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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV. 6 
gUtos of fjje ®twh. 
HOME NEWS. 
Monday, Not. 1,1880. 
The Presidential election which takes place ou 
the 2d, will be remarkable tor being one of the 
most earnest and desperately contested elections In 
the history of the country. Also for the abandon¬ 
ment of the questions of State rights and sectional 
Issues, and the adoption of vital questions relating 
to the Internal development of the nation Instead, 
and which promises to open one of the widest and 
mo9t national fields of discussion yet brought be¬ 
fore the people. The Ruka l has carefully avoided 
any expression of opinion, In fact It has none 
whatever to express upon political questions. The 
material advancement of the nation, however, is 
one In which the farmers have a vital Interest.... 
...in the Vermont Legislature a long list of 
amendments to the State bankruptcy law was pre¬ 
sented, making many Important changes and in¬ 
cluding debus due persons out of the Slate In t he 
general discharge. A bill wa9 also Introduced re¬ 
quiring that packages of oleomargarine be stamp 
ed, In letters one-halt an Inch long, " oleornarga- 
rlne; *' and also that when retailed certificates 
stating the article to be oleomargarine must be 
given the purchasers. The line for selling un- 
brauded packages was placed at #100.A man 
supposed to be It. P. Bull, a private detective, and 
formerly editor of the Democratic Press at Gaines¬ 
ville, Ark., has been murdered by an unknown 
man near Fort Worth, Texas, ire was killed with 
an axe while asleep.The will of the late 
Lydia Maria Childs gives $2,000 to the Hampton 
Agricultural College In Virginia, and distributes 
#9.000 more among half a dozen charitable Institu¬ 
tions. Owen Clancy, a teamster, was killed 
at CarrolllOD, N. Y., on the 27th, while unloading 
logs .The steamer Trader, a small craft lylog 
at her wharf at Memphis, was burned to the 
water’s edge on the ‘2Tth .The store and resi¬ 
dence of Mrs. A. Buvks. at Eagle Pass, Texas, was 
burned on the 25th. Loss, $10,000; Insurance, 
#3,000.... An incendiary fire destroyed most of 
the business part of Augusta, Wls. The loss Is 
#200,000. 
There was turned out from the Grant Locomo¬ 
tive Works In Paterson, N.J., on the 25th, anew 
locomotive of peculiar construction. Intended for 
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Pall road. 
Eugene Fontaine, the Inventor, claims that this 
locomotive can be made to go 90 tulles an hour, 
while the machinery Is run no taster than that of 
an ordinary locomotive traveling at the rate of 60 
miles an hour. An Incendiary fire in the factory of 
the Ansonla Clock Company at Brooklyn resulted 
In Its total destruction, together with machinery 
and stock, Involving a loss of nearly #1,000,00 l , 
upon which there was an Insurance of $395,00.1. 
The Insurance was divided between 95 companies, 
the policies varying from #2,500 to $ 10 , 000 , The 
employes thus thrown out of work number 1,000. 
.About a month ago Dr. P. H. Talbott, a 
prominent, citizen of Maryville, Mo., and the editor 
of a Greenback paper published at that, place, was 
shot through a window at his residence and killed 
while he was retiring for the night. On the 27th 
his son Albert was arrested tor the murder, and 
Mrs. Talbott, the doctor's widow, and Ed. Talbott, 
another son, and a hired man named Wet.h have 
now been arrested as accomplices...Patrick 
Dailey, a farmer living near Post Town, Butler 
county, N. Y„ had a quarrel In a saloon at Middle- 
town. where he was shot and instantly killed by 
Thomas Johnson, who escaped.Hon. E D. 
Man3lleld died near Morrow, Ohio, at an advanced 
age. He has been widely known as a political and 
general writer for the Cincinnati and New York 
papers, over the signatures of “E, D. M.’’ and 
“ veteran Observer.” 
John Duff, an eminent railroad contractor, espe¬ 
cially distinguished as the builder of the Hannibal 
and St. Joseph and the Union Pacific Railroads, 
died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., of pneumonia. He 
leaves property estimated af $4,000,000 In value... 
