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THE RURAL WEW-YORSCER 
“Mems of %e Wak. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 11.1883. 
Notices have been posted in Bledsoe Co., 
Tenn., notifying a number of prominent citi¬ 
zens to leave or they will be murdered and 
their houses burned. The parties threatened 
are witnesses against the moonshiners. 
Returns from 70 of 88 counties in Ohio show 
that the Scott liquor law has realized in taxes 
$1,494,200, and has closed 1,019 saloons. 
Bush tires have spread over a large part of 
British Columbia. There has been no rain for 
three months.A great meeting of 
Knights Templa rs to be held at San Francisco. 
“Sir Knights” flocking thither from all quar¬ 
ters.. . .Reports from 25 principal offices show 
an increase iu the sale of postage stamps and 
cards, of over 232,000 during the past quarter, 
over the corrasjKiuding quarter last year, 
which is about four per cent less than the 
usual iucrease. This is in Anew of the reduc¬ 
tion in postage in October, people who buy 
heavily having determined to wait for lower 
rates.Legal proceedings have been 
taken to compel ex-Governor Newell, of N#w 
Jersey, to account for an estate of which he 
was executor. An attempt was made to serve 
papers on him while in Trenton recently, but 
he escaped to Washington Territory, where he 
has been appointed Governor.Monday 
evening in this city, at Madison Square Gar¬ 
den (a large building covering nearly a block) 
Sullivan, the fatuous Boston slogger, “knocked 
out” Slade, the Maori slugger, after about 
nine minutes’ fierce fighting with soft gloves. 
The entrauee fee was $1 and $2 according to 
location, and $25 for boxes. Sullivan got two 
thirds of the net proceeds and Slade one-third. 
The former’s share was about, 811,000, that of 
the latte* $5,000 or thereabouts. Mace, the 
old champion, who brought hither the Maori, 
says he will challenge Sullivan after the Slade- 
Mitchell fight to a soft glove contest. Slade 
says he was fairly beaten by Sullivan, but 
will meet him again. Betting is even on the 
Slade-Mitchell fight, which comes off near 
Kansas City. September 11. Rvan will prob- 
abiv meet Sullivan at the Madison Square 
Garden, about, the middle of Septemljcr. 
Mitchell, an Englishman who came here to 
stand no against Sullivan was “knocked out” 
by the redoubtable Bostonian a couple of 
months ago. Rvan, now a Chicago rumseller, 
was whipped in the ring by Sullivan near New 
Orleans about a year ago.Several 
prominent Fnstern railroad men are in St. 
Louis, in consultation for the purpose of per¬ 
fecting the eonneetion of the Vanderbilt sys¬ 
tem with St. Louis and the West .The 
election in the Cherokee Nation Tuesday, re¬ 
sulted in the re-election of Principal Chief 
Dennis Bushvhead. The national candidates 
of the opposition or Union Part.v carried the 
legislature.Parties digging weeds, 
west of Yates Center, Kan., struck a large 
vein of silver. Several shafts are being sunk. 
.The Treasury Department, is preparing 
plans for silver vaults, to accommodate the 
excessive accumulation of silver dollars. 
The ratio of suicides in the great cities for every 
million inhabitants averages yearly as follow’s: 
Naples, 34: Rome, 74: l*ondon, 37: Genoa, 
135; New York, 144: Berlin. 170: Florence, 
180; St. Petersburg, 200; Dresden. 240; Brus¬ 
sels. 271: Vienna. 287; Copenhagen, 302; 
Stockholm, 354: Paris, 402. 
The coopers’ strike, in St. Louis ended Mon¬ 
day. All the shops acceded to the demands 
of the men,’and flu strikers resumed w-ork... 
