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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 5,1888. 
... .The Western Union Telegraph Company 
strongly objects to the Government’s going 
into the postal telegraph business unless it 
buys out existing lines. It is willing to sell 
its own lines for its present capitalization, 
(over $80,000,000) in cash. It is said there are 
from $25,000,000 to $83,000,000 of “water” in 
its capitalization. The Government is hardly 
likely to pay cash for so much liquid. 
Charles J. De Baun, assistant cashier of the 
National Park Bank of this city, one of the 
wealthiest here, has embezzled $05,000 of the 
bank’s money. He had been an esteemed 
employ^ for 24 years, and was about to be 
made cashier at $10,000 a year, when he was 
“found out.”.The Connecticut Demo¬ 
cratic Convention, Thursday, favored Cleve¬ 
land’s re-nomination; but repudiated his tariff 
reform, preferring the abolition of internal 
revenue taxation—Connecticut raises a great 
deal of tobacco.The Illinois Republi¬ 
cans indorsed Judge Gresham for President, 
Wednesday. They have also nominated 
Joseph Pifer for Governor—a Virginian by 
birth, but a good Union soldier.The 
great tunnel—9,900 feet long—through the 
Cascade Mountains, on the Northern Pacific 
Railroad, let daylight through Wednesday.. 
... The celebrated case between the Pullman 
and Wagner Car Companies in regard to the 
vestibule trains was decided Wednesday by 
Judges Gresham and Blodget in favor of the 
Pullman Company, enjoining the Wagner 
Company from a further use of these 
trains. The decision gives the Pullman Com¬ 
pany the monopoly of the manufacture of 
vestibule cars in this country. 
... All the States that have hitherto chosen 
delegates to the St. Louis Convention, have 
selected Cleveland men. Those that have 
selected delegates to the Chicago Convention 
are divided in their preferences, Sherman 
being a trifle ahead; but everywhere Blaine’s 
name has been hailed with great enthusiasm, 
and many complimentary resolutions have 
been passed in his favor.Dr. Charles 
B. Simmons, of New York, has presented a 
bill of $140,000 against the estate of the late 
Samuel J. Tilden, for professional services 
during Mr. Tilden’s long illness. This is the 
largest doctor’s bill ever presented. It would 
imply that 14,000 visits were made at $10 a 
visit, or 1,400 visits at $100 a visit. It has 
generally been supposed that Mr. Tilden paid 
his bills asthey occurred. 
... .On May 1 a uniform rate of postage went 
into etfect between the United States and 
Canada—one cent per ounce on all merchan¬ 
dise, including grains, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, 
cions and grafts, and one cent per two ounces 
on printed matter in the mails exchanged be¬ 
tween the two countries and now known as 
third-class matter in the domestic mails of 
this country.The strike 
that has paralyzed nearly all the glass 
works of the country since the opening of the 
year is at an end. Both sides made conces¬ 
sions. The great strike of the Brother¬ 
hood of Engineers and Firemen on the Chi¬ 
cago, Burlington and Quincy system has at 
last been declared “off” by the strikers, who 
will try to get employment wherever they 
can. It is reported that the “Q” system will 
take few or none of them back. It was such 
an utterly selfish strike that very little sym¬ 
pathy is felt for the vanquished.The 
other day Gen. Wirt Adams, postmaster at 
Jackson, Miss., and John H. Martin, editor 
of a local paper, met on the street and opened 
fire on each other. The Editor was hit twice; 
the General, three times; both died almost in¬ 
stantly. Personal and political enmity. 
... Dr. Clemence Sophia Lozier, the famous 
woman suffragist, died here the other day, 
aged 75.Charles A. Howard, of Mil¬ 
waukee, a widely known Masonic dignitary, 
but whose financial circumstances have here¬ 
tofore been at least only moderately comfort¬ 
able, has fallen heir to $1,000,000 left him by 
an aunt in England from whom, as an orphan, 
he ran away in a fit of boyish anger years 
ago.The New York State canals are 
to be officially opened on May 10. 
....The High License law which went into 
operation in New Jersey May 1, provides for 
a license fee of $100 in all towns which have 
not more than 3,000 inhabitants. $150 in towns 
which have a population of from 3,000 to 
10,000, and $250 in towns with population of 
more than 10,000. It imposes a penalty of a 
forfeiture of license for the first offence and 
perpetual forfeiture for the second offence of 
selling on Sunday, selling to minors or ap¬ 
prentices or keeping a disorderly house. First 
and second offences may also be published as 
criminal offences, the respective penalties be¬ 
ing $200 fine and six months in the county 
jail,and $500 fine and one year in State Pris¬ 
on.The Salvation Army has been con¬ 
victed in Quebec of being a public nuisance. 
