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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY 21 
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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, May 16, issi. 
As we go to press telegraphic reports announce 
the resignation of Senators Conkllng and Platt 
from tlielr seats In the United States Senate. 
It is stated that the President la anxious to con¬ 
sider a practical and speedy plan or dealing with 
the Mormon question. The recent attacks of the 
Mormon leaders on Governor Murray of Utah, and 
General Hano, have excited considerable feeling 
In the President's mind. Senator Logan, to whom 
the President confided the championship of the 
anti-polygamy policy in the senate Is actively 
considering legislation. 
The New York musical festival just closed, 
scored a great success. In no particular waa 
failure written against It.. The seven concerts 
were attended by more than 80,000 people. The 
receipts were between $so,ooo and *00.000, and 
the expenses about $ 10,000 less. The music 
was of a high order and satisfactorily rendered. 
One of Green’s coal shafts at Oarbondale, Kansas, 
caught tire on the 6lh Inst consuming all the tim¬ 
bering at lim foot of the shatt. There were 
twenty miners at work and none could escape un¬ 
til the lire was extinguished. Men were then 
lowered down the shaft and rescued fourieen of 
them alive. Three were dead and three cannot be 
found and are prooably dead. Several of the res¬ 
cued were badly sufTocated. 
The first batch of copies of the revised New 
Testament have been received In this city for 
dlstilbutlon this month to persons who have con¬ 
tributed ten dollars or more to the expenses of the 
revision Incut red by members or the American 
committee. About eleven hundred persons living 
in different parts of the country are down on the 
list of contributors. The total amount contribu¬ 
ted up to March 1, isso, was $32,234 88. 
The Rev. Dr. Kdwarda of Chicago Is an enthu¬ 
siastic bicycle rider, lie spins Into the city from 
his home In a suburb, nearly every day, and at¬ 
tracts much attention. lie intends next Summer 
to make a bicycle tour of England. 
The late General Emory Upton left an estate 
worth more than thirty thousand dollars, con¬ 
sisting of an Interest In a rolling mill at Battle 
Creek, Mich., a place upon the Hudson near West 
Point, and considerable personal property. The 
Income from his tactlos is about one thousand dol¬ 
lars per year, ills principal heir Is hla slater 
Sarah. 
The mayor of Cincinnati Issued a general order 
on the 7lh, lor saloons to be closed on Suiiday, but 
the saloon keepers held a meeting and resolved 
to keep open, and every saloon was running Sun¬ 
day. There are l.soo saloon keepers in the city, 
six times as many as there are police, and they 
feel confident that they can successfully resist the 
authorities. 
D. o. Mills, ot San Francisco, told Hester 
Brothers, of New York to furnish the New York 
residence of his daughter, who has just married 
Whltelaw Reid, in their own way. Their bill was 
j400,(ioo, which he declines to pay. 
There Is a little righteous indignation on the 
part of some congressmen because Senator Conk¬ 
llng who was seemingly much devoted to uphold¬ 
ing the “ eternal principles” during the deadlock, 
now says his action was simply to allow the Presi¬ 
dent to withdraw Robertson's nomination. 
The people of Springfield, ill., amply made up 
for the snobbery which led the hotel keepers of 
that place to refuse recommendations to tbe Fisk 
University Jubilee Singers. They entertained 
them at their private houses, and ex-Gov. John M. 
Palmer preceded their concert with an address of 
welcome. tVhen there Is added to this local de¬ 
monstration President Garfield’s statement that 
he would invite the singers to the White House if 
the Washington hotels should decline in take 
them, the Springfield tavern keepers may begin 
to discover that the guests of Queen Victoria, the 
Emperor of Germany, and Mr. Gladstone are not 
unworthy to enter their establish men ts. 
The plans for a new capltol building at Austin, 
Texas, nave been accepted. The Legislature ap¬ 
propriated 81,500,000 for the purpose, but experts 
say It will take $3,uOG,uOO u the selected design Is 
followed. Wonder it it will be modeled after ours! 
