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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 12. 1886. 
The returns for the election just held in 
Oregon summarized nre as follows: The Re- 
publieans re-elect Herman to Congress hy 1.000 
plurality, and also elect their candidates for 
Secretary of State. Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, and Public Printer. The Demo¬ 
crats elect their candidates for Governor, 
Treasurer, and Supreme Jndge. As Governor, 
Secretary of State, and Treasurer constitute 
the board for the management of all State in¬ 
stitutions. the Democrats will have control of 
the State n(fairs for the next four years. 
McBride (Rep.), for Secretary of State, has 
400 pluralitv. and Strain (Don.), for Supreme 
Judge. ISO plurality. The official figures will 
not change the result. The Prohibitionists 
polled about 2,000 votes. Oregon has always 
been reckoned a Republican State; but the 
poliev of the Republican party on the Chinese 
question has worked a partial revolution. 
_The Ohio Dnw Liquor Law is sure to cause 
great excitement in every township. The 
Cincinnati Police Commissioners pushed a test 
case through the Common Pleas and Circuit 
Courts without the knowledge of rum-seller or 
newspaper, and is is now before the Supreme 
Court. Tf the newly imposed tax isn’t paid by 
June 20, the County Treasurers are compelled 
to colleetit by execution.... ....The Chicago 
Times charges that £127,000 were divided on 
Mondav evening among less than 20 aldermen, 
as a bribe, by the North Chicago Passenger 
Railway Company for permission to do as it 
may please in the streets through which its 
lines run. Price per alderman, “low-down” 
£1.500 and under: “respectable,” £8.000; 
“high-toned,” £10,000 and over, Charles J. 
Yerkes. President of the bribing road, was con¬ 
victed of stealing a check for £33.048,50 in 
Philadelphia in I873,and sentenced to the pen¬ 
itentiary for two years and six months, but 
was pardoned after seven months for political 
reasons.Land Commissioner 
Sparks has appointed “Captain Jack” Craw¬ 
ford, of New-Mexion. custodian of the aband¬ 
oned Fort Craig Military Reservationiu New- 
Mexieo vice R. A mi.jo, resigned. It is under¬ 
stood that Crawford will soon join General 
Miles, as chief of scouts, in his campaign 
against the Apaches. Miles telegraphs that 
for 36 days his forces have been nninteisn.it- 
tinglv pressing hard upon Geronimo’s band, 
and must soon kill, capture or drive them into 
Mexico. In this time, however, the red devils 
are known to have killed 13 scattered herds¬ 
men, prospectors and settlers; how many 
more will never be known till Judgement 
Day.There is a rumor that 
a syndicate of European capitalists are to buy 
the Sandwich Islands for £10,01)0,000. The 
king “is not adverse” so long as he secures 
most of the money.Monday at 
the Local-option elections in N. C., the Prohi¬ 
bitionists carried 12 out of 21 towns reported. 
.Minister Winston, lately sent to 
Persia, lias urgently pressed his resignation, 
which has been accepted- Infinitely prefers 
Chicago to Teheran.Senator 
Blair’s Pension Bill provides for a uniform 
Pension of £12 per month for all Union ex¬ 
soldiers and sailors of the ate war now unable 
to maintain themselves—no distinction as to 
rank. Likely to pass if there’s time. 
_The Senate has passed the bill appropri¬ 
ating £150.000 to indemnify the Chinese for 
the Rock Springs, Wv„ massacre and outrage; 
also a bill to legalize National trades-unions. 
_ The House has passed the bill repealing 
the Pre-emption, Timber Culture and Desert 
Land Laws, by a vote of 183 to 40. Many 
protests from the Far West, especially from 
Kansas; but they were thought to be mainly 
from land-grabbers, their attorneys, agents or 
henchmen. . ........Senator Dawes 
wants to issue £30,000,000 in £1 bills and £35,- 
000,000 in ?2s to relieve the present scarcity 
of small bills. They are to be in place of hills 
of larger denominations. There are now only 
about £18,000 in ones, and about the same in 
twos.Representative Judge 
Kelley, of Philadelphia, has deservedly lashed 
Representative Gen. Wheeler, of Alabama, 
for having inserted in the Congressional 
Record, a bitter attack on the late Edwin M. 
Stanton, our tremendous War Minister, in a 
speech supposed to have been delivered in the 
House; hut which was never made there. 
.Congress will hardly adjourn before the 
latter part of July. The Mass. 
Senate has passed a bill increasing the allow¬ 
ances for good behavior on sentences of jail 
birds. On all sentences of a year or longer, 
it takes off two months for each of the first 
two years: four months for each of the third 
and fourth years; and five months for each 
succeeding year. It is to be retroactive so as 
to be [applicable to convicts now in prison. 
