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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 3, 1886. 
WEDNESDAY last, June 30, was the end of 
the National fiscal year, as all government 
accounts run from June 30 to June 30, instead 
of from Jan. 1, to Jan. 1.The Treasury 
statement issued Thursday shows a reduction 
of the National debt, (less cash in the Treasury') 
of 80,061,818 for the month ending June SO. 
The receipts and expenditures for the fiscal 
year, compared with the last preceding one, 
show an increase of revenue of about $12,500,- 
000. and a decrease in the expenditures of 
about $14,500,000. Customs receipts are some 
$11,000,000 better, internal revenue $4,500,000, 
and miscellaneous some $3,000,000 less. The 
ordinary expenses are $22,400,000 leas thau 
last, year, interest is nearly $1,000,000 less, and 
pensions are $8,600,000 more. 
.The Fitz John Porter Bill which has 
passed the Senate by 30 to 17. has been signed 
by the President.The Illinois Pro¬ 
hibitionists, in their State Convention at 
Springfield Thursday, adopted a cold-water 
platform, nominated Henry W. Austin, of 
Oak Park for State Treasurer, and U. Z. 
Gilmer of Quincey for State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, appointed committees, 
and adjourned. Prohibitionists extremely 
active and independent everywhere; bclligen- 
eucy, too, is uot confiued excessively to the 
“rum interests.”. The first through 
train on the Canadian Pacific Railroad for 
fire-swept Vancouver, the Pacific terminus, 
left Montreal on Monday night, Juue 28. 
It is not improbable that the first train east¬ 
ward will bring with it a large consignment of 
tea for the Eastern States. About 100 car¬ 
loads were offered some time ago to leave Yo¬ 
kohama for Vancouver. This fact was re¬ 
cently announced by Mr. Van Horne, the 
Vice-President of the railroad, who said that 
the teas were to be carried over his line and 
distributed not alone in Montreal, Ottawa and 
Toronto, but in St. Paul, Chicago, New York, 
and the New England States. This consign¬ 
ment will make a beginning of the trade 
which the managers of the Canadian Pacific- 
hope to open up with China and Japan. The 
road will not only bind the extreme east aud 
west of the Dominion—an immense advantage 
politically—but it will help to open up the in¬ 
tervening country, and afford a passage for 
British troops on British possessions around 
the globe. It will also bring much Eastern 
trade to Canada... 
....The manufacture of rubber has increased 
enormously of late. It is now very nearly five 
times as great iu the United States as it was 16 
years ago. In 1870 our imports were only 
5,132,000 pounds, while last year they aggre¬ 
gated 24,871,000. We lead the world in the 
consumption of rubber goods, taking about 70 
per cent, of all that is produced on the face of 
the globe. There are about 30 rubber factor¬ 
ies in the United States. 
_When the Beck Railroad Attorneys’ Bill 
was referred to the Senate Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee, Senator Edmunds, Chairman, 
promised to report it for Senatorial 
action within eight days. He didn’t do so; 
but so great is the outside pressure that it will 
probably be reported after the railroad 
Senators shall have so amended it as to re¬ 
move all the “reflections” upon them, which 
they professed to recognize iu it, especially if 
in the process it is emasculated of the best 
features.Money t.o help the elections of 
Home Rule candidates in the United King¬ 
dom is being generously contributed by all 
parts of this country and Canada .. 
.Of the 214 church picnickers poisoned 
at Flemington, N. J., one has already died 
and several others are still in danger. It is 
now thought that the ice-cream, not the 
spring, was maliciously poisoned with arsenic. 
A ruau suspected, but no arrests yet. 
From present appearances Blaine and Cleve¬ 
land are likely to be again the candidates of 
the Republican and Democratic parties at the 
next election. It. is thought, however, that 
the Democratic ticket should be: “ For Presi¬ 
dent, Mrs. Frances Grover Cleveland; for 
Vice-President., Mr. Grover Cleveland, Plat¬ 
form—In Union there is Strength.” No doubt 
whatever that the union of Frances and 
Grover has added immensely to the political 
strength of the latter.Another Califor¬ 
nia petition, with 50,006 signatures, was pre¬ 
sented to Congress Monday for a law prohibit¬ 
ing Chinese immigration absolutely forever. 
The treaty with China provides that, such a 
law must not be passed, and 'one side alone 
cannot abrogate a treaty; it must run until 
its limit is reached, unless China will agree to 
the new legislation, and of course that’s un¬ 
likely.The will of Col. Folsom, Mrs. 
