THE RUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 3 
Hems of lije UH*. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 26, 1886. 
Anarchists are on trial at Chicago, Milwau¬ 
kee and St. Paul, and boycotters iu this city 
have been convicted... .The Moulders’ Union, 
over 100,060 strong, are pretty sure to join the 
K. of L.; elections in all the local unions to 
vote upon the measure........ The Edison 
dynamo and heavy electric machine shops are 
to be removed from this city to Schenectady, 
on account of the “uncertainty of labor'’ here, 
a strike in May having caused much loss to 
the Company. Over 800 skilled mechanics 
will be thrown out of employment, as only the 
best and faithfules*: are to be taken along, the 
rest of the needed help to be secured in the in¬ 
terior and Eastern cities. Several changes of 
the same kind, and for a like reason, are taking 
place elsewhere.A good deal of talk 
still, especially in Republican papers, about 
that Payne bribery case. New evidence of 
bribery said to have come to light. The Sen¬ 
ate Judiciary Committee rejjorted yesterday 
against investigating the case for lack of evi¬ 
dence of bribery of which Payne knew any¬ 
thing.. 
Republican and Democratic papers persist in 
saying there are uo Mugwumps worth men¬ 
tioning, yet what a tremendous amount of 
mentioning they give them! Is it possible 
there really are a considerable number of men 
inpractieable enough to cast their votes for 
what they deem best, outside party lines? Are 
Prohibitionists Mugwutaps?.Specimen 
strikes: plasterers at Pittsburg and Allegheny 
City for eight hours; building at a standstill. 
Switchmen nt Chicago Stock-yards for better 
pay and fewer hours; other workers attacked; a 
blockade made. The great female strike of 
10,000 shirt and collar makers and washers at 
Troy, N. Y., after lasting four weeks and cost¬ 
ing the strikers $620,000 in wages, has col¬ 
lapsed. The employers to the last refused all 
concessions, and all recognition of the Knights 
of Labor, merely promising to look into and 
discuss the work “ girls’” grievances. All the 
factories opened yesterday.Randall, 
protectionists and Morrison, free-trader, the 
Democratic leaders of the House, arc bitterly 
opyMised on tariff legislation, and Wednesday 
wrangled a good deal as to the way the tariff 
plank on the Democratic platform of 1884 
should be construed _Same day a dead¬ 
lock in the House on Morrison’s motion to lay 
a special income tax to defray the money ap¬ 
propriated in all new pension bills. Republi¬ 
cans oppose, and leave the House without a 
quorum.The President is sending a great 
number of vetoes to Congress, especially of 
pension bills—71 to yesterday.Canada 
dispatches say the Dominion will have a deficit 
of $6,000,000 this year.Brooklyn is pro¬ 
fiting largely from the East River Bridge. The 
new city directory shows an increase of 8,827 
names over last year, and an estimated popu¬ 
lation of 708,000 .... Out of 800 persons who 
celebrated the third anniversary of Pastor 
Schmitz’s ministry in the German Reformed 
Church of Pottorsville, a little hamlet on the 
Black River in Huntingdon County, N. J., by 
a picnic on Thursday week, 214 have been or 
are ill, and some of them are likely to die; 18 
are still prostrated. It is thought some wretch 
poisoned the spring during the festivity. 
The guard around Grant’s tomb will l>e re¬ 
moves! next Tuesday.Judge Poland, of 
Vermont, denies that he is unfriendly to Ed¬ 
munds. The general opinion among Republi¬ 
can factions there is to “ kiss and be friends.” 
.Catholic Archbishop Gibbons, of Bal¬ 
timore, created Cardinal June 7, received the 
insignia of that dignity last. Sunday from two 
high Papal officials just arrived from Rome. 
.The decree ol’ the Cardinal Archbishop 
of Quebec against the Kuights of Labor, 
prohibiting Catholics from becoming mem¬ 
bers, has been approved by the Pope, 
American Catholic authorities, however, think 
differently from the Canadian. Nothing 
authoritative about the Papal indorsement ... 
.Logan says he never said that Blaine is 
trying to run the politics of this country and 
also those, of Europe, or uuy words to that 
effect.It appears probable that 
there will be a very decided change in the 
President’s policy with regard to office hold¬ 
ing soon. Most of the sticking Republicans 
are likely to bo shot out. on July 1, or there¬ 
abouts. Democrats glad, for they get the 
“loaves and fishes;” Republicans not sorry, 
as every discharged person is sure to become 
a very “offensive partisan” indeed.J. 
