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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 28,1888. 
A great international fair is to be held at 
Buffalo, N. Y., beginning September 4, 1888. 
Very fine buildings will be erected for the ex¬ 
hibition in grounds comprising 90 acres. In 
the grounds $250,000 will be invested, and 
$200,000 in the buildings. The main building 
will be 450 by 300 feet, and will cost $100,000. 
The live stock exhibition will be a prominent 
feature, encouraged by liberal premiums.. 
....The famous trotting horse Dexter died 
last Saturday, aged 30. His best record— 
2-17 %—was made at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1867, 
after which he was bought by Robert BonDer 
for $35,000. He was the first “King of the 
turf,” his record being at the time the best 
trottiug record ever made in any part of the 
world. A large meeting of Southerners 
at Hot Springs, Ark., has just organized a 
Southern Immigration Society. A resolution 
provides that each city of over 5,000 inhabi¬ 
tants shall contribute $1,000 towards estab¬ 
lishing an Immigration Bureau in New York 
City.It has been decided at the War 
Department to assign Major-Gen. Crook to the 
command of the Division of Missouri, with 
headquarters at Chicago. Secretary 
Fairchild is strongly opposed to the issue of 
fractional currency. He asserts that the ex¬ 
pense of production and the It ss caused by the 
destruction of previous issues had been so great 
that the currency had cost as much as the en¬ 
tire face value of the average circulation 
maintained. Public convenience, he says, 
doesn’t require the reissue, nor do the people 
demand it. Our experience in this respect 
differs from his.Four provinces in 
Cuba have been placed under martial law, and 
robbery, brigandage and all sorts of crime and 
rascality are prevalent there. Still there is 
much discontent at their being put under mar¬ 
tial law, especially among foreign residents,as 
serious business injury is likely to be the result. 
.There is a craze for international ex¬ 
positions this year. Congress is asked for 
$50,000 to enable us to make a big show at 
Melbourne, Australia; $30,000 for the exhibi¬ 
tion at Barcelona, Spain; $30,000 for that at 
Brussels, Belgium; and $250,000 for the Paris 
Exposition. In the last there was a special 
appropriation of $25,000 to defray the ex¬ 
penses of circulating information designed to 
restore confidence in the wholesomeness of 
American hog products, but this was stricken 
out in the Senate on the assurance of Commis¬ 
sioner Col man that he would spend $25,000 
for that object. The President has de¬ 
cided to visit New York on the 30th of next 
month in order to participate in the Grand 
Army memorial exercises in this city and 
Brooklyn. He will first review the parade in 
New York and will then go to Brooklyn 
and review the parade there.The 
Treasury estimate places the debt reduction 
for the present month at $13,000,000. 
....Express messenger Totheringham, who 
was arrested for alleged participation in the 
robbery of the St. Louis and San Francisco 
mail, some months ago, has secured a verdict 
of $20,000 against the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany for false imprisonment. Dr. Ed¬ 
ward G. Loring, one of the most eminent eye 
and ear specialists in the country, and an as¬ 
sociate with the late Dr. Agnew, dropped 
dead in the street in New York on Monday, 
aged 47. B. F. Asken, Republican can¬ 
didate for Congress, was bitten by a mad dog 
at Magnolia, Ark., and has started for Paris 
to be treated by Pasteur.J. B. Haggin, 
the California millionaire patron of the turf, 
is about to give up the “sport,” and will send 
100 yearlings to this city to be sold in June.. 
Standard Oil certificates, which five years ago 
were put on the market here at 90, on a capi¬ 
tal basis of $70,000,000, are selling at 160 on a 
basis of $90,000,000. The holders are now get¬ 
ting quarterly dividends of 2 y 2 per cent, cash, 
and it is said that the earnings would justify 
as much more.The Sugar Refineries Trust 
certificates, which sold a few months ago at 
40 cents on the dollar, have risen lately to 80 
cents on the making of a 2)4 per cent, divi¬ 
dend April 2, and the belief that a similar 
dividend is to be made quarterly hereafter un¬ 
til Mr. Claus Spreckels succeeds in ruining 
the concern with his new refinery. 
....Commander-in-chief Rea, of the G. A. R., 
states that 14,000 new members have joined 
the organization in the past three months.... 
_W. Irving Bishop, the noted mind reader, 
is in an asylum at San Francisco. He suffers 
from nervous prostration, and has appeared 
partially demented. Both Houses of the 
New York Legislature have passed the bill re¬ 
pealing the Saturday half-holiday law for 
the whole year, and instead making only the 
Saturday afternoons of June, July, August 
and September half-holidays.W. S. 
