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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 14, 1888. 
The late Dr. James R. Nichols, the eminent 
chemist, left one of the largest and most valu¬ 
able libraries in the State of Massachusetts... 
.... .Protean, hunter and scout, the first 
white resident of Dakota, was recently frozen 
to death near Fort Bennett, at the age of 93. 
. It is stated by persons who are greatly 
interested in Pacific railroad matters that the 
President is now preparing a mes c age for 
transmission to Congress in which he will take 
strong grounds against the Pacific railroads. 
From first to last there appears to have been 
a great deal of dishonesty about them_ 
The will of the late W. C. De Paw, who left 
$1,500,000 to the De Paw University, Indiana, 
and about as much more to the Methodist Con¬ 
ference, is to be contested by his eldest 
daughter, Mrs A. J. McIntosh. Mr. De Paw 
left her $40,000; but the estate is worth $6,000,- 
000. She is willing that the public bequests 
shall remain good, even if the heirs succeed in 
breaking the will. The Florida Subtrop¬ 
ical Exposition was opened at Jacksonville, 
Thursday, in the presence of 30,000 persons. 
The main exposition building contains the 
largest and most complete collection of semi- 
tropical trees, plants, fruits and flowers ever 
brought together on this continent, the rarer 
specimens having been imported from Cuba 
and the Bahamas. The buildings and inclosed 
grounds comprise about five acres. A 
war of extermination is raging between the 
McCoys, of Polk County. Ky., and the Hat¬ 
fields,” of Logan County, W. Va., and their 
intimate partisans. The deaths hitherto 
amount to 10—about evenly divided. The 
districts are wild and the authorities appear 
not to care to interfere with this worse than 
Corsican vendetta. Seven murders have oc¬ 
curred in less than three weeks. .. .The 
Pennsylvania Railroad will avoid grade cross¬ 
ings in Pittsburgh and Allegheny by erecting 
an elevated road at a cost of several million 
dollars. The road will be after the style of 
the New York elevated roads and will have at 
lea s t two tracks.The San Francisco and 
St. Louis Railroad proposes to cut rates after 
January 27, taking grain from Kansas City 
to Chicago for 15 cents per bushel. The Rock 
Island and Burlington roads also propose to 
cut live-stock rates to Chicago severely. 
_Louisa Court House, Va., containing 
l, 100 inhabitants, about 60 miles from Rich¬ 
mond, was almost entirely destroyed by fire 
last Saturday. Several hundred families lost 
everything, having hardly saved their lives. 
.The Wichita Board of Trade has in¬ 
vestigated ihe reports of frozen and starved 
settlers in Kansas during the recent cold 
weather,and declarec that the stories are false 
and sensational. Whenever such reports come 
from the agricultural districts—whether from 
Newfoundland, Texas or Kansas—the mer¬ 
cantile towns hasten to deny them, lest the 
news should injure the credit of their section. 
Meanwhile the distressed farmers are sorely 
pinched or starving, as outside help is debarred 
by the selfish action of the shop-keepers. 
... The Ohio Senate has passed a resolution 
condemning the President’s position on wool. 
The wool and tobacco growers all over the 
country are busily at work agitating in favor 
of their own industries. The tobacco men 
want the abolition of the Internal Revenue 
tax on the weed and a higher duty on Sumatra 
tobacco. The wool men protest bitterly 
against any reduction of the duty on wool, in¬ 
sisting that, on the contrary, the tariff ought 
to be raised. At first nearly all the wool 
manufacturers favored the free admission of 
‘•raw materials” including wool; but. most of 
them now—as voiced by the meeting just held 
at Washington—favor the present duty on 
wool, but a higher one on manufactured 
woolen goods. They begin to see that if the 
farmers are deprived of the duty on wool, 
they are likely to object to pay any duty on 
woolen goods, and then free trade in them 
would not be far off. 
