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648 THE RUBAI- NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY. Sept. 22, 1883. 
Rumors that the new postal notes have al¬ 
ready been counterfeited are declared false by 
the Secret Service Division of the Post-Office. 
.Only six distilleries of rum in 
the United States—all six in the “OldBay 
State.".Ten cases of yellow fever at 
Pensacola Navy Yard—all citizens, all but 
two children, two of them recent. There’s 
a cluster of poor frame cottages on the outside 
of the Navy Yard walls on the Navy Yard 
Reservation, five miles across the Bay from 
Pensacola The disease is now confined to 
the squalid inmates of these.Last Tues¬ 
day the New York Daily Times reduced 
its price from 4c. to 2c. a copy; and the N. 
Y. Tribune on the same day reduced its price 
from 4c. to 3c. a copy. About two years 
ago the Herald began the reduction by drop¬ 
ping from 4e. to 3c. a copy. Then the World 
dropped from 4c. to 3c. and afterwards to 2c. 
Regard for the ‘ ‘ dear public" of course has 
been the only motive; though keen competi¬ 
tion. coupled with the enormous yearly profits 
of the concerns during recent years, and per¬ 
haps the late reduction in the price of paper 
may possibly have had something to do with 
the proprietors’ late awakening to an active 
sense of what was due to the “dear public” iu 
the way of moderate charges... 
Barbara Miller was banged at Richmond, 
Va,, on Sept 14, for murdering her husband 
last February. Her male accomplice was 
hanged last mouth. Seldom is a woman 
hanged in the United States, especially in the 
South: of course. Barbara was “colored.” 
.In 1880 there were 7* female and 64,- 
0152 male lawyers iu the United States. 
The “wild” Apaches have been selling to Mex¬ 
icans the plunder they had collected from 
their victims in Arizona and elsewhere, Char¬ 
ley McComas, the little three-year-old son of 
Judge and Mrs. McComas who were butchered 
by the savages about six months ago, lues been 
found. He had disappeared with the fugitives 
at the time Gen. Crook attacked the Indian 
camp iu Sonora, Mexico, a couple of months 
ago...... An embassy of 11 members arrived 
iu this city from Corea last Monday and were 
received here by Pres. Arthur last Tuesday. 
The Kingdom of Corea is on the; East of Asia, 
having a population variously estimated from 
8,000,000 to 20,000,000. The inhabitants areof 
the Mongolian race, but resemble the Japa¬ 
nese, rather than the Chiuese iu appearance: 
but. in dress and in habits they are more like 
the Chinese. The Coreau language is very 
different from that of China and Japan, but 
the writing is like that of the Chinese. The 
King is absolute, but pays tribute to China 
and Japan. Until quite recent days Corea 
was the most exclusive of all countries, 
death being the punishment of auy foreigner 
found in the territory. Missionaries, how¬ 
ever, have long braved all penalties there, and 
lately “ new opinions” have made such pro. 
gress that the present embassy has l»een sent 
to visit the United (Statesand various European 
countries, a good deal at the suggestion of Gen. 
Foote, the American Envoy, who obtained an 
audience of the King last May.,,.The 
total paper circulation now outstanding is 
$831,757,069; total coin circulation $743,347,- 
573; grand total, $1,575,104,042. Assuming 
the total population to be 52,000,000 thedistri 
bution per capita would be $30.29.The 
Post-Office Department Mouday began the dis¬ 
tribution of the new' two cent stamps, and the 
requisition upon the contractors was the larg¬ 
est in number of pieces and value ever issued 
in one day. The order was for 37,879,830 
postage stamps, 7,131,950 stamped envelopes 
(most of these being of the two cent denomi¬ 
nation) and5,988,000 postal cards. The aggre¬ 
gate value of the articles ordered was $950,000,. 
The fight between the National Post-Office and 
the New Orleans Lottery swindle grows hot. 
The chief representative of the Lottery has 
sued Postmaster-General Gresham for prohib¬ 
iting the New- Orleans Posh office to aid in the 
lottery scheme by pay ing post-Offiee orders, 
etc. But Gresham,not a bit frightened.has just 
forbidden all post-offices in the United States 
to pay money orders or deliver registered let¬ 
ters to the Lottery Company, Moreover, a 
New Orleans National Bank, having underta¬ 
ken to receive the money letters of the swin¬ 
dle and hand over their contents to the Lot¬ 
tery Company, a complaint has been lodged 
with the Comptroller of the Currency to test 
the question whether or not a national bank 
can la wfuliy go into the lottery business. The 
Post-Office will not deliver registered letters to 
the bank or pay post-office order's for it as long 
as it maintains its present relations with the 
lottery, to which, it is merely a tender. 
