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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. MAY 43 
Wans of fi)o XUcfii. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 12, 1883. 
Great numbers of new-issue gilded nickels 
are being passed In the interior of Colorado 
among ignorant herdsmen and ranchmen as 
$5 pieces. It. has been held in California that 
passing gilded nickels is counterfeiting, pun¬ 
ishable by imprisonment.Ma jor Phipps, 
who robbed the Philadelphia poor, iu the Poor- 
house, of their scanty rations, and swindled 
the city while Superintendent of the Poor- 
house, about half a year ago, having fled to 
Canada, was extradited al>out a month ago 
and has just been convicted of forgery, for 
which crime be was extradited, and the only 
one, therefore, for which he could be tried 
here.Rev Josiah Henson. Mrs. Stowe’s 
Unele Tom, died May 5 at Dresden, Ontario, 
Canada; ago, 94.In Keokuk, Iowa, 
$300 in advance are required for saloon license; 
$500 next year; only 39 out of 85 saloons have 
paid their $300.Governor Butler 
has asked Secretary Folger to prevent the 
landing of pauper immigrants within the 
limits of Massachusetts. Secretary Folger 
has referred the matter to Secretary Freling- 
huvsen with a view to making protests with 
foreign countries which ship snob people. 
Edison and others have organized an incor¬ 
porated company with a capital of $2,000,000, 
for the introduction of his electrical motor 
for propulsion of mil way trains.The 
New Civil Service rules while under considera¬ 
tion by the President and the Cabinet, were 
given to the public; if it is learnt that this 
was done by one of the Commissioners his res¬ 
ignation will be asked for at once.Five 
cases of leprosy in Chicago.Heavy im¬ 
portations of opium at San Francisco in an¬ 
ticipation of increase of taxation after July 1. 
.Bennett H, Young, president of the 
Louisville, new Albany and Chicago R. R. has 
ordered that so far as possible no work shall 
be done on the Sabbath Day. Only one pass¬ 
enger train—that carrying the mails—will 
be run, and freight trains only for carrying 
perishable goods and live stock. No employ*? 
who has conscientious objections will suffer 
for refusing to work on Sunday.C. 
Lester alia ft E. Letter, 28 New Church St. N. 
Y. City has been black-listed, as a fraud by the 
Post Office.TV. R, Wood, has been ap¬ 
pointed District Judge for Indiana, vice. Wal¬ 
ter O. Gresham, now Postmaster-General- 
..Three of the new cruisers of the navy- 
are to be called Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. 
.The loss by the sinking of the Grappler 
on the Pacific Coast was 72 lives.The 
wife of Senator James G. Fair, of Nevada, sues 
for a divorce and $3,000,000 alimony together 
with the grand family residence, etc., worth 
$1,500,000. Four children, the oldest, a wildish 
youth aged 20.Pennsylvania has passed an 
anti-dynamite-for-illegal-purposes law... .Jef¬ 
ferson P. Kidder has been appointed associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. 
To prevent pauper burial of men who have 
deserved well of the nation Gov. Cleveland, 
of this State, has signed a bill providing that 
Boards of Supervisors of counties shall bury 
deceased soldiers, sailors and marines and 
provide appropirate headstones...... 
The Massachusetts Seuate and House 
have adopted a resolution recognizing the 
ability, services and integrity of Oakes 
Ames and asking a like recognition on the 
part of Congress. In other words, Con¬ 
gress is asked to expunge the censure passed 
on Ames in connection with the credit Mo- 
bilier scandal years ago—a’great triumph for 
his son, the present Lieut Gov. of Mass., who 
has been earnestly working to dear his dead 
father’s reputation.John D. Watson an 
unscrupulous Ohio lobbyist, working in the 
interest of the union railroad organization, 
has been sentenced at Columbus, to a year’s 
imprisonment for attempting to bribe the 
members of the last legislature, and his appeal 
has been over-ruled by the Common Pleas 
Court.Great trouble here about the 
sale of cargoes of tea adulterated with spuri¬ 
ous and exhausted leaves. The late law of 
Congress doesn’t reach all the cases, as many 
of the shipments left China before the law 
was passed. The State law, however, is to be 
enforced in the matter. Where possible the 
Customs authorities will send the stuff back 
or destroy it. The “bogus” tea of the world 
seems to be sent hither now.Among the 
bills of wide interest passed by the late N. Y. 
