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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 2. 
In Hartford 300 women have been swindled 
out of $1,200 by Watson & Co. The firm ad¬ 
vertised for lace-makers, and required a 
deposit from the applicant*. The firm 
decamped with the money.......In 
Boston William Huy ties has been arrested and 
held in the sum of $ 1,000 bail for inserting an 
advertisement offering to give away samples 
of silks in various lengt hs to be used in making 
dresses. A lady at Binghamton received 24 
spools of machine twist, and complained to 
the postal authorities.Many immigrants, 
who were induced to come to Canada on false 
representations, are returning to their native 
country.Traveling sharpsare said to 
have swindled certain Michigan farmers out 
of $200 to $'$00 each upon fraudulent contracts 
for painting their barns . The Secretary 
of the Treasury has decided that carbolic arid 
is free from duty under the now tariff Here¬ 
tofore a duty of 20 per cent, has been assessed 
on that article. The decision was made after 
consultation with the Attorney-Oeneral. 
German Immigration, despite the obstacles 
thrown in it* way by the imperial Govern¬ 
ment, does not fall off materially, the record 
for the first five months of the present year 
being 80,104, or only 709 less than in the cor¬ 
responding period last year. There is natur¬ 
ally a diminution from the flush times of 1881 
and 1882, when the figures were 102,519 and 
102,324.An emigration society in 
Roumania is engaged in sending paupers to 
this country, and the Commissioners of Emi¬ 
gration have taken steps to break up the busl- 
. .The Nova Scotian Government 
has been reorganized as followsW. 8 . Field¬ 
ing, Premier and Provincial Secretary; A. J. 
White, Attorney general; Charles E. Church, 
Commissioner of Mines and Works; Thomas 
F. Morrison, Thomas Isndore I-eWanc and J. 
W. Longley, members without office. W illiam 
F. Pipes and Albert Guyton, late Commis¬ 
sioners of Mines and Works, retire from the 
Government. Mr. Fielding’s acceptance of 
office necessitates an election in Halifax. 
Severe storms have dnue a world of injury in 
some parts of the Northwest. . Fires at 
Dayton, Ohio, have destroyed the hay-rake 
works of -lohn Dodd, and other property val¬ 
ued nt, $75,000.However opinions may 
vary upon the quality of the Presidential can¬ 
didates this year, there can be no complaint* 
as regards the quantity. Following is a list 
of the nominations thus far announced;—Re¬ 
publican: President—James G. Blaine. Maine: 
Vice - President John A. Bogan, Illinois. 
Democratic: President—Grover Cleveland, 
New York; Vice-President—Thomas A. Hen¬ 
dricks, Indiana. American Prohibition—S. 
C. Pomeroy, Kansas; Vice-President—J. A. 
Conant, Connecticut. Prohibition Home Pro¬ 
tection: President—John P. St. John, Kan 
sas; Vice-President- William Daniel, Mary¬ 
land, Greenback-Labor—Benjamin F. But¬ 
ler, Massachusetts; A. M. West, Mississippi. 
Anti-Monopoly—Benjamin F. Butler, Massa¬ 
chusetts; Vice-President—Nouominee. Cleve¬ 
land and Hendricks have been ofliclally noti¬ 
fied of the nomination, and have responded 
very wisely or very foolishly, according to the 
political party discussing the matter. St. 
John and Dauiel ;the Scriptural nominees) 
have accepted the nomination and will run— 
respectable men both, with a respectable cause 
behind them. Nobody seems to know what 
Butler will do—but whatever it may be, it is 
pretty sure to bo the best for Ben . There 
is no prospect of a compromise between the 
prospective heirs and wife of Wilbur F. Storey, 
of the Chicago Times, as to the appointment 
of a conservator and administrator of his 
large estate. He is Incapable of understand¬ 
ing anything, even incidents that, would tend 
to recall the recollections of his youth. 
