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JULY 44 
THE BUBAL HEW-YOBKEB. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 7, 1888. 
On the Fourth in the little city of Water 
Valley, Miss., a grand stand full of people fell 
with a crash, burying 400 men, women and 
children in the ruins. About 50 persons were 
taken out with broken limbs and bodies 
bruised in almost every conceivable manner. 
No one was killed outright, but several of 
the victims are believed to be fatally hurt. 
Same day a destructive cyclone was at large 
in Iowa and Illinois. Great injury was done 
to buildings, corn, telegraph wires, wind¬ 
mills, fruit and other trees, etc., while a great 
number of live stock standing near wire fences 
were killed or injured by lightning . 
The United States Supreme Court has sus¬ 
tained the validity of a Kansas law making 
railroad companies responsible in damages for 
injuries to their employes growing out of the 
negligence or carelessness of fellow employes. 
.The manufacturers of rubber goods 
have abandoned their scheme to consolidate 
all the factories into an association or Trust, 
because one of the heaviest New Jersey manu¬ 
facturers could not be induced to enter the 
combination .It is said that the Green¬ 
way opposition in the Manitoba Legislature at 
Winnipeg will not occupy more than eight 
seats and quite probably an even less number 
than that .The Journal of Ottawa Can¬ 
ada, says it learns on good authority that 
Bishop Lafleche, of Three Rivers diocese, 
signed a decree on Tuesday ordering the expul 
sion of Jesuits from that diocese on tho ground 
that they have unduly influenced Catholics to 
change their wills on their death beds in favor 
of the Jesuits.The official vote of 
Oregon for Congressman gives Hermann (Re¬ 
publican), 32,820; Gearin (Democrat), 25,413; 
and Miller (Prohibitionist), 1,974 .Six 
and thirty-five hundredths inches of rain fell 
at Mattoon, Ill., Tuesday by accurate meas¬ 
urement, submerging thousands of acres but 
doing the crops more good than harm . 
... .Horsemen from Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa 
and Dakota attended the auction sale of the 
late Commodore Kittson’s trotting stock at 
Midway Park, St. Paul, the other day. The 
42 horses sold brought $54,000. The famous 
mare, So So, was bought by F. D. Stout, of 
Dubuque, Iowa, for $8,500, the highest price 
ever paid for a brood mare in America__ 
A bill to make the manufacture, preparation 
or sale of adulterated articles of food, drink 
or medicine a misdemeanor, punishable by 
fine and imprisonment, was introduced in the 
Senate Thursday by Senator Wilson, of Iowa. 
The bill provides that the fact that an article 
has been corrupted, debased or changed in its 
composition or strength by the introduction 
of any foreign substance shall constitute an 
adulteration, whether the article shall have 
been rendered unhealthful or not.There 
are indications that the everlasting tariff de¬ 
bate in the House will not last more than two 
or three weeks longer. Then a vote will be 
taken for the sake of making a record. The 
Democrats, having a majority, will pass the 
bill; but as the Republicans have a majority 
in the Senate it cannot pass that body, and it 
is doubtful if it will be permitted to come to 
a vote. There is some talk that Congress will 
adjourn in two or three weeks’ time. 
President Cleveland has sent to Congress a 
message in which he defends b.is vetoes of cer¬ 
tain pension bids.A terrible tornado 
struck New-Brunswick N. J., Thursday. Out¬ 
buildings and boxes were caught by the wind 
and tossed about like bandboxes, windows were 
broken by the hail, the streets were flooded, 
several houses were struck by lightning, trees 
were uprooted, and one was deposited on the 
top of a house . . 
Catholic Bishop Jansen, of Natchitoches, has 
been appointed Archbishop of New-Orleans. 
The report that the Holy Office had pro¬ 
nounced that tolerari posse regarding the 
Knights of Labor is incorrect.Three 
bright Chicago newsboys, guilty of no misde¬ 
meanor, were arrested last week at their re¬ 
quest and sent to the Bridewell. Their reason 
for wishing to go there, as stated to the police 
justice, was that they wanted to learn a trade. 
