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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
JUNE 23 
of t!)c XDofk. 
home news. 
Saturday, June 21. 
A bill is before Congress pensioning every 
man who enlisted for the Mexican war. even 
if he never moved from his own town. This 
has been made the basis for other extraord¬ 
inary pension propositions, which would in¬ 
crease the annual outlay for pensions by over 
$50,000,000; the limitation contained in the 
Arrears of Pensions Act of 1879 Is to be re¬ 
pealed, so that invalid soldiers shall all share 
alike, and thus pensions shall begin with the 
date of their disability or discharge, and not 
with the date of their application. If this 
measure is passed, it will entail an expendi¬ 
ture of $246,000,000 .Diaz was elected 
President of Mexico Monday, without opposi 
tiou.A new Canadian loan of $25,000,- 
000 at '■% per cent, interest, ha* just been 
successfully placed in London.Bishop 
Matthew Simpson. D. D., LL.D., of the 
Methodist-Episcopal Church, died nt 10 min¬ 
utes U> nine,last Wednesday morning, ut Phila¬ 
delphia, aged within three day* of 74 years, 
haviug been born on Juue 21, 1810 .. 
The evil results of Chinese immigration into 
British Columbia is to be made the subject of 
an immediate official investigation .The 
Pitz John Porter Bill, as amended l>y the U. S. 
Senate, has been passed by the House of Re¬ 
presentatives. It removes the stigma that 
has rested on Porter for 21 years; gives him 
the rank of colonel in the army; but does not 
allow him pay for the years he did nothing 
to earn it. The President is expected to sign 
the bill .The death of ox-Congressman 
master Clymer, announced here last week, 
was a case of suicide owing to business 
troubles. He took 20 grains of morphine; 
efforts were vainly made to convey the irn. 
pression that he died of apoplexy.Gen- 
W. McCandless died last Tuesday at. Philadel¬ 
phia. aged 40, owing to debility from a wound 
received during the war........ Last Monday 
the act reducing the rate of postage on news¬ 
papers went into effect. The new rate is one 
cent for every four- ounces or fraction thereof 
when mailed by any one except the pub¬ 
lisher or agent.•■The Presby¬ 
terian general assembly of Canada adopted 
a resolution that Parliament make seduction 
under promise of marriage nnd mock marri¬ 
ages criminal offenses; also praying for legis¬ 
lation against “Sabbath” desecration by rail¬ 
road companies .The Indiana Republican 
State Convention has nominated Congressman 
W. A. Calkins a* its Candidate for Governor 
........ The N, Y. delegates go to the Na¬ 
tional Democratic Convention at Chicago on 
July 7, ore not instructed to vote for any par¬ 
ticular candidate, but when the vote is cast it 
must he unanimous, according to the opinion 
of the majority.A reciprocity treaty 
wit h St. Domingo is under negotiation, and the 
list of articles to be declared free by the two 
countries has been practically agreed to. 
The Senate passed the Utah bill, which now 
goes to the House of Representatives. 
A number of frauds, in which some employes 
and ex-employes are implicated, have been 
discovered in the Navy Department. 
Mr. Blaine and Senator Logan are at Augusta, 
Me., w here they will receive the formal noti¬ 
fication of their nomination. Several of the 
“bolting” Republican “organs” have decided 
to support B. & L. Pressure from subscrib¬ 
ers and others too hard for them to resist. 
The “kid-glove.” ••swallow-tailed” kickers are 
still determined not to support the Republican 
ticket, even if they have te refrain from vot- 
iug at all.President Arthur was honor¬ 
ed by Princeton College with the degree of 
LL.D. last, Wednesday; the same degree was 
also conferred upon Governor Abbett and 
Justice Harlan.The directors of the 
Union Pariflc Railroad Company have receiv¬ 
ed the resignation of Sidney Dillon, who has 
been its president for ten years. Charles 
Francis Adams, Jr., takes his place. 
General Butler has accepted another nomina¬ 
tion to the Presidency—that of the Notional 
Greenback-Labor Party.Last Tuesday, the 
Supreme Court of Ohio decided that the 
Scott Liquor Law is constitutional. Liquor 
dealers will therefore have to pay the June tax. 
.. An institution calletl the Public Board 
of Trade has been closed by the police at Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, and the proprietors arrested un¬ 
der the law against gambling. The operations 
were on the principle of speculating in bucket 
shops, except that the quotations were artifi¬ 
cial and wore indicated automatically by ma¬ 
chinery instead of following the markets. It 
was simply a gambling device, chiefly in grain. 
.The Western Nail Association met at 
Pittsburg last Wednesday morning, and re¬ 
duced the card rate from $3.60 per keg to 
$2.40. Business extremely dull.Fifteen 
railroads.have gone into the. hands of receiv 
ers since the beginning of the year. 
