 
ticular interest. It will probably be enforced 
to the full extent, and if that isn’t effective, 
a more stringent, Act, will he passed at the 
next, session of Congress.The war ves¬ 
sels being constructed are to be pushed to 
completion as fast os possible. Bias for five 
new ones are solicited. 
. Over 8,000 carpenters are on 
strike in Chicago for eight hours’ work a day 
and higher wages. The Knights of Labor 
want, to compromise on eight hours, and 30 
cents an hour; the local trades-unions are op- 
posed; but as half the strikers are Knights 
the latter are likely to force their views. 
Heabs are always bitterly reviled and often 
dangerously assaulted, There is a strong like¬ 
lihood of more extensive strikes everywhere 
about May l, for shorter hours and higher 
wages. Nine hour* instead of eight, will this 
year probably be the general demand. Ac¬ 
cording to thus morning's Bradstreet,, the 
total number of striking employees in Janu¬ 
ary was 73,300, against 47,200 last.year; in 
February, 30JKK), against 10,700, and in March 
14,500, against 59,200 in 1880. There have 
been 12,300 employees on strike during eight 
days of April, 1887. Powderly is getting 
more and more radical, and favoring 
more aud more the extremists who ad¬ 
vocate strikes and boycotting.. 
ANOTHER HIM SF.HOIJ) NECESSITY. 
The Inventor of Linoleum Indorses a 
Discovery us Vnlunlile rn lii* Own. 
Fifteen or twenty years ago it was found 
that a floor covering could be made, looking 
like oil-clotli and lastiug as long or longer, 
and yet without that, coldness to the t read which 
is one of the peculiar characteristics of oil¬ 
cloth. The new article was made of very finely 
ground particles of cork, mixed with linseed 
oil and other substances in mysterious ways 
which need not here and now he described. 
“Linoleum” was the name selected for it. At 
first it was put before the public ou a very 
small scale. But its merits created a great de¬ 
mand for it aud it is now a household institu¬ 
tion, both in this country aud in England. 
At the head of the Linoleum business, in 
this country, is the well-known house of 
Joseph Wild & Co., of 84 Worth St., New- 
York. The senior partner of this firm is 
Joseph Wild, Esq, a resident of South Brook¬ 
lyn, and one of the most hearty-looking gen¬ 
tlemen of his age anywhere to be seen. Ho is 
considerably over seventy, with snow-white 
hair, erect form aud a very cheerful counte¬ 
nance. To look at, him one would suppose he 
never had suffered a day’s illness in Ills life. 
Yet there was u time when Mr. Wild was an 
invalid, worn by active attention to business, 
aud seeming tei be on the verge of total nervous 
prostration. Concerning his invalidity and 
his restoration to health, one of our correspon¬ 
dents recently had a little conversation with 
him at his store. 
“They tell me you were considerably run 
down in health, Mr, Wild.” 
“It is very true, sir. I was not bedridden, 
nor was I entirely laid aside from business, 
but I hud given myself very closely to my 
business affairs, and my duties iu connection 
with the church and some of the Baptist benev¬ 
olent societies had weighed heavily upon 
me. A younger man than I might not have 
felt, these burdens as 1 did but at my time of 
life they began to make their mark on my 
constitution. 1 felta lack of vitality, and real¬ 
ized that my nerve-power was about to fail 
me. My appetite was uot as it formerly had 
boon, and my digestion was somewhat disor¬ 
dered. I needed, in fact, revitalization. About 
this time I beard of Compound Oxygeu, and 
I made inquiry at the New York office of this 
x-emedy, 148 Fifth Avenue, to see if it could be 
applicable to me. Learning that others who 
had been run down as I was had been benefited 
by the Compound Oxygen, I procured a ‘Home 
Treatment,’ with considerable doubt as to 
whether or not it would do me any good. 
This was about two years ago. Hince that 
time T have been taking Compound Oxygen, 
not all the time but frequently at intervals, 
when l have felt the need of it.” 
“Then you received decided benefit from it 
at the outset?” 
“Very soon after I began to inhale I found 
that I was receiving new strength. Aud I 
was glad to note that it was real strength, and 
not a more stimulus. I noted also the stead¬ 
iness of my improvement. There was no 
falling back, but a constant and reliable 
advance. Daily I could feel an increase of 
vitality. My spirits were better and my 
power of action was greater. T was aide to 
attend t.o my business and to all my other with 
far less strain on me than I had for some time, 
previously experienced.” 
“And so you now find yourself as well as 
ever and beyond the necessity of medicine?” 
