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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 8 
Iots of tl)e XPtelt, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, November 1. 
Tjte Presidential battle, preparations for 
which have occupied so much of the public at¬ 
tention during the last, few months, will be 
fought next Tuesday. Both the Democrats 
and Republicans now claim to be sure of vic¬ 
tory. The But.hr boom is flagging; the 
8 t. John’s boom is steady; the Belva Lock 
wood's boom never amounted to anything, nVi 
amounts to the same thing now. From a 
careful Inspection of the whole field, viewed 
with an unpurtisan, impartial eye, it is very 
evident that in this contest victory will side 
with the most popular candidate, and that 
out. next President must inevitably 1)«- 
But why mention bis name here? The tele 
graph will tell it to every one of our readers 
before any of them could see it here. The 
defeated parties must be of good cheer; the 
country will not be ruiued by the triumph 
of their opponents, in spite of the prophecies 
of political seers "on the stump”.The 
Mexican Senate lias ratified the treaty 
between Great Britain and Mexico, re-estab¬ 
lishing the friendly relations that existed bo 
tween the two governments before the exe¬ 
cution of Maximilian This result has chiefly 
been brought about by representations from 
the Canadian Government, and mi doubt steps 
will at once be taken to increase and develop 
Canadian trade with Mexico, now that amity 
has been established ..Wilbur F, Storey, 
editor and owner of the Chicago Times,born in 
1816, died last Monday, and was buried Thurs¬ 
day..... ..Residents of Victoria, B. C,, are be¬ 
coming alarmed at the extent of leprosy 
among the Chinese. The disease is very con¬ 
tagious, and has been contracted by several 
young men thro’ smoking cigars made hy lep¬ 
ers. The Dominiou Government haR been 
asked to erect a leper hospital.The re¬ 
port of the Public Works Department states 
that Canada possesses greater telegraphic fa¬ 
cilities than the United Htates or any Euro¬ 
pean country. The number of office* iu Can¬ 
ada is 2,269, or ouo to every 1,911 of population 
.The steamer Elbe, which arrived in 
New York, Sunday, brought $100,000 in gold. 
There are now $1,600,000 in gold on route from 
Europe.President Arthur has appoint¬ 
ed Hugh McCulloch to be Secretary of the 
Treasury on the resignation of Secretary 
Gresham, who lias been appointed to succeed 
Judge Drummond as Judge of the Seventh 
Circuit, embracing Indiana, Illinois and Wis¬ 
consin. Mr. McCulloch was Lincoln’s Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury for his second term, and 
held on through Johnson’s administration. He 
is the only man who has ever been Secretary 
of the Treasury in three administrations, lie 
is now 74 .Robert Garrett, on the part 
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has of 
fered to transport the collective State exhibits 
of Maryland and West Virginia to the World’s 
industrial Exposition at New Orleans, free of 
expense.The Scott law regulating the 
sale of intoxicating beverages in Ohio has 
been declared unconstitut ional.. The 
total debt of the subsidized Pacific Railroads 
to the United States on June SO, 1884, was 
$127,828,016.Lieutenant Fitch, who 
married one of General Sherman’s daughters, 
was rendered bankrupt by the failure of the 
Harrison Tron Works, in St. Louis, u lew days 
ago.Lake underwriters are suffering 
large losses from the severe gales that have 
swept over the inland seas recently. The largo 
iron steamship Scotia, valued at $100,000, is a 
total wreck iu Lake Superior, Several ves¬ 
sels of the Chicago grain fleet have been 
wrecked....*_The forest, fires in Southern 
New Jersey uro apparently under control. 
Many miles of Urn 1 timber, a church, aud seve¬ 
ral dwellings have been burned. The damage 
is estimated ut $150,000.The French 
aud English residents of Montreul have ended 
their quarreling overthe winter carnival, and 
everything looks prosperous for the sports. 
Already $10,000 have been subscribed towards 
defraying expenses. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November 1. 
Across the Atlantic, Ireland is just as hos¬ 
tile as ever to British domination. Limerick 
persists in her refusal to pay even the revised 
tax bill imposed on her by the Government 
for extra police service—aud what can the 
Government do iu the matter > The Parnellites 
are determined to force the resignation or 
removal of Earl Spencer, the present hated 
Lord-Lieu tenant; and for this purpose they 
are insisting in Parliament, on an inquiry into 
the Maaintrasnn murder case—a case iu which 
a dozen peasants were convicted of murder 
on testimony which, it is claimed, was con¬ 
cocted by tde lawyers of the Crown. As 
almost half of the convicted were hung, the < i 
Nationalists claim that the Government, and 
especially its representative and agent, Earl 
Spencer, must bear the odium of having shed 
innocent blood for political effect. The Min¬ 
istry says “it certainly is not the duty of the 
Government to review the verdict of a jury.’’ 
