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THE RURAL 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 25. 1882. 
Blaine, Butler, Logan and General Sherman 
all decline to be candidates for the Presidency 
lu 1884.The Democrats control 23 
States in the next House, a majority of the 
States in case it becomes necessary to elect a 
President by that body ........In J anuary 
next there will be 25 States with Democratic 
Governors. The greatest number ia any pre¬ 
vious years was 24 in 1878.The consular 
service received $880,000 in fees last year and 
cost $838,000, thus netting the Government 
$51,000.The Star-route mu idle is get¬ 
ting more muddled and odoriferous. 
Vanderbilt denies that he has anything to do 
with Western ranches or “cattle on or off the 
hoof,” and says he has very little to do with 
railroads!.Professor Henry Draper, the 
eminent scientist, has just joined the “ silent 
majority.” His distinguished father, Pro¬ 
fessor J. W. Draper, “ passed away” a short 
time ago.Thurlow Weed, the famous 
politician and journalist, died in this city last 
Wednesday at the age of 80.Mrs. En¬ 
gineer Melville has recovered her reason and 
been discharged from the Norristown (Pa) 
mad-house. She seems an unpleasant sort of 
a wife, however.The Garfield Monu¬ 
ment fair has just opened at the Capitol, 
Washington; entrance fee, $1. 
It was a “bile” n't senile gagrene that was 
the matter with ex-Senator Hendrick’s toe. 
He’s all right now.The petroleum boom 
is petering out....... Since the action of the 
people of New York State on the question of 
free canals the merchants of Montreal have 
set themselves to the task of persuading the 
Dominion Government that frpe canals in 
Canada are essential to its export trade. 
The Chinese Legation at Washington is likely 
to be withdrawn on account of the Anti- 
Chinese Immigration Bill.Ex-Senator 
Lot M. Morrill is so ill that his friends enter¬ 
tain no hope of bis recovery.The Chi¬ 
cago Bessemer steel companies intend to stop 
work next month in consequence of the low 
prices of steel rails and the prospect of a re¬ 
duction of tne tariff. Twenty thousand men 
will be thrown out of employment by this 
step. Steel companies elsewhere threaten to 
imitate this example, throwing a vast body 
of workmen out of employment.The 
rabber manufacturers say they will shut down 
on Dec. 21, in order to break down the com¬ 
bination which has bought up the world’s 
supply of Para rubber and is manipulating 
the price. This will throw 40,000 persons out 
of work.Owing to fire in a four story 
factory at Providence, R. 1., a lot of girl 
operatives jumped from the windows—six 
deaths........A big spot on the sun 50,000 
miles long and 45,000 miles broad. To be seen 
through smoked glass last Thursday. 
The death last Tuesday of Tariff Commis¬ 
sioner McMahon, who was also an official of 
the New York Custom bouse, removes one of 
the ablest members of the Commission. It is 
fortunate that his work was completed.... 
_Captain Alfred Hopkins has been dis¬ 
missed the service for desertion of his post at 
the Pensacola Navy Yard, during the late 
yellow fever epidemic. He had been 80 years 
in the service and was only lately promoted. 
.There’s the liveliest sort of w ar between 
the Chicago, Milwaukee and fit. Paul Rail¬ 
road, Chicago Minneapolis, Bt. Paul and 
Omaha R. R. and the Chicago Rock Island 
and Pacific R. R. The latter has litely opened 
what is known as the Albert La Route 
to St. Paul by th J way of Cedar l!ipi<is, Iowa, 
hence the bitter competition. Rates for pas¬ 
sengers and freight are extraordinarily low to 
points reached by both roads and their con¬ 
nections and it is likely that the Chicago and 
Northwestern as well as the Chicago Burling¬ 
ton and Quincy roads, and indeed ail the roads 
leading from Chicago to Omaha and Kansas 
City, will be forced to take part in the fray. 
