AOS. 28 
THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
fUtos of tjft Hfflt. 
HOME NEWB. 
Monday, August 23,1880. 
The reception to Gen. Grant, at Denver, on the 
17 th, concluded vrttto a banquet at the Glenarm 
Hotel at which about 200 guests were present. 
Gen. Grant spoke for some time and with great 
interest throughout. He expressed the greatest 
surprise at the progress of Denver, and magnified 
its future and that of the state -At Pueblo, 
Col., on Tuesday, Henry orr, a railroad employe, 
engaged in driving plies, fell against the point of a 
crowbar, which passed through his body. Killing 
him instantly....The notorious Dr. .John Bu¬ 
chanan, who for several years has been engaged 
In the manufacture and sale of bogus medical di¬ 
plomas. In Philadelphia jumped overboard from a 
terry-boat on the 17th, and was drowned.A 
special from stanta Fe says: “The hostile 
Apaches, arter crossing the Rio Grande, marched 
sixty miles Into the interior and took their stand 
in the Sierra Candelaria Mountains, there they 
now are..Secretary Kvarts has Issued to the 
several Powers having jurisdiction of ports likely 
to be Infected by yellow fever or cholera a formal 
invitation 1o attend an International sanitary con¬ 
ference at Washington, January 1, 1891...Tlio 
government has given notice that t no rules for the 
Inspection of .steamboats will he rigidly enforced 
hereafter.Papers on the Industrial growth 
of the country and specie payments were read be¬ 
fore the bankers' convention at .Saratoga Thurs¬ 
day. A resolution was also adopted asking con. 
gress to stop the coinage of from two to four mil¬ 
lions of silver monthly....—Horace B. Valle, 
while intoxicated, went into the saloon of Edward 
Trolnalne, in East st. Louts, on Sunday night, got 
Into a quarrel with Trolnalne, and was shot, three 
times by the latter and killed.sitting Bull 
is reported at the Poplar River Agency, near P ort 
Buford in Dakota Territory, and as making threats 
of hostilities In case ho and his braves do not get 
provisions Some apprehension of trouble exists. 
.A passenger train was wrecked by the 
slaking of the rressle work on the East Teuneseee, 
Virginia and Georgia Railroad, near Knoxville, on 
the 19th Inst.There Is a growing discussion 
of the question as to whether the census or the 
: outbern states has been correctly taken. The 
increase Is believed to be too large to bo legitimate. 
A sensation has been created at Santa Fe, N. M. 
by the announcement of a rich mining strike In 
the Mexican village or Las Pladtas. about thirty 
mile s distant The village Is built of adobe huts 
and corrals, and the foundations or the houses are 
of rock. A prospector, Jesse Marbin, detected 
mineral In this rock, pounded It up and hammered 
some of it, getting a rich result In gold. He lo¬ 
cated the streets lri town whence tUls gold rock 
was taken, and had assays made with the result 
of £ 1,000 in gold to the ton....Miss Tlllle 
Mateer, aged i* years, was walking with a gentle¬ 
man near Mount Joy, Pa., on the isth, when a 
spark from the latter's cigar set fire to ner dress 
and she became alarmed aud started to run. A 
gentleman who was driving toward her jumped 
out of his carriage and wrapped a blanket around 
her, but she was so badly burned that she died 
shortly after _Later details or tlio lire at Eu¬ 
reka, Nev„ show that about 300 buildings were 
burned, including many business establishments. 
A space equal to to acres In the heart of the town 
was swept over, leavJ ng only hair a dozen build¬ 
ings. The loss is estimated at £750,000, with $159,• 
000 insurance.Freeman F. Gross shot and 
killed Mike Fleming, at 108 Ewing street, Chicago, 
on Tuesday overdug. Gross was attracted to 
Fleming's bouse by cries of distress, and found 
Fleming In the act. of striking Ills wife with a chair. 
On Gross’ appearance Fleming turned on film, and 
with an uplifted chair chased him from the house 
and along an alley. Gross, being hard pressed, 
turned and fired two Bhots at hlrn with fatal cfTcei. 
