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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. Dec. 31,1887. 
James C. Hurd, of the well known firm of 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., died of pneumonia 
Tuesday, aged 35. Some idea of the 
burden which is imposed upon the workers 
and taxpayers of this city for the support of 
the criminals, paupers and unfortunates who 
have to be supported by them, can be formed 
from a reading of the advertisement for sup¬ 
plies for the Department of Charities and Cor¬ 
rection for the ensuing year. Among other 
items in the long list are 200.000 pounds of soap, 
100.000 pounds of brown sugar, 25.000 pounds 
of coffee. 50 000 pounds of rice. 24.000 pounds 
of hominv, 32,000 pounds of oatmeal, 10,000 
gallons of sirup, 15 000 pounds of tea, 6.800 
dozen candled eggs. 100,000 yards of muslin, 
25.000 yards of calico. 20,000 vards of canton 
flannel, 30.000 sewing needles and 20.000 
pounds of white lead paint. Pail- 
road freight rates from Chicago to the Atlan¬ 
tic seal-card have been advanced 10 per cent, 
on all the trunk lines, to go intoeffect January 
2. This makes the rates: First class. 8234 
cents; second class, 7134: third, 55; fourth, 
38>£; fifth, 33: sixth, 2734. There is much 
dissatisfaction among shippers over the ad¬ 
vance. The diphtheria and typhoid 
epidemic at Ottawa and Montreal is injuring 
the hotel business in both places. Bad drain¬ 
age is the root of the difficulty.Phoebe 
Couzens, former United States marshal, an¬ 
nounces herself an independent Prohibition 
candidate for Governor of Missouri.... 
A rival of the Mammoth Cave is reported 
from Bloomfield. Ky. The main avenue is 
seven miles long, and besides the usual stalag¬ 
mites. stalactites, lake and eyeless fish, there 
are “numerousmummified bodies” in a “sepul¬ 
cher,” besides pottery and bronze articles. 
Workmen, while digging the foundation for 
a mill, discovered it by s’riking through the 
dome. Representative S. C. Moffat of 
Michigan died the other day from blood pois¬ 
oning, induced by a carbuncle—first death 
among the members of the Fiftieth Congress. 
Over 200.000 voters who have come of 
age since 1884 will vote in New York at the 
next Presidential election, over 90,000 in Indi¬ 
ana, over 42.000 in New Jersey, between 50,- 
000 and 60,000 in Massachusetts, and a propor¬ 
tionate number in other parts of the country. 
_ The New York Central and Husou Riv¬ 
er railroad now beats 22 trains with steam... 
.A terrible explosion and fire in Roches¬ 
ter, caused by naptha escaping into the sewers, 
caused the loss of four lives and a great amount 
of property on Dec. 21; over 20 persons injured. 
i .Ex-Seoretarv of the Treasury Daniel 
Manning died at bis son’s in Albany, New 
York, last Saturday afternoon. December 24. 
after lingering several days between life and 
death: aeed 56.C. W. Bates, man¬ 
ager of the National Color Printing Company 
fraud at Boston, exposed by the Eye-Opener 
last week, was fined $100 on Thursday for mis¬ 
using the United States mails. There 
is war among the Western horsemen owing to 
the clashing of dates for races between St. 
Louis, Kansas Citv and Latonia. Great in¬ 
jury is sure to result to the three associations 
unless a compromise is speedily effected. St. 
Louis pronoses to raise the stakes to $70,000 
and get the horses anyhow, even if $50,000 
more will be required to do so. St Louis 
wants the first week in June; Latonia the 
week from May 23 to 30, and Kansas City that 
from June 10 to 17—altogether too close to per¬ 
mit the same horses to appear at all the races. 
