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THE EUBAL MEW 
APRIL 21 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 14,1888. 
Roscoe Conkling has been lying desper¬ 
ately ill at his home in this city during the 
past week. An abscess formed in his head 
and affected the brain. His system was great¬ 
ly weakened by a severe cold contracted dur¬ 
ing the recent blizzard. For a time there was 
but little hope of his recovery. As we go to 
press the chances are better.The Depew 
boom is gaining in this State. Ben Harrison, 
of Indiana, is making many friends. How 
would they look together?. Blaine’s 
health is the great topic for conversation again. 
Several “intimate friends” have had him near' 
ly dead, but the general opinion is that he is 
in usual health. The editor of an illustrated 
paper has sent a photographer to Florence to 
obtain an exact likeness of Blaine. This 
should settle dispute.The New York 
assembly has passed the Platt Prohibition 
amendment. The High License bill is still 
before the Senate. Not hopeful for its passage. 
.The brewers are going on strike. 
There’s plenty of beer in the country however. 
... The breaking up of rivers in the North¬ 
west this spring is being attended by greater 
damage from floods than usual. Reports 
from a dozen points in Dakota report heavy 
rains and raging rivers.The state 
normal school at Terre Haute, Tnd., was burned 
to the ground Sunday night. The buildingcost 
$189,000, of which the city of Terre Haute 
gave 50,000, in addition to the grounds- 
_A great religious jubilee has been going 
on here this week. Eleven weeks ago Thomas 
Harrison, “the boy revivalist” began a series 
of revival meetings in the Jane Street Metho¬ 
dist church. This three days jubilee is held 
to celebrate the fact that 1,000 conversions 
have been made. Great excitement and 
tremendous enthusiasm.The Massachu¬ 
setts Humane Society has awarded a hand¬ 
some gold medal to Editor Edward A. Hill, of 
the Springfield Union, for the courage dis¬ 
played and brave efforts to save life made by 
him at the burning of the Union office. 
At Cherry Tree. Pa. last Tuesday a crowd of 
boys gave a newly-married couple a serenade. 
The groom fired into the crowd and fatally 
wounded one boy.. 
....Michigan Republicans meet at Grand 
Rapids, May 8 A tornado demolished 
several buildings at Sioux City, Iowa. 
Kentucky can keep and try the prisoners 
fi om West Virginia involved in the Hatfield- 
McCoy murders. A man in Decatur, 
Illinois, killed a two-year-old child with a 
stray bullet from a target gun.April 6 
was’the anniversary of the founding of the G. 
A. R. First post established in I860. 
Oregon is the last State to resolve in favor of 
the election of United States Senators by the 
people, directly.John L. Sullivan is 
coming home, a sadder and a wiser man than 
when he went away.The President has 
written a letter to a conference of Methodist 
clergymen protesting against their advocacy 
of a resolution of protest against the exclu¬ 
sion of the native language in the education 
of the Indians. The President thinks English 
is good enough for the Indians and that it 
should be taught in their schools. 
.... Mississippi Republican delegates are not 
instructed, but supposed to be in favor of 
Sherman.While a Pennsylvania wo¬ 
man was manufacturing whisky over a hot 
stove, the pot upset and fatally burned her¬ 
self and three children.A steamsb'p 
trust to crush out “tramp” steamers is the 
latest. Canadians are moving to pre¬ 
vent “the unloading upon the shores of Can¬ 
ada of the usual spring hosts of paupers, indi¬ 
gents and orphan children from Great Bri¬ 
tain.”___ People want the Inter-State 
Commerce Commissioners to look into the 
matter of patent safety chimneys and steam 
heating.The Henry George party have 
issued a call for a conference. All who be¬ 
lieve in a single and direct tax upon land are 
invited........ J. A. Logan, son of the late 
Senator, shot a riotous Italian striker at the 
Carbon. Penn., limestone quarries. He was 
arrested and taken before a magistrate at 
Newcastle, Penn., and gave $1,000 bail for his 
appearance.Impecunious immigrants 
are turned back from Castle Garden almost 
every day. Sixty women belonging to 
the ’International Council have petitioned 
Congress to pass the Blair educational Bill... 
The anti-saloon Republicans will meet 
at New York Mav 2 ... The night after 
Francis Pitman, of this city, was found guilty 
of murdering his daughter, he took laudanum 
and killed himself ... The Anarchist vote 
seemed to have disappeared in the late Chica¬ 
go election.Prohibitionists of Cali¬ 
fornia, a grape State, adopted a platform 
which “denounces the prostitution of the 
grape industry to the manufacture of wine, 
brandy and other intoxicating liquors/’...... 
