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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Wots of tf}£ XUak. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. Aug. 18,1883. 
A case of yellow fever has appeared in the 
Pensacola Navy Yard.Eight men, 
charged in Banks county, Ga., with ku-klux 
outrages flpon colored people, have been held 
in the United States Court.The semi¬ 
annual reports of the savings banks of this 
city show a large increase in resources, in the 
amounts due to depositors and in the surplus. 
..Judge Jeremiah Black bas been dan¬ 
gerously sick, but is reported to be getting 
better .Commodore William Bradford 
Whiting, of Milwaukee, one of the vice-presi¬ 
dents of the Bradford Union Association, or¬ 
ganized at Cleveland in May by the lineal de¬ 
scendants of Governor Wm. Bradford, for the 
purpose of obtaining their shares of their de¬ 
ceased ancestor's estate, estimated at *122,000,- 
000, has withdrawn from the association, and 
gives as his excuse that the president of the 
association is guilty of duplicity, aud has re¬ 
cently made statements contradictory to those 
he made in May. The Commodore thinks the 
actions of the association are unclean, and that 
many honorable people are being misled. 
The Canadian authorities have warned Capt. 
Rhodes that he will not be permitted to enter 
the water from the Canadian side to attempt 
to swim the whirlpool rapids iu the Niagara 
River. Rhodes intends to wear a cork jacket 
and helmet, and with these advantages he ex¬ 
pects to do what Webb failed to accomplish. 
.A physician said that leprosy was a 
comparatively common disease among the 
Norwegian settlers of Northwestern Wiscon¬ 
sin. and the statement was widely copied. The 
Milwaukee Sentinel has been unable to find a 
case in the State after a protracted search. 
.Disastrous fire at Vineyard Haven, 
Mass.The United States boundary 
party are now at work in the Colorado desert, 
the most dangerous part of the expedition. 
The present camp meeting at Lancaster, 
Ohio, is said to be the largest ever lield in the 
West.The National Society of Turn 
Teachers commenced its annual session in 
Milwaukee on Saturday night; the meetings 
continued during the past week.The 
Georgia House Wednesday passed a bill ap¬ 
propriating *1,000,000 for the building of a 
new Capitol. It will take five or six yeai-s to 
complete the work.Returns to the 
Railroad Commissioner show that during the 
six months ended August 1st, 100 persons 
were killed and 401 injured on the railroads ; 
of New York State.The prohibition | 
canvass in Ohio is expected to carry from j 
6,000 to 20,000 votes, while the vote for the I 
prohibitory amendment is variously estimated 
at from 150,000 to 350,000 votes. Mi's. Wood- 
bridge, President of the Woman’s Cliristian 
Temperance Union, says: ‘‘We now have 
more than twenty speakers in the State., and 
there are more demands for them than they 
can answer.Explorations of a recently 
discovered cave at the base of Lookout 
Mountain iu Tennessee opening at low water 
on the edge of the Tennessee River,three miles 
from Chattanooga, have developed a wonder¬ 
ful cave of unknown depth. At the extreme 
point of exploration a very large lake was en¬ 
countered into which a fall 160 feet high 
poured its waters with a noise like thunder. 
Many other interesting phenomena were dis¬ 
covered___Hanlan maintained his title j 
to the championship of the world by winning 
the professional race in the Watkins (N. Y.) 
regatta Wednesday in 21m. 9s., with Hosruer 
second and Ross third. There were 5,000 peo¬ 
ple in attendance when the rowing began. 
