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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 23, 1888. 
The Republican Presidential Nominating 
Convention has been in session at Chicago 
during the week, and few conventions have 
been more exciting. The platform is twice as 
long as the Democratic platform at St. Louis; 
but there is nothing ambiguous about it. It 
is a c’ear, ringing enunciation of principles, 
strongly favoring even a larger measure of 
protection for “home industries” than that 
afforded by the present tariff. The first vote 
took place not until Thursday, when the votes 
were scattered among 14 candidates, Sherman 
leading. Five votes in all were taken during 
the week, with no result. The indications 
now point to Blaine or McKinley, of Ohio, or 
Harrison of Indiana; but there is little doubt 
that a great deal of log-rolling will be done 
before 11 o’clock on Monday when the Con¬ 
vention reassembles. Blaine’s men are try¬ 
ing to produce a deadlock among the other 
candidates by giving enough support to this 
one and that to prevent any one from getting 
a majority, so as to have a good excuse for 
springing the name of the Plumed Knight on 
the Convention as that of the only man 
upon whom an agreement can be made. It is 
believed, however, that Blaine would not ac¬ 
cept a nomination unless it was unanimous 
and it is very likely that before Mon¬ 
day a combination will be made between the 
adherents of the other candidates to resist the 
Blaine movement to the “bitter end.” If the 
Blainities find that this is the case, they are 
likely to withdraw his name finally, for 
although it is nearly certain that they could 
get a majority for their champion, a mere 
majority would hardly suffice to induce 
Blaine to accept the position in the face of 
his letters from Florence and Paris. Just now 
it’s anybody's fight with the chances some¬ 
what in favor of Harrison and Morton, or 
McKinley and Morton or Phelps; and Sher¬ 
man on one side, and Blaine on the other, are 
likely decide the matter. 
The present River and Harbor Bill exceeds 
by $2,800,000 the largest appropriation ever 
made in a River and Harbor Bill, but as no 
bill was passed last session, and none is likely 
to pass in the short session following the Pres, 
idential election, this bill practically repre¬ 
sents a period of three years on a basis of $7,- 
000,000 a year, wtyeh is considerably less than 
the average expenditure of recent years. 
..The population of Baltimore, according to a 
police census just taken, is 416,805, 64,409 of 
whom are colored.The powder left 
over from the war lasted exactly 23 years 
for firing salutes, etc. The last barrel was 
used on April 1. Since then no salutes 
have been fired at any military posts except 
West Point, Fort Monroe, and Fort Riley. 
No appropriation had ever been asked for the 
purpose before, and none of the Senators and 
Members knew where the powder for these sal¬ 
utes came from. However, when the matter 
was explained, the House very willingly 
agreed to give $30,000.A Canadian 
Judge at Ottawa has just sentenced two bood- 
lers, members of the County Council and Jus¬ 
tices of the Peace, who pleaded guilty to ap¬ 
propriating to their own uses over $1,000 of 
the public moneys, to six hours each in prison. 
In passing this remarkable sentence the Judge 
observed that it was necessary to stamp with 
reprobation the practice of using other people’s 
money without a legal power of attorney. Ot¬ 
tawa must be the paradise for public thieves . 
.The Holmden farm near Pithole. Pa., 
which was sold during the oil excitement of 
1865 for $1,500,000. changed hands a week ago. 
at a sale for taxes for less than $100. It has 
yielded enormous quantities of oil, but is now 
“dry.”.Recent severe rains caused the 
greatest flood ever known in northern Minne¬ 
sota Along the banks of logging streams trib¬ 
utary to St. Louis river millions of acres of 
land were overflowed .It is said that V\ alt 
Whitman is paid $5,000 a year for the frequent 
poems, so-called, which he writes for the New 
York Herald. Mr. Bennett takes this means 
of aiding the old man who resents charitable 
offerings . ... ,T.t is reported that (.'liarles A. 
Dana’s royalty (as editor) at 12K per cent, on 
each volume sold of the American Cyclopedia 
bv the publishers. D. Appleton & Co., has 
yielded him over $100.000.... .. Hon. A. W. 
McLelan has resigned the position of I ostmas- 
tor General and been appointed Lieutenant- 
Governor of Nova Scotia. Tn the Rhode 
Island General Assembly Johnathan A. Chace 
has bpen ro plpctpd TJnitPd States Sonatoi nv a 
majority of both Houses. .. Hon. Charles 
H. Tur>pei\ the new Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, was elected to Parliament bv accla¬ 
mation for Pictou. Nova Scota, last Monda v. 