— The first woman to arrive in Carbonate, 
Col., received an ovation, marked by such 
substantial tokens of welcome as a town lot, 
a minimr claim, and the money with which to 
buy a silk dress.... The total valuation of 
Boston, on Ma y 1. 1883. as shown by the Assrs- 
or’s report,, w-as 8082.339.500, a gain over last 
year of *9.871,600. The train w as wholly on 
real estate, therebeing'a loss on personal pro¬ 
perty of $827,100. The rate of taxation de¬ 
clared is *14.50 per $1,000, a reduction of 00 
cents from last vear.... Advance sheets of the 
State Treasurer’s annual report show the en¬ 
tire debt of Vermont to be *175 000, of which 
$135,000 is bonded. The receipts for the vear 
were $583,000, and the disbursements $532,070. 
_ Here are some curiosities of current 
suicides, lone- accounts of which Oil the Dailies: 
Magnidev Pilled himself in Maryland because 
of grief for his first wife, though he bad 
taken a second and entirely w orthy one Marks 
drowned himself in a Kansas millpond, the 
dam for wfiiich he had just built, as the water 
proved insufficient to turn the wheel, Jennie 
Roberts, of Pennsylvania, flung herself into 
a stream after being refused parental per¬ 
mission to go to a ball. Picketts, a member 
of the Texas bar, bad no desire to live when 
he had lost a case and been berated by the 
client. Mrs. Jones, of Maryland, took lauda¬ 
num because she could not take money from 
her husband’s cash drawer. Atkinson, of 
California, mentally staked his life on bis 
horse, and forfeited on the conclusion of the 
race.The reunion of Confederate 
soldiers at McKinney, Tex., Tuesday, was at¬ 
tended by 40,000 people. Speeches w ere made 
by General Cabell, ex-Governor Throckmor¬ 
ton, Governor Ireland, General M. Lewis, ex- 
Governor Hubbard, Colonel Bowen and Con¬ 
gressman Welborn. The tenor of Governor 
Ireland’s speech, which was a fair sample of 
most of the others, w r as that the Confederates 
had no excuse to make for the part taken in 
the late contest, but should forget the political 
strife which led to the war, and teach their 
children that we are all Americans.. .The re¬ 
union of tho Union and Confederate survivors 
of the battle of Wilson’s Creek began at 
Sgringfield, Mo., Wednesday, with 8,000 peo¬ 
ple present. Governor Phelps made a speech 
of welcome, the monument to General Lyon 
w r as unveiled and a competitive drill was held. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 11, 1883. 
Advices from 80 points in the Texas cotton 
belt report that cotton is suffering from the 
drought. From 30 points it is estimated that 
half of the usual crop will be made. From 
50 points the crop is placed at two-thirds the 
usual amount, Cotton worms are doing much 
damage. There will lie a full crop of early 
corn. Late corn is a total failure in some sec¬ 
tions.The Galveston, Tex.. News re¬ 
ports that the cotton crop shows a yield re 
duced from 20 to 25per cent, as compared with 
the condition a year ago.The number 
of acres of public land entered in Dakota, 
Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis¬ 
sissippi, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington Ter. 
and Wisconsin, during the year ended June 30, 
shows an increase of 3.505,000 over the number 
entered during the preceding fiscal year. The 
cash sales increased 128 per cent., Dakota 
leading.In Atlantic Highlands, N. J., 
Richard Canary died from injuries inflicted 
by an infuriated Holstein bull (a splendid beast) 
which he was driving into the barn last 
Saturday .......The London Times, in re¬ 
viewing the harvest prospects in England, es¬ 
timates that wdieat and barley will be below 
the average crop. Mi*. H. F. Moore reports 
that the yield of wheat will be 8}$ per cent. 
below’ the standard average per acre, and that 
of barley 0 per cent, below’ the average. The 
yield of oats, he says, will be six per cent, 
above the average, and that of potatoes 30 
per cent, above.Polk County Florida, 
will market 5,000,000 oranges next year,...... 
According to the figures of the State Board 
of Agriculture, the value of the crops raised 
in Illinois last year was $284,125,995; that of 
animal products, including wool and dairy 
products, $83,900,285.A new disease has 
attacked cattle in the State Of Sinaloa, Mex¬ 
ico, and hundreds are dying off daily. 
