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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 22, 1888. 
This is the longest session of Congress that 
has ever existed. The fourth session of the 
Thirty-first Congress, which began December 
3, 1849, and ended September 30,1850, was the 
next to it. There is some likelihood that this 
Congress will sit till at least after the No¬ 
vember elections. Several important meas¬ 
ures for making political capital are before it, 
and neither party wants to be on the records 
against them; though both parties think them 
either untimely or unwise. Such is the Anti- 
Chinese Immigration Act which has just been 
rushed through both Houses, absolutely shut¬ 
ting out Chinese, on the supposition that China 
had rejected the late treaty; but now it turns 
out that nobody has any information to that 
effect. The bill is now with the Enrollment 
Committee of the House, and both Houses are 
anxious to prevent its going to the President 
just yet; while both parties are anxious to 
cater for the votes of the Pacific States by sup¬ 
porting the measure. Another measure of the 
kind is the Retaliation Bill which was hurried 
through the House in hot haste after the Pres¬ 
ident’s message. The Senate, too, appeared 
at first eager to pass it, but of late the Repub¬ 
licans, under Sherman’s lead, seem unwilling 
to give any further powers to the President, 
on the ground that he has sufficient already 
for all desirable measures of retaliation. An¬ 
other cause of delay is the desire of the Demo¬ 
crats that the Republicans should have no ex¬ 
cuse for failing to bring in their proposed tar¬ 
iff bill, and the reluctance of the latter to do 
so; for while they are now acting solely on the 
offensive, after such a bill has been introduced 
by them, they may also have to act on the de¬ 
fensive. Some say it will be introduced next 
week; others maintain it won’t appear 
until after the elections in November . 
A bill to authorize the President to appoint 
General William S. Rosecrans a Brigadier- 
General on the retired list of the army was in¬ 
troduced by Senator Manderson Monday. 
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, now 77 years 
old, will not be a candidate for re-election 
owing to his advanced age -Congress Is 
going wild on the subject of Trusts. Two more 
bills have bave introduced bearing on their 
suppression. Meanwhile new Trusts are being 
formed every week, and the old ones are mak¬ 
ing lots of “ hay ” in spite of the threatening 
storms on the political horizon. All parties 
and factions profess to be “ down ” on these 
monopolies: but it’s more than likely that no 
law will be passed against them during the 
present session of Congress. All the talk is 
merely clap-trap for political effect 
during the present canvass. 
The marriage of Miss Virginia McTavisb, of 
Baltimore, a grand daughter of General Win¬ 
field Scott, to the Duke of Norfolk is announced. 
The Duke of Norfolk is the head of the power¬ 
ful Howard family and has ramified relations 
among the highest English aristocracy. He 
is the Premier Duke and hereditary Earl 
Marshal of England, and one of the wealth¬ 
iest men m the country. He and Miss Mc- 
Tavish are both Catholics. It is the grandest 
match in point of family and wealth any 
American girl has yet made—.... .... 
Yesterday the President received official in¬ 
formation by cable, that China has rejected 
the late treaty. The new bill absolutely ex¬ 
cluding all Chinese from this country, 
was at once sent to him from the House 
Enrollment Committee, and it will, no 
doubt now receive his signature. 
At Cynthiana, Ky., Wednesday, the best two- 
year-old trot ever trotted east of the Rocky 
Mountains took place between Timothy 
Angelina’s bay filly Angelina, by Wilkes 
Boy, and Lair Bros.’ bay colt Mainbrino Bis¬ 
marck, by Victor Von Bismarck, and Hook & 
Clay’s gray filly Abbie V, by Aberdeen. 
Angelina won both heats in 2:282:29 . 
