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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 2,1888. 
Mr. J. G. Blaine, in a letter from Paris 
dated May 17, addressed to Whitelaw Reid, 
Editor of the New York Tribune, and given to 
the public by the latter on May 29, reiterates 
what he had already said in his letter from 
Florence, on January 25—that his name was 
not to appear before the Republican nomina¬ 
ting convention at Chicago. He positively 
states that he could not and would not accept 
a nomination. This is thought final, though 
some of the Blaine-men-to-the-backbone-and- 
six-incbes-beyond say that the convention not 
being able to agree on any other candidate, 
will be stampeded finally to Blaine, and that 
his nomination will then be carried unani¬ 
mously by acclamation, and that in such a 
case he is bound to accept. The majority of 
of Republicans, however, while strongly pre¬ 
ferring the Plumed Knight, scoutsuch an idea. 
Doubtless he could name the successful candi¬ 
date, however: but he is hardly likely to do 
so—openly at any rate. Gresham, Allison, 
Sherman, Depew, Alger and Harrison seem 
to be doing most of the running now, Gresh¬ 
am’s boom growing and Sherman’s dwindling. 
Depew would probably do best East of the 
Alleghanies; but his connection with great 
railroad enterprises would be sadly against 
him in the anti-monoply West, especially 
Northwest. Sherman is strong with money¬ 
ed people; respected by others, but few are 
enthusiastic about him. Gresham is generally 
admired: but the railroad interests are against 
him, and he is said to have been a Know Noth¬ 
ing in his salad days. Allison is strong, and 
reported to be a friend of Blaine’s. At the 
Democratic convention at St. Louis next week 
Cleveland will have no opposition, and Thur¬ 
man, of Ohio, or Gray of Indiana, is likely to 
be second on the ticket. Cleveland is reported 
to prefer Thurman.The North Car¬ 
olina members in the House Democratic cau¬ 
cus demand the unconditional repeal of the 
internal revenue tax on tobacco .....Illi¬ 
nois Democrats have indorsed the Mills bill 
and nominated ex-Governer John M. Palmer 
for Governor. There are four Presi¬ 
dential tickets already in the field: Coodrey 
and Wakefield, representing United Labor; 
Streeter and Cunningham, put forward by 
the Union Labor Party: Lockwood and Love 
standing for equal rights, and Redstone and 
Colvin upon an industrial ticket. 
The Fisheries treaty is being discussed with 
open doors by the Senate, though nearly al¬ 
ways all business of that kind (executive busi- 
ness in contradistinction to legislative business) 
is done in secret sessions. After a world of 
long-drawn-out contention, the advocates of 
open discussion have won. It is being 
treated chiefly from a political point of view, 
each party trying to make the most political 
capital out of it for the next Presidential elec¬ 
tion. No final action is likely to take place 
with regard to it until after November 4th. 
Meanwhile our New England fishermen are 
having very hard luck, as there are few fish 
on the fishery grounds. They are allowed to 
purchase bait in Canada and New Found land 
on paying for a license in accordance with a 
clause in the treaty. French fishermen are 
not allowed to buy bait on any terms and are 
having the worst kind of “luck.” ... Con¬ 
trary to earlier reports, General Greely, Chief 
of the Signal Service Bureau, strenuously ob¬ 
jects to the transfer of his work to the pro¬ 
posed New Department of Agriculture, or in¬ 
deed to any other civil Department, intimating 
that he would resign in case such a transfer 
were made . Several slight altera¬ 
tions in the Mills tariff bill have been made 
during the week. Of these the only ones that 
directly affect farmers are: one restoring 
prunes and plums to the existing rate: Paris- 
green is placed on the free list; the dutv on 
rice-flour and rice-meal is reduced from 20 to 
15 per cent ad valorem. There is no chance 
of the measure in its present shape passing the 
Republican Senate, and the majority of the 
Democratic House will make no concessions, 
so that it will serve merely for campaign 
purposes._... 
May has been an extraordinary month as re¬ 
gards the weather. All over the country it 
has been, on an average, a fortnight back¬ 
ward, and extremely wet. Here, out of its 31 
days, there have been only three bright, rain¬ 
less days, six fair, damp days with a slight 
shower or two, and 23 wet, or very wet days 
. Early this week reports from Western 
Pennsylvania,Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, 
Iowa and Nebraska contained accounts of very 
cold rain and hail storms, with a great deal of 
damage to property, and the loss of many 
buildings and a considerable number of cattle 
and a few lives from lightning strokes. Re¬ 
ports of water-spouts, cyclones and tornadoes, 
of wash-outs, floods and submerged tracts of 
country are numerous from nearly all sec¬ 
tions. Lightning and wind have been very 
destructive to buildings, and especially to 
churches, over half a dozen of which were 
destroyed. June, however, opens bright, 
warm and cheerful, thank God!. 
