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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 29, 1888. 
It is estimated that there are over 10,000 
speakers now on the stump for the two great 
parties, to say nothing of those supporting 
the other half-dozen tickets. The National 
Committees supply the “big guns;” the State 
and county committees furnish light artillery. 
All are paid except a few of the most promi¬ 
nent, and even they do not object to have 
their expenses defrayed. Prices this year are 
unusuallv low, averaging for all hardly over 
$35 a week and expenses, though the big guns, 
of course, get much more. Usually the 
National Committees pay the salaries of those 
they engage, while their expenses are defrayed 
by the State and local committees. Demo¬ 
cratic National Chairman Brice believes in 
“specifying;” Republican National Chairman 
Quay has more faith in hiring carriages on 
ejection day and getting lazy men to the 
polls; but it won’t do for one partv to get the 
better of the other in any line. The cost of 
speakers, torches, uniforms, banners, as¬ 
sembly rooms, hails, ballots, etc., etc., etc., 
must run away up in the millions. Excel¬ 
lent authorities put the outlay for uniforms 
and torches alone at not a cent less than 
$3,000,000 for the entire country. 
. .One of the biggest prairie fires ever seen in 
that section, has just ravaged all the western 
part of Lamoure County, Dak. and the south¬ 
ern and western part of Stutsman County. 
The fire originated in Kidder County, 30 
miles west of Jamestown, and has done an 
enormous amount of damage to farmers, many 
of whom have lost everything.The 
strike on the Quincy system is still actively 
alive, and the men say the road is losing very 
heavily and that they expect to gain their 
points early in November, if not before. 
A passenger rate war is raging between the 
trunk lines from St. Louis, east. The rates 
to New York by various lines now are : Van- 
dalia, $14.50; Bee Line. $12 50; Wabash, $11.50; 
Ohio and Mississippi, $10 50 The Bee Line, 
Wabash, and Ohio and Mississippi are deter¬ 
mined to retain the old differentials and the 
Vandalia is equally determined they shall not 
All are stubborn and a $1 rate to New York 
is looked for as the outcome of the war. 
The window glass factories of the West which 
have been closed down since last June will re¬ 
sume operations next Monday, giving employ¬ 
ment to about 6,oOO men. The season prom¬ 
ises to be a prosperous one. The Presi¬ 
dent. Wednesday, nominated John H. Oberly 
of Illinois, to bo Commissioner of Indian Af¬ 
fairs, vice, John D, C. Atkins, resigned 
The President gave a special reception on 
Wednesday noon, to Hon. Wm. F. Cody 
(Buffalo Bill) and the members of his Wild 
West troupe, including the Indians, who ap¬ 
peared in their most brilliant native costumes. 
The tail end of a Southern cyclone which 
swept north just outside this place, struck the 
New England coast last Wednesday and did a 
good deal of damage.The Sugar 
Trust and wholesale grocers have combined to 
put up the price of sugar.The ci- 
garmakers’ strike at Havana commences to 
assume a serious aspect. It threatens to be¬ 
come general, having already absorbed other 
branches of the cigar industry and been join¬ 
ed by the cigarette makers, tailors, laundry- 
men and carriage-makers ... The great 
Montreal “peach combine” proved a disas¬ 
trous failure, and its promoters sunk many 
thousands of dollars in the scheme . . 
A report that the young Duke of Newcastle 
(England) is engaged to marry Miss Charlotte 
Zerega, of this city, has been repeated and 
contradicted several times during the week. 
Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Clinton is 
the seventh Duke, and 25 years old. He is 
small, deformed; but good and quite amiable. 
He is only moderately welloff “fora duke”.. 
Some time since President Cleveland sent his 
check for $10,000 to the National Democratic 
Committee, to help defray the expenses of the 
campaign. The check was made payable to 
“ Charles J. Canda” Treasurer of the Commit¬ 
tee, passed through the Western National 
Bank of New York, and was paid by Riggs & 
Co., Washington, the President’s bankers. 
The matter has been denied, but there’s no 
mistake about it. General Harrison has 
sent his check for $750 to the Republican Na¬ 
tional Committee, made payable to Col. 
W. W. Dudley. After passing through a 
New York bank it was paid by Bate¬ 
man & Co., of Washington. 
Firenzi,Hagin’s great|California mare,has been 
considered ttie best racer on the turf this year, 
as her career has been one unbroken string 
of victories, beating the best horses in training 
while giving'jaway huge lumps of weight. 
