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THE RURAL KEW'TORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
\ Saturday, Sept. 30, 1882 
A BLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt in 
St. Louis, Mo., and vicinity on tbe 27th inat. 
The first vibration was the most violent. The 
shock lasted about 15 seconas. Similar shocks 
were felt at Springfield, Ill,, Centralia, 111., 
and Vincennes, Ind. 
Charles? Epright, a farm hand employed by 
G. Zimmerman, of Norristown, Pa., and his 
entire family, were poisoned by eating toad¬ 
stools. Two persons have died from the eirect 
of the poison. 
Tbe late Caleb C. Eickinson, of Hatfield. 
Mass., left about $100,000 for founding a 
charity hospital at Northampton. 
A negro miser, whose bistory is romantic, 
died in Phlladelpiaon the 20th inst., in seeming 
poverty though worth over $100 000. 
The equinoctial storm which was “ on time” 
this year was the severest known in many 
years. It was much like a spring freshet, in 
many sections. New Jersey suffered most of 
any State, the railroad tr acks having been 
washed away in many places, houses flooded 
and moved from their foundations and lives 
lost. The damage, from North Carolina to 
Maine, was very large, being in the millions. 
A w ealthy person died in Union Springs 
N. Y. some time ago, and in her will left 
$4,000 to be used in building a Baptist church, 
the church to be built within a certain time, 
or tbe money be turned over to the Baptist 
State Convention. The church is now being 
built, although it has but one male member 
and several females. This will make the 
eighth church in the village, which has a pop¬ 
ulation of but 1,200, 
Seo’v Teller has decided that the Indian 
Territory police may be furnished with revol 
vers, but no rifles or fixed ammunition for 
breech loaders will hereafter be placed in the 
hands of any Indians by the Department. 
Recently an ice pier at Marous Hook, Pa., 
on the Delaware River, suddenly disappeared 
from view. It was built by the United States 
Government in 1880, at a cost of $40,000 and 
weighed 1.000 tons. It was built of granite, 
upon 193 piles of white oak, each fifteen 
inches in diameter. Soundings fail to find it. 
A noteworthy fact of the census statistics 
is the distribution of the sexes in city and 
county populations. In the aggregate of the 
nation the males exceed the females by nearly 
a million; yet id tbe fifty largest cities there 
are several hundred thousand fewer males 
than females. 
The following elections Toccur in October. 
In Georgia, State officers and a legislature 
are to be chosen, October 4th; in Ohio, a por¬ 
tion of tbe State officers and Congressmen, 
October 10, and in West Virginia, on the 
same day, Congressmen, a legislature, and a 
judge of the Court of Appeals. 
The majority of the members of tbe British 
rifle team have sailed for home. They ex¬ 
pressed themselves well pleased with their 
visit. 
It was discovered that a ton of arsenic bad 
been carried by the floods from Crump’s la¬ 
bel factory in Montclair, New Jersey, and had 
flowed into Second River, and it was feared 
there might be serious results from the using 
of the water by people along the river. 
S. G. French, a wealthy bachelor whose 
death lately occurred, gave tbe most valuaole 
farm in the Cove, Oregon, to a school for 
young ladies. The buildings for the school 
will be erected soon. This farm contains 
24,000 prune and plum trees. 
Some recent fires are: a warehouse in New 
Orleans; loss $100,(WO. Two entire blocks in 
Tuscanville, Cal.; loss $150,000, insurf d $50,- 
000. Most of the business part of the town 
of Watford, Ontario; loss $70,000. In Belle¬ 
ville, Ohio, 17 Btores; loss $30,000. At Red 
Cliff, CoL, 15 buildings, including two hotels 
loss $25,000. Tbe drying room of the cotton 
mills at Dundas, Ontario, throwing 500 per¬ 
sons out of employment. Harrison, Havar- 
meyer & Co’s., immense sugar refinery in 
Philadelphia; $1,000,(W0 insured for $575,000; 
1,000 men thrown out of employment. 
The soldiers aud sailors of the war of the 
rebellion will hold a reunion at Tipton, Iowa, 
on the 11th and 12th of October. All comers 
will be provided for without expense to them¬ 
selves. Governor Sherman will deliver an 
address. There will be a sham battle on 
Thursday. 
Contributions to the Garfield Hospital fund 
have already reached the sum of $80,000. 
Fifteen thousand francs have just been sub¬ 
scribed and paid over in Frauen. 
There have been nearly 300 cases of yellow 
fever and 37 deaths at Pensacola, Fla , to date. 
