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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Sept. 18, 18 S 0 . 
The steamer Vera Cruz, plying between New 
York and Vera Cruz, Mexico, was overtaken by a 
terrible gale oCT St. Augustine, Florida,on the 28th 
ult. and went down, and all but 11 or the 82 per¬ 
sons on board were lost. The vessel was supposed 
to be perTectlv sale and capable of weathering the 
severest, gales, but there are reports of neglect to 
perfectly trim the ship In loading the cargo. 
The tninols Central Uallroad has paid $86,508,344 in 
dividends and reduced Its funded debt, to *io 300,000 
In 20 years.In a patent suit Instituted by the 
Washburn and Moen MTg Co. against Haish, with 
regard to barbed wire fence, it. has Just been de¬ 
cided in favor of the W. A M, MTg Co, that, 1 , a 
person lias no right to mark his goods with any 
words or terms Indicating that they are manufac¬ 
tured under a patent which he docs not own and 
has no right to use. 2, A defendant, having so 
marked his goods, will not be allowed to defend 
himself by denying the validity of such patent.,., 
John Shenk, a well-known farmer In Conestoga 
township. Pa , committed suicide by hanging on 
the 7th.Martin nagens and Jonn Reesman, 
of Altoona, Pa., were run over by cars, near 
Petersburgl). on the 5th and killed.Albert 
Griswold, a prominent citizen or Pike County, Pa., 
was killed by the cars at Rowland on the 7th. 
The Pallnados Hotel at Oakland, Cal., was 
burned on the 8th loss, $50,000_Mrs. Har¬ 
vey Holmes, of Montloallo, N. Y„ drowned her 
child on the 7th, while laboring under temporary 
Insanity..The boiler of a mill on Lowen- 
burg’s place, at Lake Concord, Miss,, exploded on 
the 9th, killing William Poole and scalding four 
negroes.Captain Alexander M. Hamilton, 
who committed suicide by shooting at Harrison¬ 
burg. Va., on the 9th, was a brother-in-law or 
Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago.R < j Adams, 
the defaulting ex-Postmaster of Deadwood, P. T., 
who recently escaped from custody after convic¬ 
tion of embezzlement, has been captured at Fort 
Sully.. ..The hurricane of the 29th and 30th 
ults. was very destructive In the Bermudas, incal¬ 
culable quantities of fruit being destroyed, In ad¬ 
dition to much damage done to buildings and ves¬ 
sel property. 
There was a heavy storm at Petersburg. Va., 
on the sth. The custom house was struck by 
lightning and several persons were stunned. The 
Galt Street Presbyterian church was damaged. A 
number of employes of the Western Union Office 
were stunned. A bookkeeper In a bank was 
knocked from his seat, and his pen was melted 
by lightning. A number of trees were uprooted. 
The roads in the adjacent counties were, washed 
out. The wires between Petersburg and Rich¬ 
mond were prostrated.Pr. Thomas E. Wil¬ 
liams. a promising young physician of Texas, was 
run over by a railroad train at, Merldan, Miss , on 
the 6th, and Instantly killed.On Sunday 
night Homer Richards, formerly Captain of the 
LeadvllJe (Col ) police force, fatally shot Edward 
Jones as the result of an old quarrel.Fire de¬ 
stroyed Simpson's knitting factory at Toronto, Out., 
on the5th.Calvin Warren was killed by Bruce 
Green in a fight on at Lakeman, Mo., on the 0th 
. The annual session of the American Social 
Science Association opened at Saratoga on the 6th, 
The American Gynecological association began 
a three days’ session In Cincinnati on the 6th. 
Two-short line railways will soon connect the 
twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis with 
double steel tracks and half-hourly trains, which 
are expected to cover the ten miles in fifteen, ten 
or even seven minutes.Eight prisoners con¬ 
fined In the Clinton county, la., jail, during the 
absence of tbe jailor, overpowered and gagged ihe 
turnkey and escaped. They carried o(T the turn¬ 
key’s revolver and pocketbook.Colored men 
were drawn on the grand and petit juries at Louis¬ 
ville, Ky . on the oth for the first, time.A 
whirlwind at Richmond, Va., on the 5th, did great 
damage, and another storm prevailed there on 
the sth.The Free Thinkers’National con¬ 
vention has Just closed a five days’sesslODat Bor- 
nellsvllle. N. Y. The average attendance was 
about 1 000. Nearly every Northern State was 
represented, and some of the Southern States and 
Canada. The principal speakers were Colonel 
Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Elizur Wright, George 
Cheyney, Parker Plllsbury. Amelia Colby, J. 11. 
