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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 11, 18S7. 
A special from Mount Vernon, la., says: 
Rev. Oranvilie Moody, the famous Ohio chap¬ 
lain, known as the “Figbtiug Parson,” died on 
Sunday from injuries received in a runaway 
accident; aged 76 . After the close of 
the National Drill last week, the eatererof the 
Grounds eutered suit against the Drill Com¬ 
mittee for ?13,000, the difference between the 
profit for (5,000 meals a day, which were guar¬ 
anteed him, and that from 1,600. which he 
actually furnished.Iu the Judicial elec¬ 
tions at Chicago last Monday, just one ward 
declared in favor of Boodle and Anarchy. Ex¬ 
cept in the sixth ward, the vote throughout 
the county averaged three to one against the 
twin evils.Yellow fever is spreading 
steadily at Kev West, and the rest of Florida 
is urging the General Government, to take ac¬ 
tion to suppress or restrict it. No law to au¬ 
thorize such action, as it. is a matter within 
State jurisdiction. The Secretary of the 
Treasury has authorized the employment of 
six nurses to attend the sick in the U. S. Bar¬ 
racks Hospital, Key West, and four guards 
to protect, the property of persons removed 
to the hospital . 
— Th total values of farm products and ani¬ 
mals exported to Great Britain from Canada 
during the year 1886 amounted to $22,548,i$9L 
Of the same articles to the United States, 
Canada exported *15.495,763. The total ex¬ 
ports were *41,540,804 to Great Britain and 
$33,747,871 to the United States.. It is 
estimated that, the recent forest fires in the 
Northern Peninsula of the State of Michigan 
have caused a total loss of $7,000,000. Eight 
lives arc known to have been lost..The 
Premier of the Province of Quebec says that 
no veto from the Dominion Government can 
touch for 13 months to come the railroad char¬ 
ter recently granted by the Legislature of 
Manitoba, and that the proposed road from 
Winnipeg to the boundary will be completed 
before the expiration of that period. 
Dan Rice, the veteran circus rnau. was mar¬ 
ried. Tuesday, at Schulenberg, Texas, to Mrs. 
M. C. Robinson, a wealthy widow and owner 
of one of the finest, cattle ranches in Lavaca 
County iu spite of the bitter opposition of 
the widow's married children,. It is 
now positively stated that only one point re¬ 
mains unsettled iti the “Fishery Troubles.” 
Secretary Bayard insists that American fish¬ 
ing vessels shall be permitted to touch at 
Canadian ports with the privileges of shipping 
crews and purchasing bait , utid indeed for any 
other purpose, except to fish within the three- 
mile limit. Lord Salisbury has conceded the 
right to put in tor wood, water, and sup plies. 
Hitherto American fishermen have met with 
very good treatment this year.It is 
sefrii-ofliciallv stated that in the diplomatic 
and consular service there are 106 men from 
the Southern States and 333 from the North¬ 
ern : of the more important positions, T!> are 
held by Southerners and 146 by Northerners; 
and of the $10,000 Salaries or larger abroad, 
seven are drawn by Northern men and six by 
Southern, of whom onlv three were in the Con¬ 
federate service. Of the 100 appointees from 
the South, 57 were in the rebel army. 
..Eight new roads running into Atlanta, Ga., 
will be completed in 18 months. The place is 
high among the “boomers.”.Most of 
the large cities seem bent on having an old- 
fashioned Fourth of July, with lots of fire¬ 
works, small boys' fun. and accidents gener¬ 
ally.Mr. W. W. Corcorau, the Wash¬ 
ington millionaire, has had a “first warning” 
in a slight paralytic stroke.The late 
Pennsylvania Legislature passed a la w taxing 
the great corporations of the State an aggre¬ 
gate of nearly $3,000,000 a year; but it failed 
to become a law, as it was not signed by the 
President of the Senate—was never taken to 
him. Honest men are urging Gov, Beaver to 
call an extra session of the Legislature to pass 
the bill again: cpSft only $30,000. Most ol the 
legislators say they will ask for no pay. Won¬ 
derful how many blunders are constantly 
made in all the Legislatures when wealthy 
individuals and corporations are the gainers! 
