JULY 23 
502 
THE BUBAL HEW-YOBKIB. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 21, 1888. 
The sub-tropical exposition at Jacksonville, 
Fla., will continue from January 1, 1889, to 
Mayl. ....The 200-year old mansion 
on tbeOpkir Farm near White Plains, N. Y., 
recently bought by Wbitelaw Reid, was 
burned July 14. Loss, $250,000; insurance, 
$100,000 . Sixty Canadian laborers 
employed by the Grand Trunk road at Port 
Huron and other places on the St. Clair river, 
have been forbidden to cross over, under the 
provisions of the Alien Labor Law. 
In spite of our anti-Chinese laws, the almond- 
eyed race are pouring into the country in 
large numbers. They come chiefly through 
British Columbia. Most of them say they 
are provided with return certificates issued by 
the United States Customs officers, but of 
course these are fraudulent. They make 
their way to the “States,” however, 
either in smuggling vessels along the 
coast, or clandestinely overland. 
... The Senate has passed the bill to place 
John C. Fremont on the retired list of the 
Army as Major-General.A cow-boy 
walked into the bank of La Junta, Kansas, 
at 1:20 o’clock last Saturday afternoon, and 
covering R.ufus Phillips, the cashier, with a 
revolver ordered him to drop all the funds of 
the bank into a bag he placed on the counter. 
The cashier complied with alacrity, and the 
daring robber at once mounted his horse and 
escaped. The amount of the loss is variously 
estimated at from $16,000 to $28,000. 
The Canadian jails at present contain no mur¬ 
derers under sentence of death. The officials 
in the Department of Justice state that this in¬ 
cident is almost without precedent.David 
Carrol, who invented the stump-puller now 
in universal use among farmers, and the in¬ 
genious instrument usedin calculating thespeed 
of sea vessels, died near Meadville, Penn., a 
week ago, aged 65 years.John S. Tuck¬ 
er, of Virginia, has been appointed a princi¬ 
pal examiner of land claims and contests 
in the General Land Office.Reports 
from the special timber agent at Eureka, 
Nevada, state that two corporations have 
made depredations amounting to $2,000,- 
000 upon the public timber.. 
Grafton, opposite Woodstock, New Bruns¬ 
wick, has been almost destroyed by fire. Over 
200 persons are homeless. At the close 
of last year the whites of foreign descent in 
this country numbered about 28,000,000 
and of American descent 24,000,000. The 
line dividing the two stocks is drawn at the 
year 1790 as a convenient and proper point, 
because at that period the political and so¬ 
cial organization of the country was fairly 
settled and the first census taken. 
Just now dressed beef rates east from Chicago 
are stationary, but the cutting has been going 
on quite severely. The Chicago and Atlan¬ 
tic now charges six cents per 100 pounds,the 
Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania lines seven 
cents, and the Grand Trunk and Big Four 
30 cents. Reductions have been made on the 
following articles to New York: Hair from 30 
to 18 cents; pig lead, originally 25 cents, to 17 
cents.Twenty-three people have been 
killed and 48 injured since January 1 in the 
streets of New York. But few arrests have 
been made and there have been still fewer 
convictions.Judge J. W. H. Un¬ 
derwood, who was a member of Con¬ 
gress at the opening of the war, and 
served on the Tariff Commission appointed by 
President Arthur, dropped dead of heart dis¬ 
ease at Rome, Ga , Thursday.Joseph 
Lippencott, of New York, has bought for over 
$1,000,000 the business of the Edison phono¬ 
graph company with all improvements by Mr. 
Edison for 15 years to come. Mr. Lippencott 
has also become sole licensee of the American 
grapbophone, and has organized a company to 
introdnce the machines. George Metzin- 
ger, who was the chief instigator of the Chi¬ 
cago bomb-makers, and connected with the 
Haymarket riot, died in an insane asylum at 
Jefferson, 111., recently. No one claimed his 
body and it was used for dissecting purposes. 
