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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 4, 1887. 
According to the latest reports the poor 
Socialists who have been suberibing money 
for a colony at Topolobambo Bay, in Sinaloa, 
Mex., and have gone oat there to form an 
ideal productive community, are in a sorry 
plight. Their leader, A. K. Owen, ignorant 
of everything blit theories, bought a high tract 
without water; there is no work, no money 
and no food for the colonists, and they are 
said to have been brought pretty close to sav¬ 
age brutality by hunger and disease. This 
thing was denounced by our Eye-Opener 
three months ago .. The New Hampshire 
Legislature, Wednesday, elected, 178 to 146, 
Charles H. Sawyer, Republican as Gover¬ 
nor........ A plant is said to have been 
discovered in Madeira which is an antidote 
for tobacco, and if used a few times takes 
away permanently the liking for the weed 
in any form! ! The New Hamp¬ 
shire Legislature elects a United States Sena¬ 
tor this month. Ex-Secretary of the Navy, 
W. E. Chandler, and ex-Senator Rollins are 
both willin’—chauces in favor of the ex-Sec.. 
_Episcopalian Bishop Potter, and a com¬ 
mittee of other New York Episcopalian nota¬ 
bilities, appeal to their brethren for funds to 
build a great Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, 
to cost $10,000,000, iu this city. The move¬ 
ment started 15 years ago, and a charter has 
been obtained. Large contributions have 
been already promised—some of them from 
members of other denominations .At 
the recent adjournment of the U. S. Supreme 
Court there were on the docket over 800 cases 
more than last year. It will take at least 
three years before auy new case can be reached 
for decisiou. It is said the late J ustice Woods 
whs killed by overwork trying to keep up 
with the business of the court, and Chief Jus¬ 
tice Waite's health is said to be greatly in¬ 
jured owing to the same cause.Many 
venturesome couples, here, there and every¬ 
where—almost—celebrated the President’s 
wedding anniversary on Juue 2, by trying 
matrimony . .Professor Sjiencer F. Baird 
is seriously sick, owing to an affection of the 
heart and kidneys..The manufacturers 
of jewelry andailver-ware here refuse to listen 
to any compromise with the Union silver¬ 
smiths. Before they can get a chance to 
return to work the men must abandon their 
“Union.” The mauufacturd's are now run¬ 
ning nearly full-handed with non-Union men, 
and are expecting more soon from Europe.... 
... .The total losses due to that tire in the sta¬ 
bles of the Belt Line Street Railroad in this 
city, amount to $1,845,000; insurance $500,000 
only. The line is going to use either cable or 
electric motive power instead of horses as 
soon as authority is obtained from the city to 
do so ....... Iu the Dominion Senate, Wed¬ 
nesday, a resolution was passed that it is the 
duty of the Government of Cauada to see that 
in any arrangement for the admission of 
United States fishermen to the territorial wat¬ 
ers of Canada, which may bo entered into be¬ 
tween the governments of Great Britain and 
the United States, special provisions shall be 
made that the fishermen of the latter country 
when within the waters of Canada, shall be 
subject to the laws and regulations by which 
Canadian fishermen are for the time being 
governed.A telegram from Loudon 
yesterday says negotiations between this 
country and England w ith regard to the fish¬ 
ery troubles are satisfactorily completed. 
Our fishermen are to be allowed to fish in the 
forbidden waters, and Cauada is to be reward¬ 
ed by privileges in other directions. Of course, 
any arrangement made will be by treaty, 
which must be confirmed by the United States 
Senate .Much excitement among 
yachtsmeu here at the prospect of a very close 
contest for the Amerieus Cup, as the new 
Scotch yacht, Thistle, built expressly to carry 
it off across the Atlantic next fall, is outsail¬ 
ing the fastest yachts on the other side,. 
