THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JAN. 8 
Ilftos ot tjre ®lffk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Jan. 3,1880. 
W. H. Hawket, M. D., of Helena, Montana, for 
two years Latin and Greek Instructor at Rugby 
Academy, near Philadelphia, has been tendered 
the position of private tutor to President-elect 
Garfield’s two oldest sons....Seven boys, vic¬ 
tims of the recent factory tire at BufTalo, X. Y., 
were burled In one grave, the pall bearers being '28 
factory boys_.... The Treasury Department has 
made the-transfer of $3,999,500 In gold bullion 
from the Assay Office In New York to the Phila¬ 
delphia Mint for coinage Into eagles and half 
eagles. After this transfer there will still remain 
in the New York Assay Office about $63,oiKi,ooo in 
gold bullion, more than enough to keep the Phila¬ 
delphia mint employed for six months in coining 
gold exclusively.n. D. Cunntugham, editor 
of the Troy <N. Y.) Telegram, has been arrested 
for criminally libelling Mayor Murphy, ot that 
city, hy publishing the statement that the Mayor 
on Monday attended a dog fight, and owned one of 
the contestants.Snow attained to the depth 
of 2’-. reet at The Dalles last week, 3 feet at the 
Cascades, 10 Inches at Walla Walla and Celilo, 
and 8 Inches at Blalocks, Oregon.Hotels 
at The Dalles are crowded. 
Mayor Adams’ foundery and machine shop, at 
Marshall, Mich., were destroyed by Are on the 28th 
Loss, $15,000; insured for $4000.D. W. Hal¬ 
stead’s warehouse and B. Jones’ meat market at 
Fort Dodge, lowa, were burned on tbe 28th. Loss, 
$10,000; Insurance, $5000 .TliePiesident has 
definitely decided to renew the appointment of 
Secretary Hamsey as Acting Secretary of the Navy 
from time to time until the 4th of March... 
The Ontario Association of Congregational Min¬ 
isters, at Falrport, N. Y , has cut off from fellow¬ 
ship Rev. Myron Adams, ot Plymouth Church, 
Rochester, for denying the doctrine of endless 
punishment.Arthur Langloss, ten years 
old, ran away from the farm of Patrick Lawler, 
Manhattan, Ind., because ot 111 treatment, slept 
In an open Held, bad his feet frost-bitten, and yes¬ 
terday- at Chicago bolh feet were amputated. 
Gangs ot horse thieves and burglars are operating 
In the Hud son Elver ' alley and the back country 
on either shore. Several valuable animals were 
stolen at New Paltz and other points. Three 
stores were broken Into In Rondout on the 27th 
In one a safe was removed to the sidewalk to be 
loaded on a wagon, but the burglars were fright¬ 
ened off without accomplishing their object. 
George McGerk was murdered on the 28th by his 
insane brother, Taylor McGerk, at McGerk's Sta¬ 
tion, on the Union Pacific Railroad, Moniteau Co., 
Mo. The homicide had just returned from an In¬ 
sane asylum, at Socorro, New Mexico. 
Colonel D. Loder, A. A. G , has started a new 
military paper at Trenton, called The Jersey 
Blue, In the Interest ot National Guardsmen 
and Comrades of the Grand Army.. Hav¬ 
ing been tossed about by a succession of 
screeching gales. Captain O’Neill has just brought 
Into pore from Barrow, the ship G. W. Wolff. On 
the 25th ot November the Wolff passed a Nor¬ 
wegian bark with her three topmasts gone by t he 
board, the. foreyard with one studding sail on it, 
all the boats gone, and part of the bulwarks on 
both sides washed away. The name of the bark 
was long and could not be deciphered. At the 
time a gale was bio wing and the sea was washing 
over the deserted ship fore and art. No signs ot 
life were visible on the tempest-tossed craft.___ 
A few days since an east-bound emigrant train 
on the Union Pacific Railroad, parted In two near 
Lodge Pole station, Nebraska, and on the portions 
striking together again, eight, cat-8 were wrecked 
and five passengers were hurt, but none fatally. 
