402 T&3E BUBAL MEW~VORKER. 
Saturday, March 13,1886. 
Reports of great distress and starvation 
among the inhabitants of Labrador. No 
bread, people living on dog meat. 
Several lynchiugs during the week—one of a 
negro outrager of a young woman in New 
Jersey, within 45 miles of this city; another 
near Shoals, Ind., where three brothers, who 
for years had terrorized several counties and 
committed all crimes, from pilfering to murder, 
were hung by a resolute mob.A “high- 
licen.se" bill, introduced last Wednesday into 
the New York Senate, provides that in New 
York and Brooklyn, where all kinds of liquors 
are sold, a liquor store of the first class shall 
pay £500 a year, of the second class £300, and 
of third class £ 150. Where ale and beer alone 
are sold the licensesshall be respectively £150, 
$75 and $60. In Buffalo, Albany aud Roch¬ 
ester the first-class liquor stores are to pay 
$300, $200 aud $100 respectively, and the ale 
and beer stores $100, $50 and $40. In cities of 
less population the licenses are to be $150, 
$100 and $75 respectively, and for ale and 
beer $30. In all other places the license fee 
is to be $100 and $60 respectively and $30 for 
beer.A House bill declares forfeited the 
laud gr&nted to aid in the construction of a 
railroad from Portland, O., to the Central 
Pacific in California.The Secre¬ 
tary of the Interior has rejected the selection 
of some 130,000 acres of land made by the St. 
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway 
Company within Dakota Territory....... .A 
Senate bill provides for “forfeiting a part of 
certain lands granted to the State of Iowa to 
aid in the construction of railroads in that 
State.”.Tuesday the House passed with¬ 
out opposition a bill requiring Pacific Rail¬ 
roads to pay the cost of surveying their lands 
and to take out patents thereto. Same day, 
the bill prohibiting convict labor ou work for 
the General Government was passed— 
yeas 24!); nays eight.Good prospect 
for the passage of a bill appropriating $250,- 
000 to reimburse, at the rate of $3.50 ppr acre, 
those who, under the land laws, settled upon 
or purchased lands within the grant made to 
the Northern Kansas Railroad, but who were 
deprived of their lands by the courts “on ac¬ 
count of priority of grant to the railroad.”... 
.Legislation is sought by California viti¬ 
culturists against adulterations aud imitations 
of wine.Mm. Seymour, widow of ex-Gov. 
Horatio Seymour, died of pneumonia last 
Monday at Utica, N. Y., at the home of ex- 
Senator Conlding, who is married to her hus¬ 
band’s sister.Mrs. Brewster, wife of 
ex-Attorney-Genera 1 Brewster, died of the 
same disease last Tuesday at Philadelphia- 
_Ex-senator Chaffee, of Colorado, died last 
Tuesday, at the age of 62, from the effects of a 
severe cold, at Salem Center, Westchester 
Co., N. Y., in the house of U. S. Grant Jr., 
who had married his only surviving child. 
Mrs. Grant will probably inherit nearly all 
her father’s property—somewhat less than 
$1,000,000; he lost $500,000 by the failure of 
Grant & Ward.Senator John P. Miller, 
of California, died at Washington, Monday, 
aged 55—a complication of diseases due to a 
wound in the eye received during the war... 
... .After all, it. is said the Panama Canal will 
be finished. The reports of the visiting ex¬ 
perts and commercial representatives will, on 
the whole, be favorable. So much money has 
been sunk, that the enterprise cannot be given 
up now. Several times more money will be 
needed, however, than at present estimated. 
America is as quietly but steadily opposed to 
the Panama as England was to the Suez Canal, 
and about as doubtful of the possibility of its 
completion. De Lesseps says he, with his 
family, will steam through it from the Atlan¬ 
tic to the Pacific in July, 1889. 
