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Dittos of Ibc SSlttk. 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
NOV. 43 
HOME NEWS, 
Monday, Nov. 8,1880. 
The Presidential Election resulted In the election 
of General Garfield, republican, by some 34 major¬ 
ity of the electoral vote. All the Northern States 
with the exception of New Jersey and Nevada 
went Republican.Hamilton & Co’s oil mill 
at Shreveport, La., was destroyed by fire on the 
1st. Loss. $80.000; Insurance, $49,000 .Hon. 
John T. Keen, Mayor ot North Danville, Va., was 
thrown from his buggy and died from hla injuries 
on the 1st.Chauncey P. Reeve, a farmer, 
aged 63 , drove In to Middletown, N. Y., to see a 
doctor, and died on bis wagon In rront ot the phys¬ 
ician’s door. Heart disease was the cause. 
Robert Payne and Scott Thompson have been ai- 
reated at Danville, Va., upon the charge ot being 
concerned in the death of scott Hawkins, whose 
body was found In the canal at that place on the 
23 a me.Thaddeus M. BaLrd, a well-known 
citizen of surrey county, Virginia, committed sui¬ 
cide by shooting himself through the head. 
A few days previously he attempted suicide with a 
razor. Deceased was for many years a conductor 
on the City Point Railroad.Three brick 
buildings at Fort Dodge, Iowa, occupied respec¬ 
tively by Mr. Morgan as a drug store, the First 
National Bank and Beth Vincent, were burned on 
the3lstult., involving a loss of $25,000; partially 
Insured. 
One of the buildings of the Laflln & Rand Pow¬ 
der Works, at Mountain view, about nine miles 
from Paterson, N. J., was blown up on the 3d, and 
two men were so terribly lujured that they died 
the next morning. .Ranker & Lutz’s brewery 
at Fort Wayne, Ind., was destroyed on the 2d by 
an Incendiary fire. The Iobs Is $ 10,000 . 
While hunting In Dinwiddle county, Virginia, M 11- 
llam Scott was accidentally killed by a companion 
named William Mabry.The Interior De¬ 
partment has received dispatches from Ute Com¬ 
missioner Meacham and Agent Berry announcing 
that they arrived safely at Rawlins, WyomlDg, on 
the 1st, and that they would place themselves at 
the disposal of the authorities at Denver. Their 
roundabout route through the mountains was se¬ 
lected In order to avoid apprehended risks of mob 
violence in Southern Colorado. 
The rain has enabled the Delaware and Hudson 
Canal to resume navigation, and several hundred 
boats, with 90,000 tons of coal, were waiting at 
Port Jervis for water. If the water lasts 6,000 
tons will reach tidewater daily until the Ice closes 
navigation.A fire at Bayou Sara, La, on 
the 30 th, destroyed a block of buitdlugs, Including 
Picard * Well s store and dwelling, Johu F. Ir- 
vltie's, Alexander’s, Hart’s, Brown & Co.’s and 
Martinez’s stores and the telegraph office. Loss 
estimated at $30,000.Mary Warnock, aged 
13 years, employed at the Barbour Flax Splnnlug 
Mill at Paterson, N. J., while engaged In oiling a 
shaft was caught by the hair In the machinery 
and completely scalped, both ears being torn oil 
with the skin of the skull. She was takeu tost. 
Joseph's Hospital, but her recovery Is hopeless .. 
...The Brush electric light Is to be Introduced 
Into the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona. 
.T hirteen men were perclpltated Into the 
bottom of a colliery shaft at Mons, Pa., and killed 
by the breaking or the hoisting apparatus on the 
14th. 
Policeman Fred. Kalsch was fatally shot by 
Charles Marshall, colored, at Cincinnati, on the 
3d, while endeavoring to disperse a disorderly 
crowd.The Memphis and Arkansas River 
packet, Ouachita Belle, struck a suag five miles 
above Austin. Miss., and sank within ten minutes. 
