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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 15, 1886. 
Of Grant’s Memoirs, Vo!, 1, 250,000 copies 
were printed, and several subsequent editions 
of 25,000 each have been issued. Of Vol. 2 
300,000 copies are ready, and extra editions will 
be got out as demanded. There are 10,000 
agents in the U. S.. Canada and Mexico, and 
it is published simultaneously in the U. 8. and 
Europe. If the second vol. sells as expected, 
the Grant estate will get 8500,000 in all out of 
the work, besides a steady Income from sales 
during the run of copyright— .After a 
storm last Saturday night in Chicago the side¬ 
walks and streets in and around- the Board of 
Trade electric light tower, were “fairly cov¬ 
ered with dead birds of all sorts.” The roof 
of the building was also covered with dead 
birds, and each of the lamps in the big circle 
of light was filled with them.Here’s 
a summary of the work of Congress down to 
las I Wednesday: Bills introduced in the House, 
8.710; joint resolutions, 171; total, 8,911. Bills 
of a private nature which have passed the 
House, 65]; lulls of a public nature, 172; total^ 
825. Of this number 170 private and 49 pub¬ 
lic bills have passed the Senate. The House 
has received 381 bills passed by the Senate, 129 
public and 252 private. The House has passed 
86 hills—88 public and 51 private.Those 
deputy-marshals who shot into a crowd in 
East St. Louis, killing a woman and several 
men. and who subsecjuently sought safety from 
an exasperated people in a jail in St. Louis, 
were quietly transferred to the prison at Belle¬ 
ville. Ill, Wednesday. Gov. Oglesby sent the 
requisition for thorn nearly a month ago; but 
Gov. Marmaduke of Mo., doubtless to hold 
them till the excitement across the river had 
abated, declined to surrender them until after 
trial in St. Louis for shooting on the connect¬ 
ing bridge—a mere excuse for saving them 
from Lynch law.The noted case of 
Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. H. Lennox Max¬ 
well, charged with the murder of C. Arthur 
Preller at the Southern hotel m St. Louis on 
April 7, 1885, was called in the criminal 
court in that city this week, The body 
was found doubled’up in a trunk in the hotel; 
and Brooks was brought back a prisoner from 
New Zealand. A large crowd were attracted 
to the court-room. The prisoner shows few 
signs of his loner imprisonment and appears 
cheerful.The American Tract. Society 
held its annual meeting Wednesday at New 
York. The number of volumes issued by the 
society during the year aggregated 59.587,628 
pages’ The total receipts were *344.420 aud 
expenses *338,032.1earing a balance of 85.888. 
.The Millers’ Association, embracing about 
800 firms in N. Y., Pa., Ind., Md.. Va., Ohio, 
Mich., Ky.. Tenn., Ill, Mo., Ta., Kans., Neb., 
Wis., aud Minn., has been in session in Chicago 
during the week. It hadn’t met for five or six 
years, and was specially called together to 
agree upon measures to bo taken with regard 
to a patent suit to he soou brought before the 
U. 8. Court at St. Louis. Much business talk, 
etc.G. H. Butler, nephew of Geu, Ben., 
died at Waslii ngton on Tuesday. Ex-husband 
of Rose Etynge; ex-Cousul to "Egypt under 
Grant; ex-journalist; brilliant but erratic 
and too fond of the “flowing bowl”. 
_Charles F. Woerisboffor, one of the great¬ 
est grain speculators in the world, died here 
suddenly Sunday night, Born in Hesse in 
1843, arrived in New York in 1865: joined the 
Stock Exchange in 1870, and since has been a 
da ri ng opera tor here and in Chicago. He died 
carrying 3,500,000 bushels of wheat, 1,500,000 
of which he received May 1. He was seldom 
so “long” of grain, haring been generally a 
“bear,” and selling “short.” for a fall in prices. 
.The nomination of Gen. Rosecrnns, as 
Register of the Treasury, lias been “himg up” 
in the Senate, as there are against, him grave 
complaints of dishonesty in connection with 
land transactions covering 800 acres near Los 
Angeles. Cal. and Ben Butler bitterly charges 
him with having made a hasty, untruthful 
and vindictive Congressional report charging 
him with iinhezzeling $200,000 while in charge 
of the Soldier’s Home at Washington. “Rosy” 
is likely to have a hard road to travel to the 
Registership.Ex-President Arthur is 
“no worse,”.Bee. Manning is “slowly 
improving,” and drives out with Mrs. M. every 
fine day. -..A bill authorizing an arcade 
railway under Broadway, N. Y., has passed 
the N. Y. Legislature and been signed by Gov. 
