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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
JULY 
Wntrs of ll )t TUrirk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 28. 
A crematory is to he built in Newton, Long 
Island. It will cost $50,000.Typo-wr itiug 
has been introduced in the Chicago public 
schools in an experimental way, and a class of 
25 has two hours a week on the machines..... 
In Manitoba, Indians on Pounrlmaker’s Re¬ 
serve seized and beat a Government official, 
broke into the Government store and stole 
provisions. Fifty mounted police were sent to 
arrest them, and they were set at defiance. A 
fight is expected. The people of Battleford 
have organized and armed themselves for 
self-defense ....... A comparison of the statis¬ 
tics in regard to mortality during the month 
of May shows that in Washington the anoual 
death rate among whites was but 12.8 per 
thousand, while among the blacks it was 27.4; 
in Charleston the figures ware reepocL 
tively 18.6 and 38.3; in Atlanta. 19 and 
49.4, and in Richmond, 19.7 and 50.3. 
.... Immense forest fires are raging in Maine 
and New Hampshire...Louisiana has 
appropriated $100,000 for the World’* Exposi¬ 
tion..The window glass factories of the 
West will close down next Saturday for the 
Summer...The anthracite coal companies 
will stop work from July 5 to July 19, to de¬ 
crease production, increase prices, and starve 
the miners into a proper condition of servi¬ 
tude.Mr. Case, owner of the trotter 
Jay-Eye-See, says he is willing to match his 
trotter for a “race, or exhibition test,” against 
any hor*e for $10,(XX) a side, to be trotted 
either at Hartford, Conn.; Providence, R. I.; 
or Chicago, 111., a* may be agreed upon, on 
July 4. or on any other course that may be 
decided upon. He has put up $5,000 forfeit 
as evidence he means trot, not talk; Cling¬ 
stone and Vanderbilt’s Maud 8. are the only 
very formidable competitors.... .Eighty 
pupils of the Indian training school at Car¬ 
lisle, Pa., started on their return to the Far 
West last week. They uro destined for 13dif¬ 
ferent reservations, and uro accompanied by 
three chiefs as an escort.There will be 
no trade dollar legislation at this session of 
Congress.The letter carriers are to have 
a brief Summer vacation. If they desire it, 
thanks to Representative Cox.The two- 
thirds rule, ns well ns the unit rule, governs 
in Democratic National Conventions. By the 
former each State votes as a unit; by the lat¬ 
ter a majority of two thirds of the delegates 
is needed to nominate candidates. The num¬ 
ber of delegates to the Chicago Convention, 
on July 7, will be 802. Under the two-thirds 
rule it will require 534^ votes to nominate... 
_Indiana Democrats have nominated ex 
Governor Gray for Governor, and instructed 
tho delegates to the National Convention to 
support McDonald for President.Mis¬ 
souri Democrats insist on tariff for revenue 
only. The Chicago delegation is reported 
practically unanimous for Cleveland. 
Of the Virginia delegates to Chicago, a large 
number declare for Cleveland, some prefer 
Flower, and others think Bayard the best man 
to nominate.North Carolina’s delega¬ 
tion to Chicago are divided between Bayard 
and Cleveland.Montreal has had a splen¬ 
did time during the past week.In Kan¬ 
sas alone does a local rum quarrel promise to 
cut any considerable figure in the National 
campaign, and there tho feeling is so hot that 
some observers think the Prohibitionists have 
only to put up St. John for the Presidency to 
give the Democrats a chance of carrying the 
State.Three of the most, prominent 
business men in Washington are now under 
arrest for complication in the Navy Depart¬ 
ment frauds. They are accused of giving 
false bills and dividing the money with the offi¬ 
cers. It is believed that further investigation 
will show that all of the guilty persons have 
not yet been apprehended.Eads antag¬ 
onizes tho Government's interest in the Nica¬ 
ragua Canal, because he is afraid it will injure 
his Tehuantepec ship railroad scheme. 
