458 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JULY § 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 2, 1887. 
During a tornado, 20 miles below Long 
View, Tex., eight people were killed.Mor- 
gau, Hanley and Harrison, the three despera¬ 
does who took McManus, the Cleveland fur 
robber, from detectives at Ravenna, Ohio, 
some months ago, killing one of the latter, 
have been captured at Alpena, Mich., after a 
long search for them iu all parts of the Uuion 
and Dominion, Rewards for their capture 
amount to $16,000.According to the 
Manufacturers’ Record, the number of enter¬ 
prises started in the South since January 1. 
are1855, against 812 for the same time last 
year; capital invested, $161,192,000, against 
$68,610,200 for the first six months in 1886. 
.Wednesday. Jake Sharp was convicted 
of bribery after the jury had been out 18 
minutes. All agreed on the first ballot, but 
they recommended him to mercy. He is re¬ 
ported to be greatly enfeebled mentally and 
physically, but still very “nervy.” The sen¬ 
tence is altogether within the discretion of 
Judge Barrett, who has won “golden 
opiuious” during the trial. The highest is 
10 years and $5,000; it may be one day and 
one dollar; likely to be two years and $5,000. 
Case will be appealed, of course, as there are 
lots of mouey for the lawyers, though little hope 
for J ake, who will be 70 years old J uly 16. 
.... The outlook on the Sandwich Islands 
is very serious, and reports of bloodshed may 
be expected by the next steamer. Revolution 
is said to be iu progress, and the overthrow of 
Kalukaua is probable.Fire at Eliza¬ 
bethtown, Ky., destroyed $100,000 worth of 
property Tuesday night. Another at West 
Stewarts town, N. H., caused a loss of $50,000. 
.. ... Big strike of the building trade, etc., 
in Rochester, N. Y. Uuion men attack non- 
unionists who took their places, and the po¬ 
lice who defended them. I’olice in self de¬ 
fence fire on the rioters; several wounded; 
one or two reported dead. From talk on the 
matter, it would seem that,as usual,attacks by 
rioters on “scabs” and police are trivial mat¬ 
ters, but it is always a heinous crime for the 
police to take vigorous action against the riot¬ 
ers _Anti-Italian Nuisance Associations 
are being formed in several towns where Ital¬ 
ians most abound. It is charged that the 
Italian quarters and people are intolerably 
filthy, that the stench from them is unbeara¬ 
ble, and that they constantly threaten disease. 
Associations insist that the nuisances “must 
go.” .The Chinese irouers iu New York 
have struck for $4 a day and the washers for 
$2.50. Chinese cheap labor, indeed!. .. 
_The pension appropriation of $76,075,000 
for the fiscal year end mg J tine 80. was ex ha ust- 
ed J uue 15.. Professor Elisha Gray has 
made an important i iveutiou iu the use of elec¬ 
tricity. It is claimed that with it an exact 
facsimile of words written on a piece of 
paper can be reproduced hundreds of miles 
distant. Jell', Davis declares that the 
letter purporting to have been written by him 
on the flag business is a forgery.A fire 
at Leavemvortb, Kan., destroyed property 
estimated at $400,000.The business 
portion of Marshfield, Wis.,is burned, includ¬ 
ing the Wisconsin Central Depot, and the Tre- 
mont. Hotel. The railroad is blockaded. The 
loss is nearly $ L,000,000.A submarine 
cable will soon be laid from Vuueouver to 
Australia, it is said, touching at Hawaii and 
Fiji.During last month 88,664 immi¬ 
grants arrived in the United States; against 
55,283 in May, last year. For the 11 months 
ended May 31st 417,860 arrived, against 284,- 
352 for the corresponding period last year.... 
.There are now over 1,000 Young 
Mens’ Christian Associations in this country, 
with a membership of 140,000. 