.Fannie L. Davenport-Price, the actiess, 
has been granted an absolute divorce by Judge 
Barrett, of the New York Supreme Court, this 
city, from her husband,Edwin H.Price 
The Democrats of Racine, Wis., ask the Re¬ 
publicans to join them in boycotting the 
Standard Oil monopoly by giving up torch¬ 
light processions and substituting an intelli¬ 
gent discussion of the tariff .The 
amount of property of the Mormon church 
now in the hands of Receiver Dyer, appointed 
by the Federal courts, is $700,668. 
Close upon the heels of the sweeping liberal 
victory in Manitoba comes the news that the 
Northern Pacific is at once to extend its system 
through the province, thus constituting itself 
a formidable rival to the Canadian Pacific.... 
The Civil-Service Commissioners are to report 
most favorably on the work of women in the 
Government service. They assert that wom¬ 
en’s work in the service is of a high standard 
of excellence, and that in many cases their 
clerical labors are more accurately performed 
than those of men.A statement prepar¬ 
ed at the Pension Office shows that during the 
fiscal year ended June 30,there was issued 113,- 
087 pension certificates; of which 60,161 were 
original and 52,926 increase of pensions. The 
number of original pensions granted exceeds 
that of any former year by nearly 5,000. 
The membership of the Knights of Labor is 
340,000, against 540,000 a year ago, and 720,000 
on July 1,1886. Besides, 76,000 members are 
in bad standing, and while 376 local assemblies 
were formed during the year, 1,350lapsed ... 
Michigan Democrats have fused with the 
Green backers and Labor Unionists on the basis 
of giving Cleveland and Thurman ten electoral 
votes and the Labor-Unionist candidates three 
electoral votes. Upon this the Democrats base 
hopes of carrying the State ... The loss 
from that break on the Erie Canal, and from a 
second one, at Adams Basin, near Rochester, 
N. Y., is enormous. For nearly two weeks all 
traffic on the canal has been suspended, and 
over 400 boats are tied up east and west of the 
breaks, while many boatmen have already 
tied up their boats and sent their mules and 
horses to pasture. The loss on the inundated 
farms is heavy, but that to boatmen and trade 
all along the canal is much heavier. 
Most of the boats coming down from 
Buffalo are loaded with grain. 
Gen. Sheridan is slowly improving. Will his 
removal from his old home have results as 
fatal as in the cases of Garfield or Grant ? 
Both lingered a long time after their removal, 
and it looks very much as if poor Sheridan 
would be a third.Congressman Ran¬ 
dall is slowly recuperating. Governor 
Ames, of Mass., is getting better from the at¬ 
tack of bronchial disease that endangered his 
life over a week ago. Jay Gould, ac 
cording to general report, is steadily improv¬ 
ing in health, having been recently affected 
with nervous trouble ; according to his fami¬ 
ly and friends, he has been in excellent health 
all the time. Candidate Harrison has 
recovered from his recent attack of illness; 
but has been ordered to keep quiet and neither 
talk nor write about politics. 
The Dr. Garnett who left Washington in war 
time to join the Confederate army and has 
since had a large practice among old South¬ 
ern families at Washington, dropped dead at 
Rehoboth Beach, N. J. He was for a while 
Surgeon-general of the Confederate States. 
When he went South his property was confis¬ 
cated by the government. The Nation¬ 
al Prison Reform Congress which has been 
in session during the week severely criticises 
the Southern convict lease system, charges 
our lax marriage laws with being a prolific 
cause of crime, and supports the convict labor 
system, which is said to be “less than one-fifth 
of or e per cent, of free labor”..... The re¬ 
port of the Secretary of the State of Louis¬ 
iana shows that only a minority of the voters 
can sign their names.The Command- 
er-in-Chief of the Grand Army has issued or¬ 
ders calling attention to the non-partisan char¬ 
acter of the order . ... The Howe scale 
works at Rutland, Vt., have been sold at auc¬ 
tion to a syndicate of Rutland men for $440,000. 
