E. B. Bartlett, has stolen $80,000, which is 
$30,000 more than the capital stock. 
The Rev. John Allen, commonly known as 
“ Camp Meeting” John Allen, died suddenly 
on the East Livermore camp grounds at 
Farmington, Me., Wednesday. He was 03 
years old and was attending his 374th camp 
meeting .Consul Brigham has been 
assaulted and beaten on the head by Judge 
Zubia on the public streets at Faso del Norte, 
Mexico. Mr. Brigham has reported the mat¬ 
ter to the State Department and another in¬ 
ternational dispute may arise.... .... 
....The Oregon Transcontinental has sold 
enough of its securities abroad to clean up its 
floating debt, variously estimated at from 
§0.000,000 to $0,000,000 ..The Balti¬ 
more <fe Ohio Express Comyany has been 
sold to the United States Express Company, 
and the sale is thought to forshadow the sale 
of the B. &■ O. telegraph and railroad lines. 
Jay Gould, it is thought, is likely to get con 
ti'ol of both, or at any rate of tne telegraph 
lines, which, with his present control of the 
Western Union, would give him a long-coveted 
monopoly. Lately he sold abroad $7,000,000 
worth of Iron Mountain R. R. bonds, so he has 
money enough for other things than cradles 
and rattles for his new grandson . ..Frank Mc- 
Neely.n, 10 year-old,trusted employ^ of the Sa¬ 
co find Biddelord Savings Bank, “away 
down in Maine,” was left in charge of the hank 
last Monday during the temporary absence 
of the cashier, and skipped to Canada with 
$3,500 cash, $182,000 registered U. S. bonds, 
and $01,000 worth of other securities. The 
registered bonds can't be used by the thief. 
The bank can meet all obligations and have 
a surplus of §400,000 over.. 
The Commissioners’ report shows that 
the income from all railroads in Illinois, 
from their business both in the State 
and out of the State, was barely sufficient, 
after deducting operating expenses, rentals 
and interest on bonds, to pay 1.0 percent, on 
capital invested.Acting Land Com¬ 
missioner Stookslager has issued the necessary 
instructions to carry into effect Secretary 
Lamar’s recent order restoring to settlement 
and entry certain indemnity lands of the Mar¬ 
quette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad 
Company, comprising about 258,000 acres of 
unapproved selections. .The total coinage exe¬ 
cuted at the mints of the United States dur¬ 
ing the month of August was 9.282.000 pieces 
of the value of §3.303.000 Of this amount $00,- 
000 were half eagles, $2.970,000standard silver 
dollars, $105,000 dimes and $78,300 minor 
coins. The total gold coinage was $(10,000 and 
the total silver $3.165.000..Professor 
Brook’s discovery of the return of the comet 
of 1815, now iu the eastern heavens, is a nota¬ 
ble event in the history of astronomical dis¬ 
covery, Professor Brooks was the first to de¬ 
tect the comet of 1812 on its return in 1883, 
now known as the Pons-Brooks comet, thus 
nddiug two to the known list of comets of the 
long period—71 aud 72 years. 
... The recorder of voters at St. Louis finds, 
on investigation, 20,000 fraudulent registra¬ 
tion. Thus city voters overbear country 
voters.The notorious Glenn Bill has 
been shelved in the Georgia Legislature. It 
imposed a line and term in the chain gang on 
any teacher who should dare to instruct white 
and colored children together. Tbc Atlanta 
University, largely oudowed by Northern 
philanthropists for the instruction of .South¬ 
ern children “without regard to color.” has 
some white pupils, and the lower Georgia 
House declares that to education of the races 
is contrary to the intention of the constitut ion, 
and asks the Governor not to draw a warrant 
for the appropriation of §8,000, hitherto 
granted the University, until he receives sat¬ 
isfactory assurances that colored children only 
will he'educated there.The infa¬ 
mously cruel convict lease system of Georgia 
will soon be abolished. Senator Brown. Gov. 
