642 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. SEPT IS 
Wftirs of i!)C Wttk, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 6. 
The Republicans and Democrats are pre¬ 
paring to open a vigorous campaign, while 
Butler has got ahead of them both. Since the 
nominations the two great parties have only 
been preparing for the light—laying in ammu¬ 
nition in the way of gold or greenbacks, feel¬ 
ing each other’s weak points, appointing offi¬ 
cers to lead the battailous, counting up their 
respective forces, etc., etc.—about the middle 
of this month they will begin the battle which 
will end diily at. sundown on November 4. 
Each party seems assured of victory—though 
the Blaine boaxtaare a trifle the louder, (luer- 
rilla Butler will pick up any “unconsidered 
trifles”—in the way of a few electoral votes— 
he can, and try to “make a reccrd” that may 
be useful to him in 1SH8, The Republicans have 
carried Vermont for Governor by between 
22,000 and 23,000, a somewhat smaller majori¬ 
ty than in Garfield's year. The Republicans 
are always as sure of Vermont as the Demo¬ 
crats are of Texas. The Democrats, as a mat¬ 
ter of course, have carried Arkansas by a still 
larger majority.An order has bean 
issued from the Treasury Department, prohib¬ 
iting the im|>ortation of rags from any port, 
under any pretext, for a period of 00 days, in 
order to avoid ail possibility of the introduc¬ 
tion of cholera through rags.The Na¬ 
tional Law and Order League, in annual ses¬ 
sion at. Lake Bluff, near Chicago, is reported 
to contain 500 local leagues, aud to have a 
total membership of GO,0OO.......The business 
of the U. H. Patent Office is five mouths be¬ 
hind, owing to the refusal of the House to al¬ 
low the Commissioner of Patents the necessary 
clerks..Since the opening of the 
Brooklyn Bridge, fourteen months ugo, 14,- 
528,000 persons have crossed it..New 
York State is the centre of the cigar-making 
trade. She has nearly four thousand facto¬ 
ries, and turns out 1,000,000,000 cigars a year. 
Peuusylvania, Ohio aud Illinois rank after 
New York.Statistics are presented 
from which it is dedured that the vote of this 
country in Novemlier will aggregate 10,407,300. 
.The Cincinnati Exposition opened Wed 
nesday, September 3.The receipts of 
cotton ut Memphis for the year ending August 
30 were 450,077 bales, valued at *33,000,000... 
.The total public debt. September 1. was 
$1,841,714,203.57.The cash in the 
public Treasury September 1, was $414,541,- 
952,98 .The reduction of the public 
debt for August is $8,543,853. 
.The total value of Texas products ex¬ 
ported during the year ending August 31, is 
about $ 10 ( 1 , 000 ,000, a decrease of nearly $20,- 
000,000 from the preceding year.Jonas 
Wolf bus been elected Governor of the Chick¬ 
asaw Indian Nation by a small majority. 
....The reports of the county assessors of Illi¬ 
nois show a net, decline, during the year, in 
valuation of $10,000,000 for the whole State. 
The total is $740,547,000. against $756,422,000 
in 1883. One-quarter of the 102 counties re¬ 
port an increase amounting to $5,975,000, but 
the other counties report decreases aggrega¬ 
ting $15,850,000.The Socretaryoft.be 
Interior has appointed 62 special pension ex¬ 
aminers, at an annual salary Of $1,600 each. 
....Savannah, Ga., is very prosperous, the 
city’s trade for the year aggregating $80,000,- 
000. It has regained its place as the leading 
naval stores market of the world and the sec¬ 
ond cotton port.There are to be 57 ex¬ 
positions in the United States during the re¬ 
mainder of the year.The imitation of 
canned sardines cuu go no further. The pack¬ 
ing box is made in Jersey City, the wrapper is 
printed in New York, the tin cans are manu¬ 
factured in Boston, the fish are caught on the 
Maiuo coast, and the oil is extracted from cot- 
ton-eeod in Georgia.Experience is a good 
deal in favor of high license. The Harper law 
in Illinois has reduced the number of saloons 
from 18,000 to 9.000, aud increased the reve¬ 
nue from $700,000 to $4,000,000 a year. 
