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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. 4 
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Ittos of f|je Urrh. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Aug. 30. 
A furious storm ot thunder, lightning, hall and 
rain passed across the country from Pennsylvania 
to the Atlantic ocean on the 25th, doing considera¬ 
ble damage on its wa y .The conductor ot a 
freight train on the Pan Handle Koad put off a 
party or tramps near Plqua. Ohio, on t be IWtli, 
who were stealing a ride, when one ot them tired 
at the train a.nd struck a brakeman named John 
Kelly In the eye. The wound will probably prove 
fatal. The tramps escaped, but are being pursued. 
.11. Is officially announced that the Army ot 
the Cumberland will hold Its reunion at Toledo, 
Ohio, September 22 and 23.Great damage 
has been done to the growing crops In the town- 
ship of lluckland, lsellechaase county, Qucbes, by 
hall storms, the settlers In many Instances having 
lost their entire crops.The ralu ot the 24th 
extended over a large area of country In Illinois, 
and Its effect on t he corn crop will doubtless be 
most favorable, as the stalks were drying up very 
fast In some localities.Eight hundred and 
thirty hostile stoux Indians have surrendered to 
colonel Miles at Fort Keogh, Montana, aud one 
thousand more are on their way to his camp, de¬ 
sirous of doing likewise.A reduction Is to 
be made lu the rate or postage on newspapers 
mailed to foreign countries belonging to the L'nl- 
versal Postal Union on and after October. 
A fearful storm prevailed along the Texas coast 
on the iam and 13th instant, audit,la reported that 
the city of Brownsville has been nearly destroyed 
and many lives lost. The latest news of the late 
storm on the lower coast of Texas and in Mexico 
disclose that It was one of the must destructive 
that has visited that region for years. Hundreds 
of houses w* re either completely demolished or 
unroofed In Matamoras. At Brownsville many 
buildings were ruined, and at Point Isabel and 
Brazos quite a number of vessels were wrecked 
and several lives lost. The total damage to pro¬ 
perty la estimated at upward of $ 1 , 000,000 . 
There Is a call tor a Mississippi valley convention 
to be held at New Orleans, October 12 th, to con¬ 
sider the Improvement of the commerce and navi¬ 
gation of the river. This call originates with the 
central committee appointed at the convention at 
New Orleans in 1876. The question Is one of great 
interest to the Mississippi valley, and the proceed¬ 
ings of the convention will be watched with inter¬ 
est.The Pennsylvania railroad Is making 
very great efforts to straighten and lessen the 
grades, and otherwise Improve the condition o 1 
that great, trunkline. The passenger traffic has 
Increased to the amount of $l,ouu,ouu over iST9. 
in a difficulty on the *25th at Leesvllle, Texas, 
twenty miles from Gonzales, the three Littlefield 
brothers—Wllham, Pblpp aud Houston were 
killed.Matt and BUI Potter, Boll Dublin 
and Jim Wilkins pleaded guUty at Austin, Texas of 
robbing the malls, and have been sentenced to 
ten years 7 Imprisonment.The eighth annual 
convent ion of the North American St George’s 
Union opened at Ottawa, out. Delegates from 
Canada and the United States are lu attendance 
. Five buildings occupied as saloons, concert 
haUs, shooting galleries, restaurants, etc., near 
the Bay District race track, at San Francisco, 
were burned on the 26th. Loss, $30,000 partially 
insured.Officer B. F. Vaughan was shot on 
the 23rd by Buck Book-well, a notorious confidence 
man, at Arlington, Ky., on the Chicago. St Louis 
and New Orleans Railroad. Rockwell made his es¬ 
cape.A collision occurred between two pas¬ 
senger trains on the joint, track of the Klo G rondo 
and South Park Railroad on the 25th, ncarLead- 
vllle, but no one was hurt.John Law died at 
Madison, ind„ on the 26th from the effects ot the 
shot wound inlllcted by Stucker, who found Law 
In criminal Intimacy with Mrs. Stucker. 
The funeral ol Isaac ll. Brown, sexton ol Grace 
church New’ York, attracted a large attendance. 
