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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
Wears of t !)e Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 10. 
Last wwk we gave one account of the way 
the Republican delegates to the Chicago Con- 
vention are thought to lie likely to vote for 
President. There are various other list*, how¬ 
ever, which differ from that, given by us. The 
Albany Journal gives Arthur 36", Maine 361, 
and Edmund* *2. The New York Times gives 
Arthur 287, Maine 610, and Edmunds 66. Lo¬ 
gan has 50 or 00. Nobody else more than a 
favorite-son vote. The Chicago Tribune, now 
a Blaine paper, gives the first preferences of 
the delegates as follows: Blaine, 078; Arthur, 
271; Edmunds, 70; Logan, 57; Sherman, 28; 
Hawley, 13; (Jen. Sherman, 3: Lincoln 1; Un¬ 
known. 6 Arthur is reported to estimate his 
own vote at 325. The Pioneer Press of Rt.. 
Paul, Minn., gives Blaine, 278, Arthur, 204, 
Edmund, 80, Logan. 50, Sherman, 21, scatter¬ 
ing, 20, unknown, 01—total 820; necessary for 
a choice, 411 .Carl Schurz has gone 
to Europe with his children for the Rummer, 
All the steamer lines report a great exodus for 
the Old World this year, and most of them say 
that their cabin room is all taken up to July. 
_The 59th annual meeting of the American 
Tract Society was held at New York Wednes¬ 
day. The yearly report showed that 03 mis¬ 
sionaries liuve been employed, wliohave visit- 
155,233 families, of which 2-1.619 were Pro¬ 
testants who did not, attend Evangelical 
preaching, 19.278 were destitute of religious 
reading, and 7,433 were w-ithout the word of 
Rod. The missionaries also addressed 4,614 
religious meetings, and circulated 133,463 vol¬ 
umes. Donations and legacies during the first, 
year have amounted to $102,809, which, with 
that received from other sources, makes the 
total receipts, including the balance from last 
year. $357,470. The expenditures including 
the reduction of a mortgage to the extent of 
$20,000 w'ere $354,083, leaving a balance of 
$3387 .Gold win Smith says that the, 
fruits of Wolfe’s famous victory in Canada 
in the last century are being lost because the 
French incline to replenish the earth so mind¬ 
ly. They breed like rabbit*, and the conse¬ 
quence is that the French towns become more 
and more French, and the English one* less 
and los* English. The British population of 
Quebec is less than 7,000, and even the eastern 
townships are becoming Frenchv.The 
steamer Faraday has already la id 1,000 miles of 
the now Mftckay -Bennett, transatlantic cable, 
which is to force down prices for transatlantic 
cablegrams, and is under no circumstance* to 
be consolidated with the old transatlantic ca* 
ble monopoly. There are eight cables across 
the Atlantic now in use, which cost $64,400,000; 
four belonging to the Anglo-Amer.can com¬ 
pany, which cost $35,000,000; two owned by 
Gould’s company, which cost $11,000,000; one 
owned by the Direct United States, which cost 
$7,000,000, and one owned by the Pouyer- 
Quertier Company, which cost $8,400,000. All 
these are now under a single management, 
thus formiuga monopoly.The civilized 
tribes of Indiuu Territory are exceedingly hos¬ 
tile to the allotment of lands in severalty 
among the savages, on the ground that it 
would demoralize the tribal organizations ... 
General Sherman has declined the Brigadier- 
Generalship of the Missouri militia, which was 
tendered him recently.It is believed at 
Toronto that, the dynamite cartridges found 
under the Parliament House there were placed 
either by practical jokers or by some one de¬ 
sirous of getting a job as n watchman. Extra 
guards have been placed in and about, the 
building, and $1,000 reward has been offered 
for the arrest and conviction of the “dynami¬ 
ters.”.The death of Gen. Norris N. 
