THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MtWS J0f \\)t TUcrh. 
“ Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” died lately in Canada, 
leaving a mourning family of eleven children, 
forty-four grandchildren and six great-grand¬ 
children. 
points in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin 
are very light and held firmly at full prices. 
Texas and California clips are held above a 
parity with the seaboard rates, and supplies 
are accumulating.Philadelphia, Pa.— 
Fair trade in flour and grain with prices rang¬ 
ing near Inst week's quotation!), A good deal 
of speculation in canned goods. A steady 
market for choice lots of potatoes; trade in 
other sorts easier. Butter is firm with a 
good demand for choice quality for a. high 
price. Wool sales the smallest of any week 
since July; but prices continue firm. 
Cincinnati, Ohio.—The grain markets touched 
bottom last Monday, and have rallied since. 
To-day (Saturday) they are stronger with 
higher prices for wheat corn, and outs. Corn 
has advanced about five cents since Monday 
.Evansville, Ind.—Homo of the mills 
hereabouts are shutting down, not being able 
to buy more wheat; farmers arc holding for 
higher prices.Louisville, Ky.—Tobacco 
Arm and steady.Detroit, Mich — Wheat 
market sensitive and unsettled, with a bullish 
drift. Bad roads checking movement of grain 
in the interior. Country collections therefore 
slow but satisfactory.Milwaukee, Wis. 
—Receipts of cereals continue light, though 
sufficient to supply the demand—the impass¬ 
able condition of interior roads prevents ship¬ 
ping. Flour still dull and weak; a consider¬ 
able reduction in prices has been made to 
bring about a free movement. Tho millers 
hero are trying to induce those at St. Louis, 
Minneapolis and other chief milling centers to 
suspend work until either wheat falls in 
price or flour rises. Negotiations still going 
on to this end.St. Louis, Mo.—Pink¬ 
eye lias nearly disappeared and the freight 
blockade is substantially lifted. Excellent 
hogs are arriving in large lots. Cattle mar¬ 
ket lively; but only light-weight stock is com¬ 
ing in. All grains are showing a downward 
tendency.. .. 
Minneapolis, Minn.: Another week of rainy 
weather, with but brief intervals of sunshine, 
and colder to-day, Farm work has been at a 
stand still owing to condition of the roads. 
But. little thrashing has boon done during the 
week. Considerable damaged wheat is offered 
for sulo. Murket dull; No. 1 wheat closed 
Friday at $1.10, a decline of 7c. Several of 
the mills have shut down. More will do so 
to-day (Saturday). All are purchasing wheat 
and hold about 1,500,000 bushels, flood flour 
is held firmly. Lumber market, active; saw¬ 
mills still in operation.. Kansas City, 
Mo.: Weather very favorable. A largo move¬ 
ment of grain to the seaboard may be looked 
for if present reduced prices continue. The 
high prices heretofore ruling left no margin 
for shippers, hence transactions have been con- 
lined to consumers’ wants, and a good deal of 
money has been looked up in grain, which is 
now being released.Omaha, Neb.: 
More rains have kept tho country back. 
Travel is bad and farmers are unable to mar¬ 
ket their crops as largely as they would oth¬ 
erwise. Collections poor for last three weeks, 
but a better condition of roads will improve 
matters. Com is selling at 55(«00c. Hogs 
are bringing $5.50 per hundred, und all pro¬ 
duce commands high prices. 
Denver, Col,: Politics have engrossed all at¬ 
tention during the week. Partisan feeling 
very bitter. General trade rather quiet ex¬ 
cept fruit. Snowy weather prevail ing . Much 
satisfaction that Denver has been selected to 
be tho permanent capital of Colorado. 
