60 
JAN.22 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ertos of tlft @tefh 
HOME NEWS. 
Monpay, Jan. IT, 18 S 1 . 
The mercury stood at 52 deg. helow zero at 
Stevens’ Point., Wls., Monday morning. A water 
famine has reached Galesburg, ill., owing to the 
long-continued drought and cold, which have 
dried up or frozen the wells, cisterns and ponds 
supplying the city with water. In consequence of 
the laclc or water the Chicago. Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad Company had to withdraw some 
of their engines, and on Thursday paid $50 for Ice to 
melt in order to supply their engines with water. 
Brown's Cornplanter V> orks and many Individuals 
are melting Ice, which Is obtained from the Missis¬ 
sippi River. The cold averages about 10 deg be¬ 
low zero every night.A Japanese coasting 
steamer, with 80 passengers and a crew of 22, has 
foundered in the inland Sea and 64 lives were lost. 
.Uoutzdale, I’a., has had a number or de¬ 
plorable visitations. Since 1677 It has experienced 
two conflagrations, a great flood aDdablgrlot, 
and now the diphtheria Is taking off the children 
at the rate of a score a day.Bjornstlerne 
BJornson, the great, Norwegian poet and states¬ 
man, has had a grand reception at Chicago. 
Prof. Alphonso Wood, the well-known botanist, 
died a few days since at hts home in West Farms. 
N, Y. He was the author of several works on 
Botany. 
The International committee for the proposed 
World’s Fair In lSSb, assembled on the 10thInst., 
at the City Hall, to prepare the work helore them, 
Sixty-seven commissioners were present at the 
first day’s proceedings, more than one-half of 
them being Trom outside States and Territories. 
The Inwood site was discussed, and a resolution 
finally adopted accepting It as the location for the 
Exhibition. Mr. Vanderbilt offered to subscribe 
$250,000 providing $4,000,000 can be raised. The 
work of getting subscriptions has been delayed 
but will now be pushed with persistence. 
The resignation of ex-Mayor Cooper from the 
Commission was accepted and Cornelius Vander¬ 
bilt was chosen In his place. General Grant was 
elected permanent President of the commission.... 
Nathan O. Grecnrield, the several times respited 
Oswego (N Y„) wife murderer, was sentenced on 
the loth Inst., to be executed on Thursday, Feb¬ 
ruary 17. 1881, In the Onondaga County Peni¬ 
tentiary .Mrs. Alice Williams of Alpine town¬ 
ship, Kent county, Mich., cut her tongue out 
wltn a razor. She was a devout Catholic and Im¬ 
agined a sacrifice to the Lord was demanded of her. 
Death win follow.The strike of ice gather¬ 
ers at Verplanck’s N. Y. has been amicably settled 
.A Ore at St. Louis, which originated in 
the shoe store of Joseph Eade, 1114 Broadway, ex¬ 
tended to a row of one-story shops and saloons, 
north and south, consuming them all. The wind 
carried the flames to the extension building of 
the Broadway Foundry, In the rear of these small 
houses, doing great damage to the valuable ma¬ 
chinery and patterns as well as the foundry 
building. 
G. H- Wales has paid $30,000 for tho seat of W. 
C. Williams on the New York stock exchange. It 
Is the highest prloe ever paid.In Chicago 
3,900 buildings were erected the past year, costing 
over $ 9 , 000,000 .lathe Illinois Senate on the 
10th, a bill was introduced to cede the Illinois and 
Michigan Canal and the Improvements on the 
Illinois River to the United States, on condition 
that the National Government agree to convert 
them Into a water-course for ships from the Mis¬ 
sissippi to Lake Michigan.Charles M. Phelps, 
ex-State Treasurer of New York and defaulter, 
who was convicted in October, 1875, of forger)' and 
larceny on three counts and sentenced to five 
years’ Imprisonment on each, died of consumption 
In the Albany Penitentiary this week. He would 
have received a pardon In a fe w days had he lived. 
