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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, October 2, 1886. 
The Industrial Exhibition of 1886, just fin¬ 
ished at Toronto, was tho most successful ever 
held there. Total gate receipts $43,914, as 
compared with $34,196 last year. 
Forty miles of that railroad from Winnipeg 
to Hudson Bay are soon to be built, the neces¬ 
sary funds having already been raised in 
England. Recent researches go to prove that 
ice blocks navigation in Hudson Bay nearly 
the year round, so that the prospects of trans¬ 
porting freight by water direct from the rail 
road terminus to Europe are not encouraging; 
but much of the land along the line is valuable 
for its agricultural and mineral resources. 
_“Every vestige of revolution has disap¬ 
peared” in Mexico, with the slaughter of a 
number of bandits aud chronic revolutionists, 
who were in the habit of issuing “pronuncia- 
mentoe8” whenever there was a good chance 
of robbing under the guise of making forced 
loans. Gironimo and his followers are 
still held at San Antonio, Texas. Gen. Miles 
reports that they were not captured, but that 
they surrendered on condition that they 
should not bo turned over to the civil au¬ 
thorities of Arizona, aud that their lives should 
be spared. Hence they were at once removed 
from the Territory contrary to instructions 
from the War Department—to confine them 
at the post nearest the place of capture. The 
Government had positively instructed Miles 
that nothing but capture or unconditional 
surrender should end the Apache campaign. 
Cook, it is said, could have secured a condi¬ 
tional surrender s’x months ago.Cutting 
estimates his “pecuniary losses, and his men¬ 
tal and physical suffering” as entitling him to 
an indemnity of $50,000 from Mexico. 
.The Government receipts during the 
month of September were about 832,000.000, 
and the expenditures about 818,000,000, mak¬ 
ing an excess of about $14,000,000. It is 
estimated at the Treasury Department 
that there has been a decrease, of nearly 
$11,000,000 iu the public debt during Septem¬ 
ber.Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom 
have gone to Buljalo, N. Y., for a visit of 
about 10 days.The managing Commit¬ 
tee of the American Purchasing and Leasing 
Company (whisky pool) has advanced tho 
price of whisky from $1.12 to $1.18—a compro¬ 
mise between the views of the Cincinnati and 
Peoria distillers. 
.Ever since the Prohibitionists carried 
Atlanta, Ga., last November, there has been a 
fierce agitation, in which the Prohibitionists 
always came out ahead till last Tuesday, 
when they were “utterly swept out” in a 
“primary election for the State Legislature,” 
by the Anti-Prohibitionists under the name of 
Conservatives-! ,tMX) majority out of a total vote 
of 4,700. It. was claimed that Prohibition seri¬ 
ously damaged the trade of the place, drove 
many business firms away, and greatly in¬ 
creased taxation.. 
The great assembly of the Knights of La¬ 
bor will be held at Richmond, Va., October 4. 
The colored delegates have been refused ac¬ 
commodations by every hotel iu the city, and 
the Knights—some of them—are highly indig¬ 
nant. Here seven Chinamen sought admission 
into the order; but there was no opening for 
Mongolians.New Public Printer Bene¬ 
dict has made 725 removals in the government 
printing office in Washington—100 of them 
wdraen from the folding room. Ah many 
more are to lx? made, says B .A grand 
national competitive drill for military organi¬ 
zations at Washington next May, open to all 
arms—$25,000 in prizes.Henry George, 
land right and labor agitator, has been nomi¬ 
nated for Mayor by the labor organizations of 
this city. 
....Bonanza Maekay, chief owner of the 
“commercial” cables to Europe, hopes to 
create out of the Postal Telegraph Company a 
system as extensive as the Western Union, 
and predicts that in doing so he will reduce 
rates to such an extent as to do away with 
business letter writing, inside of three years. 