_Cardinal Gibbons arrived in Baltimore 
Tuesday afternoon and was tendered a most 
enthusiastic reception. He will call a council 
of the 11 Archbishops of the American hier¬ 
archy at Baltimore during the .summer, to 
take decisive steps towards enforcing the prin¬ 
ciples of the Catholic Church in regard to the 
labor issues.More than 600 bears were 
killed iu Maine last year.The earnings 
of Bing Bing prison for May were $7,505.79, 
expenditures, $13,665.67; leaving a deficiency 
for the month of $6,159.83.It is under¬ 
stood that efforts will be made to floats new 
Quebec lpau of $3,500,000 in France, it being 
considered that more favorable terms can be 
obtained there than in England - . An¬ 
other revenue cutter has been dispatched to 
maintain the seal fishing rights of the United 
States in Alaska waters. But those two cap¬ 
tured sealers have been released, after their 
captains bad pleaded ignorance of the law, 
expressed sorrow for what they had done, and 
promised to do so uo more. Canada still 
claims indemnity, but is hardly likely to get 
any except, perhaps, by way of settlement 
for American claims for Canadian seizures on 
the Atlantic.French convicts at. New 
Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean, are being 
liberated with the understanding that, they 
must not. settle in any English or French 
colony, aud ns a consequence they arc sail 
ing for San Francisco, the local Parliament 
now having a proposition before it to vote 
$5,000 to assist their passage. Our Treasury 
Department has instructed the Pacific Const 
authorities to be vigilant, in preventing their 
landing.Secretary Fairchild has issued 
directions to the commanders of revenue cut¬ 
ters to cruise upon the outer lines of their 
grounds aud to exercise special vigilance* in 
speaking all vessels arriving from foreign 
ports or from infected ports of the United 
States, so as to keep out all contagious dis¬ 
eases by establishing quarantines at all points 
of danger .Hon. William Blake, leader 
of the Opposition in the Dominion Parliament, 
is very ill. Ho is threatened with an attack 
of paralysis.The Board of Trade and 
Transportation of this city charges that the 
trunk Hues heretofore known as the pooled 
lines, have adopted a new classification of 
freight, which perpetuates, under the guise of 
classification, the unjust discrimination in fa¬ 
vor of large shippers, which was formerly 
perpetrated under the guise of rebates and 
drawbacks .According to one account, 
17 Apaches, according to another, 30, have 
left the reservation iu Arizona and gone on a 
raid. Captain Lawton, with a company of 
cavalry, is hot ou their trail. Several mur¬ 
ders reported .The proposition for 
a general jail delivery, in honor of the Queen’s 
Jubilee, has been shelved in the Canadian 
Parliament .The Aueient and Honor¬ 
able Artillery Company of Boston observed 
the 249th anniversary of its organization last 
Monday.The Cunard steamer Cephalo- 
nia. wliose management was fined 31,000 for 
landing an insane woman at Bostou, was per¬ 
mitted to clear and sail Wednesday, upon de¬ 
positing #1,000 with the Surveyor of the Port. 
The company will appeal to the Secretary of 
the Treasury of the United States for a remit¬ 
tance of the fine. All these foreign steamship 
companies appear to look with much contempt 
on all American regulations which try to pre¬ 
vent them from doing as (hey please. 
... .The thermometer has been up to 97 in the 
shade iu San Francisco. This temperature is 
accompanied bv a northerly breeze, and sci¬ 
entists are asked to explain how it is that the 
Pacific coast should be visited every season by 
a hot north wind.The buffets of the 
sleeping and drawing-room cars in Ohio will 
he taxed under the Dow t liquor law'. 
The New York Prohibitory party’s State con¬ 
vention will be held at Syracuse August 25-6, 
opening with a prayer-meeting. 
