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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. July 24, 1886. 
Out of the 5,000 Canadian volunteers who 
participated in the suppression of the North¬ 
west Rebellion, only 900 have accepted land 
warrants entitling them to 820 acres in the 
territory. Of the force, 8,500 have chosen 
scrip instead; 1,000 have made no selection, 
and according to the terms of the Bounty Act, 
can’t do so after July 81 .The famishing 
residents of Western Texas are streaming east¬ 
ward in flight from the drought, abandoning 
homes and herds to avoid starvation.. 
The Indiana Soldiers’ Orphan Home, at King¬ 
ston, was burned Wednesday afternoon—loss, 
$90,000; insurance, $25,000; usual uumber of 
inmates, 300; present, 107; restoff on vacation. 
.Wednesday, Mgr. TascheTeau was in¬ 
stalled at Quebec as a Cardinal of the Catholic 
Church, with very imposing ceremonies—the 
first Canadian Cardinal.Jay Gould has 
just watered Iron Mountain Railroad stock 
$3,000,000. and a short time ago he watered 
the Missouri Pacific §6,009,000—$9,000,000 
of “Water” on two roads iu one year. The 
“dear public” will be expected to pay solid 
interest on all that liquid addition. The poor 
railroad men will also point to the low rate of 
interest on the railroad stock as proof positive 
that railroad stock doesn't pay .Advices 
from Newfoundland say terrible distress still 
continues. Thousands are idle and petitioning 
the Government for work. The $300,000 
received by the Cherokees for grazing privil¬ 
eges, is being distributed among the full- 
blooded Cherokees—18,319—aud the amount 
due each is $15.95. The negroes and other 
adopted citizens whose claims have been ig¬ 
nored, will appeal to the courts .During 
the last week in June, there were mailed at 20 
of the leading post offices in the country 9,567,- 
649 letters; 26,464 sealed packages; 1,146,952 
unsealed; and 2,493,780 circulars—total, 13,- 
324,845. This is an increase of 21.7 percent, 
in letters; 59.3 per cent, in the number of 
sealed parcels; 40.6 per cent, in that of unseal¬ 
ed parcels; and 3.1 per cent in circulars—total, 
19.1 per cent. This increase of mail matter 
and consequent revenue is attributed to the 
cheaper postage rates. .. 
.... It is proposed to extend the Homestead 
Laws to Alaska.More legislation of a 
retaliatory nature against Canada is being 
pushed forward in Congress.Judge 
Thayer, Democrat, at Youngstown, Ohio, 
Monday, refused to grant the petition of the 
Liquor Dealers’ Association for an injunction 
to prevent the County Treasurer from collect¬ 
ing the Dow tax or attaching the penalty. Of 
208 saloon-keepers in Mahoney Co., only 10 
had paid the tax, but on Tuesday there was a 
rush to the Treasurer’s office, as it was the 
last day of grace before the adding of the pen¬ 
alty.The three convicted Milwaukee 
Raw Reds who conspired to burn the Court 
House aud incite the people to violence, have 
been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment 
each. Had their friends not threatened 
judge, jury and witnesses, the sentence would 
have been lighter.There is a great deal 
of hubbub yet about the Morrison resolution 
as to the disposal of the Treasury surplus. The 
opponents of the measure say that it repudiates 
the public debt in so far as it provides for the 
payment of a part of it in silver or greenbacks 
while the understanding has been that it is to 
be paid in gold. There wont be gold sur¬ 
plus enough to pay at the rate provided. The 
supporters of the resolution say payments will 
be made by drafts on the Treasury; these will 
be deposited in bank like an ordinary draft, 
and collected in the same way by the bank. 
In any case the proposition, they say, is to 
take the spare money in the Treasury aud 
use it in paying a part of the public debt, 
instead of letting it be idle and continuing to 
pay interest on that part of the debt. 
A. K. Cutting, an American editor, has been 
for some time confined in a loathsome prison 
at El Paso, Mexico, for the publication of an 
article reflecting on a Mexican. The Ameri¬ 
can Consul, Judge Brigham, demanded his re¬ 
lease and was ridiculed; last Wednesday the 
Consul received a despatch from Sec. Bayard 
to demand his immediate and unconditional 
release.That Mexican revolution has 
not been suppresed yet; but it amounts to 
little.Wednesday the House voted, 
145 to 36, to adjourn next Wednesday, July 
28. The Senate must concur before adjourn¬ 
ment takes place, and members protest they 
will not hurry the consideration of bills de¬ 
layed too long in the House.Vermont 
Prohibitionists nominated a straight ticket 
last Wednesday.The National Potters’ 
Association of the United States joined the 
Knights of Labor Wednesday.No 
rain in Colorado for three months; rivers are 
drying up, crops and stock, as well as fami¬ 
lies , are suffering for water. The High Line 
Ditch Company has been taking the little 
water in the Platte River above Denver, caus¬ 
ing great suffering to the ranchmen lower 
down. The Governor, however, has ordered 
the supply for irrigating purposes to be shut 
off till the domestic wants of farmers down 
the river are satisfied.The week has 
been remarkable for very destructive hail 
storms Ln various parts of the country. 