_Mlcnael Hendricks, said to be a nephew of 
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, has been mur¬ 
dered near LeadvlUe. Cot. The guilty parties are 
said to be two McCallum brothers, as young Hen¬ 
dricks had been tried for and acquitted of the 
murder of their brother. .Mrs. Meaker, who, 
with her son, Almon, Is In jail at Montpelier, Vt., 
under an Indictment for killing Utile Alice Meaker, 
her husband’s halt sister, at Waterbury last spring, 
made a desperate and nearly successful attempt 
to burn the Jail, she set tire to her cell, but the 
flames were discovered in time to prevent any 
serious damage. .Frank A lllson, a merchant 
of Woodland, Carroll county, va., had for some 
time suspected his partner in business, a young 
man named IiAwks, of criminal Intimacy with Mrs. 
Allison. He left home on the 23th, but unexpect¬ 
edly returned at night and caught the guilty pair 
together, whereupon he shot and Instantly killed 
Hawks, and then shot hla wife in the breast and 
abdomen, Inflicting fatal wounds. Hawks was 25 
years old and Mrs. AUlson was 33. Mr. Allison 
surrendered himself, leaving the dead and dying 
where he had shot them down. All the parties 
are well connected.At Delphos, Ohio, on 
the 27th, Ella Sailnde, eight years old, fell into a 
fireplace while putting on fuel and was burned to 
death. Robert F. Johnson, for 25 years Edi¬ 
tor of the Michigan Farmer, and widely known 
throughout the State died suddenly at Detroit on 
the 26th, It is supposed of heart disease. 
John v. Farwell, senior partner of the firm of 
Far well & Co., of Chicago, has filed a suit fer libel 
against the Dally News for $50,000. The libel Is 
understood to consist In an article reviewing the 
early history of Mr, Farwell’s business life. 
H. T. Moore, as old citizen of Clayton county 
was killed on Ithe j29th, near Jonesboro, Ga„ by 
Thomas Betts, colored, In a dispute about the pro¬ 
ceeds of a sale or cotton. Betts was arrested.... 
.... Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of President Lincoln, 
arrived from Europe on the vstii.....Lewis 
Green, colored, who had just sold his cotton at 
Glddlngs, Texas, was fataUy shot and robbed by 
highwayman on the 28th .The case of James 
B. Doyle, who was arrested by the Government 
officials at Chicago, with $ 204,000 in counterfeit 
United States bonds In hla possession, came up 
before Commissioner Hoype. Doyle waived an 
examination and hold for trial in $30,000 ball.... 
....At Little Rock, Ark., on the 29th, Jackson 
Greene was found guilty of murder In the first de¬ 
gree m killing Benjamin Borland on the 29th.... 
....The lumber yard of J. T, Rodgers & Co., at 
Peoria, 111., was burned by an Incendiary fire. 
Loss, $30,(*on. insurance, #16,000. 
Unusual Interest Is taken In the selection of a 
site tor the World’s Fair to he held at New York 
in 1883, and the committee on sites has visited and 
examined all the proposed places and Is now 
hearing arguments In favor of each, a decision Is 
expected in a few days. 
Two deaths from hydrophobia occurred on the 
2 Sth. Mrs. Kirby at Franklin, Ky., who had been 
bitten by a puppy last Summer, and Mrs. Augusta 
Schuler, a German woman residing at Addison, Ill. 
She was bitten by a mad dog about ten months 
ago, and on Sunday last symptoms of hydrophobia 
began to manifest themselveB. She died In frightful 
paroxysms. She was over 40 years old and weigh¬ 
ed about 220 pounds. The mad dog and about 15 
otoer dogs which It had bitten were killed at that 
dole.The Chicago Tribune publishes a re¬ 
cord of the ravages of the great storm of Oct, ic on 
the lakes, showing that upward of $5oo,oon damage 
was done to vessels and cargoes, and that 93 per¬ 
sons perished. There were IT total wrecks, Involv¬ 
ing a loss of #153,900,' and In all 00 vessels were 
damaged to a greater or less extent....The 
boiler of Jasper Smith's steam mill at Warrenton. 
Ala., exploded on the 27th, killing a man and a boy 
and seriously Injuring several other persons, one 
of whom had 013 right leg torn completely off. 