Lightning struck an oil tank at larker, 
Pa" and started a blaze from 35,000.barrels of 
oil. ..The strike in the Northwest is ap¬ 
parently over. The attempt to coeice the 
“O” system by boycotting seems to have 
failed..!. -. Tascott, the Chicago murderer, 
has not yet been arrested .... Ihe reciproc¬ 
ity resolutions in the House of Commons of 
Canada have been defeated. The centen- 
nial celebration of the settlement of Marietta, 
Ohio took place in that town last Saturday. 
Orations were delivered by Senator Hoar and 
J. Randolph Tucker ... Mr. Carnegie’s 
workmen, by a vote of 2.000 to 2, refused to 
accept the sliding scale of wages ( -co-opera¬ 
tive plan”) which he proposed .A test 
vote was had in the Senate on the proposition 
to discuss the fisheries treaty in open session, 
and was defeated by a surprising majority, 
only eight Senators favoring it ....ihe 
House Committe on Public Lauds has in¬ 
structed Chairman Holman to report a bill 
declaring a forfeiture, of all ^unearned land 
grants opposite sections of the road not com¬ 
pleted within contract time. This bill, if car¬ 
ried, will reclaim about 50,000,000 acres. 
A company for utilizing the power of Niagara 
Falls has really been incorporated, with a 
capital of $100,000. Main office in this city.. 
.... If the Republican candidate comes from 
the West, it is thought that William Walter 
Phelps, of New Jersey, has the best chance 
for second place.Ex-Governor R. A. 
Alger announces himself as a Republican can¬ 
didate for the Presidential nomination. 
.In this city several oleo. men have been 
sent to the penitentiary for selling their stuff 
for butter. Fines didn’t hurt them; prisons 
will do better. The deadlock over the 
direct tax bill has at last been broken. 
President Cleveland has distinguished himself 
by stopping an excited horse that threatened 
to run away with a woman. 
The base ball season is ready to open. From 
preliminary games it would appear that De¬ 
troit and Philadelphia are weaker than last 
year, while Boston is stronger. Chicago will 
probably prove of about the same strength as 
last year.A big freight engine ex¬ 
ploded on the Erie R. R. last week. Three 
men were killed. In Palmyra, Mo., 
some school children endeavored to pump 
water from a deep well. The planks on which 
they stood gave wav, and 15 of the children 
were precipitated into the well, containing 
five feet of water. By means of a rope the 
teachers were successful in getting all but one 
out alive. Several others were injured, but 
none fatally.... Mayor Hewitt has written 
another “flag letter,” reiterating his remark 
that “no foreign flag shall wave over the City 
Hall.”. One Hogan dropped 10,000 feet 
from a baloon near Jackson, Mich., by the 
aid of a parachute. He was unhurt. 
_An inspector in the employ of the U. S. 
Bureau of Animal Industry has had a farmer 
of Maspeth, L. I., arrested. The inspector 
wanted to examine some cattle confined in a 
stable, but the farmer locked the doors and 
refused admission. This case awakens great 
local interest, as many herds are liable to be 
examined by the inspectors.Jay Gould 
will not be tried. Recorder Smyth has denied 
the application of District-Attorney Fellows 
for permission to once more lay the case of 
the K. P. bondholders before a grand jury... 
_Kit Carson’s old partner. Richard L. 
Wootton, has just had his sight restored by 
an optician at Chicago after eight years of 
blindness. .The spring immigration 
from Europe is beyond precedent, and 
the year’s arivals will surpass those of any 
year since 1882. In fact, there are signs that 
the record of 1888 will be the largest in the 
history of Castle Garden. A recent cable de¬ 
spatch brought us the news that a sufficiency 
of steamers were not to be found in the British 
ports to convey the passengers desirous of sail¬ 
ing to the United States. The most notable 
feature of the statistics is the evidence of the 
continuace and increase of immigration of 
Italians, Huns, and Russian Jews. 
Mrs. Anna Debar, the medium who has ob¬ 
tained such an influence over Lawyer Marsh, 
has been jailed on the charge of obtaining 
money under false pretences. She claimed to 
be in communication with the spirits of vari¬ 
ous artists, who painted pictures on a canvass 
screen. The woman is undeniably an impos¬ 
tor, but her wealthy dupe still believes in her 
powers. A committee of Washing¬ 
ton ladies are raising a fund to be devoted to 
the presentation of a bronze statue of Wash¬ 
ington to the city of Paris. A fitting return 
for our “Mrs. Liberty.”.A great 
musical festival will be held at Cincinnati. 
