3S0 THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. MAY M 
jof l!je tUedi. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 21,1887. 
Apropos of the Fishery Question, there are 
in the United States 181,42(1 persons regularly 
engaged in taking and curing fish for market, 
of whom 87,000 are in the New England States, 
the annual value of the product of these 
States being 814,270,000.Down to last 
Wednesday only 553 persons showed their de¬ 
sire to free the world from poverty by paying 
the necessary 81 to join the George-MeGlynn 
Anti-Poverty Society....... . .Jeff. Davis has 
at last declared that there ought never ngaiu 
be a civil war among us........ Ex-Congress¬ 
man John F. Finerty has struck oil in Chicago 
to the tune of 810,000 a year as Oil Inspector.. 
. According to recent Minnesota legis¬ 
lation, even a diploma w ill not save a doctor 
unless he can undergo a strict examination 
before the Medical Board.Edw'ard 
Oliver jumped ia front of an express train at 
Iowa Point, Neb., because ho had been gulled 
by confidence men.The Supreme 
Court of Kansas has just decided that a mar¬ 
ried w T omanueed not take her husband’s name 
unless she chooses....Eugland’s first 
claim against Hayti was 81.000,000; then 
$600,000; then 8250.000; now it is definitely 
known to be $150,000, of which only 810,000 
are to be paid down; the rest to be paid by 
installments.The Mayor of Rochester, 
N. Y., having refused to grant to pugilist 
John L. Sullivan a license for his demoraliz¬ 
ing exhibition. the fellow applied Wednesday, 
to County Judge Warner for uu injunction 
restraining the Mayor from interfering with 
his show. Injunction deuied. The public are 
getting tired of such jierformances. John L. 
wasn’t aliow'ed to exhibit at Pittsburg, 
Buffalo, and several other places. 
_The claim of the Cottonseed Oil Trust to 
control 90 per cent, of the oil mills in the 
country is contradicted by a list of the mills, 
published by the New Orleans Cotton World, 
which gives the names of 118 mills, of which 
70 are classed in the Trust combination and 04 
as independent. The ciossificnt i<m is possibly 
inaccurate in one or two cases.In the case 
of Louisiana against the Cotton-Oil Trust the 
State has gained the first move, the Judge 
having decided against it on a preliminary 
motion made by it..A plan is on foot at 
Lima, Ohio, to organize a producers’ oil ex¬ 
change to oppose the Standard Oil Company. 
....The leaders claim that under the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Law they could obtain equal 
rates with the Standard, and that they could 
compete with it m the sale of oil in the large 
cities of the North and West. They claim 
that the oil is worth 81 a barred for fuel, and 
that the Standard had cleared $2(1,000,090 on 
the oil already purchased in the Ohio fields... 
Though the Standard Oil magnates were ac¬ 
quitted of that conspiracy to ruin a rival at 
Buffalo, their alleged accomplices have been 
found guilty. Case appealed... .Nova 
Scotia estimates a revenue for the current 
year of $078,051), of which nearly oue-fourth 
or $125,000 come from mining royalties, prin¬ 
cipally on coal. Sin. Im.s nlsoa claim of $1 Sty- 
000 against thy Dominion Government, of 
which she expects to receive $71,000. 
_The President has appointed Major J. L. 
Rath bone, of California, to be the Consul- 
General of the United States at Paris, Major 
Ratbbone was born in Albauy, N. Y., of 
which city his father was Mayor. He was 
educated at West Point, and served for sev¬ 
eral years on the staff of Major-General Scho¬ 
field.Mrs. Mary Montgomery Gibson, 
wife of United States Senator Gibson, of 
Louisiana, died at the family residence Tues¬ 
day evening, in Washington.The Ray 
Cassimere Mill at Franklin, Moss., is to be 
shut down on account of the poor demand for 
goods. Over 100 bands will be thrown out of 
employment, It is rumored that other mills 
will shut down unless business revives.The 
Trustees of tbeOhio State-University have made 
a proposition to ex-President Hayes to take the 
presidency of the university,and astrong effort 
is being made to get him to accept. 