Mr. Blair, of N. H., has introduced a joint res¬ 
olution proposing an amendment to the Con¬ 
stitution to the effect that no State shall ever 
make or maintain any law respecting an es¬ 
tablishment of religion or prohibiting the free 
exercises of it, and that every State shall es¬ 
tablish and maintain a system of free public 
schools, but that no money raised by taxation 
shall ever be appropriated, applied or given 
for a school, institution, corporation or per¬ 
son whereby instruction is given in any doc 
trine, tenets, beliefs, ceremonials or observa¬ 
tions peculiar to any religious sect.The 
House Committee on Military Affairs has 
completed the army appropriation bill, which 
makes a total appropriation of $24,289,700, 
while the estimates were $25,364,324. The 
appropriation for the current fiscal year, 
which was $23,724,718, is increased $564,981 by 
the bill. Congressman Burnett,of Mass¬ 
achusetts, has been made chairman of the 
Food Adulteration Committee by Chairman 
Hatch of the Agricultural Committee, as 
every one supposed he would be . 
During the week gallant little Phil. Sheri¬ 
dan, at the age of 57, has been fighting the 
hardest battle of his life—this time against 
the grim conqueror of all forms of life. He 
has twice been pronounced almost “out of 
danger,” but his malady has a habit of return¬ 
ing with greater force after each relaxation, 
so that after the first crisis on Monday, the 
others are growing more and more dangerous 
as the great vitality of the man becomes more 
and more exhausted. The trouble is disease 
of the valves of the heart, so that the blood is 
not pumped rapidly enough to the lungs, and 
during paroxisms of the disease it passes into 
the system without being properly aerated 
and purified. Thus death may result either 
from stoppage of the action of the heart or 
from the impure condition of the blood in the 
system. This morning the five doctors who 
have been attending him gave very little hopes 
of his recovery. Should he survive this attack, 
he may live for years; but he will always 
have to be very careful and avoid all excite¬ 
ment, and he must always subject himself to 
a rigid discipline. This day fortnight (May 
19) he returned from a week’s visit to the West, 
during which he did a fortnight’s work, tra¬ 
veling at night and working by day. He felt 
unwell, and next day he kept in bed, and al¬ 
most died on the following day (Monday). 
Last Monday the Senate, with only seven 
votes against it, passed a bill merging the 
grade of Lieutenant-general into that of Gene¬ 
ral, so that Sheridan should hold the same 
rank that Grant and Sherman had held al¬ 
ready. An attempt was made to pass the 
measure at once in the House, but as some of 
the “Brigadiers” objected, it went over until 
Thursday, when it was promptly passed, en¬ 
grossed at once, hurried on to the President 
for his signature, and in a brief space became 
a law, making Phillip H. Sheridau General of 
the Army of the United States. It will in¬ 
crease the General’s pay $3,000 a year if he 
survives, and increase the pension for his wife 
and four children if he dies. After his death 
the titles of General and Lieutenant-General 
will cease to exist in our Army... 
.... The Legislature of Massachusetts dissolved 
Tuesday. Its two most notable pieces of legis¬ 
lation were a ballot-reform law, and the pas¬ 
sage of liquor laws of a stringent nature. 
... . .Dakota’s next statehood and divisionist 
convention—she is having so many of them 
nowadays—will be held at Huron, July 10 and 
11. Seven hundred delegates will attend. 
Conventions of lawyers, farmers and business 
men, and clergymen will be held July 12, to 
review the divisionist convention’s plans. 
.The corner-stone of the Confederate 
Monument at Jackson, Miss., was laid by Miss 
Winnie Davis, daughter of Jeff, and of the 
Confederacy, in the absence of her father, 
who would have performed the ceremony had 
he not been kept away by ill-health. Win¬ 
nie was enthusiastically presented with a sil¬ 
ver crown for him.It turns out that 
MacLellan, the manager of the defunct Mari¬ 
time Bank of St. John, N. B., kept two sets 
of books to hide the true state of affairs from 
the directors while he was plundering the 
bank. The “deficiency” in the accounts is 
over $1,300,000. MacLellan is said to be now 
operating in real estate in Omaha. From 
loans of $365,000 he made to chums of his, only 
$5,000 have been .collected and little or nothing 
else is expected from them.The Queen 
Victoria Niagara Falls Park, the twin sister 
to the New York State Reservation on the 
American side, was opened on the Queen’s 
birthday, May 24. There were no formal cer¬ 
emonies; but the event will be celebrated on 
Dominion Day, July 1. It contains 118 acres, 
is 2% miles long and cost $395,000... 