It la believed that the postal revenue for the year 
will exceed $ 38 , 000 , 001 !, which Is $-1,000,000 more 
than the estimate is months ago. The excess is 
due to the revival of business. 
President Garfield has been presented with a 
letter irom President Grevy, acknowledging and 
accepting the luvltailon extended to France to at¬ 
tend the centennial anniversary of the battle of 
Yorkiown, October 19th next. 
A reinforcement of Mormons arrived at New 
York recently, 900 strong, under charge of 10 eid- 
era, and bound for Halt Lake. They have arrived 
in time to take part in the rowing up Halt River, 
which President Garfield Is desirous or giving the 
whole Mormon multitude. 
The Gowpens Monument was unveiled at Spar- 
tansburg, s. C., on tne llth lnst., in the presence 
of zo,oou people. Gov. Hagood, of Houth Carolina, 
presided. The ltev. A. Toorner Porter, of Charles- 
ton, opened the proceedings with prayer, readlug 
from a prayer-book toundon the battle-field. Thir¬ 
teen hundred volunteer troops of the State of 
South Carolina were reviewed by Gen. Henry 
Hunt, U. S. Army. The granite base and pedestal 
of the monument were built by the Joint contribu¬ 
tions of the old 13 States aud Tennessee, and the 
bronze statue or Morgan on top waB contributed 
by Congress and made by Ward. 
Prof. Richard A Proctor, tne English astrono¬ 
mer, and Mrs. Sallle D. Crowley, or St. Loula, were 
married recently. The church was filled with an 
unusually brilliant assemblage, The bride la a 
daughter ot Charles M. Thompson, ot St. Louis, 
and a niece of Gen. Jeff. Thompson, of Confed¬ 
erate fame. 
The strange spectacle of a church floating down 
a river waa seen during the prevalence of the re¬ 
cent floods In Dakota. It was constructed ot 
strong timbers securely fastened, and as It floated 
down the Missouri the bell in its steeple could be 
heard above the roar of the flood and crashing of 
the ice. 
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern 
Railroad Company propose to take paternal care 
of their employes, who will be required to sign a 
pledge of abstinence from liquor, billiards and 
profanity, and to give the company the right to 
pay their debts, deducting the amounts from tlielr 
monthly wages. 
Scribner ic. Co. announce their change or name 
fo «* The Century Co.,” and Scribner’s” Is to be 
known as “ The Century.” The change will 
take place probably some time during the coming 
Autumn. Wonder If the hieroglyphic cover will 
be retained f 
Boston wants to show New York how to do It. 
Rumors are afloat that a project for a World's Fair 
at the “ Hub” will soon be set on foot. Well, Bos¬ 
ton being one of the suburbs of New York, wilt be 
a good place for the Fair, and wc won't have to 
bother with it! 
it is stated that a contract has been made with 
the Wilson line of steamers by parties In Norway 
and Sweden to transport “ 0 .. 01 W Scandinavians to 
this country this Hummer. 
Three colleges are in trouble for various reasons. 
The academic department ot the New York Uni¬ 
versity has been abolished by a vote or its council, 
at Dartmouth College President Bartlett Is at 
loggerheads with the faculty over the matter of 
the lecture system, and at Cornell University 
Acting President Russel has been requested to 
resign for certain lH-deflncd, personal reasons. 
What next 1 
The first ‘‘hot wave " of the season came upon 
us on the llth and 12t,h Inafca. Several cases of in¬ 
solation are reported, the most from tbls city. At 
Troy, N. Y., the mercury marked 96 o and In this 
city 9lo. At Chicago the heat was oppressive, 
men and horses being overcome with the heat. At 
Toronto, Canada, the thermometer registered the 
highest temperature for May since 1841, viz: 900 . 
Port Jervis, N, Y., 1000 . 
Mr. Stanley Matthews has been confirmed Asso 
elate Justice of the Supreme Court by one majority. 