Senator J. II Reagan, of Texas, father of the 
Inter-State Commerce Law, insists that the 
Railroad Commissioners have no power to 
suspend a law of Congress, and that they err 
in suspending the fourth clause of the law— 
long and short haul clause. He maintains 
that if the law is fully enforced it will protect 
the people, as a whole, from the oppression of 
railroad corporations, though at first it may 
work hardship to some sections and especially 
to large receiving and distributing centers_ 
.... Owing to the high protection tariff of Can¬ 
ada and the advance of 25 to 100 per cent, in 
freight rates, due to the Inter-Stute Commerce 
Law, American imports into Western Canada 
are falling off rapidly, as the high tariff and 
freight charges leave no profits to importers.. 
.The New York State Legislature has 
refused to allow New York City hotel-keep¬ 
ers to sell intoxicants even to their own guests 
on Sundays _Under the new High Li¬ 
cense Law, which takes effect in Minnesota on 
July 1, saloons in St. Paul and Minneapolis 
will have to pay a license fee of $1,000, and 
those in other parts of the State will pay $600. 
.The Dominion Government is about to 
engage in the construction of an extensive 
system of coast defences. Amount 
to be paid In pensions this month $9,000,000_ 
....About 70,000 acres of the largest forest 
tract in Eastern Massachusetts have been de¬ 
vastated by fire , set by a spark from n loco¬ 
motive of the Old Colony Railroad.The 
fires in the forests of Northern Wisconsin and 
Michigan are said to have thrown a smoke 
over Lake Superior and Michigan dense 
enough to impede navigation somewhat. Ex¬ 
tensive forest fires art-also reported from the 
head waters of the Mississippi, aud it is im¬ 
possible to estimate the damage. 
.....Some very cruel evictions in the Pennsyl¬ 
vania coal mining regions. The companies 
own all the laud for miles round the mines and 
won’t sell or lease a foot of it. They build a lot of 
hovels and each employ^ is obliged to lease 
one at an enormous interest on the investment, 
A lease must bo signed by the tenant, and he 
must waive every right to which he is en¬ 
titled under the law, so that his home is 
placed absolutely a t the mercy of the company. 
In the depth of last winter hundreds of the 
wretched families of the strikers were pitched 
into the outside snow in different places. The 
efforts of J. S. Wentz <fc Co., near AVilkes- 
barre, to break up the Knights of Labor, have 
caused a strike among their hands. Last Sat¬ 
urday by' command of the firm a gang of Pink¬ 
erton’s men roughly evicted a number of fam¬ 
ilies, t hrowing out all their effects pell-mell. 
The compnuy had giveu notice that any ten¬ 
ant affording shelter to the evicted nr their 
goods would be himself dispossessed, aud not a 
soul in the village dare take the unfortu¬ 
nates in. Such scenes are common. Are 
the ciuelest Irish evictions any worse?- 
Judge Cooley intimates that the National 
Railroad Commission is not likely to renew' 
the suspension of Section 4, already granted, 
after the expiry of the 90 days’ trial. The 
Southern Association which early g'd relief 
is in reality a gross offender against the sliort- 
haul principle, favoring large shippers to the 
disadvantage of the small ones...... ..The 
dead-lock in the Florida Legislature over the 
elcetiou of a United States Senator, was brok¬ 
en Thursday by the withdrawal of the two 
leading candidates—Governor Lorry and ex- 
Goveruor Bloxham—and the united vote of the 
Democrats upon Samuel Pasco.A Spe¬ 
cial Railroad Commission sitting here, has for 
some weeks been investigating the Pacific 
Railroads helped by the Government and 
especially' the Union Pacific and Kansas 
Pacific consolidation, Marvelous loss of 
memory displayed by Pacific Railroad mag¬ 
nates wherever possession of it might disclose 
matters that might be injurious to their own 
interests or those of their friends. A good 
deal of trickery was revealed, and the acquisi¬ 
tion of vast gains by Gould and others proved, 
.All base btilHsts are excited over the 
records of the various clubs. The Detroits 
are ahead thus far. They are playing a great 
game. The Bostons are close behind them, 
aud will be closer before long. The New 
York club is a failure. The managers mude 
great promises which they have failed to 
keep. The St. Louis chib easily leads in 
the Association race. It will probably 
never be headed. Smaller clubs all over 
the country' are getting into trim.. .. 
