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JAN 42 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
fSnus of llje Work. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Jan. 5,1884. 
It is estimated that the reduction of the 
public debt for the month of December is 
about $12,000,000.During five years 
the business failures in the United States re¬ 
ported to Bradstreet’s are as follows: 1879, 
6,662; 1880, 4,850; 1881, 5,929; 1882, 7,574; 
1883, 10,187.Severe snow storms pre¬ 
vailed in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri Tues¬ 
day, moving eastward.Thousands of 
distillers and dealers have sigued the petition 
to Congress for an extension of the bonded 
whiskey period.Postmaster-General 
Gresham is preparing a bill to exclude news¬ 
papers publishing lottery advertisements from 
the pound rate.Government statistics 
for the past six months of the current fiscal 
year show a decrease of revenue of $28,000,- 
000, of which $13,000,000 are in internal rev¬ 
enue receipts, $12,500,000 from customs, aud 
the remainder in receipts from miscellaneous 
sources.At a meetiug of the House 
Committee on Military Affairs Monday, Gen¬ 
eral Slocum, of New York, was authorized 
to report a Fitz-John Porter bill similar to 
the one which failed to pass Congress last 
session,..,_There appears to be a general 
disposition among employers to cut down 
wages; and employes everywhere are pre¬ 
paring to strike against such reductions. 
The Brush Electric Light Company has 1,100 
arc lights aud 2,700 incandescent lights run¬ 
ning in New York, and the. number is con¬ 
stantly increasing. The Edison Company has 
485 customers, who employ 10,309 lamps con¬ 
nected with the Pearl Street station, aud 
there are 122 applicants in the district who 
cannot be supplied. Two up-town stations 
w iU be erected . In Baltimore, Mouday, 
there were over 400 cases of ineasels. Sixteen 
deaths from the disease occurred last week. 
.Gen. Hancock, who is at Los Angelos, 
Cal., has entirely recovered his health. 
The available cash in the Treasury has been 
reduced about $11,000,000 by the debt pay¬ 
ments during the past month, which have 
exceeded $24,000,000 for bonded debt.... 
....Judge G. W. McCrary, of the United 
States Judicial Circuit Court, has re¬ 
signed. He was widely known for his de¬ 
cisions in the barbed-wire fence cases........ 
Colorado papers say that Secretary Teller 
having announced that he is not aenndidate 
for United States Senator from that State. 
Mr. Jerome B. Chaffee has avowedly entered 
the field against Mr. Hill, who, it is under¬ 
stood, would like to be his own successor. 
There will be other candidates, in 
eluding ex-Govemor Routt . 
“ Betty and the Baby,” received, all told, 
$9,999, according to Sergeant Mason, who is 
to’exhibit himself at a Philadelphia “Dime 
Museum” for a reported wage of $250 per 
week ! When he fails to “draw” he intends 
to settle down as a shoemaker in Washington 
.Tne Toronto Trade Congress has 
adopted resolutions condemning the holding 
of large tracts of lands by corporations or by 
individual speculators... .The Manitoba farm¬ 
ers’ agitation still continues......A large emi¬ 
gration of the crofters of Skye, who have 
been so grievously oppressed by the Lord of 
the Isles, is under way to North Carolina, 
where a large number of Scotch islanders 
settled in 1749, under the leadership of Flora 
McDonald. Thousands of the descendants of 
these are liviug in North Carolina, and Gallic 
is spoken by many of them.By par¬ 
taking of eggs prepared for rats, four persons 
were poisoned at Charlotte, N. C. One of 
them died Monday. Id the past twelve 
months over $ 600 , 000,000 passed through the 
Sub-Treasury in Wall Street.Ihe im¬ 
migrants that arrived during 1883 numbered 
455,647. or 197 more than in 1882..The 
Amateur Press Association held its semi-an¬ 
nual meeting in Worcester, Mass., Wednes¬ 
day, and elected the following officers: Presi¬ 
dent, Geo. A. Dunn, of Gardner; Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, E. H. Dyer, of Boston, aud Geo. A. 
Hough, of New Bedford; Secretary, E. C. 