.Timothy Dwight Williams, aged 76, 
was stung to death by bees at Lebanon, Conn., 
the other day. having fal'en from a tree and 
broken his leg while trying to hive them.. ... 
Dubois, a lumber town in Clearfield County, 
Pa., built almost entirely of wood was almost 
entirely destroyed by fire last Monday. The 
burnt district extends over a mile, and 4.1KHJ 
people were ren lered homeless; loss over $1,- 
000,000.The Mormons have ^bought 
400,000 acres of lands in Chihuahua, Mexico, 
and are emigrating to the place in great num¬ 
bers.Mountain Maid, the famous 
trotter, died the other day on the stock farm 
of her owner, Charles Baekman, of Orange 
County. N. Y. She was the dam of Prospero, 
2:20; Elaine, 2:20; Dame Trot, 2:22; Antonio, 
2:28 1-4: Mansfield, 2:26, and several others be¬ 
low 2:30... 
.... The annual league of American wheelmen 
has been in session at Baltimore during the 
week with 1500 riders present. These officers 
were elected: President, T. J. Kirknatrick 
of Springfield, O.; vice-president, W. W. 
Hayes of Boston: treasurer. William M. 
Brewster of St. Louis: executive committee, 
President Kirkpatrick, Vice-President Hayes 
and W. S. Bull of Buffalo. The Secretary’s 
report shows that the actual membership of 
the league is 10,230, and the Treasurers report 
shows it to be in good financial condition. 
.. .Gen. Sheridan’s condition shows gratifying 
improvement as to the action of the heart and 
lungs. His strength is greater; his desire for 
food is more natural; his sleep is more healthy 
and refreshing. The periods of mental con¬ 
fusion which have caused anxiety have de¬ 
creased.The examination of the ac¬ 
counts of Gen. James M Ewing, late disburs¬ 
ing clerk of the Department of Justice, has 
been completed and shows him to be $9,741 
in arrears. Judge Thurman’s wealth is 
estimated at half a million, mostlv in real es¬ 
tate inherited by his wife...The heads of 
the Democratic Presidential ticket are both 
sons of ministers. Cleveland’s father was a 
Presbyterian preacher, and Thurman’s a 
Methodist.The New York Legislature 
passed a bill forbidding the sale of cigarettes 
to children under 16 on penalty of $25, to go to 
the informer. Gov. Hill has vetoed.it, on the 
ground that parents might send their children 
f or the cigarettes in order to get the $25. 
. Unusually heavy rainfalls are reported from 
all parts of Mexico, which are doing great 
damage to railroads. _- 
... Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Liver¬ 
more and Mrs. Antoinette Blackwell say un¬ 
pleasant things about Mrs. Belva Lockwood’s 
convention and repudiate it in the name of 
woman suffrage. Henry Villard has 
been elected president of the Transcontinental 
railroad, and Elijah Smith president of the 
Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. Thiswill 
probably prevent Villard’s contemplated 
search for the South Pole-.....When, a 
couple of weeks ago, a city ordinance of St. 
Louis, reduced the Bell telephone charges from 
$100 to $50, the monopoly threatened to re¬ 
move all the instruments and discontinue 
service. They did remove about 200, and 
many business men offered to make good 
the difference between the old and new rates 
rather than be deprived of the convenience. 
Mayor Francis insisted, however that if the 
instruments were removed or service was dis¬ 
continued, all the poles, wires, etc., must be at 
once cleared away. This brought the monop¬ 
oly to its knees at once, and it now agrees to 
rent telephones at the prices fixed by the 
municipality and to make contracts for three 
years until the ordinance shall have been 
passed upon by the State Supreme Court. 
Whether the city is sustained or not, the good 
example is likely to prove contagious...There 
are no lobsters on the Pacific coast, and an 
effort is being made to introduce them from 
the East. A fish commissioner’s car left 
Wood’s Holl Saturday afternoon with live 
lobsters to stock the Pacific waters in the 
region about San Francisco. The shipment 
consists of over 600 lobsters of both sexes, the 
larger proportion being females, many of 
which are now carrying eggs nearly ready to 
hatch. A lot of 200,000 free eggs arranged on 
cloth trays is also included in the shipment 
and these will be hatched artificially after 
their arrival in San Francisco. 
Spook-monger “General” and Madame 
“Diss Debar” have been found guilty of try¬ 
ing to obtain property from lawyer Marsh, 
of this city, and sentenced to six months each 
in the penitentiary. Marsh still believes in 
the mediumistic powers of the “ Madame,” 
and paid all the legal expenses of the defence. 
