HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 23,18S7. 
Four hundred teamsters of the Grand 
Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railways went 
out on strike on Saturday morning for au ad¬ 
vance from $1.35 to $1.50 per day. The 
freight throughout Montreal is being handled 
by express.Three hundred and fifty em- 
ployds ot' the Sheddon and Dominion Trans- 
port companies, Montreal, struck on Satur¬ 
day for an inornate of wages. For its popu- 
. lation—eonsidernlby less than 5,000,000— 
strikes are proportionately more frequent and 
numerous in Canada than in the States; but, 
of course, so many do not take part in them.. 
.Quite a sensation has been created in 
Richmond financial circles and among Stntq 
officials by the discovery that unknown quan¬ 
tities of spurious Virginia bonds—known as 
Riddleberger threes—are for sale in Northern 
markets.Serious trouble between Indians 
and cow-boys on the Kiowa Reservation, 
Indian Territory, owing to thefts of cattle by 
the former and bloody retaliation by the lat¬ 
ter. An Indian uprising anticipated. Why 
are white men’s cattle still in the Indian Ter¬ 
ritory contrary to the proclamation of the 
President and the action of the military over 
a year ago? ...I’he baseball season will be 
lively enough. The season in the “Associa¬ 
tion” has been opened. The fight between 
Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louis¬ 
ville will be brisk, The chances are that the 
clubs may end iu the order named above. Iu 
the “League” there will be many surprises. 
The Bostons are playing a fine game. The 
Chicago** are fully as strong as last year, 
having beaten the 8t. Louis three games out 
of five. The playing of the Boston, Pitts¬ 
burg and Washington clubs will cause many 
surprises. They are all stroug. The New 
Yorks are not much stronger than last year. 
Every small boy in the country is gett ing his 
bat and ball ready..... ..... The other day 
Senator Duly introduced a resolution into the 
New York Senate declaring that New York 
and Brooklyn had for years been grievously 
treated by the rest of the State and imposing 
hereafter a tax of $1,000 cm every countryman 
found in those cities!!!... . 
_The new liquor law that went into force 
in Maim-lust Mom lay provides that the pay¬ 
ment of the United States retail Internal 
Revenue tax on liquor dealers shall be primti 
facie evidence that the persons paying the 
tax arc common sellers<if intoxicating liquors 
and that the. premises kept by them are com¬ 
mon nuisances and the penalties provided are 
to be enforced without any further process 
than to prove that the U. S tax 1ms been 
paid. To enforce the law extraordinary pow¬ 
ers are conferred on the State agents who arc 
under control of Gov. Bod well. There are iu 
all 1,180 persons now iu Maine holding U. 8, 
licenses, of whom 170 are in Portlaud. 
The Illinois Senate has passed a luw making 
marriage between first cousins incestuous ana 
void.Them i 
has only 32 vacancies present or prospective 
in the list of the 2d lieutenants, while the 
graduating class at West Point numbers 05.., 
....The Michigan Legislature has passed a 
law for the extermination of English spar¬ 
rows, providing for a bounty of one ceut fur 
every sparrow killed. . 
The Canadian Government is about to make 
a geological survey of the upper Yukon coun- 
try, where many American miners have 
found much gold of late, so that titles can be 
given to mining adventurers and companies. 
.Tile building in which three German 
papers were published in this city, was burned 
out last Sunday morning—supposed to be by An¬ 
archists, because they were opposed to their 
principles and especially to their practices— 
four fires in two mouths before this successful 
one_Sunday a severe storm did much dam¬ 
age to wheat and budding fruit trees iu the 
West. In Kansas, Nebraska and Western Mis¬ 
souri it w T as one of rain, succeeded iu the Mis¬ 
souri River Valley by snow that covered the 
ground to the depth of lb Inches. On Monday 
it had crossed the Alleghanies and blanketed 
the earth with snow in the northern section 
and flooded it with rain iu the southern. 
Gave a much needed waterfall everywhere... 
.Sigourney Butler, a young Boston law¬ 
yer, has been made Second Auditor of the 
Treasury in place of Judge Maynard, now As¬ 
sistant Secretary of Mm Treasury. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad people say that 
the reported luKKasoiithuPittsburgnndSl. Lou¬ 
is R. It. have been enormously exaggerated by 
the detectives and amount, to no such sum as 
has been reported. Some of the prisoners 
have been set at liberty; others have been ar¬ 
rested.The Nebraska Prohibitionists 
think the refusal of the Legislature to submit 
a Prohibitory amendment to the Constitu¬ 
tion to popular vote will help them, and are 
preparing for a more thorough organisation 
by counties than they have ever had iu the 
State. They think the present High License 
Law has hurt the Prohibitory movement. 