Under the laws of trades unions there is al¬ 
most no chance for the American boy to learn 
a trade in any shop or manufactory outside of 
a House of Correction.It appears to be 
fixed now that ex-Senator Warner Millershall 
be th£ Republican candidate for Governor of 
New York this year.The Duke of Marl¬ 
borough, George Charles Spencer Churchill, 
and Mrs. Lilly Warren Hammersley were 
married yesterday week in New York in the 
City Hall by Mayor Hewitt. The Duke and 
Duchess of Marlborough sailed for Europe 
Satuiday. Sheis now called ’‘The American 
Duchess”.W. C. Farrar’s $15,000 trot¬ 
ting stallion, Jubilee Lambert, 2:25, died of 
apoplexy Tuesday afternoon at Peru. Ind... 
A Cincinnati soap firm has just distributed 
$14,000 among its 200 employes as their share 
of the year’s profits.... The total cost of 
the Republican National Convention was $30,- 
600. The three largest items of expense were 
$7,000 to the Auditorium Association for ball 
rent, $2,700 for electric lighting, and $5,000 
for entertaining the members of the National 
Committee .... The Superior Court of Iowa 
decides that the statutes of the State, forbid¬ 
ding the sale of liquor in the original packages 
in which it is imported from another State, 
are in conflict with the laws of the general 
Government, and are thus far invalid ... 
A suit brought by Morton, Bliss & Co., of this 
city, against the State of North Carolina, is 
pending before the Uuited States Supreme 
Court. The banking firm wants the State to 
make good $9,000,000 worth of bonds which 
Morton, Bliss & Co. bought while North Car¬ 
olina was being run by the wildcat Govern¬ 
ment that prevailed soon after the war. If 
their $9,000,000 is good, the State will have to 
pay $115,000,000 more of the same issue of 
bonds, and, as some very profound sages re¬ 
mark, the Republicans of North Carolina 
won’t hump themselves in the cause of a man 
who maybe the meansof saddling a $125,000,- 
000 debt upon the State. 
The Winnipeg Free Press is strongly advo 
eating the independence of Canada ... ... 
Dogs have been killing hogs almost nightly 
in Clinton County. O .A valuable horse 
was attacked hy a bull-dog at Detroit, Mich., 
and it was necessary, in order to loosen the 
dog’s hold, to chop his head off with an axe. 
Sunday being the twenty-first anniversary of 
the Confederation of the Canadian Provinces, 
Monday was observed throughout the Domin 
ion as a general holiday .... The Chicago 
Times has reduced the price of its wee {-day 
issue from three to two cents. This is tho 
second reduction in the price of the Times 
within a month, the first being from five to 
three cents.. 
. .. Last Tuesday Gen. Sheridan left Washing 
ton on board the U. S. man-of-war Swatara 
on his way to his new cottage at Nonquitt, on 
the other side of the bay from New Bedford, 
Bristol Co., Mass. After lying some time at 
Fortress Monroe, the vessel steamed for the 
Delaware Breakwater, where the General, 
owing to the rolling of the vessel, had a 
bad attack; but soon recovered, and putting 
to sea again yestarday, arrived at the Navy 
Yard here this morning. The sea air is doing 
him a world of good, and he is getting better 
every day . 
The telegraph operators of the country are 
reported organizing to secure an increase of 
wages and a reduction of hours. Representa¬ 
tives of the Telegraphers’ Brotherhood hope to 
avoid a strike, but state that they will strike 
if it is necessary and if they can do so effect¬ 
ively.The first Prohibition convention 
ever held in Arkansas convened at Little Rock 
on the Fourth. They will start a State ticket. 
The twelfth annual meeting of the Music 
Teachers’ National Association began in Chica¬ 
go Tuesday. The organization has 1,500 mem¬ 
bers. The exposition at Cincinnati in honor 
of the centennial of the first settlement of Ohio 
and the Northwest was opened on the Glori¬ 
ous Fourth. The widow of President 
Polk started the machinery by telegraph from 
Nashville. The Governors of Indiana and 
Pennsylvania and others made speeches. 