Legislature were those prohibiting political 
assessments: creating a Civil Service Reform 
Commission ; regulating the observance of the 
Sabbath; creating a Bureau of Labor and 
Statistics; reapportioning the Congressional 
Districts; creating a park at Niagara Falls 
and protecting the Adirondack forests; prohib¬ 
iting the manufacture of hats in the State 
prisons, by which the tax payers will have to 
uffer loss of $100,000„a year; prohibiting 
“baby farming,” and lessening the out¬ 
rageous abuses of the “receivership” system. 
.. Maud S. now weighs 995 and $100,000 
were lately offered for her and refused. 
Congressman W. I). Kellej* of Philadelphia has 
undergone a successful operation to remove a 
large and painful tumor from the “ interior of 
the right side of his mouth.”... .Flemming, the 
Chicago “ blind pool” swihdlev. has at last es 
cai>ed across the line from Canada by the 
trickery of a couple of shyster lawyers and as 
many rascally “detectives.” He got off while 
en route from Toronto to Montreal where those 
he had swindled out of $30,000 were to prose¬ 
cute him.The finest “bench” or dog 
show ever held on this Continent or perhaps in 
any of the others, has been attracting great 
crowds here during the past week.Con¬ 
siderable excitemeut. iu Buffalo, N. Y. over 
the discovery of gold, of all places, on the 
Poor-house farm.,....M. V. Wagner of 
Marshall, Mich., has bought for $8,000 the 
stallion Black Cloud, record 2:17the fast¬ 
est stallion time except Smuggler’s 2:15#.... 
_Monday the Supreme Court after render¬ 
ing decisions in 20 cases, adjourned for the term. 
.In the strike of the Penn, mines 54 
bituminious coal concerns in the western part 
of the State, with $2,500,000 capital, are con¬ 
cerned 5,845; men were employed on whom 
about 20,000 women and children depend. 
Pay-rolls $11,090 a day. Now all live in 
camps on a scanty allowance of coarse food 
provided from a common fund. The mine- 
owners are firm in reducing wages from 3; 
to 3c per bushel of coals. “ Curse the money; 
it is the principle we are fighting for” say the 
miners..Joseph Bork. ox-city treasurer 
of Buffalo, has been sentenced to five years’ 
bard labor in the Auburn State-prison for mis¬ 
appropriation of public funds.,.In the 
Star Route trials Bliss has ended his seven- 
days talk on the Government side and Wilson, 
Brady’s lawyer, has begun to explain and con 
fuse for the defendents.Moody and 
Sankey have come home for a rest—going 
back to England in Oct....Lieut Gov. 
Meyer of Colorado was taken with small-pox 
while visiting his cattle ranch near Los Vegas, 
N. M., Tuesday.Maj. Wasson, the army 
paymaster who said he had been robbed of 
$24,000 on a train near Fort Worth, Tex., con¬ 
fessed at San Antonio, Tuesday, that he 
embezzled the money to cover a deficit of 
$5,500 in his accounts. Wasson is under 
arrest. He has disclosed the hidiug places 
of the remaining $18,500. .. 
Over 10,000 immigrants located on the line of 
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 
April, 4810 making their homes in Minnesota, 
4670 in Dakota and 1033 in Montana. 
.It is expected that the government 
will puy for the fiscal year ending in June a 
trifle over $80,000,000 in jtensions to United 
States soldiers. Since the dose of the war 
$025,790,501.32 have been paid out in pensions. 
.. Some anxiety about Geu. Crook, the 
Indian fighter, iB caused by rumors of his de¬ 
feat by the “hostiles” in Mexico. Mexicans 
report defeat of Indians by themselves. They 
have 1,000 troops against from 100 to 200 In¬ 
dians, and are resolved with Crook to make an 
end of the red devils.. Sitting Bull ar¬ 
rived at Fort Yates, D. T., on Thursday with 
152 men, women and children—going to farm. 