The Masonic fraternity was largely represented. 
.Abram Davidson, 2S years old, of Stuyve- 
sant, N. Y. brakeman on the Hudson River Rail¬ 
road, while riding on the top of a lrelght car came 
In contaot with a bridge at Spuyten Duy vel, and 
was Instantly killed.The first bale of the 
new crop ot North Carolina couon was sold 
at New York by auction at 13 cents per pound. 
It grades strict low middling to middling, and It 
Is about ten days earfier than the first bale of 
last year Irom North Carolina. 
Henry Wade, a farmer living near Chlllcothe, O.. 
had a fight with a party of nine tramps in conse¬ 
quence of their depredations upon one of his 
fields, and shot several of them. One, who was 
wounded In the thigh, gave the name of Frank 
Cooper, of Philadelphia.Warrants were 
Issued at Richmond, Va , for the arrest of Dr 
George B. Johnston, son of United States Senator 
Johnston, and Captain John S. Wise, son of the 
late Governor Wise, upon the charge or being 
about to engage In a duel. Johustou was arrested 
aud gave $ 2 ,uoo ball for Ills appearance at the 
Police court, but Captain Wise was not found. 
The trouble arose Horn Wise being blackballed 
about a year ago on applying for admission to the 
Westmoreland Club, a high-toned social organiza¬ 
tion.Hon. Horace Maynard has gone to 
Washington to enter upon his duties as Postmas¬ 
ter General.Assistant Secretary of State 
Hay has sufficiently .recovered from his recent 
illness xo be able to perrorm his duties as Acting 
Secretary ot State.For the week ended on 
Friday the 27th, there were forty deaths from 
yellow fever and rour from smallpox at Havana 
Ten persons have died irom the contagion ol 
glanders.James Thorp, a workman In the 
Missouri Pacific Railroad machine shop at Kansas 
city, Mo., shot and killed Alfred Terry, In an 
altercation. Thorp was arrested. 
The steamer Marine City, of Detroit, was 
burned to the water’s edge, near sturgeon Point, 
Mich., on the 29th. It Is supposed that five pas¬ 
sengers were drowned.Ouray, the noted 
Indian chetf, died at the vte Agency, on the 28th. 
_The flour mill of William B. Thomas A Co., 
the hollow-ware foundry ot Stuart. <fc Peterson and 
several buildings adjoining, In Philadelphia, were 
burned on the 27th ult„ entailing a property loss 
of over $ 200 ,ooo.The New Jersey Greenback- 
ers have nominated General Thomas B. Hoxle for 
Governor.The Iowa Republicans have re¬ 
nominated J. A. P. Hall for Secretary of State_ 
.. .The population of Charleston, s. c., has In¬ 
creased two and one-flfrh per cent, during the past 
ten years .The Hon. Horace Maynard was 
sworn Into office as Postmaster-General on the 
2othlust........A terrific thunder-storm passed 
over Bridgeport, Conn., the lightning striking a 
number of buildings in the city and its Immediate 
vicinity. .norace Jarvis was killed on a farm 
near Ilaysvllle, Ohio, on the 26th ult, upon a 
thrashing machine while it was In motion. 
Assistant surgeon O’Connor reports to the Marine 
Hospital Bxireau that the Board of Health, at 
Evansville, lnd„ has declared typho-rnalarlal and 
typhoid fevers epidemic in that city. 
Gen. A. J. Myer. Chief signal officer of the 
United States, and long known as “ Old Probabili¬ 
ties,” died at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 24th. Gen. 
Myer was born at Newburg, N. Y., Sept, 20, 182 S. 
Tne cause ot his death was what la known as 
Bright’s disease, with an affection of the heart, 
from which the General has long been a sufferer. 
.The discovery of the fact that J a cob Zech- 
ler, of AlDay, in Berks County, Pa,, has for 27 
years kept his Insane brother Benjamin chained 
in a house has created quite ft sensation in that 
vlcinltv.The deaf mutes ot America held in 
Cincinnati on the 25th their first convention. 