Harris Rogers, perpetrator of doggerel and 
inventor of the Pan-Electric Telephone, ha* 
brought, suit for breach of contract against, 
Attorney-General Garland, Senator Harris, 
Indian Commissioner Akins, and Ex-Congress¬ 
man Casey Young, to whom he gave a big lot 
of stock of the company for their influence in 
starting it. He says they havn’t pushed it 
as he expected, and therefore he reclaims the 
stock; they say they are glad of the suit, as it 
will enable them “to get rid of Rogers;” and 
that it is “exceedingly absurd,” and that It. 
is mad because they “ refused to allow the 
country to be flooded with stock.” All stick 
to their stock, however. 
Nothing except preparation by the lawyers 
with regard to the Government’s suit to burst 
up the Bell telephone, which has lately gained 
three suits against infringers on its patents, 
before the United States Courts. . 
Beecher sailed for England just a week ago_ 
.............. Randall, of Pa., the anti-free- 
trade Democrat, to whose opposition the de¬ 
feat of the Morrison tariff bill is due, is pre¬ 
paring a tariff bill of his own. In it, the duty 
on wool is not lowered—Morrison had put in 
on the free list—neither is it, raised to the figures 
of 1867, as desired by flock owners; but a clear 
distinction is made between washed and 
scoured wools, so as to prevent the enormous 
frauds that have lately been perpetrated by 
wealthy importers who have been bringing in 
scoured wools as washed, so as to pay a much 
lower rate of duty. Wool and worsted are. 
put together, and there’s a new classification 
of wool. The internal taxes od tobacco and 
and fruit brandy are repealed entirely, and a 
rebate is allowed on all unbroken packages in 
dealers’ hands. Proposed reduction in revenue, 
$0,000,000,....Some postal clerks on rail¬ 
roads, chiefly in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, 
fearing they would be discharged, have been 
lately trying to induce the other railroad 
postal clerks to form a union, and strike when¬ 
ever any member should be sacked. Post¬ 
master-General Vilas heard of the move two 
weeks ago, and summarily discharged 29 of 
the scheming clerks Thursday, very little 
excuse is now needed to discharge “offensive 
partisans” _All the papers just now are 
poking fun at Midas Hearst, of California—a 
splendid miner, but a parody on a Senator... 
The French Chamber of Deputies have ap¬ 
pointed a committee of nine to investigate the 
Panama Canal before consenting to a lottery 
loan of 000.000,000 fraucs (about $120,000,000) 
which J/esseps says will be enough to complete 
it. Six are known to be against and three for 
it. The obligations thus far are $167,000,000 
(nearly all French money), and the annual in¬ 
terest charge is $6,000,000. France has so 
much at stake in the mutter already, and De 
Lessops’s influence is so great among French 
investors, that it is likely permission will be 
given to launch the loan, whatever the report 
may l»e. If not, the affair must collapse. 
AmerieunS generally think it will either 
do that in any case, or require very much 
more money and time, or a cuauge of plan so 
as to make locks aioug its course, instead 
of making it a sea-level work like the Suez 
Canal. Pacific Slope people are very anxious 
for its completion. Now, their exported grain 
has to go round Cape Horn: when built, it 
will go through the canal.Anentex- 
Presidont llayes children: Webb Is a trunk- 
maker at Cleveland, Burchard is practising 
law at Toledo, Rutherford is paying teller of 
a little savings bank at Fremont , and Fannie 
and Scott, are at school.The Senate has 
passed a bill for submission to the people of a 
constitutional amendment extending the term 
of President Cleveland to April 80. 1889, and 
providing that April 80 shall at.tlmt fcimesuper 
sede March 1 as the date of inauguration. 
This is to prevent the lapse of so long a t ime 
between the election of Congressmen 
and their entry on their duties. 
