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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 4,1880. 
Dr. Buchanan of Philadelphia, of bogus medical 
notoriety, has given up the tight his col¬ 
leges and their charters have been annulled. The 
Doctor Is safe tn jail...Job Chadwick, son of 
a wealthy fanner at Cresswlck, X. ,T., while at¬ 
tempting to stanchion a ferocious bull, was gored 
so severely that, he died on the 30th.Mr. 
John Murray of Greenville, N. Jwent to hlB bam 
on the evening of the S7th to water hlB cattle. He 
had not been gone long before Mrs. Murray heard 
groans from the direction of the barn. She ran 
out of doors and called her husband’s name. There 
was no reply, except another groan, that unmis¬ 
takably came from the bam. Mrs. Murray has¬ 
tened to the bam, and as she approached a fero¬ 
cious hull bounded out of the stable and ran Into 
the open tot. She found Mr. Murray lying on the 
stable floor, with his hand upon a wound In his 
left side. He had been pierced by the horns of 
the hull so that part of his intestines protruded. 
Mrs. Murray called for help, ana her sons came 
and aided her to carry Mr. Murray to the house. 
Dr. Wllkeson was summoned, and the wound was 
sewed up. lie says that three days at least must 
elapse before he can announce positively whether 
Mr. Murray Is out of danger. 
James Hanna and a male companion at a hotel 
In Stroudsburg, Pa., blew out the gas when retir¬ 
ing and were suffocated_ ..James Forrlster 
and his wife retiring at the hotel at Indianapolis, 
blew out the gas, Forrlster was found dead. 
There are no hopes of his wife’s recovery. 
The clearings of the Associated Banks of Chicago 
tor the month of .September were $142.000,ooo, or 
or $ 28 , 000,000 greater than for September, 1S79. 
The clearings for the nine months ending In Sep¬ 
tember were si, 195,ooo.ooo, an increase compared 
with the same period last year of $ 343 , 000 , 000 . 
Business Is lively In every branch and department, 
and the prospects for com merclal activity during 
the Fall are more favorable than usual during a 
Presidential campaign.... ...At. Hoboken. N. J., 
the famous Stevens battery, on which Dearly $ 2 , 000 - 
000 have been spent, was sold on the 28th to William 
Lalmbeer of New York for$s5,ooo.The Brush 
electric light has been introduced In many places 
In Pennsylvania and Ohio Iron mills; New England 
cotton, woolen and silk factories; Western iron 
mines, seaside hotels, public parks, Mississippi 
and Sound steamers, circuses and the streets of 
two or three Western cities. New York city Is to 
have a headquarters, near Madison Square, from 
which half a dozen machines will work as many 
circuits and supply 300 lights. In the district to 
be illuminated are thirteen hotels, nve club houses 
and many large restaurants and stores. The 
electric light Is used lu a few Isolated places in 
Philadelphia. 
Boston capitalists have organized a company to 
continue the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail¬ 
road to the city of Mexico.A lawyer. Horace 
Wilbur, and his client, Mrs. Lynhall, of Philadel¬ 
phia, were found drowned at a broken wharf, on 
the 29th. It is a mooted question whether it was 
murder and suicide or accidental death on the 
part of both. No one witnessed the going over¬ 
board, and their Anal end Is shrouded. In mystery. 
INDIAN TROUBLES. 
Indian massacres In the far West continue to be 
reported at Intervals. A dispatch from Tucson, 
Arizona, says two miners report that Gen. Carr 
had a fight with a small party of Victories band, 
18 In number, in the Hatchet Mountains, killing 
them all.A dispatch from Fort Ellice, Brit¬ 
ish America, dated September 15, says the Stoneys 
are now following the Mandrills. It seems that 
the Salteaux made a desperate resistance, killing 
13 or the Mandrills. Ocean Man, the chief of the 
Stoneys, Is among the killed, and a head man of 
the salteaux. Fifteen Stoneys came lu Sept, 14, 
and have gone north, to Biding Mountain, tor 
help. They were in war paint, and came in yel¬ 
ling like demons, with a scalp on a pole. As far 
as known, 21 have been killed on both sides, and 
the Indians say the plains are strewn with dead 
horses and bodies of the slam. The Stoneys were 
driving the Mandrills so hard toward the boun¬ 
dary that they were leaving the scalping to be 
done on the return. Thlrt een Mandrills had been 
killed when the runner left. He brought the one 
scalp as proof of his story, and says he found the 
brave It belonged to dragging In the stirrup and 
shot througu the heart. He has the dead man’s 
home and saddle also. The Salteaux and Stoneys 
fougut all day before they were all killed, and the 
band or stoneys now in chase came on their 
scalped bodies next day. 