Vanderbilt is said to have offered £450,000 for 
the Duke of Marlborough’s collection of paint¬ 
ings .A large proportion of the 501 Mor¬ 
mon converts who arrived at New York by 
the Arizona this week were women aud girls, 
which looks as though the Latter Day Saints 
proposed to have on hand all the facilities for 
polygamy, whatever Congress may do to 
suppress it.*..A terrific hurricane visited 
Council Bluffs Wednesday, leveling to the 
ground au exhibition building which cost 
$11,000. Davis’s circus tent was also blown 
down, causing a loss of $5,(XXI, and many 
houses were unroofed.Samuel E. Pin- 
gree was nominated for Governor by the Ver¬ 
mont Republican State Convention, Wed¬ 
nesday; E. J. Ormsbee for Lieutenant-Gover¬ 
nor, aud W. H. Duboi* for State Treasurer... 
.... The majority of the Tennessee Democratic 
delegates to the Chicago Convention No. 2, 
favor Cleveland for President .Mr. J. 
B. Hobbs, ex-President of the Chicago Board 
of Trade, has been nominated for Oovernor 
by the Illinois Prohibition Convention at 
Bloomington ....... Kansas Republicans urge 
the adoption of the platform of the National 
Republican Convention as tho platform for 
the party in their State, and advise that noth¬ 
ing be said concerning the prohibition issue.. 
.... It is expected that during the fiscal year 
which will end Monday next, $100,000,000 of 
the National debt will have been paid off. The 
revenue for the year is about $40,000,000 less 
than last year. The commercial balance in 
favor of the United States this year will be 
$60,000,000, against $90,000,000 last year. The 
reduced revenue is due mostly to the tariff and 
Internal Revenue legislation of last session. 
....The three New York elevated roads have 
carried 444.000,000 passengers since the first 
one was built in 1872, and earned $32,000,000. 
There were 170,(XX) passengers and $17,000 
in earnings the first year, and last year 
nearly 100,000,000 passengers and $7,000,000 
in earnings...••••• Gen. John B. Gordon of 
Georgia seems to think that the blacks are 
almost as well off as before the war. Says 
he: “The negro is to-day the most favorably 
circumstanced, the best fed, and tho most in¬ 
dependent laborer to l>e found, not only in 
this country, but in the civilized world. 
There is a genuine oil craze in Roscommon 
County, Mich. The well bored has yielded (X) 
barrels a day, pumped by five men, and an 
offer of $30.(KK) for it is refused. The possi¬ 
bility that oil may be found in other places has 
caused a great advance in land through tho 
region, and every owner dreams of wealth.... 
Secretary Frelinghuysen has been successful 
in persuading the House Foreign Affairs Com¬ 
mittee of the propriety of tho appropriation 
which ho asks for, of $290,000 for the purchase 
of the Nicaragua canal charter. England and 
Germany are negotiating for it* purchase, 
but we want to get, ahead of them.... ..Con¬ 
firmed by the Senate: Commodore 1 homos S, 
Phelps, to be rear admiral in the navy; Capt. 
Ralph Chandler, to he a commodore; Comdrs. 
John A. Howell, to be captain; naval ensigns 
William B. Fletcher, of Vermont, William S. 
Howard, of Connecticut, Harold E. Fames, of 
Maine; 2d lieutenant in the navy, Arthur H. 
Clarke, of Rhode Island..The Omaha, 
Neb., counciltnen preferred articles of im¬ 
peachment against Mayor Chase, of that city, 
this week for drunkenness, incompetency, ne¬ 
glect of duty, bribery, and corruption, aud 
conniving to render tho laws inoperative. 
They also suspended him from office during 
the investigation of the charges.Pal¬ 
mer, tho accomplice of Berner in tho Kirk 
murder, was found guilty of murder in the 
first degree at Cincinnati this week. It, was 
Berner’s aequitul of murder in the first degree 
that caused the riots.There are sup¬ 
posed to be considerably over 100,000 com¬ 
mercial travelers or “drummers” in this coun¬ 
try, They are organised in associations for 
New England, for the Northwest,, with head¬ 
quarters at, Chicago, and for mauy individual 
States, aud in most cases the association is a 
mutual insurance company .A Georgia 
girl. Miss Lulu Hurst, is giving some marvel¬ 
ous exhibitions in Washington, before Con¬ 
gressmen, scientists and others, in tho way of 
moving objects by merely touching them, 
although several strong men may be trying to 
hold them steady. No dark seance affair.... 