.. The Manchester (Eng.) Courier states that 
Lord Stanley, of Preston, has accepted the 
Governor-Generalship of Canada. He is the 
younger brother of the Earl of Derby, is a 
'member of the Privy Council, and has been a 
member of Parliament, a Lord of the Admir 
ality and Financial Secretary for War and 
for the Treasury. He is still in his prime and 
is considered a solid, but not brilliant, 
man of affairs. . 
Premier Norquay, of Manitoba, has at last 
been forced to resign, chiefly owing to his 
failure to secure the building of that Red 
River Valley railroad to connect wich the 
railroad system of the United States and 
liberate Manitoba from the monopoly now 
enjo'ved by the Canada Pacific railroad. 
.... A deadly feud is in progress in Stone 
County, Missouri. Ten men have recently 
been killed there and no attempt has been 
made to bring the offenders to justice... .The 
bitter fight between the Downing and Nation¬ 
al factions, in the Indian Territory, has 
ended peaceably, and the Council has pro¬ 
ceeded to its regular work ... . The most 
extraordinary suit ever brought against a 
railroad is that of Mrs. Seymour, a Chicago 
widow, who, while attempting to pass from 
one car to another, was blown off the train 
by the gale then raging. She wants $25,000 
for that little blow. 
... General Secretary Litcbman of the 
Knights of Labor puts the membership of that 
order in October at 500.998 . The 
Government receipts so far this month amount 
to $28 265.259, and the surplus for the entire 
month will probahlvreach $15,000,000 ... 
Hon. John S. Barbour has been elected suc¬ 
cessor to Senator Riddleberger by the Virginia 
Assembly. There are signs of 
another revolution in Hawaii. The Parlia¬ 
ment, mostly composed of foreigners, chiefly 
Americans, are mad at the King for exercis¬ 
ing the right of veto given him bv the new 
constitution. He is backed up by the natives. 
The presence of English and American war 
vessels at Honolulu alone has hitherto 
prevented a conflict, between the rival parties. 
_ McNeally, the Saco (Maine) bank 
clerk who robbed the bank of $3,700 in cash 
and $185,000 in bonds a»ter wandering over 
Europe returned to Halifax N S., some days 
ago, with but $95 of the cash left. The bank 
is reported to have received the securities 
through the influence of McNeally’s brother. 
McNeally was arrestpd but has been released, 
because it. was held that bis crime was not an 
extraditable offense. Some say that the bonds 
are concealed in Egypt, which the young 
rascal visited. . .... 
Congress has adjourned until January 4 Over 
1,000 bills have alreadv been introduced in the 
Senate. It is not extravagant to estimate 
that the number of bills likely to be introduced 
in the House at the first time set apart for the 
reception of bills will be 5,000. There were 
not less than 15.000 bills introduced in the last 
Congress, of which more than 12.000 failed. 
A very large proportion of these 12.000 tails 
are to be reintroduced in the Fiftieth Congress. 
.The strike of the Knights of Labor on the 
Reading Railroad and its feeders has been in 
progress over a wfek and 65 000 persons are 
thereby thrown out of employment. Cause— 
some non-union hands were taken on at one 
of the stations. Several attempts at a com¬ 
promise have failed, and the railroad company 
expects to triumph. Meanwhile coal has gone 
up, and a fuel famine is feared here in the 
East. Much suffering and privation on ac¬ 
count of the strikp at this inclement season. 
. .Nearly $4,000,000 have been embezzled 
by persons who have fled to Canada, and there 
is a demand for an extradition treaty to in 
elude embezzlers_ The late Stephen M. 
Buckingham, of Poughkeepsie, N Y., lias left 
$90,000 by w ill for religious, educational and 
charitable purposes.Archbishop Fabre 
of Montreal has issued a pastoral letter object¬ 
ing to the proposed taxation of church prop¬ 
erty in the Dominion.... Judge McAllis'er 
of Chicago has decided the ordinance pro¬ 
hibiting i he sale of liquors to minors uncon¬ 
stitutional .The Pennsylvania Railroad 
is to take the savings of its employes who de¬ 
sire and pay them four per cent, interest. .. 
