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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. February 11, 1888. 
The heavy, costly ceiling of the Assembly 
Chamber in the new $14,000,000 Capitol at 
Albany, N. Y., threatens to fall on the legis¬ 
lators underneath, so that they have 
sought new quarters till repairs are effected. 
The Massachusetts State Capitol at Boston 
is also settling. Great cracks have appeared 
in the ceiling, and signs of disintegration are 
visible. High-priced architects frequently 
botch costly public works. The Metro¬ 
politan National Bank at Cincinnati has sus¬ 
pended and is in the hands of the Govern¬ 
ment. Vice President Decamp has been 
arrested, charged with certifying to a false 
statement of the December condition of the 
bank ....The wife of Oliver Wendell 
Holmes died at Boston, Monday, aged 69. 
Married in 1840—used to be Amelia Lee Jack- 
son, daughter of Judge Charles Jackson of 
the Massachusetts Supreme Court .... Dr. 
McGlynn doesn’t want to go back to his for¬ 
mer place in the Catholic Church, and 
threatens that if the Church doesn’t let him 
alone, he’ll make the country too hot to hold 
some of its officials.The Trustees of 
Princeton College last Thursday chose Rev. 
Francis L. Patton, D. D., L. L. D. Stuart 
Professor of Ethics, President, to succeed Dr. 
James McCosh resigned—an annuity of $2,500 
was voted to Dr. McCosh in recognition of 
his eminent services to the college. He will 
remain President till the beginning of June. 
A $12,000 statue of him is to be put in Mar- 
quand Chapel .... From estimates by the 
Governors of the various States and Terri¬ 
tories it is estimated that we have now a 
population of 62.874,272 against 50,153,783 in 
the census year—1880—an increase of 12,718,- 
479, and with a proportionate increase we 
shall have 66,000,000 in 1890! Every State is 
believed to contain a larger number of people 
now than it did eight years ago. but the most 
marked gains are in Kansas, Minnesota, Mis¬ 
souri, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New 
York, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas, 
and the Territory of Dakota. Kansas is sup¬ 
posed to have added over 600,000 to its popu¬ 
lation, Minnesota 700.000, Missouri nearly 
1,000.000. Nebraska, 500,000, North Carolina, 
600,OCX), Georgia, 500,000, and Texas, 1,100,000. 
.... The President has issued a notice that 
Department officials shall not be required to 
assign reasons for dismissals among subordi¬ 
nates. This is regarded as a slap at Civil 
Service Reform. The provisions against 
political assessments on government employes 
are stiffened, however; soldiers and sailors of 
the war are exempted from compulsory ex¬ 
amination, and several other changes are 
made. The extradition treaty with 
Great Britain has been shelved by the Senate 
till next December, mainly by the opposition 
of Riddleberger, because it favored the extra¬ 
dition of dynamitersand other political offend¬ 
ers guilty of atrocious outrages in their own 
countries.Thanks to 45 Democrats who 
voted with the Republicans, Capt. John S. 
White, a brave Union soldier, has secured his 
seat in Congress for the 17th Indiana District. 
He had defeated his Democratic opponent by 
2,400 plurality; but the latter tried to unseat 
him because the records of his naturalization 
were missing from the county court, like 
many other records. 
_Henry George favors Cleveland 
This is reported to be too much for McGlynn, 
so McGlynn and George are said to be “out” 
. John C. Crowley a prominent'Boston 
lawyer and Catholic Church member, has dis¬ 
appeared with over $75,000 of trust funds- 
_The chief of the R. I. State police inti¬ 
mates that Prohibition is a failure in that 
little State . Free Trade and protection 
are very vigorously and earnestly discussed 
in the press, from the platform and through 
pamphlets all over the country. Hitherto the 
Protectionists appear to have had the advan¬ 
tage, “Full Protection” and modification of 
the tariff almost to the line of “a tariff for 
revenue only” seem to be the chief points 
under discussion now. “Free Trade” appears 
to be supported only by a comparatively 
few extremists. It is hardly likely to be 
a “battle cry” of any party in the 
next national election. . 
... Fielden and Schwab, the imprisoned Chi¬ 
cago Anarchists, have personally thanked 
Governor Oglesby for saving them from the 
gallows.Nothing definite yet from the 
negotiations of the Fishery Commissioners. 
The general impression grows that no definite 
settlement will be reached. Canadians, how¬ 
ever, say that it is now certain that the rights 
claimed by Canada will in future be exercised 
in a spirit of “unusual forbearance.”. 
