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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 27, 1889, 
An effort will be made in the fifty-first Con¬ 
gress to create a new Department of the Gov¬ 
ernment to be called the Department of Pub¬ 
lic Works, with its head in the Cabinet. It 
would have charge of river and harbor im¬ 
provements, geological and coast surveys, ir¬ 
rigation of desert lands and various odds and 
ends of public business now scattered loosely 
in various government bureaus. There was a 
regular hubbub all around among the political 
papers at the idea of having agriculture, the 
greatest industry in the nation, represented 
in the Cabinet; but as yet, not a word of pro¬ 
test has been uttered against the establish¬ 
ment of this Department of odds and ends, 
shreds and patches.Boise City has 
been made the capital of Idaho for 10 years. 
The first legislature is limited to 18 Senators 
and 36 Representatives, with power to in¬ 
crease respecti vely to not more than 24 and 
(50 .Judge Johnson of the Porter 
County, Indiana Circuit Court, has rendered 
a decision holding that the law lately passed 
by the legislature against the importation of 
dressed beef is unconstitutional, on the 
ground that such legislation is akin to the ex¬ 
ercise of power by individual States over in- 
ter-State Commerce, and that whatever may 
be the nature and reach of the “police 
power ” of a Slate, it cannot be exercised over 
a subject confined exclusively to Congress by 
the Federal Constitution. There will be an 
appeal, of course, to the United States Su¬ 
preme Court, which will reach a decision- 
some time. Oases for testing similar anti- 
dressed-beef laws have also been made up in 
Minnesota and Colorado . According 
to the report just made by the Royal Com¬ 
mission appointed a few years ago on Cana¬ 
dian railroads, railroad construction began in 
Canada in 1837 when 16 miles were.opened for 
traffic The total mileage how is over 13,000 
miles and the freight carried last year 
amounted to 17,173,700 tons. The cost of 
railroad construction in Canada and the 
“ States ” has been about the same, and in 
both it has been lower than in any other 
countrv The cost is highest in Great Britain 
and France. There’s a mile of road to every 
470 inhabitants in the Dominion, the propor¬ 
tion is less in the States. The average freight 
charae in Canada is 93 cents per ton, as com¬ 
pared with §1.04 in the States: $1 50 in Hol¬ 
land: *1 70 in Germany: $2.00 in England; 
and $2 14 in France. Little comfort in these 
figures for unreasonable kickers against rail¬ 
road extortion. After all, isn’t railroad un¬ 
fair discrimination, in reality, the greatest 
railroad abuse here? . .. -••• •••• 
A cloud-burst near Parkersburg, W. \a.a 
week ago together with enormous downpours 
deluged a wide area, flooded many creeks and 
caused 17 deaths. The damage to crops was 
inestimable. Many of the farmers will have 
to depend on charity next season....... 
Same Rime western and central Massachu¬ 
setts suffered from a terrific thunder storm; 
many trees and houses and. several persons 
were struck bv lightning.......Emmons 
Blaine son of James Gillespie, is engaged to be 
married to $2,000,000 and Anita McCormick, 
second daughter of C. i±- ^ McCormick, of 
reaper fame. Emmonses brother Jim, as & 
part of his education in railroad matters, is 
acting as fireman on a locomotive away down 
in Maine... 
The Rev. Father Curley, Director of the 
Georgetown University, near W ashington, 
the oldest Catholic priest in America, and so 
far as known, in the world, died Wednesday. 
.The other day while some divers wero 
searching for a recent wreck under water 
near Cape Henlopen, Del., they came across a 
cargo of tin and spelter lost on the English 
bark Medway in 1853. The Atlantic and 
Gulf Wrecking Company which employed 
the men, has already recovered and sold a 
pood share of the cargo, and expects to make 
$150,000 in all out of it. Oh. yes, the dis¬ 
coverers will of course get a share—-their 
wages if nothing more.. In Chicago 
two claimants appealed to the Court about 
the ownership of a $15,000 lottery prize for 
the purchase of which both claimed to have 
contributed. The State Attorney has just 
put in a claim for the whole as a legal forfeit 
to the State, and the State is likely to get it.. 