A convention of lumbermen, to be held at 
Chicago on August 90, will determine whether 
the Northwestern saw-mills shall not be shut 
down after September 15, to keep up prices... 
Ex-Minister Sargent refused to accept a nom¬ 
ination to Congress from the Republicans of 
the Second California District. The recent 
State Convention at Sacramento declared 
strongly for protection, and the party hopes 
to make it, a leading issue of the campaign.... 
Representative IV. W. Culbertson, of Ken¬ 
tucky, shot himself in his room in the National 
Hotel, Wednesday, in a fit, of despondency re¬ 
sulting from hard drinking, and was taken to 
the Providence Hospital. He will recover... 
.“It is almost a foregone conclusion, 
that ex-Senator H. A. W. Tabor will be the 
nominee of the Republican party for Gover¬ 
nor,” says a Denver newspaper.The 
city of Cincinnati has an empty treasury, and 
a general statute forbids borrowing in advance 
of_the receipts. The consequence is, that the 
police have not been paid for several months, 
and the infirmary, house of refuge and other 
institutions are without funds. I be embar¬ 
rassment is due to the refusal of liquor sellers 
to pay the Bcott tax. Hundreds of suits have 
been brought to compel payment, but os these 
are all contested ami appealed, it. is said that, 
the city treasury may not lie relieved forsome 
months.The Cornell faculty has decided 
that the “lady students” shall reside apart in 
Sage College, under the supervision of Mrs, 
Agnee M. Derheim....*"On the European 
continent are 947,400 miles of telegraph wire, 
with 39,000 stations, under Government man¬ 
agement. In the United States there are 
142.000 miles of line, 520,000 of wire, and 
17,500 stations.The Secretary of the 
Treasury has paid to the Board of Manage 
rnent of the New Orleans Exposition, $388,’ 
333 50, being one-third of the $1,1X10,000 ap¬ 
propriated by Congress as a loan .. 
The greatrgrandmol,her of George B. Mc¬ 
Clellan. Mrs, Samuel McClellan, planted three 
elms in Woodstock, Conn., for joy, when she 
heard the news of the battle of Lexington, 
and they are now the largest and finest, elms 
in the town.Gov. Cleveland was born 
March 18, 1837, and baptized at Caldwell, N. 
J., July 1. His personal property is valued 
at, about $5,(XX); he ha* no real estate. He is 
a descendant of Moses Cleveland, one of the 
early settlers of Auburn, Mass. 
Mrs. Thomas Rowland, of Springville, Ala., 
seeing ft storm approaching, took refuge 
with her five little children in a cyclone pit 
under the house. The lightning struck a tree 
in the yard, the roots of which ran into the 
pit, and the fluid followed the roots with fatal 
result*. The infaut in the arms of the mother 
at the time Bhe was struck dead was not 
injured.. Some days ago the dead bodies 
of seven horee thieves were found hung from 
treeR near the mouth of the Mussel shell River 
in Montana Territory.The annals of 
the American t.urf have yet to chronicle two 
more brilliant and successful achievements 
than those performed at Narragansett Lark, 
I’rovidence, R. L, yesterday, in the trials of 
the trotting wonder Jay-Eye-See to beat bis 
record of 2.10# and that of Maud 8 of 2.10#, 
and of the famous black gelding H. B. Win 
ship and mate to beat their double team re¬ 
cord of 2.09# and that of Frank and mate of 
2.08#. In the first attempt Jay-Eye-See 
beat Maud 8 ’r record, making the mtle in 
2.10, and H. B. Winship with running mate 
paced a mile in 2,06.................... The 
Greely relief vessels arrived yesterday at 
Portsmouth, N. H., with the survivors of the 
Lady Franklin Bay party and the bodice of 
their dead comrades.The new corpora¬ 
tion of the town of Selma, Ala., is held re¬ 
sponsible by the courts for the debts and bonds 
of the old corporation.British Columbia 
is discontented over the incompetency of the 
commission appointed to deal with the Chi¬ 
nese immigration question.Official in¬ 
telligence indicates that the reports of epi¬ 
demic yellow fever in Senora, Mexico, are 
exaggerated .Of the 50,000 postmasters 
in the United States there are 2.000 whose 
salaries are below $10; 34 whose salaries did 
not last year amount to the sum of $1 each; 
15 whose salaries were less than 50 cent*, and 
one _H, H. Forrest, of Redallia, Pitt County, 
N. C.—whose earnings for the year were nine 
cen te.The last, Canadian census shows 
1,300,000 French-Canadians, and only 881,000 
of English, and 700,000 of Scotch origin. The 
French Canadian population increases much 
more rapidly than that of any other origin. 
