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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 21, 1888. 
Congressional matter of general interest 
during the week embraced the confirmation 
of ex-Secretary Lamar,as Justice of the U. S. 
Supreme Court, Senators Stanford, of Cali¬ 
fornia, Stewart, of Nevada and Riddleberger, 
of Virginia voting with the Democrats. Vilas 
and Dickinson were then quickly confirmed 
as heads of the Interior and Post-Office De¬ 
partments respectively, and Gen. Bragg, of 
Michigan, was stamped for the Mexican mis¬ 
sion. About 7,000 bills relating to war claims 
have been introduced into the House. 
The President sent in a message urging 
prompt and final action with regard to the 
debts due by the Pacific railroads to the Gov¬ 
ernment. Figuring up one side of the ac¬ 
count. it appears that the actual cost of these 
Pacific railroad lines was $95,000,000, and they 
have been loaded with fraudulent stocks and 
bonds to the amount of $268,000,000. Counting 
bonds, laud grants and annual advances by 
the government, with interest, the Gov¬ 
ernment aid mounts up to the almost incredi¬ 
ble figure of $447 000,000—and that for lines 
which cost only $95,000,000!.The 
subject of pleuro-pneumonia legislation prom¬ 
ises to be a prominent one in the present ses¬ 
sion of Congress. Senator Palmer’s bill is 
just now the center of attention. . 
Senator Sherman wants $30,000 to defray the 
expenses of a Commission to attend the Inter¬ 
national Exhibition at Melbourne, Australia, 
next fall, and Representative Perry Belmont 
wants $250,000 to defray the necessary ex¬ 
penses of a Commissioner-general and nine 
sub-Commissioners to be appointed by the 
President and State Commissioners to be 
designated by the Governors of the various 
States to attend the Paris Exposition of 1889 
to commemorate the fall of the Bastile, in 
1789 .The Bill appropriating $585,000 
to carry into effect the provisions of the 
Agricultural Experiment Act passed in the 
House Wednesday without opposition... In 
the Thoebe-Carlisle contest it was decided that 
Speaker Carlisle was elected .. .The 
Blair Educational Bill was discussed at weari¬ 
some length to empty benches in the Senate.. 
. Just as the Rural was going to press 
last Saturday telegrams came from all over 
the Northwest, and from as far South as 
Texas, telling of the horrors of the “worst 
blizzard” that whole section, but especially 
the northern part of it, had ever felt in 
“white man’s time.” Every day since then 
telegrams tell of still greater horrors from the 
blast Montana, Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa 
and Nebraska have suffered most. At differ¬ 
ent points from the Rocky Mountains to the 
Lakes and as far south as the Union Pacific 
Railroad, the temperature varied from 20 to 
63 degrees below zero. In many places no 
thermometers were capable of registering the 
frigidity. The known deaths in the North¬ 
west aiieady number over 235, and some 
places away from telegraph stations have not 
yet been heard from. Moreover, past exper¬ 
ience tells that many bodies will not be found 
till the melting of the deep snows in spring 
reveals the fate of many of the lost, and pro¬ 
bably some of the victims will never be 
found. Indignation, horror, admiration and 
the deepest sympathy are the feelings roused 
by accounts of the disaster. The powdery, 
swirling snow, hurtled in all directions by the 
fierce, pitiless wind shut off objects a few 
yards away and drowned all cries for help 
or shouts ot warning or encouragement. 
Some perished almost within arm’s-length of 
their houses. Husbands started to the barn 
and were lost; wives and chidren started after 
them, and shared their fate. Children left 
school for home and*^never reached it, with 
such terrible suddenness did the blizzard 
swoop down. The school-mar’ms—many of 
them—perished like heroines amid the howl¬ 
ing, swirling tempest of earth and air and 
sky, protecting to the last their trustful 
charges out on the prairies or buried in the 
snow. Ob, it was pitiful! Oh, it was awful! 
Cattle suffered terribly, and the number of 
deaths must be appalling. Latest telegrams 
tell us the blizzard was lost in the Gulf of 
Mexico to the south, causing several deaths 
of people and great loss of stock even in Texas. 
Fuel of all kinds has been scarce; buildings 
have been burned to keep life in shivering 
bodies. The number of persons of all ages 
maimed for life owing to frost-bitten limbs 
must be dreadful. . 
Indianapolis has had a great fire in the busi¬ 
ness part of the city—loss $900,000 . 
There will be no carnival in Montreal. 
Speaker Carlisle is sick with congestive chills. 