The expenses of the postal service during the 
past year were $4,000,000 more than the reve¬ 
nues .J. D. Leary, whose immense raft 
of logs was scattered off the New England 
coast last March, has constructed a solid ship 
of 30,000 logs in Nova Beotia that sails for 
New York this month.An agreement 
has been made between the United States, 
Great Britain, Russia, and Germany on the 
Behring seal-fisheries, by which Behring Sea 
is to be secure from incursions from sealers 
not having a government license during the 
seal season, from May to December.Libby 
Prison will not be moved from Richmond to 
Chicago owing to lack of “popular financial 
support” for the ridiculous enterprise. 
Big forest fires are raging in the Adirondack 
region, N. Y., especially about Carthage. 
Many farmers have lost heavily in Lewis and 
Jefferson counties. Large areas of land have 
been burnt over and all stacked and growing 
crops have in numerous cases been cremated. 
Frequent fires extend along the Adirondack 
wilderness from Jayville to Lyons—a 
distance of over 60 miles. . 
A “ Personal Right League,” which is in¬ 
tended to be a national organization designed 
to work iu opposition to the Prohibition 
movement, was chartered under the Illinois 
State laws at Chicago last Wednesday. Its 
incorporators are principally Germans, and 
it is intended to start branches all over the 
country.The President,Tuesday,nomi¬ 
nated Robert B. Roosevelt as United estates 
Minister to Holland.The hotels of New 
York city have increased in number from 19 
in 1870 to 62 in 1888, with six others building. 
It is estimated that $15,000,000 are invested in 
hotel property. The returns are much larger 
than the legal rate of interest. Accommo¬ 
dations for 30,000 people are to be had in 
the hotels rated as respectable. 
Chief Piah, the once notorious chief of the 
renegade Utes in the North Park, Colorado, 
has committed suicide by shooting. 
Saturday night, William Lamont, aged 47, 
uncle of Colonel Daniel S. Lamont, the 
President’s private secretary, was found dead 
in bed in the Ashley House, Jackson, Minn. 
During the war he served iu the 179th New 
York.A mass meeting held on Monday 
in Montreal condemned the landing in Cana¬ 
da of undesirable immigrants, and called up¬ 
on the government to put a stop to 
it by imposing a fine of $1,00(1 for 
each offense upon any steamship bring¬ 
ing such people to Canada. 
About 100 of the Omaha and W innebago In¬ 
dians, whose reservation is near Sioux City, 
la., have died from measles since spring set in. 
.~VV. H. Powell, president of the 
National Association of Union Ex-prisoners of 
War, has issued his circular announcing the 
sixteenth annual convention of the association, 
to take place in Indianapolis on Septemner 18 
and 19 next.William Hall, an Alabama 
farmer, after being twice sentenced to im¬ 
prisonment for life for the murder of his wife, 
who was killed twenty-three years ago, has at 
last, on the third trial, ceen acquit¬ 
ted. His case cost Cherokee county, 
which he lived, $20,000. 