Petty car robberies have come to light at 
Chicago, which are said to average $1,000 a 
day. The cars are rifled when they get into 
the freight yards, the Burlington road being 
the most extensive sufferer. In many cases, 
the stolen hay, potatoes and grain are sold to 
small commission merchants. Board of Trade 
men say this species of petty robbery has hurt 
the city immeasurably, for shippers don t 
care to lose even $2 on a car load. It is thought 
$1,000,000 will not cover the stealings within 
the past two years.Harvard’s oldest 
graduate has passed away in the death of Dr. 
William Goddard, who died at Boston Sunday, 
aged 92 years. Immigrants are still 
pouring into this country with unexampled 
rapidity: the total arrivals from various 
countries, exclusive of Canada and Mexico, 
during the 10 months ended April 30, 1888, 
were 370,900, against 334,068 during the cor¬ 
responding period of the previous year. At 
the present rate of increase the arrivals 
during the present calender year will 
be between 500,000 and 600,000 . 
The receipts of sugar in the United States are 
falling off, and now show a minus of 107,259 
tons since January 1. The total stock in the 
United States is now 45,272 tons less than at 
the same time last year. The total stock in 
all the principal countries is 1,09S,484 
tons, against 1,184.908 tons at the same time 
last year.The great quadrennial Meth¬ 
odist General Conference, which had been in 
session in this city for over three weeks,closed 
on Thursday, to meet in Omaha, Neb., in 1892, 
that city having offered to entertain the dele¬ 
gates free of cost. It has been decided that there 
shall be an election in all the churches, in 
1890, on the question of admitting women as 
delegates to the General Conference; the 
same question will be.submitted to the an¬ 
nual conference in 1891. The probabilities 
are that the women will gain their point and 
that in 1892 there will be no long discussion 
of the “woman question,” such as consumed 
sever al days of the present session. The 
standard gauge railroad to the top of Look¬ 
out Mountain has been completed .... It is 
estimated that the reduction of the public 
debt during the month of May amounts to 
$4,000,000. Twelve million dollars were paid 
for pensions..Mr. Blaine’s house at Bar 
Harbor was broken into and part of his poli¬ 
tical and business correspondence was ab¬ 
stracted some time since. All his valuable 
papers , M however,., had been taken ^away by 
him before his departure for Europe. 
The Northwestern .Plough Trust, finding itself 
underbid by Eastern manufacturers, has sus¬ 
pended Trust prices and terms for the trade of 
the coming fall. Commissioner Stocks- 
lager, of the General Land Office, has ap¬ 
proved and sent to patent during April and 
May 10,360 land cases.At Indianapolis, 
Ind., on Thursday, the Prohibitionists nomi¬ 
nated Clinton B. Fisk for the Presidency. 
Referring to the rumors of an Indian out¬ 
break at the Pine Ridge Agency, in the south¬ 
eastern part of Dakota, General Crook says 
there is no truth in the story. John 
Hoey has been elected president of the Adams 
Express Company in place of William B. Din- 
smore, deceased.The Buffalo Board of 
Fire Commissioners has virtually condemned 
the use of natural gas for heating houses. 
Of the Nebraska blizzard heroines on Jan¬ 
uary 12, Miss Loie Royce was prostrated and 
covered with snow with three helpless child¬ 
ren she was trying to save. They died in her 
arms, but she was saved utterly exhausted. 
Miss Etta Shattuck, school-mistress, after 
sending her little charges safely away on the 
approach of the storm, was overtaken by the 
blizzard and with frozen hands dug her way 
into a hay stack where she remained uncon¬ 
scious till a farmer carried her home. After- 
the amputation of both feet she died. Miss 
Minnie Freeman, 20 years old, tied her 13 little 
pupils together and led them safely home 
through the blinding blizzard. Miss Woeb- 
becke was equally heroic, and the two West- 
phalen girls perished while performing brave 
deeds. The Omaha Bee started a subscription 
for the relief of these heroines, which has just 
been closed with this result: Royce fund, 
$5.883.48; Shattuck fund, $5,026.33; Woebbecke 
fund, $1 975.16; Freeman fund, $1,059.18; mon¬ 
ument fund (for the two Westphalen girls who 
perished), $110 45, making a total of $14,054.60. 
