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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 29, 1886. 
Ex-President Arthur is slowly, but 
steadily failing. and all his friends now hope 
is to carry him through the Summer. Lately 
he rode out in a carriage three times, but the 
consequent reaction confined him to bed for 
four days. Greatly emaciated; very feeble. 
. .OnJuly 14,18S0, Willard Eiske. a Professor 
at Cornell University, married Jennie Mc- 
Graw, a hopeless invalid, but very wealthy. 
A year later she died and he got a legacy of 
$300,000 out of her estate worth $2,025,933, he 
having agreed to make no further claim. Her 
father had given $100,000 to the University 
and she left it property valued now at about 
$1,500,000, Six months after the settlement 
of the estate Fiske went to Europe, where he 
has since remained, but employed lawyers to 
contest the legacy to Cornell on the ground 
that a clause in its charter limits its holdings 
to $3,000,000, and that it held property worth 
more than that already, therefore the legacy 
was void and he inherited as heir at law. The 
court, Wednesday, decided against him. 
.... The hostile Apaches are still murdering in 
the Southwest, and trying to get “reserva¬ 
tion” Indians to join them. Report says Gen. 
Miles has offered $50 for each Indian or bead 
of Indian and $2,000 for Geronimo or his 
head. The Government knows nothing about 
such offer, and under no circumstances would 
sanction such a barbarous warfare. Arizona- 
ians offer the reward, however, and will pay 
the bill . .. .The people of Eastern Montana 
are mad at the proposed extension of the 
Cheyenne Indian Reservation to the Tongue 
River. At present it is 30 miles long by 20 
wide, or 600 square miles, or about 385.000 
acres. There are about 700 nomadic Ohey 7 - 
ennes, who have already, therefore, nearly a 
square mile apiece—buck, squaw aud papoose. 
The extension would embrace the homes aud 
farms of a large number of bona-fide settlers, 
and would close the principal cattle trail from 
Southwestern Montana aud Northern Wyo¬ 
ming. Generosity to the red man should not 
work injustice to the white. Estimated 
by the number of names in the new city direc¬ 
tory, Chicago has now a population of 750,000. 
St. Louis sure to protest or “go 10,000 better.” 
.Representative Bland, of Mo., has in¬ 
troduced a bill to restore the income tax, 
proceeds to be applied to the payment of pen¬ 
sions. .....Zenos Fisk Wilbur, who, as 
Examiner in the Patent Office, passed Alexan¬ 
der G. Bell’s application for a patent for 
“multiple telegraphy” in 1876—original “tele¬ 
phone patent”—swears that he gave Bell 
Patent OHice secrets, especially with regard 
to Gray’s application for a telephone patent, 
and thus enabled him to improve his original 
claims, which related to telegraphy, not to 
telephony. For this fraudulent conduct 
Bell and his lawyers made him presents 
and “loans.” Bell says the story is made 
out of whole cloth... Snow to the depth of 
several inches was reported yesterday in vari¬ 
ous towns in Northern Vermont... .A 
Canadian fishing boat was seized at Portland, 
Me., for not haviug a manifest of her cargo— 
20,000 mackerel—usually not asked for though 
legally required. Captain fined $500—more 
than the worth of the boat. Fine may be re¬ 
mitted.Canada is fitting out six steamers 
and as many schooners “to protect the fish¬ 
eries.” Our Government acting energetically 
in negotiating with England. Both Houses 
of Congress have passed the Dingly Shipping 
Bill with an amendment authorizing (asking) 
the President by proclamation to deny com¬ 
mercial privileges in all our ports to the vas- 
sels of any country that denies them to our 
vessels. The “war” to be waged on the lakes 
and rivers as well as on the ocean. Exaspera¬ 
tion certain; serious trouble hardly probable. 
_A good deal of agitation in Nova Scotia, 
as elections are to be held on June 15. All 
things point to a great Liberal majority, as 
that party favors secession from the Domin¬ 
ion and direct relations with England. Some 
talk of forming a separate confederation of 
the Maratime Provinces, including Nova 
Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward's 
Island, and possibly Newfoundland. Some 
talk of annexation to the United States. 
Separation from the Dominion is what is 
chiefly desired, however... .No more tinkering 
with the tariff need be feared at this sossion 
of Congress....... v . 