In the U. S. Senate there is a proposition to 
submit to the several States a constitutional 
amendment giving Congress the power to 
prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor 
in the United States. In reporting this prop¬ 
osition the committee argued that it was im¬ 
possible for the individual States to suppress 
the liquor traffic by the exercise of their 
police power, because of the privilege of inter¬ 
state transportation and because of the fact 
that some adjoining States decline to adopt a 
prohibitory policy.The Senate has passed 
the bill of Senator Cullom amending the 
Interstate Commerce Act. In brief, the 
measure requires reductions in published 
rates to be made only after three days’ pub¬ 
lic notice; prohibits advances in joint rates 
except after ten days’ notice to the commis¬ 
sion; adds imprisonment in the penitentiary 
to the penalty provided for a violation of the 
law as to unlawful discriminations in 
rates; makes false billing, false classifica¬ 
tion, false weighing, or false report of 
weight, a misdemeanor, punishable by a 
fine of not exceeding $5,000 and imprison¬ 
ment in the penitentiary for not exceeding 
two years for each offense; makes the pay¬ 
ment of any consideration to induce unjust 
discrimination a misdemeanor, subject to the 
like penalty, but provides that the act shall 
not be construed so as to prevent the free 
carriage of destitute and homeless persons 
transported by charitable societies, and of 
the necessary agents employed in such trans¬ 
portation; or the giving of reduced rates to 
municipal governments for the transportation 
of indigent persons; or the making of ar¬ 
rangements with national or State homes for 
the transportation of soldiers. An amend¬ 
ment proposed by Senator Reagan, which was 
agreed to, gives the United States Circuit and 
District Courts jurisdiction of violations of 
any provisions of the act upon the relation of 
any person or firm, with power to issue 
a peremptory writ of mandamus. 
In the Senate a bill was passed appropriating 
$250,000 for a monument in Louisville to Gen¬ 
eral George Rogers Clark for his conquest of 
the northwest territory.. ....An effort was 
made in Congress on Monday to take wool off 
the free list in the Mills bill, but it was defeat¬ 
ed by a vote of 120 to 102. Three Democrats, 
Wilkins and Foran, of Ohio, and Sowden, of 
Pennsylvania, voted for the change in the bill, 
and one Republican, Anderson of Iowa, vpted 
against it. The Mills bill is almost certain to 
pass the House . An effort to abolish the 
internal revenue tax on oleomargarine by an 
amendment to the Mills bill, failed on Tues¬ 
day by a vote of 101 to 3 ....The bill to 
regulate the sale of adulterated lard by prop¬ 
erly labeling it and placing taxes thereon, will 
probably be reported favorably from the 
House Committee next week.The House 
bill to grant a pension to “Muck-a-Pec-Wak- 
Keu-Zah,” or “John,” an Indian who aided 
in saving the lives of many white people in 
the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in 1862, has 
been favorably reported by Senator Davis of 
Minn., from the Committee on Pensions. 
.. Thus far 16,795 bills have been introduced 
in the national House at this session, against 
11,206 for the two sessions of the last Congress.. 
It is emphatically asserted that there’s no 
truth in the report that Jay Gould has bought 
Mackey’s interest in the Mackey-Bennett 
cables for $11,000,000, thus getting control of 
the lines and once more establishing a monop¬ 
oly. E. P. Roe, the popular novelist and 
horticulturist, died suddenly at his home at 
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, at 10.30 Thursday 
night,of neuralgia of the heart. Born at New 
Windsor, N. Y., in 1838, and studied for the 
ministry. In 1862 was chaplain of the 2d 
New York Regiment, and afterwards was ap¬ 
pointed chaplain at Fortress Monroe. A few 
years ago he sustained severe financial losses 
by indorsing his brother's paper, but by the aid 
of Lis pen satisfied all claims against him. 
Senator Sabin, from the Committee on Agri¬ 
culture, has reported favorably a bill to ap¬ 
propriate $25,000 to aid in making improve¬ 
ments in the cultivation and manufacture of 
flax and hemp to be made under the direction 
of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
The “Q t ” system appears to have a strong 
case against the conspirators who plotted to 
injure the railroad property by means of dy¬ 
namite, etc. Several other arrests have been 
made, and some of those apparently most 
deeply implicated have turned State’s evi¬ 
dence, or have proved to be Pinkerton private 
detectives. A plot has also been discov¬ 
ered among the Anarchists at Chicago, to 
blow up Inspector Bonfield and Judges Gray 
and Grinnell, who were promiuent in bring¬ 
ing the Haymarket Anarchists to the scaffold. 
