SEPT <6 
Hews .of lljc Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 9, 1882. 
Mt. Vernon, Ind., has been threatened by a 
mob owing to an effort to close the saloons 
on Sunday. The residence of the City Mar¬ 
shall was burned by the mob, and the deputy 
Marshal terribly beaten. The telegraph and 
telephone wires were guarded to prevent com¬ 
munication with neighboring towns. 
The tolls collected on the canals the last 
week in August were $27,612; for correspond¬ 
ing week last year $82,805; total tolls for 
August $108,827, against $08,805 for August 
last year. 
W. C. Depauw, of New Albany, Ind., offers 
to give $1,000,000 to Asbury University, in 
that State, on condition that a like sum be 
raised el *e where. 
A State Convention of Prohibitionists is 
called at Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 4, to take steps 
to secure the submission to a popular vote of a 
prohibition amendment to the State Consti¬ 
tution. 
The ex Confederate soldiers have been in¬ 
vited to attend the reunion of the Army of 
the Cumberland in Milwaukee, Wis , on the 
19th, 20 th, and 21 st insts., in token c f appre¬ 
ciation of the courtesy generously extended to 
the Society of the Army of the Cumberland 
of the Northwest at their late reunion in 
Chattanooga. Tenn. 
The brigades of labor of this city turned 
out with banners and music on the 0 th inst., 
making a big demonstration thiough the 
streets. About 10,000 men wire in line. 
The floods in northwestern Texas, reported 
last week, were even more disastrous than at 
first supposed. Fully 100 Mexican herders are 
known to have perished besides several peo¬ 
ple at stage stations and in small villages. 
A daughter of Senator Wtndotn, who re 
cently made a visit to Mrs. Garfield at Men¬ 
tor, says that Mrs. Garfleld and Mollie look 
lots better than when she saw them last year, 
and, they talk about the General all the time, 
just as if he were alive and hud gone some¬ 
where on a visit. 
Oarsman Charles E. Courtney of Union 
Springs, N. Y., defeated George E. Lee in a 
three-mile race on Candaraga Lake at Rich, 
field Springs, N. Y., last week, in 1!) minutes 
313^ seconds, the fastest time on record. 
President Arthur has tom himself away' 
from the attractions of New port dinners and 
society this week, and is coasting along Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is expected to attend the 
veterans’ reunion at Concord, N. H., next 
week. The same week he will probably visit 
the White Mountains. 
At Brown University, Chief Justice Thomas 
Durfee has been re-elected Chancellor; Arnold 
Buffam Chase, Treasurer; the Rev. Dr. Sam¬ 
uel L. Caldwell, Secretary ; and the Hon. 
Samuel L. Crocker, of Taunton, Mat?., Trus¬ 
tee. 
At North St. Louis, Mo., the case of a young 
woman who claims to have taken no nourish¬ 
ment for three months is attracting attention. 
Newport, R. I., has had an Asiatic cholera 
scare. The physicians differ in opinion about 
the case. 
Secretary Lincoln is an aspirant for the 
seat now filled by David Davis in the Semite. 
In Florida 10,000 men, or one fourth of the 
total number of the voting population, are at 
work building railroads. Twenty new roads 
are under way, some of tin m neatly finished. 
The English rifle team at Creedmoor have 
beaten the American team in the past few 
days’ practice. The Englishmen, selected 
from military ranks as the Americans were, 
seem to be much better drilled than their 
American cousins. The regular match takes 
place next week. 
Official estimates make the cost of the cen¬ 
sus of 1880 fully $5,000,000 The work wss 
begun in 1879, and will be finished in 1883, 
after five years of solid work. It will be the 
completes! work of the kind ever done. The 
English census cost only $700,000. 
The Republicans of Vermont elected a Gov¬ 
ernor, two Congressmen and several minor 
officials at the election held on the 7th inst. 
Yellow fever continues its ravages at 
Brownsville, Tex , and Maluruoras, Mex. 
Subscriptions are pouring in for the sufferers 
at both places. Business has generally stop¬ 
ped, and the patients are suffering for 
attendance. Pensacola, Fla., also reports a 
few cates brought in by vessels. 
When the W ashingtou monument is finished 
there will be a signal service station on its 
top-550 feet from the ground. As originally 
planned the structure was but 500 feet high, 
but two years ago the commissioners added 
50 feel more. 
It is said that 1274 miles of main track weie 
laid on 70 different lines last month, 300 miles 
more than in July, and more than in any 
other month of our history. 
The Fall term of Amherst College has 
THE RURAL. MEW-YORKER. 
opened, and the entering class numbers about 
90. 