_The bill for the total prohibition of the 
liquor truJllo in New-Found land Colony has 
just been defeated iu the Assembly by the 
casting of a vote by the Speaker. Very like¬ 
ly be carried at the next session .....That 
Boston swindler, Sarah Howe, fled across the 
line, first to St.Johns, .New Brunswick, where 
she rented a fashionable house, and was pro 
paring to sjauid her $50,000 ox plunder with 
fashionable freedom, when she was discov¬ 
ered, and fled with her “maid” to Mon¬ 
treal.The sealing vessels have all re¬ 
turned to St. Johns, N. F., arid the fishery 
has been a comparative failure this year. Ail- 
other poor year for the colony, as seal fishing 
is one of its chief industries.The 
stove-moulders’ strike is extending t into this 
and the Eastern States, but the moulders of 
Detroit are working on the “scab” patterns 
from St. Louis.and refuse to join the strikers. 
They are mostly K. of L., not trade-unionists, 
and their course is heartily approved by Pow- 
derly..Just at the dose of his term 
President Arthur, by the advice of Secretary 
of the Interior Teller, declared a part of the 
Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservation in 
Dakota open for settlement. A number of 
persons who had illegally squatted ou the 
reservation at once took up land, and there 
was a regular rush from other places. Six 
weeks afterwards, President Cleveland re¬ 
voked J’resitlent Arthur’s proclamation, and 
warned those who had so hastily entered the 
reservation that they must leave it within till 
days. This was more thau t wo years ago, and 
the number of white men has increased 
rather than decreased iu the interval. A 
company of infantry has been sent to the 
place with instructions to remove ull white 
settlers found there. Much indignation 
among the settlers, many of whom have in¬ 
vested their “all” iu their homesteads there, 
and they are reported to he ready to resist 
the troops. Dr. Henry Detwiler who 
was the first homeopathic physician in Penn¬ 
sylvania, died Wednesday, aged $12 years. 
Notwithstanding his age he continued to visit 
patients inlUn’erent partsof the Lehigh Valley 
up to two weeks ago. when he was injured by 
a fall on the sidewalk _Home time ago 
Charles Francis Adams,president, of the Union 
Pacific Railroad, said that were it not for the 
great number of free passes issued by his road 
it could reduce passenger rates 11) per ceut. 
Free passes hare been stopped three weeks— 
the public is stilt waiting for that reductiou.. 
At eight o’clock last evening the Scotch-Pitte- 
burg millionaire. Andrew Carnegie, was mar¬ 
ried to Miss Whitfield, at the latter's residence 
in this city. Off to-day for Europe. He gave 
her a present of $20,000 a year for life, and a 
house on Fifth A venue,next to Vanderbilt’s... 
.Tlic Massachusetts House has passed 
a High License Bill to a third reading by a 
vote of 188 to 80.......Municipal elec¬ 
tions were held in a large number or Illiuois 
cities and towns Tuesday. The question of li¬ 
cense was the principal feature. The major¬ 
ity of the cities declared for license, but in the 
smaller places the anti-license ticket was uni¬ 
formly successful. ...The jury in the 
case of John Avensdorf charged with the mur¬ 
der of Rev. George C. Haddock, the Prohibi¬ 
tion advocate, at Sioux City, Iowa, disagreed. 
They stood nne for convietion and eleven for 
acquittal. It is now claimed that it was in 
the main a whisky-soaked and bribed jury... 
.... The trade dollars were coined mainly 
to compete with Mexican dollars in the 
Oriental trade, especially in China; but since 
their redemption here at, pur, large numbers 
are brought from the Flowery Kingdom by 
every steamer. Thursday the City of Sidney 
brought 180,000 and the latest Chinese steamer 
before the Sidney brought 270,000. 
-. The President has designated Assistant 
Secretary Thompson to act as Secretary of 
the Treasury in the absence of Mr. Fairchild, 
and .Assistant Secretory Maynard to act in 
the absence of both. The designation of Mr. 
Thompson is In consideration of his seniority 
in office .A New York genius has in¬ 
vented a “vacuum car” with which he asserts 
his ability to navigate the air at a high speed 
and drop explosives with precision upon the 
decks of war vessels or in fortified places. 