.A Judgeship of the Court of Appeals is 
the highest elective office to be filled in New 
York State this year. Efforts were made to 
unite both great parties on one man; but fhu 
Republicans have nominated Charles Daniels, 
who has been on the bench of the Supreme 
Court ever since 1868—28 years; and the 
Democrats have nominated Rufus W. Peck- 
ham, who has been on the same bench since 
July, 1884—two years and two months. Both 
excellent nominations.Tho total num¬ 
ber of immigrants arrived at the different 
ports of the United States during August, 
.1886, were 38,860, against 20,2t4 during the 
same month of 1885, an increase of 7,152. 
During the eight months ended August 31, 
1886, there ai'rived 254,679 immigrants, against 
140,917 for the same period of 1885, an increase 
of 13,962. The bulk of the immigrants were 
from Great Britain, Germany, Sweden 
and Norway...-.. — 
_A call for $15,000,000 of the three per cent. 
bonds of the series of 1882 was issued Monday. 
.Arresures’ family asks $100,000 indem¬ 
nity of the Mexican Government...The 
Dakota Republican convention demands “the 
immediate reduction of the Indian reserva¬ 
tions in the Territory,” aud blames Congress 
for not “opeuiug to settlers a portion of the 
Sioux reservation”,..Governor Foster, 
of Ohio, is out of politics, he says, aud into 
natural gas as the agent of a company of 
which the Standard Oil Company owns two- 
thirds of the stock put at $8,000,000. It is pro¬ 
posed to pipe the gas from the wells at Find¬ 
lay to Toledo—25 miles .Justin Mc¬ 
Carthy, the famous Irish author, historian 
and political leader, reached New York Satur¬ 
day afternoon, after a short passage from 
London on the steamer Britannia. Ho will 
lecture through the country on the Irish ques¬ 
tion.John F. Swift, Republican candi¬ 
date for Governor of California, refuses a 
place on the ticket,of the “American or Kuow- 
Nothing Party. ” He doesn’t want any connec¬ 
tion with a ticket that brands the Roman Cath¬ 
olics as hostile to American institutions. 
.... The proposed race between the Mayflower 
and Galatea off Marblehead iu a genuine “cut¬ 
ter breeze” has been declared off. The yachts 
have bqpn loafing there a week waiting for 
tho wind which has failed to couio, nud the 
Mayflower has now gone into winter-quarters 
........ Several members of the late Board of 
Public Works of Cincinnati have been arrest¬ 
ed on charges of embezzlement . 
.Mrs. 11. B. Stowe, aged 75, says her 
health is rather poor, but not “shattered” as 
reported.There will be a National Con¬ 
vention of distillers, brewers and wholesale 
and retail rum-sellers at, Chicago Oct. 18, “to 
check the growth of public sentim nf hostile” 
to the whisky trade.Senator Edmunds 
has gone to Boston on his way to the British 
Maritime Provinces to investigate the fish 
question, A report that a treaty settling the 
matter and establishing favorable trade rela¬ 
tions between the Union and the Dominion 
was telegraphed from Ottowa last Sunday; 
hut proves to have been bogus news; aud the 
senders are to be prosecuted by the Canadian 
Government....John Esten Cook, the 
author, died at his home in Clark County, Va., 
last week, aged 56 years.A terrible 
gale and rain-storm along the Texan coast iu 
the vicinity of the mouth of the ltio Grande 
River last week caused great damage and dis¬ 
tress, It. lasted three days, beginniuji Tuesday. 
