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Monday, July 25, 1881. 
TUB President’s condition on Saturday, the 2:id 
mat, was for a time somewhat precarious. Fever 
set in, and pain was somewhat increased. Hr. 
Agnow has performed a surgical operation on the 
President to open a sack of pus which had formed 
near the wound. The Incision was made about 
three inches below the wound and at a depth of 
two Inches and a hair. There the abscess was 
found which had caused the recent relapse. It is 
thought that if no other abscesses exist., ho will 
recover from iblB relapse in a few days. The 
President is weak being unable to lift bis arms or 
his legs, yet he has great vitality and keeps up 
good courage. The lutost reports this morning 
state that the President’s condition is improving, 
and Is as good as can be expected so soon after the 
relapse. 
On Friday the 23d, the election or Klbrldge G. 
Lapham, to snccoed Conkllng In the l'. H. Senate 
closed the long and bitter struggle at Albany. 
A conference was held by the republicans in 
which both factions participated, and the form of 
electing a candidate was gone through with, 
Mr. Lapham received ot votes, and Mr. conkllng 
27. Then, when the noth ballot was taken, Mr. 
Lapham received $»2 votes and Mr. Potter (dem.) 
42, and the work was done. Mr. Miller of Herki¬ 
mer, It will bo remembered, was elected to suc¬ 
ceed Platt, ou the Kith lust 
The widow of the late Rev. K. II. Chapin, D.D., 
died suddenly at her summer residence, at Pigeon 
Cove, Mass., on the 22 nd lust., of heart disease. 
The little town or Red Hank, N. J„ was visited 
by Are on the isth Inal., which destroyed about 
$76,000 worth of property. Help was rendered by 
lire companies rrom i/ong branch. One llreman 
was killed. 
During Juue last there arrived via San Fran¬ 
cisco, from foreign porta, 4,110 persons—the larg¬ 
est number for auy month during the past live 
years. The greater part of these Immigrants are 
Chinese. The arrivals or through passengers 
overland at San Francisco numbered 4 , 415 . This 
Is some 1,200 more than for the corresponding 
month In the previous two years. 
Therein so great a demand for labor at castle 
Garden that It cannot be supplied, even with the 
enormous immigration. There are now on the 
books 1,000 orders for male labor, and nearly 000 
order# for household servants. The demand for 
laborers by railroads is very large, and numerous 
applications come from the South for mill and 
agricultural hands. 
A monument to the confederate dead was un¬ 
veiled at Culpepper, Va., on the 2ist. 
Sitting Bull and about 200 of his followers sur¬ 
rendered on the iBth Inst, to Major Brotherton, at 
Fort Uuford. D. T. They were nearly starved, It 
Is said. 
Gen. McPherson’s monument was unveiled at 
Clyde, Ohio, on the 22 nd Inst., In the; presence of 
about 20,000 people. Prominent gentlemen and 
offleera of the army were present. Kx-President 
Hayes presided. The procession was over two 
miles long. 
A tund of $10,000 to bo known as the “ Dlman 
Memorial Fund,” in memory or the late Professor 
Dlman of Brown University, Is about to be estab¬ 
lished. The Income of the fund will bo devoted 
to purchasing historical works for the “ Dlman 
Memorial Alcove” or the new library. 
A lucky blacksmith at Titusville, Pa., has 
“ struck oil” In reality. While at work, one day, 
in his garden with bis spade, he noticed little 
pools of crude petroleum forming In tne ca vines he 
had made in the ground. Do dug a pit four feet 
deep, and took therefrom rive barrels of oil which 
proved to be excellent, and whloh sold at. a neigh¬ 
boring oil refinery for $ 1 . 10 . Immediately a great 
demand for leases or adjoining territory arose and 
numerous wells are being dug, and the oil Is Jlow- 
1 ng freely. The blacksmith’s garden is yielding 
100 barrels a day, and he 1s making $100 per diem, 
with encouraging prospects. 
The board of alderman of Virginia have passed a 
resolution, Inviting Pres. Garlleld and his cabinet 
to visit the Yorktown centennial, and appropri¬ 
ated $ 5,000 for their entertaluinent and that of 
visitors from Franoe. The same body passed a 
resolution appropriating $15 ,000 to the centennial, 
This Is the first step taken by any municipal or 
state authority to give substantial aid to the en- 
terpilse. 