The Texas fever has broken out. in Dodge City, 
Kansas, among native cattle, and they are 
dying off in great numbers.Tho Italian 
Government. Commission, sent to Surdinia to 
study’ the phylloxera, is of opinion that the 
iuseet has existed there for years. The vine¬ 
yard proprietors are discouraged.An 
Alabama watermelon shows a perfect map of 
America, and the people there prefer to lie 
lieve that it grew' in thut way without human 
help...The Dutch authorities iu Java 
have invited Dr. Vauder Hcydou to try there 
the system he has employed in Japan to check 
the cattle disease. His process consists in the 
injection into the veins of iodiutn, in the pro¬ 
portion of 0.804 to 0.1152 grain per pound 
weight of the animal. He claims that it kills 
all living organisms in the body... There 
are few years iu which locusts or grasshop¬ 
pers do not make their appearance in the 
southern part of Russia. One first observes 
in the horizon a black cloud, agitated by a 
peculiar internal movement. Then it appears 
directly above you, and the rain of the large 
and heavy inser ts is so violent that the best 
thing you can do is to take to your heels. The 
peasantry believe that these pests are sent by 
God as the messengers of His wrath, and they 
are, therefore, too much inclined to bow down 
before the scourge, and to let. what they be¬ 
lieve to be the justice of God pass by. Iu 
some districts thoy simply unite in prayer; 
and the images of saints are placed iu the path 
of the locusts, just os w as doue recently in 
St. Peteifiburg. when the holy statues were 
placed in front of the great conflagration. 
But this year the infliction is so terrible that, 
the peasantry have taken reasonable measures 
to check it. Men, women and children are 
busy killing the pests. The insects are crushed, 
burned .trodden upon systematically by trained 
horses, and great ditches are dug in which the 
enemy is heaped up.....The army- 
worm has appeared in different parts of New 
Jersey, and is doing great damage. 
Don’t forget that the next meeting of the 
American Bornological Society will be held in 
Philadelphia, Sept. 12. The venerable Pres¬ 
ident, Marshall P. Wilder, expects to attend. 
.President Abbott, of tho Michigan 
Agricultural College, states that not less than 
50 per cent, of the graduates of that institu¬ 
tion adopt farming or some kindred occupa¬ 
tion as their calling, and that of those who 
spend but. a year or two at. the colleges, a very 
much larger number return to the farm. 
... .It is now known that, the hot north wdnds 
of June did more damage to wheat in Cali¬ 
fornia than was at the time supposed. The 
Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 
lias just issued figures putting the w heat acre¬ 
age of tho present year at 2,000,000 acres. 
Notwithstanding the increase of acreage over 
that of last year, he estimates the crop w ill be 
20 per cent, less than last 3 ’car. Tho best 
grain authorities at San Francisco unhesita¬ 
tingly pronounce the Secretary's estimate en¬ 
tirely wrong. They say he is a notoriously 
low r estimator, but admit that the crop will 
probably be 20 per cent, less than the quan¬ 
tity estimated prior to Juue 1, which 
was 1,000,000 tons.. 
The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 
of Agriculture lately made an auction sale of 
imported sheep at Framingham, The follow¬ 
ing prices were obtained:—South Down ram s 
sold at from $15 to $30 each, aud ew’es from 
$10 to $20. Cotswolds sold at. higher figures. 
Shropshire rams went as high as $50, and 
ewes of the same breed brought $80. Oxford 
Downs sold at tho same rates, while Hamp- 
shires ran as high as $75 for rams, and $25 for 
ewes.A cablegram yesterday, says: 
“ Lord Cnrliugford, Lord Preisdont of the 
Council aud Minister of Agriculture, to-day 
gave audiences to a deputation which asked 
for a further restriction of the importation of 
cattle. Lord Carlingford replied to them that 
the government was exerting the strictest 
vigilance to prevent the introduction of con¬ 
tagious diseases among cattle, and that there 
was not tho slightest evidence of the recent in¬ 
troduction of such diseases from a foreign 
country”.The death of Mr. Henry B. 