The Canadian authorities are still vigorously 
enforcing their views of the fishery laws. The 
captured fishermen have been released, the 
United States Consuls in some cases payiug 
the $400 fine imposed on each, and the owners 
in other cases, all parties reserving the right 
to contest the matter in the courts, or to re¬ 
cover the amount from the Imperial Govern¬ 
ment.Manitoba has extended mu¬ 
nicipal suffrage to its women. Within two 
years four Provinces of Canada—Ontario, 
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba— 
have quietly given a vote to “the best part of 
creation.” The Provinces of Quebec, British 
Columbia auil Prince Edward Island arc 
likely soon to follow.Troops are after 
Geroniino yet in tlie Sierra Madre—a long 
way after him. Reports of negotiations for 
his surrender denied.Canada is now 
pushing for a Pacific cable from Victoria, 
B. C., to Japan and Australia, by the way 
either of Sitka or Honolulu, and to be operat¬ 
ed in connection with the Canadian Pacific. 
Sandford Fleming has gone to England to 
interest the Imperial Government and Austra¬ 
lia.The Lake Shore Road, unable to 
transact full business with the strikes on its 
hands, aud bleeding heavily for pay of Pink¬ 
erton guards, without whom “scab” workmen 
won’t work, are seeking a way to a graceful 
back-down in their struggle with the striking 
switchmen...... 
.The Grant Monument Fund amounts now 
only to $122,472.92, The committee in charge 
of it expect Congress to appropriate $250,000 
towards the $500,000 needed, and it is hoped 
that after this has been done, the public will 
respond more liberally...A glorious 
time at Albany, N. Y., during the week. 
Grand celebration of the bi-centennary of the 
city. President Cleveland and Gov. Hill 
joined in the festivities Thursday. Greatest 
jolification the place has ever had. Multi¬ 
tudes of visitors from the adjacent country, 
and lots from a distance. Fireworks, parades 
great jubilation generally...The St. 
Louis Grand Jury has found indictments 
against five members of the House ofDoligates 
(Board of Aldermen) for drunkenness, and 
against three others for levying bluckmail.... 
... .The Chicago aldermen have done nothing 
specially disgraceful during the past. week.... 
....The New York 14 indicted aldermen have 
not yet been tried, as the District Attorney is 
waiting Jaehne’s appeal to the Courts. He is 
also trying to secure more evidence from some 
of the aldermen or the boodle-distributor 
Malony, on promise of immunity. 
.Master Workman Powderly says he 
would not accept the nomination for Governor 
of Pa., were it to come to him uuanimously, 
and were he certain of election; nor would he 
go to Congress, for if there he would like to do 
his duty as a Congressman, but he couldn't do 
that now, “as the time of a Congressman is 
nowadays devoted to place-huuting.”. 
.The new extradition treaty with Great 
Britain is now under consideration by the 
Senate Committee on Foreign Affair, and will 
doubtless be confirmed by the Senate. By it 
only four crimes are mentioned in addition to 
those for which criminals have all along been 
extradited under the treaty of 1842. These 
are: “1. Manslaughter. 2. Burglary. 3. 
Embezzlement or larceny of the value of $50 
or £10 aud upwards. 4. Malicious injuries to 
property, whereby the life of any person shall 
be endangered. The last clause is aimed es¬ 
pecially at dynamiters, and that class of crim¬ 
inals. No clause applies to crimes com¬ 
mitted before the treaty comes into force, so 
that the criminal American mob now in 
Canada and other parts of the British Empire 
are safe. Nobody Is to be extradited if he 
can prove that his surrender is sought with a 
view to punish him for a crime of a political 
nature. No one surrendered for one crime 
can be tried for another committed prior to 
his surrender, until he has had an opportunity 
to return to the State which has surrendered 
him. Convicted criminals who have escaped 
imprisonment are to be surrendered as well as 
those that are only accused, The record of 
the conviction and the identification of the 
person are alone necessary in the former case; 
but in the latter, sufficient evidence must be 
given to afford a prima facie, proof of guilt.. 
.... Boycotting has been declared a crime iu 
three States—New York, Wisconsin and Con¬ 
necticut, in each of which boycotters have 
been sentenced to imprisonment.The 
Chicago Anarchists are still on trial. Several 
of the leaders have betrayed their associates, 
and made horrible disclosures of intended 
dynamite massacre of police and the innocent 
public by these cowardly foreign miscreants.. 
