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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 31, 1888. 
Among Congressional doings are the follow¬ 
ing; The House Committee on Rivers and 
Harbors want $19,433,7&3 to be promiscuously 
distributed for the improvement of rivers and 
harbors all over the country. This is the big 
gest appropriation ever sought for the pur¬ 
pose. Where will the money come from if 
the Mills or Randall tariff and national 
revenue amendment, bill passes, especially as 
other appropriation bills are correspondingly 
large?. .Chairman Mills of the Ways and Means 
has been dangerously sick; hence the delay 
jn discussing tariff legislation. An effort is 
being made to strengthen the chances of the 
Mills tariff bill by leaving wool as at present, 
and thus removing the objections of a number 
of Representatives . ..Mr Kerr, of Iowa, 
has presented a bill in the House to amend 
the Interstate Commerce law so as to prevent 
a railroad from bringing into a State articles 
which the roads within the same State are not 
permitted to transport .The Senate 
has passed a bill providing for the inspection 
of meats for exportation, and prohibiting the 
importation of adulterated articles of food or 
drink.The Senate committee on 
military affairs has ordered a favorable re¬ 
port to’be made on the Manderson Bill, pro¬ 
viding that each State which shall establish 
State Homes for disabled soldiers and sailors, 
and their widows and orphans, shall receive 
$100 for each person who may be cared for in 
the Home for one year . 
....The House has passed the bill for the re¬ 
lief of importers of animals for breeding pur¬ 
poses. It authorizes the Secretary of the 
Treasury to remit to the firms engaged in im¬ 
porting breeding animals, in compliance with 
the decisions and regulations of the Treasury 
Department, any duties which may have ac¬ 
crued upon such importations. The Senate 
had already passed it. Congress has 
passed an act appropriating $05,000 for the 
printing of 25,000 copies of the report on 
Cattle and Dairv Farming, published by the 
Department of State, in two volumes The 
Senate is to have 8.000 copies, and the House 
10,000. This is the finest work ever published 
by the Government on agricultural matters. 
... .In the Senate is a bill granting all women 
who served as nurses for six months or longer 
in the war a pension of $25 per month. . 
.... A favorable report has been ordered in 
the lower House of Congress on a bill intro¬ 
duced by “Deacon” White, of Brooklyn, to 
punish by a maximum fine of $1,000 and im¬ 
prisonment for three years persons who pre¬ 
tend to deal in counterfeit money. This is 
pretty sure to become a law, and will proba¬ 
bly put, an end to the “green-goods” or “saw¬ 
dust” line of swindling. It is good enough as 
far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. 
•The man who tries to get the counterfeit 
money is just as big a rascal as the man who 
pretends to supply it. and should get the same 
punishment The President has sent to Con¬ 
gress calling attention to the fact that conta¬ 
gious diseases among swine are prevalent in 
several foreign countries, and expressing a 
doubt whether infection from importations 
can be prevented under existing legislation, 
and lie recommends the passage of a law pro¬ 
hibiting such importations. Accordingly a 
bill has been introduced into the Senate 
directing the President to suspend the impor¬ 
tation of domestic animals for a limited time, 
and to modify, revoke or renew the prohibi¬ 
tion, as the public interests may require. It 
also directs him to prohibit the importation 
of products of foreign States which discrimi¬ 
nate against the products of the United States. 
_The Arkansas State Penitentiary Board. 
after full investigation into the condition of 
convicts leased out by contractors and specu¬ 
lators, report a horrible state of affairs. It 
charges the lessees with working the convicts 
beyond the prescribed hours; inflicting in¬ 
human puDishmeuts on them, under which 
many have died and a multitude have been 
savagely tortured, etc., etc . 
....The whole village of Ninnescah, Kansas, 
excepting three houses, was wiped from 
existence by a cyclone on Saturday night. 
Three killed and many wounded.Major- 
General Alfred H. Terry has written a per¬ 
sonal letter to the Secretary of War, saying 
that he is in bad health, and requesting to be 
ordered before an Army Retiring Board- 
.... Charles Latimer, consulting engineer of 
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio rail¬ 
roads," who had the power of locating 
springs of water, beds of ore, etc., by means 
of a witch-hazel rod, died the other day at 
Cleveland, Ohio. There’s no doubt about his 
power .The new rotary snow-plow 
which cuts through the worst drifts is made 
at Cook’s locomotive works in Paterson, N. J., 
and was invented by Major Edward Leslie. 
Eighteen big revolving stet-1 knives set on the 
face of a great steel arum cut the snow at 
about the same angle that a steamer’s wheel 
cuts the water. The plow has done great exe¬ 
cution in Dakota, on the Northern Pacific 
railroad.After spending 21 years and 
$30,000 in trying to discover “perpetual 
motion,” David Jennings, of Lyons, N. Y., 
thinks he has done it. He has patented and 
has on exhibition a machine “which runs at 
great speed without any outside agency 
whatever.” “It is an ordinary chain, made of 
iron links two inches in length, running over 
a triangular framework shaped like a harp. 