Burnham, Thaddeus B. Fakeman, C. Fanny Allen 
and Lucy N. Coleman. It was considered the 
largest and most Important convention ortho kind 
ever held in this country. 
POLITICAL. 
Arkansas held a State election on the 7th, elect¬ 
ing the democratic State ticket and defeated the 
proposed constitutional amendment..The 
State election was held in Vermont on the 4th and 
gave an Increased republican majority for the 
state ticket. 
TUB WOBLD’B FAIK, 
The subscription books for raising the first one 
million dollars necessary to the perfection of the 
organization or the world’s fair exhibition at New 
York city lnl8S3, will be opened at the Farmer’s 
Loan and Trust Company jl New York city on 
September 15th. Already enough has been ascer¬ 
tained to show that the amount will be easily 
obtained. In the selection of a site there has been 
a very earnest discussion of the advantages and 
disadvantages of locations to be had, and there 
seems to be but little further to be said upon Ibat 
subject, there being one or two points of acknowl¬ 
edged advantage over all others, and the general 
conclusion seems to be that the site will be on the 
shore and perfectly accessible by both railroads 
and river craft of all kinds, probably at Port 
Morris. 
The bogus medical diploma manufacturer. Dr. 
Buchanan, has been arrested and was on the 12 th 
safely lodged in Jail at Philadelphia.Though 
the population of Ohio has not yet been made 
known, It has been estimated, from the partial re¬ 
turns published, that It will reach about 3 . 200 . 000 . 
.The growth of Illinois since the admission 
of the state in 1818 has been marvelous. The first 
railroad which brought into the State either pas¬ 
sengers or freight was after 1350, or less than 
thirty years ago. and during these thirty years the 
population has Increased from * 00,000 to more than 
3,000,000. 
The Post Office department has received tele¬ 
graphic advices from Gainesville, l*’la., stating 
that, a severe, storm swept over the central portion 
of Florida on the 1st and 2 d Instant. Post roads 
were Hooded, bridges washed away, and mall com. 
munlcatlon seriously interrupted between Ocala 
and Tampa, on the west coast of Florida. 
.... Leadvllle bullion shipments this year, to Sep¬ 
tember 1, aggregate $10,165,000. For the month 
of August, $1,290,352.The telephone has 
only been Invented five years. Yet Its owners 
can afford to hold a convention at Niagara Falls. 
.Unofficial estimates or the census of isso 
show a population of about 00 , 000,000 for the Uni¬ 
ted States, an Increase or 11 , 700,000 since 1870 or 
about 30 per cent. 
FOREIGN. 
In Ireland the anti-landlord and antl-IIouse-of- 
l.ords agitation Is still active. Mass meetings ot 
the peasantry are being held in different parts ol’ 
the country, at which violent speeches are con¬ 
stantly Inflaming the public mind. Outrages In 
the shape or attacks and threats against resident 
landlords and still more against the agents of 
absentees are matters ot weekly, you, or dally 
or rather nightly occurrence. Those who take the 
farms of evicted tenants are ostracised by the 
neighbors, threatened with a dire fate and fre¬ 
quently flogged or otherwise maltreated, while 
their stock are often killed or maimed, and their 
crops Injured. The excellence or the harvest 
seems to have very little effect upon the popular 
passions, though harvest work Just now, by giving 
employment to the people, lessens the number of 
public meetings. 
In Turkey there has Just been another change 
of ministry—but these are so common that they 
excite little Interest. Kadrl Pasha, who last June 
succeeded Said Pasha as Prime Minister, lias been 
replaced by bis predecessor and all the Cabinet 
has been renewed. The new ministry la consid¬ 
ered Intellectually Inferior to the old, and It owes 
Its origin to mere court, favor. The Powers have 
delayed that naval demonstration In Turkish 
waters to give the Porte an opportunity to surren. 
der Dulclgno to Montenegro. Then the cession of 
territory to Greece will be the main topic ot dis¬ 
pute, after which England Is likely to Insist on 
Internal reforma lions In Asia Minor and Europe, 
In France the agitation about the rellg. 
lous societies still continues. The Societies 
have signed an agreement to coniine them¬ 
selves strictly to religious matters and not 
to speak agalost the present government, but 
the extreme Republicans Insist on their expul¬ 
sion and advocate the abolition ot the concordat 
with the pope. In Get many the great, annual 
military maneuvers which are to take place near 
Berlin absorb public a ttentlon In the Fatherland 
and excite great notice elsewhere. They will be 
of unusual Importance. Cologne cathedral Is Just 
about to be completed, the foundation having 
been laid more than 600 years ago. There was a 
tradition that It never would be finished. Its cost 
is $ 10 , 000 , 000 . The Emperor and all the court, will 
attend the celebration of Its completion. What Is 
German news with Bismarck’s name loft out? 
