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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 21,1888. 
_Gen. Joseph Warren fell at the battle of 
Bunker Hill, and two years afterwards the 
Continental Congress ordered a monument to 
his memory. A week ago the Senate passed 
a bill appropriating $15,000 for the erection 
of the monument. Boston will contribute as 
much more.A motion is before 
Congress to grant a pension of $5,000 a year 
to the widow of Chief Justice Waite. Already 
a fund of over $5,000 has been raised for her 
support by a few friends of the dead Chief 
Justice. It is now reported that he left $75,- 
000, including his house in Washington. 
... .The Wood Mower and Reaper Works of 
Youngstown, Ohio, have been cremated—loss 
$250,000.S. M. Weir, county treasurer of 
New Albany, Ind., has misappropriated $70.- 
000 For fourteen years he has had a splen¬ 
did reputation.. .Senator Morrell, of Ver¬ 
mont, was 78 on Saturday.The Iowa Legis¬ 
lature, which has just adjourned, enacted two 
stringent liquor bills and a stringent bill 
against Trusts and combinations of all kinds 
for the control of prices.A regulation 
of the Canadian Immigation Department pro¬ 
vides that no penniless immigrant can enter 
the country who has not a home or situation 
already provided.Powderly has come 
out emphatically against strikes, denouncing 
them as mischievous and unprofitable. Last 
year the K. of L. spent $300,000 on the craze. 
... A reduction on through rates from New 
York, Chicago, St. Louis, and the Missouri 
River to Colorado points went into effect on 
all railroads yesterday. Under the new ar¬ 
rangement the rate of first-class freight from 
Chicago to Colorado points will be $1.80 in¬ 
stead of $2.45, and a proportionate reduction 
is made on the other classes. Lumber rates 
will be 40 cents from Chicago. This cut is to 
meet a recent one by the Fort Worth and 
Denver Road. ... Lately the South Caro¬ 
lina Legislature passed an Act granting dis¬ 
abled Confederate veterans or their widows a 
pension of $5 per month each. An appropri¬ 
ation of $50,000 was made. Applications have 
already been put in for pensions aggregating 
$2,000,000. Tax-payers grumbling. 
The Green family of seven persons at Ridge- 
ville, Ind., has been ill with trichinosis. Wed¬ 
nesday Mrs. Green died, and her three daugh¬ 
ters may die.French’s old hotel, the 
site of the new World building here, cost 
$030,000, and the World structure will cost 
$1,000,000. Four years ago the World was a 
mighty poor piece of property with a circula¬ 
tion of about 13,000, now it claims nearly 
250,000.Thomas A. Edison, being re¬ 
quested by a lady to invent a trumpet that 
will enable her deaf husband to hear, imme¬ 
diately wrote her to wait a few months and 
her husband would think that he heard the 
stars falling. What a benefactor be would 
be to thousands if he did invent something of 
genuine help to the very deaf!.A farmer 
near Chebanse. Ill , fastened with wire an ear 
trumpet to a deaf ox which had lost its appe 
tite and spirit; now it eats heartilv, and has 
an abundance of spirit.During the 
late deadlock in the House over the bill for the 
repayment to the States of the direct war 
taxes levied in 1861, 326 Representatives 
dawdled away eight days over the question, 
and then postponed the consideration of it 
for eight months—hardly an edifying spec¬ 
tacle, considering the heavy expenses it en¬ 
tailed on the people. The ioyal States paid 
the taxes; the seceding States did not, and the 
bill proposed that as all taxes must be equally 
levied, and as there is no reason in the wants 
of the Treasury to collect that part which has 
not been paid, the money should be returned 
to the States which have paid. The amount 
would be about $17,000,000, and the proposi¬ 
tion, therefore, was that that sum should be 
paid out of the surplus to the loyal States ... 
The foreign demand for American canned 
goods is rapidly increasing, and there is a very 
good export trade in this line.The 
trustees of the Archbishop and Father Ed¬ 
ward Purcell estates have declared a dividend 
of 1\4 P er cent for the benefit of creditors.... 
