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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 5, 1889. 
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 
complain that other roads refuse to employ 
the engineers and firemen who stuck last 
spring on the “ Q ” system, the strike on which 
has not yet been ‘-declared off.” The men 
also say that other roads have helped the 
“Quincy” financially and otherwise They 
offer to declare the strike - ‘off” if the “ Q ’’road 
will give the same chance to the old employes 
as it does to others. Threats are made that if 
this isn’t done, trouble will be caused to the 
“Q”and all assisting roads.The debt 
of Canada increased about $12,000,000 dur¬ 
ing the past fiscal year and stood 
on June 30 at $234,513,358. 
Nearly 100 designs for the proposed Grant mon¬ 
ument in New York City have bepn submitted 
in competition for the prizes offered by the 
Executive Committee of the Grant Monument 
Association. Five prizes will be given, rang¬ 
ing from $1,500 to $200,' and nobody will be 
barred because of nationality. It is not un¬ 
likely that the monument may be erected over 
the tomb in this city. Mrs Schofield, 
wife of the General, died the other day 
_Mr. Joseph Anderson, brother of “Our 
Mary,” was married to Gertrude Barrett, 
daughter of actor Lawrence Barrett, at the 
Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, 
last Thursday, amid the greatest 6clat . 
There has been an unusually large amount of 
talk lately on both sides of the frontier about 
the annexation of the Dominion to the Union; 
but while there are on both sides a consider¬ 
able number of strong and prominent advo¬ 
cates of such a measure, the great bulk of the 
people take little or no interest in the discus¬ 
sion. There is a quiet but deep-seated con¬ 
viction in this country that annexation is in¬ 
evitable. The belief is pretty general that it 
will occur either voluntarily, on account of 
the desire of the Canadians to share in the 
great profits of free trade with this country, 
or compulsorily, as the result of a distant war 
with England. There is no general desire, 
however, to hasten the step as a result 
of either cause .Senator Stan¬ 
ford, of Cal., has sold to Miller & 
Sibley, of Franklin, Pa., the weanling colt 
Electioneer, out of the mare Beautiful Bells, 
for $12,500—the highest price ever paid for a 
weanling colt in America. This colt is a full 
brother to two others that have beaten 
2:20 at three years old. After all, 
it is denied that the great English 
racehorse, Ormonde, is to come to 
the United States, although it is not denied 
that an American offered $85,000 for him; but 
it is said that a man from Buenos Ayres 
offered $125,000 for the wonder. His owner, 
the Duke of Westminster, the richest noble in 
England, is going to breed him, and will 
probably keep him if his get are not 
roarers like himself.The town 
of Springer was laid out as the cap¬ 
ital of -‘Oklahoma Territory” on Dec. 31, 
and Indian Territory cattle men were elected 
officers. It had then a population of 5,000. 
The “boomers” captured on Dec. 10, have been 
released. It looks very much as if the 
county would be opened with or without the 
consent of Congress which is a trifle dilatory 
in acting on the Springer Bill establishing the 
Territory ... .Three parties of five each, have 
been persistentlj hunting offending negroes 
since that trouble at Wahalak, Miss., about a 
fortnight ago. They are known to have met 
and killed four negroes in spite of the piteous 
appeals for mercy made by the latter, some of 
whom said they had taken no part in the 
“difficulty.” All of them owned small farms, 
and all the farms have just been “located” by 
white men. The whole trouble was caused, 
it appears, by lawless acts of whites who 
wanted the colored men’s farms. 
The Chicago Railway Age reports that during 
1888,19 railroads, with almost 1,600 miles of 
lines and nearly $64,000,000 of bonds and 
stock, have been closed out for the creditors. 
. The remarkable weather which we 
are now enjoying reached its climax on Wed¬ 
nesday last, when not a drop of rain nor a 
flake of snow fell throughout the United 
States. Such an occurrence at this season of 
the year, is probably without precedent. 
_Mr. James McMillan, who has just been 
nominated to succeed Senator Palmer by the 
Republican Legislature of Michigan, is the 
chief stockholder of the Detroit Car-Wheel 
Company, the Baugh Steam Forge Company, 
the Detroit Iron Furnace Company and a num¬ 
ber of other large concerns in Michigan. 
