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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 1,1888. 
It is reported that cholera is raging 
in Presque Isle County, Mich., people 
are dying like sheep, with no doctors 
in the immediate vicinity. Nino per¬ 
sons have died in one day.The Collec¬ 
tor of Customs at Kingston, Canada, has noti¬ 
fied the fruit dealers that they must enter and 
pay duty upon crates and boxes in which they 
receive fruit, which is on the free list, as in¬ 
structions have been issued by the Commis¬ 
sion of Customs that the packages are subject 
to a duty of 20 per cent. This is the first inti¬ 
mation the dealers have had of the existence 
of any such law. As they will have to pay 
duty on all packages they have received this- 
season, and as they have no way of recouping 
themselves they are highly indignant. 
.Yellow fever is much worse in Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla. Nothing caD now kill Yel¬ 
low Jack except Jack Frost. 
The State Conference of Farmers and Labor 
Organizations in session at St. Paul, Wednes¬ 
day, with about 100 delegates, mostly from the 
“Twin Cities,” nominated Ignatius Donnelly 
for Governor__Ex-Senator Warner Mil¬ 
ler was nominated for Governor by the New 
York Republicans.The North Carolina 
Farmers’ Alliance, with a membership of 
40,000,demands the discontinuance of the prac- 
ice of making convicts work for railroads and 
other corporations for nothing. They protest 
against the acceptance of railway passes by 
State officers and demand a Railroad Com¬ 
mission.The “ overland flyer ” on the 
Union Pacific road was wrecked at Kimball, 
Neb., early Thursday morning by a broken 
rail. Three sleeping cars, one of them occu¬ 
pied by Claus Spreckels, the “ sugar king,’, 
rolled down an embankment. Spreck. 
els escaped, but three other passen¬ 
gers were seriously injured. 
A statement published by the Canadian 
government shows that 820,000,000 of Cana¬ 
dian bank capital is invested in the United 
States, an increase of $2,000,000 during the 
month.It is estimated that 50,000 
mocking birds are caught monthly in the im¬ 
mediate vicinity of New Orleans. There are 
so many of these birds caught in Louisiana 
that it is thought they will become extinct.... 
....The report of the Commissioner of Pen¬ 
sions shows that there were during the year 
added to the pension rolls 60,252 new names 
(the largest annual increase in the history of 
the Bureau), making a total of 452,557 pen¬ 
sioners on the rolls, classified as follows: 326,- 
835 invalids, 92,298 widows, minor children 
and dependent relatives, 37 revolutionary 
widows, 806 survivors of the war of 1812, 10,- 
787 widows of those who served in that war, 
16,060 survivors of the war with Mexico, and 
6,104 widows of those who served in that war. 
The names of 2,028 previously dropped were re¬ 
stored to the rolls, making an aggregate of 
52,280 pensioners added during the year. Dur¬ 
ing the same period 15,530 were dropped from 
the rolls on account of death and various 
other causes, leaving a net increase to the rolls 
of 46,550 names. There have been 1,166,926 
pension claims filed since 1861, and 737,200 
claims of all classes have been allowed since 
that date. The amount paid for pensions since 
1861 has been $963,086,444. Increase of pen¬ 
sion was granted in 45,716 cases. The average 
annual value of a pension at the close of the 
year was $125.30, a decrease of $4.80. 
Sir Charles Tupper, of Canada, has been made 
a Baronet, Minister West has been given the 
grand cross of the order of St. Michael and 
St. George, and Messrs. Thompson, Winter 
and Berne have been made knights com¬ 
manders of the same order. These honors 
have been conferred in recognition of the 
services rendered by the recipients as members 
of the Fisheries Commission. The honors are 
liberally distributed after the labors of the 
Commission are found to be abortive on ac¬ 
count of the recent rejection of the treaty. 
.Congress is very likely to grant the 
President the fuller powers for retaliation 
which he asks. What the effects of such a 
policy will be, it is hard to foretell. 
The Grand Trunk people in London say they 
will spend enough money to buy Congress if 
necessary to defeat any legislation hostile to 
their interests in connection with the transit 
trade of the United States.The “Ohio 
Centenial Exposition ” will open at Columbus 
on September 4, continuing until October 19, 
and will present a great fund of attractions. 
.The Interstate Industrial Exposition 
in Chicago, will be open from Sept. 5, to Oct. 
20. The railroads are making especially low 
rates during the time the Exposition is to be 
open; it is expected to be one of the 
most interesting ever held there. 
....Mary Anderson’s brother Joseph is to 
marry Lawrence Barrett’s daughter Gertrude. 
.For the month ending August 20 
the Bell Telephone Company put out 3,694 
telephones and had 1,760 returned, making a 
net output of 1,934, against 180 for the same 
month last year, an increase of 1,754. The 
net output of the year to date, is 23,094; com¬ 
parative increase, 4,216 instruments .. 
