THE RURAL &EW-YORKER. 
NOV 25 
.of i\)t Wall. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 18.1882, 
The next Congress—the 48th—will consist, 
at the outset, of 191 Democrats, 133 Repub¬ 
licans and 11 Green backers and Readjusters. 
Thus the Democrats will have a clear ma¬ 
jority of 57, and a plurality, over the Republi¬ 
cans, of G8.In December the 47th Con¬ 
gress will hold its last session; but the 48th 
Congress, that just elected, will not assemble 
till December 1883, unless the President shall 
meanwhile call an extra session, next Spring or 
Summer..The opposition in the Senate 
to the promotion of General Pope in place of 
General McDowell, lately retired on account 
of age, is so great as to render bis confirma¬ 
tion doubtful.The reported gushing of 
a new SCO-barrel well in Forest County, Pa., 
created a panic in the petroleum market on 
Friday.... On same day an extraordinary elec¬ 
tric storm extended from the Far West across 
the Atlantic to England and the Continent, 
the phenomena everywhere being similar. 
Telegraphic communication was Interrupted 
for hours between various points in this coun- 
ry.and also between here and Europe. 
The knowledge that most of his weather 
guesses have of late proved false has not 
silenced Vennor. He now predicts a sudden 
freeze up with the thermometer at zero or 
below, at a few hours’ notice, and advises 
all St. Lawrence River men to take necessary 
precautions. “ December will be full of cold 
waves. The St. Lawrence River will be solid 
before Christmas, and the year will close ex¬ 
tremely cold with plenty of snow.”. 
A telegram from Keokuk, la., on the 16th 
says: “Navigation on the Upper Mississippi 
is virtually closed, and nearly all the steam¬ 
boats have gone into Winter quarters. The 
records at the draw of the bridge across the 
Mississippi at Keokuk iudicate a falling off 
from last year of the transportation of North¬ 
ern products South, which is probably ac¬ 
counted for by the short crops along the 
river. The number of boats passing through 
the draw of the bridge thus far during 1883 
is 1,917; barges, 801; rafts, 440; which is 
a decrease from 1881 of 829 boats, 181 barges 
and an increase of 10 rafts.”.. 
The coroner’s jury inquiring into tbe cause of 
the death of those recently shot by the militia 
at Ashland, Ky., have found Major Allen cul¬ 
pable for ordering or permitting the shooting. 
.The annual reports for the several In¬ 
dian industrial schools show that at Hampton 
the total attendance during the year was 96 
and the number now connected with the 
school is 84, 80 girls and 54 boys. At Forest 
Grove, Or., there was a total attendance of 
9,154 boys and 37 girls. At Carlisle, Pa., 
there were 188 boys and 109 girls at the close 
of the fiscal year. Over $5,000 worth of 
of wagons, harness and shoes were made by 
the students during the year. Their progress 
in their studies is regarded as highly satis¬ 
factory.The yellow-fever epidemic is 
considered at an end in Pensacola, Fla. 
Of the 123 members of the House who voted 
for the River and Harbor Bill 61, or just one- 
half, have been re-elected, and 61 have either 
failed of renomination or re election or have 
retired voluntarily.Only two Republican 
Governors among the 15 elected! Hale in New 
Hampshire and Dames in Nebraska.It 
is estimated that some 51) contested election 
cases will appeal to the partisan spirit of the 
next Congress.8iuce the Republican 
party was formed it has carried New York 14 
times to 13 for the Democrats. The largest 
majorities before this year were 107,713 in 
1861 and 80,129 in 1856 for the Republicans, 
and the smallest 1,450 in 1859 for the Demo¬ 
crats.The woman suffrage campaign in 
Nebraska seems to have been managed rather 
on the practical plan. Susan B. Anthony and 
her aids spent $5,000 in it, and provided free 
lunches on election day; hence some gibes 
from the frontier press.Mrs. Scoville, 
who is lecturing in Canada, tells her audiences 
that her husband proposed that she should 
consent to go to an asylum for six months in 
order to establish insanity in the family, and 
so relieve them of the stigma of Guiteau's 
act.The contract office of the Post- 
office Department is beginning to receive bids 
for carrying the mails on what are known as 
star routes in Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and Illinois to run from July 1, 
1883, until June 30, 18S7. They amount in the 
aggregate to about $2,000,000. Tbe awards 
will be made in January and at the same time 
contracts for routes in several States and Ter¬ 
ritories for shorter periods will be awarded... 
In Ulinota the Constitutional Amendment bo 
cede the iiUnois and Michigan Canal to the 
General Government was passed by an almost 
unanimous vote at the late elections.... ....Of 
the 206 members of the last House of Repre¬ 
sentatives, 173 were candidates for re election. 
