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HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Oct. 25, 1880. 
Thtjrk is no longer any hope of the safety of the. 
Lake steamer Alpena, which must have foundered 
on Lake Michigan during the gale of the icth and 
17th .The Presidential election occurs on 
November 2d, before the next issue of the Rural 
will reach Its subscribers. The canvas has been 
one ot the most closely-contested for years, and the 
vote will no doubt be much the largest ever given 
.Two cotton ahed3, a brick warehouse and 
two thousand bales of cotton were burned In 
Charleston, S. C., on the 17th, the loss amounting 
to $ 200,000 .On the Shenandoah Valley Rail¬ 
road. at. East Liberty, Page county, Virginia, the 
entire trestle-work, 1,269 feet long and 94 feet high, 
went down with a crash In one promiscuous ruin, 
instantly killing Walter Jones, of Barboursvtlle, 
Orange county, Va., and Berlously Injuring 
Stewart Bocock. of McGabeysville. Rockland 
county, va. I,oss, $10,000. This accident will 
probably delay the completion of this section of 
the road several months... ...Doga got into a 
herd of sheep belonging to Owen Potts, ofBrown's 
Mills, Burlington county, N. J., and killed 01 of 
them. Twenty-live others were mutilated and 
had to be slaughtered.It Is s ated at the 
Interior Depat tment that the Northern Pacific 
Railroad will be completed within two and a half 
yeare. 
The forthcoming annual report ot the Director 
of the Mint wilt show that upon 94 per cent, of the 
total domestic exports during the last fiscal year 
the prices realized were about. 10 per cent, higher 
than for the previous year. This Increase was on 
manufactured articles as well as agricultural pro¬ 
ducts, the principal being: Cotton, 25 per cent.; 
cotton manufactures, taper cent; breadstufTs, 20 
percent, and Iron and Iron manufactures, 40 per 
cent ,, ..Mrs. Lydia Marla Child, the well-known 
authoress, died on the 20 th at Way land, Mass., 
aged 78.The Chief of the Bureau of Statis¬ 
tics reports that the total value of the exports of 
domestic breadstufTs from the United States dur¬ 
ing the month of September, isso, were $23,83t,930, 
and during September, 1879, $35.828.S48. For the 
nine months ending September 30, 1880, $208,679,- 
642. and during the same period In 1879, $176,399,946. 
.The Indian who murdered t he toll collector 
at Sitka, Alaska, was hanged ou the 7th Instant. 
.Dispatches from North and Northwestern 
Ontario report a severe snow storm in progress, 
about four feet of snow having already fallen.... 
— A fire at Leadvllle, Col., on the loch, destroyed 
John F. Lentnger s book store, Lewis’ pawn Bhop, 
J. Billing & Co.’s liquor store and nail’s book store 
Loss. $29,000; Insured. 
Elfreda Partridge. Carrie Ulchborn, Emma Berry 
and Frederick Patterson were drowned by a boat 
upsetting In the harbor of Stockton, Me. The 
bodies of the girls were recovered.Afire at 
Sheboygan, Wls. destroyed ten buildings. Loss, 
$10,990; insured.Jack Pierce shot and killed 
Joseph Ilornbeek at Rawlins, W. T. Both were 
teamsters.A twenty-three-inch s; rata cave 
has been discovered, on the line of the Texas- 
Pacific railroad, west or Palo Plonto, In the can¬ 
yon of San Antonio .Mrs. Julia D. Bates, 
widow of Don. Edward M Bates, United States 
Attorney General under President Lincoln, died 
at St. Louis on the 16th.A fire at Wyoming, 
Stark Co., Ill., destroyed Stone’s clothing store, 
with several smaller places of business. Loss from 
$49,900 to$59,000; insurance, nominal.Mrs. 
Isabella Pldgeon, working as a weaver in the 
Crescent Mill at Fall River, Mass., has Ju 3 t fallen 
heir to a fortune ot$iTo,ooo, left by an uncle who 
died recently In Australia.James Lowre.v, a 
carpenter residing at St. Paul, Minn., in a fit of 
temporary Insanity, shot his wife with a revolver, 
and then blew out his own brains. The woman 
may rcoover.The shipments of hulk grain 
from st. Louts to foreign ports via New Orleans, 
from January l to October 16 were 13,914,000 bush¬ 
els, against 6,164,839 bushels for the same time last 
year. 