Moses A. Dow, founder and proprietor of the 
Wavorly Magazine, died in Charleston, Mass,, 
Tuesday, aged 76.The 250th anniversary 
of the founding of Providence, R. I., was 
celebrated by large processions in n heavy 
rain-storm Thursday.Mayor McLean, 
of Vancouver, British Columbia, appeals for 
his people reduced to “extreme want” by the 
late cremation of the town. Donations sent 
to him will be used “ where they will do the 
most good.”.The first caucus of the 
House Democrats wits held Thursday—all 
wanted to go home, hence an early close of 
the session probable in Congress.... The 
bill repealing the Pre-emption and Timber 
Culture Laws was passed by the Senate 
Thursday, after providing that the “holders 
of military bounty land warrants, or other 
land warrants or other laud scrip,” heretofore 
issued, shall not be deprived of their right “to 
locate such warrant* or scrip on the public 
lands of the United States,” as if the act hud 
not been passed.Contributions to the 
Irish Parliamentary Fund are flowing in 
generously from all parts of the country; 
$285,000 have hitherto been remitted by the 
Rev. Charles Riley. Treasurer of the Irish 
National League of America, and many other 
col lectors have sent more.The annual 
death rate of colored people in cities, especi¬ 
ally in the South, is much greater than that 
of whites. The ratio in Washington is nearly 
two to oue, and in Savannah it. is said to be 
122.114 in 1,000 against 12.19 for whites, while 
last year the rate; for children under five years 
is reported at 602.98 in 1,000, or over half 
those of that age. Are the health authorities 
acting fairly with the colored “man and 
brother” and his little ones?.The 
Massachusetts House killed the Senate bill in¬ 
creasing the commutation on sentences of con¬ 
victs for good behaviour as unconstitutional.. 
..The Utah Supreme Court, has decided 
that the Auditor and Treasurer of the Terri¬ 
tory appointed by the late Gov. Murray were 
validly appointed. The “overnor removed 
their predecessors because they paid the mem¬ 
bers of the Legislature after he nail vetoed all 
the appropriation hills, iu order to keep the 
hands of the “ Saints” off the money bugs..,. 
... .Gov. Penuoycr’s majority in Oregon has 
increased to 8^840—usual Republican majority, 
2,000........ The Nova Scotia secession major¬ 
ity was 12,000, in a total vote of 00,000........ 
A consultation of eminent Chicago and local 
physicians at Bloomington, Ill., Thursday, de¬ 
cided that ex-Senator and ex-Judge Davis was 
beyond hope of recovery. He died calmly this 
morning after a lethargy of 12 hours.The 
New York Times lias sent Lieut. Frederick 
Seliwatkn, the Arctic traveller, and Prof. 
William Libbey, Jr., of Princeton College, to 
explore the Southern Coast of Alaska, and 
tell the public what they discover about the 
native races and the country. 
.During the present Congress 498 special 
pension bills have passed and gone to the Pre¬ 
sident, and 111 more on the way—over 600 in 
all—nearly three times the number passed nt. 
any session since 1861. Why shouldn’t the 
well equipped, trained and expensive Pension 
Bureau have charge of all the pension busi¬ 
ness?.At Clinton, la., after a trial for 
breach of the Prohibition Law, a whiskey 
mob attacked the principal witnesses, who 
fired with fatal effects among t he crowd. For 
this two of them were jailed, and Monday 
night a mob of about L500 whiskey advocates 
attacked the jail to lynch the prisoners, The 
Sheriff’s posse opened fire on the rabble and 
after wounding four, dispersed them. Prison¬ 
ers taken for safety to State Prison, at A mi¬ 
mosa. Tuesday morning. Several other re¬ 
ports of great bitterness and much violence, 
in various places, between the opponents and 
supporters of “free rum.” .... A hugh coal 
syndicate is buying up and consolidating all 
the mines in Southern Illinois. Capital $1,- 
500.000—small operators to be frozen out. A 
uniform price of coals to be fixed. The Ells¬ 
worth Coal Co., at the bottom of it; Jay 
Gould reported to have a large fist, in the “pie.” 
.Over four months ago 1,500 stove 
moulders struck for an increase of 17 cents on 
the dollar, at Troy, N. Y., one of the largest 
stove-making centers of the country. Manu¬ 
facturers, owing to keen competition,especially 
in the West, refused. A few days ago J. W. 
Hayes, of New Brunswick, N. J.. of the Exe¬ 
cutive Board of the K. of I.., began to arbi¬ 
trate. A fter much trouble the manufacturers 
agreed to open their works on Monday at the 
old “board” scale of wages, and to pay the 
average price paid in other places. Finally, 
the men accepted. Over as many more stove 
workers were forced to be idle for over four 
months through tlie moulders’ strike. 
Benjamin Moran, late United States Minister 
to Portugal, and for nearly a quarter of a 
century Chief Secretary of the United States 
Legation In Guidon, has just died in England, 
where lie has been for some years an invalid.. 
_The edition of 825,000 of Grant’s work is 
so nearly exhausted that a new edition of 25,- 
000 is about to be published. Webster, the 
publisher, has just gone to Europe to push its 
sale there. On his return he will give Mrs. 