.Ira Fullerton, a young farmer of Roxanna 
township, Eaton QOUUty, Mlcli., lately surrendered 
himself to officers, saying he had been assaulted 
by Gilbert Butcher, a neighbor, when he disem¬ 
boweled him with an axe la self-defence. 
The icemen of Maine sold l.ooo.ooo tons of 
1 ce last year, and expect to harvest 1,500,000 tons 
tbls season. They are already at work on the 
Penobscot and the Kennebec. It Is said that it 
costa to cut Ice on these rivers from 14 to 22 cents 
a ton, 60 cents to load it on vesselB, and about $1.50 
to freight It to market.Fight Philadelphians 
have died during the year who left property valued 
at over half a million dollars.The Ponca 
chiefs left Washington Dec. 29t.h, for Carlisle, Pa., 
tovlalt the Ponca children at the Indian Indus¬ 
trial School, and will thence proceed directly to 
thetr reservation In the Indian Territory. 
A special from Fond du Lac, Wls., says: “An 
elderly woman named Timer died here under 
peculiar circumstances. She was a sufferer from 
pneumonia for some years, and a warm flat-iron 
was ordered to be put on her chest. Her husband, 
a habitual drunkard, applied a heavy Iron, which 
was so hot that It burned through the cavity of 
her cbest, and she died In the greatest agony. 
The population of the State of Nebraska, accord¬ 
ing to the schedules returned to the Census Office, 
Is 452,432. Of this number 249,276 are males aud 
203,15" females; 355,042 are native and 97.390 for- 
elgiTborn ; 444.805 are white and 2.627 are colored, 
“Indians not taxed”—that is, Indiana In Lrlhal 
relations under the care of the Government—are 
not Included In the above.The health of 
Mrs. W. T. Sherman is quite precarious, and she 
will not probably be in Washington society this 
Winter.The production of whisky In the 
Cincinnati district In 18S0 reached nearly 10 , 000 ,- 
ooo gallons, on which the government collected a 
revenue of $12,300,000. 
A new electric signal was placed along the track 
of the New York, Lake ;Erle and Western Rail¬ 
road, 300 or 400 yards rrorn the Jersey city depot, 
a few days ago.The Pullman Car company 
has an order for a private coach for a Philadel¬ 
phia millionaire, to cost $30,000. It will he very 
handsomely appointed and [named the “William 
Penn.”.The boot shop of Daddleford & 
Clark, at Holllston, Mass., was burned on Thurs¬ 
day night, w. O. Hosmer, bootmaker. In the same 
building, and J. Stewart & Son, sustained small 
losses.A Are at Jackson, Mich., recently 
destroyed the Marlon House, a two-story frame 
building, wttb four stores on tlie first floor, and 
tbe adjoining brick block, containing the Jackson 
City Bank and four stores. The hooks of the 
bauk were saved. Los3, sgo.ouo .The steamer 
Plough Boy, en route from I’lne Bluff with a cargo 
of 400 bales ot cotton consigned to New Orleans 
merchants, sank at Pendleton’s Landing, fifteen 
miles below Pine Bluff. Ark., on Thursday even¬ 
ing. The boat was valued at $goqo, and Is thought 
to he a total loss.Mr. Robillard. recently 
unseated in the Quebec Parliament because of 
undue Influence exerted in his favor by the 
pi-tests at the general election, has been again 
elected from Berthler county.The Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad Company has paid to City So¬ 
licitor West, $10,626 88, being tbe amount ot the 
judgment rendered against them by the referee, 
Joseph B. Townsend, Esq , for the Almshouse land 
taken Borne twenty years ago. This money was 
paid by the City Solicitor to City Treasurer Mar¬ 
tin, and thus i bis long-vexed matter Is at last at 
an end.Abe Rothschild, tried at Jefferson 
Texas, for murdering his mistress, has been ac¬ 
quitted.The fine residence of 0 . H. Kedzlc, 
at Evanston, Ill., was burned Dec. 31. Loss, $20,- 
000 ; insured.H. C. Rogers, farmer, living 
near Huntsville, Texas, was on Thursday fatally 
stabbed by one Pickering, who escaped. 