Ellwnuger, sou of the senior partner of the 
firm of Ellwauger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.> 
is a matter of general regret in that city, where 
he was well-known as an accomplished flori¬ 
culturist, aud will be widely regretted 
throughout the country. Not long ago he 
published an excellent book on the Rose, nnd 
an article on the same flower written by him 
appeared in The Century for July We 
also have an article contributed by him to 
our Fair Number to be issued iu a few days.... 
At the Forestry l 'engross held on August 8. ut 
St. Paul, Minnesota, the following officers for 
the coming year, were elected:—President— 
George B. Loring, Massachusetts; Vice-Presi¬ 
dents— H. G. Jolly, Quebec, and George L. 
Becker, St. Paul. Recording Secretary—N. 
H. Eggleston, Washington. Corresponding 
Secretary — B. E. Fcrnon, Pennsylvania. 
Treasurer—Chas. Mohr, Alabama. Executive 
Committee—B. G. Northrup, Connecticut; 
Marian Higbv, Ohio; J G. Knapp, Florida; 
J. S. Hicks, New’ York, and J. L. Budd, Town, 
A resolution was adopted asking tho Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture to call during tho Win¬ 
ter a meeting at Washington of all associations 
aud institutions devoted to the interests of 
forestry... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday Aug. 11, 1883. 
Reports from Australia state that the 
cholera, small-pox and measles prevail at the 
Fiji Islands_New Zealand wants to annex 
the Navigator Islands, w’hero the American 
Government has a coaling station, and with 
which a treaty has been ratified.Bitter 
animosity is still displayed against Jews in 
Germany, Russia, Koumania aud Hungary, 
often breaking out iu deeds of rapine, mal¬ 
treatment aud murder. Just How this feeling 
is most intense in Hungary and Russia. 
Recently riots of great violence have occured 
in both countries in w hich the persecuted 
ruee has suffered much. At Elkatzerinoslav, 
Russia, on August 3, n mob attacked the Jew¬ 
ish quarter and destroyed many houses and 
liquor stores lielonging to the Jews. It is now 
reported that 190 persons were killed or 
wounded during the rioting in the town. 
Similar reports come nearly every week. Tho 
Jews are constantly protesting, of course; but 
they do not seem u bit inclined to drop the al¬ 
leged rapacious, usurious habits to which the 
detestation of them is said to be chiefly due.. 
........ There are now in England und Wales 
betw’cen 300,000 and 400,000 w omen who pos¬ 
sess the franchise—that is to say, one women 
to every seven men. More than 108,000 women 
possess, us householders, the municipal fran¬ 
chise. The number of women landowners in 
England und Wales is 37,800. 
The Duke of Connaught, better know n iu this 
country as Prince Arthur, recently acted as a 
bartender at a charity entertainment, and sold 
mixed drinks to distinguished driukers at high 
prices.Lord Randolph Churchill’s fi¬ 
nancial position will not be altered by the 
death of tl.o Duke of Marlborough. Although 
residuary legatee to the personal estate, which 
amounts to about £250,000, the Dowager Duch¬ 
ess has a life interest iu it.Prince Bis- 
mavk has become suspicious and crabbed iu 
his disposition to a degree that makes it im¬ 
possible for any public official but the most 
obsequious to serve under him. It is said that 
the Crown Prince of Germany, while apprecia¬ 
ting fully the great work which Bismarck has 
done for his country, lias very little sympathy 
for liis domestic policy, and hence, upon his ac¬ 
cession to the throne, will have no scruples in 
disobeying them.M. Charles Brim, 
Minister of Marine in tho French Cabinet, has 
tendered his resignation iu consequence of ill 
health .Baron von Manteuffel, Govern¬ 
or General of Alsace-Lorraine. 1ms forbidden 
the publication of a newspaper projected at 
Mete by Deputy Autoiue, a member of the 
Protest party.... A firm of vinegar makers 
in London entertained 100 men at dinner in 
their 53,000-gallon vat.The fact comes 
out that the greater part of the Duchess of 
Edinburgh’s trousseau was sold a few years 
ago as “the property of a lady of rank.” 