The $20,000 bequeathed in 1856 to Hartford, 
Conn., by John M. Niles, to be held till it had 
doubled, now amounts to $40,335, and the 
income will be used henceforth, in accordance 
with the terms of the bequest, to furnish poor 
families with food. 
Col. R. Up! Plumb, of Streator, HI., recently 
presented to that tow n a fullv-equipped Lit h- 
sohool building costing. $40,000. The dedica¬ 
tory address was made by Governor Collum. 
A large oil-painting nf Colonel Plumb was 
presented to the school by the citizens. 
The birthplace of Whittier, near Haverhill, 
Mass., is now ibe property of Mr. George El¬ 
liot, of Boston, who has rescued it from decay 
and is preserving it for future generations as 
a memorial of the great Quaker poet. 
General Sherman will attend the reuuion of 
the New Hampshire soldiers at Lake Winni- 
pesogee on the 14th and 15th inst. He will 
also be present at Mudison Barracks, Sackelts 
Harbor, N. Y., to receive the incoming Twelfth 
infantry, which is expected to arrive there on 
the 20 th insb 
While 4,000 persons were in attendance at a 
Methodist camp meeting at Bethel near 
Graham, N. C\, on the 8 th inst, a boy of four¬ 
teen years, who bad bem unable since his birth 
to utter and articulate sounds, suddenly 
mounted the preaebei’s platform and made a 
profession of religion, speaking in a firm, clear 
voice. 
Jordan, Marsh & Co. of Boston, this Sum¬ 
mer gave several of th ir employes a Euro¬ 
pean tour. They were absent two months, 
and the average expense was $250. 
The subscriptions to the “ Ben Hill Monu¬ 
ment Fund” are increasing rapidly and the 
friends of the late Senator are confident that 
they wjII secure a large amount toward the 
monument. Over $900 have been secured. 
Since the war Alexander B. Stephens has 
collected more than $500,000 of war claims for 
Southern people, for which he has refused to 
accept any compensation. 
Designs have been seat in for a statue of 
Abraham Lincoln, to be erected in Lincoln 
Park, Chicago. The money for the erection 
of this statue, $30,000, was given by the late 
Eli Bates, of that city. 
John Sowk, a wealthy stock raiser near 
Missouri Valley, la., deeded his entire prop¬ 
erty to his sou on condition that be and bis 
wife should be cared for in the old homestead 
during life. No sooner had the deed been 
signed than the thankless son ordered bis aged 
parents to the poor farm, but allowed them 
to spend one more night under his roof. Dur¬ 
ing the night the old gentleman seized and 
burned the deed, and fired his son from the 
premises, disowned and disinherits 1 him. 
The surgeons who have been examining 
Guiteau’s brain have made their report and 
say substantially that, although Guiteau was 
not strictly normal in respect to the organic 
substratum of the mind, and in respect to its 
symptomatic expression, bo was, neverthe¬ 
less, a responsible agent, in that be had a 
clear conception of the distinction between 
right and wrong, and realized the nature of 
the crime and its punishment. 
At the next election in Wisconsin, amend¬ 
ments to the State constitution will be sub¬ 
mitted for ratification, one being to make it 
necessary fora person to reside “ in the elec¬ 
tion district where he offers to vote, such 
time as may be provided L<y the legislature 
not exceeding thirty days.” Another pro¬ 
posed amendment extends the term of the 
present State officers one year, and makes 
the next election for State offices occur in 1884, 
and on even years thereafter, instead of in 1883 
and in the odd years. 
Nine negroes and a negrets have been con¬ 
victed at Eastman, Ga., of the murder of a 
man namud James Harward, and were all 
sentenced to the penitentiary for life. 
The total number of patents issued to 
Thomas A. Edison is 396, of which tweuty-ene 
were issued during the past week. This is 
the largest number issued from the United 
States Patent Office to any one man in the 
history of that office. 
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Consumption. 
No longer in tue listot •meurublediseases.” 
