Mojrs .of Wall. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 23, 1887. 
The N. Y. Star’s efforts to raise $100,000 
for the Grant Monument fund have obtained 
subscriptions to the aniouut of $5,700.78 of 
which, however, only $3,010.74 have been col¬ 
lected.. Again come accounts of terrible 
misery and starvation from Labrador, New¬ 
foundland. Du ring the past winter thousands 
were starving; little hope for better things 
in future. Game and seals, which kept the 
people fat and prosperous, lmvc left the place 
or been destroyed, and the inhabitants are 
too poor to get away. The Newfoundland 
Government gives altogether inadequate as¬ 
sistance, and famine and death stare the peo¬ 
ple in the face. This state of things, together 
with the poor condition of the colony gener¬ 
ally, is a strong inducement to it to joiu the 
Confederation of the Dominion and negotia¬ 
tions are now under way looking to that end. 
.The Earl of Aberdeen, together with 
his Countess, has been traveling from San 
Francisco to New York on his way round the 
world, and has everywhere been very cordial¬ 
ly, if not enthusiastically treated by all classes 
As Viceroy of Ireland under the last Glad¬ 
stone Administration, be won golden opinions 
from the Irish Nationalists, and the ovations 
here are among the results.Queen 
Kapiolani and daughter arrived in San Fran¬ 
cisco Monday, and started for Honolulu next 
day. The general impression is that King 
Kalakua must henceforth act as a figure-head 
by carrying out the wisheg of the foreigners 
who really represent the wealth, industries 
and power of the islands. Our Pacific squad¬ 
ron is assembled there, together with a num¬ 
ber of war vessels of the chief European pow¬ 
ers. It will never do for America to let. these 
islauds become European colouies or depend¬ 
encies ..The Beecher monument fund has 
reached a grand total of $24,873.99. 
The Metropolitan Sponge Warehouse on Thir¬ 
ty-eighth Street,this city, was burned Sunday 
last; loss fully $1,000,000. Fires that cremate 
a mere bagatelle of $100,000 to $250,000, are 
too common here to be worthy of mention.... 
... .From August 27 to October 22 the South¬ 
ern Exposition will be held at Louisville, Ky. 
In addition to securing displays of Northern 
manufactures and machinery, a special effort 
is being made to have a full exhibit of the 
arts, industries and products of Louisville and 
Kentucky, as well as the resources and attrac¬ 
tions of the South. Louisville now has 180,000 
population .. The new steel yacht, Volunteer, 
designed by Burgess, the designer of all our 
recent champion yachts, and built at Boston, 
was launched the other day and made the first 
trial trip Thursday , from the start, she out¬ 
stripped the Priscilla, Bedouin and some other 
flyers, and promises to be a marvel of speed. 
Sailing vessels of all kinds move faster after 
the rigging, etc., have had time to settle down 
to working order, and the Volunteer is sure to 
do better later on. The new Scotch yacht, 
Thistle, which has proved far and away the 
fastest flyer in Great. Britain, will sail for New 
York on Monday. She takes a crew of forty 
men. Her owner and her captain arc sangu¬ 
ine that she w ill win the America’s Cup, and 
there was a pretty strong probability that she 
would have done so had not the Volunteer 
shown such great speed....The Texas Court 
of Appeals has just set aside a decision of the 
United States Supreme Court in the matter of 
taxing commercial travelers. The U. S. S. 
C. said to do this is against the Constitution. 
The Texas C. of A. says it. isn’t. Texas is a 
mighty big State; but “the whole is greater 
than a part.”... .The Dakotans have just had 
a convention at Huron, and decided on a vig¬ 
orous campaign this fall all over the Terri¬ 
tory. A popular vote will bo taken on divid¬ 
ing the Territory at the seventh standard 
parallel. And the vote in favor of the divi¬ 
sion is likely to be unanimous in the southern 
part, and largely in a majority in the north¬ 
ern. All this is mainly with a view to secure 
admission as a State or two States. .... 