The 33d annual meeting of the American As¬ 
sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
which began in the 1 biladelphia Academy of 
Music on Thursday, will last seven days, and 
between 800 and 500 papers, covering a large 
number of subjects, will probably be read.... 
The most destructive hurricane ever known at 
Evansville, lud., visited the city last, week, 
doing a damage of not less than $250,000 in the 
city and vicinity.Gov. Crosby, of Monta. 
na, say* the special agent sent to inquire into 
the condition of the Regan Indians, found 
that these Indiuus, about,2,000 in number, are 
dying from starvation at the rate of one a 
day. The men and women are gaunt and 
spiritless and the children are emaciated. 
They are all so weakened by the lack of suffi¬ 
cient, food for the past two years that dreadful 
suffering and many deaths must occur short¬ 
ly. The appropriation for this year only per¬ 
mits the agents to issue weekly two pounds of 
beef and three pounds of flour, the latter of 
bad quality—an entirely inadequate allow¬ 
ance. Secretary Teller is to supply them with 
food paid for from appropriations made to 
support other Indians..It is reported that 
gold bos been found in large quantities in 
quartz and nuggets in Little Rock and near 
Rocky Point, Montana. A large influx of 
miners is expected. The “find” is in the Indian 
country, but the miners say they will defend 
tbeir possessions with knife and rifle, if neces¬ 
sary ... .The death of Chas. .Tames Folger, Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury, occurred at 4.55 on the 
afternoon of Thursday last, September 4. So 
few knew of the serious nature of the illness, 
that his death has shocked the public. He 
really died from overwork, due to his want of 
faith in some of his subordinates, though heart 
and lung troubles hastened his end. He was 
born at Nantu'ket, Mass., on April 10, 1818; 
but he has lived at Geneva, N. Y., since he 
was 14 years old. Graduated at Hobart Col¬ 
lege in 1880 with the highest class honors; was 
admitted to the bar in 1839, and in 1844 was 
appointed Judge of the Court of Common 
Ideas in Ontario County: elected Judge of the 
same county in 1851; began his political life 
as a Democrat. In 1861 was elected to the 
8tale Senate as a Republican, and a©rvod for 
eight years as one of the leaders of the party. 
Always opposed railroad and other monopo¬ 
lies, and vigorously denounced Tweed and all 
other thieves. Appointed United States Treas¬ 
urer in this city in 1869 by Grant., through the 
Influence of his warm friend, Conkling. Was 
elected Associate Judge of the Court of Ap¬ 
peals at the end of the year, ami on the death 
of Chief Judge Church in 1886, was appointed 
Chief Judge by Gov. Cornell. Wu« re elected 
for a term of 14 years by a majority of 45.308, 
resigning to take the office of Secretary of the 
Treasury, since which time his career is fresh 
in the minds of the public. Physically, he 
was a large and robust man.A Louis¬ 
ville concern is making 180 beer hogsheads to 
go to New Orleans, each to hold 127 barrels 
and the whole to cost $35,000. The visitors to 
the Exposition are likely to be thirsty. 
65,000 clergymen are preaching Christianity 
in the United States, but it is not stated how 
many are practicing it......The Chicago 
Probate Court, declares, what has long been 
true, that Editor Storey, of the Times, is men¬ 
tally incapable of doing business, and it has 
appointed Austin Patterson business manager 
of the paper for his estate, which ischiefly the 
Times itself .Tom Ochiltree, the pictur¬ 
esque Congressman from Texas, declines a re 
nomination. Bonanza Mackey has made him 
General Superintendent, of the New York, 
Texas and Mexican Railroad, at a salary of 
$10,000 a year....Volume VIII of the 
United States Census Report will be ready in 
a few days. It comprises four report#— Pe- 
troff’s report on Alaska; Ellis’s on the Seal 
Islands, Alaska; Hall’s on the shipbuilding of 
t he United StateB, aud u fine rnouograph on 
the newspaper and publishing interests of the 
Ucited States. The volume makes a quarto of 
1,000 pages profusely illustrated. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 0, 1884. 
