460 
JULY a 
fUtos of f|t <Huh. 
HOMS NEWS. 
As we go to press the following dispatches are 
received :— 
First Dispatch— 10:20 a. m.— President Garfield 
is shot. 
Second Dispatch— 10:30 a. m,— The President Is 
reported mortally wounded and dying. 
Third Dispatch— 10:40 a. m.— The excitement Is 
so groat that It Is impossible to state anything 
definite as to the President’s condition. The as¬ 
sassin Is captured. 
Fourth Dispatch—11:15 a. m.— The assassin’s 
name le Charles Gltteau. 
Fifth Dispatch-11 :25 a. m.— There Is a rumor 
that the shooting was done by the ex-Consul to 
Marseilles, who was removed from office. 
8ixth Dispatch —12 m.—T he physicians have 
held a consultation and say the wounds are not 
necessarily fatal. 
Latb8t, 3:60 p.m.— The President la dying. 
Very Latest, 4 p.m.—T he President is dead. 
The President was just leaving Washington for 
the Williams College commencement, and was to 
meet his wife at Long Branch on Saturday. On 
Monday he was going to WlUlamston, Mass., and 
on Thursday to St. Albans, vt. 
There are 18 sensible men at Albany anyway. 
Nine Stalwarts against nlue Democrats played a 
game of base ball Wednesday tor the bsneflt of 
the families of the men killed on the new Capitol. 
The game lasted three hours and resulted in a 
score of 68 to 26 m favor of the Democrats; $no 
were received at the gate. 
President Garfield, in accordance with the In¬ 
structions of Congress, has Invited the descen¬ 
dants of Lafayette and Rochambeau to be the 
guests of the nation, at the time ot the celebration 
ot the centennial of the battle of Yorktown. Pres¬ 
ident Grevy has acknowledged the compliment by 
detaching several persons high in official position 
to represent the French republic on that occasion. 
Rhode Island Is the first State to invite the dis¬ 
tinguished strangers to be the guests of its people, 
but the matter has been mentioned Id Massachu¬ 
setts, New York and Pennsylvania. 
Washington firms have secured the contract for 
supplying Brussels carpet for the public buildings 
under control of the Treasury Department. About 
16,000 yards will be required for the next fiscal 
year. The contract price la $1.19 per yard. 
At the annual meeting of the Wisconsin state 
Bar Association, held at Madison, a largely-signed 
petition from the prominent lawyers of the state 
was presented, asking that a suitable monument 
be erected to the memory of the late Senator Matt* 
n. Carpenter. It Is proposed to raise the neces¬ 
sary funds by a popular subscription of the people 
of the State at large. 
Secretary Kirkwood has appointed Frauds La 
Flesche to a clerkship in the Indian Office. The 
appointee Is an Indian, a brother of “ Bright 
Eyes." This new departure In selecting an 
Indian to help manage the Indians may lead to 
important results If It la honestly persevered in. 
A most remarkable instance ot wholesale pois¬ 
oning came to light on the 28th Inst., at Wllkes- 
barre, Pa. Thirteen Hungarian miners at Hazle¬ 
ton, Pa., were poisoned by eating bologna sausa¬ 
ges, and five are reported to have since died. 
At 12 o’clock on Tuesday night Sanderson’s 
stage from Lake City to Alamosa, Col., was robbed 
by two masked men ten miles west of Alamosa. 
There were five men and one woman In the coach, 
and the robbers secured between $soo and $900 
from them. It u not known how much they 
secured from the mall and treasure box of the 
coach. There 1 b no clue to the robbers. 
The finding of the Whittaker court-martial was 
forwarded to Washington from tnis city on the 
29th, together with the record of the proceedings, 
which comprises 7,600 foolscap pages. 
Heat, hail, gales, thunder-storms, and terrible 
tornadoes have made havoc North, South, East 
and West during the past three days. Supersti¬ 
tious people, who connect the appearance of a 
comet with physical disasters, must nave been 
confirmed in their error when they saw trees 
uprooted and houses leveled by these cyclones, 
churches Urted from their foundations and shat¬ 
tered into splinters, barns set blazing, and cattle 
killed by the terrific and Incessant lightning, hall 
scourging whole villages and laying waste the 
harvests for miles, and reservoirs bursting under 
the sudden deluge of rain. 
