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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, March 20,1886. 
W. S. Warner, an impecunious clerk of this 
city, gamerl most by the frauds of Ward, the 
swindling partner of Grant &■ Ward. He w as 
sued for the money he had fraudulently re 
ceived, and judgment has been given against 
him for $1,355,861.34, the “profits,'” or the dif- 
erenc between what he “invested” with Ward, 
and what he drew out, with interest from May 
6,1884: total $1,395,752.54, to be paid over with¬ 
in 20 days. Thetrausfer of yroporty worth 
8578.5(5 by Ward to Warner on May 7, 1884, 
just liefore the collapse of the swindle became 
public, is declared fraudulent, and the prop¬ 
erty must lx? given up to the creditors of the 
concern, which is stated to have been bank¬ 
rupt from the outset. It will be mighty bard 
to collect that judgment. The case will doubt¬ 
less be appealed.There appears to be a 
lull in the anti-Chinese cnisade on the Pacific 
Slope. A powerful minority vigorously pro¬ 
tested against it at a large meeting at Sacra¬ 
mento, Cal.; and at Portland, Oregon, a meet¬ 
ing of 1,500 “reputable citizens” declared that 
they “will not allow” intimidation or violent 
expulsion of working men, pledging their 
“means and lives to uphold these principles” 
.The total arrivals of Celestials at San 
Francisco and other Pacific ports, in three 
years ending August 1, were 20,077, and the 
departures 41,822, showing a decrease of 21,- 
245 in our Mongolian population. But while 
only 2,788 arrived in 1883 : 6,042 came in 1884, 
and 5,.568 in t he first seven mouths of 1885. 
The increase was due to fraudulent immigra¬ 
tion either ou forged certificates or by travel¬ 
ing overland or by coasting vessels from Brit¬ 
ish Columbia. Congress has given preference 
to a bill to indemnify out raged Chinese over one 
still further restricting Celestial immigration. 
_The Duluth Board of Trade has “resolved” 
to indorse the bill of Congressman Weber, of 
New York, now before the House, for the per¬ 
manent enlargement and improvement of the 
Erie and Oswego Canals by the General Gov¬ 
ernment as regulators of freight charges from 
the West and consequently appreciators of 
products and laud there. The West, and es¬ 
pecially the Northwest, would be chiefly ben¬ 
efited by the measure, next to this city, and 
naturally it is popular there. Wednesday the 
New York Senate approved the bill by 17 to 3, 
As seven-eights of the Western States are ben¬ 
efited by the Erie Canal, the cost of improving 
it ought to be borne by the Federal Govern¬ 
ment. It is proposed to deepen the water anti 
double the length of the locks.Gold is 
still flowing rapidly to Europe. Tuesday 
morning 81 , 763.006 in gold bars were seut 
from this city to Paris. Every “steamer 
day” transatlantic exports are heavy from 
this and other ports also. Over $13,000,000 
have left this port alone since the movement 
began in December.WednesdavApostle 
G. Z. Cannon having failed to respond when his 
case was called in court at Salt Lake City, for¬ 
feited $25,000 bail.A House Committee 
is investigating the ownership of the Pan- 
Electric Telephone stock which has been gen¬ 
erously distributed gratis “where it would do 
the most good ” among Congressmen, by 
Rogers, father and son, the inventors of the 
system, and the disclosures are by no means 
creditable to some of those who accepted the 
gifts—a nasty business all round.The 
report that Blaine’s daughters have become 
Catholics is authoritatively contradicted Horn 
Augusta, Me. Like their father and mother, 
they belong to the Congregational Church.... 
_After Cleveland’s inauguration, Governor 
Murray, of Utah, placed his resignation at 
the President’s disposal, aud Secretary Lamar 
has just asked for it. Murray’s removal is 
much regretted by the Gentiles of Utah, as he 
was strongly opposed to polygamy... At 
Carrollton, Miss, on Monday, during a trial 
at which 20 negroes were present, 100 masked 
white men, armed with Winchester repeating 
rifles, rode up and. fired through the court-, 
house windows at the negroes, killing 18 and 
wounding all the others more or less severely. 