Parnell and his followers have, therefore, 
resolved to vote against the Ministry in 
Parliament, on the Franchise Bill and other 
important. Government measures. 
In England the Government has resolved 
to push the Franchise Bill to a final vote at 
the earliest moment, giving it precedence 
over all other business. The Radical mem¬ 
bers of Parliment are combining to oppose 
any government compromise with the Lords, 
or any government solution of the difficulty 
by the creation of enough Liberal peers to 
overcome the present Conservative majority 
in the House of Lords. The aim of the Radi¬ 
cals is to widen the present breach, and main¬ 
tain the agitation for the abolition of the 
Upper Houso. In Egypt Lord Wolscleyis 
authorized to appoint the Mudir of Dongola 
Governor of the Soudan for a term of years, 
subject, however, to the Khedive. The 
Mubdi is still, however, Lord of the Soudan, 
having, itiusaid, 140,000 troop- about Khar¬ 
toum, which reports early in the week said ho 
had captured, after a fierce resistance by 
Gordon; but later advices declare that the 
latter had repulsed all attacks. Wolseley has 
been ordered not to attempt to conquer any 
place south of Wady ilnlfa; but merely to 
bring back Gordon aud Lawrence to Egypt. 
As Lawrence is reported killed, is his task 
lightened by half? A part of his forees will 
press forward next week; the rest cannot do 
so till the middle of December, owing to de¬ 
fects in the transportation department....... 
In France attention is still engaged chiefly 
by the Chinese embroglio. No real progress 
is being made in the settlement of the quarrel. 
Late reports say France has agreed to Hug- 
land's arbitration. Both England aud Ger¬ 
many object to the French blockade of 
Formosa, without a formal declaration of 
war. if war were declared, French trans¬ 
ports carrying troops to China would not be 
permitted to enter English ports; nor could 
French war vessels coal at such places. It is 
said that cholera ho* broken out in the vessels 
of the French fleet in Chinese waters. Unless 
peace is made soon, France will send 29,090 
fresh troops to end the war at once! 
In Germany in the parliamentary elections 
just held,the Socialists have been remarkably 
successful Iu tile last Reichstag there were 
only 13; now there will by at least 20—a great 
gain, as 15 signatures are necsssary to intro¬ 
duce a question Into the Reichstag. The 
Crown Prince of Germany,has been appointed 
Regeut of Brunswick, the Emperor having 
declared that the Duke of Cumberland will 
not be allowed to succeed tho late Duke. 
Austria objects to Cumberland’s residence 
within her borders, for fear of hurting Ger¬ 
many’s susceptibilities, so he is going to Eng¬ 
land. to reside there permanently. 
A few sporadic cases of cholera having 
broken out at Havre, France, Holland, Bel¬ 
gium and Italy have quarantined all the 
coast from Cberburg to Dieppe. The plague 
has almost eutirely disappeared from Italy, 
and Spain is now wholly free from it; while 
clean bills of health are given to vessels leav¬ 
ing Marseilles, where it first broke out. It 
has completely prostrated business in Italy 
aud Southern France, however; bankruptcies 
are numerous; work is scarce, and the suffer¬ 
ing from starvation aud cold during the com¬ 
ing Winter is sure to be intense. Indeed, all 
over Europe, while the rich are more extrava- 
gaut than usual, the poor have a terrible time 
before them. Trade and manufacture are 
stagnant; hundreds of thousands of men are 
either compulsorily idle, or working for re¬ 
duced wages and for shortened hours. From 
every corner of Europe cries of distress arise 
from the working class—the bread-winners 
and wealth-producers; and the wealth-spend¬ 
ers every where, seem to be deaf to the outcry. 
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Lives Prolonged. 
Many to whom no encouragement could 
be offered, disease having progressed so far 
that no chance of arresting it seemed to 
remain, have been promptly relieved, and 
their lives prolonged and rendered compar- 
itively comfortable, by the new Vitalizing 
Treatment of Drs. Starkey & Ralen, 1109 
Girard St., Philadelphia. Many more, who 
have been sufferers tor years aud almost in¬ 
capacitated for work, are now in the enjoy¬ 
ment of a good degree of health and able to 
engage actively in the business profession, 
or household duties which had been wholly or 
partially abandoned, it. is woudertul wbat 
cures in so-called "desperate cases,” are being 
made by this remarkable treatment! If any 
one, requiring the aid of such a treatment, will 
write to Drs. Starkey & Ralen, they will 
promptly mail such documents and reports of 
cases as will enable him to judge of its 
value for himself.— Adv. 