In the vicinity of Rich Hill, Mo., there is 
great excitement over the discovery of oil. It 
is given out that the best grade of petroleum 
is there in abundance. Old oil mpn are taking 
up the country, aud land is being bought at 
fabulous prices. Thousands of acres are being 
leased and options oaken for thousands of 
acres more, and many large and small tracts 
have been purchased at from *50 to *100 per 
acre that a month ago could have been bought 
for from *20 to *40. Several gas wells have 
been found and more oil wells. Oil rock 
abounds over a considerable territory and the 
extension is unknown. The number of wells 
under contracts continues increasing aud ma¬ 
chinery is being shipped from Chicago and 
Pennsylvania.The great Kimball House 
at Atlanta, Ga., was burned Sunday. None 
of the 300 guests were injured. The insurance 
outlie house and furniture, worth nearly $1,- 
000,000, is only *80,000 because of the high 
rate of insurance charged.It is reported 
that a powerful secret organization has been 
formed for the colonization of negroes in 
South Carolina and elsewhere in the South 
where negroes already predominate.P' 
Dayton, Ohio, General Patrick, .Governor ti 
the Soldiers’ Home, yesterday week sent away 
78 inmates, all cripples, denouncing them iu 
various ways. It is reported that others will 
be driven out in the same way. This was the 
second occurrence of the sort within a week. 
.A bill to create the office of Lieutenant 
Governor is now before the Legislature of 
Georgia. The recent death of Governor Alex. 
H. Stephens in office brought up the necessity 
for such an officer to fill the remainder of the 
term without the cost and disturbance of a 
special election.A. McGinnis, an ex¬ 
plorer just returned from Itasca County, Min¬ 
nesota, reports small-pox making terrible 
work among Indians in that county. He re¬ 
lates fearful stories of suffering and privations. 
They are entirely w ithout medical aid, and 
the disease has full sway. Iu two small towns 
85 deaths are reported...A correspondent 
of the W ilmiugfcon News, writing from Smyr¬ 
na, Del., says that he counted 70 tramps lying 
on the banks of a stream near that town on 
Monday, and that they are daily becoming 
more insolent and only venture out on begging 
tours when the men are supposed to be at 
work. Twenty-eight were arrested at Clayton 
on Tuesday aud taken to Dover jail, where 
there are now confined 64 tramps. 
The pests are swarming everywhere except in 
places where the anti-tramp laws frighten 
them off....The Bureau of Statistics of 
the Treasury Department reports that, iu July 
there arrived in the Customs districts of Balti¬ 
more, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, 
New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy, 
Philadelphia and S*n Francisco. 56,278 pas¬ 
sengers, of whom 46.220 were immigrants. 
Of this total uumber of immigrants there ar¬ 
rived from England aud Wales, 7,574: Ireland, 
5,288; Scotland, 1,950; Austria, 1.210; Belgium, 
219: Bohemia, 733; Denmark, 1,244: France, 
187; Germany. 13,203: Hungary, 657; Italy, 
859; Netherlands, 241; Norway. 2,443; Russia, 
927; Poland, 169; Sweden. 3,253: Switzerland. 
613; Dominion of Canada. 4,383; and from all 
other countries, 1.067. In July, 1882, the total 
number of arrivals iu these districts was 65,- 
010, showing a decrease in 1883 of 18,790. 
The receipts of taxes on tobacco, cigars, etc,, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, show a fall¬ 
ing off of *5,287,000 compared with last year. 
This is said to be due to a reduction of taxes 
which went into effect May 1st. The aggre¬ 
gate tobacco revenue for the year was *42,- 
104,000..The total number of immigrants 
who arrived in the Dominion of Canada for 
the present year up to July 31. was 121.019, au 
increase of 7,000 as compared with the cor¬ 
responding period last year.A Chau¬ 
tauqua lecturer says we have a million of 
voters who cannot read their ballots. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Vermont sheep-breeders have begun to reap 
a reward for thoir skill and care iu breeding 
the Spanish Merino. A flock of 173 sheep, 
which were selected from the flocks of differ¬ 
ent breeders in Vermont, are en route for Mr 
John Hay, of Australia, who already owns 
92,000 sheep on his two ranches in that, country. 