Other funds raised in different places and dis¬ 
tributed among the teachers amounted to at 
least $5,000 additional, making a total of near¬ 
ly $20,000_ Martin Heiser, of Sauk Cen¬ 
ter, Minn., has broken the record in gopher 
catching, having in one week received $177.50 
for scalps of the pests.James Blair, of 
Seymour, Ind., a prominent farmer, climbed 
a tree to the hight of 20 feet to cut off a branch 
on which a swarm of bees had settled. In his 
haste he cut off the limb between the place 
where he was and the trunk. Almost certain 
to die. yesterday’s telegram says. 
Lord Stanley of Preston, the newly appointed 
Governor-General of Canada, accompanied by 
his wife and staff, sailed on the Allan line 
steamer Sarmatian from Liverpool for Mon¬ 
treal yesterday. 
_A transaction interesting for its magni¬ 
tude, but more for its reversal of the usual or¬ 
der of things, and the possibility that it indi¬ 
cates a change in the tendency of the times, 
was announced Thursday as completed. The 
parties to the transaction are the American 
Cattle Trust on one side and Nelson Morris, 
the Chicago live stock magnate, on the other. 
Mr. Morris has bought back from the Cattle 
Trust the Fairbanks Canning Company, and 
has satisfactorily dissolved all relations with 
the Trust. The consideration paid in the pur¬ 
chase was $2,000,000 .During April_ and 
May 105 settlers with effects valued at $5,000 
removed from the Ottawa consular district, 
Canada, to the United States.The Gui- 
on Steamship Company are building a new 
vessel, which they claim will make the passage 
from New York to Queenstown in five days. 
It will be 560 feet long, 63 feet broad, 52 deep 
and 11,500 tons.Jay Gould started out 
a week ago to make an extensive trip over 
the Western and Southern railroads in which 
he is interested. At Omaha on Thursday he 
became very sick, and is now on his way back 
to New York... 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 2, 1888. 
With regard to the domestic affairs of the 
United Kingdom, the Papal rescript on Irish 
agitation still holds the field. It appears that 
His Holiness has been trying, through some of 
the English Bishops, to induce the Govern¬ 
ment to deal more leniently with Irish politi¬ 
cal law-breakers; but hitherto with but little 
effect. The rescript affecting boycotting and 
the plan of campaign has not been rescinded, 
but it has been construed in an address issued 
by the Irish Catholic Archbishops and Bishops, 
who have decided that it affects morals onty, 
and has nothing to do with politics, and they 
add that the Pope has no intention of inter¬ 
fering with the Irish National movement. 
This is a distinct triumph for the adherents of 
Mr. Parnell. It probably was as graceful a 
way of backing down as the Vatican authori¬ 
ties could take. Advices from Rome say the 
Pope is preparing a brief explaining his re¬ 
script in this sense. It appears he is a trifle 
alarmed at the possible effects of his interfer¬ 
ence with the patriotic aspirations of the 
‘most faithful children of the Church.” 
Agricultural and manufacturing depression 
still continues to be grievous in the British 
Isles, though complaints are loudest in Eng¬ 
land. In spite of the everlasting growling at 
stagnation in trade, however, recent statistics 
show that while there was certainly a falling 
off in the value of imports and exporcs between 
1875 and 1886, this was due to a decline in 
prices, which reached the lowest point in 
1886, though there has been no recovery since. 
Making allowance for these lower prices—that 
is, estimating the imports and exports at the 
prices of 1873—it is shown that averaging the 
four years from 1883 to 1886 the foreign trade 
of the country has been during that time 
larger in amount than at any former period. 
John Bright has been dangerously sick with 
fever and lung trouble. He is now considered 
out of danger, however. A Radical of the 
Radicals in his younger days, the foremost in 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
every political movement for progress, being 
now 77 years old he has become very conser¬ 
vative, and a bitter opponent of Home Rule; 
but his old friends still entertain the kindliest 
feelings for the old Radical leader, mindful 
only of his services in bygone days. 
Ayrshire, the Duke of Portland’s flyer and 
public favorite, won the Derby race at Epsom. 
The field is conceded to have been below the 
average: but Ayrshire is fully up to the aver¬ 
age of Derby winners. Over $1,000,000 was 
netted by the race, it is said, in stakes and 
wagers. Of course, as usual, several millions 
changed hands on the issue among the general 
public .Lieutenant Bartelot went to 
Africa several months ago to hunt up Stanley 
who is hunting up Emin Pasha. Under date 
of October 28 last, he writes from Zanzibar 
that some deserters from Stanley, after 20 days’ 
journey, had reached Singatini and reported 
that Stanley and his followers were well and 
had plenty of food. The “latest news from 
Stanley” is therefore that about October 8th 
last—about eight months ago—he was all right. 