A new railroad freight tariff will go into force 
on January 18 on the Atchison, Topeka and 
Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific system in 
Kansas.including the Fort Scott. Wichita and 
Western. excepting the central branch of the 
Union Pacific, making sweeping reductions in 
freight rates. For a distance of 100 miles the 
rate on first-class merchandise is to be made 
50 cents instead of 55 cents as fixed by the 
Railroad Commissioners. The fourth-class 
rate is reduced from 35 to 29 cents per 100 
pounds. The rate on lumber is reduced from 
16 cents to 13 cents; on coal from 8 cents to 
7% cents; cement plaster, from 15 to 8% 
cents: wheat, from 17 to 12% cents; the rate 
on cattle in car-loads from $30 to $25. The 
damage charges are reduced from $3 to $1 per 
car for the first five days. This is the greatest 
reduction made in freight rates in Kansas for 
six years .•. Gen. Terry is reported to 
be seriously ill at the Grand Hotel in this city 
with chronic indigestion...In Cali¬ 
fornia some 300 miles of railroad have been 
laid; the assessed value of property has in¬ 
creased $132,000 000. The wine and Drandy 
products were very large and no less that 50,- 
000.000 pounds of canned goods and over 
35,000,000 pounds of green fruit were shipped. 
It was also the banner year for immigration 
and tourists. The increase in assessed value 
is, of course, caused,to some extent, by specu¬ 
lative booms.... 
... Senator Ingalls’s house and library were 
burned in Atchison. Kan., Thursday. Loss 
over insurance, $20,000.There were 
severe shocks of an earthquake about 10 a. 
m. Thursday morning in North Carolina 
South Carolina and Georgia. 
A telegram yesterday from Pittsburg, 
Pa., says George A. Ruo, who works 
in a clock shop, has discovered a process 
whereby copper can be made from scrap iron 
in about a day and a half by a chemical 
process, and that he has applied for a pat¬ 
ent. It is stated that fine copper crystals can 
be manufactured at eight cents per pound_ 
... Cashier Wickes, of the Central National 
bank at Troy. N. Y., who resigned a short 
time ago, is $4,000 short in his accounts. He 
is an old man, and was for 35 years cashier of 
the bank. He admits having appropriated the 
money to his own use.Walter E. Tread¬ 
well, the Kansas cattle king, Saturday shot 
Charles C. Clark, his old partner in business, 
in Clark’s room at the Burnett House in An¬ 
thony, Kan. One shot entered Clark’s body 
four inches below the heart, and another broke 
the left thigh six inches below the joint. The 
origin of the difficulty is not known. Tread¬ 
well gave himself up to the sheriff... ... 
Henry Ward Beecher’s uniform as chaplain of 
the lath New York regiment falls upon the 
shoulders of T. DeWitt Talmage...The 
cases against all the persons implicated in the 
murder of Rev. Mr. Haddock have been 
dismissed at Sioux City, la., on tbe mo¬ 
tion of the attorneys of the State, the testi¬ 
mony at hand and other circumstances 
making it inexpedient to try them. 
... A scheme is now on foot for the holding 
of a three-weeks’ carnival at Montreal, begin¬ 
ning the first week in February. The 
Atchison union railway depot was burned at 
Atchison, Kan., last week; loss about $125,000, 
insurance $50.000. . 
Congress, and especially the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives. has been overwhelmed with bills 
during the past week. Scarcely one in 50 of all 
of them is likely to be passed, at least at this 
session, and not one, probably, in a hundred 
of any public importance. The Blair Educa¬ 
tional Bill has occupied more time in the Sen¬ 
ate than any other. It would never have been 
proposed except to get rid of the Treasury 
surplus, and as that is likely to be whittled 
down in other ways, it will hardly pass the 
the Senate an'd is sure to fail m the House. 