.A Boston iLb inor.opoly has dissolved 
on account of public opposition.Raids 
on the Crow Indians by Plegans and Flathead 
are complained of.The Postal author¬ 
ities are still unable to locate the sys¬ 
tematic robberies of important mails in 
the West, which have been periodical in 
occurrence since December last..The 
“pool” of Western starch manufacturers was 
completed on Wednesday.“Cures by 
prayers” are becoming frequent -or reports 
of them.Secretary Teller lecommends 
areduction of the o-'&t of obtaining a patent. 
In England a 14 years patent costs $1,000; in 
Germany $600; in Ruy-ia, abOT. t $400; in Can¬ 
ada, $140, here a 17 years patent costs only $35. 
..Unusually cold weather for the season 
in Kansas and Nebraska...... 
The Galveston quarantine against yellow 
fever is ordered to ba raised on Dec. 15. 
The Panama Canal Company have sent an 
agent to New York in search of laborers. De 
Lesseps keeps away from the Isthmus owing 
to the frightful death-rato among the canal 
staff. Fully $30,000,000 have been sunk already 
and nothing has been done tow arils the cut¬ 
ting.Wsges of slate qnarrymen in 
New York and Vermont are to be cut down 
12}<£ por oent.- 
It is estimated that the humbug marriage as¬ 
sociations have swept up $2 000.000 from va¬ 
rious parts of Texas, a sum more than suffi¬ 
cient to run the public schools since the first 
association began business.... 
If you have any disease which does not 
yield to ordinary medical treatment, don’t 
fail to get the Treatise on Compound Oxygen, 
that wonderful revitalizing agent and health 
restorer, and study it carefully. It, is sen/, 
free by Dns, Rtarkky & Palen, 1109 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 25, 1882. 
Nrcws of this sort is of weekly occurrence 
from one part or another of the frontier:— 
Cowbove, last Tuesday, took possession of 
Long Pino, Neb., burned all the sidewalks, 
which were of wood, sacked all the saloons 
and made a drummer from St. Louis dance 
two hours with cocked revolvers at his head. 
.More rarely one hears such ns this: At 
Austin, Tixae, a few days ago, 10 ctowhoys 
contested with lariats for a silver trimmed 
saddle worth $300, to be given to the one who 
roped, threw and tied down a steer in the 
shortest space of time. The winner accom¬ 
plished the feat in one minute forty-five sec¬ 
onds..The French thoroughbred horse 
Rayon d’Or has just been imported by W. L. 
Scott, of Erie, Pa., at a cost of $38,000 landed 
at this port, the original cost being $30,000— 
the largest price ever paid for an imported 
horse. It Is said $50,001) were refused for him 
the day after he landed.-A dispatch 
from Indianapolis says: The National Grnnge 
continnes to hear reports from the various 
Masters ns to its conditions in the several 
States, which 9how the Grange to be growing 
both in numbers and influence. Master Gif¬ 
ford, of the Dominion Grange, Canada, 
states there are over 800 granges in Canada, 
with a membership of 40,000. They have se¬ 
cured a legislature favorable to farming inter¬ 
ests, established an agricultural college, an 
experimental farm, and increased the edu¬ 
cational facilities of the people.. 
Com. Loring says 2,500,000 packages of seeds 
have been distributed during the past year, 
and 200,000 copies of agricultural reports 
printed by his Department.The sta-. 
tistical division on last Thursday estimates the 
crops of 1883 as follows: corn, 1,635,000.000 
bushels; wheat, 410,000,000 bushels; oats, 470,- 
000,000 bushels; barley. 45,000,000 bushels; 
rye, 20,000,000; buckwheat, 12,000,000 bushels. 
.A telegram yesterday says the Kcotch 
meu who attempted to take a lot of Clydes¬ 
dale horses from Col. Halloway’s farm at Al¬ 
exis, Ill., have been sued by him for $100,000 
for slander, and they have begun a suit in the 
United States Court for an accounting with 
the Clydesdale Company, of Glasgow, which 
they represent. At the hearing Colonel 
Holloway offered to submit the rights of 
the parties to arbitration, and It is thought 
that the proposition will be accepted... .There 
seems to Ire coming a cotton exposition simi¬ 
lar in character to the Atlanta exhibition, 
but much larger and managed by Southern 
men. The National Cotton Planters’ Associa¬ 
tions at its recent meeting voted to undertake 
the business, and president and members are 
pushing it in a way that promises success. 
