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HOME NEWS, 
Saturday. June 19, 1886. 
Logan is petting sarcastic on the Plumed 
Knight, “as the only politician in the country 
who is running the politics of the country just, 
now,” and “of England, too. for that matter.” 
.The Dominion Parliament is likely to 
mee* for a short session in Oct. or Nov. and 
general elections ore probable in Dec. 
....Cornell University is to have a Law 
School. Of 445 samples of spices 
examined by Analyst Wood, of Mass., 170 
were adulterated. Australia having 
failed iu the fight with her rabbit plague, an 
Adelaide University Prof, went to Europe for 
a couple of dozen affected with an infectious 
malady, intending to set them loose to spread 
the fatal disease. They died on the voyage, 
and another lot is ordered. Why not got the 
virus and inoculate Australian rabbits?. 
.The sheen butchers of this city—about 
320—are on strike for higher wages; mutton 
has gone up two to three cents a pound. 
Near-by butchers doing a “booming” business. 
Armour is expected to ship mutton heavily 
from Chicago. A large number of sheep in 
the slamrhter-housos here are dying, and still 
more suffering Severely. Green “scabs” spoil 
the pelts.The number of soldiers, 
disabled and dependent on their laboi- for sup¬ 
port, to be benefited by the new Blair Pension 
Bill, is put at 83.105. involving an aunual ex¬ 
penditure of $4,707.129.at the rate of $144 each, 
per year.. Biggest fire ever known 
there at Muscatine. la., Sunday—mostly lum¬ 
ber. 10,000.000 feet. Mrs Samuel L. 
Vining, of St Louis, is to receive from the 
Government $1,000,000 awarded by the Court 
of Claims under the terms of the French 
Spoliation Bill. The family has al ways stuck 
to the claim. Several other awards have also 
boon made. 
On complaint of the State Board of Health 
10 of the largest molasses dealers in Boston 
have been put under bail to wait trial for 
having adulterated the product with salts of 
tin—a dangerous poison.The Capitol of 
this State, as originally planned, was to cost 
$4,000,000; it lias already cost $17,000,000 and 
will cost several millions more before it is fin¬ 
ished. What do farmer tax-payers tbiuk of 
the matter?_Representative Gen, Wheeler, 
of Alabama. Jo prevent the expunging of 
his R]x*ech from the Congressional Record, 
wishes to expunge from it all the cantanker¬ 
ous things he put in it against, Stanton and 
Lincoln.Tuesday, June 11. Michigan 
was 50 years a State. Joyous celebra¬ 
tions in all towns, especially at Lansing, the 
capital, where Gov. Alger “electrified an im¬ 
mense audience” by strictures on Jeff. Davis’s 
recent utterances,. 
_That Chicago aldermanic scandal grows 
worse; but in cases of bribery it is nearlv im¬ 
possible to prove legally what everybody 
knows to t»e a fact. Yerkes and his Philadel¬ 
phia syndicate make a “cool” million by one 
stroke in the transaction—they take the $5,000,- 
000 stock of the North Side Railway Corpora¬ 
tion at 80—$4,000.000—and sell it at 100— 
$5,000,000.... Another Philadelphia syndicate 
has just got control of the forfeited Broadway 
and Seventh Avenue surface road in this city, 
and propose to ran it for themselves in spite 
of late legislation, Much complaint at dila- 
toriness of legal action iu the matter. 
The President has approved the act for the 
relief of ex-President Arthur for a deficiency 
in his accounts when Collector of this Port.. . 
Arthur is only so-so; wants to get out of the 
city; but his doctors fear ill-results.Much 
visiting and dinner giving and receiving, and 
one grand reception by the “happy couple” at 
Washington.-..... 