Last Thursday this “ Queen of the Turf ” met 
Dwyer Bros’jKingston, the “ King of the 
Turf *’ at equal weights at Gravesend, near 
this city,in the “ First Special ” race for three- 
year-olds and upwards: one mile and a quarter. 
The race was run in 2.11%, and was won by 
Kingston by a clear length. The betting 
was 100 to 35 on the mare... 
The Commissioners to induce the Sioux In¬ 
dians to sell 11,000,000 acres of their Reserva¬ 
tion in Dakota, for 50 cents per acre, and ac¬ 
cept a gift of 100 acres apiece instead of hold¬ 
ing all the laud in common, are still gaining 
headway by hard work and some threatening. 
A large number of the Indians have signed 
the treaty; the strongest opponents ot the 
measure are the chiefs, many of whom culti¬ 
vate or pasture large tracts, by the labor of 
other Indians or whites, witiiout paying any 
rent to their tribes. They, of course, object 
to be limited to 160 acres. Others say that as 
the government price for this kind of land is 
$1.25, they ought to get at least $1 per acre 
for it, or $11,000,000 for all. The money, 
whatever the amount, is to be invested for 
their benefit—to help them to become civil¬ 
ized, educated and self-supporting. The Com¬ 
missioners are likely to be successful in the 
end; but eveu then it will take at least two 
years to complete arrangements before the 
land can be thrown open to settlement. 
By an English recent discovery, quinine can 
now be made artificially “from an articlewhich 
can always be got in abundance in any part 
of the world”; while the bark of the cinchona 
tree has yielded oniy two per cent. A 
drop in prices is expected. 
.Both parties having made all the poli¬ 
tical capital they could out of the retaliation 
trouble with Canada, the matter is probably 
dead for the present session, so far as the 
United States are concerned.The House 
and Senate Judiciary Committees have both 
been considering the subject of Trusts, and 
the various bills before them, differing mater¬ 
ially in details, while agreeing substantially 
in the intent to render the monopolies inoper¬ 
ative or to prohibit them. As the discussion 
ran on, the complexity of the problem began 
to appear, with the result of convincing the 
members of the committees that the subject 
will require very nice treatment before a 
measure can be framed that will avoid consti¬ 
tutional and other objections, and yet be of 
avail in checking the operations of the Trusts.. 
The House Tuesday passed, without debate, a 
bill forfeiting all the lands granted to the 
Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the 
act of July 2, 1864, except such as are adja¬ 
cent to and coterminous with road constructed 
prior to July 4, 1879, with the right of w>ay 
through the remainder of the route, including 
all necessary grounds for station buildings, 
shops, depots, switches, side-tracks, turn-ta¬ 
bles, and excepting also all lands included 
within the limits of any village, town, or city, 
because of the failure of the company to per¬ 
form the conditions on which the grant was 
made. The forfeiture does not extend to 
lands adjacent to and coterminous with com¬ 
pleted road, sold by said company prior to 
Jan. 1, 1888, to bona fide purchasers for value, 
but the title to such lands is confirmed to such 
purchasers on condition that they shall, with¬ 
in one year after the passage of this act, make 
and file, subject to an appeal to the Commis¬ 
sioner of the General Land Office, proof of 
the good faith, consideration, date, and ex¬ 
tent of his or her purchase. All settlers upon 
the forfeited lanas are authorized to acquire 
title to not exceeding 160 acres under 
the Homestead Law.The Sen¬ 
ate Finance Committee has at last agreed 
on a Republican tariff bill as a substi¬ 
tute for the Democratic Mills bill. It proposes 
to make a reduction of about $70,000,000 in 
the revenue. Of this $30,000,000 is to be due 
to the abolition of ihe internal revenue 
taxes on tobacco; $25,000,000 to reduction 
in import duties on sugar; $10,000,000 the 
abolition of tax on alcohol used in the arts, 
and $5,000, 000 to the abrogation of import 
duties on articles put on the free list. Con¬ 
trary to the rule in the Mills bill, the duties in 
the new one will be specific instead.of ad valo 
rem where practicable. Fish is to be on the free 
iist; the duty on rice is to be reduced one-half 
and that on fine wool will ne increased 
one per cent It is called the “ Allison 
Bill, ” and its introduction is due 
chiefly to the persistence of Western 
Senators and Representatives. 