Carnegie Phipps & Co., proprietors of the 
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock, 
Pa., have decided to resume operations next 
Monday with non-union men. Many of their 
old hands are rebelling against the K. of L., 
and are willing to accept the pro-rata scale of 
wages offered. Mr. Carnegie was always a 
staunch friend of the working classes. . 
.... A number of Mormon missionaries have 
been given a severe drubbing at Allen 
Springs, Ill., and ordered to “go”.It is 
proposed to widen the Delaware at Philadel¬ 
phia—cost $3 500,000 .Bunko sharks 
swindled John Brothers, a rich farmer near 
Canton, Ohio, out of $2,000 a week ago. 
.The American Exchange in Europe, 
Gillig manager, has burst up; liabilities 
about $4,000,000. The stockholders will lose 
all their investment, and lots of Americans 
traveling in Europe on “letters of credit” 
from the concern will lose most of the un¬ 
drawn amounts of their deposits. Bad and 
expensive management caused the failure.... 
_Rich gold discoveries near Real del Cas¬ 
tillo, Lower California—in Mexico—are sure 
to attract a host of gold-hunters .Rob¬ 
ert Mills, Texan pioneer and whilom “King 
of Brassoria,” worth over $3,000,000 before 
the “war,” died at Galveston, the other day, 
in almost extreme poverty, but highly respect¬ 
ed by all for his sterling; integrity.The 
Ohio Senate is to investigate railroad passen¬ 
ger rates.The Mississippi River has 
started on its annual overflow, and the pros¬ 
pects of injury and destruction along its 
course are very serious. Wiuona. Minu., and 
La Crosse, Wis., have already suffered severe¬ 
ly. The water is very high in all the Minne¬ 
sota rivers, etc., and much damage has been 
done . Ex Senator Roscoe Conkliug 
died at his home in this city at 1:50 o’clock 
Wednesday morning, Ap’l. 18. On March 12 he 
was.at his office “down town,” and owing to 
the blizzard he couldn’t get a conveyance. He 
set out on foot in the gloaming, and after a 
struggle of two hours in the blinding snow he 
reached his apartments in the Hoffman House, 
over two miles “up town,” completely 
exhausted. He took cold, which settled in 
his head, and finally developed in an abscess 
at the base of the brain. On April 9 the doc¬ 
tors made an incision in the skull, relieving 
the intense pain. For a week before his death 
he was nearly all the time unconscious or de¬ 
lirious, with rare lucid intervals. Born in 
Albany October 30, 1829. After receiving an 
academic education he studied law in the of¬ 
fice of his father, Alfred Conkling, until 1846, 
when he entered the office of Francis Kernan. 
In 1850 was admitted to the bar, and with¬ 
in the same year he was made District Attor¬ 
ney for Oneida County. Elected Mayor of 
Utica in 1858, and continued mayor for 
the next term. Elected Member of the House 
of Representatives in 1858, and re-elected in 
1860: defeated in 1862, but elected again in 1864. 
Mr. Conkling was elected for a fourth time in 
1866, and in January 1867, before his term 
bad expired, he was elected to the United 
States Senate, and was re-elected in 1873 and 
in 1879. As Senator, Mr. Conkling was at all 
times a staunch supporter of President Grant’s 
administration; he was also earnest in his 
efforts for the success of the Civil Rights bill 
and the bill for the resumption of specie pay¬ 
ments. In the Presidential Convention of 
1876 he received 93 vot°s, and in the conven¬ 
tion of 1880, he favored Grant’s re-election for 
the third time, and held together the famous 
“306.” In 1881, owing to a misunderstanding 
with President Garfield regarding the Federal 
patronage in this State, he resigned together 
with his colleague T. C. Platt, and sought 
vindication at the hands of the New York 
Legislature by re-election. Failing in this he 
began practicing law, and in late years, is 
reported to have cleared $100,000 a year. He 
was heavily in debt, however, chiefly as 
security for friends who had failed, and the 
payment of this indebtedness consumed most 
of his savings so that he died comparatively 
poor. Thoroughly upright and clean-handed, 
a steadfast friend and an uncompromising 
foe, he made many ardent friends and a host 
of bitter enemies. 
