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Saturday, Api-il 16,18S7. 
Titf. Inter-State Commerce Law went into 
force April 4, and bats now been It. 1 days in 
operation. It was before Congress six years, 
and should have been turned out as nearly 
perfect as any novel legislation could be made 
by the wisdom of nil the lawyers and other 
highly paid legislators of that.body. .Judging 
by the chorus of complaints against it from 
ail quarters, from every industry mill every 
interest in the country, it is a mass of incom¬ 
prehensible imperfections. Nobody seems to 
know what, it means; everybody seems to 
think it. hostile to his own business. It stops 
the issue of thousands of free passes; it raises 
the rate on all theatrical, circus and other 
traveling companies, as well as on over 75,060 
drummers: it deprives clergymen of their 
time-houored privileges, and it causes lots of 
gmmbling from what may be called other in¬ 
dividual interests. Some iron works near 
Pittsburg and factories in several other places 
have shutdown on the ground tlmt owing to 
the heavy freight rates it, isitnpo-sible for them 
to carry on business. Others threaten to do so. 
From investigations into the workings of the 
new railroad tariff, this morning’s Bradstreet, 
finds that advances on railroads east of the 
Missouri River, from former ratoe. range from 
20 to 40 per cent. There are a few increases 
below 10 per cent ; and some above 40 per 
cent.; while transcontinental rates range from 
800 to 700 per cent, higher, and arc simply 
prohibitive. Some of the loudest complaints 
come from shippers who have heretofore en¬ 
joyed heavy rebates. Many of the minor 
interior shipping (mints are yet without, a rate 
to the centers of distribution. The bulk of 
the local business supplied from New York is 
required to pay from HI to 15 per cent, higher 
freight, charges. The long and short huul pro¬ 
visions of the act cause most trouble. The 
New Commissioners have virtually suspended 
its effects through the greater part of the South 
for three months, until investigations can be 
made. A United States Judge in Ore¬ 
gon has decided that it, does not apply 
to competition by sea, and a United States 
Judge in New Orleans bos decided that 
the Louisiana and Texas Railroad (In the 
hands of a United States Receiver) need not 
obey its provisions. The farmo’s of the West, 
who expected grout things from it, arc loud in 
their complaints aga inst, its disastrous effects, 
ami .•iic combining with the merchantsand 
others to minimize its evils. All speak against 
it, even the railroads, which, from present 
appearances, are likely to gain most, by it.. 
Sufficient, time should be allowed, however, to 
to get the law into proper operation. There 
is doubtless a great deal ol' good in it, but its 
faults are most.conspicuous at the outset 
..Gov. Hill of this State has vetoed the 
High License Rill as “special legislation,” be¬ 
cause it applied to New York and Brooklyn 
only; and also on the plea that, it was uncon¬ 
stitutional. as it made the “'keeping on hand" 
of liquors, without a license, a crime, forfeit¬ 
ing all found on the premisses of dealers 
having wine and-beer licenses only; while the 
Constitution guarantees the sanctity of pri¬ 
vate property. Rum-sellers and buyers in- 
toxlent i ugly jubilant; Prohibitionists content; 
temperance folks indignant,; politicians happy, 
the Republicans having placated the temj*er- 
aucc advocates; mid the Democrat* having 
befriended lie- "rum Interest. 1 .The 
Treasury decides that clothing ordered from 
Europe by a resident in this country must 
pay import duty, unless the person goes to 
Europe for it. and then 11 will rest, with the 
Collector of Customs at the port of debark¬ 
ation whether or not, it will be entitled to free 
entry. The rule applies to Canada also. 
....Prairie fires have, been very destructive 
near Huron and Highmore, Dakota.... A 
week ago very disastrous prairie fires swept 
over the eastern parts of Norton and Graham 
Counties in Northwestern 'Kansas. Many 
dwelling-houses and si ill more barns and out¬ 
buildings with stacks of grain and hay as well 
as corn-cribs were burned, leaving hundreds 
of farmers almost destitute. The burned car¬ 
casses of thousands of fowls and hogs and 
of many cattle and horses mark the track 
of the flames. Sixteen human lives are known 
to have been lost.AH the ancient parts 
of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in 
the United States,were burned Iasi. Saturday, 
together with a large part of lie- more 
modeili town, including several hotels—loss 
about $850 000 . .... 
