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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 30, 1887. 
The Vcdder Bill for increasing the license 
for the sale of liquors has just been passed by 
the Now York Seuate. It provides that 
the fees for license shall range from 8400 for the 
first-class and 8100 for second class in cities of 
over 400 000 inhabitants,to 830 for first-class and 
$10 for second-class in places of less than 5,000 
inhabitants. An amendment was defeated to 
credit the taxes raised under the Act to the 
counties paying them as part of their appor¬ 
tioned State taxes. This defeat undoubtedly 
hurt the chances of the bill. It is alleged that 
under the present bill the taxes raised in large 
cities, instead of benefiting the plaees where 
they are paid, benefit the entire State by 
lessening the burden of general State tax¬ 
ation. Few expect the measure will ever be¬ 
come a law. The Governor is expected to 
veto it as he vetoed the Crosby Bill. It has 
become simply a party measure, all the Demo¬ 
crats in the Senate having voted against it, 
and all the Republicans, except two, for it. It 
is much to be desired that legislation of this 
sort could be taken out of politics. All parties 
are deeply interested in it, aud it should not 
be made a party question..... 
_Several banquets attended by prominent 
persons were held in different places Wednes¬ 
day, April 27, to celebrate Grant’s 65th birth¬ 
day, aud commemorate his services and glory. 
.A memorial bronze statue of Gurfiohi 
will be unveiled at Washington on May 12... 
.... Representative millionaire Ira Daven¬ 
port, of New York, was married to Miss Cath¬ 
erine L. Sharpe, at Kingston, N. Y., Wed¬ 
nesday.The bill reducing telephone 
rates was defeated in the New York Seuate 
Wednesday_ Reports come from Mexico 
City that two of the old bonanza mines in 
the Province of Sonora, which had been lost 
since the Indians drove the Spaniards out of 
the Province in 1754, have been lately discov¬ 
ered by four American prospectors; theLay- 
opa silver mine, “in the midst of thousands of 
ruined buildings among, large churches and 
forts;” aud the Guayanopn gold mine, 
“in the heart of the Sierra Madre Moun¬ 
tains amid the ruins of 118 Raetoras.” 
Five of the famous “seven lost mines” are 
still undiscovered. A vast placer-mining field 
is also said to have been found. 
... .A legislative committee of the Michigan 
Legislature has recommended in favor of leg¬ 
islation to abolish grave-yard insurance. 
.The strike of the silversmiths hen? still 
holds out. Meetings arc held by the men 
every morning, and it is said that it is 
only a question of stubbornness as to 
whether tue bosses or the men will give in 
first, and that the latter are in a position to 
staud it for six months, if need be.Of¬ 
ficial reports of the oyster industry show that 
no less than 52,000 persons are employed in 
producing annually $13, 438,852 of marketa¬ 
ble oysters on an investment of a little over 
$10,000,000. At least 400 children 
are said to be dowu with t-be measles at Madi¬ 
son. Wis., and mauyadults are afflicted. The 
public schools have been closed.. .June 22 is 
officially set apart as the day for observing 
the royal jubilee in Canada.The 
Grant relics were placed on public exhibition 
at the National Museum. Washington, Thurs¬ 
day.The Acting Secretary of the Inter¬ 
ior has approved lliu decision of the f Com¬ 
missioner of the General Land Office holding 
the triangular body of land embracing some 
200,000 acres lying northwest, of the tmiorfeit- 
ed grant to the Oregon Central Railroad 
Company, and lying along the line of the for¬ 
feited portion, to be public lands and subject 
to entry. ..Mr. P. D. Armour, of Chi¬ 
cago, lias refused to accept the presidency of 
the Chicago, Milwaukee aud St. Paul Rail¬ 
road, made vacant by the death of Mr. Alex¬ 
ander Mitchell.The Baltimore and 
Ohio railroad company has appropriated 
$25,000 to establish a school of tecnnology at 
Mt. Clare, Md,, and proposes to start a home 
for disabled and aged employes at Mt. Airy, 
Md. The stove moulders’ strike has 
extended to this State... .The Troy 
moulders struck last Monday, but after being 
out two days decided to return to work and 
handle any patterns that were given them. 