Hill It will start from the foot of the island, 
and on reaching Union Square will branch, 
one line going to Harlem under Lexiugton 
Avenue, and the other striking up Broadway 
to Harlem near the North River. Ordinary 
railway cars can run on it. Work to begin in 
60 days; job expected to be completed in five 
years. Lots of capital .Among other 
powers, this city is governed by 24 aldermen. 
Of last year’s 24, 35 kept one or more rum- 
shops, aud another was a “fence,” or receiver of 
stolen goods. From the Battery to Union 
.Square, Broadway is 2K miles long, and the 
finest, street iu the world. For years, specula¬ 
tors have been trying to get permission to run 
street ears on it. A. T. Stewart Offered $1,000.- 
000 cash and a yearly percentage of gross re¬ 
ceipts for the privilege. Others would have 
paid more. Jacob Sharp Is chief owner and 
factotum of several st reet, car linos, a burly, 
unscrupulous man of 64. for years a lobbyist 
at, Albany and a corrupter of local politicians 
to gain Ids selfish ends. One of his lines nms 
eai's on Broadway above Union Square, and 
for 20 years he tried to get the right to run 
them on lower Broadway. Having secured 
from the legislature last year an act opening 
the street to a “surface” line, he had to secure 
the consent of the majority of the property 
owners on the street and of the Board of Alder¬ 
men. The first he got through a Board of 
friends appointed by underhand means; the 
second by the grossest bribery. At least IS of 
the City Fathers received bribes of $20,000 to 
$30,000 for giving the franchise to Sharp for a 
“song,” though the city could have got 
millions for it, A Senate investigating com¬ 
mittee, aided by lawyers ex-Serator Conkling 
and YV. H. Seward, uncovered the rankest and 
most shameless corruption connected with the 
“steal” Twelve of the implicated aldermen 
are under arrest, two are dead, the rest are in 
CoD&da or Europe, fugitives from justice. 
The Legislature has taken the extreme measure 
of annulling the charter of the road, and 
virtually Handing it over to the city. A 
Massachusetts lamk, in behalf of “innocent 
holders” of its bonds, is to contest the consti¬ 
tutionality of the acts in the case. Long liti¬ 
gation will fatten lawyers who have been the 
most unscrupulous agents of, and the largest 
gainers by the rascality. Jaehne. one ol' the 
“boodle” aldermen and the “fence,” is now ou 
trial here for accepting a bribe—$39,000 it is 
said. All possible precautions are taken 
to prevent "jury fixing;”. 
... .The New York Senate, by one majority, 
has voted $200,000 to lengthen certain locks on 
the Erie and Oswego Cauals—Just enough for 
a beginning.The total value of goods, 
the product of Canadian manufacture, export¬ 
ed from the Dominion from the first of .July 
to the first of April of the present fiscal year 
was $57,098,676, as compared with $59,782,576 
for the same period last year. The value of 
goods imported for consumption in Canada in 
the same period this year wits $72,756,59s as 
compared with $73,665,255 for flic same period 
last year. The latter is exclusive of im¬ 
ports into British Columbia this year. 
Apaches still depredating and murdering iu 
Arizona. Gen. Miles, miles and miles after 
them. Senator Fair wants them, when 
caught, to be sent with the rest of their tribe 
to the Santa Catalina Island, 25 miles south¬ 
west of Los Angeles, CaL They would then 
need no guard, and their blood-thirsty nro- 
clirities could tie exercised only on each other. 
Island to be bad for $3 to $4 an acre. 
Blaine is very lively just, uow as a prospective 
Presidential candidate for 1888. His triends 
are capturing all the outposts of the National 
Republican Committee.“Destroyer” is 
the fit name for a new war vessel, steaming 
•25 miles an hour, armed with “blasting gela¬ 
tine” shells which cau bo hurled 1,560 yurds, 
one being able to destroy any iron-clad afloat. 
It. is claimed the navies of the world would be 
at the mercy of one such waft .The 
House Inter-state Commerce Bill was passed 
by the Senate Wednesday, by a vote of 47 to 
4, after a single amendment by Edmunds, a 
number of others being rejected. It. uow goes 
to the House agaiu, for concurrence in this 
amendment............ 