Halstead, of Kearny, N. J., who was killed by 
the care at Newark Tuesday, is a sad loss to 
the State. He was a substantial friend of 
education, and was not unknown in public 
life. During the war he was commissioned 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, aud served 
the State by organizing troops. At one time 
he was considered a wealthy man. He gave 
$50,000 to Princeton College, and did much for 
agriculture. For many years he was Presi¬ 
dent, of the New Jersey Agricultural Society, 
which he organized, and a member of 
the State Historical Society.Perry 
Belmont, Chairman of the Sub-Cora 
mitteo of Foreign Affairs, to which was re¬ 
ferred Mr. Maybury’s resolution favoring a 
renewal of the reciprocity treaty of 1854 
betweon the United States and Canada, says 
his Committee is disposed to vote, indorsing the 
spirit of that, resolution as soon as the debate 
on the Morrison Tariff.bill is ended. Mr. Bel¬ 
mont is now writing the report.Judge 
Hagarty, of Toronto, has been appointed 
Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals of On¬ 
tario.There were 13 deaths from yellow 
fever at Havana, Cuba, last week.The 
Union Pacific Railroad Company has re¬ 
scinded its order reducing the salaries of em¬ 
ployes. A strike was imminent along the 
whole line in consequence of the order, and 
the railroad corporation deemed it wise and 
prudent to withdraw' it.City Attorney 
Luscombe, of Milwaukee, has decided that, in 
accordance with the State law, the saloon¬ 
keeper* of that place must give bonds in $500 
to keep orderly places, before licenses shall be 
issued to them. t. . High license continue* 
to diminish the number of saloons in the Illi¬ 
nois municipalities fully 40 per cent. 
Forest fires have broken out in the mountain 
woodland districts of Clearfield, Lycoming, 
Tioga, Elk and Berke Counties, Pennsylvania. 
Large tracts of valuable timber-laud and 
many saw mills have been destroyed. The 
village of Brisbin has been reduced to ashes. 
Many valuable herds of cattle have perished. 
The losses mount up in the millions. Forest 
fires have also broken out among the Catskill 
and Rhawaugiink Mountains in New York 
HLate. The village of Gilman’s Depot, in 
Sullivan County, has been utterly destroyed. 
Great damage i* also being done by fires in 
the wood* in various parts of New Jersey.... 
The fonrtb annual meeting of the Civil Ser¬ 
vice Reform Association was held at New 
York last week with E. P. Wheeler, Carl 
Schurz, E. L. Godkin and others present. 
George William Curtis made a brief speech in 
w hich he congratulated the Association upon 
the signal success it had achieved. These 
officers were elected: President, George Wil¬ 
liam Curtis; Vice President. Benjamin H. 
Bristow. Charles 8. Fairchild. Roswel 1 D. 
Hitchcock, John Jay. Howard Potter, R. B. 
Minturn, Oswald Ottoudorfer aud Orlando 
B. Potter........The House passed, Saturday, 
the bill amending the Chinese Immigration 
Act, rendering it still more difficult for the 
Chinese to slip into this country unlawfully. 
..The Committee on Post Office* and 
Post Road* of the House ha* agreed upon a 
modification of the Senate lull to create u 
postal telegraph, It, provides that, the Gov¬ 
ernment may contract for postal telegraph 
service for public use. the rate to be 26 cents 
for 20 words, under 1,500 miles, and five cents 
additional for every 350 miles; but between 
Washington and Boston and intermediate 
points flu rge cities) it shall not be over 15 cent.*. 
The night rate shall be one-half.The 
River aud Harbor Bill reported tu the House 
Wednesday appropriate* $12.619.100 upon the 
engineers’ estimates of $85,301,885.The 
very latest figure* from Dakota are between 
600,000 and 700.00(1 people in the Territory 
now , and 200,000 more coming this season. 
... .The fire loss in the United States und 
Canada in April is put at. J 10 . 300 , 000 , against 
the usual averages in April for nine years past 
of $7,500,000. Since January t he loss has been 
$37,550,000, about $6,000,000 more thun in 
the same four mouths in 1881..... 