Went to the foundries to work, but found them 
closed. The manufacturers have decided to 
keep them shut until the difficulty at St. Louis 
is settled The Knights of Labor are opposed 
to the strike. The manufacturers are heavily 
stocked with stoves and are in no hurry to 
resume...A statue of John C. Cal¬ 
houn was unveilod at Charleston, 8. C., 
Tuesday.The retail butchers of this 
city have formed a joint stock compauy to 
deal in hides in .order to dispose of their calf 
skins at better prices than offered by leather 
dealers. Subscriptions open with 80(1 shares 
at $25 each............. E. T M. Simmons, 
the manager of the hotel Del Monte at Mont¬ 
erey, Gala., has been arrested for setting it on 
fire.On the Canadian Indian re¬ 
serves there are '.11,844 Indians, and including 
the nomads there are 128,761. The sum of 
$1,259,508 was expended upon them last year. 
.Since April 4, when the Interstate 
Commerce Law did away with free railroad 
passes and tickets at reduced rates there has 
been a great falling off in office-seekers at 
Washington.A cyclone of April 21 
which started at Colony, Anderson County, 
Kansas, about, 40 miles west of Fort Scott, 
“tore the town to fragments/ 1 It then swept 
east through Linn County, destroying 200 
houses at Prescott. Onward it rushed 
across the Kansas line into Bates County, Mo., 
where it destroyed 50 houses at Sprague. In 
Vernon County it destroyed $100,000 worth of 
property. Altogether its course was about 
500 miles long. It lulled, so far as known, 
over 47 persons and maimed and wounded 
several hundred, besides doing damage to the 
amount of $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. The same 
or another afflicted Arkansas 150 miles to the 
southeast a trifle later on the same eveuing, 
inflicting “an appalling loss of life, and a ruin¬ 
ous loss of property” on Ozark, Clarkville 
and Searcy. 
Same day a “most disastrous cyclone” visited 
Wabash County, Ill., destroying$50,000 worth 
of property. On the morning of the 22nd., 
a cyclone did a world of mischief at Paris aud 
and Millersburg, Ky,, and on the same day 
another cyclone nearly demolished Hunting¬ 
don, Miss. News comes from a number of 
other points also in the West and Southwest 
of disastrous havoc from wind storms ubout 
the same time.... On the same day, April 
22, “a terrible hurricane swept the northeast 
coast of Australia, and the pearl-fishing fleet, 
numbering 40 boats, was destroyed and 550 
persons perished.”. The current of 
immigration to the United State's shows a 
heavy increase as compared with last year. 
The immigration for March us compared with 
that for the same month n year ago shows an 
increase of 77 per cent. For the first three 
months of the present year an increase of 00 
per cent, is shown over the first three months 
of 1890, while for the nine months ending 
March 31 an increase of about 45 per cent,, 
over the same period a year ago is shown. Ad¬ 
vices from Canada are to the effect that the 
tide of immigration to Manitoba and the 
Northwest promises to be unprecedented. 
... .It is the intent ion of the Canadiau Parlia¬ 
ment to disallow the two railway charters 
justjpassed by the Manitoba. Legislature. If 
this is done, there is serious probability of re¬ 
bellion in Manitoba, as the people of the Pro¬ 
vince are thoroughly aroused and fiercely talk 
of a forcible resistance aud a possible annex¬ 
ation to the United States.... Resolutions 
introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature the 
other day favored secession from the Domin¬ 
ion and annexation to the United States—its 
“ultimate commercial destination.”.Lord 
Salisbury, the English Prime Minister, offers 
to settle the Canadian fishery troubles byre- 
verting to the old condition of affairs without 
any pecuniary indemnity—let Americans 
have the privileges for exorcising which hi 
the past, this country paid Canada $5,000,000 
under protest.About 50 Maine towns 
have elected w omen as school supervisors this 
year.It. is reported that Uncle Sam 
loses about $30,000,000 per annum by the un¬ 
dervaluation of imports. 
