DEC. 43 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Items of tire Itteeh. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Dec. 13, isso. 
The failure of the great coffee house of B. G. 
Arnold & Co., New York, was brought about by 
last week’s speculation In coffee. They risked their 
fortune on a rlBlng market, and the market went 
the. other way. There Is a lesson In such reverses 
that is as old as the hills, but If men were as old 
as the hlim they would not profit by 11.The 
first successful porcelain factory in the United 
States has been established In New Orleans under 
the management ol enterprising Frenchmen. 
The kaolin from which the ware is manufactured 
Is found In Louisiana and Texas. Large beds of 
this white clay arc found In South Carolina and 
Lawrence County, Indiana....The Legislature 
of Texas has given, hy an Inadvertent construc¬ 
tion of the State Const button, the right to women 
to voteln thatstato. Tbe Constitution provides that 
every male person, 21 years of age, not subject to 
certain designated disqualifications, shall have 
the right to vote, and the Legislature has enacted, 
among other rules which shall govern In the con¬ 
struction or all civil statutory enactments, that 
“ masculine gender shall Include the feminine 
and neuter.”. _A New York butcher, who 1u- 
cautiously ate raw pork, died at Bellevue Hospi¬ 
tal In great agony, the attending physicians be¬ 
ing unable to arrest t he work of the ravenouB par¬ 
asites which were devouring him moll-meal. 
After death his body when laid open with the 
knife was found to he swarming with trichinae.... 
_The aggregate of the estimates for the Initial 
work in the Improvement of the Mississippi River 
Is fit,i 33 ,oon.It Is stated that subscriptions 
to the De Lessens canal stock are coming In rap¬ 
idly at New York, but tor the most part in small 
amounts.An JSast-bound express train on 
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad was thrown off the 
track at Greendale, III., hy a misplaced switch, 
and Henry Meade of ChlUlcotbe. and Scott Hill, 
of Florla. ill., were killed. No other persons were 
hurt.. 
Adjutant General Drum has received a dispatch 
from General Terry at St. Paul, Minn., staling 
that he had received Informal Ion from the camp 
on Poplar creek and from Fort Buford which In¬ 
dicated that, Sitting Bull would very probably soon 
come In and surrender at Buford.In New 
Salem, near Rondout, N. Y„ John Van Tassel 
assaulted his wife with an axe and then cut Ills own 
throat, dying Instantly. He was TO years of age 
and bis wife 36. Van Tassel was jealous of the 
attention paid to Ills wife hy other men. 
Mall Agent W. K. Syms was burned to death 
and Mall Agent A. G. Beller had hls shoulder 
broken and Conductor Wessfall had an ankle 
sprained by the passenger train on Ihe Chicago, 
Rock Island and Pacific Hoad, which left Atchi¬ 
son, Kansas, at 3.45. being thrown from the track 
near lidgctown .Junction by a broken rail, twenty- 
three miles from Atchison. No passengers were 
hurt. A fire originating in Tier’s wholesale 
liquor house at omaba spread to Collins’ saddlery 
establishment, destroying both buildings and con¬ 
tents. The. losses are: Her A Co., stock and fix¬ 
tures, $125,000; Collins Brothers, harness stock 
$ 10 , 000 ; Max, Meyer A Brothers, pianos, organs 
and jewelry, $.15,00(1; damage, tailor, $2,500: Mc¬ 
Mahon, drugs. $ 4 , 000 ; Rodgers & Sons, $2,600, 
John D. Creighton and Marsh Kennard, $15,000 
eac ; William Paxton, $5.000; Mel’haue Brothers, 
$t,ooo. other buildings were damaged by water. 
The losses on bulldlDgs are $50,ooo, and on mer¬ 
chandise about $ 20 , 000 , and are pretty fully cover¬ 
ed by Insurance.Senator McDonald Intro¬ 
duced a bill to authorize local taxation of legal 
tender Treasury notes as personal property, which 
was referred to the Finance committee. 