Jim R Keene, the fatuous speculator in pro¬ 
duce and stocks, bus just burst up. Ten year* 
ago he was worth nothing; five veurs ago he 
owned $8,000,000; sintt© then he has been 
credited with $15,000,000; now he owns only 
what he can conceal from his creditors. Romo 
years ago when he came from San Francisco 
with $5,000,000, in a special palace rar, to 
teach Eastern speculators “ business,'’ Gould 
said: “ We’ll send him back in a freight ear!” 
. Tue Morrison tariff bill was detested 
in the House last Tuesday by a vote of 159 to 
155. 39 Demoerats.uuder the leadership of F.an- 
dull, of Pennsylvania, voting againstthe bill, 
and five RoplibUcaus voting in favor of it.... 
The Province of Quebec, the “ Uld Province,” 
bus narrowly escaped a sad disgrace. The 
Legislature lately passed a bill chartering a 
lottery for a term of 35 years, the tickets to 
be soid for one dollar each, and the prizes 
running up into the thousands. With the 
assent of the Council and the signature of the 
Lieutenant-Governor, the measure wrould 
have become a law. The Council, however, 
has refused its assent by a t ie vote—eleven to 
eleven, the (Speaker himself voting. The New 
Brunsw'iek Lottery swindle is disgrace enough 
for the Doruiuion........Post-Master General 
Gresham some time ago black-list ed the Louis¬ 
iana Lottery among the catalogue of swindles, 
and Max Dauphin, its head, sued him for 
libel. A number of prominent newspapers 
stigmatized the lottery us u cheat anil a 
swindle; and Dnuphiu "sued them also. The 
first case was tried in Philadelphia last. Tues¬ 
day before Judges MeKennan and Butler, of 
the United States District Court, the suit 
being for $100,000 against the Philadelphia 
Times. The Court summarily ended the ease 
by decidiug in favor of the defendant, on the 
broad ground that lottery robbery can’t be 
libeled, aud that a lawless occupation could 
claim no protection from criticism of the rob¬ 
bery, that, the law of both State aud nation 
pronounced a crime . : . 
Senator Edmunds has introduced a bill into 
Congress to place GeD. Grant upon the retired 
list of the army with the same pay and emolu¬ 
ments he had when the Nation called him to 
the Presidency. The sum would amount to 
$19,000 a year. The bill ought, to pass prompt¬ 
ly. Democrats as well as Republicans, those 
who fought under the Stars and Bars, as well 
as those who fought under the Stars and 
Stripes, should vote for it. Through no fault 
his, the fine old hero is impoverished in his de¬ 
clining years, and it would be an iudelible 
disgrace to the Republic to allow one who has 
deserved so well or it, to be pinched in his ohi 
ago ..John F. Henry', Chairman of the 
National Auti-Monopolv Organization, basis- 
sued a call for a convention of the anti-mo¬ 
nopolists at Chicago, May 14. for the purpose 
of nominating a Presidential ticket. The call 
says the time for words is past, and the time 
for action has come .The firm of Grant 
& Wanl, brokers, of this city, has collapsed, 
with liabilities estimated at. up wards of $5,- 
000.000, and doubtful assets. The firm includ¬ 
ed General Grant and his two sons, Frederick 
and Jesse, together with a Mr. Fish, and a 
Mr. Ward. The Grants appear to have lost 
everything, and to have been kept in igno¬ 
rance of the state of affaire till the catastro- 
E he occurred. There are reports that Ward 
as acted dishonestly, and he is now guarded 
at his home by detective*. Fish, too, seems to 
have taken care of himself too much. 
Everybody is sorry for the Grants, 
especially for the fine, old hero...... 
. Irving’s 182 performances in this country 
yielded $405,666 .......The Rothschilds own 
$400,000,000 of United States bond* ........ 
French-Cauadians are coming to the United 
States at the rate of 150 a day.Two 
slaves formerly owned by Jeff Davis, now 
own hi* plantation, for which thev paid 
$200,000 ..... The steamer State of Florida, 
which left this port on April 12, collided with 
the bark Pomona, in mid-ocean, at 11.30 P. 
