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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, November 2,1889. 
The Weldon extradition treaty with 
Canada will not be promulgated until the 
United States Senate shall have acted on 
the extradition treaty made some time ago 
between the United States and England.;. 
-Gen. Raum, the new Pension Commis¬ 
sioner appears hitherto to have caused no 
complaints anywhere—he has done no¬ 
thing. 
It is feared that Judge Cooley will be un¬ 
able ever to resume his work as chairman 
of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 
His trouble is from paralysis, whose symp¬ 
toms have continued to increase since he 
reached home. It will be hard to find as 
good a man for the place. 
The destitution in North and South Dakota 
on account of the failure of crops is report¬ 
ed to be wide-spread. It is estimated by 
some that 20,000 families are in want, and 
the relief committee are doing their best to 
meet the needs of the sufferers, but so far 
the contributions received are inadequate. 
The distress is greatest in Ramsey and 
Niloo Counties. The story about 100,000 
starving settlers is declared to be an exag¬ 
geration, however. 
The rifle news from the South is rather 
scant just now. True, in Harlan County, 
Ky., the feud between the Howards and 
Turners is still raging fiercely. Yesterday 
came a report that the law-and-order party, 
under Judge Lewis, bad just killed six of 
the Howards; but both parties were re¬ 
ceiving reinforcements and the struggle 
was still doubtful. Harlan County is 
strongly Republican and the Democratic 
State government is said to be slow in in¬ 
terfering in hopes that both factions may 
wipe each other out.Gen. F. E. Spin¬ 
ner, instead of dying of cancer, is now in 
fair health, and writing a book at the age 
of 88.An English syndicate is to 
build a bridge over the St. Lawrence River 
at Quebec, and also a railroad from Quebec 
to Belle Isle. 
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has just 
promulgated the rates the Government will 
pay for telegraph service during the cur¬ 
rent year. It a verages 83 per cent, less than 
the old rates, and the Western Union hasn’t 
yet decided what to do in the matter. 
The “ Cronin ” trial drags slowly along at 
Chicago; things look bad for the accused, 
however, so far.As regards theWorld’s 
Fair, New York has already raised over 
$2,000,000 of the $5,000,000 Guarantee Fund 
voted for by the Finance Committee, and 
contributions are coming in at the rate of 
about $250,000 a day. There’s a great 
deal of grumbling yet at the possibility of a 
part of Central Park being taken and some 
refuse to contribute till all intention 
of doing so is disclaimed. Some of the 
owners of the land wanted for the site are 
asking extortionate terms, and matters are 
not at all in a splendid shape. Chicago has 
her Fair matters in precisely that condition, 
having already a Guarantee Fund of $8,000, 
000. She is still working intelligently 
unanimously and enthusiastically to se¬ 
cure Congressional support in her fa¬ 
vor. St. Louis is, as usual, quiet and a 
trifle lethargic. Washington, always pow¬ 
erful in social influences on Congressmen, 
has just projected a gorgeous banquet in 
support of her claims and will henceforth 
act energetically—for Washington. 
Secretary Noble has notified the cattle 
syndicate who have leased the Cherokee 
Strip that they must vacate the whole ter¬ 
ritory by June 1. If the Cherokees refuse 
the Government’s offer of $7,200,000 for the 
6,000,000 acres in the land, they can get no¬ 
thing henceforth from outsiders. Intend¬ 
ing settlers are reported to have set fire to 
the grass, and the cattle on hundreds of 
miles of blackened pastures are starving... 
.The price of oysters has reached the 
highest figure ever known in most of the 
seaboard markets—storms and a “com¬ 
bine”.This is an “ off” year in politics 
through most of the country; but, Gracious ! 
how hotly they’re, whooping things up in 
Virginia. Both sides are quite sure of vic¬ 
tory ; and all sorts of roorbacks are as thick 
as leaves in Vallambrosa. Politics in 
Ohio, too, are sizzling. 
