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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 9, 1888. 
The actual work of the campaign which is to 
end with the election in November was begun 
this week, when the administration party 
held its national convention in St. Louis. As 
regards the selection of a candidate for the 
Presidency the outcome of the convention 
was predetermined. There was no chance for 
any other candidacy than that of the Presi¬ 
dent, and he was renominated by acclama¬ 
tion. For some little time in advance also the 
sentiment of the majority of the party had 
been so definitely running in favor of ex-Sen- 
ator Thurman, of Ohio, that his choice for the 
Vice-Presidential candidacy was a foregone 
conclusion. The only matter in relation to 
which anything in the nature of a contest took 
place was the tariff plank in the platform. 
The tariff declaration with which the plat¬ 
form leads off reaffirms the declaration in the 
platform of four years ago, which, as may be 
remembered, pledged the party to “revise the 
tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests,” 
and to be regardful in making changes in the 
law of the interests of the labor and capital 
involved. Something more of definiteness is 
given to the declaration, however, by the con¬ 
vention’s indorsement of the views expressed 
by President Cleveland in his last message to 
Congress, as embodying the correct interpret¬ 
ation of that platform, upon the question of 
tariff reduction, and by its approval of the 
efforts made by the representatives of the 
party in Congress to secure a reduction of tax¬ 
ation. In another part of the platform the dec¬ 
laration is made that the country’s “established 
industries and enterprises need not be endan¬ 
gered by the reduction and correction of the 
burdens of taxation,” but that “on the contrary 
a fair and careful revision of our tax laws, with 
due allowance for the difference between the 
wages of American and foreign labor, must 
promote and encourage every branch of such 
industries and enterprises.” The platform con¬ 
tains no declaration in reference to civil ser¬ 
vice reform beyond the statement that “hon¬ 
est civil service reform has been inaugurated 
and maintained by President Cleveland.” — 
_The total national bank circulation out¬ 
standing on the 1st iust., according to the re¬ 
port of the Comptroller of the Currency, was 
$355,608,331. This represents a decrease in 
the total circulation for the month of $2,768,- 
937, and a decrease of $26,497,847 for the 
twelve months preceding. Of the total circu¬ 
lation, the portion secured by the deposit of 
United States bonds amounted to $161,134,338, 
a decrease of $1,757,574 for the month, and of 
$18,174,682 for the twelve months. The por¬ 
tion of the circulation represented by money 
on deposit with the Treasurer amounted to 
$94,468,993, a decrease of $1,011,363 for the 
month, and of $8,323,164 for the twelve months. 
.... A suit was lately brought in the Superior 
Court of Cincinnati to enjoin a boycott insti¬ 
tuted by a union against a firm because the 
firm furnished material to a firm which was 
also under a boycott. Judge Taft, the sitting 
judge, granted an injunction on, the ground 
that boycotting was illegal .The millers 
of the United States to the number of 2,000, 
will hold a convention at Buffalo, N. Y., on 
June 12, 13 and 14. A feature- will be a model 
flour mill, 47 feet high, and containing 12 
model rollers. It will be in charge of Col. 
Dickey, of Jackson, Mich. An elevator hold¬ 
ing 1,500 bushels of wheat will be in operation 
in connection with it. The whole outfit, it is 
said, will cost $25,000.A movement is 
on foot among the officers of steamship lines 
in this city to induce Buffalo shippers of grain 
to put into their bills of lading a clause which 
will compel canal boatmen to work after six 
o’clock, when necessary, for a reasonable re¬ 
muneration.General Sheridan is still 
fighting death bravely. This morning’s news 
from Washington is that though there had 
been no decided change for the worse in his 
condition during yesterday, yet the last 24 
hours had not been encouraging for him. 
There had been a continuance of the high res¬ 
piration which marked a decided congestion 
of the lungs, and the difficulty in breathing 
has weakened him and prevented him from 
securing much needed rest. Heretofore there 
has uniformly been an improvement after an 
attack of heart failure, but now the patient 
does not seem able to rally. 
.The glass manufacturers of the United 
Sates will close their works June 15 for an 
indefinite suspension.C. H. Tupper, 
M.P., son of Sir Charles Tupper, has been 
appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries 
in the Canadian Cabinet.Governor Hill 
Monday signed the bill abolishing hanging 
and substituting therefor death by electricity 
for all murders committed after January, 1889, 
for which sentence of death shall be decreed. 
.The Committee in the Southern Pres¬ 
byterian General Assembly having in charge 
the question of organic union with the north¬ 
ern church recommended that the matter be 
dropped.Senor Zegarra has been ap¬ 
pointed by the Peruvian Government Minister 
at Washington.Jefferson Davis was 80 
years old on Sunday last .The Chicago, 
St. Paul and Kansas City road has put down 
its through rates between Chicago and St. 