The directors of the Great Eastern steamship 
Company have decided to offer the Great Eastern 
steamer at public auction on the first of next Oc¬ 
tober unless she Is previously disposed of at pri¬ 
vate sale. 
Most ot the immigrants from Stuttgart, Germany, 
literally come by chance. The members of a so¬ 
ciety in that city contribute a certain amount 
every month, and the fund thus raised is used In 
helping people to come aoross the ocean. The 
names of all applicants are put into a lottery 
wheel, aad the winners receive passage money, 
which they bind themselves to pay back as soon 
as they are able. 
Tuesday, a storm leveled the telegraph wires 
In Chicago, At Alexandria, Mo., a row of business 
places was struck by Ughtnlng and burned; loss, 
$32,000. At Franklin, N. H„ a hall storm tornado 
did great damage. Half of the houses m the town 
had their windows shattered. The Methodist 
chutch was damaged by hoods of hall and the rain 
which poured thro ugh the shattered windows. 
The catholic church was moved six inches on its 
foundation and was twisted and badly damaged. 
Several buildings were totally wrecked. Freight 
cars at the depot of the Northern railroad were 
blown off the track. 
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln continues dangerously 
111. senator David Davis, who la executor of her 
late husband’s estate, has been summoned to her 
bedside. 
There arrived at Castle Garden in the month of 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 69,416 immigrants, making the total for the 
first six months of the year 241,498. This Is 64,613 
more than arrived In the first half ot 1880, In which 
the arrivals were more numerous than ever before. 
The quarter of a million dollars raised by sub- 
scrlptlon tor ex-President Grant basbeen Invested 
In United States four per cents, and Is to be pre¬ 
sented to him privately. 
Ninety clerks will bs removed from the Pension 
Office In a few dayB. 
More than 1,400 new Post Offices have been 
established In the past year. 
Resistance to the new prohibitory laws of Kan¬ 
sas has gone so far that while juries In the cities 
refuse to convict liquor sellers, even upon the 
clearest evidence, In Atchlnson the Common 
council, with the cooperation of Its presiding offi¬ 
cer, the Mayor, has adopted an oitflnance provid¬ 
ing for the granting ot licences to taverns and 
saloonB. This action was taken In express ridlculB 
and defiance of the prohibitory constitutional 
amendment and the laws based upon It. The 
temperance men have slnoe then had a mass 
meeting, aud called upon the Mayor to resign, 
while Gov, 8t. John threatened to call out the 
militia and put the laws Into execution by force 
of arms. All tills because the population of the 
cities la not willing to be deprived ot Its beer by 
the rural population’s temperance predilections. 
President Garfield and General Grant have 
Bbaken hands and made some observations about 
the weather. The safety of the Republic la now 
assured. 
A powder house in Tucson, Arizona, blew up 
Monday evening, breaking nearly every window 
In the town. It la reported that the county 
hospital was nearly demolished. 
Secretary Lincoln has very properly ordered the 
removal of the saloons and dance-houses rtcenlly 
put up by white robbers on the Ute reservation In 
Colorado. That is a good piece of reform, for the 
Indian. 
A thunder storm of unprecedented fury swept 
over Washington. D. C., on the 27th ult., com¬ 
mencing at S o’clock and lasting about an hour. 
While It continued it was a roar of wind and rain 
accompanied by blinding torrents of rain with 
occasional tempests of hall stones. Ford’s Opera 
House, the City Hall building and a large number 
of residences were unrooted. Shade trees were 
prostrated and consldoraole damage done to the 
fire alarm and other telegraph wires In the city. 
Many cellars in the southern portion of the city 
were flooded. The extent, of tUe damage done to 
property in the city and Georgetown is variously 
estimated at from $76,000 to $200,000. 
A man drawing his wife In a wagon, trudged 
Into St. Johnsbury, vt, having played horse from 
Water bury, C7 miles away, on a bet that he could 
do it In three dayB; he won by hall a day. 