Gordon and other big bugs who have obtained 
leases of the convicts, seem at length to have 
liecQtne convinced that even their high posi¬ 
tion and respectability can no longer render 
tolerable the atrocious cruelties practiced un¬ 
der the system they patronize much to their 
profit. Although t.he U. 8. .Senate 
opposed such a measure by 35 to 10 and the 
House, refused to indorse the President’s 
recommendation on the matter, the Govern¬ 
ment has consented to a joint Commission of 
six English and American representatives to 
settle the Canadian fishery troubles. Joseph 
Chamberlain, head of one faction of the Lib- 
Unionists, and Minister West, of Washington, 
have already been appointed by Eugluud, aud 
the third will be a Canadian. Our Govern¬ 
ment has made no nominat ions yet. Sir John 
Macdonald is reported to be furious because 
neither he nor his Cabinet ware consulted in 
the matter. It is said he will reject Whatever 
terras may be agreed upon . The 
Manitoban Red River Valley Railway is 
graded to the frontier, and Manitobans suy 
it will be iu running order by the middle of 
October. Two more Injunctions are out 
against it. Sir John Macdonald indignantly 
denies that there was ever any intention to 
use British regulars against the Provincials... 
Cowboys lost two horses to some Ute bucks 
on a liefc and refused to surrender them. The 
Indians ran the horses off, aud the cowboys 
got a warrant for the arrest of two of them, 
and a popularity-hunt ing sheriff tried to ar¬ 
rest them on the reservation. Colorow, their 
chief, refused to surrender them, aud the slier- 
ill’ raised a posse of cowboys and others to 
capture all three. Colorow ami some Indians 
assembled to resist ; and while parleying, 
their camp was attacked, some of them killed, 
more wounded; 300 horses and 2,(Mill sheep 
captured. Militia are scut from Denver. 
Help is demanded from Die United States. 
Settlers abandon their homesteads. The must 
marvtdous dime uovel romances are tele- 
graped all over the country. Governor 
Adams, with a big retinue hastens from Den¬ 
ver, to “the scene of the conflict;” Uen. Crook, 
alone, goes thither from Omaha—to dud all 
the Iudiaiis at. peace, but angry, ou their own 
reservation. Promises arc made to return the 
animals captured, uml pay for the missing. 
U. 8. troops are to guard the reservation; Col¬ 
orado loses from $ 150,000 to §200,000, and thus 
ends the “Last Indian War.” 
.of i!je Week. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. 8ept. 3,1887. 
The Board of Stock Commissioners, of Mon¬ 
tana, has been furnished with n full account 
of the outrages of Canadian customs officers, 
in selling American cattle t hat had strayed 
across the line Instances are known where 
Canadian mounted police have crossed the 
border to Montana and driven the cattle to 
the Canadian side, where all trace of them 
was lost. The matter will be fully investigat¬ 
ed, and brought before the authorities at 
Washington. Southern newspapers 
have recently stated that a new regulation of 
the Cotton Exchange of this city gave notice 
that after September 1st, cotton buyers iu all 
interior towns would deduct from bales 
weighing under 400 pounds ){ per cent, per 
pound, and from bales under 850 pounds 1 7 
per cent, per pound, rejecting all bales under 
300 pounds. The two first statements are 
unfounded. The third is right. No merchant 
can be compelled to take a hale weighing less 
than 300 pounds -.The N. J, State 
Horticultural Society has just notified the 
Health Department of this city that the Ives 
grape is being forced to ripen in large quanti¬ 
ties for this market, and says it is detrimental 
to health iu this condition. It colors iu New 
Jersey in August, but doesn’t ripen till a 
month later. They fear its sale prematurely 
ripened, will injure the reputation of the 
variety aud grape culture generally. 