There was a fair attendance from all parts of the 
Belted States and Canada. Robert McGregor, of 
Cincinnati, was elected President.Richard 
O. Adams, the defaulting postmaster of Dead- 
wood, D. T., who was to have been sentenced, 
escaped rrorn the custody of the Marshal, and a 
large reward lias been offered lor his capture. 
John Elliott, 25 years of age, while playing base¬ 
ball at St. John, N. B,, was struck in the neck by 
the ball and Instantly killed...The tannery 
of Norbert Germain, or Quebec, together with the 
contents and valuable machinery, was burned on 
the 95th. The loss Is $ 20,000 .Mr. Thomas 
Hughes, author of 11 School Days at Rugby ” and 
*• Tom Brown at Oxford," and chairman of an as¬ 
sociation of gentlemen. English and American 
capitalists, for the purpose of developing the table 
lands of East Tennessee, has just arrived in New 
York with several ol those interested with him, 
and will proceed at once to Inaugurate a colony 
upon a tract ol between 300,000 aud 400,000 acres of 
land which ,has been purchased for this purpose, 
it Is proposed to enter Into a general business of 
agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, for which 
the territory Is adapted.A fire destroyed the 
paper warehouse of Ave.ni. Russell & Carpenter, 
on Lower Third street, 8t. Paul, Minn., occupying 
two buildings, and the wholesale grocery of P. H. 
Kelly & Co., adjoining. The fire Bpread with great 
rapidity, and it is feared that one man was killed 
by the falling walls of Kelly’s house. The store 
of Beaupre, Allan & Keogh, next door, was saved 
with difficulty after a loss ot $ 10 , 000 , which Is cov¬ 
ered by Insurance. The loss on the building oc¬ 
cupied by Averli, Russell & Carpenter is $ 45 . 000 ; 
insured for $ 12 , 000 . The loss on the Kelly build¬ 
ing was $ 60 , 000 ; Insured for $ 20 , 000 . The loss of 
p. il. Kelly a Co. is estimated at $ 400 , 000 ; Insured 
for about $ 300 , 000 . The loss of Averli, Russell & 
Carpenter on stock Is $ 126,000 ; Insured for about 
$ 77 , 000 . 
Three children of Antoine McCarty were thrown 
from a wagon at Memphis, Term., on the 26th, by 
the horse becoming frightened and running away 
while they were playing in the vehicle. One child 
was unhurt, another only stunned and the third 
was killed.A waterspout burst along the 
fine of the Cleveland, Mount Vernon and Columbus 
Railroad on the 27th, flooding the track to the 
depth ot five feet In some places and delaying 
trains. 
About 260 mechanics and blacksmiths in the 
employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 
Railroad struck for a 5 per cent, advance In wages. 
. it Is reported from Austin, Minn., that 
judge Page was shot in his house on the night of 
the 26th and killed by an unknown assassin, lie 
has for years been the principal mover In a great 
political, social and religious feud that has agi¬ 
tated southern Minnesota.Complete census 
returns show the population of Wisconsin to be 
1,315,464, an increase of 206,794 since 1870. 
Senator Hill, of Georgl a, Is said to be suffering 
from a cancerous tumor on his tongue, that threat 
eus to terminate his career as a public speaker 
ll not to end his life, there being doubts as to the 
permanent removal of the tumor. 
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FOREIGN. 
More than the Eastern embrogllo, more than 
the war In Afghanistan, the troubles In Ireland 
now excite public attenUon In England. Troubles 
in Ireland, ’tlstrue, are chronic, but they are dally 
becoming more acute aud dangerous. The short 
crops last year rendered thousands of tenants un¬ 
able to pay their rents, and the landlords are 
taking advantage of this misfortune to get rid of 
small cottagers whom many of them have for a 
long time regarded as nuisances on their property. 