.Yesterday was the 100th day of the 
present session of Congress. The bills and 
resolutions introduced to date aggregate 12,- 
368, which is over 2.000 more than the total 
number introduced during the first hundred 
days of the last Congress. The Senate has 
passed 831 billsand the House 427. The House 
has sent 183 bills to the President and the 
Senate 24 The House yesterday passed 
the Indian Appropriation Bill, the Pension 
Bill, which appropriates $80,280,000 for the 
next fiscal year, and made some headway ou 
the River and Harbor Bill.. Mrs. Theresa Fair, 
who obtained a divorce and $4,500,000 from her 
husband, ex-Senator Fair, some years ago, 
has started from San Francisco for a visit to 
New York and Washington.A bill 
passed in the House at Washington Thursday 
establishing a Department of Labor, provides 
for the appointment of a Commissioner and 
over 60 subordinates. It appropriates nearly 
$80,000, and the duties outlined are so exten¬ 
sive that it is said it would need 50,000 persons 
to perform them.A bill providing for 
police matrons in cities of 20,000 imhabitants 
and over has passed the New York Senate. 
Massachusetts has already adopted this reform. 
... .Ex-Secretary of the Navy Robeson has 
failed. Speculation, careless note indorsing 
and extravagance are assigned as the cause... 
... .General George Crook has been promoted 
to the Major-Generalship made vacant by the 
retirement of General Terry.Sir 
Donald Smith .of Montreal,has given $500,000 
to establish a preparatory school at Winnipeg, 
Manitoba. Some years ago he endowed a 
college at Montreal with $120,000. Riches 
are often the “roots” of a great deal of good.. 
.They are still finding victims of the 
Januarv-12th blizzard out in Dakota. The 
body of Egbert Wilkins was found a week 
ago near Aberdeen .Arbor Day was 
generally observed, especially by school chil¬ 
dren,in Illinois,on April 13—thousands of trees 
were planted.The Congressional 
Trust investigation is at a standstill. 
It is said that the Administration has secured 
pledges from enough Congressmen to secure 
the passage of the Mills tariff bill through the 
Democratic House; but the Republican Sen¬ 
ate will then be likely to defeat it. 
....After a long and exciting discussion, 
Thursday, the bill for the admission of the 
State of South Dakota and the organization 
of the Territory of North Dakota was passed, 
26 to 23, and the Senate adjourned till Mon¬ 
day.A bill providing means for carry¬ 
ing out the terms of the Fishery treaty passed 
the Dominion House of Commons on Wednes¬ 
day. It is expected that the United States 
Senate will soon take decisive action on the 
measure .Official returns of the Louisi¬ 
ana election gives Nichols 27.000 votes in New 
Orleans, and Warmouth 12,000. Nichols’s ma¬ 
jority in the State is estimated at 65,000—the 
whole vote iu the State will be about 35,000 
greater than at any previous State election. 
The contest was very bitter, the Democrats 
beingat first divided, so that Warmouth, Re¬ 
publican, was thought to have a fighting 
chance .Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew, 
among the very best specialists in eye and ear 
diseases, died here on April 18, aged 58. He 
was taken ill while attending Mr. Conkling. 
Laparotomy was performed, but couldn’t save 
him ..In New York, Albany and Chicago 
there is trouble between the brewers and their 
employes, the former refusing to recognize any 
unions of the latter. Here there is a “shut 
out” of the old employes, but new hands are 
being taken on in large numbers and some of 
the old are abandoning the unions for the 
sake of employment. An attempt is being 
made to boycott “pool” beer: the various 
trades unions declaring they will not buy beer 
from those retailers who sell the stuff made 
by the brewers’pool, but it is likely the latter 
will triumph. The case is much the same at 
Albany and Chicago ... .Over 50 miles 
of the Manitoba railroad track have been 
washed away by the mountain floods. 
