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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. February 25, 1888. 
"Wednesday the Democratic National Com¬ 
mittee in session at Washington, decided to 
hold the convention for nominating candi¬ 
dates for President and Vice-President at St. 
Louis, beginning June 5. On the previous 
day the date named was July 3, and San 
Francisco bad most votes as the place, having 
offered to pay all expenses thither, there and 
back for all the delegates. The final deci¬ 
sion as to the place and date is greatly in 
favor of the nomination of Cleveland for 
President. The change of date from a fort¬ 
night after to a fortnight before the Repub- 
ticaD convention shows that the party, instead 
of waiting to take advantage of any mistakes 
of its opponents, is resolved to make the next 
campaign on a platform of tariff reform as 
set forth in the President’s message. It was 
at St. Louis in 1876 that the Democratic con¬ 
vention which nominated Tilden and Hen¬ 
dricks declared: “We demand that all cus- 
tum-bouse taxation shall be for revenue only,” 
and it is proposed that the St. Louis conven¬ 
tion of 1888 shall repeat this demand. 
... Freshets last Tuesday did much damage in 
Western Massachusetts, and portionsof Con¬ 
necticut.Mount Vernon, Illinois, is a 
town of about 2,500 inhabitants, about 75 
miles southeast of St. Louis. About 5 o’clock 
last Sunday afternoon, with little or no warn¬ 
ing, a terrible cyclone struck the place, laying 
about two-thirds of it in ruins. The visitation 
was preceded by hail, and followed by fire. 
The list of killed, fatally injured and seriously 
hurt, is officially reported as follows: Killed, 
38; fatally injured and dying, 8; seriously in¬ 
jured, but may recover, 46; wounded, but not 
in danger. 67. About 360 houses were destroy¬ 
ed and fully 1,700 people are homeless. The 
first hurried estimate placed the loss at $1,000,- 
000, but later accounts put it at about, half that 
sum . .The President and partv have been 
very enthusiastically received on their trip to 
Florida. He is on his way home now, and 
will arrive in Washington this evening. His 
absence from the Capital, it is said, was timed 
so that he would be away during the session 
of the National Democratic Committee, lest 
it should be said that he had in any way in¬ 
fluenced the decision of the members. 
Banker and philanthropist William Wilson 
Corcoran, of Washington, died at six o’clock 
yesterday morning, in his 89th year. Born in 
Georgetown, D. C.. Dec. 27, 1798. Father 
came from Ireland in 1783. William went 
into the drug business in 1817. but failed in 
1825. Twenty years later, in 1843, be settled 
in full with his old creditors, paying interest 
on the debts during the interval. From 1828 
to 1836 he did a great deal of business in real 
estate in Washington, and in 1841 became 
Government financial agent. Went into the 
banking business with Riggs and made a 
great deal of money. Retired from business 
in 1854 to manage his great private property. 
Died worth $6,000,000, it is supposed, after 
having given away over $3,000,000 in public 
and private benefactions.•. 
.... After 35 out of the 38 States have passed 
laws prohibiting the advertisement of lotteries 
within their limits.Congress has done so with¬ 
in the District of Columbia, though several 
champions of the “freedom of the press"’ bitter¬ 
ly opposed the measure,and managed to get 114 
votes against it.The Mount Hamilton 
Observatory, Calif., built to receive the great 
Lick telescope, turns out a lamentable failure. 
The pier for the telescope, the movable floor, 
the groove in which the dome moves, the iron 
tower, and all the machinery are found to be 
objectionable for one cause or another. The 
whole thing will have to be replaced, and 
meanwhile astronomical work must be sus¬ 
pended . The New York Chamber of 
Commerce wants the Government to pay 
American vessels engaged in the foreign 
carrying trade 30 cents per registered ton for 
every 1.000 miles traveled. This would give 
a 2,000 ton ship $2,000 more than she earned 
on a voyage to Liverpool and back.It’s 
reported that Louisiana is likely to go Repub¬ 
lican this year, owing to the bitter feelings 
caused by proposition to take the duty off 
sugar. There is a movement to allow a 
bounty for all sugar produced in this country, 
while keeping foreign sugar on the free list -.. 