Senator Edmunds wants to incorporate the 
“Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, ’’with 
principal offices in New York and an author¬ 
ized capital of 8100.000,000 and the piivilege 
to increase to $200,000,000. No aid is asked from 
the Government of the United States, but the 
bill provides that the company to be organized 
shall be hound by the treaties between the 
United States and Nicaragua and Costa Rica, 
Now the Panama CaDal is likely to prove a 
fiasco, in the opinion of American engineers, 
vigorous efforts are being made to push the 
Nicaragua project. A lot of scientific survey¬ 
ors are down there now prospecting along the 
proposed route, and more money is needed to 
put the project in shape. An effort is to be 
made to raise as much as possible at home and 
the rest abroad. 
.. .A bill has been introduced into Congress 
appropriating $585,000 to make good the bill 
which alloted $15,000 ymrly for the use of ag¬ 
ricultural colleges and experiment stations. 
The first quarterly payment should have been 
made October 1, but it is claimed that the 
measure passed by the Forty-ninth Congress 
was so clumsily drawn as not to give the Con¬ 
troller power to carry out its terms. The bill 
is to be pushed. The first bill to be passed 
creates the office of Commissioner of Fisheries, 
with a salary of $5,000. This office was filled 
for years by the late Spencer F. Baird, who 
did the work gratuitously. The Commissioner 
must have a practical acquaintance with our 
fish and fisheries. The measure went to the 
President Thursday . The President has 
nominated Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, 
to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 
Plenipotentiary of tbe United States to Mex¬ 
ico .. .. Senators Beck, of Kentucky, and 
Wilson, of Iowa, have been re-elected. 
Senators Stewart and Mitchell have bills in 
favor of excluding Chinese from the United 
States.There are several bills in both 
Houses to prevent adulteration of food, especi¬ 
ally lard with cotton-seed oil.Secretary 
Lamar has resigned his seat in the Cabinet, 
pending action by the Senate on his nomina¬ 
tion to the United States Supreme Court. Votes 
will be taken on his nomination, as well as 
those of Vilas and Dickinson, on Monday. All 
three will probably be confirmed; but Lamar’s 
majority will not be large. 
.The descendants of one Philip Francis 
Renaud are said to be “pushing their claims” 
to some 40,000 acres of land in Illinois and 
Missouri to which he is said to have had a 
grant. The legal profession will never want 
for food as long as the army of claimants to 
real or imaginary estates keeps full ranks. 
Why doesn’t some family claim the earth as 
descendants of General Adam_ . .Major 
Reno, who failed to relieve General Custer in 
the Little Big Horn, and was subsequently 
cashiered, was lately appointed to a small 
clerkship in the Pension Office. The 
American ship Allred D. Snow, Captain 
Wiley, missing since the first of September, is 
now known to have been wrecked near Wa¬ 
terford, Ireland, and all on board lost . 
.... A bill has been introduced in the Virginia 
House of Delegates to allow a pension of $30 
a year to all soldiers, marines and sailors 
from Virginia who were disabled on either 
side during the late war. President Gar¬ 
field’s aged mother is dying inPainesville,0... 
Gov. Larrabee was inaugurated at Des Moines, 
la., yesterday afternoon.There is a strong 
probability that the bodies of the five dead 
Anarchists will be taken from Waldheim 
Cemetery and cremated.Capt. John 
Tobin, an old-time scout and guide, has begun 
suit for 80 acres in the heart of Balt Lake City, 
valued at $1,000,000. 
_The Postmaster-General has rescinded his 
late illegal order against writing and printing 
on “third-class” matter passing through the 
mails. Henceforth, as formerly, the business 
or occupation of senders, the names of con¬ 
tents ot packages, and any other printing not 
in the nature of “an actual and personal cor¬ 
respondence” may be placed on the outer 
face or surface of packages of third-class mat¬ 
ter without subjecting them to additional 
postal charge .Thursday night’s 
blizzard m the Northwest was the worst ever 
known. Many people perished and all the 
Minnesota railroads were blocked with snow. 