. ..Eight persons were frozen to death in 
Carson Countv, Texas, during the recent cold 
snap. Minneapolis mills have produced 
more than 6.000 000 barrels of flour tbis year 
. The Supreme Court of Missouri de¬ 
clares the Wood local option law constitutional. 
At the Kansas Prohibitionist State Con¬ 
vention in Topeka, Tuesday, it was decided to 
begin a vigorous campaign during the coming 
year,and to put a full State ticket in the field. 
.Edward Burgess, theyacht design¬ 
er. got a nice Christmas present of $10,172 
from his New York admirers.. . .About 
four weeks ago a monster raft containing $ 112 , 
000 worth of timber logs, built somewhat, like 
a cigar round a huge central chain to which 
the logs were fastened by a multitude of other 
chains, was launched near the hpad of the 
Bay of Fundy. in Nova Scotia, to be towed 
down the Bay and along the Atlantic to tbis 
port. If the venture succeeded there would 
be a saving of over $12 000 in freight. During 
an extremely severe storm over a week ago, 
the two big hawsers connecting the raft with 
the towing steamer parted, and the vessel 
sought safty in port, abandoning the raft. As 
it was almost on the route of steamers from 
Liverpool to New York two Government ves¬ 
sels at once started to find it, and one of them 
discovered the logs strewn over the sea for 
miles, 150 miles south of the place where the 
raft was abandoned. It is feared that oue of 
the largest logs may yet cause the loss of some 
vessel by collision with it. - The 
Christmas week has been very cold in nearly 
all parts of the country, and stormy in some. 
Thursday the cold snap extended all over the 
country from the Rockv Mountains to Maine 
and the Lakes to the Gulf. At 8 t Vincent, 
Minnesota, the thermometer registered 40 de¬ 
grees below zero,St Paul shivered at 22 degrees 
below, and Omaha at 10. Yesterday was still 
colder. The fuel famine still continues in 
many parts of the Far West, especially in 
Kansas, in the western and especially the 
southwestern parts of which the coal cars have 
to be moved under guaid*to prevent the farm¬ 
ers from seizing the ‘black diamonds.”. 
... The South Carolina Legislature has passed 
a law making it a misdemeanor for tradesmen 
to facilitate the sale of goods by offering pur¬ 
chasers an inducement to buy in the way of 
prizes or gif is to accompany the article sold.. 
... The condition of Professor Asa Gray, the 
eminent botanist of Harvard College, is al¬ 
most hopeless. He is so badly paralyzed as 
to be almost helpless. He is now 77, and it is 
thought his end is not far off .... Governor 
John Sonpington Marmaouke, of Missouri, 
died at Jefferson City. Wednesday. He was 
the son of a Missouri farmer, and after study¬ 
ing at Yale and Harvard he entered West 
Point, from which he graduated in 1857. En¬ 
tered the Confederate army as Colonel at the 
outbreak of the war; became Major General 
in 1864, and was capturpd in October of the 
same year, and held till the close of the war. 
He was for years Secretary of the Missouri 
State Board of Agriculture, and also a State 
Railroad Commissioner, and was elected Gov¬ 
ernor in 1884..It is reported that 
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky is suffering 
from cancer of the stomach .. ... Joe 
Chamberlain left Toronto yesterday for Niag- 
ra halls, where he will spend a day or two, 
and go to Washington in time for the reassem¬ 
bling of the Fisheries Commission on 7 an. 7. 
. A rich vein of pure galena lead ore 
has been discovered near Monroe, Wis Ten 
thousand pounds of ore were taken out iu 
three days, including one chunk that weighed 
15,000 pounds. A vast amount of ore is in 
sight, all of the very best quality. 