Paul to 40 cents for first-class, with other 
classes in proportion. While reducing its 
through rates the road keeps its local rates un¬ 
changed, so that in some cases the charges 
will be greater for a short than a long haul.. 
.There is said to be an unusual immi¬ 
gration of New England farmers into Wash¬ 
ington Territory.The shipping of oil to 
Europe in barrels is about to be discarded al¬ 
together. Large tanks are being specially 
placed on vessels for the transportation of oil. 
A large number of these tanks are now being 
built in Pittsburg with a capacity of from 
18,000 to 25,000 barrels each. 
.Barnum, the showman, announces his 
intention to present a $200,000 building to the 
Fairfield Historical and Scientific Societies of 
Bridgeport . Both branches of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts legislature have passed a measure 
providing for the Australian system of voting 
.Mrs. Langtry owns nearly $250,000 
worth of real estate in this city G. W. 
Curtis has been re-elected president of the 
Civil Service Reform League.Henry 
Villard is planning an expedition to the south 
pole under powerful German auspices. 
The house in which General Grant was born 
is now on exhibition in Cincinnati under can¬ 
vas. August Burkhart of Nashville, 
Tenn., has requested the pension authorities 
to strike his name from the pension rolls, stat¬ 
ing that he has fully recovered from his disa¬ 
bilities and no longer needs the assistance of 
the government.A gang of bandits 
from Dakota are raiding the southern portion 
of Manitoba.The Secretary of War has 
transmitted to the Senate a transcript of the 
army retired list from its creation in 1861 to 
March, 1888. The aggregate of payments to 
retired officers during that time is $16,530,000. 
The highest retired annual pay is that to Gen. 
Sherman, $15,000. That of Gen. Scott was 
$13,656. The largest aggregates were those of 
Gen. Ricketts and Gen. John C. Robinson, 
$103,000 each. The list contains between 800 
and 900 names . A new bill to restrict 
the immigration of foreigners has been intro¬ 
duced in the House by Mr. Oates of Alabama. 
It imposes a tax of $25 on each immigrant. 
Diplomatic representatives are excepted.... 
....A bill has been introduced to Congress 
making all fines and penalties collected for In¬ 
terstate Commerce law violations payable to 
the complainant on whose testimony convic¬ 
tion is secured ....The dead letter office 
received 4,808,000 letters last year, for about a 
third of which owners were discovered. 
Money to the value of $1,705,754 were found 
in 17,588 letters . The Turkish govern¬ 
ment has refused to permit certain Armenians 
to emigrate to America, claiming that they 
are contract laborers and that their emigra¬ 
tion will be a violation of the American law 
in reference to contractlabor.Dr. Chis¬ 
holm of Baltimore, has performed successfully 
the operation of transferring a section of a 
living rabbit’s eye to the eye of a patient to 
replace a diseased portion which had caused 
blindness. It is believed that the patient’s 
sight will be effectually restored . 
A warning: The Co-operative Life and Acci¬ 
dent Insurance Association of the United 
States has collapsed. In Middleton, N. Y., it 
has 250 members and many more in that sec¬ 
tion. They lose every cent they had invested 
and are liable for debts amounting to $300,000 
_ .... A convention of societies for the de¬ 
tection of horse thieves in Eastern New York 
and Western Connecticut was held at Brew¬ 
sters, N. Y., Wednesday, and a union anti¬ 
horse thief league was formed.Tuesday 
Jack Murphy, son of Francis Murphy, the 
temperance advocate,at Louisville, Ky., eloped 
with and married the daughter of a rich man¬ 
ufacturer. The latter has discarded his 
daughter.The noted trotter Jay-Eye- 
See is at Racine, Wis., and his owner thinks 
he will never be fit for the track again. 
.... A week ago, on the fortieth ballot at St. 
Augustine, Frank P. Fleming, a lawyer of 
Jacksonville, was nominated by the Demo¬ 
cratic State Convention for Governor of 
Florida. D. G. Fowle has been nomin¬ 
ated for Governor by the Democrats of North 
Carolina.In order to assist local au¬ 
thorities in the maintenance of quarantine 
against the introduction of infectious diseases 
the President has determined to establish, by 
means of vessels of the revenue marine, a 
national patrol of the coast of the United 
States, so far as may be practicable under ex¬ 
isting law and consistent, with the perform¬ 
ance of the other duties confided to that ser¬ 
vice.A ferocious stallion, known as the 
“Man-Eater,” has just been killed in Custer 
County, Nebraska. The animal left a record 
of five men killed in four years, the last one 
being his owner, Peter Moran, who for a long 
time resisted the demands of neighbors to kill 
the brute. After it had bitten and stamped 
the life out of him, however, those neighbors 
“went for it.”.Captain Andrews, of 
Boston, says he is going across the Atlantic on 
the 18th in a 12-foot dory. We shall next ex¬ 
pect to hear that the Atlantic is going across 
Captain Andrews. 