.Thomas J. Kirk, a promtnent Iron merchant 
of Chicago, residing at Lake Forest, hascommUted 
suicide by shooting.The boiler of a steam 
thrashing machine at Lucan, Ont., exploded, kill¬ 
ing George Brumen and Injuring a number of 
others.On the lath InBt., It was offi¬ 
cially announced that the consolidation of the 
Western Union and American Union telegraph 
companies was perfected and articles signed 
that day. The consolidation is said to be on the 
basis of the Western Union and American Union 
at par and Atlantic and Pacific at 50, with an en¬ 
tire new stock to be Issued, and after the consol¬ 
idation Is permanently effected the lines are to be 
sold to the government.A newspaper pub¬ 
lished near Elmira advertises to take buckwheat 
cakes and honey on subscription, and a limited 
amount of aDpie-butter.Conrad Meyer, 
senior member of the firm of Conrad Meyer & Sons, 
probably the oldest maker of pianos In the United 
States died at his residence In Philadelphia on 
Tuesday evening at the age of 88 years. Mr. 
Meyer was born In Germany, and in the war of 
1814 served In the campaign against Napoleon 
.The old home of President Lincoln in 
Springfield, 111., Is now a cheap lodging house.... 
The boiler In tbe Union Flouring Mills of Detroit 
Mich., exploded on the 12th Inst, with terrific 
force, tearing out the side of the building, com¬ 
pletely wrecking ihe structure. Engineer Young 
andaman named Whittier, fireman, were instantly 
killed and burled under the debris. Three horses 
were killed... 
Rev. William Shelton, D. D., who for fifty-one 
years has been rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal 
Church, ha3 resigned for the reason of old age and 
111 health. Dr. Shelton Is over eighty-three years 
of age. The parish have unanimously voted him 
a life lease of the church rectory.The Re¬ 
gents of the University of this State met In annual 
session in the senate chamber Thursday night 
Henry It. Pierson, Vice-Chancellor, was unani¬ 
mously elected Chancellor, and George W. Clin¬ 
ton, of Buffalo, Vice-Chancellor. 
Paul Sweet, residing about six miles south of 
Marshall. Ind., shot and killed F. M. Craig, famil¬ 
iarly called General Craig. The men met In the 
road, near the residence of the latter, when Craig 
said that the time had come for one or the other to 
die, and commenced firing Sweet at once return¬ 
ed the fire, killing him Instantly.Four hun¬ 
dred hands from the Grand Trunk works at Mon¬ 
treal are on strike. It seems that some 25 of them 
wished to attend a funeral, and asked permission 
to do so. Mr. Herbert, Wallis, the superintendent 
refused. The men weDt od their own leave, and 
the next, morning were discharged. Nearly' all the 
men In the works at Point St. Charles threw down 
their tools and walked out , giving as their ultima¬ 
tum the return of their comrades to work. As the 
company has been working night and day to com 
plete the large works, the men will doubtless sue. 
ce ed lu their demands. 
The National Association of veterans of the Mex¬ 
ican War will hold Its annual meeting In Louisville 
February 22 .At Jersey City, the Adirondack 
steel Works are emharassed. Liabilities, $75,ooo; 
nominal assets, $30,000...Rev. Edward Crow¬ 
ley, convicted of cruelty to little children In the 
Shepherd's Fold, at New York, of whloh he was 
manager, and who, on February 2S, 1879, was con¬ 
victed of Ill-treating. Louis Victor and sentenced to 
the penitentiary for one year and fined $250, has 
been released on tbe expiration of his term and 
the payment of his tine....Jean Baptiste Nar- 
bonne, who confessed to the murder otlxls brother 
Dan, with his lather and stepmother, at whose In¬ 
stigation he committed the deed, were each sen¬ 
tenced to be hanged on the 25th of February, be¬ 
tween elgbt and ten A. M .Warren Long- 
more, aged nine years, was, Thursday, touad 
guilty of manslaughter In causing the death of 
Freeman Wright, aged eight, at Pembroke, Me. 
