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THE BUBAL WIW-YOBKER. 
.of f!jc Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 3, 1888. 
The Trusts (and there is a multitude of 
them) are being overhauled by a committee of 
the New York Legislature and another of 
Congress. The disclosures as to their capital, 
organization and methods, elicited under the 
utmost pressure, imperfect as they are, show 
that these monopolies are to day the greatest 
source of extortion and oppression alike to pro¬ 
ducers and consumers,and while they threaten 
to dispense with middlemen they appropri¬ 
ate the profits and exactions of that super¬ 
abundantly objectionable class. Other States, 
also, are to investigate the pests, and there is 
little doubt that some laws will be devised to 
crush or control the nuisances. New ones, 
however, are being organized every week; 
but public opinion as it becomes more intelli¬ 
gent and better informed, is solidifying 
all'the more' against them. . 
... The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail¬ 
road system extends from Chicago to Denver, 
and consists of a regular net-work of lines, 
with two main trunks, and a multitude of 
connecting and lateral feeders, one of which 
goes as far north as St. Paul, while others go 
as far south as St. Louis and Kansas City. It 
gridirons larere sections of Illinois. Iowa, Mo., 
Kansas and Nebraska.tapping also Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and Colorado. It is one of the 
greatest railroad systems of the country. The 
locomotive engineers on it have bpen averag¬ 
ing from SI 10 to $135 per month; but engi¬ 
neers on other systems get more, and last 
Monday all the engineers and firemen on tne 
C. B. & Q. system struck. Tbev demanded 
chiefly higher wages, and that all, whatever 
the skill, diligence or experience of any, 
should be paid the same. The company re¬ 
fused. Freight and passenger traffic has been 
paralized in consequence, through a vast area 
of country during the week. Ollier railroad 
hands and people engaged in other lines of 
business dependent on railroads in one way or 
another, have been forced into idleness. The 
strikers are thought to number about 10.000 
in all; the others forced into idleness by them 
can’t be less than 30.000. Coals were scarce in a 
great deal of that country,and now there is afu- 
el famine. The losses to farmers from death and 
injury to stock in transit from the stoppage 
of supplies and of shipments of produce, from 
the decrease of markets and other causes must 
be very high. The losses to the community 
at large must be enormous even for a week. 
The Engineers threaten to extend the strike 
to other lines which, they allege, are helping 
the C. B. & Q., by carrying its freight and 
passengers to competing points. 1 he Com¬ 
pany is doing its best to supply the places of 
the strikers with men from all parts of the 
country, especially by members of the K. of 
L.. whose places the Brotherhood of Engineers 
filled during their strike on the Reading R R. 
A long, bitter and disastrous struggle seems 
not improbable. •••• . 
.About 49,000 persons died of small-pox m 
Cuba last year... .The cars on the Erie 
Railroad are to be heated by steam carried by 
a rubber hose from the engine through the 
cars, with a radiator in each . . .Martin 
Irons has been acquitted at St. Louis of tap¬ 
ping the telegraph wires during the great 
strike on the Gould system two years ago.... 
_The New Jersey Legislature has passed 
the County Option High-license Bill over Gov. 
Greens’s veto.The opposition mem¬ 
bers of the Dominion House of Commons 
unanimously decided at Ottawa, Ont., Wed¬ 
nesday, to make unrestricted reciprocity of 
trade between Canada and the United States 
the leading plank in their party platform.... 
. ..Sir Richard Cartwight. who was former¬ 
ly Canadian Minister of Finance, and ought 
to know what he is talking about, thinks that 
a majority of the Canadian people favor com¬ 
mercial union with this country . ... 1 he 
President and his party arrived in Washing¬ 
ton early Sunday morning from their south¬ 
ern trip, having, visited in addition to Jack¬ 
sonville. St. Augustine and points on the In¬ 
dian River, besides doing Charleston, S. C., 
on the way home. 
_The total receipts of the Government for 
February' were $31,422,883, and the total ex¬ 
penditures $19,424,626, being a net gain for 
the month of $11,998,257. After deducting 
interest payments from this amount,there will 
remain about $6,500,000, which will represent 
the actual decrease in the public debt for the 
month _After April 1 Signal Service 
Stations will be discontinued at the following 
places for lack of funds:—Eastport, Me.; New 
Haven, Conn ; Rochester, N. Y.; Erie, Pa.; 
Pensacola, Fla.; Sandusky. Ohio; Escanaba, 
Mich.; Keokuk, Iowa; Mackinaw City, Mich.; 
Dubuque, Iowa; Lamar, Mo., and Lexington, 
j£y.Twenty-eight counties in Michigan 
have voted for Prohibition under the Local 
Option Law. The first county to go “wet” is 
Washtenaw, which voted.Monday,by a major¬ 
ity of 1,550, against Prohibition.... The 
French Transatlantic Steamship Company 
has just equipped all its vessels with apparatus 
for spreading oil on the waves during a storm. 