The mill and a cotton gin were blown to pieces 
...A fire occurred on the 28th In the three-story 
brick building on the corner or Howard and Lex¬ 
ington Streets, Baltimore. The loss Is estimated 
at #25,ooe; Insured principally in home offices.... 
....A'fire occurred at Bridgewater, Penn., on the 
28 th, destroying one frame and one brick dwelling. 
Mrs. llempsblll, 80 years of age, who was too feeble 
to help herself, perished In the flames. Two little 
boys, who were In the habit of carrying coal for 
the old lady, are also missing and are supposed to 
have perished. 
Nov., 25th has been designated as a day of 
thanksgiving and prayer by the president........ 
Joseph B. Dixon editor of the Homer (N.Y.) Re¬ 
publican, was on the 29, run over on the railroad 
and was killed.Peter Wright, colored, was 
hanged at Liberty, Pa., for the murder of Robert 
M. Maupln, white, In June, 1879.Deputy 
Sheriff George Ileber was shot and Instantly 
killed by Sylvester Merritt, at Sturgis, city, Col., 
on the 27th. Heberwas the aggressor, and the 
killing was in self-defence..William B. 
Spooner, formely a prominent merchant or Boston, 
died on the 29th aged 74, His charities are said 
to reach $700,000 notwithstanding which, and the 
loss of $150,000 by the great fire of 1872, ho leaves 
a large estate to his widow and relatives. 
The rotary bleacher and boiler in the G. and G. 
A. Robertson paper mfil at Hinsdale, N. Y„ hurst 
on the 29th, The mill was completely ruined. 
Loss, about $200,000. Elbridge G. BJackmore was 
killed and George Leland and Frederick Fields 
were seriously ffijured. 
The Chief of the Bureau of statistics presents in 
his quarterly report for the last quarter of the year 
ended June 30, 1880, Just Issued, a statement show¬ 
ing the immigration Into the United states during 
that period, from which we iearn that the total 
number of Immigrants was 457.257, of which there 
were from Great Britain and Ireland, 114,876; Ger¬ 
many, 84,638; Sweden, 39,180; Norway, 19,S95; 
Austria, 12,904; Italy. 12,327; Denmark, c.576; 
Switzerland, 6,150; Russia, 4,854: Hungary, 4,363; 
France, 4,313; Netherlands, 3,340 ; Poland, 2,177; 
British North American Provinces, 99,706 . 
An early Winter and a very cold one, with a very 
heavy snow-fall, Is predicted; the better for 
the springs and next season’s crops. 
A significant sign of the growing prosperity of 
this continent is to be found In the fact that It 
8 iema almost. Impossible to supply the demand 
for labor on the part of the Southern railroad com¬ 
panies. Application for large working forces are 
constantly received at Castle Garden, and quite a 
large number of immigrants are now being sent 
South, lrstead of being directed to the mining 
districts of the West .The Southern Pacific 
will reach El Paso In a few days, and the line be¬ 
tween San Antonio and that point Is being run, 
while conferences of railroad officials at San An¬ 
tonio look as If the Southern road were an as¬ 
sured fact.Several flouring mills at Sher¬ 
man, Texas, are to be converted Into woolen and 
cotton mills. The uncertainty of the wheat crop 
In that locality, and t he belter chances for cotton 
and wool are the sufficient reasons for the change. 
.The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road is 
making over one mile per day laying track near 
Cameron. They are working about 200 hands at 
that point,and the bridge Is now nearly completed. 
.The Brazos division of the Texas and Pa- 
clfle railway, with headquarters In Dallus, was 
formally opened on the 25th ult. 
A sugar factory at Leavenworth, Kansas, was 
burned on tho 29th. Loss, $75,000.R. M. 