Clement Garrett Morgan, colored, ex-barb- 
er, ex-school-teacher and ex-hotel-waiter, 
was elected to the unique honor of class 
orator at Harvard University the other day 
by a majority of one in a total vote of 250. 
He appears to be a very intelligent, well- 
educated, gentlemanly man, who has 
struggled nobly to secure an education. Of 
course, the kid-gloved Bloods and Swells 
who have hitherto run the annual elections 
are considerably disgruntled.Ex- 
President Rutherford B. Hayes has been 
re-elected Commander-in-Chief of the Royal 
Legion which convened at Philadelphia the 
other day.Senator Vest has fully re¬ 
covered from his recent illness.Sena¬ 
tor Randall is again in fair health. 
The Pan-American junketers are having a 
truly halcyon and hilarious time of it, and 
have telegraphed Secretary Blaine that 
they’ve not tired of their trip as reported, 
but want lots more of it. The Pacific 
coast claims that it ought to be visited, as 
it is nearer to all the South American 
Pacific States than any other part of the 
country... .Canada is to have a sub- 
Atlantic cable of its own, which is to be laid 
next year by a company with a capital of 
$1,600,000. It will cost less than any cable 
hitherto laid, ’tis said, though it will have 
all “the latest improvements.”.. 
The Sandwich Islands appear to be anxious 
to have their relations with the United 
States more intimate than thoy are at 
present, and hence ask for closer commer¬ 
cial relations, promising not to negotiate 
treaties with any other country with¬ 
out the knowledge of the Government of 
the United States.The mine-owners 
of Victoria, British Columbia, want to be 
annexed to the United States.Ala 
bama State four-per-cent, bonds sold the 
other day at a premium. A few years ago 
her eight-per-cent, bonds found slow sale at 
70 cents on the dollar. Good for Alabama ! 
- : .Mexico has just shown its 
anxiety for reciprocity by imposing pro¬ 
hibitory duties on imports of live cattle and 
dressed meat. This is following the exam¬ 
ple of the United States, however, and 
imitation is surely a compliment.. 
The land rings in New Mexico are jubilant 
at the recent removal of their implacable 
foe, the Hon. ex-Congressman, Geo. W. Ju¬ 
lian, of Indiana, who for four years has 
been Surveyor General of New Mexico. 
...English capitalists are said to be 
negotiating with many of the most impor¬ 
tant cheese factories to form a Cheese 
Trust.Buffalo and other “bor¬ 
der” towns complain that Canadian work¬ 
men cross the line every day and work at 
“ cut ” rates. 
Contracts will be given out by the Govern¬ 
ment in a few weeks for the construction of 
30 twin-screw sea-going torpedo boats, and 
a company of New York, New Haven and 
Philadelphia capitalists, with a capital of 
$6,000,000, has been formed to build them. 
They’ll be quite formidable in size, speed 
and equipment.An English syndi¬ 
cate has at last gobbled up all t he St. Louis 
breweries, except one, for $12,350,000 !. 
In 1840 William Parger sold a pair of mules 
for 28 acres of land on the Missouri near 
Kansas City. Changes in the river bed 
since then have increased the tract to 260 
acres, worth $200,000, and the title to the in¬ 
crease has just been affirmed by the courts 
in favor of Parger’s widow._... .That 
Cadwell-Murat marriage was declared “off” 
last Friday. The cool-headed-and-hearted 
American girl offered $10,000 a year for the 
princely great-grandson of the old French 
inn-keeper; but he thought himself worth 
more, especially as his son’s rich wife offer¬ 
ed him the same sum for not marrying at 
all, as she didn’t want a ranking lady in 
the family.. .C. P. Huntington’s 
adopted daughter, Miss Prentice, niece of 
the multi-millionaire’s wife, has clinched 
the bargain with the German Prince 
Hardzfeldt, having married him last Mon¬ 
day. Cash consideration not yet mentioned. 