One hundred and thirty were re-elected and 
43 were defeated. This does not include those 
who were candidates but were defeated in 
nominating conventions. Less than half the 
old members were returned, although the 
membership of the House has been increased. 
There will be 185 members of the Forty- 
eighth House who were not members of the 
Forty-seventh House....The defeat of 
Governor St. John for re-election in Kansas is 
looked upon as a severe blow to prohibition 
there, of which he was an earnest champion. 
Two years ago he was elected by 62,000 ma¬ 
jority.Three cadets have been dis¬ 
missed from the Naval Academy at Annapo¬ 
lis for hazing..The party who attempted 
to seize Col. Holloway’s horses at Alexis, III., 
have “ got into hot water.” The chief authors 
of the movement have been arrested on charge 
of horse stealing and conspiracy, and are out 
on bail. 
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Can Go to Sleep In a Minute.” 
A gentleman who had suffered much from 
insomnia, writes, after using Compound Oxy¬ 
gen: “ I can do something now I could never 
do before using the Oxygen: that is, 1 can lie 
down at night and go to sleep almost, in a 
minute formerly it took me hours; seemingly 
caused from nervousness.” Our Treatise on 
Compound Oxygen, its nature, action and re¬ 
sults, with reports of cases and full informa¬ 
tion, sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 
and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— 
Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The November corn report of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture puts the aggregate yield 
of the entire country at nearly 1,650,000,000 
bushels. Its distribution, in round numbers, 
is: New England 7,000,000 bushels: New York, 
21,000,000; New Jersey, 10,000,000; Pennsyl¬ 
vania, 41,000 000; Delaware, 4,000,000; Mary¬ 
land 17,000,000; Virginia, 35,000,000; North 
Carolina, 35,000,000; South Carolina, 16,000, 
000; Georgia, 82,000,060; Florida, 4,000,000; 
Alabama, 29,000,000; Mississippi, 25,000,000; 
Louisiana, 12,000,000; Texas, 74,000,000;'Ar¬ 
kansas, 35,000,000; Tennessee, 69,000,000; West 
Virginia, 18,000,000; Kentucky, 78,000,000; 
Ohio, 82,000.000; Michigan,130,000,000;Indiana 
99 000,000; Illinois, 209,000,000; Wisconsin. 32,- 
000,000; Minnesota 21,000,000; Iowa, 186,000,000 
Missouri, 184,000,000; Kansas; 151,000,000; Ne¬ 
braska, 81,000. The quality of the crop is su. 
perior throughout the South. It falls below 
the standard 100 in only eighteen States and 
Territories; only one point below in Michigan, 
two in Ohio, three in Nevada, five in Indiana, 
Vermont, and Utah, six in New Jersev, eight 
in Colorado, nine in New York, ten in Rhode 
Island and New Mexico, fifteen in New Hamp¬ 
shire and Iowa, sixteen in Dakota, eighteen in 
Minnesota, and twenty in W isconsin. 
The onion crop in Western New York this 
year is large, and the Rochester market has 
fallen from $150 a bushel to 50 cents. Even 
at this price shippers can do nothing, a« the 
price in New York is from $1.25 to $1.50 per 
barrel.Preparations are making for 
holding a convention of American agricultu¬ 
rists in Chicago Dec. 12. Special rates of fare 
by railroad and at the hotels have been se¬ 
cured for those attending this convention . 
....In Australia wheat and other crops and 
the pastures presented a most promising ap¬ 
pearance in early September. The copious 
rains helped the crops, but the tanks or ponds 
are poorly supplied with water, as the thirsty 
earth absorbed most of the rain........ 
Breeders of Galloway cattle will hold a meet¬ 
ing in Chicago Thursday evening, Nov. 23. 
.The Nebraka State Agricultural College 
has just bought a Galloway bull, and the 
Mississippi Agricultural College is hunting 
for a prime one among the Galloways In Mich. 
.To avoid all rbk of infection Austra¬ 
lia has decided to prohibit importation of cat¬ 
tle from America or any part of Europe..., 
... .The yield of sugar in Louisiana this year 
is estimated at 200,000 hogshead, the average 
being 2,000 pounds to the acre. But for the 
terrible overflow in the season the crop would 
have yielded 250,000 hogsheads .. 