Both passenger and freight traffic has been 
abandoned, and it is stated by railroad offi¬ 
cials that it will take six weeks to open some 
of the lines. Snow from two to eight feet 
deep covers the prairies and another terrible 
storm is central in Montana. In St. Paul the 
snow was driven with such blinding force 
that merchants and others were unable to 
find their homes and in some instances spent 
the night at their places of business.The 
storm extended as far south as the Indian 
Territory. . . 
The great Pennsylvania railroad and coal 
mine strike still continues. Austin Corbin, 
President of the Reading Railroad and also 
boss of its mines and connections, “resolutely” 
declines to treat with the sirikers as organiza¬ 
tions, though willing to listen to their com¬ 
plaints as individuals, but without any hint 
that he will give any relief. The men “obsti¬ 
nately” refuse such an unconditional surren¬ 
der. The mining and transportation of coal 
are at a stand still through a wide reach of 
country; all freight traffic on the Reading and 
its subject tributaries is blocked. The stock¬ 
holders are losing thousands a day. The strik¬ 
ers and their families are sorely pinched. 
Thousands of outsiders—yes, tens of thousands 
—are grievously suffering on account of scarc¬ 
ity of coal, stoppage' of traffic and consequent 
hindrances to business. Public opinion fav¬ 
ors the strikers. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 14, 1888. 
Coercion is being still more vigorously en¬ 
forced in Ireland. Yesterday 14 moonlighters 
were sentenced to from 18 months to 18 years’ 
imprisonment; and few provable offences 
against the Crimes Act go unpunished. Pris¬ 
oners liberated after confinment are hailed as 
suffering patriots, the families of the prisoners 
are liberally supported, and there is no weak¬ 
ening on the side ot the people. In Scotland 
the crofter trouble in tbe Highlands and the 
Western Isles is gaining fierce headway. In 
Inver nesshire the lawles-s crofters, 1,000 
strong, drove the sheep off the farms Sunday 
and violently resisted the police. In the Island 
of Lewis ihe crofters drove the sheep into the 
sea, and are prepared to resist any force sent 
against them. A like bitter feeling prevails 
all through the section, and serious trouble, if 
not insurrection, is expected. In England dis¬ 
tress among the “lower classes” is more severe 
than for years, and farmers are deep in the 
depths. . . . . 
_In France President Carnot and his Cabi¬ 
net are getting along very well, and while 
avowedly a peace government, the most vig¬ 
orous preparations are being made for war. 
The great trouble is the want of stability in 
the government, which is constantly chang¬ 
ing. General Logerot, the present Minis¬ 
ter, is the fifteenth War Minister France" 
has had since 1870. Field Marshal Von 
Moltke is the fifteemh War Minister Prussia 
has bad since the foundation of the kingdom 
in 1701. To render the instability still greater 
the Assembly insists on the resignation of 
the President whenever there is a majority 
against his policy, though he is elected for 
a term of seven years, and it has forced 
McMahon and Grdvy to yield to its wishes in 
this respect . 
... .While the Czar still protests his pacific in 
tentions, he is still pushing forward immense 
masses of troops to the German, Austrian and 
Roumanian frontiers. As tbe weather m Eu- 
lope, especially in Central Europe,is intensely 
coid, the troops are suffering horribly and 
large numbers are being frozen to death. It 
is iikely the Powers will bring pressure to 
bear on Priuce Ferdinand of Bulgaria to in¬ 
duce him to resign so as to placate Russia; but 
he says he’ll die first, 'ihe btst friends of 
peace in Europe at presi niare the intense cold 
and the deep snows which render the move¬ 
ment of ai lines impracticable except at im¬ 
mense cost of men and materials. . 
Very contradictory repot ts with regard to the 
htal'h of the German Emperor and Crown 
Prince have been frequent during the week; 
but this morning’s cablegrams are favorable. 