A Womlerftil Hnbstnnce! 
The results which are attending the admin¬ 
istration by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 Girard 
8 t., Philadelphia, of their Vitalizing Remedy 
for Chronic disease*, give new surprises to 
both patients and physicians every' day. 
Nothing like these results has heretofore l»een 
known in the treatment, of disease. If you 
have any ailment about which you are con¬ 
cerned, write to them for information about 
their new Treatment and it will be promptly 
furnished.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
Saturday, August 2. 
There is promise of a very’ large conven¬ 
tion of cattlemen in St. Louis, November 17. 
The National Cattle Growers’ Association 
manages it, hut it is a project of international 
character. It is hoped it will result in an in¬ 
terchange of much valuable fact and opinion, 
and that legislation may also be favorably' in¬ 
fluenced.In Skibbereen, Ireland, boy- 
cottiug notices have appeared against the in¬ 
troducers of labor-saving machines.In 
Chicago, Mrs. Murphy, aged 27, is suffering 
from the horrible cattle disease, “lumpy jaw ,' 1 
contracted, it is supposed, by eating the meat 
of a diseased animal.Th&re were ship¬ 
ped recently from Morristown, Minn,, to 
Russia, 40,000, pounds (about 700 bushels) of 
Early Amber Sugar Cane seed. This seed has 
been purchased for spring planting in the 
province of Kriew. Efforts are also in pro¬ 
gress to introduce the cultivation of sorghum 
into Turkestan, Asiatic Russia, and the profit¬ 
able growing of this sugar cane in Ceylon is a 
question also under consideration.The 
phylloxera has reached Roumania, and the 
disease is spreading rapidly. It. was introduc¬ 
ed in a vine imported from France by some 
imprudent smuggler in contravention of the 
most stringent precautions of the Govern¬ 
ment.The English hop crop this year, 
all the authorities say, will be a great, failure. 
.The crops jn Washington Territory 
are being destroyed rapidly by crickets about 
an inch and a half long, which have appeared 
there in large numbers.A ranch in 
Grant County, N. M., is forty by sixty miles, 
containing 1 , 500 ,Off) acres of grazing land.... 
... .The admission fee of the Ohio Short-horn 
Breeders' Association has been reduced to $2. 
Judge T. C. Jones, Delaware, Pres., and L. D. 
Hagerty, Columbus, 8 ec........ The export 
trade in sheep from Montreal, Can., is in a 
very depressed condition. Ruling prices are 
4 # to 4 #c. per pound live weight, with a slow 
market. The shipments to date this year foot 
up 4,917 head, against 11,820 in the same part 
of 1883 Evidently the Australian dead mut¬ 
ton trade with England is injuring the Cana¬ 
dian live mutton trade with the Mother Coun 
try.The French Minister of Agricul¬ 
ture has submitted a bill raising the import 
duty on oxen to 25 francs ($4.75): on bulls and 
cow* to 12f.; pigs to 5f.; calve* to 4f., and sheep 
to 3 f.A cow in County Carlow, Ireland 
has produced four heifer calve* in ten months’ 
The cow wo* calved in April 4, 1881, had her 
two first calves on July 25, last year, and two 
more on the 25th of Muy, this year. 
