THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT 23 
Hftos of tljc Wuk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 16, 1882. 
The Republican State ticket in the recent 
Maine election had a majority of about 10,- 
000 . 
There were 646 Mormon immigrants among 
the steerage passengers on the Guion steamer 
Wyoming which arrived this week. They 
were in charge of Elder William Cooper, who 
came over with them from Europe. The 
party was composed of 300 British converts, 
292 Scandinavians and 54 Germans, and was 
chaperoned by sixteen returning mission¬ 
aries. 
Dr, D. S. Lamb who held the autopsy at 
Elberon over the late President Garfield’s 
body, presents a bill for $1000. 
Thirty-five experienced operatives from 
Sweden, the first installment of 300, arrived 
this week to take the places at the Harmony 
Mills of workmen who removed from Cohoes 
during the strike. The strikers are daily ap¬ 
plying for work. The mills are running 
steadily. 
A severe wind and rain storm swept over 
Winsted, Conn., on the 14th inst., at 9 P. m. 
demolishing houses and do ing much damage. 
No lives weio lost, but several persons were in¬ 
jured. A similar storm swept through the Mo¬ 
hawk Valley at about p - m., accompanied 
by rain and lightning. At Mindenville, N. Y., 
a man drove into a barn with a load of hay 
to escape the storm. The barn was blown 
down and both the man and bis team were 
killed. 
At St. Louis, Mo., there has been considera¬ 
ble excitement and hard feeling because the 
colored children were not allowed admittance 
to the public schools where white children 
were sent. 
The Woman Suffragists held their annual 
meeting at Omaha, Neb., on the 14th inst. 
There were 68 delegates in attendance. 
A steamboat line called the Columbian car¬ 
ries passengers from this city to Poughkeepsie 
on the Hudson for five cents per individual. 
They propose to put on boats to run through 
to Albany, fare to be 10 cents to any landing 
along the river. The company is an anti- 
monopoly organization. 
Samuel W. Hale has been nominated by the 
Republicans of New Hampshire for Governor. 
Mrs. Garfield has bought, for $50,000, the 
Ralph Worthington residence in Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, O. 
Gov. Colquit, of Georgia, has appointed Mr. 
B H. Hill, son of the late Senator Hill, to fill 
his father’s unexpired term in the U. S. Sen¬ 
ate, but he declined. 
Eighty acres of the “ Cedar Croft” property, 
late the homestead of Bayard Taylor, at Ken- 
nett Square, Pa., were sold at auction on the 
12th inst. for $5,600. The entire estate, con¬ 
sisting of 190 acres, had a bid of $20,000, but 
was withdrawn. 
The Star-route trial came to an end last 
week, and the jurors acquitted Turner and 
Peck, convicted Miner and Rerdell, and failed 
to agree on Brady and the Dorseys, the ring¬ 
leaders. Brady and the Dorseys will, however, 
be brought to trial again. The affair has been 
quite an expensive one, judging from the fol¬ 
lowing report: B. H. Brewster will receive, 
for services and expenses before his appoint¬ 
ment as Attorney-General, $5,000; W. A. 
Cook, services and expenses, $6,702; George 
Bliss, services and expenses, $19 251; W. W. 
Kerr, services and expenses, $6,527; R. T. 
Merrick, services and expenses, $5,000; A. M. 
Gibson, services and expenses, $5,000; total, 
$47,480. The above expenses include only the 
lawyers’ fees and expenses, and only so much 
of that class of accounts as has been passed by 
the accounting officers of the treasury. The 
total expense of the trial will be about $200,- 
000 . 
A grove of maple trees on the farm of James 
Babcock at Westerly, R. I., is the annual rest¬ 
ing-ground of swallows; it is estimated that 
over 3,000,00(1 birds now pass their nights 
there. The swallows are getting ready to 
make their southward flight and hundreds of 
people come from Providence and neighboring 
towns to witness their “rest.” 
Williams College opened last week with an 
attendance of 48 seniors, 59 juniors, 77 soph¬ 
omores, 70 freshmen. Amherst has about 90 
freshmen. 