A Snell-murderer Tascott has been dis¬ 
covered simultaneously in Philadelphia 
and Colorado during the week, and neither 
has proved to be the eagerly sought Simon 
Pure, to the $50,000 disappointment of their 
captors who hoped to get the big reward.. 
.The Westinghouse Electric Company, 
which uses several million pounds of cop¬ 
per yearly in its electric works, will mine 
its own copper in future, having bought 
valuable mines in Arizona.Abet¬ 
ter written to the N. Y. World dated Flor¬ 
ence, Italy, October 12, states that the rea¬ 
son Mr. Blaine declined to be a candidate 
for President last year in his famous Flor¬ 
ence letter was that he had a stroke of 
paralysis at Milan, and subsequently was 
dangerously ill with paresis at Florence for 
several weeks. His sickness was followed 
by melancholia. It is generally believed 
there’s truth in the report, and as the 
Plumed Knight is now all right he may 
enter the lists at the next Presidential 
tourney.. 
The Mennonite colonists are doing remark¬ 
ably well in the Canadian Northwest, where 
many of them have been settled for 14 
years, and are now worth $10,000 to $20,000 
each. Fresh immigration is expected. In 
this country, too, Mennonites are prospering 
wherever they have settled, as they are ex¬ 
tremely frugal, industrious and economi¬ 
cal . 
President Harrison has appointed Novem¬ 
ber 28 as Thanksgiving Day.Surviv¬ 
ors of the wrecked steamer Earnmoor say 
that the boat’s crew sustained life by can¬ 
nibalism.Major E. A. Burke, ex-Con- 
troller of the State of Louisiana, instead of 
returning at once to “ vindicate ” himself 
from the charges of having misappropri¬ 
ated hundreds of thousands of dollars 
entrusted to his care, has fied from En¬ 
gland to Belgium to avoid ext radition, as 
a number of indictments for forgery, etc., 
have been found against him in New Or¬ 
leans. No man in the country had a higher 
reputation for honesty, honor and execu¬ 
tive business ability than had Burke a few 
years ago.... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November 2, 1889. 
The Emperor William escorted by the 
German and English fleets, after his sis¬ 
ter’s wedding, steamed from Athens to 
Constantinople, on a visit to the Sultan. 
His reception has been grand. Bismarck 
is anxious to form, supplementary to the 
Triple Alliance, another “ Alliance of 
Peace,” embracing England, Turkey and 
perhaps Spain, and the Emperor’s visit to 
the Porte will no doubt tend to secure Tur¬ 
key’s adhesion. Meanwhile Russia is un¬ 
usually quiet, waiting perhaps to see how 
Bismarck will carry out his recent arrange¬ 
ments with the Czar. Peace appears as¬ 
sured until spring at any rate. 
In England she Parnell Commission has 
again begun its sessions, but little or no 
interest is now felt in its action. That it 
will make some sort of a report adverse to 
the accused is a foregone conclusion, but 
it will fall flat on the public attention. 
-Russia is just now on extraordinarily 
friendly terms with the Pope and has con¬ 
ceded all his demands witn regard to the 
appointment of Catholic bishops and the 
government of the Catholic churches in 
Holy Russia. No doubt Italy’s adhesion 
to the Triple Alliance makes Russia all 
the more cordial with the Vatican. 
Latest reports from two independent 
sources in Africa say that Stanley and 
Emin Pasha will soon arrive at Mpwapa, 
150 miles inland from Zanzibar. 
The Prince of Wales is reported to be suf¬ 
fering incurably from Bright’s disease. 
Two years is the longest span the doctors are 
said to give him. The London papers are 
requested not to discuss the topic. 
It is reported that the Czarevitch has been 
betrothed to Princess Marie of Greece, and 
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to Princess 
Louise of Alencon belonging to the Or¬ 
leans family. 
