THE RURAL. 
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MAY 15 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 8, 1886. 
The boycotting of the Mallory steamship 
line at Galveston, Texas, has been declared 
“off” by the Knights of Labor, after it had 
really collapsed. The “Gould system” strike 
originated from efforts to stop the transporta¬ 
tion of freight to the vessels of this line. The 
Gould strike has also collapsed and has been 
declared “off” by the Executive Committee 
of the K. of L, after a spirited address by 
the visiting Congressional Investigating Com¬ 
mittee, and a conference between it and the 
St. Louis Citizens 1 Committee and the Local 
Board of the K. of L. Many of the old Hands have 
gone to w»rk again on the roads; others must 
find employment elsewhere, as the capable 
among the new hands will not be discharged 
to make room for the strikers. 
.. , .The strikers in all cases are paid a cer¬ 
tain sum weekly while idle during the strikes; 
how are those to live who can’t get work after 
the collapse of the strikes?.Strikes for 
shorter hours—ranging from eight to 13, ac¬ 
cording to the “work day” of each class before 
May i—have been very numerous all over the 
country during the week. Many trades have 
granted the whole or a considerable part of 
the concessions demanded, especially those, 
such as the building trade, which cannot be 
affected by competition in other places where 
the shorter hours are not observed. Other 
employers resolutely resist, on the ground that 
either they want to manage their own busi¬ 
ness; or that they will not submit to coercion; 
or that while willing to treat with their men 
individually, they mil have nothing to do 
with labor organizations; or that the compli¬ 
ance with the demands would either disas¬ 
trously cripple or entirely ruin their business. 
The results will doubtless be a considerable 
decrease in the hours of labor in most trades 
with a corresponding decrease of wages in 
many cases. “Masters” and “men” are or¬ 
ganizing, and as each class will be likely to 
press any advantage that may arise, the 
struggle is likely to continue indefinitely. 
From extended telegraphic inquiry, this 
morning’s Bradstreet estimates that 335,000 
men have hitherto taken part in the short- 
hour movement; that 175,000 have struck, and 
150,000 have received concessions without 
haring to strike. Some 35,000 have gained 
their ends by striking. Business has been 
greatly disturbed if not absolutely paralized 
at. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Baltimore 
and several other large centers of wholesale 
trade. At Chicago no wholesale business 
worth mentioning has been done. The few 
mail orders received have been hung up, as 
merchants generally have been awaiting the 
settlement of the labor troubles. 
.The most disastrous 
labor troubles occurred at Chicago and Mil¬ 
waukee. In both cities there are large colonies 
of foreign revolutionists—chiefly Socialists, 
who want an equal division of all property, 
and Anarchists, who want the abolition of all 
laws and a complete upsetting of the present 
order of society. These have, for the most part, 
fled or been driven from their own countries; 
others, discontented with repression at home, 
have sought license, not .liberty, here. They 
have been permitted to talk, harangue, march, 
drill, buy aud prepare explosives,and imagined 
they could do as they liked. The worst fire¬ 
brands in Milwaukee are Poles; the worst in 
Chicago, Germans. On May 1, over 40,000 
men struck for shorter hours in Chicago,and the 
agitation continued violent but peaceable till 
Tuesday. A large body of thieves, cut-throats 
and the offscourings of a large city, mixed with 
discontented workmeu and hot-headed revolu¬ 
tionists, then met. in a large square, aud were 
greatly inflamed by incendiary speeches from 
the Anarchist leaders. A considerable squad 
of police arrived on the ground to preserve 
order, and were greeted with insulting cries 
and menacing gestures, then pelted with stones, 
and finally a dyuaniite bomb was hurled 
among them, killing a number and wounding 
and mutilating many others, and some of the 
pressing crowd. The police fired upon their 
assailants, and a number fell dead and wound¬ 
ed, while a second volley scattered the coward¬ 
ly mob in all directions. Much trouble, but 
no serious fighting has occurred since. Large 
subscriptions are being raised for the families 
of the killed and wounded officers. A large 
number of arrests of Anarchists and other 
ringleaders of violence have been made. 
