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504 THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
of !!)C TUrrh. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 26. 
Thk Washington monument has reached the 
bight of 486 feet, and is now the highest struc¬ 
ture in the world, with the single exception of 
the Cologne Cathedral. The work on the py¬ 
ramidal cap or roof, which is to complete the 
shaft, will begin about September 1.Steel 
rails are now selling at $29 per ton, the lowest 
price ever known in this country.The 
taxable value of Texas this year shows an in¬ 
crease over last year of $60,000,000...A 
Ban Francisco woman is suing a man for 
$ 10,000 damages because on the 21 st of last 
month he promised to marry her within “a 
reasonable time,” and has not yet fulfilled the 
agreement.The Postmaster Genera) has 
instructed postmasters to grant letter-carriers 
a leave of absence, not to exceed 115 days in 
each year, with pay, and to fill their places 
with substitute carriers at. the rate of $600 per 
year.A package containing $ 7 , 0 (H), for¬ 
warded the other day by the Assistant Treas¬ 
urer ut New Orleans to the United States 
Treasurer, when opened was found to be 
$4, 0 (H) short. The package had evidently been 
opened aud resealed during transmission. 
A crematory is to be built at Buffalo, modeled 
after the famous one at Milan. No flame, but 
intense heat, will be used to reduce the bodies 
to ashes.An error iu the Indian Appro¬ 
priation Bill has Just been discovered. Tt 
gives the Cheyennes and Arraphoos $20,000,- 
000 instead of $90,000, ns intended.... Belknap, 
Mo., except the depot and five houses, burned 
on Friday night week. Loss over $100,000.... 
The fishermen on the Canadian islands in the 
St. Law fence have sent a protest to the Govern¬ 
ment againt the way in which American tour¬ 
ists destroy Ash in Canadian waters, dam¬ 
age property, and use insulting language to 
licensed fishermen.The Treasury De¬ 
partment has been informed by one of its 
agents on the Canadian border, that paper 
rags, supposed to have been collected iu tho 
cholera infected district* of Egypt, Turkey, 
and the south of France, are being imported 
into the United States through Canadian 
ports. They are described os of a low grade, 
and likely to contain the germs of disease. A 
large lot was recently shipped to this country 
from Liverpool .Jane Gray SwLsshelm, 
the uuteil aliul i lUmtatand advooat©of woman’s 
rights, died at her home in Swissville, Pa., 
last Wednesday, She used to he a contributor 
to this paper....The Canada Pacific Rail¬ 
road runs two trains a week.Twenty- 
one thousand widows of soldiers of the war of 
1812 are Stated to be still drawing pensions 
from the Government.Improvements 
now making on the Capitol at Washington 
will cost $750,000.Au old settlers’ re¬ 
union was recently held in an Iowa town that 
is only four years old..The death of 
Paul Morphy, the noted chess player of a 
quarter of a century ago, was unexpectedly 
sudden at New Orleans the other day. He 
was on the street in good health on the da}' of 
his death. The heat tempted him to go home 
and take a cold bath, and fatal appoplexy re 
suited.The Secretary of the Interior 
has asked Superintendent Conger of the 
Yellowstoue National Park to resign. 
Allan Pinkerton’s will leaves his whole estate 
to his family. He was worth about $900,000.. 
.Governor Cleveland weighs 280 pounds, 
and wears a No. 19 collar... Bronson A. 
Alcott’s paralysis has left him nearly speech¬ 
less.There is great excitement at Mar¬ 
shalltown, Iowa, over tho arrest of ft woman 
for violation of the prohibition law. The mob 
threatened to demolish the jail, when the wo¬ 
man was released on bail. Dire threats are 
made against the lives and property of the in¬ 
formers.Ten families have been poison¬ 
ed at Port Jackson, N. Y-, by eating pressed 
corned beef made by local butchers, The beef 
was prepared in a copper kettle. Some of the 
cases are serious.The Court of Inquiry, 
to investigate the management of the San 
Carlos Indian Agency under Captain Emmet 
Crawford, reports that Crawford’s adminis¬ 
tration has been wise and just. The Indians 
are completely under military control. Those 
at Fort Apache are entirely self supporting, 
aud it is believed that under the same manage¬ 
ment the others will soon become so.John 
C. Eno has rented a splendidly furnished resi¬ 
dence in Quebec, and has been joined by his 
wife and three daughters.George H. 