Across the Atlantic agrarian disturb¬ 
ances in Ireland buve become much fewer 
and lees savage. The Land Act is pro¬ 
ducing good results by lowering the extor¬ 
tionate rent* exacted from tenants, giving 
the latter a lease of their luuds for a term of 
years, and at the end of this compensating 
them, to a considerable extent, for any outlay 
they may have made for permanent improve¬ 
ments. Occasional boycotting of obnoxious 
landlords, land agents or tenants who have 
taken lands from which others had been 
evicted, still occur; now and then, too, the 
cable brings reports of attempts to murder 
specially hateful people; but it seems unfair 
to attribute these outrages to a spirit of agrar¬ 
ian discontent; in what country are murders 
not only attempted hut perpetrated occasion¬ 
ally? Parnell still leads the nutiema l party; 
and although there have been a few defec¬ 
tions from his cohort* in Parliament, bis in¬ 
fluence with Irishmen seems wider and tinner 
than ever, and should a dissolution of Parlia¬ 
ment occur, there is no doubt the number of 
his followers would be largely increased at the 
next election. Borne horrible disclosures 
have been made about unspeakable immor¬ 
ality practiced by a number of high govern¬ 
mental officials in Dublin, aud some of the 
wretches have already been convicted, while 
others are awaiting trial. Some of the mis¬ 
erable “informers,” too, on whose testimony 
convictions and executions for agrarian mur¬ 
ders occurred some months ago, are now 
swearing that government, prosecuting 
officers threatened, cajoled aud bribed 
them to perjure themselves. On the whole, 
the country is much more peaceable 
than it was some months ago... 
In Great Britain, there has been a stormy 
time between the Liberals, warm iu office, aud 
the Conservatives, out iu the <*old. The former, 
under Gladstone, wish to udd about 3,000,000 
to the present number of voters in the United 
Kingdom; the latter oppose the measure un¬ 
less, at the same time, there shall be a redis¬ 
tribution of seats in Parliament—that is, un¬ 
less the constituencies of the members shall be 
arranged in accordance with the number of 
voters in each, after the fresh accessions made 
by the new bill. Being in a sad minority in 
the House of Commons, the Conservatives 
have made their fight in the House of Lords, 
where they are greatly in the majority. There 
they threw out the Franchise Bill, and threaten 
to do so again unless a Distribution Bill is 
passed with it. The Radicals threaten to abol¬ 
ish, and the Liberals threaten to “reform” the 
House of Lords—the house of hereditary le¬ 
gislators—for daring to oppose the will of the 
people, expressed by their direct representa¬ 
tives in the Commons. The battle will be renew¬ 
ed when Parliament re-openB in October .... 
Since Gen. “ Chinese” Gordon, eight months 
ago, plunged “single-handed” into Central 
Africa to extricate the Egyptian garrisons 
and European residents in the Soudan from 
the hordes of the False Prophet El Mabdi— 
very little has been heard from him. Estab¬ 
lishing himself at Khartoum, he has made 
good soldiers of the F.gyptian garrison and of 
in© recruits from the surrounding tribes; has 
repulsed every attack made by the adherents 
of El Mnhdi. and. sallying forth several times, 
has inflicted serious losses on the enemy. 
Doubtless he could have easily escaped him¬ 
self, either cast to Abyssinia, south to Zanzi¬ 
bar, or west, to the Congo; hut he has struck, 
and so great has been the clamor in England 
for his release, that on army of 7,500 British 
troops and 2,500 Egyptians, under England’s 
“ Only General,” Lora WoJeeley, is just start¬ 
ing to his relief. It will go up along the Nile, 
which is now rising rapidly, and if at) turns 
out well, will reach him next, December. 
The late-t news from him, dated the end of 
last April, says he has provisions enough to 
last till the "end of October.. 
On the Continent. France has managed to 
get into a serious difficulty with < 'hiua. After 
conquering Tooquin, she made a treaty with 
China at Tien-Tsin, by which it was agreed 
that the Chinese troops should evacuate the 
conquered country; but before the garrison 
at Lang-son were notified, the French, in small 
force, appeared before the place, and on its 
surrender being refused, attacked it, and were 
disastrously repulsed. France at- one© de¬ 
manded an indemnity of 50,000.000 franca. 