The plan is to call the shew the “World’s Cot¬ 
ton Centennial Exposition,” hold it in 1884 in 
tbecity bidding highest, and to base it all upon 
$ 2 , 500,000 in cash, one fifth contributed by the 
city selected. The centenary in the case ia 
th at of the first shipment of cotton to Eng- 
gland—eight hags in 1784.... Late reports to 
the Kansas Board of Agriculture show that 
this season’s crops were larger than had been 
supposed, and especially is this true with 
Winter wheat. The yield of this is put at 
33,943,398 bushels, against 19,164,800 last year. 
There were 1.791,408 bushels of Spring wheat 
and 157,005,722 of corn, of which the average 
yield was 35.34 bushels an acre.. 
Grape growing is gaining grouud steadily in 
Palestine, especially around Bethlehem.. ... 
Sales of government lauds in the South are in¬ 
creasing.... ....The Mark Lane Express last 
Monday said: The weather during the week 
allowed of some wheat sowing, but arrears in 
this work are not materially reduced... 
England will only have 100,000 cwt. of hops 
this year.An enormous bunch of grapes, 
carefully inclosed in a glass case, was shown 
through Michigan by a peddler, who bad for 
sale sprouts from what he said was a vine of 
the same variety. The exhibit was at length 
discovered to be waxwork. 
On Wednesday last 68,000 bushels of No. 2 
corn were shipped from this port to Aus¬ 
tralia The Erie canal now carries eastward 
over one-fifth of the total amount of grain 
received at the ports of Boston, New 5 ‘*rk i 
Philadelphia and Baltimore.Iu Califor¬ 
nia more wheat will be sown this year than 
ever before, and the abundant rains this Fall 
give excellent promise, so that a larger yield 
than in any previous year is now looked for¬ 
ward to with much confidence.The 
Commissioner of the General Land office has 
declared the firm of “Gazzarn & Co., P. O 
address, Station L. New York,” to be a fraud. 
Their scheme was to send out to ex-soldiers 
circulars promising to locate land for them un¬ 
der the provisions of the Soldiers’ Homestead 
Act, and then sell the reliquishmerits for a 
handsome profit over the fees charged by the 
firm. The soldier’s actual residence was de¬ 
clared to be unnecfsoarv to a successful loca¬ 
tion. The whole scheme, the Commissioner 
says, is in violation of law, and the evidence 
in the possession of the Land Office show H 
that many persons have been victimized by 
this firm and its branches.The live 
stock in Texa 9 is estimated at 4,250,000 head 
of cattle, 3 800,000 head of sheep, 1,000,000. 
head of horses and mules, 20,000 Angora goats. 
the latter industry being a late one....... 
The menhaden fishery of Tiverton, L. I , 
alone amounted this Summer to 141,000 bar¬ 
rels— fish oil and guano.One of the lar¬ 
gest sales of land ever known was made the 
other day by Capt. W. G. Veal, of Dallas, 
Texas. He sold 4,500,000 acres of land In 
Western and Northwestern Texas to an Eng¬ 
lish company. This company will sell alter¬ 
nate tracts of from 200 to 500 acres to Euro, 
pean immigrants wishing to settle upon it. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 25, 1882. 
In the House of Commons last n'gbt Glad¬ 
stone vehemently denied that any treaty had 
been made w ith Parnell and the other impris¬ 
oned “suspects.” The Conservatives say that 
us a condition of the prisoners’ release from 
Kilmainham jail, the Ministry had negotia¬ 
ted for the political support of themselvps 
and their followers in return for measures 
favorable to their views to be introduced by 
the Government. The alleged compact was 
called the “Kilmainbam treaty.” Further 
talk about the matter was voted down by the 
House "by a large majority”.The 
Home Rule League has been dissolved. 
Montenegro demands the cession of the dis¬ 
trict of Kolatchin from Turkey. 