Senator Sherman is “swinging around the 
circle” and very enthusiastically received iu 
the West.The White House is being 
thoroughly renovated and repaired during 
the absence of the President and Mrs. Cleve¬ 
land. The President is quite fortunate as a 
fisherman iu the Adiroudacks. ■*• 
Thirty-two suits have been instituted against 
the Boston and Providence Railroad Company 
by those injured in the recent disaster at 
Bussey Bridge. The damages claimed vary 
from $500 to $50,000, and the agregatu is over 
$400,000...Five of the Bald Knobbers 
were found guilty Saturday last of whipping 
George W. Swearingen, and sentenced to $100 
fine each and three months iu the County 
Jail.Jacob Gaudaur, the oarsman, 
in a three-mile race on the Calumet course 
near, Pullman, Ill., .crossed the winning line four 
boat lengths ahead of Ned Hanlan, Monday: 
time 19:30, the fastest on record; wager, $5,000 
in stakes and the championship of America. 
Haitian’s time 19:34 the next best record ever 
made in a three-mile race. The two men will 
have another struggle soon. 
.It. is proposed to hold a convention of 
the nail makers of the country at Pittsburg 
soon, to secure the adoption of a uniform scale 
of prices and also measures to prevent “the dis¬ 
astrous cutting which is now so common”... 
....The report of the Minister of Fisheries, 
brought down to Juno 1. show’s the total value 
of the fisheries of the Dominion for the year 
1886 to be $18,670,000—an increase of $956,000 
over 1885.Thursday six bills for rail¬ 
roads projected to run from the main line of 
the Canadian Pacific in Manitoba aud the 
Territories to different points on the United 
States frontier, were thrown out by the Rail¬ 
way Committee of the House of Commons.... 
.It is now estimated at the Pension Of¬ 
fice that the number of Mexican Pension 
claims will not exceed 80,000. Eighteen thou¬ 
sand, of which number 8,000 are widows’ 
claims, have already been received and 8,200 
certificates have been issued. It has been de¬ 
termined to increase the force of the division 
having these cases iu charge so that they may 
be turned out at the rate of 200 per diem.. ... 
... .The Independent says that statistics show 
that the churches of the United States have 
communicants as follow's: Methodist Episco¬ 
pal, 4 340,516; Rjtnan Catholic, 4,000,000; Epis¬ 
copal, 430,581; Moraviau, 10,686; Baptist, 
3,682,007; Congrcgationalist, 436,370; Christian 
Union, 120,000; Friend, 105,000; Adventist,97,- 
711; Methodist, 18,750; Presbyterian, 1,082,- 
435; Lutheran, 930,830: Reformed, 259,794; 
German Evangelical, 135,000; Mennonites, 
80,000; Church of God, 45,000. 
.According to the Now York Sun the 
Knights of Labor lost 46,076 members from 
July 1, 1880, to April 1, 1887, in 10 district 
assemblies, which had, at the earlier date, 
104,469 members, and at the later 61.793 . 
.... Last November Dakota polled 99,164 votes 
for one Delegate to Congress, who cannot vote, 
while Georgia elected 10 members of the 
House with an aggregate vote of less than 
26,000 .Thomas T. Eckert has been re¬ 
elected President, Russell .Sage Vice-President, 
R, F. Rochester Treasurer, and Thomas F. 
Clark Secretary of the American Telegraph 
and Cable Company.The National 
debt statement, issued June 1, shows the re¬ 
duction of the public debt during May to be 
$8,888,997.65. Total cash iu the Treasury, 
$400,269,520.05.The strike of the coke 
handlers iu Pennsylvania is paralyzing the 
irou business there, as coke is largely used in 
the furnaces. If it continues much longer It 
is feared that 500,000 men will be forced into 
idleness .That St. Louis stove moulders’ 
strike has been settled, and as the patterns of 
the boycotted firm have been withdrawn from 
the factories of other manufacturers all over 
the country, the strikes at these places also are 
over.Hon. W. Dorsheimer, editor of 
the Star of this city, is making a vigorous 
effort to get small subscriptions for the Grant 
Monument Fund. President Cleveland, who 
had already contributed liberally to the ob¬ 
ject, has sent Dorsheimer $10, the maximum 
amount expected of any single contributor... 