... Sir John Macdonald says a commercial 
union between the Uniou and the Dominion 
might be a very good thing, except for three 
objections: First, that England would have 
nothing to do with it: second, that the United 
States would have nothing to do with it; 
and third, that Canada would have notbiagto 
do with it. He says the project will be repu¬ 
diated by a vast majority of the Dominion 
House of Commons when it meets in January. 
.Labor Commissioner Wright’s report to 
the Secretary of the Interior shows in the six 
years preceding 1887 there occurred in the 
United States 3.903 strikes, or an average of 
two strikes a day for every working day of all 
that period. In all these strikes the number 
of employes involved was 1,318,624; and their 
losses were $51,816,165. In lockouts that oc¬ 
curred in the same period—cases in which the 
workers refused to concede some demand of the 
employers—there was a loss in wages of $8,132,- 
717. Thus in six vears the striking portion of 
the working people was out of pocket. $59,948,- 
882, but a trifle short of $ 10 , 000,000 for 
a year. The losses of employers for the 
same period were $34,164,914. The to¬ 
tal amount contributed as assistance to¬ 
ward the men’s support was $4 430 595. 
Thev gave up $10,000 000 a year and received 
$800,000! The workingmen must, on the 
whole, be pretty well off. to be able to stand 
such enormous losses. In 1887. the report, savs. 
there were, according to the best information 
obtainable. 8 53 strikes details of which are not 
available. The report shows that during the 
s'x years covered by the investigation New 
York had the largest number of esta h lishmeuts 
affected both by strikes and lockouts, there 
being for the former 9 247 and for the latter 
1,528 .. . 
The man who fired the first gun on Fort 
Sumter w^as shot in the village of Sumter, 
S. C , yesterday .. District-Attorney 
Martine has decided that the Kansas Pacific 
bond suit against Messrs. Gould and Sage 
should be pushed and that the Grand Jury 
should indict the two. . 
..In Railroad building, the year 1887, 
has beaten the record of 1882. hitherto the 
most remarkable year in the history of rail¬ 
roads. This year about 13 000 miles of road 
have been built, as against 11.568 miles in 1882. 
The recovery from the depression that follow¬ 
ed 1885 began la«t year when 9000 miles were 
constructed. Something like $325,000,000 has 
been invested in these new constructions and 
an armv of 65,000 persons have been employed 
upon them. The building has increased the 
railroad mileages of the United States to 
more than 150.000 miles. Alabama presents 
a fine record with over 500 miles: Georgia 
adds 230 miles, Florida nearly 200. and Ken¬ 
tucky and North Carolina each a little less. 
The Northwestern States, including Michigan, 
Illinois.Iowa, and Minnesota.have shown very 
considerable activity, but the great rush of 
railway building has been in the central belt 
west of the Missouri River. Kansas leads with 
the total of 2 070 miles. Nebraska comes 
next, with 1.101 miles, almost equaled by 
Texas with 1.055 miles. Then in order come 
Colorado, 819; Dakota. 760: Michigan. 700; 
Montana. 616; Missouri, 554; Indian Terri¬ 
tory. 499. and so on. Four States and two 
Territories, viz., Kansas, Texas Nebraska, 
Colorado, Dakota, and Montana, together 
show an addition of over 6 400 miles, or about 
one-half the entire vear’s mileage of the coun¬ 
try. The only States from which no new 
construction is reported are Vermont, Con¬ 
necticut, Rhode Island, and Nevada. 
... A convention of the managers of the K. 
of L . early on Friday morning, ordered a 
general strike of all the employes of the Read¬ 
ing railroad, including all the railroad bands 
except those on passenger coaches, switch¬ 
men and signal men. The men working in the 
coal and iron mines belonging to the company 
were also ordered out, the strike to begin yes¬ 
terday at 1 p. M. Over 100,000 men in the 
company’s cmploymet t would thus be forced 
into idleness, paralizing a vast amount of 
business in a large proportion of the country, 
and causing the compulsory idleness of thou¬ 
sands of oiher hands because their work must 
be suspended on account of the stoppage of 
the traffic that gave them employment. The 
order was only partially obeyed yesterday, 
but it is thought all will turn out to-day. If 
they do not. their refusal will go a great way 
toward disrupting the organization of the 
Knights of Labor. 