Well, Bismarck is taking a holiday. In Spain the 
birth or a young princess has disappointed mil¬ 
lions who hoped for a prince. In the absence of 
such In future this baby may in time be queen of 
Spain, if she survives and revolution doesn’t ex¬ 
clude her.Forest or brush tires are doing an 
immense amount of damage In the province of 
Montreal, Canada. 
in England the narcs and Rabbits bill has been 
passed by both Houses of Parliament, and must 
afford considerable relief to farmers. It allows 
them loklll ground game on their own land at cer¬ 
tain seasons of the year and hours of the 24 . It 
la thought that it is only the first step towards the 
final abolition of the game laws. Strikes are 
again commencing among miners and cotton spin¬ 
ners. in order to maintain her supremacy In for¬ 
eign markets it Is absolutely necessary that Great 
Britain should undersell other nations, as the rep¬ 
utation she used to have for better goods, is fast 
disappearing owing the wide adulteration or man¬ 
ufactures now practised. To sell cheaply, it Is nec¬ 
essary to make cheaply and this can only be done 
by lessening the wages or the workmen; for, of 
course, lessening t he profits of the employers must 
not be thought of—unless under necessity and then 
only for as short a time as possible. There was 
a terrible mine explosion at Sheaham colltery 
in the north of England, In which ISO lives 
were lost, by an explosion of foul gas In the pit 
which afterwards took fire In several places, while 
upwards of 200 men were working below. Fifty- 
nine were saved and the rest frightfully mutilated 
and killed along with some 300 horses used to 
haul coals down In the pit galleries. Lady Bur- 
detl-Coutta Is still unmarried and has been made 
tick by the prosecution to which she has been 
subjected. 
.The German authorities are purchasing 
largely In England for cavalry mounts: at the great, 
horse fair ol Horncastle over 1,200 were bought, 
.The British arms have been overwhelm¬ 
ingly triumphant In Afghanistan. Ayoob Khan 
has been utterly routed by Gen. Roberts after his 
splendid march irom Cabool, during which it was 
prophesied he would be hampered and delayed, if 
not defeated, by guerrilla bands ot Afghans. He 
marched rapidly, however, and easily boat off an 
assailants. A couple of days after bis arrival at 
Candahar he attacked the Khan, who had with¬ 
drawn to a stiong position near the city. The 
British outflanked him, however, and after a 
couple of hours’ fierce struggle drove his army 
pell-mell, captured all his cannon, and slew vast 
numbers of his fleeing followers who werepur- 
stted for 20 miles by the English cavalry. Ayoob 
himself lied early In the contest with a handful of 
men, and started for Herat whence a couple of 
months ago he hopefully started. According to 
tills morning’s cablegrams his former adherents 
there have revolted, and he will meet with either 
a very cool or an exceedingly hot reception. The 
trouble now Is what to do with Afghanistan— 
abandon it entirely or hold on to a part of It 7 
[Chicago Tribone.] 
Mr. Ira Brown, the enterprising real estate man 
states that he could and would say a good word 
for the St. Jacobs Oil, which had cured him of a 
Bevere attack of inflammatory rheumatism that 
all other treatments had failed even to allay. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
At Exeter, England, a young farmer has Just been 
sent to Jail for a month for shooting a rabbit on 
a farm of his own occupation, while a man brought 
before the same bench for brutally lll-treatlng his 
wife was fined flvcshllllngs.Practical plow¬ 
ing by electricity is now practiced on a beet-grow¬ 
ing farm In Des Maine, Franco.Tbe vintage 
or the Rhine is said to b • only eighty per cent, of 
the usual yield.Two American vessels loaded 
with grain have arrived at Rcval, Russia. 
The French agricultural authorities estimate that 
the French harvest will bo a good average; those 
of Eoumella, Upper and Lower Bavaria, 25 per 
cent.; Podolla and Huablu, 20 per cent.; South 
Italy and Wurtemburg, 15 percent.; Bessarabia, 
10 percent.; Hungary, Poland and Belgium, 5 per 
cent, above the average. The harvests or Prussia, 
the Palatinate, Buden, Switzerland, Denmark, 
Sweden, Norway, Central Italy, Holland, South 
Russia, Servla. and Egypt will be up to the aver¬ 
ages, and those of Austria and Mecklenburg 5 per 
cent, below; Great Britain, Ireland ana saxony, 
to per cent.; C’ourland, 20 per cent. ; Gothland, 25 
per cent.., and Central Russia 40 per cent, below 
the average.The August, rainfall In England 
wu-3 under an Inch, against eight and five Inches 
respectively In the two preceding years...._ 
The Irish correspondent of the London Times 
writes: “The potato crop Is simply magnificent. 