. . Daring 1880 Culm shipped to this country 
1)4 per cent, of her sugar and molasses .... 
Bully England demands from poor little 
Hayti $1,000,IJU0 for debts due English sub¬ 
jects, She Threatens to take forcible posses¬ 
sion of the island of Tortuga in case of re¬ 
fusal. France offers to mediate. The United 
Stales euu ut least protest in support of the 
Monroe Doctrine. This morning’s cablegrams 
say she will seize no territory; and that she 
has reduced her demands to *100,000. 
.... .Men are Working duy 
and night <m 'ur new war ships. On March 
21, last, the English navy was officially ap 
praised at about; $£ 00 ;000,00(1. .... ..After 
the Vanderbilt gift of Rosa BonheurV $50,000 
picture, and Miss Wolfe’s gift of $350,000 
worth of pict ures to the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art. here, Mr. George I. Honey presents it 
with $40,000 worth ot paintings. 
Mass, has started a Board to regulate the 
practice of dentistry: but. none to regulate 
the practice of medicine ...Tho i’ieumont 
country ranges from Virginia to Alabama, 
and the men who made that. Atlanta Cotton 
Exhibit ion so great a success a few years ago, 
are going to got up uu agricultural and indus 
trial exhibition or its products at Atlanta, to 
be opened next October. Tuesday, Cali¬ 
fornia defeated the three proposed amend¬ 
ments to her constitution. The first, proposed 
to re-construct tho (Supreme Court. Tho 
justices elected by the people were to select u 
Chief Justice from their number every two 
years. The second increased, the judges’ sal¬ 
aries. The third gave cities with over 10,000 
population, the power to make their own 
charters, making the mayors the responsible 
heads of municipal governments.The 
Manitobans are red-hot mad because the Do¬ 
minion authorities refuse to charter side rail¬ 
roads in the Province. They are talking of 
building a branch from tho Canada Pacific, to 
the U. H. border,at the point of the bayonet. 
The Legislature met last. Thursday and was too 
uiad to listen to the •‘speech from the throne,” 
. Ut. Rev. Alfred Lee, senior Bishop of 
the Protestant-Episcopal Church, died Tues¬ 
day at his home at Wilmington, Del. Born 
Sept, !1, 1807, graduated from Harvard in 1827; 
after studying law and practicing two years, 
graduated from the General Theological Sem¬ 
inary at New York in 1837; ordained priest 
nt Hartford, Conn., in 1888. Chosen Bishop 
of the new dloeese of Dela ware in 1841. Be¬ 
came Presiding Bishop in 1884... 
_All the railroads east of Chicago and St. 
Louis, as well as the Southern roads refuse to 
pay any commission ou the sale of tickets, 
doing all the business at their own oil lees. 
The Northwestern roads terminating at Chic¬ 
ago, uud all the roads west of there aud the 
Mississippi, with the single exception of the 
Chicago aud Northwestern, insist on paying 
commissions as formerly, and maintain that 
they are now forbidden to do so by the Inter- 
State Commerce l aw. All the Eastern roads, 
therefore, refuse to sell tickets cm tho recalei- 
traut Western roads, so that no “through” 
tickets are sold at any of their offices to points 
west of Chicago and St. Louis. The Western 
roads Intend either to appeal to t he now Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commissioners, or open 
ticket offices themselves at the principal 
points in the East, or both. The biggest boy¬ 
cott yet, by the very corporations that are 
loudest in denouncing boycotting. The tick¬ 
ets of 211 lines are “turned to the wall”. 
