HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 14, 1886. 
The import duty on canned mackerel has 
been raised from 20 to 100 per cent, ad valorem 
by the local custom-house authorities at Bos¬ 
ton. The case is to be appealed to the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury. In view of the small 
catch of mackerel by American fishermen, 
this is an important matter. It is a blow at 
Canadian fishermen and at American fish con¬ 
sumers .For some weeks there has been 
a strike or lockout at the immense pork-pack¬ 
ing establishments of John B. Squires, at East 
Cambridge, near Boston. The men wanted 
better terms; and Squire would not tolerate 
the K. of L. or any other labor organization, 
as they were likely to ruin his business by fre¬ 
quent strikes and incessant growling. The 
men (about 4,0001 all returned to work Tues¬ 
day last on better terms; but they had to treat 
not as an organization, but individually, so 
Squire gets all he wanted, and the men nearly 
all they wanted.. The Standard Oil Company 
has leased 2,000 acres in Northern Pa., extend¬ 
ing along the natural depressions from Corry to 
Eri e _ a p ar t of a scheme to monopolize all the 
available gas and oil lauds in the country.... 
.... Of the Canadian Volunteers against Riel 
only about 900 have taken land warrants en¬ 
titling them to 880 acres of land in the North¬ 
west territory, while 3.500 have preferred to 
take scrip worth only 880. Nearly 1,000 of 
those entitled to scrip or warrants have ap¬ 
peared for neither. The issue of land warrants 
closed on July SI; but the men can still take 
scrip... 
_At the annual session of the Grand Army 
of the Republic at San Francisco the other 
day, a resolution in favor of pensions for all 
surviving soldiers of the late war was voted 
down by a majority of four to one, as a simi¬ 
lar motion had been at the meeting of last 
year.Workingmen have no reason to 
find fault with the session of Congress just 
ended. It passed every labor measure pre¬ 
sented to it. It passed au arbitration bill, it 
prohibited the importation of contract labor, 
prohibited the contraction of contract labor 
in Federal prisons, snd ordered an investiga¬ 
tion of convict labor in the prisons of every 
State and Territory, as a basis for future 
legislation .... Of the 4,0<X> men who went 
on a strike on the Gould system of railroads 
in Missouri, it is said that only 200 have been 
re-employed. .. 
....A rich oil belt has been discovered at 
Livermore, Cal.... It is said large numbers of 
Chinamen are continually entering the United 
States over the Mexican border, in violation of 
the law... Arrangements are being made at the 
Treasury Department for a large call of bonds 
in a few days, in addition to the usual monthly 
call of 84,000,000 to meet the requirements of 
the sinking fund. The amount will probably 
be $10,000,000.... In an election, Tuesday, 
Jackson, Miss., gave 300 majority against 
prohibition, but the county was carried by 
the Prohibitionists by 800 majority. That’s 
the tale nearly everywhere—the towns vote 
for ram or high license; the country for local 
option or prohibition... 
The Audubon Society was duly incorporated 
under the York State laws last Saturday... 
_The Blaine fight against Edmunds in Ver¬ 
mont, in spite, of the late declaration of the 
Republican State Convention in the latter’s 
favor, still continues. Nominations for the 
Legislature are now being made—for 80 Sen¬ 
ators and 240 Representatives—and the Blaine- 
Smitb men are doing their level best to secure 
anti-Edmunds nominations. Edmunds still 
ahead, however.In Tennessee, the Re¬ 
publicans nominated the Hon. Alfred Taylor 
for Governor on June 15, and Thursday the 
Democrats nominated his brother, Robert L 
Taylor, now Pension Agent at Knoxville, for 
the. same position, while the Prohibitionists 
propose to nominate the father of both these 
men as their candidate. Good for the Taylor 
family!.... . .*• 
Japan having recently voluntarily surrend 
ered a fugitive from justice to the State of 
California, the American and Japanese Gov 
ernments have negotiated a very complete ex¬ 
tradition treaty, which was sent to the Senate 
by the President June 9. The treaty was ne¬ 
gotiated by ex-Gov. Richard B. Hubbard, of 
Texas, our Minister to Japan, and Count 
Inouye Kaoru, the Japanese Minister of For¬ 
eign Affairs. This is the first extradition 
treaty ever negotiated between an Asiatic and 
a civilized power, and marks the highest ad¬ 
vance yet proposed by our Government, 
which has always been highly favorable to 
extradition .The law requires the Treas¬ 
ury to purchase each month $2,OIK),000 worth 
of silver and coin it into as many silver dollars 
as it will make. In June, the average price 
paid for silver was 98.77 cents per ounce, and 
§2,000,900 worth of silver produced in silver 
dollars §2,617,981. This gives an intrinsic 
value per dollar of 76.42 cents. The intrinsic 
value of a §10,000 greenback, however, is a 
mere trifle; but the credit of the United States 
makes it worth its face value in gold—so say 
the “silver men.”..... 