.Carter was shot and killed In Porter’s sa¬ 
loon. at Nashville, Tenn., on the 19th. by John 
Holcomb, carter, who four months ago killed 
Holcomb’s brother, was drunk, and bad been 
searching for Holcomb, whom he threatened to 
kill. He was overheat'd by Holcomb to say he 
would send him to hell as he had sent his brother. 
Holcomb thereupon leveled a double-barreled 
shot-gem and fired a fauil shot, making sure of his 
work by filing two pistol balls Into Carter’s body, 
though the gunshot killed him.8. B. Alex¬ 
ander was arrested at Waco, Texas, on the 18th, 
by officer Joe Ballard. Being released, Alexander 
went In search of Ballard, and a difficulty ensued 
in which Ballard was fatally wounded. 
Two bold Canadians have published In the Wel¬ 
land (Ont) Telegraph, a proposition to go through 
the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara river, from the 
Falls to Lake Ontario, tor $1,fine, using an open 
Hudson Bay canoe. The famous Maid or the Mist 
Is the only boat that was ever known to pass the 
rapids.The event of the season at the Green¬ 
brier Springs was a grand leap year dress ball 
given by the ladles on. Friday night and a sham 
battle on Saturday morning by a portion of the 
First Virginia Regiment, In camp near the Springs. 
.*• Medical Lake" is the name of a resort 
near Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, which 
is being visited this season by Pacific coast people. 
The lake Is nearly round, being a mile and a half 
long and over a mile wide, and is sheltered on all 
sides by immense forests of pine and hr. The 
water Is clear, of a dark color and so buoyant that 
it will sustain the weight of & man without any 
exertions whatever. There is no animal life In 
the lake except a species of jelly-fish. Ordinary 
trout or any other kind or fish die immediately 
upon being placed in the water. .Postmaster 
General Key arrived at the Greenbrier Springs on 
Saturday night General O. T. Beauregard, of 
Louisiana, arrived also. Among other notable 
visitors there are General B. T. Johnson, of Balti¬ 
more; Governor Mathews, of West Virginia; 
Judge T. C. Manning, of Louisiana, and General 
Garey, of South Carolina. The Springs are unu. 
sually crowded, as Is also the entire circle of 
summer resorts ir, the mountains.John 
Kelleher, residing at Oakland, Cal., with ills wife 
and neighbor, Mrs. King, indulged In a drunken 
carouse on Sunday night. In the course of which 
the house was set on lire. Two or Kelleher’s chil¬ 
dren (Eugene and Annie, aged two and five respec¬ 
tively) were burned to cinders. James, aged toui- 
years, was burned fatally, ami Mrs. Kelleher will 
probably die from her injuries. Mrs. King was 
badly scorched and Kelleher slightly hurt. 
At. midnight on Sunday John Karin, a saloon keep¬ 
er on the Abbott road, near Buffalo, N. Y., was 
fatally stabbed by Martin Flanigan, a boarder, 
who, while drunk, arose from bis bed room and 
slabbed him with a common jackknife, In the 
presence of his wife and child. Karin itled In a 
short time.The preparations for the cele¬ 
bration of the centennial anniversary of the cap¬ 
ture of Major Andre, which Is to take place at 
Tarry town, N. Y,, ou the 23d or next month, are 
being vigorously pushed forward by the committee 
having the matter lri charge. 
TUB UENDKK FAMILY. 
The Benders are now believed to have been 
lynched at the time of the discovery or their last 
murder in 1873. one who witnessed the lynchlDg 
says that the notorious Bender family, lour In 
number, were captured soon after the discovery 
or the murder oi col. Turk’s brother, lie says 
the four were stood up In a row. facing nine rifle¬ 
men, and were told their fate, that Kate was 
pluck to the last, and called upon her captors to 
“shoot and be d—d,' f aud that the four bodies 
were burled at the corner oi the counties of La¬ 
bette, Wilson, Neosho aud Montgomery 
HUKN1NU OP A 1XO fill NO MILL. 
The Yaeger (louring mill tho largest, and costli¬ 
est establishment of the kind in sc. Louis having 
thirty run of burrs was burned on the night or the 
isth. The mill was lu operation, and the fire Is 
said to have caught from over-heated machinery. 