The blackguard campaign literature has al¬ 
ready started by blackening the relations of 
the President and his splendid young wife. 
Both parties select their best men, or the men 
whom they think are the best American repre¬ 
sentatives of American thought and manhood, 
and it’s a poor business to vilify either of them 
personally. Let it it be principles, not men.. 
.Silently and steadily leprosy is spread¬ 
ing in this country, but not to an alarming 
extent. Take New Brunswick, Canada, for 
instance. According to the report of the 
officials in charge of the lazaretto at Tracadia, 
there are now in the hospital eight men and 
nine women, whereas the. original number of 
inmates was 40. Three patients died last year 
and one leper escaped to this country, doubt¬ 
less communicating the taint to those with 
whom he came in contact .The Commit¬ 
tee on the’Judiciary have so far failed to 
reach a conclusion in regard to the nomina¬ 
tion of Melville W. Fuller to be Chief Justice. 
The most serious of the charges brought 
against Mr.’Fuller are those from Mr. Dun- 
levy of Chicago. They assert that the clerk 
of the court and Mr. Fuller were Jury Com¬ 
missioners in 1881, and that Mr. Fuller drew 
a jury before which a case in which he was 
himself heavily interested was tried. The re¬ 
sult, according to Dunlevy, was a verdict for 
Fuller and the consequent recovery of a large 
and valuable tract of swamp land. The com¬ 
mittee has telegraphed for a transcript of the 
records, and will await its receipt. 
The Selfridge court martial reconvened at 10 
o’clock yesterday morning and Mr. Kent be¬ 
gan his argument at once. He spoke until 2 
o’clock, when he was followed by Judge-Ad¬ 
vocate Read. The business of the court will 
probably be concluded to-day.Acting 
Secretary Thompson has designated Mr. Her¬ 
man Kretz, Chief of the Mail Division, to be 
the representative of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment at the Centennial Exposition at Cincin¬ 
nati.T. Harrison Garrett, a brother of 
Robert Garrett, manager of the banking 
house of Robert Garrett & Sons, of Baltimore, 
was drowned on Thursday night in the 
Patapsco River, the steamer Joppa collid¬ 
ing with and sinking his yacht. 
_Leonard Sweet of Chicago, who introduc¬ 
ed Abraham Lincoln to the Republican con¬ 
vention in 1860, will nominate Judge Gresh¬ 
am at the coming convention .The trial 
of Ann O’Delia Diss Debar and Gen. Diss De¬ 
bar is being held in the Court of General Ses¬ 
sions, across the City Hall Park, this week. 
The reports of it are funny anyhow. 
_A fire swept over two wards of Hull, oppo¬ 
site Ottawa, Ont., the other day, destroying 
between 300 and 400 houses and rendering over 
2,500 persons homeless. The loss may be $500,- 
000, and possibly it will reach $800,000.. 
Albany, N. Y., expects to have the greatest 
turnout of Scotchmen ever known in this 
country at the unveiling of Calverly’s statue 
of Robert Burnsin Washington Park, August 
30. The boiler of an engine on the farm 
of Edwin Mickley, at Maple Grove, Lehigh 
county, Pa., exploded yesterday morning and 
was immediately followed by the explosion 
of 125 pounds of dynamite and a quantity of 
powder, which were stored in the engine house. 
Mr. Mickley’s barn, erected at a cost of $5,000, 
was completely wrecked. Window panes a 
half mile distant were broken.A St. 
Louis ordinance reduces the annual rental of 
telephones from $100 to $50, and the Bell Tele¬ 
phone Company threatens to quit business in 
the city. Many subscribers voluntarily offer 
to make up the old rates by donations rather 
than have the telephone service removed. 
■-- 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
There is little news of interest from the 
United Kingdom this week. The same old 
story of turbulent discontent and harsh re¬ 
pression comes from Ireland. In England 
and Scotland industrial depression is very 
severe, and the laboring classes are in sore 
straits. 
There is a good chance of war with Thibet 
on the north of British India. Whenever 
England wants to annex any new territory, 
she always begins with reports of outrages 
by the land she wants to conquer. It is the 
old story of the wolf and the lamb, and the 
wolf is now angrily growling. 