Fay, of Boston; Treasurer, W, F. Dangill. of 
Gardner; Editor, H. C. Parsons, of North- 
field. There were 23 amateur papers repre¬ 
sented.The last of the Apache rene¬ 
gades from Sonora surrendered at San Car¬ 
los, Arizona, last week. The Indians are all 
contented, and general security is felt. I here 
is renewed confidence in Gen. Crook's conti'ol 
of the Indians. .The 400th anniversary 
of the birth of Ulric Zwingli, the great re¬ 
former of Switzerland, was celebrated on 
New Year’s Day ip nearly all the Reformed 
churches of Lehigh \ alley, Pa. In towns and 
villages the churches were appropriately dec¬ 
orated with evergreens, mottoes and por¬ 
traits of Zwingli.Of the 325 members 
of the House of Representatives at Wash¬ 
ington more than one-half have taken their 
seats in the House for the first time: 119 
served in the army and navy during the 
war —54 on the Confederate side aDd 65 on 
the Union side. Of the 54 all are Democrats, 
and of the Union soldiers 50 are Republicans 
and 15 Democrats. Classified by occupations 
and professions, the membership is as follows: 
Lawyers, 221; manufacturers, 19; fanners, 
18; editors, 10; merchants, 8 ; bankers, 7; 
doctors, 5- lumbermen, 2; railroad presidents, 
2 ; railroad operators, 2 ; ministers, 1 ; phar¬ 
macists, 1 ; zoologists, 1 ; hatters, 1 ; rail¬ 
road ticket agents, 1 ; coopers, 1 ; printers, 1 ; 
capitalists, 1; politicians, 1. The occupations 
and professions of twenty-two are not stated. 
It will be observed that the percentage of 
lawyers is unusually large. Taking the 
Southern States alone, somewhat more than 
seven-eights of the Representatives classify 
themselves as belonging to the legal profes¬ 
sion. Of the 11 Texas men all exeept Ochil¬ 
tree are put down as lawyers. Of the 19 man¬ 
ufacturers, seveu are from New-York. 
The statement is made that there are about 
66,000 locomotive engines in the world, and 
120,000 passenger aud 500,000 freight cars; 
there are 200,000 miles of track, and the cap¬ 
ital invested is $ 20 , 000 , 000,000 .The 
statement is made that two thirds of the pop¬ 
ulation of Minnesota aud Dakota is composed 
of Scandinavians. They make first-elass cit¬ 
izens. Gen. Grant fell on his left side while 
alighting from his carriage at his New York 
home the other evening, and is confined to his 
bed with a painful injury to his hip. The doc¬ 
tors thiuk that the sciatic nerve is hurt, and 
that he will not be about again for several 
weeks.A Philadelphia hotel-keeper 
seeks to scare the rural visitor into turning gas 
off with notices thus: “The relatives and 
friends of guests who blow out the gas will 
have to pay for the amount of gas wasted be¬ 
fore the body will he delivered.”.There 
was a riot between Catholics and Orangemen 
at Harbor Graee, Newfoundland, last week, 
in which several men were killed aud 
wounded. The excitement continues, and 
there is a possibility of more bloodshed. Or¬ 
angemen and Nationalists had a set-to near 
Dromore, He., Monday, and Government 
troops had to interfere to prevent wholesale 
slaughter.There are over 246,000 In¬ 
dians in the charge of the 68 agencies, includ¬ 
ing 59,000 in the Indian Territory, and per¬ 
haps 15,000 scattered about who are not enum¬ 
erated. A newspaper correspondent in Mon¬ 
tana is sure that the number of redskins is 
constantly increasing, aud thiuks it likely that 
there are more in the couutry to-duy than at 
any time before since Columbus came. 
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AGRICULTURAL. 
Saturday, Jan. 6,1884. 