Mattlson's flour mill at Falrbank, Minn., was 
burned on the 29th. Loss, $20,000.Exports 
from Canada during September were $il,316,537; 
imports, #8,244,122, and duties, $167,504 ..Mon¬ 
umental cotton press, Uulon Dock, Baltimore, was 
burned on the 30th. Loss, #40,000, besides a quantity 
of cotton.The Tontine states at New Haven, 
Conn., were burned on the 3lst.Imports of 
merchandise Into this country during September 
amounted to $93,200,000, against #44,200,000 same 
time In 1879, Exports for September of this year 
were $71,200,000 and last year $65,400,000. increase 
of Imports was 23j£ percent., and nine per cent, 
for exports, imports of gold and silver for Sep¬ 
tember were $19,700,000 and $28,400,000 last year. 
During the last nine months exports of merchan¬ 
dise have exceeded imports by $73,800,000. 
Montana and Dakota are now reported free from 
Indian troubles, sitting Bull and the leaders of the 
Sioux having surrendered to General Miles........ 
A serious Chinese riot is reported in Denver, Cal., 
In which several persons were killed.The 
residents or northern Michigan do not wish to 
have the deer exterminated. At the opening of 
the present season they advertised that hunters 
would not be welcome, and would probably lose 
their dogs If they came. Their request is disre¬ 
garded, and the mortality among the dogs by rea¬ 
son of poison Is greater than among the deer. 
A short, time since, while WUmot Armstrong 
was building a dam near one of hla camps In the 
vicinity of Trout Isle, Michigan, one of his men 
found a stone pipe, burled two feet under a cedar 
tree. The workmanship on It was said to be fine. 
The top of the bowl has a rim of brass, and the 
howl has been cut Into near the entrance of the 
pipe-stem, and a piece of brass fitted into it and 
from It to the stem, and rlvlted with brass rivets. 
.Citizens of Fargo, Dakota are disposed to 
resist the payment of bonds voted to the Northern 
Pacific railroad, alleging that while the company 
has built the shops, as stipulated, It has not en¬ 
tirely fulfilled Its part of the contract.In 
digging a well at lianklnton, Dakota, last week, 
the workmen found a beautiful sea sheU at the 
depth of eighty-six feet, and several well-preserved 
pieces of timber at 100 feet below the surface.... 
.... The annual product or the woolen manufacto¬ 
ries of the United States Is estimated at $288,329,- 
000, and the dairy products at $350,ooo,ooo. Butter 
being an excess of consumption, the balance has 
to seek a foreign market, while the production of 
wool being far below our consumption, we are an¬ 
nually Importing large quantities. 
Wolves are committing serious depredations in 
Otter Tall and Jackson counties, Minn. John Dolan, 
of Kimball, who had a Hock of over a hundred 
sheep, lost so many by the wolves that he felt com¬ 
pelled to sell the rest.Business In Atchison, 
Kansas, has reached a pitch of prosperity never 
known before. Last year there were seven brick 
yards, and this year nine brick yards oannot sup¬ 
ply the demand _Near Fair Haven, Stearns 
county, Minn., Borne days since, a man while work¬ 
ing around a home-made sorghum mill was caught 
by the “sweep,” to which a yoke of cattle was at¬ 
tached, aDd had his head crushed against a stick 
of upright timber. He fell dead Instantly. 
A Stillwater, Minn., lumber firm have already sent 
a large number of men, besides 140 horses and 50 
oxen, to their various lumber camps. The firm 
expect to get out about 45 , 500,000 feet of logs this 
Winter. Their last Winter’s crop was 27 , 000 , 000 , 
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[Loganaport, (Ind.) Dally JournaL] 
I sell more of 8t. Jacobs Oil remarked Mr. D. E. 
Pryor, 112 E. Broadway, to our reporter, than of 
any other article of Its kind, and 1 consider It the 
best liniment In use. It lias to my own knowledge 
cured severe oases of rheumatism in this com¬ 
munity. 
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FOREIGN. 
Affairs In Ireland are fast coming to a crisis, and 
rebellion or revolution, leaving the background, Is 
coming rapidly to the front. The government has 
prepared Indictments against halt & dozen leaders 
of the Land League, having abandoned the whole¬ 
sale prosecution It was at first reported It con¬ 
templated. The head and front of the agitation is 
Parnell, against whom political wrath ts hottest. 
