THE RUBAI. NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sep. 24,1887. 
Train robbery has become a profitable in¬ 
dustry in Texas. Those who are working the 
busiuess got $80,000 from the passengers and 
express cars near Beubrook on the Texas Pa¬ 
cific R. R., the other night . The 
Western Uuion telegraph stock has advanced 
on a report that Jay Gould aDd Russel Sage 
have personally offered the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad Company $3,500,000 for its tel¬ 
egraph system .The National Brew¬ 
ers 1 Union, in session at Detroit, Mich., passed 
a resolution, Tuesday, condemning the action 
of Master Workman Powderly in speaking 
agaiust the sale of iutoxicating beverages.... 
....The Uneomphagre Mining Compauy has 
been dissolved. The company has two min¬ 
ing claims in Ouray County, Colorado. Its 
capital stock was $ 100 , 000 , but it appears that 
the property was not worth over $ 1 . 000 —a 
sample of the best of a bad lot of wild-cat 
milling enterprises.The Grand Army 
of the Republic is making fast for its objec¬ 
tive point.—St. Louis —Fifty carloads of 
veterans left California for the national en¬ 
campment at St. Louis Tuesday..... 
Commander-in-chief Fairchild of the Grand 
Army declines to be a candidate for re-elec¬ 
tion..Every county in Florida 
which has voted on the question of local op¬ 
tion has adopted it.We are now 
paying at least $ 12 , 000 , 01)0 and perhaps $ 10 ,- 
000,000 a year for foreign criminals: between 
$5,000,000 and $0.000.000 for foreign insane 
and as much or more, probably more, for for¬ 
eign born paupers. In all not less than from 
$20,000,000 to $30,000,000 are spent annually 
in the support of foreign-bom immigrants, 
whom every one agrees should never have 
beeu permitted to land. Isn't it time to cry 
“ halt ?” . 
....The Inter-State Exposition at Chicago, 
now open, will continue uutil October 22. This 
is the fifteenth annual exhibit, and the dis¬ 
plays are extensive and attractive.The 
volunteer and Thistle have both been taken 
out of the water to an lergotlie final cleaning, 
painting and polishing of their hulls to fit 
them in the best way for contending for the 
America’s Cup. All the reports about the 
form of the Scotch boat turn out to have been 
false. She is a genuine cutter, deep and Dar- 
row, with no secret “fixins”, but she is much 
shallower forward and deeper aft than most 
cutters Shortly below the water-line the hull 
curves inward on both sides and then curves 
down making the lower part very narrow in¬ 
deed—almost like a centre-board. The Volun¬ 
teer is a sloop considerably broader and shal¬ 
lower than a cutter, with a centre-board, to be 
let down below her keel, through a fore-and- 
aft “well.” in the middle, to steady her in a 
breeze. Americans have favored the sloop 
form and Englishmeu the cutter as fastest, 
and the contest now lies between the two best 
of the rival forms evrr built. The Volunteer 
allows the Thistle eight seconds, bring a trifle 
larger in yacht measurement. Betting is now 
about four to three in favor of the American 
boat. The English and Scotch, however, ex¬ 
pect to win from one to several million dollars 
_Tuesday. Lieutenant Znlinski, in presence 
of Secretary Whitney and a lot of army and 
navy' officers, demonstrated that he had in¬ 
vented a gun that can throw dynamite a mile 
and a half or more. He operated, otie of his 
dynamite guns at Fort Layfayette, near this 
city, by means of compressed air, and tore to 
pieces a 200 -ton old schooner anchored as a 
target over IK mile away. Two shots only 
were fired; one fell near her, the other hit her 
and fragments only remained. A much longer 
range is deemed possible, and a number of 
other guns are to be made so as to concentrate 
the fire of several guns on any attacking vessel 
—another horror added to war; but a valuable 
addition to our harbor defences.To 
date the New York Star's efforts have col¬ 
lected $7,272 towards the Grant Monument 
Fund. ...The "Hurlerri Syndicate” have 
obtained from Judge Lacoinbe a decree order¬ 
ing the owners and occupants of the Harlem 
“flats” to appear in the United States Court 
to defend their rights in the property. When 
Lacoinbe was Corporation Counsel here a few 
months ago, be laughed at the Syndicate's 
claims. 