Two hundred houses in Brownsville, Tex., 
were blown down and 150 families are home¬ 
less atul in want. In Mutarnoras over three 
huudred houses were leveled, many persons 
injured and 400 families turned out of doors 
.The Inman Steamship Compuuy’-S Hue 
between this port and Liverpool is reported to 
have been purchased by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company. It will continue to run 
on the usual course, but under the manage¬ 
ment, aud iu the interest of the road. Three 
fine new steamers are to be added to it. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 2, 1886 
Peace or war? That’s the absorbing ques¬ 
tion in Europe just now, and the decision de¬ 
pends on Berlin. Gen. Kaulbars demauds in 
behalf of Ruasia, tho raising of the 
state of siege in Bulgaria so that the Rus¬ 
sian adherents may be at liberty to agi¬ 
tate in favor of Russian domination; the 
liberation of all political prisoners, so that all 
who have been confined for conspiracy against 
Alexander and in favor of Russia may he able 
boldly to repeat the offense; and the postpone¬ 
ment of the elections for tho National Assem¬ 
bly which is to elect a uew Prince. This is 
required to enable the Russian adherents to 
agitate and intrigue before election. Kaul- 
bars has been carrying things with a master¬ 
ful hand, forbidding proclamations by the 
government and making others himself in fa¬ 
vor ol Russia, He has several times threaten¬ 
ed that in certain contingencies Russia will oc¬ 
cupy the country. The Bulgarian Regen¬ 
cy has been returning conciliatory but firm 
answers — they will comply with the 
Czar’s demands os far as they can con¬ 
sistently with the honor and independence 
of the country, M. Tisza, the Hungarian 
Premier, declares that Austro-Hangary firmly 
adheres to the Berlin treaty, and will resist 
any attempt of nuy single power to establish 
a protectorate in Bulgaria. Austria, urged 
ghiefly by Magyar hatred of the Hiavs, is tak¬ 
ing a firm stand aguinst Russian encroach¬ 
ments, and it is supposed that she has an un¬ 
derstanding with Germany in tho matter. 
England is st rongly hacking her up. Turkey 
is mossing troops on the frontier of Eastern 
Ron me! in as if about at one© to start a cam¬ 
paign. Russia has vast, masses of men iu Bess¬ 
arabia ready to move south at an hour’s no¬ 
tice. Altogether the outlook iu Europe Is de¬ 
cidedly warlike. The great age anil peace¬ 
able disposition of the Genmm Emperor, and 
the vast commercial interests involved are the 
ouly checks on an immediate outbreak of hos¬ 
tilities. Will war be deferred till Spring?- 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 25, 1886. 
The distillery cattle at Chicago are strictly 
quarantined under the supervision of the Na¬ 
tional Bureau of Auimal Industry. Half a 
dozen of the best veterinarians in the country 
have charge of them. All agree the disease is 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia, The slaughter 
of the herd is deferred because no decision has 
hitherto been reached as to what shall be done 
with the carcases. Miller* Armour offer to 
take the entire lot of quarantined stock, num¬ 
bering about 2,400, kill ttic-m under the charge 
of the official veterinarians and send the 
healthy carcases to market and the diseased 
ones to the rendering establishments. Dr. 
Salmon is inclined to accept the offer, but tho 
large cattle dealers object. They can hardly 
afford to have the reputation of Chicago beef 
injured by such a sale, and it is 
thought that rather than have the offer 
accepted they will raise the money to 
pay the owners for all the suspected 
stock and have them killed and buried. 
There are numerous reports of outbreaks of 
the disease in various other parts of the coun¬ 
try from Dakota to Virginia, nearly all at¬ 
tributed to importations of stock from 
Chicago. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, 
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado have al¬ 
ready scheduled Illinois, so that no cattle 
from that State can be imported into any of 
the others without a certificate of sound 
health from tho official veterinarians. Other- 
States are likely to follow the example. There 
is a genuiue scare among the whole cattle in¬ 
terests of the West, and protests, objurgations 
and “resolutions” are the order of the day.... 
.In 1876 we imported 4,903,771 dozen 
eggs; in 1885, 16,098,450 dozen, according to 
the Bureau of Statistics. Eggs are on the free 
list; shall imports of foreign “ hen fruit” be 
taxed; or shall the egg-laying business be in¬ 
creased at home?. .. . 
From 20 to 25 Canadian Pacific cars loaded 
with buffalo bones arrive at Fort Benton, 
Montaua. every week, consigned to fertilizer 
works in the East, and the business is increas¬ 
ing. The bones are picked up scattered over 
the prairies, chiefly along the water holes ami 
courses.The proprietor of a grain 
“bucket shop” in Montreal has been convicted 
of keeping a common gambling house, and 
sentenced to a fine of $200, aud to find 
$1,000 bail “to keep the peace” for one year. 
It would be a blessing if the same fate befell 
all the “grain offices” in the States. 