Dinsmore, President and one of the founders 
of the Adams Express Company, died at New 
York the other day. He was one of the oldest 
Jersey breeders, and a foundation member of 
the American Jersey Cattle Club. Born in 
Boston in 1810. It is a year since 
Mr. George and Dr. McGlynn started their 
Anti-poverty Society. Poverty has not been 
appreciatively abolished, but George and Mc¬ 
Glynn have come nigh to be.The Sher¬ 
man boomers seek to scoop up a solid South 
in the Republican convention. They already 
claim 312 votes out of 411 necessary to a choice. 
.N. P. B. Wells, Treasurer of the Sen¬ 
eca Falls, (N. Y.) savings bank, is a defaulter 
to the amount of $10,000. Salary only $400 
and he had to steal to support his family. .. 
Mine. Diss Debar has continued to amuse New 
York this week. The more disclosed about 
the fraud, the worse sue seems.The 
new State-house of Texas, the largest of the 
kind in the country, was formally opened at 
Austin Saturday night.A score of 
States will be represented at the convention 
of Labor Bureau Commissioners and chiefs at 
Indianapolis, May 21 The essays and discus¬ 
sions will deal with practical problems, and 
are likely to be helpful. Powderlyjs expect¬ 
ed to be present at the meeting..... 
....George R. Huide, of Placentia, Cal., 
recently burned bis apiary, bees, wax, honey 
and all, because he thought the bees were 
annoying his neighbors.The Brewers’ 
lockout or strike in this city, Brooklyn, Staten 
Island and Jersey City still continues, affect¬ 
ing 73 breweries, but nearly all of them claim 
to be running full-handed now, with non¬ 
union men. A large number of the union 
men have abandoned their unions and re¬ 
turned to work. The boycott on ‘ ‘pool” beer 
affects only small retailers in the German and 
Hungarian parts of the city.. ... From the 
Congressional investigation it appears that 
the Standard Oil monopoly has made $250,- 
000,000 by rebates from railroads, etc., and 
has squeezed many small firms out of busi¬ 
ness and thus destroyed $17,000,000 of capital. 
....A mad dog ran into the school house at 
Cypress Creek, Tenn., Thursday, and made 
for the children. Miss Mollie Green, the 
teacher, sprang between and nobly fought the 
animal until all the children had escaped; 
then made for the door, pulled it after her 
shutting the dog in, and fainted. Help came, 
killed the dog and revived Mollie, and now 
the grateful people are going to give the 
heroine a fine house and accoutrements .. 
... Slugger Sullivan, after behaving like a 
drunken brute and blackguard during the 
voyage, landed at Boston the other day and 
was enthusiastically received by the roughs 
of the Hub. The blatherskite has put up $500 
towards a stake of $10,000 or under to fight 
any other bruiser in the world. 
The President has approved the act to prevent 
any person or persons in the cities of Washing- 
ton and Georgetown from making books and 
pools on the result of trotting or running races 
or boat races. The Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe road will open its Chicago line 
to-day, when it will begin running a 
vestibule train from Chicago to San Fran¬ 
cisco. The sixty-ninth anniversary of 
the founding of Odd Fellowship in this country 
was celebrated Thursday in various parts of 
the country.The number of Union 
veterans supported in charitable institutions 
is 36,953, of which 15,152 are under govern¬ 
ment care.“Billy” Cook, another of 
the famous Tweed gang, who stole $300,000 
and fled to Paris with a ballet dancer when 
the ring was broken up, has just died in that 
city.General Abram Merritt, aged 
50, committed suicide at the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel by taking laudanum Wednesday night. 
Made an excellent record during the war, at 
the close of which he was made Consul-Gen¬ 
eral at Liverpool. Was very prominent as a 
Republican, and in the ranks of the G. A. R. 
A couple of letters he left indicate that he 
feared financial business troubles, and was 
sorely afflicted with kidney ailments. Of late 
years he had kept a large dry goods store at 
Nyack, N. Y. 
