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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 16, 1888. 
.. . .Republican delegates to the Presidential 
Nominating Convention and ardent Republi¬ 
can “heelers” are flocking enthusiastically to 
Chicago, where the Convention will be held 
next week. It would be a wise prophet who 
could foretell the results. Some still maintain 
that Blaine will be nominated with a hurrah 
early in the convention; others say there will 
be a deadlock and that Blaine will be finally 
agreed upon as a compromise. At present, 
Sherman, Allison, Gresham and Alger, 
appear to be running in this order for the first 
place. The matter will probably be decided 
by Wednesday.Gen. Sheridan, after 
having been given up by the doctors twice 
early in the week, is now on a fair way to re¬ 
covery, though still by no means out of danger 
.At the Millers’ Convention at Buffalo, 
N. Y., during the week there were 78 repre¬ 
sentatives of the milling interests from all 
parts of the country. 
....The prospective course of journalism at 
Cornell University promises to surpass expec¬ 
tations. Already President Adams is receiv¬ 
ing a large number of inquiries regarding 
the course from all over the country, so that 
he has been compelled to issue a circular let¬ 
ter in reply.Jerry Sinclair, of Ossipee, 
N. H., a postal clerk running between Boston 
and Bangor, Maine, was found dead in his 
car Saturday night. He was sixty years old. 
A fellow-clerk named Sellon has been arrested 
for the murder, which was the result of a 
quarrel.A severe tempest in Dakota 
and Michigan Saturday did a great deal of 
damage to property. Several persons were 
killed at Fort Yates, Dakota, by lightning 
and flying debris.The total cost of the 
recent Methodist General Conference is said 
to have been $75,000, or over $2,000 a day, 
which was $20,000 in excess of the sum pro¬ 
vided for by the churches.The statis¬ 
tics of the graduating class at Yale, show that 
the expenses of the individual students range 
from under $300 to $1,500 a year, while one 
student is reported so have spent $10,000 dur¬ 
ing his senior year. One member has earned 
$100 by tutoring during his course . 
.... The latest novelty in the lines of strikes 
is reported from a female seminary at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., where a class of school-girls in¬ 
dignantly refused to be taught from a text¬ 
book on history which recited the old story of 
Jeff. Davis’s capture in female attire.At 
Poor House Crossing, near Mount Carroll, Ill., 
Friday, Farmer John Hess, while driving 
across the track, was struck by a fast freight, 
receiving fatal injuries. The town of 
Norway, Mich., has been nearly destroyed by 
fire. Loss $300,000... It is said that bald- 
headed Indians are becoming common and 
the plug hat of civilization is thought to be 
responsible....The President has approved 
the bill to established a Department of labor 
.... The Bard is now recognized as the best 
race-horse in America, while Emperor of 
Norfolk is classed as the best three-year-old 
and French Park as the best two-year-old — 
Fires in New Brunswick, Canada, have de¬ 
stroyed immense tracts of forests, mills, farm¬ 
houses, barns and crops, and threated the 
town of Moncton.The American Agri¬ 
cultural and Dairy Association has requested 
Mr. Blaine to allow his name to be presented 
at Chicago for the Presidency. This is the 
top-heavy concern that used to be run by 
Farmer-Miner, Joe Reall. It would be like his 
impudence to offer to name a Presidential 
candidate for either party, under such an im¬ 
posing alias . The new Year Book of the 
Young Men’s Christian Association gives the 
number of associations throughout the world 
as 3,804, of which 1,240 are in the United 
States and Canada. The American Associa¬ 
tions own real estate to the value of $6,708,230, 
an increase of nearly $1,100,000 during the 
previous year. The Association was never so 
strong and prosperous as it is now. A 
large number of guests, including many well 
known people from the cities of Cleveland, 
Chicago, Cincinnati, Buffalo,New York, Bos¬ 
ton and Washington, assembled last Thursday 
afternoon at the country home of Mrs. James 
A. Garfield, near Mentor, Ohio, to witness the 
double marriage of Mr. Harry Garfield and 
Miss Belle Mason, of Cleveland, Ohio, and 
Mr. James Stanley Brown, of Washington, D. 
C., and Miss Mary Garfield. The wedding was 
at 5 o’clock . ... Connecticut,Thursday, un¬ 
veiled a monument to the memory of her dead 
soldiers and a bronze equestrian figure of 
Israel Putnam, the old Revolutionary hero. 