The assassins, unknown of course, then 
moved off. Some weeks ago in a “difficulty” 
between some negroes and a white man named 
Liddell, the latter was shot and wounded, and 
owing to his threats, the negroes swore out a 
warrant against him. The case was on when 
the shooting occurred.Mr. Eaton and 
Mr. TreDholm have retired from the Civil 
Service Commission, the former for private 
business reasons; the latter to become Con¬ 
troller of the Currency, a better office. John 
II. Oberly, of Illinois, succeeds Trenholm,and 
Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, takes Eaton’s 
seat.Pres. Adams, of Cornell Uuiver- 
sity, warns the public against a swindler oper¬ 
ating in the West as a Professor of Cornell. 
The rascal assumes thejnames of various act¬ 
ual Professors of the University and solicits 
specimens and borrows money. All the Fac¬ 
ulty are at the University now.At 
Toledo, O,, early last Monday morning, Var¬ 
ney, Taylor & Co.’s linseed oil mills, the larg¬ 
est in the country, was destroyed by fire—loss, 
$130,000. An explosion of a 100-barrel tank 
of naphtha, used in the “new process” of refin¬ 
ing the oil, gave the city an earthquake,broke 
a multitude of windows and injured five men. 
.A short time ago the House passed a 
bill to increase the peusions of widows aud de¬ 
pendent relatives of soldiers and sailors of the 
late war. from $8 to $12 a month, with a pro¬ 
portionate increase for the relatives of offi¬ 
cers. The Senate wished to give widows an 
additional pension of $4 for each child under 
18; but as a number of other amendments 
were instantly added, and as it was feared that 
if it went back to the House for consent to 
them, it would be defeated, talked to death or 
pigeon-holed in Committee, all amendments 
were dropped last Tuesday, ami the hill was 
passed just as it came from the House, and 
went straightway to the President for his sig¬ 
nature. It will require an annual expendi¬ 
ture of a little over $6,000,000.Ex- 
President Arthur has been troubled with dys¬ 
pepsia and sleeplessness; but there is no other 
foundation for the needlessly alarming ru¬ 
mors lately circulated about his condition.... 
... .It appears from a speech in the Dominion 
Parliament, last Monday, that the first report 
of the medical commission sent to examine 
Riel as to his sanity, was suppressed by the 
Government (which “had determined to hang 
Riel right or wrong”) aud that a second aud 
“cooked” report was drawn “to bear the Gov¬ 
ernment out” in hanging him, and was pre¬ 
sented to Parliament as if it were the only 
one!.The funeral of each ordinary Sen¬ 
ator or Representative dying at Washington, 
costs the nation about $5,000, on an average; 
that of Senator Miller, of California, will cost 
$20,000 ou account of the long journey to the 
grave. There was a regular rush of Congress¬ 
men for a place ou the House aud Senate 
Committee that accompanied the body, all 
anxious to enjoy a free transcont inental trip, 
with free board of the very best kind, and un¬ 
limited etceteras—especially the etceteras.... 
.... Canada has commissioned the cruiser 
Lansdowne to protect her waters against 
American fishermen.Mrs. George Ban¬ 
croft, wife of the venerable historian, died at 
Washington, Monday night, aged 82. 
Capt. Wadell, commander of the destructive 
Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, died Tuesday 
at Baltimore, aged 62. The Shenaudoah 
destroyed 32 vessels and released six ou bond. 
Value of captures, $1,159,000; but claims were 
made for $6, 200,000.Tuesday the House 
voted—195 to 44—to fix a day for the consid¬ 
eration of the Reagan Interstate Commerce 
Bill. This is not considered exactly an in¬ 
dorsement of the bill; but all or nearly all who 
voted affirmatively are pretty sure to vote for 
some bill to regulate railroad charges, so as to 
remedy the evils of over-charges aud unjust 
discrimination, and to put a check on the 
present system of railroad management. 
Same day a vote was taken on fixing the three 
next Saturdays for the discussion of Bland’s 
Free Silver Coinage Bill. The vote in detail 
was—yeas, 179, of whom 133 were Democrats 
and 46 Republicans; nays, 87, of whom 16 
were Democratsand 71 Republicans; not vot¬ 
ing, or paired, 58, of whom 3(5 were Democrats 
and 22 Republicans. This vote demonstrates 
that a large majority of the House is in favor 
of the free coinage of silver—it was confessed¬ 
ly a test vote. The President, however, is sure 
to veto such a bill; and it is still doubtful 
whether the necessary two-thirds to pass it 
over his veto can lie obtained. Banks and 
other moneyed institutions as well as capital¬ 
ists are bitterly against, it; the rest of the 
country are generally for it, ignorantly in¬ 
different, or “ou the fence.”. 
