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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 11, 1888. 
Philip H. Sheridan, General of the Army of 
the United States, died suddenly at Nonquitt, 
Mass., at 10.20 last Sunday night, (August 5,) 
of heart failure, at the age of 57. According 
to the wishes of his wife, he was buried to¬ 
day in a chosen spot in the National Cemetery, 
at Arlington, Virginia, on the other side of 
the Potomac, opposite Washington. He left 
a wife and four children. Some say he left 
property worth $150,000; others say, he left 
very little. A bill has passed the United 
States Senate, giving his wife a pension of 
$5,000 a year; but it is expected it will 
meet with strong opposition in the House. 
The whole nation mourns the death 
of the brilliant, dashing hero. 
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, has offered a res¬ 
olution to inquire into the cotton or jute¬ 
bagging pool which has raised the price of 
bagging, so as to extort from $1,500,000 to 
$2,000,000 from cotton producers this season. 
.The House bill to place General W. P. 
(“Baldy”) Smith on the retired list of the Ar¬ 
my, with the rank of Colonel,has been amended 
by the Senate so as to retire him as Major of 
Engineers, the rank he held at the time of his 
resignation from the Army.The Sen¬ 
ate Wednesday adopted a resolution provid¬ 
ing for printing 100,000 extra copies of the 
Tariff law of 1883, with the Mills Bill as it 
passed the House and a comparison of the two 
to be prepared by the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee. This will make an excellent campaign 
document for both parties. The Repub¬ 
licans are still incubating their tariff bill. It is 
said that it will not be completed till Blaine 
passes judgment on the various clauses- 
_Representative White, of Indiana, has in¬ 
troduced a bill requiring that the minimum 
rate of wages paid at any employment in any 
State shall be $1.50 per day of ten hours for 
male adults, $1 per day for women, and 75 
cents per day for minors from fourteen to 
eighteen years of age. Mr. White is a Scotch¬ 
man who came here when 19 years old. 
National legislation against all forms of food 
adulteration has been put off until next session 
of Congress. Then with clearer knowledge a 
drastic measure should be passed..The 
Congressional investigation into immigration 
here has been disclosing still more and worse 
abuses. The laboring classes, until of late, 
have been mcst opposed to restrictions on im¬ 
migration ; but there’s a world of change in 
their sentiments now. Mr. Powderly is advo¬ 
cating the restriction of immigration almost 
to the point of prohibition. He would require 
any European desiring to emigrate to file with 
a U. S. Consul two years in advance a dec¬ 
laration to that effect; and if, after a five- 
years’ residence in this country, he cannot 
read the Declaration of Independence and the 
Constitution, be shall be sent back. 
There has been an acrimonious discussion of 
the Fisheries Treaty in the Senate during the 
week; it looks as if it would not be confirmed, 
as the Republican majority is opposed to it. 
It may go over till next session when party 
feelings will not be so excited.The 
Chiuese prohibition bill was passed by the 
Senate Wednesday without a division. It 
provides that from and after the date of the 
exchange of ratification .of the pending treaty 
between the United States and Emperor of 
China, signed on March 12, 1888, it shall be 
unlawful for any Chinese person, whether a 
subject of China or any other power, to enter 
the United States except as in this bill pro¬ 
vided, and it virtually provides for the abso¬ 
lute exclusion of Chinese.The bill re¬ 
ported in the Senate by Mr. Plumb, for the 
Senate Committee on Agriculture, makes the 
general Agricultural Department an execu¬ 
tive department, under the supervision and 
control of a Secretary of Agriculture, who 
shall be appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate. It 
also provides for an Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture, to be appointed by the President 
and confirmed by the Senate, and gives the 
Secretary the same salary that is now paid 
heads of other Departments. The House bill 
contained a section transferring the SignalSer- 
vice to the Department of Agriculture,but that 
was stricken out by the committee. 
On August 4, a large six-story building in the 
rear of the People’s Theatre in the Bowery, 
this city, in which 300 Polish Jews worked at 
tailoring, was burnt and 20 lives were lost. 
The place was approached through a narrow 
alley-way; the means of escape were poor at 
the best, and these were defective. A number 
of others were more or less severely injured. 
.Monday an election for Governor, 
State officers and members of the Legislature 
took place in Ala. The Republicans didn’t 
tbiuk it worth while to nominate more than a 
few candidates for the Legislature, of course 
the Democrats swept the State, their majority 
beiug about 100,000.Robert Garrett 
many times millionaire and ex-president of the 
Baltimore & Ohio R. R., is in a bad way, being 
troubled with melancholia and hallucinations. 