Judge Edgerton decides that the Dakota Capi¬ 
tal Commission, which lately selected Bis¬ 
marck as the’capital of the Territory, is an ille¬ 
gal body, and his order ousts them from their 
position with costs upou them. What the re¬ 
sults will be ou the selection made for the 
capital remains to be seen. Southern Dakota 
wishes to set up for itself and get admitted as 
a State, but Northern Dakota protests. The 
former the other day held a constitutional 
convention; the latter a few days after held a 
convention which protested against the acts of 
the rival body. in that it. did not represent the 
whole Territory, and, moreover, while clam¬ 
oring for a separation, it suggested no provi¬ 
sion for a due apportionment of the debts and 
other obligations of the Territory. The Ter¬ 
ritory is plenty large enough for two States, 
but hardly populous enough to sustain the ex¬ 
pensive machinery of one. 
The New Hampshire Legislature has ad¬ 
journed till the last Wednesday in May, 1885. 
Last session was the lougest ever held; pay of 
members for 102 days, over $100,000. Nearly 
375 bills and joint resolutions were passed. 
The two Houses of the Pennsylvania Legisla¬ 
ture are in a complete deadlock over the ap¬ 
portionment bill. Members doing nothing for 
full pay.The Republicans of the Old 
Bay State have pitted George D. Robinson, 
Congressman for the Twelfth District, against 
Ben Butler in the race for the Governor’s 
chair, Henry L. Pierce, ex-Congressman, and 
ex-Mayor of Boston, haviug declined to allow 
his name to be presented for nomination. It 
will be a tough fight between the “Respecta¬ 
bility” and the “Rabble” of the State. 
The Republicans of New' Jersey have nomi¬ 
nated Justice Jonathan Dixon for Governor, 
to beat Leon Abbett., backed by the Demo¬ 
crats .The Republicans of this State. 
Half-breeds and Stalw'arts, met amicably and 
nominated the old ticket for State officers, as 
no Governor is to be elected this year, llous- 
ted, however, who was so mercilessly 
“knifed” by the Stalwarts at the last election, 
was dropped as candidate for Treasurer. 
Cadet Arthur L. Beebe, of the- fourth elass at 
West Point, has been dismissed for hazing- 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept 22, 1883, 
The Virginia pea-nut crop will probably be 
not over half of the usual yield of 1,200,000 
bushels.The Toronto Globe states that 
during the past year the emigration from 
Manitoba was gi eaterthan the immigration to 
it—causes, excessive coldness of climate, and 
the fact that a great part of the best land has 
been turned over “ for a song,” to speculators 
calling themselves “colonization companies” 
to the exclusion of genuine settlers. Now that 
the N. P. R.R. is completed, the exodus to our 
N. W. Territories is expected to be even 
heavier.The apple crop of New England 
will be very unusually light this year. 
Prof. H. P. Arm shy, lately of the Storrs Ag¬ 
ricultural School, Manchester, Ct., aud for 
some veal's connected with the Connecticut 
Experiment Station under the directorship of 
Prof. S. W. Johnson, has been appointed Pro¬ 
fessor of Agricultural Chemistry of the Wis¬ 
consin University Experiment Station. A 
capital appointment! Connecticut’s loss is 
Wisconsin’s gain.Last Tuesday after¬ 
noon the first through freight train from Port¬ 
land, Me., to Portland, Oregon, over the 
Northern Pacific Railroad, started via the 
Eastern, Albany aud Northwestern Railroads. 
It consisted of ten cars laden with cauued corn. 
.For the trotter Jay-Eye-Bee $35,000 
were offered last Tuesday; but $20,000 had 
previously been refused, and probably $50,000 
couldn’t buy the colt..Some land in t he 
city of London was lately sold at the rate of 
$3,300,000 an acre.The most satisfactory 
event w'hich has for a long time occurred iu 
Dublin was the horse show lust mouth. Its 
success culminated in four days of perfect 
w'eatber. In admiration of horse-flesh all par¬ 
ties met amicably on common ground. 
Arrangements for the grand horse show' here 
on Oct. 1 to 6 are progressing satisfactorily. A 
very fine exhibition is already assured. 
A dog gained access to a Kansas corral of 1,- 
500 sheep one night, ami bit’orie-third of thum 
about the head and face. Within 11 days 300 
died of hydrophobia.Reports from (50 
correspondents iu 10 counties of Western New’ 
York, show that the crops altogether will 
average about with other years. The corn 
crop would have amounted to but little if it 
had not been cut down by the frost. The 
wheat crop, too, is much smaller than last year, 
but on the other hand, grazing has been ex¬ 
traordinarily good, and the hay crop is very 
large, facts of the utmost importance in this 
dairy section. The production of cheese has 
been large, aud it has brought au unusually 
good price all through the season. Fruit is 
something of a disappointment. The lake tiers 
of townships in Niagara County are the only 
ones in this large fruit-growing area w hich re¬ 
port a good yield of apples. The greatest 
damage caused by the frost is to the bean crop, 
which is usually large in this end of the State, 
but which has been cut down this year, and will 
amount to very little as a w hole. 