The official estimate of the wheat crop of 
South Australia is now only seven bushels per 
acre. The first estimates were tw*.lve bushels 
perucre, then fell to ten, and then to nine, 
and now officially to seven.Two hun¬ 
dred and twenty-five dozen eggs shipped from 
Cape Breton to Boston were found to have 
been accidentally cooked by the heat of 
freshly cut grass in which they were packed. 
....The Mark Lane Express, in its review of 
the British grain trade for the past week, 
says: The weather last week, owing to heavy 
thunder-storms and cool nights, was detri¬ 
mental to the wheat crop generally. Never¬ 
theless there are some Hplend id fields of wheat, 
which show the finest form, and appearances 
are still in favor of an average yield. 
According to the Anuual Report of 1883 of 
the Bureau of Industries for Ontario. Canada, 
there are 201,185 acres of orchard and garden 
in that province, being in the proportion of 
one acre to every 52.7 acres of cleared farm 
land.The total, number of eggs exported 
from Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Pro¬ 
vinces in 1883 was 13,451,410 dozen, and their 
value $3,256,182. Of these Ontario alone ex¬ 
ported 8,939,250, the value of them being 
$1,012,038.It is expected that the 
wheat, season in Manitoba will be fully 
10 days earlier this year than last. 
. .6,000 acres of grain have beeD destroyed by 
fire in the San Joaquin V alley, Cal.In 
May. 1882, the total uumber of sheep in New 
Zealand was 13,500,000. A year later it had 
increased to 13,306,399.The great drought 
in Australia is playing havoc with the sheep, 
and it is rumored that losses to date approxi¬ 
mate 12,000,000 head.Hog cholera is 
prevailing to a considerable extent in Fayette 
County, Til.The largest ranche in the 
world is in the Province of Cordoba, Argen¬ 
tine Republic, South America, and is owned 
by an English syndicate. It eomprites 10.4(H) 
square miles of land.It is stated that 
England imports annually from four to live 
million barrels of apples, London alone taking 
a million and a halt.The exports of live 
stock and dressed meat* from the port of Bos¬ 
ton, last week, were 1,809 cattle and 2,723 
quarters of beef.The report of the ex¬ 
istence of pleuro pneumonia on a farm near 
Hightstown, N. J., has called attention to the 
barbarous treatment of stock at the Trenton 
yards.There is an epidemic among the 
hogs in and about Southbury, Coun., and 
about 40 have already died. The disease 
somewhat resembles hog cholera, and is in 
most cases fatal. It started among the swine 
of choice breeds...Enterprising Ameri¬ 
cans are sending fresh milk over the sea, to 
supply customers in Loudon. Both milk and 
cream are exported in 19-gallon cans by the 
swift-going steamers from New York. 
A telegram from Caldwell, Kansas, last Mon¬ 
day, says C. Rogers, of Muskogee, Indian Ter¬ 
ritory, representing the Interior Department, 
had arrived there. He formally notified Capt. 
Paine and his followers on Friday, that they 
must leave the Indian Territory immediately. 
They refused to go. aud General Hatch was 
called upon to remove them, which he is 
doing. He will burn or otherwise destroy 
all improvements made on Cherokee lands by 
the “boomers,” and will arrest all old offend¬ 
ers and turn them over to the United States 
Marshal, to be taken to Fort Smith, Ark., for 
trial.Last year’s statistics show that 
Tasmania had an increase of 85,756 acres 
under cultivation .Hop-growing has 
been successfully tried in Western Australia, 
and the southwestern district is said to be 
highly favorable for the culture.The 
cultivation of hops in Gippeland is assuming 
large proportions; 3,397 bales, valued at 
$100,500, have been sent this season to Mel¬ 
bourne. ......Australia was blessed with rains 
on the approach of Winter, and encouraging 
reports of the condition of affairs appeared 
in the Australian papers of May and early 
June. In Queensland the weather was des¬ 
cribed as moist and mild, with gentle showers 
of drizzling rain, and a temperature of about 
60° at six in the morning. To South Australia 
the weather was fine and the country improv¬ 
ing in appearance. Farmers were much en¬ 
couraged, as the crops which had vegetated 
before the rain were making good progress... 
