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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 19, 1886. 
A telegram from Quincy, Ill., this morn¬ 
ing says that the great flood in the Mississippi 
is now the highest on record, with the single 
exception of 1851. Above and below Quincy 
are 100 miles of levies protecting some of the 
most productive farming lands in the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley. Most of the area is planted to 
winter wheat,which promised over 40 bushels 
per acre. This area, embracing 250,000 acres, 
is now submerged, owing to breaks in the 
levies, and the loss will aggregate $3,000,000. 
The farmers with their stock and portable 
property have mostly fled to the bluffs back 
from the river. The flood extends with 
greater or less severity for over 100 miles 
along the river, and as the raging waters 
rush south they are sweeping all before 
them. Several small towns have been aban¬ 
doned, and a large number of houses have 
been swept away, while m arly certain destruc¬ 
tion awaits many more. On dry places on the 
embankments hundreds of horses, cattle and 
hogs are huddled together without feed. Back 
on the highlands are multitudes of fugitives, 
men, women and children, desolate and for¬ 
lorn/gazing on the ruins of their property. 
Many aie utterly destitute, having neither 
sufficient shelter nor clothing, and some are ac¬ 
tually suffering from lack of food . 
Alexandria, up near the Towa line in Missouri, 
is deserted, while the yellow, turbid flood 
sweeps through it. Canton and La Grange are 
in the same condition. Away down 
in Arkansas, too, ncessiant, heavy rains for the 
last 36 hours have made the usually sluggish 
White River a raging torrent five miles wide; 
while farther south still the Red River is 
booming, flooding the low country on both 
sides of its tortuous course. 
_The Supreme Court of Michigan has de¬ 
clared the local option law unconstitutional... 
.Joseph R. Anderson, the Prohibition 
Gubernatorial candidate of Tennessee, <Jied 
suddenly yesterday. The week has been 
an unusually busy one among the politicians. 
It has been, in fact, a week of conventions, 
the work of choosing delegates to the national 
nominating conventions of both political par¬ 
ties being well under way. The general re¬ 
sults are in the same direction as last week. 
The Democrats have only one Presidential 
candidate—Cleveland; the Republicans have 
many; but Blaine is far ahead of all, in spite 
o i all announcements that he doesn’t want to 
be a candidate. For those who look to the con¬ 
vention platforms for indications as to the 
probable attitude of the parties in reference 
to fiscal legislation, the chief interest natur¬ 
ally attaches to the declarations made in the 
“pivotal” State of New York, where the con¬ 
ventions of both the great political parties 
were held during the week, the Democratic 
convention in this city; the Republican at 
Buffalo. The Democratic party in its plat¬ 
form has reaffirmed its pronounced declara¬ 
tion of last year in favor of tariff revision, 
explicitly approving, in addition, the general 
principles put forth by the President in his 
last annual message. The Republican con¬ 
vention. on the other hand, refers all questions 
of national policy to the national convention 
of the party, approving, however, the action 
of the party representatives in opposing the 
Mills tariff bill in the House. 
.. . Bishop Keane, Rector of the Catholic Uni¬ 
versity to be established at Washington, D.C., 
has issued a notification to the Catholic clergy 
of the United States informing them that 
final arrangements have been completed for 
the laying of the corner stone of the Catholic 
University of America on Thursday next, and 
inviting them (o be present. Vice-Chan¬ 
cellor Bird, of New Jersey, has decided that 
Henry George can not have the bequest left 
him by Hutchings, a wealthy Gloucester man, 
for the dissemination of Henry George litera¬ 
ture. The judge says that George’s ideas are 
neither religious, charitable, benevolent, nor 
educational, but are pernicious and in direct 
violation of the laws of the land. He, there¬ 
fore, directs that the Hutchings estate should 
revert to the natural heirs. 
.... Tramps released the brakes of freight cars 
at Colorado Springs, Monday, and the cars ran 
down grade until they collided with an ex¬ 
press train at Fountain. A car of naphthaex- 
ploded in the collision, and both trains were 
burned. Three men in the freight caboose 
w ere killed and five people were injured. This 
was on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 
line.Electrician Edison’s faith in the 
future of the improved phonograph took a sub¬ 
stantial form last week in the purchase of 
$30,000 worth of real estate at Montclair and 
West Orange, N. J.,on which buildings costing 
$40,000 will be erect* d for the works of the 
Edison Phonograph Company. 