To show the enormous tide of immigration to 
the United BtateB, the English, French, Ger¬ 
man, Netherlands. Danish aud Mediterranean 
lines brought to the port of New York, dur¬ 
ing the years 1881, 1882 aud 1883, the follow- 
Cabin. 
Steerage. 
Ififil. 
. 51.239 
441,064 
. 
. 57,947 
455,450 
1883. 
. 58,596 
888,267 
167,772 
1,284,781 
.General Logan was notified of his 
nomination for the Vice-Presidency, on Tues¬ 
day, by a committee of the Republican Na¬ 
tional Convention, and promised the usual 
letter of acceptance.... ....Nothing of much 
consequence can occur in regard to the recal¬ 
citrant bolters until after the Democratic Na¬ 
tional Convention, as their action will be re¬ 
gulated to a considerable extent by the nom¬ 
ination then made.The town of Trum¬ 
bull, Conn., in order to avoid expense, left a 
human body lying in the fields exposed to the 
weather for three weeks.By a vote 39 
to 26 the Ingalls amendment to the Mexican 
Pension bill, extending the Arrears of Pen¬ 
sions Acte-au amendment that would cost the 
government $250,000,000—was killed in the 
Senate Monday.The International 
postal money-order system will, on the 1st of 
July, be extended to three new countries—the 
Hawaiian Islands, Cape Colony and Queens¬ 
land. The system now includes, besides the 
U nited States, Canada, Gr e at’Britain,’G er- 
many, .Switzerland,. Italy, France, the West 
Indies, New Zealand, New South Wales, Vic¬ 
toria, Belgium, Portugal, Tasmania and 
India. There are three countries that have 
not yet come into the system—Austria, Spain 
and Russia ..The heavy rains of last 
Wednesday and Thursday did much damage 
by washing out some crops, prostrating 
others, and knocking a great deal of fruit off 
the trees. As a compensation, they did a 
world of good to thirsty vegetation, as many 
crops would have been entirely ruined if the 
drought had continued much longer; and the 
timely relief was worth millions to the far¬ 
mers. Telegrams show that the rain and wind 
storms extended over most of New England, 
the Middle States and the Ohio Valley, while 
au accompanying “cold wave” stretched over 
the Northern aud Middle States. 
TtrilKKCtJIiOHlS. 
Rernarknhlc Improvement in the Case of a 
Phyntclnn’s Daughter. 
A physiciau iu tho State of New York, 
whose daughter was in rapid decline, sends us 
a report, which wo give, showing a prompt 
arrest of the disease and a rapid return health- 
ward. 
“Your Homo Treatment was duly received 
and my daughter immediately commenced its 
use, stopping all other treatment. The results 
are marvelous indeed. She says that she feels 
nearly well, except that, she has some cough 
yet. You will gee by reference to my former 
letter that she had a very bad train of symp¬ 
toms. l\vo physicians wham / called to see 
her pronoun cet) it a case of Tuberculosis, and 
gave it as their oninhrn that she nmild not re¬ 
cover. Sho had had a cough for a year; was 
very hoarse; had a severe pa in in right side; 
chill for last two months, with night sweats, 
emaciation, weakness, and loss of appetite, 
and nervousness; could not sleep at night; 
pulse a hundred and over at times; respiration 
about twenty-five to thirty-four. She began 
to improve in about one week from tho time 
she commenced the Oxygen Treatment, and 
lias continued up to the present time. All the 
had symptoms enumerated have passed off. / 
cannot find words to express my gratitude.* 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen,'' con 
tabling a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a largo record of surprising cures in Con¬ 
sumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide range of chronic dis¬ 
eases, will be sent free. Address, Dkh. Star- 
key & Palen, 1109 Girard St., Phila.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 28. 
