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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 31, 1886. 
During the fiscal year ending June 30, the 
appointments in the 53,614 Post-offices in the 
country amounted to 23,747, as follows: On 
resignations and commissions expired, 9,112— 
increase, 3,908 over the preceding year; on 
removals and suspensions, 9,566—increase, 
8,756; on deaths of postmasters, 587—increase 
during the year 175; on establishment of new 
post offices, 3,482— increase, 1,361. Total num¬ 
ber of appointments made during the year, 
22,747—increase, 13,200.Most disas¬ 
trous storm for years in Western Pennsylvania 
Monday morning; floods, crops ruined or in- 
iured, fences, trees and buildings blown down 
or swept away—loss over 9350,000.Col. 
Bolton, superintendent of second-class matter 
in the Chicago Post Office, and Chief Weigher 
Stewart, were arrested Monday for embez¬ 
zling about 9100,000 of Government money. 
Receiving, say, 25.000 pounds of newspapers, 
they charged the publishers full price (91.00 a 
pound), and reported to Washington only 
15,000 pounds, pocketing in such a case $100. 
This swindling has been going on for years, 
and was discovered by inspectors from Wash¬ 
ington. whose suspicions were first aroused by 
Bolton’s violent opposition to an examination 
of his books..... 
_The Supreme Court of Rhode Island sus¬ 
tains the constitutionality of the Prohibition 
laws.The Pennsylvania Democratic 
convention is likely to favor high-license. 
.It wasn’t Admiral Worden, of Monitor 
fame, who died, as telegraphed the other day; 
but Admiral Warden— a different hero alto¬ 
gether.There is no prospect of the 
passage of the Inter-State Commerce bill at 
this session of Congress. The Court of 
Appeals of New York, has adjourned till Oc¬ 
tober without deciding the appeal of ex-alder- 
man Jaehne—three judges were for conviction 
and three against; while one was absent. ... 
.Connecticut nominated a straight Prohi¬ 
bition ticket, Wednesday.....Wisconsin, 
Michigan and Ohio Prohibitionists have done 
likewise.West Virginia Republicans 
favor the submission of a prohibitory consti¬ 
tutional amendment to the people.The 
House has appropriated 975,000 to pay the 
Land Office special agents who have been in¬ 
vestigating land frauds. A strong movement 
was made to vote no pay; and an amendment 
to increase the amount granted to *125,000, was 
defeated. The bitterest opponents of the 
measure, and of all exposures of land frauds, 
have all along been the Congressmen from 
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Minnesota, 
and it. has been repeatedly very forcibly 
charged that some of them are interested in 
the land secured by fraudulent means. 
The House appropriated *6110,000 for national 
defences; the Senate has raised the amount to 
*6,630,000. The increase meets with wide¬ 
spread favor, as a third-rate foreign power 
could now safely bombard all our sea-coast 
cities, and exact heavy ransoms from them... 
.There’s little chance that the Senate 
will act on the new extradition treaty at this 
session—no time. A good deal of opposition 
to the “dynamiter extradition” clause has 
been developed among the Irish and Irish- 
Americans. The Dominion Government ap¬ 
proved the draft of the treaty before it was 
finally formulated, and suggested the clause 
relating to the surrender of escaped convicts. 
.Gen. John B. Gordon was nominated 
for Governor of Georgia, Wednesday, by 322 
out of 382, votes on the first be Hot. The vote 
was made unanimous, except two objec¬ 
tors. Gordon’s rival, Maj. Bacon, was exces¬ 
sively bitter and begged his followers not to 
make the vote unanimous.The Repub¬ 
lican Legislature of California, at its extra 
session which began July 20, has resolved to 
elect a successor to United States Senator 
Miller, shelving “Old George” Sheard. 
.... Prince Dom Augusto, eldest son and heir 
of the genial old Emperor Dom Pedro II. of 
Brazil, is on a visit to this country now, and 
last Monday made a trip from this city to 
Coney Island, a watering-place about 10 miles 
off, on Long Island. On his way back what 
some think was a burning bomb was found on 
the boat and thrown overboard; it is generally 
thought some one wasplaying a practical joke. 
District. Attorney Martine, however, who 
convicted the boyeotters, and against whom 
they have made violent threats, was on board, 
and some think it was intended to blow the 
vessel to pieces aud drown most of the passen¬ 
gers for his special “benefit.”. The 
trial of the Chicago Anarchists is still “boom¬ 
ing,” and exposures of their nefarious plans, 
designs and plotting are being constantly 
made by “traitorous” confederates and detect¬ 
ives who, in some cases, had been for two or 
three years trusted members of the Anarchist 
organization. It is thought the “political 
pull” of the party (reckoned at nearly 15.000 
votes in Chicago) will prevent hanging any; 
but the imprisonment of several seems certain. 
.Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, 
great on appropriations for pensions and pub¬ 
lic education, now wants an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States prohibiting, 
after A. D. 1900, the “manufacture, sale, and 
importation of distilled alcoholic intoxicating 
liquors.”.Oregon pays a bounty of 
two cents for every squirrel killed, and one 
man was recently paid for 125,000 squirrel 
tails which he had collected. 
_The Maine Knights of Labor have elected 
delegates to support Powderly at the great 
convention at Richmond, Va., in October.... 
... So many outrages on white women and 
girls have been committed of late by negroes 
in Comanche Co., Western Texas, that all 
colored people have been notified to leave the 
county at once. A few bad men are musing 
much suffering and loss to innocent darkies... 
....Ned Buntline’s estate amounts to about 
*20,000 in farm and personal property. Two 
wives claim it. He made as much as *64,000 
a year by his pen at one time. 
Chicago physicians have presented hills 
amounting to *9,528 for attending victims of 
the Anarchist slaughter at Haymarket Square 
at the county hospital..... 
_Hon. J. A. Chapleau, Dominion Secretary 
of State, in seeking re-election by the French- 
Canadians at Chambly, the other day, de¬ 
nounced Riel as a rebel, miscreant and rene¬ 
gade, and met with the fiercest opposition and 
personal threats of violence. He says he was 
offered high office and big money bribes to 
forsake his party aud lead the opposition, but 
that he patriotically refused to be “corrupted.’) 
Intense bitterness marks the election—the 
first §ince Riel’s execution. Nova 
Scotia is still insisting on “home rule” and 
trying to form a confederation of the Maratime 
Provinces. Some advocate annexation to this 
country, but the vast body of the people take 
no stock in the notion .All along 
the Northern coast of Newfoundland there is 
desperate want. The inhabitants, chiefly Es¬ 
quimaux, depend mainly on fish for a liveli¬ 
hood. For two years the .supply has been in¬ 
sufficient; and this year the coast has been 
blockaded with ice from 20 to 25 feet deep, 
and fishing has been impossible.. So 
far as heard from in July the temperature was 
below freezing point; no crops were put in, no 
fish caught, supplies always barely enough for 
winter use, were some time ago exhausted. 
The number of deaths from starvation—sheer 
starvation—is variously estimated from 1,500 
to 3,500. Some of the settlements have been 
exterminated: hundreds of bodies will not be 
found for months, if ever. Winter opens in 
September; what’s to become of any surviv¬ 
ors? The coast is not included in the Canadian 
Confederation; but private Canadians are 
sending tardy relief, as there are no public 
funds for the purpose. The distress was 
known months ago, but not the terrible mor¬ 
tality caused by it. Why doesn’t the Dominion 
settle the starvlings on its millions of unoccu¬ 
pied acres in the Northwest. 
... .What a tremendous amount of attention 
all the political papers are now giving to the 
Prohibition movement. Little county and 
town prohibition meetings are respectfully re¬ 
ported at length by big Dailies that a short 
time ago had only a few words of ridicule or 
contempt even for State conventions. 
After all the Morrison surplus resolution is 
likely to be forced through the Senate by 
outside pressure, perhaps os it passed the 
House, making *100,000,000 the limit of the 
cash to be kept in Treasury. The Senate may, 
however, increase the reserve by *10,000,000 
to *20,000,000, on the ground that the *100,- 
000,000 are held as security for the greenbacks 
in circulation; and that there should be some 
more reserve to be drawn on in case of emer¬ 
gency .Judge George A, Jenks, of Pa., 
has been nominated Solicitor General instead 
of Goode, of Va., whom the Senate refused to 
confirm. Jenks was confirmed Friday. 
....With regard to the fishery difficulty with 
Canada, Secretary Bayard has investigated 
every case of alleged seizure, and whenever 
tue facts justified such action, demands for 
redress have been made. The President has 
appointed counsel for citizens in the Canadiuu 
Courts, and has entered into negotiations with 
the British Government, which, he believes, 
must terminate in an amicable settlement 
equally just and honorable to both countries.. 
.With regard to the Mexican trouble, 
Editor Cutting has not been surrendered yet 
by the Mexican authorities at El Paso del 
Norte, Mexico. Some doubts are cast on that 
peremptory demand of Sec. Bayard for his 
surrender. It is said the Mexican Federal 
authorities have ordered his surrender; but 
the State authorities of Chihuahua refuse to 
obey—just as if Gov. Hill of New York re¬ 
fused to surrender to Canada a prisoner on 
he order of President Cleveland. Texans 
are clamoring for war, and Mexicans along 
the Rio Grande are bitterly hostile; but no 
sensible man expects anything hut a peaceful 
and friendly settlement of the difficulty. 
