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JULY 24 
THE RURAL fSEW-YORKER. 
Sirius .of l!jc TUcch. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 14, 1883. 
As soon as speculators get hold of the trade 
dollars at 85 cents each, and Congress meets, 
the latter will be called upon to provide for 
their redemption at par. Thus the specula¬ 
tors will make a “pile.”.Parnell charges 
that the British Government has. in the last 
two months, shipped 15,000 paupers to this 
country.. Postmaster-General 
Gresham has denied the use of the mails 
to the Louisiana and other lotteries.... 
.The Pennsylvania Senate has passed 
a resolution requesting Congress to make the 
trade dollar a legal tender.Captain 
Jas. F. Fleming, Deputy under Treasurer 
Polk, of Tennessee, has been arrested for 
making false entries amounting to $40,000. 
..The granite shaft which is to mark 
the place where Custer and his men were 
slaughtered has been shipped to Montana. It 
is inscribed with the names of the killed. 
....Chief Engineer Roebling, who built the 
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, has resigned, 
the work being so nearly completed that he 
believes his sendees no longer needed . 
The State Treasurer of Iowa lias paid the last 
dollar of the war debt. The State has no in¬ 
debtedness remaining beyond what the funds 
now in the Treasury will cover.Henry 
Wickes. a venerable lawyer of Albany, N. Y., 
has embezzled about $50,000 of trust funds and 
moneys collected as attorney of Mrs. Cath- 
ariue W. Van Renusselaer. He has fled_ 
_The lottery companies will fight Postmas¬ 
ter Gresham's order forbidding them the use 
of the mails, in the Courts. The New Orleans 
Company receives $100,000 a month through 
the mails.A State delegate convention 
to be composed of temperance workers irre¬ 
spective of party or creed, is called to meet in 
Columbus, Ohio, July 24, “for the purpose of 
organizing a State campaign in a non-partisan 
manner, and for taking such other measures 
as are necessary for carrying the second pro¬ 
posed constitutional amendment.”.Ac¬ 
tive preparations are being made for the 
opening of the National Exposition at Den¬ 
ver, Col.Post Office Department ac¬ 
counts show for the nine months ended March 
31, 1883. an excess of $2,509,442 in receipts 
over expenditures...The tonnage on the 
New York canals for the first week in July 
shows a considerable increase over that for 
the same time last year.A train on the 
Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad fell 
through a bridge 50 feet high. The conduc¬ 
tor was killed and several passengers injured. 
.. Brewster, Attorney-General, will 
sojourn at Long Branch for a while. 
The Post-office Department has issued an order 
that newspapers and periodicals must be 
promptly forwarded in all cases. The prac¬ 
tice of reading them while passing thro’ the 
mails must, be discontinued........ At the Min¬ 
nesota Prohibition Convention a tariff for 
revenue only was tabled by a vote of 
44 to 26. The platform condemns the course 
of both parties on the liquor question, favors 
the enfranchisement of women and the elec¬ 
tion .of all officers by the people when possible. 
The nominations were: For Governor, Chas. 
Evans Holt; for Lieutenant-Governor, Pro¬ 
fessor E. 8. Paine; for Secretary of State, C. 
B. Shove.The Illinois State Auditor has 
turned into the general fund the $72,000 col¬ 
lected under the tax levy during the past year 
for the State National Guard. The regi¬ 
ments incurred indebtedness to this amount 
and the troops are left in a bad plight. 
Mandamus proceedings will be instituted 
to recover the funds. 
The Pennsylvania Republican Convention 
passed from the hands of the bosses on Wed¬ 
nesday and nominated William Livsey, of 
Pittsburg, for State Treasurer, and James B. 
Niles, of Tioga, for Auditor GeneraL The 
platform advocates protection, distribution of 
surplus revenue among the States for educa¬ 
tional purposes, civil service reform, economy 
in all administrations, local and general, and 
condemns the trade dollar, pauper emigra¬ 
tion and democratic legislation in Pennsyl¬ 
vania .The W estem Union Telegraph 
Company has issued an order somewhat 
shortening the hours of work for operators 
and allowing extra pay for Sunday work. 
The men are said to be dissatisfied with their 
pay, and a general strike of all telegraph 
operators all over the country is likely next 
week unless t heir demands are satisfied. 
Over 28 million silver dollars were coined in 
the past fiscal year and stored idly in the 
vaults Of the government. There are now 
over $112,000,000 in silver in the Treasury.... 