China refused to pay it., and after weeks of 
fruitless negotiations the French fleet under 
Admiral Courbet, seized the coal mines at 
Belong, on the inland of Hainan, and later, 
bombarded and destroyed the fortifications 
and magazines at Foo-Cbow, on the mainland. 
England, Germany, Russia, and the United 
States are trying to patch up a peace, by in¬ 
ducing Chinn to make concessions. Reports 
ur« that three Chinese armies, aggregating 
65,000 men, are marching into Tonquin, to 
annihilate the comparatively small French 
garrisons there. War has not been declared 
yet; and it is likely the Chinese will hack 
down, though the French are by no means in 
the right... 
-- 
Given ui> by 1'brslelans. 
“The large experience that we have had 
during the past thirteen years, in which we 
have treated many thousands of cases with 
our new Vitalizing remedy,” say Prx. Starkey 
& Palen. of 1109 Girard 8t., Philadelphia, 
Pa., “satisfies us that nine-tenths of the 
diseases which have been steadily growing 
worse in spite of the best medical treatment 
the country affords, can be cured or greatly 
helped by the us© of this agent. We do not 
say this i n any boastful way. The declaration 
Is based upon results of so surprising a char¬ 
acter aud in so wide a range of cases, uiauy 
of them given up by physicians as hopeless, 
that it stands as a fact open to t he clearest 
authentication, and we will afford any one 
who desires to verify the reports and testimo¬ 
nials which we lay before the public, the largest 
opportunity for doing so.” Write to them for 
their pamphlet describing the nature and 
action of this new aud remarkable Treatment. 
It will be sent free.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 6. 
The alarm about contagious pleuro pneumonia 
is abating somewhat iu the West; but there is 
no relaxation in the efforts to prevent the im¬ 
portation of any more affected animals, to 
stop the spread of the disease already in the 
State, and to stamp it out promptly. Last 
Wednesday Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, 
issued a proclamation scheduling the same lo¬ 
calities scheduled by Governor Cullom in 
1881, viz.: the eouuty of Fairfield iu Connec¬ 
ticut; the counties of W estchester, Putnam, 
Queens, New York aud Kings in New York 
State; the counties of Lehigh, Bucks, Dela¬ 
ware, Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, 
Berks, Montgomery, Philadelphia and Cum¬ 
berland, Pennsylvania; the whole States of 
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, as well 
as the District of Columbia, and Miami Coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. Infected herds are quarantined, and 
badly diseased animals slaughtered. It is re¬ 
ported that reliable information has reached 
Springfield, Ill,, that the plague has broken 
out amoug Short-horn cattle at several points 
in Indiana, while in a reported case in Ken¬ 
tucky, examination shows that the herd is 
perfectly healthy. In Canada. Dr. MeEach- 
rau, Chief Inspector of the Canadian Cattle 
Quarantine, has reported to the Government 
that the disease exists so extensively among 
cattle in Illinois, Iowa, and other Western 
States that it is necessary to entirely prohibit 
the importation of cattle from this country 
into any part of the Dominion for breeding 
purposes. He also says that there is now no 
possibility of permitting cattle from the North¬ 
west to be shipped to Great Britain through 
Canada, It is likely the Dominion Govern¬ 
ment will act at once in accordance wjth the 
suggestions of this report.. 
A Jacksonville, Fla., man has made $42.50 
from a angle rose bush this season.. 
Complaints are rife in all parts of England of 
the difficulty of selling rural real estate, and 
this even in the West, where rents have been 
comparatively little affected by the hard 
times.The total meat product of the 
United Kingdom is 1 100,000 tons, from cattle, 
sheep and swine. It has remained practically 
the same for the past 20 years. At tbepresent 
rat© of consumption this would supply 26,000,- 
000 of the population, leaving 9,000,000 de¬ 
pendent upon importation. Last year the 
percentage of supply from abroad was 28 to 
72 of the home product.The United 
States raise 48 bushels of grain per head of the 
population, and consume 41 bushels per head. 
In both cases they take the lend of all other 
nations. Italy consumes but 9.62 bushels of 
grain per head, Austria 13.57, Spain and Rus¬ 
sia 17 each, Denmark 20.83, France 24.02, and 
Canada 38.11 bushels per capita.The 
English Government has given a Chicago 
firm an order for 250,000 pounds of compressed 
beef, in addition to the 500,000 pounds already 
ordered. It is for tb© expedition to relieve 
Chinese Gordon.The mane of the 
late Emperor Napoleon’s charger Hero, 
thirty-three years old, hangs to his knees. 