....Secretary Fairchild, Thursday,appointed 
W. A. Freret, of Louisiana, to be Supervising 
Architect of the Treasury at a salary of $4,500 
per annum. Mr. M. E. Bell, the present in¬ 
cumbent. tendered his resignation ut the be¬ 
ginning of the present Administration, but 
was very much surprised yesterday when 
notified that Ids resignation had been accept¬ 
ed, to take effect at once.Judge 
Wallace,in the United States Circuit Court for 
N. Y., Thursday, bunded down a decision iu 
the case of the American Bell Telephone Com¬ 
pany against the Globe Telephone Company, 
to restrain the defendant from infringing on 
the patent granted to Alexander Graham Bell, 
on March 7, 1870. J udge Wallace granted a 
permanent injunction asked for by the Bell 
THE RURAL 
Telephone Company. Another victory for 
the Bell. Why doesn’t the United States 
hurry up its case against the Company now 
pending at Boston? .Dispatches from 
Memphis, Team, say yellow fever has broken 
out there, and is causing great alarm. The 
city authorities, however, contradict the re¬ 
port, as sure to injure the business of the 
place; but it is probably correct, neverthe¬ 
less ...... Burglars took $1,500 iu bills from 
Farmer Tully’s near Shelby ville, Ind., the 
other night, but overlooked $20,000 in coin 
which he bail hoarded there. Next day he 
yielded to the persuasion of friends and 
brought it into the bauk for safety. 
Polygamous Mormons are again talking of 
Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, as a retreat 
from persecution. The young men of the 
Church are the ruling spirits in the move for 
Statehood. The Gentiles are all against it, 
and it is hardly likely to be conceded. 
_The citizens of Buffalo are trying to raise 
$100,000 as a reward to the man who will in¬ 
vent a really good practieal method of utiliz¬ 
ing Niagara Falls as a motive power. They 
have already raised $1,000.The Labor 
Party is pretty sure to run an independent 
Presidential ticket next year, and the Repub¬ 
licans are calculating on its drawing much 
more heavily on the Democratic Party than 
on their own. Will the Prohibitionists 
counterbalance this advantage?... 
After a jolly trip, chiefly among the scenes of 
his childhood and youth, President nud Mrs. 
Cleveland returned to Washington Wednes¬ 
day afternoon... 
.... It is estimated that the membership of the 
Knights of Labor has fallen from 1,009,000 to 
less than 600,000 within the last fourteen 
months. There is much discontent and 
wrangling everywhere. The men hav'ng 
been almost uniformly beaten in late strikes, 
feel discouraged on learning that they can’t 
“boss creation.” They grumble at paying the 
fees, and a large proportion haven’t been pay¬ 
ing them of late.The syndicate of 
coke producers in Pennsylvania have tri¬ 
umphed. The strikers have gone back to 
work on the bosses’ terms. The strike began 
May 4, aud in the 11 weeks the men have lost 
over $800,000 iu wages; while the suspension 
of labor in the coke works, iron works and 
other industries duo to the lack of coke, bos 
entailed the loss of millions, most of it on peo¬ 
ple in no way connected with coke production, 
but who merely used coke iu their works. 
The bauds who have been taken on during the 
strike will not be discharged. Several at¬ 
tempts at rioting have been suppressed,chiefly 
by the Pinkertons.A national con¬ 
vention of the harness-makers of America was 
begun here Wednesday, with the object of 
forming a national organization. 
.... The dealers and growers ol tobacco have 
been arguing against the Treasury rulings 
with regard to import duties on Sumatra to¬ 
bacco, all concurring iu asking for au explicit 
ruling on the question whether “hand” or leaf 
shall be the unit of assessment. Assistant 
Secretary Maynard promised a decision at an 
early day.... A Philadelphia syndicate tried to 
corner prunes, buy iug22,000 casks; prices went 
up, but people began to go without prunes. 
