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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. September 7, 1889. 
The combined Farmers’ Wheel and Far¬ 
mers’ Alliance of Missouri, in joint convention, 
favor the placing of a tariff on tbe luxuries, 
instead of the necessaries of life and a gradu¬ 
al reduction of the tariff, which shall ultimate¬ 
ly lead to free trade. Missouri is, of course, 
strongly Democratic .Canadians are 
still angrily indignant at the indifference of 
the Mother Country to tbe Behring S°a 
troubles, no reference to which occurred in 
the Queen’s so°ech recently read on the proro¬ 
gation of Parliament. A friendly conference 
of the maritime powers is likely to be held on 
the matter. Meanwhile the Rush and 
her sister cruiser are capturing an 
occasional Canadian poacher, taking the 
arms, salt and seal-skins out of her and either 
“ paroling ” her to go to Sitka or sending her 
there under a prize crew of one. In a few 
cases the vessels have gone there; in all the 
others they have either gone to British Col¬ 
umbia for fresh supplies and sometimes re¬ 
turned to the sealing ground, or straightway 
begun seal-catching as soon as out of sight of 
the “ confounded Yankee.” . 
Chicago is still trying to get fit men for the 
Cronin jury; but it appears a mighty hard 
task to find them. Germans and Irish are to 
be excluded, and so are all among the remain¬ 
ing remnant of the Windy C'ty’s population, 
who are intelligent enough to have formed a 
decided opinion on any subject bearing on the 
murder. Still it is hoped to secure 12 good 
men and true among “ native Americans ” to 
try the case intelligently ana impartially. 
. .It is now considered improbable that there 
will be an extra session of Congress. 
Loud complaints still come from the Cone- 
maugh Valley about the dilatoriness and in¬ 
capacity of the Flood Commissioners. There 
is little doubt that their action and the com¬ 
plaints to which it has given rise, will have a 
stunting effect on public charity in the case 
of any future great calamity . 
Legitime, having at last been driven from 
Port-au-Prince, Havti, went on board a 
French man-of-war from which he shipped on 
the American steamer Manhattan, aud arriv¬ 
ed here Thursday with his family, 22 trunks, 
several officers and three terriers. He goes to 
France to-day, and will remain their some 
time. Hippolyte entered Port -au-Prince 
peacefully and no vindictive executions have 
since occurred. The commanders of the 
United States and other foreign war vessels 
as well as the consuls interfered vigorously 
against any violence. Several fatal 
accidents have occurred within the week from 
contact of men with electric-lighting wires, 
notably in this city and Buffalo, and minor 
accidents from the same cause are frequent.. 
. Each of the constitutions of the five 
new States in one form or another recognizes 
the right of women to the suffrage. North 
Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and Washing¬ 
ton have each granted school suffrage to 
adults of that sex; Montana gives them the 
right to vote on local questions provided they 
are tax payers, while Washington and South 
Dakota will submit the question of unrestrict¬ 
ed woman suffrage to the voters. This action 
may help to add to the scant feminine popula¬ 
te n of those pioneer parts of the mighty 
Union. 
Race troubles have broken out in several 
parts of the South during the week. Near 
Algiers, across the Mississippi from New Or¬ 
leans ,shots were fired into a train-load of color¬ 
ed excursionists and a bad stampede followed. 
One “ nigger ” killed and several others more 
or less seriously injured. A ‘ ‘colored” church 
was also cremated by the whites, which is bit¬ 
terly denounced by the New Orleans papers... 
.At Shell Mound, Le Flore County, 
Miss., a serious conflict between whites and 
blacks was threatened. The latter were at 
first six to one; but did nothing White militia 
and volunteers flocking from all the surround¬ 
ing country soon reversed the disproportion, 
and at last accounts the chief black malcont¬ 
ents were surrounded. Four of them have been 
shot while resisting arrest and 40 other swamp 
fugitives since then...There is aPo much 
anxiety in Red River Valley, West Virginia, 
at the prospect of a race war due to trouble 
between a white store keeper and a colored 
customer. With growing frequency, wher¬ 
ever such troubles ar<se, there is a tendency 
to take sides, not according to the merits of 
the ease, but according to the race of tbe con¬ 
testants. The negroes are becoming more en¬ 
lightened and less dependent, and often more 
outspoken or ‘ insolent,” and the whites are 
as determined as ever that a “nigger” must be 
subordinate and obsequious. Of course, many 
individuals and even communities are excep¬ 
tions to this rule, however. . 
A $100,OdO bar of gold, the largest ever cast, \ 
was turned out at the Helena, Mon. Assay Of¬ 
fice on Wednesday.A big Coke Trust, 
to include 1,500 ovens, is in course of forma¬ 
tion at the head-center of the coke trade 
about Connellsville, Pa.There’s lit¬ 
tle that is new about tbe great World’s Fair. 