The Nebraska Democratic State Conven¬ 
tion met at Omaha on the 14th, and nomi¬ 
nated for Governor—J Sterling Morton, of 
Otoe; for Lieutenant-Governor—J. F. War¬ 
ner; for Secretary of State—Chas J. Bowlby. 
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 40,939 
original claims for pensions and 34,148 claims 
for increase or pensions were filed. There 
were all >wed during the year 27,664 original 
applications, and 10.231 for increase of pen¬ 
sions. The number of claims rejected was 
21,295. There remain pending 269,678 original 
applications, and 21,288 applications for in 
crease. The total amount paid for pensions 
during the year, including the cost of dis¬ 
bursement, was $54,296,280,54; total number 
of pensioners on the roll. 285.697, a gain over 
the previous ye«r of 16,867. The total amount 
paid by the Government for pensions from 
1791 to 1861 was $81,480,455,50. 
President Arthur arrived in this city Friday 
night at 10:50. He was met by his carriage and 
was driven at once to his house in Lexington 
Avenue. He will remain in*tbe city several 
days, attending to private business. 
On Thursday and Friday of this week the 
international military rifle match, between 
the British and Americans, took place at 
Creedmoor, near this city. It wag evident 
from the first that the foreigners were the 
superior marksmen, and they won the match 
by a score of 1,975 points to the Americans 
1,805. Both days were windy, and the score 
was low on both sides. Next year the Amer¬ 
icans will send a team to England. 
“Can Hardly Realize the Good It has 
Done ” 
A dady whose general health had become 
seriously affected was induced to use Com¬ 
pound Oxygen. In writing of the result she 
says: “It has relieved me from a distressed 
feeling back of my eyes, from which I could 
get no relief; nasal cata rrh better Improve 
ment gradual; so much so. can hardly real¬ 
ize the good it has done till I note my condi¬ 
tion before taking it." Our Treatise on Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, its nature, action and results, 
with reports of cases and full information, 
sent free. Dre. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and 
1111 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEW8. 
The war in Egypt has come to a sudden 
end. Defeat has transformed Arabi Pasha 
from a patriot struggling for his country’s 
freedom into an imprisoned rebel awaiting 
the punishment that follows unsuccessful re¬ 
volt. Victory has placed another wreath on 
the lucky brow of Sir Garnet Wolseley and 
added ano* her triumph to the long roll won 
by the prowess of British arms. Having 
conquered Egypt, what will England do 
with it? Here diplomacy comes in, and when 
diplomacy comes in, it is hard to tell what the 
outcome will be. One thing only is certain— 
that England will use her victory for w hat 
she considers her own best interests, checked 
by no other restraint than that which com¬ 
bined Europe may impose upon her. The 
struggle has closed in time for securing good 
crops of most Egyptian products if diligence 
is exercised. The Nile is usually at its highest 
from September 20 to 30. Immediately after 
the inundation begins to subside the following 
crops are sown, and are hat vested three or 
four months later; Wheat, barley, beans, 
peas, lentils, vetches, flax, lettuce, tobacco, 
watermelons and cucumbers. The following 
are raised in Summer, chiefly by artificial ir¬ 
rigation, and, owing to the troublous times, 
wifi be very short: Cotton, durra, maize, 
onions, sugar-cane, coffee, indigo and madder. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 16, 1882. 
With regard to this year’s cotton crop 
Bradstreet’s publishes reports from 742 cor¬ 
respondents, representing 88 per cent, of the 
cotton area of the United States, respecting 
the condition of the cotton crop. In the 
12 States covered are 643 counties having over 
500 acres each of cotton. Of these 518 are 
represented in the reports received. From 123 
localities the crop is reported to be “very 
good;” frpm 234, “good;” from 293, “fair;” 
from 33, “poor;” from 34, “bad.” Excessive 
rains have delayed maturity, and as the crop 
is from two to three weeks late, fears are ex¬ 
pressed in many cases that early frosts will 
cut the yield short. With favorable weather 
a large yield is promised. From this time 
forward weather reportsVrorn the South will 
be closely watched. 