An attempt was made Monday in East 
Greenwich, R. I., to murder two active. Fro 
hibitionists by exploding dynamite and 
poisoning a well.The United States 
laws are in future to extend over the 10,000 
people iu “No Man’s Laud”.. ..The New 
Jersey Senate has f assed the County Option 
High License bill by a vote of 12 to 6, and 
the measure is now before the Governor. 
Thursday the encampment of the Grand 
Army iu Syracuse elected General N. M. 
Curtis commander, and General H. W. Slo¬ 
cum, delegate-at-large, to the National En¬ 
campment .The lawyers of Jacob Sharp 
are said to be sad because he has cut down 
their bills one-third, W. Bourke Cockran’s 
excepted.. .. Nova Scotia’s fish catch this 
year amounted to $8,500,000 The auto¬ 
graph collection of the late Ben. Perley Poore 
brought about $6,500 at auction the other day 
. ... A petition sent out by the Farmers’ 
Alliance has recently been circulated in some 
districts, praiiug Cougress to assume control 
of the telegraph business of the country .. 
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions has 
acted favoralby on the Senate bill increasing 
the rate of peusioa for total deafness to $30 a 
month General Schofield’s father, who 
died a few days ago in Cnieago, at the ago of 
87 years, was for half a century a conspicu¬ 
ous pioneer and missionary of the Baptist 
Church iu the West .. The most heavily 
insured man in the United States is Dr. David 
Hostetter, whose policies aggregate_$800,000.. 
_Ex-Secretary McCulloch and his wife will 
celebrate their golden wedding March 25.... 
....One branch of the Ohio Legislature has 
passed a bill for the organization of a secret 
service to assist in effectively listing personal 
property for taxation .... The issuance of 
the mandate in the Maxwell-Preller murder 
case is postponed in view of the fact that a 
petition for a rehearing has been forwarded 
to the Supreme Court. The effect of this 
will be to put off for the present the execution 
of the sentence of death pronounced upon 
Brooks, alias Maxwell, bv the Missouri State 
Court.It is now claimed that the Blair 
Educational bill will be buried in the House 
Committee on Education and w’ill not be re¬ 
ported to that body. Certainly the prosnects 
for its pa-sage are very poor indeed. In its 
passage through the Senate it bad seven votes 
less than last year.In Castle Garden, in 
New York, there arrived last year 25.778 Jew r - 
ish immigrants. 1.570le c s than the year before. 
No more than 150,000 iu all arrived during 
the past six years to the 300.000 American 
Jews, so that their whole uumber is now 
about 450.000 among the 60.000.000 of popula¬ 
tion in this country ... Collector Magone. 
of this port, has made sure that, of 150,000 
pounds of opium taken from bond duty free, 
ostensibly for shipment to Havana, only 20,- 
000 pounds were landed at that port. The 
duty on the 130,000 pounds unaccounted for 
would have been $1,300,000. The withdrawals 
were made by about fifteen firms of this city. 
. ..Charles H. Corliss, the distinguished in¬ 
ventor and mechanical engineer, died at Provi¬ 
dence, R. I.. last Tuesday (February 21). at 
the age of 70.The text of the fisheries 
treaty is made public, with a supplementary 
treaty to be in force pending ratification of 
the main one, and a message by President 
Cleveland favoring both and lauding recip¬ 
rocity. The chief points were given here last 
week. Opinions with regard to it are very 
conflicting. It is generally opposed in Can¬ 
ada. In England, where little interest is gen¬ 
erally felt in the matter, it is acquiesced in 
Here the Democrats praise it. and the Repub¬ 
licans revile it. It will hardly be confirmed 
by the Senate. It provides for the free entry 
of Canadian fish and oil in return for full 
liberty for American fishermen to fish iu 
Canadian waters, etc.; so Protectionists of 
all sorts are against it as a free-trade measure. 
