540 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AUS. 43 
$jUtos at t|t $&Mk. 
HOME HEWS. 
Monday, August 8, issi. 
The President’s condition remains favorable ac¬ 
cording to the latest reports. There was a slight 
increase of fever on Saturday and Sunday, but 
there Is no cause for anxiety the physicians say, 
these variations being due to local and compara¬ 
tively unimportant causes. 
The front doors of the new house of William II. 
Vanderbilt In New York will cost, including set¬ 
tings, $26,(100. They are of bronze and fac-similes 
of those of the Church of San Angelo at Pome. 
Eleotric lights are beginning to scatter their 
brilliancy all over the country. The little city of 
Aurora, III., Is to be Illuminated from lights 
placed on tall lroD pillars. 
Pour colored men were appointed to the police 
force last week In Philadelphia, being the first of 
the race to wear police uniform In that city. 
There is great excitement over the discovery of 
rich carbonates nine miles west of Dead wood, D. 
T. Ore brought in week before last is alive with 
native silver, and assayed $ 2,600 to the ton. Big 
strikes are made In the Lawrence, Utica, Amster¬ 
dam, Greenland and .Jefferson mines, and minors 
are flocking thither from all parts of the hills. 
The Canadian census returns for 1881 show a 
total population of 4,350,930, an estimated increase 
of 710,665 in 10 years. Ontario has i,913,460 inhab¬ 
itants, an increase of 290,009; Quebec, 1,858,469, aD 
increase of 136,953; Nova Scotia, 440,586, an in¬ 
crease of 62,788; New Brunswick, 821,129, an in¬ 
crease of 35,584; Prince Edward Island, 107,787, an 
increase of 13,760. The population of British Co¬ 
lumbia and Northwest Territory is estimated at 
160,000. The census of 1373 gave British Columbia 
60,000 Inhabitants Including Indiana 
The Postmaster General has decided to reduce 
the amount allowed for clerk hire In post offices 
where the present allowance Is In excess or the 
sum allowed by law. There are about leo offices 
in this class. 
Major-General Hancock has been invited to 
take command of the troops at the Yorktown cel¬ 
ebration, In October. 
The Chicago and Wilmington Coal Company, 
being unable to secure workmen enough, has sent 
an agent to Europe to engage and bring over doo 
practical miners with their famines as soon as 
possible. 
Palatine, N. Y„ is the richest village of the size 
In the world. It has about 600 Inhabitants, and It 
is said that over thirty of these are worth from 
$5,000,000 to $20,000,000, while six are said to be 
worth over $ 20 , 000 , 000 . 
The Emperor of Germany has conferred upon 
Prof. Dwight Whitney, of Connecticut, the 
order of merit made vacant by the death of Car¬ 
lyle. 
The Hon. william G. Fargo, President of the 
American Express Company, died at his resldeuce 
In BulTalo on the 3d Inst., after a long and painful 
illness. He was the eldest son of William C. 
Fargo, a deacendent of Moses Fargo (or FIrgo, as 
It was written) who emigrated from England to 
Connecticut about 1670. 
A dispatch from San Francisco announces the 
death from unemla, at Salem, Oregon, of Bishop 
Erastus Haven of Syracuse, the distinguished 
educator and scholar. Bishop Haven was born In 
Boston, Nov. 1 , 1820, and was graduated from the 
Wesleyan I'nlverslty In 1842. 
The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of the 
monument to Gov. Caswell, the Revolutionary war 
Governor of North Carolina, attracted fully 10,000 
persons to the village of Kinston, N. c„ on the 3d 
InBt. Senator Vance delivered an eloquent ad¬ 
dress, and Gov. Jarvis made a stirring speech. 
Grand Master H. F. Grainger laid the corner stone 
with Masonic ceremonies. 
George Morrison, living at Brownsville, near 
Newark, Ohio, remarked, upon hearing of the 
shooting of President Garfleld, that he hoped the 
President would die. An old soldier named c. A. 
Cook, who was standing by, slapped Morrison in 
the mouth. For this aot Che old soldier was ar¬ 
rested, and he has been flned $10 and the costs, 
which amounted to $ 22 . The Commercial, of Cin¬ 
cinnati, announced that it would receive one cent 
subscriptions from citizens, the money to be used 
in paying the One and costs against Cook. The 
response was overwhelming. Before night over 
8,000 names had been placed upon the subscription 
list, each for one cent. The names of wealthy 
citizens and the poorest laboring men appear side 
by side. Over 15.000 names are now on the list. 
