THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
lews oi t!)e Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Raturdat, November 15. 
Thk “official count” of the votes for Presi¬ 
dent ami Vice-president is nearly completed 
in this State, and, although some slight errors 
have been found here und there, on both the 
Republican and Democratic sides, the general 
result has not been materially affected—Cleve¬ 
land and Hendricks have still a plurality of 
about 1,300 votes. The election of the Demo¬ 
cratic candidates is getting to be accepted as 
a fact by all parties, and it speaks well for the 
stability of our republican form of govern¬ 
ment that there is no real disposition to con¬ 
test the will of the people expressed by the 
means provided in the Constitution. As was 
anticipated from the first, New York proves 
to be the pivotal Rtate: with it Cleveland 
wins; without it he would have lost. The Re¬ 
publicans generally attribute their defeat to 
St. John, the Prohibition candidate, as he 
polled an unexpectedly largo vote in the rural 
districts, and most of it came from the Re¬ 
publican party. Accordingly he has incurred 
the bitter enmity of the out and-ont partisans, 
aud has been burnt in effigy iu a large num¬ 
ber of towns East and West,.while the extreme 
party organs have used up all the strong words 
in Webster’s Unabridged in denunciation of 
him, He will begin agitating a prohibitory 
amendmoot to the Constitution In a few weeks. 
.The Hon. Edward McPherson, Secre¬ 
tary of the Republican Congressional Com¬ 
mittee, says that, from the most authentic in¬ 
formation bo has been able to secure, the next 
House of Representatives will consist of 183 
Democrats, 141 Republicans, one Greonbacker 
(Brumrn, of Pennsylvania), aud one Fusionist 
(Weaver, of Iowa). As compared with the 
membership of the various purtles iu the pre¬ 
sent House, this estimate shows a loss of 19 
Democrats and four “Independents,’’ and a 
gain of 22 Republicans and one Fusionist. 
Thk annual report of the Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue shows total receipts from 
all sources for the year were $131,590,000, 
compared with $144,555,000 for 1883, It Is 
estimated that $115,000,000 will be collected 
during the present fiscal year .The will 
of the late Wilbur F. Story, of Chicago, be¬ 
queaths his entire estate, including the Times 
newspaper, to his widow, with the privilege 
of selling the same, the entire estate, however, 
to revert to his heirs-at-law.... .....Ver¬ 
mont proposes to substitute death by elec 
tricity for hanging in cases of capital punish 
ment.The total estimated expenditure 
of the Post Office Department for the year lo¬ 
ginning July 1885. is $56,000,000.Sir 
John A. Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, is 
almost entirely recovered from his late indispo¬ 
sition. His appearance is greatly improved,and 
the treatment of Sir Andrew Clark, the Pre¬ 
mier asserts, has given him anew lease of life. 
He has satisfactorily settled both his public und 
private business, aud ho intends leaving Eng 
land for Canada on the 33d inst. 
The Rtate of Ohio possesses no less than 
thirty-five “colleges"—a greater number than 
any other State in the Union. Their aggre¬ 
gate income is only $303,520, while their tuition 
fees amount to but $135,383.The 
President has accepted the resignation of 
Judge Wells of the Court of Commissioners of 
the Alabama (Maims, and has appointed Judge 
James Harlan of Iowa to succeed him ns pre¬ 
siding judge... ...The annual report of the 
Commissioner of Pensions shows 8,227,755 
pensioners on the list, June 20, iut hiding 3,898 
survivors of the war of 1812 and 19,512 widows 
of those who served in that war. There were 
$56,908,000 disbursed during the year, making 
the total amount paid siuce 1861. $670,840 000. 
_In Montreal, diphtheria is increasing 
alarmingly. Typhoid fever also prevails. 
Defective drainage is probably the cause.... 
The Ran Domingo Legislative Assembly has 
adopted a resolution declaring tbut the only 
solution to the present difficulties in the way 
of admitting the produce of the colony free 
into the United States, will be to cede the 
island to America, and memorialize the Brit¬ 
ish Government to permit that 00111*80 . 