See Johnson & Field’s Racine Farm Mill ad¬ 
vertisement in issue of Oct. 25. Rage 712— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 1. 
The agricultural classes of France have 
$200,000,000 on deposit in the Government 
Savings Bank, on which they are paid four 
per cent, interest. They are also, in the ag¬ 
gregate, among the largest investor in Gov¬ 
ernment bouds.California is now send¬ 
ing to the Atlantic coast more wine than is 
imported from France. It is estimated that 
last year’s wine crop yielded the growers $3,- 
500,000.The potato crop of the two 
eastern shore counties of Virginia is estimated 
ut $3,000,000 less than last year's on account 
of the drought.*....Silk is now grown in 
twenty of our States.The largest cattle 
range is In Wyoming, comprising 1,000,000 
acres, und it will herd 75,000 cattle.There 
are three thousand carp ponds iu the State of 
Georgia.A rebate of $1,000,000 paid by 
the United States Government for excess of 
duties collected on hay exported from Can¬ 
ada into this country, all goes to the Cunadiau 
dealers.The Grain Receivers’Associa¬ 
tion of the Chicago Board of Trade, on Thurs¬ 
day, made some changes in grain grades. No 
change was made in,“contract grades’’—those 
usually dealt In, such as No. 2 wheat—but in 
the lower grades, "rejected” wheat is made 
No. 4; “high mixed” corn Is made No. 2, and 
“new high mixed” No. 8, etc.An agi¬ 
tation is in progress iu Paris against the 
price of bread. A meeting of bakers was 
held on Wednesday to consider the request of 
the Prefect that they should reduce the price 
They refused by a vote of 841 to 204 to accede 
to this.The tanners and hide und 
leather dealers of St. Louis have decided to 
issue a call for a convention of the country, 
to be held there at the sumo time as the cattle¬ 
men’s convention, next month.Iu 1881, 
New Zealand, with a population of 489,993. 
had 34 steam plows, 985 thrashing machines 
and 4,829 reapers.Agitation among the 
Skye crofters against landlordism is increas¬ 
ing. A circular has been distributed urging 
them to cut the telegraphs, burn tho shoot iug 
lodges, poison the deer and adopt desperate 
means of defence....Mr, Bonner’s invest 
incuts in horseflesh have been pretty large. 
He paid $10,000 for Joe Elliot, $16,000 for Ed¬ 
win Forrest, $15,000 for Lady Stewart, $20,- 
000 for Edward Everett, aud tho same for 
Startle. $80,000 for Pocahontas and the same 
sum for Dexter; $36,000 for ltarus aud now 
(40,000 for Maud S .Over one half of 
the pork packing-houses of Chicago are uow in 
operation........ From 2.000 to 3,000 Eastern 
stock calves, ure now received at Chicago 
each week.The exports of live stock 
and dressed meats from the port of Boston 
per steamers for the foreign markets last week, 
were 453 cattle, 2.U89 sheep, and 1,000 quarters 
of beef Ohio, Western Pennsylvania 
and West Virginia produce the choicest fleeces 
of washed wools raised intheUnitedStat.es, 
and form a standard which regulates the 
value of all wools marketed.The statis¬ 
tical aceouut of the production of wool 
throughout the civilized world shows that in 
the year 1880 it was 320.000,000 pounds, in 
1871 it was nearly 2,000,000.000 pounds, while 
in 1883 in the United States alone the produc¬ 
tion of wool was 320,000,000 pounds, or as 
much as was produced in the whole world in 
1880. 