The Collector of Customs at Burlington, Vb, 
recently reported to the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment that certain persons along the frontier 
desire to place separators in Canada and im¬ 
port cream into the United States so as to 
avoid the expense of transpot ting the milk, 
and the Collector asks instructions as to the 
proper rate of duty ou the cream. Assistant 
Secretary Maynard has replied that, milk Is 
subject to duty as a raw and unmanufactured 
article, but as there is no specific provision m 
the tariff for cream, aud as the separation of 
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the cream from the milk does not constitute a 
manufacture, the Department is of opinion 
that cream is properly dutiable at the rate of 
10 per cent,, ad valorem “ as a raw and un¬ 
manufactured article.”...... The Ohio 
Live Stock Commissioners have ordered that 
nil railroad companies transporting cattle 
from Texas and the Gulf Suites, from April 
1st to November 1st, must not unload them in 
that State except in separate yards provided 
for them, which mu-n’t be used for other cat¬ 
tle until thoroughly disinfected. If any Gulf 
State cattle shall he brought in the State be¬ 
tween the periods specified, that have been 
wintered south of Missouri and Kansas, other¬ 
wise than in transit through the State, they 
will be subject to quarantine at the expense of 
the owner and a line of § 500 . To prevent the 
spread of Texas or splenic fever all railway 
cars in which such cal tie may have been 
carried must be thoroughly cleansed aud dis¬ 
infected, before being used.Owing 
to the prevalence of “ pleuro ” in Scotland, 
the Highland Society’s Show this year was 
held without any cattle exhibits. 
Armour Co. have taken out a permit to 
build a new elevator in Chicago, which is to 
be the biggest structure of its kind in the 
world. It will accommodate easily 1,500,000 
bushels of grain. But, should they desire to 
do so. they can put in another 500,000 bushels, 
for the elevator’s capacity is to be exactly 
2.000.000 bushels... Acting Land Com¬ 
missioner Stoekslager has issued instructions 
to the proper local land officers in accordance 
with the recent order of the Secretary of the 
Interior respecting the restoration of the in¬ 
demnity lands of the Missouri. Kansas aud 
Texas Railway, the Gulf and Ship Island 
Railway and the Florida Railway and Nfivi- 
gat on Company ... A severe outbreak 
of trichinosis is reported at Hamburg, Ger¬ 
many.The Brazos River is very 
high, and a wide expanse of its bottom lauds 
with the best of the cotton crop of Central 
Texas is submerged. Senator Coke and Gov. 
Ross have plantations in the midst of the 
worst of the inundation. The loss will amount 
to millions of dollars.The cotton 
worms are terribly destructive along the Mis¬ 
sissippi about Vicksburg .Chatham 
County, N. C., has a venerable mule that is 
known to be 57 years old.At Min¬ 
neapolis the wheat receipts and shipments 
for the crop year ending August 31 were: 
receipts. 39.378.880 bushels, an increase over 
the previous year of 6.541.400 bushels. The 
shipments were 10,894,730 bushels. The flour 
product of Minneapolis mills for the same 
period was 0.888.487 barrels, an increase of 
867,750 barrels over the previous year. 
Probably the biggest yoke of oxen in the 
world were on exhibition at the Eastern Maine 
State Fair this week. They were raised in 
Vermont and measure 10 feet, in girth and 
actually weigh 7.000 pounds. It cost to raise 
them up to their great Weight over $1,000.... 
... .Going to be a big poultry show' at Madi¬ 
son Square Garden, here, on Dec. 20 and 21. 
“Ladies’ toy dogs’’ will also be shown. 
Supplies of cattle on the British markets are 
still heavy and prime Cauadian steers only 
bring 11 cents against 12 Lj cents lost year aud 
13,R' cents iu 1885. The value of the cattle ex¬ 
ported from Montreal up to July 31st was 
§2,497.872; sheep, $45.661. 
Texas fever has appeared in a herd of cows 
at Reading, Pa., which were purchased at. the 
Buffalo stock yards.George R. 
