THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SIPT S 
596 
^ffXDS of ff}6 VO fill, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 30. 
Frank James, the ex-bandit, is making an 
honest living by entering himself and his 
horses as attractions at farmers’ fairs in Mis¬ 
souri. The fair managers pay him well for it, 
and as he is still a great hero to the gentle 
Missouri populace, he has a sure means of live¬ 
lihood without working, for some time. The 
Republicans assert, that James is an influen¬ 
tial Democratic politician, and the St. Louis 
Globe Democrat says “the Democrat who de¬ 
nounces him, or who has been concerned in 
his prosecution, is a marked man, and can 
never recei ve a party fu vor’’........ A forest 
fire in Michigan was driven by a north-west 
wind down on Harmon City, Sunday, and 
every building, suve a large lime kiln and 
one house, was burned.Since 1843 arctic 
navigation has cost 180 lives.The Mother 
Hubbard costume has been placed on the list 
of things forbidden to female employees by 
the Western Union.Vanderbilt has sold 
Maud. S. to Robert Bonner for $40,000, hav¬ 
ing refused $100,000 from sporting men. Her 
fame caused the plutocrat much annoyance. 
When he drove her out people Raid, “There 
goes Maud 8!” instead of saying, “There goes 
Vanderbilt!” ('use, owner of Jay-Eye-See, 
denies that ho has any intention of selling the 
little gelding.On July 35 a dog went 
mad on a plantation near Eufala, Ala., and 
bit several hogs which, when they showed 
signs of hydrophobia, were killed, and given 
to the negroes to make soap grease. They ate 
the carcases, however, and 83 of them fell 
sick with what appeurs to he a mild form of 
hydrophobia.A telegram from Winni¬ 
peg, Manitoba, yesterday, says a terrible cy¬ 
clone had just, done a world of damage about 
that city, Portage La Prairie, 00 miles west; 
Headingly, 15 miles south-west, and along the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad, from Vermilion 
Bay to Brandon. Much injury to growing 
crops.In Harrisburg, Pa., George H. 
Tborutou, of Buffalo, has been elected Presi¬ 
dent of the National Stenographers’ Associa¬ 
tion. The next meeting will be held in Buf¬ 
falo.It is reported that over 15,000 Ital¬ 
ians have left New York for home within the 
last three weeks, as the result of hard times 
and persecution.The Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad has offered the Illinois Central 
$33,000,000 for a controlling interest in its 
lines from Chicago to New Orleans.The 
union of tbo Democrats and the“re submission” 
Republicans in Kansas, means hard work for 
the Prohibitionists. The Democrats recognized 
their allies by giving them tbo candidate for 
Lieutenant-governor.The report on the 
foreign commerce of the United States shows 
the balance of trade in favor of this Govern¬ 
ment for the last, fiscal year to be $72,798,997, 
against a balance in our favor of $100,058,488 
the precediug year. Total value of exports<>f 
merchandise for t.be fiscal year just closed, 
$740,523,560, against $833,839,402 for the pre¬ 
ceding fiscal year, ft fulling oil’ of $83,325,843. 
Import* of merchandise amounted to $667,714,- 
503, against $733,180,914 for the preceding fis¬ 
cal year, a falling off of $55.400.35!.. 
A telegram from iSt. Louis, last Tuesday, says, 
Capt. Payne, the notorious Oklahoma boomer, 
and seven of his associates, who were arrested 
in the Indian Territory by Gen. Hatch some 
days previous, arrived at Fort Smith, Ark., 
on Monday, iu charge of Lieut. Jackson and 
a detachment of cavalry. They were not de¬ 
livered to the authorities at Fort Smith, as 
was the original intention, but Lieut. Jackson 
took them to Fort Scott, Kan., where they 
will be placed iu charge of United States offi¬ 
cers.The statisticians of the United 
States Mint estimate that t he total production 
of gold iu the world duriug ths 400 years end¬ 
ing 18,82, was 10,804 tons, equul in value to 
$7,311,797,860. Daring the same period the 
production of silver was 197,731 tons, of the 
value of $8,807,318,975. A Connecticut 
inventor has perfected a machine for making 
barrels out of paper or straw pulp, which will 
turn out 600 flour barrels n day, at a cost of 
33 cents apiece. They now cost 55 cents..... 