The new government in Manitoba is as reso¬ 
lute as its predecessor to build that Red River 
Railway from Winnipeg to the American 
frontier, there to connect with a branch of 
our Northern Pacific. The Canadian Pacific 
has neither capacity nor cars enough to move 
one-third of the crops of the Canadian North¬ 
west OwiDg to .lack of elevator room for 
storage, a vast amount of grain is stored in 
pits along the railroad, and unless this is 
moved before spring thaws there will be a 
tremendous loss; the loss already is heavy. 
Owing to the impossibility of marketing pro¬ 
duce, prices are merely nominal, and ruin 
stares everybody in the face if an outlet to 
market isn’t speedily secured. Sir John Mac¬ 
donald is reported to be willing to comprom¬ 
ise—he will allow the road to be built in three 
years, provided the Canadian Pacific shall 
have all the trade meanwhile. The Manitobans 
say they have secured capital enough and will 
push it to completion at once, even if the pop¬ 
ulation has to take up arms to protect the 
builders .. .The accidents on the Great 
Lakes last season numbered nearly 1,000. 
Seventy-five ves>els were lost with property 
valued at $2,500,000, and 240 men, women and 
children....A Chicago company, with 
$400,000 capital, proposes to carry to the 
Windy City every bit of the old Libby Prison 
from Richmond, Va. The building belongs to 
the Southern Fertilizer Company and can be 
had for $23,000 . Governor Buckner 
has refused the demand of Governor Wilson, 
of West Virginia, for the surrender of the 
members of the Hatfield gang, now in jail at 
Pikeville. He refers him to the courts for a 
settlement of the matter. A truce has been 
patched up between the warring factions. 
Each party claims the other is in the wrong. 
The McCoys are the more powerful, and, 
therefore, probably the aggressors. 
Clemmie G., one of the fastest and most valu¬ 
able trotting mares in America, valued at 
$20,000, died on the farm of J. W. Gordon, 
near Cleveland, Ohio. Best record 2.15X at 
Providence, R. I., as a four-year-old, in 
September, 1884.The Supreme Court 
of Wisconsin holds that the Legislature of 
1885 did not for a moment contemplate ex¬ 
tending the same suffrage to females which 
the males enjoy, but meant to restrict the 
female voting to school matters only, as 
specified in the law_It is rumored that Pull¬ 
man’s Palace Car Company intend soon to 
begin the manufacture of locomotives, and 
that they will build engines capable of haul¬ 
ing from 80 to 100 loaded cars . Five 
masked robbers burned a wealthy cattleman’s 
hands and feet, in Indian Territory, to make 
him tell where his money was.... 
. .. There’s a very lively cutting of freight 
rates among railroads west of Chicago. 
Roads west of Chicago are also cutting rates 
to points east of that place, especially to the 
seaboard, on freight from parts west of it..... 
_It is said in Washington that the Mari¬ 
time Nicaragua Canal Company has positive 
assurances that $100,000,000 worth of bonds 
will be promptly taken in New York, Boston 
and Berlin when the United States grants it 
its proposed charter. It has $200,000 in its 
treasury for preliminary expenses, and eight 
working parties, including 170 men, are now 
making surveys on the Isthmus .The 
call upon Gov. Ross of Texas for an extra 
session of the Legislature in order to dispose 
of the surplus in the State Treasury, now $2,- 
000,000, grows louder. The tax on whisky 
nets the State nearly half a million annually 
..George Gould says his father left Alex¬ 
andria for Malta Sunday, and that he is ex¬ 
pected back March 1_ Maria Mitch¬ 
ell, who has just resigned her position as Pro¬ 
fessor of Astronomy at Vassar, after 20 years’ 
distinguished service, was given a reception 
at New York last week by the local associa¬ 
tion of Vassar alumnae.The Post- 
Office Department, owing to the alarming 
frequency of attacks of robbers upon mail 
trains on sparsely settled routes iu the far 
West, has determined to arm, at the expense 
of the Government, every postal employd on 
these exposed railroad routes, with weapons 
of the latest and most effective kind. 