....The Insurance Commissioner of Ohio is 
urging war on the “graveyard insurance 
companies” doing business in that. State. 
At one o’clock Sunday last conversation was 
can-ied on between this city aud Washington 
—280 miles away—by a new telephone pate 
ented by Mr. Turnbull, of Baltimore. Voices 
more clearly hoard than when conversation 
takes place by telephone between two places 
in this city. Widely separated places will 
soon be within speaking distance of each 
other.The Pennsylvania R. R. Co. 
owns up that, last year, its gross earnings 
were $93,000,000! It moved an equivalent of 
8,400,000,000 tons of freight for one mile, and 
carried 54,754,771 passengers!...The 
“express” business of the country is likely to 
be revolutionized by a recent decision of the 
U. 8. Supreme Court, that each railroad com¬ 
pany has a right to operate its own “express” 
to the exclusion of all others. Already notice 
has been given the “Adams” to get off the 
Missouri Pacific, and to the “Wells-Far go” to 
quit the Nortneru Pacific, The decision re¬ 
verses the findings of all the lower courts. 
_Although Congress has already spent a 
groat deal of time in talking about alterations 
in the tariff and in taking testimony for and 
against every proposed alteration, aud a good 
deal more time will be used up in discussing 
every phase of the question, it is becoming a 
very general opinion that Congress will make 
no changes whatever in the tariff at this ses¬ 
sion. .... At 4 :S0 last Sunday morning (March 
14), the famous Cunaivl steamer Oregou, “the 
greyhound of the seas,” which left Liverpool 
March 6, having on board 890 persons, of whom 
641 were passengers, when within 15 miles 
of the southern shore of Long Island, was run 
into by an unknown, three-masted schooner, 
and sank at 1 r. m. All the passengers and 
crew were saved, so that the Cunarders may 
still boast that they “never have lost a pas¬ 
senger.” Doubtful yet to whom the blame 
belonged. Schooner had “right of way" of 
all steamers; but had no lights displayed—it 
is said. She and all on board were instantly 
lost and absolutely no trace of her has been 
found among the floating wreckage. The 
Oregon was worth $1,250,000; cargo estimated 
at $500,000; personal property of the rich 
Cunard passengers as much more; while the 
mail must have contained a very large sum. 
Total loss is estimated at from four to six 
million dollars, There were 598 mail bags, 
223 of which have been found among the 
wreckage. Some doubt the * ‘collision” theory, 
and say the loss was due to a dynamite explo¬ 
sion.The suit against the Bell tele¬ 
phone is to be definitely brought in Colum¬ 
bus, Ohio, in a few days; papers are ready; 
summary published not correct.Stone¬ 
wall Jackson’s horse “Old Sorrel,” said to he rhe 
last surviving horse of the Confederacy, 
died the other day, aged 32.Arch¬ 
bishop Taschereau, of Quebec, and Arch¬ 
bishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, are to be 
made Cardinals on April 12.A good 
deal of the money received from General 
Grant’s publishers is used to pay some of the 
debts of Grant & Ward, in accordance with 
the General’s last wishes, where investments 
were made through faith in the Grant family. 
One such debt of $’25,000 is known to have 
been paid the other day with a certified check. 
.The McCormick works at Chicago 
are again in full blast, 1,250 men being at 
work. The malcontents threaten that all 
labor organizations will boycott all who sell 
its machines.Thursday, March 18, 
was the President’s 49th birthday. 
Congress is inclined to pass a bill introduced 
by Wise, of Virginia, authorizing the estab¬ 
lishment of manufactories of tobacco exclu¬ 
sively for export, under Government regula¬ 
tions.Just now it looks hardly proba¬ 
ble that that arch-lobbiest, Capt. Eads, will 
be able to dine, wine and weedle Congress 
into a guarantee of big interest for 30 years 
on the capital to be invested in his ship-rail¬ 
road scheme. There’s a great deal of “kick¬ 
ing” even by the love-sick Senator—Jones of 
Florida.The strikes on the Gould rail¬ 
road system are in a fair way of being settled 
by arbitration and mutual concessions. Im¬ 
mense damage already done to business. 