U. S. Consul Astwood, on the part of ano; her 
American, has just made an offer of at least 
$200 000 a year to the Government of the pet¬ 
ty Republic of San Domingo, as payment for 
permission to exhibit the bones of Christopher 
Columbus through this country for four 
years. The Domincan Secretary of State has ad¬ 
ministered a stinging rebuke to the shameless 
official for his breach of decency and propriety. 
Consul Astwood should at once be kicked out 
of the service of Uncle Sam. 
The Richmond (Ya.) Whig, the oldest paper 
in the city—in its 64th year—has suspended 
publication.The State of New York is 
nearly out of debt, and if the Direct Tax Bill, 
now before Congress, is passed, returning 
$2,000,000 from the General Government, the 
tax rate will be the lowest for 50 years. 
The railway mileage of the country has in¬ 
creased, the past year, 7,120 miles of main 
track in all States and Territories, except 
Rhode Island and Nevada. Kansas laid the 
most, California next.Anv person who 
committed murder after midnight on January 
1, in this State, and who may be convicted 
and not pardoned, must be eiecuted by 
electricity, so that “hanging is played out” 
here; but not as criminals wished it to be. 
The condemned murderer is to be parted from 
his relatives and all the rest of the outside 
world for the last time at the door of the 
courtroom after sentence. He will be 
shackled and carried to one of the State 
prisons. A week is to be set by the judge, 
and in some day in that week, the man is to 
be killed by electric wires, and buried in 
quicklime within the prison walls, so that his 
body may be promptly destroyed. Not a 
prayer is to be said over the corpse or the 
grave, and the newspapers are forbidden to 
print anything about the execution, except 
that the sentence was carried out. It is 
thought by many that this clause of the law 
is unconstitutional as interfering with the 
liberty of the press, and doubtless the first 
execution of the kind will be more fully 
reported than any in late years has been. 
Only a few persons are allowed to be present 
at the “shocking” scene, however. 
Private Dalzell is authority for the statement 
that $14,600,000 of unpaid pensions await 
claimants in the U. S. Treasury. He says 
that not less than 400,000 pensioners are entit¬ 
led to receive $25 to $35 each by simply apply¬ 
ing for it in Washington as follows: 
First—Five cents per mile from place of discharge 
home 
Second—Twenty-five cen-s daily for extra duty be¬ 
tween April and October, 1862. 
Third—Twenty-eight cents daily while In prison or 
on furlough. 
He says he obtained his extra compensation 
as pensioner in these particulars by simply 
applying for it last year, and that not one in 
ten Americans knows anything of the legality 
of such a claim. Here’s a New Year’s gift 
for many of our brave soldier readers. A tele¬ 
gram just received from Washington casts 
considerable doubt on the correctness of the 
“ High Private’s” statement, however, for it 
says most of the money due has been paid.... 
The combined coal companies in the Wyoming 
and Lackawanna region,Pa., charge their min¬ 
ers working on “starvation wages” $3 per keg 
for powder which cost only $1.25 per keg ! ! ! .. 
All over the country there is a healthy, 
growing movement for reform in political 
elections. Flagrant bribery is persistently 
charged against both the great parties in the 
recent elections in many parts of the country; 
but especially in Indiana. Such charges are 
made after each election, municipal, county, 
State and national as well as charges of “col¬ 
onization,” ballot-box stuffing, etc., and the 
conviction is growing that the safety of our 
institutions peremptorily demands some 
amendment. The Massachusetts Legislature 
has just adopted a secret ballot law as a step 
in the right direction, and her example has 
given an impetus to this kind of reform 
throughout the other New England States, 
and, indeed, elsewhere also. Tbe Australian 
method of voting finds many advocates. ... 
.The San Francisco Examiner says that 
the Chinese exclusion bill has brought on a 
great labor crisis in California, and predicts 
an agitation looking to the repeal of that law. 
It is reported that tbe coolies are rap¬ 
idly withdrawing from the farms to supply 
city shops and factories where wages are 
higher. It is said that there is not now 
enough labor in the State to handle next 
year’s crops, and that if farmers and fruit 
glowers want cheap labor they must come to 
this side of the mountains for it.The 
single land-tax men are preparing a monster 
petition to Congress for the appointment of a 
committee to inquire into the expediency of 
raising all public revenues from a tax on land, 
to the exclusion of all other taxes, wbetner in 
the form of tariffs upon imports, taxes upon 
internal productions or otherwise. Signa¬ 
tures to this petition are pouring into 
the headquarters at New York at the 
rate of 700 and 800 a day.. 