John L. Sullivan, the notorious prize fighter, 
is lying dangerously ill at Briton Cottage, 
near Boston. Owing to the restrictions 
on travel in the South due to yellow fever, the 
date of the great National Exposition at 
Augusta, Ga., has been changed from October 
10 to November 8.On account of the 
prevalence of yellow fever the local land-office 
at Jacksonville, Fla., has been ordered closed 
temporarily. Yellow fever has been unusual¬ 
ly bad during the week owing to unfavorable 
weather. There are in the town now only 
about 2.300 whites and 6,000 colored. The 
fever is nearly as bad among the latter as 
among the former. Most of the whites have fled 
to other places or gone to camps of refuge in the 
neighborhood. The negroes refuse to leave lest 
they should lose iheir right to vote—a calamity 
they dread as much as the fever. As the State 
is usually pretty close, and so many of the 
whites (fully 10,000) have left their usual places 
of residence, it is thought not unlikely that 
the negro vote will be victorious this year 
unless the panic soon ceases. Nurses and doc¬ 
tors are sadly wanted. Many of those who 
served are sick or dead; others are tired out 
and thus predisposed to the disease. Money, 
provisions, etc., are pouring in generously 
from all quarters. New York has sent up¬ 
wards of §35,600, besides a vast quantity of 
supplies. Ocher places have done well, also. 
There is a motion before Congress, now, to ap¬ 
propriate §100,000 for the relief of yellow 
fever sufferers in the South. The §200,000 
voted for last week was for the purpose of 
preventing the spread of the disease generally. 
A number of cases have occurred at Decatur, 
Ala., 180 miles east of Memphis, on the line of 
the Memphis and Charleston R. R., and a reg¬ 
ular stampede is in progress. The disease has 
also appeared in Jackson, Miss., New Orleans, 
La., and several other places in the South, and 
it begins to look as if the contagion was to be¬ 
come common in the lower latitudes. 
Yellow fever prevails with fatal ef¬ 
fect in Havana. During the months of 
July and August, 200 deaths from that 
disease occurred in the city. 
... .Congressman William L. Scott, of Erie, 
Pa., positively refuses to accept a unanimous 
renomination from the Democrats of his dis¬ 
trict.Mr. Powderlv is having a hard 
time keeping his Master-Workmen out of 
politics. Several of those in Pennsylvania 
have gone to Indiana to take the stump, some 
for Harrison and some for Cleveland. Their 
resignations have been asked for, and all 
others who have any convictions on the issues 
of the campaign will be promptly ousted from 
the Order.James LaDgdon Curtis, New 
York millionaire, has accepted the Presiden¬ 
tial nomination of the National American 
Party. Among the things he advocates are 
restriction of immigration and naturalization; 
the entire divorce of church from State; free 
public schools taught according to an Ameri¬ 
can system; free technical schools; the cur¬ 
tailment of Trusts, and Government savings 
banks for the benefit of working people. 
. .The board of carnival directors at St. Paul, 
Minn., have decided to hold the fourth St. 
Paul carnival this winter... 
.... Later advices from Cuba estimate the loss 
of life by the late cyclone at 10,000, and the 
damage to property at §6 000.000. In 
this State the United Labor Party has de¬ 
cided to support the Republican State candi¬ 
dates. Charles Pilsbury & Co.,of Minne¬ 
apolis, one of the largest milling firms in the 
world, have just divided §40,000 among their 
employes, in pursuance of a profit-sharing 
plan adopted four years ago- There were no 
profits to divide during the two previous years 
.It is said that Mrs. Gen. Sheridan has 
only §800 a year to live on and support her 
children, and urgent appeals are made to Con¬ 
gress to pass her pension bill. Kilgore, Dem¬ 
ocrat, of Texas, is the main obstacle .... 
The Swedish American Republican club of 
Chicago has bad over 1,000 persons natural¬ 
ized in the last few weeks. They will all be 
expected to vote the Republican ticket. 
Large numbers of English and Scotch¬ 
men are also getting naturalized to 
counterbalance the “Irish vote”.. 
Major William Warner of Kansas City, Mo. 
was elected Commandei of the G. A. R. at 
Columbus, O. last week. Maj. Warner was 
born in Lafayette Co. Wis. June 11, 1839. 
Enlisted in the 33rd. Wis. Regiment, and was 
promoted to major. Emigrated to Missouri 
in 1865. where he has successfully practiced 
law aDd politics since, having been twice elect¬ 
ed to Congress by the Republicans of the dis¬ 
trict....The campaign in Indiana is 
well under way. The line of battle extends 
from the borders of Lake Michigan to 
the southernmost hamlet in Percy coun¬ 
ty, and it is estimated that over 2,000 
speeches are being deliverd every night 
now, throughout the .State. 
A Book which has Helped Me. 
“Under title of “Books which have 
Helped Me,” a galaxy of famous authors has 
given expression to some suggestive opinions. 
