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THE RUSAL WEW-YOBKER, 
of lljc HTVcH. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 10, 1887. 
Monday the first session of the Fiftieth Cou- 
gress began. Carlisle was re-elected Speaker 
of the House, and Ingalls continues President 
of the Senate. The House contains 108 Demo¬ 
crats, 1.18 Republicans and four Independents. 
The Senate is so nearly balanced that if 
Riddleberger were to vote with the Democrats 
there would be a tie. Tuesday the President’s 
message was read. Free-traders praise it; 
protectionists decry it, The President has 
sent to the Senate the nominations of Lamar 
as Supreme Court Justice ; Vilas, Secretary of 
the Interior: Dickinson, Postmaster General; 
Fairchild, Secretary of the. Treasury; and sev¬ 
eral minor nominations. No real business 
will be done till the House Committees are ap¬ 
pointed.; • • - ....... 
_Two men have been arrested in Maine for 
robbing old Peter Bennett, Some of the stolen 
money is said to have been found Oil t hem 
."... .The. United States Supreme Court, 
through the month of Judge Harlan, in derid¬ 
ing the Prohibition cases in "Kansas, holds that 
the State, under the police powers, has the 
right to control the liquor traffic: and t hat in 
the recent legislation no right, or privilege 
guaranteed to the distillers and liipior dealers 
has been denied or abridged: also that the 
State bad the right to suppress the traffic 
without paving damages or compensation to 
liquor dealer* This settles the question of 
the validity of the Prohibition law in the af¬ 
firmative. A glorious victory for Prohibi¬ 
tion everywhere.... Secretary Fair- 
child recommends a law restricting immigra¬ 
tion by imposing a tax on immigrants and ex¬ 
cluding undesirable persons. Senator Palmer 
is to introduce a more drastic nieusure.whieh, 
among other regulations, provides that the 
Unitea State* Consul for the district where 
the intending immigrant rpsides, must certify 
that he is a person worthy to become a citizen. 
_Fulton Co,. Georgia, went “wet” the other 
day by about 1,130 majority: Atlanta, its cap¬ 
ital, went, the same way Wednesday by about 
1,100 majority. The County Commissioners 
have put wholesale licenses at, ? 1,000 a year. 
Retail licenses will be issued in January. 
Philadelphia is following the example of Chi¬ 
cago and New York in raiding “bucket shops’ 1 
...Charles Hannibal Adams lias 
been brought to bay at Chicago for forgery 
and other crimes. The accused claims rela¬ 
tionship to Hannibal Hamlin and to Charles 
Francis Adams. He was locked up in the Cbi- 
cago jail ....... The first. National Con¬ 
vention of the journeymen barbers of the 
I Inited States and Canada, for thy purpose of 
organizing a Union, assembled in Buffalo 
Monday.. ... Jake Bhftrp is out on ♦40,- 
000 hail, and has been steadily recovering his 
health—of course—since bis liberation ... 
The indictments against the 33 Anarchists in 
Chicago who were not tried, have been rein¬ 
stated and warrants issued.. ..The 
Chicago Anarchists intended to have a grand 
parade and display to-day, the proceeds to go 
to the relative's of the executed four; but pub¬ 
lic feeling ran so high against them that the 
project was abandoned last Wednesday.... 
., The first legal hanging in Iowa for 30 
years took place the other day at Macon City, 
when Bellows, the murderer of Alice Water¬ 
man, was strung up with the rope that was in¬ 
tended for suicide Lingg, Ihe Chicago An¬ 
archist.North Carolina and Texas 
still persist in taxing commercial t ravelers in 
spite of the late decision of the U. S. Supreme 
Court declaring such taxation unconstitu¬ 
tional. In both States drummers are fre¬ 
quently arrested for refusing to pay the tax 
by the State officer*, and after an appeal re¬ 
leased by the IT. S. Courts. Rather a late 
day for practicing nullification.Van 
Buren is the first Michigan county to vote un¬ 
der the provision of the local option law 
passed by the last legislature. Prohibition 
was carried by an increased majority over 
last, springs vote. The measure goes into , 
effect next May, and remain* iu force for 
three years.Wit h In seven months 
♦145,000,090 of foreign capital havo been 
brought to this country in exchange for new 
issues of railway bonds. Thus Europe is con¬ 
tributing to carry out the work planned by 
energetic, pushing, go-ahead Americans, But 
then a good deal of money must leave the 
couutry to pay interest on these and other 
American securities held abroad... 