The Reading strike still continues. The Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee of the K.»of L. has taken 
charge of the men’s side and offered to sub¬ 
mit to arbitration; but the company has re¬ 
fused. There is a chance that the miners in 
other sections may be ordered out, so as to 
completely stop coal production in Pa. The 
owners of several private mines in the Lehigh 
Valley offer to concede the advance in wages 
demanded; but the men won’t work, as the 
coal would be transported on the Reading 
Railroad, where the freight handlers are on 
strike. A committee of Congress is to inves¬ 
tigate the struggle which condemns 82,000 
people to starvation. Congress can do noth¬ 
ing. It is altogether a State affair, and the 
Government of Pennsylvania is quite subserv¬ 
ient to capitalists and monopolists The 
public are getting more and more to sympa¬ 
thize with the strikers. . 
. . The packing house of the Dupont Powder 
Mills, at Wapwallopen, 28 miles from Wilkes- 
barre, Pa., blew up yesterday. Four men 
were instantly killed and 20 more more or less 
seriously hurt .The following from 
James G. Blaine has been received by the 
chairman of the Republican National Com¬ 
mittee : 
Florence, Italy, Jan. 25, 1888. 
B. F. Jones , Esq ., Chairman of the Republi¬ 
can National Committee. 
Sir:—I wish through you to state to the 
members of the Republican party that my 
name will not be presented to the National 
Convention, called to assemble in Chicago in 
June next, for the nomination of candidates 
for President and Vice-President of the United 
States. JAMES G. BLAINE. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, February 11, 1888. 
The publication of the Austro-German 
treaty perturbed Europe, which was still fur¬ 
ther disturbed by an intimation that the Itali- 
co-German treaty made the same provisions 
against France as the other against Russia. 
Monday Bismarck made a set speech for near¬ 
ly an hour and a half in the Reichstag on the 
political aspect of Europe. His attitude was, 
on the whole, peaceful. Russia won’t go to 
war; but wants an army ready to strengthen 
her position on political questions that may 
arise, especially iu the East. Russia has no 
cause for quarrel but several for gratitude to 
Germany. Germany and Austria are natur- 
nal allies. France has shown a desire for 
peace by electing a peace-loving President. 
The greatest promoter of peace, however, is 
the immense military power of Germany and 
its complete readiness for war. With a mill¬ 
ion of tne best trained, equipped and officered 
soldiers in the world facing Russia,and a mill¬ 
ion more facing France, with two millions of 
the landwher behind them to support them 
and fill up the ranks, Germany fears God 
and nothing else in the world. Of course, 
after such a speech he got the 700,000 more 
troops he asked for, and the $70,000,000 to fit 
them for the field. Privately Bismarck says 
he doesn’t expect war till 1892. All belliger¬ 
ent countries, except Germany,he considers un¬ 
ready now, and thinks they won’t, be . fully 
ready till then. After giving Bismarck’B opin¬ 
ion about the prospects for war;wouldn’t it be 
presumption to give ours?.General 
BoulaDger has again become the hero of the 
populace in France. He is wildly cheered 
wherever be appears.A cablegram this 
morning says the Marquis of Lansdowne will 
leave Canada in March, and Lord Stanley 
will enter upon his duties as Governor Gener¬ 
al rn the same month. Russian gener¬ 
als advise no further movements of troops 
westward... Prince Frederick William, eldest 
son of the Crown Prince, and after him heir 
to the Imperial Throne of Germany, denies 
emphatically that he is in favor of war for 
glory. Parliament is again in session in 
London. Irish members of Parliament who 
are accused of having violated the Crimes 
Act during recess, and who have hitherto 
evaded arrest, are being arrested in England; 
two of them were yesterday arrested at the 
door of the House of Commons as they were 
about to enter to take their seats—no immu¬ 
nity for them during the sessions of Parlia¬ 
ment. Gladstone has returm d from Italy in 
prime health for a vigorous Home Rule cam¬ 
paign. 
.... A French, Belgian and Dutch syndicate 
are said to be agreed to negotiate a Russian 
loan of $150,000,000....Russia threatens 
to sever diplomatic relations with Turkey if 
the latter persists in sending Kismil Pasha to 
Sofia as Turkish Commissioner. On the other 
hand, Bulgaria claims that the Berlin treaty 
provides for the sending of a Turkish commis¬ 
sioner to Bulgaria, and that failure to send a 
commissioner would be tantamount to assent¬ 
ing to the independence of Bulgaria. 
The British War office has issued an order 
directing that a statement be prepared at 
each military center detailing the facilities 
for summoning the reserves and strengthen¬ 
ing the battalions from the depots within 
48 hours in the event of the mobilizing of the 
army becoming necessary. The order is a 
precautionary step to enable a new mobiliza¬ 
tion scheme to work well if it should be neces¬ 
sary to put it in force. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 11, 1888. 