They are located at Brooklyn, near Danielson- 
ville.How the press of this country 
handles an affair of National importance is 
shown by the amount of matter telegraphed 
from St. Louis during the Democratic Nation¬ 
al Convention last week. The total number of 
words relating to the Democratic Convention 
sent out over the Western Union Company’s 
wires was 2,151.791. This includes the regu¬ 
lar report of the proceedings, consisting of 
about 100,000 words, furnished by the Asso¬ 
ciated Press, which sent in addition nearly as 
much more on miscellaneous matters con¬ 
nected with the Convention. The remaining 
1,950,000 words were “specials” to all the prin¬ 
cipal journals from the Atlantic to the Paci¬ 
fic. What a different thing the modern 
newspapers would be without its ally, the 
telegraph. Mr. Fuller’s nomination as 
Chief Justice was again hung up Monday by 
the Senate Judiciary Committee for two 
more weeks. He was named nearly a month 
and a half ago. It will probably be put over 
till after the election.The report that 
Gov. Hill was to call an extra session of the 
New York Legislature to consider the ques¬ 
tion of state-prison appropriations is pro¬ 
nounced untrue by the Governor himself. 
The last Legislature made provision for the 
mere maintenance of the prisons, but failed 
to provide funds to continue the labor of the 
prisoners. Enough of the funds remains on 
hand, however, to keep the convicts at work 
till about the middle of next month. Then 
idleness, insubordination and general discon¬ 
tent are not improbable.A. J. Streeter, 
Labor candidate for President, was hanged in 
effigy at Sheridan, Worth County, Mo., Sun¬ 
day night, because he refused to give a strip 
of land 15 feet wide and a few rods long for a 
public highway through a part of his 1,700-acre 
farm in that county.The plans for 
the reunion of the Blue and the Gray on Get¬ 
tysburg battle-field, July 1-3, are rapidly per¬ 
fecting. The survivors of the Army of the Po¬ 
tomac and the army of Northern Virginia 
will be there in great force, as responses al¬ 
ready received make certain. The reunion is 
to begin by an evening gathering, July 2, 
with a welcome to the Southern soldiers by 
Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania and a response 
by Prof. McCabe of Petersburg, Va.Lord 
Stanley, the new Governor-General, of Can¬ 
ada, who arrived at Ottawa Sunday, was 
sworn into office Monday afternoon. A royal 
salute was fired and a brilliant assem¬ 
blage filled the chambers. 
... Lindsay Muse, a colored messenger in the 
Navy Department, died Thursday afternoon 
at Washington, of old age. He had the dis¬ 
tinction of being the oldest employd in Gov¬ 
ernment service. He was appointed a mes¬ 
senger in the Navy Department in 1828, and 
served there continuously in that capacity to 
the day of his death.Mr. Thurman’s 
name is Allen Granbery.Paul Desgranges, 
of Philadelphia, has collected 1,000,000 can¬ 
celed postage-stamps. He has put them up in 
packages of 50,000 stamps each, the packages 
weighing over five pounds apiece. It has 
taken him six years to make this useless col¬ 
lection.A Mr. Ives has publicly shown 
in this city, a photograph of a landscape in 
which the various tints of green in the foliage 
of trees, the blue of the sky and the colors of 
house, barn, autumn leaves, etc., were perfect¬ 
ly reproduced. Many inventors thought that 
they had a method of photographing in colors, 
but their processes have not worked in practice. 
Col. W. A. Webster, County Commissioner 
of Central City. Neb., is short about $35,000 
in his accounts. He will turn in $20,000 of his 
own property in part-payment.Indian 
Commissioner Atkins has tendered his resig¬ 
nation, to take effect at the pleasure of the 
President, and will at once leave Washington 
for his home at Paris, Tenn., to enter upon an 
active canvass for election to the United 
States Senate.The Bell telephone com¬ 
pany has taken out 151 telephones at St. 
Louis since the recent ordinance was passed 
to reduce the rental of the instruments from 
$100 to $50. And now Mayor Francis has or¬ 
dered the poles and wires out of the city. 
Reports from 13 places in Michigan show that 
the storm of Saturday night was general in 
scope and unprecedented in amount of rain¬ 
fall. The storm broke like the bursting of a 
water-spout, and continued for two hours in 
torrents accompanied by heavy lightning. 
All the country from the Wisconsin line to 
the upper range and the whole width of the 
Michigan peninsula suffered.The New 
England Keely Motor Company was organized 
in 1875, and paid the parent company in Phil¬ 
adelphia $50,000 for the right to make and sell 
the motors in the six New England States 
when Keely’s invention shall be patented. 
About a dozen of the 50 stockholders met in 
this city Thursday to elect directors—the 
first meeting in 10 years—the old officers 
were re-elected. They are all smart business 
men, and are all enchanted with the advance 
Keely has made. They expect to realize 
fortunes by Feb. 30, next...The aquatic 
fool, whose sense of humor leads him to rock 
the boat, and drown several persons, not al¬ 
ways, unfortunately, including himself, is 
again broad on the water, and earning dis¬ 
honorable mention in the accident column. 