Aren’t judges who think a criminal really de¬ 
serves a long punishment, likely to take the 
probability of such liberal commutation into 
account in passing sentence, by adding con¬ 
siderably to the term?. 
... .The fishing difficulty still continues, with 
greater vigilance on the Canadian side, and 
greater exasperation on the American. The 
latter are not allowed to fish within three 
miles of a line drawn from one headland to 
another: while they insist they have a right 
to fish within three miles of the coast, in bays 
or outside. Mackerel fishing is now the best: 
and mackerel schools run mostly inside the 
“three-mile limit”—poor luck, therefore, for 
Yankee fishers. Canadians are allowed to 
import, duty free, fresh fish for immediate 
use, sounds, etc.: but the Boutello Bill now’ be¬ 
fore the House, imposes a tax on these, and 
our fishermen insist, that it should be passed 
at once. There is less disposition now’ than 
ever in Congress to form a new reciprocity 
treaty with the Dominion.Much distress 
among the coasting population of the Mara- 
time Provinces from being prevented from 
selling bait, ice. etc., to Americans, Negotia¬ 
tions between the American and Imperial 
Governments necessarily slow, but friendly... 
.Col. Richard M. Hoc, who revolution¬ 
ized the printing press, died at Florence, 
Italy, Monday. Born in New York Septem¬ 
ber 12. 1812; studied a little at school, but got 
a thorough knowledge of practical mechanics 
in his father’s machine shop. Perfected his 
rotary press in 1848—the basis of all improve¬ 
ments—could print 10,000 copies an hour; now 
every rotary press can print 30,000 to 
25,000 copies an hour. 
..Mr. Bod well, Blaine’s candidate, received 
the Republican nomination for Governor of 
Maine. Thursday, by 882 votes against 201 for 
Dr. Hamlin Mr. Bodwell is 08, and very 
rich, though in 18S4, he was a farm laborer at 
£0 a month. For a dozen years he has 1 icen 
quite noted as an importer and breeder of 
thoroughbred cattle. Blaine is now consider¬ 
ed to have fairly entered the field as Repub¬ 
lican candidate for the Presidency in 1888. 
There’s no doubt he has the strongest follow¬ 
ing; but is it stronger than that of all other 
prospective candidates combined? Is he the 
man that would have the best chance of get¬ 
ting elected? These are the questions puzzling 
politicians.President and Mrs. Cleve¬ 
land on the day of their marriage sought re¬ 
tirement, in a nice cottage at Deer Park, Mary¬ 
land, where they remained quietly, receiving 
a few friendly visitors, until lust Tuesday, 
when they reached the White House in the eve¬ 
ning. Since then they have bee_n living the 
lives of ordinary folks, he attending to his offic¬ 
ial and social duties: she to household mat¬ 
ters. receptions, etc. The amount of gush and 
jenkinsism expended on the marriage in the 
papers has been simply nauseating,. 
..Ex-President Arthur is still only so-so- 
no better or worse: confined to the house. 
.There seems to be a good deal of rivalry 
or disagreement between the Democratic lead¬ 
ers, Randall and Holman, in the House, and 
it is likely to hamper or block much legisla¬ 
tion.“Maxwell.” alias “Brooks,” the 
murderer of Pretler, in St. Louis, over a year 
ago, has been convicted of murder in the first 
degree, but is seeking a new trial—likely to 
swung, however, and very justly, too. 
Sec. Manning has gone to the Hot Springs, 
Ark.Dakota is getting over her craze 
for dividing the Territory, and would like to be 
admitted as one big State. If this desire had 
come earlier she would probably have got in; 
but it is now so late in the session that her 
admittance this year is doubtful.The 
Rhode Island Legislature refuses to legislate 
or remove from office the obnoxious Chief 
Constable, Bray ton. After all the talk he is 
bound to do his best to show’ he can do the 
square thing, and enforce the law.. .All 
over the country the Prohibitionists are taking 
an unusually active and prominent part in 
political warfare, aud generally act independ¬ 
ently of the other parties. Republicans are 
considerably disturbed, as the great majority 
of the prohibition vote will leave their party. 
Many attempts have been made to compro¬ 
mise matters, but generally in vain. 
Never w’as there a hotter fight than that be¬ 
tween Gen. Gordon and Maj Bacon for the 
Goveruship of Georgia. Hitherto the Major 
has secured more delegates than the General, 
and many of his prominent supporters say if 
the latter carries the convention, they’ll bolt.. 
.Canada will continue to pay a bounty of 
£1.50 a ton on Canadian pig-iron made from 
Canadian ore till July 1, 1889, and give £1 a 
ton for three years thereafter. . 