.W ednesday Senator Ingalls, of Kan¬ 
sas, delivered a fiery phillipic in the Senate 
against McClellan and Hancock as politicians 
and against Senator Voorhees of Indiana,who 
a few days previously had denounced Ingalls 
for the latter’s previous condemnation of the 
two great Democratic Generals. In replying 
Voorhees lost his head and used the most 
abusive kind of language. The Democrats 
acknowledge the pungency of Ingalls’s rhet¬ 
oric, but say he has injured himself with the 
nation, while they lament but extenuate the 
Indiana Senator’s outbreak. The Republicans 
rejoice at the latter and are jubilant at In¬ 
galls’s bitter tirade__ ..Floods are still 
doing great injury in parts of the Northwest. 
The flood at Eau Claire, Wis., has driven 150 
families from their homes. Porterville is 
flooded aud deserted. The inhabitants are 
camped in sheds and warehouses.By 
the death of a bachelor uncle in Texas the 
Rev. Sam Beene of Jasper, Tenn., has fallen 
heir to $8,000,000... .A petition to Governor 
Oglesby for the pardon of anarchists Fielden, 
Schwab and Neebe, in circulation at Chicago,is 
said to have received thousands of signatures. 
A committee of five of the anti-administra¬ 
tion K. of L. declare the membership has 
dwindled from 702,000 to 240,000 ; the adminis¬ 
tration party say the membership is consider¬ 
ably over 500,000 .The Massachusetts 
Railroad Commissioners favor granting the 
railroads until the fall of next year to equip 
their cars with steam heating apparatus. 
. ..The great strike at the Edgar Thomson 
Steel Works, near Pittsburg, Pa., was declared 
off yesterday afternoon by District Master 
Workman Doyle, of the Knights of Labor.... 
... While the United States have a law that 
no immigrant shall enter the country who has 
already secured a situation in it, the Canadian 
Immigration Department has a regulation 
with regard to the dependent class of immi¬ 
grants, that none shall enter the country who 
has not a situation or a home already provided 
.Commissioner Atkins of the Indian 
Bureau is about to resign.A. B. Wilson 
part inventor of the Wheeler & W ilson sew¬ 
ing-machine, died a few days ago...... Re¬ 
turns from the municipal elections in Kansas 
show that about 20,000 women voted. 
The Stewart mansion in New York will be 
purchased for a palatial club-house by the 
Manhattan Club, at an expense of a million 
dollars.A Chicago man claims to have 
invented a mineral vapor bath which will 
preserve dead bodies forever and enable the 
living to resist contagious diseases. 
Tuesday a heavy snow storm prevailed in 
Michigan.Rev. Edgar L. Heimance, 
whose wife is the daughter of ex-President 
Woolsey of Yale, shot himself in the pulpit of 
the Presbyterian church of White Plains, N. Y. 
Sunday afternoon, while his wife was teach¬ 
ing a Sunday school class in the adjoining 
chapel. He had several times asked for an in¬ 
crease of salary, and been denied it.The 
new gunboat Yorktown, the first of the regu¬ 
lar gunboats of our new navy, was launched 
at Philadelphia, Saturday.Joseph E, 
Johnston, the famous Confederate general, 
has been unanimously elected an honorary 
member of E. D. Baker post, No. 8, G. A. R., 
of Philadelphia.Spook monger “Ann 
ODelia Diss De Bar” and her alleged husband 
have been indicted by the grand jury here, 
and are in the Tombs awaiting trial. 
... There are reports of a negro uprising in 
Lodes County, Ala., due to the lynching of a 
negro by a white mob. Four companies of 
militia have left Montgomery to suppress the 
tumult. 
.... Patrick Crowley and Daniel Melloy, two 
farmers of Millis, Mass., were fatally injured 
Monday while driving across the track of the 
New York and New England railroad... Hon. 
W. L. Scott has succeeded W. H. Barnum as 
chairman in the National Democratic Com¬ 
mittee. . .The Massachusetts Senate has passed 
a high license bill. .. .The fishery treaty 
has been reported adversely to the National 
Senate. Probably no definite action will be 
taken on it till after the Presidential election. 