Immigration in July was 40,917, against 30,- 
080 last year. Great Britain represented 
14,121, Germany 7,967, Sweden and Norway 
5,523, Russia 4,480, other countries 8,726. 
Potatoes to the extent of 8,259,528 bushels 
were imported during the year ending June 
30 last, against 1,432,490 bushels the preceding 
year, Beans and peas were imported to the 
extent of 1,942,840 bushels, against 648,388 the 
preceding year.The city of Min¬ 
neapolis is to have a remarkable office build¬ 
ing—to be constructed of iron as the skeleton, 
and extending in hight 28 stories. The build¬ 
ing will be 350 feet high, 80 feet square, with 
an inner court—all offices fronting the outer 
walls. There will be 728 rooms and 12 elevators.. 
The first year of High License in Minn, has 
proved a success. There are in the State only 
1,597 saloons now as against 2,806 when the 
law went into effect. A decrease in the con¬ 
sumption of liquor is shown in nearly every 
county. Low groggeries have been closed up 
and the liquor business is under better police 
supervision. Under the old system the aver¬ 
age cost of a license was about $300, and the 
total approximate income was about $850,000. 
Under high license the average cost of permi- 
sion to sell is about $650, and the total approx¬ 
imate income is about $1,100,000. 
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions 
has authorized a favorable report on the bill 
granting a pension to Mrs. Sheridan, widow 
of the late Gen. Sheridan. The committee 
reduced the amount of pension from $5,000 to 
$3,500 per annum, making it the same as the 
Senate bill. At the meeting of the 
Democratic County Convention at Erie Pa.; 
Monday, W. L. Scott came before that body 
and positively declined to accept a renomina¬ 
tion to Congress from this district. He says 
he is growing feeble and perfers the seclusion 
of home for the balance of his days. 
A bill introduced in the House by Representa¬ 
tive Vandever, of California, appropriates 
$100,000 to be expended under the direction 
of the Department of Agriculture in ascer¬ 
taining and providing means for the 
extermination of the cottony citrus 
fruit culture in California. 
Cleveland is rated as worth less'.than $200,000. 
Harrison’s worldly goods are valued at a sum 
even less than that. Belva Lockwood is not 
rich, nor is Candidate Fisk of the Prohibition¬ 
ists, through he is probably worth more than 
any of the others. Candidate Curtis of the 
American Party is reputed to be worth 
$2,000,000.The will of Charles Crocker 
second vice-president of the Southern Pacific 
railroad company, appoints Mrs. Mary A. 
Crocker, the widow, executrix. The estate 
is worth something over $25,250,000. 
Libby prison will be sold again at public 
auction within the next ten days. 'W. H. 
Gray of Chicago bought the property in 
February and he sold it to a Chicago syndi¬ 
cate, who have failed to meet the terms of 
the sale.A rich deposit of nickel has 
been discovered at Russell Springs, Logan 
county, Kan. A number of claims have been 
staked out, and there is a general 
rush to that point. 
The closing'exercises of the Chautauqua As¬ 
sembly of 1888 were held at Chautauqua N.Y., 
this week. Ex-Gov. Cumback of Indiana 
lectured on “ Model Husbands,” and the clos¬ 
ing addresses were made by Lewis Miller, 
William A. Duncan and Bishop Vincent. 
Rev. Dr. Horatio Haskings Weld, f or many 
years rector of Christ Church, Riverton, N. J., 
died at Riverton this w eek of heart failure. 
He was formerly editor of the Boston Tran¬ 
script, and was one of the earliest editors of 
of the New York Sun. He was born in Bos¬ 
ton in 1811.The real masters of the 
situation are the coal monopolists, who begin 
their customary display of power very early in 
the season with an advance of 50 cents a ton on 
fuel.There was a novel barbecue at 
Graham, Mo., recently, which lasted three 
days. Democrats, Republicans and Prohibi¬ 
tionists joined hands and agreed to devote a 
day apiece to the promulgation of their sever¬ 
al doctrines. About 2,000 people attended the 
affair and 19 fat oxen were sacrificed. 
The French spoliation claims received a set¬ 
back in the House Monday, which seal their 
fate for this session. The vote was 105 to 59. 
Alarm over the enormous expenditures al¬ 
ready authorized this year had a good deal to 
do with the sudden change of front on the 
part of certain members. The deficiency bill 
has passed the House without the spoliation 
section.Charles W. Waldron, one of 
the owners and managers of the Waldron 
bank of Hillsdale, Mich., has absconded, tak¬ 
ing with him money and securities variously 
estimated at from $60,000 to $80,000. The 
bank is doing business, and depos¬ 
itors will be paid in full. 