The Crosby High License Bill passed the New 
York Senate Thursday by a vote of 17 to 15, 
the majority being all Republicans and the 
minority all Democrats except Loughlin and 
Worth—kicking Republicans. As the bill has 
already passed the House it is now before the 
Governor.The Canal Improvement 
Bill has passed the New York Assembly by a 
vote of 65 to 55.At all the late Republican 
conventions to select delegates to the nominat¬ 
ing convention at Chicago, Blaine’s name has 
been enthusiastically cheered, and in spite of 
his declinations, some, like that of Maine, 
have been instructed in his favor. Just at 
present it looks as if he would get the nomina¬ 
tion by acclamation. This is hardly likely to 
occur at first; but if the convention cannot 
agree on any other candidate, Blaine’s name 
is likely to be sprung on it, and his nomina¬ 
tion in that case will probably be carried 
amid wild hurrahs. The deaths of Grant and 
Conkling have helped to strengthen his 
chances of success. He will be on the ocean, 
on his w r ay home, during the convention, so 
that he will not be able to decline the nomina¬ 
tion if it is tendered to him. Cleveland is 
nearly certain to get the Democratic nomina- 
ion... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, April 28, 1888. 
In France the Boulanger boom is acquiring 
greater force; but the government appears 
resolved to fight it by all means. President 
Carnot is making a tour of the Departments 
to counteract the Boulanger enthusiasm, and 
as all the influence of the Government officials 
—local and general—is in his favor, he is 
received with much enthusiasm. Moreover, 
a large proportion of the population are by 
no means Boulangerists, and these, to what¬ 
ever party they may belong, cheer the Presi¬ 
dent of the Republic as a protest against the 
dreaded Dictator.In Germany the Em¬ 
peror is getting much better. Some say the 
“crisis” is over, and that he will get well. 
The Germans are getting very angry at the 
contradictory nature of the doctors’ reports 
of his condition—and with a good deal of 
reason. The general impression, however, is 
that there will be a relapse soon. Queen Vic¬ 
toria has been received in Berlin much more 
cordially than was anticipated. As she trav¬ 
eled about the city with her daughter, the 
Empress Victoria, she was usually loudly 
cheered. Some say it was by a pre-arranged 
crowd; others say the cheering was spontane¬ 
ous. It would be a bad thing for even Ger¬ 
many to irritate Englishmen by insulting 
their idolized Queen. For the rest, Russia 
appears determined to gain her point in Bul¬ 
garia; and the next month seems pregnant 
with big issues. 
... Count Herbert Bismarck has been ap¬ 
pointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.The 
bill to legalize marriage with a deceased 
wife’s sister was passsed in tbe House of Com¬ 
mons last week by a vote of 239 to 162. Such 
a measure has passed the Commons several 
times but has always been defeated in the 
Lords, chiefly by the Bishops’ vote. 
Prince Bismarck’s paper mill at Varzin, which 
was burned last year, has been rebuilt at a 
cost of $250,000, and is now producing 15 tons 
of paper daily. It is the largest in Germany. 
....The old King of Belgium is sick and 
_“Herbrand” Fifth.Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
there’s talk of appointing a regent.For¬ 
ty-thousand foreign Jews residing in the prov¬ 
ince of Kherson, Russia, have been ordered to 
cross the frontier... Baron de Stael, the Rus¬ 
sian ambassador; Henry White, the acting 
American Minister, and Lord Salisbury have 
held a conference in London in regard to the 
Behrmg Sea seal fisheries. After a large 
number of serious outrages by the rebellious 
peasants, the revolt in Roumania has been 
suppressed by the regular troops. Large num¬ 
bers of the insurgents were killed and a great 
many have been taken prisoners.The Pope 
has issued a document condemning the plan 
of campaign and boycotting in Ireland, and 
forbidding Catholics to resort to such practices. 
. ...Irish troubles still continue, as usual, to dis¬ 
turb the whole United Kingdom. The Conser¬ 
vatives, however, are gaining politically. 
.The son of Sir Morell Mackenzie is now 
playing with success in a farce at the Strand 
Theatre. In the last five years $60,000,- 
000 of diamonds have been taken to England 
from the African diamond fields. Since 1871 
$100,000,000 worth, or three and a half tons, 
have been taken from the Kimberley Mine 
alone.. ... .After Frederick dies the German 
Empress will receive a fortune, payable by 
the reigning Emperor, of $150,000 a year, and 
the use of the Palace of Charlottenberg and 
another palace at Potsdam.A new 
English loan, amounting to $10,000,000, has 
been made by the Egyptian government. This 
loan will neither take precedence of nor have 
any effect on loans previously made...... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 28, 1888. 
.... The great Montezuma irrigating tunnel 
in southern Colorado, was completed April 22. 
It is over a mile long, and runs under one of 
the ranges of mountains composing the 
“Rockies.” With the 50 miles of canal it will 
convey tbe water of the Dolores River over 
the richest agricultural valley in Colorado. 