Grant, another check—probably for 8850.000.. 
....Stephen Kelley, a hearty veteran of this 
city, goes to Gettysburg every Memorial Day 
to decorate Ills own grave, the record showing 
ho was killed and buried there.. 
East St. Louis is still the paradise of thieves, 
burglars and thugs of all stripes—nothing 
done by the local authorities, and Gov. Ogles¬ 
by refuses to furnish militia. 
The Chinese Minister is to build a one-story 
Mandarin Palace, costing $250,000, at Wash¬ 
ington, for the representatives of the Flowery 
Kingdom.Of the 07 police officers 
present at the Chicago riot when the Anar¬ 
chist bond) was hurled among them, seven 
have died from their injuries, 16 are still un¬ 
able to leave their beds, and 18 only have 
hitherto boon able to report for duty. The 
doctors seem inclined to claim all the money 
contributed for the killed and wounded, 
though nearly all have been treated in hospi¬ 
tals and other public institutions. 
The wall-paper manufacturers’ pool “goes to 
the wall” by limitation at the end of this 
month, and there's little present prospect of 
renewing It.; hence prices of all wall paper 
are likely to drop nearly half soon, except 
those of the very expensive, hand-made sorts. 
... .The Chesapeake and Ohio road is to be 
merged into the Newport News and Mississiji- 
pi Valley line, extending to New Orleans and 
connecting with the Huntington system to 
San Francisco .Bose Elizabeth 
Cleveland goes to Chieaco to edit a literary 
paper.Congress likely to adjourn 
by July 10.The bill for the relief of 
Fltz John Porter has passed the Senate—all it 
now needs is the President’s signature to be¬ 
come a law... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 26, 1886. 
Parliament was prorogued yesterday by a 
message from the Queen, and is to be dissolved 
to-day “iu order to ascertain the sense of the 
jieople on the important proposal to establish 
a legislative body in Ireland for the manage¬ 
ment of Irish affairs as distinguished from 
Imperial affairs,” to use the words of Her 
Majesty.General elections are held here 
in all parts of tlie country on one duy; iu the 
United Kingdom some will occur every week¬ 
day from July 5 to 16, so that the result can¬ 
not be ascertained for some time. Last year 
the Conservatives seemed to sweep everything 
before them at the outset, yet they were beaten 
in the end. Never, in the history of tlie British 
Isles, has there been so bitter and passionate 
an election as the present. Gladstone appeals 
to justice, generosity and the “people;” his 
opponents to fear for the unity of the Empire, 
the spirit of domination and bigotry, class 
destination, and the immemorial prejudices of 
the English and Scotch against the Irish. The 
heated discussions on lund purchase aud land 
tenure, and the evils of aristocracy und legis¬ 
lators by inheritance, are sure to sap the pres¬ 
ent, system nf laud tenure in Great Britain and 
thedeep-laid foundation of British aristocracy. 
... .Wherever Gladstone appears, he is hailed 
with tho wildest enthusiasm by the masses, 
and with matchless eloquence and skill, 
he has placed all his opponents on the 
defensive. The latter are also fervidly greeted, 
but not by the masses. As yet it continues 
anybody’s fight; but if enthusiasm instead of 
votes won the battle, the G. O. M. would be 
the victor. 
w After all, the French Senate, unable, to with¬ 
stand Radical pressure, gave a majority in 
favor of the expulsion of the “Princes.” The 
Count of Paris has been enthusiastically re¬ 
ceived iu England, where he will reside temp¬ 
orarily. The Queen has sent him a letter of 
sympathy and the nobility and people are 
making a martyr of him. Prince Jerome Na¬ 
poleon (1 ’Ion Finn) is in Switzerland ; his son 
Victor, the recognized heir to what there may 
be for Bonaparte* to inherit, is at Brussels 
in Belgium, where ho will hold a miniature 
court. Many high French officials have re¬ 
signed as a protest against the expulsion. All 
the foreign papers say it was suicidieul folly 
for the Republic to expel the pretenders to 
the throne, as while in France they would be 
under Government supervision, all road they 
will be aide to plot iu freedom, and have be¬ 
come much morn conspicuous personages, It 
is quite possible, however, that the French 
Republic knows what is best for it.. 
There’s nothing else of general European in¬ 
terest this week. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 26,1886. 
The clipping season has been a trifle late, 
but it is now about over.A praisworthy 
strike—that, of wool growers for better prices. 