He belongs, with the man who “didn’t know 
it was loaded,” high on the list of idiots in¬ 
corrigible and irredeemable. Three accidents 
and seven deaths from this cause have been 
reported during the week. 
....The President has approved the act of 
Congress providing that pensions heretofore 
or hereafter granted to widows of soldiers of 
the War of the Rebellion shall commence at 
the date of the death of their husbands. This 
legislation favorably affects all claims of 
widows of the late war, which have been filed 
in the Pension Office on or after July 1, 1880, 
and which have been allowed to commence 
from the date of filing the claims; but will 
not favorably affect the cases of such widows 
as were filed before July 1, 1880, and which 
have been allowed, pensions having already 
been granted in those cases from the date of 
their husbands’ death. The Commissioner of 
Pensions gives notice that in the settlement 
under this law of claims already allowed, no 
formal application will be required, and that 
the services of attorneys will not be necessary. 
Widows entitled under said law need only 
write a letter giving name, post-office address 
and certificate number, and the claims will 
be allowed with as little delay as practicable 
.. Representative Ford has reported fa¬ 
vorably to the House the bill giving to persons 
disabled in the War of the Rebellion an arti¬ 
ficial limb, or apparatus for resection, every 
three years instead of every five years, as now 
provided by law.Senator Quay has 
been authorized to report favorably his bill 
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who 
were confined in Confederate prisons. 
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs will 
report a bill providing for a permanent expo¬ 
sition of the three Americas in Washington in 
1892—the 400th anniversary of the discovery 
of America by Christopher Columbus. It pro¬ 
vides for a Government board of nine direc¬ 
tors to formulate a plan for carrying out the 
proposed exposition, which plan is to include 
the appointment of an advisory board of 62 
members, one member to be .selected by 
the Governor of each State and Territory 
and one by the Executive of each of the 
16 independent American nations. It 
is proposed that two permanent exhibitions 
be inaugurated—one by the States and Terri¬ 
tories of the United States and the other by 
the three Americas. The bill appropriates 
$25,000 to defray the expenses of the Board of 
Directors.The Senate, Thursday, 
passed the Post-Office Appropriation hill with 
amendments, the more important of which 
are: Striking out item of $50,000 “for com¬ 
pensation to clerks in post-offices for unusual 
business ;” reducing the item “ for rent, light 
and fuel to post-offices of the third class” 
from $650,000 to $450,000, with a provision 
restoring rent of such offices to $300 a year, 
and fuel and light to $60 ; inserting an item of 
$1,000,000 for additional expense of the free 
delivery service rendered necessary by the 
act of May 24 last limiting the work of letter- 
carriers to eight hour’s a day .The tariff 
sub-committee of the Senate were addressed 
Thursday by parties who requested that jute 
and sisal grass be put on the free list. 
.... Here is the list of States with their votes, 
which are usually conceded sure for each party: 
REPUBLICAN. 
California. 
.. 8 
Colorado. 
.. 3 
Illinois. 
.. 22 
Iowa. 
Kansas. 
.. 9 
Maine . 
.. 6 
Massachusetts.. . 
.. 14 
Michigan. 
.. 13 
Minnesota. 
.. 7 
Nebraska . 
.. 5 
Nevada. 
.. 3 
New Hampshire.. 
. 4 
Ohio. 
.. 23 
Oregon . 
,, 3 
Pennsylvania.... 
.. 30 
Rhode Island.... 
.. 4 
Vermont. 
.. 4 
Wisconsin. 
.. 11 
DEMOCRATIC. 
Alabama. 10 
Arkansas . 7 
Delaware . 3 
Florida. 4 
Georgia. 12 
Kentucky. 13 
Louisiana . 8 
Maryland. 8 
Mississippi. 9 
Missouri . 16 
North Carolina.... 11 
South Carolina ... 9 
Tennessee. 12 
Texas . 13 
Virginia. 12 
West Virginia .... 6 
Total. 153 
Total.182 
DOUBTFUL STATES. 
Connecticut. 6 Indiana. 15 
New York. 36 New Jersey. 9 
Total. 66 
The number required for an election is 201. 
Each party, however, claims some of the 
States here given to the other; or else that 
one or more of them is doubtful. 
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions 
has ordered favorable reports on the Senate 
bills granting pensions to the widows of Maj- 
Gen’s Kilpatrick, Casey, Mower and Ord. 
The committee amended each bill, however, 
by reducing the amount of pension from $100 
to $75 a month, The Senate bill granting a 
pension of $75 a month to the widow of Gen. 
