THE MIRA* WltW-YOIIRER. 
I^jcws of llje Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, October 9, 1886. 
In the Canadian Northwest Territory the 
Gros Ventres Indians lately killed six of the 
Blood tribe, belonging to the Crowfeet reser¬ 
vation . The Bloods went at once on the war¬ 
path and on their way to the Gros Ventres 
settlement, killed about 100 white settlers, per¬ 
petrating horrors as diabolical as those of the 
Apaches in the South. All the whites at the 
reservation, including the agent, have been 
massacred. In a fierce battle between 60 
Gros Ventres and the Bloods over 50 of the 
former were killed and scalped, and 20 of the 
latter were killed and 30 wounded. Two com¬ 
panies of mounted police are trying to put 
down the rising: but the whole force—1,500— 
will probably be needed, besides2,000 infantry 7 
and cavalry on their way to the scene. A 
general rising of the Indians is feared, as they 
have been grossly oppressed by dishonest 
officials and speculators.Geronimo and his 
followers are still at San Antonio. Gen. 
Miles says he had full authority from Gen. 
Sheridan to act as he pleased in warring 
against them and giving them terms. They 
had killed over 400 whites in less than two 
years, and it was better to accept their surreu- 
der conditionally than 1 st risk more outrages. 
Geronimo and band are reported to have been 
equipped, clothed, armed and encouraged in 
their deviltry by Mexicans who offered them a 
market for their plunder. Other bands of 
Apaches are still on the war-path in Arizona 
and New Mexico.Tuesday the steamer 
Mascotte, plying between St. Louis and Cape 
Girardeau, Mo., burst a boiler flue below 
Grand Tower—pa.ssengers.25; crew,40; burned 
and drowned, 30; rescued, 35.The Do¬ 
minion Government has special agents iu this 
country trying to induce French-Canadians to 
emigrate to Manitoba—considerable success.. 
.Members of the civil service in Can¬ 
ada have just been ordered to take the oath of 
allegiance to the Queen: on refusal their pay 
will be stopped, Some are suspected of being 
Fenians and more of being disloyal. 
The Court of Appeals of the State of New 
York State has confirmed the conviction and 
sentence of boodle Alderman Jaehne. The 
other 14 boodle Aldermen, now 7 under £25,000 
bail each, are soon to be tried. 
....C’apt. Ileuu, the yachtsman, is out of 
pocket some 810,000 by bis experiments w ith 
Galatea.The United States Circuit Court 
at Cleveland. Ohio, has decided that the local 
option feature of the Dow Law is not in con¬ 
flict with the Federal laws. It was maintained 
that the law was against the United States 
Constitution as it deprived a citizen of his 
property ., .. 
.Mayor Courtney of Charleston has 
announced that no more public aid is needed. 
Trade brisk; all busy repairing damages aud 
making money. Several slight earthquake 
tremors during the week. "‘Center of disturb¬ 
ance” lias moved about 200 miles southwest. 
Total loss by earthquake, $5,00(1,000. 
.Eighty-one aud a quarter tons 
of quinine were used in the United States 
during the past year, according to a re¬ 
port to the National Druggists'' Association 
made Tuesday at Minneapolis. And still we 
have earthquakes and shakes!.Of 
the $3,000,000 given to the South by Mr Pea¬ 
body some years ago for educational purposes, 
one-third has been lost by repudiation of 
Southern State bonds... 
.There are 30,000 employed in the 
meat-paekiug business in Chicago. Last May 
they struck for eight hours, aud many of 
them got what they wanted. The employers 
of the eight-hour men now say they eau’t 
compote with the others, and a lock-out or 
strike is threatened.The Undertakers' 
Convention, at Cleveland, Ohio, the other day 
protested earnestly against the growing prac¬ 
tice of cremation, aud feelingly appealed to 
the public to stick to the old custom of bemg 
put under the sod by the association. 
_The Oklahoma boomers have finally given 
up, having generally gone to work on the rail¬ 
road now building through the Indian Terri¬ 
tory. Their recognized leaders, including 
Capt. Couch, declare no attempts will be made 
in opposition to the present policy of the 
Government, and that they will aw r ait and 
respect the decision of Congress.The 
American fishing schooners Darsley and 
Scyylla, seized by the Collector of Customs at 
Halifax on Sunday, were released on pay¬ 
ment of a fine of 8400 each, Tuesday. 
... .Judge Gray, of Chicago, Thursday,denied 
a new trial to the Anarchists, seven of whom 
were sentenced to death and one to imprison¬ 
ment for life. They made vehemently bitter 
harangues in the court-room, but are likely 
now to meet with the fate they so richly de¬ 
serve.The Atlanta Constitution avers 
that there is more suffering among the labor¬ 
ing people in Augusta, on account of the strike 
of cotton operatives, than there is in Charles¬ 
ton on accom.it of the earthquake—3,000 out.. 