The Navy Department is investigating the 
matter. The German Government has just 
paid 1,000,000 marks ($200,000) to the inventor 
of a balloon which can be steered through the 
air in auy desired direction, no matter how 
the wind blows .... Between October 7, 
1880, and March 24, 1887,80 new national 
banks were formed, of which 44 hud a 
capital of only $50,000 each, while 33 hail a 
capital ranging from $00,000 to $100,000 — 
The Dominion Department of Immigra¬ 
tion report says 122,531 immigrants arrived 
in Canada lust year, 00,152 being actual set¬ 
tlers. Most of the rest came to the United 
States.“Old Spot,” the horse which 
General Kilpatrick rode iu his famous expedi¬ 
tions during the >var, died at Deckertown, N. 
J., a few days ago. He was 33 years old .. 
... .The Bethlehem Iron Works Company of 
Pennsylvania, was. Thursday, awarded the 
contractfor furnishing to theNavyDepartment 
1,400 tons of steel gun forgings and 4,500 tons 
of steel armor plates, at a total coatP of 
$4,512,938.Colonel Wesley Merritt, 
Commandant, at West Point, was Monday 
promoted to a Brigadier-Generalship to suc¬ 
ceed General O. B. Wilcox, retired on reach¬ 
ing 04 years of age...The coffee market, 
both East and West, is now higher than in 
many years past. Prices were marked up 
three-fourths cent, iu Chicago lust Friday, and 
New York averaged nearly one cent higher 
on all the leading grades, Much excitement 
among dealers and speculators. The 
New York Assembly passed a bill providing 
for a holiday ou the lu st Monday In Septem¬ 
ber, to be known as “Labor Day.” and mak¬ 
ing Saturdays half holidays. Exchanges, 
banks, State Government offices, etc., will be 
closed, butall who want to work can do so.... 
The new Railroad Commissioners arc working 
like beavers, but are unable to keep up with 
the immense number of questions submitted 
for their decision. They refuse to deal with 
supposititious cases, and warn thu railroads 
that they mustn’t try to increase the trouble 
of carrying out the law. They’ve just, decided 
the new law dosen’t apply to clergymen, who 
may travel as heretofore, at half price or 
“deadhead.” Much business greatly impeded 
or suspended by the new freight regulations. 
Complaints loud ou all sides from nearly all 
classes. The necessity of printing the many 
rules and regulations entails heavy expenses. 
At a rough estimate the average cost for 
printing those required by law is put at 
$25,000 lor each road; or $24,000,000 for the 
980 roads i n the country!.. ... 
.... There’s a strike and lockout of the silver¬ 
smiths belonging to the K. of L. in this city 
—about 51)0. Men want higher wages—man¬ 
ufacturers say they can now make $30 to $40 
a week; men say they don’t average over $15; 
have to serve a five years’ apprenticeship, aud 
often longer, as many are kept mostly to one , 
line of work, and have to servo longer to 
learn others. Manufacturers say they can’t 
submit to annoyances aud losses caused by or¬ 
ganized labor inovemeuts and the interference 
of blacksmiths, hod carriers, etc., through 
their organizations. Won’t take back any 
old hands if they continue K. of L. Men say 
they’ll never return then. A specimen of 
many labor troubles. Manufacturers in Balti¬ 
more, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and 
St. Louis are said to be with those here though 
their hands are yet at work. 
The Anarchist organization which filled 
Chicago with terror aud excitement last year, 
dissolved last Tuesday. Its name was men¬ 
tioned with horror aud contempt even by 
workingmen. The follows have not aban¬ 
doned their principles with their organiza¬ 
tion, however, aud are still a dangerous leaven 
iu various labor orgauizatious there. Proba¬ 
bly the chief impelling motive to the stop 
was an expectation that their disbanding 
would promote the commutation of sentence 
or pardon of the eight condemned Anarch¬ 
ists.The Pullman “vestibulated” train, 
built at Pullman, Ill., is traveling for exhibi¬ 
tion to different prominent points in the 
country. It is iu Jersey City now, and con¬ 
sists of five new Pullman coaches so closely 
connected together as to look like one flexible 
oar 1,000 feet long. The platform space be¬ 
tween the cars is inclosed by a flexible roof and 
sides of rubber doth, shutting out dust and 
cold air, aud lessening the swaying movement 
of the cars at highspeed. Glazed doors open 
from the vestibules at stations for the exit 
and entrance of passengers. The whole train, 
vestibule included, is splendidly upholstered 
and fitted up. The latest luxury for traveling 
plutocracy....... .The flour barrel makers at 
Minneapolis want higher wages and the K. 
of L. threaten to boycott Minneapolis flour 
unless thu millers yield, which they say they 
won’t do.. .Thu Massachusetts Senate has kill¬ 
ed the bill to restrict licenses to sell liquor 
to a certain ratio to population. Tho House 
wanted only one license for every 500 inhabi¬ 
tants. The Senate would gi ve Boston one to 
every 250,making I,BOO against 2.800 last year. 