.From Jan. 1 to April I, 1,046 miles 
of new railroad track were laid on 49 differ¬ 
ent lines in 25 States aud Territories. It is 
expected that the track laying for 1887 will 
aggregate from 8,011(1 to 10,(100 miles....Not a 
week passes without accounts of farmers who 
have been killed, in this and other cities, by 
blowing out the gns in their bed-rooms at, the 
hotels at which they have put up. Most of 
them don’t know that the gus must be shut off 
by turning the cock; and that if the light is 
extinguished by blowing, the gas still contin¬ 
ues to flow into the room, und ns it cannot, be 
smelled owing to its gradual mixture with the 
uir, the victim is usually suffocated during 
sleep from which he never awakes. We 
notice one death here this week from this 
cause; another in Chicago, and a third at 
Cincinnati—all reported to bo from the 
“rural districts.”_ At the Nat ional drill 
at Washington in tho last week of May, 32 
States and several Territories will send 142 
companies, numbering, in all over 7,1)00 men 
—$80,000 in prizes; no distinction In regard to 
“race, color, or previous condition.” All the 
Southern States will be represented, a few 
companies only having refused to compete 
ivith colored troops. 
Tho Pennsylvania House has passed the 
Brooks High-License Bill. It provides that 
the license in cities of the first,, second and 
third class .shall be $500; in all other cities 
*800; in boroughs $1 OH and $50, ami in town¬ 
ships $75.Germany insists on the 
right to ex pel Germans who have been natur¬ 
alized here, if they return for any length of 
time to the Fatherland. If they slay there 
more than two years continuously they are 
liable to be conscripted into the army and 
treated as Germans it) all other ways. 
The President tins appointed Eugene Semple, 
of Washington Territory, to be Governor of 
Washington Territoiy, and Samuel D. Shan¬ 
non, or Cheyenne, to bo Secretary of Wyo¬ 
ming Territory.For uliout two years 
the conductors. bm.keuuu and other employes 
on freight trains on the Panhandle Railroad 
between Pittsburg, Pa., and Columbus, Ohio, 
—have conspired to plunder the freight ears 
by breaking open valuable packages Olid talc 
mg all or n part of their oouteuts, 1 hu saalfl ou 
the car-doom were tampered with so that they 
appeared all right ou examination. Western 
bound freight alone wasstoloii, and the thefts 
were not discovered until the packages cach¬ 
ed thopersouK to whom they were sent.. 1 heso 
claimed damages for losses from the railroads 
and the claims have been over $500.1)00. At* 
ter a great deal of clever detective work, (|, 
rascals were found out and 05 of them w ere 
arrested last Monday. Over a dozen more 
have been arrested since, and, in all, about 
400 warrants wore issued for employes, ex- 
employes, their wives uud other members of 
their uumlcs who knew of the robberies, receiv¬ 
ers of the stolen goods, etc., etc. Such good* 
were found on the persons or in t be houses of all. 
The must gigantic dishonest "combine” over 
known.A statement prepared ut 
the Treasury Department shows tho amount 
of money in actual circulation April I, as 
follows: Gold coin, $878,200,462,; standard sil¬ 
ver dollars, $56,800,818; subsidiary silver, 
$48,586,710; gold certificate!*, $94,646,015; Gi¬ 
ver certificates, $181,030,480; United States 
notes, $325,581,078; national bank notes, 
*884,565,770 - total, $1,814.098,343, being 
a net increase of $7,052,288 In actual cir¬ 
culation since March 1 last,........... 
_The Republican majority in the Michigan 
Legislature have decided oh high license and 
local-option in the Wolverine Slate, The 
limit of the license is fixed as follows: For 
cities with lO.OUO inhabitants uud over, $700; 
for cit ies under 10,000, $500 , for incorporated 
villages. $100; for townships, $300. No dis¬ 
crimination is proposed between wine and 
beer licenses. No intoxicating beverages to bo 
sold in any county which so votes. 
...As t be Cent nil Union Telephone ('om- 
pany, which controls the telephone business 
in Indiana, failed to procure at tin recent ses¬ 
sion Of the Legislature a repeal of the act 
providing that the rent, of a telephone in that 
State should not exceed $3 a month, it has 
given notice that in towns of less than Id,Odd 
inhabitants it* exchanges will bo closed on the 
3dth iust. It asserts that it canuot afford to 
do business at the rate fixed by law.A 
bill reducing the legal profits of tho Standard 
Oil Company has passed the lower branch of 
Ikci’ciihiisylvunia Legislature. It' tho hill Lu| 
comes a law it will cat down the profits of the 
company about $4,000,000 per annum. 