Graud Army Posts of Missouri vote thus on 
dependent pension bill: In favor.5174; against. 
47.It, is said tliat over $160,000,000 of 
Northern capital has gone South within the 
last year .An artesian well, flowing 
2.600 gallons per minute, under a pressure of 
65 pounds to the inch, has recently beeu 
opened at Yankton, Dakota—the largest in 
the United States.Gen. Roger A. 
Pryor has been retained by the Chicago 
Anarchists to carry their cases to the United 
States Supreme Court. Ben. Butler hesitates 
to take hold of the case—but says the Anarch¬ 
ists have aright "to quibble for their lives.” 
Petitions are being signed not only in Illinois, 
but in other States also, by Anarchists, So¬ 
cialists and many labor organizations, as well 
as by many who disapprove of Anarchism, but 
are opposed to the sentences pronounced on 
the Anarchists, all asking Governor Oglesby, 
of Illinois, to commute the death sentences. 
The Anarchists uud their friends and sympa¬ 
thizers represent the condemned as martyrs, 
not as criminals. They are loud in their 
threats agaiust judges, witnesses, jurors, 
prosecuting officers—in a word, against all 
who in any way contributed to the condemna¬ 
tion of tne seven. Thei- blatant vaporings 
are likely to have an injurious effect on the 
fate of their friends.The,* imperial 
Government has granted an 'annual subsidy 
of $225,000 to the Canadian Pacific Railway 
for carrying the mails to and from the East.. 
.The emigration to British North 
America in August was 4.830, being 1.200 
more than during the same month last year. 
During the year the increase ha* been over 
12.000..A statement of the public debt 
of the Dominion, issued by the Financ- De¬ 
partment. shows that the total net debt on the 
31 of August was $228,404,161, an increase 
since June 30, of $3.467,600_ The Glenn 
bill condemning to the chain gang any one 
who taught, white and colored children to¬ 
gether, has at last been defeated m the 
Georgia Legislature..A “School of 
patriotism” has been started at Milwaukee, 
with the laudable object of interesting women 
in the suffrage aud other matters of national 
life.The fishery trouble is in statu 
quo. Our Government has hitherto appoint¬ 
ed no commissioners. The Queen has ex¬ 
pressed a wish that Sir John Macdonald 
should represent Canada. Our side insists 
that the subject for discussion shall be con¬ 
fined to the Atlantic fishery dispute, exclud¬ 
ing the Alaskan sealiug embroglio. British 
Columbia sealers have been very busy of late 
robbing the American islands. Sec. Bayard 
denies the report that orders have been sent 
to Sitka to release the captured Canadian 
sealing vessels . .. William Bryan, the 
oldest pioueer of Douglas Cminry, Illinois, 
and the first person to locate at Tuscola, died 
at his home near the latter place, the other 
day, aged 82 .Weather wise 
Wiggins’s last prophecy of a great storm 
for this neighborhood on Sept. Iff was ful¬ 
filled by the occurrence of a gale in Corpus 
Cristi, Texas. The Arabian warlock, Abeua 
mar, prophesied an earthquake and was 
kicked on the day when the earth was to 
quake by a small, but vicious jackass belong¬ 
ing to a muleteer of Orau. Abenamar died; 
oh, for a like fate for Wiggins!. 
At the State convention iii Worcester of 
the Massachusetts Demonrats, Hon. H. B. 