Senate equally divided. President Board- 
man voted in th e n egati vo .Arch i bald 
J. Weaver, a Republican Representative in 
the 48th and 49th Congresses, died at Falls 
City, Neb.. Monday, aged 43. BornatPuu- 
daff, Pa., studied at the Harvard law school 
and was admitted to tho bar in Boston. 
Went to Nebraska in 1809, was a member of 
the State constitutional conventions of 1 STL 
and 1875, served two terms as district attor¬ 
ney, aud in 1875 was chosen a district court 
judge, being re-elected in 1879, and resigning 
m 1883. In Congress he was always more 
alive to State than National issues..Blaine 
arrived at Chicago Wednesday anil is getting 
along quite nicely. 
. Alexander Mitchell, the great Milwaukee 
banker, and president of the Chicago, Mil¬ 
waukee and St. Paul Railroad (which controls 
more miles of railroad than any other in the 
world), died here at the Hoffman House Tues¬ 
day afternoon—malarial trouble and bronchial 
pneumonia; but he had been weak and ailing 
for over two months. Estimates of what he 
left vary between $7,000,000 and $25,000,000. 
Born October IS, 1817 , in Aberdeenshire, Scot¬ 
land—father a farmer. Studied law in Aber¬ 
deen for two years, and then served in a bank 
at. Peterhead. Came to America in 1839, and 
soon organized a banking business iu the Ter¬ 
ritory of Wisconsin, and ever since 1841, it 
and its owner have been great powers iu the 
Northwest. Of four children only oue—John 
—survives.A 1'urions cyclone swept 
through Ozark, Ark,, yesterday morning, 
spreading death and devastation in its track. 
Damage not yet fully computed, but will 
amount to a great sum.The Delaware 
Legislature adjourned sine die yesterday af¬ 
ternoon. Among the closing acts of the ses¬ 
sion was the defeat l»y the Senate of tho House 
High License bill. This leaves the liquor 
laws precisely as they were before the Legis¬ 
lature met.Tho people and the railroads 
are warring iu Michigan over two-oont. fares. 
The matter is now before the Legislature. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 33,1887. 
Some time since the New York Legislature 
passed a resolution devoting the money to bo 
derived from tho provisions of the Hatch Ex¬ 
periment Station Bill to Cornell University. 
A bill has now been introduced to give the 
appropriation to the station at Genova. 
The Executive Committee of the Bay State 
Agricultural Society has voted uotto hold any 
fair this season, owing to tho prevalence of 
contagious diseases among livestock. 
The lowu Barbed Wire Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, of Marshalltown, has begun suit in the 
Federal Court against. Washburn <St Moeu for 
$1,250,000 damages for infringement of patents 
used iu their business.V batch of deal- 
el’s iu oleomargarine whose trials were sus¬ 
pended until after tho decision of the Court 
of Appeals ou the constitutionality of the State 
“oleo” law, were brought to trial Monday, 
ami another batch on Wednesday. All plead¬ 
ed “guilty,” and paid fines ranging from $50 
to $350 apiece—total lines, $0,700. More 
coining. Wholesalers paid the highest figures 
_The Treasury Department has reaf¬ 
firmed its decision that duties accrue ou castor 
seeds in the conditio)i in which they are im¬ 
ported, and that no allowance can be made on 
account of dirt and foreign sulislauces found 
in such importations, as it is understood that 
such is tho ordinary condition m winch castor 
seeds are bought and sold on the market ... 
The flouring mills in California are largely 
curtailing or entirely ceasing operations, 
owing to the rise in the price ol' wheat, which 
will not permit them to mill at a profit. 
.,. .The dressed meat shippers of Chicago and 
St. Louis have addressed a letter to the East¬ 
ern trunk lines asking for a reduction in the 
rates of freight. The petition contends that 
the rate should not be more thau on a basis of 
35 cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to New 
York. In case of refusal they will apply 
to the Railroad Commissioners. 