In order to save about one hundred miles be¬ 
tween Cincinnati and the northwest, the Cincin¬ 
nati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago road Is 
constructing a branch from Its track at Kankakee 
to Seneca, on the Rock Island road, to be finished 
by September. 
The largest blue stone ever shipped to this 
State will be sent this week by canal to W. H. 
Vanderbilt, to be laid to front of his residence to 
Fifth Avenne, New York. It measures 18 by 26 
feet, is seven inches thick, and weighs twenty 
tons. 
Professor Darkness, of the Naval Observatory 
at Washington, says that it Is quite probable the 
earth passed through the tall of the comet on the 
20th of June. This view tallies somewhat with 
that of the Kentucky astronomer Klein, and will 
go far to strengthen his view that the recent re¬ 
markable storms are due to this passage through 
the nebulous something which we call the tall. 
Tho failures to the Unlud States for the first 
six months to issi number 2,cas, compared with 
2,497 the first halt or 1S80. The liabilities for the 
first half were $40,000, ooo compared with $32,- 
ooo.ooo to the same period to 1880 . 
At Po’keepsle, Thursday, on the Hudson River 
road, the axle of a freight car attached to the 
Canada Southern emigrant train bound north, 
broke aud six loaded freight cars were dislodged 
and one went, into the river. The emigrants were 
in the cars In the rear of the tralu none of which 
were dislodged. 
Dr. W, II, Russell, the English Journalist, says 
that she Yosemlte Is equal to the Alps and com¬ 
bines the attractions of half a dozen famous Eu¬ 
ropean places. 
Fighting, begun between cattle men and rene¬ 
gade Indians to Colorado, has resulted to the mur¬ 
der ot several officers aud soldiers of the regular 
army. No very complete or intelligible account 
has yet been received. 
New Hampshire now has a law taxing church 
property, the same as other property, when it ex¬ 
ceeds $10 .ooo to value. A Congregational church 
in Manchester resisted payment, on the ground 
that the law was unconstitutional; but tne high¬ 
est court deoiaes that it is constitutional. The 
Ne w Hampshire example Is like to prove conta¬ 
gious. 
Silas Cutler, of Burlington, Mas3., next to the 
oldest Postmaster to the United States, has re¬ 
signed, He was appointed In 1832, and never re¬ 
ceived more than $40 a year, in his letter he states 
that, getting old and feeble, he desires to be re¬ 
lieved ot the care of the office. As no one can be 
found willing to lake the office for the same com¬ 
pensation, it baa been discontinued 
i or the fifty-three cadets who graduated the 
other day at West Point, there are only forty va- 
eanclea, a,nd the thirteen supernumeraries will 
be attached to the army as extra second ileuten- 
an's. If no regular appointment can be given 
the m at the end of a year, however, they will he 
returned to private life. 
A braham Lincoln’s mother is burled at Lincoln 
City, ind , where her grave was visited the other 
day by a large party of citizens from Evansville. 
Several speeches were made beside the grave, 
mauy of Mr. Lincoln’s old friends and neighbors 
giving personal reminiscences of the good man 
whom they called “Abe.” 
At the Chicago Ssengerfest Ohio is represented 
by 16 societies, nine from Cincinnati, four from 
Cleveland, two from Columbus, and one from Day- 
ton. Illinois sends 20, and all other states 17. 
The first concert of the Chicago Bsengerfest took 
place on Wednesday evening. It was a marked 
success, over 7,ooo people were present. 
During the past week senator Sessions, A. D. 
Barber, E. R. Photos and C. F. Edwards, the three 
last known In Albany as lobbyists, have been in¬ 
dicted on oharge of bribery. Senator Sessions 
gave ball for $ 30 , 000 , the others for $3,ooo each. 
The event of the week, however, was the with¬ 
drawal ot Platt from the contest and the conse¬ 
quent scattering ot the Stalwart vote. This Is 
believed to be tho breaking of the deadlock and 
we may now look tor an election before another 
week passes. The 32d ballot resulted, as concerns 
the most prominent candidates, as follows :Conk- 
llrtg, 28; Wheeler, 38; Potter (Dem.), 46, and 
Depew, 49; Crowley, 20; Cornell, 15; Kernan 
(Dem.), 48. 