The passenger war at Quincy, Ill., grows 
more interesting. Yesterday morning the 
Wabash road met the Burlington & Quincy 
rate of $5 for round trip to Chicago, limited 
to three days and return., 
The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin 
classifying the population of the United States 
in 1880 by nativity. The native born were: 
Whites, 30.843 291: colored, 0,633,549; foreign 
born, 6,679,943; total population, 50,155,783. 
Of the foreign born 2,773 159 were natives of 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, 1,960,742of the German Empire, 717,- 
084 of British America, 194,337 of Norway, 
181,729 of Sweden, 108,971 of France, 104, 
541 of China. 
Under the administration of tbe present 
Secretary of the Treasury, during the period 
of 10 months from the 1st of November, 1881, 
to the 1st of September the following 
reductions have been effected: Of the interest- 
bearing debt, $129,035,000; of the total debt, 
less cash in the Treasury, $126 008,294 94; of 
the annual interest charge, $-4 515,756 75. 
Mrs. H. R. Ludington. of this city, 78 years 
of age, has a daughter, Mr*. Caduey, aged 00, 
who has a daughter, Mrs. Tice, aged 40, who 
has a daughter, Mrs. David, aged 22, who has 
a daughter 2 years of age, and all are living 
in Sullivan Couuty, N. Y. 
Russell & Co., of Massilon O., recently 
gave all their employes and families a pic¬ 
nic excursion. This the second annual 
holiday of the kind. 
At Woodstock, Ont., a young woman com¬ 
mitted suidle by making a fire and standing 
over it until she was almost roasted alive. 
Dr. Norvin Green, who is to retire from the 
Presidency of the Western Union Telegraph 
Company, is said to be worth as much as 
$10,000,000. His salary is $1.5,000 a year and 
his immense fortune has been made iu stock 
manipulations. 
The tide of immigration seems, at last, to 
to have sustained a check, the figures for 
August, as furnished by the Chief of tbe 
Bureau of Statistics, show ing a falling off of 
13.068. For tbe two months ending the fall 
ing off was 5,265. 
An Englishman has just established a manu¬ 
factory of jewsharps iu Troy. It is said that 
there are only two others in the country, one 
iu this city aud the other in Boston. 
The State Executive Council of Massachu¬ 
setts, has decided upon November 30 as 
Thanksgiving Day. 
The reunion of the veterans of Southern 
Iowa and Northern Missouri opened auspic¬ 
iously at; Council Bluffs, Iowa, with over 
three thousand in camp. There were 20,000 
strangers in the city from the surrounding 
country, and the streets w-ere thronged. A 
sham battle took place on the 29tb, 
A party of about twenty Icelanders have 
arrived at Winnipeg, Min., and will settle in 
the country. 
The Unitarian Conference at Saratoga 
adopted a resolution to raise $50,000 annually 
for the next two years for the American Uni¬ 
tarian Association. 
The Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of 
Chicago, has been nominated for Congress by 
the Democratic convention for the Third 
(Chicago) District. 
Mitchell Comity, Kansas, collected $2,400 
fines for violating the prohibition law last 
Spring, and fines were imposed at tbe term 
of the District Court last week to the amount 
of $625, making an aggregate of $3,035 paid 
in fines. 
By the strikes this Summer the estimated 
loss to employes is $6,000,000; to employers 
$12,000,000, and to the general public, $30,- 
000,000. 
Toe Signal Service Bureau in New York 
reports the recent rainfall the heaviest in this 
city in 12 years. The total this year since the 
20th is 9 28 inches. 
Senator Conkling on his way from Utica 
to New York the other day, was assigned a 
seat near that occupied by Mr. Blaine. Mr. 
Conkling asked the conductor to give him an¬ 
other seat, and he was accommodated. 
The twenty-seventh national convention of 
the German Catholic Central Society a secret 
organization having 300 branches in different 
parts of tbe Union, has been in session at Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. In the parade there were 6 000 
participants. 
Ik taken iu its incipient stages, the progress 
of Consumpti >n can be arrested by the use of 
Compound Oxygen. It is being done in a 
large number of cuses. Get Drs. Starkey & 
Palkn’s Treatise on Compound Oxygen, and 
study tbe facts for yourself. They will send 
it free. Address them at 1109 Girard Street, 
Philadelphia.— Ado. 
