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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 22, 1886. 
There are now 77 Mormons in the peniten¬ 
tiary for polygamy and “unlawful cohabita¬ 
tion” within the last, 18 months. Of these 35 are 
English, 25 American, 10 Scotch. 2 Swedish, 
2 Irish and 1 each from Norway. Denmark and 
South Wales..A Martinsville 
(Va.) affray, in which nine “leading citizens” 
were wounded, but none fatalty, all on account 
of the publication of scurrilous posters, is a 
melancholy illustration of the decline of 
Southern marksmanship. Marshall¬ 
town. Ia.. has gone crazy with joy for having 
secured, from 18 jealous rivals, the 8100,000 
soldiers'home the Legislature has voted to 
build .“Jaehne, the first of the 
“boodle” aldermen of this city brought to trial, 
has been convicted of accepting $20,000 as a 
bribe for voting for Jake Sharp’s Broadway 
car line, and sentenced to nine years and 10 
months imprisonment. Public opinion was too 
strong to allow any judge to fool with justice 
by letting him out on bail, pending an appeal. 
Went to Sing-Sing and stripes yesterday 
morning... There’s doubt at 
Washington of the passage of the Chinese in¬ 
demnity bill because “there are no votes in 
it.”.There’s a good chance of 
passing the Morrow bill excluding the China¬ 
men. Shouldn’t we pay for those killed, before 
shutting out their countrymen.?.The 
Ohio Legislature has adjourned sine die. 
The Democratic Senators didn’t return. 
Thurman is blamed for advising them to leave 
the State. A bill was passed redistricting the 
State for Congrossioual elections, restoring 
the boundaries of 1882, which were altered by 
the Democratic Legislature, The new Dow 
Liquor Law is the same as the old Scott Law, 
except that it is free from the objections on 
which the Supreme Court declared the Scott 
law unconstitutional. Liquor dealers say they 
will pay the licences without contest.. 
The New York Legislature adjourned Thurs¬ 
day. The Senate failed to confirm the nomin¬ 
ation of E. A. Durent, Republican grain mer¬ 
chant of Albany, as Railroad Commissioner to 
succeed John O’Donnell. Democrat. 
Governor Hill has signed a bill forbidding the 
employment of children under 14 in factories; 
and another providing for local boards of arbi¬ 
tration . South Dakota is mad that Congress has 
refused to admit it as a State, and Gen. Camp¬ 
bell, the leader, proposes to go ahead and or¬ 
ganize a State Government anyhow. Others 
say this is Jeff Davis’s doctrine of State rights. 
.A very lively contest between Gen. 
Gordon and Maj. Bacon for the Governorship 
of Ga. All minor candidates have dropped 
out to witness or take part in the fight. 
.... The Massachusetts senate has passed by a 
vote of 23 to 7. a bill raising the tax of tele¬ 
phone companies from $30,000 to $250,000. 
The House, Monday, agreed, 196 yeas to 18 
nays, to set apart June 3 (and as many subse¬ 
quent days as may be needed), for considera¬ 
tion of bills relating to labor. This question 
is assuming vast importance in Congress, and 
the Committee on Labor, first established in 
this Congress, is becoming one of the most im¬ 
portant in it, membership being eagerly sought 
by Congressmen as li lcely to make them “solid” 
with the labor vote.By the treaty of 
1778 Francs pledged herself to secure our in¬ 
dependence, and we undertook to guarantee 
her American possessions and to give her 
special commercial privileges. A good deal 
of trouble existed between the two countries 
between 1793 and 1800, and a number of ves¬ 
sels belonging to each were seized by the 
other, especially by France. In 1800 the 
United States agreed by treaty to abandon all 
claims for compensation for them if released 
from all obligations of the treaty of 1778. 