The report made by Dun, Wlman & Co., at 
Montreal, or the failures in Canada for the quarter 
ending September 30, show only iso, with liabili¬ 
ties of $1,319,76?., against 417. with liabilities of 
$6,998,617, for the corresponding quarter last year. 
.seventeen Mormon elders from Utah left 
for Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi, 
North Carolina and Virginia, whither they go to 
make converts to the Mormon faith and secure 
Mormon emigrants to Colorado.The Mexi¬ 
can Congress has passed a law by which the Gov¬ 
ernment pays a subvention of $29 monthly to 
every newspaper published In the republic, the 
newspapers being required to treat matters of 
public Importance in a manner harmonizing with 
the necessities and Interests of the country. 
The body of a little girl named Hassack, whose 
parents perished by the explosion of the Garden 
City distillery at Chicago on Friday night, was 
found amoug the ruins on Saturday. The bodies 
of those reported missing have been recovered. 
The deaths caused by the explosion now number 
eight.Governor Murray, or Utah, In hts 
annual report to Secretary Schurz, recommends 
the substitution of a commission for the Terri¬ 
torial Legislature, In order to get rid of polyga¬ 
mous legislators, and cites Congressional leglsla- 
tlon regarding the Northwest Territory and the 
District of Columbia as precedents.A boiler 
exploded at Massllon, Ohio, on the 16 th, in Russell 
& Co.,s paper mill, causing damage to the build¬ 
ings estimated at $ 10 . 000 ......... a collision on the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad at 
Jones’ Station, nineteen miles north of Cincinnati, 
resulted In the injuring of fifteen passengers. 
The woman suffrage movement is slowly pro¬ 
gressing. In New York and Massachusetts the 
experiment la being tried in a restricted form In 
the election of school officers, and a dispatch from 
San Francisco announces that the Oregon Senate 
and House have agreed to a constitutional amend¬ 
ment allowing women to vote—the Senate by a 
vote of 21 to 9 and the House by 32 to 27. Of course 
this amendment must be ratified by the people in 
convention or by popular vote before it becomes 
effective. 
A fire at Portage, Wls.. destroyed the Pettibone 
block. In which were located Goodman’s clothing 
establishment, J. E. Wells K Co’s hardware and 
tin store, Loomis Gallet & Breeze's knitting works 
(employing 60 hands) Bullard's paint shop, the 
Odd Fellows’ Hall, the armory or the Guppy 
Guards and several other smaller shops. The 
loss will reach $50,000.The Vermont Legis¬ 
lature, In Joint assembly, formally declared 
George F. Edmunds their choice as United States 
Senator. 
Orr, Leonard <te Daniels’ largeoll mill at Plqua. 
Ohio, was burned with its ad-)olnlng warehouses 
both full of flaxseed and oil. The loss Is $10,000; 
one-fourth Insured_ The woolen mills, an¬ 
chor works and other manufactories at Camden, 
Me , have shut down entirely for want of water 
The Megantlcook River was never known to be 
so low.A fire broke out In the shoddy man¬ 
ufactory of Benjaman Hey, at Second st reet, and 
Broadway, In Cincinnati on the 20 th m such a 
way as to cut off escape from the third story, 
whero a number of women were at work. The fire¬ 
men made heroic but Ineffectual attempts to rescue 
the women. After extinguishing the fire they 
succeeded In extricating the dead bodies of five 
women. They were Mrs Doggett aged 40 years; 
Mrs. Segner, aged 60 ; Mrs. Jackson, aged 30 ; 
Mrs Barrett and Miss Welsh. The loss by the fire 
Is estimated atS25,ouO; Insurance, $12,000. 
A most extensive forgery project wa 3 nipped in 
the bud by the arrest ot J. B, Doyle at Chicago, 
on the 2ist, and the further arrest of three accom¬ 
plices in Brooklyn, on the 22 d. More than *20o,ooo 
of spurious United States bonds were obtain ed.... 