The National Association of prisoners of war 
meets at Buffalo, August IS and 19. It is 
claimed 100,000 were at one time or another 
prisonei’s. Only 22,000 survive; of these, 
11,000 can’t get pensions. 46,000 are said to 
have died of exposure and starvation. 
The people of Georgia, in the October election, 
will be called upon to vote on a constitutional 
amemlment. authorizing the Legislature to 
pension Confederate soldiers . 
. .The President signed the River and Har¬ 
bor Improvement Bill on the ground that the 
amount, §14,473,000 was moderate, being the 
smallest for some years, and upon the assur¬ 
ance of Gen. John Newton, the Chief Engineer, 
that if the appropriation failed, it would re¬ 
quire $500,000 to keep important works from 
deteriorating. Gen. Newton assured the 
President that, all the appropriations in the 
bill were for meritorious works, except per¬ 
haps in the case of 18 items, for which the 
sum total did not exeeed 1 per cent, of the 
whole appropriation. Others do not agree 
with this view, but anyhow it has lately 
become too much the custom to vilify Con¬ 
gress and those in executive places for nearly 
everything they do or do not do. 
..Daniel Magone, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., 
55 years old, of Irish descent, and a lawyer 
by profession, has been appointed Collector of 
Customs at this port to succeed Hedden, re¬ 
quested to resign—one of the most important 
appointments in the whole country owing to 
the immense amount of patronage at the dis¬ 
posal of the Collector Prof. Foster, meteor¬ 
ologist, Burlington, la., predicts that one of 
the greatest storms in 188(5 will begiu August 
16 and continue till August 27, during which 
time the great drought mil be broken by 
heavy rains, hail, tornadoes, and heavy gales. 
He predicts a tropical hurricane on the south¬ 
east Atlantic coast between tbe 10th and 20tli. 
These storms will be general, and Iowa, Illin¬ 
ois, New England States. Eastern Canada, and 
Labrador will lie in the danger path. Vivid 
sun-spots are predicted from the 1 stli to the 
20th, and brilliant auroras on the 20tli and 
23d Has the Onion as well as the Dominion 
a Wiggins ( .. | have 
... Ex-Gov. W. Stevenson, of Ky., died at his 
home in Covington, the other day, aged 73. 
Had been an able lawyer, member of both 
branches of the Legislature, Lieut. Gov,, Gov., 
means a good one, and it’s a pity such a fuss 
should be made over a fellow of that sort. 
The Chief of Police at Piedras Negras lias been 
acquitted for the killing of Basures. It seems 
he was given in charge of a deputy to 
be carried up • country, tried to escape 
and was shot. It is now alleged he was 
not an American citizen; but be was well 
known as a horse thief and a worthless des¬ 
perado. Very contradictory reports from 
all along the border about almost everything. 
A great deal of excitement along the Rio 
Grande and Texas, and volunteers offering 
themselves “ for the war,” from Buffalo to 
collection of the best early autumn fruits and 
vegetables for the great Colonial Exhibition 
now delighting and instructing London and 
the rest of England. The first shipment will 
ho made Sept. 23, from the Industrial Show at 
Toronto, and the Horticultural show at Mon¬ 
treal. The second shipment will be made 
Sept.. 80, from the Provincial Fair at Guelph, 
aud the Dominion Exhibition at Sherbroke. 
All the Euglish papers are enthusiastic over 
the maguificent display of raw and manu¬ 
factured mineral and vegetable products 
made by Canada at the Colonial and Indian Ex¬ 
hibition—the Colonind, as it called, for short. 
Ban Francisco. The Southern States, espec- .The Winnepeg Packing and Provision 
tally Texas, are hot for hostilities. Not much 
fear of war, however, unless the countries are 
dragged into it by border adventurers, 
speculators and desperadoes. European and 
American speculators in Mexican lands aud 
mines would make millions by the apprecia¬ 
tion of property they bought for a song, if 
their section of Mexico wore annexed to the 
United States, and they are trying to bring 
that about. The Mexican Government is act¬ 
ing well, and in any case arbitration must be 
Compauy has applied for incorporation. It is 
to go into the pork and dressed beef packing 
business, and wants a bonus of §10,000 from 
Wiunepeg for starting there—entire capital, 
§75,000. Unless a packery is started there 
soon, some other place is likely to get ahead, 
as there will he plenty of stock soon in the 
Canadian Northwest.According to 
carefully prepared estimates, the sugar crop 
of Cuba amounts to 661,697 tons against (531, 
9(57. Bad weather spoilt the June estimate of 
tided before war.'. . 700,000 tons in ’85.. .Pleuro-pneumoniahas 
_Mrs. Robinson, arrested at Somerville, 
Mass., on a charge of poisoning her son, is 
now suspected of having caused 100 deaths 
during the last four years, including husband, 
children and other members of her own fam¬ 
ily. The insurance on their lives, in which 
she was interested, was generally the cause... 