Cleveland’s'grandfather, was probated Mon¬ 
day. Property left among bis eight grand¬ 
children, share and share alike. Each, includ 
ing Mrs. C., will get about $20,000, instead of 
the $50,000 expected. If the property im¬ 
proves they will get more. Some Western 
land has to be held till all are “of ago.”.In 
Cuba 25,000 slaves were set free between May 
8, 1885, and May 7, 1886.The Knights 
of Labor appeal to Speaker Carlisle to urge 
the passage of the following measures before 
Congress, intimating that, as the. Democratic 
Party has a majority of “some forty” in the 
Low-cr House, it. should be held responsible if 
the bills are not passed: 1. House bill repeal¬ 
ing Timber Culture, Pre-emption, aud Desert 
Land Acts. 2. House bill for the adjustment 
of railroad and other land grants. 3. Bills 
forfeiting all railroad land grants the condi¬ 
tions of which have not been strictly complied 
with. 4. House bill organizing the Territory 
of Oklahoma. 5. Senate bill opening a portion 
of the great Sioux Reservation to settlement. 
6. Bills prohibiting aliens from holding land 
in the United States. 7. Bill making Presi¬ 
dential and Congressional election-days holi¬ 
days, and punishing bribery. 8. Bill direct¬ 
ing disbursement, of at least $200,000,000 Trea- 
ury surplus, and substituting Treasury notes 
for bank notes retired. 
, .Gov. McEneiy, of La,, appeals for help 
for the sorel}' distressed people in portions of 
the parishes of Rapides, Grant and Catahoula, 
which have been flooded aud terrihlj' afflicted 
by storms of wind aud raiu. The crops have 
been totally destroyed, cattle and hogs 
drowned, and the soil in man}' cases has been 
washed a way to such an extent that it will be 
impossible to raise crops of any kind this \'ear. 
.A resolution of the Portland, Oregon, 
Board of Trade was lately presented to Con¬ 
gress protesting against the forfeiture of the 
Northern Pacific land grant for the uncom¬ 
pleted Cascade Branch. It turns out that the 
resolution was unauthorized aud illegal, and 
it is to be expurged from the record. 
... .There’s a bill before the Senate to increase 
the atinual allowance for arming the militia 
to $600,000 from $200,000, which was fixed be¬ 
fore the year 1SL0, and is conceded to be inade¬ 
quate in 1886. The House is likely to cut it 
down to $400,000, if it gets to it before the end 
of the session.The Cardinal's cap was 
conferred on Cardinal Tascbereau at Quebec 
by the onvo}' from the Pope last Thursday. 
Cardinal Gibbous, of Baltimore, has also been 
officially invested with the insignia of a 
“Prince of the Church,”. 
_8ome 12,000 bills have been introduced iu 
Congress this season, three-fourths of which 
are House bills. Of the 8,000 introduced in 
the Senate, 448 are set down to Mr. Hawyer 
aud 447 to Mr. Blair. No other Senator is 
guilty of half so many, though Mr. Sewell 
comes up with 205 and Mr. Van Wyck with 
203. The Kansas Senators, Plum and Ingalls, 
respectively number 150 and 151. As to the 
character of these measures, Mr. Blair easily 
heads the list in the matter of nonsense. Mr. 
Sawyer’s are doubtless mostly private pension 
bills, as he acquired great distinction some 
weeks ago in preparing an unprecedented 
number within a given time for presentation 
on the part of the Pension Committee. Mr. 
Kenna, of West Virginia, introduced the 
lowest number, two, if we except Mr. Jones, 
of Florida, who has been continuously absent, 
and who has presented none at all. 
_Mr. Morrison thinks that, instead of a re¬ 
duction of $9,000,000 in the customs revenue 
estima ted by Randall to be brought about by 
his tariff bill, it would cause an increase, on 
the basis of last year’s imports, of some $5,000,- 
000. On the other hand, the loss of internal 
revenue he estimates at 836,000,000 in place of 
$20,000,000 as announced by Mr. Randall, the 
repeal of the tax on tobacco alone cutting off 
at least $26,000,000. There’s no chance of any 
tariff legislation this session anyhow; but 
there’s any amount of bitter talk about it, 
especially among the Democrats, to the im¬ 
mense joy of the Republicans............. An_ 
other Yankee fishing boat has been seized by 
the Canadians for getting ice and bait. Our 
neighbors say they have received no instruc¬ 
tions or advice from the Imperial Government 
with regard to the fishery trouble, and that 
they intend to act just as they have boeu act- 
iug.The President has approved the 
act to legalize the incorporation of National 
trades unions; the act granting a franking 
privilege to Julia Grant, and the bill to pen¬ 
sion the widow of A. A. Sernmes . 
.Assistant Sec. of the Treasury, W. E. 
Smith, of New York, has resigned, and Gov. 
Thompson, of 8. C. has resigned the Governor¬ 
ship and accepted the place, which is very im¬ 
portant during the illness of See. Mu tin ing. 
Smith goes west as chief counsel to the St.. 
Paul and Manitoba R. R.: salary $15,000 a 
year. Thompson is young (comparatively) 
and has made an excellent Governor. 