_Iu the notorious District Assembly, 49 of 
the Knights of Labor iu this city, which has 
long been dominated by the Home Club, with 
Master Workmau Quiu at its head, a revolu¬ 
tion took place last Sunday night. The Home 
Club insisted on domineering the Order, had 
entangled Powderly in its meshes, aud was 
fighting other branches of the Knights that 
refused to submit. Finally Quin suspended 
G. W. Dunne from the chairmanship of the 
Board of Arbitration and Strikes for “insub¬ 
ordination,” and called a meeting on Sunday 
to remove the recalcitrant from office. Tbe 
members, however, abolished the “Board” 
and substituted au executive committee with 
Dunne at its head, and four auti-Quiu mem¬ 
bers, who take control of affairs from Quin 
and his Home Club, and are resolved to adopt 
a friendly policy toward other members of 
the Order. Unless Quin regains supremacy, 
this resolution must have a grout effect on the 
future of the K. of L. There 
was another drop in Manhattan Elevated 
Railroad stock in this city last week. Within 
five days it fell from $156.50 to $90 per share, 
but recovered rapidly to $120, Cyrus Field 
had a great deal of the stock with different 
brokers on margins, and as it kept falling the 
brokers demanded more margins otherwise 
they threatened to sell the stock to save them¬ 
selves. Jay Gould who, with Russel Sage, is 
suspected of having angineeral the trouble, 
sent his checks all over Wall St., to pay 
Field’s margins after the latter’s available 
cash gave out. Finally Gould bought in 50,- 
000 of Field’s shares at $120 per share, giving, 
therefor, in addition to mouey already ad¬ 
vanced a single check for $4,500,000. Next 
day Field sold to other parties 25,000 shares 
at the same figures, thus disposing of 75,000 
for self and friends, principally himself. 
Less than a week earlier these would have 
been worth $2,737,500 more than they actual¬ 
ly sold for. Field is still a raauy-times mil¬ 
lionaire, however; but everybody is poking 
fun at him as a Wall Street “lamb” shorn in 
the friendliest and most complete way by bis 
friend aud late confederate. The latter 
is now likely r to “boom” the stock, and make 
the roads pay more by charging the public 
higher fares.The American National 
Telephone Company, incorporated under 
New York laws with a capital of $ 5 , 000 , 000 , 
has begun to issue licenses under the Bauta 
patents for telephone service iu the United 
States. The patent was granted last April 
aud is claimed to be no infringement on the 
Bell Telephone patent. 
....About 14,000 men are reported to be at 
work at present on the Panama Caual. 
“They say” it can’t be finished for 10 years yet, 
if ever, unless tbe French Government, for 
the protection of French citizens who have 
invested nearly all the mouey yet sunk iu the 
enterprise, shall take it iu hand and employ 
better officials. Unless more money is soon 
secured, the work is likely, ere loug, to come 
to a stand-still for the want of means. 
....The American Forestry Congress will 
meet in Springfield, Ill., Sept. 14, 15, and 16. 
....There’s a rumor that a majority of the 
Illinois Supreme Court have decided to give 
the Chicago condemned Anarchists a new 
trial.The hostile Apaches, owing to the 
rapid pursuit of Lieut. Johnson, have been 
forced back on the San Carlos Reservation 
where they surrendered. No Indian troubles 
anywhere just now.An armed white 
force having yesterday “tried” tbe colored 
members of O -operative Workers’ ” lodges iu 
Greenvill • County, S. C., warned them to 
cease their midnight gatherings and disband, 
sent them home, aud the race war scare is 
over.. .During June the circulation of 
standard silver dollars increased $84,687, and 
the gold holdings of the Treasury increased 
$207,896. The increase of silver circulation 
during the year was $1,335,000, aud the in¬ 
crease in the gold holdings during the same 
time was $27,046,000.Tbe 2,000 em¬ 
ployes of the Reading Iron Works yesterday 
afternoon informed the management that they 
would not accept the reduction of 10 per cent, 
made recently, and the proprietors decided to 
close down all the establishments, t.hrowiug all 
the men out of work. Iu the Vale-Har¬ 
vard race at New London yesterday, Yale 
won by about five boat lengths..........The 
Health officers of this city are much alarmed 
about the unprecedented prevalence of diph¬ 
theria. During the month of June there were 
521 cases and 216 deaths.Sixty skele¬ 
tons, apparently victims of former murders, 
were found in a Kentucky cave, Thursday. 