The trial of Arabi Pacha hasn’t begun yet; 
“preliminary examinations” have been the 
« order of the day ” hitherto. The Khedive 
wishes to shift the matter on to England, but 
she wishes to “boss” the whole job, while 
squirming out of all responsibility. Troops 
ordered to the Soudan to suppress the False 
Prophet refuse to march unless headed by 
Arabi... 
In the English Parliament, Mr. Trevelyan, 
Chief Secretary for Ireland, has promised 
that the system of governmental relief 
would be conducted with great efficiency un¬ 
til the distress in Ireland was alleviated by 
the gathering of the next harvest. The dis¬ 
tress is mostly confined to the west of the 
island.The crofters of the Island of Skye, 
like the Irish tenant farmors, have been re¬ 
fusing to pay rent. The authorities have been 
collecting a large force of constabulary to 
force evictions; but there now seems to be a 
prospect of compromise....Spain declares 
that she will act “in conformity with the 
principles of strict justice” regarding the 
losses suffered by Americans dli ring the Cuban 
insurrection .■••••-* The Italian Parliament 
has been opened. King Humbert’s speech was 
pacific iu tone.A crank has been sen¬ 
tenced to 10 years’ penal servitude for threat¬ 
ening the Prince of Wales..The liquida¬ 
tion of the City of Glasgow Bank, which 
burst up a couple of years ago, und some of 
whose directors were imprisoned for dishon¬ 
esty in office, has been finished. All the de¬ 
positors received twenty shillings in the 
l>ound. Many of the shareholders, however, 
have been ruined, as they had to make good 
all the losses to depositors... 
The Pope has charged the Irish bishops to 
endeavor to prevent the paople from offend¬ 
ing against the laws.U. S. Minister 
Astor has boon received with much honor by 
King Humbert of Italy.General Hir 
Garnet Wolseloy, G. C. B., has just been 
gazetted in the English peerage by the title 
Baron Wolseloy of Cairo and Wolseley, in 
the County of Btafford, and Admiral Sir F. 
Beauchamp Seymour has beeu gazetted to t.bo 
same dignity by the title of Baron Alcester of 
Alcester, in the County of Warwick. 
The younger of the Rothschilds living at 
Fraukforb-on-the-Main, makes oath that his 
income is but $4,788,009 a year. This is only 
four cents a second, $140 an hour, or $3,250 a 
day.The Austro-Rufrian war rumors 
have been contradicted. M. Giers, in charge 
of the Foreign Affairs in Russia, has been 
visiting Bismarck, and will visit Vienna 
also, with the object, it is thought, of renew¬ 
ing th« friendly compact between the three 
Emperors, that existed prior to the assassina¬ 
tion of the late Czar. Arrests of Nihilists 
still continue in Russia, 17 having been cap 
tured at Odessa on the 19th. In Berlin a 
revolutionary pamphlet has been suppressed. 
In France the anarchists are sending threat¬ 
ening letters to the Legitimists, and declaring 
war against the bourgeoisie, or middle class. 
In Austria the police are vigilantly searching 
for dynamite io the possession of revolution¬ 
ists, and, altogether, the crowned heads of 
Europe have so much to do in guarding their 
precious lives and crowns against aunrehists, 
that they don’t appear to have time to send 
their subjects to slaughter while fighting with 
each other... 
Last Monday Mr. Courtney, Secretary to the 
Treasury, informed Mr. Parnell in Parliament 
that up to the present ti mo the applications 
under the Land act by tenants for loans to 
improve their holdings numbered 625, of 
which 310 bod been granted, 210 were inad¬ 
missible and others were being investigated. 
Mr. Trevelyon, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 
replying to Mr. O’Donnell, said that up to the 
15th inst. the applications under the Arrears 
of Rent act had reached 14,167. The Land 
Commissioners, he said, hoped to set¬ 
tle before the 30th inst. all cases 
lodged prior to November 25. 