The Welting Opera Douse building at Syracuse 
N. Y., in the center of the city containing one of the 
handsomest opera houses In the state burned on 
the morning of the mu, It. was wholly destroyed 
and it was the most disastrous Are in Syracuse for 
thirty years, Involving a loss of over $300,000. 
Fifty tenements occupied the block whloh was 
four stories high. Dair a dozen persons were In¬ 
jured by falling walla ana one or two persons 
perished. 
Carrier pigeons last Sunday morning conveyed 
to Tom’s River, N. J., before eleven o'clock, a sum¬ 
mary or the most important news published in 
the city papers here. These fleet winged aerial 
messengers may yet play an important part In the 
distribution or information to points not quickly 
attainable by post or telegraph. 
The Don. Levi P. Morton, United States Minis¬ 
ter to France, started for hie new post of duty on 
the loth lu the steamBlilp Ainerlque, of the French 
line. 
A monument to the memory of the Union dead 
of Mlclilgan has lust been completed in Detroit by 
the addition of four statues representing History, 
Emancipation. Victory and Union. 
At a meeting of the New Capitol Commissioners 
at Albany, the contract, with the Iiallowell Granite 
Company was rescinded, and the Superintendent 
was ordered to advertise for proposals for furnish¬ 
ing granite for the completion of the building. It 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
is thought that by this action $50,000 or $60,000 will 
be saved to the state. 
One of the most violent thunder-storms ever 
known In Massachusetts occurred on the 2 lHt. The 
storm was accompanied by a terrific shower of 
hailstones ranging from half an Inch to one and 
one-half Inches in diameter, which did a great 
deal of damage. Hundreds of dollars’ worth of 
glass was broken, nearly all the manufactories 
suffering more or less damage. Reports from the 
surrounding agricultural towns indicate an Im¬ 
mense amount of damage to the crops. 
A curious coincidence Is found In the fact that 
the nurse who attended the President at the time 
of his birth died about the hour the assassin at¬ 
tempted bis life. Her name was Mrs. Stewart C. 
Gardner, and she died at the residence of her son, 
A. J. Gardner, tn Mason Township, near Howa- 
glac, Mich., at the ago of 87 years. 
Twenty-live tenement houses, two Raw mills, 
tUe depot stores, boardinghouses and stables In 
Wallace, Mich., were burned on Wednesday; also, 
the year’s stock or logs, a large lot or piled lumber, 
and thousands of ties, posts and telegraph poles. 
Mr. Mellon Smith was the owner of nearly all ot 
this property, and bis loss will not fall short, or 
$ 75,000 ; insured tor $2,600. one school house and 
two small tenement houaes are all that are now 
left of thiii recently thrirty burgb. 
The drains leading from the Philadelphia Mint 
yielded about $ 1,000 worth of gold aud silver at 
the last annual scouring. The recovery of metal 
by that operation has amounted to $ 21,000 in nine¬ 
teen years. 
Martin Murphy, of Santa Clara, Cal., one of the 
original settlers ot California, celebrated his 
golden wedding Tuesday. One ox, 12 Bheep and 
12 hogs were roasted whole for the villagers, and 
a car-load of ale and wine were drank by them, 
A scrap book Is being prepared to contain edi¬ 
torials, public expressions, etc., regarding the 
attack on the President’s life. It will be an Im¬ 
mense volumo. All telegrams of sympathy are to 
be preserved. All dispatches from abroad are to 
be kept In the records of the state Department. 
one of the census reports says that for the last 
ton years the national debt 1 uib been paid off at 
the rato Of $ 160,000 a day. 
At one time last winter the Chicago and North¬ 
western Railroad hud 4,000 men at work Bhovellng 
snow, and the St- Paul 3,000 men, at $1.50 a day 
and board. The Illinois Central liad also at, one 
time several thousand men employed at muh work. 
The total cost to the Western railroads by the 
snow blockade was not less than $ 2 , 000 , 000 . 