Those who had lost by the seizures then claim¬ 
ed compensation from our government on the 
ground that it had sacrificed the rights of its 
individual citizens to secure a great national 
advantage. The matter has been before Con¬ 
gress ever since under the name of “French 
Spoliation Claims.” Floods of talk and vol¬ 
umes of writing about it! Under President 
Arthur it was referred to the Court of Claims, 
which last Monday declared that the United 
States is legally responsible. Original claim¬ 
ants all long ago dead; children of most also. 
Claims now mostly in the hands of strangers. 
Lawyers will be the heaviest gainers. Sev¬ 
eral million dollars involved. A famous case. 
.Some talk about starting the Keely 
motor—nothing but promises from Keely 
aud some profanity from investors . 
... .M. De Lesseps wanted the French Govern¬ 
ment to authorize a lottery for the purpose of 
raising a vast sum to build the Panama Canal. 
As so much French money is already in the 
enterprise, and no government could stand if 
it authorized further investments, should the 
nndartaking’collapse, as predicted by Ameri¬ 
cans, it appointed an agent, M. Rousseau, to 
investigate the matter. After close inspection 
of tbe works at Panama, he made to his Gov¬ 
ernment. on Thursday, a report. He denies 
the correctness of the Caual Company’s state¬ 
ments respecting its facilities for’eonstmetion, 
the time when the canal will he completed 
and the amount of money still required to ac¬ 
complish the work. M, Bailinut, the Minister 
of Public Works, will, therefore, inform M. 
De Lesseps and his fellow directors that they 
must reply to M. Rousseau’s report, as the 
Government cannot authorize the proposed 
issue of lottery bonds until the position of the 
company is made clear. Our people ou the 
Pacific Coast are deeply interested iu (bis 
matter..Prof. Timothy Dwight was 
unanimously chosen president of Yale College, 
Thursday.Col. J. D. Folsom, 
grandfather of Miss Frances F.. died Thurs¬ 
day morning, at Folsomdale, 25 miles from 
Buffalo, N. Y., after an illness of several 
years, aged 75. Was thought to be worth 
from $500,000 to $750,000; “Frankie” will get 
some...President Cleveland has 
bought a $25,000 homestead near Washington. 
.The House of Representatives. 
on Thursday, by a vote of 178 to 80, defeated 
the Senate amendment to the Post Office Bill, 
giving $800,000 as a subsidy to American ves¬ 
sels for carrying the mails. 
... .Another American fishing vessel lias been 
seized by the Canadians for buying bait. Bills 
are being rushed through Congress to deny 
commercial privileges to vessels of all count¬ 
ries. which, like Canada, deny them to our ves¬ 
sels. The treaty of 1818, on which Canadian 
action is based, says American fishing vessels 
may enter Canadian ports to buy “wood and 
water, and notliing else.” Americans say this 
provison has been nullified since, and that Am¬ 
erican fishers having official permits to trade, 
can buy anything like other American vessels. 
The first vessel seized had no such “permit;” 
the second had. Canadians are angry because 
the papers of the Mother Country are belit¬ 
tling the “difficulty”—a tempest in a tea cup. 
Americau vessels are arming to resist capture; 
for Canadian bait and ice they will have, as 
otherwise their season will be ruined, as 
they can’t lose time to go home for supplies. 
Numerous Canadian fishing vessels are buying 
seinas. bait, ice, etc., in American ports. 
The Curtin labor-trouble investigating Com¬ 
mittee has returned from tbe Southwest to 
Washington—expense of junket, a trifle of 
about $3.000.Rosecrans has, after all, 
been confirmed as Register of tbe Treasury, 
so has Mrs. Tompkins as Postmistress at 
Louisville, and D. T. Houser as Governor of 
Montana..... 
. .Bradstreet’s reports that though 250,000 men 
have been ou strike in this country at one time 
or another since April 24, thero were at no 
one time more than 125,000 employes out, and 
that this number fell to 80.000 between May 
12 and May 17, and to about 48,000 by May 20. 