Had Senator Anthony, who was against confirma¬ 
tion, not left the room Just previous to the ballot¬ 
ing the vow would have been a tie, and Mr. 
Matthews defeated by the chairman’s vote. The 
President will not withdraw the nomination of 
Robertson for collector of the Port, and It will 
probably be confirmed soon. 
many having their an swept away—lands, houses, 
grain and stock. On the Nebraska side the de¬ 
struction was much less, as the bottom was not so 
thickly settled, and did not contain so much land. 
Tbe most wonderful thing in this whole catastro¬ 
phe is the small loss of human life.George 
Morton, a Canadian cheese exporter, will under¬ 
take a scheme for a great dairy colony in the 
Northwest. There are to be 224 farms of 160 acres 
each, stocked at the outset with thirty cows each. 
The novelty will be a narrow-guage railroad, with 
a station ou each farm, so that milk can be carried 
the estimated value of the cattle lost. Judge Mor¬ 
ris, in the United states District Court, tiled his 
opinion In the case last Thursday, dismissing the 
till, the bill of lading signed by the agent of the 
shipper of the cattle having stipulated that the 
cattle were to be carried on the upper deck and 
that the steamship owners should not be responsi¬ 
ble for any loss that might arise through the cat¬ 
tle being washed overboard or Jettisoned .A 
New Orleans report says that the Anchor line of 
steamers are about to take eight of their largest 
to a central <^e^e flictoiVtwl<^a^.ay ° ««^ «f trade between our Atlantic ports and 
Four car loads of California oranges arrived in ' P * mD “ b6tween New 0rleana an d 
Chicago on the 13th. They were In good condition 
and came from a 400-acre orange farm near Los 
Angeles. More are coming. The promises of 
orange culture In the Golden State are now being 
fulfilled. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEW8. 
The known exports of oleomargarine from this 
port last year amounted to 11 , 000,000 pounds, of 
which Rotterdam took nearly 7 , 000,000 pounds and 
Glasgow 1,500.000 pounds.Assemblyman 
Crasper, or this State, has captured the four 
cheese factories at Gouverneur for the manufac¬ 
ture of cheese adulterated with lard, but a full- 
cream cheese factory is about to be started there, 
too.There are now over forty butter cream¬ 
eries in Iowa, and about the same number In Wis¬ 
consin. They are organized on the Falrlamb 
system ot gathering the oream dally from the 
farm, paying for it monthly by the Inch. The 
price has ranged In the pa3t year from 12 to 20 
cents per Inch, the average being about ig cents 
per Inch..The Cincinnati Gazette announces 
it has some good Blount corn ror sale for a friend 
at 25 cents per pound and postage.In 1792 
France and England had each lsu ,000 land owners, 
To-day France has coo.uoo; England, It is asserted, 
only 30,009.The latest advices from the 
Northwest say that sickly Winter wheat has re¬ 
cuperated wondei fully under the stimulating in¬ 
fluence of the late mild weather.The Den¬ 
ver (Col.) Inter-Ocean says chat enough alfalfa 
has been sold in that Htate this year to seed 10,000 
acres, which next year will give an increase of 
60,000 tons of hay worth $1,250,000, estimating the 
yield at six tons 
an acre. On some farms near __ _ w __ 
Denver it has produced eight and nine tons. I and carried It a distance of half a mile without in- 
Mr. conlan ot Talbot Co , Maryland, Is unhappy 
because In his orchard of 1,000 peach trees one- 
third of the buds have unexpectedly blossomed. 
On examination of his trees some weeks ago every 
bud appeared to be killed, and In hla discourage¬ 
ment he ofTered to sell tbe entire prospective crop 
for $ 5 . Mr, McCaffrey, a blacksmith promptly 
accepted the offer, had the crop transferred In 
legal form, and now even In the joy of hla good 
luck he stubbornly refuses to share any p art of It 
with the disconsolate Conlan. it Is said that It 
one bud out of five boars fruit, a fair crop Is as- 
assured-whtch will probably account for the fro- 
quent heavy crops after assurances that the buds 
had all been killed.... 