The following bequests of Alexander Mitch¬ 
ell, the dead Milwaukee banker, have 
been made public; Protestant Orphan 
Asylum, 810,000; Catholic Orphan Asylum, 
$5,000; Milwaukee Hospital, known as Pa-Ssa- 
vant Hospital, $10,000; St. Mary’s Catholic 
Hospital, $5,000; Young Men’s Christian As¬ 
sociation, $10,000; Noshotan House (Episcopal 
Theological Summary at Nosbotan, Wis,), 
$5,000: Racine College, $5,000. The opinion 
prevails that there uru othur public hoqnests 
which cannot uow be made public. Owing to 
the nature of the provisions for their adminis¬ 
tration.Wednesday night Dr. W. T. 
Northup, a prominent physician of Haverhill, 
Ohio, was brutally shot to death by Thomas 
McCoy, a saloon keeper, and his brother 
Alfred, the Postmaster of Haverhill, aided by 
Pierson and James McCoy, sons of Alfred, 
and aged 20 and 15 years. The McCoys arc 
whisky Democrats and Dr. Northup was a 
Prohibition Republican. The McCoys had 
always run the township elections to suit 
themselves, until North up’s urrival five years 
ago. He was working hard to Introduce local 
option. This usurpation of what the McCoys 
considered their political rights, followed by' a 
state of affairs that threatened to ruin their 
business, incurred their bitter hostility'. In¬ 
tense excitemeut .The Kentucky whisky 
men have already raised $8,000 to oppose 
prohibition in Texas, aud arc raising more... 
.A move which partakes of the nature 
of a boycott, it is alleged, has been declared 
by the Powderly administration against all 
labor papers that have not been pronounced 
in favor of the present general officers. There 
are 80 such papers, and all except 20 are re¬ 
ported to be boycotted.A train on the 
Southern Pacific Ituilwuy was stopped Wed¬ 
nesday night near Tuscou, Arizona, the en¬ 
gine and express car were detached aud run 
on two miles in advauee of the other cars and 
robbed of $5,000 cash. Heavy rewards for 
the robbers are offered.Official figures 
before the Dominion Parliament show that 
the total revenue for the year was $33,117,010, 
aud the total ordinary expenditure $30,011,- 
012, leaving a deficit of $5,334,571, the largest 
by far that has ever occurred in the history' 
of the Dominion. Compared with 1885 the ex 
pcinliture for 138(1 shows an increase of 
$3,075,552 and the revenue increased by only 
$3.90,03!).Milo H. Dakin, the Labor 
Representative from Saginaw,has been unani¬ 
mously expelled from the Mich., Legislature 
on the charge of huviug sought aud offered 
to use bribes in the interest of the Saginaw City 
charter.The Queen of the Sandwich 
Islands and u number of high officials have 
arrived at Sail Francisco. They will proceed 
by rail to Washington, and hope to witness 
Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebration in Lon¬ 
don next June ..A regular down¬ 
pour has at lust relieved the terrible drought 
in Western Texas, and given abundant water 
all over the State. The full streams and 
l ivers were rendered pestilential with thous¬ 
ands of decaying carcasses of cattle that had 
perished from hunger and thirst. Largo 
masses of these were swept down the Brazos.. 
.. The Mexican House of Deputies has 
passed, liy an overwhelming majority, a con¬ 
stitutional amendment which would give to 
President Diaz a second consecutive term of 
office. There was a constitutional provision 
that a President couldn’t be re-elected for two 
continuous terms .The Jute Joseph 
Allen, one of the wealthiest farmers in Bureau 
County, Illinois, left $35,000 for the erection 
and inaiuteuauce of a public school in La- 
moile, aud $15,(XX) to the Baptist and Congre- 
f &tional denominations.Jt is suid that 
’. T. Barnum, for withdrawing his suit 
against the Grand Trunk road for $100,000 for 
the loss of Jumbo was given $5,000 in cash and 
an equal amount in transportation. 
_Electricity as a motive power lias been 
successfully tested on the Wasnington Avenue 
street car line St. Louis, and will be adopted, 
at an early date. . .Tuesday was Memo¬ 
rial day in the South, and Confederate graves 
were widely decorated. 
.The Government hav¬ 
ing advertised in St. Louisfor bids for Indian 
supplies, all the bids were so much higher 
than usual that they amounted to more than Iho 
appropriations made for the purpose, and pur¬ 
chases have therefore been suspended. The con¬ 
tractors say the transportation rates are from 
100 to 300 per cent, heavier than formerly, 
owing to the action Of the railroads in accord¬ 
ance with the Interstate Commerce Law. 