....J. S. Flue & Bro., 246 State Street, Chi¬ 
cago, is a swindling concern that promised to 
send 200 packages of ladies’ wearing apparel 
for sale on 40 per cent, commission to any one 
who would remit $5. Fine has fled to Cana¬ 
da. Nearly 150 letters containing remittances 
were seized by Government Inspector....... 
....Canada claims from the United States 
$150,090 for the seizure of those two British 
Columbia sealing vessels in Behring Sen— $36,- 
(100 for the arrest and illegal inipriAmmetit of 
the officers of the vessels, $23,000 as the value 
of the vessels, $1,700 as wages of the crews, 
$10,400 as the value of the seal skins seized. 
$03,000 us the value of the nrobabje catch had 
the seizures not been made, and $3,000 for 
legal expenses. It’s to he hoped our claims 
for Canadian seizures of Yankee fishing ves¬ 
sels on the Atlant ic will be generously propor¬ 
tionate. Our Government has no intention 
ot selling those “sealers” yet, in spite of previ¬ 
ous reports... ..... 7 hey have at at lost got a 
jury here to try Jake Sharp, chief briber of 
the’ “Boodle Aldermen” of 1884. It usually 
takes about a fortnight to secure a jury in 
such cases—and at the end ol u three-weeks’ 
tedious trial they’re very likely to disagree... 
....Houghton & Mifflin’s publishing house in 
Boston was gutted by fire Tuesday' night. 
Loss $30,000.A legislative commit tee 
in Massachusetts—“ the telephone State”—has 
prepared a bill regulating and reducing tolls 
ou all telephone systems in the State. It is 
likely to pass, too....There is a pro¬ 
spective rise in coffee, owing to a short crop in 
Louth America. The Rio crop will be short 
one half.The I’ennsvlvuuia lines 
west of Pittsburg have put ou sale 1000-mile 
mileage books, good for a year, at. 2b, cents a 
mile, and the western friends of the Inter- 
State Law believe that this is only the enter¬ 
ing wedge to general reduction to something 
like the special rates common before April.... 
....This is the third week of the boodlers’ 
trial at Chicago and only four jurymen have 
been selected, the regular panel of 240 names 
and two special venires of 50 each having been 
exhausted.The State of Chihuahua, 
Cohuaibi and Sonora, Mexico, are being 
rapidly absorbed by Americans. Instructions 
have been Issued for a survey of the public 
lands of Tobaseo and Campre, When sur¬ 
veyed these lands will probably be purchased 
by Americans. There is a deal now pending 
lor the purchase of 8,000,000 acres of lauds in 
Tamaulipas, and it is said that the nego 
tiations will be concluded iu a few 
days. No udequato idea cun be formed of 
the extent of speculation in which American 
capitalists are engaged in Mexico. 
.Assistant Secretary Maymard has in¬ 
structed the Customs ut Boston, in cases of 
exportations of galvanized fences staples, 
manufactured wholly from imported wire 
rods or bar steel and spelter, to allow a draw¬ 
back equal in amount to the duty paid ou the 
imported materials, less the legal retention of 
10 per cent.Explosion of four tons of 
liitro-glycerine eight miles from Duluth 
Wednesday. Nine residences totally or partly 
wrecked. Shock aud concussion felt in Du¬ 
luth and five miles beyond. Loss estimated 
at $40,000.Both branches of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Legislature adjourned situ- die 
Thursday ....Naturalized citizen million¬ 
aire Andrew' Carnagio, having been asked by 
some English-American New-Yorkers to sub¬ 
scribe to a fund to celebrate the Queen’s 
Jubilee June 21, tells thorn that if they cele- 
bate anything they ought to try their Lund at 
the Fourth of July. A consolidation of 
the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph with tho 
Postal and other independent lines is to be 
made, the consolidation taking tho form of a 
new company, of^wliich the Baltimore_and 
Ohio will take one-half the stock and so obtain 
control.Thursday the Nickel Plato 
Railroad was purchased at Cleveland O., for 
the first mortgage bondholders for $10,000,000 
by Frederick P, Olcott, Chairman of the 
Nickel Plate Purchasing Committee. It was 
really sold to the Vanderbilt interest.Jay 
Gould says be prefers to wait a year or two 
before giving any definite opinion of the Inter¬ 
state law-.*... Governor Hill Thursday 
signed the Northern New York asylum bill. 