All those who dislike Chamberlain, the chief 
English Commissioner, especially the “Irish- 
Aireric.ans” are bitterly opposed to it; and. 
of course. Republicans can’t see any good in a 
Democratic measure, especially in a Presi¬ 
dential election year. Then again, it certainly 
has some very objectionable features, and 
Americans, as a whole, are not very anxious 
to put an end to the squabbling with Can¬ 
ada, as the fishery troubles affect financially 
only a small part of the population. 
....Hon. C. S. Carey, of Olean, N. Y,. is the 
new Solicitor of the Treasury. On De¬ 
cember 4, farmer Bennett, of East Newport, 
Me., was robbed of $33,000 and almost mur¬ 
dered by burglars. Two men named Whitney 
and Foster were arrested for the crime, and 
both have confessed that they did the work. 
.Martin Irons, the former Knights of 
Labor leader, is being tried at St. Louis, 
charged with tapping a telegraph wire during 
the railroad strike on the Gould roads, two 
years ago. From the annual report of 
the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics 
it appears that out. of 316,740 wage-workers 
in that State 241,589, or nearly 30 per cent, 
were idle something over four months during 
1887... .The railroad w T ar in the Northwest still 
continues—estimated loss already suffered by 
the roads—over $3.000.000.Retail 
liquor selling fees in Boston have been raised 
from $800 to $1,000 .A National 
Anti-Liquor Republican conference will meet 
in New York April 18 .... General 
Philip H. Sheridan and Editor George W. 
Childs both say a very emphatic “No,” to the 
proposition that they should be Presidential 
candidates. There’s still a wwld of doubt as to 
the meaning and results of Blaine’s letter from 
Florence. Each person and paper draws the 
inference that pleases him or it best.The 
Democratic majority of the Committee on 
Territories of the House of Representatives is 
reported to have agreed upon a bill admitting 
Dakota, Montana. Washington and New Mex¬ 
ico Territories as States into the Union 
Congress proposes to appropriate money for 
a colored world’s fair at Atlanta, Ga-Bank¬ 
er Flood, Mackay’s partner and bosom friend 
for years, is reported to have lost $10,000,000 
by that California wheat corner last fall. 
Mackay, who was in Europe at the date of the 
collapse, is said to blame Flood, and the latter 
blames Mackay, and the old friends are report¬ 
ed to be “out.” Flood is all broken up and 
fears he’ll end his days in the poor-house. 
He’ll have to get rid of several millions more, 
however, before he need do so.The 
Dakota Supreme Court has decided that the 
local option law must stand in the 64 counties 
ihat voted for it.The condition of 
the Indians in Lac La Biche, Canadian N. T., 
is deplorable, having been cut off from gov¬ 
ernment assistance since the Riel rebellion. 
They are raiding the settlers and stealing 
property.Gideon Bordeau, Queen’s 
printer for Manitoba, has been found over 
$5,000 short in his accounts, and has emigrat¬ 
ed to the United States.Monday 
the House refused, ayes 129, noes 128, not the 
necessary two-thirds, to pass the Hoar joint 
resolution, changing the date of Inauguration 
Day and extending until April 30, 1889, the 
term of the 50th Congress — .... Most of 
the Pennsylvania striking coal miners have 
returm d to work. They threatened to turn 
out again, however, as the Company refused 
to re-employ some ot the engineers and oiher 
leaders. It has been at last agreed, however, 
that no discrimination is to be made against 
any of the strikers , all of whom are to receive 
their former positions. This will, of course, 
necessitate the discharge of the scabs who 
went to work during the strike. The men 
have to buy nearly all their goods at the Com¬ 
pany's stores where they have hitherto been 
charged nearly one-third too much; hence¬ 
forth they will get the goods cheaper. Aus¬ 
tin Corbin, President of the Reading Rail¬ 
road, has seut $29,000 for distribution among 
the impoverished miners. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Feb. 25, 1888. 