.Plymouth Church has fixed the salary 
of Rev. Lyman Abbott at $6,500. Beecher’s 
used to be as high as $25,000.The logs 
of that enormous broken raft are drifting 
southward. Several vessels have passed 
through them a little north of the Bermu¬ 
das, and some of them are thought to have 
reached the beach there. Louisiana 
Democrats have nominated F. T. Nichols for 
Governor, instead of McEnery. It was an 
extremely bitter struggle marked by over half- 
a-dozen political murders. Governor 
West, in his message to the Utah Legislature, 
takes strong ground against polygamy and 
recommends the repeal of the local laws con¬ 
flicting with federal statutes.One hun¬ 
dred emigrants from Belport, France, started 
a week ago for Dakota. For ages Frenchmen 
have hated more than any other race, to leave 
their country; but of late emigration has been 
steadily increasing_ Blaine and Cleve¬ 
land were the favorite Presidential candi¬ 
dates among the Kansas farmers who attended 
a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture 
the other day.A number of convicts 
liberated at New Caledonia, in the South Sea, 
are on their way to this country via Califor¬ 
nia, but the San Francisco customs authorities 
have been ordered not to allow them to 
land..Investiga¬ 
tion into the results of High License in the 
various States where it has been in force long 
enough for trial prove that while the number 
of saloons has largely decreased. the revenue 
has increased in more than inverse ratio. 
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska im¬ 
pose taxes varying from $500 to $1,200. In 
Missouri the revenue has been trebled; in 
Nebraska it has increased five-fold, and in 
Illinois it has grown from $700,000 a year 
to $4,500,000. Chicago has now 4,000 saloons, 
instead of the 6.000 it formerly had, and the 
revenue from that source is $2,000,000, instead 
of $200,000.While Americans admit 
Canadian fresh fish free of duty, Canadians 
charge a duty on American fresh fish. Isn’t 
reciprocity all on one side here?.Gov¬ 
ernor Semple has signed the bill giving the 
ballot to the women of Washington Territory. 
.Camps in the northern Wisconsin 
pineries are rapidly breaking up, owing to 
the deep snow retarding logging operations. 
Snow is from 30 to 40 inches deep, so that the 
hauling of logs is very difficult. Prominent 
logging men say that only a two-third crop 
of logs will be gathered this winter. 
The latest bulletin from the “seat of war” 
between the McCoys of Kentucky, and the 
Hatfields of West Virginia, announces that 
the Hatfields surprised a McCoy family last 
Saturday night, tied the mother and one of 
the children to a tree and riddled them with 
bullets and then set fire to the house, and 
cremated the father and two other children. 
The Hatfields to date are four ahead. No 
attempt has yet been made by the officials of 
either State to interfere actively; though 
Kentucky has offered a reward for the deliv¬ 
ery of the Hatfields on Kentucky soil. 
All tax sales made in Brown County, Wis., 
for three years past were invalidated by a 
Circuit Court decision at Green Bay, the 
other day. ordering the surrender of land sold 
on tax title because of a verbal defect in the 
County Treasurer’s affidavit of his notice of 
sale.Tuesday night at Des Moines, 
Iowa, Senator Wilson was nominated by ac¬ 
clamation to succeed himself. The Senator 
announced that upon the expiration of his 
second term he would retire to private life.... 
. . .The father of Lieutenant Schwatka, Fred¬ 
erick Gustave Schwatka, who was one of the 
founders of Oddfellowsbip in the United 
States, died at Salem, Oregon, Friday, aged 
98.The 13 gas companies of Boston are 
being organized into a trust. The property of 
the syndicate is valued at $14,000,600. 
. Alabama has let by contract the labor of 
her 600 prison convicts to the Tennessee coal 
and iron company working coal mines near 
Birmingham, Ala.The value of the 
exports of breadstuff’s for the 12 months end¬ 
ing December 31, 1887 was $158,391,758 as 
against $148,123,020 for the 12 months ended 
December 31, 1886.Six hundred and 
ninety-two yearling Thoroughbreds, the get of 
118 stallions, were sold at public sale in 1887, 
realizing $465,395. an average of $672.54. 
There were 353 colts and 339 fillies The best 
average attained was that of imported Billet, . 
whose 13 head brought $24,525, an average of 
$1,886.53. .The State Forestry Com¬ 
mission of Michigan will hold a convention at 
Grand Rapids, January 26-27 . The 
first vestibule train to Florida left Jersey City 
via the Pennsylvania road, January 9, arriv¬ 
ing in 30 hours with 78 through passengers... 