Sussex cattle have at last got an English Herd 
Book.English papers tell of a large number 
of grocers lh various towns who are hauled before 
the magistrates and fined tor selling “ buttcrlne ” 
for butter... — The Peasant League Is the name 
or ud Austrian association of agriculturists which 
la asserting the rights ot the tillers of the soil.... 
....According to Buenos Ayres advices of March 
14, six weeks of dry weather were causing farmers 
and stockmen to fear a winter drought. All the 
bullock carts in the country were busy taking to 
the - outside camps’’posts and wire fences to in¬ 
close new stock ranges starting in all directions. 
Estranclas. or ranges, 24 leagues in extent were 
being inclosed by their owneis, aud land was rap- 
Ily rising In value owing to a large Immigration— 
mostly from Southern Europe—and to the develop¬ 
ment or the country.Australian news ot 
March 5 , tells of a rat plague In Queensland. Many 
lambs were killed by the vermin, which were doing 
a world of other mischief.In New South 
Wales the wool statistics for the season show an 
Increase of 34 , 70 s bales.In Sidney the weath¬ 
er was fine and postures abundant, though It was 
the second month In the Hummer. From nearly 
all quarters reports about grain were satlsfac- 
ton'.In Victoria the rabbit nuisance had 
triumphed over Government control. Guns, traps, 
dogs and poison were seldom able to protect the 
crops from the famishing pests. 
The Indiana Short-horn Herders’ Association 
meets at Indianapolis, Tuesday, May 24 . The 
State Wool-growers association convenes at the 
same place and lime.Georgia farmers have 
been heavily importing Northern and Western, 
hay, buying at $1 45 per 100. Much Western corn 
at $1 to 15 per busnel, Is also being purchased, 
which Commissioner Henderson regards as a bad 
sign for southern planters.in 1874 Georgia 
planters used 50,000 tons of commercial fertilizers; 
this year 100,000 were sold. The acreage of wheat 
and oats In Georgia is short, but such grain as is 
planted looks well. Corn Is 20 days behind, but 
the acreage is large.Southern reports from 
North Carolina to Texas show a considerable In¬ 
crease in the acrea ge of cotton, the gain in Georgia 
being estimated at from 20 to 25 per cent. For the 
last fortnight the weather has been unusually 
favorable and the young plants promise fine 
crops. Corn Is being neglected greatly for cotton, 
.. On May 13 snow was still deep In many partB of 
the Catsklll region, N. Y. Near Gibbon a row of 
cherry trees were In full bloom standing in a snow 
bank five or six feet deep.The peach trees 
In Southampton County. Va„ are so full of blos¬ 
soms that It Is feared the matured fruit will break 
the branches.Partial records of the live 
stock interests of Texas show a yearly yield of 
something over 400,000 head of cattle. Eight dol¬ 
lars per head Is about the average market price at 
Han Antonio.A telegram from Worthington, 
Iowa, on May 13, says a storm that afternoon lifted 
the barn of John Pitman, contalulbg six horses, 
John Archer, a vigorous farmer ot 45 , living at 
Randolph, In this State, died early laBt week, 
in the opinion of his physicians, from poison re¬ 
ceived Into his system while spreading a prepared 
phosphate on a field. He perspired freely and the 
poison, it Is thought, was taken In through the 
pores of the skin and Into the lungs. It ts claimed 
that when animals die of certain malignant dis¬ 
eases, the poison penetrates even their bones and 
may be retained in the phosphate prepared from 
t,3ein .Capt. J. J. Claque, Commissary of 
Subsistence, Bent by Gen. Terry to Investigate the 
losses and destitution caused by the floods In the 
Missouri valley, has made his report. In his state¬ 
ment he says that from the mouth of the Big 
Sioux River to Y r ankton, the bottom land on both 
sides of the river was covered with water Its en¬ 
tire width, and looked like an Inland sea, with 
occasional huge drifts of black Ice somewhat re¬ 
sembling lava beds. Such sudden and merciless 
destruction la seldom witnessed in a life-time. On 
the Dakota side alone It is estimated that about 
225,000 acres of fertile land were submerged. Home 
idea of the destruction may be conceived when It 
is known that here was one of the oldest and most 
prosperous settlements In Dakota, said to average 
a family to about every 20 acres, and having a 
railroad traversing Its length for about 50 miles, 
passing through six thrifty villages, now all sub¬ 
merge! with water or entirely washed away, Elk 
Point Station suffering the least on account of its 
elevation. It may safely be said that no one living 
on this bottom was lelt free from serious loss, 
Jury to the horses; also, two barns belonging to It. 