Uarrebon, famous as a pioneer seedsman and 
nurseryman, died at Flushiug, L. L, Monday, 
aged 77. Fruit in some parts or 
California is rotting on the ground, whilst 
the canneries have more than they can find 
hands at present wages to do.The 
Illinois State Board of Agriculture will hold a 
Farmers’ Institute at Sparta, Randolph 
County, llliuois, September 6th and 7th. 
_Texas fever is prevalent among cattle at 
Galesburg, Ill ... The Governors of 
Kansas, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin and Min¬ 
nesota, have revoked their quarantine procla¬ 
mations against Illinois cattle except ns they 
apply to Cook county. The I own aud Wyo¬ 
ming proclamations have also been modified. 
..The latest anti-farmer syndicate 
is that just opened at Peoria, HI. It is com¬ 
posed of tin' manufacturers of corn-planters 
and check-rowers, and is a protective as¬ 
sociation. its ostensible object is the main¬ 
tenance of uniform prices, terms and dis¬ 
counts to the* trade Its real object is to 
deprive the farmer of the benefits of trade 
competition. ...C. M. llovey leaves a 
son and two daughters.... 
....Assistant Secretary Maynard has in¬ 
formed a Canada correspondent that green 
apples, being perishable fruits and not liable 
to duty, are not entitled to warehousing priv¬ 
ileges upon importation mtn the United States. 
On importation they must, he says, be entered 
for consumption, and, if of a certain value, 
the entry must be based ou a duly authentica¬ 
ted Consular in voice.Every bridge 
in Hill County, Texas has been washed away 
bv rains and the damage to crops tiud farms 
will not fall short of $100,000. All the sur¬ 
rounding country is likewise suffering from 
heavy rains and floods. 
HOME NEWS. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 8 , 1887. 
The Coercion Act is to be tried iu Ireland. 
sands of people will be present. What will 
the government do ? The anti-coercion senti¬ 
ment is steadily spreading iu all parts of 
Great Britain. Evictions still continue iu 
The Viceroy has forbidden a large meeting at 
Ennis, County Clare, but it will be held 
nevertheless. A great, many members of 
Parliament and other notabilities and thou¬ 
Ireland, but. are uniformly resisted by the 
peasantry. For instance, to torn a poor 
widow “outof house and home” the other day 
required a large staff of haliffs, 360 police¬ 
men and 100 soldiers. After several rebuffs 
from boiling water, stones and other hnrnly 
missiles, vigorously used by the besieger! widow 
and some of her neighbors, the cabin was 
captured, and a lot of prisoners made amid a 
hooting, jeering multitude of angry, sympa¬ 
thizing spectators. Agrarian outrage's still 
continue here and there; but are likely to lie 
more numerous and deadly during the coming 
winter. 
The German Crown Prince’s throat still 
causes much anxiety, though otherwise his 
health is robust.. He is going to pass the 
winter in Italy, where a royal palace is at his 
disposal. The old Emperor faints once oi 
twice a week on an average, aud stumbles 
and falls somewhat ofteuer, but he will not 
give in. appearing iu public frequently, and 
being intolerant of officious support for bis 
steps and of doctors’ prescriptions for bis 
meals. The 17th anniversary of the Battle 
of Sedan was enthusiastically celebrated 
throughout the country' last Thursday, to 
show the people’s contempt, for French threats 
ami armaments. Germany is constantly ex¬ 
pelling French subjects aud growling when 
the French retaliate. Germany and Russia 
are nil the time playing the same cruel game. 
The French are mobilizing one of their 
army corps—the 17th—with headquarters at 
Toulouse, not. far from the Pyrenees. All the 
men—those absent, on leave, ns well as those 
in the ranks—must assemble, get clothed and 
equipped, be provided with transportation, 
forage, eic, eic.. ready ha a body for in¬ 
stant march against an enemy in five flays. 
France wants to know bv actual experiment 
how rapidly she can put her vast, urray in the 
field to invade another country or defend her 
owu. All military Europe on the r/ut rive; 
the rest of Europe anxious, jocular or in¬ 
different. 