The Influenza, which has for sometime prevailed 
among horses at Boston, reached New York, and a 
small percentage of animals among the street-car 
homes show signs of disease by coughing, but 
their appetites are not affected; they yield readily 
to treatment, and a recurrence of the eplzooty of 
1872-73 is noL generally anticipated.Anna 
Stroker, aged 17, on trial at Manitowoc, Wls„ for 
the murder of Miss Nancy Heywood, her employer, 
confessed her guilt to her mother, who visited her, 
crucifix in hand, and adjured her to tell the truth. 
The girl, who cannot read or write, repeated the 
confession In Court, saying that Mias Heyw’ood 
called her “crazy,” which so exasperated her that 
sue pushed her down on the floor and brushed her 
head with an axe.President Hayes and 
party are In Oregon.... Epidemic dlptherla has 
caused the Bohools to close at Bennington, vt. 
...The Statue of Admiral Farragut, by Mrs. 
vinnle Beam Hoxle, was placed In position in 
In Farragut square, Washington, on the 29th .. 
.Hough's saw mill, furniture store and adjoin¬ 
ing stables, Hull’s cabinet shop and Hughes’ 
slaughter houses, at Prescott, Ontario, were 
burned on the 29th. Loss, $15,ooo; insurance, 
$ 6,000 _.... Frank Beeron, former land agent of 
the Burlington and Missouri railroad, who perpe¬ 
trated extensive frauds by selling worthless land 
certificates, was arrested at Omaha on the 2i)tb ... 
_A Are at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on the 27th de¬ 
stroyed the dry goods store of Hall A Julius, the 
hoot and shoe store of Crosby <fc Co., the hardware 
store of Prusslas and the First National Bank, 
besides some smaller buildlDgs. Loss, $100,000; 
Insurance, $55,000. 
On Sunday, sept. 19 , Mrs. M. Hazzard, wife of a 
popular and well-known merchant of Monticello, 
Ill., became the mother of live well formed babies, 
two of whom were alive at birth. There were 
four hoys undone girl, altogether weighing I9v; 
pounds. The two living, a boy and a girl, weighed 
nine pounds, about 4L pounds each. The remain¬ 
ing hoy died in about two days from the time of 
birth. The mother Is rather a delicate woman, 
about 35 years old, and weighing about 115 pounds. 
She Is getting along as well as mothers ordinarily 
do under such circumstances. She was the mother 
of six children previous to this numerous affair. 
None of her people were ever known to have even 
twins.....The steam-ship castello cleared 
from Savannah, Sept, 80th, for Liverpool with T,- 
118 bales of cotton, the largest cargo of cotton 
ever cleared from any Atlantic port........ Afire 
at Schuylervlile, N. Y„ on the 30th, burned the 
following business houses; Oliver Brlsbln & C0„ E. 
Washburne, dry' goods; J. Horln Brook, hard¬ 
ware; Seth Lawrence, drugs, and the Western 
Union Telegraph office; Joseph T. Smith, jeweler; 
Miles Root, furniture; Seward Wlnney, meat 
market, and the Schuylervlile Standard printing 
office. The total loss Is estimated at $50,000. 
.... — Frederick Billings of Vermont, was on 
the 28th, elected president of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad. The stockholders adopted a resolution 
urging the directors to provide for the speedy 
completion of the railroad from the western 
terminus on the Montreal river to Puget sound. 
