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THE RURAL HEW-YOBMEB. 
GOT. 22 
Monday, Oct. 17, 1881. 
Bad Management at Yorktown. —The 
authorities having the Yorktown celebration 
in hand have made a grievous blunder in not 
providing proper, or in fact sufficient, places 
for the entertainment of the guests on the 
great occasion. Their most eminent success, 
according to reliable information, has been 
attained in leaving undone things which might 
have been done in good season, and there is 
a probability that many will return to tbeir 
homes at an early date with their patriotic 
ardor somewhat cooled. There is little ex¬ 
cuse for any neglect in these preparations, as 
an immense crowd was expected, and the 
blunder about quarters for our French guests 
is without sufficient reason. The old Moore 
house, where the articles of capitulation were 
signed, has been renovated and partially re¬ 
built, but it will not accommodate one-half 
the visiting Frenchmen, who did not come 
here to be packed away nights, like herrings 
in a box. Unless private enterprise comes 
to the rescue there is a likelihood that the 
French officials and others from “over the 
sea,” will go home again with no exalted 
view’s of American hospitality. Barns, sheds 
and houses on land, and barges, old vessels, 
etc., on water, are being fixed up w ith bunks 
and their floors covered with mattrasses for 
sleeping accommodations, and as for eating, 
people must catch a bite where they can, or 
do as they would at a pic nic—take a lunch 
with them. But then, we suppose they wish 
the recollections of the Peninsular campaign 
to be as vivid as possible! 
The Proposed World's Fair at Boston, 
—Several months ago a committee of 28 was 
appointed to consider the feasibility of holding 
a world’s fair at Boston. On the 18th inst. 
that committee met and rendered its report. 
While the general opinion seems to be favora¬ 
ble to such a project, there is some doubt as to 
how’ far this sentiment may be relied on for 
substantial aid until the project has assumed 
some definite form as to capital, time and lo¬ 
cation. Beacon Park has been offered for the 
purpose free of rental, and this has encour¬ 
aged the committee somewhat in their efforts; 
but the main thing is to secure a guaranteed 
capital of not less than $5,000,000, and if this 
can be done the committee recommend the 
holding of the fair. Besides the general public 
interest, several prominent citizens must de¬ 
vote a large share of their time to the work 
and a simple business organization must be 
formed under a special charter of the State, 
to be “ broadened in its scope and materialized 
by concurrent resolution of Congress.” While 
all this is possible, we do not now’ look upon it 
as probable. 
Special Session.— On the 10th inst. the 
Senate met in special session. Senator Bayard 
(dem.) of Delaware was elected President of 
the Senate pro lent, which constituted him 
Vice-President of the United States. On the 
11th, Miller and Lapham of New York, who 
succeeded Coukling aud Platt, and Aldrich of 
Rhode Island who succeeds the late Senator 
Burnside, were duly sworn into office and 
took their seats. On the 12th the Republican 
Senators met in caucus and decided to pre¬ 
sent the name of Senator David Davis, of Illi¬ 
nois, for President pro tern. On the 18th, 
Senator Logan, of Illinois, offered a resolution 
to elect his colleague, Davis, President pro 
tern., and on being put to vote the resolution 
was carried 86 to 34, Messrs. Bayard and 
Davis not voting. Senator Anthony, a pre¬ 
vious candidate for the position, and Senator 
Bayard, the deposed President, were appoint¬ 
ed by Senator Harris, temporary chairman, 
to escort Mr. Davis to the chair. 
Guiteau, the assassin, was brought into court 
on the 14th inst. and indicted. His plea is 
“not guilty.” His law’yer, Mr. Scoville, said 
the defence would mainly consist of two 
points—first, insanity; second, the wound was 
not necessarily mortal. The trial is put down 
for November 7 next. 
Wyatt Henry Cardwell, a grandson of the 
Revolutionary orator, Patrick Henry, turned 
up a. a vagrunt at the Memphis police head¬ 
quarters a few’ days ago. Ho possesses a fine 
education, but is unable to stand against mm. 