Professor Virchow, in his new work, 
declares that cancer is curable _There 
is a noticeable emigration of Russian Jews to 
England.Twenty-eight million francs 
are to be used in still further fitting up the 
Italian navy The French republicans 
do not seem to have improved their position 
before the country by their late acts in forcing 
the resignation ot President Gi evy. The Con¬ 
servatives in the senatorial elections not only 
held their own but gained two seats in a total 
of 82.Dr. Bcnweinfurtb, the African 
explorer, writes from Cairo under date De¬ 
cember 30, that the news that Btauley had 
reached Emin arrived at Cairo, December 22. 
More definite advices are expected shortly_ 
_Miss Btory, daughter of a clergyman in 
the north of Ireland, nas earned the literature 
scholarship of $5,000 a year for five years, 
awarded by the Royal University of Ireland. 
.A German synaicate is to loan Mexico 
$50,000,000 to develop the resources of the 
country. 
Over 60,000 pilgrims visited Rome during 
the Pope’s jubilee. The value of the presents 
received by last Tuesday was estimated at 
14.000,000 francs in money and 60,000,000 
francs in goods. He gives his jubilee gitt 
money to Bt. Peter’s treasury to be expended 
in propagaudism. The artistic articles will 
be placed in the museum of the Vatican, and 
the objects of worship in the vestry of Bt. 
Petei’s All the re.-t will be given to the 
hospitals.Thirty thousand forged 
tickets were scattered abroad for the jubilee 
ceremonies at the Vatican. The genuine 
tickets had to be printed over again. 
_The Hoang-Ho River, flowing through 
one of the mo t densely populated and richest 
districts in China, lately overflowed its banks, 
making the adjacent country a turbid, rolling 
sea. It is estimated that nearly halt a million 
people have been drowned, and three millions 
are homeless and starving .' 
AGRICULTURAL NEYVB. 
Saturday, January 14, 1888. 
Senator Woodin, of Auburn, N. Y., ad¬ 
vocates the employment of penitentiary con¬ 
victs in the making of fertilizers, instead of 
boots, shoes and clothing,which brings convict 
labor into competition with the deserving 
working cla c ses. Making fertilizers would 
not take bread out of anybody’s mouth, but 
would continue to supply the staff of life for 
all. Louisiana has 300 planters who 
are engaged in the manufacture of sugar. 
. Forty brokers on the Cotton Exchange 
here estimate that the crop this season aver¬ 
ages 6,620,000 bales. The Government esti¬ 
mates it at 6,300,000 bales.Our occa¬ 
sional contributor, Professor L. B. Arnold, the 
eminent dairy authority, is seriously unwell. 
. There will be a special and very large 
sale of bright tobacco at Durham, N. C., from 
the 17th to the 20th of January; also, a prem¬ 
ium sale of leaf on the 26th inst. at Bouth 
Boston, Va , an important interior tobacco 
market. The planters of Virginia and North 
Carolina convene February 8, among other 
things to protest against the continuance of 
the tobacco tax. There are about 220 
farmers’ alliances, with a remarkable in¬ 
crease in the number of organizations in North 
Carolina in the past six months. 
_Pleuro pneumonia among cattle is still 
prevalent in the upper part of Westchester 
County. N. Y. The Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try condemned over 200 head last week in the 
towns of Lewisboro and Somers.Pep¬ 
permint growers in Wayne County, N. Y , are 
jubilant over the rescinding by Secretary 
Fairchild of the order allowing importers of 
Japanese peppermint oil to put up their oil in 
smaller bottles and re-ship it to Europe 
without payment of duty. The protest against 
this order from Wayne County was most em¬ 
phatic, for in Wayne County is grown two- 
thirds of all the peppermint consumed in the 
world, and had the order been allowed to stand 
great loss would have resulted to the farmers 
of that section. Congressman Nutting, from 
that r district, deserves much praise for his 
prompt action in the matter. 