Much dynamite, many incendiary manifestoes, 
etc., have been seized. The Knights of Labor 
aud trades’ unions have vigorously repudiated 
all connection with the outbreak, or any form 
of illegal violence. The strikes still continue, 
but iu spite of mutterings of more trouble, no 
serious outbreak is feared. 
... .At Milwaukee the militia were called out 
to protect a number of threatened factories; 
they were approached by a horde of excited, 
menacing rioters; these were sternly warned 
to halt, and on continuing their advance, the 
troops fired low, to kill. A number were 
killed, and more wounded, while the rioters 
sought safety in flight. In both cases the 
foreign Anarchist and Socialist elements were 
the prime movers in the disturbances. 
.... There is little or no likely hood that the 
Democratic House will pass the Republican 
Senate bill admitting Dakota as a State. It 
is sure to be Republican and must, therefore, 
wait at least two years more before any part 
of it can be admitted.. A great deal 
of trouble is constantly arising from the cross¬ 
ing of cattle over the border line between the 
Uni ted States and Mixico. Congress is seeking 
to surpress the evils... Efforts are still 
being made in Congress to close the U. S. 
Triads to all lottery circulars, etc., as well as 
to newspapers that publish lottery advertise¬ 
ments.The extension of the bene¬ 
fits of the Signal Service to farmers is stdl 
being pressed in Congress.Ex-President 
Arthur was well enough last Tuesday to at¬ 
tend a great dog show held here the past week. 
... .The House objects to make appropriations 
to carry into effect that Mexican treaty negot¬ 
iated by Gen Grant and opposed by our 
tobacco and sugar industries.The treaty 
with the Sandwich Islands, admitting their 
sugar duty-free, is however likely to be re¬ 
newed .Our annual pension appropri¬ 
ations for the benefit of the survivors of the 
late war are as great as those of many great 
nations for the support of their standing 
armies and pension list. Congressman Ho wilt 
of New York says the taxpayer’s limit of en¬ 
durance has been reached, and the discontent 
of a tax-ridden people is breaking out in riot, 
death and dynamite...Mrs Garfield’s 
Cleveland residence is offered for rent. 
...Our occasional contributor, Prof. Brooks, 
of Phelps. R- Y., has discovered another 
comet—this is now in the constellation Pegasus. 
.... The Cherokees are to distribute their $300, - 
000 lease money per capita—about $30 apiece. 
.Maxy Cobb, the most famous trotting 
stallion in the world, died Monday, at Phila¬ 
delphia, of inflammation of the bowels. His 
record, 2.1SV£, made at Narragansett, near 
Providence, R. I., Sept. 30, 1884, has never 
been equaled by a stallion. It is said $40,000 
were refused for him a short time ago. 
The Lachine and RMeau Canals, Canada, 
were opened for navigation Monday. 
The big log-rolling bill,appropriating $15,000,- 
000 for “Rivers and Harbors,” got 41 majority 
in the House, Thursday.Jeff. Davis 
has attended the unveiling of the late Senator 
Hill’s statue, at Atlanta, aud a local ceuten- 
nial celebration at Savannah, and has been 
everywhere enthusiastically received by 
mighty crowds gathered to do honor to the 
Ex-Chief of the Confederacy. He thinks the 
Lost Cause not dead, but sleeping. Consider¬ 
able loyal anger at the North, but the sober 
sentiment is that the North fought to make 
this a free country, where all can do as they 
please withiu the law, and that not the least 
among its glories is the fact that the head of 
the most extensive and bloodiest rebellion the 
world bas ever seen, has been allowed to live 
to talk as this old man has been talking. 
..Yesterday the American fishing vessel 
David D. Adams, went into Digbyport, in the 
Bay of Fundy, to buy Canadian bait and ice. 
The commander of the Canadian frigate 
Landsdowne at once formally seized her. 
Some indignation, not uumixed with amuse¬ 
ment here. How will Canada wriggle out of 
the difficulty? We say our vessels have a 
right to trade in Canadian ports. The Im¬ 
perial Government will hardly support the 
colonial action. The President is urged to 
close American ports to Canadian vessels 
till the wrong is righted. 