.The Salvation Army has managed in 
some mysterious way to rent a five-story 
building on Reade Street, New York, for 
national head-quarters, occupying the whole 
of the building, and running .its flag-staff 50 
feet above the roof, with “ The Salvation 
Army ” in white letters on a red flag floating 
from it.The naval bill provides for 
the construction of four new vessels which 
will aid materially in reestablishing the 
United States navy. Two of the cruisers are 
required to have a speed of 19 knots an hour 
as a minimum, another must make 20 knots, 
and the big armored cruiser, which will prob¬ 
ably cost $3,500,000, will, it is estimated, 
make 17 knots 
The date of the G. A. R. National Encamp¬ 
ment at Columbus, Ohio, has been fixed for 
September 12. The National Association of 
Naval Veterans will hold a reunion at the 
same time and place...There are 150,600 
miles of railroad in the United States, which is 
about half the railway mileage in the world 
.. The National organization of the Colored 
Young Men’s Christian Association was com- 
S lated at Louisville, Ky., Tuosday, Charles L. 
[orris, of that citv, being chosen President. 
_The weather during the week has been ex¬ 
tremely hot all over the country, but espec¬ 
ially beyond the Mississippi and particularly 
in the Northwest. Indeed weather “sharps” 
are busy predicting a scorching summer. It 
requires seven years, they say, for the seasons 
to climb up to the heat climax. The summers 
of 1867,1874 and 1881 were notably hot, and in 
due order 1888 will be a roaster also. They 
say these periodical extremes of temperature 
depend on the greater or less prevalence 
of sun spots.A gale that caused great 
loss of life and property set in at Quebec on 
Wednesday. The negroes in the Chicka¬ 
saw Nation are planning a general exodus 
to Oklahoma, where they intend making 
settlements and farming. Several thous¬ 
and met at Wynnewood, I. T., Tuesday 
and effected an organization... The 
Great Centennial Exposition to be held at 
Cincinnati, opening July 4, and closing 
October 27, bids fair to excel anything of the 
kind since the New Orleans Exposition or per¬ 
haps since the great show of 1876 in Philadel¬ 
phia. It is commemorative of the settlement 
of Ohio and of the vast region west of the 
Alleghanies. For it the citizens of Cincinnati 
have contributed a guarantee fund of more 
than 31.006,000, and vast buildings have al- 
readv been erected at a cost of upwards of 
$250,000. We shall keep our readers posted 
with regard to this great undertaking ....... 
Tuesday, Captain Andrews set sail on his little 
15-foot boat, The Dirk Secret, from Boston 
to Queenstown, Ireland. She measures only 
12 feet on the water line, and her owner is 
her sole passenger.The 
ether day 50 experts and other gentlemen wit¬ 
nessed experiments at Harrison. N. Y., with 
a new explosive, called emmensite, invented 
by Dr. Emmens. The Doctor says it is absol¬ 
utely safe to handle, and it is claimed that it is 
much more powerful than any explosive hither¬ 
to invented in tbeNew World or the Old. The 
Doctor estimates that with a multi-charge 
accelerating cartridge and a gun 40 feet long, 
a range of 27 miles can be obtained with the 
explosive. A three-inch steel gun, feet 
long, now being made for him, is expected 
to throw a 25-pound projectile seven miles. 
Emmensite is applicable to all the purposes 
for which other explosives are used. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 23, 1888. 
After all, it turns out that poor Emperor 
Fredrick did really die from cancer, as proved 
by a post-mortem examination of the throat 
and lungs. Even Dr. Mackenzie confesses 
that he knew this for some time before the 
end, and doubtless some of the other doctors 
knew it also, but all concealed their know¬ 
ledge because there is a law that nobody af¬ 
flicted with a chronic disease, can occupy the 
Prussian throne. Empress Victoria when on¬ 
ly Crown Princess, ardently desired to be Em¬ 
press both for the honor and the largely in¬ 
creased income, and of course, her husband 
sympathized with her, hence all the mysteiy 
and pretended uncertainty about the nature 
of the ailment. 
The new German Emperor has issued three 
proclamations. His temper and instincts no 
doubt receive illustration from the fact that 
his first proclamations were in the form of 
general orders to the army and navy. The 
proclamation to the army is a striking docu¬ 
ment. The Emperor, formally announcing 
the death of his father and his own accession 
to the head of the army, declares that he and 
the army belong to one another and were born 
for each other, and that he will one day have 
to render an account of the glory and honor 
of the army. The proclamation is through¬ 
out marked by*a militarj tone which in part 
takes on a medieval form of expression. A 
similar though not so pronounced a tone marks 
the proclamation to the navy. These procla¬ 
mations have since been followed by another 
to the Prussian people, which, however, gives 
no indication of the new Emperor’s policy. 