The chain runs on wheels placed at the three 
angles, and is so constructed that when de¬ 
scending the long side of the triangle the links 
double up and the increased weight keeps up 
the motion. From the character of the 
motive power, the movement of the chain 
constantly increases in rapidity, and a brake 
is required to regulate it.”....... The Crosby 
High License Bill passed the New York House, 
Thursday, by a vote of CO to 01,127 members 
voting out of a total of 128. Six Republicans 
voted against it and one Democrat for it. It 
is sure to pass the Senate; but although formed 
with the special purpose of overcoming the 
Governor’s objections to last year’s bill, it is 
by no means sure that he won’t veto it on 
fresh grounds ... .A stock company worth 
$3,000,000 capital has been organized here to 
manufacture, sell and rent boilers and power 
machinery, and to supply heat and refrig¬ 
eration, under various letters patent, for the 
employment of ammonia instead of steam to 
generate power. It is claimed that experi¬ 
ments show that about one-half of the coal 
needed for steam generation is sufficient to 
give the same power with ammonia.......... 
.... The census of “tenement houses” in this 
city, which the Health Officers have just com¬ 
pleted after six months’ work, shows that 
there are 31,534 “tenements,” not counting 
“flats”or “apartment houses!’’ In them live, 
all told, 250,105 families, embracing 1,010,335 
individuals.M. T. Thompson, of East 
Rockport, Ohio, wants to reduce the surplus 
by dividing it among the States, to be spent 
in improving the highways. This would suit 
the farmers.Chief Justice Waite owned 
the $24,000 bouse he lived in, but left little 
property besides. Thomas Wayte, M. R, the 
Chief Justice’s immigrant ancestor, S’-gned the 
death warrant of King Charles I. The late 
Chief Justice Waite was 72 when he died. 
Justice Bradley is 75, Matthews 64. Harlan55, 
Blatchford 08, Gray 00, Field 72, Miller 72 and 
Lamar 03.The License-Suffrage bill, 
permitting women to vote on the license ques¬ 
tion. which passed the Massachusetts House, 
was killed in the Senate Tuesday by a vote of 
14 to 13, with six pairs. 
The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, 
from careful investigation, told last week of 
the great agricultural advance of the South, 
as condensed in our “Agricultural News;” 
this week it tells of the progress of that sec¬ 
tion in other industries. It reports that all 
over the South small industries are springing 
up to supplement the great iron works which 
are now under construction. During the 
second half of the year about 15 or 20 of the 
immense iron furnaces which were com¬ 
menced during the early part of 1887, will go 
into blast. The number of new enterprises 
reported during the first quarter of 1888, as 
compared with the same time in 1887, was 
1,075 for the former and 023 for the latter. 
The amount of capital and capital stock re¬ 
presented by these new enterprises is: Ala¬ 
bama. $4,093 000; Arkansas, $1,950,000; Flor¬ 
ida. $1,303,000; Georgia, $2,793,000: Ken¬ 
tucky, $5,406,000; Louisiana, $1,233,000; 
Maryland, $2,009,000: North Carolina, $3,000,- 
000; South Carolina, $1,844,000; Tennessee, 
$3,519,000; Texas, $0,424,000; Virginia, $2,- 
990,000; West Virginia. $1,477,000; Miscellan¬ 
eous, 491,000. Total $38,008,000. These fig¬ 
ures tell a hopeful story . 
The friends of General Hancock have bought 
for his widow a large, three-story white stone 
house in Washington. She’ll take possession 
April 1.During life President. Garfield 
was often pinched for money, and left very 
little at his death; but now Mrs. Garfield’s in¬ 
come is $20,000 a year . - Ex-Governor 
John Thompson Hoffman, of New York, died 
suddenly of heart disease at Wiesbaden, Ger¬ 
many, last Saturday, aged 60. Since 1870 
most of his time was passed abroad. He 
leaves a married daughter and about $400,000. 
Born at Sing Sing, January 10, 1828. Gradu¬ 
ated at Union College in 1840; studied law 
and was admitted to the bar in 1849. 
Acquired an extensive practice in New York 
City, and became prominent in politics as a 
leader of Tammany Hall. He was elected Re¬ 
corder in 1860, re-elected in 1863, and in Ju¬ 
ly of the latter year delivered severe sentences 
against persons that had been engaged in the 
draft riots. He was elected by the Democrats 
Mayor of New York City in 1865,and re-elect¬ 
ed in 1867. He was first nominated a candi¬ 
date for Governor in 1866, and defeated by 
Reuben E. Fenton, but in 1808 was re-nomi¬ 
nated and elected, and in 1870 was re-elected, 
Became involved in the Tweed scandals, 
though personally honest, and lost all influ¬ 
ence on the fall of the Tweed ring.Ex- 
Governor William Dorsheimer, of New York, 
publisher of the Star newspaper of this city, 
died Monday night at Savannah, Ga., aged 57. 