M., on April 18. Out of 167 passenger* on the 
steamer only 44 were saved, and of the bark’s 
crew of 15 only the captain and two seamen 
were saved—total loss. 185. Both ships went 
down almost instantly, aud the survivors, 
after having boon 35 hours in open boats 
without food or water, were rescued by the 
Norwegian bark Theresa, bound for Quebec.. 
On the 22d, 24 of them were transferred on 
board the ship Louisa, of and from Cardiff 
for Quebec, They remained on that vessel till 
the 5th of May. when they were taken on 
board the Titania for Quebec, where they ar¬ 
rived last Thursday........ 
Owr-workttl BunineM Altn. 
As a restorer of exhausted nerve force, it 
has been largely shown during the past thir¬ 
teen year* that the new Vitalizing Treat¬ 
ment dispensed by Dr*. Rtarkey & FaJeu, 1109 
Oirard street, Philadelphia, Pa., is the most 
prompt and efficient agent yet discovered by 
the medical profession. Its use by over¬ 
worked business and professional men would 
save many hundreds of lives every year, and 
give to thousands moro the ability to work 
without the weariness, exhaustion, and peril 
which now attend them. A pamphlet con¬ 
taining full particulars in regard to the nature 
and action of this remarkable Treatment, will 
be mailed free. Write for it.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 10. 
There is a general movement among Eng¬ 
lish landlords to break the force of prospec¬ 
tive agitation by making important reduc¬ 
tions in rent. A specimen case is that of the 
Earl of Yarborough, who owns immense es¬ 
tates in the Fens of Lincolnshire and on the 
Isle of Wight, and who has just voluntarily 
reduced rents 15 per cent, for the next five 
years. This will reduce his Immense income 
about $15,000 a year, leaving him only a pal¬ 
try pittance of $85,000 u year.Lady De 
Voies is a Holstein cow in Garrettsvflle, Ohio, 
belonging to L. H. Payne. During the 365 
day* preceding March 20, 1884,she gave 18,847 
pounds of milk.A bill lately introduced 
in Congress, authorizing the investigation of 
the subject of adulterating und counterfeiting 
butter, has been defeated.A disease 
which baffled the skill of the best veterinary 
surgeons, broke out-among the horses in Liver 
pool, England, recently, and wo* at first be¬ 
lieved to have been due to the feeding of 
American hay; hut an investigation proved 
the belief to be unfounded...The annual 
sale of the Tennessee Jersey Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, on Saturday, was the largest ever held 
in the South. The best butter strains were 
represented, and the total amount of the sales 
was $18,575. The average price for 43 females 
was $882, and for five bulls $429. The sale was 
considered very satisfactory.Kentucky 
farmers find thAt tobacco pay* about as well 
as anything; the acreage devoted to it con¬ 
stantly increases, and this year’s crop is likely 
to be the largest ever kuowu.The in¬ 
crease in sales of public lands during 1883 
over the preceding year was as follows: Num¬ 
ber of entries. 88,381; acreage, 10,928,976; cash 
received, $3,377,400...... ..Only 400live cattle 
and 3,200 quarters of dressed beef were ex¬ 
ported from Boston last week.The old 
cattle market, at Brighton. Mass., established 
during the Revolutionary War, was closed last 
week.Out of 17,500 Canadian cattle sold 
in Glasgow. Scotland, last year, 4,000 were 
taken by farmers for feeding purposes. 