A reign of terror was to be inaugurated, and 
a considerable part of the Windy City was to 
be destroyed. Several arrests have been 
made, and enough dynamite to destroy “half 
the city” has been captured. The latest reports 
however, throw discredit on the whole affair... 
The N. Y. Legislature adjourned sine die 
yesterday afternoon after an extraordinary 
session lasting four days. The prison policy 
of the State was changed; $250,000 were ap¬ 
propriated tor the purchase of material for 
manufacturing in the penal institutions; the 
Aqueduct Commission was reorganized, and 
$15,000 were voted to the Capitol Commis¬ 
sioners to complete the State Library apart¬ 
ments. Several other measures proposed by 
the Governor were not considered . 
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomina¬ 
tion of Melville Weston Fuller to the Chief 
Justiceship by a vote of 40 to 21. The vote 
against him was solidly Republican. To the 
Democratic votes in his favor were added the 
votes of ten Republicans—Cullom, Farwell, 
Cameron, Quay, Frye, Hale, Davis, Jones, 
Mitchell and Riddlerberger.Yellow 
fever is epidemic in Tampa and Manafee, 
Florida, and the Government has assented to 
a request from the Governor of Florida to 
help suppress it.There have been sever¬ 
al disastrous cloud-bursts this year, but the 
most notable onewas that which occurred near 
Wheeling, Va., or Thursday evening. Kouses 
and bridges wJStre swept away. It is repor¬ 
ted that there were 20 lives lost within the 
city limits and probably a greater number 
outside. The water-laden atmosphere emptied 
itself all at once and flooded the streams 
with direful results. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 21, 1888. 
Considerable interest has been aroused in 
England by the publication of a statement by 
Mr. Parnell outlining the scheme of political 
reorganization for Great Britain which will 
be supported by the Home Rulers. It differs 
from tne plan at first proposed by him and 
supported by Mr. Gladstone in that it pro¬ 
vides for the representation of Ireland at 
Westminster. In brief, the scheme proposes 
the institution of local legislatures for Eng¬ 
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to take 
cognizance of local concerns, the House of 
Commons to be the local legislature tor Eng¬ 
land, and the transformation of the House of 
Lords into a federative assembly in which 
England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and 
erhaps also the colonies, will be represented. 
The Knights of Labor organization is said 
to be spreading rapidly in England, especial¬ 
ly in the northern mining regions and central 
manufacturing districts. The aims of the 
Knights are favored by not a few of the 
strong English trade-unions. 
Here are news items of frequent occurrence 
in the cablegrams from Ireland 
A campaign of eviction upon an extensive 
scale opened in county Clare Wednesday. A 
house at Kilrush was demolished by means 
of a battering ram and a whole family ar¬ 
rested. There are over 100 families or 1,000 
persons against whom warrants of eviction 
have been issued for non-payment of rent ag¬ 
gregating $400,000, A large portion of this 
overdue rent is the result of an arbitrary in¬ 
crease of rents as far back as 1874 upon the 
Vandeleur estate. Only a small portion of 
the tenants have been able to meet 
these increased burdens... .. - At 
Maryboro, Ireland, Saturday, nine Ker¬ 
ry moonlighters were sentenced to penal ser¬ 
vitude for terms ranging from seven to fifteen 
years 
John Henry Brand, President of the Orange 
Free State, South Africa, is dead .... In 
new South Wales, the new law respecting 
Chinese immigration has received the royal 
assent. It prohibits the further naturalization 
of Chinese and provides that all Chinese leav¬ 
ing the colony, except those who have been 
naturalized, shall on returning be subject to 
the act. Chinese immigrants must not exceed 
an average of one to every 200 tons burden of 
the vessels in which they arrive. The poll tax 
has been fixed at $500 and the penalty for 
evasion of the tax at $250. No Chinaman shall 
be allowed to engage in mining without the 
authority of the Minister of Mines. The act 
does not affect Chinese who have been British 
subjects. 