Darwin, son of the celebrated author of “The 
Descent of Man,” was married iu Erie, Pa., 
Tuesday evening to Miss Maud DePuy, a 
Philadelphia belle. The groom is Professor 
of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Eng¬ 
land, and came iu advance of a great meeting 
of English astronomers in Montreal next 
month, iu which he is to participate. 
Greeley’s party of arctic explorers are steadily 
gaining strength, and will soon arrive in this 
country, where a warm reception awaits them. 
.. .The President has called for the resignation 
of Gen. James Longstreet as United States 
Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia. 
This action is hosed on the recommendation of 
the Attornev-General, who had preferred 
charges against him for carelessness and ineffi¬ 
ciency, and asked for bis immediate removal. 
It is generally understood be will l>e succeeded 
by John E. Bryant .The composition of 
t.hc Rub-Committee of the House Military 
Committee, which was directed by the House 
to visit and investigate the management of 
the various Soldiers’ Homes during recess, has 
been announced by the Chairmen, Gen Rose- 
crans, and is as follows:—Messrs. Slocum, 
Murray, Steal© and Cutchcoo. The Bub Com¬ 
mittee will meet in Dayton, Ohio. August 1, 
and after concluding its labors there, proceed 
to Milwaukee.Professor Friaby, of 
Washington, Wednesday night, observed the 
comet, discovered by Professor Barnard, of 
Nashville. Ho hns no doubt it is a new comet, 
and thinks it will remain visible but a short 
time.Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has 
asked the Council for $10,000 to enable the 
Quaker City to make a good showing at the 
New Orleans Exjiositlon.The Canadian 
exploring expedition to establish stations in 
Hudson’s Bay sailed from Nova Scotia, Tues¬ 
day.Arizona’s total production of cop¬ 
per this year is expected to be nearly 60 per 
cent greater than last year’s yield, which was 
17,000,000 pounds.The strength of tho 
prohibition movement iu Michigan for some 
such presidential ticket as St. John and Fisk, 
bids fair to give that. State to Cleveland and 
Hendricks.Baltimore, in deference to 
Maryland peach growers, is to omit this year 
the ff-te there called the Oriole...... A case of 
yellow fever has occurred at New Orleans.... 
The Postmaster-General has discontinued the 
practice of supplying specimen postage stamps 
to collectors, as it is nuprofltable and a source 
of annoyance .The Meadville, Pa., glass 
works recently imported some Belgian work¬ 
men, arranging that a certain sum was to be 
deducted from their wages each month to pay 
their passage from Belgium, which had been 
advanced by the company. When some money 
was stopped to repay their indebtedness they 
ptruck.The directors of the Panama 
Canal state that, the canal will be open for 
traffic in 1*88 .At the running meeting 
that, closed ut Washington Park, Chicago, 
Saturday, the total won in stakes and purses 
was $91,000, the stakes alone aggregating $04,- 
000 .A three-year-old gelding owned hy 
Colvin Stevens, a farmer near Connersville, 
lnd., paced a half mile in 1:08. 
It Kill AUK A BI.K UFSTOIt ATIO* IN TIIF. 
CAKE OK A CLERGYMAN. 
Rev. A. W. Moore, of Darlington, S. C., 
sends us for publication the following results 
in his case: 
“Darlington, 8 . C.,Jan. lfith, 1883. 
“Messrs. Starkey & Pa i.en Though you 
have not solicited. I feel it to In? my duty to 
give the following testimonial in favor of 
‘Compound Oxygen.’ I inherited the pulmon¬ 
ary taint from’my mother; and hove suffered 
with Bronchitis from my youth. For the last 
three or four years, in the early Fall. 1 have 
been prostrated with au acute attack of severe 
BronchiaI Asthma. Last fall this attack was 
unusually perilous, being complicated with a 
general derangement of the liver, kidneys. Arc. 
My medical advisers could not give much hope 
of any furl her work in the ministry. 
“In December I commenc'd the use of your 
Home Treatment. Shortly after 1 began its 
use, nearly all the symptoms w ere greatly ag¬ 
gravated. but for the last three weeks I have 
been improving. Tho constant expectoration 
has to a great extent ceased. I have a flue 
appetite; my digestion is good. 1 sleep well. 