.... The fisheries commission seems to have re¬ 
turned to Washington to stay for the present 
The Canadians have finally brought up the 
seizures of sealing vessels by the United States 
in Alaskan waters. The present burden of the 
Dominion demand by way of reciprocity is 
the admission of lumberduty free. The 
Sugar Refiners’ Trust is getting a firmer grip 
on the public; and consequently the price of 
sugar is going up. It now wants unrefined 
sugar to be admitted duty free; but insists 
that the import tax should still remain on the 
refined article. Thus it would get lots of No. 
15 Dutch to refine at lower prices than it can 
be had at present, while charging the old prices, 
or more, for the refined product. The 
President is going down to see the Sub-tropi¬ 
cal Exposition at Jacksonville, Fla., and will 
probably be absent from the capital during 
the recess over Washington’s Birthday. 
Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, in his biennial 
message to the Legislature, advises imme¬ 
diate action, in the people’s interest, against 
the abuses caused by trusts and pools. 
The Crow Indians are much discontented 
at the discovery that the government allow¬ 
ance of beef to them is but one-fifth that giv¬ 
en to the Sioux. Accordingly they are depre¬ 
dating upon the herds of s'ockmen that have 
been grazing upon the Crow reservation. 
... A report that the Detroit Free Press has 
been burnt out, is a mistake. It was its next- 
door neighbor that was cremated_ .... 
... .The meeting of the Democratic Committee 
will be held at Washington February 22 to 
decide when the next Presidential convention 
will be held. New York, Boston, Cincinnati, 
St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco are 
bidding for the national convention. It looks 
a little like New York now.Bishop 
William H. Hickelooper died at Salt Lake 
City Saturday aged 83 He was the oldest 
bishop in the Mormon Church and had been 
a bishop for over 40 years. He had two wives 
and at the time of his death his living poster¬ 
ity numbered 12 children, 36 grandchildren 
and 52 great-grandchildren.Col. 
Marshal McDonald and Dr. Jerome H. Kid¬ 
der are mentioned for the position of Commis¬ 
sioner of Fish and Fisheries. Prof. G. Browne 
Goode, who succeeded Prof. Baird and who, 
like Baird, never received any compensation 
for his work, will not be able, on account of 
ill-he^th, to continue in that service . 
_E. C. Walthall of Mississippi was Tuesday 
elected United States Senator to succeed him¬ 
self. .So chronic has become the 
stupidity in the New York stock market that 
seats in the Exchange have been sold within 
a few days for $17,000, whereas less than two 
years ago they brought $34,000.. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 21, 1888. 
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, twice Conserv¬ 
ative Secretary L for Ireland, and who is sup¬ 
posed to know the country better than any of 
his party, has just substantially declared that 
in his opinion Ireland can be governed only 
by yielding “Home Rule.” Arrests still nu¬ 
merous. Among others a priest, a member of 
Parliament and an editor were scooped in by 
Balfour’s drag-net yesterday. Nothing else 
of general American interest in the British 
Tsles during the week.An Italian 
Judge at Florence has threatened to seize pa¬ 
pers in a law suit, which are in the French 
Consul’s office, thus violating international 
law. France insists that Italy must prevent 
the outrage. At Toulon men are working 
day and night fitting out the French iron-clad 
fleet for sea. War is certain, unless France 
gains her point. Russia continues massing 
troops on the frontier. Italy has agreed to 
send 150,000 troops, it is said, into Gallicia 
should Russia go to war. A war is highly 
probable early in spring. Suffering from cold 
intense, and consequent deaths frpquent 
among the Russian troops, and to a less extent 
among German, Austrian and Roumanian 
soldiers lately removed to the frontiers... 
... The French Cabinet unanimously refuse 
to allow De Lesseps to raise a loan by lottery, 
and he appeals for money to the public,giving 
the “best guarantees” for the bonds. 
...The people of Montenegro, the only people 
in the Southeastern Peninsula who as a body 
are favorable to Russian domination, have 
been plotting to cause an uprising in Bulgaria 
by means of organized bands of Montenegrins, 
paid by Russia. Over 30,000 of the inhabitants 
have just been brought to the brink of starva¬ 
tion by floods, and the Czar has sent them a 
ship-load of grain from Odessa on the Black 
Sea. 