....The Wabash railroad company has secured 
Its objects as the result ot the recent railroad war. 
The company get a connection to Omaha when 
they build ninety-fire miles from PratrteviUe to 
Shenandoah, near Council Bluffs, that part of the 
road to be operated Jointly by them and the Chi¬ 
cago. Burlington and Quincy. The company also 
get entrance to Chicago and Its part of all pool 
arrangements.The rain of the 20th-23d has 
put an end to the protracted drought In the East¬ 
ern States.A gravel tram on the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad ran loto a drove 
ot cows, near Stillman Valley, ill., dltchlDgten 
cars and killing several persons. John Ryan, a 
section man, was killed outright. The killed and 
wounded numbered fourteen. Three of the train 
hands are reported killed. Many of the wounded 
were boys living In the neighborhood, who were 
having sport on the train while It was switching. 
.-John Reed had his head caught In the 
machinery of the Flshback rolling mill at Potts- 
vllle, Pa., ana was fatally Injured....... .The New 
York Central railroad, Ills said, gives direct em¬ 
ployment to over 12,900 persons.The New 
Orleans Picayune hears that the Cunard Bteam- 
shlp company will put on a line or vessels between 
that port and Liverpool. 
The manufacture of barbed wire fencing has In¬ 
creased from 10,000 pounds In 1874 to 27,337,000 
pounds In 1879, aud it is estimated this year’s pro¬ 
duction win reach50,000,000 pounds.Captain 
Eads assures New Orleans shippers that a tew 
hours’ dredging in one place in the jett ies chaDDel 
will enable the Great Eastern to come up to New 
Orleans drawing 29 feet.A new method of 
tanning hides, not by any form of tannin but by 
chrome, is being tried lu Scotland, it is said to be 
cheaper, quicker, and to make better leather than 
the old waye.The Saginaw VaUey lumber 
shipments thus far this season are the largest In 
the history of the trade of Michigan. The ship¬ 
ments of lumber from the port or Bay City for the 
month of September are 7,8«2,92i feet. The lum¬ 
ber shipment* from the Saginaw River from the 
beginning of tne season to October l are 824.025.296 
feet, an increase of 135 , 392,343 feet over the same 
period of last year.Tne Toledo, Peoria and 
Warsaw and the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska 
Railroads have ceased to exist as Independent cor¬ 
porations, and will hereafter be known as the Peo¬ 
ria and Iowa Division of the Wabash, St. Louis 
and Pacific Railway Company.Superintend¬ 
ent Walker, of the Census Bureau, will make a 
complete report of the enumeration of population 
to Congress at Its next session. A report to Con¬ 
gress In the session next following the enumera¬ 
tion has never before been made. 
FOREIGN. 
Thb Post Office at Manchester, England, was 
burnt yesterday, It is supposed by Fenian lncen- 
dartes, and st the same time telegraphic com¬ 
munication with London was cut off. Two 
regiments or infantry have been ordered to the 
town. Manchester has a very large Irish popula- 
tlon, and was the scene of a very fatal explosion 
in the Fenian outbreak of’67.The British 
government has decided to prosecute the leaders 
of the Land League for conspiracy to resist the 
laws. About 209 indictments are being prepared 
against Parnell and other members of Parliament 
who are prominent agitators In the movement, as 
well as against Journalists and public speakers, all 
of whom will. It Is expected, be arrested towards 
the end of this week. It is reported that in de¬ 
spair of securing a verdict against the accused In 
Ireland, a change of venue to England will be 
sought by the government from the Court of 
Queen’s Bench. This Is the first rime such a step 
has ever been tried, and great doubt* exist as to 
Its legality. The Irish policy of the Gladstone 
Ministry la bitterly opposed by all parties; but the 
Ministry says It will stand or fall by that policy. 
A large number of outrages against property have 
occurred a urlug the week In Ireland The tenants 
of Mr. Klng-Hartman, a very large land owner and 
an ex-M.P., have been warned if they pay rent they 
will be shot. Excitement at fever heat. Large 
numbers of arms are belDg sold from this country. 