The Site Committee here is still hunting for 
the most suitable site; the Finance Committee 
appears languidly waiting till a choice is 
made; the other committees are partly in Eu¬ 
rope, partly in the country and wholly inac¬ 
tive—as yet. Chicago is bustling about in 
quite a lively fashion puffing her own claims, 
belittling those of other places, trying to get 
every convention and caucus to indorse her, 
and steadily raising money. As she has lately 
taken within her limits many large farms and 
a wide sweep of prairie, there should be no dif¬ 
ficulty about a suitable site. Washington is 
sleepily waiting for the meeting of Congress, 
and St. Louis and the other claimants aie do¬ 
ing nothing except talking now and then. 
The coal miners of Northern Illinois who have 
been locked out since April, and who were 
threatened a week ago with a permanent 
stoppage of work, are going to work again, 
u compromise having been made by all the 
i-ine-owners .except W. L. Scott, th* many- 
times millionaire and Pennsylvania ex-Con- 
gressman, who still insists on keeping his men’s 
noses pressed hard on the grindstone. 
The late suppression of forest fires by heavy 
rains in Montana appears to have been only 
partial and temporary, as they are again rag¬ 
ing with old-time impetuosity. The destruc¬ 
tion of timber has been immense .. 
Drake Carter, the Toronto race-horse whose 
record of 5.24 for three miles, a few years 
ago, has never been beaten, fell and broke 
a leg while training a week ago, and had 
to be shot. .. . 
The westward march of civilization has been 
marked by the successive establishment and 
abandonment of new army posts. Fort La¬ 
ramie. Wyoming; Fort Lyon, Colorado, and 
Fort Hayes, Kansas, were abandoned the 
other day.The latest reports from 
the part of Sioux Reservation lately thrown 
ODen to settlement, say there’s nothing of an 
Eldorado or Garden of Eden about it. One- 
third of it belongs to the “bad lands” and 
most of the rest is said to be a vast, rolling 
prairie with a rough sod covered with sage 
brush, cut here and there by sluggish streams 
that run in gulleys, which have the appearance 
of cracks in half-baked brick. Better “go 
slow” in selling the old homestead to take up 
a new one in the Land of the Sioux. 
. .There is no prospect that the Cherokee Na¬ 
tion will, in the near future, consent to the 
sale of the Cherokee Strip. The other Indian 
tribes, who are far less civilized and much 
more influenced by white men, are willing 
enough to sell their surplus lands; but the 
Cherokees, who are about as civilized as their 
white neighbors, have a business-like desire 
to make all they can out of their possessions. 
Ex-speaker Carlisle, however, thinks Congress 
may summarily take the land at a fair figure 
during the next session, as the title to it is se¬ 
riously in dispute .. .The British law 
officers have just decided that the Jesuit En¬ 
dowment Act, passed over a year ago by the 
legislature of Province of Quebec, and which 
has caused such a bitter rumpus between 
Protestants and Catholics in Canada, is con¬ 
stitutional. That legally settles the matter, as 
the year within which the Governor-General 
could constitutionally “disallow” or “ veto ” 
the act, has passed. The bitterness engen¬ 
dered by it will, however, rankle for years 
in Canadian politics.. ..Thereare now over 14, 
000 Icelandic settlers in Manitoba and the Ca¬ 
nadian Northwest and more are coming. 
.The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts 
have nominated a State ticket and declared 
war on the Republicans, because their party 
permitted the defeat of the prohibitory 
amendment to the constitution at the last 
election. The Democratic Party, however, 
was solidly against it; but rancor against a 
recusant friend is hotttr than against an 
acknowledged foe . 
Last Sunday Carlisle D. Graham, the Phila¬ 
delphia cooper who has been riding in a bar¬ 
rel boat at intervals for nearly a year in Ni¬ 
agara River, just below the Falls, went over 
the center of the Horse-shoe Fall, on the Can¬ 
adian side, early last Sunday morning. He 
was stayed and packed in the barrel-boat, to 
the bottom of which 100 pounds of railroad 
iron were fastened to keep it upright. The 
plunge was 159 feet, though some put it up to 
200. He was released from the barrel in a 
semi-conscious conditiou, but is now all right 
and ready to do it again “for money.” He’s 
the first man that ever went over the Falls 
and lived to tell the tale ... . Dr. Sam¬ 
uel A. Allibone, author of “Dictionary of 
Authors,” of late years Librarian of the great 
Lenox Library in this city, died last Monday 
at Lucerne, Switzerland.The great¬ 
est horse race of the year, so far as the value 
of the sfcaxes is concerned, occurred near here, 
at Sheepshead Bay, Long Island, last Wed¬ 
nesday. It was tne Futurity race for two- 
year-old colts and fillies, won last year—the 
first of its establishment—by the Kentucky 
horse Proctor Knott, which has since griev¬ 
ously disappointed the great expectations then 
formed about him. Course, three quarters of 
a mile; time, 1.16 4-5; value of the stakes $61,- 
000, with about $6,000 to the second and $2,500 
to the third. The winner was the gelding 
Chaos, owned by Ex-Congressman W. L. 