Leaves no children. 
.... John 1). Gilette.the Illinois cattle king and 
millionaire, and the father-in-law of Gov. 
Oglesby, is reported to be dying at his home 
near Elkhart, 111.Cora Belle Fellows, 
a white girl, daughter of a Government clerk 
at AVaslnngton, has married Chaska, a Sioux 
Indian, at Fort Rennet, Dakota He is said 
to be remarkably bright and industrious for 
an Indian. The papers have a world too much 
to say about this white squaw.Mr. D. 
L. Moody has returned to Chicago.A 
motion is to be made Monday for a second 
trial of Jacob Sharp, but poor Jake is again 
seriously ill.The Mormons have be¬ 
come so bold in Botetourt Co., Va., that they 
have warned the people that auy attempt to 
drive them out will be met by an armed re¬ 
sistance ... .Seven States will elect one or 
more State officers this year before the day on 
which the Presidential election takes place. 
These are Rhode Island, Louisiana, Alabama, 
Arkansas, Vermont, Maine and Georgia. 
Rhode Island’s occurs on April 4, Louisiana’s 
on April 17, Alabama’s on August 6, Arkan¬ 
sas’s on September 3, Vermont’s on September 
4, Maine’s on September 10, and Georgia’s 
on October 3.Much speculation as 
to who the next Chief Justice will be. Two 
of the Justices of the nine of the Court are 
Democrats—Stephen J. Field and Lucius 
Quintius Curtius Lamar. Justices Miller, 
Field and Bradley, Republicans, have filled 
the term which entitles them to retire with 
full salaries for life. Many think Secretary 
Bayard willbe the man, and that lie will be 
succeeded by Mr. Phelps, our Minister to 
England, who is on the way home now. Bell 
telephone stock dropped 18 points on the death 
of Chief Justice Waite, owing to the uncer¬ 
tainty as to the opinion entertained by his suc¬ 
cessor. The Court is now evenly divided in 
the telephone case, and the Government has 
another suit against the monopoly; but it can 
hardly be tried before the Supreme Court 
much before the expiration of the Bell patent 
in 1893. Many other important law cases are 
likely to be seriously affected by the change 
in the constitution of the Court. 
_The International Women’s Council open¬ 
ed at Washington, Monday. It is a remark¬ 
able gather’ng of women representing the 
foremost female agitators in America, Eng¬ 
land, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, 
and other countries. It is under the auspices 
of the Women’s Suffrage Association of the 
United States. Its chief object is to help to 
secure “women’s emancipation.” Very bril¬ 
liant addresses and discussions have taken 
place during the week, on women suffrage, 
the higher education of women, and other 
subjects of interest to the “advanced think¬ 
ers” of the sex. There is no doubt of the 
excellent effect of the convention in calling 
more attention to the hardships of many wom¬ 
en’s lives and to the best means for advancing 
the mental and physical condition of the sex, 
and for removing all the grievances from 
which the mothers, wives, sisters and daugh¬ 
ters of male humanity may be suffering 
_Sixteen Mormons were sentenced at Provo 
Utah, for living with more than one wife, 
contrary to the provisions of law. The pen¬ 
alty in most cases was six months in the pen¬ 
itentiary and $300 fine.. 
... Claus Spreckles is visitiDg Baltimore to 
select a site for one of his proposed sugar re¬ 
fineries. Within the city all manufacturing 
plant is free from taxation, but a site will 
probably be offered to him free outside of the 
city limits, as the products of his works must 
bring in a pile of money from all parts of the 
country, a great part of which must be paid 
out at home for wages.Cross and White 
were the President and Cashier of the State 
National Bank at Raleigh, N. C. The other 
day they gutted the bank of all the money re¬ 
maining in it, after having spent most of its 
assets in drink, gambling and debauchery 
during the last two years. They fled to Can¬ 
ada, taking with them the colored porter to 
carry $20,000 in gold which they stole. Since 
then the town has presented the appearance of 
war times, so excited have been the people. 
The “esteemed” rascals were guilty of lots of 
forgery, and hence are liable to extradition 
They have been arrested at Toronto, and say 
they will go back of their own accord. They 
say the bank has been broken for three years. 
Their evil deeds were, of course, done secretly. 
.Mrs. Julia D. Grant, through her attor¬ 
neys, has served a general denial on Stanley, 
Clark & Smith, the attorneys for General 
Badeau, as her answer in the case. 