8he had a good list of freight. The boat was val¬ 
ued at $ 20 ,OJD. No lives were lost.During 
a Republican Jollification at Frankfort, Ky., on 
the 3d, a difficulty occurred between Hon. Wil¬ 
liam U Sneed and Jerry Lee. The latter drew a 
pistol, when Officer Conway interfered and Lee’s 
pistol went off In his hand, the ball taking effect 
in the lower part of Conway’s bowel3, lnfllotlng 
what is thought will he a fatal wound. In a few 
minutes alterward Frank Egbert shot a negro 
boy named George Whittaker for hoUoolng for 
Garfield. 11 Is thought he cannot recover. 
The Memphis steamer Robert Mitchell, en route 
from Cairo to New Orleans, struck a hidden ob¬ 
struction while making a crossing at Fox Island, 
six mites below Memphis, and sank. Her cargo 
consisted of 760 tons of grain and breadstuffs and 
625 bales of cotton, all consigned to New Orleans 
merchants. 
A fire originating In a small harness shop at 
Sturgeon Bay, Wts., destroyed Sellers’s furniture 
store, the Northwest Telegraph Company’3 office, 
Mosse Brothers’ hardware store, Palmer’s barber 
shop, Amasse’s meat market and restaurant, Ren¬ 
ter's’saloon, Collard'6 tailor shop, Gross’ saloon 
and the village hall. loss. $14,006; Insurance 
llglit..George Munro, the New York pub¬ 
lisher, has endowed a chair ot history, political 
economy and rhetoric at Dalhouste College, in 
Nova Scotia, the incumbent of which will be Rev 
John Forrest .. .... In an election row at Lexing¬ 
ton. Miss., J. W. Ashcraft was killed by T. J Lock¬ 
hart, the latter was fatally wounded and C. M. 
Hull, editor of the Holmes County Times, was 
palufully wounded.Afire at Benicia, Cal., 
destroyed two brick buildings containing the 
construction department, machinery and bullet 
presses of the Cnlted States Arsenal. The loss 
is estimated at $200,oeO.The Sliver Lake 
woolen mills at Mllfords, DeL, were totally de¬ 
stroyed by fire, on the 21. The loss Is only par¬ 
tially covered by $ 1,600 insurance. 
Wntle Charles Stafford ana Hoary Vickery were 
digging gravel from a bank near Attleboro, Mass., 
It caved in and both were killed. The lormer was 
37 years of age, the latter 35. Each leaves a widow 
and two small children.The boiler of an 
engine on the Fall River and New Bedford Rail¬ 
road exploded while drawing a train over a bridge. 
The engineer, George F. White, was killed, and 
the fireman, James Thompson, was severely In¬ 
jured. The train narrowly escaped being thrown 
from the track.P. M. Matllson’s flour mill 
at Faribault, Mlnu., was burned on the 30th. 
Loss, $ 20,000 .Charles O’Neill was fatally 
shot In the abdomen, at Clncluuatt, during a 
street fight .The holler of the Atlanta (Ga.) 
Flouring Mills exploded on the 30 th. killing the 
engineer and fireman.... The citizens ot Ari¬ 
zona have been devoting the past week to recep¬ 
tions In honor of General Fremont. 
In Sussex county. Va., Mattie Sharp was stand¬ 
ing near a fire, wnen her clothing became Ignited, 
and before help could be had she was fatally 
burned.A band of thirty Apache Indians 
attacked a picket of twelve men of the Ninth Cav¬ 
alry, 150 miles south of Fort Quitman, N. M„ kill¬ 
ing two soldiers.The charter of the Cape 
Cod Ship Canal Company of New York will be re¬ 
voked, the compauy not having complied with the 
terms. The Cape Cod Canal Company of Massa¬ 
chusetts will take up the work as readily as possi¬ 
ble.The articles ol incorporation of the 
Chicago Driving Park were forwarded to Spring- 
field, III,, on Oct 80th. The Incorporators are B, H. 
Campbell, H. V. Beamls and A. T. Richmond. The 
incorporation will have a capital stock of $ 1 , 000 ,- 
OOp, divided Into shares of $100 each. .A. B. 