The Commissioners say the railroads can dis¬ 
criminate in favor of the Government; but 
they refuse to do so. 
Bohemian Oats swindle .The Kansas 
State Board of Agriculture says the area sown 
to wheat will be from 10 to 20 per cent, below 
the crop last year, and will, no doubt, be the 
smallest acreage for 10 years. The plant is 
small, but, with good weather, will make a 
good crop.For the year ending 
March 1, 1837, Canada packed a total of 256,- 
(85 hogs, exceeding any previous year, being 
11,743 more than m 1870-77. Aggregate gross 
weight for the year’s packing, 55,171,000 
pounds, yielding approximately 80,896,090 
pounds ot green meat; total lard, 4,353,715 
pounds, or 18,198 tierces. The Illinois 
House of Representatives has passed a bill 
which provides for punishment of those ob¬ 
taining certificates of registration of cattle 
and other animals by false pretences, and to 
punish the giving of false pedigrees,.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 30,1887. 
There were 27,882sheepskins used in binding 
General Grant’s Memoirs, 7,221 goatskius and 
138 calfskins, As none of these skins were 
split they represent, of course, the killing of an 
equal number of animals.Freight on 
California wine from Sau Francisco to New 
York is now $4 per hundred pounds, instead 
of 00 cents as formerly....... Twelve more of 
the bogus butter makers and sellers of this 
city paid $1,760 the past week in tines. Two 
restaurant keepers have been arrested for giv¬ 
ing their customers “oleo” intend of butter.. 
.Reports from Texas are to the effect that 
the movement of Texas cattle northward is 
very sluggish. While at this time last year 
there wore contracts for 100,000cattle to drive 
north, the number l.lms fur culled for does not 
exceed 50,000. This decline is accounted for 
by the difference m price between buyer and 
seller, the quarantine laws, aud the losses of 
rattle in the Northwest by the severe weather, 
which have weakened the ability to buy. 
... According to the latest reports the winter 
was an exceptionally hal'd out; for cattlemen 
in Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, and the 
loss in cattle is put at about 50 per cent. The 
ranges were burned over last, fait, and then 
overstocked with cattle. It will take cattle¬ 
men five years to make good their losses.... 
....The farmers of Aberdeenshire have re¬ 
solved to form a company with a capital of 
£12,000, whose business will bo the importa¬ 
tion of Canadian store cuttle aud their sale 
in Aberdeen. A representative of the com¬ 
pany will bo in Canada next month. All in¬ 
terested should notify Prof. Brown, of the 
Agricultural College, Guelph.New 
Hampshire has established a quarantine 
against New York and Massachusetts on ac¬ 
count of the existence of contagious pleuro- 
pneumouia in those States.It is alleged 
that not less than one hundred tons a week of 
bob veal finds its wuy into this city for 
consumption in spite ot the Health authori¬ 
ties.A Seabrook. N. H., man lias asked 
the Selectman to pay him $2 for hens killed by 
a dog, but they have decided that a lion is not 
an animal, and hence the dog law does nob 
apply.A society which comprises nearly 
all the breeders and importers of thoroughbred 
Holstein cattle of the river counties in this 
State, has just been formally organized under 
the title of'“The Hudson River Holstein Stock 
Associati in," with the following officers: 
President. T. B. Brooks, Newhurg; Vice-Pres- 
dents, B. K. Johnson, East ColcJenham, and 
J Underhill, Fishkdl; Treasurer, C. C, Smith, 
Vail’S Gate; Secretary, J. C. Uet’OW, Wasinng- 
tonville: Directors: William Mitchell. Vails 
Gate; H. P. DaGrortf, Oscawanna; Thomas 
Welling, Jr., Warwick. The general object 
of the association is to encourage the breed¬ 
ing and introduction umong dairymeu of 
pure-blooded strains of Holstien cattle by the 