.The Uintah Indians, of Utah are 
reported as invading the Shoshone Agency, 
and are to be forthwith ordered back to their 
own reservation.The authorities of 
Quebec officially deny that assisted emigrant 
paupers enter the United States by way of the 
Dominion.In fixe Texas Colored Men’s 
State Convention it was admitted that the race 
receive substantially no benefits from the 
Civil Rights bill.McGeocb, Everingham 
& Co., who recently failed in Chicago, offer to 
settle up at 50 cents on the dollar, but some of 
the creditors can’t see it.In accordance 
with a resolution of Congress directing the 
President to notify the British government of 
the termination of certain articles of the 
treaty of May 8, 1871. relating to the fishery 
question, the British government has been so 
notified and these articles terminate July 2, 
1885... Chief Moses has agreed to snrren- 
der his Reservation in Washington Territory 
and to settle on the neighboring Colville Res¬ 
ervation. This will throw over 2,000,000 acres 
of laud open to settlement.Mr. Orange 
Judd, the publisher, made au assignment for 
his creditors on Thursday, the “ preferences’’ 
amounting to $11,304. The amount of his as¬ 
sets and liabilities is not yet known. For some 
years his connection with the Orange Judd 
Publishing Company has been only nominal.. 
.. The trustees and overseers of Bowdoin Col¬ 
lege, Brunswick, Me., accepted the resignation 
of President Chamberlain, Wednesday, but 
voted to ask him to remain as lecturer on Pol¬ 
itical Economy.The Grand Army wLU 
encamp this year at Denver, Col., beginning 
the 24th and remaining four days. The city 
has a population of 40,000, and the arrival of 
25,000 soldiers will necessitate the building of 
quarters for 15,000 men, the remainder being 
accommodated in the city. The State lias ap¬ 
propriated $25,000 and the Common Council 
adds another $25,000. The Grand Army now 
numbers ISO,000 men.. The Yellowstone 
Park will be formally opened about September 
1, xvhen the hotel will be finished. President 
Arthur will be present, as also Sir John Bose 
and Sir John Pender, of England, other dis¬ 
tinguished persons, and probably’ the party 
which goes to drive the last spike in the 
Northern Pacific Railroad. 
The delegates to the Anti-Monopol.y conven¬ 
tion at Chicago numbered about 325. The fol¬ 
lowing officers were pleated: president, John 
F. Henry, New York; secretary, D. F. Silver, 
Indiana; assistant-secretary, N. B. Killmer. 
New' York: treasurer, Edwin Lee Brown, Il¬ 
linois, and a vice-president from each state... 
...Tremendous forest fires are raging 
south of Kalamo, Oregon. Six miles of rail¬ 
road ami two locomotives were destroyed. 
Oak Point, a logging camp, loses heavily. The 
flames extend for miles and are so fierce that 
it is unsafe to attempt to investigate the losses, 
it is believed the fires will continue until it 
rains..... 
The past week has been memorable for unusu¬ 
ally destructive storms, floods, and hailstorms 
even in a year memorable for its cyclones and 
tornadoes. Parts of Ontario, Canada, Ver¬ 
mont, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Kan¬ 
sas, and Virginia have suffered very severely, 
much damage having been inflicted on crops 
and houses throughout wide districts, and 
quite a large uumber of lives hai’iug been lost, 
especially in Ontario. Often these destructive 
storms occur simultaneously in widely separ¬ 
ated places. On Thursday evening two black 
clouds met over the town of Harrisonburg, 
Virginia, ancl instantly a torrent of rain de¬ 
scended, turning the streets into rivers, swcell¬ 
ing the crops from the neighboring fields, 
drowning pigs ancl chickens, and tearing away 
pavements and bridges. At nearly the same 
hour the country four miles west, of Albany N. 
Y. was pelted w’ith hailstones, which stripped 
orchards of their fruit, and levelled fields of 
grain as if a reaper had passed over them. 
Along with the hail came floods of rain, which 
completed the work of destruction. How is it 
the weather prophets are silent in these stormy 
times?.... 
The internal Revenue Commissioner has issued 
circulars directing all dealers in “ rock and 
rye ” to take out a special license tax of $25 a 
year.A movement for placing ft 
temperance presidential t icket in the field in 
1884 is said to be taking shape in the West, . . 
The greater portion of the philosophical, 
chemical, and astronomical apparatus of the 
celebrated Dr. Joseph Priestl.v, the discoverer 
of oxygen, have been sent by the family of his 
great grandson, the late Dr. Joseph Priestly of 
Northumberland, Pa., to the Smithsonian In¬ 
stitute, and will be prominently displayed in 
the Grand National Museum.The lib¬ 
rary and museum of the Indiana University 
were destroyed by r fire, yesterday: loss, $200,- 
000. 
.Gen. Grook’s captive Indians are to 
be placed entirely under his command on the 
San Carlos Reservation. 
There was one death from yellow’ fever Satur¬ 
day in the harbor at Galveston. Tex. 
Mile. Litta, the operatic pi ima-donna, died at 
Bloomington, Ill., Saturday morning. Her 
true name was Marie von Eisner, 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. July 14, 1883. 