Mr John P. Morris is starting a regular 
goat farm near Harrisburg, N. C. He intends 
to raise goats as sheep are raised in large 
flocks.About 150 tobacco growers, re¬ 
presenting the New England States, met in 
convention at Hartford, Conn., on New 
Year’s Day to “ further protest against the 
recent decision of the Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury whereby wrapper leaf tobacco is virtually 
admitted at the rate of 35 cents per pound, 
thus evading the intent and spirit of the 
law.” Several addresses were made against 
the p H miss ion of Sumatra tobacco at the 
minimum duty. A resolution was passed 
appealing to the Secretary of the Treasury to 
give further consideration to the matter, and 
to so frame his decision that the law may 
protect our agricultural industries as the 
spirit of the luw intended. It was resolved 
to appoint a commitbe to visit Washington 
in the interests of the tobacco growers. 
Two days after Thanksgiving here the health 
officers seized and carted away from our mar¬ 
kets 10 tous of turkeys and ocher poultry unfit 
for human food; while 30 tons were seized 
iu Boston. A great deal was also spoiled 
at Christmas, but as the weather was 
colder, the loss was not nearly so 
great as at Thanksgiving.The 
25th annual meeting of the State Horti¬ 
cultural Society of Peuusylvania will be held 
at. the State Capital, Harrisburg, on January 
16 and 17. All interested in horticulture, 
floriculture and kindred pursuits a re cordially 
invited to attend. Members will be enter¬ 
tained at the “Mutter House” at reduced 
rates. The usual excursion rates to members 
aud their families, and others who may wish 
toatteud the meetings, will be granted by the 
Pennsylvania, Northern Central, Philadelphia 
and Erie, Pniladelpliia and Reading, and 
Cumberland Valley Railroads. These excur¬ 
sion tickets will be obtainable only upon pre¬ 
sentation of card orders, which will be fur¬ 
nished upon application to the secretary, E. B. 
Engle, at Chumbersburg, Pa. Tickets may 
be hadou Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 
January 15, 16 and 17, and will be good to re¬ 
turn until Saturday, 19th, inclusive. Send 
for orders promptly, inclosing stamp, aud 
naming line or lines over which you propose 
to come.... Bilis relating to the for¬ 
feiture of land grants have already been re¬ 
ferred to the House Committee on Public 
Lands, which will report separate bills dealing 
with each grant on its own merits. 
The steamer John Gilbert last Tuesday 
brought, from Tennessee River 8,870 sacks of 
peanuts to Cincinnati—the largest peanut 
mart in the Uni tod States.A smart ad¬ 
vertiser in Baltimore offered prizes for guesses 
as to the number of seeds iu a pumpkin. It 
was cut on New Year’s Day and found to con¬ 
tain 727 seeds. The nearest guess was 721 ... 
.Armour & Co., of Chicago, slaughtered 
1 . 020,000 hogs aud 251,000 cattle last y r ear. 
The long drought in Southern Georgia is 
causing much distress. It covers a dozen 
counties. According to the Atlanta Constitu¬ 
tion it has rained but twice in Lee County in 
seven months. In some districts water is 
hauled fifteen miles, aud in the town of Lees¬ 
burg it is sold at five cents a glass.Ger¬ 
many has not only interdicted the importation 
of Atnericau pork, but forbidden its traus- 
portation through the Empire, to other mar¬ 
kets.. 8 t. Louis expended upward of 
$ 1 , 000,000 in new street pavements during the 
past, year. Happily the stick-in-the-mud old 
fogies appear to be dying off in that sleepy 
old village.Fence cuttiug is so exciting 
a question in Texas that Gov. Ireland has 
been so wrought up by tbe practice and dis¬ 
cussion of it that he has publicly offered to 
give a certified check for $40,000 to any per¬ 
son who will show wherein he has failed to use 
any constitutiona 1 prerogative that promised 
to check the crime.The Houghton 
Farm, in Putney, Vt., has just received 13 
head of young Holstein heifers, selected from 
the best herds in Friesland and North Hol¬ 
land. The dams of these cattle have milk 
records of 56 to 80 pounds a day. W indham 
County farmers are coming to like this breed 
of cattle...Nearly all the commercial 
meetings held in France since the last harvest 
have agreed in estimating the crop of grain 
of 1883 as below the average. It is estimated 
that France had a deficit of nearly *0,000,000 
bushels.A meeting of farmers inter¬ 
ested in ensilage will he held at 55 Beckman 
Street, New York City, Wednesday, January 
23. at 12 o’clock. All interested in the sub¬ 
ject are invited to attend without further no¬ 
tice thri third Ensilage Congress.The 
fifteenth Winter meeting of the Vermont 
Dairymen’s Association will be held at St. 