..Gov. Larrabee, of Iowa, warns violators of 
the Prohibition Law that henceforth they must 
expect no Executive clemency, and calls upon 
priests, ministers, teachers and the press to en¬ 
list their moral forces for the law.. .The 
Kentucky Legislature is working on an anti- 
lobby bill, which imposes a flue of $500 on any 
person loitering around the lobbies of either 
House importuning members to vote for or 
against any bill, this being held pci mu facie 
evidence of guilt.Gen. Logan's amend¬ 
ments to the Mexican Pension Bill would, it is 
calculated, require an expenditure of not less 
than $600,000,000!. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
named by the Crown, partly represent the 
wealth and aristocracy of the country, and 
partly be elected by the people. Full pre¬ 
cautions seem to be taken to restrain any 
manifestation- of disloyalty to the Empire; 
and all the concessions made yield a meas¬ 
ure of self-government and independence con¬ 
siderable below what is now enjoyed by Canada 
and the Australian and New Zealand colonies. 
Supplementary to Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill, 
is his Land Purchase Bill, which provides for 
the purchase of Irish estates from the landlords 
for sums aggregating 20 years’ rental, the 1'unds 
to be supplied by the Imperial Government. 
The land is to be divided into small farms 
among the present tenants aud all others who 
may desire, and the purchase money is to be 
paid to the Government in stipulated yearly 
installments, the land to remain as security 
for the debt until paid. Only a bare idea can 
be here given of the general drift of both 
measures, each of which has a multitude of 
provisions and safeguards.The 
Liberal Cabinet split on the measures, 
Lord Harrington, the aristocrat, aud Mr. 
Chamberlain, t he radical, being alike unable to 
agree with their Chief, Mr. Gladstone. Other 
less important personages followed their ex¬ 
ample. The Liberal party is split Oil the mat¬ 
ter, the bulk of the party adhering to the for¬ 
tunes of “Our William.” The latter has made 
several concessions, and seems willing to make 
several others to secure a majority in favor of 
the “second reading” of the Home Rule Bill 
iu the Commons, Then it will be in “Com¬ 
mittee of the Whole,” and amendments, aud 
alterations will be in order. There’s nothing 
definite now, except that after what has been 
done and said by England’s foremost States, 
men, Ireland can never again be subjected to 
the humiliation,rapine and tyranny of the past. 
.. Perhaps a greater subject of general Euro¬ 
pean interest just now is the attitude of 
Greece. After the Turko-Russiau war, the 
treaty of Berlin gave Greece a large slice of 
Turkish territory on the northwest of what 
she already hod, as a reward for her pacific 
conduct during the war. Turkey has ceded 
only a part of this gift, aud during the late 
war between Bulgaria and Serria, Greece re¬ 
solved to pitch in and seize the rest of the 
territory, as Turkey would probably be ham¬ 
pered by the rival belligerents. The sudden 
collapse of Serria, aud the consequent peace, 
rendered the Greek action too slow, while the 
acquisit ion of Eastern Routne!ia by Bulgaria 
exasperated Creek jealousy. The little king¬ 
dom, the pet- creation and protege of the 
Great Powers, continued to increase and drill 
her army and fit. out her navy. The Great 
Powei-s protested and threatened, but she kept 
right on. The Turks, if permitted by the 
Powers, could have made mince-meat of the 
Greek hosts iu short order; but Turkey knew 
that her first attack on the Greeks would be 
the signal for the instant advance of the Rus¬ 
sian and Austrian armies, aud would probably 
result in a general European conflagration. 
She has been obliged to keep up her anny on 
a war footing, however, at vast expense to 
her bankrupt treasury,by the action of Greece, 
and has been vigorously protesting to the 
Powers. Daring the week these have brought 
their greatest pressure to bear upon the Hell¬ 
enic Government, but from to-day’s cable¬ 
grams it appears, in va in. This morni ng’s cable 
says the Greeks are pushing rapidly to the 
frontier; the Turks are there already, and a 
conflict may occur at any hour. The Ambas¬ 
sadors of the Powers have left Athens and em¬ 
barked on the vessels of their respective 
nationalities, except the Russian Ambassador. 