Other outrages by Mexicans in their present 
feverish state may, however, lead to more 
serious complications .. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 31,1886. 
Lord Salisbury has formed a strictly Con¬ 
servative Cabinet, as the leaders of the Liberal- 
Unionists have all declined to take office, 
though Lord Bartington was offered the posi¬ 
tion of Prime Minister, Salisbury being will¬ 
ing to serve Under him ns Minister of Foreign 
Affairs. It. is thought a strong Cabinet by its 
friends, and, of course, a weak one by its ene¬ 
mies. Impartial critics say it is quite strong in 
parts and weak in others; but fairly strong ns 
a whole. Here it is: Secretary of Foreign Af¬ 
fairs, the Earl of Iddesleigh (better knovyu as 
Gathorne-Hardy): Chief Secretary for Ireland, 
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) Chaucellor of the 
Exchequer, Lord Randolph Churchill, who, by 
virtue of his appointment, becomes the rec¬ 
ognized leader of the Conservative party in 
the House of Commons: Secretary for War, 
Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith; First Lord of the 
Admiralty, Lord George Hamilton; Lord 
High Chancellor, Baron Halsbury; Secretary 
for India, Rt. Hon, Frederick Arthur Stanley; 
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treas¬ 
ury, the Marquis of Salisbury; Lord Lieuten¬ 
ant of Ireland, the Marquis of Londonderry.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 31,1886. 
President Cleveland referred the Oleo 
Bill to Attorney-General Garlaud for his opin¬ 
ion as to its constitutionality. Garlaud has 
returned it, but his “opinion” is not definitely 
known. He is believed to have said that it is 
not unconstitutional, but that, he is strongly 
opposed to it as a matter of policy aud justice. 
So are nearly all the Southern Senators and 
Represenatives,among others the two Sena tore 
from his State. Some say the President will sign 
it, as he is disinclined to antagonize the de¬ 
mands of the 8,000,000 farmers ot' the couutry. 
Others say he will veto it; as his party as a 
whole, is opposed to it, and vast corporate 
interests are pressing him in that direction. 
Others say he will neither sign nor veto it. In 
that case it will become law at the end of 10 
days after its passuge by Congress, unless Con- 
gx*ess adjourns before the end of that. time. If 
he does not sign it, its friends in the Senate 
and House will prevent, the adjournment of 
Congress before next Tuesday, when it will bo- 
come law without his signature. Farmers 
are pouring in upon the President petitions in 
favor of it by thousands. We shall have 
something to say about the Bill, editorially, 
when final action shall be taken on it. 
_A special dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex., 
says many exaggerated reports have been 
sent out from North and West Texas in regard 
to the suffering of cattle from drought in 
Western Texas. Unusual droughts have ex¬ 
isted in the different sections of West Texas, 
but these have all been broken by good rains 
within the last two weeks. Moreover, it is 
said stockmen, to avoid enormous losses from 
excessive drought, drove their cattle to better 
sections. This whole report seems to us to 
be written for a purpose, and meant to de¬ 
ceive. It is against all previous reports from 
widely separated parts of the State, aud also 
against the burthen of other reports received 
within the last two days. There’s a “nigger in 
the fence” here somewhere. 
Abundant rains have put an end to the 
drought in Colorado and to no end of wrang¬ 
ling among farmers aud stockman, irrigation 
companies aud riparian land-owners. Prob¬ 
ably the next legislature will have to pass 
laws or provide for a constitutional amend¬ 
ment regulating, once for all, the subject of 
irrigation—a paramount one in that State 
where agriculture, owing to the light rainfall, 
is dependent nearly altogether for success 
upon irrigation .The crofter's (small 
tenant far-mere) of Tireo Island (one of the in¬ 
ner Hebrides), Scotland, have driven away a 
newly-settled, large furmcr, whoso fund they 
wished to divide among themselves, and fright¬ 
ened away a squad of police sent to buck him 
up. A man-of-ivar with n force of marines is 
on its way to tire Island to “make short work 
of all opposition.”.. 
It is reported that thousands of cattle and 
sheep will lie brought from Montana into Da¬ 
kota this Winter, as the grass on the ranges 
has been entirely burned out. Arrangements 
have already been made to winter 150,000 
head of cattle, and stockmen are going into 
Dakota every day in search of feed for then- 
stock .Sixteen head of cattle infec¬ 
ted with contagious pleuro-pneumonia were 
killed, the other day, near Lancaster, Pa. ... 