Lovering of Lynn was nominated for govern¬ 
or. Tuesday..'.Governor Ross, of New 
Mexico, estimates that the Territorv will have 
200,000 inhabitants by 1800....The yellow 
fever epidemic at Key West is practically at 
an end. No new casps have been reported 
during the week, and only one death has oc¬ 
curred.On the 30til of September, the 
President and M s. Grover Cleveland will set 
out on a journey to the West, Southwest, and 
South, visiting in the course of their trip the 
following cities: 
Indianapolis, Madison, Kansas City, 
Terre Haute, St. Paul. Memphis, 
St. Louis, Minneapolis, Nashville. 
Chicago, Omaha. Atlanta. 
Milwaukee, St. Joseph. Montgomery _ 
It is expected that the Presidential party 
will return to Washington on the 22 of Octo¬ 
ber..... Brownsville uud Mutamoras and 
the lower Rio Grande were in the center of a 
fearful cyclone last Thursday. In Browns¬ 
ville 70 houses are blown down, and 300 rend¬ 
ered untenable. In Maramoras 200 bouses 
were prostrated and 500 more unroofed. 
Countless cattle and sheep were lost. Cotton 
and sugar-cane crops destroyed. Loss, over 
$1,000 000 .Elihu B. Washburn, Ex- 
Minister to France, was stricken with paraly¬ 
sis on Wednesday, and is now dying at Chi¬ 
cago. Yesterday was his 71st birthday. 
A mammouth Trust, composed of all the large 
salt manufacturers in the United States, is 
about to be formed. It will be known as tho 
Naticiual Salt Union, aud will be the head¬ 
quarters for the salt supply of the whole 
country. It will be composed of 63 companies 
in all. 11 in the Pittsburg salt company, 9 in 
New York, 30 in Michigau and 13 in Ohio..... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 24, 18S7. 
Immediately after the prorogation of Par¬ 
liament last week, the English Government 
having no longer the fear of the Opposition 
before its eyes, began the suppression of the 
Irish National League by “proclaiming” 200 
branches in all, 05 of them in County Clare. 
All meetings of the League in the “pro¬ 
claimed” districts are unlawful, and any one 
connected with such meetings is liable to six 
months’ imprisonment. Six months ago Sir 
Red vers Buffer, the Government's special 
agent, reported to it that the only law in Ire¬ 
land was that of the League; if that is abol¬ 
ished anarchy may succeed it. The Leaguers 
say they will meet in spite of all opposition; 
if they do the prisonsof the United Kingdom 
will soon lie overcrowded if the Government 
carries out its threats. Editor O’Brien is now 
on trial for inflammatory speeches, contrary 
to the Coercion Law—first cose. Immense 
excitement. All sorts of honors showered on 
the prisoner by the populace and municipal 
authorities. During the Parliamentary “re¬ 
cess” all political parties are supporting their 
views by haranguing crowds in Great Brit¬ 
ain. Hitherto Horae Rule and the Irish cause 
generally have been supported only by a 
handful of Irish speakers; now the whole Lib¬ 
eral Party is loud in its advocacy of the 
Irish cause.The Home Rule senti¬ 
ment is growing stronger in Scotland, where 
it is outspokenly supported by the farmers; 
and even Wales would like the same thing.... 
The Trafalgar, the largest and most formida¬ 
ble iron-clad ever built was launched at 
Portsmouth last Tuesday. England’s ambition 
has at all times been to maintain a fleet able 
to meet the combined fleets of the rest of Eu¬ 
rope, and she thinks she has nearly done so. 
Henceforth she is likely to trust more to coast 
defences and to fast, light war vessels, like the 
cruisers we are now building. The Trafalgar 
has a displacement of 11,340] tons and cost 
$4,500,000.Strikes among workmen and 
complaints among farmers still indicate the 
extreme hardships of the productive classes 
of the country.The nation is relieved 
bv the eap'ure of Ayoub Khan, the pretender 
to the Afghanistan throne, near Herat, by the 
troops of his uncle, the reigning Ameer. He 
might have caused serious complications if 
backed up by Russia: but he is hardly likely 
to do so in future. 
In France the late manifesto of the Comte 
de Paris still engrosses most public attention. 