_On the amount, of money already ad¬ 
vanced to construct the Panama Canal inter¬ 
est is paid every year, amounting to $15,000,- 
000 pel* annum. This is taken out of t he new 
loans and paid to the shareholders, almost ex¬ 
clusively French. De Let-reps now says that 
unless the French government allows him to 
borrow enough money to complete the. work 
it must tail, mid entail a national calamity on 
France. He now proposes to make it a canal 
with locks, and afterward out of the profits to 
make it, as hitherto intended, a tide-water 
canal. Engineers say the change would be 
impraticable.. .The public debt was increased 
♦1,4110,000 in November, owing to unusually 
heavy payments of pensions. Dwyer 
Bros. 1 two-yoar-old colt “King Fish,” whose 
net earnings last summer amounted to 830,- 
310, died at New York the other night, from 
kidney troubles. He cost the Dwyers 83.335.. 
Six hundred and fifty cases of typhoid and 
malarial levor arc reported in Ottawa, Can 
uda, the disease having assumed the form of 
an epidemic. The Treasury of the 
Province of Manitoba is empty... ........ A 
treaty was made Just summer between the 
Canadian Indian* and the American Indians 
west of the Missouri. Tills step was reudered 
necessary owing to the losses sustained by the 
various tribes by pillaging raids across the 
boundary line. The treaty has been signed by 
the Washington authorities and Canadian gov¬ 
ernment, being the first inter-tribal arrange¬ 
ment recognized.It is reported the 
North River Sugar Refinery Company of New 
York lias been sold to the Sugar Trust syndi- 
dato for $.‘135,000 Rumors prevail iri the 
trade that, another well-known sugar house 
has sold mil in the Trust . 
Ex-Governor St. John says lie expects to see a 
Prohibition President inaugurat 'd in 1893; 
Henry George thinks the bo’s will see a, hind- 
tax President, of the United States. 
Minister Taylor of Liberia has resigned. ... 
.. ..Chicago has been settled upon as the 
place and the 19th of June as the t ime for the 
next. National Republican convention.. 
()ver fii'O eats have been sent, in cages from 
the vicinity of Wichita, Kan., to Hugo, Col. 
The latter town is infested with millions of 
rate, which the cold weather has driven from 
the prairie.The United States Su¬ 
preme Court has rendered a decision In the 
Virginia coupon ease. It sustains the State 
at all points, and virtually declares that “a 
State, as n political sovereignty, cannot he 
sued or coerced (u the federal courts, either by 
an action brought against her by name, or by 
an act ion brought against her officers in their 
official capacity.”.John Snyder, of 
Mill Grove. Ind,, ahontfour years ago became 
affected with a mysterious nervous disease 
which rendered if impossible for turn to re¬ 
main quiet -ave when he slept. Since then he 
has been walking constant ly, at first penniless 
around liis ow n house, but for the last, year 
ehiefly in dime museums in Cincinnati, In¬ 
dianapolis, Chicago and St. Paul, realizing 
thereby nearly 813,000. Of latebis limbs have 
swollen and he began to fail utterly and died 
ft week ago, having literally walked himself to 
death- ....The Pacific branch of the 
national home for disabled soldiers will be 
located at, San Monica, Cal., cost $ 16ft,000..,. 
.During the past fiscal year, 70 per¬ 
sons were sentenced for counterfeiting.. -. 