The mill was built about three years ago at a cost 
of fzou.ooo, since when some $50,ooa of improve¬ 
ments have been added. It was Insured tor $265.- 
uoo lu from elguty to ninety companies, mostly 
Eastern and lorelgn. The loss on the mill, ma¬ 
chinery and contents Is estimated at $ 400 , 000 . 
'] here were about forty thousand bushels of wheat 
In the mill. Twenty-eight b ox cars on the tracks 
In the rear of the mill belonging to various com¬ 
panies were burned. Some of them were loaded 
with grain. William Wclnbermer, one of the mil¬ 
lers, was In the upper part or the mill a lu-n it took 
fire, and, being unable to escape by the stairway, 
leaped rrom the fourth story window and was fa¬ 
tally wounded. The destruction of surrounding 
property and lndvldual losses will make an ag¬ 
gregate loss by fire and water or fully $. 100 , 000 . 
POLITICAL. 
Ex-Governor James E. English of New Haven 
was nominated for Governor of Connecticut by 
the Democratic convention at New Haven on tho 
18th.Frederick A. Polls of Hunterdon was 
nominated for Governor of New Jersey by the Re¬ 
publican Convention at Trenton on the isth. 
The Democrats of f lic Seventh Kentucky district 
have renominated Hon. J. C. Blackburn for Con¬ 
gress.The Indiana democratic central com¬ 
mittee opened the campaign on Saturday with 200 
speakers In the various cities and towns In tho 
State.While all the little organs in both 
parlies are modestly coiling just how the elections 
are going a man like Senator Bayard has the 
assurance to say that It Is loo early yet to predict 
with certainty .Hiram Warner. Chief Jus¬ 
tice of the Supreme court, or Georgia, has resigned 
Ills position.Landers, tho Democratic can¬ 
didate for Governor ui Indiana, has accepted the 
Republican candidate s challenge for a joint de¬ 
bate. The exact lime tor •• the collision of Intel¬ 
lects” has not yot been arranged. 
The Prohibitionists expect to have electoral 
tickets in about twenty ot the States.Gov¬ 
ernor Cornell thinks, or ui least, he says-lic thinks, 
thatGardeld will carry New York.United 
States District Attorney Woodford, or New York, 
Is among tho stumpers lu Maine. .Ex-Secreta¬ 
ry Bristow refuses to say anything about McDon¬ 
ald’s revelations concerning Grant and the St. 
Louis whisky ring.Ex-l'ntied states sena¬ 
tor Norwood has consented to run tor governor of 
Georgia in opposition to Governor Colquitt, who 
received the 1 ndorsement 01 the late gubernatorial 
convention. A Republican landlord, In Ber¬ 
lin, Vermont, has twice torn down the Hancock 
and English flag or his Democratic tenant and the 
case la going into court. 
THU JNTKKNATIONAL KXHIUITION. 
The first session of the iDttcd States commis¬ 
sion appointed under the act of congress to carry 
out the plans for an International Exhibition to be 
held in New York In 1883, have mot and made a 
preliminary organization aud subscription books 
are Immediately to be opened tor me nrsi million 
dollars necessary to begin the work 01 preparation. 
Joe Starkey, or Davenport, N. V., a hsherman, 
while carelessly handling a pistol, discharged it 
and killed Ills wile. He has become insane. 
George Milligan loll from a load ot wheat near 
Burlington, Iowa, on Friday and was impaled on 
a stake. He died a few hours afterward_A 
bite on the ball of the thumb by a kitten with 
which he was playing killed E. L. Bradley, of San 
Jose, Cal.Charles Fegley, 11 years old, of 
Maxatawny Township, Pa., was thrown In front 
of a reaper and cut to pieces.Charlie Con¬ 
ners, a boy of nine years, of Bangor, Me., ran a 
rusty nail into Ids foot and died ot lockjaw on 
Friday.William Wright, a farmer at Ball- 
ston Spa, was so gored by a bull on Thursday that 
It Is thought he cannot recover.A son of 
Galen Bray, of Worthington, ind., stepped on a 
piece or glass, cutting his ncel so severely mat he 
bled to death before the do w could be shopped.... 
