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THE BOIUL MEW-YORKEB. 
JULY 43 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 6, 1889. 
Unfortunate Conemaugh! The other 
dav a fire destroyed a large part of the houses 
the great flood bad wholly or partly spared in 
Johnstown, and during the week enormous 
downpours among the neighboring mountains 
have flooded the valley, the water rising high 
on the first floors in the houses in Johnstown, 
destroying or damaging all the furniture 
saved from the big flood. Business is slug¬ 
gish, and there’s a world of discontent and 
grumbling at the distribution of the marvel¬ 
ous relief fund contributed by the liberality 
of the nation. Nearly two-thirds of the fund is 
still in charge of the depositaries where it was 
raised; over $325,000 of the $510,000 raised in 
New York City remains here yet. At all the 
great collecting centers contributions are still 
coming in. Those received here during the week 
averaged about $675 a day. It is proposed to 
have 1.000 bouses made in Chicago, put them 
up in the valley, furnish them plainly and do¬ 
nate them to the needy. The number getting 
relief is steadily being cut down, as employ¬ 
ment gives support. The sufferers want lump 
sums, and many who are in no real need in¬ 
sist that their losses should be made good, in 
part at least; but the managers say the money 
was given to relieve distress, not to compen¬ 
sate for losses. 
An English syndicate is buying up the shoe 
factories of Massachusetts, and another is ne¬ 
gotiating for the purchase of the flour mills of 
Minneapolis. English capital at home is con¬ 
tent with from2X to four per cent, interest; 
it can make much more than that by directly 
controlling American manufactures, esDecial- 
ly when it is done “trust”-fashion. There’s 
too much wealth and enterprise, however, in 
this country to permit any of its large indus¬ 
tries to be monopolized or wholly controlled 
for any length of time by non-resident aliens.. 
Canadian millers in mass meeting at Toronto 
are about to protest against the refusal of 
Parliament to protect them against competi¬ 
tion with American millers The import duty 
on flour is 50 cents per barrel, while the dutv 
on the amount of wheat necessary to make a 
barrel of flour is 67 cents—a discrimination of 
17 cents per barrel in favor of American mil¬ 
lers. Sir Julian Paunceforte, the 
British Minister, has just bought a small farm 
outside the limits of Washington City, and 
will raise his own farm supplies and garden 
“sass”. One man claims $300,000,- 
000 worth of San Francisco under an alleged 
old Mexican grant : while another will be 
content with $2,000,000 worth of St. Paul, un¬ 
der a newly resurrected or invented real es¬ 
tate claim.. .. 
The Dominion offers the “ States ” a recipro¬ 
city in lumber. It wants 60,000,000 American 
customers in exchange for 4,500.000 Canadian 
customers.Fred Douglass has been 
appointed Minister to the colored Republic 
of Hayti. The struggle there between Hypol- 
ite and Legitime is still going on, though the 
latter’s authority is confined to Port au Prince, 
a straggling town of about 17,000 inhabitants. 
.The Old Star Route cases against 
Steve Dorsey and others have at last been 
“nolle-prossed ” at Washington. That’s the 
last of the scandal.G-. W. Wright, of 
Philadelphia, Supreme Treasurer of the Mu¬ 
tual Insurance Order of the Tonti, and also 
connected with the Pente and Iron Hall, is 
$40,000 short in his accounts with the Tonti. 
The order is reported amply secured by bonds 
of several surety companies. Trusted officials 
are the greatest dangers to such associations. 
. Carlotta Patti, elder sister of Adelina, 
and nearly equally famous as a singer, is 
dead. So is Maria Mitchell, lately of Lynn, 
Mass., probably the greatest female astronom¬ 
er that ever lived . .Prairie fires—the most 
extensive ever known in Montana—have burn¬ 
ed over 100 square miles in Canada county.... 