The election in Ohio, held on the 11th inst., 
resulted in favor of t he Republicans, by a plu¬ 
rality of 25,000 for Foster, tbeir candidate for 
Governor. In Iowa the Republican majority 
is estimated at 48,000. 
The Democratic Convention at Albany last 
w’eek made the following nominations:—For 
Judge of the Court of Appeals, A. Scboou- 
maker, Jr., of Ulster: for Attorney General, 
Roswell A. Parmenter, of Rensselaer; for Sec¬ 
retary of State, Henry Purcell, of Monroe; for 
Comptroller, George N. Lapham. of Yates; 
for State Treasurer, Robert A. Maxwell, of 
Genesee; for State Engineer, Thomas Ever- 
shed, of Orleans. A new State Committee 
was appointed, of which Daniel Manning was 
elected chairman. The Tammany men, be¬ 
fore leaving Albany, drew up an address pro¬ 
testing against tbeir exclusion from the State 
Democratic organization. 
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, has been ap¬ 
pointed Minister to Spam; Walker Blaine, the 
Secretary's son, has been appointed Third 
Assistant Secretary of State, and Mark S. 
Brewer, of Michigan, Consul-General to 
Berlin. 
Dr. J. G. Holland, editor, poet and novelist, 
died in this city on the 12th inst. of heart dis¬ 
ease. He was bora at Belchertown, Mass., 
July 24, 1819. Siuce 1870 be has been editor 
of Scribner’s Monthly, now the Century Mag¬ 
azine. 
The descendants of Baron Steuben who were 
invited to attend the Yorktown celebration 
arrived in this city on the 13th inst. There are 
seven in the party. They were received with 
honors by Government representatives and 
others. 
A fire in the Fourth Avenue Horse-car sta¬ 
bles and vicinity destroyed about $1,500,000 
worth of property on Monday night. Over 
300 horses are now reported killed. Morrell's 
store-house was consumed, in which much val¬ 
uable property was stored, such as paint¬ 
ings, books, furniture, etc. Humphrey Moore 
loses an oil painting valued at $20,000, and 
some 500 other paintings, sketches, etc. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt lost a library of choice 
books worth $15,000, one volume—a copy of 
Audubon’s Ornithology—costing $12,000. His 
son lost a rare painting valued at $55,000. 
Mme. Pauline Fischers, the well-known prima 
donna, lost a valuable library of 800 volumes 
and 65 opera scores. The exact amount of 
losses and insurance cannot yet be ascertained. 
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, after 
having been open to the public for 31 days, is 
closed. The treasurer’s books show’ that the 
expenditures have exceeded the receipts by 
about $15,000. 
The United States Trust Company, of New 
York, has had registered at the Treasury De¬ 
partment $275,000 in 4 per cent, bonds in the 
name of the company as “ Trustees of Mrs. 
Lucretia R. Garfield and the surviving chil¬ 
dren of James A. Garfield, deceased,” being 
the amount purchased with the proceeds of 
subscriptions to the Garfield fund. These bonds 
will yield an annual income of $11,000, aud 
cannot be paid off by the Government until 
the year 1907. 
The case of the men who robbed the passen¬ 
ger train on the Iron Mountain Railroad on 
the night of September 2, and who were pur¬ 
sued and finally captured on September 28— 
one in Texas and two in the Indian Nation— 
and brought to Washington, assumed a new 
and sensational phase in the Special Term 
Court, when each of the robbers pleaded guilty 
to 14 indictments, making the term of punish¬ 
ment 70 years for each man. 
Charles P. Thompson, of Gloucester, has 
been nominated for Governor of Massachusetts 
by the Democrats of that State. 
Theodore Stock, a miser, who lived in 
Toledo, Ohio, died in a fit in his cabin. He 
left a quarter of a million to one of two child¬ 
ren. He subsisted on the refuse of hotels, 
and made a portion of his fortune by burying 
the victims of cholera. 