_All who have “trade dollars” to redeem 
must do so before Sept. 3, as that date is the 
limit fixed for redemption. About #7,000,600 
have already beeu redeemed, and thev are 
dow coming iu at the rate of about $8,090 a 
day.Explorers Itnve discovered a 
remarably lively volcano in the Sierra Madre 
• Mountains,not far from Tucson, Arizona. The 
party could not. approach w ithin four miles of 
the mountain by reason of the streams oflava 
and boiling water which coursed iu volumes 
down the declivity, filling the valleys to au 
immense depth. Boulders of many tons 
weight were continually hurled from the cra¬ 
ter. with explosions like thunder. The town 
of Bavispe, Sonora, is wiped out. The earth 
for miles around is seamed with yawning fis¬ 
sures,aud all the roads on the lower plains are 
impassable.. .The bill to submit a Prohibitory 
amendment to the State Constitution to the 
votes of the people of Massachusetts, was de¬ 
feated in the House Wednesday by a vote of 
139 for and 74 against—not. the necessary two- 
thirds. There were three pairs. Of the 142 
members recorded in favor. 126 were Republi¬ 
cans, 13 Democrats, one Independent Republi¬ 
can, oue Independent Democrat, mid one In¬ 
dependent. Of the 74 recorded against it. 17 
were Republicans, 58 Democrats, and two In¬ 
dependent.Democrats .Bob Meadows, 
an old citizen of Christian County, Mo., was 
shot to death from an ambush by two men, 
Tuesday. He had been a witness against some 
notorious law-breakers—the 43d murder in 
this thinly-settled county since the war. 
W. H. Greeu, the only colored man in the 
Signal Service, has been dismissed for ineili- 
cience and gambling ....The bucket shop 
bill before the Illinois Legislature, having re¬ 
cently beeu passed, has been signed by the 
Governor, and the music will begin on July 
1. In the opinion of the Illinois Bureau 
of Labor Statistics the solution of the problem 
of prison labor lies in the banishment of 
machinery from the prison workshops. Con¬ 
victs ought to lie employed umier State 
authorities only.exclusively on laborperformed 
byhand.. .. The work on the Welland Canal 
has reached such a state of completion as to 
allow boats with a 12-foot draft of water to 
pass through. Entire work to be completed 
iu August.Colorado now ranks as the 
largest producer of precious metals iu the 
United States, the total value of its yield of 
gold and silver during 1886 being $30,000,000. 
Montana conies next with a total of $17,000.- 
000, and California third with a total of 
$16,000,000. The productions of Nevada and 
New Mexico show a decrease, while little 
change is shown iu Mm production in other 
States. Texas for the first time is this year 
added to the list of producing States, with a 
production of $300,000 worth of silver.. 
The new Texas liquor law which goes into 
effect July 1, prohibits pool and billiard tables 
in saloons .......Thu blast furnaces aud steel 
mills of the South Chicago Rolling Mill have 
closed down on account of the exhaustion of 
the supply of coke, and 1,300 of the 3,100 men 
employed were thrown out of employment iu 
consequence..State Dairy Commissioner 
Newton has notified the druggists of Northern 
New Jersey that ho will strictly enforce the 
State law in regard to the adulteration of 
drugs. He asks all druggists to forward sam¬ 
ples of drugs which they believe are not of full 
strength and good quality .In the 
Illinois House yesterday ul'tcrnoon a Senate 
bill was passed providing that no person iu 
that State shall Rell or furnish tobacco in any 
form to any minor under L6 years of age, un¬ 
less on written order from parents or guardi¬ 
ans. ... .Of the $400,600 appropriated by 
the last Congress to provide arms and equip¬ 
ments for the militia, Now York State will 
receive $33,179 and New Jersey $8,204,. 
.The Postmaster General yesterday issued 
an order to the Postmaster at" Chicago to de- 
liverno more registered letters to the Chicago 
Farm J ourual and to cash uo more money orders 
for it. This action is based upon evidence 
submitted to him which convinces hint that 
the publication has no genuine subscription 
list, and is not legitimately a newspaper. For 
over a year this catchpenny fraud of swindler 
Gardner has been repeatedly denounced bv 
the Eye-Opener.Ex-Sec. Chandler's 
nomination for Senator from New Hampshire 
w r as made by an overwhelming majority at the 
first vote in the Republican caucus Thursday. 