Twenty-two million bushels is the State es¬ 
timate of the Ohio wheat crop. Added to that 
however, is a large surplus .A company’ 
has just been formed in Cincinnati with a 
capital of $250,000 subscribed for starting a 
cattle ranch in Wyoming Territory. 
The English race-horse Galopin has been sold 
to Mr. Chapin, husband of the Dowager Duch¬ 
ess of Montrose, for $40,000.Lorillard’s 
race horses, Iroquois, the winner of the Derby 
and St,. Leger in 1881, together with Aranza 
and Parthenia arrived safely’ on the steamship 
Erin from London on Wednesday.A de¬ 
spatch from Beckonried, Switzerland, says 
that nearly all the. cultivated land in that dis¬ 
trict has been ruined by storms and a laud 
slip..... .The assessors’ retxirns show the de¬ 
crease in the number of swine in Iowa, this 
year from last, to be 180,000, iucrease of 
horses, 20,000, increase of cattle 50,000. 
The Chicago Inter-Ocean publishes crop re¬ 
ports covering a wide area of the AVest and 
Northwest. Their tenor is that, wheat ex¬ 
cepted, the grain crop will equal that of last 
year. AVlieat is about an average, aud the 
harvest of Winter wheat in the lower lati¬ 
tudes is large.The Chicago Fanners’ 
Review publishes an exhaustive report of the 
crops, based on the returns from 1,000 points 
in the AVest aud Northwest. There has been 
a general change for the better during the 
past tw’o weeks. The cessation of the rains 
and the advent of hot, weather during the past 
week have brought forward the late coin and 
Spring wheat. The early Winter wheat crop 
is now going into stack. The Spring wheat 
and oat crops are unusually promising. Both 
are nearly assured. It is believed that the corn 
is rapidly’ coming up to the condition in 1881. 
The following telegrams epitomize the condi* 
tion of the crops in the Northwest. 
Plymouth, Neb., July 12.—The State Board 
of Agriculture make the following estimate of 
the condition of the crops in Nebraska, based 
on returns from all parts of the State: Corn, 
90 per cent: Spring wheat,.96 per cent: rye, 95 
per cent; oats, 100 per cent; barley, 103 per 
cent; flax, 107 per cent. 
Minneapolis, Minn., July 12. — Reports 
from all parts of Dakota show a slight im¬ 
provement in he wheat crop. In the Red 
River Valley a like improvement is noted. .. 
Sprinofield, HI., July’ 12—The report of 
the Illinois Department of Agriculture con¬ 
cerning the prospect for the growing crop of 
corn w’ill be issued in a few days. The reports 
of correspondents show an improvement in all 
portions of the State. The area of the grow¬ 
ing crop is about, 7,600,000 acres. The pros¬ 
pects are encouraging for a crop of 180,000,000 
bushels, as the condition of the crop is rapidly 
improving. The next report is likely to give 
encouragement for about 200,000,(XXI bushels 
as the corn crop of 1883. 
Milwaukee, Wis., July 12.—The leading 
commission men here are in daily receipt, of 
reports on the condition of the crops. The 
latest accounts from AVisconsin on Spring 
wheat cover 82 points. Thirty-one report a 
prospective yield of from 15 to 20 bushels per 
acre; 25 more show an average yield: 11 fair 
to good prospects; 15 more or less damage 
from storms and rust. The wheat generally is 
just heading out. 
From Iowa returns have been received from 
93 points; 49 report a prospective yield of 
from 15 to 20 bushels per acre, 27 more than 
an average yield; 17, the outlook fair to good. 
No damage is reported from any cause- 
Wheat generally is in the milk. 
From Minnesota the reports cover only 28 
points in the southern half of the State, of 
which 16 give a prospective yield of from 12 to 
20 bushels per acre, three more than an 
average yield; and nine prospects fair to good. 
From Dakota the reports are meagre. 
Those from the southern and central portions 
are highly favorable. North and west of 
Fargo serious injury has been sustained from 
di ought,, reducing the hoped for yield by 25 to 
50 per cent. This section comprises one-third 
of the wlieateprodueing area of the Territory 
.The annual meeting of the American 
Forestry Congress will be held at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, commencing on AVednesday, 
August 8th, 1883.Advices from the cat 
tie centers in the Southwest indicate that the 
drive this year will reach 600,000 head against 
350,000, last yeai\..The fourth annual 
session of the American Agricultural Teach¬ 
ers’' Convention was held July fifth and sixth 
at the Ohio State University. The President 
of the Association, Professor Townsend, Pro¬ 
fessors Lazenby, Robinson, and Mendenhall, 
and assistant* Alwood, Devol, Green, and 
Brotlierton of tho Ohio State University re¬ 
ceived and entertained the guests. There 
were present I’rofessor AV. A. Henry, of the 
University of Wisconsin; I. P. Roberts, of 
Cornell, G. E. Morrow, of Illinois Industrial. 