.. .Last year 10,000 American cattle—chiefly 
from Montaua—were handled by the Canadi¬ 
an Pacific R. R., aud the number is expected 
to be much larger this year. First shipment 
—20 car loads—was made the other day from 
Maple Creek, Manitoba, having been driven 
across from Montaua. They were shipped 
through iu bond.The exports of 
live stock and dressed meats from the port of 
Boston for the foreign markets last week were 
I, 467 cattle and 1,180 quarters of beef. 
.English cattle markets arc very heavily 
supplied, and best American steers are weak 
at n% cents per pound, estimated dressed 
weight.The latest figuring gives 
Australia 74,918,407 sheep. The average 
weight of fleece is stabs 1 at five pounds per 
sheep “iu the grease,” aud of washed wool, 
two and a half pounds per fleece. 
..Concerning cattle diseases in that por¬ 
tion of India known as the Madras Presidency, 
a Calcutta paper says: Last year the total 
number of deaths was returned at 43,788, of 
which 12,057 are attributed to rinderpest, 
II, 226 to anthrax, 5,808 to dysentery, and the 
remainder to other diseases.Colorado 
has 800 miles of first-class irrigating canals, 
3,500 miles of secondary canals and 40,000 
miles of smaller ditches, which have cost in 
the aggregate about $11,000,000 and will 
irrigate 2,200,000 acres.The new 
oleomargarine tax stamps will be ready for 
general distribution about the middle of this 
month. . .Hog cholera is spreading 
iu Northwestern Virginia and there arc fears 
of an accompanying epidemic <>f fever among 
the people .... The four veterinary surgeons 
recommended by Professor Salmon to Com 
missioner Colman for appointment to assist in 
investigating the pleuro-pneumonia among 
cuttle in and about Chicago arc, Drs. Alexan¬ 
der Murray, Michigan; \V. H. Rose, Wash¬ 
ington; M. R. Trumbauer, Illinois; L, .1. Herr, 
New York,.Farmer Meir went into his 
pasture wearing a red shirt. A young bull, 
usually gentle, saw the shirt aud went for it, 
and, although Meir defended himself vigor¬ 
ously with a hoe, the animal killed him. 
.The National Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry is Investigating the disastrous out¬ 
breaks of hog cholera in Indiana and Illinois. 
Thousands of swine are dying daily, aud in 
some counties droves have been swept away. 
The death of several at the Indiana State Fair 
at Indianapolis, curly in the week, from a 
disease supposed to he cholera almost broke up 
the show in that department.A dog, 
bitten by u rattlesnake in' Nebraska, instead 
of dying, developed hydrophobia, and bit 
fourteen head of cattle, all of which died. 
_There is a loss of about $4,000 from tho 
New York State Fair; but all premiums— 
amounting to $9,800 in money and $200 in 
medals—have been paid in full, and the Agri¬ 
cultural Society has still cash on hand from 
previous good years. Those who bought pri¬ 
vileges have lost pretty heavily, owing to the 
slim attendance, due chiefly to bad weather.. 
.The Russian Government, iutends to 
establish a tobacco monopoly in the empire. 
Foreign cigars will thereby be greatly cheap¬ 
ened, ns the present enormous duty will bo 
abolished... .Two liovs, Browu and Wood, 
aged 18 and 11, have been arrested in Sea valla 
County, Texas, charged with murdering a 
Mexican herder and then killing 60 sheep just 
for fun.A short time back St Louis 
tried unsuccessfully to become a great wool 
market. Now Chicago is trying pretty suc¬ 
cessfully to be. one. Almost all the Eastern 
wool firms have agents or branch offices there 
now. Manufactories of wool have greatly in¬ 
creased in the West, of late. There are now 
over 600 west of the Alleghenies. . 
Vice Consul Touhay, in concluding a re¬ 
port to the Department, of State upon agricul¬ 
ture in Italy, says the grain growers in that 
district are" reduced to a desperate condition 
by taxes, high rates and. above all, by compe¬ 
tition from the United States. 
Crops & flTarlifts. 
Saturday, Sept. 25,1886. 