. .The railroad troubles at Chicago 
are increasing. The switchmen on the “Q” 
system struck Saturday last, and their places 
have been supplied, chiefly by K. of L. from 
the East. The strikers have become turbu¬ 
lent, stoning the “scabs,” ditching trains, as¬ 
saulting the new engineers, firemen and 
switchmen. The Anarchists and all the rowdy 
population of the city, together with crowds 
ot rough sympathizers, join in the tumult. 
The police are helpless, the Pinkertons fright¬ 
ened and the militia is likely to be called out. 
The St. Paul Road is tied up by a strike of its 
bauds, and strikes are threatened on other 
roads through sympathy with the strikers on 
the “Q” system. The strike has already cost 
the “Q” system over $15,000,000. It has cost 
the strikers over $2,000,000. The public, how¬ 
ever, and especially the farmers, have been, 
probably, the heaviest sufferers. 
Floods everv where—in New England,Georgia, 
and many other Southern States; along the 
Upper Missouri and elsewhere in the West. 
Bad, very bad now, but worse threatened 
_Rich Hill, Missouri, about 05 miles south 
of Kansas City, on the Missouri Pacific Rail¬ 
road, is the center of a coal-mining district. 
Thursday two terrible explosions wrecked a 
mine about six miles away, cutting off over 
100 miners. At last account 40 bodies had 
been extricated. The New York Repub¬ 
lican State Committee have called the con¬ 
vention to choose Chicago delegates at Buf¬ 
falo, May 10. Blaine and Depew are the fav¬ 
orites. It looks now as if there will be so 
many candidates and so much disagreement 
among their followers, that Blaine’s name will 
be sprung on the convention and his nbmina- 
tion carried with a liuzzah! Nobody thinks 
he’d decline under such circumstances. 
Farmers and others who have a little leis¬ 
ure time for the next few months will find it 
their interest to write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 
of Richmond, whose advertisement appears 
in another column. They offer great induce¬ 
ments to persons to work for them all or part 
of their time — Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, March 31, 1888. 
The Court of Inquiry on Boulanger’s 
alleged transgressions, composed of rival and 
hostile army officers, found him guilty, and 
he was at once put on the “retired” list by the 
Government, with full liberty to take part in 
civil life, but liable to be called into military 
life at any time within five years; salary 
5,000 francs—less than $1,000—instead of over 
30,000 francs when in command of his army 
corp. He at once (on Thursday) issued an 
address to the electors of the Department of 
Nord (opposite the Channel Islands in Brit¬ 
tany) saying, among other things, that the 
only remedy for the present bad condiionof 
France is a dissolution of the Assemblyand a 
revision of the constitution. Yesterday the 
Chamber of Deputies (equivalent to our House 
of Representatives) in spite of the utmost ef¬ 
forts of the Cabinet and its adherents, by a 
majority of 268 to 237, voted to proceed at 
once with a revision of the constitution. The 
Cabinet which had just “retired” Boulanger 
has been thus forced.to resign, having been 
defeated on a motion advocated by Boulanger 
only a day before .Emperor Fred¬ 
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with Empress Victoria yesterday and the 
day before, to the immense joy of all 
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classes who were surprised at the spirit 
with which he returned their enthusiastic sal¬ 
utations. The Conservatives,having shown 
themselves vigorous and able, are gaining 
ground in England Immense floods in near¬ 
ly all Continental countries.especially Germa- 
nv and Austro-Hungary. Many towns greatly 
injured; over 100 villages submerged or swept 
away in Germany alone. Losses there already 
estimated at 400.000.000 marks, or $100,000,000 
at least. Over 100,000 people rendered home¬ 
less. Vast tracts of country submerged; can¬ 
not possibly be prepared for crops this year 
Distress widespread and heart-rending. Many 
deaths of people; immense numbers of live¬ 
stock destroyed. Disasters in Germany and 
Austro-Huugnry almost unprecedented. Not 
much else of interest to Americans in Europe 
this week. 
No reader of this paper who owns a stallion 
or a brood mare will ever regret sending $2 
to the J. H. Sanders Publishing Company, 
Chicago, Ill., for a copy of “Horse-Breeding,” 
by J. H. Sanders, editor of The Breeder’s 
Gazette. The book is a perfect treasure, 
house of knowledge concerning the manage¬ 
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foals. Its practical character especially com¬ 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 31, 1888. 
_The bill to prohibit coloring oleomargar¬ 
ine in imitation of butter comes up in the 
Massachusetts Legislature April 3 ... The 
plant of the Anson Wood Mower and Reaper 
Works, of Youngstown, O., will be removed 
to Chattanooga, Tenn -Eighteen hun¬ 
dred persons are employed in and about Kala¬ 
mazoo, Mich., in growing celery, and directly 
and.indirectly, 3,400 people get their living 
