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JUNE 2 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 26,1886. 
.... John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, pays 
fair wages to his 4,000 employes, and then 
shares the profits of the business with them 
periodically. The other evening he distribut¬ 
ed among them $50,281.02, making a total of 
$100,436.68 divided in one year. A gi¬ 
gantic syndicate, known as the Michigan and 
Canada Tunnel Company, and representing 
more than $100,000,000 of capital, has just 
been legally formed in Canada, and will be 
properly qualified for transacting business 
under the Michigan laws at once. This syndi¬ 
cate is'composed of D. O. Mills and George 
Bliss, of New York; Mr. Laidlaw, of the bank 
of California, and several officials of the Mich¬ 
igan Central Railroad. One of its chief ob¬ 
jects is to construct a gigantic tunnel under 
the Detroit River at Detroit.Judge 
Wallace, of the United States Circuit Court 
here, has decided that the trustees of the 
Church of the Holy Trinity have rendered 
themselves liable to a fine of $1,000 for bring¬ 
ing the Rev. E. Walpole Warren from Plug- 
land into this country under contract to offici¬ 
ate as rector of their church. It is doubtful 
whether the case can be taken to the United 
States Supreme Court, as it is thought the de¬ 
cision is final, and that the fine must be paid 
by the Church .... John L. Sullivan has 
bought a third interest in John B. Doris’s 
circus, and is to travel with it during the 
summer.A San Francisco sharper, by 
the name of Simon Hamburg, swindled a far¬ 
mer out, of $10,000 by selling bogus titles of 
land. He has been sentenced to imprison¬ 
ment in the county jail for one year, and to 
pay a fine equal to double the amount of 
money he fraudulently obtained. In default 
of the payment of the fine he is to be further 
imprisoned at the rate of one day for each dol¬ 
lar. If the fine is not paid his sentence will 
therefore aggregate 53 years and 20 days..... 
... There has been a good deal of talk during 
the week that General' Sheridan was at the 
point of death from nervous prostration, heart 
disease, apoplexy, etc. Yesterday he was so 
sick that a priest was summoned and the Gen¬ 
eral received the “last sacraments.” A trifle 
better this morning.During the first 10 
months of the current fiscal year the collections 
of internal revenue amounted to $100,406,4o2. 
This is au increase over last year of $5,153,- 
385, or over half a million a month.. 
The Harvard students have been holding a 
Presidential election, and the 901 votes are dis¬ 
tributed as follows: Cleveland. 413; Blaine, 
251; Sherman. 48; Depew, 46; Edmunds, 25; 
Lincoln, 21; Gresham, 19: Hawley, 15; Alli¬ 
son, 14: Carlisle. 6; C. B. Fisk, 5; scattering, 
36.Lord and Lady Lansdowne took leave of 
Ottawa, Wednesday afternoon. Lord Stan¬ 
ley of Preston, the new Governor-General of 
Canada, sailed from England for Montieal 
on the steamship SarmatainThursday .... 