The Governor of Arizona, in his annual re¬ 
port, says that he fears violence unless the 
extended immigration of Mormons into the 
Territory, is restrained by law.Sunday 
theatricals are tolerated by law in five of the 
principal cities of the United States. They are 
San Francisco, Cincinnati, SC Louis, New 
Orleans aud Chicago_The President has 
accepted n section of 25 miles of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad in Washington Territory, 
extending southwestwardly from Tacoma to 
a point mar South Prairie, but has directed 
that no patents for the lauds lying along this 
section shall issue until he gives specific or¬ 
ders to thut effect .According to the 
statement of the public debt issued November 
1 , the total debt is $1,851,168,445.49, and the 
amount of cash in the Treasury, $435,003,572.- 
93. The decrease in the debt during October 
was $8,307,192.71; since June 80, $82,890,192.- 
71.The Alabama Legislature has begun 
its session. The Governor’s message depre¬ 
cates a reduction of t he Rtate tax .... A 
Philadelphia advertiser offered ladies and 
gentlemen $2 per 1,000 for addressing wrap¬ 
pers at home, requesting the payment of $1 
by each patron “simply as a guarantee of 
good faith " He was arrested as a fraud. 
The President has appointed Gov. Schuyler 
Crosby, of Montana, to be First Assistant, 
Postmaster-General .The V> ashing ton 
Monument is now 520 feet high; the tallest 
structure iu the world. The President 
has pardoned the defaulting Paymaster, Ma¬ 
jor R. Wasson, who was sentenced to impris¬ 
onment in the Kansas State Penitentiary. 
Incendiary fires have caused a loss of millions 
of feet of lumber at Duluth ..... Atlanta is 
the foremost of Southern citiesin her position 
at the World's Fair at New Orleans. .She will 
erect, a special building for her exhibits, 68 
feet wide and 400 feet long. This will give 
her 35,000 square, feet of floor space, and she 
has an exhibit sufficient, to fill the structure. 
....Judge Welch, of the Circuit Court, has 
just rendered a decision at Carlinville, Ill., 
sustaining the position taken some months 
ago by Judge Phillips, that the directors of a 
broken hank are personally responsible to a 
depositor for deposits made after the bank has 
become insolvent, and when the directors by 
due diligence might have known of such in¬ 
solvency.An old man from New Eng 
laud recently visited the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment at Washington for information regard 
lug some bonds found among the papers of a 
rich uncle. They proved to l>e part of "the 
old debt,” on which Interest ceased in 1836. 
and he was given a check for $70,000 .. At a 
mass meeting on the corn exchange at Mon 
treal resolutions were unanimously pussed 
asking the government to appropriate funds 
for a creditable display by the Dominion at 
the World’s Fair at New Orleans.... A car 
of the fish commission left Washington the 
other day with carp to supply all applicants in 
Ohio, Indiana, aud Michigan .Gold to 
the amount of $1,939,000 was lauded at New 
York during the past week.President 
Arthur has appointed November 27 as ana 
tional day of thanksgiving, and the Governors 
of the Rtat.es have done the same .Maud 
R. made a mile in 3:09# at Lexington, Ky., 
Tuesday, beating her best record, which was 
2:O0J;j . The hydraulic motor that was some 
time ago constructed at the Genesee Falls at 
Rochester, for the purpose of luruishiug 
power to run the city street ears, has been sold 
for $575. It, cost $100,000.The ground 
occupied by the New Orleans Expositiou is 11 
acres more than that occupied by the Cen¬ 
tennial at Philadelphia .Importation of 
rags from France and Southern Europe has 
been suspended by a Treasury order. 
The National Bourd of Health has sent warn¬ 
ings against cholera infection to the Gover¬ 
nors of all the States.At one o’clock 
yesterday morning three cars of a train on 
the lloustou aud Texas Central It. R., at 
Clear Creek, two miles from Hampstead, were 
thrown from a bridge 30 feet high, by u broken 
rail, into the Brazos River. Twelve are 
known to have been killed aud 20 more or less 
severely wounded. Tramps are supposed to 
have wrecked the train. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November 15. 