The IVxus Stockman says that it is almost im¬ 
possible to contract for young she-cattle at 
any price. It has beard of $18 being offered 
for two-year-olds and not taken.The 
Aberdeen-Angus and Holstein breeds of cattle 
are to be admitted at the next Chicago Fat 
Stock Show on the same basis in the matter of 
premiums as has heretofore been given to the 
Short-horns and Herefords.The railroad 
pool on east-bound freight from Chicago, on 
May 5 reduced freights on cattle and sheep to 
New York to 50 cents gross. On other live 
stock no change was mude.There are 
now in quarantine at Waltham, Mass., 290 
bead of imported Holstein cattle, 303 of which 
belong to J. W. Stillwell & Co.. Troy, Ohio, 
and 46 to Powell Bros., Springboro, Pa.—18 
of the latter have calved since they left the 
ship. There are also a number of polled cattle 
of the different kinds at the same place, mak¬ 
ing in all 720 head, with S56 on the way. Out 
of the 3,500 animals imported last > ear, nearly 
one-half were quarantined at Walt ham. The 
average cost of importation up to time of 
leaving quarantine, is estimated at $45 per 
head .... Eleven double-deck cars, eontain- 
ing 1,900 head of fat-grade Merinos, were late¬ 
ly shipped from Ionia. Mich., direct to New 
York City. The average weight was some¬ 
thing over 100 pounds, and nearly $13,000 were 
realized for the entire lot.Senator Van 
Wyck, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the 
Senate Monday, to restrict aliens and foreign 
TiMra 
of public lands and of any land in the Terri¬ 
tories.The Senate Committee having in 
charge the Agricultural Appropriation bill, 
will recommend an appropriation of $50,000 
for sorghum experiments, $20,000 for artesian 
wells to reclaim arid land, and $15,000 to en¬ 
courage silk culture.A larg° stock- 
raising firm has rented 400.000 acre* of 
land from the Pawnee Indians, in the In¬ 
dian Territory, for five years, at three cents 
E jr acre per year. Butter is now sent to 
airland in large quantities from New Zea¬ 
land; &* many as 800 casks havebeen received 
in one week. It is made up in one-pouDd rolls, 
wrapped separately in muslin cloth*, packed 
in casks with brine, and kept in cold air-cham- 
bere on board ship. The quality is well spoken 
of.An agent from Mexico is at present 
in the Yuelta A ha jo. Cuba, urging tobacco- 
raiser* to remove to Mexico and there raise 
the plant as it is grown in the Yuelta Ahajo. 
Seventv-two families have already availed 
themselves of this opportunity to leave the 
island, and settle in a country where they will 
be exempt from the ruinous exactions of the 
Spanish Government ..... The Oklahoma 
“boomers” are making persistent efforts to 
locate in the Indian Territory. The troops 
eject them as fast as they enter. It is re¬ 
ported that the Indians murdered five intrud¬ 
ers near Wells’ store.Dr. Smith, the 
State geologist of Alabama, says that rich 
phosphate beds have been discovered in Au¬ 
tauga County, Ala. Like discoveries have 
been made in other portions of the State. 
These discoveries are in the agricultural part 
of the State. .. The Hessian fly’s second 
hatching appears in California wheat... - 
Grain fields in Wayne County N. Y., abound 
with grasshoppers. 
LARGE SALE OF JERSEY CATTLE. 
The fifth annual combination sale of Jersey 
cattle, under the management of Peter C. Kel- 
log & Co,, of this city, commenced at. the 
American Horse Exchange, comer of Broad¬ 
way and 50th Street, on Wednesday, May 7, 
at 10 o’clock, with a large attendance of the 
prominent Jersey breeders of the country. 
The sales on this day were for S. M. Shoemak¬ 
er, of Baltimore; J. D. Wing, of Dutchess 
County, N.Y.; Valanccy E. Fuller, of Hamil¬ 
ton, Ontario, Can.; S. M. Burnham, of Sau- 
gatuck, Conn.; A. B. Darling, of New York 
City; S. B. Wheeler, of Bridgeport, Conn.; 
J. V. N. Willis, of Marlboro, N. J., and John 
I, Holly, of Plainfield, N. J. Ninety four ani¬ 
mals, in all, were disposed of for the aggregate 
sum of $80,735, an average of about $8511 each. 