Col. John C. Dent, brother-in-law of Gen. 
Grant, died at his home in Carthage, Mo., the 
other morning, aged 73. Col. Dent served 
with distinction in the Mexican war and also 
in the War of the Rebellion.The 
growtb of Duluth, Minn., during 1888 
is lemarkable. Over $4,300,000 has been 
spent for improvements of various kinds, and 
782 new buildings have been erecied at a 
total cest of $2,802,600 .Armour & 
Co., of Chicago, did a cash business dur ng 
the year ending November 1, of $55,000,000. 
Tbe firm employs 6,000 bands, and during the 
year took tbe lives ot 561,199 head of cattle, 
1,140.000 hegs, and 164,539 sheep . 
Congress met Wednesday and the Senate re¬ 
sumed tbe consideration of the Republican 
tariff bill, which will have right of way till 
action is taken on it on January 21. The most 
important change hitherto made is an amend¬ 
ment providing for a bounty of one cent per 
pound on American sugar; but this meets 
with strong opposition. In the House, Mr. 
Springer, of Illinois, introduced a joint resolu¬ 
tion providing for the election of the President 
and Vice-President by a direct vote of the 
people and for the term of six years It 
makes the President ineligible for a second 
term and extends the terms of members of 
Congress to three years, the terms to expire 
December 31. It also provides that each ses¬ 
sion of Congress suall begin tbe first Wednes¬ 
day of January in each year. No chance of 
its passage at this session. Nothing else of 
importance or interest during the week, ex¬ 
cept the development of a strong oppo¬ 
sition to the Oklahoma bill. 
Coughs and Colds. Those who are suffering 
from Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, 
etc., should try Brown’s Bronchial Troch¬ 
es, a simple and effective remedy. They con¬ 
tain nothing injurious, and may be used at 
all times with perfect safety.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 5, 1889. 
New Year’s is always waited for with 
more or less anxiety by the people of Europe, 
for at the “receptions” then given by the 
various rulers, little speeches are made which 
are thought to be indicative of the opinions of 
the sovereigns with regard to the outlook for 
peace or war during the ensuing yoar. These 
speeches are generally rather oracular in their 
ambiguity,so that very different inferences are 
generally drawn from them. This year, how¬ 
ever, the general consensus of opinion is that 
they indicate peace. France and Russia are, 
as a rule, held up as the bugbears of war; but 
the cordial union of the “Central Powers”— 
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy—is re¬ 
garded as a guarantee of peace, because it is 
thought that neither France nor Russia, nor 
both combined, will have the temerity to 
attack the coalition, or any of its members, 
for to attack one would be to incur the 
hostility of all. Great changes are also being 
made once more in the armaments of all the 
belligerent countries, and also in the drill and 
manoeuvres of the various armies, to meet the 
new conditions brought about by the dis¬ 
covery of new explosives of stupendous power, 
and of newly invented cannons and rifles of un 
precedeuted accuracy, rapidity and reach. It 
will take another year, say the knowing ones, 
before the various nations can be equipped 
with the latest and deadliest arms, and be pre¬ 
pared to resist these to the best advantage 
by new formations of troops in the field 
and improvements in fortifications. 
In England, Parliament has just reassembled 
after the Xmas vacation, but nothing of in¬ 
terest has yet occurred. Of late in two bye- 
elections for members of Parliament, the Con¬ 
servatives secured considerable gains; but the 
tide seems against them still. The Parnellite 
trial is still suspended. It is charged that the 
Times and the Government are prolonging 
the case in order to get in all the damaging 
evidence possible without a chance for re¬ 
buttal before the case collapses, either because 
the Parnellites are bankrupted or because the 
court may decide that there is “no case” 
against the accused. It is charged that 
emissaries for the paper hunted up dynamiter 
Sheridan, at Pueblo, Colorado, and promised 
him $50,000, $25,000 down, if he would give in¬ 
criminating testimony against the accused. 
