THE RURAL NEW-YORKER* 
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Saturday, Dec. 9. 18S2. 
Last Monday the second session of the 47th 
Congress began. President Arthur’s message 
is almost universally commended as a sensible 
exposition of the condition and needs of the 
country. He demands the reduction of tax¬ 
ation of all kinds—customs, internal revenue 
and postal. He is ready for a material re¬ 
duction of the tariff, for the abandonment of 
all the internal revenue but that from spirits, 
and favors a reduction in postage from three 
to two cents. He advocates “ Civil Service 
Reform ” most cordially, and thinks the In¬ 
dians should acquire land “in severalty,’’ 
instead of holding the land in common as 
they now do. He asks legislation on counting 
the presidential vote and upon the accession of 
the Vice President in case of the President's 
disability. He also urges a constitutional 
amendment to enable the President to veto 
any objectionable items in the appropriation 
bills passed by Congress, without nullifying 
the whole bi’l in which such vetoed items oc¬ 
cur—an excellent measure.Secretary 
Polger advocates the reduction of the taxes 
on tobacco and beer as well as on spirits, and 
shows how the customs duties ou the great 
import staples, sugar, iron and steel, cottons, 
woolens and silks, ought to be reduced. The 
report also advices the suspension of the 
coinage of silver dollars and has sev¬ 
eral minor suggestions regarding the multi 
tude of administrative services which come 
within the authority of this great Depart¬ 
ment.Secretary Lincoln reports that 
the expenditures of the war department for 
the last fiscal year were $45,549,319 The ap¬ 
propriations for 1883 are $55,662,420 and the 
estimates for 1884 $38,897,620. This estimate 
does not include items for river and harbor 
improvements or for improving the Missis¬ 
sippi River. The estimates for these purposes 
will amount to $33,887,000.Secretary 
Teller wants the Indians disarmed; recom¬ 
mends that each tribe should have patents 
for its land, leaving to the people the ques- 
ion of alloting it among them; the reserva¬ 
tions should be reduced, the surplus land to 
be bought by the Government and opened 
under the Homestead Law; the Indians 
should be financially assisted by the Govern¬ 
ment to raise stock for their own support: the 
education of the young is emphasized. 
The Transit of Venus ou Wednesday caused 
a wider sensation than any event of the week. 
In North and South America, Europe, the 
Cape of Good,.Hope and several intermediate 
insular points, the observations were on the 
whole satisfactory. The next time the planet 
will cross the face of the suu will be in A. D. 
2004—122^ years hence. Not many of us can 
reasonably expect to witness that transit even 
with spectacles.... .. 
The Canadian Pacific Railroad advanced its 
capital stock from $15,000,000 to $1* 0,000,000 
on the 6th iust.United States Senator 
Morgan, of Alabama, has been almost unani¬ 
mously re-elected.Clayton McMichael, 
of Philadelphia, proprietor of the old North 
American newspaper, has been commissioned 
as United States Marshal for the District of 
Columbia, vice Henry removed for alleged 
friendship for Star-Routers.The second 
trial of these “ worlhies” has been begun.... 
....'ihe late Thurlow Weed’s will bequeaths 
the bulk of his property —$500,600 to $700,000 
—to his three daughters and six grandchil¬ 
dren.A vigorous effort is being made 
to have Dakota admi ted as a State during 
this session of Congress, as the next—Demo¬ 
cratic— Congi ess it is thought would defeat 
such a measure. Chief objection to it now is 
that, while the population would give it only 
one Representative, it would be entitled to 
two Senators.The U. S. Supreme 
Court has finally decided that the Arlington 
estate which belonged to Gen. R. E. Lee, and 
is situated on the south side of the. Potomac, 
opposite Washington, belongs to the Lee 
family. It was bought by the Government 
during the war at a sale for non payment of 
taxes, the purchase price being $26,000 and 
$92 of unpaid taxes. This sum was tendered 
but the tax-commisbioners decided that it 
must be tendered by the owner in person— 1 
Gen. Lee, at that tune the commander of the 
Confederate forces. The Court has decided 
that this rule was unauthorized and also that 
while a titizen cannot sue the Government 
he can sue any of its officers. Arlington is 
now the site of Fort Whipple, and of the Na¬ 
tional Cemetery where 14,000 dead Union sol 
diers lie in honored graves. Tne Lee heirs 
will be paid the price of the place; the dead 
heroes will not be disturbed.... 
South Carolina’s State securities sell above 
par; there is no floating debt, the current 
expenses are met by current receipts, and 
there are $100,000 in the treasury.Jay J 
Gould had a lot in Greenwood Cemetery which 
did not suit him and he exchanged it for a 
plot of one Bcre for which be pays $40,000. 