Boston’s scholars cost her last year per head, 
$89.97 in the high school, $28.42 in the gram¬ 
mar and 18 53 in the primary department.... 
Nearly 2,000,000 men have become voters 
since the last Presidential struggle. 
Prominent prohibitionists in this State say 
the State Convention will be held in Septem¬ 
ber and n full State ticket nominated. 
Arrangement* are being made for the fourth 
biennial reunion of the national guards (color¬ 
ed) of the United States, to bo held at Kansas 
City August 4.The Harvard overseer* 
have decided not to confer the degree of 
LL.D. on Gov. Robinson of Massachusetts— 
consolation for Butler, who was refused the 
degree last’ year. .......James K. Polk, a 
nephew of the President James K. Polk, has 
just been sent to the Middletown, Ct, insane 
asylum.Mrs. Kile died at Richmond, Pa., 
last week.aged 98, leaving Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob Kile, triplets, orphans.A New 
Orleans dispatch says that one great obstacle 
in the way of repairing the levees of the lower 
Mississippi is the free distribution of govern¬ 
ment rations. As soon as they come, the 
laborers stop work and will not resume until 
the supply i* gone.The project of hold¬ 
ing In St. Louis a reunion of both American 
and Mexican veterans of the war of 1846 7 is 
cordially indorsed by Gen. Diaz and other 
prominent Mexicans as the best opportunity 
to seal the friendship between the republics, 
Gen. Diaz says the Mexican government will 
aid the project in every possible way. 
Daring the week 27 miles of new railway 
track were laid, making a total thus far this 
year of 910 miles, compared with 1.654 miles 
last year, and 3.823 in 1882.Work on the 
Canada Pacific Railway is in such a forward 
state of completion that the authorities anti¬ 
cipate giving the members of Parliament, an 
ail-rail trip over the Rockies at the end of the 
next session.It I* stated the postal 
treaty between Canada and France only 
awaits the signature of the French Foreign 
Secretary to come into effect....A mer¬ 
cantile crisis is impending at New Orleans. 
Several heavy cotton failures have already 
occurred, and others are daily anticipated. 
_ The Court of Alabama Claims, litting 
at Washington, will hear no more cases be¬ 
fore adjournment for the Summer. Eighteen 
hundred and seventy cases have been argued 
and submitted, nnd judgments rendered in 
1,754, for the aggregate amount of $4,960,0(X) 
against $7,830,000 claimed.The Ameri¬ 
can Prohibition Party held a convention at 
Chicago yesterday, and nominated for Presi¬ 
dent of the United States, S. C. Pomeroy, of 
Kansas: Governor St. John, of the same State, 
and the Rev. J. Blanchard, of Illinois, were 
named. Of the 77 votes cast. Mr. Pomeroy 
received 72, and his nomination was made 
unanimous. For rice-president. J. A. Conunt, 
of Connecticut, was nominated by acclama¬ 
tion. The platform favoring the use of the 
Bible in the public schools, demanding strict 
prohibition laws, pledging the party te vote 
for woman suffrage, and declaring that the 
tariff should be reduced, was adopted. 
Simply Wonderful! 
Thk cures that are being made in nearly all 
'lironic diseases, by a tiew \ italizing Treat¬ 
ment. which is taken by inhalation and which 
lets directly on the weakened nerve centers 
jnd vital organs, restoring them to the nor¬ 
mal activities which bad been lost, are simply 
wonderful. If you are in need of such a 
treatment, write te Drs. Starkey & Patau, 
1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia, for such 
document* and reports of cases as will enable 
you te judge for yourself whether it will be of 
imy use in your particular case. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 21. 
A bill has been introduced into the Euglish 
’arliameut, providing that for 20 years to 
ome any one found grubbing up a fern, 
irimrose, violet, or in fact, any of the iudige- 
ious blossoming plants, shall be subject to fine 
ud imprisonment. There is danger that greed 
nay exterminate choice wild flowers... 
’he fruit growers in the vicinity of Chatta- 
iooga have resolved to petition Congress to 
xtend the scope of the Signal Service, until 
hat. department lie required to investigate 
md report what is the best and cheapest means 
u the reach of the farmer, fruit and truck 
Tower for protection against frost before and 
ifter the frost signal has been given. 
deports from 2(H) points in Texas indicate that 
he cotton crop is up to the average. 
rhe hop crop in Otsego County, N. Y., does 
lot give promise of an ordinary yield. 