.... Sunday last. Catholic Archbishop Feehan, 
of Chicago, confirmed 117 convicts in the dec¬ 
orated chapel of the State Ponetoutiary, Joliet, 
ip...Gov. Hill has signed the bill 
which adds 500 men to the police force of this 
city, making the whole number 3,250. Patrol 
w’agons are also to be introduced. Increase of 
city, aud danger Horn strikerB.aad Anarchists 
justify the measure. A Wash¬ 
ington fund for buying Mrs. Hancock a home 
now amounts to £10.000.The 
valuation of New’ York State has increased 
£275,000,000 during the past year, or about 
nine per cent., and now’ amounts to £8,200,- 
009,000; the total tax for State purposes was 
£9,536,000...The police of East 
St. Louis have all—14—been discharged, being 
accused of being in league with a gang of pro¬ 
fessional burglars to rob the city treasury, n 
hank and the stores and homes of the wealthi¬ 
est citizens...Prince Augusto 
Leopold, heir to the Emperor of Brazil, 
arived here the other day. and is to see a good 
deal of the country, as his genial father did a 
few’ years ago. .The Senate elec¬ 
tion Committee find the report of the Ohio 
Legislative Committee on the election of Sen¬ 
ator Payne so empty of facts to show corrup¬ 
tion that they have unanimously decided that 
nothing in it calls for an inquiry—there has 
been too much flinging of dirt in this ease — 
_A Territorial form of government is being 
urged for Alaska, by Gov. Swineford of that 
place. No one can buy a foot of land there, 
and wood for the mines can be got only by 
stealing. House Committee on Territories 
hesitates on account of the policy to he adopt¬ 
ed towards the Indians there.. .Litchfield, Ct., 
was almost entirely cremated yesterday. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 12.1886. 
The second reading of the Home Rule Bill 
was defeated early Tuesday morning by 30 
majority in the House of Commons. The 
majority w r as not expected to he over 1 (I either 
way. Doubtless some members, finding the 
bill would be defeated anyhow, voted to in¬ 
crease the majority in the hope that if it 
were large, Gladstone would not care to dis¬ 
solve Parliament and appeal to the country. 
This he will do, however, as soon as the press¬ 
ing business is over—probably about June 29. 
The next Parliament will then be ready to 
assemble about the middle of July. 
.The Conservatives, under Salisbury; 
Liberal-Unionists, under Hartington: and dis¬ 
gruntled Radicals, under Chamberlain, will 
aid each other wherever possible to defeat the 
Liberals under Gladstone. All the most 
libera] contributors to election expenses are 
on the side of the Opposition; for the aristoc¬ 
racy and plutocracy of great, Britain and the 
landlordism of Ireland arc bitterly opposed 
to Homo Rule, while Gladstone trusts mainly 
to the democracy of the United Kingdom for 
victory. Last, year he secured an increase of 
over 2.000,000 m the number of voters, all 
among those whose poverty had deprived them 
of suffrage, and though these have not yet 
been properly registered, most of them are 
likely to support him.England is in no 
position to have Ireland an enemy in the rear 
as she faces Europe at present. War in the 
East may break out any day. Russia has 
lately appropriated a large slice of Persia ad¬ 
joining Afghanistan, which was lately con¬ 
quered by England, and whose king is a paid 
English puppet. Russian railroads are being 
pushed rapidly to the Afghanistan frontier, 
and in any trouble with England the Czar 
could send an army by land into India much 
more easily than England could send one by 
sea. The wretched Hindoo ryots, or peasants, 
are holding vast secret assemblies, aud defy 
the best Government detectives to discover 
w’hat’s up. A “home rale” agitation is grow¬ 
ing in India, aud discontent is increasing on all 
sides. It is feared Russia is secretely foment¬ 
ing the trouble. England's influence is weak¬ 
ened in peace by Ireland’s discontent, and her 
power would he crippled in war by Irish tur¬ 
bulence or rebellion,... 
.Parnell in his sjjeech in Parliament, 
charged that a member of the Conservative 
Government told him at the last election that 
the Conservatives would give Ireland Home 
Rule in return for Irish votes at the polls, 
and the Earl of Camavon, then Lord Lieuten¬ 
ant acknowledges that he made such a prom¬ 
ise. Much rejoicing among the Home Rulers. 
.One of the strongest objections to Home 
Rule was the fear of handing over poor Prot¬ 
estant Ulster to the tender mercies of an Irish 
Parliament This will lose much of its force 
owiug to the turbulence of Protestant mobs in 
Belfast, and Lurgan during the week, especial¬ 
ly in the former head-center of Orangism. An 
absolute reign of terror has prevailed there. 
Fierce mobs have assaulted prominent Catho¬ 
lics, wrecked and plundered over 150 private 
houses, demolished several liquor stores aud 
made hogs of themselves on the contents. 