.Clifton, Dak., is to have a cyclone cave 
large enough to hold the population of the 
whole town.Brooks has discovered 
another comet: six within telescopic sight 
now. Two periodic; one here last in 1815. 
Warner, of Rochester, pays $100 apiece to the 
discoverers of new comets.A $1,000,000 
fire in Chicago Wednesday—publishers aud 
lithographers the chief losers, and the owner 
of the fine six-story brick and stone building 
cremated.Indiana Prohibitionists are 
to run a State ticket, aud in convention, Wed¬ 
nesday, declared in favor of unqualified pro¬ 
hibition of intoxicants, strict observance of 
the Sabbath and woman suffrage.New 
Jersey prohibitionists nominated a State ticket 
yesterday, and are going to make a vigorous 
fight without, “entangling party alliances.”,... 
A House bill introduced Monday provides for 
the election, on the general ticket, of a second 
Vice-president to be President, in ease of re¬ 
moval, death, or resignation of President and 
Vice-president, aud to be Vice-president in 
case of the elevation, death, or nbsence of the 
latter....After all, what a sensation it 
would be should the Keely Motor turn out a 
success | Some of the reports of the late ex¬ 
periments intimate the possibility of the 
miracle,.......The Chicago Grand Jury have 
found true bills for murder, as accessories be¬ 
fore the fact, against the Anarchist leaders, 
August Spiers, A, R, Parsons. Samuel Fieldeu, 
Michael Schwab, and Herman Schnawblo. 
These are the demagogues whose vaporings 
incited the late murderous riot, in Chicago. 
The rascal who threw that bomb, which killed 
five policemen aud injured 16 more, maiming 
some for life, is in custody, and it is believed 
19 others were ready to burl a bomb apiece 
when frightened off by the premature action 
of their comrade, and t.he consequent fire of 
the police. Twenty indictments of Anarchists, 
in all. .... There’s a scheme afoot to 
connect the Delaware aud Chesapeake Bays 
by a canal 17 miles long, Baltimore subscrib¬ 
ing $500,000 of the capital stock. Au English 
company will furnish 80 per cent, of wlmt’s 
needed, if 20 per cent, is raised here. 
The estimated National revenue for the cur¬ 
rent fiscal year is $175,000,000; and the appro¬ 
priations call for $150,000,000 for outlay—only 
$25,000,000 left to pay interest on the national 
debt and to lessen the load. Revenue this 
month $16,000,000 over expenditures—there 
will probably be a decrease of $12,000,000 in 
the public debt .The Canadian House 
of Commons has given a majority of 73 in a 
house of 159 members, against the abolition of 
duties on coal and bread-stuffs, and this is con¬ 
sidered fairly indicative of the popular feeling 
on the matter. Since the imposition of the 
duties the average value of the annual imports 
of breadstuff's from this country has decreased 
from $6,676,000 in 1874-78 to $3,130,500 in 1878- 
84, while the output of the Nova Scotia coal 
mines has doubled, aud it is claimed that, 
taking an average of years, the prices of coaj 
and breadstuffs have not increased. 
_All big strikes collapsed or collapsing; lit¬ 
tle ones are likely always to be too numerous 
for mention. Largest meeting ever held of 
Knights of Labor and Trades Unions now in 
session at Cleveland, Ohio, Much disagree, 
ment aud a bitter fight between the Knights 
and the Unions as to which shall regulate 
strikes, boycotts, etc. Nothiug certain now— 
wait for a week. 
_Congress seems willing to admit the whole 
of Dakota as a State; but the House objects 
to a divlson of it into two.Jaehue, the 
boodle New York alderman, is better in prison 
than elsewhere, being “quiet, industrious, aud 
orderly” while starching shirts.The 
accumulated photographs of I tallies that have 
been uamed after the President, number some 
700, and fill three drawers in a White House 
closet..There’s a lively fight in the U, 
S. Senate over the confirmation of ex-Gov- 
Glick, of Kansas, as pension agent at Topeka, 
as the Kansas Senators are not enthusiastic in 
his favor. He’ll probably go through, how¬ 
ever.The Grant Monument Fund has 
increased very little of late, and the trustees 
make one more appeal to public patriotism. 
It is now only $121.160...It cost, this 
city $3,000 to prove Jaehne's rascality. 