.... The State Board of Transportation of Ne¬ 
braska urge the Senators and Representatives 
from that State to support a bill providing 
that all railroads shall be subject to the States 
as to State tariffs.The Republican 
convention of Ohio has unanimously indorsed 
Sherman for President, and now it is said he 
has 300 votes certain on the first ballot, leav¬ 
ing only a little over 100 to be gained subse¬ 
quently .Mme. Diss Debar, the spirit¬ 
ualistic humbug, who has been creating such 
a sensation here, turns out to be the 
daughter of a Kentuckian called Salomon, 
not of old profligate King Ludwig of Bavaria 
and Lola Montez, as she claimed. She is in 
the Tombs with her husband and two accom- 
E lices charged with conspiracy to defraud old 
lawyer Marsh, and with misappropriating 
between $30,000 and $50,000 worth of paintings 
belonging to an old miser named Loenherz. 
He visited her to dun her for money. She 
gave him cakes and wine but no money; a few 
days later his decomposing body was found in 
his wretched cellar. She is charged with 
having poisoned him. Accumulating proof 
shows her to have been always a mischief- 
maker, utterly unprincipled and an arrant 
fraud of the very blackest kind. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April, 21,1888. 
The political situation of Europe is disquiet¬ 
ing, nay, menacing, and war in May if not 
probable is very possible. Russia is still the 
threat, and Bulgaria the excuse for trouble. 
History shows that the great Muscovite Power 
never abandons any of its traditional lines of 
policy. It may be temporarily checked; it 
may be deflected from its course, only to re¬ 
sume its predetermined march to its objective 
point as soon as the resisting or deflecting 
cause is removed or relaxed. For generations 
its objective point has been Constantinople, 
and for generations it has been steadily, per¬ 
sistently drawing nearer to it, both in Europe 
and Asia. The final settlement of the late 
Turko-Russian war left it dominant to the 
Balkans; the course of the rulers of Bulgaria 
has threatened, nay, suspended this predomi¬ 
nance. and Russia will never cease her open 
menacing attitude or her secret plotting and 
conspiracies until she has regained it. The 
agrarian troubles in Roumania are spreading 
and becoming more violent. The militia has 
taken sides with the populace in their war 
against landlordism, and several fierce con¬ 
flicts have already occurred between them and 
the regular troops. The impression is growing 
that the only hope of quelling the insurrection 
is to expel the Russian Minister from the 
country. Is Russia 1 kely to tolerate such an 
insult? Austria has formed a defensive and 
offensive alliance with Roumania, and if the 
Czar resents the insult by invading the coun¬ 
try, the whole of the Balkan States, together 
w ith Austria, are sure at once to be in a blaze. 
.... The triple alliance of Germany, Austria- 
Hungary and Italy is the great peace-preser¬ 
ver of Europe, as its enormous strength, 
stretching from the Baltic to the Meditera- 
nean, separates belligerent Russia from bellig¬ 
erent France. In addition to Russia’s per¬ 
sistent determination to revive the old Eastern- 
Empire at Constantinople, the great menaces 
to peace are the enormous expense of keeping 
up the vast standing armies of Europe, and 
the reported bellicose character of the young 
prince who must soon succeed the Kaiser. 
Still Bismarck’s far-reaching diplomacy may 
defer hostilities. He has just triumphed over 
Empress Victoria, who has sacrificed her 
daughter’s marriage with Prince Battenberg 
for the good of her country. The project 
may be revived, however, on the arrival of 
Queen Victoria in Berlin, which will occur at 
9 o’clock Tuesday morning. During the 
week the world, but especially Germany, was 
kept anxious by reports of the Emperor’s im¬ 
minent death, as the disease was spreading. 
This morning’s cablegrams say he is a trifle 
better; there is no immediate danger; but at 
best death can be a matter of only a few 
days dr at most of a few weeks .'... 
.France is in a perilous position. Presi¬ 
dent Carnot is in no sense a leader. He hasn’t 
the popular confidence. Boulanger, the popu¬ 
lar hero, has been elected by the great Depart¬ 
ment of the Nord by the overwhelming ma¬ 
jority of 108,000—his two opponents were no¬ 
where. He represents national revenge for 
the defeat of France by Germany, and his 
election in more than one department is an 
emphatic protest against the Ministry which 
has just dismissed him from the army. The 
movement in his favor appears revolutionary. 