....The Central Labor Union of New York 
City, representing 110,900 workmen, are 
secretly boycotting the beer made by George 
Eliret, the wealthiest brewer in the country, 
because he gave truthful evidence on the late 
trial of boycotters here, when summoned to 
do so by a subpoena, aud because they think 
he could have prevented the prosecution and 
imprisonment of their fellows. Of his custom¬ 
ers, 54 have dropped off, as the boycotters 
won't drink where his beer is sold.... .. The 
Kansas Prohibitionists take in all the reforms 
as they go along. Their full State ticket, 
nominated last week, includes a negro for 
State Auditor and a woman for Superintend¬ 
ent of Schools... 
.When Senator Miller, of California, died 
during the last recess of Congress, Democratic 
Gov. Stoneman appointed George Hearst (mil • 
lionaire Midas' to fill the vacancy, until the 
first meeting of the Legislature, which would 
naturally have occurred on the first of next 
January. The Governor, however, has called 
an extra session of the Republican Legis¬ 
lature, and the Nations l and State laws im¬ 
peratively command the election of a Senator 
at that session to fill Senator Miller’s unexpired 
term, ending March 4, next. If one is elected 
he will of course, be a Republican, and “Old 
George” must go—and that, too, after the 
passage of the Oleo Bill in spite of his 
prophecy, vote and efforts. It is thought, 
however, that as all parties wish the extra 
session, an agreement has been made to defer 
the election till January, especially as a Sena¬ 
tor con then be elected for the full term of six 
years, after the assembling of the new Legis¬ 
lature to be chosen in November... 
....The Canadian Government has decided 
not to recoguizo any Indian chosen by the 
Crees to succeed the late Poundmaker as their 
chief. The intention is to gradually do away 
with the system adopted by the red men for 
centuries of selecting as their leader auy 
brave who had especially distinguished himself 
in war. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 24, 1886. 
The latest returns from the English elections 
make out the strength of the parties as fol¬ 
lows: 
Conservatives .319 
Gladstone Liberals.192 
l.iberal-UuionlBls. 14 
Nationalists.85 
U nlonlst strengt h..393 
Homo-rule Strength. ..277 
Unionist majority.lie 
Conservative lack ol a majo lty. 15 
Gladstone has resigned; and the Queen has 
summoned the Marquis of Salisbury to form a 
Cabinet. Hartington and the other Liberal- 
Unionist leaders who were urged to join the 
Conservatives in forming a Ministry, have 
absolutely refused, so that the Conservatives, 
though in a minoity, must act alone, trusting 
to the support of the Liberal-Unionists iu the 
general liue of their policy. Gladstone is per¬ 
sonally to lead a strong, persistent Opposition 
of the Home-Rulers of all kinds. By his ad¬ 
vice, Parnell will not adopt his former ob¬ 
structive tactics in Parliament, but reserves 
full power to act as lie pleases should the Con¬ 
servatives attempt coercion. 
.There are ominous inutterings of political 
disturbances iu Ireland. The “no rent” policy 
is likely to be again adopted. Agrarian out¬ 
rages are threatened. Catholics are becoming 
bitterly exaspei’ated against the Orange mi¬ 
nority who have done so much to blast their 
hopes, Parnell and the best of the National¬ 
ist leaders earnestly urge peace and resigna¬ 
tion for a while, at any rate; but others are 
more hot-headed.There has been 
for some months in London, a grand exhibi¬ 
tion of the produce of the British Colonies 
aud India, aud vast numbers of people from 
all parts of the British Empire have been 
flocking to see it. They have been treated 
splendidly by the “classes” as well as by the 
“masses,” and Royalty itself lias deigned to 
show them numerous courtesies and marks of 
favor. Their presence lias done much to fos¬ 
ter the idea of the “confederation of the Em¬ 
pire.” Thursday a special tram carrying the 
“colonial officials” to a grand naval review at 
Portsmouth was derailed, and several “prom¬ 
inent ]>crsous” were seriously injured. 
In France, that duel (with pistols) between 
Gen. Boulanger and Baron de Lareinty, both 
proved brave soldiers, was ns harmless as 
French duels generally are. The Baron 
missed the General, and the General missed 
fire, or shot in the air—accounts, of course, 
differ. It has made Boulunger still more en¬ 
thusiastically popular among the Republicans. 
He was a colonel when fighting against the 
Commune iu ’71—a rapid rise. The Defence 
Committee, however, has voted, 14 to 3, not to 
demolish the Paris city wall, although Bou¬ 
langer was iu the minority.The French 
army is considered in prime condition for 
fighting. The Commander of the French Navy 
on Wednesday declared that in case of war, he 
would have no fear in matching the French 
fleet against that of any nation in the world— 
even the English. .. . Royalist agitation 
lively throughout France, and so turbulent at 
Marseilles that the troops had to disperse the 
rioters, capturing 200. Anarchists very busy. 