The tenth annual meeting of N. Y. French- 
Canadians was held in a large hall in this city 
Monday. The object was to urge F.-C. to be¬ 
come American citizens while still retaining 
their own language. The advisability of an¬ 
nexation was also discussed, and the general 
sentiment was in favor of it.The 
amount of money that can be sent from this 
country to Germany, or the other wsy, by 
money order, has been increased from $50 to 
$100.Much to the indignation of 
the natives, Mormon missionaries are working 
quite successfully in several parts of West 
Va., especially in Ritchie county. 
The License Courts in Pennsylvania have 
enormously cut down the number of liquor 
stores, but their work will be seriously af¬ 
fected by a decision ju«t rendered by the Su¬ 
preme Court, which has ruled that they have 
no power to rofuse licenses to brewers, whole 
sale liquor dealers and bottlers, if they are of 
good, moral character, temperate and Amer- ^ 
ican citizens. Owing to this decision 229 per¬ 
sons to whom licenses were at first refused, 
have just secured them in Philadelphia alone. 
.Another strike among the Penn¬ 
sylvania coal miners! They can make only 90 
cents a day, and want five cents a ton more. 
Over 12,000 men are out about Altoona, and 
more are going out unless their demands are 
granted. . Theodore Dwight Wool- 
sey, D D., LL. D., for many years President 
of Yale College, died at New Haven, Conn., 
Monday, aged 88 years.The sickly green 
two-cent postage stamp is to go.. 
The government has contracted for 550,000 
enameled bricks, to be used in the construc¬ 
tion of ihe Congressional Library. Can’t 
such bricks be made at home ? The govern¬ 
ment pays no import duty.Durango, 
a place of 5,000 inhabitants, in Southwestern 
Colorado, was almost entirely cremated 
Monday. 
After the failure of the great strike on the 
Reading Railroad somewhat over a year ago. 
President Corbin ksued an edict that no men 
belonging to the K. of L. or any other 
labor organization would be employed on the 
road or in the coal mines and^works under its 
management. Since then 60,000 men have 
quit such societies, and not a man in the com¬ 
pany’s service to day belongs to one. Then 
the company organized a “relief society,” the 
dues to which average $2 per head per month, 
ranging from 75 cents to $4, according to the 
employe’s position with the company, and 
the men got a hint that it was the safer plan to 
join it; those who failed to take the bint, were 
quietly dropped. The company receives each 
month nearly $60,000, or $720,000 a year, as 
dues from the relief society and acts as banker, 
while its officers manage the society’s affairs. 
It has its own sweet way just now, but many 
of the employes are secretly kicking. ....... 
The total reduction on the public debt from 
June 30, 1888 to July 1, 1889, was $88,182,200, 
and there still remains a net surplus of up¬ 
wards of $50,000,O'H) in the Treasury. 
At the Fall River cotton mills there have 
been chronic strikes of late, as the cotton 
lords jewed the hands down to starvation 
wages on the ground that their business was 
unprofitable. Now they are declaring un¬ 
usually large dividends .. 
The Sullivan-Kilrain fight is billed to come 
off next Monday somewhere within 200 miles 
of New Orleans, and both men have arrived 
in that city in the “pink of perfection.” The 
Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Ala¬ 
bama have issued proclamations forbidding 
the fight within the borders of those States, 
and the Governor of Mississippi has offered a 
reward of $1,000 for the arrest of the principals 
should they disregard his prohibition, and se¬ 
cured from the other two Governors permis¬ 
sion for Mississippi troops to cross a part of 
the States, if necessary, to prevent the outrage. 
The betting now is stronglv in favor of “Bos¬ 
ton’s Pride,” though the “ Baltimore Pet ” has 
hosts of backers. The odds in favor of the “ Big 
’Un.” however, vary from $100 to $50 to $100 
to $80. The newspapers are giving columns of 
news space to the fullest details of the prelim¬ 
inary preceedings, and have made ample and 
very expensive arrangements for full reports 
of the “mill,” while their editorial columns 
bitterly denounce the brutality of the whole 
thing! Who’ll win? Well, doubtful things 
are mighty uncertain. 