Iu Irish, English and Scotch affairs, the 
most interesting event during the week has 
been the action of the crofters or small tenant 
farmers of the Island of Skye, one of the Heb 
rides on the west of Scotland. The island has 
an area of 585 tulles aud a population of about 
18,000, is wretchedly poor aud burren, aud 
would not support lite were it not that the 
inhabitants get apart of their living from the 
sea. For generations their landlords have 
put rack rente on the laud, so that the 
wretched tenants have hardly been able to 
keep body and soul together by incessant 
labor. They have felt the pressure of bard 
times like other farmers of late; but, unlike 
others, they have got little or no relief from 
their landlords. At least they have refused 
to pay rent; refused to abandon their homes 
“resolved’’to resist all attempts at coersiou by- 
police or other authorities, aud, in fact, open¬ 
ly rebelled against the hardships of their fate. 
Police and marines have boen sent from the 
mainland to bring them to subjection; but 
the neighboring islanders offer them help; 
they are themselves determined to resist; the 
Home Secretary in distant London says he 
sympathizes with them, and advises the 
landlords to mitigate their misery, and it is 
probable this will be done to some 
extent in a peaceable way. 
The Franchise Bill having passed the Com¬ 
mons, has been read twice in the House of 
Lords; the real struggle will be over the third 
reading; for if it passes then all it will need 
will be the Queen's approval to make it a law. 
The Lords still seem resolved to throw it out; 
or to delay action upon it indefinitely; but 
there is some prospect of a compromise. 
Conflicting reports come from Egypt respect¬ 
ing the condition of Gen. Gordon at Khar¬ 
toum. Some still insist, that the town has 
been captured by tli Mahdi, and that Gordon 
is either dead or a prisoner. Others main¬ 
tain that he bus defeated the False Prophet: 
has provisions for three months more, and 
will be able to hold out until relieved by 
Wolseley. The latter iB at Dougola, and his 
forces are moving south very slowly -- 
.... Cholera has again broken out virulently iu 
France, this time in Paris, first in the slums, 
but it is now spreading to the respectable 
parts of the town. From miduight, to six 
p. m. yesterday there were 17 deaths in the 
city and 31 in the hospitals. There are now 
400 cases in the hospitals; but the cold weather 
to-day and yesterday is exercising u favor¬ 
able influence. Hitherto the death rate has 
been only T one in 36.000, whereas in Toulon it 
has been one in 2,500. Wealthy Parisians, 
however, and American visitors, panic- 
stricken, are quitting the place in crowds. 
Three deaths from cholera occurred yesterday 
at Nantes, three at Oran and one at Toulon. 
A case still occurs now the then here and 
there in Italy and Rpain. Owing to the free 
communication between France and this 
country, it is now thought probable that the 
plague will pay us a visit before long. 
Little or no progress has been made by the 
French in the extreme East. Their garrisons 
in Tonquin are constantly harassed by Chinese 
guerillas; torpedoes iu the rivers embarrass 
the movements of their fleet on its way to 
towns and forts, and whatever point they 
attack is sure to be stoutly defended, while 
there is no w eakening on the part of the Gov¬ 
ernment. Prime Minister Ferry has therefore 
receded from the demand for indemnity, on 
the ground that by the bombardment of Foo- 
Chow and Keelung, the destruction of many 
of the Chinese war vessels, and numerous 
other losses, China has been taught a salutary 
lesson; and thut she will not aguiu attack 
“ Western devils,’’ as she is charged with 
having attached the French at Laug son. Both 
Grout. Britain and the United States havebeen 
asked by the French and Chinese to act as 
mediators; but the request was made at dif 
ferent times; but England is now trying to 
make peace._ _ __ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Noveml>er 15. 