Europe appears bound to have peace even 
at the point of the bayonet. Every nation 
in it that can raise money enough by hook 
or by crook, is working as hard as possible to 
enlist more troops, equip and drill those 
already raised better; strengthen fortifications, 
increase its fleet and prepare in the best pos¬ 
sible way for immediate war—all professedly 
in the interests of peace. The Russian troops 
on the frontier are now estimated at 870,000 
with vast trains of artillery and hordes of 
cavalry. The men are wretchedly quartered 
and the mortality every month surpasses 
that of a severe battle. The transportation 
is so bad that man and beast are suffering 
from lack of food. The Czar insists that 
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria must “leave,” 
and he will then consent that a successor 
shall be duly elected by the Sobranje con¬ 
sisting exclusively of members from Bul¬ 
garia, with none from Eastern Roumelia 
south of the Balkans. Bismarck agrees with 
him that Ferdinand’s election was iu viola¬ 
tion of the tieatyof Berlin. Pressure is 
brought on the signatory Powers to induce 
them to ask the Sultan, as suzerain of Bulga¬ 
ria, to order Prince Ferdinand to abdicate, or 
in case.of refusal, force him to do so. They 
seem willing to yield; but the Bulgarians and 
their Prince say that they will not obey the 
Sultan’s order, and will resist anv force he 
mav employ. The Bulgarian trouble is still 
the most probable immediate danger to peace 
in Europe, for the Bulgars would never ven¬ 
ture to dare Russia if they were not encour¬ 
aged by Austria. 
Heavy snow storms continue throughout 
Europe, causing general stoppage of traffic. 
In many places drifts are several feet deep. 
Fears are entertained of a sudden thaw, 
which may cause disastrous floods. Reports 
from St. Remo during the week have been 
highly conflicting with regard to the condi¬ 
tion of the Crown Prince. A cablegram this 
morning says an important operation will be 
performed on his throat to-day. Affairs in 
the Uuited Kingdom are of no special interest. 
_The United States Consul at Callao re¬ 
ports to the Department of State that cholera 
is abating both at Valparaiso and at Santiago. 
He also reports that owing to a lack of confi¬ 
dence in the Peruvian Government the paper 
money recently issued t»y it has depreciated 
in value to such an extent as to be almost 
worthless . The British Government 
denies that an English military force has 
entered or is about to enter Venezuela bor¬ 
dering on British Guiana, South America. 
Between the two countries lies a barren tract 
the ownership of which I as loug been in dis¬ 
pute. Valuable gold mines have lately been 
found there and $10,090,000 of English capital 
have been invested in them It was said a 
week ago that England had forcibly seized 
them while their ownership was being arbi¬ 
trated, hence this denial. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 25, 1888. 
Arrangements are l eing made in various 
parts of New England for starting new 
creameries ... While the Northern States 
are generally in favor of taxing cotton-seed 
oil lard just as oleomargarine is taxed, the 
cotton growing States are strenuously opposed 
to such a measure 1 here’s a report that 
Professor Sanborn will soon leave the State 
Agricultural College of Missouri. If true, 
Missouri will lose a big advantage, but then 
some other State is sure to gaiu it, unless he 
should decide to accept the position of In¬ 
structor of Agriculture in Queensland, which 
Australian colony has written toCom. Col man 
for such a person at a salary of $3,000 a year.. 
Some time ago the Tennessee Jersey 
breeders challenged the Holstein Friesian 
breeders of the United States to match 20 
Jersey cows selected in Tennessee with 20 
Holstein-FriesiaDS selected from any State in 
the Union, in a trial forsupremacy in butter¬ 
making. TheH.-F. breeders have just given 
their reasons for declining the contest_The 
Florida orange crop is estimated at 700,000 
boxes. In many parts of the State people are 
planting peach instead of orange trees as 
yielding more profitable crops .. Friday 
week, Owen Doyle an aged farmer, while 
driving over the Erie railroad tracks at 
Howell’s Depot, N. Y., bad both his horses 
killed, a leg cut off at the knee and an arm 
at the elbow, by collision with the train. 