Ban Francisco, Cal.: Wheat uncertain, but 
$1.75 is offered for prime,st shipping; second, 
per cental. Barley and oats 
on the upward grade. Ample tonnage in 
the harbor. Great trouble lately between 
farmers and hydraulic miners. The mighty 
streams of the latter washed away whole 
acres of bluffs, and when tho rivori rose in 
the wet season the tradings, called “slickens,” 
swept down on tho rich farming bottoms, cov¬ 
ering them with sand and debris and ruining 
them agriculturally. A committee of the 
Board of Trade has been examining the mat¬ 
ter and recommends a compromise, the min¬ 
ers to build stone dams along the gulches to 
restrain the slickens. A joint convention of 
farmers has ratified tho recommendation.... 
Baltimore, Md.: Wet weather until latter 
part of the week. Wool linn; demand good; 
supply only moderate. BreadstuIf market 
quiet; tone in favor of buyers. Spot and 
December delivery of wheat steady; corn 
dull. Dealings in former more speculative. 
Cotton prices steady and firm. Provisions 
dull, but order trade active and steady. 
Buttor commands high prices; demand for 
good gnulus increasing. Tobacco market 
quiet, but good grades find ready sale. Stock 
market has been dull.Wilmington, N. C.: 
Weather cool, with rain. Cotton receipts and 
prices good. Provisions and general trade 
bettor. Rice receipts increasing. Tho mills 
here produeeafirst rate article... .Charleston, 
S. C.: Cotton coming in lively. Indications 
of cooler weather.Savannah, Ga.: 
Cotton very firm, with an upward tendency. 
Demand strong at quotations. Weather very 
unseasonable.Atlanta, Ga.: Owing to 
short cotton crop merchants are making 
greater efforts to col lect debts than to sell.... 
... .Augusta, Ga.: Weather still warm and 
favorable for cotton picking, in adjoining 
counties nearly all the cotton has been gath¬ 
ered; but tho bulk of it is still in Die country, 
planters waiting for better prices whenever 
they are not too much in debt. Since Sept. 1, 
receipts have boon 23,907 bales less than for 
the corresponding time last year.New 
Orleans, La.: cotton linn and in demand. 
Receipts of sugar and molasses light; prices 
sustained. Warm weather is unfavorable for 
sugar and delays receipts.Memphis, 
Tonn.: A good demand for hay and oats at 
higher prices. Cotton receipts ‘3,000 bales 
behind last year and are falling off steadily 
owing to the short crop und disposition of 
planters to hold for higher prices. 
Nashville, Temi.: Grain and flour market 
dull; flour lower. General produce market 
active. Feathers in good demand and fair 
prices with a downward tendency. Wool 
dull; prices lower. Hogs in fair demand; but 
packing hasn’t opened yet and packers are 
prudent in purchasing. Some decline in 
prices of lumber, especially of back walnut. 
Cotton receipts lighter, but sales good and 
market aoti vc..... 
Halifax, Novu Scotia: Accounts from Prince 
Edward’s Island are particularly good: farm¬ 
ers are getting high prices for their produce’ 
and though the crops are generally under tho 
average of former years, yet the advance in 
price of exports will give the island a higher 
aggregate than for the past: four years. Flour 
here is steady with a fair demand.Win¬ 
nipeg, Manitoba: Winter has set in here in 
earnest, with snow, frost and ice a week ago. 
Fall plowing has been well gotten through 
with, and the area under wheat next year n 
Manitoba and tho Northwestern Territories 
will be largely in excess of previous years,,.. 
The Nashville American says that from 18 to 
20 cents per pound are paid in that city for 
the kernels of black walnuts. They are used 
in the manufacture of fruit candies, and are 
brought to Nashville in large quantities from 
the Northwestern States, although in middle 
Tennessee alone thousands of bushels are per¬ 
mitted to rot on the ground every year. 