Peru, having been everlastingly whipped 
by Chili a couple of years ago, and robbed of 
her niter bpds and guano deposits—the sources 
of much of her wealth—has of late been in a 
sad plight. She has had to issue “greenbacks” 
instead of gold, and these are now so depreci¬ 
ated that storekeepers, banks, etc , refuse to 
receive them at any price. Even whipped Pe¬ 
ruvians, however, won’t starve so long as 
there is any food within reach, so that robber¬ 
ies and all sorts of disturbances are making a 
bedlam of the country.With the ad¬ 
vent of torrid weather once more, cholera has 
again become virulent in Chili, and it is diffi¬ 
cult to hold any intercourse with the country, 
even by letter . ..Thickly populated China 
is, par excellence, the country of enormous 
losses of human life. Last week the world 
was startled by by an account of a lossof 500,- 
000 by flood along the Hoangho River; now 
we learn that while 4,000 workmen were mak¬ 
ing a breakwater to stem the flood, they were 
engulfed by a sudden rush of water, and only 
a few escaped. What a sensation such awful 
losses would cause among us if they hadn’t 
happened in Cathay and to Mongolians!. 
Spain, which makes little noise in the world 
nowadays, is progressing steadily under her 
Austrian regent and infant sovereign, and is 
putting in claims to be considered one of the 
great powers of Europe. Old ex- Queen Isabel¬ 
la. grandmother of the royal infant, who was 
allowed some years ago, to return home from 
her luxurious exile in Paris, has lately been 
plotting with her old cronies against the Gov¬ 
ernment, and having received a very emphat¬ 
ic hint that she would be banished, has just 
thought it best to leave the country voluntari¬ 
ly. Her reputation is that of a rich, gener¬ 
ous, intriguing, religious, wicked old woman. 
... Ex-President Gr£vy, of France, has 
lately had a second stroke of apoplexy—a per¬ 
ilous thing at his age—75. He is enormously 
wealthy, and his son-in-law, Wilson, whose 
wife is his only child, has again escaped the 
efforts of the extreme Radicals to convict him 
of criminal connection with the “decoration” 
scandals and other dishonorable charges. It 
looks as if the whole hubbub, so far as Gr£vy 
and Wilson are concerned, was got up for po¬ 
litical effect. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 21,1888. 
Savage & Farnum, importers and breed¬ 
ers of Percherons, Grosse Isle, Wayne Co., 
Mich., last week sold David Albans, of Vene- 
docia, Ohio, the imported Percheron stallion 
“Madere xi.” He is a magnificent specimen 
of this grand breed of horses. They also sold 
the imported French Coach stallion “Gadelle” 
to go to Dakota .At the annual 
meeting of the N. Y. State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, held at Albany, Wednesday, the follow¬ 
ing ticket was elected: President, W. A. 
Wadsworth, of Livingston; Vice-presidents, 
James Otis, of New York; James Wood, of 
Westchester; Jared Van Wagener, of Scho¬ 
harie; Frank D. Curtis, of Saratoga: W. Jud- 
son Smith, of Onondaga; Hugh Duffy, of 
Cortland; M. C. Remington, of Cayuga, 
and H. Bowen, of Orleans; Corresponding 
Secretary, Jabez S. Woodward, of Niagara: 
Recording Secretary, Seth Tanner, of Erie; 
Treasurer, Adam Thayer, of Rensselaer. 
The foreign fruit-dealers of this and other sea¬ 
board cities are about to ask Congress for a re¬ 
duction of the tariff on the fruits they sell.... 
American live cattle are worth 1 1% to 13 
cents in English markets, estimated dressed 
weight. The number of live cattle, live 
sheep and quarters of dressed beef shipped 
from the United States and Canadian ports 
during the year 1887 was as follows: 158.840 
cattle, 35,828 sheep, and 421,934 quarters of 
beef. In 1886 the totals were 177,694 cattle, 
99,421 sheep and 524,919 quarters of beef.. 
....The Third Annual Meeting of the Dutch 
belted Cattle Association will be held at the 
Cosmopolitan Hotel, New York, February 29, 
1888, at 11:30 a. m .American onions are 
being largely supplanted in our home markets 
by a foreign-grown article—largely Sicilian 
and Italian ....It has been more than a 
quarter of a century since beef cattle have 
sold as low in this country as in the average 
markets of 1887. The bay stallion, im¬ 
ported, Pizarro, eight years, by Adventurer, 
valued at $15,000, died at the home of its own¬ 
er, Milton Young, near Lexington, Ky., 
Wednesday night, of pneumonia.Not 
one of the carcass awards at the Chicago fat 
stock show went to an animal that took a 
prize when alive.. 
-At the convention of the N. Y. State Bee- 
Keepers Association, at Utica, it was decided, 
last Wednesday, to form an international as¬ 
sociation under the name of the “Honey Pro¬ 
ducers’ Union,” to secure and publish statis¬ 
tics regarding the product in every boney- 
producine State in the Union in the mouths 
of May, June. July, August and September.. 
.. Among the few exports from Alaska 
are cranberries to the Eastern markets. 