The September report of the Department 
of Agriculture on the condition of cotton 
shows an improvement since August 1 in Vir 
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas 
and Texas, and some deterioration in South 
Carolina, Georgia and States of the Gulf coast 
to Louisiana inclusive. The general average 
of August was 94 and September 92, which is 
the saute as in September of 1880, and higl er 
than in any other season for 10 years. 
According to the annual statement prepared 
by the Commercial and Financial Chronicle 
the cotton crop for the twelve months ending 
with August is considerably Jess than that 
for either of the two preceding seasons. The 
yield was 5,435,845 bales in 1881 82, 6,589,329 
in 1880-81 and 5,757.397 in 1879-80. The aver¬ 
age weight of the bales is also less for the lost 
than for either of the two preceding crops, 
being 475.67 pounds in 1881-82, 485.88 in 1880- 
81 and 481.55 in 1879-80. In aggregate weight 
the production of the past year is 19.24 per 
cent, less than that of the preceding season. 
The Chronicle’s figures show a steady increase 
in the amount of cotton manufactured in the 
South In 1879-80 the amount consumed by 
Southern mills was 179,000 bales, in the fol¬ 
lowing year it was 205.000 and in the season 
just closed it reached 238,000. This indicates 
an encouraging growth of the Southern man¬ 
ufacturing industry..... 
The Department of Agriculture’s crop re¬ 
ports for September are, briefly, as follows:— 
The result of th< spring-wheat harvest is in 
close accordance with the indications of the 
August report. The quality is good and the 
y ield above an average. The general condi¬ 
tion of Winter and Spring wheat, when har¬ 
vested, is represented by 100, an average 
rarely attained since the harvest. In parts 
of the Winter-wheat region, especially in 
Michigan and Indiana, some millions of bush¬ 
els have been lost by sprouting in the stack. 
There has also been some loss of Spring wheat 
from the same cause in Wisconsin and other 
States. The Ohio Valley has nearly as large 
a product us in 1879. Ohio, Indiana and Illi¬ 
nois have apparently secured about 142,000,000 
bushels. The South has increased both her 
acreage and yield per acre. The aggregate 
of Winter wheat, as indicated by the Septem 
ber returns, is about 880,000 000 bushels; 
Spring wheat about 140,000,000, or 520,000,000 
in all. The first thrashing generally ex¬ 
ceeded expectations, but the later thrashing 
has in m*ny sections been disappointing. It 
is quite certain that the per capita supply of 
wheat will not be quite so large as in 1879 or 
1880.The corn crop in all the region 
south of Pennsylvania and of the Ohio river 
is in high condition in every State except 
West Virginia, represented by 100 or bightr 
figures. In many districts of the South the 
crop is reported the best in 20 years. In the New 
England States there has been a very sharp 
decline, except in Vermont—from 81 to 75 in 
Maine, 95 to 62 in New Hampshire, 87 to 60 in 
Massachusetts, 93 to 70 in Rhode Island and 
from 96 to 65 in Connecticut. A decline of 
eight points in New York and New Jersey 
and of four in Pennsylvania is indicated. 
The loss in all these States is due to the drouth 
Last year comes next. 
Texas fever is reported to have appeared 
among cattle in Maine. It bas also appeared 
near Pattersonville. Schenectady Co.. N. Y. 
The infected herd has been quarantined. It 
was introduced by some Texan steers pur¬ 
chased a couple of mouths ago....... . 
Powell Brothers, of Springboro, Pa , are 
rushing the importations of Clydesdale horses. 
We notice arrivals at this port nearly every 
week...... . . 