J. Mitchell, of Newburg, N.Y., is the proud 
owner of two cows which have to be milked 
three times a day to keep the fluid from wast¬ 
ing. They are named respectively Gumarien 
and Ethelka, aud oue has averaged 75 pounds 
of milk a day for 117 days, and the other 63 
pouuds.Western Texas will ship 800,(XX) 
cattle this Spring, valued at $5,000,000.. .Colo 
rado does a great business iu fattening, aud 
will this season buy 200,000 head for the pur¬ 
pose in Texas and 50,(MX) iu other places. 
There will also be 250,000 calves, making a 
total increase of 500,000 to the 1,600,000 win¬ 
tered there.Quakers from Pennsylvania 
are settling in Eastern Virginia in large num¬ 
bers, and their scientific methods of farming 
are doing wonders with the worn-out tobacco 
land. It is said that, their work has caused a 
large advance in the price of real estate all 
through the region.The famous great 
grape-vine of Santa Barbara, Cal , has a 
young neighbor which is a threatening rival. 
It is 25 years old, already measures three feet 
in circumference, and last year bore over 
three tons of grapes ... Hops near Seattle, W. 
T., are iu fine condition. The Snowqualiuie 
Yard, said to be the largest, on the Coutinout, 
will yield an enormous crop.. Arkansas 
furnishes the largest percentage of farmers, 
83.1, and Massachusetts the smallest, 9 per 
cent. Georgia has the greatest number of 
agricultural workers, 432,204; Wyoming the 
smallest, 1,689..Georgia melon-growers 
have formed a pool and established agencies 
jn 249 Northwestern cities, aggregating a pop¬ 
ulation of 5,000,000. Nut a car load of melons 
will leave Atlanta until a market has been 
found for it. Georgia is now the great melon¬ 
growing State.The Secretary of the 
Treasury has authorized the construction of 
three additional cattle sheds at the New York 
quarantine station, aud four additional sheds 
at Waltham, Mass.The increase in the 
receipts of live stock at Kansas City market 
since January 1 over the same part of 1883 is 
as follows: Cattle, 40,156 head; hogs, 37,587 
head; sheep, 77,740 head; horses and mules, 
5,126 head.The amendments to the by¬ 
laws of the American Jersey Cattle Club went 
into effect on Tuesday of this week, and in¬ 
volve the following changes in fees: On all 
bulls, $10; entries of all animals over two 
years old, double fee; transfers free for 
90 days from date of sale—after 90 days 
$1...The Massachusetts Legisla¬ 
ture lately appropriated $63,000 for agricultu¬ 
ral purposes.Grasshoppers extremely 
numerous in California and damaging crops 
severely.A fleece of 44>± pouuds, of 364 
days’ growth, is reported to hare been taken 
[ from Lane, a ram belonging to John Bell, 
Tekousha, Mich.At T. W. Harvey’s 
sale of pure-bred cattle at Turlington, Neb., 
June 17, 25 Short-born females sold for 
$10,664, an average of $426.40.It re¬ 
quires from five to seven acres to each head 
of sheep in EH Paso, County, Colorado, in or¬ 
dinary seasons, though this year less acreage 
would be sufficient. The County has about 
200,000 sheep.Friday, June 13, a large 
draft of Short-boras from the herds of Sena¬ 
tor John S. Williams and A. W. Hamilton 
were sold at Lexington, Ky. Fifty-three ani¬ 
mals averaged $396.50, aggregating $20,620. 
.Thursday last there were in the Chi¬ 
cago Stock-yards 40 Galloway cattle and a 
number of Peruheron mares, making the first 
consignment of pure-bred stock for the 
ranches of the Galloway Cattle Company in 
Dakota.At A. L. Hamilton's sale of 
Short-horns in Lexington, Ky., the other day, 
12 bulls were sold for $9,540. an average $795, 
and 97 females went for $77,920. an average 
of $808,30. The cattle were the most fashion¬ 
ably bred in the country. Previous to this 
sale the average of the Short horns sold at 
auction thus far this year was $160. 