The law thus locates the asylum at Airy 
Point, close by Ogdensburg. It appropriates 
$88,458 for the purchase of 948,99 acres of laud 
and $100,000 for construction purposes........ 
... Boston is bu ving some difficulty in placing 
a municipal loan of $800,990 at 8k, per cent. at. 
par.Henry George B#yg there will 
probably' be n labor candidate for President iu 
1888.Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, 
rejoices that there Isn’t, a Republican left in 
any f Federal office in that State. 
..Mr. Blaine, witbhiswife and two daughters, 
will sail for Europe on June 8th. 
The will of Avashington C. De Pauw, of 
New Albany. ImJ., wus probated Thursday. 
It bequeaths $3,000,000 to bis family ami the 
residue of his estate, estimated at $5,000.0(H), 
is devoted to benevolent and educational pui- 
poses, including a bequest of $1,025,000 to the 
Do Pauw University, called after him, aud to 
which he had already given over $1,000.000... 
-Mr, Powderly says he is worn out manag¬ 
ing the affairs of the Knights, and is going 
to resign at tho end of this vear. 
.Editor O’Brien has been denouncing 
Lord Lansdowne In Canada during the week. 
At Toronto he couldn’t, get a public ball in 
which to speak aud while addressing a vast 
crowd in the open air an organized mob of 
Orangemen rendered bis voice inaudible be¬ 
yond a narrow circle. Next morning, while 
taking a walk, he and those with him were 
pelted with rotten eggs, stones, bricks, etc., by 
a howling rabble of Orangemen. He was hit 
several times, though not seriously hurt.; hut. 
some of those with him were dangerously in¬ 
jured. He arrived in Ottawa Thursday and 
was well received. Last night he aiid his 
party were badly stoned by a half-drunken 
mob of over 1.000 Orangemen and other mal¬ 
contents- at Kingston as he left the rink where 
he had made a speech to a large and enthusias¬ 
tic audience. Both there and at Toronto tho re¬ 
ports say the police and municipal authorities 
were disgracefullv.negligent. The offences of 
which Lord Lansdowne is accused are, in brief: 
Reducing his tenants to beggary by rack- 
rent; swindling Ihem out of t lie fund setapart 
as a loan by the British Government; plunder¬ 
ing them of money given by (be charity of the 
world to keep them from starvation; repudi¬ 
ating the concessions made to them by his own 
agent; setting ou foot a system of evictions to 
blackmail their kindred in (his country into 
paying in their behalf rent-charges which no 
amount of industry and frugality can earn 
from the land they hold.” A joint 
resolution was passed yesterday in the Virginia 
Senate reaffirming the determination of the 
State to stand by the lliddleberger law and 
calling on the people to pay their taxes in 
money and not in coupons. The resolution 
was subsequently communicated to the House, 
but was laid Over until to-day.It. is 
estimated that the Upper Michigan peninsula 
is $3,000,000 poorer on account, of the winds 
two weeks ago aud the present tin's. 
The Secretary of the Interior has approved 
the appraisement of the right of ihe St. Paul, 
Minneapolis aud Manitoba Railroad through 
that portion of the Blaekfeet Indian Reserva¬ 
tion in Montana under the jurisdiction of the 
Fort Belknap Agency. The lands in question 
aggregate 2,586acres, and ore valued at $1,293. 
The distance is 132 miles.The Presi¬ 
dent, accompanied by Mrs Cleveland, Mrs. 