_in Ohio the seats of four democratic Sena¬ 
tors from Hamilton Co. (t Tincinuatii were con¬ 
tested on the ground of gross frauds in their 
election. The Republicans had a majority of 
the Senate; but lacked two of a quorum; hut 
they could always command a majority if two 
or more Democrats were present. Tie Demo¬ 
crats fearing that four Republican Senators 
would be voted the contested seats, left one of 
their number to call a count to show a quorum 
wasn’t present, whenever legislation should be 
attempted, and all the rest rushed off out of the 
State—to Kentucky and Tennessee,^—to escape 
arrest and compulsory attendance in the Sen¬ 
ate. I ,ast Saturday the Republicans spread a 
reiiort that one had been arrested, and this 
frightened off the sentinel Democrat, who fear¬ 
ed that if he, with the arrested Senator, attun¬ 
ed, there would be a quorum. The Republi¬ 
cans at once unseated tne four democrats, giv¬ 
ing their places to four Republicans, Unless 
questioned at the moment,, legislation in the 
absence of a uUOrutn is quite binding, and the 
records ure nua! The oliieial records have 
since been stolen, and the Democrats threaten 
a contest in the Courts, Tim remodeled Sen¬ 
ate has passed the Dow Law, taxing beer-shops 
#100 and rum- mills $200 apiece. 
The National House last week passed the 
River and Harbor Bill, appropriating $15,120,- 
700 against #12,619,100 last year—by a vote of 
142 to 102.Congressman Morrow, of 
California, presented in the House a Califor¬ 
nia petition 2,000 feet long, containing 50.000 
names, including all the Knights of Labor in 
the State. It simply requested that Chinese 
shall forever be prohibited from entering the 
United States.A city ordinance of Sun 
Francisco prohibited the carrying ou of a 
laundry in a wooden building without, the 
consent of the Buard of Supervisors: 2,000 
Chinese and 80 white men applied for a per¬ 
mit. The former were refused; the latter got 
it. The U. S. Supreme Court, on appeal, de¬ 
cides the ordinance is invalid under the 14th 
Amendment, as well m; a treaty mude with 
China in 1881,.The Chicago Inter-Ocean 
and Tribune have reduced their price from 
five to three cents per copy.“influen¬ 
tial New Yorkers” are road because Senator 
Evarts economically uses postal cards in ans¬ 
wering them.W. II. English, of Ind., 
of Hancock & English political fame, has 
retired from his banking business and will 
travel abroad .The overland roads have 
suddenly raised passenger rates so that tickets 
from this city to San Francisco uow sell for 
$76 to $86 each, instead of #30 a month ago; 
and *118 before the break Several hundred 
tourists caught “short" iu Cal, are waiting 
for remittances from home. 
....The bomb thrown among the police by 
the Anarchists of Chicago has shaken every 
labor organization iu the country. Of course, 
honest workmen had nothing to do with the 
infernal outrage, and all the trades unions 
and Knights of lobor express hon or at it, 
and detestation of the miscreants who advo¬ 
cate or excuse such dastardly actions; but 
that deed has severely hurt, labor agitation, 
nevertheless. This morning’s Bradstrect, 
from a multitude of telegrams infers that 
within about two weeks there have been strikes 
ax, leading industrial centers to secure fewer 
daily hours of labor aggregating 200,000 em¬ 
ployes, that, 150,000 have secured concessions 
and that not over 42,000 of the 200,000 strikers 
have secured their ends. This indicates that 
over 190,000 employes are working fewer 
hours per day than one month ago, a small 
proportion of the total number claiming to lie 
interested.. 
... The reduction to eight hours has little of 
the moral support of the country; but there 
is a general impression that, 10 hours’ work is 
fully enough and anything over 12 hours a 
great deal too much. All over the country 
strikes are collapsing, or compromises are 
being made; and iu a few cases the employers 
in particular lines, combine and have a “lock¬ 
out” against their hands until they agree to 
continue to work ou old terms. The clothes 
makers of Chicago have now a “lock-out” 
which t hrows 35,000 hands out of employment, 
... .This will be a memorable year for storms. 
During the week cyclones, tornadoes, hurri¬ 
canes, water-sprouts, rain-storms and every 
form of bad weather have, played havoc over 
a vast extent of country. Kansas, Missouri, 
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, have suffered most 
severely. A fearful storm of wind and rain 
swept over Kansas City ou Tuesday, causing 
immense destruction and 29 deaths. Odell 
and Rockford, Ill; Evansville and Attica, 
Ind.: Leavenworth, Kans., aud innumerable 
other places in those States have stiff red 
severely. The destruction at Xenia, Ohio, 
was simply awful ; dead and missing 20. 
Never iu the history of that whole section 
have storms been so wide-spread aud destruc¬ 
tive. River bottoms are flooded ; bridges 
swept away; crops destroyed; stock drowned; 
buildings of all kinds demolished or injured— 
a world of loss, suffering and sorrow. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 15, 1S86. 