.... There is to be a hospital for the cure of 
hydrophobia established at San AntoDio, Tex., 
by Dr. Spolin, who has been to Paris and 
studied the methods of the celebrated Pasteur. 
.Rates between Boston and all New 
England points, and St. Paul and all North¬ 
western points have been reduced 20 per cent. 
The Burlington and Northern will not cut via 
Chicago. Live-stock rates are reduced by 
all roads, as per agreement, from Chicago to 
the seaboard, 10 to 15 cents. Dressed beef 
rates are not yet fixed.The opening of 
the great Sioux Reservation, announced hero 
last week, will be no special advantage to the 
people at large for several years. It will re¬ 
quire the remainder of this year to secure the 
necessary number of signatures of the In¬ 
dians. All of 1889 will be required to survey 
it; most of 1890 will be used up in having 
these surveys put through the United States 
Land Office. Not until the end of that year 
can settlers occupy the land, and then only 
homesteaders can take it. They must live on 
it for four years, and then pay 50 cents an 
acre for it. The American Refinery 
Company, of San Francisco (Sugar Trust), has 
made a reduction of % cent on all grades of 
sugar, which was promptly met by the Cali¬ 
fornia (Spreckels) Company. Both companies 
offer white sugar at 6 cents per pound. 
A reunion of Quantrell's band, infamous dur¬ 
ing the w ar for murderous raids on Union 
soldiers, was held at Blue Springs, Mo., May 
11. Over 25 were present, and others were 
unavoidably detained in the penitentiary... 
... Lightning struck a 20.000-barrel oil tank 
near Oil City, May 12, and the overflow ig¬ 
nited a 30,000-barrel tank, greatly imperiling 
the city.There is talk of a great meet¬ 
ing of the Brotherhood of Engineers and Fire¬ 
men at Chicago to concoct measures for con¬ 
tinuing the old strike on the “Q” system. So 
far as any action by the “Q” stockholders is 
concerned, however, there is little comfort 
for the strikers. They not only re-elected the 
old directors, at the meeting in Chicago, but 
approved the stand the officers took in tho 
last strike. Col. F. D. Grant has offered 
General Adam Badeau the $10,000 he claims, 
provided he will drop all litigation in the mat¬ 
ter, but Badeau refuses, contrary to the ad¬ 
vice of his counsel, who has therefore thrown 
up bis case_... Wiggins’s latest: “A mild 
earthquake is likely to occur on the Pacific 
Coast, probably in California, between now 
and October”.The Senate has passed the 
genera] pension bill, appropriating $80,000 000. 
... Govenor Hill will sign the bill establishing 
a state Weather Bureau with its headquarters 
at Cornell University. It is to be in charge of 
three Commissioners and $4,500 per annum 
are appropriated for it. One of the Commis¬ 
sioners is the Professor of Civil Engineering 
at Cornell: the second, the State Superinten¬ 
dent of Public Instruction, and the third is to 
be appointed by the Governor. A system of 
observation is to be established similar to those 
in operation in thirty other States. An officer 
will be detailed from the United States Signal 
Service Corps, who will organize the service, 
make out the daily bulletins and do other work 
at the central station. When the service is 
well established every important town in the 
State will have a signal station, every railroad 
train will carry the Cornell weather bulletins, 
every post office will likewise be supplied 
w ith daily bulletins. One hundred and 
twenty speeches have been made on the tariff 
bill up to the present time; they have occupied 
104 hours and 17 minutes in delivery. 103 hours 
having befn occupied during the day sessions 
and 11 hours and 17 minutes during the evening 
sessions.. The Senate has 
passed the bill already passed by the House, 
providing that hereafter eight hours shall con¬ 
stitute a day’s work for letter-carriers in cities 
or postal districts connected therewith, for 
which the carriers shall receive the same pay 
as is now paid for a day’s work of a greater 
number of hours. If any letter-carrier is em¬ 
ployed more hours per day than eight he shall 
bo paid extra.Senator Regan, Wednesday, 
introduced as a substitute for the measure 
now before the Senate to establish a Depart¬ 
ment of Labor, a bill providing for the estab¬ 
lishment of a Department of Industries, to be 
presided over by a Secretary. In this Depart¬ 
ment it is proposed to establish Divisions of 
Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, to be 
under the direction of Commissioners.. 