Since the Great Revolution overthrew the 
Bourbons such revolutionary movements have 
averaged a period of about 20 years. The pre¬ 
sent Republic has existed 18, and a popular 
upheaval seems in order. What will its end 
be—a radical Republic, a Dictatorship, a 
Monarchy, or an Empire? The great thing in 
favor of the stability of affairs is that the 
army does not appear in favor of Boulanger, 
and Paris, on the whole, is against him, and 
Paris always leads in revolutions. 
Mr. Pendleton, American minister to Ger¬ 
many, was striken with apoplexy or paralysis 
yesterday,near Wiesbaden, where he lies slow¬ 
ly recovering. The Irish troubles still con¬ 
tinue,of course. A vigorous Scotch Home Rule 
Party is forming, though as Scotch members 
of Parliament are nearly always allowed to 
shape Scotch legislation, there hardly seems 
any urgent need for a change. 
John Baring, the well known London banker, 
is dead _The chief clerk of the Treasury 
at Athens, Greece, has embezzled 5,000,000 
francs of the public funds. 
_Col. Mapleson, the operatic manager, who 
several times of late years led opera troupes 
through this country, has failed in London; 
liabilities, $212,050; no available assets. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 21, 1888. 
“Agricultural depression” is still the main 
subject of agricultural interest in the United 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
Kingdom; and the only remedy suggested ap¬ 
pears to be “Protection” or 1 ‘Fair Trade”.... 
.. J. D. Allen & Brothers, large land and 
cattle owners of Kansas, have failed. Their 
liabilities are $100.000.The Governors 
of the States and Territories in the Valley of 
the Mississippi are requested to appoint eight 
delegates each to the proposed meeting of the 
Farmers’ Trust, to be held at Topeka, Kansas, 
on May 1. next. 
.... The Utica cheese sales for the season will 
open on Monday next.It is charged 
that, though cattle mav be dehorned by ex¬ 
perts without much suffering, much of the 
dehorning now done is bungling mutilation. 
About Bloomington, Ill., a good many of the 
dehorned heads, it is said, have not healed, 
and the animals are suffering accordingly.... 
. . The opposition to the Palmer Bill, which 
seeks to take the extermination of “pleuro” 
away from the Bureau of Animal Industry, is 
increasing. Just now it hardly looks as if 
any change would be made—at the present ses¬ 
sion of Congress at any rate .Of the 
nine big cattle companies operated bv foreign 
capital on the Plains most have paid 
no dividends for three vears; and while three 
have paid none since 1884 and two none since 
1882, not one has paid a dividend since 1885. 
... .After a “slump” a little over a week ago, 
hogs began to climb up again, and now they 
are on top of the season’s market—Can they 
stay there?.The great anxiety of the 
“Jerseymen” now appears to be to learn the 
name of the new phenomenon which will 
break the hitherto highest butter record for 
one year—936 pounds 14% ounces. 
The Wool Journal says that in the American 
wool trade the growers who sold early are, 
with very few exceptions, the only people 
who are not disappointed.About 
110,000 more bogs have been packed since the 
beginning of the summer packing season than 
in the same period last year. In the 
census year the production of eggs here was 
456.930.054 dozens, and it is now estimated 
at 460,000,000 dozens—a trifle less than eight 
dozen per year for every man, woman, and 
child in the country if all were eaten. We 
also imported at least 13.939.045 dozens last 
year, of which number 13,682,914 dozens came 
from Canada; still there are complaints of a 
scarcity of eggs in many markets, especially 
here in the East ... Governor Foraker, at the 
request'of'the'State Live-Stock Commission 
of Ohio, has raised the quarantine against the 
importation of cattle from Chicago on account 
of pleuro-pneumonia .The President 
has signed the Spooner bill for the relief of 
importers of breeding animals. A synopsis 
of'the measure’was given here some time ago. 
