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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY. December 14. 1889. 
For the hrst 10 months ot the current year 
the number of immigrants arriving in this 
country was 378,141, showing a falling off of 
95,032 as compared with the arrivals in the 
first 10 months of last year. Of late years 
Australia, the Argentine Republic and the 
various African colonies have been attract¬ 
ing more and more emigrants from Eu¬ 
rope.The actual amount of the 
Silcott defalcation is put at various figures: 
but it is no doubt under $100,000. He took 
$71,800 belonging to Congressmen, the 
sums due to 30 victims ranging from $200 
to $4,800. It is more than doubtful whether 
the Sergeaut-at Arms is legally responsible 
to Congressmen for their losses, and should 
a bill be introduced to reimburse them 
from the National Treasury it is likely to 
meet with a strong opposition. Their losses 
are said to be due to their own carelessness 
in not drawing their pay when due and a 
general shiftlessness in signing for it. Sil¬ 
cott forged the names of many, and for¬ 
gery is an extraditable offence. His present 
whereabouts is unknown, but the detec¬ 
tives are after him. 
Another trade conspiracy is likely to fol¬ 
low the example of the Cotton-seed Oil 
.trust by seeking incorporation and act¬ 
ing openly. Eight companies belonging to 
the jute bagging combination, with a total 
capacityof 31,300,000 yards will be incorpo¬ 
rated under the laws of West Virginia 
with a capital stock of $1,000,000 contain¬ 
ing very little ‘'water.” Fourteen mills 
with a capacity of 30,000,000 yards will re¬ 
main independent. With an over-produc¬ 
tion of jute bagging, and a growing com¬ 
petition from cotton bagging, prices of jute 
bagging, unsustained by a cabal, are likely 
to have a big tumble soon.Mrs. 
Scott Lord, the sister of Mrs, Harrisou, 
died at Washington last Tuesday. This 
will wet-blanket festivities at the White 
House for sometime.The Globe re¬ 
fining Company of Pittsburg, about the 
largest independent oil-refining company 
in the country, with a capacity of 20,000 
barrels a week, storage room for over 100,000 
barrels and 370 oil cars, has been bought 
by the Standard Oil Trust for $4,000,000. 
It was negotiating to lay an opposition 
pipeline from the oil territory to the sea¬ 
board at a cost of $3,000,000; but the Stand¬ 
ard has once more got rid of a formidable 
competitor. 
The funeral services of Jefferson Davis last 
Wednesday attracted to New Orleans the 
largest concourse of people that ever gath¬ 
ered in the Crescent City. Everything was 
done that could show honor to the dead 
and affection for him. Memorial services 
were also held in every city and town 
throughout the South. He died $40,000 in 
debt, but he owned a tract of 0,000 acres in 
Arkansas, besides his Mississippi home¬ 
stead ajjd some other property. A fund of 
at least $100,000is being raised for his fami¬ 
ly throughout the South, and as Mrs. 
Davis objects to charitable contributions, a 
comp joy has been formed to purchase the 
Ark: :uas tract at a good figure. Probably 
a uood deal more than *100,000 will be 
aiaed.Last Tuesday night during 
ohf irformance of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 
a ne Opera House at Johnstown, Pa., a 
.j “Fire! ” was raised and in the mad 
pede to escape 12 of the audience were 
c. .died to death and 75 more or less severe¬ 
ly injured.Oliver Johnson, the 
veteran abolitionist and journalist, died in 
Brooklyn, Tuesday.Throughout 
Kansas there is a car famine due chiefiy to 
the enormous crops that have to be moved 
to the market and partly to the enforce¬ 
ment of the new grain inspection law and 
the fact that the railroads, not having an¬ 
ticipated such an enormous business, had 
not made adequate preparations for it. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, December 14, 1889. 
An antarctic exploration committee has 
been organized in Melbourne, the chief city 
of the colouy of Victoria, Australia, and ttie 
most important city in the continental is¬ 
land, with a population of 250,000. 
Next week Gladstone will be 80. 
Boulanger has made a contract to lecture in 
the United States. He speaks English first- 
rate, his mother having been English and 
he having spent several years of his boy¬ 
hood in an English school.Oscar 
Searle, champion oarsman of Australia and 
the world, died the other day. 
The epidemic of influenza or “grippe ” has 
spread from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, 
Berlin, Vienna, Paris and a large number 
of other important towns and cities in Eu¬ 
rope. Jt is likely that the entire con¬ 
tinent with all the adjacent islands, will 
soon be violently coughing and sneezing. 
.The latest advices from Brazil 
indicate that the revolution in the country 
was brought about by the action of an in¬ 
subordinate colonel who quarreled with the 
Minister of Marine over an order which he 
considered unjust, and shot the Minister 
down, whereupon the “regular” ti'oops, 
disgruntled at the prospect of losing their 
dominant influence through the organiza¬ 
tion of the militia, mutinied. The “ Im¬ 
perialists ” appear to have been dumb¬ 
founded at first; but have since been agi¬ 
tating in favor of the restoration of imper¬ 
ialism, and the Republic seems hardly well 
established as yet. There have been sever¬ 
al bloody encounters between the troops 
and the people, but as all the telegraphic 
and postal facilities are in control of the 
new Republican government unfavorable 
news is not permitted to go abroad. The 
late Empress’s diamonds, among the most 
valuable in tlie world, were per force left 
behind at Rio when the Imperial family 
were ordered away at an hour’s notice, and 
they have since been stolen. If Dom Ped¬ 
ro refuses the income offered by the Re¬ 
public or if the latter should discontinue 
it, the loss would be a serious blow, as the 
sale of the diamonds would have been the 
main dependence of the family in such a 
contingency. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 14, 1889. 
The Senate committee to investigate the 
dressed beef business, whose investigations 
at Chicago and Kansas City the past sum¬ 
mer were reported in the R. N.-Y. at the 
time, has resumed its investigations in 
Washington. Mr. H. Hoover, a Washing¬ 
ton butcher, testified that he was told last 
spring that it would not be wise for him to 
bid on Government contracts, for if he or 
any of his friends got any of those con¬ 
tracts the Chicago beef men would not sell 
him any meat and would drive him out of 
the market. He did. however, secure some 
small contracts, when these threats were 
carried into effect. None of the agents of 
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., and Nelson 
Morris would sell meat to him or to his 
friends who tried to purchase for him. 
Complaint was made to the Chicago houses 
direct through an attorney. Armour & 
Co., and Nelson Morris answered saying 
that they did not countenance any such 
proceeding. In order to test the matter, 
the witness took a friend and tried to buy 
meat of the agents of these firms, but 
could not do so at the market rates. They 
asked him two or three times the regular 
rates and have not since sold him any 
meat. A salesman for Nelson Morris said 
that Mr. Hoover’s statement was true, and 
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