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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 9. 
General and ex-Governor Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin Butler has at last decided to accept the 
Presidential nomination tendered to him by 
the Greenback and Laboring-Men and Anti- 
monopolists. lie will publish his letter of 
acceptance as soon as Cleveland’s appears. He 
expects to get 2.000.000 votes.The Na¬ 
tional Executive Committee of the American 
Political Alliance, whose headquarters are in 
Boston, has ordered all the (Councils in the 
United States to make nominations for Presi¬ 
dent and Vice-President of the United States. 
These nominations will be forwarded to the 
State councils, where they will bo audited, 
and will then be submitted to the National 
Council, which will hold a convention with 
open doors, on September 5, and announce 
their candidates. Next I..At Mr. Tilden a 
invitation. Governor Cleveland visited him at 
Greystone on Tuesday, and the points of Gov¬ 
ernor Cleveland’s forthcoming letter accept¬ 
ing the Democratic nomination were fully dis¬ 
cussed. The Governor left Thursday for a 
fortnight in the Adirondack*, and the letter 
will be given out next week—probably on 
Thursday.The Secretary of the Interior 
has appointed Robert. E. Carpenter, of Dodge 
City, Kansas, Superintendent of the Yellow- 
gtone National Park, to succeed R. H. Conger, 
resigned.Owing to the prevalence of 
yellow fever in Northern Mexico, an inspector 
is to be stationed at El Paso to examine the 
passengers on all trains entering the Uuited 
States from Mexico....Lost week we an¬ 
nounced that Jay-Eye-See had made the best 
trotting record ever known by going a mile in 
2:10, at Providence, R. I., thus winning the 
title of King of the Turf. On Monday, how¬ 
ever, he was deprived of his short lived sov 
ereigoty by Maud S., who trotted a mile in 
2:9%, at Cleveland, Ohio. Blair, her driver, 
got $8,000, not $10,000, as commonly reported. 
.The new Cuuard steamship Oregon, 
has just mode the quickest eastward passage 
on record, huviug steamed from New York to 
Queenstown, in six days twelve hours and 
fifty-four minutes, beating the best previous 
record—that of the new National fine steamer 
America, which took six days fourteen hours 
and eighteen minutes. Again of 84 minutes iu 
a voyage of 8,000 miles!.Bears have be¬ 
come such a nuisance in the Mcgantie districts 
of Quebec that the municipal authorities have 
offered to pay $5 per capita for their destruc¬ 
tion.A family, with four boarders and 
a servant, were poisoned Wednesday', at Yon¬ 
kers, N. Y., by eating food which was cooked 
in water drawn from a cistern near a cess-pooL 
.President Arthur is enjoying the 
scenery in the Catskill Mountains... 
According to the Canadian statistical re¬ 
turns, the imports of merchandise into Que¬ 
bec, Ontario, Manilolta, and the North-west 
Territory from the United States, in 1883, 
amounted In value to $53,992,694. Our own 
accounts give the value of United^States ex¬ 
ports to the same regious at $38,836,096, 
against imports of $38,994,913. BO that in either 
event the balance of trade is in onr favor..... 
_In the elections for count y offices m Utah 
Territory last Monday, the Mormons elected 
all the officers in every county.Tests 
made this Hummer snow that by means of 
tubular wells 1,000,009 gallons of water can be 
obtained daily in Central Park, this city.... 
John C. Bryant lias managed to secure Ins 
bond as Marshal of Georgia, by retaining Gen. 
Longstreet’s chief deputy, Mr. Mitchell, m 
charge of the office as heretofore. M r. Mitchell, 
consequently, will be a much more important 
figure than Bryant when business is to be 
transacted1 mports into Canada dar¬ 
ing the year ending June 80, fell off $10,000,- 
000. There was a large increase of imports of 
breadstuff's and oils from the Uuited States... 