Gov. Adams, of Colorado, has issued a pro¬ 
clamation against the importation of cattle 
from Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, West Vir¬ 
ginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 
Missouri, Kansas, Pennsylvania and the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. Cattle from the above 
States cannot bo brought into Colorado until 
they have been examined by the State Veter¬ 
inary Surgeon. If, after being inspected, 
they receive a clean bill of health, they will 
he allowed to cuter .The winter losses 
of bulls on t h(> ranges are said to have lieen so 
heavy that there will be an unusually large 
demand for bulls there this season.The 
London wool sales close to-day. The next 
sales of East. India wools will commence in 
Liverpool, May 17, and (ho Egyptian, Persian 
and Oporto May 24, while in Havre the Mes- 
tiza wool sales will open May lith ... .Califor¬ 
nia sheepmen estimate that it will cost $1,000,- 
000 more to got. their wool to market since the 
Inter-State Commerce law went into effect... 
An Unsolicited Testimonial. 
From those who have found needed aid iu 
Compound Oxygen, and are earnest in expres¬ 
sion of gratitude, the most conclusive proof 
that could bo asked by the most skeptical could 
t>c produced, showing beyond the shadow of a 
doubt that it heals many who have failed to 
find healiug elsewhere. The following letter 
is from a gentleman of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 
who is actively engaged in the lumber business 
on a la rge scale. The result he records is aptly 
described as “wonderfully good:” 
Drs,Starkey & Palen. — Gentlemen :—It 
is with the desire that a relation of my experi¬ 
ence of the wonderfully good results of using 
Compound Oxygen may induce somebody to 
use it who needs it that I write this unsolicited 
testimonial. 
Six years ago I had a very severe series of 
hemorrhages of the lungs, resulting from a 
serious attack of pneumonia a. year and a-half 
previous. 1 bled so profusely that iny life was 
despaired of by my physician and friends. 
Between a Tuesday evening aud the following 
Friday morning 1 had eleven times of blood¬ 
ing; in some of them I saturated six or seven 
towels with blood. I became so weak that I 
could uot turn my head upon my pillow; had 
I had other than a skillful physician, so that 
the hemorrhages were got under control at this 
point., I must have died then, as I was too weak 
to dispose of the blood, which had come in 
mouthfuls beforo. I gradually recovered; but 
my left lung w r as very weak, and I had a good 
deal of pain in it continually; aud for three 
yours I was an invalid, in constant fear of 
some kind of an attack that would carry me 
off. I did not then know anything of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen; it was brought to my notice 
after I had suffered about two years, and I 
began its use. The results were apparent at 
once; I began to feel better; I continued the 
treatment until I had used four supplies of the 
Homo Treatmoint, continually growing better. 
I weighed, before my illness,about one hundred 
and thirty-five pounds, in good health; l now 
weigh one hundred and fifty-nine pounds, and 
am entirely well. My lungs are not so auscep 
tible to attack from colds as they used to be, 
and I rally quickly. My chest is full und 
round, and everybody says “How well you 
arc lookiug.” If I had known about Com¬ 
pound Oxygen sooner, aud used it, 1 might 
have saved about a year’s time and discom¬ 
fort. I keep a supply now on hand, and find 
it a great relief in case of taking cold. I talk 
Compound Oxygen, and have been able to 
convince uot a few of its merits. 
Gratefully yours, C. S. WEBB. 
Oshkosh, Wis., Dec. 19, 1885. 
Curiosity as to the “Compound Oxygen” 
which produces such wonderful results may bo 
fully gratified by one who will take the trouble 
to write to Drs. Starkey lSc Palen, whose ad¬ 
dress is 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
They distribute free to all applicants their 
literature on the subject.— Adv. 
Crfi|)s & iVUvkcts. 
Saturday, April 23, 1887. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of 
the British grain trade during the past week, 
says the deliveries of native wheat have 
been restricted. The i enminder of the crop in 
hand now is supposed to In* small. Values 
are hardening. The sales of English wheat 
during the week were 39.907 quarters at 32s. 
8d., against 49,514 quarters ut 3fls. Hid during 
the correspondi ng period lost year. Foreign 
wheat, is firmer, although the inquiry is inac¬ 
tive. In the Liverpool market prices urc Id. 
higher. 
The European wheat harvest of 1887 prom¬ 
ises to be about a month later than usual, but 
of generally fair prospects considering the 
time of year, if a month lute, the importing 
PissccUunmw 
DIXON’S "Carburet of Iron" Stove Polish was 
established Iu 1827, aud Is to-day, as It was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving oil no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub 
led and cuke weighs nearly half a pound, but the quali¬ 
ty aud price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Ulxou’s big cake. 