Johnsbury, January 23 aud 24. An excellent 
programme will be offered. An exhibit of 
butter will be made, and the meeting (the first 
on that side of the State) is expected to be 
more than usually instructive. 
The annual report of Gen. Walker, the United 
States Consul at Paris, shows that the pro¬ 
duction of wine in France in 1882 was 30,886,- 
352 hectolitres (a hectolitre is nearly 26>£ gal¬ 
lons of wine measure], against 34,000,000 hec¬ 
tolitres in 1881. As compared with the aver¬ 
age of the previous ten years, the decrease is 
16,054,830 hectolitres. Gen. Walker points 
out, however, that equally great fluctuations 
have occurred in the past. From 1853 to 1856 , 
during the first invasion of tbe vine mildew, 
the product Of the vintage fell to 22 , 000 , 000 , 
21 , 000 , 000 . 15,000,000 and even 10,000.000 hec¬ 
tolitres, only to rise again by successive steps 
until it. attained in 1875 the previously un¬ 
heard-of maximum of 88 , 000,000 hectolitres. 
Thu present depressed condition of the indus¬ 
try is due partly to the phylloxera and partly 
to the long prevalence of bad weather. 
A late telegram from Ottawa, Canada, says: 
“A delegation from the Ontario Millers’ As¬ 
sociation had an interview with the Govern¬ 
ment to day, submitting a sccoud proposal re¬ 
garding the reduction of dutv on United 
States grain. Some t ime since they proposed 
that, in:.toad of the present duty on wheat 
of 15 cents per bushel the rate should be made 
seven aud one-bulf cants. Their new proposi¬ 
tion is that the duty on wheat should bo low¬ 
ered to IU cents and the duty on (Jour raised 
25 cents. It is more thuu probable that the 
last proposal will be agreed to.” 
lniguez, Spanish Minister of War. says Zor- 
illa’s rebellion has ruined all chances of a 
Spanish republic. Senor Sagasta has uow 
the country and the Cortez wiih him. 
Affairs in the As Inin tee are quiet. The people 
are overawed by the slaughter of the family 
of ex-King Koffee and the dally massacre of 
his adherents, hundreds of whom have been 
executed: 68 of his 70 children have been 
killed. One of Koffee’s adherents, hearing 
that the ex-King’s life was >u danger, sent 
90 men to guard him. They remained several 
days with the ex-King with the consent of the 
reigning chief. They were then suddenly at¬ 
tacked and killed.Tbe Pope will hold 
a cousistory in April, when several cardinals 
will lie created and vacant sees iu America 
will he filled, ft is rumored that Archbishop 
Gibbons, of Baltimore, will be appointed car¬ 
dinal at the close of the forthcoming council 
in the United States.China has Oidcred 
two more torpedo boats at Stettin. 
Sharp shock of earthquake at, Sadieldi, Asia 
Minor, on Wednesday. Seventeen ves¬ 
sels, valued nt $91,301). and 200 lives were lost 
in the Gloucester fisheries during the past 
year ... James Russed Lowell has ac¬ 
cepted an invitation to address the students of 
St. Andrew’s University, tho rectorship of 
which he resigned....It is reported that 
the French Government propose to sell the 
Stab? railways, and that the Rothschilds, in 
behalf of certain great railway companies, 
have offered the Government 430,006.000 
francs for the lines..There still are 
from one to two deaths from cholera every 
day in Egypt. The official estimate of the 
number of deaths from cholera In thatcountry 
during the past Summer ranges from 48,000 
to 50,000; but it is thought by the best, au¬ 
thorities that the actual number of deaths 
was double that of the official reports.. - 
Australia is not behind this country in men of 
fabulous wealth. The richest man there, 
Baron Ruperts wood, is said to be worth $200,- 
000,000. His father emigrated to the country, 
and luckily bought luud on which tbe site of 
Melbourne now stands.El Mahdi in¬ 
tends to descend upon Egypt proper. The in¬ 
surrectionary movement is spreading along 
the coast, and Baker Pasha is convinced that 
it is of a most formidable religious aud politi¬ 
cal character. Abyssinian demonstrations on 
the Kossala Road render the situation still 
more critical. 