Baker were blown a distance of two miles. No 
lives were reported 103 t .In the Illinois 
nouse of Representatives the bill prohibiting all 
railroads in that Htate from changing their rates 
or irelght without first giving sixty days’ notice 
of the change by posting the same In every station 
along the line, under heavy penalties, was passed 
last Friday.Last Thursday the New York 
Legislature passed the ami oleomargarine bill.... 
....At Baltimore, May 13 , George H. Williams, 
attorney for the Agricultural and Mechanical 
Society of Western Maryland at Cumberland, filed 
his declaration to the suit against Beecher, The 
declaration alleges that lu July, 1878, Beecher 
agreed for $300 and his expenses to deliver an ad¬ 
dress for the benefit of the society at Its fair on 
October 23,1S7S; that by reason of said agreement 
the plaintiff was ODllged to spend large sums of 
money in advertising to Induce a great attendance 
ot visitors, and large sums to accommodate them, 
which would not have been expended but for the 
agreement made with Beecher; that Beecher 
utterly disregarded his agreement and contract 
w Lthout pretence ot excuse. Wherefore the plain¬ 
tiff claims fio.ouo damages. 
In December last Nelson Morris, of Chicago, 
shipped from Baltimore on the Spanish steamer 
Enrique a number of cattle for Liverpool. During 
the voyage the vessel encountered severe gales, 
and it Is charged thaK 26 head of the cattle were 
thrown overboard. Subsequently Mr. Morris li¬ 
beled the Enrique, bringing suit to recover $ 7 , 500 , 
Liverpool. The great Increase of grain snipments 
down the Visslsatpp! la the cause ot the transfer 
Rates of lake freights from Chicago to Buffalo 
opened at 6c. for Wheat and 4 ;ac. for Com per 
bu shel.Ocean freights hence to Liverpool have 
been ror a few days! >;@ 2 d, but higher rates are 
demanded, caused by the expected arrival this 
week of about 5.;< million bushels of grain that 
was frozen In the canal last Fall. ...a De¬ 
troit paper of May 4 has reports of the wheat crop 
from 33 counties out of the 77 in Michigan: of 91 
towns 17 report an average; 1 , fair average; 2 . low 
average; 33 . crop; 4 ^ crop; 1,35 crop; g, \ 
crop; 14,2-3 crop; 1,30 par cent under average ; 
2, 2 3 to X crop; 2 , x r O 1*3 crop; 4, average 8 to 10 
bushels per acre ; l, considerably Injured; 1 , poor; 
one, bud condition. Rains and warm weather 
have since probably Improved the outlook. 
A telegram from Washington yesterday says that 
the Investigation made by direction of the Depart¬ 
ment of state, with a vtew to correct the exagger¬ 
ated reports circulated In Europe concerning hog 
cholera and trichina) among American swine, has 
resulted lu the following conclusions: That Amer¬ 
ican swine are of the best and purest breeds and 
are ted and fattened for rcurket on corn; lhat the 
reports published In Europe concerning the deaths 
of American hogs from hog cholera are gross ex¬ 
aggerations; that American hogs which have 
died or may die of cholera or from any other cause 
can have uo relation to the meat product except 
to decrease It, as such animals cannot by any pos¬ 
sibility pass the severe scrutiny and Inspection to 
which hogs destined tor killing and curing are sub. 