/ owl nowpreaching /wireon Sunday u'ithoul 
lassitude. I feel more rigor -more life than I 
haw for years. 1 believe the ‘Compound Ox 
ogeo* a blessed, providential discovery, to 
which you were uneonciously directed by the 
Great. Healer. 
“Gratefully, (Rev.) A. W. Moork.” 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen," con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures iu Con 
sumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide range of chronic 
diseases, will be sent free. Address Dks. Star- 
key & Pai.kn, 1109 Girard Ht., Phila.— Adv. 
AGRICUL TURA L NEWS, 
Saturday, July 36. 
The poultry crop of North Caroliua is said 
to be worth about $2,800,000..The New 
York State Board of Health has examined 
some of tho muscular tissue of the man who 
ate raw hath at Marietta. Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
The microscope showed the tissue to be t warm- 
iug with trichinae.The Erie Preserving 
Company, canned goods, at 163 Maiden Lane, 
this city, has suspended. The chief cause 
was heavy losses by three recent Western fail¬ 
ures. The company determined to stop to see 
how it stood, and make some arrangement 
with the creditors to go on again. The fac¬ 
tory at ltavenswood, L. 1., was burned, and 
the loss was $30,000 over the insurance. The 
liabilities are about $ 200 , 000 , and assets nomi¬ 
nally the same. The company had factories 
at Buffalo, Brant, and Fair Haven, N. Y.. and 
at St. Catharines, Ont. A statement on April 
1 showed a surplus of $31,384 over the capital 
stock aod bill* payable.The dwellings 
and farms of widows, minors and spinsters 
are exempted from taxation in several States 
of the Mexican Republic.It is said that 
18,000 homesteads have been entered in Florida 
during tho past, year.But three students 
graduated at the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College this year.The Secretary of the 
Maine State Agricultural College, says “that, 
it never stood liettor. There Is no like insti¬ 
tution in the country where so much work is 
done for so Rniall an amount of money. All 
connected with the college are hard-working 
men. Every expenditure is carefully watched. 
The farm is making a good showing”. 
Tom Green County, Texas, which i* about the 
size of Massachusetts, though it ha* no towns, 
lias an assessed valuation of $5,000,000 and a 
population of 860,000 sheep and cattle. 
Apples are three for 50 cents at. Coeur d’Alene. 
.William Munroe, cattle dealer of West 
Albany, N. Y., is shipping about 1,500 head of 
Colorado cattle each week to England, divided 
into two shipments.Reports from sta¬ 
tions on all the South-western railroads, show 
that the outlook for the crops was never bet¬ 
ter.A specimen of every plant named 
in the Bible is said to b« growing in the gar¬ 
dens of the Missouri Botanical Society, near 
St. Louis.The drought i* doing great 
injury to the crops within a radius of 150 
miles from Cincinnati in all directions. 
. During the present harvest season 
in Italy the reapers have earned a dollar and 
a half per day, which they consider extraor¬ 
dinary wages. Their work lasted 14 hours 
daily, from 4 A. M. to 8 P. M., with intervals 
for meals, which consisted of mush aud oil, 
Bologna sausage, rice, beans, cheese and wine, 
taken at 7, 12, and 6 o’clock. Outside of the 
season their hands find little to do, and they 
sicken often from downright starvation and 
stagnation.Several trains of improved 
patent freight cars for the transj>ortat.ion of 
I>eacbes have been built, for the Philadelphia 
and Reading Railroad, and will run on their 
road between the peach districts in New Jer¬ 
sey and the New England States. The care 
will be transferred from Jersey City on floats 
to the New York Central Road.A drought 
not equaled in severity since 1829 prevails in 
the Highlands of Scotland, not a drop of rain 
having fallen in nine weeks, while the heat 
was extraordinary. Much of the turnip crop 
has been sowed the second time, the seed first 
sown having failed to sprout, and farmers 
regard the situation with extreme anxiety.... 