At Wllkesbarre, Pa , September 29, Justice Hoff¬ 
man pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his 
child, and was sentenced to the Eastern Peniten¬ 
tiary for nine years. Hoffman shot at his wife 
five times In July last and killed a child in her 
arms.A skeleton, supposed to he that of a 
tramp, has been found in the woods near MUlers- 
town, Butler county, Pa.The clothing of a 
workman was caught between cogwheels in a 
mill at Davenport, Iowa, and he was being slowly 
drawn In, when two comrades grasped his arms, 
and a desperate “tug of war” ensued. The wheels 
would not let go, and the men braced and pulled 
with all their might. The workman was finally 
rescued, but without a particle of clothing about 
him.Jay Gould has paid the travelling ex¬ 
penses from the Indian Territory of 16 young 
Indian girls who are to be placed In Mr. Moody’s 
Seminary at Northfleld, Mass., educated at the 
Federal expense and returned to their homes. 
S. M. Watte was arrigned In Court on eight, in¬ 
dictments at Bellows Falls, Vt., and pleaded not 
guilty to each. He Is charged with larceny, 
forgery and negotiating forged notes. Tne 
time of trial has not yet been fixed.F. 
M. Shaw, late President of the First National 
Bank of Paou, Kansas, which went Into liquida¬ 
tion some months since, was arrested at Paoll on 
the 28 th, charged with making false entries in the 
report of the condition of the hank.. .The 
corner stone of the new state House of Indiana 
was laid on the 29th, at Indianapolis, with ap¬ 
propriate ceremonies, under the auspices of the 
State officers and state House Commissioners. 
Ex-Governor Hendricks delivered the oration. 
The famous Oneida Community has purchased 
water power at Niagara Falls, organized itself 
Into a joint stock company and Is now no longer a 
“community.”.Miss Sarab A. Brown, of 
Lawrence, a Massachusetts girl of mature years, 
having received the democratic-greenback nomi¬ 
nation for county superintendent of schools, will 
now, It Is said, withdraw from the democratic 
State ticket on which she has been named for the 
State superintendency.The ceremony of 
fastening down the connecting rail in tne Northern 
Pacific railroad extension, between Montana and 
Dakota, will take place Oct. 5. Two handsome 
silver spikes have been already forwarded to give 
the occasion gorgeousness.The coal hunters 
atlted Oak, Iowa, are now down four hundred and 
eighty feet, and think the prospect very encourag¬ 
ing.It recently cost Harrison county, Iowa, 
$7ii to place a fine of $5 on a man who had bruised 
and battered a neighbor.Blsbop Hennesy, 
or Dubuque, will lay the corner-stone of the new 
eathedral at Keokuk next week.. _It Is esti¬ 
mated that over two hundred families have moved 
into Ida county, Iowa, since last March.The 
Northwestern railroad will soon build a new depot 
at Des Moines.A Lincoln, Iowa, man caused 
the arrest of of two boys for stealing watermelons. 
Then he compromised with their father upon 
payment of one dollar, and coming before the 
justice to withdraw the case, he was handed a bill 
of costs for $15.80.Old Simon Cameron, who 
has lately been on a visit to Indiana, called on Dr. 
J. G. Kennedy, In Acton, near Indianapolis, a 
companion of his youth, but whom he had not 
met for slxty-two years. .Preliminary sur¬ 
veys for a ship canal from Toledo to Fort Wayne 
are now being made under an appropriation of 
$ 15,000 by Congress.The body of a woman 
burled near Indianapolis, thirty years ago, and 
recently exhumed for removal, was found to be 
petrified. 
A watch factory Is projected either at Madison 
Wis., or Baraboo, and it Is said that capitalists of 
Madison have agreed to take $ 100,000 stock, while 
Baraboo. which can furnish by far the best water 
power, has offered to tako $w,ooo stock and fur¬ 
nish water power and buildings.The busi¬ 
ness of Helena, Ark., for the last twelve months is 
estimated at $ 2 , 500 , 000 . The cotton receipts were 
65,000 bales, and it la expected that for the ensu¬ 
ing year 75,000 bales will be received.Dr. 