These sheep brought the breeders the handsome 
sum of *30.000. Four of the rams cost, *2,000 
each. As the freight from Vermont to .San 
Francisco was *3,000, and the steamer charge 
from there to Australia Is *15 per head, these 
sheep will cost, *35,595 when they reach the 
importer .The “boss” fleece of 1883, at 
least, is that taken from “Woolly,” a Califor¬ 
nia ram owned by Hutton Bros., of Los An¬ 
geles. It is fourteen months’ growth and 
weighs 02?J pounds. “Woolly” 'is a pure- 
blood French Merino directly from stock 
of the Ramliouillet farm of Franco, im¬ 
ported in 1869 by J. D. Patterson. In Vir¬ 
ginia they are making flour of peanuts, and it 
is praised. It is customary in Georgia to 
pound the nuts for a pastry.New Glarus 
is a Swiss settlement iu Wisconsin. It was 
founded in 1845 by 108 persons, and now lias 
4,000, who hold fast their integrity iu race, 
language aud customs. The original purchase 
consisted of two square miles. At the outset 
notice was given in their Switzerland home 
that every man who made his way to the col¬ 
ony should have a farm of 22 acres rent free 
for ten years and tbeu absolute ownership nl, 
*2.50 an acre.Heavy losses of cattle, 
which have died for want, of water, have been 
reported in the southern and the southeastern 
ranges in Texas..... .The Mark brine Express, 
in its review of the British grain trade the Inst 
week, says: Grain ripened slowly owing to 
unsettled weather. The rust and mildew have 
increased. Wheat is losing in quantity and 
quality daily. Barley and oats have much im¬ 
proved. English wheat improved Is, on the 
week. Trade in foreign wheat off coast stands 
slow. Barley is steady and prices unchanged. 
..... .A Dodge City (Kan ) disputch denies 
the report that Texas fever is raging among 
the cattle there. The stock there d ever looked 
better, and was never tiefore so free from dis¬ 
ease as at present.The American Humane 
Association has awarded its gold medal to the 
inventor of the Burton stock car, t he letter an¬ 
nouncing the award stating “ther certainly 
is no longer an excuse for the horrors of live 
stock transportation in the ordinary box cars,'’ 
.The hay crop of Maine is estimated this 
year at 150.000 tons, the yield being fully one- 
half more than the crop of average years, and 
one-third greater than the crop of last year. 
At *10 per ton the crop is worth *1,500,000. 
The injury from unfavorable weather has 
been very small. Reports as to growing crops 
are unusually favorable, except as to fruit, 
but the yield of cranberries promises to be 
good. Pastures have been in good condition 
the entire season, and dairy co ws are doing 
well .The wheat crop of western Oro- 
gon has suffered severely from dry weather in 
May and June and will fall considerably short 
of the average yield. East of the Cascades the 
effects of the drought have not been so serious, 
and the farmers in Umatilla and Walla Walia 
Counties, who sowed in the Pall, say they will 
secure from 25 to 40 bushels to the acre. The 
spring-sown wheat has not done so well, and 
the experience of this year indicates that late 
Autumn is the best time to sow in Eastern Ore¬ 
gon and Washington. The cool nights and 
heavy dews that arc common to this region in 
great measure preserve all the crops from in¬ 
jury by drought. A correspondent of the New 
York Times estimates the total shipment of 
wheat from the Columbia River this season as 
6,500,000 bushels.The question whether 
or not grass seed is liable to duty under the 
new Tariff Law is now before the Treasury 
Department for decision. It came up on an 
appeal from the action of the Collector of Cus¬ 
toms at Burlington, Vt., who assessed a duty 
of 10 per cent, on a recent, consignment of 
that commodity. The importer maintains 
that under the new Tariff Act grass seed is 
free from duty.Pennsylvania is to have 
a State experimental farm, the appropriation 
for that purpose having passed both Houses 
and been signed by the Governor.Labette 
County, Kansas, has paid premiums of 45,000 
rabbit scalps this year.A land and farm¬ 
ing company, with a capital stock of *1,000,- 
000, has filed articles of incorporation at Los 
Angeles. Cal.A fatal disease resembling 
cholera is prevailing among hogs in Reading 
County, Penn. Some 50 have already died 
and 50 more are fatally sick.Heavy rains 
fell throughout Virginia Thursday, causing 
great relief to the crops, which had been bad¬ 
ly damaged by the protracted drought. In 
some sections the corn was drying up so fast 
that, it was cut down to be used as fodder, 
while the cotton plants were twisting aud dry¬ 
ing up. The indications are that the crop will 
be late and much lighter than last year. In 
some places uot more than half a crop of to¬ 
bacco will be made. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 18. 