offer of premiums for superior grades, and by 
holding shows aud public sales at stated times 
and places.Freight rates for cattle be¬ 
tween Toronto aud Montreal have been in¬ 
creased bv the Canadian Pacific Railway from 
$22 to $84 per car, and by the Grand Trunk, 
$25 50 to $44 per car. Catt lemen in conse¬ 
quence are negotiating for steamers to carry 
their live stock to the seaboard .... A Bristol, 
Canada, dealer offers $10 reward for the dis¬ 
covery of the farmer who sold him a large lot 
of boiled eggs: “evidently cooked when eggs 
were cheap for the purpose of preserving them 
for a higher market” . ....Wheat Juts been 
Steadily advancing in Sau Francisco. The 
buyer season, which closed on Saturday last, 
at $1.87 per cental, touched $1.90 Tuesday and 
closed firm at $1.80%. Buyer 87, when closed 
at $2 on Saturday, mode steady and grad¬ 
ual advances until it reached $2.03 on 
Wednesday. Barley was also a great attrac¬ 
tion and followed the tendency of wheat .The 
buyer season, which closed ou Saturday at 
$1.15, continued advancing Tuesday up to 
$1.20%.The settlers intLe Wnmebugo 
and Crow Creek Reservations, Dakota, have 
been driven out by troops. There were over 
800, and mauy had plowed aud seeded 50 acres 
apiece, which will be a dead loss...A 
number of associations of agriculturists and 
horticult urists in the San Jouquiu Valley of 
California have telegraphed the Railroad 
Commissioner* that the manufacturers aud 
dealers in agricultural implements have made 
advances in their wares, alleging that, this is 
forced upon them by the Interstate Commerce 
Act. Believing that the act is being so inter¬ 
preted us to decrease the value ot all they 
have te> sell and increase the price of ull they 
liny, these pctitiouersu.sk such relief as it.may 
be within the Commission’s power to grant 
Thu Grangers of Sarnia, Moore and H r, iu- 
bra, Can., contemplate building a large roller 
and stone Hour mill at Mooretowu or Court- 
right, forming a joint stock company with 
a capital of $50,000, in shares >4 $50 each 
.Rarely have chickens been so high- 
priced here ns at present. \ parr weighing 
about three pounds, bring irom f 1 50 to $2.... 
_The two branches of the Wisconsin Legis¬ 
lature have concurred in a bill making stock 
aud grain gambling by options, puts aud calls, 
and other similar methods, u misdemeanor 
punishable by tine and imprisonment.... 
Farmers of Oakland County, Mich., are al¬ 
leged to be $300,000 out of pocket through the 
An illustrated Catalogue of Children’s Car¬ 
riages giving latest novelties, and greatest 
number of designs ever manufactured, mailed 
on application by the Luburg Carriage Co, 
Phila, Pa.— Adv. 
Crops & Markets. 
Saturday, April 30, 1887. 
The export movement of wheat aud wheat- 
flour from the United States, Atlantic and 
Pacific ports, is now nearly equal to 3,000,000 
bushels weekly. Of the quantity of wheat 
and wheat Hour “on passage for the United 
Kingdom” more than 75 per cent, is from the 
United States, indicating moderate supplies 
from other quarters of the globe. The weekly 
domestic consumption of wheat flour for food 
and manufacturers is about 5,400,000 bushels, 
aud this, with about 3,000,000 bushels per 
week for export, is diminishing our reserves 
about 9,100,000 per week. In ton weeks (to 
July 1 next) this rate of supply iug borne and 
foreign wants would call for 84,000,000 bush¬ 
els, The exports of wheat and wheat flour 
from the United States, Atlantic und Pacific 
ports, from July 1, 1880, to April 24 1387have 
been equal to ubout 128,000,000 bushels of 
wheat, u quantity equal to all our surplus 
from the crop harvested in 1886. Present ex¬ 
ports are being made from the reserves on 
hand July 1, 1896. Estimates of the size of 
the reserves carried over July l, 1886, range 
from75.000,000 to 85,000,(XX) bushels. 