When the reserves were marketed prices went 
down from 61, to \% cents, and the syndicate 
lost $75,000 ...... S. J. Stirley, a prominent 
wholesale dealer in fruit and vegetables, of 
Springfield, Ohio, created a corner iu black¬ 
berries by purchasing almost the entire crop 
in Central Ohio. He lost heavily, and then 
transferred his store to a preferred creditor. 
He was then arrested for obtaining goods un¬ 
der false pretenses..A Topeka tele¬ 
gram of Thursday, says,“Copious rains during 
the last 24 hours, assure a corn crop in Kan¬ 
sas of from 50 to 75 bushels to the acre.”. 
.The cattle quarantine rules in Mani¬ 
toba and British Colunibiu huve been made 
into a code. Ninety days, instead of 60, will 
be the quarantine period for ue it cattle. 
United States cattle will be quarantined in¬ 
stead of inspected, and iu general no animals, 
unless healthy, will be admitted toCauuda_ 
_The Rook Island Road offers to haul Kan¬ 
sas products to Eastern fail’s free of charge. 
... .The Treasury has decided that there is no 
legal authority for admitting free of duty 
farm products grown, in the Province of New 
Brunswick, notwithstanding the fact that the 
farm may be owned by a citizen of the United 
States, aud the crops produced from seed 
exported from this country....A delegation 
of prominent citizens of Kansas have visited 
Washington to protest against the employ¬ 
ment of Prof. Wiley of the Agricultural Do 
partmeut to superintend the expenditure of 
any part of the $50,000 appropriated by t.'on- 
gress for experiments iu making sugar from 
sorghum. They charge that Prof. Wiley 
made a failure for the purpose of discouraging 
the attempt to produce sugar from sorghum, 
as k tbey say, in the interest of the beet root 
sugar industry of Europe. They claim that 
Kansas alone cau produce from sorghum ull 
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the sugar needed iu the United States for 
three cents per pound. An appropriation of 
$5,000 made by the Kansas Legislature to 
further the work, will not be used if the Pro¬ 
fessor superintends it .. The Inter-State Com¬ 
merce Commission at Washington has had 
complaints of Orange County, (N. Y.,) milk 
producers against the Now York, Lake Erie 
and Western aud other roads for discrimina¬ 
tion in freight on milk to this city. This is a 
chronic ground of complaint, and should be 
promptly rectified..... 
..Taking iu the whole country, the past has 
been the most torrid week “within the mem¬ 
ory of the oldest inhabitant.” Telegrams 
from nearly all parts of the ecuntry reiterated 
“The hottest weather ever kuowu.” The 
uumber of deaths by sunstroke and prostra¬ 
tion by heat must aggregate more than the 
fatalities in some famous battles: 58 one day 
in Chicago, 62 iu St. Louis, 27 in Cincinnati, 
and so ou in large cities. From smaller 
towns no accounts are telegraphed, nor are 
there auy from all the vast extent of country 
where fanners are exposed more than any 
other class. Then again, how many buudreds 
have tlied of aggravation of various diseases 
due entirely to the iuten.se heat. And the chil¬ 
dren 1 From all over the country arrive ap¬ 
palling accounts of unprecedented mortality 
among them. A “cold wave” from the At¬ 
lantic, uudiseovorable by tbe Signal Service, 
tempered the heat along the Atlantic, coast 
from Cape Hatteras north since Tuesday; but 
the rest of the country has been broiling. 
Tempests aud floods and tremendous electric 
storms have momentarily varied the tropical 
temperature, doing a vast amount of injury 
here aud there. Lightning has been un¬ 
usually fatal.... Convicts iu the Michigan 
State Prison propose publishing a weekly 
newspaper for the benefit of the library fund. 
....Representatives of the liquor interests 
met at Chicago, Tuesday, for the purpose of 
establishing a trust like the Cotton-Seed Oil 
Trust, by the consolidation of all the Western 
distilleries.It is semiofficially an¬ 
nounced that, the President will be in St. Louis 
ou October 2 ..Nearly $1,000,000 have 
been subscribed for the centennial exposition 
to be held at Cincinnati next year. 