The Cotton Planters’ Convention at Vicks¬ 
burg, on October adopted throe resolu¬ 
tions of moment to Southern planters, request¬ 
ing Congress to remove the tariff duties on 
cotton ties, pledging cooperation with the 
Iowa Farmers’ Alliance in its war on the 
wire fences, and calling another convention 
of the farmers and planters of the cotton 
States, to moot at Atlanta on December 5 
next. The Galveston News says that “in 
view of the fact that the American cotton tie 
manufacturers are already protected to the 
extent of 3ft per cent., and are clamoring for 
70, it behooves tho producer to take imme¬ 
diate steps not only to prevent the increase, 
but, if possible, to get rid of the unjust tax 
of 35 per cent, on the ties.”.Advices 
from Buenos Ayres, dated September 14, 
state that ram lias fallen almost continuously 
since the departure of the preceding mail. 
This was welcome, and the farmers were, con¬ 
sequently, hoping for a good crop year. The 
winter months were nearly over, and shearing 
will be now about beginning. According to 
tho Buenos Ayres Standard, it was estimated 
that, in consequence of the great increase of 
the flocks, the yield of the wool will be 20,(MM) 
bales larger this season than last. There was, 
however, still a large quantity of last season’s 
wool left on hand, and the severe weather had 
checked the export trade, so that the position 
generally was not favorable to an upward 
movement hi prices, at least so far as 
Argentine wools were concerned. 
A peculiar real estate voidureat Wayne, thir¬ 
teen miles from Philadelphia, will bring to¬ 
gether a population of 8,(MX) in another year. 
Tho company bought (MM) acres for $250,000, 
and spout $100,000 hi landscape gardening, 
$50,000 for u water supply, and enough in 
drainage to swell tho total investment to 
$500,000. Tho building lots are an acre each, 
and the purchaser is bound to select one out 
of twenty striking designs for a residence, 
costing $2,0(M) to $8,000. Picturesqueness is 
further provided for by fixing tho exact spot 
on which the house shall stand, and locating 
tho trees to suit the landscape. A first pay¬ 
ment of a third part of the cost of the land 
and Improvement is all that is required, the 
rest remaining on mortgage on easy terms. 
There will he no bar-rooms.A cable from 
Dublin says: “No fewer than 400 landlords 
have intimated that they are willing to sell 
their estates, but not a single tenant has ex¬ 
pressed the wish to buy.”... 
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An ox consul of Great Britain says that tho 
Brooklyn Eagle related that Mr. Charles 
Townsend, Sedalia, Mo., was cured of rheuma¬ 
tism of the worst kind by St. Jacobs Oil.—In¬ 
dianapolis (lud.) Sentinel. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Nov. 14, 1881. 
Tiie Late Elections.— Election day was 
a very quiet one in this city as well ns else 
where. Tho revised returns from every 
county in this State show that the Republican 
State ticket with the exception of Hunted for 
Treasurer, is elected, by a majority of 11,000. 
The Democrats will probably haven majority 
in the Legislature of six on joint ballot—that 
is two in the Senate and four in the Assembly. 
The Democratic majority for the State ticket 
in this city was about 40,000. In Brooklyn 
tho Republicans elected a Mayor by over 
4,<MMI majority when 14,780 majority was 
given to tho Democratic candidate for State 
Treasurer. In Massachusetts the Republican 
State ticket, headed b,y Long for Governor, 
was elected by 30,000 majority. Connecti¬ 
cut returns a reduced Republican majority in 
the Legislature, the Senate now standing 
Republicans 17, Democrats 7, and the House, 
Republican 140, Democrats 08, Green backers 
1. Pennsylvania gives the Republican can¬ 
didate for State Treasurer about 7,(MM) plural¬ 
ity. The Independent vote in Philadelphia, 
reached about 85,0(H). In Vi rci ini a, Ga t ueron, 
Readjustor candidate for Governor, is chosen 
by a majority of about. 1,1,00(1. The Road- 
jasters claim the legislature by 15 votes on 
joint. ballot. Wisconsin shows large Demo¬ 
cratic gains for a Republican State. The 
Republicans elect their Governor by a fair 
majority, and will lmvo a light majority 
in the Legislature. The temperance vote 
reached 25,000. MISSISSIPPI gives a Demo, 
c ratio majority of 15,000 or 20,000. In 
Nebraska only three State officera were 
voted for, the Republicans winning by from 
15,000 to 18,000. They also elected their 
ticket in Minnesota by about 85,000, though 
there was a fulling off of 40 par cent, in the 
entire vote. In New Jersey the Democrats 
made considerable gains but not enough to 
change the complexion of the State Legisla¬ 
ture. 