Along a lonely road, through a barren section 
drovers used, 40 and more years ago, to drive 
their stock to market, and many of them were 
missed on their return journey with the pro¬ 
ceeds in their pockets, aud are supposed to 
have been murdered by u villainous inn-keep¬ 
er who hid their bodies in the cave. 
Controller Treuholm thinks the losses of the 
wrecked Cincinnati Fidelity Bank will not be 
over $3,600,000. The directors are to be sued 
by the government forull the losses to the full 
amount of their means. Arch-swindler Har¬ 
per’s bail bus beet) raised to $250,000, ami that 
of his confederate Hopkins to $100,000. Neith- 
is likely to get it.A convention to 
form a State Constitution for Utah met at 
Salt Lake City Thursday. Utah cau’t become 
a State without the cousent of Congress. If 
once a State, it could change its constitution 
in favor of polygamy; but while a Territory 
it is under the control of Congress. Congress 
isn’t likely to admit it, so long as polygamy 
shall be constitutionally possible. .. . 
.... With a population of less than 5,060,000, 
Canada has 10 Governors, 53 Cabinet Minis¬ 
ters, and 694 Legislators, costing, exclusive of 
tbe expense of bousing the Governors, $1,519,- 
037 per annum.At Montreal, Canada, 
there is au attempt being made to close the 
bucket shops, one of them having refused to 
pay profits due to operators, nmouutmg to 
large sums .. Labor Representative Da¬ 
kin, who w’as expelled from the Michigan 
Legislature for attempted bribery last spring, 
demands pay from the time of his expulsion to 
the close of the session. The State has al¬ 
ready paid out more than $3,500 for the fel¬ 
low’s trial.Thursday, June 30, being 
the last day of the Government fiscal year, 
yesterday, the first day iu the new fiscal year, 
was the most important in the official calen¬ 
dar, as the new appropriations became availa¬ 
ble. Many of the executive offices have lately 
been greatly hampered for want of funds; em¬ 
ployes have been discharged or suspended, or 
their pay has been cut down, while several of 
the United States Courts had to suspend oper¬ 
ations, all for lack of funds for those special 
purposes. Now nil can start all right again.. 
The last month of the closing year shows rev-, 
enues slightly in excess of $1,000,000 per day 
aud small expenditures. The debt reduction 
for tbe month is $16,852,725. The customs re 
ceipts for the fiscal year aggregate nearly 
$218,000,000. Tbe internal revenue receipts 
aggregate about. $118,000,000, an increase of 
about $2,000,000 over the preceding year. The 
sum of $19,700,000 for three per cent, bonds 
became payable, as well as about $12,000,000 
for pensions ........ 
....The Florida Legislature has adjourned 
without passing any proper law to enforce the 
new constitution. Under the old constitution 
the Lieu.-Gov. presided over the Senate; under 
the uow, the Seuate elects oue of its own mem¬ 
bers to preside. The Heuate that, elected Mr. 
