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Hnus .of flje Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct., 7. 1882. 
Tbe early bird catches the worm! The 
Rural Poster and Premium List for 1883 are 
now ready. A word to the wise is sufficient. 
A postal application is all that is needed. We 
will thankfully and promptly attend to the 
rest. 
The venerable Thurlow Weed of this city 
has been very ill of late. 
Governor John L. Barstow of Vermont 
was inaugurated on the 5th. His inaugural 
message puts the debt of the State at $309 583. 
It has been ascertained that the net income 
of the Post Office Department for the fiscal 
year which ended Juoe 30, 1882, was about 
$1,500,000—that is, not only did the receipts 
meet all expenditures, but they exceeded the 
expenditures by $1,500,000. 
Michigan has a State tax of 12% cents on 
$100. Missouri has a tax of 40 cents on $100. 
Michigan has practically no debt. Missouri 
has a debt of $16,500,000. 
Alex. H. Stephens has been elected Govern¬ 
or of Georgia by a majority of 60,000. 
It is believed Gen. Arthur will not return 
to the White House before November, by 
which time the improvements there will be 
completed. No previous improvements have 
compared in magnificence or cost with the 
present ones. 
Mr. Ville Rose of Danville, Ill., accom¬ 
plished 1,400 miles on a bicycle in six weeks. 
Yellow fever is still raging at Brownsville, 
and other Texas towns. Many deaths are 
daily reported. 
It is about a year since the celebra'ion of 
the Yorktown Centennial, and it is announced 
that tbe affairs of tbe Yorktown Centennial 
Association have been placed in tbe hands of 
a receiver. How very pleasant! L )rd Corn¬ 
wallis got into the hands of receivers 101 
years ago. 
Ohio’s election will take place on the 10th 
of October. Members of the U. S. House of 
Representives will be chosen. West Virginia 
will hold her election the same day. 
The academic year of Harvard College 
opened with a very large Freshmen class. 
The number of students in all classes exceed 
1100. Also 14 young ladies passed entrance 
examinations successfully. 
Mitchell Co., Kansas, collected $2,400 fines 
for violating tbe prohibition law last Spring, 
and fines were imposed at the term of the dis" 
trict Court last week to the amount of $625, 
making an aggregate of $3,025 paid in fines. 
By the strikes this Summer the estimated 
loss to employ » is $6,00'),000; to employ<5 s 
$12,000,000, and to the general public 
$30 000,000. 
The base-ball league contests have been ex¬ 
citing ones this year. The Chicagos come off 
champions with 50 games won, 29 lost; the 
Providence Club was second. 
The chemical examination of the poisoned 
bouquet given to Guiteau by Mrs. Scoville, 
the day before his execution, shows over five 
grains of white arsenic. It was not only suf¬ 
ficient to cause death to any human being, had 
it been swallowed, but, owing probably to 
gnorance, was so largely in excess of a fatal 
dose the intent of the person who prepared the 
flowers could have been defeated by an emetic. 
President Pynchon.of Trinity College, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., has resigned, to take effect at the 
next Commencement. 
Mr. J. R. Keeue, it is said, pays Cannon, the 
jockey, $10,000 a year for first claim to his 
servioes, which have been called for only about 
half a dozen times this year. 
The New York State Temperance Conven¬ 
tion, composed of delegates from local tem¬ 
perance societies and churches, about 600 in 
number, met in Association Hall at Syracuse 
on the 4th inst., to agree upon a basis of a sin¬ 
gle prohibition amendment to the State Con¬ 
stitution. 
On tbs 2d inst. Judge Folger, Republican 
nominee for Governor of this State, published 
his letter of acceptance, and Hon. A. B. Hep¬ 
burn, nominee for Congressman-at-Large, 
declined his nomination. 
Professor W. P. Trowbridge, Charles Bab¬ 
cock and George B. Post, the special commis¬ 
sion appointed to examine the ceiling of the 
Assembly Chamber of the new Capitol at 
Albany, have presented their report to Gov¬ 
ernor Cornell. They find that, owing to the 
unequal settlement of the building, tie ine¬ 
quality in the stone used in its construction, 
the enormous and originally uncalculated-for 
weight on the foundations, and the possibility 
that new settlements of the foundation may 
occur from changes in the amount of water in 
the underlying soil, the ceiling cannot be con¬ 
sidered safe. 