According to the last census, the total amount 
of broom corn produced in this country in 
1879, was 27,480,816 pounds or 13,740 tons, a 
fairly good crop. Of this amount Illinois pro¬ 
duced ll ,083,018 pounds; Kansas, 5,683,018 
pounds; Missouri, 3,159,466 pounds;New York, 
2,926,742 pounds; Nebraska, 1,751,807 pounds; 
Ohio, 1,504.165 pounds; Iowa, 1.169,967 pounds; 
Indiana. 430,159 pounds, 22 other States aud 
Territories producing the rest, and 17 produc¬ 
ing none at all. The area under tho crop has 
beeu very considerably increased since 1879. 
East year’s crop is estimated to have been 
about 18,000 tons, and about 4,000 tons were 
carried over from the crop of 1884, making 
an available supply of about 22,000 tons. 
A corner in the product last Spring greatly 
increased the area plauted; but owing to a 
scarcity of good seed, farmers In their anxiety 
to get in a crop, used worthless seed—sweep¬ 
ings, screenings, etc., and hundreds of acres 
failed entirely, or were too poor to pay for 
harvesting. Here is the latest estimate of this 
year’s crop, according to the Chicago Tri¬ 
bune: 
state. 
Acreage. 
Number 
acres 
to ton. 
Total 
product 
tons. 
Illinois. 
82,000 
4 
8,01*) 
Kansas. 
66,000 
10 
6,«0O 
Nebraska. 
15.000 
5 
3,000 
Missouri. 
15,600 
10 
1,500 
Ohio. 
4,000 
4 
1,000 
Texus. 
2,0(0 
5 
400 
Tennessee. 
3,000 
5 
600 
Iowa. 
• 3,500 
7 
500 
Mohawk and Soho- 
harlu Valleys, Y.X. 
.3,500 
7 
500 
Totals. 
144,000 
. . 
22,100 
It is thought that 1,500 tons of last year’s 
crop was carried over into 1886, giving an 
available supply of 24,000 tons this season- 
The annual consumptiou is about 20,000 tons, 
so that there seems to be a surplus of 4,000 
tons. 
Tho Illinois crop is tho best; but iu all the 
States the length of the spikes or grass is so 
much greater than usual that much will cut 
to waste in the manufacture of brooms. Ow¬ 
ing to Ibis cause, it will not, probably, aver¬ 
age over 80 dozen brooms to the ton. Two- 
thirds of the crop is thought to be in this con¬ 
dition, and every pound of wusto will have to 
be made up from other corn; the corn, too, is 
considered heavier than usual, so that a good 
deal of the above aggregate weight will be 
useless for manufacturing purposes. The crop 
has matured unusually early this year; but 
hitherto receipts have been unusually small, 
owing to low prices. Farmers believe prices 
will be higher, and that manufacturers have 
formed combinations against them; while the 
latter say they will be lower still. In many 
places growers are holding for $150 a ton. 
During the corner iu Spring many lots sold 
for 12 cents per pound; now the market is dull 
at. five cents. Chicago is the greatest broom 
corn market In the world, huudling five times 
ns much as Philadelphia, which comes next. 
Tho largest broom factory iu the world is that 
of Samuel Cupplcs, of St. Louis, Mo.; tho 
next hugest t hat of J. D. Blood & Co., Am¬ 
sterdam, N. Y , and the next that of Henry 
Herrick, of the same place. The largest in 
the West, outside of St. Louts, is that of the 
Chicago Broom M’f’g. Co., Chicago. 
From the proceedings of tho 17th annual 
convention of the Cranberry Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, held at Tom's River, N. J., the other 
duy, the crops of t he lost three seasons, as final¬ 
ly determined by their movement, and the 
crop of the present year, as estimated from tho 
reports received, are, in bushels ns follows: 
New Jersey.. 
New England 
Wisconsin.... 
1853 
118,621 
130,507 
1881. 
1*4.648 
1 . 50,583 
21,783 
F85. 
138,125 
280,8.9 
2<U,I32 
1886. 
277,843 
289,805 
76,686 
Total.896,990 236,1114 743,436 093,834 
The crop of 1885, as compared with that esti¬ 
mated for 1886, shows an increuse of 14 per 