Tne past week has been a notable one for boat¬ 
racing. On the 28lh ult. the Harvards beat 
Columbia, on the Thames river at New London, 
on the 80r.fi the Harvard freshmen got away with 
Columbia’s freshmen crew by three lengths and 
on July 1st the battle was fought again by liar 
vard and Yale, at New Londou, Y'alo winning by 
one and a half lengths. The Cornell crew has 
been doing some good work In boat racing on the 
London Thames, though they were defeated, by a 
foul of the Londons. The Thames crew won tho 
first heat in the race for the Stewards’ Cup, Lon¬ 
dons second, Cornell, third. Cornell rows with 
the Hertford College crew, of Oxford, to-day. 
*• TUauk liod for Compound Oxygen.” 
This is a grateful utterance of the wife of a cler¬ 
gyman. Her letter, dated New City, Rockland 
County, New York, June 14th, 1980, thus states 
the condition ot her husband when he began the 
Oxygen Treatment: “ Rev. A. J. Conklin, Pastor 
New City aud Centennial Churches, Newark Con¬ 
ference, was run down with overwork ; voice in¬ 
jured, memory impaired, eyes very badly impaired, 
so that ho could scarcely follow up general read¬ 
ing, much less study; throat affected, and the 
whole system to a bad state. He would hare bad 
to stop preaching had he not found help. I asked 
him this morning what l should say to reporting 
progress to you for him. ‘ Oh,’ he says, ‘ Ml them 
I am mil. Never Mt better in my tff&P This, on 
the minister’s ‘ blue Monday,’ after preaching 
three times on a very hoc any, administering 
the sacrament and baptismal sendee, and walk¬ 
ing three mites afteru'a-rd I And now he 1 b at work 
In Ills garden. Thank. G>Jd for Compound Oxy¬ 
gen !" Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, which 
gives full Information about this remarkable rem¬ 
edy for Chronic Diseases, Is sent free. Address 
Drs. Starkey & Palkn, 1109 and 111 i Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.—Ado. 
and it naturally acts more or less prejudicial on har¬ 
vesting operations. The quality of the new barley 
brought to market Is fine, but It was damaged by 
rain. The samples received are heavy in weight, 
and It Is very important that the weather should 
clear up. 
Roumanta.—Weather on the Danube Is now hot, 
which is good tor the country and the crops are 
well reported of. 
census table of buckwheat. 
States and Territories. 
1880. l&so. 
Acreture. Bushels. 
1870. 
Bushels. 
Alabama. 
176 
1,390 
144 
Arizona. . 
2 
70 
Arkansas. 
402 
3.261 
226 
California. 
1.036 
22,371 
21,928 
• dorado. 
20 
285 
178 
Connecticut. 
11,232 
137.623 
148.155 
Dakota..... 
468 
3,256 
179 
Delaware. 
397 
5,857 
1,349 
District of Columbia.... 
3 
36 
7 
Fieri 'a.. 
32 
264 
Geotvia. 
339 
2,439 
402 
Idaho. 
178 964 
rilinois. 
16.464 
168.862 
Indiana. 
8.801 
89.893 
80,231 
Iowa. 
76.318 
166.895 
109,432 
Kansas. . 
2,483 
24,602 
. 2 7 ,»26 
Kentucky... 
1,396 
14.940 
3,443 
lionUiniik. 
76 
1,305 
260 
Mine. 
20.135 
382.701 
466,635 
Maryland, . 
10.324 
137,513 
77,867 
Massachusetts. 
5.634 
67.894 
58,019 
Michigan . 
33,935 
413.180 
426,7o5 
Minnesota. 
3,693 
43.246 
52.4)18 
Mississipui. 
81 
794 
1.619 
Missouri. 
5.502 
67,934 
437 
36.252 
Montana. 
84 
988 
Nebraska 
1,683 
17.766 
3.471 
Nevada.. 
1 
25 
985 
New Hampshire. 
4,533 
94.127 
100 034 
New Jersey_ 
35,373 
466.414 
353,983 
New Mexico. 
320 
5,001 
10 
NrwYork . 