Ohio, May 22-26.The friends of 
Allison, of Iowa, are in dead earnest in their 
demands for his candidacy.At a fire 
in Boston Friday six firemen were seriously 
burned, two of them fatally. 
Volapuk, “the universal language,” has arival. 
.. Thieves stole $10,000 from the St. Johns- 
ville, N. Y. National Bank. One of the bold¬ 
est robberies on record.Thomas B. 
Kerr will be the next “boodle” Alderman to 
be tried. Kerr was a tool of Jake Sharp 
.... Frank Siddalls of Philadelphia is to sell 
bis fast horses.The treatment of the 
convicts in the Arkansas county prisons seems 
worse the more it is investigated. Terrible 
stories of brutality are told.Three hun¬ 
dred women mobbed a man m East Liver¬ 
pool, Ohio.Boston grain dealers sav 
that the attacks upon the Canadian railroads 
which compete with American trunk lines, 
are due to the fact that Boston gets the benefit 
of the new short route to the Northwest via 
the “Soo” line.Maryland Republicans 
have formed a State league. These State or¬ 
ganizations are being pushed everywhere 
... Rhode Island has adopted a constitutional 
amendment doing away with the requirement 
of a property qualification as a pre-requisite 
of the exercise of the general right of suffrage 
bv foreign-boru citizens. This will add some 
20,000 votes.-. 
_Samuel W. Anderson has been arrested 
at Columbus, Ohio, for fraudulent insurance. 
He organized a bogus company and gobbled 
up about $800 per month .Mrs John 
Green died at Ridgeville, Ind., of trichinosis. 
Her husband and five children are afflicted 
with the disease, and three of the children 
will probably die .The volcano Jo- 
rullo in the State of Colima, Mexico, is grow¬ 
ing active. Fine ashes, which are almost invis¬ 
ible in the air, are beginning to settle on the 
vegetation in the neighborhood.The 
five-year old daughter of Thomas Baker, liv¬ 
ing near Wellsville, Ohio, fell into a burning 
brush pile. Mrs. Baker went to her assistance 
and both were fatally burned .A cow 
got in the way of a train on the R. C. M. and 
B. R. R., in Alabama. The train was ditched 
four men were killed and nine wounded. The 
cow has not been heard from . 
Dr. Talmage’s sermon against the habit 
of profanity is considered one of the most 
powerful he has ever delivered. There is far 
too much swearing.The direct tax 
bill over which the House wrangled from the 
4th to the 12th inst., is a measure to refund to 
such States as have paid it their portions of 
the direct tax of $20,000,000 levied and appor¬ 
tioned among the inhabitants of the States 
and Territories by the act of August 5. 1861, 
and to_remit the amounts uncollected. This 
tax was paid in full by certain of the States, 
and’only in part by others. The amount re¬ 
maining unpaid is $2,640,314, and the amount 
proposed to be distributed under the bill is 
about $17,000,000. 
.Secretary Whitney went on a 
“paper hunt” and sprained his ankle so badly 
that he was confined to his house .The 
jury in thebald-knobbers cases at Ozark, Mo., 
returned a verdict of murder in the first de¬ 
gree against Dave Walker, and short terms in 
the penitentary for a number of other mem¬ 
bers of the organization.The President 
has approved the joint resolution appropriat¬ 
ing $25,000 for the international exposition in 
Barcelona, Spain.Fishermen at Prov- 
incetown and elsewhere are debarred from 
catching mackerel in set nets between March 1 
and June 1, unless said nets are “traps” or 
“weirs”.Milwaukee has reason to pride 
herself on a remarkably fine art building, with 
a number of good pictures to start it and $100,- 
000 endowment, which was opened to the pub¬ 
lic last week. The munificent gift is made by 
Frederick Layton, a native of England, who 
came to Milwaukee as a lad of 16, and is now 
one of the wealthy pork packers of the city 
and the West. 
Collector Magone, some days ago, wrote to 
Secretary Fairchild complaining of the large 
number of stowaways found upon steamships 
arriving from Europe, and recommending 
that the law be so amended as to fix the same 
penalty upon vessels upon board of which 
these stowawavs are found as is provided for 
violations of the law forbidding the importa¬ 
tion of contract laborers. Supervis¬ 
ing Inspector Luddock, of San Francisco, 
having reported to the Treasury Department 
that petroleum is not safe fuel for large boil¬ 
ers. has been instructed by Secretary Fair- 
child to withdraw all such permits heretofore 
given, except in the case of small steam 
launches. Out of 48,000 quarts of milk 
coming into the city by the New York and 
Northern Railway, inspected April 13, only 
520 quarts, or a trifle more than one per cent., 
was condemned as being watered. 