Returns so far from the elections in France 
show a net Republican gain of 1(H) seats. The 
Republican triumph is most notable in dis¬ 
tricts hitherto reactionary.The 
dynamiters charged with O’Herlihy, at 
Liverpool, with treason-felony, were found 
guilty last week and sentenced to penal servi¬ 
tude for life. O’Herlihy himself was acquitted. 
.A great national demonstration which 
was to have been held on Mr. Parnell s estate 
in Wicklow County, Ireland, has been sud¬ 
denly abandoned, because, it is said, of an 
intimation of the authorities that the meeting 
would be suppressed.A London dispatch 
says the government lias decided to refuse to 
allow the authorities at Port Elizabeth. South 
Africa, to try O’Donnell for the murder of 
James Carey. Some of the Cabinet stoutly 
oppose the trial of O’Donnell in London upon 
the ground that such a proceeding would vir¬ 
tually muke of the case a State trial, surround 
the prisoner with a fictitious aud evil import¬ 
ance, heroize him and real)}' increase Ills chance 
to escape. Two special detectives have been 
commissioned to proceed at once to Port Eliza¬ 
beth and bring O’Donnell to London. 
Peace, prospects in Peru continue to improve- 
the last blow favoring that end having been 
struck by a Chilinu division which utterly 
crushed Caceres and the whole of the Monte. 
uero forces which had been collected into au 
army variously estimated at. from 1,000 to 
4,000 men.The Emperor of Austria aud 
the King of Servia will have an interview in 
Hungury next month.Seven hundred 
reinforcement have been sent to Admiral Com - , 
bet, the commander of the French squadron in 
Tonquin.It is said that the Porto intends 
to transfer the negotiations iu relation to the 
treaty of commerce with America aud the li¬ 
cense tax from Constantinople to Washington. 
.The entries for the English Derby of 
1885, which are required to be made now, have 
fallen to 193, which is low compared with those 
of the past few years. The largest subscriber 
is “Mr. Muuton,” whose horses are to run iu 
the old colors, all scarlet, of the lute Stirling 
Crawfurd. Lord Falmouth has seven, L. Roth¬ 
schild six, and Baron Rothschild, Lard Rose¬ 
bery and the Duke of Westminster four each. 
Of Americans, Mr. Lorillard has five, and four 
are entered by “ A. A. Cassat,” an American 
owner unknown on the other side. 
Count de’Chambord has had a relapse—hardly 
expected to rally agaiu.The King of 
Spain’s visit to Germany has been indefinitely 
postponed .The insurrection in Spain 
is thought to lie almost ende 1. It is charged 
that it was got up by French speculators for 
the pmqio.se of influencing the stock markets— 
they having subscribed *750,000 to egg on the 
soldiery to revolt. A number of the rebels are 
being shot. Anew Socialist paper has 
appeared in St. Petersburg .The flag on 
the Italian consulate at Tangier has again 
been hoisted.The Khedive lias visited 
the cholera hospitals of Alexandria. 
The Austrian Electric Exhibition was opened 
at Vienna...French imports are increas¬ 
ing and the exports decreasing.The 
Archbishop of Canterbury, iu view of his dis¬ 
covery in London of whole families employed 
in making match-boxes for four-and-a-half 
cents a gross and paid only eight cents for 
making an ulster, concludes that the only 
remedy is emigration .The fonr-hun- 
dredtb anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth - 
day will be celebrated in many countries. 