There was a grand parade . .Mr. Edmunds 
has reported back to the Senate the nomina¬ 
tion of Judge Fuller without recommendation. 
It is expected he will be confirmed in a week 
or two.The reduction in the public debt 
for June was $14,429,502; since June 30, 1887, 
$113,844,080. Total debt less cash in Treasury, 
$1,180,014,159 .In case the University is 
defeated in the Fiske will case H. W. Sage of 
Brooklyn will pay $225,000, the cost of erect¬ 
ing the new Cornell University library build¬ 
ing. He has already advanced the money 
without interest....-_The Standard Envel¬ 
ope Trust has advanced the price of envelopes 
20 per cent. It has already crushed out or 
forced into, submission all small mills, and 
has now a monoply....A remarkable fact 
which seems to have escaped general notice is 
that General Master-Workman Powderly was 
not consulted by either the St. Louis or Chica¬ 
go convention as to the nominations. 
Harrison and Morton have received official 
notification of their nominations, and both 
made excellent and appropriate speeches ... 
.The Mississippi Legislature has passed a 
bill establishing an industrial school for young 
women. The course of instruction will run 
from needle work to school-teaching. If the 
scheme as planned out is properly supported it 
cannot fail to be a grand good thing for the 
State .The revenue-cutter Crawford has 
arrived at Key West, Fla., having in tow the 
British schooner Admired, captured off Fowey 
Rock Light while turtle fishing within the 
prohibited three miles from shore.The 
first transatlantic vessel which ever arrived 
at Chicago steamed into the river last week. 
It was the Rosedale, which left Sunderland, 
Eng., one month ago, brand-new from the 
ship-builder’s yards. She brought a cargo of 
Portland cement from London. It was re¬ 
shipped at Montreal and Kingston to get her 
through the Welland canal. The Rosedale 
is a propeller and a very fast one. She will 
not go back to England, but will be kept on 
the great lakes to run between Toronto and 
Port Arthur . 
... .The Michigan Prohibitionists have made 
these nominations: For Governor, A. B. 
Cheney, of Sparta; Lieutenant-Governor, 
Stewart B. Williams, of Saginaw; Secretary 
of State, Peter M. Hagel; Treasurer, Alfred 
Wise; Attorney-General, Lemuel Clute; 
Auditor-General, D. A. Waterman. 
The total receipts of the United States Trea¬ 
sury during the fiscal year ending July 1 
are $370,000,000, and the total expenditures 
at $273,000,000, leaving a surplus of $97,000,- 
000 .. 
There was a grand reunion of Federal and 
Confederate veterans at Gettysburg, Pa., the 
first three days of the month, to “ celebrate ” 
fraternally the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
greatest battle of the war. Several thousand 
Northern officers and men and a large num¬ 
ber from the South rehearsed old reminis- 
censes in the most cordial spirit. Numerous 
monuments commemorative of the brave 
veterans of various commands were dedicated 
on the scenes of the fiercest conflicts. It is 
said that over $500,000 were spent in “ cele 
brating” the occasion .The Glorious 
Fourth was gloriously celebrated all over the 
country. About the usual number of extra 
fires and “drunks” marked the hilarity of 
young and old on the occasion... . 
....In the big iron strike now under way, 17 
mills have signed the scale and agreed to pay 
the old rate of wages Four or five other 
mills are expected to sign the scale within ten 
days. The number of men on strike is about 
50,000. About 6,000 men are either at work 
now or will shortly resume work at mills 
that have signed the scale. About 8,000 men 
are at work at mills not influenced bv the 
Amalgamated Association. In addition to 
the above a large number of men dependent 
upon the iron and steel industry for a living 
are idle in consequence of the strike. 
♦ -- 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 7, 1888. 