Of course, cases varied, and there were un¬ 
avoidable omissions. So for the purpose of 
filling the hiatus occasioned by one of them, 
we subjoin the following brief notice from the 
editorial columns of the New South: 
“ We have seen the efficiency of the Com¬ 
pound Oxygen Treatment as prepared by Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, No. 1529 Arch St., Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., or 331 Montgomery St., San 
Francisco, Cal., tested so fully and successfully 
in a number of cases, embracing a variety of 
diseases, that we do not hesitate to recommend 
it to all afflicted with chronic diseases of any 
kind. Send for a copy of their treatise on 
Compound Oxygen, an interesting book of 200 
pages, sent free by mail.”— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 22, 1888. 
The new Commission of three Judges ap¬ 
pointed to investigate the charges of the Times 
against Parnell and the other Irish leaders 
held its first session on Monday, and acted 
with the utmost impartiality, conceding to 
the Parnellites all their reasonable demands. 
It ordered the surrender of all papers affect¬ 
ing the merits of the cases and called on the 
London Times to give the details of the crim¬ 
inal charges against the Parnellites, and that 
John Dillon should be liberated from jail in 
order to prepare for his defense. The next 
session will be October 22. Dillon has been 
liberated unconditionally, though he had near¬ 
ly a year yet to serve. It is likely that several 
Irishmen now in the country who would be 
imprisoned if found in the United Kingdom 
will be guaranteed immunity to enable them 
to go there and testifiy. 
On the Continent a report that Bismarck, 
following the example of Von Moltke, would 
soon resign, has been repeated and contradict¬ 
ed several times. While the Powers are 
negotiating for the deposition of Ferdinand of 
Bulgaria, that little Principality demands.that 
Turkey should grant to it control of Macedo¬ 
nian affairs under penalty of re-opening the 
Eastern Question. Greece also threatens 
Turkey with her severe displeasure unless a 
prompt and satisfactory reason is given for 
the recent seizure of a Grecian vessel by the 
Turks at Chios. Nothing else of much inter¬ 
est in European news this week. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 22, 1888. 
Not only have alien cattle-growers (chiefly 
English and Scotch) lost heavily in their ven¬ 
tures on the plains; but bonanza alien farmers 
have also of late been losing heavily according 
to the best reports. Americans can have little 
sympathy with these non-resident gentry who 
have no personal interest in the institutions or 
prosperity of the country.Foreign wheat, 
according to the best reports, is not only less in 
quantity than usual, but also much inferior in 
quality..While prices for low-grade 
cattle have improved but little during the 
season, and those for medium grades have im¬ 
proved only to a moderate extent, there has 
been a steady and marked advance for choice 
fat stock. Choice range stock is now readily 
sold at Chicago for §5 per 100 pounds, while 
occasionally choice bunches change hands at 
§5.25.—a price which the best grain-fed cattle 
could not secure a few months ago.In 
spite of low prices inferior cattle, especially 
cows and heifers, are crowding in very large 
numbers into all the markets at present. This 
over-crowding of course helps to depreciate 
prices... ... Prices of bogs during the sum¬ 
mer have been fully as high as the condition 
of things would warrant. The season is now 
approaching when prices always decline and 
the prospective immense crop of corn is likely 
to aid the decline this year. Owing to the 
limited number of stock hogs available for 
feeding, however, really low prices for 
hogs can hardly be looked for . 
Exports of live cattle and dressed beef from 
the port of Boston for the foreign markets last 
week were 2,115 cattle and 3,934 quarters of beef 
.... Several months ago Commissioner Colman 
received from the Chief Secretary of the Brit¬ 
ish colony of Queensland a courteous request to 
recommend to the Colonial Government an 
American citizen, competent to serve as an in¬ 
structor of the American system of agricul¬ 
ture. The Commissioner took an active in¬ 
terest in the matter, land still has it under 
consideration, a large number of Americans 
having volunteered to accept the appointment 
and the contingent salary of £600 with travel¬ 
ing expenses, but the selection has not yet 
been made. A week ago the Commissioner 
received a second letter from the Chief Secre¬ 
tary dated Brisbane, which contains informa¬ 
tion of interest respecting the colony, and em¬ 
bodies, moreover, an increase in the salary 
profferd to the selected instructor to £720. 