The fleets of the Powers will blockade the 
Greek ports and prevent a naval conflict be¬ 
tween the Greeks and Turks. They are 
trying to coerce the plucky little kingdom by 
boycotting her. There are so many open 
and concealed complications and entangle¬ 
ments in the “Eastern Question” that if war 
once begins, no one can tell when or how it 
may end, or how many natious may plunge 
or be drawn into it.... 
against 10,264,000 cwts.The French 
appropriation for the Ministry of Agriculture 
for 188(1 is $8,154,313.The Kentucky 
House recently passed a bill making it a fel* 
ony, with from one to three years’ imprison¬ 
ment, to bring into the State cattle diseased 
with pleuro-pneumonia, or to own cattle so 
diseased and to allow them to come in contact 
with healthy cattle; also making it a misde¬ 
meanor, with from $100 to $1,000 fine, and a 
term iu jail, to keep cattle so diseased in any 
inclosure within COO feet of the highway. 
Further, upon complaint, the county judge is 
to have a jury examine any herd, aud kill 
and burn infected animals.Hog 
cholera has become epidemic at Bayside, Long 
Island, and in its vicinity. Several hundred 
hogs have died from the disease within a few 
days, one farmer haring lost 30... 
Saturday, May 8,1886. 
Of late no European question has been of 
more interest to all English-speaking people 
the world over than Gladstone’s attempt to sat¬ 
isfy Irish longings for “home rule,” and make 
a satisfactory settlement of the Irish laud diffi¬ 
culty which has cursed the “folnesfc pi.saulry” 
in the world for generations—yes, for centuries. 
The “Graud Old Man,” after a long life of 
active statesmanship, finds the only permanent 
way out of the interminable Celtic discontent 
and agitation lies in the direction ol’ an Irish 
Parliament for the Lush in Dublin, withfan 
Upper House whose members are to.be partly 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 8. 1.886. 
TnK weight of fleeces from the 81,710,331 
sheep in New South Wales, last year, was, for 
the aged sheep, unwashed, five pounds; hot- 
water washed, three pounds three ounces; 
scoured, two pounds 14 ounces. Lambs, one 
pound 18 ounces unwashed; one pound nine 
ounces washed..Florida cattle ranges 
aggregating 67,5300 acres have been purchased 
by Wyoming cattlemen, for $84,600. 
The practice of spaying is said to be rapidly 
increasing on the ranges. There appears to he 
no other way of disposing of the over-stock of 
she cattle than to spay them and convert them 
into beef. Spayed animals are claimed to 
fatten more rapidly than steers, shrink less in 
transit and command better prices in the East- 
era markets.The grass seed trade of 
Chicago, during 1885, amounted to 68,000,000 
bushels.. Rich beds of phosphate have 
now lieeu found in Florida. Hitherto the sup¬ 
ply, except from hones, has come mainly from 
the phosphate Iteds of South Carolina. 
In the six months ending March 81, England 
imported from Lidia 7,480,000 cwts. of wheat, 
as against only 4,034,1)20 cwts, in the same 
period of the preceding year; while the im¬ 
ports from America were only 5,084,000 cwts. 
Crops & ftlorkrts. 
Saturday, May 8,1886. 
Late cables from the United Kingdom have 
been quite favorable to the prospect for all 
growing crops, especially wheat, though the 
area under this is about five percent lesstban 
last year. Red wheats are fid. per quarter 
(lh'c. per bushel) dearer than a week ago. 
At Paris the prices of wheat and flour have 
lieen higher and firmer. Growing French 
wheat doing well. Wheat in Central Europe 
has bad fine weather; but liberal sales in 
Austria and Hungary have depressed the 
market. France has doubled her import duty 
on oats, raising the tax from two cents to four 
cents per bushel. 