Some people would gladly subscribe the pur¬ 
chase price to see him enjoy a “ house warm¬ 
ing” in it....Mr. Edison’s patents now 
number 396; r>ore than were ever before 
granted to one man.The Northwestern 
railroad war still rageth fiercely and the east- 
bound freight business boometb consequently; 
while all over the Grand Northwest the public 
traveleth multitudinously...... The new ‘ 'pen¬ 
al code” went into force in this State on Dec. 
1. Nearly all its provisions appear to be ap. 
proved of by church members “in good stand¬ 
ing;” but its Sabbatharian provisions prohibit¬ 
ing the labors of news-boys, boot-blacks, ex¬ 
pressmen, ice-cream and tobacco dealers and 
bar tenders, seem to excite the wrath of the 
“ unregenerated” mightily, and the outlook 
is now favorable for the speedy repeal of 
some, if not of all, the provisions hateful to the 
“ungodly”... 
The track of the Northern Pacific has ad¬ 
vanced this year 154 miles, and is uow 520 from 
Winnipeg. No more will be laid this year.... 
Cornell University is erecting two new build 
iiigs, a splendid chemical laboratory and a drill 
hall and gymnasium. A fine library is also 
soon to be constructed........ Last Tuesday 
Gen. M.C Butler was re-elected United States 
Senator by the General Assembly of South 
Carolina.The Welland Canal was 
closed on Dec. 5. Same day ice on the 
Hudson River, from Hndson to Albany, was 
four inches thick. Navigation stopped. 
The following are the claims allowed by the 
Garfield Board of Audit: Professional ser¬ 
vices: Dr D. W. Bliss, $6,500; Dr. D Hayes 
Agnew, $5 000; Dr. Frank H. Hamilton. 
$5,000; Dr Robert Reyburn, $4,000; Dr. Silas 
A. Boynton, $4 000; Dr. Susan A Edson, 
$3,000. Total, $27,500. Services and supplies: 
Total, $5,929 93. Extra services by Govern¬ 
ment employ ee: Total, $5,540. Grand total, 
$3S,860 93. The total appropriation to pay 
claims against the Garfield estate was $57,500. 
After the payment of a few minor claims not 
embraced in the above, including $200 for 
board of Colonel Rockwell and family at El- 
beron during President Garfield’s illness, the 
surplus will be returned to the Treasury. Dr. 
Bliss says he shall decline to receive the $6 500 
awarded him, as it would not reimburse him 
for the outlay for ordinary and extraordi 
nary expenses during the time he was in at¬ 
tendance on the President. 
Mailed free, by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia, their 
“Treatise on Compound Oxygen, its Action, 
Nature and Results.” A very remarkable 
publication. —A dv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec., 9.1882. 
It is estimated that only about one out of 
every ten negro cabins in the South has win¬ 
dows. When the inhabitants want any day¬ 
light they walk out of doors.Ninety- 
three thousand acres have been planted under 
the new arboriculture act in Kansas. Prefer¬ 
ence is given to the cottonwood tree because 
of its rapid growth.The suit for $500,- 
000 brought some time ago by the Union 
Stockyard, at St. Louis, against the Wabash 
Railway Co. for breach of contract, has been 
withdrawn, and a new contract has been 
made by which the railway pays the stock- 
yard $2 per car for all cars of stock going 
through St. Louis and over the bridge. Stock- 
yard stock went up 25 per cent. It is expect¬ 
ed that the Union Y ard in St. Louis and the 
National on the other side of the Mississippi, 
in Illinois, will now be consolidated with the 
idea that slaughtering will be done on the 
west side of the river, and packing cm the east, 
..A dispatch from Washington on De¬ 
cember 4, says thst land frauds of startling 
magnitude, recently discovered by the Com¬ 
missioner of the General Land Office in con¬ 
nection with the Osage Indian lands in Kan¬ 
sas, have led to an order by the Commissioner 
suspending all cash entries made by single 
men since June 23, 1881, where the lands lie 
within the counties of Sumner, Harper, King 
and Comanche, Kansas. In bis letter to the 
Register and Receiver at Wichita, Commis¬ 
sioner McFarland says it has come to his 
knowledge that numbeis of entries have been 
made in these counties by cowboys, who im¬ 
mediately afterward turned the land over to 
their employers. The best farm lands and 
water privileges in the section named have 
been taken up in this vs ay The Inspector’s 
report shows that the entire county of Co¬ 
manche and the greater part of the other 
three counties are under post and wire fence, 
and that intending Bettlere are driven off by 
the stockmen. A thorough investigation of 
the circumstances is being made, and the 
Commissioner says that if the invest'gations 
prove to be true the parties to the frauds will 
be criminally prosecuted and the recovered 
lands thrown open to bona-fide settlers. 