He has been sentenced to the State Reform School 
during his minority.A terrible snow slide 
occurred In Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, on the 
16th last, by which several person s were killed 
and a town partially destroyed. 
Dr. Theodore Chrlstlleb, prolessor of theology at 
Bonn university In Germany, Is to deliver a course 
of lectureson preaching before the students of t he 
Yale theological school In 1832_The Secre¬ 
tary of the Interior recommends an appropriation 
of $50,000 for the survey of Yellowstone reserva¬ 
tion with a view to the allotment or the lands in 
severalty to the Indians.The Board of Su¬ 
pervisors of Niagara county have adopted resolu¬ 
tions opposing the proposed International park at 
the Falls, and even the appointment, of a commis¬ 
sion to value tbe property that would he required 
for It. They assert that so per cent, of the voters 
or the county agree with them.A clerk in 
Andrews A Co.'s store, at Climax, Mich., while 
weighing out powder for a customer, somehow Ig¬ 
nited the powder and one hundred pounds explod¬ 
ing the store was blown to pieces. Twelve per¬ 
sons were Injured, nine of them badly. It Is 
thought that the clerk and two others will die. 
Loss on the property, $3,000, 
The will of the late J, F. Armour, of Chicago, 
brother of P. D. Armour, was admitted to probate 
on the 14th lnst. It bequeaths tx> the heirs $7,500,- 
ooo and the executors gave bonds of $3, 000 , 000 . He 
bequeaths $100,000 for building a mission church 
and school In memory of his first wife, Amelia G. 
Armour.The only survivor of a party of 
ladles who assisted In the construction of the 
“ Star-Spangled Banner,” which stirred up the 
patriotic fire of Francis S. Key and created a na¬ 
tional anthem, Mrs. H. s. Sanderson, Is living lu 
Baltimore, aged S3. 
The Supreme Court of Iowa, at Des Moines, has 
given a decision in a novel hank case, the point 
having never before, It Is said, been decided In this 
country, it appears that a suit was brought on a 
note which required payment at B. F. Allen's 
bank. The note stipulated that It was to be placed 
in tbe bank, and the maker appeared at the hank 
when the note was due, and paid to the hank the 
principal and interest. The bank failed the next 
day, while the note was In transit, from Indianapo¬ 
lis to the bank for collection, and the Court held 
that the payment to the bank was tbe payment of 
the note.A new railway company has been 
organized at Evansville, Ind, to build a road irom 
EvansvlRe to Dayton, Ohio, 240 miles In length. 
The capital of the company Is $ 6 , 500,000 .The 
United States has 24 . J7 miles of railroad to every 
10,000 inhabitants. This la eight times as much 
as Europe, which has 3.29 miles to tho 10,000. 
... .The Wabash Railroad has announced the with¬ 
drawal of Its claim to different rates between 
Chicago and all points on Its line, and that It would 
sell tickets ut tue same rates as other lines. The 
Alton Railway Upon learning this at once raised 
the fare Irom Chicago to St. Louis to $4,50 and to 
Kansas City $7. This rate was adopted by the 
Wabash and other competing lines. New 
Yffrk musical circles are enthusiastic over a young 
violinist of a dozen years or so, named Maurlclo 
Dengremont, whose performance Is declared to he 
good l'or a mature player and marvelous for a lad. 