.The New York Legislature by an 
overwhelming majority has killed the bill 
providing for official execution by electricity 
instead of hanging.Many freshets 
in New England. Low lands in Vt., and New 
Hampshire have been flooded owing to the 
rapid melting of the snow during the late 
warm weather.This morning all 
papers publish what purports to be the as¬ 
surance of James G. Blaine that if tendered the 
Presidential nomination, even in the face of 
his Florence letter, he will not feel at liberty 
to decline. Also that the Blaine leaders will at 
once come to the front and institute an ag¬ 
gressive campaign for his renomination. ... 
... The Canadian revenue for the last fiscal 
year amounted to a little over $35,750,000, an 
increase over the estimate of less than $500,- 
000. This is something less than a tenth of 
the revenue of the United States for the last 
fiscal year. The estimated receipts for the 
current fiscal year are, in round numbers, 
$30 000,000, and the estimated expenditure 
about $37,000,000. . 
... The Pope manufacturing company, which 
makes bicycles and tricycles, has lost its case 
in a suit against its licensees, or those who 
were making goods and paying loyalty under 
its patents. Judge Blodgett of Chicago has 
dismissed all the company’s bills without 
reservation of any kind.A movement is 
on foot in Dr. Sunderland's church in Wash¬ 
ington, which President and Mrs. Cleveland 
attend, to have the contribution boxes passed 
by women. This practice prevails in some 
Western churches _Of the <559 women 
who have graduated from the 14 leading 
women’s colleges and seminaries in the coun¬ 
try, 177 are married, less than 27 per cent, of 
the whole. Canada has a debt of $263,- 
000,000, of which $73,000,000 are on account of 
the Canadian Pacific Railway. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 5,1888. 
If the news sent out this morning from Ber¬ 
lin is accurate, anxiety regarding the Emper¬ 
or’s condition has been allayed for the time 
being. It is stated that he dined yesterday 
with the Crown Prince and Princess, the Em¬ 
press and his three daughters, and that no 
more bulletins will be issued unless a relapse 
occurs. Apparently the crisis which recently 
indicated the end has passed. But hopes for 
the future based upon this may prove de¬ 
lusive. The worst feature of his illness is that 
he has a relapse about once a week; and after 
each relapse he nevePrises to the same point 
of health which he had reached after the pre¬ 
vious relapse; whereas during each successive 
crisis he sinks lower and lower. Now he is so 
weak that he can walk across a room only 
with assistance. 
Carl Seburz, w ho 40 years ago—in 1848—was 
obliged to flee secretly from Germany to 
save his life, has been revisiting the country, 
and during the past week has been treated 
with the highest lionors in Berlin as a repre¬ 
sentative of the Germans in this country. He 
has been feted and feasted by all sorts of “big 
bugs.” Bismarck has appeared to be especial¬ 
ly disposed to honor him, having invited him 
to dinner several times in company with 
princes, generals, ambassadors and other not¬ 
abilities. 
... Editor William O’Brien, M. P., has again 
been sentenced to three months’ imprison¬ 
ment, under the Crimes Act, for his speech at 
Loughrea on April 8. There’s no relaxation 
in enforcing Coercion. Of all nations in the 
world the Irish have been most faithful to the 
Catholic Church, but they are getting very 
restive under the late Papal condemnation of 
boycotting and the “plan of campaign.” They 
are willing, they say, to take their religion 
but not their politics from Rome. The Church, 
however, says that both the objectionable 
practices are matters of morality,and morality 
as well as faith is within ecclesiastical juris¬ 
diction. The late Papal decision is sure, bow- 
ever, to have a very depressing influence on 
the collection of Peter’s Pence among Irish 
people and their descendants in all parts of 
the world—for some time at least. At 
last M. de Lesseps has succeeded in getting 
the French Legislature to authorize the rais¬ 
ing of 350,000,000 francs ($70,000,000) by means 
of a lottery scheme, for the consti’uction of 
the Panama Canal. This commits the French 
Government to the completion of the enter¬ 
prise.The Boulanger enthusiasm has 
been very perceptibly cooling down during 
the week. All official France is against it, 
as well as the students, the Socialists, the 
Royalists, Imperialists and moderate Repub¬ 
licans. Whether the present relaxation is the 
beginning of the end, or a mere lull in the 
tumult, is somewhat doubtful; but probably it 
is only the latter. There is a widespread dis¬ 
content at the present Constitution and the 
present Legislature and Government, and the 
Boulanger movement is a form by which this 
discontent finds expression. President Car¬ 
not has been well received in “swinging 
round the circle,” and his movements have 
no doubt, somewhat counteracted the Boul¬ 
anger craze. 
