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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, April 34, 1886. 
Strong agitation starting in New York 
State in favor of a Prohibitory Constitutional 
Amendment. Tuesday a resolution iu favor 
of it was ordered to a third reading in the 
Assembly by a vote of 01 to 30. Six Republi¬ 
cans and five Democrats were absent. All 
Democrats present voted against it except 
Wood, of Wayne; 13 Republicans voted 
against it—Berry, of Fulton; Binder, Win- 
do! ph and Charles Smith, of New York; Den¬ 
nis and Dickson, of Rensselaer; Donald, of 
Saratoga; Gallagher and Kraus, of Erie; 
O’Brien, of Albany; Pratt, of Monroe; Storm, 
of Dutchess—the rest for it. At least five 
more votes for it wanted—no one knows where 
they are to come from.Very exciting 
Prohibition agitation in W. Va. 
For tbe second time a jury trying Gen. Alex. 
Shaler, in this city, for accepting a bribe of 
$9,000 for using his influenc in selecting a 
site for a military armory costing nearly 
$250,000, disagreed—four “guilty;” eight “not 
guilty.” Hardly likely to be tried again. 
... .The House has refused to name a day for 
the consideration of the Hennipen Canal bill— 
hardly likely to pass, therefore, at this session, 
if ever. Late ex| tosures show a rise of 628 feet 
in 186 miles, requiring a multitude of locks; 
route now considered “one of the worst..”..... 
.The partnership of Cleveland & Folsom 
is now considered certain in June. He 48; 
she 23....A reservoir dam burst near 
East Lee, Mass.—13 persons drowned by 
the flood; much farming and town property 
swept away.The first, train from ocean 
to ocean, on tbe Canadian Pacific Railway, 
will be sent off May 24—tbe Queen’s birthday 
.Lamar’s visit to Macon, Ga., is said 
to have been entirely social—nothing mat¬ 
rimonial about it.Last Sunday con¬ 
versation over ordinary telegraph lines, by 
means of the Turnbull long-distance tele¬ 
phone, was “fair” between New York and 
Chicago, over 1,020 miles of wire; and “per¬ 
fectly free” between N. Y. and Cleveland, 
Ohio, over 631 miles of wire..The 
first list of lolled and wounded by that Minn, 
cyclone was mixed up; here is the correct ac¬ 
count, after tbe dead have all been found, 
and the agony of excitement has abated: 
Killed at St. Cloud, 21, wounded, 80; killed at 
Sauk Rapids, 39, wounded, 100; killed at 
Rice’s Station, 15, wounded, 33. Total, killed, 
72, injured, 313. Property destroyed, $300,- 
000. Several other deaths and injuries were 
inflicted in country places along the track of 
the cyclone... 
.The opponents of the Morrison-Hewitt 
Tariff bill claim all the 139 Republicans in the 
House will vote against it, except White, 
Wakefield and Nelson of Minn., as that. State 
is strongly for “free-trade:” of the Democratic 
votes they claim 11 from Ohio, 7 from N. Y., 
6 from Pa., 3 from La., 2 from N. J., and one 
each from Cal., Md., and W. Va., making, in 
all, 32. Deducting these from the 183 Demo¬ 
crats vote, and addiugthe three Republicans 
and Weaver, Greenback Democrat., there will 
be 155 for, against 169 against.—139 Republic¬ 
ans, 32 Democrats and Brumm of Pa.. Green¬ 
back-Republican. It is thought that the pas¬ 
sage of the bill would be the beginning of the 
breaking down of the entire protective system. 
.Canada is negotiating with the Im¬ 
perial Government for power to make her own 
commercial treaties.All the lower part 
of unfortunate Montreal, along the St. Law¬ 
rence, was flooded for nearly a week before 
Wednesday last, owing to a solid ice blockade 
of the river which caused the heaviest back¬ 
water flood ever known. Water often 10 feet 
deep in some of the chief business streets. 
Losses estimated all the way from $2,0U0,(H)0to 
$3,000,000. Much distress among poor and 
wox’king classes compulsorily idle as all man¬ 
ufacture and business had to stop. 
_The strikes in tbe country are more aggra¬ 
vated than at this tone last week, there being 
at least 43,000 strikers reported among the 
bituminous coal miners, chiefly in Pennsyl¬ 
vania: the railways, chiefly on the Gould sys¬ 
tem ; the textile, boot and shoe trades, chiefly 
in New England, and miscellaneous strikes of 
bricklayers, masons, carpenters, musicians, 
street-ear drivers and conductors etc, etc. On 
April 16th the number “out” was •stknated at 
31,000. In addition to this great number vol¬ 
untarily idle; the National Labor Bureau es¬ 
timates the number compulsorily idle through 
lack of work, injuries or diseases of workmen, 
at fully 1,000,000. 