The officers and Commissioners of the Yorktown 
Centennial Association neld a meeting at their 
rooms, in the;Kxehange Hotel, in Richmond, Va„ on 
the 1st lust, and flnalJy prepared a programme 
of ceremonies In addition to that arranged and 
already promulgated by the Congressional Com¬ 
mission. The celebration will be formally opened 
under the auspices of the Association, on Thurs¬ 
day, 13th October, and will be continued until the 
18th, when the national ceremonies will begin. 
Mr. John Goode, president of the Association, will 
deliver the opening address, and on alternate days 
addresses will be delivered by Secretary Wlndom, 
Mr. Carl Scbuiz and Mr. Frederick R. Condert and 
Professor Elte Carder, of New York. Religious 
services will be conducted on Sunday, 16th, in the 
morning, by the Right Rev. J. J. Keane, Catholic 
Bishop of Richmond, assisted by the most Rev. 
James Gibbons, arch-bishop of Baltimore and 
primate of the Catholic Church Id the Unl ed 
States, and In the evening by the Rev. John Hall, 
of New York. The festivities will embrace grand 
pyrotechnic displays, promenade concerts every 
afternoon and evening and a grand national re¬ 
gatta on Saturday, I5tb. 
Four disappointed Arabs are in Boston. They 
were sheiks of distinction In their own country, 
and one claims to be the head of a Moabltetribe 
descended direct from the Moabites spoken of In 
the Bible. They were brought out here for exhit - 
ltlon and were told that they would become ob¬ 
jects of social honor here. On the contrary, they 
proved unattractive as a show, and, being aban¬ 
doned by tbelr manager, are paupers, without 
much prospect of getting back home. 
The Garfleld boys are t hrough with their classi¬ 
cal review, and are brushing up their mathematics 
prior to entering Williams college next month. 
The college authorities will admit the boys on l)r. 
Hawke’s, their Instructor, certificate. 
Dr. Tanner, at Erie, Pa. is drawing up proposi¬ 
tions to the medical faculty of New York to fast, 
three months. He claims that he can fast 95 days 
if red on electricity, the air in the room to be 
charged with a strong current, lie Is now fatten¬ 
ing for the fast. 
Forest Arcs are raging all around Bay City, 
Mich. For a hundred miles north fences and 
farm buildings, in addition to vast quantities of 
pine timber are being destroyed. Trains find It 
almost Impossible to run. The city Is enveloped 
In a dense smoke and the air Is full of burned 
leaves and ashes. 
The Indian chief Ta-tan-ka-l-you-tan-ka, better 
known as Sitting Bull, gets the Idea. He wants 
money for what he does now. A $10 note set his 
tongue to running very glibly for a reporter afew 
days ago and that’s all that would dolt. He Is 
becoming civilized rapidly, 
Mr. James G. Fair heads the personal assess¬ 
ment roll just filed in San Francisco with $42,200,- 
000. Mr. J. O. Flood is assessed at $30,500,000 
for himself, and $20,500,000 as trustee for J. w. 
Mackey. Mr. CharleB Crocker la assessed at 
$•20,000,000. 
Postmaster General James is considering the 
feasibility of cheapening and facilitating the 
transmission of remittances thro’ the malts, it Is 
probable he will recommend to Congress the adop¬ 
tion of a new and safe system of postal money 
orders, which has been devised at the depart¬ 
ment. 
Nathan Orlando Greenfield, the Orwell wife 
murderer, suffered capital punishment In the 
Onondaga Syracuse Penitentiary on the 5th Inst., 
after a battle with the law lasting nearly six 
years. 
The Brooklyn bridge 1 b rapidly approaching 
completion. The contractors expect to have the 
promenade aoross the river open some time In 
October. 
Thirty thousand persons have petitioned the 
Georgia Legislature asking that the people of the 
State be allowed to vote on the prohl bltlon of the 
liquor traffic. The petition was 600 feet long, and 
had names from every county. 
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A Life Saved. 
In letter from a lady at Council Grove, Kansas, 
the writer says: “I hare used your Oxygen at 
times for nearly three years for tuny trouble. Am 
nearly well now. and feel that It nan saved >ny lire 
as the disease is hereditary, and has been for oen- 
erutions in our family, and 1 am the jtrst one w7io 
has recovered u/ter being attaeteed." Our Treatise 
on Compound Oxygen, containing large reports of 
cagC3, and full information, sent free. Drs. 