The “Breudwiuuers” wus written jointly by 
Capt. Frank H. Mason and wife, now U. S. 
Consul at Marseilles, formerly journalist at 
Cleveland, 0.—written abroad; brought oyer 
by John Hay, to whom the clever work was 
oredited.A good deal of disgust is 
reported at Amherst, Mass., over the shelving 
Prest. Greenough, of the Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. He didn’t resign; nor was he removed; 
he simply failed to he re-elected... 
Extraordinary romancing is telegraphed from 
Southern Dakota about an extensive military 
organization bent on setting up an independ¬ 
ent State.A part of last week and the 
whole of this have been consumed in trying to 
get. a satisfactory jury to try the Chicago 
Anarchists. These have just made the con¬ 
venient discovery that, the rascal who threw 
the bomb was killed the next day in n struggle 
with a policeman.The striking Chicago 
switchmen, backed up by the stockyard meu, 
have been riotous several times during the 
week. Several traius on the Lake Shore Road 
derailed; others forced through under heavy 
guard of Pinkerton policemen and Others. 
Considerable firing, and storms of stones. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 3, 1886. 
The elections now going on in the United 
Kingdom are holding a dominant place in the 
attention of all English-speaking people, and a 
prominent place in that of all Christendom. 
The issue is now substantially narrowed down 
to some sort of Home Rule with land laws 
favorable to landlords under Salisbury, and a 
definite form of Horne Rule with land laws 
favorable to tenants under Gladstone. Already, 
87 Members of Parliament have been elected; 
most of whom were unopposed, and the 
majority of such are Conservatives. Of these, 
52 are Conservatives, 10 Liberal-Unionists, 17 
Gladstonlana and eight Pamellites. Thu Lib¬ 
erals who do not favor Gladstone, generally 
do not vote iusteadof voting for his opponents. 
At the last election, the Conservatives started 
ahead in the same way, but were finally de¬ 
feated. The cries now are, “The masses 
against the classes,” on the Gladstone side, 
and “The safet}' of the Empire,” on the other. 
The anti-Gladstonites have hitherto won two 
seats, but the Home Rulers expect to get 20 
majority. The contest is extremely close, and 
both sides are fighting hard and well. It is 
still “an} r body’s battle,” but the results of to¬ 
day’s elections will indicate which side is likely 
to win. The first battle of the “masses," the 
poor, undisciplined, semi-ignorant masses, 
against the wealthy, trained, cultured “classes" 
is an up-hill fight, and with a divided Liberal 
party, it will be a glorious victory if Glad¬ 
stone wins, and no shame whatever if he fails. 
In France the expulsioh of the Princes still 
continues to cause a great sensation. The 
Orloanists, Legitimists aud Bonapartists are 
combining against tbe Republic. The Count 
of Paris’s manifesto, in which he boldly ns- 
serts his rights to the throne, is held to prove 
the justice and expediency of the expulsion. 
The Republicans threaten to confiscate the 
property of the exiles, if they prove trouble¬ 
some. Most of it is, however, invested in 
foreign secutities, or so disposed of that it 
would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, 
to touch it legally.The organization 
and movements of the French army are very 
active of late, as if some new step were con¬ 
templated. All the equipments, etc., are 
overhauled and put in prime order, all officers 
furloughed or detailed on special service have 
just been ordered to join their commands. 
General Boulanger, Minister of War, is very 
lively and energetic. Is it all tlirough fear of 
a monarchical uprising, or on account of the 
late growls of Germany at French intrigue 
aud hostility: or through some secret, arrange¬ 
ment with Russia, which of all the European 
Powers would lie most likely to side with 
France or seek French aid in a conflict with 
Germany and Austria, which are pretty cer¬ 
tain to act together i n the next war. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 3,1886. 
Owing to heavy elevator charges on grain 
iu Chicago, there was ouch danger of much of 
the grain trade going elsewhere that a change 
was mode which went into effect on .July 1, 
which cheapens the cost of handling grain for 
direct shipment, fully 50 pur cent. This ag- 
gregate of saving includes a remission of the 
charge hitherto made for switching the cars 
of Eastern lines to the elevators for loading, 
and the smaller fee for distributing the grain 
evenly in the car.... 