291,228 
4.461.200 
3.904,030 
>»’ort!i Carolina. 
5.867 
45.209 
20.109 
Ohio . . 
22.130 
280,229 
180.341 
Oregon . 
402 
6,712 
1.045 
Pennsylvania. 
246.199 
3,592,328 
2,532,173 
Kno<1fc Inland. 
106 
1,264 
1,144 
South Carolina. 
12! 
1,062 
312 
i eunoBsee.. 
5,039 
26,772 
77,437 
Texas. 
804 
3.704 
44 
Utah.. 
28 
44H 
178 
Vermont. 
17.630 
356,618 
415,096 
Virginia. 
16,708 
139,603 
45,075 
wasiiimrtnn Territory.. 
114 
3,861 
316 
Virginia. 
30,334 
886.298 
82,916 
VViscousin. 
34,119 
299.160 
408,897 
VVyoitnur. 
...s 
Total.~ 
851.304 
11,851,738 
9,821.721 
Special reports to the Cincinnati Price Current 
show the number of hogs packed from March l to 
date and latest mall dates at the undermentioned 
places, wtth comparisons, as follows :— 
To Juno 29— 
Cli oajro.. 
Cinciunuti.,,... 
St. Louis. 
Mil wan ,>e. 
Kansas City . 
Cedar Huiuus. 
Cleveland .. 
Ottumwa, Iowa. 
Detroit. 
Dos Moines, Iowa.. 
Indianapolis.. 
Atchison. 
1881 
. 1,225,I KK I 
, 52.000 
. 165,100 
. 52.833 
. 188,01)0 
. 89 909 
. 90,000 
.. 29.478 
. 12,415 
, 33,500 
. 48,000 
1880. 
1,590,000 
55 000 
184.000 
48,198 
128,235 
129,108 
168,000 
25,707 
16.260 
83,500 
195,000 
130,632 
The following comparisons of foreign exports of 
breadstuffa from leading customs districts of the 
United States for the month ot May la compiled 
from a detailed statement furnished by the Chief 
of the Bureau or statistics:— 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Eastern furniture manufacturers are seriously 
troubled at the scarcity of walnut lumber. Before 
tbe value of this wood as an article ot commerce 
was understood, great quantities of It were need¬ 
lessly destroyed, or used by farmers for the com¬ 
monest purposes. Whole acres were burned for 
the purpose of clearing land, and it was turned 
Into fence rails and hog troughs. They know bet¬ 
ter now, but there are few places where much ot 
the wood Is to bs found, todlana and Canada 
West, that were formerly the principal sources ot 
supply, are almost denuded. There are, however, 
some promising tracts In the Southwestern States- 
.A few days ago the fine mare belonging to 
senator Conkllng, which he has driven about 
Washington for a year or two past, got caught In 
a barbed wire fence while she was out to past ure, 
and was very badly lacerated. In trying to extri¬ 
cate herself the mare pulled part of the fence 
down and twisted sections of the sharp wire 
around her body and received not loss than twenty 
ugly cuts, extending from her head to her hind 
quarters on her right side. Some of the wounds 
were nearly two Inches deep and will leave per¬ 
manent scars.It is officially announced that 
two million sheep were sheared to Michigan this 
year, yielding 10,974,163 pounds ol wool, or about 
6# pounds each.Com. Lortog will deliver an 
address at the Wisconsin State Fair In September. 
.A telegram from Minnesota on June au 
puts the wheat area of that State last year at 3,- 
000,000 acres, with a falling off, ihl3 year, of about 
250,000 acres; hut the aggregate yield Is put.at 
43,000,000 bushels-an increase ot 3,m)0,000 bushels 
over last year’B crop.The twenty million 
cinchona trees planted to Ceylon In 1SS0 are ex¬ 
pected to yield in six years ten million pounds 
each year, but it la beileved that the demand will 
fully keep up with the supply, so that prices will 
not decline. 
The Cuban sugar crop for the present year 
Is estimated at 464,000 tons.The Mark Lane 
Express of June 27, to Its review ot the British 
grain trade the past week, says: “ A few white 
trosts have unfavorably Influenced wheat blossom 
which la now general. There are no prospects of 
an abundant harvest. Whether an average yield 
la possible is now a question upon which grave 
doubts are entertained”.The latest mall 
European advices have the following crop reports. 