.Isn't wool-growing labor as much en¬ 
titled to “protection” as wool manufacturing 
labor!_When before did the London wool 
market give the American wool market such 
a “lift.” as this year?.If wool uianufac 
Hirers raise the wages of their hands five to 15 
per cent, is it fair to take it from the wool 
growers by trying to bear the market? Let 
the consumer pay it, as he has to do iu other 
cases..There’s u world too much glorifi¬ 
cation over the defeat of the Morrison free 
wool tariff bill; a change of nine votes would 
have passed it: but oven then it would have 
been certainly defeated or pigeon-holed iu the 
Senate_The rise doesn’t suit the commer¬ 
cial papers at all—except Brudst root's. 
London bankers are said to have advanced 
heavily on colonial wools, and will withdraw 
offerings rather than allow a decline in prices. 
...It is now understood that on and 
after July 1 the elevator charges for storing 
grain in Chicago will be reduced Ihree-quar- 
ters of a cent for the first 10 days and half a 
cent for each additional 10 days thereafter. 
The charges for switching and trimming also 
will be abolished. The effect, of the change 
will lie a reduction of 55 per cent, in the 
charges for storing and handling grain during 
the first 10 days on an average car load of 600 
bushels. This is a movement which has been 
very strongly urged for several years, and is 
regarded in the grain trade as oue of the most 
important steps taken with respect to the 
future of the grain trade in that city.. 
The 60 days’ stay granted by Sec. Lamar to 
the cattle' barons of the Indian Territory 
was up Tuesday, and Monday Gov. Jones 
Wolfe, of the Chickasaw Nation, issued a 
proclamation saying the stay was a fraud on 
the Indians and that, he will confiscate enough 
of the cattle to pay $1 a head to his people for 
flasturage du ring the 60 days, and drive out the 
others after June 24. Cattlemen are “to take 
their stock, pay the price asked for grass, aud 
at. once remove their cattle”...Three 
years uiro woodchucks became so abundant 
and so destructive iu La Porto County, Indi¬ 
ana, that the authorities offered a bounty of 
20 cents for each woodchuck scalp. The first 
year 2,875 scalps were presented; the second, 
5,640; the third, 7.871- a total of 15,886 scalps, 
on which was paid $8,177.20. Some men make 
a regular business of hunting woodchucks. 
..From March I. the total packing of hogs is 
2,205,000, against 8,110.000 a year ago—increase 
185,000 .Among the exports from 
New York last week were 1,540 live cattle, 140 
live shoe]) and 5,620 quarters of dressed 
beof. .The exports of live stock 
and dressed meats from the port of Boston 
for the English markets last week were 
719 cattle, 700 sheep and 8.881 quarters of 
beef.. Present prices of hogs in 
Chicago are 10 te> 15 cents higher than one 
year ago. Cuttle are about that much lower, 
and sheep practically unchanged. This is on 
an average of several weeks.The 
bill of Senator Edmunds relating to the inspec¬ 
tion of pol k ami bacon for export, designed to 
bo retaliatory to France and Germany, has 
passed the Senate Stock- raisers in 
the West. are incensed at the railroads for 
charging full rates on stock cattle returned to 
the country. Formerly all feeding cattle 
were carried at two-tlnrds of the tariff rates. 
.In Great Britain during the 18 weeks 
ending March 27th, 121 fresh outbreaks of 
plcuro-pneumonia were reported aud 561 cut¬ 
tle were attacked by thut disease a great in¬ 
crease over the corresponding period of last 
year, when 72 fresh outbreaks were reported 
and 214 oat tic attacked...The Treas¬ 
ury Department haa rendered a decision In 
which it is held that the provision in the “Free 
List” for animals specially imported for breed¬ 
ing purposes only applies to such animals as 
are proved b\ evidence satisfactory to the 
Colector of Customs at tho port of unporta- 
tion to especially imported for the said pur¬ 
pose, The breeding must be the special, and 
not the incidental, object of tin- importation. 
Now mules are imported “free” from Canada 
“for breeding purposes,” and the other day a 
flock of 8,000 sheep were driven across the 
Mexican line with wool on their backs, “for 
breeding purposes,” shorn aud driven 
back ugain—the wool escaping the duty 
.Lake freights from Chicago to 
Buffalo are on a basis of two-und-quarter cents 
for wheat and two cents per bushed for corn... 
Farmers of Great Britain much depressed 
over the low prices, not only for wheat, but for 
barley anil oats.While prices 
for strawberries have been universally low 
this season, there never was a year in which 
this fruit brought more money into the,, couu- 