.The Utah Legislature Tuesday showed 
the first sign of concession in agreeing to ap¬ 
propriate pay for jurors, heretofore voted 
down repeatedly..Representatives of 
the rice growers of S. C., of the sugar grower 
of Louisiana and of the tobacco growers of 
Connecticut and Ohio have been urging upon 
the House Committee of Ways aud Means the 
necessity of “protection” for their home pro¬ 
ducts. The first were opposed by the brewers 
who say one brewery uses more “broken rice” 
every year than is produced altogether in this 
country, and that the increase of duty sought 
by the rice growers would therefore be unjust 
to them. They require several million bushels 
of “brokeu rice” every month—much more 
than we grow of all kinds of rice.Ow¬ 
ing to the falling off in exports of agricultural 
products, gold is leaving the country steadily 
to pay for goods bought in Europe and interest 
on American Government, railroad and other 
securities held there, and also the expenses of 
American tourists ; and residents abroad. 
Last Tuesday alone $1,500,000 iu gold were 
engaged in this city for export.Liquor 
licenses in Boston are to be raised from $,:>0 
to $500 a piece... 
_The “Gould Southwestern railroad sys¬ 
tem” extends into six States. Missouri, Kau. 
and Tex. are gridironed with these roads; one, 
the M. K. & T., crosses the Indian Territory. 
Louisiana is traversed from the northeast to 
the southwest by the leased Texas Pacific. 
Arkansas is crossed diagonally by the Iron 
Mountain, with seven lateral spurs. There ar e 
iu all at. least 6,000 miles, the Missouri Pacific 
being the main stem. Ou this whole system 
there is now a great, strike which has blocked 
all freight traffic and a good deal of local 
passenger travel, though the mails are not iu- 
temipted, lest the U. S. authorities should 
intervene. The Texas Pacific is bankrupt aud 
in the hands of a receiver, aud the trouble 
began there by the refusal of the receiver to 
concede certain demands of the Knights of 
Labor; the strike was then extended to the 
rest of the system to prevent traffic with the 
T. P. Over 12,000 bauds struck—freight 
haudlers, brakemeu, switchmen—all except 
conductors and engineers: but these are 
mostly ready to go out if ordered. The K. of 
L. who were not “called out” have all 
been discharged. Business all through the 
tributary country is paralyzed. Stock and 
perishable goods on the cars are greatly 
injured or ruined. Graiu shipments are 
absolutely stopped. Not a car-load of freight 
has been moved for nearly a week on any 
road in the “system.” There are reports that 
‘it is war to the knife”; that the railroads are 
determined to break up the labor organization 
at any cost. Others say the roads will be 
“boycotted”—the last recourse of the K. of L.; 
others say the latter must certainly win their 
point ere long. Plenty of funds on their side, 
and, apparently, of determination. Hitherto 
all has been peace; the K. of L. have detailed 
men to protect railroad property wherever 
danger threatened; but there is considerable 
muttering about tearing up tracks and burn¬ 
ing bridges,should “scabs”l>e employed instead 
of the strikers.The following are a few 
specimens of the hundred strikes in progress 
or imminent in various parts of the country: 
Strike of 1,500 car drivers and conductors 
threatened at Pittsburg, Pa.Strike of 
chair makers for 10 hours a day, instead of 
12, at Indianapolis. Strike of 3,000 shoe opera¬ 
tives for higher prices per piece, at Woburn, 
Mass.About 20 different strikes in this 
city for more wages, shorter horn's, or both— 
carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, steam¬ 
heating workmen, laborers,musicians at places 
of amusement, waiters, etc., etc.Strike 
of ship carpenters at Detroit, Mich. 
Free striking miners threaten to release con¬ 
victs working the mines at Greenwood, Ky., 
unless the Legislature passes a law against 
such work, within 10 days....Plasterers of 
Montreal on strike for higher wages. 
Russell M’fg Co., Middleton, Conn., refuse to 
employ K. of L. Boycott of all dealing in 
their goods probable.A hundred retail 
stove and tin-ware dealers in St. Louis have 
combined to boycott large mercantile houses 
who include these goods in their stock. 