The President’s“retaliation”message is still the 
chief topic of domestic interest. In it he in¬ 
vites the attention of the two Houses to the 
fact that he cannot avail himself of the pow¬ 
ers conferred in the retaliation act of March 
3, 1887, without injuring American interests 
more than those of Canada, but he proposes a 
new method of retaliation so effective that the 
mere hint of it will probably bring the Domin¬ 
ion goverement to terms. He asks Congress 
to give him power to suspend by proclama¬ 
tion the right granted Canadian vessels to land 
goods at Portland, Boston and New York, to 
be transported in bond free of duty across the 
United States to Canada. If this privilege 
were wishdrawn, these goods, amounting in 
value to $270,000,00 each six years,would have 
to pay our high duties or be landed somewhere 
on the Canadian coast on their arrival from 
Europe. The St. Lawrence is closed for half 
the year by ice, and there is no port in New 
Brunswick or Novia Scotia which could be 
immediately utilized for landing imported 
goods. Even if there were such a port, 
railroad haul to Montreal and points beyond 
would be four or five times what it is from 
Portland, Boston or New York. But the 
President’s plan has the double advantage 
of violating no treaty stipulation or inter¬ 
national agreement, so giving no cause for 
war and of doing no appreciable 
injury to American business interests. 
.Blaine,Edmunds and other Republicans, 
however, find many forcible arguments to 
urge against it.Ben Gratz, of St. Louis, 
originator of the cotton bagging “combine,” 
says the Mills Bill reducing the duty on jute 
made the combine possible, and that they took 
advantage of the circumstance. He also says 
that reducing the duty on jute will render 
bagging machinery useless, and that owners 
desire to get what they can out of the bagging 
“squeeze;” that whatever they do must be 
done this season. He thinks the price of bag¬ 
ging will go to 15 cents per pound. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 1, 1888. 
There was a suspicious run of luck at the 
first drawings of the Panama company’s lot¬ 
tery on the 18th, in which the company made 
a fine thing. The despatches stated at the 
time that the company secured the first two 
prizes, aggregating $24,000. This, it appears 
from the French papers, was but a fraction 
of the truth. The company drew six prizes, 
netting it $122,800, while the bondholders 
drew but $5,200. There is no accounting for 
taste or luck. 
The divorce proceedings between King Mi¬ 
lan of Servia and Queen Natalie will open 
September 1. The case will be surrounded 
by political intrigue, an army of eminent 
counsel having been engaged by Russian and 
Austrian diplomats. 
The 102d birthday of Chevreul, the French 
man of science, occurred Tuesday. 
Count Andrassy is dying of disease of the 
kidneys. He was in his day one of the great¬ 
est of European diplomats and would have 
been the equal of Bismarck had he had a 
master like William I. Andrassy’s brain and 
Andrassy’s pluck have saved the Austrian 
empire fi om disintegration more than once. 
The imports of Germany last year amount¬ 
ed in Rvalue to $758,930,00), and exports to 
$759,250,000—a wonderfully close commercial 
outcome. 
American evaporated apples are sold large¬ 
ly in Germany. Attempts made to establish 
the fruit-evaporating business in that country 
have failed. 
“ There is nothing you require of your 
agents but what is just and reasonable and 
strictly in accordance with business princi¬ 
ples.” That’s the sort of testimony any house 
can be proud of, and it is the testimony of 
hundreds of men who are profitably employed 
by B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va. Write 
for full particulars.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 1, 1888. 
Wholesale merchants of Atlanta and other 
Southern cities are greatly concerned about 
the probable effect of the Cotton Bagging 
Trust upon the business of the South. 
Action of the Farmers' Alliance and similar 
organizations is viewed with considerable 
alarm. It is argued that if the farmers 
maintain the position they have taken and re¬ 
fuse to market their cotton, it will result in 
the bankruptcy of the country merchants who 
have advanced money on the cotton. This 
will, of course, affect the wholesale dealers 
who sell to the country merchants, and they 
are powerless to prevent it. The only thing 
they can do is to try to persuade the farmers 
to change their position, and this they are 
trying to do by circulars, newspaper inter¬ 
views, eic.At a meeting of the cotton 
planters of West Tennessee and North Miss¬ 
issippi held at Memphis last Monday, it was 
resolved to decline to use jute bagging at 
present prices and to adopt any sub¬ 
stitute for the same that could be found. The 
National Alliance which meets at Meridian, 
Miss., in October will also take cognizance of 
the corner in bagging which has been effected. 
.A number of merchants say they will 
not take cotton, unless it is put up in jute 
bagging; and several insurance men have re¬ 
fused to take risks on cotton baled with other 
materials; but there is a strong pressure of 
public opinion against such a course. 