.Governor McDaniel, of Georgia, was 
inaugurated at Atlanta, Thursday.Same 
day the anti-temperance practices of Presi¬ 
dent Arthur were the subject of comment in 
the Pennsylvania Senate. A Constitutional 
Prohibitory Amendment at. the same time 
passed on second reading, by a vote of 21 to 19. 
. .Thursday morning lightning struck a 
tank of petroleum in the yard of the National 
Storage Company across the North River at 
Communipaw, N. J., and the consequent fire 
swept half the yard and destroyed all the 
buildings, six lives lost, and $1,500,000 worth 
of property. The Standard Oil Company, the 
losers, won’t be “burst up” by it, however. 
.The Supreme Court of Boston some¬ 
times renders judgment in divorce cases at the 
rate of ten an hour.Mr. De B. Randolph 
Keim, who was recommended by the Civil 
Service Commission to be Chief Examiner of 
candidates for Government appointments, 
withdrew his name on Thursday, owiug to the 
strong opposition to his appointment. 
The Commission has recommended Charles 
Lyman Chief Clerk of the United States 
Treasurer’s Office, as Chief Examiner in place 
of Mr. Keim, and a commission was conse¬ 
quently issued to him by the President. 
Dodge City, Kan., is in the hands of roughs 
and desperadoes and the Governor has been 
palled on to place it under martial law; so 
said a telegram on Thursday.Another 
on Friday says: “Owing to lawlessness, 23 
policemen were sworn in 10 days ago and have 
been working to rid the town of gamblers and 
other vicious persons. A number were put on 
the cars and cautioned not to come back. Life 
and property safe. Cow-boys not mixed up 
in the affair at all.”. 
Gen. Rtturn, report says, is to get $20,(MX) a 
year from an “Eastern tobacco manufactur¬ 
ing concern” to conduct its business with the 
Iuternal Revenue Bureau, and especially in 
relation to the adjustment of the rebate on the 
tobacco tax. .Gambling apparatus worth 
$5,000 was burnt in the public square at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenu., and 500 gamblers left the city on 
account of the late act making gambling a fel¬ 
ony _The fii*st through ticket from 8t. Paul, 
Minnesota, to Portland, Oregon., over the 
Northern Pacific Railroad, was sold Wednes¬ 
day.Much heart-burning about locating 
the capital of Dakota; one member of the 
Legislature refused a $10,000 bribe; another 
disdained $15,(XX) stock and $5,tXX) cash. That 
syndicate is still resolved, so rumor says, to 
buy up all the land about the capital’s site- 
Direct telephonic conversation was had be¬ 
tween New York and Chicago Wednesday 
over the wires of the Postal Telegraph Corn- 
pan}'. Sentences’ containing several words 
were transmitted, and the voice of the speaker 
at one end of the line w r as distinctly recog¬ 
nized by the receiver at the other. 
Extensive Arrangements 
Have been completed by which we are enabled 
to supply the Compound Oxygen for home use 
to any extent, and to all parts of the country, 
giving at the same time the right of free 
consultation by letter during the time a jm- 
tient may be using the Treatment. Every 
case submitted to us will be carefully con¬ 
sidered. Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, 
its nature, actiou aud results, with reports of 
cases and full information, sent free. Drs. 
Starkey & Palen, 1109 & 1111 Girard Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 12, 1883. 
Official reports from the governments of 
Samara, Simbirsk and Astrakhan state that 
the crops are a total failure and famine is ex¬ 
pected .The annual meeting of the In¬ 
diana Shorhhorn Breeders’ will be held at the 
rooms of the State Board of Agriculture, at 
Indianapolis May 29 and 80. On the two suc¬ 
ceeding days the Indiana Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation will meet at the same place........ 