Folsom, and Colonel and Mrs. Lumont, will 
leave Washington for Saranac Lake, New 
York, next Thursday, for a fishing trip. The 
party expect to be absent about ten days. By 
starting about this comparatively early date, 
it is believed that better fishing’can be had, 
and as the usual summer crowd of visitoiswill 
not be iu the Adirondack*, there will be a 
more favorable opportunity for much needed 
rest... ___ .Lewis Herzog, a German, was 
arrested in Chicago yesterday on suspicion of 
perpetrating fraud in the peddling of alleged 
European bonds, and securities of flic Tennessee 
Land Improvement and Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany. Both documents are lithographed in 
high colors, and impress the ignorant with 
their value. The European bonus sell for $100. 
The headquarters of the concern is announced 
to be with the banking firm of A. Falk & Co., 
Co., No. 35 Broadway', New York. Herzog’s 
examination was continued until to day...... 
.. The industrial position has not im¬ 
proved, about 20,000 employes having struck 
or been locked out during the week. The 
total striking aud locked out this month to 
the 19th is 69,000, an average of about 4,100 
daily. Ihe leading strikes nave included 31,- 
000 building trades operatives at Chicago, and 
13,000 Pennsylvania coke workers. About 
3,000 shoemakers were locked out in Massa¬ 
chusetts and 2,800 stove molders at Detroit. 
Small strikes during May include 20.000 em¬ 
ployes. Reports from 227 New England 
woolen mills show that a large share- of worsted 
and cassimere mills are ruuuiug part of tho 
machinery only, or on short time. The out¬ 
put, of worsted and finer goods is less than one 
year ago—less than in February last—and 
promises to bo further reduced by July 1 next. 
Tho Saturday half holiday in this State 
takes effect to-day, and in this city, the ex¬ 
changes and most of the largo downtown 
business houses will be closed. Many uptown 
stores, however, w ill bo guided by their iudl- 
vidual interests. The police courts will close 
at noon.So tar the New' York State 
capitol has cost over $17,000,000, and several 
millions more will be needed to complete it. 
It is now proposed to do so by contract. 
AGRICULTURAL NEAVS. 
Saturday, May 21,1887. 
The resignation of Secretary Vial, of tho 
National Trotting Association, has been ac¬ 
cepted by the Board by a vote of 6 to 1. If he 
hadn’tjesigned^President^Grttut would have 
done so. Marvin R. Morse, of Pawpaw, Ill., 
has been elected in his stead. If the 
statement, is true that California grapes have 
been injured hy late frosts, the price of 
French brandy is sure to advance. Mr. 
Edward Morris, of the Fairbanks Canning 
Company, of Chicago, now at Taris. lias just 
concluded a contract, for 1,500,000 kilos (3,307,- 
275 pounds) of canned meat for tbe French 
army and 3,000,000 kilos (6,614,560 pounds) for 
the nary— total 9,921,825 pounds. This is 
stated to be the largest contract ever made with 
an American firm by u foreign Governmet... 
. The cattle dealers of Manitoba are at 
loggerheads with the Canadian Pacific Rail- 
roud on the question of rates, and declare they 
will drive their cattle on foot, until rates are. 
reel need. ..The principal holders of 
tomatoes in Baltimore have advanced their 
prices to $1.06.The Fiegan Indians 
of Montana have made about $1,000 this spring 
skinning the carcases of cattle which perished 
fu the snows. They received 75c. for every 
hide that, they brought in, and they exhibited 
such industry that it became necessary to 
watch the herds to prevent, them skinning 
every animal in the Territory, dead or alive.. 
..The importation of American flour 
threatens the English milling industry with 
extinction. Millers in all parts of the United 
Kingdom demand a protective duty on im¬ 
ports of it....The cotton worms have 
appeared in enormous numbers in parts of 
South Carolina. So thick was the moving 
mass of them on the railroad in the Pedee 
Swamp the other day that their crushed 
bodies greased the mils to such an extent as 
to stop trains...... .. .There is a report that 
some Russian soldiers have discovered among 
the mountains of central Asia a new variety 
of asparagus, the stalks of which are four or 
five inches in diameter and eight or ten feet 
in bight!.It is reported from Mayence 
that the peronospora, which is ape? I us rapa¬ 
cious as the phylloxera, bus made its appear¬ 
ance in the vineyards of Germany, threaten¬ 
ing to destroy those on the Moselle and 
Rhine....A curious evasiou of the 
payment of duty ou imported W'ool has been 
reported to the Treasury Department. A flock 
of sheep w as driven across the Mexican bor¬ 
der and duty assessed upon them as live 
stock. They were then sheared and the wool 
placed on the market without having been 
subjected to duty. This arrangement resulted 
in a saving of about 50 per cent, in the 
matter of duty alone.The National 
Government is to buy 224 acres of land near 
Washington for an experimental farm for the 
Agricultural Department. It is situated ou a 
line with Pennsylvania Avenue, extending 
eastward, and two miles from the city. Tho 
transaction will be the largest, in the 
District of Columbia for years. 
