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Saturday, July 28, 1888. 
Last Saturday the Mills’ tariff bill passed 
the House by a vote of 162 to 149—13 majority. 
Two Republicans voted for it and four Demo¬ 
crats against it. Randal), who would have made 
a fifth, being unable to be present, was paired. 
It has served the purpose for which it was in¬ 
tended—that of putting the Democratic Party 
on record on the tariff question. It is now as 
dead as the first of the Pharaohs,as the Repub- 
1 ican i arty cannot pass it after their denuncia¬ 
tion of it at the Chicago convention. The Re¬ 
publicans of the Senate are, however, to bring 
in a tariff bill of their own to show what the 
Republican Party is willing to do in amending 
the present tariff. The House of Rep¬ 
resentatives has passed the bill providing for 
the taking of the eleventh census. It will not 
be so extensive in scope as the tenth. The pub¬ 
lication will be confined to the following sub¬ 
jects, viz. : population and social statistics 
relating thereto, the products of manufacture, 
mining and agriculture, mortality and vital 
statistics, valuation and public indebtedness. 
. They have a rumor at San Francisco 
that the Chinese government does not care to 
ratify the Chinese treaty as amended by the 
United States Senate. Canadian politi¬ 
cal straws go to show that Sir John Macdon¬ 
ald, the Conservative Premier, will try to take 
the wind out of the Liberal sails'by coming out 
for unrestiicted reciprocity with this country. 
.. The richest discovery of gold ever 
made, outside the Comstock lode, was made at 
the Lake Superior Iron Company’s shaft,seven 
miles from Ishpeming, Mich., last week. 
Three hundred pounds of quartz carrying free 
gold at the rate of over $60,000^a ton were un¬ 
covered by one blast, and taken into the city, 
where it is creating the wildest excitement. 
Some very rich discoveries have been made 
before at this shaft, but nothing like this. 
The quartz brought by one blast is worth 
fully $10,000. The discovery of very rich gold 
mines is also reported from Lower California 
—still a part of Mexico. ... The Hudson 
Bay company’s fort on the Skeena river, in the 
far Northwest, is invested by hostile Indians; 
and it is feared that troops on the way to the 
rescue will not arrive in time to hinder a 
massacre. Indeed, there are grave fears that 
the relieving force may be ambuscaded and de¬ 
feated, as the troops have been sent by a route 
which is overhung by rocks and steep moun¬ 
tains which afford excellent advantages 
to the hostiles.All remember the 
disgraceful collapse of the Freedmen’s 
Bank at Washington during the days of 
“Reconstruction,” by which thousands of 
newly made “freedmen” were impover¬ 
ished and rendered improvident by losing 
nearly all their savings. The U. S. Senate 
has just passed a bill appropriating $1,000,000 
to reimburse the depositors. As most of these 
long ago sold their accounts for a song to 
speculators, and many are dead or scattered 
abroad, a very small share of such an appro¬ 
priation would ever find its way into the 
hands of the real sufferers ; but there’s no 
doubt more than the whole or it would find 
claimants.The Naval Appropriation 
bill, as it stands now in the Senate, provides 
for the building of six cruisers and a practice 
vessel for the Naval Academy. An attempt 
was made Tuesday to have an amendment 
adopted providing for two w arships to cost 
ten millions apiece, but the Senate thought 
that the smaller and faster cruisers would 
answer for the present. Representative 
Springer, of Illinois, Monday, introduced in 
the House a bill to tax the products of Trusts. 
It provides that in addition to the taxes al¬ 
ready imposed upon any product manufac¬ 
tured by Trusts, ihere shall be imposed an in¬ 
ternal revenue tax of 40 per cent., and that no 
drawbacks shall be allowed on such goods 
when exported .. .. In the Senate, Wednes¬ 
day, Mr. Cullom introdued a resolution au¬ 
thorizing the Interstate Commerce Commis¬ 
sion to investigate Canada’s aggressive rail¬ 
road policy in the Northwest.The 
President has sent a message to Congress on 
Civil Service in which he renews his professions 
of friendship for this reform. He presents a 
statement of the advance that has been made 
and denounces the opposition that he has en¬ 
countered even from his own party. He claims 
that a “ firm, practical and sensible founda¬ 
tion” has been laid, upon which 
the Civil Service now rests. 
Seventy-six roads, from January 1 up to the 
end of May, had an excess of gross earnings 
of about $6,000,000 over the corresponding 
period in 1887, while the net earnings of the 
same lines are more than $7,000,000 smaller now 
than then. This, of course, indicates that 
there has been a great increase in operating 
expenses . . The Congressional committee 
to examine into the immigrant system began 
operations at New York Wednesday. The 
Inman passenger agent says that about 
one-third of the steerage passengers upon that 
line come upon prepaid tickets, and that he 
knows no way of detecting the paupers. 