The Secretary of the Navy issued an order, Tues¬ 
day, directing that the work of repairing the Uni¬ 
ted states steamer Tallapoosa, the dispatch ves¬ 
sel of the navy on the Atlantic coast, now at the 
Washington Navy Yard, should be prosecuted with 
all possible haste, so that the vessel may be ready 
forsea by the 12 th of August. The 'l’aliapoos 1 has 
been undergoing extensive repairs for some months 
and In the ordinary course of work would be ready 
tor sea service about tbo flrat ot September next. 
Anticipating the recovery of the President, who is 
very anxious for a sea voyoge, the Secretary of the 
Navy desires to have the Tallapoosa ready for that 
purpose. 
Connecticut had a young cyclone last week that 
ruined crops, unroofed houses and killed stock. 
A load of hay was blown ou to a yoke of oxen at 
Hartford, and while the owner was trying to cut 
them loose with an ax he killed them noth. At 
Berlin and Meriden the storm did great damage. 
It Is said that $29 ,000 has been subscribed of the 
$ 36,000 needed to establish the Daniel Webster 
Professorship of Latin lu Dartmouth collego. 
The Postmaster General commands a much 
larger force than our combined army and navy. It 
numbers 6 b, 000 In all. 
in the next eleotlon in Colorado the looatlon of 
the State Capital 1 b to be an issue. Denver, Pueblo 
and Colorado springs are the principal contestants 
for the honor. 
Friday week a company of highwaymen led, Ills 
believed, by one or more of the notorious James 
brothers, boarded and robbed a train of the Rock 
island Railway, killing the conductor and one 
passenger, and badly frightening the rest, but 
robbing tho express safe of less than $ 2 ,(too. 
This country spent a million and a halt more tor 
postage during the last 11 seal year than the year 
preceding. There could be no better index of bus¬ 
iness activity than this fact. Yes, business In 
match-making. 
More than 32,1100 men are at work on the exten¬ 
sion of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Al¬ 
most 19,000 are employed in old Mexico. 
“ A Hundred Per Gent. Better.” 
A patient In Michigan, who reports a gain of 
thirteen and three-quarter pounds in two weeks, 
says: “ I cough about once where 1 did ten times 
before, and do not raise one-quarter the tnueus 
from my lungs that I did. My pulse has gone 
down from 120 to 66. My digestion la very muoh 
Improved, and the stomach retains the food. 
In Bhort, 1 am one hundred per cant, better than I 
was three m-eks a</o, and 1 give all the praise and 
credit to the use ot Compound Oxygen. The ex¬ 
pressions of my mends are * Wonderful!’ 1 As- 
tonlshlng P ‘ Almost miraculous!’ " Our Treatise 
on Compound Oxygen, containing large reports of 
caseB, and full information, sent free. Drs. Star- 
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AGBICULTUBAL HEWS. 
Last Friday Charles Harris, of Hardwick Town¬ 
ship, New Jersey, left hla horse standing tor a few 
momenta lu the potato paten tnat, he was plowing, 
and the animal bltoff some tops upon which Paris- 
green had been sprinkled. On the following morn¬ 
ing the horse was found dead in his stall. 
Lovers or hock will bo rejoiced to hear that the re¬ 
ports from the Rhenish vineyards are this year 
very favorable, and should the One weather which 
those countries are at present enjoying continue, 
there will be no lack of fruit. But whether 1881 
will rank as a comet year can only bo determined 
after the crop Is gathered. The accounts from 
Rudeshelm are especially encouraging.Under 
the title of •' Associated Agriculturists of Great 
Britain,” a company with a capital of a million, In 
shares of $26,has been formed tor Joint, stock farm, 
mg tn Great. Britain. Each estate will bo under a 
manager of local experience and tho prospectus 
points to the fact that tho shareholders of a farm 
In Holland or 4,000 acres have for 10 years divided 
annually 10 per coni. The Duke of Buckingham, 
an excellent man ot business, and Lords London 
derry, Carysfort and Uorrloa arc on the councU... 