The marriage of Princess Sophie, sister of 
the Emperor of Germany, and the Duke of 
Sparta, Crown Prince of Greece, celebrated 
at Athens, last Sunday, was the most bril¬ 
liant wedding that has probably ever oc¬ 
curred. No fewer than 99 “ royalties ” or 
members of royal families, were present, in¬ 
cluding the Emperor, Empress and Dowa¬ 
ger Empress of Germany, the King and 
Queen of Denmark, and of course those of 
Greece, and the Queen and Crown Prince of 
Italy, the Crown Prince of Russia, the 
Prince and Princess of Wales, and “any 
number” of German princes and Grand 
Dukes and other “ royal” notabilities. Ow¬ 
ing to the remarkably good fortune of the 
royal family of Denmark, close relationship 
exists between several of the most power¬ 
ful royal houses of Europe. One daughter 
is Empress of Russia, another Princess of 
Wales, and another a member of the 
Orleans family, while a son is now King of 
Greece, and another would probably have 
been Prince of Bulgaria were it not for the 
political complications to which such an 
election would have given rise. The pres¬ 
ents to the “ happy couple ” were numerous, 
rich and gorgeous. 
Official statistics show that 32,000 Irish 
laborers migrate to England every summer 
to take part in the harvest work, returning 
home before winter. Five-sixths of them are 
supplied by Connaught-The straight-out 
Boulangerists assure the General of the fidel¬ 
ity of the party to his cause and of their confi¬ 
dence in his ultimate success. It is said that 
he will suddenly enter Franceand demand a 
new trial. If he does he’ll be probably im¬ 
prisoned to serve out the penalty imposed 
at the last.Owing to an increase of 
the German forces on the Northern frontier 
of France, the French government will 
send 100,000 more troops in that direction. 
Every move of one power on the military 
chess-board of Europe, is certain to cause a 
counter-move by another. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY, November 2, 1889. 
The Western Economic Association hav¬ 
ing headquarters at St. Louis, has adopted 
resolutions calling upon the Secretary of 
the Interior, and upon Congress to take 
the proper action to include in the next 
census statistics showing what percentage 
of the people in this country occupy their 
own farms and homes and what propor¬ 
tion are tenants ; also as to what pro¬ 
portion of those who own their own 
farms have their property free from 
debt, and what percentage of the 
value is mortgaged. The act authorizing 
the census did not authorize the collecting 
of these and similar data, and a special act 
will be necessary to enable these very im¬ 
portant items to be included. There is no 
doubt but farm property is greatly over¬ 
taxed, as well as heavily mortgaged, and one 
long step in the matter of securing relief is 
to have the facts collected and published to 
the world. Let the light shine !. 
The Vermont Dairymen’s Association will 
hold its 20th annual meeting at the Town 
Hall, Rutland. Vermont. January 15, 16 
and 17,1890. The much-talked-about butter 
extractor will be exhibited. Speakers of 
National reputation on dairy matters will 
give addresses. Premiums to the amount 
of $200 will be paid on butter and cheese. 
A programme will be issued in December. 
E. L. Bass, secretary, West Randolph. 
There will be an auction sale of Jersey and 
Holstein cattle at the American Horse Ex¬ 
change, Thursday, November 14. The ani¬ 
mals ottered are from several noted herds. 
.It is reported that a man pre¬ 
tending to represent Philadelphia commis¬ 
sion merchants lias been swindling the 
cranberry growers about Barnegat, N. J. 
His gtime was to negotiate for the crop, and 
then borrow' small sums of money on the 
strength of the deal. 