Colonel King-Harmon denies the rumor 
which has been put in circulation that he.in¬ 
tends to resign his office of Under Secretary 
for Ireland and his seat in the House of Com¬ 
mons. 
An Australian statistician has figured that 
at the present rate of increase, in the year 2000, 
the inhabitants of Australasia will number 
nearly 190,000,000, and at that time if not be¬ 
fore, the people of that distant section will 
form no inconsiderable part of the inhabitants 
of the world. That the growth in wealth of 
the colonies is going on even faster than the 
increase in population is shown by comparing 
the average amount left by each person dying 
in Victoria in the years 1872-1876 with similar 
bequeathed possessions during the years 1882- 
1886. In the former period what may be 
taken to be the average amount possessed by 
each person living was $900, while in the last- 
named period the amount has increased to 
over $1,500. 
The Indian Government is considering the 
question of a special loan for the purpose of 
remedying deficiencies in the frontier de¬ 
fenses. 
The first step in the carrying out of his pro¬ 
gramme of a revision of the French constitu¬ 
tion was taken by General Boulanger on Mon¬ 
day. He made a motion in the Chamber of 
Deputies for a revision of the constitution 
and a dissolution of the chambers and de¬ 
manded urgency therefor. He declared that 
the present system must be completely re¬ 
formed, and that the present chamber would 
not give such a constitution as was demanded 
by the necessities of the country. His motion 
was defeated by a heavy majority. The speech 
delivered by him dealt almost wholly in gener¬ 
alities. He made but one really significant re¬ 
mark, that was such as to excite distrust 
rather than confidence in his projects. He 
asked whether a President for the Republic 
was really a necessity, and whether France 
could not do as well without a President? This 
remark is based upon a profound misconcep¬ 
tion of the course of recent constitutional de¬ 
velopment in France. The real danger in the 
existing French political system is in fact the 
weakness of the executive. The President, 
as recent events have shown, retains scarcely 
the shadow of independence. On the one hand 
the chambers have been aggrandizing them¬ 
selves at his expense till he has become a no¬ 
nentity, and on the other, as between the 
chambers, the elements of political control 
have been gravitating to the Chamber of De¬ 
puties until it has become the decisive and ul¬ 
timate political force in the French constitu¬ 
tion. It is the want of independence of the 
French executive which makes its policy in¬ 
consequent at home and unrespected abroad, 
and yet the popular hero of the day in France 
proposes to cure the existing evils by elim¬ 
inating the Presidency altogether. 
In Germany the Emperor continues to im¬ 
prove, and hopes of ultimate recovery wax 
stronger. There has been a Cabinet crisis in 
Prussia, and early in the week there were 
reports that Bismarck was about to resign. 
Herr Von Puttkamer has resigned from the 
Ministry on account of disagreement with the 
liberal policy which the Emperor appears re¬ 
solved to enforce.... Russia is seeking a closer 
alliance with France. The Trans-Caspian 
railroad has been completed to Samarcand, 
the old capital of Timour on the north of Af¬ 
ghanistan, only 200 miles from Herat, and 600 
from British India, which can now be reached 
from England in 11 days. The road, which 
has cost $25,000,000 for 800 miles, will have off¬ 
shoots north into Siberia, and south into Per¬ 
sia, and will be continued to the Pacific Coast 
just north of Corea. It is also proposed to 
run a branch to Pekin, in China. It is a Gov¬ 
ernment work, and will cost at first at least 
$1,000,000 a year to run it, in addition to 
whatever money it may make; but it will 
open up great traffic resources for Russia, be¬ 
sides enabling the Czar to mass large forces 
in the East in case of war with China or 
Great Britain. He is to be crowned Emperor 
of Central Asia at Samercand in a short time, 
to counterbalance the influence exercised by 
Queen Victoria as Empress of India. 
The Moscow Gazette, in discussing the af¬ 
fairs of Germany, especially Emperor Fred¬ 
rick’s health, says: “It is time for each power 
to clearly specify its future policy. A com¬ 
munity of interests between Russia and France 
is the logical sequence of the general politi¬ 
cal situation.” 
The King of Belgium or Governor of the 
Free State of the Congo, has issued laws to 
regulate the traffic in alcoholic liquors, which 
the Berlin Conference allowed equal access 
with respectA’e merchandise to the State. 
Under these laws every trader in the stuff, 
must buy a license at a minimum cost of $400, 
and may sell only in limited quantities and 
liquors of good quality. 
... .The Sultan of Zanzibar died recently, and 
now the Sultan of Muscat has passed away. 
The number of widows wandering disconso¬ 
late along the shores of the Arabian Sea and 
Indian Ocean is enormous. 