Pasco U. K, Senator was organized under tbe 
old, wheroas it ought to have been organized 
under the new, hence a cloud on Pasco’s elec¬ 
tion.Gov. Hill has signed a bill 
granting an extension of one year—to July 1, 
18S9—for the construction of the great bridge 
over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. When 
built, it w ill rest ou four heavy piers 525 feet 
apart, so as not to obstruct traffic. The con¬ 
tractors are under a heavy forfeit to com¬ 
plete it by May 1, 1888. Powderly 
is “utterly opposed to all forms of pauper im¬ 
migration, and to a great deal of immigra¬ 
tion pure aud simple.” He would make it “an 
almost inflexible rule that a man or woman 
who could not sustain himself or herself and 
their respective families for one year should 
not be allowed to land.”.MeGlyun 
wants to become a K. of L.; but Powderly 
doesn’t tbiuk much of McGlynnism in that 
connection. Sensational dispatches 
come from the back counties of South Caro¬ 
lina about a threatened negro uprising. A 
labor union with pass-words and things is 
about all there seems to be iu it, however. 
....William Bullis, of Glens Falls, N. Y., 
claims to have discovered a mountain of coal 
in Warren County, in tbe vicinity of the 
North Creek. It is smooth and bright auil 
makes splendid fuel.About 200 Can¬ 
adian w’orkmeu living ut Niagara aud Drum- 
mondville, cross the river every day to work 
at the mills or on the railroads at Niagara 
Falls, this State. Tbe U. S. officials have 
lately been takiug their names, with a view, 
it is thought, of making all Canadians em¬ 
ployed in America live there. Hence much 
iudignation among those implicated and their 
sympathizers, and some foolish threats of re¬ 
taliation .The Provincial Government 
of Manitoba has contracted for the build, 
ing of that railroad to connect with the Amer¬ 
ican Northwestern system of roads, with a 
view to escape from the exactions of the 
Canada Pacific R. R. The Provincial author¬ 
ities declare the road shall lie built in spite of 
the determination of the Dominion Govern¬ 
ment that it shall not. It is said that the 
latter intends to send the Manitoba volunteer 
battalions west under pretence of looking 
after the Indians, aud during their absence 
the mounted police, w’ho usually have charge 
of the aborigines, will prevent the construc¬ 
tion of the road, without any interference 
by troops from the Eastern Provinces, w’hose 
presence might bring ou civil war. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 2,1887. 
The Natioual Stockman is very newsy this 
week: Last year the Northern Pacific rail¬ 
road carried over 160,000 sheep from Montana 
and Washington Territories for the Chicago 
market....Sales of sheep are being 
made in New Zealand for 50 ceuts per head, 
against four or five times that price three 
years ago.The number of sheep iu 
Michigan has fallen off about l?|i per cent. 
since 1884 .The market for Ameri- 
emi cattle abroad is again demoralized, prices 
ranging at oue to 11 cents estimated dressed 
w’cight... Chicago bus handled over 
100,000 cattle in the last two weeks, and though 
prices are extremely low the cattle still come. 
Fear of disease urge tuuuy to market their 
beasts, aud the miserable hay crops in large 
areas force others to do so. Illinois 
cattlemen protested iu convention last week 
against the admission of Scottish cattle 
through Canada, which are now scheduled 
from our owu ports. They also organized for 
the purpose of combatting the proposed 
change in rates for the shipment of cattle from 
the car-lot plan to the plan of shipment by 
weight . .In France over 200.600 people 
are engaged iu raising beets for sugar. 
....In June wheat has been worth 94 ”,( cents 
in Chicago, and in the same month it has been 
as low os 68 cents—a range of 26^cents.. 
The celebrated vineyard,Clog Viegeot, France, 
is to be sold with the grand old manor house. 
The record of the vineyard dates back to tbe 
12th century. The Agricultural aud 
Mechanical College at Auburn, Ala., was 
burned Friday. Loss more than $200,000. 
The government intends to establish a labora¬ 
tory in Chicago to test, the oleomargarine pro¬ 
duced in the West_Tbe agricultural pro¬ 
ducts of Germany, exclusive of wheat, amount 
to two-thirds as much as those of the United 
States, and yet we have single States whose 
area exceeds that of the German Empire. 