The earnings or the Central Pacific Railroad 
Company for December were$l,853,000, as against 
$1,335,870 for tbe same month last year. The total 
earning for the year 18S0 were $20,410,424, being an 
Increase of $3,257,261 over 1879. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
in Ireland the trial of the leaders of the Land 
League has become tame and uninteresting, five 
ot the principal defendants being in London giving 
Parliament a world ot trouble by obstructing all 
legislation. The League Is still busy, chiefly in 
extending Its membership by threatening evils to 
those who refuse to Join It. It Is also adding to the 
number ot those landlords and land agents whom 
It Is punishing by “ Boycotting ” them. The most 
prominent “ tyrant” now undergoing this sort 01 
excommunication la Bence Jones Esquire, a rack- 
renting landlord and agent at Clonakllty, County 
Cork. For years this 11 lraud ” has been “ posing ” 
before the English public as a model Irish land¬ 
lord earnestly doing good to an ungrateful, lazy, 
lying, drunken, treacherous tenantry. This is 
the character he has been trying to fasten on 
the whole Irish peasantry, In magazine articles, 
letters to the London newspapers, and a 
hook he has published, while everywhere 
the fellow has been loud in puffinghls own praises, 
on Investigation, however, it turns out that 
Bence Jones KBqulre-as he Is fond of calling him¬ 
self—is tho meanest, most tyrannical, exacting 
and rack-rentlDg ot all the landlords In his coun¬ 
ty, and as the facts become known sympathy for 
him disappears. Wishing to ship his stock to 
England since he has been overtaken by the Boy¬ 
cotting Nemesis, the railroads refused to carry 
the animals, the Cork line of steamers declined 
to transport them, and after they had been taken 
to Dublin, It. was only after much delay and loss 
that he secured their passage. From all account s, 
Benco Jones Esquire richly deserved “ Boycot¬ 
ting.” Tho government. Is arresting large num¬ 
bers of Laud Leaguers for “ terrorizing about 
160 were arrested last Saturday In different 
parts of the Island. 
A split has taken place In the Irish Home Rule 
party in Parliament, Mr. Shaw, member for Cork, 
having seceded, with a lew others, from the Par¬ 
nell radicals. Tho Commission on Agricultural 
Depression recommend for Ireland agovernmental 
scheme of emigration; also one of migration from 
over-peopled districts; a plan for the reclamation 
of waste lands, and a court of arbtt ration lor fixing 
rents. They generally approve a modified form 
of peasant proprietory. Tbe minority of tbe com¬ 
mission consider these measures as not sufficiently 
strong. 
in England an attempt has been made to blow 
up the barracks at Salford. The explosion Is be¬ 
lieved to have been effected by dynamite, and is 
attributed to the Fenlaus. In tbe House of Com¬ 
mons all legislation has been blocked since the 
opening of Parliament by tbe obstructive tactics 
of the Parnellltes, who are determined to prevent 
as long as possible the Introduction by the Gov¬ 
ernment of a coercive bill for Ireland. The war 
with the Boers In Sout h Africa still drags along, 
with a few outpost skirmishes. England has sent 
a lot of troops and cannon to the scene of hostili¬ 
ties; hut although sir Bartle Frere while In charge 
of the Cape Colonies advised that tne independ¬ 
ence of the Transvaal Republic should be restored, 
tbe Government refuses to consider the subject 
until England's supremacy shall have been reas¬ 
serted. 
The latest report Is that Greece will declare war 
against Turkey by the first of next month, unless 
Die latter concedes tho territory the Berlin Con¬ 
ference thought Greece should receive. Frauce 
has already Informed the bellicose little kingdom 
that while the Conference urged Turkey to cede 
the territory, It. conferred no right on Greece to 
claim it by force of arms, and that If she goes to 
war she must not expect aid from the Great Pow¬ 
ers. Turkey has sent a note to the Powers asking 
them to mediate In the quarrel between her and 
Greece, and suggesting another conference on the 
matter, hinting that she might he Induced to 
yield a larger territory than she has hitherto ao 
knowledged to be possible, it is most likely that a 
conference 01 the Ambassadors ot the Great Pow¬ 
ers at the Porte will settle the difficulty amicably. 
None of the Powers seems to want war just now, 
and the Grecian threats are mostly bluster. 