_The contest for United States Senator iu 
Colorado is not to be solely between Secretary 
Teller and Senator Hill, but ex-Gov. Routt 
appears as a third party. It is thought likely 
to help Teller rather than Hill.Eighty 
tramps entered Castletou, Dakota, in a body, 
drove families from their homes, and commit¬ 
ted other excesses. Four were captured by 
the sheriff, and the others escaped.There 
are 1,652 clerks in the Pension Office at Wash¬ 
ington.The prohibitory law in Iowa is 
to be enforced, says Gov. Sherman, even if he 
has to call out the militia to do it. A large 
brewery at Cedar Rapids has been closed by 
the law and 700 kegs of beer seized.A 
regular line of steamships, 20 iu number, will 
be established between Savannah and Liver¬ 
pool on September 30.The Governor- 
general of Canada has been ordered by the 
home Government to secure the services of the 
600 Canadian river voyagenrs to go up the 
Nile with the Gordon expedition. They are 
to take flat-bottomed boats up the Nile and 
make portages around the rapids It is in¬ 
tended to take 300 men, including Indians, 
from the Ottawa district, and the remainder 
from the Quebec and St. Maurice regions. 
Applications are already ruRhing in.The 
Canadian Government has voted a consider¬ 
able sum for the representation of Canada at 
the International Exhibition, to be held at 
Antwerp next year. This exhibition is an¬ 
nounced to be a national and Government un¬ 
dertaking, under the immediate, patronage of 
his Majesty, the King of the Belgians. 
White mice introduced ut. Winnipeg, Mani¬ 
toba, as a curiosity some time ago, have so 
rapidly increased in number that some houses 
are overrun with them.......Bartholdi wants 
to have the new statue up so that, it may be 
inaugurated iu September, 1885, to commemo¬ 
rate the signing of the treaty of Versailles, 
100 years before. He estimates the cost of 
statue and pedestal, when in place, at half a 
million dollars. An appeal is now made to 
the country at large to contribute the $125,000 
btill requisite to finish the work on Bedioe’s 
Island, New York harbor, where the enormous 
statue is to stand. All the money hitherto 
used lias been raised here.The body of 
the late J. A. MacGahan, the famous war cor¬ 
respondent, whose account of the Turkish atro¬ 
cities in Bulgaria led to the late Turko-Rus¬ 
sian war, reached Columbus, Ohio, Wednes- 
duy, and was receive*! at the station with 
militury honors and conveyed to the State 
House, where ail immense crowd was in at¬ 
tendance. It was brought from Europe by 
the State of Ohio.Montreal, Canada, 
is in possession of the “scientific: gents” be¬ 
longing to the British Scientific Association. 
This includes all the luminaries in every de¬ 
partment of Science in all parts of the British 
Empire. Every year the Association holds a 
convention in some city of the empire, but 
this is the first time it has left the United King¬ 
dom. Montreal rejoices at its presence more 
than at any ice carnival or vice-regal recep¬ 
tion it has ever witnessed. American scien¬ 
tists are numerous. Speeches ure many aud 
brilliant, and oh! so profound, and rich in 
jaw-breuking polysyllables! The junketing 
began last night, and will continue during the 
early part of next week. 
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY. 
Wf. commend the following from a gentle¬ 
man in Providence, R. I., to the careful peru¬ 
sal of all who doubt the grant curative value 
of our Treatment. After questioning and 
hesitating, he firndly became alarmed at his 
condition, which was steadily growing worse, 
and resolved to give Compound Oxygen u 
trial What it did for him is best told in his 
own worda He says: 
“I commenced the use of Compound Oxygen 
after a good deal of thought, and. us lar as in 
my power, careful study of the different cases 
which had been fiuully testified to as to the 
great benefit received, but not without many 
mifiyivitiys of its yrr-af curative power. I had 
been running down, consequent upon hard 
office work ami close confinement for many 
years, until 1 took the business of train con¬ 
ductor in hope of a benefit from out-door ex 
orcise, in mv reduced state I took cold at the 
very commencement', which, after a five 
weeks’ struggle, thraw me into typhoid pneu¬ 
monia. If was at, tills time that 1 resolved to 
try and see for myself how far yon had suc¬ 
ceeded m accomplishing what you seemed to 
desire—that or conferring a great benefit upon 
your fellow betug-s by giving them this great 
remedy, 80 seemingly simple and ut 80 little 
cost, and I am to day truly thankful that l 
had the courage to undertake what so few 
would advise tinder the circumstances. From 
a weak and feeble, state 1 have attained to 
something line m <i "hi s, If. Bronchial trouble 
is less, shortness of brent,h and heart trouble 
have decreased. I fec-I better generally, and 
begin to think there may be something of life 
left for me yet.” 