Commissioner McFarland, of the Land Office, 
recommends the dismassal of the receiver and ■ 
register of the land office at Mitchell, Dakota, i 
for fraudulent transactions, and of the clerk i 
for appearing as attorney and passing land i 
cases.The Department of Agriculture < 
reports exceptionally fine weather during Oc¬ 
tober for maturing and harvesting cotton, < 
and returns the estimated yield of the acreage i 
of each State as follows: Virginia, 178 pounds i 
of lint to the acre; North Carolina, 180; South 1 
Carolina, 183; Georgia, 152; Florida, 117; 
Alabama, 150; Mississippi, 190; Louisiana,235; i 
Texas, 240; Arkansas, 233; Tennessee, 170. i 
These figures are the result of consolidations a 
of revised county estimates, and suppose the i 
continuance of average weather for the six 1 
weeks of the harvest season yet remaining.... 1 
The Chief of the Bureau of Stasistics reports 1 
that the total values of the exports of bread- 
i stuffs from the United States in the month of 
October, 1882, and in the four and ten months 
ended October 31, 1882, as compared with 
similar exports in the corresponding months 
of the preceding year were as follows: Octo¬ 
ber. 1882, $15,205,103; October, 1881,114,839. 
914; four months, ended October 31, 1882, 
$84,881,719; four months ended October, 31, 
1881, $80,311,635 ; ten months ended October 
31, 1883, $149,737,960; ten months end:d 
October 21, 1881, 192,292,555.Returns 
for the November Michigan crop report have 
been receivod by the Secretary of State from 
789 correspondents, representing 629 town¬ 
ships. The area seeded with wheat this Fall 
is estimated at three per cent, less than in 
1881, and the condition is estimated at 92 per 
cent., the comparison being with the vitality 
and growth of average years. 
United States Consul Peixotto, of Lyons, 
Franco, reports to tbe State Department 
as follows: The crops of Europe as a 
whole have been excellent. The wheat crop 
of France is estimated the best she has had 
since 1874, in which year her export of wheat 
and flour exceeded her imports by 64,000,000 
hectolitres (a hectolitre is 2 5 6 bushels), the 
total production that year being 133,000,000 
hectolitres. The wheat crop of Austria is re¬ 
ported very superior, both in quality and 
quantity, with an excess for export of 18,- 
000,000 hectolitres. Russia has produced a 
wheat crop superior to her average. In Ger¬ 
many and Belgium the wheat crop is reported 
very fine. In Italy the wheat harvest is above 
the average, and the Bame is true in Spain. 
Roumanla, no inconsiderable factor, gives a 
like result. Even England will do as well as 
in former years, though that is not saying 
very much. Yet the London Times said: 
“ The crops generally are the best for certain¬ 
ly seven years.” The cereal harvest of the 
principal European countries, counting 100 as 
tbe average, is estimated as follows:. 
Wheat —France, 112; Hungary, 157; Aus¬ 
tria, 112; Russia, 111; Germany, 110; Eng¬ 
land, 108. Rye— Austria, 103}£; Hungary, 
108^; Russia, 107; France, 101; Germany, 
102. Corn— Russia, 118; Turkey, 117; Italy, 
120; Hungary, 120; Roumania, 121. Oats— 
France, 123; Hungary, 116; Austria, 105>$> 
Russia, 121; Germany, 106, Barley— France, 
126; Hungary, 120t£; Austria, 106; Germany, 
111; England, 108.England 
is still considered the great regulator of 
prices. Her annual consumption of wheat 
is 69.000,000 hectolitres, while her aver¬ 
age production is but 38,000,000. She has thus 
annually to import over 30,000j)00 hectolitres. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
It has been known for some time that 
the relations between tbe Russian and Aus¬ 
trian empires have been strained almost to 
the point of complete rupture; but last Thurs¬ 
day a declaration was made by one of the 
Delegations to the Austro-Hungarian Gov¬ 
ernment that war with Russia is inevitable, 
and unusually large appropriations were 
made especially to meet such a contingency. A 
struggle must, in any event, ere long take 
place between these two Powers for the pos¬ 
session of the effects of the “ sick man of 
Eastern Europe,” as the Czar Nicholas grim¬ 
ly styled the Sultan. This ominous declara- 
has caused a great sensation, as foreshadow¬ 
ing the speedy outbreak of hostilities. The 
Emperor Francis Joseph, however, lately de¬ 
livered a very pacific address to his Parlia¬ 
ment, and Russia is so financially straitened 
that it would almost look like madness to in¬ 
cur tbe enormous expenses of war just now. 
Still Russian troops have been heavily massed 
of late along the western frontier; Austria has 
her army in capital trim, and is in excellent 
condition for war, backed up, as she is, by Ger¬ 
many, which has a private grudge against Rus¬ 
sia on account of the latter’s treatment of the 
German population in Livonia and her other 
Baltic provinces. Lately all the rulers of 
Europe have been very emphatic in their ex¬ 
pressed hopes for peace; this certainly looks 
like war..!... 
In England the “closure” measures of Glad¬ 
stone are sure to pass with some slight modi¬ 
fications. Tbe Conservatives hadn’t spunk 
enough to fight on the question; and the Par- 
nellites have been in a measure placated by 
an intimation that a bill provi ding for local 
self-government in Ireland will be soon intro¬ 
duced into Parliament by the Government. 