Tt was then made unanimous—equivalent to 
an election, as there is a strong Republican 
majority in the Legislature, and no fear of a 
Republican bolt. .The Mavor end several 
other officials of San Antonio. Texas, were ar¬ 
rested yesterday charged with conspiracy 
to break up a prohibitory meeting .... The 
last day of the fourth week of Jake Sharp’s 
trial ended yesterday; 1,700 talesmen have 
been examined, yet there are onlv 10 men in 
the jury-box—one less than at this time a 
week ago. Immense efforts are being made 
by both sides: for if Sharp, the arch-briber, 
is convicted, all the other bribe-givers and 
takers are pretty sure to bo; whereas, if he 
gets off, most of the others are likely to do so. 
.A great fire broke out at two o’clock this 
morning at the immense sugar refinery of 
Havemver Brothers, Long Island City, across 
the East River. Extent of damage still un¬ 
known, but must bo very high. Fire now well 
under control. Pratt’s large oil refinery in 
danger. Many labor troubles, strikes and 
lockouts, at the sugar works of late. This is the 
third time they have been on fire within n 
rear. Most likely all the fires ha ve been of 
incendiary origin... 
The actual sales of cotton in New York in 
1886, were 318.607 bales, while in futures the 
business aggregated 28,079,800 bales. That is 
to say, a trifle less than one ninetieth of all 
the transactions in cotton were genuine, the 
remaining being bogus.The Railway 
Age reports the amount of new railroad 
track, main line, laid in the United States 
from Jnuuary 1 to June I. 1887, to be 2.851 
miles, au addition of 787 miles since last 
month’s report. ThiR total has never before 
been equaled at this season of the year, with 
the single exception of the year 1882..‘ 
.. The New York Star’s efforts to add $125,000 
to the fund for the Grant Monument yielded 
about $600 after the first week’s dinging. 
Whole, amount col Ire ted for the McClellan 
Monument is $5,000; somewhat more than 
was at first expected. . The 
funeral of Ex-Vice-President William A. 
Wheeler took place front the Congregational 
Church at Malone. Tuesday. Many distin¬ 
guished people were present, including Ex- 
President Hayes .... - Three of the largest 
payments on account of arrears for pensions 
on record were made last week. Francis Pat¬ 
terson, of the 154th New York Infantry, who 
is totally blind, receives $18,337; Walter S. 
Stephens, of the Slst Ohio Infantr y, $12,840; 
and David Dingmau, of the 34th Iowa infan¬ 
try, $11,431. Patterson’s claim has been pend¬ 
ing for many years and lias twice been reject¬ 
ed.A monster “World" balloon, 124 feet 
high, with a car weighing 700 pounds, will 
start from 8t. T<ouis Monday, weather per¬ 
mitting, to try to get to New York. Four 
passengers expect to be up 48 hours or so_ 
-Missouri liquor-dealers are to be expelled 
from the Masonic fraternity .Numerous 
cloud-bursts and waterspouts have ea used im¬ 
mense damage in the Mississippi Valley dur¬ 
ing the past week. Great destruction in 
several parts of Pa., by disastrous floods. 
.Although some of the leading Episcopal 
clergymen of New York are opposed to the 
project for a $10,000,000 cathedral in the city, 
upon the ground that it will interfere with the 
missionary work of the denomination by ab¬ 
sorbing moneys which would otherwise bo 
devoted to that object, yet over $-150,000 were 
subscribed the first week after Bishop Potter’s 
appeal.The Dominion Senate has 
passed a bill declaring divorces obtained in 
the United States to be invalid in Canada.... 
A London special says Lord Lansdowne will 
bo made a duke in connection with the distri¬ 
bution of the Jubilee honors.. ..Col. 
James B. Aud re ws, of Allegheny, is likely to 
1 h» chosen engineer of the Tehuantepec Ship 
Railway, to .succeed the late Capt. Eads, by 
the capitalists who are working the enterprise. 