.. .A portion of the New Orleans Exposition 
Building, falling, killed one man aud seriously 
injured others, yesterday.Cardinal 
Taschereau, of Quebec, has sent a circular 
letter to the bishops of his Province announc¬ 
ing that the Roman See has finally condemned 
appeared among another herd of cattle in 
Manor Township, near Lancaster, Pa. Dr. 
Bridges, of Philadelphia, State Veterinarian, 
Wednesday killed four head on the farm of 
Cyrus Matin and inoculated the remainder of 
herd. The other herds iuefeted are improving. 
... .Up to date fully 3,000 cattle belonging to 
intruders have been driven from the Chicka¬ 
saw Nation, Iudiau Territory, by the police. 
A large number of intruders who made a pre¬ 
tense of selling to the Indians to enable them 
to keep their stock in the country have been 
compelled to take their herds and go. The 
the Order of the Knights of Labor. Indians who attempted to shield them have 
Secretary Whitney has ordered the construc¬ 
tion of the most highly powered cruiser in the 
■world...The long drought in por¬ 
tions of the West was yesterday broken by a 
storm that did much damage to property and 
worked serious injury to the crops.A 
telegram as we go to press says the forest fires 
been placed under arrest. 
Commissioner Colinan lias appointed his 
predecessor, the Hou. George B. Loring, of 
Massachusetts, to represent the United States 
at the exhibition of the American Perckeron 
Horse-breeders’ Association in Chicago, Sep¬ 
tember 6.Wily farmers in Litchfield 
in Michigan aud Wisconsin are abating. | County, Ct., it is alleged, are having more 
than two tons of oleomargarine sent them 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 14,1886. 
From last Saturday to Thursday, very 
disastrous riots raged in Belfast. There 
been 42 known deaths, and over 300 
people have been treated for severe injuries in 
the hospitals, besides a great many more at 
their own homes. The number of deaths and 
injuries wall never bo known, as both parties, 
, , ,, , TT o whenever possible, hide their misfortunes, as 
Member of Congress and U. S. Senator. I , * . ., ,, ■ 
the knowledge of them would gratify their 
. .Very likely Sec. Mailing will resume his 
official duties in Oct.—steadily recovering 
. .The Prohibitionists of N. C. are about to 
nominate a State ticket.The anti 
riparian party which induced Gov. Stoneman 
to call the extra session of the California Leg¬ 
islature has failed to carry one point in its 
program—the Legislature refuses to reorganize 
the Supreme Court. It is hoped to secure re¬ 
lief from the Court’s decision by special leg is 
lation. Geronimo and his Apaches 
are being bard pressed by Capt. Lawton's pur 
suing force in the Sierra Madres Mountains, 
One of his roving bands recently attacked a 
wagon train near Ures, Mex., and killed the 
Mexican teamsters and two wood choppers. 
The country for miles around has been terror¬ 
ized by bis depredations. The Mexican troops 
are co-operating with the American forces in 
pursuing the hostiles 
. .Samuel J. Kirkwood, the “War Governor” 
of Iowa, has consented to become a candidate 
for Congress in the Second District of that 
State.Leading Knights of Labor 
are discussing the propriety of reorganizing 
the management of the order. The plan 
most favored is to give Mr. Powderly, or who¬ 
ever may be at the head, the privilege of se¬ 
lecting the members of the General Executive 
Board. Tbe matter will be considered at the 
Richmond convention in October. Here the 
K. a fortnight ago ordered out all the trade 
union cigar makers who refused to give up 
their Unions altogether and become Knights 
exclusively. Some belonged to both Unions 
and TV ,hut all—over 5,000 “went out” as the 
manufacturers preferred to deal with the K 
who promised to fill the places of the “outs.” 
This they have been unable to do, and the 
Unionists are returning to work on their own 
terms. In a great number of other cases also 
the K. are getting the worst of it; for of late 
the “striking" and “boycotting” faction has 
been coming prominently to the front, aud 
employers and public are getting “tired” of 
their tyranny. After all, if public opinion is 
against them, their ultimate ruin is certain. 