A sling ol a bee on hla neck is said to have 
caused the death ol George Russell ol Blaekhawk 
County, Iowa, by producing paralysis of the heart, 
.K. E. Parkhurst, the young lawyer who 
killed Miss Fannie Howell in the Nichols House in 
Bath, Steuben County. N. Y., on the afternoon ot 
August 14, and then killed himself, was declared 
to have been insane by a Coroner's jury, Aug. 
21 st, on the testimony of Dr. Dolson and other 
physicians Of the town.A man In Louisa 
county, Iowa, who died quietly In his bed last 
week, escaped death narrowly many times during 
Ids career. Once he was stabbed in the stomach 
and given up by the physicians. At another time 
lie fell Into a well sixty feet, deep ; again, he was 
gored by a bull until life was apparently extinct, 
and more recently a loaded wagon passed over his 
head, cutting off one ear. 
FOREIGN. 
In Kngand the Hares and Habits Bill, the effect 1 
ol' which. If passed, would relieve tenants from 
the losses caused them by these animals, has been 
advanced a stage; but although the government 
seems determined to push It, yet the season Is so 
fur advanced, that It Is thought to be hardly likely 
to pass at this session of Parliament. Organiza¬ 
tions are being formed, chiefly tn the large towns, 
tor the purpose of public agitation with a view to 
the suppression of the House of Lords and the 
substitution therefor ot an elective senate. Mr. 
Gladstone Is still weak, though ho attends to some 
business. Born In isos, he has already reached 
the three score and ten years assigned to man, 
and no contemporary tn public life lu any country 
has worked harder, so that it seems he should now 
either take a rest or retire to the quiet labors of 
the House of Lords. 
In Ireland the land and Feplan ugJtailou is still 
kept up vigorously. Tenants refuse to pay rent, 
and threaten terrible tilings II evicted, sometimes 
carrying their threats into action. There Is a 
great deal ol secret drilling of men with a view 
to an ultimate rebellion; active emissaries, chiefly 
from this country, are busy exciting the peasant¬ 
ry ; and arms are being smuggled Into all parts ol 
the country. While biding melr time logo to war 
with England, faction tights are waged, if any¬ 
thing, more bitterly than usual, theme between 
Catholics aud Orangemen being by rur the fiercest, 
•So threatening has 01 late been the aspect ol 
affairs that, besides t he addition ol new troops to 
hose stationed ou the Island, M r. Foster, Chief 
Secretary for Ireland, haa lately made a hurried 
visit to It, to Investigate what further steps may 
bo needed to prevent or suppress an outbreak! 
For the present no new powers will be sought by 
the government, but the existing laws will be 
rigorously eniorced. Crops are fine and the 
weather splendid. 
A rcluloi'fccmen t of l.iao men ieit England for 
Afghanistan last Saturday. The troops beselged 
In Cundahar have sustained several assaults trom 
the lleratees, or forces of Ayoob Khan; and by the 
latest cablegram they have just made a vigorous 
sortie, Indicting Ueavy losses on the beselgers. 
The Kkau la not only raising works against tho 
city, but entrenching his own pohitton with the en- 
teutlon of giving battle to the troops ou their 
way to raise tho selgc. These are pushing for¬ 
ward steadily under Gen. Stewart trom cabul and 
under other commanders through the various pas¬ 
ses from India. The new Ameer Is still on friendly 
terms with tho English, who for the present must 
suppress their doubts of his fidelity. 
in France Minister de Kreyeinet, chief or the 
cabinet, last Thursday made a notable speech at 
Montauban. in it he declared that the late elections 
lor the Councils-General had so dimly established 
the Republic, that ihe laws against the religious 
orders would not be enforced except in so far as 
the Jesuits arc concerned. Disregarding Impolitic 
counsels he declares that, the Rep bite Is ready to 
accept all sincere adhesions, however tardily 
made. “ France,” he goes on to say, '• haa deter¬ 
mined not, to be dragged Into war. At the same 
time she has no intention of abstaining from 
taking part in a IT airs or International moment.” 