The receipts from customs for December will 
amount to nearly$13,000 ,000 and from Internal rev¬ 
enue to nearly $12,000,000.J. C. C. Whaley, 
editor of the Clinton Democrat, and Representa¬ 
tive-elect, died at b Ls residence In Lock Haven. 
Pa., Friday evening.From time Immemorial 
the Chinese language has found expression on 
paper In thousands of distinct symbols. Recently 
an alphabet bas been invented, consisting of 
thirty-throe characters, by which all the sounds 
or the Chinese language cau be expressed. 
Epes Sargent, who was editor of the Boston 
Transcript from 1844 to 1853, died in Boston Fri¬ 
day night, aged 67 years. In early life he was 
connected with the Boston Atlas, and was the 
author of the “ Life of Henry Clay,” and also of 
several well-known plays, and was associated 
with Park Benjamin In editing the World in 
New York, in later years he has devoted much 
labor to works on Spiritualism. During the last 
two years he edited the “ Cyclopaedia of British 
and American Poetry.” At different periods of 
his career he has written several works of fiction 
and poetry.There now remain $ 6 , 201,000 
6s of 1880 (now due) unredeemed, of which amount 
the Treasury holds $1,083,000 as Becmlty lor na¬ 
tional bank circulation. 
Ex-Rev. E. D. Winslow, the Boston forger, now 
living in Buenos Ayres with a second wife, has 
offered his Boston wife $ 15,000 if she will procure 
a divorce.An Iowa judge, although «s years 
ot age, and considered a pretty well educated man, 
has entered a college In Boston as a student. 
Vennor, the weather prophet, used to be a work¬ 
man In an axe factory at Ballston, N. Y. 
The proposition to divide Texas Into several states 
Is revived. There ls also a movement to cut Mis¬ 
souri Into two States.One of our bicycling 
Doctors of Divinity ls planning a run, with his 
son, through Scotland, England and Normandy, 
next Summer..Hon. E. B. Washburne has 
been selected to write the article on *• Illinois ” for 
the “ Encyclopaedia Brltannlca,” and Hon. James 
F. Wilson that upon “Iowa.”.Governor- 
elect Porter, of Indiana, will be married In New 
York, on the 5t.h of January, to Miss stone. 
A Uquor dealer In Norwich, Conn., on being prose¬ 
cuted for selling Uquor Illegally, said to the prose¬ 
cuting agent: “ You did not send your officers to 
my place any too quick. It ls a miserable busi¬ 
ness. You came just in time to save me. 1 am 
obliged to you.”.The Judge Advocate-Gen¬ 
eral has been directed to prefer charges and 
specifications for the trial of Cadet Whittaker. 
The court-martial will probably meet In New York 
city. It ls said the President and secretary of 
Wav are both of the opinion that it will be better 
to have the trial at some other place than West 
Point, where the influences are adverse to Whit¬ 
taker. 
At Newark, N. J., Edward Klssam, colored, beat 
hts wife to death Christmas day with a club, and 
afterward put the corpse in bed and slept beside It 
all night. The couple had been drinking freely 
with mends, and, it ls supposed, the murder was 
committed during a quarrel. Klssam was arrest¬ 
ed. He denies his guilt.At Hempstead, L. 1 , 
Sidney Hendrickson, a prominent farmer, who has 
been feeding live stock on the refuse of New York 
hotels and boarding-houses, and selling meat to 
unscrupulous butchers, pleaded guilty and was 
fined. The case excited great Interest. A number 
ot Hendrickson’s cattle were lately seized by the 
authorities and killed.Mrs. Mary Hardy ls 
lecturing arouud the country In regard to young 
women, and she tells mothers to beware of the 
young man who drives a fast, horse.Mre. 
Jessie Grant has left a moat agreeable impression 
in Washington. She is a slender, willowy blonde, 
young and pretty, with high, clear-cut features, a 
pleasing voice, and winning manners.Rev. 