Friends of the condemned Anarchists at 
Chicago have about given up all hope of a 
new trial for the prisoners. Twenty-live per¬ 
sons will tie sent through the State to get sig¬ 
natures to petitions to the Governor to com 
mute the sentence to life imprisonment.• 
.The Inter-state Commerce Commission 
has decided that the Eastern trunk lines need 
not sell through tickets on the Western lines 
unless they please. The Eastern lines abol¬ 
ished commissions ou the sule of tickets bp 
agents; the Western linos refused to do so, 
aud then tho Eastern lines refused to sell 
tickets ou the Western roads. These tried to 
force them to do so, but. have failed; so that 
henceforth the Eastern roads can boycott the 
Western.The National Shoe Deal¬ 
ers’ Association has held a largo meeting at 
Chicago.Oscar J. Harvey, the 
Treasury Department forger, who made over 
$11,000 out of fraudulent horse claims, has 
been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at 
hard labor. He wasa Mugwump in polities.. 
Senators Vest, Plumb, Allison, Harwell and 
Cameron are on their way to Alaska. 
Tho Grand National Curlers' Convention of 
America was held at Chicago, Wednesday; 38 
clubs and 1)00 members were represented. 
This is the great era of “conventions.”. 
The Executive Committee of Cornell Univer¬ 
sity has appoiuted Professor E. L, Nichols, 
Ph. D., of the University of Kansas, to the 
Ithaca chair of Physics, resigned by Professor 
Anthony; nud Raymond G. Smith, A. M., of 
New York, Associate Professor ut Rhetoric 
and Oratory.The Business Educators’ 
Association of America, representing 75 busi¬ 
ness colleges, opened its ninth annual session 
iu Milwaukee, Wis , Tuesday. ..The 
clergy of Pueblo, Mexico, have collected over 
$200,000 for the coronation of the Virgin of 
Guudaloupe next December. If is estimated 
that the total contributions of all the Catho¬ 
lics of the country will amount to $1,500,000.. 
.Miss Jennie L., daughter of Secretary 
Lamar, was married Thursday evening to 
W. H. Lamar, of Washington. 
_That Rubber Trust scheme is likely to 
prove abortive, as all the rubber makers can’t 
be made to combine..A hotel con¬ 
vention, embracing delegates from the 3,000 
hotels in New York State, will be hold at 
Saratoga Springs ou tbe 21st iust., to form a 
permanent organization...A lire at 
the Standard Oil Company’s works at Cousta- 
bleHook, L. I., Sunday did $150,000 worth of 
damage.Thursduy morning tho Chica¬ 
go Express train on the Erie Railroad to Jersey 
City, rushing round a curve near lluhokus, 
N. J., plunged into a guug of 45 Italian labor¬ 
ers balastiug the road, killing 10 of them in¬ 
stantly aud wounding six more,some of whom 
must die.Sylvanus Cobb Jr., tho 
prolific novelist, died at Hyde Park, Mass., 
Wednesday, July 20, aged 64. Began to learn 
printing in 1838; entered the navy iu 1841; 
discharged iu 1844: head of a temperance 
paper from l s !4 to 1850. Since then has been 
busily grinding out highly-spiced tales of the 
most marvelous adventures by sea aud laud; 
but not one of them was of a hurtful tenden¬ 
cy.Harper, the Fidelity bank wreck¬ 
er, has been removed from the jail at Cincin¬ 
nati, and locked up in an iron cage at Dayton, 
O. His Cincinnati jailers used to take biin 
out riding and give him constant interviews 
with bis pretty young confidential clerk, Josie 
Holmes. The IT. S. authorities couldn’t stand 
that, and locked him lip iu Dayton and her 
in Cincinnati in default of $10,000 bail, as an 
accomplice. ..The American Fores¬ 
try Congress will meet at Springfield, Ill., 
September 14-10 in response to an invitation 
from the Illinois Legislature. After 19 
days’efforts a jury has been found to try the 
Chicago 1 ‘boodle” officials. 