Davidson will be reported favorably without 
change.The Atlas paper mill was 
burned at Appleton, Wis., last week ; loss 
$150,000, insurance $50,000.The bill 
fixing the rate of postage on seeds, bulbs and 
cuttings at eight cents a pound will probably 
be passed through the House soon if the Com¬ 
mittee on Post-offices can accomplish their 
purposes.The purchases of bonds under 
the circular of April 17 amount to less than 
$22,000,000 to date. The sum bought in the 
past two weeks has been very small. This, 
too, comprises the whole of the reduction 
made in the interest-bearing debt of the na¬ 
tion since early last fall.Seven thou¬ 
sand is the latest report of the Republican 
majority in Oregon—the largest majority 
ever cast in its history for any party. 
The Democrats lost in every precinct in 
the State, and of the 75 new members 
of the Legislature the Republicans elect 
63, and possibly 65.Last 
Tuesday, June 12, Mrs. Mary Sheridan, 
mother of General Sheridan, died at her 
home at Somerset, Ohio. She was born in 
County Cavan, Ireland, in 1801, so that she 
reached the age of 87 years. Came to this 
country with her husband between 1828 
and 1830. and located at Albany, N. Y. 
After less than two years the family moved to 
Somerset, where they have since resided. 
Reports to Bradstreet’s of business failures 
number 212 in the United States, against 148 
last week and 146 last year. Canada has 28, 
against 16 last week. The total for the United 
States January 1 to date is 4,871, against 4,785 
in 1887. The increased number of failures is 
heaviest West and South. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 16,1888. 
It is but a little more than three months since 
Emperor William of Germany passed away, 
and now he has been followed to the grave by 
his son and successor, the Emperor Frederick. 
The latter was in the fifty-seventh year of 
his age, and under ordinary circumstances 
might have been expected to reign with use¬ 
fulness for years to come. As is well known, 
however, he had been stricken with an incur¬ 
able disease before his accession to the throne, 
and his death so soon after that event has only 
borne out the fears of his physicians. The 
course of events has thus transferred the 
sovereignty in Germany and in Prussia within 
the space of a little more than three months 
from a nonagenarian ruler to his grandson, a 
young man in his thirtieth year. In a country 
where royalty on its personal side is still such 
an active force as it is in Germany, the change 
would under any circumstances be impor¬ 
tant. It becomes specially so in view of the cir¬ 
cumstances and characters of the three rulers. 
Emperor William was during his later years 
a firm upholder of peace, for the reason, among 
others, that he regarded it as the best guar¬ 
antee for the security of his hard-won suc¬ 
cesses in statecraft and war. Emperor Fred¬ 
erick was by nature a lover of peace, in 
which he saw the best condition for the social 
and economical development of Germany, 
which he felt to be sufficently strong on its 
political and military side, and for some weeks 
before his death he gave unmistakable signs 
of a determination to have his liberal policy 
carried out by men in sympathy with it. His 
successor, however, is represented as having 
the instincts of an enthusiastic and ambitious 
soldier, and under his reign the outlook 
for the encouragement of a policy of pacific 
development is not generally regarded as of 
the brightest. 
In England the Irish agitation, the Scotch 
agitation and the Welsh agitation still hold 
sway. Parnell assures his followers that the 
back-bone of the Tory policy has been brok¬ 
en. The government was defeated in Par¬ 
liament the other night, the Liberal-Unionists 
for the most part refraining from voting, and 
23 Conservatives voting against their own 
party; but as the question was not an import¬ 
ant one, and could hardly be called a strict 
party matter, the Ministry did not resign. 
A great deal of anxiety is felt in England 
as to the result of the emancipation of slaves 
in Brazil, as it is estimated that over $500,000- 
000 of English capital is invested in that coun¬ 
try. The general impression is that the re¬ 
sults will be favorable, as free labor prior to 
the abolition of slavery was, it is said, actu¬ 
ally cheaper than slave labor, the two kinds 
of labor being nearly equal. 
There has been a change of Ministry in 
Spain, but the new Prime-Minister, Segasta, 
declares he will continue the policy of his 
predecessor.The Emperor of Brazil has 
completely recovered.Doubtful news 
from Africa says Stanley has been doing a 
good deal of fighting and has been wounded, 
and deserted by half of his men. Nothing 
really reliable has been heard from him for a 
year, less two weeks. It has taken nearly four 
months for the present “news” to reach us 
through very untrustworthy native sources... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 16,1888. 
The exports of Russian wheat from January 
to May were enormous, amounting to 32,000,- 
000 hectolitres, as compared with 15,000,000 
hectolitres in 1887. In consequence of this 
large exportation rubles have risen ten per 
Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for^Buggies.— Adv. 
cent.Senator Chandler has introduced 