Turkey—The recent rains have done much good 
to the cereal crops to general, which may he con¬ 
sidered from now to be safe to Thessaly, as well 
as to Macedon and Eastern Roumella. It la antic¬ 
ipated that the market of Salonlca and adjacent 
ports will have large quantities ot gram for export, 
this year. 
South Russia.—stocks have been almost exhaust- 
ed by local requirements as well as by the export 
trade. At present all are looking forward to the 
coming harvest for which the outlook 1 b excep¬ 
tionally good. 
Levant.—The weather continues to be wet, 
which Is quite unusual at this season of the year, 
May, 1881. 
Wheat, bushels. 9,958,262 
Corn, bushels . 7,286.263 
Oats, bushels. 22,186 
ltyo. bushels. 45.469 
Barley, bushels. 14.471 
Wheat flour, barrels. 639.429 
Curn-meal, barrels. 39,666 
Total value, ubove Items... $19,884,575 
May. 1880. 
9,732,376 
9,930,836 
72.871 
188,698 
23,775 
631.438 
37,168 
$20,032,441 
The general tenor of reports received by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture as to the condition of live 
stock during May and up to .Tune 27, la more en¬ 
couraging than the reports lor the month ot April. 
At the same lime the reports are not as encour¬ 
aging by any means as they were at the 8ame 
time last year. The severe Winter la the cause 
of the drawback this year The worst reports are 
from the sheep. They show at this season a much 
poorer condition than for several years past. 
There la, however, a decided Improvement since 
the April report. As to horses, there Is no change 
worth noting over last year. From swine the 
reports are generally favorable. Tbese reports 
are not, however, sufficiently full, as yet, to base 
a comparison on irom the same time last year. 
The condition of cattle 19 good, with the usual run 
of diseases among them. Horses are In fair con¬ 
dition.At a well-attended meeting of 
the Hereford cattle breeders, held at Chicago on 
June *7, the "American Hereford Cattle-Breed¬ 
ers’ Association’’ was formed. Any breeder of 
Hereford cattle In good standing can become a 
member on application to tho Secretary, and by 
paying a membership fee of $10, either for an in¬ 
dividual or for a firm. The Assoolatlou is to meet 
annually. The following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year: President—O. M. Culbertson. 
Vice-Presidents—A. H. 8*an, W. H. Todd, W. 
Hamilton, R. W. Sample, G. S. Burleigh, B. Tler- 
shey, J. M. Studebaker, W, n. Sotbam, A. H. sea- 
bury, A. D. Raub, N. Abbe, M. Lee. Secretary— 
T K. Miller. Treasurer—A. Karl. Auditing Com¬ 
mittee —W. Powell, T. L. Miller, T. Clark. Direc¬ 
tors—n. Norris, J. R, Price, C. Gudgell, J. Frank, 
G. F, Morgan, W. S. Van Netta, T. Clark, W. E. 
Campbell, T. L. Miller.The complaint Is 
general that but few eggs hatch the present sea¬ 
son. Kgg3 are bringing more to the country than 
they have at any time during the summer for 
twelve years. 
The parlor cattle cats from Cincinnati are a 
great success. It takes about eight minutes to 
put the cattle on board, and while on the trip the 
animals are fed twice a day and watered three 
times, a vast Improvement on the old cruel pys. 
tern. Twenty fat oxen, for Instance, welgbtog 
1,500 pound- each, can go Into a car thirty-four 
feet long, so that they can He down comfortably. 
The car has been to operation tor some months 
to Cincinnati, and it was found that in traveling 
a distance ot nlue hundred miles the cattle lost 
but 2 v per cent, of flesh, while formerly they lost 
from U to IS per cent.,,...A company to 
Tennessee are about establishing a pork-house, 
which will probably be the largest to the South. 
Grouuds have been purchased near the western 
portion of Nashville, but the trustees of the Fiske 
University are opposing the enterprise, thinking 
it will he a nuisance. 
Great need of rain, both for pasturage and to fit 