The total earnings at Sing Sing prison for 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1881, are 
§228,254.14; total expenditures, §187,127.20, 
leaving a net profit for the year of $42,120,94. 
The army retired list Is limited to 400. There 
are at present only seven vacancies, while 
fifty officers are eligible to retirement. 
The commissioner of patents reports 13,000 
original patents issued the first nine months of 
the present year, an increase of 2,300 over last 
yeaz-. The receipts were §65,000 in excess of 
those for the corresponding period last year. 
The report recommends a considerable in¬ 
crease in the crop examining and clerical 
force, and calls for an appropriation of $94,- 
000 . 
Guiteau in bis autobiography traces all 
his misfortunes aud failures iu life to his 
early training, and is especially severe on his 
father, to whom he attributes most of his 
calamities aud ill success. He shows how he 
persistently followed the late President w ith 
the intent to assassinate him, and n-affinusthat 
he believed he was acting under special Divine 
authority. He denies any legal liability, and 
says that for twenty years he baa had an idea 
that ho would President. 
After several months Inquiry the Committee 
of Twenty-eight appointed to consider the 
feasibility of holding a world’s fair in Boston 
met on the 13th. They reported that to suc¬ 
cessfully inaugurate and forward the project 
it would be necessary to secure a guaranteed 
capital of $5,006,000, and that, it was doubt¬ 
ful if that sum could be raised, unless private 
subscriptions were supplemented by State and 
city aid, which could not properly be ex¬ 
pected. 
The Albany new City Hall corner-stone was 
laid on Thursday with Masonic ceremonies, 
which were witnessed by a large concourse 
of citizens. The box which was deposited at 
the laying of the corner-stone of the old City 
Hall in 1823 was opened and the contents 
noted. It was then, together with a new 
box and new’ contents, deposited w ith the new 
corner-stone. 
Garfield’s picture will lie placed upon the 
five cent international postal letter stamps. 
The Rev. John A. La using of Brookline, 
Mass,, who was jointly indicted herewith Miss 
M. Ward, of Waverly, N. J., for obtaining $14,- 
000 worth of bank shares from Mrs. P. C. Up- 
ham, widow of the late Professor Upham, 
of Bowdoin College, by false pretenses, has 
been released from prison, Mr. A. V. Stout, 
of the Shoe »ml Leather Bank, becoming his 
bondsman in the sum of §3,500. 
The Detroit Post and Tribune furnishes a 
careful approximation of the losses by the re¬ 
cent farm and forest fires in Ottawa, Alle¬ 
gan, Manistee, Huron and Sanilac counties, 
Michigan. The total is $2,346,413. There 
w ere 1,147 dwellings burned, 28 school bouses, 
8 churches, 12 hotels, 180 stores, 34 mills and 
20 docks. The insurance on all this was only 
$028,632—so t hat an absolute deficiency of $1,- 
722,781 remains to lie met. What should be 
done is to see that their immediate and most 
pressing wants are provided for. To do this, 
even on the most limited scale, will require 
at least $600,000 and probably $1,000,000. But 
the total of the contributions from all sources 
Is now about §3(K),0U0. 
4 4 ♦ - 
‘‘Simply Wonderful.” 
The following is an extract from a letter re¬ 
ceived July 6tli, 1880, from which it will be 
seen that Compound Oxygen did a work 
which, to use the author’s own language, is 
“simply wonderful!” Ho says: “Since I 
wrote you last (about five weeks ago) I have 
gained fourteen pounds in weight, and my 
general health has improved accordingly. I 
have just finished the Treatment which you 
sent April 12th, and the work which it has 
done is simply wonderful. 1 did not tell you 
before that my physician had just given me 
up. Such was the case. Six weeks ago I 
was so w eak that 1 could barely w nlk across 
the floor. The other day 1 walked three 
miles,” Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen 
containing large reports of cases, and full in¬ 
formation, sent free. Drs. Starkey & Pa- 
len, 1109 and till Girard Street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 17, 1881. 