Numerous recent experiments prove that oil 
has a marvelously tranquilizing effect on 
troubled waters; but this is the first instance 
of its economic use by a large practical busi¬ 
ness concern.Mr. Blaine in a tele¬ 
graphed interview with a correspondent of 
the New York World reiterates that his name 
will not, with his consent, be presented before 
the next Republican nominating convention. 
This is conceded to be final by all but a consid¬ 
erable number who still believe in the Presi¬ 
dential fortunes of the Plumed Knight. De¬ 
pew, Gresham and Harrison are coming 
prominently to the front as possible Republi¬ 
can candidates, Sherman being still in the 
lead. Cleveland and Hill are the first and 
second names in the Democratic list, with 
hardly any third as yet.In May the 
new Texas State Capitol will be completed. 
The syndicate that built it hasn’t got a cent 
of money for the work, but it got 3,000.000 
acres of land instead. The building is very 
fine, with a dome four feet higher than that 
of the National Capitol Then again, the State 
has a surplus of about $9,000.0001 ...... The 
striking coal miners in the Lehigh region after 
having been “out” nearly six months, are 
gradually resuming work and it is estimated 
that 20,000 of them will be busy by next week. 
The company will not discharge “scabs,” in¬ 
sists on discriminating against the ring-lead¬ 
ers in the strike, and will make no change in 
the old-time basis of wages. The men wanted 
wages to be regulated by the profits of the 
company.. 
Experiments just made at Pittsburgh, Pa., 
prove that water can be thoroughly purified 
by passing currents of electricity through it, 
all germs of desease being killed... A strange 
story comes from Toledo of the return to life 
of a young man supposed to have died five 
3 r ears ago, but who was resurrected by medi¬ 
cal students in search of a subject. Being in 
debt, he went West, and has just returned 
home ... The Union Square Theatre here 
was destroyed by fire Tuesday; loss, $150,000. 
... Thursday, a great fire in the block bound¬ 
ed by Lexington Ave., Forty-second St., For¬ 
ty-first St. and Third Ave., destroyed the big 
furniture factory of Pettier & Stymus, and 
other buildings within the block, and damag¬ 
ed several outside of it; loss about $750.000— 
Thursday, March 1, was the first day of “gen¬ 
tle, balmy, life-giving spring,” but reports 
from nearly all parts of the Northern States 
are inconsistent with those epithets. The wea¬ 
ther generally has been cold and stormy. On 
the night of March 1, “the worst storm by far 
of winter.” set in about Duluth, Minn.,—high 
winds, thick, whirling snow 7 , blockaded roads, 
and general discomfort. The bad weather 
extended over the whole of the Northwest. On 
the first day of spring the weather reports 
show the following figures below zero: St. 
Vincent. Minn.. 10 degrees; Fort Totten, Dak., 
10 degrees; Qu’ Appele, 14 degrees; Prince 
Albert, 16 degrees ... The ferry steamer 
Julia, plying between South Val'ejo and Val¬ 
lejo Station, Cal., 29 miles up the Bay from 
San Francisco, was blown up Monday morn¬ 
ing when put about to leave the wharf, and 
burned to the water’s edge. From 20 to 30 
lives were lost. Senator O. H- Platt, 
of Connecticut, has introduced a bill appro¬ 
priating $10,000 for the purchase by the Com- 
misssoner of Agriculture of not over 500 acres 
of land near the 100th meridian for experi¬ 
ments with grass and other forage plants, es¬ 
pecially such as are adapted to dry regions ; 
and the Commissioner is directed to make 
similar experiments near Washington. I he 
100th meridian, running somewhat west of 
Devil’s Lake, Dak.; Kerney, Neb., and Hayes 
City, Kansas, was long considered the Western 
limit of agricultural operations, the elevated 
plains between it and the Rockies being con¬ 
sidered too dry for anything except stock 
raising. The Western limit of cultivation is 
already considerably beyond the 100th merid¬ 
ian, however .. . .The Nicaragua Canal Bill, 
as passed in the Senate Monday, provides that 
the principal office of the corporation shall be 
in New York city. The capital stock is to 
consist of 1.000,000 shares of $100 each, with 
the right to increase it to 2,000.000 shares up¬ 
on the vote of two-thirds of the stock outstand¬ 
ing. The company’s affairs shall be managed 
by 15 directors, to hold office for three years, 
a majority of whom shall be citizens of the 
United States. The president of the company 
must be be a citizen and resident of the Uni¬ 
ted States. In passing the measure party 
lines were obliterated. It is supposed that 