In France but little of general Interest has oc¬ 
curred of late. The moderate Republicans have 
been steadily gaining In all tho elections that 
have been held, local as well as national. The 
army Is now considered In a liner position—better 
disciplined, armed and more numerous than ever 
before, even In the days or the Urst Napoleon. 
For the last ten years the chief Interest of the na¬ 
tion has been to prepare the army for any con¬ 
tingency. __ ^ *_ 
[Keokuk Constitution.] 
Every Time. 
A man, or even a piece ot machinery that does 
Its work right every time, Is, we think, very cor¬ 
rectly Judged “ valuable.” And certainly none the 
less valuable is any article designed to relieve the 
Ills ot mankind, and which does so every time. 
Mesa. Jones, Cook <fc Co.. Bay State Brewery, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., write: We have used St. Jacob’s Oil 
among our men, and find that It, helps them 
•• every time," We therefore heartily recommend 
It as a paln-hea ling liniment. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Alexander Hyde, ot Lee, Mass., the well-known 
writer on agricultural topics, died In Boston on 
Tuesday, Jan. 11. A fall on the pavement on leav¬ 
ing the State House caused his death before he 
reached the hospital to which his friends were 
carrying him.Representative Geo. B. Lor- 
lug, of Massachusetts, the well-known writer on 
agricultural topics. Is spoken prominently ot as 
the successor or Gen. LeDuc as Commissioner of 
Agriculture, should the latter be removed from 
office. But ot this removal there are no present In¬ 
dications.The State Agriculture College at 
Manhattan, Kansas, has about 200 pupils, nearly 
halt ot them ladles.The annual product, of 
beet sugar lu France amounts to the value of $65,- 
000,000. The number of persons to which this In¬ 
dustry gave employment in 1879, exclusive of 
those who raised the beets, was 6S.5S2. of whom 
61,023 were men, 9,365 were women, and 8,192 were 
children.Extensive experiments In lrrlga- 
tion have been made In Kansas this season, and 
have proved very successful, one acre producing 
1,000 bushels ot sweet potatoes. It is proposed to 
utilize Ihe waters ot the Arkansas on the plains of 
Western Kansas, and Btock companies are forming 
to take charge of the work.The recent 
heavy snows have made it Impossible for quail 
and partridges in different parts of the country to 
get their accustomed food, starving hundreds of 
them and driving others to farm-houses for some¬ 
thing to eat. 
For the week ended Dec. 18 there arrived at Liv¬ 
erpool from America and Canada 312 live cattle, 
162 sheep, 150 pigs, 4,996 quarters of beef, 650 car¬ 
casses of mutton, and 301 dead pigs.The 
famine In Russia, It is predicted, will assume pro¬ 
portions altogether beyond previous estimates, 
but. no steps have been taken to meet It, The 
Russian peasant cannot afford at the best of times 
to eat wheat, and this grain has been sold long 
ahead to the Jews and other middlemen. What Is 
wanted Is an Immediate importation of cheaper 
grain.There was an auction sale of 62 head 
ot Short-horns at, York. England, Dec. », at an 
average of about $100 per head.The annual 
report of Secretary McGltncy, ot the Elgtn Board 
ot Trade, shows that the total number of boxes of 
cheese sold on that Board during 1880 was 233,940> 
and the total number of pounds of butter sold on 
the same Board was 2,070,877. The value of the 
entire product of both oheesc and butter was $ 1 ,- 
801,303.09. This is $2Si,270 less than the transac¬ 
tions of the Utica Board during the season of isso 
for cheese alone. The butter product of the Elgin 
district ranks deservedly high, and does honor to 
the State In which It Is made, .Much gratifi¬ 
cation Is felt at St. Hellers, Island of Jersey„at the 
steadily Increasing demand from the United States 
for Jersey cattle. The farmers are obtaining the 
unheard-of price of $ 1,000 each for their cows_ 
.... Kansas harvested 25,000 acres ot Egyptian or 
Rice Corn last year, the average yield being 25 
bushels to the acre. This corn was among Egypt’s 
exhibits at the Centennial, and, os It thrives In 
the driest soil and under the tntensest beat, and is 
preferred by cattle and fowls to Indian Corn, its 
widespread introduction is predicted. 