James Hartnett preached a sermon at DavldvUle, 
Ark., on the duty of paying debts promptly, *• so 
much for sentiment,” he said, finally, " and the 
hard fact Is that this church owes me five hundred 
dollars, and I shall never occupy this pulpit again 
until It is paid." 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
In Ireland the trial of the leaders of the Land 
League for conspiracy against the good order of 
the Island—though nominally against the govern¬ 
ment—has begun. There ls evidently a determi¬ 
nation on part of the government to secure a con¬ 
viction, although there ls little display of the 
vindictive bitterness that has hitherto always 
marked political trials In the “ Islands of Saints.” 
The defendants appear resolved to make of the 
trial an occasion of proving to the world the gross 
abuses and intolerable grievances which have led 
to their acilon and the formation of the League. 
To this end they Intend to summon oppressed 
tenant farmers and others from all parts of the 
island, to the number of 1 , 000 , so as to obtain their 
sworn testimony of the hardships to which they 
and their class have been subjected. Prominent 
statesmen, such as John Bright and Gladstone 
himself, will, It ls said, be subpomed to testify 
with regard to speeches favorable to Ireland, 
which they have delivered. The object will be to 
obtain, under oath, their real opinions of the Irish 
Question, as it ls thought that they really helleve 
the tenants were grievously oppressed. Mean¬ 
while military preparations have been made 
so that a number of “flying columns ” are ready 
to start at a moment’s notice through the Island 
in the event of an outbreak in any part of it. It 
ls noticeable that amoDg all the troops now In the 
country there ls not a single Irish regiment. The 
Land Leaguers are still holding mass meetings 
all over the country, which are numerously at¬ 
tended except in Protestant Ulster. Even there 
many of the tenant rarmers are joining the 
League, though the rest of the Orange population 
are bitterly opposed to It. The system of “ Boy¬ 
cotting ” is spreading, and ls now applied to store¬ 
keepers, lawyers and to all who are obnoxious to 
the League. At the approaching meeting of Par¬ 
liament the Government Intend to Introduce at 
the same time measures of coercion and relief. 
[La Fayette DaUv Journal ] 
Anxious to itlse. 
There’s plenty of room upstairs, as Daniel 
Webster said to the young lawyer anxious to rise, 
but despondent of Ills chance to do so ; but no one 
need Injure himself either In climbing the stairs ot 
fame or those ot his own house or business place. 
The following ls to the point,: Mr. John A. Hutch¬ 
inson, Supt, Downer's Kerosene oil WorkB, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., writes : “ Mr. Patton, one of our fore¬ 
men, In walking up stairs last week sprained his 
leg badly. I gave him a bottle of St. Jacobs oil to 
try. He used It and an almost Instantaneous cure 
was effected.” 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS- 
No official statistics of crops are collected In 
Russia, so that a great deal of uncertainty always 
prevails about the results of the harvest until the 
crops are actually marketed. Speculators seem 
this year to have taken advantage of this uncer¬ 
tainty, and grossly exaggerated the part ial rallure 
of the harvest In some districts; and It must be 
acknowledged that all official and other Informa¬ 
tion from different parts of the empire also con¬ 
veyed a gloomy view of the outlook. This was still 
further darkened by the almost entire cessation 
of exports of grain In the late Fall and early 
Winter. Later on, however, reports of the wheat 
crop became far more favorable, and exports be¬ 
gan to resume their old-time magnitude. On Dec. 
the 9th, the following amount of wheat was 
afloat from Russian ports to the United Kingdom. 
From Azow, 608,000 bushels ; from Odessa, 240 , 000 ; 
from Nlcholaleff, 272 , 0011 , total, 1 , 120 . 000 . At the 
same date the quantity on passage thither from 
the American Atlantic ports was 2,433,000 bush¬ 
els, so that at the beginning of December Russia 
was contributing to the United Klndom nearly 
half as much wheat as all the Atlantic ports of the 
North American continent. This doubtless has 
been the chief cause of the present depression 
In prices of wheat here. 
The visible supply of grain, comprising the 
stocks In granary at the principal points of accu¬ 
mulation at lake and seaboard porta, and on rail 
from Western lake and river ports, and frozen In 
on New York canals, ls: 
1880. 1880. 1879. 1878. 