The State of Chihuahua,Mexico, has exempted 
from State and municipal taxation for ten 
years all capital invested in the cultivation of 
ramie and the mulberry tree. A premium of 
§100 will be paid to persons who within five 
years present an arroba of ramie fiber or 50 
cocoons of silk produced in the State. 
The cotton factors of Savannah, Ga., have 
organized a pool to fight the Bagging Trust 
by importing the covering of last year’s cotton 
and using it in place of syndicate bagging. 
Samples of old covering have been secured, 
and the plan is pronounced practicable. 
Since the organization of the pool syndicate 
bagging has been offered there at % to % cent 
less than quotations. Planters are going 
to use only six yards per bale this year, as a 
rule, instead of nine yards of bagging per 
bale used heretofore. .....The Acme 
Manufacturing Company of Wilmington, 
N. C., writes to the Cotton Exchange here, to 
recommend a cotton bagging now being made 
by that (company from pine leaves. It is 
said to be uninflammable and to have come 
successfully through the tests to which jute 
bagging is submitted .There are now 
due at ports in the United Kingdom from 
Australia a large number of wheat-laden 
ships, whose cargoes aggregate about 1,550,000 
bushels. Other ships follow and will be due 
in October with about as much more. 
The apple crop in Warren county,N. J.,is un- 
precedently large and the farmers are now 
seeking a market for it. Local dealers are 
offering only 20 cents a.bushel. The cider 
production will be correspondingly large. 
.The late rains have spoiled most of the 
late peaches in N. J., Del., and Md., by soak¬ 
ing them. Many orchardists discontinued 
shipping early in the week. The Peach Grow¬ 
ers’ Bureau of Information at Clayton, Del., 
closed a week ago, chiefly on account of the 
injury from the storms. The damage con¬ 
tracted the growers’ profits, but the season 
was quite profitable and satisfactory. A great 
deal of good has been effected by the growers’ 
organizations for shipping and distribut¬ 
ing their produce, and while the faces 
of the large middlemen are long, those 
of the producers are broad. 
... The horse trade in this city is now livelier 
than at any time during the year, especially 
in truck and express animals. The demand 
for street-car horses is a trifle less than it was 
two weeks ago; but there is always profitable 
room in some of the many lines that gridiron 
the city for good, strong animals capable of 
standing the wear and tear of stone pave¬ 
ments. Four years is the average life of a 
metropolitan street-car horse. Prices are 
good and out-of-town consignments heavy_ 
. .Contrary to recent expectations, the council 
of French Ministers, held in Paris on Thurs¬ 
day, decided not to suspend the import 
duty of five francs on cereals. 
The Commissioner of Agriculture has sent 
out through the commercial boards of all 
the meat-packing centers, invitations to every 
meat-canning and packing establishment in 
the country, to have a representative see him 
at the Grand Central Hotel, Chicago, October 
9, to confer relative to the meat exhibit to be 
made at the forthcoming Paris Exposition. 
The N. Y. State fair at Elmira during the 
week, has been a grand success. Wednesday 
Hon. Warner Miller addressed 20,000 visitors 
on agricultural and Republican matters; next 
day Gov. Hill spoke also to a large audience 
confining himself almost entirely to Democrt- 
ic politics. Hon. Levi P. Morton’s Guernseys 
took two first prizes, five second-class prizes, 
and a gold medal for the best herd.At the 
great Buffalo International Fair, in the test on 
butter cows, both first and second prizes were 
awarded to cows from the Lakeside herd of 
Smiths, Powell & Lamb, of Syracuse N. Y., the 
first prize going to Benola Fletcher and the 
second to Netherland Peeress.. 
The beet sugar factory of Claus Spreckels, 
at Watsonville, Cal., has begun operations. 
Owing to the fact that the beets were not 
planted until late in the season, only 350 
tons per day can be obtained—just half 
the capacity of the works. 
Now that the rush of the summer work is 
somewhat over, we desire to call attention to 
some matters looking forward to profitable 
work for the fall months, and through the 
winter. Write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 
Main St., Richmond, Va , and they will show 
you how to do a grand work, which can be 
made a permanent thing. — Adv. 