Thirty wealthy Pittshurgera have $15,000,000 
in the work. Andrews and Eads married 
sisters, and the former has always been closely 
associated with the latter in all his great en¬ 
terprises.... A grand open-air demonstra¬ 
tion in favor of Editor O’Brian was gotten up 
by the United Labor Party iu this city for 
Saturday night; 75,000 men were to parade 
the streets aud numerous sympathetic ad¬ 
dresses ware to be delivered from four stands 
in Union Square. A deputation bad traveled 
to Boston t.o tender O'Brian t he grand ovation, 
and he had consented to be present. The 
committee iu churge merely wished to grind 
their own little party axe, by inserting in the 
resolutions one supporting George's land doc¬ 
trines and another in favor of Me Glynn’s con¬ 
tumacy against the Pope. Then for chairman 
they secured an agitator named McMuckin, 
wtio lately presided at a lecture by Tynan 
charged with having been one of the conspira¬ 
tors who murdered Cavendish and Burke in 
Plucnjx Park, Dublin. Ou learning these 
facta, O’Brien refused to lie present,as conmv- 
fcian with a meeting presided over by such a 
chairman must inevitably injure, in English 
eyes, the cause he was advocating. As a 
Catholic he objected to the anti-papal resolu¬ 
tion, and as lieiiever in the rights of others lie 
was opposed to George’s vagaries; while as a 
sensible man he declined to mix the struggle 
for Irish Homo Rule with the squubles of 
American parties, as he sought the sympa¬ 
thies of all. Instead of praise, he received 
much abuse from McGlynn, George, etc.; but 
the general public on both sides of the Atlan¬ 
tic approve his course. He left for Ireland last 
Wednesday. 
.. Wednesday last James G. Bluiue, wife and 
dunghter left this port for a lengthy trip to 
Europe.To-day 16 families of Irish 
immigrants whoso passage was paid by the 
poor-law authorities to get rid of them, are to 
be sent back by the Itnmigrnut Commission- 
era. No known “assisted” immigrants will be 
admitted in future. The vessels that brought 
them will have to take them back free ...... 
.,. .The President and wife rode 38 miles in a 
luiekboard wagon out of the Adirondack^ to a 
railroad station Wednesday on their wav back 
to Washington, at the close of their holiday, 
and next day they breakfasted with Governor 
Hill, at Albany. All in excellent health and 
spirits.W. H. Rogers & Co., are about 
to start a Russian iron mill at Freeport. Pa. 
—the first of the kind ever built outside Sibe¬ 
ria. “Russia iron” is ahsolutelv impervious 
to rust, and the secret of making it has always 
been jealously guarded by Russia, those who 
have known ii being never allowed to leave 
Siberia. During a long residence among 
the Siberian ironworkers Rogers learnt 
the secret, and is now about to utilize It ... 
He Would Not Pnv n Cent for ii. 
A gentleman in Birmingham, Ala., seventy- 
five years of age, who had suffered with gout 
for thirty years, was recommended by a 
friend to try the Compound Oxvgeu, but he 
had so little faith iu it that he “would not pay 
a cent for it.” This friend then sent for a 
Treatment and he consented to try it. At that 
time ho wassuffeiiug with intense pain in knees 
nud feet; the latter much swollen; was greatly 
emaciated and had been prostrated for weeks 
at a time. A few weeks since this friend visit¬ 
ed him, aud then wrote as follows: 
“Col* trMBITS, ALA., June 15, 1886. 
“ T have just returned from visiting Mr. 
Ward, and was highly pleased to find him 
greativ improved. He and his wife are in 
high spirits. He has had a terrible time for 
months; feet, hands, ankles, and knees had 
been terribly swollen. Formonthsand months 
be had not been able to have a part of a night’s 
sound sleep. After commencing the Home 
Treatment lie had one of his worst spells for 
two or three days, and had given up all hope 
even of the Compound Oxygen. But he stuck 
to it. The first of last week he got one night’s 
good, refreshing sleep. When he awoke the 
next moruing he said to his wife, ‘ I have bad 
a good night’s sleep for the first time iu months. 