....Labor troubles still continue uuusually 
numerous. Strikes and boycotting common; 
here are a few: 250 boys aud girls—cracker 
packers, 10 to 14 years old—have struck for 
for higher wages, in this city.. —West 
of the Mississippi, farmers and store-keepers 
along the C. B. & Q R. R. are boycotting the 
road on account of excessive charges and un¬ 
just discrimination in local rates. 
The hoys attending St. Aim’s R C. school, 
Brooklyn, who pay 10 cents a week, if able, 
struck Wednesday for hall' that rate; but 
magnanimously offered to relieve the author¬ 
ities of half the work by attending only three 
duys a week. A policeman arrested two 
“pickets” while thrashing a “scab'’ who wished 
to go to school, and the strike ignominiously 
collapsed.. .Everett & Augbbaug, who 
control the milling business at Waseca, Minn., 
and are largely interested in elevators, have 
been boycotted by the neighboring farmers 
on account of the low prices they offer for 
wheat .A cat show at New Haven, 
Conn., was boycotted last week because its 
prizes were made by a firm under the ban of 
labor.The parsons of Minneapolis have 
“resolved” to boycott Sunday papers. 
Excessive rate-cutting st ill continues on the 
transcontinental routes; but it is confined to 
them exclusively. Indications point to a 
speedy settlement_The prospects of serious 
labor troubles early in the season great!} - un¬ 
settles business all over the country. Over 
71,000 bands an - now out. on strike, chiefly 
railroad men in the Southwest, coal miners in 
Pennsylvania, and mill operatives in New 
England; but every part of the country has 
its strikes, big or little. Many contracts have 
beoD refused ill all sections, as it was impos¬ 
sible to tlx any price that might not lie ruin¬ 
ous through the demands of labor. 
After two years’ trial, we unhesitatingly 
pronounce the Boss Zinc and Leather Col¬ 
lar Pad, the only durable and successful one 
that we have ever used. It retains its shape, is 
cooling, prevents chafing, aud thereby beeps 
the holies’ necks clean aud healthy. Hiram 
G. Dodge & Sons, Wood & Coal Dealers, 
Madison, Wis,— Adv, 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 20, 1886. 
The Chicago dressed meat shippers, through 
Armour & Co., have prepared a case for the 
courts agaiust the railroad companies for dis¬ 
criminating against them. The live stock 
men are also going to law with the roads for 
a reason precisely similar. Have you ever 
heardof a “friendly move?”.Cora. Col- 
man and others interested in sugar making are 
urging Congress to grant $1,000,600 to provide 
for two machines for the manufacture of 
sorghum sugar by the diffusion process. 
-Two bales of cotton raised in 1861 by slave 
labor were sold the other day at Rock Hill, 
S. C., on the death of the owner, who had been 
offered for it 331$ cents a pound in gold. It was 
sold for S l .j cents—the lowest price touched by 
cotton since the bales were raised.Dakota 
farmers are making plans to grow Jlax for 
fuel this Summer. It is said that a ton of flax 
straw is worth more to biu-n than a ton of soft 
coal....Germany has eight schools of 
forestry, where five years’ training is required 
of those who seek positions under the Govern¬ 
ment, although a course of study half as long 
may be taken by amateurs. France supports 
a single school at Nancy.The Legis¬ 
lature of Kentucky instructs her Senators 
and Representatives not to permit hemp 
to be put on the free list.For 
years past our average annual importation of 
horses from Canada has been 22,000 head. A 
few years ago the average value, per head, was 
$05; last year it. was $140—improvement in 
the Dominion and a demand for better horses 
here.Farmers about Toledo, Ohio, 
are greatly alarmed at the appearance of 
swarms of young grass-hoppers about half 
an inch in leugli.The recent cold spell 
ruined all the plants on that Governmental 
South Carolina tea farm, and the experiment 
has been finally abandoned. 
A beef factory is to be established here. 
Stables “after the most approved patterns” 
are to be built, and filled with prime cattle to 
be fed on corn silage, by which means beef, 
the promoters say, can bo supplied at rates 
cheaper than those asked for Western beef... 