Dillon Bros., of Normal, Ill., at five fairs 
this season have been awarded 54 premiums; 
45 first, and nine second. Seven of the 54 w ere 
sweepstake premiums on their Normans in 
competition with the best stock in the United 
States. The nutnbeg of premiums taken 
speaks volumes for their stock. Horses that 
can carry away the prizes from the Illinois 
and Indiana Rtate Fairs, and the St. Louis 
Fair, should compete successfully at any fair 
in the world. We understand they will 
exhibit their horses at the New Orleans 
World’s Fair duriug the Winter.... 
A savage black stallion kuown as the “ Man- 
eater” threw his owner down in the stall at 
Midland, Ohio, and was gnawing him savage¬ 
ly when a bulldog came to the rescue, and, 
seizing the horse by the nostrils, allowed the 
mau to escape.All the prisoners in a 
Michigan County jail have been poisoned by 
eating cheese.. An order-in Council sus 
pends the cattle quarantine at Point Ed¬ 
ward, Cauada, from one month from date. .... 
While wheat and oats are quoted at 56 cents 
aud 30 cents respectively at Emerson. Mani¬ 
toba, across the lioe at Pembina, Dakota, t he 
figures are 45 cents and 20 cents.A man 
has actually been sent to prison in Nova Sco¬ 
tia for three months for lying in a horse 
trade!.The value of domestic breadstulls 
exported during October was $1,154,000. The 
vulue of the exports for the ten mouths ended 
October 31, is $120,998,000, against $145,125,- 
000 during the corresponding period in 1883.. 
... The final report of the National Cotton 
Exchange issued last Monday at Now Orleaus, 
estimates the cotton cropol the United States 
the current year at 5,726,000 bales. In Texas 
there was a large decx*ease, and iu the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley the crop w as uot quite up to that 
of last season, but the Atlantic States aud 
Alabama show gains to offset the deficiencies. 
The Ran Francisco Chronicle argues at 
leugth to induce California farmers, on ac¬ 
count of the low price of cereals, to go into 
what it calls “meat manufacture” fur the Eng¬ 
lish market.The leading thrashing ma¬ 
chine man in this country is G. W. T. Carter, 
of California. His three “outfits'’ have thrashed 
160,0(H) bushels of wheat this season, and yield¬ 
ed a gross income of $24,000 .The Paris 
bakers, by 341 votes to 204, have declined to 
reduce the price of bread, as recommended by 
the Prefect.Statistics show that in the 
year 1864 there were exported from the small 
Province of Holland 32,000,000 pounds of butter 
and 61,000,000 pounds of cheese, while for the 
year ending June, 1870, there was exported 
from the whole vast territory of the United 
States only 3,039,488 pounds of butter and 47,- 
296.323 pounds of cheese ...The importa¬ 
tion of wool from Australia this year has ex¬ 
ceeded any prior year by about 400 bales. 
.... For the past week the shipments of live 
stock and dressed meats per steamers from 
the port of Boston for the English markets 
were 827 cattle und 1,658 quarters of beef. 
...One cattle company with a capital stock 
of $200,000, and another with $2,500,000 
have been organized by John V. Far well and 
others of Chicago ... The number of hogs 
packed at the principal Western points from 
March 1 to October 31 is 4,050.000. against 3,- 
781,000 for the corresponding time of last year. 
The average weight of hogs received in 
October at Chicago was 241 pounds: in 188;), 
260; 188*2, 235 pounds.The mills of Minn¬ 
eapolis turn out 23,000 barrels of flour per day. 
The millers make profit of $1 per barrel. 
.In the case of the United States Govern¬ 
ment against the Brighton Ranch Company, 
Judge Brewer, of the United Rtates Circuit 
Court, in Nebraska, yesterday rendered a 
decisiou setting forth that the defendants 
hove no right to construct fences upon govern¬ 
ment lands . Another car-load of young 
carp is oti the road from Washington to sup¬ 
ply applicants in the northwestern Rtates and 
Territories. 
Advertising induces but one trial Goods 
must have merit. Thatcher’s Orange Butter 
Color is full of it.— Adv. 
Dcacrvlug of Confidence.— There is uo 
article w hich so richly deserves the entirecou- 
fideuce of the community as Brown’s Bron¬ 
chial Troches. Those suffering from Asth¬ 
matic and Bronchial diseases. Coughs and 
Colds, should try them. Price 25 cents.-Acte. 