The radicals are displeased at the moderation ol 
the speech, deeming a more violent policy belter; 
the Monarchists and imperialists don't like it be¬ 
cause it lessens their hopes of seeing t heir favorites 
on Die throne; but moderate men arc highly 
pleased by it,_Religious pilgrimages arc still 
popular. Eight thousand pilgrims left Paris on 
luth for Lourdes, 
In Russia Nihilism Is for the present at any rate 
put down, and Prince Louis MolUkofl who, some¬ 
time back, was entrusted with supreme power for 
its suppression, has been appointed Minister ol 
the Interior Instead of virtual Dictator. He accom¬ 
plished Ids object mainly by uppeullng to the 
Chiefs of the organization personally. Many of 
them have been taken Into government, service 
either at home as spies and petty officials, or 
abroad In tbe same capacity. Most or the Nihil¬ 
ist chiefs were poor, and belug now provided for. 
t hey don't feet ready to risk their bread and but¬ 
ter, Those who have nothing to lose are the 
readiest revolutionists.The difficulty be¬ 
tween Russia and China seems in a fair way 
toward amicable adjustment. 
The problem of Turkey’s relations with her neigh, 
bore is still tn the same condition as It has been 
tor some weeks. The Porte still procrastinates with 
MonteDego and refuses to make the required con¬ 
cessions to Greece. Hervla, to be ready tor any 
emergency, has just ordered iou.ouo rules of the 
newest American pattern, to he delivered before 
the end or this year. This little State, has now 
an army of 25,000 regular troops, and 216,000 mUltla. 
Should war breakout Servla, Bulgaria and Kou- 
rnanla. trans and-cls-Balkan, will probably unite to 
get each the largest possible slice of Turkey. Just 
now, however, there la no immediate prospect of 
the outbreak of hoBtilllles, although all the south¬ 
eastern part of Europe la in a warlike condition, 
-- 
All your own rault If you remain sick or out or 
health, when you cab get Hop Bitters. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Tan most disheartening accounts or the condi¬ 
tion of crops come from Silesia. Posen and East 
and West, Prussia. Extremely heavy ruins have 
caused t he rivers to rise unusually high, sweep¬ 
ing away gathered crops, fences, stock, bridges and 
frequently, houses besides drowning many per¬ 
sona. Railroad embankments are swept, away, 
villages flooded, and vast tracts of farm land con¬ 
verted min swamps and quagmires. Through¬ 
out nearly all those broad regions the harvest has 
been almost entirely destroyed, wheat being en¬ 
tirely ruined, so that tho official estimates of the 
German harvest lately noticed here will have to 
greatly lowered. Government aid has been earn¬ 
estly Invoked lu behalf of the suffering poor, and 
the usual military reviews and other operations 
will not take place this year. ..Wet weather 
Is once more threatening to ruin the British har¬ 
vest aud has already greatly Injured It.. 
The taxas levied dU'cctly on the soil in Italy 
amount to $ 40 , 000 , 000 , being at the rate of $1.60 for 
every acre of cultivated land. The land la so 
heavily mortgaged that the sum total of these In¬ 
cumbrances amounts to $2,250,000,000. No wonder 
poor farmers and agricultural laborers are duck¬ 
ing thence to this country.Russia has added 
to her duties ou Importations of foreign meat and 
live stock, making them prohibitive so far as we 
arc concerned.The Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment puts the number of our hogs this year at 
35,034,100; last year the report gave US 34, 100,200 ; 
and 32,202,600 in tsis.Last year the price of 
wheat In Great, Britain advauced steadily, almost 
week by week, from the first week in January to 
the first, in November, after which there was a 
gradual decline.. ....Francois to have a show 
ol tat cattle, living and dead poultry, etc., next 
year, at Paris, from the 14th to lhe 23rd or Feb¬ 
ruary. In this show pigs will be divided Into 
three clauses-French breeds, pure add crossed 
between themselves: lorelgn breeds, pure and 
crossed between themselves; animals proceeding 
froth crosses between French and foreign breeds 
.Wool has been so cheap In England that 