.... The Maine Prohibition Convention at 
Portland. Thursday, nominated for Governor, 
Aaron Clark, a prominent Greenhaekor in 
1879, a farmer, 63 years old. Delegates pres¬ 
ent, 193. representing 14 out of the 16 counties 
in the State-the largest Prohibition Convention 
ever held. Ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, 
made a rousing speech. Convention roundly 
denounced both the old parties, and urged all 
to vote the straight Prohibition ticket. 
.A reign of terror in East St Louis. No 
police; treasury empty; burglary by night; 
highway robery by day: brutal assaults nu¬ 
merous, some fatal already, others likely to 
be; women openly insulted—the place in the 
hands of ruffians. Mayor anxious to do some¬ 
thing: City Council won’t move through fear 
of the expense.The trials of the 31 An¬ 
archists indicted at Chicago will begin June 
21. The Congregational Club of the city has 
raised $6,000 for missionary work among the 
Bohemians and other non-English-speaking 
people in the city, with a view of preventing 
other outbreaks.Gordon is now 50 
delegates behind Bacon for the Governorship 
of Ga. His “brutally insulting” language in 
the joint discussions between the two has 
greatly injured him. and the discussions have 
been given un.The Supreme Court of 
Ohio has decided the so-called “rump” Senate 
which unseated four Democratic Senators 
from Hamilton Co., giving their places to four 
Republicans, was legal, and the Dow Liquor 
Law, together with the other enactments pass¬ 
ed by the “amended legislature” are therefore 
all right. Court, politically divided—three 
Republican judges for, two Democrats against. 
.Thursday the House refused not only 
to pass, but even to discuss the tariff legisla¬ 
tion as embodied in the Morrison hill. Here is 
on analysis of the vote; New England—Yens, 
3; navs, 20; not voting, 3. Middle States 
(excluding Maryland) — Ycas, 11; nays, 54; 
not voting, 4. Southern States—Yeas, 96; 
nays, 16; not voting, 8. Western States— 
Yeas, 30; nays. 58; not voting, 12. Pacific 
States—Yeas, none; nays, 90. Total—Yeas, 
140; nays, 157: not voting, 27, of whom 26 
were paired. Four Republicans voted to con¬ 
sider the bill, and 35 Democrats opposed it. 
The delegations from the following States 
voted solidly to consider the bill and therefore 
for alterations iu the tariff in the direction of 
free trade: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Miss¬ 
issippi aud Texas, The Representatives of 
California, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and 
Vermont, voted solidly against consideration. 
One Alabama Representative voted against 
the bill. New York gave seven votes for, and 
25 against. Ohio gave three votes for, and 18 
against. Pennsylvania gave throe votes for. 
and 22 against.. Richard A. Proctor, 
the astronomer and chess and whist expert, 
has come over the water to stay with us per¬ 
manently—at St. Louis or thereabouts. 
Congressman Weaver (J. B.) of Iowa, erst¬ 
while the great Greenbaeker, is ready to bury 
the Greenback organization, thinking “a great 
new political party” can be built out of the 
labor troubles .Po wderly has sent a 
“special circular” to all theK. of L., warning 
them that an effort will be made by politicians 
to capture the organization at the great con¬ 
vention to be held at Richmond. Va., in Octo¬ 
ber.A party of 10 French railway 
officials, representing every railway in France, 
are running about, the country in palace cars 
on fast time getting points for the improve¬ 
ment of their own hues, which they already 
regard as “quite Americanized”. 
_Congress has increased the appropriation 
for the Labor Bureau from $53,000 to $92.000— 
the Cleveland convention so “ordered” it. 
The Vermont Republican convention at Mont¬ 
pellier, "Wednesday, was decidedly an Ed¬ 
munds assembly—the largest ever held—630 
delegates. E. J. Ormsbee, Edmunds’ man, 
was nominated for Governor, Luke L. Poland, 
avowedly a Blaiuc man, getting only 44 votes. 