University; E. L. Sturtevant, of the New 
York Experiment Station; F. Johnson, of the 
Michigan Agricultural College; W. C. Latta 
of Purdue University. Among the visitors 
were Messrs, Waldo F. Brown, of Oxford, 
Ohio; S. R. Thompson, of Springfield, J. A. 
Morrow of Delaware and AY. I. Chamberlain 
of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. These 
conventions are held for the purpose of dis¬ 
cussing in an informal way, courses of study’, 
methods of teaching manual labor with a 
view to instruction, the best uses of the col¬ 
lege farms and their equipments, the stand¬ 
ard of entrance examinations; whether the 
professors of agriculture should be called up¬ 
on to perform any’ experiments besides those 
illustrative of the subjects taught in the class¬ 
room , and the means of suppling the most press¬ 
ing wants. These and kindred subjects were 
sandwiched in between walks on the farm, 
inspection of stock barus, elass-ro<mis, libra¬ 
ries, apparatus, lemonade, ice-cream and 
raspberries. The meeting was not only ex¬ 
ceedingly pleasant but profitable. The 
next Convention will be held the last of 
June, 1884 at Cornell University, Ithaca, 
N. Y. The officers for the ensuing year are, 
President, I. P. Roberts, of Cornell; Secretary 
and Treasurer; W. R. Lazenby of Ohio State 
University.Reports from the Pan- 
Handle region of Texas say apprehension is 
felt by the cattle-men over the continued dry 
weather. There is scarcely any water in the 
wells aud the pumps are failing. There are 
thousauds of cattle on the ranges. The grass 
is drying up, though many' weeks of hot 
weather will lie required to affect it seriously. 
Stock is changing hands, the owners of small 
herds selling out to large cattle-owners. 
Kansas has sent the first car-load of Winter 
wheat to Chicago. It inspected No. 2, and 
weighed 59>$‘ pounds to the measured bushel. 
.A cattle-plague has broken out in 
Egypt, killing IX) per cent, of the animals at¬ 
tacked.....Subscriptions amounting to 
$100,000 have been guaranteed in aid of the 
AYorld’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ex¬ 
position at New Orleans next year. The total 
amount wanted is $500,000. 
The matter of sanded cotton again excites 
discussion in the South. The Savaunah Cot¬ 
ton Exchange has investigated complaints, 
and declares that at none of the presses in that 
city have sand and dirt been used as make¬ 
weights. A light soil and a stunted growth 
of plants have contributed to the presence of 
sand where high winds or heavy rains have 
prevailed. Neither Sellers nor buyers have 
discriminated against this inferior grade, and 
consequently the growers have not felt ob¬ 
liged to exercise care in producing a clean 
crop. The remedy proposed is a regulation 
for much lower prices for the sanded cotton. 
Glanders is prevalent in 19 counties of Illinois. 
It is claimed that the State veterinarian can¬ 
not kill the afflicted horses until the Governor 
proclaims the disease epizootic. The owners 
of the horses offer strong opposition to their 
slaughter unless the State pa; s for them in 
whole or in part. 
.Lord Salisbury, who has 
had several important farms near London 
thrown on his hands, now works them him¬ 
self, going twice n week to personally super¬ 
intend all the details of cultivation. 
Sam Hemminger, of Union, Ohio, deemed Dr. 
Horubrook’s bill exorbitant, and. by way of 
retaliation, charged unprecedented prices for 
some farm labor which he had performed. 
One item was $10 for digging a post-hole. 
That was the incitement of a quarrel ending 
in the murder of the physician. 
Washington Territory promises to raise great 
quantities of hops. Sixty farmers in the Pu¬ 
yallup Valley last year raised 1,500,000 pounds 
of the cured article. In King and Pierce Coun¬ 
ties there are 1,700 acres bristling with poles, 
and the business is rapidly increasing. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 14, 1883. 
Id the course of the debate on tho Relief of 
the Distress iu Ireland Bill, Trevelyan said 
accounts of the state of the country were 
hopeful, aud there was no reason to expect 
j exceptional distress.Bismarck, before 
' starting for the country, personally ordered 
that sanitary measures be taken against the 
introduction of cholera into Germany. 
The Malagasy envoys have sailed from Liver¬ 
pool for Madagascar.At Constanti¬ 
nople the Feruch Consul was attacked and 
insulted in the public street.A religious 
riot broke out in Belfast on Monday’. The 
police charged aud dispersed the mob. Some 
of the police were seriously injured.. 
The weather is very hot in Germany—many 
sunstrokes. It is feared the harvest is in¬ 
jured.The British House of Com¬ 
mons rejected by a vote of 130 to 114 tho 