when once this project is under way, the Pan¬ 
ama Canal enterprise will weaken or col¬ 
lapse. De Lesseps, however, says that though 
his canal may not be completed in 1890 accord¬ 
ing to the original sea-level design, the larg¬ 
est ships will be able to pass through it in that 
year, by means of locks. He expects the 
French Government will, after all, authorize 
a lottery loau to build it, and, meanwhile he 
will go ahead with a third issue of bonds of 
1,000 francs each to the amount of 600,000,000 
francs.. .A meeting of the stockholders of the 
Tehuantepec ship railway, held at Pittsburgh, 
Saturday, decided to organize a construction 
company. It is estimated that fully $25,000,- 
000 will be needed to complete the work. Of 
this amount it is claimed $10,000,000 can be 
secured in this country at any moment. A 
loan for the balance cau probably be negotia¬ 
ted in England. The above is a glance at the 
present condition of the three projects for 
artificial ship transportation between the At¬ 
lantic and the Pacific—a project of immense 
importance to Americans, especially to those 
of the Pacific Coast .... . 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Europe during this winter, and snow has been 
unusually deep. Over and over again terrible 
accidents from snow slides in Switzerland, 
and Italy have been announced. The worst 
of these, however, occurred last Tuesday 
when the Italian village of Valtorta was half- 
buried by an avalanche. Many houses were 
destroyed and their occupants killed. Twen¬ 
ty-three corpses were recovered next day and 
nine more since. Wolves have been unus¬ 
ually fierce and bold not only in Russia 
where the winter has been the severest in all 
respects, but in timbered and thinly inhabited 
sections in Austria, Germany, and even 
France. The sufferings of the poor have been 
greatly increased, not only by the intense 
cold, but also by the great hardships due to 
stoppage of work. The other day an ava¬ 
lanche covered the village of Sterpone, near 
Irerea, Spain, and 30 lives were lost. Sev 
eral avalanches have occurred in the province 
of Oviedo, destroying a railway bridge and a 
number of houses. Eleven persons were killed 
at Pajares.During the closing week in 
January Australia, according to the latest 
advices, had a glorious time celebrating its 
centennial. It was just 100 years since Cap¬ 
tain Cook took possession of that continental 
island for the British crown. The first col¬ 
ony consisted of convicts transported to Bot- 
auy Bay It wasn’t till 1829 that a Legisla¬ 
tive council was first formed. The popula¬ 
tion now is 3,500,000. and there are nearly 9,- 
000 miles of railroad in operation, and about 
8,000,000 acres of land in cultivation besides 
vast areas of grass lands. A centennial exhi¬ 
bition, a State banquet and a large number of 
dedications, openings and special gatherings 
made up the week’s jubilee at Sidney . 
.... The sarcophagus containing the body of 
Alexander the Great has been discovered at 
Saida. Asia Minor.. ..There is some anx¬ 
iety in Europe about the absence of any late 
news from Stanley Africanus; but it is sup¬ 
posed that he has succeeded in joining Emin 
Pasha, and that the next news will come by 
way of Zanzibar The other day there was 
some opposition in the House of Commons to 
granting a credit of £6,500 ($32,000) to defray 
the cost of Mr. Chamberlain’s mission to this 
country to negotiate that fisheries treaty. It 
appears that his expenses have been at the 
rate of $150 a day. Gladstone joined the'To¬ 
ries in praising his great ability, and the great 
results of his labor. He will probably be 
knighted, or perhaps baronefted. In either 
case he would be Sir Joseph, but a knight’s ti¬ 
tle dies with him, while a baronet’s is trans¬ 
mitted to his heirs.A woeful cry for 
help comes from the famine-stricken people of 
Asiatic Turkey. Thousands of starving crea¬ 
tures have sold their last shred of clothing 
for food, and are left even without the means 
of hiding their emaciated forms. The Ameri¬ 
can Board announces that $4,000 a month are 
imperatively needed for the next three 
months to meet the most pressing demands of 
Central Turkey alone, and that in Eastern 
Turkey the famine shows no signs of abate- .1 
ment. A little help here will go a great way. 
At Adana 400 men who have been given work 
at 15 cents a day apiece, contrive to support 
themselves and 400 others dependent upon 
them for the barest necessaries of life. Con¬ 
tributions may be forwarded through Lang- 
don S. Ward, Treasurer of the American 
Board, 1 Somerset St., Boston.... 