The Australian wheat crop is a small one 
this season. Estimates from Melbourne, 
March 10, are as follows for colonies men¬ 
tioned: Victoria, 10,483,000 bushels; South 
Australia, 5,101,000; New Zealand, 4.250,000; 
New South Wales, 3,400,000—making a total 
of 28,344,000 bushels for these colonies. The 
estimated surplus for export is 5,.540,000 
bushels, which it is assumed will be needed 
by New South Wales. Queensland, Tasmania, 
Western Australia, Now Caledonia, Fiji and 
the South Rea Islands. 
Reports received last week from the agents 
of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., 
Chicago, estimate the area sown to thespring 
wheat crop as compared with last. year. In 
Dakota, 115 percent.; Minhesota, 100; Iowa, 
100; Wisconsin. 05, anil Nebraska, 02, The 
season has been rather backward in Nebras¬ 
ka, but as a whole t he spring wheat crop of 
the Northwest is having a fine start. 
Reports from every county in Ohio, Illinois 
anil Indiana show that all crops are now two 
weeks in advance of the average spring sea¬ 
son and are in a much better condit ion than 
at the same date last year. A summary of 
the reports shows that the average per cent, of 
the wheat crop in Ohio is 95. Illinois 94 and 
Indiana 94; oats iu Ohio 90, Illinois 97 and In¬ 
diana 92. 
Owing to the labor troubles throughout the 
country, and especially at Chicago, specula¬ 
tive deulings in wheat have been quite limited 
during the week. Comparatively little wheat 
has left Chicago by water, ami very little by 
mil. Here prices have risen more than at the 
other chief receiving points. The visible sup¬ 
ply fell off 1,800,000 bushels during the week. 
In com t.hei o was a decliue of 1,700,000 in the 
visible supply; but the markets have been 
weak. 
Oats, too, have been weak and lower, though 
the visible supply for the week ending May 1, 
showed a decrease of 85,000 from the previous 
week. 
Peppermint has gone up; hut the report 
that it is to lie “cornered” is emphatically 
denied by large dealers. A ‘ ‘corner” was 
much likelier six months ago, when, as we 
mentioned, the smallness of lust season’s crop 
was first realized. 
Present prices of hops—nine to ten cents— 
offer little encouragement to growers. Hop 
yards in this State are said to be as far ad¬ 
vanced now as they were last yeur on Juno 10 
—the earliest season since 18851. Then a frost 
on May 28 nipped the vines and there wasn’t 
over half a crop, aud prices went up accord¬ 
ingly. In the absence of frost the crop this 
year must be exceedingly heavy, though ns 
many have abandoned or curtailed their hop 
yard’s, the aggregate may not be excessive. 
The main object of wool-dealers now is to 
keep down prices until most of the new clip 
has been marketed—say, July I. T^ibor dis¬ 
turbances at home, preventing manufacturers 
from buying heavily, and extremely low 
prices abroad for foreign wool, help them in 
this scheme. Here is a comparison of the 
market prices in London for the last five 
Veal'S; 
* .-188C.--. ’S3. *84. •82. '82 
Avr. Feb. June. June. 
■1 d d d 
P.Phillip, nv’g. grease.. .844 SH4 10)4 12 11W 1844 
Sydney, •• “ ...644 7 8 !l\, 944 1044 
N. Zealand," ‘.844 944 10 12 1144 l-'HS 
Cope. “ “ ....5W 6 046 7 7 7 
R. Plate, " “ ....5VO‘i 644 74( 744 744 
[Multiply these by 2, to get the price In cents per 
pound.) 
The latest London advices say colonial wool 
is cheaper now than at any time in the present 
generation. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, May 8,1886. 
Chicago.— Compared with eush prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is %c. lower; 
No. 2 Spring, IJmc. lower. Corn, !j£c. lower 
Oats, steady. Pork, unchanged. 
Wheat, active: Salt'S rangetl: May, 70440077740; June, 
78M@8046e; July, HO-VwSIJke; No. 2 Spring, 7t%@7744® 
No. 8 Chicago Spring, ,68W<o70c. Cohn.—M ay, 8-ljtJc; 
85c; lJune,. at 8fk»80Jie; July,. 87(a877^c. Oats—D ull 