The following is a list of breeders' meetings 
to be held iu Cbi< ago duriug tbe coming Fat 
Stock Show; 
American Hereford Breeders’ Association, at Sher¬ 
man House Illinois Short-horn Breeders’ Assoctn 
tlon, at Urand Pacific Hotel. Novewiter 11th i.Tuea- 
doyi, American SouihDowu Breeders’ Association, 
ut Sherman House, at 7:30 p. m. November V.’th 
(Wednesday), American Berkshire Association, at 
Sherman Houso, at 7;3U p, m. November U'th (Wed 
nesday), American (lalloway Breeders’Association, 
Grand Pacific Hotel, 7:30 p. m. The Eighth Annua) 
Meeting of the National Nortnau Horse Association 
will be held at the Grand Puclflc Hotel, Chi ago, 
Wednesday, November 12|li, 19SL The meeting will 
open at Ha. m . and continue with afternoou und 
evening sessions November lath am) Uth (Thurs¬ 
day and Fridayl, American Clydesdale Association, 
Grand Pacific Hotel, 1.30 p.m. November 13th end 
llth (Thursaay and Friday) Second Annual Meeting 
of National Convention of Stockmen, at Urund Fa 
clfle Hotel. Ncvcnilier Uth (Friday .'. Holstein Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, ut Grand Pacific Hotel,at 7 p.m, 
November 18th (Tuesday), American Cot-wold Asso¬ 
ciation. at Sherman House, at 8 p. in. November iSth 
(Tuesday!, Notional Swine Uree*ers’ Association, 
Sherman House. 7:30 p. m. November 15th!Tuesday), 
Red Polled Cattle Club of America, at Grand Pacific 
Hotel, tt 7:50 p. in, November the l£tb (Tuesday), 
American Shropshire Sheep Registry Association, 
Club Room-l. Grand Pacific Hotel, at 10 a. m. No¬ 
vember lilth (Wednesday!. American Shorl-horu 
Breeders’ Association, at Grand Pacific Hotel. 
I know all about Thatcher’s Orange Butter 
Color; have used it for years, it is worthy of 
the best testimonial that I can write. (90 
cows ) J. A. Hale, Potsdam, N. Y.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, November 1. 
The latest intelligence from the various live 
stock markets may be condensed as follows: 
Cattle of good quality are fairly active at 
Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore, and dull 
elsewhere; low grades are easy at all points. 
Hogs are weak and declining every where, and 
have reached lower prices than at any pre¬ 
ceding time this season. Sheep are quiet, 
but are generally weak and lower. 
During the week cables from the United 
Kingdom and the Continent have been vari¬ 
able. Shipments of wheat from Russia and 
India have fallen away almost to the point of 
cessation, if Indeed they have not ceased en¬ 
tirely. Exports from the United States, too, 
have been moderate only. Imports into 
France have also fallen away. 
Here during the week cotton lias advanced 
slightly, mainly on advices of improved busi¬ 
ness at Manchester and Liverpool, which has 
been stimulated by late low prices October 
cotton reports state that the bulk of tbe crop 
picked is in unusually fine condition. Wet 
weather is delaying tbe gathering of the small 
portion remaining in tbe fields. The wool 
trade has developed no Improvement. Manu¬ 
facturers buy as they need supplies, but there 
is not much disposition to quicken business at 
tbe cost of price concessions. Last week wit¬ 
nessed a heavy rush of wheat to primary 
markets, anil probably marks the climax of 
the movement. That iu tbe Northwest h s al¬ 
ready declined,farmers now preferring to hold 
their grain. With tho close of lake navigation 
this month and an advance in rail rates, pro¬ 
ducers evidently look fer better figures for 
their surplus grain. No. 2 real wheat in eleva¬ 
tor closed at 86^c , an advance of l%c. per 
bushel on the week in tho face of heavier re¬ 
ceipts, an increased visible supply, smaller 
exports, but a better inquiry for shipment 
abroad. Indian corn declined 8<^c. per bushel, 
closing at 53^0. Trading in corn has been 
very dull. A corner in the November option 
at Chicago is looked upon ns probable, and the 
ownership of contract grade old corn there is 
scanned daily. Provisions are weak on free 
receipts of hogs at all points. Efforts have 
been made to check free sales by raisers, who 
are marketing light weight stock on a declin¬ 
ing market, possibly under the pressure for 
funds and perhaps in the belief that prices 
must go off further on hog products aud hence 
on hogs. 
The Rural New- Yorker 
from now until January 
1st , 1886, for $2.00 . 
The Rural has no club 
or second price. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago “regular" wheat is %c. higher; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, higher; No. 2 Red 
Winter, J^c. higher. Corn, 4%c. lower. Oats, 
#e. higher. Hogs, from 25c. to 50c. lower. 
Cattle, 50c. lower. Sheep, somewhat lower. 