.The English Government says Great 
Britain has no treaty with China permitting 
the immigration of Chinese subjects into any 
part of the British Empire, and that it hopes to 
arrange matters so that the Australian colon¬ 
ists will be satisfied while Celestial suscepti¬ 
bilities will not be hurt. Meanwhile the Gov¬ 
ernment of New South Wales is vigorously 
protesting against the action of the judges who 
permitted the landing of a number of Chinese 
against the wishes of the colonists. The 
judges are appointed by the Crown and are 
therefore independent of the colonies, and pre¬ 
fer to stand well with the home government 
than with those of Australia and New Zea¬ 
land. Meanwhile, however, a large number 
of Chinese immigrants, not being able to land, 
have been taken back home by the vessels that 
carried them. The “Chinese question” is now 
the “burning issue” in nearly all the British 
Australasian settlements. 
There is no doubt that the feeling of discon¬ 
tent with the present Constitution is growing 
in France. It was framed just after the 
crushing defeat of the country, when the fu¬ 
ture form of government was hardly deter¬ 
mined, as the Imperialists and Legitimists 
hoped, or rather expected, soon to gain control 
and to place the Comte de Chambord or the 
luckless Prince Imperial at the head of the 
country instead of Thiers or McMahon. The 
demand for a revision has always been one of 
Boulanger’s principal demands since he took 
part in active politics, especially since he ran 
for election in the Department du Nord over 
a month ago. He did not at the time specify 
what his plan for revision was, preferring to 
leave that matter to the future. It is, of 
course, a much easier thing to criticise an ex¬ 
isting system than to construct a substitute 
for it. At any rate the critical feeling is just 
now uppermost in France. The latest expres¬ 
sion of opinion is from the groups of the Right, 
who have declared that a revision of the Con¬ 
stitution and a dissolution of the Chambers 
are necessary. They are not going to content 
themselves with this declaration, however, 
but have appointed a committee to organize 
an agitation throughout the country. 
The irritation by the new German restric¬ 
tions on travelers and settlers in Alsace-Lor¬ 
raine is great in France, and Boulanger is to in¬ 
troduce a resolution into the Assembly favor¬ 
ing retaliation by excluding Germans from 
France in a similar way. The law went into 
force yesterday, and much inconvenience was 
caused to travelers from all foreign countries, 
many of whom bad to go back the wav they 
came, as their passports were not vised as 
required_The other day Herr Tisza. Hunga¬ 
rian Prime Minister, made a virulent attack 
on France in the Diet at Pestli, stigmatising 
that country as the firebrand of Earope, and 
asserting that foreigners were not safe there 
from outrages by frenzied mobs. The French 
Government asked Austria for an explana¬ 
tion of such language. Tisza says he meant 
no insult to France—he used the words in a 
Pickwickian sense. M. Goblet, the French 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, is highly praised 
for his firm, pacific and patriotic attitude 
and utterances during the controversy. 
The French Senate passed the Panama canal 
lottery loan bill last week, and for the fifth 
time since 1S84 the company appeals to the 
country for funds. The last series of bonds 
authorized was put upon the market last 
spring, but the response showed a marked 
falling off in public confidence. Indeed, there 
has been a continuous decline in the Panama 
stock with the investing public. In 1884 $26.- 
000,000 in bonds was offered and $21,000,000 
subscribed; in 1886 $45,000,000 was offered 
and $41,000,000 taken: in 1887 $44,000,000 was 
offered and only $23,000,000 taken, while last 
spring only $10,000,000 of the $32,000,000 loan 
was placed. 
Kaiser Frederick is steadily improving in 
health, and many hope, and a few believe, that 
the crisis is over, and that he will ultimately 
fully recover. Professor Virchow still main¬ 
tains that there are no indications of cancer 
in the sputa under the most powerful micro¬ 
scope. Yesterday the Emperor and his family 
moved from his palace at Charlottenburg to 
that at Potsdam, 17 miles from Berlin, a trip 
of an hour and 40 minutes by steamer on 
the River Havel. The journey did him good, 
and he appeared unexpectedly strong. 
The Emperor of Brazil, after several peril¬ 
ous relapses, is now convalescent, and will 
start for Aix-les-Bains in the south of France 
on Monday. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 2,1888. 
During the week there has been an enor¬ 
mous glut of all kinds of “garden truck” in 
this market. The superabundance began to 
be felt towards the middle of last week, and 
prices rapidly sank. Last Monday there was 
no market for enormous quantities of cab¬ 
bages, tomatoes and other vegetables, and 
still they kept pouring in by steamer and rail 
from various points between Norfolk, Va. and 
Jacksonville, Fla., but most heavily from 