The Nebraska state Farmers’ Alliance met at 
Lincoln on the 6th, completed Its organization on 
the 7t.h and adjourned. They “ resoluted” against 
railroad exactions; against excessive bridge tolls 
on ihe Missouri; m favor of Congress Improving 
the channel of that river; In favor of farmer leg¬ 
islators, and against the diversion of the Western 
part of the 8Utte from tillage to stock-raising. 
The new Indiana State Board of Agricultur e or¬ 
ganized on the fit.h by the election of President, 
R. M. Lockhart, Waterloo, De Kalb CounLy; Vice- 
President, B. H. Uaueoek, Fredericksburg, Wash¬ 
ington County; Secretary, Alexander Herron, 
Indianapolis; Treasurer, James A. Wlldman, In¬ 
dianapolis; General Superintendent, Fielding 
Beeler, I ndlanapolls; Executive Committee, Jacob 
Mutz, Shelby County; Robert Mitchell, Gibson 
County; W. II. Ragan, Hendricks County; and 
8. R. Quick, Bartholomew County. The time for 
the State Fair was fixed for Monday, Sept. 26, 
1881, and to close on Friday evening. Sept, 30. 
On the. 6th also tho Indiana Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation elected the rollowlng officers: President, 
Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Secretary, J. w. 
Robe, Greencttstle; Treasurer, s. w. Dungan, 
Frau kiln. Notice was given of an amendment to 
the constitution providing for electing a corre¬ 
sponding Secretary, it was resolved that next 
January the meeting be held on the same week 
with the annual meeting of the State Dairymen’s 
Association, the Swine-Breeders’Association, and 
the State Agricultural Society. The Association 
adjourned until the regular semi-annual meeting 
In May. 
A Michigan farmer has been detected In selling 
rolls of butter which had been made hollow, filled 
with water and frozen solid.The exports 
of grain from the port of New York during the 
year isso reached 107 , 000,000 bushels, an excess of 
nearly 13,000,000 bushels over the exports of any 
previous year.The agrarian outrages In 
Ireland during December, isso, numbered see, 
which was more than for the whole ot 1879, and 
little less than the aggregate of the three pre¬ 
ceding years.The sales ot wool lor isso in 
the Boston market foot up a little rising 100 ,- 
000,000 pounds against 12S,000,000 tor 1870. 
The III., State Board of Agricultural resolutes 
against the manufacture of oleomargartne and 
sulne, and Gov. Mccuilum of that state in his 
message to the Legislature urges It to amend the 
criminal code on the subject of adulteration of food, 
referring to these concoctions.Connecticut has 
ono farmer In her Legislature In the Senate 
and 831 u the House out of a total of 245 —more 
farmers than men belonging to any otber calling 
.In Ireland wheat In I860 was fully 3s. per 
280 pounds or 5s. per quarter better in quality than 
In 1679; hut the present price Is 2 a, per 280 pounds 
under last year, or 3s. Cd. per iso pounds. The 
production per acre was no larger in isso than in 
1879. ...The visible supply ot grain, comprising 
the stocks In granary at the principal points of 
accumulation at Jake and Seaboard ports, and on 
rail irom Western lake and river ports and frozen 
In on New Y'ork canals. 
1881 1880 
Jan, 8, .Tan. 10, 
buah. bunh. 
Wheat. 28,892,132 30,309,361 
Com. 10,051.479 11,864,045 
Oats. 3,732.855 3,292,516 
Barley. 3,215,885 4,401,910 
ltye. 816.442 1 152,102 
Total. 63,338,793 51,012,234 
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