The Swiss Benevolent Society has for one of 
its principal objects the removal of convicts 
to this country. Italians are imported by 
thousands every year under contract to 
jjadrones to whom they are virtually slaves. 
So bad are the discoveries already made that 
Cougressional legislation is sure to follow. 
Nothing specially new about the conspiracy to 
injure the “Q” system by dynamite. At a large 
meeting of the Locomotive Brotherhood at St. 
Joseph, Mo., the other day, if was decided to 
continue the strike. All attempts at a com¬ 
promise have failed. Both sides are losing 
heavily.. .Another arrest, making four in all, 
has been made, connected with the Anarchists’ 
conspiracy m the Windy City, and more are 
promised. A good deal more dynamite has 
been discovered and further arrests are like¬ 
ly. The Mormon immigrants from 
Utah, who have just settled in the Canadian 
Northwest, get but a cold reception from the 
government. Polygamy will be sternly sup¬ 
pressed among them, and a rigorous 
watch will be kept to see that they 
obey the laws of the land. 
There was a total eclipse of the moon at mid¬ 
night on July 22.The Pitholeoil region 
in Pennsylvania was one of the richest. Then 
the yield fell off and the section was finally 
abandoned, and the land could be had for a 
song. A well lately sunk in it as an experi¬ 
ment turned out very rich, now seven are run¬ 
ning, and the old-time excitement is renewed. 
Land has shot up again of course .. West 
Virginia thus far hasn’t made much noise in 
the world, but she’s big enough to, and grow¬ 
ing in certain directions. According to recent 
statistics she is larger than Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and 
Delaware combined. Their population is 
3,960,040; hers, 648 547. The value of their 
property is over $5,638,000,000; of hers, $307-, 
000,000. At the same rate per square mile 
as the five other States named, her 
population would be 4.573,834, and 
her true worth $5,941,799,238. 
A. J. Welch, of Hartford, Conn., sold his 
black stallion Atlantic to N. Mianie, of Rome, 
Italy, the other day for $15,000. He also sold 
the bay mare Valkyre for $9,000 to the same 
man. Atlantic’s record is 2:21, but in a trial 
heat at Pittsburg he made a mile in 2:17. 
Valkyre’s record is 2:19 % .Claus 
Spreckels struck another blow in the war 
against the big sugar Trust of New York by 
selling 5,000 barrels of sugar in the Chicago 
market, to be delivered there, at % cent a 
pound less than the Trust quotations. The 
sugar will be shipped by rail from San Fran¬ 
cisco in three special trains. It is said that 
Claus has cleared already over $2,500,000 by 
cornering the Trust. Of course the dear 
public will in the end have to pay the amount. 
Still let’s have competition, for in the end 
we’ll gain by it if it is kept up honestly and long 
enough. Selwyn Taylor, a prominent 
mining engineer of Pittsburg, has greatly 
startled holders of natural gas stock by an 
assertion, “based upon incontestible grounds,” 
to the effect that the flow of natural gas from 
the Pennsylvania fields will have ceased within 
two years from this time. That the big gas 
companies recognize this is, he says, apparent 
from the fact that they are expending thou¬ 
sands of dollars upon fuel gas processes 
already. After a year’s experiment the Diss- 
ton works at Tacony, Pa., are to be run with 
gas produced by a new process at a cost of six 
cents per 1,000 feet. This will enable Eastern 
manufacturers to compete with those using 
natural gas. The amount of work now 
done in Pennsylvania and elsewhere by 
power supplied by fuel from cheap 
natural gas is enormous. 
E. P. Roe’s will, just probated, gives to his 
wife the use and income of all he may leave 
as long as she lives. At her death it is to be 
divided among his family as though he had 
made no will.The Catskill Mountain 
Deer Park consists of 193 acres on the banks 
of the Neversink River. There Commissioner 
Cox has provided for fencing in fifty or a hun¬ 
dred acres, with a lodge of logs for the keep¬ 
ers and breeders, and sheds to protect the 
deer in rough weather. If this deer park 
proves successful, others will be established. 
Commissioner Cox proposes to breed other 
game besides deer, such as large hare, wild 
turkey, and Guinea-fowl. Captain 
Roland F. Coffin, whose death has just oc¬ 
curred, was for many years the yachting edit¬ 
or of the New York World, and he died in the 
very act of discharging his journalistic duties, 
being stricken down by heart-disease while 
penning a telegram to that paper.. No 
American citizen ever got such a reception 
upon returning to his native land from a for¬ 
eign tour as the Republicans of New York 
and Brooklyn are preparing to give James G. 