. ..A horse at Riverside, L. I., by his weak¬ 
ness for eating chickens, is causing his owner 
considerable trouble. The horse eats the chick¬ 
ens, feathers and all, whenever he can manage 
to catch them.. What 
should Vie the price of cattle of such-and-such 
breeds? is a question often asked, and answered 
by the uverage prices for cattle sold at public 
auction since January 1 last, according to the 
Breeders’Gazette: 2,835 Short horns sold for 
$489,283—an average of $209.55; 117 Herefords 
sold for $45,225; an average of $386.50; 100 
Holstein* sold for $38,215; au average of 
$382.15; 1,559 Jerseys sold for $535,071; an 
average of $343.21; 103 Guernseys sold for 
$27,580; an average of $268; 155 Aberdecn- 
Angus sold for $54,190; an average of $350; 
141 Galloways sold for $43,870; an average of 
$312.An enormous much in Mexico has 
been purchased for U300,000by a syndicate of 
English and Scotch speculators, of whom Lord 
Tweedmouth is one. It extends over 1,600 
square miles.The law prohibiting the 
sale of malt and spirituous liquors in Iowa has 
boomed the sale of buttermilk in that State, 
and many saloons are to be opened for its sule 
by persons who formerly sold intoxicants.... 
The works of the Zell Guauo Company at Lo¬ 
cust. Point, Md., with their contents, were 
burned Tuesday afternoon, causiug a damage 
estimated at $ 200 ,000.The State Treasurer 
of New Hampshire has issued a notice to the 
Selectmen of towns informing them that in 
presenting claims for bounties on woodchucks 
they must certify that none of the animals 
were killed on Sunday , else the claim will not 
be allowed.Over 100 bushels of grass¬ 
hoppers have been captured this Summer on 
one farm in Plymouth, N. H., by the owner, 
for which he received a bounty of $1 per 
bushel.The prospects for the indigo 
crop in Bengal and the tea crop in Assam are 
unfavorable. Rain is badly wanted. 
The Forestry Commission has commenced its 
meetings at Saratoga.In 1880 the num¬ 
ber of farms in the United States, according 
to Census Bureau, was 4,008.907, tho average 
size of the farms being 134 acres. In 1870 the 
average size was 152 acres... 
The Territorial Wool Association, an associa¬ 
tion of wool buyers in Nevada. Montana, 
Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, sold 2,350,000 
pounds in Boston last year, besides a little in 
other markets, and is expected to handle more 
this year.New Zealand wool-growers 
are reported as complaining bitterly of the 
low prices received for +beir wool. 
Reducing the flour to wheat, the exported 
wheat crop of California for the season of 
1883-84 wo* 7.555,700 tons, valued at $25,393.- 
900. In 1881-82 the total reached 1,239.000 
tons. Tho cereal exportation the past year 
filled up 286 cargoes in the course of the year. 
“Tried and true” is Dr. Grave’s Heart Reg¬ 
ulator. a cure for all forms of Heart Disease. 
Price $1.— Adv. 
Wisely Adopted by Dnlrymen. 
The adoption by most of the prominent 
dairymen and farmers of the United States, 
of the Improved Butter Color made hy Wells, 
Richardson, Co., Burlington. Vt. is a proof 
of their wisdom in a business point of view. 
Nearly all winter butter is colored in order to 
make it marketable, and this color is the best 
in regard to purity, strength, permanence and 
perfection of tint.— Adv. 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, July 26. 
General Manager Henderson of the Indiana, 
Bloomington and Western Railway, has been 
gathering information as to tho condition of 
corn, wheat and oats along the various divis¬ 
ions of the system in Ohio, Tndiona and Illi¬ 
nois. Reporta have just Wen received from 
about 75 point*. The condition of wheat in 
Ohio and Indiana is above the average both 
in quantity and quality. In Illinois there is 
comparatively a small acreage, but the con¬ 
dition i* good. The corn crop is uniformly 
good; at 20 points very good, and at some 
points promises to be the largest, ever raised. 
It is reported poor at only one point, which is 
not a corn growing locality. The oat crop is 
above t.he average in acreage and condition, 
and is reported poor at only one point. 
A dispatch from Winnepeg, Manitoba. Can¬ 
ada, says the local government crop reports 
from 335 townships are most encouraging. 
Wheat Is reported in excellent condition 
throughout every district in the Province, and 
the yield will bo up to the average. The acre¬ 
age sown has vastly increased. There is no 
reason to doubt that the estimate of 9.500,000 
bushels available for export this year will be 
fully realized. Oats have not been doing as 
well os wheat, but the recent rains have made 
a great, improvement in that crop, while bar¬ 
ley will undoubtedly lie up to the average. 