.... Daily Commissioner Brown, of this State, 
gives the N. Y. Senate items of expenditure 
amounting to $58,403. There have been 263 
actual prosecutions for selling adulterated 
milk and oleo products; ns well ns 50 civil 
suits for penalties, and evidence has been 
collected for over .200 more suits. 
The Connecticut Legislature is thinking of ex- 
emnting from State taxes for 20 years every 
fanner who shall plant a certain number of 
trees under specified renditions.The 
Austriau Government is about to pass laws to 
protect the fair fame of Tokay wiue from the 
disrepute brought on it by the spurious con¬ 
coctions sold throughout Germany under that 
name. This is the only country where good, 
pure wine is made more valuable by bearing 
fraudu lent labels of foreign vintages ‘. 
The average farm wages in Michigan, last 
year, were $17 a month with board, and $29 
without.Secretary Lamar has reversed 
Commissioner Sparks’s ruling that proomptors 
cannot, take up homesteads on payment of 
commutation fees. The Secretary says a 
preemptor can commute a homestead. ‘ Joy 
among thousands in the Far West..The 
farmers of South Carolina are to bold a State 
Convention at Columbia on April 29. as they 
are “farming towards dispair,”aiul the legis¬ 
lature, while “not corrupt, "Is negligent of the 
public welfare.” A farmers’ t icket is fearod by 
the politicians, and a similar movemeut is un¬ 
der way in Georgia, 
Don’t Forget. — When Chas. Ashley, of 
Ogdensburg, N, Y., offered a $45 Fairbanks 
Scale at the Ogdensburg Fair for the three 
best tubs of butter it was awarded to H. M. 
Atwater, of the Atwater Creamery. The 
same three tubs were also awarded the first 
premium. Mr. Atwater reported to the So¬ 
ciety that the}' were all brought to their 
beautiful shade with Thatcher’s Orange But¬ 
ter Color.— Adv. 
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Brown’s llroneliiiil Trachea for Coughs and 
Colds: “There Is nothing u> Lie compared with them.” 
— Rev. 0.1). IFaffcfns, Fallen, /mi.— Adv. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, March 20, 1885. 
CniCAGO.—Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is I* 1 '- lower; 
No. 2 Spring, Lc. lower; Corn, ;ye. lower. 
Oats, *$r. lower. Rye, ,' v e. higher. Barley, 
steady. Pork, 35e. lower. Cattle, slopping, 
40c. to 80c, lower; stockers aud feeders, 10c. 
to 50c. lower; cows and bulls mixed, 25e. 
lower; bulls, 5c. lower. Hogs, from 5c. to 
15c. lower on ail grades. Sheep, “Natives,” 
40c. to 60c. lower; western, unchanged; lambs, 
(50c. lower for highest class, steady for others; 
Texans, a trifle higher. 
WHEAT.—Lower. Sales ranged , March, at 79 
(ieRl^c; May, S/V"My\; June, sfikjwiViftfeO; No. 2 
Spring, nt Hfiactirir; Nu.,1Spring, at ill". ilXe. Cohn.— 
Dull; Cash. 355$ •i-KTc; March, .May. 38$f 
eeiiiic. oats -Dull; Hah* ranged: Chau, hi 2*y.i 29c; 
March at/iTaaiWtv. May. Sl^nai-Mc. Rye No. f 59c. 
RaruKY — Nil V, at Sit*. I*• nut. I ash, outlied al *9 65 
HO!) ,*2!$; March, at $9 5.W.I ?J'yi May. at 8.163)4 
Laiiu, Quiet anti steady: sales ranged; 
fash, ai S5U; March, til fc'iMffjA UTkj; May, 
$0 owe BUI kmicats. Shoulders, *;i Ou; Short 
rill sides, at $5 glkitib 25; Short Clear sides, at 85 30c<e 
5 55. Oatti.k shipping steers, #1 51M.5 50: Stockers 
and feeders. S3 SOtS: fit): cows, bulls and mixed, 
$1 .'Akjii-l Ul; hulk, $3 95 m;.' 1 30. Hoys- Rough aud mixed, 
83 SWo.3 ill: packing and shipping, |1 IbttOl M5; light., 