The Conservatives seem utterly demoralized, 
and seldom has an English statesman held 
such sway as that now wisely used by Glad¬ 
stone—“ Honest William,” as the people affec¬ 
tionately call him, “ The Grand Old Man,” 
as they call him admiringly. ,,lu France 
much uneasiness is still felt with regard to the 
anarchists, whose revolutionary propaganda 
was lately discovered. President Grevy is 
urged to resign, nominally on account of ill 
health, hut really to make room for Gam- 
betta, who is again coming strongly to the 
front. At no time since the establishment of 
the Republic, a dozen years ago, has it been 
in such danger as now. The internal discord 
robs the country of its due weight in European 
affairs..... . . . 
The Italian courts have decided that the juris¬ 
diction of the Kingdom of Italy extends 
within the confines of the Vatican. This is in 
direct opposition to the guarantee of perfect 
independence, made to the Pope in 1870, when 
Victor Eimnuel seized upon the papal territo¬ 
ry during the Franco-Prussian w r ar.. In Egypt, 
Suleiman Daoud, one of Arabi Pacha’s chief 
g, nerals, testifies that he had set fire to Alex¬ 
andria by exprees order of Arab!, who also 
commanded him to murder the Khedive. This 
evidence, however, is discredited—Suleiman 
is speaking with his neck in a halter, and 
probably wants to substitute Arabi’s for his 
own in that unpleasant predicament. 
Mr. J. R. Keene’s four-year-old colt, Foxhall, 
has been advertised in the English Raeing 
Calendar to be sold for 7,000 guineas—$35,721. 
Russia has ordered the immediate con¬ 
struction of nine war vessels for service in 
the Baltic and Black Seas. The forts at Crons- 
tadt will be greatly strengthened.The 
situation in Peru is daily becoming worse and 
the departments of Juniu, Ayacucho, Are- 
quipa, Tuno and Cusco, held by the undisci¬ 
plined forces of Caceres and Moutero, are in 
a lamentably miserable state—Lizardo Mon- 
tero, who claims to be President of Peru in 
tbe absence of Garcia Calderon, has called a 
a congress.Grevy, President of the 
French Republic, has been unwell, but is re¬ 
covered, so say officials. It is insisted at Paris, 
however, that he had apoplectic attacks 
Monday and Tuesday. 
Dublin hag refused to honor General Woolse- 
ley with the “ freedom of the city.” Though 
an Irishman, he is unpopular in Ireland, for 
before starting for Egypt he expressed regret 
at the loss of an opportunity to crush any up¬ 
rising there.Tbe Queen of Spain has 
a “new ” daughter and the Queen of 8weden 
a “new ” son..Baker Pasha’s reorgani¬ 
zation of the Egyptian army is so far pro¬ 
gressed that 1,000 men have already been sent 
to Soudan.The bodies of De Long and 
his comrades have arrived in St. Petersburg. 
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Patterson Organs. 
Everybody in want of a beautiful organ is 
referred to the new advertisement of James 
T. Patterson, the manufacturer, Bridgeport, 
Conn., which appears in this issue. Rev. 
Geo. Sniet, Pastor St. Mary’s Church, Buffalo, . 
Erie Co., N, Y., writes: “ The organ I pur¬ 
chased of you some two years ago has given 
entire satisfaction. I paid but $75 whereas 
the music dealers would have charged $125.” 
— Adv. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Coughs 
aud Colds: “The only article of the kind 
which has done me good service. I want 
nothing better.”— Rev. R. H. Craig, Otis- 
ville, N. y. Sold only in boxes. Price 25c.— 
Adv. 
The most reliable article in use for restor 
ing gray hair to its original color and pro¬ 
moting its growth, is Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian 
Hair Renewer.— Adv. 
*Far more valuable than those golded ap¬ 
ples of Hesperides are the life, health and 
beauty of Womanhood. Mrs. Pinkham’s 
Vegetable Compouud restores and preserves 
all these.—.4 dr. 
Hall’s Hair Renewer is officially and un¬ 
qualifiedly indorsed by the State Assayer of 
Massachusetts. —A dv. 
No woman really practices economy 
unless she uses the Diamond Dye. Many dol¬ 
lars can be saved every year. Ask the drug¬ 
gist.— Adv. 
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Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
crows, chipmunks, cleared out by “ Rough on 
Rats.” 15c. per box.— Adv. 
dandruff 
I* Removed by (lie Use of Cocoslue. 
And it stimulates and promotes the growth of 
the hair. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts ; they are 
the best .—Adv 
£hf iHarhris. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Nov. 18. 
Chicago —Prices have fluctuated considera¬ 
bly during the week, but as compared with 
the figures a week ago, “ regular” and No. 