The increase is chiefly among street railroad, 
sewing machine and miscellaneous industrial 
employees. Over iu Brooklyn 5,000 employees 
in the great sugar refineries are on a tumultu¬ 
ous strike. Refined sugar has gone up one 
cent a pound in consequence, inhere is filso 
an advance at New Orleans and San Fran¬ 
cisco of from 5-16 to % cent respectively. 
Raw sugar has felt none of the advance. The 
strike on the Gould system still drags on. 
Powderly before the Comgressional Commit¬ 
tee investigating the trouble, swears tbe 
Knights of Labor do not number over 500,- 
000. Other labor organizations in the coun¬ 
try, however, have an aggregate membership 
of over 2,250,000, and the vast bulk of these 
give sympathy and help to the K. of L. Of 
these not over 9,000 are “out” on the “Gould 
system.” Money is flowing in upon the man¬ 
agers in St. Louis at the rate of over $10,000 
a day just now, from all over this country, 
Canada and even Europe. The aggregate of 
a multitude of small contributions is wonder¬ 
ful, and, then, who hasn’t marveled at the 
generosity of the poor!. 
_Occasional tumults chiefly' iu St. Louis, 
East St. Louis, and large towns on the various 
roads; no systematic violence: “dogged ob¬ 
stinacy” on part of the.“bands;” “resolute de- 
teimination” on the part of the “bosses.,” 
“More than the usual number of trains lim¬ 
ning. and doing more than the usual amount 
of business,” say the latter. “Short trains and 
half-empty cars,” say the former. Much of 
the freight for the “system” roads goes by 
competing lines where possible. Wages of 
new hands high, and work inferior. Likely 
the strike will “petter out” slowly. Boycot¬ 
ting the road and its managers begun. Men 
striking in works that supply tbe “system” 
with goods.Big strike of switchmen at. 
Chicago on the Lake Shore Road just com¬ 
promised: freight cars running again after a 
tie-up of nearly a week.. 
.E. Remington & Sons, 
Hion, N. Y„ have failed-Yarmouth, N. 
S, is sending bait to East port, Me., where it 
“eagerly bought” by American fishermen who 
are not not allowed'to buy it in any port of 
of the Dominion. 
_Complaints grow louder of the suspicious 
dilatoriness of the House Judiciary Committee 
to take any action with regard anti-polygamy 
legislation. Until act!on is taken, the Senate’s 
Anti-polygamy Bill rests iu “innocuous desue¬ 
tude.” 'I’here's a ric-h and handsome male and 
female Mormon lobby’ in Washington. 
_The House has appointed a Labor Investi¬ 
gating Committee to And out the “cause of the 
unrest and disturbance which now exists in the 
country. ” It has just been examining Powder¬ 
ly and other prominent labor chiefs, and Gould 
and Hopkins of the “Gould system. The 
President, has sent to Congress a special mes¬ 
sage on the subject.. 
John Bigelow, the American representative 
at De Lcsseps’ late Canal “Convention” at 
Panama, says it is impossible to tell when the 
canal will be finished or what it will cost. 
Labor scarce; 90 cents a day at the start, now 
$2.50, with that of white mechanics at $5.00. 
Country terribly unhealthy’. Tasks ahead not 
impracticable, but dfficulf and expensive. A 
“wet-blanket” report. De Lesseps cables it is 
“absurd,” and that the canal, at sea level, will 
be opened from Gulf to ocean in 1889. 
Col. Cozzens. father of Plitebe, has been con¬ 
tinued by the President as U. S. Marshal at 
St. Louis, in spite of the urgent protests of 
hungry spoilsmen. Mostly his smart lawyer 
daughter’s work.A strong opposition 
against Senator Edmunds is developing in 
Vermont, because he is supposed to have been 
lukewarm in the Blaine campaign. 
Evidence taken by an Ohio legislative com¬ 
mittee goes strongly to prove that the election 
of H. B. Payne, as U. 8. Senator, in January, 
1884, was secured by bribing some of tbe State 
legislators by strong Payne men—but, of 
course, the bribe money wasn't theirs. Payne 
is one of the brighest lights of the Standard Oil 
Company and a several-times millionaire. 