In England the chances in favor of Glad¬ 
stone's Home Rule and Land Purchase bills 
for Ireland, are rapidly diminishing. The 
Conservatives arc, of course, all solidly op¬ 
posed to both.and enough Whigs and Radicals 
under Hartingtou and Chamlierlam, are like¬ 
ly to join the Conservatives to be able to defeat 
the Home Rule Bill, whose fate must be decid¬ 
ed the first. Just 110 Liberals are reported to 
be ready to vote against it, aud 80 more are 
doubtful. Gladstone is seeking to bring back 
the malcontents by modifying the bill; but 
they are distrustful and insist on its with¬ 
drawal. The Radicals want a confederation 
of England, Ireland aud Scotland, with the 
chief colonies, each to have separate homu 
governments, like our States, but all to be 
represented in Parliament at London, as our 
States are represented at Washington, aud 
they insist that giving a separate government 
to Ireland, without allowing Irish representa¬ 
tion at St. Stephen's, is destructive of such a 
confederation. Gladstone is thinking of with¬ 
drawing the bill for the present, so that the 
people may be “educated up” to a just appre¬ 
ciation of the case. If defeated, the Prime 
Mi nis ter ordinarily has the option of resign¬ 
ing, and then the “Opposition” assumes the 
Government; or of dissolving Parliament and 
appealing to the people by means of a fresh 
election; but as the Queen has never been a 
friend of Gladstone, and is strongly opposed 
to Home Rule, it is hardly likely she would 
cousent to a dissolution. Home Rule for Ire¬ 
land is likely to be delayed. In that case the 
D-ish “men of action” are likely to begin a 
serieB of outrages aud disturbances. 
The Orangemen of Ulster are arming, and 
declare they will never submit to a Parlia¬ 
ment in Dublin. They threaten to march at 
once on the Catholics of the other three pro¬ 
vinces. Religious bigotry is increasingly used 
in all parts of the United Kingdom for politi¬ 
cal purposes.Very severe industrial 
distress in the United Kingdom, especially in 
the manufacturing districts.. .Great wind and 
rain storms ou Thursday did a world of dam¬ 
age, flooding river bottoms, sweeping away 
bridges, drowning stock, damaging crops, 
impeding railroad travel and traffic, etc,. .For 
the first time since the death of her husband, iu 
December 1861, the Queen has been appearing 
prominently in public life, opening exhibitions 
etc., and this is awakeniug a good deal of 
lately dormant loyalty... 
... .The resolute action of the Powers has put 
out the “Greek fire." The bellicose Ministry 
has resigned; another has been appointed, and 
a new legislature is being convoked. The 
troops have been recalled from the frontier 
and full assurances of peace have been given. 
It Is likely the Powers secretely agreed to 
firing pressure to hear on Turkey to induce 
her to yield at least, a good part of the terri¬ 
tory claimed by Greece. Anyhow, the settle¬ 
ment of the “Eastern Question” is deferred, 
anil the danger to the peace ol’ Europe has for 
the moment, disitppeard.Germany 
—that is, Bismarck—still “bosses” Europe. In 
the Greek trouble France tried to gain undue 
prestige at the expense of the other Powers, 
by inducing Greece to reduce her forces, on 
French promises; but Bismarck’s strong hand 
spoilt, the game, by using the joint action ol' 
the Great Powers—Great Britain, Franco, 
Germany, Austria-Hungary, ltussiu and Italy 
—as the impelling force. Tlie Great Chancel¬ 
lor has lately ceased nil war with the Pojxj 
aud entered into the friendliest relations with 
him. What stronger supporter is there of 
recognized authority and the powers that be, 
than the head of the Church whose chief in¬ 
junction is obedience, and which makes un¬ 
ceasing war on nil those abominations of uou 
stituted authority—secret societies?. 
.Iu Spain, Austrian Queen Christina, 
widow of the late Aiphouso, and regent of the 
Kingdom during the minority of her posthum¬ 
ous girl baby, is getting on much better than 
expected. All fears of Carlist insurrection, re¬ 
publican revolution, or restoration of old 
Queen Isabella, have ceased, for the present at 
any rate. A terrible hurricane swept across 
the country Wednesday, causing ft world of 
loss by destroying bouses, crops, etc., and kill¬ 
ing n great many people. In Madrid alone, 
33 were killed aud 620 severely injured. 
_Italy is again suffering from Asiatic chol¬ 
era—for the third year. Yesterday three 
deaths and seven now cases were reported at 
Venice; nine deaths and five new cases at 
Bari, and one death and one new case at 
Brindisi. It has also appeared hi several 
other parts of the kingdom. The Pope and 
the King appear to lie getting along better. 