Many of these tenants had only from half a dozen 
to a dozen acres of land, so that labor-saving ma¬ 
chinery could uot be used by them; they were 
constantly behindhand a trifle; and each of them, 
if pressed, became a talttur personal enemy of the 
landlord, hence the desire of the latter to clear 
their estates of this class of petty farmers. Evic¬ 
tions are constantly taking place, some quietly, 
while in other cases the constabulary have to be 
called In, and when this is the case, the assembled 
peasantry usually have a " shindy” with their 
blue-coated foes. Such a fight took place the 
other day at an eviction near Dungannon, when 
the police, assalledlwlth clubs, stones and pistol 
shots, fired on the mob at first with buckshot and 
then with ball—result, some 38 known to be more 
or less severely wounded and one killed. Mean¬ 
while. Fenlaulsm is growing; and serious trouble 
13 threatened lu the near future. The harvest Is 
splendid throughout the whole Island, and the 
resulting prosperity may have a soothing effects. 
The country Is by no means poor now. in a late 
petition presented to the House of commons by the 
Irish bankers, they say that they hold about thir¬ 
ty- one millions sterling on deposit, equivalent to 
about two and a half tunes the valuation of Ire¬ 
land, or, by a rough calculation two years’ rental. 
In England the event- of the week has been an 
attempt on the part of the Irish Home Rulers to 
block legislation In the House ot Commons unless 
the-government consented that the Irish constab¬ 
ulary—now a semi-military organization—should 
be ordered not to assist in making evictions of de¬ 
linquent tenants. The matter came to a head when 
the Supply bill for the pay of the constabulary got 
before the House. The Home ltulere, by making 
long speeches simply for t he sake of passing time, 
and dilatory motions, forced the House to make a 
Bceslon of 17 hours, and even then a compromise 
had to be made with them, it being agreed to defer 
taking the vote until the following day. Tactics 
of this sort will doubtless be frequently employed 
by them In future, as they have been sometimes 
In the past. Mr. Gladstone Is taking a voyage 
around England for the benefit of his health. 
On the Continent there Is little of general Inter¬ 
est to tell of this week, In France Gambetta and 
hlb followers bitterly denounce De Freyclnt’s 
late declaration that repressive measures would 
henceforth be confined to the Jesuit order, leav¬ 
ing the other religious ordere In peace. They de¬ 
clare that all thu orders must be treated alike and 
expelled. AB this Is a family quarrel among the 
Republicans, imperialists and Monarchists re¬ 
joice, ana it is not unlikely tnat De iTeyclnet 
will either have to "eat humble pie” or lose 
the premiership, in Russia Nihilists appear 
to be a thing of the past; congratulations 
on the matter are general. Turkey still persists 
in doing nothing towards solving the Eastern 
problem. The Powers have sent to the Pone an 
Identical note courteously but firmly Insisting 
that the cession of territory to Greece and Mon- 
tenego demanded by the late Conference at Ber¬ 
lin, must be made at once. England, France, 
Germany, Austria and Russia are preparing to 
make a joint naval demonstration In Turkish wa¬ 
ters In support ol their demands. A large fleet 
made up of mighty tron-clads from each of these 
Powers is to visit the Turkish coast and perhaps 
Constantinople—but what will be the practical 
good of the show no one seems to know. 
At the present time Canada 19 attracting a great 
deal of interest, not only among English, but also 
among French capitalists. The formation of the 
Credit Fonder In Paris, with a capital of $25,ouo,ooo, 
to be Divested In Quebec In real estate Is 
only second lxr Importance to the sale of the Can. 
ada Pacific Hallway In Great Britain. Another 
company, with a capital of two millions, has been 
organized also In Paris, under the title of L'Unlon 
Sucrlere du Canada, to carry on the manufacture 
of beet root sugar. Quebec, Berthler and St.Johns, 
in the above Provence have been selected as 
sites for factories. They have already guaranteed 
each for twelve years for 1,0110 acres of beets an¬ 
nually. Factories are also to be buHt In other 
districts and arrangements are being made to 
obtain 1,000 acres of beets at varennea. About 
$120,000 will be expended on each factory. 
[Washlugton Critic.] 
Saved by Oil. 