CONSUMPTION CURED. 
An old physician, retired from practice, 
having had placed in his hands, by au East 
India missionary, the formula of a simple 
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perma¬ 
nent cure of Consumption. Bronchitis. Catarrh, 
Asthma and all Throat and Lung Affections, 
also a positive and radical cure for Nervous 
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after 
having tested its wonderful curative powers in 
thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make 
it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated 
by this motive and a desire to relieve human 
suffering, I will send, free of charge, to all who 
desire it, this recipe, in German. French or 
English, with full directions for preparing and 
using. Sent by mail by addressing with 
stamp, naming this paper. W A. Noyes, 149 
Power's Block. Rochester , N. Y.—Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, December 31, 1887. 
The Irish Land Commissioners have at one 
sweep made a general reduction of rent rang¬ 
ing from 10 to 25 per cent. It is claimed that 
while these reductions are grotesquely inade¬ 
quate to the necessities of the situation, their 
concession is a complete vindication of the 
Plan of Campaign, of Parnell’s proposed Land 
Bill and of the agrarian policy advocated by 
the Liberals. All parties, even the Tories, 
grant that this is so to a greater or less extent. 
Many go so far as to claim that the prison 
doors should be thrown open to those under 
sentence for “working” the “Plan”; but in¬ 
stead of that mauy people are still imprisoned 
daily for acting in accordance with it, and for 
attending or publishing forbidden meetings of 
the National League. Lively times are ex¬ 
pected when Parliament meets in February... 
... Gladstone left England on his 88 th birth¬ 
day, Thursday, for a sojourn at Florence, 
Italy, for the benefit of his health. He was 
cheered by immense crowds at the various 
stations along his route, with some demon¬ 
strations of ill-will. There’s no man iu the 
United Kingdom with warmer friends or 
more bitter enemies. Distress is still very 
great and growing among the working classes, 
great numbers of whom are compulsorily 
idle. “Fair Trade” or even “Protection” 
is steadily gaining in popular favor. Salis¬ 
bury. however, refuses to make either a party 
question, and Gladstone savs the adoption of 
“Protection” would cause a civil war. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 31, 1887. 
A meeting of tobacco growers and others 
assembled at Baldwinsville, New York, on 
last Saturday Dight. and passed resolutions 
asking Congress to abolish the war taxes on 
tobacco, and to revise the Sumatra tariff law 
of 1883. The growers requested Congress to 
protect them against foreign producers and 
declared in favor of a duty of 75 cents per 
pound on imported cigar leaf. All over the 
country the tobacco growers are bestirring 
themselves to get rid of the internal revenue 
tax on their product .... .Michael Dav- 
itt, the Irish agitator, advises the Irish farm¬ 
ers not to purchase land at the present time. 
By waiting, he says, they will be able to se¬ 
cure land on the basis of a nominal rent, 70 to 
80 per cent under th“ pre=ent figures. 
... Senator Pugh of Alabama goes in forcut- 
ting down the surplus by admi’ting wool free. 
No wool is produced in Alabama—a mere 
bagatelle of only 762,267 pounds in the cen¬ 
sus year.A valuable cargo of blooded 
sheep shipped from Western Vermont, to Aus¬ 
tralia reached London in good condition on 
November21. None of them had died, although 
over 100 cattle died on the same vessel.. 
... A bill was before the South Carolina Leg¬ 
islature lately to farm out the phosphate beds 
for 20 years at $175,000 per annum, but some 
one raised the cry of monopoly, and the mem¬ 
bers scattered as ’hough a bomb had been 
dropped in the Assembly. In conse- 
sequence of the frequency of disastrous fires 
among cargoes of American cotton, a commit¬ 
tee of London and Liverpool underwriters has 
been formed to make an investigation .... 