Tanner has been outdone by a Dakota bull belong¬ 
ing to Captain Hadley, of Fargo, which ran off 
Into some woods with a chain attached to his 
horns, and got fastened to a tree, where he re¬ 
mained six weeks without water or food of any 
kind; when found he was still alive and happy! .... 
Near Deadwood a hull leisurely entered a house, 
probably to get away from the files. The woman 
fled in terror and summoned several men, who 
found the bull In a bedroom quietly chewing big 
cud, and bo well satisfied with his surroundings 
that It was necessary to twist his tall until It 
kinked before he would vacate the premises. 
At Pala, in Southern California, the anniversary 
or St. Louis Is celebrated by religious ceremonies 
and bull lights, all under the auspices of the 
monks belonging to the mission of San Louis Rey. 
Tbl3 year a great concourse of Spaniards and In¬ 
dians gathered. After each day’s mass for the 
week there was hull-flghtlDg In the churchyard. 
These encounters did not amount to much, but a 
fight between a bull and a bear proved more sat¬ 
isfactory.A completion of the census from 
best sources shows a population fully 50,000,000 la 
the States and soo.ooo in the Territories of the 
LTnlted States. 
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[La Fayette Journal.] 
Such Reports Do One’s Heart Good. 
Mr. Frank Wilke, North and 9th streets, stated, 
that It was not only highly praised by his cus¬ 
tomers, but the St. Jacobs Oil has not failed to 
give satisfaction In a slDgle case, 
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FOREIGN. 
The most exciting topic across the Atlantic Is 
still what will Turkey do with regard to surrender¬ 
ing Dulcigno to the Montenegrins. Three or four 
days ago the Porte asked the Powers to delay until 
to-day before sending the combined fleet to en¬ 
force its surrender. The delay was granted, but 
no news has yet arrived of the Sultan’s final de¬ 
cision. The Ambassadors at Constantinople are 
most pressing in their efforts to make the Head of 
the Faithful comply with the wishes of the Infi¬ 
dels, hut the ottoman priests—300 of them—have 
already besought him not to yield an inch, and 
they are hacked up by all the most pious or blg- 
goted of the Turks. Doubtless the Sultan fears 
that If he gives way to Europe his own subjects 
may depose and assassinate hlrn before the 
Powers could interfere; yet the probability Is that 
he will yield. There is uttle doubt but that 
lie thought that the combination of the Pow¬ 
ers would he broken by the delay, hut In this 
he has been deceived. Christendom cannot 
now in honor rail to enforce Its demands 
through fear of anything that can be done 
by the “unspeakable” Turk. If war results, 
however It may turn out for others. It will cer¬ 
tainly be much to the loss of the seml-barbarous 
Ottoman. 
There seems to be a species of “ reign of terror ” 
among Irish landlords. A week or so ago Lord 
Mountinorres—an Irish Lord with no seat In Par¬ 
liament—was assassinated. He was reduced by 
his own early extravagance and that of his fore¬ 
fathers almost to poverty, owning only 300 acres, 
and was grasping and very unpopular as a land¬ 
lord and magistrate. The English public attribute 
his “taking off” to the Inflammatory harangues 
of the Irish agrarian agitators, hut the latter 
maintain that the Land League Is In no wise re¬ 
sponsible for it. Anyhow other landlords are In a 
“ funk.” It Is as yet doubtful whether the Govern¬ 
ment will take any severe measures with regard 
to the island. A couple of rnen have been arrested 
for the murder, merely because they had late!)' 
been evicted by the dead man; but it is doubtful 
whether any one will ever be convicted for It— 
none has ever suffered for the murder of Lord Lei¬ 
trim some time hack, though that caused as great 
a sensation. 