Thursday the President signed the bill appro¬ 
priating $200,000 for the prevention and 
stamping out of yellow-fever in the South_ 
.. Senator Plumb has introduced in the Sen¬ 
ate a bill offering a reward of $100,000 to any 
person who shall discover and copyright for 
public use any remedy or treatment for yel¬ 
low-fever, which shall reduce the deaths to 
less than two per cent, of the cases. 
... Representative Wheeler, of Ala., has in¬ 
troduced a bill to establish camps for yellow- 
fever refugees. It authorizes the President to 
establish camps of refuge in such localities as 
may.be designated, and provides that tents, 
beds, camp equipage, provisions, medical at¬ 
tendance, medical stores, nurses, etc., be sup¬ 
plied ; that all camp equipage infected by yel¬ 
low-fever be destroyed by fire after the disap¬ 
pearance of the epidemic, and appropriates 
$500,000 to carry out the provisions of the act. 
. ... Such a camp has been in opera¬ 
tion near Jacksonville under charge of 
U. S. Surgeon-General Hamilton, since 
the epidemic became serious . 
The past has been a week of disgracefully 
cowardly and cruel panic in the Southern 
States south of a line drawn from Memphis, on 
the Mississippi, through Chattanooga to the 
Atlantic. This whole section has been wildly 
terrorized by the spectre of Yellow Jack, which 
put in its dreadful appearance in several 
places. Wherever it appeared the peop e fled 
in all directions. Trains were crammed, 
buggies, wagons and all other sorts of vehicles 
were crowded, and those who couldn’t ride 
tramped. All faced to the north. Hundreds 
rushed off without baggage, provisions or 
money. They neither knew nor cared whith 
er they went so that they got out of the 
plague-infected town. On all sides they were 
met by a hostile, heartless human barrier 
which stopped their advance. Rails were 
pulled up on the roads to stop trains, or all 
doors were locked and windows closed as they 
were Dermitted to pass through towns and 
villages under guard. Many of the passen¬ 
gers of all ages and classes were without food 
from 24 to 48 hours. No trains ran for sever¬ 
al days in most of the country. Neither 
medicine, nurses, doctors nor food could reach 
the sick. Large towns, like Memphis and 
Chattanooga,as well as small places established 
“shot-gun quarantines.” Armed men guard¬ 
ed all approaches to the places and several 
famishing wretches were shot dead while at¬ 
tempting to crawl through the encircling 
cordon. A few “merciful” places put out 
food and drink along the rail and other roads 
for the starving wayfarers; but, like angels’ 
visits, these were blessed rarities. The 
panic pi evaded through the whole country— 
in civilized towns as well as in semi- 
barharous backwood settlements. Frosts in 
several places on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
tended to lessen the panic, and by Thursday, 
Memphis, Vicksburg and several other places 
relaxed their crazy vigilance. Now the 
“scare” is over to a large extent, and the 
fever is assuming a milder form where it 
exists. In the nine weeks it has ravaged 
Jacksonville, the following table show its 
ravages. Yesterday’s list is: 
Number of new cases.131 
Number of deaths.3 
Number of oases to date.2,868 
Number of deaths to date.237 
Jacksonville, Femandina and Western 
Florida excepted, it’s hard to get supplies to 
the other stricken towns of the State as rail¬ 
road trains and steamers have ceased running. 
All sorts of medical supplies and provisions 
are liberally contributed from all sides. 
Mayor Hewitt, of this city has already 
sent over $52,000 in cash, and other parties 
have sent about $23,000 more, making a total 
of over $75,000. It is expected New York’s 
cash contribution will be over $100,000 be¬ 
sides an enormous quantity of supplies of all 
kinds. Other places have done well also. 
While there is a regular exodus from Jack¬ 
sonville and other large affected places, there 
is also a regular influx of poor whites and 
negroes from the surrounding country to 
fatten idly on rations distributed gratis. 
Jacksonville has had to establish a “quar¬ 
antine ” to keep these wretches out. 
... Libby prison, at Richmond. Va., was sold 
at auction last week for $11,000, to a Cincin¬ 
nati man. It was sold privately some months 
ago to W. H. Gray, of Chicago, for $23,300. He 
paid one-fourth cash and resold it to a Chicago 
syndicate, who failed to make the second pay¬ 
ment.hence last week’s sale on their account.... 