Less of an orator than O’ConneU, he Is more of a 
revolutionist, and the question of the hour is 
whether he will submit quietly to prosecution or 
raise his followers. Monstrous mass meetings are 
still being held here and there among the farmers, 
but up in Protestant Ulster counter-meetings 
begin to be held, by the Orangemen chiefly. 
Threats and occasional outrages are stlU the order 
of the day. Never have the peasantry throughout 
theislaud been so thoroughly armed, whUe a large 
part of them have been drilled considerably by 
night, chiefly by ex-soldlers from this country. In 
England public opinion strongly lavors prompt co¬ 
ercive measures; and in case of rebellion the 
movement Is sure to be suppressed promptly, but 
the " Irish Question ” will still remain to be settled 
—and to that question the attention of the whole 
world has now been forcibly attracted. 
Great Britain's position Just now Is not a com¬ 
fortable one. While bent sternly upon suppress¬ 
ing Irish revolt with a strong, aye. and a cruel 
hand, she has for years been encouraging revolt 
in every country In Europe, While on the alert to 
go to war to keep down the Celts at her owffidoois 
she seems resolved to go to war to free the Slavs 
under the Turkish yoke, and away In Afghanistan 
her efforts to subjugate the natives seem futile, 
for by last reports the whole country was once 
more in a state of anarchy, Abdurrhaman Khan, 
having beeu killed at Cabool, and all the trlbea 
having once more taken up arms. There Is some 
comtort In the lack of confirmation of this news, 
since, If true, either Afghanistan must be recon¬ 
quered, or the British must withdraw and suffer a 
serious loss of prestige not In India alone but 
throughout all Asia and elsewhere. Fresh trou¬ 
bles have broken out In South Africa, too. No 
sooner have the ZuIub then been conquered than 
the Basutos have burst Into revolt, killed a num¬ 
ber of magistrates and missionaries and threaten 
the colonists. Owing to the vast extant of the 
British Empire, not a year passes without war and 
its horrors devastating some part of It 
There are rumors that the Tzar la dead—poison¬ 
ed, It Is Bald, by the Nihilists. The reports are 
contradicted, however, but It is said he la very 
sick aud may die at any moment. Gen. Loris Mell- 
koff, chief of the Russian executive government, 
who uaa lately been at Llvldta with the Tzar, has 
returned to 81 . Petersburg!!, having obtained 
authority to begin a large number of reforms In 
the administration, among which Is a great deal 
more freedom for the press. Meanwhile, the con¬ 
dition of the Russian peasantry la said to he grow. 
Dg more deplorable every day, what with heavy 
taxes, short crops, widespread drunkenness and 
general demoralization. 
Dulclgno was to been have surrendered two weeks 
ago; it Is not surrendered yet. Those Turks 
beat the world in procrastination. It’s excellent 
diplomacy, however, for by tlielr manoeuvertng 
they have already put an end to the concert be¬ 
tween the Powers, dispersed the fleet that was to 
make a demonstration against them and 30 weari¬ 
ed the world with their promises and want of faith 
that folks are getting disgusted with the whole 
thing, if it costa so much trouble to obtain the 
surrender of the miserable Uttle village of Dul¬ 
clgno to the Montenegrins, whose claim to It Is 
pretty strong, how much more will It cost to force 
a cession of the very much larger territory de. 
rnanded by Greece for much less valid reasons? 
In fact, England and Russia alone, still "stick up” 
for the Hellenic claim. There Is a better prospect 
just now that the Montenegrins will he soon satis¬ 
fied. Elza Pasha, who has hitherto delayed mat¬ 
ters In that quarter, has Just been replaced by 
Dervlch Pasha who ts authorized to arrest the Al¬ 
banian chiefs who resist the cession of the town 
and to send them on board a Turkish rnan-ol- 
war. About 10,000 Turkish troops are being con¬ 
centrated at Dulclgno to efiect Its surrender—but 
It seems to us It will be some time yet before 
this Is done, unless Great Britain and Russia 
insist peremptorily on it, and back up their de¬ 
mand by actual force. 