The president of the Standard Oil Company 
denies that the company has auy interest in, 
or connection with, the business of taking up 
Indian reservations or other land for grazing 
purposes. The company is uot interested in 
any Western cattle companies or land schemes 
........ The Mark Lane Express of Sept. 3. 
jubilantly says; “ The most well timed, glori¬ 
ous weather set in about the 16th of August, 
and has uot only' put joy aud gladness into 
the hearts of the hop planters, but has brought 
millions to the national treasury by the im¬ 
provement it has wrought iu the grain crops 
of the .country, aud by brilliant harvest days. 
Though, perhaps, it may be said that it came 
rather late to effect great, improvement in the 
earlier districts, it. is, at all events, quite clear 
that it came in the nick of time to cause the 
English hop plantations to bring forth most 
abundantly.” Later telegraphic advices tell 
of less brilliant weather for harvesting the 
grain crops.The melon 
growers of Georgia have organized a State 
society for mutual improvement in this im¬ 
portant industry, and for the more satisfactory 
shipments of their products.Here’s an¬ 
other Texas cattle king, who is really a 
King:—Captain R. I. King, has about 85,- 
000 head of cattle, about 20,000 head of 
horses and 30,000 head of sheep; his pastures 
amounting in the aggregate to something 
over 1.000,000 acres of splendidly watered 
lands, a valuation in all, land and stock, of 
something in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. 
....The milk war hero between the city’milk 
dealers and the factories ou one side and the 
milk producers, on the other, still continues. 
The former refuse to pay the stipulated 3JAc. 
a quart for September milk, and the latter 
are threatening to sue for breach of con¬ 
tract. The dealers say they' cau get all the 
milk they want for 3e, a quart, and the 
farmers will sue for full contract prices since 
date of agreement.. The extraordinary gross 
crops the past season are at the bottom of the 
trouble... 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 22,1883. 
Cholera is on its “last legs" in Egy pt. Late¬ 
ly it has been "knocking out" only a hundred 
or so a day. From August 19 to 26 inclusive, 
only 1,(515 deaths from the plague are reported 
to have occurred in all the land, of which 
there were 20(5 iu Alexandria, 9 in Cairo, 44in 
Damauhour aud 1,35(5 in all other localities 
not specified. The deaths from the disease in 
the sixty-fpnr days from its appearance to 
August 26 were 26,579. There was one death 
from the disease in the English army at. 
Suez on August 21 and four at Alexandria ou 
August 25....... 
Luther’s 400th anniversary was celebrated 
with great enthusiasm at Wittenberg, Septem¬ 
ber IS. Over 50,000 people were in the town 
and 2,000 clergymen. Delegates from Bug- 
land, Scotland, France, Austria aud Hungary 
w T ere also present. Colossal busts of Luther 
and Melanethon were adorned with wreaths 
and flowers....Mexico is doing remarka¬ 
bly w'ell aeeordiug to the President’s message 
delivered last Tuesday. Much internal im¬ 
provement and railroad building being pushed 
forward. The revenues for fiscnl year ending 
June 30 last, were $33,500,000—about one- 
hundredtb part of the revenues of the United 
States, yet they were $1,500,000 greater than 
those of the previous year. Mexico wants a 
foreign loan of $20,000,000. Ex-President 
Diaz's birthday was celebrated the other day’ 
w ith great public rejoicings, and it is a “fore¬ 
gone conclusion” that he will be re-elected 
President next year...The 
wrangle between France and China over the 
Tonquin question still continues unsettled. 
The French Ministry are at loggerheads about 
the matter, a tew long-lieaded ones urging 
peace, and a few hot-headed ones urging war. 
As in Egy’pt, England isjikely to gut most of 
the prestiye that can be got from the difficul¬ 
ty—here she'll probably be arbitrator in the 
end. The monarchies of Europe seem to feel 
most apprehensively that Republican France 
is a constant menace to their forms of govern¬ 
ment. At present, a republican agitation is 
again reported from Spain, the agitators hop¬ 
ing for an advantage from the absence of the 
King, who is now in Germany to witness the 
Autumn army’ manoeuvres, together with a 
lot of other crowned and noted personages.... 
... O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the in¬ 
former, has been brought to England. His 
defence will be. it is said, that Carey knowing 
that O’D. had recognized him, drew a pistol 
to kill the latter, who wrenched it from him 
and used it iu self-defence. Mrs. Carey and 
other witnesses from the Cape, America, Ire¬ 
land, etc., are flocking to England to testify. 