_A plague of rats has appeared near Dagneux, 
In Franoe. Innumerable swarms, which come item 
the direction of Lyons, have invaded many com¬ 
munes,* doing groat, damage to the crops. Homo 
farmers have killed from live to six thousand rats 
tn their fields in a single day.la i 860 a man¬ 
ufacture of fish guano was begun at Lofodon, 
Norway, and gradually giew from 3,788,550 kilos in 
1876 to5,972,682 kll09in 1879. [A kilo is somewhat 
over 2 % pounds.] Before i860 this valuable mat¬ 
ter was all wasted. It is believed that the refuse 
will now become much more valuable under a 
process by which albumen, Isinglass and tlsh glue 
will be extracted rrom It.The city of New¬ 
burgh, on the Hudson, It noted tor Its elegant tree# 
and especially for Its towering elms. A strange 
disease has attacked thorn, and uuloss the author¬ 
ities of that slow and boautltul place should hap¬ 
pen to wako up. the trees will probably die... 
According to tho English Mechanic, M. de Gas- 
parln has rejected the theory that the fertility ot 
volcanic soil Is due to a superabundance or phoa- 
phorlcaold. M de Gasparln has discovered that 
the luxuriant garden between Catania and Nlco- 
lorl, as well as fertile lands in Nlmes and Caen, 
contain very small proportions of phosphoric acid. 
The richness of the soil about Etna may be traced, 
he thinks, to the concomitance ot muddy forma¬ 
tions and the climate. 
The offloial oount ot the cotton crop of Georgia 
m 1873-so shows an aggregate of 613,966 bales, tho 
acreage being 2,616,568.A cablegram of the 
22ud says" The importation or transit through 
Schleswig of Danish cattle is prohibited ou ac¬ 
count ot plouro.pnoumonla.”.The prizes for 
the grand elroult racos at Chicago this week are 
$40,000.Htatlatlceof the wine and grape crop 
tor 1880 , prepared by the Department of Agrloul- 
culture at Washington, show that the principal 
.States ranked as follows lu order ot acres under 
cultivation: 
States. Acres. Galloim. Value. 
California.32,268 13,567.1,'in #4.046.865 
New York.12,646 584.148 387,308 
Ohio. 9,978 1,6)2.078 1.627,926 
Missouri. 7,376 1,824,307 1,820,05(1 
Georgia. 2.991 903,244 1,385,621 
These statistics are not entirely accurate. Cali¬ 
fornia, for Instance, never producod 18, 000,000 gal¬ 
lons of wine. The claim tor the current year by 
the San Francisco Bulletin Is only 12 , 600,000 gal¬ 
lons, whloh la more than any previous yield. 
Mr. Henry G. Vennor has extended his " revised ” 
predictions so that they Include August In detail, 
as given below: July 21 —Warm and fair, cool 
nights; 22 and 28«-IIeavy rain storms In many 
parrs of Canada and the I ntted States; 24 (Sunday) 
—Hot and windy; 25—oppressive and stormy 
weather; 26—Heavy ruin storm and wind; 27 and 
28 - Cloudy aud cooler weather, with cold nights 
and cold showers; 29 cool and showery ; 30 and 
31— Warm and high winds aud rain showers ; Aug. 
1 —Probably warm and oppressive; 2 and 6—Gen¬ 
erally pleasant weather, fairly warm days, and 
cool to cold evenings and nights; o—Fair and 
pleasant; 7 (Sunday)—Heat and storm#; s and 10 
—Sultry weather, with heavy BhowBrs; cooler 
evenings and nights. 1 1 and 13—Heat again in the 
United States, with cloudy and sultry weather, 
storms in Canada; 14 (Sunday)—Cooler change; 16 
—Cooler to cold and cloudy and pleasant; 16— 
storms throughout portions ot Virginia; 17 and 18 
—Hall storms and frosts probably In some por¬ 
tions ; 19 and 29— Heat and storms; 21 Sultry and 
showery; 22 Sultry and windy; 28 and 24—Heat 
and wind; 25 and 26-Ueavy Btorms ou the lakes, 
on the 8t. Lawrence, and around New York; 27 
and 29 —Cooler weather, with rains and frosts In 
the northern section; 30 and 31 —Fair and pleasant 
weather, with cool evenings and nights, with indi¬ 
cations or returning heat. A telegram from 
Chicago ou tho 23d says that severe storms on the 
preceding day had beaten down tho crops In many 
parts of the Northeast.. .. .The Parisian Journal, 
Le Monlteur Dnlvorsel, wlt-h the ornnlscence char, 
acterlstlo of French papers, attributes all the 
late trouble over the election or u. 8. senators at 
Albany, N. Y., to the "corruption of calf-breed- 
era.” Who over huard or a corrupt calf-breeder ! 