Starkkv & Daren, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL HEWS, 
The northern part of the peninsula of sturgeon 
Bay, Wls., has been damaged censlderably by 
forest tires, which are raging now harder than 
ever, ruining cut and uncut timber and threaten¬ 
ing Immense damage. The people are seriously 
alarmed and doing everything possible to prevent 
the destruction of their chief source of revenue_ 
. The commission of the General Land Office has 
reported favorably upon the request of the Yo- 
semlte commission and the Governor of California 
for the increase of the Yosemlte valley reservation 
to Include the Mariposa Big Tree reservation and 
surrounding territory.. The L nlted States 
smoked 160,000,601) more cigarettes last year than 
tho year before. Beer drinking and cigarette 
smokffig are increasing more rapidly than any 
other ways of using barley and tobacco. 
Col Le Grand B, Cannon or Burlington, Vt„ has 
sold his hern of Short- horns 10 Western men. This 
herd Is Bald to be the largest and best In the 
country.Paris green on the Angers of a Col¬ 
eraine, Mass., farmer while he was poisoning 
bugs became mixed with the “ fine cut ” In his 
tobacco box and caused him a severe lllnesB. 
A sixth volume of the Polled Cattle Herd Book 
has been issued by Mr. Alex. Ramsey, Secretary, 
Banff, Scotland.At the Hamilton Short-horn 
sales at Winchester, Ky., the other day, the Rose 
of Sharon family brought an average of $ 1,500 
each.Pennsylvania has a law for the pre¬ 
vention of trespassing on gardens, yards, orchards* 
fields, etc., and doing damage 10 properly of any 
kind. The lines for Infraction are not less than $5 
nor more than $50.. a Berlin dispatch of the 
4th says“ The harvest prospects In Schleswig- 
Holstein have never been so bad as they are this 
year. Most of the farmers are getting quit of 
their cattle and horses, owing to the scarcity of 
fodder.” 
The sale of meat Infected with trlchinse la sub¬ 
jected to severe punishment in Germany. A 
butcher and an Inn keeper 01 the city of Halber- 
stadt, who failed to have pork that they offered 
for sale properly examined by the Government 
Inspectors, and who were the cause In consequence 
of more than 100 cases of trichinosis, including 
four cases of death, have Just, been sentenced to 
three years’ imprisonment.Theflflh annual 
meeting of the New York State Farmers’ Alliance 
will be held at Watertown on Wednesday, August 
84, at 11 a. M. Local and county Alliances, Gran¬ 
gers and Farmers' Clubs and Agricultural Societies 
are invited to send representatives, so are Anil- 
Monopoly Leagues. The Rome, Watertown and 
Ogdensburg Railroad will carry visitors for one 
cent a mile as the return fare.. . .The following 
details of the condition of wheat in the various 
States will be of Interest jjjst at this time 
Department of Aoricctctcre, > 
Washington, D. C , July 29, issi. / 
average condition of wheat jurt 10, ISSI. 
Winter Spring 
States. wheat. wheat. 
States. whe, 
Maine. S7 
New Hampshire..98 
Vermont. 97 
New York. 
Minnesota. 
Kansas. 
..100 
..100 
. . 88 
98 
.. 83 
.102 
97 
..105 
. 87 
. 93 
92 
. 91 
97 
. 92 
77 
. 88 
. 97 
.101 
lio 
. S7 
93 
. 87 
. 95 
95 
. 83 
87 
. 86 
84 
. 64 
88 
. 80 
. 60 
80 
. 75 
92 
95 
. 48 
72 
. 73 
76 
. 77 
76 
. 99 
98 
. 92 
92 
.102 
106 
. 90 
108 
. 97 
97 
S3 
90 
Acting commissioner Carman, In his letter ac¬ 
companying the foregoing table, states:—“Our 
estimates of acreage not yet completed, but indi¬ 
cate an increase of about four per cent, tn Winter 
wheat, and a lessened area of Spring wheat, owing 
to an Unfavorable season for sowing. 
The Imports of Hour into Great Britain In 1876 
amounted to 850,000 barrels; they have been con¬ 
stantly increasing, until In 1879 and 1880 the 
amount was over 3 , 400,000 barrels, or about 800 ,- 
000,000 pounds.The Dairymen’s Association 
of this state will hold a butter and cheese show in 
September, in connection with the Oneida County 
Fair, at Rome, N. Y. The whole State will prob¬ 
ably be represented, and It will be a grand affair. 
.New York receives one-half of the cheese 
product of the country. Chicago comes next. 