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My mother began gaining from first dose she 
took of Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator. She is 
rid of those bad feelings about her heart now, 
the relief is permanent, other remedies only 
helped for a few minutes.—Miss Clara Bradt, 
Lawton,Mich. $1 per bottle at druggists.—Adr. 
Dairymen Getting Rich. 
Progressive dairymen who are only satisfied 
with the best results, are adding to their wealth 
and conferring a benefit on society by the rapid 
improvements they are making in the art of 
butter making. This class use-Wells, Richard¬ 
son & Co’s Improved Butter Color, and know 
by actual test that it fills every claim made 
for it.— Ado. 
“I have been afflicted with an Affection 
of the Throat from childhood, caused by diph¬ 
theria, aud have used various remedies, but 
have never found anything equal to Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches.— Bee. O M. F. Hamp¬ 
ton, Piketon, Ky. Sold only in boxes.— Adv. 
Our new postern in three colors will be sent to 
all who apply. Can not you Jind a place in 
your oannaye-house or bum for Ihe Rural 
poster/ All muy apply for our new Premium 
List also. 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. Jan. 5, 1884. 
The Argentine Government is about to issue 
4 , 000,000 national dollars to advance public 
instruction m the provinces for the building 
of 300 schools.The dragoons stationed 
at a village in the Province of Volhynia, 
Poland, suddenly attacked and plundered the 
Jews in the vicinity, the Rabbi and several of 
his confreres dying from injuries received 
during the affray.It is stated in Paris 
that a definitive agreement has been con¬ 
cluded between the Suez Caual Company und 
British shipowners upon terms which are 
stated to be satisfactory to the company. On 
the other hand it is said that the Khedive has 
offered to sell a concession for a second Suez 
Canal to raise money to meet the False 
Prophet who is reported to be advancing on 
Khartoum.The German Government 
has ordered the demolition of the vast Danish 
works of defense at Duppel, as they are no 
longer regarded as useful........ .Senor Dom- 
January 5, 1884. 
Italy will not be a very formidable competi¬ 
tor in the grain markets for the ensuing year. 
The report of the crops of 1883 show that of 
wheat, Italy harvested 45,166,000 hectolitres, 
or 188,135,900 bushels, which was about 89 per 
cent, of a medium crop. This is the third con¬ 
secutive year iu which tbe wheat crop of Italy 
has fallen below the average production, the 
shortage in those years having amounted to 
20,778,806 hectolitres, or about 60,258,520 
bushels, “definite so much the more deplora¬ 
ble aud dolorous,” says tho report, “seeing 
that the medium production of wheat w ith us 
is estimated iu tho poor aud shameful propor¬ 
tion of 10 75 hectolitres per hectare—about 
12 1-3 bushels per a're. Not a better fortune 
had the wheat production in various other 
European States. 
The receipts of live stock at Chicago for 
1883, says the Times, are expected to aggre¬ 
gate iu round figures 1,875,000 head of cattle, 
5,060,0(X) of hogs, 755,000 of sheep, 15,000 of 
horses, and 30,000 of calves, In 1882 Chicago 
received 1,582,580 head of cattle, 5,817,504 of 
hogs, 628,887 of sheep, 13,856 of horses, and 
24.905 of calves. The value of the stock re¬ 
ceived during the present year will reach 
about $200,090,000. Of the cattle reaeived in 
1883 lullV 1,275,000 have been slaughtered iu 
und around Chicago. Tho daily local con¬ 
sumption of cattle is now estimated at 800 
head. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is lc. lower; No. 
2 Chicago Spring le. lower; No. 2Red Winter, 
lj^c. lower; Cora, 2%c. lower. Oats, yc. 
lower. 
Wheat In good deinnud; the market opened Ve. 
higher than yesterday, advanced a tritle more, de¬ 
clined o*i'. and cloned easy aud He, under yesterday. 
Sales ranged for “regular”; January, M>*a94^ie: 