What few men can recollect, seeing 1s now seen on 
all hands—fields beginning to wither naturally, 
without a sign of disease. This Is chiefly owing to 
the change of seed, the ‘ Champions ’ being planted 
on all hands from east to west, aud fully bearing 
out the good things spoken of them. The price of 
oats and cattle, has doubled since last year, that of 
pigs more than doubled. Oats are a good crop, and 
turnips and mangolds never looked better.”. 
A dispatch from Cairo says the cotton crop of 
Egypt ts about 15 days late and it Is estimated to 
be 22,500,000 pounds less than last year. This Is 
equivalent to 50,250 bales of 400 pounds each, 
which is an Insignificant amount in the world’s 
supply.The London standard's correspond¬ 
ent at St. Petersburg tclegrapns that competent 
authorities say that the Russian harvest is the 
worst since the famine of 1873; hut It does not fol¬ 
low that Russia will have no grain to export. The 
latest, reports from Odessa, which Is the main ex¬ 
porting center, are to the effect that the crops 
were pretty good In that section of the country. 
.The London Gardener says the fruit crop 
in England is a failure, especially apples, except 
the cooking Boris.The Wnrthft has followed 
the grim example set her by the odor, the Elbe, 
and other German rivers, which, overflowing their 
banks, have wrought destruction over an Im¬ 
mense extent 01 country. The damage Inflicted 
by floods In Upper Silesia la terrible.. 
Canada’s surplus of oats Is estimated at 7 ,son ,000 
bushels.Dr. Law of Cornell Untverslty, has 
found Texas fever among a herd of cattle at Oswe¬ 
go, N. Y. Ten cows had died before the Oth Inst, 
.It Is believed that the tobacco crop of 
Pennsylvania will reach the enormous value of 
$ 8 , 000,000 the present year, Lancaster and York 
are the two leading tobacco growing counties .... 
_The wool clip of California this year Is estima¬ 
ted at 35 , 000,000 pounds, being a heavier yield and 
far more profitable than that of any previous 
year.The seven colonies of the Australian 
group now hold about 70,000,000 sheep.The 
crop ot cranberries In Wisconsin Is reported to bo 
only fair, owing to the high waters prevalent 
during a good share ot the season. The crop for 
the State is estimated at about 30,000 barrels. 
Pennsylvania lias expeuded thus far nearly $4,500 
In suppressing pleuro-pneurnonla, of which sum 
$2,365 were paid for killing 150 animals Infected 
with the disease. Over six thousand examinat ions 
were made, and the special agent hs said to have 
traveled nearly 11,000 miles In the performance of 
his calling. Maryland has been considered the 
principal source of Infection, but as the state has 
now In operation a law for the suppression of 
the disease similar to that In rorco in Penn¬ 
sylvania, It Is believed that Its spread in that 
Slate will be effectually prevented. 
The receipts of grain At Montreal since January l 
to Sept, l, by rail and canal, amounted to 13 . 245.000 
bushels, a gain ol over 20 per cent compared with 
the corresponding period last year. The ship¬ 
ments were 14,804,000, against 9.661,000 for the 
same time In 1879.Among the fish of the 
United States the cod comes first la money 
value, the salmon second, the mackerel third 
arid then the menhaden, in weight the 
last Btands highest. Its chief use Is for the 
manufacture of oil and fertilizers......The 
Crow Indians about Keogh, Montana Terri¬ 
tory, In recent Interviews with secretary Schurz, 
have expressed a desire to go on a Reservation, 
take to farming aud become permanently settled.. 
....Vennorsays he already foresees "very early 
and Bevere cold.”.Experiments In raising 
sugar-beets are being made in Hartford Co., Md , 
where the sell Is said to be excellently adapteu to 
raise beets of the highest sugar-produclve quality. 
The nearest factory, however, Is at Wilmington, 
Del., and an effort is being made to start one at 
Havre de Grace.The silk works at, Patterson, 
N. J„ have orders for all the goods ihey can turn 
out. So have tbe mills of Mr. Rselmer, at Kln- 
derton, Pblldelphla. Pa., and Mr. Huber’s at Ger¬ 
mantown. Large new silk works are being erected 
at Hawley, Wayne Co.. Pa.A late Inman 
steamer took to Liverpool 1.200 barrels of apples. 