An immense swarm of June bugs settled down 
on Pekin, IU., Monda}' evening. Millions of 
them flew against an electric light on a street 
corner and were burned to death. Five wagon 
loads were gathered up afterwards from the 
ground beneath the lights, and t hrown into the 
Illinois River. Gen. Boulanger, French 
Minister of War, having purchased foreign 
oats for the use of the army, was called to task 
in the Chamber of Deputies Thursday. He 
said the supply of French oats was insufficient, 
and that foreign oats were cheaper and more 
suitable. The Chamber declared, by 273 to 
263 votes votes, that it was convinced the Gov¬ 
ernment should henceforth give contracts to 
French farmers whenever it is possible to do 
so.. ..Some time ago the Penn. State 
authorities thought they had stamped out con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumouia amoug cattle in 
Lancaster Co.; but it has again broken out 
virulently among the herd of Henry Bend, of 
Turkey Hill, near Lancaster—affected animals 
killed.The Collector of the Customs at 
Corpus Christi, Texas, reports that a total of 
32,884 sheep were imported from Mexico into 
Texas from January 1 to March 31, of which 
30,144 were admitted free “for breeding pur¬ 
poses,” and every one of them had a heavy 
fleece. None will be admitted hereafter unless 
careful investigation proves that they are 
imported specially for breeding, iu which case 
they ought to be choice animals.The 
appeal of the Penn. Agricultural Society to 
the Legislature for State aid to get rid of its 
$25,000 debt, having been received unfavor- 
ably, it. now asks subscriptions from 500 
“prominent Philadelphians”... 
_The Senate Committee on Agriculture has 
reported favorably, with substantially no 
alterations, the House Oleomargarine Bill. 
Action will la* urged upon it as soon as the 
pressure of appropriation bills is over. Some 
say it will be talked to death by the Senate on 
motion to refer it to the Judiciary Committee. 
Others say it will lie amended so as to reduce 
the five-cent tax to three cents, and then 
passed: but even then the President’s action 
is considered doubtful. 
Wlirre Florida Failed. 
One of the favorably known merchants of 
New York—one who has been planted and 
rooted for a long time in the same place—Ls 
Mr. J. H. Johnston, jeweler, of No. 150 Bow¬ 
ery, New York, where he has been established 
over thirty years. 
Mr. Johnston has one of the cosiest subur¬ 
ban homes in the vicinity of New York, situ¬ 
ated at Mott Haven, just across the Harlem 
River, in the northern part of the city. His 
wife is a most estimable ]ad\% and is known as 
a writer of marked ability. Those who see 
her now, in the enjo 3 r ment, of excellent health, 
would hardly suppose that four years ago she 
was an invalid wavering between the love of 
life and a constant prospect of death. To one 
of our correspondents who visited her Mrs. 
Johnston said: 
“When I went to Washington to attend the 
inauguration of President Garfield I was ex¬ 
posed in stormy weather and caught a severe 
cold. It. settled on my lungs, producing seri¬ 
ous results, among which were an obstinate 
cough and sharp pains in my lungs. Mr. 
Johnston became alarmed and took me to 
Florida the following winter. I was by this 
time unable to sit up for a moment, and was 
with great difficulty conveyed to the steamer; 
overhearing the remark from a bystander, as 
I was being transferred from the carriage to 
ni} r birth, 'there goes another to he. brought 
back in a bo.r.' , The sunny' days partially re¬ 
stored m}' health, but on the approach of win¬ 
ter again my cough increased and strength 
vanished. My appetite was entirely' gone. I 
swallowed food in dail}' decreasing quantities, 
and from a sense of duty only. Still, I fought 
the idea that I had entered on the decline that 
ends in death. 
“I had heard of Compound Ox}'gen aud I 
determined to investigate it. My husband 
and I went to Philadelphia to learn its merits 
at headquarters. Dr. Starkey examined me, 
told me what I already realized, namely, that 
my case was a serious one and that, unless the 
hemorrhages were checked I would not live 
over three months. I was deeply impressed 
with his earnestness. I tried the Compound 
Ox}'gen at once aud found a prompt benefit.. 
This increased daily and the cure eventually 
proved permanent. I was inspired with an 
enthusiasm for life to which l had long been a 
stranger. The weary, nervous depressions to 
which 1 had yielded gave way to sunshine and 
hope. The pain in my longs gradually faded 
away and the severe aches in my side no 
longer afflicted me. M}* sleep, before restless, 
became even aud quiet. Shortness of breath 
was succeeded by a facility for using the full 
breathiug power of my lungs. My capricious 
appetite became a natural one, and l began 
once more to enjoy life. Though I believe 
myself cured, I exercise care iu avoiding ex¬ 
posure to colds. I always keep the Compound 
Oxygen in the house and take it on the slight¬ 
est provocation, It. always act* beneficially. 
“I ascribe my cure to Compound Ox}'gen 
alone, as I took no other medicine, and the 
weather prevented any out-of-door exercise. 
However I never used it according to direc¬ 
tions, but in sudden attacks of congestion or 
threatened pneumonia have taken it as it 
could be inhaled, every few minutes until re 
lieved from the pain aud suffocation, and 
when able to live in the sunshine took the 
Compound only before retiring. I really 
believe it is the remedy for all lung diseases, 
and you are at liberty to use my name iu 
recommending it ,”—Adv 