The “news-makers” of England are holiday- 
making. There Is a good deal of talk about seve¬ 
ral strikes, chiefly among the cotton mills of Lan¬ 
cashire ; but as winter Is approaching they may 
not take place, in France the excitement about 
the religious orders Is abating, the Government 
having decided to act quietly but firmly against 
them. There Is a strong impression that Gambetta 
Is preparing to advocate a warlike policy—against 
Germany, of course. Public oplulon, however, at 
present la decidedly against any such a policy, 
although a triumphant war with Germany Is the 
hope and prayer of nine out of every ten French¬ 
men. In Italy there Is some fear lest old Garibaldi 
should cause trouble. His son-in-law was Im¬ 
prisoned some weeks ago for taking part In 
a public demonstration against the government 
and in favor of a Republic. Garibaldi demanded 
his release which was refused, whereupon the old 
warrior left his island home, Caprera, and went 
to Genoa, some say to attempt to release his son- 
in-law by force; while others suppose he intends 
to head a Republican up-rising. The newspapers 
say, however, that he Is too patriotic for that 
and that he meant nothing at all by his move- 
mentr-and, of course, they know everything, in 
South Africa the English have another war on 
their hands—this time with the Basutos—some 
killed already oh both sides. The main question 
now in Afghanistan Is “ Shall Candahar be kept 
by t he British or handed over to their new Ameer, 
Abdurrahman Khan.” The probability Is It will be 
abandoned. Ayoob Khan Is on his way to Herat 
whence he threatens to return and attack Candahar 
once more. Alter all, the danger of war between 
Russia and China Is by no means over. 
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[Cleaveland Plain Dealer.] 
Mr. Theodore Ulvely, tobacco and cigar dealer. 
109 Seneca street, was recently laid up with rheu¬ 
matism so that he couldn't walk. After liberal use 
of various preparations he purchased a bottle of 
St. Jacobs Oil, and, to use his own expression. " It 
was the first thing to afford him anything like re¬ 
lief,” He has completely recovered by its use. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
After paying all expenses of the late Ohio State 
Fair, the amount remaining tn the Treasurer's 
hands Is $ 10 ,208.59.Reports from 54 central 
points in the cotton districts of Loutstana, Missis¬ 
sippi, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, 
giving the condition of the cotton crop to Septem¬ 
ber 24, showed that bad weather damaged the 
crops In all these states except Georgia.Of 
our $ 824 , 000,000 of oxports of home productions, 
$ 680 , 000,000 consist, of the products of agriculture 
alone, or 82S;. per cent, of the whole. The 
Des Moines Glucose company has purchased 14 
acres Just east of the city limits, and will erect 
enlarged works thereon, with a capacity of 3,000 
bushelsof corn dally.The Baltimore grain 
elevators have a storage capacity of 3.350,000 bush¬ 
els, exclusive of the several floating elevators. The 
Baltimore and Ohio railway company are erecting 
an additional elevator, to he completed In Febru¬ 
ary next, to have a capacity of l,r»oo,000 bushels . 
....Acoordlng to Lorln Blodget, the value or the 
annual wool manufactures are about as follows: 
Six New England States, $127,500,000; New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, $93,340,- 
000; Twelve Western States and Utah, $ 41 , 200 , 000 ; 
California, Oregon and Washington Territory, 
$7,250,000; Total, $283,120,000, 
The United States Consul at Lyons, France, In¬ 
forms the Department of State that the cereal 
crop of France this year will amount to 102,000,000 
hectolitres, an average yield. Nevertheless there 
will be a large demand tor American wheat. Jn 
Germany the cereal crop Is a mediocre one, and in 
Russia somewhat or a failure.The Virginia 
State Fair commences Oct. 26 , Instead of the 22nd 
as herctoiore published.At SC. Louisa prop¬ 
osition to lower the present grades of Nos 1 . 2 . 3 
and 4 red Winter wheat one-half a grade, to take 
effect Jan. I, was voted on sept so by the mem¬ 
bers of the Merchants’ Exchange, and adopted by 
a vote of nearly two to one. The contest was the 
most exciting that, has occurred on ’Change for 
several years, and quite a number of the most 
prominent and Influential members of the Ex¬ 
change took an active part In It.The net 
surplus of barley In Canada for export for five 
years, as indicated by the customs returns alone, 
has been as follows; Year ending June 30, ihho, 
8,133,128 bushels; 1879, 6,077,540 bushels; 1878, 7,- 
851,702 bushels; 1S77, 6,520,406 bushela; 1876, 
10,074,578 bushels. This is irrespective of 
stocks held over, either In the hands of farmers or 
in warehouses, which would not vary the 
exhibits in any Important degree. 