In France, the commotion about the govern¬ 
ment’s harsh treatment of the religious orders Is 
lncreaslug In bitterness and extent. Even In this 
country the summary expulsion of the few assem¬ 
blies of Catholic religious orders, scarcely known 
10 the general public, would cause some excite¬ 
ment, how much more In France where rnonas- 
trles and houses of these orders are much more 
numerous, while the members are known in 
every corner of the country, and cont rol a large 
share of tne schools and seminaries. Unlike the 
Jesuits who submitted quietly, the two religious 
societies whose members have been driven from 
their homes during the past two weeks, barra- 
caded their dwellings against the police who had 
to expel the recusants by force every lime. This, 
of course. Intensified the public excitement. The 
government, however, seems firmly resolved to 
carry out the anti-clerical decrees, and refuses to 
receive any petitions against them. 
The Earl of Beaconsfield is suffering from gout 
in the tongue.Heavy rains continue In Eng¬ 
land. Floods are reported from various parts of 
the country. A portion of the railway between 
Dublin aud Wicklow is washed away, incoming 
vessels report terrific weather on the Atlantic 
during the past few days.It Is said that 
Kurds are firing Into the town of Urumlyah, north¬ 
ern Persia. The town of Khol, In the same prov¬ 
ince, ts also threatened by them. Another body 
of barbarians destroyed Mahmudjet, two miles 
from Falnkaleli. Reinforcements or Persian troops 
are on the way to Teheran, and are a week s Jour¬ 
ney from Sainkaleh. . .The text of the speech 
of the king of Greece at the opening of the cham¬ 
ber of deputies, the 21 st last., shows It was much 
more moderate and restrained In tone than ap¬ 
peared from the telegraphic summary. The king 
represents the necessity of maintaining an army 
on a war footing, rather as an obligation entailing 
heavy charges than as a menace of Immediate 
action. 
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Mr. George Knoehr after having tried all reme¬ 
dies recommended to him for Rheumatism, re¬ 
ceived no relief until he tried the St. Jacobs Oil, 
the first application of which gave him relief, and 
the continued use cured him. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Or the disposals of public land during the twelve 
months ending June 30, I860, there were home¬ 
stead entries, 6 , 045,570 acres; timber-culture en¬ 
tries, 2,193,184 acres; cash entries, 850,740 acres, 
total area of public lands surveyed since the be¬ 
ginning of the surveying operations until the date 
above given, Is 752,557,195 acres, leaving still un¬ 
surveyed an estimated area of 1,062,231,727 acres. 
It is estimated that 1 , 500,000 baskets are used In 
the South for harvesting a crop of cotton, These 
are made of oak splits aurl generally last but one 
year. They cost the planters about $ 2 , 000 , 000 , 
At a recent brewers’exhibition in Eugland, good 
beer was shown brewed from malzo and rice. The 
probability of American maize supplanting English 
barley Is suggested.The president of the 
Massachusetts agricultural college, Levi Stock- 
bridge, has accepted the congressional nomina¬ 
tion of the Greenbackers In the loth dlsinct of 
Mass.The wool clip of the world has In¬ 
creased five times since 1830, when It was about 
320,000,000 pounds In weight, In 1878—the latest 
year for which there are complete figures—Eu¬ 
rope produced 740,ooo.ooo, River Platte 240,000,000, 
United States 208 , 000 , 000 , Australia 350, 000.000 ana 
South Africa 48 , 000,000 pounds, making a total 
of 1,586,000.000 pounds. Great Britain and 
France consume each about the same quan¬ 
tity of wool—280,000,000 pounds a year. Germany 
consumes about 165, 000 ,oou pounds; United States 
250,000,000 pounds; and Russia, Austria and ether 
countries, 400 , 000,000 pounds. 
It will cost the cotton plauters about $40,000,000 
to market their crop this year, of which $25,000,000 
will go Into the pockets of colored laborers, many 
of whom are women ana children. . . The qual¬ 
ity of sorghum juice grown In Western Kansas is 
superior, owing to the long and sunny season. A 
very extensive sorghum and sugar factory has 
just been put in operation near Larned. The 
owner has 700 acres of sorghum, which will give 
employment to a large number of hands. 
Coluinous, Miss., with a population of T,ooo, 
offers $2,000 to have tho next exhibition of the 
Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society held here. 
I .Iowa’s standing among her sister states is 