Within the next two months Chicago will re¬ 
ceive a consignment of sheep consisting of 
20,000 head, the result of the annual purcbase4 
of G. W. Meyers, of Miles City. He has just 
completed his round through Furgus, Choteau, 
Cascade, Yellowstone and other counties. He 
has paid from $2.20 to $3.15 per head according 
to condition and distance from railroad........ 
There is an outbreak of Texas fever at Med¬ 
way, Pa .The total elevator capacity of 
Chicago which is recognized as “ regular ” by 
the Board of Trade, is 29,975,00 bu. The 
largest one is owned by Armour & Co., and 
will contain 2,000,000 bushels of grain. 
Frank Work, the owner of Edward and 
Dick Swiveler, at one time the fastest double 
team in the world by record, has made a pro¬ 
vision that should he die before his horses do 
they are never to have harness upon them 
again, but are to be taken good care of on a 
farm as long as they live,.A bill in the 
English Parliament proposes to compel the 
sellers of foreign meats to announce that fact 
by a conspicious placard on their shop or stall, 
the idea being that people are deceived into 
buying foreign meat for the English article, 
as they are into purchasing oleomargarine 
for butter .George Rainsford, the 
well-known horse-raiser at Cheyenne, W. T., 
a few days ago lost eighteen blooded horses by 
lightning, valued at $20,000.Bell Boy, 
the $50,000 three-year-old, was shipped to 
Chicago on the 23, instant. He will be taken 
charge of by Bud Doble, who will try to lower 
his record.A number of tomato grow¬ 
ers at Cedarville, N. J., who sell their pro¬ 
duct to canneries, found when the tomatoes 
began to ripen that they were yellow varie¬ 
ties and unfit for canning. They propose to 
sue the seedsman from whom they pur¬ 
chased the seeds for damages. 
The fifteenth annual inter-State exhibition of 
Grangers was opened at Williams Grove, Pa., 
Monday, with a large crowd of people from 
every section of the country. Two hundred 
carloads of machinery of all descriptions have 
been placed in position. Some time ago it was 
announced that the President and his wife 
would attend; but he went a-fishing instead. 
. John D. Gillett, the cattle king of 
Illinois, died at Mackinaw, Mich., August 25. 
He owned 20,000 acres of land in Logan Co., Ill. 
His fortune is estimated at $2,500,000 . 
The Russian Government has authorized the 
railroad companies to make advances to 
farmers on the security of wheat stored at the 
railway stations for future transportation 
and sale. The effect of this measure will be 
to enable the farmer to hold wheat more 
firmly.Advices from Rome August 16, 
stat9 that the reports received by the Min¬ 
ister of Agriculture indicate that this year’s, 
wheat crop of Italy will amount to 106,000,000 
bushels, against 120,000,000 bushels last year, 
and 24,000,000 bushels below the average of 
the past ten years.The amount of 
wheat and flour now in transit to Europe- 
with the visible supply of wheat in the Uni¬ 
ted States and Canada, is equivalent to 
47,450,952 bushels of wheat, against 48,860,750 
bushels one year ago, and of corn 11,476,917 
bushels, against 9,428,905...... The Argen¬ 
tine Republic exported 3,704 tons of peanuts 
in 1887—over four times the quantity ex¬ 
ported in the preceding year. The interior 
movement is said to be very large also. 
.Oliver Dalrymple, the great bonanza 
farmer of Datoka, has written a very strong 
open letter urging the farmers of the country 
to hold wheat for higher prices. He expects 
wheat will soon reach the old-time price of 
$1 25 at Chicago. The whole of South¬ 
western Kansas has been favored for the past 
two days by a good soaking rains, putting 
wheat ground in excellent shape and help¬ 
ing late corn and pastures. Stock of all 
kinds in excellent condition.. 
Pennsylvania has some girls worth having. 
In the haying season a gentleman during a 
short drive counted nine young women driv¬ 
ing two horse mowers, and seventeen manag¬ 
ing horse-rakes....... .The Executive Commit¬ 
tee of the Fair Association at Pontiac, Mich, 
offers gold wedding rings, marriage licenses, 
hacks, ministerial fees, and two pairs 
of shoes to each couple who will agree 
to marry on the grounds during the fair. 
Professor James Law, goveornmeut inspector 
of cattle for the suppression of pleuro-pneumo- 
nia, has resigned. Dr. James Devoe of Phila¬ 
delphia will succeed him. Professor Law will 
resume his former duties at CornellUniversity. 
.The cotton crop of Texas is estimated 
now at 1,500’000 bales. Last year it amounted 
to about 1,400,000 bales . Australian 
farmers are fighting a second pest, one of 
mice, which is said to be even worse than the 
rabbit pest. The soft climate causes the mice 
to breed with great rapidity and every place 
is overrun by the pests. In some places they 
are so thick that, in order to get the stock 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for uggies.— Adv' 