The wheelbarrow and cigar-box factory of Ste¬ 
vens A Co,, of Cold Water, Mich., was destroyed 
by fire. Loss, $i7.000. Merrill A Co. who occu¬ 
pied a part of the building as a machine shop, loss 
$ 5 ,ooo .. William Barres, while drunk at 
Farmland, Ind , shot and killed hls wife, and upon 
hlsarrest assent'd that the shooting was acci¬ 
dental. . .... A lire at Highland, a zinc ftDd lead 
mining town In .Southern Wisconsin, caused a loss 
of $10,000 worth of property, Including four stores 
and three dwelling houses.. .A fire at Minne¬ 
apolis. Minn., burned out the .Jacoby block, involv¬ 
ing a loss of about $25,000. sustained by the firm 
ot G. M Wolf A Co., Harris a Levy and Jacoby, 
photographer .... .Mrs. Liltleneld, who poison¬ 
ed her husband and child at Stoughton, Mass., 
killed herself with a revolver purchased at the 
time when she procured the morphine for her 
family. 
Mr. Ward, of Penosylvania, presented to the 
House a hill providing tor a monument to Gen¬ 
eral Lafayette on the Brandywine battle field 
.Mr. Springer presented to the House a 
bill to change the time for electing Presidential 
electors and congressmen to the second Tuesday 
in October.A bill which Mr. Springer, or 
Illinois, presented to the House provides for a 
temporary increase of the Just ices of the United 
States supreme court after March 4,1861, making 
the number eleven, hut proposes to eventually re¬ 
duce the number to nine, as vacancies occur. 
The bulhon shipments from Leadvllle smelters 
lor November aggregated In value $ 1 , 322,000 a de¬ 
crease from, those of the preceding two months; 
but there Is a large increase 01 ore reserve at the 
smelters, accumulated during the month. 
Dakota asks for admission to the Union as a State. 
___it is asserted that the Congressional 
holiday recess will be unusually short. 
The jury in the case of Mrs. Meeker, on trial at 
Montpelier, Vt„ for the murder of her step-daugh¬ 
ter, little. Alice M eeker. last summer, brought In a 
verdict of guilty In the first degree. The case will 
go to the supreme court on exceptions. Almon 
Meeker, the son, who pleaded guilty of participa¬ 
tion in the crime, was sentenced to be hanged. 
The electors of the several States met on the 2d 
to cast their votes for.the new president and vice- 
president, and appoint one of their number to car¬ 
ry the vote to Washington. It Is said that Georgia 
will lose her vote from a conflict of State and Na¬ 
tional enactments.A new railroad route 
has been opened from Philadelphia to New York. 
The Pennsylvania Kallroad Company has com¬ 
piled with the order of the United States Courts 
directing it to open the Junction road to the cars 
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore 
and the Reading Railroad Companies, and the first 
through train to New York by the new trunk line 
passed over the Junction without difficulty. The 
Junction road was built, several years ago under a 
charter granted by the state Legislature to the 
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the 
Reading and the Pennsylvania Companies. Each 
company was to pay one-third of the cost, and the 
road was to belong to the three corporations joint¬ 
ly, neither one to have exclusive control over any 
portion of it. This charter was confirmed by 
Councils, and the building of the Junction road 
was begun under the direction of the Pennsylvania 
Company. Three mllesand a half were construct¬ 
ed, and bills rendered to the Philadelphia and 
Reading and tne Philadelphia, Wilmington and 
Baltimore roads, each of w hich paid Its third of the 
cost. The Pennsylvania people then completed 
the additional mile and a half, and paid for the 
work themselves. They rendered no hills to the 
other two companies, and claimed to own exclu¬ 
sively that part ot the new road. The result was 
that the two former lines were denied the use of 
the road, suit was entered by the other roads 
against the Pennsylvania, and It was only ended 
six weeks ago with a favorable decision for the 
contestants. When the decision was rendered 
negotiations were entered Into with the New Jer¬ 
sey Central Railroad by the Reading and Phila¬ 
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore roads for run¬ 
ning the trains of the Baltimore and Ohio road 
through to Jersey city. By this arrangement the 
first, train over the new route were run on the 
first instant. 