The Governor of Nebraska has proclaimed 
a quarantine against cattle from New York 
pleuro-pneumonia counties.A 
movement is on foot in Western Texas and 
Southern New Mexico to secure Federal aid, 
if possible, in building a monster irrigating 
canal from 200 to 230 miles long, for the pur¬ 
pose of reclaiming vast tracts of land that are 
now waste. It is proposed to start the canal 
at a point on the Rio Grande and above the 
Jarnado del Murto in New Mexico, and carry 
it along the highlands of the Rio Grande 
Valley as far below El Paso, Tex , as it is 
found practicable. At the annual 
meeting of the Trustees of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, held at Boston the other 
day, the resignation of Pres. Goodell was ac¬ 
cepted, to take effect July 1, and the Commit¬ 
tee on the Course of Study was instructed to 
look out for a man to fill the vacancy. 
.At the annual meet¬ 
ing of the Bay State Agricultural Society, 
Wednesday, Edward Burnett was elected 
President, W. S. Lincoln Secretary and J. D. 
W. French Treasurer.A scheme has 
been set on foot in Manitoba to import 75,000 
Icelanders, together with their live stock, and 
the depopulation of the island is threatened. 
A NEW MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE. 
One year ago last December the pastor of a 
church in Philadelphia was forced to surren¬ 
der his pulpit, and, acting on his physician’s 
advice, with his young wife sought the warm¬ 
er climate of Florida. Both were consump¬ 
tive, and when it became evident that the 
young minister must relinquish a future that 
promised so much, he was broken ir spirit. 
Together these two afflicted persons traveled 
toward the milder latitudes. It seemed a 
journey to death. Nothing more pathetic has 
been seen since Charles and Mary Lamb set 
out hand-in-hand and, with tearful eyes, to¬ 
ward the mad-house to which they had self- 
condemned themselves. The parting from 
their friends and parishioners at the railroad 
station was affecting in the highest degree. 
Several long weary months followed in which 
the hoped-for improvement was awaited. It 
came not. Both man and wife gradually grew 
weaker. The little cottage they had taken at 
Jacksonville finally began to lack necessary 
comforts. A small negro servant had to be 
discharged because she could no longer be 
paid. Then the despairing young wife took 
her bed and rapidly grew worse. One good 
lady assumed that death was inevitable and 
hoped only to make the end as painless as pos¬ 
sible. In her mission of kindness she encoun¬ 
tered a hale old gentleman who, after he had 
given her a ten dollar note, added; “I will do 
more, I will send that unfortunate woman my 
Compound Oxygen. I always take it with 
me to cure sudden colds or throat affections, 
but I know what it can do even in desperate 
cases.” In a few minutes he was ready and 
accompanied the noble-hearted lady to the 
house of suffering. Hot water was readily 
procurable, and in a brief time the consump¬ 
tive was inhaling the Compound Oxygen, 
evolved from one of Drs. Starkey & Palen’s 
Home Treatments. At the end of a week not¬ 
able improvement in the woman’s condition 
set in. The end of another week’s treatment 
found her seated in a chair on the porch, and 
she was soon after able to walk about. Mean¬ 
while full advice had been received from Dr. 
Starkey as to the Compound Oxygen; two 
Home Treatments had arrived, and the minis¬ 
ter began to give some attention to his own 
case. Friends gathered around them amid 
the Land of Oranges, and now they are bot h 
in a degree of health that enables the pastor 
to resume his pulpit and his good wife the care 
of her own home. 
A valuable-and interesting pamphlet on the 
methods of manufacture and of treatment by 
Compound Oxygen is sent free to all who de¬ 
sire it, by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
Crops & i-Vtarhcfs. 
Saturday, Jan. 21,1888. 
The apple export statistics for the past year 
are as follows: Up to December 31, 1887, 421,- 
140 barrels of apples had been exported. From 
New York, 212,144 barrels; Boston, 83,911; 
Montreal, 93,134; Portland, 20,006; Halifax, 
12,464; Annapolis, 10,484, as against 602,837 
barrels up to the same time the previous sea¬ 
son as follows: From New York, 150,329 bar¬ 
rels; Boston, 248,363; Montreal, 106,703; Port¬ 
land, 30,967; Halifax, 56,072; Annapolis, 10,- 
348. These shipments were distributed as 
follows: Thi3 season, to Liverpool, 235,578 
barrels,; Glasgow, 117,646; London, 62,450 
miscellaneous, 17,466, as against 339,713 bar¬ 
rels to Liverpool, 122,327 to Glasgow, 128,704 
to London, and 12,044 to miscellaneous ports 