....The Committee on Rivers and Harbors 
still expect to be able to pass their appro¬ 
priation bill on Monday, under a suspension 
of the rules, but are meeting with unexpected 
opposition, both from Republicans and Demo¬ 
crats. The Republicans would like to have 
an extended debate upon the bill in order to 
postpone the consideration ot the tariff bill. 
Nearly all the New York Democrats will 
oppose the bill, not only because of the large 
amount appropriated for almost unknown 
rivers, but also on account of the inadequate 
provision made for the improvement of New 
York harbor.Chicago women propose 
to erect a great temperance temple. It will 
be called Willard Hall, after Miss Frances E. 
Willard.The Mills tariff b 11 will 
come up in the House next week. Thus far 93 
members have entered requests to speak upon 
the subject. Of these 52 are Democrats and 
41 Republicans. More work, less talk, gentle¬ 
men! .The Ohio Legislature has 
passed a bill which closes all drinking saloons 
in the State on Sunday.Alfred Jack- 
son, John Smith and John Vice, all of 
Owingsville. Ky., receive $72 a month apiece 
from the Government. Their pensions are 
granted on the score of total blindness con¬ 
tracted during the late war. Thomas 
Jefferson’s birthday, April 13, was observed 
by many Democratic organizations. 
A Jew in this city threw a piece of coal at a 
cat and struck a boy on the head. This bad 
shot cost him $5. 
.. The Pope writes a letter of thanks for 
President Cleveland’s jubilee gift. In it he 
expresses unbounded admiration for the con¬ 
stitution of this country. Cooking pro¬ 
fessors all over the country are making a 
determined onslaught upon fried food. 
That “farmer’s trust” out West is still gather¬ 
ing strength... The worst charge against 
Statistician Dodge seems to be that he circu¬ 
lated a pamphlet in which he undertook to 
show that the agriculturalists of the country 
were directlv benefited by a protective tariff. 
... It appears that a number of negroes have 
been taken to California from the Gulf States. 
If their labor is satisfactory and it is found 
they can compete with the Chinese it is pro¬ 
posed to bring others.Nothing more 
has been heard from General Badeau con¬ 
cerning the Grant Memoirs. It is ex¬ 
pected that the tariff will cut quite a figure 
in the Southern Congressional elections this 
fall. It is not expected to have much weight 
in the Presidential election at the South.... 
.. .More seals were killed during the past sea¬ 
son than ever before.... Citizens of Lake 
Co., Montana, fear another Indian outbreak. 
_Five members of the family of H. A. 
Young, of Lake City, Minnesota, were made 
sick by eating canned com beef. 
_President Corbin, of the Philadelphia and 
Reading Railroad Company, will sail for Eu¬ 
rope on May 5, to look after Reading matters. 
., The brewers’ strike promises to be 
worse than was expected. The supply of beer 
may run short! ... We are sending large 
quantities of barbed wire to fence in sheep 
and cattle ranges on the plains of Mexico and 
the pampas of South America -A light 
small pox epidemic in Philadelphia. 
... All the large cities are shouting for a 
better system of disposing of garbage. Long 
Island farmers are anxious to make use of the 
street sweepings in this city, but no practical 
plan for handling the sweepings has yet been 
suggested. It is said that 1,096 miles 
of new railroad track were laid in the United 
States from January 1 to April 1. 1888. Dur¬ 
ing the corresponding time in 1887 1,040 miles 
were laid. There is no expectation, however 
that the remainder of the year will keep any¬ 
where near the record of 1887, when over 
12,000 miles of railway were built. 
An accident of the C. W. & M. Railroad 
Saturday caused a loss of $15,000. No lives 
lost. Great damage caused by floods at 
Sioux City, Dakota, and Eau Claire, Wis- 
... Arrangements are making to celebrate 
General Grant’s birthday, April 27th, by a 
dinner at Delmonieo’s. General Sherman 
heads the Committee of Arrangements. 
_Adolph Flinger, a German, aged about 
33 years, yesterday made a bonfire and burned 
up about $300 in money, $925 in notes, a gold 
watch and other valuables. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April 14,1888. 
The Legislature of Guanajuato, Mexico, has 
abolished bull-fights, and there are great 
hopes that the present Congress will do like¬ 
wise at the Capital. Numerous petitions have 
been presented with that object in view.... 