He is violent at times and is worse now than 
he was a year ago before he started on his 
long holiday trip. He is to be taken to a 
private insane asylum.Hiram Sibley, 
seedsman, left over $10,000,000,.The 
famous black stallion Atlantic with a recent 
record of 2.21 has been sold for $15,000 and is 
here now on his way to Italy. There is 
some doubt as to the genuine nature of the 
sale of the Kentucky stallion, Bell Boy, last 
week for $50,000—the highest price ever paid 
for a horse in America. D. C. Seaman, the 
purchaser, was part owner of him, and it is 
intimated by the Turf, Field and Farm, that 
the single object of the put-up sale, was to 
achieve a “factitious reputation” for the 
stallion. This is indignantly denied, however. 
He is only three years old and “stands” at 
$500, and his book of 40 mares is said to be full 
this season; so that he is likely to pay for 
himself before he is six years old. 
Mr. Levi P. Morton was elected a di¬ 
rector of the Canada Pacific railway a year 
ago: he has never attended a meeting or 
exercised any authority, and he resigned 
the place some time ago. .... 
The hostile action of the Nebraska State Board 
of Transportation has put an end to railway 
construction in that State for the present. Both 
the Rock Island and Santa Fd have aban¬ 
doned some contemplated extensions. 
Tin cans are reported in Baltimore to have 
advanced in price from $2 50 to $4 per 100, 
which will make a material difference in the 
price of all kinds of canned goods.The 
Trunk lines westward have reduced emigrant 
fares to a basis of $5 from New York to 
Chicago.Gov. Gray of Indiana seems 
to have thoroughly frightened the lawless 
band of scoundrels known as the White Caps. 
The prospect of the Judge’s black cap brings 
the gooseflesh to the hulking ruffians. 
During the six months ended June 30, the total 
number of immigrants arrived in Ontario, 
Canada, was 54,000. Of this number 40,000 
proceeded to the United States.General 
Terry is regaining his health at New Haven. 
He now spends much of his time out of doors... 
At a fire in a flat-house in Second avenue, 
this city, Wednesday, a family of four persons 
was burned to death, and several others es¬ 
caped with difficulty.Mr. Randall is 
steadily gaining health.The National 
Convention of Locomotive Engineers will 
meet in Richmond, Va., in October, and a 
strong radical faction will do its best to pre¬ 
vent the re-election of Chief Arthur. 
Commodore W. Schley, Chief of the U. S. 
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, is quite 
ill at his home at Newport, R. I.. 
Keeley at last agrees to submit to the Court in 
Philadelphia, and to impart to the Court’s 
officer all the information he himself possesses 
concerning the construction, principle and 
operation of his inventions. .. The Demo¬ 
cratic State Convention, at Atlanta, Ga., 
Wednesday, renominated John B. Gordon 
unanimously for Governor. All the 
State officers were renominated. 
Captain Andrews’ little boat, the “ Dark Se¬ 
cret.” has been sighted all right, about 1,000 
miles east of Boston—about one-third of the 
voyage across the Atlantic. The Cincin¬ 
nati Centennial Exposition continues to at¬ 
tract large crowds. The buildings cover 43 
acres, and the exhibition space, 1,000,000 
square feet. In Music Hall, which holds 8,000 
people, operatic, spectacular and theatrical 
performances are given by the best talent. 
The art show alone is valued at $1,000,000.... 
... Now that the Manitoba has opened up a 
new country, the trade in Buffalo bones, chiefly 
for fertilizing purposes, is revived, and num¬ 
bers of men are engaged in speculation. They 
have Indians and half breeds employed in 
gathering and hauling them to different sta¬ 
tions from which they are shipped to Eastern 
cities. One man in Chicago has made a con¬ 
tract with the dealers whereby they are to de¬ 
liver to him 135 car-loads. John Swin- 
ton, the veteran N. Y. journalist, has been to¬ 
tally blind, of late, but an operation the other 
day has restored his sight.The Anarch¬ 
ists hold a kindergarten for their children 
every Sunday morning in a beer saloon, corner 
of Lincoln avenue and Halstead street,Chicago, 
over 200 little ones attending to imbibe anarch¬ 
ical doctrines with their beer. 
Suits against two of the principal refineries 
composing the Sugar Trust were commenced 
Wednesday, by State Attorney-General 
Tabor and General Roger A. Pryor, in behalf 
of New York State.The Chicago east- 
bound lines are now looking forward to a 
restoration of freight rates from Chicago to 
the seaboard. It is reported, and the story 
seems to be well founded, that a meeting was 
held on Tuesday in New York, with that end 
in view. The basis for a restoration is 22 cents 
on dressed beef ai d 133*> cents on cattle. 