NLchola, of Washington, D. c.; Hoyt Sherman, of 
lowa, and J. B. Bloom, ot New York, have been 
designated as Government Commissioners to ex¬ 
amine the recently completed section of the At¬ 
lantic and Pacific Railroad fifty-two miles west¬ 
ward from Albuquerque, N. M .The discus¬ 
sion for the proposed stte for the World’s Fair to be 
held at New Yolk, In 1883, still continues vigor¬ 
ously with the proposition to hold It at Cen¬ 
tral Park.The steamer Rhode Island 
went ashore on Bonnet Point, above Narraganselt 
Pier, on the 6th, and went to pieces on the 7th. 
She weathered the heavy wind and rain Btcrrn 
that prevailed during the night, but with the in¬ 
coming storm and tide she began to shiver and 
tremble, and for an hour or more presented a scene 
grand beyond description——Four blocks m 
the business portion ot Waiford. Ont. were de¬ 
stroyed by fire on the 5th. Loss, $150,000. 
From 200 to 300 miners have stopped work at 
Akron, Ohio. They demand an advance of ten 
cents per ton. 
Frederick Kester, the Iroquois county wife mur¬ 
derer, will be hanged at Danville, III., January 21, 
1881.George Glass was shot dead on Thurs¬ 
day night at Madison, Ind., by George Watson or 
Frederick Trenck. It is stated that Glass hur¬ 
rahed for Jeff Davis and in the ensuing alierca- 
Uon he shot Watson to the leg. and It Is supposed 
that Watson returned the fire, killing Glass. 
Margaret Dempsey, said to he ill years old, was 
found starved to death In her hut on the moun¬ 
tains near UlstervtllP, N, Y.Samuel L. Law- 
ton, Township Collector of Delevan, 1U., and a 
prominent merchant, has disappeared. There Is 
a deficiency In his accounts of $ 8 , 000 . The total 
amount or h!s peculation Is not yet known. 
Sheriff Desmond, of San Francisco, has been In¬ 
dicted lor felony In permuting the escape of pris¬ 
oners; a cltatlou has also been Issued by the Grand 
Jury commanding Mayor Kalloeh to show cause 
why he should not he punished for contempt In 
attacking that body In the prelude to a sermon 
last Sunday. The report attacks a number of 
county officials and Institutions and praises others. 
Ills noticeable that the unfavorable comments 
are couflned to the officers elected by the work¬ 
ingmen.A. Albert Mitchell, colored, was on 
the 6th hanged at Louisa Court nouse, Va„ for 
the murder of Charles K. Walton, In March 1ST9. 
Mitchell had been sheltered by Mr. Walton In his 
store on the night the murder was committed. 
As Walton lay asleep on the stde ol his bed 
Mitchell struek him twice with an Iron bar and 
then proceeded to rob the money drawer, While 
thus engaged Walton called out to Mitchell who 
struck his protector another blow, which killed 
Dim.A special from Lcadville, Col., says El- 
bridge J. Dawson, Assistant Postmaster, and Ed¬ 
ward A. Clark, Stamp Clerk, were arrested on the 
5 th, on a charge ot stealing' Government funds. 
The amount of their deficiency Is about $ 6 , 000 . 
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government were defeated In the Senate on a law 
they wished to pass against the Jesuits.In 
Russia the Tzar Is still unwell at Llvadla, and ne¬ 
gotiating with his legitimate children about the 
future status of hts Illegitimate, ones after hts 
death. The Princess Delgoroutcl Is to he declared 
Tzarlna, anyhow, and her children will probably 
be legitimatized and acknowledged princes and 
princesses “ ot the blood." This Is the chief ques¬ 
tion that now eogrosses the moribund head of the 
Russian Empire and the Russian Church, while 
his subjects are starving In many of the provinces 
and the Nihilists are once more inspired to fresh 
excesses by the conduct, of the supreme ruler and 
wretchedness of his subjects. 
Prince Gortsehakoff Is again reported very ill 
and unlikely to recover.Persia has refused 
to allow stores to be sent to the Russian General, 
Skobeloff, who Is warring against the Turcomans, 
on the ground that the crops are poor. Were not 
such the case in Russia, the army would have 
been supplied from home. The Kurdish in¬ 
vasion of Persia Is being repulsed with great loss. 