Mrs. Anna Pickett, widow of the gallant Con¬ 
federate General George E. Pickett, who led 
the famous charge on tee last day of the bat¬ 
tle of Gettysburg-, is to marry General James 
C. Lynch, of Philadelphia, who was Colonel 
of the 106th Pennsylvania Regiment which 
formed part of the first brigade which 
met the charge of Pickett’s men. They 
first met on the Gettysburg battle-field 
a year ago during a reunion of the Blue and 
the Gray. He is now a well-to-do builder of 
57, and she a very handsome woman of 50, 
who has been a clerk in the Pension Bureau, 
at Washington, ever since President Grant ap¬ 
pointed her after her husband’s death. 
The Cronin murder case still drags ineffect¬ 
ually along in Chicago. There are reports 
that two or three other members of the Clan- 
Da-Gael who shared Cronin's opinions with re¬ 
gard to the rascality of the “ triangle,” or 
three directing spirits of the organization, 
have also shared his fate; while several others 
in different parts of the country are afraid 
for their lives, threatened by the patriotic 
thugs. Just at present everything is “pend¬ 
ing.”.Oklahoma City, which had no 
existence two months ago, had a grand Fourth 
of July celebration, attended by hundreds 
from the surrounding country. The grand 
stand broke down under their weight, and 10 
were killed and over 100 more or Jess serious¬ 
ly injured.The Glorious Fourth was 
well celebrated everywhere except where 
heavy down-pours wet-blanketed the festivi¬ 
ties. About the usual share of deaths, maim- 
ings and conflagrations are reported as among 
the results of the general rejoicing.New 
York’s present area is only 26,000acres; Phila¬ 
delphia’s 82,000; Chicago’s 111,360! ! !. 
Last Saturday the Michigan legislature passed 
a secret ballot law at general elections. Tick¬ 
ets are to be printed by the State, of uniform 
size, color and texture. A railing and gate 
in front of each polling place, with a gate¬ 
keeper who shall admit but one voter at a 
time, are provided for in the law, and also 
the construction of booths in which the voter 
may prepare his ballot in secrecy. This is 
substantially the Australian voting system 
which so many of the States are adopting ... 
... The value of tsxahle property in Now 
York City in 1888 was $1,553,442,431; the com¬ 
missioners say it now amounts to $1,603,839, 
113 . In preparation for a big show 
at the Census, Chicago, has just annexed Hyde 
Park, Lake, Lakeview, Cicero and Jefferson, 
making an addition of about 300,000 to her 
population, bringing the total up probably to 
1,100,000. Her area now is 174 square miles— 
by far the largest area of any city in the 
country. It will now be in order for St. 
Louis to annex about half of Missouri. 
Captain Dawson, an earnest, whole souled 
man, editor of the News and Courier, 
Charleston, S. C., had made his paper second 
to none in the South, but as he was outspoken 
against humbugs, frauds and Bourbonic old- 
fogyism, as well as against super-exaltation 
of the “ colored man and brother,” he made 
lots of enemies, while he had hosis of friends. 
In his family, as governess to his children, 
was a very handsome and smart young wo¬ 
man, whom his wife had brought from Swit¬ 
zerland a couple of years ago. A Dr. McDow, 
a married man with a child, made love to the 
girl, and tried to induce her to elope with 
him. Some weeks ago Dawson called at the 
Doctor’s office to remonstrate against the lat¬ 
ter’s persistent, attempts to corrupt the gover¬ 
ness of his children. He had on a heavy over¬ 
coat, and carried only a light six ounce walk¬ 
ing cane, while his gloves were on—little ap¬ 
pearance, therefore, that he expected a 
fight. The Doctor shot him dead “in self-de¬ 
fence,” and tried to hide his body by burying 
it in a cellar closet. While he was in jail 
awaiting his trial, the crack artillery organi¬ 
zation in the State spontaneously elected the 
murderer as member of their chivalrous i auks. 
The negroes had been down on Dawson on ac¬ 
count of some of his writings,so seven negroes 
and five white men were put into the jury-box 
to decide the fate of his slayer. The only liv¬ 
ing persou who knew the facts of the murder 
was McDow, and his life depended on the way 
he told of it. The jury believed him, or pre¬ 
tended to do so, and acquitted him, “amid the 
wildest applause.’’ The general impression, 
however, even in his own State, is that he is 
a foul murderer, who may yet meet the doom 
he has just escaped by a political jury 
verdict. 