Reports say Russia is moving largo masses 
of troops toward the Austrian frontier under 
pretext that it is only a part of the usual 
spring manoeuveis of the army. Austria, 
however, is getting suspiciously restless, and 
the Government has asked for a large addi¬ 
tional appropriation for the army. The 
Greeks in Macedonia, which is still a part of 
Turkey, are getting turbulent and Turkish 
troops are concentrating to suppress distur¬ 
bances. Several bodies of Montenegrins, 
who are staunch friends of Russia, have made 
raids into Servia and Bulgaria, by which 
means trouble can be readily stirred up when¬ 
ever the Czar desires. Two Russian Commis¬ 
sioners have been ordered to investigate the 
condition of affairs in Bulgaria. Prince Fer¬ 
dinand still proclaims himself determined to 
remain in his new Principality a t all bazzards. 
There is a great deal of secret plotting and 
intrigue going on just now in the Balkan 
States, effervescing bubbles of which alone 
ever come to the surface to indicate the tur¬ 
moil below. 
. ...Owing to the manipulations of a European 
syndicate, the price of tin rose a short time 
back from $500 to $835 per ton. The last day 
in April it dropped suddenly to $500. Copper 
has been manipulated in the same way and a 
speedy drop is expected. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. May 5, 1888. 
The Canadian canal toll on grain is fixed at two 
cents a ton, which includes both the Welland 
and St. Lawrence canals.The total 
annual value of the wool crop of the United 
States is about $80,000,000.It is estimated 
that at least 500,000 orange trees were set out 
last year in California.More than 3,000,- 
000 bushels of foreign potatoes have been 
received at this port since October 1. 
Three-fourths of the milk supply of Philadel¬ 
phia is stated to be below the proper standard. 
....It is reported that California will this 
year pack a large quantity of all kinds of 
fruits, except apricots, which, from present 
indications, will be short.Governor 
Martin, of Kansas, has by proclamation 
raised the quarantine against Illinois cattle.... 
... Florida has shipped to tjie New York 
market this season, opening with November 
and closing with April, some 350,000 boxes 
of oranges.Despatch yesterday from San 
Francisco: “Crop prospects disappointing, 
but think equal to last year; acreage larger; 
weather now favorable. Prices on ’Change 
have been steadily rising for several weeks on 
account of unfavorable prospects for growing 
grain, owing to lack of rain. During the jiast 
week wheat and barley figures have gone up 
about $3 a ton. 
....Southern Florida hopes soon to produce 
not only all the phosphates needed for home 
consumption, but a fair quantity for export 
besides. Several rich deposits have recently 
been discovered in the larger streams and old 
water-course beds of that section. The South 
Carolina beds, which began to be developed in 
1868, yielding that year about 20,000 tons, 
yielded in 1883 over 355,000.A pea¬ 
nut trust has been formed in Norfolk, Va., 
embracing firms engaged in the peanut trade 
in St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York and Nor¬ 
folk, Petersburg and Smitbfield, Va., in fact, 
the entire peanut interest in the country with 
the exception of three small factories. 
The greatest grain fleet that ever left Chica¬ 
go at the opening of navigation began start¬ 
ing Sunday night. It is composed of 96 ves¬ 
sels and the cargoes aggregate 4 442,000 bush¬ 
els of grain.Prof. C. S. Plumb, of the 
Tennessee University,proposes to publish a di¬ 
rectory of expert workers in agriculture, hor¬ 
ticulture, and kindred sciences, especially 
with reference to the new Experiment Sta¬ 
tions. All interested are requested to send in 
a brief autobiography, with 75 cents, which 
pays for a copy of the directory. 
.... The vessels carry ing frozen mutton from 
Australia are said to be taking out their re¬ 
frigerators to abandon the business, while the 
South American trade is preparing for an in¬ 
crease in the same line.Texas is more 
rapidly filling up with cattle now again than 
any other part of the United States, and is 
likely to be soon overstocked.The 
Cleveland Bay Society of America has decided 
to offer a silver medal to State Boards of Ag¬ 
riculture in the States of Indiana, Illinois and 
Iowa, to be awarded at the State fairs next 
SIS, MISS Klims 11 HOSIERY. 