The heaviest losses by the strike were from de¬ 
layed or canceled contracts, aud the building 
trades suffered most. 3 he total loss on build¬ 
ing contracts in 10 cities is estimated at $20,- 
400,000. These losses have been most thoi’- 
oughly reported and are represented by most 
of the figures iu the last column of the follow¬ 
ing table of the leases thus far reported: 
Nr, v< 
Current husive.ns 
Wage* bimtnes. stopped. 
New York City.$300,(100 $900,000 $2,000,000 
Phlladelubla. ... 15(1.(00 00.000 0,000.000 
Smaller Pa. cities. 70.000 00,000 - 
Detroit, Mich.. .. 97.000 20,OKI KOO.OOO 
Cincinnati . 370,000 Soo.ono l.ooo.ono 
Milwaukee . -Jfifi.OOO 200,000 1,000,000 
New England cities. 207.000 11,000,000 
St Louis. 70,000 - 
Trov N Y 75,000 100,000 
WBShlntrton, D. C. 54,000 2,000,000 
p}& p «h UB -ffi » « 
Louisville, Kv. 29.000 5,010 500.000 
( nnl strikes.7.. • .. 200.0(0 800 . 000 IndetenrTte 
Chicago... 700,000 700,000 .9,000,000 
Totals .$2,802,000 $8,105,000 $24,800,0(0 
Grand total.$29,707,000 
Remember these figures do not include the 
enormous aggregate of losses by strikes in 
smaller places and along railroad lines; nor 
tbe losses iuctirred by farmers and the general 
public by interruption in buying aud market¬ 
ing goods, etc., etc. Tbe sum total of all the 
losses caused to the country by the late strik¬ 
ing craze must be considerably over $50,000,- 
000 . Most of the big strikes have collapsed. 
There is a good deal of turbulence still in 
Chicago, especially among the hands at the 
stockyard and lumber handlers. Some more 
rioting at Milwaukee; a disorderly mob in¬ 
sisted on wrecking a factory guarded by the 
militia, although sternly warned not to ad¬ 
vance. A volley dispersed the crowd, killed 
four and wounded a uumber.In Troy, 
New York, 10,000 “girl” operatives in laund¬ 
ries aud shirt factories have been thrown out 
of employment by a “lockout” by the employ¬ 
ers. The employes of one rnau struck, and all 
the other “bosses” closed to support him. The 
eight-hour movement is already a failure. 
Some of those who granted the “short day” 
have already gone back to 10 hours, often with 
the consent, or at the request, of the hands. 
The others are sure to do so ere long. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 22,1886. 
Across the Atlantic the prospects for the 
passage of Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill have 
brightened during the week. He has secured 
the Queen’s consent to dissolve Pari iamont and 
hold a new election in case the measure is de¬ 
feated at the second reading. The Liberal 
“machine,” organized chiefly by Chamberlain, 
has turned against him in all parts of England, 
and now supports Gladstone. The Scotch 
Liberals, however, are still bitterly opposed 
to the bill. An election is always a heavy ex¬ 
pense to candidates, who if successful, get no 
pay; many of the recalcitrant Liberal mem¬ 
bers are sure to be defeated as the Irish vote 
in the various constituencies will be solid 
against them, and they can expect little Liberal 
support; while the Conservatives will run can¬ 
didates of their own wherever there’s a chance 
of electing them. In other places they will 
support the “Union Liberals.” The hesitating 
Liberals have finally decided to join the 
Grand Old Man. The Ulster Orangemen are 
still talking war in ease Home Rule is grant¬ 
ed ; the Catholics say there are as many Cath¬ 
olics as Potestants in Ulster, and that the lat¬ 
ter could he easily wiped out if they rebelled., 
.The Marquis of Salisbury, the Conserva¬ 
tive leader, says discontented Irishmen should 
emigrate. The “No Popery” cry has been 
started in England for political effect.A 
Home Rule cry has just been started in British 
India, where the prominent natives have long 
been chafing at their almost complete exclusion 
from the government of the country. English 
a little startled: if five million Irish Home 
Rulers give so much trouble close at hand; 
what a storm might be raised by 250 000.000 
Hindoo Home Rulers away in the East. Caste, 
ignorance, and centuries of abject subjec¬ 
tion are likely to confine the agitation within 
narrow limits, however..England and 
Turkey now jointly occupy Egypt, the Turks 
being sent down to the southern border, where 
they have lately had a “brush” with the fol¬ 
lowers or the new Mahdi, whom they defeated, 
ornamenting the gates of their quarters with 
the heads of the slain . 