_Tlie property of the Trinity Church Cor¬ 
poration, Now York, is said to reach the im¬ 
mense figure of $200,000 000. Besides the im¬ 
mense rents coming in from property iu the 
city, the church corporation holds mortgages 
on several hundred Episcopal Church edifices 
all over the country, on which there is an 
average of nearly seven per cent, interest, 
payable quarterly. The fuud is under con¬ 
trol of a board of trustees, selected from the 
vestrymen of old Trinity and St. Paul 
Churches.The Groely party are getting 
along well. All of them have been promoted, 
except Greely himself, who reluses to ad¬ 
vance out of iiis regular turn. The cost of the 
expedition to rescue the party was about 
$700,000....The reduction of the pub¬ 
lic debtor July was *< 1 , 000,000 .. 
James Gordon Bennett last, Monday reached 
Newport in his yacht the Namouna, having 
sundry English noblemen as his guests. He 
looks a prematurely old nmu.Lousiaua 
has failed to pay the interest due on the 
“ Baby" bonds. The principal and interest are 
payable out. of the collection of back taxes. 
There is uo money to the credit of this fund 
on baud.There are 50 Apache Indians 
camped on a ranch near Van Buren, Texas. 
They broke from their reservation at Fort 
Stanton, and are on the war path, killing and 
stealing cattle and horses. Serious trouble 
is apprehended. A company of State Rangers 
have have been summoned .Copyrights 
on 125 Blaine and Logan songs have already 
been issued, and but 00 for Cleveland and Hen¬ 
dricks.The lava fields north of the | 
Snake River, Utah, are on fire. A thousand 
acres have been burned over, and the fire 
threatens to destroy the great, river ranch or 
Idaho.Nineteen lepers were sent back 
from San Francisco to China last Thursday, 
the city paying the full fare for each, and 
giving each $5.The school census of 
Chicago, just completed, indicates a popula¬ 
tion of 629,985, an increase of 12% per cent, 
within a year. The Chinese number 297 and 
the colored people 7,517.An association 
formed in Hamburg lias purchased 134.000 
acres of land in the corner of North Carolina 
next to Georgia. The agent will compromise 
with 1,500 squatters, and intends to col¬ 
onize 2,000 or more Germans on the tract..... 
The balance of trade in favor of the United 
States for the last fiscal year was $72,798,000, 
against $100,658,000the previous year ..... 
Business men from Winnipeg and other North 
West cities are arriving in Montreal iu great 
numbers, and are making extensive purchases. 
All speak in glowing terms of the immense 
harvest throughout that country.T. S 
McManus, the leading confectioner of the 
Northwest, committed suicide in St. Paul on 
Wednesday night by taking morphine. His 
account# are 8ft M to be in n bad shape, and it 
is supposed that financial troubles led to the 
doo«l.Wheeling, W. Vo... is bankrupt. 
Its account is overdrawn $160,000. It has no 
credit, and not a dollar in the treasury 
Police and firemen are unpaid, and there is 
little prospect that city employes will get any 
pay for two or three months to come *. 
Convicts have been working in coal mines iu 
Pope Co., Ark. The people are determined 
not. Co let the convicts work there, aud have 
notified the lessee® of the penitentiary to take 
them out, or the consequences will be serious.. 
....6,000 tons of silver dollars are now piled 
up in the Treasury, and the pile is increasing 
at the rate of 800 tons a year. Such a mass of 
silver was never brought together before. But. 
the gold in the Treasury is decreasing. It is 
down to $118,000,000, or about 33 j>er cent, of 
the amount of the greenback currency, though 
good banking requires that the gold reserve 
should not full below 40 per cent. The Treas¬ 
ury loses it® gold mostly through the New 
York Clearing House, which does not accept 
silver in payment of balances, and of which 
the Bub treasury in New York is a member. 
'Hie Government is considering the policy of 
withdrawing from the Clearing House and 
then settling a part of its New York balances 
in silver.. 