Ormsbee is 52, “a fair specimen of a Vermont 
lawyer.”.Edmunds pretty certain 
of a re-election.Vancouver, Biitish 
Columbia, terminus of the Cauadian Pacific 
railroad, was burnt Sunday—not a dozen out 
of its 500 houses left standing—its 8,000 inhab¬ 
itants homeless—loss over $1,000,000. Little 
or nothing saved except the clothes on their 
backs. Going bravely to work to rebuild the 
place.All over the country, especially 
in the large industrial centers, fervid meet¬ 
ings are being held to express sympathy 
with Irish Home Rule in the form of con¬ 
tributions toward the expenses of the ap¬ 
proaching election. The opponents of Home 
Rule have nearly all the wealth of the three 
kingdoms, and its supporters must be at a 
great disadvantage without outside aid. 
Contributions have been liberal, not only 
from Irishmen here and defendants of Irish¬ 
men, but from a great many others of 
American and other origin, who give more 
or less either for political reasons or because 
they really sympathize with this endeavor 
to free a friendly people from the oppres¬ 
sions that have tormented them for centur¬ 
ies. Liberal contributions are also sent on 
from Canada, Australia and other places... 
.., .The fishing trouble is probably over. The 
Canadian authorities have withdrawn the old 
instructions to the captains of the revenue 
cruisers and issued new ones which say noth¬ 
ing about the purchase of ice or bait, or the 
shipping of men from Cauadian ports, or any 
other ground of complaint. It merely tells 
them to see that Americans do not fish within 
the three-mile limit. It is understood the Im¬ 
perial Government insists that Canada must 
be more friendly. A mixed commission is 
likely to try to settle the fishery question 
once for all. Senator Edmunds has 
introduced, liy request, a bill to incorporate 
the Maritime Canal Company, of Nicaragua, 
to construct and operate a ship canal by way 
of Lake Nicaragua and the river San Juan. 
The principal office of the company is to be in 
New York City, and its capital stock is to be 
not less than 5<X),000 or more than 1,000,000 
shares of $100 each.The Wiscon¬ 
sin Knights of Labor have gone boldly into 
politics and will nominate a full State ticket. 
.The biggest crush’ ever seen at a 
public reception at the White House came 
yesterday to see Mrs. Cleveland in her wed¬ 
ding finery, and admire her beauty and grace. 
.Texas has been drowned and buffeted 
with rain and wind storms during the week.. 
....The Blair Educational Bill is dead for 
the session... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 19, 1880. 
Intense excitement about the approaching 
election in the United Kingdom. All the 
prominent men—Liberal. Union-Liberal, Rad¬ 
ical and Conservative—have either isuod man¬ 
ifestoes of opinions or plans, or delivered 
speeches embodying them. The “Grand Old 
Man” was never grander. By manifesto and 
speech he defines the issue as either “government 
of confidence, or government of force”— 
Gladstonism and Home Rule, or Salisbury ism, 
and 20 years of coercion. He is greatly 
helped bv the late Orange riots in Ireland (all 
quiet there now) and the extreme harshness of 
Salisbury’s late utterances. The fight is settling 
down between these two—the others getting 
dwarfed into insignificance. Gladstone has 
just made a journey to Midlothian (capital 
Edinburg) which Scotch county he represents 
in Parliament, and iu his 54 years of public 
life no such enthusiasm ever hailed him. The 
millions of Englishmen whom he has 
enfranchised are wild to help to rescue 
the millions of Irish still in distress. 
It must be borne iu mind, however, that only 
the G. O. M.’s admirers flock to cheer him; 
his opponents—aud he has lots and lots of the 
very bitterest sort — stay sullenly away. 
Throughout the United Kingdom it. is “any¬ 
thing to beat Gladstone,” whom many regard 
as a sort of “Antichrist” bound to ruin the 
glorious British Constitution and dismember 
the Empire. Yesterday he is said to have 
promised disestablishment to Dissenters if 
they help him to give Home Rule to the Irish. 