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Tbe Liw of Cure Under the Compound 
Oxygen Treatment. 
The objection which is frequently urged 
against Compound Oxygen by persons who 
THE RURAL. KEW-Y0RKER. 
OCT <4 
have not made themselves acquainted with 
the natural and scientific laws governing its 
action, is that the same agent administered 
is for all diseases—for Neuralgia or Catarrh; 
for Consumption or Rheumatism; for Heart 
Disease or Bronchitis. That it is offered as a 
universal specific. In his Treatise on Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, Dr. G. R. Starkey has fully 
explained the nature and action of this Treat¬ 
ment, and shown that it is not specific to any 
disease or class of diseases, but that it acts 
directly upon the nervous system and vital 
organs, and tbence universally m the whole 
body. It gives new force and a more vigor¬ 
ous action to the life-centres , thus restoring 
to nature the dominant power and healthy 
action which had been lost. This being the 
ca9e, no matter what the disease, or where 
located, it must be gradually ameliorated and, 
if the central heal thy action can be maintained, 
finally cured. Ever}' intelligent and unpreju¬ 
diced person will at once Bee that if the law of 
action which is claimed for Compound Oxy¬ 
gen be the true one, its operation must be unt- 
versal, and not local or specific ; and that all 
forms of disease may be reached by this 
agent. This Treatise will be sent free to all 
who desire to receive. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 7. 
The farm and garden interests of America 
may be promoted by sending for the Rural 
Poster and Premium List for 1883 and secur¬ 
ing clubs for the Rural New-Yorker. Both 
will be sent promptly with our best greetings 
to all who apply.. 
A telegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 
the 5th says: “ The potato crops in Nova 
Scotia and Prince Edward Island are exceed¬ 
ingly large this season, and prices are expected 
to be very low. From the present outlook the 
export trade in them does not promise profit¬ 
able returns. ” Tho importations of potatoes 
from these places into the United States are 
generally very heavy.. 
• A telegram from Washington, Nov. 30, 
says: “ The Secretary of the Interior has de¬ 
cided to open for settlement a large tract of 
agricultural land, embracing about ten mil¬ 
lion acres, in Northern Dakota, withdrawn 
from settlement by Secretary Schurz. The 
tract once formed part of the great Sioux 
Reservation, but was purchased by the Gov¬ 
ernment from that tribe. Portions have been 
occupied by the Turtle Mountain Indians, a 
roving band of Chippewas. These Indians 
presented claims, urging their right to occu¬ 
pancy, and Secretary Scburz withdrew the 
lands from settlement, pending consideration 
of the claims. Secretary Teller now decides 
the claims of the Chippewas invalid, and re¬ 
opens the land to settlement". 
The Wool Growers’ Association of Ohio, at 
their recent meeting at Columbus, unani¬ 
mously passed a resolution in favor of a pro¬ 
tective tariff for the needed legitimate indus¬ 
tries la regard to wool production they 
passed resolutions favoring an increase of duty 
on the lower grades of wool. 
The Canadian farmers are in hard luck with 
their wheat crop. Throughout a large por¬ 
tion of the Province of Ontario, particularly 
the northerly parts, the crop has suffered very 
severely from storm < and rust. Millers com¬ 
plain that the quality of the short quantity 
brought to them is bad, and will pay only 
inferior prices. At the same time tbe immense 
yield in the United States and the world at 
large has greatly reduced general market 
prices, and the farmers of Canada suffer se¬ 
riously. It is estimated that the total value 
of grain and live stock in that country is from 
25 to 30 par cent less than it would have been 
three months ago. 
T he following telegrams as to the crops in 
Minnesota and Ohio, have been received here 
this morning: 
St. Paul, Mins.—H. H. Young, Secretary of the 
State Board of Immigration, has prepared the fol¬ 
lowing crop statistics for this year, the estimates be¬ 
ing mainly based upon the results of thrashing 
operations and from the most trustworthy sources 
of Information. 