More troops are being sent to the island.The 
city of Oxford will probably be dlsenranchtsed for 
a term on account of gross frauds In the election 
of its member of Parliament at the last general 
election.Harry Beckett, the well-known actor, 
died In London last Saturday....Archbishop 
McCabe of Dublin will soon be made a cardinal 
ne has written a strong pastoral letter against 
the programme ot the Land League, whtch will 
henceforth be opposed by moat—not all—ot the 
Catholic clergy. The letter has excited the fierce 
resentment ot most, of the leaguers. 
The speech of the King of Greece on opening the 
legislature on Thursday Is regarded as a declara¬ 
tion of war against Turkey. Greece hA 9 under 
arms nearly 49.000 men ready to Invade the Turkish 
territory which she claims. Inasmuch as Turkey 
could easily crush her If unaided, the plucky little 
kingdom would not begin war unless pretty cer¬ 
tain or foreign aid. The government has notified 
England that, having failed to receive aid from 
the European Powers, she will occupy Thessaly 
alone. Notwithstanding the continued refusal of 
Frauce and Germany to join with Great Britain In 
pressing for the immediate satisfaction of Greece's 
claim upon the Sultan, Mr. Gladstone will insist 
single-handed In the name of England upon the 
full surrender of the disputed territory, an action 
which, It is seen, points directly to a general Euro¬ 
pean war....Much excitement In Albania on 
the death of several prominent chiefs who were 
opposed to the cession of Dulclgno. Suspicion of 
Poison.Itlza Pasha, the Turkish commander 
has taken measures to disarm the most turbulent 
of the Albanians In and near Dulclgno, and the 
Porte peremptorily ordered him yesterday to sur¬ 
render the place unconditionally to Montenegro 
within five days. After the surrender Montenegro 
will liberate all imprisoned Mussulmen and pro¬ 
claim an amnesty. 
In France the expulsion of the religious orders 
is causing great excitement. In several instances 
all the police commissioners of a town have re¬ 
signed rather than execute the decrees against 
them; a rery large number of magistrates have 
done the same tor the same reason, and others have 
been publicly excommunicated for enforcing the 
decrees, in spite of numerous rumors that the 
government was weakening ” in the matter, the 
latest cablegram says 11 has been finally decided to 
peislst In the persecution... In a late trial it came 
out that Gen. Cissy, while Mima ter of War some 
years back, was very Intimate with a lady who 
was separated from her husband, and who is now 
accused of having been n Prussian spy. Through 
her, It Is alleged, the German Government obtain¬ 
ed all the secrets ot the French War Department. 
When the matter became public the other day cis¬ 
sy was promptly removed from the military com¬ 
mand of one ot the departments which he held at 
the time. This measure has caused great excite¬ 
ment among the Republicans with whom the gen¬ 
eral is a favorite, and they with him demand a 
trial and conviction before punishment. 
it has lately been made public that shortly after 
the death of Ills wife the tzar married morganatl- 
caliy the Princess Dolgoroukl, with whom he had 
several children during thetzarina’sHfe-ume. The 
tzarewltch, his etaesi son and heir to the throne, 
together with his other children, being opposed to 
tbe marriage, left St. Petersburgh at the time in 
order not to be present at It. His health has been 
very poor of late, and he ha* retired with his wife 
to Llvadla, hla winter residence, and It Is reported 
that he Is desirous of transferring the reins of 
government to the tzarewltch, he himself retain¬ 
ing the “imperial privileges,” and remaining per¬ 
manently in hla present quarters, provided hlg 
children by his present wife, born during the life¬ 
time of the last, are legitimatized and acknowl¬ 
edged to be princes and princesses ranking after 
his children by the tzarlna. The tzarewltch has 
gone to Llvadla and will probably consent. 
The Nihilists, after all, are not exterminated but 
only resting, or perhaps secretly undermining the 
present order of things. The Representative of 
Hamburg will shortly ask to have the city pro¬ 
claimed in a state of siege on account or the Nihil¬ 
ists. PrusBla will make a similar proposal In re¬ 
gard to Altona, Ottensen and Wendsbeck. 