This year’s base ball season is the most excit¬ 
ing ever known. Never before have the 
leading chibs been so evenly matched. The 
Detroit Club has been in the lead, but is now 
rapidly losing. Its pitchers are giving out. 
Chicago is second, but so closely pressed by 
Boston that tho loss of a single game will 
change the record. The New York Club is a 
failure. Washington is showing surprising 
strength, and Philadelphia is gaining. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 23, 1887. 
The Crow Indians, of Southern Montana, 
are now permitted to lease 2,600,000 acres of 
their lands for grazing purposes, to parties re¬ 
commended by the Indian agent. The rate 
for sheep aud goats is 12c, per head . 
.,. .The vessels cleared at New Orleans for for¬ 
eign ports during tho mouth of June carried 
out 614,880 bushels of wheat, and 326,625 of corn 
from St. Louis. In June of 1886 there were 
23,539 bushels of wheat and 534,447 bushels of 
corn taken out.Sixty million 
pounds of prunes were imported into the 
United States last year, but California is 
growing this crop more largely every year, 
and it is only a matter of time when the foreign 
product will be ruu out of our markets by 
home-grown products.An analysis 
of last year’s exports of wheat from India 
shows that the total was estimated at 221/ 
million cwt. The United Kingdom was the 
largest consumer, taking 9% million cwt. 
Next on the list comes Italy, with nearly 5)/ 
million c wt, France and Belgium follow with 
2%, and 2 1 / million cwt. respectively. 
_Forest fires and dry weather are creating 
disaster among the farmers of Northwestern 
Pennsylvania. 
....The Cunadian Pacific Railroad has con¬ 
tracted to carry cap-loads of Australian wool 
from Victoria, B. C., to Boston and other 
points ou the Atlantic seaboard. This wool 
was, until this season, brought in sailing ves¬ 
sels to American ports on the Pacific, and 
shipped over the Northern Pacific Railroad to 
Boston and other ports.A fire at 
the Pelzer cotton fuetory near Greenville, 
S. C., Tuesday, burned 20,000 bales of cotton 
stored in the warehouse; loss $100,000, fully 
insured.A sample of wheat grown 
in Louisiana bus lately attracted considerable 
attention in New Orleans, and the experiment 
of raising the graiu iu that. State is likely to 
bo tried on a much larger scale the coming 
season. The sample referred to was grown in 
Lafayette Parish and made about 20 bushels 
to the acre.At ludiuuapolis, Ind. 
some time ago a firm received a consignment 
of eggs packed in boxes after the usual man¬ 
ner. Tlie eggs were placed in storage, aud 
Wednesday morning the consignee had occa¬ 
sion to open the case. When the lid was re¬ 
moved the low call of chicks sounded in his 
ears. One entire layer of eggs was fouud to 
be hatching out, and in a few miuutes after 
the eggs were brought to the light fifteen well 
developed “orphans” picked their way through 
the shells. Another layer of eggs began to 
hatch out about noon, aud it now looks as 
though the entire consignment will hatch. 
All this is told by telegrams sent by the 
Associated Press all over the country. 
Prof. Forbes, Illinois State Entomologist, 
says chinch bugs have obtained a foothold in 
tbe northern portion of Illinois to such au ex 
tent as to assure on immense number of them 
next year, unless weather unfavorable to their 
development should intervene. lie says that 
vhe danger from this source threatens to dam¬ 
age tho wheat crop of 1888 to au extent in 
comparison with which the pleuropneumonia 
aud other recent, outbreaks of contagious dis 
onses among domestic uu Lina Is will be insig¬ 
nificant.. The St. A ntliony Elevator, 
oue of the largest, in the Northwest, located 
two miles east of Minneapolis, Minn., ou the 
Manitoba Railroad, caught tile at 7:20 o’clock 
Tuesday,evening. The elevator was a tripple 