.Phil Sheridan's Private Secretary 
from 1875 to 1880 is in jail in Kansas City for 
horse-stealing.New \ork has a two- 
year-old law pensioning militiamen who are 
injured in the service of the State. The first 
award was approved by Gov. Hill the other 
day. It was the highest—namely $72 per 
month, and was given to a militiaman who 
lost both arms and one eye by an accident, 
while on duty under State orders.• •. ... 
Chicago is to appoint a committee of 100 of 
her representative citizens to make vigorous 
efforts to secure the location of the Interna¬ 
tional Exposition of 1892 within her widely 
extended borders. Washington will grab for 
all the national boodle in the enterprise when 
Congress convenes in extra session in October. 
New York citizens held a largo public meeting, 
Thursday, in favor of the location of the Great 
American Fair in the Great American City... 
A fine bed of terra-cotta clay has been discover¬ 
ed on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. The chief 
beds hitherto in this country have been in New 
Jersey and Ohio. To© Topeka bed, properly 
worked, will be worth $500,000 a year to that 
place. Terra-cotta is used almost exclusively 
for decorative and ornamental work, though 
drainage tiles are made of a coarse kind - •.. • 
There’s a movement on foot to establish a 
Brick,Trust with a capiral of $15,000,000 in 
the neighborhood of New York—Pierre Lonl- 
lard, who has already over a million dollars 
invested in brickworks in New Jersey, is at 
the head of the enterprise.There s 
talk of a Natural Gas Trust to include 
all'the works in Ohio aud Indiana. Calvin 
T. Brice, Chairman of the National Democrat¬ 
ic ^Committe, Oliver H. Payne Democratic 
Senator from Ohio, and other Standard Oil 
magnates now own most of the stock in the 
works and are trving to buy up the few inde- 
S endent companies . 
[rs. Elizabeth Iliff Warren who made a for¬ 
tune by cattle-raising on the Plains, has pre¬ 
sented $100,000 to the Denver University. 
.Henceforth the Pennsylvania Railroad 
will carry baby carriages accompanied by 
their owners, free of charge. The Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad is second to none on this foot¬ 
stool.The Land Office at Washington 
has decided that the Oklahoma “ sooners” 
must be ousted from their claims, and hun¬ 
dreds have already filed claims on lots occu¬ 
pied by the “sooners”—those who entered 
the country before noon on April 22. The de¬ 
cision should also apply to town sites. If so, 
the titles to 650 lots in Guthrie alone will 
be worthless. Settling a territory in a day is 
profitable only to lawyers. In Oklahoma the 
surgeons and grave-diggers were a sadly dis¬ 
appointed crowd, not having got a tithe of the 
work they bad every reason to expect.......... 
W. W. Johnson, « a wealthy farmer,” living 
two miles from Hillsdale, Michigan, ffoesn t 
take and can’t read the Rural. H e i go i n- 
coed out of $2,000 the other day at three card 
monte bv a brace of sharpers wl10 
buv his farm ” I 11..;. 
A Philadelphia Land Association with $1,000, 
000 caoital, embracing many of the Quaker 
City’s “ best people ” has invested heavily in 
property about Dallas, Texas.Ex- 
Secretary of War Bristow is at Saratoga, so 
the common opinion that he died years ago, 
must probably be incorrect . Sunday 
night last, at Sweetwater. Wy. Postmaster 
James Averill and Cattle Queen, Kate 
Maxwell, were strung up to the same branch 
of a big cotton-wood with the two ends of the 
same rope by a lot of cowboys in the employ¬ 
ment of the neighboring cattlemen who had 
for years been heavv losers from the depreda¬ 
tions of the pair. Both were adepts in chang¬ 
ing brands on cattle and mavericking—put¬ 
ting their own brands on young stock not yet 
properly branded. Fifty-eight freshly brand¬ 
ed yearlings were found on their place Satur¬ 
day, and stock detectives were driven off 
while investigating the matter. At the last 
the “ Rustler ” turned out a whining whelp 
and the “ Range Queen,” a blasphemous 
virago. . # . 