The appropriation for the agricultural ex¬ 
periment stations runs only to July 1, 1888. 
Great care should be taken in every place to 
apply the money honestly to the very best ad¬ 
vantage, otherwise no more appropriations 
may be made. There will be 40 stations, and 
every farmer who applies for them to the sev-' 
eral stations, is entitled to receive all the 
bulletins and reports issued by all the stations 
as fast as published, free of all charge—even 
that of postage. A postal card to each will 
thus secure a large mass of agricultural liter¬ 
ature . 
.... The total receipts of milk in this city last 
year were 5,663,201 cans of 40 quarts each 
with an equivalent 1,040,000 cans more in the 
shape of cream and condensed milk. The 
creameries probably sent indirectly 1,500,000 
cans more or a total of 8,204,210 cans of 40 
quart each or 328,128,400 quarts. This big 
lacteal ocean has brought, wholesale, per. 2)4 
to 3% cents a quart, averaging, perhaps, 2% 
cents"to the farmer after deducting expenses. 
It has retailed at about six cents at the 
groceries and eight cents delivered—averag¬ 
ing. say. seven cents. Price to fanners about 
$9,000,000; price to retailers, $23.000,000,- 
.... Wheat reports from Kentucky, Tennessee, 
and Texas, whence wheat crops come into mar¬ 
ket first, are favorable, especially those from 
Tennessee. Except in Michigan there 
is little snow on the Western wheat fields just 
now. Little or no marketing of wheat in the 
spring wheat States owing to the bad condi¬ 
tion ojf the roads .... Plenty of rain in 
California. Farmers parted with corn free¬ 
ly in January, especially in Iowa and 
Nebraska, which bad most to spare. High 
prices and good roads favored sales. - 
Both Chambers of thd Swedish Parliament 
have passed bills imposing a duty of 2)4 
crowns per 100 kilos or foreign rye, wheat, 
barley, corn, peas and beans—a crown is 26.8 
cts: A kilo is 21-5 pounds. The duty on flour 
is made nearly double as much.. 
W. D. Hoard says that Wisconsin farmers 
will build 2,000 additional silos the coining 
summer _According to the Auditor’s 
report, the sum of $26,255.32 was paid into the 
Kentucky State treasury in 1887 as tax upon 
studs.It is estimated that $100,000 
000 change hands annually over horse races 
in Australia. There are 250 registered book¬ 
makers iu Victoria alone.The interna¬ 
tional Range Cattle Association has called a 
special meetiug to be held at Denver, Colo., 
March 27, to consider the future of the ranch¬ 
ing industry.The “cattle drift” from 
Eastern Colorado, the Panhandle and North¬ 
eastern New Mexico, since cold weather set 
in,is filling the Southern ranges with the great¬ 
est diversity of brands and ear-marks the 
country there has seen for many years. 
.... There is a bill in the Senate and another 
in the House, at Washington, permitting the 
the importation of live stock, duty free, for 
breeding purposes, by dealers who do not 
intend to use them for their own purposes, 
but to sell them to others. Both bills also 
authorize and direct the Secretary of the 
Treasury to remit all duties which may have 
accrued against the importers. This is in 
accordance with the Rural’s expressed de¬ 
sire.The Agricultural Society of Dela¬ 
ware held its annual session at Dover last 
Tuesday, and re elected J. Frank Denny, 
President and D. P. Barnard, Jr., Secretary. 
The State Board of Agriculture also met. M. 
Hayes, Corresponding Secretary, in his 
report, advised the calling of a public meeting 
of farmers and fruit-growers to discuss the 
agricultural interests of Delaware. 
Crops & i-Markets. 
i* , , Saturday, Feb. 11, lb88. i 
j* The February _statistical report of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, a summary of which 
has been telegraphed from Washington this 
morn'ng, relates to numbers and values of 
farm animals. There is a reported increase in 
horses, mules and cattle, and a decrease in 
sheep and swine. The largest rate of increase 
is in horses, amounting to fully five per cent., 
and is general throughout the country, though 
largest west of the Mississippi. The aggregate 
exceeds 13,000,000. The increase in mules av¬ 
erages 3)4 per cent. The increase in cattle is 
2)4 per cent., corresponding closely with ad¬ 
vances in population. It makes the aggregate 
over 49,000,000, or 82 per 100 of population. 