.... One result of the inen ami duty on wheat 
and flour Into France is the erection of enor¬ 
mous bakeries on the Belgian frontier from 
which large quantities of bread are being sent 
into France—there is no duty oti bread. 
_The Department of Slate fins received in¬ 
formation from tbe Vica-CousubGeneral at 
St. Petersburg that an agricultural exhibition, 
W’itli competition in agricultural implements 
and macninary, will be held at Kliarkoff, 
Russia, between October 2 and October 22. 
1887. Americans cun compete in exhibits of 
horses, cattle, swine, poultry, bees, and agri¬ 
cultural implements aud machinery.... 
Last Thursday Antoine Manea de A'allom- 
brosu. Marquis do Mores, wus arrested here on 
complaint, of Sannial (iimslmw, a butcher,who 
charges the Marquis with fraud and deceit 
aud demands $20,000, money expended and 
for persona) services and damage to his busi¬ 
ness. It was alleged that the Marquis w'as in¬ 
solvent and had made arrangements to follow 
his wife and child to Paris w hither they went 
t wo weeks ago. After half an hour’s restraint, 
he was liberated on $2,500 ball by L. Von 
Hoffman & Co., bankers of 50 AVall St., of 
which the senior member, Baron Von Hoff¬ 
man, is de Mores’s father in-luw. The Mar¬ 
quis is said to have brought from France, six 
or seven years ago, nearly $2,000,000, most of 
which w as invested in cattle ranching, chiefly 
On the Little Missouri near the dividing line 
between Montana anil Dakota, with head¬ 
quarters at Medora, named after Ids wife. Ho 
is now President of the Northern 1’acitic Re¬ 
frigerator Car Couipauy, which ho says 
cost $ 1.000,000, and is solvent. It has 
been bringing dressed meat, from the 
Northwestern ranges to tbe Consumers’ Meat 
Company of this City, which until recently 
had several large stores here; but some of them 
have lately been abandoned as unprofitable. 
The Marquis was president of the. com¬ 
pany till last week w hen be resigned. Some 
time since he tried to organize a National 
Meat Consumers’ Company with $10,000,000 
capital in $10 shares; but they wouldn't sell. 
Grimshuw says he was engaged to iuduce the 
retail butchers to lake shares in this defunct 
company and lie claims $2,500 for loss of time 
negotiating loans, $5,000 for his services; 
$2,500 for liabilities incurred; and $10,000 for 
loss of his old friends among the retail butch¬ 
ers, having been Vice-president of the Retail 
Rutcbers’ Protective Association, The Mar¬ 
quis says Grimshaw never did any good, that 
the man owes him $1,000 for which he holds 
his note, aud that he himself is ready to settle 
every just claim, being quite solvent. 
... .The next, meeting of the Arneiioan Pomo- 
logicnl Society will be h°ld at Boston, Mass., 
September 14, 1837, continuing three days. 
Prizes to the value of $500 will be offered for 
collections of fruits Essays upon leading 
topics connected with fruit growing will*be 
read by prominent scientists. Send to Charles 
W. Garfield, Grand Rapids,(Mich., for further 
informal ion. —The 
Michigan Senate, on Thursday, passed 
the iron-clad oleomargarine bill, making it a 
misdemeanor to manufacture the stuff in Mich 
gjftijftfUutuou# guUcvti.sinj}. 
DIXON'S "Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In 1K27, and Is today, us it was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; upure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub 
Ted and cuke wtdghs nearly half a pound, but the Quali¬ 
ty aud price remain the same. ABk your grocer for 
DLxon’s bl cake. 