—-— 
“COULD NOT HAVE LIVED MANY 
WAVS." „ _ _ 
The following testimonial from Hon. H. r. 
Vrooman, of the law firm of V room an <fc 
Carey, Topeka, Kansas, is of so direct and pos¬ 
itive a character that, it cau hardly fail to con¬ 
vince the most, skeptical that the Compound 
Oxygen there resides a marvelous healing and 
restoring power: „ ^ 
Topeka, Kansas, June 37th, 1882. 
“DRS. Starkey & I'ALKN: Gentlemen: In 
the interest of suffering humanity I send you 
for publication an account of the aim out mir¬ 
aculous cure which your Compound Oxygen 
performed in the case of my wife. Her con¬ 
dition was a very peculiar one. She bed a 
complication of diseases. Dyspepsia, Torpid 
Liver, or Liver Complaint, as her physicians 
have always called it, and general nervous 
prostration. If you will refer to tuy descrip¬ 
tion of her cose you will see that, she was suf 
feriug from severe attacks of colic and vomit¬ 
ing. These attacks first come once in two or 
three months, when site would vomit herself 
almost to death's door. Each time the attacks 
came at shorter intervals and were more se¬ 
vere, until she become so weak and exhausted 
that we are- sure she could not have lived 
two days longer had not your Oxygen Treat ■ 
ment come just as it did and saved her, for 
the colic and vomiting had become almost 
perpetual, and her strength and life were 
nearly exhausted, ike could see a change in 
her condition from the first inhalation, for 
she never had so severe an attack of colic 
afterward and bad more strength to endure 
the pain and retching. She continued to gain 
steadily, and for the past four years has had 
no severe attacks. If she is threatened with 
one she takes an inhalation or two and so 
escapes any severe paroxysms. I think it but 
right that we should make known to others 
what Compound Oxygen has done for us, and 
therefore send this statement for pulilication. 
“Very respectfully, 1L P. \ room an." 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen,'' con 
tainiug a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures in Con 
sumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide range of chronic 
diseases, will liesen tfree. Address Drs. Star¬ 
key & Palen, 11 Oil'Girard St., Phila.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
I 30*1. 
*8,908,663 
54,337,7 
IS*?. 
1,66 
1,704 
67,679,841 
2.990.430 
Saturday, August 9. 
The Canadian Government has established 
a college creamery at Guelph. The Govern¬ 
ment appointed a committee to visit the 
United States and secure a practical butter- 
maker to take charge of, and operate the 
creamery. They selected Mr. I. H. Wanzer, 
formerly of Elgin, Ill., who is now there.... 
The Breeders’ Gazette gives the following 
summary of thoroughbred cattle sales in the 
first half of 1884: 
No. Breed. Average. Total. 
2*35 Sbort-horns..........$209.55 
1589 Jersey*. 343,21 535:072 
155 Aberdeen-Augus. 350.00 
141 Galloways.312.00 
117 Hereford s. 3S6.50 45.225 
100 Holslelns. 382.15 38,215 
103 Guernsey®. 268.00 24,590 
.Two cheeses weighing 600 pounds each, 
and six weighing over 60 pounds each, were 
made the other day at the Burnside Cheese 
Factory near Ingeraoll, Canada, for display at 
the International Dairy Show, to be opened at 
Amsterdam, Holland, on August 23. 