The California wheat crop of 18°7 is an un¬ 
known quantity. There was in the first half 
of April about 1 L inch of ruin in the Cali¬ 
fornia wheat belt’which helped the summer- 
fallowed wheat; but it was too late and not 
enough for f lie winter-sown. The estimated 
Output of the California 1887 crop on April 
25tli is 1,5U0,00U short tons, equal to 50,000,000 
bushels. In 1886 California reported a proba¬ 
ble crop that year of 70,000,000 bushels, but 
the actual output was, as per the Washington 
report, only 36,165,000 bushels from 8,104,690 
acres. The area under wheat in that State 
for 1897 is less than for 1886, and the rainfall 
to April 20 has been 13,81 inches less thau for 
the corresponding period in 1885-80. 
Butter has been ruling steadier here, the re¬ 
quirements of buyers, almost wholly for home 
use, gaining on the receipts and serving to 
strengthen confidence. Elgin creameries 
(fancy) closed on Thursday firmly at 25 cents; 
best Pennsylvania creameries at 25 cents; aud 
prime to fancy western, new, at 22 to 24 cents; 
best state dairy, half tuba, at 24 cents: Welsh 
tubs, fair to fine, at 18 to 22cents; and the best 
western imitation creameries at 20 to 21 cents, 
and best factory at 18 to 20 cents. Shippers 
continued passive. 
April 29, ’ST, April SO, ’86. 
Creamery, prime to fancy.... 22<4>25c. 206«2Ic. 
State,dairy <i<>. _ is.,-:i (9@23 
Cheese—Ou old stock the tendency has been 
favorable to buyers, who have been purchasing 
moderately, even for home use. Export call 
limited, New is not. coming in any consider¬ 
able quantities, and here is yet unsettled as to 
values. Last week’s exports of cheese hence 
to Europe Were placed at 6,091 boxes. 
April 2H. ’87. April 80. ’86. 
Cheese (best factory).ISI|WI 10@11 
Eggs have been irregular, but at the close 
steadier on a good demand from local and 
nearby sources, leaving off Thursday, April 
28, at 18% to 13j., cents tor best fresh-gathered 
domestic. 
A Catalogue of the “Wonderful Chair,” 
combining five articles of furniture with 50 
changes, and sold at a price within the reach 
of all, mailed ou application by tho Luburg 
Chair Co., Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York. Saturday, April SO, 1887. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classllleation, are as follows; 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. 
aud Gulf. 
Texas. 
Unit nary. 
. m 
8 8-16 
8 5-16 
strict Ordinary.. 
8M 
8?.( 
Good Ordinary... 
. 
M 11-16 
9 11-16 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 0 15-16 
tow 
10(ft 
bow .Middling.. . 
.10 G Hi 
10)1 
low 
Strict Low Middling... le!i! 
10 11-16 
1(1 11-16 
Middling . 
.... 10 11-16 
lOJii 
mi 
Good Middling.... 
.in lirni 
aw 
' Oft 
Strfct duod SkUddll<iK»«.ll H lt» 
114ft 
114ft 
Middling Fair. 
.11 9-16 
UM 
life 
Fair. 
.12 8-16 
124ft 
124ft 
HTAIMCD. 
Good Ordinary... 
.. 7 18-10 I Low Middling . 
,. 9 7-16 
Strict Good Ord,.. 
,.8'.. 1 Middling . 
,. 10 5-16 
Hops. - Dull and unchanged. American Hops.— 
Stale now, best, 20e; do .•oininon to good, l.V<ol8e; do 
1885 best. 8 <tU'c; do in.- 11111111 . i.^He; Fneltle . 'oust, new, 
best, 2tM21o, do common to goou. llwlie-do 1885, good 
to prime 7 ttie. Foreign German. isSG. best, 20®22c; 
aud common to good, iM-ui.e, English, do. K>«jl8o. 
Fkko.— Quotations are for; 41) line al 90 60 Its 
at 8.WJ0.; 80 llw. at title.; 100 lbs, at S)5e(.t*l; sharps 
at tCWa l yf\, aud rye feed SJi^STUc, screenings at 65 
(8.75c. 
Futmv.—Fnrcsii.—Apples. Baldwins, per bbl., at 
jluj l r,0; Northern Spy per bid, $lo44 Ml. Cranberries, at 
$8 2-Vy.4 0 j for Jersey per crate. Florida oranges at 
$6066 50 for best, per box; $1 50<3i5 for choice; $2 00® 
i 00 for lower grades. 