_ One thousand delegates, representing 
the million or so Knights of Labor, assembled 
iu the armory of the 1st Virginia Regiment at 
Richmond, Va., Monday morning to begin the 
two-weeks’ session of the 10tli annual conven¬ 
tion of the order. Master Workma n Powderly 
called the gathering to order and made a rous¬ 
ing speech. Governor Lee, of Virginia, gave 
an address of welcome. Routine work almost, 
exclusively during the week. Powderly w r ill 
be re-elected .F<>r the quarter euded 
September 30, there were 1,982 failures in the 
United States, as compared with 2,173 for the 
third quarter of 1885. The liabilities, how¬ 
ever, are $37,500,000 for the three months of 
188(1. as against $23,874,000 for the correspond¬ 
ing period in 1885.Justice Gor¬ 
don of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Mon¬ 
day decided that the store-order system, un¬ 
der the act of June 29, 1881, was unconstitu¬ 
tional and void,inasmuch as by it “persons are 
prevented from making their own contracts.” 
.The President is looking right sharp 
after Federal office-holders who, contrary to 
his views, have engaged in political conven¬ 
tions .. Wiggins is going to leave Ottawa. 
The falsity of his predictions is making the 
weather too hot for him.The President 
will visit the fair of the Virginia State Agri¬ 
cultural Society at Richmond, Va., the 21st. 
Mrs. Cleveland will probably accompany him. 
....... George Bancroft celebrated his 85th 
birthday last week.At the jug-handled 
election in Ga., Wednesday, the Democrats 
made a clean sweep. Geu. J. B. Gordon, Gov¬ 
ernor ........ See. Manning is to remain at the 
head of the Treasury.There is not an 
iota of doubt of a mighty Blaine boom nearly 
everywhere among Republicans.Cali¬ 
fornia cigar manufacturers who discharged 
their Chinese workmen, and employed Eastern 
men, are discharging the latter aud again em¬ 
ploying Mongolians, The “ white” factor} 7 
stamps were easily procured by the “ Chinese” 
factories, which used them on their goods and 
undersold the others. To meet this competi¬ 
tion the Chinese had to be taken back. 
Of the (51 bodies reduced in the crematory at 
East New York since December last, only 21 
were Americans. 
.The steamer Aiichoria of the Scotch 
Anchor line, plying between this city aud 
Glasgow, is now 22 days out from that city and 
12 daj 7 s overdue. She has not been seen, 
though vessels are constantly passing noth 
ways over the course she would take. Many 
report that her machinery was out of order 
before she started, and that some of her crew 
refused to go to sea in her. Her agents here 
still say there is hope, and that she will soon 
make some port in a disabled condition. Great 
anxiety among the friends of those on board, 
most of whom seem to have been from the 
country, judging by the number of telegrams 
received by the agents here . 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 9, 1886 
Affairs in Bulgaria still in a muddle. 
Gen. Kaulbars still scolding, threatening and 
blustering unless the Czar’s demands are 
ol>eyi?d. Issues orders to the troops to disobey 
the government under penalty of the Czar’s 
displeasure and acts the part of an arrogant 
tyrant in a mutinous province. Has been 
traveling through the country trying to stir 
up the people against the Regency and in fa¬ 
vor of Russia, but hitherto he appears to have 
been rebuffed by officials, troops and people, 
who do not seem very anxious to learn “the 
views and intentions of the Czar.” Austria 
still determined to bar Russian aggression. 
Germany apparently playiug a double game— 
not displeased with Austria, but very friendly 
to Russia. If Russia, Austria, Turkey, Italy 
and England become embroiled, Germany will 
doubtless try to pulverize France so utterly 
that she’ll never recover. Outbreak of war 
possible any day; very probable within six 
months...... 
_In British politics Lord Randolph Church¬ 
ill, Conservative leader in t he House of Com¬ 
mons, bos put Lord Salisbury, leader in the 
House of Lords and Premier, completely in 
the background, and taken the place of Dis¬ 
raeli in speaking for and “educating” his 
part} 7 . In late speeches he has stolen Glad¬ 
stone’s thunder on all points except Home 
Rule for Ireland, and even in this respect he 
promises to introduce a bill giving Home 
Rule to each of the four provinces—Ulster, 
Leinster, Munster and Connaught Churchill 
is now traveling, incognito, on the continent, 
and is expected to negotiate secretely, but in 
the name of the government, with Bismarck, 
Kalnoky and other great diplomatists about 
the Bulgarian trouble. .. 