There’s a good deal of grumbling yet in the 
Coremaugh Valley. The distribution of the 
8500.000 in cash among the flood sufferers, be¬ 
gun a week ago, isn't finished yet. A large 
share of the contributions made by the public 
still remains in the hands of the collectors. 
Boston’s gift of $187,364 hasn’t been touched 
yet, though the holders have all along been 
ready to send on the whole or any part of it. 
Instead of putting the people sturdily on their 
feet again, the way the charity has been dis¬ 
tributed in driblets threatens to make them 
a pack of cheats and beggars. Already there 
are loud complaints of fraudulent claims for 
help. It’s very evident the relief commis¬ 
sioners are incompetent—they are small pegs 
in large holes.. 
In Mississippi two persons were murdered and 
three Ivncbed during the past week. Not a 
proclamation from Governor Lowry !. 
Squat, thick set, red-faced and small-eyed 
Mrs Mary Brady, of Jersey City, with a body 
weighing 250 pounds, and a tongue long 
enough to be a “holyte’ror” to her neigh- 
b -vrs, was fined $25 with $50 costs, as a “com¬ 
mon scold ” the other day, the ducking stool 
having been abolished much to the regret of 
her neighbors.. 
Kickaooo Indians refuse even to treat for the 
sale of their lands in Kansas. Lewis 
Bros. & Co., the largest dry-goods commis¬ 
sion house in Philadelphia, with large branch 
stores in New York and Chicago, has failed 
for $4,500,000. The concern hopes to nay its 
debts in full..Charlemagne Tower, 
the Philadelphia multimillionaire, left behind 
him every ceDt, of his $25,000,000 when he died 
at the age or 81 last Thursday. Did he ever 
do anything remarkable ? Why, yes, of course 
—he made $25,000,000 ... 
Catholic Bishop Walsh, of London, Ont., 
Can., has been elected Archbishop of Toronto, 
to succeed Archbishop Lynch who died May 
12,1888.An English syndicate has 
purchased four breweries at Paterson N. J., 
for $2,000,000, ana a small portion of the new 
stock. Two large breweries at Newark, N, J., 
were bought by another British syndicate 
for $2,350,000. In both cases the present own¬ 
ers are to continue managing the business for 
three years.James B. Garfield, second 
son of President Garfield, is engaged to marry 
Miss Helen Newall of Chicago, daughter of 
John C. Newall, general manager of the 
Lake Shore Railroad. 
Latest.— The canard about Mrs. Heron’s 
danger in Corea is oflicialy contradicted, per 
cable, by Minister Dinsmore residing there... 
_A number of the most prominent stock- 
men on the Sweetwater in Wy., have been 
arrested for lynching Jim Averill and 
Kate Maxwell, the great cattle thieves of that 
section.....Reports say that there has 
been a world of stealing wrecked goods in the 
Conemaugh Valley. Many of the houses 
aloDg the lower river are said to be full 
of stolen goods. 
Beacons Along the Wnysiile. 
When one who is bewildered discovers a 
beacon ahead, difficulties seem to vanish and 
if we except intervening roots and brambles, 
the haven is soon attained. 
So much for what will presently be our 
simile. 
When one, who is ill sees the good results 
of a means of cure, in cases far more desperate 
than his own, convalescence seems possible 
were it not for doubts and fears. Nevertheless 
Compounfl Oxygen is still a refuge for the 
sufferer. Here are a few encouraging beacons 
aloDg the wayside: 
Atlanta, Ga., March 22,1888. 
“I still recommend your remedy. It saved 
my wife’s life and cured my boy of catarrh. 
J Walticr T. Forbes, 
Columbia, S. C., March 13,1888. 
“I have reason to believe that I have been 
benefited by this treatment, and commend it 
to those whose nervous systems need to be 
invigorated.” Dr. John L. Girardean. 
Williston, S. C., March 20, 1888. 
“I am pleased to report a continued im¬ 
provement both in myself and wife. May you 
live long to bless suffering humanity with 
your Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
Rev. W. W. Graham. 
