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THE RURAL IEEW-YORKER. 
NOV 41 
Wans of }I)c VOttk, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 4.1882. 
Elections will lie held next week (Tuesdaj) 
in all the Territories and in 33 States: all the 
latter, except Oregon. Vermont, Maine, West 
Virginia and Ohio. State officers have been 
chosen this year in Rhode Island, Kentucky, 
Alabama and Georgia, but these States have 
yet to elect Congressmen. The five States 
first named have elected 32 members of Con¬ 
gress, and there will be 293 chosen on the 7th 
—just equal to the whole number under the 
old apportionment. There are also an un 
usual number of constitutional amendments 
to be voted on New York hits two, one pro 
viding for free canals; the other for additional 
Supreme Court judges. Nebraska has one for 
woman suffrage. Illinois has one giving the 
Illinois and Michigan Canal to the General 
Government.—a p>rt of the Hennepin Canal 
scheme—and another authorizing the expendi¬ 
ture of $500,000 more on the new State House. 
Wisconsin has one affecting the registration 
laws and the election of county officers, and 
another perfecting its biennial system, while 
Michigan has one raising the salaries of cir¬ 
cuit judges from $1,500 to $2,500 n year, Of 
these the canal amendment in New York is. 
of course, important to the commerce of the 
country, while the woman suffragists have 
made so active a campaign in Nebraska that 
the vote on their amendment there will be 
looked to with a good deal of interest. 
There were in operation on the 30th of June, 
1882, 46,231 post office in the United States— 
an increase of 1,719 during the year. Free 
delivery is carried on in 112 cities, employing 
3,115 men at an expense of $2,625,000; average 
cost per carrier, $835 75.... . 
Terrible wind, rain and hail stojms about 
Davenport, la., and Geneseo, Vandalia and 
Perry, Ill, on Oct. 20. Much damage to un¬ 
gathered crops and barn roofs. Hailstones 
the size of hens’ eggs. Same date snow storms 
in Dakota, Montana and Manitoba... 
Trouble upon trouble in the •* Star-route’’ 
cases. Charges and counter-charges of bribe¬ 
ry bandied briskly between the Attorney 
General’s Office and the jurymen who v* ted to 
acquit Dorsey, Brady & Co. W. Dickenson 
foreman of the jury, arrested for bribery,etc. 
Scandalous scandal 1.Bob Ford, slayer 
-of Jesse James, the noted Missouri train-rob¬ 
ber aud murderer, has been acquitted of the 
murder of a former confederate, Wood Hite. 
Immediately he telegraphed the glad tidings 
to his friend Gov. Crittenden.The 
Assistant Secretary of the 'Treasury has de¬ 
cided that a frog is not a fish, and cannot be 
imported from Canada free of duty under 
the treaty of Washington. 
Flint Cotton Mills, at Fall River, Mass., 
burned; loss $1,000,000; insured for $625,000 
...._Park Theater burned in this city last 
Monday night, two hours before Mrs. Lang¬ 
try, the famous English Beauty, was to make 
her debut in this country—total loss $240,000; 
loss of Abbey, Langtry’s manager, over $100,- 
000—total insurance, $105,000.... 
Mrs. Scoville, Gniteau’s sister, has been 
found insane by a Chicago jury; her husband 
brought the suit. She has fled to Canada with 
her daughter and asks for another trial. 
.It is estimated that the reduction in 
the public debt for October will be $15,250,000. 
.Ex-Gov. J. F. Robinson, of Ky., died at 
82.Mrs. Seguin, wife of a famous 
physician of this city killed her three little 
children and herself last Wednesday in an 
outburst of homocidal mania. No com¬ 
plaint of family quarrels. Husband com¬ 
pletely prostrated.The Oregon Leg¬ 
islature at its recent session approved a wo¬ 
man suffrage amendment, and now it goes 
to the people. The newer States take more 
kindly to the change than do the older ones. 
.Six members of the family of Hamil¬ 
ton Smith, of Middle Island, Long Island, 
N Y.; have been poisoned by eating toad¬ 
stools, mistaken for mushrooms. It is thought 
two of the children will die. Beware ! 
Neal and Craft, the murderers and woman 
outragers of Ashland, Ky., after trial at 
Catlett3burg, to escape threatened lynching 
were placed, with a military escort, on board 
a steamer to be taken to jail at Lexington, 
About 20 hot-headed youngsters seized a 
ferry-boat and, against the remonstrances of 
older heads, followed to capture the prison¬ 
ers. The discharge of a revolver on the ferry¬ 
boat was answered by a volley from the 
soldiers. Three of the crowd were wounded, 
and a ball pierced the boiler and the escaping 
steam disabled the mob. A great crowd col¬ 
lected on the bank to witness the affair. On 
these the soldiers fired without provocation, 
killing five and wounding twenty—one of the 
dead is an infant in its mother’s arms. In¬ 
tense indignation not in Kentucky only, but 
everywhere. Gov. Blackburn, whose promis¬ 
cuous pardons have nearly emptied Ken¬ 
tucky’s jails, approves of the reckless outrage. 