Col. C. E. Bowman, of Frankfort, Ky., State 
Commissioner of Agriculture, has 250,000 silk¬ 
worm eggs for free distribution, and will have 
750,000 moiv—a gift from the President of the 
American Silk-Growers’ Association, Hon. P. 
Wallace McKiltrick, Memphis, Tenn. Ken¬ 
tuckians wanting silk-worm eggs should apply 
at once. Loan and Building Associa¬ 
tions, like that spoken of by Waldo F. Brown 
in a late Rural, are springing up rapidly in 
the West. On May 5 articles of incorporation 
of two were filed at Indianapolis—the Grant 
Co. B. and L. Ass.; capital stock $1(X),000, 
aud The Citizens’ Building Loan Fund, of 
Danville, Hendrick’s Co., capital stock $500,- 
000.Wheat shipments from San Fran¬ 
cisco in April were the smallest for the last 
three years, showing a decrease of 400,000 
quintals. April flour shipments were 42,800 
barrels, against 9U.600 in April, 1882. 
About 700 tons of manufactured tobacco have 
been shipped from Lynchburg, Va., within a 
week....... The trotting stallion Governor 
Sprague, that, was once sold for $27,500, died 
the other day on the farm of P. P. Todhunter, 
near Lexington, Ky., of pink-eye.A 
proposition has been made in the French As¬ 
sembly that all restrictions on importations 
of American Hog products should lie removed. 
........The editor of the Chicago Stoats 
Zeitung is in favor of retaliating for the Ger¬ 
man embargo on American pork by stopping 
the importation of all goods from Germany. 
As a German, he says it is the German Gov¬ 
ernment not the German jieople, that want the 
embargo.The hosiery manufacturers 
of Germany are reported to be trying to secure 
the removal of the embargo on the American 
Hog; they're afraid of a prohibitory duty on 
their goods here by way of retaliation. 
At. Hieksvillc, O., Simeon Ruppert and James 
Frey, Saturday, were blasting stumps. Rup¬ 
pert threw a file into a basket containing Her¬ 
cules powder and caps. An explosion followed 
R.upport was killed and Frey perhaps fatally 
hurt.Last week 5,000,000 bushels of 
grain left Chicago by water for the East. A 
largo part is consigned to New York by Lake 
and rail, and lake and canal.....The 
American Berkshire Association offers as a 
special prize, at the Fat Stock Show to be 
held at Chicago, next November, a $100 gold 
medal for the liest pure pen of 10 fat Berkshire 
liar rows, on conditions to bo learnt from Phil. 
M. Springer, Secretary, Springfield, Ill. 
Galveston, Texas, has passed Savannah iu 
cotton receipts, and is now second to New 
Orleans only as a cotton port. The receipts, 
this season, are 800,000 hales.The Sicil* 
ian proprietors have petitioned the Italian 
Parliament for “new, speedy and efficient” 
remedies against phylloxera, asserting that 
those hitherto adopted destroyed the vine¬ 
yards without, destroying “the genus of infec¬ 
tion.” In all Italy only 218 acres out of 1,926,- 
832 acres of vines have been invaded by the 
pest.,The Okeechobee Company, of Flor¬ 
ida, on Monday next will launch the largest 
dredge in America, one capable of excavating 
20,000 cubic yards a day. It will be called 
President Arthur, and will cut a canal 65 feet 
wide and 10 feet deep from Lake Kissimmee 
to Lake Okeechobee, the completion of which 
will reclaim 4,000,000 acres of excellent sugar 
land... 
Sixty-one Jersey cattle were sold here Wednes¬ 
day and Tuesday for $32,080. “King of Asli- 
antoo” was sold to C. Rost,hope, of Niles, O., 
for $6,500, the largest sum over paid at auction 
for a Jersey. “Butter-Maker” was bought for 
$1,025 by L. S. Stephens, of Swansea, Mass. 
“Fancy Alphoa” was sold for $1,650 to F. S. 
Cooper, Cooperburg, Pa., “Countess Fawkes” 
for $1,000 to C. East-hope, “Colts La Bicke” 
for $1,900 to Theodore A. Havemoyer, and 
“Starlight Maid” for $1,500 to C. Easthope. 