Thirty of the Invaders have been crucified for 
committing excesses.Dulclgno has not yet 
been surrendered, but the Sultan has sent a sealed 
letter to Dervlsch Pasha, commander of the Turk¬ 
ish troops In the neighborhood, and It Is supposed 
that It contains an order to give up the town at 
once at any cost, as a council of the Ministers, held 
at Constantinople on Saturday, advised such a 
measure__ The Porte has decided to raise the 
strength of the army in Thessaly and Epirus to 
42.000 men; the Greeks having 48,000 ready to In¬ 
vade those provinces, a part of which they claim, 
.An International exhibition Is to be held In 
Berlin In 1892.During last week an Interna¬ 
tional ** go-as-you-please ” six-days’ pedestrian 
match was held iu London, at which Rowell, the. 
plucky, chunky little Britisher, once more came 
out ahead, beating Uart’a time In the last oompe- 
tlon here, by one mile, thus making the best record 
ever attained. Nearly a dozen started, but three 
only kept on to the end—Rowell, who scored 566 
miles, Llt.tlowood, 4X0 miles, and Dobler. 450 miles. 
The last was the only “.survivor” of three Ameri¬ 
cans who started. The receipts were only £1,2<K», 
or $6,ooo.ot which Rowell’s share will be hardly 
one-tenth of what he received In this city. The 
next match will probably he held here—there's a 
world more money la it. 
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I Kalamazoo, (Mich.) Dally Gazette.] 
It la an unprecedented success said Mr. Chas. 
s. D’Arcambal, the well-known Burdick House 
druggist, when asked for his views In regard to 
the St. Jacobs Oil; It Is highly extolled, and Is 
giving general satisfaction. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
of all that could he done to holster It. The $ 2 , 000 ,- 
000 went and another $ 1 , 000,000 after It. The mem¬ 
bers of the firm at once set about retrieving tbelr 
losses, and sent, agents through this country and 
Europe, and from the reports made satisfied 
themselves that the product of the hog would 
he in demand for the ensuing four months. 
They began In April to purchase all the actual 
stock of mess pork In Chicago and a trifle over 
100,000 barrels In store In other cities. This they 
bought at prices ranging from $9 50 to $10 50, the 
average being about $ 10 . In addition they secured 
options" on 1,250,000 barrels more, so that they 
could claim this quantity in the tuiure at certain 
specified figures from other parties, and then 
awaited developments. They took occasion go 
let everybody know that they had all the pork Ua 
existence and a great deal more. The manipu¬ 
lators had laid their plans to force the price up to, 
$ 20 , hut they wanted it to go up gradually. But. 
when It became apparent to the traders and 
speculators that a great bull movement was on 
foot, prices were run up with such rapidity that It 
was feared the effect would frighten off the 
• short s” and 1 nduee them to settle too early To 
prevent such a move the Armours threw nearly 
a half million barrels on the market, and this 
served to check the boom and keep It within their 
control, and at the same time produce the im¬ 
pression that they could not or did not carry out 
their published programme of forcing quotations 
to $ 20 . Operations were not alone confined to 
America, hut all of Europe was taken in, and 
wherever men were found willing to sell pork 
they did not have, the Armoura were graciously 
accomodating. They knew that they held all 
the pork and that those who had sold them the 
artiola would have to come to them for it or settle 
the differences. The amount of money that was 
placed against this game was enormous. In 
striking this balance the lucky owuers of the 
m brace” find they have made not less than $7,000,- 
ojo. In other words, they got back the $ 3 , 000 , 000 . 
lost when pork went down last Winter and $4,000,- 
000 besides. The Wall street, dealers feel as hard 
as their Western brethern in misfortune, and a 
vast sum of New York money Is placed to the 
credit of the Chicago “bulls.’’. 
The visible supply of grain, comprising the stocks 
In granary at the principal points of accumulation 
at lake and seaboard ports, and the rail shipments 
from Western lake and river ports: 
Wheat.. 
Corn.... 
Oat».... 
Barley. 
1880, 
1880, 
1879, 
1878. 
Oct. :w. 
Oct. S3, 
Nov, 1, 
Nov 3, 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
bush. 
19,lie,tie 
17.480.l91 
£8.133,649 
17,902,755 
19,364,415 
L%mvB6 
U .615,214 
10>4,922 
£>,<'36,878 
4,709.11 3 
8.358,1157 
3,475.743 
2,611.581 
3,479,900 
4.380,004 
6,0H3,904 
897,687 
865,731 
967,513 
1.406,538 
47.046,193 
44,963.053 
49.123.487 
38,563,872 
FOREIGN. 