Gastonia, Gaston Co., N. C., May 25,1888. 
“I speak to you the real sentiment of my 
heart when I state that I sincerely believe that 
had it not been for the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, I would have been in my grave 
before this time.” W. D. Hanna. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
ing the effects of Compound Oxygen on inva¬ 
lids suffering from consumption, asthma, bron¬ 
chitis, dyspepsia, catarrh, hay fever,headache, 
debility, rheumatism, neuralgia; all chronic 
and nervous disorders. It will be sent, free of 
charge, to any one addressing Drs, Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
cent. died. Pasteurism is likely henceforth to 
be recognized as an established public bless¬ 
ing.... 
After all, from the standpoint of German 
militarism, there’s considerable excuse for 
Bismarck’s covert and open opposition to emi¬ 
gration from the Fatherland. Since 1871, the 
country has lost 1,769,297 of the most enter¬ 
prising people in that way. Of these 1,618,816 
came to the United States; 4,780 went to Can¬ 
ada, many of whom afterwards crossed over 
to this country; 33 443 went to Brazil; 15.599 
to other parts of South America; 16,341 to 
Australia; 4,047 to Africa and 1,086 to Asia. 
At least one-third as many emigrated to other 
European countries, chiefly Great Britain, 
France and Russia; but in spite of all, the 
population of the Fatherland is steadily in¬ 
creasing at a pretty swift pace. 
Down in Hayti, it was Hippolyte’s turn to get 
whipped the other day, so his attacks on Port- 
au-Prmce were repulsed “several times with 
severe loss.” His besieged rival Legitime, is 
putting night-colored, thick-lipped Amazons 
on the breastworks. In this bloody burlesque 
of war the soldiers’ pay is seven cents a day, 
and they seldom get it. Out of it, however, 
they have to furnish theirown rations. Small 
wonder they can spare little time routing the 
foe, when they have to spend so much rustl¬ 
ing for food. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 27, 1889. 
All the evidence on both sides being in, the 
Parnell Commission has adjourned for three 
months to give the Crown-Times lawyers an 
opportunity to prepare their speeches and the 
puolic—a rest. There will be no speeches on 
the side of the Parnellites, though there may 
be one.The Parnellites are supporting 
Gladstone in favor of the “ Royal Grants ”— 
the incomes the Queen wants for the eldest 
son and daughter of the Prince of Wales soon 
to be married. The new Duke of Fife is will¬ 
ing to settle on the Princess Louise a sum 
equal to whatever Parliament would give, 
but his is-to-be mother-in-law insists on pay¬ 
ment out of the public purse. When, nearly 100 
years ago, the Crown surrendered to the na¬ 
tion the lands it owned and which made it in¬ 
dependent, it was agreed that, in return, the 
royal family should be amply provided for by 
the country. The family now costs the na¬ 
tion $4,200,000 a year; but the annual cost 
from the first has been much smaller than 
that in any previous reign since the settle¬ 
ment. The Queen has been economical and 
saved a great deal, however, and people think 
she ought to settle sometning handsome on 
her grandchildren; then the family is tremen¬ 
dously prolific and threatens heavy drafts in 
future on the public Treasury, and a repub¬ 
lican spirit is abroad among the masses. The 
Radicals in Parliament, under Labouchere, 
have split on this question in a friendly way 
from the other Liberals under Gladstone and 
their staunch old allies the Parnellites, and 
insist that the sums given to the Royal family 
are already too large and that further sup¬ 
plies should be provided by retrenchment of 
the expenses of the Royal household. Of 
course, the proposed largesses will be secured, 
but the vigorous opposition will make Minis¬ 
ters cautious in asking future bounties of the 
kind. Those who want the luxury of Royalty 
should’nt haggle about paying liberally for it. 
George B. Loring, ex-Commissiones of Agri¬ 
culture, now United States Minister to Portu¬ 
gal, presented his credentials to the King 
Wednesday.Thursday July 25, was 
Mrs. Gladstone’s Golden Wedding Day. In 
1839, when 30 years old, and six years in Par¬ 
liament, and already marked out as a future 
Prime Minister by long-head politicians, he 
married “the handsome Miss Catherine 
Glynne,” eldest daughter of Sir Stephen R. 