Sxhaustive crop reports from over 75 agrieul- 
,ural counties of Texas, show that this year’s 
vheat and corn crops bid fair to surpass the 
rields of 1882, the heaviest in the history of the 
State.Reports from various parts of 
Sew England state that the heavy frost of 
Saturday night, June 14, caused considerable 
iarnage to growing crops. The Cape Cod dis¬ 
trict reports that the prospect for a cranberry 
crop is entirely rained. Potatoes and corn 
and vines of all kinds were also seriously af¬ 
fected. Much of the corn will have to be re 
planted, and owiDg te the lateness of the sea 
son a short crop will be the result. In Norfolk 
County, Mass., entire crops of vegetables were 
destroyed, and farmers who make a specialty 
of early produce will suffer extensively. In 
nearly all sections the growth of the crops 
wa* retarded.Farming i* practically 
going to the dogs in Wale*. According to re¬ 
cently reported statistics there were 25,964, or 
10 per cent., fewer farmers in 1881 than in 
1871, and 18 per cent, more farmers’ bailiff*. 
There were also 10 percent, fewer farm labor¬ 
ers. This i* even a wor*e state of things than 
in England.Prof. C. Y. Riley has gone 
to Europe, on business connected with the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture...The Ameri¬ 
can Association of Nurserymen was in ses- 
tion at Chicago on Wednesday and Thursday. 
Report* from the various States were received 
and were generally encouraging to the grow¬ 
ers of small fruit*. The following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President 
—Edward Sanders, Chicago; First Vice Presi¬ 
dent, Col. A. B. Pearsall, Fort Scott, Kan.: 
Secretary, D. W. Scott, Galena, Til.; Trea¬ 
surer, A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill.; 
Executive Committee, S. D. Willard, Geneva, 
N. Y.: T. V. Munson, Dennison, Texas, and 
S. M. Bay leas, St Louis. A generous exhibit 
at the New Orleans World’s Fair was arranged 
for. Chicago was chosen as the place for the 
next annual meeting. The sessions were filled 
in with papers on technical topics. Yesterday 
the delegate* went to Pullman as guests of the 
Illinois Central Railroad Company. 
The exports of breadstuffs from the United 
States during May were valued at $11,902,000. 
For the eleven month* ending May they were 
$144,953,000, against ono $191,425,000 for the 
same period last 3 'ear.A large tract of 
valuable land in South Carolina, owned by 
over one thousand persons, is claimed by some 
Germans on original grants dating back to 
1790. They are instituting proceeding* to 
establish their claim.Heavy rains in 
California the past week inflicted great dam¬ 
age on the crops. There irn* uot been such 
n heavy fall since 1850.Florida truck 
farmers are plowing under acres of tomatoes 
and cucumber* on account of prices being so 
low that it doe* not pay te gather and send 
the fruit to Northern markets.Except 
California, Colorado has more acres devoted 
to the growing of Alfalfa than any other State 
in the Union.Bears are causing great 
havoc among the sheep in Joliette County, 
Quebec.Beef can profitably be raised 
on the range for two-and-a-bulf cents per 
pound.The receipt* of bogs at the 
Kansas City market amount, to about 50.0(H) 
bead each week at present.St. Louis is 
raising $25,000 for the entertainment of the 
National Cattle Congress that meets in that 
city November 17.The exports of live 
cattle in the past week per steamers from the 
Port of Boston for the English markets footed 
up 1,354 head.Export* from New York 
last week include 860 live cattle, 60 live sheep, 
6,060 quarters of beef aud 490 carcasses of 
mutton...... The estimated increase of cattle 
in Colorado daring the past year has been 33)^ 
per cent, in numbers and 40 per cent, in 
quality.Since the organization of the 
different cattle growers’ associations in the 
West the law-s for the protection of live stock 
are being rigorously enforced; aud severer 
punishments are being inflicted thau are gen¬ 
erally meted out iu the older States for like 
offenses.A decrease of 30,012 bales of 
domestic and an increase of 1,529 bales of 
foreign wool are reported in the receipts at 
Boston since Junuary 1, in comparison with 
the same time last year.Georgia boasts 
3,000 carp ponds.The new crop of 
wheat is now coming into the markets iu 
Georgia and Texas.Farmers in South¬ 
ern Illinois are harvesting wheat. 
The new cotton picking machine will go to 
work in the South this year. Il will do the 
work of 30 hands, and will not lie in the dirt 
and kick its feet up into the sunshine like the 
African picking machines now in use. 
Lightning has killed 35 head of cattle in 
Kansas, which were lying or standing near a 
barbed wire fence. Now for a howl against 
b. w. f.!.The New York Board of Health 
declare that over 5.000 people die in this city 
annually from tuberculosis imparted by milk 
from cows afflicted with that complaint. A 
separate ward for patients so afflicted has 
been provided in the Charity Hospital. 
You can get #1,000 to reveal the name of the 
scoundrel who undertook to poison 135 cattle 
belonging to James Catou, a Richland, Kan., 
farmer, Saturday night.The first new 
wheat of the season arrived at St. Louis Mon¬ 
day from New Madrid, Mo. It was sold at 
auction at $1 a bushel.The Hon. J. B. 