In Ireland the excitement is still Increasing. The 
government has added more names to the list of 
the leaders of the Land League Indicted, so that 
they now number 13. A couple of weeks ago Mr. 
Healy, private secretary to Parnell, waa arrested 
on the charge that he with another had “ intimi¬ 
dated” a tanner who bad taken alarm from which 
another tenant had been evicted on refusing to 
pay a thoroughly exorbitant rent. They had 
merely advised him not to be “ odd ” and Incur the 
Ill-will or his neighbors. The trial Is yet to come 
off, but meanwhile Healy has become a candidate 
for Parliament for Wexford. This Is only a 
sample case of a government prosecution Instantly 
tr.ntttng an Insignificant person a personage of Im¬ 
portance. Meetings are constantly being held 
throughout the country, at watch language, more 
and more Inflammatory rouses still more the ar 
dent national temperament; the resolution seems 
to be hardening to resist at all hazards rent-paying 
except at a figure satisfactory to the tenants; the 
English determination to “put down” all oppo 
sltion also appears to gain strength; the Channel 
fleet has bean ordered to the Irish coast, and the 
announcement has excited “ indescribable excite¬ 
ment." 
in France the members ot the last ot the “ un- 
authorized” religious order* have been driven 
from their homes and the Republic Is happy. 
They were said to be “ unauthorized ” because an 
obsolete law of the beginning of the century said 
that they, having many foreign members, must he 
authorized by the State to dwell In the country. 
It was a vestige of the state of society under the 
heathen French Revolution, was forgotten for 
years, and resurrected the other day when the 
THE NATIONAL FARMERS’ ALLIANCE. 
If the farmers of the country were as closely 
united with regard to legislation hostile or friend¬ 
ly to their interests, as are those engaged la other 
Industries, tney would have little cause ot com- 
platat of unfair taxation, oppressive railroad 
exaettons, or legislative neglect of measures con¬ 
ducive, If not essential, to their welfare. United, 
their numbers would force legislation in accord¬ 
ance with their just demands; without State or 
national unanimity of action, the tnjustloe to 
which they are often subjected and the salutary 
measures they have a right to expect are alike 
disregarded by our law-makers, with whom expe¬ 
diency and self-interest are usually more potent 
than justice or the national weiware. Combina¬ 
tion alone can right this wrong, and effective 
combination Is Impossible without oiganlzatlon 
Hence the necessity ot associations such as the 
Grange, and the Farmers’ Alliance. For its social, 
economic and educational benefits the Grange 
has deserved well ot the farmers ot the country, 
and in these respects we heartily wish It length 
of days, Increase of number* and growth ot pros¬ 
perity. But while It has done a good deal for the 
farmer In these directions, the National Farmers' 
Alliance, Just organized, promises to do a good 
deal tor him In another. The Grange has meddled 
little in politics; the Alliance, while non-partlzan, 
proposes to work against class legislation and 
the encroachments of concentrated capital and 
the tyranny of monopoly; to provide against 
being imposed upon by swindlers and swindling 
advertisement in the public prints; to oppose in 
their respective political parties the election of 
any candidate to office, State or national, who Is 
not thoroughly In sympathy with the tanners’ In¬ 
terests ; to demand that the existing political par¬ 
ties Bhould nominate farmer* or those who ate In 
sympathy with them tor all offices within the gut 
of the people; and to do anything In a legitimate 
maimer that might serve to benefit the producer. 
In so far aslt honestly pursues these alms the new 
association shall receive our hearty support, and 
in bo far as It attalnsjhem, our sincere applause. 
THE CHICAGO FORK CORNER. 
The Inside history of the great Armour “pork 
oorner,” to whloh reference was made editorially 
in the Rural a couple of months ago, In which the 
Armour* made a profit of $T, 000 , 000 , came out in 
Chicago on Friday last. The History of the opera¬ 
tions goes back to the Summer of 1879, at whloh 
tim e Phil. Armour and his Milwaukee partner, 
John ITajiklngton, went to Europe witn the inten¬ 
tion of “ cornering ” the pork market ol the world. 