_Some time ago the American Grosventres 
crossed the liue and killed several of the Cana¬ 
dian Blood Indians, and run off 100 horses. 
The other day the Bloods retaliated by invad¬ 
ing the Grosventres country, killing several of 
the enemy and capturing 40 horses. Both 
sides have donned war paint, and an interna¬ 
tional Indiau Wur is imminent.Enough 
iron ore, superior to that of Pennsylvania aud 
Alabama, has been located near Tyler, Texas, 
to supply all the furnaces in the world for 100 
years! ...Representatives of the leading 
rubber houses of the country met here Wed¬ 
nesday for the purpose of forming a Rubber 
Trust, on the plan of the Cotton-seed Oil Trust. 
The plan embraces the control of the manu¬ 
facture of all rubber goods, the monopoly of 
the importation of the crude rubber, the fix¬ 
ing of the market value of both crude material 
and manufactured articles, and a combined 
resistance to the demands of organized labor. 
After an all-day argument the Trust was 
formed with a w’orking capital of $35,000,000. 
Messrs. Banigan of Woonsocket, Alden of 
Boston, aud Meyer of New Brunswick, were 
chosen executive directors with a salary of 
$40,000 and with unlimited powers. The rub¬ 
ber industry of the country controlled l>y the 
Trust represents un investment of about $50,- 
000,000 and an anunl trade of $100,000,000. 
Upward of 85,000 workmen are also employed. 
.The School Fund of Texas has about 
$6,000,000 invested in the State and county 
bonds of that State. The Inter- 
State Commerce Commissioners huve issued au 
order to the managers of the Georgia Central 
Railroad requesting them to answer the com¬ 
plaint that they were discriminating against 
the colored race.While the entire Ter¬ 
ritory of Dakota is to vote in November upon 
the question of division as provided by the 
Legislature, that matter is almost lost sight of 
in the agitation over Prohibition. The Legis¬ 
lature enacted that each county might vote 
on the license question upon petition of one- 
third of the voters. Local Option or Prohibi¬ 
tion conventions are being called iu nearly all 
the counties outside of the Black Hills and the 
new railroad sections, and it is claimed that 
in 60 out of 80 comities the requisite names 
will be secured, aud Prohibition carried.. 
.Pool-selling at horse races was never so 
lively in this State as it has been since the 
Governor signed the Ives Bill.A vic¬ 
tory for the organ was scored at the meeting 
of the General Assembly of the United Pres¬ 
byterian Church at Philapelphia, Saturday, 
by the election of the Rev. M. M. Gibson, of 
San Fraucisco, a representative of the branch 
of the church which favors instrumental 
music, as Moderator.Advices from 
Panama say that some of the largest cuts 
made for the De Lesseps canal have been filled 
with earth washed from the mountains. Work 
that cost many millions of dollars is thus vir¬ 
tually destroyed, aud the prospects for the 
completion of the canal rendered more remote 
than ever.Never before have so many 
“stowaways" secreted themselves on trans- 
Atlantic steamers as at present. The other 
day 43 men and boys stowed themselves away 
on the Tlianmore at Liverpool, aud the most 
diligent search could discover only 27 of thorn 
before reaching Queenstown, where they were 
dumped ashore. The remaining 16 were car¬ 
ried to Montreal. The experience on board 
every steamer is very like this. All the poor 
are anxious to get away anyhow to the “Laud 
of Promise” ... 
....Ex-Mayor Edward Cooper aud Mrs. Hew¬ 
itt (wife of the present Mayor), Peter Cooper’s 
children, have contributed $190,000 more to 
tbo endowmeut of Cooper Union iu this city. 
_Editor O’Brien haviug been enthusiasti¬ 
cally treated iu Montreal, has received im¬ 
mense ovations at Boston and in this city. 