Reports show a lack of pasturage in many 
of the Western States, on account of the 
drought, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota 
suffering most.Nebraskan fanners 
have decided to organize a beef-packing 
house at West Lincoln, for the purpose of 
supplying the home market. They are con¬ 
fident of being able to cope successfully 
with the Beef Trust.Judge Arthur 
T. Reeve, formerly of Iowa, Chief of the 
Seed Division of tlie Department of Agri¬ 
culture, died in Washington on Friday of 
last week.The squaw men are re¬ 
ported to have settled on all the land for 
miles around Fort Pierre, S. D., and trouble 
is anticipated from intending settlers who 
claim that the Government has decided 
squawmen no better than other whites_ 
Tne Secretary of Agriculture issued the 
following order to managers and agents of 
railroad transportation companies which 
took effect November 1: The order of July 
3, 1889, prescribing regulations for the 
transportation of Texas and other Southern 
cattle and for the isolation, cleaning and 
disinfection of pens which had been occu¬ 
pied by such cattle is hereby revoked. It is 
believed that the danger from splenetic or 
Texas fever has passed for the present year. 
.A meeting of the hay-dealers of 
Quebec, Canada, who have claims against 
the United States Government for the re¬ 
funding of duties, is called for St. John, 
November 5. It is said that the claims 
amount to over $800,000.Growers and 
shippers of California grapes claim great 
things for the irrigated vineyards. They 
yield better of larger, sweeter, better 
flavored and more highly and uniformly 
colored clusters. The shippers say that the 
fruit grown upon irrigated land also carries 
better than any other. 
Farmers’ institutes will be held in New 
York State the coming fall and wduter as 
follows: 
PLACE. 
COUNTY. 
DATE. 
Plattsburg.. .Clinton.Nov. 18-19 
Malone.Franklin. “ 20-21 
Ogdensb’g . .St.Law'rence.. “ 22-23 
Salem.Washington. “ 25-26 
Val’y Falls... Rensselaer... “ 29-30 
Newport.Herkimer_Dec. 2-3 
Rome.Oneida. “ 4- 5 
Weedsport.. .Cayuga. “ 6-7 
Penn Yan — Yates. “ 13-14 
Fonda.Montgomery. “ 16-17 
Cairo.Greene. “ 18-19 
Walden.Orange. “ 20-21 
Monticello_Sullivan. “ 23-24 
Walton.Delaware_ “ 27-28 
Geneseo.Livingston... “ 30-31 
Albion.Orleans.Jan. 3-4 
Akron. Erie. “ 6-7 
Warsaw.Wyoming_ “ 8- 9 
Angelica.Allegany._ “ 10-11 
Bath.Steuben_ “ 13-14 
Watkins.Schuyler. “ 15-16 
Trum’nsb’g. .Seneca. “ 17-18 
Albany.Albany. “ 22-23 
Glens Falls. .Warren. “ 24-25 
Cobleskill_Schoharie_ “ 27-28 
Owego.Tioga. “ 29-80 
Bainbridge...Chenango_ “ 31-Feb. 
Bin’hamt’n ..Broome.Feb. 3- 4 
Oneonta.Otsego. “ 5-6 
Horseheads . .Chemung_ “ 7-S 
Lyons.Wayne..._ “ 10-11 
Hamilton.Madison. “ 12-13 
Boonville-Oneida. “ 14-15 
Carthage.Jefferson_ “ 17-18 
Oswego.()s wego. “ 19-20 
Po’keepsie. ..Dutchess. ... “ 21-22 
Millerton_ “ “ 24-25 
Mt. Kisco_Westchester. “ 26-27 
Riverhead — Suffolk. “ 28- Mar. 
Spr’g Val’y. .Rockland_Mar. 3- 4 
Marathon — Cortland. “ 5- 6 
Ellico’tville..Cattaraugus. “ 7- 8 
Sincl’rville.. .Chautauqua . “ 10-11 
Le Roy.Genesee. “ 12-13 
Can’nd’gua.. .Ontario. “ 14-15 
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gelding. Also sucking colt, sire Billy Wilkes, dam by 
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Also 500 Obis. Monroe Seedling Seed Potatoes, $8 per 
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