Over 200,000 acres of land will be reclaimed 
by this great enterprise. The aider- 
men here are discussing how vegetables are 
to be sold. It is proposed that fruits, berries, 
and vegetables must be sold by weight in the 
markets and on the streets. The weight of a 
bushel of potatoes must be at least 60 pounds, 
and of carrots, turnips, parsnips and beets 10 
pounds less. The proposed penalty for a viola¬ 
tion of the law is $10. Dispatches from 
Missouri say “crop prospects brightening” and 
from Ohio, “fine rain and better expectations 
of crops.”... .The cheese factories are 
starting up through this State. It is expected 
that this week will show receipts of from 
3,000 to 4,000 boxes.From all reports the 
“bob” veal trade is unusually brisk just now in 
the dairy region tributary to New York. 
The calf butchers usually pay the farmers 
three to four cents per pound, or $1 to $1.50 per 
carcass, though during the late snow block¬ 
ade 10 to 12 cents per pound were paid for 
“bobs.” The traffic begins about Feb. 1, and 
ends in June. As it is illegal and all the bob 
veal coming to this city is liable to seizure by 
the health authorities as unwholesome, freight 
has to be paid in advance. Tons of the veal 
are smuggled in every week, however, and are 
sold chiefly to sausage makers and the very 
poor, and to low-priced restaurants. 
.... The Tryon Bill in the Ohio Legislature 
provides for the election of one road super¬ 
visor for each township at a compensation of 
$2.50 per day for “each day employed,” doing 
away with the district supervisors whose pay 
is $1.50 per day. It is objected that the new 
high-priced official can continue his wages 
indefinitely, whereas there were several checks 
on the old.F. A. Derthick, of Portage 
County, has been re-appointed Dairy and 
Food Commissioner of Ohio. Heavy 
frosts during the week have killed the pear, 
plum and damson crops and greatly damaged 
the peach crop in Virginia. Forward wheat 
on the river bottoms is seriously injured. 
About Norfolk, the damage to farm truck is 
estimated by some at nearly $2.0Q0,000. More 
conservative estimates put the loss at $500,000 
to $750,000. The potato vines were cut down 
to the hills. Beets, beans, cucumbers, water¬ 
melons, tomatoes, and squashes were entirely 
destroyed, and peas and strawberries put back 
a week or 10 days. The seed stores at Norfolk 
were exhausted of stock for re-planting. 
.It is reported that the Palmer contagious 
diseases bill, which has been discussed in the 
Senate during the week, will not lie pressed 
to a vote as a count of noses shows that it 
would be certainly defeated, as such a rush of 
protests have come against it from farmers 
and stockmen in all parts of the country, 
except from the great cattle kings and syndi¬ 
cates who started it. Commissioner Colman 
is bitterly accused of lobbying against it and 
using the patronage of his office to secure its 
defeat, and an investigation of his conduct 
and of the general business of his office is con¬ 
sequently threatened.Recently a man 
was tried in Scotland for cruelty in dehorn¬ 
ing cattle, but, like Haaff in Illinois, after a 
lengthy investigation of the matter, the de¬ 
fendant was acquitted. Senator Low’s 
bill to prohibit the reception and sale of skiin- 
milk cheese, has been passed by the New York 
Senate, and was Thursday reported favora¬ 
bly in the Assembly. 
.It is reported that the Hungarian Minister 
of Agriculture has notified all agricultural 
societies that Herr Mandi, manager ot a 
spirit distillery at Raab, has discovered an 
efficient preventive of pleuro-pneumonia in 
cattle.The Texas State Poultry Associa¬ 
tion has decided to hold its first annual show 
next December, but has not yet decided as to 
the place. . .... In Chi¬ 
cago one bushel of beans is worth almost as 
much as four bushels of wheat, the price of the 
former being about $2.75 and of the latter 73 
cents. Have you ever thought of that?. 
A portion of Senator Stanford’s horse stables 
at Palo Alto, Cal., were burned on April 18th, 
and seven valuable trotters—loss over $100,000 
. The Massachusetts House has appro- 
preated $19,000 for the State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege.Considerable pressure is being ex¬ 
ercised on the New York Legislature to in 
crease the present appropriation of $20,000 a 
year for the Geneva Agricultural Experiment 
Station to $35,000 a year. This*would be'only 
12 cents on each farm in the State, while in 
New Jersey the appropriation for the agri¬ 
cultural experiment station is 35 cents on each 
farm, and in Conn. 26 cents.The New 
York Assembly has passed a bill giving a 
bounty of two cents a head on all English 
sparrows killed. Michigan farmers 
are sending many large petitions to Congress 
in favor of protection to tbe wool industry ... 