Opinions differ very much as to the effect of 
his “invasion” of the Dominion. His sympa¬ 
thizers say it has greatly injured Lord Laus- 
down in public estimation; while his oppo¬ 
nents say he is all the more popular on accouut 
of it.Gov. Hill has vetoed the Vedder 
High-liconso Bill.The Legislature of 
Maine has authorized the Savings Banks of 
that State to invest in the city aud couuty 
bonds of Kansas aud Nebraska... 
.By a law passed at the last session of the 
Connecticut Legislature it is now the duty of 
the Dairy Commissioner to inspect and sub¬ 
mit to the State Chomist fur analysis molasses 
in the hands of dealers, aud to prosecute all 
eases of violation of the law against the sale 
of the adulterated article.T. H. Bar¬ 
rett, President of the State Farmers’ Alliance 
of Minnesota, has transmitted to the U. S. 
Railroad Commissioners a long list of requests 
by the Executive Committee of the Alliance, 
looking to a vigorous enforcement of the 
Inter-State Commerce Law, especially that 
part relating to the long and short haul. 
Secretary Bayard informs the British Govern¬ 
ment that its exportation of paupers to this 
country will be regarded as an unfriendly act. 
...Ex-Vico President William A. Wheeler has 
been gradually sinking with softening of the 
brain, at bis home in Malone, N. Y. For IU 
days he has been conscious only for short 
intervals, and for the past three days he has 
been in a stupor all the time. News reached 
here at 12,30 p. m. to-day that he had died. 
Has suffered immensely from insomnia and 
incurable maladies for years. Jay 
Gould is all right again and is off on a yacht¬ 
ing trip.Jake Sharp’s jury is still in¬ 
complete after 15 days of steady work trying 
to get it full; 1,400 talesmen summoned; 80o 
sifted, aud 11 only hithurto accepted, Mauy 
rumors during the week that the jurymen had 
been “approached” by “jury-fixers” acting on 
Sharp’s behalf. Yesterday Sharp insisted 
that bis lawyers should deny these rumors iu 
court. They did so. The District Attorney 
produced affidavits of the truth of the reports 
from jurors who had been tampered with aud 
others. Case to be fully investigated Monday. 
... According to Bradstreet’s careful investi¬ 
gations, the industrial situation has been im¬ 
proved by the going back to work of over 
7,000 of the 3,000 striking and loekod-out stove- 
molders at 18 efi ies. Records show that 78,618 
men struck during May against 210,600 in 
May, 1886, making a total for five months of 
236,808 strikers (and employes locked out), 
against 340,630 in fivo months of 1886. The 
number of strikes this year, however is 480, 
against (nominally) 164 in 1886. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
since October were 17,367,700 pounds at an av¬ 
erage of $8.59 per hundred. The grain 
porters at Avonmouth Docks, Bristol, who 
struck against the use of elevators in unload¬ 
ing vessels, have gone back to work, the em¬ 
ployers having promised to use elevators only 
when they were insufficiently supplied with 
manual labor.A Dakota hotel charges 
$2 a day without, or $2.50 with, potatoes!- 
_The Belgian Senate yesterday,by a vote of 
38 to 23, approved the bill imposing import 
duties on cattle and meat........ A cablegram 
from Madrid yesterday says a strong protec¬ 
tion movement is developing in Spain. Sen¬ 
ators and Deputies representing the farming 
and manufacturing districts aud men of all 
parties are urging the Government to take 
early steps to pass a law looking to the protec¬ 
tion of native iudustry by the imposition of 
higher duties on foreign cereals and cattle— 
.The stock of wheat at San 
Francisco aud Port Costu, the principal 
Pacific coast warehousing points, on Juue 
1, was 154,000 tous—a decrease of nearly 4,000 
tons during May. .. 
The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed 
a hill to punish false pretences in obtaining 
registration of cattle and other animals. 