At present it is anybody’s fight—with possibly 
brightening prospects for the “Old Parliamen¬ 
tary Hand.”.In France the Assembly 
hill expelling the Princes, though amended to 
suit the Cabinet and, therefore, supported by 
it, is pretty certain to be defeated in the Sen¬ 
ate. as the committee of nine appointed to 
consider it. have reporter], six to three, against 
it. The Senate has become rather unpopular 
in Fiance of late, and antagonism here is mire 
to cause greater unpopularity, and likely to 
lead to an attempt to abolish or change that 
body.French vessels hoisted the French 
flag on the New Hebrides Islands in the Pacific; 
England vigorously but diplomatically pro¬ 
tested; France has ordered the flag hauled 
down—of course it was intended to lie only 
temporarily raised while the fleet punished 
the natives for recently massacring five 
Frenchmen.Labor troubles iu France 
are temporarily settled. 
.Ludwig, the deposed King of Bavaria, 
committed suicide by drowning himself in a 
lake near his palace prison. His attendant 
physician was drowned also either in trying 
to save him, or from remorse for having per¬ 
mitted him to dtf the deed—more likely the 
former, as there were marks on his face indi¬ 
cating that the King had struck him. King’s 
physician from birth declares he was not in¬ 
sane-only eccentric. Others say he was mad, 
and that the [condition of his brain after 
death proved it,. Ho was much beloved by 
the country folks who are wild with excite¬ 
ment and suspicions of foul play. He was 
buried Thursday. His successor is his broth¬ 
er Otho. 10 years younger—31—who has been 
insane l'or a decade. Prince Luitipold will re¬ 
main Regent, aud doubtless he or his heirs 
will succeed to the throne, unless Prussia shall 
find some excuse for annexing the kingdom, 
as she has done with so many other minor 
German powers. 
.. .Chili, although it triumphed so completely 
over poor Peru, and seized on the Terrapaca 
nitrate beds and most of Peru's guano depos¬ 
its, is not altogether happy. At the elections 
last Tuesday. 40 persons were killed and over 
100 more or less severely w’oundcd in a riot at 
Santiago de Chili. Latest advices say the 
elections are likely to favor the Liberals. 
Peru Is slowly recovering from its disastrous 
war with Chili. Caeeres, the only general who 
didn’t, surrender, was quietly elected President 
the. other day. It will take at. least a genera¬ 
tion to recover from the drubbing and spolia¬ 
tion the COUntry suffered. It is now bank¬ 
rupt, and the only hope is in foreign capital to 
develop the resources of the country and give 
employment, to the people. The fertilizer 
wealth having been lost, no convenient way 
of getting “ready money” remains. 
... .Juarez Zelman has been elected President 
of the Argentine Republic which has been 
greatly developing its resources, especially its 
yast live-stock interest, of late years. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 19, 1886. 
A Canadian bullock and heifer lately 
landed in England, weighed, together, “close 
on 6,000 pounds.”.For several weeks, 70 
ears of strawberries a day have been shipped 
from Cantralia, Illinois . 
.Three eases of death or severe injuries 
from cattle horns reported this week. It is 
thought there are at least 200 deaths a year 
from this cause in the whole couutrv. 
.The wool trade of Chicago is growing 
very rapidly... .The fee for a license 
to dual in cider, hard or sweet, at Windsor, 
111.. has been fixed at $ 1.000 a year. Evident¬ 
ly eider is not thought “harmless” there. 
_.The liquor license fee at. Joliet, Ill., has 
been fixed at $1,000.Estimated im¬ 
provements to the Duluth dock system aggre¬ 
gating an outlay of over $3,000,000. are under 
way. Going in for a big grain trade this Fall. 
. The Woman’s Silk Culture Association of 
Philadelphia. Pa., issued their sixth annual 
report 1 bursdav. It says that there is now an 
open market for the reeled silk which bears a 
value second only to the 'best, silks of Italy. 
Thera is also an outlet for waste and cocoons. 