Over 40 , 000,000 pounds of cheese were exported in 
18S0, Great Brltalu taking 65 per cent, of the quan¬ 
tity. The home cheese trade la growing rapidly, 
and assuming vast proportions. It is said to be 
Increasing at the rate of 12 , 000,000 to in,ooo.uoo lbs. 
a year. The trade Is much more concentrated 
than that of butter, only 12 States out of S3 pro. 
duclDg as much cheese as butter.seth Green 
says of the distribution of California mountain 
trout In the waters of this State“ One million 
two hundred thousand have been placed In about 
150 different bodies of water. 1 am now getting 
favorable reports from the small fry. in three 
years they will be heard from In the shape of nsh 
weighing a pound and a half. They will then fur¬ 
nish fine sport for the angler and excellent food. 
We are now very busily engaged In rebuilding 
ponds and repairing our hatching houses and ap¬ 
paratus for the coming season.”.Prof. Baird 
has called upon all those who Irish eggs of the 
qulnnat, or California salmon, to apply at once. 
The eggs are collected and packed at the expense 
of the United States Fish Commission, but they do 
not propose to pay the express charges. Each 
order should be for at least 50,000 eggs.... TheJMark 
Lane Express of aug. 1 says;—“The temperature 
the past week has been on an average so degrees 
lower than during the late spell ot heat. There 
have been general rains and local thunder storn s, 
but wheat was not thick enough to take serious 
damage. The night* have beeucold in England 
and severe night, frosts in Scotland will retard the 
harvest there. Mildew Is reported among the 
wheat in various parts of England. A decline m 
tiie temperature will not be or advantage to 
wheals except in North England. The barley 
crop will be very good In some localities, but In 
the remainder It Is of very Irregular growth, and 
has ripened prematurely. OatB are good In Ireland 
and parts of Scotland, but variable and generally 
indifferent In England.”.Two car-loadB of 
Spring wheat were received tn Chicago on July 29 
from Nebraska. ODe inspected No. 2 and the other 
No. 3. Last year the first arrivals were from Mis¬ 
souri on July 21. 
In Florida the value per acre ot cleared land is 
$9 48, and of Umbered land $3 os. in Louisiana 
cleared land la worth $14 ao, and timbered land 
$3 58. In Texas cleared land is worth $s 98, and 
Umbered $4, Ju Arkansas cleared land Is valued 
at $ 11 7S, and timbered land at $3 68. In Oregon 
cleared land is worth $21 71 , and umbered u 60. 
But In Nebraska cleared land is worth $8 82 , and 
timbered $2aS5 per acre.Recent Mall advi¬ 
ces from Melbourne, Australia, state that the rain¬ 
fall had been insufficient for wheat fields and pas¬ 
tures. Frosts are also reported. The wheat sta¬ 
tistics for last year Issued by the government had 
been corrected so a9 to increase the yield by 280,020 
bushels, but the Melbourne Argus says that, even 
with this aclQltlon, It wbb clear that the colony 
had exported too much, and that 120,000 bushels 
would have to be imported for seed. The rervlsed 
figures still showed a deficiency against the pre¬ 
ceding year, notwithstanding the increased acre¬ 
age.The official wheat statistics for South 
Australia for the year isso-si had also been pub¬ 
lished. The area under wheat was 1,733,542 acres, 
and tho yield 8,606,510 bushels, giving an average 
of four bushels 63 pounds per acre. In the preced¬ 
ing year the yield was 14 , 260,004 bushels, giving an 
average of nine bushels, 47 pounds per acre, so that 
In .South Australia, as In Victoria, there was a 
marked decrease In the productiveness or the land 
during last year. Paris postal reports irom 
France ot July 16 state that the temperature dur¬ 
ing the week had been higher, causing fresh cow- 
P-alnts, much grain having matured too rapidly 
causing deficiency in weight As regards wheat’ 
which might have been over an average, It will 
only perhaps Just come up to one. 
DANDRUFF 
Is Removed by tho Use ofCocoaine, 
And It stimulates and promotes the growth of the 
hair. 
Burnetts Flavoring Extracts are the 
best. 
-- 
Trofic-Fruit Laxative is the best and most 
agreeable preparation In the world for constipa¬ 
tion, biliousness, etc. one-half to one lozenge Is 
the dose. Price 25 and 60 cents per box. 
— - ♦--*-♦- 
Lydia E. Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound has 
done thousands ot women more good than the 
medicines of many doctors It Is a positive cure 
for all female complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. 