Our old contributor, Professor Brooks, the 
astronomer, has just discovered a new comet 
moving eastward about one degree in 24 hours, 
in the Big Bear constellation.Mrs. 
Captain Bates, the giantess, died at her home 
at Wadsworth, Ohio, Monday. The Captain 
is eight feet tall, his wife was seven feet nine 
inches.Old John Robinson, the famous 
circus man, died the other day at Cincinnati. 
Nobody ever knew how old he was; but he was 
born between 1799 and 1807 at Albany, Troy 
or Utica, New York. He was considered the 
richest of American showmen. ..The 
great Joggins raft has just arrived here. 
Leary & Robinson, the owners, will clear 
from $75,000 to $100,000 by the venture. The 
lumber coasting trade between Canada and 
the United States is considered doomed; for 
henceforth logs will be brought in this 
way much cheaper than by vessels ..... 
The Sioux chiefs obstinately refuse to be bull¬ 
dozed by the Commission sent to Standing 
Rock to induce them to sell the greater part of 
their reservation. They declined to sign any 
paper whatever and have gone home to attend 
to harvest work. They are fighting against 
the inevitable, and the Comraisioners refuse to 
accept their decision as final. They will ap¬ 
peal to the tribe at large.Maxwell, alias 
Brooks, the St. Louis “ trunk” murderer, was 
hanged yesterday, Gov. Morehouse having, 
very properly, refused to delay the execution 
any longer.T. J. Goodwin, treasurer of 
Rawlins County, Kan., for two terms, has dis¬ 
appeared. His accounts with the county show 
a shortage of about $100,000. It is reported 
that the county will lose the entire amount. 
.Judge Walter Cummings of Wil¬ 
mington, l)el., has fled, leaving a 
shortage in his accounts of $100,000. 
Nelly Grant’s husband has become rich 
through the death of his brother. The story 
that he was unkind to his wife is no longer 
believed.The main building of W ells 
College, near Aurora, New York, where Mrs. 
Cleveland was educated, has been burnt; loss 
about $130,000; insurance $75,000. Fire acci¬ 
dental, during vaction time. Arrangements 
are being made for rebuilding immediately. 
..The new steamer, City of New York, 
with Mr. Blaine on board, was expected hero 
on Thursday, at latest, but didn’t arrive till 
Friday. Preparations were made fora grand 
turn-out to welcome the Republican leader, 
Blaine clubs having conie as far as from Kan 
sas City. Though the Plumed Knight was 300 
miles away, the demonstration welcoming his 
return took place Thursday night. There 
were about 20,000 people in line, and more than 
twice that number of spectators. Although it 
was the play of Hamlet with Hamlet’s part 
omitted, it went off fully as well 
as could be reasonably expected. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 11,1888. 
On the whole, the general aspect of Europe 
is more peaceable than it has been for several 
years. All the sovereigns seem really desir¬ 
ous of peace, and their ministers appear able 
to secure it. Even Bulgaria is likely soon to 
cease to be a fire-brand in a powder magazine. 
DeGiers lately declared that Russia had wash¬ 
ed her hands of the country; but it is probable 
that another Berlin Congress will soon assem¬ 
ble to settle the Bulgarian and some other less 
troublesome questions. Emperor William’s 
late tour on the Baltic is telling strongly for 
peace. The Teutonic and Slavic relations are 
much less bitter than they have been for some 
time, at least outwardly. His visit to Stock¬ 
holm pleased the Swedes and Norwegians; 
though visitors say the rejoicings were rather 
of an official than a spontaneously natural 
character. During his visit to Copenhagen, 
it is said an arrangement was entered into by 
which Prince Waldemar, son of King Chris¬ 
tian, of Denmark, should again become a 
candidate for the throne of Bulgaria. As 
one of his sisters is the wife of the Czar, and 
another the wife of the Prince of Wales, he 
would have good backing; but his brother, 
the King of Greece, is strongly opposed to his 
candidature, as Greece and Bulgaria have 
some rival claims, and it was chiefly on this 
account that his father some time ago forbade 
him to try for the position. 
Just now, however, France is the “ black ” 
spot. Her relations with Italy are very much 
strained. Several attempts to form a new 
commercial treaty between the two countries 
have failed, and while Austria-HuDgary, Ger¬ 
many and Switzerland have secured a larger 
Italian trade on that account, Italy is suffer¬ 
ing greatly financially by the almost entire 
loss of her best customer, France. Italy’s 
growing ambition to seize upon large tracts of 
Africa, in Tripoli, Abyssinia and near Zanzi¬ 
bar is also resented by France, which cannot 
forget that without her aid Italy would still 
probably be a geographical name, representing 
a number of powerless principalities, often 
inimical to each other; w'hereasshe is now an 
ungrateful ally of her creator’s enemies, and 
a rival of her claims to territorial extension. 