_At the Butchers’ Barbecue, held at Chi¬ 
cago last week by the Batchers’ National Pro¬ 
tective Association, 50 beeves and 1(M) lambs 
were roasted on the beach and served to the 
hungry crowds, estimated at fully 40,000 peo¬ 
ple, that number of tickets haviug been sold 
—the grandest event of the kind on record... 
.Another big cattle organization is ru¬ 
mored, with $15,000,000 worth of live stock, a 
consolidation of a number of large ranching 
concerns, including such names as Sturgis, 
Lane, Carey, Davis, Iliffe and Clark, of Chey¬ 
enne, and Ulrichs aud Havemeyer, of New 
York, together with a number of Scotch and 
English capitalists, and some from Boston 
and Philadelphia. According to yesterday’s 
reports, however, the rumor is merely a 
“roorback” started by the Cattle Trust man¬ 
ipulators to help iu its orgauization.A 
convention of the agricultural chemists of the 
country will be held at the Agricultural De¬ 
partment, at Washington, August 16. 
There are 43 wholesale aud 328 retail dealers 
iu oleomargarine in Massachusetts. This list 
comprises one-sixth of all the wholesale and 
one-tenth of all the retail dealers in oloo iu the 
United States who have paid taxes to the 
Government on this commodity, indicating 
that more oleo Is made aud consumed there 
than in any other internal revenue district of 
the country.A car of oats, by deci¬ 
sion of the New York Produce Exchange, 
must hereafter contaiu 1,000 bushels, instead 
of 950 as heretofore.The Czar has issued 
a ukase prohibiting aliens from acquiring real 
property in Russian Poland. The heir of a 
foreigner, in order to inherit, must become a 
naturalized Russian. This has excited great 
indignation iu Berlin and Vienna and will be 
made the subject of a vigorous diplomatic 
demonstration... .Since Parliament adjourned 
the Irish rack-rent landlords have opened 
au eviction campaign, and hundreds of tenants 
are being thrown out on the wayside..... — 
... .Mujor El bridge McConkey, Resident Clerk 
of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 
for several sessions, and who has been promin¬ 
ently identified with the State Board of Agri 
culture, committed suicide by hanging Mon¬ 
day. ... It has been the practice of farm¬ 
ers emigrating from Canada to this country, 
especially iu the Northwest, to bond such of 
their teams and tackle as they brought over 
there to break ground, erect houses, etc., then 
return to Canada in the fall to dispose of their 
crops and other property iu the Dominion, 
aud subsequently eome back to the United 
States with their families and effects as im¬ 
migrants. Recently a Treasury circular for¬ 
bade the free admission of woi’k animals for 
temporary purposes on the froutier, and this 
greatly checked a desirable kind of immigra¬ 
tion. After the reception of numerous pro¬ 
tests, the Treasury uow directs that all per¬ 
sons coming into this country from Canada, 
who produce satisfactory proofs that they are 
bonajulr immigrants, can briug with them, 
on first arriving to take up farms, their teams, 
tackle, etc., free of duty, and also after their 
return from Canada with their families, their 
teams, tackle, etc., are to be admitted in the 
same way, the several arrivals in such cases 
being considered as continuous acts of immi¬ 
gration ...... 
... It is estimated that over 2,060 farmers in 
the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, have 
been victimized by the Bohemian oat swindle 
within the past year aud a half. The swiud 
gjttija'ttUaiuw ^Avtrtiiiag. 
Saturday, Juue 4, 1887. 
The leaf tobacco sold at Danville, Va. ,duriug 
May, amounted to 3,251,382 pounds, at au av¬ 
erage of $8.78 per hundred. The total sales 
DIXON’S “(’nrhuret of Iron" Stove Polish was 
established in IS#?, and I* to-day, as it was theD, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; * purr plumbago, 
r)v1ur off no poisonous vupors. The size la now doub 
led and cake weiRbs nearly half a pound, but the Quali- 
y and price romaln the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dixon’s big cake. 