The Chief of ihe Bureau or Statistics in hls 
fourth monthly statement lor the current fiscal 
year reports the excess of exports of merchan¬ 
dise, stated In specie values, as rollowa: Month 
ended October 31, isso, $31,657,151; month ended 
October 31, 1879, $39,944,557: ten months ended 
October 31, lsso, $l05,45s.32u; ten months ended 
October 31, 1879, $ 201 ,443.193; twelve months ended 
October si, 1889, $ 155 , 572 , 155 ; twelvemonths ended 
October 31,1879, $269,257,132.General Walk¬ 
er, Superintendent of the Tenth Census, In hls an¬ 
nual report to the Secretary of the Interior, Says 
It will probably be two or three weeks before com¬ 
plete statistics of the population of the country 
can be presented. 
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1 81. l.ouls Western Watchman.] 
11 ut>ic Until Cliarina, etc, 
one of the great manufacturing Interests of 
Boston, is the Emerson Plano Company, whose 
pianos are used with high appreciation and satis¬ 
faction throughout the world. In a recent con¬ 
versation with Mr. Jos. Gramer, one ot the pro¬ 
prietors, that gentleman remarked : I have used 
thatsplendtd remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, In my family, 
and found it to be so very beneficial that I will 
never be without it. it has cured me of a severe 
case of rheumatism, after other remedies had 
failed. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The early freezing weather this year will greatly 
aggravate the distress of poor people In Russia. 
The Ice In the Volga has closed that great river to 
navigation, and considerable quantities of grain, 
on the way from Southern Russia to the famine- 
stricken districts of the north, are tied up in 
transitu....Dervish Pacha, Governor of Alba¬ 
nia, Is taking steps to disarm the Albanians and 
has forced the notables to sign a declaration of 
fidelity to the sultan... .TbeMadrid Imparclalsays 
'•Spain ought to conclude a treaty or commerce 
with the united states, and it the United States 
will consent to reduce the duties on Cuban sugar 
and Spanish fruit, Spain will reduce the duties on 
American cereals and flour,".It Is now offi¬ 
cially announced that Secretary Thompson, ot the 
Navy Department, has tendered hta resignation, to 
take effect as soon as hls successor Is appointed. 
This step Is taken by the Secretary to enable him 
to accept the chairmanship of the American 
branch of the Panama Iuterooeanle Canal Com¬ 
pany, now quite under way.Affairs between 
China and Russia continue to wear a warlike look. 
.The Paris Figaro ot the 12th throws strange 
light on the melancholy case of the Baroness de 
Frtedland, daughter of the Due de Persigny. 8he 
has just been arrested, with her husbaud, on a 
charge of forgery.lime. Thiers, after a lin¬ 
gering Illness, relieved by one flash of convales¬ 
cence, died on the 11 th In the arm3 of her sister, 
Mile. Dosne. Her funeral will be celebrated at the 
Church of Notre Dame de Lorette. The deceased 
w T as only 58 years old. 
A despatch from Cape Town, dated the 9th Inst., 
say S All airs In the Transvaal are very serious. 
The Boers are aasembllng in large numbers and 
threatening to resort to force. An attempt will 
he made to arrest the ringleaders, and a proclama¬ 
tion has been Issued warning the Boers of the re¬ 
sults of persistence In the agitation. A foraging 
party lu the Lerlbe district has been compelled to 
retire, with the loss of thirteen colonials.”. 
A despatch to the Times from Dublin says each 
day brings fresh evidence that the country Is hur¬ 
rying on by strides and bounds toward revolution. 
Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has left 
Dublin for London unexpectedly. It Is stated that 
a battalion of the Scots Guards will shortly pro¬ 
ceed to Ireland. The North German Gazette of 
Berlin criticises the government measures In Ire¬ 
land, and says if the Peace Preservation act had 
not been allowed to lapse ior party reasons, it 
would have been more effective In suppressing 
sedition than all the government’s military meas¬ 
ures, The standard says" We understand that 
the parliamentary programme to be adopted at 
the meeting of Home Rule members In Dublin will 
Include a resolution demanding from Parliament 
the removal of Chief Justice May from the bench. 
The meeting probably will not decide upon a 
scheme for land reform, as Mr. Parnell declares 
the onus of Introducing such a measure lies with 
the government.” A large land meeting was held 
yesterday near Baltina. An abusive resolu¬ 
tion was passed protesting against the language 
of Chief Justice May, and expressing belief that 
the trial will be unfair If that Judge Is allowed to 
preside. The brothers Moore, charged with being 
accessories to the murder of Wheeler at Oola. havu 
been discharged on account of lack of evidence. 
A despatch to the News from Castlebar reports 
that a steward has been shot at Rnockmore. 
The Times, in its leading editorial says:—‘‘The 
gravity of the situation In Ireland Increases dally, 
and nobody can be surprised to hear that a Cab¬ 
inet Council has been summoned to meet. We 
have reason to believe that Mr. Forster has, 
with most earnest and repeated remonstrances, 
Induced hls colleagues thus to accelerate the meet¬ 
ing of the Council. All doubt In regard to the 
state of tbe country has vanished In the presenco 
of the charges of Justices Fitzgerald, Barry and 
Baron Dowse. Mr. Forster knows the meaning of 
these charges. The worst Is proved to he sub¬ 
stantially true.” 
[Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.] 
A Strong Conqueror. 
According to an Illinois exchange, our days of 
Rheumatism are well nigh numbered. St. Jacobs 
Oil enters a rheumatic territory, and conquers 
every subject. That’s right. We believe In It. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The butter and cheese dealers of Chicago and 
Elgin. Ill, have organized for the purpose of pro¬ 
tecting the trade against, adulterated butter and 
cheese.By the analysis or Professor Collier 
he found the per cent of sugar in the stalk of In¬ 
dian corn to he much greater tho mere perfect the 
stalks were and tee nearer they were to maturity. 
The experiments demonstrate the Importance of 
planting fodder corn thinner In order to get a 
more valuable crop.The French are a na¬ 
tion of small farmers. There are more land- 
owners In that country than In America. Tho 
farms are small; the majority are under twenty 
acres and a very large number under ten. It may 
not be that Is the only reason for the money 
wealth ot these people; lhey are notably econom¬ 
ical and thrilty.The experiment of growing 
ginger is likely to be tried at the south. 
Chicago consumes more pounds of poultry every 
year than of beef ... .The five great European 
Powers, Austria. England, France, Germany and 
Russia, together with the next most powerful, 
Italy, require for their armies, according to trust¬ 
worthy estimates, 900,000 horses, and to maintain 
the full strength an annual supply of 125,000 
horses Is needed. In case of war breaking out, 
each country would need at least double the pres¬ 
ent number ot horses berore its army could be 
mobilized.The Missouri State Board of 
Agriculture has passed a resolution asking the 
Legislature for at least $ 20,000 ror tee erection of 
buildings, tee purchase of works and machinery 
for the manufacture of sugar from sorghum . 
Tho founder of the Colorado Farmer, Major John 
C. Peebles, and Its associate editor and business 
manager, Mr. W. R. Case, both died at the close 
of November.The wool clip of California Is 
put at 35 , 000,000 pounds—double tho amount of 
any previous clip—Isn’t teat rather too large an 
increase?. At a late Short-horn sale Chllll- 
cotho, Ohio, 34 females averaged $95 ; 1 2 males, 
$76 50; $235 was the highest price paid for any 
animal.John Johnson, the celebrated 
farmer of Cayuga Co., tills State, lately died In 
hls 90 th year. 