The University of Kasan, one of the largest 
m Russia, has ju«t been closed on account of 
revolt of the students against the severe rules 
established by Count Tolstoi, iu charge of the 
Internal Affairs of Russia. The University 
of St. Petersburgh iB occupied by the police 
and those of Warsaw and Charkoff are re¬ 
ported to have also been closed on account of 
“ manifestations ” by the students. Univer¬ 
sity students are always among the worst en¬ 
emies of oppressive governments in Continen¬ 
tal Europe....... 
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Troches. A simple and effectual remedy, 
superior to all other articles for the same pur¬ 
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♦The man who knows nothing of Mrs. Lydia 
E. Pinkham and her sovereign remedy for 
women is wanted for a juryman. The fact 
clearly proves that he doe3 not read the pa¬ 
pers.— N. H. Register. — Adv. 
Bilious Complaints, Constipation and Nau¬ 
sea, are all relieved and cured by Ayer’s 
Pills.— Adv. 
“Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, 
flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, chip¬ 
munks. 15c.— Adv. 
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills contain no calomel, 
nor any injurious substance whatever. They 
comhine curative vegetable properties only 
— Adv. 
Dr, Benson’s Skin Cure consists of internal 
and external treatment. Removes humors, 
etc.— Adv. 
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The Best and Cheapest Hair Dressing. 
It kills dandruff, allays irritation, and pro¬ 
motes a vigorous growth of the Hair. 
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are in¬ 
variably acknowledged the purest and best 
— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, Nov. 25. 
Chicago. —As compared with prices a week 
ago “ regular ” wheat is l%c. higher for cash; 
but %c. lower for Dec. No. 2 Red Winter is 
>£c. lower. No. 2 Chicago Spring, lc. lower. 
Corn %o. higher for Nov.; %c. lower for 
Dec. Oats 1 jqjc, lower. Rye a shade higher. 
Barley 2c. lower. Pork a trifle lower. Lard 
95c. lower. Butter steady. Prices are:— 
wi ikat steady. Regular, 93}4«»i^.. November; 
93bo. Dsicembw: all the year; SMDjiraiMJvc. 
January; 9uaie. May; No 2 Red Winter, IMSe. etihJi; 
SMjyo. Decembers all tin-year; No. 3, 91';.; 
ar. ; 50<\ Mnyi all lUo year* ruj.-ctu.l, Guo. Oatk 
Uniter at cash! *K»30>£c. Nove.mtsor; fciHif* 
35&>. December; XrR,'. nil the year; WfauitWW Jujus 
ftiy; luJxo. May; rejected, 3244c. Kyk firmer at S.tvtS 
58 e, IUtu.ky steady at fflW&SSc. ki.ax s«m> weaker 
at $t.l3Wii)I.W: good crustluUK on track, Si.'-lRs; re 
Jcoieil, $Ta0- choice Russian, $1.84. HOTTER weak: 
creamery, fair to fancy, JhtflKJt*; dairies, good to 
choice, IZUttSOc., packing stock, i:-; lc i .•• " ! 
at 2!*-(jr<(2oc. ROJJR lower at $17.2 us<iiIS,VS csoils. Lard, 
$1(1,80® 10.880. cash. Hous-Demand good; mixed, 
heavy $0 15&H63; light, SJ.I.VaU3>; skips. 
$3.50<A».so t'sTTi.K rttceiuiH. 6,5tf) bead; *Mpmeat*. 
3,MX)head; fairly active anil generally steady; no e X- 
tru cattle; gooti to choice, SS.2/k<{St>; common to fair, 
$4 OkaO. 10: mixed butchers’, fairly Retire and Arm; 
common to loir, t2.2tKtf3.fO; medium to good. <3.Sued 
4,IK); Stockers and feeder*, fUjXk-id 39c Texan* »tr< isg 
us fi9<ra4.40. scut —Receipts, 3,DUO hesid: shipment*. 
OOOneuti; market utrofiger on good to prime at 
(atiUO; fair to medium steady at 4:1 4Q(g 3 ’.si; common 
dull und lu Issrgu supply at $2.tWs43-«£i. 
Cincinnati. — As compared with prices a 
week asro. No. 2 Red Winter wheat- ia lc. 
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