.In Ireland a vast number of notices of 
evictions indicate grave trouble in the near fu¬ 
ture. In England distress among .the wage¬ 
earning class is very severe—thousands can’t 
get work at any price; thousands are out on 
strike on account of recent reductions in 
wages, and hundreds of thousands are liv¬ 
ing on slim fare from day to day. Agricul¬ 
tural distress is so grievous that it is hardly 
possible for tenants to pay rents, so that a 
great number of farms are unoccupied and 
many more will be thrown up next rent day.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 9, 1886. 
Contagious pleuro-pneuraonia is officially 
reported in parts of New York, New 7 Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Col¬ 
umbia, in one or two border counties of Vir¬ 
ginia, and at Chicago. There are also some 
doubts as to its existence in Ohio, Kentucky, 
and Dakota. The Department of Agriculture 
is co-operating with the authorities of Illinois 
to suppress the plague there, and also with 
those of Maryland, paying for the destruction 
of infected animals and quarantining those 
that have been exposed. The authorities of 
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New 
York have not yet accepted the rules adopted 
by the Commissioner of Agriculture for co¬ 
operation in measures necessary for the ex¬ 
tirpation of the plague.... .. ... 
....The Ohio game laws, as amended at the 
last session of the Legislature, prohibit the 
killing of all song birds and all sparrows ex¬ 
cept the English sparrow. . 
The shrinkage iu cattle values, together with 
reports of serious epidemics throughout the 
country, is causing great mistrust and uneasi¬ 
ness among Texas cattlemen. There are ru¬ 
mors that some of the most prominent have 
already become embarrassed, and that their 
paper has gone to protest. Extensive failures 
are looked for.The Secretary of 
the Interior is considering a scheme to allow 7 
certain Indian tribes to utilize their lands by 
allowing them to take cattle of the whites to 
pasture at a fair consideration, but no white 
man to be allowed on ihe reservation.. 
It Is proposed to locate all the Indians in Min¬ 
nesota on one reservation. The change would 
throw upon the market over 3,01)0,000 acres of 
land The tobacco association of Lynchburg, 
Va., reports that the sales far the fiscal year 
just closed were 49,332,000 pounds of loose to¬ 
bacco, 90 per cent, more than was ever be¬ 
fore sold in one year.Six thousand 
Perch cion horses have been imported into this 
county, first and last; more than one thousand 
last year.French Premier de Freyei net, 
replying to a deputation from the Bordeaux 
Chamber of Commerce, which prayed that the 
importation of American salt meats Into 
France be prohibited, said that the govern¬ 
ment would consider the matter. 
In the first eight, months of this year Great 
Britain imported 80,508 live beeves from the 
United States, against 105,808 in same part 
of 1885; 140 cows, against 373; 5,225 sheep, 
against 9,(525; no swine, againstfiT. The totals 
imported from all countries at the same time 
were 168,0(59 cattle, against 202,071 in 1885; 
33,7(52 cow’s, against 8(5,033; 670,900 sheep, 
against 598,3(51; 14,722 swine, against 9,527... 
.The corn canning of the country ap¬ 
pears to be short. Complaints are heard from 
Maryland and Maine and also from the West; 
prices, therefore, arc strong...It is 
alleged that many European wool contracts 
for America have been canceled by paying a 
penalty of from two to six cents bonus, and 
that, all the wools in bond in America have 
been ordered back to seek markets at higher 
figures.The average weight of hogs in 
Chicago last month was 230 pounds, the light¬ 
est September weight in over ten years. The 
average has been about ten pounds greater,.. 
.No animal after leaving the Island of 
Jersey can be re-imported, except, in the case 
of cattle scut to Great Britain for exhibition 
purposes, and these must be returned to the 
Island within fourteen days. 
.James W. Sykes, a large seedsman of 
Chicago, made an assignment, last Saturday 
and was arrested Monday night for borrowing 
$88,000 from the banks, putting up as security 
warehouse receipts for seeds which had no 
existence.First snow of the season at 
Marshfield, Wis., Oct. 2. Same day heavy 
frosts greatly injured vegetation nearly all 
over the nothern part of the country and as 
far south as Kentucky and North Carolina, 
doing a great deal of damage to tobacco. 
.The farmers of Wisconsin are very 
jubilant over their success iu raising “the 
weed.” If the prospect holds good Wisconsin 
will soon become one of the largest tobacco- 
producing Step's in the Union. . 