Tho Ronvlor Ministry has been kept in power 
chiefly by the support of the Orleanists and 
Imperialists, and as that of the former is now 
likcl.v to bo withdrawn, the Ministry must fall 
or make new alliances—probably with the 
Radicals under Clemenceaux. These are 
agitating for the expulsion of all the Princes 
in any wav connected wit h the families that 
have ruled in France; for there ore in the coun¬ 
try many who were not expelled by the decree 
against the principal Princes some mouths 
ago. General Boulanger has again put him¬ 
self before the public by declaring that he 
would at once shoot any Prince found insti¬ 
gating rebellion ... The exhilaration aris¬ 
ing from the late mobilization of the 17th 
Army Corps is subsiding: but the Mayors of 
all French cilies have been again ordered to 
prepare lists of all the Germans in their dis¬ 
tricts, for the use of the Ministry of the In¬ 
terior. to facilitate supervision over them, 
and to be able all tbe more readily to expell 
them whenever such a measure may be deemed 
desirable .. .... 
In Germany, Bismarck and Kalnoky, the 
Austrian Chancellor, have just had a long 
consultation, during which a more liberal 
commercial treaty between the two countries 
was agreed upou, aud tbe policy of both in all 
probable European contingencies mapped out. 
As Germany’s relations with Russsa grow 
cooler, those with Austria aud Italy grow 
warmer. A cablegram from St. Petersburgh 
says the Czar and the Emperor may meet 
later at Dantzie; a cablegram from Berlin 
says nobody knows anything about such a 
meeting. A cablegram from Vienna says 
the Porte has sent a fresh circular to tbe 
Powers, proposing that a General choseu by 
Turkey and Russia jointly be sent to Bulgaria 
with power to restore order in that country 
in accordance with the terms of the treaty of 
Berlin. The assent of Germany, France and 
Russia to this proposal is, we are told, con¬ 
sidered certain, while that of England. Aus¬ 
tria and Italy is deemed uncertain. Tbe as¬ 
pect of European politics within th last week, 
however, indicates that Germany is likely to 
take the same view of the matter as Austria. 
It is said Kalnoky has obtained from Bis¬ 
marck an assurance that Germany will pre¬ 
vent any military action by Russia in Bul¬ 
garia..... 
Cholera is raging with unprecedented viru 
leuce in Southern Italy: 114 cases in Messina 
in 24 hours, many dying within an hour after 
the first attack. Grave-diggers refuse to bury 
the dead, many of whom are left unburied. 
Superstitious, ignorant peasantry kill soldiers 
disinfecting the streets and fiercely battle 
against doctors treating the dying. All who 
can do so are leaving the iufected district. 
The plague is raging over a wide extent of 
country, and even in Rome 48 eases are re¬ 
ported in a day. Malta is still suffering; but 
the disease has not yet reu died Fi ance. 
Nihilists are still active in Russia and 
Socialists in Germany, aud in both countries 
lots of these disturbers ol’ imperial peace are 
soon to be tried. There’s a world of poverty, 
Suffering and compulsory idleness among the 
toilers everywhere, but even the “daily his¬ 
tory” of the world has little to say of these 
so long as it can prate of the doings and say¬ 
ings of Princes and other notabilities. 
♦ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 24, 18S7. 
_Ex Gov. Tilden’s old gardener at Grey- 
stone has run off with $3,000 belonging to the 
estate Gov. Hill, Senators Evarts and 
Hiscock and George and McGlynn are all en¬ 
gaged in haranguing the New York farmers.. 
. For the eight mouths ending with Au¬ 
gust the Chicago horse market received 32,781 
horses, against 10,537 m the same part of 
188fi The imports of cattle into the 
United States for the seven months of the 
year ending July 31 were 5,782 head, against 
13,666 for the corresponding time in 1886 
_English authorities have issued a circular 
announcing that if swine fever is not checked 
at the expiration of three months from the 
first of September, they will feel compelled to 
prohibit tho holding of markets and sales of 
swine generally throughout the country.... 