.... The shipment of buffalo bones from 
the plains to Eastern phosphate facto- 
ies has largely increased lately, because 
of the reduction in freight rates. Thous¬ 
ands of buffalo skeletons are gathered 
from the Valley of the Arkansas. A single 
Philadelphia manufacturer has received dur¬ 
ing the Summer more than 200 car-loads, pay¬ 
ing $25 a ton, delivered. The horns are used 
for umbrella tips or to decorate fans. A por¬ 
tion of the head is in demand by chemists for 
glue, and the shoulder blades and neck bones 
are fashioned into handsome and artistic hut- 
tom*.The Chief of the Bureau of Statis¬ 
tics reports that the total values of the ex¬ 
ports of domestic cattle and hogs and of beef, 
pork aud dairy products from the United 
States during the month of June, 1884, and 
during the six months ended June 30, 1884; 
also of beef and pork products during the 
eight, months and of dairy products during 
the two months ended June 30, 1884, as com¬ 
pared with similar exports during the corre¬ 
sponding period of the preceding year, were 
as follows:— _ 
1884* 
June value*.....• ••9,372,743 
six monlb* ended June 80.43.837,419 
Boer and pork product*, eight_ 
month* ended June 3d.57,570,538 
Dairv products, two month* 
ended June 30..... 2,662,968 
_The new Delaware Fruit Exchange, loca¬ 
ted near Wyoming, has 130 members, repre¬ 
senting 28 cities in all parts of the country... 
....J. H. Saunders, of Chicago, H. M. Tay¬ 
lor, of Texas, and J. H. Payne, of Kansas 
City, have been appointed by Commissioner 
Loring as a Board of Health, to be connected 
with the Bureau of Animal Industry to pre¬ 
vent the spread of contagious diseases among 
stock. This Board is provided for by the Act 
of Congress establishing the Bureau....Wil¬ 
liam Zimmerman, the owner of the ostrich 
farms iu California, has arranged with the 
Mexican Government for the establishment of 
extensive ostrich farms in the northern part 
of Mexico. The Government grants him a 
concession of 70,000 acres of land, well water¬ 
ed aud adapted to ostrich farming, togetlier 
with other special privileges.The late 
exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society 
at Shrewsbury, England, had entries of 407 
horses, 566 cattle, 490 sheep, and 211 pigs. The 
premiums for stock amounted to over $25,000 
—$9,925 being for cattle, $7,550 for horses, 
$4,455 for sheep, $1,800 for pigs, $185 for cheese 
and butter, $90 for hives and honey, and 
$1,000 for implements.. At the meetiug 
of the Lynchburg <Va.) Tobacco Association 
Monday, the Secretary reported thac the sales 
of leaf tobacco to August 1 were 19,000,000 
pounds, being 2,000,000 pounds less than at the 
same time last year. The sales of leaf tobacco 
are now increasing and the manufacturing 
trade is looking up.Reports for last 
vear from 42 farms in scattered sections of 
New England show a profit of 8 per cent, ou 
the capital invested, and it is asserted that in 
ordinary seasons farming in that region will 
pay 12 per cent........The first bale of new 
hops from New York State reached Chicago 
yesterday week—“several weeks earlier than 
u SUA l.”.The Nile is rising slowly, and 
much anxiety is felt for the safety of the 
crops.The wheat Import* of the various 
countries are as follows: Sweden, 990,000 
bushels; Norway, 725.000; Denmark, 1,403,- 
000; Germany, 26,599,000; Holland, 16,300,- 
000; Belgium, 16,000,000; United Kingdom, 
110,000,000 net; France, 6,750,000; Spain, 
8,000.000 net; Italy, 5,000,000 net....The 
famous Rugby colony in Tennessee is about te 
turn its attention to vino growing. It has 
proved a failure in every other direction ex¬ 
cept the moral one,----The yield of wheat 
in Minnesota this year is estimated at 40,000,- 
000 bushels, corn from 20,000,000 to 34 , 000 , 000 , 
barley 7,000.000, and oats -15,000,000.The 
Colorado wheat crop will be 2,100,000 bushels. 
...The first new barley was 
marketed at Princeton. Forth Brunt, Ont. 
Canada, on Monday, and was a good sample, 
weighing 49 pounds per bushel* of good color, 
aud brought 55 cents. The crop in that sec¬ 
tion promises well for an abundant yield. 