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CROPR AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, November 15. 
Tne latest news from Calcutta has assumed 
a much more cheerful tone, and it now hoped 
that the distress, owing to short crops, will 
not be so seri us as at one time anticipated. 
There has been plentiful rain in the Beer- 
bhoo'ii district, where the greatest scarcity 
was feared. The rice, which was supposed 
to have been killed by the long drought, 
revived under the showers, and a fair crop 
will be gathered iu. 
Iu France the official report of the harvest 
returns for the year shows the following 
yield:—Wheat, 111,141,845 hectolitres,against 
108,758,426 hectolitres in 1883; rye. 25,487,587 
hectolitres, against 24,842,602 hectolitres in 
1883; the hectolitre is about 2 5-6 bushels. 
The latest intelligence from the leading fat 
stock markets may be condensed into the fo’- 
lowing brief summaryCattle of decent 
quality are dull at New York and Baltimore, 
steady at Philadelphia, quiet at Kansas City, 
and active at Chicago, St. Louis and Buffalo; 
mcuu stock being dull everywhere. Hogs are 
strong and tending upward in the West, aud 
are quiet and steady everywhere, with a 
rather good feeling. Nheep are fairly active 
at Chicago and one or two other points, but 
are generally weak aud slow. 
The Murk Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the British grain trade, says; “The 
weather the past week was fairly propitious 
for thrashing. The deliveries of grain by 
farmers were liberal in amount. Native 
wheat declined Is. aud 2s. The sales of Eng¬ 
lish wheat duriug the week aggregated t'<3,812 
quarters at 32s, against 67,120 quarters at 40s 
Id for the corresponding week last year. 
Foreign wheat is dragging along with prices 
iu favor of buyers. The downward move¬ 
ment continues, aud it is impossible to predict 
wheu and where it w ill stop. The positon of 
the Dade is without precedent. Free supplies 
are crushing the life out of it. Maize is in 
small supply and prices sustained. A heavy 
drop, however, is expected w hen the immense 
American crop of 1884 gets fairly in motion. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago “regulur” wheat is lJap. lower; 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, lower; No. 2 Red. 
l»ic. lower. Cora,, 3%e. higher. Oats, l%c. 
higher. Hogs. 25 to 40c. lower. Cattle, a 
shade higher. Sheep, 50 to 7oc. lower. 
VViitiii.—Iu good demand, sales ranged; Novem¬ 
ber. .17%® 1 ‘Afce; December, iSqS'iiiS-gc; January. 7% 
<«744*c; May. s|..iKli<,e; No. i Chicago Spring. 72<® 
Ti^c So Sdo, SH(.i,5; Wc No. 2 Ke<1 73t*c* No, 3 do. 
fl-lCons—Un-erUed sales ranged: cash, 
November, l - 444$e: ull rh<- year. S'.m .r iOc; Janu¬ 
ary, UK'^aalc; May. SgtfeSAtf*. Oils i-’irm- sales 
ranged: cash, 26j6$: November. 26a.26S6c: December, 
May, K vc-Dull, at ax-. Bar 
lky— bull, SBtorslyc. PnuK- steaur, sales ranged: 
cask. lor uew: all the year, *11.70 % 11.21. 
Laud Strong; sales ranged; rash. *7.10.?; 1346; No¬ 
vember, »t> IcjiS.U.t* Hogs.—H ough packing,$4. .a 4.1'; 
packing and shipping (L3.ul.65-. llgbt, $1(3,4.50; 
skips. $3.Mho.$4.ifi: murket closed weak- 15,0 0 head 
unsold. Cattle— Export grades, $6.15®C.50 good to 
choice shipping, $5.40<i5.MO; common to fair, #3.90^. 
4.60 Tcxuns, $8.60® 4 '.’.*>. Siikep— Market dull: Inferior 
to lair. SI 7W7.30; medium to good, #:.6p®<3.25; 
choice, $8.50(43.75. 