“For a man of my years I am as hearty aud 
vigorous as 1 can expect. I am free from 
disease and pain, and am attending to as 
much detail of business as if I wore only fifty 
years old. As to ttmdioine, I have no use for 
it drug-medicine I mean. Ido not call this 
Oxygen exactly a medicine; certainly uot in 
the seuse that drugs are medicinal. 1 regard 
it ns a wonderful vitalizer and iuvigorutor. 
And it as such that I even no w occasionally re¬ 
sort to it, when I leel the ueod. J keep it iu 
the house, and intcud to continue doing so.” 
To the many gentlemen of advancing years 
who are overworked and weary, and who feel 
themselves iu need of revitalization,Compound 
Oxygen is, as in Mr. Wild’s case a valuable 
helper. The lateT. H. Arthur, of Philadelphia, 
was brought almost from the grave by this 
means when he was quite au old man, and by 
it his life was prolonged for a number of 
yoars. The Hon. Willian D. Kelley, of Philad¬ 
elphia, who is beyond seventy, attributes to 
Compound Oxygen his recovery from what 
had been pronounced a fatal disease. He still 
uses the Oxygen as a vitalize!’, and is in 
vigorous condition, attending to his legal aud 
Congressional duties as actively as of old. 
For a valuable treatise ou what Compound 
Oxygen is and what it does, write to Drs. 
Htakkev <fc Pai.en, 1529 Arch Street, Philad¬ 
elphia. The treatise will be mailed free of 
charge.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 9, 1887. 
A CONTEST Board lias been established by 
the General Land Office to which all contested 
cases with regard to the pre-emption of pub¬ 
lic land are to be referred.Betting at 
horse races has just been legalized in France, 
but a portion of the profits from the sale of 
privileges is to be devoted to the encourage¬ 
ment of horse-breeding aud charity . 
Frenchmen have been milking inquiries in 
Ontario, Cun., us to the ability of the Domin¬ 
ion to supply horses suitable for military pur¬ 
poses—thought to he representatives ol the 
French Government.Cattle on the 
ranges of New Mexico, Indian Territory, and 
Colorado are reported to have come through 
the winter in excellent, shape and with but 
slight losses.The Texas Legislature 
has passed a very elaborate public land bill, 
giving the farmer a chance to secure a home¬ 
stead ou 40 years’ credit at, five per cent, in¬ 
terest.. .The export of hog product in 
1879, 1880 and 1881 was larger t han it has ever 
been since, averaging for the throe years 
fi.368.iKH) hogs, and for t he last five yeurs 4,- 
360,000 hogs. In 1886 it, was 4,700,000 hogs, 
the largest total tu tUe live years. The num¬ 
ber of hog* packed iu March was 475,000 head, 
against 390,000 head in March. 1886. Tn the 
year ending February 28. 6,439,909 hogs were 
packed, an increase of 140,0)4 iu number and 
a reduction of 7.07 pounds per hog iu average 
gross weight, autl 1.68 pounds in average yield 
of lard. Reduced production makes the pack¬ 
ing equal to 50,597 hogs of same weight less 
than last year. .., Public land, to the 
extant of il,000,900 acres, remain unsurveyed 
in Colorado, 13,01X1,000 in Arizona, 27,000,00(1 
in California, 49.000.IXK) in Dakota, 7,000,000 
in Florida, 44,000,000 in Idaho, 7,OOOjllH) in 
Mlnuesota, 39,000,000 in Nevada, 74,LNH).()IK) in 
Montana, 41,000,000 in Utah and 32,000,000 in 
Washington Territory, and in each ol these 
States and Territories there is also a good deal 
of surveyed lund open to settlement. 
The Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners have 
issued a proclamation of quarantine against 
cattle from New York and Vermont, on ac¬ 
count, ol the presence of contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia iu those States .In France 
the import duty on oxen has been placed at 
38 francs; on cows, 2.) francs; on calves, eight 
francs; mi sheep, five fra Uus, and on fresh 
meat, 13 francs —a franc is worth 19.3 cents.... 
-The census of livestock in Franco taken 
by order of the French Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment enumerates: Cattle, 13.101,000: sheep, 
23,616,000; swine, 5,881,090; horses, 2,911,IKK); 
goats, 1,488,000; mules, 238,000; asses, 387,000. 
This is an increase iu all classes compared 
with last year; in cattle the increase amounts 
to 1,058,IKK) head.The average weight 
of hoes at the Kansas City Stock Yards the 
last 10 days in March was 220 pounds against 
226 last year: for the month of March the 
average was 223 pounds, against 231 last year. 
....Swift & Co., the great Chicago meat 
packers,are soon to establish “a monster paek- 
ery" at Kansas City, Mo. 