About a year ago the Londou Times pub¬ 
lished a series of articles entitled “Parnellism 
and Crime.” They fiercely assailed the lea¬ 
ders of Home Rule and the Land League at¬ 
tributing to them complicity in all the politi¬ 
cal crimes in Ireland and particularly with 
instigating or criminally approving the mur¬ 
der of Lord Cavendish and Under-Secretary 
Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin. The paper 
challenged a libel suit, but knowing the power 
of the Thunderer among the people and the pre¬ 
judices of the latter against the Irish, nobody 
at the time accepted the challenge. After¬ 
wards O’Donnell, ex-Member of Parliament 
and an ex-leader in Irish agitation, who had in¬ 
curred the suspicion of his colleagues, brought 
a suit against the paper in his own name. A 
verdict against him Has just been given. He 
made up a wretched case, and had it badly 
managed by a third-rate lawyer against an 
array of the best lawyers in the Kingdom on 
behalf of the Times. There Is no doubt that 
the “traitor” acted in collusion with the Times, 
which wished to get Parnell and other Irish 
leaders before a jury in order to force them 
under oath to make concessions that might be 
damaging to the Irish cause. The case was 
closed’ before any of them were called, and 
Parnell and McCarthy last night emphati¬ 
cally asserted in the Commons that letters al¬ 
leged to have been written by them and others 
were absolute forgeries. Their explanations 
appear to have satisfied all fair-minded men. 
The property destroyed by recent fires at 
Sundsvallo and Umea in Sweden, was valued 
at 45,000,000 kronors, or about $12,000,000. 
Twelve thousand people were rendered home¬ 
less by the flames. King Oscar is visiting the 
districts and is engaged iu relieving the wants 
of the sufferers. Houses, forests and standing 
crops on farms in other districts were also 
burned .The merchants and ship-owners 
of Liverpool, England, have held a meeting 
and indorsed the American Nicaragua Canal 
scheme as an undertaking of the greatest im¬ 
portance to the commerce of Great Britain and 
of the United States .The Irish bishops 
have published a series of resolutions explain¬ 
ing the present position of the land question, 
and expressing the opinion that unless Parlia¬ 
ment immediately applies a really effective 
measure to protect tenants from oppressive 
exactions and arbitrary eviction, the most dis¬ 
astrous consequences to public order and the 
safety of the people must almost inevitably 
ensue. 
The Pan-Presbyterian council opened at 
London Thursday. The number of commu¬ 
nicants was reported to be 4,000,000 and of ad¬ 
herents 20,000,000. Dr. Drury of New York 
and others read papers. 
Zobehr Pasha, the great Arab slave dealer 
of Central Africa, now living in Egypt, thinks 
the “White Pasha,” seen in the region of 
Bahrgazelle, is not Stanley, but Dr. Emin 
Pasha. He (Emin Pasha) told Zobehr’s mes¬ 
sengers that, if pressed, he would strike for 
Bahrgazelle, where the people are hostile to 
the Mahdi. 
An expedition is formed at Berlin for the 
relief of Emin Pasha. 
Official dispatches from St. Petersburg state 
that M. de Giers, the Russian Prime Minister, 
has informed Sir R. D. Morier, the British 
Ambassador, that after December 17 the Bul¬ 
garians may do anything and everything they 
please, from cutting each others’ throats to 
declaring their country an empire. Russia, 
M de Giers declared, will not move a finger 
to prevent them from following their own in¬ 
clinations, and will wash her hands of the 
whole concern. The Ambassador is of the 
opinion that Russia does not intend to provoke 
war. 
“I can heartily say to any young man who 
is wanting good employment, work for John¬ 
son & Co., follow their instruction and you 
will succeed.” So writes an agent of B. F. 
Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va , 
and that’s the way all of their men talk.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 7, 1888. 
American live cattle are selling at 12%c. es¬ 
timated dressed weight for best in English mar¬ 
kets, and dressed beef is commanding 9%c_ 
The Victoria, Australia, Racing Associa¬ 
tion will give over $130,000 at the spring meet¬ 
ing this year, the Melbourne cup being worth 
$20,000 ... The establishment of a register 
for jacks and jennets is being agitated. Hon. 
Chas. F. Mills, of Springfield. Ills., is looking 
after the matter -Jay-Eye-See has gone 
lame and has been taken back to Racine, Wis., 
for the season .. An English authority es¬ 
timates that from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 
are lost annually by warbles in hides. 