....The Statistician of the Bureau of Agricul¬ 
ture, at Washington, reports that the entire 
product of tobacco In the United States in 
1882 was 515,077,558 pounds from 671,522 
acres, an average yield per acre of 764 
pounds, aud average price 8.4 rents per pound, 
making the aggregate value of the entire pro¬ 
duct. $43,189, 951.On June 24 a new 
and higher tariff on East-bound freight took 
effect. Grain and flour are advanced to 20 
cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to New 
York. The advance on other classes (includ¬ 
ing provisions) fs10 cents. It was also agreed, 
as part of the resolution of the committee, to 
make a further advance in grain and flour 
rates of five cents to 25 cents, per 100 pound* 
on July 21....The total number of patents 
granted for agricultural inventions is 35,960.. 
....15.000 busliels of foreign flax-seed have 
been imported and 50,(XX) more are on the way. 
.The colt crop of Colorado this season 
amounts to about 100,000 head. Of this num¬ 
ber only about 1,000 head are from blooded 
sires or dams.Between March 26 and 
June 18 of this year there have been sold by 
auction in New York and Philadelphia 874 
head of Jersey cattle, aggregating $382,700, 
or an average of about. $439 each.Among 
tbe exports from Boston last week were 2,472 
live cattle, 345 sheep, and 697 quarters of beef, 
.The managers of ( lie Kansas City Fat 
Stock Show Association ha ve added a class for 
Devon cattle.The totals of hog-packing 
since January 1 show an increase of 195,000 
head over the corresponding part of 1883 .. 
.Importers from England complain that 
the charges for bringing cattle to Amer¬ 
ica have nearly, if not quite, doubled 
within the last twelve months. 
A Saute Fe, N. id., dispatch says that the 
overflow of the Rio Grande has destroyed 
over two-thirds of tho crops in tho valley. 
Wheat, nearly ripe, has fallen, and in mauy 
places the carefully-cultivated fields are only 
a sheet of water.The Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society opened in its hall in 
Boston, Tuesday,its annual exhibition of roses, 
strawberries, and other fruits and flowers. 
The exhibition of roses is the largest ever 
made in New England........ .Wisconsin has 
500,000 cows and 1,000 creameries and cheese 
factories The dairy products last year were 
worth $19,5(X),000, the largest figure for any 
State..The Directors of the Chicago 
Board of Trade have declined to place sum¬ 
mer-packed pork on the same footing as win¬ 
ter product, ou the ground of opposition by 
the packers, the banks, and the shippers to 
hot climates, and because of the greater time 
required to cure summer product...,.A 
cablegram from Bordeaux, France, yesterday, 
says that it is officially Btated that the pros¬ 
pects now indicate that the wine crop for 1884 
will bo abundant aud of an excellent quality. 
The vines look better than at any time before 
during the post teu years. Seventeen thou¬ 
sand acres in the Gironde have been planted 
with American vines.Eight car-loads, 
or 172,930 pounds of butter passed through 
Dubuque recently en route to New Orleans, in 
refrigerator cars. This is the heaviest butter 
shipment ever known from Iowa.... 
Chicago elevators contained last Saturday 
evening 5,350,23-8 bushels of wheat, 2,274,391 
bushels of coru, 303,843 bushels of oats. 135,630 
bushels of. rye, and 47,829 bushels of barley; 
total, 8,111.481 bushels of all kinds of grain, 
against 10,426,887 bushels a year ago. During 
jast week the stock decreased 1,107,924 
bushels, including a decrease of 667,127 bushels 
of wheat aud 373,309 bushels of coru. For the 
same date the Secretary of the Chicago Board 
ot Trade states that the visible supply of grain 
in the United States and Canadas is 10,453,091 
bushels of wheat, 7,202,848 bushels of coru, 
2,981,318 bushels of oats, 499,519 bushels of 
rye, and 309,427 bushels of barley. These 
figures are less than those of a week before by 
1,159,590 in wheat and 94,209 in corn. 