...The last six days’ go-as-you-please walking 
match closed in Madison 8quare Garden, this 
city, at 10 o’clock Saturday night, with Pat¬ 
rick J. Fitzgerald winner. This was the score: 
Fi'zgeraid, 577 miles 2 laps; Noremac, 567 
miles 4 laps; ITerty, 541 miles 1 lap, and 
Hughes 525 miles. The amount to be divided 
among the walkers was $998 plus the stakes 
to be divided. Fitzgerald received $3,649, 
Noremac $1,150, Herty about $600 andHughes 
about $100. Rowell dropped out before reach¬ 
ing his 500th mile with a severe attack of 
trouble at the heart. Hazael shortly after¬ 
wards. These are the noted former English 
winners. No interest in such things now. 
Harper Bros., of this place, are about to build 
a mammoth branch '’establishment” in Cin¬ 
cinnati.Yellow fever still at Pensacola, 
Fla., but declining in fatality. It has almost 
disappeared from Brownsville and other 
American places on the Rio Grande; but at 
Mier, Mexico, there have been 1,000 cases and 
324 deaths, 50 cases being yet under treat¬ 
ment—a very unusually large proportion of 
fatal cases.The notorious Col. Tom 
Bufford, who murdered Judge Elliott, of the 
Kentucky Court, and who was declared “in¬ 
sane,” has escaped from the Central Lunatic. 
Asylum at Louisville, aud found a safe refuge 
in Indiana.Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of In¬ 
diana, is dangerously ill with neuralgia or 
rheumatism of the right foot, developing into 
erysipelas.Judge Hayes, of la., has 
just decided that the “prohibitory” amend¬ 
ment to the Constitution lately ratified by the 
people, is invalid, because, as passed by the 
Senate, it was not identical with the one 
passed by the House, and because the journals 
of the Legislature do not contain the act in 
full on their pages, and do not contain the 
yeas and nays taken upon its passage. 
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“SLEEP SPLENDIDLY.” 
A gentleman from Memphis, Tennessee, 
who has been using the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, in speaking of its good effects in 
his case, says: r 'I find my general health 
splendid. Work all day—no weariness at 
night, except that caused by work. Sleep 
splendidly! Appetite best in the world. No 
cold since using the Oocygen.'' Our Treatise 
on Compound Oxygen, its nature, action, and 
results, with reports of cases and full infor¬ 
mation sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 4, 1882. 
Items briefly condensed from telegrams re¬ 
ceived here within the last 24 hours: Boston, 
Mass.—Wool business still from hand-to- 
mouth. No pressure to sell except at full 
piices; interior dealers apparently full of 
confidence. Fine fleeces and good medium 
clothing wools scarce and Arm. Prices at 
Melbourne sales and high prices abroad gen¬ 
erally make importations improbable for 
some time to come. Backward trade in woolen 
goods makes market dull: but no “boom” is 
expected. New England cotton mills are not 
buying extensively, expecting a large crop..,. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Corn scarce, prices 
above shippers’ limits. Stock of cereals run¬ 
ning low. Cotton has declined >gc. t closing 
dull on liberal supplies. 
Chicago, Ill.—Stocks of “provisions” lighter 
than for years, there being less than 6,000 
barrels of mess pork on band. Hogs are 
coming in freely and packers, under the in 
fluence of cooler weather, Bre buying in large 
numbers. The hog crop of the West, it is 
estimated, will be 15 per cent lighter than the 
light crop of last year. Receipts of grain 
falling off owing to low prices. Last Thurs 
day coni jumped up 2 ^ 0 . owing to light re¬ 
ceipts which scared the “shorts.” It is stated 
that there is less than 5,000,000 bushels of 
corn “in sight” against 25,000,000 bushels at 
this time last year. 
Cincinnati, O. A further decline in cereals. 
Receipts of country produce light in compari¬ 
son with quantities known to be in the hands 
of farmers. Cotton has declined on large 
receipts. Weather too warm for hog packing. 
The volume of hog product for the year just 
ended, shows a decline of nearly 20 per cent 
in shipments.Advices from the Ken¬ 
tucky hemp region show the yield to be barely 
70 per cent, of a full crop. The tobacco crop, 
both in Kentucky and Ohio, promises well for 
an average yield, both as to quantity and 
quality. Tobacco on hand in warehouses 16,- 
000 hogsheads... 
St. Louis. —Cotton very weak. Grain mar¬ 
ket quite unsettled during the week. Cattle 
dull. Hogs very active... 
Minneapolis, Minn.—Weather turning cold. 