The Louisiana Legislature was in joint session 
at Baton Rouge'Wednesday, and declared 
General R. L. Gibson the choice of the Gener- 
al Assembly to succeed himself as United 
States Senator.Minister McLane ar¬ 
rived at New York this week from Paris on 
the La Bretagne. Minister Bell, of the Hague, 
came with him. Buffalo Bill and the Y lid 
West show arrived here last Saturday-^ 
The celebration of the anniversary of the bat¬ 
tle of Gettysburg will be opened by the 1st 
Corps July 1 at 1 p. m., at the spot where Gen¬ 
eral John F. Reynolds fell.... Missouri’s 
local option law has borne fruit as follows: 
Seventy-four counties have no saloons; 24 
counties still indulge in the expensive luxui y, 
and a few have from one to three._ the 
Methodist General Conference here on Thurs¬ 
day chose Dr. J. P. Newman bishop on the 
fourteenth ballot, and Dr. D. A. Goodsell 
on the sixteenth, making, with \ incent, Pitz- 
gerald and Joyce, five new bishops.... the 
Presbyterian General Assembly voted on 
Wednesday that the use of the revised version 
of the Scriptures in churches was as yet inex¬ 
pedient .Gold shipments to Europe have 
increased largely this week. In two days 
$2 250 000 were taken for foreign account, 
making a total of $3,500 ;000 since May 8. It 
went chiefly to Germany. The Assay Office 
here still has about $86,000,000 in gold bars m 
its vaults, and the city banks hold a sui plus 
of over $27,000,000.A hearing has been 
had by the Governor of New York this week 
upon the bill passed by the late Legislature 
regulating elevator charges. The bill reduces 
the elevator charges from 1% cent to % cent 
per bushel. It was passed mainly at the in¬ 
stance of the canal boatmen, who complain 
that the high cost of elevator service at Buffa¬ 
lo and New York is killing their business 
The elevator men, on the other hand, assert 
that it will be impossible to operate the eleva¬ 
tors at a profit under the regulations imposed 
by the bill. The Produce Exchange here 
agrees with them; but it is likely the Governor 
will sign the bill.. • * 
The Piedmont Exhibition at Atlanta, Ga., 
has been posponed till next year in order not 
to conflict with the Augusta National Fair... 
Sir Charles Tupper has resigned his position 
as Minister of Finance in the Canadian Gov¬ 
ernment and has been reappointed High Com¬ 
missioner for Canada in London. Hon. G .E. 
Foster, Minister of Marine, has been appoint¬ 
ed to succeed Sir Charles as Minister of Fi¬ 
nance. Sir Charles will leave for England 
via New York to-day.The price 
of silver is now at the lowest point of which 
there is a modern or probably any record. It 
is quoted in Loudon at 41% pence per ounce; 
here at 91% cents per ounce, making the amount 
of silver in our dollar worth but 70.54 cents... 
Senator Blair has introduced a joint res¬ 
olution amending the constitution so as to al¬ 
low the district of Columbia representation 
in both Houses of Congress. Its population 
exceeds that of Delaware, Oregon or Nevada. 
.Senator Spooner has introduced in the 
Senate a bill authorizing the issue of 2% per 
cent. 40-year bonds.A constitutional 
amendment has been offered in the House by 
Representative Neal, of Tennessee, proposing 
to extend the term of office of the President 
and Vice-President to six years and to make 
the President ineligible for a second term.... 
... Representative Springer, of Ill. , has intro¬ 
duced into the House a bill, placing on the 
free list all articles, the production of which 
in this country is controlled by trusts or com¬ 
binations. The majority of the people of all 
parties would probably consent to such a 
measure.Chairman Hatch, of the 
House Committee on Agriculture, has pre¬ 
pared a substitute for the lard bill which pro¬ 
poses to subject all adulterated food products 
to inspection, and to tax them only enough to 
pay the expense of such inspection...._. 
The Senate Committee on Finance is to re¬ 
port adversely the bill for the issue of frac¬ 
tional currency passed some time ago by the 
House by a vote of three to one.. Senator 
Sherman will make a strong minority report, 
and a substitute bill reducing to one cent the 
cost of postal notes for less than $1 is to be in¬ 
troduced, and such notes are to be issued at 
every post-office. Now only 14 per cent of all 
the post-offices in the country furnish means 
of sending fractional parts of a dollar, by 
mail, except by postage stamps.The 
bill reducing postage on seeds, etc., which 
passed the Senate in March, has been delayed 
in the House owing to the protracted debate 
on the tariff, but is to be hurried up as soon 
as the tariff question is settled.In the House 
most of the time during the week has been 
taken up with speeches for and against the 
Mill’s tariff bill, and all acknowledge that the 
subject has been very ably discussed from all 
points of view.Wednesday night a 
cyclone entirely wrecked Argonia, Kansas, a 
handsome town of about 400 inhabitants, 
famous for being the first town in the world 
to elect a woman as Mayor. Mrs. Salter, the 
wife of a prominant lawyer, has filled the 
office of Mayor excellently, and was slightly 
wounded by flying timbers as she was ap¬ 
proaching the place in a carriage. Two people 
were killed and 75 wounded, many of whom 
will be maimed for life. A large proportion 
of the houses were destroyed and not one es¬ 
caped injury.Cornell University will 
soon have a Department of Journalism, with 
Professor Smith, a competent newspaper man, 
at its head. Classes will be formed next 
September... : . 