... The Kentucky tobacco season closed at 
Louisville December 24. The total sales there 
amounted to 135 101 hogsheads for the year, 
which is the greatest number ever sold before 
at any one place in a single year. The sales 
of tobacco there during 1885 which is known 
as the jubilee year, amounted to only 
126,677 hogsheads, or over 4,000 hogsheads 
less than the record of the present year....... 
.. Reports from the winter wheat-growing 
counties of Texas show an increase in acreage 
from 10 to 100 per cent. No more rain is 
needed before March, and the indications are 
that the crop of 1888 will be double that of 
this year .A hint to the Trusts; The 
Dakota Farmers’ Alliance has memorialized 
Congress to remove the tariff from all arti¬ 
cles for the sale of which a combination or 
trust has or may lie formed.... .... 
The Vermont Dairy Association will meet at 
Montpelier on January 18, and the meeting 
will last three days. _Consul Atwood 
reports to the Department of State that, the 
sugar trade of San Domingo is almost exclu¬ 
sively with the United States, and that of a 
total of 38.000.000 pounds shipped to foreign 
countries during 1886. 36.000,000 pounds were 
sent to the United States. Another report 
savs that the total sugar production of Puerto 
Plata is shipped to the United S'ates. . 
A shipment of $50 000 worth of dressed poul- 
trv-^mainly turkeys—was made for the holi¬ 
days from Ottawa, Canada, for the British 
markets.At Indianapolis. Ind., the 
Convention of the Delegate State Board of 
Agriculture will be held January 3. 4 and 5. 
The Indiana State Poultry Association will 
meet there January 18 and give a fine poultry 
show. The State Bee-Keepers’ Association 
will convene there January 19. The Indiana 
Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association will talk 
“Jersev” wisdom on January 23. The Indiana 
Wool-Growers’ Association will talk of the 
tariff there on January 24; and on the same 
dav the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse 
Breeders’ Association will talk “boss” ad libi¬ 
tum The following day the Indiana Short¬ 
horn Breeders’ Association will 7 aud the merits 
of the “greatest breed on earth.” On January 
26 the Swine Breeders’ Association will dis¬ 
cuss that noble beast the American Hog in all 
its relations. Next day the Indiana Cane- 
growers’ Association will talk sweetly of sugar 
and sirup, and on February 22 and 23 the So¬ 
ciety of Indiana Florists will revel amid flow¬ 
ers as if it were midsummer instead of mid¬ 
winter .. The Bos’on milk dealers refuse 
the producers’ demands for an advance of two 
cents per 834 quart can for the next quarter, 
and the united milk producers are urged to 
keep their milk back even if they have to 
feed it to the pigs .The Ayrshire 
Breeders’ Association will meet at the Contin¬ 
ental Hotel, Buffalo. N Y., on Wednesday, 
January 25, C. W. Winslow Brandon, Vt., 
Sec’y .. .. The Treasury Department has 
decided that so-called garden shears made of 
steel are dutiable at the rate of 35 per cent. 
ad valorem, as “cutlery.”.The 
London Chamber of Agriculture .has vo’ed 
two to one iu favor of a motion favoring pro¬ 
tection . The annual meeting of the 
Connecticut State Agricultural Society will 
be held in Town Hall Meriden, on Wednes¬ 
day, January 11, 1888, at 11 o’clock, A. M. 
Officers will be elected for the ensuing year... 
.. .. The Johnston Harvester Company, of 
Batavia. N. Y . is in the hands of a receiver. 
Labilities $467,888; assets, $879,133. It is 
expected that arrangements will be speedily 
perfected for the completion of the goods now 
in process of manufacture, and that the busi¬ 
ness will be promptly reorganized, so as to 
enable the company to fulfill all its contracts, 
and to put it on a sound financial basis. 
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giving off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
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