.On July «2 hall storms did much damage 
to crops In parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 
especially In Kent County.On the same day 
violent hall storms did a world or injury to crops, 
especially tobacco, about Hartford, Conn, violent 
winds at the same time greatly damaged trees and 
stock also were considerably Injured. 
A scarcity of harvesters in some parts of Ohio 
has brought the young women Into the grain 
fields.The Mass. Agricultural College will 
try to paddle along as an independent institution 
and would like to be remembered when rich men 
are giving away money.At Connemara, In 
tho west of Ireland, the old women of the vicinity 
are given the privilege ot gathering the wool 
scratched off the sheeps’ backs on the stones, 
hedges and bushes; this wool they then spin and 
knit into stockings, soiung them at lisjjf cents a 
pair, as many as 200 pairs are knitted by a per¬ 
son In a season .English wool la subject to a 
purifying process In a heated room durlug six 
months before It Is usod, whereby tbe “ eke," or 
grease anil dirt, Is taken out or It. American wool 
just ileecod from the sheep's back is worked up 
and, as the eke la still in It, It will not take the, 
colors. The imperfect dyeing of American cloths 
results In rapid fading, while tho English lasts.... 
..Philadelphia tobacco dealers are alarmed at 
the Influx Into their market of Lancaster-made 
cigars that are sold at $10 a thousand, Including 
the Government tax of $6 a thousand. This 1s at 
tho rato of live cigars for two cents. It. Is said 
that they are really made of tobacco, and a dealer 
admits that they are as good as the cigars he re¬ 
tails for three cents apiece. The tobacco la grown 
in Lancaster, and Is Bald to be as good as some of 
the Connecticut leaf.An army of crickets 
seven miles wide Is marching at. the rato of two 
miles and a half a day over Lake County, Oregon, 
and eating every kind of vegetation In Its track. 
Whew!.Says the Chicago Inter-Ocean ot 
the 14th: “ A sample Of wheat, was exhibited on 
’Change to day from a field of eighty acres in 
Kankakee County, III. It Is thought that the 
yield will be about 20 bushels per acre. A shore 
time ago tho owner plowed up a portion of the 
field, thinking that the orop would not amount to 
anything.” it la much to be feared that farmers 
of Illinois and Borne other Btatea lOBt. heavily by 
plowing up parts of their wheat too soon. 
The Mark Lane Express of tbe 18th, in Its weekly 
review of tho grain trade says: “ Tho week of 
tropical heat has brought ou crops rapidly toward 
harvest. Wheats vary a good deal. Ears are gen¬ 
erally short aud some Insect Injuries begin to bo 
spoken of. Tbe exceptional heat will doubtless 
prematurely ripen wheats, narleys certainly 
want rain. Ln Southern and Eastern Midland 
counties the oat crop may be regarded as lost. 
.According to the “ Cyprus Times ” locusts’ 
eggs, which would have produced2,830,472, 600 live 
Insects, have been destroyed ln the Island during 
this year.Tho legislature ot Ohio has 
passed a bill providing for the inspection of butter 
and cheese, and for Inspecting dairies and all 
places whore milk Is sold, or butter aud cheese 
manufactured. 
New Zealand, ln 1870, produced 1,770,363 bushels 
of wheat, 2,888,683 bushels cf oats, 620,699 bushels 
of barley, and 17,895 tons of potatoes, the total 
acreage under cultivation being 162,982. Last year 
the acreage had Increased to 889,729, tho product 
being n.461 ,000 bushels of wheat, 7 , 770,276 of oats, 
1,124,281 of barley, and 37,466 tons or potatoes. 