.... Picric add is now used as an adulterant 
by European wine dealers. It is so intensely 
bitter that a few grains will acidulate a hogs¬ 
head of sweet wine____Maraschino is made 
by fermenting the juice of Dalmatian prunes 
aud peaches, and distilling over from the 
broken stones. Kirschwasser is made by treat- 
in«r in lik© mannfti* the juice and stones of red 
cherries.Dr. Ord, who has been engaged 
for two years in studying the death rate as 
occurring in people of various occupations, 
stated it recently as follows: He first num¬ 
bered the persous engaged in 80 occupations 
in 1881. In 1882 and 1883be note! their deaths, 
excluding all who were under 25 aud over 65 
years. He chose 1,000 as the average number 
of all the persons in all the occupations. This 
gives the deaths of people in hotel service at 
2 205; wine aud spirit merchants, 1,525; 
cabmen, 1.452; butchers, 1,170; lightermen, 
1,305; earthenware makers. 1,742; filemakers, 
1,662; cutters, 1,809; medical men, 1,122; far¬ 
mers, 675; agricultural laborers, 653; gar¬ 
deners, 559; clergymen, 556.Crop re¬ 
ports gathered by the Onondaga Farmers’ 
Club, Syracuse, N. Y,, show that wheat is 
first-rate, the best in many years. Hay is a 
good yield; corn, oats and potatoes a light 
yield. ’ The apple crop is a full average. To¬ 
bacco promises well; hops indifferently.. 
Last Thursday Payne’s Oklahoma “boomers’ 
in camp at Rock Falls,Indian Country, having 
refused to leave the country voluntarily on 
the reading of the President’s proclamation 
ordering their expulsion, were taWn prisoners 
by two squadrons of U. S. cavalry under Gen. 
Hatch. The new boomers—men. women and 
children—were escorted to the Kansas line, 
together with their personal property, and six 
“old offenders" were taken as prisoners to Fort 
Smith, Ark., 3*10 miles away. The houses and 
all other “improvements." were burnt. 
Payne showed himself a drunkard and pal- 
troon. The troops will treat all other white 
settlers in the Territory in the same way. 
Many who have been settled there for several 
year’s, must lose heavily. 
I thought I must die; Dr. Grave’s Heart 
Regulator cured my Heart Disease.” Price 
$1. by druggists.— Adv. 
Twenty-five Per Cent. Stronger than any 
Oilier flutter Color. 
Burlington. Vt., May 3d, 1882. 
I hereby certify that T have examined the 
Butter Color prepared by Well*. Richardson 
& 'Jo., and that trie same is free from alkali 
or any other substance injurious to health-.that 
I have compared it with some of the liest of the 
Butter Colors in the market and find it to be 
more than twenty-five per cent, stronger in 
color than the best of the others. 
I am satisfied that it is not liable to become 
rancid, or in any way to injure the butter. I 
have examined it after two months free expo¬ 
sure to the air in a place liable to large 
changes of the temperature, and found no 
trace of rancidity, while other kinds similarly 
exposed became rancid. A. H. SABIN, 
Prof. Chemistry, University of Vermont.— 
Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, August 9. 
A summary of the regular monthly crop 
report of the Department of Agriculture, is 
telegraphed from W asbington on the 10th of 
each month, and appears in the principal 
“dailies" on the 11th. We shall go to press, 
however, too soon to lie able to discuss the 
matter in this iRSue; but we learn that the 
Department estimates the wheat crop at 485,- 
000,000 bushels; while an earlier estimate 
placed it at 516,000,000 to 520,000,000 bushels. 
The hay crop in Maine is better than antici¬ 
pated early in the sea: on. The recent rains 
and cool weather have largely increased the 
crop in the last stage of its growth. 
The area in corn this year is ahout 70,000,000 
acres. At the average yield per acre of the 
crops of the past five years this would give a 
production of 1,715,000.000 bushels. 