The Galveston News's fourth annual spec-al 
edition, in its summary of the State’s position 
for the year, makes the following exhibit of 
th** amount and value of the State’s products 
[or tbe year ending Ang. 31. 1882: Cotton, 
8.8,854 bales; value. $50,094,678; wool, 22 299 - 
652 pounds; value, $5,128,919; hides, 18.572,795 
pounds; value, $1,628,735; cattle, 681,367 head; 
value, including drive; $16,654,070; horses and 
mules, 42,724 bead, value, $1,098,100; lumber 
and shingles, $7,644,329; grain and hav, $8,- 
49.,625; cotton-seed, cotton seed cake and oil, 
$2,485,740: miscellaneous products, $3,427,568; 
suear and molasses, $725,694. Total value, 
$97,380,458... ’ 
The Va. State Agricultural Society has 
changed the date of their fair to Nov. 1-4. 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 35 cts. per box.—Adv 
Ayer’s Ague Cure stimulates the action of 
the liver, cleanses the blood of malarial poi¬ 
son, and rouses the system to renewed vigor. 
Warranted to cure Fever and Ague.—Adv. 
VLydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Com¬ 
pound has done thousands of women more 
good than the medicine of many doctors._ 
Adv. 
DreS8KS, cloaks, coats, stockings, and 
all garments can be colored successfully with 
the Diamond Dyes. Fashionable colors. Only 
10c.—Adv. 
—--»■»» - 
“Rough on Rats.” Clears cut rats, mice, 
flies, roaches, bedbugs, ants, vermin, chip¬ 
munks. 15c.—Adv. 
Elegantly put up, two bottles in one 
package, is Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. All drug¬ 
gists.—Adv. 
which has been especially severe in New Eng¬ 
land. There has been abundant rain in all 
other States. In the corn-growing States of 
the Ohio Valley the prospects average very 
nearly as at the last report. The general 
average of condition is 83—the Bame as in 
August. Last year there was a decline from 
77 in August to 60 in September. In 1880 the 
September average was91. If early frosts do 
not injure the crop the product will be ma¬ 
terially larger than last year, but the heavy 
production of 1879 and 1880 cannot be ap- 
proched under the m. st favorable circum¬ 
stances....The oats crop when harvested 
was in unusually high condition, yielding 
heavily in thrashing. The general average 
is 100, very few States falling below that fig¬ 
ure, among them New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland and Virginia. The rye crop is 
also above the average in nearly all the 
States, and was harvested in good condition. 
The general average for tobacco is 89—in 
Pennsylvania 86, Maryland 92, Virginia 93, 
Kentucky 91, Ohio 65, Missouri 93 ....... 
The average condition of potatoes in Au¬ 
gust was 101, but it has fallen this month to 
92. Last year the decline during August was 
from 92 to 70, and continued in a greater 
ratio till the harvest. The prospect is now 
favorable for a crop of not less than 150,000,- 
000 bushels from the present outlook. The 
decline has been heaviest in New England and 
New York. The prospect has improved in 
Maryland and Virginia, has been well main¬ 
tained in the Ohio Valley and Lake region, 
and has not materially changed west of the 
Mississippi. Only Wisconsin and K« mae of 
the Western States, fail to show averages of 
100 or higher. Maine stands lowest at 65.... 
The general average for tobacco is 89; in 
Pennsyl. ania it is 86; in Maryland, 92; Vir¬ 
ginia, 93; Kentucky, 91; Ohio, 65, and Mis¬ 
souri, 98...... . 
Last Saturday we urged Mr." Moffat to 
hurry up his report of European crops, and 
on the following Monday he cabled: “The 
reported improvement in European crops is 
confirmed. The wheat crop of Germany is 
better than was expected, and of France a full 
average. The price of wheat is constantly 
falling everywhere. The Vienna Congress 
claims the world’s wheat supply above the 
average.” 
The Kansas State Board of Agrienlture has 
issued a new computation of the oats and 
Spring wheat yield. Of oats, the average 
yield is estimated at 35 bushels per acre, with 
an acreage of over half a million an increase 
of 54 per cent and atotal product of 18,300,- 
000 bushels The greatest previous crop wag 
that of 1879, when, with 29 per cent, larger 
acreage, the yield was 13.000,009 bushels. Only 
137,000 acres are sowed with Spring wheat 
and the estimated yield Is 15 bushels per acre! 
The acreage of this grain ha* declined hea- 
vily, it being a comparatively unprofitable 
crop. The estimate of the corn crop remains 
at 155,090,000 bushels. No unfavorable re¬ 
ports are received, and the yield will be about 
35 bushels per acre. 