... In no legislative assembly in the world 
could business be so obstructed by a few mal¬ 
contents as iu the British House of Commons 
until of late, while members generally sat till 
three or four in the morning, and often till 
five or six. New rules, however, have just 
made great improvements, and though pri¬ 
marily aimed against Parnellite tactics, they 
are satisfactory to all parties and have al¬ 
ready gone into force. The House of Com¬ 
mons will sit no longer hereafter than 12 
o’clock at night, except upou a few specified 
extraordinary occasions. Tne Speaker, too, 
is given much greater liberty to silence a pro¬ 
lix member, cut short debate, and push on 
regular business . 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 3, 1888. 
Coercion is still being vigorously enforced 
in Ireland by the arrests of all who dare to 
violate the law. In England the Government 
gained a decided victory in a bye-election for 
Member of Parliament at Doncaster, York¬ 
shire, where a Liberal-Unionist was chosen 
instead of a Home Ruler. At Deptford, too, 
a district of London, a Conservative was 
elected instead of another who had resigned 
because he had become a Gladstonian. Here, 
however, the Government majority was con¬ 
siderably lessened On the Continent things 
appear to be gravitating steadily towards war 
jn the near future. Arrangements are being 
made to take the Crown Prince from St. 
Remo to Berlin so that he may die jn Ger¬ 
many. His eldest son Prince William, iu ac¬ 
cordance with Bismarck’s wish, has been 
authorized by the Emperor to act as regent 
iu case any thing should happen to the feeble 
old Kaiser or the moribund Crown Prince. 
Bulletins still speak hopetully of the state of 
the latter, but the general opinion is that he 
may die in a few weeks and can’t last longer 
than a few mouths. 
.... The cold has been extraordinarily severe in 
A Poor Th in if la Dear at Any Price. 
One oft the surest evidences of success is the 
rise of imitators, who, without experience, 
claim to do what others are doing, quicker, 
cheaper, and more effectually. Every man iu 
business knows what we refer to. But do men 
of good judgment in other branches of trade 
welcome such persons to their credit and es 
teem? Don’t they say, ‘‘We will trust the 
man who has been before the public longest.’ 
Of course they do. Drs. Starkey & Palen” 
Compound Oxygen Treatment for Consump¬ 
tion, Neuralgia, and Rheumatism, has been in 
actual use for sixteen years. More than forty 
thousand Treatments have been sold to as 
many different homes throughout this land 
Its success has been marvelous. Therefore 
imitators and springing up in many parts of 
the country. Scarcely any higher assurance 
of the value of a useful discovery or inven 
tion can be given than the fact that unscrupu¬ 
lous persons attempt to deceive the public by 
offering them an article to which they give 
the same name, and to which they attribute 
the same qualities. The intrinsic value of an 
article is best evidenced by efforts to make 
gain through imitation. 
Let it be clearly understood that the only 
genuine Campound Oxygen is manufactured 
in Philadelphia, Pa., at 1529 Arch street, by 
Drs. Starkey & Palen. Any substance made 
Hse where, and called Compound Oxygen, is 
spurious aud. worthless, and those who buy it 
Duly throw away their money, as they will in 
the end discover. Full particulars about the 
genuine Compound Oxygen and its curative 
properties may be obtained without charge 
by addressing Drs. Starkey & Palen, as above. 
—A dv. 
Saturday, March 3, 1888. 
Professor C. H. Petter has been chosen 
Dean of the Faculty of the N. H. Agricultural 
College—a good selection .-.The 
Mass. Cattle Commissioners after three years’ 
investigation, are convinced that hog cholera 
in their State is spread by feeding swill con¬ 
taining germs of the disease brought from the 
West in fresh pork, and that in no case does 
it spread from pen to pen unless infected ani¬ 
mals come in contact with healthy ones. 