... .The Audubon Society is growing and new 
branches are rapidly being formed. The 
members pledge themselves not to kill or cap¬ 
ture any wild bird not used for food, not to 
disturb or destroy the nest or eggs of any wild 
bird, and not to make use of the feathers of 
any void bird as ornaments of dress or furni¬ 
ture.. . 
Watermelons have been shipped to Chicago in 
such quantities that commission dealers can¬ 
not realize enough on consignments from 
Florida to pay freight charges .The 
Secretary of the Illinois Board of Agriculture 
has received the medals forwarded by the 
Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain to 
be awarded at the Chicago Horse Show in 
September.A dispatch from Little Rock 
announces that a refreshing rain has fallen in 
all sections of Arkansas, after a drought of 
six weeks, insuring good crops of corn and 
cotton. .... 
The Fountain ol Yonth. 
In all the searches for the fabled fountain 
of youth there has been disappointment in 
the final result. This has been more or less 
keen, according to the state of health of the 
seeker. But modern scientific research has 
found a real “fountain of youth .” la Com¬ 
pound Oxygen the old ideal so long sought 
for has been found to be attainable. One who 
has tested its value writes from Waukan, Wis.: 
“I sleep better; dyspepsia is less troublesome, 
and I think I can say my heart is better. I 
am stronger, and 1 am losing that worn and 
haggard look; perhaps I may say I am grow¬ 
ing young again. It must be that Compound 
Oxygen is the fountain of youth." Another 
writes from Clinton, Mass.: “It has given me 
so much strength that I feel like a new per¬ 
son." A clergyman at Queen City, Mo., 
writes: “My wife has used your Compound 
Oxygen with the best of results. Her cough 
is not entirely removed yet, but with that ex¬ 
ception she has become the strongest and 
healthiest woman of her age in this commu¬ 
nity." The editor of The New South . W. H. 
Worthington, of Columbus, Miss., says: 
“You will doubtless remember my getting 
your Compound Oxygen for my mother (who 
is very aged) iu Fehrurary or March of last 
year, and its happy effect upon her. When I 
wrote you my mother was very low. When 
she commenced taking the Treatment she 
began at once to improve and this improve¬ 
ment was steady, She is now in good health. 
Last week she made several visits to her 
friends, walking several squares. Her restor¬ 
ation to health from the use of Compound 
Oxygen has attracted considerable attention 
in this section.” 
Curiousity as to this remedy may be fully 
gratified by any one who will take the trouble 
to write to Drs. Starkey & Palen, No. 1529 
Arch Street., Philadelphia. They publish a 
brochure of nearly two hundred pages, entitled 
Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and 
Results. This will be sent, post-paid, to any 
address on application.— Adv. 
Crops & IttfllliftS. 
Saturday, July 31, 1886. 
There is a great deal of complaint at Chi¬ 
cago about the inspection of the new winter 
wheat. It is claimed that considerable wheat 
which ought to pass as No. 2 Red is inspected 
as No. 2 Turkish, and a loss of two to three 
cents caused thereby. Receivers say that the 
hoi-vest having been completed during the 
clear hot weather, the kernel is exceptionally 
hard and dry. even the soft varieties being al¬ 
most as haril ns California samples. Export¬ 
ers and millers agree that this is not detrimen¬ 
tal to its value, but the inspectors pla.-e it in 
the same grade as Turkish wheat, which was 
intended to include the flinty varieties. Con¬ 
ferences between the parties interested and 
the Chief Inspector have not so far tended to 
remedy the trouble, which is drawing consid¬ 
erable of the trade from that city. 
A telegram last Tuesday from Canajoharie, 
N. Y., in the center of the hop-growing 
region, said: “ The last ray of hope entertain 
ed by the hop growers throughout New York 
State vanished this morning. During the 
night a heavy rain occurred. The growers 
t hought that this would have a good effect, 
hut, instead, yards which yesterday appeared 
green and healthy are now black and utterly 
ruined. Many growers destroyed their yards 
a week ago, and their example will now be 
followed generally.” 
A telegram from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Tues¬ 
day .says that most of the small grains had been 
harvested with better results than hud been 
anticipated. Wheat is better in quality than 
it has been before for 10 years, and the yield 
is equal to last year’s crop. Hay in many 
places is burned, but in others is of superior 
quality, but only about 80 per cent, of last 
year’s yield. Oats yield well, and none is poor 
er than best grade No. 2. Barley and rye also 