Glynne, of Ha warden, Flintshire, the present 
country home of the family. For 50 years she 
has been an ideal wife and mother, aud 
be—well everybody knows what the 
“ Grand Old Man” has been.• .. 
There’s a rumor that Mrs. Hattie Gibon Heron, 
wife of Rev. David Heron, lately of Jones¬ 
boro, Tenn., is under sentence of death in 
Corea, for preaching Christianity. Most of 
those best acquainted with Corea, say it s a 
cock-and-bull story, as the King of Corea isn t 
the kind of a man to permit such a thing..... 
A recent fire in Lu Chow, China, burned 
23 hours, destroyed 8,000 buildings, cremated 
1 200 people and caused 400 other deaths by 
toppling walls; 170.000 homeless people were 
forced to camp out without shelter, aud, at 
last accounts, they were dying at the rate of 
100 a day from hunger and exposure. For a 
monstrous calamity by fire or flood, look to 
China... •••• 
M. Pasteur’s system of inoculation against 
hydrophobia has been subjected to much hos- 
tile criticism. It has been ridiculed as a farce 
and denounced as an atrocity. Lately a re¬ 
action has set in, especially in England, where 
the Frince of Wales has taken a decided stand 
in favor of the French scientist. Since the 
beginning of Pasteur’s operations in 188.), he 
has treated 6,950 patients, of whom only 71 
have died. Of the total 1,187 were bitten by 
animals suspected put not proved to be mad. 
Of these only 12, or 1.01 per cent., died. Of the 
remainder 4,680 were bitten by dogs declared 
to be mad by competent veterinarians. Of 
these only 44, or 0.94 per cent., died. The re¬ 
maining 1,077 were bitten by dogs which were 
proved to be mad by inoculating others from 
their bodies. According to conservative esti¬ 
mates, without Pasteurism, at least 157 or lo per 
cent, of these would have died; but after treat¬ 
ment by Pasteur only 15, or 1.39 per cent. died. 
Many of the patients in all three classes did 
not come under Pasteur’s care till a fortnight 
or more after they were bitten. Excluding 
these, the death rate in the first class would 
be reduced to five or 0.42; in the second class 
to 81 or 0.66 per cent., and in the other class 
to 11 or 1.2 per cent. Most of the patients 
were bitten through their clothes, so that the 
virus might have been wholly or partly wiped 
from the teetn beforb they entered the flesh: 
540, however, were bitten directly ou the face 
or neck. Without Pasteurism from 60 to 80 per 
cent, or from 336 to 433 would have died. Under 
the Pasteur treatment only 21, or 3.89 per 
Anyone haviDg a second crop of hay to cut, 
especially clover, should have Symmes’ Hay 
and Grain Caps. Manufactured at Concord, 
N. H., by the Symmes’ Hay Cap Co. Price, 
$37.50 per 100.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 27, 1889 
August 2 is Grange Day at Chautauqua, 
wheu Hou. J. H. Brigham, Master, and Hon. 
Mortimer Whitehead, Lecturer of the Nation¬ 
al Grange, will address the meeting. 
August 13-16 are Grange Days at the Keuka 
Assembly. Addresses are promised from 
Lieut. Gov. Jones, Gov. Luce, of Michigan, 
Hon. V. E. Piollet, of Pennsylvania, Dr. 
Collier, Miss S. A. Little, and many others... 
.The Eastman’s Company, of New York, 
has been incorporated, with a capital of $750,- 
000, to carry on the business of slaughtering 
sheep and cattle for the market and for ship¬ 
ment abroad.A Frenchman claims to 
have invented a process for preserving meat, 
so that it can be kept wholesome, and retain 
its taste, flavor, and nutritive qualities uuder 
all conditions. He says that 20 workmen can 
E reserve the carcasses of 1,000 oxen in 24 
ours, at a cost of 600 francs. 
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