Send to Drs. Starkey & Palkn, No. 1109 Gi¬ 
rard street, Philadelphia, for their treatise on 
Compound Oxygen, and learn all about the 
wonderful cures which are being made in this 
dread disease.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The movement of wheat has increased 
steadily duriug the week. At the fix princi¬ 
pal markets at the West, viz., Chicago, Mil¬ 
waukee, Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis and 
Peoria, the receipts or wheat for the week 
ending September 4, were 2.321,930 bushels, 
against 1,893,083 bushels in the week to Aug¬ 
ust 28; 1,188,833 in the week ending August 
21, and900,202 in the weekending Aug. 14. The 
movement from these points to the seaboard, 
how'ever, has not increased in proportion. In 
the last week the shipments from the points 
above named were 515,725 bushels less than 
the arrivals It will be seen, therefore, that 
stocks are accumulating at U 10 West. The 
railroad officials at Chicago also report an 
increase during the past week of orders from 
country stations for cars to load with grain, 
which indicates a further increase in the 
movement of grain from the country. The 
effect of this movement of wheat, together 
w ith the exaggerated estimates of the proba¬ 
ble aggregate of the crop, has been to cause a 
decline of from five to fix cents per bushel on 
wheat in the last ten days, the greater part of 
which has been experienced in the last three 
days. On the whole, however, prices have 
been maintained better than might have been 
expected under the cirournstauces. 
During the week the market for corn has 
been unsettled with a downward flant in 
prices, owing to continued large receipts at 
the West and also to larger esiinuries than 
heretofore of the growing crop. Moreover, 
there is a belief that corn from Texas and 
Arkansas, os well as from some of the other 
Southern States, will soon be in the Northern 
markets; but this is hardly likely to be the 
case to any considerable extent, as corn is 
consumed at higher prices in the South than 
it will fetch at the North, to say nothing of 
extra freight charges. Seldom does the new 
corn amount to much in Northern markets 
before the first of January, and as the late 
high pi ices ought to have drawn out most 
of the surplus corn in producers’ hands, there 
ought to be a scarcity of corn before New 
Year’s.,....... 
While the export demand for hog products 
still continues very light, prices being too high 
for foreign buyers, there has been a brisk 
demand for the South, for Canada, and for 
the lumbering regions in the United States. 
It is estimated that the supply of hogs for 
Winter packing throughout the West will be 
15 per cent less than last year, and that the 
marketing will be later, the stock being 
younger than usual. The general impression 
now is that in spite of a decline of 50 cents per 
barrel on pork during the week, prices of hogs 
will continue very stiff for some months to 
come. 
The following items of agricultural inter¬ 
est are condensed samples of a ureat number 
of telegrams received here within the last 24 
hours: Boston, Mas?. All general informa¬ 
tion about wool is given under Ibis head, ns 
Boston is the headquarters of tie trade in that 
staple. The trade in wool has been fair dur¬ 
ing 1 he week but less than last week. For 
most grades the situation is as strong as ever: 
in some lines stronger. Manufscturers still 
buying for immediate wants. Supplies still 
coming forward quite freely from interior 
maiketa. The amount of wool still in grow¬ 
ers’ hands, however, is considered unusually 
large for this time of the 5 'ear. A few Ameri¬ 
can mills are reported to be buying in Eu¬ 
rope, but no large importations are expected. 
Abroad matters are not changed. 
Philadelphia, Pa. Prices steady for cotton 
and very steady for wool. Breadstuffs de¬ 
clining under large receipts of wheat and oats 
and better prospects for corn. Prices 9c. 
lower ou “spot” wheat and 4@5e. lower on 
“futures.” Com has declined 4@5c. within 
thewiek. Bulk potatoes beginning to arrive 
from the West: New York State stock ex¬ 
pected shortly. Cincinnati, Ohio: 
Hog products strong under large consumptive 
demand. Grain and flour lower, ..Louisville, 
Ky. : Grain market unsatisfactory to dealers 
on account of soft prices and heavy propor¬ 
tion of damaged and rejected wheat. Cattle 
receipts heavy and trade active at a decline. 
Reports on Kentucky tobacco crop indicate 
larger acreage than last year with plants in 
very fair uverage condition. 
Chicago, 111.—Large receipts of wheat 
from the West. A falling off of 50 per cent, 
in receipts of oats; and a considerable decline 
in receipts of corn, owing to decrease of price. 
Receipts of cattle very large and trade very 
active. The bulk of them are grass bolted 
and the quality is higher than for years at 
this season, especially those from Texas and 
the Territories. Receipt of hogs smaller; 
quality very poor; prices, however, main¬ 
tained ... 
8t. Louis, Mo.—Grain lower all round, and 
still tending downward. Corn extremely ex¬ 
cited and deals for “future” corn larger than 
for y ears here. Receipts and shipments larger 
all round than last week. Cattle in big sup¬ 
ply on a sharp decline; prices lower than for 
months past. Hogs iu demand; supply light; 
market strong. Horse and mule market 
weakening a little. Late heavy rains didn’t 
hurt corn. Fall plowing begun; ground in 
excellent condition. 
Italy’ a wheat crop is one-third moie than 
last year. The Indian corn crop has stiffen d 
from drought. Vines good, especially in the 
South. Olives excellent. 