The total values of the exports and imports of 
merchandise of the United States during the 
twelve months ending August 31, 1888, were 
$683,062,818 and $719,401,930 respective¬ 
ly; against $717,018,308 and $700,316,- 
810 for the preceding year. 
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McConnellsville, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1886. 
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Achilles, Kan., April 22, 1887. 
“ I have great faith in Compound Oxygen.” 
A. Lyle McKinley. 
Chicago, III., May 29, 1887. 
“ I am happy to say that I am better every 
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M. G. Kimmel. 
Oakland, O., May 29, 1887, 
“ I am still improving in every respect.” 
R. L. Halstead. 
Independence, Ore., Feb. 26, 1888. 
“ Compound Oxygen has done wonders for 
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Kanopolis, Kan., May 24, 1888. 
“ I wish that every tired out, miserable wo¬ 
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FOREIGN NEW 
Saturday, September 29, 1888. 
Nothing has caused so great a European 
sensation of late as the publication of parts of 
late Emperor Frederick’s diary. The parts 
published relate chiefly to the wars of 1866 
and 1870, against Austria and France. They 
show that he was the chief cause of Ger¬ 
man unity and the establishment of the pres¬ 
ent German Empire, having bulldozed Bis¬ 
marck into the measure. He was also extremely 
liberal. Bismarck casts doubts on the authen¬ 
ticity of tne diary and is going to prosecute 
for treason, the paper that published it. 
England has whipped the Thibetans badly.... 
Boulanger who has been absent|from Paris for 
several weeks, will return Thursday, and re 
new agitation.Kaiser William is still 
traveling, reviewing and speechifying. 
No change in the general aspect of European 
affairs. Labor troubles constant. A 
strike of 250,000 miners threatened in 
England unless they get an advance 
of 10 per cent in wages. 
Marshal Bazaine, born in 1818, who serv¬ 
ed in the French army with the highest credit 
in the Crimea, Algiers and China, and after¬ 
wards commanded the French troops in 
Mexico in 1865, and who incurred the lasting 
contempt and hatred of his republican coun¬ 
trymen by surrendering the almost impregna¬ 
ble fortress of Metz together with an army of 
127.000 of France’s best soldiers in the terrible 
days of ’70, died Sunday of heart disease at 
Madrid, Spain, whither he had fled after his 
escape from the French prison to which he 
had been sentenced for life for his treachery 
at Metz. 
The Czar, as a memorial to his late parents, 
has devoted 1,000,000 roubles and an estate 
worth 300,000 roubles a year to the founda¬ 
tion and maintenance of an institution for the 
blind at St. Petersburg, to be called the Alex- 
ander-Marien Institute. 
The committee recently appointed by the 
Paris Board of Health to inquire into the die¬ 
tetic properties of saccharin, the newly discov¬ 
ered sweetening material many times sweet¬ 
er than sugar, have expressed the opinion 
that it should be debarred from use in articles 
of general consumption, as being prejudical 
to public health. It will be remembered 
that its use in brewing has been prohibited in 
the United Kingdom 
Smith (with smiling face): “What have you 
got the blues about ?” 
Jones; “Nothing to do. Times are dull.” 
Smith: “Well, now, old fellow, I am glad 
I struck up with you. You sitrigbt down and 
write to B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, 
Va., and they will put you in a way to make 
money faster than you ever did before. I was 
out of work, too, but began a little correspon¬ 
dence with them, and now I am growing fat 
and rich. Too busy to talk longer now.”— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 29, 1888. 