Since September 8 there have been light 
frosts all through the northern parts of the 
corn belt—just enough to stop the growth of 
corn and help dry out what had already 
ripened. Reports vary with regard to the 
amount of injury done to late-planted corn; 
but the best reports say it is not heavy. The 
Wall Street estimate of the crop is over 2,000,- 
000,000 bushels; but it pays speculators to ex¬ 
aggerate when the crop is about to start to 
market. The weather is now dry over the 
Northwest. It couldn’t be better for putting 
corn in good condition for gathering. Na- 
braska thinks she’ll begin shipping new corn 
in October. Very poor reports of the soring 
wheat in Dakota come from the thrashing 
machines. Both quantity and quality are un¬ 
satisfactory over wide areas. Every one 
seems to be holding on to his wheat. In the 
southwest portion of the winter wheat bplt, 
which takes in Tennessee and Kentucky, Kan¬ 
sas, Missouri, Southern Indiana and Illinois, 
rains have been abundant and excellent pro¬ 
gress has been made with plowing. Seeding 
will commence the coming week. In the 
northeastern portion of the winter wheat belt 
little, if any, plowing has been done, and 
the ground is fully as dry as it was a year 
ago. The excellent demand which now ex¬ 
ists in the winter wheat belt for good No. 2 
red winter wheat and the excellent price 
which it brings, millers paying from three to 
five cents per bushel more than it is worth at 
grain centers, will prove a great stimulus this 
fall toward putting out every available acre 
into this crop. 
The damage to small fruits and vegetables 
from recent rains is said to have been very 
serious. Grape growers say that the rains 
caused the grapes to burst on the vines so that 
they must be picked and marketed immedi¬ 
ately to prevent their moulding. Accordingly 
they are being rushed to market very rapidly 
and are retailing here at three cents per pound. 
They are said to be perfectly good for imme¬ 
diate use. 
Up in the New York hop district the follow¬ 
ing are the prices: 
Fancy Humphreys, 1888 . 25 at 30 
Good to fine, 1888. 25 at 28 
Fair to good, 1888. 20 at 25 
Poor to fair, 1888. 15 at 20 
Good, 1887. 13 at 15 
Fair, 1887. 9 at 12 
In Lewis county some sales have been made 
at 30c. The market is very strong, but grow¬ 
ers are usually willing to take 25 to 30c. rath- 
ther than risk a break in prices. 
The Cincinati Price Current, a pretty good 
“ authority, ” estimate the total corn-crop of 
this year at 2,015,000.000 bushels. It makes 
an increase of 559,000,000 bushels or 38 per 
cent, over last year’s crop. For the seven sur¬ 
plus States—Ohio, Ind.,111., la.. Mo., Kan., 
and Neb.—it gives a gain of 520,000,000 bushels 
or 66 per cent. In the six other Western 
States it allows a gain of 33,000.000 bushels or 
15 per cent. In the 12 Southern States—Tenn. 
and Ky. being otherwise classed—it thinks the 
crop about the same as last year.Speaking 
of hog packing, the same paper says packing 
in the West continues restricted, aggregating 
95,000 hogs for the week up to last Thursday, 
against the same number for the preceding 
week, and 170,000 for corresponding week last 
year. The total from March 1, is 4,115,000 
hogs, against 4,555,000 a year ago—decrease, 
440,000. Hogs are of fair quality as a rule. 
Prices are 10 at 15 cents higher than a week 
ago in most centers. In the provision market 
the feature of the week is the further sharp 
advance in lard for early delivery, the Octo- 
per price at Chicago reaching $2 50 per 100 
pounds above January, while short ribs sides 
for October are §1.70 above January, 
and mess pork for October 50 cents 
per barrel above January. 
EXCURSIONS TO KANSAS AND 
NEBRASKA. 
Write to John Sebastian, General Ticket 
and Passenger Agent, Chicago, Kansas and 
Nebraska Railway, “Rock Island Route,” 
Topeka, Kansas, and he will furnish you with 
full information regarding a series of Harvest 
Excursions on the following dates: August 
21st, September 11th and 25th, October 9th 
and 23d, and will also mail to your address, 
printed matter giving full particulars about 
Kansas and Nebraska lands, new towns, etc. 
This is the new Kansas and Nebraska exten¬ 
sion of the great Rock Island Route, offering 
splendid inducements to parties desirous of 
locating.— Adv. 
‘Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