... .The Committee on Agriculture of Massa¬ 
chusetts has reported a bill to increase the 
number of members of the Board of Control 
at the Agricultural Experimr nt Station from 
seven to 11. The four new members are to be, 
one from the State Grange to be elected by 
the Grange; one from the Massachusetts Hor¬ 
ticultural Society to be elected by the Society; 
the Director of the Experiment Station and 
the Secretary of the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture.Work will begin at once on the 
new experiment station to be built at Hanover, 
N. H., for the State College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts. It will cost $7,000, and 
$2,000 will be spent in enlarging the machine 
shop and in buying machinery. 
Congress has just ordered an extra edition 
of 25,000 copies of the report on “Cattle 
and Dairy Farming,” made by the consuls of 
the United States abroad, of which the origi¬ 
nal edition has been exhausted, and for which 
there has been much call by cattle-raisers and 
dairy-farmers of the United States. It 
comprises two volumes, together containing 
855 pages of letterpress, besides 369 full-page 
lithograpic engragiugs.... 
A Cruel Old Monster. 
A cruel old monster was “Giant Despair,” 
as pictured by Bunyan in“Pilgrim’s Progress.” 
His plan was to drive people to desperation 
by making them low-spirited and wretched; 
in other words, by giving them mental and 
spiritual dyspepsia. Having got them into 
this state of misery, he made an easy capturo 
of them. 
When an invalid is run down by dyspepsia 
or lung-trouble or by any chronic disorder, 
the danger is of becoming so weak as to des¬ 
pair of recovery. This is more especially the 
case where sufferers have tried one thing 
and another in hope of cure, but without suc¬ 
cess. A lady w ho for five years had been al¬ 
most hopeless, concluded as a last resort to try 
Compound Oxygen. Her trouble had been 
chronic irritation of the bowels. She had 
been almost entirely unable to walk; eating 
had been torture. To these distresses had been 
added a severe attack of rheumatism. After 
using Compound Oxygen for three months she 
wrote to express her gratitude for being 
brought out of her misery. She says:“I fre¬ 
quently met with remarks of this kind, ‘if 
you get well, no one need despair,’ so you see 
it speaks for itself in my altered condition.” 
This good work should be known by every¬ 
body who wants to deal a blow at “Giant Des¬ 
pair.” Write for pamphlet treatise to Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., Sent free.— Adv. 
Crops & I War lifts. 
Saturday, April 28,1888. 
Telegrams from nearly all points on the 
Delaware Peninsula in regard to the condition 
of peach buds, give every indication of an un¬ 
usually large crop this year. The trees so far 
are almost entirely uninjured. 
It is now estimated that the cotton crop will 
range close to 6,900,000 bales. Statisticians, 
Government and other, are now trying to 
explain their previous low estimates. 
The weather crop bulletin for the week 
ended Saturday, April 21, says: Reports 
from the Northern States indicate that the 
week has been unusually cold, and that farm 
work has been greatly retarded. Reports 
from the Southern States show that the 
weather during the week has affected all 
crops favorably. Cotton planting is progress¬ 
ing rapidly, and generally throughout the 
cotton States the week is reported as the most 
favorable of the season. Light frosts occurred 
in North Carolina on the 20th, which may 
prove injurious to fruit and crops on low 
ground. In the States south of the Mis¬ 
souri River, including Kansas, Nebraska, and 
Southern Missouri, the weather has been gen¬ 
erally favorable, and crops are well advanced. 
The season continues cold and backward in 
Vermont and the sugar makers are becoming 
somewhat discouraged. Probably not more 
than one-half the usual amount of sugar has 
been made and the season is thought to be 
nearly over. Many orchards have not been 
opened, owing to the great depth of snow, 
which is about three feet in the woods. The 
prices for sugar have been higher than usual, 
and an excellent article has been made. 
The Chicago Times has been making ex¬ 
tensive crop investigation in the Northwest 
and is authority for the statement that 
farmers in practically every section of the 
Northwest outside of the confines of the 
great Red River Valley, which is one vast 
wheat field, are paying more attention to the 
raising of coarse grains and less to wheat than 
usual. The effect of this will be to diminish 
the spring wheat acreage and increase the area 
devoted to barley, flax and oats, and in the 
Southern latitudes to corn. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, April 28,1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Hay and Straw.— Hay—Choice Timothy per 100 Ik 
8@90c; No 1;80@85c; No?, ’U@'i5c; Clo »er mixed 65® 