During October and November there was sold 
at Danville, Va., 4,435,000 pounds of leaf to¬ 
bacco, against 2,931,000 pounds in the same 
time last year. The average price in Novem¬ 
ber, this year, was $11.02 per cwt.; last year, 
$10.80.W. L Chamberlain, Secretary 
of Ohio State Board of Agriculture, writes us 
that the final estimates of crops for the year, 
based upon reporte from 700 townships, are: 
Growing wheat, acres sown, 2,741,560; con¬ 
dition, .97; damaged by fly, 6 per cent; corn, 
total bushels for 1882, 93,527,943; oats, 16, 
732,154; potatoes, 6,131.785; tobacco, 27,224,- 
591 pounds; hay, 2,908,295 tons; sorghum, 
497,000 gallons. Percentage of crops com¬ 
pared with 1881: Corn, 116; rye, 100; oats, 
87 barley, 72; tobacco, 101; hay, 122 sorghum, 
101. Condition of farm animals, 110. Hogs 
sold, 88 per cent, of last year’s sales. The 
estimate of yield of corn is much higher than 
the September estimate, owing to excellent 
Fall weather for ripening that planted late. 
Estimate of potatoes is much lower, owing to 
damp weather, producing much loss by 
rot. Pastures in better condition than for 
many years. Reports of wheat badly dam¬ 
aged in stack will reduce the total of sound 
wheat considerablv below the September 
estimate of 45.000,000 bushels.Joseph 
Morgan, Dodge City, Kane,, recently sold his 
herd of about 4,000 head of cattle to the 
Prairie Cattle Company for $100.000. 
Protberoe’s ostriches have gone to Southern 
California, where aD ostrich farm is to be 
started—an excellent location. 
A project for 29 buildings in different parts 
of Paris, each to accommodate 500 boys and 
500 girls, is to be realized soon. The charges 
will be 12 cents a day for board, clothing and 
instruction in agricultural work.The 
Great Western Dairy Fair held at Milwaukee 
the past week was a fine success, according 
to the brief telegraphic dispatches that have 
reached us.Many farmers of Oregon 
and Washington Territory have devoted their 
attention to hop culture. This year they 
raised a fine crop, estimated at 2,000,000 
pounds. Many farmers have sold at 75 cents 
a pound, and others are holding for a higher 
price. Marvelous stories are told, in all the 
hop-growing districts, of fortunes made dur¬ 
ing the present hop “ boom.”.A cable¬ 
gram from Havana says the heavy rains 
which accompanied the late northern winds 
have greatly benefited the new tobacco seed¬ 
lings planted in the Vuelta Aba jo since the 
destruction by the cyclone of those previously 
under growth. These seedlings were obtained 
by means of the funds collected for the 
cyclone Bufferers and were supplied in great 
abundance to the tobacco growers in the 
afflicted districts. 
.The Sixth Annual Convention of the 
N. Y. State Dairymen’s Association will be 
held at Cortland, N. Y., on December 19,20 
and 21. Addresses will be made by the fol¬ 
lowing contributors to the Rural: Professor 
H. E, Alvord, on Ensilage and the Dairy; Dr. 
E. L. Sturtevant, Dairy Interests in General; 
Professor L. B. Arnold, To What Extent are 
Dairy Interests Dependent on Foreign Pro¬ 
ducts; Solomon Hoxie, Experiences Among 
the Dairies in Holland and Germany. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 9, 1882. 
The English Parliament was prorogued 
a week ago until Feb. 15. The Queen 
in her speech said that the growth of the 
revenue of Great Britain had been sensibly 
retarded, but by a cause which in itself is to 
be contemplated with satisfation, that is, a 
diminution in the receipts of the Exchequer 
from duties on intoxicating liquors. She said 
she feared distress this Winter in some parts 
of Ireland. The social condition of Ireland 
at large has markedly improved in her 
opinion, yet agrarian outrages in that turbu¬ 
lent island are still of daily occurence; the 
more inflammatory the utterances of the pop¬ 
ular leaders, the greater their popularity; to be 
locked up for words or deeds of “patriotic” vio¬ 
lence at once opens the way to the hearts of the 
people; hundreds of offenders laugh at arrest 
in spite of heavy rewards offered for their 
betrayal; the infrequent “informers” who 
earn “blood money” by testifying against 
malefactors, are in constant danger of assas¬ 
sination; policemen who arrest and judges 
who condemn “patriotic” law-breakers are 
in the same plight as the “ informers; ’ 
the special courts appointed to decide what 
should be a fair rent for farms have more 
business on their dockets than they could 
attend to in a decade; the efforts of the Gov¬ 
ernment to thin out the population by pro¬ 
moting emigration are met with stolid resist¬ 
ance. The conviction grows stronger that the 
only satisfactory way of governing the Irish 
is to let them govern themselves. Many parts 
of the country, including Dublin, are under 
the “Curfew Law” which forbids any person 
to be “out” from nn hour after sunset to an 
hour before sunrise. Parties of "peelers” are 
constantly hunting for arms, revolutionary 
drillings,” and rebellious plots. Rents are 
grudgingly paid, if paid at all, and, on the 
whole, “anarchy” reigns as “supreme” as it 
well can in a "civilized” country. 