The Canadaln syndicate that Is trying to raise 
money In England to build the Canadian Pacific 
Railroad, report very favorable prospects. 
Several severe shocks of earthquake were felt at 
Dijon, France Wednesday, ah earthquake oc¬ 
curred at Lisbon, which was felt in almost every 
part of the country. No damage Is reported. An 
earthquake oecured In several towns or the pro¬ 
vince of Zamora, Spain. The shock was also 
felt at Madrid. 
Forty days having elapsed since the birth of the 
infanta Mercedes, imposing ceremonies took place 
in the palace at Madrid, Spain, Thursday, on the 
occasion or the first appearance in public of Queen 
Christine, The papal brief was read, and gifts 
from the Pope 10 the queen and Infanta were pre¬ 
sented.The arrest of Warschafsky, a well- 
known capitalist and purveyor to the Russian 
army, Is In connection with the army Eupply con¬ 
tract of the last war. It is stared that evidence la 
forthcoming that Warschafsky defrauded the 
authorities out of 22,000,000 roubles. Boien, sec¬ 
retary of chief of the army, and chief administra¬ 
tor during the late war, has also been arrested at 
Odessa. 
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, by way of Lis¬ 
bon, received at London on Monday, says: “A ter¬ 
rific suow-storm occurred In this province on the 
18 th of September, and it is estimated that 709,000 
cattle, 500,000 sheep, and 259,000 horses perished. 
.There are contradictory reports about tbe 
war between ChUl and Peru and Bolivia. The 
latest Is that the belligerents have agreed to abide 
by the arbitration of the President or the United 
States in the present difficulty, and they are to 
invite all the different States on this continent to 
agree to the establishment of a system of arbitra¬ 
tion for the settlement of all future questions 
among themselves. 
TSaglnaw Dally News.] 
Mr. George Schick Informed our reporter that he 
had been suffering with rheumatism In his feet so 
badly that tor weeks at a time he would be unable 
to leave his bed. He tried various remedies with¬ 
out relief, and concluded to use st. Jacob’s OU. It 
acted like magic. In two days he was entirely 
cured. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Generally speaking the French farmer is not a 
jolly soul. Whether he be a man of education or 
not, he settles down Into a grub sort, of life, faring 
frugally on soup and the thinnest of ordinary red 
wine or cider. The stock of his soup Is bacon, and 
he eats butchers’ meat only twice a week, that Is, 
on Sunday and market day. When he attends 
market he makes a succulent dejeuner and drinks 
a good deal of beer afterward at (he cafe. This 1 b 
his only cheerful time.Eplzoot.y has become 
epidemic In nearly every town In .Southern New 
Jersey. In Ocean and Monmouth Counties, espe¬ 
cially in the towns skirting the coast, the malady 
Is as violent as it was In its visit in 1876. Several 
deaths are reported. In Burlington County hun¬ 
dreds of horses are affected, but the disease there 
Is of a mild type. The horses In the furnace towns 
are suffering the most, wild offions are being 
used as a cure for the disease by the fanners with 
much success Jt has also extended westward 
some distance Deyond Chicago and is still travel¬ 
ing steadily. In some places It Is quite as severe 
as on the former visit; but generally it Is of a 
milder type, seldom proving fatal.The ex¬ 
ports from New York of wheat aud corn on last 
Friday week were larger than for any previous 
day in tbs history of this port. Of wheat there 
were exported 720,206 bushels, and of corn 420,022 
a total of 1 ,140,228. This Is largely due to shippers 
who, havffig made contracts, hastened recently to 
cover them for fear that prices would advance 
later In the month. The Mark Lane Express of 
the istb, in a review of the grain trade for ’the 
past week, says: “ The weather has been very 
favorable for the wheat sowing, aud, as the farm¬ 
ers will be fully occupied therewith, thrashing 
will be restricted during the present month. In 
English wheat, the proportion of first-class sam¬ 
ples In good condition has been exceedingly small. 
The demand for good qualities has been active 
and at the more Important or the provincial marl 
kete they advanced l(® 2 s, per quarter. In forel^ns 
wheat has been subject to reaction and uncer¬ 
tainty during the week, but at the close It was 
firm, and the decline was fully recovered. 