• • • On Wednesday of last week snow drifts 10 
feet deep existed in Sulivan County,this State. 
A gentleman who visited Brown’s Settlement 
on that day vouches for the truth of this state¬ 
ment.The United States Treasurer has 
paid out $12,500,000 during the present month 
on account of pensions alone, notwithstanding 
which fact the excess of receipts over expendi¬ 
tures during the month is nearly $5,000,000. 
The Treasury surplus, which fell to $98,000,000 
at one time during the month, has again risen 
to $101,000,000 . Senator Edmunds yes¬ 
terday proposed au amendment to the Post- 
Office Appropriation bill to appropriate $100,- 
000 to enable the Postmaster-General to fur¬ 
ther facilitate postal and commercial commun¬ 
ication with the Central and South American 
States. This sum is to be expended in making 
reasonable and adequate compensation to 
American lines of vessels which may be em¬ 
ployed by him in carrying the mails to or 
from any of such States .•. 
Lord Ross will be sworn in as Acting-Gover¬ 
nor General of Canada, pending Lord Stan¬ 
ley’s arrival.. Governor Beaver, of 
Pennsylvania, has given $1,000 to the Oue- 
Million-Dollar Permanent Fund for Minis¬ 
terial Relief that is being raised by the Pres¬ 
byterian Church.Briber Kerr’s trial is 
going on here now, after three weeks spent in 
getting a satisfactory jury. V. B. Cush- 
ing has been nominated for Governor by the 
Maine Prohibitionists.Harry Garfield 
is to be married to Miss Mason, daughter of 
the late Janies Mason, of Cleveland, June 14. 
.Powderly says he does not want a re- 
election as Master-Workman of the K. of L.. 
.Kentucky distillers have just voted to 
restrict the product of whisky in that State to 
11,000,000 gallons during the current year. ... 
.... The floods in the Upper Mississippi have 
nearly subsided. Losses in Illinois amount to 
about $3,600,000; there were heavy losses on 
the Missouri side also. The citizens of Quincy 
and several other towns in Illinois have acted 
nobly in relieving the distressed. The Red 
River flood is the greatest since 1843, and 
much damage has been done to crops and 
farm improvements. The National Un¬ 
ion Labor Convention has nominated State 
Senator Streeter of Illinois for President, and 
Charles E. Cunningham, of Little Rock, Ark., 
for Vice-President. Streeter is president of 
the Farmers’ Alliance; Cunningham is a me¬ 
chanic, 65 years of age, and has been the gub¬ 
ernatorial nominee of his party—.. ..The 
Greenway Government in Manitoba has sue- 
ceeded in negotiating a loan of $1,500,000 to be 
used in completing the Red River Railroad 
to the United States boundary line. Our 
Northern Pacific has ordered 50 new locomo¬ 
tives and 1,000 more freight cars. This com¬ 
pany has just acquired the right to run over 
the new Red River Road to Winnepeg....... 
A large number of Scotch crofters are on their 
way to settle in Manitoba; more are to follow. 
.All engineers on the Chicago, Burling¬ 
ton and Quincy Railroad not able to run their 
engines without the aid of a pilot are being 
rapidly dismissed, and most of their places 
are being taken by the old strikers. It is said 
60 per cent, of the new hands will be discharged 
as incompetent.. — . .Senator and Mrs. Stan¬ 
ford sail for Europe to-day, for the benefit of 
Mrs. Stanford’s health. 
not to attend meetings of the Land League 
under pain of grievous sin. There is little 
doubt that the Pope’s action will hurt the Irish 
cause somewhat; but then it will please the 
English Government which can very easily 
reward the Pontiff for his timely interference 
by making concessions to Catolics—chiefly to 
Englishmen, of course. 