« « » 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The receipts of wheat at six principal west¬ 
ern points, viz , Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, 
Toledo, Indianapolis and Peoria, show a slight 
increase, being 2,229,193 bushels in the week 
ending September 25, as compare.! with 2,128,- 
277 in the previous week. The shipments from 
the same points eastward also show an increase, 
being 1,999,287 bushels, against 1,797,394 the 
revious week. Tna wive-n^nt has,not,ad¬ 
mitted of any increase in the stocks in store 
at tbe West. This has enabled the Chicago 
speculators to keep up tbe price of casb, and 
September wheat from nine to 12 cents per 
bushel above October. The total stock of 
wheat in store in Chicago is only a little over 
1,800,000 bushels, and of this only apart is de¬ 
liverable on September contracts. The most 
remarkable feature is that this great differ¬ 
ence between September and October has not 
drawn more wheat into Chicago. Farmers 
and Western country grain shippers who keep 
themselves posted about the condition of the 
markets would certainly not miss the oppor¬ 
tunity of getting 10 cents per bushel more for 
their wheat by selling in September, if they 
thought they might be obliged to sell at the 
lower price iu October, an 1 the natural infer¬ 
ence is that there will be comparatively less 
wheat marketed at the West in October, ex¬ 
cept at higher prices. Owing to the corner in 
September wheat in Chicago, the fluctuations 
of that option have been violent. On Tuesday 
it closed at $1 03, on Wednesday it was down 
to$l, on Thursday up to $1.05, and on Friday 
to $1.06%. The more deferred options were 
but slightly affected, though October ad¬ 
vanced 2c. on Thursday, In New York.thenet 
advance on all options on Thursday was 1%c. 
The heavy receipts of oats at the West until 
the present week have kept the market weak 
But during the last few days there has been a 
marked falling off in tbe receipts at the prin¬ 
cipal Western points. Tbe consumptive de¬ 
mand i- large, and the more so on account of 
the relatively highpriceof corn. In tbe week 
to September 28, the visible supply in the 
United States diminished 390,895 bushels; at 
the present writing the decrease is undoubted¬ 
ly more than that. All thiugs considered, tbe 
prspoect at present is in favor of an improve¬ 
ment in prices..... 
There has been some falling off iu tbe vol¬ 
ume of general business in wool during the 
past week, but the lessened movement is more 
attributable to the reduction in available sup¬ 
plies of certain grades than to any decrease in 
demand. Mills are uniformly running on full 
time, and consumptive requirements are 
larger than ever before. Tbe demand for the 
manufactured product is steadily improving, 
and the outlook for trade in the raw staple is 
very satisfactory. Staple wools are l@2e. 
higher than at the beginning of the month, 
and supplies are closely sold up. Iu former 
years this class of stock brought from 5 to 10c. 
advance on clothing wools, but within a year 
or two the difference has been bardly notice¬ 
able, and as it has not paid for close grading, 
a great deal of this clip has been distributed 
with tbe clothing fleeces. As a result, the 
market is now comparatively bare of worsted 
wools, and the difference in cost is widening. 
Importations of this kind are improbable for 
some time to come, owing to the relative 
strength of foreign markets. Fine fleeces are 
more active, and tending upward. Carpet 
wools are in light supply, and fully lc. per 
pound higher. Tbe Spring Colorado clip is 
almost exhausted. Interior markets are quiet 
but firm, and supplies everywhere are under 
good control. 
Corn experienced a long and continuous 
decline until last Thursday, when there was 
a sharp reaction. The highest prices of tbe 
last two weeks were reached on the 23th, 
when October corn was advanced in Chica¬ 
go to 67 cents, from which it steadily declined 
to 58%C. on last Thursday, and then in a few 
minutes recovered with the general upward 
turn of all the grain and provision markets 
that day. The receipts of corn at the six 
Western points above mentioned show a 
marked increase, being 1,550,142 bushels in 
the week ending September 25, against 1,2:33,-- 
469 the previous week. The most important 
fact in regard to corn is that the crop for 
this year has been secured without damage 
from frosts, and will, it is now generally be¬ 
lieved, be larger than the average of past 
years. This has induced free selling. There 
is no reason to change the view expressed by 
us a few weeks ago that there must come a 
time before the new corn can come into mar¬ 
ket when the stocks will be so low as to cause 
nn important advance in the price of cash 
com and the near options. The total visible 
Bupply of corn in tbe-Uriited Slates is only 
about one quarter of what it was at this time 
a year ago. While the price at Chicago is 
He. per bushel lower than at the correspond¬ 
ing lime last year, iu the New York market 
the range of the prices for corn during the 
past week have been nearly 5c. per bushel 
ower than the average price in September, 
11831. 