....nerr Most was sentenced Thursday to a 
year’s inipri-ontiunt, w ithout line. A stay of 
proceedings was granted pending nil appeal 
for a new trial. Out on 85.000 bail.Gen¬ 
eral Master Workman Powderly has suspend¬ 
ed three rebellious Knights of Labor Assem¬ 
blies in Chicago. . 
....The differential allowance by the Ameri¬ 
can transcontinental lines to the Canadian Pa¬ 
cific in order to abate competition is 30 cents 
on first-class freight from Now York and 30 
cents from Chicago to Ban Francisco, On 
other freight the difference in favor of Canad¬ 
ian Pacific ranges from 35 cents down to 5, the 
latter on the Coarser traffic. The new trans¬ 
continental association, it is definitely stated, 
will begin operations January 1. Busi¬ 
ness men iu this State say the hulf-holiday 
law is an unmitigated nuisance, and the Leg¬ 
islature is to lie asked to rejioal it at once ... 
... .The lung-desired rains have extinguished 
the forest, fires in Tennessee, Arkansas- and 
Texas. The forest, fires in lllinoisare reported 
as having done-much good as well as damage. 
They have destroyed the myriads of chiuc-h 
bugs which ruined the coni crop of last sea¬ 
son. Before the fires started the woods were 
swarming with hugs.The Keely mo¬ 
tor stockholders met. again the other day, and 
again tried to induce Keely to divulge the se¬ 
cret of the motor to some person named by 
the. courts. They’re not. so ready to keep 
Keely in clover, but. they appear still to havo 
some faith iu hi* “invention”. .'Ihe 
last independent oil refinery on the Atluutic 
coast was gobbled up by the Standard Oil 
Trust lust week. The owners were forced to 
sell owing to the discrimination in freight 
rates allowed totlieirrival by the Pa. Railroad. 
Tliu Ili-ruinn of Women. 
The number is legion who are chronic inva¬ 
lids, and are extremely puzzled to tell wbat 
ails them. They are miserable, extremely 
miserable. Especially may this be said of a 
very large class of females. They have a 
heavy, weighty feeling as if being dragged 
to the earth; a misery in their back; an all- 
gone feeling. Scarcely able to put one foot 
before another, and yet seeing the work must 
l»e done, they goon a tread-mill life from early 
morn till late at night, keeping about from 
the mere force of will. Arising in the morn¬ 
ing but little refreshed by the few hours of 
broken sleep, no one but themselves knowing 
again. This was about a year ago, and I w'as 
an invalid until a month or so since, when I 
commenced to drag around a little, becoming 
so tired 1 could not rest. But since using 
Compound Oxygen I can rest, and walk about, 
and the cold I had when the Compound Oxy¬ 
gen arrived soon disappeared. Iain stronger 
and better than for years. Have resumed my 
old Sunday-school class and played on the or¬ 
gan last Sunday.” 
There are very many people interested in 
the treatment which lias done so much for this 
lady m Virginia. If you wish fuller informa¬ 
tion send to Drs. Starkey & Pnlen, 1529 Arch 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa., for the treatise, 
which is sent free .—Adw 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. U), 1887. 
Tins same old trouble in Ireland. 
Nothing of American interest in England 
except that John L. is winning laurels and 
shekels galore. Been introduced to the Prince 
of Wales, and gave a grand exhibition of 
fistic science, strength and dexterity. A fav¬ 
orite with all classes, especially the “nobs.” 
.At Versailles, France on Saturday, 
Sadi Carnot was elected President of the 
French Republic by a joint convention of the 
Senate uud Assembly ny a majority, on the 
second ballot, of 016 against 31)8 for all other 
candidates, which shows the insignificant 
strength of the Imperialists mid Monarchists, 
He finds nearly ns much difficulty ns did 
Gri5vy in forming a Cabinet, hein ? still wit li¬ 
on r, one. His election strengthens the Re¬ 
public enormously, though it hasn’t hith¬ 
erto united the Republicans. It is also 
considered as an assurance of a peaceful 
policy on the part of Franca. 