Probably the first clear indication of his posi¬ 
tion will be given at the meetings of the Im¬ 
perial Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, 
which will take place shortly. 
European newspapers express different opin¬ 
ions with regard to the interpretation of the 
proclamations; but the great majority look 
upon them as warlike. Bismarck and the new 
Emperor are, however, very staunch friends, 
and it is thought that during the aged Chan¬ 
cellor’s lifetime all unnecessary dangers of 
war will be avoided. Both the Emperor and 
Chancellor have expressed their belief in the 
maintenance of peace. 3 he lriple Alliance 
between Germany, Austria-Hungary and 
Italy is pretty certain to be maintained. 
The latest news from the Old Country pro¬ 
phesies that the new Emperor intends to crush 
out socialism, steadily sustain Prince Bis¬ 
marck and avoid war if he can. It is repozted 
that a meeting of the three Emperors—the 
Kaiser, the Czar and Francis Joseph—has been 
arranged. Bismarck says the Empeioi s fiist 
duty is to maintain the imperial constitution 
and protect the territory of the Empire and 
its rights, such protection applying alike to 
the treaty rights of the federal States indivi¬ 
dually and as a whole. It will be the Em¬ 
peror’s task to foster mutual confidence 
with the same care that was exercised by 
his predecessors, adhering to the internal 
foreign policy which gained for them the 
attachment of the federal States and the 
confidence of foreign powers in such measure 
that they saw in the strength of Germany a 
guarantee of peace. . . , 
Emperor Francis Joseph has appointed Em¬ 
peror William honorary colonel of the Thirty- 
fourth infantry regiment, which is named 
“William I,” and has named the Seventh 
Hussar regiment “William II., 
Austria-Hungary has granted a war appro¬ 
priation of 47,000,000 florins, and war prepar¬ 
ations are being vigorously pushed lor ward. 
Indeed that is still the case all over Europe. 
In the United Kingdom, the Giadstouites 
have gained a great victory at Ayi in Scot¬ 
land where they elected a Liberal instead of a 
Liberal Unionist. At the previous election 
Ayr elected Richard Campbell, Liberal Un¬ 
ionist, by a majority of 1,175 in a total of 4,- 
171. Upon the death of Mr. Campbell,auotker 
Liberal-Unionist, Evelyn Ashley, was put up; 
while Capt. Sinclair, who ran against t amp- 
bell was re-nominated by the Gladstomtes. 
Sinclair was elected a week ago, by a majority 
of 63 in a total vote of 4,599, The Gladston- 
ians made a gain of 1,2 8, while the Libel al- 
Uuiouists’ loss is 405. This is considered the 
worst defeat the Government has met with 
The Salisbury Government was also defeated 
on Wednesday in Parliament on a clause of 
the Local Government Bill they are advocat¬ 
ing before that body. Most of the Liberal- 
Unionists voted against the Government, and 
so did almost a dozen Conservatives. The 
Ministry will not resign, however, as themeas- 
sure was of minor importance. 
Some time ago John Dillon, member of 
Parliament, and one of the cleverest and most 
prominent of the Home Rulers, was con¬ 
demned to six months’ imprisonment under 
the Crimes Act for alleged inciting to viol¬ 
ence. He appealed, but his sentence has been 
reaffirmed by the higher court, and he is now in 
jail at Dundalk. Being quite weak in health 
he is in the infirmary. This action has pro¬ 
duced intense excitement among all opponents 
of coercion in Ireland in and out of 
Parliament, and Gladstone and Morley are 
to lead a fierce debate on Monday against 
the Government’s entire proceedings under the 
Act. 
Reports thicken that Stanley is in a “bnd 
fix,” and it has been asserted that he is dead. 
The Society for the Relief of Emin Bey, how¬ 
ever, who sent him into Africa, entirely dis¬ 
credits all these evil reports, from the infor¬ 
mation in their possession. 