.... Hog cholera is fatal to many hogs about 
Hhoeiuakersville, near Reading, Pa..... 
Commissioner Loring has just issued circulars 
t<> the Collectors of Customs at various ports, 
containing regulations for the importation of 
neat cattle. The rules are identical with those 
of the Treasury Department, mentioned edit¬ 
orially in the Rural about two months ago. 
..Col. Walker, who shipped the first live 
stock from Montana over the Canadian Pa¬ 
cific and Manitoba route, via Maple Creek to 
Chicago, bos expressed himself well pleased 
with his experience and the returns received 
for his cattle, He says it beats swimming the 
Missouri, and is confident the route will be¬ 
come a favorite one with stock-raisers. 
.The first Montaua cattle iu Chicago for 
the season, arriving by the Canada Pacific 
route, sold at $5 per cwt.......... Among the 
exports from New York last week were 650 
live cattle, 8,016 quarters of beef, and 574 car¬ 
casses of mutton.W yoming has 800,000 
head of cattle, valued at $300,000,000, Seven 
eompames own over one-third of all the cattle 
in the Territory.Exports of live stock 
from Boston last week were the lightest for 
several months. There were 617 cattle and 
815 sheep, while only 600 quarters of beef were 
forwarded.Abraham Renick, the fam¬ 
ous Short-horn breeder, died last Friday, at 
Winchester, Ky., at the age of 83 years. He 
was the most famous man in his line on this 
continent. His estate is valued at $400,00U... 
.Of the vast herds of cattle in Texas it 
is claimed that 1,000,000 head are owned by 
parties living outside of the State, and that a 
revenue of $10 per head is annually received 
by outsiders on these investments.It is 
claimed that, Iowa is the greatest hog State in 
the Union, and the “crop” this year is unusu¬ 
ally large. The last census credits Iowa with 
over 6,000,IKK) swine; Illinois coming next 
with 5,170,266, and then Missouri with 4,553.- 
133.Wheat lias been carried from Chi¬ 
cago to Liverpool this year for 15c. a bushel. 
Tweuty-threevears ago the cost was reckoned 
at. 69c.The western shipment of melons 
from Georgia in 188.1 was 2,400 car-loads. This 
year it will not run beyond 1,000 car-loads. The 
reason given for the decrease i* that the freight 
this year is $40 a car-load more than it was 
last year..At a recent sale at Birming¬ 
ham 870 Shropshire rams were disposed of in 
one dav—some of them ut very high prices; 
170 and L20 guineas being the top prices made, 
while a goodly number sold at prices between 
30 and 75 guineas each.Th« imports of 
dressed muttou into Englaud during the month 
of June, uinoutiled to upwards of 4,000,000 
pounds* more than double that of the corre¬ 
sponding week of last year. This arises from 
u great iuerease from New Zealand, aud the 
Australian colonies. 
The Council of Columbus. O., has refused to 
furnish police for the State Fair, there being 
no money in the treasury to pay salaries. 
The Lexington |Ky.) Fair Association has 
paid off its staudiiig debt with this year’s 
profits, and has a surplus of $1,200. 
The New England fair w r as Opened at man- 
chester, N. H„ Tuesday, by Geo. B. Loring, 
President of the Society, who made an address. 
There have been large arrivals of cattle and 
horses and other exhibits. The entries of cat¬ 
tle are the largest ever made at any exhibition 
in New Hampshire.A telegram from 
Des Moines. Ia. ( yesterday, says: “The Septem¬ 
ber sun shone more mildly on the State Fair 
visitors to-day. The crowd was smaller than 
yesterday, but the cash receipts now guarantee 
all costs, and to morrow's gate money will be 
clear profit. Several saloon keepers are sell¬ 
ing cider which is said to taste like whiskey 
and there is considerable drunkenness.’’...... 
.... On the same day a telegram from Elmira, 
N. Y„ says: “The forty-fourth annual exhibi- 