Two tenement houses in this city suddenly 
collapsed on the 0th Inst, killing eight, persons 
instantly und injuring about 25 others. 
The trial of Guiteau begins to-day at Wash¬ 
ington. It will probably continue for some 
time. A large number of witnesses have 
been summoned on both sides. 
Ton boilers in the extensive lumber and salt 
manufactory of Hamilton McClure <fc Co., 
six miles below East Saginaw, Mieli., ex¬ 
ploded on the 13th, wrecking property valued 
at $20, (XXI und killing four firemen—Michael 
and Joseph Lehau, Frank Blanchard, and 
Charles Carpenter. Low water in the boiler 
caused the explosion. 
The annexation of Northern Idaho to 
Washington is again agitated, and with it the 
question of tho admission of the new State of 
Washington to the Union. The new State, 
with the addition suggested, would have an 
area exceeding eighty thousand square miles, 
or as great as that of Now York and Ohio 
combined. 
The increase of internal rovenuo receipt,s 
over the corresponding period last year is very 
large, and surprises even the internal revenue 
officials. The net increase during tho months 
of July, August, September und October over 
the same months last year amounts to $7,299,- 
337.20, At this ratio the receipts during the 
present, year will amount, to $150,000,000. 
A full bench of Justices in a Massachusetts 
State court has decided that women are not 
eligible as lawyers in the Hay State. 
All tho personal effects of the late President, 
stored in 80 boxes, including books, pictures, 
etc., huvo been removed from the White 
House, at Washington, for shipment to Men¬ 
tor. Tho Alderney cow presented t,o the late 
President was also placed on a train, and will 
be sent to Mrs, Garfield at Cleveland. 
All the open country lying between the 
north end of the Sny Levee and south of 
Quincy, 111., is to be leveed as soon as work 
can be commenced, and the damaged levees 
are to be repaired. The fol 1 owing are be¬ 
lieved to bo accurate estimates of the damage 
done by the recent flood;—Entire losses in the 
Warsaw Drainage district, $000,000; in the 
Indian Grove District, $750,000; in the Sny 
Island district, $1,»X)i),(MM); on Quincy Ray and 
in the city, $30,000; in and about Alexandria, 
Mo., $250,000; to the Keokuk and St. Louis 
Railroad, $100,000; to all other railroads, $00,- 
000; to open lands north of Sny Levee and im¬ 
mediately south of St. Louis, $150,000, making 
a total of $2,040,000. 
The State 1 lon.se of Texas, at Austin, was 
burned on Thursday, with the Court report* 
and valuable portraits and library. 
Illness lias prevented Mr. Henry W. Long¬ 
fellow from seeing visitors for three weeks 
past. 
Josiuli Henson, the original of the hero of 
Gov. Ijong, of Massachusetts, has made a 
new departure from the usual style of Thanks¬ 
giving proclamations. His announcement con¬ 
sists mainly of four verses of Scripture and 
four stanzas of poetry. 
The total loss in the Canadian provinces by 
bush fires during the past season is estimated 
at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. 
The proprietors of the Boston Herald, 
Messrs. Pulsifer, Haskell and Andrews, have 
started on a Southern tour in a special car. 
It is said that the yearly income of each from 
the newspaper is $50,000. 