....May ‘20 the steamer Dorunda took from 
Queensland for London the first shipment of 
frozen meat sent direct from that colony to 
England. The carcasses were in excellent 
order, “and hard as iron bark slabs.” The 
cargo, consisting of 3,594 sheep and 100 quar¬ 
ters beef, was loaded in 17 hours. 
A settler in Kansas has written to the General 
land Office an account of the operations of 
the Comanche Cattle Company, which has, he 
allege*, unlawfully fenced in about 190,000 
acres of public laud in Barber and Clarke 
Counties. He says be understands that the 
cattle companies deny that would-be settlers 
are prevented from going uf>on these lands, 
and he admits that the statement is correct. 
They are allowed to go in. he says, but not to 
go out; and he cites the case of Thomas Webb 
and his son, who were shot and killed recently 
by five cowboys for cutting a fence erected by 
the Comaucbe Company, where it crossed 
their land, to save a 10 mile journey to the 
company's gate. 
8ee Johnson & Field’s Racine Farm Mill 
advertisement in issue of August 2. Page 508 
—Adv. __ 
Physicians have used Dr. Graves’ Heart 
Regulator as a cure for Heart Disease. Price 
$ 1 . by druggists.—AdtJ. 
Dnlryinen 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 makiug in 
the art of butter making. This class use 
Wells Rieharclson & Co’s. Improved Butter 
Color, and know by actual tost that it fills 
every claim inode for it.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, August 2. 
The reports from the wheat-growing regions 
Wert and North-west are quite as favorable as 
ever, aud the lowest estimates of the forth¬ 
coming large crop of wheat have been raised. 
Spring wheat harvesting i* expected to tie 
general by this time. 
In the Ohio Valley between the 4th and 24th 
of July no rain to speak of fell. The fair 
weather was most favorable to the liarvesting 
of hay and wheat, which were safely housed 
in excellent condition. The hay, if not so 
abundant in quantity, is better in quality 
than the crop of 1883. Wheat everywhere 
turns out a fair average yield, and is of fine 
quality. But while the dry weather was fa¬ 
vorable for harvesting, it was not so good for 
growing crops. Early potatoes are every¬ 
where an admitted failure, but there is a 
chance now for a fair yield of those later 
planted. Corn has, no doubt, been damaged, 
aud in many counties will not be a half crop, 
but the rains have fallen just in time to save 
the crop from complete ruin. With warm, 
moist weather from now til* the 10t.h of Sep¬ 
tember, however, it will make prodigious re¬ 
covery. As to fruits, there is not much 
promise of anything but apples and grapes. 
John W. Wheeler, Secretary of the Califor¬ 
nia Vitieultural Commission, who has been 
traveling through the State, reports that the 
grape crop will be unusually large, and that 
from 12,1X10,000 to 15,000,000 gallons of wine 
will be made this year. 
According to a telegram from Galveston 
last Wednesday, the accounts from growing 
crops in Texas are anything but encouraging. 
In some districts a full crop of corn is assured, 
but in many portions of the State even the 
corn crop is not satisfactory. The yield of 
wheat and small grain has been abundant 
wherever planted. Cotton in all sections is 
in a precarious condition from continued 
drought. The heavy rains of Spring and ear¬ 
ly Summer retarded planting operations, and 
the crop, such as it is, is very late. The drought 
of the past six or eight weeks has stuuted and 
checked the growth, and everywhere the cry 
comes up for rain. Should the drought con¬ 
tinue for two weeks longer incalculable in¬ 
jury will be done, and the cotton crop will be 
cut short disastrously. On the other hand 