European cablegrams tell us that Mr. Blaine 
is now in Edinburg, and will start on Mon¬ 
day with his family and the rest of the Carne¬ 
gie party to Linlithgow, about 16 miles north 
of the Scotch capital. He is in excellent 
health and though freely advised by cable of 
the doings at Chicago, is not anxious. He is 
reported to be fully enjoying himself. With 
regard to whether he would or would not ac¬ 
cept a nomination he is himself non-commit¬ 
tal; but Carnegie says he will accept a unan¬ 
imous nomination, and Mrs. Blaine intimates 
that she is of the same opinion, though she 
thinks it hardly likely that a unanimous nom¬ 
ination will be offered. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 23, 1888. 
A telegram from Staunton, Va., on June 
18, says that was the hottest day of the season, 
the mercury registering 99 in the shade. The 
wheat harvest was to commence rightaway, 
and it was expected that the yield would be 
the best in 10 years .All through the 
Shenandoah Valley the acreage is large and 
the condition of the crop excellent. 
Early in the week myriads of grass-hoppers 
appeared in many parts of Southern Indiana 
and were devouring all vegetation as they 
went. They destroy meadows first, then the 
foliage of trees, and next corn, oats, and gar¬ 
den vegetables. Thousands of acres of mead 
ows have been devastated by them. 
_The corner-stone of the Pennsylvania Ag¬ 
ricultural Experiment Station will be laid at 
State College, Center County, Wednesday, 
June 27. A special train will leave Bellefonte 
for Lemont at 10:30 A. M. on that day. An 
address will be delivered by Prof. I. P. Rob¬ 
erts, Director of the Cornell University Ex¬ 
periment Station. An outline of station-work 
will be given by Dr. H. P. Armsby, Director 
of the station, while Governor Beaver, and the 
Hon. Francis Jordan, President of the Board 
of Trustees, will also address the meeting. 
Professor Otto Lugger, of the Minnesota Uni¬ 
versity, who has just returned from the lo¬ 
cust-infested region about Perham, says there 
is an average of 12 locusts to the square foot 
on 100 square miles. They are genuine Rocky 
Mountain locusts. The insects are doing im¬ 
mense damage .Charles A. Keffer 
who graduated in Horticulture under Prof. 
Budd, at the Iowa Agricultural College in 
1883, has been elected Professor of Horticul¬ 
ture, including Forestry and Botany, at the 
Dakota Agricultural College .The 
Prince of W'ales has become the patron of the 
Red-Polled Cattle Society of England. 
The Fat Stock Show of the Smithfiehl 
(Eng.,) Club, for 1888, will take place Decem¬ 
ber 10-14. The prizes offered amount to some¬ 
thing over $16,000. The highest prize is for 
the best animal in the show, and its amount is 
1525 . Her Majesty the Queen has been 
graciously pleased to signify her acceptance 
of the office of President of the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society of England during its forthcom¬ 
ing jubilee year. His Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales, who has himself served as 
President on three separate occasions, has inti¬ 
mated to the Council his willingness to under¬ 
take on her Majesty’s behalf the more imme¬ 
diate duties of the presidential office .... 
This year the Minnesota State Agricultural 
Society offers premiums to the amount of $20,- 
000 to be awarded at the fair to open on Sep¬ 
tember 8ih --A consignment of pears 
arrived from California Wednesday. The 
oldest retail fruit dealer here, says this is the 
earliest date he has known table pears to 
appear.P. D. Armour has agreed to 
build a pork and beet-packing establishment 
at Sioux City, Iowa, to cost half a million dol¬ 
lars, on condition a bonus of $100,000 is given 
by the town, and a committee of citizens Mon¬ 
day secured the subscription of nearly all that 
amount .... Since 1887 the number of sheep 
in Michigan has fallen off’ 34,644, or two per 
cent. The wool clip will be about 11,900,000 
pounds_ It is asserted that sparrows 
cause a loss to agricultural England of $40,- 
000,000 to $50,000,000 per year, and from pres¬ 
ent indications, a destructive war against the 
pugnacious little pests is likely to be soon 
started ....From the United States Great 
Britain last year received 96,812 cattle and 
1,027 sheep, against 113,749 cattle and 5.557 
sheep in 1886. From Canada were received 
65 154 cattle, 35,479 sheep find three swine, 
against 67,248 cattle, 94,356 sheep and <0 
swine in 18&5 .Two owners of rival sheep- 
shearing machines in New South Wales have 
put up $5,000 on a shearing match at which 
their relative merits are to be tested ... 
The militia of the Chickasaw Nation are as¬ 
sembled at Ardmore, preparing to march upon 
the stockmen, who, 500 strong, are resisting 
the payment of the tax on cattle Ike cattle 
owners are armed with Winchesters, ike 
government troops at Fort Reno are also pre¬ 
paring to take the field, and fears are ex- 