ject; that, even it It WBre possible to pass such in-" 
epectlon, no art of the curer could convert such 
animals Into meat which could pass the Inspec¬ 
tion even ot a blind man; that the merchantable 
lard cannot be produced from animals which 
die of hog cholera or Irom any other cause; that 
the freedom from trichinosis of the two great 
pork-consuming centers ot the West, Chicago and 
Cincinnati, furnishes the strongest possible evi¬ 
dence of the purity of American pork; that the re¬ 
ported cases of trlchuosls have resulted from eat¬ 
ing uncooked meat, shown to be Inferior or re¬ 
jected, and that thorough cooking entirely de¬ 
stroys tbl3 parasite and removes aU danger in this 
regard from eating pork.Certain returns 
Just made In England in reference to 16 counties 
show that farms are going a-begging. There are 
no tenants to take them. Good land in the fen 
district of Huntingdonshire, which formerly—five 
or seven years ago-brought from 32 to 40 shillings 
per acre, Is now let with difficulty at from 15 to 25 
shillings; clay land, which let at 30 shillings may 
now be had at from seven to ten, If auy one can be 
got to take It. In Leicestershire things are not 
much betier. A farm or iso acres, unlf grass 
which hud been let tor :«> years at 35 shillings an 
acre, has Jint been rclet for 20 shillings .. The 
Mark Lane Ex ureas of last Monday says: “ Wheat 
has but slightly progr essed, severe night, frosts re¬ 
tarding it. Ira appearance, however, remains 
healthy, and the crop prospcctB are favorable.” 
The I roach Governmdbt has largely enlarged 
the bounties to French shipping, wlrn a view to 
increase the French mercantile navy, and Bis¬ 
marck has Just laid before ibo German Reichstag 
a paper on these bounties, In which the action 
just taken by France Is made the basis of a sug¬ 
gestion that Germany must enter upon rhe same 
course. This piper states the French shipping 
bounties at $i.8uo,vo»J annually; English, mainly- 
in postal subsidies, at $ 3.2115 0011 ; Italy, $ 1.8110 iwo • 
Austria nuugary, $1.085,000; Belgium, siss om); 
Netherlands, $G5,oou; and Germany only $511 otju. 
IheUnltod States at present pays nothing but 
ocean postage to mall steamers, and it pracriealiy 
supports its consular service abroad off American 
shipping. 
(Ad vertisem elite.) 
HU Last Dose. 
Hald a sufferer from kidney-trouble when asked 
to try Kidney-Wort for a remedy. -I’ll try It, but 
It will be my last dose.” it cured him and now he 
recommends It to all. If you have disordered 
urine don’t fall to try It.—Yokohama Dispatch. 
Thousands of ladles to-day cherish grateful re¬ 
membrances of the help derived from the use of 
Lydia E. Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound. It pos¬ 
itively cures all female complaints. Send to Mrs, 
Ljdta E. Ptukham 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, 
Maas., tor pamphlets. 
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Tkoitg-Frcit Laxative la the best and moat 
agreeable preparation In the world for constipa¬ 
tion, biliousness, etc. One-halt to one lozenge Is 
the dose. Price 25 and 60 cents per box. 
No health with inactive liver 
gans without Hop Bitters. 
and urinary or- 
BURNETT’3 COCOAIPJB, 
Ttie Best ana Cheapest Hair Dressing. 
It kills dandruff, allayB irritation, and promote 
a vigorous growth of the Hair. 
Burnett’s Flavorlug; Extrueta are Inva¬ 
riably acknowledged the purest and best. 
SPECIAL FROM THE CHIEF CENTERS. 
Uuill Halurday, May 14. 
Bohiou.— Receivers pay the following prices : 
Buttkk —New Northern — Veimcnt dairy lets, 
choice, I9@‘20c.; New Y T ork dairy las, choice, 17@ 
19c.; lair to good, I4@iec.; new Western—Choice 