Plnkham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for 
pamphlets. 
-- . 
Ask any good doctor If Hop Bitters are not the 
best family medicine on earth. 
Nature’s Slulee-Way. 
The kidney’s are nature's sluice-way to wash 
out the debris ot our constantly changing bodies. 
It they do not work properly the trouble is felt 
everywhere. Then be wise and as soon as you 
see the signs of disorder get a package ot Kidney- 
Wort.—Constitution. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
When we went to press this time last week ag¬ 
riculturists all over the country were praying or 
wishing for rain, in the North another week or 
two of dry weather would be the ruin of the corn 
crop and greatly Injure most of the others still in 
the field; while In the South a little longer 
drought would Inevitably greatly damage cotton, 
already In a very critical condition. During the 
weekending last Friday evening the rainfall In 
the Cotton Belt was much smaller than during the 
corresponding week last year, as shown by the 
following extract from the meterologlcal summary 
telegraphed to this city by the signal Service 
Bureau at Washington :— 
'—Rainfall—, 
Stations. inches, inches, 
issi. 1880 
Fort Gibson, Indian Ter. 0.02 2 34 
Little Rock, Ark. 0 00 0 77 
Shreveport, La. t 1 ’ 69 
Port Eads, La.’. 0.64 3*74 
Ooreleana, Tex.. 0 00 015 
Denison, Tex. 0.24 4 76 
Galveston, Tex.0.40 0 26 
Indlanola, Tex. 182 f 
San Antonio, Tex. t 113 
Vicksburg, Miss. 0.10 1*29 
Montgomery, Ala.2 70 
cedar Keys, Fla. 1.89 137 
Jacksonville, Fla. 4.99 s’l9 
Pensacola, Fla. 14 35 jVo 
Atlanta, Ga.. 0.29 1S3 
Augusta, Ga. 0 11 o!k 
savannah, Ga ... 2 70 0 41 
Charleston, S. c. 0 66 t 
Charlotte, N. C. 0.04 4 27 
Smithvnie, N. c.0 70 2 30 
Chattanooga, Tenn. o.m 032 
Knoxville, Tenn. 0.27 1 45 
Memphis, Tenn. t 0 15 
Nashville, Tenn.t 04S 
Louisville, Ky.0.00 0 A 7 
* As compared with New Orleans, t Inappre¬ 
ciable. 
Total, 20 stations; average rainfall, 1.2s inches, 
against 1 .62 inches last year. 11 a zen. 
Washington, Augusts. 
During the past week the New York cotton 
market has been very strong for future delivery 
especially tor August, spot cotton opened nrm 
and prices were advanoed Vc. this day week after 
an advance of ,c. on the.previous Saturday, on 
Thursday, however, quotations were reduced 
1 -lee. per pound on low middling and above ; ‘.,c, 
on strict good ordinary; 3 -iec. on ordinary and 
good ordinary; and 5-16 on ordinary. The closing 
quotations last Friday In this market compare 
with those at the corresponding date last year, 
thus: 
Last Friday. 
ordinary. Sv: 
Good ordinary..10 l -ie 
Low middling. IP,; 
Middling.12 l-io 
Good middling. 12 9 16 
Fair.14 5-16 
Last year 
8 3-16 
9 11-16 
10 16-16 
11 9-16 
12 1-16 
13 7-16 
The sales tor the week summed up 373,400 bales 
against 214,600 bales for the corresponding week 
last year. The following shows the closing prices 
In “futures" In this market: 
Lost Friday. Last year. 
August. 12.18 11.40 
September. 11.31 10.88 
October.10.72 10.58 
November. 10.55 10 47 
December. 10.55 lo. 4 S 
January. 10 00 10 57 
February.10.78 10.70 
The prices show an advance In the week of 19 
points on the early moniOB, and of six points on 
the later months. 
The Southern markets have been 11 nn, and have 
generally advanced during the week. The follow¬ 
ing are thu Bales tor the week and closing quota¬ 
tions at five loading ports as compared with last 
year's quotations: 
Charleston. 
Week’s 
Last 
Last 
sales. 
Saturday. 
year. 
.... 470 
l We¬ 
V)%c. 
... .3,600 
ll J* 
11 % 
.... 300 
1W 
11 
.... 700 
1 W 
ll 
.... 275 
UL 
iW 
After two days bank holiday the Liverpool mar¬ 
ket opened on Tuesday steady, and has continued 
so till close, though at close prices were some¬ 
what easier. The following were the latest quo- 