He declined, fearing the fate of informer 
Jim Carey, who was shot to death for “peach¬ 
ing.” Evictions of recalcitrant tenants still 
continue in Ireland in spite of vigorous re¬ 
sistance. Those who offer this are tried and 
imprisoned usally for some years. Two mem¬ 
bers of Parliament have also been lately im¬ 
prisoned for delivering speeches to crowds 
who persist in meeting when ordered not 
to do so under the Crimes Act .In 
England agricultural distress still continues, 
and there is much stagnation in trade, and 
compulsory idleness in towns and cities. 
Strikes are frequent, and charity, public 
and private, is heavily taxed . 
The Eoglish show no signs whatever of quit¬ 
ting Egypt, the chief strategic points of 
which are still occupied by British troops. 
Down at Suakim, on the Red Sea, there has 
been a good deal of fighting lately between 
the Egypto-British garrison and the besieg¬ 
ing Arab followers of the Mahdi under Osman 
Digma, whom reports have killed so often. 
Success has been invariably on the side of the 
besieged, the Arabs having been repeatedly 
routed with great slaughter, but they require 
as much killing as Digma did. Lately the 
latter ex-merchant and slave trader said that 
last October the followers of the Mahdi in the 
Soudan had captured the German Emin 
Pasba and a white man, who was identified as 
Henry M. Stanley by a letter which was 
known to be in his possession and a copy of 
which was produced by Osman, who offered to 
surrender the prisoners if the town were evac¬ 
uated, threatening death to them in ca^e of 
refusal. Later advices from both the East¬ 
ern coast of Africa, at Zanzibar, and from the 
Western coast at the mouth of the Congo, go 
to prove that Stanley had met Emin and re¬ 
lieved his necessities in the way of arms and 
ammunition,and that bothwere free in Novem¬ 
ber. Reports are a trifle vague and confus¬ 
ing, however, but the probability is that 
both Sianley and Emm, or the former, 
at any rate, will soon emerge in safety 
from the Dark Continent. 
The drought in South Australia has been 
broken by copious rains.... Indian ad¬ 
vices say that cholera prevails in a virulent 
form at Quilon, on the Malabar coast. It is 
reported ibat 2,000 Christians have succumbed 
to the disease . The Argentine Re¬ 
public of South America has been borrowing 
so much money abroad as to create some 
alarm among foreign investors. During the 
past year alone, she has borrowed in Europe 
over $185,000,u00, while her population is only 
3,500,000. This sum exceeds the entire in¬ 
ternal, foreign and floating debt of the coun¬ 
try a year ago. Is it a bubble or the founda¬ 
tion of vast and profitable improvements, is an 
anxious quest ion with trusting investors. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 5, 1889. 
The 19th annual meeting of the Vermont 
Dairymen’s Association will be held at the 
City Hall, Burlington, on January 16,17 and 
18. A splendid programme of addresses and a 
fine exhibit of dairy products and implements 
will delight visitors_ The Pennsylvania 
State Horticultural Society will hold its 13th 
annual meeting in Montgomery Hall, Lewis- 
town, on January 16 and 17. All interested 
in horticulture are cordially invited. 
The second annual convention of the Connecti¬ 
cut fruit-growers and cider-makers will be 
held in room 50, Stale Capitol Building, Hart¬ 
ford, on January 15 and 16. An instructive 
meeting is certain. The third aunual 
meeting of the Central Ohio Farmers’ Insti¬ 
tute will be held at the City Hall, 
Columbus, on January 17 and 18. 
The 13th annual convention of the Swine 
Breedeisof Indiana will be held in the State 
House, Indianapolis, on January 25. 
The 22d biennial con vein ion of the American 
Pomological Society will be held at Ocala, 
Fla., February 20 and 22.The 34th 
annual convention of the New York Siate 
Horticultural Society will begin at Rochester, 
on January 23 .The 22d annual winter 
meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural 
Society will be held at Minneapolis, January 
15—18, the State Amber-cane Associa'ion 
taking up Wednesday afternoon for its 12th 
“Herbrand " Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv, 
annual session. The Michigan Short¬ 
horn Association will hold its annual meeting 
at Lansing, on January 19 and 20.... 