Over 600 workmen and 250 “girls” will strike 
at the cordage works at Newark, N. J., unless 
their wages are increased before April 1. 
Over 10,000 miners are now out on strike in 
Pennsylvania.... More than 1,000 hands have 
struck at the Studebaelcer Wagon Works, 
South Bead, Ind.A lockout of 0,000 
spinners expected at Cohoes, N. Y..Here are 
a few specimens of the numerous strikes set¬ 
tled duriug the week: Knights of Labor 
amicably settled shoemaker strike against 
convict labor, Tuesday, at Chicago.. . Railroad 
amicably settled street car strike at Troy, 
N. Y., same day.. Nearly 1,000 coal miners mi li¬ 
mit question of wages to arbitration at Clear¬ 
field, Pft.The Fuller & Warren Stove 
Company, Troy, N. Y., after 18 months’ 
struggle, yielded Tuesday to the demands of 
the Knights of Labor, and the boycott on 
their goods all over the country was removed. 
_The “Standard” of Troy, which was boy¬ 
cotted for admitting F. & W.’sadv., yielded 
the night before. Boycott also everywhere 
removed from merchants who sold the stoves, 
.Cigar-makers of Davenport, la., have 
yielded to the K. of L.Coal miners Hear 
Charleston, W. Va., have resumed work on 
an increase of wages.Since January I, 
last, the Executive Board of the Knights of 
Labor, has settled satisfactorily by arbitra¬ 
tion 350 eases in which strikes would other¬ 
wise have occurred.. 
Akron, O., Saturday morning was visited bj 
a disastrous fire that, destroyed the huge oat¬ 
meal mills of Ferdinand Schumacher and the 
New York, Pennsylvania aud Ohio rail read 
stations with a total loss estimated at $1,000,- 
000. The mills were the largest in the coun¬ 
try, if not iu the world.Ida Schneider, 
a little dried-up, dirty, 57-years-old Chicago 
rag-picker, who was sent to an insane asylum 
last week, has picked up a fortune of $80,000 
during 40 years’ rummaging among the ash 
heaps and refuse piles of the city.Th.? 
delegates to Washington from the Creek Na¬ 
tion attempted treachery to their people by 
offering to sell Oklahoma; but the sale has 
been repudiated by the Indians, whose con¬ 
sent was essential to its validity. 
.After n delay of many months 
Chief Poundmaker and eleven braves of the 
Canadian Northwest have beeu liberated and 
returned to their tribes.It- is the talk at 
Washington that Gov, Stoneman, of Califor¬ 
nia, will appoint millionaire Flood to the Sen¬ 
ate to succeed General Miller.Joshua T. 
Child, a Missouri unknown, is to represent the 
United States in Siam.Alexander Stew¬ 
art, a Vormout. farmer, who claims to be an 
heir of the dead millionaire, has filed a com¬ 
plaint in t he United States Court at New York, 
in nu equity suit against ex-Judge Henry Hil¬ 
ton to recover $200,000. Stewart bus been ad¬ 
judged a lunatic in his native State, and the 
action is brought by h‘ts guardian, Benjamin 
F. Whekleu.Archibishop Kendrick of 
St. Louis, and Archibishop Leroy of New 
Orleans, both refuse to follow iu the footsteps 
of the Bishop of Montreal, and condemn the 
Knights of Labor. The Catholic Church, they 
say, has always been the friend of the laborer. 
......The protest of Mormon women in mass¬ 
meeting assembled at Utah last week against 
their possession of undivided portions of hus¬ 
bands, must not be taken as an expression of 
the genuine sentiment of women iu Utah. If 
the women favored the institution of poly¬ 
gamy, their voices would have been lifted in 
its defense years ago... 
♦ *■» 
After two years’ trial, we unhesitatingly 
pronounce the Boss Zinc and Leather Col- 
lau Pad, the only durable and successful one 
that we have ever used. It returns its shape, is 
cooling, prevents chafing, and thereby keeps 
the horses’ necks clean and healthy. Hiram 
G. DODGE & Sons, Wood & Coal Dealere, 
Madison, Wis.— Adv. 