When the daughter of tire Czar married the 
son of Victoria she got an enormous lot of 
clothes as presents, ami her thrifty husband, 
Prince Arthur probably wished to pocket all of 
them she wasn't likely to wear .The di¬ 
vorced Senator Fair, of California, now 
abroad, is down for another marriage. The 
bride is to be the daughter of Prof. Dare, a 
London expert in telegraphy.In the 
House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Gladstone 
read extracts from a private letter from Egypt 
stating t hat the reorganizat ion of the Egyptian 
army under Lord Dufferin’s plan is about 
completed, The reorganizat ion of the judici¬ 
ary and police is slowly advancing. The plans 
for the irrigation of the delta of the Nile have 
been published and are favorably regarded. 
England does not intend to occupy Egypt per¬ 
manently. According to the latest cablegrams 
the cholera is abating, and a larger projjortion 
of cases survive. Deaths last week were over 
a 1,000, however. ... 
Tn Spain some colonels and lower officers with 
a regiment or so of soldiers have revolted at 
Badajoz and proclaimed a “Republic.” They 
have been promptly suppressed by troops from 
Madrid, after they had seized upon tho public 
money and other public property. Consider¬ 
able “ferment” is working in the country, es¬ 
pecially in the northern, or Basque, provinces 
and in Catalonia and Estramadura, in favor 
of Don Carlos in the first, aud of a Republic in 
the latter two. Small bodies of troops have 
revolted and been joined by insurgent civil¬ 
ians, but the movement, at present, doesn't look 
more than one of the periodical Iberian dis¬ 
turbances. The Cornpte de Chmubord 
had another relapse, but is now improving.... 
....Several other Irish “informers” are said 
to have met the fate of Carey. Kavanagh, 
Joseph Hanlon, Joseph Smith and other “in¬ 
formers” were shipped secretly to Melbourne 
on the steamer Pashan; but on their arrival 
the authorit ies refused to let them land, as 
there was a “plot” to kill them. They have 
been taken to Sydney, where they have been 
transferred to the iron clad Nelson. 
Cotcwayo is said to he still alive, but sorely 
wounded. His brothers, wives, most of his 
children nnd nearly all his chiefs, however, 
are as dead as Nebuchadnezzar,.Keene’s 
colt “Blue Grass” won in the race for three- 
year-olds at Goodwood, Eng., last week . 
The trial of the 10 Jews at Nyireghyhazn, 
Hungary, who were charged with murdering 
Esther Solvmosi, a Christian girl, iu the syna¬ 
gogue at Tisza Esslnr, in order to procure her 
lilood to mix in the Passover bread, has re¬ 
sulted tn a verdict of not guilty, and the State 
was ordered to pay the costs of the trial. Tho 
principal witness against them, a boy about 
14 years old, son of one of tho accused, has 
confessed that he bore false testimony. 
Floods in Egypt ure feared, owing to the un¬ 
usual rapid rise of the Nile. 
The French “are waiting for cooler weather 5 
before whipping the Aiummites under their 
new king—or trying to whip ’em. Meanwhile 
they are trying to force China to “show its 
hand.” The Chinese, however, have with¬ 
drawn from the Touquln frontier, while 
strongly garrisoning adjacent strongholds 
They are playing a wait ing game; but while 
they lose little, tho French are put to 
much anxiety and expense. The organization 
of the Chinese army has undergone radical 
changes during ten years. The old army of 
eight “banners” has almost entirely disap¬ 
peared. Li Kung Tchaug, Governor of 
Tehili, organized an army of 70,000 men i 
whom he equipped with breech-loaders aud 
Held guns; Tso Touug Fang, Governor of 
Kansu, similarly armed 40,000, This led to a 
general reformation of troops throughout th e 
empire. There are now three well disciplined 
armies of 00,000 men each, one in the vicinit,. 