Governor Richardson of South Carolina, has 
vetoed tbe act accepting tbe Clemson bequest 
which left Calhoun’s old homestead and $100, 
000 for the establishment of an agricultural 
college. The Governor appears to fear the 
farmers’ vote less than did the members of the 
Legislature. Cotton seed of prime 
quality is offered so sparingly to the mills 
South that it is understood that the leading 
consumers are about to offer higher prices in 
order to bring out any surplus that 
may be in planters’ hands. 
The Evaporator of Harden & Sheeting, at 
Barker’s Station, Niagara Co., N. Y., the 
largest in the world, was burned Jan. 2. It 
was capablo of handling between 1.000 and 
2,000 bushels of apples a day. There were 
in the cremated building from 25.000 to 30,000 
bushels of apples. Estimated loss. $10,000 .. 
....The little equine whirl-wind.Jav-Eye-See, 
“is all right.”.A bill is to be intro- 
duced into the Legislature of Pa., at an early 
day, by Representative J. M. Baber, of Dela¬ 
ware Co., providing that onlv graduates of 
legally chartered colleges shall be allowed to 
practice veterinary surgery in that State. An 
exception is to be made in favor of all 
who have been practicing for five years 
preceding the passage of the act. 
The National Expert Association of Judges of 
Swine will hold its first annual meeting at 
Dayton, Ohio, January 17 and 18 . 
Theshipmentof mutton from New Zealand and 
Australia to England is likely to be very 
heavy this year. As a single specimen, 
nearly 200,000 sheep have been guaranteed to 
the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, of 
New Zealand, for shipment, . to London 
during the season of 1889-90. 
French farmers are complaining of the em 
bargo on their cattle in England, and the 
French Government has been protesting 
against it with little prospect of relief, as the 
English base the closing of their ports on the 
plea of the prevalence of infectious deseases 
in France. The only Continental countries to 
whose cattle English ports are still open are 
Portugal and Sweden.Hogs received 
at Kansas City in December averaged 236 
pounds in weight, against 224 pounds in 1887 
.Copious rains in California are said 
to have almost assured extra good crops. In 
the great producing district, in tbe San 
Joaquin V alley, where there was insufficient 
moisture last year to save the wheat crop, 
there have been from three to four inches of 
rain, in comparison with an average of IX 
inch in the valley last year. In San Fran- 
ciso there have been 10 inches, against three 
inches last year; in Martinez, seven inches, 
against two; in Maryville, 10 inches, against 
four; in Sacramento, eight inches, against 
IX; in Stockton, 5 inches, against \X\ in 
Fresno, 4 inches, against l%\ in Los Angeles, 
11 inches, against two. The officers 
of the National and State organizations of 
wool-growers will meet at Washington, Jan. 
10 to consider important questions relative to 
the American wool industry and its protection. 
The president of the National Association 
thinks that the Senate tariff bill does not pro¬ 
vide adequate protection as it now stands. .. 
The inspectors of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry of the United States, have un¬ 
earthed a novel method of defrauding the 
United States Treasury. It has been the cus¬ 
tom since the Bureau extended its operations 
to Queens County, N. Y., to appraise and 
pay about $35 a head for all cattle killed 
because of pleuro-pneumonia. The swindlers 
would buy cattle at $20 a head and 
inoculate them with the disease . 
The Hungarian maize syndicate has collapsed, 
having lost 3,000,000 florins .Under 
an agreement lately made by the Western 
millers, 250 mills in the fall-wheat belt are to 
close down or run on half time during Jan¬ 
uary, to lessen the output of flour. All the 
flouring mills in St. Louis, except one, closed 
January 2. At Minneapolis, the aggregate 
production of flour for last week was 60,000 
barrels, against 59,480 the previous week, and 
120,900 for the corresponding time a year ago. 
The direct exports for the week were 15,800 
barrels, against 16,200 the preceding week. 
The receipts were: Wheat, 281,120. Ship¬ 
ments: Wheat, 208,320; flour, 51,676 bar¬ 
rels, and mill-stuff, 1,935 tons .... 
Ferret breeding is a new and highly profita- 
able branch of farming in Australia and New 
Zealand. One firm that has commenced the 
business on a large scale has contracted to 
supply 14,000 ferrets per annum for three 
years to the Governmental $1 82 per head, 
the creatures being delivered wuen they 
are three monihs old. They are to be 
used in extermin iting rabbits. 
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