., .Meetings in favor of Irish Home Rule have 
been the. order of the. day all over the country 
of late. Many of the State Legislat ures and 
municipal bodies have passed resolutions com¬ 
mending the measure aud lauding Gladstone 
for championing it. These ha ve been engross¬ 
ed and forwarded to the Old Country. James 
G. Blaiue will speak for his forefathers’ land 
at a large meeting to be held at Portland, 
Me. Governors, Mayors and other “big bugs’’ 
usually preside ou such occasions. Many of 
them care little about anything Irish, except 
the D ish vote. Thursday night Gov. Foraker 
of Ohio, presided at a monster meeting at 
Columbus.For three hours Monday 
night Toronto, Canada, was under mob rule, 
owing to a strike of street car drivers and 
conductors. Between 30 and 40 street, cars 
were wrecked and the passengers and “scab” 
drivers and conductors were pelted with 
bricks, stones and other missiles. Nobody 
seriously hurt, however....It is 
reported that the Mormons intend to boycott 
the Gentiles in Utah. . .The annual 
report of Dominion fisheries show u decrease 
of nearly $500,000 in Nova Scotia alone. The 
total value of Dominion fisheries is placed at 
$17,722,973, of which Nova Scotia is credited 
with $8,263,923, New Brunswick with $4,005,- 
430, Prince Edward Island with $1,293,430, 
British Columbia with $1,078,038, Quebec with 
$1,719,460 and Ontario with $1,342,692. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. Mav 29.1886. 
Owing to the fight, be ween the consol (dated 
cable companies and the Maokay-Bennett lines, 
the price for transatlantic cablegrams is exces¬ 
sively low—lower by far than it, ever has been 
or is likely to be again, as the present rates are 
ruinously unprofitable. They account, how¬ 
ever. for the enormous amount of foreign 
news in our newspapers of late—a quantity 
altogether disproportionate to the importance 
of the events discussed... 
Rv masterly management the “Grand Old 
Man” has obtained a much better chance of 
ultimately passing his Home Rule Bill, and 
won the name of “Old Parliamentary Hand” 
in addition to his other titles of admiration 
or affection, Bv vague promises of concess¬ 
ions to the Radicals, very positive threats 
of dissolution of Parliament, and vigorously 
working the caucus machine organized by 
Chamberlain, he lias won over all the doubt¬ 
ing Thomases, and some of the recalcitrant 
Radicals, so that it is quite likely he will se- 
oure a majority to allow the “second reading” 
of the bill. This will amount to a Parliamen¬ 
tary affirmation of the necessity of Home Rule 
for Ireland. The nature of the Rule is a mat¬ 
ter of minor importance. After the bill is 
read a second time it will probably be with¬ 
drawal till nextscssion of Parliament to allow 
time for full consideration, and to permit 
other needed legislation. If the motion for a 
second reading is defeated. Parliament is cer¬ 
tain to lie dissolved, and this will probably 
happen in any case, as it is desirable that, the 
people should have an opportunitv to express 
their wishes on such important legislation, be¬ 
fore the bill is finally acted upon in the Com¬ 
mons. Gladstone believes the people will sup¬ 
port him by giving him a handsome majority, 
and he ean then with a bolder face and stouter 
heart face the certainty of bitter opposition 
iu the Lords..... .The Greek 
army has been reduced to its original size be¬ 
fore the late troubles began. The large Euro¬ 
pean blockading fleet is to be withdrawn from 
the Greek const,, The country is staggering 
under a very heavy load of debt.. It has made 
such a rumpus, however, that, its territorial 
claims must be taken into account whenever 
the “Eastern question” comes up again. The 
scrimmages on the frontier were due to the 
action of the Turkish troops in firing on num¬ 
bers of their unpaid awl half-starved comrades 
who were desortiug to the Greeks at night. 
The latter heard the firing, and, dreading an 
attack, fired back. Then the Turks supposed 
the Greeks were attacking them, and so the 
muddle led to considerable bloodshed. About 
175 Greeks were killed and many more wound¬ 
ed—no account of Turkish loss.. 