Wheat -Forty-four counties have been heard from, 
With a combined wheat area of 1,806,064 acres, the 
mean average of the reported average yields being 
14,09 bushels per acre, and 26 counties yet to report. 
The average of the latter will hardly equal those 
reported, ami the average of the State at large will 
probably not exceed 14 bushels from 2 966,606 acres. 
This would give a crop of 35,975,736 bushel*. 
Oats.- Forty-one counties have reported with an 
aggregate of 435,871 acres, the mean average of thoso 
reports belug 42.9 < bushels per acre. The counties 
yet to hear from embrace 304,064 acres. Assuming 
that their average will nearly equal those heard 
from, the average for the State may be safely put at 
49 bushels per acre, or a total yield of 83,997,000 from 
an aggregate area of 84,925acres, 
Barley.— Thirty-three counties report an area of 
170,683 acres, with an average of 22.42 bushels. As¬ 
suming that 22.5 bushels will fairly represent the 
production of the remaining territory, as the re¬ 
ported area tu this grain Is 309,7 *7 acres, the total 
yield Is estimated at 6,063,107 bushels. 
Rye-Only 17 counties, with an aggregate area of 
8,837 acres in this cereal, are reported, with a mean 
average yield of 19.2 bushels. The area yet to be 
heard from embraces 16,041 acres. The mean aver¬ 
age for the State Is estimated at 17-83, which gives a 
otal of 461,405 bushels. 
Corn—Reports from the corn crop Justify the »s- 
s ertlon that 20 bushels per acre Is not a too liberal 
estimate, which Is considered a good average, but 
the Increased acreage tlilsyear will assure more than 
the usual quantity raised In this S ate. The number 
of acres is reported as 738,077. against 469,829 last year 
The potato yield Is reported £ s much larger than 
usual, though In locubtles the vines suffered from 
blight. Buckwheat was slightly Injured by the early 
September frosts, hut will yield as ordinarily. Sor¬ 
ghum also suffered slightly from frost, and the yield 
will be considerably reduced. 
Columbus. Ohio.—Sec. Chamberlain of the Ohio 
State Board of Agriculture, telegraphs the following 
crop estimates based on returns from all the coun¬ 
ties of the Stxte: Total number of bushels wheat' 
45.787,811; rye, 406,151s oats, 18,435,779; hnrley, 1.837,309: 
corn (probable.) 87,0.5 2 0; potatoes, (probable,) 39,- 
000,000. Per cent of an average crop—Sweet potatoes, 
lOO: tobacco, 74; sorghum, 92; corn, H 6 ; potatoes, 101. 
Yield per acre lu bushels—Wheat, 16 7: rye, 15.8; oats, 
28; barley 19 9. The condition of the pastures and 
livestock Is excellent, except that hog cholera Is re¬ 
ported in a few counting. The weather Is damp and 
hot, so that much of the corn considered hopeless a 
month ago Is now r ipldly hardening. For the sake 
of comparison, some of the total* for 1881 are here 
given: Rye, 201,631; wheat 38,1(12,633 bushels; barley, 
1.361,494; oats, 19,200,832 corn, 73,812,796. The average 
crops in Ohio for a period of 10 years are about as 
follows: Whea^ (average of flve years) 40,000,000 
bushels; corn, ICO,0U),000; rye, 420.000; barley; 1,280,600 
potatoes, 8,754,000: tobacco ;27,600,000 pounds. 
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Draft Horses for Manitoba.— Hon. Jo¬ 
seph Cauchon, formerly Solicitor-General for 
Canada and the present Governor of Mani¬ 
toba, has taken great interest in the improve¬ 
ment of stock in that province. Especially 
he is entitled to great credit for the active in¬ 
terest he has shown in connection with the 
draft horses of that section, so necessary to 
a wheat growing country. Recognizing the 
superiority of the Percheron race, he is intro¬ 
ducing them extensively on his large estates 
for breeding purposes. In pursuance of this 
object, he several times the past year visited 
the great importing and breeding establish¬ 
ment of M. W. Dunham, at Wayne, Ill., where 
he has purchased a number of lots of stock,— 
Adv. 