They were abroad about two months, and during 
their absence ordered the purchase here of an 
enormouHamount of provisions, including 60, 000,000 
pounds of ribs, bought at less than 4* cents per 
pound, and 150,000 barrels of pork at an average 
or only $8 per barrel. On tbelr return to America 
In September they found tbe market strengthen¬ 
ing. Price* went up and they realized a profit of 
$ 2 , 000 , 000 , In the next two or three month* pork 
advanced to $14 per barrel, and ribs In proportion. 
Under the Impression that the boom was going to 
continue they made further purchases. Then came 
the reaction, pork going from $14 to $9.26 In spite 
Last Saturday a meeting ol gentlemen Interested 
in the N. Y. State Agr’l. Experiment Station took 
place at Garden City, L. I., embracing some of the 
most intelligent of Long Island farmers. Dr. A. 
S. Heath, of the American Institute Farmer*' 
Club, who presided, said that although It Is proba¬ 
ble that the site of the State Agricultural Station 
will be a hundred acres on the Stewart estate, the 
Director ot the station will make experlmenis on 
the lauds In every county In the State, thus giving 
every part of tbe commonwealth all the advantage 
that may he gained from the existence of such an 
Instil utlon.Subsequently a resolution was 
passed unanimously that It was the sense of the 
meeting that the experiment* should be so dis¬ 
tributed as to make every county a participant In 
tbe benefits arlstDg from tbe station. A gentle¬ 
man said that Garden city will undoubtedly offer 
such attractions as will Influence the loundersof 
the State Agricultural College In fixing upon a 
site for that institution. It Is not Improbable that 
if the proj ctors ot the college select Garden City 
tbelr college may start with an endowment that 
will make It tiom the outset the best Institution of 
Its kind In the world.In view of tbe increasing 
business ot those Long Island farmer* who are 
Belling vegetables and milk In New York City, It 
was agreed to ask tbe Lung Islaud Railroad Com¬ 
pany to run a night train lor that Industry. The 
tanners who are thus to be benefited dwell within 
about thirty mile* of the city, and their number 
has been largely Increased wltnin three years 
past. They ask for such facilities as shall enable 
them to deliver vegetable* absolutely fresh from 
tbe ground, 
The Elmira Farmers’ Club offered premiums to 
boys for the largest yield of corn from a given 
portion of an acre. These premiums have been 
recently awarded. The largest product was at 
the rate of U0 bushels and 30 pounds per acre. 
Manure had been applied at the rate ot so loads 
per acre, which at the rate of $2 a load, made the 
corn come to $ 1 .43 per bushel. BuU u many places 
the manure would be reckoned at only $ 1 , and 
a strong soil would hold mere than hair lts value 
for succeeding crops. The crops of the other ap¬ 
plicants were 69, 69, 66, 66, and 53 bushels per 
acre. Even at the nigh cost mentioned. 1 he ex¬ 
periment was a praiseworthy one, as snowing the 
possibility of the crop..J. N. Marden, Jr., of 
Baltimore, Md, owns a pear (arm lu mat State, 
which is the largest this side of California. It 
contains 15,000 trees. Last Spring he tried ihe ex¬ 
periment of keeping the frosts away by bunding 
fires around 2,540 of tbe trees on frosty nlgbts. 
The rest of tbe orchard produced a comparatively 
small quautity 01 pears, while the field arouad 
which the fires were kept yielded 3 000 boxes which 
sold for more than $ 6,000 .Shipmen t of flour 
from Minneapolis Jan. I to Oct. 20. of the present 
year amounted to 1,464 595 barrels, and shipments 
of mill stuff during the same period amounted to 
52,598 ton*.The gate receipts of the fair In 
Indianapolis, ttat* year, were about $14,ou0 ; last 
year they were over $ 18 , 000 , but, owing to the de¬ 
creased expenses this year, the net receipt* are as 
great as those of 1879. vtz-$4,ooo. 
In California Missouri grapes are sold from 
growers to wine makers for $20 to $27 per ton, and 
foreign grapes for $27 to $35, against $14 to $16 for 
the former, and $20 to $26 for the latter, last year. 