Blaine when he arrives here in August. They 
talk of a parade 75,000 strong, with many 
picturesque features, and of a marine display 
of all the available craft in our harbor,besides 
torchlight processions, fireworks, and illumi¬ 
nated mansions. The reception given to the 
new German Emperor upon his visit to St. 
Petersburg a few days ago was an affair of 
official pomp, military and naval; but the 
Blaine reception in New York a fortnight 
hence is to be a popular manifestation such as 
no European monarch ever saw.At 
Morley’s Station, Cal., James Mason, stage 
driver, weight about 180 pounds, bought a 50 
pound box of giant powder, sat upon it and 
exploded it. Twenty pounds of him were collec¬ 
ted in a basket for the coroner’s inquest. 
Gen. Sheridan has been improving so rapidly 
that the doctors have stopped issuing daily 
bulletins. They say he’ll be out before the 
snow flies, but he’ll never be “ the same man 
again.”. Congressman Randall is stead¬ 
ily improving. The sensational story that he 
is doomed to death from cancer in the stomach 
is said by his physicians to be “made out of 
whole cloth.”.Gov. Ames, of Massachu¬ 
setts was well enough to be able to stand re¬ 
moval into the country last Tuesday .... 
Candidate Harrison is so “salubrious” that he 
can hea'tily welcome half a dozen deputations 
of admirers and politicians every day. 
Jay Gould’s health is “improving.”. _ 
According to official reports just about to be 
made, the total value of the mineral products 
of the United States in 1887 was $538,056,345. 
This was a wonderful gain over 1886, and there 
was $100,000,000 greater than 1885. The 
United States lead the world in the production 
of minerals. The principal gains in 1887 were 
in metallic ores and the fuels for smelting 
them. Pig iron alone increased more than 
$26,000,000, and the high price of copper caused 
notable expansion in that industry. The prod¬ 
uct of coal is the largest ever recorded. Taken 
as a whole, the report shows a year of great 
prosperity for the mining industry .. The 
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that, 
for the year enued June 30, 1888, our foreign 
commerce shows au increase of $11,336,786 in 
the total values of the imports and exports 
of merchandise over the previous year. There 
was a decrease of $20,202,592 in exports, but an 
increase of $31,545,378 in imports. Imports 
exceeded exports by* $25,890,527 ; the former 
being $722,865,148, and the latter $695,974,619. 
A comparison of the domestic exports of the 
last fiscal year with those of the fiscal year 
1886-’87 shows that the decline was principally 
in exports of wheat, corn, refined sugar and 
leaf tobacco ; but there was an increase in ex¬ 
ports of cotton, wheat flour, beef products and 
animals. The imported articles which exhibit 
the largest increase during the last fiscal year 
are coffee, vegetables, tin (in bars, blocks and 
pigs), wool manufactures, hemp, barley, silk 
manufactures, wool and railway bars of steel. 
. A locomotive a day is now being 
turned out at the Rogers Locomotive Works at 
Paterson, N. J. The Cooke works are to be 
removed to South Paterson at a cost 
of $500,000 for the removal. The Grant 
works have practically collapsed.. 
Thursday 10,000 visitors joined the inhabitants 
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in celebrating the 
centennary of the admission of the State to the 
Union. —James P. Engle, the Democrat¬ 
ic candidate for Governor in Arkansas, is a 
plain farmer, as his father was before him. 
At twenty-eight he was working to reclaim 
his Arkansas farm, and five years later he 
went to college. His political life dates from 
the time he had reached forty, when he was 
elected to the Legislature.. _Governor 
Church, of Dakota, is charged with entering 
into corrupt bargains to secure legislation to 
his pecuniary advantage, exacting illegal and 
exorbitant fees, and otherwise abusing the 
powers of his office. Formal complaints 
are to be laid before the President... . 
The church of the Holy Trinity of New York 
must pay its $1,000 fine for importing Rev. 
E. Walpole Warren in violation of the con¬ 
tract labor law. Whitelaw Reid will 
rebuild on the foundations of his country 
house on OphirFarm, near White Plains, N. 
Y. This time the building is to be fire¬ 
proof.John L. Sullivan and M. C. 
Gray have bought the interest of John B. 
Doris in Doris’s circus.The Supreme 
Court of Louisiana has recently decided that 
it is an actionable slander to call a white man 
a negro. 
Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, is at his home 
in Morristown, N. J., after a 10 months’ trip 
for his heal'h along the Pacific coast. 