France especially resents the recent open seiz¬ 
ure by Italy of an indefinitely large territory 
along the Abyssinian coast back of Messowah 
on the Red Sea. Another cause of some anxiety 
arises from widespread labor troubles and tur¬ 
bulence at Paris, Amiens, Lyons, Rouen, and 
other large industrial centers in France. Over 
100,000 workingmen are on strike or “ locked 
out ” at these points, and much destruction of 
property and loss of life would have already oc¬ 
curred, were it not for either the readiness of 
the troops to interfere or their actual interfer¬ 
ence in cases of threatened riots, and in France, 
as in other European countries, the armies are 
so overwhelmingly large that the only chance 
of a successful popular rising in any place 
hinges on the fraternizing of the soldiers with 
the people. There are large numbers of Italian 
workingmen in France, and national feeling 
finds vent in frequent conflicts between the 
workmen of both countries. These internal 
disorders are fomented by Communists and 
Anarchists eager for a change, and by political 
adventurers hopeful of self-advancement 
among general turmoil. The Government, 
however, appears firm and resolved vigorously 
to suppress all disorder. 
Although the general outlook, however, is 
for the present peaceful across the Atlantic, it 
mustn’t be supposed for a moment that pre¬ 
parations for war are anywhere relaxed in 
the slightest degree. All countries are busily 
strengthening their defensive works, adding 
to their armies and navies, drilling their 
troops, improving their offensive arms, 
planning campaigns against each other, 
spying out each other’s forces, forts, fleets, 
roads, and strategic points. Nor is much 
reliance placed on professions of friendship, 
for each feels that any of the others would be 
likely to prove an enemy if self-interest would 
certainly be advanced by the change. So 
much for the general European political out¬ 
look. 
In England the Commission Bill establish¬ 
ing a special Court of three eminent judges 
to investigate not only the charges made by 
the Times against Parnell; but the sources 
of all the Irish trobbles, has been passed by the 
Commons by a majority of 180 to 04. The 
Parnellites refused to vote for or against the 
measure, so the minority consisted altogether 
of friendly Gladstonians. The bill is now 
being rushed through the Lords. It is a Court 
the rules and constitution of which have 
been made up altogether by the Government 
for the trial of their opponents on loose 
charges to be made by any body, who is guar¬ 
anteed the widest possible protection, even if 
he were a real or an alleged accomplice in any 
crime he may choose to charge against 
the Irish party. The Court is formed to con¬ 
vict as much as any Court could be so formed 
in these days; but the Parnellites say they 
will be able to defend themselves successfully. 
The investigation can hardly begin before 
November. 
A volcanic eruption at Bandaisan, 50 leagues 
from Yokohama, has destroyed several vil¬ 
lages and killed 1,000 persons, including 100 
visitors at the thermal springs. A fresh cra¬ 
ter has formed and the eruption is still active. 
. A Russian cruiser has been ordered to 
Behring Sea to prevent English and American 
vessels from fishing in Russian waters. 
The Local Government Bill, recently passed 
by the English Commons, and which is sure to 
be passed by the Lords, enables the authorities 
of towns and counties to advance money with 
which to send pauper emigrants to English 
colonies. The prov ince of Victoria, Australia, 
has already protested against this part of it, 
and the other Australasian colonies are sure to 
follow the example. Meetings in Canada have 
frequently protested against the influx of pau¬ 
per labor ; what will the government do 
officially in this matter ? 
“ The Gods give no great good without la¬ 
bor,” is an old proverb and a true one; the 
hardest labor is not always that which is best 
paid, however. To those in search of light, 
pleasant and profitable employment, we say 
write to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va. 
— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 11, 1888. 
In consequence of the recent high tariff on 
flour and cereals in Germany, wheat bread in 
the great cities costs some 40 per cent, more 
than it does in London, and rye bread fully 
50 per cent. more. Rye bread is the kind prin¬ 
cipally used by the people.It is claimed 
that California will produce 1.500,000 boxes of 
raisins this year, against 800,000 last year, and 
300,000 three years ago.The general 
managers of tiie roads centering in Chicago 
met there Wednesday and agreed to adopt the 
system of weighing live stock shipments and 
charging by the hundred pounds instead of by 
the car-load. The agreement becomes effective 
September 1, and in the meantime the general 
freight agents are to get together and revise 
their tariffs accordingly. Reports of 
terrible ravages caused by grasshoppers in the 
surrounding districts are daily reaching Otta¬ 
wa. Farmers complain very much of the 
depredations. A local naturalist, who visited 
the infested district, estimated that there were 
on each square mile of territory upward of 
one hundred millions of grasshoppers. 