The auimals that brought the highest prices 
were Bomba’s Daughter (25,829), bred by A . 
B. Darling, and bought by H. I.. Pierce, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., for $5,200—the five animals of one 
herd that sold for the largest aggregate price, 
thus winning the herd prize of a silver pitcher 
aud service, were from the herd of Yalancey 
E. Fuller. They were all strong in the blood 
of Stoke Pogis (1,259) and near relatives of 
Mary Ann, of 8t. Lamberts, os will he seen by 
the following list: Cowslip, of St. Lamberts 
(8,349), sold to H. L. Pierce, Boston, Mas*., for 
$3,600; Baron, of St. Lamberts (5,286), to J. F. 
Maxfield, Bloomfield, N. Y., $4,400; Honey¬ 
moon, of St. Lamberts (1.231), to H. L. Pierce, 
Boston, Ma»s., $4,100; Bijou, of St. Lamberts 
(5,112), to L. W. & H. W. Simmons, Berlin, 
Ont., $3,000; Matchless, of St. Lamberts 
(9,773), to T. A. Havemeyer, New York City, 
$1,650. The aggregate price, therefore, was 
$17,050, or an average of $3,410 each. 
On Thursday the sale was continued, 91 ani¬ 
mals being sold at an aggregate of 
$40,770, being an average price of $448. The 
highest price realized was $1,425, and the low¬ 
est, $25. 
On Friday the sale was continued, with the 
usual attendance: 91 animal* were sold for 
the aggregate amount of $27,378, beiug an 
average of about $301 each. The highest price 
for any animal was $L,400; the lowest, $10— 
showing that people were about getting sup¬ 
plied for this time. The sale will continue on 
Saturday; but, as we go to press, we shall be 
unable to get the results for thi* issue. 
Heartfelt testimonials from using Dr. 
Graves’ Heart Regulator for Heart Disease. 
Price $1. 6 for $5. 
In all its forms Heart Disease yields to the 
use of Dr. Graves’ Heart Regulator. Price $1. 
6 for $5.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, May 10, 1S84. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular" wheat is J^c. lower; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, %c. higher. Corn, 
2%c. higher. Oats.Gc. higher. Rye, le. higher. 
Barley, lc. lower. Flaxseed steady. Pork, 
25 to 45c. higher. Butter, 3 to 4c. lower. 
Eggs, 1 to \)4 c. lower. Hogs, from 15 to 35c. 
higher. Cattle, from 25 to 40c. higher. Sheep, 
fj'om 25 to 75c. higher. 
Wheat.— Quiet ruling Jail at times: the market 
opened higher, declined 1®1‘4C., rallied %c., 
elo-dug tic. over yesterday; sales ran perl May, 92t« 
June. 94t£®955Ac, July. 9;Aa&9M$Ci August, 
9<w.i^9twe: September. 9&&92Hc: No. i Chicago 
Sprlne, COKS-Stronu’ the market opened 
steady, advanced Ie., declined fluctuated 
slightly, and closed le- higher than yesterday, sales 
ranged: Cash, 3!**»56ir.! -May, Mt4<*5Cc.s June. 57 <#, 
,cLoslng at £SWe.: all the year. 28e. Rye 
Scarce and Arm at SI.* 1 . Poke—I n fair demand: 
sales ranged: Cash, fi7.45wl7.5ti: May. *17.sic June, 
$17,57*6® 17.65; July. *17.053.77.72*4 August, *17.77!*: 
all the year. fH.rS7WUl.40. Labi—I n fair demand: 
sales ranged; Cash. *s.fo®3.5)fc: May, $»,55®8.571i; 
June. $8.W)®8.68«; Julv. *8.67*4®*.75; August, $8.80® 
8.8214: September, $8.8714®*.90. Batter— Quiet; 
creamery, l!K«y2i>c; dairy. lS@'9c. Euus—In fair de¬ 
mand at 13@l3J4c. Hogs— Market Firm and active. 
Rough packing, $5.40@5.85; packing aud shipping 