The Dow high-license law in Ohio has 
closed 48 saloons in Columbus. 800 in Toledo 
and 300 in Cleveland.. ...W. C. Miller, of 
De Kalb County, Ga., refused to close bis dis¬ 
tillery in obedience to the Prohibition Raw; 
white on trial before Judge Clark, in a State 
Court, Federal Judge Pardee granted a writ 
of habeas corpus transferring the case to his 
court. Gov. Gordon and Judge Clark protest 
against, this assumption of Federal authority 
in a State criminal ease, and the State will 
appear us a party in Pardee’s court and claim 
sole jurisdiction over the prisoner.Car¬ 
dinal Taschereau, of Quebec, who in Feb., 
1885, forbade the priests within bis jurisdic¬ 
tion to grant absolution to Catholic Knights 
of Labor, thus preventing them from receiv¬ 
ing “Communion:” last,Saturday, in obedience 
to the Pope, suspended “the effects of the sen 
tenee until further orders,” and prolonged the 
time of Pascal Commuuiori t ill the Feast of 
tho Ascension. Catholics have to go “to con¬ 
fession and communion at least once a year, 
and that at Easter or thereabouts.”. 
Advices from Rome say t hat, on tho represen¬ 
tations of Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, 
the Pope has decided not to condemn the 
order of the Knights of l.nhor, Til is is likely 
to greatly encourage and increase the Order, 
as vast numbers of workingmen are Catholics. 
.John Wananmkcr, the large clothing 
merchant of Philadelphia, has adopted Hie 
profit-sharing system among all his employees 
who have been with him seven years. He has 
raised the wages of all—men and women— 
and adopted the civil-service system of pro¬ 
motions, with special provision for rewarding 
marked ability and usefulness—an excellent 
example. 
... Mr. Blaine is getting along splendidly, 
and will start cast soon. All over 
the United States meetings arc being held to 
protest against tho proposed Tory Coercion 
policy for Ireland. Ju towns and cities the 
Mayors and other prominent politicians usu¬ 
ally preside, and though “Irish-Americans” 
form the great bulk of the audience, many 
Americans are present, some through sympa¬ 
thy, others from curiosity. In large cities 
Boards of Aldermen and similar civic func¬ 
tionaries are passing vehement resolutions on 
tho matter. A large number of tho State 
Legislatures have passed u joint resolutions,” 
condemning the project. Prominent politi- 
ciaus, especially brilliant Ingulls of Kansas, 
have been making fiery speeches against it 
and the English nation generally. Gov. 
Green of N. J., refused to attend an anti- 
coercion meeting ut Trenton, aud tho Irish 
vote in that, city, always strongly Democratic, 
was cast, for the Republicans who, for i.lic 
first I line in a quarter of u century, were tri¬ 
umphant, making a clean sweep of nearly all 
tho offices, although Green later offered to 
preside, hut. his offer was refused. The Irish 
vote gave the Republicans victory in several 
Other towns also,,,.The moulder* lu the em¬ 
ployment of Bridge. Beach A Co., stove manu¬ 
facturers,Sfc. Louis, Mo.,struck for shorter hours 
and higher wages a short, time back. Accord¬ 
ing to arrangement* between the members of 
the Manufacturers’ Association, patterns of 
the firm were sent to the works of other local 
makers to have eastings made from them. 