Grinnell, of Iowa, has been appointed one of 
the Commission provided for in the Animal 
Industry Act, passed by Congress the other 
day.On behalf of the cattle ranchers 
of Montana, the Canadian Pacific Railway 
authorities have represented to the Minister 
of Customs the propriety of allowing cattle 
of the Western States to he carried through 
Canadian territory in bond for export. The 
Montana ranchers propose entering their 
stock at Fort Walsh and driving them to the 
Canadian Pacific Railway for shipment. The 
effect would be make Montreal the great cattle 
marketof Montana and other Western States. 
The Minister agreed to a relaxation of the 
customs regulations so as te bring this trade 
te a Canadian port. This is likely to make 
Montreal the greatest cattle mart in North 
America.The Department of Agricul¬ 
ture estimates the total cattle loss last Winter 
from disease, exposure, etc., at atout 4}£ per 
cent., or 1,812,798 head. The Winter was a 
severe one, but Texas suffered the least com¬ 
paratively, and comes out all right. At two- 
thirds the average value of cattle iu January 
last, the total loss would exceed $30,000,000 
Ohio lost two per cent., or 26,875 head; In¬ 
diana three per cent., or 40,684 head; Illinois 
three per cent., or 70,300 head. The heaviest 
loss, nine per cent., was in Louisiana, fol¬ 
lowed by Mississippi and Florida, each eight 
per cent; Texas lost six per cent., or 25)6,712 
head: while Montana, with mercury down to 
40® below, lost but four per cent. 
Never known to fail, Dr. Graves’ Heart 
Regulator as a cure for Heart Disease. Sold 
by druggists, 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Judo 21. 
The weather in the United Kingdom contin¬ 
ue* excellent and prices of breadstuffs are cor¬ 
respondingly depressed. The Loudon Miller 
concludes that “the harvest character of 1884 
throughout the world looks, on present show¬ 
ing, as though it would be a good one. On 
the present basi* of production and consump¬ 
tion, there is likely to be a net surplus of 20,- 
000,000 quarter* (160,000,000 bushel*;, which 
even the most careful estimates do not reduce 
below 96,000,000, or at the most 80,000,000 bus. 
Late advices received in London from India 
(latter part of May), speak of some anxiety in 
upper India, and especially iu the Delhi and 
Hissar divisions of the Punjab. No famine 
was anticipated. In lower Bengal harvest 
prospects were described as fairly good, al¬ 
though some regions had experienced hardly 
any rainfull since the beginning of the year. 
Grain market* over the continent of Europe 
generally ixave been dull and drooping, so far 
a* breadstuffs are concerned. 
With regard to the French cereal crop, C. 
Ruguel, of Pari*, a recognized authority on 
crop matters, write* to 8. M. Tullmudge, of 
Milwaukee, that more wheat wa* sown this 
year than lost, and the weather aud conditions 
have been favorable, and the indications are 
that the yield will be above the average. Oats 
and barley had a good start, but the latter 
suffered somewhat from drought. The weather 
continues good. All cereal crops are expected 
to be better than last year. 
The expected damage te the California wheat 
crop has proved to be unfounded, and a cur¬ 
tailment of the hay crop there i* the worst 
which is likely to happen. 
From present indication* it is likely that 
the growing crop of potatoes will bring good 
prices. As we have repeatedly warned our 
friends, the large yield and consequent low 
prices of last year's crop, led to the planting 
of a considerably smaller area this year, and 
the present crop has been considerably injured 
and retarded by the late frosts in the northern 
parts of the country. Old potatoes, which 
were almost a drug in the market a few weeks 
ago, are now bringing good prices. A tele¬ 
gram from Troy, New York, last Wednesday, 
says that at rural station* where two weeks ago 
potatoes were worth 20 cents per bushel, 60 
and 65 cents are now paid. Potato bugs are 
very numerous and injurious to the young 
plants, which were delayed and made delicate 
by the recent frosts. The farmers declare 
that the outlook for potatoes is discouraging, 
and the yield is likely te be small and of in¬ 
ferior quality. Numerous fields of potatoes 
were entirely destroyed by frosts and have 
been plowed up, and other frost-bitten patches 
will be three or four weeks later. 
For the Michigan crop report for June, the 
Secretary of State has received returns from 
901 correspondents, representing 618 town¬ 
ships. The weather during May was, on the 
whole, much more favorable than during May 
of last year. Wheat and grass have made a 
good growth during the month. Spring seed¬ 
ing has done well. There are complaints of 
dry weather, which, if it continues, will soon 
affect crops seriously. Wheat is very gene¬ 
rally reported thin on the ground and spot¬ 
ted, that on clay land being badly injured. 
The average condition in the southern four 
tiers of counties is 91 per cent., and in the 
northern counties 98. The probable total pro- 