A total of 1,869 live cattle and 3,236 quarters of 
beef were exported from Boston last week. 
..The Chicago market has been overstocked 
with Texas cattle for the past few weeks, and 
the poorer grades are almost unsalable.... 
.. .Cotton worms have appeared in five coun¬ 
ties in the southern part of Arkansas, and it is 
feared that thev will do as much damage to 
the crop as in 1867, when the crop was a total 
failure Tom Hal, the sire of Brown 
Hal. record 2:13, and Little Brown Jug, record 
2:11%, died recently in Tennessee at the age 
of 27 years ... An organization known as 
the American Sussex Association has been 
formed. The object of the association is 
stated to be the collection, revision, preserva¬ 
tion and publication of the history and pedi¬ 
grees of pure bred Sussex cattle. Tt will be 
officered as follows: President, H. C. Bur¬ 
leigh, Vassal boro, Me.; Vice-President, 
John O. Rollins, Stonington, Ill.: Secretary, 
Overton Lea, Nashville, Teun.; Treasurer, S. 
K. Knox, Independence, Mo.As com¬ 
pared with the corresponding date of last 
year, the quantity of wheat now on passage 
shows an increase of 112,000 bushels, and of 
corn a decrease of 190.000 bushels .The 
principal writer for the Mark Lane Express 
says: “I never remember such a season for 
prevalence of insect pests of one kind and an¬ 
other.” Iu one place it is locusts, in another 
caterpillars, and in others worms and bugs 
of various kinds, but all with ravenous appe¬ 
tites for vegetation of every description.... 
-The experts sent to Tara, Ont., by the 
Dominion and Ontario Governments to inves¬ 
tigate the disease which has been killing cattle 
in Grey County, have pronounced it a blood 
disease due to the local causes. It was reported 
to be contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
The rate on dressed beef shipments from Chi¬ 
cago to New York on Tuesday fell to 25 cents 
per 100 pounds, the lowest rate ever made by 
any railroad on this class of freight. There is 
a general cutting of rates all around. 
The Erie road yesterday cut the dressed beef 
rate to 17% cents per hundred pounds from 
Chicago to New York, and the Pennsylvania 
and Vanderbilt lines met the reduction. The 
rate on cattle dropped to 9% cents. All the 
roads made a rate of 20 cents on provisions. The 
Erie continues to show fight, and will in all 
probability make another effort to retain 
its differential rate by putting in a rate of 15 
cents on dressed beef to-day. 
Otto Lueger, the State Entomologist of Min¬ 
nesota, just returned from the scene of the 
grasshopper invasion in the northern part of 
the State, says that the efforts at destroying 
the insects have been so successful that at 
least a half yield may be expected. 
Cl*J0J)5 & iHflvkllS. 
Saturday, July 7,1888. 
The Mark Lane Express in its review of the 
British grain trade during last week says 
English wheat in the provincial markets is 
steadier, and an occasional advance of fid is 
reported where the supplies are small. The 
sales of English wheat during the week were 
34,899 quarters at 31s 4d, against 15,696 quar¬ 
ters at 35s during the corresponding period 
last year. Foreign wheat does not improve 
at Liverpool, prices being Is 2d per cental 
lower. Flour is dull at the recent decline. 
Corn is weaker; mixed American is quoted at 
22s 6d, ex-ship. Oats have gaiued 3d. 
The latest mail advices from France state 
that the weather has been rainy, and so far 
favorable to the crops, but the temperature 
has been much too cold to suit the wheat 
plant, which is now in ear in the early dis¬ 
tricts, and is about to go into the ear in the 
North. Altogether it looks as if the wheat crop 
this year will be a comparatively short one. 
Tne rainfall in California last month was 
the largest ever recorded in the month of 
June, and has fortunately resulted in giving 
the farmers about an average crop of wheat, 
instead of half a crop, as was at one time ex¬ 
pected. 
In connection with the fast through fruit 
and vegetable freight trains from Florida to 