-In France the most, significant event of 
the week is the introduction into the Assembly 
of a government bill providing for the expul¬ 
sion from France of all the descendants of 
former rulers of the country. It. is directed 
against the Orleans princes, awl especially the 
Comte do Paris, who since the death of the 
late Comte de Chambord. has been acknowl¬ 
edged by all Legitimists as well ns Orleanists, 
to lie the rightful heir to all the claims of the 
old line of French kings. Paris and the other 
large cities are still vehemently republic; but 
monarchy is becoming popular among country 
people, since.the foundation of the present 
Republic, over 15 venrs ago. t he Princes have 
lived quietly in France, awl it doesn’t, look 
well for the stability of the present form of 
Government, that its fear of their growing 
popularity should now 7 lead to their expulsion. 
Can't they “conspire” even better abroad? 
Didn’t, the boldest and most fortunate of all 
conspirators. Louis Napoleon, achieve success 
by couspiriug in exile?.. The Czar, 
in bis return to St,. Petersburg from the 
Crimea, has been feted and “addressed” at all 
important, places along the road, especially at 
Russia’s old capital, Moscow, which is intense¬ 
ly religious and per-fervid iu the belief that 
Russia should be tor Russians. The addresses 
(doubtless read privately to or by him before¬ 
hand) all expressed the hope that the cross 
(Russian, of course) would soon wove from 
the top of St. Sophia, the chief mosque in 
Constantinople, and before the Turkish con¬ 
quest, the St. Peter’s, of the Greek Church. 
The tenor of the addresses, the wild enthusi¬ 
asm that hailed them, the Russian attitude iu 
the Greek embroglio, and the lute remarkable 
manifesto of the Czar to the Black Sea fleet 
are thought a trifle menacing to the “peace of 
Europe.”. . 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 29, 1886. 
The Cauadiau cattle exported to England 
are reported to be much poorer in quality than 
those received there from this country, so that 
the advantage they have of being admitted 
into the interior, while ours are slaughtered 
at, the port,of debarkation, is to a great extent 
counterbalanced by their lack of quality. 
Canadian exporters are said to have lost a 
good deal of mnnev last year.“Winter 
cholera” prevalent in the West, is thought by 
physicians to be due to bogus butter... 
Armour <Sr Co,, of Chicago have executed a 
contract to supply the French Government, 
with 7,000,000 pounds of heel’for the French 
army, to be put up iu special cans. 
We import 16,000,000 dozen eggs a year!. 
Dr. Puaren isuo longer the State Veterinarian 
of Illinois. Pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa no 
longer exists among cattle In Chicago—cause 
and effect ?.Freight, rates ou flour from 
Minneapolis to New York have licon reduced 
to 27 1 ■{ cents per 100 pounds. They are ’25 
cents from Chicago .The French em¬ 
bargo on American pork is st ill a subject of 
mild agitation in “frog-enters’ land,” the farm¬ 
ers supporting 11 and the working people 
chiefly in cities and large town®—objecting to 
it. Petitions for and against reach the Gov¬ 
ernment, about once a fortnight..Eng¬ 
land buys $19,252,684 out of the $20.805.634- 
worth of the bacon we export; of hams, $2. 
454,980 worth of the $3,231,009; nearly half of 
the $3,402,539 of pork, and about one-third 
of our surplus lard .. ..R. Anderson & 
Co., grocers, at Stillwater, Minn., were in- 
dicted/rhursduy.for selling butterine. This i 
is the first indictment for this offense in thai, 
State. 
“ANOTHER HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.” 
In a recent number of this paper was pub¬ 
lished a reporter’s interview with Mr. Joseph 
Wild, the venerable and estimable head of the 
firm of Joseph Wild & Co., of 82 and 84 
Worth St.. New York, in which he related his 
experience in the use of the remedial agent 
known as “Compound Oxygen” administered 
by Drs. Starkey & Palen, of Philadelphia, 
which he heartily endorsed. An error in the 
heading of the article gave to Mr. Wild the 
credit of being the inventor of “Linoleum,” 
which, as the letter below will show, Mr. Wild 
hastens to disclaim. 
JosEPn Wild & Co., 
S2 & S4 Worth St. and 11 & 13 Thomas St., 
New York, May 13. 1886. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch Street., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sirs: —The article entitled “Another 
Household Necessity—Mr. Wild the inventor 
of Linoleum, notes a discovery as valuable as 
his own,” published in the Scientific American 
of May 8th, is misleading, as stating that Mr. 
Joseph Wild was the inventor of Linoleum. 