According to the treaty of Berlin, Eastern 
Roumelia. south of the Balkans, was to be 
directly under the government of the Sultan. 
Nearly t wo years ago it rebelled and joined 
Bulgaria, its representatives voting with the 
Bulgarian representatives in the Sobraii je or 
Congress. Russia objected ami caused the 
expulsion of Prince Alexander on the ground 
that he had violated the treaty by consenting 
tooraidiug iu the revolt, ami therefore had 
ceased to be the legitimate ruler of the coun¬ 
try. In the Great Sobranje assembled to elect 
a successor, Eastern Roumcliau representa¬ 
tives voted to elect Prince Ferdinand; there¬ 
fore Russia declared his election invalid, and 
urged the Porte to send a general to take 
command of the entire country according to 
the terms of the treaty. The Sultau at first 
refused, but has now consented to send the 
Russian General Ernroth, who is to cause 
the election of a new Great Sobranje, com¬ 
posed of Bulgarians alone, who will elect a 
Prince according to the terms of the treaty. 
Reports say his eutcauee will he forcibly re¬ 
sisted, This will give Russia au excuse for 
seizing Bulgaria, and Turkey one for occupy¬ 
ing Eastern Roumelia. Bismarck appears to 
favor this policy, ami none of the other powers 
has hitherto objected. 
Saturday, Sept. 3, 1887. 
Wheei.tng, W. Va., was honored last 
Friday by a grand parade of nearly 5,000 
members of the Grand Army and kin¬ 
dred organizations, belonging to that State 
and to the neighboring States of Pa. and 
Ohio. Gov. Wilson of W. Va.,Gov. Beaver of 
Pa. and Gov. Foraker of Ohio, together with 
ex-President H ayes aud many other notabili¬ 
ties were present. The Register newspaper 
suspended across the street in front of the 
office, a large banner with the President’s 
picture aud the words: “God Bless oui Tiesi- 
dent, Commamler-iu-Chief of the Army and 
Navy of the United States.” The Pittsburg 
men, 1,800 strong, forming the first division, 
on reaching this refused to proceed, but after¬ 
wards compromised by walking around it, 
trailing t.he (lags on the ground. All the 
Grand Army followed their example except 
the Uniou Veteran Legion, which marched 
under the banner amid cheers. For a time 
there was danger that some of the crowd 
would attack the marching men. In t.he after¬ 
noon and evening there, were fierce and bril¬ 
liant speeches, in which Foraker, of Ohio, as 
usual, won the wildest cheers of the veterans 
by his brilliant denunciation of the rebellion 
and fierce condemnation of the "Rebel I lag’ 
order. The intense excitement that prevailed 
during the day and night has spread iu a 
milder form, all over the country since. 
_The western railroads are giving ceut-a- 
mile rates to Grand Army posts and half fares 
to various conventions, good for 60 days. 
_Connecticut Grand Army men have pro¬ 
nounced pretty nearly solid toi* the pension 
bill advocated' by the Grand Ecampinent and 
which is much like the one President Cleve¬ 
land vetoed. Out. of 07 posts’ in the State 
only one voted agaiust. it. There is no doubt 
but the vast majority of other posts in the 
country are of the same opinion. 
... .Trade dollars not redeemed before3 p. m. 
to day will be worth only 84 cents as bullion 
About 900 enthusiastic Prohibition 
delegates met at Syracuse, N. Y. , Thursday, 
and nominated a State ticket yesterday. 
The Kansas City Times sent, out inqui- 
ries as to Presidential preferences in Kansas 
and Missouri. In Missouri 270 answers from 
Democrats were received. Of these 251 were 
for Cleveland. 3 for Thurman, one for Wade 
Hampton aud the rest scattering. The Re¬ 
publicans sent 201 answers, of which 121 were 
for Blaine, 77 for Sbermau, 41 for Lincoln and 
the rest scattering. In Kansas 326 Democrats 
answered as follows: Cleveland, 306; Thur¬ 
man. 7; Hill, 0; remainder scattering. The 
Republicans sent 302 answers, of which 181 
were for Blaine, 80 for Sherman, 44 for Lin¬ 
coln aud the rest scattering.A race 
war is in progress in Lonoke County, Ark. 