.Ex-Lieutenaut-Governor Pichback, of 
Louisiana ; ex-Congressman ; ex-representa¬ 
tive of the colored race; ex-Collector at New’ 
Orleans; etc., etc.,and always a “lucky” hand 
at poker, has been admitted to the New Or¬ 
leans bar at. the age of 50.. Natural gas 
for manufacturing purposes is coming into 
extensive use. All manurfaeturing towns in 
and near the Pennsylvania well regions use it, 
and it is being piped and pumped to distant 
places. Cleveland, Toledo and even Detroit 
now think they must have it.A reduc¬ 
tion of 267 clerks in the U. S. Treasury, sav¬ 
ing $232,000 a y’ear, since March 4, 1885. 
It seems likely the Senate will compromise on 
“open sessions,” by making public everyth mg 
except the speeches.The “Educational 
Bill" is likely to be smothered in the House 
Committee by the Democrats.Congress 
has voted itself u very expensive new library. 
Tbe cost will be known only after years when 
the building is completed.A part of the 
Libby Prison at Richmond, Va„ occupied by 
the Southern Fertilizer Co., collapsed, Thurs¬ 
day, “from overburdened floors.”... 
Tuesday iu municipal elections in Illinois, 
“licence” and “high licence” against “no 
licence” or “prohibition,” were successful iu 
most of the large towns; and “no licence” iu 
most of the small places.The Canadian 
Government intends to extend the volunteer 
militia organization to the Northwest Terri¬ 
tory.A bill granting the right 
of way to an adjunct, of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad through the northern part of the 
National Yellowstone Park, has received the 
unanimous recommendation of the House 
Committee on Public Lands ou the pretext of 
building a road to tbe Clark’s Forks mines. 
The mine to which the railroad really wants 
access is, not Clark’s Forks, but the broad ex¬ 
panse of Yellowstone Park. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 24, 1886. 
The following is the gist of the anti-oleo 
bill to be pressed by the House Committee on 
Agriculture, as a substitute for all the others. 
It defines “butter” as the product exclusively 
of milk or cream, or both, and “oleomargar¬ 
ine as oleo, oleomargarine-oil, hutterine, lard- 
ine, suine and neutral, etc. It imposes 
a special tax of $600, ou manufacturers of 
“oleomargarine$450 on wholesale dealers; 
and $48 on retailers, and imposes a fine of 
$1,000 to $5,000 on all manufacturers; $500 to 
$2,500on all Wholesalers; and $50 to 500 on all 
retailers, who neglect to pay the especial tax. 
The manufacture mast be conducted un¬ 
der surveillance of the Commissioner of In¬ 
ternal Revenue. “Oleo” must be packed iu 
new wooden packages, “marked, stamped 
and branded,” and containing not less than 10 
pouuds. Retailers must sell only from the 
original stamped packages in quantities not 
over 10 pounds, and shall put it in marked 
wooden packages under penalty of not less 
than $100, or more than $1,000, with imprison¬ 
ment of not less than six months, or more than 
two years. Under penalty of $50 manufac¬ 
turers roast label every package with the 
name of the manufacturer. A tax of 10 cents 
a pound must be paid by the manufacturer, and 
a part of a pound is taxed as a pound. All im¬ 
ported “oleo” has to pay an additional 10 cents 
a pound. The Commissioner of Internal Reven¬ 
ue is to appoint analytical chemists and micro- 
scopists, to enable him to determine what is 
to be taxed, and his decision is final. He is also 
todetermine whether any “oleo” is injurious to 
public health, but an appeal lies to tbe Sur¬ 
geons General of the Army and Navy, and 
the Commissioner of Agriculture. Any 
person willfully removing or effacing the 
brands, etc, on the packages, is to be fined $100 
to $2,000. and be imprisoned from 10 days to 
six months. “Oleo” exported is not to be tax¬ 
ed ; but packages must bear, in half-inch let¬ 
ters, the word “Oleomargarine." All fines 
and forfeitures may be recovered in any 
court of competent, jurisdiction, and half tbe 
fine or penalty, when paid, is to go to the in¬ 
former..... 
. The N. Y. Senate voted unanimously, Tues¬ 
day,^ investigate Dairy Commissioner Brown, 
who challenges investigation.N. J. 
and Conn., have lately passed stringent 
anti-oleo laws. The former is to have a Dairy 
Commissioner with a salary of $2,000 
a year; the latter, one drawing $1,500. 