Mrs. Susanna Asmus, No. ll Bartlett street, 
Baltimore, Md,, had for twenty-two years been a 
sufferer from sores and paLns In her limbs. She 
tried many remedies without any favorable re¬ 
sults. Happening to hear of St. Jacobs Oil, she 
concluded at last to try it. The result was won¬ 
derful. The sore healed, the palms vanished, and 
she Is now well again. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The Mark Lane Express, of the 23rd, In Its re¬ 
view of the British grain trade for the past week, 
says: "It is rather too soon to make a definite 
statement in regard to the quality of the new 
wheat crop, but the majority of the samples ex¬ 
hibited during the past week were decidedly fine, 
and sold readily at 44®50a. a quarter. Tie sup. 
plies of last year’s growth are quite Insignificant. 
A reduction of a shilling to two shillings failed to 
attract buyers. The demand tor foreign was un¬ 
usually light. The bulk of arrivals have beeu 
warehoused. The tendency uf prices is downward, 
though transactions are so limited as to scarcely 
warrant recording any actual change of quota¬ 
tions. American mixed maize readily commanded 
23 shillings ex-shlp, but any attempts to advance 
this quotation was strenuously resisted. Sales 
ot English wheat lor the week were 11 ,845 quarters 
at 43s, 9d.A supplement to the same num¬ 
ber exhibits 438 reports from agricultural districts. 
They show that wheat is below the average, 
barley above, oats aud beans a ULtle above and 
peas a little below. The result of the second hay 
harvest will probably make up lor the deficiency 
of the first cut. Turnips are as much over the 
average as mangel-wurzels are below. Potatoes 
are expected to be an unusually heavy crop. Two 
hundred and forty-eight reports say more or less 
disease has appeared; 32 say there Is no disease, 
while in 50 disease is not mentioned. The supple¬ 
ment classifies reports received as follows: 
Crop 
Reports. 
Over 
Average. 
Average. 
185 
Under 
Average, 
115 
202 
302 
187 
43 
126 
41 
Peas....,. 
124 
70 
Wheat Is considerably affected with blight and 
mildew. A few returns declare the general state 
of the crops to be as bad as It was last year; but for 
the country at large, the prospects, though not as 
bright as some sanguine writers have reported* 
are much better than they were at this time last 
year. The quality of wheat and rye is generally 
good.The French harvest will be above the 
average. The Belgium and Holland harvest is 
well nigh finished, with excellent results. Rye 
crop In Saxony, Pomerania, Brandenburg and 
Holstein about avorage, but In Bavaria, Franconia 
and suablu the rye crop Is magnificent. Wheat, 
throughout Germany fairly good, though there Is 
considerable rust and rrflldew. Accounts from 
Austria, Hungary. Spain and Italy are uniformly 
good.James C&lrd, an eminent agricultural 
authority, writes that the agricultural returns 
from Great Britain and Ireland show, as compared 
with 1879, a slight increase in the acreage of 
wheat, a decrease of 7>. per cent. In barley, an 
Increase of five per cent. In oats and scarely any 
change In potatoes. The quality and yield of 
wheat will be so greatly superior that If the 
present splendid harvest weather continues a 
fornlght longer, "we may reckon on a crop of 
3,000,1100 to 4,000,000 quarters, or nearly two 
months’consumption better than In 1379. Potatoes 
promise most favorably. The dry, clear weather 
will. It may bo reasonably supposed, go far to 
check the further progress of disease. Grass and 
green crops, except mangold, are abundant. The 
first hay crop was fight and much damaged by 
rain, but It will be largely supplemented by a 
heavy late crop. Cattle are deficient tot;he extent of 
90,000 head and sheep nearly 2 , 000 , 000 , or 5.^ per 
cent., In consequence of the rot resulting from the 
excessive wet last season.”....Two artesian 
wells are about to be sunk In the far West, accord¬ 
ing to the act ol Congress passed at Its last ses¬ 
sion, the object of the experiment being to see 
whether land now valuelesss cannot be thus re¬ 
claimed to agricultural purposes. The head¬ 
quarters of the Commissioner that has the 
matter In charge will be at Denver - .,. 