_The Wheeler & Melick Company, of Al¬ 
bany. N. Y., manufacturers of agricultural 
machinery, are bankrupt, and a Receiver has 
been appointed. Bankruptcy is due to bad man¬ 
agement. Assets not known as many machines 
are in the hands of agents or of farmers who 
paid for them in notes now overdue or not yet 
due. The house started at Chatham, Columbia 
Co., in 1830: moved to Albany in 1845; was 
incorporated under its present title in 1872, 
with a capital of $200,000 ; output of works, 
$500,000 a year.At the 31st Annual 
Commencement of the American Veterinary 
College, in this city, Thursday, 32 voung men 
received the degree of Doctor of Veterinary 
Surgery •. • Last season a Georgia farmer 
made $1,000 off an acre planted in watermel¬ 
ons, and about the same time a neighboring 
doctor made $200 off the same acre . A 
bill is before the N. Y. Legislature, making 
Mav 1 a general “Arbor Day.”. The 
farmers of Western New York have been sub¬ 
jected to considerable annoyance from the 
importation of cattle on the pretext that they 
are for breeding purposes only. It is charged 
that even steers have been imported on this 
pretext .American seedsmen complain 
that under the new postal convention with 
Canada. Canadian seedsmen can mail their 
products' to any part in the United States for 
four cents a pound, while American seeds¬ 
men must pay 12 cents a pound for like ser¬ 
vice ....Two Illinois farmers have expend¬ 
ed $1,250 in lawsuits over a pig worth $3 .. 
_The West Clare (Ireland) tenants have se¬ 
cured a reduction of from 30 to 50 per cent, 
in rents. The concession is looked upon as a 
“plan of campain” victory, the tenants hav¬ 
ing adopted that policy .. 
_R. G. Head, President of the Internation¬ 
al Range Association, and largely interested 
in the range cattle business, states that the re¬ 
ports circulated in the East that the loss of 
range cattle this winter would reach from 50 
to 75 per cent, is absolutely false. The losses 
might be disastrously heavy, however, with¬ 
out having reached that dizzy hight . 
The first Texas cattle drive of the season 
started north Feb. 25, from the. vicinity of 
San Antonio. It consisted of 12,000 head of 
two and three-year-old steers, owned by J. 
R. Blocker, of Austin, Texas, and Colonel 
Stoddard, of Buffalo, Wyoming Territory. 
They will be divided into four herds of 3.000 
each. The cattle are in prime condition aud 
are expected to yield their owners a handsome 
profit.The general Land Office esti¬ 
mates that the public lands, excluding Alaska, 
classified as arable lands, on which crops can 
be raised without irrigation, at only about 
75,000,000 acres.At a recent meeting of 
the manufacturers of barbed wire, held at St. 
Louis, it was stated that on the 130,000 tons 
turned out annually by companies paying 
royalty to Washburn & Moen and El wood 15 
cents per cwt were paid—a yearly tribute of 
about $390,000. Formerly the extortion 
amounted to 75 cents per cwt., aud later to 
30 cents The late decision as to the invalid¬ 
ity of the Glidden patent is likely to disinti- 
grate the “combine,” but the public is hardly 
likely to be a gainer, for the members will 
probably form a more iniquitous combination 
-a Trust. . 
_The Farmers’ Institutes of Minnesota'by 
the close of 1888 will have cost the State $15- 
000, and the assertion may be safely made 
that the State never spent money to a better 
purpose .Governor Alva Adams. 
of Colorado, has called a convention to be held 
at Denver, March 15, for the purpose of con¬ 
sidering the conservation of the public waters 
of the State by a system of reservoirs for re¬ 
claiming the arid lands within its borders, 
and to voice the sentiments of the people as to 
the wisest and best measures that cau and 
ought to be adopted to govern the use of the 
public waters of the State. .... 
.. According to the latest accounts the Louisi¬ 
ana strawberry crop is the largest ever grown. 
The Mississippi berry crop will be an average 
one. The West Tennessee strawberry crop 
will be far below the average, aud so will that 
of Kentucky, Southeast Missouri and South¬ 
ern Illinois. The Arkansas crop will not be 
much over half the regular yield. Texas will 
not raise more than enough for home use. Al¬ 
abama will not ship many to Northern mar¬ 
kets this season. The vegetable crop in most 
of the Southern States will be large. Louisi¬ 
ana and Mississippi will have fully double the 
output of any former year. New Orleans and 
vicinity are engaged at present in shipping a 
fine cabbage crop in every direction. The 
supply around there is enormous. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, March 8,1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.— The quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. andGulf. Texas. 
Ordinary. . 
Strict Ordinary. 8% . 
Good Ordinary. 9 1-16 9 8-lb . 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 9 9-16 9 11-16 . 
Low Middling. 10 mi . 
Strict Low Middling. 10 5-16 10 3-16 . 
Middling. . VM . 
Good Middling. 10% 10% . 
Strict Good Mlddllng...U 11% . 
Middling Fair. 11% l '% . 
Fair... . 12 12% . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 9-16 Low Middling. 9 1- 6 
Strict Good Ord.8% I Middling . 10 3-16 
Hay and Straw.- There Is fair business In hay and 
straw, more especially in the better qualities whh 
prices very regular, bay— Choice lunoity,per UO ltd 