Dec. 25. Dec. 18. Dec. 27. Dec. 28. 
bush. bueli. hush. hush. 
Wheat.80,007,418 29,799,288 88,>134,366 18,283,701 
Corn..16,921,123 16,465.286 10,175.216 8,525,819 
Oats.3,950,694 3,783,061 2.795,106 2,700.310 
Barley. 3,18-.,241 3.067,731 4,539,897 5,248,162 
Rye. 873,360 940,916 1,091,338 1,732,955 
Total.54,816,836 63,966.281 47,235.317 36,481,237 
It will thus be seen that of late a great deal of 
grain has been thrown upon the market. Until a 
few weeks ago the visible supply was considerably 
greater last year than this, whereas now the case 
ls reversed. 
The tea crop of India this year ls estimated at 
700,000,000 pounds, nearly double the yield of 1878, 
Ten years ago It was only 14 , 000,000 pounds.... 
.Mr. Vennor predicts the following for the 
month of January, 1881: “As will have been seen 
from the forecast- of December, I anticipate that 
New Year's callers will have heavy slelgnlng this 
year from Montreal to Washington, D. C., and that 
a cold snap during the first quarter of this month 
wlU preserve It for that period. 1 expect blockades 
of snow In the United stales on the 7tb and 8th ot 
January, and rainy days during the mqpth wlU be 
exceedingly few. The second quarter will open 
with heavy snow-faUs and terminate In a cold 
snap. The middle or the month will bring snow¬ 
falls which wlU terminate In milder weather 
toward the end of the third quarter. This thaw, 
which win be Interrupted by a brier cold spell, 
will extend from about the 16th of the moDth Into 
February. The record of this month will show it 
will have been a severe one, and the general con¬ 
ditions of the weather will probably remind us of 
what are called ‘ real old-fashtoned Winters.” '.... 
_It ls staled that the Government Signal Ser¬ 
vice, through Its multitude of stations has care- 
rully tested Vennor’s weather forecasts, and found 
that they are no more correct than good guesses. 
The country ls so extensive that whatever kind of 
weather may be predicted In a general way Is 
pretty sure to occur In one part or another of the 
Union. 
Tue receipts of cattle In Buffalo have Increased 
from 388,057 In 1870 to 789,854 In 1880. The ship¬ 
ments over the Canadian roads have entirely re 
covered since the repeal of the prohibitory order. 
The total receipts In Buffalo of all kinds of ani¬ 
mals, except horses, show a marked Increase.... 
_A telegram from Charleston, 8. C., on Dec. 27, 
says:—Mr. Le Due, Commissioner of Agriculture, 
ls here, and has completed arrangements for the 
establishment of an experimental tea farm. The 
locarton selected ls twenty miles from Charleston 
and two miles from Summerville, on the line of the 
South Carolina Railroad.A cablegram from 
England on Dec. 29 says:—Official returns show 
that the foot-and-mouth disease Is seriously spread¬ 
ing amongBt the cattle In all the large counties of 
England. There are 6.754 cases oi the disease re¬ 
ported in Norfolk and 2,736 in London.Ed. 
Richardson, the “ cotton king” of America, ls a 
member of the New Orleans firm of Richardson & 
May. cotton factors, and Is said to be worth $15,- 
000,000. He owns lu or 12 plantations, aud makes 
15,000 or 20,000 hales a year. He Is also a partner of 
Richardson ,fc Oliver, who run the Mississippi 
Mills at Wesson, Miss., employing a capital of 
$600,000 and soo hands, and running 400 looms and 
18,000 spindles. The mills turnout both woolen 
and cotton goods, using up IS and 20 bales of cot¬ 
ton and 3,500 pounds of wool dally, but so great Is 
the demand for the goods In all the principal cities 
of the country that a Brush electric light and two 
sets of hands are employed to keep the mills run¬ 
ning day and night. There ls not a grog-shop in 
Wesson. 
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William Ryder, 
87 Jefferson street. Buffalo, N. Y. 
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who have observed Us effects on the health of 
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A timely interest Is given, by the death of the 
author, to the new edition of her masterpiece, 
“Romola,” Just issued by the American Book Ex¬ 
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