.babbits are said to be increasing 
so fast in certain sections of Arizona that 
the ranges are beginning to show the re¬ 
sults of their depredations-Prof. Law says 
that while there is h ss * 1 ‘ pleuro ’* than usual 
iu the country, it is more viiulent this year 
than ever before Several car-loads ot 
Hereford and Short-horn cattle have recently 
been shipped from Illinois to South America, 
principally to Buenos Ayres.... China is said 
to send to this country each year 220,000 
dozens of eggs... Farmers in the t aeramento 
Valley, California, are compelled to patrol 
their wheat fields to prevent wild 
geese from destroying them.A com¬ 
pany to be called the American Live Stock 
Express Company has been formed to carry 
out a plan which is likely to revolutionize the 
live stock traffic of the country. A contract 
has been given to a Buffalo firm to build 100 
cars to be furnished with paper wheels, West- 
inghouse air-brakes and all the latest applian¬ 
ces for the comtort of stock. It is expected to 
begin business March 1 .The butter 
egg and poultry dealers of the States of Ohio, 
Indiana and Pennsylvania, met at Findlay, 
Ohio, last Wednesday in their 12th annual 
convention, with delegates from over 60 towns 
present, as well as a uumber of representatives 
from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and 
other great consuming centers. The conven¬ 
tion fixed the price of eggs at 12 cents per 
dozen until New-York prices drop below 17 
cents when the members of the association are 
to make a corresponding reduction. 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.—A dr. 
Four experiment stations are to'be established 
in different parts of Arkansas in connection 
with the main Agricultural Station at Fay¬ 
ette. which is supported by the Government’s 
$15,000 .The State crop report for 
Michigan, for February 1. gives condition of 
cattle 95. sheep 96. swine 95. Replies to ques¬ 
tion if wheat suffered injury during January 
were 799 No, and 57 Yes.Prices of pure¬ 
bred cattle were unprecedentedly low in 
Scotland last year. The average price for 
I, 602 beasts (Short-horns and Aberdeen-An- 
gusl, which were sold at auctions, was £19 
Is. 3d., whereas in 1886, the average for 1,800 
head was £22 14s. 4d., and in 1S85 prices were 
considerably higher . Count Tolstoi, the 
Russian Minister of the Interior, has submit¬ 
ted to the Ministry a bill to prohibit peasant 
proprietors from selling the holdings granted 
to them when serfdom was abolished. The 
Council of the Empire rejected a similar bill 
in 1885 ... Bradstreet’s says that the aver¬ 
age value of the wheat crop of the United 
States per acreThas*been: In 1880, $12 48; 
1881. $12.12; 1882, $11.99; 1883, $10.52: 1884, 
$8.38; 1885, $8.05; 1886, $8,54: 1887, $8.25. 
J. R. Dodge, Statistician of the Agricultural 
Department, has just received the first general 
memorandum on the prospects of the Indian 
wheat crop of the season 18 Q 7-88. It shows a re¬ 
duction of 1,209,000 acres from the normal area. 
.From a large number of reports it ap¬ 
pears that early-sown winter wheat has done 
uncommoully well, while late corn is weak 
and sickly. It is thought Texas will have the 
largest wheat crop she has ever cut. With 
the exception of Michigau." nearly all the 
Western winter wheat area is bare. 
Iowa farmers have just imported a lot of 
choice pedigree Suffolk mares and stallions. 
They think they can improve^upon the French 
strains.Samuel Clay, a wealthy farm¬ 
er living-'near Paris, Ky.,’died the other day, 
aged 72 years. He was the largest land owner 
in Kentucky, andjprobably the largest tax¬ 
payer. He owned 9,000 acres between Paris 
and Winchester, besides’large’tracts iu’Nich- 
olas and Fleming counties. The amount of 
his landed wealth is estimated at $1,000.000... 