The Greek Chamber of Deputies, just assem¬ 
bled, have rejected the nominee of the late 
Pr unicr for President of the Chamber. M, 
Trieoupis, a former Premier, has formed a new 
ministry, whose policy will be peace. Yester¬ 
day, however, there was heavy firing between 
Greek and Turk outposts at the frontier, and 
the order to lessen the army has been coun¬ 
termanded. and troops are again hurrying to 
the frontier. No blood was shed at the out¬ 
posts, however. The Czar, now in the Cri¬ 
mea, the other day issued a “remarkable man¬ 
ifesto” to the Black Baa*fleet, reminding the 
men of their bravery in the last Crimean war, 
with Englaud, France, Italy and Turkey, in 
1853, and bespeaking a like courage in any 
future contest. That and the new Greek em- 
broglio disturb the European money mar¬ 
kets. Peace, however, is hardly likely to 
be disturbed at present . 
... Queen Christina of Spain last Monday 
gave birth to a boy baby, son of unstable 
Alphonso, who died last November, Little 
five-year-old Mercedes, who has hitherto been 
queen, will be so no longer, as a woman can 
succeed to the throne only iu the absence of 
male heirs. Much rejoicing throughout 
Spain, especially at Madrid. Some think a 
male heir will give more stability to the throne 
than a female; others say Mercedes could 
have married the son of Don Carlos, who 
claims to be the legitimate sovereign, and 
thus discordant claims would be quieted. Don 
Carlos has lately inherited $10,000,000 from 
the late Countess Do Charabord, which adds 
much to his means of asserting his claims. 
De Lesseps’s engineers are preparing an an¬ 
swer to Rousseau’s statements about tbe Pan¬ 
ama Canal. De L. insists It will be finished in 
1889, and that he can get plenty money else¬ 
where if the French Government refuses him 
permission to issue lottery bonds Franco 
lately wished to contract a loan, and small in¬ 
vestors offered 35 times the amount wanted. 
.Minister Pendleton ou returning from 
a great review of troops at Berlin, fell sense¬ 
less to the ground when told of Ins wife’s death 
here. He is “thoroughly broken down.” 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May. 22, 1886. 
Reports from different parts ol’ the dairy 
States say that several cheese factories intend 
to become creameries, as cheese has been so 
low of late aud butter-making will receive a 
boom, if Congress should tax oleomargariue. 
The makers of this stuff who, at a late meet¬ 
ing at Pittsburg, made arrangements to raise 
an enormous sum to Ue placed where it would 
“do the most good” lor their interests, are doing 
their “level best” to defeat hostile legislation. 
They have a big lobby at Washington; a “lite¬ 
rary bureau” in this city, which is flooding the 
country with pamphlets in praise of oleo and 
running down poor butter, aud they are get¬ 
ting cliques in the Roards of Trade of various 
cities to pass “resolutions” in favor of bogus 
butter. Armour got a ma jority of the directors 
of the Chicago Board of Trade to do so in the 
name of the Board, hut the members protest, 
and say that such a resolution would be over- 
whehninglv defeated if presented in that body. 
Meanwhile farmers are pouring into Congress a 
multitude of letters favoring anti-oleo legisla¬ 
tion.The Ohio legislature proposed to 
squelch the Bohemian Oat swindlers, by 
means of a bil l wMoh provided that anv ras¬ 
cal connected with the swindle should be 
treated to a free bed in the penitentiarv for 
three years, or to pav a fine of $100 to $500 or 
both, at the discretion of the court. 