Mrs. 08141051, Miss Mollio and Masters 
Herbert and Abram are now comfortably 
quartered in their new Cleveland home, No, 
1,100 Euclid avenue. They left Mentor for 
that city on Monday, and it is Mrs. Garfield’s 
intent ion to reside in her present home until 
April next, s'io having made arrangements 
with Judge Burke to occupy the house until 
that time, She will probably make Mentor 
her Summer home. 
To provide dinner for passengers on the 
new fast Chicago train, u. man will daily ac¬ 
company it from New York to take dowu 
numbers and letters indicating the kind and 
number of dishes of different sorts which pas¬ 
sengers desire. Those are enclosed in an en¬ 
velope and thrown off at Pougkeepsie, whence 
they are telepraphed to the Albany restaurant. 
At Albany, men enter the train with baskets 
containing tho dinner and serve it, remain¬ 
ing on the train till Yosts is reached, where 
water is taken. A stop of twenty minutes is 
made at Buffalo for supper. 
Dakota Territory will apply for admission 
to the Union as a State during the next Con¬ 
gress. The territory is rapidly filling up at 
the present time. In 1880 it had a population 
of 185,180, which has increased since that time 
to 165,000 or 170,000. Arkansas, Florida, Cal¬ 
ifornia, Oregon, Kansas, Nevada and Nebraska 
were admitted to tho Union with a population 
ranging from 50,000 to 123,000 less than that 
of Dakota. 
Lawyer Trade, of Chicago, finds that his 
legal engugments there will prevent liis par¬ 
ticipation in the Guiteau trial, and he tele¬ 
graphed Mr. Scoville on the 9th, to that ef¬ 
fect. Mrs. Parker, who is considered an im¬ 
portant witness by the Reovillos, applied to 
the United States Marshall yesterday for 
transportation to Washington, stating that 
she had no means to pay her own expenses. 
Mrs. Scoville has spent all her money already, 
and was provided with passes for herself and 
duughter by Trade. 
At Madison, lud., Mrs. Surah Mosely has 
died at. tho ago of 111 years. Her oldest 
child, Mrs. Renfrew, is 87 years old. 
Smallpox having been carried to California 
by immigrants from Chicago, the State au¬ 
thorities have decided to inspect all immi¬ 
grant trains and quarantine the passengers 
ami cars where evidences of tho disease are 
found. 
At Spring Lake, Mich., 9,000,(MX) feet of 
lumber, worth $250,(XX), were burned on Wed¬ 
nesday. 
Brilliant Itcwultw. 
There cannot be found, in the journals of 
any school of medicine, an account, of such 
brilliant cures as have been made, during the 
past, ten years, in a wide ran ye of chronic, d is. 
eases, by the Compound Oxygen Treatment. 
In a single number of our quarterly journal, 
Health and Life, will be found a record of 
cures, some of which would make the reputa¬ 
tion of any medical practitioner. Not a day 
in which our largo correspondence with pa¬ 
tients does not bring us new reports of cures, 
or ameliorations of distressing symptoms, or 
expressions of thankfulness and gratitude for 
relief from pains which have tortured for 
years, and for which no treatment had hith¬ 
erto availed anything. Our Treatise on Com¬ 
pound Oxygon, containing a large report of 
cases, and full information, sent free. Drs. 
Starkey A, 1'ai.kn, 1109 and 1111 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Nov. 14, 1881. 
The following items of agricultural news 
are condensed from telegrams received here 
from last Friday evening till noon to-duy: 
Boston, Muss. Corn quiet; prices in favor of 
buyer. Oats ditto. Pork and lard stronger. 
Beef still dull with prices, if anything, still 
lower. Beans in loss demand than usual. A 
fair trade has been done in wool, mainly in 
line washed and unwashed fleeces. A remark¬ 
able steadiness still in values attests tho gen¬ 
eral confidence in high prices in the future. 
Consumers, as a rule, are slightly stocked, 
and will need all the available wool before the 
new clip comes to market. Stocks at primary 