Mad Bear, Ch : ef Gall and 500 other Sioux In¬ 
dians are encamped near Fort Yates, Dak., in 
a state of high indignation because the gov¬ 
ernment threatens to open to the public do¬ 
main the 22,000,000 acres of their reservation. 
.The publishers of Ignatius Donnelley’s 
Cryptogram say they have already sold 15,000 
copies in this country and 6,000 in England,and 
that Donnelley has received $15,000 in royalty. 
... This year up to July 1, railroad fore¬ 
closure sales numbered 12, representing 750 
miles of line and a total apparent funded 
debt and capital stock of $31,423,000. In the 
same period of 1887 there were 19 sales in¬ 
volving three and a half times the mileage and 
nearly five times the capital of the foreclo¬ 
sures this year.The big raft which has 
been in process of construction since Feb/ 20, 
near Joggins, Nova Scotia, was launched on 
Tuesday. It is 598 feet long, 52 feet wide and 
35 feet in diameter, tapering to ten feet at the 
ends. It coi tains 22,000 pieces of timber, 
averaging 38 feet in length, making more than 
3,000,000 feet superficial. It is the largest 
structure ever launched. It is insured for 
$30,000,and will be towed to New York by two 
powerful tugs. It is simply a large cigar¬ 
shaped raft without masts or deck house. 
Vessels arriving from Halifax last even¬ 
ing say they encountered a large number 
of loose logs. Has raft No. 2 encoun¬ 
tered the fate of raft No. 1 ?. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 28, 1888. 
The visit of Emperor William to the Czar 
was a splendid spectacular success. What 
the political results are nobody knows, though 
there are hundreds of positive assertions and 
thousands of surmises. On parting there was 
a monstrous amount of male kissing. The 
two chief actors kissed each other three times 
and then there was a regular fusillade of mas¬ 
culine osculation all round. Honorary deco¬ 
rations and more substantial presents were 
lavishly bestowed. Borne say the fate of the 
Balkans has been settled either by giving Bul¬ 
garia real independence or by substituting 
some other Prince for Ferdinand. Others say 
Republican France will be politely but firmly 
invited to disarm by the combined European 
monarchies. There are lots of other rumors; 
but nothing certain except the cordial person¬ 
al relations between the Kaiser and the Czar. 
The former went from St. Petersburg to 
Stockholm where he is now being right royally 
entertained by King Oscar. While her hus¬ 
band was away on his junketing trip, the Em¬ 
press was safely delivered of a boy baby at 1:30 
o’clock yesterday morning at Potsdam, and 
King Oscar is to be its godfather. The Kaiser 
will visit the Emperor of Austria soon, and 
after that take a trip to Rome to see King 
Humbert, but there is not a word about his 
visiting Paris and interviewing Carnot. 
Parnell has been talking about a new Home 
Rule plan about which he and Gladstone ap¬ 
pear to have agreed. The gist of it is that 
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are 
each to have a separate Parliament, and there 
will be an Imperial Parliament comprising 
representatives of the four countries. Bal¬ 
four is resolved to enforce the Crimes Act 
with unsparing severity and is heartily backed 
by his own party and hardly less enthusiasti¬ 
cally by the Liberal-Unionists. Irish mem¬ 
bers of Parliament are constantly going in 
and coming out of jail for “seditious” utter¬ 
ances under the law, and when they are “in” 
small courtesy or kindness is shown to them. 
Though political prisoners are seldom any¬ 
where treated like ordinary criminals, that is 
their usual fate in Ireland. There 
are hundreds of such prisoners belong¬ 
ing to all classes of society. 
The Local Government bill, giving much 
greater power than heretofore to local 
municipal and county authorities, has passed 
a “ third reading ” in the Commons, which is 
equivalent to its final passage by that body, 
and has been “read” twice in the Lords 
where it is certain to pass. All England has 
been intensely interested i: this measure and 
on some clauses the government has been de¬ 
feated more than once. I this a Liber il meas¬ 
ure passed by a Conservatiye Ministry. 
Boulanger was well enovi'h to drive out on 
Thursday, when he was -yociforously wel¬ 
comed by the rabble ; but Jhat his popularity 
is collapsing—at least temporarily—is shown 
by the fact that he has been badly defeated 
for the Assembly, from which he lately resign¬ 
ed at elections held in two'Departments with¬ 
in a week. He attributes this to his illness, 
however. 
Clark—“Well, I will declare ! Smithers, 
how you have picked up lately.” Smithers— 
“Yes, yes; things were bad enough with me 
a little while back, but I happened to run 
across the advertisement of B. F. Johnson & 
Co., of Richmond, Va., and they put me in 
position to make money right along. If you 
know of anybody else needing employment, 
here is their name and address.”— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 28, 1888. 