At 1:20 Tuesday morning a mile west of 
Thruxton and 30 west of Lynchburg, Va., an 
accident on the Western Division of the Nor¬ 
folk and West°rn railroad, caused 34 deaths 
and more or less serious injuries to 93 o’hers. 
A heavy 24 hours’ rain had caused a washout 
80 feet loDg and 50 wide, over a gulch in 
which the water was 10 feet deep. Into this 
the engine, running 30 miles an hour, plung¬ 
ed, carrying with it the tender and eight cars, 
leaving only the last of three sleepers on the 
track. The locomotive boiler exploded scat¬ 
tering burning debris all around. These set 
fire to all parts of the train not submerged in 
the gulch, and even the last sleeper was 
cremated. 
Kncoura King. 
Here is encouragement for those afflicted 
with that terrible scourge —Nervous Prostra¬ 
tion. 
Bunker Hill, Ind , March 14, 1888 
“I feel that I cannot say too much in praise 
of the Compound Oxvgen Treatment.” 
Mrs. Florence Blue. 
Rochester. N. Y., Jan. 11,1884 
“I began the use of Compound Oxygen and 
have much reason to he grateful for it.” 
Rev. Chas. W. Cushing. 
Benton Harbor, Mich , Nov. 28. 1887. 
“I am indebted to you beyond all other 
Compound Oxygen purchasers.” 
Benjamin J. Eaman. 
Brooklyn. N. Y., June 4, 1888. 
No. 331 Decatur !St. 
“I was induced by a friend to try your 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. The result was 
marvelous. I will always recommend Com¬ 
pound Oxygen as the greatest vitalizing 
agent known for I certainly find that it has 
prolonged my life.” Mrs. E. H. Henderson. 
As you are aware we publish a biochure of 
200 pages, containing the full history of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, and a record of cures in many 
interesting cases. It will be sent free of charge 
to any one addressing Drs, Starkey & 
Palen, 1529 Arch St., Pniladelphia, Pa; or 
312 Sutter Street, Sau Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. July 6, 1889 
After all, the United Stat°s make only a 
despicable show at the Paris Exposition. The 
exhibit of cereals from which so much was ex¬ 
pected, wouldn’t do “much credit to a county 
fair.” Other deoartments are on the same 
miserly scale. Much of the blamo is attribut¬ 
ed to the inaction of the Commissioners who 
are gobbling up a good share of the appropri¬ 
ation in salaries and expenses. But, tbeD, the 
United States have never made a good show 
at any European Exposition. Manufacturers 
haven’t much of a foreign market, and don’t 
seem to want more. The Exposition is a 
grand success, however. During the last 14 
days of June upwards of 2.000,000 visitors 
passed through the wickets. In every respect 
It’s the finest thing of the kind ever seen. 
Probably the greatest attraction is the 1,000- 
feet-high Eiffel Tower which commands a view 
of 35 miles all round the horizon . 
The Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the 
Prince of Wales, has just been engaged to the 
Earl of Fife, about 40 years old, rich and mod¬ 
erately popular. Englishmen are jubilant 
that Europe has not been ransacked for an el¬ 
igible princeling for the royal princess. 
Prince Alb°rt Victor, eldest son of the Prince 
of Wales, has become engaged to his cousin. 
Princess Victoria, of Prussia, sister of the 
Emperor of Germany. It was at first thought 
that the Queen would make an ample settle¬ 
ment on him out of her large private accumu¬ 
lations; but the House of Commons has just 
received a message from her asking an extra 
provision for him in addition to the $30,000 a 
year he now receives from the people’s pockets. 