The Rev. S. S. Bartlett and Mr. J. A. Scharer of 
Norton County, Kansas are In St. Louis soliciting 
aid for the starving and destitute In the northern 
part of the state, in the counties of Norton, Jewell, 
Washington, Smith, Decatur, Rollins, part of 
Phillips, Graham, Trigo, Kills, aud others, all lo¬ 
cated in the northern part of Kansas. The lowest 
estimate places the number of people who are 
suffering at 25 , 000 . The cause of the affliction is a 
drought. Their last year’s crops were only limit¬ 
ed. Last Fall they sowed wheat, but It died. 
There was no snow to give any moisture, and no 
rains, and this crop perished, spring wheat was 
sown, but that failed also, on account ot the severe 
drought. Corn was next planted, but another 
plague appeared—the green worm—not the Army, 
worm, but similar in appearance. While It 
destroyed some fields euUrely, it only ate up th© 
stalks of the others, and these la3t revived, and 
there were hopes that some of It, might still be 
gat tiered in: but tho people were once more dis¬ 
appointed. The chintz bug followed the green 
worm aud completed the destruction or the latter. 
And now the crops are completely destroyed, and 
waut and hunger are staring these twenty-five 
thousand people In the face. The ;potato crop is 
also ruined. Many of the settlers there came 
from Missouri and Iowa. Up to about six weeks 
ago It was thought the suffering would not be so 
general. Gov. st. John declared the State would 
be able to take care of Its destitute, but these cal¬ 
culations were erroneous, and since that, t ime Gov. 
St. John has advised all the people in the drought- 
visited district to leave Kansas If possible. 
Aglcrultural commissioner l,e Due has recently 
been selecting sites for tea farms In Georgia, and 
has returned lo Washington, leaving an assistant 
to complete the work. He thinks that he will 
have no difficulty, as the problem of tea culture 
at the south, or at least In Georgia, has been 
already solved .Lynn, Mass has a pear tree 
that la covered on one side with ripening fruit, 
while the opposite side is covered with blossoms, 
.California has as many acres under wheat, 
3 , 227 , 000 , as Great Britain, and produces half as 
many bushels, 66, 000 , 000 ...,..,.cucumbers are 
coming to the pickle factory at Nunda, McHenry 
co.,IlL, at the rate of five thousand bushels a day. 
.Army worms made their appearance In 
swarms in the northern parts of Indianapolis, the 
the other day.Some months back the 
rural noticed the departure of Mr. D. A. Jones 
across the Atlaatto In search of Cyprian trees. 
He returned a few days ago with 200 swarms pro¬ 
cured by him in Cypress and the Holy Land at a 
cost, u is saui, of about $100 for each swarm . 
The agricultural Implement dealers of Minneapolis 
state that their sales this year have been unpre¬ 
cedented, and all dealers allege that their stocks 
have been absorbed clean as a whistle. 
Oar contributor l’rot. J. P. Sheldon, of England, 
and other delegates of the British tenant farmers, 
arrived at Quebec a week ago. They visit Mani¬ 
toba to report on the suitability ot that country 
for agricultural Immigration. 
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has declined 
to grant the request of certain Importers of cattle 
who asked that the quarantine required for cattle 
coming from Infected ports might be established 
at some inland city Instead of at New York. The 
Importers wished to ship the cattle on arrival at 
New York to the West and establish a quarantine 
at Buffalo. The Treasury Department decided 
that would be an evaslou ot the regulation and 
would defeat the very purpose for which 11 was es¬ 
tablished.It la estimated that the tobacco crop 
of the five counties of York, Lancaster, Berks, Ches¬ 
ter and Bucks, Pa., will be worth $ 6 , 000,000 this 
year, and the value of the crop lu the entire State 
between $ 8 , 000,000 and $ 10 , 000,000 .Informa¬ 
tion has been received by some members of the 
Produce Exchange here that Asa Dows, one of the 
largest operators on the Chicago Board of Trade, 
and who recently refused to respond to a call for 
more margins on pork, which he had sold "short, 1 