But this is only temporary. I fear I shall not 
be able to sleep any to-night. ’ But he did.and 
every night since he lias slept well. He told 
me, on Suuday, that his bauds were in their 
natural shape now, for the first time in many 
months, and that he believed the swelling in 
the knees and ankles would now subside, as 
they were itching a great deal.” 
Iuthe Treatise on Compound Oxygen can be 
found a full history of the remedy, and a large 
list of many more such interesting cases, which 
will be sent free by addressing Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. June 11, 1887, 
The Nebraska Live Stock Sanitary Commis¬ 
sion has asked the Governor to issue a quar¬ 
antine proclamation against. Colorado and all 
shipments of horses and cattle from that State 
through Nebraska. Some time ago Colorado 
ordered a quarantine agaiust Nebraska with¬ 
out assigning any reason, and t he action of the 
Nebraska Commission is to bring the Colorado 
authorities to a seuse of thp injustice they 
have inflicted -A terrible plague of 
locusts has visited the central provinces of 
Spain. The insects are so thick that gangs of 
men have been sent to clear the railway lines. 
The crops are fearfully ravaged.... 
. .Finesranging from $'!0 to $250 were inflicted 
here during the week on half a dozen grocers 
and restaurant, keepers fur palming off on 
their customers oleomargarine for butter. - . 
_What’s become of the Cattle Trust? Is it 
working in secret, after the fashion of other 
Trusts? One sees little about it. now in the 
public press, which never treated it en¬ 
thusiastically.G. P. Bailey, the Cali¬ 
fornia Angora goat raiser, has sheared 23.000 
pounds of molmir this year. The Wool 
Journal thinks that probably t wo-thirds of all 
the medium unwashed wool of Wisconsin is 
already sold, at four cents per pound above 
last year’s prices,.Sales of slirep were 
unprecedentedly heavy in May Sales at Chi 
cago were .50 per cent, more than in May, 
1886, aud other markets shared, more or less, 
in the “boom;” still, for the last few weeks 
Chicago prices have been the highest in the 
country. Is the “run” petering out ?. 
Chicago received 6 37$ head of calves in May, 
against 5.344 head for Way. 1*86—an increase 
of 1,034 head. All but. 50 were slaughtered... 
.The Royal Agricultural Societ y of Eng¬ 
land now numbers8.982 members, a falling off 
301 within tho past year.Governor 
Beaver has vetoed a bill appropriating $10,000 
for the relief of the Pennsylvania State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, and the one appropriating 
$5,000 to the Grangers’ Picnic at Williams’s 
Grove.Grain freights cast from Chicago 
were advanced Thursday, on a basis of four 
wnts for corn to Buffalo, which is the highest 
rate paid on grain out. of Chicago at this sea¬ 
son iu 10 years. The Senate Alien Land 
Bill, with an amendment allowing six years 
for the winding up of alien land-ownership 
in that.State, was passed by the Illinois House, 
June 1......... A bill to compensate the own- 
era of cattle slaughtered under the provisions 
of the Pleuro-Pneumonia Law was passed by, 
the Illinois Senate Tuesday, as was also Mie 
bill revising the law’ in relation to the sup¬ 
pression and prevention of the spread of con¬ 
tagious diseases amoug domestic animals. The 
House also passed the Senate bill turning over 
to the United States authorities the work of 
suppressing pleuro Pneumonia iu that State.. 
.... A strong “oleo” lobby has peranaded the 
Mass. Senate to defeat the bill to prohibit the 
coloring of “oloo” as but ter. The State Board 
of Health is to report to the next Legislature 
whether “oleo” is healthful. With more than 
oueninth of all the “oleo” dealers in the 
Union and an “oloo” Legislature,shouldn’t the 
name “Oleo State” replace t hat of Bay State? 
Wbut are the “Oleo State” farmers “going 
to do about it?”.There’s a syndicate 
plan of transferring^, 1,000 “Oloo Slute" farm- 