The moulders in these works struck rather 
than handle them. In turn they were sent to 
other stove works at Leavenworth, Milwau¬ 
kee, Chicago, Pittsburg and other points; 
but, the moulders at all the works have gone 
out rather than have anything to do with 
them. The strike is likely to extend to all 
large stove factories in the United States, as 
the owners of all are members of tho associa¬ 
tion and all the men are resolute. Other 
workmen on stoves art) likely to strike in su(>- 
port of the moulder*.Loud com¬ 
plaints of fraudsHgumat Prohibition in Michi¬ 
gan, especially among the drinking miners, 
iron workers aud lumbermen in the North¬ 
ern Peninsula. It Is charged that hundreds 
of voters were imported from Wis., to work 
against it.Very des 'motive floods in 
various purls of the Northern States and 
Canada. A special from St. Cluirs- 
villo, Ohio, reports that a cyclone passsed over 
Belmont Comity yesterday afternoon, wreck- 
lug several farm houses and barns and doing 
considerable damage to chin ches and business 
blocks at St. Ulairsville. The County Infirm¬ 
ary bam, which cost $6,000, was completely 
destroyed. The loss in St. Clairsville alone 
will amount to fully $800,000. Reports from 
other townships and villages have increased 
the aggregate loss at midnight to upward of 
$1,000,0110...... .... A cablegram Wednesday 
says that there is such an enormous rush of 
emigrants to this country from Ireland that, 
all the hotels, lodging-houses, et.c., at. Queens¬ 
town arc over-crowded, and people ore sleep¬ 
ing in the fields and streets. Over 1,500 left, 
that day. All the trails At lantic lines ot steam- 
el’s expect un enormous emigrant, business this 
year. Tho threatened Coercion Law in 
Ireland: the great, chances ot war ou the Con¬ 
tinent; the failure of crops in Great Britain 
und several other countries, and the report* 
of growing prosperity on this side nr til© 
water, all actively favor the emigration. 
Then again, the tremendous pressure of the 
vast armies of Europe make* all the poor, on 
whom that pressure weighs most griev¬ 
ously, anxious to escape. It is likely the im¬ 
migration here this year •will be as great as 
that in 1848 and 1854 or even that, in 1888, 
when we had the greatest inflow of foreign 
population on record. In many of the States 
there is a strong and grow ing sentiment 
against this mighty inrush of foreign labor.,. 
.Andrew Carnegie, the phUaut.hropist 
Pittsburg Scotch millionaire iron-master, 
has just arrived here, and is to be quietly mar¬ 
ried Friday evening next to Miss Whitfield, 
daughter of a wealthy New York merchant 
who died eight years ugo. lie is now a bach¬ 
elor of 53, and she is nearly 30 years younger, 
immediately after the marriage, the “happy 
pair” will embark for a Europe sojourn. 
Send your address ou postal curd for forty- 
eight pugo book on “Soap Making.” Free. 
Red Seal Lye Co., 848 North Third St., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.—Ada. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April 16, 1887. 
In the United Kingdom tho Conservative 
bill providing for coercion in Ireland is meet¬ 
ing with the most ©treilUOusOpposition. Ilart- 
ington and Chamberlain and the Liberal- 
Uuiouist* behind them, still support the Con¬ 
servative policy, with some exceptions; but 
there appears to be a genuine and widespread 
feeling of popular indignation against the 
measure, which is finding expression at public 
meetings throughout tho country. One of 
the most impressive demonstrations of late 
years was the great gathering of Mondav last 
in Hyde Park, London, where about 150,000 
people met to protest against,the government’s 
policy. The gathering was marked by great 
enthusiasm. All over the three kingdoms, 
but especially in England, large meetings are 
held every week to protest against it; and 
Scotland and Wales are only a little behind 
England in their opposition, This is most no¬ 
ticeable umoug (lie working classes, who, un¬ 
til of late, were bitterest against, everything 
Irish. The circumstances unending the pro¬ 
gress of the present Coercion Bill—the eighty- 
seventh with in u century—are much less fav¬ 
orable for the party proposing the bill than 
perhups ever before. Tho Ministry has now 
to count not. only on a defiant Ireland, but a 
divided England. It is noteworthy that tho 
coercion policy meets with a very seant sym¬ 
pathy in Cauuda. At a recent banquet in 
Montreal the Coercion Act was denounced 
by Secretary ol State Cbauleau, and resolu¬ 
tions protesting strongly against the adop¬ 
tion of the measure have beou introduced 
into the Canadian Parliament by a strong 
government supporter. 
An illustrated Catalogue of Children’s Car¬ 
riages giving latest novelties, and greatest 
number of designs over manufactured, mailed 
on application by the Luburg Carriuge Co., 
Phila., Pa,— Adv, 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 16, 1887. 