There is a great deal of talk about forged 
and bogus letters from Bismarck to various 
German diplomatists,which were shown to the 
Czar to intiuence him against. Germany, 
and the fraudulent nature of which was dis¬ 
covered at the late interview of the Czar and 
the Chancellor at Berlin It is said the (>r- 
Icauists and the wives of high German di¬ 
plomatist* host ile to Bismarck are implicated. 
.The Russians are massing large 
bodies of troops on the Austrian frontier. 
Austria protests and is making rapid preprint 
tions for any contingency .. There is con 
siderable hope that the Crown Prince will get. 
over his throut trouble and live to reign many 
years. Joyful news for the world generally. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 10, 1887, 
A French agricultural colony is to settle 
in Paraguay, South America, the government 
binding itself to furnish passage money ($50), 
laud, house, tools, seeds, etc., and also provis¬ 
ions for at least eight months. The amount 
so advanced will not bear interest, and the 
colonists pay no taxes; hut they cannot get a 
final title to their land till they have paid 
hack the advance made by the government, 
from the proceeds of their crops .The 
Territorial Board of Agriculture of North Da¬ 
kota is bitterly assailed for permitting notori¬ 
ous violations of law and decency at the re¬ 
cent North Dakota fair at Grand Forks. 
The traffic managers of 50 of the principal 
trunk line railroads of the West have agreed 
to rate nursery trees when boxed and loaded 
on box ears jus third-class freight instead of 
first-class as heretofore .Prof. Cook, 
Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Btatiou, who has hud much to do 
with sorghum sugar making at Rio Grande, 
says sorghum sugar can be produced without 
losing money, at four cents per pouud .... 
that incessant aches and palus had robbed 
Bradstreet’s estimates the cotton crop • at 
them of that much needed rest. 
The following is a brief statement taken 
from one of many letters received of similar 
import: 
CuLPi'El’KR, Va., May 81, 188(5. 
“Drs. Starkey & Palen:— I wrote my 
symptom* one year ago last Febrimiy, when 1 
was taking the Compound Oxygen, then given 
me by a friend, but. I was so very weak and 
nervous at that time I doubt if it whs suffi¬ 
ciently legible. 
My doctor treated me for catarrhal con¬ 
sumption, and guve me all kinds of medicines 
for suppression, but they only seemed to in¬ 
crease my pain. At last he concluded there 
was some organic derangement, and gave me 
surgical treatment, which instead of relieving 
me, increased my agony, producing inflamma¬ 
tion that reached the brain,making me utterly 
sleepless and delirious for mouths. 
“One day a friend came to see me who had 
a part of a Home Treatment of Compound 
Oxygen at her house, and persuaded me to try 
it. She sent it to me and I commenced using it, 
but I must say with very little faith. After 
using it about a week my nose bled very pro¬ 
fusely. and 1 felt great relief from the brain 
pressure that hud kept me crazed for months. 
! began to sleep. My mind came back to me, 
though my doctor bad said if 1 ever got bet¬ 
ter, or lived, 1 would never recover my mind. 
He seemed surprised that I had. Hu recom¬ 
mended surgical treatment, hut I suffered so 
much;by that from him would not trust it 
35,000 bales less than lost year.. 
Of the 7,500,000 farmers iu the United 
States, but 1,500,000 own their own farms and 
many of them are badly mortgaged. 
... The N. Y. Merino Sheep Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation will meet at the Whitcomb House, 
Rochester, December 30 and 21 . 
Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, says “pleuro” no longer exists west. 
of the Alleghany Mountains .Many 
farmers of Ocean County, N. J. are in ( rouble. 