The following items of agricult ral news 
have been condensed from telegrams received 
here from Friday noon to date: Portland, 
Me.—Produce market firm and very active at 
higher prices. Farmers paying their debts 
well..... 
Philadelphia, Pa,—Wool firm; but trade 
only moderate. Western consignor holding 
off for better prices. Goat-skins scarce and 
prices slightly advanced. Leaf and plug to¬ 
bacco within the past 60 days, has advanced 
15 per cent., while in smoking tobacco there 
lias been no appreciable change. Wheat lower 
and unsettled..... 
Detroit, Mich.—Grain trade restricted by 
lack of storing capacity. Holders threatened 
with extra storage charges unless the elevators 
are promptly relieved. Corn, oats and clover 
seed, dull and lower. Provisions compara¬ 
tively scarce and low. Potatoes and butter 
are abundant and prices a trifle lower. 
Wheat firm. No. 1 white $1.36;£ cast. No. 2 
red, §1.40^....Chicago, Ill.—Grain and 
provisions weak and unsettled for a weak. 
October corn sold on Friday as low ns 5'.h>*e, 
and November 60c—a decline of 16c in 10 days. 
Wheat sold at $1.30—a declino of 15c in the 
same time, and in the same interval pork has 
dropped $2,50 per barrel. Prices, however, 
have probably touched bottom. There 
are now ten million bushels of corn in 
the elevators and still receipts are heavier than 
shipments.Peoria, Ill.: It has rained 
steadily during the w eek. Laborers are de¬ 
manding higher wages and usually get them. 
.Cleveland, Ohio: Grain market weak 
and unsteady: No. 8 red Winter wheat, $1.41; 
shelled com, OOfaTlc.; new in oars, 65c.; oats 
firm at 40c. for No. 1. Weather rainy and 
unfavorable to dairy interests.Colum¬ 
bus, Ohio: Crops excellent hereabouts. 
Evansville. Iud.: The tobacco crop hereabouts 
is not damaged so much as was reported. 
Much of it is still in the fields and looks fine; 
but, owing to swift growth after ihe rain, it 
is thought it will cure dark.Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis.: Rain falling nearly every day has 
delayed delivery of grain and other produce 
from interior points. An enormous amount 
of busiuuss in grain lias bean done from day 
to day, however, with violent fluctuations in 
prices. The general feeling is bearish, 
heavy sales resulting iu a decline of nearly 
10c. a bushel iu wheat. Mills genei’ally well 
up with their contracts, and if they continue 
running, flour will be lower. 
Minneapolis, Minn.—Another week of rain 
Pall plowing behind. A good deal of wheat 
thrashed this week in all the Northwest. 
Millers buying 100,000 bushels daily. Mar¬ 
ket closed weak at $1.33. Of flour 85,000 
bushels shipped during the week. Some dis¬ 
couragement among small farmers owing to 
poor crops .... Louisville, Ky,—Grain mar¬ 
kets all lower; distillers buying corn there¬ 
fore liberally. Leaf tobacco unimproved; bur- 
ley only in good demand.St. Louis, 
Mo,—Cotton steady with sotre improvements 
in futures; receipts since Aug. 81, 50,086 
bales—50 per cent, more than at the same 
time last year. Wheat on the down grade; 
market demoralized aud unsettled. Com, 
ditto. Provisions declining. Live stock aver¬ 
age receipts; good steers at firm figures; thin, 
in liberal supply and low. Freight blockade 
at East St. Louis owing to unusually large 
shipments and “pinkeye” disabling transfer 
horses. River Convention now assembling— 
an important gathering. Kansas City, Mo.— 
Cattle market firm and active. Hogs weak, 
and prices lOcfiflSc lower; best grades now 
selling for $0(,/$6.25.Omaha, Neb.— 
Weather for the week rainy and gloomy. 