.. On the southeastern coast of Africa, stretch¬ 
ing from Zululand northward, for over 1.000 
miles, to the Zanzibar Coast, is a rather 
narrow strip of territory belonging to Portu¬ 
gal, the northern part of which is knoWn as 
Mozambique. At its southern end, about 75 
miles from Zululana, and 54 from the Boer 
Republic of Transvaal, is Dalgoa Bay, the 
largest town in the territory, and the finest 
harbor on the eastern coast of Africa. 
Stretching for 500 miles along the west coast 
of Africa, opposite Mozambique, are the two 
settlements of Angola and Benguela, also be¬ 
longing to Portugal, which claims the inter¬ 
mediate region, from 1,lOOto 1 500 miles across, 
by right of prior “discovery and explora¬ 
tion,” though nothing has hitherto been done 
to “improve” either, os the country is almost 
entirely unknown. The head-waters of the 
Zambesi river which empties into the Moz¬ 
ambique Channel about the middle of the 
Portuguese east African possessions, take 
their rise not far from her western posses¬ 
sions. England has pushed her encroach¬ 
ment as far north as the Portuguese posses¬ 
sions on both the east and west coasts and in 
the middle, here and there, as far Dortb as the 
Zambesi, omitting the Transvaal, and is 
very anxious to get hold of Dalgoa Bay. 
Some time ago Portugal granted tosomeEng- 
lish canitalists the right to build a railroad 
from Dalgoa Bay to the Transvaal frontier— 
50 miles away—where it was to meet another 
road, 250 miles long, running through the 
Transvaal to Pretoria, the capital, and ihence 
to the gold and diamond fields farther we-t. 
Owing to an alleged infraction of agreement, 
Portugal has just seized upon the nearly com¬ 
pleted road, to the intense indignation aud 
wrath of all England, and although Portugal 
has agreed to leave the matter to arbitration, 
England has sent three ironclads to Dalgoa 
Bay. {She scouts Portugal’s claims to the 
connecting belt in Central Africa, but the 
claims are countenanced by Germany and 
France. 
Lately a small fire occurred in the Imperial 
palace, Pekin, China, and the astrologers at 
once declared it was due to the recent intro¬ 
duction of a distant railroad system. Hence 
an anti railroad scare and stopnage of the 
work. The fright is passing off, however, 
and in spite of popular opposition railroad 
construction is likely to be continued, as the 
control of the roads of the northern nrovinc- 
es has been placed in the hands of Li Hung 
Chang, the leadpr of the progressive element 
in the Flowery Kingdom. The new 
Japanese constitution modeled on a European 
basis of representative government, was pro¬ 
mulgated a few months ago. The freedom 
of the press and full liberty to adopt “West¬ 
ern” fashions are among the concessions. The 
ladies of the Court and the higher classes at 
once began to follow the Parisian fashions, 
and reaction has just set in. The followers of 
the “old school” at once began to guv the 
nove-1 dresses, and public ridicule has comrell- 
ed the ladies of the Court and most of the 
others to return to their time-honored habili¬ 
ments. The railroads, telegraphs and other 
modern improvements are still popular how¬ 
ever... 
Like England, Switzerland has long been a 
refuge for political conspirators and malcon¬ 
tents of all sorts, but being in the heart of 
Europe instead of on its outskirts, the Swiss 
refugees- are more dangerous to European 
monarchies than the English. Germany a few 
weeks ago, led off bv strongly protesting 
against the toleration extended to them. Sub¬ 
servient Italy and Austria, of course, follow¬ 
ed, and autocratic Russia, galled by Nihilists, 
joined the trio. Little Switzerland boldly 
said she would not permit the refugees to act 
illegally against her neighbors, neither would 
she tolerate outside interference with her in¬ 
ternal affairs. There’s a German threat that 
it would be mighty convenient to partition 
her between Germany, Italy and France, each 
getting the cantons in which its language is 
spoken. Italy would thus be compensated for 
the loss of Savoy and Nice to France; and 
France for the loss of Alsace and Loraine to 
Germany. Germany would “rectify her fron¬ 
tier” more satisfactorily, while she and Italy 
would be brought into direct communication, 
as their territories would adjoin, forming a 
dividing rampart between Russia and France 
from the Baltic to the Mediterranean . 
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