In England the Gladstonians have gained a 
great success by electing a Home Rule member 
of Parliament for Southampton, instead of a 
Tory member who had resigned after accept¬ 
ing office. The Conservatives thought the 
seat certain for their own party; for at the 
last election their majority was 697 out of a 
total vote of about 8,000; but they were de¬ 
feated the the other daj%by a majority of 865. 
A dispatch from India says that 3,000 Thi¬ 
betans recently attacked Gratong, which is 
defended by a small British force, and that 
after several hours’ fighting the Thibetans re¬ 
treated, leaving 100 dead. The British loss 
was three killed and seven wounded. The 
commanding officer has been ordered to pur¬ 
sue the Thibetans into their own country. 
. The emancipation of the slaves in Brazil has 
received the hearty indorsement of Princess 
Isabella, the Regent, who has been earnest in 
urging the measure. It will set at liberty 
about 1,000,000 slaves. For years Brazil has 
been steadily freeing her slaves, and even 
without this last measure all will soon be 
free. The Emperor, Dom Pedro, has again 
been at death’s door at Milan, owing to a re¬ 
lapse; but is somewhat better. . 
In Germany the Emperor is steadily getting 
better. He is still unable to talk; still has in 
his throat the canula through which he 
breathes, and which has to be cleaned several 
times an hour, and is by no means out of dan¬ 
ger; but he is getting on much better than 
any one ever expected. The Government has 
issued a decree providing that all French¬ 
men and other foreigners who want to 
enter Alsace or Lorraine must have pass¬ 
ports vised, or inspected, by the German 
Ambassador at Paris. This measure is, of 
course, directed chiefly against France, as 
Frenchmen are constantly causing trouble in 
the annexed provinces.Owing to the 
enormous concentration of Russian troops 
along the frontier of Austria, the latter coun¬ 
try is steadily accumulating her forces in 
front of the Kussian positions. Roumania is 
acting in the same way for the same reasons. 
Russian agents are still busy stirring up trou¬ 
ble in the Balkan States, and although the 
Czar says he is anxiously trying to preserve 
peace, he is evidently vigorously preparing 
for war. As matters stand at present, how¬ 
ever, the best opinion is that it would be mad¬ 
ness for him to undertake it at present........ 
A phenomiual labor movement is agitating 
Germany. Monster meetings of workingmen 
are being held throughout the country and 
strikes are spreading. At Mayence and Ham¬ 
burg collisions have occurred between the 
strikers and the police. At Newmunster a 
thousand strikers paraded the streets last Sun¬ 
day singing the “Marsellaise,” and a large 
number of them were arrested... 
.Iu France the Republicans of various 
factions have agreed to oppose the plans of 
the Boulangerists, who seek a revision of the 
constitution and a plebiscite,or a general vote 
for the election of a new Assembly. A Com¬ 
mittee of 300 has unanimously adopted resolu¬ 
tions pledging those present to combat Bou- 
1 anger ism, and to employ every means to pre¬ 
vent a Caesarian reaction, and declaring that 
a Republican, not a Bonapartist, revision of 
the constitution is needed, to be followed by a 
progressive realization of constitutional, poli¬ 
tical and social reforms. A committee of 30 
has been appointed to organize a “Society of 
the Rights of Man and the Citizen.” On the 
other hand, the Bonapari ist s and Roy al ists h a ve 
decided to unite with the Boulanger faction 
in demanding „a revision of the constitution 
and a plebiscite. Meanwhile, amid all the po¬ 
litical turmoil, fortifications are being rapidly 
built, arms are being turned out by the thou¬ 
sands, the army is being rendered more effi¬ 
cient, and all sorts of preparations are being 
made to meet any belligerent contingency.... 
Cablegrams from Melbourne Australia says 
14 Chinamen have been permited to land on 
paying the poll tax. Another from Sidney says 
the Supreme Court has granted writs of bar 
beas corpus to the Chinamen offering the poll 
tax and has also ordered their release on the 
ground that the Government has no power to 
exclude foreigners from the country-The 
mariage of Prince Henry second son of Emper¬ 
or Frederick, and Princess Irene, third daugh¬ 
ter of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse, was sol¬ 
emnized in tthe chapel of Charlottenburg castle 
Thursday. Emperor Frederick and the Dow¬ 
ager Empress Augusta were present 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 26, 1888. 