....Russia has 255,000 people growing to¬ 
bacco .Russia is estimated to have 64,- 
000,000 bushels of wheat for export this year, 
an increase of 16,000.000 bushels over last 
year.Prince Edward’s Island, from which 
we imported so many potatoes last year, has 
this year the best crop it has had for a long 
time .. The pack of corn in Maine this 
season, weather permitting, promises to be 
one of the largest on record, but so great has 
been the demand that the majority of packers 
have contracted for about all they will be able 
to put into cans.... It costs 31 cents a 
bushel to ship wheat from Manitoba to Liver¬ 
pool: deduct that from the price at Liverpool, 
and it. leaves about. 52 cents as the shippers’ 
price in Manitoba .. ...The Mennomtes in 
Southern Manitoba have been busily cutting 
tholr flux. Buyers estimate that the yield 
will average about 18 bushels per acre, and 
that the total yield will amount to 800,000 
bushels. _George Davis, a wealthy tann¬ 
er of West Nanticoke, t’n., started to drive 
home with a heavy load of lumber tho other 
night. Re fell asleep and tumbled to the 
ground and a wheel passed over his neck, 
completely beheading him .J. C. 
Beardslee, a farmer of Rockford, Mich., died 
of hydrophobia Wednesday. He was bitteu 
by a mad dog several years ago and exper¬ 
ienced no trouble with his wound until Mon¬ 
day last.. Tuesday the health officers 
of this city inspected 3.100 cans of milk at the 
Chambers Street and Twenty-third Street 
ferries from New Jersey, and spilled 2.100 
quarts, adulterated with water. There are 
five more ways in which milk is brought into 
the citv, and whenever the product introduced 
through any of them is inspected a large lot 
of it is always spiffed as adulterated The 
profits from adulteration must be heavy to 
stand the frequent loss and constant risk. 
-Nine saloon t<e°pets kept open bar at the 
fair of the Washington County Agricultural 
Society at, Fort Edward, N. Y . last, week_ 
.. According to the report just issued by 
Laud Commissioner Sparks, during tho fiscal 
year ending June 30. it appears that the sales, 
entries and selections of public lands under 
the various acts of Congress embraced 25.- 
111,400 acres, and of Indian lauds 746 637 
acres, making a tot al of 25,858 087 acres This 
is an increase over the year 1886 of 3,733,474 
acres and nn increase of 4,862,524 over the 
year 1885. The receipt* from th" disposals of 
public lands aggregate $10,783 s22. and from 
sales of Indian lands $1,484,802, making a total 
of $12,268,224, Ix'iiig an increase compared 
with the year ISsr, of $3,247,727. urnl an in¬ 
crease of $3,648,625 over tho year 1885. To 
tbe receipts for tbe year should be added 
$ 8,201 received on account of timber donre 1 a- 
tions, aud $12,493 receipts for the certified 
copies of the records furnished by the General 
Laud Office. This makes the total receipts 
for the year from all sources $12 289 008 
.. One tomato eauning factory 
at Benton Harbor, Mich., took in 100 tons of 
that fruit in one day last week .lu Mon¬ 
roe county, Mich., the grape crop is the larg¬ 
est, for years: selling at l 1 5 cent a pound .... 
The validity of the Los Auimas land grant, 
one of the old Mexican titles In New Mexico, 
under which 3,600.000 acres are claimed, is on 
trial at St Louis, and Gen. Butler has gone 
out to attend the trial in behalf of the claim¬ 
ants. The Government claims that the old 
Mexican law limited grants to 11 square 
leagues, but the claimants, that is. the Cleve¬ 
land and Colorado Cattle Company,claim that 
this was an etnpresario grant, and without 
limit except that named in itself, The Gov¬ 
ernment tried to restrain the cattle company 
from fencing public lauds, when it claimed 
to own tbe tract in question. 