The fight against the Jute Bagging Trust is 
more strictly an agricultural fight than any 
other,hence a full synopsis of news with regard 
to it will appear here. A week ago an ex¬ 
haustive trial with the new pine straw bag¬ 
ging made by the Acme Mfg. Co . Wilimgton, 
N. C , took place at Cbarles'on. Two bales of 
cotton covered with the bagging were put 
through the compress, where they were sub¬ 
jected to a pressure of 1,000 tons, and then 
given to a gang of ’longshoremen, who used 
their hooks freely, tossing the bales about for 
fifteen or twenty minutes. The bagering stood 
the test. Water was next poured over the 
bales, and was shed as freely ns by the jute 
bagging. Fire was applied to both jute and 
pine straw; there was no difference in the re¬ 
sults. It was the unanimous opinion that the 
substitute had been found for jute. Insurance 
companies announce that they will take fire 
risks on it. The Acme Company has put 
in new machinery to turn out the product 
as fast as possible.... The Lane and Magennis 
Mills of New Orleans, are working day and 
night on Osnabergs and the “ Pride of the 
South” bagging—two names for substantially 
the same thing. Buvers have been in the habit 
of charging the planters 14 pounds per bale tare, 
which was reasonable for jute bagging; but 
this new cotton bagging doesn’t weigh half 
that. Some of the cotton mills have already 
begun to allow 10 pounds rebate on bales 
covered with the new bagging. The 
Rosalie Mills at Natchez are preparing to 
manufacture the new bagging. ... Last 
Tuesday the Cotton Exchange here, received 
a cablegram from the Liverpool Cotton Ex¬ 
change stating that cotton baled in any ma¬ 
terial that will stand hooks will be accepted 
as a good delivery. Many Southern re¬ 
ceivers, however, still hold out for the jute 
baling, and until they come in, the movement 
to bale cotton in sheeting and other stuffs 
will not be a copper-fastened success. 
Three cases of trichinosis are reported from 
Moundsville, W. Va, There are two mild 
cases in this city, and an old woman has just 
died in a horrible condition from a combina¬ 
tion of trichinosis and “ the effects of eating 
maggoty cheese. ” . Exports of live stock 
and dressed beef from the port of Boston for 
the English markets last week were 1,179 cat¬ 
tle and 3,628 quarters of beef. The 
Indians cultivated 227,265 acres of land last 
year. They own over 1,000.000 sheep, 40,471 
swine, 111,407 cattle and 358,334 horses and 
mules. Texas fever is spreading among 
cattle near Mt. Vernon, Ohio.Sixty 
Georgia counties report the cotton crop injur¬ 
ed 19 per cent, and corn 13.5 per cent, by late 
heavy rains and floods .Railroads west 
of Chicago have perfected arrangements 
whereby live stock rates will be based on 
actual weight instead of a fixed tariff per car¬ 
load. The freight rates which will go into 
effect October 10 are based on 25 cents per 
cwt. on hogs from Kansas City to 
Chicago, with cattle and sheep at 2T% cents.. 
Byron Salesberry, the Delaware peach-grow¬ 
er, recently made a profit of two cents on a 
carload of peaches that sold for $1,222.40 
shipped to Philadelphia.Mr. Henry F. 
Moore, Editor of “Bell’s Weekly Messenger” 
and agricultural editor of “The London 
Times,” has been visiting the British colonies 
of North America on a tour of observa¬ 
tion .The recent cold snap injured 
the buckwheat crop in Schoharie, Greene aud 
Delaware counties N. Y.At the 
Dep’t of Agriculture there are only a few ap¬ 
plications on file for the position offered by 
the Colony of Queensland, Australia, for an 
American thoroughly able to teach our sys¬ 
tem of farming. The applications hitherto 
made are from New York, New Jersey, Dela¬ 
ware, and Michigan. The position is a good 
one, and a salary of something over $3,700 
with all traveling expenses ought to tempt a 
farmer to try his hand in a new country. 
E. C. Hazard & Co. have just put on the mar¬ 
ket a very palatable dish, which they have 
named Shrewsbury Tomato Chetney. This is 
said to be the first tomato-chetney ever made 
for sale in this country .This year’s 
crop of New Jersey tomatoes is reported to 
be of the finest quality for several years, and 
the yield is abundant .The British 
steamer Tower Hill which was docked at Jer¬ 
sey City, Monday, bought over 146 “Norman¬ 
dy stallions, French coach horses and brood 
mares,” consigned to stock farmers in Pa., 
Ohio and Ill., They started west at once. 
The Dubuque Cattle Company have just 
finished spaying 1,000 heifers and cows 
upon their Mexican ranges. Only 25 head 
were lost by the operation. Last 
year Sumatra sent to Holland 138,000 
bales of tobacco, worth $13,000,000. $5,800,000. 
worth of which was purchased by American 
buyers. The Dutch tobacco companies that 
grow the tobacco, make enormous profits, the 
dividends of the Dell Company having been 
109 per cent, and those of the Ardensberg 
Company 169 per cent, in a recent year. 
Crop 5 & 
Saturday, September 29, 1888. 
While September wheat in Chicago yester¬ 
day was forced up to $1.65 per bushel by “Old 
“Herbrand ” Fifth Wheelfor Buggies.— Adv. 