Scott, the great millionaire iron king of 
Pennsylvania and coal-monger of Northern 
Illinois. The time was slow. Chaos stood 9 to 
1 in the petting, five being ahead of him. 
Of late years the rac -horse appears to be 
distancing the trotter in public interest. The 
three best two-year-olds of the year, with El 
Rio Rey at the forefront, were not entered 
for the race... . 
There appears to be a mistake about the edu¬ 
cational facilities in the South. The New 
Orleans Times-Democrat shows that while tbe 
money for Southern schools is nearly all con¬ 
tributed by whites, the average payment for 
school purposes in tne South is greater than 
in the New England or Middle States. For 
example: Pennsylvania pays 32 cents on the 
$100 tor school purposes, while the South aver¬ 
ages 50 cents per $100—Virginia paying 46 
cents per $100; Florida, 59; Arkansas 60; 
West Virginia, 61; Missouri, 62: Mississippi, 
65 Since the war $37,000,000 have been con¬ 
tributed for schools intended exclusively for 
colored people.Dandy, Gen. Custer’s 
famous charger, is dead.. 
Dr. Brown-Sequard's “Elixir of life ” craze 
is rapidly going to join the “blue-glass” craze, 
the “sun bath ’’craze, and the numerous other 
kindred crazes that have beguiled man with the 
hope of repulsing Death for a while or baffling 
him altogether. Several thousand old and 
ailing men have received the hypodermic in¬ 
jections, and while in some cases temporary 
good effects were obtained, in most cases no 
very sensible results followed; while in some 
instances disease and, in a few, death ensued 
from blood poisoning. In view of the ex¬ 
treme care needed to obtain a strictly pure 
and health ul article,.and the ignorance, uu- 
preparedness and carelessness of many of the 
doctors eager to advertise themselves by ad¬ 
ministering the “cure-all,” the wonder is that 
more “accidents” haven’t occurred. With 
careful and skillful use, the thing may here¬ 
after be of considerable use in medical prac¬ 
tice; but the idea that it is of any great value 
appears to be dynamited. By the way, among 
all tbe “subjects” experimented od, not a 
single “ woman " case is on record.. 
Within a fortnight lately $17,000,000 were 
scattered abroad from the National Treasury 
in the purchase of bonds, to help in handling 
and “moving” the crops.From June 30 
to September 1 the public debt had increased 
$7,094,003.76. The increase is attributed 
chiefly to the heavy drafts for pensions. 
Labor Day was generally celebrated among 
the working classes from choice and other 
classes from necessity last Monday in the la¬ 
bor centers of most of the Northern States. 
The people, more than usual, rested them¬ 
selves in country places instead of tiring them¬ 
selves by useless parading. The day’s rest 
was objected to as wasteful chiefly by those 
who think a month’s rest essential tor their 
own health. 
N nfure’s Simplicity. 
When Nature does a simple thing she 
arouses wonder, because that which with us, 
is difficult or impossible, with her, is an 
achievement of ease. 
Tbe inference from this is to get near to 
Nature’s heart. Act in harmony with her 
kindly mood. 
This is precisely the effect of Compound 
Oxygen as administered by Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, and here are some witnesses who 
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Glasgow, Ky. 
“ I regard Compound Oxvgen as a wonder¬ 
ful remedy and shall ever be grateful to you 
for it.” Jas. B. Martin. 
Middletown, N. Y., Jar. 25, 1888. 
“ I have used the Compound Oxygen now 
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effective remedy ever offered to the sufferer.” 
Rev. Wm, McGlathery. 
Sumter, S. C. 
“I have used the compound Oxygen Home 
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a revitalizer, and have experieucea marked 
benefit from it.” Mr. N. G. Osteen. 
Proprietor! Watchman and Southern. 
Sumter, S. C., March 17, 1888. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 7, 1889. 