.. .Stone, Secretary of the Chicago Board 
of Trade, completed bis annual report, Tims day 
It. shows that the receipts or grain for the year 
amounted to 132,200,000 bushels, as against 
137,300,000 bushels for the year ending 1884, 
and reducing Hour to wheat, the receipts 
were 150,408,228 bushels as against 159.561,474 
bushels, showing a decrease of 3,153.216 bush¬ 
els. The number of cattle received for the 
year is 1,905,718; of hogs 6,937,.535, and of 
sheep 1,003.598, showing in the aggregate an 
increase over the corresponding figures of the 
year 1884 of 1,875,587.A convention 
of the viticulturists of the U. S., according to 
a “call ’ issued in February, will be held at the 
Dep’t of Agriculture’s buildings at Washing¬ 
ton, opening May 18, and continuing four days. 
There will be a fine exhibition of fruit. All 
exhibits from east of the Rockies should be 
addressed to Charles Vauder, 909 Seventh St., 
Northwest. Washington, D. C. A number of 
interesting addresses bv prominent men will 
be made. It will bo quite an interesting and 
instructive convention for grape-growers..... 
.Constance K., the famous Holstein heifer 
of the “Record Farm” herd, Philadelphia, died 
ou April 21 of rupture of thejstomach. She 
was owned bv William H. Singerly, of The 
Pliiladelphia Record, and was valued at $5,000. 
Her record of $3 pounds of milk in one day 
has never been equaled by any two-year-old.. 
About 800 Montana stock growers, represent¬ 
ing over 3,000,000 cattle and $125,0(H),000,made 
Miles City, Montana, lively early in the week. 
They favor rigid preeuntions to keep contagi¬ 
ous diseases out or the Territory, and a liberal 
National appropriation for stamping them 
out. About. 25,000 cattle will be shipped from 
Washington Territory and Oregon into Mon¬ 
tana this season, against 40,00(1 lust year. 
Decrease due to advance of prices on the Pa¬ 
cific Coast. Shipments east from Montana 
estimated at 125.000 head. A strong move¬ 
ment under way to make St. Pauls, Minn., 
the grout live-stock market for the extreme 
Northwest. 
Crops & iVUvIuls. 
Saturday, April 24, 1886. 
The Chicago Farmer’s Review’s report on 
the condition and prospects of the winter 
wheat is summarized as follows:—The growing 
winter wheat enters the second of the spring 
months under conditions scarcely if ever bet¬ 
ter. Kansas appears destined to have nearly 
arepetition of the short crop of last year, Only 
two of the counties embodied in the latest re¬ 
port make favorable returns. In Michigan 
many of the fields are looking brown and dead, 
but there is still promise of a 'fair average 
yield in that State. The reports from the re¬ 
maining winter wheat States are uniformly 
good. On the Pacific Coast the prospect is 
that not to exceed five per cent, of the acreage 
sown in the Fall, but will show that it has 
passed through the Winter safely, with the 
additional prospect of a full average yield. 
The Cincinnati Price Current says: “If the 
present area is approximately 25,000,000 acres 
in winter wheat, and the average condition 
equal to a prospective yield of 11.L bushels, 
the outlook may be formulated into an indi¬ 
cation of a crop of 287,500,000 bushels of 
winter wheat. Favorable conditions through 
to harvest may enlarge this to fuUy 305,000,- 
000. A favorable season for tbe spring crop 
will mean approximately 150,000,000 bushels. 
The chances for the entire crop now may be 
measured as from 425,000,000 to 450,000,000 
bushels.” All estimates, for some weeks yet, 
cannot be much better than guess-work, and 
we can make better use of this space than by 
filling it with even the briefest abstracts of 
the multitude of such estimates that are sure 
to appear. Our own full report will be in 
ample time for all useful purposes. 
In all our home markets wheat has gone up 
considerably during the week, the rise amount¬ 
ing here to l s i cent a bushel for No. 2 Red, 
and to from two cents to three cents at Min¬ 
neapolis for Spring. In other markets and 
other grades the difference has varied. It has 
been due chiefly to a large increase of export 
demands; reports of possible, or rather not 
improbable, hostilities in Europe; notable de¬ 
crease in the visible supply, and speculation. 
Receipts of wheat at Minneapolis increased 
over 100,000 bushels during the week. At 
Duluth grain is coining in with a rush in an¬ 
ticipation of the opening of navigation. As 
soon as Lake Superior opens there will be a 
great clearance. The Minneapolis mills pro¬ 
duced 110,600 barrels of flour and shipped 
102,000 barrels last week. Seeding in the 
Northwest is progressing rapidly and will be 
well ad vanced in another week—only a slight 
variation in acreage probable from last year’s 
area. 
With the rise in wheat coru has become 
firmer. Last week the decrease in the visible 
supply was 1,253,839 bushels. The uncertainty 
of railroad freight traffic has made the mar¬ 
ket dull, and decreased the supply. Prices of 
oats are tending upward, and holders are 
quite firm. Stocks in sight fell off 448,830 
bushels last week, owing mostly to the causes 
that affected corn. 