Louise Michel and several other leaders are 
again imprisoned awaiting trial for exciting 
to riot and outrage. Labor very discontented. 
. .Things quiet iu Spain, Cast!liar, the exiled 
Republican, has several times lately tried to 
cause trouble to influence the public funds, 
so that he could make nloney enough to push 
on a revolution. That’s his excuse*. The 
Chamber of Deputies has just ratified, 148 to 
10, a commercial treaty with England, and 
the prolongation of existing treaties.Iu 
Italy the cholera returns for yesterday were: 
Briudisi. 5 new cases, 1 death;Fontana, S new 
cases, 3 deaths; Latiano, 5 new cases, 2 deaths; 
Ostnni, 2 new cases, 1 death; C'odigoro, 2 new 
cases, no deaths; Massafiscaglia, 6 new cases, 
4 deaths; Comacchio, 3 new cases, no deaths. 
.In Trieste during the past 24 hours, 
six new cases of cholera and four deaths from 
the disease were reported, and in Fiume three 
new eases and one death.. . 
.... Turkey has at last decided to diminish her 
army, as danger from Russia has grown less. 
Of the indemnity imposed on her at the close 
of the Turko-Iiussian war she has just paid 
$250,000. Whenever Russia is “mad” she de¬ 
mands some of that “fine,” The surrounding 
States are discontented but peaceful—compul¬ 
sorily so. Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia 
are being consolidated in spite of Muscovite 
growls, for the Czar thinks they may form a 
barrier between him nud the Porte some day. 
Turkey has also “given permission” to increase 
the Russian fleet iu the Black Sea, and the 
Russian ports there have just been protected 
by electric apparatus placed iu the sea to des¬ 
troy hostile torpedo boats—the work of 
American engineers. The closing of the port 
of Batoiuu has drawn a “spirited protest” from 
the English Government, but it is an •‘accom¬ 
plished fact” nevertheless. The general im¬ 
pression is that the fear of Germany alone 
keeps Russia from attacking Turkey. 
...Bismarck nud Kalnoeky, the Austriau 
Minister of Foreign Afrail’s, have had a very 
friendly meeting, aud De Giers, the Russian 
Minister, is expected to meet the Chancellor 
soon. The three Emperors—of Germany, 
Austria and Russia—are to meet next month, 
and their chief Mini-tors will then have an¬ 
other meeting. The Emperors do the show 
business; the Ministers the work. Germany 
is thriving. Late elections show that the 
people of Alsace-Loraine are to a considerable 
extent becoming reconciled to union with the 
Fatherland. Military preparations for war 
are incessant. Occasional growls at France 
show in what direction it is expected. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 24, 1886. 
After a bitter opposition in the Senate 
lasting parts of three days, the Oleomargarine 
Bill passed that body last Tuesday, by a vote 
of 37 to 24, after the tax on bogus butter had 
been reduced from five to two cents per pound. 
As a body, the Democrats opposed aud the 
Republicans favored the bill, the Southern 
Democrats being especially bitter against it, 
though none of them exceeded in the bitterness 
of their attacks Republican Ingalls, of Kansas. 
He made an outrageous attack on Senator 
Miller, of Now York, and Representative 
Hatch, of Missouri, Chairmen of the Commit¬ 
tee on Agriculture iu their respective Houses, 
both of whom have earnestly and ably pushed 
the measure through Congress, thus incurring 
the wrath of the vitriolic Kansan, who fiercely 
assailed them on the ground that, they were 
working for their own interests because, in 
sooth, each had a little herd of cows nud made 
butter therefrom. Early in the history of the 
Republic, it was decidod that Congressmen 
can property legislate in matters in which 
they arc personally interested along with any 
large class of citizens. The bill then went to 
the House for concurrence in the Senate 
amendment, and after a bitter opposition there 
on Thursday, it was passed yesterday by a 
vote of 174 to 75, the Senate amendment hav 
jug tieen accepted, as Mr. Hatch feared delay 
Otherwise. Gu the passage of the bill on June 
2, the vote was 177 to 99, so that either the 
Senate amendment or the pressure of the 
people added to its strength. The bill is now 
before the President, who is expected to sign 
it. It can be passed over his veto in the 
House, but iu the Senate the majority iu its 
favor is 11 votes short of the necessary two- 
thirds..... 
Out of 119 hogs being driven to the railroad 
iu Nebraska, the other day, for shipment, 110 
died by the way from heat.Chicago 
had 290,009 cattle in two days last week. 
Short pastures are filling the market with un- 