The strike of Londou stock laborers still con¬ 
tinues and has grown to enormous propor¬ 
tions. The loading and unloading of vessels 
in the Thames are conducted by the great 
dock companies, which own vast inclosed 
docks, like St. Catherine’s; by the warfingers 
who load and unload on the stone embank¬ 
ments along the river sides, and by lighters 
which bring and carry cargoes from and to 
ships at anchor in the stream. The first does 
much the largest business, and the last much 
the smallest. All employ regular hands at so 
much a week, and many more “ irregulars •’ at 
so much per hour. The latter in the docks, to 
the number of about 2,500, were the first to 
strike. They wauted 12 cents per hour, aud 
at least four hours’ work a day. Warfinger- 
men and lighter-men soon joined them, and 
so did all the hands working along the river ; 
then came the carters, coai-beavers and all 
other laboring people in any way connected 
with the river business. Soon factories could 
not get coal and had to stop ; other kinds of 
workshops could not get supplies and had to 
shut down, and in a few days over 150,000 
laboring men either went or were forced into 
idleness. Contributions poured in for their 
support; great sympathy was expressed for 
them by the public; they paraded and loitered, 
but kept wonderfully quiet. All perishable 
goods on vessels in the river were ruined. 
Cargoes of sugar couldn’t be marketed and 
prices went up ; a coal famine set in ; 250 
steamers and a vast number of sailing ves¬ 
sels lay compulsorily idle under heavy ex¬ 
penses ; certain lines of business became 
hampered and then paralyzed, and enormous 
losses were iucurred. 
A large number of vessels went to Southamp¬ 
ton and other ports to be loaded aud unload¬ 
ed. Dockmen at Liverpool, Glasgow and 
other ports, who threatened to strike, got their 
demands; labor unions in Belgium aud else¬ 
where refused to allow workmen to go to fill 
the strikers’ places, but contributed to tbe 
support of the latter, money having been 
sent from this country and as far off as Austra¬ 
lia. Efforts to compromise the trouble failed 
Many ports in the United Kingdom and other 
countries are now suffering on account of the 
strike. Vessels and goods that ought to bring 
wealth and give employment are idle in the 
Thames. Over 150 stevedores are, on this ac¬ 
count, idle here, and 70 in Boston, and in 
European ports the case is worse. Tne men 
openly declare that if their demands are now 
granted, they will increase them on the first 
opportunity. Many classes of workingmen 
all over the country have either threatened to 
strike for higher wages or done so. In most 
cases their demands have been either granted 
in full or compromised. It is the greatest 
European peaceable labor uprising on record. 
As large a one occurred in Germany some 
months ago, but it was attended with much 
rioting, destruction of property, blood-shed 
and death, the military and mobs coming into 
frequent collision. Some of the warfingers 
have “ caved in,” and over 2,600 of their men 
have gone back to work. Ship-owners, mer» 
chants and the general public urge a settle¬ 
ment of the trouble by granting the men’s de¬ 
mands; but the dock millionaire owners are 
still obdurate. It is expected, however, that 
they will soon yield.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 7, 1889. 
The Senatorial Committee headed by Sena¬ 
tor Vest, has been inquiring into the value of 
Chicago’s meat products, and their transpor¬ 
tation. There has been a steady decline in 
the prices of beef cattle for a number of years, 
without any decrease in prices of meats. An 
Elgin dealer said that dealers throughout the 
country bought Chicago dressed beef in pre¬ 
ference to buying live stock. The freight 
tariff is higher on live stock than on dressed 
beef, hence small dealers buy the latter, aud 
leave Chicago to control the live stock mar¬ 
ket. E. T. Jefferey. general manager of 
the Illinois Central Railroad, admitted that 
the prices charged for delivering live beef 
were greater than for dressed beet. A vouug 
man who had been in the employ of Nelson 
Morris for three years previous to last May, 
testified that his firm and three others formed 
a combination, and regulated tbe price of cut 
beef in seven States. Several prominent 
dressed beef shippers who had been summon¬ 
ed as witnesses did not obey the summons, 
among them Swift and Armour. Certain 
papers and lists that were called for were also 
not forthcoming. A resolution was adopted 
that the facts of the refusal of these parties 
to appear be reported to the chairman of the 
United States Senate at its next session. 
Armour says he would not appear because ho 
knew he could not expect fair treatment from 
Senator Vest, who is opposed to the dressed 
beef business. 
An association of orange dealers was formed 
in this city duriDg the week, the object of 
which is declared to be to unite with the 
growers and so stop the shipping of oranges 
to irresponsible persons who undersell the 
other dealers. Representatives were present 
from all the principal Northern cities, aud 
from Jacksonville, Florida. The Florida 
growers were reported to be anxious to have 
responsible dealers come down there and buy 
the crop. The movement is probably a step 
toward the selling of the orange crop at 
auction. 
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