....A serious insurrection has broken out in 
Roumania. The revolt partakes of an agra¬ 
rian character and is headed by the agrarian 
leaders. Their programme demands land 
grants for laborers and a ten per cent, share 
in the profits of land owners and farmers. 
Bands of men are going about attacking and 
terrorizing landlords. Troops are scouring 
the districts, but are unable to suppress the 
revolt.Work on the Panama canal is 
still going on, though slowly.In Eng¬ 
land the Tories appear to be gaining ground. 
_There are still serious troubles in Ireland 
over the enforcement of the policy of the 
present Government, but the policy is fairly 
well enforced 
....Nothing new regarding that royal 
marriage in Germany Bismarck’s threat 
seems to have put an end to it. Too bad that 
the young folks can’t get married if they want 
to. In France General Boulanger is 
making things decidedly interesting. He re¬ 
ceived an overwhelming endorsement from 
the voters of Dordogue, but declined the elec¬ 
tion , having agreed to stand as a candidate at 
Le Nord, one of the largest departments in 
France. He will undoubtedly be elected by a 
great majority. What he proposes to do is a 
mystery. Many vague hints as to his real in¬ 
tention’s are flying about. It seems to be con¬ 
ceded that the time has gone by when he 
might have been contented with restoration 
to active service in the army. He must have 
higher game in hand, and may even aim at 
the presidency. The future will determine... 
.. The season is very late in England, and 
farming prospects are, on the whole, gloomy. 
A telegram to Bradstreet’s says that the only 
consolation to farmers in view of the lateness 
of spring sowing lies in the knowledge that 
the land will work exceptionally well after 
the frosts, and that they will make quick 
work of planting when they once begin. The 
next three weeks, however, will be a critical 
period, for if there should be much more rain, 
or if frost or snow should return, the time 
will have gone by when sowing can be accom¬ 
plished with any hope of a satisfactory har¬ 
vest. March is the proper month for bar¬ 
ley sowing, and when April is over the season 
for doing the work with the expectation of a 
good crop has passed. Potatoes, too. should 
be planted immediately, and long before the 
accumulation of work will be got through 
the season for sowing mangolds and early 
swedes will have come. 
“I want to thank you,” writes a young man 
to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va,, “for 
placing me in a position by which I am ena¬ 
bled to make money faster than I ever did 
before.” This is but a sample extract of the 
many hundred cf similar letters received by 
the above firm. See their advertisement in 
another column.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 14, 1888. 
In the next month or two a good many 
choice beef cattle are to be disposed of under 
the hammer. A good time to buy.The 
Philadelphia Wool Merchants’ Association has 
passed resolutions strongly opposing any re¬ 
duction of the tariff on wool and advocating 
a restoration of the 10 per cent, ad valorem 
tax, removed in 1883. During February 
Great Britain imported 60,334 sheep and 
lambs as against 65,023 in the corresponding 
month of 1887. Germany sent 23,707 of the 
total against 36,736, and Holland 35,713 as 
against 27.042.Eggs are less plenty in 
market this year than usual .The 
United States has imported 1,276,000 bushels 
of potatoes from Canada the past season, at a 
cost of 40 to 50 cents per bushel. The 
N. Y. State Agricultural Society violently 
oppose the Palmer Pneumonia Bill. 
It is estimated that about $3 worth of dairy 
products are consumed in this country for 
every $1 worth of beef. Chicago is 
handling more calves than ever before at this 
season, receiving an average of something 
near 1,000 head per week. This is about 
double the receipts of two years ago ... . At 
the London wool sales, April 12, the attend¬ 
ance and competition were increased and full 
prices were realized; even the price of faulty 
sorts advancing, although occasionally lots 
did not reach the limits of holders and were 
withdrawn .The Kansas State Board 
of Agriculture predict great crops of sorghum, 
millet and alfalfa in that State this summer. 
_The Norwegian Government has not taken 
action against the importation of American 
pork, and, as reported, does not intend to take 
any.Private cables say that the Burmese 
crop of rice is short about 200,000 tons . 
...In most of Vermont’s sugar places the 
snow is so deep that no sugar has been made, 
but the western and central and northern por¬ 
tions are making the usual amount. 
The bill to prohibit coloring oleomargarine in 
imitation of butter passed the Massachusetts 
Senate by a vote of 13 to 10 on Wednesday, 
April 4. The next day it was reconsidered 
and finally rejected by a vote of 11 to 10. The 
farmers of Massachusetts will try it again.... 
.. .The United States Supreme Court has 
sustained the oleo laws in a review of a judg¬ 
ment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 
It holds that it is entirely within the police 
powers of the State to protect the public 