-Governor Marble designates Mav 1 as Ar¬ 
bor Dav in Maine .Rhode Island ap¬ 
propriates $5,000 towards the State Agricul¬ 
tural school— .The Conn. Agricul¬ 
tural Station estimates the total sales of fer¬ 
tilizers through the State last year at 16.700 
tons: cost to purchasers. $500,000.. Massa¬ 
chusetts proposes'to shift the control of the 
sale of fertilizers from the Board of Agricul¬ 
ture to the Experiment Station . 
...The Cromwell bill making May 1 a holi¬ 
day, to be called Arbor Day, has just become 
a law in this State. The Cincinnati Price 
Current makes the’available supply of wheat 
109.000.000 bushels.... .Foreign beans 
(from the Mediterranean) brought at auction 
yesterday $1.66 and $1.70 for 250 bags. 
It is estimated that there will be a shortage in 
the winterwheat crop of from 18,000,000 to 
36.000,000 bushels ... . 
. .The peach orchards are looking verv promis¬ 
ing in New Jersey. In Sussex county many 
trees are in bloom, and as far as can be foreseen 
with’every r ordinary immunity from excessiv- 
cold and blight the crop throughout the Pene 
insula promises to be” large and remunerable. 
. .On the western slopes of the Catskills the 
maple sugar crop is reported to be unusually 
abundant, though quite late, owing to deep 
snow. Prices well maintained, opening at 10 
to 12 cents for good clear sugar: now ruling 
at 8 to 10 cents. A new style of putting up 
maple sirup has been adopted. It is hermeti¬ 
cally sealed in one-gallon cans, in which form 
it will keep fresh for years, and a choice arti¬ 
cle commands $1 to $1.25 a gallon. The crop 
west of and adjoining the Catskills will aggre¬ 
gate 5,000,000 pounds. 
The success of some of the agents employed 
by B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., is 
truly marvellous. It is not an unusual thing 
for their agents to make as high as $20 and 
$30 a day,*"and sometimes the profits run up 
as high as $40 or $50—even more. But we 
hesitate to tell you the whole truth, or you 
will scarcely believe we are in earnest. Write 
them and see for yourself what they will do 
for you.— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York. Saturday, Apri 21,1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Feed.— Dull and weak for bran: other grades steady. 
40 Tb. $1@ 1 0k 60 Tb, 95c®*l: 80 lb. 95c®81 100 lbs. SI 05 
@1 10; sharps, SI 1001 15. Rye Feed, $1@$1 05. 
Hay and Straw.— Selling moderately from day to 
day Hav— Choice Timothy per 100 lb 8541)900: No 1. 
80i»85e: No2, 70®75c: Clover mixed. 65i»75c: clover. 55 
®65c: shipping. 60 to 65c Straw.—Long rye 90@95c; 
short do, 65@70c; oat, 45@50c. 
Hops.— The demand Is very light, and values are 
more or less nominal. Quotations are for: N. Y. 
State new, best, 13-ai4c: medium do, ll@12c; do com¬ 
mon, 9@10c, do old, 4 <§> 6 c. 
Poultry.—Live,— A good supply of live poultry; 
trade Is fair at steady prices. Dressed poultry is at 
full prices-Philadelphia roasters and broilers are in 
light supply aud firm; others are steady, with a mod¬ 
erate business. Fowls. Jersey, State, and Penn, 
per lb. —@12^c: fowls, Western, per lb, ll@12c- roost¬ 
ers. old, per lb, 6®10c: turkeys, per tb ll®12c, 
ducks, western per pair, 60@90o; geese, western, 
per pair, 90c®l 15. 
Poultry.—Dressed.— Turkeys, fancy, per ft, 13®15c 
do good to choice. 12@13e: do common. 10c; Fowls: 
Philadelphia, lltail^c; do western. 10®llc: squabs, 
white, per doz. $3 50@4 00: do dark, per doz. 82 50®2 75; 
ducks, fair to fancy, per lb, ll@16c;ao common, 6®i0c. 
g eese, good to choice, 10® 12c: chickens, Philadelphia 
rollers, 28@50c; do do 12@24c. 
Game.—W ild ducks, canvas, per pair, ',50c@l 50; do 