. , T «* receipts of the Ohio State Fair were 
$5,000, larger this year than ever before. 
^ i jlk & Ague uure is warranted to cure all 
cases of malaria. Sold by all druggists. Price 
one dollar.— Adv, 
-- 
A Pure and KflYctlve Xlalr Dressing. 
Cocoajnk, a compound of Cocoanut Oil, 
beautifies the hair and is sure to allay all itch¬ 
ing and irritation of the scalp. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their perfect puritv and 
strength.— Adv. 
(thf i$taxhcis. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Sept. 10. 
i 8T ' J/ 0D18 HEAT : better at the 
close thtin at the opening to-dav: No 2 
Fall, 92^@98Kc; ca<h; 92^3^, Sep 
tember; October; Ml' ( a;9HVo 
November; 93K@94^c December: 92 &@ 
92%c., all the year; 9l!tf®94>W'c Janus™- 
No. 3 red Fall, 80^@S8^T 
was m the same condition us wheat; both 
at t [ ie thsuon yesterday; 
September 
£ CU)bl T : c., Novem- 
y«* r . 45%@46J iC ., January ; 46§tf@47Vc 
May. Oats dull «t 33®33>., cash- 
Sept^ljer ; j nil uSe “«r fe 
Rut! 1 a r w ld ‘ G'rift at 70@ 
80c Cattle— Market fairly uctive; supply 
mainly of butcher stock; good cows, $3 25(35 
3.75: common $2_r,0®3 00; steers and choice 
1° h '* st grass Texans, 
$3 o0@4.50; common $3.00<g3 40; light native 
shipping steers, $4 25@5 00; heavy do $5 00 
@5..o; exporters. $6 00(dfi 50; Western half 
breeds, $4.00(44.50. Sheep-M arket active 
* 9 wavtoii m6<1 ^I n naf 'ive muttons, 
!a SSS’an* g S? d t ° choio# ’ 00; fancy, 
£® Ian */ *3-?flis.75; stockers! 
$2.2.>(4'„.7 d. Hogs iu fair demand, but at 
lower rates; pigs and light Yorkers $7 40@ 
7.90; good Yorkers, $S(.(\25; butchers’ to 
, » o—• v > nUTCUtM* 
best heavy, $8 50®9 00; cults, $6.85,47 25. 
Chicago—V heat irregular and unsettled, 
8 fP te “ l »w; 94c. Octo- 
^r, 93 (498^0.., November; 98c. all the year; 
Q 7 ?»,o-i n i* r> "8K *' <7 ** ha nd Septeniber; 
97®9ijtfc October; No, 2 Chicago Spring fJSltfc 
cash; %@98^c. «optemhlr; 94c* OctS 
ber; No. 8 do., 85c. Corn unsettled at G8Jtf@ 
«1>;®61%c., October; 
58^0., November; 53%c., all the year; 49‘tfc 
January; 51 %c., May; t ejected, 60V C . Oats 
fairly active at 30^c , cash; 30%®3lc., Sep¬ 
tember; 30 (®« c „ October and November- 
W>tf@30Xe., all the year; SSc.. May; rejected’ 
37Jf®‘27%c. Baki.ey moderately active and 
higher at 83c. Flaxseed euxior at $1 20 (S> 
1.21. Butter steady, with a fair demand 
creamery choice to fancy, 28@30c; fair to 
good, 24 (426c; dairy, good to choice, 19®24c- 
packing, 18@13W; good to choice ladle- 
packed, 14>,;(<$16c. Eggs iu good demand. 
Hogs Market weak and quality poor; com¬ 
mon to good mixed, $7.25@8.15; heavy. $8 25- 
@8.90; light $7.20(48.30; skips, $5(47. Cattle 
market active and values firm; exports, $7(» 
7.60; good to choice shipping, $6®0.70; cum- 
mon to fair, $4@5.60; general trade a shade 
stronger than yesterday; mixed butchers’ 
firm at $2.50@4.10; stockers and feeders 
fairly active at $3@3,90; range active and 10c. 