JAMES McCRBERY & CO. 
OIFer the following special induce¬ 
ments in all-wool Cheviots, suit¬ 
able for tailor-made Dresses: 
2,000 yards, 44 inches wide, 
at <>5 cents per yard. 
Checked and mixed all-wool 
Cheviots,forty different colorings, 
75 cents per yard. 
2,200 yards, 54 inches wide, at 
85 cents. 
2,500 yards, 54 inches wide,$l. 
These goods are in small and 
medium-sized broken Checks, 
and are very desirable. 
500 pieces, 21-incli colored Su¬ 
rahs, 05 cents per yard. 
300 pieces, 24-inch figured all¬ 
silk Bengalines and India Tus- 
sahs, $1 per yard. 
Fast Black Eisle Thread Hose, 
warranted not to rub or crock, 35 
cents to $1 per pair. 
Samples w ill he sent on applica¬ 
tion and orders by mail promptly 
attended to. 
Broadway and 11th St., 
Kew York. 
September in each State for the best Cleve¬ 
land Bay horse or colt of any age. To be 
eligible to compete for this medal the sire and 
dam must have been previously recorded in 
Vol. I. of the American Cleveland Bay Stud 
Book. The animal competing must be owned 
by the exhibitor and foaled in the State where 
it is exhibited. A silver medal will also be 
given for the best mare or filly of any age 
under similar conditions. 
.. .The Massachusetts House on Tuesday passed 
to its third reading the bill to prohibit color¬ 
ing oleo in imitation of butter, by a vote of 
nearly two to one. A petition against 
the bill calling for the branding of skim cheese, 
also representing that the sentiment of the 
trade has not been clearly understood by the 
Legislature, was sent from this city to Albany 
last night.... 
Saturday, May, 5 1888. 
The New York Herald has been investigat¬ 
ing the prospects of our wheat supply. This 
morning it devotes four compressed columns 
to reports on the matter, received by telegraph 
yesterday from the chief cities. It epitomizes 
the results, in head lines, as follows: “An im¬ 
mense Shortage;” “Deficit of 50,000,000 to 80,- 
000,000 bushels in Four Leading States;” “Cali¬ 
fornia Loses 50 per cent;” “Ohio, Michigan, 
Indiana and Illinois show a decrease of about 
oue-lialf the usual crop.” The estimates at 
each point were made by many experts, who 
viewed the situation from different stand¬ 
points. The reports agree with others which 
have appeared in various parts of the country 
of late. 
In the Central States the severe winter of 
1888, following the long drought of last fall, 
very materially damaged the grain, and the 
spring weather has not bettered it much. In 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, four 
States which ordinarily produce about forty 
per cent of our winter wheat—the estimated 
shortage will not fall below fifty million bush¬ 
els. This deficiency must be seriously felt, 
whatever may be the yield of other crops. 
Much of the acreage of damaged winter 
grain has, however, been replaced by spring 
wheat, and the conditions from the Alle- 
gbanies to the Mississippi have recently great¬ 
ly improved, so that a considerable amount of 
the injured winter wheat may recover. Con¬ 
ditions are quite favorable for spring wheat. 
There have been abundant rains of late in the 
Upper Mississippi Valley, and a large area of 
new breaking will be put under wheat this 
spring. The reports of the probable great 
shortage in winter wheat will also, no doubt, 
induce many who intended to curtail the area 
of the spring wheat crop to put in the usual 
amount or even more. 
The Fanners’ Review, of Chicago, says that 
the condition of winter wheat has declined 
throughout April in most sections of the Cen¬ 
tral West. This is due to cold winds and 
drought. Meadows and pastures are also 
generally reported in poor condition. Spring 
seeding has progressed favorably. Fruit pros 
pects are fairly good. 
The Chilian wheat crop is late and below 
the average this year, and advices say that 
the shipments this season will not exceed two- 
thirds of the quantity exported last year. 
Last Monday’s Signal Service Report for the 
previous week says rain was especially needed 
in the winter wheat sections and in the north¬ 
ern portions of the Gulf States. Frosts oc¬ 
curred in Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, North 
Carolina, South Carolina and the Middle At¬ 
lantic States during the week, wbich probably 
injured the vegetables and fruits. Reports 
from Kansas, Minnesota and Western Missouri 