.Destructive prairie fires are now raging 
near Moorehead, Minn., and iu northwest, and 
southwest Manitoba. Hundreds of settlers 
have lost a great part, or all, they possessed, 
including buy, stacked grain, fences, barns 
aud often homesteads.The cultivation 
of tobacco in Germany is decreasing, owiug 
to the system of taxation. The decrease iu 
the number of planters is 12,000, as compared 
with 1885.Wool sales opened at Sydney, 
Australia, a few days since, at which prices 
show an average advance of something like 
50 per cent, above those of last. Febmary. 
......At the Wilton, England, sheep fair, two 
weeks since, 70,000 animals were sold. 
Wether lambs sold at 811.75 to if 14.40 each; fat 
lambs, $8.65 to $11.00; full-mouthed ewes, 
$12.50 to $15.00; wethers, $11.00 to $18.00. 
.It is claimed the Chicago’s wool trade for 
1886 will show an increase of 30 per cent, over 
last year, and Chicagoans assert, that their 
market will soon pass Philadelphia and give 
Boston a hard fight for first place. 
,.. .The California Southern Railway is send¬ 
ing out loads of grapes attached to each pas¬ 
senger train bound east. The rate this year 
is $450 a ear, as against $600 last year. 
.. .Montana cattle to the value of $100,000 
smuggled over the border will lie seized by 
officials of the Canadian customs department. 
. In .September, Chicago received 
198,215 cattle, 468,430 hogs, and 82,132 sheep— 
an increase in all kinds of stock over the 
same month last .year .During 1885 
we exported agricultural implements to the 
value of $2,561,000 of which $1,348,000 was the 
value of the reapers and mowers. . 
.The exports of live stock and dressed 
meats from Boston for the English markets 
last week were 1,018 cattle and 3,992 quarters 
of beef.In the months of April 
and May, 18SG, only four Short-horns were 
exported from Great Britain, and these 
came to the United States. 
.... A telegram this morning from Cam¬ 
den, N. J., says pleuro-pneumonia recently 
made its appearance near Vinccntown, Bur¬ 
lington County, and has spread to an alarm¬ 
ing extent. The State Board of Health has 
attempted to eradicate it by killing infected 
animals aud quarantining herds, but cases are 
still being found. State Veterinary Surgeon 
W. B. E. Miller, of Camden, has boon ordered 
by the Government Department of Agricul¬ 
ture to examine into the contagion and report 
to the National Bureau.Another from 
Chicago just as we go to press says notice has 
been given that persons removing milk for 
public use from premises infected by pleuro¬ 
pneumonia will be arrested. Owners of cows 
are advised to milk them on the floor, to pre¬ 
vent injury from neglect. The cattlemen say 
they are unable to pay men to milk these cows 
when the milk from them cannot be sold, and 
threaten to refuse to have the animals milked, 
and throw the responsibility of further sick- 
uess or disease upon the health authorities or 
the State Commissioner. 
The Vulue of Prompt Action. 
“I SHALL move immediately upon your 
works,” was the strong language of General 
Graut atone of the crises of his historical ca¬ 
reer. Such should bo the declaration of every 
man and woman who feels himself or herself 
assailed by some lurking foe to health, and es¬ 
pecially strong should be the resolution to act 
if the enemy has already intrenched himself 
in some vital part of the system. Consump¬ 
tion, Asthma, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, and 
kindred ailments become dangerous only when 
neglected. They can all be cured by Com¬ 
pound Oxygen if grappled with in proper sea¬ 
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Treatment that enables any one to cure him¬ 
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Crops k iilarlifls. 
Saturday, Oct. 9, 188(5. 
Returns received to-day from 36 of the prin¬ 
cipal grape-growing sections along the Hudson 
Valley show that the yield of Concords this 
Fall is enormous, and exceeds the most san¬ 
guine hopes of all interested. Already indi¬ 
vidual growers have shipped ft* much as 50 
tons, and each expects to ship from 30 to 60 
tons more. Large quantities of fruit are be- 
iug shipped to Boston, Philadelphia, and to 
points north and west, in addition to the heavy 
freights now being sent by boat and rail to 
New York. Last year was a phenomenal sea¬ 
son, but this Fall the estimates made show t hat 
the gross tonnage will exceed that of 1885 by 
at least 5,000 tons. The business has assumed 
such proportions between Cornwall and Coey- 
maus, and in the couutry between Newburg 
aud Readout, a section 12miles broad and over 
30 miles iu length, that scores of heavy pro¬ 
ducer.-;, during the past month, saw the neces¬ 
sity of building air-tight “coolers." Hundreds 
of tous of the choicest fruit have been stored 
away this week, and the work lias only fairly 
begun. The result will be thut New York 
will be supplied with grapes until well along 
in the holidays and at reasonable figures. 