Our “ Treatise on Compound Oryijen," con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery and mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
and a large record of surprising cures in Cou 
sumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Asthma, etc., and a wide range of chronic 
diseases, will be scut/m-. Address Drs. Star- 
key & JPalen, 4109 Girard St., Phila.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 30. 
A cablegram from Loudon on Monday says: 
“A fire has been raging for three days in 
Rawa, a town of Austrian Galicia. Three 
hundred houses have been destroyed, and 
3,000 persons are rendered homeless. Fire has 
also destroyed 114 dwellings aud 327 farms in 
and about the large market town of Rozwa- 
dow, Austrian Galicia. The harvest, which 
had just been gathered, was all eousumed 
There is a great dearth of provisions iu the 
town.”.The New York State Fish Com¬ 
missioners report the introduction of the Ger¬ 
man carp to have been very successful. It 
breeds as well and thrives as well here as in 
its original home.A fearful 
cattle disease has appeared in Wasco County, 
Oregon. It is believed to be blackleg... .Pop 
corn is placarded in Crystal Palace, London, 
‘as sold to the nobility.”.A Newburgh, 
N. Y.. man has 300 different sorts of apples 
grafted upon one tree. One hundred and 
thirty-seven of them were in bearing last year. 
.A delegation of Comanche. Kiowa 
and Wichita Indians was at the Interior De¬ 
partment a few days ago to ascertain the 
proper course to be pursued in leasing their 
lands. They desire to lease between 2,000,000 
and 3.000,000 acres in the Indian Territory to 
cattle-men.A Pittsburg concern makes 
maple sugar of plaster-of-Paris. rice flour, 
molasseR and a little coloring matter, without 
any sugar at all.The army-worm has 
put. in an appearance in several towns in the 
vicinity of Springfield, Mass., and farmers 
a re frightened.Colorado i m ports butter 
at the rate of $500,000 worth a year.. 
Cattle are dying from thirst and starvation 
iu Mexico by thousands; the drought is terri¬ 
ble. The financial condition of the Republic 
is also deplorable.The hop crop of the 
Pacific Coast is estimated at 62,390 bales, 
where 42,027 bales were raised last year.. ..Al¬ 
though there is au increase of acreage under 
hops in every county in tbl? State in which 
hops are raised, it is believed that the crop 
Will be ut least one-third less this Fall than 
last. The Counties of Otsego, Oneida, Madi¬ 
son, and Schoharie, in favorable seasons, raise 
over 50 per cent, of the entire hop crop of the 
United States. In 1882 the market owing to 
the failure of the Emrlish crop, was as high 
as $1 20, and $4,000,000 were added to the 
wealth of these counties. Last, year $2,000,000 
worth of Central New York hops were ex¬ 
ported. As high as 15.000,000 pounds have 
been raised in one season ...The harvest¬ 
ing on Dairy tuple’s 32,000-acre wheat furm in 
Dakota the largest wheat farm to the world 
_has been completed, and the result is an in¬ 
gathering of over 000.000 bushels, averug 
Jug about. 19 bushels of excellent quality of 
wheat, per acre .Mr. (ioffart. the inven¬ 
tor of the ensilage system at his farm in 
France, tried ensilage 21 years before he said 
much about it It. costs him 3.6 cents per day 
to feed a cow, and he estimates the cost of 
ensilage at 80 cents per ton .The Inter¬ 
national Agricultural Exhibition opened 
Tuesday at. Amsterdam with imposing cere- 
rnonies.The Ontario (Canada! Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture is about to buy roots 
nod vegetables In Algotua to be shown at the 
Dominion Exhibition in Septemlwr.. 
.Revised estimates of the number of 
sheep which have perished iu the Australian 
drought place them at 10.000,600 to 14.090,000 
head From March 1 to this time there 
has been an increase of 275,000 in the number 
of hogs packed at the principal points.. 