Archbishop Lynch of Toronto is dead. 
There were snow and sleet storms in Michi¬ 
gan on Monday.Hundreds of immi¬ 
grants are destitude and starving at Toronto 
... Nearly two blocks of the business portion 
of Hot Springs, Arkansas, were burned Fri¬ 
day, including forty dwellings, the gas 
works, gymnasium and a number of store¬ 
houses. Loss $300,000; about one-fourth in¬ 
sured.. ....The President has nominated 
Robert B. Roosevelt of New York to be Min¬ 
ister to the Netherlands, and Lawson V. Moore 
of Texas, to be Cousul at Lyons. San 
Diego, Cal., is to have an orphans’home, with 
a $2,000,000 endowment and nearly $1,000,000 
worth of land.Rubinstein, the pianist, 
is to visit America. He is to have $100,000 
and all expenses for 50 performances. 
... John Bigelow of New York, ex-Minister 
to France, has been tendered the position of 
commissioner to the Brussels Exposition. 
..Lusk & Co.’s fruit and vegetable cannery, 
at San Francisco, the largest in the world, has 
failed owing to thecollapseof Coleman & Co., 
its largest creditors. Liabilities $200,000.... 
... The heirs of Samuel Blodgett have taken 
legal steps to assure their title to 250 acres in 
the city of Washington, valued at $8,000,000, 
and which other parties have appropriated 
and built upon... 
.Last Tuesday, the citizens of Ottawa, 
Canada, gave a grand farewell banquet to 
Lord Lansdowne on his retirement from the 
Governor-Generalship of the Dominion. He 
will sail for England on May 20, and soon af¬ 
terwards assume a new position—that of Vice¬ 
roy of India.Serious charges of bood- 
lerism are made by Premier Greenway, of 
Manitoba, against his predecessor, ex-Premier 
Norquay and his cabinet. An attempt is to 
be made to have them indicted.The 
United States Supreme Court has denied the 
application for a rehearing of the telephone 
cases.The New York Legislature has 
adjourned.Gov. “Bob.” L. Taylor has 
been renominated for Democratic Governor of 
Tennessee, after four days of noisy wrangling. 
.The House Committee on Post-offices 
and Post-roads has ordered a favorable report 
on the bill to provide for post-oflice buildings 
at a cost not to exceed $25,000 each, at all 
places where the gross receijits of the post- 
office for two years or more preceding shall 
have exceeded $1,000 in each year. The 
famous Nevada Bank of San Francisco, Wed¬ 
nesday,paid ex-Senator Fair the $2,000,000 ho 
lent that institution to tide it over the wheat 
deal troubles... Jeff Davis, will partici¬ 
pate in the ceremony of laying the corner stone 
of the Confederate monument at Jackson, 
Miss., on May 30. A Cincinnati brewing firm 
paid $21,000 for the privilege of selling beer on 
the Centennial Exposition grounds in that city. 
.According to Sir Richaid Cartwright, 
Canada’s condition is not very alluring. He 
shows that the expenditures of the Govern¬ 
ment in building railroads for the purposes of 
stimulating immigration have been enormous, 
and yet have accomplished nothing. In con¬ 
sequence of this outlay, he says, the debt has 
grown from about $140,000,000, in 1878, to 
$228,000,000. in 1888, and that the annual ex¬ 
penditure since that time has increased from 
$23,500,000 to $37,000,000. The ratio of in¬ 
crease has been far greater than that of popu¬ 
lation and wealth, and taxes in the Dominion 
are beginning to be burdensome. With a 
population of 4,500,000, Sir Richard finds the 
expenditures to be $14,000,000 greater than 
those of the United States in 1845, when we 
bad a population of 20,000,000. Yet in times 
of peace Canada has accumulated a debt al¬ 
most as large, per capita, as that made by the 
United States during the war. The result of 
the great railroads built to help Manitoba has 
not been satisfactory, for while that Province 
has increased her population about 30,000, 
Dakota, just over the line in the United States, 
has added more than 300,000 to her popula¬ 
tion, a very considerable part of them being 
Canadians.At the Georgia State Tem¬ 
perance Convention the other day, it was 
decided to nominate prohibition candidates 
for the Legislature in every county pledged 
to vote for statutory prohibition. 