The fulminations of the Vatican, and the 
prosecutions of the civil authorities aud the 
outrages of infidel mobs have ceased, at least 
temporarily..... 
.Austria-Hungary and Russia ore both 
busily plotting against, and intently watching 
Turkey and the recently created little Dan- 
ubian kingdoms. Both want Constantinople, 
and are resolved to gel it. There’s going to lie 
a terrible struggle for it ere long, and the out¬ 
break will probably be begun by some move¬ 
ment, of the Danubniu puppet kingli 1117s. Lit¬ 
tle attention would lie bestowed on their 
quarrels were it not that they are supposed to 
ho caused by one or other of the two Powers, 
with a view to securing some advantage in the 
way of seizing upon the effects of the “Sick 
Man of Europe.” Hence the importance of 
the late Grerk bluster,... 
.... On the whole. Europe is avast camp. The 
soldier is everywhere. Man at his best is 
forced from profitable production: trained 
into a murdering machine: and placed upon 
the shoulders of tailing labor, to be fed, 
clothed and pensioned on its scanty and uncer¬ 
tain wages. Everywhere the toilers are dis¬ 
contented anil mutinous. A horribly destruc¬ 
tive outbreak of miners, metal workers and 
other operatives, has been just lately sup¬ 
pressed among burning towns and factories, 
the roar of cannon and the raj tie of rifles in 
Belgium. Numerous note of striking work¬ 
men have lately given « taste of war to the 
French army. Nihilists are again becoming 
rampant, in Russia. Socialists are multiplying 
ing in Germany in spite of iron repression. 
Discontent is loud-voiced in England, and a 
few weeks ago was turbulent, in London, 
which tor some hours was in the bands of a 
mob. But the “season” has been uuusuallv 
gay iu Paris. Patti still guts $4,000 or $5,000 . 
a night for singing an hour or so, and the 
“fashionables” flock to bear her. The theatres 
are doing a splendid business, etc., etc., etc. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturpay, May, 15 1886. 
Land Commissioner Sparks tells the Con¬ 
gress, that if he is allowed the additional clerks 
he wants, the entries he suspended April 3, 
1885, will be investigated and disposed of with¬ 
in 18 months. A large percentage of these he 
thinks fraudulent. Ho still urges the repeal of # 
the Pre-empt ion, Timber-culture, Timber-land, 
and Deserhlaud Laws, “Shull the public lands 
be protected and honest titles be insisted on, or 
shall dishonest appropriation be allowed?” 
“Will Sparks resigu?” is a common question. 
Why should he? To please the laud-grabbers? 
..At Bulington, ilL, the other day a centrifugal 
milk separator burst, mutilating and killing 
the foreman of the creamery. Another like 
accident occurred there within the week, and 
we have lately heard of some others in differ¬ 
ent places. It's like the bursting of a whirling 
griud-stoite driven by steam . .The 
system of selling stock by live weight is now 
receiving quite general attention in England 
aud Ireland.British.I ndia is likely to begin 
peanut raising.... Tallow in Chicago is 
3%—the lowest price known to the trade. The 
abundance of cotton-seed oil causes the de¬ 
pression.Texas is shipping porkers 
north; a few cars of extra-good have surprised 
Chicago 
Crop5 & i-UrtvIitls. 
Saturday, May 15, 1886. 
The Washington crop estimates give the 
wheat condition for May 1, as averaging 95 
per Cent for the whole of the winter-wheat 
area, against 70 per cent for the same time 
last year. There is no marked change any- 
where but a slight advance is noted in the 
Ohio Valley, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, the 
Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. The sea- 
son has been favorable;and the crop is more 
advanced than usual. The average iu the 
principal states is: New York96, Pennsylvania 
95, Ohio 97, Michigan 91, Indiana 98, Illinois 
92, Missouri 101, Kansas 67. The area sown to 
wheat in Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, and 
Iowa is stated by other "authorities” to agre- 
gate 9,700,000 acres, that in Dakota being 
about 12 per cent greater t han last year, with 
a crop estimated to be about 30,000,000 bush¬ 
els. Ail this points to a probable wheat yield 
of not far from 485,600,066 bushels for the 
United States this year, on the supposition of 
fairly good weather between this and the time 
of harvest. If is now announced that the 
area seeded to wheat in British India this year 
is only 1,800,006 acres loss than that of 1885— 
instead of a difference of 2,500,000 acres, as was 
recently reported. There is now no room to 