_The drought and the locust plngue in 
Mexico have caused an advance of 50 per 
cent, in meat ut the capita I, aud driven corn to 
$7.50 per bushel at Chihuahua.Stakes 
have been driven uud ground broken for the 
Nebraska stock-yards at Lincoln. The plan of 
the yards provides for pens to accommodate 
13.000 hogs nud 3,500 cattle, also for the erec¬ 
tion of a hotel aud exc hange building, water¬ 
works etc. .The Assessors’ returns show 
that tin- nil ■ ber of hogs iu t he State of Illi¬ 
nois on May 1, 1884. was 2,808,888. against 
2,588,136 on May 1, 1888.A disastrous lire 
occurred at the town of Cynlhiana. Ky., lost 
Sunday morning. The Abdallah Park stables, 
containing some of tbo finest trotting horses iu 
Kentucky, were burned, and iu one of the 
buildings containing 17 horses. 11 of them 
perished; some of them were valued as high 
as $15,000, and the loss in horses alone will 
approach $75,000. A groom named James 
Honan was burned to death.1 he num¬ 
ber of hogs packed at, the principal points in 
the country since March 1 now amounts to 
2 860,000 bead, against. 2 585.000 bead ta the 
saute part of 1883.The live stock shipped 
from Boston to England last week footed up 
937 cattle and 367 sheep. The shipments of 
beef were 1,756 quarters.Stock hogs are 
now being shipped from Southern Ohio to 
the corn districts iu the West, to be fed out on 
the coining huge corn crop of that region-A 
great deal of the uew Western wheat is badly 
affected with smut.At a recent lair in 
Croatia a pig went mad. aud bit several peo¬ 
ple and animals. Tne latter, in their terror, 
bolted down some narrow streets, and in the 
general stampede seven persons were trampled 
to death. .Many people, including 29 children, 
were hurt, the injuries in some cases being of 
a serious character.The number of eggs 
which come by the St. Gothard Tuuuel from 
North Italy is on the average between 50 and 
60 tons in everv 21 hours. On one day in the 
present year 130 tons, representing about 3,- 
000 000 eggs, were landed at Harwich and 
sent on to Loudon. The records of in¬ 
spection show that since 1870, up to the eud of 
1NS3, nearly 4,000,000 cases of diseased and un¬ 
sound food,chiefly meat, were detected in Dub¬ 
lin, 101 persons were fined, and 33 persons 
were imprisoned for selling diseased meat.... 
Something of a sensation was caused at Chi¬ 
cago on Thursday by the receipt of a letter 
from Commissioner Fink to Joint Agent 
Moore of the cast-bound freight pool, author¬ 
izing a reduction in the rate on cattle to 20 
cents per hundred, the form-r rate being 30 
cents, and on dressed beef to 32 cents, the 
former rate beiug 48, The cause assigned is 
that some lines in the pool have been cutting 
rates, and it was thought best to teach the 
offenders a lesson. It is stated that complaints 
of cutting ou grain and hay products are also 
frequent.. ..A cablegram yesterday says: "The 
sale of Lord Wilton’s herd of cattle, which 
bus just taken place at, Hereford, bus caused a 
great sensatiou in farming circles. The herd 
w as the best in England, and its dispersion 
leaves to Lord Reaj tne honor of owning the 
choicest lot of famous black bulls of Hereford¬ 
shire. The best animal of Lord Wilton’s herd 
the well-known bull named Lora Wilton, was 
bought bv Mr. Vaughan, an American breeder 
for $19.950.”.Sir John Macdonald. Cana¬ 
dian Prime Minister, is resolutely opposed to 
Mr. Frewen’s project of shipping cattle from 
Wyoming to Eugland through Canada. Ac¬ 
cording to him, it would injure Canadian cat¬ 
tle interests by severe competition; it would 
expo -e Canadian cattle to greater risks of con¬ 
tagion. and if any Wyoming cattle were 
found diseased in England, Canada would ccr- 
tainiy be scheduled. Fewen had made ar¬ 
rangements to ship 1,000.006 head; but the 
Primier’s opposition, and the outbreak of 
piuro pneumonia in the West, are> pretty cer¬ 
tain to put an cud to the project. 
....Texas boasts of a potato shaped exactly 
like a human foot, even to the five toes. 