A Great Bargain. 
[From the Chicago Express.] 
We have thoroughly examined the Evans’ 
Twenty-six Shot Breech-loading Rifle, and 
do not hesitate to say that, without excep¬ 
tion, it is one of the best Constructed, sim¬ 
plest and most perfect breech loading rifles 
for the price we have ever seen. Owing to 
the failure of the Evans’ Rifle Co., Messrs. E. 
G. Rideout & Co. have bought a large quan¬ 
tity of these rifles at a price so low that they 
can be offered at the nominal figure of Fifteen 
Dollars, which is about one-half the cost of 
manufacture. Our business experience with 
Messrs. E G. Rideout & Co. has been most 
satisfactory, so that we do not hesitate to 
place their advertisement before our readers, 
knowing all will be fairly and honorably 
dealt with. —Adv, 
Take Ayer’s Pills for constipation, and for 
all the purposes of a purgative medicine. 
Safe and effectual.— Adv. 
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Don’t allow the accumulation of Scurf or 
Dandruff, when it can be so easily prevented 
by the use of Ayer’s Hair Vigor.— Adv. 
-- 
For one dime, get a package of Dia¬ 
mond Dyes at the druggist’s. They color any¬ 
thing tbe simplest and most desirable colors. 
— Adv. _^_ 
Don’t Die in the house. “Rough on Rats.” 
Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bedbugs. 
15c.— Adv. ___ 
* Wo men that have been bedridden for years 
have been completely cared by the use of 
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.— 
Adv. ___ 
Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 cts. per box.—Adv. 
-- 
A Fine flair Dressing. 
Cocoaine dresses the hair perfectly, and is 
also a preparation unequalled for the eradica¬ 
tion of dandruff. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their purity and great 
strength.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Oct. 7. 
Chicago. —Wheat unsettled; regular, 94% 
@94%e. October; 95%@95%c. Nov.; 94%c, all 
the year; $1 May; No. 2 red Winter $1 cash ; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, 94%c. cash; No. 3do., 
$84c.; rejected, 62c. Corn steady with a fair 
demand at 62%@02%c., cash and November; 
56%@56%c. all the year; 51 %c. January; 
53%@53%c. May; rejected,53%c. Oats steady 
and firm at 32%c.cash; 32%c. October; 32% @ 
@32%c. November ; 32%@32%c., all the 
year ; 34%c. May; rejected, 29%c. Butter 
in good demand at full prices; fair to fancy 
creamery, 24@31c.; good to choice dairies, 
19@24c.; packing stock, 13@14c. ; good to 
choice ladle packed, 14%@16c.; common to 
fair, 12@l8c. Hogs— market weak, except for 
best grades, which were steady; all low grades 
10@l5c. lower than yesterday, and very hard 
to sell; mixed, $7.50@8.25; heavy,$8.25@9.15; 
light, $7.50@8.25 ; skips, $5@$7. Cattle— 
trade slow and weak; hardly any demand for 
heavy; exports, $6.25@6.75 ; good to choice 
shipping, $5 30@6.10; common to fair, $3.90@ 
$5; mixed butchers’ weak at $225@3.90; 
stockers and feeders, $3@3,95; range fairly 
active and steady; Texans, $3@4.25; half- 
breefls, $3.90@4.25; Americans, $4@5.00. 
Sheep —market weak; poor to fair dull at 
$3@3.50; medium to good, $3.65@4.00; choice 
to extra, $4.20@4.65, 
Cincinnati.—Wheat firm; No. 2 red Win¬ 
ter, 98@98%c. spot; 99c., October; 99%c., 
November; 97c. all the year. Corn firm; No. 
2 mixed, 69c. spot; 63%c. October; 55%c. No¬ 
vember; 51%@51%c. December; 50%c. all the 
year; 48c. January. Oats steady; No. 2 
mixed, 35%@36o. spot; 33%c. October; 32%c. 