the Duke of Richmond could gel no buyers at 
Chichester for the fleeces ot hla famous lloclc of 
South Downs which generally command high prices 
and ready sales, • ..Despite their poor outlook 
KDgltsh farmers are taking heart from tbe Tact 
that between January and June this year only 
Otii failures have occurred among them, while 
last year between the same dates there w ere 1,431 
failures recorded.At the Lexington, Ky., 
fair August 0 thu Central Ky., sheep Breeding 
Company soldo! southdowas, 15 ewes and three 
rams at $22(5, and of Cotswolds. 70 head at §12.70; 
average for 06 head, $15.33 j $at seem to have been 
the highest price paid for a single buck-a cots- 
wold.On Tuesday last, the I7lh, the Agrlcul- 
tin'al Department furnished the following sum¬ 
mary of the condition of crops. Potatoes.—'J he 
New England and Middle States report a high 
average crop. The Gulf states and three states 
in the Mississippi Valley report an average above 
that of last year, t he States north or the Ohio 
River have a promising crop. Westof the Missis¬ 
sippi both Kansas ami Nebraska report alow av¬ 
erage, Buckwheat—New York aud Pennsylvania 
show a decline of two per cent, in the acreage 
sown. Minnesota and Nebraska report an Increase 
In acreage and the other States show an acreage 
nearly the same as in 1619. Day and pasturage— 
the Summer has Dot been favorable lor the hay 
crop, in the states bordering on the Ohio River 
the average Is higher than last year. West 
of the Mississippi the average Is low and 
ou the Pacific Slope it is very htgh 
Wise county, Tex., last year grew two bales of 
cotton, worth $10 per bale, to each Inhabitant. 
.11. M Caldwell, a North Carolina UorlJcul- 
turtsl, grows stonelcss peaches by grafting upon 
plum trees .Nova Scotian exporters ut cat¬ 
tle to England arc proposing rebuild a si (Miner 
especially for the purpose of Carrying cattle. By 
this means they hope 1 o avoid a Urge part of 
the heavy expenses now attending me business. 
Of late years there has been a steady falling olf in 
the number or English cattle aud sheep. In 1875 
the number or English cattle was 6,1)151,024, while 
In lHio It only reached ■>,; in Isii me num¬ 
ber of sheep was 29,11)7,438, which had 1 alien off 
more than a million last year. Nor was this de¬ 
crease owing wholly to i lie Imporuillon of Ameri¬ 
can cattle on the hoof, since the total Import of 
cattle and sheep from all quarters, Including Ire¬ 
land, was In 1870, 2,1180,251, white lu 1678 It reached 
3,043,090. In the last year English native cattle 
and sheep had fallen off nearly 1 , 500.000 . 
The American Consul at Geneva says that Ameri¬ 
can beef aud Uva stock have penetrated as far as 
that region, and the value of choice cattle raised 
In large numbers In Switzerland for Lhe Paris 
and French markets has been sensibly dimin¬ 
ished by tho importations from America. 
From a tabular statement of the number of do¬ 
mestic animals 01 the State of Iowa, compiled lu 
the Olflee of Hon. K. R. Sherman, auditor or state, 
we take the following figures: Total uumber of 
cattle In state, 1,745,149 head; value, $16,445,957. 
Total number of horses, 649,797; value, $20,247,884. 
Total number of sheep, 356,846; value, $423,886. 
Total number of hogs, 2,466,985; value, $4,652,601. 
'Total mules, 43,160; value, $1,527,353.— —Com¬ 
missioner Le Due wifi make a personal examina¬ 
tion ot the results Of artesian well boring for agri¬ 
cultural purposes, ordered to be made on the 
Western Plalua.,.of the 37, 000,000 people in 
France, 18 , 0 ( 58,000 are engaged lu agriculture, or a 
trifle over one-half, according to a Into report of 
the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. There 
are 10 , 000.000 land-owners, and 0,000 ,(100 tenants, 
while 2 , 000,000 are classed as market gardeners, 
vlne-culturlst, eto..—Just a week ago, on August 
16, a heavy white frost visited moat parts ot Dela¬ 
ware and Dutchess counties, N. Y , aud the Cats- 
kili Mountains, doing OunsMerable damage to cu¬ 
cumbers, tomatoes and late garden truck, as well 
as to com and buckwheat, the latter ot which is 
usually a large crop in Delaware county.The 