H. J. Baker <fc Bro. N. Y. 
Gentlemen —I used 1,000 lbs. of your Potato 
Fertilizer to the acres in 1884, and had a good 
crop—better than from n piece alongside ma¬ 
nured heavily with city stable manure. 1 
then sowed wheat, after the potatoes were dug 
aud applied no additional manure, und I have 
harvested a better crop of wheat this year 
than I diri from the piece manured with stable 
manure which was sown after the jiotatoes 
were (lug. 1 am satisfied your fertilizer is as 
lasting on the soil as stable MANURE 
Joseph Williams, 
Dec. 8th, 1885. East Williston, L. I.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 13, 1886. 
Great activity in the Texas cattle region. 
All preparations for the grand “drive” com¬ 
plete. Several herds will start northward 
within a week, ns grass will henceforth meet 
them on the trail. Last Tuesday’s telegrams 
say careful estimates show the drive for 1886 
will reach 300,000 head, and with fair prices 
this will be exceeded. Yearlings iu Northern 
Texas bring $12 per head, and “twos” $14, 
while in Southern Texas yearlings sell at $7 
aud “twtis” at $10 apiece. 
Mrs. Scnsenbaek died Tuesday at S. Bethle¬ 
hem, Pa., from trichinosis. One daughter 
died from same cause three weeks ago; an¬ 
other seriously ill—raw ham.Benjamin 
Hill, convicted of selling bogus butter in t his 
city, appealed to the Supreme Court to get a 
decision on the constitutionality of the law 
forbidding the sale of bogus butter. The' 
court has reaffirmed his conviction and re 
fused to question the constitutionality of the 
law.Senator Miller, of New 
York, introduced in the Senate at Washing¬ 
ton on Wednesday last a bill requiring all 
manufacturers of, and dealers in oleomar¬ 
garine, butterine, lanline and suine to dis¬ 
play signs in a conspicuous place in their 
places of business indicating that they manu¬ 
facture or sell such articles, imposing a special 
tax of $500 on manufacturers, $250 on whole¬ 
sale dealers, and $100 on retail dealers in such 
products, and requiring them to take out nu. 
nual license to carry ou such business, under 
penalty of fine aud imprisonment, and re¬ 
quiring all persons enguged in such business 
to keep books and enter therein nu accurate 
and detailed account of all imitation butter 
manufactured or sold by them, such books to 
be subject at, all times to the inspection of the 
Treasury officials. There are at’least, half a 
dozen other anti-oleo bills before Congress, 
many of them merely “bunkum,” not to U* 
pressed ill Congress, but to be nicely printed 
at the Government’s expense and generously 
distributed yratin amougthe introducers’ con¬ 
stituents, “just to tickle the honest farmers.”.. 
_Thu Fruit Dealers*league in this city has 
voted to limit its membership to 100 instead of 
500, as originally contemplated, and to raise 
the annual dues from $15 to $50. It embraces 
the principal fruit dealers in this city, Phila" 
delphia and Baltimore_Ex-President Clark, 
of the Mass. Ag’l College, died Tuesday. 
Stebbens & Richmond, Northfield, Vt., 
write: “Wo are selling Thatcher’s Orange 
Butter Color and it gives satisfaction eveiy 
time.” For strongest testimony on earth 
send your address to H. D. Thatcher & Co., 
Potsdam, N. Y.— Adv. 
Crops «k ^ or bets. 
Saturday, March 13,1886. 
A slight advance in wheat prices in London 
and Liverpool during the week. Last week, 
however, prices of wheat iu England were 
the lowest for over 160 years. The Mark Lane 
Express of last Monday catiles that “continu¬ 
ous frosts retard Spring work” in the English 
wheat, fields. It. characterizes prices as “ir¬ 
regular,” saying that in some places they 
have not improved, while in others they are 
fid. to Is. dearer. Foreign wheats in London 
were not as active as they have been since, 
but were firm and iu some instances higher. 