Snow in Northern Minn, and Dakota, and 
three inches in Manitoba. Farmers well 
through Fall plowing. Thrashing progressing 
rapidly A free movement of wheat. Re¬ 
ceipts here during the week, 736,000 bushels. 
Market lower. No. 1 Hard, $1.01. Millers 
purchased during week one million bushels... 
Tremendous excitement was caused in the 
Milwaukee grain commission circles and the 
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, by a re¬ 
port that Peter McGeach, one of the heaviest 
grain dealers in the world,and known through¬ 
out the Northwest as “The King of the Pit,” 
had defaulted on a transaction involving half 
a million bushels of wheat. Last month Mc¬ 
Geach made sales of “puts” at 95 cents for No. 
2 Spring wheat, deliverable any time before 
the end of the year. Wednesday quotations 
were 93(?93j^c., and sellers made arrange¬ 
ments to deliver. McGeach refused to re¬ 
ceive the No. 2 mixed wheat wheat now sold 
taere. He asserts that the grain the sellers 
proposed to deliver was adulterated and 
unmerchantable. It is believed his act was 
due to the recent decisions of the Milwaukee 
and Chicago Courts against the legality 
of speculative “ future” sales of grain. 
All the English counties except Cornwall, 
Cumberland, and Lancashire have less live 
stock than they had thirteen years ago. 
The milk dealers of Rochester, N. Y. had a 
meeting last Sunday night, to remonstrate 
with the brewers against the advance in 
“grain” from 12 to 14 cents in Winter, and 
from 10 to 12 cents in Summer... India aa 
rolls in extraordinary agricultural wealth 
this year. The crop of whest is 46,928,000 
bushel*; corn 115,699,000 and potatoes 7,264,- 
000 bushels, against respectively, 30,625,000, 
71,387,000 and 2,396,000 last year, and the 
total value of crops is put at$15S,847,000. 
Toe Pall Mall Gazette accuses British farmers 
of buying large quantities of American oleo¬ 
margarine, working it up into rolls, and re¬ 
tailing it in the market as a genuine product 
of the English dairy. The profit is very large. 
.An Elmira, N. Y. butcher receives a 
refrigerator car-load of Chicago-dressed 
meat every morning.More than one 
half of all the barley produced in the United 
States is raised in New York, California, and 
Wisconsin The average yield is 23.5 bushels 
per acre, and the total product will reach 
45,000,000 bushels.There are upward 
of 3 000 steam plowing machines now em¬ 
ployed in England and Scotland. 
Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach orchard in 
the South, containing 50,000 trees and cover¬ 
ing nearly GOO acres, 400 grafted apple trees 
and 5,000 pear trees stand on the same farm. 
.A remarkable sale of Montana grass- 
fed steers has been made in Chicago by D. A. 
G. Floweree, of Helena, who received $57,000 
for 700 bead of four and five year-olds, aver¬ 
aging 1,448 pounds each.A idspatch 
from Bozeman, Montanu says that New 
Yorkers will slaughter 8,000 sheep there dur¬ 
ing the Winter, and ship carcasses to New 
York aud Europe.. 
At a. recent meeting of the St. Louis Beef 
Canning Company, it was resolved to increase 
the capital stock from $700,000 to $900,000. 
There is an understanding that the additional 
capital stock will be used to extend trade in 
the East and to compete with Chicago packers 
in shipping dressed beef to New York, Boston 
and Philadelphia....Dressed beef slaughtered 
at East St. Louis is being received daily at 
Cincinnati. Shipments from East St. Louis 
to Baltimore are also daily made. It is ru¬ 
mor* yl that 8. W. Allerton & Co., of Chicago, 
have gone into the beef slaughtering business 
at the establishment of the St. Louis Beef Can¬ 
ning Co., on a large scale, and will use 500 
refrigerator cars, and kill as many as 1,000 
cattle per day. At Chicago, Swift Bros, are 
kiliiog 900, and Hammond & Co. 500 per day, 
and both concerns enlarging. It is said that 
as a measure of “ self defense,” the butchers 
of Now York city have formed a syndicate 
with a capital of $1,000,000, for the avowed 
purpose of breaking down the whole Western 
carcas3 beef trade........ 
Wet weather in Texas has delayed cotton 
picking and the consequent loss is put at 
150,000 bales.... 
The cereal crops of Russia for 1882 are re¬ 
ported by the Agricultural Department of 
the Empire as above an average. 
Considerable quantities of wheat, barley 
and beans are reported as arriving at Alex¬ 
andria from the interior, since the close of 
the war in Egypt.. 
It is estimated that the Florida orange crop 
will be curtailed one-third on account of the 
cold and unfavorable weather last Winter 
and Spring. 