The Texas Wool Grower estimates that 
the number of sheep in Texas is fully 7,009 
000, including the lambs of this year, and 
that the wool crop of tbe year will be worth 
about 28,000,000 pounds, worth about $6,500,- 
000. The mutton sol 1 will represent about 
$500,000. The production of wool iu Texas is 
expected to increase at the rate of 25 per cent 
a year............ 
Chicago butchers are erecting on a wharf at 
New York a two story refrigerator, eight feet 
long and twenty feet wide, iu which to store 
dressed beef slaughtered on the prairies.. ... 
.... A telegram from Raleigh, N. C., on Sept. 
2^, says; Reports from the principal tobacco 
growingsectious of the State are to the ef¬ 
fect that the crop is very good. There is a 
large increase of acreage in Piedmont and 
western sections. The quality of the leaf i 
high, particularly that of the famous North 
Carolina bright, Th9 yield promises to be ex¬ 
ceptional, and the crop is being rapidly gather¬ 
ed and cured. The improved methods of cur 
ing are of great value in increasing the qual¬ 
ity of the crop. But little damage has been 
done by the rain.Another telegram 
from Louisville, Ky., on the 27th says: Ken¬ 
tucky tobacco raisers are busy cutting and 
curing the crop, which is not turning out as 
well as was expected. Commissioner of Ag¬ 
riculture Bowman estimates the crop at 84 
per cent, of an average for the State. Con¬ 
siderable of It is “ houEGburning,” or rotting 
in the tobacco house, instead of curing as it 
ought, supposed to be from a damp condition 
of the air.... 
Professor C. S, Sargent believes that the 
Federal and State Governments should with¬ 
out delay enter upon a system for the protec¬ 
tion of our forests from the destruction 
threatened by wasteful lumbering processes, 
fires and browsing animals. He thinks 
Government action necessary becauso the 
laws which regulate tbe supply of wheat 
and corn, for instance, cannot be relied 
on to deal with the future of our forests, 
because forest growth is flow in maturing 
and its area cannot be extended or reduced 
from year to year, like that of other crops, in 
response to the small or large demand for the 
product. The Professor believes that proper 
State laws would suffice for tbe protection of 
the forests on tbe Atlantic region, but that 
those of the West, including the Pacific Slope, 
would be best guarded by a Federal law, es¬ 
pecially since the large extent of Government 
timber lands in that section offers a good field 
for the experiment of Governmental protec¬ 
tion. 
—* ♦*- 
J hopxc-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per box.— Ado. 
Eczema (salt rheum), humors and pimples 
worst forms cured by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. 
— Adv. 
Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
crows, chipmunks, cleared out by “ Rough on 
Rats,” 15c per box.—Ada. 
Unmet i’m Coconino 
Has received uuiversal endorsement. 
No other preparation possesses such re¬ 
markable properties for embellishing and 
strengthening the hair and rendering it dark 
and glossy. It cures baldness and eradicates 
dandruff. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are the 
best.— Ado. 
- — i. 
*It is impossible to disguise the fact that 
the Vegetable Compound, prepared under the 
personal direction of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 
with the superior science and art of modern 
pharmacy, is the most successful medicine 
known.— Ado. 
355?“Diamond Dyes will color anything any 
color, and never fail. The easiest and best 
way to economise. 10 cents, at all druggists. 
— Adv. 
Hall’s Hair Rknewer turns gray hair 
dark, removes dandruff, cures scalp humors; 
an elegant toilet article.—Adv. 
Malarial div-orders as often attack the 
people 5f large cities as of the country. Ayer’s 
Ague Cure is warranted a safe and certain 
specific.—Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Sept. 30. 
Chicago. — Wheat — Regular, $1. 04%@ 
1.05, September; 93%(293%o„ October; 93% 
@92%c. November; 92%c., nil the year; No. 
2 red Winter aud No. 2 Chicago Spring, $1.04 
@1.04%, cash; the rest the same as regu¬ 
lar Corn unsettled and irregular at58%@ 
59>ge. f cash; 56%®59c , September; 59% @ 
59%t\, October, 58%@59c., November; 53% 
@58% e, all the year, 49%@49%c.; January; 
5!%@5l%c., May. Oats firm at 31@31%c., 
cash; 81%c., September; 31%c., October; 
31%®81 %o., November; 31@31%c., all the 
year; 88%o. f Mvy. Rite dull at 58%c. Bar 