They have assailed and several times defeated 
"the police, wdio, on different occasions, w’ere 
forced to fire among them. Cables say 15 are 
known to have been killed, and over 100 
wounded among the mob, and many of the 
police have also been injured. Magistrates, 
clergymen, the riot act, aud all other authori¬ 
ties and laws have been fiercely defied, aud 
the nights have been made hideous and the 
days terrible by “the scum of Belfast.” 
Now’ the mob is still riotous, but troops patrol 
the streets; the police have received strong 
reinforcements from Dublin, and for the pres¬ 
ent further outrages are impossible, but the 
mob threatens to take vengeance on the police 
and Catholics when outside aid is withdrawn. 
It must bo remembered that nearly half the 
population of Ulster is Catholic, and that the 
Parucllites elected a majority of members of 
Parliament for the province at the last election. 
Fears are felt that the Catholics, Who are en¬ 
ormously in the majority in the rest of Ire¬ 
land. will retaliate on local Protesteuts; but 
their leaders seem to possess great power over 
them and are using it to preserve a very politic 
peace. As the defeated party, they have a 
better excuse for turbulence. 
In the French Chamber of Deputies, the ex¬ 
pulsion of the Princes was voted by a large 
majority yesterday. The “chief pretenders” 
are to be expelled at once: and it is left, to the 
Government’s discretion to exile at any time 
any other obnoxious members of the Oilcans 
and Bonaparte families. The bill will go to 
the Senate Thursday, and will probably be 
passed by June 22, so we may have the royal 
and imperial aspirants to the French throne 
here before long. Having made an inglorious 
peace with Madagascar, and a not very honor¬ 
able one with China, France is now seeking 
an extension of territory by seizing upon some 
islands in the Paeifie; but England and Ger¬ 
many are watching her movements closely 
there. Labor troubles temporarily quieted: 
strikers resuming work. 
King Ludwig II of Bavaria, whose crazy 
vagaries and crack-brained extravagance have 
for*years been the shame aud distress of his 
people, and the wonder and amusement of the 
rest of the world, was deno ed on Wednesday 
bv his Uncle Prince Luitpold. wdio has pro¬ 
claimed himself Regent. Army. Court and 
people consent King, locked up in one of his 
multitudinous palaces, refuses to surrender. 
Will be allowed his past, income, and all the 
honors, but none of t he powers of a king. He 
is 41 and unmarried: his uncle 64, married and 
the father of eight children. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 12, 1886. 
In 1884 there were 37,334.900 sheep in New 
South Wales, but owing to the drought of 
that year the number was reduced to 31,660,- 
321. The current year it is thought will show 
an increase.Importations of foreign 
wools into Boston since Jan. 1 have inci’eased 
over 100 per cent.; receipts of domestic wool 
have fallen off over 21 per cent-Texas wool 
is said to have improved so much of late years 
as to be equal to Australian, and Texan wool 
growers are advised to hold on to their wool 
for good prices. The wool growers of Eastern 
Ohio have “resolved” that 35 cents is a fair 
price for their wool, and have, therefore, 
fixed that price for the present clip. 
The entire fruit crop of California is expected 
to bring to that State an aggregate of £100,- 
000,0001.American corn is delivered in 
England at 00 cents per bushel!..There 
are now in the 1J. H. about 20,000 flouring 
mills with a yearly capacity of 500,000,000 
barrels—nearly seven times the requirements 
of home and foreign demands.Recent 
public sales of Short-horns in Engluud have 
ranged from £80 to £160 per head. 
..A disease like the “black rot,” of the sweet 
potato is playiug havoc with Irish potatoes in 
Southern N. J., Eastern Del., and the “river 
line” counties of Pennsylvania—attributed to 
wet weather.California expects the 
largest grape crop in her history. Gov. 
Stoueman, Thursday, telegraphed See. Man¬ 
ning urging him and the whole Administration 
as well as the California Senators and Repre- 
senntives, to aid the passage of the “wine bills” 
now before Congress, as the proposed remedial 
legislation is of paramount importance to the 
greatest interest of the State. 
Crops & iVlavkfts. 
Saturday, June 12, 1886. 
The weather in the United Kingdom has of 
late been favorable to grain crops, hence 
prices have been very low. Flour fell 12 
cents per barrel this week. British importers 
are buying nothing beyond enough to till im¬ 
mediate demands. Latest cables say the 
wheat harvests in South America, India and 
Australia are “up to anticipations.” A short 
time back the anticipations portended short 
crops. Do ilii< cablegrams mean they are not 
short? Very heavy imports of Indian corn 
of late into England aud the Continent. On 
Friday, wheat In Loudon fell l '.j to 3 cents 
a bushel, aud Indian corn % to l' a cent. 
The June crop report of the Dep. of Ag¬ 
riculture, a summary of which was tele¬ 
graphed from Washington yesterday, makes 
the area of spring wheat nearly the same as 
last year—about 12,000,000 acres. There is an 
increase of one-sixth of last year’s breadth in 