Mr. Woodward, Secretary of the N. Y. 
State Board of Agriculture, arrived here on 
Julv 22, from Bristol, England. He brought 
with him 127 Dorset horned sheep which he had 
personally collected from the best flocks in 
England. He also brought one Hampshire 
ram and a few ewes. With Mr. W. was Mr. 
George Ingersoll, of Fonda, N. Y., who 
brought with him 50 Shropshire ewes and 
three rams. Oh, yes. indeed, the trip to 
England has done Mr. W’s health a world of 
good, though he has always appeared the 
picture of good health and cheer. Of course, 
he likes America all the better after 
beholding the decrepitude and corruption 
of “effete Europe.”. ... The first bale 
of cotton of the crop of 1888 was received at 
Galveston, Texas, Wednesday. It weighed 
569 pounds. The cotton was classed as 
Middling Fair and was sold at auction at 
12 cents per pound. It will be shipped 
io Liverpool via New York. 
State Entomologist Lintner reports the ap¬ 
pearance in the southern part of this State of 
a grape-vine beetle, which is proving very de¬ 
structive to vines by eating the leaves. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission has 
dismissed the complaints of the N. J. peach- 
growers against the Central N. J. R. R. and 
the Lehigh Valley Company. The point in 
controversy was the unreasonableness of the 
rates on peaches from points on the defend¬ 
ants’ lines in New Jersey to New York; butas 
it was unquestionably shown by the evidence 
that the peaches were delivered in Jersey 
City a: d the carriage to New York was by 
the consignees, the Commission holds that the 
transportation was entirely within the State 
of INew Jersey, and therefore beyond its juris¬ 
diction .Last Tuesday night by order of 
Dr. James Law, New York State Veterinarian, 
a herd of 50 cows were slaughtered in one 
yard in the upper part of this city because 
one of them was found affected with “pleuro,” 
and the 49 others had been exposed to the dis¬ 
ease and might have caught it. The animals 
were appraised at from $40 to $50 apiece; but 
the owner is dissatisfied and wants arbitra¬ 
tion.In view of the loss of fruit to far¬ 
mers and fruit growers in the northern 
counties of Jersey, by reason of destructive 
insects, which have appeared in swarms the 
present season, the farmers are appealing to 
the public to protect moles, field mice and all 
insectiverous birds but the English sparrow. 
The insects have wrought fearful havoc this 
season, and the yield of small fruits will be 
almost a total failure.... Live stock rates 
from Kansas City and other Western points 
to Chicago are seriously demoralized. The 
regular rate from Kansas City to Chicago is 
$60 per car, but the Milwaukee and St. Paul 
and other roads are accused of taking the 
business at $45, a cut of $15. On cattle direct 
from Texas points all the roads accept a pro¬ 
portion of $33.75 from Kansas City to Chicago, 
in view of which it is not strange that a rate 
of $60 locally from Kansas City to Chicago 
cannot be maintained. Eleven 
hundred thousand dozen is the esti¬ 
mated number of cans of peaches that 
will be packed in Baltimore this year. 
The uses of the cotton plant are developing 
rapidly. Formerly the fiber of the boll 
was the only part utilized. Then the seed 
began to supply a large proportion of the 
“olive oil” and “lard” in the country, and now 
the hulls are found to be cheaper and 
better than wood for paper pulp. 
A movement is on foot among the apiarists of 
this and other countries to provide a life 
annuity for Rev. L. L. Langstroth (78 years 
old), one of the pioneers in American bee¬ 
keeping and the inventor of the movable frame 
hive.Those who propose to exhibit live 
stock at the Ohio Centennial Exposition should 
make their entries at once, as no entries will 
be received after August 6, in any class of live 
stock. Applications must be accompanied 
with entry fee. The Exposition opens Sep¬ 
tember 4, and will close October 19. Address 
L. N. Bonham, Secretary, Columbus, O., for 
premium lists or any information desired.... 
....The Bee Journal figures that the annual 
honey product of North America is about 
100,000,090 pounds, and its value is nearly 
$15 000,000. The annual wax product is about 
500,000 pounds, and its value is more than 
$100,000. There are about 300,000 persons 
keeping bees in North America. 
Crops k ftlarkrfs. 
Saturday, July 28, 1888. 
Condensations from this morning’s Brad- 
street’s : 
The weather generally remains favorable to 
the crops, Nebraska promising the largest In¬ 
dian corn crop on record. 
‘Herbrand” FifthWheelforBuggies. —Adv. 