Ninety of the 380 silk mills in operation in this 
country are in Pennsylvania. Mrs. John 
Lucas was re-electe 1 president.At, the 
great meeting of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, Florists and seedsmen in conven¬ 
tion at Washington, Wednesday and Thurs¬ 
day, the following officers for the ensuing 
year were elected:—President. C. L. Watrous, 
of Iowa; first vice-president, M. A. Hunt, of 
HI inois; secretary, D. Wil mot Scott., of Illin¬ 
ois; treasurer. A. R. Whitney, of Illinois: ex¬ 
ecutive committee, S. D, Willard of New 
York, U. B. Pearsall of Kansas, and George 
Weltz of Ohio. A resolution was adopted 
urging the passage of the Oleomargarine Bill 
pending before Congress.The third 
meeting of the Fiuit aud Vegetable Growers’ 
Association of the United States in conven¬ 
tion at Columbus. Ohio, Thursday, adopted 
the Arnold system of preserving fruits by 
evaporation. C. H. Chilcoal, of Illinois, was 
elected president... 
.Congress will not ro|>cal or reduce the 
tax on tobacco at this session.W. A. 
Boies, of Marengo, Til. the “Butter King” of 
America, and probable the largest, maker and 
dealer in butter and cheese in the country, 
controlling the production of over 20 cream¬ 
eries near Marengo, and paying nearly $500,- 
000 a year in wages, failed the other day. 
owing about $300,000. of which at least. 
$40,000 are due te the farmers and patrons of 
his factories. His assets won’t be over $64,- 
000.“Charley” Blatz, of Chicago, a 
very large cheese dealer, has “sold” his busi¬ 
ness to a young man named C. B. Mauran. 
“Charley”fowra $100.(MM), much of it to farmers 
who consigned goods to him, or sold them on 
time: his assets will proliably be not over 25 
cents on the dollar, though he claims they will 
he more.Partly owi ng to these failures, 
Hartou Gill’s, of Big Foot, near Harvard,Ill., 
operating eight cheese factories, has failed— 
liabilities—mostly to farmers—#50,000; assets 
#10,000. Almost every farmer within a radi¬ 
us of 10 miles will lose from $50 to $300. 
Crops & IHorhrts. 
Saturday, June 19. 1886. 
The first wheat of the present crop was 
offered at the Baltimore Exchange, on Wed¬ 
nesday. Grown in Rappahannock, Va., and 
sold for 80 cents a bushel—Fultz, “very green 
and wet;* a small lot.” 
Production of Minneapolis mills last week 
145,200 barrels, against 185,580 the preceding 
week, and 46,512 the corresponding week in 
1885. Flour quotations 10 cents lower than a 
week ago. 
A small, black worm, n now-comer there 
this season, is devastating onions on the fam¬ 
ous “Grayeourt” and “black dirt meadows’ 
near Middleton, Orange Co., N. Y. Whole 
fields ruined. Onion weevil also unusually 
troublesome. Usual crop 400,000 bushels ; 
hardly half so much likely this year. 
According to the Chicago Board of Trade’s 
Tuesday report,the number of bushels of grain 
in store in the United States and Canada 
June 12, and the increase OT decrease ns com¬ 
pared with the previous, were; wheat. 32,- 
458,081, decrease, 1,006.858; corn, 9,887,200. in¬ 
crease, 575,704; oats, 2,595,298, increase, 423,- 
307,; rvo, 304,328. increase, 21,535;barley, 244,- 
476, decrease, 61.569. The amount in Chicago 
elevators was; Wheat, 8,300,929; corn, 2,301,- 
885; oatB, 878,904; rye, 17,781; barley, 80,863. 
Tue Financial Chronicle, examining the 
Ag’l Department’s last cotton report, finds 
that an increase os 1.52 per cent., is indicated, 
making the area for this year 18,994,000 acres. 
The reports of condition appear to indicate a 
very hopeful-prospect, though more depends 