.... A new fruit trade association has been 
formed here among the wholesale grocers, 
Iruit and kindred trade. It will absorb 
the Fruit Dealers’ League whose plant it. 
has purchased. Capital $20,000 in $50 shares. 
- The Ohio Poultry, Pigeon. Kennel 
aud Pet Stock Association opened its second 
annual exhibition at the 14th Regiment Arm¬ 
ory at Columbus, on Tuesday. The value of 
the exhibit is estimated at over $50,000. All 
the pigeon stock were burned. Over 300 dogs 
of different breeds were lost, composing the 
finest display ever made in Ohio. There were 
between 600 and 800 entries in poultry, carrier 
pigeons, etc., from many States, all burned.. 
Our esteennd contributer Hon. F. D. 
Coburn has retired from the Editorship of 
our esteemed contemporary the Kansas City 
Indicator, with which he has been connected 
five years..The Iowa Dairy Com¬ 
missioner estimates that the “oleo” law has 
raised the price of winter butter in his State 
at least eight cents per pound.A 
telegram from Chicago this morning says 
that 19 out of the 21 reaper, mower and binder 
manufacturers in the country succeeded Thurs¬ 
day evening after three day s’ session in form¬ 
ing a national association for “the curtailment 
of production, the regulation of prices and 
the fixing of a uniform system of prices”—a 
reaper Trust. Lewis M.iller, of Akron, Ohio, 
President. . 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches are now known 
and user all over the world For the relief and cure 
of Coughs, Colds Sore Throat, and Bronchial troubles 
they are un* quailed. Sold only in boxes, with the fac¬ 
simile of the proorietors, John I. Brown & Sons, on 
the wrapper. Price 25 cents.— Adv. 
Crops & iVlavkds. 
Saturday, Jan. 14, 1888. 
The estimates of the acreage, product aud 
value of corn, wheat aud oats for each State 
and Territory has been prepared for publica¬ 
tion by the Statistician of the Department of 
Agriculture. The area of corn harvested, ex¬ 
cluding abandoned or worthless acreage, is 72,- 
000,000 acres in round numbers; productl,456,- 
000.000 bushels—value, $646,000,000. Area of 
wheat, 37,400,000 acres; product, 456,000,000 
bushels—value, $309,000,000. Area in oats 
nearly 26,000,000 acres; product 659,000,000 
bushels—value, $200,000,000,000. The reports 
of winter wheat do not show much decrease in 
area. In Texas there is a considerable increase 
and slight increase in some other States. The 
average decline appears to be between one and 
two per cent.; in Kentucky, 97, Ohio. 99, 
Michigan, 98, Indiana, 100, Illinois, 98. Mis¬ 
souri, 99, Kansas, 98. Condition is affected 
somewhat by the dryness of tbe seed-bed in 
the districts that suffered from droughts,delay¬ 
ing seeding, germination aud growth. The 
later rains greatly improved the situation. 
The average of condition is 95, ranging in the 
piincipal States from 90 to 98. The condition 
of wiuter rye coincides very closely with that 
of wheat. 
The fair prices of corn and hogs make West¬ 
ern tax-paying comparatively easy this year, 
and there are fewer complains than usual of 
bad d^bts among merchants. Of course, here 
and there where crops were short, times are 
hard, but generally farmers are paying their 
debts. The continued high price of hogs, the 
growing scarcity of corn and its high price 
have made the shipment of pork during Janu¬ 
ary thus far somewhat larger than we had an 
ticipated There are veiy few complaints of 
disease among swine this winter. 
From Cincinnati come reports of a “corner” 
in white burley tobacco. The large tobacco 
manufacturing firms of Leggett & My ers, of 
Bt. Louis; Buchanan & Lysie, of New York; 
Fiuzes & Brothers, of Louisville, aud the P. 
J. Sorg Company, of Miudleton. Ohio, and 
one or two other firms have secured a cor¬ 
ner on almost the entire product of that sort. 
The white burley district extends in almost 
all_of the counties in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky 