Minnesota State University is to have an 
advisory board of seven farmers to manage 
its agricultural department ...Last Sunday 
four of tbe enormous buildings covering four 
acres and belonging to the Chicago Packing 
and Provision Company (Armour & Co.) wero 
burnt, and $1,250,000 went up in smoke. 
About 8,000 live hogs wore in tbe buildings, 
hut all were got out except about 700 which 
were cremated. Among the losses were 
17,000 barrels of mess pork, worth $360,000, 
and vast piles of other meat as well as lard. 
The stock in store was worth $700,000, a large 
part of which belonged to other parties who 
must stand the loss. Only two buildings 
remain; the others will be rebuilt at once; 
but the fire has thrown 2,000 men out of work. 
The property was heavily insured aud the 
salvage aud insurance will cover all the losses. 
All of the scorched and charred hogs and 
pork that can't be sold or made into oleomar¬ 
garine will be converted to fertilizers; oleo 
and fertilizing works being connected with the 
factory’.. ... 
....The Superintendent of Farmers’ Insti¬ 
tutes iu Wisconsin has prepared for 76 meet¬ 
ings next winter. There will be over80 meet¬ 
ings iu all.The executive committee of 
the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society have 
been authorized to issue $50,000 worth of six- 
year debenture bonds to meet the society’s in¬ 
debted uess .... Thu sun’s rays reflected from 
the bottom of a milk pan fired a building at 
Brockton, Mass., Thursday... 
....The Cauadian Farmers' Institutes of 
South Sineoe and Prince Edward last Satur¬ 
day unanimously resolved that the removal of 
all restrictions ou the trade between the 
United States and Canada is desirable. 
Northern capitalists are rapidly acquiring 
all the pine lands iu Southern Alabama that 
are still owned by the Government, aud that 
can be had for $1,25 par acre; 40,000 acres 
were bought the other day by Baltimore par¬ 
ties .The Treasury Department has 
decided that imported cows cannot be em¬ 
braced iu the category of “household effects,” 
aud are, therefore, not entitled to free entry 
on the ground that they are to be kept for 
personal use.Tuesday the Far me re’ In¬ 
stitute of South Riding, Gray Comity, Out., 
Canada, passed a resolution in favor of com¬ 
mercial uuion with the United States. So did 
a convention of the “Reformers” of Welland 
County... Crop prospects throughout 
the Ottawa Valley, Canada, are reported to 
be of the most promising character, in most 
cases far surpassing the past few years.. 
It is reported from Columbia, S. 0., that a 
powerful syndicate has been organized, in 
which all the phosphate miners aud mining 
companies have joined, for the purpose of 
controlling and keeping up the price of crude 
phosphate. Last year the aggregate produc¬ 
tion of phosphate rock was 449,603 tons, of 
which 881,603 tons were exported and 68,000 
tons were consumed by the local fertilizer 
manufacturing companies. Aggregate value 
iu round numbers, $2,000,000. . 
....F. H. Appleton resigns the position of 
Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board 
of Agriculture.. .... 
.... The great race-horse Ten Broeck died at 
the old Harper Farm, near Versailles, Ky., 
last Tuesday, after having been sick for 18 
hours with brain lever. Ow ned by Frank B. 
Harper, who was offered $100,000 in cash for 
him after his last appearance ou the turf, 
when he distanced the California crack, Mollie 
McCarthy, at Louisville, July 4, 1878. It is 
reported that $50,000 were refused for him the 
week before his death. Foaled in 1872; 
amounted to little as a two-year-old, and not 
to much as u three-year-old. As a four year- 
old he lowered the record of 2:5-8 miles to 
§#i, 0 rfUanco it.5 gulvcrtitfinfl. 
DIXON’S "Carburet of Iron" Stove Polish was 
established Iu 1827, and Is to day, as it was then, the 
neatest and brightest lu the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size Is uow doub 
ted and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but the ijuall- 
11 and price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dixon's big cuke. 