The Mark Lane Express, having returns from 
251 points, estimates that the wheat yield on 
3,152,000 acres in Great Britain will average 
26 to 27 bushels, or from 82,000,000 to 85,000,- 
000 bushels, so that 103,000,000 to 106,000,000 
bushels will be required from other countries. 
D uring tw elve months endirg July 31 last 
the actual imports into the United Kingdom 
were 108,656,000 bushels of wheat, besides 
nearly 11.000,000 cwts of flour. Apparently 
British requirements this year will be less than 
actual imports last year. The wheat crop of 
France Is now' estimated at 283,800 000 bush- 
els, which is within 4,000,000 bushels of the 
quantity required for consumption, but stocks 
are light aud may need to bo increased to 
some extent. In Spain there has been con¬ 
siderable injury, and imports of 21,280,000 
bushels are judged necessary. In Switzerland 
the usual imports, about 10 , 000,000 bushels, 
are expected. Germany as a whole will have 
an average crop, but the yield in the Grand 
Duchies is unusually large, as it is expected to 
be in European Turkey. In Austria a good 
yield is expected except in Galicia and Bohe. 
mia, where the crop is short. Sweden and 
Norw’ay report a fair yield, but the returns 
from Holland are conflicting. Russia has a 
fair yield in the northern, but considerably 
less than average yield in the central and 
southern provinces. On the whole, the situa¬ 
tion in Europe does not now render it proba¬ 
ble that the wheat deficit to be met will be as 
large as that of last year. . 
Professor McVTurtrie, of the Agricultural 
Department at Washington, has accepted the 
chair of chemistry at the llliuois State Indus¬ 
trial College, at Champaign iu that State, and 
will leave for Ids now post, in a few days. 
Reports from the West say many farmers 
are already preparing granaries to hold over 
some of their wheat till next year, being un¬ 
willing to sell at present prices. 
The September Crop Report of the Ohio 
Board of Agriculture, a summary of which 
has just been received from Secretary Cham¬ 
berlain, based on reports from 951 corres¬ 
pondents, and from some 2,000 thrashers, 
gives the following estimates: Wheat, acres 
thrashed 424,417, bushels produced 7,066,554; 
average 16 5; total acres of wheat 2,745,507; 
total bushels 45,143,510, Oats; acres thrashed 
67,216; bushels I 755,793; average, 28.5; total 
acres of oats, 634,774; total bushels of oats, 
18,112,871. Corn; per cent of full crop 74, 
probable bushels with good weather till 
September 25th, 71,185,150. Rye, per cent, of 
full crop, 83; bailey, 77; potatoes, 105; sweet 
potatoes: 89; tobacco, 65; sorghum, 74; apples, 
31; peaches, 32; grapes, 74; stock hogs number 
71 per cent.; condition, 84. 
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Important and True.— James D. Beckett, 
Chicago’s largest horse-dealer, says of the 
grade Percheron Norman horses: “They are 
more generally bred in the West than all other 
classes of draft horses, aud as a proof of their 
popularity, the supply is far short of the de¬ 
mand this year, as we pay $200 and upward 
to farmers fur three-year-old grade Normans 
to ship to Ohio aud Pennsylvania for feeders.” 
—Chicago Tribune.. Large numbers of Per- 
cherou Norman hor esin their purity are sold 
for breeding purposes by M. W. Dunham, 
Wayne, Ilk. who has imported and bred nearly 
1,000, and now has on hand about 400.— Adv. 
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*lF you are a woman and want both health 
and beauty, remember that all superficial 
efforts to increase your personal charms are 
vain. Freshness aud beauty accompany health, 
and to secure this Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s 
remedies for all female weaknesses offer the 
surest means of renovution. The highest in 
teiligeUCO loses its lustre when it must find ex¬ 
pression through a bilious complexion. Good 
for either sex.— Ado. 
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Make your old things look like new by 
using the Diamond Dye?, and you will be 
happy. Any of the fashionable colors for 10 
cents.—Ada. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Bold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts, per box.— Ado, 
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Hall’s Hair ltenewer makes the hair moist, 
soft, and glossy, and is unsurpassed as a hair 
dressing.—Ada. 
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Headache and biliousness are promptly 
cured by the use of Ayer’s Cathartic, sugar- 
coated Pills.—Ada. 
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Don’t Die in the house, “Rough on Rats.” 
Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bedbugs. 
15c.— Adv. 
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Premaiiire I.oiss of tlie llalr 
May be entirely prevented by the use of Bur¬ 
nett’s Cocoaine. 
Housekeepers should insist upon obtaining 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts ; they are 
the best,— Adv. 