R should have stated that Joseph Wild & Co., 
82 & 84 Worth St., New York, are the 
owners of the patent in the United States and 
sole manufacturers of Linoleum iu the United 
States. Please insert the above in the papers 
that have had the mistaken advertisement. 
Joseph Wild.— Adv. 
Saturday. May 29.1886. 
Serious damage is reported by clinch bugs 
in portions of Kansas and Illiuois, esjieeially 
in Bond. Hamilton aud Riclilnnd counties, in 
Southern Illinois., and in Johnson and Os¬ 
borne Counties, Kansas. The Hessian Fly is 
also depredating there. Grasshoppers are do¬ 
ing injury in Allen and Wyandotte Counties, 
Ohio; while heavy rain storms have injured 
growing crops in parts of Ohio, Iowa and 
Nebraska. Very incouraging reports of 
spring wheat prospects from Dakota aud 
Minnesota. Very good reports of wheat aud 
corn from Ohio. Indiana reports favorable. 
In Missouri. Kentucky and Tennessee, harvest 
will begin at least 10 days earlier than usual. 
An association of wool dealers was formed 
at Boston the other dav to keep down prices. 
They say union is needed against johbers and 
large growers* who combine to put up prices 
regardless of the stocks op band. At present 
prices, a sheep turning off less than five pounds 
of pretty good wool, is wasting money, and 
should go to the butcher, Foreign importations 
are falling off foreign prices advancing. A lot 
of Australian wool in bond was sent from Bos¬ 
ton to Liverpool the other day to he sold at 
the approaching great auct ion sale, because it 
was thought prices there would be better than 
those here after paving duty. All fear of the 
Morrison-Hewitt bill is over tor this season. 
The clip here will be less than of late years; 
and prices should be profitable. No advance 
has yet. been made, however: while some 
concessions are reported. Little doing by 
manufacturers in the wav of stocking up yet; 
nor will much be done till the new clip reaches 
the seaboard in greater bulk. In the interior 
buying is only beginning to assume impor¬ 
tance. The sales of the week iu Boston were 
3,602,000 pounds, against 1,005,00 pounds last 
week, and 2.293.000 pounds in the correspond¬ 
ing week last year. 
At the end of last and beginning of this week 
a large number of Western stockmen were iu 
this city to bid for the government contracts 
for the supply of beef to the Indians on the 
various reservations. In nil sections prices 
were unusually low. The lowest bid a year 
ago on 10,000,000pounds of beef for the Indian 
Territory was $3.17 per 100; this yenr it was 
$2.64. The prices for all the other reservations 
were proportionately low. especially those for 
the other great Indian country, the Sioux 
Reservation tip in Dakota. Col. Hunter, of St. 
Louis, and R. M. Rosier, of Pa., think prices 
will bo higher this Summer than last, and that 
the low prices of the “lettings” are not a stan¬ 
dard Of the market prices. All Western Texas 
has been without spring rains; there has not 
been grass enough to fatten cattle, and not 50 
percent, of the usual number will be driven 
out ol’ this great cattle-raising section. Sup¬ 
ply smaller, therefore, and prices higher. 
Only the poorest beef goes to the government 
lettings—that from stock t hat couldn't be mar¬ 
keted else where. Russell A. Harrison, son of 
Senator Harrison, of Indiana, thinks the prices 
no indication of tile market, us bids must be 
put in long before the market prices a re made. 
Thinks the prices will be pretty fair, mid that 
the contractors will l*o kicking themselves for 
having hid so low. Mr, Denman. Colo.,thinks 
government, lettings “fairly show a downward 
tendency of range cattle.” Prices have gone 
down 20 per cent, in a month, and 50 per cent 
iu three years. Formerly, out of every hun¬ 
dred head of cattle on the ranges 75 pier cent, 
would be fattened there; now not. over 30 per 
cent, can bo so fattened. Extension of settle¬ 
ment, oto,, have so changed t he climate as to 
cause rain in the Full and Winter and not in 
the Spring over most of the country from 
Canada to the Gulf—hetiee a poor grass crop 
iu Spring, while fall rain rots the grass. The 
poorer quality of the beef is one reason for the 
downward tendency. All these men an 1 cattle 
kings. Denman thinks the wish is father to 
the thought in ease of the others who predict 
high prices. Prices of rauge cattle must affect 
those of others. 