The “ consumption of bread” has increased 
in the United Kingdom during the Winter, 
owing to the prolonged cold weather and the 
short supply of vegetables. American flour 
has been quiet but steady. 
The March report of the Department of 
Agriculture, ou the consumption and distribu¬ 
tion of the grain crops, a summary of which 
was telegraphed from Washington last Thurs¬ 
day, makes the proportion of corn still in the 
hands of farmers 40 per cent, of the last crop. 
One year ago the proportion of the crop on 
hand was 37.6 per cent., two years ago 33 per 
cent, of the short crop of 1883. It amounts 
to 773,000,000 bushels, 98,000,000 more than 
last March and 261,0U0,(XH) more than in 
March, 1885. The proportion is lowest in the 
West, where heavy winter feeding is required, 
averaging 38 per cent, iu 12 States. It, is 45 
per cent, in the South, where it is required for 
feed of plow teams in Spring and Summer; 
aud 40 per cent, iu the Middle States. The 
proportion merchantable is 62,6 per cent., 
which is slightly above the average of a series 
of years. The value of the merchantable av¬ 
erages 35.9 cents a bushel; of the unmerchant¬ 
able 21.5 cents. This makes the average 
value of the stock on hand 33.3 cents, which 
is half a cent a bushel more than the Decem¬ 
ber value of the crop, when the aggregate 
value was estimated at $635,000,000. 
The Stock of wheat in the hands of farmers 
is 30.1 per cent,, of the crop. It. was 33.1 one 
year ago, and 28.4 two years ago. It amounts 
to 107,060,000 bushels, against 169,000,000 last 
March and 119,000,000 two years ago. It is 
only 9,000,000 bushels more than in March, 
1882, and the shortest in visible supply of 
recent years. The visible and invisible supply 
March 1, was therefore 159,000,000 bushels, 
against 312,000,000 last March. The proper- 
portion of the crop for consumption within 
the county where grown is 41.8 per cent, 
The average weight per bushel as estimated, is 
57 pounds, against 58.3 for the previous crop 
and 56.9 for t hat of 1881. The consumption 
for bread and other uses, the seed sown, and 
approximately 85,000,000 bushels exported 
since the 1st of March, 1885, make a distribu¬ 
tion equal to the supply from Murcli last. 
A total (visible and invisible) supply of but 
159,000,000 bushels of wheat on March 1, is be¬ 
low previous or current estimates, and leaves 
but 72,000,000 for Spring planting and exports 
until the next, crop, inusmueli us about 88,000,- 
000 bushels will be required for home con¬ 
sumption between March 1 and July 1 next. 
If 24.000,000 bushels be required for spring 
wheat planting, it ruts down the total remain¬ 
ing to 48,000,000 bushels. If wc are to export 
from this, the reservo will undoubtedly be 
small enough to satisfy the most exacting bull. 
Reports of the American Rural Home of 
Rochester, N. Y., from 5,000 correspondents 
in all parts of the country, say that the win¬ 
ter wheut crop continues generally iu favor¬ 
able condition. Some spring wheat is sown, 
but the area is small. 
Iu the home markets prices of wheat rose 
early in the week, but suffered a reaction 
later. Here No. 2 Red cash has advanced five 
cents a bushel within six weeks. Strange, al 
though the Southwestern strikes stopped ship¬ 
ments from that section,instead of raising,they 
have had a depressing effect. The Govern¬ 
ment report on the comparatively small 
amount of wheat still ou farmers’ bauds was 
a bull card. 
The visible supply of corn increased 1,465,- 
147 bushels. Prime, the Illinois crop statisti¬ 
cian, reports corn iu the crib at 1,630 railway 
stations amounting to 13,614,600 bushels on 
March 6th, against 5,030,500 bushels a year 
ago, aud 6,670,400 bushels on March 5th, 1884. 
The large stock of corn iu farmers’ bands, ac- 