The Oklahoma movement lu Kansas to settle tbe 
lauds In the Indian Territory to which the Indian 
titles have.become extinct Is creating a good deal 
of excitement In the vicinity. The new settlers 
are near Ilunnewelt, where their camp presents 
a strange appearance, composed as It Is of a non¬ 
descript throng. Including farmers, mechanics, 
lawy ers and doctors. The material of a printing 
oiliee and two or three sawmills are among the 
numerous outfits. Not more than one thousand 
people are here, hut many are coming In from all 
directions. Colonel Copplnger complains that 
the military force Is not large enough to expel the 
intruders should a simultaneous advance move¬ 
ment he made, lie has telegraphed for more 
troops and says“ 1 will do m.v duty. Tbe bulk 
of ihe settlers are well armed and many of them 
are desperate and reckless adventurers who will 
hesitate at nothing. They have been divided into 
mint ary squads, each one of which is commanded 
by an officer aDd each Is dally drilled In tee cen¬ 
tre of the camp. Tho Mars and Stripes are con¬ 
spicuously dlplayed, while a numberof the wagons 
are adorned with the same colors. Tho wagon 
covers are nearly all inscribed with ■* On w Okla¬ 
homa 1” “ No Turning Back!” ** Strike for Hornes!” 
“ Uncle Sam is Rich Enough to Give Us All a Farm 
In Oklahoma v and similar devices. The excite¬ 
ment In the Territory 1 b Intense. Bushy Head, 
chief of t he Cherokees, la reported as saying that 
he would not, he responsible for the result should 
the settlers elude the United States troops and 
get Into the Territory. Two or three tribes are 
very hostile and it is known that there are a con¬ 
siderable number of them organized and armed 
ready to resist the encroachments 01 the white 
settlers. A despatch says that unless the govern¬ 
ment adopts a more vigorous policy a bloody con¬ 
flict may be expected very shortly. 
The next anmial meeting ot the American Poul¬ 
try Association will be held at the exhibition 
rooms of the Cleveland Poultry, Pigeon and Pet 
stock Association at Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 31, issi, 
at 3 r. h. Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonla, N. Y„ secre* 
tary.Dr. D. M. Tindall, whose farm Is near 
Red Lion, New Castfe county, Del., has an apple 
tree from which he picked a crop of fruit In July. 
On the same tree a second crop formed, which he 
picked In November, and vvhloh was nearly as 
large and well formed fruit as that ot July. 
The cloverseed crop of the country this year Is 
represented as much below a fair average yield. 
But about 40,000 bags were carried over from last 
year.The lateness of the Fall rains has 
caused much uneasiness in California, but the 
wet season has now set In with a heavy, southeast 
storm that covered all the state, except m the 
most southerly counties. The rain-fall Is plentiful 
and there Is prospect of its continuance. .Georgia 
is rapidly developing a great lumber business. 
The estimated product for this year will comprise 
300,000,000 feet,, valued at more than $ 5 , 000,000 . 
.... An American, largely interested in flour mills 
In the western states, has been Inspecting mills 
In Hungary, with a view to adopting the ma¬ 
chinery and system of working lu America. The 
Hungarians have sent, a commission to America 
to study operations. In order to be able to resist 
American competition lu the Austrian markets. 
Grocers and Storekeepers 
pay 3 to 5 cents a pound extra for outter made 
with Gilt-Edge Butter Maker. It Increase the 
production 6 to 10 per cent. Reduces labor of 
churning one-half. Gives a rich golden color the 
year round. Sold hy druggists, grocers and gen¬ 
eral storekeepers. Send stamp for “ Hints to 
Butter-Makers.” Address, Butter Improvement 
Co., Buflalo, N. \\ 
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The Literary Revolution. 