At the meeting of the Kansas City lines held 
in Omaha, it was decided that grain may be 
stopped and handled at Kansas City and other 
Missouri River points for ten days, and then, 
upon proper certification by the joint agent 
to be appointed there, it may be forwarded to 
the East at prepayment of the through rate.... 
Considerable excitement exists about 
Kingston, Canada, owing to large phosphate 
finds. Boyd Smith’s mine at Eagle Lake has 
turned out to be the largest known in the 
Dominion. A vein 20 feet wide has been dis¬ 
covered, from which hundreds of tons per 
day are being shipped.The French 
government has sent Professors of Agriculture 
everywhere to advise farmers how best to 
gather and preserve their crops during the 
weather crisis.The latest estimate from 
the State Board of Agriculture of Iowa re- 
E orts wheat enormous and corn promises to 
e the largest crop for eight years.. 
France expends about half a million of dollars 
per year in the encouragement of horse breed¬ 
ing, besides keeping up breeding establish¬ 
ments where 2,678 stallions, and mares and 
their offspring are cared for.The 
NewJersey Peach Exchange, which will open 
for the season at Belvedere, about August 
20, has established branch exchanges at 
White House, Lambertville and Lands- 
down, with an independent exchange at Jut¬ 
land, making five exchanges in Hunterdon 
county, against one two years ago. 
Director H. E. Alvord makes the following 
estimation of fertilizing substances used in 
the United States yearly : 4,000,000 tons of 
nitrogen worth $360 a ton and with a market 
value of $1,440,000,000; 3,000,000 tons of potash 
worth $100 a ton, aggregating $300,000,000; 
2,000,000 tons of phosphoric acid worth $120 a 
ton, equal to $240,000,000, or a total of $1,980, 
000,000 for these three principal forms of 
plant-food.In the town of Westchester, 
Westchester County, N. Y., since last Tuesday 
75 cows have been slaughtered ou the dairy 
farm of Embree Hill; 50 on his son’s farm and 
20 on that of Joseph Schwab, because Dr. 
Law, N. Y. State Veterinarian, and Dr. Mc¬ 
Lean, representing the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, had condemned them as being affected 
by “pleuro,” or having been exposed to it. 
The carcasses of purely healthy animals were 
reserved for sale in the markets, while those in 
the least degree affected with the disease were 
buried. The General Government, through 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, reimburses 
the owners of the cattle with a sum fixed by 
appraisers selected from different parts of the 
county. Hill’s cattle averaged about $50 
each. After the premises have been thor¬ 
oughly disinfected, new herds will be al¬ 
lowed to occupy them; but a strict watch 
will be kept on them for some time. 
“ Melonaires ” is the new word applied at the 
South to those who ship large quantities of 
melons north.A hail storm in Dakota 
on Saturday nearly ruined vegetation on a 
patch of country 250 square miles in extent, 
in parts the storm took the shape and force of 
a cyclone, destroying buildings and killing 
cattle.There have been more live cattle 
sent across from Boston so far this year, than 
there were last year. This year there were 
45,965, valued at $3 996,958, against 42,663 
last year valued at $3,747,300. This shows an 
increase over last year of $249,628. 
Entries for the annual exhibition of the N. Y. 
State Agricultural Society, to be held at 
Elmira, from September 15 to 22, are coming 
in rapidly, indicating large exhibits in every 
department. The last day ou which entries 
can be made is the 18st. The Erie Railway 
officials have notified Secretary Woodward 
that exhibits at the International Exhibition, 
to be held at Buffalo, shipped over their roads 
previously to the State Fair, will be returned 
free of freight to the place of original ship¬ 
ment, and will be privileged to stop at Elmira 
for the State Fair ... .The number of oxen 
and bulls imported into England during June 
was 32,227, against 36,200, last year, 10,250 be¬ 
ing received from Canada, against 16,441, and 
14,629 from the Atlantic ports of the United 
States, against 11,745. The number of sheep 
imported was 86,686, against 98,371, including 
56,306 from Germany, against 31,748, anil 
23,315 from Holland against 58,594. The 
number of cows received was 5,432, 
against 5,463; calves, 5,649, against 5,806, 
and swine 4,293, against 3,234. 
“Herbrand ” Fifth Wheel for Buggies .—Adv 