To prevent the spread Of Texas fever, Texas 
and Colorado representative rangemen have 
signed an agreement by which cattle from 
Northwestern Texas, a region supposed to be 
free from fever, are allowed to use the Dallas 
trail, leading through the Cherokee Strip and 
part of the Texas Panhandle, without restric¬ 
tion: while cattle from Central Texas are to be 
Quarantined 60 days and from Southeastern 
Texas 75 days before entering the Cherokee 
Strip. All cattle are to be confined strictly to 
the trail, and to pass through the chutes built 
by the local ranchmen, so that local stock may 
be driven across the trail without risk of con¬ 
tagion.Colorado live stock journals are 
pitching into Gov. Eaton for relaxing quaran¬ 
tine restrictions against the possible importa¬ 
tion of contagious pleuro-pneumonia from the 
East.Residents of foreign countries 
now own over 30,000,000 acres of land in the 
West, mostly for grazing purposes, though a 
large share is occupied by tenants. Moreover, 
they hold a number of smaller possessions in 
the East, and some very large tracts in the 
South, especially iu Texas, Louisiana, and 
Florida_The River Platte (S. A.) is reported 
to have more thau doubled its wool clip in the 
last 20 years, and to represent now a total prob¬ 
ably equal to the entire Australian clip-In 
the nine months ending April 1, 1886, a total 
of 99,872,721 pounds of wool were imported, 
against 49.080,357 pounds in the same time a 
year before.The aggregate receipts of 
wool at Boston since January 1, 1886, have 
been 78,616 bales domestic, 48,980 hales foreign, 
against 104,034 bales domestic and 19,472 bales 
foreign for the corresponding period of 1885. 
This is a decrease of 25,418 bales domestic and 
an increase of 29,508 bales foreign. 
Exporters of live cattle are said to be losing 
money.The export trade in apples was, 
for once, unprofitable the past season. 
The world’s wheat crop of 1885 is placed by 
the Department of Agriculture at 2.098,286,759 
bushels.Considerable reduction, Mon¬ 
day, in Eastern railroad rates on flour from 
Minneapolis and St. Paul to seaboard, forced 
on roads by competition on the lakes and 
canals. Rates from St. Louis too likely to lie 
reduced to save some traffic.A report 
circulated here that the water used for wash¬ 
ing down the carcasses in Swift’s and Armour’s 
slaughter-houses in Chicago is dirty Chicago 
River water, is contradicted by the Chicago 
Health authorities, who say it is taken direct 
with a hose from au artesian well sunk on the 
premises of each, and is quite pure.. 
Changing the Key-Note. 
“A cheerful spirit gets on uulok; 
A grumbler In the mad will stick!” 
Well, that’s so. But suppose you are stuck 
in the mud by ill health, how are you going to 
get out? Suppose malaria or nervous depres¬ 
sion or physical prostration have put you into 
so deep a rut that you feel it an impossibility 
to be cheerful? There are various means re¬ 
ported, but the one which has in recent, years 
lifted the largest number of sick people out of 
the mire and placed them on solid ground of 
good health and cheerful, joyous life, is the 
Compound Oxygen treatment of Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 
who will mail to you their little book of near¬ 
ly two hundred pages free on application. 
— Adv. 
Cro^s & Htftvhcts. 
Saturday, May 22,1886. 
The outlook for breadstuffs abroad begins 
to look a little more in favor of the bulls, as 
lack of rain and continued cold days and 
nights in portions of the United Kingdom and 
ou the continent have notably delayed the 
growing wheat plant. These advices come 
from nil sources by cable, and of late by mail. 
There still appears to be some doubt us to the 
supplies prior to new-crop receipts being suffi¬ 
cient to hold prices down to late levels. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trade during the past week, says: 
The floods and snow storms during the past 