A fund is being raised to defend the prisoner. 
.Gladstone’s visit to Copenhagen, just 
at the time the Czar was visiting the place 
w ith the King of Norway and Sweden and 
other nobilities, has created the impression 
that it. had a political significance, especially 
in view of the Austro-Gerruau-Bpanish-Italiah- 
Rounmuiun-BerviHn alliance. This alliance is 
stated to be directed against Russia and 
France. In the event of a war between Ger¬ 
many and France, Austria is to maintain an 
armed neutrality. In the event, of a war be¬ 
tween Austria and Russia, Germany is to do 
likewise. If a third party attacks ’Germany 
or Austria the armed neutrality’ will be coii 
verted into active co-operation, Iu case of 
w r ar, however, it is very likely the greater 
part of Europe will be involved, owing greatly 
to these entangling alliances........ 
Report say's the Czarina lately detected one 
of the imperial chamberlains in the act of 
placing Nihilistic documents in her apart 
incuts. Fearing the consequences, he “sui¬ 
cided.”... 
W. H. Anderson, Leroy, N. Y., exhibited 
at the New York State Fair, the Bell City' En¬ 
silage and Feed Cutter, manufactured by the 
Bell City Manufacturing Co., Racine, Wis. 
As wa-s to be expected, the competition among 
different cutters for favorable award was 
lively; but after thorough trial the judges 
unanimously awarded the certificate of high¬ 
est merit to the Bell City machine. Being 
awarded under these circumstances,’it is not an 
empty' honor, but a geuuine recognition of 
merit. The blades of this machine tiro of thin 
steel so that any boy who can grind a scythe 
can easily' grind them and canuot fail to get 
them back iu right position. They are ad¬ 
justed by set-screws so that they cau be easily 
arranged so as to cut even a sheet of paper, 
and haviug a sheer cut it is not uecessary to 
run them at so high a rate of speed as other 
machiues, thus lessening the danger of acci 
dent. Circulars and testimonials will be fur¬ 
nished by addressing Mr. Anderson, the gen¬ 
eral agent.— Adv. 
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Tiie Kemp Manure Spreader, manufac¬ 
tured by' the Kemp & Burpee Manfacturiug 
Co., Syracuse, N. Y., was one of the most at¬ 
tractive aud practical implements exhibited 
at the New r York State Fair. To many this 
implement may tie new', aud yet the sales for 
the past few y r ears have taxed the capacity 
of the manufact urers, though their works have 
been enlarged, and thousands of the best far¬ 
mers in the country arc loud in their praises of 
the value received by' the use of this machine. 
Farmers not acquainted with the increased 
yield of the crops produced by the use of this 
machine, should address the company T at ouee 
for circulars.—.1 dr. 
The St. Johnsville Machine Co., of St. 
Jolmsville, N. Y., would like to call the at¬ 
tention of the readers of the Rural to their 
thrasher and horse-powers. At the New' York 
State Fair their machines attracted much at. 
teution, aud the cotupauy' are in a position to 
furnish a thrasher's complete outfit, with 
either steam or horse-power, and respectfully 
ask for a correspoudeuce from those anticipa¬ 
ting buying, aud they' guarantee satisfaction 
in all cases. Write for circulars.— Adv. 
-♦♦♦- 
I have taken oue bottle of Dr. Graves’ Heart 
Regulator for Heart Disease aud find it all I 
could desire.—A. A. Holbrook, Worcester, 
Mass.— Adv. 
For soreness, weariness, coated tongue, 
dull eyes, dry cough, use Bwayue’s Pills.— 
Adv .— 
Holstein Cattle at the New York State 
Fair. 
The exhibit of this breed of cattle was un¬ 
usually fine. The entries consisted of 109 head 
representing nine [91 exhibitors, decidedly 
the largest exhibition of Holsteins ever made 
iu the (State. The quality of the stock shown 
was very superior. 
Mess. Smiths & Powell made the largest ex¬ 
hibit and carried off five [5] first and four [4] 
second prizes, including the only herd prize 
offered, the gold medal, the sweepstakes on 
cows over all breeds, first on Holstein cow, 
&c., <fco,—.4 dr. 
&J)£ iitarluis. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, September 22, 1883. 
From the latest advices from Ohio, Indiana, 
Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota and 
Dakota, Mr. Dodge. Statistician of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, estimates that the 
damage done to corn iu those States by the 
lute frosts varied from five to fifteen per 
cent, of the crops there. Notwithstanding 
this, however, he is of opinion that all the 
injury' hitherto done will uot reduce the ag 
gregate corn crop of the country below 
1,600,000,000 bushels, against 1,625,000,000 