.... An epidemic has broken out among hogs 
in Denmark and Sweden, and our Treasury 
Department“has prohibited importations of 
live hogs, or hog products, from those coun¬ 
tries .... After’1,900 suits. Dairy Commis¬ 
sioner Brown, of this State, thinks be has got 
the upper hand of the illegal traffic in imita¬ 
tion butter.Phylloxera and mildew 
continue their ravages among the vineyards 
of France the products of the vintage baying 
declined from 28,536,000 hectoliters in 1885, to 
25,063.000 hectoliters ini 1886 and 24,333,000 
hectoliters in 1887, a decrease\of more than 
10,000,000 hectoliters since 1877. A hectoliter 
is nearly 26j^" gallons .In spite of the 
heavy duties” on imports, the prices of meat 
have ^fallen in Frauce^during the last three 
years about as heavily as in this country-. 
.Silk culturetrogresses slowly in Cal¬ 
ifornia. •».The Silk Culture Association pos¬ 
sesses seven acres suitable for cultivation and 
4,600 trees. E. Redman, Leighton, 
Iowa, has' a7prolific'grade Short horn cow 
that in 1879 had one calf, in 1880 had twins, 
in 1881 had one calf, iu 1882;bad three calves, 
two heifers and a bull, in; 1883 had twins, in 
1884 twins, inl8o5 one, iu 1886 one, in Febru¬ 
ary, 1887, twins—altogether 15 calves before 
she was 10 years old; only lost one ralf. 
The ensilage business is’ increasing in 
Great Britain. In 1886 there were 1 605 ".silos 
there, having a total capacity ^of 4 560,734 
cubic feet, whereas in 1887 there were 2.694, 
with aAotal capacity of 7,242,917 cubic feet. 
A lot of grocery swindlers from Cincin¬ 
nati have taken in farmers in the western tier 
of counties in Ohio, in the last few weeks, to 
an amount estimated at $30,000 Nettie 
Hovis, aged 17, daughter of Benjamin Hovis, 
an>mploy£ of the Camden. N. J.. gas works, 
died Saturday afternoon from the effects of 
trichinosis. The girl’s father and mother 
have died since. The parasites were con¬ 
tained in pork chops of which the family 
ate two weeks before. 
Crops & i-Ufliiuts. 
Saturday, February 25, 1888. 
The Cincinnati Price Current has been 
making a very thorough investigation into 
the clover seed crop of 1887. It concludes 
that the crop was fairly good in quantity 
especially in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and 
Southeru;illiuois, while the quality was above 
the average of years, being fine, as a rule. 
Toledo, Ohio,Jjhas now 20,000 bags against 
10,000 a year ago, and other markets are re¬ 
ported to be holding large quantities, though 
probably the aggregate will not exceed the 
usual supply. Iu Wisconsin and North West¬ 
ern Illinois, the crop was short. It is thought 
that the demand for clover seed in general for 
seeding purposes will be larger than usual 
this spring, partly due to failure of last year’s 
seeding, from drought, and partly from the 
high price of Timothy seed, which was short 
iu production. For five months from August 
1 to January 1 the exports of clover seed 
were 8.878,000 pounds, against 3,233.000 in 
1886, 575,000 in 1885, 14,947,000 in 1884, 15,- 
340,000 iu 1883, 13.142,000 in 1882, and 13,478,- 
000 in 1881, for the same period. The aver¬ 
age value per bushel was $4 65. Our chief 
foreign markets are, in the order of their im¬ 
portance as purchasers, Germany, the United 
Kingdom, Canada. Denmark, Netherlands and 
Belgium. About $4 is the price which dealers 
now pay in Cincinnati and Chicago, and 
slightly less at Toledo. 
The following is a summary of this morning’s 
Bradstreet’s reports on matters of agricultural 
interest, the data for which were obtained, 
chiefly by telegraph, from all parts of the 
country: 
The total export of wheat and flour from 
Atlantic ports September 1 to February 19, was 
10,310,000 bushels less than in a like portion 
of 1886-87. Both coasts, July 1,1887, to date, 
the total wheat and flour.shipped equals 90,- 
e00,000 bushels. Indian, Russian and Aus- 