Six whites and four blacks have been killed. 
A number of the latter are under arrest, and 
a mob of 100 negroes has been organized to 
rescue them. Fifty whites are under arms to 
guard the prisoners.Prof. Brooks, 
of Phelps, N. Y., the comet discoverer, 
detected another Thui-sday, and thus wins an¬ 
other $100, Warner, of Rochester, having 
some years ago offered a prize of $ 100 for every 
new comet discovered from any part of the 
couutry.....An¬ 
thracite coal at Chicago is selling at §8 a ton, 
and the price will be advanced to $10 a ton 
before winter sets iu. A year ago this coal 
was delivered in St. Louis at $5, anil at a less 
figure in Chicago. The Pennsylvania coal 
monopolists are scrimping their hands to 
starving wages on one hand and outrageously 
gouging the public on the other. Fifty thou¬ 
sand of the miners ask an iucrease of 15 per 
cent, in wages, aud waut an answer by Sept. 
5 .Timothy Coughlin, the section 
foreman of the Peoria, Western Railroad, 
who was held responsible for the Chats worth 
disaster, was admitted to bail in the sum of 
$1,000 Thursday. The workmen ou the road 
protest against his being made a scapegoat, 
and have contributed liberally toward his 
defence and the support of his family... 
The Abraham Liueoln homestead at Spring- 
field, Ill., has become the property of that 
State.CoL John Ritchie, one of the 
oldest Kansas pioneers, died at. Topeka Wed¬ 
nesday. aged 70. He settled in Topeka in the 
spring of 1855. He has been closely identified 
with the history of Kansas, was an aggressive 
free State man, and was in 1856 imprisoned at 
Lecompton . Gen. Miles and several 
others fell from the top of a tally-bo coach at 
San Francisco ou Web riesday. The bones of 
one of the general’s legs were broken, but he 
is able to &tt&nd to business .. .Wu- 
pakonetu is the capital of Auglaize County, 
Ohio. Its 8,000 inhabitants are just now 
f rcatly excited over the disappearance of 
srae! Lucas,County Treasurer, and still more 
excited over t.he shortage of $31,000 iu bis ac¬ 
counts .... The Socialists propose to 
run John Swinton against Henry George for 
N.Y. Secretary of State this Fall.That, 
Rubber Trust has been completed, all but one 
of the large rubber manufacturers iu the 
country having joined the pool. Now for 
high prices. 
_The Commercial Cable Company, (Mac- 
kay-Bcnnett Line) has reduced its tariff from 
25 to 12 cents a word to Great Britain, Ireland 
and France, and 15 cents per word to Ger¬ 
many. These are the rates charged by the 
Gould cables since the cutting began—about 
a year ago. The M.—B. line will also increase 
its capital from $1,600,000 to $8,000,000 to pay 
for improvements and have funds for the. 
struggle on hand. An early agreement is 
probable.The examination of the 
accounts of the suspended Sumter National 
Bank of Charleston, S. C., shows that Cashier 
Fresh Air. 
We do not condemn the theory or the prac¬ 
tice of resorting to fresh air mountain retreats, 
quiet country homes, seaside rambles, and 
bathing, or the various mineral springs as re¬ 
storatives to falling health. No doubt there 
are many who have beeu greatly relieved by 
all these favorite resorts, aud some very justly 
claim they have been cured. But. the number 
is legion that find no comfort, no relief to their 
weakness, their aches, their pains in such 
grasping at straws, in their struggles to save 
themselves. The following letters illustrate 
this point and show the wisdom of the one 
most interested iu the casa. 
A patient iu Graud Junction, Tennessee, on 
April 20, 1886, wrote the following: 
“My family doctor said I ought aud must go 
to Hot Springs and stay there menths. My 