A gang of outlaws are poisoning cattle teed, 
burning nut,buildings and even holding up 
some farmers, especially those who huve been 
witnesses against them. One farmer has lost 
♦3,000 worth of cattle and outbuildings, and 
others have suffered less severely. County 
authorities no good.Breeders of 
Chester White hogs in Chester Comity, Pa. 
have organized a society for the purpose of 
advancing the interest*of the breed. C ii. 
Warrington, West. Chester, Pa. is Secretary 
of this organization. The following breeders 
have joined: John 0. Heed, Edward Wal¬ 
ters, Thomas Sharpie**, Joseph G. Williams, 
Edward B. Ash bridge, Caleb M. Walters, 
Darlington Strode, Amos Garrett, James 
Cloud & Son, Thomas Eavenson, James S. 
Rhoads, James C. Robert*, Abram M. Gar¬ 
rett and C, H. Warrington .The 
Government of Cape Town, South Afrira, 
has put ♦15,090 m its estimates for the Im¬ 
portation of stallions for the purpose of breed¬ 
ing cavalry and cart horse* ...It is 
said that the titles to 300,009 acre* of “swamp 
land” in Michigan are doubtful and much of 
it is owned by millionaires, among whom are 
Senator* Palmer uud Stoekbndge. This 
swamp land is valuable us one lot of only 
300 acres owned by Palmer, is worth ♦?(),<X>0. 
Of course they’ll contest the matter tooth and 
nail.. 
.... The annual meeting of the Minnesota State 
Agricultural Society will ho held in St. Paul, 
beginning January* 10, 1888. . The fol¬ 
lowing dates are fixed upon for the Liverpool 
East India wool sales in 1888; January 17, 
March 13. May 15, July 17. September 18, No¬ 
vember 30.Monday’s news from the 
London wool sales: A (.tendance at the wool 
sales continues large and the competition ex¬ 
tremely keen to-day with advances maintained. 
_ Tin- wvll-known stallion Joe 
Hooker, once valued at 83,000, was sold for 
♦85 a few days ago at. Harrisburg, Pa. 
Green Mountain Maid is 35 year* old, and lias 
mi unweaned colt valued at, $8,000. 
The owner of l’atron has placed the service 
fee of this great horse at |80O.The 
conditions on which the American Beef Pool 
have contracted with Armour & Co., are as 
follows: Armour & Co . Chicago. III., will 
slaughter and market beef cattle for the mem¬ 
bers of the Pool. The charges are $3.50 per 
head for killing, cooling and loading on the 
cars. The selling of the dressed beef in the 
East is done by the agencies that handle Ar¬ 
mour & Co.’s meat, ami at the same rate,40 to 
50 cents per 100 nonuds. Ten dollars a car is 
the charge for icing at Chicago ami ni route. 
The Pool charges 50 cen's a head for handling 
the cattle, assorting ami selling the feeders, 
eta, ah moneys *a vettie freight and commis¬ 
sion are paid to the owners of the cattle by 
A r moil r & Co. Reasonable ad vunres are made 
on the dressed beef by Armour 34 Co., when 
desired by the owners to cover the period of 
handling and sale. The hide, tallow and all 
of the offal are sold far fhu benefit of owners 
of the cattle, and will amount to about 
♦9 per head on fat cattle. 
(Crops & i^Avhcts. 
Saturday, Dec. 10, 1887. 
All fears of a water famine in the West 
and Northwest have been removed by copious 
rains extending east as far as Ohio. The re¬ 
cent advances in the pricesof wheat uud corn, 
especially the latter, have greatly encouraged 
farmers who had auy to sell. From all the 
iudicatious the advances were the result, 
not of any speculative movement, but simply 
of the actual situation at home and abroad. 
With regard to corn: the areas where the 
corn is short are so far in excess of those 
where there is a surplus that ail interstate de¬ 
mand exists and is on the increase daily. It 
must not be forgotten that ()hio, Indiana, Illi¬ 
nois and Kansas are being and will be sup¬ 
plied with the new corn from Iowa and Ne¬ 
braska. These two States hold to-day prac¬ 
tically the surplus corn of the country. For 
the last 30 days new corn has moved freely 
from Nebraska into Kansas, the Southwest 
and the Far West. Then of late years the ex¬ 
port of corn has been growing slowly but 
steadily, and there will be need of consider¬ 
able abroad before next crop: tmt there will 
be hardly any to spare except at good figures. 