Editor Cutting is still in prison at Paso del 
Norte. He is held for circulating the libel in 
Mexico, not for printing it in Texus. He has 
been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and 
a fine of §600, with 100 days’ extra imprison¬ 
ment if it 
opponents. The town has about 175,000 Pro¬ 
testants to 50,000 Catholics; but though the 
former are undoubtedly most to blame, both 
parties are at fault. In addition to the late 
reinforcement of constabulary, 500 fresh 
policemen have been sent there from other 
parts of the island. The reinforcements are 
chiefly Catholics, and the Belfast Protestants 
hate them worse even than they hate their 
Catholic fellow-townsmen. Over 5,000 troops 
patrol the town, disperse mobs and try to 
keep the peace. Government is to make in¬ 
quiry into the trouble, The Magistrates are 
87 Protestants to 11 Catholics, and the major¬ 
ity decides, aud Catholics say they are treated 
very unfairly. 
.In England Parliament has been pro¬ 
rogued to September 19. Lord Salisbury 
intimates coercion for Ireland. The Conser¬ 
vatives are preparing a Home Rule Bill for 
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, leaving 
each to take care of its own legislation, while 
the General Government will act like Congress 
here. The federation of the United Kingdom 
and all its colonies is gaining headway, and 
this is a move in that direction. 
_When a Member of Parliament accepts 
office under Government he has to be re-elect¬ 
ed either by his former or some other constit¬ 
uency. All the Conservatives who took office 
have been re-elected without opposition at the 
polls.Cholera is growing more vio¬ 
lent than of late in Italy. At Trieste 17 new 
cases yesterday aud live deaths; 131 new cases 
and 63 deaths at BarletUi; 3(5 new cases and 
nine deaths at Ravenna, and 61 new cases and 
80 deaths in other parte of the country. 
The Emperors of Germany and Austria-Hun¬ 
gary have had a three-days’ interview at Gat- 
sein, hut the Emperor of Russia was absent, 
and Russia is very much displeased because 
Germany backs up Austria in checking her 
designs on Constantinople, and war may show 
her displeasure at no distant day...... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 14,1886. 
According to the Alexandria Produce As¬ 
sociation’s Report, the cotton and com crops 
of Egypt are an average, hut two weeks late 
from New York every week to be used in 
adulterating butter.Rainy weather in 
Russia is rotting the grain in the fields, and the 
crop outlook is bad... 
For 15 points in the West and Northwest, the 
records of the Signal Service show an average 
of (5.53 inches of rainfall during May, June 
and July of this year. The average of tbe 
same points for 11 years past, is 12.52 inches 
for those three month. The supply of moist¬ 
ure this Summer, thus far, has been but very 
little more than half the average of the season. 
.Tlfc watermelon crop of the South 
will hardly he very profitable this year. Last 
year’s crop was very profitable, and a large 
increase was made in the area ; hence the over¬ 
supply now, and melons often don’t pay 
freight and charges. South Carolina alone is 
expected to send over 8,000,000 melons to this 
city, besides loads to the West, and other sec¬ 
tions ... 
... The wheat crop of France is estimated at 
106,000,000 hectoliters against 210,000,000 in 
1885’. 
Restoration of HonrittK. 
Do you hear well? If not, it will be inter¬ 
esting to read what several patients have to 
say of how their hearing was improved: 
A gentleman in San Fraucisco, Cal., who 
had for a few months used Compound Ogy- 
gen, wrote as follows: “My left ear had al¬ 
ways been to me a useless organ. Yesterday 
I made several prolonged tests on the tele¬ 
phone. Although formerly I had been unable 
to bear at all in that ear, / am now able to 
hear in it more distinctly than in my right 
ear.” 
A patient at Indianapolis, Ind., writes: “I 
have used three-fourths of the Compouud Oxy¬ 
gen you sent mo, and have derived much ben¬ 
efit. My catarrh 1 think about cured, and my 
hearing has also been benefited.'" 
A physician of Shreveport, La., says: “Com¬ 
pound Oxygen is the best remedy 1 have found 
for my troubles. To first time I used it I v-as 
relieved of a very severe catarrh trouble, 
which kept me awake all night. My defect¬ 
ive hearing has been very much improved 
and my lung trouble promises to be a thing of 
the past.” 
A gentleman in lies Moines, la., writes: 
“Compound Oxygen has improved my general 
health. The periodical attacks of deafness 
are not so frequent nor so long continued.” 
A Virginia physician writes: "My wife has 
been for twenty-five or thirty years deaf in 
one ear, and under the use of the Oxygen can 
now hear well." 
“Compound Oxygen Its Mode of Action 
and Results,” is the title of a work which 
gives a lull and interesting explanation of 
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isn’t paid. His record is by no .The Canadian Government is to make a edy, and also gives letters from patient*cui ed 