Large supplies of all kinds of butter, espec¬ 
ially of choice creamery, have broken this 
market and lowered prices in others. Reports 
of mon to come add to the depression. Hold¬ 
ers refuse no decent offer. Export trade light. 
In the cheese market there has been new 
make ou offer with a fair outlook for an im 
mediate increased make. Exporters are act¬ 
ing very cautiously, with easier feeliug all 
round. 
Wool is weaker; reports make it oue cent 
lower than a week ago, in some parts of the 
country. The trade is pretty sure to he dull 
until the new clip comes into market. Wool 
dealers are, of course, now using “benr” talk, 
as their chief aim at present is to get this 
year's clip at the lowest possible price. Having 
accomplished this, they will talk “bullishly,” 
to sell at tbe highest possible price to the 
manufacturers. The latter are buying with 
the utmost caution—just euough to satisfy 
present requirements. The uncertainty of 
labor, and the fear of strikes among their 
hands add to their usual caution. 
A slight cold. If negloeted.often attacks thelsung. 
Brown's Bronchial Troches give sure and Immediate 
relief. Sold onto In boxe*. FrlOO 250ta.— AAv. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, April 24,1886. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is 3;!„'c. higher; 
No. 2 Spriug, 83tfc. higher. Corn, %c. higher. 
Oats, %c. higher. Pork, 10c. lower. Cattle, 
somewhat higher. Hogs, from 5c. to 20c. 
lower, averaging about 15c. Sheep, 25c. to 
50c. lower. 
Wheat.— Active;itates rauged: April, 79<&7l«*c; May, 
Juno, (3M.M52W.; No. a Spring, TUoxtyqe. 
Wheat.—A otlvo.Hates rauged: April. TOfcMHJw; May, 
TDMtUidObie: June, (8Jto82->gc.; No. 3 Spring, ?.kiii794c. 
Corn.— st.roug: Cash, S^iiCiiiHijjfcitAMDi .wq<*«2*74c; May, 
37fcf4.881*e: June, al 88Ji6»i:«!fC. Oats-S uit* ranged, 
flush. a9,4@8UCS April, 29.4c • May, Uve.— 
No Gle. Barley No 2, at 59c. Mess Poiir.—C ash, 
T.' „ .... ><.. au dt.VfAMl/. Tii.l.i frtlj-.i'.VU 1*> 
fH y;..«!(lie; Mttv. at 9« -6WJ 02.4: June at SO 12 . 
I.ako —Quiet ami steady: suio* ranged; '.ash. at 
*r. HUvw.r, 90; May, DO; Juno, fr. r, y.v Bulk 
meats, shoulders, *4 uwi 110: Short rib (tides, at 
<3525; Short Clear sides, nt gSMtVtAWJ. CATTLE—Mar¬ 
ket lower Shipping steers, nt ?! ft HU: 8Cookers 
and feeders, S2 ?3t«d 7B: cows, bulls anil mixed, 
at *t 7.V.< t 23;bulk.at *2 ThecS 10. Hoos.—Market weak; 
Hough and mixed, 75<s-l IS tuu'klmf and shipping, 
at tun,-. I .05: light. 25, skips, at |2 tV.8 40. 
Sheep. -Market weak: Natives, $2 WecA 50, 
St. Louis.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red wheat is 1 %c. higher. 
Corn, IfjO. higher. Oats, 'Vc. higher. Butter 
and eggs, steady. Cattle, much higher for 
shipping steers: steady or lower for other 
sorts, Hogs, unchanged. Sheep, 50c. lower. 
Wheat. —Active; No. 2 Red, CuAh, at HDgDBOMo. 
Anrll Sh<", Mt«v. H0(.(ih94it: June, Wp . Cohn.- Firm. 
No. 2 mixed, Cash. April, TO May. ;B*c. 
Oats- Dull; No. 2 mixed. Goal), at 28Ji<? 29JtccApril, at 
294c; May, al 2t*4e. UVE-Quiet at '.He. Barley- 
a u.. ..Lin,, m* dA-.aUTL. Nift-iliW — llll Kf- PTOnilllTV. zVtfiSlM'! 
WUJUT.—Aut1v<*; NO. V KWI. ^ nun, iu 
Uiill hh<", Mtiv. suivS'Jhie: June, Wp Corn.- Firm. 
2 .nixed, Cash, Mk«4o; April, TO May. TO 
uts— Dull; No. 2 mixed. Gash, at 299i<v> 29$tc: April, at 