The export of fruit Is unusually large this year.... 
The amount of ground game soM in England 
seven years ago was estimated. Dorn testimony 
taken before the Committee of the House of com¬ 
mons, to he about 10,000 tons. The other day 
during the debate on the Hares and Rabbits bill, 
It was said that 40 : 000 tons of those animals were 
annually killed as game.... ...The late storm 
which destroyed the steamship Vera Cruz Is re¬ 
ported to have injured the orange crop ot Florida 
about $1,250,000. Besides destroying or greatly 
Injuring ihe trees in many groves, it swept off the 
fruit over a large area. 
THE WABASH RAILROAD ENTERS 
CHICAGO AT LAST. 
The Supremo Court, of Illinois, on Sept. 6, de¬ 
cided the long-contested case of E. M. Dunbar 
against the Chicago and Western Indiana Rail¬ 
road, reversing the decision of the lower court, 
and dismissing the case. Dunbar has been the 
representative of a number ot competing railroads 
hostile to the entrance of the above road Into the 
city, and the road considers this declson a final 
disposition ot tbe litigation, and will Immediately 
begin to extend Its tracks to van l’.uren street. 
The W’abash Road baa the right ot running Its 
trains over these tracks Into Chicago, so that this 
popular railroad has now added another link to Its 
length, which enables It to do a great deal ot busi¬ 
ness connected with the fairs this Fall. It ^an 
now carry goods and passengers either 1o the 
Illinois, Indiana aDd St. Louis fair from Chicago, 
Quincy, Toledo, any of the above cities, and 
all points along Its trunk line. This road Is very 
favorably known for Us fast time, fine cars and 
excellent freight facilities, and will doubtless be 
largely patronized by those who have goods to 
send to the fairs or are going thither In person. 
The officeB of the Wabash railroad In this city are 
at 2TT Broadway where full information can be 
obtained. 
ForKctfnlnes* of People. 
We would not, by enticing headings and other 
devices lead you Into reading of the virtues pos¬ 
sessed by Pierce’s Celebrated Medicines were it 
not that we are aware or the forgetfulness ot peo¬ 
ple, and that must be our excuse, dear reader, for 
again telling you that Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical 
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It cures all humors from the common blotch, plm. 
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8t. cloud House, Chicago, ill., Jan. 20 , ’80. 
Hon. R. V. PiKRCK, M. D :-Dear Doctor—t have 
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graphy—which a recent writer describes aa “ con¬ 
temporary men of letters on their predecessors 
are added to the Acme Library of standard Bio¬ 
graphy, published by the American Book Ex¬ 
change, Now York. Ten lives are Issued In two 
volumes, price forty cents each; at which rate 
each biography costs eight cents. Instead of 75 
cents, as heretofore, 't he lives selected tor re issue 
are Dean Church’s Chaucer, Pror. VVard’R Spencer, 
Dr. Paulson’s Milton, Gold win Smlih’s Cowper, 
Prof. Bowden's Southey, Mr. William Mint os Defoe, 
Leslie Stephen’s Dr. Johnson, William Black’s 
Goldsmith, R. It. Hutton’s Scott and Anthony 
Trollope’s Thackeray, 
Interest In the standard favorites of fiction Is by 
no mean diminished by the multitude or new sto¬ 
ries that are called for In this novel reading age. 
The American Book Exchange, of New York, has 
just Issued new editions, In long primer type, and 
in duodecimo form, ot these standard and Instruc¬ 
tive novels, Scott’s ivauhoe and Hulwer Lytton’s 
Last Days of PompelL Their reappearance In such 
a cheap and handsome edition (60 cents each) is a 
good indication of the healthy literary tastes of 
the great army of readers who look to the Ameri¬ 
can Book Exchange for literary supplies. 
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two lots, while yet In the form of cream, aud for 
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Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt., while 
the other goes to market without color, and he 
will discover on what oourse hla interest, depends. 
This color gives the fine, rich, golden yellow of 
first-quality June butter, and la not tinged with 
the dull red tint, objected to in most butler colors. 
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Hop Bitters has restored to Bobrlety and health 
perfect wrecks from Intemperance. 
Burnett** Cologne received the highest 
award at the Centennial Exhibition, it is filled 
in elegant battles-glass and cork stoppend. aLd 
basket covered—and is tor sale by all first-class 
Grocers and Druggists. 