There appear* to be a general belief that the 
late rains havo beeu of great benefit to wheat, 
particularly to that which was sown late. A 
good deal that had not previously sprouted is 
now eomingup. Late advices from California 
ami Oregon tell of abundant rains. The 
weather on t he Pacific coast has been favor¬ 
able to seeding and a larger acreage than last 
year has been sown; nnd the young plants are 
reporred to he vigorous. Recent frosts in Ore¬ 
gon have cheeked growth. 
In Richmond. Va., the market for tobacco 
is quiet, especially for old. Ordinary red leaf 
sells for six to ?!.. - cent*, and very good for 
eight to ten cents; while good lugs bring 
to 4and common, 3 I1 ! to 3 cents. Primings 
are less plentiful at 1', to fib. cents. The 
crop is being marketed very Inst from all 
quarters. There are very few line black 
wrappers or hea vy black shippers in the crop. 
In Lynchburg, Va., prices are very stiff at 
13'A cents for best dark leaf. It is expected 
all the crop will bo in the market, by the mid¬ 
dle of May. 
Chicago Notes. During November Chi¬ 
cago received 33(1,0(H) cattle, 735,000 hogs nnd 
153,000 sheep, showing an increase of 04,000 
cattle, 55,000 sheep, and a decrease of 113,000 
hogs, as compared with the same month last 
year. The receipts for the expired 11 months 
1887, were 2,101.110(1 cattle, 4.807.700 hogs and 
1,214,300 sheep, showing mi Increase of 307,538 
cattle, a decrease of 1,030,754 hogs, and an in¬ 
i're a-o of 340.0(H) sheep, as compared with last, 
year. One year ago, the range of the hog 
market was $8.40 lo 84,15, against $4.50 to 
♦5.85 to-duy. Two years ago ♦! was the ex¬ 
treme top of the market. During Inst week 
ami the early part of this common cattle were 
as low as ever; blit good beeves sold higher 
than a year ago and choice shipping steel’s 
advanced 35 cents per 100 pounds. 
Pittsburg. Over 100 car-loads of cattle, 
chiefly from Ohio, Indiana ami Chicago, were 
nt Pittsburg. Monday. Prices depressed; the 
top range being ♦4.5(1 lo ♦1.75 per ewt. The 
National Stockman thus summarizes the latest 
reports from all the live stock markets: Cat¬ 
tle show no special animation anywhere, and 
are barely steady at all points except St. 
Louis where they are slow. Hogs are firm 
and strong all round except at New York, 
where they arc dull. Sheep are dull at New 
York and Buffalo, and firm elsewhere. 
lloitn»<-iie»» Promptly Relieved The lol- 
IowIiik inter to the proprietors of ‘Urmcn'K I). i.m/iml 
■jVo./iif»‘* explain* Itsoir, 
< IXCJXXATI, OHIO, April 12,lHHI. 
"Gentlemen,— The: wrl’er, who (.< a tenor sot (Ml*, de¬ 
sires to r/ata that he iras no hoattie on a recent ocoa 
‘‘Ik ,i kfj , i 1 ,' • u'( (U fn a church 
choir, that h. IMP apprehensive that hr would t>f com 
pelted to dudst f’om tinning, hu.1 by taking three of 
your • Uronchlal Troches' nc. wan enable t to rutty par¬ 
ticipate In iht terete,*, Would ylvc "ly iiamr. but 
dont leant it published.’’ 
Urcwn's Uronchlal Troches" ure sold only in boxes, 
with the rue-simile of the proprietors on the wrapper. 
Price as.cents.— Adv. 