A telegram from New Haven, Conn., yes¬ 
terday. says the continued rains have made 
much havoc with the smaller fruits in Cen¬ 
tral Connecticut. One West Haven farmer 
claims to have lost $200 on raspberries alone. 
The rain lieat them off the bashes. A Brad¬ 
ford raspberry grower says that the berries 
lie on the ground between the rows of bushes 
an inch deep. Huckleberries arc not plentiful, 
and small fruits of all kinds are scarce and 
high. An Orange Co., N. Y., fruitgrower tells 
an equally sad story. “I have not seeu so bad 
a season for fruit.” says he, “iu 50 years. The 
currants ami cherries promised nicely until 
just, as I began to pick them for market, when 
two nights uf front gave the fruit a bitter 
flavor, and the prices in the New York mar¬ 
kets fell like mercury in a thermometer. The 
strawberries wore not injured, and the crop 
was very fine. That pulled me through, and 
1 began to look forward to the grape and 
apple season. Then came the rain that has 
deluged us for three weeks past. The ground 
is quite sodden with it, and I am afraid the 
grapes will be a failure. The early apples and 
pears offer an equally poor prospect. Barrel¬ 
loads of them have been beaten from the trees, 
arid the rest look as if they had been floating 
in water for a week. They promise to be in¬ 
sipid aud juiceless. The plum crop will be 
almost a total failure. The frost blighted most 
of the buds, and when the fruit that escaped 
was well advanced, the torrents of ram de¬ 
stroyed it. I don’t think I shall have a single 
plum in my orchards. The vegetables have 
suffered much less than the fruit, and we will 
have a splendid crop of potatoes.” 
A timely rain makes a wonderful difference 
in crop prospects. Last week there appeared 
here a gloomy report of Texas crops, con¬ 
densed from the Galveston News: a tew days 
later the Houston Post published crop reports 
of a much more cheerful character from 196 
points in the State. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, August 9, 1884. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices 
a week ago, “regular" wheat 19 2%c. lower; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, l%c. lower. Corn, l%c. 
lower. Oats, 2c. lower. Hogs, from 5 to 
2oc. higher, according to grade. Cattle, from 
10 to 20c. higher. Sheep, from 25 to 75c. 
higher. 
Wheat.— Quiet and wcalc; "Regular,” August, 81@ 
filAtc: September, 8October. 83W<s,84c: No¬ 
vember. 84Sid85c; December. 85t*fc8«c: No. 2. Cbl 
eago Spring, Sic No. 2 Red. at 85c: No- 3 Red 81c 
Cons—in good demand: market opened 9t«ilVic 
lower, rallied 9^**? closed % ale under cash yester 
day: cash, at Me: August, SfrHc- September. 52Vi<a 
5«6c: October. MM*We; November, 4t,9t<4,474fcc: all 
the vear. 4i£43He- Oats. -Opened itruDg. but closed 
Ue. under yesterday; Cash,at 28c: Angus j,27 V* S274tc; 
September, October. 2«e: all the year, 
25b,: S 25?ic JLay. D6t r *3>>N Kvt-Plrm at 62c. Bab- 
LKi-Flfm ac 66c. for September. PtAXSEEb-flrm 
at 11.34 m. Pork -Dull; cash at $i5.Vmlb: August, 
»2t September *19; October.*!8.5tX413.ex all the year, 
$12 25. Hogs —Market strong on best grades: rough 
packing $6.4045 75; packing and shipping *5.W»6.10: 
ltsbt m *5 40»6ul5, skips, $4.50X5.40. C attoe— .Market 
steady; export grades. $*.VuiAsO: good to choice 
shinning. *5.»&MO: common to medium, $4.,o@/$o.80: 
grass Texans, *3.0*45. sucre -Market steady: In¬ 
ferior to fair, $2.75(43.50 per cwt; medium to good, 
*3.50(44.25: choice to extra, *4.25<§i4.75 lambs, per 
head, *1(»3: Texas sheep, *2,S5@4.25. 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