The new plan of regulating saloons in Massa¬ 
chusetts limits the number to a certain basis 
of population. In Boston a recent ordinance 
limits the licenses to one for every 500 inhabi¬ 
tants in the business portion of the city and 
1,000 elswhere. There are now 1,700 saloons 
in Boston, and under the new law the number 
w ill be reduced to 780. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 19, 1888. 
A good deal of a “war scare’ prevails in 
England. Lord Woolseley, Adjutant-General 
of the Army, has replied to Prime Minister 
Salisbury’s criticism of his expressed opinions 
with regard to the inadequacy of England’s 
forces and defences in the event of war. He 
maintains that the defences at home and 
abroad are in a bad condition. The navy is 
weak and the army is not properly organ¬ 
ized. Even the safety of London is not guar¬ 
anteed. In his opinion, if a force of 100,000 
troops escaped the fleet and landed in England, 
they could take possession of the entire coun¬ 
try. Then England’s “only general” talked 
of resigning, which somewhat alarmed Lord 
Salisbury, who protested against such a disas¬ 
ter. The Government is availing itself of the 
scare in pressing its money grants for colonial 
coast delences The Commons are asked for 
authority to borrow $4 250.000 for various de¬ 
fensive objects in Australia, and $10,000,000 
for fortifications at Malta, Gibraltar and other 
stations. Additions are also to be made to the 
fleet, and 10,000 men are to be added to the 
army. Tho manufacture of new canon and 
rifles of the most improved patterns is to be 
carried on with the utmost dispatch. On the 
whole, the “scare” is likely to leave the coun¬ 
try in a better position for attack or defence 
than she holds at present, as she has been trust¬ 
ing too much to her insular position and her 
strong fleet for protection. The various 
English colonies in Australia and New Zealand 
are passing laws against Chinese immigration— 
laws quite as rigorous as those Dennis Kearney 
and his followers wanted in California. For 
a longtime back, each Chinese immigrant has 
had to pay a tax varying in the different colo¬ 
nies from $50 to $100 for the privilege of land¬ 
ing,and bad also to pay a poll tax of $2 a year. 
In spite of this heavy burthen, however, the 
Celestials have been pouring in so multitudin- 
ously that all the colonies have resolved to ex¬ 
clude them altogether, and in this line New 
South Wales and Victoria are taking the lead. 
The Chinese Ambassador in London is loudly 
protesting against the warfare; but the 
colonists declare that it is a matter which con¬ 
cerns them alone; and that they will not 
brook any interference in it by the Mother 
Country. A bill" just passed by the Colonial 
Assembly at Sidney, which operates from 
May 1, indemnifies the Government for past 
acts against the Chinese, prohibits the natural¬ 
ization of Chinamen, allows vessels to bring 
only one Chinaman to every 300 tons (instead 
of one to 100 tons as heretofore), raises the poll 
tax from £10 to £100, and fixes the penalty 
for an evasion of the law at from £10 to £50. 
Chinamen will be permitted to trade in defined 
areas, but the number In each of these districts 
must not exceed five. The bill also imposes 
restrictions as to residence and trading. 
Traveling Chinese with passports will not be 
allowed to engage in mining operations, ex¬ 
cept by permission of the Government. 
The Pope’s interference in Irish matters is 
still strongly resented by Irish patriots. The 
Bishops and priests, of course, avow obe¬ 
dience ; but most of them are very likely to 
restrict the meaning of the announcement as 
much as possible, and to yield to it the most 
restricted obedience consistent with their good 
standing in the Church. Archbishop Walsh 
says the Pope doesn’t want to interfere in the 
least with the Land League or national politi¬ 
cal action. The government is rigidly en¬ 
forcing the Coercion Law, in Ireland. 