The “ combination ” sale was continued on 
Thursday and Friday', aud brought a grand 
aggregate of $83,980, or an average of nearly 
$500 on 170 lots..... 
_Sheep shearing is about completed in Tex¬ 
as. The total clip of the State will l>e much 
lighter this year than last.The English 
Government last week announced that it had 
completed the preparation of t he tenant-farm¬ 
ers’ compensation bill This will guarantee* 
to farmer's in England and Scotland compen 
satiou for whatever improvements they may 
make during their tenancies, aud provides for 
arbitration to settle disputes between the 
farmers and landlords as to the proper amounts 
of compensation.Owing to the cold 
nights last week many of the Now England 
maple-sugar men put out their tubs again, and 
“nearly as much w r as made in six days as in 
three weeks before.” Tub sugar sells for 15 
cents, while good cake commands 20 cents per 
pound in Frankliu County, Mass. 
A dispatch from the Loudon statistical agent 
of the Department of Agriculture under date 
of April 28, reports an improvement in Eu¬ 
ropean wheat prospects during the last month. 
The severity of March was followed by three 
weeks of Ary weather, which was succeeded 
by one week of invigorating raiu. The sea¬ 
son is still backward and higher temperature 
is needed. The small area of Spring wheat 
sown in England is thin, and much of it will 
be displaced by barley. In France and Ger¬ 
many raiu is needed aud higher temperature 
necessary. With reduced acreage iu Western 
Europe and some injury from freezing in 
March, a reduced crop appears to he inevit¬ 
able. In Austria-Hungary the prospect is 
favorable for at least a medium crop. 
Returns of the progress of cotton-planting to 
the Agricultural Department show that the 
work is later than usual in every State, and 
indicate that on May 1.74 per cent, of the 
proposed area was planted, when the usual 
proportion is said to be 84 per cent. In Vir¬ 
ginia aud North Carolina it was very late. 
The percentages planted w r ere: Virginia, 15; 
North Carolina, 35; South Carolina, 75; 
Georgia, 73; Florida, 96; Alabama, 83; Mis¬ 
sissippi, 82; Louisiana, 81; Texas, 75; Ar¬ 
kansas, 72; Tennessee, 67. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday May 12, 1883. 
In the great International Fisheries Exhibi¬ 
tion at London, the American exhibits exceed 
those of the whole of Europe.General 
Diaz was enthusiastically received iu the city 
of Mexico on May 4, on his return from this 
country.The French repulse an attack 
of Chinese in the capital of Tonquin, and are 
to establish a “protectorate” there. 
It is claimed that the enrolled membership of 
the Fenian organization in Great Britain is 
150,000.It is reported that the object of 
the alliance between Germany, Austria and 
Italy is to secure the isolation of France iu 
order to effect a simultaneous disarmament, 
which Prince Bismarck intends to propose at 
a European Congress. Bosh [.The 
British House of^Commous adjourned on the 
10th until the 21st, and the House of Lords on 
the 18t.h to the 34th inst.Earthquake iu 
Sicily; Mount Etna alarmingly active volcan¬ 
ically.Shah of Persia seriously ill- 
_Ex-Khedive Ismail sues the Egyptian 
Government for restitution of his confiscated 
palace and for 4,000,000 francs a year back 
rental.False Prophet., through his emis¬ 
saries, trying to cause un uprising among the 
discontented Fellaheen.Halifax, N. S., 
has been thrown into alarm by rumor of a 
visit from two “suspicious American vessels’ 
—Fenian dynamiters or torpedoes. 
The late defeat, of the Affirmation Bill intro¬ 
duced into Parliament by Gladstone, which 
would have substituted “affirmation” for the 
usual oath taken by new members of Parlia¬ 
ment before they can take their seats, Is 
thought to have inflicted a severe blow on the 
Liberal Administration.Arthur Sulli¬ 
van, musical composer of “Pinafore,” “Pirates 
of Penzance,” etc., born in 1842; George 