The increase is nearly as large in milch cows 
as in other cattle. In sheep the decline ap¬ 
pears to be between two and three per cent., 
the aggregate of flocks being about 43,500,000. 
There is a smaller decline in numbers of 
swine—less than one per cent —leaving the 
aggregate over 44,000,000. Prices of horses 
and mules are nearly the same as last year, 
but both are lower than in the year 1884, when 
the continuous advance from 1877 culminated. 
The average for all ages is $71.82 for horses, 
and $79.78 for mules, a decrease of 33 cents 
and 87 cents respectively.’ From 1879 to 
1884 the annual estimates of prices of milch 
cows and of other cattle advanced yearly, 
and the decline has since been uninterrupted, 
without exception for either class of stock. 
The fall in milch cows has been from $26.08 
to $24.65, over 5 per cent., and “oxen and other 
cattle” from $19.79 to $17.79, a decline of 10 
per cent, in the last year. In sheep, as in other 
stock, the annual advance was quite steady 
after 1879, and amounted to 22 per cent, in 
four years. From 1883 to 1886 the decline 
was.over 25 per cent., or from $2.53 to $1.91. 
The next year’s average was $2.01 and the 
present average $2.05 or nearly as much as in 
the depression of 1879, when prices were the 
lowest in 20 years. There has been an advance 
in the average for swine of all ages from $4 48 
to $4.98 or 11 per cent. The annual advance 
was continuous from 1879 to 1883, then declin¬ 
ing to 1886, and slightly advancing again 
since. The aggregate value of all farm ani¬ 
mals Is $8,000,000 more than a year ago, the 
totals for cattle being smaller by about $64,- 
000,000, for sheep a trifle smaller, with in¬ 
crease in those for horses, mules and swine. 
The horses represent $946,000,000, the 'mules 
$175,000 000, the cattle $978,0u0,000, swine 
$221,000,000 and sheep $88,000,000; a grand 
aggregate of $2,409,000,000 for these classes of 
domestic animals on farms and ranches. 
During the week wheat has gone off 1 cent., 
with a tendency to firmness, due to better ex¬ 
port enquiry at the close. According to Brad- 
street, exports, wheat and flour, both coasts, 
this week (to February 10) equal 2,254,840 
bushels of wheat, about 600,000 bushels more 
than last week. Russia’s new wheat crop 
promises to exceed that of last year by 
one-third, or about 63,000,000 bushels. 
Chili and the Argentine Republic have 
each doubled their exports of wheat and 
of Indian corn within six years, as compared 
with the preceding six years. The outlook is 
for a decline of from 300,000 to 500,000 bushels 
of wheat iu the “official” visible supply report 
next Monday. 
A San Francisco circular announces the 
shipment of wool eastward from that port 
last year at 29.225,204 pounds, as against 34,- 
193.364 in 1886 and 42,550,242 in 1885. A large 
attendance is reported from the London sales, 
and bidding has been active from the start, 
save for the last day or two. 
The Boston market, according to Brad- 
street’s, is more in sellers’ favor than for 
many weeks. Manufacturers are taking 
stock for their present needs, and are antici¬ 
pating the future to some extent at the cur¬ 
rent quotations. There is a particulai ly good 
request for Michigan X fleeces, which have 
sold in some instances at an advance of one- 
half cent per pound for combing wool, both 
washed and unwashed, and for pulled stock. 
The market for Australian wool is firm, with 
light offerings and short supplies in store. 
The sales of the week in Boston are reported 
at 3,182.800 pounds, as compared with 3.373,000 
pounds last week and 2,433,000 pounds in the 
corresponding week a year ago. At Philadel¬ 
phia the market has relapsed into dullness. 
Only 4~4,000 pounds wore sold this week, as 
against 891,000 pounds last week and 535,000 
pounds for the corresponding week last year. 
Bids for good-sized lines have been made in 
some cases, but were generally )4 to lc. below 
the lowest view of sellers. There is a steadier 
feeling among holders, but no quotable change 
in the market. 
The receipt of hogs at Chicago have been 
light. The packing in the West is still being 
diminished as compared with season of 1886-87, 
There are three weeks more packing to com¬ 
plete the winter season, and the diminished 
number of hogs and their diminished weight 
and yield of lard, against augmented domestic 
consumption and 76,280,749 pounds diminished 
hog products exported since November 1 last, 
will have in the end their legitimate effect on 
values. 
Communications Received for the Wbek Ending 
February 11,1888. 
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