A most, abundant crop of potatoes is prom¬ 
ised, while field roots from various causes are 
below the average. The yield of hay will be 
very large, and haying may be said to have 
commenced already. 
The State Board of Agriculture estimates 
the wheat crop of Kansas this season at 
47,858.000 bushels of winter, and 1,255,000 
bushels of spring growth, making a total of 
49,113.000 bushels. Quality equal to 1882, and 
superior to 1883 crop. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, July 26, 1884. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices 
a week ago, "regular” wheat is 5£c. lower; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, lower. Corn, J^c. 
higher. Oats. %c. lower. Pork, 50c. lower. 
Wheat. -In fair demand; *aln« ranged; July. RIV< 
<a>3c: Aur< i*t, fttteasMtc* September. 88W<*84i«c: Oc¬ 
tober, Htq,r*RSq;c November, SS<<<85<<C ; No. 2. Chlca 
Ko Spring, Cobs In active demand but 
unsettled, sales ranged: cash, SJtfcK'fc: July, 
MUc: August. MM'ftNUc- dosing at 54Ko-September, 
S4«55e: October. WKftMfcct November, t9t4#50t<c: 
all III-' vear, 4tL May. 4 VWc245<ao. Oat* Firm; 
sales ranged: July. August, 
September, 2«H'ft5*We: all the year. WtfaSSa' May. 
?HV<t2 ‘V»e. Rvk Steady at 62Qjc. ItARI-ltT Dull at 
5 *U«tfi 0 c. Komi Dull: cash at *15 SISaiA 16.30; J-tly and 
August at *2S: September i*I *' r ! t.19,50- October at 
*iy. 50 ' all the year at *11.25. Fiona—Market heavy 
and dull and lower than yesterday rough 
packing at *5*5.30 packing and shipping at *5.«V«> 
5 60: light at tfi.aS.Fh skips at **<r4.15 Cattle—M ar¬ 
ketdull except on choice fat beeves: export grades 
at *ft,rw<ii7; good to choice shipping at *5.70f»6.20: 
common to medium at *4.5(kk*5 75: gras* Texans at 
*5 I5«4.?J. Hitrt.f Market weak' Inferior to fair at 
*V.lS<ye«S pur cwt: medium to good at ATfttS.OO; choice 
to extra at $ti t4.50; Texas sheep at *2.20<S4. 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is 2^e. higher. 
No. 3 Red, 1c. higher. Corn, %c. higher. 
Oats, 2%c. lower. 
Emit Unsettled, with moderate trading: No. 2 
Red, at H<y*R4W.c rush: 88t((<t83Wc. Anoust; »«ia85*^c. 
September- 86V«87c. October: No. 3 Red at 79f»Rli£c. 
Cos* Dull at t7<*47«e cash 1 47*t<a47«c. August; 
<8**c. September. 48V* 19c. October, closing at In¬ 
side figures. Oats- Slow at SlVitS'V. cash; 27c. 
July; Me. bid AUgW. Koo* Lower at tn^glOc. 
Pork— Jobbing in *l« Brut Meat*—L ong dear at 
7.Hie.: idiuitrlh at 7.K0c.- short dear at 8.0V Bacon 
—L ong dear ut 8.G566H.7RC- * short rib at 9.H7)^6y9c: 
short clear at 9.l2W<4925c. Catti.r Market weak- 
Exports at *6 25®fi.S0: good to choice shipping, *5.85 
Mifi.'JS; common to medium. H7Sf.t3.75: gru-s natives 
i4.50a5.te: grass Texans *H<^4..VI: K meter Common 
to medium *2ia*3- good to choice. $8 50.11,25; Hoos 
—Market active; Yorkers $5.65(4.5.20; packing *5(95.45; 
heavy. *5.50065.65. 
Cincinnati.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is 8c. lower. Corn, 
lc. liiger. Oats, #c. higher. Pork, 25c. 
higher. 
Wheat—Dull: No 2 Red a 85c. CoRN-Btronger; No. 
2 Mixed, 54Ric- OATS-Stronger: No. 2 Mixed, at 
84<3SiWc. Rye— In fair demand; No. 2, 66c. Pork— 
Firm at *16016 50. Lard— Quiet at 6.80c. Bulkmeats 
—Dull and nominal. Bacon easier, but not quotably 