The Chamber of Commerce at Milwaukee, 
Wis., adopted resolutions abolishing the 
grades of wheat known as “Milwaukee No. 1 
hard” and “Milwaukee No. 2 hard, 1 ’ and sub¬ 
stituted two other grades .Tt, is report¬ 
ed to the Department at, Washington that a 
dangerous contagious disease exists in Nova 
Beotia among cattle, horses aud sheep.... 
-Glanders arc reported widespread among 
the horses of Connect lent . .The Ameri¬ 
can Forestry Congress after hearing papers, 
passing resolutions, and electing officers at 
Spring field, III., a week ago, adjourned. The 
Hon C. R. Pringle, of Atlanta. Ga., was 
elected President- Homesteaders are 
rushing into the wilderness near Baraga, 
Mich., at a rapid rate to take up the pine aud 
farming lands recently taken away from the 
railroad company bythe Interior Department. 
The lands comprise 258,000 acres of unim¬ 
proved mineral, pine, hard wood, and farm¬ 
ing lands.. . A chemist at Havana, Cuba, 
has discovered a process by which, it is said, 
tobacco can be thoroughly cured in a few days, 
and by which tobacco in' a bad condition can 
be restored to its original elasticity and flavor 
.Another bn'eb of oleomargarine deal¬ 
ers were fined $100 apiece here the other 
day.Friday. Sept 10 , at St. Paul, in a 
special race for $3,i 00 between the pacer 
Johustou to wagon and the trotter Harry 
Wi kos to harness, Johnston won in straights, 
in 2:16'*, 2:15 1 £ anil 3:15*1 — the fastest three 
heats ever paced or trotted to wagon . 
Gov. Ames has appointed James Draper, 
Master of the State Grunge, a trustee of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College in place 
of W. It. Sessions, resigned,..Farmers 
all over New Jersey are making efforts to 
have the legal rate of interest reduced to not 
over five per cent. The Grange is taking a 
vigorous baud m the movement ..The 
Inter-State Commission has decid' d that the. 
Vermont Grange had a good ease against the 
Ctmirul Vermont Railroad, which has persist¬ 
ently charged higher rates of freight between 
Vermont towns uud Bos'on than between De¬ 
troit and Boston. The commission according¬ 
ly orders tho Central Vermont to cease and 
desist from making such churges ou local 
freight. A great triumph for ihc Grange_ 
. ..The new T.insect! Oil Trust embraces 56 
mills east of the Mississippi and 14 west of it. 
Inside of a year it is expected every mill in 
the country will be in it. Already $0,000,060 
in certificates have been issued and hack of it 
is unlimited capital It has already put up 
the mice of oil and cake. ,. . 
... .Texas fever has broken out to such nu ex¬ 
tent all over Pennsylvania that the Btate 
authorities have taken the matter in charge 
uud are working hard to prevent its further 
spread.Twelve hundred birds of differ¬ 
ent kinds dashed themselves agaiust ihe light 
of Cane Ray Light house on Friday night and 
were killed—a specimen of the destruction of 
our useful birds by a single agency alone. 
... .There is u probability of a general quar¬ 
antine of cattle on Long Island, arisiug from 
the alleged prevalence of pulmonary tuber¬ 
culosis .. The real estate boom in Kansas 
is likely to take a back seat on account of the 
salt boom. Kiugmau has found a vein be¬ 
neath her. Ellsworth has discovered 155 feet 
of it, said to bo of the very finest quality, aud 
Wichita has organized a company with $ 100 .- 
000 to prepare the article for use,. To 
secure a large influx 1 1 immigrants into Cali¬ 
fornia Senator Stanford and other California 
capitalists are considering the plau of giving 
five transportation to people from any part of 
the country, provided they agree to settle in 
the State.... The Western yearly meeting of 
the Society of Friends closed at Indianapolis 
Sept. 22. The conference has a membership 
of 13,200, of whom 1,400 are addicted to the 
tobacco habit, and expend auuually $ 20,000 
for the weed. 