Louisiana produces 200.000,000 pounds of cane 
sugar annually, and there are made also 1.000,- 
000 pounds sorghum sugar,and 1,125,000 pounds 
of beet sugar in this country—about one- 
twelfth of its consumption ... ...New York 
City alone consumes 100,000 tons of dressed 
poultry every year. The valae of the product 
at 10 cents a pound would be $26,000,000, A 
large portion of the city’s egg supply is im¬ 
ported.A total of 5.800 Eastern calves 
were sold in the Chicago market week before 
last, at prices ranging from $10 to $18. The 
demand Is strong even at these prices.... 
< "olorado will this year import 5.000 bulls. By 
a law of the .State, a bull must be as good as a 
quarter thoroughbred before be can run at 
large on the public domain.Corn and 
buckwheat in the vicinity of Troy, N.^Y., 
were badly damaged by a severe frost OU Sun¬ 
day night,’ Considerable damage is atso re¬ 
in if ted from many parts of New Hampshire, 
Vermont and Connecticut.Dispatches 
from ull districts in the North-west report the 
lowest dipping of the season on Friday night, of 
last week, the thermometer registering 30* 
above. The growing crops were not injured 
in the least... 
See Johnson & Field’s Racine Farm Mill 
advertisement in issue of August 30, page 573. 
— Adv. 
> - 
The Beat for Butler. 
There is but one best color for butter, and 
that that is Wells Richardson and Co’s Im¬ 
proved Butter Color, no candid investigator 
doubts. It is the best, butter color in the 
world; is free from sediment or impurity, al¬ 
ways ready for instant use, and it imparts to 
butter that rich dandelion yellow, without a 
tinge of red, which is the acme of desirability 
in any butter color.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
S. W.Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, this morn- 
lug, rresents the following figures as the final 
estimate of the wheat crop of the United States 
for 1884. The figures are based on official 
reports made within a few days by State agri¬ 
cultural departments and statistical agents in 
the different States and Territories. The re¬ 
port shows the total production of winter 
wheat to be 380,009,000 bushels, and of spring 
wheat 150,000,000. This makes the total yield 
of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more 
than ever before produced, 130,00(1,000 more 
than lost year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than 
the average crop for the past five years. The 
departments all agree In reporting the quality 
superior; aud where it has been thrashed, they 
say the yield has more than met their calcula¬ 
tions. This applies especially to the spring 
wheat sections: Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Min¬ 
nesota and Wisconsin. 
The Chicago Times prints reports of the 
corn crops from various points iu Illinois, In¬ 
diana, Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, 
which show a condition more favorable than 
was expected aud the best for years. Only in 
isolated spots has there been damage from 
drought. The dispatches report exceptionally 
good harvests of other cereals. 
Harvesting is ubouc finished in the Cana¬ 
dian Northwest, and the wheat crop will be 
over 5,000,000 bushels, which is the largest 
yield ever known in that country. 
Fall wheat iu Ontario, Canada, gives au 
average yield of 21>£ bushels, aud Spring 
wheat 18 >^ bushels per acre. The aggregate 
production exceeds that of last year’s harvest 
by 10,500,000 bushels. 
Heavy warm rains fell in Minnesota and 
Dakota last Sunday. The fears of frost which 
prevailed have passed away. The corn crop 
will be greatly improved by the rainfall, and 
gram will not be damaged to any considerable 
extent. Wheat in Southern aud Central Min¬ 
nesota is in shock. 
Wool sales are increasing every week iu 
Philadelphia, mainly for staple wools, the sup¬ 
ply of which is not very heavy. Worsted 
wools are scarce. The market is a little firmer 
nud there is an improvement of wools from 
the West, that have been held back on account 
of low prices. Manufacturers have more con¬ 
fidence in the permanency of prices and v» ill 
provide for current requirements more freely. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, August 30, 1884. 
Chicago.-As compared with cash prices two 
weeks ago, “regular” wheat is unchanged; 
No. 2 Chicago spring, }£e higher; No. 2 Red, 
2c. lower. Corn, le. higher. Oats, j£c. high¬ 
er. Pork, unchanged; but “August” pork 
has been forced up $1.50 by the manipulators 
of the corner. Hogs, from 25c. to 55 higher, 
according to grade. Cattle, unchanged. 
Sheep, from 20c. to 25c. lower. 
Wheat.—U nsettled, nervous and weak. Sales 