Earl Dufferin's diplomacy in Egypt leaves lit¬ 
tle doubt that it is England’s intention to con¬ 
trol that country just as thoroughly as she 
controls the few East Indian dependencies 
which are still governed ostensibly by native 
rulers, but really by English “ Residents ”— 
English officials stationed at tbe native courts 
nominally to “advise” the princes, really to 
dictate to them. Arabi Pasha and his chief 
officers,having owned that they were “rebels,” 
were at once condemned to death, but 
the sentence was commuted to exile for life. 
Arabi says his movement has roused his 
countrymen and removed many of the griev¬ 
ances and cruelties to which they had been 
subjected. His enemies say that he has 
proved himself front first to last an incapa¬ 
ble, arrogant, ignorant poltroon; while a few 
wiseacres hold that all along he has been 
working for English gold, inasmuch as his 
course has given England au excellent excuse 
for adopting, with regard to Egypt, a policy 
she has long desired to enforce. The French 
and English governments are still at polite 
loggerheads as to the part France should have 
in the control of the country. England is 
willing France should control financial af¬ 
fairs, so far as relates to the payment of for¬ 
eign debtors, but France sa T s that to accept 
this would dep rive her of any political influ¬ 
ence, and therefore refuses it. She wont be 
allowed much politcal influence anyhow. 
....Anthony Trollope, the novelist, died at 
London last Wednesday morning. For sev¬ 
eral hours before his death he was un¬ 
conscious and so weak that artificial means 
for feeding him had to be used. He was 
born in 1815.Louis Blanc, the journal¬ 
ist, historian and revolutionist, dud on the 
same day at Cannes, France. He was born 
October 28, 1813.Only 89 agrarian out¬ 
rages reported in Ireland during November... 
For his services as commander of the “House 
hold ” troops in Egypt, the Emperor of Ger¬ 
many has conferred on the Duke of Con¬ 
naught. one of Victoria’s sons, the order of 
Pour la Merite, founded by Frederick the 
Great and the highest military decoration in 
the gift of the Prussian Crown. 
.Archbishop Tait, of Canterbury, died 
last Sunday morning.Queen Victoria 
opened the new courts of justice at London 
last Monday amid great enthusiasm.It 
is proposed to convert th* site of L*ke Geneva 
into vineyards and “truck” patches by drain. 
ing the lake.It is calculated that the 
embezzlements and robberies by private indi¬ 
viduals and officials hi Russia during the year 
amount to $20,800 000.Heavy snow¬ 
storms in Scotland and the North of England. 
Disastrous floods in Germany, Holland, Aus¬ 
tria and France have already inflicted enor¬ 
mous losses and threaten greater disasters.... 
....The Dean of Westminster has given his 
consent to the placing of a bust of Longfellow 
in Westminster Abbey, There has been a 
good deal of discussion of this matter, as 
many opposed the step on the plea that the 
honor should be reserved for Englishmen alone. 
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Sudden Changes of Weather are pro¬ 
ductive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, 
&c. There is no moi e effectual relief in these 
diseases to be found thaninthe useof Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches. Price 25 cts.— Adv. 
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Tropic-Fruit Laxative meets the popular 
want for a mild, agreeable and effective 
cathartic medicine. Sold by druggists every¬ 
where at 25 els. per bo v .—Adv. 
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*It is not necessary to enter into particulars 
in referring to the complicated organic and 
functional difficulties to which the more deli¬ 
cate classes of American women are subject; 
but Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Great Remedy 
for all these troubles has an unbounded popu¬ 
larity.— Adv. 
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Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice 
crows, chipmunks, cleared out by “Rough on 
Rats.” 15c.— Adv. 
-- 
Don’t neglect your cough I Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral will quickly cure it and prevent con¬ 
sumption. — Adv. 
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—Those horrid pimples removed effectually 
by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. Don’t delay.— Adv. 
Scrofula, that most dreaded taint in the 
human system, finds a perfect cure in Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla. — Adv. 
A Pure and. Effective Hair Dressing 
Coco ain e, a compound of Cocoanut Oil, 
beautifies the hair and is sure to allay all 
itching and irritation of the scalp. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their perfect purity and 
strength .—Adv 