In France, Boulanger has been “swinging 
round the circle” in the northern depart¬ 
ments, where he has been received with cheers 
and hisses, the former, however, greatly pre¬ 
dominating. He vigorously disowns any 
“war” feelings; but insists that thearmy must 
be in a fit condition for war at any time. He 
objects to the costly expedition to Tonquin, 
and indeed to all distant wars undertaken by 
France while Alsace and Loraine still belong 
to Germany. Above all, however, he urges 
the dissolution of the present Assembly and 
the election of a new one more in agreement 
with the sentiments of the people, and there¬ 
fore better fitted to make needed amendments 
in the constitution. He appears to voice the 
sentiments of the majority of Frenchmen, but 
neither the Government nor the Assembly is 
likely to commit suicide to please Boulanger 
or his followers, however enthusiastic or num¬ 
erous the latter may be. 
As fine weather advances the condition of 
the German Emperor improves. During the 
week he has been able to drive out several 
times, to walk about without assistance and 
to eat solid food. Reports with regard to the 
real nature of his_ailment are more confiict- 
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One line of Figured Iten- 
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New York. 
mg than ever. Little morsels of the morbid 
growth in his throat have again been micro¬ 
scopically examined by the great specialist. 
Professor Virchow, and although he is puzzled 
to determine the character of the matter, he 
declares he can see nothing of a cancerous na¬ 
ture in it, so that the precise nature of the dis¬ 
ease is still a mystery. The patient, however, 
is gaining considerable strength and is talk¬ 
ing of going to Potsdam and Homburg. 
Advices from Warsaw, Poland, state that 
Russia is in a ferment of war preparations. 
Lately Austria declared she would with¬ 
draw her Ambassador at St. Petersburg, trans¬ 
ferring him to London, leaving Austrian 
affairs in Russia in care of his deputy; where¬ 
upon the Czar announced that if this were 
done, he would at once recall his Ambassador 
from Vienna. This would be tantamount to 
a declaration of war, so, of course, tho Aus¬ 
trian Ambassador will stay in St. Petersburg. 
This is only an indication of the strained re¬ 
lations between tho two countries. There is a 
report of a recent plot in Servia to dethrone 
King Milan, and install Prince Karageorge- 
vics, a Russian protegA on the throne. Of 
course, the conspiracy is attributed to Russian 
influence, and, no doubt, with justice. In¬ 
deed Russia is plotting all the time in Rou- 
mania, Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro and all 
the other Balkan States, and will continue to 
do so until she has won Constantinople or till all 
her bopdR of doing so are for the time blasted 
by a crushing defeat— Bismarck denies 
the report that he told Carl Schurz that ho 
felt confident the peace of Europe would be 
maintained. 
... Experiments with bellite, a new explo¬ 
sive, invented by Lamm, of Stockholm, show 
that it is more powerful than dynamite, and 
is much safer to handle. .. . . 
. It is reported that the Russian and Monten¬ 
egrin Governments have concluded a treaty 
according to the terms of which Montenegro, 
in the event of a ltusso-Austrian war, will 
send 30,000 troops to Herzegovina to harass 
Austria, and Russia, if victorious, will give 
Cattaro to Montenegro.The Vienna 
agent of the Anchor line of steamers has been 
arrested, charged with abducting Hungarians 
liable to military service and with extorting 
money under false pretenses. The peasants 
have returned to their homes, and the agents 
have been imprisoned and their jiapers seized. 
This is a wholesome check on emigration to 
this country from the Austrian Empire. 
The Emperor of Brazil—the only American 
crowned sovereign—is convalescent at Milan. 
.The Brazilian Parliament has approved 
the Government bill completely abolishing 
slavery, and it was sanctioned by the Regent, 
the Emperor’s daughter, on the 13th inst. 
The heir to the Brazilian throne is the 
daughter of the Emperor, Princess Isabella, 
who was born in 1846. In 1864 she married 
Prince Louis of Orleans, Count d’Eu, who is 
four years her senior. They have three child¬ 
ren, the oldest of whom is Prince Pedro, who 
was born in 1875. The Emperor had another 
daughter, Leopoldina, who married August 
of Saxe-Coburg, but who died in 1881, leaving 
four sons. . 
. Queen Regent Christina of Spain has 
fully recovered, and opened the great exposi¬ 
tion at Barcelona last Sunday. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 19, 1888. 
Governor Hill has signed a bill authoriz¬ 
ing the N. Y. State Dairy Commissioner to 