The Lutherans of 8t. Petersburg intend to 
distribute alms, found a charitable organiza¬ 
tion, aud hold commemorative services. In 
Berlin it is proposed to form a loan collection 
of relics of the groat, reformer and place it on 
exhibition. A museum iu the German capita] 
possesses three very interesting relics in the 
,Bible used by Luther, a piece of the pulpit iu 
which he preached at Wartburg, aud an accu¬ 
rate and very old imitation of his wedding- 
ring.The Catholic mission at Lyons has 
published some statistics concerning the reli - 
pious creeds of the world and the number of 
their adherents. Monotheism is said to have 
fewer followers than Pagandom, which counts 
816,000,000 worshippers. Catholics are esti¬ 
mated to number 212,060,000. Non-Catholics 
are distributed into Protestants, numbering 
124,000.000, and various Dissenters and Sell is. 
nmtics, figured up at 84,000,000, Jews foot up 
7,000,000 ; Mohammedans, 200,000,000; Brah¬ 
mins, 163,000,000; Buddhists, 423,009,000; aud 
idol worshippers, 280,000,000. It is iuterestiug 
in this statistical estimate to note that Roman. 
Catholics are to-day said to outnumber the 
adherents of all other forms of the Christian 
creed by only four millions.An inter 
national contest in horsemanship is to he insti" 
tuted in Vienna next year under the manage, 
inent of Austrian generals. Foreign officers 
who take part iu the contest will receive free 
fare and keeping for horses and servants din¬ 
ing ten days. There will be four prizes, in¬ 
cluding medals and considerable sums of 
money. The contest is to be open to all comers - 
.Rear Admiral Galiber has been ap¬ 
pointed to succeed Admiral Pierre as xnmnan 
der of the French in Madagascar.The 
returns of the census taken on Januhry 1,1883. 
for the empire of Japan have just been pub* 
lished, and shows that, the whole country con 
tains a total population of 36,700,110, made up 
of 18,598.998 males and 18,101,112 females. 
The number of inhabited houses is 7,611’770. 
being an average of about live persons to a 
house. The populations of a few of the bes 
known cities are as follows: Osaka, 1.722,333' 
living in 366,960 houses; Hlogo, 1,418,521, li v 
ing in 319,910 houses ; Nagasaki, 1.204, 629 
living in 357,915 houses; Tokio. 987,887, living 
in 277,655 houses; Kioto, 835,215, living in 196, 
620 houses. The rate of population to houses, 
however, seems to be uncertain in various 
tow ns, as for instance in Nuagata, where a 
population of 1,661,168 inhabit 805,989 houses, 
it is unusual to find in the census of different 
countries such an equality of numbers iu the 
sexes, though there are a few towns in Japan 
where the women outnumber the men. such 
as Saltaina, where there are 484,058 women to 
478,659 men ; Aitehi, 009,235 to 002,815; Ya~ 
umuasbi, 205,534 to 204,315; Yamagata, 840,- 
505 to 252,855. A return published at the 
same dute states that the Japanese army con¬ 
sists of 30 generals, 9,335 officers of nil ranks, 
109,496 non-commissioned officers and men, 
253 officers of administration,62 military work¬ 
men and 617 apprentices, of whom 12 are 
studing military* routine in foreign countries. 
.... . French laborers iu Paris have had sev¬ 
eral meetings recently for the purpose of 
adopting measures in opposition to the cheap 
labor of Prussians and Italians.The 
Austrian, German and Turkish governments 
are negotiating for t he complete annexation of 
Bosnia aud Herzegovina by Austria. 
The British government intends to continue 
to depopulate Ireland on a still more extensive 
scale by “assisting” emigration. It is also 
intended to organize a company of landlords 
in Ireland to supplement the government grant 
for emigra tion by priv ate d onations, and assist¬ 
ance is to be sought from this country. 