Louisville is planning a cotton exposition 
for next year. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The project of connecting Great Britain 
with the Continent by a tunnel under the 
English Channel from Dover to Calais—about 
20 miles—on which a great deal of money has 
already been expended in experiments, and 
the feasibility of which has been demon¬ 
strated, has for the present been put an end to 
by a committee “of scientific soldiers of mark,” 
who have made a report hostile to the wojrk 
on the ground that it would add to the dan¬ 
ger of foreign invasion. Englishmen are get¬ 
ting “ narvous”—poor things... 
Terrible destitution among native islanders 
north of Alaska—in one place 100 decomposed 
carcasses of starved natives discovered....... 
Unusually heavy rains have just caused de¬ 
structive floods in the Thames Valley, Eng¬ 
land. Much damage done in the lower parts 
of London along the river. 
“Closure,” a parliamentary measure for 
“ shutting up” the mouths of legislators im¬ 
peding legislation, has been the chief matter 
before the English Parliament during the 
week. The “ Government” insists that a bare 
majority of the House of Commons Bhall be 
able to order any member to “shut up:” the 
“ Opposition” say this should be done only by 
a two-thirds vote. House divided: 322 for the 
Government, 238 against it. The Parnellitea, 
against whom the measure was mainly di¬ 
rected, voted with the Government, because 
Gladstone has agreed to introduce soon a 
measure In favor of local self-government in 
Ireland, and because so long as there is a 
“ clousure” at all, they care little about its 
nature..... 
The Pope has sent an autograph letter to 
Queen Victoria thanking her for the interest 
shown in the welfare of Catholics. 
At the parliamentary elections in Norway 
the “ radicals” have won a complete victory 
—thought to be threatening to the throne.... 
One hundred sailors were drowned in the 
typhoon at Manila. 
Much agitation all over France on account 
of anarchist proclamations and “conspiracy.” 
Lyons, the great manufacturing center, is the 
headquarters of the movement. Strongly gar¬ 
risoned. Orders forbid soldiers holding com¬ 
munication with civilians.A measure 
has been introduced into the German legisla¬ 
ture, to forbid the importation of American 
bogs or hog products.Serious riots in 
Vienna, Austria. Mob crying, “We must 
have blood and a blaze,” dispersed by troops 
.In Italy, elections to the Chamber of 
Deputies resulted in the return of 99 Conserv¬ 
atives; 65 Liberal Conservatives; 258Liberals; 
27 Radicals and 2 Socialists—the most violent 
of the latter from Rome.. 
Excesses against the Jews have recommenced 
in Pressburg, Hungary. Drunken rioters have 
plundered their shops and killed a woman. 
Ten rioters were arrested.It is proposed 
to saddle the expenses of the late war on the 
bankrupt Egyptian treasury—this an exten¬ 
sion of taxation on the fellaheen. Lord Duf- 
ferin, formerly Governor-General of Canada, 
afterwards Ambassador to St. Petersburg, and 
lately Amhassador to the Porte, has gone to 
Egypt to settle matters there on behalf of 
England. Arabi Pasha’s defence is that be 
acted first in agreement with the Khedive and 
Sultan, and afterwards with the Sultan alone, 
the suzerain of the Khedive. It is said he 
will be allowed to exile himself or else be ban¬ 
ished; few men think he will be executed. 
Fully 20,000 troops, it is said, will be needed 
to suppress the False Prophet in the Soudan.. 
... England declines to interfere with the 
trouble there, end Egypt now has no troops 
though she is organizing some. a ... 
♦ ♦ » 
In a letter from Hon. Mrs. Pery, Castle 
Grey, Limerick, Ireland; Brown’s Bron¬ 
chial Troches are thus referred to:—“Hav¬ 
ing brought your ’Bronchial Troches’ with 
me when I came to reside here, I found that 
after I had given them away to those I con¬ 
sidered required them, the poor people will 
walk for miles to get a few.” For Coughs, 
Colds and Throat Diseases they have no equal. 
Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cents.— Adv. 
For all purgative purposes, for Constipa¬ 
tion, Indigestion, Headache, and Liver Com¬ 
plaint, take Ayer’s Pills. By universal 
accord, they are the best of all purgatives for 
family use.— Adv. 
♦Thousands of women have been restored to 
perfect health by the use of Lydia E Pink- 
ham’s Vegetable Compound.— Adv. 
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237“Featber8, ribbons, velvet can all be 
colored to match that new hat by using the 
Diamond Dyes. 10 cents for any color.— Adv. 
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“Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, 
flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, chip¬ 
munks. 15c.— Adv. 
If your hair is gradually thinning and 
fading, use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It restores 
color and vitality.— Adv. 
Itnniett’N Cocoaine 
Softens the hair when harsh and dry. 
Soothes the irritated scalp. 
Affords the richest lustre. 
Prevents the hair from falling off. 
Promotes it healthy, vigorous growth , 
— Adv, 