November; 34c. all the year; 35c. May. Rye 
firm at 63@63%c. Barley firm; extra No. 
3 Fall, 80%@88c. Hogs firm; common and 
light, $8@8.25; packing and butchers’, $7.75@ 
$8.85. 
St. Louis, — Wheat —No. 2 red Fall, 95%@ 
95c. cash; 94@94%c. October; 94%@94%c. 
November; 95%c. December; 96%c. January; 
94%c. all the year; $1.01% May. No. 3 red 
Fall, 88%@90c; No. 4 do. 82@«3%c. Corn 
63@6l%c. cash; 64@64%c. October; 57c. No¬ 
vember; 48%c. May. Oats, 33%@34c. cash; 
32%e. October; 32c. November; Sl%<5!31%c. 
all the year; 33%c. May. Rye quiet at 55% 
@56c. Barley quiet; sample lots, 65@90c; 
Nebraska, 70@79c. Butter steady; dairy, 
20@26c; creamery, 28@31c. Cattle —Market 
very slow, butchers and canners being the 
only buyers, and they not taking many; can¬ 
ners paid $3.00@3.75, and butchers, $3.50@ 
4.50 for fair to good steers; stockers, $2,75 
@3.25; feeders, $3.50@4.25; no native ship¬ 
pers offered. Sheep—Market very slow, 
but prices unchanged; muttons, $3.50@4.50; 
Texas, $3.75@4.00; stockers, $2 25@3.08. Hogs 
dull; light shipping; $7.25@7.S0; mixed pack¬ 
ing, $7.45@8.20; butchers’ to extra, $7.45@8.90. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday. Oct. 7, 1882. 
Beans and Pica*. TicAmi, marrow. 1SS1 prime. *2.50; 
do fair t<> good, *23K»2 3>. do. medium «W1. choice, 
*2 80 do. fair to good. $22>>i2 25; do. pea, choice, *2.95 
fii'UXI, d<>. fair to good. #2 !Ois2.73; do. white kidney 
1841. choice, *2.9<W) «-•; do. do. fair to good, $2.50 
(.«2.S9 do. red klilncy. IKSt, choice. *i!*v*2 90; do. 
do., fair to good, *3<»'«32 « 0 : do turtle soup, *2 00 ® 
2 25; do. foreign m-dluuis, * 1,5V, 1 1,65; do. do . ordi¬ 
nary. *1,25*41.50: Peas, green, 1881, prime, *l.45@1.50; 
do. do., poor to good, *1 25(32.30. 
Mhkau.svl'PFSaxd Provisions.—T he flour market Is 
toning up constderab y, aud the teudency to greater 
htrengtli U more general. There ha* been an ad¬ 
vance of W*50o per barrel during tho past week In 
old Spring flour, which Is scarce. New flour ar¬ 
riving U of good quality. In provision* pork has 
taken an upward turn. Lard Is quiet. Out meats 
and beef easy. 
Frier* ror Flour, Meal and Feed— Flour— No 2, *2.60 
®3.75 latter an extreme, superflne, *3.05®4.10: latter 
extreme; oomnum to fair extra State, *395-a4.40; 
good to fancy do , *l.45®6.75; Common to good ex¬ 
tra Western *S9l@4.80; good to choice, *l.65'.a.8 40; 
common to good extra round hoop Ohio; *4 0004.85; 
good to choice do., *1‘Wati.fiO: common extra Min¬ 
nesota. *4.UK*4,75; clear, 45 50etR.75: rye mixture, 
*5.nu®6<i>; baker*' extra, *6 0Ur»7.S>'; Straight, *6.25® 
7 25; patent. *7 <11(48,411,81, lyoul* common to fair ex¬ 
tra. *i 106*4.75; good to very Choice family *4-803,7.50; 
patent Winter wheat extra. *6 25® 7 50; City mill ex¬ 
tra for West Indie*. 8.5 ;> 1*5,30: South America, *5 50 
®5.53^patent, *A75®7.5»; Southern flnu' quiet and un¬ 
changed*: common to good extra * 1 ,.9X54.5 25; good to 
choice, *.5.JKa7.lO-. It.ve flour flieedv; -uperflne. *3.40 
®S 45, l*t»er on extreme. Buckwheat flour, *3 75® 
4.11. Corn meal dull; Brandywine *4.25w1.30 Yel¬ 
low We*tcrn quoted at, *l,li)®4 2A Feed advancing, 
40 18, 85®9"'C; other* unchanged. « 
Prices for grain. - Wiikat— New Spring. *1.06 de¬ 
livered; fancy Minnesota hard Spring *1.53 to arrive: 
Ungraded W inter red, 9 v t.*| .OS)*; steamer No. 3 
red. 96c; No. 3 red. *M>I>46$1 05; for cert Ideate*, *1 06)4 
delivered; steamer No. 2 red, *1.04®!.04)4: 
No. i red, *i.'<7Mv«U6K for certificate*. *I,IH®109K 
delivered; mixed winter. ungraded white, 91c. 