In the year which ended ou the 2lst day of 
last December the population of Australia in¬ 
creased to the extent of 100,911 souls, while 
Tasmania and New Zealand showed increases 
of 5,267 and 13,975 respectively. The total 
population of all Australia is now 3,546,725. 
The rate of increase for the past year was 
about 3J^ per cent. 
The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote 
of 269 to 97, has adopted the Communal Reform 
bill, which gives to 2,000,000 more citizens the 
right to vote in local elections. The announce¬ 
ment of the figures was greeted with pro¬ 
longed cheering. The Chamber was then pro¬ 
rogued until November. 
Signor Crispi, the Italian Prime Minister, 
has reason to fear that the Austrian pressure 
brought to bear upon Prince Bismarck, added 
to the energetic protests of Catholic Germany, 
and the regent of Bavaria, will influence the 
German government against his plan to cur¬ 
tail the privileges and weaken the dignity of 
the Pope. 
The Portuguese Government is preparing 
an expedition to go tj the country north of 
the Zambesi River to secure and extend the 
Portuguese possessions in that region. 
Are you busy ? Are you making money ? If 
so, stick to it, you are fortunate. If you are 
not, then our advice is that you write at once 
to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., Rich¬ 
mond, Va. They can show you how to enter 
quickly upon a profitable work.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 21, 1888. 
The decline in value of hill-town farms in 
Massachusetts is put at 50 per cent, during the 
last ten years. A well-improved farm near 
Greenfield, valued at $7,000, brought recently 
$3,600 at forced sale. The shrinkage in several 
town values has been from $300,000 to $800,000. 
.... Otter Tail County, Minn., is paying 
$1 a bushel for grasshoppers, and within a ra¬ 
dius of three miles from Perham, in 18 days, 
lately,$10,000 were earned by those who caught 
and killed the pests. The entire exports 
of corn from this country for the twelve 
months ended June 30, 1888. were 24,558,157 
bushels against 40,519,499 bushels for the pre¬ 
vious twelvemonths . ... The Legislature of 
New York, at its late session, passed 
some fifty bills iu aid of farmers.... 
A farm in Orange, N. H., with a good cottage 
and buildings, and on which 15 tons of hay 
can be cut yearly, is reported to have been 
sold at auction recently for $52.Italy’s 
wine market in France has been closed by the 
high French tariff, and the result is that some¬ 
thing like 50,000,000 gallons of wine is left on 
the Italian producers’ hands.An army 
of 2,000 soldiers and 60,000 laborers have 
been struggling iu vain against the locust 
plague in Algeria .The May report of 
the Connecticut Department of Agriculture 
shows that the average amount paid for 
wages in the State is much less than 20 years 
ago. Still a greater purchasing power is an 
important factor to be considered and largely 
makes up the difference. The monthly aver¬ 
age in the State without board is $27.40, 
against $33 in 1869; with board, $17.17, against 
$20.75. The Maine cattle commis¬ 
sioners have found 10 cases of glan¬ 
ders and farcy within a few days. Two 
came from Canada, one each from New 
Hampshire and Massachusetts.- 
Mr. Austin Corbin, the banker and railroad 
magnate of this city, has proposed to the 
Health Board to take all the city’s manure 
from the east side of town to be used to fertil¬ 
ize waste places on the line of the Long Island 
Railroad, and a contractor in New Jersey has 
made a similar proposition for the manure 
from stables on the west side of town. A bill 
has been prepared for presentation to the Leg¬ 
islature imposing a license of $3 a year on 
each horse to cover the cost of collecting the 
manure.Caterpillars are doing great 
harm in Maine towns on the upper Penobscot. 
Fences seem to be alive, so thickly are they 
covered with the wriggling fuzzy things. 
Orchards have been stripped clean of leaves, 
and now the worms are taking to the woods 
and clearing the forest trees of their foliage.. 
. .President Cleveland and wife have accepted 
Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