Under date of October 6th. It la stated that the 
French farmers were occupied with field work 
and were bringing very little wheat to the mar¬ 
kets, in consequence or which It was higher, with 
a more active sale.The exports from Atlantic 
ports from July 1 to Oct., to, 1889, have been 2 , 213 ,- 
8C3 bbls of flour and 59,017,418 bushels ot wheat, 
equal to 09,699 S 02 bushels of wheat. The move¬ 
ment of wheat at Western lake and river porta 
has been quite moderately Increased for the week 
ended Oct, 19 , as compared with the previous week, 
but still It tsnot nearly so large as It was for the 
corresponding week In 1879. The movement of 
wheat at San Francisco from July l to Oct 4 . isso 
has been only about one-half as much as It was 
for the corresponding period in 1879. The exports 
from July 1 to Oct 4, isso, have been 3,099.842 buBh- 
els against 6 , 182,100 bushels for the corresponding 
period in 1879. The exports from Oregon from 
July 1 to oct 1, have been 48.830 bushels of wheat 
The uonon crop of the United States for the 
year ending September 1st, is estimated at 5,787,- 
397 bale*, the largest probably ever raised, and 
worth $200,909,000. For 1S7S-9, the crop was 5 ,- 
937,631 bales. This year’s crop, not yet picked, Is 
expected to be still larger than that of 1879 -so. 
........Several of Kankakee’s, III , leading men 
have formed a Joint stock company for the manu¬ 
facture of glucose and grape sugar. The capacity 
of the factory will be, for the present, 1,000 
bushels of com per day. Among the exports 
from this port on Saturday, were 59 tons of fresh 
meat for Liverpool and 1,290 quarters for London, 
Together with 50 head of prime cattle and 250 dead 
sheep. The export of apples still continues very 
heavy.The visible supply of wheat Oct, 16, was 
15,764,168 bushels, vs. 14,422,158 bushels October 9 
1880 ; 23.206,340 bushel* October 18, 1679, and 10 1 
803,659 bushels October 19,1878. The stock here in 
store Octoner 16, 1 . 88 O, was t,l71,S93 bushels, vs. 
1,934,748 bushels October 9, I 860 ; 3.734,878 bushels 
October 18, 1879. and 620.419 bushels October 19 , 
1878,.. The deliveries at Seaboard port* for the 
week ending October 22, were 3,540 ,119 bushels vs. 
3,106,862 bushels the previous week, and 5,622 461 
bushels the corresponding week lu ’ 79 . The’export 
clearances from ihence for Europe lor the week, 
were 3,666,624 bushels va. 3,689,626 bushels the 
previous week, and ior the last eight weeks 29 - 
843,461 bushels va. 40,321,174 bushela the corres¬ 
ponding eight week lu 79 . The receipts here for 
the week were 1,741,842 bushelB vs. 1.126 426 bush¬ 
el* the previous week. The sales lor the week 
were 6,675,0 10 bushels vs. 9 , 214,000 bushels for the 
previous week. The stock at Atlantic seaports, 
October 6,1839, was 3,231,935 bushels, V 3 , 7 512 333 
bushels October 18,1879.The visible supply 
Of corn October 16, 1880 , was 20 , 202.111 bushels vs. 
19.934,220 bushels October9, isso; 10 , 562,315 bush¬ 
els October 1879, and 10,439,577 bushels October 19 
18T6. 
The outlook in Russia la very gloomy as regards 
food for the coming winter. The average export 
ot wheat Is about 40,000 bushels, although It was 
much more last year owing to the high price and 
a bountiful harvest. This year there will be no 
export of wheat, and it Is pretty certain there will 
be a considerable Import. Everywhere the har¬ 
vest was short, and In many places almost an en¬ 
tire failure; nor la mere much prospect at present 
that tne country will soon bo able to have large 
crops again. Insect peats abound and leave little 
hope of fine harvests; arunkness among the peas¬ 
antry is even more Injurious than their antiquated 
system of husbandry, while the numerous holidays 