At a convention of tho prominent peach 
growers of Warren and Huuterdon counties N. 
J-,just heid.it was generally admitted that the 
outlook favored an uriusunlly large crop of 
fruit, especially peaches. One gentleman said 
tlmt he had thoroughly examined the trees 
and t lmt ho found that not one bud out of ten 
gave any indication of having been injured 
by the frost. He thought that the crop ot the 
coming season would be the heuvicst known 
for years.Last. Saturday a delegation 
of cattlemen invited the President, to attend 
the grand reunion of the livestock breeders 
of the United States to lie held nt. Chicago 
Nov. 8 to 18 next. His presence "will depend 
entirely upon the state of public affairs at the 
time.” .At the Loudon auction won) 
sales 246,000 bales wore offered, of which 174,- 
000 remained unsold last Tuesday., .The 
orange industry of Florida has increased ten¬ 
fold ui five years. In 1880 only 100.000 boxes 
were shipped out of the State, while in 1884 
and 1885 tlw exports were 1.000,000 boxes, and 
their value $1,500,000. The United States 
eats, it, Is estimated, 600,000,000 oranges 
yearly, enough to give to each man. woman 
and child ten oranges.... .. Tho Canadian 
Department of Agriculture has decided to 
exhibit.specimen*of Canadian grain through¬ 
out England aud ut all the county fairs this 
summer for t he purpose of inducing English 
farmers to emigrate to Canada and especially 
the Northwest Territories.An unusual 
ly large quantity of grain is going to Europe 
via New Orleans. Is this one of the results of 
the Inter-State Commerce bill ' . 
Tho Ohio State Board of Agriculture is re¬ 
ceiving very discouraging reports of t he con¬ 
dition of winter wluut. from nearly all parts 
of the State—likely that a full average will 
full off 25 per cent At the meeting of 
the fresh fruit trade of this city, the other 
day, a standing vote showed that all were in 
Tuvor of including baskets in tho sales of 
fruit, and especially of peaches, doing away 
with all deposits ami returnable packages 
... 1 lie Wisconsin Assembly yesterday con¬ 
curred in the Senate bill making stock and 
grain gambling by options, puts aud calls, 
anil other similar methods, a misdemeanor 
punishable by line and imprisonment. 
rhf suit* of WcsUtii drowsed beef will proba- 
hly largely increu.se in this city now that, 
the Inter-State Commerce act has put.nn end 
to discriminations in favor of live stock. The 
Western bouses interested in this beef have 
given notice of an intention to open retail 
shops in thin city and Brooklyn, and the 
butrherH are naturally much alarmed. 
Heavy rains have boon succeeded by serious 
floods over a wide section of Queensland, Aus¬ 
tralia. Lai\;e portion* of the crops have been 
destroyed, and it is feared that the result will 
he ruin to many laruicrs ...... At a con¬ 
ference of Scotch millers at Glassguw, Mon¬ 
day, resolution was passed demanding a duty 
on imported flour The other day an actual 
sale of 5,51)0 bales of cotton was made l>y one 
Galveston firm to another, thought to have 
been the largest, single sale of cotton ever 
made in the world.... . 
The Commissioner of Agriculture has sent to 
the Governors of several States a hill provid¬ 
ing for co-operation with the Bureau of 
Animal Industry in stamping out pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. The net nas already been passed 
ill Virginia and Michigan, and is now before 
the N. Y. Legislature which is sure to m’t, 
favorably upon it...Gover¬ 
nor Oruisbee, of Vermont, has appointed Col¬ 
onel John u. Mead, of Randolnh, E. N. Bis¬ 
sau, iif Shore-hum, mid L. A. Drew, of Bur¬ 
lington, Commissioners to tank after contagi- 
ous pleoro-pucumonia in that State ... 
The barbed wire tenee manufacturer* of the 
country have perfected a scheme to closedown 
a large number of plants, to decrease the out¬ 
put and raise the price. The United Barb 
Wire Conqiuny, a national concern to which 
all the manufactures belong, proposes to louse 
all the (ilunts they can at, $2 per ton a year ou 
their lioeusod tonnage, or $8.50 on tho tonnage 