Sunday there was a gathering of over 6,000 
in Phoenix Park, Dublin, to protest against 
the Pope’s rescript on Irish affairs and indorse 
the Nationalist members of Parliament. 
Bishop O’Dwyer of Limerick, warns Catholic 3 
Saturday, May 26,18S8. 
Eight thoroughbred Clydesdale stallions, val 
ued at $7,000, which were shipped from Scot¬ 
land by Thomas McBey, were seized at Mon¬ 
treal the other day on the ground that McBey, 
who was adjudged bankrupt after the ship had 
left Glasgow, exported them with the inten¬ 
tion of defrauding his creditors.It is 
estimated that the farmers of Ohio, Indiana 
Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, 
Nebraska and Missouri pay in interest on farm 
mortgages the enormous sum of $95,000,000 per 
annum.The editor of the Abbeville 
(S. C.) Mediumhas challenged either President 
McBride, Prof. Davis or Prof. Patton, of the 
South Carolina College of Agriculture, to meet 
him in a plowing match, to come off in Nov¬ 
ember next on the fair grounds at Columbia. 
It is understood that one of the three college 
men will pick up the gauntlet. The contest 
is to be a public one, and a vast multitude is 
expected to be present to see the contestants 
turn somersaults over hidden roots and hear 
hem swear at the mules.Locusts are 
advancing on Tiaret, Algiers, in enormous 
quantities. They extend in a semicircle over 
eight miles in diameter.It is charged 
that 70,000 bushels of Canadian barley have 
been surreptitiously removed from elevators 
in Otsego, N. Y., since last fall, without pay¬ 
ing duty, which amounted to $7,000 at 10 cents 
per bushel. The duty was paid after the dis¬ 
covery was made. In addition to this amount, 
however, 70,000 bushels of grain are forfeita¬ 
ble to the Government, and the elevator firms 
are liable to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or im¬ 
prisonment not exceeding two years or both. 
.Tea cultivation, it is said, is to be 
tried by a rancher at Elko., Nev., who pro¬ 
poses employing Indian women and children 
to gather the leaves - A Chicago paper, 
Thursday, contains among a day’s casualities 
an account of the death of Lewis G. Torrance, 
an old man of Dry Point Township, Ill., who 
was gored by a bull. Near Bastrop, 
Texas, James McKinley, stockman, was gored 
to death by a bull.Near Logansport, 
Ind., Mrs. Reubarger, an old lady, was fatal¬ 
ly gored by a cow.Duluth has over 
9,000,000 bushels of wheat iu store; nearly one- 
third the total visible supply of the country.. 
. The last statistical report of Massa¬ 
chusetts show's that there are now 939,260 acres 
in the State under cultivation, against 912,521 
in 1875, and 881,402 in 1865. The average size 
of farms in the State is 86 acres, and the aver¬ 
age value $4,112.All the States, except 
Rhode Island and Georgia, have applied for 
the $15,000 for experiment stations under the 
Hatch bill. Rhode Island is slow in selecting 
a location for the station, and the Governor 
of Georgia cannot comply with the provisions 
of the law, as the Legislature is not in session. 
A special bill, however, to cover the case was 
passed by Congress last week. If the money 
isn’t claimed by June 30 it will go into the U. 
S. Treasury. The Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry is to retain control of the work of sup¬ 
pressing pleuro-pneumouia,and thePalmer bill 
is now considered as dead as Julius Caesar.... 
... San Francisco advices received in this 
city yesterday are to the effect that iu all 
probability the wheat crop of California will 
be fully equal to that of last year. So much 
for late rains. Indications point to 
an unusually large orange crop in Florida this 
season.. ..For the year 1887 there was 
shipped from Chicago to Boston and New Eng¬ 
land 57,325 tons of cattle and 179,733 tons of 
dressed beef. The shipments of live cattle from 
Chicago to the East have been steadily declin¬ 
ing for a number of years, while the shipments 
of dressed beef have increased from 89,170 
pounds in 1882 to the above figures in 1887. The 
shipments of dressed beef are now three times 
as large as those of live cattle and the former 
have much to do in controlling the prices.... 