Sheep raising has similarly advanced. A hundred 
years ago there were 29 head, and now, It Is Btated, 
there are 12,000,000.,... ....Professor J. P. Stettes, 
ln advocating the use of arsenic for the destruc¬ 
tion of cotton worms, says that it will cost only a 
cent, and a quarter per acre to exterminate the 
worm with that poison. Tho method of employ¬ 
ing It, which he recommends. Is a solution, made 
by adding to rive gallons of water five pounds of 
arsenic and one pound of soda, and boiling until 
tho arsenic Is dissolved, ln using, one measure of 
the solution Is added to one hundred and sixty 
measures or water, and sprinkled upon the plants 
infested by worms.flon. Wm. Genney, Sec¬ 
retary of State of Michigan, gives reports of the 
Wheat crop from l,(J36 towns, being 96 per cent, of 
all towns. IniSHo the wheat acrouge of Michigan 
was 1,765,645, with yield 17.29 bushels per acre, 
giving an aggregate of 36,696,667 bushels. Acreage 
this year, 1,781,866 acres, with reported prospects 
of yield of nine bushels per acre, which would give 
an aggregate product Of 16,200,960 bushels, or, say 
5,000,000 bushels for shipment. 
Tho third meeting of the Association of Agri¬ 
cultural Chemists will be held ln Cincinnati dur¬ 
ing the Session of thu Amerloan Association for 
the Advancement of Science, ln August. The day 
and hour of meeting will be announced later. 
Manufacturers of Fertilizers, Agricultural Col¬ 
leges, Experiment Stations and Boards of Fertil¬ 
izer Control are expected to be represented by 
chemical experts. A- Tt. Ledoux, 17 Cedar Street, 
New York, Secretary, 
The following Is a summary of the prospects of 
the chief crops, condensed from the crop reports 
for July, byJ. R. Shaffer, secretary of the State 
Agricultural Society of Iowa. 
Corn. Ninety-seven counties, representing 784 
townships, place tho average condition of the crop 
at 77 per oent., being a decrease of about 4 per 
cent since June 15. Heavy wlndH, rains and hail¬ 
storms have reduced the prospect, and many 
acres are worthless for want of cultivation because 
of excessive wet weather. Wire and cut-worms 
arc still at work. The doorcase ln tho product, as 
compared with the provl ous year, la estimated at 
$0,000,000 bushels. 
Winter Wheat.— Sixty-three counties, repre¬ 
senting 267 townships, place the average condition 
at 55 per ceut., a decrease of 32 per cent, ln one 
month. Many acres were plowed up, being 
winter- kUled, and chinch bugs and rust have been 
fatal to the orop. 
BritiNG Wdkat.— seven hundred arid twenty- 
four townships In 88 counties give the average 
condition of the crop at 72 per cent., a decrease ot 
16 per ceut. since the June report. The loss la at¬ 
tributed to chlncU bugs, rust and wind and hall 
storms and much of it Is on the ground. Many 
acres are reported as not worth harvesting. Des 
Moines county reports tho lowest average—18 per 
cent. The highest average is reported from Han¬ 
cock and Kossuth Counties—100 percent. Basing 
an estimate on these figures, as compared with the 
crop of the previous year, there will be a deficit ln 
tho product of 17 , 000,000 bushels. 
Oats.— Nlnety-soven counties, representing 793 
townships, place the average condition at 92 per 
cent., a decrease of only 2 per oent. There Is Borne 
complaint of rust and lodging. 
Fi.ax.— Five hundred and ten townships, report¬ 
ing from 69 counties, give tho average condition 
as ho per cent.—an Increased prospeot In product 
or 9 per cent, over the previous report. The area 
has bBen largely extended and promises to give 
bettor results than almost any other crop grown. 
Irish potatoes.— Ninety seven-oountlOB, repre¬ 
senting 777 townHhlps, place the condition at 93 
per cent. There la some complaint of the bug in¬ 
juring the crop prospects. 
Meadows.— Ninety-four counties, from 766 town¬ 
ships, reporting upon the condition, give the aver¬ 
age at 96 per cent. 
Pastoukb.— Ninety-four counties, from 732 town- 