The “fly suffocator,” an Insect resembling the 
mosquito, is the latest affliction that has visited 
the Russian peasantry. Last month, in the Mlr- 
gorod district of the Poltava province, 1,142 head 
of cattle, 2 horses, 272 sheep, and 178 pigs were 
killed by It. The files are said to enter the air 
passages of the animals and thus suffocate them. 
.In St. Petersburg several suspensions are 
announced In the grain trade, the liabilities being 
large. The difficulties are due to shipments from 
Amerloa forcing down prices, after speculators 
had based their calculations on a deficient harvest 
in Russia. 
It yearly takes 200,000 acres of forest to supply 
cross-ties lor the railroads of the ITolted States. It 
takes 15,000,000 ties to supply the demand, lor 
which on an average the contractors get 35 cents 
apiece, making In the aggregate $5,250,000. In 
building a new road the contractors figure on 2,700 
ties to the mile, while It, takes 300 ties to the mile 
to keep a constructed road In repair. The average 
of a good piece of timber land is 200 lies to the 
acre and 12 ties to the tree. White or burr oak Is 
considered the best timber for the purpose, 
although cherry, maple, ash, and even locust 
have been used. The business gives employment 
to an army of choppers, who are paid ten cents 
apiece for each tie. A single man has been known 
to get out thirty-five ties lu a day, yet the average 
Is only ten, while an expert will probably get. out 
twenty.The peanut crop is estimated as 
follows; Virginia, l, 600,000 bushels, Tennessee 
1 , 100,000 and North Carolina 2 ,soo.ooo bushels. The 
crop at 22 pounds to the bushels, will make the 
enormous aggregate or 62 , 040,000 pounds which, at 
an average of four cents per pound, would reach 
the sum of $ 2 , 481,000 .We learn from St. 
Petersburg 1 hat the harvest beetle, referred to In 
a late editorial, which Is entemologtcally called 
Anasoplla austrlaoa, is estimated to have de¬ 
stroyed nearly one-third of the Russian crops In 
the provinces ravaged by It. Not only the South 
and East, but even the centre of the empire Is 
now attacked. Taurldls, the Don territory, the 
provinces or Ekartermoslav, Charkof, Fuliavu and 
Bessarabia have been visited by the. insect with 
more or less severity. The professors charged by 
the Government to investigate the matter recom¬ 
mend an abandonment of rye and wheat culture 
for a time. Kansas cattle raisers, In order 
to hinder competition, and prevent the spread of 
Texas fever among their own herds, had a law 
passed forbidding the passage through the State, 
of herds from Texas, hut a United states court 
has declared the act unconstitutional. 
The Sale of Diseased Animals.— in the State 
Circuit Court at White Plains, Westchester Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., a jury on October 2 , decided a suit 
which is of much importance to termers and oth¬ 
ers who sell and buy cattle, horses and other farm 
animals. This suit was brought by u Irani Finch, 
a large stock dealer, of North Castle, Westchester 
County, agalnBt Dr. Jonathan Carpenter, of Hall’s 
Corners, Ontario Co., to recover the sum of $900 for 
five cowb sold him and for which he held the Doc¬ 
tor’s notes, which were not paid when they fell 
due. The defence was that the cows were afflicted 
with pleuro-pneumonla, and that their presence 
among thirty-five other sound animals caused the 
disease to spread, so that the defendant lost every 
cow hut two. M r. Finch denied that the cows uad 
the disease, and a long array of expert witnesses 
were called In support of each opinion. Their 
testimony lasted two days, resulting In the ao* 