_After all, that bill prohibiting the color¬ 
ing of “oleo” in imitation of butter, has been 
defeated in the Massachusetts Senate by a 
vote of 18 to 19. Here’s the black list of the 
honorable Senators who favored fraud and 
rascality: Boardman, Collins, Cook, Dwyer, 
Fletcher, Glines, Hathorne, Howard, Howe, 
Keith of the Cape, Kingsley, McAlpine, Per¬ 
kins, Roads, Shea, Slatterly, Southworth, 
Stevens, Sullivan, Walker. The Storrs 
Agricultural School, Mass., has started a se¬ 
ries of experiments through the State to edu¬ 
cate farmers up to a more thorough experi¬ 
mental field work and to study the applica¬ 
tion of different sorts of plant food, singly 
and in combination . 
... .The total amount of appropriations asked 
for the Department of Agriculture for the 
next fiscal year is $1,046,925 against $977,230 
allow'ed for the current fiscal year ending 
June 30 next. This is exclusive of $25,000 for 
printing and binding reports. Of this, $100,000 
are for seeds. Here are the various items 
compared with last year’s. 
FOR SALARIES. 
Next year’s Last year’s 
estimate, appropri¬ 
ation. 
Commissioner’s office. 24 clerks, 
stenographers, engineers., etc. $i5,560 7 ‘>280 
Botanical division, 6,850 4,040 
Section of vegetable pathology, 5,600 4,400 
l’omologieal division, 6,000 2,(XX) 
Micrcscoideal diyision, 32,000 3,000 
Chemical division, U’okR 
Entomological division, 8,9()0 7,300 
Economic ornithology, 9,200 8,060 
Experimental gardens, 5,140 2,2.>0 
Seed division. M40 l\m 
Statistical division, 86.300 34.300 
Forestry division, 7,iXK) 2,uoo 
Total salaries, 190,000 161,490 
FOR THE W’ORK OK THE VARIOUS DIVISIONS. 
Botanical division, 4,500 4,500 
Section of vegetable pathology, 6,000 3.000 
Bornological division. 8,500 3,000 
To investigate food adulterations, 1.000 1,000 
Laboratory and chemical work, 6,000 6,COO 
Investigating insects, 20,000 20,000 
Silk culture, 15,000 25,000 
Economic ornithology, 5,800 3,940 
Experimental gardens, 24,)-000 24.SUU 
Museum. 1,000 1,000 
Seed distribution, 104.200 103,000 
Collecting statistics. 95,000 65,000 
Furniture and repairs, 8,625 7,000 
Library, 2,000 2.000 
Bureau of Animal Industry, 500,000 500,000 
Quarantine stations, 20,000 20.000 
Forestry, IO.jOO 8,000 
"Postace. 4,000 
Contingent expenses, JO-SoS }5.000 
Total miscellaneous, 856,925 815,740 
Total Department of Agriculture, 1,046,925 977.280 
OTHER PROBABLE AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
Printing and binding, 25,000 25,000 
Experiment stations, 685 (XX) 68a,000 
Agricultural survey, 30^XX) 
Grand total for agriculture, $1,786,925 1,687,230 
A government agent and two assistants 
have tested 1,000 samples of butter from all 
over Connecticut, and have only Sound one 
spurious specimen, which was taken from a 
store iu New Haven Two-thirds of the 
young tobacco plants in Western North Caro¬ 
lina were killed by recent frosts- Bink- 
eye is prevalent among horses in several West¬ 
ern Massachusetts towns .The Chicago 
Trade Bulletin gives the acreage of winter 
wheat this year at 23,917,100 acres, against 
24,221,030 acres last year, and estimates the 
yield at 231,000,000 bushels, a decrease of 53,- 
000,000 bushels from last year. .Seventy horses 
valued at $275 each, and insured at $200 each, 
were suffocated in the burning of a Chicago 
stable last Monday morning.The New 
York Board ox Aldermen is considering a pro- 