®*i.'2; NO. 2 white, *1 o4®: tHH; No 1 do *11.1)4 
<aL12)», latter delivered: ext'* whit*, *1 16 de¬ 
livered; No 2 red October. * 1,0784 41 , 0 *; do. Novem¬ 
ber, 4UH3*« MO)*: do. December *1.10)4®1 11 94 . 
RYE—«>70c, for Western; 74®TSc. for Canada 
and S'. ate. Cork fairly active; ungraded Western 
mixed, 676673c: No. 3. 7l«; No. 2 TIV®7Y<N In ele¬ 
vator, 72®73c. dellverod; low mixed, 72c; No. 2 
mixed October. 71)4*47DC; do. November, (W.14®71 kfc; 
do. December. «'> 3 k£®ortt<e; do. seller the year, 65«® 
6 -)<c. Oat*.' - No. 8 , 87®3THc; No 2, S4»40e; No. 1 
quoted. 39V$C; NO. 8 white, UV.iiM*c; No. 2, 43jf®46e; 
No l quoted f3o; mixed Wcatc n, ;«l^®9'c; white 
do,, Kg®:**?; mixed State, 45c; white do, 4S®Slc.. In- 
eluding No 2 mixed October, Oli'.tfllOWc; do. Novem¬ 
ber, 4(fh®41c; do. December, 41Js®42>gc. 
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN IN THE UNITED STATES AND 
CANADA. 
Sept. 30. 
Oct. 1. 
1882. 
1881. 
bush. 
bush. 
13.119,613 
19.494,3^2 
0,650,501 
27 361.974 
5,519,557 
6,468,060 
561,843 
1,39302* 
726,062 
901.840 
Rye............. 
Prices of Provisions—Pork—N.nv mess spot, *22.75® 
2); new mess, November *22.®'22 Ul: October. *22 50® 
22.(15; extra prime. *20. Beef—Platu me**. * 3.00; extra 
, *13.50®M Oil; packet, *15.5 '®i7.(X), city extra 
Indian me**. In tea . 2**35. beef hams, quoted 
*1, G0®1S 0). Out meats—Pickled bellies quoted 14)j<® 
MAD', for heavy, and 15)t<5.HCc. for light aversges; 
pickled shoulders. Me; pickled hams, 14Jt®14to.; 
smoked shoulders, lt®lIs*, smoked hams, 15-M®16)sO. 
Uscon—Long Char, huro, 15c; at West, do. 13.7k:; short 
clear, n. 0 . 0 . Dressed hog* City, quoted, I0^@ilc. 
Lard— Prime steam spot quoted. 18 ltfccholce. 13 25; 
October, 73 ifi®l 8 Wo ; November, U,7:W *12.77)4(5.; 
December, 12.17)$®!2.22)io; city steam, 12 75@12.85c. 
Buttkk.—S upplies of bright fresh flavor secure 
prompt attention, and tho evidences seem to show 
that more could bo used, and prices arc sustained 
without dlfllcuity, and anything ''off” In flavor is not 
warned on homo account. 