The credulity of the reading public has been se¬ 
verely taxed In the past year by the claims of the 
*• Literary Revolution.’’ A‘cyclopicdla larger than 
Appleton’s, which sells at not less than $3,00, and 
In no Important respect Inferior, for only $ 11.00 ; 
Macaulay’s “ England,” rormerly $7.r>o, reduced to 
$1.25; an $S.oe •• Lire or Christ” reduced to so cents: 
biographies by Carlyle, Lamartine, and Macaulay 
reduced from $1.25 to three twits /—these remarka¬ 
ble contrasts caused thousands who wished It 
might all bo true to agree with the lady who 
frankly wrote to the publishers : “ I read your 
advertisement, and immediately set you down as 
a grand swindle.” Ol course such olulrns could 
not long be presented without the real t ruth being 
discovered. The public la delighted to find Its 
highest hopes realized. The verdict Is emphatic. 
•■At these rates every man can, and every man 
should, own a library,” says tee Chicago Alliance. 
“ A few dollars will purchase a good library. 
We pronounce them the best hooks for the money 
that ever came to our notice,” says the Boston 
Watchman. 
“ Y’our company is worth more to the common 
people than the Peabody lund,” writes a southern 
educator. 
“ The prices are phenomenal,'’ says the Phila¬ 
delphia Times, 
“ is undoubtedly the cheapest thing of the kind 
on earth,” is what the Boston Christian Register 
says of the Library Magazine. 
“ It, will certainly enable many a poor student 
to fill hls library shelves,” says the Cincinnati 
Gazette. 
it is worth the while of all our readers to ex¬ 
amine the list ol hooks carefully as fully presented 
elsewhere In this paper. They can depend upon 
the books being all they are represented, and upon 
getting promptly what lhey may order. An Illus¬ 
trated article on “ Book Making.” taken from the 
Scientific American, and full descriptive cata¬ 
logue will bo sent tree on request, by the pub¬ 
lishers. The hooks can be had ot the leading 
booksellers tn principal cities. 
Wk would advise all our readers who ship poul¬ 
try, calves, game, eggs, dried fruit, apples, pota¬ 
toes, etc,, etc., to the New York market to send 
to Messrs. E. A O. Ward, the well-known commis¬ 
sion Merchants of this city, for their circular of 
Advice” to shippers or produco. This circular 
Is very carefully prepared and contains full In¬ 
structions in regard to l he details we have men¬ 
tioned besides a large amount of other valuable 
Information. The firm named rank amongst our 
oldest and most successful Commission Houses, 
having a business experience or over thirty-five 
years, aud are therefore very high authority on 
the subjects treated of In their circular. Their 
card and address will be found in another column. 
William Black, the eminent English novelist, 
will contribute a serial story to the next volume 
or the Youth's Companion. The same paper has 
engaged stories by J. T. Trowbridge and Harriet 
Beecher Stowe, and a series of papers on interest¬ 
ing topics connected with astronomy by 1’rof. 
R. A. Proctor. 
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Tropic Fruit Laxative, an agreeable 
substitute for pills aud nauseous purgatives. One 
lozenge Is the dose. Physicians prescribe It. Sold 
by druggists. 
Euxik Vitos kok Women.— Mrs. Lydia E. Pink- 
ham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., has made 
the discovery! Her Vegetable Compound Is a 
positive cure for female complaints. A line ad¬ 
dressed to this lady will elicit all necessary Infor¬ 
mation. 
For General Debility and Prostration Hop Bit¬ 
ters will do wonders. Prove it by trial. 
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is no subject which should more engross attention 
than the purity of the preparations which are 
used In flavoring the various compounds prepared 
lor the human stomach. Burnett's Extracts 
are prepared from fruits of the best quality, and 
are highly concentrated. The “ Fliiu Avenue,” 
“ continental,” “ Grand Pacific,” and other lead¬ 
ing Hotels use aud endorse Burnett’s Extracts. 