Wa rat.— Quiet sales ranged: November, 74V* 
7M4d December 1'!-<i'7c; January ?SWcz77Vo May, 
'4‘iiaKiqe: No.;’ Chicago Spring. DHal'c No, 8 do, 
eoteame: No. ? Red. 76c- so. " do. itv. cobs—C ash, 
and October, 41 teittac: November. all the 
year. SKivaswre- Oat* Dull' ensh, 25 q'<r25*fc Goto 
her and all the year, November, 
Bye Dull at roc. Barmcv— Doll at 62Vie. 
feaxsxi.o—Q uiet at $) Sni'ir.' . -vq, Pork—S trong; 
Cash a- d October, ki'ijr-.'lv. all theycnr, • Il.83w1l.4t). 
l. aud strong: cadi,* tx"* Re Hons.-Roughpacking. 
*i iiiuri.i’o; parking and shipping at rtw5; light, 
si 15*4.73 skins mid grusser*. *3.30t<t$l. Cattle - 
Market weak, but moderately nctlve; export grades, 
#n.*VaC. 7 .v good to choice shipping, kAKkafe; com- 
m. in to medium, SUO'gS Texans, firmer at $3.50<%4; 
SHEEP— Market weak nntl lower: common to fair, 
$2 1 8 medium to good, $3#8,50; good to choice, $8.50 
lambs, $4&-1.90. 
Boston, —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, corn is 4 cent lower. Oats, 2^ to 3 
cents lower. Rye, steady. Feed, ditto. Butter 
unchanged. Cheese, a trifle lower. Eggs, 1 
cent higher for best sorts. Potatoes, steady’. 
Grain.— Cohn —Steamer Mixed, 98®fl0c ; Steamer 
Yellow, (ihi*62c; high mixed. *l-i65e, and no grade, 
5V-".-Guo * bti«lt. Oats Vo. 1 and extra White. 35W<is 
ICC No 2 White, 33A<ia35ct No. 8 >m<a34c. sud mixed, 
3UuS4e V bush. Small sates of Rye, in'*72c > bush. 
Noth’ng doing Iu Barley Sales of Shorts, $!fir«17( 
Fine Feed aim Middlings, SlHaift, and of Cotton Seed 
Meal, $27.5f)(t30,00 X ton, HAT AND Straw—C hoice 
giades of bay have been In fair demand at *18'<#!9 
r<-r ton. good to choleent tiF-ils.imd common to fair 
at *12" u! Rye Straw )v held at $1**19 choice. 
Swale. Hay at $- -i9. Oat Straw at $9r*IU per ton. 
Butter—N orthern creamery, extra. 30aSic: choice, 
fresh, ?7<",28c: good to choice. VKu-'C-o- Northern 
dairy. Krunklln Oouuty, Vt,, extra. New York 
ami Vermrnt. choice, 23:<b25c , atralgnt dairies, 
choice, 20 a22c: fair to good do, Ilia-isc. common, do. 
UKd-lim Western—Creamery, extra. 28M30e: choice, 
2:V«.27e: good to choice summer make. 2>i.<i24c West¬ 
ern dairy, choice, 13 2uc: fair to good. lSalfic. Im¬ 
itation creamery, choice. 18t»J2c; ladle, choice. 
14 a 18c; do. commou to good, I0 *i2c Cheese—N ew 
York and Vermont, choice. i2R,«jd3c. kt n>- West¬ 
ern, choice, lmearitw fair to good. l»7wllc. a. 
Egos—E astern, fresh. 24*470; New York and Ver¬ 
mont, 2 Pa 2 Vc• Provincial, 25e: Western, 22<«,23c. 
BkANS-Pea, choice hand picked flJISAV.lO V 
bushel: do. do. large. $»,»><* 1.85 medium choice. 
$l.i5<&>'.Wi: do, screened. $1.5ug.t.6S- Yellow Eyes. 
Improved *2.25 1 2 3j * bush' Red Kidneys, *2.25(ai 
2.50. Canada peas. SUcugfl.RI per bush for com¬ 
mon to choice. Green Peas ai $K«ti Si. Potatoes— 
Eastern 5'a,Vc > bush: Northern •Mtf&Oe. Seeds— 
Domestic Flaxseed at Chicago Is in good demandat 
$1.36 V bush Calcutta Linseed to arrive at New 
York is held at *'.V0$) bush. Clover Seed, Western 
atSisiJiilOe per it.- New York, at lOBgailc p tr; Timo¬ 
thy at *l.tiORl.eti p bush; Red Top at $l.b0cg,2.20 ^ bag; 
anti Canary at 314®34tc 4 lb. 
St. Louis.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is %c. lower. 
Corn, 9%c. lower. Oats, lc. higher. Rye. 
lc. lower. Barley, 2>)jC. lower. Flaxseed, l>£c. 
highei. 