Orders for goods pouring iu from the country, 
however. Produce scarce and dealers are 
buying heavily through the country, paying 
high prices. Large shipments of cattle are 
being received, and grain receipts are increas¬ 
ing. Porkers are bringing $6.50....Den¬ 
ver, Col.—Hog market quiet, receipts small, 
but supply ample. Fruit very Active, a brisk 
demand for apples; Colorado ranch produce 
is crowding the market. Hides dull. Deer 
and antelope skins abundant; prices fair. 
Baltimore, Md.—A slight advnuce in the cattle 
market and prime heavy are in demand. A 
heavy falling iu the breadstuff market aw¬ 
ing to moderate purchases. Market for West¬ 
ern wheat was excited, and one day’s sales 
amounted to 714.000 bushels. Southern wheat 
dull and weak; Fultz, $1.35(5$1.40, and 
Lougberry, $1,45(5 $1.53. Corn easier aud 
prices for Southern and Western lower. Bet¬ 
ter grades of butter in demand and firm. 
Oleomargarine finds ready sale at 20o(</22c, 
solid packed, 21 c(//23e rolls, and 23c(«.25c 
prints. Cheese market active, commanding 
strongest prices.Richmond, Vu,—To¬ 
bacco market firm owing to dry weather; 
“ blights” higher, and it is thought they will 
continue to advance.Wilmington, N. 
C.—Provision trade brisk, Cotton receipts 
increasing. The rice crop fails short. 
Charleston, 8. C.—Rice crop estimated fully 
24 per cent short of last yea r’s crop, prime 
selling at Sc.Savannah, Ga.—Long, 
dry spell. No frost yet. Cotton quiet but 
firm.Atlauta, Ga.—Cotton coming in 
freely, though farmers are holding for higher 
prices. Crop will soon be gathered. Weather 
still favorable for picking.Augusta, 
Ga.—Grain and provisions lower; supply light. 
Cotton coming in rapidly. Iu some localities 
the plant is still growing and fruiting. 
Unless the Fall is unusually late, but 
little oi the new crop will mature. 
In many parts of the "West and especially 
in Illinois there arc grievous complaints Of in¬ 
jury of a very unusual nature to the com crop. 
It seems that owing to the unprecedented 
drought during the past. Summer and the late 
heavy warm rains the corn on the cob lias in 
many cases sprouted, as if it were in the 
ground, while in other cases the butte of the 
eai-s have rotted. Fields of corn which to 
the eye appear capable of yielding from 35 to 
45 bushels of merchantable corn per acre, 
will, it is said, owing to this cause give a much 
smaller yield. The damage is variously estim¬ 
ated at a loss of from IU to 30 per cent, of 
the crop in different places. It appears to 
make little difference whether the stalks are 
standing upright or whether they have been 
bent over until the tips of the ears touch the 
ground..... 
New Orleans, La., Weather still warm 
with ocoasii >nul show ers favorable for cane and 
cotton, Cotton market firm with an upward 
tendency. Rice steady and iu active demand 
-....Nashville, Tenn.: Wheat and Hour 
firm and in good demand. Milling w’heat 
w’orth §1.55(1/1.59. Fine Fall weather after 
the severe drought has given us a splendid 
growth of grass. Cotton receipt® good; sales 
slow. Montreal, Canada: Wool firmer and 
in active inquiry from manufacturers. Cattle 
trade dull; grain trade heavy.J, H. 
Banda's, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Na¬ 
tional Live Stock Journal, Chicago, has re¬ 
tired from that paper and will begin the pub¬ 
lication of a weekly to be called the Breed¬ 
er’s Journal. 
From the reports made at the Annual Con¬ 
vention of the National Farmers' Alliance held 
the other day at Chicago, it appears that al¬ 
ready 1,000 Alliances have been organized with 
a membership of 24,500. These Alliances are 
distributed as follows;—Nebraska, 291; Kan¬ 
sas, 245; Iowa, 150; New’ York, 60; Wisconsin; 
51; Minnesota, 50; Illinois, 45; Michigan, 19; 
Missouri, 19; Indiana, 10. Each member is 
to pay 10c. towards the support of the alii- 
